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Transitioning To Extreme Programming
Posit a hypothetical developer (mathematicians may treat the developer as a point mass). She is using Case tools, has an investment in Rational Rose, drinks a steaming cup of waterfall methodology each morning, whatever ...
"Look," says the ExtremeGuru
. "I'm not saying you should abandon your beliefs without any empirical proof. And I realize that simply pointing at the
project is unconvincing. But if you adopt
of the Extreme Practices, you'll see what we're talking about.
Questions: what is
, what are its benefits, how hard is it for our developer to adopt this
, how easy is it for her to grasp the rest of
, and how convincing will
be (obviously, extra credit for extra answers).
Straw Example:
Last night I gave a talk at a local developer group. And afterwards, someone was talking about how they are re-architecting a project. "Hey," I said. "You should check out JUnit. It makes things like that easier." And this morning I followed up by e-mailing some urls (pages on refactoring and JUnit).
Now, I'm not extreme (that's why this is a StrawExample
). But it's clear (????) that for
to conquer the universe and become all pervasive, some approach like this must be articulated, to make it easier for people to break away from their current practices and feel confident when doing so.
Yup, just be careful you don't end up doing
! --
OK, William, time for some homework. Here's how to start working this out. Put down your list of our top eight or ten rules and how you think that rule would fit in to your project, how you would know whether it was helping, what it could replace if helping. Here's one example to get you started:
(Assume the project uses code reviews.) Do some tasks with programmer A and B separately, some others with A and B together. Similarly with programmers C and D. In the reviews, count the issues raised on code written separately and together. Measure time from task start to tasks all reaching the same (high) level of quality as perceived by reviews. If total investment to quality is lower, keep doing
. If review hits go down far enough, stop doing reviews.
Now you do a couple ... how could you check
s, customer direct contact, short increments? Planning? Reporting? C'mon you other XP questioners, help William out. How can he try it?
We have a communication breakdown here. The question "What do XP developers view as partial subsets that, if adopted, would help people evaluate/understand XP" is not identical to "What are the possible subsets of XP practices and how could we test whether adopting them would improve software practice."
Among the other aspects of the request for XP people to do this is they are better able to evaluate what the plausible / easily adoptable subsets of practices are. A naive counting algorithm yields that 10 practices implies 1024 possible such subsets. Experience leads me to believe that experts can probably rule out all but 5.
As an aside, I am neither hypothetical nor female (nor, for the mathematicians among us, spherical).
I'm spherical but not female. And it's time for our sideline players to get more engaged. Get in the game. Think, put down some ideas, and let's work with them. --
Why should I do that, you ask. Imagine that your company were wise enough to have an ExtremeMaster
come in and advise an experimental transition to XP. The answer wouldn't be to pull out the transition card and say "first this, then that". The XM would ask about your organization, how it works and so on. Now guess what - you know your organization almost perfectly, and you know more XP than you might care to admit to non-spherical females. That's why you should do that. Try it, we'll all learn something! -- RJ
I'm with Ron- I'm about to go on a week long answer strike, since you guys know the answers already. However, I will indulge one last time before zipping my lip and rolling up my newspaper. What if the subset were in time, not in practices? That is, what if you said, "We'll be extreme as best we understand it, but only for a week. Then we'll spend a day reflecting on what worked and what didn't, we'll post that to Wiki, then we'll go back to working as we were."? --
I will offer the
as an example of one project working towards being Extreme. We have made good progress in the development area but still have a long way to go in the project management area. (-- Would be interesting to know what way the project management has to go? Or, what was missing? --
What we did here was to examine what was hurting our project the most and try to fix it. In our case we had oodles of bugs. Many were of the type MessageNotUnderstood
. It was clear that automated testing would help that problem. It was irrelevant that testing was one of the cornerstones of XP. We wrote a few
s and a few Acceptance
s and the bugs were reduced. Management resolved to continue the practice not knowing it was XP.
We then took another look at our problems. We found that integration was hurting us. Integration consisted of one person spending the entire weekend merging separate development paths together. We started using a
to solve that problem. Again the bugs dropped and both management and customers were delighted. And still no one even suspected XP was coming.
Now, I have no way of knowing what the biggest problem your project faces today is so I can not say what is right for you. But I have so much confidence in
methodology that I am willing to say no matter what your problem is there is a solution you can begin to apply now. Your problem might be turnover, obsolete documentation, customers who don't know what they want, or any number of things. Pick the biggest, the killer.
I will warn you that
is meant to work as a complete methodology. The different practices fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. There is no overlap and each piece is exactly the right size, no larger, no smaller. When you implement only one practice you will have to work at it. It will not make you go faster right away. That is the down side. But the up side is that if you can solve your biggest headache with a little more effort your management and customers will take notice and they will support you. They might even ask you "what do we do next". --
[The above example was used to support the
OK. You want to transition to XP. Why? Serious question: what are the things about XP that appeal to you? The answer to that will help make recommendations for how to transition. Thanks. -- rj
Ok, I've got a question that might focus the discussion. Since
and life is programming (if you understand how), think of the project's process as a system that is flawed just like a computer program that is flawed. Now, how do you RefactorTheProcess
to improve it? If
s are process metrics. etc. Is this getting meta-extreme? --
I don't think this is a helpful direction because people aren't computers. A software development process is not a set of instructions to be unambiguously interpreted. A development process is a totem to help keep you working your best even when you are afraid, and to help you learn to work even better. --
(I could be wrong on the "not helpful" part. The rest of it I'm fairly sure of.)
I think it's still sound. You can put the process into a feedback cycle that allows you to learn and adapt and consequently optimize the process. How else would you know whether or not a process is better than another or what to change to improve your process? -- ss
My own experiences in this area are in
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On January 1, 2011, Rosanna Fiske takes over as the PRSA's chair and CEO. As the incoming lead officer, Fiske has been traveling across the country this year, meeting with executive-level PRSA members with the goal of creating a new strategic plan. PR News spoke with Fiske, currently associate professor and graduate program coordinator at Florida International University, about what she heard from PR execs while out on the road, what she hopes to achieve and what the year ahead will hold for the PRSA and PR in general.
