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An early spring dessert
"On a spring morning when with late-surviving dew the young grass bristled under the sun, when the warmth crept into the ground and pushed yellow dandelions up, Cathy's mother finished hanging the washed clothes on the line."
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
A crisp is a fine dessert. It could also be called a crumble. It is an enticing excuse to enjoy seasonal fruit and easy to prepare. Any seasonal fruit can be substituted in this recipe, peaches, plums, apricots, berries and in the fall apples. Rhubarb and the first strawberries are both in season now and perfect for this satisfying sweet taste of spring.
In the United States rhubarb is a vegetable that we know as a fruit. In 1947 a New York court affirmed that rhubarb would now be a fruit and to this day rhubarb is known as a fruit. Why a court decision? Taxes, tariffs and regulations on the differences in importing fruits and vegetables. Rhubarb is quite tangy and if the stalks are thick can be very fibrous. My mom would stew rhubarb with lots of sugar and then pour the sweet sauce over ice cream. This was not my favorite dessert. At all. I prefer my rhubarb paired with naturally sweet strawberries as in this crisp. It is not an overly sweet dessert. There is just enough sugar to offset the tangy tartness of the rhubarb while the early spring voices of the rhubarb and strawberries can still be heard. The crumbly crisp topping hovers above the chunks of early spring fruit just waiting to be scooped up with a touch of sweet cream or vanilla ice cream.
There are differing methods for prepping the rhubarb. The two considerations are the fibrous exterior and the high water content. When the rhubarb stalks are large and thick I prefer to peel the stalks to remove the stringy fibrous strands. Many recipes do not call for peeling, the choice is yours. Depending on the rhubarb variety, you may peel away a lot of the irresistible pink exterior. A pale spring green, tinged with pink may remain. The freshly harvested rhubarb I purchased at The Farm was a soft crimson pink underneath the fibrous outside! I also found my sweet organic strawberries at The Farm. I'm hooked on their strawberries. They have so much more flavor than the berries at the supermarket.
Rhubarb contains a lot of water which is a consideration in baking. Sugar is almost always mixed in with the rhubarb since is very tangy. And sugar is hydroscopic, it draws the water from the rhubarb. This is why your baked product will have rhubarb chunks floating in rhubarb juice or be overly moist and juicy. Either a thickener such as flour, cornstarch or tapioca can be mixed in with the rhubarb and sugar or some of the moisture can be removed before baking. For the crisp recipe I chose to remove some of the water before baking by macerating the rhubarb in brown sugar and draining off the liquid. I prefer brown sugar mixed with the fruit, but white sugar can be used.
This recipe is very flexible. Exact measurements are not needed. I did not weigh the ingredients. Measuring cup amounts will be precise enough to obtain outstanding results.
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- Prepare the rhubarb. Cut off any leaves and discard. Thoroughly wash the stalks. If the stalks are thick peel them by grasping just the red outer stringy, fibrous membrane and pull in a downward motion. Discard the fibrous membrane. Cut the rhubarb in 1 inch chunks and toss with 1/2 C of the brown sugar. Place the sugar rhubarb mixture in a sieve or colander over a bowl. Let drain for at least one hour.
- Meanwhile wash and clean the strawberries and cut in half. If the berries are large cut in quarters. Toss with the remaining 1/2 C brown sugar in another bowl. Set aside to macerate.
- Preheat the oven to 375°. Lightly butter a 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
- Prepare the topping. Combine flours, brown sugar, oatmeal and salt in a bowl. Cut the butter into chucks and work into the dry ingredients with either a pastry cutter or your hands. Continue working the butter into the flour until the largest pieces are the size of peas.
- Toss the drained rhubarb with the strawberries. Spread the fruit evenly in the bottom of the prepared baking pan. Scrape the bowl clean, adding any sugar and berry liquid to the baking pan. Spread the topping mixture, on top of the fruit and bake for 35-40 minutes until the fruit is cooked and bubbling and the topping has browned. Best served while warm. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.


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'Toll booth' raises more than $6,000 for fire department
Rockport — Rockport Fire Department held a "toll booth" fundraiser Aug. 8 at the intersection of routes 90 and 17 and raised more than $6,000 toward equipment and tools that will help them service the town more efficiently.
"It never ceases to amaze me the generosity of people when it comes to supporting the fire department," Chief Jason Peasley said. "We have been able to raise funds outside of what the town has set aside for us in the equipment budget – money that was given freely and not at the burden of the taxpayers."
