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Minor League Baseball hires new CMO to lead national marketing strategy
Minor League Baseball has hired former IMG College executive Michael Hand as its new chief marketing officer, setting in motion a new national marketing strategy titled Project Brand.
Hand, previously the senior vice president of marketing and strategy for IMG College, will lead the property's marketing and branding efforts as the affiliated minors continue an effort to become a more unified, nationally prominent outfit and generate additional collective revenue.
"When you look at all the connections Minor League Baseball has all across America, in all of our 160 markets, this really is a major untapped opportunity," Hand said. "The teams have done an amazing job becoming a part of the fabric of their individual cities. What we want to do now is tell a broader story to corporate America as well."
Before joining IMG in 2009, Hand held marketing roles with Hershey, MillerCoors, General Motors, M&M/Mars and BMW. His varied background on both the buy and sell sides of sports marketing, and experience navigating between national and local activations and the more than 70 universities in the IMG College portfolio, were all seen as major attributes.
"Michael exemplifies precisely the type of person, the type of background, we were looking for," said Chuck Greenberg, chairman and managing partner of the State College (Pa.) Spikes and Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Pelicans, and a member of an ad hoc committee charged with helping develop Project Brand and hire the CMO. "We looked a lot of people, but this is the guy we absolutely wanted, and he's got an open platform to really use his talents."
MiLB also worked with executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates during a four-month hiring process that had become one of the most talked-about job searches in the industry.
Hand will be based in Minor League Baseball's St. Petersburg, Fla., headquarters and report directly to President Pat O'Conner. Hand will also carry the title of president of Minor League Baseball Enterprises.
The development of Project Brand is designed to be complementary to the Baseball Internet Rights Co., the affiliated minors digital rights venture with MLB Advanced Media that creates a common digital platform for MiLB and shares revenue generated through online advertising, multimedia content and other similar efforts.
"We see this effort, like we do BIRCO, as truly transformational," O'Conner said. "We've traditionally been a 'states' rights' group, so to speak, and we still are in a lot of ways. But I'm continuing to push the message of 'the power of one,' and this effort and bringing on Michael is another big step forward."
NHL launches marketing campaign around upcoming playoffs
Editor's note: This story is revised from the print edition.
Buoyed by strong attendance and TV ratings for a lockout-shortened regular season that cost each team 34 games, or 41 percent of its usual 82-game schedule, the NHL is launching a postseason marketing campaign this week. The Stanley Cup playoffs begin April 30.
The campaign retains the "Because it's the Cup" tag line, designed to attract casual fans, but was formulated with a new agency, Mono, Minneapolis. DraftFCB worked on last year's campaign. Mono has MSNBC and NBA TV on its client roster.
"The campaign worked," said Brian Jennings, executive vice president of marketing for the league. "We saw increased ratings and digital consumption. There was a lot of media speculation about irreparable brand damage because of the lockout, but look at our attendance and ratings and you see that hasn't happened. We still need to get our 'every game every night' [on a national cable network] promise out there, and the playoffs are vital as we build to the return of a full season next year.''
John Miller, NBC Sports Group CMO, said the size of the campaign was roughly the same as last year. Aside from being shown in and around hockey broadcasts, the campaign will be on NBC Universal networks, including Golf Channel, NBC Sports Network, CNBC and MSNBC. Cable and digital buys off NBC Universal-owned properties also support the campaign.
"You had some frustrated NHL fans," said Miller, "but with the shortened season, like the NBA last year, you had a compressed season with more meaningful games and fans with pent-up demand to watch their sport, which has worked in our favor."
While there will be team and playoff-specific ads, the campaign begins with five spots. An ad titled "First Kiss" highlights the nervousness and emotions of players and fans, while "Characters" showcases player personalities, "Ding Ding" emphasizes NHL players in the postseason, "Weird" celebrates the excitement evident in NHL rinks during the Stanley Cup playoffs, and "One Up" features the world-class skills of NHL players.
NHL corporate partners, including MillerCoors, Molson Coors, Verizon, Discover and Pepsi, are expected to use the theme in their own campaigns, but marketing efforts requiring long lead times, like on-pack branding, were lost because of the lockout. Supporting point-of-sale ads will be placed in the NHL and NBC stores in New York and in sports specialty retailers, including Dick's Sporting Goods and Modell's.
As for ad sales, NBC says advertiser interest around the Stanley Cup playoffs is better than it was expecting.
"If you had asked me about [Stanley Cup playoff] ad sales four months ago, my knees would have been knocking," said Seth Winter, executive vice president of NBC Sports Group's sales and marketing division. However, playoff telecasts are 65 percent sold, with the network intentionally holding back inventory for the second-quarter scatter market. NBC has seen price increases in the high single digits.
As with the NBA last year, the NHL has seen ratings gains during the lockout-shortened season. The NHL is on pace to have its most-watched season so far on NBC Sports Network. Ratings for games on NBC are up about 10 percent.
What drove the new WNBA deal
A few months ago, NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver and WNBA President Laurel Richie approached ESPN President John Skipper with a plan.
Even though the WNBA was under contract to ESPN for another four years, the league's executives wanted ESPN to open its deal and renegotiate new terms.
Skipper was intrigued by the idea. ESPN's NBA rights deal ends after the 2015-16 season, the same time the WNBA deal was scheduled to end originally. All signs point to a bidding frenzy around those rights. ESPN and Turner Sports are the incumbents and want to keep the NBA's rights. Plus, Fox and NBC will have their own 24-hour sports channels, and their executives have hinted that they plan make strong bids for the NBA.
Sticking with WNBA gave ESPN a chance to reinforce its commitment to women's sports.
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But Skipper's interest went beyond the next NBA deal. Under his leadership, Skipper has made a big push to cover women's sports. ESPN has carried the NCAA women's college basketball tournament exclusively since 1996. It has carried WNBA games since 1997, when the league formed. It launched an editorial division focused on women's athletics called espnW. A new WNBA deal would fit within ESPN's programming plans.
"This deal gives us a good opportunity to reinforce our commitment to women's sports," Skipper said. "We never had a question. We wanted to do a deal with the WNBA."
After some negotiations, the two sides had a deal. ESPN agreed to extend its WNBA deal six years, running through the 2022 season. ESPN committed to pay the NBA $12 million a year for the rights, which amounts to $1 million a team, sources said. Most of the media money will be filtered directly to the teams.
In return, the NBA gave ESPN some revenue-making opportunities, such as additional ad time for it to sell during games.
"Extending the partnership shows a lot about ESPN's commitment to women's sports," Richie said. "Having a better sense of the athletes and getting to know the athletes is a really important part of building allegiance to a player, a team or a league."
In that vein, the deal accounts for new programming initiatives to grow ratings.
The deal increases the number of WNBA games on ESPN to 30 from 28, which includes a Memorial Day double-header on ESPN2 that will be the WNBA's version of the NBA's popular Christmas Day games schedule. Those Memorial Day games will include the teams with the top four draft picks, so ESPN will be able to highlight the three top picks that it has showcased in its "Three to See": Delaware's Elena Delle Donne, Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins and Baylor's Brittney Griner.
"We want to grow the ratings," Skipper said. "We think there's an upside there."
Last season, the WNBA averaged 359,000 viewers a game during the regular season on ESPN, 180,000 viewers on ESPN 2 and 804,000 on ABC.
Like other media rights deals, ESPN picked up TV Everywhere rights that allow it to show WNBA games on ESPN3 and its WatchESPN app. ESPN's current rights deal with the NBA, which was signed in 2007 and runs through the 2015-16 season, included WNBA rights. ESPN's deal with the NBA is not affected by this deal.
The WNBA also is relaunching the WNBA brand. The 16-year-old league is taking the wraps off a new logo, designed in conjunction with the firm OCD (Original Champions of Design) to reflect "the diversity and athleticism of today's WNBA," Richie said.


