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After bringing in the new Chief of Baseball operations Tony La Russa last week, the Diamondbacks leave a scrambled mess on the table for La Russa to have to sort through to improve the team this year and going forward. The question will be now, how will he do it, and what assets do the team have to warrant them a chance at a good starting pitcher at the trade deadline later this season.
Arizona currently is a team with many needs but not enough valuable assets to play in the market for anyone that will actually come in and help them.The question will be who do they trade and for whom? The teams most valuable piece in third baseman Paul Goldschmidt is way to valuable for the D-backs to even think about moving.
Chris Owings is another valuable piece that can attract buyers, but like Goldschmidt it will hurt more than help. The D-backs desperately needed starting pitching early this year but since then have gotten some decent work out of the current bunch that struggled at the start of the year.
The starting pitching ERA has gone down tremendously over the last month or so from a team whopping 10.90 to now as low as 3.34 at times, that is a major turn around. So do the team go and still get a starter and if so who will they give up to get him.
When it comes to future prospects, well the D-backs are fresh out after dealing away all of their top pitching prospect within the last two seasons.
What ever happens La Russa has his hands full and will have to really be proactive to piece the puzzle together and get this team on a serious run to get to 500 by the all-star break.Tags: Arizona, Arizona Diamondbacks, Baseball, MLB

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USC becomes Taiwan Academy affiliate
By Peggy Binette, firstname.lastname@example.com, 803-777-5400
The University of South Carolina signed an agreement Thursday (Dec. 8) that solidifies its partnership with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Atlanta and expands learning and research opportunities for USC students and faculty.
The agreement, called a Memorandum of Understanding, makes Carolina's Asian Studies Program an affiliate of the Taiwan Academy, an educational and cultural initiative launched by Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2011.
"The Center for Asian Studies is gratified to be among the first affiliates with the Taiwan Academy program," said Dean Kinzley, director of USC's Center for Asian Studies. "The academy builds on and expands our already vibrant program in Taiwan Studies at the University of South Carolina."
The MOU, signed by Provost Michael Amiridis on behalf of USC and by TECO Director General Anna Kao, strengthens USC's relationship with TECO, which will enhance Chinese language learning, expand cultural exchanges for students and faculty and increase scholarship opportunities for students to travel and study in Taiwan.
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Kao said the agreement will yield more research.
"Cooperation between USC and the academy will yield rich research and make the relationship even stronger, just like the 30-year sister-state relationship between South Carolina and Taiwan," Kao said.
Amiridis said stronger relationships will result.
"I am very confident that this letter of intent will lead to good projects, good will and good ambassadors," Amiridis said.
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The academy's intent is to increase the understanding of, and interest in, Taiwanese culture and Chinese language worldwide, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Our membership in the Taiwan Academy will expand the opportunities for USC students and faculty to study and travel to Taiwan while enhancing collaborative research between USC and scholars and institutions in Taiwan," Kinzley said.
USC's Taiwan Studies program is part of Carolina's Center for Asian Studies and Walker Institute for International and Area Studies, which was established 50 years ago by the late U.S. ambassador Richard L. Walker.
Kinzley said USC has the nation's premier program in Taiwan studies. For 20 years it has organized an annual Taiwan Studies Conference that attracts scholars from around the world to USC and results in the publication of numerous articles in scholarly journals.
USC has some of the longest and strongest exchange relationships with universities in Taiwan of any institution of higher learning, including ones with Ming Chuan University, National Taiwan University, National Taiwan Normal University, National Tsinghua University and Kaohsiung Hospitality College.
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Dell Boomi, Wipro Partner On Cloud Processes
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Dell Boomi has reached a deal with Wipro Technologies to partner on a "cloud first" IT strategy for enterprise customers, according to the companies.
The partnership leverages Dell Boomi's AtomSphere platform, which uses the cloud to manage business processes, with Wipro's cloud integration services, according to Rick Nucci, Dell Boomi general manager.
"Part of what's happening is large enterprises' adoption of cloud is increasing, and they are needing to solve integration as part of that. We're seeing a lot of growth in that segment," Nucci said. "Wipro has selected Boomi to be one of the technologies in their cloud integration practice. As companies come to Wipro and say 'Help us with a move to the cloud,' they are able to provide cloud integration services [through Dell Boomi] for those enterprises now. Wipro is now able to architect and support integrations for their enterprise customers."
Related: Who's Who: The Key Stakeholders In Dell's $24.4B Deal To Go Private
Two months ago Dell hired Suresh Vaswani, a former top executive at Wipro, as its new president of Dell Services to replace Steve Schuckenbrock. But, Nucci said Dell's new relationship with Wipro is a "disconnected event" from the Vaswani hire.
"Wipro decided last year that a priority for them was to develop a cloud integration practice. They're seeing customers move to the cloud. They want go-to partners. They researched who are the key players, evaluated them and selected Boomi," Nucci said.
Dell Boomi doesn't deal directly with traditional Dell solution providers. Instead, it has more of a quasi-OEM relationship with companies like Ariba, SuccessFactors, Salesforce.com and NetSuite and, in turn, indirect relationships with those companies' solution providers, Nucci said.
"Why we're so excited is [Boomi's growth] is signaling the end of middleware as we think of it today. It's signaling a new breed of approach to integration of product. It's being validated by our traction and also by various firms like Wipro selecting Boomi for their cloud integration practice," Nucci said.
Last June, Dell Boomi unveiled the AtomSphere Summer 12 release, which featured new enterprise-focused data integration, crowd-sourced regression testing and security management improvements.
Meanwhile, Dell Boomi has reached the milestone of 1 million cloud integration processes per day in January, a 263 percent increase compared to January 2012, Nucci said. Dell Boomi defines an integration process as the movement of data between two or more applications. For example, a payroll transaction being sent by a human resources application to a payroll provider, Nucci said.
"One integration represents one or more records of data being sent," Nucci said. "That's a pretty exciting growth metric for us. It speaks to the traction and momentum that we continue to have."
Nucci said Boomi's grown has consistently grown 250 percent since Dell acquired the company in November 2010. "Back then, we were doing a couple hundred thousand [integrations per month], not even. It's been several orders of magnitude since then," Nucci said. "Dell's current customer base has gotten more comfortable running with big complex initiatives on Boomi."
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What is it about bleakness and tedium that are so attractive, other than the fact that most people instinctively recoil from it?
The beauty of this image and the bleakness of its meaning hang suspended in perfect balance.
Outside, on the bleakness of the avenue where the president lives, Washington looked anything but normal.
One act chronicles the bleakness of living under Capitol rule in Panem.
A bleakness and melancholy seemed to encompass the spot on this sombre day.
The warmth of the room was very agreeable in contrast to the bleakness of out-doors.
The uncultivated part of the country has the usual Tibetan aspect of bleakness and sterility.
And he liked East Wellmouth, bareness and bleakness and lonesomeness and all.
We had wanted to see the green hills of old Ireland and here were blackness and bleakness and crowded humanity.
