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Dr. Guerrina's main research interests are the interface between national, European and international politics, particularly with reference to the role of gender values/norms in shaping policy agendas:
Dr. Guerrina is current taking part in the following multidisciplinary projects:
Dr. Gill Allwood (Nottingham Trent University), Dr. Heather MacRae (York University, Canada) and Dr. Guerrina have been leading this research network since March 2010. This is a multinational research network looking to bring together key scholars of gender EU studies, looking at the gender impact on EU policies.
The initial work of the network was published as a special issue of Women's Studies International Forum in 2013. As part of the network she has also organised two conferences at the University of Surrey. The 2014 conference - Sex, Gender and Europe - showcased the work of the network and set out the agenda for the development of a Feminist approach to European Union Studies.
The aim of this project is to explore competing understandings of 'international intervention', i.e. efforts by 'The Global North' to influence the course of events in 'The Global South', in terms of when and how it occurs, what it is meant to achieve, and whether it succeeds. Dr Guerrina is responsible for organising the workshop on Women, Peace and Security.
The aim of this seminar series is to explore the challenges austerity places on the full implementation of the work-life balance agenda. The seminar series brings together academics, practitioners, and employers in order to explore the complex web of social and economic forces at work in promoting employment rights and equality in the context crisis.
Completed Research Projects:
The Project is coordinated by Prof. Martyn Barrett (University of Surrey). It is a 36 months project (March 2009-April 2012), looking at multi-level processof civic and political engagement and participation in traditionally marginal groups: women, youths, migrants and minorities.
Dr Guerrina is coordinator of Work Package 2, providing detailed policy analysis of current European and national approaches to active citizenship and promoting political participation.
This is a multidisciplinary network looking at the normative dimension of motherhood in Europe. It is coordinated by Prof. Gill Rye (School of Advanced Studies, University of London)
The network is funded by the ESRC
Contemporary Western European Society; The idea of Europe; Women in Italy; Contemporary Italian politics; Gender and IR; Human Rights in Europe.
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2013 Unit of Assessment Leader, REF 2014
2008/09 PGT Programme Director
2008 Acting PGR Programme Director
2003/08 UG Programme Director
2004/06 Senior Placement Tutor
British International Studies Association;
University Association for Contemporary European Studies;
Political Studies Association;
International Studies Association
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The European Union is seen to operate at the international level by promoting ideas and values, rather than by exerting military or economic power. As a gender actor, the EU has played a key role in the development of formal equality, which is presented as a foundational principle of European integration. It therefore follows that normative power Europe should seek to promote these values in external affairs. This article interrogates the role of the EU as a normative gender actor in relation to its implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, set out in UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and related resolutions. Documentary analysis will be supplemented by a detailed assessment of speeches and public statements about the role of the EU as a gender actor in external affairs. This data will be used to assess whether there is a disjuncture between the dominant narrative about gender equality as a fundamental value of the EU and the actions of the organization. It will also allow us to assess whether gender mainstreaming is a tool for public diplomacy or has made a significant change to the way the external relations agenda is formulated and implemented. Additionally, the article will draw attention to the institutional obstacles to the EU performing a role as a gender actor in external affairs. It identifies a critical tension between framing the WPS resolutions as an extension of the EU's equality on the one hand, and understanding that gender mainstreaming is a mere policy tool in international affairs. In doing so, it highlights how competing institutional demands can ultimately undermine core values (e.g. equality) when they are used instrumentally.
This paper presents a critical assessment of the unintended consequences of gender mainstreaming when applied to European external relations. It seeks to address two distinct but interrelated questions: 1) has gender mainstreaming, as a strategy and political objective, fulfilled its potential? and 2) what kind of gender order is emerging in the context of a wider European equality agenda, which includes external relations within its remit. Using discourse analysis it will identify the dominant gender discourses in European external relations and foreign policy documents and compare this to the overarching aims of equality principles enshrined within the Treaties. It will look specifically at the European Neighbourhood Policy as it provides a useful starting point and areas of comparison given its similarity, in terms of power relations between the EU and third countries, to the process of enlargement.
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where their hybrid stuff?
I find the title to be a little misleading.
The enhancements are clear -- high end gets faster performance and easy tiering, new VTL and yet another marketecture announcement on big data, VSC with SVC 6.4 support (IBM ... you can do a better job with names), XIV Gen 3 supports openstack (are there other vendors that do this?), v7000 gets FCoE (finally?), upgrade options, openstack support and an authentication server (?).
Not sure where the tie in with hybrid startups are coming up. Nothing here is positioned in the same space.

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Green Cooking
OK, so you've built a nice green kitchen. You've got your recycled wood cabinets, your Energy Star appliances, and your cork floor. You've invited some friends over for organic pasta. So just like Grandma used to cook pasta you fill a large pot full of water, right?
Grandma also smoked two packs of cigarettes a day and used asbestos oven mitts. You gonna do that too?
We have MANY ingrained ways of doing things that seem right just because, well, it's always been done that way. And it turns out that cooking pasta is one of them. According to a recent NY Times Article (below) you don't need to fill a pot full of water to make good pasta.
And by using less water you, well, use less water AND you waste less gas heating up the water.
What other cooking techniques are we doing that is a waste?
This concept goes deep. It is part of a long standing belief that if we change our environment our lives will change. This is sort of true from the point that our outer environment and inner environment are connected. If you build a green house you definitely will have a better life.
BUT for the very same reason, if you don't change your inner environment sooner or later it will effect your outer environment. That nice green kitchen will still be very good at wasting energy through excess pasta water because even though your environment changed your inner beliefs didn't.
NY Times
February 25, 2009
The Curious Cook
How Much Water Does Pasta Really Need?
By HAROLD McGEE
SOME time ago, as I emptied a big pot of pasta water into the sink and waited for the fog to lift from my glasses, a simple question occurred to me. Why boil so much more water than pasta actually absorbs, only to pour it down the drain? Couldn't we cook pasta just as well with much less water and energy? Another question quickly followed: if we could, what would the defenders of Italian tradition say?
After some experiments, I've found that we can indeed make pasta in just a few cups of water and save a good deal of energy. Not that much in your kitchen or mine — just the amount needed to keep a burner on high for a few more minutes. But Americans cook something like a billion pounds of pasta a year, so those minutes could add up.
My rough figuring indicates an energy savings at the stove top of several trillion B.T.U.s. At the power plant, that would mean saving 250,000 to 500,000 barrels of oil, or $10 million to $20 million at current prices. Significant numbers, though these days they sound like small drops in a very large pot.
The standard method for cooking pasta, found in Italian cookbooks and on pasta packages, is to heat to a rolling boil 4 to 6 quarts of well-salted water per pound of pasta. The usual rationales are that abundant water quickly recovers the boil when the pasta is added, gives the noodles room so that they don't stick to one another, and dilutes the starch they release, so they don't end up with a "gluey" surface.
To see which of these factors are really significant, I put a pound of spaghetti into a pot, added just 2 quarts of cold water and 2 teaspoons salt and turned on the heat. The water took about 8 minutes to reach the boil, during which I had to push the noodles around occasionally to keep them from sticking. They took another 10 minutes to cook through.
When I drained the pasta, it had the texture and saltiness I expected, seemed about as sticky as usual, and when tossed with a little oil, seemed perfectly normal.
So I tried reducing the water even further, to 1 1/2 quarts. I had to stir often because that's not quite enough to keep all the pasta immersed all the time, but again the spaghetti came out fine.
Why can pasta cook normally in a small volume of water that starts out cold? Because the noodles absorb water only very slowly at temperatures much below the boil, so little happens to them in the few minutes it takes for the water to heat up. And no matter how starchy the cooking water is, the solid noodle surfaces themselves are starchier, and will be sticky until they're lubricated by sauce or oil.
I described my method in e-mail messages to two of this country's best-known advocates of Italian cuisine. Lidia Bastianich told me: "My grandmother would have thought of the idea surely as blasphemous. I think it is curious." And Marcella Hazan said, "I am a very curious person, and I'm glad people are exploring new ways." Both of them gave it a try.
Ms. Bastianich responded with a controlled experiment. She started spaghettini in pots of cold water and boiling water (4 quarts each instead of her usual 6) side by side and found the cold-water version lacking in the gradation of texture she looks for. As for the flavor, she said "I felt that the cold-water pasta had lost some of the nutty flavor of a good semolina pasta cooked properly."
