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NEW MADRID - Joan Duffy Cooper, 73, died July 3, 2007, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
Born June 8, 1934, in Chattanooga, Tenn., to the late Jim and Dixie Altman Duffy, she attended Notre Dame High School in Chattanooga and received an English degree from Sienna College in Memphis, Tenn. She was a member of the Immaculate Conception Church in New Madrid.
On Aug. 18, 1956, in Chattanooga, she married William "Bill" Cooper, who preceded her in death on Dec. 21, 1993.
Survivors include: three sons and three daughters-in-law, Jim and Helen Cooper of Geneva, Ill., Buddy and Toni Cooper of Portageville and Andy and Abby Cooper of Sikeston; two daughters and one son-in-law, Necie Marshall and Rita and Marty Jackson of New Madrid; two brothers Tom Duffy of Atlanta and Jim Duffy of Chattanooga; one sister, Jane Duffy of Chattanooga; and 12 grandchildren.
Visitation is at 6 p.m. today, with a rosary to be recited at 8 p.m. at Richards Funeral Home in New Madrid. A Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Friday at Immaculate Conception Church in New Madrid. The Rev. Randy Tochtrop will serve as celebrant.
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Defoe is getting what he wanted now, i.e. playing time, under AVB so why would he want to join Arry at a team that is very likely going to be in the Championship next year?
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The Maine Warden Service says a 38-year-old man is dead after an all-terrain vehicle crash in Sherman.
Corporal John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service says 38-year-old Bryon Jacobs of Stacyville was pronounced dead at the scene. A 16-year-old passenger was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
The passenger reported the accident at about 8:30 Saturday night. The warden service did not identify the teen. McDonald said he is also from Stacyville but is not a relative of Jacobs.
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Good afternoon.
Prior to making some brief remarks, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Japan, the APEC Anticorruption and Transparency (ACT) Task Force, and the APEC Advisory Business Council (ABAC), for co-hosting with the United States this very successful APEC Roundtable. The United States also applauds all APEC economies for actively participating in today's event as well as the leadership by the private sector and those international organizations present. A true public-private partnership requires action and commitment on the part of both public and private sectors to create a community of vigilance against corruption and to ensure criminal networks do not export neither violence nor harmful illicit goods across our borders.
Ambassador Masafumi Ishii, Gempachiro Aihara, ABAC 2010 Chair, distinguished colleagues, like others present, I too have been impressed with the breadth of our discussion today on ways that we can work across various APEC subfora to strengthen international cooperation across the Asia-Pacific region on combating corruption and illicit trade and ways to strengthen market integrity.
Combating Corruption and Illicit Trade: A Shared Responsibility
APEC Leaders and Ministers have commended the efforts of a wide-range of APEC subfora to address various aspects of illicit trade including, for example, corruption, money laundering, and terrorist financing. On anti-corruption, since the ACT Task Force came into existence, APEC Leaders and Ministers have also continually applauded our efforts over the years to combat corruption, including encouraging all economies to implement the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), deny safe haven to corrupt individuals, and strengthen cooperation on a number of important anticorruption areas such as asset recovery, mutual legal assistance, and extradition. From preventing, investigating, and prosecuting corruption, APEC is a global leader in developing innovative approaches to fighting corruption.
For example, in 2006, under Vietnam's leadership, the ACT Task Force expanded its work to more fully integrate public-private partnerships into our strategies to combat corruption and promote good governance. In 2007, Australia promoted Codes of Conduct and complementary Anti-Corruption Principles for business and government officials. In 2008, at the APEC Summit in Lima, Peru, APEC Ministers agreed to "dismantle transnational illicit networks and protect our economies against abuse of our financial system by corrupt individuals and organized criminal groups through financial intelligence and law enforcement cooperation related to corrupt payments and illicit financial flows."
Last year in Singapore, APEC Leaders at the Summit in Singapore, November 14-15, 2009, noted "the importance of international cooperation in combating and dismantling the threat of cross-border criminal networks and its linkages with corruption nodes. We encourage member economies, where applicable, to ratify the UN Convention against Corruption and UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and take measures to implement their provisions, in accordance with economies' legal frameworks." In 2009, ABAC also recommended to APEC Leaders to take action against illicit trade, by developing an effective mechanism to operate at the regional level, modeled on the 2007 APEC Code on Anti-Corruption, as a first step in coordinating an APEC-wide approach to address illicit trade.
As we have underscored in our important work in the ACT Task Force over the years, international legal cooperation is essential in the prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of serious corruption and financial crimes as well as combating illicit trade and dismantling criminal networks. In addition to those APEC economies that have chaired the ACT Task Force, economies such as Brunei, China, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, and others, continue to make anticorruption a top priority. We hope to build on Japan's contributions in chairing the ACT Task Force in 2010 and carry our collective action forward during the US APEC year in 2011.
As outlined in the final 2009 Independent Assessment of the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Task Force (Report to the APEC SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation), and consistent with the ACT Course of Action (Santiago Commitment) and other high-level statements and commitments, we must work to develop a long-term strategy for cooperation on anti-corruption. One potential area is to leverage ACT's expertise in the field anti-corruption and transparency to support other APEC subfora in efforts to address various challenges related to illicit economic activities such as money laundering and terrorist finance, counterfeiting, and other related criminal acts.
Strengthening Partnerships and Collaborative Networks Across the Pacific
This week we take a step forward in advancing this important agenda in APEC and working together across APEC subfora to help shape the call of our Leaders to strengthen cooperation to combat these important illicit areas that sap away at our energies to promote development, prosperity and security.
Particularly during the current global economic downturn, efforts to ensure the stability of the world's financial systems and guard against the threat convergence of corruption, money laundering, organized crime and terrorist financing is vitally important. We hope that we can continue to stand together and strengthen our work in APEC to dismantle transnational illicit networks in the region, address the growing illicit trade and governance challenges, and combat corruption and those who corrupt our institutions.
As President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have noted on numerous occasions: no economy alone can solve today's complex challenges. It requires creative partnerships and joint responsibility based on common interests, shared values, and mutual respect. The fight against transnational crime and corruption is one of these challenges.
And we can understand why as underscored in our earlier session this morning:
Kleptocratic networks, transnational criminal organizations and third generation gangs, for example, threaten our joint interests by forging alliances with corrupt government officials to exploit our openness, undermining competition in key global markets, diversifying their illicit enterprises into legitimate commerce, and unraveling the social fabric of all economies.
Criminal entrepreneurs who smuggle billions of dollars of illegal goods across borders – drugs, arms, humans, natural resources and endangered wildlife parts, counterfeit medicines and pirated software, as well as embezzled public funds – create insecurity, cost our economies jobs and tax revenue, endanger the welfare and safety of our families and communities, and overwhelm law enforcement counter-measures.
So one of the ways to get ahead of these determined and well-resourced adversaries is for us to coordinate and cooperate better and build our own cooperative network in partnership with a coalition of committed private sector leaders.
Stemming Counterfeits By Plugging Kleptocratic Pathways and Tracking Illicit Financial Flows
Corruption must be tackled head on if our governance and economic strategies are to succeed to promote prosperity across the Asia Pacific region. Criminal entrepreneurs use corruption to launder embezzled public funds, smuggle billions of dollars of illegal goods, and obtain safe haven and protection for themselves and their enterprises. This overwhelms and corrupts law enforcement institutions and fuels insecurity throughout our communities.
Following the money must be an integral part of our strategies in dealing with illicit networks to deny criminals and their networks access to entities and mechanisms used to launder their illicit criminal proceeds and hide the instrumentalities. Depriving the networks of their profit and funding is one of the most effective ways to deter them. This requires a holistic, comprehensive anti-money laundering regime including the ability to trace, freeze, and seize assets related to illicit financial flows, while addressing both formal and informal financial networks.
Another growing threat is the rise of harmful counterfeits throughout Asia Pacific. Transnational criminal groups are flooding the world market with counterfeit (and sometimes deadly) goods. We need to synchronize our efforts to more effectively stem the illicit trade and crackdown on supporting illicit facilitators related to counterfeits, fake medicines and pharmaceuticals that endanger the health of our citizens.
