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Harrison Commissioners on Monday delayed two projects due to high costs.
Board president George Conroy said the township is seeking an alternative to spending $229,000 to replace a sewage pump station that serves about 20 homes on Freeport Road.
The pump is about 40 years old and parts are obsolete and costly, Conroy said.
He declined to disclose the alternative fix because he hadn't spoken to the parties involved.
The township also hopes to spend less money by seeking new bids to demolish six homes in the Natrona section of the township.
The board received two bids and had been expected to award a demolition contract for about $15,500 to raze a burned-out home at 80 Pond St. and a dilapidated structure at 112 Blue Ridge Ave.
"Those bids received were extremely high," Conroy said.
The Blue Ridge building was the home of the Duff family before Larry and Lisa Duff were jailed for their roles in the beating death of Larry Duff's disabled brother, Ronald Duff, last October.
The money to pay for the demolitions will come from a $20,000 federal Community Development Block Grant awarded to Harrison through the Allegheny County North Council of Governments.
Township officials hope to demolish at least 20 other abandoned structures.
New property law coming
The township plans to advertise for public review a new property maintenance ordinance that it developed following a California finance company's sale of the Duff home to Larry Duff — even though the township had condemned it.
Solicitor Charles Means said the ordinance would apply to any home being sold, leased or mortgaged.
The ordinance would require the seller or owner to disclose in writing all code violation citations, notices and court dates.
The buyer or renter would have to commit to the township that they plan to pay any fines and fix violations within 60 days. That person would be required to state which contractor they plan to use.
The township would then provide an official document of the agreement so the sale or lease can be finalized.
"We need to get the word out to real estate agents that they will need to look for this at closings," Conroy said. "The house can't be bought until it's shown to be brought up to specifications."
Commissioners must still vote to formally adopt the ordinance.
Jodi Weigand is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-226-4702 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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What happens when you put two hyper-active kids in a room with other kids? Reactor Core
Like begets like, and some things amplify each other when put together. That is how it is with brains and intelligence.
Two hyper-active kids and 30 normal kids becomes a room full of very active kids.
What happens when you put facts and ideas together into a single brain? A brain is like a reactor core; facts and ideas combine together to produce power.
What facts and ideas do you get from watching the world around you?
Radiation Dose
Chart Wondering what those radiation numbers mean on
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Which reactor design will brighten our future? SNACR, LFTR, pebble bed, travelling wave, or sub-critical energy amplifier?
April 28, 2016 via Digg
BBC - The secretive, billionaire-backed plans to harness fusion
In the city of Burnaby, British Columbia, General Fusion is busy developing nuclear fusion, funded by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, the Malaysian government, and a Canadian oil company.
In Orange County, California, Tri Alpha, is also developing nuclear fusion using a different technique. It is backed by Paul Allen of Microsoft, Peter Thiel of Paypal, the Rockefellers, and the Russian government.
I wish Michel Laberge all the best.
April 13, 2016 via John Sokol:
Did Norwegian scientists finally crack the riddle of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions? The key is deuterium fractured in a certain way that let's the Coulomb barrier be breached with a low investment of energy to start the reaction.
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November 19, 2013 Watch this video by Gordon McDowell Thorium: An energy solution - THORIUM REMIX 2011 (YouTube) Video is 2 hours long, and every second of it is interesting. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRs) are being built in China right now. They can clean up the waste created by current nuclear reactors, and thorium mining would open up a lot of rare earth deposits, breaking China's monopoly on the electronics industry. Also very safe, cheap, etc. Also adding Kirk Sorenson to the blog-roll today.
September 26
I've seen similar information on the Internet before. But I haven't posted it here before, because of counter-arguments like this, found in the comments section of Karl's article:
I don't know which side is right. Only a few people in the world have enough specialized knowledge of nuclear technology to say one way or the other. It sure would be exciting if the Thorium people are right. A few months ago, a fellow named Jim Stone was saying that the Thorium cycle can combine with the regular nuclear reactor technology to completely eliminate nuclear waste. Who knows.
February 17
Interesting article. Did you know that Russian light-houses are powered by RTFs? (Radio-thermal generators) The radio thermal generator is a type of nuclear reactor that uses natural radioactive decay to power a simple thermoelectric generator. It can produce at most, two kilowatts.
There are a lot of different Small Modular Reactors in production, use, and development. The future is very bright and exciting for safe and cheap nuclear power. My favorite, the salt reactor, is discussed:
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keyed hash function f into a variable input-length function.
A~practical single-key variant of NMAC called HMAC is a very
popular and widely deployed message authentication code
(MAC). Security proofs and attacks for NMAC can typically
be lifted to HMAC.
NMAC was introduced by Bellare, Canetti and Krawczyk
[Crypto\'96], who proved it to be a secure pseudorandom
function (PRF), and thus also a MAC, assuming that
(1) f is a PRF and
(2) the function we get when cascading f is weakly
Unfortunately, HMAC is typically instantiated with
cryptographic hash functions like MD5 or SHA-1 for which (2)
has been found to be wrong. To restore the provable
guarantees for NMAC, Bellare [Crypto\'06] showed its
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albeit via a non-uniform reduction.
Our first contribution is a simpler and uniform proof: If f
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length at most l blocks each.
We then show that this \\eps+lq\\delta bound is basically
tight. For the most interesting case where lq\\delta>=\\eps
we prove this by constructing an f for which an attack with
advantage lq\\delta exists. This also violates the bound
O(l\\eps) on the PRF-security of NMAC recently claimed by
Koblitz and Menezes.
Finally, we analyze the PRF-security of a modification of
NMAC called NI [An and Bellare, Crypto\'99] that differs
mainly by using a compression function with an additional
keying input. This avoids the constant rekeying on
multi-block messages in NMAC and allows for a security proof
starting by the standard switch from a PRF to a random
function, followed by an information-theoretic analysis. We
carry out such an analysis, obtaining a tight lq^2/2^c bound
for this step, improving over the trivial bound of
l^2q^2/2^c. The proof borrows combinatorial techniques
originally developed for proving the security of CBC-MAC
[Bellare et al., Crypto\'05]. We also analyze a variant of
NI that does not include the message length in the last call
to the compression function, proving a l^{1+o(1)}q^2/2^c
bound in this case.
The algorithms typically used in practice have worst-case asymptotic running time $2^{O(n^2)}$, but perform extremely well in practice, at least for all values of the lattice dimension for which experimentation is feasible. At the same time, theoretical algorithms
(Kannan, Mathematics of Operation Research 12(3):415-440, 1987) are asymptotically superior (achieving $2^{O(n \\log n)}$ running time), but they are never used in practice because they incur a substantial overhead that makes them uncompetitive for all reasonable values of the lattice dimension $n$. This gap is especially troublesome when algorithms are run in practice to evaluate the concrete security of a cryptosystem, and then experimental results are extrapolated to much larger dimension where solving lattice problems is computationally infeasible.
We introduce a new class of (polynomial space) lattice enumeration algorithms that simultaneously achieve asymptotic efficiency (meeting the theoretical $n^{O(n)} = 2^{O(n \\log n)}$ time bound) and practicality, matching or surpassing the performance of practical algorithms already in moderately low dimension. Key technical contributions that allow us to achieve this result are a new analysis technique that allows us to greatly reduce the number of recursive calls performed during preprocessing (from super exponential in $n$ to single exponential, or even polynomial in $n$), a new enumeration technique that can be directly applied to projected lattice (basis) vectors, without the need to remove linear dependencies, and a modified block basis reduction method with fast (logarithmic) convergence properties. The last technique is used to obtain a new SVP enumeration procedure with $\\tilde O(n^{n/2e})$ running time, matching (even in the constant in the exponent) the optimal worst-case analysis (Hanrot and Stehl{\\\'e}, CRYPTO 2007)
of Kannan\'s theoretical algorithm, but with far superior performance
in practice.
We complement our theoretical analysis with a comprehensive set of experiments that not only support our practicality claims, but also allow to estimate the cross-over point between different versions of enumeration algorithms, as well as asymptotically faster (but not quite practical) algorithms running in single exponential $2^{O(n)}$ time and space.
Recursive MDS matrices allow to solve this problem by focusing on MDS
matrices that can be computed as a power of a simple companion matrix,
thus having a compact description suitable even for constrained environments. However, up to now, finding recursive MDS matrices required to perform an exhaustive search on families of companion matrices, thus limiting the size of MDS matrices one could look for. In this article we propose a new direct construction based on shortened BCH codes, allowing to efficiently construct such matrices for whatever parameters. Unfortunately, not all recursive MDS matrices can be obtained from BCH codes, and our algorithm is not always guaranteed to find the best matrices for a given set of parameters.
and K(XVII)$\\Sigma \\Pi$PKC, a subclass of K(XVII)SE(1)PKC.
We show that K(XVII)SE(1)PKC over $F_2^8$ can be secure against the various attacks.
We also present K(XVII)$\\Sigma \\Pi$PKC over $F_2^8$, a subclass of K(XVII)SE(1)PKC.
We show that any assertion of successfull attack on K(XVII)SE(1)PKC including K(XVII)$\\Sigma \\Pi$PKC whose parameters are properly chosen
is a coding theoretical contradiction.
We thus conclude that K(XVII)SE(1)PKC and K(XVII)$\\Sigma \\Pi$PKC would be secure against the various attacks including LLL attack.
The schemes presented in this paper would yield brand-new techniques in the field of code-based PKC.
cryptographic secrets of a chip or other device but only too often do they require too many traces or leave too many possible keys to
explore. In this paper we show that for side channel attacks on
discrete-logarithm-based systems significantly more unknown bits can
be handled by using Pollard\'s kangaroo method: if $b$ bits are
unknown then the attack runs in $2^{b/2}$ instead of $2^b$. If an
attacker has many targets in the same group and thus has reasons to
invest in precomputation, the costs can even be brought down to
Usually the separation between known and unknown keybits is not this clear cut -- they are known with probabilities ranging between 100\\%
and 0\\%. Enumeration and rank estimation of cryptographic keys
based on partial information derived from cryptanalysis have become
important tools for security evaluations. They make the line between
a broken and secure device more clear and thus help security
evaluators determine how high the security of a device is. For
symmetric-key cryptography there has been some recent work on key
enumeration and rank estimation, but for discrete-logarithm-based
systems these algorithms fail because the subkeys are not
independent and the algorithms
cannot take advantage of the above-mentioned faster
attacks. We present $\\epsilon$-enumeration as a new method to
compute the rank of a key by using the probabilities together with
(variations of) Pollard\'s kangaroo algorithm and give experimental evidence.