Ms. Bastianich agreed that using less water is O.K. "Yes, I think it's doable to reduce the cooking water by one third," from 6 quarts per pound to 4. "But please 'butta la pasta' in boiling water."
Ms. Hazan tried starting a batch of shell pasta in a somewhat reduced amount of cold water, and found that it needed constant stirring to avoid sticking. "Maybe you save heat energy, but you also have to work a lot harder," she told me in a follow-up call. "It's not so convenient. I don't know if I would cook pasta this way."
Heartened by the experts' willingness to experiment, I went back to work, this time starting with hot water. I found that it's possible to butta la pasta in 1 1/2 or 2 quarts of boiling water without having the noodles stick. Short shapes just require occasional stirring. Long strands and ribbons need a quick wetting with cold water just before they go into the pot, then frequent stirring for a minute or two.
Except for capellini, which cooks too quickly, I find that both the cold and hot versions of the minimal-water method work well with the common shapes I've tried, with whole wheat pasta, and even fresh pasta, as long as any surface flour is rinsed off first.
I prefer starting with cold water, because the noodles don't stick together at all as they go into the pot, and because I don't notice a difference in flavor once they're drained and sauced. It's true, though, that no matter what temperature you start with, this method requires more attention. That's a disadvantage when you're cooking several things at once.
If you cook pasta often, try experimenting with different starting temperatures and amounts of water. You can even cook pasta in the manner of a risotto, adding the liquid in small doses and stirring constantly. Be sure to use a pot broad enough for the noodles to lie flat on the bottom, and to reduce the salt for smaller volumes of water.
There's one other dividend to cooking pasta in minimal water that I hadn't anticipated: the leftover pasta water. It's thick, but you can still easily ladle it out by tilting the pan. And it's very pleasant tasting: not too salty, lots of body, and lots of semolina flavor. Whole-wheat pasta water is surprisingly delicious.
Italian recipes often suggest adding pasta water to adjust the consistency of a sauce, but this thick water is almost a sauce in itself. When I anointed a batch of spaghetti with olive oil and then tossed it with a couple of ladles-full, the oil dispersed into tiny droplets in the liquid, and the oily coating became an especially creamy one.
Restaurant cooks prize thick pasta water. In "Heat," his best-selling account of working in Mario Batali's restaurant Babbo, Bill Buford describes how in the course of an evening, water in the pasta cooker goes from clear to cloudy to muddy, a stage that is "yucky-sounding but wonderful," because the water "behaves like a sauce thickener, binding the elements and flavoring the pasta with the flavor of itself."
Mr. Buford suggests that the muddy pasta water should be bottled and sold, because home cooking never produces anything like it. Cooking one batch of pasta in minimal water can't smooth out the starch as completely or generate those long-cooked flavors. But it does make pasta water good enough to sip.


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Thanksgiving 2005
Elise's brother, Eric flew in from Des Moines (after a stop in Minneapolis, Chicago and Dallas) last Monday to spend Thanksgiving with us. Elise made beef stroganoff for dinner and Eric and I spent the better part of the evening putting MP3s on his new phone.
Elise went into the office on Tuesday morning and then took Eric for lunch at Guero's and then to the Stevie Ray Vaughn memorial statue. After I got home from work we all went out for barbecue at The Salt Lick. We then headed over to Westgate Lanes for a rowdy night of bowling but decided against that as there was an hour wait. So we went home and talked until Elise fell asleep. That was a sign that everyone needed to go to sleep.
Elise went to work on Wednesday and I stayed home with Eric. We ran out to meet Brad so I could give him some CDs and I could get my laptop bag. While out I had the truck's oil changed and Eric and I did some Christmas shopping.
We drove back to the house and I cooked a late lunch. Elise came home shortly after and then we all packed, loaded up and headed to my parents' house in Cat Spring. We got there just in time for spiral sliced ham and homegrown black eyed peas.
I woke up at 5:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving day to go deer hunting. No luck. I sat there for three hours and watched two little bucks and two little does all morning. Luckily I had my iPod to keep me entertained.
My dad shot this buck two days after my unsucessful hunt.
Later that morning Eric and I were commissioned to remove cedar limbs from above my mom's new greenhouse. That was a dangerous task. I was standing on a ladder that was layed at an angle between the roof of the green house and a neighboring tree while holding a rope in one hand and a chainsaw in the other. Eric was manning ropes that I tied to limbs in the tree so they wouldn't crash down on me or through the skylights when I cut them.
Mom's new greenhouse
Mom, Elise and Eric went for a tour of the pasture while I took a nap on the couch and dad watched football. Later that afternoon dad cooked 2″ ribeye steaks. Dad and I vetoed the traditional Thanksgiving dinner of turkey and dressing this year because we don't really like turkey and dressing. Steaks it was and they were great. That evening consisted of watching two hours of The Apprentice.
We woke up early on Friday, ate breakfast, said bye to mom and dad and then drove off due north to Okeene, Oklahoma. Along the way we listened to the UT vs. A&M game. Once we crossed the border it was time to discuss names for the baby. After an hour the three of us couldn't come up with any names that stuck.
It was then that Elise and Eric talked about work. And talked about work. And talked about work. I started watching a movie on the iBook and was getting distracted by the siblings talking about work. I exclaimed, "we're on vacation, stop talking about work." Eric concurred. And then they continued their conversation about work.
We got to Grandma Boeckman's house shortly after dinner time. Luckily they saved the three weary travelers some fried catfish and hushpuppies. We stayed up and talked with all of the uncles, aunts and cousins. Steve, Joanne, Elise and I stood in the kitchen and became a great baby naming ensemble. We came up with great first and middle names for both a boy and a girl.
Elise, Eric and I went to the motel and turned in for the night. On Saturday we drove back over to Grandma's for the annual Boeckman Thanksgiving. Lunchtime quickly reared its head and we all feasted. As always the food was great and it was good to talk to Elise's family.
After lunch many of us migrated to the living room to watch the OU vs. OSU game. It's weird being in Oklahoma among Oklahomans, watching two rival Oklahoma college football teams battle it out and try to figure out who's rooting for who.
The weather was oddly agreeable this year. Uncle Mike used his Crocodile Hunter skills and caught an armadillo in Grandma's back yard. Mike and Neil took a .22 and said armadillo behind the barn and I'll leave the rest up to your imagination. I practiced my swing with Steve's pitching wedge in the back yard and showed Elise's little second cousin, Catch how to hit golf balls.
Night fell and most migrated to the kitchen for leftovers. After dinner Neil and I sat on the back porch and I think I pretty much have him sold on buying an iBook. Some of the guys went down to the basement where we talked about investments, eBay and Mythbusters.
Bed time grew near and again Elise, Eric and I drove back to the motel and called it a night. We woke up early on Sunday and drove back out to Grandma B's house for breakfast and bid farewells.
Elise, Joanne and Eric took our truck and Steve and I took the van. We caravaned to Perry, OK to meet up with Grandma Thurston so she could ride back to Des Moines with Steve, Joanne and Eric. Grandma T spent Thanksgiving Joanne's brother, Mark and his family. Grandma T didn't know that Elise and I were going to show up so it was a great surprise for her. We met at Braum's (the north Texas/Oklahoma version of Dairy Queen) for breakfast. We sat and talked for a couple hours and then it was time to head home. We took a few pictures and parted ways. Steve, Joanne, Eric and Grandma headed north up I-35, Elise and I headed south.
Elise drove the first leg and did a damn fine job seeing how crosswinds through Oklahoma were gusting at 40 mph. It was unreal! We were already running later than normal as we detoured for breakfast with Grandma so we decided to delay our trip more by stopping for a tour of the Oklahoma City National Memorial. Wow! I'm really glad we stopped. What an amazing memorial. It was a good feeling to stop a pay respect to those who lost their lives in the 1995 bombing. I remember when it happened but it was really amazing to read all of the literature and plaques posted throughout the memorial and get all of the details about what happened. We were both in awe as we looked at the architecture of the memorial and how the entire site was designed to honor those who lost their lives.
