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Editor's note: The authors of Linux Security Cookbook have selected a number of recipes from their book to present here. These recipes are organized into basic, intermediate, and advanced categories. This week's set consists of three recipes of a basic flavor. Over the next two weeks we'll present the intermediate and then advanced recipes. There'll be something for everyone here. Enjoy.
Author's note: SSH is a protocol for secure, remote logins and file copying; and OpenSSH, provided with most Linux distributions, is its most popular implementation. This recipe, selected from Chapter 6 on "Protecting Outgoing Network Connections," shows you how to use public-key authentication to prove your identity to a remote OpenSSH server, a technique more secure than using login passwords.
You want to set up public-key authentication between an OpenSSH client and an OpenSSH server.
Generate a key if necessary:
$ mkdir -p ~/.ssh If it doesn't already exist
$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
$ cd ~/.ssh
$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
Copy the public key to the remote host:
$ scp -p id_dsa.pub remoteuser@remotehost:
Password: ********
Log into the remote host and install the public key:
$ ssh -l remoteuser remotehost
Password: ********
remotehost$ mkdir -p ~/.ssh If it doesn't already exist
remotehost$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
remotehost$ cat id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (Appending)
remotehost$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
remotehost$ mv id_dsa.pub ~/.ssh Optional, just to be organized
remotehost$ logout
Log back in via public-key authentication:
$ ssh -l remoteuser remotehost
Enter passphrase for key '/home/smith/.ssh/id_dsa': ********
OpenSSH public keys go into the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Older versions of OpenSSH, however, require SSH-2 protocol keys to be in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2.
Public-key authentication lets you prove your identity to a remote host using a cryptographic key instead of a login password. SSH keys are more secure than passwords because keys are never transmitted over the network, whereas passwords are (albeit encrypted). Also, keys are stored encrypted, so if someone steals yours, it's useless without the passphrase for decrypting it. A stolen password, on the other hand, is immediately usable.
An SSH "key" is actually a matched pair of keys stored in two files. The private or secret key remains on the client machine, encrypted with a passphrase. The public key is copied to the remote (server) machine. When establishing a connection, the SSH client and server perform a complex negotiation based on the private and public key, and if they match (in a cryptographic sense), your identity is proven and the connection succeeds.
To set up public-key authentication, first create an OpenSSH key pair, if you don't already have one:
$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/smith/.ssh/id_dsa): <RETURN>
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): *******
Enter same passphrase again: *******
Your identification has been saved in id_dsa
Your public key has been saved in id_dsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is: 76:00:b3:e8:99:1c:07:9b:84:af:67:69:b6:b4:12:17
Copy the public key to the remote host using password authentication:
$ scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub remoteuser@remotehost:
Password: *********
id_dsa.pub 100% |*****************************| 736 00:03
Log into the remote host using password authentication:
$ ssh -l remoteuser remotehost
Password: ********
If your local and remote usernames are the same, you can omit the
-l remoteuser part and just type
On the remote host, create the ~/.ssh directory if it doesn't already exist and set its mode appropriately:
remotehost$ mkdir -p ~/.ssh
remotehost$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
Then append the contents of id_dsa.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys:
remotehost$ cat id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (Appending)
remotehost$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Log out of the remote host and log back in. This time you'll be prompted for your key passphrase instead of your password:
$ ssh -l remoteuser remotehost
Enter passphrase for key '/home/smith/.ssh/id_dsa': *******
and you're done! If things aren't working, rerun
with the
-v option (verbose) to help diagnose the
The SSH server must be configured to permit public-key authentication, which is the default:
PubkeyAuthentication yes If no, change it and restart sshd
For more convenience, you can eliminate the passphrase prompt using
ssh-agent [Recipe 6.9] and create host
aliases in ~/.ssh/config. [Recipe 6.12]
SSH-2 Key File Formats
The two major implementations of SSHŚOpenSSH and SSH Secure Shell ("SSH2")Śuse different file formats for SSH-2 protocol keys. (Their SSH-1 protocol keys are compatible.) OpenSSH public keys for the SSH-2 protocol begin like this:
SSH Secure Shell public keys for the SSH-2 protocol look like this:
These keys are installed differently too. For OpenSSH, you insert your public keys into the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. For SSH Secure Shell, you copy your public key files into the directory ~/.ssh2 and reference them in the file ~/.ssh2/authorization by name:
As for private keys, OpenSSH has no special requirements for installation, but SSH Secure Shell does. You must reference them in the file ~/.ssh2/identification by name:
Author's note: If someone steals one of your backup tapes, your sensitive information could become compromised. This recipe, excerpted from Chapter 7 on "Protecting Files," illustrates how to encrypt the contents of a backup tape using GnuPG (gpg), a popular encryption program for Linux and other operating systems.
You want to create an encrypted backup.
Method 1: Pipe through
To write a tape:
$ tar cf - mydir | gpg -c | dd of=/dev/tape bs=10k
To read a tape:
$ dd if=/dev/tape bs=10k | gpg --decrypt | tar xf -
To write an encrypted backup of directory mydir onto a CD-ROM:
mkdir destdir
tar cf - mydir | gpg -c > destdir/myfile.tar.gpg
mkisofs -R -l destdir | cdrecord speed=${SPEED} dev=${SCSIDEVICE} -
SPEED and
are specific to your system; see
Method 2: Encrypt files separately.
Make a new directory containing links to your original files:
$ cp -lr mydir newdir
In the new directory, encrypt each file, and remove the links to the unencrypted files:
$ find newdir -type f -exec gpg -e '{}' \; -exec rm '{}' \;
Back up the new directory with the encrypted data:
$ tar c newdir
Method 1 produces a backup that may be considered fragile: one big encrypted file. If part of the backup gets corrupted, you might be unable to decrypt any of it.
Method 2 avoids this problem. The
cp -l option creates
hard links, which can only be used within a single filesystem.
If you want the encrypted files on a separate filesystem, use symbolic links instead:
$ cp -sr /full/path/to/mydir newdir
$ find newdir -type l -exec gpg -e '{}' \; -exec rm '{}' \;
Note that a full, absolute pathname must be used for the original directory in this case.
gpg does not preserve the owner, group, permissions, or
modification times of the files. To retain this information in your backups,
copy the attributes from the original files to the encrypted files, before the
links to the original files are deleted:
# find newdir -type f -exec gpg -e '{}' \; \
-exec chown --reference='{}' '{}.gpg' \;
-exec chmod --reference='{}' '{}.gpg' \;
-exec touch --reference='{}' '{}.gpg' \;
-exec rm '{}' \;
Method 2 and the CD-ROM variant of method 1 use disk space (at least temporarily) for the encrypted files.