He added, "I can not thank the people who donated enough because it helps ensure that our firefighters can do their job in the safest possible manner and better help those that call us in a time of need."
The cost of running a fire department has increased dramatically during the past few years and with the implementation of new laws covering safety and the replacement timeline of equipment, departments look to donations to help support operations.
A set of turn-out gear -- protective clothing -- could be used for 25 years before having to be replaced. With new laws, each set needs to replaced every 10 years at a cost of approximately $1,600 a set, Peasley said.
Since taking over the reins of the department a little over a year ago, Peasley has applied for and received more than $55,000 in grants and donations to replace outdated gear, hoses, tools and communication equipment.

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Want to fill up for £1 a litre? Take Euro driving holiday
Local motorists could be filling up at pumps charging just £1 a litre this summer - if they are on holiday on the Continent.
The AA has revealed a huge difference between the cost of petrol and diesel in mainland Europe and the UK.
The average price of petrol in the UK is 117.24 pence per litre (ppl), while diesel is 119.33ppl, according to the AA's July Fuel Price Report.
Northern Ireland is now the second cheapest UK region for unleaded (at 117.2ppl) and the cheapest for diesel (117.9ppl).
But a survey of pump prices across Europe has revealed that local holidaymakers can find petrol at the equivalent of a £1 a litre or less in Austria, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Spain.
And the only countries surveyed that charge more than £1 a litre for diesel are Italy, Norway and Switzerland.
In the middle of June, the AA said the wholesale prices of petrol and diesel feeding into the pump were almost the same - but diesel cost on average 3.8p more at the pump.
It added that although diesel is currently averaging 2p a litre more at the pump, two weeks ago wholesale prices for diesel were 2.5p a litre cheaper than petrol prices.
AA president Edmund King said that UK drivers on roads in continental Europe this summer will discover "a whole new world of transparent pricing" at forecourts.
"Many will find the £1 a litre that was so elusive when oil prices crashed at the start of this year," he said.
"Most importantly, ordinary diesel car owners will see just how much they are being exploited and ripped off by a UK fuel industry that thinks it is acceptable to manipulate the prices these drivers pay.
"The same drivers will conclude that the UK Government wants their tax and their votes but does little to offset the disadvantages the British driving consumer faces."
The AA said that UK drivers would also feel exploited by fuel business interests because the Iran nuclear deal had little impact on the price of oil despite the prospect of more crude being released on to an already over-supplied global market.
Over the past month, even with Brent crude falling 9.5% from $63 to $57 a barrel, the wholesale price of petrol has fallen just 2%, from around $737 a tonne to $725.
The motoring organisation said that is why driving in mainland Europe will be a breath of fresh air for UK drivers, and a huge eye-opener for those with diesel cars looking to grab a real bargain.
One reason for 12 of the 17 listed European countries charging less for petrol than in the UK is the high level of tax here - VAT and duty forms 66% of the pump price.
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RiverDogs bats silent again in shutout loss to Braves
CHARLESTON, S.C. (DOGS) - Rome Braves starter Wes Parsons dominated Charleston's lineup with seven, two hit, shutout innings as the Braves topped the RiverDogs 5-0 on Friday night in front of 5,273 fans in South Atlantic League action at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park.
With the loss, the RiverDogs fall to 23-25 in the second half and 62-54 overall. With the win, Rome advances to 22-26 in the second half and 58-59 overall.
Parsons, who was coming off a complete game two hit shutout in his last start, was stellar yet again. He gave up leadoff singles in the first and third innings and faced just one batter over the minimum in his seven scoreless frames. He retired the last 14 men he faced and picked up the win to improve to 5-6 on the year.
After facing the minimum through three hitless, scoreless innings himself Charleston starter Cesar Vargas allowed two runs in the fourth inning and three in the fifth before calling it a night. He gave up seven hits, five runs, and walked one without striking out a better in five innings. Vargas got the loss to fall to 4-5.
One night after all nine starters recorded at least one hit for Rome, they got hits from six different batters on Friday. Eric Garcia and Carlos Franco each had two hit games with Garcia driving in a couple runs as well. Leadoff man Kyle Wren had another good game for the Braves scoring twice and driving in a run with a single, walk, and fielder's choice.
