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History's Headlines: 900 block of Hamilton Street was once Trexler family compound
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Dave Mann was surprised. A crew he hired to remove the paint from a building that houses his business, A-Town Pawn, at 929 Hamilton Street, uncovered a layer of red brick underneath.
"I have seen old pictures of the building from the early 1920s and already it was covered with white paint," he said. "Who knew how really nice it looked underneath."
Mann's contribution has brought back to life a part of Allentown's past that was long-hidden in plain sight.
Every city has what is called an urban ecology. Its neighborhoods shift in response to human change. Mann's building was built in the late 19th century (say circa 1878), so it reflects the rhythm of nearly 150 years of change.
What dominated the 900 block of Hamilton in the 19th century were lumber yards and residences- some of them occupied by prominent families. Chief among them were the Martin, Dresher and Trexler families.
Next door to Mann's building at 927 was the home of Matilda Sauerpeck Trexler (1827-1914), the mother of Allentown businessman/philanthropist General Harry C. Trexler and his brothers, William, who died as an infant, Edwin, who worked on many projects with his brother Harry, and Judge Frank Trexler, who occupied many high in the Lehigh County and Pennsylvania State Courts.
What sort of woman was Matilda Trexler? Well, the Allentown Chronicle and News had this to say about her in her November 7, 1914 obituary:
"Mrs. Trexler was a woman of strong will and extraordinary energy of character, and she conducted her affairs with independence and success," the newspaper noted. It is not hard to imagine that she imbued her children with similar values.
Across the street is 926 Hamilton, the long-time family home of Trexlers. For many years it has been Kruper Brothers Appliance Store. An uncovered Victorian era bay window suggests what the house might have been like when the Trexlers owned it.
The Trexler family's association with the 900 block of Hamilton Street can be traced back to 1855. That year Harry's father Edwin had given up a failing carpet business in Easton and retired to the family farm in Emmaus to restore his health.
That same year Edwin's younger brother Jonas Trexler returned from California where he had "struck it rich" in the gold rush. Sometime in 1856 he and his brother decided to purchase the Dresher family's lumber yard in the 900 block of Hamilton, in partnership with Harry's father and William Dresher.
In the November 5, 1856 issue of the Lehigh Register under the name E.W. Trexler & Company, they promised builders, "boards, planks, joists, rafters, laths, fence boards, scantlings, shingles and clapboards," at the "lowest possible prices."
Accounts suggest the Trexler brothers did not always get along, Jonas at one point in the 1870s opened his own lumberyard to rival the one he founded with his brother, but they all were making money.
Harry Trexler's destiny had been shaped while he was still in his cradle by the business decisions of his father and uncle. At the time of Trexler's death in 1933, his family's lumber company was one of largest in the eastern United States. It provided the capital base for General Trexler's later investments in utilities, cement and real estate.
By 1900 Edwin Trexler had retired from the lumber business and was breading Herford cattle and taking part in supervising the family farm in Emmaus. He was a familiar figure to many as he traveled around in his simple horse-drawn rig, known as a piano box buggy, from 926 Hamilton Street to Emmaus.
At 6 a.m. on the morning of July 10, 1900 Edwin Trexler embarked on that familiar journey. Early risers could have spotted him with his snow white beard blowing in the wind. Haying was going well and Trexler decided to return home to Allentown for lunch.
At 11:30, Calvin Beaker was later to recall, he saw Trexler nearing the crossing of the East Penn railroad tracks in Emmaus. Apparently because of his severe deafness, Edwin Trexler did not hear Beaker's shouts that a train was approaching, nor did he hear the frantic whistle of the locomotive. Beaker watched in horror as the train smashed into Trexler's buggy, hurling him into the air before it came to rest about 30 yards up on the westbound track. He died a minute later. His horse died a half hour later.
What the reaction to the tragedy was at 926 Hamilton Street is unknown but it can be imagined. And with Edwin Trexler's death at the start of a new century, change came rapidly. In 1909 Jonas Trexler died, and Matilda Trexler followed in 1914. Harry Trexler later sold the home at 926 Hamilton to George Dery, the Catasauqua silk magnate, and the Trexler Lumber Company relocated to 17th and Liberty Streets. Harry and his wife Mary Trexler moved to the former George Ormod mansion at 1227 Hamilton.
Meantime, change was coming to Hamilton Street itself. By 1910, Hess Brothers, wildly successful store had shifted the urban ecology of the city's retail district. The Allentown Public Library opened in 1912.
Furniture, jewelry, piano and other retail stores were attracted to the block. Some, like Mann's building, were in old homes that had their first floors converted to retail space. In 1921 the Rialto movie theater opened on the 900 block.
By 1928, not quite 30 years after Edwin Trexler's death, the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company skyscraper office building made the 900 block almost unrecognizable from the one he knew.
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No-shows hit confidence
An estimated 2.5 million miles of pipelines carrying natural gas and hazardous materials crisscross the United States. Accidents occur on a fairly regular basis.
One occurred in December in West Virginia, when a 20-inch gas line exploded. Flames shot all the way across an interstate highway. Several homes were destroyed.
On Jan. 28, a hearing on pipeline safety was held in Charleston by the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
Well, not exactly. Only one member of the panel, Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., showed up for the hearing. Sen. Joe Manchin, also D-W.Va., attended despite not being a member of the committee.
Rockefeller arranged the hearing, though it was not a re-election stunt. Rockefeller already has revealed he will not run in 2014.
Apparently, then, Rockfeller thought pipeline safety is an important enough issue for his committee to take testimony on it. He and Manchin heard plenty about the dangers of pipelines and what is being done about them.
But the committee's other 23 members – 12 Democrats and 11 Republicans – apparently didn't think hearing an update on pipeline safety was worth leaving Washington.
Perhaps Rockefeller didn't push them to attend. They can read testimony from the hearing at their leisure – or, more likely, have their staffs read it, after all. But the number of no-shows for the hearing isn't exactly a recipe for increasing public confidence in Congress.

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Hearing on Bill 18-482
Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Written Testimony of
Peter Montgomery
Senior Fellow, People For the American Way
Ward 5 Resident
Thank you, Chairman Menaelson and members of the committee.
My name is Peter Montgomery. I am a Senior Fellow at People For the American Way, a nationwide organization that mobilizes Americans to promote and protect core constitutional values. I am grateful for the opportunity to testify in support of the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Act of 2009 on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Americans from every state and the District of Columbia.
People For the American Way's board of directors endorsed marriage equality for same-sex couples in 1996. Since then, People For and its affiliated Foundation have proudly supported many legal and political efforts to achieve that goal across the country.
The principle at stake is really a simple one: equality under the law. That principle is at the heart of what it means to be an American. It's a vision of the kind of country we want to live in. And it is the energizing value in the effort to win marriage equality.
People For the American Way also champions religious liberty, another core American value. The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Act of 2009 advances both of these constitutional principles. It gives committed same-sex couples the same rights and responsibilities under D.C. law that other couples enjoy. And it affirmatively protects the right of every religious denomination and congregation to make their own decisions about which unions to bless.
