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Local Guide
The name Summerland evokes images of warm beaches, bright blue skies, eden-like orchards and vineyards and friendly people – and that's exactly what you will find here. With Kelowna only 45 minutes to the north and Penticton 15 minutes south, Summerland is the hub of Okanagan wine country. It's central location and access to all Okanagan activities makes Summerland a preferred destination for wine lovers, foodies, sun worshippers, water babies and adventure seekers.
Known for its scenic beauty, waterfront fun and bounty of wine and orchards, the Okanagan Valley is one of western Canada's best year round playgrounds. Opportunities abound in our valley to experience new adventures, connect with nature and our local landscapes as well as our local people, favourite hot spots, festivals and events. We are eager for you to partake in the many activities, attractions, and events in Summerland and the Okanagan Valley BC. May the information provided here help plan a memorable Okanagan vacation.
Things to Do
People are drawn to the Okanagan for its care-free and fun-loving lifestyle, and well, the wine and weather makes you love it even more. So whether you want to go on wine tours from dawn to dusk, jet-ski around Lake Okanagan, take in a cherry orchard tour or simply laze beside the pool soaking up the sun, it is all here for you to enjoy. Activities abound year round so you can be as busy or as relaxed as you like. Check out Summerland Resort's Summer Experiences Program - FREE for all guests
Canada's oldest wine region, the Okanagan Valley boasts 4,000 hectares of glorious vineyards. Summerland and the south Okanagan offer some of the most exciting wines and wine tour experiences in Canada. A local wine-lover's paradise can be found within minutes of the Resort on Summerland's Bottleneck Drive where 14 unique wineries will charm you.
What would all that wine be without outstanding food to complement it? In Summerland and the Okanagan, the theme is local. From local meats, cheeses, fruit and vegetables, you can experience a dining sensation for every occasion, event and craving. One of the best places for food and drink in the Okanagan, the Local Lounge • Grille, is conveniently located next door to the Summerland Waterfront Resort and Spa.
Okanagan Photo Gallery
Yes, a picture can speak a thousand words, but experiencing the landscapes, flavours and Okanagan lifestyle up close and personal is a full sensory experience. Enjoy these photos of our resort, the local fare and things to do in the Okanagan that await you in Summerland.
Summerland + The Okanagan
Summerland is a quaint town of 11,000 people in the centre of the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. Forty-five minutes to the north is Kelowna and Penticton is fifteen minutes to the south, putting Summerland in the midst of Okanagan splendour. Summerland is a vibrant community of artists, nature and outdoor lovers, wine-makers, fruit growers and fun-loving, friendly people. From luscious orchards to bountiful vineyards, from heritage steam trains to splashing around Lake Okanagan, the Okanagan Valley is awaiting your discovery.
Festivals & Events in the Okanagan, BC
Summerland, BC and the neighbouring community of Penticton offer a wide array of exciting festivals and events that showcase the essence of the Okanagan valley. Whether we are celebrating wine, our fruit and harvest, our sports teams, or music and the arts, we love a great festival and event.


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MGM and Twentieth Century Fox are releasing the entire collection of 22 James Bond movies in one box-set, titled Bond 50, which will be available from 1 October. And two of the beautiful Bond girls from the franchise's recent history were on hand to announce the news from the Panasonic booth at CES in Las Vegas.
Caterina Murino (Casino Royale) and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) were also joined on stage by Bond movie directors John Glen (five films, including For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy), Michael Apted (The World is Not Enough) and Martin Campbell (GoldenEye and Casino Royale), who also took part in a panel discussion on some of their experiences during filming in the past.
Clips were shown from some of the movies, and we have to say that they look fantastic. We're not sure if the transfers are different from those released on the limited number of Bond Blu-rays currently available, but blown up onto an 80-inch Panasonic plasma showed no obvious artefacts or picture noise.
The new box-set release ties in with the 50th anniversary of James Bond, and will be available before the 23rd adventure, Skyfall, is released at the end of the year.
It is currently available to pre-order from Amazon.co.uk at the more-than-reasonable price point of £89.99.
"With all 22 feature films available on Blu-ray in one collection for the first time this is a great way for fans to catch up on 007's epic journey before Skyfall hits theaters next Fall," said Michael Brown, senior vice president, MGM Home Entertainment. "Now viewers can enjoy the intense action of the innovative franchise in the most immersive home experience possible."