Jake Cave and Wes Wilson were the only RiverDogs to reach base safely. Cave went 2-4 with two singles and Wilson finished 1-3. Charleston never got a runner past first base all game long.
The highlight of the night was in the top of the fourth inning when Cito Culver made one of the nicest plays a shortstop can make. When Carlos Franco hit a hard ground ball to third base with the bases loaded, RiverDogs' third baseman Ty Afenir dove and deflected the ball towards Culver who gloved it and from deep in the hole jumped and threw to first to retire Franco 5-6-3. The crowd gave Charleston a standing ovation after the play.
Derek Varnadore threw three scoreless, hitless innings of relief for the Dogs, and James Pazos tossed a scoreless ninth inning. For Rome, Jeremy Fitzgerald got the final six outs allowing just one base hit and striking out two.


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Before Dennis Lehane wrote Mystic River, the basis for Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning film, he wrote four detective thrillers about blue-collar private eyes Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, a sort of shanty Nick and Nora Charles. Ben Affleck's directing debut is an adaptation of the fourth and best of the series. .
Little Amanda McCready (Madeline O'Brien) has vanished from her own bedroom in Dorchester, a poor but tight-knit, working-class Irish-American neighborhood. Her mother, Helene (Amy Ryan), is distraught, the community is up in arms, and the police and news media are all over the case. But three days after Amanda's disappearance, the cops have come up empty and the child's frustrated aunt Bea (Amy Madigan) turns up at the modest office of PIs Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan), her reluctant husband Lionel (Titus Welliver) in tow. Bea pleads with them to join the investigation: Both grew up in Dorchester and might be able to tease out leads the police have missed. Despite Angie's misgivings — an abducted child gone for three days is almost certainly dead, and she dreads the thought of fishing a tiny, battered corpse from a dumpster — they take the case and broker an uneasy truce with Captain Jack Doyle (Morgan Freeman), who heads up the Boston PD's Crimes Against Children unit, and his lead detectives, Remy Bressant (Ed Harris) and Nick Poole (John Ashton). It doesn't take long to establish that the hard-living Helene lied about the circumstances of Amanda's disappearance, and that her heavy-duty drinking and drugging lifestyle probably has something to do with the child's abduction. But the deeper Patrick and Angie dig, the more conflicted they become about what they should do with the hard-won truth of the matter.
Though marred by artificial hard-boiled dialogue, some rocky story transitions and wandering accents, Affleck's first outing as director is an admirably dark, ambiguous thriller with the courage of its morally compromised convictions. Fans of Lehane's Kenzie-Gennaro books will lament the fact that starting with the fourth book means losing the couple's extensive backstory, but the essence of their fragile, damaged bond comes through even if you don't know what shaped it. And Affleck's decision to cast both extras and supporting players from Boston locals pays off handsomely: You don't find faces like that of Jill Quigg, who plays Helene's sozzled, bitterly defensive best friend, in a casting directory.
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Citroën's stand at the Frankfurt motor show will feature the Tubik, a radical new MPV concept. For this vehicle, Citroën took inspiration from the TUB and Type H light vans that it built for over 40 years starting in 1939. Citroën designed the Tubik to be an "executive shuttle" with comfort and fun as its main ingredients.
With a length of 4800mm, a width of 2080mm wide, and height of 2050mm, the Tubik can accommodate as many as nine passengers seated in three rows. It also features a modular seating arrangement that could be adjusted. Its interior is similar to a "lounge-style cocoon" and features a leather floor, ambient lighting, and felt seats.
It has also been fitted with a gigantic semi-circular TV screen and offers high-definition surround sound. The front and rear could be accessed via the concept's cabin door that opens along its entire side.
Citroën based the cockpit on the "cyclotron," which brings together the seat, pedal assembly, steering wheel and head-up display in a circular set-up. A fingerprint recognition system is used to identify the driver. Tubik has a four-wheel drive drivetrain and is offered with PSA's Hybrid4 technology that consists of a diesel engine upfront.
Its rear wheels are driven by an electric motor. It features a set of 22-inch wheels that are covered with low-resistance tires. Citroën also used Hydractive suspension technology on this vehicle. When the car is moving at high speeds, aerodynamics is improved as it automatically sits lower. Citroën said that the Tubik has comparable CO2 emissions to the level of that of a conventional saloon.