PR News: In talking to PR executives in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and Atlanta, what were their thoughts and concerns about the PRSA?
Rosanna Fiske: The process was a big learning experience for me. I was told in these meetings that while we're headed in the right direction, there are pressing matters. Number one is doing more advocating for public relations. They feel there is a vacuum. Not in lobbying issues in Congress, but more in the case of communicating the value of PR in business and the marketplace. PR education is another area of concern with our members. With the way the economy is going, how will thousands of PR majors find jobs in the next few years? Third is ethics. How can we make ethics top of mind in every step of the game? And fourth is diversity in PR, both ethnic and gender diversity. One CEO of a big agency said she's very concerned about the "pinking" of the profession—too many women coming into communications, the way it happened years ago with nursing. Then you have a disproportionate number of men at the higher levels of PR.
PR News: So come January, how will you be addressing these issues?
Fiske: We've created an advisory board that will concentrate on what we call the five pillars: Advocacy, Business Case for Public Relations, Communities, Diversity and Education (ABCDE). Our goal is to really be the voice for PR—not just for our members, but for everyone. One of the things that we're exploring to help address these pillars is partnerships.
PR News: A thorny issue with some PRSA members is the APR designation. Where do you stand on APR?
Fiske: APR is really a personal choice. I was a member of the PRSA for 10 years before I decided to get my APR. It wasn't to get a job or a raise, but to better understand the background of my profession. I think many people feel the same way. It's not the end all be all, but you feel satisfied after earning it.
PR News: You mentioned PR education. What kinds of students are becoming PR majors?
Fiske: It varies. You have about 20% of students interested in public affairs, political strategy or in doing something for a cause, so they tie PR to that. About 30% to 40% think that PR is based on the Samantha Jones model from Sex and the City. They go through the realities of a PR program and fail; then there's the remaining 30% or so that doesn't really know what PR is, but have an interest in liberal arts or journalism. Those are the ones that I find do well in our program.
I teach a graduating class called Campaigns. It's a mix of advertising and PR students. What I find is that many advertising students perhaps took principles of PR and nothing else, and then they take this class and learn about strategic communications and how it works. They start thinking that they might have made the wrong decision on a major. That's what happens—this variation of knowledge as to what PR is. I don't see students getting a real feel for it until their senior year.
PR News: How is the curriculum affected by the rise of social media?
Fiske: I'm an avid Twitter user, and I love social media. What I try to do in the class is teach the difference between strategy and tools. I want my students to be business strategists who can communicate very well. I want them to think strategically first and how to communicate that strategy second.
PR News: How PR has fared this year—what do I think of PR as a brand?
Fiske: PR is a brand that's maturing. It's going through growing pains. This presents an opportunity for us in the PRSA to see where things go and how we can be part of the shaping the profession. This year we had BP, and everything about that was "bad PR," not bad management. I have to believe that the PR pros at BP were sitting across the table saying, "You're doing things wrong." I have to believe that.

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DAVID AND GOLIATH. DANIEL AND the lions. And now Colin and the College Board. Living out the fantasy of high school kids everywhere, Colin Rizzio, 18, brought the testers of scholastic achievement to their knees this month and forced them to admit they'd blown it. "It seemed like nothing at the time," he says modestly.
His victory over the Educational Testing Service, whose exams help colleges decide whom to admit, began with the SAT I: Reasoning Test administered last Oct. 12. Rizzio, a senior at Contoocook Valley Regional High School in Peterborough, N.H., noted that a math problem involving the unknown number "a" would yield different answers depending on whether "a" was positive or negative and on how the numbers were sequenced—the ETS hadn't been specific. "I thought it was a little more difficult than ETS had intended it to be," he says.
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So did the morning talk shows. ABC's Good Morning America got him first, then NBC's Today show. What they found in Rizzio, the younger son of a chemical engineer father and a postal clerk mother, was a math whiz with a difference. Or as former girlfriend Tiana Brockelbank puts it, "Not one of those geeky kids." Call him a problem solver. This semester, Rizzio's physics class got a new textbook. He has already found 12 errors in it.
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This is a discussion on Re: Protecting source code - modperl ; On Aug 25, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Hendrik Van Belleghem wrote: > The reason for me not to use any of these encryption or obfuscation > tools (even though I wrote one), is purely for logical reasons. Source > readability ...
On Aug 25, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Hendrik Van Belleghem wrote:
> The reason for me not to use any of these encryption or obfuscation
> tools (even though I wrote one), is purely for logical reasons. Source
> readability is part of the perl featureset for me. If you don't want
> people to read it, don't develop in a language that has it as one of
> it's primary advantages.
a few years ago the company i worked for decided they wanted to
market in-store kiosks. one of the owners got drunk with a high
school friend, and they decided to market a line of french made
scanner kiosks that the friend had some business connection to.
the scanners basically read a barcode, and showed some image / video.
the next day, the boss smokes way too much pot before a lunch
meeting ( 50yr old depressed guy who just got high every day. not
fun to be near ), and comes back saying that we need to deliver 2 of
these with new 'upgraded features' in 2 weeks time. We contact the
french people, they say "oh yeah, sure the units can do that", not a
problem. Then they laugh (deservedly) when we say 2 weeks, and
quoted 6months.
So i take a torx driver, disassemble the unit, and try to figure out
what makes it tick. the plan is we buy the units from them ( under
contract ), but reverse engineer the software so it can do what the
idiot marketer promised.
The units ran a crapped out linux distro with xfree86. i think it
was debian-unmaintained.
An encrypted perl daemon bridged a serial scanner with an Opera
browser ( they could only get opera to fullscreen correctly. it was
kind of funny, hook up a keyboard and hit ctl-f, and the opera ad
frame appears. and i'm pretty sure it was crazy illegal doing it that
way ) and a bad compile of mplayer for video
The perl daemon looked like it would be hard to beat, then i remembered:
perl is an interpreted language
if the source code is encrypted , it must be unencrypted before
being fed into the interpreter
so i figured out which cpan module they used to encrypt with, used
that to figure out where the password was, and in about 75 seconds
of total work , got the password and decrypted their daemon.
at that point, i realized two things:
a- encrypting/obfuscating perl code just doesn't work when you need
to decrypt it. it also doesn't work when there are decompilers and
stuff out there. the best you can do is make something marginally
b- given the ease in decrypting the code, and the code itself, it
became pretty obvious that they weren't trying to protect the code,
as much as they were making it unreadable as it was some of the worst
stuff i've ever seen.