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c.1300, "pale," from Old Norse bleikr "pale, whitish, blond," from Proto-Germanic *blaika- "shining, white," from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)). Later "bare, windswept" (1530s). Sense of "cheerless" is c.1719 figurative extension. The same Germanic root produced Old English blac "pale," but this died out, probably from confusion with blæc "black;" however bleak persisted, with a sense of "bare" as well as "pale."


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These tarts were adapted from ones my sister makes. They are so easy to make, and really delicious. With the mozzarella and tomatoes, they are kind of like puff pastry pizzas.
Makes two tarts, to serve 6 people as a light lunch or starter
- 2 x rolls of puff pastry (400g each)
- 400g baby or cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
- A handful of grated Parmesan
- 2 handfuls of grated Mozzarella
- 1 ½ tsp basil pesto
- ½ tsp brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon crushed garlic
- 2 T pine nuts
- fresh basil leaves
- Balsamic vinegar
Roll out the puff pastry onto greased baking trays. Make a 2cm wide incision (don't cut through the pastry) around each roll. Bake the pastry in a 180C oven for 15 minutes.
While the pastries are baking, put the tomatoes in a colander and sprinkle over the sugar and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. Just before the pastry is done, mix the tomatoes with the pesto and garlic and season with sea salt and black pepper.
Take the pastries out of the oven and sprinkle the cheeses evenly over both tarts. Divide the tomatoes between them and spread them out evenly. Sprinkle over the pine nuts. Bake in the oven at 180C for 10 minutes, or until the cheese starts turning golden.
Tear the basil leaves roughly and scatter over the tarts. Drizzle over a bit of balsamic vinegar. Serve warm with a simple rocket salad.


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Motorola Atrix HD Review: Fast, Sharp, Bargainby Jason Inofuentes on September 5, 2012 12:00 AM EST
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Cellular Performance
Previous Motorola LTE devices used Qualcomm basebands for 3G data and telephony, while using Motorola's own Wrigley LTE baseband. Here, though, with Qualcomm's own baseband tucked alongside the AP, the Atrix HD is Motorola's first UE Category 3 device, so speeds should be better than the predecessors we saw on Verizon. And that performance was every bit as good as we've seen in other Category 3 devices. AT&T's network has a lot of potential, but speeds have as much to do with signal quality as network congestion. With AT&T's growing LTE network there's still a paucity of devices in the wild, so it's still easy to find a completely unloaded tower and spam several 55+ Mbps Speedtest.net runs. Muck with signal quality or surround the tower with lots of active devices and you'll see speeds drop, but so far that's not as likely to happen as with Verizon's network.
Unfortunately, I neglected to record the data I collected in an AT&T LTE area prior to resetting the phone to try and resolve the suddenly absent rear-facing camera. As a result, the LTE data is skewed to the little exposure I had while traveling through an area with an utterly unloaded AT&T LTE tower. As expected, speeds in such a scenario can be massive, and seeing the test fly by is quite satisfying. More realistically, I saw speeds that fit the profile we've seen before; consistently faster than AT&T HSPA+. Speaking of HSPA+, performance was on par with what we've seen down, but up was a different story. HSUPA performance hovered around 1 Mbps, and in some instances I saw performance that would make 1xRTT look speedy. AT&T's coverage of HSUPA+ is good, but one can never take for granted the possibility that you'll find yourself with either poor coverage or saturated cells.
Call Quality
Call voice quality is one of the more subjective aspects of a phone, and the best I can offer is that it was as good as I've heard. The speaker was perceptibly louder than many other phones in house, including the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE and the Samsung Galaxy S III (Verizon). I still don't have the equipment to quantify that figure, but I'm abusive with phone speakers; I listen to music and podcasts all day long and the difference between a quiet phone and a loud phone is the difference between a phone I'd never own and a phone I would own. Motorola's typically a reliable performer and they do just fine here.
There's no evidence that they used anything other than the MSM8960's GPS silicon, which leaves us beating the same dead horse here. Signal locks are quick inside and out, and it's never once said I was standing in a lake when I was not.
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SanLouBlues - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linkIs it easy to flash with other ROMs? My current Motorola Droid Pro is crippled with the stock ROM and it drives me up a wall. Reply
bjacobson - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linkGiven Motorola's track record of support for existing devices I'm staying the heck away from this one. My Atrix4G, hailed as the world's most powerful phone when it was released just one year ago, still does not have ICS or JB. It has 1GB RAM, 16GB ROM, and dual core 1ghz A9 (Tegra2), no reason it shouldn't receive ICS, JB and (potentially Android 5.0), but I'm not holding my breath to get even ICS.
In addition Motorola's touch screens leave a lot lacking. Every phone of theirs that I've used (OGDroid, Droid2, Droid3, Atrix4G, Droid Bionic) has too low of a resolution of touch-sensing and has a grid of "dead zones" where the screen will jitter if you hold you finger there while dragging something (like the notification bar). Makes for a very unpleasant phone experience that I do not want again.
So needless to say I will be going HTC or Samsung or frickin anybody else but Motorola next round. Reply
Belard - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linkAtrix HD is sold by the Google owned Motorola... Support should be improved, no?
Also, I had the same problems with my Samsung.
The carriers are the biggest problems with updates. Reply
bjacobson - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linkYes.
It probably will be, I'm just TO'd that I still don't have a new version of nderoidz Reply
blakflag - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linktotally agree.. I also got the Atrix 4G and the update support has been terrible. Regardless of how good the hardware is, without timely updates it's not worth it. Gonna go with a Google Nexus branded device next time. (stock Android is better than any of these tarted up skins the OEMs put on there) Reply
extide - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linkYou'll probably be disappointed to find out that all the future Google Nexus phones will be made by Motorola! Reply
Impulses - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linkThat's just speculation, and also irrelevant since updates would be handled by the Android software team regardless... Doubly irrelevant if rumors of an expanded multi-manufacturer Nexus lineup are to be believed. Reply
ados_cz - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linkGalaxy S III is quad core. Reply
eric appla - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linkthere are two variants. The one listed here is also correct it is a USA model which is dual core while the international version is a quadcore Reply
ados_cz - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linkAha, thanks, did not know that. Reply


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Includes Legacy Oil + Gas Inc., Crescent Point Energy Corp., Suncor Energy Inc., Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., Input Capital Corp. and Toronto-Dominion Bank.
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Besides working in corporate development and investor relations for a firm listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, Matt Badger owns a real estate company in Regina and is in the final stages of completing the Chartered Business Valuator designation. This background and his finance major provide the basis for analyzing additions to his $250,000-plus portfolio.
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Mr. Badger first identifies sectors to invest in. Two important attributes for sectors to have are high barriers to entry (hard for new firms to enter the industry and compete for sales) and inelastic demand (there is room for prices to go up without reducing demand too much because the product is essential or few substitutes exist).
Once sectors are chosen, he looks for "the best companies" in them. An important criterion is that the company has "best-in-class assets that are able to generate better rates of return."
"For example, Legacy Oil and Crescent Point have industry-leading netbacks [earn more revenue per barrel taken out of the ground]. And TD Bank has, in my opinion, a superior asset in the TD franchise, while Potash Corp. has low-cost assets in regions with negligible sovereign risk."
Another important criterion is top-tier management. "For example, Legacy Oil management has been through several iterations of building successful companies, and is regarded by many to be a leading management team in the industry."