As they are, the design lines on the new Citroen Tubik are inspired by the Citroen TUB and the Citroen Type H upgrade. With a body similarly shaped as the TUB and with generous dimensions -- 4.80m in length, 2.08m in width and 2.05m in height, the Citroen Tubik is large enough to accommodate up to nine passengers.
Interestingly, the front end has been designed to stand out from the rest of the concept. Its ribbing is reminiscent of the corrugated metal found in the Citroen Type H while its windscreen pillars take inspiration from Type H's two characteristic ridges. The carmaker finished the body shell of the new Citroen Tubik in metal grey which envelops the pearlescent white at either end.
These contrasting colors allowed Citroen to mark the location of the combustion engine at the front and its electric motor at the rear. Ingress and egress are made as convenient as possible by two large doors: the access for the driver could be rear-opened while the side door runs in circles to allow side access. Moreover, the new Citroen Tubik features a large two-way panoramic window that allows for greater visibility.
It also has a rear end that cleverly conceals the cargo storage. Since the Citroen Tubik is aimed to focus on the driver, the front cabin features an area called referred to by Citroen designers as "cyclotron," which is a system that basically clusters the seat, steering wheel, pedal assembly, and circular head-up display in one circular line. In addition, the aluminum grey of the Tubik's bodywork could also be seen on the cyclotron, thereby highlighting the vehicle's robust appearance.
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Wind Power Economics Discussed at UMaine
by Christine Parrish
Thursday, November 3, 2011 10:05 AM
The economic costs and benefits associated with wind energy as compared with other energy sources were analyzed at a University of Maine forum on Wednesday, October 26, by economists, an energy analyst, and an electricity transmission expert from Central Maine Power.
Charlie Colgan: Economic Issues
Charles Colgan, the former state economist and a University of Southern Maine professor in public policy at the Muskie School, said his analysis of three operating commercial wind farms in Maine indicates that wind power has very different short- and long-term costs and benefits.
In 2010, Colgan did impact analysis on the First Wind farm at Mars Hill, the TransCanada farm at Kibby, and First Wind Stetson I and II.
"The job impact is mostly in the construction phase, with about 300 jobs created in the state," said Colgan. Goods and services related to construction totaled $223 million in Maine, he said.
He estimated that 45 total jobs are required during the operating period of the farms, with occasionally more during maintenance. Offshore wind will need more workers due to the marine support jobs associated with ocean-based turbines.
Colgan said that increasing use of electricity to fuel the information age and hybrid vehicles, which are likely to become more prominent as new emission-control standards are implemented in the near future, will rely on a mix of energy-supply types to meet demand.
"Wind power will be around for decades and the future will determine how effective it is," said Colgan. "Wind, along with wood, is one of the only ways Maine has to become an energy supplier."
There are no other types of big projects, including hydro and tidal, on the horizon, said Colgan.
Other questions about wind power, including the impact on tourism, health concerns from sound and pressure waves and possible mitigation or litigation costs associated with siting wind turbines, were not analyzed from an economic perspective.
Gary Hunt & Colin High: Air Quality, Subsidies and Hidden Costs
Gary Hunt, a professor of economics at the University of Maine, said that wind energy is competitive when all hidden costs associated with extraction and burning of fossil fuels is factored into economic models.
Wind power developers receive federal subsidies through grants and tax breaks that fund research and development of wind power. On the face of it, that makes wind power a much higher cost form of energy than gas, coal, oil and hydro.
But costs go down over time, once the research and development phase turns into more routine operations, said Hunt.
He also argued that when the environmental costs associated with pollution control and the impacts on health are factored in to the cost of petroleum and coal, the price of wind power generated per kilowatt hour is less expensive than oil and coal and competitive with natural gas.
Wind power creates negligible pollution in the manufacturing, delivery and construction of wind turbines, said Hunt.
The cost per kilowatt hour for traditional fuel sources, then, is artificially low because the environmental costs are not borne by the manufacturers, but by consumers in the form of health care bills and taxes for environmental clean-up.
"We need a real comparison of costs," he said. The best way to assess cost per kilowatt hour, said Hunt, is to put emission charges on oil, coal and gas. Then, when wind power subsidies are removed, wind power is economically competitive.
Wind could provide 20 to 25 percent of the electric power supply for New England by displacing coal and oil in the electricity supply mix, said Hunt.
"Wind directly reduces emissions by displacing fossil fuel generation," said Colin High, an energy and environmental consultant from Vermont. "Wind must be pushed into the system immediately so it will displace the most expensive source at the particular hour when the wind is blowing."
