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Pecan pie: A holiday tradition and a treat
This time of year, you're probably thinking "Ahh, pecans!"
And particularly, "Ahh, pecan pie!"
We do love our pecans. The U.S. produces 80 to 95 percent of the world's pecans, and most are grown in Georgia, according to the UC Davis Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center (FNRIC). In 2014, the U.S. produced 133,165 tons of pecans (in-shell) valued at more than $400 million. Of that, California contributed 2,500 tons, valued at a little more than $10 million, or less than 2 percent.
"Although pecan trees have existed in California for more than a century, the first commercial orchard in California was established in the mid-1970s in the Clovis area," FNRIC relates on its website. "Since then, pecan production has spread throughout the Central Valley, but it is not nearly as widely cultivated as other nut crops (almond, pistachio and walnut) in California." The nuts thrive on long, hot summers for proper maturation.
The pecan (Carya illinoinensis), native to Mexico and the southcentral and southeastern regions of the United States, is a member of the Juglandaceae family, which includes hickory and walnut. "Remains of pecans were found in archaeological excavations in Texas with human artifacts dating back to 6100 B.C.," according to the Nutcracker Museum. "The pecan, which is native only to North America, was found in or near river beds, and was a staple in the diets of both the natives and the early settlers."
"What's great about pecans is that they are delicious!" says Amy Block Joy, emeritus UC Cooperative Extension specialist, who, true to her name, finds "joy" in pecans. "They are one of my favorite nuts."
"Pecans are an excellent source of vitamin E and other antioxidants, fiber, some B-vitamins and are also good sources of potassium, copper, iron, manganese and zinc," says Joy, who holds a doctorate in nutritional sciences from UC Berkeley. "They are a rich source of oleic acid, a mono-saturated fatty acid. Pecans do not contain any cholesterol."
And nuts are good for you, she said, noting that a study published recently in the journal BMC Medicine reported that having a daily amount (at least 20 grams) of nuts "cut people's risk of coronary heart disease by nearly 30 percent, their risk of cancer by 15 percent, and their risk of premature death by 22 percent."
Meanwhile, all over the country — especially the South — pecan pie is synonymous with the holidays. It's an iconic Southern cuisine, a 19th century invention, that probably originated in the 1800s. Harper's Bazaar published the first known pecan pie recipe in 1886. Today, cooks clamor to make it their own — adding everything from bourbon to rum to chocolate to orange zest.
My late mother, born and reared on a Texas ranch where pecan trees flourished, treasured the pecan pie. She always pronounced it "Peh-CAHN" (never PEE-can) and prefaced it with "rich." Not "rich," as in wealthy, but rich as in "don't-eat-too-much-of-this-or-you-will-engage-in-a-hate-relationship-with-your-scales." If you're thin and have to "stand up twice to make a shadow," as the Southern saying goes, then no worries!
Did you know that pecan pie is the state dessert of both Texas and Oklahoma? And that the pecan is the "state nut" of Alabama and Arkansas? In Tennessee, it's known as the "state health nut." That's because it is!
In the Garvey household, our favorite pecan pie recipe is loaded with nuts — two cups. That's 66 pecans per cup or a total of 132 pecans, says nutritionist Amy Block Joy, who knows how to put the "nuts" in nutrition. We know how to put the pie in the pantry, and then to the holiday table.
Garvey's Unforgettable Southern Delight Pecan Pie
Makes 9-inch pie
3 eggs, large
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 cup dark corn syrup, Karo
3/4 cup loosely packed brown sugar (don't press down)
1 tablespoon of white sugar
1 to 2 tablespoons of good quality dark rum (we used Myer's original dark Jamaican rum)
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups toasted pecans, halves only
One 9-inch unbaked pie crust (recipe below)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread pecans on baking sheet and toast at 350 degrees for 6 to 10 minutes. Set aside. In medium bowl, beat eggs with a fork or wire whisk. Add cornstarch and mix until blended.
Add corn syrup, sugar, rum, butter and vanilla. Stir in toasted pecans. Pour mixture into pie crust. Cover outer crust with loosely placed, crimped aluminum foil to prevent excess browning.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes. At 40 minutes, remove aluminum foil from outer crust and cook for another 10 minutes, or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. The center should be slightly firm to the touch but a bit jiggly.
Place pie on wire rack and let cool at room temperature for two hours before serving.
Crust for 9-inch pie:
1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 teaspoons granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick or ½ cup of cold unsalted butter, cut into chunks
1/4 cup ice water, plus an additional tablespoon if needed
In a medium bowl, combine flour, salt and sugar. Cut butter into flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Gradually sprinkle the water over the dry mixture, stirring until dough comes together enough to form a ball. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least one hour. Roll the dough out into a 12- to 13-inch circle. Place in pie plate and let it overhang 1/2-inch. Crimp the crust.
Youth speak, we listen: Youth voices in urban agriculture and building the UC connection
For many youth in California, agriculture is becoming part of their urban experience. Urban farms, edible parks, and garden education programs are thriving in cities across the state. These places grow food, teach youth job skills, create community green space, and help build food security.
Steven Palomares is one of those youth. As an intern at WOW Farm in 2016, Steven grew and harvested produce, delivered it to local restaurants, and participated in a weekly business management class.
"I like to think of this garden as very important to the community," said Steven. "Since most of [Oakland] is low income neighborhoods, this farm provides access to fresh organic produce. It also teaches the youth a set of job skills they can apply to other jobs, and teaches them a bit more about nutrition."
Many youth echo Steven's sentiment, finding skills, purpose, community, and good food at the sites they are a part of.
The UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (UC SAREP) and UC Cooperative Extension Los Angeles County have been working together to better understand the ways the University of California can support urban agriculture through the lens of youth participants.
These two videos, funded by the UC Global Food Initiative, are part of an ongoing effort to build strong connections between the University of California and urban agriculture programs. They highlight the community-based work of these programs and show some of the challenges they face.
In this video, Bay Area youth share their experience at urban agriculture programs, and program manager share their goals and challenges.
In this video, youth give us a tour of Southern California urban agriculture programs, their visions, and needs.
Currently, UC Cooperative Extension has two advisors dedicated to working with urban agriculture. Rob Bennaton works as an urban agriculture advisor in the Bay Area, and Rachel Surls works with urban farms as Los Angeles County's sustainable food systems advisor. UCCE hosts a growing website of resources for urban farmers, urban agriculture advocates, and policy makers.
"Our hope is that, by listening to people working in urban agriculture and building partnerships with them, we can find long term, meaningful ways to support their work," said Gail Feenstra, deputy director of UC SAREP. "They share so many of the same goals as the UC — they're really focused on developing leaders who will make our cities healthy, prosperous places to live."
Steven Palomares may just be one of those leaders. In fall of 2015, Steven began his freshman year at UC Davis majoring in biological sciences and political science, interested in pursuing work that integrates science and policy. Also on his mind: someday Steven wants a home garden growing all the necessary produce for salsa and guacamole.
Organic produce growers sought for research study
"The goal of our study is to provide organic farmers with science-based strategies that effectively limit food-safety risks when using raw manure-based soil amendments," said Alda Pires, UC Cooperative Extension urban agriculture and food safety specialist in the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis.
To study the survival of pathogens in soil and soil health, UC scientists are recruiting California growers who use raw or untreated manure in organically grown crop fields.
Pires is leading the project in California with Michele Jay-Russell, a veterinary research microbiologist and manager at the Western Center for Food Safety at UC Davis.
The researchers will visit participating farms eight times over the 2017-2018 growing season.
"We will collect produce, water, soil and manure samples," said Jay-Russell. "All of the samples will be tested for bacterial indicators such as nonpathogenic E. coli and pathogens. We will ask the farmers to complete a short survey. The study is voluntary and all locations and names will be kept confidential."