Solemnly we made our way back to the truck and headed south towards home. After passing the accident on the Texas/Oklahoma border, I decided I would relieve Elise and take over driving for the rest of the trip. I tapped Elise on the shoulder to wake her up and offered to drive. Yours truly drove the last half of the trip. The 35W and 35E merger just north of Hillsboro is the bain of my existence. Every year we get stuck there as other weary travelers are making their way home south for the start of the week.
We left Grandma B's at 9 a.m. and didn't get home until 10 p.m. We had a great time though and it's always a blessing to spend time with our families. We're thankful for that.
Here are photos from this past weekend.No comments
Laying someone off: It doesn\'t get easier
I decided to lay off one of my employees this morning. I came to my decision late yesterday and I thought about it all last night and this morning on the way into work. The task of letting someone go never seems to get easier. This morning's meeting was especially hard because it wasn't that I was having to let this person go because of poor performance or that this person was a liability. It was because I just didn't see a fit and the position this person was filling isn't needed right now.
The company operates in an intimate setting. It's hard to find the right time to pull someone aside for a private conversation. In hindsight I should have walked in first thing this morning, kicked everyone else out, let the person go and then go about the day. Instead I came in and allowed myself to get distracted. During that time a couple of my staffers went on their break so the break room was unavailable. This extra time allowed my concious to continue to do a number on me.
Like ripping off a Band-aid or chewing off your own arm that's been caught in a combine, I did what had to be done. It's a hard thing to do, especially when it's good for the company but not for the person losing his or her job. I chose the firm but compassionate route which ended the converation is one of those "And, well, that's it. I appreciate what you've done for us here and wish you all the best."
I keep thinking that one day I'll have really bad hair and will be able to slap my palm on the board room table, point my index finger like a gun and say, "You're fired!" I'll have a blonde lady sitting next to me who may say something like, "That was the right decision." And there will be an old guy sitting to my other side who may say something like, "There was really no other choice."
Sometimes there really is no other choice but making that decision and doing the deed is never easy.1 comment
Smoked salmon with tomatillo ancho butter
Southwest seasoned mesquite smoked salmon filets with a tomatillo ancho butter topped with smoked mustard seeds and green peppercorns and french fried sweet potatoes.
Southwest fish & chips
Clunky interface
My brother-in-law flew in from Des Moines this past Monday to spend Thursday Thanksgiving with my family and then to drive up with us to Okeene, Oklahoma for the annual Boeckman Saturday Thanksgiving. Eric brought his new Samsung a950 wireless phone and wanted me to show him how to load it up with MP3s. Talk about a tedious and clunky process.
We had to put the TransFlash card in its card adapter and then into the two-piece USB adapter and transfer MP3 files from my hard drive to the card adapter. Most of my audio files are MP4s so I then had to convert them to MP3s. Getting 100 songs for Eric took over two hours. This is such a horrible interface both in the software and the hardware. After all that work, I gave Eric an extensive demonstration of my iPod…
Spinning dog and twisted metal
I've never been a big fan of my 50-mile-one-way commute to work. It's worse as we are subject to Daylight Saving Time and the skies now begin darkening at 4:30 p.m. The darkness makes my commute home so much fun on the windy and fast four lane HWY 71, which has no divide, is painted with deer blood and fluorescent spray paint lines that mark the mishaps.
Last night:
I was in the far right lane. The truck two vehicles in front of me slammed on its brakes, slowed, and then kept driving. The car in front of me slowed slightly and kept driving. I was safely behind both vehicles and then saw the thing that caused the truck to brake. I swerved into the left lane and as I drove by the point of impact I saw what looked like a German Shepherd, spinning lifelessly on its right side. Spinning and spinning.
This morning:
I was sitting at the light at the 290 & 71 intersection. An early model red Celica stopped behind me. The car had a boom boom stereo. I thought, "Who the hell listens to boom boom this early?" I looked in my mirror and took notice of the driver, a guy who looked like Drew from Office Space. The O-face guy.
The light turned green. I chose the left lane to get me through Oak Hill on 71. The red Celica followed. Traffic was heavy. Both westbound lanes were zooming at 40-50 mph in the 35 mph zone. After a mile or so, the car in front of me signaled left and started to brake as it was going to turn in to a business parking lot. The car rolled to a stop and was waiting for a pause in the oncoming eastbound traffic. I stopped. The red Celica stopped. The old minivan stopped. The new minivan didn't stop. The new minivan ran into the back of the old minivan, shoved it into the left eastbound lane and sideswiped the red Celica. The car in front of me turned in to the parking lot. The van missed my truck's left side by inches. It pulled back in to the left westbound lane in front of me just in time as eastbounders were coming again. This all transpired in 4.3 seconds. I witnessed the wreck because I had a gut feeling it would happen. I heard everything. I should have stayed as a witness. I didn't stay because I was confident that the wreck didn't warrant severe injuries. I steered right, drove off in the right lane and looked in my mirror to see the doors of the three involved cars open.
Boom boom.1 comment
Long time friends and new neighbors
We just got word that our good friends, Doug and Marcia's offer was accepted on a house a few blocks away. Doug is one of my closest friends from the good old days when we ran banquets at the country club. Doug left the club to go to law school in 1999. After graduating, he and Marcia lived in North Carolina for a few years. Doug happened upon a great opportunity here in Austin, recently passed the Texas bar exam, accepted the job offer and now they will both be moving back next month.
What's funny is that the very first house that Elise and I tried to buy is on the same street that Doug and Marcia's house is on. Another great thing is that Marcia is pregnant and due in February. Elise is due in April. So we'll have friends within walking distance who will also have a newborn. That means the girls can go walking with strollers and talk about things like "lactating" and "onesies" and Doug and I can stand the driveway, drinks in hand and talk about lawn fertilizer and pressure treated lumber.1 comment
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Josh & Elise's first photo – the college years
Josh: "You used to be so cute"
Elise: "You used to know the right things to say"No comments
Week in review: iMac
I began using my new iMac at the office this past Monday. My desk is aesthetically pleasing now. My plan was to force myself to completely switch to using my Mac at work. I can't. I'm verrrrrrrrrrrry slow on my new computer.
My desk is aesthetically pleasing now because I have my iMac, Bluetooth mouse and keyboard and phone. It's iFeng Shui. I had to add an adjoining desk for my old Windows machine and the server. When I need to do something that is time sensitive or mission critical, I use the Windows computer.
I try to use the iMac as much as possible. I will continue to try but in the meantime I'm like a three legged cat trying to bury turds on a frozen pond.No comments
Fat finger typing leads to dinner with like-named locals
Joey Janisheck (pronounced just like it reads) was "fat finger typing", trying to get to his own website and accidentally typed janicek.com. He read up on us and sent me an e-mail just to say hello and to note that he and his family also live in Austin.
I wrote back and said, "Great! Similar tribes must come together and feast."
Elise couldn't help but make fun of me for setting up a blind date. I'm the anti-social one.
So we met at Rudy's on Wednesday night and had a great barbecue dinner with Joey, his wife Melissa and the the little ones: Molly and Boston.
Not only are the names similar, but so are personalities and careers. Joey runs his own web development business and is the CTO of his household and Melissa is a caterer. Boston is Spiderman. I don't know what our kid is yet. Probably a ninja.
We had a nice evening with the Janishecks and look forward future outings and possibly some parenting advice.1 comment
Elise and I are having a "discussion" on hypnobirthing. All I can say about this "discussion" thus far is that Dr. Grantley Dick-Read's Birth Philosophy would be the coolest name for a band.No comments
Once Upon Your Dead Body
I've listened to Coheed and Cambria's Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One album over and over for the past three weeks. Nothing else. I love it. I can play some mad air drums to that album in my truck on the way to and from work.
I had to stop listening. Someone recently asked me if I wanted paper or plastic. I instinctively responded, "No. I hope you die right now. Will you drink my chemical?"
I have no idea what that means. Sounds saucy but it's better than that Kanye West song.No comments
Rock game hen
I wanted to buy quail. HEB only had frozen "marinated" quail. I don't swing on pretreated packaged meats. I bought a couple cornish game hens and thought I was going to make a boring dinner.
I threw together a chile rubbed charred cornish rock game hen stuffed with cilantro and ground lamb with an ancho dewberry coulis, Colorado wild rice and pistachio crusted leeks.