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If there is any bit of silver lining to the circus that is the Trump presidency it is the call to rise above, to find clarity – not to retreat but to act from. There is a great need to put things in perspective, to seek balance and some bit of sanity amidst all the insanity that plays out on a daily basis in the news and on social media. Maybe this is why we see some tea bloggers coming out of retirement and resurrecting their sites? For myself, this is very much the case.
When looked at in the context of the
Vive la résistance! Vive la difference! Vive le thé!
This morning's act of 'tea resistance' landed a couple of truly amazing cakes to my table. It doesn't usually happen like this. Normally I'll pull some cakes from the cabinet or dig through the sample bags and end up with mostly 'okay' stuff. It's an educational thing for me at this point in my journey -- learning more about the nuances of tea, or about how a particular tea is aging. But today was one of those win-the-lottery kind of days. It started with the 2014 Du Quan sheng puerh from Essence of Tea.
Honestly, I don't like to drink really young puerh. Most of it wreaks havoc on my stomach, especially if I drink it day after day. But I have quite a lot of it (sigh) and find it interesting to follow the changes over time. This one is different. Right from the start, this tea shines as something out of the ordinary. It's only 3 years old, but nowhere is there any hint of that typical green hay aroma or stomach-eating roughness. The smell of the wet leaves after the first couple of rinses is deep and complex, coming off as surprisingly mature, a mixture of sweet fruit over a base of something more savory and meaty, even with a tiny bit of floral peeking around the edges here and there. The soup is silky thick in the mouth and the taste is full and well-rounded, with a soft and delightful spiciness at the top of the palate. In my notes I keep wanting to describe it as mature, but it has more to do with it's depth and full-bodied-ness than with the kind of maturity that comes with the passage of time (and I can't wait to see how this one evolves through the years). It's terrifically clean, too. I've had a lot of teas that I describe as clean, but this one is deliciously clean. Juicy clean.
But it doesn't end there. It just kept giving, scoring a 10 on all points. A deep full-body energy and a wonderful sweetness growing at the back of the mouth as the session continued, a fantastic sheng all around. That I happened to pick up a tong of this back when it was first introduced is one of those lucky strikes of my tea-buying days.
(regarding storage, I should probably clarify my last "all my teas are sealed" post. When it comes to whole tongs I keep them in their bamboo wrap, tucked away in the pumidor. Also, as I pull sealed cakes from the cabinet for tasting, I'll put them back in the pumidor without the sealed wrap until I accumulate enough of them to warrant pulling out the impulse sealer and sealing them all up again. I figure they benefit from the exposure to the warm humid environment for a time before getting sealed back up again. So far this seems to be working out very nicely.)
I finished my session today with a longtime favorite, the 1999 Da Du Gan sheng puerh. This is the cake that started it all for me. Not the start of my love for puerh, but the start of that 'puerh addicts anonymous' kind of addiction that leads to owning a truly ridiculous amount of tea. I picked this up from Hou De and still kick myself for not grabbing both of the last two that were for sale at that time.
This tea has plenty going for it, but most notable for me is how it seems to pull salivation into the mouth and sweat to the skin. I experienced this the first time I tasted it and it still happens to this day. The soup is syrupy thick and the tea carries plenty of qi, as well. The aroma after the first rinse is a strong perfumed camphor with sweet fruit underneath, and the vapors from the empty tea cup make me swoon, with big hits of vanilla mixed with a bit of floral. Lovely. I've dipped into this cake plenty of times through the years. The original paper wrapper, which was thin to begin with, has all but disintegrated, so now I keep it double-wrapped with a sturdier paper wrap holding it all together.

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Spotlight on Google Analytics features part 1: Advanced Segmentation
Friday 15 May 2009 | 14:39
Labels: advanced segmentation, analytics, Google Analytics
Over the past few months we've added some cool new features to Google Analytics, so this week we'd like to kick off the first in a series of posts showing you how to use these features to analyse your site further.
This week we'll look at Advanced Segmentation.
What is Advanced Segmentation?
Looking at your Google Analytics data en masse may not highlight issues with your site or opportunities for your business. Advanced Segmentation allows you to define specific subsets of traffic to your site. Each subset you define can then be applied to historical and future data in your Google Analytics reports. You can then compare subsets of data to all your data, or even compare multiple subsets.
How do I create an Advanced Segment?
You can access the Advanced Segmentation functionality from the 'settings' box on the left hand side of the Google Analytics interface:
You can also access this feature from the top right grey bar in many of the reports within Google Analytics:
You can then choose from a selection of default segments, or simply and easily create your own segment which will be saved, and can be applied to reports as and when you need that data.
Segment by 'branded' traffic:
You can then see the behaviour of users who know your site compared to those who don't.
Create this segment by selecting visits that came from 'direct' or keywords that contain your site name.
Segment out your most common web browser:
Most of your traffic is likely to come from Internet Explorer. Segment out this traffic and look for differences in how your site performs for other browsers. If there are issues your site might need optimisation for these other browsers.
Create this segment by selecting visits from browsers that do not contain 'Internet Explorer'.
Check out this YouTube video to see Advanced Segmentation in use:
Want to know more? Read about Advanced Segmentation in the Google Analytics help centre article or visit Avinash Kaushik's post on the topic here.
Once you master using Advanced Segmentation you may want to share your creation with other Google Analytics users. Our colleagues in the US are currently running a competition to find the most useful Advanced Segment in the world! Find out more at the Google Analytics blog.
Come back next week when we'll focus on Custom Reporting. And as ever, if you have any feedback on the Conversion Room blog, please email us.


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Issue No. 04 - April (1977 vol. 10)
pp: 56-66
R.A. Kahn , University of California
From an educational standpoint, science museums and computers have shared a common characteristic: both have tended to be static and passive, offering little opportunity for participation in or access to technology. A museum visit, always a culturally respectable way to spend a Saturday afternoon, generally involves a lot of walking, looking, and listening, but little touching or participating. Likewise, public access to computers has generally been vicarious, or limited to computer output only. We watch the airline ticket agent make a reservation at the terminal, we receive computer-generated form letters and bills in the mail, and we peer through the glass portal at the computerized San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Control Room.
R.A. Kahn, "Microsystems Public Access to Personal Computing: A New Role for Science Museums", Computer, vol. 10, no. , pp. 56-66, April 1977, doi:10.1109/C-M.1977.217714


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TORONTO - Ultimately, it really doesnt matter whether Dion Phaneuf has been around long enough to be anointed.
It is time the Maple Leafs had a captain and as a team source confirmed, on Monday the in-your-face defenceman will be named the first player to wear the C since Mats Sundin left the team following the 2007-08 season.
It is time for the Leafs to have some sort of leadership, ceremonial or otherwise as they desperately try to find their way out of the funk of the longest stretch in franchise history without a playoff berth.
And at the least, its worth taking a shot on Phaneuf, who may have been a Leaf only for less than two months of action but made an impact on a team, craving a leader almost immediately.
The news comes as no surprise given it has been rumoured for months. Leadership is earned rather than awarded, but in the short body of work to judge, the one thing to admire about Phaneuf is that he doesnt take losing lightly.
He isnt shy about getting in a teammates face and for those in the room who have tired of the tone and message of coach Ron Wilson and his staff, it is important that a meaningful voice now exists from within.
But heres the bottom line with the outspoken 25-year-old: If he proves to be more ME-on than Dion, is it really the end of the world? Its just as easy maybe even easier to rip the C off the jersey as it is to sew it on.
As much attention as Mondays announcement will get, its just the start of a busy three-week run for GM Brian Burke, who will summon all of his managerial skills to improve the team.
Whether defenceman Tomas Kaberle is moved on draft day when his no-trade clause expires or whether Burke acquires an impact forward to fill the teams most obvious need, expect something to happen. And any such move could have a far lasting impact than the naming of a captain.
The talk surrounding Kaberle is beginning to heat up, by the way, as the New Jersey Devils emerged Friday as one of the more serious of a handful of suitors.
To appease the beancounters at MLSE, Mondays event will feature a couple other notable developments. First, the team will unveil a re-tooled jersey which, if nothing else, will increase sales from the sucker populace that cant get enough of a losing team.
The other is the public debut of the companys new sports bar adjacent to the Air Canada Centre a cash cow if there ever was one.
Back to Phaneuf. There is some merit to the suggestion that the flamboyant defenceman is a prime candidate to succumb to Blue-and-White disease, the sickly strain of entitlement that both Burke and Wilson detest.
If there are any players on the Leafs roster dense enough to see it by now, Burke wont blink before putting an underachiever on a plane out of town. The hunch here is that Phaneuf gets all that and will prove it in a dressing room void of a proven leader on or off the ice.
As the team embarks on Year 3 of its thus far unfulfilled rebuild, Burke is wise enough to recognize the urgency of Leafs Nation will be ramped up. But heres the thing: Theres no one more disgusted with the teams mediocrity under the GMs reign than the man itself.
Many in hockey will argue that the naming of a captain is a token gesture. But if you watched more than passing moments of the Stanley Cup playoffs, you will acknowledge that players such as Chicagos Jonathan Toews and Philadelphias Mike Richards were more than just figureheads.
Will Phaneuf have a similar drive and impact? Were about to find out.


