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You're bound to find treasure when you hunt along the Connecticut Antiques Trail. Antiques hunter Polly Bannister describes her own experience.
The broad, mile-long Main Street of Woodbury, Connecticut, is lined with remarkable historic homes built since the town's settlement in 1673, each more beautifully restored than the next. It seems that nearly every house in Woodbury, long known for its antiques shops, has a sign beckoning you inside. Many of these shops are tucked into barns, and they call to you, full of promise, mystery, and surprise.
You might need a designated driver; antiques hunters will simply find their heads spinning. The spontaneous among you may simply stop and shop. Collectors with a specialty should refer to a map from the Woodbury Antiques Dealers Association, describing the offerings of local purveyors.
First stop on my itinerary: Thomas Schwenke Antiques. In the business for 40 years, Schwenke is a leading expert in Federal furniture. Upon entering his barn (having enjoyed stunning gardens on the walk in), a tableau catches my eye. An inlaid-mahogany Hepplewhite sideboard sets off a pair of Sheffield silverplated wine coolers with leaf and flower embellishments. Above hangs a rare American double portrait of Samuel P. and Adelaide Victoria Hixon Moody in its original gilded pine frame, c. 1855. Their brown eyes stare hauntingly.
Schwenke laughs when I ask who the portrait painter was. "Anonymous," he replies, "a pretty prolific guy." Self-taught in the trade, Schwenke spent at least 15 years "cherry-picking" small New York shops, back when nobody knew much. Did he have a mentor? "No, the only way to learn is to spend your own money," he tells me. "You have to have an eye for detail and comparison, and take the consequences. In the early '70s, Sotheby's didn't even have an illustrated catalogue."
Dealers have their own obsessions, and American Federal belongs to Thomas Schwenke (the style of his home included). He tells me why he loves the era, a period that dates roughly from 1785 to 1820: "It started with economics. Federal furniture was accessible and affordable, but soon my attraction for design took over. At first glance, one might think the pieces are plain or all look alike, but that's absolutely not the case. Federal pieces are made of select woods, like mahogany, cherry, and maple, and are embellished with carvings, contrasting exotic-wood veneers, and geometric inlays. The form is balanced and symmetrical—very pleasing."
When asked which nearby dealers I shouldn't miss, Schwenke is tight-lipped. "You can't make any bad choices," he notes. "Sure, there's competition, but camaraderie is important." So I'm on my own. I head on down the street and find myself at Pantry & Hearth at The 1775 Barn, a delight. Owner Gail Lettick specializes in quality Americana, including Pilgrim-era items, painted country furniture, and 17th- and 18th-century needlework. The shop has a woman's touch. If I had a big car and an even bigger bank account, I'd stock up here. What would I bring home? A pocketbook made for Elizabeth Baldwin, an 18th-century Massachusetts woman—a clutch bag, stitched with a geometric design in red, yellow, sage, and chartreuse. I wonder who dyed that beautiful silk thread, and from what plants those colors might have come.
Another favored item—this one bearing a Sold sign, making me wish I'd had the first dance-—is a wooden lantern, late 18th- or early 19th-century, with glass windows and a wrought-iron candle holder, rustic and romantic.
For more information: antiqueswoodbury.com; schwenke.com; pantryandhearth.com


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My most memorable malapropism was the time I told my father that our erractically running car was erotic. As a teenage boy at the time there was plenty of things that I found erotic, but the car was certainly not one of them.
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We keep an eye on the house of some neighbors when they are away, and we have a key and the little remote device ("fob") for their alarm--in case of some emergency. For some reason, the owner has some trouble with the word for that little device. On his way home from another state, he called us in a panic. "What am I gonna do? I left my throb in a rest stop 150 miles ago." Once we determined that he had not forgotten his wife back there, but rather his alarm clicker, I found the spare and calm ensued.
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I had to go to a specialist for a biopsy. A friend kindly rings to "wish me luck for my autopsy."
I responded "I think my luck would have run out..."
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A former medical student in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater during a midnight showing of the Batman movie on Friday, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history.
When the smoke began to spread, some moviegoers thought it was a stunt that was part of the "The Dark Knight Rises," one of the most highly anticipated films of the summer. They saw a silhouette of a person in the haze near the screen, first pointing a gun at the crowd and then shooting.
"There were bullet (casings) just falling on my head. They were burning my forehead," Jennifer Seeger said, adding that the gunman, dressed like a SWAT team member, fired steadily except when he stopped to reload.
"Every few seconds it was just: Boom, boom, boom," she said. "He would reload and shoot and anyone who would try to leave would just get killed."
The suspect was taken into custody and identified by federal law enforcement officials as 24-year-old James Holmes. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. Authorities did not release a motive. The FBI said there was no indication of ties to any terrorist groups.
Holmes had an assault rifle, a shotgun and two pistols, a federal law enforcement official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
FBI agents and police used a hook and ladder fire truck to reach Holmes' apartment in Aurora, police Chief Dan Oates said. They put a camera at the end of a 12-foot pole inside the apartment, and discovered that the unit was booby trapped. Authorities evacuated five buildings as they tried to determine how to disarm flammable and explosive material.
Victims were being treated for chemical exposure apparently related to canisters thrown by the gunman. Some of those injured are children, including a 4-month-old baby who was released from the hospital.
Aurora police spokesman Frank Fania on ABC's "Good Morning America" said he didn't know yet if all the injuries were gunshot wounds. He said some might have been caused by other things such as shrapnel.
Police released a written statement from Holmes' family: "Our hearts go out to those who were involved in this tragedy and to the families and friends of those involved."
The movie opened across the world Friday with midnight showings in the U.S. The shooting prompted officials to cancel the Paris premiere, with workers pulling down the red carpet display at a theater on the famed Champs-Elysees Avenue.
President Barack Obama said he was saddened by the "horrific and tragic shooting," pledging that his administration was "committed to bringing whoever was responsible to justice, ensuring the safety of our people, and caring for those who have been wounded."
It was the worst mass shooting in the U.S. since the Nov. 5, 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Texas, when an Army psychiatrist killed 13 soldiers and civilians and more than two dozen others wounded.
In Colorado, it was the deadliest since the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999, when two students opened fire at the school in the Denver suburb of Littleton, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves.
The mall in Aurora, the state's third-largest city, has been the scene of violence before.
In July 2001, two men were shot and wounded inside the mall following an argument. In June 2005, a woman was killed and her boyfriend and a bystander were wounded following an argument inside the mall. Two men were arrested in that case, at least one of whom was sentenced to life in prison.
Friday's attack began shortly after midnight at the multiplex theater.
The film has several scenes of public mayhem -- a hallmark of superhero movies. In one scene, the main villain Bane leads an attack on the stock exchange and, in another, leads a shooting and bombing rampage on a packed football stadium.
It was the final installment of the "Dark Knight" trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale as Batman. The series has a darker tone than previous Batman incarnations. It is the follow-up to "The Dark Knight," which won Heath Ledger a posthumous Oscar for his searing portrayal of The Joker.
The gunman released a gas that smelled like pepper spray from a green canister with a tag on it, Seeger said.
"I thought it was showmanship. I didn't think it was real," she said.
Seeger said she was in the second row, about four feet from the gunman, when he pointed a gun at her face. At first, "I was just a deer in headlights. I didn't know what to do," she said. Then she ducked to the ground as the gunman shot people seated behind her.
She said she began crawling toward an exit when she saw a girl about 14 years old "lying lifeless on the stairs." She saw a man with a bullet wound in his back and tried to check his pulse, but "I had to go. I was going to get shot."
Witness Shayla Roeder said she saw a young teenage girl on the ground bleeding outside the theater. "She just had this horrible look in her eyes .... We made eye contact and I could tell she was not all right," Roeder said.


