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Asiana Airlines is South Korea's second-largest airline. It has recently tried to expand its presence in the United States, and joined the Star Alliance, which is anchored in the U.S. by United Airlines.
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Here's a closer look at Asiana Airlines:
Founded: 1988.
Fleet: 79 planes, including 12 777-200ERs.
Headquarters: Seoul.
Daily flights: 268.
Destinations: 23 countries, 71 cities, plus 12 cities in Korea.
Employees: 9,073 employees, including 3,321 office workers, 4,582 cabin crew and 1,170 technical and ground staff.
Sources: Asiana Airlines, Star Alliance


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Two seeds lay side by side in the fertile soil.
The first seed said, "I want to grow! I want to send my roots deep into the soil beneath me, and drive my sprouts through the earth's crust above me ... I want to unfold my tender buds like banners to announce the arrival of spring ... I want to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and the blessing of the morning dew on my petals!"
And so she grew...
The second seed said, "Hmmmm. If I send my roots into the ground below, I don't know what I will encounter in the dark. If I push my way through the hard soil above me I may damage my delicate sprouts ... what if I let my buds open and a snail tries to eat them? And if I were to open my blossoms, a small child may pull me from the ground. No, it is much better for me to wait until it is safe."
And so she waited...
A yard hen scratching around in the early spring ground for food found the waiting seed and promptly ate it.
So, we should never look for comfort, and never wait for something to happen, instead we need to be brave and face every obstacle that comes in our path and one day SUCCESS embraces us.
It gives everyone a message of coming out of COMFORT ZONE, if one wants to become big or prosper.
In fact the first step a human being takes is coming out of COMFORT ZONE.
Child to school, then college and finally a job are transitions. LEARN TO "FACE-IT"
No one has ever flourished by sitting in COMFORT ZONE.
However, at some point of time people may be scared of coming out of comfort zone and possibly then stop growing.
The 'Story of Two Seeds' is an important message for all of us to just "FACE-IT" if we want to grow.
'Don't stop thinking as those who stop have a possibility of getting extinct.
So, watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- Fire investigators say a Tuesday morning house fire in south Augusta was not started by accident.
The fire destroyed the inside of a vacant home on Conniston Drive, and investigators say all signs point to arson.
"I'm surprised that house right there burned down. I didn't even hear it, I was asleep," said Charles Brown, who lives across the street.
Brown was asleep like most of the neighbors in Butler Manor when firefighters got called to the fire.
Lt. Neal Brown with the Richmond County Fire Department says, "A neighbor just happened to bring a child out for the school bus and saw the smoke."
But as soon as investigators arrived, things seemed a little fishy.
"Property was not locked, not secured, windows open," Lt. Brown said.
Neighbors say no one lived in the home at the corner of Celeste and Conniston Drive. The property had been vacant more than a year, meaning no power or gas was running to the home, eliminating those as possible causes for the fire.
But there were several hundred magazines found inside, all charred.
"When they entered, they encountered fire in three different parts of the kitchen area or the dining room area," Lt. Brown said.
And three different fires in one room only means one thing to a fire investigator: arson.
"There were five total points of origin in the house," Lt. Brown said.
Neighbors say they're pretty surprised a crime like this happened.
"It's a pretty good neighborhood to stay in, ain't no bad place out here," Brown said.
Fire investigators say they have not been able to track down the owner of the home. They say there are some discrepancies in the tax records, so they are investigating that as well.


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The Pittsburgh Steelers will fly to New Jersey only hours before playing the Giants on Sunday because of a travel disruption caused by Hurricane Sandy.
The Steelers' hotel in Jersey City still doesn't have power since the superstorm hit the East Coast, and the team can't find another hotel to accommodate the organization in the area.
The Steelers now will fly into Newark, N.J., on Sunday morning, have a pregame meal at a hotel near the airport and bus to the stadium, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Kickoff against the defending Super Bowl champions is 4:25 p.m.
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Carter took the S.S. money and put it in the general fund so his budget would look better. Ever since it has been spent on other things than what it was intended for. Also, it was never intended to support small children. That is what welfare is for! I am sorry for people who lose their spouse young and have small children to support, but they are not my problem!
They also need to eliminate the cut-off - pay S.S. tax on everything you earn - I always had to! Now the government acts like I am stealing THEIR money by collecting S.S. In fact one S.S. office employee told my husband "that's not your money, that's the Government's money"! Did you ever hear anything so absurd?
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Carter took the S.S. money and put it in the general fund so his budget would look better. Ever since it has been spent on other things than what it was intended for. Also, it was never intended to support small children. That is what welfare is for! I am sorry for people who lose their spouse young and have small children to support, but they are not my problem!
Government needs to stop taking loans for pennies on the dollar out of SS funds and shore it up. Also, our younger generation should be allowed to find their own retirement programs and is that what SS was meant for. They have taken and taken both in blood of our sisters and brothers in the service and then cheat the American Tax payer when they need the money in their time of need.
It seems to me that everything that is transpiring are the reasons we took an oath to protect Our Country against terrorists both foriegn and DOMESTIC (TO PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE US AND ITS LAWS AND PEOPLE)!
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of course the politicians need to stop dipping into the funds. the whole country was up in arms when ENRON did the same thing. its no less unethical just because its congress, and its just as much a violation of the public's trust. what we could do instead is run it like TSP, or maybe have a TSP-like option to add to it. parents could have the option to put money in it from the day their kids are born, with the kids taking over the responsibility when the turn 18/register for selective service. maybe they could even have an option to use it for college. and just like any other retirement fund, the government could tax it when its time for you to withdraw it. seems to me like everyone would benefit.
In addition to Captain Ron's comment reference taxing incomes of 200k or more, since the government wants to start a guest worker program involving immigrants, they should issue each immigrant a social security number/card which will include a letter identifying their country of origin and tax their income which would go directly into the Social Security Program.
With roughly 12 million illegal immigrants, this will give them the opportunity to step forward and sign up and give the government the opportunity to tax their income which is usually under the table.
Pros of this program.
1) More money for social security
2) Illegal immigrants path to citizenship
3) Government knows who is in U.S.