Author's note: Each system log file in /var/log contains different information about your running Linux system. This recipe from Chapter 9 on "Testing and Monitoring" shows how to merge multiple log files, keeping the lines in sorted order by timestamp, which is trickier than you might think.
You want to merge a collection of log files into a single, chronological log file.
perl -ne \
'print $last, /last message repeated \d+ times$/ ? "\0" : "\n" if $last;
chomp($last = $_);
if (eof) {
undef $last;
}' "$@" | sort -s -k 1,1M -k 2,2n -k 3,3 | tr '\0' '\n'
The system logger automatically prepends a timestamp to each message, like this:
Feb 21 12:34:56 buster kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
To merge log files, sort each one by its timestamp entries, using the first three fields (month, date, and time) as keys.
A complication arises because the system logger inserts "repetition messages" to conserve log file space:
Feb 21 12:48:16 buster last message repeated 7923 times
The timestamp for the repetition message is often later than the last message. It would be terribly misleading if possibly unrelated messages from other log files were merged between the last message and its associated repetition message.
To avoid this, our Perl script glues together the last message with a subsequent repetition message (if present), inserting a null character between them: this is reliable because the system logger never writes null characters to log files. The script writes out the final line before the end of each file and then forgets the last line, to avoid any possibility of confusion if the next file happens to start with an unrelated repetition message.
sort command sees these null-glued
combinations as single lines, and keeps them together as the files are merged.
The null characters are translated back to newlines after the files are sorted,
to split the combinations back into separate lines.
We use
sort -s to avoid sorting entire lines if all of
the keys are equal: this preserves the original order of messages with the same
timestamp, at least within each original log file.
If you have configured the system logger to write messages to multiple log
files, then you may wish to remove duplicates as you merge. This can be done by
sort -u instead of
-s, and
adding an extra sort key
-k 4 to compare the message
contents. There is a drawback, however: messages could be rearranged if they
have the same timestamp. All of the issues related to
-s and
-u are consequences of the one-second resolution
of the timestamps used by the system logger.
We'll note a few other pitfalls related to timestamps. The system logger does not record the year, so if your log files cross a year boundary, then you will need to merge the log files for each year separately, and concatenate the results. Similarly, the system logger writes timestamps using the local time zone, so you should avoid merging log files that cross a daylight saving time boundary, when the timestamps can go backward. Again, split the log files on either side of the discontinuity, merge separately, and then concatenate.
If your system logger is configured to receive messages from other machines, note that the timestamps are generated on the machine where the log files are stored. This allows consistent sorting of messages even from machines in different time zones.
Be sure to check back here next week for recipes from Linux Security Cookbook on how to restrict access to network services by time of day, and on how to use sudo to permit read-only access to a shared file.
Return to Linux DevCenter.
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Some think that the hype surrounding the Apple iPhone started in January of 2007, but that's not true. The hype started many years ago, perhaps before creating such a device was even a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. After so many years of rumors about the mythical iPhone, so many fake (or scrapped?) mockups, so many fake (or scrapped) names, and a brief experiment with the now-failed Motorola ROKR, Apple finally went ahead and launched the device that Apple fans have been craving since the beginning of time—or at least since Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 and killed off the Newton.
And of course, to do something simultaneously predictable and shocking, the company called the device by its long-rumored, but never-quite-accepted nickname, the "iPhone."
The iPhone is now out and promises to revolutionize the way we use our phones forever. You don't have to love it; you don't even have to like it. You will, however, be witness to a great upheaval in the mobile communications business because of it.
Steve Jobs recently declared during an internal company meeting that he believes all phones will, some day, work the same way as the iPhone and that those who worked at Apple during the iPhone launch will be able to tell their grandchildren about it. It appears as if Jobs truly believes in this product as a long-term revolutionary device, even if he does acknowledge that it does come with various flaws today.
Outline of the review
Our iPhone review is rather large because we unleashed three (and a half) reviewers on it, all coming from different backgrounds. We pooled our thoughts together, had a few fistfights and a squabble or two ("Keyboard sucks!" "Does not!"), and now present to you our full review. Check out the outline beforehand, or just jump on in.
Size Comparison
General usage
Screen Sensor
The Keyboard
Safari on the iPhone
Google Maps
Other widgets
iPhone as a phone
Making calls
Call quality
Visual Voicemail
Volume concerns
iPod use
State of the Hacks
iPhone without AT&T
iPhone files system
No Apple TV here
Stress Testing
Meet the iPhone
The iPhone currently comes in two flash-based storage flavors: 4GB and 8GB. They are WiFi-, Bluetooth-, and USB-enabled. Contrary to initial reports and speculation about the device, current iterations of the iPhone do not include a GPS unit, although there are still rumors that such a thing may be incorporated into future versions. The box is smallish—not as small as the boxes that Apple now uses for full-size, fifth-generation iPods, but about the same size as one would expect when purchasing a cell phone of this size—with a matte black finish, similar to that of the MacBook Pro and true to Apple's current packaging style.
Inside the box is the iPhone and a packet with the iPhone booklet and a soft
wipe cloth. Underneath, there is a standard iPod/iPhone USB connection cable, a
tiny AC adapter brick, a dock, and the iPhone headphones.
For the longtime iPod owners in the house, this is a familiar scene, but this many accessories may or may not continue to come included in the box as future iPhone generations get released. As one commenter aptly observed in the discussion about Infinite Loop's iPhone unboxing photos, "Look at all those accessories. I can't wait for the 3rd or so generation iPhone that comes with a phone and a cable."
Like a tall iPod...
The iPhone's size is best described as a regular-sized, video iPod, but taller. In fact, the width is exactly the same as an iPod at 2.4 inches and barely thicker than an iPod: the iPhone is 0.46 inches thick while the iPod is 0.43 inches. Height-wise, the iPhone is 4.5 inches tall, and an iPod is 4.1 inches tall. Physically, they are very similar, and we find the iPhone to be comfortable in the hand and in the front pocket of our pants.
Curiously, the video iPod and the iPhone weigh the same at 4.8 ounces each, despite the iPhone being flash-based and the iPod containing a hard drive.
Some readers have complained that the iPhone is too heavy. The Motorola Q—a Windows SmartPhone that's popular in the business world—weighs in at 4.0 ounces, while the BlackBerry Pearl is 3.2 ounces. The BlackBerry 7130e, which is rather close in size to the iPhone, weighs 4.7 ounces. In short, the iPhone's weight is in the right neighborhood, and no one on our review team found it cumbersome or irritating.
Compared to a BlackBerry Pearl (2 inches wide, 0.6 inches thick, and 4.2 inches tall), an iPhone is slightly taller by 0.3 inches, slightly wider by 0.4 inches, and slightly thinner by 0.14 inches. Notice the significant difference in screen real estate between the two (which helps to explain the difference in weight as well, as the iPhone's glass screen is quite large).
