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Driving in darkness along a deserted highway, I had porcini on my mind. It was long before dawn, but I needed to drive from my house near Sacramento down to California's Central Coast and meet up with my fellow mushroom hunters as close to dawn as possible. We needed to be there before competing pickers did.
It is a rare thing for me to be up this early without a gun or fishing rod involved. But the prospect of a serious flush of boletus edulis, the magnificent porcini mushroom, is more than worth a 4 a.m. wake-up call. Tramping around the country on book tour, I'd thought I'd missed our fall porcini season, which is usually October and November on California's coast. But last week a reader named Carter sent me an email asking if I'd wanted to join them on a porcini hunt. He assured me there were still some king boletes to be found if we went south of San Francisco. How far south I cannot tell, only that it was north of Los Angeles…
Carter, his friend Adam and Adam's father John and I all met about the same time. We quickly made our introductions and headed into the forest. I could see mushroom lust in all our eyes.
We didn't walk five steps before we began seeing boletes. Tons of boletes. An endless, monstrous, epic flush of boletes. Everything from slippery jacks and other suillus to some beautiful, firm leccinum manzanitae, the manzanita boletes beloved by the Italian community in the Sierra Foothills. And studded among them was the largest flush of amanita muscaria I've ever seen.
Amanita muscaria is one of the prettiest mushrooms in the world, and it is also toxic if eaten without special processing. If you try to eat it like a regular mushroom, fly agaric will cause hallucinations as well as various gastric issues. No bueno. But, if you are looking for boletus edulis – porcini, cepe, penny bun, etc – look first for amanita muscaria.
And just like that, Carter found one. Then his friend Andy found one. Game on! As we walked and walked and walked, the porcini, with their distinctively warm brown, "hamburger bun" cap and fat stem, hid themselves among the zillions of lesser boletes. Boletes, by the way, include all mushrooms with spongy bottoms instead of gills. The biggest groupings are the true boletes, the suillus, which generally have slimy caps, and the leccinums, which tend to be firm and dry and have dark, hairy flecks on their stems that look like five o'clock shadow.
I happen to like dried leccinums, so I picked them as well as the porcini I found. And if you look at the mushroom behind this leccinum in the picture above, it is a baby pine spike, chroogomphus vinicolor. I pick these, too, as they are good dried when tossed into mushroom broth or into a ragout. And they were everywhere. I also found lots of lactaria deliciosa, which I hear is not so delicioso; I've never eaten them.
As we moved through the forest, my interest in all edible mushrooms was, apparently, a disadvantage. I'd tuned my eyes to mushrooms in general, but Carter, Andy and the rest had keyed themselves solely on the porcini. So they covered ground far faster — and picked far more porcini than I did.
Even so, the picking was good. I did the worst of everyone, but I still came home with more than 10 pounds of porcini, plus a small haul of pine spikes, leccinum and a few slippery jacks. I was on top of the world as I drove back to Sacramento.
Most of the porcini I'd collected were not prime. They were large, some more than two pounds, their spongy bottoms discolored and their bodies inhabited by a few wormy tenants. If they are not too slimy, or moldy, or too riddled with worms, these porcini are wonderful cut into pieces and dried. The worms flee the mushrooms in the drying process and die, so you will not be eating dried maggots in your porcini. This is a good thing.
My dehydrator ran morning and night for two days, and I wound up with three quarts of dried porcini, a haul by my standards. I had another pint of porcini powder, made from the spongy bits. The sponge isn't very good to eat when it is reconstituted; it's slimy. But dried and ground, it makes the perfect, intensely flavored porcini powder. I use it in venison sausage and in pasta.
I did, however, have enough prime boletes to work with some fresh ones. I am pickling a few (more on that later), and grilling others simply. (Grilling in December? Welcome to California!) But the stems, which can be a little fibrous, are great diced small and fried in olive oil, then worked into a porcini risotto.
So I decided to make a sexed-up porcini risotto, with fresh porcini, minced, reconstituted dried porcini, the water I soaked the dried mushrooms in, plus a little parmesan cheese. I topped it with a seared pigeon breast — pigeon and squab are a perfect complement to porcini mushrooms.
It was a winter carnival of flavors, warm, loaded with mushroomy umami goodness, with just a little bit of medium-rare game to round it out. I cracked open a 2005 Vino Noceto Sangiovese wine to go with it. Thanks a heap for the invite, Carter! I hope to return the favor someday soon.
Porcini Mushroom Risotto
This recipe is a triple porcini bomb: You use both fresh and dried porcini, plus the water you reconstituted the mushrooms in to cook the rice. You don't need too much fresh porcini for this dish, and I use only the stems. One good-sized mushroom will do. You will also want some dried porcini, too, and these are available in many supermarkets, or you can buy them online from Earthy Delights.
As for the pigeon, well, I shot mine. But you can get squab in fancy markets, or buy it online from D'Artagnan. Or you could use a little duck breast or venison loin or a couple pieces of beef skirt steak. Basically you want a little richly flavored red meat in there. Of course, if you are a vegetarian, skip it. The risotto will still be excellent.
A final word on the rice. Most of you who read this space know that I am a stickler for good risotto rice. I prefer Carnaroli rice for land-based risotto, and Vialone Nano for seafood-based risotto. Arborio rice is fine to use, and it is more readily available, but I don't like it as much. You can buy Carnaroli rice in Italian specialty shops or online from my friend Scott over at Sausage Debauchery.
Serves 4 as a first course or 2 as a hearty main course.