We believe that some of the opposition to this legislation is based on confusion or misinformation about its impact on preachers and churches. But there is no question that religious liberty can and will be protected under this law. And we respectfully urge the bill's opponents to engage in an honest debate.
The legal discrimination that now exists against same-sex couples is not only a violation of our country's constitutional principles, it is a collective moral failing. Over the years, America has overcome many of its failings thanks to individuals who were willing to take a stand and demand that the nation live up to its ideals.
It is very encouraging that so many members of the D.C. Council are showing that kind of leadership by cosponsoring this legislation, which will put the District of Columbia, the nation's capital city, on the side of the Constitution and on the side of history. We urge its swift passage.
I would also like to speak personally for a moment, as a longtime resident of the District of Columbia, a Ward 5 homeowner and taxpayer, and a man who hopes to marry the man I love.
I came to D.C. in 1980 to go to college and have made it my home. Nine years ago, I had the amazing good fortune of meeting a soul mate. He lived in Chicago at the time, but moved to D.C. in August 2001, less than a month before 9-11. In spite of that scary welcome, he too, has made this city his home, founding an arts organization in our neighborhood and becoming an active member of the literary community in D.C.
When Dan and I fell in love with each other, getting married wasn't even an option. But we have made a full life together, one that includes both our families, a circle of friends and neighbors, and our dog. It's Dan I wake up with every morning and hope to grow old with. We know how fortunate we are to live in a city that values its LGBT citizens, where we can be comfortable living openly as a loving couple. We don't take that for granted.
One day last year, I thought I might be having a heart attack. I went to the hospital near my office to get checked out. It turned out I was fine. But while I was lying there, I couldn't help thinking of every real-life horror story about gay partners denied the chance to be at their loved one's side during a moment of crisis - even people who had done everything right, if you can call it "right" that couples have to carry around a stack of legal documents to prove their relationship. I started to imagine what it would have been like if I were really in trouble, and couldn't have Dan by my side. What would have happened to him, to our house?
I don't want our relationship to be haunted by that kind of question. That's why I asked Dan to marry me. We've thought about going to other places we love, like Massachusetts or Vermont, where same-sex couples are treated equally under the law. But D.C. is our home. We're hoping to get married here sometime next year. I thank you, and all the advocates who have worked so hard over the years, for making it possible for me to make that statement. We're excited about it, and so are our friends and family.
I urge you all to support this legislation. You'll make my mother very happy.
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Student Media
Sherman Alexie
Friday, February 17, 2012
Sherman Alexie, a nationally known author, poet and filmmaker, will present Feb. 22 at St. Cloud State.
Award-winning author, poet and filmmaker Sherman Alexie will address issues raised by one of his books during a 7 p.m. Feb. 22 presentation in Ritsche Auditorium.
"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," a coming-of-age, interracial comedy, is used as a common text for first-year students at St. Cloud State.
The book earned the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2007. It won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Visit Alexie's website.
Among the best-known works by Alexie are "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" (1994), a book of short stories and "Smoke Signals," a critically acclaimed film that helped launch the acting career of film and TV star Adam Beach.
Alexie, 45, writes predominantly about the experiences of American Indians. Born on a reservation in eastern Washington, he is of Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and Euro-American ancestry.
The title of his lecture is "Without Reservations: An Urban Indian's Comic, Poetic & Highly Irreverent Look at the World."
Public tickets are $5 at SCSUTickets.com. St. Cloud State students and employees are free with an SCSU ID.
Alexie's presenation is sponsored by these St. Cloud State entities: American Indian Center, First Year Experience and University Program Board (UPB).
For more information, call Catie Holker at 320-308-2205 or email UPB National Events.
Learn more about St. Cloud State's Common Reading Program.
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Whale, James
James Whale 1896-1957
English filmmaker and stage director.
Whale is best known as the director of several classic horror films released by Universal in the 1930s. These films, including Frankenstein and The Invisible Man, have been widely praised for their inventive adaptation of classic literary works to the relatively new artistic medium of film. Frankenstein and its sequel Bride of Frankenstein are considered quintessential horror films of the early sound era, breaking ground both technically and thematically.
Biographical Information
Whale was born in Dudley, England, to working-class parents. He had taken art classes in his youth and was working as a cartoonist when he joined the British army at the outbreak of World War I. Captured by the Germans, Whale became involved with amateur theatrical productions put on by his fellow prisoners in the POW camp. After the war he joined a number of British repertory companies, serving backstage as a scenery designer and stage manager and onstage as an actor. It was his staging of the play Journey's End by R. C. Sheriff, a hit first in London, then New York, which led to Whale's Hollywood career. Adapting Journey's End to film in 1930, Whale scored a success with his well-received directorial debut and was offered other projects by the studio, most notably Frankenstein. Whale resisted making a sequel to Frankenstein until 1935, when he was assured of complete control over all aspects of the film's production. The resulting Bride of Frankenstein left both audiences and studio executives unimpressed. While he continued to make more films after Bride, including successes like Showboat, Whale never directed another horror feature. With the exception of the long-shelved Hello Out There, made in 1949, Whale walked away from the movie business in 1941 to concentrate on painting and set design. After a decade of directing feature films, he had been able to retire comfortably, having made strong investments in the real estate market. Mystery surrounded Whale's death in 1957, when he was found drowned in his swimming pool. Rumors circulated suggesting that Whale, who was a homosexual, was murdered by one of his companions. However, biographers have pointed out that Whale had been recovering from a minor stroke at the time of his death and may have simply fallen.
Major Works
Casting a virtually unknown actor named Boris Karloff as the monster, Whale approached the story of Frankenstein with an artist's eye for the visual. Through the use of low camera angles, dramatic lighting, and macabre sets, he achieved an effectively creepy atmosphere. The commercial success of Frankenstein soon established Whale as Universal's top horror director during the early 1930s, despite the filmmaker's reluctance to be pigeon-holed within a single genre. Among his other films from this period are The Old Dark House and The Invisible Man, the latter of which amazed audiences with its innovative special effects. In Bride of Frankenstein, which is generally considered superior to the original film, the director indulged his subversive sense of humor by introducing eccentric characters and bizarre subplots.
Critical Reception
Critics who first viewed Whale's horror films during the 1930s were divided over the director's talent. Some viewed the acting method he summoned from his performers as too stagy and not fluid enough for sound film. Since his death, Whale's stature as a filmmaker has grown considerably. Film scholars have praised his ability to balance literary themes with cinematic and theatrical techniques. His version of Frankenstein's monster, portrayed with equal measures of gruesomeness and pathos by Boris Karloff, has become an instantly recognizable icon in American popular culture.
Principal Works
Journey's End (film) 1930
Frankenstein (film) 1931
Waterloo Bridge (film) 1931
Impatient Maiden (film) 1932
The Old Dark House (film) 1932
The Invisible Man (film) 1933
The Kiss before the Mirror (film) 1933
By Candle-light (film) 1934
One More River (film) 1934
Bride of Frankenstein (film) 1935
Remember Last Night? (film) 1935
Showboat (film) 1936
The Great Garrick (film) 1937
The Road Back (film) 1937
Port of Seven Seas (film) 1938
Sinners in Paradise (film) 1938
Wives under Suspicion (film) 1938
The Man in the Iron Mask (film) 1939
Green Hell (film) 1940
They Dare Not Love (film) 1941
Hello Out There (film) 1949
William Troy (essay date 1933)
SOURCE: "Films: The Invisible Man'," in The Nation, New York, Vol. CXXXVII, No. 3571, Dec. 13, 1933, p. 688.