We also now detect the common links between wildlife trade, drug trafficking and human trafficking, which reveals a nexus of crime. Environmental crimes such as, for example, illegal dumping of hazardous waste and materials, illegal fishing, illegal trade in wildlife, and illegal logging are also among the fastest illicit areas of international criminal activity and rank among the most lucrative types of black market commerce. While many of these issues are not appropriate to take up within the APEC context, various APEC subfora have been making efforts to tackle particular aspects of the illicit trade problem. Building on this foundation, APEC expert groups have the opportunity to identify areas for further cooperation that contribute to more general efforts at the global level to tackle illicit trade.
Collective Action: International Cooperation and Collaborative Platforms
We must be clear-eyed to confront our common challenges that we will continue to discuss at our ACT Task Force meetings over the next two days. Not only should we remain vigilant to our cause, but we must also think creatively in examining in greater details corruption and illicit trade. As our capability to disrupt the illicit networks strengthens, we undoubtedly see the criminals adapting their practices to avoid detection and victimizing our communities.
The problem is too large for any one of our governments and we can not continue to live in a state of perpetual illicitness. We will continue to confront some setbacks no doubt but we must enhance our cooperation and strengthen our capacities. It too will require that we work together closely at the bilateral, sub-regional, regional and global level.
So one of the ways to get ahead of these determined and well-resourced adversaries is for us to coordinate and cooperate better and build our own law enforcement networks.
At the U.S. Department of State, we are working across the U.S. law enforcement and interagency community to develop more vibrant partnerships and collaborative platforms to combat today's transnational threat networks. My colleague from the U.S. Department of Justice – Philip Guentert, Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division – has further elaborated this afternoon on some of these cooperative efforts.
We are also developing more dynamic inter-regional partnerships that strengthen cross-border cooperation. For example, in November 2009 in Honolulu, we sponsored, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Australia and New Zealand, the Trans-Pacific Symposium on Dismantling Transnational Illicit Networks. The event brought together participants from approximately 25 economies from Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands, as well as senior representatives from international organizations such as APEC. I would also like to thank, William Wallrapp, DHS Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), for joining us in today's roundtable.
Among the recommendations that emanated from the trans-Pacific symposium included many ideas on ways to better equip ourselves against illicit threats across the region. These include devising more strategic frameworks and information-sharing arrangements, leveraging international cooperation across regional and global law enforcement networks, strengthening capacity building in law enforcement, coordinating joint investigations to target "money conduits" and corruption nodes, and securing borders by optimizing border controls.
We applaud the Government of New Zealand for partnering with the United States on the follow-up to the trans-Pacific symposium and hosting the workshop on "Interagency Cooperation on Combating Transnational Illicit Networks" in Christchurch, New Zealand, on November 17-18, 2010.
I hope that the ACT Task Force continues to partner with ABAC, CTI, CTTF, LSIF, and other subfora, on ways that can truly leverage the wealth of expertise across APEC to develop better results for our ministers and leaders and to demonstrate to our communities that working together we are committed to better governance and combating networks that profit from their illicit enterprises and criminal behavior.
Corruption and illicit trade is one of these cross-cutting and important issues that impact our joint agenda towards greater economic growth, prosperity and development. In 2010-2011, the United States looks forward to building with other economies and partners an ACT Task Force program on UNCAC implementation, the prevention of corruption, and developing capacities to investigate and prosecution transnational corruption and bribery.
We also hope to bridge effective partnerships and synergies with other APEC subfora, and across the region, to build further attention to, and capacities on, corruption and the illicit trade and its costs to our communities including, for example, the impact of counterfeits to the health and safety of our people.
In closing, the United States applauds our APEC partners for collaborating and participating in today's roundtable, and on the discussion on possible ideas, capacities, and pragmatic approaches to help shape our work program to combat corruption and illicit trade and strengthen market integrity across our respective economies.
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THE COMPACT SUV market is a vital one for car manufacturers, especially the ones that want to occupy as much of the middle ground as possible. Volkswagen is one of those brands, and after three years in the public domain the Tiguan was due an update to keep it fresh.
VW's fourth best-selling UK model, behind the Golf, Polo and Passat, has been given a new VW 'family' nose, and all told it looks more than a little like its big brother, the Touareg, which has already had a series of updates.
Oddly, for a car most people would call a 'soft-roader', there are two models, one of which is specially equipped for the rough stuff. The 'Escape' model has off-road technologies and a steeper angle of approach at the front, to avoid getting caught on pesky boulders. But if you only need to tackle the speed bumps on the high street, you can just choose a two-wheel drive version and lower your road tax bill.
Despite the temptation to buy the Escape model and pretend the trip to work is actually the Paris Dakar rally, it won't be a best-seller. There are four trim levels; S, SE, Sport and Escape, and six engines in total. Since VW estimate that 90% of Tiguan sales will be diesel models, it's interesting to note that the engine range is split 50:50, with three petrols and three diesels.
Think of each trio of engines in terms of the base ones being not gutsy enough, the mid-range ones being all you need, and the top-end ones being a bit unnecessary. In particular, the 168bhp range-topping diesel offers nothing that the 138bhp version doesn't already take care of. For anyone who really wanted a Golf GTi but needed something bigger, the GTi's 207bhp petrol engine is one of the options.
As with all cars these days, you wouldn't call the Tiguan cheap. Fortunately, for your money you get a well equipped car, with even the entry-level S being fitted with 16-inch alloy wheels, 'Climatic' air conditioning (not quite the same as climate control), a DAB radio and an alarm. The options list is pretty comprehensive too.
The best seller is likely to be the mid-range model with the mid-range diesel engine, otherwise known as the Tiguan SE 2.0-litre TDI 140PS. It also comes with VW's BlueMotion technology to lower emissions and raise fuel economy, including the de rigeur engine stop/start system and battery power regeneration during braking.
Safety is covered with aplomb, thanks to a host of airbags and electronic crash prevention systems, not least of which is the 4Motion four-wheel-drive system, which will help owners out if another fierce winter hits this year.
As long as you like a firm seat, the Tiguan has a very nice perch. The optional leather upholstery seems to soften things a bit, but the standard cloth units are very firm, especially on the backs. The driver can also enjoy a leather-trimmed multi-function steering wheel, but if the optional cruise control is added, the extra ancillary stick is a bit clumsy to use.
The 138bhp engine is a known quantity; smooth, hushed and powerful enough, but never more than satisfactory. It delivers its oomph relatively steadily, which encourages you to use more of the available revs as you build up speed, but it lacks any great surge of torque. Briskly getting up to 60mph is light work, though.
In traffic the comfortable, high driving position is a boon, and the 'auto-hold' system makes sure the car doesn't roll anywhere once it stops. No more rapid working of the handbrake here. Strangely, though, both the 138bhp and 168bhp versions have quite a lot of vibration through the clutch and brake pedals, which can get annoying when you're using them a lot at low speed.
It's good to see that the Tiguan's tidy handling is unharmed, though. While it's no lightweight, it rides very well on the standard suspension – better, in fact, than the Sport model does on its more expensive system – and it's stable through corners. It's a secure-feeling drive and could inspire confidence in nervous drivers.
One area where owners might be disappointed is boot space. The load lip is high, and there isn't as much depth as you might imagine. Big boot-hunters should look at a Passat estate or a Touareg instead. Otherwise, the niggle with the vibrating pedals aside, the new Tiguan makes a very capable all-rounder for families with two or three kids.
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An inborn error in vitamin B12 metabolism has been successfully treated in utero by clinicians at Tufts University School of Medicine.When the B12 responsive form of methylmalonic acidemia was diagnosed in a fetus at 19 weeks gestation, massive doses of the vitamin were administered to the mother. Her urinary excretion of methylmalonic acid promptly decreased, instead of rising during those last weeks of pregnancy. She delivered a healthy, alert baby who is now 6 months old and of apparently normal intelligence.Mary G. Ampola, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Tufts, discussed the case at a joint meeting of the American Pediatric Society, and the Society for Pediatric Research in Washington. Working with her are Maurice J. Mahoney, MD, Eiichi Nakamura, MD, PhD, and Kay Tanaka, MD, PhD, from Yale University's Department of Human Genetics.The mother first
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The Ikura caviar is red, which indicates that it's kosher -- culled from salmon, not the non-kosher black beluga that comes from sturgeon.