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
- 1 ounce dried porcini
- 4 cups boiling water
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 shallot, minced
- 1 cup fresh porcini, diced
- Salt
- 1 cup risotto rice (Carnaroli, Arborio or Vialone Nano)
- 1/3 cup Marsala wine, or sherry
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- Black pepper
- 1 squab breast for each diner (optional)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil (optional)
- Soak the dried porcini in the boiling water for 30 minutes. Do the rest of your prep while the dried mushrooms are soaking.
- In a large, heavy pot, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat for 1 minute, then add the shallot and fresh porcini. Saute for 3-4 minutes, or until the mushrooms begin to brown. Sprinkle some salt over them as they cook. Chop the reconstituted dried porcini and the rice and add them to the pot. Stir well and saute another 2 minutes or so.
- Pour the mushroom soaking water through a paper towel to filter out any grit and put it in a pot with 2 additional cups of water. Set this to simmering.
- Add the Marsala to the pot with the rice and stir it in. It's likely that it will almost immediately evaporate. If so, add 1 cup of the mushroom soaking water. Stir this in. You are now in the work stage of a risotto. You will need to constantly stir and add water to the rice as it cooks to get that creamy consistency. I stir almost continuously at this point, but you can step away a little bit. Once the water is almost gone — you never want the rice to stick to the bottom of the pot — add a little more, then a little more, and so on. Sprinkle salt in the pot once or twice as you do this.
- When the rice is al dente, i.e., close to done but not yet there, get out a small frying pan and heat the 1 tablespoon of olive oil over medium-high heat. Let this get hot and set the squab breast skin side down on it. Turn the heat down to medium and let this sear for 2 minutes. Flip the squab breast and cook for 1 more minute. Remove to a cutting board, tent loosely with foil and let it rest.
- Add the parsley and the parmesan cheese to the risotto and stir it in. If you run out of water, add a little more to keep the risotto loose. Taste for salt after adding the parmesan, as it is salty. Stir for 5 more minutes.
- Spoon the risotto into bowls and grind some black pepper over it. Slice the squab breasts and put on top of the risotto. Serve with a medium-bodied red wine, such as a Sangiovese, a Cote du Rhone, a Pinot Noir or a Grenache. If you are a beer drinker, I like a brown ale, a Scotch ale or some other malty beer.


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The first goal of the Division of Spill Prevention and Response's (SPAR) mission is spill prevention - making the system "safer".
The core elements of prevention include:
Escort vessels are a key prevention measure that enhances the safety of marine oil transportation in Prince William Sound.
- oil spill prevention plans for oil terminals, pipelines, tank vessels and barges, nontank vessels, railroads, refineries, and exploration and production facilities;
- risk reduction program for underground storage tanks;
- chemical spill prevention;
- inspections of facility and vessel prevention programs;
- best-available technology reviews; and
- spill prevention education and technical assistance.
Spill prevention is critical because of the high risks posed by Alaska's environment. The objective is to reduce the number and volume of oil and hazardous substance spills.
Oil Spill Prevention Plans
SPAR ensures that regulated operators engage in proper spill prevention techniques through review of prevention plans that must be submitted as part of an operator's oil discharge prevention and contingency plan. Corrosion monitoring, leak detection, overflow alarms, secondary containment, tank inspections, pipeline testing, and tanker escort systems are among the requirements that SPAR staff verify through plan review and follow-up inspections.
Chemical Spill Prevention
Chlorine and ammonia are used in many Alaska communities for seafood processing and water treatment, and pose the primary chemical threats to Alaskans. Other prevalent hazardous chemicals that pose a threat include hydrogen sulfide, formaldehyde, sulfuric acid, and sodium cyanide. SPAR maintains and updates information on Alaska's chemical hazards for use by communities as an aid in preparing local response plans. This information is also used to identify communities at risk from a chemical release for non-regulatory prevention inspections and drills. The state's hazmat response teams target the chemicals which may pose a threat.
Spill Prevention Inspections
Division staff trained to American Petroleum Institute standards conduct on-site inspections of regulated operations, including oil exploration and production facilities, pipelines, tank vessels and oil barges, and aboveground and underground storage tank facilities.
SPAR's privatized underground storage tank inspection program is working to ensure that the leak detection and corrosion monitoring systems at new installations protect Alaska's environment.
Best Available Technology Reviews
New tanks installed in Emmonak in 2000. With approximately 410,000 gallon capacity, secondary containment and regular maintenance, this facility will safely serve the needs of the community for years.
Industry prevention plans must incorporate the use of best available technology (BAT) to ensure that the oil is kept in the container. Operators must demonstrate that the technologies identified in their plans meet the BAT requirement. SPAR periodically conducts evaluations of technologies subject to the BAT requirements and may issue written findings for those technologies considered the best available. Operators who select established BAT technologies are not required to conduct an independent analysis of those technologies.
Spill Prevention Education and Technical Assistance
SPAR engages in public outreach to prevent and reduce the occurrence of oil and hazardous substance releases from home heating oil tanks, marinas, aboveground storage tanks, facilities that handle hazardous chemicals, and other unregulated sources. Efforts may include manuals, handbooks and other educational materials, public service announcements, training in proper spill prevention techniques, and non-regulatory audits and inspections.
The Nanuq is one of two tractor tugs with unique maneuvering capabilities that provide an escort to every laden tanker transiting Prince William Sound.
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Louise Cochrane, Secretary for Larry Dietrick, Director
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410 Willoughby Ave., Suite 303
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Juneau, AK 99811-1800
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'The Legend Of Korra' Creators Reveal Title For Book 3, Hint At Plans
Though it won't air on television until this Friday, Nickelodeon posted the finale to The Legend Of Korra Book 2: "Spirits" online over the weekend, which means that it's already been widely discussed on the internet. It also means that series creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are likely a bit more comfortable publicly discussing some aspects of the season's conclusion, as well as the title for the upcoming Book 3, which was revealed today.