Lucille's Corn Pudding
This is a great corn pudding recipe from the Y Bar & Grill in Oak Hill
2 cans sweet corn
1 can cream corn
1/4 stick butter
3/4 cup sugar
6 eggs
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix all ingredients in oven-safe baking dish. Bake at 350 until done in middle (1 hour or more).No comments


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JEFFERSON -- Jefferson High and Jackson County High, two schools just a few miles apart, boast two of the state's top wrestling programs, and no, it's not something in the water. More likely it's something in the blood.
Family ties rule the wrestling scene in this community.
Doug Thurmond is the head coach at Jefferson, currently the top-ranked team in Class A, while brother Phil Thurmond (older by 2 1/2 years) leads Jackson County, the No. 2 team in AAA.
Obviously, two brothers coaching at rival schools in close proximity makes for an interesting situation.
''It's a very clean rivalry,'' Doug said. ''Having Phil over there and me here has made it where our wrestlers get along really good. If he wasn't there, I don't know how it would be.''
Said Phil: ''There are friendships established between our teams that probably wouldn't have been otherwise. It probably would have been a truer rivalry.''
Neither of the coaches seem to think that's such a bad thing, either.
Since both programs typically wrestle at the same tournaments, the brothers ride together to the seeding meetings held on Thursday evenings prior to a weekend event.
And at those tournaments, wrestlers from Jackson County and Jefferson typically gather at the same spot in the bleachers in between matches. At last weekend's Patriot Classic at Oglethorpe County, some of the wrestlers even switched warmup jackets for their finals introductions.
''It's different because they're brothers,'' said Blake Gooch, Jefferson's 140-pounder and a defending state champion. ''It's like your team is a family, so we're brothers. So I guess (Jackson County wrestlers) are our cousins.''
The results seem to point back to two brothers who are also close friends.
''We always took up for each other growing up,'' said Phil, who teaches Physical Education at South Jackson Elementary. ''Nobody needed to say anything about the other one.''
''We were really close growing up,'' said Doug, a P.E. teacher at Jefferson High. ''We had a great mom and dad ... but we got disciplined by our dad for fighting with each other. He would give us a choice for punishment: we could get a spanking or kiss each other. That took care of the fighting.''
As it does today, wrestling brought the two brothers together back in their school days at Jefferson High under the guidance of the legendary coach Jack Keen, despite the fact that the two never wrestled alongside each other. Back injuries forced Phil to sit out his junior and senior seasons, and he watched only a few matches after his competition days were over.
Just the same, he made an impact on his younger brother.
''Phil's probably the reason I started wrestling,'' Doug said. ''If I was looking for a coach to give my kids something more than just coaching, to teach them something they could use in life, I would want him coaching my kid.''
There are, of course, differences between the two brothers.
Doug is the more talkative of the two, and Jefferson wrestlers said that's evident at matches as well, when their coach is the more animated and vocal figure.
''I guess the techniques we teach wrestlers to use on the mat may be a little different,'' Doug said. ''We're a lot alike when it comes to the big picture of coaching, though.''
Maybe that's because they build their philosophies with each other's help.
Phil said wrestling is always ''the major topic of conversation'' at family gatherings during the season. According to Doug, the talks include everything from using each other as scouting resources concerning wrestlers on other teams to discussion about how to handle the off-the-mat elements of coaching.
The strategy seems to be working quite well for the brothers.
In just his second season as Jefferson's head coach, Doug is looking to repeat his rookie performance and lead the Dragons to a second straight state championship. His team has finished first in all six tournaments entered and suffered its only dual meet loss to Class AAAAA No. 2 Parkview.
In 12 years as Jackson County's head coach, Phil has led the Panthers to an undefeated season (1999), an area championship (1994) and two top-five finishes at the state tournament (fifth in 1997 and third in 2001). This season, the Panthers are 16-2 and have finished second at several tournaments -- usually behind Jefferson.
''Our families cheer for both of us,'' Phil said. ''Except for when we're both on the same mat, and then they cheer for neither of us. Our parents supported both of our schools' tournaments and they brought stuff for the hospitality room.''
Perhaps the Thurmond wrestling tradition will extend another generation, maybe even in a manner similar to the one that exists now.
It's far too early to tell, but the younger Thurmond boys -- Phil has two sons, while Doug has three with another one on the way -- are already good friends and those old enough to compete have already started wrestling with Jefferson's freestyle club.
One thing is certain, however. This generation of Thurmonds has figured out the secret to building a successful wrestling program -- even if they have to share athletes within the same county.
''I just think that anybody will be successful at what they do if they enjoy it, and we both do,'' Doug said. ''The kids know if you enjoy working with them, and that matters to them. Phil probably feels the same way.''
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Thursday, January 17, 2002.
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/somewhere/instanceA/collection1_shard1/core.properties /somewhere/instanceA/collection1_shard1/data /somewhere/instanceA/collection1_shard2/core.properties /somewhere/instanceA/collection1_shard2/data /somewhere/instanceB
curl "http://host:port/solr/admin/cores?action=UNLOAD&core=collection1_shard2"
# since UNLOAD completed we should now be free to move the unloaded core's files as we wish
mv /somewhere/instanceA/collection1_shard2 /somewhere/instanceB/collection1_shard2
expected result:
/somewhere/instanceA/collection1_shard1/core.properties /somewhere/instanceA/collection1_shard1/data # collection1_shard2 files have been fully relocated /somewhere/instanceB/collection1_shard2/core.properties.unloaded /somewhere/instanceB/collection1_shard2/data
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/somewhere/instanceA/collection1_shard1/core.properties /somewhere/instanceA/collection1_shard1/data /somewhere/instanceA/collection1_shard2/data # collection1_shard2 files have not been fully relocated and/or some files were left behind in instanceA because the UNLOAD action had returned prior to the core being closed /somewhere/instanceB/collection1_shard2/core.properties.unloaded /somewhere/instanceB/collection1_shard2/data
Changing CoreContainer.unload to wait for core to close before unregistering it from ZK. Adding testMidUseUnload method to TestLazyCores.
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Changing CoreContainer.unload to wait for core to close before unregistering it from ZK. Adding testMidUseUnload method to TestLazyCores.
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SOLR-6279: cores?action=UNLOAD now waits for the core to close before unregistering it from ZK.
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Judge rules against Kucinich on Democrat's loyalty oath
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Judge rules against Kucinich on Democrat's loyalty
Presidential candidate left off primary ballot may
By W. Gardner Selby
Saturday, January 12, 2008
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on Friday rejected
presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich's challenge to
a loyalty oath required of presidential candidates by
the Texas Democratic Party.
Barring a successful appeal, Yeakel's ruling means
Kucinich's name will not be on the party's March 4
primary ballot.
Don McTigue, an Ohio lawyer for Kucinich, said he
would confer with the Ohio congressman on whether to
appeal to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kucinich and musician Willie Nelson, a supporter,
filed a lawsuit last week accusing the party of
violating the candidate's constitutional rights by not
putting him on the ballot.
Kucinich had attempted to file as a candidate without
agreeing entirely to a loyalty pledge; he scratched
out a portion stating that he would support the
party's nominee for president, whoever it is. The
party said the pledge could not be altered and that
Kucinich's filing could not be accepted.
Yeakel noted that candidates are free to interpret the
oath pretty much as they please and said he did not
find it "to be a burden of such an extent that it
mandates striking down the oath."
He said that the oath "may be inartfully worded, may
be, in fact, an anachronism," but it is "legally
Yeakel also noted that Kucinich accepted the Texas
oath when he ran for president in 2004. Kucinich drew
nearly 2 percent of the vote in the 2004 Texas
primary, placing seventh in the field.
McTigue said Kucinich's concern that a nominee would
employ war as an instrument of foreign policy has
escalated since 2004. He noted that GOP presidential
candidates don't have to take a similar oath in Texas
and argued that Democrats had failed to explain why
the oath is required for presidential aspirants and
not candidates for other offices.
Gary Yokie of Houston, Kucinich's Texas campaign
coordinator, said that if Kucinich doesn't get on the
primary ballot, his supporters will have options. For
instance, they could flock to another candidate, such
as Cynthia McKinney, a former Democratic U.S. House
member seeking the Green Party's nomination.