At The Prime Grill on Rodeo Drive, the short ribs are braised for 12 hours and then served with wild mushrooms and spicy mustard. The chopped Wagyu Steak Sliders look like little hamburgers but are eye-openingly delectable, made from hand chopped steak, while the Oh Toro sashimi is smooth and silvery and almost swims down the throat.
At Tierra Sur at the Baron Herzog Winery in Oxnard, venison is one of the most popular dishes, and the white bean soup is topped with "bacon" -- a crisp, salty, flavorful meat that's made from lamb so it will be kosher.
Welcome to Southern California's new world of Gourmet Kosher. As America has fallen in love with food over the last decade, the kosher world has not been too far behind. Kosher products and kosher gourmet ingredients abound, as do kosher cookbooks and cooking classes and a general interest in food, entertaining and all it entails. The kosher market has proved a profitable one, appealing to the religious, the newly kosher and others who may want nondairy, halal or simply food that is perceived to be cleaner.
New York, the capital of fine dining, boasts a number of established top-caliber kosher restaurants, among them Le Marais, Abigail's, Tevere and The Prime Grill, which opened there in 2000 and has just opened in Beverly Hills, as well.
The arrival in Southern California of The Prime Grill -- a trendier, classier place than its New York counterpart -- and other restaurants, signifies that Los Angeles, a city that often lags foodwise behind New York, San Francisco and Chicago, might finally be catching up when it comes to kosher food.
In the second-largest U.S. Jewish city (behind New York) Los Angeles has a fair number -- about 50 -- kosher eateries, from bakeries to pizza stores to ethnic food and a number of fancier restaurants.
New restaurants are appearing that don't ladle up the chicken soup and pastrami sandwiches of yesteryear, though delis with that fare still abound, more often known as "kosher style" and consumed by the non-kosher crowd in the mood for a good knish.
This gourmet kosher trend is aspiring to create a whole new world of fine dining, with chefs trained at top culinary schools (some of them do not observe kashrut themselves) who offer high-end cuisine and extensive wine lists in dining rooms designed by famous decorators.
Pricey and elegant, the hope is to bring high-quality dining to the kosher consumer and, at the same time, attract all the other food connoisseurs that vie for tables at Los Angeles' top eateries.
But are Los Angeles' kosher consumers ready for high-class dining? And is the mainstream "treif" world ready to patronize a kosher restaurant as a prime destination?
What does it take to be a kosher restaurant? No. 1, of course, is adherence to the laws of kashrut, a complex system with innumerable subtleties and exceptions, but which at its most basic elements prohibits pork, shellfish and some other animals and fish and their byproducts. There are also restrictions regarding alcohol and produce and laws prohibiting mixing meat and dairy products. Any kosher restaurant must choose to be either fleishig or milchiks (the Yiddish words for meat or dairy), which means choosing between steakhouse or Italian, a deli or a pizzeria. Not both.
To be certified glatt or suitably kosher for the Orthodox (there are also some Conservative certifications), a restaurant cannot be open on Sabbath or Jewish festivals. And, further, to get a hashgachah -- the outside certification provided for a fee by organizations such as the Rabbinic Council of California, Kehilla and Rabbi Yehuda Bukspan, to name a few of the top L.A. certifiers -- the venue must have a mashgiach onsite -- a supervisor versed in the laws who will ensure complicity.
Rabbi Yaacov Vann, director of Kashrut Services at the RCC, one of the top kosher certifiers in California, describes the need for a kosher restaurant to be a "secure system," and he uses specific criteria to assess the risks of each establishment.
"How likely is there to be a problem?" he said.
Bakeries, like the famous Schwartz's, for example, have a low-risk assessment, because there's little differential between ingredients for kosher bakeries and non-kosher bakeries -- flour, sugar, eggs -- are all pareve. "There's little risk to cheat," he said.
Meat, by contrast, must come from a certified shohet, or butcher, and is more expensive than regular meat. (In September, a scandal rocked Monsey, N.Y., when a butcher was discovered selling non-kosher meat to the ultra-Orthodox community.)
All restaurants, of course, need more oversight than any bakery or pizzeria, and the bigger and busier the place, the more supervision it requires. Depending on the facility, the mashgiach may be the owner or someone who works in the store or an outsider -- although the RCC is hoping to require all restaurants to have outside supervisors to minimize corruption.
All this can cost the establishment thousands of dollars a year. But the assurance of strict observance is the only way to bring in people who eat kosher.
There are no statistics on the number of Jews who keep kosher in Los Angeles, though an estimated 10 percent of the L.A. area's roughly 600,000 are said to be Orthodox. But even those numbers don't mean much to restauranteurs, because not all religious Jews eat out, some do but only infrequently, limited by such reasons as money, time, family values or weekends spent at home for Shabbat. Many Jews who care about kashrut will also eat at non-kosher restaurants but limit themselves to nonmeat meals, allowing themselves more flexibility on the weekends, when kosher restaurants are closed.
In other words, it's impossible to gauge the size of the market for kosher dining, except to say that the clientele, until now, has been mostly Jews, friends of Jews or colleagues of Jews taken there for business meals. And everyone agrees, that despite many choices until now among kosher restaurants, there haven't been enough good kosher restaurants here.
Some argue that Los Angeles' kosher restaurants have not been sufficiently challenged by the forces of competition. People complain about the service (rude, rushed, the customer is not always right), the ambience (often they are loud, crowded and brightly lit), the price (costly) and the food ("For this I have to go out? I could make better at home!")
But all this hasn't cut demand, which makes sense if you only eat at your neighborhood restaurant, and it's probably a family restaurant, and it's not open on Friday night and maybe not even Saturday night, and you probably wouldn't go out Saturday night, because you're tired from Sabbath entertaining, so you end up going out to eat the same Sunday or Thursday nights as everyone else, and you go where you run into a million people you know, and while it might be crowded and noisy, it's a family a scene you might enjoy.
That, for many, has been the extent their kosher dining experience. Until now.
At A Cow Jumped Over the Moon, a new French gourmet shop and café that opened last fall, a large hunk of real parmesan cheese ($40 a pound) sits atop a glass counter filled with more gourmet cheeses and chocolate truffles from Normandy. The right wall of the small shop is lined with wines that range in price from $25 to $175 per bottle and come from private kosher reserves in Europe. A glass wall is lined with gourmet kosher products from around the world and overlooks the seating square outside the shop, where half a dozen people pop in for lunch.
What could be bad about a Savoy fondue for two made with melted Gruyere, Emmental cheese, white wine and garlic? Or a Brie sandwich with apples, walnuts and honey on toasted French baguette? And a sweet crepe topped with pralines, melted chocolate, strawberries and whipped cream? Aside from a tighter waistband, nothing.
The cheeses are creamy, pungent, smooth, imported and kosher. The bistro almost could be straight from France, and if you look at the cobblestone floor, the black and orange décor, you might almost believe you are in Paris, except for one thing: The restaurant is located underground in the Rodeo Collection in Beverly Hills, next to the valet parking.
That's the thing about kosher restaurants, they don't always seem to get all the elements right: Food, location, service, ambiance. But still, the food -- foreign, different, gourmet -- might be enough to bring in customers, at least for takeout, and the owner hopes that restaurant will serve as a testing ground for future locations. If it can survive underground, it will prove that kosher consumers are ready for gourmet food.
Are they?
There's an asterisk next to the steak list on the menu at both Shiloh's and The Prime Grill: "We are not responsible for well-done steaks." The steaks range from rib eye to Black Angus to entrecote, and as many foodies know are best eaten medium rare. But not all the customers know that -- or know what medium rare is.