It must be said that we cannot wait. It's about time that ALL of the Bond films are available on Blu-ray.

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DBAs and SQL Server developers who are new to SQL Server tuning are often puzzled by why the query optimizer in SQL Server would prefer to scan an entire table instead of using a nonclustered index that seems to fit the query perfectly. To explain this mystery, I'll use the following query, which retrieves data from the SalesOrderDetail table in the AdventureWorks database:
SELECT LineTotal FROM sales.SalesOrderDetail WHERE ProductID = 870
If you have any version of the AdventureWorks sample database, you can follow along. If you don't, you can download it from CodePlex.
Related: Find Your Most Expensive Queries
The Demonstration
To begin, click the Include Actual Execution Plan button on the toolbar in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). This will allow you to see the execution plan chosen by the optimizer.
Next, type the following command in the query window:
USE AdventureWorks2008R2; SET STATISTICS IO ON; GO SELECT LineTotal FROM sales.SalesOrderDetail WHERE ProductID = 870;
Note that you might need to change the database name (AdventureWorks2008R2) to the version of the database you're using.
Be sure to include the SET STATISTICS IO ON statement. It'll cause SSMS to display the query cost (in logical page reads) on the Messages tab in the results pane. If you're unfamiliar with the SET STATISTICS IO ON statement or the Include Actual Execution Plan option, see the article "SQL Server Query Tuning." This article also explains why logical page reads are the best metric to use to measure query cost.
In its entirety, the SalesOrderDetail table has 121,317 rows of data contained in 1,240 8KB data pages. It has a nonclustered index on ProductID and a multi-column clustered index on SalesOrderID and SalesOrderDetailID. With the value of 870 chosen for the ProductID filter, this query will return 4,688 rows or about 4 percent of the total number of rows in the table.
In light of this information, you'd expect the query engine to execute a seek on the ProductID index. However, if you execute this query and examine the Execution Plan tab in the results pane, you'll find that instead of doing a seek on the ProductID index as you expected, the optimizer preferred a full scan of the clustered index. It preferred to read all the data contained in the table rather than just the 4 percent of the rows where the ProductID equals 870. Looking at the Messages tab in the results pane will confirm that the query is reading all 1,240 data pages in the table.
Is it a mistake? No, it's not a mistake. That's the optimum query plan. If you don't believe it, change the query slightly to force the use of the ProductID index:
SELECT LineTotal FROM sales.SalesOrderDetail WITH (index=IX_SalesOrderDetail_ProductID) WHERE ProductID = 870
After you execute this query, look at the Messages tab. You'll see that SQL Server had to read 14,377 data pages to return the same result. Forcing the "right" index was roughly 10 times more expensive than the clustered index scan chosen by the optimizer.
The Tipping Point
The key to this mystery is understanding a crucial difference between clustered and nonclustered indexes. Most DBAs and SQL Server developers know that the clustered index contains the data itself in the leaf level of the index, whereas nonclustered indexes contain pointers to the pages containing the data. However, based on my experiences in the field, it seems to me that the implications of that difference aren't widely understood.
At the end of a seek or scan on a clustered index, the data has been retrieved and nothing further needs to happen. At the end of a seek or scan on a nonclustered index, the query engine has only pointers to the actual data. The data itself has yet to be returned.
When a nonclustered index is used, the data is retrieved one row at a time with a series of single-page I/O operations called Row ID (RID) lookups. A page returned by a RID lookup might contain several qualifying rows. If so, it won't be read just once. It'll be read several times, once for each qualifying row.
The bottom line is that a nonclustered index seek will typically use at least as many page reads as the number of rows returned and, depending on various other conditions, perhaps many more. The point at which the number of page reads required by the RID lookups exceeds the total number of data pages in the table is the point at which a clustered index scan becomes less expensive than the nonclustered index seek. This point is called the tipping point. When the tipping point is exceeded, the optimizer will usually prefer a scan of the clustered index instead of a nonclustered index seek.
It's important to know that nonclustered covering indexes don't use RID lookups, so they don't have this problem. For this reason, they can be lifesavers in some situations. Covering indexes contain all the data required by a specific query or set of queries. The data doesn't need to be retrieved from the base table because all the necessary data is contained in the index itself. If you aren't familiar with covering indexes, you might want to check out the article "SQL Server Tuning - The Covering Index."