[In the following essay, Troy praises Whale for his direction of The Invisible Man.]
There are two very good reasons why the version of H. G. Wells's Invisible Man at the old Roxy is so much better than this sort of thing usually turns out to be on the screen. The first is that James Whale, who is responsible for the direction, has taken a great deal of pains with something that is usually either reduced to a minimum or altogether ignored in these attempts to dramatize the more farfetched hypotheses of science—namely, setting. Ordinarily we are precipitated abruptly and without warning into the strange and violent world of the scientific romancer's imagination. We are given no time to make our adjustment to the logic of this new world which is so different from the world to which we are accustomed. The result is of course that we never truly believe in this new world: it is too abstract, too intellectually conceived, to take us in very successfully through our feelings. For this reason one is always tempted to lay down as a first principle for writers and directors dealing with the extraordinary the principle that to respond to the unusual we must first be reminded of the commonplace. And James Whale's success in observing the principle makes one more convinced than ever that it should be regarded as a general one. He begins with a carefully documented picture of a small country inn in England: the people,...
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Jorge Luis Borges (essay date 1937)
SOURCE: "The Road Back," in Sight and Sound, Vol. 45, No. 4, Autumn, 1976, p. 233.
[An Argentine short story writer, poet, and essayist, Borges was one of the leading figures in modern literature. His writing is often used by critics to illustrate the contemporary view of literature as a highly sophisticated game. Justifying this interpretation of Borges's works are his admitted respect for stories that are artificial inventions of art rather than realistic representations of life, his use of philosophical conceptions as a means of achieving literary effects, and his frequent variations on the writings of other authors. In the following essay, which was first published in the Argentine...
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Paul Jensen (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: "James Whale," in Film Comment, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring, 1971, pp. 52-7
[In the following essay, Jensen discusses Whale as an early example of an auteur film director.]
It certainly is becoming harder and harder to keep track of the auteurs, especially now that more and more lost films are reaching present-day screens. Directors who once existed solely as names without identity now must be evaluated on the basis of a body of work long unknown. James Whale is one such filmmaker. Even though a few of his films—Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein—show up fairly often on television, these works are only a fraction of his output; and the...
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Donald F. Glut (excerpt date 1973)
SOURCE: "Karloff Sets the Standard," in The Frankenstein Legend: A Tribute to Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1973, pp. 90-150.
[In the following excerpt, Glut describes the making of Whale's two Frankenstein films, including the director's casting of Karloff and Lanchester as the monsters.]
Universal Pictures in 1931 announced that it was planning to film Frankenstein. The first talkie version of Mary Shelley's novel would be based on the stage play by Peggy Webling, adapted to the screen by John L. Balderston. Dracula, the first sound version of Bram Stoker's immortal vampire novel, had been made by the studio earlier that same...
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William K. Everson (excerpt date 1974)
SOURCE: "Frankenstein—and Successors" and "The Old Dark House," in Classics of the Horror Film, The Citadel Press, 1974, pp. 36-61 and 80-3.
[In the following excerpt, Everson studies the style and structure of three Whale films, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein and The Old Dark House.]
Although blazing a trail for horror films, and indeed made before the descriptive phrase "horror film" came into usage, Frankenstein was carefully thought out as a morality play, designed to provide food for thought as well as enjoyable shudders. The hard to read, but even more bizarre original novel merely provided a point...
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Radu Florescu (excerpt date 1975)
SOURCE: "The Frankenstein Films," in In Search of Frankenstein, Warner Books, 1975, pp. 257-62.
[In the following excerpt, Florescu compares Whale's Frankenstein to his sequel Bride of Frankenstein.]
In 1931 Universal had scored a spectacular film triumph with Bela Lugosi in Dracula. Anxious to capitalize on their new-found star, the studio sought an equally impressive story to use as a follow-up. Director Robert Florey suggested Frankenstein and the studio assigned him to fashion a screenplay loosely based on Shelley's novel (but with a creature more horrible than she had described). In the finished script that Florey and Garrett Fort wrote,...
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R. H. W. Dillard (excerpt date 1976)
SOURCE: "Frankenstein: 'What Changes Darkness Into Light?'," in Horror Films, Monarch Press, 1976, pp. 11-32.
[In the following excerpt, Dillard explores the symbolism of light and fire in Whale's Frankenstein.]
Frankenstein is, according to the horror-film historian Carlos Clarens, "the most famous horror movie of all time," and, as John Baxter says in Hollywood in the Thirties, "deservedly so." Frances Marion in her autobiographical Off With Their Heads! recalls the "curious fact" that even in Hollywood "scarcely anyone old or young in the audience viewed the picture without some nerve-tingling reaction" when it was first shown in 1931. And the...
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Lester D. Friedman (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: "The Blasted Tree," in The English Novel and the Movies, edited by Michael Klein and Gillian Parker, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1981, pp. 52-66.
[In the following essay, Friedman compares Whale's adaptation of Frankenstein to the original novel by Mary Shelley.]
In the "wet, ungenial summer" of 1816, a season filled with incessant rain that often confined her for days on end to her house in Geneva, Mary Shelley found herself in almost constant contact with one uncommon and two extraordinary men. However bad the weather may have been that year, it was nonetheless a period of unusual creative productivity for these four people. During the days in...
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Janice R. Welsch and Syndy M. Conger (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "The Comic and the Grotesque in James Whale's Frankenstein Films," in Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film, edited by Barry Keith Grant, The Scarecrow Press, 1984, pp. 290-306.
[In the following essay, Welsch and Conger discuss Whale's use of the comic and grotesque in Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein.]
Both the grotesque and the comic are much discussed terms, and for much the same reason: their discovery in art or life is largely a subjective matter; both depend for their intensity, and even for their existence, on the perceiver. If we find something comical, it is largely because we temporarily become disinterested, spectators whose...
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Martin F. Norden (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "Sexual References in James Whale's 'Bride of Frankenstein'," in Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film, edited by Donald Palumbo, Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 141-50.
[In the following essay, Norden discusses sexual themes and motifs in Bride of Frankenstein.]
The few critical evaluations of the cult favorite Bride of Frankenstein (1935), directed by James Whale, have largely been limited to explorations of the film's horrific and humorous qualities. Critics have commonly observed that Bride, an early example of the American horror film, is a worthy successor to the original Frankenstein (1931), also directed by...
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Dennis Fischer (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "James Whale (1889-1957)," in Horror Film Directors, 1931-1990, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1991, pp. 710-35.
[In the following essay, Fischer provides a survey of Whale's career, focusing on his horror films.]
Although James Whale is best known for his four famous horror features—films which practically defined the genre for several decades—he was a talented and versatile director who worked with many genres. In fact, before embarking on his horror period, he had been typed as a director of war films due to his work on Hell's Angels, Journey's End and Waterloo Bridge. While they do not fall within the scope of this work, these films are...
