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There is a scenario event on the 18th of this month at OSG, is anyone going?
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Started by nick-mouse-hebert, Jul 11 2010 10:23 AM
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Posted 15 July 2010 - 02:56 AM
im not going but I am going on byop day. osg is just too damn expensive. I miss canobie
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Posted 16 July 2010 - 01:12 AM
lol nick and I just talked about it, I'm going, I'll have an sr w/camo rotor, events and invert jersey, and probably have a nashua lax penney over it (so my little bro can find me)
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Posted 16 July 2010 - 10:46 AM
i cant make call of duty but im going tommorrow just as a walk-on
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thanks all! the things i can think of that i adjusted after the garage trip included firing the oven for much longer - i baked bread saturday so i had even more of a headstart. i also upped my salt from 2.8% to 3% to match craig's dough. i used oil instead of flour under my doughballs as they proofed, and made the top the top instead of the bottom of the crust. something worked, 'cause that was some of my best pizza yet. i tried a brussels sprouts pie too! dang that is so much better than i ever thought it would be.bill
How do you prep the brussel sprouts for the pizza?
Pizza on the grill with a double decker stone. Pizza tasted much better than the pics.
Cool set-up JB. You can close the door all the way with that thing in there? How long do you let it pre-heat? Have you checked the temp of the stones before baking?
Yes, that thing looks awesome. It's exactly what I need. Did you make it or buy it?
Here's a few pics of a pizza I made on the grill the other day. It'd be nice if I could get a little top heat in there, but the pizza was still very good.
That pizza is the exact size of the stone... delicate work done well, my friend.
Thanks. I'm glad someone finally noticed that. (That picture has been up on another thread for about a week.)
I'd like to try 3 1/2 to see if it browns better without making it too hard to get a pizza in there.
Norma, I want to roast some lamb or goat and roll it up in that pizza and eat it like a giant gyro! OMG, that would be good.


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— $108 Million Stolen Cézanne Saved in Serbia: Last night police in Belgrade rescued "The Boy in the Red Waistcoat" (1888-89), a painting by Paul Cézanne that was stolen at gunpoint from Zurich's Emil Georg Bührle gallery in 2008, along with classic works by Claude Monet, Edgard Degas, and Vincent van Gogh, in what was the biggest art heist in Switzerland's history. The Cézanne work alone is estimated to be worth a staggering £68 million ($108 million). While the Monet and van Gogh were recovered shortly therafter, the Degas remains missing; three suspects are being held in connection with the just-recovered Cézanne, while Swiss experts are en route to confirm its authenticity. [Guardian, Libération]
— Magritte for the Kids: Does your little one have a taste for the odd puzzle-paintings of Rene Magritte? If so, then you are in luck! D.B. Johnson's new children's picture book "Magritte's Marvelous Hat," aims to make Belgian Surrealist's unique sensibility accessible to the average preschooler. Johnson — who published the M.C. Escher-themed kids' book "Palazzo Inverso" two years ago — cast the Swiss Surrealist as a dog whose bowler hat floats mysteriously over his head. [Wired]
— A Very Sweet 30 for Prince William: The Finnish candy company Panda Liquorice has commissioned the most scrumtious royal portrait ever to mark Prince William's 30th birthday, which happens to coincide with the company's three-decade anniversary. The 20-foot mural, currently on view at Spinningfields in Manchester, took four artists five hours and 3,000 pieces of liquorice to build. Panda Liquorice spokesperson Lisa Gawthorne said: "We're delighted to be sharing our 30th with him and hope this tribute brings a smile to the faces of both Wills and Kate." [HuffPoUK]
— Guggenheim and UBS Team Up to Tap the Developing World's Art Treasures: Today the Guggenheim Foundation and UBS will announce a five-year program, the awkwardly named "Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative," to work with artists and curators from South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America while acquiring works from those regions for the Guggenheim's permanent collection, to be the focus of major traveling exhibitions. Curators from each global region will be granted overlapping two-year residencies at the New York museum as part of the program. [NYT]
— British Police Mistakenly Release Art Thief: One of five suspects in an organized crime ring arrested last weekend for stealing Chinese artifacts worth £2 million ($3.2 million) from Durham's Oriental Museum was accidentally let go on Tuesday, and has disappeared, prompting a nationwide manhunt. Lee Wildman, 35, was granted bail Monday night, but before the police could re-arrest him for questioning he'd vanished. Four other prime suspects remain in custody. [NorthernEcho]
— Aussies Outgrow Venice Annex: After exhibiting in Philip Cox's temporary building for a quarter-century, Australia will build a new pavilion designed by Denton Corker Marshall for the 2015 Venice Biennale. The new AUS$6 million (US$ 6.2 million), to be built in the Giardini, will take the place of Cox's structure, and will be a solemn box of black granite — in high contrast to the conventional white cube. [BrisbaneTimes]
— Irish Artist Builds Billion-Euro House: Entitled "Expressions of Recession," Franck Buckley's Dublin House has been mostly constructed from shredded decommissioned bank notes given to him by the national mint under strict conditions, and formerly worth some €1.4 billion ($1.8 billion). The artist is now welcoming visitors into the three-room house and gallery, in which he's been living since last December. Some of his paintings are on sale within, but at significantly more affordable prices. [Artlyst]
— Pinta Returns to London: After a successful second edition in 2011, Pinta, the art fair dedicated to art from Latin America, has announced it will hold a third edition and introduce artists from Portugal and Spain for the first time. Three sections will be presented in 2012: Galleries, Solo Exhibitions, and Art Projects curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra. [Artdaily]
— New Director for Barcelona's Picasso Museum: Bernardo Laniado-Romero, who was formerly director of the Picasso Museum in Malaga, has been appointed the director of the much larger Barcelona institution of the same name. He also worked for the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's European Painting department. [Connaissance des Arts]
— Chinese Art Collection Breaks Auction Records: Paintings, sculptures, and objets d'art belonging to an unnamed Milwaukee family went under the hammer at a Kaminski auction in Beverly, Massachusetts, late last month. Among the prized works were five paintings by the 20th century artist Qi Bashi, which sold for a record $2.3 million. [Auction Central News]
— Turkey Demands Artifact's Return, Mid-Exhibition: An increasingly assertive Turkish government is demanding the return of a statue brought to the British Museum in the 1920s, and that is a highlight of the current exhibition "Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam." The demand, first articulated by Ankara's government in in 2005, is one of many works Turkey has requested from U.S. and British institutions — it's also the second ongoing high-profile case involving the British Museum, which is under pressure from Greece to return the Elgin marbles. [NYT]
Surrealism for kids — Magritte's Marvelous Hat by author/illustrator D. B. Johnson:


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Thanks for all the responses. It was really something to get ideas of such quality and in such numbers. 1. 'No' My initial query was: South African English use of 'No' - does this occur in contexts such as: A.How are you? B.No, I'm fine. in other English varieties/other languages? Confronted with such examples, vistors to the country often comment that in SA English, 'no' means 'yes'. This, of course, is not true. 'No' would be the response to the question 'Do you have the time?' if the speaker didn't have the time. * Generally: A couple of people commented that 'no' definitely does NOT mean 'yes' in these contexts. What it does is rather to negate the possibility of a negative belief concerning the answer to the question. In the example above, for instance, B. is negating A.'s possible belief that B. is not well. Why South Africans hold that the possibility of such negative beliefs is so strong they have to be denied remains to be seen. * 'no' in other varieties of English The use of 'no' in the types of examples cited anyway is NOT recorded according to the responses in: - Australian English - American English - English English It IS recorded in: -Nigerian and Ghanaian English There DO appear to be RELATED (but not identical) discourse uses of 'no' and similar particles in other varieties of English. Few English responses actually dealt with this usage at all. By far the majority were on 'man' * 'No' in other languages 'No' does seem to be used in a variety of other languages in the same way as in SA English. Similar uses are recorded in: - The Scandinavian Languages - German ('doch' - similar but not identical) - Cameroon French - Bangkok Thai ('plaw' - lit. 