Where Is the Tipping Point Exactly?
The tipping point is different for every table. It's generally expressed as a percentage of the total number of rows in the table. The key elements in calculating the tipping point are the number of table rows that will fit on an 8KB data page and the number of rows returned by the query. The more rows that will fit on a page or the larger the number of rows returned, the sooner the tipping point is reached and a full scan is preferred by the optimizer.
You can calculate the average number of rows per page in the SalesOrderDetail table by dividing the total number of rows by the total number of pages. In doing so, you'll find that 98 rows fit on each data page. This means that a clustered index scan on SalesOrderDetail can retrieve 98 rows with each page read while scanning the table, whereas a RID lookup retrieves only one row per page read, no matter what the size of the row. This is why reading the entire table with a clustered index scan can be less expensive than reading only 4 percent of the data in the table using RID lookups.
However, if the rows in the table were wider, fewer of them would fit on a page. That would change the ratio between rows returned by the query and total pages in the table. For example, imagine that the rows in the SalesOrderDetail table were so large that only two of them fit on a page. That would mean it would take more than 60,000 data pages to hold the 121,317 rows in this table. This change would be heavily in favor of the nonclustered index seek over the clustered index scan. With the nonclustered index, the query would read fewer than 5,000 pages to return the 4,688 rows. With the clustered index scan, the query would have to read all 60,000+ data pages to return the same rows. In this case, the query optimizer would certainly prefer the nonclustered index.
As you can see, the selectivity of the nonclustered index also helps determine the tipping point. A nonclustered index returning a smaller percentage of the total number of rows in the table reduces the number of RID lookups required and makes it more likely that a nonclustered index seek will be used. As a general rule, very selective nonclustered indexes are used frequently. Nonclustered indexes with poor selectivity are seldom or never used because the clustered index scan is less expensive.
Other Factors Affecting the Tipping Point
Although the cost of RID lookups is the most important factor that affects the tipping point, there are a number of other factors:
- Physical I/O is much more efficient when scanning a clustered index. Clustered index data is placed sequentially on the disk in index order. Consequently, there's very little lateral head travel on the disk, which improves I/O performance.
- When the database engine is scanning a clustered index, it knows that there's a high probability that the next few pages on the disk track will still contain data it needs. So, it starts reading ahead in 64KB chunks instead of the normal 8KB pages. This also results in faster I/O.
For these reasons, the optimizer might prefer the clustered index scan, even when the page counts are similar between the clustered and nonclustered indexes.
Other factors such as index fragmentation and stale statistics can also affect the optimizer's decision about the tipping point. Because you don't have the same information that the optimizer does, it's difficult to predict exactly where the tipping point will be for a given table at a given time.
The Optimizer Usually Knows Best
When you work with SQL Server, you'll often see decisions made by the optimizer that make no sense to you. After working with SQL Server for nearly 20 years, this still happens to me. It's tempting to think of these decisions as bugs or mistakes by the database engine. Sometimes that's true, because the optimizer isn't perfect. But in most cases, I've found that the problem was my ignorance of the details of an extremely complex process. I've learned enough to give the query optimizer the benefit of the doubt when I don't understand why it's working the way it is.
The sample query provided a good demonstration of this. At first, it seemed that using the nonclustered index was the best way to execute the query. However, with a little more knowledge, you gained a better understanding of the complexity of the process behind the optimizer's decision.
After working with SQL Server for many years, I've learned that correct logic applied to incomplete knowledge often leads to incorrect conclusions. Beware of applying a simplistic mental model to a complex phenomenon that you don't completely understand. I have to tell myself this almost daily.


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Status Quo Halo 4 pro gamer Ian "Enable" Wyatt ventured to Fort Hood, Texas to play games with real soldiers at a Red Bull event. He joined teammate Mike "Flamesword" Chaves at the Army base, where the guys got to check out the latest virtual reality technology. Check out the shooter fun in this exclusive video interview.
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Michigan Monday vs. Nebraska up at "The Ozone"
Ohio fan blog "The Ozone" has Michigan Monday vs. Nebraska up this evening.
LINK: http://theozone.net/football/2012/Illinois/michiganmonday.html
It is depressing to read, but interestingly, Gerdeman isn't too harsh. In fact, his opinion is that Michigan probably would have won if Denard had been healthy the whole game. A few quotes:
Despite his struggles, we shouldn't put all of Michigan's offensive failures on Bellomy. While he was healthy, Denard Robinson led five drives and Michigan averaged 29 yards of total offense on those drives, which lead to six total points.