FWIW we ended up using a twisted-python server + a custom flash
framework running in Konqueror ( it fs'd right, and no quasi-legal
issues with what we were doing ) on a custom linux kernel ( i tweaked
the hell out of it. got video playing *really* well ). i think i
ended up using VLC or a custom mplayer too. i heard my old company
sold the upgrades to the french company for a few hardware units.
On Aug 25, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Saltbreez wrote:
> You write that you [are] "writting web application for mod_perl which
> will be installed on client's server". That is to say that you are
> using a product licensed as either GNU or Artistic. I am not an
> attorney, but my understanding of the intent of these licenses is to
> prevent people from doing just what you describe.
I suggest you read through the various licenses- there's a large
listing at opensource.org/licenses. Its pretty clear that you're not
an attorney, and you should really have a better understanding of the
licenses and what they mean.
i'm not an attorney, but most of my friends are and I did a lot of
law in undergrad, so i'm familiar with what to look for:
The artistic perl license covers the actual perl code and the any
modules released under it. It clearly ( and purposefully ) does not
apply the license to the user-defined subroutines that interact with
the perl internals or CPAN modules.
If you build an app that relies on GPL'd libraries to function , or
is a just a version of a GPL app ( ie a custom perl interprete), the
app is crippled by the GPL. I don't know what the legal approach to
distributing Perl with your app is (that might complicate GPL), but
few people do that.
If all code written in perl/python/php/erlang/c/etc were required to
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It was one of the best parts of that book and I hope they can at least put most of it in but I have a bad feeling that they'll butcher it somehow.SpoilerJon's conversation with Stannis on top of the wall.
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Spoilerthe battle at the wall which will be episode 9 there's still the whole sequence where Jon gets elected lord commander and before that they have to include at least some of his exchange with Stannis and Mel.
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It may be a throwback to the glam years of the 1990s, but there's always been an aura about bright minds getting ideas and having the fortitude and guts to push them to fruition without the warm womb of a big corporation or university to keep them nice and safe.
Finally, after years of trying, Charlottesville appears to be on the brink of being just such a place. That's the premise of a story I just wrote for The Hook, one of the small city's alternative weekly that sadly is about to go out of business.
The evidence appears solid. There are about 200 startups now underway, mostly in life sciences and information technology. They handle making sure that hospital laboratories have diagnostic equipment that is accurate and help understand how neonatal babies might get sepsis and die. Others tap cloud computing in new ways.
Why Charlottesville? It's a convergence of several things. The University of Virginia attracts bright people and has excellent graduate schools in law and business plus a well-regarded medical center. The Blue Ridge area attracts free-thinking rich people who have fled Wall Street for the bucolic hills near Monticello. These "angels" have the money to give to promising startups swashbucklers and are willing and able to take risks.
One of these is Jaffray Woodriff, a hedge fund who is from the area and spent some time in New York humping quants before returning home. Described by Institutional Investor as "The Monk of Managed Futures," he strokes checks for start-ups he likes. As a U.Va. grad, he is sympathetic to struggling Hoos and even goes for the kinds of walkable, urban landscapes you read so much about on this blog. The downtown Mall makes it easy for young entrepreneurs to stroll around sipping lattes and run into friends where they can talk ideas and hatch deals.
Another aspect is the role of U.Va. Teresa Sullivan who has recognized the importance of the school being tech-savvy and pro-entrepreneurial. This is indeed a curiosity since she was attacked for be a tech luddite by members of her board who tried to get rid of her last year.
If anyone was a luddite, it was her predecessor, James Casteen, the fund-raiser par-excellence who didn't get tech and wanted to keep Mr. Jefferson's University safely reading history books. Getting conservative preppies to think big and take risks is a major step forward. The progress has been noted by none-other than Richard Florida, the Big Think guy you read so much about. Charlottesville somehow ranks highly in startups per 100,000 population.
Another curiosity I found in my reporting: Richmond is far behind on the start-up curve. That's right. The self-proclaimed "Capital of Creativity" with its very own biotechnology research park is only now starting to get it together as far as angel or venture capital funding.
Why? One reason is the research done is very heavily focused on secretive –and deadly — corporations like Philip Morris whose products will help kill 1 billion people around the world this century, according to the World Health Organization. Other reasons seem to be a dearth of rich and adventuresome people and a sense of risk aversion among its traditionally very conservative mindset.
Virginia Commonwealth University seems to be gaining some traction under President Michael Rao. But if memory serves, stud duck prez Eugene Trani actually throttled research in favor of a bricks and mortar build out. This isn't something one is likely to read in the Richmond Times-Dispatch or in the typically mindless blatherings of promoter-in-chief Tom Silvestri, former head of the local Chamber of Commerce. So what else is new?
What could evolve is a new tech corridor linking Charlottesville, a rising Richmond and Northern Virginia, which is stuffed with tech but doesn't get mentioned because of its reliance on the military and government.
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text: Glad you found it. I was stumped. Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > > The KeyValueAccess class, which is the superclass of WebKit.Object, and therefore the true root ancestor class of all classes is the culprit. The KeyValueAccess functionality is primarily used in writing logs. See Application.writeActivityLog() as well as the KeyValueAccess class for more info. > > Regarding the leak, KeyValueAccess keeps a dictionary cache of value bindings. > Sometimes the bindings are methods. > Methods bound to self. > A circular reference. > Doh! > > My temp fix was in Transaction.die() to call resetKeyBindings() on those objects in transaction that had it. > > Leakage is substantially reduced, but still there. > > I'll provide a perm fix in KeyValueAccess and then we'll try again, but I consider the "emergency" over. > > Jay, my next step is to enhance my stress test with concurrent requests so I can see my current snapshot break as it should. Then when I apply your concurrency enhancements, I'll see everything work. :-) > > Then I'll apply your changes and a few of my own and send you a snap. Will start on Sun morning. > > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > Webware-discuss mailing list > Webware-discuss@... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/webware-discuss


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A Journey Into 'The Second World'
Speaker's Corner: Some bureaucrats joke that they would never claim expertise about countries they had not at least flown over. In an excerpt from his new book, Parag Khanna argues that real global understanding can only come from serious travel.