4) Forces businesses to pay immigrants legally
5) Only U.S. Citizens collect the benefits
I have only been a American Legion memeber for less than 1 yr and also a VFW and DAV life memember. I don't support ANY kind of gays in the uniform and will with draw any support for Veterans support groups that back any decision in Washington allowing gays to serve openly.
i also dont support any gays in uniform, although its plain to me and most of the people i serve with that theyre already there, but at least they cant get pregnant (generally speaking). so while it may make me and a lot of other people uncomfortable, it may actually be a smoother transition than when we allowed women to serve alongside men. we are still struggling with that YEARS later.
The basic premise of Social Security is good, i.e., making sure those who pay in and their families will have something to help them, especially in later life. No OTHER payments should be made from the SS fund. Rather, such payments, if any, should be made from the general fund. The rate or amount paid in to the SS fund by the participants must be determined by generally accepted actuarial standards and adjusted as necessary. In addition, the SS fund should be entrusted to competent managers for investment purposes, and who make annual audited reports of the fund to the public. Finally, it is only equitable that payments, within limits, to participants must be determined by the amount each paid into the fund.
The actual problem with Social Security and for that matter Medicare; is that CONGRESS (BOTH PARTIES)have been and continue to RAID those two funds to pay for pet projects and to cover deficits CREATED by Congress, and then do not pay back. IF all the funds that have been taken out of S.S. and Medicare were paid back in full, these two programs would be self-sufficient probably well into the next century or longer. Sadly, we will never live to see that happen. As long as we have politicians who believe and do use the two funds as 'private piggy banks' we will never see either program stablized.
Think about this, Congress creates ALL the laws, creates ALL the deficits, spends ALL the funds, creates ALL the problems and then tells the American people they just don't understand how ALL this happened. Along with this fact is that BOTH parties do it, and it makes no difference which is in power. BOTH share in the blame equally.
The problem with Social Security is that people believe it is a retirement program. Socail Security was designed to assist in your retirement. It was not intended to be your sole retirement.
Just freeze entitlements for the time being and let people choose how their Social Security is to be invested (such as stocks, bonds, etc). Publize that Social Security is not a person's only retirement, that it is a cushion but that a person must plan for their own retirement.
If Congress and the President had the guts to revolt against the rich (the only people represented by "our" government) and rightfully tax the rich, there would be no problems. The rich are running the federal and state governments and "our" representatives in those governments are puppets. The rich are going to get richer and will use the government to squeeze the rest of us.
There would be no ss problem if our politians did not dip into the fund and put it into the general fund to pay for their pet projects. And until they stop this process, there never will be a stable social security. And then to have the gall to put the blame onto thoses who have paid into the fund all of their working lives is just another tactic on thoses who only know how to spend and not save is intolible. I love this country and have served it thru the military,being a policeman, and then a licensed nurse. I only hope the young, bright people of our land can do something constructive about the mess that has been created. Thank-you for allowing me to express my opinion.
As of now, no SSI taxes are collected on income over $100,000.00 per annum. Create a window of exemption from 100K to 199K, and collect SSI tax on incomes of 200K or more. This would be a minimal tax imposed on those who can most afford it to benefit those who are in most need of their SS income. It should extend solvency into the distant future.


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Yet Bochy sat back and smiled Thursday, confident that the new, deeper Giants would be just fine sans three of eight projected starters. It's easier to give his starters days off now, Bochy said.
"The lineup has more of a threat to it," he added. "More of a presence."
That showed in an 8-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, particularly during a five-run eighth inning. One run came off the bat of Hector Sanchez, the slimmed-down backup who started in place of Posey. The Giants tied the game when Morse's pinch-hit single brought pinch-runner Juan Perez flying home. They went ahead for good when Angel Pagan followed with a three-run homer.
Brandon Hicks slugged a pinch-hit homer in the seventh that kept the Giants close.
"We're pretty deep," said Hunter Pence, who enjoyed three victory handshakes despite a 1 for 16 start. "We feel good about that."
The five-run outburst was the Giants' first after the seventh inning since Aug. 12, 2012. For the first time since June 15, 2009, four bench players scored a run. That added up to a happy flight, even on a day when Tim Lincecum paid dearly for two mistakes.
With a new look (a mustache) and new approach (pitching to contact), Lincecum still couldn't overcome an old nemesis in his first inning of the season. Paul Goldschmidt had 10 hits -- including five homers -- in 20 previous at-bats against Lincecum when he stepped to the plate with a runner on, and the Diamondbacks star lined a first-pitch fastball to the pool deck beyond the right-center field wall. What's the answer to the Goldschmidt conundrum?
"You tell me," Lincecum said flatly. "I'm going to start throwing underhanded to him or something. It's a game of adjustments, and he consistently makes them to me. I need to make them."
Lincecum did that after the Goldschmidt homer, pitching four consecutive scoreless innings. While Lincecum has said he wants to get more grounders and easy outs, he relied on his old bread and butter Thursday, striking out seven in the first five innings.
The Giants had stayed even at that point thanks to Sanchez's sacrifice fly and another Brandon Belt homer. Belt joined Barry Bonds (2002), Kevin Mitchell (1991) and Willie Mays (1962) as the only Giants to go deep at least three times in the first four games of the season.
"I said coming into the season that I'm looking to hit 74 homers," he joked. "I'm looking to get to 100 now."
Before he could think about getting to four, the Diamondbacks again got to Lincecum. With a runner on and two outs in the sixth, Lincecum hung a changeup that Mark Trumbo blasted over the fence in the deepest part of the park. The homer left Lincecum with a line -- four earned in six innings -- that belied how well Bochy thought he pitched.
"He's a strike away from having a quality start, a real strong start," Bochy said of Lincecum, who struck out seven and walked none. "Considering everything that happened to him the last week -- getting hit in the leg and getting sick -- I thought it was a real nice effort."
It was also a no-decision, thanks to the lineup's late heroics.