Compared to a Motorola RAZR V3 (2.09 inches wide, 0.54 inches thick, and 3.86 inches tall while closed), the iPhone is a fair bit larger.
The iPhone isn't the world's smallest phone, but its sleek design and particularly its thickness make this an easy phone to pocket.
Now let's get up close and personal with the iPhone.

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HYDE PARK A woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death after a night of heavy drinking told another person hours earlier that she wanted to kill and eat someone, according to court documents.
The comments were included in documents prosecutors provided to the court Thursday, according to The Burlington Free Press.
Among the documents was a sworn statement from a Morrisville man who said he was drinking with Jeanette Maxfield, 23, the afternoon before Christopher Cafferky, 49, was stabbed to death.
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Lamoille County States Attorney Joel Page said the comments and text are proof that Maxfield should remain held without bail while awaiting trial in Cafferkys killing.
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Dodger "Think Clue" Scavenger Hunt
Saturday August 8th, the Dodgers held a special Scavenger hunt throughout Los Angeles. I decided to participate but I was not as prepared as some other fans. Some anticipated locations. A father and son decided to start at the LA Coliseum so they guessed one of the locations. Another one decided to already start at the Universal City Walk where there is a Dodger Store but that was not one of the locations.
At 10:00 a.m. the Dodgers sent a tweet with the locations where five special Dodger Items were "hidden" throughout Los Angeles. the locations were:
Dodger Stadium, parking lot P by the Top of the Park where Kenny Landreaux was with the 1981 World Series trophy.
A strip of grass from Dodger Stadium located at the Angel's Flight railway station in Downtown LA
Los Angeles Boys and Girls Dreamfield had the Dodgers Kids Backpack
Duke Snider Bobblehead was located at Vin Scully's star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame
a 1944 throwback Brooklyn jersey and hat that was located at the Los Angeles Coliseum
All participants got a pair of tickets that we selected from the list. Tickets will be on Will Call on day of game. I had fun doing this and will do it again if the Dodgers offer it again.
The top five winners received two field-level tickets to each game during the club's upcoming six-game homestand (Aug 8-14) and will be brought down onto the field prior to a designated game to meet Dodgers manager Don Mattingly and watch batting practice.
Team Penguino took first place and Steve Chai's team took second. Another winner was team Attamiamo and Ayala.
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Hey Jenn. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. I would do the scanvenger hunt again if they do it next year but I would be more prepared the second time around. I love the throwback unis. The guys look like little boys in their pajamas🙂. Another thing I like is the half price on food and drinks and more Nancy Bea playing the organ of old music.
I just wished the Phillies would have worn throwback unis too. We have one more Throwback day with the Padres on Wednesday 8/30.
Hey Emma!
I was looking for you a couple of weeks ago when mom and I saw you before the game, but I didn't find you. No, I didn't get off my rear end and walk around (I was busy keeping score) but I didn't see you anyways. You were probably there, and I just didn't notice. Sorry. My mom and I will be at this Sunday's game – mom's usual seats. Let me now if you'll be roaming around the Reserved section.
Oh, and Emma. The next throwback day is with the Padres on Wednesday, but the date is 8/31! 🙂
Carol, I was one or two rows aisles from you. I was sitting with a friend.
Here I an at Matt Kemp's signing. We came right after the game. It is colder right now about 5 am because of the marine layer here in Redondo Beach.


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Career Clinic: Inappropriate comments at work?
I'm new at my bank and enjoy my work but an established, and well-liked, colleague is making things uncomfortable with inappropriate comments. How do I raise this?
This is a delicate one. Clearly, no one should have to tolerate inappropriate comments in the workplace – after all, you are there to do a job, not to be put off doing it by the behaviour of others. But equally, get this wrong, and you risk excluding yourself from the group. That's important not just for your career but, as you probably spend most of your waking hours with these people, it's also pretty fundamental for your daily life.
It is rare for people to consult a lawyer at this stage. The best thing to do is to tackle it proactively, one-on-one, up-front and, above all, carefully. If you can, find an opportunity to take your colleague to one side quietly and in private, to avoid embarrassing them in front of others. Explain how the comments made you feel and directly ask the colleague not to make them. But, very importantly, do this in a gentle and straightforward way, without making it a massive deal. And be sure to end the conversation nicely. If this person is well-liked, that's probably for a reason. He/she may not realise the impact the comments have had and the safest approach is to assume that is the case.
Another way would be to mention it to a sympathetic (and also popular) colleague, who might be in a position to notice and speak up when the next comment comes along. Again, do this in a non-threatening way; ideally you want this type of behaviour to go away without having to get into a battle over it. Most people who are well-liked do generally notice when, for some reason, their comments are not so well-liked, so again this might be a low volume way to address it.
But if these fail, you will need to be assertive and speak up because it is clear that the colleague won't simply stop. It is unlawful discrimination and harassment to subject others to sexist, nationalist, homophobic or offensive religious comments (or any other conduct related either to these issues) or to age, race or disability, which makes the workplace hostile, degrading, intimidating or oppressive for you. Ultimately you could win a tribunal claim if you prove this, but presumably your priority is to stop it happening in the first place.
In most banks, there are informal and formal ways to raise and escalate concerns about discrimination and harassment, generally found in the staff handbook on the intranet. If you do decide to take this route, be sure to make a careful note of each of the incidents before you do (detailing where, when and who was there, what comments were made, by whom, and any documents that relate to the incidents, as they happen). This will help you feel confident with your clarity on the detail. If in any doubt, take advice. Sometimes it is the manner and tone of communications that can make all the difference.
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"You can see why," Raptors coach Jay Triano said. "To beat a team like this, we need to have our guys playing a lot better than they did today. You can go through the list and see who didn't play well for us. When your list is that long you're not going to beat the better teams, and this is one of the best teams in the NBA right now."
What more can you say? TOR has been playing well at home lately and we come out and do exactly what a good team should do against an inferior foe- jump on them early and take them out of the game.
NOt only did we come out with fire and energy, but we held on to the lead all game and closed out in the 4th. AN EASY WIN.
We're not forced to sit here and moan about how hard it is to win without Ronnie Turiaf.
We're 9-1 in last 10 games (1 loss in DEN was close).
We've won 7 consecutive road games. BEST road team in mlb, and longest NYK streak since the '94-'95 season.
Some people didn't understand how significant the move from Duhon-Lee to Felton-STAT would be. I think they see it now. ON and OFF the court.
Fields has been terrific. Chandler and Gallo growing, playing more well-rounded games; and now former 1st round pick Williams is taking advantage of his opportunity.
Let's win the next 3 and go .500 when the schedule gets tough. DEN-BOS-MIA at home.