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FHWA Administrator Mendez Participates in Rededication of the Murray Morgan Bridge
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The bridge, which was closed in 2007 for safety reasons, represents an important link between downtown Tacoma and the Port of Tacoma. Located on Commencement Bay, the port is a major center for international trade and industrial shipping in the Pacific Northwest.
"In his State of the Union address, President Obama called on us to 'Fix it First' by focusing on infrastructure projects that will create jobs and help businesses first," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "Getting this bridge open will help Tacoma with their plans to revitalize their waterfront, attract new businesses and create good jobs."
About 5,000 vehicles use the bridge each day which spans the Thea Foss Waterway. The Waterway was once a thriving industrial port area that is now part of a planned 1.5 mile waterfront community in downtown Tacoma that will include parks, residences, businesses and hotels.
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The renovated bridge includes a new deck and mechanical and electrical systems to operate the lift span and offers continued access for pedestrians at street level with an added elevator and new stairs. In addition, two lanes were converted to bicycle and pedestrian pathways.
FHWA provided $46 million in federal-aid funding toward the total project cost of $53 million.
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A RESIDENT has criticised a council after it made a late alteration to the West Wycombe Road project to install a pedestrian crossing outside his home.
David Griffiths said he was shocked to discover Buckinghamshire County Council contractors installing the crossing - not part of the original Chapel Lane/A40 realignment plans - metres away from his driveway.
The retired furniture manufacturer said he was not notified about the crossing, which he believes could be dangerous, and called BCC's actions "deplorable".
He told the BFP: "The first I knew about it was late February when I saw contractors marking up the pavement outside my house. I asked them what they were doing and they told me they were putting in a crossing.
"I rang the council straight away and said there had been no notification about it and it wasn't in the original plans. I also wrote to them three times last week asking them to stop but my emails have been ignored.
"It's so close to my driveway entrance, I worry that I will not be able to see any pedestrians on the crossing over my boundary wall which restricts my vision as I exit in my car.
"I'll probably get called a NIMBY; it's not that, I think it's dangerous. I think the council has just pushed this through, it's deplorable."
Transport for Buckinghamshire, the council's transportation arm, confirmed the crossing was not initially part of the West Wycombe Road plans but the 'project team felt it would not have a negative effect on traffic flow'.
The proposals were first made public during a presentation to Downley Parish Council on August 30 before a further presentation last month.
Wycombe Local Community Partnership and West Wycombe Parish Council were also made aware of the plans, which were uploaded to BCC's website and social media, TfB said.
Dan Elworthy, TfB spokesman, added: "As the Highway Authority for the county, Buckinghamshire County Council does not require planning permission for these proposals."


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The Wright State women's soccer team played to a 0-0 tie at Xavier Sunday night in exhibition play as the Raiders outshot the Musketeers 5-4 overall. The teams played three 30-minute periods.
The Raiders will play one more exhibition game at Louisville Sunday, August 12, before opening the season at home against Ohio on Friday, August 17.


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The ongoing power crisis is taking its toll on large data center operators. According to a recent survey by Campos Research, most of these operators are expanding their facilities or build new ones -- and they're citing a lack of available power as the No. 1 cause. At the same time, these organizations report that their data centers are operating at an appallingly high average PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) ratio of 2.9.
Interestingly, the survey also hints at a growing interest among organizations in containerized data centers, which are essentially modular data centers in a box that are relatively quick and easy to install for added capacity. Although this route may be more efficient and sustainable than building entirely new facilities from scratch, too many companies are overlooking opportunities to embrace smart, sustainable practices to save money and resources and, in the process, make their existing data centers more efficient.
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Failing PUE grade
If you're not familiar with PUE, it's a widely used ratio to assess how much power in a data center is going toward doing actual work by power IT equipment versus how much is being used for power, cooling, and other nonproductive duties. A PUE of 1.0 means that 100 percent of a facility's energy is being used to power IT equipment. A PUE score of 2.0 means that 50 percent of the data center's energy is fueling the IT gear.
According to the Uptime Institute, the industry average is 2.5; others pin it at around 2.1. Meanwhile, the EPA's oft-cited report to Congress on data center efficiency predicted that data centers could achieve a PUE of 1.7 or lower through improved operations, 1.3 employing best practices, or 1.2 by adopting state-of-the-art technologies.
The data center operators participating in the Campos study, which was commissioned by Digital Realty Trust, represent organizations with at least 5,000 employees or an annual revenue of $1.0 billion, report an average PUE of 2.9. That means, on average, for each watt that companies are purchasing to power their data centers, only around 33 percent is going toward productive work.