Currently, energy generated by wind cannot be stored.
High said that scientific modeling shows that a 40-megawatt wind farm, such as the one at Mars Hill, displaces 107,216 megawatt hours from a combination of coal, oil and gas. That keeps the equivalent of 60 tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants from being spewed into the air each year.
"No one is in any doubt about this," said High.
CMP's Brian Conroy: Transmission
Brian Conroy, the director of electrical engineering systems at Central Maine Power, briefly described how the New England electricity grid works.
The grid, which takes in all of New England, not just Maine, is the infrastructure that transmits electric power to customers. It doesn't generate electricity. It moves it around.
Predictions are made about how much energy will be used at a specific time of day on any given day in the year. Then, the grid goes into a sort of cruise control for that time frame to deliver the needed electricity, explained Conroy.
The issues with wind, he said, are two-fold from a transmission point of view. First, wind farms tend to be located some distance from collection points on the grid. Since the developer pays for the connector lines that take the wind-generated power to the grid, it can be a large capital expense for the developer and trickle down to increase the price of the electricity.
The second issue is the uncertainty of when the wind will blow, making it difficult to make the predictions Conroy said are necessary to keep the grid supplied with power.
High disputed this, saying that wind, like weather, can generally be predicted two, three or four days out and planned for in the energy mix.
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45 total jobs? Please explain. There are a few per project, 45 sounds high. Colgan claims no big projects are on the horizon, that is carefully worded. There has been hydro for years and tidal is promising with solar coming on in the next couple years. Why is windsprawl allowed to hog the subsidies? How does High know what is displaced by wind? In Denmark wind replaces hydro for no net C02 reduction. Are we talking theory or real world practices? Highs' estimates of C02 saved are not accurate, because the estimates are not based on real output. The turbines are turned off or feathered because all the power cannot be used whenever it is made. Same with smaller private turbines, the are not allowed to sell to the grid at times according to a local fellow who owns one. My question for these experts is " Is the trickle of energy and the minute and largely imaginary reduction of C02 worth ruining the state of Maine? Another question "With 106 old nuke plants ready soon for replacement, why not use the latest technology and install safer thorium or pebble bed reactors which require no cooling water and will automatically shut off in an emergency? Wind power is nasty when one looks at the origins and adds up the total C02. Show us the numbers please.
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Wind power creates negligible pollution in the manufacturing, delivery and construction of wind turbines, said Hunt.
I guess all the mining in China for rare metals for the turbines do not count. 72 wheels of construction vehicles do not count, Shipping across oceans do not count.
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"Wind must be pushed into the system immediately so it will displace the most expensive source at the particular hour when the wind is blowing."
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In this memoir Diane Keaton talks about growing up in a large family in California, her career, her romances, her adopted children, and especially her mother. She calls this a story about her mother and herself.
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Diane is honest about her love life, and speaks openly and kindly about her romances with Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, and Al Pacino. Diane badly wanted to marry Pacino, with whom she made three Godfather movies, but could never convince him to take the plunge. Nevertheless, all Diane's boyfriends apparently remained friends for life.
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BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products and recognized innovator in patient monitoring and respiratory care devices, today announced it will label the Covidien Nellcor™ Respiration Rate Version 1.0 Software and the Adult Respiration Rate Sensor with the CE Mark, making the new respiratory monitoring platform available throughout the European Economic Area (EEA). The company plans a limited market release starting in January 2012, which will allow select European hospitals to be the first to use the new technology.
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Current U of T Mississauga biology chair Professor Joel Levine had an unanticipated setback early in his academic career when he suffered an allergic reaction to the rats he was studying in the lab. However, that discovery set him on a new course of study of Drosophila melanogaster, or the fruit fly, which ultimately led to doing a postdoc at Brandeis University under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey C. Hall, who was recognized last week with a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with colleagues Drs.
A mysterious, massive hole, as large as Lake Superior or the State of Maine, has recently been spotted in the winter sea ice cover around Antarctica. This opening, known as a polynya, is the largest observed in the Weddell Sea since the 1970s. At its largest extent, this winter's polynya had an area of open water close to 80,000km2. This marks the second year in a row in which the polynya has formed, although it was not as large last year.