The Giants scored six runs in the final three innings Monday to take the season opener. Thursday, three hitters almost equaled that production in the pivotal eighth. With the Giants trailing 5-3, Sanchez hit one off the wall to score Pence, who had walked. Posey pinch-hit and was intentionally walked, setting the stage for Morse. He made the Diamondbacks pay with a single up the middle. Pagan followed with his blast to right, the sixth homer of the series for a team that was second-to-last in the league in homers a year ago.
"Just trying to have a happy flight and win a ballgame," Pagan said. "It's been great. We're just trying to be patient and not panic when we're behind on the scoreboard. It's working."
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants.
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Definición de chimera en inglés:
(also chimaera)
1 (Chimera) (In Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
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- In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing monster that combined the parts of a goat, a lion and a serpent.
- If we were to engineer a genuine goat/snake/lion chimera (complete with firebreathing ability) would it be in pain, or unhappy?
- In the myth, it was Bellerophon, straddling the winged horse Pegasus, who finally slew the fire-breathing chimera.
1.1Any mythical animal with parts taken from various animals.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- She knew that a chimera was a person or animal fused with other creatures.
- As far as I know, a chimera is a mythological monster comprising the parts of various different animals.
- 'The way was guarded by lions and chimeras and manticores and logicians and other ferocious beasts,' says Giblets.
2A thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve: the economic sovereignty you claim to defend is a chimera
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- Perhaps, to paraphrase Iver Neumann, it is neither digitality nor diaspora but our uses of them - much like our uses of the other - that offer a chimera of hope.
- Unfortunately, many critics of the Times are conflating this notion of journalistic execution with the chimera of total journalistic objectivity.
- Achieving a bipartisan consensus on pensions is not an unachievable chimera.
illusion, fantasy, delusion, dream, daydream, pipe dream, figment of the/one's imagination, castle in the air, mirage
3 Biology An organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as fusion of early embryos, grafting, or mutation: the sheeplike goat chimera
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- Perhaps his most elegant experiment was to make aggregation chimeras of embryos from high, control, and low lines.
- But calling this mouse a 'chimera' is misleading - the term should be reserved for true genetically engineered chimeras.
- You see stem cells facilitate the production of organisms called interspecies chimeras, that is living quilts of human and animal tissues.
3.1A DNA molecule with sequences derived from two or more different organisms, formed by laboratory manipulation.
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- In all, the germline chimeras derived from these five cell lines sired 326 progeny in matings to B6 females, but no deletion-bearing offspring were observed.
- Spontaneous SOS gene expression was measured in strain GY7109 recA carrying plasmids with different recAX chimeras.
- Therefore, this gene is a chimera consisting of the first exon of CG11779 and the second and third exons of Adh.
4 (usually chimaera) A cartilaginous marine fish with a long tail, an erect spine before the first dorsal fin, and typically a forward projection from the snout.
- Subclass Hoplocephali: three families, in particular Chimaeridae. See also rabbitfish, ratfish.
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- The group is divided into two very different subclasses, which separated very early on: the Elasmobranchii (sharks, skates and rays) and the Holocephali (the chimaeras, such as the ratfish and elephant fish).
- In the living chimaeras, Callorhinchus and Chimaera, the authors were able to show the persisting boundaries between the individual teeth.
- The feature was previously unknown in sharks and other chondrichthyans, an order of fish whose modern descendants include sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras.
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- Bruce Lehman echoed Justice Potter Stewart's famous definition of obscenity when asked what he thought would constitute a chimeric human.
- Let us hope that is the case, that it is nothing more than chimeric gloom, because this cloud is a black one indeed and very hard to dismiss in light of recent headlines.
- Now Weissman says he is thinking about making chimeric mice whose brains are 100 percent human.
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- As a Marxist, Hathaway subscribes to the notion of sociality, a chimerical trapping of Marxist eschatology, and therefore has much invested in the idea of the social.
- No, instead they spend their time pursuing chimerical sources and putting a fictional story on the air claiming their unimpeachable sources.
- Attention to the chimerical task of divining a patient's early traumas is attention subtracted from sensible help in the here and now.
chimerically adverbio
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- A macronuclear pointer could derive entirely from the headpointer, entirely from the tailpointer, or chimerically from both, depending on the splice location.
- The majority of tracks clock in near the ten-minute mark and are rife with chimerically harnessed energy funneled into a myriad of outlets.
- In this paper, I take seriously the notion that the consumption of such chimerically constructed commodities should be considered neither irrelevant nor an outrage - two common responses.
Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek khimaira 'she-goat or chimera'.
Palabras que riman con chimeraAltamira, clearer, Elvira, era, hearer, Hera, hetaera, interferer, lempira, lira, lire, Madeira, Megaera, monstera, rangatira, rearer, scorzonera, sera, shearer, smearer, sneerer, steerer, Thera, Utsire, Vera
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The Mediatheque is a totally awesome place. I watched a few animated shorts and experimental films. Mike made sure I watched Ryan, a deep piece about a famous artist who ended up as a Montreal panhandler. Excellent use of computer graphics to tell a very thought-provoking story.
I'll go back there by myself to watch some of the longer, deeper pieces. Mike searched for all the Philippine-related things, and I'm particularly looking forward to the documentary about Filipino migrant workers. Television can be somewhat insipid, but these on-demand documentaries, experimental films, and archived footage are certainly worth spending time on.
It's amazing, what's available for free...
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3. Chicken breasts marinated in red wine vinegar: 23:37
I splurged on the Joy of Cooking book yesterday, and this was the first time I used it. The basic recipe for sauteed chicken breast called for the chicken breasts to be lightly salted, peppered, and floured. I added rosemary, too. I browned some butter and mixed in some olive oil on a skillet, then added the chicken breasts and cooked them for four minutes on one side at medium-high heat. Then I flipped them and cooked them for another three minutes. I was worried that I might've burnt the chicken because it was a bit black, but it turned out nice, juicy, and cooked through.
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Quinn's place is pretty nice. I like high ceilings. We had a lot of fun chatting after dinner, too, and she gave me several ideas for a few parties I'd like to hold sometime.
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ExSport wrote:It is weird that added features by me were requested in forums by many but when there is a chance to be added to main trunk, nobody will say anything.
