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RICHMOND -- After months of back and forth over whether and how to increase the city's minimum wage, the City Council is set to delve into the politically charged issue again Tuesday, with Councilman Jim Rogers proposing a new iteration that would push the wage up to $13 per hour by 2018 and exempt local manufacturers who do more than half their business outside the city.
"The council should adopt a compromise proposal on the minimum wage issue, to try to prevent ongoing conflict and changes in the law," Rogers wrote in his agenda report.
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin also has an item set for Tuesday calling on the minimum wage to top out at $13 per hour and supporting Rogers' exemption for some manufacturers, although she has previously said she would prefer not to have that exemption.
The issue promises to bring labor, business and other interest groups to the meeting to voice their positions and is the latest step in an ongoing, impassioned process that began early this year.
On March 18, McLaughlin, Vice Mayor Jovanka Beckles and Councilman Jael Myrick introduced an ordinance to raise the minimum wage to $12.30 by 2017, which the council passed.
But on April 15, the City Council voted to defer formal adoption of the ordinance for further study, with several members arguing that there was not sufficient outreach to the city's business community.
On May 6, amid growing opposition from employers and staunch advocacy from labor and other proponents, the council directed staff to bring back a revised ordinance with seven amendments. But two of the amendments were deemed not legally viable by the city's legal counsel -- exempting workers under 18 and a clause deducting tips from workers' wages.
McLaughlin supported that measure but only because she said it was clear she didn't have the votes for a stronger law and that it would move the process forward.
The newest proposal would phase in the minimum wage hike over several years, beginning with $9.60 on Jan. 1 2015, then going to $11.52 in 2016, $12.30 in 2017 and $13 in 2018, with the wage pegged to inflation after that. Those rates mean Richmond could have the highest minimum wage in the state and one of the nation's highest.
"I'm kind of vacillating between not supporting any of them and maybe supporting one of them," Councilman Tom Butt said. "I'm getting a little sick of all the pressure from outside groups and all the different versions floating around, so I haven't decided yet."
Labor unions have come out in force to past council meetings to demand a wage hike without exemptions and say they will initiate a November ballot measure if the council fails to act.
Contact Robert Rogers at 510-262-2726. Follow him at Twitter.com/sfbaynewsrogers.
What: Richmond City Council meeting
When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Richmond City Council chamber, 440 Civic Center Plaza
Why: Discussion about potential minimum wage increase


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area network (SAN) administrators today. Often challenging to configure during installation and sometimes requiring server reboots after the initial deployment, the HBA becomes yet another maintenance nuisance for SAN administrators. But help is on the way: Some new cards offer better management tools that should simplify HBA administration tasks and extend the capabilities of this vital SAN component.
SANs already contain many points of complexity. Compatibility matrices require SAN administrators to double check HBA driver and firmware levels before doing even the most basic tasks. Storage arrays come and go from storage networks, necessitating that HBAs be reconfigured to discover the new logical unit number (LUN) assignments on the arrays. And as data continues to grow, LUNs must be allocated, so server reboots become mandatory for some operating systems in order for their HBA to discover these new LUNs.
With so many other administrative tasks, the last thing a SAN administrator needs is a long HBA to-do list. HBAs continue to improve, but SAN administrators can't assume that even the newest HBA will resolve all their existing issues or work in their environment. Each vendor's HBA comes with its own set of considerations that administrators must evaluate before looking to deploy and maintain.
The next generation of HBAs offers some features that shops may or may not want to introduce into their environments such as world wide name (WWN) spoofing and support for the recently proposed Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) common interface model (CIM) standard protocol. So let's take a look at what issues users face with HBAs today, examine how the latest HBAs try to answer these questions and look at what new features HBA vendors offer today in anticipation of tomorrow's challenges.
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With so many HBA features, knowing which ones matter and which ones don't can be a challenge for just about any administrator. Here's a short description of some of the features shipping today that may influence your buying decision.
DATA BUFFERS. Data buffers serve as a necessary and valuable component of Fibre Channel (FC) HBAs, but they shouldn't be thought of as a differentiator when selecting an HBA. This feature primarily becomes important in long-distance SANs, as higher buffer credits are needed to accommodate the longer latency periods when the data is sent and received.
FC SPEED. Two-gigabit FC HBAs are now available from every HBA vendor and make up the majority of HBA sales. They still autosense down to 1Gb to work with existing environments. The road map for next-generation HBAs is still uncertain, but 4Gb appears likely because, unlike 10Gb FC, it is backward-compatible with 1Gb and 2Gb FC, and will cost about the same as the 2Gb cards shipping today.
WWN SPOOFING. World wide name (WWN) spoofing is an interesting feature, but it has only limited application in today's SAN environment. Most HBA vendors offer it for customers who request it. Vendors see this feature primarily used in clustered server environments and feel the increased security risks outweigh the potential benefits of this technology.
CONTEXT SWITCHING. Context switching also serves as a necessary and valuable component of FC HBAs, but again, it shouldn't be thought of as a differentiator when selecting an HBA. This feature primarily takes on importance when the speed in routing a FC packet is a factor and SANs are already running at high capacity.
LOAD BALANCING/MULTIPATHING. These interrelated features serve as a requirement for any highly available server. Load balancing will balance the FC traffic over two or more paths through the SAN, while the multipathing feature enables the operating system to have more than one path to disk, should one HBA fail or a path through the SAN becomes unavailable.
CIM COMPLIANCE. Charles Kraus, HBA business unit director of Milpitas, CA-based LSI Logic, sees CIM functionality as one of the critical new features all HBA vendors must now offer. This feature will permit the management of heterogeneous SANs and enable certain functions (such as performance monitoring, remote firmware and driver upgrades and troubleshooting) across all HBAs, regardless of vendor.
Installing an HBA
Setting up any HBA requires answering various questions: What operating systems will it work with? What settings and configuration files need tweaking prior to, during and after installation? How does the HBA discover new LUNs on the SAN?
Probably the biggest initial task facing many system administrators centers on the installation and configuration of a new HBA in a server. Loading the correct driver, verifying the firmware, tweaking the configuration files, ensuring it is compatible with your SAN and discovering the LUNs for the first time can take hours--if not days--for new or experienced SAN administrators.
HBA vendors now ship HBAs that address many of the issues surrounding the initial install and configuration by eliminating or automating these tasks. Most vendors--including Atto Technology, Emulex, QLogic, and LSI Logic--now offer HBAs for Windows systems that are plug-and-play and require little or no intervention on the part of the system administrator to install and configure.
Amherst, NY-based Atto Technology's product manager, Pete Donnelly, lists interoperability of Atto's HBAs with Microsoft Windows as a top priority. Atto is currently working with Microsoft to ensure its HBAs are automatically recognized by Windows after being installed.
For Unix environments, installations are far from being hassle free, but there's encouraging work in this area. According to Charles Kraus, HBA business unit director of LSI Logic, Milpitas, CA, LSI Logic prepared a driver that will work under Linux and released that driver code to IBM and Hewlett-Packard, who then modified the driver for their specific versions of Unix (AIX and HP-UX). Kraus says none of the other HBA vendors offer native AIX or HP-UX drivers.
Sun Microsystems appears to be heading down the same path as HP and IBM. While all of the major HBA vendors currently provide drivers for Sun Solaris, Sun has included the leadville driver as part of its current SAN Foundation software. This driver offers full fabric support, along with failover and management capabilities, and replaces the one provided by the HBA vendors, though this driver currently only works with the newest HBAs provided by QLogic. The upside of this approach, according to Christopher Poelker, a storage architect with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), is that the leadville driver removes the need to edit the sd.conf file because it runs at the kernel level and uses a different configuration file--sdd.conf--which needs no editing.