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Monitoring the Brazilian Rainforest with a Sensor Network
May 23, 2010 | By Microsoft blog editor
Last week, at the Microsoft Research sixth annual Latin American Faculty Summit in Guaruja, Brazil, Rob Fatland, program manager with Microsoft Research, and Humberto da Rocha, professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the Universidade de São Paulo, led an intriguing presentation about their Atlantic Rainforest Micrometeorology Sensor Network Pilot Study. It's a study that took place a mere 130 miles from where the Faculty Summit was held—a local project that could have broad environmental impact worldwide.
It all began about a year and a half ago when representatives from the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) asked Microsoft Research for assistance in developing a senor network with capabilities of operating under rainforest conditions. The inquiry led us to reach out to our colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, where a wireless sensor network program called Life Under Your Feet was previously developed, in collaboration with Microsoft Research, for soil-ecology research. So in October 2008, Microsoft Research brought the necessary experts and organizations together and this rainforest study was born.
The project was guided by three broad goals: first, to create a scientifically valid data set; second, to successfully engineer the project so that the technology could function fully in settings as challenging as a rainforest; and third, to develop a system that can serve as a model and be replicated in other research.
As a result of this close collaboration between researchers and scientists at Microsoft Research, Johns Hopkins University, and Universidad de São Paulo, the sensor network was deployed for four weeks in the rainforest, where it captured data every 30 seconds on the temperature, humidity and light throughout the canopy. In addition, a weather station recorded the staples of meteorology: rainfall, wind conditions and barometric pressure.
The result was that the team gathered an incredibly large and accurate data set that scientists are now analyzing to help them understand rainforest ecosystems. Additionally, the technology we've used in this study could be applied to a variety of situations across the globe, such as monitoring receding glaciers in the Arctic or measuring seismic activity for better earthquake predictions.
As researchers, we understand that our planet and our climate are undergoing change. Our challenge is that there's still so much science can't tell us—so many details that aren't understood due to lack of data. This Atlantic rainforest project is one example of science and technology working together to understand a complex ecosystem.
Regardless of where we live, this type of research is a benefit for us all. For more information and to see a video of the Atlantic rainforest research site, you can visit our Atlantic Rainforest project page.
Dan Fay, director, Earth, Energy, and Environment, Microsoft External Research


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Zeolite Coatings by In-Situ Crystallization as an Environmentally Benign Alternative to Chromate Conversion and Anodization CoatingsEPA Grant Number: R828134
Title: Zeolite Coatings by In-Situ Crystallization as an Environmentally Benign Alternative to Chromate Conversion and Anodization Coatings
Investigators: Yan, Yushan
Institution: University of California - Riverside
EPA Project Officer: Richards, April
Project Period: August 1, 2000 through July 31, 2003 (Extended to July 31, 2004)
Project Amount: $250,316
RFA: Technology for a Sustainable Environment (1999) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Nanotechnology , Sustainability , Pollution Prevention/Sustainable Development
Chromate conversion and chromic acid anodization are widely used on aluminum and its alloys for corrosion protection. In both processes, hexavalent chromium is used and subsequently released to the environment. Hexavalent chromium is a proven carcinogen and known to cause many serious health problems. As the environmental and occupational health and safety regulations on chromium use and release become increasingly strict, it is clear that post-treatment is inadequate and a novel chromium-free surface finishing process will have to be developed so that pollution is avoided at the source. Some non-chromate conversion and anodization processes are already available, but they are all somewhat inferior in performance to their chromate counterpart. Obviously there is still a great need for a novel coating that not only is chromium-free, but also has equivalent or superior performance to chromate conversion and anodization coatings.
The objective of this proposed project is to develop a chromium-free zeolite coating that has comparable thickness to chromate conversion and anodization coatings and equivalent or superior performance in coating adhesion, corrosion protection, abrasion resistance, and paint adhesion. An intrinsically inexpensive, safe, and non-polluting in-situ crystallization process that is capable of coating large surfaces with complex shape and in confined spaces also will be developed. Zeolites are microporous crystalline silicate materials and have widely been exploited for their microporosity (<15?) as catalysts and separation media. However, many high silica zeolites are non-porous in their as-synthesized state because of the organic molecules occluded in their pores during crystallization. High-silica zeolites are also known for their thermal and chemical stability and high mechanical strength. The goal of this project is to explore these dense polycrystalline high silica or pure silica zeolite films in their as-synthesized state for corrosion protection. Specifically, as-synthesized high-silica zeolite ZSM-5 and ZSM-39 coatings will be studied and performance tested as a potential alternative to chromate conversion and anodization coatings. The in-situ crystallization process will be optimized so that high-quality zeolite coatings can be produced with high throughput. The project will also seek to obtain fundamental insights on the in-situ crystallization process as well as on the corrosion and erosion behavior of aluminum and its alloys under the new oxide barrier coating ? zeolite coatings. The success of the proposed research has broad implications in many important fields including metal surface finishing, membranes, separation, adsorption, catalysis, fuel cells, and advanced microelectronics.
Expected Results:
The in-situ crystallization process proposed here is based on a similar coating process that the PI previously developed for condensers in space applications. Using this method, uniform dense polycrystalline zeolite coatings were successfully formed with excellent adhesion on a variety of metals including aluminum and its alloys and on surfaces with complex shape and in confined spaces. As-synthesized high-silica ZSM-5 coating on aluminum alloy 6061-T4 showed superior corrosion resistance than chromate conversion coating and passed salt fog corrosion test ASTM B117. Hardness data suggest that zeolite coatings potentially can be much more abrasion-resistant than chromate conversion and anodization coatings. The in-situ crystallization process used aqueous aluminosilicate solutions, and thus is intrinsically inexpensive, safe, and non-polluting.
Publications and Presentations:Publications have been submitted on this project: View all 36 publications for this project
Journal Articles:Journal Articles have been submitted on this project: View all 18 journal articles for this project
Supplemental Keywords:air, water, soil, toxics, heavy metals, green chemistry, environmentally conscious manufacturing, clean technology, engineering, environmental chemistry, metal finishing., RFA, Scientific Discipline, Toxics, Water, Sustainable Industry/Business, cleaner production/pollution prevention, Wastewater, Environmental Chemistry, Sustainable Environment, Technology for Sustainable Environment, 33/50, Environmental Engineering, hexavalent chromium, in situ crystallization, environmentally conscious manufacturing, chromium & chromium compounds, cleaner production, zeolites, environmentally benign solvents, alternative materials, anodization coatings, metal plating industry, carcinogenicity, coating processes, innovative technology, microelectronics, water treatment, corrsion protection, pollution prevention, chromium free surface finishing
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text: Quality or Budget?Making Hamburgers tip #1: If you want the very best tasting burger all your ingredients must be of the highest quality, point. That includes the meat, herbs, spices, veg, bread roll, mayo and anything else you might be adding. Here I would strongly recommend grinding the meat of your choice yourself or alternatively have a butcher coarse grind it specifically for you.If you are on a tight budget a burger offers excellent value and potential. Great taste, healthy, endless options and economical too. You will go far to beat the value a burger offers.Tougher cuts of meat are cheaper but not necessarily less flavourful. You might have to sacrifice a coarse grind but when the meat is fine ground the toughness goes and the flavour stays. Look out for cuts of beef that are on sale and compare the prices to the cost of the pre-ground meat. The quality will inevitably be better than that of pre-ground beef and many butchers will grind the meat for you at no extra cost. Chicken and lean pork are great alternatives, always tender, tasty and generally a lot cheaper than beef. They both make healthy and great tasting burgers.Binding PattiesMaking Hamburgers tip #2: Theoretically the inclusion of a binding agent increases the stability of a patty at the cost of a little loss in flavour.Temperature, coarseness and moisture levels of ground meat and other ingredients greatly influence the binding properties of a patty. If you get it right there is usually no need for a binding agent.Personally I find that the advantages of using some bread crumbs and a little egg to improve the stability of a patty outweighs the drawbacks. Grilling and serving a crumbling patty can become quite difficult and definitely is no fun.In my recipes I use a little beef or chicken stock to soak the bread crumbs in. This more than compensates for any loss of taste.A good rule of thumb per pound/500g of meat is about: a handful or 1/2 a cup of fresh bread crumbs about 3/4 of a beaten egg1/4 beef or chicken stock block dissolved in 2 or 3 tablespoons of water.Ultimately it boils down to personal choice but whatever you do never be embarrassed by adding a binding agent to your burger mix. If Jamie Oliver (The Naked Chef) can use a binding agent when making hamburgers you can too.