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Further Reading
Brosnan, John. "The Men Behind the Early Monsters: Karl Freund, Tod Browning and James Whale." In his The Horror People, pp 59-72. New York: St Martins Press, 1976.
A sketch of Whale's enigmatic life and career.
Clarens, Carlos. "Children of the Night: Hollywood, 1928-1947. In his An Illustrated History of the Horror Films." New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1967, pp. 59-104.
Anecdotal account of the making of Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man.
Curtis, James. James Whale. Metuchen, N.J. and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1982, 245 p.
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Representatives for Advanced Micro Devices confirmed on Wednesday that to support AMD Athlon 64 processors revision E will need a BIOS update. The company did not reckon any other obstacles to support the upcoming central processing units that support SSE3 technology among other advantages.
"Mainboards need fresh BIOS revisions to support the new revisions of AMD Athlon processors. The new rev parts are 90nm, with SSE3 support, and a few tweaks to the memory controller and a different OPN," AMD's spokesman Damon Muzny told X-bit labs.
A web-site last week published a number of news-stories in regards compatibility of the AMD Athlon 64 revision E0 with different mainboards shipping today, particularly those based on popular NVIDIA nForce3 and 4 chipsets. NVIDIA, who said there were no compatibility issues between its chipsets and AMD's new processors, pointed out that "a couple" of mainboard makers – ABIT and EPoX products included – did not follow AMD requirements, but were still able to tackle compatibility, at least on some of their mainboards, issue with BIOS update.
"If a board hasn't had its BIOS updated, it won't support the AMD Athlon 64 rev. E part. Nothing out of the ordinary there. Some mainboards are just behind with BIOS support. And some mainboards are ahead of the game and have already updated their BIOS," Mr. Muzny added.
"There are no issues with AMD chips or NVIDIA's chipsets. Some mainboards need a new BIOS [version] to support the new processors," AMD's official said.
AMD Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX processors revision E0 are those based on AMD's cores code-named
"The mainboards that haven't already implemented support for the new rev of chips do [require BIOS update]. Many boards already have BIOS support, but there is no information which ones," Mr. Muzny said.
Mainboards from EPoX and ABIT are claimed not to support AMD Athlon 64 revision E processors, but EPoX has notified X-bit labs it had tackled the issue. ABIT decided not to respond on the matter.


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Exceptional looking pies Marlon. What type of cheese is on that cheese pie?
Wow those look amazing Marlon. What size did you make them with those size dough balls?EDIT: Just saw your original post that you made 18" with 480g dough balls. Why did you decide to up the weight to 520g? I'm wondering because I'm making some pies today and have them set at 465g for a 17" but am wondering if I should up the weight 15-20g.
Love those big slices! I haven't had anything that looks like that in 13 years, which was when I was in NY for a few weeks. I gotta go back one day. Either that or stop by Marlon's place!
Gorgeous! My sons' friends and my former co-workers thought it was too funny that I have pizza boxes from a supply store just for them. I delivered my pizzas to my older son who was in college at SUNY Oswego this past year--about a 40 minute drive for me, and the guys all loved it each time. I never stuck around-- just did the drop and run.
Absolute perfection!
Awesome looking pies Bakeshack! This is my kind of pie for sure. Do you always do 17-18" pies? Are you only able to fit 1 pie in the oven at a time? How much is the Grande cheese you buy? I'm going to a restaurant supply tomorrow that I heard sells Grande and wanted to make sure I wasn't getting ripped off....lol
Those look great as usually. That temp is just about perfect for this style, ~660F 4-4.5 minutes. I have a question about your sauce. It looks like your sauce has a nice "thickness", are you using straight tomatoes from the can and doing nothing else? Are you cooking it for a little or adding some tomato paste to thicken it up a bit? If you're draining them how do you do it? Sorry for all the questions but last week the sauce I used was too "runny" which I didn't like and didn't really meld with the cheese how I would have liked. David
Thanks, gotta get one of those blenders. I just dumped the can into a food mill with the biggest disc. If it was Neapolitan the sauce would have been fine. But this style needs a thicker sauce. You do it till its smooth though right, no chunks?
I would marry that second pie. Just sayin.


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Hope this doesn't lead to a "relapse" for the likable Daly. After an off year last year, would love to see Long John rekindle the magic he had going in the 1st half of 2004. Daly on final day leader boards is good for golf, and good television.
Speaking of good television, anyone see Daly's reality show on The Golf Channel? It's called "Daly's Planet", and is pretty entertaining.


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Buckfast bee
The Buckfast bee is a honey bee a cross of many strains of bees into a stable race developed by "Brother Adam", (born Karl Kehrle on 3 August 1898 in Germany), who was in charge of beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey, where the bees are still bred today. Most of the breeding work in Europe is done by breeders belonging to the breeders accociation "Gemeinschaft der Europäischen Buckfastimker". This organisation is maintaining a pedigree for Buckfast bees, originating from Brother Adam's years.
In the early 20th century bee populations were being decimated by Isle of Wight disease. This condition, later called "acarine" disease, after the acarine parasitic mite that invaded the bees' tracheal tubes and shortened their lives, was killing off thousands of colonies in the British Isles in the early part of the 20th century.[1]
In 1916 there were only 16 surviving colonies in the Abbey. All of them were either pure Ligurian(Italian) or of Ligurian origin hybrid between Ligurian and English black bee A.m. mellifera. Brother Adam also imported some more Italian queens. From these he began to develop what would come to be known as the Buckfast bee.
The Buckfast contains heritage from mainly A.m. ligurica (North Italian), A.m. mellifera (English), A.m. mellifera (French), A.m. anatolica (Turkish) and A.m. cecropia (Greek). The Buckfast bee of today also contains heritage from two African rare and docile African stocks A.m. sahariensis and the A.m. monticola, but not the "Africanized" A.m. scutellata."[2]
Brother Adam moved the bees he discovered to the isolated valley of Dartmoor which became a mating station for selective breeding. With no other bees within range, Brother Adam could maintain their genetic integrity and develop desirable traits.
Brother Adam investigated various honey bee races and made many long journeys in Europe, Africa and Middle-East searching for pure races and interesting local stocks. The book In Search of the Best Strains of Bee tells about his travels in search of genetic building blocks. Brother Adam imported more bees to cross with his developing Buckfast bee.
Every new bee strain or bee race was first crossed with the existing Buckfast Bee. In most cases, the new desired qualities were passed on to the new generation and the new combination was then made stable with further breeding work. Every crossing with a new race took about 10 years before the desired genes were fixed in the strain. Over seventy years, Brother Adam managed to develop a vigorous, healthy, and fecund honey bee which he christened the Buckfast bee.