Managing an HBA
Once an HBA is installed, the focus changes to managing it. Here's where new struggles arise. In some large IT departments when upgrades occur on the SAN, administrators can find themselves at their wit's end trying to figure out which server has what HBA with what firmware and driver level.
Again, new features and tools from vendors such as Emulex, JNI and QLogic enable administrators to better control this part of their environment.
Costa Mesa, CA-based Emulex offers a central management console called HBAnyware that performs three critical management tasks that work in conjunction with their native driver kit.
HBAnyware grants administrators the ability to do local and remote discovery of Emulex HBAs. It also contains the ability to do local and remote management and real-time installation of firmware anywhere in a Fibre Channel (FC) SAN. Finally, it allows the administrator to gather FC HBA port status, attributes and statistics.
While having software like this becomes a powerful tool for administrators, knowing how to use it becomes just as critical. For instance, HBAnyware grants administrators the ability to upgrade Emulex HBA firmwares and drivers remotely. What the administrator needs to know is that upgrading Emulex's firmware can be done nondisruptively and won't require a reboot; however, changing its driver can be disruptive and may require a server reboot. So, administrators need to practice a think-first, act-second mentality when performing tasks like this.
The rest of the HBA vendors primarily provide tools that are locally installed and managed on each server. Atto has its ExpressPCI Configuration Tool for driver and firmware upgrades for its HBAs. Atto Technology's Donnelly says that while its firmware and driver updates may be done on the fly, he doesn't recommend that approach--especially for novice users. He sees the management of these functions being done locally for the time being, though when CIM becomes universally available, there will be more opportunities to perform these tasks remotely.
JNI and LSI Logic also provide similar utilities that simplify HBA installation and configuration for their specific HBA cards, though the other major vendors lack the central management control consoles offered by Emulex. LSI Logic's Charles Kraus says that interoperability with third-party SAN management software tools such as EMC's ControlCenter is one of LSI Logic's priorities for 2003. LSI Logic also plans to have a tool similar to Emulex's HBAnyware released by the end of 2003 to centrally manage LSI Logic HBAs.
QLogic provides a management tool similar to HBAnyware called SANblade Manager, which simplifies the configuration and setup of QLogic HBAs. This tool works in conjunction with its SANblade Control FX utility, which is controlled by the SANblade Manager software. The SANblade Control FX utility enables a faster HBA installation and configuration through a wizard-like interface, includes diagnostic tools that report on the firmware and driver levels and also includes a display that shows attached devices and LUN properties.
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The degree of difficulty or ease in configuring and using LUNs that an HBA discovers largely depends on the OS supporting the HBA.
Under AIX and HP-UX, a system administrator only needs to run the AIX cfgmgr or the HP-UX SAM utility to discover new LUNs. Using this utility, it doesn't matter whether or not the LUNs reside on the same storage array ports as other LUNs it already has discovered. However, you need to check with IBM or HP before purchasing just any HBA, as none of the HBA vendors provide drivers for either AIX or HP-UX. Both HP and IBM develop all of their own HBA drivers, so if they don't provide a driver for the HBA you are interested in, you're out of luck.
Sun Microsystems is in a period of transition right now. Under older versions of Sun Solaris or when using older HBAs, the system administrator must set up the corresponding configuration files. This requires the administrator to obtain the storage array port world wide name (WWN) and the list of LUNs that the storage array port will present to the server. However, Sun is in the process of changing this approach: In Solaris 8, the leadville driver eliminates many of the tedious manual configuration tasks though leadville currently only works with the QLogic 2342 HBA. The good news is that most HBA vendors provide drivers for Sun Solaris and these drivers actually offer most--if not more--functionality than what Sun's leadville driver offers.
The degree of support for LUN discovery under Windows varies quite a bit, depending on the version of Windows you're using. Under the Windows NT 4.0 operating system, the system administrator is always forced to do a reboot to discover a new LUN. Complicating the matter, the LUN is presented as a drive letter, so as a result NT has a built-in limitation of 26 LUNs. Windows 2000 addresses these specific limitations of NT 4.0. It offers the ability to add new volumes or span volumes across several disks without taking the server offline using its new dynamic volume management (DVM) capabilities. It also now offers the ability to manage up to 2,500 LUNs, breaking the previous 26 LUN limitation of Windows NT substantially.
As part of ensuring HBA interoperability with its operating system, Microsoft now also offers driver signing for HBA vendors who go through their certification process. Customers will be able to ascertain an HBA vendor's compliance with a specific release of Windows by looking for the appropriate Windows logo on each HBA vendor's technical documentation.
Discovering new LUNs
The other major issue is the ability to discover new LUNs on the SAN, whether on storage array ports where the HBA already sees LUNs or on different storage array ports on the SAN that will present new LUNs to the server. The degree of difficulty in discovering and configuring LUNs behind these ports will vary widely, depending on both the OS and HBA. (See "How HBAs and operating systems work together," above.)
The newer HBA cards' ability to autodiscover LUNs dramatically reduces the time administrators spend managing which LUNs the server has access to. Before this important new feature, some storage administrators chose to set up configuration files to recognize every possible LUN behind every storage array port on the SAN, even if the HBA didn't have access to them. This workaround allowed system administrators to discover new LUNs without server reboots.
Yet using configuration files to recognize LUNs has a big downside. During a reboot, for example, some operating systems will probe each of the LUNs described in its configuration file. This is a problem when a reboot is required and the server does not have access to all of the LUNs in its configuration file (and in large SANs, this number could be significant). In these circumstances, server reboots would take forever while the server timed out on LUNs it didn't have access to. New HBAs from Emulex, JNI and LSI Logic, along with more intelligent server operating systems, eliminate this gotcha.
Consider the QLogic QLA2342 HBA. On Sun Solaris systems, it autodiscovers any LUNs on any storage array on the SAN for which it has the appropriate permissions, without any additional configuration tweaks or reboots. On Windows 2000 systems, QLogic provides system administrators a GUI utility to discover and report on the new LUNs though Windows itself detects these new LUNs under the Disk Administrator component of Computer Manager.
For HP-UX and AIX operating systems, as long as they support the vendor's HBA, the autodiscovery of LUNs feature should be available. Each ships with utilities native to its operating systems that allow new LUNs to be discovered without requiring reboots of its respective systems, regardless of the HBA manufacturer.
WWN spoofing
With these advances in simplifying the maintenance and configuration of HBAs, vendors are now turning their attention to address the next generation of FC HBA challenges. One such feature that's been available but whose future acceptance is still debated is the WWN spoofing functionality. To date, few--if any-- HBA vendors natively ship this feature, even though they have it available in their labs. Atto's Donnelly cites lack of customer demand and that fact that WWN spoofing introduces security risks into the SAN as reasons for not promoting this feature more aggressively.
Yet with the number of servers coming onto the SAN growing consistently, the growth of clustered servers and the desire by some to either simplify LUN security or establish a meaningful corporate HBA naming schema, this feature continues to generate some attention.
Currently, SAN administrators have to reapply the LUN security of the new HBA on every LUN the server sees if the old HBA fails. With the deployment of WWN spoofing, system administrators may now re-assign the old HBA WWN to the new HBA, reducing any risks involved with reapplying LUN security. Atto's Donnelly also sees this feature being used by customers who have clustered server environments. The HBAs of the failover server inherits the HBA WWNs of the server that failed, ensuring that failover server receives access to the data of the server that failed.