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iSCSI for Windows*: Quick Connect Guide
Introduction and Intended Audience
As a supplement to the Microsoft Storage Administrators Guide, this paper provides an introduction to Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) storage connectivity from a Windows* server administrator's perspective and shows the basic connection from the Windows operating system to an iSCSI storage target.
As part of a series of iSCSI Quick Connect guides for multiple operating systems, our goal is to discuss the connection from a host perspective and review the requirements provided by and to storage and network administrators. Regrettably, switch and storage configuration are outside the scope of this paper.
The intended audience is experienced system administrators familiar with server, network, datacenter, and Storage Area Network (SAN) storage concepts and technologies.
iSCSI Basics
iSCSI has been in development since the early 2000s and Intel has been offering iSCSI solutions for over a decade. It is a flexible and powerful SAN protocol providing data availability, performance, and ease of use. As a routable storage protocol, iSCSI imposes no inherent distance limitations and is scalable across LAN and WAN infrastructures.
The iSCSI Qualified Name (IQN) is typically shown as the literal IQN string plus date, reverse domain, and optional text such as the storage target name. The IQN or iSCSI name will be used in the assignment of the Logical Unit Number (LUN) on the external storage. In some applications, there is the ability to customize the IQN. Basic iSCSI configuration includes setup of the storage array by creating the LUN and initiator group then assigning the server's iSCSI IQN to that initiator group.
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Dating: 'Do I kiss her goodnight?,' and other perilous questions
This column by Daryl Fisher appeared in West Sacramento's News-Ledger newspaper recently. Enjoy!
Note: As you may recall, a few weeks ago I wrote a column about a friend of mine who went out on a blind date that didn't go so well, and in writing that column, I was reminded that the horrors of dating never really change. And below is a column I wrote many years ago confirming that fact!
Recently, my daughter and her longtime boyfriend broke up and she has started dating again. The other night, after returning from dinner with a nice young man she had met in one of her college classes, she strolled over to the chesterfield (why did they ever start calling them couches?) where I was reading an interesting book on the subject of why most of our best American writers have been drunks. She plopped down beside me and asked, "Dad, was dating this stressful back in the old days?"
"Well," I said, trying to recall what going out on a date was like back when the dinosaurs still roamed the earth, "if I remember right, it was never as much fun as it was cracked up to be. Why? Didn't you have a good time?"
"Oh, sure, it was super, but it's so nerve-wracking talking to someone for the first time."
"But I thought you said you and Mark talk all the time in class."
"We do, but this was different."
"How so?"
She looked over at me as she often does when she's pretty sure I don't have a clue and said, "Oh, that's okay, Dad, I think I'll go talk to Mom about it. You probably wouldn't understand. It's girl stuff."
As my daughter took off in search of her mother, I sat back in my davenport (in case you don't want to call your couch a chesterfield) and was suddenly flooded with ancient memories of some of the pressures and tensions that went hand-in-hand with dating.
First, there was the terror of actually asking the girl out (and why was it that back in the '60s and '70s, the guy always had to ask the girl out? And why did that all suddenly change about a week or so after I got married?).
Second, back when I was a teenager, a guy had to worry about the answers to some of the following questions:
What if she says no? What if all my friends find out that she said no? Worse yet, what if she says yes? Will Dad let me use the good car? Will he give me some money so I'll be able to put some gas in the good car? Where do I take her if she says yes? Will she want to go to a movie? If she does, will I be able to talk her into going to the drive-in (where it cost $1.50 a carload) or will she insist on going downtown to one of the fancy indoor theaters? What kind of movies does she like? Will I get stuck going to one of those romantic ones? Will she want to go somewhere less boring than a movie? Where will I get the money to take her somewhere less boring than a movie? Will she want to go to dinner? Please, Lord, not dinner! And if I do have to take her to dinner, will she notice that I sometimes make strange noises when I chew, even when my mouth is closed? Will something green or black (it was always one of those two colors) get stuck between my teeth? Will she wait until dessert to inform me that she has an extremely jealous former boyfriend who wants to be a Mafia hit man once he graduates from high school? Will her mother and sisters be looking out the windows when I walk her up to the front door? Should I kiss her goodnight? How will I know if she wants me to kiss her goodnight? If we do get close enough to kiss goodnight, will she notice that I only have one long eyebrow, instead of the two normal ones that most guys have?
Plus there was always the unexpected, like the chilly fall night in 1965 when I was motoring along towards the old Alhambra theater with a young lady I had been trying to get to go out with me for over a year. She was everything I had ever wanted in a girl — pretty, funny, and liked by everyone. We were both a little nervous and we hadn't said a word to each other for some time when, with absolutely no warning at all, she (although she still tells people it was me), well, she cut the cheese.
With the radio not working (Dad had made me take my own car) and the windows rolled up tight, it sounded like a bomb had gone off. Did the young lady and I even look at each other? Nope. Did we in any way acknowledge what had happened? No way! Did I have the courage to crack the window and let in some fresh air? Absolutely not! Instead, we both just looked straight ahead, tried real hard not to take any deep breaths, and pretended that absolutely nothing had happened.
When it comes to dating, I think Jerry Seinfeld had it right when he said, "What is a date really, but a job interview that lasts all night? And the only difference between the two is that there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you might end up naked at the end of it."
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Thieves hit West Sac rowing club, local store makes donation
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
The River City Rowing Club was hit by burglars two weeks ago.
On Nov. 11, reports club president Bill Naddy, members discovered somebody had taken some equipment stored outside the boathouse at the Port of West Sacramento. The loss included a pair of motors used to drive boats for coaches.
"They took our older two-stroke outboards and three batteries," said Naddy. "Since our newer electric-start motors are locked and bolted to the launches, they couldn't get those, and they just cut the battery wires and took the batteries."
The loss was about $2,000, said Naddy. But the blow was softened by help from a Harbor Boulevard auto parts store.
"The local NAPA store donated new batteries to us," said Naddy.
The club has diverted some of its fundraising proceeds to replace the stolen, older motors with newer ones. The club needs a lot of coaches' launches – and motors – because of the numbers of people it puts on the water. River City Rowing Club currently has about 120 members on its high school team (they come from various schools in the region) and about 170 adult members.
At about the same time as the boat club theft, the nearby training facility for the West Sacramento Fire Department also experienced a theft, said Naddy. Taken were some roll-up doors used for firefighter training.
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West Sac joins Davis cemetery district
Residents of East Yolo get a slightly-preferred rate to use services at the Davis public cemetery
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
Sure, you want to live the rest of your life in West Sacramento. But where do you want to go after that?
West Sacramento doesn't have a cemetery. But options for city residents looking for a final resting place became a little bit more attractive earlier this year when West Sacramento and Clarksburg joined the Davis Cemetery District. The expansion of this special governmental district came after a study by Yolo County's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) and the approval of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors.
A News-Ledger reporter dropped in on the Davis cemetery this week, finding a sunny day replete with wild turkeys and a guinea hen strolling among the headstones. The cemetery is located along Pole Line Road in East Davis.
Joseph Finkleman, community outreach director for the public cemetery, explained that until recently, its district was much smaller.
"It was just Davis, El Macero and a few chunks of dirt contiguous to Davis," said Finkleman. "LAFCo did their every-five-year review of our agency, and in the process of the review, they looked at East Yolo, which had no special (cemetery) district. There will never be a cemetery there because of the (high) water table."
So the county decided to draw Clarksburg and West Sacramento into the map.
While Davis land pay a small amount of property tax to support the cemetery (it amounts to about $2.50 per year per resident, said Finkleman), West Sacramento and Clarksburg residents won't see their property taxes routed the same way. Instead, residents of this new part of the district will see "Tier 2" pricing when they shop for a spot at the cemetery.