Boyd Richie, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party,
said the oath is required by rules adopted by
delegates to the party's state convention.
Speaking personally, he said, "If people want to have
the benefit of running under a particular party's
banner, they ought to be willing to support that
party's nominee."
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Blockbuster number one New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Weiner returns with an irresistible story about a young woman trying to make it in Hollywood....
At 23, Ruth Saunders headed west with her 70-year-old grandma in tow, hoping to be hired as a television writer. Four years later, she's hit the jackpot when she gets "The Call": the sitcom she wrote, The Next Big Thing, has gotten the green light, and Ruthie's going to be the show-runner. But her dreams of Hollywood happiness are threatened by demanding actors, number-crunching executives, an unrequited crush on a boss, and her grandmother's impending nuptials.
Set against the fascinating backdrop of Los Angeles show business culture, with an insider's ear and eye for writer's rooms, bad behavior backstage, and set politics, Jennifer Weiner's new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood rollercoaster and a heartfelt story about what it's like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come true.
©2012 Jennifer Weiner (P)2012 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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This Weekend May Be Last for Many to See 'Fireproof' in Theaters
Faith-based flick "Fireproof" heads into its ninth weekend with hopes of continuing its steady pace toward becoming the fourth all-time highest grossing Christian film.
But that may be tough to do with the upcoming weekend possibly being the last to witness "Fireproof" in more than 800 theaters.
"The good news is that Fireproof will still be on more than 800 theaters this weekend — the ninth - straight time since the movie opened on September 26," the movie's promoters reported Tuesday in their blog. "The reality is, this will likely be the final weekend with this many theaters. There are just too many blockbusters on the release schedule for the coming weeks to keep this amazing run going."
While nearly all movies that debuted on Sept. 26 are making less than a quarter million dollars each weekend (with the exception of Eagle Eye, which drew $1.46 million last weekend), "Fireproof" has consistently been pulling in over $1 million each weekend and hanging among the box office top 15.
This week, the total earnings for "Fireproof" helped the film surpass the $30-million mark. And with about $7 million more, the church-produced film will eclipse "The Nativity Story" as the fourth highest grossing "Christian" film of all time, behind Hollywood blockbusters "The Passion of Christ" and the first two installments of the "Chronicles of Narnia" series, based on Christian apologist C.S. Lewis' famed books of the same name.
The feats so far have been especially impressive given that "Fireproof" has been showing in less than 1,000 theaters each weekend and was produced on a $500,000 budget. By comparison Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ" was produced on a $30 million budget and the "Narnia" movies were produced on a $180 million and $200 million budget, respectively. "The Passion of Christ," of course, went on to gross over $370 million, the first "Narnia" over $290 million, and the second "Narnia" over $140 million.
While the top three movies "produced by Christians that promote or embody their religion," as Box Office Mojo labels them, are much too far to reach, the fourth spot is up for grabs, especially given that the last movie from the creators of "Fireproof," "Facing the Giants," hung around for 17 weeks, grossing over $10 million on a $100,000 budget.
"So ... if you are one of those people that have been meaning to see it, but haven't yet, this is your time," "Fireproof" promoters say. "Or, if you are one of the millions that have found this to be a movie that touches your heart and challenges you to love others the way God intends us to love them, then you may want to check it out one more time on the big screen."
The movie, directed and produced by the Kendrick brothers of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., tells the inspiring story of a fireman and his struggle to save his faltering marriage from ending with his newfound faith and with the help of the "Love Dare," a 40-day spiritual guide that utilizes Scripture to reveal what true love is.
With a budget five times larger than Sherwood Pictures' last movie, "Facing the Giants," "Fireproof" debuted over the Sept. 26-28 weekend at No. 4 with $6.5 million in ticket sales, marking the year's second highest grossing opening weekend return of any film released on 1,000 screens or less.
The ministry's latest movie not only made the Weekend Box Office Top 10 for three consecutive weeks, but it has also spawned a best-selling book that started as a plot device in the film until audiences repeatedly requested copies for themselves. The Love Dare, written by the Kendrick brothers, has been on The New York Times Top 10 Paperback Advice Best Seller's List for seven weeks. This week it ranks No. 2 behind Twilight.
Both the film and book have drawn the support of churchgoers and conservative moviegoers as well as several national groups, including Focus on the Family, Outreach, FamilyLife, The Marriage CoMission, America's Family Coaches, AMFM, Marriage Alive Communications, and MarriageToday. Influential figures such as marriage expert Gary Smalley and Bubba Cathy of Chick-fil-A have also worked to spread word of the movie.


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In Reply to: Meaning of rubaiyat of oman khayyam posted by Bob on January 23, 2007
: : meaning of rubaiyat of oman khayyam
: Surely you can't mean the whole poem. Which particular phrases are you having trouble with?
In Persian poetry, a rubaʽi is a quatrain. The plural, Ŕubaʽiyat, means collection of quatrains. Omar Khayyam was a Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician of the 11th and 12th centuries who, among many other interesting achievements, devised a calendar more accurate than the Gregorian Calendar, the one used in the West (and by us). Edward Fitzgerald translated, somewhat freely, various quatrains by Khayyam into English in iambic pentameter, with the rhyme scheme aaba.


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by Inauro, 2006-09-11 22:50:00Head on over to the official Guild Wars site for a heads up on the Autumn championship season.
We will be restarting the Guild Wars Ladder this week, as a new fun season begins. The Autumn Season will give prizes in the form of copies of Nightfall and through in-game rewards, as well. The action starts at 17:00 GMT (10:00 a.m. PDT) this Thursday, September 14, 2006, and runs until 17:00 GMT (10:00 a.m. PDT) on Monday, October 16, 2006. Check out the rules for more information.
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09:02 - Eating breakfast and contemplating my latest knitting project. So many bobbles, such sore wrists.
10:13 - I was going to watch Netflix and knit more, then changed my mind and decided to get an earlier train to town so I could get some shopping done before meeting Tam.
12:25 - Tam fancied checking out the charity shops in the next town over so I hopped on another train an hour later. The interval shopping trip was fairly successful - I managed to convey to the No 7 woman in Boots how utterly useless I was and she did my makeup for me. We're off to a wedding this weekend and I thought I'd make a bit of an effort! I don't like looking like I'm wearing a ton of makeup but my skin has been misbehaving for a few months so needs must...
Also on my shopping list was some quick-dry nail polish and a new SIM card. The phone shop was unexpectedly closed and I bought the wrong type of polish. Yup, one of those days.
14:42 - After agreeing that the pickings had been pretty rubbish, we went back to the main town and had a quick visit to my favourite shops. There was some rather fun painting going on when we turned the corner.
16:20 - Home, and we went a bit of a drive around since my car hasn't been used much lately - my bro has already jump started it once since I moved down, oops. As always, we ended up at the beach. Apparently there was something exciting on that log, going by the outtakes. I've already forgotten what it was.
18:05 - A giant parcel of wool greeted me when we got home! I won a couple of job lots on eBay last week, nothing too exciting but I think I can find a use for most of it.
21:57 - I slightly forgot about the photos for a while there... We spent the evening watching a Fleetwood Mac concert on TV and reading the Empire Top 500 Movies list. There was a bit of debate about how certain films had made their way onto the list and when we realised it would take forever to watch them all, we moved onto the IMDb list.
22:41 - Bedtime was approaching. Mother has a new magazine subscription so I had a flick through when I got bored of knitting.
And that was Saturday! Last May was our first trip to Helensburgh, which I think might have been slightly more exciting... For anyone who wants to join in, check out the #photoanhour hashtag on social media to find out the date of the next one.
(I'm also talking all things jeans on the George at Asda blog this week, check it out here!)


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PAUL Beshara says the outside barrier holds no concerns for Happy Trails in Saturday's Group 3 Spring Stakes — in fact, it's the best possible result.
There's a very specific reason for that too — last year's edition is still fresh in the Morphettville trainer's mind.
On that occasion Happy Trails was a $2.80 favourite but was cluttered in between runners and didn't see daylight until late, flashing home for a luckless fifth.
Beshara doesn't want to see that happen again so barrier nine in the field of nine doesn't worry him one little bit.
"I think they've done us a favour," he told The Advertiser.
"If you have a look a last year's episode ... put it this way, it wasn't (Jason) Holder's best ride.