When attractive companies are identified, Mr. Badger waits for "attractive entry points" to buy their shares. Once bought, he rarely sells.
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"Having confidence in Legacy Oil and building my position as it got beat up by the market."
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"Southern Pacific Resource Co. [sold] has experienced issues in getting their initial projects operational. … It was a good lesson and got me refocused on my fundamental valuation analysis."
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Barry Gibb From the Bee Gees Going on Solo Tour!
By Sierra Marquina
Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake brought back the Bee Gees with their Saturday Night Live skit that poked fun of the group, "The Barry Gibb Talk Show."
And on Monday night, Jimmy will be paid a visit again from the real Barry Gibb when he performs on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and discusses his solo tour.
That's right, On Air with Ryan Seacrest can exclusively reveal the singer is heading out on tour to play dozens of Bee Gees hits with his son Stephen and his niece Samantha.
The tour, called the Mythology Tour, will kick off in Boston on May 15.
See below for a complete list of cities.
05/15/14 - Boston, MA - TD Garden
05/19/14 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
05/23/14 - Wantagh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
05/27/14 - Chicago, IL - United Center
05/31/14 - Concoord, CA - Concord Pavilion
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A Baby Bear To Welcome A Baby Boy!
I made this baby bear cake for a co-worker's baby shower. I've only been taking cake decorating classes for two months and this was my first time using the 3D bear cake pan.. I was really pleased with how it turned out! I also tried my hand at making buttercream baby ducks! I had a lot of fun with this cake!
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Wargaming.net(the developers of WoT) has bought the Day 1 Studios, this way leading to speculations about creating some of its games on other gaming consoles than PC.
They bought the F.E.A.R. 3 developer for whooping amount of $20 millions to work "exclusively on the development of an unannounced console title".
The Wargaming CEO Victor Kislyi said in an interview:
[quote style="1"]The move into console game development is a huge step for Wargaming, as we begin to expand our presence into new platforms. We are looking forward to sharing the fruits of our labour soon.[/quote]
World of Tanks recently reported that they have over 45 millions of registered players and last October over 500,000 concurrent players were playing on one server in Russia.
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While Tabu opted for a more colorful churidaar-kurta, Sonali stuck to an off-white Abu Sandeep design. Which look are you gravitating more towards?
Tabu (Left) And Sonali Bendre At Umang Police Show 2012
Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani
Like both…loving the vibrant colors and the understated look in off-white.
same here..like both
Love everything about Sonali's look, except that the shoes could've been different. Classy and elegant.
tabu!! love the vibrant colours.
the dress Tabu wore is over-whelming…loving Sonali's look, but not liking her footwear
Oh i totally dig the white suit and if tabu had opted for red dupatta instead of yellow..I like her green kurti with 'booti/embriodary'
Tabu as I am very partial to the colours she is wearing.
sonali looks flawless
I associate vibrant colors with ethnic look, hence Tabu for me. Maybe Sonali wears hers better but I like Tabu's outfit more.
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AMD Releases Catalyst 11.9 Driversby Andrew Cunningham on 9/29/2011 9:37 PM EST
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juhatus - Friday, September 30, 2011 - linkStupid question but the 11.10 beta's include all the goodie's in 11.9?
I got 11.10 beta installed and catalyst version is 8.901-110923a-125918E-ATI.
Can anyone confirm? Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, September 30, 2011 - linkOften hotfix releases are a hodgepodge of optimizations specific to the game(s) being "fixed" (in this case, BF3 beta) and the rest may or may not be up-to-date. I wound't be surprised if there are some performance improvements relative to the hotfix with the official 11.9 release, but most should be minuscule. Reply
Pessimism - Friday, September 30, 2011 - linkQuite surprised they haven't jumped at the opportunity to drop XP support. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Friday, September 30, 2011 - linkAccording to the latest August 2011 Steam Survey, 21% of DX10/DX11 GPU owners actually use Windows XP. This is presumably mainly the consumer market. I wouldn't be surprised if in the corporate market the majority of even new computers are still Windows XP. Dropping Windows XP driver support would orphan a significant portion of your user-base. And probably eliminate AMD GPUs from being an option for many new corporate purchases. Windows XP support is legitimately maintained because the demand is still there. Reply
Taft12 - Sunday, October 02, 2011 - linkNot me, many would then jump at the opportunity to drop AMD for Nvidia. (I thought about 20%, I see from the guy above me it's 21% of Steam users) Reply
kedesh83 - Friday, September 30, 2011 - linkbefore the 11.9 drivers my desktop and everything was crystal clear. now the scaling is all messed up and everything is blurry at 1080p. i have yet to figure out a way to fix this. its very annoying, especially for my design and modeling classes.
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cactusdog - Friday, September 30, 2011 - linkDo you have Morpholigical filtering enabled? It will be a settings issue.. Reply
kedesh83 - Friday, September 30, 2011 - linki meant in windows, not just the game. sorry about that.
turns out if i change the pixel format in CCC to RGB 4:4:4 (full RGB) everything is clear again. i hit apply and about 15 seconds later it switches back to the previous format which is blurry again. weird. i have never encountered this before. Reply
Linchpin - Monday, October 03, 2011 - linkUninstall your GPU drivers. And reinstall it. Something is corrupted. Or you can reset your graphics card's settings. Reply
Linchpin - Monday, October 03, 2011 - linkSpeaking os MLAA for AMD cards, why the heck is it that it's blurry? It works well, eliminating jaggies, but it's too blurry. Reply
Will Robinson - Friday, September 30, 2011 - linkThe new Automatic software updater utility worked surprisingly well.
Nice one Catalyst team! Reply
EglsFly - Friday, September 30, 2011 - linkAfter updating to the last version 11.8, I got stuttering video in Black Ops with my 6870 Crossfire setup. Had to roll back to 11.5.
Anybody know if stuttering in 6800 Series Crossfire was fixed with this release? Reply
Andrew.a.cunningham - Friday, September 30, 2011 - linkBlack Ops gets a mention under "The following games no longer experience random hangs during game loading," but this doesn't sound like the same thing. You can always give it a try and roll back if you keep having problems? Reply
Linchpin - Monday, October 03, 2011 - linkI also have 6870s in crossfire. I had to roll back drivers 4 or 5 times due to stuttering, artifacts, and some other things I can't even explain. I am using 11.6 which really works well, no problem.
11.7, 11.8, and 11.9 artifacted Shogun 2 sooo bad. I don't even see any application profile for Shogun 2. 11.5 drivers made my Mass Effect 2 looks like a strobe light. But 11.6 fixed it. 11.6 Is the best driver so far. I hope that 11.10 will fix all the problems I mentioned for Shogun 2. Reply
george1976 - Sunday, October 02, 2011 - linkAaaand when they are releasing the Bulldozer? Reply
Thermalzeal - Sunday, October 02, 2011 - linkIn 10 days. Reply


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Alex McCord Shares Her Thoughts On 'RHOC' Reunion: Part One
Last night, the Orange County broads reunited on after a season of ballyhoo. Lydia McLaughlin was introduced as a new cast member, and her joyful outlook on life began to take its toll not only on the women, but on the viewers (or maybe just me).