Eligible California farms must be certified as organic by the National Organic Program or California Certified Organic Farmers and fertilize with raw manure or untreated manure from dairy cattle, horses or poultry. The farms can grow any of the following produce: lettuce, spinach, carrots, radishes, tomatoes or cucumbers.
For more information or to enroll in the project, please contact Pires at (530) 754-9855 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or Jay-Russell at (530) 219-4628 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
This study is being conducted in other states by the University of Minnesota, University of Maine, USDA Agricultural Research Service's Beltsville Agricultural Center, USDA Economic Research Service's Resource and Rural Economics Division, Cornell University and The Organic Center. The project is funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture Organic Research and Extension Initiative grant.
Seven tips for enjoying holiday meals
Before you gobble down that Thanksgiving turkey and pumpkin pie, take a moment to maximize your enjoyment.
The University of California has experts on every topic imaginable, including food and the science of taste and sensory experience. Here are their pro tips on making the most of your holiday meal.
1. Slow down and pay attention
People get the most pleasure from their food when they take the time to savor it fully, said UC Davis sensory scientist Michael O'Mahony. Try having everyone at the table taste the same food and then describe all the sensations they get from it. Everyone can write them down and then share their lists with each other. The person who finds the most sensations wins.
2. Smell your food
Flavor comes from both smell and taste, but the brain makes it difficult to tell the difference. When you smell your food while eating it, the volatile molecules go up to the nose through a back passage and stimulate the smell receptors. That's one of the ways the brain knows there is food is in your mouth. But rather than triggering a smell sensation, it feels like a broadening of taste.
Here's an experiment to show how much smell contributes to flavor: Hold your nose while putting some food in your mouth. Concentrate on the taste sensations you are getting. As you swallow, release your nose and notice how the flavor expands. The experiment works best with foods that have a strong odor such as a wine, sweet fruit drinks or gravy.
"Every time you eat you experience an illusion," O'Mahony said.
3. Add salt in a pinch
If your host happens to serve a cheap red wine that is high in tannins (bitter), here's a tip to make it taste better: Put a pinch of salt in your mouth, O'Mahony said.
"The salt suppresses the tannin," O'Mahony said. "Taste it again and it will taste like a mature wine."
4. Think beyond bitter, salty, sour, sweet and umami
Are there more than just five basic tastes?
"It depends what you mean by basic taste," O'Mahony said. "No one has ever really defined it properly. So it is a bit silly to say there are five things when we haven't actually defined what we are talking about. Whatever definition we choose, we don't know how many there are. There are certainly lots of different tastes."
Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, convened a taste panel to help develop the honey flavor wheel with more than 100 flavor profiles from leather and lemon to cotton candy and even cat pee.
"In general, honey is called sweet, but it has a huge amount of flavors," Harris said. "Cat pee," she adds, "is real. It's very pungent."
5. Try new things
There are more than 300 honey varieties available in the United States. Citrus has even more diversity.
Tracy Kahn curates UC Riverside's Citrus Variety Collection, one of the world's largest with more than 1,000 varieties of citrus and citrus relatives.
"We have ranges of colors, sizes and shapes," Kahn said. "There are fruits that are red, blue, purple, orange and yellow. There are fruits as big as a person's head and as small as a green pea, and a tremendous amount of aromas."
UC Riverside itself has developed more than 40 citrus varieties, including popular Tango mandarins, and is working to develop new varieties all the time, including ones resistant to citrus greening disease.
For young children, Kahn suggests Kishu mandarins, which are small, seedless, sweet and easy to peel.
6. Be bold
Try mixing in your time-honored traditions with something new.
Kahn suggests making an appetizer with Australian finger lime, a citrus relative that tastes like lime but looks like caviar.
"Specialty chefs are using this," Kahn said. "You could serve it with cream cheese and smoked salmon on crackers."
Yuzu looks like a yellow mandarin, but it's not sweet and has a strong aroma. Its acidic juice can be used in sauces such as ponzu, she said.
Kahn also likes to add citrus to water. She suggests using variegated pink-fleshed Eureka lemons, which have rinds that are green, pink and white.
"They look beautiful in water," Kahn said.
If you're looking for an alternative adult beverage, try mead (honey wine), said Harris, whose center at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science hosts courses in making the popular drink.
This Thanksgiving, Harris plans to make a walnut-cranberry tart with honey instead of corn syrup while her daughter will make samosas instead of mashed potatoes.
"It's fun to push the envelope," Harris said. "Let's go play."
7. Know your limits
The holiday spread can be filled with temptations. Enjoy, but choose wisely. Don't eat until it hurts. Remember, some of the dishes might taste even better the next day.
"There are always leftovers," Harris said.
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New life for tea in the San Joaquin Valley
Fifty-five years ago, Thomas J. Lipton Inc. funded a tea study at the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier, which is piquing the interest of scientists today. For 18 years, researchers pampered and coaxed 41 tea clones to determine whether tea plantations could be a lucrative alternative for San Joaquin Valley farmers.
Scientists of the time predicted a potential $25,000 economic value of future California tea plantings. Today, tea is a $3.8 billion business in the U.S. and UC Davis recently launched a Global Tea Initiative. Kearney submitted its yellowed research reports, correspondence and newspaper clippings about the long-ago tea research to the initiative's collection of research, teaching and outreach spanning agriculture, social sciences, health, culture and economics of all things tea.
That got the attention of UC Davis chemistry professor Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague, who is studying microbes in the soil where tea is grown and their potential impact on the health attributes of tea.
"I believe there is a microbial exchange that ends up in the cup," she said.
When the Kearney tea research program was scrapped in 1981, a prescient researcher had a handful of the best tea clones planted in the landscape around buildings at Kearney, where they stand today as fall-blooming non-descript shrubs.
Hague, who with her students frequently travels overseas to sample soil on tea plantations, learned of the plants at Kearney and recognized the opportunity to conduct studies in California.
"It's really remarkable," she said.
Kearney director Jeff Dahlberg believes the renewed interest in the center's tea, growing awareness about the healthful properties of tea, and increasing enthusiasm for artisanal tea and locally grown food could turn tea into a lucrative specialty crop for small-scale San Joaquin Valley farmers.
"This may be something like blueberries," he said. "Twenty years ago, people thought they couldn't be grown in California. But with research conducted here at Kearney, there is now a thriving blueberry industry in the San Joaquin Valley and on the coast."
It was the same intention that prompted Dahlberg's predecessors to support the tea studies in the 1960s and 70s.
At that time, 41 clones were propagated in a lathe house at Kearney, and later planted in a half-acre field plot. In 1967, UC Cooperative Extension agronomy researcher Karl H. Ingebretsen told a newspaper reporter that the plants came from clones that survived a similar USDA trial in the 1880s.
"Most of the imported plants were taken from some growing in South Carolina, where the Lipton company found them 10 years ago growing wild," Ingebretsen said in 1967.
The Kearney superintendent at that time, Frank Coddington, said the scientists hoped successful experimentation would lead to varieties of tea suitable for mechanical harvest and the production of instant tea, a product that in those days was becoming more and more popular.
The tea clones at Kearney grew well and appeared healthy, the reports said. Tea plants tolerated California's dry climate and stood the heat when irrigated properly. Five of the 41 clones were reported to show "real promise," but when the tea project was terminated in 1981, only a few plants representing two of the clones were saved as landscape shrubs. Nine plants now grow on the west side of a corrugated tin warehouse, and four in the shade of knobby flowering pear trees just south of the original building at the site.
Gervay-Hague plans to build on the results from early Kearney research with 21st Century agricultural production tools.