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Experimental Limits on Gravitational Waves in the MHz Frequency Range with the Fermilab Holometer Robert Lanza, 2015-03-27
The theory of holographic noise is due to Craig Hogan.
A conceptual design for the experiment was written by Rai Weiss on Feb 10, 2009.
The grand plan for the Holometer is laid out in the proposal document:
Overview presented for the Time and Matter 2013 conference
The Holometer is very closely based on interferometric gravitational wave detectors like LIGO or GEO600.
These are two comprehensive pedagogical resources for learning about LIGO:
These books are good all-in-one resources for a discussion of lasers and optical systems in general.


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Guacamole Pronto!
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This is my husband's favorite way to make guacamole. I prefer a more complicated recipe when I make it with fresh tomatoes, garlic, lime, etc. But he gets lots of raves from this one when he makes it for parties (with lots more avocadoes and salsa, of course). We love this on quesadillas.
Top Review by kiwidutch
How easy can it get? This was made in literally 2 minutes. Sorry, I have no idea what Picante sauce is, so substituted Tabasco.. um,... let me tell you that a decent half teaspoon of the stuff is too much .. (not that I'm really good dealing with fire anyway) so I needed to add another avocado to balance things out a bit and tone down the fire. NO fault of the recipe of course, just a warning to those who also can't get hold of Picante sauce and are experimenting with a substitution. Add just a smidgen and then taste *before* adding more LOL. I like to try as many Guac recipes as I can, and hands down this is the fastest and easiest, but if I can get the hot sauce to replace the more diverse tastes of previous recipes as favourite remains to be seen. Please see my rating system, a lovely 4 stars :) Thanks! Editing to add: I got a note from No MSG after my review and found her comments so helpful that I will add them here for those who also do not know what Pace medium picante sauce is: "The picante sauce that we use has tomatoes, peppers, and onions so it's a real short cut to cutting them all up yourself. Tabasco really isn't the same thing but would spice it up in a pinch. I don't know if you have access to any kind of Mexican salsa or a chunky, spicy sauce with the above-mentioned vegetables in it. That would be closer to what we would use here." I will now look for the correct thing and try again, Thanks, No MSG!
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Lowcountry soccer fans erupt after Team USA game winner in World Cup opener
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Videos like this are popping up all over social media.
Fans who gathered in bars, pubs, and restaurants going crazy after John Brooks headed in the game winning goal for USA against Ghana Monday night, in the World Cup.
The Americans won the game 2-1, marking their first World Cup victory over Ghana after the country eliminated Team USA in the last two tournaments.
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"I took this video at O'Brions in James Island. USA scored off a corner kick.. So awesome! Not sure if you can air this but the emotion was intense", wrote Chad Besenfelder.
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Youth Soccer Referee Punched; Injuries Critical; Player, 17, Arrested
A Salt Lake man -- who was refereeing a recreational soccer game, in Taylorsville -- is in critical condition today, after being punched by a teenage player.
Police say injuries to the man, 46, were initially believed to be minor. But after he was hospitalized, doctors found his medical issues to be more severe.
The player, 17, was booked into the Salt Lake Valley Juvenile Detention Center. Witnesses say he punched the victim only one time.


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Camille Claudel 1915
When gifted sculptor Camille Claudel, once the lover of Auguste Rodin, falls prey to mental illness, her family commits her to a psychiatric clinic. This subdued drama follows Camille's thoughts and moods as she waits for redemption to arrive.
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I am the little man who smokes & smokes.
I am the girl who does know better but.
I am the king of the pool.
I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.
I am a government official & a goddamned fool.
I am a lady who takes jokes.
I am the enemy of the mind.
I am the auto salesman and lóve you.
I am a teenage cancer, with a plan.
I am the blackt-out man.
I am the woman powerful as a zoo.
I am two eyes screwed to my set, whose blind—
It is the Fourth of July.
Collect: while the dying man,
forgone by you creator, who forgives,
is gasping 'Thomas Jefferson still lives'
in vain, in vain, in vain.
I am Henry Pussy-cat! My whiskers fly.
Poet: John Berryman
Poem: 22.
Dream Song 22: Of 1826
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Year: Published/Written in 1964
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I think the unidentified user who changed information on this site knows something about Ms. Brooks. I thought I was right with the pictures I've added, because this woman looks almost like Ms. Brooks, and in my opinion more than the person actually pictured. But it is also possible, this woman is not very good to see. Perhaps the anonymous user could come up here and tell us why he/ she removed the birthdate. It is from IMDb and looks like it was given to this site by Ms. Brooks management, as well as several of the credits/ uncredited roles. Thanks. – Tom 04:30, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
In the last days I was in e-mail contact with the management behind Paige Brooks. The anonymous user who corrected and removed information on this article is one of Ms. Brooks staff, he confirmed it via e-mail. I will remove the birth year again and please don't add it to the article, because no one really knows if it is the right year.
Here is the e-mail, I think it would be better to post it here:
- We are happy to provide/ update the information. Thank you, again, for your wonderful article and great care in writing, correcting, etc. Your support is greatly appreciated!
- Generally, as with most celebrities, we prefer to keep birth dates from being publicly published. In keeping with Ms. Brooks' wishes, we will continue to keep that information private. So, I will not comment on whether or not the date(s) is correct. Thank you for your understanding.
- Feel free to write back with any questions and also reference the Official website and IMDB for further information regarding Ms. Brooks and her body of work.
- Have a wonderfully prosperous New Year!
- www.paigebrooks.com
I think we should respect the wish of Ms. Brooks, like we did it with a fellow Star Trek performer. – Tom 09:58, 30 December 2007 (UTC)


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text: By SportsDayDFW sports websports@************** Now that he's spent a sufficient amount of Dallas, how different is it being a Cowboy than a Chief? "Let's see, what's the politically right answer?" Carr said, giving a small laugh. He spoke after Saturday's "Men Against Abuse" rally at City Hall. "No offense, but Dallas, it's the Big D. This is it right here. "I love that because it gives me the opportunity where I have the platform to do anything in the community and this is Phase One for what I have planned for reaching out and giving back to my community. Between Dallas and Kansas City it's night and day. It's a bigger city, a bigger market." Carr said his offseason was busy with appearances and community outreach, but he would really start focusing on next year in May when the rookies come in and OTAs commence. As for who his new teammates will be, Carr didn't have much of an opinion. Read more: http://cowboysblog.**************/2...las-its-the-big-d-this-is-it-right-here.html/