The Buckfast bee is popular among beekeepers and is available from bee breeders in Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, and more. Most of the Buckfast bee's qualities are very favorable. They are extremely gentle and highly productive. Brother Adam, in his book, Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey writes that in 1920 they obtained "an average of no less than 192 lbs surplus per colony and individual yields exceeding 3 cwt [approx. 336 lbs]."[3] In the 1986 BBC-affiliated documentary, The Monk and the Honey Bee, more than 400 pounds of honey are reported to have been produced by a single Buckfast colony. According to Brother Adam, "The average annual honey yield over the last thirty years has been 30 kg (66 lb.) per colony. Thus we have a favourable balance compared with the average production in America or in Europe. "[4][5]
The stock has been imported into the United States (eggs, semen, and adult queens via Canada) and they are easily available.[6]
Buckfast Breeding Program
The qualities and characteristics desired in Brother Adam's breeding can be divided into three groups; Primary, Subsidiary, and 3rd, those that have bearing on management.
Primary qualities are those qualities essential for any maximum honey production.
- Fecundity - maintaining at least 9 frames of brood May - July
- Foraging zeal - a boundless capacity for foraging work, close inbreeding to intensify this quality can be counter-productive.
- Resistance to disease
- Disinclination to swarm
- Longevity
- Wing-power
- Keen sense of smell
- Defensive characteristics
- Hardiness and ability to over winter
- Spring development
- Thrift
- Instinct of self provisioning
- Arrangement of honey stores
- Wax production and comb building
- Gathering of pollen
- Tongue-reach
Qualities which Influence Management
- Good temper
- Calm behavior
- Disinclination to propolize
- No brace combs
- Cleanliness
- Honey capping
- Sense of orientation[7][8]
Strong Points
- Good honey producer
- Prolific queens (lay many eggs)
- Overwinters well
- Frugal - Low amount of brood during fall (uses less honey stores during winter)
- Packs brood nest with honey for good wintering
- Curtails egg laying during dearths
- Brood rearing ceases during late fall
- Extremely gentle, with low sting instinct
- Low swarm instinct
- Highly Tracheal Mite Tolerant
- Low incidence of chalkbrood and wax moths due to good housecleaning techniques
- Very hygenic
- Build-up rapidly once started
- Produces little propolis/brace comb[9]
- Does well in cold/wet spring
Weak Points
- Low amount of brood during fall
- Less honey or pollen due to erratic spring weather conditions
- Possibility of second generation defensiveness if not requeened
- This is not due to being a "second generation" hybrid. The Buckfast is a mix of many, many generations with many different species. A likely cause of "hot" hives in subsequent generations is the introduction of Africanized bee genetics being introduced either to the mother queen or to the daughter queen via local Africanized drones. Buckfast bees in cooler regions where Africanized bees have not arrived do not have this problem.
- ^ http://www.douglasfarm.net/worksofbrotheradam.htm#363466183
- ^ http://www.douglasfarm.net/buckfast.htm
- ^ Brother Adam, Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey, (Northern Bee Books, 1987), 12.
- ^ http://www.douglasfarm.net/worksofbrotheradam.htm#363466183
- ^ Brother Adam, "Beekeeping at Buckfast", 1950.
- ^ http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/agrs93.pdf pg. 20
- ^ http://www.douglasfarm.net/buckfast.htm
- ^ http://perso.fundp.ac.be/~jvandyck/homage/qualite.html
- ^ http://www.mainebee.com/articles/race_strain.php


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We accompanied Deputy Assistant Secretary for Space and Defense Policy Frank Rose on his recent trip to South Africa for the first ever U.S.-South Africa Space Security Dialogue. This Dialogue was an important opportunity to exchange viewpoints on initiatives to improve the long term sustainability of the space environment, such as an International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities.
While in South Africa, the U.S. delegation visited many South African space facilities including the Overberg Testing Range, established in the 1980s to provide a strategic capability for the launching of satellites. We also visited the Institute for Satellite and Software Applications where we saw the facilities and machinery used to test satellites before they go into orbit, including a giant vacuum chamber and clean room facilities. In addition, we visited the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Facility where a prototype dish for the Square Kilometer Array Project is being designed. The Square Kilometer Array, to be jointly hosted by South Africa and Australia, will be the largest radio telescope in the world and will be able to probe to the edges of our universe.
While visiting the South African National Space Agency's (SANSA) Space Operations Center, we toured ground station facilities and learned about South Africa's efforts to distribute earth observation data to support policy making, resource management, economic growth, and sustainable development. At SANSA's Space Science facility, officials described the role that SANSA plays in the worldwide network of magnetic observatories, which monitor and model variations of the Earth's magnetic field. SANSA places a high emphasis on connecting with and educating students, and we were delighted that a coinciding visit by elementary students provided an opportunity for Deputy Assistant Secretary Rose to speak with these students about space and encourage them to continue their interest in space studies. They definitely enjoyed Deputy Assistant Secretary Rose's humor and inspiration, and sharing the enthusiasm of these young students was a highlight of our trip.
We were also thrilled to meet with a number of students pursuing space-related post-graduate degrees when we visited the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. After a University-hosted discussion that included industry officials, academics, engineers, and representatives from non-governmental organizations, the students shared with us their space engineering projects, including a microsatellite that the University hopes to launch in the near future.
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Learning is a gift
The opportunity to learn about something you didn't know before is one of the most precious opportunities which life is likely to offer us.
This week, I'd like to begin by sharing with you what I have learned recently about a new program which will make a great deal of learning available in Jamestown, about the religion of Islam and its believers.
Then, our unfortunate trend of obituaries must continue. Two weeks ago, we paid tribute to the life and career of veteran actor Richard Griffiths. Last week, we mourned the passing of critic and television personality Roger Ebert. This week, we must offer a few words of respect to comic Jonathan Winters, ballerina Maria Tallchief and teen heartthrob Annette Funicello. There is a folk tale that deaths come in threes. Sadly, we're up to five, and I hope there won't be any more, for quite a while to come.
Recently Jamestown's James Prendergast Public Library has been notified that it has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, in association with the American Library Association, and George Mason University's AIi Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies.
The award is a collection of 25 books, three films and access for one year to a database of information called Oxford Islamic Studies Online. In return for receiving this valuable information for its collection, the library is required to present a public event, centered around the received material.
Let me say, Jamestown Community College has also received an identical grant. I, at least, haven't received any information, yet, from JCC, and the library needs to call the public's attention to their public event, so I'm going to go ahead and print the information the library has sent me, and we'll look forward to hearing from the community college.
All of the material on the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf will be available to be borrowed directly from Prendergast Library, at no charge, as long as they are returned in good condition, and can be borrowed through member libraries in the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System with a slight delay, for the materials to be sent out to the library requesting them.
Anyone desiring the materials must have a library card, which is available without charge. Readers are encouraged to contact their local library for details.
The materials are educational in six different areas of learning:
The majority of Muslims currently living in the U.S. have moved here or been born here since the 1960s. However, there have been Muslims living in our country almost to its very first non-native inhabitants. The materials include five books which are collectively called "American Stories," sharing the stories of individuals and groups of Muslims in the U.S., from various periods of history.
For thousands of years, western culture and Muslim culture have lived together and interacted. Sometimes the interactions have been violent, but often they have been positive and constructive. The materials from this grant include five books detailing the history of inter-cultural interactions, in various periods.