However, a more important benefit comes in the potential to come up with a meaningful WWN naming standard for all HBAs similar to what has occurred in the TCP/IP networking space. Right now, each server--regardless of its make, model or underlying operating systems--assumes the WWN that comes with the HBA. With the introduction of WWN spoofing, system administrators may now assign Windows servers one set of WWNs, Sun servers another and Novell servers yet another. This could enable a higher degree of QoS and better recognition of the nature of the FC traffic traversing the SAN.
All HBA vendors will provide this WWN spoofing function to customers who ask. Also, there are some third-party drivers available that replace the HBA's vendor driver with their own driver to deliver this sort of functionality. For instance, the leading storage array and tape drive vendors have driver code they use that replaces the HBA driver software on their respective device arrays that permit WWN spoofing for easier SAN management.
However, use WWN spoofing on servers with extreme caution. If, for example, an HBA on a Windows server is assigned the same WWN as has been assigned to a Unix server, the Windows OS could see the Unix storage on the SAN, which will result in a loss or corruption of the data associated with the Unix server. Worse yet, depending on the management and security tools deployed within the SAN itself, this situation could be difficult to diagnose and could occur again.
Fibre Channel speeds
Another feature that seemingly every SAN environment wants is more speed. The move to 2Gb-compatible HBAs now seems a done deal. Atto reports that more than 80% of its sales now come from 2Gb-compatible cards, while all of the HBAs LSI Logic ships are now 2Gb compatible. Atto's Donnelly says with 1Gb and 2 Gb cards costing the same, there's no longer any compelling reason to buy 1Gb cards (see "Finding the right HBA").
Yet lurking around the corner are the 4Gb and 10Gb FC standards. Here's where the next generation of HBA speed remains a little murky, though LSI Logic's Charles Kraus sees momentum starting to build for 4Gb. Kraus points to simple economics as the reason 4Gb FC HBAs have a future. The 4Gb HBAs will be backward compatible with 1Gb and 2Gb protocols, and they will autosense the older protocols and cost about the same.
Meanwhile, 10Gb HBAs aren't backward compatible with 1Gb, 2Gb or 4Gb because the optics they use are different, and it will cost about $10,000 per port to deploy.
Yet Kraus says one shouldn't assume 4Gb is a done deal, as the HBA vendors are still waiting for a major switch vendor to join the 4Gb fray. While Kraus notes the industry hasn't made a decision on 4Gb or 10Gb yet, he suspects that 4Gb will appear in the marketplace in about 12 months.
The final feature that's generating attention among the HBA vendors is the CIM standard that was just recently proposed by the SNIA. Atto Technology's Donnelly sees CIM putting all HBA vendors on equal footing in terms of being able to manage HBAs. While he doesn't see this standard as necessarily making HBAs a commodity, it will give SAN administrators the ability to perform 70% or more of the needed management functions on any HBA, regardless of which vendor they are dealing with.
The introduction of CIM support, LUN autodiscovery capabilities, remote management and faster FC speeds will all help to increase the value of the next generation of HBAs. These features will help SAN administrators make their SANs faster, less complex and easier to manage.
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PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Police in the southeast Arkansas city of Pine Bluff say a 107-year-old man is dead after SWAT officers shot back at him during a standoff at a home.
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They didn't, and this could bring an end to the Norv Turner era in San Diego.
The Ravens converted on a dazzling catch-and-run by Ray Rice, forced overtime and then won it 16-13 on Justin Tucker's 38-yard field goal with 1:07 left.
"Obviously on fourth-and-29 we had the chance to not let it get to that," Turner told Chargers.com. "We certainly weren't going to let them throw the ball up the field. They dumped the ball, and we thought we'd converge on it and get them well short of the first down. We had a couple guys take bad angles. We gave him a chance to cut back, and he cut back and made the first down."
San Diego (4-7) was pushed closer to elimination from the playoff picture for the third straight season. The Chargers fell four games behind AFC West leader Denver, which swept the season series against San Diego. In the wild-card race, the Chargers trail Indianapolis by three games and Pittsburgh and Cincinnati by two games.
While Tucker provided most of Baltimore's scoring with three field goals, Rice had the play of the game. Pushed back by a holding call against guard Marshal Yanda and a 9-yard sack of Joe Flacco by Antwan Barnes, the Ravens were down to their last desperate shot.
Flacco took a shotgun snap, looked downfield and then threw a short pass to Rice, who ran through a big hole in the middle of the field. Three Chargers missed him at midfield before Quentin Jammer and Antoine Cason finally brought him down.
"Check down, Hey Diddle Diddle, Ray Rice up the middle," the Ravens running back described the play. "It was just total will. Once I made the first guy miss when I cut back across the grain, I actually saw the defense had to flip their hip and I kept eyeing the first down. ... I just kept getting up field."
The ball was spotted at the 33. After a lengthy review, the ball was moved back to the 34, and the officials measured. The new spot still gave the Ravens (9-2) a first down by the length of the ball.
"The explanation we got was that where they spotted the ball, they couldn't see the ball," Turner said. "They knew it did not make it to the point where they marked it so they moved it back. I don't know how if they can't see the ball how they pick where they were going to move the ball back to. The view our guys had upstairs, they felt it was short."
Six plays after the big conversion, Tucker kicked a 38-yard field goal to tie the game as regulation expired.
"I thought it might be our best shot at the time -- give it to Ray -- and Ray made a great run and got a little lucky and it worked out perfect," Flacco said.
Chargers safety Eric Weddle pursued Rice on the play but was hit by wide receiver Anquan Boldin and sustained a concussion.
"I thought I tackled him," Weddle said. "That's the last thing I remember, but obviously I didn't. We had a really tough game defensively, and we didn't pull out the win."
Said linebacker: Takeo Spikes: "I can't even explain it. Before this it was like a roller coaster full of emotions up and down. I don't know what happened, it just happened."
San Diego punted on both of its OT possessions.
Then on third-and-10 from the Chargers 47, Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith went over Jammer's tight coverage to make a 31-yard catch. Flacco twice took a knee to set up the winning kick.
This was the third time the Chargers blew a double-digit lead in the second half. They also came from ahead to lose at New Orleans, and they blew a 24-0 halftime lead and lost 35-24 to Denver.


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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended that manufacturing processes for two anticancer medicines be transferred from Ben Venue Laboratories to alternative facilities. The decision follows GMP shortcomings identified at the US-based manufacturer in late 2011, and marks the end of the EMA's review of all fourteen centrally authorized medicines that were produced at the site.
Presently, Ben Venue is the only facility that manufactures the anticancer medicines Caelyx (doxorubicin hydrochloride) and Ceplene (histamine duhydrochloride) for the European Union market. While the transfer takes place, the EMA has recommended that the marketing authorizations for both medicines be maintained because they are considered essential for patients and no alternative suppliers or formulations are available. The Agency also added that no concerns have been raised from the safety monitoring of these medicines.
For Caelyx, the EMA explained in a statement that no new patients should be started on the treatment. This recommendation will remain in place until the sterile filtration and aseptic filling processes have been transferred to a new manufacturing site, which should be completed by September 2012. Following this, Janssen-Cilag International NV, which is the marketing authorization holder, will transfer all the remaining steps in the manufacturing process to a new site by the end of 2014.