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is artefil safe in larger volumes? i.e to be used for facial lipoatrophy? I live in the Uk. I'm prepared to travel, how do i find an experienced surgeon to permanently fix my face?
Is ArteFill Safe in Larger Volumes when Used for Facial Lipoatrophy?
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Artefill for facial lipoatrophy
Facial lipoatrophy can be treated with several different options, depending on where the lipoatrophy is located. In regards to using fillers for treating facial lipoatrophy, I have had success using Radiesse, Sculptra, and Artefill. All of these can give good results, but there is a difference in how long they last. Radiesse can potentially be used in just one session to obtain a good result, but the effects will probably only last a year. A series of Sculptra treatments can also give good results, and the effects would last 2-4 years. Artefill would also require a series of treatments to obtain the final result, but the effects should be permanent. With regards to Artefill, as long as there is no reaction to the skin test, there should be no problem with using larger volumes.
Artefill for Facial LipoAtrophy
Good question - In theory Artefill could be used for this. However it would not be possible to correct you in one session. Of all the injectable fillers, Sculptra has been the most popular for this use. However in theory there is no reason why Artefill could not be used. Still it is a permanent filler there and there can be potential issues long term if there is any abnormal reaction to the material. You would need a collagen skin test to rule out allergies prior to injecting Artefill. I have not treated marked facial lipoatrophy with Artefill but have used large volumes on individuals wishing to augment facial features permanently. I hope this helps. Best of Luck Dr Harrell
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Artefill for lipoatrophy
I think due to the nature of the product, it might end up with lumps or granulomas when that amount is injected. I would suggest Sculptra over Artefill for that reason.
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Sculptra preferred over Artefill for facial lipoatrophy
In our practice lipoatrophy is best addressed by fat grafting (fat removed from one part of the body and placed in this area as a graft) or a Sculptra treatment. Sculptra is a substance which stimulates your body to build up more tissue in the area where it is injected. The FDA has approved its use for both facial lipoatrophy due to treatment for HIV as well as its cosmetic use for soft tissue filling.
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Nathan Beyer wrote: > Not using SVN directly? Do I even want to ask? We have a running SVN->Git mirroring via tailor, and some people prefer to use Git for managing patches, because git 1) is faster 2) can manage many patches and branches 3) can work offline. (I do not intend this as hidden advertisment, sorry if it sounds like it). > In any case, I tested it after I deleted the file and the file was > regenerated during the build. Did I miss something? I thought this bit > was already in the scripts. Nathan, thanks a lot for you attention! I do not think you missed anything, because it is really due to peculiarities in our setup. When SVN information is not available, pointless file copying wasn't performed, and this was also feature requested by me (to shorten recompilation time). Since the fix was committed promptly, I really don't see much problem in this particular case, and do not see anything that you need to change in your process. Thanks for the care, anyway.
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Rhys Ifans Shoots Down Bond Rumours
'I don't know anything about that..'
Looks like we were right to be slightly sceptical about Rhys Ifans possibly joining the cast of Bond 23, reports of which hit the 'net on Monday. Talking to the Coming Soon team at Comic-Con today, Ifans denied he even was aware of the idea.
"I've just heard this today about, the new Bond," Ifans says in a video interview. "I don't know anything about that. I think Daniel Craig is the best Bond that ever was. He's unbelievable, he's fantastic, and if he wants me to kiss him again hard on the lips, I'm available. But I dunno. If the Bond people watch this interview, give me a f*g job, man!"
That said, he was cagier when asked about it on the way of the Amazing Spider-Man press conference, and wasn't quite as quick to dismiss it. So there may still be some germ of truth to the idea and Ifans could simply be trying to maintain the mystery. In reality, we really would like to see him sparring on screen with Craig again. The campaign for Ifans as Q needs to happen…


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The Samsung UN19D4003 19" Class LED HDTV packs a lot of features in a small package. Samsung's ConnectShare Movie technology lets you plug in a thumb drive or other USB device and play media files using your remote to control it all. When it's time for movie titles and TV programming, the UN19D4003 delivers a clear and captivating picture in 720p HD resolution. Even when it's off, it's easy on the eye, with an ultra-thin bezel, and a sleek form factor.
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Michael Kaplan asked:
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> and said an earlier proposal had been rejected?
The WG2 proposals were for additional *presentation forms* for
Uighur characters. (initial, final, medial forms)
The base characters for Uighur are already all in the standard(s),
and any competent Arabic script implementation with font support for
extended Arabic should be able to do the shaping for Uighur, as well
as many other Central and East Asian Turkic languages written using
the Arabic script.
WG2 turned down the proposal since it (and the UTC) have no interest
in encoding more Arabic letter positional forms (or Arabic ligatures).
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Pop-up shop brings Christmas cheer to Grand Avenue
Like farmers markets are to summer, Christmas pop-up shops are to winter. These temporary stores spring up all over the city and, for a few busy weeks, peddle everything you need to make the season bright, from stockings to Christmas villages and beyond. Come January, they vanish like Frosty the Snowman.
The Christmas House is a holiday pop-up store with high visibility, located in the Shops of Grand Avenue on the second floor overlooking the Grand Court. Operating in the building that houses one of the city's busiest lunch food courts, it's a good bet that these will be a prosperous few months for owner Kris Ratz.
The store opened in early October, stocked with inventory Ratz obtained from a friend who was closing a holiday store in Gurnee Mills. Ratz has previous experience in seasonal retail, having once run a Halloween Express, and he was looking to establish a pop-up in the Milwaukee area with his girlfriend.