According to the chefs, a kosher diner measures meat on a different cooking scale than most other diners.
"Food has to be cooked on temperature up from what people say," said Aaron Bashy, chef de cuisine at The Prime Grill. When they request rare, they mean medium rare; when they request medium, that's the chef's well done.
"The medium here, they really want it well done," said Bashy, who studied at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, and was raised in a Sephardic kosher home.
What do many mean by well-done? Charred. Till all the juices are dried out. Steak is not meant to be eaten well done, and certainly not that well done.
"Any time you cook meat you reduce the juice," said Michael Ayetkin, executive chef at Shilo's, which opened in late fall. He insisted on the inclusion of the addendum on the menu.
"It's not very pleasurable to eat steak well done," he said. "If you want it well done and juicy, there's no such thing."
Ayetkin, Shilo's chef, went to culinary school in his native Turkey and has served as a food and beverage executive at hotels and restaurants around the world. This is his first venture with kosher cooking and religious diners.
"Eating is different than dining," Ayetkin said. "Eating is to fill up because you are hungry, but dining is enjoyment with pleasure. If I dine, it's different than when I eat. When I eat, I may have a hamburger and french fries, but when I dine, I want different food and ambiance."
The chef thinks that many of Shilo's diners come for good kosher steak, but don't come for the dining experience.
"These people are sophisticated, but they don't believe in that lifestyle," Ayetkin said.
Limited availability of upscale dining experiences has certainly limited many kosher palates, yet, the religious world -- especially Modern Orthodox -- has always been influenced by the outside world, from trends in fashion to education to parenting. No less so with food. In the last decade, as America has fallen in love with food -- food preparation, food presentation, food consumption -- the kosher world also has taken note. Even if they can't eat all the ingredients featured on the food network, they can still make something that will taste -- and look -- similar.
Consider the popularity of cookbook author Suzie Fishbein's "Kosher by Design" series, which first came out in 2003 and has become a kosher empire: her four books have sold more than 300,000 copies and her tours and classes around the country are always full. Although there are hundreds of kosher cookbooks on the market, Fishbein, an entertainer more than a chef, has brought concepts of style and food arrangement, as well as gourmet ingredients, into the kosher home. The truth is, the kosher world is not as insulated as it used to be.
Ba'aeli teshuvah, returnees to the faith, and people who are "kosher-flexible" -- who eat at regular top restaurants but go to kosher restaurants to eat meat -- have brought their fancy-shmancy tastes with them.
Among these are the Ghanems, brothers Fabrice and Jeffrey, Shilo's founders, who owned a restaurant -- not kosher -- in the south of France with their parents and were used to dining out three or four times a week.
"In France, the kosher business is much more open than here," Jeffrey Ghanem said.
They were surprised when they came to Los Angeles.
"There's not enough restaurants, not enough variety, not enough dining," he said.
They set about creating that dining experience with a steak-centered menu, featuring entrecote, French bistro beefsteak, prime rib and lamb. The food is sometimes exotic (chicken Wellington with kosher fois gras), munificent (five steak sauces, including truffle, peppercorn and bordelais) and innovative (molten chocolate chip cake).
Ghanem is betting it will take, and they are expanding next door, hoping to double their somewhat cramped seating of 65 by spring.
The décor of cool whites and pale grays that seem bland in the daylight transforms the restaurant at night into an aura of candlelight, hushed tones, moonlight -- of France. But you're not in France, you're on the busy Pico, next to a bank, across from Jeff's Gourmet Sausage.
"To us it's the best location," Ghanem said. "The point of coming to Pico is not to be impressed by the street. Most of our clients live in mansions in Beverly Hills. You want to be in this area, especially if you're religious."
Not every kosher restaurateur agrees. When Joey Allaham, owner of The Prime Grill steakhouse in New York set his sights on Los Angeles, he didn't pick Pico but Beverly Hills. That's because he wanted to create something different, distinct even, from his traditional, boisterous steakhouse in midtown Manhattan, which opened seven years ago. (He plans to open another upscale kosher restaurnat in New York.)
The Prime Grill experience begins on Rodeo Drive with valet parking, a descent down the grand stairway of the Rodeo Collection (less a mall than a two-story courtyard with luxury stores), an outdoor waiting area (low, modern leather seats) and a dark, fully stocked lounge where a DJ spins tunes. All this precedes the restaurant part of the restaurant, which has two main rooms -- indoor and cabanas -- a few private rooms, and seats more than 200.
"I wanted to create a place where Jews can have a whole night out, instead of going out to eat at a kosher restaurant and then finding someplace else to go out. I want people to have the whole experience."
The whole experience, viewed from behind the plum gauze curtains in one of the four cushioned booths -- Larry King's favorite spot -- can rival many of Los Angeles' top trendy restaurants.
And that's what Allaham is going for: The mainstream diner. Kosher diners comprise only 20 percent of their clientele, he claimed. "I don't advertise it as kosher. We are a restaurant that happens to be kosher," said the Syrian-born Jew who came to the United States in 1994. "If you bring in a non-kosher person to eat here, I bet anything they'll never even know this is kosher. The only way they'd know is if they see people with beards and yarmulkes."
Of course, there are other ways a non-kosher person could detect differences -- that it's not open on Friday nights and Saturdays, the busiest night for dining out; that the nondairy desserts leave a slight aftertaste of margarine or nondairy creamer, and some vegetables -- fresh broccoli and cauliflower -- are not available because they might contain bugs, which would make them non-kosher.
And whether one might choose to spend a night out, for example, amid diners that include a Chabad couple, an Israeli family of seven, a Modern Orthodox rabbi and some businessmen, rather than with scantily clad celebrities and wannabees, is definitely a consideration.
But where it counts the most, the food, especially the steaks, are probably some of the tastiest -- kosher and non-kosher -- in the city. The meat is flown in from New York, where it has been dry aged for 32 days or wet aged for 45 days (soon to be available on the Internet), and the steaks are crisped in the 1,800-degree infrared broiler and served alone, steakhouse style (side dishes, like pesto mashed potatoes or wild mushrooms with truffles are extra).
A meal at The Prime Grill, with wine or a cocktail or two from the trendy bar -- could run between $60 and $100 per person. For a certain type of kosher diner, that's a major drawback.
"The steak was really good," a friend said. "But for that price would I go back? Not unless someone else is paying."
But Los Angeles has no shortage of wealthy Jews -- as well as Jews who may choose to eat kosher or non-kosher.
"This is my target," Allaham said. "People who choose to go to non-kosher restaurants who think they are better -- and have them come here a few times a week."
One kosher restaurant that must rely on non-kosher consumers is Tierra Sur in Oxnard, some 60 miles north of Los Angeles, pretty far from most of the Orthodox community, save for Chabads in Oxnard, Ventura and Camarillo. But that's OK, because the restaurant was created as part of a branding effort to market the Baron Herzog kosher wines to mainstream consumers. "We were thinking of doing a café," Joseph Herzog said, when they first planned the winemaking facility. But then they realized the tasting room, as well as the eatery, must be luxury, if they wanted to market themselves to upscale to non-kosher consumers, as well as make themselves a "destination" for kosher consumers.
From afar, the place looks like a squat industrial building "in the middle of strawberry fields," as Herzog said. But inside the tasting room/gift shop is like a kosher luxury goods museum, with wines, brandies, ports, champagnes, cigars, cookbooks, tapenades, sauces and more. The 44-seat restaurant, whose ceiling stretches to the second floor (where a self-guided tour of the winery is available), is decorated in a modern, industrial style, with duo-tone yellow and brown walls, where a crescent shape aperture creates a semi-open kitchen.
From that kitchen comes: lamb bacon, salt cod fritters, lamb with couscous, venison, caramel pot de cr?me -- whatever strikes chef Todd Aarons fancy. For a kosher restaurant trying to market itself as mainstream, Aarons is an ideal chef: He wasn't raised kosher. He trained at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and has worked at the famous Zuni café there and later the Savoy in New York. Then he went to study in Israel and decided to become religious -- and kosher.