Janssen-Cilag is also required to promptly report any safety concerns, as well as submit a monthly report detailing reports on effects that could be related to sterilization problems.
For Ceplene, manufacturing processes must be transferred by the marketing authorization holder (EpiCept GmbH) by the end of 2013. In the meantime, the company must continue to visually inspect vials for signs of particle contamination.
The EMA's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has been reviewing medicines manufactured at Ben Venue since early November 2011 after an inspection identified problems in the company's quality-management system, particularly in relation to the sterile filling process and possible particle contamination during manufacturing. The decisions regarding Caelyx and Ceplene mark the end of the review. For the previous twelve medicines in the review, the EMA recommended that Ben Venue be removed as a manufacturing site. The review also resulted in the suspension of the marketing authorizations for the skin infection medicine Vibativ and the diagnostic agent Luminity until a suitable, alternative manufacturing site is approved.
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The Seneca boys basketball team got in the win column on Thursday by pouncing Monett, 63-51, at the Carthage Tournament.
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Most of that work came in the second quarter when the Indians outscored the Cubs 20-12 behind a pair of key 3-pointers from Daniel Noah and a host of easy transition baskets. The Indians shot the ball well from long distance as Noah finished with three trey's while Seth Harris hit two and Bradley Jumper one.
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October 24, 2013
Last Saturday, a reported 47,000 people packed the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York, for the New York Sheep and Wool Festival. That's more than attended the whole weekend last year, and almost four times what it was six years ago. The festival was, to put it mildly, mobbed.
Handknits were everywhere. Some people exercised restraint, others piled the knits as high as they'd go. Everywhere, smiles and words of appreciation from friends and strangers alike. For a sense of just how happy the mood and abundant the knits, take a peek at photographer Gail Zucker's beautiful video, Rhinebeck Style.
Knitting a so-called "Rhinebeck sweater" has become such a tradition that Ysolda Teague made it the focus of her latest book, a charming collection of sweater patterns fittingly titled, The Rhinebeck Sweater. It'll be in stores soon, and you'll want to preorder your copy now. I preview it this week.
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HOUSTON – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team staged a furious late rally, but it was not enough to overcome an early deficit in a 78-66 loss to Rice on Wednesday night at Tudor Fieldhouse. Terence Jones led three players in double figures for the Islanders (1-11), while Rice had six players finish with 10 points or more.
Myron Dempsey delivered 14 points and Chris Hawkins-Mast added 13 for the visitors, while Jason Smith had a career-high nine as well. The Islanders used a staunch defensive effort to produce a season-high 15 steals, led by four each from Dempsey and Johnathan Jordan. Arsalan Kazemi led the way with 13 points and 15 rebounds for the Owls, while also notching five assists. The Islanders put together a late 32-15 run to trim a 25-point deficit to just eight.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi got out to a 6-2 lead behind two baskets by Dempsey, but the Owls jumped back with a 10-0 run to regain a 12-6 advantage. From there on, the two teams went blow-for-blow over the next several minutes, with the Islanders pulling as close as two, but the Owls getting the lead to 19-16 after Jason Smith sank a pair of free throws.
Rice then went on an 8-0 run, with Kazemi and Jarelle Reischel each scoring four points and forcing an Islanders timeout at the 6:40 mark. The TO slowed the rally, but the Owls had another in them, a 12-2 run that ballooned the lead to 19 with 2:58 remaining before the break. The Islanders trimmed it to 40-25, but Rice went into the break with the momentum after a second-chance layin from Tamir Jackson to make it a 17-point advantage heading to the locker room.
Rice continued that momentum out of the break, starting the second half on a 6-0 run, taking advantage of cold Islanders shooting, before a Smith layup snapped the string to make it 48-27 at the 16:33 mark. That set off a 7-0 run for the Islanders, the highlight a Jake Kocher three followed by a steal and layin by Smith to make it 48-32.
But the offense went cold for the visitors at that point, as Rice embarked on an 8-1 run over the next 6:28 to push the lead to 56-33. The Islanders got a pair of three-point plays from Hawkins-Mast to cut into the Rice lead, and the Islanders continued to press and force Owls mistakes. Steals on back-to-back possessions led to layups for Jones and Johnathan Jordan, making the deficit 62-46 with 6:20 left.
The rally continued for the Islanders, as they continued to produce turnovers possession after possession. Jones hit four free throws – two for a personal and two for a technical, both on Dylan Ennis – to bring it into single digits with the score 70-61 with 1:57 left. Hawkins-Mast added a third three-point play to trim it to 74-66, but the Owls hit their free throws in the final seconds to close out the victory.
The Islanders are now for a week, as they will open Southland Conference play on Wednesday, Jan. 4, against Lamar at the American Bank Center. The game, slated for a 7 p.m. tipoff, will be televised on Southland TV and will be one of two "Los Islanders" games, with $3 of every single-game ticket purchased going to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.


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What else are ya gonna use? Although I must admit, Pages has been getting more and more use whenever I am a documents originator.
Mellel is blazing fast, though it doesn't have all of the features of Office.
I agree, but then again I'm on a PowerPC Mac. Can anyone comment on which one is faster on Intel hardware?
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Maintaining good day-to-day asthma control is the key to keeping symptoms at bay and preventing asthma attacks. Having a written asthma action plan makes it easier for you to measure whether your child's asthma is under control — and it lets you know exactly what steps to take when it isn't. Using an asthma action plan is especially important if your child has moderate to severe asthma or has had a serious asthma attack in the past. Here's how to get started.
Because asthma varies from person to person, you'll need to work with the doctor to develop a plan that's customized for your child. If your child is old enough, he or she may be able to help create and use the plan. Your child's action plan can help you and your child:
Once you and your child's doctor have developed an asthma action plan, keep it close at hand. Make sure your child and everyone who cares for him or her — including grandparents and baby sitters — know where to find it and what to do in case of worsening asthma symptoms. Give a copy of the plan to the school nurse and your child's teachers and coaches. Keep another copy in your wallet or purse, in case an asthma attack occurs away from home. As your child gets older, he or she can take more responsibility for using the plan to track and manage asthma.
Work with the doctor to adjust your child's asthma action plan on a regular basis. Asthma changes with age, so your child's treatment plan will need to change too.
Having asthma shouldn't mean that your child will miss school, be short of breath during sports or play, or wake up coughing at night. By carefully following a written plan, you and your child can keep asthma well controlled and minimize the disruptions it causes.
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Say it! Say "chow-dah!" I don't think this is actually a chowder (when does soup become chowder, anyway?), but I wanted to go with an alliterative title. The temperature dipped down to 2 degrees the other night which suddenly put me in the mood for soup. Of course, now it's about 22 degrees, so that mood has passed. If it is still warm where you are, file this recipe away for later. It is creamy and chunky and perfectly satisfying. The boys loved it as well, which is great because they often balk at soups (or any dish where they can't identify the individual components or separate them out). The chowder has a slightly cheesy taste from the nooch and miso that is well-balanced by the leeks and roasted pepper.
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tbsp margarine
- 1 sweet onion, halved and sliced
- 4 garlic cloves, chopped
- 3 leeks, white and light green part, thinly sliced
- 1 large cauliflower, cut into florets
- 2 medium red potatoes, skins on, diced
- 4 cups water
- 1 roasted yellow pepper, skinned, seeded, chopped
- 1 recipe cashew cream
- generous tbsp yellow miso
- generous tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup nutritional yeast
- salt and pepper to taste
1. Heat oil and margarine in a large soup pot over medium heat. Add onion, garlic, and leeks and saute for 12-15 mins, or until reduced down and golden.