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Harness Your Inner Power
Marcel Kraushaar is hovering a few inches above the ground, eyes closed, legs in the lotus position, hands forming the Brahma Mudra (the right in the left, thumbs gently touching) supported by only the very ends of his fingertips. He is completely at ease, with not a single muscle tensed. He tells us, in a way that is highly reminiscent of Yoda teaching Luke Skywalker about the Force, that the difficulty in achieving such a feat is purely in our minds, not our muscles.
The daily practice of Kriya Hatha Yoga and Preksha Meditation will help free your mind from struggle and conflict, eliminate energy blockages, harness the power of dormant faculties and bring multiple health benefits. It has been shown to be effective in relieving such ailments as asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, insomnia and arthritis. It also improves the function of the circulatory, digestive and respiratory systems and promotes concentration, relaxation and self-discipline.
Kriya derives from the Sanskrit word "kri", meaning action and "ya" meaning awareness and hatha is a compound of "ha" meaning sun and "tha" meaning moon. The word symbolizes the duality of the positive, masculine, aggressive force and the negative, feminine, receptive force. Most people notice that one side of the body is lighter and the other stiffer when they begin to practise hatha yoga, due to an imbalance in these two forces. The discipline of Hatha Yoga is based on the teachings of Babaji and his disciples, the 18 Siddhas. Babaji was born in 208 AD and reached Enlightenment at the age of 16, when he conquered death and ceased to age. He is reported to be still alive and well in the Himalayas today. While most of us are unlikely to follow suit, the practice of Hatha Yoga will still be exceedingly beneficial to all aspects of our lives.
Hatha Yoga works on the principle that the human body contains several rotating energy fields, known as chakras, located at various points in the body, close to the spine. The stimulation of these centers during yoga and meditation will awaken our higher spiritual consciousness. The life force or prana is the basic energy underlying everything and is found in the air, the earth, water and sunlight. Prana flows through channels, called nadis are called meridians. If you are unable to get into a certain position, this is because there is an energy blockage in one of your nadis, prohibiting the passage of prana. Don' worry if you are not particularly supple; with perseverance and patience, your muscles will gradually loosen up and you will be amazed at what your body is capable of.
Hatha Yoga involves the practice of asanas, mudras and bandahs. An asana is a posture, which produces relaxation, a mudra is a gesture, which affects the flow of prana, and a bandah is a psychomuscular energy lock, which redirects pranic flow and awakens the chakras. It is not the case that some asanas, mudras and bandahs are more basic whilst others are advanced. Everyone has their own positions at which they are adept and others that really cause trouble for them. These are different for different people as everyone has different emotional problems and concerns, i.e. energy blockages in different areas.
It is important to remember that the mind and body are one, so we practise Preksha Meditation. The purpose of meditation is to develop a sense of self-awareness. During meditation you must be highly alert in the here and now but not of anything in particular. It is a state of wakeful repose, in which all your organs become deeply relaxed and yet you are completely aware of being inside your body. Do not allow your mind to stray into the past, where you will encounter regret, or the future, where you will encounter fear. The first step of Preksha Meditation is Khaorsanga, during which you attempt to become aware of your body on a cellular level.
We are guilty of not paying enough attention to our bodies, of not reading their signs correctly. We fail to notice when we are thirsty, ill and malnourished. We ignore and punish our bodies because we have experienced pain in them in the past. We numb our sensations by indulging in harmful behaviors. Through Preksha Meditation we can regain our bodies and ease our pain. We fool ourselves into thinking that we are not in control of our lives, actions and bodies to avoid responsibility and inhibit change. It is up to each of us to break out of our destructive cycles and take our lives into our own hands.
If you experience any aches or soreness from sitting still in one position for so long, you are taught to use the technique of auto suggestion to eliminate them. Imagine that your conscious mind is a torch beam and visualize its rays penetrating the skin, muscles, nerves and bones. Instead of trying to ignore the pain, travel deep into the bothersome area and imagine light particles dispelling shadows. This technique requires a huge amount of concentration but I assure you, it does work! The idea of auto suggestion is not as crackpot as it seems. Western science has gradually abandoned the idea that mind and body are two separate substances, so it is perfectly logical that the one can have influence over the other.
Another practise is Pranayama or breathing exercises. Respiration is the only bodily function which is both voluntary and involuntary, so it is regarded as forming a bridge between the mind and the body. When we bring breath consciously under our control during Pranayama, we increase the level of control we have over the mind and the body. The regulation of breath helps us to absorb more prana from the air and so prevent disease, increase longevity and promote good health.
You wouldn' think it, but after a one or two hour session, everyone has had a good workout and is desperately in need of a long cold shower. It is extremely intense and leaves you tingling and revived, like having a massage from the inside out. In my opinion, certain positions are akin to tortures however the wondrous feeling of wellbeing and content people experience after a hatha yoga session makes it all well worth the effort.
Marcel has been practising hatha yoga for 25 years and teaching for 20 years. Everyone is welcome to come along for a lesson in the serene setting of the Centre. It is easily reached by traveling south along the Chiangmai-Lumphun Rd. or the Night Bazaar Rd. Contact Marcel Kraushaar, Hatha Yoga Centre, 129/79 Chiangmai Villa 1, Mahidol Rd., Padaed Intersection, Chiangmai 50100. Tel./Fax. : 053-271555.
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More sad news for the Brothers Gibb: Robin Gibb, 61, was diagnosed with liver cancer several months ago and rushed to a British hospital last Tuesday, according to the Daily Mail and other U.K. outlets.
Gibb was discharged after five hours and joined by big brother Barry and their mother, the Mail reports.
Recent pictures of the younger Bee Gee show how frail he has become. Gibb had also been hospitalized last month, reportedly for inflammation of the colon. Back then, he refuted stories that his health was getting worse: "I'm feeling great, absolutely great."
It's been a tragic road for the recording star: His teen idol younger brother Andy Gibb died in 1988 at age 30 after fighting cocaine addiction. And his twin brother, Maurice Gibb, died in 2003 at age 53 from complications involving a twisted intestine. Robin recently described Maurice's death to Britain's Sky Arts channels as "something I haven't accepted." He added: "I just imagine he is out there somewhere, and I will bump into him one day."
The Bee Gees all but disbanded after Maurice's death -- and after selling more than 220 million records -- but reunited in recent years, including in 2009 for an appearance on Dancing With the Stars and in 2010 for a performance on American Idol.
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AT&T Expands Innovation, Industry Alliances to Deliver Mobility and Cloud Solutions to Businesses
Unveils Enterprise API Program, Microsoft Cloud Pact, and Agreements with SAP, Air China, and America Movil Company on Track to Deliver Fiber to 1 Million Additional Business Locations by Year-End 2015
Dallas, Texas, September 18, 2013
AT&T* is significantly expanding industry alliances, accelerating its platform strategy and fostering an "ecosystem" of innovation to meet business customer demand for highly secure mobility and cloud-based solutions, according to Andy Geisse, CEO, AT&T Business Solutions. Geisse addressed more than 70 industry analysts being hosted at the company's Dallas headquarters this week.
AT&T outlined progress against its strategy to seize the opportunities afforded by the emergence of business mobility, security and cloud computing as highly popular, industry-transformative technologies.
AT&T's strategy for enterprise customers includes:
- Deploying its core fiber, LTE and IP broadband networks to deliver key services such as Ethernet and virtual private networking
- Differentiating itself by scaling and deploying cloud, security and application interface platforms
- Delivering fully integrated solutions to companies.
The company made several announcements underscoring its progress against this strategy:
- A cloud agreement with Microsoft. AT&T and Microsoft will deliver security-enhanced and reliable cloud solutions that will allow enterprise customers to connect to Microsoft's cloud platform using a private network. The new solutions will use breakthrough cloud integration technology from AT&T to pair virtual private networking with Microsoft's industry-leading Windows Azure cloud platform. This follows recent similar announcements AT&T has made with enterprise computing vendors to fuse their public cloud platforms with AT&T's network using AT&T NetBond: innovative AT&T technology that allows business customers highly secure access to cloud-based services from almost any device.
- An enterprise-focused Application Programming Interface (API) program. AT&T is launching an API platform for enterprise customers, wholesale collaborators and solution providers, allowing them to innovate using AT&T network APIs. The new API program complements AT&T's consumer developer program, which has consistently been rated best by Evans Data Corporation.1 The telecommunications industry API opportunity is expected to grow to $157 billion in global revenues by 2018.2
- A mobile application development agreement with SAP. Expected to be available to business customers in the fourth quarter of 2013, AT&T customers can use the SAP® Mobile Platform to launch, distribute and manage mobile apps, content and devices. This is the latest in a series of agreements to help businesses develop and deploy custom mobile applications that allow employees to access software capabilities from virtually any mobile device – most often used for inventory, resource planning, customer service and managing workforces. More than 68,000 AT&T business customers have adopted mobile applications across multiple industries.
- New managed security services and portfolio capabilities, including the industry's first all-in-one mobile security solution to be launched later this year. Using the service, businesses of all sizes will be able to securely manage mobile ecosystems even if they are not AT&T wireless customers. AT&T also reported it has doubled its network capacity and added new customer services to handle the growing volume of distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. AT&T manages 24,000 security devices and one million seats for cloud-based security services with a 98 percent retention rate among security clients.
- Significantly expanded network reach and access across 15 markets in Latin America as a result of enhanced network connectivity with América Móvil. AT&T and América Móvil are building on existing capabilities and interconnections to deliver advanced enterprise solutions to multinational companies.
- Said it is on schedule to deliver fiber to approximately 250,000 additional business customer locations by year-end 2013. In total, the company plans to reach an additional 1 million business customer locations by the end of 2015 with this program. So far, AT&T has deployed fiber to more than 5,000 additional multi-tenant office buildings reaching more than 170,000 business customer locations from late last year through August 2013.
"There are only a few times when you get to participate in a technology disruption as big as the one we're currently experiencing," said Geisse. "Whether it's equipping flight attendants with tablets to take orders, embedding technology in cars to connect people to information, or delivering store promotions on mobile devices when a shopper walks into a store, our world-renowned network and expertise is playing a huge role in changing how people live and how companies, government, and institutions like schools and hospitals operate."
Speakers at AT&T's Industry Analyst Conference, including executives from Hertz, Maersk and Infiniti Red Bull Racing, described how AT&T has helped them transform their business operations. Hertz CTO Rob Moore said the car rental company is using mobility solutions to quickly assign vehicles to travelers as they arrive at an airport and to provide location-based direction and roadside services to help drivers stay connected while on the go. Maersk CIO Robin Johnson discussed machine-to-machine communications and opportunities.
In addition, AT&T has announced the following customer wins:
- Air China - AT&T is providing specialized consulting services to Air China to help it develop a five-year roadmap for mobile communications and technology.
SWIFT - AT&T has extended its network connectivity solutions to SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) in the Middle East. SWIFT provides a network, products and services to more than 10,000 banking organizations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories. Their network allows their customers to send and receive information about financial transactions using a highly secure, standardized and reliable environment. AT&T is a preferred network provider to SWIFT and has competitively provided IP virtual private network services to SWIFT's global customers, including leading financial institutions, since 2002.
Other customer solutions referenced throughout the two day session included Ancero, Art.com, Carnival Cruises, Delta Air Lines, Goodwill Industries International, State of Texas, and the United States Postal Service.
1 Evans Data Corporation, 2012, 'Mobile Development Survey Volume II'
2 Mind Commerce, September 2013, 'Telecom Network API Marketplace: Strategy, Ecosystem, Players and Forecasts 2013-2018'