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Can't get my DLNA to work from My wired PC - it Stays Grey
Currently I have a Panasonic Blu-Ray but the file size limitations and type exclusions make it very difficult to steam vids.
I am looking for a 2/4tb NAS/USB Storage solution along with a way to show the movies on my tv.
What are the best and most versatile choices out there?
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|17 Jan 2012
is your tv near your computer? - would a cable stretch between the two?
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|17 Jan 2012
Unfortunately tv is not near the pc
I have a panasonic blu-ray with dnla but is is soooo limited
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|17 Jan 2012
Can't get my DLNA to work from My wired PC - it Stays Grey
Newbie Here -- Thanks in advance for any and all help.
I have a Panasonic Blu-Ray that I would like to stream to. I can get it to stream from my wireless pc (boys745-pc) but not from my main pc (xps435). I have googled that crap out of this and have tried many fixes over the last week or so.
Here are my observations/questions/issues:
On the working wireless pc
Please see the attachment for screen shots
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sorry, can't help any further - but i'm sure somebody else may have some suggestions if you wait a bit.
i can help you with posting screenshots though: Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Seven Forums
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Win7 & Win8 64bit
Hi dcfOC,
What type of router do you have? You might consider a Dual Band N Router, this can operate on both the 2.4 and 5GHz radio bands simultaneusly, and double the available wireless bandwidth. For instance, you could set up your network to handle video streaming and use the lower band for other web activities (Instant messaging, Surfing, data uploading/downloading) avoiding any interference or collisions.
For the NAS, the Buffalo NAS is easy to configure. You may go for the diskless or HDD included. You might want to consider a NAS that supports RAID if you will doing heavy video streaming. A variety of options to be found here.
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Health care for non-Canadian residents can be expensive, so it is recommended that travelers buy a travel insurance policy with comprehensive coverage for their trip to that country, including stay and travel within Canada.
Q. Are visitors to Canada covered by the Canadian government's health-care program?
No, the Canadian national universal health coverage is only for Canada citizens and lawful residents.
Q. Can I purchase travel insurance for my parents visiting Canada?
Yes, you can complete the application on behalf of your parents and make the payment using your credit card.
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The insurance policy offers coverage for sickness, illness, injury or accidents occurred while you are traveling to Canada. The insurance also provides comprehensive medical and non-medical expense emergency coverage
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BUTLER, Andrew Pickens, (son of William Butler and uncle of Matthew Calbraith Butler), a Senator from South Carolina; born in Edgefield, S.C., November 18, 1796; attended Doctor Waddell's Academy at Willington, Abbeville County, S.C., and graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1817; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1818 and practiced in Columbia, Edgefield, Lexington, Barnwell, and Newberry; member, State house of representatives; member, State senate 1824-1833; aide on the staff of the Governor 1824; appointed judge of the session court in 1833; judge of the State court of common pleas 1835-1846; appointed and subsequently elected as a States Rights Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George McDuffie; reelected in 1848 and again in 1854 as a Democrat and served from December 4, 1846, until his death near Edgefield, S.C., May 25, 1857; chairman, Committee on Judiciary (Thirtieth through Thirty-fifth Congress); interment in Big Creek Butler Churchyard, Edgefield, S.C.
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Topic: Stark Raving Mad US 2xCD tracklisting confusion..PLEASE HELP
I don't know if the Stark Raving Mad 2xCD soundtrack was released in the UK but the US tracklisting is incorrect. I was hoping someone out there could help me because no one where i live (Jacksonville, Florida) is gonna be able to clear this up:
Stark Raving Mad CD2 track 2 is listed as Lemon 8 'Lose Control' but that song is actually on track 5.
CD2 Track 5 is listed as Fitalic 'Synchronic' so you would think that the two tracks are just flip-flopped. However, CD1 track 2 is ALSO listed as Fitalic 'Synchronic' and that track is totally different. All THREE tracks are different. What is the correct tracklisting? Please help.
I really want to know what song CD2 track 2 is. That cut is unbelieveable! I need a 12" of that badly. Hopefully someone in the Bedrock massive can help me out, please. Thanks.


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"Pachakam" means cooking in kerala and Pachakam.Com welcomes you to the magnificent world of easy and healthy Indian cooking with a probe into the fascinating Indian cooking recipes. Cooking is not just about making food but is an art of presenting your culinary skills to those who love food with a different flavor and Indian cooking, by no means is an exception.
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English: Garlic
tamil: Poondu / Vellaipoondu
malayalam: Veluthulli / Vellulli
telugu: Vellulli / Velluri / Ullipayilu / Vellipaaya / Tellapaayalu / Velluli Payalu
kannada: Bellulli
hindi: Lehsan / Lasun
Bengali: Rasoon / Rashun
Gujarati: Lasan
Konkani: Lahsun / Losan
Marathi: Lasun / Lusson
Oriya: Rasuna
Punjabi: Lassan / Lahsun
Tulu: Bollulli
Kashmiri: Ruhan
Urudu: Lassun / Leshun
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English: Cilantro / Coriander Leaves
tamil: Kothamalli Ilai / Malli Ilai
malayalam: Kothamalli Ila / Malli Ila
telugu: Kothimeera / Kothamalli Kooraku
kannada: Kottambari Soppu
hindi: Hara Dhania Ke Patte / Dhania Patha
Bengali: Dhonay Patha
Gujarati: Kothmir / Dhana
Konkani: Kottambari Pallo
Marathi: Kothimbir
Oriya: Dhania Patra
Punjabi: Hara Dhania
English: Pepper Powder
tamil: Kurumulagupodi
malayalam: Kurumulagupodi
telugu: Miriyaalu / Miriyala Tige / Savyamu
kannada: Menasina Kalu / Karimenasu / Ollemenasu / Menasu
hindi: Kalimirchi / Kada Mari
Bengali: Goal Morich / Kala Morich
Gujarati: Mari / Kadamari / Kalamari / Kalomirich / Golmirich / Kala-Mircha
Konkani: Miriyakonu / Mirsang / Miire / Mirin
Marathi: Mire / Kale Miri
Oriya: Golmarich
Punjabi: Kalimirchi
Tulu: Eddae Munchi
Kashmiri: Marutus
Urudu: Kali Mirch / Siah Mirch
English: All Purpose Flour
tamil: Maida Maavu
malayalam: Maida Mavu
telugu: Maida Pindi
kannada: Maida Hittu
hindi: Maida
Bengali: Maida
Gujarati: Mando
Konkani: Maida
Marathi: Maida
Oriya: Maida
English: oil
tamil: Ennai
malayalam: enna
telugu: camuru
kannada: taila
hindi: tela
Punjabi: moyen
English: Salt
tamil: Uppu
malayalam: Uppu
telugu: Uppu
kannada: Uppu
hindi: Namak
Bengali: Laban / Noone
Gujarati: Meethu
Konkani: Meet
Marathi: Mith
English: Chilli Powder
tamil: Mulakupodi
malayalam: Mulakupodi
telugu: Erra Mirapa Kayalu / Yendu Mirapakayalu
kannada: Molaku / Kempu Menasinakai / Ona Menasinakai
hindi: Lal Mirch
Bengali: Paka Lanka / Lal Mirch / Lankamorich
Gujarati: Lal Marcha
Konkani: Sukki Saangi /Suke Miriyasang
Marathi: Lal Mirchi / Mirchya
Oriya: Lanka / Nali Lankamaricha
Punjabi: Lal Mirch
Kashmiri: Marach Wangun
Urudu: Lalmirch
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Being told your one year-old child has cancer is a devastating blow. Only a minority of parents are forced to endure it. For game developer Ryan Green, hearing that news was only the beginning of his nightmare. Ten months after Green's son Joel was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor, and underwent extensive chemotherapy and radiation, he and his wife received the devastating news: Joel had only four months left.
Any parent would fall apart. But Green's response has been strange — he's hopeful. It's his Christian faith, he says, that keeps him going. That same faith has prompted Green to do something unusual: turn Joel's experience into a video game. "I want people to step into the world I've been in," he says. "Living in the shadow of death."
Green is intent on making his faith a key part of this game, inviting players to experience his doubt, frustration and unusual joy over the past two years. Yet such a conscious effort to include religion would typically categorize a game as faith-based: a Christian video game.
But the definition is curious when applied to Green's project, which sounds nothing like what the gaming community is used to seeing from faith-based entertainment. Green's story is touching, riddled with unimaginable fear. Christian games, on the other hand, are infamous for lacking the slightest touch of nuance. More often than not, they're terrible.
Games like Left Behind, based on a popular apocalyptic book series, and the NES-era Spiritual Warfare, from Christian distributor Wisdom Tree, are some of the better known and widely-mocked examples. But a growing group of Christians, including Ryan Green, is consciously trying to change the perception of religious video games. They want to tell stories that include a wider range of human experiences. Stories like Green's — stories about heartache, grace, mercy and pain.