Those numbers with Robinson throughout an entire game probably would have been enough to get the win for the Wolverines, because they likely wouldn't have included three interceptions.
I tend to agree. We live and die with Denard this year. Gerdeman closes with that thought:
Which is the real Michigan offense? The one against Illinois and Purdue, or the one against Michigan State? The answer is neither. The real Michigan offense is Denard Robinson, and how well he performs depends solely upon how good the defense is that he is facing that given week.
There is no "Michigan offense". It's just "Denard". For better or for worse.
What can you say? If Denard is healthy, we could win the rest of our games. If he is out, we'll probably struggle in the rest of our games.
Here are some other bullets:
- Michigan has a severe lack of QB depth. (duh, but yeah.)
- Michigan has a severe lack of QB preparedness.
- People who think Devin is the answer are in la la land. The coaches would have had Devin in the rotation if he was a good option at QB.
- Having said that, Devin will return to QB in the Spring (see depth above.)
- Gerdeman is a broken record re: Fitz and the rushing.
- The OL didn't get much of a push to help Fitz (not that it would have mattered.)
- The defense once again was stellar, and did enough for Michigan to win.
You can read Gerdeman or not. The lack of offensive playmakers, both RB & WR, leave Denard terribly exposed. It has been this way for a long time, but there's nothing to be done for it this year. If Denard stays healthy, I suppose we could win the rest of our games. I wish I was happier about this, but Michigan sure seems awfully vulnerable right now.


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New York Jets coach Rex Ryan told reporters Tuesday that he's sticking with Mark Sanchez at quarterback.
"Yeah, no question," Ryan said, per Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News.
Ryan is asked this question weekly. At some point, the answer will change.
Sanchez is completing 48.4 percent of his passes, dead last in the NFL. Andrew Luck -- five games and two wins into his young career -- is next with a 54.2 completion percentage but with more yardage, more touchdowns, fewer interceptions and certainly more promise.
New York gave us a taste of Tim Tebow in Monday night's 23-17 loss to the Houston Texans, but the Jets don't appear willing to use the backup consistently in the Wildcat. There were opportunities to dial up Tebow against the Texans -- especially in short-yardage situations -- where Sanchez remained on the field. Tebow's light load in the game plan is almost astonishing considering how he has been talked up by this coaching staff.
But when you spend this much time debating between two options at quarterback, it means you haven't found the guy. Ryan said he judges his quarterbacks on wins and losses, but he refused to share his plans about what might happen if New York's two-game losing streak ballons into three or more.
"I'm not going to get into the what-ifs and all that," Ryan said. "We're not preparing to lose, that's for sure. We're thinking we're going to win starting this week."
If that doesn't happen, the Jets might be forced to explore the option of starting Tebow. Mainly because they knit themselves into this corner long ago, with two passers that raise more qustions than answers in Florham Park.
Follow Marc Sessler on Twitter @MarcSesslerNFL.


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Chelsea and Manchester United have been warned off making a bid for Neymar by Brazilian football legend Pele.
Regarded as one of the greatest players of all-time, Pele has previously stated that Neymar could be the greatest player in the world, although the general feeling is that he must move to Europe to achieve such an accolade.
And the former Santos star believes his 20-year-old compatriot could go to Spain in the future, but that his physical nature is not up to the standards required for the English Premier League.
"I disagree that Neymar should leave for Europe now," he told Fox Sports.
"Last year Neymar's agent spoke to his father, because he had an offer to go to England. When I found out I went to see them and told them it wasn't the right time to make the leap into English football, because it's very tough and Neymar, who is an excellent player, isn't physically up to it."
Pele is referring to the summer of 2011, when it was reported that Santos had accepted a bid from Chelsea for the player.
The Blues have been heavily linked with Neymar on a number of occasions since, although recent reports suggested manager Roberto Di Matteo could lose out to Paris Saint-Germain in the race for the player as the Ligue 1 giants prepare an £85 million bid.
Chelsea playmaker Oscar revealed in August that he would try and persuade the player to make a move to Stamford Bridge, and if Neymar were to move to west London, he'd be joining compatriot David Luiz too.