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These spats are fantastic. They turn any pair of shoes into an eye-catcher. I like wearing them with my gladiator sandals and a pair of shorts. Genuine leather spats with an elastic band on the bottom that keeps them in place under your shoes, and two buckled straps for your ankle and calf. I have worn these numerous times and they are really comfortable, stay in place all night, and will be the talk of any party or daytime lunch outing you attend. They come in a variety of styles and colors, so choose your favorite and prepare to be reveled.
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MOSOP President / Spokesman, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo has alerted the world that Ogoni people will disengage its relationship with Nigeria in the event of another civil war targeting the natural wealth, especially sweet crude oil and natural gas deposits in Ogoni.
MOSOP – the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People was established by the entire Ogoni people to play the role of a cultural, nonpartisan, nonreligious apex organization of the Ogoni people. MOSOP has stood for rights and freedoms, and continues to protect the interest of Ogoni people all over the world.
Diigbo said Ogoni would embark on a journey to regain its sovereign independence violated by the British Empire in 1901; this will be non-negotiable; if by any mistake, there is another civil war aiming at Ogoni.
Diigbo recalled that Nigeria-Biafra Civil War was fought to decide who should control natural wealth, especially petroleum resources in Ogoni. He said he was alerting the world that in the event of another similar civil war, the Ogoni people will promptly declare an end to their relationship with Nigeria. Dr. Diigbo said that Ogonis are monitoring the heart-beat of Nigeria and warned that the right to autonomy or self-determination remains a pre-condition now, for Ogoni to remain a part of Nigeria.
Diigbo stated this on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 after the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) resolved and declared that 7th of May to the 6th of June, 2012 be observed as the Ogoni Freedom-Remembrance-Month.
MOSOP dedicated the Month to Ogoni 30,000 refugees, who were killed during the civil war of 1967-1970, most of them child soldiers and other conscripts sent to battle fronts without training in the Biafra enclave and others massacred by the attacking Nigerian security forces. Diigbo said already another 10 percent of the civil war casualty figure, numbering over 3,000 have been murdered by the Nigerian armed forces in recent times in a continual attempt to intimidate MOSOP since 1993.
Diigbo said all Ogoni children, men and women who died gave their lives for freedom behind the May 7 to 6th of June activities. The beginning of the Month coincides with the start of the annual United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues holding in New York.
Saturday, May 19 will feature traditional rituals, May 20 for church services, while May 21 and 22 will be work free days for nationwide nonviolent activities to unite Ogonis for a new era.
On May 21, 1994 four Ogoni elders: Albert Badey, Edward Kobani, Samuel Orage and another Chief Orage were murdered at Giokoo, while the security forces kidnapped Ken Saro-Wiwa on May 22, 1994 to face a predetermined death sentence handed down by Justice Ibrahim Auta, a judicial rubber stamp. Auta who presided over a kangaroo tribunal where Saro-Wiwa was taken read out trumped up charges to hang Saro-Wiwa in a Port Harcourt prison on November 10, 1995.
During the Month, in addition to tree-planting in cities, towns and villages throughout Ogoni, traditional dancing groups, churches, clubs, organizations, schools and businesses would be contributing entertainment, money, skills, time and friendship to strengthen MOSOP Freedom Agenda.