"They will pay $250 – a one-time fee – regardless of the number of plots they're arranging for," said Finkleman. "Our lowest-end service is a scattering (of ashes) in our cemetery. We have scattering gardens, and we actually place the cremains in as many flower gardens as we can. There's also a memorialization included – a very small stone about brick-sized. That's $440, plus the $250 fee (for residents from new areas of the district)."
A traditional single burial with a Titan "fully-sealed" container costs $4,886 for the same customers.
The cemetery also offers other services – including a "green burial" in which the body is encouraged to "return to the earth" in a biodegradable container or shroud ($4,057).
"Green burial is one of the only reasons people with no affinity for this cemetery district would want to be buried here," added Susan Finkleman, the cemetery's office manager. "We are one of the few public cemeteries that will do green burials."
The "public" Davis cemetery will accept clients from outside the district, for a $500 additional fee instead of the $250 fee to be paid by West Sacramento and Clarksburg clients. All fees include an "endowment" charge that go into a fund meant to keep maintaining the cemetery even after it is filled and closed.
"We sit on 28 acres," said Finkleman. "We have almost 20 acres of undeveloped land. At the rate we're utilizing the cemetery, we have enough space for somewhere between 300 and a thousand years."
Finkleman said he believes the prices at the Davis Cemetery are generally lower than those at private facilities (Susan Finkleman reports that 45 percent of its budget is subsidized by property taxes). As a public cemetery, the Davis facility has no funeral home of its own, no above-ground mausoleums and does not allow separate burial of pets – although Fido's ashes can sometimes be included along with his owner's burial if desired.
The facility boasts several flower gardens, a labyrinth, an arboretum, indoor rotating art galley and abundant wildlife.
For more information, visit www.daviscemetery.org, call (530) 756-7807 or email email@example.com.
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Work underway on West Sac trail
The City of West Sacramento has started work on a new, dedicated bicycle and pedestrian trail.
The Clarksburg Branch Pedestrian and Bike Trail will be improved between South River Road and an access point at Cherokee Road, south of River City High School in Southport. The project will include installation of pavement over an existing trail, with access trails, sidewalk, curb ramps, signage, striping and related improvements.
The project will be done in 30 to 45 days, depending on weather, reports city spokesman Art Schroeder.
You can see the city's existing and planned bike and pedestrian trail network at this earlier News-Ledger web posting here.
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Students hope to 'can' their principal
Students at Holy Cross Academy school are trying to "can" their principal this holiday season.
They hope to stack Principal Laura MacDonald's office with enough collected canned foods that she can't get to her desk.
Students at the school invite community members to drop off canned food between Dec. 2-13 at the campus, 800 Todhunter Avenue. The collection will then go to the St. Vincent de Paul Food Locker at Holy Cross Parish.
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Brewpub lands West Sacramento site
By Steve Marschke
News-Ledger Editor
The lease wasn't – quite – signed as the News-Ledger went to press on Nov. 26. But it appeared that a local beer house operator had found a home for his planned new pub in West Sacramento.
Yolo Brewing Company has probably locked down a spot at 1520 Terminal Street, in an industrial area near the Port of West Sacramento, Harbor Boulevard, and the freeway. That address comes from a legal document filed with Yolo County.
According to the Facebook page for owner "Brewhouse Concepts Land and Management" of Fair Oaks, the facility plans to open in early 2014, with the opportunity to "craft your own small batch beers onsite or enjoy our freshly crafted draft bers in the tasting room."
Mike Costello, one of the proponents of the project, formerly operated the "Brew It Up!" taphouse and "personal brewery" in downtown Sacramento. He earlier tried to nail down a brewpub location on South River Road in West Sacramento, but negotiations fell through.
The News-Ledger traded emails with Costello yesterday morning, and he said he hoped to sign the new lease yesterday.
A mini-brewpub called Bike Dog Brewing opened earlier this year on Industrial Boulevard in West Sacramento, and Sacramento's Rubicon opened a production-only facility near Ikea also in 2013.
(EDITOR'S NOTE, DEC 2: Yolo Brewing Company's Mike Costello confirmed last week that the pub signed its Terminal Street lease.)
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Man critically injured after chase: possible self-inflicted gunshot wound
West Sacramento police report that a local man may have shot himself in the head after a police pursuit yesterday morning. Lieutenant Tod Sockman of the West Sacramento Police Department said the incident started when an officer tried to pull over a 1980 Chevrolet pickup truck for a vehicle code violation at about 10:15 p.m. on Sunday.
"The driver fled and a pursuit ensued lasting under three minutes," said Sockman in a press statement. "The pickup stopped in the 800-block of Beardsley (Drive) and the driver, later identified as Justin Farley, 35 year old, from West Sacramento, ran into a residence with a possible gun in his hand. The residence turned out to be Farley's home. A short time later another resident ran out of the house and stated Farley had shot himself. Officers entered the residence to find Farley with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head."
Farley underwent surgery for "life-threatening" injuries, Sockman said.
"A semi-auto handgun was recovered from the scene," he added. "Investigators from the West Sacramento Police Department and the Yolo County District Attorney's Office responded to conduct the investigation. "
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The Sims - 3DS
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The Sims 3 for 3DS is a single player, handheld, life simulation game that brings authentic gameplay elements, long enjoyed on other gaming platforms to Nintendo 3DS.* From character creation and customization tools, to the ability to share content with the larger The Sims community, The Sims 3 for 3DS allows players to craft the lives of their Sims, like never before. Features include adjustable 3D effect, use of the 3DS camera to inject your own image in-game and the ability to trade your Sims with other 3DS players via StreetPass and a new Karma game element that can impact the lives of Sims for good or ill.
- Control multiple Sims within your household and enjoy life's special moments as you interact with their world.
- Use the 3DS camera to capture your likeness and create your Sim. Use your stylus to sculpt your Sims' facial features. Choose their hair styles and clothing and dictate their personalities.
- Through built-in Nintendo StreetPass functionality, trade your Sims with your 3DS friends.
- Travel to different zones with your Sim. These zones will be unique destinations for your Sims and will contain community features and buildable lots.
- Interact directly with the world with Karma Points via the 3DS handheld - for example blow into the handheld to unleash tranquil butterflies or shake to trigger an earthquake.
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Cherry-Nut Loaf
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 60 min
- Ready Time: 120 min
- Yield: 1 loaf
- Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 1/2 stick Crisco® Baking Sticks Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
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- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 cups Pillsbury BEST™ All Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 (10 oz.) jar maraschino cherries, drained and chopped (1 cup)
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 tablespoon milk
Preparation Directions
- HEAT oven to 350ºF. Coat a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan with no-stick cooking spray.
- BEAT shortening and sugar in medium bowl until light and fluffy. Blend in eggs, vanilla and almond extract. Stir flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in small bowl. Add alternately with buttermilk to shortening mixture, mixing well. Fold in nuts and cherries. Turn into prepared pan.
- BAKE 60 to 70 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from pan to wire rack to cool completely. Top with glaze, if desired.
- PLACE powdered sugar and almond extract in small bowl. Stir in milk 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency. Drizzle over cooled loaf.
Nutritional Information Per Serving
Serving Size (1 slice, 1/12 of loaf), Calories 350 (Calories from Fat 140), Total Fat 16g (Saturated Fat 3g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 35mg, Sodium 290mg, Total Carbohydrate 48g (Dietary Fiber 2g, Sugars 31g), Protein 5g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 4%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 6%, Iron 8%.
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
* Ensure all recipe ingredients are gluten free by referencing the ingredient labels, as products may vary. If uncertain, contact the ingredient manufacturer.


