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Glen Hiemstra is interviewed by Lisa Murphy about the future of employment on Bloomberg TV's Fast Forward with Lisa Murphy on Friday, November 5, 2010.
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Listen to this interview from October 8, 2008 in a new window. (Glen's segment starts at 4:11)
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Glen Hiemstra discusses his book Turning the Future Into Revenue, and being a futurist, in this 32-minute podcast.
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Glen Interviews James Howard Kunstler in 2008: World Made by Hand
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Moffat County High School is celebrating Homecoming this week with a variety of activities that continue today and Saturday at the school and in the community.
The theme for Homecoming is Bulldog luau.
Students are invited to show their Bulldog pride by wearing blue and white today, which is a half-day for students throughout the district.
The Homecoming parade begins at 2 p.m. today and runs from Craig City Park to Safeway. Line-up begins at 1 p.m.
The high school's science department also hosts its annual cardboard boat regatta following the parade at 3:30 p.m. today at Loudy-Simpson Park.
At 7 p.m. today, the Bulldog football team takes on Palisade High School, whose mascot is also the bulldog, at the high school, 900 Finley Lane.
Homecoming royalty will be introduced before the game. A half-time show will feature the high school's band and spirit team, as well as a fireworks show.
Other sporting events this weekend include a cross-country meet at 10 a.m. Saturday in Fruita and the high school soccer team facing Glenwood Springs Saturday at 1 p.m. at Loudy-Simpson Park.
The high school freshmen, junior varsity and varsity volleyball teams host Eagle Valley at 9, 10 and 11 a.m., respectively, Saturday at the high school, and host Battle Mountain at 3, 4 and 5 p.m., respectively, Saturday at Craig Middle School, 915 Yampa Ave.
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The Middle Distance, 6/22/12: Beans and Peas
By Noel Black On June 22, 2012 · 10 Comments · In A Big Something, Kathryn Eastburn, Personal Essay, The Middle Distance
The Middle Distance 6.22.12: Beans and Peas
Where else in the United States are aunts, cousins, grandmothers and mothers prized for their expertise with beans and peas? I can remember casual conversations around the kitchen table in which a relative's name was raised and was inevitably associated with her best dish, usually a vegetable. Aunt Marguerite made the best green beans, hands down, and also held the title for best fried corn. This honor extended posthumously and continues to this day. I can still sit at my mother's table over a mess of beans and hear the familiar refrain: "Nobody ever made better green beans than Aunt Marguerite."
I live in the Rocky Mountain West where we have to wait until August for a good crop of most any fresh vegetable and by mid-September it's all over. In winter, except for squash the size and density of small boulders, you might as well forget it. Farmers market out here is like a religious experience, the annual revival where food lovers line up to rededicate their lives for one brief, fervent season. In the South, the variety and availability of fresh vegetables rivals only the humidity in abundance.
It's true that southern-style vegetables are slow-cooked and that a smoked ham hock is often added to the cooking water for flavor, but it's not true that all southern vegetables are slathered in bacon grease and rendered to mush. Whoever made that up needs to take a trip to Atlanta or Jackson or Huntsville or Birmingham and get it straight.
On a recent trip to Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and south Texas, I ate fried chicken exactly once, at a soul food joint in downtown Memphis. My vegetable intake, however, surged. Over three weeks I ate cabbage prepared three different ways; turnip and collard greens; green beans, lima beans, and pinto beans; sweet potatoes and new potatoes; black-eyed peas, purple-hull peas, and crowder peas; three kinds of squash; and endless slices of juicy red tomato — all fresh.
Southerners eat more vegetables because they're abundant and cheap, because it's culturally ingrained, and because they know how to make them taste good. That ham hock in the beans doesn't render them null and void, as many outside the South seem to think, it just makes them a main dish. Put a pot of beans or peas together with a second side dish, a skillet of cornbread, and a garnish of crunchy green onion and sliced tomato, and you've got dinner.
My mother's friend Sue walked in one day when I was visiting with a bag from the farmers market that fed us for nearly a week. The first day I went exotic and made a ratatouille of roasted eggplant, bell peppers, onions, zucchini, red potatoes, garlic and basil, sweating like a sailor in the bowels of a ship in my mother's heated mid-afternoon kitchen. When she tasted it, my mother thought she'd died and gone to heaven.
The next day, while Mama took her nap, I simmered a pot of purple hull peas and green beans with a ham hock, onion and poblano pepper. I baked sweet potatoes, their skin lightly oiled and salted. There was no buttermilk in the house, so I subbed a sluice of white vinegar and sweet milk in the cornbread batter and turned out a skillet crackling and brown on the outside, silky and white on the inside.
We repeated the theme the next day with fresh black-eyed peas and roasted butternup squash glazed with oil, black pepper, and a little maple syrup. My mother, who had only ever eaten summer squash, declared it as good as a sweet potato, maybe better.
When I read about all the healthy food trends touted by Dr. Oz and in women's magazines — eat your colors, increase your daily intake of legumes and leafy vegetables, superfoods — my mind immediately goes to those relatively meatless plates and their endless variety. I think about my skinny little mother spooning an extra helping of peas onto her plate and offering the highest compliment. "Mmmmm. These are almost as good as Aunt Marguerite's."
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10 Responses to The Middle Distance, 6/22/12: Beans and Peas
rose enyeart says:
Yummmmmm! I want some!!!
Susan says:
I want to know more about Aunt Marguerite's green beans!
Kay Johnson says:
Don't forget the okra!
I agree about bad Southern accents- they are impossible to imitate. My aunt Charlotte was from Queens, lived in a small Texas town after marrying my uncle, and never lost her accent. Her son sounds exactly like her and her daughter sounds Texan. Go figure!
Paula says:
Ya'll, ,,,,then there's Ted's Great Grand Aunt Mary Ella Meacham's (Granny's aunt) Prune Cake circ. 1946 that mother said is to die for.
Nancy Wilsted says:
What??? All these teasers and nary a recipe? It's cruel.
Actually, the Midwest might be the fried food epicenter. I'm from Michigan where fried chains are commonly served.
LIz says:
Nancy, what are fried chains?
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Here's a basic recipe that will work with fresh green beans and/or fresh black-eyed or purple hull peas.
1) Wash and snap beans or hull peas. Rinse peas well after removing from pod.
2) Chop 1/2 – 1 yellow onion, depending on the amount of beans, and saute in a little bit of olive oil. For peas, I like to add a pepper as well — poblanos add a nice flavor or a hotter pepper if you want the peas spicy.
3) Add a smoke ham hock to the pan. You can cut away some of the fat if you want; what you want is the smoky flavor from the meat and bone. Or if you prefer, use a smoke turkey wing or neck. Sear just a bit, then add enough water to cover. Bring the water to a boil, add the peas or beans and lower to a soft boil or simmer. Cover the pan.
4) Simmer covered until beans or peas are tender and broth has thickened a bit, about 45 minutes to one hour. Take the lid off and if there's still too much water, cook some more uncovered. Remove the ham mock and discard. Add lots of freshly ground black pepper and salt to taste. DON'T ADD SALT UNTIL THE END OF THE COOKING OR THE BEANS/PEAS WILL TOUGHEN.