'empty') - Spanish? It also occurs, incidentally, in Afrikaans. 2. 'Man' My question here related to the use of 'man' to express a negative emotional involvement of the speaker of some sort - irritation, impatience or annoyance. Examples given were: Man it's hot today Hurry up mom, man Man, I can't this right * English A huge response that showed that 'man' is used similarly in: - American English (both 'black' and 'white') - Scottish English - Tyneside English (in north east of England) - Jamaican English - Welsh English - An 'Americanism' found in other varieties of English. The American English usage at least does not necessary carry negative sentiment and is 'a more general tag ... over which any kind of emotional intonation can be laid'. Example b. above, an example which typifies SA usage, was found to be odd ('weird') by American respondants. The reason for this is that 'man' although an interjection still appears to 'have the flavour of a term of address so that 'mom, man' sounds like two forms of direct address in a row'. It seems, then, that 'man' in SAE does not bare the feature 'term of address' at all in such contexts. The only instance in which similar usages were given was in Tyneside English. ('Shut up man Geoff' 'Those kegs are too tight man Mary'. Here though, the actual term of address occurs finally as opposed to the use of 'man' finally in SAE. This needs to be explored further, but of further interest: - There is a distinctly 'American' use of 'man' in SAE that is not like the South African use of man ('Cool man' type of utterances). - Other SA examples of man: - Daddy, man! (5 year old daughter after I stood on her toe) - Man, David, I don't mean that (Wife and self in 'altercation') - No man, that's not right. - Man! This bloody computer is giving problems. - SAEnglish 'man' alternates between shwa and full vowel in all contexts. (In SAE shwa occurs as a vowel in stressed contexts - 'sit' can have shwa for eg): Related usage in currant American English is the use of 'dude'. * Other languages Related uses of 'man' include: - Dutch - Swedish ('boy' is used in a similar way) - Norwegian -?German use of 'etwa' may have similar function -German ('usually to indicate weariness') -Spanish -?Lhasa Tibetan ('mi' - 'person') Interestingly in Dutch the 'double address form [ as in 'Hurry up mom, man'] is impossible (just "schiet op, man" must do).' Some interesting stuff came out as you can see. Just for your interest, on further SA English item: - 'Sorry' for 'I beg your pardon'e.g. A drops something without knowing. B picks it up and calls out to A 'Sorry, you dropped something' Anyway thanks to: helen adamson geoffrey sampson elin haf gruffyd jones celso alvarez caccamo mai kuha mark donohue marek przezdziecki scott delancey mats eeg-olofsson dom watt hilde hasselgard nicole nelson jane a. edwards sren harder charlie rowe nobue mori adiego lajara bruce connell krisadawan hongladarom frank bramlett deborah milam berkley douglas s oliver larry trask kristine hasund paul boersma m. lynne roecklein judy l. delin benji wald stephen p. spackman john verhaar randall major + the person who wished to be anonymous for the references.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue


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The Russians are coming!
A friend once recounted his story of a jump-seat ride aboard an Aeroflot airlines Tu-154 during the 1980s. After the Russian trijet had reached cruise altitude, the flight crew broke out a bottle of sherry and began celebrating, because they had managed to survive another takeoff in an airplane not known for its reliability. In fact, the NATO code name for the Tu-154 was "Careless." Since 1968, more than three dozen of them have had fatal crashes, and it was a Tu-154 crash that killed the president of Poland and most of his cabinet in April of 2010.
Aeroflot removed the last of these aircraft from its service in 2009, ostensibly because their engines were too noisy, and now flies mostly Western-built aircraft. However, that could soon change as Russia begins to field a new generation of indigenously built commercial aircraft, this time designed with Western assistance and major components (including avionics, engines and control systems) that promise greater reliability and easier product support. Some of these aircraft could be converted to executive and VIP use and give the current entrants in the uber-barge market–Airbus, Boeing and Embraer–stiff competition later in the decade.
The Sukoi 100 (SSJ100) is at the head of the class. This is not Boris' Tu-154. The large 75-95 seat (coach) regional jet is undergoing certification approval by European authorities and is being built by United Aircraft, a partnership of Italy's Alenia and Russia's Sukhoi Design Bureau–with a large helping of technical and marketing support from Boeing. During a visit to Seattle earlier this year, I spoke with a Russian who worked on the project for Boeing. "It is the first [commercial] Russian airplane designed on the computer, rather than paper!" he exclaimed.
More than 200 of the $32 million Superjets are on order, primarily from airlines in Russia and Asia, and for years United Aircraft has made no secret of its interest in offering an executive version of the model to fill a niche it sees between large-cabin bizjets such as Gulfstreams and Bombardier Globals and the even bigger, single-aisle twinjets such as the Airbus Corporate Jet and Boeing Business Jet (BBJ).
At this year's Paris Air Show, plans for the $50 million Sukhoi Business Jet (SBJ) were formally announced. Carlo Logli, CEO of Superjet International, the SSJ100's marketing arm, estimates that between 80 and 100 executive Superjets could be delivered over the next 20 years, with sales centered primarily in North America, the Middle East and Russia.
Fitted with auxiliary fuel tanks, Superjets could have a range of 4,300 nautical miles, which would put them head-to-head with Embraer's Lineage 1000. Logli said the first SBJ could be certified by 2014.
The Russians aren't the only ones who could be jumping into the airliner business jet market. Bombardier, Japan's Mitsubishi and China's Comac all have regional jets in the works that at some point could do executive duty.
BBJ president Steve Taylor doesn't see this happening for a while, given the complexities of converting an airliner into a truly useful executive aircraft. "I believe it's many years in the future," he told me. "It's such a big challenge. With the BBJ, we had to increase the operational weight by 20,000 pounds to be able to carry enough fuel to get the range we needed. To do so, we used the wing from the 737-800 mated to the fuselage of the 737-700. But without having a whole product line to draw from, you can't make that happen. It is a really unusual airplane that you can move from one category [airliner] to another [business jet]."
Regarding "The Russians Are Coming!" [August/September 2011], I share your lack of appreciation of the Tu154, which was inferior to comparable American and European single-aisle aircraft of its era. The demise of this aircraft, coinciding with the demise of the Soviet Union, was mostly due to the excessive fuel consumption of its low-bypass engines and incompatibility with noise regulations. I urge you to read a little about the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash. You will surely find that the causes of this accident had nothing to do with the reliability of the aircraft but rather with its use in demanding conditions. I find your mention of the SSJ100 interesting, and wish to remind you that Sukhoi is not the first Russian manufacturer taking this path. They were preceded by the ill-fated "export" versions of Ilyushin Il-96 and Tupolev Tu-204. The menace to Boeing-Airbus sovereignty is more likely looming from China.
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College-educated Americans aren't as engaged and challenged at work as less-educated workers, a new Gallup survey finds. That's true for all ages and professions. Those with "some college" or a degree were less likely to say that "at work I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day."
Gallup's employee engagement index categorizes workers as engaged, not engaged, or actively disengaged. Engaged employees are involved in and enthusiastic about their work. Those who are not engaged are satisfied with their workplaces, but are not emotionally connected to them — and these employees are less likely to put in discretionary effort. Those workers categorized as actively disengaged are emotionally disconnected from their work and workplace, and they jeopardize the performance of their teams.
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At the very least, we have a lot of college graduates getting jobs that don't put their best talents and skills to work because of a big disconnect between degrees conferred and the jobs available today. At worst, we have a college system that is not helping students accomplish the most fundamental need — getting them closer to what they do best.