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Garden Cafe
The Patina-operated Garden Café is the perfect place to enjoy lunch or a snack during your visit to the Norton Simon Museum. Located in the Museum's celebrated and serene sculpture garden, the café offers daily specials and a variety of fresh salads, sandwiches, baked goods and beverages.
The café is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday from 12:00 to 4:45 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:45 p.m., and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. It is closed Tuesday.
To make arrangements for group lunches, please contact the Patina Restaurant Group at 626.844.6970 two weeks prior to your visit to select from a variety of boxed meals. Click here to see a menu.
Please note that food and drink are not allowed in the galleries. Food consumed on Museum grounds must be purchased at the café.
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Happy Hour at the Garden Café
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Oh! Edo Rocket
It Was Just a One-Night Dream
Episode 22 | TV-MA
When Shunpei spills an enchantment potion on himself, the ladies of Edo start acting like love-struck zombies. Onui shifts shapes so she can sniff out an antidote, but she better hurry or Shunpei won't survive the night!
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I am hooked
Let me just say that I am officially hooked. I have been fly fishing since early this year and have only gotten a chance to go a few times but have had some success everytime I go. This time I went up the middle prong Saturday and had a great time. The best day yet and I loved every minute of it.
I got a real late start so I mainly just went up to stop at the store to get ready for next weekend. I don't think I ever got the guys name that helped me at LRO but he was VERY helpful in helping me get flys and what ever I needed. I really appreciated that.
So I go about halfway up the gravel road (don't know exactly). I go down a bit to get in and I tie on a Yellow Stimulator and drop a green weenie behind it. I always wear kinda greenish clothing and this time I really was careful about stalking around. Hiding behind stuff and walking low to the water. Just great tips on this site. I ended up catching 5 all day; with it ending with the largest trout I have caught to date. A gigantic 7" brook. I know not that big but I was happy with it. Plus I am pretty sure it was a brook but I fooled with it to much already so I got it back in the water as fast as I could.
I did run into some tubers; I couldn't believe they came up that far but it was fine with me that is what you get up here on a Sat. They went over where I fishing about 4 times because they would get out and walk up and come back down. They just happened to be where I was at. I talked to them a bit when I got and they where real nice and everything. I just sit back when they came through and waited a bit and went back at it.
Well I had to leave about 4:00 to get to the in laws; but I am already looking forward to this coming Saturday.
Oh Yeah I wonder how dorky I look walking around in my wading boots with shorts on. I am guessing I am not the only one that does this. At least I hope not.
Thanks again for everything LRO. God Bless
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I know how you feel, I am hooked too. I have only been fly fishing for a little while myself and I wish I could go everyday. And don't worry, wading boots and shorts for fly fishing in the Smokies is not dorky...it's Cool 8-)
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Nice post Emp. I have all my fingers and toes crossed that I finally get to make a trek down there late this week/weekend. The wait has been killing me but the list at home is long, and the drive down there is even longer.
Am curious what you caught your fish on. Was it the Yellow Stimulator or the Green Weenie that was doing the trick??
Paula, if you happen to read this, do you have both of these in your store??
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I cannot promise I read every post...but I try :D
We do have those flies in stock.....and a bazillion others! ;)
Looking forward to seeing you!
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I caught them on the Green Weenie. I had a few hits on the yellow stimulator but they were small and nothing really took it. I did not say in the original but I also tried a Parachute Adams and the same happened with it as the stimulator.
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welcome to the addiction :)
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Thanks for the info. * When I was down there last (and it was this time of year), I caught everything (which wasnt much) on a nymph. *I dont know what it was called that I used (something my brother turned me onto) but had a cream/yellowish body with 5 or so wraps of red thread on the end (think there were some of those very fine feathers attached that are tied in to form a sort of a loop, maybe Paula knows what they are..) * We nicknamed it a "red head" and had a lot of fun with them until they ran out *:-? *I couldnt get them to hit on much of anything else, and am certain I tried everything I had. * Eventually turned over a few rocks in the stream and seen several cream colored eggs attached to the bottom of one of them so that is what tipped me off to the color. * Had I been aware of LRO at the time, no doubt I would have went to them for advice and would have had more success. * *Have picked up some tips on here from a poster by the name of Tennswede, among others, as well. * Isn't this board great? *
Had a lot of fun late one afternoon on the water that exits the park at Greenbriar. * There is a covered bridge that crosses it and it was obviously stocked. * We fished just upstream of the bridge. *My daughter caught her first trout ever (and on a fly line) *:) *using a white San Juan worm. * *
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Discussion in 'PatsFans.com - Patriots Fan Forum' started by patsgo, Jan 16, 2007.
just a feeling, but i think they are going to run allover them with Maroney leading the way
Man I hope so.
Hopefully he doesn't tip toe through the line like he seems to be doing lately...
I think that Maroney certainly hit the invisible Rookie Wall, though he did still produce at a decent level. His big plays surely tailed off though.
It's been a while since he had a good break away run.
Maroney's stuttering at the line is progressing to a point where I think he might just set up a tent and camp out at the line on his next run.
Well if he has 5 carries for 5 yards again, you could start the draft talk, because the Colts will own us...
Maroney's breakout game was against Buffalo in Week 1. For whatever reason he has not been used as much as he was earlier in the season, however this has coincided with overall improvement from the team. He still has a role to play and will likely see a lot more PT against the Colts than he did in SD.
Someone who has yet to have a breakout game is... well his name rhymes with Thad Mackson.
His actual breakout was against Cincy, besides returns, he hasn't really done much since. He did well the last 2 regular season games in his brief appearances.
This will not be a big game for our running backs because Belichick will mysteriously abandon the run and throw the ball 51 times.
But I guess I can't complain if we win.
Although I am sorely tempted to.
Mehh... he looked special against the Bills too.
17 attempts, 86 yards, 5.1 average... that's a breakout IMO.
I thought he looked really good against the Colts until they abandoned the run.
There seems to be something about the plays called for him that tips teams off to the run. Maroney was the back on every Bob Sanders run blitz in the first game and he was stuffed on two run blitzes by Marlon Mcree against the SD. If a team ever guessed wrong we might be able to burn them, but they seem to know our tendencies...
Probably because every time Maroney comes in, you HAVE TO expect run (because that's all the Pats do with Maroney ). He's no Kevin Faulk as a receiver (yet). Pretty much like you know 80% of the time Faulk is in it's gonna be a pass. They hardly ever do play action or screen to Maroney when he's in. Next year may be different, but the Pats O is pretty damned predictable.
Every game lately someone makes this post and every week I just shake my head. Maroney currently has more talent than Dillon and yet Dillon is running better than Maroney.
Maroney is still hurt ... it takes at least 3 months to really recover from his injury. So, if and when he has a great game IMO it is not a breakout game ... it means he's healthy again and I like that more.
Patriots will stay balanced this Sunday ... I doubt anyone is going to be featured.
Already posted a pre-emptive strike thread on that one.
You better the pats will have a chance to stay balanced. The colts have shut down the ravens and cheifs. If the pats try to runn too much or pass too much the colts will take advantage. You better pray to god we dont get an early lead.
No deep handoffs. No slow-developing plays. The Pats have looked brutal in recent weeks when running this way. Indy ate this up in November. Quick handoffs, hit the hole fast and hard is the way to go.
Agreed. Indy's defense is based on speed. Countering speed with power works, but only if you allow your power game the time to get to full speed before getting hit. Slow developing run plays allow a fast defense to hit your guys before they get going. Hopefully the Pats learned from that mistake from the first game and run more quick developing run plays to take advantage of our power game while negating their speed game.
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Fujitsu - New PC brand "GRANNOTE" targets the over 60-year-old crowd
Fujitsu just introduced a new PC series specially targeting over 60-year-old people, called GRANNOTE. The first product in the series, Windows 8.1 LIFEBOOK AH90/P will be released on February 13.