The 827-square-foot space located in Grand Avenue seemed like a perfect fit.
"(The Shops of Grand Avenue) were doing the pop-up system so they were pretty aggressive about rent and trying to get some people back in," he said. "Besides which, you look at the store and the green wood is perfect for a Christmas store. It sounds silly, but that was a big reason we wanted the space."
Ratz likes the idea of being his own boss – plus, he finds the low-commitment nature of the pop-up shop liberating.
"We're just basically trying to hit the peak time right now," he said. "I think this is just a start, to try and see how it goes. We don't want to pay someone to be here all the time if we're not selling enough."
"I believe the pop-up concept (at Grand Avenue) was so successful because of the low risk associated with the program," said Tracy Korpela, marketing and specialty leasing director for Jones Lang LaSalle, the leasing agent for the Shops of Grand Avenue. "Having a three-month option is much less daunting than a one-year-plus deal – though surprisingly, most tenants have signed a one-year deal."
The Shops of Grand Avenue have ten pop-up stores in all, including Nikavonni's Menswear, Cierra's Women's Apparel and Shoes, Boss Chick Clothing, Sports World Sports Memorabilia and Bella Baby, which sells infant wear. Korpela says the mall's low rent has attracted vendors to the program, noting that all vendors are responsible for their own utilities, signage, marketing and merchandising.
Ratz has opted not to do print advertising, but has papered the mall and adjacent skywalks with flyers advertising the store's deals. His girlfriend promotes the store on Facebook, but otherwise they prefer to take a laissez-faire approach to marketing, which he says Korpela is "great" at.
"We've pretty much let the mall do what they've done (for advertising)," he said. "And we have the Wednesday indoor market which draws a lot of people. We're going to have the Jingle Bus in the evenings, so we'll be open later for them."
The Jingle Bus helped bring 10,000 people downtown last year. Its drop-off location has been moved to 3rd and Wisconsin Avenue to more specifically highlight what was called "the retail rebirth of The Shops of Grand Avenue" in a Nov. 19 press release.
The Christmas House draws customers mainly for its wide selection of ornaments, all of which are buy one get one free with complimentary personalization also available, which Ratz reports has been extremely popular.
"We can put the date on it, the name of your child or of all your kids, something like that," he said. "We have a lot of kids' ornaments and things like that. We also have a lot for the professions – doctors, attorneys, all that stuff."
But it's not just ornament-hunters who make up Ratz's clientele. Not many passers-by can resist the Christmas cheer of the store.
"It's just the glitter and the bright shiny lights (that attract people to the store)," he said. It's true that The Christmas House, on the south side of Grand Avenue's second floor, is hard to miss, and people often stop in to inspect the eye-catching inventory – which is a big part of the implementation of the pop-up concept.
"It is important to us that each store, despite their term, looks professional and welcoming for customers," said Korpela.
Not everyone is a random walk-in, however. Some of his customers are what Ratz affectionately calls "the Christmas freaks" – people drawn to the store's selection of name-brand items like Radko, Jim Shore, Fontanini and Studio 56. The Christmas House also sells high-end artificial trees for $99.
Ratz says he would recommend the seasonal pop-up idea to other retailers.
"I'm always my own boss," he said. The rest of the year he drives tow trucks. "I don't think I could do it any other way. I really would recommend it."
If all goes well, Ratz and his girlfriend may consider extending their lease and expanding their inventory to include other holidays. But for now, they are focusing on what the Christmas season will bring. Business was booming during the downtown Holiday Parade on Nov. 17, and on Black Friday Grand Avenue saw the highest numbers of shoppers in three years.
"I am positive the high traffic numbers were due to our 13 new stores, the positive press, the advertising we did – of course TJ Maxx and Boston Store, our two anchors, were extremely busy as well, which was expected," Korpela said.
As for the future?
"We'll see what happens," said Ratz. "We could get into some other type things, maybe as far as Easter. Right now, we're still going on the thought of Jan. 1."
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Joining the pet set just got easier
Life's getting easier for the city's jet-set pets. But there are still pitfalls for unwary owners flying their favourite pooch to the Big Apple or bringing them in to Hong Kong.
Britain's Pets Travel Scheme (Pets) and the Hong Kong Pet Travel Scheme have recently done away with archaic quarantine rules, making it simpler to move a cat or a dog by air freight.
Nevertheless, restrictions vary from country to country and often change.
It is possible to do the shipping yourself, and most governments have helpful websites, such as Britain's www.defra.gov.uk. But much legwork can be saved by using expert local pet shippers such as Export A Pet, Aeropets or Ferndale Kennels and Cattery.
Stacy Tucker, owner of Ferndale Kennels and Cattery, near Sai Kung, ships about 250 cats and dogs a year in and out of Hong Kong. Most important, she stresses, is to plan ahead, since many countries require rabies blood tests to be done six months before travel. All countries insist on a vet's health certificate.
For export to Britain and Ireland, so long as the pet's rabies blood test is correct six months prior to arrival, the pet can enter without quarantine. With no blood test, the old six-month quarantine rules still apply.
For Australia, the rabies blood test must be done five months before travel; the requirements are similar but there is more paperwork for Japan and New Zealand.
Pets from Hong Kong are not required to undergo quarantine upon entering Japan, but they must do 30 days on arrival in Australia and New Zealand.
Most airlines will not transport fighting breeds such as American pit-bull terriers and some won't take snub-nosed breeds such as Pekinese, pugs and Persian cats, which can have breathing problems. They often don't travel well, with a higher mortality rate than other types, explains Ms Tucker. Some airlines allow snub-nosed breeds if the crate is twice the IATA-approved size. Approved plastic flying crates cost from $600 to $3,000, depending on size.