5) Enjoy with cornbread. The best recipe for plain southern corn bread is on the back of the Martha White Self-Rising White Corn Meal package and can probably be found online. Do not adulterate cornbread with sugar, cheese, or jalapenos. Do cook it in a very hot cast iron skillet greased with melted butter or oil (not olive oil) or Smart Balance or bacon fat.
6) Serve with fresh sliced tomatoes that haven't been refrigerated and a sprig of green onion.
LIz says:
I'm waiting for the cookbook Kathryn! Please add the steel cut grits and ragu dish you made the other night! And I'll need the recipe for the meatballs that I smelled in your kitchen this afternoon! I love being the recipient of your delicious "experiments"!
hannah says:
Eek! Give me that California cuisine with some sprouts and an Asian sauce!
greenwomanzinera says:
My family in Missouri (birthplace of Brad Pitt) also made poke salad and wilted lettuce (yeah, with bacon grease). Thanks for helping keeping our once diverse food culture alive.
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Two wrongs do not make a right and a bigger wrong does not erase a smaller one. Money doesn't magically appear out of nowhere, unless you are the fed and print funny money, but then it disappears elsewhere in terms of its value. It all has to be paid for one way or another, and if taxes do not cover it, the loans gov't takes will have to be paid through future taxes on, among others, me and my family, for a few generations.
I would talk about the financial bailout, as I believe it to be far more destructive than any other, but I do not believe we have any bankers here. We do, however, have some GM folks here, and talking about cars is a little bit more related to this board than financial industry.
There are numerous other matters that will make taxes go up. I am not as intelligent as you and can't talk about all the problems in one thread, so I picked two that were on my mind. I may be mistaken, but I do not believe this warrants a therapy.
I never said two wrongs do make a right. In terms of causation I'll go back and suggest that your feelings essentially towards GM are narrow sighted and misguided - especially if you just take a token look at the order of magnitude of big-picture items on the budget/deficit... but on the subject, in as much as I share a loathing for Obama and his Agenda - he doesn't make budget appropriations - that's the Senate's Job, so you should thank Messr's Reed and his cronies more so than Obama...
Also, we do in fact have folks employed in the financial, and securities sectors here. Continually harping on an employer of many folks that are here has nothing to do with the intent of this board, or this sub-forum, that's a red herring argument.
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|I had the same problem at first. The next night I got an old clock and fan and put next to his kennel. He cried for about 10-15 minutes then quieted down. I have had him just over a week now and he will do fine in the kennel if he can see you. Once I leave the room he makes a few cries then gets quiet and goes to sleep. Just takes some time and your pup will catch on. I sleep with a loud fan in my room and his kennel is in the kitchen so his crying didn't bother me any. I guess their like a child, sometimes you just have to let them cry themselves to sleep.
|Thanks its been so long, plus what made things worse is when we picked the pup up, he was still with his mom and litter mates AND drinking from mom while eating solid food, so he thinks my male 10yr old shepherd is his mom and tried to get a drink from him...but we will move his crate in our room now...
Your puppy has been surrounded/under/with/ontop of it's mom and littermates 100% of the time it's entire life.
Then we remove it from all that total love and comfort and expect them to be quiet alone in a crate usually at the other side of the house. Extinct tells our puppy, to TELL us they are stuck and can't get out so please come get me!!!!! And if you don't hear them soft they will tell you loud.
Best thing is to deal with the distance so you can reassure them they aren't alone after all and bring the crate into the bedroom beside your bed. If you have a smaller crate it can even be on a chair/table beside you so it's at the same level. But on the floor beside your bed works too. So have a routine at night, puppy in the crate last thing and you may want to put a treat filled kong so they can wind down more, then turn out the light and go to bed. You can talk to reassure, put your hand in the crate to reassure, and generally be right there and get a good nights sleep.
I refer to many of the good tips on ---> http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...st-time-owner/ and I've raised 4 puppies!
Wow its been a while since i have been here, real fast i have a 10yr old GS but in reality i know one day he will no longer be here, so 2 days ago we got a new puppy!!! the first night in his crate was a dream, not a peep, (come to find out it was because he had his shots and was very tired) last night well not so good, we put him in, turned on the radio low, low fan, he cried from 11pm-230pm then hubby got up let him potty, cried again 230-400 n on stop, i know its been a while, and i know u cant let them cry all night, i got no sleep what did we do wrong, its been so long, and Niko was an easy puppy (we spoiled him though) thank you
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I will review a lattice gauge theory construction of N=4 super-Yang-Mills that has been developed over the last several years. It starts from a "twist" of the original N=4 theory which was explicitly written out by Marcus. This twisted theory is re-expressed in terms of five-dimensional variables, which are then promoted to lattice fields with a natural geometric interpretation on the A_4^* lattice. I will show that symmetries of the lattice theory are particularly powerful in terms of protecting the long distance effective theory from unwanted renormalizations. The restoration of a discrete subgroup of the R symmetry is shown to be sufficient for guaranteeing the correct continuum limit, which leads naturally to measurements which can be performed in the process of fine-tuning the lattice action. I also show a symmetric blocking scheme that we recently developed, which is a key ingredient to putting the long distance theory on a firm footing. Prospects for future work will also be discussed.
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On the January 25 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage attacked Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT), saying, "Kiss my behind, you psycho," and "Screw you, you jealous loser." Savage also called Sanders "a rat," "a bum," and "a dirty socialist" and told him to "go to hell." These remarks followed audio clips Savage played on his show, in which Sanders addressed the issues of wealth distribution and childhood poverty. Savage asked: "Now, how did child poverty become an issue all of a sudden? ... Two weeks ago we heard that -- before the elections, three months ago -- that children were overweight and fat from eating too much McDonald's; they were dying of diabetes from being little piglets. Now, we hear about childhood poverty, childhood poverty."
According to The Washington Post, Sanders is "the first self-proclaimed socialist to become a U.S. senator," after being elected to the Senate in the November 2006 elections. He served in the House before that for eight terms.
During the same broadcast, Savage falsely stated that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "will not reply" to a report from InsightMag.com claiming that "sources close to [a] background check" supposedly "conducted by researchers connected to" Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) found that Obama was raised as a Muslim by his stepfather in Indonesia and spent at least four years in a madrassa, or a Muslim religious school. In fact, in a January 20 New York Post article, Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, was quoted as saying that "[Obama] was not raised as a Muslim, and he did not go to a madrassa." Axelrod called the story "a complete contrivance," adding that it was "divisive, destructive garbage." Axelrod also stated that he did not "believe ... for a second" the idea that Clinton's camp was behind the allegation.
Obama's office also released a statement on January 23 that categorically denied InsightMag.com's report: "All of the claims about Senator Obama's faith and education raised in the Insight Magazine story ... are false. Senator Obama was raised in a secular household in Indonesia by his stepfather and mother."
During his program, Savage also said that, "assuming the world is still here" after a Clinton-Obama administration, Obama would then run for president with "Saddam Hussein's younger grandson" as his running mate.
From the January 25 edition of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation:
SAVAGE: But if you look at the attention that is being lavished on Barack Hussein Obama, you will see a completely unqualified man, who is being held up as a potential presidential candidate. Now, in spite of the media's attempt to push this anointed candidate over the top, Barack Hussein Obama is consistently outpolled by even minor entrants into the race like [2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee and former Sen.] John Edwards [D-NC], a lawyer who made his fortune by suing doctors.