Nearly all cultures try to enshrine their beliefs and practices in literature, which illustrates and makes human a way of life. Muslim culture is rich in literature. Probably almost everyone is familiar with "The Arabian Nights," which is one of the five books in the literature collection, but there are four more, ranging from the ancient world to the most modern.
It is not unusual for members of the American public to know little or nothing about the basic religion of Islam. The fourth section of materials deals with the beliefs of Muslims. It includes materials which show that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all descended from the Biblical figure of Abraham, and all three have much in common.
All too often, news reports from the Middle East give the false impression that Muslims are all poor, uneducated and violent. In fact, there is as much diversity within Islam as there is in the rest of the world. The fifth selection of materials deals with life for Muslims in Cairo, in Tehran, in Fez and more.
The final grouping of materials from the grant, deal with art, architecture and film. "Prince Among Slaves," for example, is a biographical film about Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, a prince from an Islamic kingdom in West Africa who was captured during battle by people from a rival nation, who sold him to slave traders, who brought him to the U.S., where he lived for 40 years in the pre-Civil War South, as a slave.
The public event, to introduce the community to these valuable materials, will be held April 30, at 6:30 p.m. At that event, all the materials will be available to be borrowed, and from that time onward, they will be part of the library's regular collection.
One of the films from the sixth segment of materials will be shown publicly in the Fireplace Room of the James Prendergast Library, on April 30, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The film is "Koran By Heart," a 2011 documentary by filmmaker Greg Barker.
Each year, during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, which is called Ramadan, faithful Muslims fast from dawn until sunset. In addition to fasting, each believer is expected to say additional prayers, to offer alms, and to read and/or recite the holy book of Islam, which is called the Koran or the Quran.
Each year during Ramadan, a competition is held in which young believers from all over the world between the ages of 7 and the early 20s are invited to Cairo, Egypt, the largest city in Africa. There, they compete in reciting their holy book from memory. The judges choose a location in the 600-page holy book and instruct the young believer to begin there. Each participant is evaluated in terms of accuracy, pronunciation and intonation, since each reciter is required to chant the words in a specific rhythm.
The film focuses on three of the 110 participants in the competition, each of whom is 10 years old. One boy comes from war-torn Senegal, in Africa. Another boy comes from Tajikistan, a fierce, desert country which was once part of the Soviet Union. It borders Afghanistan and China.
The third featured contestant is a girl, who comes from the Maldives, a collection of small islands in the Indian Ocean, located between the peninsula of India and the coast of Africa.
All of the featured trio recite well. The film doesn't provide subtitles for the audience, so we don't know what they're saying or how accurately they're saying it, but the holy book is written in Arabic, and none of the three speaks more than a few words of that language. I suspect all religions have undergone conflict over whether holy writings must be read in their original language, or if they can be translated, and if they are translated, which translation or translations are acceptable and which are officially inaccurate.
Not only are these young children reciting 600 pages of words, they're doing it in a language which they don't speak.
The young girl needs to deal with people who believe that women are not worthy to read or recite the holy book. Her parents are eager for her to finish the competition and to return home, but her father wants to move her on to a future as a housewife and mother, while her mother believes she is especially brilliant, and should become a scientist or possibly a medical doctor.
One of the boys finds his school has been shut down by believers who think that education causes young people to disrespect and stray from the basic beliefs of their faith.
It's a fascinating film, well worthy of your attention. The film will be introduced by Sam Qadri, whose experience includes being Instructor of Islamic Studies and Arabic Language at Jamestown Community College. Qadri is also Community Outreach Coordinator for the Islamic Society of Jamestown, an organization serving the approximately 20 Islamic families in Jamestown.
Joining Qadri in leading the discussion which will follow the showing of the film will be Cynthia McKane, reference librarian and assistant professor on the faculty of JCC, and Gregory Rabb, professor of political science and coordinator of global studies at the community college.
The public is requested to come on time to the showing of the film, as it will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m., so that there will be time following its conclusion for discussion, before the library's closing time.
Prendergast Library is located at 509 Cherry St. in Jamestown. For additional information about the new materials or the showing of "Koran by Heart," phone 484-7135.
Comedian, actor, author and artist, Jonathan Winters died April 11. He was 87 years old.
Winters was born in Ohio, and from his early youth, he utilized a madcap style of humor in which he suddenly changed his voice. Picking up a prop, such as a spoon or a stick of wood, he would suddenly pretend the prop was a weapon or a tool or a remote controller of a robot, and he would rapidly coast from situation to situation, usually leaving his audience helpless from laughing. Comics including Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and Andy Kaufman would all credit him for having inspired their desire for a career in comedy, and their style of comedy.
His career began in 1948, when his wristwatch was broken. His wife convinced him to enter a comedy competition, to win enough money to buy a new one. He succeeded, and a radio executive in the audience was so impressed, he hired the young man to do a radio show in which he introduced and played records, and read the news and weather.
Rapidly, Winters' outrageous presentations became more important to the show than the records or the news. Soon he was being invited to be a guest star on "The Tonight Show," "The Ed Sullivan Show," the "Garry Moore Show" and the other popular variety shows which were so successful on network television in the 1950s and 1960s. He had a show of his own from 1972-74.
He was known for his ability to imitate other celebrities, and for his two best-known characters, Maude Frickert and Elwood P. Suggins. Maude was a sharp-tongued granny who said what she thought, whether anyone liked it or not. Johnny Carson created a character he called "Aunt Blabby," which he admitted was a take-off of Winters' Maude.
Suggins was a backwoods rube who made statements such as "I think eggs, 24 hours per day."
Winters was admitted twice to mental hospitals, due to the frenetic quality of his life. He eventually made numerous Grammy-winning recordings of stories, especially children's stories, and wrote books, often including his popular characters as central actors. His oil paintings sell for hefty sums at galleries around the U.S.
His wife of 61 years died in 2009. The couple had two children and five grandchildren.
Our country will miss Jonathan Winters, and his death deserves our respectful remembering.
Maria Tallchief died April 11 at the age of 88. She was a celebrated prima ballerina, who was the first person of Native American descent to become a principal dancer for a major world dance company.
She was probably most associated with the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the ballet "Nutcracker," and the magical Firebird, in Balanchine's ballet of that same name. She was born in Oklahoma, on the Reservation of the Osage Nation, one of five children. One of her sisters, Marjorie, had a major, though less successful, career in ballet, and her brother Thomas played professional football for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Her mother had always wanted to dance, but had received only discouragement from her family. Maria was enrolled in dance class, beginning at age 3, and her family moved twice so she could study with better and better teachers. She studied with Ernest Belcher, the father of famed dancer Marge Champion, and then with Bronislava Nijinska, the sister of perhaps the most famous dancer in history, Vaslav Nijinski.
At 20, she was hired by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. That same year, Russian emigre George Balanchine, destined to become the most famous choreographer in history, became the company's director.
He declared Tallchief his muse, and the couple married. Four years later, he would found what has become the New York City Ballet, with Lincoln Kirstein, and she would become the most celebrated ballerina in the company. She would go on to be the first American to dance with the esteemed Paris Opera Ballet, and the first American to dance in Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre.