"I won't repeat the work done in the 60s, but they didn't know about the microbiome or genetics back then," she said. "UC Davis has 3D imaging capability, which I want to use to watch the plants change. I would like to do DNA testing."
The UC Davis chemist is applying for grants to build a repository of plants that may become the foundation of commercial tea gardens in California.
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Right-hander Sam Gaviglio is making up considerable time lost due to injury by starting in the desert. After working at Palm Beach in 2013, Gaviglio has a 3.58 ERA in the AFL. The 23-year-old has fanned 21 and walked 8 in 27 2/3 innings.
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Gator Women Hoops Down Tennessee State
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Kayla Lewis (Decatur, Ga.) and Christin Mercer (Douglasville, Ga.) both charted double-doubles and Florida defeated Tennessee State, 86-56, in the first round of the 23rd Annual Gator Holiday Classic played at the O'Connell Center Friday evening.
The Gators will play FIU in the championship game on Saturday at 7 p.m. The Panthers defeated La Salle, 84-58, in their opening round game, as senior guard Jerica Coley, who led the nation in scoring last year, dropped in 33 points in Friday's victory. The Lady Tigers and Explorers will meet in the third-place game at 4:30 p.m.
Florida opened up the 2013 Gator Holiday Classic with a physical 86-56 victory over Tennessee State as Kayla Lewis led the Gators from the opening tip, registering her second consecutive double-double in 24 minutes of play.
Lewis tallied 19 points on a career-tying 9-11 shooting and 13 rebounds, with 13 points and 12 rebounds coming in the first half alone as she needed just 24 minutes to register her second consecutive double-double. The junior left the game with 9:18 to play after falling hard when she was fouled skiing for a defensive rebound, but with Florida's significant second-half lead she was not needed to reenter the contest.
Florida opened the game on a 15-2 run that saw baskets from six different Gators. Florida's first-half lead reached 20 before heading to the locker room up 43-29. Behind a strong second-half effort from Mercer and Cassie Peoples (San Antonio, Texas) after Lewis went down, the Gators outscored the Lady Tigers 43-27 in the second half.
Mercer enjoyed a career night off the bench, tying her career high with 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Mercer's performance was her second double-double of the season and third of her career. Peoples chipped in 16 points and five assists and Carlie Needles (Highlands Ranch, Col.) added 10 points off the bench.
The Gators shot 50 percent from the field, improving to 7-1 on the year when hitting at least 40 percent. UF also improved to 9-0 when topping 70 points.
For the eighth time of the season, every Gator that dressed out scored. Florida is now 3-0 all-time against Tennessee State. UF has won seven consecutive games in the Gator Holiday Classic and will go for its fourth consecutive GHC crown.
Double-Digit Gators
· Kayla Lewis led all scorers with 19 points and added 13 rebounds for her second double-double of the season, second consecutive and fifth of her career. This marked Lewis' fifth double-figure scoring game of the season and 21st of her career as well as her fifth double-digit rebounding game of the season and 10th of her career.
· Cassie Peoples cranked out her sixth double-digit scoring game of the season and career. Peoples finished with 16 points on 6-10 shooting.
· Christin Mercer notched 18 points on 5-8 shooting for her third double-digit game of the season and ninth of her career.
· Carlie Needles recorded 10 points for her fourth double-digit game of the season and 10th of her career at UF.
By the Numbers
· Florida moves to 3-0 on the year when four Gators score in double figures.
· The Gators forced 24 turnovers, and are now 8-2 when the opponent turns the ball over 17 or more times.
· Florida scored 20 points off turnovers. This marked the seventh time this year that the Gators have scored 20+ points off turnovers.
· Florida outrebounded TSU by a margin of 47-40. The Gators are now 5-2 when outrebounding their opponent.
· UF connected on five three-point shots, moving to 6-2 on the year when knocking down at least five three's.
· The Gators went to the line 36 times, and are now 7-3 on the year when attempting 20 or more free throws.
· UF distributed the ball well, as seven of eight Gators recorded an assist. Florida totaled 20 assists compared to 21 turnovers.
· UF's bench contributed 30 points.
Individual Numbers of Note
Lewis's 19th point of the game was the 500th point of her career.
· Mercer made a career-high eight free throws on 10 attempts. Mercer's previous career best was four.
· With five assists, Jaterra Bonds is now four shy of 375 career assists.
· With four points, Lily Svete is now three shy of 400 career points.
· Needles's first-half three-pointer represented the 109th consecutive game a Florida player has made a three.
· Mercer scored her 300th career point on a layup with 1:38 left in the first half.
· Lewis hit her first three-pointer of the season
· Bonds brought down five boards, to give her 353 career rebounds.
Gator Starting '5'
· Senior Jaterra Bonds started her 81st straight game; 94th of her career.
· Junior Kayla Lewis started her 11th straight game; 39th of career.
· Sophomore January Miller started her 12th career game.
· Senior Lily Svete started her 26th straight game; 44th of her career.
· Sophomore Cassie Peoples started her third career game.
· With the combination of Svete, Miller, Bonds, Peoples and Lewis, Florida has now used five different starting lineups in just 11 games this season.
Updated Records: Florida 8-3 … Tennessee State 3-9
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The city traffic police are intensifying a drive to penalise vehicles with fancy or faulty number plates.
At the beginning of the month, the traffic police announced that all motorists in the city would be given a week's time to ensure their vehicles had number plates that adhered to the prescribed size and specifications.
Last week, they began cracking down on vehicles that flouted the norms.
"On an average we detain around 2,000 vehicles every day. In the south zone, comprising areas such as Kilpauk and Adyar, we penalise 700 vehicles per day and of these, around 300 are penalised because of fancy number plates," said a senior traffic police officer.
Faulty plates are those that don't adhere to the colour, size and space specifications, while fancy number plates are those that have unusual fonts or stylish depictions of numerals.
From January to May 17 this year, the traffic police have booked 21,220 vehicles for faulty number plates and collected fines amounting to over Rs. 21 lakh.
"While many motorists have plates in which the numerals and letters are not as per the prescribed size, others have fancy number plates with pictures of politicians, actors or other symbols. We remove such number plates and the motorists are asked to get new ones," said the officer.
A senior traffic police officer said such plates make it difficult for the police to identify vehicles, and in cases of violations or accidents, this becomes a problem.
"For instance, one motorist's license plate number was 0002. However, his plate had just the numeral 2 on it. Such plates cause confusion and delays in convicting the offenders and getting compensation for victims," he said.
The owner of a shop on Harris Road that does work on number plates said he used to have a poster at his shop asking motorists to abide by number plate norms.
"But no one bothers. Youngsters who own expensive cars ask for number plates with fancy letters and numerals. Two-wheeler owners ask for glossy stickers on their plates. Such stickers make it hard to visually identify a plate," he said.


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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing a dimensional pitch standard covering the range 1 ?m to 10 mm, intended for the calibration of microscope magnification and dimensional metrology instrument scales. While NIST has long provided length scale calibrations, this traceable artifact is a new product. Called SRM 2800, Optical Microscope Magnification Standard, it consists of symmetrical nested linear pitch patterns in decade ranges. The patterns are printed in etched chrome on a quartz microscope slide, using photomask techniques to assure high quality. The arrays of chrome parallel lines are printed on a clear background to facilitate use in transmission mode optical microscopes as well as in reflection mode. This pitch standard is also useful in atomic force microscopes, and in scanning electron microscopes and scanning tunneling microscopes when coated with a conducting film (although there are other standards from NIST which are more suitable for SEMs). The positions of the centers of the lines relative to the origin in the center of the pattern will be certified. A subset of a production lot will be calibrated on the NIST UV Microscope, with the results applied to the remainder of the lot taking into account the sampling statistics. Expected calibration uncertainty is better than 50 nm for lot-calibrated units, and 5 to 20 nm for individually calibrated units. Calibrations will be traceable to the meter through the NIST Line Scale Interferometer. The linewidths are not calibrated. While this standard facilitates accurate magnification and pitch measurements, care must be taken when measuring the size (left edge to right edge, or linewidth) of an object. The appropriate definition for edge becomes an important issue, and proximity effects and edge effects are important in optical measurements when the required measurement uncertainty is less than the wavelength of the light used.
Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the Measurement Science Conference
Conference Location: Pasadena, CA
Pub Type: Conferences
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San Benito CISD Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Ismael Cantu has issued an ultimatum to the Band Boosters: cooperate with an independent law firm's investigation into the suspended superintendent or be ousted from school functions.
A certified letter signed by Cantu and addressed to the president of the San Benito High School Band Booster Club requests that the organization provide a copy of its bylaws, 501c(3) status, 2013 federal income tax returns and bank statements—this as per the request of attorney Sarah C. Dionne from Houston-based law firm Guerra and Farah PLLC.
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"The Ultimate Fighter 13" episode 1 recap: Team Dos Santos strikes first
The first episode of The Ultimate Fighter: Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos is in the books. The 13th season premiere aired Wednesday night on Spike TV. Here's a summary of what took place. Read More »
King of the Cage brings "The Beast" to Texas on April 16; Mulhern defends title
King of the Cage comes to Lubbock, Texas on April 16. Quinn Mulhern will defend his welterweight title and UFC Hall of Famer Dan "The Beast" Severn returns to heavyweight action. Read More »
UFC Hall-of-Famer Matt Hughes wants to go out on a win before he retires
Matt Hughes was on a three fight win streak until he met up with B.J. Penn in Nov. 2010. Hughes says he is near the near the end of his career and would like to go out on a win. Read More »
The MMA Outsider Podcast ep. 2: The paltry endurance of Bobby Lashley, Phil Davis' performance, Eddie Alvarez vs. Pat Curran
John Buhl and Richard Anderson Mann are back for the second episode of the MMA Outsider Podcast. Read More »
Report: Mike Kyle out of Strikeforce fight vs. Mousasi with broken hand
Strikeforce and UFC veteran Mike Kyle (18-8-1) has been forced to withdraw from an April 9 fight against Gegard Mousasi due to a hand injury. Read More »
TUF 13 – The Aftermath with guest Dana White
The first episode of the 13th season of The Ultimate Fighter is in the books and Stephan Bonnar is back with his "The Aftermath" web show. Who better to have as the first guest of the season than UFC President Dana White. Read More »
Dave Herman to make UFC debut against Joey Beltran at UFC 131
In what will be his Octagon debut, rising heavyweight talent Dave "Pee Wee" Herman (20-2) has verbally agreed to face Joey "The Mexicutioner" Beltran (12-5) at UFC 131 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on June 11. Read More »
Patricky "Pitbull" talks Bellator semi-finals vs. Imada, controversial loss to Chiquerim
Bellator lightweight Patricky "Pitbull" Freire discusses his win over Rob McCullough, his April 2 fight vs. Toby Imada, and the controversy behind his loss to UFC veteran Willamy "Chiquerim." Read More »
Ricardo Almeida walks away from MMA
Thirty-four-year-old Renzo Gracie black belt Ricardo Almeida has decided to hang up his gloves. He will finish his career with a 13-5 record in MMA. He most recently lost a decision to Mike Pyle at UFC 128. Read More »
Andy Souwer and Yoshihiro Sato matched for charity Shootboxing card
Andy Souwer will take on K-1 MAX veteran Yoshihiro Sato at Shootboxing 2011 "act.2." The card, which serves as an earthquake charity event, takes place on April 23. Read More »
ProMMAnow.com presents: Afternoon Press Box with Dominick Cruz
UFC bantamweight champ Dominick Cruz talks about his beef with Urijah Faber, their July 2nd rematch and how his game has evolved. The guys discuss Phil Davis' defeat of Lil' Nog and TUF 13. Read More »
John Ott talks fighting Bobby Lashley and what's next – ProMMAnow.com Exclusive
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Train with Chuck Liddell, B.J. Penn and Anthony Pettis during UFC Fan Expo
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Twitter Moot Teams and Judges
The Twitter Moot is a unique social media event, which saw 5 teams from law schools across Canada participate in a mock courtroom battle – all over Twitter. Read on for information about our Judges and our Teams.
The Teams
We had 7 teams apply to participate in the 2nd ever Twitter Moot. Based on tweets that each team sent, our judges selected the following 5 teams to participate. Each team had 2 law students (who will take turns in arguing their case). The teams were:
- Barbora Grochalova and Will Horne from Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Ryan Heighton and Jon Ungaro from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, in Toronto, Ontario;
- Adam Harris and Abhishek Joshi from the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario;
- Samuel Harrison and Pippa Feinstein from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta;
- James (Jay) Michi and Chris Albinati from Thompson River University in Kamloops, British Columbia;
Congratulations to Samuel Harrison and Pippa Feinstein who won the moot! West Coast is grateful to all teams and judges who participated in our Twitter Moot.
The Judges
Thank you to our three judges who sat as the Supreme Twitter Court of Canada (#STCC):
- Michael Geist (@mgeist) is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, a leading expert on social media and the law, and (according to Lawyer Weekly Magazine), one of Canada' top legal social media influencers.
- Polly Higgins (@pollyhiggins) is a U.K. Barrister, the author of the best-selling book, Eradicating Ecocide, and one of the world's top 10 visionary thinkers according to Ecologist magazine.
- Lisa Taylor (@Listen2Lisa) is an accomplished journalist and professor of journalism at Ryerson University, but also holds a Masters in Law, created the Gemini-nominated CBC legal events show, the Docket, and mooted during law school.
The judges were asked to rule upon the students' advocacy and use of Twitter. They did not be rule on the legal merits of the issues raised in the Twitter Moot.
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Tyra Banks: I won't slow career
Tyra Banks doesn't understand why women stop their careers to start a family.
The retired supermodel turned 40 last month, but the milestone birthday hasn't changed her stance on career aspirations.
Admitting that she's an overachiever, Tyra is not sorry for wanting to prosper in her field.
"I don't want to slow down and stop. I think there's a weird thing with women when we're high achievers and have high goals, sometimes it's like, 'Why don't you just sit down and have a baby?'
"I know I'm an overachiever and I'm not apologetic about it. I will continue to bring projects and interesting things to the public and won't be slowing down anytime soon, it's only going to get bigger," she promised Britain's Metro newspaper.
Tyra had achieved worldwide fame thanks to her modelling career, which saw her walk the runway for Chanel, Valentino and Fendi. She was also one of the original Victoria's Secret Angels.
After retiring from the industry Tyra moved into a successful TV career hosting America's Next Top Model.
Although the star likes to retain her privacy, Tyra did hit out at the press after unflattering photos of her were printed in 2007.
But on reflection Tyra sees the snaps as a blessing and now feels like the incident has given her a voice on the issue of body image.
"Body image is something that has been important to me for a very long time, so when those photos came out it wasn't new for me to be called fat, it was something that I had heard a lot during my modelling career but what was new about it was that I was on the cover of magazines with headlines.
"So when people were saying I was fat and gross and disgusting they weren't just saying it about me they were saying it about any woman whose body looked like mine in the photos. I felt like I needed to say something so I was very vocal and told the people that had negative things to say about me or women that looked like me to kiss my fat ass," she explained.
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When it comes to understanding the elderly population (70 and older), Ernestine Kotthoff-Burrell, PhD is hands down the go-to professional at CU's College of Nursing. With a 35-year career, she understands what it will take to meet the growing demand for health care to seniors.