Fujitsu applied their Human Centric Engine, which is already being used in their smartphones, to PCs for the first time. Human Centric Engine is their own technology that helps make operations through technology easy for users and adapts to users and their usage environments.


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read the recent version of "Crossed" with interest. I can only respond
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No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for
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The decision of the Boyne City Commissioners to stop adding fluoride to the water supply is very good news for the citizens...The Reality at Griswold Mountain
letters to the editor to local newspapers by some Griswold Mountain
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The Honolulu City Council passed a bill Wednesday that would ban smoking at more places in Honolulu.
Smoking is already banned at the Honolulu Zoo, Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve, Koko Crater Botanical Garden and the Waikiki Shell.
The amended proposal would include the Duke Paoa Kahanamoku Beach Park, Kapiolani Beach Park, Kapiolani Beach Park Center, Kapiolani Park, Kuhio Beach Park, Sandy Beach Park and all sandy beach areas of the Ala Moana Regional Park.
Councilman Stanley Chang says he has received a number of complaints about cigarette butts at some parks and beaches.
"There is and has been overwhelming support from the public to address the dangers of second-hand smoke for our millions of beachgoers, as well as the numerous cigarette butts on our beaches which threaten our ocean ecosystem and the beauty of our white sand beaches," said Chang.
Some visitors say they will be looking for beaches outside of Waikiki to enjoy a cigarette on the beach.
However, there is a concern that this bill could affect visitors from Asia. In Japan, the smoking rate among adults was at 21.1 percent, as of May 2012.
The bill now goes to Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell for consideration. Caldwell says he has not made a decision whether or not he backs the bill.


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The congregation's annual Christmas program, presented by the youth and several adults in the congregation, will begin at 5 p.m.
"The Mouse's Tale" is the Christmas story narrated by Granny Mouse and told by the animals in the stable on Christmas night.
Following the program, soup and sandwiches will be served in the church's Parish Hall.
Members of the community are invited to attend the program. St. Peter's is located at 1545 E. Farm-to-Market Road 1961 in the Goliad County community of Ander.
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Prairie du Chien police found two "one pot" methamphetamine labs by the railroad tracks underneath the overpass on Cliffwood Drive on Wednesday.
Police say they received a call around 10:20 a.m. about a suspicious item near the railroad tracks.
Investigators found a television and other electronic appliances that had been illegally dumped. After searching along the ditch line, police found a suspicious bag with Gatorade bottles inside.
The Prairie du Chien Narcotics Division was called to the scene and found the two "one pot" meth labs.
"These labs were old and were not currently active," Prairie du Chien Police Chief Chad Abram said. "However we still take all the necessary precautions to protect innocent citizens from exposure to this heinous drug."
The chief says the lab was cleaned up by a certified company from Germantown, Wisconsin.
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Crews dredged the beach in Kailua Wednesday to drain Kaelepulu Stream, adding more sand to a huge mound that's been sitting on the shoreline for months.
The city says it opens the mouth of the stream on a regular basis for mostly safety reasons.
University of Hawaii geology professor Charles "Chip" Fletcher said winds and currents push sand from the Lanikai end of the beach and pile it up in the area.
"In the past, episodes of erosion, a year or two in duration, would be followed by episodes of sand return back to the beach park. But this particular episode of erosion isn't ending," Fletcher said.
"We don't know why the erosion has occurred so dramatically. But many of us think that the reason it's happening more dramatically now is because we've had at least a hundred years or more of slow sea-level rise."
The city says there are plans to move the sand and use it to replenish eroded areas.
"It'll happen within the month. The timing will be based on low tide so that we can get the most sand in the right place without it washing away again," said Ross Sasamura, director of facility maintenance for the city and county of Honolulu.
"This process, it's called back passing sand. If we could back pass sand from the stream mouth to the boat ramp every couple of months, like quarterly for instance, it's a very good way to counteract the erosion. It's a good way to manage the erosion problem," Fletcher added.
Another nearby mound of sand along Lihiwai Road is material dredged upstream more than two weeks ago.
The city says it will not use any of that sand to replenish the beach.


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[Verse 1]
I can't understand
She let go of my hand
And left me here facing the wall
I'd sure like to know
Why she did go
But I can't get close to her at all
Though we kissed through the wild blazing nighttime
She said she would never forget
But now morning's clear
It's like I am not here
She just acts like we never have met
[Verse 2]
It's all new to me
Like some mystery
It could even be like a myth
Yet it's hard to think of
That she's the same one
That last night I was with
From darkness, dreams are deserted
Am I still dreaming yet?
I wish she'd unlock
Her voice once and talk
Instead of acting like we never have met
[Verse 3]
If she is not feeling well
Then why don't she tell
Instead of turning her back to my face?
Without any doubt
She seems too far out
For me to return to or chase
Though the night ran swirling and whirling
I remember her whispering yet
But evidently she don't
And evidently she won't
She just acts like we never have met
[Verse 4]
If I didn't have to guess
I'd gladly confess
To anything I might've tried
If I was with her too long
Or have done something wrong
I wish she'd tell me what it is, I'll run and hide
Though her skirt it swayed as a guitar played
Her mouth was watery and wet
But now something has changed
For she is not the same
She just acts like we never have met
[Verse 5]
I'm leaving today
I'll be on my way
Of this I can't say very much
But if you want me to
I can be just like you
And pretend that we never have touched
And if anybody asks me
"Is it easy to forget?"
I'll say, "It's easily done
You just pick anyone
And pretend that you never have met!"


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Red Dead Redemption ReviewBy Jake Gaskill - Posted May 17, 2010
Red Dead Redemption marks Rockstar Games' return to the Western genre. It's full of colorful characters, gorgeous replicas of natural splendor, and bad, bad men who need disposing. In short, it's one of 2010's best games so far.
The Pros
- The best western game made to date
- A massive, dynamic and alive world to explore
- Incredible voice acting
- Multiplayer offers potential hours of enjoyment
The Cons
- Controls can sometimes be clunky
- Occasional glitches
- Free roam spawning frustrating at times
In the interest of saving some of you time, let me start by saying this: If you're a fan of Grand Theft Auto IV, or even just the idea of GTA, and you like westerns -- and you wanted so much more from Red Dead Revolver, or you missed it completely like I did -- you can stop right here in your internal debate over whether or not to pick up Red Dead Redemption. I might not need to convince of you much more. For the rest of you cowpokes riding the cattle ranch fence about Rockstar San Diego's amazingly joyous open-world western game, saddle up and leave that skeptical piece of wood behind. Red Dead Redemption is the real McCoy with a bullet… lots of them.
In classic Rockstar fashion, RDR tells an epic and violent tale that ebbs and flows with emotion, humor and brutality. What makes RDR distinct from its GTA brethren, however, is that it isn't the story of an up-and-coming criminal. It follows former outlaw John Marston, who is tasked by the federal government to hunt down and kill his former gang mates, in exchange for his and his family's freedom.
The story is filled to the (ten-gallon hat) brim with all manner of classic western story tropes, settings and characters that are crafted and delivered expertly. The voice-work is among the best I've ever heard (the actor who plays the conman Nigel West Dickens is especially brilliant), and the spectacular lip-synching and facial animations are simply stunning. While there aren't as many twists and turns as a GTA story, the conclusion is one of the boldest and most joyously surprising of any in recent memory.