Professor Patrick Gunning, a medicinal chemist whose lab at the University of Toronto Mississauga is revolutionizing how cancer-killing drugs are produced, has signed a $22-million investment deal for Janpix, an oncology-focused startup that he co-founded. The investment came from Medicxi, a European venture capital firm.
Many of us dream of spending the summer on the water, but for U of T Mississauga archaeologist Carrie Fulton, it's just another day on the job. The assistant professor of historical studies recently completed the first season of field work in a three-year study of an ancient marine site off the coast of Cyprus. Fulton and her five-member research team conducted daily dives in the Mediterranean Sea searching for signs of ancient trade routes.


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Preview: Jurassic World
So, the Trailer for JURASSIC World, the fourth installment of the Jurassic Park Franchise is out. Judging by the Look of it, it kinda looks promising.
The Storyline starts 22 years after the original Jurassic Park.
Scientists built a full- functioning dinosaur theme resort with the Name "Jurassic World", as it was originally planned by John Hammond. This new park was built and is now owned by the Masrani Corporation. After a couple of good years, their Visitor rates are starting to decline, so they kinda get the Idea it would be cool to breed Dinsosaur Hybrids but the Plan backfires…
The only Character to return is DB Wong, who is playing the Role of Henry Wu. So Chris Pratt seems to be a Mix between what Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neals Characters were in the Movies before. Allegedly, there were at least four different Scripts that were written for this Movie, so let´s really hope they picked the Best One for it.
The CGI that i could watch in the Trailer look very Good and some of the Scenes are really great. The Shot with that Crocodile-type Dinsoraur coming out the Water look awesome and some Scenes have the Potential to become something really great.
My personal Opinion is that they bred some kind of a hybrid between T-Rex and Veloceraptor. In a couple of the Scenes, you can see some claws that look a lot like the Veloceraptor i have in my Cellar and some of the other Shots show a Dinosaur that looks like T-Rex but they don´t show it´s Face. Or maybe he´s wearing Lipstick…who knows.


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MariaTeresa Tersigni-Tarrant donned a harness, clipped it to a rope and made her way down Lookout Mountain to the spot where someone found human skeletal remains last April.
She gathered and studied the remains, helping the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to identify the Ohio man who committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.
Six months later, the GBI invited her to help the agency with its most difficult cases that involved unidentified skeletal remains.
"When she rappelled down that mountain, she impressed a lot of people, especially those in law enforcement - people who are hard to impress," GBI Chief Medical Examiner Kris Sperry said.
"She did a stellar job and jumped into it wholeheartedly," Sperry said. "She is a tough, no-nonsense lady who knows what she's doing."
Even before that, Sperry was impressed enough by Tersigni-Tarrant, a professor with the Medical College of Georgia/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, to hire her as a contract worker for the GBI.
In Athens, she'll teach cellular biology and anatomy when the first medical students arrive in August. The next semester, she'll teach an additional class - forensic anthropology - as a UGA adjunct professor.
Although Tersigni-Tarrant bears the responsibility of teaching future doctors, she knows there's a lot at stake consulting with law enforcement.
Loved ones count on her to identify remains, and when she scours the bones of murder victims, it's crucial to find out accurately how they were killed so that authorities don't arrest and prosecute the wrong people.
"I never forget that there's a family associated with it, so I need to do my job to the best of my ability," Tersigni-Tarrant said.
The spunky 31-year-old Michigan native, who answers to her initials, "M.T.," never planned to be a forensic anthropologist.
Tersigni-Tarrant was a pre-med student at Michigan State University when she took a course on the study of bones she thought would be an easy "elective blow-off." Forensic anthropology was much harder than she anticipated, and at the same time, more intriguing.
"I decided that was what I wanted to do," Tersigni-Tarrant said.
She earned her master's degree and doctorate at the University of Tennessee and honed the skills of her craft, like determining the approximate date of death, at the school's prestigious Forensic Anthropology Center and "body farm" - a wooded research facility scattered with corpses in every possible state of decomposition.
Though relatively young, Tersigni-Tarrant has dozens of cases under her belt because of the close relationship the Knoxville Medical Examiner's Office has with the University of Tennessee, consulting with professors and grad students.
Sperry learned about Tersigni-Tarrant from one of his associate medical examiners, and in January, a month before the GBI eliminated its full-time forensic anthropologist position due to budget cuts, he invited her for an interview.