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After being treated for an aggressive thyroid cancer seven years ago, Randy Kreill of Beavercreek, Ohio, started running and racing triathlons to minimize the possibility of his cancer returning. He fell in love with ultrarunning and became vegan just over a year ago. Kreill provided the wholesome wrap recipe (more like a guideline) below via email, saying, "I'm an improvisor in the kitchen. My three daughters and my rule-following wife will confirm that!"
• In a large saucepan, begin cooking 45-minute cook-time grains like black rice, brown rice or barley with polenta. You can also toss in raw unsalted sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, amaranth or millet.
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• Add salt and spices to taste.
• Dice vegetables and fruit (the smaller the better for eating and digesting on the go). Kreill likes tomatoes, carrots, parsnips, jicama, spinach, avocado (the more the better), pineapple, celery, cucumbers and snap peas. He says black beans, black-eyed peas, butternut squash or sweet potatoes make excellent additions.
• Roll everything up in a large whole-wheat tortilla slathered in hummus and seal in wax paper. Says Kreill, "Eat slowly, chew fully and keep running!"
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About the Author: Foreign Service Officer Matthew G. Fuller serves as Ambassador Roos' Staff Aide at U.S. Embassy Tokyo.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan John V. Roos traveled to Okinawa, June 18-21, for a four-day stop to meet with local government officials, community leaders, and students to discuss economic, business, and educational opportunities for Okinawans. The Ambassador has spoken at length about the critical role of the U.S. Marine Corps presence in Okinawa like he did in his speech at Waseda University earlier this year. Recognizing the important contribution of Okinawa to the U.S.-Japan Alliance, the Ambassador sought to hear from the Okinawans themselves by traveling from Tokyo to the island and listening to their ideas for Okinawa's future.
Having signed, along with Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Masayuki Naoshima, Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima, and Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle, the Okinawa-Hawaii Clean Islands Partnership on green energy the evening prior to his arrival in Naha, the Ambassador took up a full agenda, crisscrossing the island to discuss ways in which the United States can deepen its engagement with Okinawa. He addressed the 10th Anniversary event of the Obuchi Fellows program, which sends researchers between Okinawa and Hawaii to meet with education officials and English language educators to discuss ways to promote English education. Ambassador Roos met with a diverse group of college students for an open discussion ranging from study abroad opportunities to President Obama to the presence of U.S. troops on the island.
Touring the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) and receiving an update on their latest research, the Ambassador was impressed with the Institute's progress and the breadth and potential of their work. He offered insights based on his Silicon Valley background on how to leverage and commercialize their development in a way that will benefit the Okinawan economy. He later hosted a reception for Okinawan entrepreneurs and business leaders where he had a chance to have more in-depth conversations about economic development on the island. He took time to discuss his observations with the Governor, the Speaker of the Prefectural Assembly, and the Chairmen of the Northern and Central base hosting mayor's associations.
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I was invited here by one of your members and I'm glad I was. I've been roaming around and getting a feel for what's on here. I am a wood fire potter in Central New York, in Homer. I use stoneware clay and fire to cone 11 usually. I find cone 10 shinos are at their best when pushed a little. I love the way that the natural fly ash and flame interact with the shinos. I also have been trying new glazes all the time. I'll post some of my work and tell me what you think.
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Stella McCartney Sheds Light on Leather's Dark Truth
Posted February 6, 2012 by peta2 staff
Inspiring and compassionate trendsetter Stella McCartney has stocked shelves around the world with her modern, feminine designs for H&M, Adidas, and her own namesake line. Her designs keep the most famous movie stars on best-dressed lists (hello, Charlize, Penélope, and Kate!), but best of all, Stella and her award-winning collections are proudly free of leather, fur, and other skins.
Stella's already revealed the horrors of fur, and now she wants you to learn the facts about leather's extreme cruelty, environmental destruction, and human health costs and pledge never to wear dead animals' skins again!
Watch Stella's exposé of the global leather industry to find out who your leather bag, belt, or shoe once was:
Leave a comment telling us why you would never wear leather. We want to hear your voice!
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1524 days agoVN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Hate hate hate hate leather.
1546 days ago
[…] fur of a tortured dead animal is glamorous?! But animals also suffer and die for down feathers and leather. Yet just like with faux fur, there's a huge variety of cruelty-free down and leather […]
1787 days ago
i would never wear fur, just stopped buying leather bags, wallets and shoes as well. just purchased a stella wallet and 2 bags, beautiful and cruelty free. i am just curious as to why stella still uses wool and silk which are equally cruel? Stella GO VEGAN all the way!!!!
1789 days ago
i love her and her awesome dad 🙂
1805 days ago
How would you know for sure if the leather is real? .. Anyway it is wrong to kill animals for leather & clothes in my opinion, because we don't need to have an animal rapped around us to live, there are so many clothes that are just fine to wear. Like the UGG boots I have a pair of boots that look just like them but they aren't made of sheep & they are cheaper! That's why UGGS are 100$ or a lil more or less, it's reallu upsetting.
1805 days ago
thanks peta.
1805 days ago
nice one.
1806 days ago
I will admit it, I have a pair of leather combat boots that I purchased before I became vegan and while I was vegetarian 🙁 I really regret it now because I know I could have pretty easily found a cool faux leather pair and because they remind me of how much of an asshole I used to be all the time that I wear them now :/ I still do wear them, however, because I do not think that throwing them out would make it any better and, on the contrary, would make me feel like I wasted that life, which would be even worse. I have since purchased a vegan leather corset though and I love it :3 I am really disturbed by leather clothes that come in direct contact with people's skin because they literally wear someone's skin on top of their own. EW!
1806 days agoVA:F [1.9.22_1171]
I still don't get why people would actually wear dead animals.
1806 days ago
that's is great and i have purchased her wallets and bags but she still uses wool & silk…..which has its own cruelty involved. let's get her to change that as well.
1807 days ago
i dont and would never wear leather because it's just so horrible. as children we learn to treat others the way we would like to be treated, but where along the line do people lose sight of this? i would not want to be treated like the animals who suffer every day of their lives to be a needless hunk of meat on a dinner plate, a fur coat, or leather shoes; so why would i partake in this cruelty?
1807 days ago
i don't wear leather because i have respect for my body and animals so theres no way i would wear a piece of flesh covered in chemicals
1808 days ago
I don't eat meat or wear fur. Why would I want to add to the misery of these poor animals by wearing leather? Never. I don't understand vegetarians or vegans who wear leather. I do not believe that animals are placed here for our "use", rather we are placed here to protect and respect them.