Leaving Liberty City Behind
Over the course of the roughly 20-hour story (that time included a bunch of side quests and a good amount of hunting), you'll travel across the American West and Mexico, encounter all manner of wildlife, mosey through dusty ghost towns, get into saloon brawls and live out your wild west fantasies as you traverse one of the most expansive game worlds ever conceived. Filling the gaps between settlements are a wide variety of terrain ranging from snowy mountain passes, smoldering cactus-laced deserts and sweeping plains rich with grazing buffalo, all of which are gorgeous and packed with detail.
Each area is populated with geographically-specific animals (rabbits, deer, beavers, grizzly bears, etc.), some of which will passively go about their business, and some of which will attack you on sight. You can skin every animal you kill, and even though you don't actually see it, the blood splattering the screen and John's skinning motions are sufficiently gory. You might feel a twinge of guilt gunning down an innocent bunny rabbit, but fighting off a pack of wolves or taking down a charging grizzly in self-defense feels appropriately satisfying.
If hunting has you down, you can always pick some wild flowers, which are scattered across the landscape. Like animal pelts/parts, you can sell flowers in town, and they even play into several side quests. It can feel strange laying waste to ten bandits and then stopping to pick some flowers, but it's mostly optional, so if you find it truly annoying, you can just ignore it.
While the world itself is staggering in scope, the game includes several ways to fast travel between locations. Campfires let you teleport to waypoints or specific towns, as well as save your game at any time. Sadly, you only have three save slots, which means you won't be able to replay every one of your favorite missions, and this is doubly upsetting because there are so many memorable ones.
Skin That Smokewagon…
RDR's combat is basically a more fluid and responsive version of that found in GTA4. The Euphoria engine once again brings characters to life (and death) with brutal and hilarious results. Catching a bandito in the shoulder and watching him twist off his saddle and then get dragged to his death behind his horse never gets old, and is just one of an endless array of death sequences that characterize the game's combat. Speaking of horses, the amount of detail put into the creation of these gorgeous creatures is remarkable. And the ability to whistle and have your horse run to you, letting you hop on in one fluid motion, is a simple yet delightful treat.
The series' dead-eye targeting returns, allowing you to target every square inch of enemies from their hats to their pistols. Similar to the mark and execute mechanic recently seen in Splinter Cell: Conviction, the dead-eye targeting can feel a bit too powerful at times, but it also becomes essential when you're facing off against a seemingly unending flow of enemies. Each weapon also comes with a brutal yet satisfying execution move that can be triggered by running up to an enemy and firing. In short, you'll never tire of ways to smoke fools.
If you feel like taking a break from blasting greenhorns out of their boots, or galloping along on your trusty stead, you can play a number of mini-games including poker, horseshoes, five-finger fillet and arm wrestling. All of the games are easy to pick up, and could easily tack on more play time should you feel the need to amass a small fortune playing Texas Hold 'Em. You can also do a number of odd jobs like herding cattle, breaking horses, and hunting down wanted criminals (hogtying outlaws and delivering them to the local jail never ceases to amuse).
There are a few story-based duels in the game, but you'll also encounter random ones as you ramble from town to town. The duel controls essentially come down to setting dead-eye targets on your enemy and watching the bullets fly. I actually only died once dueling during all my time playing the game, suggesting that the duels are mainly there to provide a visual treat, and that's totally fine by me, because they are giddily Peckinpah-ish in nature and vicious as hell.
The game features a morality system that tracks both your honor and fame. Fame is essentially your XP, while honor tracks your good and bad deeds. I only played through the game once as a good character, so I can't say if the story changes depending on whether you're good or bad, but given the story structure, I can't see it having any influence over how it unfolds. Your honor does factor into how the game world reacts to you though, which can mean receiving compliments from strangers or having to fight off bounty hunters out to claim you as their prize.
This Town Isn't Big Enough For the 16 of Us
RDR's multiplayer takes its cue from GTA4's in that the main "lobby" (aka Free Roam) is the entire game world, minus all of the side-quests and mini-games. It definitely has a more Wild West feel than the single player portion only because the first instinct of most human players is to kill anyone and everything that cross their paths. Thankfully, the game lets you set up posses of up to eight players. Not only does this help your survival chances (safety in numbers after all), but it also lets you live out your dream of marauding across the old west as part of a menacing or justice-serving gang.
There are really only two things to do in free roam: get into random shootouts with other players, and take on NPC-controlled hideouts. Storming an outlaw-controlled fort with a band of tin star-wearing lawmen is a thing of beauty. Sadly, there are only a handful of these gang hideouts, but they can be replayed endlessly, which is nice.
Competitive multiplayer includes just a few standard modes, each of which can be played with up to 16 players: deathmatch, team deathmatch and three variations of capture the flag. While there isn't a lot of variety in the modes, the shootouts are really what it's all about anyway. And the maps offer plenty of ways to approach every match. Hopefully, some more modes will be added later, in addition to the co-op ones releasing not long after launch, but the current ones will do for now.
A Little Bad And Ugly
For as top to bottom fantastic as RDR is, there are a few very minor issues worth mentioning. In Free Roam, it can be a bit frustrating when you encounter other human players who just want to kill things, because when you die, you tend to respawn in the general area of where you died, so you'll oftentimes have to deal with the same douchebag over and over again until you can summon your horse and ride away. I also came across a couple glitches here and there (Marston's lower coatflap took on a life of its own at times), and there are times when the horse and on foot controls can be a tad clunky, but these moments account for an insignificant amount of time in the grand scheme of the game, and are ultimately dismissible.
Red Dead Ridiculous
Red Dead Redemption sets the bar for all future genre efforts and it gives players the chance to participate in their very own Spaghetti Western that includes a wild cast of characters, epic wild west showdowns, a score that would make Ennio Morricone proud, an absurdly expansive frontier to explore, and a wonderfully enjoyable multiplayer experience that will have players forming posses and battling bandits for some time. It's going to take a lot to top this one. Even if you're not a fan of Westerns, there's still plenty here to enjoy. Red Dead Redemption is one of 2010's best games.


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Welker Leaves For Denver While it appears New England never really had #83 in their future plans, it was still a bit of a shock for Patriots fans when Welker signed a two-year, $12-million deal with the Denver Broncos. But the Patriots didn't have to wait long to replace him... (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
Patriots Ink Amendola To 5-Year Deal Shortly after news broke of Welker signing with the Broncos, the Patriots announced they had signed Danny Amendola to a five-year, $31-million deal. Amendola, who like Welker went undrafted out of Texas Tech, has battled injuries the last two seasons but has 196 career receptions and 7 touchdowns in 42 games. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
Patriots Sign WR Donald Jones The Patriots added more depth to their receiver corp with the signing of Donald Jones to a one-year deal. The former Buffalo Bill has six touchdowns and 82 receptions in 35 games, with 18 of those receptions and two of the touchdowns coming against the Patriots.(Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)
Patriots Add Safety Adrian Wilson The Pats bolstered their secondary by signing 12-year veteran safety Adrian Wilson. A hard-hitting veteran, Wilson will provide an instant upgrade next to Devin McCourty, and can mentor Tavon Wilson at the postition. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
Talib Re-Signed For One Year The Patriots chose not to franchise Talib last month, and it paid off big time as the corner hit free agency. The Patriots and Talib agreed to a one-year, $5-million deal to bring back the player who helped turn around New England's secondary in 2012. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
Patriots Re-Sign Arrington The Patriots brought corner Kyle Arrington back on a four-year deal. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
Lloyd Let Go The Patriots cut ties with receiver Brandon Lloyd rather than pay his $3 million roster bonus. Lloyd caught 74 passes for 911 yards and four touchdowns in his one season in New England. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
Woodhead Bolts To San Diego Running back Danny Woodhead had a bigger role on third downs last season, but he bolted for San Diego this off-season, signing a two-year deal with the Chargers. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
Chung Signs With Eagles Safety Patrick Chung singed with the Philadelphia Eagles, joining his former college coach Chip Kelly. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
Patriots Bring Back Vollmer The Patriots brought back one of Tom Brady's protectors this off-season, agreeing to a reported four-year deal with right tackle Sebastian Vollmer. (Photo by Scott Heavey/Getty Images)


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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee who oversees auto issues, wants Hyundai and Kia to explain how it will reach and compensate its 900,000 customers after inflating its MPG claims.