2. Add cauliflower and potatoes and water (salt the water if you want). Bring to bubbling, then reduce heat and cover. Simmer for 15-20 mins, until cauliflower and is very tender.
3. Remove half of the veggies with a slotted spoon. Add the roasted yellow pepper to the remainder and blend with an immersion blender until smooth.
4. Add removed veggies back to the pot along with the cashew cream. Add miso, mustard, and nutritional yeast and mix well. Season to taste, heat until just bubbling, and serve.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Creamy Chunky Cauliflower Chowder
Say it! Say "chow-dah!" I don't think this is actually a chowder (when does soup become chowder, anyway?), but I wanted to go with an alliterative title. The temperature dipped down to 2 degrees the other night which suddenly put me in the mood for soup. Of course, now it's about 22 degrees, so that mood has passed. If it is still warm where you are, file this recipe away for later. It is creamy and chunky and perfectly satisfying. The boys loved it as well, which is great because they often balk at soups (or any dish where they can't identify the individual components or separate them out). The chowder has a slightly cheesy taste from the nooch and miso that is well-balanced by the leeks and roasted pepper.
Posted by Vegan Dad at 8:45 PM
Labels: cauliflower, potato
24 comments:
- Veganista said...
That looks amazing and I was just thinking about soup!
I have a strange question though. I have ground cashews from the other day leftover, do you think I would be able to use this for the cashew cream or would that not work?
Cause I really wanna try this soon! Keep up the good work!
- September 23, 2009 at 1:12 AM
- taleoftwovegans said...
Mmm, that looks yummy! I was just thinking about needing to find a recipe to use up some of my miso too, perfect. Now all I need to do is go fetch some cauliflower.
P.S. Hopefully the kidlets aren't keeping you too too busy. Love seeing your kitchen creations!
- September 23, 2009 at 2:33 AM
- T said...
I usually balk when I can't distinguish the ingredients too, haha. This soup looks perfect though... love the cashew cream addition.
- September 23, 2009 at 3:50 AM
- The Vegan Food Snob said...
cashew cream in chowder....i never thought of this! you are so smart, s m r t, i mean s m a r t!
i will def try this!
- September 23, 2009 at 9:19 AM
- yeaaahtoast said...
Chowder is traditionally a soup thickened with flour and usually containing cream or milk.
My vegan corn chowder doesn't have either, but i still call it chowder too!
This sounds so amazing, i've recently fallen in love with cashew cream. It's warm in LA, but i'm going to make this over the weekend anyway.
LOVE your recipes Vegan Dad!
- September 23, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- veggie trombonist said...
Looks great--I want to make a big pot for Fall lunches!
I'm allergic to tree nuts. Do you have any suggestions for replacing the cashew cream? Maybe just some arrowroot for thickening?
- September 23, 2009 at 4:30 PM
- Megan said...
Say it Frenchy!
Part of my almost wants it to get colder out just so I can enjoy soup again. It just doesn't feel right to make it when it's still 30degrees outside. Maybe I'll make an exception since this looks gooood.
- September 23, 2009 at 5:15 PM
- Michael said...
made it earlier today and i don't even like cauliflower.
it's quite good.
- September 23, 2009 at 9:56 PM
- chow vegan said...
The chow-dah looks awesome! I'll have to give it a go once it get a bit colder here. Suppose to be mid-80's today in California.
- September 24, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- Ashley said...
I am not a big cauliflower fan but get it frequently in my veggie co-op. I just made this recipe and WOW! This is fantastic:) Thank-you. Sinfully delicious
- September 24, 2009 at 11:27 AM
- Kelley said...
This looks great! I was going to make a broccoli cheeze soup tonight, (although it's been a balmy 86 in Seattle the last couple days!) but might make this instead! Thanks!
- September 24, 2009 at 6:11 PM
- Carolyn said...
Aack. 2 degrees is just wrong in September, even if you are in Canada. Cauliflower is king however, will definitely put this on the list for fall soups.
- September 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM
- Janet said...
having this for dinner tonight! :)
- September 26, 2009 at 5:59 PM
- Anonymous said...
This was absolutely delicious. My 18 year old son licked the bowl -not that I am proud that he does that - but you get my point! And I had it for dinner last night, an after dinner snack, breakfast this morning and we are almost all out of it. Thank you!
- September 27, 2009 at 3:46 PM
- bugbear said...
Veganista, definitely use those leftover cashews to make the cashew cream, they will work great. They get blended into microscopic bits and an emulsion anyways.
- September 28, 2009 at 1:38 AM
- c.c. said...
i'm not vegan, but i love learning recipes and techniques from them! i'm especially pleased to have almost everything on hand for this one--going to the market right now for cashews. it feels like fall in Chicago, so soup tonight!
- September 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- Carry said...
We made a version of this for dinner tonight, cooking the veggies in the crock pot and finishing the soup as directed. I omitted the miso, because we didn't have any. The verdict: DELICIOUS!
Thank you for helping the world at large eat just a little bit better :-)
- September 28, 2009 at 11:06 PM
- stellatex said...
Love this! Brilliant!
- September 29, 2009 at 5:21 PM
- crystal said...
Great recipe! I adjusted it to suit what I had on hand and it was fantastic! My son loved it, too! I'll be making this again soon.
- September 30, 2009 at 9:43 PM
- kellycrochets said...
This was SO good! vegans and non-vegans alike sing your praises.
I didn't have cashews, so I used sunflower seeds, which means it was a little gritty. Next time I will definitely be picking up some cashews.
- October 1, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Alisa@Foodista said...
Look delicious!i love it!
- October 3, 2009 at 6:08 AM
- K. said...
Made this chowder today and it's delicious. As usual. My cashews were salted so I didn't need to add any extra, it turned out perfect. I am however dreaming of an immersion blender...I made a godawful mess in the kitchen!
- October 4, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- VeganLinda said...
I made this tonight without the peppers and just cooked the cashews with the soup. Delish!! Great for dipping homemade rolls into on a chilly night.
- October 4, 2009 at 10:11 PM
- havear said...
I love love love this chowder! I have directed countless people to your blog to access it. I am eating it right now ...
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Alabama student earns Federal Highway Administration research fellowship
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The Federal Highway Administration recently awarded an Eisenhower Grant for Research Fellowship to a University of Alabama senior in civil engineering, who will spend the summer working at a federal research center in Virginia.
Owen Killeen, a native of Norwich, Conn., received the fellowship as part of the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program, according to a release from UA.
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Your guide to 1,600 beautiful, natural places for a dip in the US and Canada. A refreshing swimming hole or warming hot spring in a river, creek, spring or waterfall is the perfect complement to your favorite outdoor activity or a refreshing break on a long road trip.
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To search for your specific interest go to a state page (see 2nd map below), hit F3 on your browser and enter your search word.
RESPECT - Please do not visit these beautiful, natural places if you cannot respect them. Trash, rowdy behavior, drunkeness, accidents and trespassing on private property are causing us to to lose access to more of them every year.
SAFETY - Swimming in natural places has inherent dangers. There are risks to life, limb and health involved. Caution can minimize but not eliminate these risks. The authors assume no responsibility for sickness, injury or death resulting from use/misuse of information contained herein. See our extensive SAFETY info below the map.