So, why does the media continue to position Obama as the front-runner? Here's Michael Savage's analysis: The liberal media is pushing Obama knowing he can't win. They're pushing Obama so that he becomes the target of critics instead of Hillary. Obama gets the attention, Obama generates buzz, and all the while Hillary flies along under the radar. Then after all of the conservative and other critics have spent all of their ammo to take down Obama, such as his years in a madrassa as a Muslim student in Indonesia, which he will not reply about, Obama then falls out of the race, but he comes back in a year as the VP candidate on Hillary's ticket. So, you'll have a Hillary candidacy with Obama as a vice presidential candidate, which will be a liberal juggernaut that will win in the absence of any real conservative opposition.
SAVAGE: Then after they get all of this press, and blah blah blah, then he says, "OK, now we're gonna run him as a vice president," and you say, "Well, you know, this guy could have been president. Why not?" They're grooming him for after eight years of the Clintons. Assuming the world is still here, then they give you eight years of Obama with Saddam Hussein's younger grandson as the vice presidential candidate.
SAVAGE: What should I talk about? Penny, is it time to call -- how about that freak from Brooklyn who lives in Vermont -- the socialist, who sounds like he's, you know, the ILGW: Bernie Saunders. I love him. Vermont socialist Senator Bernie Saunders, the guy who always sounds like someone's uncle. I had an uncle like this who I didn't like very much. No one in the family liked him -- he was a psycho commie.
So, this guy Saunders goes up, Bernie Sanders -- Saunders, is it? Or Sanders? What is his name? He's a complete and total lunatic. He goes up to Vermont; he pulls the wool over their eyes; he becomes their senator. When did Vermont become a socialist state? I don't know. What? When Ben and Jerry got there? I mean, are they crazy? Whatever happened to the rock-ribbed Republican Vermont with red barns? What are they making in those barns? They're not making milk; they must be making porno films.
So, here's Vermont socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, the commie from Brooklyn, and a voice on him, like -- this guy was like a ward chairman for a democrat in the 1930s he sounds like, or an ILGW low-level hack. He sounds like he could have been like Barbara Boxer's father. Listen to clip one.
SANDERS [audio clip]: We have got to address the reality that, in the United States today, we have by far the most unfair distribution of wealth and income of any major industrialized country --
SAVAGE: Kiss my behind, you psycho.
SANDERS [audio clip]: -- and that we have a moral obligation --
SAVAGE: Screw you, you jealous loser.
SANDERS [audio clip]: -- and we have a growing gap between the rich and the poor --
SAVAGE: Go to hell. How's that? Go to hell. I worked all my life for what I have and you'll have to kill me to get it from me, you rat. You know the thing about socialists that kills me is they're just jealous losers. They want the government to take away from those who made it on their own and give it to the schmucks or the idiots, or the lazy. Listen to this. It gets even worse. It's ugly. It's disgusting. Listen to this dirty socialist in clip two.
SANDERS [audio clip]: How often do we hear people say, "USA, number one"? And I share that sentiment. Unfortunately, in terms of childhood poverty in the industrialized world, we are also number one --
SAVAGE: Oh God!
SANDERS [audio clip]: -- and that is not being number one.
SAVAGE: Go to hell. How about going to hell? Get him out. Get him out of my headphones. Now, how did child poverty become an issue all of a sudden? The Democrats won by a hair and, suddenly, all of the old issues are back. Now, we're back to childhood poverty. Two weeks ago, we heard that -- before the elections, three months ago -- that children were overweight and fat from eating too much McDonald's; they were dying of diabetes from being little piglets. Now, we hear about childhood poverty, childhood poverty. Listen to Bernie Sanders, socialist bum, in clip three.
SANDERS [audio clip]: In 1999, the British government -- six years later, child poverty in the United Kingdom had been cut by 20 percent. Similar progress, as I understand it, has been made in Ireland.
SAVAGE: Ooh, wow. So, they've cured child poverty in the UK by -- what? Giving houses to Muslim immigrants and teaching the children how to set off a suicide bomb on an underground [subway train]? Poverty's over? All right, listen to clip four now from this lunatic.
SANDERS [audio clip]: Unfortunately, at the same time that Britain was taking important steps to reduce childhood poverty, in the United States, childhood poverty increased by about 12 percent.
SAVAGE: Right, that's the exact number of illegal aliens who invaded the country: 12 percent of the population. So, that's where the poverty came from, we imported child poverty.
SAVAGE: There is a solution, Bernie, to curing the childhood poverty: deport the 12 percent of children who shouldn't have been here to begin with because their parents came here illegally, and poof, there goes childhood poverty.
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help with mathlink
I have a problem that's been frustrating me for a couple of days. I'm
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Painting over green sheetrock
Hi all. My wife and I recently had new drywall put up--mildew-resistant, green drywall--and we put a coat of Benjamin Moore primer and several coats of ceiling paint. The paint was Waterborne; I can't remember what the primer was. The primer covered most of the green, but not all of it. We'd put several coats of ceiling paint, and it looked fine until we dimmed the lights, and under the dimmed light, we noticed lots of spots where the green was showing through. We'd put more paint on the ceiling than on the walls, where there is no trace of green, though the wall paint is tinted.
It's been a few months at this point. What can we do to finally get good coverage? Thanks!
One more coat of paint should do it.
Thanks for your replies, folks. Obviously, I like ToolSeeker's answer better :) though painting a ceiling was new to us, and the chunks we did were about 3x6 at a time, rather than 2x3. I will give BM a call Saturday and see what they say. The space is complete except for this issue, so getting another coat up will be less straightforward than it was before. Any advice for covering things up when painting a ceiling in an otherwise-finished space?
Ceilings are not an easy thing to paint, usually it is white over white so it is very easy to miss spots. I personally always do 2 coats on a ceiling 1 coat 1 direction 2nd coat opposite direction. That way you have a pretty good shot at good coverage.
Thanks for your replies, everyone. I called BM on Saturday, and they arranged with the local store to have a can of paint waiting for me. Both fortunately and unfortunately, the bad paint job is only annoying and therefore isn't a high priority compared to other projects, but at least I have the paint for when I get to it in the list.
There are two beams that divide the ceiling basically into three strips each between three and four feet wide the length of the room, so I can do one strip at a time, so I can do one strip at a time. Any advice for covering the walls and floor this job?
Why would you cover the walls? You spraying?:eek:
Anyway, plastic sheeting for walls and drop cloth for floors
Loading the roller with paint is THE best thing I've found to do on ceilings- which is kind of anti-intuitive for me.
Throw down the drop cloth & go to it.
If you are using BM paint it should not splatter
If your getting splatter from your roller try slowing down, especially if you are really loading your roller.
I live for paint spatter! lol
Chris- a bit rosy to say BM won't drip..
If you are painting, plan accordingly.
Cover below, wear a hat.
Spatter happens!
Thanks again for your replies!
not as much as other brands, I should have said:whistling2:
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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
"Let them eat zines" is the traditional translation to English of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la zines", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no paper. Since zines were made from paper, this apparently reflected the princess's obliviousness to the condition of the people.
Drawing on this rich history, Let Them Eat Zines is the Perth Zine Collective's very first zine fair. Held on Saturday November 24th at Paper Mountain (267 William St, Northbridge), it will feature stalls, competitions, sideshows & live music (to be announced).