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My Two Dads (1987–1990)
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When Marcy Bradford dies, she leaves her teen-age daughter Nicole in the custody of a father she has never met; or rather, two fathers - Michael, a straight-laced and formal man; and Joey, a wild artist. Both were Marcy's former boyfriends, and together, they provide a unique balance of parenting skills for young Nicole.- Written by Phil Fernando
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I notice about the union. That was take the wage a make it bigger eather 2 to 3 time big .so the people in the will not go back to Regaltor pay check . this mean that right to work paid check is the real paid check wage . this is wrong cause the union take more money out of the company .that cause the company to close it door .theis mean that big paid check paid for the union dew and the democratic. this is robbery. need to be check out by the fbi and investgator.that union are takeing to much money .went we need company to make more job's . you know that union are socialist group .and they well tair down ,the capitalway .this mean that Obama go into the company and soon or later the union come to take out the money by big wage and dew and take out. need to be investgated take the computer all the stuff is need to close down the company's. Poor people jesus said there will be alway poor people with us .this humble us .the ration of poor people to working people is 3/4% working group 1% poor group's mean that if you did heal all ther poor the poor people .there well be poor people that you can not heal the poor problem out of them .the human spirit is where the program is at where the word's are at throught's at . the human spirit that move the phical body the poor people is set that way can not chance the programing with out chanceing the whole spirit . there well be poor people you can not chance and that the way it is. in every genation there are poor people inevery genation and everybody take turn bring poor from gemation to genation this is how the Heavenly father has this program set up from genatio to genation .this is the way it is.
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What if 2017 turns out to be the most boring, most predictable year in the history of sports?
Will we still love the games?
What if the favorite always wins? What if the favorite always wins by a lot?
What if our teams maintain mediocrity throughout the season and limp to a dreadful end?
Will we still love the games?
When CNN.com went about proving that 2016 actually wasn't the deadliest year for famous people, it not only spurred me toward hyperbole, it padlocked me into the rocket ship of absolutes.
So I hereby proclaim 2016 as the most remarkable year in sports history. That's right. That's 100 percent right.
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When Life Gives You A Breakup, Make Art
Writers often turn their relationships — failed and successful — into stories and novels. But they're not the only creative types spinning exes into gold. Recently, a few visual and performance artists have used dating and breakups as a starting point for their work. At least some people are finding uses for their relationship failures. We can't seem to figure out what to do with our brokenheart.
- Zach and Ellie play-acted through the stages of a relationship, including flirtation, marriage, child-rearing, and divorce, in a week. "I was surprised at how natural a lot this pretending felt, really," Zach said. "It should have felt very foreign, I suppose, for a guy like me to suddenly find myself escorting my ostensibly very pregnant wife around town, but people accepted and even embraced us to such an extent that it really felt pretty natural." [Seven Day Conceptual Relationship]
- The Museum of Broken Relationships allows people to get rid of possessions they associate with past relationships, putting the items on display with a short, anonymous description related to the relationship. Items include an "I love you" teddy bear, fuzzy pink handcuffs, and a cell phone ("He gave me his cell phone so I couldn't call him any more." — Ouch). [Museum of Broken Relationships]
- Sophie Calle's Take Care of Yourself is on display in New York for one more month. The artist asked 107 women from various areas — opera, anthropology, psychiatry — to interpret a breakup letter she received via email. [Paula Cooper Gallery]


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In the last two weeks, Thomas has made personal visits to NFL camps in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Miami, New England, Denver and San Francisco. "You go first class and stay in the best hotels, but that's a lot of travel," said Thomas of the workouts and background checks that take place prior to the April 28-30 NFL Draft. "It's been fun, but I'm ready for it to be over." But until the start of Thursday's draft, Thomas will be forced to sit and wait ... and wait ... and wait at his home of Hilliard, Fla., before going to New York City for the draft. "You never know where you'll go, and you definitely don't know how high you might go," said Thomas, who became K-State's second all-time leading rusher in just two seasons with the Wildcats. "I've heard late first round, or in the second round, but you never know." To the majority of the mock drafts that project Thomas in the third round, he quipped, "As far as I know, none of those guys are general managers making the decisions. Most of what I hear is that I won't get past the second round." Since the New Era Pinstripe Bowl, Thomas spent much of the month of January in Boca Raton, Fla., in a training camp designed for running backs, who are eligible for the draft. Due to a minor hamstring injury, he missed the Senior Bowl and a portion of the NFL Combine. What he did do at the Combine, however, was the interview process. "That was the longest day of my life," Thomas said. "I talked to a total of 20 teams. You spend 15 minutes with a team, and then go to the next, and then to the next. It goes until two in the morning." Thomas said the mini-interviews are all about character checks. "You hear the same questions over and over," said Thomas. "They want to know if you're married, if your parents are still married, to what's the difference between a car and a boat. I don't even remember what I said. It didn't make any sense." Thomas did bench press 225 pounds 21 times at the Combine, which he said "... was pretty good." He didn't run the 40-yard-dash until a Pro Day in mid-March in the K-State indoor facility. "I read papers that said it was a 4.6, but I've also heard low 4.5s, so I don't know where people get those figures they print because I don't even know," said Thomas, who measured 6-0 ¼ and 228 pounds at the Combine. "From what I hear, I'm fast enough." One scouting service defined Thomas' workout as "solid, but not great," "smooth and athletic, but did not look as good catching passes," and, "didn't look natural running pass routes and dropped two passes." Most draft boards have Thomas ranked as the fifth-best running back in the draft behind Mark Ingram of Alabama, Mikel LeShoure of Illinois, Ryan Williams of Virginia Tech and DeMarco Murray of Oklahoma. Scouting reports have both the good, and the iffy areas when looking at Thomas beyond K-State: Strengths: • Excellent height and bulk with a large, sturdy frame • Athletic with nice agility, balance and nimble feet • Is strong, tough, powerful and runs extremely hard • Patient but decisive with good vision and instincts • A classic downhill runner who excels on the interior • Doesn't go down easily and will usually fall forward • Gets job done in short-yardage / goal line situations • Is more than capable as pass catcher out of backfield • An adequate blocker with the potential to be fantastic • Determined with good work ethic and solid intangibles • Very productive and excelled against top competition
Weaknesses: • Just does not have great speed, quickness or a burst • Runs too tall and leaves himself open to punishment • Not very shifty or elusive and won't make people miss • Will struggle to get outside and turn corner in pros • Is not a big play threat who will take it the distance • Struggled in classroom and intelligence is a concern
Previous K-State running backs to go in the Top 100 selections have been Veryl Switzer, No. 4 in 1954, Corky Taylor No. 18 in 1955, Maurice Elder No. 26 in 1957, Mike Montgomery No. 65 in 1971, Ralph Pfeifer No. 82 in 1958.
Somewhat recently, Darren Sproles was the 130th player selected in the 2005 draft in the fourth round, Josh Scobey No. 185 in the sixth round in 2002, Thomas Clayton No. 186 in the sixth round in 2007, and Rock Cartwright No. 257 in the seventh round in 2002. This year's NFL Draft will include the first-round selections on April 28, second and third rounds on April 29, and rounds four through seven on April 30.
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Sacred Narratives
Written by: Jeffrey Richey
The idea of learning from the past is fundamental to Confucian thinking, and the early histories and biographies are the closest thing to sacred narratives in Confucianism. Among the "classics" are many stories that contain a moral component or exemplify an effort to understand why things happened as they did.
Kongzi (better known as "Confucius" in the West) sought inspiration from the historical, poetic, and ritual texts of the Western Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.E.), founded nearly five hundred years before his birth. Among these are the Shujing (Classic of Documents), which tells the story of the dynasty's rise and fall. The early years of the dynasty were plagued by civil war.
At the heart of this conflict was the matter of royal succession. The brother and chief minister of the dynastic founder, the Duke of Zhou, argued that Tian (Heaven, the high god worshipped by the Zhou kings) had bestowed its blessing on all of the Western Zhou people, especially the king's ministers, rather than on the royal lineage alone. Other factions at court, however, countered that the king alone was the recipient of divine authority. Unsurprisingly, this argument prevailed with Zhou kings. Yet the Duke of Zhou's view that Tian's mandate (Tianming) is gained and maintained by merit rather than blood eventually became very influential on Kongzi and his followers much later. Confucians would come to see the Western Zhou's collapse in 771 B.C.E. as an act of Tian that signaled the loss of the heavenly mandate to rule. The story of the Western Zhou's beginnings, however, convinced Confucians that just as virtuous rulers once came to power and brought prosperity and harmony, so too could sage kings walk the earth again in their own time and order society with tradition, ritual, and virtue.
Another key Western Zhou text for Kongzi and his disciples was the Shijing (Classic of Poetry). Kongzi believed that the poems found in this ancient collection reinforced his basic view of humans as inheritors of great moral traditions and partners with Tian in the moral transformation of society. The Shijing consists mostly of folk songs about love and work, although its later portions include lyrics originally sung as part of Zhou religious ceremonies. The former often depict lonesome maidens pining for their lovers or beleaguered peasants laboring for unappreciative landlords, while the latter describe cultural heroes such as Hou Ji, a minister of the mythical sage-emperor Yao who later was deified as the god of agriculture, and Tang, the virtuous king who overthrew the corrupt, semi-legendary Xia dynasty (2700-1600 B.C.E.?) and founded the Shang dynasty (1700-1027 B.C.E.). Later Confucian commentators often interpreted the Shijing's folk songs as moral allegories, whereby "lonesome maidens" and "lovers" became virtuous officials wishing to serve a sage-ruler.