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SAFETY FIRST!Most accidents/drownings in natural swimming places are due to strong currents, diving and/or alcohol. Do not let carelessness or peer pressure get you into a situation you cannot deal with. Each time you go, wade in gradually and check the current. Do not jump in until you have checked both the depth AND the current first. Look downstream - if the current is strong for a long distance or might pin you against a large object (e.g., bluff, large rock or downed tree) don't go in. Large rivers have hidden currents below the surface - assume large rivers are NEVER safe to swim regardless of how calm they look on the surface.
If you find yourself being swept away in a current, do not panic, do not fight the current and do not try to stand up (foot can get trapped in rocks) - float feet first downstream on your back. Let the current carry you until it becomes more gentle and/or until you calm down. Then, staying on your back and still feet first downstream, gradually use your arms to paddle to shore. If you swim or boat in creeks often, you should practice this maneuver until it becomes familiar.
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Most unofficial, natural swimming places are not tested for water cleanliness. To see data on those that ARE tested, go to How's My Waterway? We have not checked all of our listings against this data. In many cases, you must be the judge.
If the watershed (upstream) includes farmland, ranchland or urban development, you must be careful. Even if the water is normally clean enough, AFTER A HEAVY RAIN sewage and toxic materials can be washed into the water.
In natural hot springs and in other still, warm waters a very rare but sometimes fatal aomeba infection has occured when water gets into a person's nasal passages.
To be safe, do not get water in your mouth, eyes, ears or nose. Do not submerge your head - wear a nose clip and pinch your nose closed if you jump into the water.
If you get into poison ivy/oak, wash the skin area with soapy water or rubbing alcohol as soon as possible and do not scratch.
Much of the information on this web site is derived from other sources - such as hiking and travel books, magazine articles, publications, emails from visitors and other Internet sites. Our intent is to relay this information as accurately as possible; we do not direct the public to use these swimming holes. The existence of private property or other matters of legality may have been inadvertently omitted or may be inexact in some cases.
We are not able to do an on-site visit to each place, and even when we do property ownership or legality is sometimes not evident. It is not our intention to cause negative impacts to private property owners or to increase their liability. When this is brought to our attention by bona-fide sources, we act promptly to add this information to the listing or otherwise resolve the matter on a case-by-case basis.
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GPS POI/DATA FILE - 1600 swimming holes in a .xls file (updated 11/14 - will open as a spreadsheet). READ AND DELETE HEADER on file before using. (NOTE: Save it as a .csv file for direct input to your Garmin. For Tom Tom and other mapping software, most require the .gpx format - use GPSVizualizer to convert. For more information about how to input these to your GPS (Garmin, Tom Tom or Magellan), see POI-FACTORY (look under "TOP PICKS" for step by step instructions for your device) .
ABOUT EASTERN HOT SPRINGS - We are often asked, "Where are the natural hot springs in the east". There really aren't any very natural ones. You have to go west of Denver - we list some great ones!
NATIONAL STATIC MAP - This map will give you an idea of what areas have the most swimming holes and hot springs. It is NOT an interactive map.
Remember the "old swimmin' hole"? Well, many are still there and they are still lots more fun and naturally beautiful than a chlorinated swimming pool!
SwimmingHoles.info focuses on moving, fresh water spots - like creeks, rivers, springs and waterfalls. Also listed are some selected hot springs (in the west) and other swimming places on lakes, quarries or bays which have unique features that make them especially beautiful or fun for swimming. (Click on picture below for example listing.)
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This activity is brought to you by Melissa & Doug, written by our Blog Ambassador Stacy Teet.
Talking about and dealing with emotions can be a tricky subject, but it doesn't have to be. The Create-A-Face drawing pad really helped my daughter open up. -Stacy
My daughter recently started kindergarten. She is a lover of animals, babies, infants, toddlers, teenagers and adults, but when it comes to children her own age, she is struggling to connect.
She's an independent free spirit: artistic, sensitive and with a heart of gold — still, sometimes she lacks self-confidence and has trouble expressing herself. I'm working with her teachers and doing what I can to make the classroom a more comfortable environment for her, but I wanted to do something at home too.
We've been practicing role playing and have been having regular mother-daughter chats, so when I saw the Create-a-Face drawing pads on the Melissa & Doug site, I just knew they could help.
Art is her favorite pastime, so broaching tough subjects like feelings and making friends in a setting where she is comfortable really works for us. It could work for you too! We started drawing clowns and pirates and such, but quickly moved on to more meaningful work.
I started her off with an easy one. What does happy look like?
She began by recalling stories I have told her about my time in Africa, mostly because she loves to hear me tell her how I found out I was pregnant with her while on one of my trips, but also (and this is the important part) because she remembers me telling her about the intense joy and overwhelming emotions I felt while I was there — a life lesson: true happiness is contagious. I was amazed how she could turn my memories into a vision all her own. She put such care in to how she made her, was thoughtful in how she described her and had such a genuine smile on her face while she drew her.
✓ – She has happiness down.
Next, we moved on to sadness. Her expression changed, her eyes grew wide and she started to frown. "When you are sad", she said, "you don't want to go anywhere or see anyone . . . you might cry. When your feelings are hurt, it hurts you on the inside too."
Saddness – yep, she knows what that feels like. Luckily, she also knew the remedy: hugs, kisses and happy thoughts — unless you are her little brother, in that case you don't really like hugs or kisses. (I told her to give them to him anyway!)
We also spoke of anger and how doing bad things and saying bad things can really hurt people and make them … sad. <- I liked that she could equate how someone's emotions could effect someone else's. The key to dealing with anger she told me, "was saying your sorry" … "then doing nice things and stopping all the mad stuff". She confided in me that she didn't really like doing bad things or being around people who did them.
She does like surprises though (bottom right), she thinks those are pretty much the coolest thing in the world.
I loved getting to know her this way, we talked in a way typical day-to-day interaction doesn't really allow us to. I saw her from a whole new perspective and I loved it. She did too, she told me just before bed what a nice surprise our art project was today!
That's code for spending time with mom + doing art projects + having you really listen to me = the coolest thing in the world. <see definition of surprised above>
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Padgett Powell, author of the acclaimed The Interrogative Mood and "one of the few truly important American writers of our time" (Sam Lipsyte), returns with a hilarious Southern send-up of Samuel Beckett's classic Waiting for Godot.
Truly a master of envelope-pushing, post-postmodern American fiction, in a class with Nicholas Baker and Lydia Davis, Powell brilliantly blends the sublime, the trivial, and the oddball in You & Me, as two loquacious gents on a porch discuss all manner of subjects, from the mundane to the spiritual to the downright ridiculous.
At once outrageously funny and profound, You & Me is yet another brilliant, boundary-bursting masterwork, proving once again that, "there are few writers who understand both the beauty and the absurdity of language as well as Padgett Powell" (Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang) and that, "Padgett Powell is one of the best writers in America, and one of the funniest, too" (Ian Frazier).
You & Me: A Novel won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.
The cult hit The Interrogative Mood—a Best Book of the Year selection by Amazon.com, GQ, The Believer, Time OutNew York, and elsewhere—reminded readers that Padgett Powell is one of the enduring stars of American fiction, an electric novelist with a pitch-perfect ear for the way Americans talk and the strange things we say and believe. Now he returns with a hilarious Southern send-up of Samuel Beckett's classic Waiting for Godot, and we enter the world of the sublime and trivial as only Powell can envision it.