Manchester United were reported to have made a £38 million offer for the player on deadline day this summer, although the reports were strenuously denied by club officials days later.
However, the Red Devils continue to be linked with a move to bring the 23-cap international to Old Trafford, and Sir Alex Ferguson has shown in the past that he's not afraid to bring South American players to the club.
Rafael Da Silva is part of the Manchester United first team, whilst brother Fabio Da Silva is currently out on loan at QPR. Anderson is another Brazilian plying his trade at the club.
However, the remarks from Pele suggest both Premier League clubs are set to miss out on the player.
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Is Ella Birth Control or Abortion?
The new morning-after pill.
Late last week, the Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of a controversial new prescription pill that can prevent unplanned pregnancy for up to five days after unprotected sex. Marketed under the name "ella," the drug is a significant development in the world of so-called "morning after" pills that aim to thwart ovulation in case sexual assault, broken condoms, or simply bad judgment coincides with the time a woman's body is scheduled to send an egg down the fallopian tubes to be fertilized. Studies have found it to last longer and be twice as effective as Plan B, the version currently on the market, which is only effective for up to 72 hours after intercourse
Proponents are heralding the approval of ella, which is already available in Europe, as a welcome expansion of women's reproductive options. Known as ulipristal acetate, it's chemically similar to the abortion drug RU-486 but will be dispensed in much smaller doses and labeled as an emergency contraceptive. Critics, however, warn that it's a potentially dangerous drug that was inadequately studied. It also reignites the debate about what defines contraception and abortion.
When taken during the five-day window following intercourse, ella is estimated to reduce the risk of becoming pregnant by about two-thirds. In several studies, only 2 percent of women taking ella up to 120 hours after intercourse became pregnant, whereas researchers estimated that at least 5 percent of women not taking the pill would have become pregnant. Ella works through a progesterone blocker that delays the surge of hormones that signal the body it's time to release a mature egg. The main advantage is that a woman can take it while she's ovulating, whereas Plan B has to be taken before the surge begins—approximately 36 hours prior to ovulation—and becomes less effective the longer a woman waits to take it. Since women tend to have higher sex drives right before they ovulate and are more likely to engage in sexual intercourse, being able to take ella closer to an "oops" moment is an important benefit, explains David Archer, professor of obstetrics and gynecology as Eastern Virginia Medical School, who serves as an expert for ella's manufacturer, HRA Pharma of Paris.
But what happens if a woman has already ovulated and her egg has been fertilized before she takes ella? In a normal pregnancy, an embryo takes up to one week from conception to burrow its way into a woman's uterine lining. After the embryo is successfully implanted, a woman is considered to be pregnant, according to the medical definition. Pro-life supporters, who regard the moment when the sperm meets the egg as the beginning of life, are worried about the effect of ella on an embryo before it implants and raised similar concerns following the approval of Plan B in 1999.
At least one study of ella has noted that the drug given at high or repeated doses could alter the lining of a woman's uterus and theoretically impair an embryo's implantation. Archer says there's no evidence that ella can interrupt an existing pregnancy or prevent implantation, and other experts point to the drug's 2 percent failure rate as proof. "At that point, it's just a microscopic ball of about 256 to 550 or 600 cells that will differentiate in the future," explains Archer. "You won't see a head or fingers or any fetal organs."
Critics are also concerned about the lack of research about how ella might affect the development of an embryo of a woman who didn't know she was already pregnant when she took the drug. "RU-486 acts in the body in the same way [that ella does] and can abort a pregnancy," says Donna Harrison, president of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "This drug has not been tested in pregnant women. We know that two out of 100 women who take ella will become pregnant. That's two babies who will be exposed to this toxic drug. It's completely unethical." Dr. James Trussell, director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton, who also was a consultant for ella's manufacturer, pointed out that the handful of women who were discovered to be pregnant after taking ella didn't appear to suffer from ill effects. He adds that a woman would have to take "many, many, many times" the amount of the drug to induce an abortion. "And where is someone going to get it?"
Watson Pharmaceuticals will market ella domestically and plans to make it available in late fall. So far, it appears to be safe, and the 4,500 women involved in the studies have only reported minor side effects, including headaches, nausea, and abdominal pain. In the meantime, it needs to be studied further. The drug is an important advance that will undoubtedly be embraced by women who are grateful it can reverse the consequences of regrettable acts and unfortunate contraceptive malfunctions. They will also appreciate the extra days to contact their doctors to secure a prescription.