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Hachis Parmentier, where have you been all my life? That is what I wondered after listening to Dorie Greenspan cooking this French version of shepherd's pie on NPR. Dorie Greenspan's new book, Around My French Table has been getting a lot of attention on the food blogs lately. And now there she was, cooking up a hearty supper on the radio. I have a great deal of faith in these NPR segments about Dorie Greenspan, as it was from another such story that I got my stand-by dessert recipe, tarte tatin.
I looked up the segment on NPR.org, and there was the recipe. Soon, my opportunity came to try this dish. Last Sunday, it was my turn to cook for the biweekly amazing race dinner party. It was time to debut Hachis Parmentier. For this crowd, I decided I had better double the recipe.
This was not a demanding or difficult dish to make by any means, but it did take a little time, what with the long simmering and the potato peeling and all. Fortunately, it could be done in stages. Of course, every stage was so delicious in its own right that it was difficult to keep from nibbling at the chunks of beef and sausage. Then the blanket of mashed potatoes that were spread over the tender meat filling was so good that I had to scrape the bowl and lick the spoon after I was done. And then the grated gruyere and emmental cheeses—well, I grated a little extra for myself.
Thank goodness for long-simmering dishes like this one that allow the cook to go take a Sunday afternoon nap while dinner burbles away on a back burner, filling the house with the warm scent of meat and potatoes, and return later to assemble the casserole, then clean up the kitchen in peace after dinner is tucked, cozily browning, into the oven.
Not much was needed to complete this meal–a green salad and some whole wheat rolls did the job nicely.
When dinner was served, and everyone sat expectantly in front of the TV with their food, there was a brief but profound silence, then: "This is so good!" and "Mmmm!" and "You should be a chef," Well yes, except for the low pay, bad benefits, long hours and difficult working conditions…but I took the compliment in the spirit it was offered, a tribute to the joys of gathering for simple, flavorful comfort food on a rainy winter evening.
The sausage and beef filling was tender and intensely flavorful. The mashed potato topping was a creamy, salty, cheesy delight. The two combined to make something transcendent, far more than the simple sum of homely meat and potatoes.
There were no leftovers.
Hachis Parmentier
(adapted from Around My French Table by Dorie Greenspan)
For the beef and bouillon
- 1 pound boneless beef chuck or top round roast, cut into small pieces
- 1 small onion, sliced
- 1 medium carrot, trimmed, peeled and cut into 1-inch-long pieces
- 1 small celery stalk, trimmed and thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, smashed and peeled
- 2 parsley sprigs
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black peppercorns
- 6 cups water
- 1 beef bouillon cube
For the filling
- 1-1/2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 pound mild Italian sausage, removed from casings if necessary
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
For the topping
- 2-3 pounds potatoes, peeled (and quartered, if large)
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 3 tbsp butter, at room temperature, plus 1 tablespoon butter, cut into bits
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 3/4 cup grated Gruyere and/or or Emmental cheese
- 2 tbsp freshly grated Parmesan
To make the beef: Put all the ingredients except the bouillon cube in a Dutch oven or soup pot and bring to a boil, skimming off the foam that bubbles to the surface. Lower the heat and simmer gently for 1 1/2 hours.
Drain the meat, reserving the broth. Transfer the meat and vegetables to a cutting board. Strain the broth. (The beef and bouillon can be made up to one day ahead, covered and refrigerated.) Using a chef's knife, chop the beef into tiny pieces.
To make the filling: Butter a 2-quart oven-safe casserole.
Put a large skillet over medium heat and pour in the olive oil. When it's hot, add the sausage and cook, breaking up the clumps of meat, then drain. Add the chopped beef and tomato paste and stir to mix everything well. Stir in 1 cup of the bouillon and bring to a boil. You want to have just enough bouillon in the pan to moisten the filling and to bubble up gently wherever there's a little room; if you think you need more, add it now. Season with salt and pepper. Scrape the filling into the casserole and set aside while you prepare the potatoes.
To make the topping: Put the potatoes in a large pot of generously salted cold water and bring to a boil. Cook until the potatoes are tender enough to be pierced easily with the tip of a knife, about 20 minutes; drain them well.
Meanwhile, center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Place a baking sheet on the rack below to catch drips.
Mash potatoes well. Using a wooden spoon or a sturdy spatula, stir in the milk and cream, then blend in the 3 tablespoons butter. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Spoon the potatoes over the filling, spreading them evenly and making sure they reach to the edges of the casserole. Sprinkle the grated cheese over the top of the pie, dust with the Parmesan, and scatter over the bits of butter. Place the dish on the lined baking sheet.
Bake for 30 minutes, or until the filling is bubbling steadily and the potatoes have developed a golden brown crust. Serve.
The beef and bouillon can be made up to a day ahead and kept covered in the refrigerator, and the filling can be prepared a few hours ahead and kept covered in the fridge. You can even assemble the entire pie ahead and keep it chilled for a few hours before baking it (directly from the refrigerator if your casserole can stand the temperature change) — of course, you'll have to bake it a little longer. If you've got leftovers, you can reheat them in a 350-degree-F oven.