Two loquacious men sit talking on a porch. Funny and profound, daft and cogent, they argue about love and sex, how best to live and die, the merits of Miles Davis and Cadillacs and Hollywood starlets of yore, underused clichés, false truisms, and the meaning of nihilism. Together, they shoot the shit—and then they go on shooting it long after it's dead.
Ribald and roaring, You & Me is an exuberant and very funny novel from a master of American fiction at the top of his game.
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"[Powell's] characters might be all talk and no walk, but what wonderful talk it is. . . . Powell, in his recent work, has set his mind ablaze. And nothing but exquisite and deeply strange language is left to emerge from the ashes." — NPR
"The novel's penetrating, playful words manage to 'pick impossibly heavy sh*t up' and deliver what one of the characters calls 'the perfect nonsense a real dream makes.'" — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[Written] with typical swaggering genius and ribald wit." — Vanity Fair
"Hilarious [and] absorbing. . . . Powell can make the most barbed issues—the power of media, class resentment, private self-judgment, and dread of death—slither through dialogue of zany simplicity." — San Francisco Chronicle
"Addictive, a plotless page-turner." — Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A hilarious and engaging novel, with a strong sense of natural speech and life's absurdities, by the author of the highly acclaimed The Interrogative Mood." — Booklist
"Wonderful. . . . You & Me is by turns hilarious, depressing, gnomic, smutty, and just a far better Saturday night than anything to be had in Jacksonville and Baskersfield combined." — BookForum
"Deliciously human. . . . Powell creates dialogue so deftly that we feel we are sitting alongside these men, somehow caught up in their discussion. Slyly funny, sometimes silly, irreverent, impudent, and brash, Powell has crafted a conversation that is comically American, with a free and wild heart." — Interview Magazine
"This is the hilarious work of a master in a late-career renaissance." — Creative Loafing
"Extremely funny . . . reflective and poetic." — Village Voice
"Sit back and enjoy the ride. . . . The payoffs are marvelous. . . . Powell gets deeper and funnier every time out." — Shelf Awareness
"There's a wild, improvisational spirit to Powell's literary jazz. . . . You're urged on by hilarious . . . digressions, the musical lilt of the vernacular. . . . Good fun." — GQ.com
"Great fun. . . . Irreverent. . . . Witty. . . . Compelling." — Kirkus Reviews
"Hilarious [and] moving." — Oxford American
"Delightful. . . . Ripe with juicy, drunken, rambling revelations. . . . Powell's wholly distinctive voice grabs you by the ear and sets you to laughing." — Portland Mercury
"One of the South's most distinctive voices. . . . Make[s] your brain dance in ways you never thought it could. . . . There's a hallucinatory brilliance at work here . . . most of all, in the improbable and covert way that Powell cracks your heart." — Garden & Gun magazine
"These old boys are Southern storytellers, masters of the gothic twist, the wry comeback. . . . Their voices become so vivid that reading the book begins to feel like eavesdropping—and a fine spell of eavesdropping it is." — Tampa Bay Times
"Padgett Powell's You & Me, mixed with 750 ml of fine bourbon, is the most fun you can have in many states without getting arrested. Braver, tougher, smarter than most of the fiction supposedly pushing the envelope. Why? Because it actually means something." — Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story
"There are few writers who understand both the beauty and the absurdity of language as well as Padgett Powell. . . . These are Nobel-big concerns, presented the way all grand truths should be delivered, with humor and tenderness." — Kevin Wilson, bestselling author of The Family Fang
"This book is a rare thing: experimental writing with powerful narrative drive. I finished it feeling quieted—by its melancholic probing—and exhilarated by its comic style." — John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead and Blood Horses
"…Hilarious, bizarre and absorbing … Echoes of everyone from Walt Whitman to Will Rogers, vaudeville to Wittgenstein…Powell can make the most barbed issues -the power of media, class resentment, private self-judgment and dread of death - slither through dialogue of zany simplicity." — San Francisco Chronicle
Product Details
- Imprint: Ecco
- On Sale: 07/31/2012
- Trimsize: 5.5 in (w) x 8.25 in (h) x 0.77 in (d)
- Pages: 208
- List Price: 23.99 USD
- BISAC1: FICTION / Literary
- BISAC2: DRAMA / American / General
- BISAC3: FICTION / Dystopian


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Shawn Loiseau has been working out feverishly and waiting patiently for another NFL opportunity since he was part of the last round of cuts by the Houston Texans on Aug. 31.
That chance came yesterday when the Indianapolis Colts signed the Shrewsbury High alum to their eight-man practice squad.
"They said they liked my intensity and approach to the game," Loiseau said last night when reached in Indianapolis, where he arrived earlier in the day. "They told me to work as hard as I possibly can and I'll be able to stick around."
The 6-foot, 239-pound linebacker will take part in his first practice today as the surprising Colts, who are 6-3 after having gone 2-14 last season, begin preparations for their game Sunday against his hometown Patriots in New England.
"It's crazy," Loiseau, 23, said of the timing of the signing.
Loiseau, a former T&G Super Team selection who went on to become a two-time Division 2 All-American at Merrimack College, went undrafted in April but drew the interest of a number of teams because of his potential as a contributor on both special teams and defense.
The Colts were among several teams that talked to Loiseau prior to the draft. They resumed contact after his release, brought him in for a workout a few weeks ago and offered a contract Monday, which Loiseau quickly accepted.
"I've just been waiting for my opportunity, keeping my head down and working hard," said Loiseau, who spent the fall training at Merrimack and helping out with the football team. "I knew the opportunity would come and I'm grateful to the Colts for giving me that opportunity."
Loiseau said he feels good physically right now and believes he'll round into football shape in no time at all because, as he mentioned a few times, "I'm going to go in and work as hard as I can."
Loiseau (pronounced Low-EE-so) was named Massachusetts Defensive Player of the Year by the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston in his senior year at Shrewsbury, when he led the Colonials to a 13-0 season and a Division 1A Super Bowl victory over Westfield.
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SAN JOSE -- Sharks chief operating officer John Tortora said Monday that the team remains "in the running" to host an outdoor game in 2015 but added that nothing is official.
As this newspaper reported in early May, there are strong indications that the Bay Area will play host to an outdoor game as part of the NHL's Stadium Series next winter -- either at AT&T Park or the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium. CSNBayArea.com, citing multiple sources, reported Monday that the Bay Area is expected to be chosen as a Stadium Series host.
Giants president Larry Baer has voiced his support for the game to be played in San Francisco, telling this newspaper in February that "our ballpark would be perfect."
The number of outdoor games played next season is expected to be reduced from six to four. Washington, D.C., will host the 2015 Winter Classic on Jan. 1, 2015. Other cities reportedly looking to host a game include Minneapolis, Boston and Denver.
In January, the Los Angeles Kings hosted the Anaheim Ducks before 54,000 fans at Dodger Stadium. That game, two at Yankee Stadium, and one at Soldier Field in Chicago sold a combined 220,000 tickets, generating a reported $40 million in revenue.


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- Jul 9:
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- Bay Bridge's steel bolt failures reveal inadequate metallurgy expertise, experts say
- Bay Bridge: Opening of new span to be delayed for weeks or months
- Jun 12:
- Bay Bridge: Open new span with or without bolt repairs, experts say
- Jun 2:
- Daniel Borenstein: Bay Bridge officials don't walk the transparency talk
- May 29:
- Will the new Bay Bridge open on time?