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All-in-one chunky winter broth
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- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal219
- fat3g
- saturates1g
- carbs34g
- sugars0g
- fibre12g
- protein16g
- salt3.61g
- 2 x 400g/14oz cans chopped tomatoes
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- 2litres/3½ pints vegetable stock
- 4 carrot, peeled and sliced
The carrot, with its distinctive bright orange colour, is one of the most versatile root…
- 2 x 420g/15oz cans mixed beans, drained and rinsed
- 175g spinach
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- 1 tbsp roasted red pepper pesto
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Tip the canned tomatoes into a saucepan along with the stock, bring to the boil, then turn down the heat and throw in the carrots. Gently simmer the soup until the carrots are cooked, about 15 minutes.
Stir in the pulses and spinach and heat until the spinach has wilted. Spoon in the pesto and gently mix into the soup. Serve with some crusty bread.
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Really not a great recipe this. Far too much liquid in the standard recipe and fairly dull flavour wise. As per others I used just under half of the stock but added a small amount of chilli, some moroccan spice and seasoning. Also took a lot longer than 20 mins to get it all cooked properly. I'd personally suggest that this be slow cooked for at least an hour to get the most out of the recipe and any adjustments you have made
Having read some of the other comments on here first, I made a few alterations to the recipe and it was really tasty. It also made enough for 5 lunches which was perfect. As others have suggested, I only used 1 litre of stock- this seemed plenty. I then substituted one of the carrots for a potato cut into tiny chunks and also added finely chopped onion. Will definitely make this again for a warming lunch.
This soup is lovely once you've made a few adjustments therefore I would say that the actual recipe is poor. As others have noted, there is way too much liquid!! I used less than half of that in the recipe. It also needs to be simmered gently for much longer in order to cook the carrots and develop the flavours and the carrots need to be chopped very small. I also added a tsp of sugar, a good pinch of salt, black pepper, 1/2 tsp of dried basil and twice the pesto. Delicious, simple and healthy - in the end!
We've just made this recipe from the Good Food cook book we have. The photo and description made it look and sound wonderful. With hindsight I wish I had read the comments on here first. The addition of a sausage or two does sound like it would go really well. And we definitely found it to be too watery. I'd recommend 1 ot 1.5 ltrs of stock. 2 ltrs is definitely way too much. All that aside, it didn't taste bad, it was quite nice actually. I get the feeling with a little tweaking it would be a firm favorite.
I love this broth I have made this loads of times. I have read the comments and did a few changes myself I only used 2 pints of stock threw in a handful of red lentils . I put in a few more carrots in and 1 Parsnip, and a good pinch of chilli flakes. it makes loads I'm on a Slimming World Diet if you use sacla roasted Pepper Pesto a Tbsp is only 2 sins for the whole pan so fill your boots Dont eat it with bread tho if your on the diet.
I agree with the above comments 2litres/3½ pints vegetable stock made it far too watery and very bland. It wouldn't reduce down even though I cooked it longer, and it was just like hot water with carrots floating in it. I also didn't add as many stock cubes as required for the stock as I thought it would be far too salty. Its a shame because it looks lovely in the photo, and not watery at all.
Loved this recipe. I added lentils and chopped quorn sausages to thicken it up as before the consistency was too watery and also chilli flakes to give it a bit of a kick. It makes a perfect filling lunch for work and I got 6 good sized tupperware's out of this recipe. Will definitely be making it again once I finally eat it all!
Firstly, I amended the recipe by adding 2 leeks as I had them lying around...
Secondly, i used tomato and chilli pesto instead of roasted red pepper, no particular reason, just fancied it!...
Thirdly, I used 1 litre of veg stock and found it still has a fairly watery consistency, so I'm REALLY glad I didn't use two litres, that would have been ridiculous!...
On the whole, an ok recipe and nice idea to add the pesto for flavour, but certainly not one of the better ones on here.
The limitations of my local shops and cookware meant that I used only 600g of mixed beans and 2 pints of veg stock - I couldn't physically get any more stock in my largest pan, and it's just as well or it would have been quite watery! I also used sundried red tomato pesto (and popped in three teaspoonfuls - I like pesto), and probably had the soup on on the hob a good 10 mins longer than noted. I did enjoy this however, but will definitely try out adding sausages next time!
Having had this for dinner tonight, I can understand Mark's comments. However, I did a bit of tweaking and it turned out extremely well. First of all, I assembled the whole thing in the slow cooker and left it for about 5 hours, so there's your first difference. Secondly, I included two large Cumberland sausages that I'd pan-fried to reduce the fat loading and to brown them. The flavours weren't really gelling together, so to encourage them, I added a few shots of Worcester Sauce and some tomato ketchup which did the trick. Oh, and two green chillis - chopped and de-seeded. Definitely a do-again!
The whole family loves this recipe, it's really tasty and healthy too :o) sometimes I add some sausage to make it a meaty dish but the best thing i have found is to get italian mixed beans (do not drain and rinse!!)and chopped tomatoes with herbs both from teco and both add stunning flavour to this dish. Hope you enjoy it as much as me and my family do
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Web services are becoming the basis for electronic commerce of all forms. Companies invoke the services of other companies to accomplish a business transaction. In an environment in which only a few companies participate, managing the discovery of business partners manually would be simple. After all, how difficult would it be to figure out if one of your few business partners has an access point that adheres to your requirements? This model breaks down, however, as the number of companies that you need to interact with grows, along with the number and types of interfaces they export. How do you discover all the business partners that you can do business with? If you attempted to account for them manually, you could never be sure that you discovered every partner. UDDI is a single conceptual registry distributed among many nodes that replicate the participating businesses' data with one another. The UDDI registry of services (hosted by different businesses on the Internet) attempts to solve this problem.
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Old defensive liability power hitters who strikeout 150+ times a year and can't hang in the National League should retire.
And yes, perhaps players should go back to wool uniforms ('cuz when you're itchy, you play with an edge).
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Jeff – that was more info then I needed to know about Albert Pujols.
LOL.. I second what Julia said..
I hope you [and no1 else on in the US of A] has to ever wear a Detroit jersey =) [No offense Al ;)]
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Jeff, do you follow Albert on Twitter? If so, I think you should tell him how you feel about him – like you did with Zito. LOL!
I can't wait. The squeeze play is the most exciting play in all of sports. That's what I miss most about the NL and Tony LaRussa. Wedge hates the squeeze play. Wedge also apparently hates common sense so…
I totally agree – why shouldn't pitchers hit? Hamels once referred to hitting as "not really my job" and I wanted to reach through the TV and strangle him!
Jeff- I have to agree with you that pitchers should hit. However, with that in mind, I'm pretty sure that makes the DH the most overrated, and probably overpaid, role in baseball.
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John Shoulders or John Showler Aylesbury Buckinghamshire
I am sitting here wondering if I should get excited or just stay calm. I'm wondering if after 20 odd years, I've actually found when my ancestor John Shoulders arrived in NSW.