Why adding useless features which nobody(maybe only me?) using it?
Anyway it was worth doing it! I am using it and it is enough
At minimum, patches in this build can fix few bugs/requests:
http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver ... ail?id=648
http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver ... ail?id=822
....I am lazy finding others
You can always increase the chance of the patches making it to the main trunk by adding them to their corresponding issues (or create an issue if it does not exist yet).
The different builds are great for testing, but in the end we need a readable solution (read: the source code and not binaries) to resolve issues.
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Freedom of choice is an ideal. It's also increasingly obvious that it's almost always the most pragmatic approach, whether involving economic issues that affect billions of people or comparison shopping for a pair of jeans. Unfortunately, the people who voluntarily give up their own are the ones who can least afford to do so.
Choosing freedom or bondage isn't very important for a typical home computer user. Most people only use the software that comes bundled with their computer, and perhaps the occasional shareware game. Basically, they don't invest much in their setup beyond the original hardware purchase. Replace their PC with a Mac or a Linux box and they'd probably forget the difference after a day or so. This is not the case, though, with businesses who dedicate significant portions of their income to IT. It's often prohibitively expensive to alter a company's computing infrastructure once it's been established, so choosing well from the first day is critically important. That is one of the main reasons why I could never recommend a proprietary system to a business owner.
First, selecting a proprietary system inherently means rejecting a majority of available options. Most business can ill afford to waive the possibility to use the best tools available for their needs. Yet, except for a few highly industry-specific exceptions, that's exactly what the average business does when they pick closed software. Although the sheer number of free applications can be overwhelming, chances are excellent that a company can find a perfect solution for their problems, or at least one that can be easily tweaked by internal staff.
Second, the culture of closed software is the culture of throwing money at a problem—any problem. Those of us who use and write free software for a living are amazed at the willingness of people to buy the most basic tools and components imaginable. I simply can't imagine paying for a text editor, for example, or a proprietary library to let me access a database. However, closed systems tend to get people into the habit of buying every little piece of functionality. The "you get what you pay for" mentality is hugely, unnecessarily expensive almost from the start.
Finally, free software and open standards are almost always advocated by the same set of people. As I (and many others) have said before, open systems encourage competition on merit, not the ability to enforce monopoly-benefitting conditions. If a company standardizes on the OpenDocument format for their word processing files, they can pick and choose the applications used to create and edit them—and later change their mind if something better comes along. On the other hand, selecting Microsoft's DOC format gives the choice of... Word. Nothing else can load and save its files perfectly, and even if an otherwise much better word processor were released, switching to it would probably involve a lengthy and expensive conversion process.
Freedom certainly demands responsibility, and it's not always simple. It's tempting to delegate your decision making to a vendor or consultant and ask them to pick something nice and send an invoice. Still, business owners must know the ramifications before selecting an "easy", proprietary option. The "obvious" choice often involves a bit more money in the short term, and a lot more down the road when the full effects of discarding freedom make themselves known.
I remain amazed at the arrogance of some of those that work (exclusively) in free (a.k.a. open source) software.
I can easily imagine paying for a fine Java development environment such as IntelliJ IDEA when you compare it to it Eclipse. On the surface the differences are small but extensive use of either had led me to the conclusion that IDEA is superior to Eclipse, for me.
Please disabuse yourself of the notion that any business will standardise on anything other than a Windows desktop. Linux, even now, is still finding its destop feet when you look at the issues involved in the daily care, and support, of non-technical users in a non-Windows environment.
Having said all of that, I absolutely hate having to use Outlook for my e-mail at work; and I hate the awful calendaring program that goes with it; and I hate the awful firewall that goes with all of it.
I hate it ... but I can live with it.
We don't (as a startup) have the luxury of having people waste their time on IT support. We need to get on with bringing our next product to market.
Personally, if I had been here at the start I would have advocated an Open Source approach and would have insisted on a Linux server as the hub of all activity even if the desktops were all Windows.
But I wasn't here at the start and my voice was a small one initially.
Frankly, I am glad to see one third of the staff using something other than IE to surf the web. Getting others to try OpenOffice.org works for some stuff but it isn't going to take the office over, not when we already have all the MS-Office licenses that we need.
Thankfully, we have little document exchange with the outside world and what documents we do exchange are in PDF format (thnk you PDFCreator).
I do not have the luxury of sitting in a Open Source bubble where everything OS is good and everything proprietory is bad. I have to live and work in the real world and that means putting up with other people's choices.
I like OpenOffice.org Writer application,. I really do. However, when push comes to shove, I have to work with others and they prefer Word. They don't know what else is available. They do not realise what an awful job Word does and how inconsistent it is.
I get things done.
It may not be the pure, open solution that others long for, but ... it works well enough.
I can easily imagine paying for a fine Java development environment such as IntelliJ IDEA when you compare it to it Eclipse. On the surface the differences are small but extensive use of either had led me to the conclusion that IDEA is superior to Eclipse, for me.
That's quite a bit different than the sort of trivial application I was referring to. For example, I've seen Windows programmers cheerfully pay for an image viewing component. An image viewer?!? Those things are a dime-a-dozen; I can't imagine actually spending money on such a thing. No, I wouldn't think anything of your buying IDEA if that's what works for you. Just don't turn around the next day and buy a library to send email.
Please disabuse yourself of the notion that any business will standardise on anything other than a Windows desktop.
Too late. It's already happening. I've seen Linux installations creeping into unexpected places, such as the receptionist's desk, where the users need a small set of commodity software (word processor, email client, web browser) and little else. Why spend money on Windows + Office when there's little or no marginal increase on return?
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"Please disabuse yourself of the notion that any business will standardise on anything other than a Windows desktop. Linux, even now, is still finding its destop feet when you look at the issues involved in the daily care, and support, of non-technical users in a non-Windows environment."
The longer a business has been in operation, the deeper is the lock-in hole they have dug. New businesses have no such overhead and Linux will help them be more competitive. Big businesses that wish to reduce costs can convert, but they have more conversion headaches.