Although he could still "cook a pork chop with my eyes closed" i.e,, without having to taste it, "being a shomer Shabbos chef was a problem." He thought about changing his career, but after a stint in kosher catering ("I thought I'd kill myself"), he opened up his own restaurant in New Jersey -- which is where one of the Herzog brothers found him and made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
"I don't walk in the morning and say, 'I want to make kosher food today!'" Aaron said.
He makes what he calls Mediterranean- and Spanish- influenced food, using local flavors and seasonal produce. He tries to avoid margarine -- using soy milk when he can for desserts, and attempts to replicate some treif food, such as the lamb bacon, maple cured and smoked for six hours, like regular bacon would be.
"Kosher has gotten a bad rap," Aaron said. "For a long time it meant deli. No one knew what it was. It was dominated by the Ashkenazic Eastern European flavors. But Jews ate the food of whatever country they were in. Kosher doesn't delineate the type of food it is. If it's cooked in a kosher style, it's kosher."
As to kosher clients, he believes they're the same as non-kosher. "You know, look at the non-kosher world, there are people who don't care about food, and there are people who are foodies," Aaron said.
"There are people who care about artistry, people who care about getting what they paid for. You have to appeal to everyone."
He considers himself fortunate. "It's nice to enable myself to enjoy what I love to do and remain kosher myself. I just happen to be at this time in history that there's a market for it."
Any discussion of fine kosher dining in Los Angeles must include Pat's, one of the first and best-known upscale kosher restaurants in Los Angeles. The trajectory of their owners -- chef Pat Fine and her husband, Errol, who runs the business -- mirrors the transformation of kosher dining in the city.
Twenty-five years ago, the South African-born, Modern Orthodox couple started Elite Cuisine, with both a deli and takeout in Santa Monica and near Hancock Park.
Then about 15 years ago, they decided to close up shop and open a real restaurant. "We felt our skills were more toward restaurant than deli," said Pat Fine. She felt her culinary talents were wasted on a deli.
She likes to tell the story of an early dissatisfied walk-in.
"Where's the chicken soup and matzah balls?" he demanded. Today, she said, this same man calls in his order for the ravioli of the day.
"He never asked for chicken soup again," she said. "From gefilte fish and matzah balls, in many respects we educated the customers."
"We wanted to make people proud to come into our restaurant, not to feel it was kosher," she said, echoing many of the new restaurateurs.
"We wanted to take kosher out of the dinginess into the limelight, to show that kosher can be delicious. In those days, it was falafel, stuffed cabbage."
When they opened the eponymous Pat's in what now seems like a prime location on Pico Boulevard and Doheny Drive, Pico wasn't the "hood" it is today. The center of L.A. Modern Orthodoxy was just first beginning to bloom, and there were only a few kosher places. "It was sparse," said Errol Fine.
There were a few other kosher places: The Milky Way preceded them, as did a smaller Pico Kosher Deli, but Nagila pizzeria and schwarma, a local teen and family hangout, came later. Nowadays, Pico is to kosher what Rodeo Drive is to luxury.
"We're the anchor for the restaurants around here," he said. Pat's is also a catering business, with exclusive contracts to the Ritz chain and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and subcontractor for many events in the city, for example, if a Spago event needs to be kosher or have kosher food, which increasingly occurs nowadays. The catering business accounts for about 65 percent of their revenue and serves as a model for many new establishments in the city that hope to offer catering, as well.
The restaurant seats about 120 and has been redecorated twice to keep up with the times. That's very important to Pat Fine. "We keep up with the current food trends," she said, talking about health, portion control, elegant presentation and the latest food demands. For example, Tuesday nights are sushi. Seared tuna is an appetizer.
Avocado graces the salads. For the most part, Pat's can be called fusion, with options of meat, chicken, fish and pasta. "The customer has become more sophisticated," Errol Fine said.
"People are becoming ba'al teshuvah and they know what to eat, but everyone's excited to try new things."
Today one probably wouldn't call Pat's cutting-edge kosher. Pat Fine is a self-taught cook (trained as a pharmacist), and many describe the restaurant as more of a day-to-day place, rather than an "event" restaurant. But the Fines said they welcome the new arrivals.
"In a way it just underlines the fact that we're good, and it gives our customers another choice. The community has grown," Errol Fine said.
Besides, Pat's has been around for a while.
"Restaurants have come and gone," he said. "It all takes the test of time."
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A day after one of the worst crashes of his career, Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda RC213V) rode brilliantly to outshine team-mate Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda RC213V) in the Dutch TT on a sunny day in northern Holland, made sunnier by Stoner moving back into a tie for the MotoGP World Championship points lead.
Stoner had suffered what he referred to as one of his worst ever crashes when he hit a slick spot in Friday morning practice. The fall pitched him hard onto his chronically injured left scaphoid, left arm, and his head, and also his knee, which he said felt like it had a knife in it. But in the final minutes of the rain-interrupted qualifying session, Stoner uncorked the lap of the weekend to take the pole position.
When the race began, under warm, sunny skies, Pedrosa and pole-sitter Stoner cleared off, and by the first corner championship leader Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) was out of the race, the victim of an over-exuberant Alvaro Bautista (San Carlo Honda Gresini RC213V). Bautista had charged into the first turn of the race with too much pace, lost the front end and collected Lorenzo as he slid to his left.
Race Direction cited Bautista for riding in an "irresponsible manner." His penalty is that he will have to start at the back of the MotoGP grid at next weekend's German GP at the Sachsenring. The San Carlo Honda Gresini team appealed the penalty, but the FIM Stewards confirmed the decision, which is final.
While much of the rest of the field had to check up, the Honda riders quickly pulled away to decide the race between themselves. Pedrosa was never able to lose the Australian with Stoner a constant threat on his tailpiece.
Stoner made his move for the lead in the sixth gear Hoge Heide slight kink on lap 17 of 26. Within three laps he had put the lead to over 1.5s and from there cruised home to victory.
The margin of victory was 4.965s.
The win was the world champion's third of the year and the 36th of his career, putting him one behind the legendary "Mike the Bike" Hailwood for fourth all-time in the premier class.
It also moved him into a tie with Lorenzo atop the points standings with 140 after seven of 18 races, though Stoner said Lorenzo's misfortune was not how he wanted to get back into the championship chase. Pedrosa is third with 121 points.
The Repsol Honda one-two finish also strengthened the lead of the Repsol Honda team in the Team's championship with 261 points to 188 for Yamaha.
Stefan Bradl (LCR Honda MotoGP RC213V) failed to finish a race for the first time in his rookie MotoGP season. Bradl was in fifth on the second lap when he lost the front end in turn 10 and fell, unhurt. It was doubly heart-breaking since he had earned his best ever grid position on Friday and was looking for a career best MotoGP finish.
Michele Pirro (San Carlo Honda Gresini FTR-Honda) finished a career best ninth and nearly eighth in the fight for supremacy among the CRT set. Pirro engaged with the more experienced Aleix Espargaro and Randy de Puniet for most of the race. When Espargaro retired with a mechanical issue, Pirro moved up a spot with an eye on eighth. But de Puniet was able to break away with five laps to go. Still, Pirro was ecstatic to have finished so high up the order. Marc Marquez (Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol-Suter) won his third race of the season with a last lap pass of Andrea Iannone (Speed Master, Speed Up) in the Moto2 race.
Iannone had taken the lead on the fourth of 24 laps and by then the tenor of the championship had changed dramatically. Thomas Luthi (Interwetten-Paddock, Suter) crashed on the first lap with Thai rider Ratthapark Wilairot (Thai Honda PTT Gresini Moto 2, Suter). Wilairot was able to rejoin the race, only to crash again.
And a lap later Pol Espargaro (Pons 40 HP Tuenti, Kalex) crashed out of the lead. That was the opening Marquez needed to maximise his championship position, but first he would have to get by Iannone.
Iannone stretched his lead to over a second on the eighth lap. Scott Redding (Marc VDS Racing Team, Kalex) was second in front of the charging Marquez, with early leader Dominique Aegerter (Technomag-CPI, Suter) now fourth.