The state's chief medical examiner immediately put Tersigni-Tarrant to the test, when his office received the charred remains of an unidentified newborn someone found in a a fire pit in Terrell County in South Georgia.
"M.T. just happened to be here when we got all those ashes to sort through, and I thought that was a good place to start to see how well she performed," Sperry said. "She sorted through probably 20 pounds of debris from that pit and was able to pretty well reconstruct the entire skeleton."
The infant's mother later was charged with murder and concealing a body.
While teaching first-year med students how to dissect cadavers in the basement of MCG/UGA's Interim Medical Partnership building on Williams Street, Tersigni-Tarrant also will lead a forensic anthropology class at UGA - the first time the course will be offered in three years.
Tersigni-Tarrant expects the class will be filled to capacity, largely due to interest in the field sparked by popular television shows like "Bones" and "CSI: Las Vegas."
She doesn't care for the shows, because of hokey plots and the way they use technology that doesn't even exist - like a hologram machine that can show what a person looked like just by scanning the skull.
But she plans to assign students to watch, and later ask them to describe what was true and not.
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The GBI already has called on Tersigni-Tarrant to consult with 11 cases, 10 of which were homicides.
She never knows where in the state the GBI will send her next, or how complex the case will be - challenges she welcomes.
"Everyone should be so lucky to wake up each day and do something that interests them," Tersigni-Tarrant said.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
halloween - monster costume
That's pretty much how it was. Jonas loved his costume and he was running all over. When I put on the hat he'd immediately try to take it off until I showed him himself in the mirror. Then he'd just stare at himself and smile, and he kept it on for the rest of the night. He knew he looked cute. :)
Some people thought he was cookie monster, or Sulley from Monsters Inc, or maybe a wild thing. All good guesses - but I went away from the beaten path and didn't do anything from a movie/tv/popular culture. He was just the monster on his shirt that we got a while ago from target. Kinda random but it was fun.
Originally I tried to get blue fur and I was just going to make it out of that - but they didn't have any at local stores, and you can't dye the synthetic white stuff. Everything I found online was way expensive and the whole point of making it myself was to make it cheap. So after a long day at fabric stores, blood-stained and tired (literally, Jonas fell and bit his lip and before I realized what happened he'd wiped it all over me, poor kid) I just bought a couple shades of blue fleece fabric that were on sale and figured I'd make it work somehow.
I used some white jersey fabric my mom had given me (hooray for free stuff!) to make the pants and the hood so that it would be stretchy and moveable, using his clothes for a pattern. And I used a white long sleeve onesie that I already had. I cut the fleece into long strips that were about three inches wide, and then cut zi-zags in the middle of those strips, making two strips out of one (half the work). Then I wound those strips around and sewed them on. Yeah, it did take a little bit of time, but I did it while I listened to talks or watched movies with Russell. I started pretty early in the month too so I didn't feel rushed. it was actually pretty fun! haha, it's amazing what I do for fun these days.
The best part was how much Jonas liked it. Today when I was trying to take pictures of the different parts he kept coming and taking them and trying to put it on.
And there you have it! Jonas' Halloween costume!
8 comments:
- Hannah Ashmore said...
Seriously, that is the BEST costume I have ever seen. So creative!
- November 2, 2010 at 11:05 AM
- Dean, Andrea, Tanner, and Landon said...
You guys look great and Jonas' costume is AMAZING! You are super talented! Especially just making the whole thing up yourself! Geesh!
- November 2, 2010 at 4:32 PM
- cori said...
You are amazing! I love it! I am so impressed by your ability to make stuff work. Keep it up, and keep posting :)
- November 2, 2010 at 9:58 PM
- Melissa said...
So cute! I have been going crazy trying to figure out how to make my younger son a "super monster" this year. Last year, his older brother was a furry orange monster and I didnt want to repeat the exact same thing. This year, they will be "Super Joseph" and "Super Monster Leo". Did you hand sew or use machine? (I am a new sewer.)
Orange monster suit: http://s1189.photobucket.com/albums/z430/mtrup1/
- September 22, 2011 at 9:31 AM
- Anna said...
I hand sewed the strips on and it took forever. :) If I did it again I would machine sew the fleece strips onto the cut fabric pieces, before you assemble the pants, etc. Then there would be a little bit of a bulky seam but I think it would be easier. But if you're going to sew the strips onto pre-existing pants/shirt, I'm not sure how to get around doing it by hand. I don't know. I'm a new sewer too - so I kinda just winged it. :)
- September 22, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- Amber Cooper-Martinez said...