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Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister, Sadie, have been in trouble. As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command, but the devious gods haven't given them much time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, which has become a training ground for young magicians. And now their most threatening enemy yet—the chaos snake Apophis—is rising. If they don't prevent him from breaking free in a few days' time, the world will come to an end.
In other words, it's a typical week for the Kane family. To have any chance of battling the Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god Ra. But that would be a feat more powerful than any magician has ever accomplished. First they have to search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells. Oh, and did we mention that no one knows where Ra is exactly?
Narrated in two different wisecracking voices, featuring a large cast of new and unforgettable characters, and with adventures spanning the globe, this second installment in the Kane Chronicles is nothing short of a thrill ride.
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"Rick is masterful with history and incrporation."
If you can get your kids to read these books then you are doing them a favor. These books are just plain fun but they also have many hidden treasures. The books have legends and history and ancient tales for them to read and maybe even remember. These are lessons that may creep up in school. These books have some fun mixed with knowledge. I cannot think of a better thing for a kid than to read for fun and accidentally learn something. The 30 Clues series is the same. Many historical and geographic facts mixed with a fun story.
"An engaging audio and an engaging read!"
Yes, my son is the one listening to these and he loves the characters, the interaction and the accuracy to mythological legends.
It's actually a better read than Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series because it's better written and a much better set of performers on the audio version!
My son loved the interplay between the two characters and how they rounded out the idea of a brother-sister team without making the reading sound dry.
The reality is that I buy the audiobooks specifically so that my son who is dyslexic can stay well read and on his grade level despite his inability to read. He is almost twelve years old and these characters spoke to him. Frequently, audiobooks are read without inflection and without the reality that someone with language deficits needs in order to integrate language. These two readers hit all the high points, as well as covering a variety of accents.
Thousands of Years of Family Drama Comes to Life!
"Throne of Fire doesn't dissapoint!"
Fun, humorous, entertaining
Sadie Kane is my favorite character because of the way Rick Riordan has given her a great sense of humor as she goes through teen angst, the pains of becoming a magician, and some incredible adventures.
They infuse both main characters with a living, breathing personality that is both believable and accessible to the reader/ listener. And every other character comes to life as well!
...laugh mostly, cry a couple of times.
Love this whole series. It's not just a "kids" book. I love the Egpytian mythology facts as Riordan weaves them seamlessly into the story. I love that he has created a REAL muticultural family. Just a great time!
"Listened with my 8 year old"
We loved the part where Set is trapped in a jar and keeps saying things like,
I listened to most of this with my son and we had a great time. Sometimes scenes were so funny that we stopped and repeated the lines over and over. He listened to it all. He had read the book first and enjoyed hearing the characters' voices. He laughed, he cried. Overall great book.
"Thrilling Adventure for Children of All Ages"
The Kane series continues to capture the attention of fans of all ages! You won't want to put the book down!
"Great book for the whole family!"
We have enjoyed all of Rick Riordan's books. I love it because not only do I enjoy the story but my Grandchildren do too.
This is a "clean" well written story, The dialog is clear enough for even my youngest grandchild to follow.
Sadie has to be my favorite character, her "spunk" is very endearing.
"Awsome book for the young at heart"
I think having two different people reading this book helped out a lot. Taking the old egyptian gods and giving them a twist is very good by Rick.
I usually do not read a lot of books like this, but this series is so good that I will read everyone from here on out.
they bring a different listening experience that is unique. They bring life to the characters.
The dwarf god at 4th house at the end.
"It just keeps getting better!"
Reading about characters I know and love grow and work through some of the big and small obstacles life offers.
"The Red Pyramid" was a great start to this trilogy, but "Throne of Fire" is like the second time around the roller coaster!
I can't string enough letters together to express how much and how often I found myself doing both!
On to "The Serpent's Shadow"!
"daughter loved it"
my daughter has a reading disablilty so I love to get the audiobook after she reads the text. this allows her review and learn about a lot she missed while reading. Audiobooks have enriched her love for books because she realizes if she takes her time reading a book she will get so much more out of it. I always buy audio books for her required reading for school and essays. she also loves to listen before bed settles her right down.
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Matthew P. Fry, 46, of Elyria, went home to be with the Lord Monday, February 11, 2013. He was born October 22, 1966, in Batavia, New York.
Matthew graduated from First Baptist Christian School in Elyria. He was formerly employed by Spencer Forge Manufacturing. He enjoyed video games and his dog, Chewy.
Matthew is survived by his father, Arthur Fry of Elyria; sisters, Melody Fry of Toledo and Rebekah Fry of Elyria; brother, Timothy Fry (Sally) of Elyria; niece, Kimberly Fry; former wife, Cindy Fry and her son, Robbie Crago.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Velma Fry (nee Boyce).
Friends may call 4 until 8 P.M., Thursday, February 14, 2013, at Busch Funeral Home, 114 Second Street, Elyria. Funeral service will be 10 A.M., Friday, February 15, 2013, at the First Baptist Church of Elyria, 11400 LaGrange Road, Elyria, with visitation from 9 until 9:45 A.M., prior to the service. Reverend Patrick Odle will officiate. Burial will be in Ridge Hill Memorial Park, Amherst.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be forwarded to First Baptist Church of Elyria, 11400 LaGrange Road, Elyria, OH 44035. www.buschfuneral.com


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Authors: Linfan Mao
A Smarandache geometry is a geometry which has at least one Smarandachely denied axiom(1969), i.e., an axiom behaves in at least two different ways within the same space, i.e., validated and invalided, or only invalided but in multiple distinct ways and a Smarandache n-manifold is a n-manifold that support a Smarandache geometry. Iseri provided a construction for Smarandache 2-manifolds by equilateral triangular disks on a plane and a more general way for Smarandache 2-manifolds on surfaces, called map geometries was presented by the author in [9]-[10] and [12]. However, few observations for cases of n ≥ 3 are found on the journals. As a kind of Smarandache geometries, a general way for constructing dimensional n pseudo-manifolds are presented for any integer n ≥ 2 in this paper. Connection and principal fiber bundles are also defined on these manifolds. Following these constructions, nearly all existent geometries, such as those of Euclid geometry, Lobachevshy-Bolyai geometry, Riemann geometry, Weyl geometry, Kähler geometry and Finsler geometry, ...,etc., are their sub-geometries.
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Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery
Monday January 07
- By: Migration Policy Institute
- Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
- Time Zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada)
MPI First Floor Conference Room1400 16th Street NWWashington, DC
Migration Policy Institute(202) 266-1929
Beginning with the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), Congress has attempted to deal with historically high levels of illegal immigration that started in the early 1970s and continued until the Great Recession in 2008. Since IRCA, illegal immigration and enforcement have been a dominant public concern that has driven policymaking by successive administrations and Congresses of each party, even as there has been deep ideological and partisan division over broader immigration reform during the past decade. The Migration Policy Institute is releasing a major study that describes and analyzes today's immigration enforcement programs, as they have developed and grown in the 25 years since IRCA launched the current enforcement era. Entitled Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery, the work offers unique insights and lays out, for the first time, the totality of immigration enforcement that is in place, identifying and describing the six pillars that comprise the complex, cross-agency immigration enforcement system that has been built. Join us as the report authors present their important findings and consider their implications for the future. Copies of the report will be available at the event. Speakers include:
- Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director, MPI US Immigration Policy Program
- Muzaffar Chishti, Director, MPI Office at NYU School of Law
- Donald M. Kerwin, Executive Director, Center for Migration Studies
- Introductory remarks by Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President, Migration Policy Institute