So far, Hyundai and Kia have said they would reimburse customers and add a 15 percent premium by sending out debit cards that can be reloaded in the future. The automakers could spend over $100 million compensating for their exaggerations.
"While I believe this is a positive step, I am concerned that many affected customers may not learn about the program or may find it burdensome to participate in the program," said Rockefeller.
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From there, the EPA investigated Hyundai for misleading mileage claims and found that the fuel economy estimates of most of its 2012-2013 models were inflated. The same goes for Kia. Both Kia and Hyundai will be lowering the fuel economy estimates on the majority of their 2012 to 2013 models after EPA testing discovered a gap between its data and what both of the companies are claiming.
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Stuffed Acorn SquashFebruary 2007
Feed your family for under ten bucks with this budget-friendly meal.
Makes: 4 servings
Prep: 20 mins
Cook: 1 hr
- 2 acorn squash
- 2 tablespoons butter
- Salt and pepper
- 1/2 cup couscous
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 3/4 pound ground beef, preferably lean chuck or sirloin
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees . Cut the squash in half crosswise and scoop out the pulp and seeds. Trim the ends so each half will stand upright. Place both halves in a baking pan, flesh side up, and pour hot water into the pan to reach about halfway up the squash. Add 1/2 tablespoon butter to the center of each squash and season with salt and pepper. Loosely cover the pan with foil. Bake the squash until tender when pierced with a fork, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
- Prepare the couscous according to the package directions and set aside. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring, until softened, about 4 minutes. Push the onion aside, add the meat, season with salt and pepper and cook through, about 5 minutes. Stir in the walnuts, cranberries and couscous; season with salt and pepper.
- Remove the squash from the oven and, using a spatula, carefully transfer each half to a plate. Pour out any excess liquid from the centers. Divide the couscous among the squash.
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Arnold Palmerâs Bay Hill Club and Lodge
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July 26-30, 2004
Three tied for second place with 1-under-par 71s
ORLANDO, Fla. â Sam Saunders of Windermere, Fla. carded a 2-under-par 70 to seize the first-round lead at the HP Boys Junior Championship. Tied for second with matching rounds of 1-under-par 71 are Mark Jones of Odessa, Texas, David Palm of Jacksonville, Fla., and Hudson Swafford of Tallahassee, Fla.
The HP Boys Junior Championship, conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, features 82 boys, ages 12-18, from 24 states, Chile, China and Japan. The 72-hole stroke play event is being held at Arnold Palmerâs Bay Hill Club and Lodge, site of the PGA TOURâs annual Bay Hill Invitational. Past champions include Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk and David Duval. Highlighting the 2004 field are 14 Rolex Junior All-Americans and 13 2004 AJGA tournament champions. The field will be cut to the top 50 players and ties following the second round.
Saunders recorded four birdies and recovered from one double bogey on No. 9 to finish the first round at 36-34â70.
âI hit the ball really well today and my putting really helped me out,â said Saunders, who recorded 28 putts during Tuesdayâs round. âI only made one mistake and other than that I played solid golf all day.â
Saunders, the grandson of golf legend and Bay Hill President Arnold Palmer, considers Bay Hill his home course.
âI play this course everyday, which can be good or bad for tournaments,â commented Saunders. âItâs nice having the home-course advantage because I know the course very well. However, it puts a lot more pressure on me to play well and hopefully win.
âI feel like the pressure is now off after todayâs solid round. Hopefully I can continue to play like this the rest of the week,â said the 16-year-old rising high school junior who will be celebrating his birthday on Friday while looking for his first AJGA victory. Saundersâ previous best finish at an AJGA event came at the 2003 FootJoy Boys Invitational where he tied for eighth.
Palm, who took top honors at the 2004 PING Junior at Mirasol and is making his first appearance at the HP Boys Junior Championship, said he was excited with his round and glad to be near the top of the leaderboard.
âI wasnât expecting to be where I am (second place),â remarked the 16-year-old. âMy short game was working for me all day. Hopefully that continues tomorrow.â
The 16-year-old Jones recorded five birdies, two bogeys and one double bogey on his way to grabbing a tie for second place.
âToday was a pretty good day,â Jones said. âI made a lot of putts and only made one mistake today (double bogey on No. 6).â
Jones recovered nicely from his double bogey on No. 6 with a birdie on No. 7. Jones will be looking to improve on his best AJGA finish, second at the 2004 AJGA Lubbock Junior presented by United Supermarkets and Market Street.
With rounds of even-par 72, Seung-Su Han of Bradenton, Fla., Tim Cha of Chino Hills, Calif., Peter Uihlein of North Dartmouth, Mass., and Chris Smith of Alpharetta, Ga., are currently tied for fifth place following first-round action.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The AJGA has a membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.
Titleist, the AJGAâs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associationâs success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.
Second-round tee times will begin Wednesday at 7 a.m. and conclude at 8:57 a.m. off of the Nos. 1 and 10 tees. For more information about the HP Boys Junior Championship, please contact tournament headquarters at (407) 876-8095.
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The Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant program provides financial assistance to junior golfers who wish to play in AJGA events. Its goal is to give top-flight golf opportunities to young golfers regardless of financial resources. This program helps to fulfill the AJGA's mission of developing young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.
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Immigrants make up 13% of the U.S. population. They come here in pursuit of the American Dream, an opportunity for a better life in exchange for hard work. For many, their unique skills and fresh perspectives lead them to entrepreneurship.
That may explain why one small-business owner in six in the U.S. is an immigrant, according to a recent report by the Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Initiative. Professional and business services, such as waste-disposal services and office administration and cleaning, boast the largest number of immigrant business owners, followed by retail, construction, educational and social services, and leisure and hospitality industries. "Immigrants are such a varied group with people from countries all around the world that have a wide range of skill sets . . . and these [fields] have always been a natural fit" both locally and nationally, says David Dyssegaard Kallick, director of FPI's Immigration Research Initiative.
The seven entrepreneurs featured here come from diverse backgrounds. They made their millions (and, in one case, billions) in industries ranging from Internet technology to restaurant services. Here are their stories.
1. Josie Natori
Age: 64
Country of origin: Philippines
Occupation: Founder and CEO, the Natori Company
Her advice to immigrant entrepreneurs: "There is no better place in the world for an immigrant to succeed than in the U.S. Follow your dream and make it happen."
Moving from the Philippines to Westchester, N.Y., to attend Manhattanville College in 1964 was a complete culture shock for Natori. "The cold winters, the food and the sense of humor were just different. I was very homesick," she told Kiplinger. But it never stopped her.
After earning an economics degree, she went to work for Bache & Company on Wall Street, moving to Merrill Lynch in 1971. But climbing the corporate ladder wasn't enough. "While I loved the [corporate] culture, I also had a very strong desire to build something myself," she says.
In 1974, Natori became a U.S. citizen. And after giving birth to a son in 1976, she and her husband Ken brainstormed a variety of ideas for starting her own business -- from opening a car wash to running a McDonald's franchise. It was by chance in 1977, however, that she would become a high-end women's sleepwear designer after showing a nightgown (made from what was originally a hand-embroidered blouse) to a buyer at Bloomingdale's.