No one knew the world like Arnold Toynbee did. His 12-volume A Study of History is the most cohesive treatment of human civilizations ever written (and the longest work composed in English). But Toynbee waited until he retired from London's Royal Institute of International Affairs before boarding a ship with his wife to "meet people and see places that were already familiar to us from our work, but only at second hand." Over 17 months, they circumnavigated the globe, traveling from London to South America, the Pacific Rim, South Asia and the Near East. The dispatches Toynbee penned—containing observations on the remnants of empires long extinct and predictions on an uncertain future—were published in 1958 under the title East to West: A Journey Round the World.
A half century later, a leatherbound first edition of Toynbee's narrative was my most insightful guide as I set out around the world to explore the interplay of two world-historical forces he grasped intuitively without ever using the terms: geopolitics and globalization. Geopolitics is the relationship between power and space. Globalization refers to the widening and deepening interconnections among the world's peoples through all forms of exchange. Toynbee had been the first to chronicle the rise and fall, expansion and contraction of history's empires and civilizations, and his life spanned the major waves of global integration that began just before World War I and then exploded with the rise of multinational corporations in the 1970s. Since Toynbee's time, geopolitics and globalization have so intensified as to become two sides of the same coin.
I wanted to separate the inseparable, so I set out to explore the "second world"—the regions and countries that are today the central stage on which the future course of global order is being determined. That term, second world, once referred to the "socialist sixth" of the earth's surface, and then briefly to the postcommunist transitional states, but mention of the second world gradually disappeared. Yet there are more than twice as many countries in the world today than when Toynbee set sail—and an ever-greater number of them fall into this new second-world space where geopolitics and globalization clash and merge.
Like elements in the periodic table, nations can be grouped—according to size, stability, wealth and worldview. Stable and prosperous first-world countries largely benefit from the international order as it stands today. By contrast, poor and unstable third-world countries have failed to overcome their disadvantaged position within that order. Second-world countries are caught in between. Most of them embody both sets of characteristics: They are divided internally into winners and losers, haves and have-nots. Will second-world countries react by repelling, splitting or merging into compounds?
Schizophrenic second-world countries are the tipping-point states that will determine the 21st century balance of power among the world's three main empires—the United States, the European Union and China—as each uses the levers of globalization to exert its gravitational pull. How do countries choose the superpower with which to ally? Which model of globalization will prevail? Will the East rival the West? The answers to these questions can be found in the second world—and only in the second world.
World Bank officials joke that they would never purport to be experts about countries they had not at least flown over. Experts of this kind point to statistical indicators and declare "things are getting much better" in this or that country. Usually, this means a capital city has been cleaned up, provided with sprouting hotels, banks with cash machines, and shopping malls, while crime has been isolated to outer neighborhoods. What about the rest of the country: cities that don't have airports, provinces that have poor roads and dilapidated infrastructure? Are things getting much better out there?
Saint Augustine declared that "the world is a book, and those who have not traveled have read only one page." Only firsthand experience can validate or challenge our intuitions, giving us confidence about risky political decisions in a complex world of instant feedback loops and unintended consequences.
During travel, perception and thought merge; a contradiction can emerge as a truth to be revealed, not some exception to be disproved. Such ambiguity is the corollary of complexity, after all. Reality is famously resistant to theories that measure the world according to what it should be rather than how it really is. Instead, exploring the patterns of the second world aesthetically, honoring the value of purely sensory judgments—this exposes characteristics that are common to the entire second world; differences are revealed to be more relative than absolute.
For example, the civility of people's behavior tends to reflect the decency of their governments, which in turn often correlates to the quality of their roads. In the first world, roads are well paved, and the view is clear for miles, whereas clogged third-world roads are a mix of both. First-world countries can accommodate millions of tourists, while visiting third-world states often involves choosing between exclusive hotels or low-cost backpacking; many second-world countries simply lack the infrastructure for mass tourism. Garbage is recycled in the first world and burned in the third; in the second world, it is occasionally collected but is also dumped off hillsides.
A journey around the world reveals an increasingly clear underlying logic: The imperial norms of the American, European and Chinese superpowers are advancing. Political borders matter less and less, and economies are integrating. The world map is being redrawn—and the process is not driven by Americans only. Yet even as the world becomes increasingly non-American, American attitudes toward the places that suddenly appear in U.S. headlines reflect a deep cartographic and historical ignorance. War may be God's way of teaching Americans geography, but there is a new geography of power that everyone in the world must understand better. If we do not find common ground in our minds, then nothing can save us.
This essay is excerpted from The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. (C) 2008 by Parag Khanna. Reprinted by arrangement with the Random House Publishing Group.
Photo of smog over Sao Paulo by thomas_hobbs via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
4 Comments for A Journey Into 'The Second World'
Maria Llanca 05.29.08 | 3:18 PM ET
Very good point!
Yesh Prabhu 06.03.08 | 8:08 AM ET
Well said. Until now Americans have been smug and content, pleased with their wealth and prosperity, and so they never felt the need to look at the outside world. They appeared to be self-centered. Now thanks to Bush's unilateral war, his spending a trillion dollars of borrowed money to bomb Iraq and there-by weakening the dollar, and driving up the price of oil, and ruining the American economy, and driving our economy into recession, Americans have finally opened their eyes and have noticed that in addition to Europe there are countries called India, China, and Brazil. So there is hope. Let us hope they will learn to get along with the rest of the world, especially with the people from eastern countries.
Yves 06.24.08 | 2:01 PM ET
Can you pleae name the second world countries.
For me this are all socialism/communism countries.
Which countries more?