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text: Patches item #6417, was opened at 2006-10-31 21:36 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=3151&aid=6417&group_id=797 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Wilson Bilkovich (wilson) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: [PATCH] Support @object.some_method_should_be_changed_by {block} Initial Comment: I was toying with how to implement the RSpec equivalent of "assert_difference" from test/unit. In case you haven't used it, it looks something like this: assert_difference some_object, :some_method { some code here } It calls some_object.some_method before and after the block, and fails if there is no difference. This patch implements something similarly generic: @some_object.some_method_should_be_changed_by {|obj| code here} ..and its inverse: @some_object.some_method_should_not_be_changed_by {|obj| code here} some_method is stripped from the beginning of the message, and passed forward for use inside the Should module. Has specs, and all other existing specs still pass. A real 'use case' example: User.count_should_be_changed_by do User.create :login => 'quentin', :email => 'blah at example.com'... end User.count will be different before and after, so this expectation will be met. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: David Chelimsky (dchelimsky) Date: 2006-11-15 16:53 Message: I'd stay away from sugar. Sugar is only there to intercept messages that start with "should_", hence the implementation. I do see the dilemma re: getting a handle on the User rather than the value it returns for :count. Agreed that User.should_return_different_results_for(:count).after { block here } is clunky, but I think that's the right direction. Not sure of a better way to do it though. As for the plugin requiring a change for every release, that's only temporary. We do plan to address plugins and extensions because we want people to feel free to publish extensions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Wilson Bilkovich (wilson) Date: 2006-11-15 16:10 Message: Oh, and Brandon's example: User.count.should_be_changed_by(1) { User.create(...) } ..is, as far as I can tell, impossible to implement without modifying the Ruby interpreter. If User.count starts out at 5, 'should' is being called on an instance of Fixnum. There's no way to tell what value to compare it to, after the block returns. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Wilson Bilkovich (wilson) Date: 2006-11-15 16:08 Message: That's precisely why I implemented it this way. I would much prefer to be able to write: User.count.should_be_changed..etc.etc.. ..but without a way to get a handle on the "method that was called to return the object that should was called on", I couldn't think of another way. Also, re: sugar.rb Here's a line of code from trunk: return original_method_missing.bind(self).call(sym, *args, &block) unless sym.to_s =~ /^should_/ As you can see, sugar assumes that the message being intercepted begins with 'should'. Because this patch requires a different behavior, I will still need to monkey-patch sugar.rb. I'm happy to do this as a plugin, it just looks like I would need to release a new version almost every time the trunk changed. The other way to implement this would be something like: User.should_return_different_results_for(:count).after { block here} ..but that seems clunky. I like the way this version reads, myself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brandon Keepers (brandon) Date: 2006-11-15 14:26 Message: Ok, looking into this a little, I see why it is implemented how it is. The idea is that you want to check that the result of a method call is changed by a block, not necessarily the referenced object itself. It happens to work if the referenced object is being modified, but what about when it's just being re-assigned? For example, this would work because :count is being incremented: User.count.should_be_changed_by(1) { User.create(...) } But, this would fail: @user.name.should_be_changed_to("Jim") { @user.name = "Jim" } should_be_changed_to is looking that the referenced variable changes, but in the block, I'm just reassigning it, so the original reference to name is not modified. Thoughts? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brandon Keepers (brandon) Date: 2006-11-15 14:06 Message: So, the main issue is just the implementation, and not the feature itself? I agree with you about it being too non-deterministic. I like the examples that you gave, it feels more like original the assert_difference. I'd also like to see "should_be_changed_to(newval)" Maybe I'll get myself familiar with the rspec internals and actually contribute instead of standing on the sidelines. ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: David Chelimsky (dchelimsky) Date: 2006-11-15 11:30 Message: Brandon - re: inclusion as a core feature: I think it is too non-deterministic as/is. In the example, one could override (accidentally, of course) User.create to delete something and the spec would pass. We *could* make it more deterministic: User.count.should_be_changed_by('+ 1') do {...} or User.count.should_be_changed_from(3).to(4) do {...} One thing that concerns me is that we lose the separation between context and outcome that is essential to BDD. Although it is very behavioral in nature. I'm on the fence. Thoughts? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: David Chelimsky (dchelimsky) Date: 2006-11-15 11:22 Message: Wilson - re: your question about plugins and sugar: sugar.rb now only intercepts the :should_ part of a :should_do_something message. What you want to extend is the Should class itself (in this case with a 'changed_by' method that takes a block), and the Not class if you want a negative counterpart. Be forewarned that we're not committing to the current structure at this point, so you'd be incurring some risk that a future version of RSpec might break your plugin because you're patching something internal. We will, however, at some point soon (within a month or two I think), publish (and thereby commit to) an entry point to extending expectations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brandon Keepers (brandon) Date: 2006-11-15 01:00 Message: What is the reasoning for not including this as a core feature? This is a very helpful expectation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Aslak Hellesøy (aslak_hellesoy) Date: 2006-11-06 18:11 Message: I don't think anyone has thought much about how a plugin mechanism will actually be implemented. We'll try as hard as we can to make something forward compatible and easy to use. Your patch here would be a good case to verify a plugin mechanism against. I actually implemented this very feature a couple of months ago (rel 0.5.14). We decided to remove the day after. The thread about it starts here: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rspec-devel/2006-July/000324.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Wilson Bilkovich (wilson) Date: 2006-11-06 17:51 Message: Hrm. Are plugins going to be able to modify sugar.rb in a forward-compatible way? I'm not sure how to implement this without stepping in that early in the chain. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Aslak Hellesøy (aslak_hellesoy) Date: 2006-11-06 17:45 Message: I think this is the kind of stuff we'd encourage people to bundle as an RSpec plugin. We don't have a plugin mechanism yet, but we'll hopefully have one soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=3151&aid=6417&group_id=797


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Dress: Shabby Apple; Belt: Target (similar);
Also, this purse has shown up in my last 4 outfit posts. The pop of red is my favorite! Next on my list... a kelly green purse.
i'm digging your dress, too - it's so cute. love the gingham!ReplyDelete
This is absolutely, adorably vintage...perfect with the skinny belt, flats, and retro purse! Plus I love that you went with solid, bright colours against the gingham. Perfect styling.
<3 Cambria
That is the cutest dress! (I almost called it a "frock," it feels like I should call it a frock.) I love how you incorporated all your primary colors in this outfit - but it's done right!ReplyDelete
I love Shabby Apple dresses, though they are a bit out of my price range. I've always admired that one and it looks great on you. Gingham is so fun.ReplyDelete
loving that dress! It looks so comfy:)ReplyDelete
So cute! Honestly, this is the first time I've seen and really wanted a Shabby Apple dress. Love the pops of color!ReplyDelete
Super cute! The extra large gingham is really a great pop!ReplyDelete
It's a beauty! xReplyDelete
Well they did a real good job indeed! I LOVE gingham! You look just lovely and 77 sounds just delightful!ReplyDelete
I wish it were 77 here! I'm stuck in a thick sweater and envying your bare legs and adorable green flats.
Super cute! Love it!ReplyDelete
77 degrees?? How did you get so lucky?! I love the blue gingham. I love it even more with the green flats, so cute!ReplyDelete
I love it too. Do they ship to Germany. I'll check that immediately:)!ReplyDelete
I remember when that dress came out thinking how adorable it was. You look so cute!
lace, etc.
Cute dress - I like how you accessorized with touches of color. :) It looks like the perfect dress to wear on a romantic picnic. :)ReplyDelete
you can never go wrong with shabby apple. ADORE!
xo TJ
cutesy wootsey!ReplyDelete
Um...that dress is absolutely beautiful! Love the combination of all those colors :)
xo Jac
J'adore gingham! This is lovely.
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such a cute dress!
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That is theee cutest dress!ReplyDelete
omg this outfit is darling.
its perfect for a sunny picnic.
xo katlin
Love the red + yellow + green accents! Super subtle but cute!
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This outfit is darling. I love the little pops of color with the gingham. And those shoes are seriously adorable.ReplyDelete
Pretty gingham print! I like the silhouette and the subtle strip of yellow is such a nice touch! xxReplyDelete
The first thing I thought of before even reading this post was that this dress looked like a GREAT warm weather outfit. Come to find out, you're living it up in 77 degree temps!! Jealous much!!ReplyDelete
i've been wanting to get this belt, now i definitely will! looks adorable on you :)ReplyDelete


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It has been revealed that, Michael David Barret, the now infamous peeping tom accused of spying on ESPN reporter Erin Andrews had also been making naked videos of other women. At his hearing, Assistant US Attorney Steven Grimes stated "Yes, judge, there are other women. He has used his computer to disseminate these videos to the world."