My current project is a new school. An old subnet will be moved from the old school with Windows for a particular application. The rest of the school, 150 seats, will be all Linux thin clients. This dramatically reduces the cost per seat of hardware acquisition and the saving on Microsoftian licences will go to new hardware. The school will have twice as much hardware as they could have with the budget if they had stuck with Windows. Businesses can see the advantages of lower TCO in capital cost and operations. For simple desktop tasks not requiring custom software there is plenty of quite usable software available on Linux. I have been using nothing but Linux in schools for seven years and the choices get better every year. If teachers and students can handle Linux with very little effort, there is nothing holding you back.
A problem is an opportunity.
Linux isn't windows user friendly
I have heard so many linux/mac people say this, but the reality of the world is, everyone on the planet with rare exception, grows up using a PC. So everyone knows how to use it instinctively. Most linux/mac based software has a completely different way of doing the same thing.. so though it may be actually easier if you had never used a computer before, after getting a windows mindset, almost all linux and mac based programs are utterly confusing.
My point is, if you want to get windows users to use your mac/linux applications, make them more windows like. I understand the quandry here, but it is a reality. 90% of computer users (give or take), are windows users, and if you want to get them, you must write software they can use without any effort. Open office for example. Totally unusable for a Office XP user... plus it is ugly, so visually people don't like the change.
Photoshop is a prime example in the reverse. It is singly the most annoying graphics application on the planet. All the floating windows are utterly painful. This is a mac based interface, and it pisses off PC users no end. However... most users in the graphic art area are mac users, so to get mac users to buy PCs, you need to write programs that work with their brain.
As a windows user who is realitively adept at learning new things, I would only start using linux if 2 things happened:
1. There were free replacement applications that looks better, runs faster, and operates the same (not easier).
2. Linux had the ability to run PC games better... sounds stupid, but this is the prime reason linux has little hope of becoming number one. People who work hard, want the option to play as well, without switching operating systems to do so. Cause reality, if your current operating system does everything you want it to, why switch? Sad to say piracy removes "free" as a valid incentive to many users.
The second one is a tough one, and possibly not as nessesary, but the first is vital for any linux developer.
But which versions?
I understand your point, but don't quite agree with it. In particular, I think that OpenOffice is much closer to what Windows users know than is the upcoming Office 2007 release. It's not really fair to judge Unix applications by standards that Windows couldn't live up to, either.
Couldn't let this one lie.
.. everyone on the planet with rare exception, grows up using a PC.
Ignoring the fact that you mention a hardware architecture when you are referring to an operating system, there's also the small matter of there being about 6 billion people in the world. Of those approximately 12 per-cent use personal computers[1]. So "everyone on the planet" is a little over the top I think.
So everyone knows how to use it instinctively.
Instinctively? That is a bold statement to make. I would have said no piece of technology can claim to be "instinctive" without prior user exposure to similar technologies. Perhaps the people you describe are more used to a certain set of features and functions but that does not make those features instinctive any more than a car is instinctive if you've only driven motorcycles.
Most linux/mac based software has a completely different way of doing the same thing..
Sorry but this statement just highlights the fact that you do not have much experience of free software applications and it is patently untrue. I could rattle off examples for ages but to use one: to create a new mail message in Kmail I click on a toolbar icon that looks like an envelope with a sparkle on it or I can click the File menu and select New Message or I can press CTRL+N. ALL of these are near-identical to the way I would do it in Outlook.
My point is, if you want to get windows users to use your mac/linux applications, make them more windows like.
I understand the quandary here, but it is a reality. 90% of computer users (give or take), are windows users, and if you want to get them, you must write software they can use without any effort. Open office for example. Totally unusable for a Office XP user... plus it is ugly, so visually people don't like the change.
Proprietary applications often have varying interfaces. Some use the Windows API, some don't. Some use parts of it and others choose not to. Some Microsoft applications have interfaces that drastically change between versions. As for wanting windows users - whilst they may be the target of some distro's they are probably not the aim of the free software community which is (IMHO and experience) to produce software which performs the tasks they need without the shackles of proprietary licences.
I'm with Maddog[2] on this issue of attracting Windows users to Linux. Let's go for the 88% of people who don't have a computer. The one-laptop-per-child project is a good example of this at work. Try telling those kids that they'll be better off with Vista and Office 2007 - and of course they'll have to learn one of the relatively small number of languages that Office supports first.
Photoshop is a prime example in the reverse. It is singly the most annoying graphics application on the planet. All the floating windows are utterly painful. This is a mac based interface, and it pisses off PC users no end. However... most users in the graphic art area are mac users, so to get mac users to buy PCs, you need to write programs that work with their brain.
I think you'll find that the application was written without analysis of the way a Mac user thinks. Photoshop users think that way because that's the way Photoshop works. Word users will think in certain ways because that is how they are used to doing it and much of them will come unstuck when Office 2007 comes out.
As a windows user who is relatively adept at learning new things, I would only start using linux if 2 things happened:
1. There were free replacement applications that looks better, runs faster, and operates the same (not easier).
If you are using a free software desktop then look and feel is entirely up to you. "Better" is a subjective word. This may come as something new to you as a Windows user but free windows managers permit you to chaneg pretty much everything not just the background, colours and fonts.
Running faster is really a hardware issue but just in case your experience of Linux is via a Live CD, it does run a lot faster when it's installed :o).
Operates the same? Same as which competing proprietary application? Should K3B (CD burning software) operate the same as Nero, Easy CD creator or Pyro? Most of the free software applications that target common usage areas already operate on a similar basis to proprietary ones. Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org all operate on similar principles to other well known apps. The GIMP is just as confusing as Photoshop for a newbie!
2. Linux had the ability to run PC games better... sounds stupid, but this is the prime reason linux has little hope of becoming number one. People who work hard, want the option to play as well, without switching operating systems to do so.
Okay here's the main error in your argument. You assume that free software exists to compete with proprietary software. It's an understandable mistake because you have grown up in a world where the available software is competing for your money and marketing teams have the biggest budgets. In reality much free software exists because someone - usually the developers - had a need for it and a need for it to be based on freedom. Most of the projects on sourceforge exist to fulfil a need not to compete in a marketplace.