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Raffle,too, with drawing at 2 p.m..
The Maricopa VFW and Ladies Auxiliary has a big day planned for Saturday.
Stop by 600 Hazelton Street for a giant yard sale, barbecue and much more.
The yard sale will feature appliances, household items and much more
There will also be raffles with a drawing at 2 p.m.
All proceeds go to support servicemen and women.


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County levy could drop 2 cents
Commissioners get preliminary look at budget
LEXINGTON—If all goes as planned and final budget numbers stack up similar to preliminary plans, property owners in Dawson County will see a two-cent decrease in the county's tax levy for the next fiscal year.
That does not mean, however, that the overall tax bill is going down.
Dawson County commissioners heard a preliminary report on the 2009-10 budget during their regular bimonthly meeting on Friday.
Finance committee member Bill Stewart said it looks as if the county will be able to drop its levy from last year's 41.8 cents per $100 valuation to roughly 39.8 cents.
And even with a lower levy, county officials should be able to put more money into necessary road resurfacing projects and bump up the reserve fund.
The levy drop is possible, Stewart said, because of an estimated 3% increase in overall county valuation including an almost 10% hike in ag land values.
Some stimulus money and new grants will also help the county keep its tax asking to a minimum.
"We have to give some credit to county officials, though," said Gothenburg commissioner Dean Kugler, who is also on the finance committee. "They've done a good job of sticking only to what's necessary in their requests and they've come in with reasonable budgets."
Kugler reminds taxpayers, though, that the county's portion of their entire tax bill is small at only 20%. Levies in other areas such as schools and cities may increase.
"Even though ours is lower, the total impact may not be much if anything," he said.
Putting more into the roads department, which has a sizeable carryover, and not spending out of the inheritance tax fund for the next year will help the county in the future, Stewart said.
The budget is strictly preliminary at this point, Stewart emphasized. Commissioners will continue to crunch numbers, considering the 2009-10 budget for approval in mid-September.
Officials from Lexington's Haven House may have influenced the budget.
Caroline Vickery, pastor at Lexington's First Presbyterian Church, is a board representative of Haven House, a homeless shelter in Lexington.
She asked commissioners to consider contributing county funds to help keep the shelter running.
Vickery said 33 people stayed in the shelter during the month of July and 170 have slept there since Jan. 1. Operation costs are approximately $7,000 per month.
Vickery said some grant funding that the shelter relied on will not be available this year and because residents come from across the county, the shelter's board felt it appropriate to ask commissioners for assistance.
"We're well aware of the problem," said chairman Roger Bauer.
Board members said they would consider the request while putting together the budget.
In other business, the county board:
- authorized deputy county attorney Kurt McBride to offer settlements to Donna White and Fidelina Mendoza Disierra in their property tax appeals to the Tax Equalization and Review Commission. Action was taken following a closed session. Another closed session to discuss a pending lawsuit and settlement with former third-party health insurance administrator Meritain was not necessary.
- heard the monthly crime report from sheriff Gary Reiber who reported 1,112 calls for service in the month of July from 1,702 total dispatch calls.
- tabled action on requests to renew two separate contracts for lack of information. A contract for juvenile detention services with Scottsbluff County and an agreement with MAXIMUS for collections management will be considered at the Sept. 1 meeting.
- approved placement of stop signs on Road 763 at the intersection of Road 442 north of Overton.
- learned an extensive grant application for federal stimulus funds to improve energy efficiency in county buildings has been filed. Funds could help replace aging water heaters, boilers, windows and doors or be used to install new energy efficient systems.
- discussed in closed session a tort claim filed against the county by former department of weeds employee Gary Flint.
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If a deal isn't reached by Jan. 1, tax increases and government spending cuts to the tune of $800 billion automatically take effect. Some economists say such a withdrawal of fiscal stimulus has the potential to throw the world's biggest economy back into recession.
Hours after Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney in a cliffhanger election, Fitch Ratings said that the U.S. government's top 'AAA' rating would be at risk if Congress and the president did not immediately forge an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff.
"There are fears that US lawmakers will repeat the same political divisiveness over key fiscal issues that led Standard & Poor's to remove America's triple-A debt rating in August 2011," said analysts at DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore in a market commentary.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index shed 1.3 percent to 8,859.38. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 1.2 percent to 21,842.69. South Korea's Kospi dropped 1.3 percent to 1,911.54 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was 0.8 percent lower at 4,478.90.