After six years, the couple found that they both were attracted to other people, and they had their marriage annulled. In 1966, she danced in public for the last time, as the title character in the ballet "Cinderella.'
In retirement, she moved to Chicago, where she was much sought-after to teach professional dancers the techniques of her former husband, Balanchine. In 1981, she and her sister founded the Chicago City Ballet, and she was an advisor to the Chicago Festival Ballet for the rest of her life.
Ballet was a field which was dominated by Russians, and to a lesser degree, French dancers. Tallchief was the first American star who was sought-after and admired internationally.
Last December, she fell and broke her hip, and she died last week due to a complication from that incident.


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General Index to Experiment Station Record, Volumes 51 to 60, 1924-1929
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On Feb. 5, Fort Dodge voters will be asked to approve a $1.67 Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL) to support the Fort Dodge Community Schools. Members of the Fort Dodge Community School Foundation understand the importance of this funding and ask you to vote "yes" on Feb. 5.
You may be asking yourself "who will benefit?" from PPEL. PPEL funds benefit the students in both the Fort Dodge and St. Edmond school systems as well as the community by providing for infrastructure and equipment needs. The athletic facilities, auditorium, and academic areas are used by students and various community groups alike. The school buses which transport kids to school and activities are purchased with PPEL dollars. PPEL also funds computer equipment and technology upgrades which are so important to the 21st century learning that takes place today. In addition, nice schools and facilities help bring more families to our community, which benefits everyone.
Our schools need your support. Our students deserve your support. People can always find a reason to vote no, but I am giving you 3,700 reasons to vote yes – our students.
PPEL is a necessary investment for our future. Your support of PPEL will help ensure our kids have the facilities they need to succeed. Please help make it happen by voting "yes" on Feb. 5.
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Spiced Lamb Shanks with Blood Orange Relish
- Lamb Shanks:
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 lamb shanks, about 1 1/2 pounds each
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt, plus more as needed
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 4 cloves garlic, smashed and peeled
- 3 ribs celery, cut into 2 1/2-inch pieces
- 2 large carrots, cut into thirds
- 1 large onion, cut into large wedges
- 1 orange
- 1 cup dry red wine
- 1/2 cup currants
- 4 sprigs fresh flat-leaf parsley, leaves picked for relish (see below), stems reserved
- 3 sprigs fresh thyme
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 whole cloves
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 1 teaspoon juniper berries
- 1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
- 1 whole star anise
- 5 cups chicken broth, homemade or low-sodium canned
- 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Blood Orange Relish, recipe follows
- Creamy Cheese Polenta, recipe follows
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Heat a large Dutch oven (preferably oval) or soup pot with a lid, over high heat. Add half the olive oil and heat. Pat the lamb shanks dry with paper towels and season generously with salt and pepper. Add 2 of the lamb shanks to the hot oil and brown on all sides, about 4 to 5 minutes per side. Transfer shanks to a plate. Repeat with the remaining olive oil and shanks. Add the garlic, celery, carrots and onions and to the pot, and cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, about 8 minutes.
Meanwhile, use a vegetable peeler to strip the zest (just the orange skin, not the white pith underneath) from the orange in large pieces. Halve and juice the orange and set aside.
Add the red wine to the vegetables and stir with a wooden spoon, scraping up any browned bits that cling to the pot. Stir in the orange zest, currants, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil and cook until the wine is syrupy, about 5 minutes.
Cut a square of cheesecloth and place the parsley stems, thyme, bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon, juniper berries, peppercorns and star anise in the center. Tie into a bundle with kitchen twine. Add the spice bundle, chicken broth, orange juice and the shanks, along with any collected juices, to the pot, bring the mixture to a boil, cover, and transfer to the oven. Cook about 1 1/2 to 2 hours, turning the shanks occasionally, until the meat is just falling off the bone.
Transfer the shanks to a plate. Scoop the vegetables from the liquid using a slotted spoon and set aside. Boil the cooking liquid over high heat until thickened, about 15 minutes. Add the lemon juice, and season the sauce with salt and pepper, to taste. Return the shanks to the sauce and warm over medium heat, turning to coat evenly.
To serve, mound some of the polenta in the centers of 4 heated dinner plates. Top with a shank, and spoon some sauce and vegetables over and around the meat. Spoon a bit of Blood Orange Relish over each shank and serve immediately.
2 blood or navel oranges
1 small fennel bulb, trimmed, halved and cored
1/2 Granny Smith apple, diced small, about 1/2 cup
1/4 cup roughly chopped flat-leaf parsley leaves
1 teaspoon fennel seeds, lightly toasted, optional
1 to 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
2 teaspoons kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Cut both ends from the oranges. Stand them on a flat end and cut away all of the peel and white pith. Quarter them top to bottom. Lay the wedges on their sides and slice them thinly crosswise. Slice the fennel crosswise into very thin slices.
Gently toss the oranges, fennel, apple, parsley, fennel seeds and vinegar together in a small bowl. Season with the salt and pepper. (This can be made a day ahead and refrigerated until ready to serve.)
3 cups milk
2 cups chicken broth, homemade or low-sodium canned
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 cup instant polenta
1/2 cup mascarpone cheese
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan
Freshly ground black pepper
Bring the milk, chicken broth and salt to a boil in a large saucepan. Whisk in the polenta in a slow stream and cook, whisking constantly, until the polenta thickens, 3 to 5 minutes. When large bubbles begin to surface, remove from heat and stir in the cheeses and pepper. Taste and season with additional salt, if necessary.
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A three-step critical pathway for community-acquired pneumonia reduces duration of hospital stay and intravenous antibiotic use by 2 days
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Pathways are useful tools to remind treating physicians about criteria for early switch and discharge.
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Deeplinks Blog posts about Anonymity
Mandatory data retention legislation is never a good idea, which is why EFF has vigorously opposed it in the United States, where Congress tried and failed to pass it in 2009. That year, two ill-conceived bills would have required all Internet providers and operators of Wi-Fi access points to keep records on Internet users for at least two years to assist police investigations. Nevertheless, governments around the world, individually, and in concert, continue to argue that the stockpiling of the private, personal data of entire populations become a global norm. It's a constant battle, but one with some clear victories, most notably in the European Union, and most recently in Paraguay.
Facebook recently updated its community standards. As the company noted in the announcement accompanying the change, their "policies and standards themselves are not changing," but that they wanted to provide more clarity to a set of existing rules that have often been misunderstood by users.
While some of the changes provide significantly more detail as to the reasoning behind certain content restrictions, others fall short. And unfortunately, the updated standards do very little to solve the continuing problem of account suspensions for "real names" violations.
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Floridians, we need your help to stop a dangerous anti-anonymity bill. This week, the Florida state legislature is considering a bill that would make it illegal to run any website or service anonymously, if the site fits a vague category of "disseminat[ing]" "commercial" recordings or videos—even the site owner's own work. Outlawing anonymous speech raises a serious First Amendment problem, and laws like this one have been abused by police and the entertainment industry.
In comments yesterday during a cybersecurity conference at the New America Foundation, the Director of the NSA, Admiral Mike Rogers faced vocal criticism from the tech community (including cryptography expert Bruce Schneier and Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos). The criticism focused on the Obama administration's insistence that it should have access to everyone's encrypted communications via a backdoor, sometimes called a "golden key." Security experts caution that such a magic key, usable only by the "good guys" is—like magic—not actually possible.