We're currently looking for zine stallholders! To reserve a table, complete a submission form here.
Deadline for stallholders: September 30.
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FLORENCE – The League of Women Voters of the Florence Area and Francis Marion University's Robert E. McNair Center for Government and History, will sponsor the forum "Judicial Independence: How We Select Our Judges."
It will be held on Nov. 29, at 6 p.m. in FMU's Chapman Auditorium. A reception will follow at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Lee Nursing Building.
The forum is part of a national program of the League of Women Voters that will examine the following:
Panelists include T. Alissa Warters, Ph.D., associate professor of political science and geography at FMU, and co-director of The McNair Center; Constance A. Anastopoulo, assistant professor of law at the Charleston School of Law; Terry Wooten, U.S. District Judge (South Carolina); and S.C. Rep. Terry Alexander – District 59 (Florence and Marion counties).
Warters will describe the current system of judicial selection and retention and its history as well as serving as the moderator for the panel. Anastopoulo will discuss the ramifications of the current system for judicial independence and diversity. Wooten will discuss the federal system of judicial selection, and Alexander will give the legislative perspective of the current system of judicial selection in South Carolina.


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Bernheim has several species of Aesculus that range from the native buckeye to the Japanese horse chestnut and includes the shrubby bottlebrush buckeye. A tremendous mass planting of bottlebrush buckeye that line the main road of Bernheim opposite of the Education center is a sight to behold.
In the December 1977 issue of American Nurseryman, an article by Mike Dirr, who was then Associate Professor of Horticulture at the University of Illinois stated that Bernheim's collection of bottlebrush buckeye was one of very few plantings of (Aesculus parviflora) in the country that regularly produced seed. Since that article appeared, seed from this planting has been requested by and sent to nurserymen and institutions all over the country.
Planting of the Buckeye/Horse chestnut collection began in the fall of 1958 with the plantings of Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra), a double-flowered cultivar of horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum 'Baumannii') and bottlebrush buckeye (Aesculus parviflora). Two Texas buckeye (Aesculus glabra var. arguta) were sent to the Arboretum by the Oklahoma City Parks Dept in 1960. Bernheim has eight species of Aesculus, seven cultivars, and nine hybrid forms.
Bernheim's Aesculus species includes
Aesculus flava yellow buckeye
Aecculus glabra Ohio buckeye
Aesculus glabra var. arguta Texas buckeye
Aesculus hippocastaneum common horsechestnut
Aesculus parviflora bottlebrush buckeye
Aesculus pavia red buckeye
Aesculus turbinata Japanese horsechestnut


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The Salt Lake County Health Department recently closed down a library cafe, a food cart and a bar for creating an "imminent health hazard,' according to reports on the department's website.
• Hemingway Cafe at Salt Lake City Library Square, 210 E. 400 South, was closed on Friday, Oct. 25, after inspectors found nine health code violations, including not having hot water, holding potentially hazardous foods at the wrong temperature and employees without food handler permits.
• Mama Simonettes Spaghette, a food cart at 200 S. Main Street, was closed on Monday, Oct. 28. It had 10 health code violations: no water in the hand wash sink, employees not washing hands when required, personal beverages in food preparation areas and commissary agreement not available for verifications.


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Miles Head Leads Second Inning Charge in Win
Josh Whitaker Evaluated At Area Hospital
By Bob Hards / Midland RockHounds | June 12, 2014 9:02 AM ET
Nice Win … Scary Moment
The RockHounds delayed Frisco's pennant-clinching celebration, winning the opener of a four-game series at San Antonio, but Wednesday night's game also had one of the season's most frightening moments.
Leading off the second, Josh Whitaker was hit in the helmet by a Leonel Campos pitch. Josh went down immediately and stayed, virtually motionless, as both clubs' Athletic Trainers attended to him. A San Antonio Fire Department Emergency crew was summoned and, after immobilizing him, transported Josh to an area hospital.
RockHounds Athletic Trainer Justin Whitehouse, who accompanied Josh in the ambulance to the hospital, indicated that Whitaker "… was evaluated for concussion (symptoms) at the Baptist Medical Center (in downtown San Antonio). He was treated for a face laceration and released into the cared of team personnel. His playing status is day-to-day."
When the game resumed, the RockHounds scored six times, with Miles Head ripping a two-run home run down the left field line. In the inning (which, ironically, opened with Whitaker's hit by pitch and injury) the RockHounds sent 11 batters to plate, with Anthony Aliotti, Beau Taylor, Conner Crumbliss and Chad Oberacker each driving in a run (along with Head's two-run homer).
The eventual game-winning run scored in the seventh. Crumbliss led off with a triple down the right field line and scored on Oberacker's roller to shortstop, despite the infield playing in.
The Missions rallied with two in the eighth, cutting the lead to 7-5. The two runs came against reliever Murphy Smith with Seth Frankoff allowing one inherited runner to score before striking out Rob Kral and Cody Overbeck to end the inning. The Missions scored again in the ninth and had two on when Rymer Liriano bounced out to second to end the game. Frankoff earned his 12th save in 13 opportunities.
Corpus Christi shut out Frisco, 7-0, so the RoughRiders' march to the first half title was halted, at least for one day (see below).
WP: Chris Jensen (3-6, 4.40)
LP: Leonel Campos (0-2, 3.72)
SV: Seth Frankoff (12, 2.76)
HR: RockHounds - Miles Head (7) A 2-run HR in the second (off Matt Branham)
San Antonio - Jason Hagerty (7) Solo in the fourth (off Chris Jensen)
Kibbles & Bits
- Frisco's "magic number" remains two … any combination of RoughRider wins and/or RockHound losses totaling two wins the first half title (there are five games remaining in the half).
- Conner Crumbliss (2-4, two runs, triple, RBI, walk, strikeout) extended his hit streak to seven games. He is 10-28 (.357) with five runs, three doubles, one home run and four RBI in the seven-gamer.
- Chris Jensen (6.0 innings, five hits, three runs, two earned runs, two walks, five strikeouts) broke a personal six-decision losing streak. The streak covered eight starts for Jensen, who has recorded "quality starts" in five-of-the-eight games.
- Because he was hit by a pitch in his only plate appearance, Josh Whitaker's 12- game hit streak remains intact. Josh is 19-47 (.404, HR, 11 RBI) in the 12-gamer and has hit in 15-of-his-last-16 (24-63, .381, HR, 14 RBI). He is second in the Texas League in batting average (.324) and RBI (42) and ranks third in slugging percentage (.537). His playing status, as mentioned (above), is day-to-day.
- The RockHounds and San Antonio meet through Saturday (first pitch each night at 7:05), followed by a quick four-game home stand (Sunday, June 15 through Wednesday, June 18) against Frisco. The first two games of the RoughRider series conclude the first half, with all eight Texas League clubs then reverting to 0-0 to open the second half (June 17).
Next Game
vs. San Antonio Missions (San Diego Padres' AA Affiliate)
Thursday, June 12 - 7:05 p.m. (Radio at 7:00 p.m.)
Nelson Wolff Stadium - San Antonio, TX
Probable Starters
RockHounds: Zach Neal (RH, 2-0, 0.78)
San Antonio: James Needy (RH, 4-3, 2.70)
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On Sunday February 5th, 2012, the New England Patriots were said to have lost to the New York Giants by a score of 21 to 17. The game was recorded and watched by millions of people. But questions continue to linger as to whether the score as reported by the NFL, and it's business partners in the media, is accurate.