Torah 10.20.08 | 7:04 AM ET
I agree with this 100%. Just reading and studying about a place is not nearly as encompassing as actually being there. This lesson can be applied to any experiences, not just places. This is partly the source for the phrase "with age comes wisdom"—because elderly people have so much more experience than younger people. Rather than young people "learning" about things, elderly people have experienced them.


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CINCINNATI -- Mr. Willie Lee Hilson, 49, died Thursday, Aug. 19, 1999.
Mr. Robert Lever
Mr. Robert E. ``Bobby'' Lever, 61, of 3305 W. Cliff Court, died Friday, Aug. 27, 1999, at St. Joseph Hospital.
Mr. Joe Milam
AIKEN -- Mr. Joe Heller Milam, 79, of 179 Nautilus St., died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1999, at Aiken Regional Medical Centers.
Mr. Jerry Dill
GROVETOWN -- Mr. Jerry M. Dill, of 113 Ford Ave., died Friday, Aug. 27, 1999, at St. Joseph Hospital.
Mr. Edward Kimble
Mr. Edward Kimble, 52, of 1303 Cabana Court, died Monday, Aug. 23, 1999, at his residence.
Mrs. Elsie Sullivan
ATLANTA -- Mrs. Elsie Dianne Dwells Sullivan, 67, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1999, at Northside Hospital.
Mr. Clifford Glover
Mr. Clifford Glover, 86, of 1512 Picquet Ave., died Monday, Aug. 23, 1999, at University Hospital.
Mr. Willis Loyd
Louisville, Ga. -- Mr. Willis Loyd, of 1195 Handy St., died Thursday, Aug. 19, 1999, at Old Capital Inn. He was 104.
Mr. Eddie Chandler
AIKEN -- Mr. Eddie Chandler, 65, of 324 Main Drive, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1999, at Beverly Health Care Center.
Mr. Allen Ashba Sr.
WILLISTON, S.C. -- Mr. Allen Douglas Ashba Sr., 57, of Thorn Drive, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1999, at Select Specialty Hospital in Augusta.
Mrs. Mozelle Smoak
OLAR, S.C. -- Mrs. Mozelle Gilliam Smoak, 81, died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1999, in Columbia.
Ms. Emma Ashberry
AIKEN -- Ms. Emma Ashberry, of 830 Laurens St., died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1999, at Mattie C. Hall Nursing Home.
Mrs. Elsie Sullivan
ATLANTA -- Mrs. Elsie Dianne Dwelle Sullivan, 67, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1999, at Northside Hospital.
Mr. Herbert Zaun
Mr. Herbert Zaun, 92, of 3007 Lonsdale Drive, died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1999, at Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center.
Mr. Joseph Bussey
Mr. Joseph Bussey, of 5229 N. Tubman Road, Appling, died Sunday, Aug. 22, 1999, at Medical College of Georgia Hospital .
Mr. Robert Brooks Jr.
WADLEY, Ga. -- Mr. Robert Brooks Jr., 86, of 456 Bell St., died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 1999, at Veterans Administration Hospital, Dublin.
Mrs. Helen Sparks
Mrs. Helen Sims Sparks, 79, of 4409 Summerlin Drive, Evans, died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1999, at St. Joseph's Hospital.
Mr. Wallace Scott
WINDSOR -- Mr. Wallace Scott, 68, of 643 State Park Road, died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1999, at his residence.
Mrs. Mary Mosley
MIDVILLE, Ga. -- Mrs. Mary Ann Faulkner Mosley, 47, of 18 Foljambi Lane, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1999, at her residence.
Unchecked rumors give God a `black eye'
THIS STORY reminds me of an old saying: ``Your friends do not need to be convinced, and your enemies will not believe you, no matter what you say.''
Says stations ignore dilemma for blind
I am writing about a problem that we who are blind or vision impaired have and I feel certain the sighted would understand. This concerns the TV weather warnings that are shown on our screens from time to time. They are usually preceded by bells or chimes, etc. and shown on the bottom of our screens. Jack Eckert, Augusta
Urges an end to aggressive driving
Your Aug. 21 article on ``Augusta roads designated as trouble spot'' should have stated, unequivocally, that the problem does lie with aggressive drivers. Susan Pitts, Augusta
Columbia's dress code
The Columbia County School Board made the right decision last Tuesday by voting 4-1 for a stricter dress code. What is surprising is that there was so much controversy over the proposal -- which should be a no-brainer.
Blasts biased representation of South
The notion that listening to Mozart music makes kids smarter seemed like it was based less on sound research than it was on a great promotional ploy to sell more classical CDs. Joseph Jackson, Augusta
Hits empty lives of Internet 'addicts'
I read the Aug. 23 article concerning Internet addiction and felt compelled to respond. John D. Magruder, Aiken
Debate of Mozart Effect
The notion that listening to Mozart music makes kids smarter seemed like it was based less on sound research than it was on a great promotional ploy to sell more classical compact discs. But not to then-Gov. Zell Miller. He bought the so-called Mozart Effect 100 percent in his last year as governor and that resulted in Georgia joining two other states, South Dakota and Tennessee, in handing out classical CDs and tapes to mothers of every newborn in every hospital.
Raps columnist's support of evolution
As chairman of the ``Answers in Genesis'' local couple of recent articles in your paper. EllenGoodman's mockery of those who believe in creation betrays her own bias. Evolution is not based on fact. Jane H. Dennis, Augusta
Cites S.C. `Causes of Secession'
What is the ``historical truth'' about why the South fought the Civil War? One certainly won't find it in the Aug. 20 letter written by Roy Williams. Barry Speth, Augusta
Disgraceful ruling!
The Augusta-Richmond County Personnel Board's appalling 6-3 ruling, reinstating a petty thief to a supervisory role over the people who turned him in, violates every canon of good government and common sense!
Defends Chamber chief's character
Re Connie Gabriel Beale's Aug. 22 letter against Lisa McElmurray Thomas: Pamela Z. Barclay, North Augusta
Food safety no issue
We've heard no public outcry that unprofessional handling by Georgia's food-service workers are endangering the health and safety of consumers. Nor have we heard a public clamor to force waiters, cooks and food managers to undergo special training.