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Fairfield Municipal Band Concert, Ron Prill Bandstand, Central Park, 8 p.m.
Totally Trees, summer webinar series hosted by Master Gardeners, "Iowa's Unknown Treasure: The Forest Resource," Jefferson County ISU Extension Office, 6:30-8 p.m. Fee charged; free for Master Gardeners.
Van Buren County Fair, cat and pet show, 5 p.m.; dog show, 7 p.m., Van Buren County Fairgrounds, Keosauqua, Information: www.vbco.vanburencountyfair.com.
Blood Drive, Jefferson County Fairgrounds Activity Building, 2-7 p.m. Appointments: 800-452-1097.
Keosauqua Farmers' Market, Keosauqua City Park, 3:30-6:30 p.m.
Children's Vaccination Clinic, Jefferson County Public Health office, 1-4 p.m. Call 472-5929.
HELPS, Fairfield Foursquare Church, weigh-in, 6 p.m. Call 233-5086.
Golden Speakers Toastmasters Club, Fairfield Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store Club Room, 7:40-9:15 p.m. Information: 641-451-1847.
Alcoholics Anonymous, women only, First Presbyterian Church, 7 p.m.
Narcotics Anonymous, New Life Community Church, 7 p.m.
Free Lunch, for all children ages 2-18, Fairfield Middle School, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
American Legion Auxiliary No. 47, regular session, VFW Hall, 1 p.m. Information: 472-4449.
Van Buren County Fair, arrival and weigh-in of 4-H/FFA livestock, 9 a.m., Van Buren County Fairgrounds, Keosauqua, Information: www.vbco.vanburencountyfair.com.
Summer Reading Program Experiment Time, Fairfield Public Library, 1-2 p.m.
Fairfield Farmers' Market, Howard Park, 3-6 p.m. Information: email@example.com.
Heavenly Hands Food Pantry, Keosauqua, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Call 319-293-3761.
Alcoholics Anonymous, First Presbyterian Church, 8 p.m.
Community Support Group, Optimae Lifeservices, 4 p.m. Call 472-5771.
Free Lunch, for all children ages 2-18, Fairfield Middle School, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Fairfield P.E.O. Chapters, coffee and conversation, Revelations Café, 9:30-11 a.m.
Van Buren County Fair, 4-H/FFA and Open K-3 sheep and meat goat shows, 8 a.m.; 4-H/FFA dairy show, 11 a.m.; 4-H/FFA and Open K-3 horse show, 6 p.m., Van Buren County Fairgrounds, Keosauqua, Information: www.vbco.vanburencountyfair.com.
"Encouraging Positive Behaviors in Children and Adolescents," free workshop, with Bryan Range, Fairfield Middle School, 6 p.m. Information: 472-5771.
Fairfield High School Class of 1965, Pizza Ranch, 11:30 a.m. Note change of time, date and location. Information: 472-4603.
Story Time, Fairfield Public Library, 10 a.m. Information: 472-6551.
Drop-In Legos, Fairfield Public Library, 4-5 p.m. Information: 472-6551.
NEST Parenting Classes, Jefferson County ISU Extension Office, 11 a.m.-noon, 2-3 p.m., 5:30-6:30 p.m. Call 472-4166.
Celebrate Recovery, New Life Community Church, dinner, 6 p.m.; large group, 7 p.m.; small group, 8 p.m.
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text: smoker box for the OldSmokey since i got started in cooking SousVide i have started to cold smoke my meat before i put it into the bag and into the SousVide bath. the easist setup i had was to put my AMNPS - A-Maze-N Pellet Smoker tray in the emmiter pan of my CharBroil RED gas grill. I knew that my setup wasn't very "cold" smoking and i was worried about bacteria growth with the chamber temps in the low 100s. i decided to do a temperature test to see what the true temps were, and if ice would help hold the temps down in the smoking chamber. using my Maverick ET-732 dual probe thermometer, i stuck the food probe into a potato and i added a bag of ice cubes to help hold down the cabinet temp i like to burn both ends of my AMNPSmoker tray at the same time to increase the smoke but it also increases the temperature this is my outdoor thermometer that i use for the ambient temp this is the 2 hour test in the CB RED even with the bag of ice (which still hadn't completely melted at 2hrs) the cabinet temp got up to 129° with the AMNPSmoker in the same cabinet which bothered me with a 2 hour cold smoke ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I starting looking at other message boards for ideas for an external smoker box. the one that caught my eye was using a metal mailbox and running metal duct pipe to the side of a smoker box. I love to cook on my OldSmokey more than any other cooker i have. I decided to build a smoker box for the OS I use aluminum pans in a bunch of different ways cooking in the OS so i got the idea to use two metal pans face to face (just like the OldSmokey and clip it together with bulldog clips. the 22"OldSmokey comes with two vents in the bottom and two in the lid (the smaller units only have one top & bottom) when you buy a 22"OS the two bottom vents are both controlled with one long damper that pivots over both holes. i wanted to be able to adjust the two bottom vents separately, so when I was first putting it together i put two of the shorter top vent dampers on the bottom. the vent holes are around 1.5/8" in diameter. i wanted to use one of the bottom vent holes without modifying the bottom of the OS, so i had to work with the 1.5/8" hole the flange pipes are for a "P" trap on a sink drain $3 each the aluminum flex pipe is for a carburetor pre-heater $7 at the auto parts store the aluminum pans are $1 each at the grocery store and hose clamps i poked intake holes around the bottom of the bottom pan with an icepic/awl and used a box cutter to carefully cut out the hole in the lid for the bottom flange pipe now for a cold smoke temperature test the way i have been using my AMNPSmoker tray is to load the trough about 3/4 full with pellets then i sprinkle small hickory chips on the pellets i use the aluminum balls to keep the load tight in the trough what you see in the pic is about a 2 hour burn this was the first time i had one of the troughs go out, not burn i'm pretty good at torching the ends at the beginning until they flame on their own then let the flame go out on it's own and the trough is lit i'll do another test to see if both troughs burn i may add more intake holes in the bottom pan? after the next test i added some ceramic tiles under the tray to protect the aluminum pan from the propane torch when i light the tray even though it was only one trough burning it made one heck of a smoke bomb in the OldSmokey this makes an incredible smoker what was incredible was how the exterior temp of both the OldSmokey &the smoker box stayed even with the ambient temperature. i added an aluminum pan of ice cubes in the bottom. they were only half melted at 2 hours notice on the test how low the ice cubes kept the temp in the cabinet, 8° below the ambient temp and at 2 hours the cabinet temp in the OldSmokey was 38° below the cabinet temp in the CB RED and the potato ended up 18° below the potato from the CB RED what is GREAT about this setup is, i can add smoke to any cook in the OldSmokey single sided indirect cooks in the 200°s double sided indirect roasting for birds in the 300°s direct over the coals at 8" screaming grilling on the GrillGrates at 4½"


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Editor: In Dr. Proctor's response to my recent letter, he states that the St. Augustine Foundation of which he is president, and Flagler College, of which he is chancellor, are "two different organizations with considerably different purposes." He is merely repeating my point that he functions as head of two organizations whose purposes are not only different, but conflicting. The college is in the business of acquiring property to house a growing number of students, and the foundation is in the business of protecting historic property. When these interests conflict, as they did on Cedar Street, one wins, one loses. To have one person heading both such organizations is the essence of a conflict of interest.
His letter also states that the St. Augustine Foundation had "no involvement with the destruction of the house on Cedar Street." I absolutely agree. It was the Chancellor of Flagler College, William Proctor, whose call to Harry Saxton apparently initiated that destruction. But was the foundation involved in protecting the house? Where was William Proctor, the president of the St. Augustine Foundation, when the bulldozers were rolling? I sympathize with Dr. Proctor's professed uncertainty about what constitutes his conflict of interest, since it is not always easy to see those things to which we are closest. Dr. Proctor admits that under his stewardship the Foundation has "departed from the role of purchasing and restoring historic buildings," and now focuses on historic research. Yet as Diane Rodgers' article makes clear, the Foundation should be the most likely entity to intervene in such cases as 92 Cedar St. Clearly, the leadership of such an entity should not be torn between warring imperatives.
Dr. Proctor also contends that the college should be recognized for its effort to "minimize the acquisition of property" by maintaining the "highest student density per acre of any comparable institution." What comparable institution is in the middle of a historic preservation district in the oldest city in the nation? The college has a unique responsibility to its surroundings, a responsibility that it needs to hold more closely. Not only has it acquired historic properties for dorms and parking, but it has grown beyond its limits, and is using the surrounding neighborhoods as dorms and parking lots. Walk down Riberia, Saragossa, Valencia or any such street surrounding the college, and you will see that these precious neighborhoods are sagging under the weight of the college's growth: six students to a single-family house, each student with a separate car, absentee landlords letting properties fall into disrepair. Not only is the college an enormous and unrecognized part of the city's divisive parking problem, but any city planner will tell you that a core element in the decline of a city is the steady increase of short-term renters over owner occupants and long-term residents. Flagler College needs to be made aware of the effect it is having on this extremely sensitive place.
And finally, while it is true that the college's auditorium was "made available" to various organizations and schools for commencement exercises and fund-raisers, is Dr. Proctor suggesting that such gestures as renting out the only performance space in town for a fee, or excluding the public from the downtown Hispanic Gardens, count as gestures of community activism and responsibility? I believe that such misunderstandings speak to a systemic and serious breach of communication between Flagler College and this our city.
This breach is sad, because the relationship can be so mutually enriching.
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iPod Touch 5 Release Date: iPod a 'Must Have' for Some, Despite Lack of Major Features
As iPod fanatics look forward to owning the latest version of the device, will the fact that there are no major improvements to the product sway them from the thrill of acquisition?
It can be argued that the iPod became a cultural phenomenon, since the very first year of its release. In fact, PBS declared it so, just a few years after the item became a household name.
"Apple's iPod has become a technological phenomenon that has been growing since it first hit store shelves in 2001," PBS PBS correspondent Jeffrey Brown reported in 2006.
This year, with its sleek new eye-catching white models, Apple has put forth an esthetically appealing device, but although the company considers its iPod touch line to be, as the familiar phrase would express it, ""new and improved," the product lacks any real substantial changes.
Some have pointed to minor revisions to its Wi-Fi/Bluetooth and gyroscope features, but beyond that, there is apparently not much to shout about.
Still, a high sales volume is expected for the item, especially since Apple announced changes to its pricing plan, dropping the price of the 8GB model from $229 to $199.
According to Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, "iPod has revolutionized the way we listen to music and with over 320 million sold is the world's most popular music player, iPod touch, now available in both black and white, is the best selling iPod ever, and with iOS 5 and iCloud it is better than ever."
Schiller's enthusiasm is probably expected considering the source, still the tangible benefits of owning a device such as iPod, seems far more than its specific technological applications. For some, it is akin to being part of a cultural pact.
James T. Katz, Ph.D., chair of the Department of communication at Rutgers University, had this to say in the PBS broadcast:
"Most people use them, of course, to listen to music. But like most aspects of human behavior, it doesn't exist in isolation. What's really important to a lot of people is how other people see them, how they see them consuming music or walking down the street. And, therefore, something like the iPod is considered part of a personal statement."