These sorts of questions have been raised by football experts, not just in this year's contest, but, according to some reports, for all prior Super Bowls. Dismissed as "ridiculous" by mainstream followers of the sport, the evidence supports a consistent and nagging uncertainty about the veracity of Super Bowl scores, and researchers have found the inconsistency may be endemic, not just in professional football, but in other sports as well.
Sports Score Deniers
Roger L. Verisim holds a PhD from Rutgers University in Astrophysics, and reported within minutes of the game's conclusion, "No way. There's simply no way the Patriots could have lost this game. It's impossible." Additional reporting suggests that many other scientists who also observed the game made similar assertions of lack of confidence in reported outcomes, including "Unbelievable", "Ridiculous", and "Beyond belief".
An analysis by The Kraft Group of the statements suggests strong correlation to the temporal proximity of the statements to the time period in which the game was played. Scientists and analysts have clearly demonstrated that observational recollection is more accurate relative to the time of the event, often by as much as 46% over the course of several weeks. This phenomenon has been shown to be reinforced by social factors, in particular, consistent repetition of falsehood.
Eyewitness Fallacy
In one experiment, study participants were shown to have their accurate recollections altered by repeated assertion by experimenters of an alternate outcome. In this case, many (although not all) news organizations and other media outlets quickly reported the asserted final score of the Super Bowl, leading all but a few of the more determined to accept the reported findings as fact. Yet researchers report this as normal human response. One characterized such false beliefs as "group think", indicating this kind of phenomenon is common, both in our present day world, and throughout human history.
Estimates suggest that even in cases where greater than 99% of subjects report "complete certainty", a persistent cohort is able to ignore the distortion of facts and retain their conviction in the truth. Studies in criminology suggest that eyewitness accounts are as often incorrect as correct, especially when dealing with subtle numerical details such as height, weight, distance and so on. One can presume this kind of phenomenon translates to game scoring confusion.
So for now, the actual score of the game remains unclear. The Kraft Group will submit its findings and report within the next several months, but has indicated that there are a sufficient number of "irregularities" to warrant significant doubt about the reported outcome.
(All of the above is false and baseless. It is not intended to be a statement of fact.)
And Now, in Unrelated News…
The New York Times reports today that "Rising Sea Levels Seen as Threat to Coastal U.S.". After reporting the primary findings, the report goes on to say:
..the ocean could rise a foot over the next 40 years, though that calculation is not universally accepted among climate scientists.
The handful of climate researchers who question the scientific consensus about global warming do not deny that the ocean is rising. But they often assert that the rise is a result of natural climate variability, they dispute that the pace is likely to accelerate, and they say that society will be able to adjust to a continuing slow rise.
Myron Ebell, a climate change skeptic at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington research group, said that "as a society, we could waste a fair amount of money on preparing for sea level rise if we put our faith in models that have no forecasting ability."
Several paragraphs later, "Insurance companies got out of the business of writing flood insurance decades ago…".
(The above is a true accounting of the New York Times article published today).
Money, Mouth
I have a proposal for the free-enterprise-minded Competitive Enterprise Institute: put your money where your mouth is. If you believe the models have no forecasting ability, then they can only predict as much chance that sea levels will rise as not. Thus, there's a good chance they will not rise, and perhaps CEI should decide to promote and support an insurance company that would base its rates on the level of risk, and thus make a great profit. One thinks it's rather odd that market-based companies such as insurance have not found this profitable. Go figure.
At what point did respected news organizations like the New York Times feel an obligation to devote about 20% of an article on a scientific finding to reports about a group having little or no scientific basis for retort (CEI is not a science research organization, and Ebell has a masters degree from the London School of Economics)?


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Target scales back on health coverage
Target Corp. says it will no longer be offering health care coverage for its part-time workers.
The discounter is citing new options now available through health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
The discounter, based in Minneapolis, says the majority of its part-time workers who have been eligible for its health care insurance coverage don't enroll. In fact, less than 10 percent of its total employees of 361,000 take advantage of the part-time plan. It says it will stop covering the part-time workers beginning April 1.
Target says part-time workers who are currently enrolled in the health care plan and are losing access to coverage will be given a $500 cash payment.
Other large employers like UPS are scaling back health coverage by dropping spouses from their employee plans if they are able to get insurance through another employer.
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You Remind Me of Me (edition 2005)
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This book was really well done. However, I did not like because it was too gray--I was depressed for the characters.
I read lots of books that are about depressing things, but this was unalleviated. So, I think the writer is good, but I did not enjoy this.
"There was no way to account for love, she thought, or for sorrow."
Dan Chaon's gifts as a short-story writer show themselves in his exquisitely crafted sentences, as in this passage from the novel's opening:
"In the movie you would only see him emerging from the bus, a boy running with his backpack dragging through the wet gravel, a red stocking cap, a worn blue ski jacket, stones grinding together beneath his boots, a pleasantly rhythmic noise he was making. And you would be up above everything like a bird, the long gravel road that led from the mailbox to the house, the weeds along the ditches, the telephone poles, barbed-wire fences, railroad tracks. The horizon, the wide plain of dust and wind."
In this story of two half-brothers trying to make sense of the small and large failures of their lives, Chaon is sensitive to the subtleties of personality. He dwells in melancholy; he is well acquainted with sadness and longing. He is painfully honest about the complexities of relationships and shows us how people really feel about each other, how they struggle and fail to hide those feelings.
The characters feel like real people -- so real, in fact, that they can become as boring as stretches of real life. They change and make decisions at a glacial pace. They can be so passive that the book becomes a dreamscape, where nothing that happens has deeply felt consequences.
The chronology skips around frequently, sometimes for recognizable reasons of structure and pacing, sometimes not. I understand the novel's recursive style fits the theme of desperately wanting to remake the past, but honestly, after a while I wanted to take a pair of scissors to the whole thing and straighten it out.
I admire the book for Chaon's facility with language and his willingness to look at people's motives and failures unflinchingly. The beginning and ending, where he apparently spent most of his energy, are as beautiful and moving as his short stories.
I wanted to weep at the end of this book, not for any specific character or event - just for all the lost souls out there in general.
Since finally getting around to reading Dan Chaon less than three months ago, I've kind of been on a tear going through whatever I can get my hands on of his. Chaon tells the story of Jonah, who has grown up knowing that his mother gave his older brother up for adoption before Jonah was born, and Jonah's search to find a connection with that brother after all his other family members have died.
Jonah is a thoroughly bizarre individual, bearing hideous facial scars (from a childhood mauling by the family's dog) and an otherworldly countenance that disturb passers-by and leave him generally alienated. "There was a flutter among the people, as among grazing animals who sense a predator..." His thoughts are written so calculatedly and detachedly that I often wondered if he was a sociopath; many of his actions suggest that he lacks any understanding of normal human behavior or boundaries. He watches people's behavior because he wants "to know what he should be like."
He is a pathological liar, repeatedly inventing stories about his past in attempt to be interesting to those he hopes to befriend. And yet, his plight is wrenching and I felt overwhelmingly sad for him. The more desperately Jonah tries to force himself into others' lives, the more they pull away. As his embellished life becomes increasingly baroque, an honest connection with anyone becomes completely untenable. "Each time {they} met, it felt as if he'd unraveled a little bit further from himself, from his true history. Each afternoon...it felt like he was acting out a persona that was more false than the time before. It wouldn't be long, he thought, before he was completely imaginary."