"You're driving a Ferrari, you don't need to ride him like he's a 100-1 shot.
"You can't get in any trouble out there."
The instructions to jockey Troy Baker will be very simple.
"He'll drop back, let him come around the outside and give him plenty of room. He'll be hitting the line," Beshara said.
"He's not there to prove anything, whatever he does is a bonus.
"We've got bigger fish to fry, but of course I'd like to see him win."
Pace could be a concern without any noted frontrunners in the race, but that doesn't really bother Beshara.
Happy Trails is rated head and shoulders above his rivals and he takes solace from how well the seven-year-old gets in at the weight-for-age conditions.
"There's just 2kg difference from the bottom to him. He's a multiple Group 1 winner and ran second in the Cox Plate," Beshara said.
"If this was a handicap he'd be carrying 70kg in that field."
Happy Trails is making his long-awaited return to racing after injuring some ligaments in his hoof before the Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes last spring.
The last time he raced, he stormed home to just miss in the Cox Plate and that's his main aim again this campaign.
Beshara reckon his stable star is "about 80 per cent fitness right now" and is loving stable life after such a long break.
Happy Trails, who won this race back in 2012, has been installed the $2.50 favourite with online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au, just ahead of Riziz ($2.70), Karacatis ($4.80) and Daytona Grey ($6).
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Fargo reports 4.2 inches of snow, and counting
FARGO - As of 6 p.m. Sunday, Fargo had 4.2 inches of snow, WDAY-TV meteorologist Rob Kupec said. Other amounts through the region were mostly estimates by area law enforcement, Kupec and the National Weather Service said.
In North Dakota, Wahpeton reported about 3 inches; Valley City had 2 inches. The Grand Forks airport had 0.5 inches and downtown Grand Forks got barely more than a dusting at 0.2 inches, the NWS sad.
In Minnesota, the snow was still accumulating, but Bagley and Parkers Prairie had 2 inches, and Fergus Falls and Detroit Lakes had 1 inch each, the NWS said.
Today is expected to be blustery, with winds out of the north and northwest of 15 to 25 mph, which could cause some drifting and ice up east-west roads, forecasters said.
Temperatures are expected to hit a high of 17 in Fargo-Moorhead, with a low overnight into Tuesday of 4 degrees below zero.


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Third albums are notorious for their scope, as bands usually feel secure enough to stretch in new directions, but in Rogue Wave's case, the band didn't need added inspiration for its third and latest, Asleep at Heaven's Gate. It's an album that frontman Zach Rogue had discussed obsessively with his bandmates, sharing early four-track demos during the long months in the van supporting their second album, Descended From Vultures.
"We could've made a 30-minute record, but that wasn't the point of this one," Rogue says. "We had too much to say, and I felt like I wanted to fully do something for the first time. Really make a statement, or at least try to."
Asleep is notable not just for its sculpted indie pop — vibrant and dreamy, rich in atmosphere but still punchy — but the emotional changes it documents in the band and their lives. While meticulously crafted, it never sounds produced (thanks to Yo La Tengo producer Roger Moutenot), though there's no mistaking the intricate layers of sound in every track.
Rogue Wave
Rhythm Room
Rogue Wave, and Grand Ole Party are scheduled to perform on Thursday, April 24.
"I felt so strongly about the songs, because I knew we had something that was going to work," Rogue says. "It was so timely with what was going on with the band and our personal lives. [Asleep] is a more sober look at making music. It's not wide-eyed or naive. It's more, 'Let's try to make art rock . . . [and] elevate what we do.'"
For Rogue, the nonstop touring was particularly difficult, something referred to in the moody, ringing track "Chicago x 12" off the latest album. It's an oblique reference to the number of times the Bay Area quartet played the Windy City in the course of a year. Rogue had never left San Francisco, let alone done this kind of relentless touring, and it's a testament to Rogue Wave's odd circumstances. Before 2003, they weren't even a band per se, but the product of some recordings Rogue did with his friend Bill Racine in his upstate New York home. Rogue went there when he was laid off from his Web-development job in the wake of the dot-com bust.
"It was the first time in my life I'd just made art on my own terms," Rogue says. "I tried to not really care if people heard it or not, and not be judged by anyone. Because it was just me and Bill. It was a time to let loose, experiment, and do something totally self-absorbed."
The resulting album, 2003's Out of the Shadow, created a small stir. No sooner had he assembled the band and begun practicing than they were asked to open for Spoon at the Fillmore. Before long, Sub Pop was coming to their shows, and next thing Rogue knew, they'd re-released Out of the Shadow and he was out supporting the next release, 2005's Descended From Vultures.
But the grind fried the band and overwhelmed Rogue. They returned home and recruited a new bassist, Patrick Abernathy of Beulah, and caught their breath before the other shoe dropped: Drummer Pat Spurgeon's kidney was failing.
Spurgeon was born with only one kidney, and when the one he'd received as a teen began to fail, he was forced onto dialysis. In January 2007, he received a transplant, and, to this point, has made a successful recovery. The turn of events helped steer them to Brushfire Records, the imprint of longtime friend Jack Johnson. When Spurgeon became sick, the band's album was put on the back burner, and Rogue started talking to Brushfire about releasing a solo disc so he could stay busy.
Talks were ongoing when Spurgeon's fortunes turned for the better. But Rogue was so impressed by what he'd already heard from Brushfire that they bypassed the other labels with rosters more in keeping with the band's shimmering indie-art pop. After two albums on Sub Pop, he was looking for something different.
"You can be on a label with a lot of bands that are considered hip, cool and on the edge, but if there are 50 of them all being put out at the same time, how are you going to differentiate yourself?" Rogue asks. "How are you going to have the resources behind you to support what you're doing?"
Brushfire's support proved invaluable in allowing Rogue the time and opportunity to make the album he did with Moutenot. Tightly orchestrated without appearing fussy, it's a bright, hook-lined pop album, with melancholy hidden in the many nooks and crannies. After recording the basic tracks in California, they flew back to Moutenot's Nashville studio and spent five weeks doing overdubs, and another three mixing it.
"There was so much there," Rogue says, attempting to explain the lengthy mix-down time. "There were a lot of different layers and different emotions, a lot of harmony vocals and different ways of singing. A lot of noise, feedback and tape loop stuff, four-track experimentation and broken mellotrons. You name it. There was so much happening, I wanted it all to make sense."
Rogue says that despite Moutenot's impressive pedigree (Lou Reed, Sleater-Kinney, Bill Frisell), he could tell from the moment they started talking that the New Jersey transplant had a "laid-back approach and seemed like an enabler." Moutenot encouraged experimentation — sticking mics in acoustic guitars, pounding on the studio door for one track, and even using badly oversaturated reel-to-reel tape to record the guitar solo for "Lullaby." He knew how to keep creative energy high.
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"He understands artists," Rogue says. "He tells them what their strengths are, and not in a way to lie to them, but to remind them why they're doing it. Roger was really good at telling us when we were trying too hard, or not trying hard enough."
Moutenot's graciousness and guidance extended beyond the studio, but unfortunately, Rogue wasn't wise enough to heed it. A big fan of Yo La Tengo, Rogue begged Moutenot to take them to the restaurant Prince's Hot Chicken Shack, a local Nashville favorite YLT mention in their album liner notes.
"It's sort of the end of the night for Prince's, and they kind of gave us the end of the batch. Roger says, 'You know, guys, it's pretty spicy, so you should get something kind of mild. Don't push your luck,'" Rogue remembers. "He says, 'James [McNew, YLT bassist] couldn't go past medium on the Prince's, so why should you?'"
Rogue said "pish-posh" to this advice and quickly found himself in agony. "I couldn't take it," he remembers. "I tried eating it, but it was, like, I couldn't even taste it. I thought I was going to die," he says. "[Roger] gave us that look like, 'Amateurs. I told you.'"


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When it comes to experimenting with flirty mascara and gooey foundation, teens and "tweens" typically don't turn to their parents for advice, says celebrity makeup artist Joanna Schlip, author of "Glamour Gurlz."
So we turned to Schlip to learn when parents should consider letting their teens make the move to makeup and how, ultimately, to avoid a pancake-face scenario. The bottom line, she says, is that teens need very little makeup, and it should be kept natural and neutral. Here's some more advice from Schlip:
Q: When can teens start wearing makeup?