News out of Europe also unnerved markets. Leaders warned that unemployment could remain high for years, and the European Commission cut its forecasts for the region's economic growth for this year and 2013. German industrial orders fell by more than expected in September, portending possible tough times ahead for Europe's largest economy.
Debt- and recession-mired Greece took a step forward with parliament's passage of an austerity bill that will further slash pensions and salaries.
Approval of the cuts and tax increases worth €13.5 billion ($17 billion) over two years was a big step for Greece's efforts to secure the next installment of its international rescue loans and stave off imminent bankruptcy.
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Wall Street saw its sharpest sell-off of the year. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 2.4 percent to 12,932.73. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 2.4 percent to 1,394.53. The Nasdaq composite index lost or 2.5 percent to 2,937.29.
Benchmark oil for December delivery was up 40 cents to $84.84 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $4.27 to close at $84.44 a barrel in New York on Wednesday.
In currencies, the euro fell to $1.2763 from $1.2767 late Wednesday in New York. The dollar slipped slightly to 79.88 yen from 79.90 yen.


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Austropotamobius torrentium
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803)
Common Name(s):
Austropotamobius torrentium ssp. macedonicus Bott, 1950
Cancer torrentium Schrank, 1803
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Three subspecies are known: Austropotamobius torrentium torrentium, A. t. danubicus, and A. t. macedonicus.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Data Deficient ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Füreder, L., Gherardi, F. & Souty-Grosset, C.
|Collen, B. & Richman, N.
|Hefti, D., Kozubikova, E., Machino, Y., Manko, P., Miron, L., Pârvulescu, L., Puky, M., Schulz, H., Sket, B., Zaikov, A., Soulsby, A.-M., Batchelor, A., Dyer, E., Whitton, F., Livingston, F., Milligan, H.T., Smith, J., Lutz, M.L., De Silva, R., McGuinness, S., Kasthala, G., Jopling, B., Sullivan, K. & Cryer, G.
Austropotamobius torrentium has been assessed as Data Deficient. While this species is relatively widespread across Europe it is undergoing significant declines throughout much of its range. However, rates of decline have not been quantified and therefore this species cannot be assessed under criterion A. Further research on rates of decline is urgently needed before an accurate assessment of conservation status can be made.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is mainly confined to Central Europe where it is known from France and western Germany in the west of its range, to Turkey in the east of its range (Füreder et al. 2006).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Albania; Austria; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Czech Republic; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Italy; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Switzerland; Turkey
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|Albania: There is no information on the population status of this species in this country.
Austria: The Signal Crayfish is driving rapid declines in the population numbers of this species (Holdich et al. 2009). This species is most abundant in Austria and Germany. In Austria, there are 534 localities which are said to account for 46% of all crayfish populations (Pöckl 1999).
Bosnia-Herzogovina: There have been mass mortalities of this species (Holdich et al. 2009).
Bulgaria: There are only a few small subpopulations of this species (Zaikov and Hubenova 2007). Nothing is known on the status of this species in this country.
Croatia: This species is thought to be reasonably well preserved in this country, however anthropogenic pressure on this species habitat is increasing and likely to be driving some declines in abundance. Some parts of the population have also been significantly impacted by drought which has caused 95% mortality in some streams (I. Maguire pers. comm. 2010).Austropotamobius torrentium is a native species and occurs in springs and streams at higher elevations. Even a co-existance of this species with Astacus astacus and with Austropotamobius pallipes is recorded (Meguire 2009).
Czech Republic: It is unclear whether this species is native or introduced to this country. It has been found at varying densities in streams, but in a study by Kozak et al. (2002) they found it at a density of 12 individuals/ km2 in Klabava Brook.
France: This species is considered to be close to extinction within this country (Collas, Julien and Monnier 2007)
Germany: This species is undergoing a decline however there no trend information is available (H. Schulz pers. comm. 2009).
Greece: This species can be found in 11 out of the 50 prefectures (Koutrakis et al. 2007). Compared to the other 2 crayfish species found in Greece, this species is believed to have undergone the greatest decline. However there is indication of recovery in some areas (Koutrakis et al. 2007).
Hungary: This species is threatened by organic pollution and the spread of non-native crayfish species which has resulted in a decline in the population numbers (P. Miklós pers. comm. 2009).