I'll let Alex McCord take it from here.


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Tin Kitchen - Fireplace Oven for Poultry & Roasts
This product is currently sold out.
An 18th century design, handcrafted by regional TinsmithAt Beekman 1802 we often look to history to discover useful gems that have been overlooked in the march of progress. So when we first read about Tin Kitchens, we knew we had to have one for our own home...just as Joanna Beekman probably had one long before we arrived at the Beekman.
Tin Kitchens are the perfect solution for cooking a roast or turkey on occasions when we need our regular oven for pies and side dishes. Using an open fireplace as the heat source, the design of Tin Kitchen reflects the heat back onto the meat, to ensure a seared, crisp exterior and moist tender interior. The hatch lid can be opened during roasting to baste. And the Tin Kitchen also collects the drippings to make amazing gravies. It's the best-kept 18th century secret we've ever discovered!
Tin Kitchens are made to order by regional tinsmith, Michael Houser. Expect approximately 2-3 weeks for delivery.
Tin Kitchen Instructions -
1. Line the bottom of the tin kitchen with foil, if desired, to make clean up easier.
2. Skewer roast or poultry on main rotisserie spit. (Tin Kitchen is not recommended for stuffed poultry.)
3. Slide smaller skewers through meat, as well as open slots on spit, to keep meat from sliding. Place pointed spit tip into hole on side of tin kitchen that does not have additional timer holes. Then lift the ring on top of tin kitchen on the side with timer holes to enable spit to slide into slot. Push ring back down to ensure that spit does not come free during rotation.
4. Place tin kitchen on hearth next to, but not too close to fire (too high temperatures can melt soldering material.) If unsure of distance, hang an oven thermometer from top of tin kitchen, and set tin kitchen at a distance that keeps temperature at approximately 350F.
5. Using hot pads, rotate spit approximately every 8 minutes, using holes as guides.
6. Tin Kitchen lid may be opened using hot pads during cooking to baste meat.
7. Meat is done when meat thermometer inserted into thickest portion reaches temperatures associated with common food safety guidelines. To remove meat, lift ring on top to release spit, remove small skewers, and slide meat onto a warmed platter. Please use hot pad to protect from burns at all times.
8. Juices that gather in the bottom of the tin kitchen may be poured, using slot on side, into separate pan to make gravy.
Care Instructions - The tin coating on the roaster is fairly soft. Use only a soft sponge or dish rag with dish detergent to clean after use. DO NOT use steel wool or scotch brite to scour. Rinse with hot water and dry immediately.
The tin may smudge a little with each use. This is normal.
- Custom made to order by artisan expect approximately 2 weeks for delivery


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The explosion at an oil pipeline at Atlas Creek outside Lagos on Friday which left at least 150 people dead is just the latest in a long series of tragic incidents.
As with previous explosions, it has been blamed on the glaring inequalities of an oil-rich country, millions of whose people live in poverty and where officials rarely seem to be held accountable for even the most catastrophic incidents.
The grisly scenes - of dozens of charred bodies strewn over a beach - only serve to accentuate the sense of inequality resulting from an apparent government failure to plough billions of oil dollars back into those parts of the economy that desperately need it.
Many of those who died are thought to be local people simply taking advantage of the leaking pipeline to supplement their meagre incomes with illegally siphoned petrol.
"This is caused by hunger and greed. If you've got no job
and you're hungry you take advantage of anything to feed your
family. Anyone who takes this kind of risk is desperate," Olanrewaju Saka-Shenayon, a Lagos State government official, told Reuters news agency.
Writing at the time of a similar incident three years ago, the BBC's former West Africa correspondent Dan Isaacs says that the industrial and agricultural sectors, so crucial for generating jobs and economic growth, have been allowed to wither and decline over the decades, while oil revenues have made those with access to power fabulously rich.
Meanwhile, he says, a gross lack of investment in the country's education system has meant that young men and women who want to better themselves and their communities find it almost impossible to do so. Schools, colleges and universities, once the pride of the nation, are in decay and disrepair.
Lessons to learn
Although the pipeline was probably ruptured initially by thieves, local people had come to the area in their hundreds in the dead of night to siphon off the fuel.
It is not known how long the pipe had been leaking when the explosion took place. In previous similar incidents, local officials have been accused of turning a blind eye to leakages for weeks at a time despite warnings of impending disaster.
Also, correspondents at the scene point out that there is a police post not far from the pipeline breach, raising the possibility that local security forces may have refused to intervene on this occasion as well.
No survivors were found at the scene. Judging by some burnt clothes found nearby, it is thought that those who escaped the fire fled immediately to avoid detection.
No-one has so far been prepared to talk about what happened.
And if the experience of similar pipeline fires is anything to go by, even if there is an investigation there will be no reprimands or prosecutions.
It seems no-one can guarantee that appropriate lessons will be learnt from this latest tragedy, or that it will not happen again somewhere else.


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Air Force One, White House were targeted
By Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON Terrorists had targeted Air Force One
and the White House in Tuesday's reign of terror, White House spokesman Ari
Fleischer said Wednesday. Because of the threats, President Bush didn't immediately
return Tuesday to Washington following the incidents in New York and Washington.
Fleischer said the plane that crashed into the Pentagon was originally intended
for the White House. Meanwhile:
Authorities have identified many
of the hijackers involved in the deadly terrorist attacks on New York and Washington
and are pursuing leads that will let them close in on the masterminds behind
Tuesday's deadly attacks, federal officials said Wednesday.
Rescuers dug for survivors, and President Bush said the
attack had launched "a monumental struggle of good vs. evil."
FBI raids Boston hotel
In Boston, where two of the planes that struck the World
Trade Center were hijacked, authorities raided a hotel in a search for evidence,
and reportedly took one person into custody. In Providence, R.I., authorities
halted an Amtrak train coming from Boston. Three people were taken off the train
and questioned, and a man was taken away in handcuffs. That man was not implicated.
In south Florida, federal agents searched homes and a flight
school, looking for records of flight training for the hijackers and information
that might point to the mastermind behind the attacks.
Investigators identified five of the passengers on the
two hijacked flights originating in Boston as suspected hijackers. The list
included two men who flew into Boston early Tuesday from Portland, Maine. Maine
state police say they retrieved cigarette butts from a rental car the men used,
which could be used for DNA evidence. Authorities also have photos of the two
men taken by airport security cameras.
'Worse than you could imagine'
Emergency workers described the scene in New York City,
where the twin World Trade Center towers were reduced to a heap of debris, as
a war zone.
"It is absolutely worse than you could ever imagine," said
firefighter Rudy Weindler, who found four survivors in 12 hours of searching,
but lost count of the number of dead bodies he saw. Hospitals near the scene
waited for patients, but few came.
The words, too, were those of war. "We are coming after
you," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as Congress convened to pass a resolution
condemning the terrorism. "God have mercy on you, but we won't."
"War has been declared against the United States," Sen.
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said. "We ought to act accordingly."