This is the PERFECT costume for my sons birthday party, can you PLEASE tell me how you made the hat? Did you just sew the strips on the beanie? Thank you for this, I am trying to make costumes for my, son his father and me, and I could only think of fur, talk about EXPENSIVE... This idea is amazing! Thank you!
- August 20, 2013 at 7:19 PM
- Anna said...
I didn't use a beanie, just because I didn't have one, but I think that would work great! I just cut out the strips in the fleece fabric and, starting at the bottom, wound it around sewing on with the sewing machine as I went. Then overlapped the next layer to cover the seam. A monster party sounds like fun! Good luck!
- August 21, 2013 at 4:09 AM
- Diane said...
thanks for the great idea! Making this for my twin grandsons!
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So for a long time now I've been running a 22" Dell E2209W and a 42" Westinghouse monitor. The only problem I had was that Windows never recognized the Dell monitor as anything other than a "Generic Non-PnP Monitor".
I also have another 22" Dell E2209W that I had hooked up to my media server. I recently made some changes and bought a bigger desk and a new video card since I was running both monitors off the motherboard before.
My new video card just arrived (EVGA GeForce 9400 GT w/ dual DVI out) so I setup both of the 22" monitors on the video card and kept my 42" running off the HDMI output from the motherboard.
The problem I'm still having is that Windows still detects the same Dell monitor as just a Generic monitor and will not let me set it to it's native screen resolution of 1680x1050, but rather the recommended resolution of 1600x1024. Funny thing is that it recognizes the other Dell monitor just fine and sets the screen resolution on that one with no problems.
I have downloaded the proper drivers from the Dell Support site, and when I tell Windows to update the driver it tells me that it already has the proper driver installed.
Can someone help me figure this out so I can have both of the 22" monitors match with the same resolution?
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Found the problem. It was the VGA cable I was using on that monitor. Replaced it and it's now recognized and both at the same resolution.
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Marquis De Montcalm. Who is Louis-Joseph de Montcalm- Gozon. Montcalm was born February 28 th , 1712, in Nimes, France. He was a F rench soldier in North America, best known as the commander during the Seven Years War. Early Life.
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His early campaign against the Britain were major successes. He then expanded his defenses to Fort Carillon on Lake Champlain. Montcalm captured and destroyed Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario in 1756.
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Best-selling author Jaclyn Moriarty follows her critically acclaimed novels The Ghosts of Ashbury High and The Year of Secret Assignments with this fun tale. Told imaginatively through school assignments and diary entries, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie is sure to appeal to young listeners who love a good mystery. Some people find Bindy Mackenzie's perfectionist personality a bit irritating, but would anyone really want her dead?
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"Very slow start but makes it to a great ending"
I found it hard to start with. A bit disjoined and difficult to like. That eventually worked in the end because you eventually start to care about Bindy… well the rest of what I would say would be spoilers so I say an enjoyable listen with an interest capturing ending.
The moment you figure out that there is more going on in this story than you realized at first.
I loved the voice for Bindy but I enjoyed the reading of the other characters done with a different voice. It really helped keep the ending suspenseful and believable.
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My site is Hosted in US and domain name is just a .com any way for this site to be listed in the 'Pages from Australia' SERPS?
What does it take for google to consider your site from a certain geographic location... is it your Domain? Or Where the Site is Physically hosted? Or possibly if your site is added in the 'Dmoz -> Regional -> Country'? Or What is it... Anyone have any idea?
August 12th, 2004, 07:06 AM #2
Most Serps have a regional addalink...
I did this with DMOZ and Yahoo for my one local website... as a test... it worked...
so, now I use this method for my local clients...
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I came across How To Research Efficiently and I decided to share my approach for researching. I am consultant and vast majority of my activities is generating tangible deliverables - presentations, documents, sample applications, troubleshooting labs, etc. Each activity requires preliminary research, input data, output data, versioning. What I come up with is a simple folders template that is always at hand:
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Help materials can be presentations, links, notes I took. These days my most significant source of research is blog sphere, Here is how I dig it - How to Use Outlook 2007 RSS To Effectively Aggregate And Distill Information. Draft vN is also delivered to the customer but only as sanity check to make sure our mutual expectations are set and met - kinda agile approach.
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