One of the biggest changes facing the country is the sheer number of older adults and those who live longer. "The number of health care professional providers who have special skills for older adults has not kept pace," Dr. Kotthoff-Burrell says. "We have way too few, considering the exponential growth in the population. Some say the next fastest-growing population will be people who reach 100 and beyond. The number of centenarians is increasing at an astronomical rate."
The ability to anticipate future needs has often led Dr. Kotthoff-Burrell to look for opportunities to fund new ventures. In 1985, as the administrator for an outpatient clinic, she submitted a proposal to a private foundation to establish a nurse practitioner-staffed clinic for senior adults. Serendipitiously, a retiring physician wanted to work in the clinic as well. The grant was successful, and those humble beginnings grew into today's Seniors Clinic on the fifth floor of the Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion. "It started as a nurse practitioner/physician consultation for older adults, and over the years has grown to be a large inter-professional, integrated clinic for the care of senior adults in one setting," Dr. Kotthoff-Burrell reflects.
That same vision was at work in 2010, when Dr. Kotthoff-Burrell's proposal was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, called the Advanced Education Nursing Grant, designed to stimulate the number of health care professionals available to care for older adults. The College of Nursing was one of the first in the country to respond to the 2010 recommendation of accrediting agencies and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing that gerontological content be incorporated all adult practitioner programs by 2013.
CU is at the cutting edge. Many other nursing schools and colleges need to awaken to the need, Dr. Kotthoff-Burrell says. "Even presently, so few nursing programs across the country have specialized content on the care of older adults." She is clear about the long-term goal of increased understanding.
"We want to provide patient centered quality care to the older adult individual and their family," Dr. Kotthoff-Burrell says. "We seek to prevent unnecessary hospital readmissions. We want to teach providers the complexity of illness and the number of comorbidities. We want to decrease unnecessary medications and prevent as much as we can adverse drug events." All of these efforts are aimed at enabling the individual to continue safely living in the community.
Dr. Kotthoff-Burrell left the small Alabama town in which she grew up for the challenge and excitement of the Charity Hospital School of Nursing of New Orleans. There she saw diseases and disease processes that were varied and rare. "It was extremely beneficial for my foundation in nursing," Dr. Kotthoff-Burrell says. "It spurred me on to continually advance my education."
Indeed, added to her advanced practice nurse degree is a PhD in higher education, focusing on the adult learner. It has enabled her to assess students' learning modalities, adapt her teaching to diverse learning styles and propose better evaluation methods to assess learning.
Dr. Kotthoff-Burrell never thought she would leave her fast-paced work as an ICU and ER nurse until her own parents needed help. "They turned to me," she recalls. "I never realized how fragmented the care for older adults was and how many holes there were out there."
Now she is a cheerleader for seniors. "They're my favorite population," she says. "I love their stories. I love their ability to reflect on things. And all their complex illnesses and issues makes it intellectually challenging."
For advanced practice nursing students who want to become adult-gerontology nurse practitioners, Dr. Kotthoff-Burrell is an ideal faculty resource and mentor.
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President-elect Barack Obama is reportedly considering a new American relationship with Cuba. That's long-overdue good news. But the new administration should consider this cautionary note: "An invasion of one Madonna is equal to ten Marine divisions," according to Miguel Coyula, a noted city planner in Havana.
When Coyula made this observation in 2001, he didn't think that either brand of invasion–cultural or military–was a good idea. At the time, Coyula, concerned about the future of Havana's unique architectural heritage, was speaking to members of the Citistates Group, a collection of U.S. city planners, professors, and journalists looking into Havana's architecture and urban planning. The visit took place before the Bush administration severely limited the ability of delegations of American professionals to visit Cuba.
That day, Coyula, one of the first of many officials and private citizens that we interviewed, led us on a tour of his kingdom, the vast "Maqueta de la Habana," a warehouse-sized scale model of every building, street and tree in Cuba's largest city. The low-tech but impressive planning tool was made of scraps of recycled cigar boxes. The miniature buildings were color-coded–dark brown for the Spanish colonial period, yellow for the 1900-1958 period, and white for those few buildings built since the revolution.
Havana's beauty and spirit, even in miniature, can move a visitor to tears–as Neal Peirce wrote in his column shortly thereafter. Since 1987, Peirce and Curtis Johnson have written major reports for newspapers in 25 U.S. metropolitan regions. But they'd never seen a city quite like Havana, which Peirce called "one of the urban treasures of the planet." Peirce's column endorsed the idea of the United Nations declaring an "international architectural emergency" to save the city's 500 years of architecture, including the globe's largest collection of Spanish colonial-period buildings. All is in peril from heat, salt, humidity, hurricanes and Cuba's poverty–and with melting of barriers, a potential invasion of Big Box Stores.
"As you can see, Havana is a time capsule," Coyula told us. Many Americans know about the classic U.S. automobiles that were frozen in place in 1958, the year of the revolution. Havana's streets are still full of ancient Chevrolets and Oldsmobiles, though their innards often incorporate transplanted parts from Russian Ladas. (In a typical Cuban bow to practicality, old missile heads are planted as traffic barriers.) The architecture, protected from the worst impulses of modern urbanization by communist indifference and the trade embargo, is less known.
"In 1959, I don't think urban planners had any ideas about preservation," said Isabel Rogol, a Cuban professor of public affairs, who has worked to preserve the old city. "There had been a master plan for the city in the 1950s, done by famous architects based in the U.S., which would have destroyed and replaced these old buildings."
New Urbanist architect Andres Duany (a native Cuban who's lived for decades in Miami) has argued that Havana's urban quality exceeds any Latin American city, indeed all U.S. cities south of Washington. Duany means Havana's preserved design, not the decay, which grows worse every year. Centuries old buildings crumble. Roofs cave in and balconies fall, sometimes killing Cuban families.
Ironically, those Americans who rail against the evils of government regulation might enjoy this nation, where sewage flows directly into the bay, where joggers are unsafe at any speed because government spends few public funds on filling sidewalk potholes; where home improvement projects are unrestricted by regulation. The U.S. urban experts visited one typical home where a family had built a cinder-block wall on a balcony of rotting wood overhanging their living room — which happened to have no ceiling.
Lifting the embargo, if that happens soon, could bring needed capital for the repair and preservation of the best of Havana's architecture. Or it could destroy it. Coyula's suggested to us the embargo be lifted gradually. Surprisingly, his opinion was shared by many Cubans we met, although they had suffered under communism and the embargo.
The Obama administration will soon debate the future relationship between Cuba and the U.S. One topic of discussion should be the obligation that U.S. government and businesses have to help Cuba achieve an orderly and respectful transition to a free market economy.
Here are some ideas for a liberalized but better Cuba, suggested by Peirce and other members of the Citistates Group: Place an emphasis on local job creation and give contract breaks to homegrown entrepreneurs. Foster a tourist economy that benefits small and neighborhood-based enterprises, not just foreign-held mega-hotels and resorts. Nurture locally-owned stores ahead of foreign-owned chains. Create modest-scale retirement housing for foreigners instead of the massive, walled-off communities that now ring many American cities. Require that developers invest in the restoration of historically significant buildings.
The three C's of Cuba's past and possible next chapter–colonialism, communism and commercialism–need not define its future.
Richard Louv is a member of the Citistates Group and author of "Last Child in the Woods." His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The University of Akron women's basketball team doesn't appear to be getting wrapped in the hype of playing in their first NCAA Tournament.
After winning the Mid-American Conference Tournament last week, seniors Rachel Tecca, Hanna Luburgh and Kacie Cassell were asked why they took a chance on playing for the Zips. The simple answer: bigger colleges passed them over. They were asked if this is a chance for them to prove themselves and did it offer more motivation in taking on a Big Ten opponent such as Purdue.