You Remind Me of Me is Chaon's first full-length novel. It was very interesting to read it after Await Your Reply because of the way in which it foreshadows so many of the ideas that the latter book will play with in a different way - the fragility of the self; the possibility of living other lives and becoming other people; the bleakness of minimum-wage life in the vast American middle; and the ties that families create or fail to create. Chaon also uses some of the same techniques - multiple perspectives, a lack of guideposts to indicate how these perspectives are related (at least initially), and non-chronological arrangement of the story - to create this vague yet ever-present sense of dread and discomfort. I never knew what kind of story I was in - was a hideous crime right around the corner? was this that kind of book? - and I enjoyed being rather unsettled in such a way.
Good but slow read. Difficult at times to keep track of events because there is a lot of jumping around chronologically. Worth the read, however, as you can get sucked in by the miserable circumstances these people live through. It's one that showcases how some lives are just lived with no real bright spots or great shining moments. Life is hard, but it can be exceptionally hard for some unfortunate souls. Some people just don't get a break.
This story ties together the lives of a young pregnant teenager in the 60s, sent to a home for unwed mothers, a young boy savagely attacked by the family Doberman and left with terrible scars he will carry for the rest of his life, and a young father struggling to support his son and young cousin after his wife leaves him. Delves into the question of how different (better?) a person's life could have ended up if they started out with a different family.
Dan Chaon's writing has grown darker and deeper with time, and his new book, the beautifully disquieting ''You Remind Me of Me,'' is no exception. It more than fulfills the promise of his story collection ''Among the Missing,'' which was a finalist for a National Book Award in 2001..... But for Chaon, whose subject is often the extraordinary fates of otherwise ordinary, anonymous people, these are artifacts -- a piece of flint, a shard of pottery -- from which he constructs a civilization.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345441400, Paperback)With his critically acclaimed Among the Missing and Fitting Ends, award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He is a writer, observes the Chicago Tribune, who can "convincingly squeeze whole lives into a mere twenty pages or so." Now Chaon marshals his notable talents in his much-anticipated debut novel.
You Remind Me of Me begins with a series of separate incidents: In 1977, a little boy is savagely attacked by his mother's pet Doberman; in 1997 another little boy disappears from his grandmother's backyard on a sunny summer morning; in 1966, a pregnant teenager admits herself to a maternity home, with the intention of giving her child up for adoption; in 1991, a young man drifts toward a career as a drug dealer, even as he hopes for something better. With penetrating insight and a deep devotion to his characters, Dan Chaon explores the secret connections that irrevocably link them. In the process he examines questions of identity, fate, and circumstance: Why do we become the people that we become? How do we end up stuck in lives that we never wanted? And can we change the course of what seems inevitable?
In language that is both unflinching and exquisite, Chaon moves deftly between the past and the present in the small-town prairie Midwest and shows us the extraordinary lives of "ordinary" people.
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Adversarial Proceedings in Bankruptcy
If there is a dispute about a debt in your bankruptcy, you, the creditor, or the trustee can file an adversary proceeding.
Sometimes after you file for bankruptcy, a dispute arises concerning a debt you included in the bankruptcy. If this happens, you, the creditor, the trustee, or some other interested party must file a separate case in the bankruptcy court, called an "adversary proceeding."
Read on to learn what types of disputes must be filed as adversary proceedings, when a dispute is not an adversary proceeding, how to file an adversary proceeding, and more.
Common Types of Adversary Proceedings in Bankruptcy Cases
Rule 7001 of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure has a non-exhaustive list of disputes that must be filed as adversary proceedings. Those include:
- an action to recover money or property (not a proceeding to compel the debtor to deliver property to the bankruptcy trustee)
- an action to determine the validity, priority, or extent of a lien or other interest in the debtor's property
- an objection to the discharge of a debt or an action to revoke the discharge of a debt
- an action to revoke the court's order that a Chapter 13 plan be confirmed (not simply an objection to the plan confirmation)
- an action to determine the dischargeability of a debt, and
- an action seeking an injunction or similar equitable relief.
Adversary Proceedings, Contested Matters, and Other Lawsuits
Not every lawsuit is filed as an adversary proceeding. Bankruptcy judges can only rule on issues that are "related to" the bankruptcy (called "core proceedings"). So, for example, a bankruptcy judge cannot grant a married couple a divorce, even when the couple has debts and assets that are part of the bankruptcy case.
Likewise, not all disputes within the bankruptcy are filed as adversary proceedings. Some disputes are called "contested matters" and are not filed as separate lawsuits. An objection to a proof of claim and an objection to a claim of exemption are examples of contested matters that are not adversary proceedings.
Adversary Complaints to Challenge the Dischargeability of Debts
Debtors are most likely to face an adversary complaint if a creditor wants to challenge the dischargeability of a debt. If a creditor contests the discharge of a debt based on fraud, or because it believes the debt was caused by a willful and malicious injury, it must file an adversary proceeding within 60 days after the first meeting of creditors.
(To learn more about nondischargeable debts, see Debts That Cannot Be Discharged in Bankruptcy. To learn about creditor challenges to the dischargeability of credit card debt, see Prebankruptcy Credit Card Charges: Legal v. Fraud.)
Adversary Case Procedures
Specific rules apply to adversary proceedings to ensure that issues are tried quickly and fairly. To start an adversary procedure, the creditor or debtor must file an adversary complaint and pay a filing fee (the fee is waived if filed by the debtor). The clerk of the bankruptcy court assigns a separate case number to the adversary proceeding and issues the summons which must be served within 120 days of filing the complaint.
The defendant in the adversary proceeding has an opportunity to respond to the complaint, either by filing an answer or a motion (for example, a motion to dismiss the complaint). If the defendant does not file a responsive pleading, the bankruptcy court can enter a default judgment against the defendant. If an answer is filed, the court will hold a trial with testimony and exhibits offered as evidence.
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I was out and about today and took at look at three stores for 9mm ammunition. Blain's Farm and Fleet was completely out except for three boxes of lead free stuff. Wal Mart only had steel cased cheap stuff and only four boxes of that particular round. Gander Mountain had plenty but their prices were 30% higher than a few weeks ago. Normal WWB of 50 rounds was $14.99 now $19.99. I have enough for a short-term SHTF scenario but not enough to go to the range and have fun with as well. I didn't buy any from them.
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With every passing week and with every carry Le'Veon Bell gets, the Steelers' chances of recovering from a horrific 0-4 start and making the playoffs seem to get better and better. It's still unlikely, but certainly not far-fetched.
Even the most skeptical of fans are turning into believers, and many more will follow suit if the Steelers can get their third straight win today. And a favorable second-half schedule only strengthens Pittsburgh's chances.
There is lots to feel good about since the calendar turned to October.
For starters, the defense has cut down on the big plays the past two weeks and they've stepped up the pressure on opposing quarterbacks.
Since Mike Adams' demotion, the offensive line has started to jell — even though coach Mike Tomlin said this week that wasn't the case — and the running game finally has a pulse. Bell has had everything to do with that, and he will continue to rise to stardom as long as he stays healthy.