What do drag queens, burlesque performers, human rights activists in Vietnam and Syria, and Native Americans have in common? They have all been the targets of "real names" enforcement on Facebook. And despite reports from the media last year that seemed to indicate that Facebook has "fixed" the issue, they're still being targeted.
The account suspension of Lakota woman Dana Lone Hill got some media attention earlier this week. Lone Hill has had a very similar experience to other users who've been booted of the site for name policy violations—with one important difference.
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How to diagnose autism
- 1Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust, Fleming Nuffield Unit, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- 2School of Clinical Medical Sciences, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sir James Spence Institute, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Correspondence to:
Professor A Le Couteur
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust, Fleming Nuffield Unit, Burdon Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 3AE, UK; A.S.Le-Couteur{at}newcastle.ac.uk
- Accepted 20 November 2006
Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of interest in autism and autism spectrum disorders. Knowledge and awareness of the condition has grown exponentially at all levels among the general public, parents, health professionals, the research community and, more recently, at parliamentary level. Alongside the increased understanding of these complex and disabling conditions is the acknowledgment of a broadening of the diagnostic criteria away from a narrow definition of autism to the autism spectrum with less clear diagnostic boundaries. Growing evidence of the importance of early diagnosis and intervention demands knowledge and skills from all professionals working with young children and in particular those involved in recognising early concerns about a child's development. This article outlines current clinical and research findings in relation to early diagnosis and considers the role of the paediatrician in this process. Reference is also made to the National Autism Plan for Children.
- ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- ASD, autism spectrum disorder
- GFCF, gluten-free casein-free
- MAA, multiagency assessment
- NAPC, National Autism Plan for Children
- PDD-NOS, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified
Competing interests: None.


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Hey guys! I'm a grad student, and I was wondering if anybody could help me with a potential thesis idea.
Obviously, tons of books have been written about tea "culture," ranging from gong fu brewing to chado to English high tea. This aspect of tea culture largely concerns the "finished product," though. I'm interested in researching tea culture for my thesis, but from the other end of the tea process. I'd like to conduct an ethnography of life on tea farms, primarily in places like Fujian province, northern Thailand, Taiwan, and Japan.
Do you guys know of any good contacts who are in the tea industry in South and Southeast Asia that might be willing to talk to a bumbling grad student for a topic like this?
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In his first weeks on the job, Bertrang 'listening, learning'
NEW ULM – "To listen and learn" is central to what newly-appointed Superintendent Jeff Bertrang has planned out for the start of his tenure in District 88.
In the coming school year, Bertrang plans to meet with staff, students, parents and community members to listen and learn about New Ulm Schools and the community at-large, he tells the school board.
Bertrang, previously the superintendent at GFW Schools, has been on the job in New Ulm for less than a month. He replaced long-term Superintendent Harold Remme, who retired on June 30.
Bertrang says he also plans to work with the school board to develop a long-range planning process that provides a focus and direction for the district to follow.
His goals also include:
Encouraging and supporting a culture of innovation and calculated risk-taking that provides new opportunities for our schools and students.
Collaborating with community organizations with the intention of working together for the common good of schools and communities.
Focusing the district on student achievement and growth through data analysis, common assessments, aligned curriculum and effective research-based teacher strategies.
"It is important for leaders to have goals that support the organization as it moves forward," Bertrang tells the board. "The goals will provide me a direction to support staff and students."
Bertrang also tells the board he has had the opportunity to visit with board members this month, in individual sessions, to learn more about them and the superintendent and board members can do together.
"This helps me to better understand the district processes and to get [board members'] focus for the future."
He reports he continues to spend time listening to staff and community members about New Ulm and the school district.
The sessions with board members and community visits are all part of his 90-day transition plan, he says.
"I will continue to visit with staff in the next couple of weeks and months ahead to listen and learn."
Bertrang attended the Region V superintendent session last week. This was a session geared to superintendents new to the region, he explains. The session covered aspects of finance programs and human resources options in software. It provided tools for district budgeting.
Also on his schedule was attendance of the annual school law conference July 22 in Brooklyn Park. The conference offers opportunities to get current information about school case law, changes from the past legislative session and federal government mandates that have sifted through to schools, he explains. Topics discussed include employee rights and discipline. Special education law updates are also presented.


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Originally set to be released in the fourth quarter of 2006 ATI's first DirectX 10-compliant graphics product is now more than a quarter late, which allows Nvidia Corp. to enjoy technology leadership. But in addition to technology-related issues, the ATI R600 is facing "political" reasons with its postponement.
Henri Richard, the sales chief at Advanced Micro Devices, said in an interview that his company could have started to ship the long-anticipated code-named ATI R600 graphics processors (and cards) any time, but the world's second largest maker of x86 microprocessors decided to wait till the more affordable derivative graphics chips get to the point when AMD can release them commercially and then ship the whole lineup of DirectX 10-compatible products.
"The R600 will be out in the second quarter. The reason we decided to delay the launch was that we wanted to have a complete DX10-enabled solutions top-to-bottom. A lot of people wrote that the reason it is delayed is because of a problem with the silicon, but there is no problem with the silicon. We are demonstrating it. We can ship it today. But if you think about it, looking at where the market is at, the volumes are going to be in the RV610 and RV630, so it makes sense for us to do a one time launch of the entire family of DX10 enabled products," said Henri Richard in an interview with Hardware Zone web-site.
According to Mr. Richard, his partners, who had nothing new to show at CeBIT 2007 and who are not receiving a good portion of publicity because of the lack of high-end hardware that could compete against the GeForce 8800-series, agreed that the launch of the R600, RV610 and RV630 would make more sense.
"That meant delaying the R600 for a few weeks, but frankly it doesn't make a difference in the life cycle of the product and talking with our customers and partners, they felt that it would make a bigger impact with one full launch. So we decided to do that," Mr. Richard is reported to have said.
Specifications of ATI R600 published by a web-site earlier resemble specs revealed by some other sources back in mid-2006, but are not fully similar:
- 64 4-Way SIMD Unified Shaders, 128 Shader Operations/Cycle;
- 32 texture mapping units, 16 raster operation units;
- 512-bit memory interface full 32 bit per chip connection;
- 150W – 230W thermal power envelope;
It was also reported that the next-generation graphics chip from AMD's graphics division formerly known as ATI Technologies will support so-called GPU clustering, which allows to install 2ⁿ number of GPUs (4, 8, 16, 32, etc), though it is unclear whether this is something new, as ATI's graphics chips supported multi-GPU capability for professional solutions from companies like Evans & Sutherland for many years now. In addition, it was revealed that the R600 chip is compatible with "draft DX10.1 vendor-specific cap removal" application programming interface, something, which is unlikely to be utilized for a substantial amount of time.


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These videos will help kids practice the A-B-C-D steps of the Respect & Protect program.
A teacher/facilitator guide reinforces lessons with discussion questions, exercises, and reproducible worksheets.
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