To enter mainland Europe and the US from Hong Kong, pets need only a rabies vaccination at least 30 days before departure and a vet's certificate.
Dogs and cats going to China need rabies vaccination and a health certificate, but this varies from city to city, so be sure to check, advises Ms Tucker. 'If you take your pet to China, remember it has to do four months' quarantine on return here, the same as animals from Thailand, the Philippines and other countries that don't have good rabies control.'
When importing a pet into Hong Kong from countries such as the US, Canada, Japan and Europe the animal must have been resident in the originating country for six months beforehand and be vaccinated against rabies.
'All countries except those officially rabies-free such as Australia, New Zealand and the UK, Ireland, Fiji and Hawaii, need valid rabies vaccinations given more than 30 days before travel,' she adds.
Many owners fear air travel will stress their pet. But a short trip is better than it being left behind or put to sleep, says Ms Tucker, who has not lost an animal in 16 years. The stress can be reduced by letting the pet get used to the crate well before the flight. 'Make it a comfy place and put items inside with the owners' scent on them,' she advises. Natural products such as Rescue Remedy or Pet Calm will sooth highly strung pets.
And avoid upsetting farewells by allowing the shipper to take the pet to the airport. 'When the owner is not there, the crate is a safe haven and the animal doesn't get upset saying goodbye.'
It's vital that dogs and cats have access to water on flights, which cause dehydration, and that the crate has a large, deep water bowl. She advises freezing the water in the bowls so it defrosts slowly.
Air freight charges are often steeper than passenger fares. Cargo fares to the US are very high, with a typical fee for a labrador to New York $13,000, charged by volume. Much cheaper is excess baggage with Cathay Pacific, for example, at $2,200, no matter what size the crate or dog.
Many US airlines have heat restrictions, refusing to fly pets between June and September.
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Most European airlines accept pets to continental Europe, charging roughly the same for both cargo and excess baggage, with a labrador costing about $12,000 to Paris.
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There are two potential ways to measure the economic performance of a political leader. One is by the profitability, stock prices and executive bonuses of a nation's corporations. The other is by the financial condition of the majority of its population. Since he came to power, President Obama and his economic team have propped up the former and failed miserably to aid the latter. (For the record, ever since the first paragraph of Obama's pre-primary website economics plan put free markets before people, this is where we were going, but it still hurts to get there.)
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Obama's economic policies have either been continuations of his predecessor's, as in the case of taxes and bank bailouts, or bills so watered down to appease corporations, notably banks and insurance companies, that they are ineffective. In the process, he continues to alienate his supporters—individual voters, not the companies that funded his candidacy—leaving their economy in shambles. Here's the recap.
Just in time for Christmas, we got Obama's big tax-cut compromise. Obama's reverse Robin Hood deal with the Republicans disproportionally takes from the poor to give to the rich. The plan adds another $1 trillion to the record United States deficit, $700 billion of which would be the cost of extending tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of the country, the rest going toward jobless benefits—necessary to help those victims of the wider economic problems, but not complemented with a job-creation program.
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Even though the majority of his own Democratic Party supported extending cuts only to Americans making less than $250,000 a year (on TV anyway, apparently not at their seats once the compromise was inked, notables with balls like Sen. Bernie Sanders aside), Republican "all-or-nothing" pressure was met by Obama's capitulation. He could have bargained harder—say by suggesting that tax cuts not be extended for people making more than a million dollars, rather than punting the tax cut issue into the 2012 presidential election period.
What Obama effectively did was adopt George W. Bush's tax policy in total rather than come up with a better deal, even though the Bush tax cuts increased the net worth of the wealthiest Americans while the wages of the rest of Americans (the ones that had jobs) stagnated or decreased per hour worked. The Republicans obviously considered the deal a victory, to hell with any Republican voters in the bottom 98 percent of the country. Wall Street thought it was better than expected. Jamie Dimon was all but salivating. Even though the majority of Americans wanted to end tax breaks for the wealthiest, plus extend unemployment benefits, Obama couldn't pull it off.
Obama's $75 billion Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) was an unmitigated disaster for the borrowers who tried to take part, despite his promises that it would help 3 to 4 million struggling borrowers keep their homes.
On Dec. 15, I spoke at a mortgage fraud seminar in Ontario, Calif., and, let me tell you, there's more fraud going on in modification-land than there was in loan-origination-land. The next day, over in Washington, Tim Geithner spoke glowingly of everything the administration has done to help the financial system, gloating laboriously over the bells and whistles of the various asset purchase and loan extension bank bailout programs and how much money we taxpayers made as a result. As for borrowers—you know, the little people—he stressed the number of modification applications in the pipeline instead of actual permanent modifications. This was primarily because it was a voluntary program on the part of the banks, which had no incentive, economic or legal, to work with borrowers. In the meantime, 8 million to 13 million foreclosures are expected to have taken place from the time the banks got their bailouts until 2012. If you figure on average there are three people living in each home, we're talking 24 million to 39 million displaced people.
I really wish Geithner could have been standing in front of the borrowers at the seminar I attended, if only to get a clue.
Half of the 1.4 million borrowers that entered the HAMP program were kicked out. Only 2 percent of the loan modifications so far have involved lasting principal reductions. Most of the rest were given temporary reprieve, only to see their payments rise at the end of their trial periods or their banks rush to foreclose on them anyway.