I agree that the larger - commercially based - distro's are in the business of attracting customers but the software used in their distributions is rarely created with that in mind. Free software looks to attract users not customers. Hence it rarely has a demographic, a target market or an aim to demolish the competition. Free software is about choice. It does not say "look use me because I'm 100 times better than the one you pay for"[3], it says "Here's an alternative , one that doesn't tie you down and one in which you can play an active part".
Free software exists to give us a choice. The proprietary software claims the same but in reality their main aim seems to be the best seller which usually means putting the others out of business.
[1] Source: Geohive (http://www.geohive.com/charts/charts.php?xml=ec_inet&xsl=ec_inet_top2)
[2] At least I think it was him who said it first.
[3] I accept that many FOSS advocates do make statements like this but the software and the developers of it are not really making that statement.
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I am in the process of bringing Linux into my environment. One thing that I have come to believe in the course of doing this work is that no one has really shown that using a free software stack provides a compelling cost structure that provides a business comparative advantage.
For instance, we make drilling mud and cat litter. If I can adpot a free stack or a mixed free/commercial stack and so lower my costs that it shows up in bottom line terms as a redecution in Admin costs that is really significant, I can leverage my cost advantage to compete better in my market. Failing that, I have to use really flawed concepts like TCO that are too local to IT and do not quantify a real business comparative advantage.
Linux and free software are really good products. But can I really rule the drilling mud and cat litter world if I go to a free software stack? I'm sure our CEO would like to know if that is the case.
More to the point if you could point out a business where that had already been shown to be the case, I should think you would really be able to make this type of case.
The math gets a little tricky
I'm as disenchanted with TCO as you are, but sometimes you have to make some educated guesses. As I mentioned in another blog my company's business logic is buried in many years' worth of Visual FoxPro. The problem is that the writing is on the wall (in this case, MS's VFP FAQ): it will never become a .NET language, it will never be ported to 64-bit platforms, and the database will never support more than 2GB. Their new internal development "will also help improve the ability for Visual FoxPro 9.0 solutions to be successfully deployed on the upcoming new Windows operating system Microsoft Vista (formerly code named Longhorn)", and I leave it to the reader to decide exactly what "ability [...] to be successfully deployed" means (is the current VFP runtime incompatible with Vista in some way that they're trying to fix?).
In short, its future looks bleak, and here we sit with some rather unpleasant options. Do we wait it out and hope that Microsoft updates FoxPro to something we'll still be able to use ten years from now? Or do we spend a few man-years porting our mission-critical code to a different language? If we pick the former and guess wrong, we're beyond screwed. If we pick the latter and guess wrong, my boss is out a few hundred thousand dollars.
I honestly don't know how you calculate those issues into TCO. In our case, picking the proprietary solution either saved us thousands of dollars by providing an easy-to-use IDE that enabled us to get more work done, or cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars by yanking the rug out from under us. We have no ability to influence the outcome, so all we can do is hope that Microsoft decides to be gentle.
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It looks like you made a stop by my blog (Thanks!) and left a comment.
First of all, it appears that you've taken my comments a bit too personally. My critique of your ideas is in no way a critique of your person--often the worst of us have the best ideas, and vice versa.
Secondly, I fail to see how a company as large and complex as Microsoft can have a single "Redmond way." There are admittedly some very loud dunderheads there, some of whom you certainly picked on in your article, but, as I mentioned, Ye Olde Guarde is on its way out, and they're exploring new business models. Word on the street is that top Microsoft execs are considering opening some of Vista+1's codebase under a real OSS license.
Additionally, I hardly think that the "reputation" you are trying to seek for OSS is a valid indicator for any company doing a serious cost-benefit analysis. In the same way that the fact that many people think that Microsoft products are awesome in no way makes it true, if you succeed in building a reputation for free/OSS software as being awesome (which no doubt will happen eventually), it has no actual bearing on the reality of the software as being a particularly good or bad choice, at least from a business standpoint.
Lastly, my comments regarding your blanket statements which have no relationship with fact still stand.
Thanks for coming!
I took it the way you meant. If I took personal offense to comments from random strangers on the Internet, I never would have made it this far. :-)
I think (and hope) that you're right about Microsoft's new direction. As it stands today, though, they're not there. I can't recommend their current products under their current business model.
"Reputation" was a stupid misspelling of "repetition". I meant to repeat the idea that Free software is a viable choice for business solutions, my hope being that some manager will decide that he's heard enough about it to give it a try. If we don't talk about it, people will forget that it's there.
Finally, this blog is an opinion piece. Maybe I should use more references to support my opinions, but it's not my intent to rigorously prove them. My "real" articles are definitely better referenced.


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The 39-year-old West Virginian man who was reportedly injured in a random drive-by while hitchhiking in Montana confessed to police that he actually shot himself.
The case is still being investigated by the Valley County Sheriff's Office, and charges could still be brought against Ray Dolin.
52-year-old Charles Lloyd Danielson III of Tumwater, Washington, was arrested Saturday for allegedly shooting Dolin on Highway 2 outside of Glasgow. He was released yesterday, and the felony assault charge brought against him was dropped.
Dolin told authorities he was hitchhiking across the state while penning a memoir entitled Kindness in America.
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Culinary legend Patricia Wells is back with the definitive guide to creating delicious and hearty salads for any occasion—including more than 150 recipes and gorgeous color photographs.
It's a simple yet compelling concept: enjoying a light and delicious main-course salad as a healthy, fresh alternative to more conventional and traditional fare. You can experience a whole world in a salad—with tender greens, savory meat, seafood, and vegetable accompaniments, and versatile dressings—and salad-friendly sides such as homemade bread and home-cured olives. In Salad As A Meal, Patricia Wells gives readers hundreds of delectable ideas, with concepts inspired by her Provençal garden and the interests of students in her high-demand cooking classes. Patricia knows how we want to eat today—and shows us with these exceptional recipes, including:
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- Summer Salad: Green Beans, Toasted Nuts, and Cured Olives
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If you are looking for hints about plot development in coming episodes of "Mad Men," don't bother asking the actor Harry Hamlin, who plays ad executive Jim Cutler on the show.