A: When your daughter is going through puberty, allowing her to wear makeup is a great reward. Make this occasion positive ... puberty can be devastating.
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A: Teens should moisturize, and are probably better off using a tinted SPF moisturizer than a foundation.
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Floatopia, a floating raft city in Mission Bay, is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday off Fanuel Street Park in Pacific Beach.
Revelers plan to float on the bay in rafts to avoid the city's beach alcohol ban, approved by voters in November 2008. People can have open containers of alcohol as long as they are not actually on the beach.
While this year's Floatopia has largely been planned on Facebook, there are official sponsors, say organizers. Thousands have said they plan to attend.
The city has added extra lifeguards, who are warning about the dangers of mixing alcohol and water temperatures in the 50s.


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The Spirited Dinner Series has been part of the annual drinks extravaganza Tales of the Cocktail from its first edition in 2002. These events are modeled after wine dinners, but at the start the idea of pairing multiple cocktails and courses was fairly novel and sometimes a hard sell.
"I'd approach people about it and they just thought I was crazy," says Tales of the Cocktail founder Ann Tuennerman. "That first year we had 10 of them. I was able to go around and visit all of them in one night."
Times have changed, of course. This year the dinners will be held July 18 with greater numbers and diversity than ever. Many of the dinners will sell out well ahead of time, and in fact some are already booked up. That means if you want to attend one you'd better start looking over the options.
This year's line-up has more than 30 events, and it includes a few unconventional venues. For instance, the riverboat Creole Queen is hosting a dinner on the water, with a river cruise, buffet, jazz band and multiple bars across its decks. Meanwhile, those partaking in a dinner dubbed "Dive Bar Russian Style" will be directed to the backstreet bar 12 Mile Limit for Slavic-themed dishes and drinks made from Samogon, a clear Russian spirit similar to grappa. Even the French Quarter music hall One Eyed Jacks will hold a tacos and tequila dinner, with two seatings.
As in past years, distillers, brand ambassadors, drinks authors and other experts in the field participate directly in the dinners, and chefs and bartenders collaborate on the drinks and menu.
"One big change is that in the beginning a lot of the bar chefs and mixologists doing these dinners were from out of town," says Tuennerman. "Now, we have so much talent here behind the bar that there's a lot more local people involved."
Some of the pairings between beverage brand and restaurant feel pretty intuitive. At the Irish House, for instance, the Dublin-born chef Matt Murphy will serve a menu he's calling "the Creole Celtic Courtship" alongside drinks made with the famous Irish whiskey Bushmills, while the menu at RioMar centers on Latin American-style seafood dishes with an array of drinks made from tequilas and South American wines.
At Maurepas Foods, chef Mike Doyle is working various liquors from event partner High West Distillery right into the meal, in addition to pairing dishes with cocktails. And some dinners sport elaborate themes, like the one scheduled at Criollo inside the Hotel Monteleone called "Hemingway's Conch, Cuban and Caribbean Cocktails and Cuisine."
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The Tagicakibau brothers had dinner at their parents' house in the south of Auckland on Sunday night, but talk about rugby was not on the menu. Sailosi, the Samoa and London Irish wing, and Michael, who plays in that position for Fiji and Saracens, will, selection and fitness allowing, face each other on Sunday when the Pacific island teams meet at a sold-out Eden Park.
Never mind New Zealand and France at the same venue 19 hours earlier, there is only one game as far as thousands here are concerned. The suburb of Ellerslie, where Samoa are staying, has been taken over by Fijians who have been organising daily events for the past few weeks and the Fiji police band were making their presence heard on Wednesday.
When Samoa turned up for training in the morning, they found a crowd of 2,000 waiting for them, some of whom had been there for two hours. The players stayed behind afterwards to sign autographs and pose for photographs, making them late for a scheduled media conference.
"The support for us has been amazing," says Sailosi, who suffered a strained hamstring against Wales on Sunday but expects to be fit to face Fiji. "Michael and I were born in Auckland and to be playing in a World Cup match here together, even if on different sides, is amazing.
"We have bantered about the game ever since the draw for the pools was made, but it was a bit weird on Sunday as we chatted over dinner. It was good to see him, but it was difficult to talk about rugby. I wanted to say some things and so did he, but there is too much on the line with this game. It is massive for both sides. We will say more when we gather at the house with all our family on Sunday evening."
Sailosi plays for the land of his mother, Lealofi, while Michael, pictured right, opted for the country of his father, Isikeli. "I went to Samoa in 2000 with a New Zealand Marist [a Catholic organisation] team for a sevens tournament," Sailosi says. "They found out about my mother and asked me to play sevens for them."
Within three years he was playing in the World Cup, the first of three. Michael, the younger brother by 30 months, made his debut for Fiji in 2007. "We both asked our father for advice," Sailosi says. "He told us both to go for it. Our parents support us fully and are proud of us both.
"Sunday will be a big day for our family and there will be at least 40 at the game. Michael and I are trying to organise tickets for everyone and our two sisters have produced 40 T-shirts that have the Fijian emblem on one side and the Samoan on the other with the words Tagicakibau and Brothers across the front."
The brothers played against each other twice in the Premiership last season, London Irish and Saracens each winning once, but only Sailosi was present when Fiji defeated Samoa 36-18 in the Pacific Nations tournament in Suva last July.
"This will be different," Sailosi says. "It is do-or-die for both teams: defeat will leave us with no chance of making the quarter-finals. We are both coming off the back of disappointing defeats. We lost to Wales after going away from our strengths and Fiji were beaten by South Africa by a surprisingly large margin.
"We did not play with enough width against Wales and it was frustrating on the wing because little ball came my way. Samoa are a mature side with strength in depth. We expect to do well and we have to win our last two matches. My team will be my brothers for 80 minutes on Sunday; after that, it will be back to my blood brother."
Samoa have warned their players to be more careful what they say on social media sites after their centre Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu was investigated by the International Rugby Board following an outburst on Twitter shortly after the defeat by Wales.
The Samoa manager, Matthew Tagitau, said internal action had been taken against the Gloucester centre, but would not go into details. Fuimaono-Sapolu is available for selection against Fiji, while the fly-half Tusi Pisi, who missed the match against Wales, is expected to have recovered from a hamstring strain.
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Siblings have faced each other in international competition before
The Ma'afus – Rugby union The magnificently monikered George David Campese Ma'afu made his debut for Fiji against Australia in June 2010. He would have been familiar with the prop lining up against him on the other side: it was his brother, Salesi.
The Hearnes – Cricket England-born Frank Hearne qualified for South Africa through residency. He could not stop his team falling to a heavy defeat against England in 1892, despite in-depth knowledge of two of their players, his brothers Jack and George.
The Boatengs – Football Kevin-Prince Boateng played for Germany from Under-15 to Under-21 level but opted to make his way as a full international for Ghana, having qualified through his father. That meant he faced his brother, Jérôme, in the 2010 World Cup group stages. Germany won 1-0.
The Reeds – Ice dancing Cathy and Chris Reed were raised in the US but decided to compete as a pair for Japan, the country of their mother's birth, at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Their sister Allison was also competing in Vancouver having decided to take Georgian nationality after falling short of the USA team.


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my daughter was in a car accident five years ago at the time she was 13 we settled with them in june my daughter of coarse couldent touch her settlement until she turned 18 well last saturday she turned 18 we went to her attorney's office on monday to sign the release her attorney said she faxed the release the same day and the other attorney on the defendant side claims he sent my daughter's check that monday but my daughter attorney's wouldent give my daughter a check because she has to wait until the check comes from my experiance when i sign a release they write me a check that same day.i don't understand why this is taking so long?
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If they dont have the draft yet they cant give out any funds because they would be giving you somebody elses money Many defense attorneys and or carriers will not send the draft until the release is in hand. It has not even been a week.Your daughter should have her money by next week
I agree with Mr. Nelson. Also, the check may not have been made out to your daughter, but to the law firm's client trust account. (That is usually addressed in the settlement agreement.) If this is the case, there may be a delay if the attorney first needs to deposit the check into his/her firm's client trust account, wait for it to clear, and then issue your daughter a check from the trust account. This a standard procedure.