In the early days, Natori ran her company solo. "It's easy to take for granted the amount of work that goes into [making] the clothes you see in stores," she says. "There are so many elements -- from the design concept to production -- that all need to work in order to make something happen." Today, she has nearly 400 employees. Her husband is chairman, and her son, Kenneth, is vice-president of finance and e-commerce. Her business has expanded to include fragrances, eyewear and home décor. In 2011, Natori teamed up with mass retailer Target for a budget-friendly line of lingerie and loungewear. That same year, her company generated $150 million in retail sales.
"Some people may see their immigrant status as an obstacle," she says. "I have always viewed it as one of my biggest assets. Natori is unique in the design world, because of its East-meets-West aesthetic. All of that is due to my background and heritage."


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By Darlene Tart, Special Initiatives Coordinator, ACF Region III
You had to be there. Regional Administrator Essey Workie, Emergency Preparedness Specialist Bill Evans and I were. Greeted and welcomed by CEO Dr. Michelle Foster and COO Carl Chadband, we got the full "KISRA experience!"
Nestled in the quiet community of Dunbar, West Virginia, is the Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action, Inc (KISRA), an agency started by Ferguson Memorial Baptist Church in 1993.
The first thing we saw was a greenhouse of vegetables and fruits. We could tell this program was different…
I first got to know about KISRA and its fatherhood program as an Office of Family Assistance grantee in my region; however, I had never visited its facility on my trips to West Virginia. Since our team was "in the neighborhood" on other business, I thought this would be a great opportunity to make introductions and to talk about the other ACF Initiative-related work KISRA does. But I wasn't ready for the farm and greenhouse; after all – who has such in the city AND as a part of its program?
We were a little overwhelmed and impressed by KISRA's "farm-to-table" program that produces fresh, organic produce while providing jobs and encouraging entrepreneurship and a healthier lifestyle. After all - strong communities consist of healthy people who have sustainable wages, and KISRA addresses both.
Even more inspiring is KISRA's use of technology. The agency is in the process of converting its greenhouse to a hydroponic system, which will allow the program to grow the plants in mineralized water instead of in soil. This method of farming is good for the environment since no nutrition pollution is released into the environment. The water stays in the system and can be reused - thus, a lower water requirement. There are numerous other advantages. This model can be replicated in rural AND urban communities! Think of the implications!
KISRA is dedicated to creating strong families and communities through programs that educate and empower. A faith-motivated initiative and Office of Family Assistance grantee, KISRA's core focuses are education, employment, economic empowerment and behavioral health:
Carl Chadband believes that being "hands on" is key to KISRA's success for strengthening families and communities (when we visited, the staff were calling him "Farmer Carl" because he was out working in the greenhouse). "We believe that we can heal communities by working with children and their families," he said. Most of KISRA's staff are from the community or have been KISRA clients.
Dr. Michelle Foster, a 2012 recipient of the White House "Champion of Change" Award has a passion for the work she does. "We started out in the basement of the church in classrooms used for Sunday School. We started an after-school program. Our ultimate aim is to make life better for children, our heritage. We believe that to do this we have to invest in resources in them and their parents, and help them to remove barriers that impede self-sufficiency. The small investments that we make now save our state much more and will continue to do so in the future," she said. And from there it grew. KISRA now provides services in 20 counties in West Virginia.
We saw smiling staff. We saw a thriving community. But best of all, we saw happy children. You had to be there…
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Forecasters at the Central Pacific Hurricane Center are predicting another season below our normal activity of four to five tropical cyclones.
"The outlook for the 2012 Central Pacific hurricane season is for two to four tropical cyclones, and that includes tropical depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes," said Ray Tanabe, director of the Central Pacific Hurricane Center.
These cyclones can form around Hawaii, like Hurricane Iniki in 1992. Or they can move in from the East Pacific like our last major threat, Hurricane Felicia in 2009.
Since then, the past two seasons have been very quiet, with just one tropical storm in 2010 and 2011.
Still, Tanabe says, "we have to prepare the same way year after year after year. while the outlook is for below-normal activity, any tropical cyclone, just one, that impacts the state, that makes landfall somewhere in the Hawaiian islands, is going to be well above normal for us in the state of Hawaii."
And that's why the State Civil Defense says we should all have a disaster plan and to stay informed with what's going on during the storm, either on television or with a battery-operated radio.
And of course, a disaster kit.
Because of Hawaii's isolation, The American Red Cross recommends a seven-day supply of essentials, like food and water, one gallon per day per person, along with medication, a flashlight, a blanket and important documentation.
"Other items that are essential... is to have some canned food and of course, you need a manual can opener to accompany that. that's easier to use than getting food that needs to be heated, because you never know when you're going to have access to electricity during an emergency," said Maria Lutz, Director of Emergency Services for The American Red Cross Hawaii State Chapter.
Hurricane season begins June 1st and runs through November 30th.


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North of the borderApril 12,2013
The bill passed by the Vermont Senate giving unauthorized immigrants in Vermont the right to drive is part of a larger movement that has gained momentum with great rapidity in recent days. Earlier this week tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered before the U.S. Capitol for music and speeches aimed at pushing Congress toward comprehensive immigration reform.
The bill making its way through the Vermont Legislature was inspired in part by an incident in 2011 when police stopped a car with two passengers who were Mexican immigrants here illegally. The police officers turned the two passengers over to the U.S. Border Patrol, touching off charges of racial profiling. In response Gov. Peter Shumlin initiated a policy of bias-free policing, and the Vermont State Police were not to concern themselves with enforcing federal immigration law.
That incident put a face on the issue of illegal immigration. One of the passengers, later released by the Border Patrol, was Danilo Lopez, who has been outspoken on the need for a more compassionate policy toward immigrants. It is a call heard far and wide these days as Americans look around them and notice the many millions of people who are here, part of our communities, performing essential work, supporting families, paying taxes.
It is remarkable how change happens. Just a year or two ago, Republican political candidates were vying over how mean-spirited they could sound toward unauthorized immigrants. Mitt Romney, the failed presidential candidate, favored what he called self-deportation, meaning we ought to make the United States so unwelcoming and miserable toward immigrants that they would deport themselves. Meanwhile, Democrats, including the president, were stymied by Republican opposition from taking meaningful steps to solve the immigration problem.
The problem is that as many as 11 million people live in the United States illegally. The problem for them is that they must live in the shadow of the fear that at any time they could be snatched up, jailed and deported for a violation that is not even a criminal offense. It is a violation of civil law. They are also vulnerable to unscrupulous employers and are barred from essential services and rights like the right to drive.
The problem for business is that these workers form a labor pool that is exploitable, meaning unscrupulous employers can undercut businesses that play by the book. It is questionable whether foreign labor is stealing jobs from American workers. Rather, immigrant labor is performing work that local workers shun slaughtering cattle, picking tomatoes, cleaning hotel rooms, milking cows.
Vermont farmers depend on unauthorized Mexican farmworkers which means that Vermonts economy does also. As many as 1,500 immigrants are at work on Vermont farms. They have made a difficult journey like the one most of our immigrant ancestors made, in search of opportunity. They do not deserve to be treated as an underclass. They should not have to live in fear, afraid to leave the farm to buy groceries, visit their childrens school or go to the doctors office. They deserve some form of legal license to drive. Eventually, they deserve the right to show that they will become good citizens of the United States.
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Giving them license to drive is the least of it. Congress must continue to make strides toward compassionate treatment of those among us who arrived not at Ellis Island, but at Addison or Bridport, where they are milking the cows that are at the center of Vermonts agricultural economy and where they are beginning a new life north of the border.MORE IN CommentarySure, you can buy your uncle a necktie that he wont wear, or your niece an Amazon certificate... Full StoryFor the past month, I have been watching close friends and family descending into a pit of... Full StoryAdjusting to snow, sleet and cold after spending over a month in an exponentially warmer climate ... Full Story
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