"I don't have a clue about what's going to happen to Jim Cutler week to week," he said. "Matthew Weiner [the show's creator] is very secretive and I'm a conduit for him and his vision."
Hamlin said he has benefited from fine scripts and directors many times in his long career, which included several years playing lawyer Michael Kuzak on the "L.A. Law" television series, which ran from 1986 to 1994. That role made him famous and even helped him win the People magazine title of Sexiest Man Alive in 1987.
Hamlin, now 62 years old, chatted with Speakeasy about why he still recalls those heady days fondly and how the Kuzak role fits into a body of work he has tried to make as diverse and distinct as possible.
How did you wind up on "Mad Men?" Did you pursue the Jim Cutler role?
No, I originally interviewed for a part called "Swinger Boss." When my representatives heard about it they sneaked me in to talk about it, but I didn't get that part. I thoguh, "Aw, shucks — it would have been nice to get a part on a show like "Mad Men."
Later I was offered the role of Cutler but even then I knew very little about him. As the show has developed I have learned more about him — that he was in the Air Force, that he had been married. My character is like a changing document.
What elements of the "Mad Men" role attracted you?
Well, the show takes place during an interesting period, and I was born in 1951, so I actually lived through that time. I remember it. But in the show I'm seeing it from a different point of view.
Cutler is also a distinctive character. He is different from other roles I have played. I have always tried to play a variety of characters so I don' t get stuck doing the same thing all the time. Audiences eventually get sick of seeing the same character.
So many people remember you as that hunky lawyer from "L.A. Law." Did that show lead to typecasting?
Yes. I had a lot of offers to play guys with ties after that.
But playing Michael Kuzak put you more broadly on the pop-culture map. Was it worth it? Do you look back on the 1980s and smile?
Yes, of course. That was a great show and I got to work with good people. I was at a gathering recently and got to spend time with Michelle Greene (who played lawyer Abby Perkins on the show). It was nice to recall those days.
Long before "L.A. Law" you played a street racer in a 1981 film called "King of the Mountain" opposite Dennis Hopper. It became a cult favorite in some circles of car nuts. Was that a breakout role for you?
No, that was a money job. There are times in every actor's career when you have to pay the rent. Still, there is a funny story to how I got that part. I was shopping in an L.A. discount store when my pager went off. My agent told me to go striaght to the set, which was nearby. I already knew how to drive cars fast, so that helped, but the main reason I got the part was the color and length of my hair.
The crew had already been shooting for two days with a stuntman doing the driving sequences for my character. They didn't want to waste footage. Since my hair was the same color and length as the stuntman's, I could blend in easily. I did most of the driving on screen after that — something they probably wouldn't let you do today. It was a different time.
At least the street racer adds to the diversity you mentioned earlier, right?
Oh, yes. It was a good job at the time. Some projects may seem odd when you see them today on IMDB. But when you look at the time, the circumstances, they make sense. There are very few projects that make me wince today.


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Blake McIver was a child actor with family-friendly roles in "Full House," "The Little Rascals" and "Home Improvement."
Now, he's a go-go dancer.
"I'm not embarrassed," McIver told RumorFix of his profession of the past year. He was working as a vocal coach, but business got slow and he decided to get his go-go on.
"In the process, I found it so liberating and empowering," he said.
The 28-year-old came out as gay three years ago. He said he was bullied while attending a Christian high school, which affected how he felt about himself.
"I had so much shame about my body," he told RumorFix. "This was a way to express myself that was safe, sensual and fun ... I'm not hiding who I am anymore -- not pretending I'm something I'm not."
In other words, all the acting gigs dried up.
McIver played Waldo in 1994's "Little Rascals" and Michelle Tanner's friend Derek Boyd on "Full House" from 1992 to 1995. He recently appeared on Bravo's new show, "The People's Couch."
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The Chemung Sunrise Rotary Club purchased and will install eight park benches at parks and trails in Chemung County to encourage outdoor recreation.
The Friends of the Chemung River Watershed worked with the Sunrise Rotary Club to find locations for four of the benches. The Sunrise Rotary Club raised $1,768 and received a $1,768 grant from a state district rotary to pay for the benches.
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Shares of Castlight Health Inc. surged in their trading debut, after the health-plan software maker's initial public offering raised more money than expected.
The San Francisco company's stock more than doubled in morning trading, after opening at $37.50, up 134% from the $16-a-share offer price available to buyers in the IPO—typically large investors like mutual funds and hedge funds.
At its opening price, Castlight carried a market value of about $3.2 billion, despite it having posted just $13 million in revenue last year and, according to analysts' estimates, no profits yet in sight.
The deal is the latest sign that investors' demand for young, fast-growing companies is outweighing concerns about these stocks' valuations or uncertainty as to challenges that still lie ahead of early-stage companies.
Castlight's applies the "cloud" software model—providing its offering over the Web to subscription-paying customers—to a potentially large marketplace: corporations looking to lower costs and improve efficiency in employee healthcare plans. The company provides data on the cost and quality of medical services like doctor visits and lab tests.
"It's a real solution to a huge intractable problem that has defeated the best efforts of the self-anointed geniuses in Washington," said Rett Wallace, cofounder of Triton Research LLC, which analyzes private tech, media and communications companies, before the IPO.
The deal follows a rally in shares of so-called "cloud" software makers like Castlight, which provide their offerings over the Web to subscription-paying customers. Shares of health-records and billing software maker Athenahealth rallied 83% the year through Thursday. Employee-benefits software firm Benefitfocus is up 119% since its September IPO, as of the latest close.
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OAKLAND -- As the reward for information leading to Emeryville resident Aya Nakano's killer grew to more than $30,000 Tuesday, friends and family said goodbye to a young man with an intense love for basketball and a passion for Motown and soul music.
Nakano, 22, who was gunned down last week after an unknown driver rear-ended him, was remembered as a guy who loved to tease and poke fun at friends but also laughed when people turned a joke on him.
"Our friends (especially his roommates), loved to (joke with) each other, and he could take it and give it as well as anyone," said Steve Zegalia, who met Nakano as a freshman at the University of Oregon. " He was just one of those people that you love to hang out and spend time with, because he was usually good for a laugh and had a positive energy about him."