Administration officials said the White House itself and
Air Force One, the president's plane, also had been intended targets of Tuesday's
attacks. "We had specific credible information that both were intended terrorist
targets, and that the plane that hit the Pentagon may have been headed for the
White House," said Sean McCormack, spokesman for the National Security Council.
Civil aviation tightened
Federal Aviation Administration officials Wednesday allowed
flights that had been grounded the day before to resume, but did not give clearance
for any new departures. Thousands of passengers remained stuck at airports.
When flights do resume, they will do so under stricter
security, said Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. Among the new restrictions:
a ban on knives or any similar cutting instrument being carried aboard planes,
an end to curbside check-in and increased presence of federal marshals.
Clues to who was responsible for the carnage began to trickle
in. In Boston, authorities found a white rental Mitsubishi Mirage in an airport
garage that reportedly contained pilot manuals and planning documents for the
attacks written in Arabic.
In Venice, Fla., a man interviewed by the FBI said two
men he had hosted for flight training last year had been linked to the terrorist
plot. "They informed us (that) individuals who had crossed our path were involved
yesterday with the airplane tragedy at the World Trade Center," said Charlie
Voss, a former employee at Huffman Aviation in Venice.
The men who stayed with him for a week in July of last
year were Mohammed Atta, 33, and Marwan al Shehhi, 23.
'Hijackers were skilled pilots'
"It appears from what we know that the hijackers were skilled
pilots," said FBI spokeswoman Mindy Tucker. The hijacked planes were maneuvered
in ways that suggested well-trained people were flying them. In at least two
of the four planes, transponders that allow the planes' speed and altitude to
be tracked were turned off.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said there were three to
six hijackers on each of the airplanes, and many have been identified. The effort
now is to identify the remaining hijackers and to track down any of their associates,
either in the United States or overseas.
While it wasn't known who was behind the attacks, most
attention focused on exiled Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden, who lives in
Afghanistan under protection of that country's Taliban rulers.
Vince Cannistraro, former head of CIA counterterrorism,
said "the intelligence community is convinced that it was Al Qaida," the name
of bin Laden's organization. He said at least five suspected hijackers entered
the USA from Canada on Tuesday, taking feeder flights to Boston through Portland
and Bangor, Maine.
One of them was Atta, the man who went to flight school
in Florida in July 2000 and who is on a terrorism watch list. "They may have
had a support network here in the United States, in Florida. There are a lot
of flying clubs in the Fort Lauderdale area," Canistraro said.
Authorities also were seeking to match passenger lists
of the downed planes with rosters of those who have taken flight training or
learned on flight simulators in the USA and Europe. They also were tracking
payment records for airline tickets in hopes of finding any movement of money
from banks abroad.
Two Middle Eastern men who boarded one of the Boston planes
bound for New York on Tuesday arrived late without reservations, bought one-way
tickets and paid for them in cash, authorities said.
Estimates of casualties began to give way to actual counts,
but the numbers were slow in coming. About 40,000 people worked in the twin
towers, but as the sun came up on the devastation Wednesday, New York Mayor
Rudy Giuliani said there were 55 known deaths and 1,700 injuries, and 235 police
and firefighters were unaccounted for. He said the ultimate toll would climb
into the thousands. But it became clear that recovery of bodies and identification
of all the victims would be a monumental perhaps impossible task.
Most were trapped in a dense sandwich of collapsed steel and concrete.
Flag raised at Pentagon
At the Pentagon, across the Potomac River from Washington,
crews continued to pour water on a smoldering gash in the building's west side,
where someone had erected an American flag. About 850 people worked in offices
close to where an airliner plowed into the building, and only a few of them
had been accounted for. Death estimates were scaled down late Wednesday.
The disaster shaped up as potentially the bloodiest day
in U.S. history. The most deadly day of the Civil War, at Antietam in 1862,
cost 4,700 lives. Some 3,082 Americans were killed in the World War II D-Day
invasion. And 2,388 were killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
President Bush, in remarks televised from a meeting with
his top advisers in the Cabinet Room at the White House, said the United States
would join hands with its allies around the world in responding to the attack.
"The American people need to know we're facing a different
enemy than we've ever faced," he said. "This enemy hides in the shadows and
has no regard for human life. ... We will rally the world. We will be patient,
we will be focused and steadfast in our determination. This battle will take
time and resolve, but make no mistake about it, we will win."
Secretary of State Colin Powell was telephoning world leaders
to secure their support. He telephoned leaders of the European Union, NATO and
the United Nations, and planned contacts with leaders in the Middle East.
Powell said NATO Secretary-General George Robertson was
working to pass a resolution that would set the stage for NATO allies to join
in any U.S. response against the terrorist attacks. Under NATO's Article V,
an attack against any NATO member is considered an attack against the entire
alliance. "It doesn't mean that they necessarily will participate in the attack,
but it makes it easier to obtain support in the way of overflight rights and
things of that nature," said Powell.
White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was eager to
create an atmosphere of calm, telling reporters, "We believe that the perpetrators
have executed their plan, and therefore the risks are significantly reduced."
Pentagon spokesman Torie Clarke said: "The Department of
Defense is open for business. We're here. We're operating. We're functioning."
At the Capitol, Congress reconvened in a building that
on Tuesday had been evacuated as fear of the terror spread. "The America in
which we woke today is far different from the one in which we woke yesterday,"
said Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, opening the session. "My heart aches."
In New York, Giuliani said rescuers were in contact with
one person buried in the rubble, and several police officers were taken out
alive. Reporters allowed to take their first close-up look at the site of the
collapse saw about seven stories remaining of the 100-story north tower, its
girders bent outward. Of the south tower, only a heap of rubble remained.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, there were acts of kindness.
People lined up for half a block at St. Vincents Hospital, volunteering to sort
clothes and give blood. "I work there. I was there," said David Levine, 34,
who was late to work and just getting off the subway Tuesday when the first
plane struck the towers. "Since I was physically OK, I wanted to lend a hand."
At Bellevue Medical Center, New York Gov. George Pataki
said "every New York family" will feel the tragedy. "We have to express our
grief for kids who aren't going to see their parents come home, for a firefighter
who's not going to see the friend or colleague," he said. "We also have to stay
strong. We also have to continue with the rebuilding. We have to send the message
that New Yorkers cannot be cowed."
He said 3,000 National Guardsmen had been dispatched to
help with the aftermath. The aircraft carrier USS George Washington was stationed
off the coast of Long Island to provide air defense over the city.
The bustling city exuded a strange silence. Much subway
and bus service resumed, except in lower Manhattan, and rail stations reopened.
But the normal honking traffic and hordes of people rushing to work were missing.
About 12:30 a.m., a young woman was removed from the rubble
and arrived at hospital with injuries to her legs and arms. She was in critical
condition, but stable, awake and talking, according to doctors at New York University.
At Manhattan's New School, lists of people who have been
treated or admitted to 13 hospitals were posted. A line of 500 people stretched
down the block, waiting to look at the list.
Julie Horn, a spokeswoman for St. Vincents Hospital, said:
"People are checking for a name. If there's a name, that's great." If not, "it's
a grim scene."


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By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY
NEW YORK Roger Waters is rebuilding The Wall— and he wants fans to help.