Barret, who used cameras and self-made peep holes to spy on women, supposedly made many more videos that the police hope to find on the two computers seized from his home. Barret has been posted on bail and is under house arrest where he is wearing a GPS ankle bracelet as well as being banned from using the internet. Much like with the Andrew's video, Barret uploaded other videos under the web-name "GOBLAZERS1." So far, Barret has been officially charged with stalking which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
Michael David Barret has agreed to plead guilty to stalking Erin Andrew and could face up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000.
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High rates? No problem
How would residents in the village of Fredonia benefit from a regional water district? Users would pay lower rates for water due to fewer expenses by the village in running a water plant.
What changes would the entity of the village of Fredonia have from reduced rates to its users? Well, it would have one less expense line. But otherwise, the village would lose a portion of its kingdom that is so vital to almost all of the trustees.
That information on the lower rates was from a study presented last week by Rick Henry, an engineer working with the Chadwick Bay Regional Development Corp. on the project.
Instead of the lower rates bringing excitement, it made village leaders shudder.
"I think the serious nature of asking the Village Board to endorse an application, which is going to ask that the Fredonia water system be closed, is a serious question for the board to consider," village attorney Sam Drayo said. "We pass that resolution, we're endorsing a plan to close our Fredonia water works."
Which is exactly the problem of government today.
In this discussion of a regional water district and rates, Fredonia is totally content with its users paying higher water rates. Those rates, we might add, are more expensive than what people living in desert-laden Arizona pay for water.
But Fredonia leaders shrug their shoulders over the high rates. Most village leaders probably do not even care the Carriage House facility, which had a sister plant close in Silver Creek and another drastically downsize in Dunkirk, pays high rates.
Most of these leaders only care about one thing in this debate: maintaining what the village already has.
This, unfortunately, is why governments in Western New York are so embarrassing. A plan is brought forth for lower rates and all most of the trustees – and the attorney – can worry about is the future of its plant?
Shame on those leaders.
If lower water rates are available, they need to do everything possible to secure those rates – for businesses, non-profits and residents.
Last fall, village leadership practically begged the ownership of the Carriage House facilities for a meeting to do what it could to help keep the company here in uncertain times. Eight months later, you have to believe lower water rates would be a step in the right direction.
Unfortunately, the village government – in a local decision that has nothing to do with state mandates or Albany edicts – is worried more about the village than one of its major employers and taxpayers.
It is irresponsible, selfish and an all-too-familiar curse from another bloated government of Western New York.


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Today is Ash Wednesday, and to help you get the season off to the right start we offer this reflection for the day by Basilian Father Tom Rosica, the head of Salt + Light Television, Canada's national Catholic television outlet. Father Rosica recorded the series of Lenten and Easter reflections in 2008, beginning with this one, titled "It Took Forty Days."
The entire series of reflections, which goes through the feast of the Ascension, is available here if you want to save them and come back during your Lenten and Easter journey this year.
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P1 = Incident Electromagnetic Power
P2 = Transmitted power with shielding in place
R = Reflection loss
A = Absorption loss
C = correction term for re-reflection within the metal surfaces
Furthermore, according to [1], the correction term (C) is usually of small magnitude and is ignored when the absorption loss is greater than about 10dB.
According to [1], the reflection loss for plane waves is as follows:
And absorption loss is:
µ = Permeability of the material
g = Conductivity of the material
µ0 = Permeability of free space (4πx10-7 h/m)
gcu = Conductivity of Copper (5.8x107 S/m)
µr = Permeability relative to Copper
gr = Conductivity relative to Copper
f = Frequency in Hz
d = Thickness of material in meters
According to [2], the properties of sea water are as follows:
Combining these values, we find that one meter of sea water has a shielding effectiveness of approximately 125dB at 1Hz, dipping to 101dB at approximately 50kHz, and then increases log-linearly to over 500dB at 1GHz. This curve is shown in figure 1, below. Changing the distance between the noise source and the receiver effects only the slope of the absorption curve – at 10m distance, the knee of the curve moves to 0.1MHz, and this trend continues as depth increases.
As most EMI screen rooms afford 100 dB shielding, and do an effective job at blocking outside radiation, it seems appropriate to consider the system to be contained within a very good Faraday cage.


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Learn five pull-apart bread recipes from one beautiful step-by-step tutorial.
Pull-apart breads are mood-boosting, buttered-up beauties that achieve the impossible at dinner�they make sharing fun. Plus, they are simple to make and can be done up with a variety of savory fillings, making them perfect for an Easter dinner or a casual weeknight occasion. Libbie Summers, baker extraordinaire and author of new cookbook�Sweet and Vicious�(Rizzoli, 2014), can testify to that. And testify, she does. In this excerpt from Sweet and Vicious, Summers offers a visual step-by-step for five pull-apart bread variations that use just one dough recipe. All five recipes, in the spirit of her signature bitingly-funny and not-too-serious approach, are named after boys. Why? �I�m an expert on boys. They are my thing. Most of my friends are boys. In the past, I�ve dated boys from six continents (it would be seven, but no one dates anyone from Antarctica). I am married to a boy, and my only child is a boy. In my life-study of boys, I�ve found that most boys have the same basic make-up. It�s when you pull apart the layers that their true personality shines. Much like this bread,� says Summers. Pin all of the following images in one beautiful Pinterest pin. Pull-Apart Bread Recipe: Boy Bread 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, cubed, plus 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 cup buttermilk 1 recipe Boy Filling (See Fillings Below) To Make the Dough: 1. Preheat the oven to 425� F. Spray a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside. 2. In the bowl of a food processor, pulse the flour with the baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pepper. Add the cubed butter and pulse until the flour mixture forms pea-size pieces. Add the buttermilk and pulse just until a soft dough forms. Turn the dough out onto a well-floured work surface and knead it gently three times. To Make the Fillings: [caption id="attachment_322957" align="aligncenter" width="493"] Chia Chong[/caption] 1. Bourgeois Boy Filling Cut 1 Vidalia or other sweet yellow onion into thin strips and cook with 2 tablespoons butter and 1/4 teaspoon beef base in a medium skillet over low heat for 15 minutes, or until the onion is soft and caramel-colored. Let cool. Stir together the caramelized onion and 1 cup shredded Gruy�re cheese. 2. Cute Greek Boy Filling Stir together 1 cup chopped Kalamata olives, 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill, and 1 cup crumbled feta cheese. 3. Eagle Scout Boy Filling Stir together 1 tablespoon poppy seeds, 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds, 1/3 cup sunflower seeds, and 1/3 cup pepitas (hulled pumpkin seeds). 4. Pretty Boy Filling Stir together 2 tablespoons honey, 1/2 cup chopped toasted walnuts, 1/4 cup chopped dried pears, and 3 ounces blue cheese. 5. Stinky Italian Boy Cook 12 garlic cloves over medium-low heat in 1/4 cup olive oil for about 30 minutes, until golden brown, then let cool and mash the garlic. Combine with 2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian herbs (your choice) and 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese. To Assemble�Pull-Apart Bread Recipe: [caption id="attachment_322958" align="aligncenter" width="493"] Chia Chong[/caption] Roll the dough out into a long thin rectangle (about 8 by 24 inches). [caption id="attachment_322959" align="aligncenter" width="493"] Chia Chong[/caption] Brush the top of the dough with 1 tablespoon of the melted butter. [caption id="attachment_322960" align="aligncenter" width="493"] Chia Chong[/caption] Spread with your choice of toppings and press the toppings into the dough slightly. [caption id="attachment_322961" align="aligncenter" width="493"] Chia Chong[/caption] Using a sharp knife, cut the dough in half lengthwise. [caption id="attachment_322962" align="aligncenter" width="493"] Chia Chong[/caption] Cut the dough widthwise into nine equal-size strips. You will have 18 equal pieces of dough. [caption id="attachment_322963" align="aligncenter" width="493"] Chia Chong[/caption] Stack all but one piece of the dough on top of each other with the toppings facing up. Place the final piece on the top with the toppings facing down. The dough is sticky enough that the stack will hold together when pressed a little. Don�t worry: This is going to get messy, and that�s okay. [caption id="attachment_322964" align="aligncenter" width="493"] Chia Chong[/caption] Carefully lay the stack on its side in the prepared loaf pan (the filling of the two ends will not touch the pan). Sprinkle any of the contents that may have fallen out onto the top of the dough once it�s in the pan.�Separate the slices a little with your fingertips once they are in the pan, and brush the top with the remaining 1 tablespoon butter. Bake the loaf for 30 minutes, until it has risen and is golden brown. Let the bread cool slightly before removing from the pan and serving. Want to see more from Sweet and Vicious? Check out the book's trailer... [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF06tR7XmMc] Aside from their work on Sweet and�Vicious,�Libbie Summers�and�Chia Chong�are the creative minds behind the blog,�Salted and Styled. Their commercial and editorial work has been featured in publications north and south of the equator. This article originally appeared as on Relish


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Herbed Pork Paillards with Sundried Tomato Butter and Asparagus
- Compound Butter:
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons drained and finely chopped oil-packed sundried tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh sage
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh parsley leaves
- Pinch Cajun spice
- Pinch salt
- Pork:
- 1 (2-pound) boneless pork loin
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- Salt and pepper
- 1/4 cup grapeseed oil
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh parsley
- Asparagus:
- Salt and pepper
- 1 bunch asparagus
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh parsley, for garnish
For the compound butter: In a bowl, combine the softened butter with the sundried tomatoes, sage, parsley, Cajun spice, and salt. Whisk together until well blended. Transfer the mixture to a piece of parchment paper and roll into a cigar shape about 1 1/2 inches thick. Refrigerate until ready to use.