"I mean, I think we all want to prove ourselves. So I think that we are just going to go out there and play our game," Luburgh said. "I'm not really focused on whether they recruited me or not because I'm happy with where I'm at with Akron. So we just want to go out and represent the university the best way we can."
Her teammates agreed.
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Coach Jodi Kest was asked if there was an opponent who she could compare to the Zips opponent Saturday, the Purdue Boilermakers. She answered: the Dayton Flyers.
"Dayton was a very big team and they like to score in transition. And you look at Purdue; they score so many different ways n transition and half court set," she said. "They don't set as many ball screens as Dayton does but size-wise I would rank them as close."
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The Zips got an official endorsement from Pres. Barack Obama, who picked them to beat Purdue, which would be considered an upset.
"I love it," Cassell said. "Thanks, Obama. That's awesome."
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The first LCD TVs I've seen so far from Samsung's 2009 TV range have all made a very good impression. So my hopes are inevitably high for the first of Samsung's new plasma TVs to come my way - despite the brand suffering a few misfires with plasma technology in the past.
The PS50B650 is a 50in screen - but it looks bigger. For rather than following the current fashion for making bezels as thin and unobtrusive as possible, the one surrounding the PS50B650 is a good inch and a half wide along the top and down the sides, and this extends to more than two inches along the bottom edge. What's more, the impression of the bezel size is actually amplified by a two-layer effect that finds a 'crystal' translucent top-sheet that lies over the main black bezel and extends out slightly further along each edge.
While large, though, the bezel's effect is certainly pretty, as we'd expect from a Samsung TV. Especially as there's a subtle hint of red funning along the bottom edge, and the supplied stand is also made rather stylishly of glass.
Samsung has a nifty habit of leading the way when it comes to connectivity on its TVs, and this trend continues with the PS50B650. The most important sockets to most of our readers will probably be the four v1.3 HDMI inputs. But my eye was also immediately drawn to the appearance down the TV's sides of not one but two USB inputs.
As well as allowing you to connect two USB sources at once - including an external hard drive, if you wish - for playback of various multimedia file formats, these USBs can be used for adding an optional (£20) Wi-Fi dongle that enables you to hook the TV up to your broadband router wirelessly. Why would you want to do this? Because the PS50B650 joins its 650-series LCD brethren in supporting Samsung's new email@example.com online service.
In case you missed our review of the Samsung LE40B651, this online service doesn't mean you can access the full Internet on the PS50B650. But it's certainly true to say that the ring-fenced service provided is far more extensive than that offered by any rival brands to date - partly thanks to Samsung's exclusive (until September) access to the Yahoo Widget Engine.
Services currently on offer via a seriously pretty set of 'pop-up' onscreen graphics include Flickr, news feeds, weather reports (that can be localised if you wish), finance reports, and even YouTube, with other content providers promised further down the line.
I should add at this point that the wireless USB dongle can also be used to access files stored on your PC network around the house. If you haven't made the move to wireless yet, don't worry - the TV also carries a DLNA-certified Ethernet jack so you can get your stuff in that way, too.
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I built a CETME from a parts kit with a brand new spanish barrel. It's my favorite rifle.
I bought a different rifle today, a Mini Mauser. I'll start looking again in a month or two. Thanks guys for the info.
I got it in about 2003 new for $449 at a small gun shop in southern Ohio near my home... about a year later I got a knock on my door early Saturday morning and thought...***??? WHen I opened the door there were about 3 ATF agents standing there as well as 2 local sherrif's detectives. They politely asked to see the Cetme and when I asked why, they said the dealer that I bought it from had converted a couple to full auto for his buddies. I believe I remember the dealers name was R & R Guns out on St RT 772.
Anyway, when ATF went to arrest the dealer, he shot (and killed) himself as opposed to a number of years of vacation in the big house. They were visiting everyone who had bought the same model to make sure none of us had a full auto version... To be honest I was a little nervous when I handed it to them as they seemed to noticed the polished bolt group I had done on it. Anyway, off they drove after about an hour and the Cetme stayed here at home. Smile... they didnt ask to see my shop or they would have found a Bridgeport, Monarch lathe, Hyd. Press, Etc.... Honestly, I felt like asking them how many mechanical engineering graduates and good gunsmith's there are in this country that have a shop at home...and do they think that full auto is rocket science, but I kept my mouth shut and just smiled!
I love my Cetme... the gun sounds like a cannon compared to the AR's... I always get a chuckle at the range as everybody and his brother has an AR clone it seems, and when they hear the Cetme they all look to see what's making the racket :-) I had a failure to eject when I got it but with a little work on the ejector (it wasnt protruding thru the bolt high enough to kick the brass out, so the spent brass would try to cycle back into the chamber) and cleaning the sand that Century left in the chamber flutes, it is an absolute blast for realitively little money! These guns need the chamber fluting clean as it helps the brass come out of the chamber on extraction. I have put thousands of rounds thru it and not no jam or misfire except for that first day. I have 2 steel cetme 20 round clips and 3 aluminum G3 20 rounders, all work fine.


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Julia Garner proves she's an actress to watch while writer/director Rebecca Thomas also puts herself on the map with this unusual and assured debut.
Rachel has grown up in a religious community (the word Mormon is never used, but the religion is clearly related to the LDS faith). On her 15th birthday she is questioned by her father, the pastor in a family ceremony. To record the confirmation, her father uses a cassette recorder, the first time Rachel has ever seen anything like this.
When she finds the device later, she pops in a tape and hears a cover version of a Blondie song which makes her all weak at the knees. Upon finding herself pregnant, Rachel comes to the conclusion the music knocked her up. Her mother is sceptical, pointing the finger at Rachel's brother Mr. Will who is then banished from the community. With an arranged marriage being hastily arranged for Rachel, she flees in the family truck, Will hidden in the backseat.
Convinced the singer of the song she heard is the baby's father, Rachel finds herself in Vegas where she sets her sights on the first rocker she meets. Will tags along, desperate to get Rachel to give the name of the real father on tape so he can clear his name and go home.
There are some very funny moments in this film, mostly set up by the clash of fundamentalist religion meeting Vegas youth. Garner is a revelation. The whole film hinges on her performance and her character's unerring belief in the story she's told herself. Rachel is portrayed as innocent, but not stupid. We are kept firmly in her head in part through the taped diary entries that provide a voice-over commentary to the action.
While the second half of the film doesn't quite live up to the initial premise, Garner has enough charm to carry us through and smooth over the occasional misstep the script takes.


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Audience to be Blindfolded for Lera Auerbach's Opera, The Blind
Operavores today probably think of themselves as radically apart from what is happening on stage. After all, the colossal fury, anguish, and depravity of such characters as Orpheus, Don Giovanni, Azucena, and Salome are best contemplated at a safe remove. To put the matter in Nietzschean terms, only Apollonian order and distance make bearable and graspable the "great dark driving forces" of Dionysian "savagery." (The quotes are from Peter Sloterdijk's Thinker on Stage, a reading of The Birth of Tragedy full of compelling ideas for opera lovers.)
But it was not always so. Before Wagner devised Bayreuth's darkened theatre and "mystic gulf" to separate the audience from the onstage action, people went to the opera to see and be seen. Nowhere was this more true than in the central, elaborately decorated royal boxes from which 18th-century autocrats took in opere serie and tragédies lyriques wrought to showcase the wisdom and rectitude of, yes, illustrious fellow autocrats from bygone days.