The British rock veteran will launch a North American tour this fall — kicking off Sept. 15 in Toronto, with shows in the USA scheduled through Dec. 13 — revisiting the epic concept album that he introduced in 1979 as principal songwriter of Pink Floyd.
It has been 30 years since that group launched a string of visually ambitious live performances of the songs and 20 since Waters performed them solo in Berlin.
After showcasing another Floyd classic, The Dark Side of the Moon, on a 2006 trek, Waters "realized that the story in The Wall— of a young man who is alienated and defensive, because he's fearful — could be an allegory for a more universal story. We're all frightened of each other, and that makes us behave in ways that are sadly inhumane, like engaging in wars. I wanted to make this show more political."
To do that, Waters, 66, is posting an appeal on roger-waters.com to relatives of those lost in war. He's asking for their photographs to project onto arena surfaces representing the title's metaphorical wall — so that each victim becomes, in effect, another brick.
"I get slight shivers talking about this," says Waters, who lost his father in World War II. "I want people to remember their loved ones as I remember mine, as part of a show that has a strongly anti-war message."
Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis doesn't expect Waters' approach will prove too controversial. The Wall's songs have always had "a generalized anti-war message," he says. "People are going to go for the spectacle."
They shouldn't be disappointed. Waters says video technology allows for projections twice the size of those in the original Wall dates, in which a huge wall was constructed between the band and the audience. Album illustrator Gerald Scarfe, who worked on the tour and 1982 film, is providing new art and redesigning puppets and inflatable objects.
Waters also is developing The Wall into a stage musical with Billy Elliot librettist Lee Hall. He doesn't plan to collaborate again with surviving Floyd members Nick Mason and David Gilmour, despite fond memories of the band's reunion at Live 8 in 2005.
"But Nick and I have become great friends again," he says. "We had a bad 15 years, so to come back together is fantastic."
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17 Mar Adopt a plugin or 7
My profile on WordPress.org has almost 30 plugins listed. I wrote (or contributed to) some of these to fill a vacancy (at the time) in basic functionality available in the community. There are others that I wrote as part of a development project. There are several that we have never used on our sites.
Over the last 5+ years, Andrea & I have invested a great deal of volunteer time into the WordPress & WordPress MU communities. At the same time, our retirement has gotten 5 years closer and ensuring a decent income has to be our first priority. As a result, I simply do not have enough free time to maintain all of those plugins (plus about 20 more hosted here or elsewhere).
I'm looking for people who are actively using the plugins listed below to consider becoming a contributor and/or maintainer. If you are interested please let me know through our contact form.
- Advanced Export - This plugin still works but is largely redundant to the built in export feature in its current form. However, there is room to add features for custom post types and custom taxonomies.
- BP Blog Author Link - I've had reports that this does not work with BP 1.5.X. Given it only has a few lines of code, I'm sure it's a simple fix.
- Adopted Cron Debug - I wrote this to troubleshoot a cron issue on a client install. For what I was doing it was essentially a one use plugin so I didn't invest time in creating a UI for it. There is lots of room in this one to expand it so that it can be used by non server admins.
- Adopted Network Privacy - There are a couple issues with this plugin in WP 3.3 & BP 1.5.X that people have proposed fixes for. Otherwise, this one still works.
- SharDB - SharDB works a treat with WP 3.0 through 3.3.1 & BP 1.2 through BP 1.5.4. There are quite a few installs using SharDB that are getting in the traffic range where they are going to need to migrate to a master/slave MySQL setup. Some of the master/slave code is already there but I haven't had the time to ferret out a couple bugs. Since this plugin is the most advanced one I have, I would consider working on it as a sponsored project.
- Theme Stats - I wrote this almost 6 years ago. It still works but could do with optimization, caching, etc.
- Unhook while switched - I wrote this primarily as a demo of how to enable/disable hooked functions while WP was switched to a second site. Like Cron Debug, this plugin has no UI and has room for someone to add features.
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A stereo field-recording of birdsong just before dusk in the spring. Sony PCM-M10 with foam windshield mounted on a gorillapod high up a tree, no wind.
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If you're considering a solar or wind system for your home or business, this solar power guide is a valuable resource. In Got Sun? Go Solar, the authors explain how installing a solar or wind system is an economically attractive and environmentally responsible option.
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This solar power guide covers battery backup versus non-battery systems, as well as equipment needed and installation considerations. Other topics include legal and safety issues, incentives/rebates, and permits and paperwork. An extensive appendix of resources, state energy offices, system sizing worksheets, and much more turns this 160-page book (filled with more than 120 photos and illustrations) into a must-have book for anyone interested in exploring their power options.
About the authors:
The authors of this solar power guide know firsthand how these systems work. Rex Ewing, author of Power With Nature has lived off-the-grid in the Colorado Rockies since 1999. Doug Pratt, the former technical editor of the Solar Living Sourcebook, lives in a grid-tied home in northern California, and has been on the front lines of the renewable energy revolution since 1985.
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'And in the long run he's doing it for the right team. The Sabres have struggled the past few years and their depth on the back end has dwindled, particularly after trading veteran Rhett Warrener and former first-round pick Keith Ballard in a deal to acquire forward Chris Drury last summer. Couple that with the fact that the youngest prospect in the Sabres' system is a 20-year-old and things look good for Funk.'
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Hawai'i Pacific University charts successful first sale of special purpose revenue bonds
July 26, 2013
HONOLULU – Hawai'i Pacific University conducted a highly successful sale of all the securities in the first $42 million issue of its special purpose revenue bonds, university leaders announced today.
Investors reacted favorably to plans for overall development of the university, particularly its Aloha Tower Marketplace project, which is a primary target of the bond issue. Demand and pricing for the bonds, and quality of the investors who agreed to purchase were all strong.
"The HPU bonds were quite well received by institutional investors. Some of the best names in the national bond markets made substantial purchases," said Lee White, executive vice president at George K. Baum & Company, the investment banker for the HPU Series 2013 Bond Issue. "It is a tribute to HPU management that so many prominent investors qualified these bonds for purchase."
The state Legislature unanimously passed authorization for the bonds last year, and Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed the legislation in July 2012. The university plans to follow this summer's success with a second sale in 2014.
"These funds are critical elements for the repositioning of HPU within the higher education landscape," said HPU President Geoffrey Bannister. "As we realign operational budgets to our new strategic priorities, including the Oceanic Institute, we are simultaneously expanding our capital resources to re-imagine the physical campus to meet the needs of a modern, high-touch-high tech university. This transformational movement concerns every aspect of university operations in a concerted, multi-year drive for excellence in operations, research and student service."
The bond revenue, which is expected to total about $80 million when both tranches are sold, is being invested in classroom, student residences, new learning technologies, cultural venues and research laboratory upgrades at the university's campuses on O'ahu.
Plans for the Aloha Tower Marketplace have captured the most public attention. The university will renovate the second floor of the complex, converting existing retail and meeting spaces into urban lofts housing. The development will more than double the university's student housing capacity and provide valuable new housing resources for mainland and international students who struggle to find affordable dwellings in Honolulu's rental market.