For the pork: Slice the loin into 3/4-inch thick slices, and then one by one, cover with plastic wrap and pound with a meat mallet until each slice is flat and even (about a 1/4-inch thick).
Season the flour with salt and pepper, and then dredge the pork in the seasoned flour.
Heat the oil in a heavy bottom saucepan over medium-high heat. Season the pork with salt and pepper. Once the oil has heated, add the floured pork to the pan and allow to cook until browned, 1 to 2 minutes. Reduce the heat, flip, add some thyme and parsley, and repeat the process on the second side until finished cooking, 2 to 3 minutes. Once cooked, remove from the pan and keep warm. Repeat the process until all the pork is cooked.
For the asparagus: Bring a pot of water to a boil and add salt. Trim the woody bottoms of the asparagus and peel the stalks. Blanch in the boiling water until bright green, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from the water and season with salt and pepper.
Place asparagus in the center of a serving plate, arrange the pieces of cooked pork on top, and top with a 1/4-inch disk of sundried tomato butter. Garnish with parsley. Store the remaining butter wrapped in plastic in the refrigerator.
Recipe courtesy of Robert Irvine
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peeker643 wrote:SoulDawg74 wrote:Buy themselves a mulligan and enjoy the luxury of the clock starting on their regime a full year after taking over and in effect wasting a damn year resplete with trottiing out a weak armed fan pet, who wouldn't make the practice squad on a good team as the defacto QB starter.
Where's that Sanchize v. Franchise thread again?
C'mon man. Every time you bust that out you're basically admitting you can't help falling in and out of love with these guys every single week.
How did a man who is such a self-proclaimed QB know it all fall in love with a weak armed fan pet who wouldn't make the practice squad. I try and take your stuff seriously and I know you know the game but daaaaamn......Superb play when it counts to make it count, thats what we got Sunday , led by our Mule team running back Hillis and our throrobred Stallion Franchise QB in the making McCoy.
Its what you want , a kid dissed by all with a chip on his shoulder something to prove and winning for us ,toss the salt over your shoulders rub your rabbitts foot and slap yourself the Cleveland Browns done finally found a quarterback.
That was beautiful and touching. It moved me then and moves me now but it doesn't show much consistency.The team mounts up buckles their chinstraps and responds to this kids leadership , the coaches have daring the defense is stout and the team displays unbeleivable heart .
You can't put a formula to it and you can't define it , butt neither can you any longer ignore it .
The Browns got a diamond out of the dust bin uncut, and rough butt tuff as a three dollar steak and hard as concrete cut nail ,mentally ready to battle and more than prepared to lead .
Oh my goodness. That could have been cleaned up and sent out by Colt's agent.
Busting balls my man. If I could sell you that thread so you could burn it I would. But it would cost ya few bucks and a case of beer.
Hell peaks , I'm not sure why we're hijacking a free agent release thread into a QB thread but I'll play.
You'll notice my comments were singularly in surprise over Colts play that game , giving an honest appraisal of how good he looked in that game from a fans perspective , a sentiment mostly shared by all including the papers the next day and Swerb who flat out proclaimed him as the answer .
It was refreshing at the time to see such , a young kid working his nuts off coming from nowhere and looking so promising , caution gets thrown to the wind and for once you can enjoy the moment .
Well at seasons end the evaluations are on and the weekend drinks have have been long since worn off and now its time to pay the bill and your looking at room charges by your quests of goat sacrifices and hookers and chaufered trips to the liquor store all on your dime and things are different.
Same with Colt who now you must look at with the hard eye of evaluation and not that of an adoring fan .
Kid is coming up short vs the competition available when we pick , kid is coming up short in terms of a limited ability to throw passes in this league , not to mention injury concerns about a nagging shoulder which has been bothering him since the Bama game , and not even counting the high ankle sprain bullshit which could happen to anybody .
In life no honey moon lasts forever , only for the Browns fans and their latest puppy infatuations which carry on beyond all reason.
So thus all the tongue wagging while fingers are placed firmly in ear and comments with their eyes wide shut.
Nobody with any objectivity could say Colts last month looked good, but 80% of these posts center from that most unreasonable standpoint


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Allen G. Haley, 88, of 580 Front St., died Tuesday (July 10, 2013) at WCA Hosp.
He was born Nov. 30, 1924 in Ivory, the son of Ernest and Irene Smith Haley.
He was a US army veteran serving from 1943 to 1945.
Allen attended the Kiantone Congregational Church, was a 55 year member of the Samuel Derby Post 556 American Legion, Frewsburg, where he had been on the board of directors for fifteen years., sgt. at arms for ten years, first, second, and third vice commander, commander for two terms, was Legionnaire of the year in 2005, and was on the firing squad. He also was a member of the Carroll and Kiantone senior citizens, Carroll Historical Society, YMCA for twelve years, past president of the Jamestown Bowling Assoc., and Pals for Preemies where he was on the board for five years.
He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and trapping.
Allen was survived by his wife of 66 years, Delores Carlson Haley, four children: Allen Haley of Fentonville, Randy (Carol) Haley of Clarendon, Brenda (James) Roberts of Russell, and Laurie Haley of Leesburg, FL.; ten grandchildren: Jeff, Jeremy, Nathan, and Michael Haley, Sheila Turner, Michelle Brown, Brandi Ekey, Josh Roberts, Michele Rockwell, and Tyler Abbott; eighteen greatgrandchildren, a brother, Frederick Haley of Jamestown, and a sister, Emma Prine of Clymer.
Besides his parents, he was predeceased by three brothers, Clyde, Robert, and Chester Haley, and a sister, Ethel Spencer.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Peterson Funeral Home, Frewsburg. The Rev. Mel McGinnis, pastor of the Kiantone Congregational Church will officiate. Burial will be in Fentonville Cemetery, Frewsburg.