To fix this problem, Obama has just created a $14 billion principal reduction program – something that should have been done on a far grander scale about two years ago. It remains to be seen whether this will be any more effective than the larger initial program, since participation is equally voluntary on the part of lenders, notably the biggest five banks that control two-thirds of the nation's mortgages. I'm not holding my breath.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Investigators probing alleged fraud at the failed Anglo Irish Bank since early 2009 asked on Thursday for another three years to conclude their case and were told by a Dublin High Court judge to wrap it up in the next year.
The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) and the police are investigating events leading up to the collapse of scandal-hit Anglo Irish Bank and have so far brought charges forward in two of the five strands to their case.
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On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, James Rich wrote: > On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > I think XFS would really need someone to maintain the website. It's > > horribly out of date, and misses some important links. For example > > it would be nice to have a link to my XFS merge status or even a htmlized > > version. I don't know whether externals are allowed to work on oss.sgi.com, > > though.. > > Okay, that's something I can do. If external access is not allowed, maybe > I could send updates to someone who does have access? Or I could put > things together on my site and then they could pulled over to SGI by > someone there? The faq is currently maintained by someone outside of SGI (thanks Seth!) so other parts probably could be as well. We have an SGI tech pubs guy who does the pages for each release (featuers, testing, instructions etc) but if there are other parts that are getting stale, we could probably work out access for you if you'd like to keep them up to date. Oh, and FWIW, the XFS merge status -is- linked from the faq now. :) -Eric
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TAMPA — A dozen horses on a dirt field bunched together in a scrum, backpedaled and charged until one side-kicked a giant soccer ball through orange cones like a scene from a beer commercial.
Their riders screamed, "Get it, girl, get it," and horses, named Lucky and Sequence and Spot, galloped and shoved and snorted.
Thursday at the Florida State Fairgrounds, these horses from area mounted patrols practiced for the Super Bowl.
Not as some halftime stunt, but as crowd control for the Feb. 1 event, expected to draw thousands to Channelside and Ybor City for parties, rallies and drinks. The game was a warmup drill during a two-day training session for mounted units from Tampa and Pinellas Park police and Hillsborough, Manatee and Polk sheriff's offices.
It allowed Tampa police Cpl. Mike Morrow to evaluate riders and get the horses used to tight spaces. Other drills included trainers trying to grab and tackle mounted officers who maneuvered their horses into intimidating defensive spins.
The horses also clumped together and marched shoulder to shoulder through a mob of practice rioters, splitting the crowd while smoke bombs boomed and loudspeakers blared crowd noise.
Those weren't easy tasks for horses, who by nature identify with prey rather than predator, Morrow said. But the training sessions — including pushing a football-like blocking sled around — are meant to shape and bend their behaviors until they can break the will of mobs.
Their mere presence can settle unruly crowds because mounted officers say the animals are calm, stoic police ambassadors who don't look as menacing as riot police. But they are more than community relations tools, officers quickly pointed out.
Horses cut through traffic jams, push more people aside than 18 men, give officers high vantages and keep law officers safe, because people are less likely to attack a mounted officer than one on foot.
"Size, intimidation, strength," Tampa police Officer Scott Rehbein said of the animals' advantages.
The horses also provide a release from the grim realities of patrol and detective work for many mounted officers who also work in other roles.
Tampa police Detective Lisa Bishop, the city's lone domestic violence detective, investigates cruel beatings and family batteries. She has worked for the department for 19 years, including 12 on patrol. A criminal once put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger. It didn't fire.
"Being able to do this takes me away temporarily," Bishop said.
Justin George can be reached at (813) 226-3368 or email@example.com.


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NYT: Probation Fees Rise, Firms Profit and the Poor Go to Jail
[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: none; border-radius: 0.3846em 0.3846em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]Probation Fees Rise, Firms Profit and the Poor Go to Jail[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: none; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3846em 0.3846em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]CHILDERSBURG, Ala. Three years ago, Gina Ray, who is now 31 and unemployed, was fined $179 for speeding. She failed to show up at court (she says the ticket bore the wrong date), so her license was revoked. When she was next pulled over, she was, of course, driving without a license. By then her fees added up to more than $1,500. Unable to pay, she was handed over to a private probation company and jailed charged an additional fee for each day behind bars.
For that driving offense, Ms. Ray has been locked up three times for a total of 40 days and owes $3,170, much of it to the probation company. Her story, in hardscrabble, rural Alabama, where Krispy Kreme promises that two can dine for $5.99, is not about innocence. It is, rather, about the mushrooming of fines and fees levied by money-starved towns across the country and the for-profit businesses that administer the system. The result is that growing numbers of poor people, like Ms. Ray, are ending up jailed and in debt for minor infractions.
With so many towns economically strapped, there is growing pressure on the courts to bring in money rather than mete out justice, said Lisa W. Borden, a partner in Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, a large law firm in Birmingham, Ala., who has spent a great deal of time on the issue. The companies they hire are aggressive. Those arrested are not told about the right to counsel or asked whether they are indigent or offered an alternative to fines and jail. There are real constitutional issues at stake.
Half a century ago in a landmark case, the Supreme Court ruled that those accused of crimes had to be provided a lawyer if they could not afford one. But in misdemeanors, the right to counsel is rarely brought up, even though defendants can run the risk of jail. The probation companies promise revenue to the towns, while saying they also help offenders, and the defendants often end up lost in a legal Twilight Zone.
Much more at the link and definitely worth the read!
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1. easier to tax the poor than the rich, and easier to jail them.
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3. And then keep them in jail. It's disturbing and surreal. nt
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Larch is a pyramid-shaped deciduous tree. They have both horizontal branches and drooping branches. Reddish-purple cones are produced along branches in spring and hang on trees through the winter. Leaves are needlelike and turn yellow and orange in the fall before dropping. Larch attracts birds.