Coming off their bye week two weeks ago, the Steelers had to string together a couple wins — someway, somehow — to have a chance at a turnaround. It didn't matter how ugly or pretty the wins were. They just needed to "stack" some wins, as the players like to say. More importantly, they needed some confidence.
Tomlin this week denied that his team ever lacked confidence, but the body language in the locker room after the 0-4 start told a different story.
"I never sensed a lack of confidence in our guys," Tomlin said. "I sensed some frustration, obviously, and rightfully so based on how we were playing. I can't say that I ever sensed a lack of confidence in our guys."
Whether Tomlin was truthful or not doesn't matter. What matters is that the confidence is again part of the Steelers' DNA.
Now it's time to continue to build on the good things they've done the past two weeks. Next up, the Steelers need to improve on some of the finer details that separate playoff teams from bumbling pretenders the Steelers resembled the first month of the season.
That includes improving their third-down conversion rate, improving in the red zone, cutting down on costly penalties, most of which go hand-in-hand.
"When you are playing good people, penalties, particularly pre-snap penalties, generally kill drives," Tomlin said. "We only had 8-9 possessions (against the Ravens last week). Some of those possessions were killed by pre-snap penalties. ... We had a third-and-four in the red area that went to a third-and-nine that we didn't convert. We had to settle for a field goal. When you are playing somebody like that, and you get the opportunity to get seven, you have to get it."
As I've written in this space many a time, Pittsburgh's red-zone efficiency is an area that's held the team back since the start of last season, at least. Only the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars are worse in the red zone than the Steelers, who have six touchdowns in 16 trips inside the opponents' 20 this season. Today would be a good day to start cleaning that up.
Similarly, the Steelers rank in the bottom third of the NFL in third-down conversion rate, and it's a statistic that's been dragged down by their penchant for third-and-long situations. Pittsburgh made strides in that area last week, when Bell's play helped the Steelers turn in big gains on first downs and keep the long third downs to a minimum.
And they need to keep making progress in that area because those are the situations the Steelers don't want to find themselves in today against the Raiders today, Tomlin warned earlier this week.
"They have a multitude of things to prepare for, this dime, 32-package that they have with three down linemen, two linebackers, and the rest are defensive backs," Tomlin said. "They have a variety of zone coverages and pressures out of that thing. If you get behind the chains, and it's third-and-seven or more, they dial a variety of things up."
Most of all, what I'd like to see that indicates to me that the Steelers are continuing their upswing and continuing to improve is a blowout win over an inferior opponent.
The dominant Steelers of old, regulars in the playoffs, would have two or three blowout wins every year, games in which they utterly dismantle teams like this year's Jaguars, Giants, Buccaneers, etc.
Not so this year, and today would be a perfect time to cross that off the list.
Mirza Zukic is in his third season covering the Pittsburgh Steelers for The Indiana Gazette. Email: email@example.com. Twitter: @MirzaZuka.


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Even if the Canadians had wanted to investigate the governor's private jails, some officers say, it would have been a difficult subject to broach. Certain doors in the palace seemed permanently closed, the officers said, and the Afghans frowned upon Canadians who explored certain "off-limits" zones in the compound.
The Canadians had other tools for monitoring the governor, however.
Mr. Khalid conducted much of his daily business on cellphones, and Canada was clandestinely recording, transcribing and translating the conversations, according to a source with first-hand knowledge of the operation. English-language transcripts of his phone calls were processed through the Canadian military's All Source Intelligence Centre (ASIC), the source said, and ASIC passed intelligence to Canada's top commander at Kandahar Air Field.
"The generals knew exactly what was going on," the source said.
Canadian diplomats also were aware of allegations that Mr. Khalid was personally involved in torture and human-rights abuses. Government censors have blacked out paragraphs related to the governor's interrogations before releasing documents to the Military Police Complaints Commission, but The Globe and Mail has learned that diplomat Richard Colvin reported in detail about the governor to his superiors in Ottawa.
As early as June, 2006, documents show, the Canadian government was aware of the governor's record of human-rights violations and his history of holding Afghan businessmen as a means of extortion.
Rather than distancing themselves, top Canadian officials defended Mr. Khalid.
At one point, an Afghan source said, the palace hired a labourer to apply fresh paint to an interrogation room every few weeks, as a way of concealing blood on the walls.
With the insurgency on the rise in Kandahar, Mr. Karzai raised concerns about Mr. Khalid's leadership at a meeting with Canadian officials in July, 2006. According to the report, "Canada defended the governor, thereby ensuring his continued tenure."
The Canadian who spoke in favour of the governor was Major-General David Fraser, then serving as commander of the Canadian Forces in southern Afghanistan. His boss at the time, Lieutenant-General Michel Gauthier, maintained the same position when Canada was again asked for advice about Mr. Khalid the following December, according to a government source.
The following year, however, Canadian documents referred to the governor's reputation as that of a "sexual predator and drug user," and in April, 2007, a Canadian corrections official interviewed a prisoner who claimed that Mr. Khalid had personally beat him and administered electric shocks during an interrogation.
In an interview, a source who served on Canada's headquarters staff at Kandahar Air Field said he heard a story of torture from Mr. Khalid's own mouth. Afghan authorities were trying to decide whether to pay compensation to a man from Maywand district who claimed his brother was killed during interrogation by Mr. Khalid. The governor acknowledged causing the man's death, the source said, and the brother received a sum equivalent to roughly $2,000 (U.S.).
Afghan sources also contend the brigade received payments from 'the Canadians,' although they say it's unclear that Canada realized how the Afghans were using the money.
Even so, in April, 2008, then foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier sparked an uproar and official apologies when he suggested during a visit to Kandahar that Mr. Khalid be replaced.
By that time, Canadian concerns about torture had become public, and the governor's militias appear to have grown more discreet. At one point, an Afghan source said, the palace hired a labourer to apply fresh paint to an interrogation room every few weeks, as a way of concealing blood on the walls.
Sources identified at least three locations in the governor's palace that held prisoners, and indicated that Mr. Khalid probably had other informal jails elsewhere in the city. Nor was such activity confined to Brigade 888; the governor was also suspected of using several hundred men assigned to 05 Police Standby Battalion as a personal militia, which also held prisoners outside the Afghan justice system.
We never paid those guys. We had enough trouble getting money for phone cards. Canadian officer
But the palace guards remain one of the more mysterious security forces in Kandahar's recent history. The name "Brigade 888" was not widely known, and it's difficult to confirm who paid them.Report Typo/Error
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The "Stretch for the Wine" yoga events combine yoga, wine, and fresh local cuisine. Event begins on the patio overlooking the San Vicente Valley for a 90-minute restorative yoga class, appropriate for all levels of fitness, and then moves into the winery's underground grotto for a wine presentation and tasting. Appetizers will be paired with select wines. A complete lunch, created with fresh, locally sourced food will also be served.
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Find an excellent driver for the treacherous road to Gangotri and only go in the dry season. Find a guide to take you to some of the local caves occupied by swamis. Meditate with them. Dunk your head in the Ganga for purification. Buy a small plastic bottle to take some of the river home. Wherever you stay it will be freezing cold at night and there is no hot water. Bring long underwear, hand and feet warmers and down jackets if you are there in October. Perhaps take the trek to the glacier at 11,000 feet by foot or donkey. Meditate as much as you can because you will have to take that same treacherous road back down the mountain!