By lap 14 Iannone had a cushion of 3.33 secs., but hehad damaged his tyres with his early pace. The lead dropped by nearly a second in the next two laps and on the 17th Marquez ran the fastest lap of the race.
With four laps to go Marquez was on Iannone and looking for a way past. The pair bumped fairings in the fast Ruskenhoek right kink on the 22nd lap as Marquez was into the lead, but only briefly; Iannone took it back in the next sweeping left.
The next lap was a replay, though without the contact. As it had the lap before, the lap ended with Iannone in front. But not for long.
Marquez went into the lead on the final lap with Iannone unable to match his pace; his tyres would not allow it. Iannone made his bid for glory in the Stekkenwal right, but overshot it and killed his drive. That gave Marquez a touch of breathing room which he expanded to .405s at the end. It was his third win in a row in Assen.
Redding finished third one race after finishing second in his home grand prix at Silverstone, coming out the best of a three-rider scrap with fourth place finisher Tito Rabat (Pons 40 HP Tuenti, Kalex) and Alex de Angelis (NGM Mobile Forward Racing, FTR). It was especially gratifying for Redding, the tall Briton who had had machine problems during the weekend, as well as a crash. Redding waited until Rabat gave him an opening, which he seized to score his second podium in as many weeks.
De Angelis finished fifth in his first ride since swapping his Suter chassis for an FTR. The change paid off with the San Marinese scoring his best finish of the season.
Bradley Smith (Tech 3 Racing, Tech 3) finished a close sixth, also his best finish of the year, while Aegerter dropped to seventh.
Marquez leaves Assen and heads to the Sachsenring with 127 points to 104 for Iannone, who leapfrogged Espargaro and Luthi for second. The two riders who crashed remain tied for third with 96 points.
Maverick Vinales (Blusens Avintia – FTR Honda) won the most thrilling Moto3 race of the season with a crafty move when another rider faltered entering the final chicane on the last lap. A photo finish for second determined Sandro Cortese (KTM) was narrowly ahead of Danny Kent (KTM) and Luis Salom (KTM).
The race began as a ten-rider rolling scrum that eventually winnowed itself down to the final five, then four. Despite starting sixth, his worst of the season, Vinales was in the mix from the start, leading most of the laps, though never secure as challenges were constantly made to his supremacy.
Vinales was in third on the final lap behind the team-mates, Kent and Cortese, and plotting his move. First came the bid for second in the Ruskenhoek fast kink right, where he nearly ran off the track, but he was soon by Kent and chasing Cortese. At this point positions meant very little, with the race certain to be determined in the final chicane.
As they approached the right-hander entering the chicane, the lead quartet was tightly packed with the race now a lottery. Vinales entered the corner in third, but when Salom missed a shift and ran wide left Vinales deftly threaded the needle between the Spaniard and Kent to take the lead and win handily, by .831s. Cortese was second with Kent earning his first podium in third by .001s over Luis Salom.
Louis Rossi (Racing Team Germany, FTR-Honda) had been a contender until the final lap when he lost touch with the lead pack to finish a secure fifth. Next was Alex Rins (Estrella Galicia 0.0, Suter-Honda), also alone with Alexis Masbou (Caretta Technology, Honda) leading home a pack of six riders in seventh.
By winning his fourth race of the year, and third in a row, Vinales opened up a seven point lead on Cortese, 130 to 123, after seven of 17 races.
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|Casey STONER / AUS / Repsol Honda Team)
|Dani PEDROSA (Repsol Honda Team)
|Andrea DOVIZIOSO (Monster Yamaha Tech 3)
|Ben SPIES (Yamaha Factory Racing)
|Cal CRUTCHLOW (Monster Yamaha Tech 3)
|Nicky HAYDEN (Ducati Team)
|Hector BARBERA (Pramac Racing Team)
|Randy DE PUNIET (Power Electronics Aspar)
|Michele PIRRO (San Carlo Honda Gresini)
|Mattia PASINI (Speed Master)
|Danilo PETRUCCI (Came IodaRacing Project)
|Ivan SILVA (Avintia Blusens)
|Valentino ROSSI (Ducati Team)
|James ELLISON (Paul Bird Motorsport)
|Rider (Team)
|Marc MARQUEZ (Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol)
|Andrea IANNONE (Speed Master)
|Scott REDDING (Marc VDS Racing Team)
|Esteve RABAT (Pons 40 HP Tuenti)
|Alex DE ANGELIS (NGM Mobile Forward Racing)
|Bradley SMITH (Tech 3 Racing)
|Dominique AEGERTER (Technomag-CIP)
|Johann ZARCO (JIR Moto2)
|Toni ELIAS (Mapfre Aspar Team)
|Mika KALLIO (Marc VDS Racing Team)
|Randy KRUMMENACHER (GP Team Switzerland)
|Takaaki NAKAGAMI (Italtrans Racing Team)
|Xavier SIMEON (Tech 3 Racing)
|Julian SIMON (Blusens Avintia)
|Mike DI MEGLIO (Master Speed Up)
|Rider (Team)
|Maverick VINALES (Blusens Avintia)
|Sandro CORTESE (Red Bull KTM Ajo)
|Danny KENT (Red Bull KTM Ajo)
|Luis SALOM (RW Racing GP)
|Louis ROSSI (Racing Team Germany)
|Alex RINS (Estrella Galicia 0,0)
|Alexis MASBOU (Caretta Technology)
|Niklas AJO (TT Motion Events Racing)
|Efren VAZQUEZ (JHK Laglisse)
|Miguel OLIVEIRA (Estrella Galicia 0,0)
|Zulfahmi KHAIRUDDIN (AirAsia-Sic-Ajo)
|Romano FENATI (Team Italia FMI)
|Jakub KORNFEIL (Redox-Ongetta-Centro Seta)
|Toni FINSTERBUSCH (Cresto Guide MZ Racing)
|Hector FAUBEL (Bankia Aspar Team)


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Marni Returns to Its Roots
Little squeals of joy were audible during Consuelo Castiglioni's show for Marni on Sunday morning. The label is a favorite among fashion editors for the way it manages to be both highly fashionable and wearable. It helps that it's a cheery brand – the colors, shapes and kooky attitude nearly always make me smile.
Ms. Castiglioni (whose husband Gianni, the company's chief executive, mingled with guests before the show) dug into her classic-Marni roots for her fall collection.
That ought to make everyone happy after her stumble last season: for spring, Marni veered into eccentric-athletic-wear territory and was decidedly not-wearable.
This was a delightful mod collection of geometric prints and swingy tunics and jackets. A series of black-leather jackets was a crisp modern take on the black-motorcycle phenom which has been everywhere.
There's been a lot of super-luxe on the runways this season, and it was seen at Marni, too, in diamonds of fur attached to a jacket and an overcoat.
We look to Ms. Castiglioni for joie de vivre and and she gave it to us in spades.


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Just the last few days I've noticed a massive change in my bh.. Everytime I stand or bend over and straighten uo my stomach is contracting to the point it hurts but not like a contraction pain just that it's too tight.. Also if I go up the stairs.. Theyre lasting anything from 1-3 minutes too... Is this normal? It's not something I remember being painful with Lewis and I dont remember them having any pattern..
I know it's not labour or irritable uterus as if I'm sat/in bed or stand still for a while I dont get them.. I've noticed aswell since my bh's have changed my discharge has changed too.. It's gone more snotty?? I dont know if this is linked or if it's just with the stage of pregnancy as I do remember the snotty discharge with the boys..


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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace Volume 2, Part 1, Chapter 5 Summary
- Denisov is Dolokhov's second for the duel, but he's pretty angry that they won't just drop it. He's also the only one there who doesn't know about the affair, so he really thinks they're just dueling over a piece of paper.
- Pierre walks out to the place he's supposed to shoot from, has some trouble holding up the gun with just one hand, and pulls the trigger. The loud noise scares him.
- There's no second shot. Instead, Pierre sees Dolokhov falling into the snow holding his left side.