In addition to the second floor housing, university leaders plan to redevelop the entire complex, bringing new retail partners to the development, relocating some university operations and creating community gathering spaces. The first of the new retail partners was announced last week – Barnes & Noble College, which will open a new 7,200-square-foot bookstore on the first floor in the 2013-14 school year.
The novel public-private partnership behind the bond funding is making all of that progress possible through the efforts of the State, Legislature, the City and HPU.
George K. Baum & Company's White further noted, "The State did a professional job of assisting HPU in its maiden trip to the capital markets while protecting the State as the conduit issuer of the bonds. The State has absolutely no responsibility for repayment of the bonds, but for legal reasons had to be the issuer of the tax exempt bonds for the benefit of HPU."
Funds from the bond sale will begin to be available to HPU next month, and renovation at Aloha Tower is expected to commence in the 2013-14 school year, which begins in September.


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Gov. Peter Shumlin will travel to Miami on Thursday and Friday to encourage investment in the state's Northeast Kingdom via the EB-5 visa investment program, accompanied by Jay Peak Resort president and co-owner Bill Stenger.
Shumlin and Stenger will be pitching an elaborate set of projects to scores of immigration attorneys and wealthy investors, with many foreign investors from Central America and South America, according to Stenger.
"I'll be going on the road with them to assure investors that when they have choices about what EB-5 program to choose across America – and there's a lot of them – they ought to choose this program in the Kingdom," Shumlin said at a Burlington press conference on Monday.
He touted the $500 million Northeast Kingdom project as having a "track record of delivering value to investors" adding: "We're the only statewide EB-5 program in the nation. We're the only EB-5 program where the state acts as a sort of auditor in the program, which gives investors added confidence that they're investing in something that is real."
Started in 1990, the federal EB-5 program requires foreigners to invest $1 million into American economic development, and create at least 10 full-time jobs, in return for a green card.
Vermont's variation of the program allows investors to contribute a minimum $500,000, plus administrative fees, and to provide a combination of both direct and indirect jobs. Indirect jobs include jobs created as a result of a project, as opposed to "actual identifiable jobs" paid for by project managers, according to a 2011 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service report to Congress.
Vermont's regional EB-5 center, which approves and reviews suitable investment projects, is the only such center in the nation owned and operated by a state government.
Stenger, the private sector developer of the $500 million in projects, told VTDigger that the governor's two days in Florida could net about $25 million to $50 million in total future investment.
"We can probably meet with attorneys or investors that would represent anywhere between 50 to 100 investors," said Stenger. "It could range from $25 million to $50 million of total investment."
But, he cautioned: "We won't come back from Florida with checks. But we will have met people we'll follow up with, who have serious interest, and who will ultimately wind up working with us."
This isn't the first time Shumlin has helped out Stenger by speaking at similar events and meetings, according to the Jay Peak exec, who said the governor promoted EB-5 with him in South Florida just over a year ago.
"The governor has been very gracious in his support," said Stenger. "It's very effective, what he's able to bring to an event like this. Vermont has a great deal of credibility in the EB-5 community, in no small part because we have support from our elected officials and our local officials."
On Thursday evening the pair plan an evening reception for 75 to 100 attorneys and investors who are "seriously interesting in participating" in Vermont's regional EB-5 program. At a Friday luncheon, Shumlin will speak at an American Immigration Lawyers Association meeting, looking to spread information and enthusiasm about the EB-5 program to the clients of these immigration attorneys.
Shumlin told reporters at a press conference that his trip is being paid for by an administrative fee levied on already existing EB-5 investors, so taxpayers wouldn't bear the cost.
Stenger said he's raised about $300 million of a targeted $600 million so far, from about 600 investors, most of whom have already struck deals and actually delivered investment funds.
Read VTDigger's previous coverage of the $500 million in new projects planned for the Northeast Kingdom here.


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Playing tracks by
Love Unlimited Orchestra, Belle Farms Estate, Truth Is Light, Flowers, Curtis Mayfield and more.
Mixcloud favorite OdDio put together a sleazy set of soul, disco, and boogie for Laid Back, just in time for Valentine's Day: twenty jams from Buari, Curtis Mayfield, Patrick Adams, Tommy Stewart, James Mason and others, with some bonus lovemaking tips to help you get it on in 2011. Take it nice and slow for maximum pleasure.
The music gets pretty hot and heavy, so please use your discretion when listening at work.
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I've only just found this. I've had to loosen my collar.
New Valentine's mix for 2013 here: OdDio - Good Morning (A Valentine's Day Lovemix)
Happy Valentines day 2012. A sleazy follow-up was in the works, but I didn't make the deadline, so maybe 2013 will be the year for part 2.
wow! nice work. Thumbs up.
I checked the mix, too... nice!
Thanks for checking out my tracklist, TJKid. ;-)
Nice tracklist, Oddio... Flowers, Jerline, and I´ve been loving that James Mason track since I got it on the B side of Sweet Power a few years back. Check James Mason´s album out... it´s a beauty: Rhythm of Life
NICE!! Peace and SOUL... HSB
Yeah, I know what you mean.
nice mix. i always feel a little awkward when i play that edit of pazuzu out :o)
Thanks everyone for listening and commenting. Happy Valentimes.
Nice session Andrew
Thanks!!! ;)


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AN Evesham woman has spoken of the terrifying moment an escaped dog attacked her own pet and left her needing hospital treatment.
Angela McNally, of Eastwick Park in Evesham, was walking her pooch Bertie along Cheltenham Road around 6.50pm on Friday night when a vicious dog came hurtling towards them leaving her worried for her dogs life.
Before the 64-year-old had time to react the black dog began attacking her own pet and she could only try to help ten-year-old Bertie, a Jack Russell Terrier cross.
"We usually go up Cheltenham Road but for some reason on Friday I thought I would go down and look at the river," said Mrs McNally.
"I was just crossing the road by Fairfield and I could see this dog on the other side running hell for leather. We carried on walking minding our own business and then I saw this dog run up and then he crossed the road running hell for leather still at my dog.
"He launched at it, he didn't even growl he just went at him.
"I started trying to get him off. Luckily I had gloves on."
But despite having gloves on Mrs McNally, a book keeper and calligrapher was still left with 16 puncture wounds from the attacking dog, thought to be a black terrier with a pink collar, and a damaged tendon as she tried desperately to free her pet.
"I don't know what my hands would have been like without the gloves," she added. "At some point Bertie managed to slip his collar and ran into the road but the other dog chased him. The vet said Berties injuries were consistent with him being attacked as he tried to escape.
"I was screaming and a man came to help.
"Then another man appeared and said this dog has been missing today, he's from Fairfield, and took the dog in his car.
"The shock could've cost Bertie his life."
Bertie was left with three leg wounds and large wounds on his body where his skin had been ripped off.
Now Mrs McNally, a former dog walker for Wickhamford Dog's Trust, says she is desperate to discover where this dog is to make sure he cannot attack anyone else.
"I want that other dog caught," she said. "What happens if it's a child it attacks next time?
"I just hope Bertie is OK after this."
Anyone with information about the dog should contact the police on 101 and quote reference number 257-S-01-02-14.