A few contemporary artists are shattering, even dissolving, the "fourth wall" that in modern theater has tended to divide spectators from the performance-world. Several months ago, the Park Avenue Armory presented Karlheinz Stockhausen's Oktophonie in an environment designed by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Audience members were invited to wear white or slip into white ponchos in order to amplify the work's ritualistic aspects.
Lera Auerbach, the Russian-born American composer, pianist, writer, and visual artist, will further blur the line separating public from performers when her a cappella opera The Blind, based on an 1890 play by Maurice Maeterlinck, receives its world premiere at the Lincoln Center Festival in a co-production with American Opera Projects. In John La Bouchardière's production, audience members wear blindfolds and experience the opera in a similar state to its characters, 12 people who are visually impaired and stranded on an island, having been separated from the elderly priest who has cared for them.
Auerbach answered a few questions for Operavore during rehearsals for The Blind.
You have described The Blind as an "anti-opera." What do you mean by this?
I simply mean that it deliberately avoids the typical conventions of opera. My other opera, Gogol, uses every resource of an opera theater. It is scored for 16 characters, a large choir, and full orchestra. Its first production employed pyrotechnics, dancers, acrobats and a stage that moved from vertical to horizontal. Gogol is an opposite of The Blind, where 12 voices alone sing in the dark.
Please tell us about "Dialogue in the Dark," an exhibition and workshop that you attended in Davos that apparently shaped your thinking about how The Blind could be presented.
Some years ago I attended a beautifully designed experiment where groups of top-level global leaders sat around a table in complete darkness with the task of assembling a simple unknown object.
You have also stated that blindfolding the audience somehow increases their vulnerability. Just to play the devil's advocate: Some critics argue that the thrills of music and other kinds of sound are intrinsically sinister because they "penetrate" our bodies, making us vulnerable whether or not we can see their sources. Why the need for the blindfolds?
It could easily be argued that sight is the sense that we, as humans, most rely upon. The Blind (in an earlier version) received stagings in Berlin's Konzerthaus and Moscow's Stanislavsky Theatre, "normal" productions. This new staging by John La Bouchardière brings the audience into an environment where all other senses are engaged and sight is removed.
Some people who are differently abled have objected to the themes of Maeterlinck's play, arguing that it equates blindness with "powerlessness, spiritual failure, immobility" or even to some extent "death." What is your response to their criticisms?
In Maeterlinck's play, the idea of twelve plus one (the priest) has religious connotations. Metaphors are at the root of storytelling, sacred or secular, and will remain so. Physical disability as a metaphor is a subject of discussion in our politically correct times, but book burning may also be frowned upon by those who care about an open society.
If we were to rewrite literary masterpieces with the eraser of a politically correct censor, we would end up in a castrated and culturally sightless world. Maeterlinck's play is open to many interpretations, and I believe that the sung text adds a very poignant dimension.
Lera Auerbach's The Blind plays July 9–14 at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse in Lincoln Center's Rose Building. Tickets and further information: 212.721.6500 or lincolncenterfestival.org.


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On their final album, the duo of Parker & Lily recorded a ballad called "The Low Lows", all shivery keyboards, barely breathed, slumberous vocals and eerie brushes of cymbals. The song—and the CD which bore its name—commemorated the romantic break-up of Parker Noon and Lily Wolfe, and, one assumed, the end of their making music together. Not so, however, as the pair have now reformed as The Low Lows, taking their unusual brand of moody, haunted lo-fi music to new levels of accomplishment. Fire on the Bright Sky is a gorgeous, tapestry of chill-inducing vocals, subtle guitar strums and ominous Farfisa trills, just a hint of country embedded in it with pedal steel. The CD is built from the same elements as Beach House's recent debut—heavily reverbed singing, keyboards and unearthly guitar work—yet it feels far darker and more glamorous. Spiders are eating flies and wolves are eating dogs, love is doomed and nights go on forever here. There's an unhealthy, up-too-long gleam in everyone's eyes. Still by the end, "No Such Thing as Sara Jane" shuffles triumphantly, almost joyfully forward, embellished by brass, and "The Russian Ending", builds from talk-sung reveries to dizzying, fever-pitch swells. As so often in life, the Low Lows lead inevitably to the high highs, a maelstrom of intense drama, beauty and mood emerging out of darkness.
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The concept of genius is one that has somehow become fluid. The guy at the jukebox who just played the Replacements song that fits your mood perfectly: totally a genius. Michael Gruber's artful use of drops on KTCK-AM 1310 The Ticket: yep, freakin' genius. But clearly, the term has become relative to our expectations in a given situation and is no longer exclusively reserved for the tiny section of the population that is actually exceptionally intellectually gifted. In other words, strictly speaking, Dirk Nowitzki is probably not a genius. Glenn Gould, however, really was the kind of person who can correctly be characterized by the G-word. The Canadian musician, who died in the early '80s, was a true piano prodigy whose interpretations of Bach were so mind-blowing they were sent into space on Voyager I. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould takes a look at the uncanny pianist whose rock-star looks, congenial personality and various eccentricities combined to make him one of the most memorable musical geniuses of the century. The film plays at the The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., at 6 and 8 p.m. Friday, 5 p.m. Saturday and at noon, 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $8.50, or $6.50 for Modern members. Visit themodern.org/magnolia.
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The summer is on it's way, and we have to prepare for it. We have to burn all that fat we accumulated over winter.
We could go to the gym,
:D But also, it is possible to get a hart attack if one avoids exercising :)I don't wish it to anyone of course
I am too scared to excercise, I am scared Ill induce a heart attack from the shock lol...
Thank you Toneimage :)
Well, the hardest thing is to start :)
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One of my new year resolution to burn fats, still not started, where are on earth is all the time.
I'm going to the gym today! :)
No prob! Just wait for me to catch first plane LOL
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Closer Jason Ray was a perfect three for three in save opportunities and didn't allow a single run, either earned or unearned in 12 games and 13.1 innings pitched with a 15/2 K/BB ratio. Ray, who came over from the A's organization in 2011, has toddled between AA and AAA for the past two years.
Prospect Watch: LHP/SP Andrew Werner is the type of player that everyone likes to write about. Undrafted free agent, veteran of the Evansville Otters and Windy City ThunderBolts of the Frontier League in 2009 and 2010 and he has a fastball that relies more on guile than velocity.
|Matt Palmer had an ERA of 1.84 in Tucson.
But he is also the quintessential "crafty lefty" in that he knows how to work with what he's got, mixing speeds and keeping the batters off balance. In three starts in Tucson he had a 17/3 K/BB ratio while giving up 8 earned runs in the hitter friendly parks of the PCL South before being called up to San Diego.
RHP Nick Vincent had a 2.70 ERA and a pair of saves in two opportunities in his brief sojourn in Tucson. RHP/SP Matt Palmer before getting injured pitched very well in limited action with a 1.84 ERA in three starts and 14.2 innings pitched.
Disappointments: RHP/RP Erik Hamren was 0-2 with a 8.74 ERA giving up 11 earned runs in 11.1 innings pitched.
San Antonio RHP/SP Josh Geer 1-2 3.52 ERA
Batters are going to make contact with Geer because he relies upon pounding the zone with his sinker as he gave up 41 hits in 30.2 innings pitched but he also gave up only 12 earned runs. Geer kept his earned runs down by allowing only 4 walks while striking out 23. He was the workhorse of the staff in August leading the team in innings pitched.
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Prospect Watch: Although his ERA was a little high at 4.64, RHP/SP Keyvius Sampson had a good month holding the opposition to a .259 batting average with a 24/9 K/BB ratio in four starts. LHP/SP Robbie Erlin was 1-0 with a 2.63 ERA in three starts with an 18/3 K/BB ratio as the Texas League hit only .220 against him after being sidelined for over two months. RHP/SP Matt Jackson was 2-1 with a very impressive 21/1 K/BB ratio in 23 innings pitched in four starts.