- But there's still some fight left in the tough guy, and Dolokhov manages to get off a shot which...misses badly.
- Duels are always kind of anticlimactic like that, right?
- Anyway, Nikolai and Denisov take Dolokhov back to Moscow. Suddenly Dolokhov starts crying in the carriage. Turns out he's a total mama's boy and is worried about how upset his mom will be if he ends up dying. Aw. Way to humanize this jerko, Tolstoy.


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On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 08:50:29 -0700, David T. Johnson
> If you want a new PC, your best approach is to go the 'white box'
> route where you buy a motherboard, graphics card, case, power
> supply, hard disk, DVD burner, and memory and then plug it all
> together.
That's my usual approach, and I like doing it that way. Considering the
overall feedback here, I may do it again.
Michael DeBusk, Co-Conspirator to Make the World a Better Place
Did he update http://home.earthlink.net/~debu4335/ yet?


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NH probes failed $21.8M school renovation vote in Grafton
GRAFTON — The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office is investigating a complaint of potential voter fraud during Town Meeting in Grafton, an attorney with the office confirmed yesterday. At Town Meeting, Mascoma Valley towns rejected a $21.8 million renovation proposal for the Mascoma Valley Regional High School, which failed just shy of the 60 percent super-majority — 1,809-1,245, or 59.2 percent — that was required. Although it passed in Enfield, it was defeated in Grafton, among other towns.
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Here Comes Apple's Smaller iPad
Apple Asian component suppliers have started mass production of a new tablet smaller than the current iPad — the so-called "iPad Mini" — that's destined to compete with Google and Amazon's new tablets, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.
It's smaller than the current 9.7-inch iPad and will have a lower-resolution display — meaning the screen will look less "sharp" — compared with Apple's existing tablet, according to that article. The tablet's screen will be about 7.85 inches long diagonally, the report says.
Apple is facing pressure from other tablet makers that are drastically undercutting the cost of the iPad. Amazon's newest smaller Kindle Fire HD devices cost around $200, as does Google's 7-inch Nexus 7 tablet. The entry-level Kindle Fire is even cheaper, costing $159.
Even without Apple, the low-cost tablet space is getting crowded quickly.
Apple now also has to contend with a new line-up of tablets from Barnes & Noble, which is an selling entry-level seven-inch tablet with high definition for $199, and a nine-inch tablet for $269, drastically undercutting the price of the iPad.
Amazon also has a larger 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD tablet that costs $299, compared with the most recent iPad's $499 price tag. The last-generation iPad 2 costs $399.
Although the late Steve Jobs had dismissed the notion of a 7-inch tablet, internal emails released during Apple's case with Samsung suggested Apple had interest in the smaller-tablet market, according to an earlier report by AllThingsD.
AllThingsD reported that Apple was planning to hold a special event in October to unveil the smaller tablet.


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Corinna's Going A-Maying
by Robert Herrick
Corinna's Going A-Maying Time Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #1
Each flower has wept and bow'd toward the east
Above an hour since: yet you not dress'd;
Nay! not so much as out of bed? (7-9)
Time and inertia are closely related themes since Corinna's stop-at-nothing laziness is a big waste of time. Even the flowers are more conscious of time, and they don't even have watches. Isn't it time to get up, watch CNN, and drink some coffee?
Quote #2
Come and receive them while the light
Hangs on the dew-locks of the night:
And Titan on the eastern hill
Retires himself, or else stands still
Till you come forth (23-27)
Ah, maybe there is a solution. In stanza 2 it sounds like time's willing to cut Corinna some slack. Since this is a different message than what comes at the end of the poem, it looks like either the speaker has changed up his arguments or that time is kinder to young people in love: days are longer, time is slower, and it seems like you have all the time in the world.


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Snowboarding Forum - Snowboard Enthusiast Forums (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/forum.php)
- Tips, Tricks And Snowboard Coaching (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/tips-tricks-snowboard-coaching/)
- - does rocker truly eliminate need for stance setback? (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/tips-tricks-snowboard-coaching/46605-does-rocker-truly-eliminate-need-stance.html)
does rocker truly eliminate need for stance setback?
Does rocker (versus traditional camber) truly eliminate the need for stance setback in deep/powder conditions?
ALso, how come some of Never Summer's rocker-camber boards still have stance setback?
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doesn't necessarily "eliminate" the need but certainly mitigates the need for setback which really was to help you keep your nose from submarining. With a rocker/early-rise shape the board is going to do much of that for you, or will require a lot less effort on your part.
Cool...that makes sense. So is there any advantage to stance setback for groomers, hardpack or the Ice Coast?
Also, is it true that some boards have progressive sidecuts that work best if you abide by the built-in setback?
Also, rocker will allow you to float better with a shorter board, so you don't need to take a super long deck out on the deep days
I have a twin-tip board and actually use a slight setback because I prefer the way it rides (more dynamic).
Rocker helps but is definately no replacement for setback. Rocker helps by increasing your dynamic nose height, this is the actual height that the nose sits if you were to draw an imaginary straight line from binding to binding out past the nose.
Now say we have 2 boards exactly the same but one is camber and one is rocker, you strap in and stand on the board on flat ground and measure the nose height. The rocker board will be only slightly higher because the camber board is being pressed flat negating the downward effect that the camber has. Lets say the nose on the camber board measured 50mm high and the rocker board measured 55mm due to upward effect the rocker has.
Now with both boards unloaded (similar to how is is when riding deep powder) and the imaginary line from binding to binding out past the nose again you will see that the nose rocker board has lifted up even higher, it is now at 60mm nose height while the camber board has taken a nose dive and its nose height has been reduced to 40mm above the imaginary line.
So the rocker board has a 20mm advantage in dynamic nose height over the camber board in true pow conditions. If back at the factory they were to increase the nose height of the camber board by 20mm both these boards would have the same dynamic nose height and would exhibit the same float characteristics in deep powder snow.
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Obama Plans New Push on Student Loan Rates
WASHINGTON–President Barack Obama on Friday will urge Congress to prevent student-loan interest rates from doubling, the White House said, putting pressure on lawmakers over an issue that played a role in last year's presidential election.
Mr. Obama's chief spokesman, Jay Carney, said Mr. Obama will be joined by college students to make his pitch over an issue that has produced division between Democrats and Republicans. Mr. Carney said while the president is pleased that Republicans are interested in making changes to federal student loans, their proposal falls short.
The rate on new subsidized Stafford loans is set to double to 6.8% on July 1 if Congress doesn't act. The Republican-led House passed a measure last week that would set the interest rates on federal student loans to the government's borrowing costs and allow them to vary annually. The House bill wouldn't affect rates on existing federal student loans."
It passed 221 to 198, but is unlikely to become law as the White House has threatened that Mr. Obama would veto the measure.
"While we welcome that House Republicans have paid some attention to this issue this year, their proposal unfortunately does not meet the test," Mr. Carney said. The White House has said the GOP's bill wouldn't guarantee low rates for students and would burden low and middle-income students.
Last year, Mr. Obama traveled the country urging Congress to prevent the rates from doubling. Republicans initially rejected that approach because of its $6 billion cost. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he favored a one-year freeze in the rate, and Republicans changed their position.


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Sidney, NE (AP) - A 54-year-old man has been convicted of killing a woman who'd sent him a text that enraged him.
On Thursday a Cheyenne County jury convicted Larry Martinez of first-degree murder and use of a firearm. Authorities say Martinez fatally shot 30-year-old Mandy Kershman on July 18, 2012, at the home of a friend in Sidney.
Martinez had told officers he was angry about a text message she'd sent him. Police say he shot her as he confronted her about it.
Martinez's sentencing is scheduled for May 7. He faces life in prison.
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Joseph M. Bessette, Ph.D.