All the information that I know up today, was that he married Mary Ryan (Ryan is on the marriage certificate but actual maiden name was Hanratty), in 1851 at Armidale.
John & Mary had 4 children, of who the youngest Ellen Shoulders was my GG Grandmother. According to her birth certificate in 1856, John was aged '40' and had been born in Aylesbury Buckinghamshire.
John died in May 1858 at Hernani, New South Wales. His death certificate stated that he was 42 and had been in the colony for 26 years, making his arrival to be about 1832 and therefore making his age to be about 16 when he arrived. I've never been able to find what ship he arrived. With his age and the year of arrival, I always wondered, was he a convict?
A few weeks ago I requested a research service from the Buckinghamshire Family History Society to provide a list of all the baptism's, burials & marriages for the surname of Shoulders, spanning from 1750-1850 across Buckinghamshire, using all possible variant spellings, including Shouldar, Showler, Shouler, Shouldar. With this, there were a few possibilities with baptisms in Aylesbury ranging from 1804 to 1816.
I then did a search on the NSW State Record Online Index for John, using a number of different variant spellings, which I had not considered doing before.
This is what I find:
- SHOWLER John Countess of Harcourt 1828 33/758 Ticket of Leave [4/4090; Reel 920] District: Inverary; Tried: Bucks QS
- SHOWLER John Countess of Harcourt 1828 40/0846 15 May 1840 Certificate of Freedom [4/4358; Reel 1006] TL 33/758
I then checked the UK, Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books, 1802-1849 Record for John Showler and find that he was tried at Aylesbury Buckinghamshire on the 15th January 1828 for stealing bacon, and pork. Another record shows that John was 21 and that he is listed as being in custody before and of 'bad character'. His NSW convict indent in 1828 though shows that he was only 20. He arrived in April 1828 but does not appear in the NSW 1828 Census.
From checking the baptism records a John Showler, the closest possible baptism is one that is recorded in 1804 to parents James & Esther both of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Despite this John Showler being about 10 years older than John Shoulders, could he actually be John Shoulders? There are no records of John Shoulders prior to his marriage in 1851 in NSW or any of the other Australian states and apart from the TOL and CF that John Showler received in 1840, there appears so far to be no other record of John Showler in NSW. I note that at this present time I am in no way confirming that John Showler is John Shoulders but just putting it out there that MAYBE they might be the one and the same. So if you are connected to the Shouler/Showler family in Aylesbury Buckinghamshire, let me know and maybe we might be able to confirm the connection. I am the type of person who will not confirm a connection until I have positive proof.
I also note that a Thomas Showler, also arrived in 1832 on board the Georgina. On his convict indent, it states that he had a cousin John Showler living in the colony for 3 years.
- SHOWLER Thomas Georgiana 1831 38/1157 Ticket of Leave [4/4121; Reel 930] District: Goulburn; Born: Bucks; Trade: Ploughs; Tried: Bucks QS
- SHOWLER Thomas Georgiana 1831 49/0225 11 May 1849 Certificate of Freedom [4/4412; Reel 1026] TL 39/1157
I've also found reference to a James Shoulder born Aylesbury, who had served in the 11th Dragoons. From checking James' military record on Find My Past, James had enlisted in 1817 and was discharged in 1838. He is in the 1841 census and living at Aylesbury, also in the household is a Mary Showler (45), Thomas Wheeler (20) and Joseph Freman (10). The next census I find James is in the 1871 census and he is living at Chelsea London with his wife Elizabeth (60) and with two children Henry (20) and Sophia (19). From checking and comparing the baptism records for Aylesbury, it appears James's parents were Thomas & Mary or Maria and is 'possibly' the brother to Thomas Showler, the convict who arrived here in 1832, as his parents appear to have been Thomas & Maryann.
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October 6, 2016At Johns Hopkins University, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr., observed the 50th anniversary of the Coleman Report and discussed the report's relevance for policy and practice today. The Secretary also discussed the Obama Administration's efforts to improve education for disadvantaged students, promote diversity in schools, and work with states to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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Philadelphia Phillies Shirt Giveaway
This week's giveaway is a Philadelphia Phillies T-Shirt. It is the fourth in a series of weekly giveaways leading up to opening day. I've been posting everyday (30 consecutive so far) leading up to opening day, and giving stuff away to thank my readers.
To date,
I've given away a Matt Wieters shirt to Joey Orr,
a Brandon Phillips shirt to Matt Jackson,
and a Dustin Pedroia shirt to Stephen D.
The shirt(s) I'm giving away this week are…
A Ryan Howard Nike shirt.
This shirt not only is very colorful, but also is the perfect shirt to wear when sitting near the Phillies dugout. Ryan Howard will probably end up with the third out ball in about half of the innings. Simply stand up in this shirt and raise your glove. He'll see the shirt and have to hook you up.
I'm also giving away this Philadelphia Phillies shirt:
It features the 'classic print' design, which is one of my favorite Majestic shirts designs.
Or, how about a Roy Halladay shirt?
That's right, it says Doc-tober, and I think you can figure out why.
How about a clever Hunter Pence shirt?
Get it? Pence-ylvania… Pennsylvania.
The winner of this weeks entry gets their choice of any of those four shirts. I can get you pretty much any size you want, as the local sports store has many different sizes in stock.
I post blog entries every day. All you have to do is leave a comment or retweet my blog link on twitter.
So, again, to enter:
1) Leave a comment.
You can enter up to seven times per week simply by leaving a comment. Non-pertinent, spam, or inappropriate comments will not be accepted. If you comment multiple times on the same blog entry, it still counts as one entry. For example, if you commented on three different blog posts from this week, you'd have three entries. If you'd comment three times on the same blog posting, it would could as one.
2) Retweet (RT) my posts on Twitter
You can find me on twitter under 333greystreet. Simply retweet my daily posts of my blog link and I'll count that as an entry. My blog is connected to my twitter so that I automatically tweet once I post a new entry. Each day, I'll search who's retweeted me and enter those users into a hat along with the commenters. By the way, you do not need to retweet my every tweet, only the tweets that announce a new blog post and url. For example, if I tweeted, 'Rerun of the Pirates Opening Day 2011 on tonight,' if you retweeted it, it wouldn't count as an entry.
At the end of the week on Sunday, I'll have Olivia, Amy or I will choose a name from a hat and announce the winner.
Also, I've decided to giveaway more shirts this week based on the performance of my blog. For each day that my blog gets over 1,000 views, I'll choose another Phillies shirt winner at the end of this week. So, I could possibly be giving away seven Phillies shirts this week.
Why spend $25 in a store or $15 on ebay when you can get them for free here?