Larch trees are often planted with dark evergreen trees as background or near water for reflection. They do well in areas with cool summers and cool or cold winters. They prefer areas with full sun and need regular watering. They are tolerant of many soil types.
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Rifle ban's real impact may be dud
When Kirk Haldeman wrestled a gun from the man firing it in a Ligonier Borough tavern in 2011, he came in contact with something uncommon in Western Pennsylvania: someone using a military-style rifle to kill.
The gunman, Stephen Fromholz, 43, of San Antonio, had pistols in his car. But he grabbed his AR-15 rifle to settle the argument he was having with a fellow patron in Fat Daddy's Place, and used it to kill Donald Holler, 65, of Cook before Haldeman jumped him and ended the violence. Fromholz is serving a life term in prison.
Haldeman, 53, of Ligonier doesn't care to engage in the debate over military weapons and gun restrictions that continues in Washington and elsewhere.
"Regardless of what weapons you make available or don't, people are going to find a way to get them," he said. "People intent on harming others will find their way around the law."
As the Senate returns from Easter recess this week to take up measures such as universal background checks for gun purchases, President Obama is pushing to include a vote on what politicians often call assault weapons. Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., who crafted a 1994 weapons ban that expired in 2004, proposes banning 157 rifles, pistols, shotguns and belt-fed semiautomatic firearms, an idea that has Congress sharply divided.
An analysis by the Tribune-Review of gun-related homicides shows that such a ban would have had little impact on the number of killings in Western Pennsylvania over the past three years.
Most were committed with handguns.
Data from Allegheny, Butler, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland counties found that of the 245 people who died in shootings from 2010 through 2012, 15 were killed with military-style weapons — 12 in Allegheny County and three in Westmoreland County.
"I don't believe (personally) that the proposed legislation would have much of an impact on the number of homicides with firearms," said Robert Levine, a firearms and ballistics expert with the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office. "Individuals so inclined to carry and commit a homicide with a firearm would use whatever is available."
Allegheny County accounted for 210 of the gun homicides, and police agencies there collected 271 firearms in those cases during the three-year period. Ninety percent were handguns, according to the Medical Examiner's Office.
"It shows that a wide variety of weapons of all sorts are widely available," said Dr. Karl Williams, the county's chief medical examiner. "But they are mostly handguns."
Pittsburgh police see few military-style weapons used in deadly crimes, said Cmdr. Thomas Stangrecki.
"For the past few years, there were between two and four homicides involving assault rifles," Stangrecki said. "The majority of homicides are committed with handguns."
The debate picked up after a gunman with an AR-15 and high-capacity magazines killed 20 children and six adults in less than five minutes on Dec. 12 in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
The effort to expand background checks for all gun purchases, even private ones, stands a better chance of reducing homicides than banning weapons, said John Roman, a senior fellow in the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute, a policy group in Washington.
"If you close loopholes for private transactions (such as gun shows), then that is a lot of people on the margins who don't get guns, as most guns used in street crimes do not come from licensed dealers," Roman said. "The assault-weapon stuff is about protecting police officers and reducing deaths in mass shootings. I don't think it will be framed that way, but that is likely what it would do."
The Feinstein list would cover some of the weapons assailants used in high-profile killings in Western Pennsylvania in 2009. That includes the rifle Richard Poplawski of Stanton Heights used to kill three Pittsburgh police officers at his home and the one Ronald Robinson of Homewood used to kill Penn Hills Officer Michael Crawshaw eight months later. Both men are in prison.
Feinstein also recommends limiting magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds, which George Sodini of Scott used when he killed four people and wounded nine at the LA Fitness in Collier in August 2009. He unloaded 36 shots from two pistols equipped with 30-round magazines before killing himself. The guns he used are not on the proposed ban list.
"It will be a question for all 100 members of the Senate to ask themselves about whether or not they think that voting for and supporting an assault weapons ban would actually do something to reduce gun violence in communities all across the country," White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a briefing last week.
In the Fat Daddy's shooting, Fromholz used a rifle outfitted with three magazines taped together to hold 75 rounds. He chose it instead of either of the pistols inside his vehicle, Westmoreland County Coroner Kenneth Bacha said.
"It could have been any gun," Bacha said. "It just happened to be an assault weapon."
As for Haldeman, he's glad Fromholz used the rifle instead of a pistol. It was easier for him to see and easier for him to grab and leverage away from people, he said.
"Had he had a handgun, I might have been shot."
He added, "My personal feeling is that the reaction to the Newtown tragedy is the president and Congress feel they need to act, so they are trying to pass new gun control laws just so they can say we did something."
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ITHACA, N.Y.--The Rider University golf team is in 12th place of 13 teams after the opening round at the Cornell Invitational.
The tournament is taking place at the par-72, 6,890 yard Robert Trent Jones Golf Course in Ithaca.
The tournament was originally scheduled to consist of 54-holes, but a five hour rain delay caused the competition to be shortened to 36-holes with the final round on Sunday.
The Broncs finished the first 18 holes with a team total of 319.
"Today was another tough day," said head coach Bob Whartenby. "It took us 11 hours to play one round of golf. We had a five hour rain delay which almost made the course unplayable. We got off to a good start on the first nine holes in the gusty winds this morning before the rain, but we struggled to adjust after the long delay in the afternoon."
For Rider after round one, junior James Buttermark (Staten Island, N.Y/Monsignor Farrell) is tied for 40th out of 75 golfers after a round of 79. Senior Beau Guarino (Burlington Township) finished tied with Buttermark with 79, a team best.