Areas of Expertise
American Constitutionalism, American Politics, Crime and Criminal Justice, Ethics and American Democracy, Presidency
Selected Research and Publications
American Government and Politics: Deliberation, Democracy, and Citizenship, with John J. Pitney (Cengage/Wadsworth, 2013), Second Edition
The Constitutional Presidency, ed. Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
"The Powers and Duties of the President: Recovering the Logic and Meaning of Article II" (with Gary J. Schmitt) in The Constitutional Presidency
"Confronting War: Rethinking Justice Robert Jackson's Concurrence in Youngstown v. Sawyer" in The Limits of Constitutional Democracy, ed. Stephen Macedo and Jeffrey K. Tulis (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2010)
The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994)
"In Pursuit of Criminal Justice," The Public Interest, No. 129 (Fall 1997)
Toward a More Perfect Union: The Writings of Herbert J. Storing, ed. Joseph M. Bessette (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1995)
The Presidency in the Constitutional Order: An Historical Examination, edited with Jeffrey Tulis (Transaction Publishers, 2010)
"Deliberative Democracy: The Majority Principle in Republican Government," in How Democratic is the Constitution?, ed. Robert Goldwin and William Shambra (American Enterprise Institute, 1981)
Joseph M. Bessette, Ph.D.
Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Government and EthicsEducation: B.S., Boston College; M.A., Ph.D., University of ChicagoDepartment(s): GovernmentOffice Hours: Monday, 12:30-1:30 p.m.Wednesday, 12:30-1:30 p.m.By appointmentEmail: email@example.com: (909) 607-3989Fax: (909) 621-8419Address: Kravis Center 236Curriculum Vitae: jbessette-cv.pdf
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all LDD files at the bottomSo once again I find myself distracted from my main project, this time inspired by a mech from a video-game called killzone 3 (named the same too). This started as a simple template for a much larger mech build, that turned into its own distraction. In typical fashion, the version I wanted to build had a foot the size of this one's lower body (after building this, I'm glad I didn't. That would have been a pain of a project and taken too much time).
At slightly over 6,000 pieces, the MAWLR would be one of my smallest MOCs. It is built in Mini-scale, and I HIGHLY suggest opening the LDD file, because pictures don't do it justice. (and for once it's not dangerous to open )
Features include a rotating and pivoting head, posable legs, adjustable feet, multiple turrets, rotating main canon, and opening flight engine doors.
Yes, its also a spaceship! MOC includes lower control tower for a complete look to seal off leg attachment area.
This is a concept model, so I wasn't going for correct colors or building techniques. I do however want to submit the MAWLR by itself to CUUSOO, and wanted to see how many of you would be interested just to get an initial idea. It would be TLG's first fantasy, non-licensed model this big (unless... ). Remember, it is 6,000 pieces.
So if you could please let me know yes/no would you want this, and why.
It will help me get an idea for future CUUSOO submissions (and if I should try modifying my other MOCs for CUUSOO).
Anyway, back on topic, here are a few more pictures of the MAWLR by itself, in attack mode (with Lego special effects! ), and in space.
After finishing the MAWLR, I made the laser and some special effects and said, Ooooo this needs land! And then this happened:
I made a wasteland where the good guys were struggling to get through, a central power corridor that divided the land, the mechanical city that the MAWLR stands above, and finally a quarter cutout of a disc space bridge (kind of like in the game). Once again there are so many tiny details that if I tried to get them in pictures, I'd have 30 or so more . So if you can, try opening the LDD files of the fields. I promise they are not that big.
And if you are really daring, you can try and open the 26,000 piece completed model....with flex pieces!!!
The little nougat colored guys are the good guys, and the dark red horns are the bad guys. Details on the disc include a space port, two shuttle launching stations on the outside of the disc, and a walking bridge to the core. In the city, there are multiple buildings, guard towers, vents, turrets and energy piping. In the fields, there are mysterious outcroppings, bunkers, tunnels, bridges, communication towers, sensors, dilapidated buildings, mountainside villages, and hidden paths and features. The good guys have plenty of varied vehicles of their own scattered throughout the fields and flying around.
Finally, OVERHEAD SHOT!!!!
OK, so you want the LXFs. For above pictured:
MAWLR plain - LXF - 6,000 pieces
MALWR battle - LXF - 6,700 pieces
MAWLR takeoff - LXF - 6,100 pieces
MAWLR fields - LXF -26,000 pieces
This is the lower area:
fields lower - LXF - 10,800 pieces
Upper area with MAWLR:
field upper+ - LXF - 17,800 pieces
Upper area without MAWLR:
fields upper - LXF - 11,000 pieces
As always, my brickshelf folder has more pictures in higher resolution. and remember, let me know if you would want.
Hope you like!


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The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
The House of the Scorpion: Matt will (Literally) Give his Heart to Anybody (Content Quiz) Quiz
Think you've got your head wrapped around The House of the Scorpion? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What makes Matt different than all the other clones?
He has straight teeth
He is lactose intolerant
His brain has not been destroyed
He has not been physically handicapped
Q. How old is El Patrón when Matt first meets him?
No one knows
Q. How did Opium come about?
El Patrón had his army seize it
El Patrón bought it from the U.S. to solve the immigration problem
El Patrón won it from the President in a bet
Texas didn't feel like being a part of America anymore
Q. What is the point of clones?
They're cool
They act as slaves to the people they are clones of
They get the old brain of the person they are cloned from so they can continue living their lives
They are involuntary organ donors
Q. Why can't Matt's heart be used for the dying El Patrón?
Matt gets shot through the heart
Matt doesn't get to the hospital in time
Celia had been poisoning Matt
Matt's heart is too full of love for El Patrón's body to handle


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Ronald L. Tekavec, 72, of Streetsboro, died April 14, 2014.
He was born June 15, 1941 in Crucible, Pa., to Frank A. and Anna (Pribula) Tekavec. He had been a Streetsboro resident for most of his life and retired from Chrysler Corp. in Twinsburg.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and brothers Frank J. and John Tekavec.
Survivors include his brother Gary (Connie) Tekavec of Aurora; sister Joanne Rugan of LasVegas; nephews Mark, Brett, James and Rodney Tekavec; and sister-in-law Elva Tekavec of Streetsboro.
Cremation has taken place. Arrangements were handled by Shorts Spicer Crislip Funeral Home's Streetsboro Chapel.


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Each location has a director in place along with a regional manager who oversees all of the locations, as owner is almost absentee. $2,000,000 has been originally invested in leasehold improvements with $1,000,000 in equipment and fixtures. In March the company approached close to $90,000 in net profits for the month. All buyers must qualify with Listing Agent. Call today on the exciting business opportunity!!
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In article <firstname.lastname@example.com om>,
>Note I am behind a router (192.168.0.1). Am I correct to assume that
>this Dlink router is not allowing itself to be pinged and therefore
>shows as "timed out" on any tracert to any external site (all my
>tracerts look the same, 2nd hop tiems out always)?
>Tracing route to www.l.google.com [220.127.116.11] over a maximum of 30
> 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
> 2 * * * Request timed out.
> 3 * * 8 ms 184.108.40.206
No, your router, 192.168.0.1, *is* responding, so it cannot be
the case that 'this Dlink router is not allowing itself to be pinged
and therefore shows as "timed out"'.
However, it could easily be the case that the next hop out from
you, the first ISP hop, is refusing to send back packets that
would be recognized by your tracert .
Note that tracert does not ping each path point individually,
because it doesn't know what those path points are ahead of time.
Instead what it does is attempt to ping the final destination,
setting the Time To Live (TTL) field incrementally higher, and
hoping that intermediate hops along the way will respond with
ICMP Time Exceeded messages when they see that the TTL field
has decremented to 0. Thus even if it were the Dlink that was not
responding (rather than the hop after that), it is not correct
to think of whichever device as "not allowing itself to be pinged",
because the tracert ping is not directed to that device: the device
that is not showing up, is not showing up because it is not
returning ICMP Time Exceeded messages -- which have only to do with
the IP-level TTL counter and do not have to do with ping specifically.
The mechanisms are slightly different for Unix traceroute (which uses
UDP packets instead of ICMP Echo packages), but the reliance on
ICMP Time Exceeded messages is exactly the same.