Nakano was a dedicated basketball fan who owned at least 30 pairs of basketball shorts, and supported the Golden State Warriors. He also loved music: oldies, slow jams, and everything in between. "He had a not-so-secret love of Motown and soul music," said Zegalia.
Nakano, who lived with his mother and her partner, was returning home from playing pick-up basketball at UC Berkeley about 11 p.m. June 12 -- only an hour before his 23rd birthday -- when a car rear-ended his Jeep Cherokee. Nakano pulled over on Market Street near Stanford Avenue in North Oakland, got out to talk to the other driver and, according to his family, an argument ensued.
No one, including investigators, knows why, but one of the two men in the late-model four-door silver sedan shot Nakano before the car sped away. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
"We're still trying to determine the motive for this senseless killing," said Oakland police Officer Eric Milina, the lead investigator on the case.
Nakano's uncle, Troy Aquino, plastered the area with fliers offering a $5,000 reward the day after the slaying. Crime Stoppers of Oakland is offering up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect or suspects and another $16,000 has been donated through the website gofundme.com after Aquino set up the online reward fund.
"To his moms, he was an only child whom they loved dearly ..." Aquino wrote on the fundraising website. "To his relatives, he was always a source of fun. Easy to get along with and great to have around. Sometimes the butt of the jokes or the one dishing it out."
He radiated compassion and joy of life, said Kevin McCarthy, who met Nakano at Sacred Heart Preparatory High School in Atherton in 2004. "He taught me that there's no better person in the world than who you are in your heart and who you are when no one is looking."
Nakano earned a degree in sociology from the University of Oregon last year and had worked with his mother's partner, Jean Aquino, at a worldwide logistics company.
At the memorial service Tuesday, she recalled one of their last conversations.
"I'm happy Jean, I'm happy. Are you happy?" Nakano asked her. "I'm blessed," he replied to himself. "I'm blessed."
"You guys made him happy," Jean Aquino told mourners, choking back her own tears. "Family made him happy."
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Oakland Police at 510-238-3821 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572. To donate to the reward fund, go to http://www.gofundme.com/39z06g.
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Investigators are still looking for a pickup truck driver who hit and killed a motorcyclist three weeks ago in Thibodaux then drove away, police said.
Karey Authement, 41, of Baton Rouge, was struck the morning of Nov. 10 at La. 1 and Thibodaux Bypass Road, State Police said. He died later the same day at a New Orleans hospital.
Authement made an evasive maneuver by laying down his motorcycle — a blue 2003 Yamaha — but he was thrown from his bike, and the truck rolled over him, State Police said. The driver headed south on La. 1.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Three-Bean Smoked Turkey Soup
This is a very hearty and satisfying soup. Deliciously warm and smoky from the chipotles in adobo, it really makes a statement if you use broth made from smoked turkey bones. If that isn't available to you, feel free to substitute ham or chicken stock. You may also use a can of pinto beans instead of refried beans if desired. I just liked the way the refried beans thickened the soup.
Three-Bean Smoked Turkey Soup
1 TBSP olive oil
1 onion, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
1 large carrot, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 TBSP chili powder
1 chipotle pepper in adobo, finely diced
salt and pepper (if you're using smoked turkey broth, check it for saltiness before adding any salt)
1 TBSP tomato paste
6 cups smoked turkey broth
1 (15-16 oz. can) great northern beans (drained and rinsed)
1 (15-16 oz. can) black beans (drained and rinsed)
1 (15-16 oz. can) refried beans or pinto beans
2 cups diced smoked turkey or ham
In a large soup pot heat olive oil over medium high heat. Add the onion, celery and carrots and saute for 7-8 minutes. Add the garlic, chili powder, pepper and salt and saute for another minute or two. Stir in the chipotle in adobo and tomato paste. Pour in the broth and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Add the beans and turkey and simmer for another 10-15 minutes.
12 comments:
- Nanan said...
Life without soup is not worth living - and smoke in your soup is the best place for it to be!
- February 17, 2011 at 4:48 PM
- Sue said...
This soup is definitely a meal in itself, and a delicious one at that!
- February 17, 2011 at 5:06 PM
- June said...
Yum - what a "souper" idea to put refried beans in the pot. I love it and can't wait to give it a try.
- February 17, 2011 at 5:34 PM
- redforever said...
I live in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, a bit SW of Calgary, Alberta.
This is the Chinook zone (very strong warm westerly winds) and the weather literally can change in the blink of an eye. Here we say, "If you don't like the weather in your front yard, look in your back yard".
Great looking soup by the way, think I will give this a try. I love anything with chipotle.
- February 17, 2011 at 6:45 PM
- Julie said...
I have been looking for some good turkey recipes! This one looks delicious. We had beautiful weather here today but snow's in the forecast in a day or so. YEP, it's the midwest!
- February 17, 2011 at 7:44 PM
Looks and sounds delightful!! Thanks!!
- February 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM
- City said...
Here in NYC we have been having changable weather too. That soup looks great. Nice and hearty for a meal instead of a side dish.
- February 18, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- Alisa said...
Sounds like a delicious recipe.I followed you from the foodieblogroll and I'd love to guide Foodista readers to your site. I hope you could add this northern beans widget at the end of this post so we could add you in our list of food bloggers who blogged about recipes for northern beans,Thanks!
- February 19, 2011 at 9:57 PM
- Barbara Bakes said...
So much great flavor in this quick and easy soup!
- February 20, 2011 at 4:26 PM
- Jasmine said...
nom sounds good. i've never had turkey in a soup before, but i'm willing to try it. going on my recipes to try list.
- February 21, 2011 at 7:58 AM
- Merut said...
You are a lifesaver. My future-mother-in-law left me with a ton of smoked turkey, and I am so over it. So now my freezer is stocked full. This will be the perfect recipe to finish it off.
- February 21, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
This soup sounds AMAZING! :) You should totally enter this into Craftbaby's Fall Food Challenge! :) http://www.craftbaby.com/contests/30/Fall%20Food
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