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We can't imagine a scenario in which we would have to download 250 Blu-Ray discs in a single second, but there's some good news for those of you with an insatiable lust for data transfer. Research teams have recently managed to send more than 100 terabits of data down a single length of optical fibre by using a whole host of bandwidth-enhancing laser light voodoo magic. Or science. Either way, it's best not to get our hopes up as this kind of tech is still a long way off from entering our everyday lives. Still, progress is progress and we urge eggheads the world over to continue in their battle of oneupmanship.
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Website designs for premium Mac application websites are amongst the most beautiful web designs on the net. Here's an inspirational showcase of some of the best, along with a look at some common trends and features.
Common features
There's a hand full of design features that tend to appear time and time again in the designs of Mac app websites. Some of these design trends take inspiration directly from Apple, like the well designed features layout – a common trait of an Apple.com webpage – while others are commonly used techniques in the world of website design that are taken a step further, example being the use of icons to reinforce the text with a visual clue, but these icons are much larger in size and include much more detail.
Vibrant colours
Almost every site in the showcase features a mix of vibrant colours, either in the form of an illustration or from the large icons on the page. A dark background colour helps these colours 'pop' with a super bright appearance.
Large buttons
Being downloadable applications means a prominent download or buy now link is crucial. Large and chunky buttons have become popular elements across the web design industry, but Mac app websites often feature oversized button graphics with a tactile feel created with subtle shading and highlights.
Features icons
The use of icons to reinforce nearby text is nothing new in web design, but Apple's own use of large and more detailed icons has led to icon designs becoming bigger in size; more detailed and vibrant; and generally more unique in the type of imagery they depict.
Oversized icons
The icons in OSX are designed at extra large proportions, so the icons for the apps themselves also need to be oversized and therefore include plenty of detail. These icons act as the app's logo and branding – It's what people will recognise the app by when its sat in their dock, so it makes sense to use the supersized icon as part of the website design.
Designed layouts
Usually the surrounding interface of a website is designed, then the content is simply inserted and forgotten about. However the Apple website is a great example of how the content itself is designed, as well as the surrounding page. The Mac app websites often take inspiration from this, combining imagery and text into flowing layouts.
Modal windows
Javascript Lightboxes and modal windows have become pretty much standard in today's web, but this particular style of window appears time and time again in Apple related site designs. These lightbox windows are great for showing off screenshots of the app, or an introductory video.
Crisp & sharp interface design
The OSX interface is razor sharp with tiny pixel bevels and highlights giving a really crisp appearance. This design style has emerged onto the web, particularly in Mac, iPhone and iPad related websites. Soft and subtle shadows, inset text and 1px highlighting lines all add to the theme.


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whos excited to celebrate 4/20
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whos excited to celebrate 4/20
overrated. Smoking sucks
why did there have to be a whole new thread for this? i'm pretty sure there was an identical on last year...
oh, & the whole concept has always struck me as kinda stupid...like a pothead's valentine's day. if you're gonna smoke, smoke. why do you need a special day to do it?
Why do alcoholics need to use every and any possible holiday as an excuse to get drunk and party?
I used to get excited for April 20, when i was 14. Now i get excited when it's 5:20pm
drugs ruin lives and families
Get the hell outta here man. When I was 16 my brother overdosed on marijuana aka the devil. It was all fun and games with the occasional cheech and chong movie. Then the laughter ended. **** you man.


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Radio/TV: Pittsburgh stations won't fall victim to fake zombie alerts
Here in the city where "Night of the Living Dead" was filmed, Pittsburgh stations feel ready for hoaxes such as the one posted on the Emergency Alert System at KRTV-3 in Great Falls, Mont.
"Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living," the fake Feb. 11 EAS alert told KRTV viewers.
Others victimized, possibly by that same hacker, include WNMU-13 in Marquette, Mich.
The Federal Communications Commission urged stations to secure EAS equipment and reset passwords.
"Apparently, the stations that were compromised failed to re-set the default log-in and passwords given them when they first installed the equipment," WPXI-11 producer Maureen O'Connor said.
"This scenario is not possible with WYEP-91.3/WESA-90.5 as we run an analog EAS system," said Russ Loyd, chief engineer for both public FMs.
Loyd called "robust and secure" Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency's EMnet. It's relayed to six counties including Allegheny and Westmoreland via WQED-89.3 and CBS Radio's KDKA-1020.
CBS Radio manager Michael Young said his stations "are fairly confident that it would be very difficult for anyone to generate a false signal or message" through EAS.
"We are following the FCC recommendations by double-checking our equipment," said WQED TV-FM spokesman George Hazimanolis.
Some area stations monitor outlets serving other regions, such as Keymarket's WOGG-94.9 and WPKL-99.3 for Fayette and Greene counties.
Others also said they were not affected, including Renda, with 11 area stations including WMNY-1360 in McKeesport.
Clear Channel reported taking "all appropriate steps," as did Trib Total Media partner KQV-1410. But, KQV's co-manager Robert W. Dickey Jr. cautioned, "It's only as good as the last outbreak sometimes."
Elsewhere, some reaired the bogus alerts, triggering other systems. Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters consultant Matt Lightner said it is "illegal to transmit any EAS tones or anything that sounds like an EAS tone" except for "a real alert or official testing."
• Working Family Radio's Union Edge now airs weekdays from noon to 3 p.m. on WKFB-770 and FM 97.5. Its stated aim is to tackle "years of anti-union propaganda" elsewhere.
"We are sometimes robust in our discussions, but we are always respectful," host Charles Showalter said. "We address the inaccurate information that is propagated (by others) and people enjoy it."
• Apollo's WAVL-910 could go silent as early as next month because of financial considerations, according to manager Jeff Bogaczyk.
Several years ago Renda Broadcasting had an FCC permit to swap what then was WPTT's frequency for that used by the Evangel Heights Assembly of God-owned talk station.
That permit, which later expired, would have put WAVL on AM 1360 in Apollo and what now is WMNY on AM 910 in Mt. Lebanon, rather than McKeesport.
• D. Raja, former candidate for Allegheny County executive and for state Senate in the South Hills, is doing an hour-long "Your American Story" on Sundays at 1:30 p.m. on Clear Channel's WPGB-104.7.
The show aims to continue the legacy of the late "American Entrepreneur" WMNY and WPGB talk show host Ron Morris, his widow Karen said.
• For a second time in less than a year, satellite access to Sinclair's WPGH-53 and WPMY-22 was in doubt at presstime. Last summer it was over a transmission agreement with Dish Network. This time, it's DirecTV, whose present contract with Sinclair was scheduled to expire on Friday.
• WQED-13's next cooking marathon has eight firefighters joining Chris Fennimore on Saturday from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Former WPXI weatherman Mike LaPoint is back in the Midwest, joining WOWT-6 in Omaha, Neb., as its chief meteorologist.
• Former WDVE-102.5 deejay Jim Krenn kicks off a "No Restrictions" comedy podcast March 14 on Sideshow Network. His first taping is on March 7 at the Bricolage Theater.
• A second season of "Farm Kings," stories of Butler's King family, begins in April on Great American Country.
• Finally, "in memoriam":
Bill Steltemeier, president of Eternal Word Television Network who died on Feb. 15, made the Catholic outlet a staple on cable nationwide.
Dr. Bruce Dixon, former Allegheny County health director who died on Wednesday, was a friend and active backer of "Pittsburgh oldie" disc jockeys.
Jodi Weigand contributed to this story. Patrick Cloonan is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-664-9161, ext. 1967.
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