- Bay Bridge bike path bolt repairs completed months ago
- May 28:
- Bay Bridge suspense continues
- Contra Costa Times editorial: Bay Bridge executives failing to produce basic written reports
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- Roadshow: I-580's extra lanes leave no median for BART to Livermore
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- Details emerge on who picked steel for Bay Bridge that later broke
- May 21:
- Gov. Jerry Brown: Bay Bridge 'not going to open unless it's ready'
- May 8:
- Live coverage: Bay Bridge bolt fix to cost $ 5 million to $10 million
- May 7:
- Bay Bridge: Caltrans to reveal how it will fix bolt problems on span
- California Gov. Jerry Brown breaks silence on cracked Bay Bridge bolts
- Bay Bridge technicians 'listen' for cracking in the steel anchor rods
OAKLAND -- As work started Thursday on repairs for the failed anchor rods on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, the Ohio manufacturer of 288 massive steel bolts -- including 32 that snapped in March -- broke its silence with a top sales executive saying a recent report "exonerates" the company from blame.
Dyson Corp. President Brian Rawson also released a video statement that cited a May 7 peer review report commissioned by Caltrans, in which three metallurgists concluded the snapped bolts met Caltrans' specifications.
"We produce products to very precise international standards that are specified by our customer's engineers," Rawson said in the video released via PRWeb. "Through this report and mutual internal investigations, it was concluded that the Dyson Corporation met its requirements to manufacturing anchor rods to the specifications requested."
A team of Caltrans engineers and metallurgical experts have spent the past two months trying to determine why 32 of 96 high-strength steel bolts installed in a key seismic feature on the new bridge suffered from hydrogen embrittlement and who is responsible.
Documents released by Caltrans this week reveal that the bridge design team ordered high-strength bolts for the seismic shear keys and other areas of the bridge, despite warnings by the American Society for Testing and Materials group that hot-dip galvanizing the stronger grade of steel could make it susceptible to hydrogen embrittlement -- a condition where hydrogen atoms invade the steel and make it brittle and subject to fracture.
In a May 17 interview with trade publication American Metal Market, Dustin Johnson, director of sales at the Painesville, Ohio-based fastener systems fabricator, said the company "made the product exactly to the specifications that they asked us." He also said the May 7 report "exonerates" his company.
"Our customers give us the specifications, and we make parts to these specifications," he told the publication.
Caltrans spokesman Will Shuck said Dyson's choice of the word "exonerates" surprised him.
"I don't think we've accused anybody of anything," he said. "Caltrans and the (bridge) partners are focused on their investigation and to moving forward with their solution."
On Thursday afternoon, American Bridge Fluor Joint Venture workers stood on newly installed platforms on the massive pier east of the main span, drilling holes into concrete that they will use to strap down exterior saddles on the two seismic stabilizers to compensate for the broken bolts.
The saddles are designed to carry the load intended for the 96 huge threaded high-strength anchor rods -- 3 inches in diameter and 17 to 24 feet long -- inside shear keys positioned between the pier's columns and the bridge deck. The shear keys and adjacent bearings work together to control movement during an earthquake.
The saddle will cradle 430 steel rope strands made of steel twice as strong as the 96 anchor bolts. The strands will be anchored on the outside of the pier cap and covered with reinforced concrete.
Caltrans estimated the fix could cost as much as $10 million.
XKT Engineering Inc., a steel fabricator on Mare Island in Vallejo, has been selected to make the components. The design is still being tweaked, and it's unclear when the saddle will be finished. The company previously manufactured skyway piles, joints and service platforms on the new bridge.
It still remains unclear if the fix and other tests on steel fasteners on the bridge will be completed in time for the scheduled Sept. 3 bridge opening.
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PORTSMOUTH — Remember that scene in the classic comedy film 'Caddyshack,' when a floating chocolate candy bar dropped in a swimming pool was mistaken for 'doodie?' Something similar happened at the Peirce Island Outdoor Pool on Wednesday evening, only this time, it was the real thing and not just a Baby Ruth that had people fleeing the water.
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This book, Al-Fatawa Al-Muyessarah (Jurisprudence Made Easy), has been written in accordance with our fatawa (edicts). This has been found to be so by a group of trusted people. Thus, whoever, among the faithful, acts upon the edicts contained therein shall be acquitted of their religious obligation. Inshallah (Allah willing)
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25th Thil Hijjah, 1416H.
Language: English
Written in: 2012
Published: 2012-04-12
Word count: 74,226 words (≈ about 5 hours)
Tags: Jurisprudence Made Easy, Seestani, Jurisprudence, Shia, Imam, laws, Islamic, Ayatullah, Iran, Inheritance, ablution, marriage, Taqleed, Jurist, death, tayamum, wadhu, zakat, rules, xkp


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The high probability of seeing an El Nino year for the upcoming ski season has some local ski areas hoping for an improvement over last year's dismal season - and announcing opening days for the upcoming season.
Consistent with opening days in 2011, local ski areas will open anywhere between mid-October into December depending on weather conditions.
"We are hopeful that conditions this year will allow us to open at least by our goal opening day (Nov. 2)," said Katherine Bush, spokeswoman for Copper Mountain Resort. "If we have more snow early than anticipated, we may open earlier."
In Colorado, the eastern plains have the best chances of moisture from October 2012 to June 2013, according to Klaus Wolter, a climatologist who makes long-range forecasts for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder. But things still may bode well for the mountains.
"In fact, one could argue that the northern Front Range and Rocky Mountains may end up with the wettest outcome," Wolter said.
The last two years have been La Nina seasons and "long-lived La Nina events have a more pronounced tendency to flip to El Nino, 60 percent of two-year events end up in El Nino in the third year," Wolter said.
El Nino is the name of the pattern set by warmer temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, creating colder conditions with more moisture. La Nina is the exact opposite - set in motion by cooler ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific which in turn, puts Summit County in a path less traveled by storms.
Along with Wolter, the AccuWeather winter outlook for 2012-2013 calls for above normal snowfall for the High Country.
"The ski industry, which despite an early start for some resorts, suffered a slow season overall last winter, will benefit from the above-normal snowfall," the AccuWeather eport stated. "Long-range meteorologists are projecting a moderate El Nino by the fall."
Arapahoe Basin Ski Area - which typically vies with Loveland for first-tracks honors - aims to open for the season in mid-October, weather dependent, and will announce the exact date closer to that time.


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Venice museum expansion could cost $6.3 million
Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 2:46 p.m.
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A proposed expansion of the Venice Museum and Archives could cost $6.3 million but city taxpayers will not be asked to pay for it.
Although supporters will pursue federal or state grants, the bulk of the money will have to come from private donations, James Hagler, the city's director of natural resources, told the City Council on Tuesday.
The council praised a design team's concept for a two-story annex to the historic Triangle Inn that would feature permanent exhibits about local history, traveling exhibits intended to attract returning visitors and a rooftop garden for special events. The 1927 inn would be converted back to its original use as a tearoom.
Council member Kit McKeon described the plan by exhibit designer Tom Fricker and architect Dan Ionescu as "awesome."
Council member Jim Bennett called it "really cool."
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I forgot Mike's were performed with tramps! Again, check out the videos. Weekapaug also had a weak ending. It sounded almost like there was a bell player behind Fee and Poor Heart. Sloppy begining of Lizards and middle of Dinner. My Friend is coming along nicely. My Sweet One was performed at many different tempos. This is one of the coolest Love You jams I've heard in a while, very unique! I also forgot that Fish had a full beard back then. Good Possum and D'Oh to end again, nice Adeline.
Fun show, check out the videos!