Since my blog began in 2008, I've had four days that I've had over 1,000 views, with my busiest day coming back in April 2011 when I had 11,441 views.
That's because of THIS VIDEO that I shot.
So far this month, I've had a few days where I've been between 600-700 views, but haven't been able to break that elusive 1,000 barrier in a day yet this year.
Maybe all of the Phillies fans out there will change that. Maybe a Phillies player will tweet this giveaway to Phillies fans and make me honor my offer and give away a bunch of shirts. I hope so.
Anyhow, my question is, in an NL East consisting of the Phillies, Braves, Marlins, Nationals, and Mets, where do you think the Phillies will finish?
If you have them finishing first? How far do you think they go in the playoffs? If they're not winning their division, who is?
I think the Phillies are too good of a team to not win the division. The Marlins and Nationals are much improved and will be major players this year, so I don't think the Phillies will win 102 games again this year, but they'll be in the mid 90's and well on their way to another shot at the World Series.
There's only 45 days until opening day, and 12 days the first broadcasted game on MLB TV (Yankees vs Phillies).
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Website marketing at it's finest Mr. Jabs! Keep it up and go Cubbies haha
Awesome! If I win i'm gonna get that Roy Halladay shirt!
Nice shirts. Really like the howard one.
That Majestic classic one looks awesome!
I think the Phillies will win the division as well and common sense tells me the Braves finish 2nd but watch out for the Nationals. I think they can make things interesting. Sadly I agree that my beloved Mets will have a trying season.
Erik – You can take my name out of this week's drawing as I couldn't be caught dead in a Phillies shirt..plus I'd rather give those the opportunity to win who would wear it. But of course I'll keep commenting.
There's no question the Phillies will win the NL East. I'm calling them NL Champions.
nice shirts
I think that we should be able to win the NL East this year and hopefully go pretty far in the playoffs, but there are some good teams out there so we will see. Things are looking good with Howard so that will surely be a plus.
Sweet shirts! Well it all comes down to pitching so my rankings go.
Marlins and Braves could be interchangeable.
Cool set of shirts. Hope you get the 1000 views
Braves are my pick to win the NL east Philly is good but the team is aging Miami bought every heavily overvalued free agent on the market, and washington still has rotation issues (but strausberg will make them better). And the mets are flat broke.
Cool shirts i hope i win i need some ball hawking shirts


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Illinois Learning Standards
Social/Emotional Learning (SEL)
The standards describe the content and skills for students in grades K - 12 for social and emotional learning. Each standard includes five benchmark levels that describe what students should know and be able to do in early elementary (grades K - 3), late elementary (grades 4 - 5), middle/junior high (grades 6-8), early high school (grades 9-10), and late high school (grades 11-12). These standards build on the Illinois Social/Emotional Development Standards of the Illinois Early Learning Standards.
These standards have been developed in accordance with Section 15(a) of Public Act 93-0495. This Act calls upon the Illinois State Board of Education to "develop and implement a plan to incorporate social and emotional development standards as part of the Illinois Learning Standards."
- Goal 1 - Develop self-awareness and self-management skills to achieve school and life success. RTF PDF
- Goal 2 - Use social-awareness and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive relationships. RTF PDF
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Participants: Andy Morgan, Vice President/Justice Market Leader, Vanir Construction Management Inc.; Lou Cavagnaro, Assistant Director, Department of General Services, County of San Diego; Frank Roberts, Director, Durrant Justice; David Boehm, Architect, Senior Principal, DLR Group; Jim Mueller, Executive Director, KMD Justice, Mike Retford, Principal, Justice Architecture, AECOM
Q: Jim, with reference to design-build, what do you think over the course of the next few years, in terms of how it's going to affect the market?
Mueller: Well, our experience with it has been that 10 years ago, I'd say 20 percent of the work that we saw and pursued shall end to the alternative delivery method environment. Now that could be the two-stage design built, pure design built — all the variations. Now, in all of our public sector work, it's 70, 75, maybe as much as 80 percent. Interesting that I just received this morning a document from the DBIA, and they're indicating design-build currently accounts for over 40 percent of all nonresidential design and construction in the United States. I would say, in the public sector — and this is both in the federal arena as well as sort of the general public sector and specifically within corrections. I mean, it's 60, 65 percent of all the projects that we're aware of for solicitation are falling
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into some alternatives: design delivery environment. I don't see that's changing. Given the economic circumstances that prevail out there nowadays, I think given the reduced liability exposure to owners and design-build environments and the shedding of risk, it's almost inevitable that it will only precede more aggressively in the future.
Roberts: I would echo what Jim is saying. The business side of me says that we have to do something to be able to compete because if it continues the way it's going, you'll basically, for financial reasons, be squeezed out of a situation. I don't know what the break even number is that says we just can't afford to do that, but I know it will become more of a discussion in our board meetings than ever before.
Boehm: I think, first, we want to qualify that we're really talking about a design-build at risk or value base, opposed to a one-stage qualification base selection process. The question is how these extensive design efforts have an impact on the design side. Right now, when I look at the next few years, I see a lot of owners saying this has a way to get low-cost design ideas and competitive pricing from contractors. But I don't think that most owners know the effort that's required; I don't think they've been educated on that. I know that the GSA has not, and the large firm roundtable is in the process of trying to educate them as to how much money firms are actually studying on these things. I think quality firms will quit looking at these kinds of projects unless we're compensated by the owners. Contractors will eventually develop their own design departments, if this is the way the industry decides to go. I think that when you look at the bottom line, we're doing an awful lot of design for very little money. And there's a huge amount of waste and effort at the end of it.
Q: I do have a thought about qualification-based selection. I know in California it's very difficult to do that under the public contract code. Is that consistent in other states or special in California?
Retford: We see it all over the map. We see it differently in different states. But I will agree with Frank and Jim on this: in 15 years at AECOM, I've seen one qualification-based design-build project. We were fortunate enough to win it; it was a very successful project.
Q: What I'm hearing is the cost of the pursuit of this type of work seems to be the major stumbling block, is that correct?
Mueller: Yeah. How do you finance this kind of an at-risk investment?
Retford: I think there's a threefold answer to that. Number one is it's very costly to pursue. The other thing, and Frank you made the point about this, that it's also the cost impact of the people tied up in the pursuit, not working on paying work. So you take a double hit there, and then we're still at the mercy of our contract partner to get low.
Boehm: One of the issues — and I've talked to several contractors — and they like the design-build at risk approach because it really doesn't affect their business model to a great extent. They are still providing, basically, the same estimating type efforts. The architect is impacted, and you can't imagine a contractor building 30 to 40 percent of a project to get selected. Yet, the architect is expected to do 38 to 40 percent of his work effort to get selected. So, there's a huge disparity between the contracting side and their effort and the design side effort in these pursuits. Therefore, the people on the contracting side and the design-build of the Institute of America side — they don't see a problem with it. We're the ones that are getting severely impacted, especially if the projects get larger and larger and more and more complicated.