Something doesn't make sense here. Was this case settled five years ago? If so, the check must have been sent to your lawyer, and a minor's compromise hearing should have been held. Thereafter, the money must have been placed in your daughter's name in a blocked account and released to her when she turned 18. If that did not happen then you should have another lawyer review this case.


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The Scene Foragers rustling in the brush, grazers gathering on a riverbank, king carnivores hungrily eyeing their next prey. And intrepid hunters making those all-important decisions, like: ketchup, mustard, or both and relish, too? The Crocodile Café, I presume. Safari, So Good Inside the geodesic dome of the environmentally correct RainForest Exhibit, predators of all ages and diet requirements can sidle up under a thatched canopy and nosh in a peaceable, quick-food kingdom. Cool (literally) décor, such as hut roofs and deck flooring, plus tables and chairs that wouldn't look out of place in a treehouse make this rest stop a hit with just about everyone. In the summer, the dining area's air conditioning is a welcome relief after all that temperature-correct tramping. And in the winter, it's just good to get inside for some coffee or hot soup. The Feed A bungle through the jungle being the hungry work it is, the Crocodile snaps up finger-friendly favorites including hot dogs, hamburgers and very generous deli platters, plus plenty of coffee and soft drinks for the weary. But We're Still at the Pachyderm House Stomach's growling and you're nowhere near the Rainforest yet? Consider an exploration of the African savannah, where the Crocodile's faster, cheaper cousin, the Roaring Lion Café does the outdoor thing with chain pizza (Pizza Hut), burgers and ice cream. Visitors traveling without a little flock of their own can drop in the adults-only Long Necks brew stop. And, oh yes: If time allows, there's a really great zoo out there.
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Maybe just to make it all official, a recent study was conducted on the effects that recent layoffs and budgets cuts are having on the country's newsrooms (spoiler alert: it's bad). The study concluded that newsrooms are smaller despite a greater online need for content, there is less foreign news now than there was three years ago (Lara Logan fans will already be aware of this), and there is even less national news (though as New Yorkers one wonders how long it would take for us to notice this). The good news? Well, there isn't much except that smaller papers seem to be doing better than larger ones.
Meanwhile, over at AdAge Arthur "Punch" Sulzberger Jr. is talking to Nat Ives about how the New York Times is navigating these treacherous waters. In a word, co-operation. Starting this fall the Times plans on "automatically displaying links to competitors' takes on big news" on its home page, no less (how very HuffPo) as well as expanding its online business coverage a la Andrew Sorkin's DealBook model: "each one will include original reporting and commentary from a dedicated staffer, news aggregated from elsewhere, relevant tools, e-mail newsletters, mobile applications and more." And while Sulzberger has been the recipient of much criticism of late, particularly after NYT stocks fell to a record ten-year low last week, he has garnered some praise for keeping the Times in the family, "The fecklessness of the Bancrofts reflected that Arthur had sharp values…He may not be a business visionary, but he is stalwart in a way that they were not."


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VIDEO: OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL opens in 3D, 2D and Imax 3D on March 8. The fantasy adventure stars James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Zach Braff, Joey King and Bruce Campbell. Today, Walt Disney Pictures has released new behind-the-scenes featurette on Sam Raimi's film. Check it out below!
Disney's fantastical adventure "Oz The Great and Powerful," imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum's beloved wizard character. When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he's hit the jackpot-fame and fortune are his for the taking-that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone's been expecting.<
Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity-and even a bit of wizardry-Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful wizard but into a better man as well.


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There is a startling change in the landscape as you enter the district of Spiti Valley, visiting Tabo, Kaza and including side trips to Dankar Gompa and the village of Kibber (4200 m). The people of Spiti valley have close affinities with Zanskar and Ladakh who are dedicated to the pre-Buddhist Bon religion. Riding out of the Spiti valley we make our way to the beautiful hill stations of Manali and Shimla. Then it's a trip on the narrow gauge railway out of the hills and back to Delhi.
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Thirty-four years ago this week, PSA Flight 182 collided with a Cessna over North Park. There were no survivors. The toll: 144 lives lost and 22 houses destroyed or damaged.
The date is vivid in my memory. From my car, as I headed to work, I saw the two aircraft collide. Then I watched in horror as the flaming passenger jet plunged into a North Park neighborhood with an explosion that shook the ground.
In the brief moments that seemed like an eternity, my life flashed before me as if I, too, were aboard the ill-fated planes. Then an overwhelming sensation of peace washed over me. I only pray that is what those on board felt at the end.
The date is seared into many memories in so many different ways.
Suanne Cushman Harns was waiting for city lifeguard Dan Urdahl, her boyfriend's roommate, in the library at San Diego State University. "He never showed up," she says.
For the next 10 years, Urdahl's San Diego friends gathered for a memorial swim-out at Sunset Cliffs every Sept. 25. Now, Suanne and her husband Steve, Urdahl's roommate, live in Idaho. Nevertheless, on Sept. 25 they usually drop flowers into the lake.
Remember: This week, in a makeshift sidewalk memorial at the North Park intersection of Dwight and Nile streets where Flight 182 crashed, sits a handmade airplane, tea lights and sticks of chalk. Bouquets of sunflowers, lilies and Bird of Paradise stand vigil. Several short messages recently written in different colors of chalk hint of much longer stories.
"You are loved and missed, Randy Buckman," announces one.
"Que Dios Los Bendigo!" (God bless you) says another.
A ring of pink and green hearts crowns a reminder: "Never forget them!"
A message signed by Hector and Elizabeth says: "I hope you guys are in heaven watching over us."
Under a rough sketch of the PSA plane, someone simply wrote: "We remember."
Another sent a message to their "Tia" (Aunt): "With love. We miss you."
Michael Bagnas and Joseph Amante, sophomores at a nearby St Augustine High, which turned into a makeshift morgue the day the collision shook their world, posted a written note, along with a news photo of the crashing plane.
"On this day 34 years ago, 144 of you were lost. Those of us at St. Augustine High School were asked to immediately pray by our principal Father Anthony Wasko. You are still in all Saintsmen's prayers and thoughts to this day."
Memorial needed: Boston film production hobbyist David Fresina, who in 2008 started taping interviews with witnesses, cleanup workers and victims' friends and relatives, was so touched by his experience that he has set up a "PSA Flight 182 Memorial" page on Facebook. It's dedicated to healing and creating a permanent memorial at the accident scene.
Fresina says the two current small plaques are located elsewhere — one at the North Park library and another at the S.D. Air and Space Museum. So far, about 300 people have endorsed his proposal. Fresina knows it faces a maze of community approvals and bureaucratic hurdles but, with enough support, he is willing to take on the project.
The documentary he created, "Return to Dwight & Nile," has its own Facebook site by that name and is available on DVD. But Fresina's Facebook pages also serve as a place for people to reminisce.
From the heart: Red Vaughan wrote that she missed death by a day. She was supposed to be on the ill-fated flight but, because she was homesick, had returned to San Diego a day early. She posted, "Thank you, God, for saving my life."
Tina Taggart Rutz wrote that her deceased brother, Michael Taggart, 33, "will always be in our hearts. This event truly changed our lives forever."
Myra Sulit Pelowski, whose brother, Michael Sulit, 18, also was a passenger, says, "Thanks for keeping his memory alive."
Dana Holt grew up near the crash site. "I was home from school, sick," she recalls. "We heard the first big boom. Then before we made it out the door, the second. No words can describe what happened that day. That day changed me forever, and I've never forgotten."
Nile Street resident Ray Tewell worked the graveyard shift, so he happened to be at his house at 9:02 a.m. on Sept. 25, 1978. "My life would never be the same after this awful accident... I left and never went back, moved to Lakeside and have been there ever since. God bless those people and their families."
A decade ago, U-T photographer John Gibbins noticed a small permanent memorial etched in a corner of the sidewalk near the intersection of Dwight and Nile. Although barely visible and partly worn off, it is still there today. It simply says: "PSA 182."
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Those with a passion for entrepreneurship may attend free weekly meetings of the new free networking group FEBE3: Fostering Entrepreneurial Business Education.
FEBE3 meets 10 to 11 a.m. each Wednesday in the Entrepreneurship Innovation Center on the Lorain County Community College campus. The group is open the public. Free coffee will be provided.
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