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This week is the first Urban Food Week, where since Monday the city has been celebrating and feasting on the local produce being grown, produced and cooked here. It's a collaboration between restaurant network Ethical Eats, Capital Growth – a campaign to create new food-growing spaces by 2012 – and Capital Bee, helping to promote community beekeeping. Importantly, it wants to show people how easy it is to buy and eat local food and plant forage for bees.
Here, writer Nick Harman writes about why it's satisfying tending to an allotment in London.
Is it a chard? Is it a herb? Is it even edible? At a press event at The Table in Southwark last month, assembled food bloggers and journos were each given a box of green stuff to take away, a reminder of new chef Cinzia Ghignoni's (previously of Duck Soup, Zucca and Angela Hartnett) commitment to sustainable, fresh produce all sourced as close to home as possible.
It was interesting to see how many people were unsure what was actually in the box or what to do with it. Food writers, no less than everyday consumers, are all too often ignorant of what really goes on in muddy fields and dark barns. Hence the nameless food writer who once informed me that he knew for a fact that aubergines grew like courgettes, trailing along the ground.
I know what goes on in muddy fields, or at least in my muddy south London allotment, and could rather smugly identify everything in the box with ease and even, and after encouragement, tell people what they could do with it.
The more we grow our own, the more we appreciate it, the more we respect it. We don't waste it, because we know the effort that went into it - the digging on cold days, the careful tending of the young plants, the Sundays spent weeding and cutting the grass (before heading to the pub for a well-earned drink).
Once you've survived the heartache of a brassica crop destroyed overnight by pigeons, or lettuces raised to the ground by armies of fat slugs, you can celebrate with the first purple broccoli of the season, the tenderest broad beans you'll ever eat, the mystery of a kohlrabi pulled from the ground just hours before being eaten.
Too many chefs trot out 'Seasonal, local, passionate' during interviews, but too few really walk the walk and cook the veg. With Urban Food week now upon us hopefully Londoners all too often divorced from the land will discover the joys of food that has come no further than from across the road.
Urban Food Week runs until September 16. For more information on events (Still to come are an Edible Open Gardens Day and the Muck Heap Challenge held at Freightliners City Farm) visit sustainweb.org/ethicaleats/urbanfoodweek. Any diner submitting a picture of their Urban Food Week dish or drink will be entered into a draw to win a one-day urban foraging course.
Nick Harman is editor and founder of Foodepedia.co.uk
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- 4 Jones Dairy Farm Dry-Aged Bacon strips
- 2 boneless pork loin chops (4 ounces each)
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 2 slices onion (1/4 inch thick)
- 2 slices tomato (1/2 inch thick)
- 1/2 medium green pepper, cut in half
- 2 slices Swiss cheese
- Cross two bacon strips to form an "X"; repeat. Sprinkle pork chops with salt and pepper; place over bacon strips. Layer with onion, tomato and green pepper. Wrap bacon strips over vegetables and secure with a toothpick.
- Using long-handled tongs, moisten a paper towel with cooking oil and lightly coat the grill rack. Prepare the grill for indirect heat, using a drip pan. Place pork bundles over the drip pan. Grill, covered, over indirect medium heat for 20-25 minutes or until a meat thermometer reads 160°.
- Place cheese slices over bundles; cover and grill 1 minute longer or until cheese is melted. Discard toothpicks. Yield: 2 servings.
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Music from the Arctic Circle
Published: Mar 07, 2013
Category: World
Guest Butler Laura Galloway is an old friend of this site — she was a crucial helper at its launch. Now she's an entrepreneur and journalist studying Sami culture. Sami? Read on….
After discovering my connection to the Sami people — the oldest indigenous culture of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia — I've been spending much of my free time in Scandinavia. During my visits, I hear music that hasn't fully emerged in the rest of the world. Here are four female vocalists worth sharing.
Ane Brun: Just try and listen to "Do you remember" and not dance. Ane is a Norwegian singer songwriter from the fjord city of Molde, a city well known to jazz aficionados for the Molde International Jazz Festival. [To buy her CD on Amazon, click here. For the MP3 download, click here.]
Sofia Jannok: This Swedish Sami is probably one of the best-known contemporary Sami singers. She incorporates Joking — a Sami song form that sounds similar to a yodel — with more modern sounds. Sofia is also a passionate advocate for the Sami people, who have historically been marginalized in the countries where they live. This video was recorded a few years ago at the Ice Hotel –– a hotel in northern Sweden constructed entirely of ice. You'll also see some gorgeous scenery from the Swedish Arctic. [To buy her CD on Amazon, click here. For the MP3 download, click here.]
Lovisa Negga: At the winter festival at the Sami Museum in Jokkmokk, Sweden, I saw a mesmerizing performance: Lovisa sang as her traditionally dressed Sami relatives danced enthusiastically in the crowd. Lovisa, who is Sami with a French father, is as much a fascinating performance artist as musician — I think she might be the next, more original Lady Gaga, if she doesn't get a MOMA show first. [To buy the MP3 download from Amazon, click here.]
Rebekka Karijord: Stockholm-based Rebekka Karijord creates music that is haunting, reflective and unvarnished; she's a contemporary Joni Mitchell. If you have the chance to catch her live — she tours frequently — you're in for a singular experience. [To buy the MP3 download from Amazon, click here.]


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Chroma keying has been part of the moviemaking special effects arsenal for decades. In fact, you can trace the origins of the idea right back to the early days of film. In the 1930s, back projection was used to make actors appear as if they were on location, when in fact they were still in a Hollywood studio. The principle is the same today, but the technology used has transformed considerably. Nowadays, instead of projecting the desired scene onto a screen behind the actors, a background of a single bright colour is used instead. This can then be subtracted electronically, and a different background put in its place.
This process is called chroma keying, because the subtraction is matched to the chroma (colour) values of the background. Keying of this nature used to be something only high-end professional software could do. But in the last few years, all the leading video editing applications have acquired the facility. Adobe Premiere Elements has keying, as do the Plus versions of Pinnacle Studio and Ulead VideoStudio, as well as CyberLink's PowerDirector. So, this week, we explain how the chroma keying effect works and how to shoot video for it. Next week, we finish off by discussing how to use the filters in various editing applications.
The chroma keying filters provided by editing applications are very powerful, but they can only go so far. If you don't shoot video correctly in the first place, the results can still give the game away. This primarily focuses on the kind of background you use, how you arrange it, and how it's lit.
First of all, the background colour needs to contrast with the foreground objects, which is why bright blue or green are generally chosen. These are colours not usually found in human skin, so you won't have your actors' faces disappearing along with the backdrop. For the same reason, the subjects need to avoid clothing of a similar hue. Otherwise, their limbs could become disembodied in dubious ways!
So your first step is to get a coloured background. You may already have a sheet or large roll of paper which would be adequate to get you started. But the best results will be obtained by using material specifically designed for the purpose. This will be of the most effective colour for keying. The top Ultimate version of Pinnacle's Studio 12 actually includes a piece of greenscreen material in the box. This is a very bright green, and we have found it is very good at its job. You can also buy this separately from Pinnacle for £10 and Pinnacle also sells a T-shirt made of the same material for £9.99, which is worth considering for some fun effects.