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World Day of Prayer set for March 2 at Grace Lutheran
Women, men and children in over 170 countries will gather on Friday, March 2 to celebrate World Day of Prayer. In the Lehighton - Weissport area, a service will be celebrated at 7 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, Fourth and Mahoning streets, Lehighton. The service is sponsored by Life (Lehighton Interfaith Fellowship).
WDP service began in 1887 by a Presbyterian laywomen Mary Ellen James, to bring together international women from a myriad of backgrounds, cultures and Christian traditions for prayer and prayerful actions. Each year a different country writes the service. This year, the Christian women of Malaysia wrote the service focusing on the theme "Let Justice Prevail". Their greeting to us is "selamat datang" - "peace and welcome" a reminder that harmony as a people is rooted in peace and welcome.
Participating in the service from the host church are: SALM Emma Weaver, organist Jean Gothard, Jenny Keiper, Joan Mertz and the Women of Grace.
Other persons participating are: Mary Fay Levendusky, All Saint's Episcopal Church; Shirley Stamm, First Presbyterian Church; Rose Marie Austin, Ss. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church; Shirley Radler, Josephine Rhyder, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church; and Barry Shupp, Zion United Church of Christ.
Everyone is invited attend. Prayers start at sunrise in the Pacific and follow the sun across the globe until sunset.
There will be a time for refreshments and fellowship after the service.
For additonal information, contact Shirley Radler at (610) 377- 4278.


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Can a square meal for a round £100 fit the bill?
YOU think the price of petrol has gone through the roof? Have you tried posh dinners? Harden's, the London restaurant guide, reports that several top-notch dining rooms are charging more than £100 a head for an evening meal.
It is an obscenity when half the world is starving, but the law of the jungle states unequivocally that if there are people out there with money, there are more than enough restaurateurs ready to relieve them of it, whether by pretension, ambience or naked milking of the old snobbery gland.
According to Harden's, the average price per head in a London restaurant of a three-course meal with a shared bottle of house wine, coffee and a tip is now £36.82, compared with £35.79 last year.


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Reading the menu vs. eating it
Transitory Gaslamp means you have to straddle tastes
Patrick Henderson 8:03 p.m., Nov. 24
The history of wildfires in San Diego's backcountry has yielded a vigorous volunteer firefighting subculture. Its foundations are self-reliance, strong community involvement, ingenuity, independence, and thrift. Today, those who embody the tradition feel threatened. They perceive the enemy to be the new San Diego County Fire Authority.
A plan to consolidate fire departments, both professional and volunteer, has been the pet project of county supervisor Dianne Jacob since the mid-1990s. But after the 2003 Cedar fire, according to the Los Angeles Times on October 31, 2003, Jacob conceded that "even with [consolidation], there is a dark cloud over all of us called lack of adequate resources."
On May 29, 2008, the County Grand Jury pinned the blame for wildfire damage on too much trust in backcountry volunteer fire departments. The report suggested that people were acting as if it was still "the 'Old West,' when people banded together and formed groups to protect themselves." What is needed, according to the report, is what most large counties use, a regional firefighting agency.
So the County asked citizens to fund it. But at the polls last fall, voters narrowly defeated a $52-a-year parcel-tax initiative to consolidate all fire departments in the region. The plan had wider support than the outcome indicates, as a two-thirds vote was required for passage. In the wake of defeat and anticipation of more big wildfires, a familiar rant went up that San Diegans are too cheap to pay for government services.
But Jacob had Plan B ready to go, a $15.5 million agency with the power to coordinate firefighting efforts in San Diego's backcountry. "County officials said the authority [could] be formed although voters rejected the tax," according to a November 23, 2008 California Fire news release. The new agency has responsibility to watch over "about a third of the county," more than 920,000 acres. Within that area, "The authority will cover about 50,000 people…now served by six volunteer agencies and Cal Fire.… The volunteer agencies will remain but will be better-funded and administered by a fire warden, a new position."
"The fire authority is one of the first steps in the process of creating a countywide agency," the news release continued. "Jacob said she hopes to expand the regional authority within the next two years to include other parts of the unincorporated county now served by rural fire districts. After that, urban areas served by fire departments would be included."
The good news for the volunteer firefighters seemed to be the $95 to $110 per 24-hour shift they're set to receive under the new plan. But as paid employees, they had to qualify for workers' compensation. And that meant passing a physical exam, as well as background and credit check, conditions of the contract the County offered them. A number of volunteers are in their 70s and/or out of shape. So many resisted signing the contract, saying they were thinking over their decision until the last minute of an initial July 1 deadline the County gave them. But on June 24, the County told the volunteers they had until the next day to sign or lose the opportunity to fight future backcountry fires.
During the period of mid- to late June, the Ramona Sentinel and North County Times aired out volunteer firefighters' grievances about having to take the physical exam. One fire chief stated that some volunteers feared an exam failure would mean they wouldn't be able to qualify for health insurance in the future. The newspaper accounts focused mainly on the volunteer departments surrounding Ramona.
To get a different perspective, I speak with three volunteers from the Shelter Valley Volunteer Fire Department. Shelter Valley lies 16 miles east and downhill from Julian. All three of the volunteers concurred that the physical exam constitutes a serious issue for many firefighters who still have much to contribute. Fire operations chief Tony Mayors, who is 53, tells me he knows he can't pass the exam due to his high blood pressure. But he has been a volunteer in Shelter Valley for 12 years and the operations chief for 5. He believes his experience of fighting fires in the area is still a valuable resource.
Mayors eventually did fail the physical, but, the County has not rejected him outright. Instead, he's been placed on hold while officials try to figure out how he might be used. "I think I should still be able to go out on calls," Mayors says. "Call it quality control or whatever you want, but I've been doing this so long I can correct less experienced firefighters' mistakes when I see them. That's why I became a chief. I know I can't carry a hundred-pound fire hose up a steep hill. But I can hardly be useful in my own way if I'm not allowed to go out on calls."
I speak about the issue with Gig Conaughton, a spokesman for the County's Department of Planning and Land Use, the administrative home for the new fire authority. Conaughton tells me the County cannot even allow volunteers to perform field supervision if they can't pass the physical. "Think about it," he says. "Somebody who goes out on a call might suddenly face a dangerous situation where they're needed to help. It wouldn't be safe. We [do] have one to three administrative positions that experienced chiefs could be offered."
Gerald Sanders is currently the administrative chief at the Shelter Valley department. He has worked as a local volunteer for 30 years. He is 78 years old. "I know I could pass the physical," he tells me, "because I walk eight miles every other day." But these days, he confines himself to the "technical issues and paperwork."
For years, Sanders has written grants for the Shelter Valley department. He thinks the money he has brought in totals somewhere near $800,000. With some of it, the department bought several of its own trucks, including one brush clearer and a small fire engine, and converted a station wagon into a medical emergency response vehicle. The department also built the Shelter Valley fire station.