Calls school dress code `prejudiced'
We the ``grungepunk people'' (as referred to by Evans High School) feel we have been subjected to prejudice. Scott Wells, Evans
Sour note on 'Mozart Effect'
The notion that listening to Mozart music makes kids smarter seemed like it was based less on sound research than it was on a great promotional ploy to sell more classical CDs.
Chides writer for report on ex-principal
I am responding to the Aug. 18 article by staff writer Chasiti Kirkland. If I had been assigned towrite that article, I feel I would have gone about it differently. Cathy Cunningham, Jackson
Ponders socialism, spanking and guns
...Re the letters by Dr. William Reed and Davis Cheek concerning how advanced socialism is today: J. F. Rodgers, Clearwater
Praises the Promise Keepers group
I recently had the opportunity to attend my very first Promise Keepers conference in Charlotte, N.C., and what a blessing it was to see so many men of different races and denominations come together under one roof and show their love for not only God but also for each other. Wendell Johnson, Martinez
Supports animal control workers
So the Richmond County Animal shelter is filthy. Joseph C. Bongard, Augusta
Hart's comeuppance
House Republicans are to be applauded for getting a veteran Pentagon security investigator his job back after he was ousted for... doing his job.
Unchecked rumors give God a `black eye'
THIS STORY reminds me of an old saying: ``Your friends do not need to be convinced, and your enemies will not believe you, no matter what you say.''
Overtime: Hatfield named Georgia tennis pro of year
11 players included in 3-way deal
Racing at Bristol: Always loud, fast, full of excitement
Atlanta Thrashers Exhibition Schedule
Bristol notes: Benson a fan of the Speedway
Forrest overlooked by bigger names
Kenseth cuts into Earnhardt's Busch lead
Augusta is a "sleeper" of a city
Work paying off for local golfer
Boxing authority suspends four judges
King takes lead in Palmetto Am
Prosthetic-maker uses Barbie body part to help amputees
DURHAM -- Criticized by feminists in years past for her unrealistic anatomy, Barbie's body parts are just right for a Duke University Medical Center worker who makes prosthetics for amputees.
Studies focus on ribosomes
New and more effective antibiotics could be the end result of two studies by scientists who have made progress in deciphering the structure of ribosomes -- complex particles that make the proteins needed for cell functions and structure.
Scientists: Polygraphs make us all suspects
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- The intent is to catch spies. But the effect of polygraph tests at Energy Department weapons labs will be to scare off new researchers and demoralize those who remain, scientists there say.
New fossils boost understanding of primate evolution
WASHINGTON -- A baboon-sized ape that lived in East Africa about 15 million years ago may have been among the first primates to leave the treetops and live on the ground, a key step in the evolutionary path that theoretically led eventually to humans.
Nation's bankers offer sermon to quell Year 2000 fears
WASHINGTON -- The nation's bankers have gotten into the sermon-writing business. It's not fire and brimstone they're offering, but a way to cool passions arising from fears of a Year 2000 catastrophe. They're preaching that the world won't come to an end, that in fact life will go on normally after the millennial date change.
CDC: TB cases decline for sixth straight year
ATLANTA -- The number of new tuberculosis cases in the United States dropped 8 percent last year, marking the sixth straight year of decline, the government said Thursday.
Gene study suggests: Eat less, live longer
WASHINGTON -- Genes that play a key role in aging tend to stay vigorous in response to a low-calorie diet, says a study that may help explain why animals that eat less often live longer.
North Carolina officials keep eye on storms
Even before Tropical Storm Dennis grew into a hurricane as it churned through the Atlantic, emergency officials from North Carolina and other Southeastern states conferred with federal officials to discuss a potential response should Dennis threaten the East Coast.
Gulf War illness still a mystery
WASHINGTON -- A presidential panel looking into Gulf War illnesses said Friday that it can't pinpoint causes of the ailments and recommended further studies into whether there are genetic reasons for why some troops got sick when others did not.
Augusta will be named a polluted-air city
Efforts to overturn new federal air quality standards might delay -- but won't stop -- Augusta's pending designation as a city with polluted air, Georgia's environmental chief predicted Thursday.
SRS plan for project supported
NORTH AUGUSTA -- Savannah River Site scientists said Thursday that they remain committed to a proposed $1.9 billion ``melt-and-dilute'' plant, despite recent setbacks to the program.
Atoms used in gravity study
In a legendary experiment, Galileo dropped stones from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to show that objects of different sizes fall at the same rate under Earth's gravity. More than 400 years later, researchers say they got the same result by dropping atoms.
Scientists puzzled by eagle deaths
ATHENS, Ga. -- Scientists are no closer to finding the cause of a mysterious malady that is killing bald eagles and waterfowl in several Southern states, despite a recent conference to discuss the problem.
Improved Web language in the works
Consortium wants feedback on the use of XHTML, a language that extends Web site capabilities
Scientists puzzled by eagle deaths
Gene study suggests: Eat less, live longer
Gulf War illness still a mystery
Prosthetic-maker uses Barbie body part to help amputees
Scientists: Polygraphs make us all suspects
Nation's bankers offer sermon to quell Year 2000 fears
North Carolina officials keep eye on storms
SRS plan for project supported
New fossils boost understanding of primate evolution
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Telling Stories: History, Medium and Message
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The graduate students in History at the University of Toronto are pleased to invite proposals for the Second Annual Graduate History Symposium. The aim of this two day conference is to explore scholarly research into the relations between history and the media as well as the production of historically informed documentaries, radio shows, and other media texts. We encourage submissions from students and faculty members of all historical periods and places on the broad theme of "Media and History." It is our hope to provide a forum for graduate students and faculty to present work in progress and receive feedback from their colleagues.
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Chevron/YPF sign pilot accord to drill 100 wells in Vaca Muerta shale deposits
US Chevron and Argentina's nationalized YPF signed a partnership to on Wednesday to invest 1 billion dollars to develop the shale-oil reserves of Vaca Muerta in the hydrocarbons rich Patagonian province of Neuquén.