The family will receive friends from 4 to 7 p.m. Fri. in the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the Kiantone Congregational Church or the American Cancer Society.


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Freight trains won't work here
With interest surging and the debate intensifying, it is good that the state of New York has agreed to study the options and update the management plan for its rail corridor between Remsen (north of Utica) and Lake Placid, a distance of 118 miles.
One of the proposed uses for the mostly abandoned, 90-mile section of rail bed between Old Forge and Lake Placid would be as a world-class recreation trail for bicyclists, hikers, walkers, joggers, etc., and for greatly improved snowmobiling in the winter. Studies have shown that converting this stretch of rail corridor to a recreation trail would cost relatively little while providing a powerful economic benefit for the region.
Other proposals call for restoring train service along the entire corridor, including passenger, freight and tourist excursion, with overnight Pullman service thrown in. So how do the rail-restoration proposals compare? Since our space is limited, let's just look for now at one piece of the railroad proposal – the idea of bringing back freight rail service between Utica and Lake Placid.
Simply stated, the business outlook for moving freight along this corridor is extremely unfavorable. A freight train's impressive potential efficiency relies upon shipment of many thousands of tons of freight per day, dealing with boxcar-sized loads as a minimum shipping quantity. Freight shipments on that scale would not be achievable here. The 130,000 people living in the Adirondacks are concentrated near the periphery of the Park, and fewer than 30,000 people live anywhere near this 90-mile corridor. There are probably many more beavers along this route than people.
Since rail freight service ended in 1972, restaurant, grocery, pharmacy, hardware and other businesses have built their own rapid-response distribution facilities and systems, geared to our much-improved highways. Freight rail service along this corridor would move slowly from Utica, serving the Tri-Lakes region from only one direction, and there's no way it could compete for the vast majority of freight business to the region.
According to "The Adirondack Atlas," there are very few mineral deposits in the region traversed by this corridor. With the recent closure at Newton Falls, the regional outlook for paper mills is hardly encouraging. No other large-scale source of freight from the region is operating or anticipated.
The rail infrastructure on most of the Remsen-Lake Placid corridor is severely deteriorated as a result of age, decades of nonuse and lack of maintenance. Studies agree it would cost tens of millions of dollars to restore that infrastructure to any degree of functionality. Even if that money were spent, the near-century-old rails were not designed to withstand the much heavier loads of modern commercial freight rail traffic. Other improvements would also be needed, such as improved crossings and signals, adding more millions of taxpayer expense to restoring rail infrastructure.
While the aged diesel locomotives held by the Adirondack Scenic Railroad have sufficed for seasonal, short-distance, tourist train duty, they would not be suitable for year-round, longer-distance, heavy-load freight service. Modern diesel locomotives suitable for such service would cost many hundreds of thousands to more than a million dollars each. Many freight rail cars of different types would also be needed.
Ongoing operational costs for freight service along the Remsen-Lake Placid corridor could amount to more millions of dollars per year. The Adirondack Scenic Railroad currently relies heavily on volunteers to staff their tourist-train operations, and they are encountering major staffing challenges. Operation of a year-round, longer-distance freight railroad would require a professional workforce to maintain the infrastructure, service the rolling stock and perform a variety of other skilled functions. Appropriate (and expensive) maintenance and repair facilities do not currently exist along this line. Moreover, a freight-hauling railroad would consume large quantities of fuel, batteries and other supplies and services.
Who wouldn't love to see a robust freight rail service if it would contribute to the region's economy? However, the inescapable conclusion is that freight rail service along this corridor could not come close to achieving that goal. It would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to establish and maintain freight rail service on the Remsen-Lake Placid corridor – service for which there is no discernible demand.
Given the bleak outlook for freight volume, it would not be possible to achieve any degree of efficiency or even to cover a significant share of operational costs. Instead, establishing and maintaining freight rail service along this corridor would be an ongoing waste of public resources, with near-empty trains burning fuel and incurring other significant costs while failing to contribute to commerce or economic development in the region.
Additionally, restoring year-round rail service would end snowmobiling in the corridor and preclude popular, non-motorized activities for the other eight months of the year – uses that can produce enormous economic, health and recreational benefits for the communities along the way.
Now it's up to the state to evaluate all the data and come up with the best solution for this magnificent but sadly underutilized resource.
David Banks lives in Lake Clear and is a member of the Adirondack Recreational Trail Advocates board of directors.


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Lanchester, John
John Lanchester The Debt to Pleasure
Lanchester is an English novelist.
Set primarily in France, The Debt to Pleasure (1996) is narrated by Tarquin Winot, a middle-aged Englishman who despises his late brother Bartholomew, a famous sculptor. Tarquin argues that the true height of artistic expression is not to create things but to make them disappear. Although purportedly taking a gastronomic tour of France, it eventually becomes apparent that Tarquin is stalking a pair of newlyweds; Laura Tavistock, the bride, is Bartholomew's biographer. Divided into four sections—Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn—the novel incorporates recipes for each season along with Tarquin's musings on various culinary, historical, and philosophical subjects. He also offers fragments of autobiography, which gradually unveil his psychopathic nature. Critical reaction to The Debt to Pleasure has generally been favorable. Although some commentators have questioned the efficacy of using a menu or recipe as a structuring device for a thriller, most have praised Lanchester's technique of slowly unraveling the true nature of his protagonist. Other critics have compared the novel to the works of Vladimir Nabokov, noting similarities between the two authors in their gradual subversion of their narrator-protagonists. Michael Upchurch stated that "Lanchester has devised a near-perfect package in which to unveil [Tarquin Winot], layer by layer, lending The Debt to Pleasure the tension of a mystery."
Jane Jakeman (review date 15 March 1996)
SOURCE: "Dishes to Die for," in New Statesman & Society, March 15, 1996, p. 33.
[In the following review, Jakeman argues that The Debt to Pleasure lacks suspense and suffers from too little attention to detail.]
"Who am I? Who are you? And what the fuck's going on?" The reader of John Lanchester's foodie thriller [The Debt to Pleasure] will inevitably sympathize with the narrator's artist brother, Bartholomew. Hamlet-like, he poses these crucial questions while embedded in a mesh of upmarket gourmandise. Lanchester was the restaurant critic of the Observer, so he has the foodie world at his fingertips in the creation of his murderous anti-hero, Tarquin Winot, for whom haute cuisine is a ruling passion.
Tarquin is a full-blow product of the European great tradition—in food as in literature. He liberally scatters his story with rib-nudging cultural references (hypocrite lecteur), whereas Bartholomew represents the untamed, uncivilized, tomato-sauce-loving force of creative genius. The polarization of our society is thus crudely symbolized by the food preferences of the two brothers. So far, so clichéd; but every thriller is essentially a cliché. The question is what the writer does with the givens of the genre.
Not a lot, in this case. The book takes the form of series of seasonal recipes, and although Tarquin's preface claims an elemental role for the menu (and it is true that all structures can be seen as menus), Lanchester's real and unresolved technical problem is that the plot of the recipe is the opposite of the plot of the thriller.
In the recipe, the outcome is declared at the start. We know at the...
(The entire section is 721 words.)
Richard Eder (review date 14 April 1996)
SOURCE: "A Fine Taste for Murder," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, April 14, 1996, pp. 1, 6.
[In the following review, Eder focuses on the personality of Tarquin Winot, the protagonist and narrator of The Debt to Pleasure.]
When Tarquin Winot was a child, his graceful and beautiful mother took him, dressed in his sailor suit, to dine at La Coupole, Paris' once-resplendent brasserie. Someday he would accomplish great things, she told him.