Q: What is it that you feel that they are asking for that's creating the dilemma?
Mueller: In anticipation of that, Andy, if you look at my experience and our experience, I suspect it's true of Mike and Frank and Dave also. Typically, what owners are asking for can typically represent approximately 50 percent of what you would totally invest in the execution of an entire project. In other words, you're going most of the time well into DD. If not true DD, then possibly, in some areas, into construction documents. Now let's say that you have a $100 million job. Let's say, for reasons of discussion, a normal fee for something like that is about seven percent on the AE side. And then you are now investing approximately 15 percent of that 7 percent of a $100 million dollar job into the development of documents for…solicitation. And the architect, typically, is a major component of that. In a normal design build environment, it's about a 50-50 split. In the design-build environment, I think the architect makes a substantially bigger investment relative to the consultants. So if it's about 75 percent of that number, of the 50 percent of the 7 percent, if you do numbers on a $100 million job, you're talking about a million dollars. You're talking about a million-dollar investment on the part of an architect alone. That's a huge investment against their potential revenue return on any project. So, what it ends up being is we are now looking at projects in an extremely selective way. And instead of pursuing … potential opportunities under a design build environment, we're looking at one opportunity to pursue in a design-build environment. So, it's reducing competition because I can't pursue all those projects. It's not a sustainable business model on the architectural or the design side of the equation.
Boehm: The reality is that unless you can win every one of these pursuits, there's not enough profit in these projects to have money left over to gamble with. The reality is that an architect's profit is a necessary thing so that we can compensate talent, build a business, take care of technology, all those issues. If we are spending our profit on gambling on pursuits, eventually, the pros will weaken and collapse. Trying to get fees that are large enough to cover that gambling requirement doesn't work because ultimately, each one of these is a price-based pursuit, and the contractors are putting pressure on the architects to lower their fees so that they can win the project because it's part of the cost. So it's a very, very difficult and vise-like situation for the design team.
Roberts: What the design-build process is asking architects and engineers to do is to design for free without sufficient compensation for our professional services. For example, one successful selection process was for a jail in Texas. The client used qualifications and best value to select the team. The county told the design-build teams: "This is how much money we have to spend on this project; what can you give us for that dollar amount in terms of more square footage or beds?" That project — which we won — was based on how much value we could give them for the amount of money that they had. We provided them concepts, but nowhere near the amount of design detail that is now being asked for more often in the design-build process. Maybe part of the solution in the future is for architects, contractors, vendors and clients to think about the design-build process a little differently than we currently do. This means focusing on value concepts rather than extensive design.
Q: What it sounds like to me is a change in format would help this process a whole lot. But you're a little bit in conflict with what I heard earlier, which was a large part of the work that you are doing is driven by the requirements of the contractors so that they've got enough detailed information to develop a price.
Mueller: I think you're correct. There is sort of a built-in contradiction there. I think builders have to get better at trusting their estimating capabilities at a more conceptual level. I think that is extremely difficult for a builder to do, and I don't know Frank and Dave and Mike — what your experiences are — but I signed very few builders, contractors, and I'm sure we've all worked with the same ones — they're the best ones in the country — that have a reliable, conceptual estimating capability. They just don't do that well.
Boehm: One of the bigger issues here is not working with a contractor. It's really, from the owner's side, unless the owner has a very good job at defining what they want, the design-build entities are kind of guessing. And the problem with a lot of these pursuits is that you can guess wrong because you're not given a really good opportunity to interact with the owner. I think most of us who are architects believe that interaction is critical in getting a project that is customized to what the owner's actual needs are. And when we have to interpret a program, design a project, it's kind of like going back to doing thesis in college. We're really not fully engaged with the owner, which, I think, is critical to the process. The other aspect is I think it's very difficult for an owner to evaluate these projects apples to apples.
Cavagnaro: The problem there is how much is needed for selection? From an owner's standpoint, it's not only a selection of the design-build entity. But it does go into context administration and what we are getting. And believe me, I understand the trusting environments that we need to have in a design-build. But especially when you're dealing with something really, really large — to know what we're getting from a quality perspective, it's part of the factor. I guess the general contractors have a part of that issue too because they want to trust that they can put a number on it from the design they get from the architect and they can actually build it from that.
Q: Building on a topic of how much information is really needed to make a decision, depending on who the ultimate end user is, it's likely not to be the department that you're directly contracting with. It could be the sheriff's department, health and human services, outside of the corrections world. It could be any number of other departments or users. The natural question is what are we going to get? Show us what we're going to get and how can we expect this to hold up over time. Does it meet certain levels of requirements or performance or program requirements that we need in order to function as the department?
Roberts: This whole issue is because of the cost of doing business. It's just gone off the charts. There was a time when you talked to contractors, and you were really talking to builders. You were talking to a project manager that built ten jails. You were talking to a project manager that had seen every situation in their career. And today, those people don't exist. The problem with that situation is when the experience is not there on both sides of the table in those discussions, the solution to that is to give me more information. Give me more information than your contractor can give me. Give me more so I can understand and you can educate me on this issue. So many projects that we have done, when we get into the construction phase, and you walk on the site, there's a bunch of kids on the side and they're managing the project. We keep looking for those that have seen every situation that's come up and can work their way through it. I think this issue of needing more information can be really laid at the feet of inexperience or no experience.
Boehm: Lou, you brought up the point about what you need to have to evaluate it. Frank was talking about what the contractor needs to bid. The reality of these projects, on a $100 million to $200 million dollar project, the contractors are taking a tremendous amount of risk putting a price together. So, he's demanding that the design team document the project to a very large extent so that he can literally bid that project and have assurances that those prices are real and that he can hold those subcontractors to those prices — that's just the reality of these things. You may not need to know what the structural system is or how it's framed, but the contractor does need to know that so he can bid it. Therefore, we have to provide it, which just ratchets up the cost that it takes the design team to do this.
Q: What do you think we can do differently — we, the industry — to further design-build or support it from the designer's perspective? What can we do differently that makes it easier on firms to pursue this kind of work?
Boehm: The issue here is what is the owner trying to get out of this process? And part of that, I think, is they're looking for different perspectives, design ideas, etc. But in reality, they're looking for that for free. I don't think owners understand the effort that the design team has to go through — I just don't think that's a consideration. So I think there's an education process, and I think one of the things that has to be done is that if an owner wants to look at different perspectives, they have to realize that there's a real cost there and there's a benefit to them, and that benefit has to be part of their project budget.
Q: So you think that they should pay for it, basically?
Boehm: Absolutely.