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Kevin MacDonald Archives
10/01/10: Solzhenitsyn's "The February Revolution": Chapter 13 of 200 Years Together
09/25/10: Recent research on Individualism-Collectivism
09/12/10: Solzhenitsyn's "During the Civil War" — Chapter 16 of200 Years Together
09/05/10: Chapter 23 of 200 Years Together: "Before the Six-Day War"
08/15/10: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's "During the Soviet-German War" Chapter 21 of 200 Years Together
08/10/10: Chapter 5 of 200 Years Together: "After the Murder of Alexander II"
07/20/10: Is the Madoff Scandal Paradigmatic? (John Graham is the first author)
0717/10: Chapter 22 of 200 Years Together: "From the End of the War to Stalin's Death"
07/05/10: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's "The 1920s." Chapter 18 of 200 Years Together
0613/10: Translation of Solzhenitsyn's "In the Camps of GULag" — Chapter 20 of "200 Years Together"
05/24/2010: Peter Beinart on the future of American Zionism
5/12/10: John Mearsheimer and the Future of Israeli Apartheid
01/15/10: In the Matter of Leo Frank, Part I
01/06/10: Wilhelm Marr's The Victory of Judaism over Germanism: Viewed from a Nonreligious Point of View
12/07/09: The ADL: Managing White Rage
11/15/09: Review of Thomas Wheatland's The Frankfurt School in Exile, Part III: John Dewey, Sidney Hook, and Herbert Marcuse
10/28/09: Review of Thomas Wheatland's The Frankfurt School in Exile, Part II: The Critique of Mass Culture
10/19/09: Review of Thomas Wheatland's The Frankfurt School in Exile, Part I: Authoritarianism and the Family
10/03/09: The Roman Polanski Case: Once Again, It's Hollywood vs. America
09/06/09: The Morality of Majority Rights and Interests
08/24/09: Anger in White America — Again
08/19/09: Fundraising Appeal: Why support The Occidental Observer?
07/29/09: Eric P. Kaufmann's The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America
07/23/09: Anger in White America
07/12/09: Joe McCarthy and the Jews
07/01/09: Pat Buchanan on Darwin
06/21/09: Evolutionary Psychology: The Real Dangerous Idea Is That It's Wrong
06/14/09: Comments on Takuan Seiyo's Screed
06/05/09: Obama as a Modern Pharaoh
05/28/09: The Sotomayor Nomination:
More Glimpses of Jewish Activism — and a Warning to
05/11/09: Elena Kagan: Jewish Ethnic Networking Eases the Path of a Liberal/Leftist to the Supreme Court
05/08/09: The Big Dog Wins Another One
04/25/09: Jane Harman, Haim Saban, and AIPAC: The Disloyalty Issue in Multicultural America
04/18/09: A comment on Paul Gottfried's review of Cultural Insurrections
Defaming America's past: Henry Ford and the Eugenics Movement
Comments on "Memories of Madison": White ethno-nationalism and Zionism
03/22/09: The Oakland police murders, President Obama's teleprompter, and implicit processing
03/13/09: Charles Freeman's disloyalty
03/07/09: How Jews See Themselves, 2008
02/24/09: What's wrong with white men? In search of an explanation
02/19/09: "My race is just nothing": Some thoughts on the political psychology of women
02/10/09: Talking with Jews (or not)
02/02/09: The Church and anti-Semitism — again
01/27/09: The Global Anti-Semitism Report: The organized Jewish community opposes free speech
01/19/09: The problem with intellectually insecure whites
01/08/09: Bernie Madoff's Jewishness
01/01/09: Racial and ethnic self-segregation
12/15/08: The problem with explicit processing: Christian evangelicals
Race as a social construct? No — and Yes! (with Anthony Hilton)
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12/01/08: Ben Stein's Expelled: Was Darwinism a Necessary Condition for the Holocaust?
11/21/08: Stalinism lives — in the CSULB Women's Studies Department
11/13/08: Jews as allies (with Anthony Hilton)
11/10/08: Memo to the Republican Party: You are a party of European-Americans. Accept it or die.
10/13/08: The Sandlers and the Arnalls: The subprime meltdown funds Jewish political activism
09/30/08: Ethnicity and the bailout: Wall Street and the Democratic Party
09/24/08: The Sandra Bernhard monstrosity
09/18/08: Promoting genocide of whites? Noel Ignatiev and the culture of Western suicide
09/13/08: Secession and implicit whiteness
09/06/08: The 2008 election will increase the racial polarization in the US
08/23/08: The specter of Russian nationalism
08/16/08: The neocons versus Russia
08/07/08: Joe Klein and the Loyalties of the Neocons
07/10/08: Philip Weiss on AIPAC
Rachel Abramowitz on Mel Gibson: Are the Goyim making an empire of their own in Hollywood?
05/09/08: Canada is a Police State
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|Look at me bro, look at me. I've got a body of a fifth grader!
–Ben Chang, "Introduction to Statistics".
|Chang is a very unbalanced man whose mania grows over the course of his time at the school. His erratic temperament usually stems from whether or not he is in a position of authority; it is then that he experiences inexplicable self confidence and extreme narcissism. Not only does this feed his delusions of grandeur but also leads him to become a bully. He was once obsessed with Latin culture and proclaimed himself "El Tigre Chino" (The Chinese Tiger). As a teacher, he took an almost sadistic approach to his job and would often enthusiastically torment his students. This attitude surfaced again when he was hired as a school security guard and abused his authority on a larger scale. On the other hand, he also experiences bouts of depression, self-pity and neediness. This contrasts his louder and more obnoxious personality suggesting that it's just a mask for his own insecurities. This was passively shown when he used self-deprecating humor to mock his own shortcomings. His time as a student illustrated how desperate Chang could be as he struggled to be accepted by the study group. It's hinted that monkey gas that he had inhaled had started to poison his mind. It fueled his delusions and pushed the worst of aspects of his personality to the extreme. In his later years at school he seemed to calm down when he joined the Save Greendale Committee. Despite a few relapses he considered the committee his friends and liked who he was when he was with them. At the end of the 2015 semester at Greendale he announced to his colleagues that he was gay.
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- Ben loves Latin culture and salsa - dancing and the dip, especially Colombian timba and spicy mango, respectively.("[[1]]")
- Ben uses his last name in place of regular words as a running gag; see the article "Changuage" for a complete list of puns.
- Ben is afraid of hamsters as revealed in Epidemiology, and in The Science of Illusion, it's revealed that he also has a fear of frogs.
- As revealed in Modern Warfare, Ben plays paintball three times a week and owns his own equipment, consisting of a full automatic with a tiger camo print and two golden pistols.
- Ben is of Chinese heritage.
- In Season One's "Investigative Journalism," it is shown that Ben is born in 1969 but in Season Three's "First Chang Dynasty," it is said that he is 25 years of age. This, of course, is obviously false, as that would mean he was 16 or 17 years old when he began teaching at Greendale.
- Ben has a different role at Greendale in each season.
- Spanish teacher (Season One)
- Greendale student (Season Two)
- Security guard (Season Three)
- Amnesiac (Season Four)
- Math teacher (Season Five)
- Actor (Season Six)
- He admited he is gay in "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television "


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