The companies will work on the Loma La Lata Norte and Campana areas within the Vaca Muerta formation, Miguel Galuccio, YPF CEO said in a video-conference from Houston with Ali Moshiri, Chevron's head of Latin America, Middle East and Africa.
The details of a permanent deal will be negotiated over the next four months. The companies said Wednesday's letter of intent envisions an initial joint venture to drill 100 non-conventional oil wells at a cost of 1 billion dollars.
The agreement is the first YPF has reached with a foreign oil company to invest in Argentina since the government nationalized 51% of the company by seizing shares from Repsol SA in April. Repsol claims to have discovered the rich shale deposits.
Vaca Muerta holds at least 23 billion barrels of oil equivalent, according to a report by independent auditor Ryder Scott released in February by YPF. Argentina holds the world's third-largest shale gas reserves, behind the US and China, according to US Energy Administration data.
But Galuccio and Ali Moshiri said the agreement signed on Wednesday only covered a pilot phase.
The question is going to be how big the investment is going to be beyond the pilot, Moshiri told reporters. Our goal is to start as soon as possible. What we need is to push our teams to put a definitive agreement together as soon as possible.
CEO Galuccio called the preliminary accord a very important day for YPF.
YPF, which was nationalized in May, has said that to boost output it needs to invest more than 30 billion dollars in the next five years, 4.5 billion of which is to come from strategic partners.


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They beat UNLV together, they went to the NCAA Tournament together and now former UCSB stars Brian Shaw and Carrick DeHart were part of a group of 22 individuals inducted into the inaugural class of the Santa Barbara Court of Champions.
Former UCSB head coach Jerry Pimm and his assistant Ben Howland were also part of the hall of fame class. The four enjoyed remembering some great Thunderdome memories like beating UNLV in 1990, the same season Vegas went on to win the National Championship.
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Singer Aaliyah Killed in Plane Crash
New York-born, Detroit-raised R&B singer/actress Aaliyah, 22, died at 6:45 p.m. Saturday, along with seven others, when a small, twin-engine Cessna bound for Miami crashed and exploded after takeoff in the Bahamas, authorities said. The star had gone to the destination to shoot a music video, say reports. Superintendent Basil Rahming of Grand Bahama police department said that six people, including Aaliyah, were killed on impact, while two others died soon after. One critically injured survivor, Anthony Dodd, 34, of Los Angeles was flown to Florida for treatment. The New York Post identified Dodd as the singer's bodyguard. Authorities said that other passengers killed included Scott Gallin, 41; Keith Wallace, 49, of L.A.; Douglas Kratz, 28, a representative for Virgin Records, and makeup artist Eric Foreman, 29, both of Hollywood, Calif.; Gina Smith, 29, of New Jersey; and Christopher Maldonado, 32, of New York. The plane's pilot, L. Marael, also perished. Born Aaliyah Haughton (her first name, in Arabic, means "highest, most exalted one"), the singer -- who often covered her right eye with her hair -- started performing professionally at age 11 as part of Gladys Knight's Las Vegas act. In 1989, she auditioned (but didn't get) a role on TV's "Family Matters." Her first album, "Age Ain't Nothing But a Number," was released when she was 15, and by the age of 18 she had two hit records to her credit. By 1999, Teen PEOPLE named her one of its 21 Hottest Stars Under 21. This year, her single "Try Again" received a Grammy nomination for best female R&B vocalist. Having made her movie acting debut in 2000's "Romeo Must Die," she was also due to appear in the two sequels to "The Matrix," scheduled for release in 2003.


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-Afternoon festivities are being coordinated at Patriots Point as part of the Great Race annual rally of vintage cars, which is stopping overnight in Mount Pleasant. Dozens of cars at least 42 years old are covering 2,100 miles from Maine to Florida in nine days arriving at The Villages, Fla., Sunday. The Lowcountry A's Model A Ford Club will organize a greeting party of 80 cars at 2 p.m. at Patriots Point. The more than 100 racers will arrive after 4 p.m. Vehicles will park on inside and outside perimeter roads. Mount Pleasant is one of 10 places chosen for overnight stops. For more information, go to www.greatrace.com.
-Street Rods Unlimited will sponsor an evening cruise-in at Sonic drive-in, 660 College Park Road in Goose Creek. The event begins at 5 p.m. the second and fourth Saturdays of the month at the entrance to Crowfield Plantation. All special interest vehicles are welcome. For more information contact Dennis Welch at 843-761-4469 or visit the club's website at www.streetrodsunlimited.org.
-Bessinger's Bar-B-Q will host an Open Car, Truck & Motorcycle Show 6-9 p.m. at the restaurant, 1602 Savannah Highway. Registration is $5. There are three trophies per class. Categories are cars for years 1942 and earlier, '43-'59, '60-'71 and '72-2014; street rods; trucks; and motorcycles. Music is by The Cruise-O-Matics. For more information, contact Tom Jameson at 843-571-2264.
Thursday-July 5
-Mountaineer Collector Car Auction will be held at the Davis Event Center in Asheville-Fletcher, N.C., in conjunction with the annual Mountaineer Antique Auto Club Car Show, Flea Market and Car Corral July 4-5. Vehicles on hand for the auction will include Model A Fords,1968 Camaro, 1957 Chevy, 1968 Buick Skylark, class of '68 Cadillacs and special Fords from the John and Mary Ann McDaniel collection. Consignment fee is $199. The new climate-controlled center is at 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Take exit 40 off Interstate 26, across from the Asheville Airport. Tom Mack Auctions in association with Foster Auction Services are presenting the bidding event. The auction starts at 11 a.m. Saturday. Set up is Thursday and Friday 1-6 p.m. For more information, visit www.TomMackAuctions.com, contact Tom Mack at 803-364-3322 or firstname.lastname@example.com or get in touch with Wayne Foster at 704-400-2836 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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-Lowcountry Mopars will hold its "First Sunday" Cruise 1:30-4 p.m. at Hoover Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-Ram, 195 Mary Meade Drive in Summerville. The club has been invited to display its classic vehicles at the new-car sales and service operation on Berlin G. Myers Parkway. An historic "100 Years of Dodge" exhibit is planned. It will feature 14 vintage Dodge vehicles encircling a special 1914 Dodge. There will be a staging area at 1 p.m. at Heritage Square shopping plaza at the intersection of U.S. Highway 78 and the parkway. The cars will make the short convoy to the cruise-in at 1:15 p.m. While Dodge will be the showpiece brand, all are invited whether they drive a Chrysler, Plymouth or other type of Pentastar vehicle.