Disappointments: Closer Jeremy McBryde had a tough month going 1-3 in save opportunities with a 0-1 record and a 9.00 ERA in four innings.
Lake Elsinore RHP/RP Jerry Sullivan 1-1 2.77 ERA
Sullivan seems to have found his niche coming out of the bullpen with 18 strikeouts in 13.1 innings pitched against only a single walk as the Cal League hit only .140 against him.
|Sullivan excelled coming out of the pen.
Prospect Watch: RHP/SP Matt Branham went 3-2 with a 3.22 ERA as he struck out 37 batters against only 13 walks. In five starts he went five innings in every start and held the opposition to a .231 batting average. RHP/Closer Kevin Quackenbush was 6 for 7 in save opportunities with a 2.08 ERA with an 11/3 K/BB ratio. Along with Matt Branham, Matt Andriese was one of the workhorses of the Storm staff throwing 34.1 innings pitched as he held the opposition to a .236 batting average.
Disappointments: RHP/RP Yefri Carvajal, the converted outfielder, struggled in the Cal League with a 8.44 ERA and struggling with his command as he posted a K/BB ratio of 5/6 in 10.2 innings pitched.
Fort Wayne RHP/SP Matt Wisler 1-0 1.66 ERA
In June and July Matt Wisler was the pitcher of the month for Fort Wayne and August was no exception. Wisler again pounded the zone with a 25/2 K/BB ratio in 21.2 innings pitched and five starts. The Ohio native held the opposition to a .264 batting average as he only gave up four earned runs.
|Needy is back on the prospect map.
Prospect Watch: RHP/Closer Matt Stites was four for four in save opportunities with a 16/1 K/BB ratio in 13.2 innings pitched. Big right-hander James Needy moved into the starting rotation and delivered a complete game in his final appearance of the regular season. He led the team in innings pitched with 32.2 and posted a 2.48 ERA. RHP/RP Johnny Barbato would still like to get his walks down with his 14/7 K/BB ratio but still managed to have a 1.04 ERA as batters hit only .210 against him.
Disappointments: RHP Cody Hebner struggled with a move to the bullpen with a 6.75 ERA in 13.1 innings pitched.
Eugene RHP/SP Justin Hancock 2-0 1.29 ERA
Hancock led the TinCaps in innings pitched with 28 innings pitched as he struck out 24 against 12 walks. In six starts the opposition hit .234 against him as the Ohio native found his groove this summer in the Northwest League with his ability to throw his two-seam fastball.
|Hancock was Eugene's top starter.
Prospect Watch: RHP Ramon Madrid was for 4 for 6 in save opportunites and also had a 4-0 record with a 3.57 ERA. He was one of two Emeralds Northwest League All Stars along with LHP Chris Nunn who had a 1.29 ERA in 14 innings pitched. Even though RHP Joe Ross was 0-2 he still put up solid numbers with a 2.28 ERA in 23.2 innings pitched to go along with a 27/9 K/BB ratio. RHP Juan Marcano had a very good K/BB ratio at 31/6 to go along with a 2.84 ERA in 25.1 innings. RHP Genison Reyes had a 1.04 ERA in 17.1 innings pitched as he only allowed 10 hits and two earned runs while striking out 19 against 10 walks.
Disappointments: RHP Chris Wilkes was 0-1 with a 6.75 ERA before being sent down to the AZL.
AZL LHP/SP Max Fried 0-0 1.86 ERA
Top 2012 draft pick Max Fried looked good in the desert in limited appearances and innings. Fried had 9 strikeouts against no walks and gave up only two earned runs in 5 games and 9.2 innings pitched.
Prospect Watch: RHP Vladimir De La Cruz struck out 19 in 18 innings pitched but also walked 11.
Disappointments: 6'5" Bryan Rodriguez led the team in innings pitched with twenty-five and had a good 18/8 K/BB ratio but also gave up 34 hits and 19 earned runs.
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Apple Store employee Jana Svrzo said that on the night of March 11 she heard what sounded like "hitting" or furniture being moved at the yoga store next door.
Then, Svrzo said, she heard "high-pitched squealing." Then "screaming and yelling." There were more noises and more screaming.
Svrzo heard one voice through the shared wall between the stores: "Talk to me. Don't do this. Talk to me. What's going on?"
Later a voice say, "God help me. Please help me."
Svrzo testified on the third day of the murder trial of Brittany Norwood, who is accused of beating and stabbing co-worker Jayna Murray that night in the Lululemon Athletica yoga store and staging elaborate cover-up.
At one point that night, Svrzo testified, she asked another store manager to listen to the noises. Jurors were shown video of the two standing close to the wall. Eventually things quieted and they went back to work.
At one point defense attorney Douglas Wood asked Svrzo if she would have called police if she had heard anyone yell for help. "It's hard to say what I would have done," Svrzo testified.
Svrzo declined to comment after the hearing.
Murray's body was found the morning of March 12 in a store hallway, authorities said. Police officers discovered Norwood in a store bathroom, tied up, with blood on her face. She told police two masked men had slipped inside the store, and attacked and sexually assaulted her and Murray.
Norwood's defense team admits she killed Murray, but said she simply lost control and that it was not premeditated murder.
Earlier Friday, a crime scene technician testified that signs of blood were found on the sinks of both the men's and women's restrooms in the upscale yoga store where Brittany Norwood killed a co-worker.
Amanda Kraemer told jurors that authorities examining the crime scene used a chemical that glows blue when traces of blood, even if an effort has been made to clean it, are detected. The sink in the woman's restroom glowed, she said. The men's room sink also glowed, but to a lesser extent.
After the killing, authorities have said, Norwood moved Murray's car and then returned to the store.
Kraemer testified that blood was found on the car's gear shift and on the door. She also said a baseball cap found on the floorboard appeared to have a "reddish stain" on the sweatband.
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But not ruling out matters of difference, Patel said, "NCP has some serious issues about functioning of Govt."
Putting up a united front, Patel in clear terms said that there have been some political issues in the recent past and added, "NCP has communicated certain views to the government and things have not been resolved."
On the No. 2 position that has been apparently denied to Sharad Pawar, Patel commented, "Issue of number two is being blown out of proportion. Pawar is not such a petty leader to raise such a petty issue and he deserves No. 2 position."
On the timing of highlighting the matter, Patel stated, "We did not want to raise our issues before the Presidential poll, as we are a responsible ally."
Reiterating their whole hearted backing to the UPA, Patel said, "PM had met Sharad Pawar last night; NCP will continue to be part and parcel of UPA. Our party will meet again on Monday to discuss our issues, we will communicate our decision after that meeting."
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I just wondered if anyone using the Aeon MQ5 skin has come across the following problem? (It may not even be the skin for all I know)
Nearly all my media flags are missing except for a handful of movies. I have all the relevant things checked, including the all important one in the video section for extracting video information. I see this has been discussed briefly but no one has solved the issue if it is one, and there situation is slightly different to mine.
I found also that the flags are not resolved until you play the media file. No amount of refreshing of the library solves the issue. I would be quite happy to refresh all my movies this way if I didn't have so many.
I have all of my artwork and metadata stored locally. I use Media Centre Master to grab most of the stuff and also use Artwork downloader and cdart manager. I won't pretent to know how the flags work but it seems to me that all the information is there. MCM and the MOVIE.XML file are showing all the detail of each video file, eg MP3,AC3,MKV etc.
I'm tempted to delete the XBMC database and rescan but I've got things almost perfect and I don't want to rock the boat. So I'd just like to know if anyone has experienced this at all before I do anything drastic.
If it's not a issue with the skin then I apologize for cluttering up your section of the forum with my essay
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