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While Tony Stewart has dominated recently, and Jeff Gordon is still a favorite to win in any race, the focus will shift this week at Michigan International Speedway, where Roush Fenway Racing has fared very well recently. Carl Edwards won the June race at MIS, and Matt Kenseth won the second race at the site last season. It should also be noted that Chevrolet has a 12-race winless streak at the site.
With four races remaining in the "Race for the Chase," only Gordon has clinched a Chase berth, but Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and Stewart can join him this week. Ryan Newman is 96 points behind 12th-place Kurt Busch, and he and Dale Earnhardt Jr., who is 100 points behind Busch, have legitimate shots to move back into the Chase field this week.
MIS is fast and wide, allowing for multiple-groove racing that drivers prefer. Using the draft will be a major key to success, as MIS is one of the fastest tracks on the Nextel Cup circuit. Fuel mileage is also another top factor, because there are many green-flag pit stops. Pit crews must be totally on their game, as errors can cost a driver critical track position. A mistake under green-flag conditions can possibly cost a driver half a lap.
Carl Edwards (22.0): He will attempt to become the first driver to sweep at MIS since 1995. Edwards has four top-5 finishes in the past five Michigan races. In those five races, Edwards leads the current field in average running position (7.6) and laps in the top 15 (806). He also leads the field with 274 quality passes, which NASCAR defines as passes of cars in the top 15 under green-flag conditions. He ranks second over the past five races in fastest laps run, with 74. Edwards has an average finish of 7.3 at MIS. He has led in four of six career races at the site for 137 laps. Edwards has three top-10 finishes in his past five races overall and placed eighth at Watkins Glen last week, although he had second place locked up before losing control of his car on the final lap.
Matt Kenseth (22.9): Kenseth was knocked out of the June race at MIS, but will rebound strongly this week as he bids for his third career victory at the site. He has six top-5 finishes and 10 top-10s at Michigan. He has led in six career races at the site for 150 laps and has an average finish of 10.1 at Michigan. This season, Kenseth has seven top-5s and 14 top-10 showings. He has led in 13 of 21 races for 257 laps. Kenseth has five consecutive top-15 finishes in 2007. He had top-5s in both MIS races in 2005 and finished 13th in the first race at the site in 2006.
Jimmie Johnson (22.8): He has started to run better recently and is one of the best bets to end the Chevrolet drought. Johnson finished third at Watkins Glen, his second consecutive top-5 finish. Johnson has not won in the past 12 races, but he should be a strong contender this week. In the past five races at MIS, he has an average running position of 11.2, 64 of the fastest laps run and 732 laps in the top 15, all third-best ranks among current drivers. He has led in five of 11 MIS races for 139 laps.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (20.8): Look for a good finish as he tries to get back into the Chase field. Over the past five races at MIS, Junior has 229 quality passes, third best among active drivers. He also has 49 of the fastest laps run and 648 laps in the top 15 during that span. He has three consecutive top-10 finishes at MIS. Junior has taken the pole twice at Michigan. He has led in nine of 16 races at the site for 109 laps.
Greg Biffle (19.7): His season has been a disappointment overall, but he has provided better finishes lately and has a good history at Michigan. He placed 10th at Watkins Glen, and has finished in the top 15 in four of the past five races. Biffle won back-to-back races at MIS in 2004 and 2005, and his average running position of 9.0, 781 laps in the top 15 and 237 quality passes are second-best among current drivers over the past five races there. His 76 fastest laps run are the best of any driver during that span. Biffle has four top-5 finishes and six top-10s at MIS.
Casey Mears (18.4): Mears is another quality candidate to end the Chevrolet run of futility at MIS. Mears finished fourth at Michigan in June, and over the past five races at the site, he has an average running position of 13.3 and 569 laps in the top 15. Mears finished seventh in the second Michigan race of 2006 and he has finished 16th or better in his past four MIS races. He has also finished in the top 15 in three of the past four races this season.
Reed Sorenson (15.8): He's always a good bargain on the intermediate tracks, and in three MIS races, Sorenson has an average finish of 12.0. He finished in the top 10 in both races at the site last year and has spent 249 laps in the top 15. Sorenson finished seventh in the Busch Series race at Michigan earlier this season.
Jeff Gordon (25.3) has two wins and 15 top-5 finishes at MIS. Stewart (23.9) has one win and eight top-5 finishes at Michigan. Kurt Busch (21.0) has one win and five top-10 finishes at MIS. Newman (19.7) won back-to-back Michigan races in 2003 and 2004. Michael Waltrip (16.1) finished 10th in the June race at MIS. Paul Menard (14.6) finished 12th in the June Michigan race. Robby Gordon (16.3) has two consecutive top-15 finishes, and three consecutive top-20 showings at MIS.


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DARRYN GEORGE: Kaitiaki
24 November 2012 – 3 March 2013
PATAKA is delighted to present Christchurch-based artist Darryn George's latest series of large-scale paintings, Kaitiaki 2012.
George is part of a generation of artists who have been reconsidering abstract art through the 21st century lens of technology. He plans and tests his ideas on a computer before painting the works by hand.
George takes minimalist abstraction in a new direction, layering it with subtle references of narrative and spiritual meaning. Through his work he seeks to meld his Maori heritage with his Christian belief system: his crisp, elegant paintings progress from an idea of structure, order and proportion to an idea of Maori spirituality and Christianity. In his latest series of paintings, he combines Maori text and iconography in his paintings.
'There was a period just after the Christchurch earthquake, in February 2011, when I started painting word paintings – neon sign type paintings – with words like Rata (Doctor), Kaitiaki (Keeper) and Takuta – Doctor. As the series grew I started to use the work 'Atua'. Atua is the Maori translation of God. Repeated over and over, the word appears like a prayer for help.
Darryn George, August 2012


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Raiders rout Tigers
Major surgery just over a week before the season opener couldn't slow down Amy Zehner. And Northwestern's defense was no obstacle either as the Tamaqua junior scored 19 points in her team's 61-30 season opening win Saturday afternoon in New Tripoli.
"You've got to thank Amy for wanting to come back," said Tamqua head coach Joe Berezwick. "She didn't miss a beat."
Zehner, last year's TIMES NEWS Player of the Year, was expected to miss at least the early part of the season when she needed an emergency appendectomy on the morning of Wedneday, December 2. Five days later her doctor, Michael Martinez at Gnaden Huetten Hospital in Lehighton, cleared her to return to practice on Tuesday, Dec. 8. She played in a scrimmage the next day and by the opener was feeling nearly 100 percent.
"I can't stand not playing and going to practice and just watching," said Zehner. "I can't do that. I was so excited to come back."
Tamaqua jumped out a quick lead against Northwestern. The Lady Raiders forced 10 first-quarter turnovers and got two 3-pointers from Elissa Streisel to go up 17-4 after eight minutes.
Another nine Northwestern turnovers in the second quarter put Tamqua ahead 33-13 at halftime.
Zehner, who missed her first four shots, made five or her next eight for eight points at halftime to lead a balanced first-half scoring effort. Zehner hit another five of six shots in the third quarter to lead all scorers.
"She'll be the best player we'll see all year," said Northwestern head coach Chris Deutsch. "Even if you do a good job on Zehner, they have other girls who can make shots. They're just a very good team."
"Amy just plays the complete game," Berezwick said. "You just don't look at the 19 points. You look at everything else she does out there. It goes beyond the 19 points - the rebounding, the defense, her ability to block shots."
Zehner's supporting cast played a big part in the win. Streisel finished the game with nine points and six assists. Kayla Hope, who spearheads her team's pressure defense, contributed 11 points and five steals.
The defending District 11 champion Lady Raiders have much of last year's team back and are expecting big things this season. A big win in their season opener was just the start they were looking for.
"Our goal was to pick up from where we did last year," Zehner said. "I think we did a good job of doing that. We definitely have some big goals but we're just taking it one game at a time."
Northwestern freshman Sara Jones scored a team-high 12 points in the loss.
Tamaqua also won the JV game, 41-33, behind 15 points from Maria Streisel. For Northwestern, Kaleen Suter scored a team-high 10 points.
Hope 5-0-1-11, C. Streisel 1-0-0-2, Berezwick 2-0-0-4, M. Streisel 0-0-0-1, E. Streisel 3-0-0-9, Eroh 3-0-0-7, Fedor 1-0-0-2, Zehner 9-0-1-19, Chrush 0-1-2-1, Updike 1-2-2-4, Hankins 1-0-0-2, Solt 0-0-0-0. TOTALSL 26-3-8-61.
Gulick 1-0-0-2, Landrigan 0-0-0-0, Groller 1-0-0-2, Jones 6-0-0-12, Suter 0-1-2-1, MacLaughlin 0-0-0-0, L. Gimbel 1-1-2-4, A. Gimbel 0-0-0-0, Everett 2-0-1-4, Hill 2-1-2-5. TOTALS: 13-3-7-30.
Tamaqua 17 16 19 9 - 61
Northwestern 4 9 6 11 - 30
Three-pointers - T: E. Streisel 3, Hope, Eroh, Zehner; NW: L. Gimbel.


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Messi: Barcelona relaxed despite defeat
Barcelona forward Lionel Messi said his side are "still relaxed" about their Champions League prospects despite suffering a shock defeat to Celtic in Group G.
Barca suffered only the second defeat of the season in Glasgow, the other a 2-1 loss to arch-rivals Real Madrid in the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup in August.
However, they remain top of the group on nine points, two ahead of Celtic in second. Benfica have four points and Spartak Moscow are bottom on three after the Portuguese side won 2-0 at home to the Russians on Wednesday.
"We are still in first place and we are relaxed," Barca's World Player of the Year Lionel Messi, who netted in added time and earlier struck the frame of the goal, said.
"I think we did everything well, we got into goal-scoring positions but the ball just didn't go in," added the Argentine, who became a father for the first time when his son Thiago was born on Friday.
"They were comfortable closing ranks in defence, waiting for a chance to counterattack, a corner or a freekick and that's how they managed to score the two goals."
Barca coach Tito Vilanova and his players were generally gracious in defeat and there was a sense they had even enjoyed the electric atmosphere at Celtic Park despite the defeat.
"It's a marvel, an example," Xavi said.
Celtic's victory ended Barca's run of 17 away games in the Champions League group stage without losing.
They last fell at Chelsea, 1-0 in October 2006, and had since won 11 and drawn six.
They have another chance to seal their passage to the last 16 away to Spartak on November 20 before they host Benfica on December 5.