The assurance of glory, a dazzling mother who promised it and sublime food were the child's peek into a paradise never to be forgotten—and never regained. As it turned out, it was not Tarquin whom the whole treacherous world, including his mother, would recognize as a genius, but his little brother Bartholomew, who grew up to be a celebrated painter and sculptor.
Accordingly, Tarquin grew up to be the anti-Bartholomew, the anti-artist, a lucid particle of anti-matter. His exquisitely nurtured mission was to assert his own anti-universe and cause the real one, at strategic junctures, to go "poof!"
John Lanchester, a British literary editor and food critic, has done Cain and Abel as elaborate parody. In blatantly unreliable tones—urbane wit punctuated by howls—Tarquin begins his memoir as a spoof of highbrow cookbook writing. This leads, in a pastiche of Proust's celebrated madeleine, to a series of variations on food and memory. Gradually another story emerges. Tarquin's comically farfetched—and far too discursive—tale of a revengeful chase through the French landscape. It is a second pastiche: this one of Humbert Humbert's wordy pursuit of Lolita, Quilty and his own delusions through the American landscape.
The Debt to Pleasure opens as Tarquin is about to undertake what purports to be a gastronomic tour of France, in the course of which he will keep a day-by-day diary. His admirers (they will turn out to be imaginary) have persuaded him to do so, he tells us, even though food is merely an avocation—"a shaving from the master's workbench"—and not his real art.
His real art, in contrast to his sculptor brother's vulgar production of objects, consists in imagining things and not producing them. Not creative passion but creative dislike is the highest aesthetic force, he argues: Passion puts you at the mercy of reality, dislike keeps you free.
Tarquin's art, therefore, is not to create things but to make them disappear. Bit by bit, as he spins out theories and tendentious recollections, sets out seasonal menus, discusses the difference between...
(The entire section is 1095 words.)
Frank J. Prial (review date 21 April 1996)
SOURCE: "Movable Feasts," in The New York Times Book Review, April 21, 1996, p. 9.
[Prial is the wine columnist for the New York Times. In the following review, he relates the events of The Debt to Pleasure and praises Lanchester's writing ability, made more impressive by the author's status as a "debutant novelist."]
Tarquin Winot, an English esthete and gourmand, remembers the time when, as an impressionable 11-year-old, he was taken to lunch at his older brother's boarding school. It was a meal "Dante would have hesitated to invent." In particular, he recalls "the jowly, watch-chained headmaster" plunging his arm into a vat and emerging "with a ladleful of hot food, steaming like fresh horse dung on a cold morning."
"For a heady moment," he says, "I thought I was going to be sick."
It was a defining experience in young Tarquin's life. "The combination of human, esthetic and culinary banality formed a negative revelation of great power," he explains, "and hardened the already burgeoning suspicion that my artist's nature isolated and separated me from my alleged fellowmen." Tarquin, now having achieved a self-confident and extremely loquacious adulthood, is the central figure—almost the only figure—in The Debt to Pleasure, a dazzling and delicious first novel by John Lanchester.
"I decided," Tarquin tells us, "to take a short holiday and travel southward through France, which is, as the reader will learn, my spiritual (and for a portion of the year, actual) homeland. I resolved that I would jot down my thoughts on the subject of food as I went, taking my cue from the places and events around me as well as from my own memories, dreams, reflections, the whole simmering together, synergistically exchanging savors and essences like some ideal daube."
By now, anyone familiar with the literature of food is beginning to murmur "Brillat-Savarin." And with good reason. The French lawyer and philosopher, whose 1825 treatise The Physiology of Taste is still the greatest of all books on food, is Tarquin Winot's muse. Brillat-Savarin called the sections of his book "meditations", Tarquin Winot speaks in terms of "culinary reflections." And what remarkable reflections they are. He informs us that "the primary vehicle" for transmitting them will be menus, "arranged...
(The entire section is 992 words.)
Gerald Howard (review date 6 May 1996)
SOURCE: "Bulls on Bouillabaisse," in The Nation, May 6, 1996, pp. 66, 68.
[In the following review, Howard remarks favorably on The Debt to Pleasure and compares the novel to Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire.]
Ever since Humbert Humbert made his indelible assertion in Lolita, we've been counting on our murderers for a fancy prose style. Not only does Tarquin Winot, the tart-tongued and mesmerizingly daft narrator of John Lanchester's "gastrohistorico-psycho-autobiographico-anthropico-philosophic" tour de force The Debt to Pleasure, not disappoint, he even provides a Lanchestrian corollary to the Nabokovian proposition—and an educated palate....
(The entire section is 1181 words.)
John Derbyshire (review date 26 May 1996)
SOURCE: "Food for Thought," in Book World—The Washington Post, Vol. XXVI, No. 21, May 26, 1996, p. 5.
[In the review below, Derbyshire praises The Debt to Pleasure, calling it "original as well as witty and brilliant."]
The veil and the mask; the blizzard of allusions; the dawning realization that our charming, erudite, terrifically cultured narrator is, in point of fact, barking mad—this territory looks familiar. John Lanchester, reading reviews of his book, is going to get mighty sick of the adjective "Nabokovian."
It would be an injustice to him to make too much of these echoes. The Debt to Pleasure is original as well as witty...
(The entire section is 763 words.)
Pat Dailey (essay date 30 May 1996)
SOURCE: "Food Has Become a Tasty Plot Device," in Chicago Tribune, May 30, 1996, p. 1.
[In the essay below, Daily discusses the prominent role that food has played in numerous literary works and cites A Debt to Pleasure as the most recent example of this trend.]
"This is not a conventional cookbook," suggests the preface to John Lanchester's new novel The Debt to Pleasure. And despite carefully worded directives for making flawless lemon tarts and meltingly tender roast lamb, an entire chapter devoted to aioli, the potent French garlic sauce, and as thorough a discussion of bouillabaisse as exists anywhere, it most clearly is not a cookbook....
(The entire section is 1064 words.)
S. English Knowles (review date 18 September 1996)
SOURCE: A review of The Debt to Pleasure, in BookPage (online publication), September 18, 1996.
[In the following review, Knowles comments favorably on The Debt to Pleasure.]
"The role of curry in contemporary English life is often misunderstood" according to the decorously correct standards of Tarquin Winot, protagonist of John Lanchester's debut novel. In this combination memoir, food lexicon, and aesthetic philosophy, Lanchester treats us to a travelogue of the appetites, where cultural and culinary trivia arise from dusty corners worldwide to be commented upon and cataloged by his narrator's ever-tart tongue. Tarquin Winot's polished storytelling skips back...
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Boston Brown Bread
- Nonstick spray
- Boiling water
- 2 1/2 ounces whole wheat flour
- 2 1/2 ounces rye flour
- 2 1/2 ounces cornmeal
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground allspice
- 6 ounces molasses, by weight
- 8 1/2 ounces buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon orange zest
Special equipment: 2 empty (26.5-ounce) metal cans
Move a rack to the bottom third of the oven and heat the oven to 325 degrees F.
Spray the insides of the cans with nonstick spray and place set a deep 3-quart oven-safe pot. Begin heating enough boiling water to come halfway up the sides of the cans when poured into the pot.
In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the wheat flour, rye flour, cornmeal, baking soda, baking powder, salt and allspice. Add the molasses, buttermilk, vanilla and zest and whisk to combine. Divide the mixture evenly between the prepared cans. Cover the top with a double thickness of aluminum foil and tie securely with string. Pour the boiling water into the pot. Carefully place in the oven and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until the edges of the bread begin to pull away from the sides of the cans. Remove the cans from the pot of water, uncover, place on a cooling rack and cool 1 hour before removing bread from the cans. Serve with baked beans or slice, toast and serve with cream cheese.
Recipe courtesy of Alton Brown, 2009
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