"James and Beau played okay," Whartenby said. "They were very consistent and grinded every shot out to the end. They both had a few more three putts than they wanted which held them back to go really low."
The Broncs are just two shots behind Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference rival Siena, who are in 11th place with a team total of 317.
Also for the Broncs, senior Evan McGrain (West Windsor/W. Windsor-Plainsboro South) ended the day tied for 48th place after a round of 80.
Sophomore Luke Liddell (Philadelphia, Pa./Father Judge) and sophomore Cole Clark (Califon, NJ/Vorhees) are tied for 51st place after a round of 81.
St. Bonaventure University (294) finished the round in first place, three shots ahead of Binghamton University (297). Fordham University is in third with a team total of 299, one shot ahead of Bucknell University after a team round of 301. MAAC rival Canisius College (301) is in fifth place.
The host Big Red finished the day in sixth place with a team total of 303.
Lafayette College is seventh (304) and the University of Ottawa (308) is in eighth. Brown University is currently in ninth place after a round of 309, and Colgate University (314) is in 10th.
The Cornell B squad is in 13th shooting a round of 336.
The final 18 holes are Sunday, beginning at 8:00 am.
"Sunday is supposed to be clear but cold so hopefully we get off to a similar start and just continue to the finish," Whartenby added.
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| I am writing with regards to precautions we can take to protect the study volunteers who allow all of us to benefit.
Last year 100's Americans who participated in clinical trials died as a result of a drug related serious adverse event (SAE). Part of the problem is that when a study volunteer suffers a medical crisis while participating in a clinical trial, and is rushed to an emergency room, the Emergency Room (ER) staff has no way of knowing that the patient is enrolled in a clinical trial or what test drug the patient is taking. In the absence of this information, the ER staff will treat the patient according to usual and customary procedures, thus putting the patient in jeopardy, which can lead to unnecessary deaths or injuries.
While industry and regulatory bodies and IRBs are focused on capturing Serious Adverse Events occurrences through tracking and reporting systems, I am not aware of any programs that are commonly adopted that protect study volunteers 'proactively' other than informing subjects of the risk of participation through the informed consent process. Consequently, this raises the question whether clinical trial subjects are getting the highest levels of care available to them from sponsor companies?
For over two years, my Company, RapidTrials, in partnership with the MedicAlert(r) Foundation has been offering pharmaceutical and medical device companies the opportunity to better protect the safety of clinical trial volunteers. Our program utilizes low cost proven solutions to ensure study volunteers are protected in a medical crisis. By adapting the MedicAlert(r) 24-Hour Emergency Response Service, we are able to provide `Subject Safety and Identification Service? to the clinical research process thereby ensuring instantaneous communication of clinical trial test drug or medical devise information to emergency responders and mitigate potential loss of life or injury to a clinical trial participant. As a result, this program can help save study subject lives. While the response by Medical Safety Experts at Pharmaceutical Companies to this concept has been overwhelmingly positive, and, in fact, some have thought this program should be the Standard of Care, program participation is virtually non existent due to expense and simply because there are no laws or mechanisms to encourage them to act more proactively. The cost of the MedicAlert program is insignificant as a percentage of the cost spent of clinical trials.
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3.6.10 What are some other stream ciphers?
There are a number of alternative stream ciphers that have been proposed in cryptographic literature as well as a large number that appear in implementations and products world-wide. Many are based on the use of LFSRs (Linear Feedback Shift Registers; see Question 2.1.5), since such ciphers tend to be more amenable to analysis and it is easier to assess the security they offer.
Rueppel suggests there are essentially four distinct approaches to stream cipher design [Rue92]. The first is termed the information-theoretic approach as exemplified by Shannon's analysis of the one-time pad. The second approach is that of system-theoretic design. In essence, the cryptographer designs the cipher along established guidelines that ensure the cipher is resistant to all known attacks. While there is, of course, no substantial guarantee that future cryptanalysis will be unsuccessful, it is this design approach that is perhaps the most common in cipher design. The third approach is to attempt to relate the difficulty of breaking the stream cipher (where "breaking" means being able to predict the unseen keystream with a success rate better than can be achieved by guessing) to solving some difficult problem (see [BM84] [BBS86]). This complexity-theoretic approach is very appealing, but in practice the ciphers developed tend to be rather slow and impractical. The final approach highlighted by Rueppel is that of designing a randomized cipher. Here the aim is to ensure the cipher is resistant to any practical amount of cryptanalytic work, rather than being secure against an unlimited amount of work, as was the aim with Shannon's information-theoretic approach.
A recent example of a stream cipher designed by a system-theoretic approach is the Software-optimized Encryption Algorithm (SEAL), which was designed by Rogaway and Coppersmith in 1993 [RC93] as a fast stream cipher for 32-bit machines. SEAL has a rather involved initialization phase during which a large set of tables is initialized using the Secure Hash Algorithm (see Question 3.6.5). However, the use of look-up tables during keystream generation helps to achieve a very fast performance with just five instructions required per byte of output generated.
A design that has system-theoretic as well as complexity-theoretic aspects is given by Aiello, Rajagopalan, and Venkatesan [ARV95]. The design, commonly referred to as "VRA," derives a fast stream cipher from an arbitrary secure block cipher. VRA is described as a pseudo-random generator (see Question 2.5.2), not a stream cipher, but the two concepts are closely connected, since a pseudo-random generator can produce a (pseudo) one-time pad for encryption.
For examples of ciphers in each of these categories, see Rueppel's article [Rue92] or any book on contemporary cryptography. More details are also provided in an RSA Laboratories technical report [Rob95a].