Retford: I look back at one of our most successful design-build projects and that was an open book process with a lot of potential for savings. It allowed each team to bring their creativity out on a limited scale during the competition because you weren't hard bidding the project at that point. They have a max budget that they're looking to achieve, and it was more about what can you do to hit or beat my budget. And if you beat my budget, I'll share those savings with you, as long as my basic parameters are achieved. I think that allows the design-build teams to bring the best value to the table. I think that's where it needs to get to — best value, not lowest dollar.


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PORTALES — Senior Megan Dozier scored in the first minute and junior Stephanie Sanchez provided solid play in goal, especially late, as the Eastern New Mexico University women's soccer team held off Dixie State 2-1 on Thursday at the ENMU pitch.
Dozier dribbled around several Rebels defenders to score with only 32 seconds gone and give the Zias (6-5) a lead they would not relinquish.
Meantime, junior midfielder Nicole Bregler made it 2-0 when she scored on a header in the 15th minue off an assist from senior forward Kara Henderson.
Meantime, the Utah-based Rebels — competing at the Division II level after moving up from the junior college ranks — peppered the ENMU net with eight shots on goal in the second half. They finally broke through with just under 29 minutes left when Nicolette Trickney beat Sanchez on a through pass from Robyn Wall.
The Zias were playing at home for the first time since opening the season with a 3-1 homestand.


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Lady Gaga
American singer, songwriter, and actress
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born 28 March 1986), primarily known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer-songwriter and performance artist.
- She's a nice girl – I just feel very honoured that she wanted to sing my song. I used to scream for her in Times Square and now I work for her. When I was 13 she was the most provocative performer of my time. I love her so much! Britney certainly doesn't need any freakin' tips from me! Britney Spears is the queen of pop. I was learning from her.
- Take My Picture, Hollywood! I Wanna Be a Star!
- 52nd Grammy Awards.
- I'm not real. I'm theatre.
- MTV VMAS 2011 as Jo Calderone.
- God bless pop music and God bless MTV.
- MTV Video Music Awards 2010.
- Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.
- I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music... I think they're very intertwined.
- In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.'
- You listeners, the ones who found me first are, I believe, the future of great art thinkers. Because anyone that's found me now I really think is grabbing on to the ideas that I have, more than anything. It's about the music but it's also about the story. So thank you guys for loving and reading the story and being as into it and as passionate as I am.
- I operate from a place of delusion-that's what the Fame is all about... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
- . "The Rise of Lady Gaga." by Brian Hiatt, in Rolling Stone (11 June 2009): 57-61.
- I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.
- You see, if I was a guy, and I was sitting here with a cigarette in my hand, grabbing my crotch and talking about how I make music because I like fast cars and fucking girls, you'd call me a rockstar. But when I do it in my music and in my videos, because I'm a female, because I make pop music, you're judgmental and you say that it is distracting... I'm just a rockstar.
- Grace Jones said this to me when I met her. I washed her feet, and I looked up at her and she said, "No matter what you do in your life, don't you ever let anybody take your creative people away from you." And what my creative friends always remind me of is they say, "Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don't respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else." And that's how I live my life. If I worried about everything that everyone said, I would not be a good artist.
- That's the most Warholian thing about what I do... I embrace pop culture. The very thing that everybody says is poisonous and ostentatious and shallow, it's like my chemistry book... and I make what I believe to be art out of it.
- I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me it's very beautiful and it's art, and to them it's outrageous and crazy.
- They bring my music to life.
- On her fans.
- Lady Gaga Interview: Part 3 of 5
- Creativity for me is religious.
- Fame for me is not external, it's internal. So I've been famous for a long time.
- I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.
- It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.
- The whole point of what I do-the Monster Ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it-I want to create a space for my fans where they can feel free and where they can celebrate because I didn't fit in in high school and I felt like a freak. So I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang with and they don't feel alone.
- Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray The Fame wont take my life.
- Performing "Paparazzi" in MTV VMA'S '09.
- I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women. My work, both visually and musically, is a rejection of all those things. And most importantly a quest.
- SHOWstudio Interview. In Camera with Lady Gaga 30 May 2010. [1].
- Everybody wants me to show my vagina to the world. And the truth is, I don't have to.
- Interview for Maxim Magazine.
- It takes time to become myself every morning.
- Interview for Billboard Magazine, February 2011.
- She reinvents herself from album to album. I reinvent myself week to week. I get quite bored with things and I don't want to let down my fans.
- People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.
- [3], May 30, 2009.
- I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.
- Lyrics, Judas.
- 'Judas' is a metaphor and an analogy about forgiveness and betrayal and things that haunt you in your life, and how I believe that it's the darkness in your life that ultimately shines and illuminates the greater light that you have upon you. … Someone once said to me, 'If you have no shadows then you're not standing in the light.' So the song is about washing the feet of both good and evil, and understanding and forgiving the demons from your past in order to move into the greatness of your future … I just like really aggressive metaphors — harder, thicker, darker — and my fans do as well. So it is a very challenging and aggressive metaphor, but it is a metaphor."
- Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.
- Cosmopolitan (April 2010).
The Fame Monster (2009)Edit
- I want your love and I want your revenge
You and me could write a bad romance
The world goes crazy for Lady Gaga (2009)Edit
- My real fans understand what it is I do, but on another level I have fans who just love my music and don't know I write it and enjoy it shallowly — and that's OK too. I think art and music should be just as powerful if you drink it shallow as if you drink it deep.
- You know, I have such an appreciation for where I am in my life because I've struggled and because I couldn't get signed, and because I couldn't get played on the radio, … There are times when it can be a lot to deal with but always when I get up in the morning I try to find that very joyful place that reminds me that I would die if someone took it all away. If someone did that I wouldn't be a person anymore.
- Right now the only thing that I am concerned with in my life is being an artist … I had to suppress it for so many years in high school because I was made fun of but now I'm completely insulated in my box of insanity and I can do whatever I like.
- My ideas about fame and art are not brand new … We could watch Paris is Burning, we could read The Warhol Diaries, we could go to a party in New York in 1973 and these same things would be being talked about. I guess you could say that I'm a bit of a Warholian copycat. Some people say everything has been done before, and to an extent they are right. I think the trick is to honour your vision and reference and put together things that have never been put together before. I like to be unpredictable, and I think it's very unpredictable to promote pop music as a highbrow medium.
- I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.
- I have found that my work has to be both deep and shallow … All of my songs have meaning, all of my clothing has iconography buried into it. But by the same token, it's just as special if you look at it in its shallowest form. A quick moment of melody, a beautiful dress. People think, "Gaga's so sweet", or "Gaga sucks". The point is that it's memorable. For commercial art to be taken seriously as fine art is a very unusual and difficult task. I think that a lot of people don't get it and a lot of people don't know what to make of me. And, you know what? I'm OK with that.