July 30-Aug. 2
-The 2014 AMO (American Motors Owners Association) International Convention will be held at InnPlace Hotel & Conference Center in North Charleston. The four-day event, hosted by Carolina AMC, will celebrate 60 years of AMC 1954-2014. Brands include Nash, Hudson, Rambler, AMC, Jeep, Renault and Eagle. Organizers say hundreds of AMC-related cars will be on display. There will be Concours AMO judging, vendors and prizes. For the latest information or to register online, visit www.carolinaamc.com
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-A classic car show and BBQ will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at St. Andrew's Parish United Methodist Church, 3225 Ashley River Road in Charleston. The event is hosted by the Men's Club of St. Andrew's Parish United Methodist. Car registration is $10. There will be 14 trophy prizes including first, second and third place and Best of Show. Spectators vote for winners. Barbecue plates sold at the show are $6. Questions? Call 843-766-1080.
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-The first H.L. Hunley Memorial Car Show will be 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at Dorchester Shrine Club, 2150 Beech Hill Road in Summerville. Pre-registration at Hlhunleycamp143.net is $20. Additional cars are $15. Day-of-show registration, which is $25, begins at 8:30 a.m. Judging starts at noon and awards are handed out at 2 p.m. The show will have food and entertainment. Awards include 1st, 2nd and 3rd per class. Categories are years 1939 and earlier, '40-'49, '50-'59, '60-'69, '70-'79, '80-'89 and '90-'99 as well as People's Choice, furthest, foreign, custom hot rod and original. Anyone with questions, contact TimBo at 843-300-5589 or Mark at 843-514-2174 or go to email@example.com.
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Obviously the usual Philips rider applies here. Namely that if you want to get the very best out of the Essence, you'll have to spend way more time tinkering with the multitude of settings it provides than you'd have to with a 'normal' TV. Failure to do this - and to gain at least a basic understanding of what all the picture options actually do - can lead to problems such as overt glitching over fast motion, overstressed edges, and even a few overcooked colours.
Particularly controversial is the HD Natural Motion processing, which reproduces motion with a mesmerising fluidity, but also tends to throw up some pretty aggressive glitches, even on its minimum setting. Some people can't tolerate this feature at all, though I personally think that it's fine with normal TV shows, only becoming problematic with sport, HD movies and console games.
But in any case, the key point about this feature - and one that many other reviewers seem to forget - is that you can deactivate it entirely if you don't like it. And even if you do, the increase in judder that results only marginally taints what are still absolutely stellar LCD pictures.
We guess you might argue that it's not great to pay for a high-spec feature like HD Natural Motion that you don't ultimately use. But while the Essence is certainly very expensive for a 42in LCD TV, for me the unique nature of its proposition and the extent of its innovation just about justifies the cost, with or without HD Natural Motion.
Turning finally to the speaker bar supplied with the 42PES0001, it's good without quite being brilliant. On the upside, it's capable of good volume levels, and the soundstage remains startlingly open and detailed even when pushed really loud. On the downside, there's not quite enough bass around to provide a truly satisfying counterpoint to the treble enthusiasm. But let's be fair here; in the context of the audio produced by many normal flat TVs, never mind one just 40mm or so thick, the Essence's efforts are actually pretty good.
On paper, I guess that the Essence's claim to fame as the easiest TV to hang on the wall ever probably sounds a bit dull compared with stuff like LED backlighting and the Aurea Light Frame. But in reality, the extremes to which Philips has taken its wall-hanging goals with the Essence while also keeping a firm grip on aesthetic beauty AND performance standards has resulted in a product which, dare I say it, seems at least a little touched by genius.
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Cornbread Crusted Turkey
This turkey recipe is not just for Thanksgiving-enjoy this hearty turkey dinner any time of year!
Yield: 4 servings (serving size 3 oz turkey, 1 cup carrots and sauce mixture)
Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine buttermilk and Dijon mustard. Mix well.
Add turkey fillets to buttermilk mixture to marinate for 5-10 minutes while preparing cornbread. Grind cornbread in a food processor, or use your
fingers to make coarse crumbs. Place breadcrumbs on a baking sheet, and dry in a 300 of oven or toaster oven for 4-5 minutes. Do not brown. Pour breadcrumbs into a dry, shallow dish. Put egg white in a separate bowl.
Remove turkey from the buttermilk, and dip each fillet first in the egg white and then in the cornbread crumbs to coat. Be sure to discard leftover buttermilk mixture and cornbread crumbs. Place breaded turkey fillets on a baking sheet, and bake for 10-15 minutes (to a minimum internal temperature of 165 F). While the turkey is cooking, combine chicken broth, cornstarch, carrots, sage, and butter in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring occasionally. Lower temperature to a simmer.
Simmer gently for about 5 minutes, or until the butter is melted, the sauce is thick, and the carrots are warm. Serve each 3-ounce turkey fillet with 1 cup of carrots and sauce mixture
- 1 cup low-fat buttermilk
- 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard
- 4 skinless turkey fillets (3oz each)
- 4x4 square of prepared cornbread
- 1 egg white (or substitute liquid egg white)
- 1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch
- 1lb frozen baby carrots
- 1 Tbsp fresh sage - rinsed, dried, and chopped (or 1 tsp dried sage)
- 1 Tbsp butter
Nutritional Data Per Serving
- Calories: 285
- Total Fiber: 3 grams
- Total Fat: 6 grams
- Protein: 29 grams
- Saturated Fat: 3 grams
- Carbohydrates: 29 grams
- Cholesterol: 48 milligrams
- Potassium: 378 milligrams
- Sodium: 420 milligrams
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