Italy: The species is fragmented in its distribution. In the Province of Udine, 2 of the 3 populations recorded in 1995 have gone extinct in 2005 (Machino and Füreder 2005). There has been a strong decline in this species in Northern Italy (Füreder 2009).
Macedonia: There is no information on the population status of this species in this country.
Montenegro: Austropotamobius torrentium is already thought to have gone extinct in a tributary of Lake Ohrid (Koselska Brook) below Rečica as a result of pollution (Y. Machino pers. comm. 2009).
Romania: There is no information on the population status of this species in this country.
Serbia: There is no information on the population status of this species in this country.
Slovakia: This species is rare in this country, but population numbers are thought to be stable at present (P. Manko pers. comm. 2009).
Slovenia: There is no information on the population status of this species in this country.
Switzerland: This species is known from the eastern parts of Switzerland where it is known to be in severe decline. It is considered to be 'highly endangered' by the Swiss National Legislation on Fisheries (D. Hefti pers. comm. 2009).
Turkey: There is no information on the population status of this species in this country.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species is most commonly found in headwater streams with plenty of riparian and instream cover, however it has occasionally been found in lowland rivers (Souty-Grosset et al. 2006). Female size at maturity has been observed at 4.61 cm (total length) (I. Maguire pers. comm. 2010. Recorded sizes for A. torrentium ranged from 6 to 9 cm (females) and from 8 to 10.5 cm (males) (Laurent 1988).
The ovigerous females carried external eggs from early November until mid-June the following year (Maguire et al. 2002). In Germany, stone crayfish females may incubate 40 to 70 eggs (Laurent 1988). The maximal number of eggs per female (in Croatia) we found was 104 (an average value was 53.56) (Maguire et al. 2002).
In populations studied in Austria, a maximum of 86 eggs per female was found, while in Croatian populations the number of eggs per female was maximally 117 (Maguire et al. 2009).
Declines in this keystone species are said to negatively impact both ecosystem structure and function within freshwater environments through loss of: a) provisioning services – food production from fisheries, recreational fishing, b) regulatory and support services – trophic cascades, water purification, nutrient cycling, primary productivity, c) cultural value – recreational fishing, education, heritage. Crayfish are also an important food source to a range of species including otters, salmonids, and birds such as kingfishers (Kettunen and ten Brink 2006).
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Major Threat(s):
|This species is most threatened by the presence of non-native species such as the Signal Crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) and the Spiny-cheek Crayfish (Orconectes limosus), crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci), and habitat loss and degradation (Füreder et al. 2006). This species is not tolerant of environmental change, so threats such as domestic and industrial pollution, agriculture, sedimentation, eutrophication, damming, water abstraction, and channelisation have all negatively impacted this species (Füreder et al. 2006). This species is reported to be undergoing significant population declines in most of the countries in which it is known from, however no quantitative data on the rate of decline is available.
|Conservation Actions:
This species is listed under the Annex II of the EU Habitats Directive as a species requiring special conservation measures (Souty-Grosset et al. 2006). It is also listed on the German Red List (RL3, Appendix 1), and within a number of other countries as threatened (Souty-Grosset et al. 2006). This species is also listed under Appendix III of the Bern Convention.
Rates of population decline are needed through long-term population monitoring.
|Errata reason:
|This errata version of this assessment has been published to correct a mistake in the status of the population in the Czech Republic, it is now labelled as native.
|Füreder, L., Gherardi, F. & Souty-Grosset, C. 2010. Austropotamobius torrentium (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T2431A121724677. . Downloaded on 19 September 2018.
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Lovie Smith will wait before making decision on rookie Lance Louis
By Vaughn McClure
Bears coach Lo vie Smith is aware that rookie offensive lineman Lance Louis was charged with misdemeanor assault stemming from an incident in college. But don't expect Louis, who has a court date Oct. 23, to be disciplined by the team before then.
``We will let it play out, let it go through the court system then respond after that,'' Smith said Wednesday.
Greg Aile from the NFL office said Louis' case will be reviewed under the league's personal conduct policy ``because the charges were filed after he entered the NFL.''
Asked if the league had already spoken to the Bears, Aiello responded via email, ``We don't have any further comment.''
Asked how Louis' charge would be viewed, Aiello said, ``Obviously, a felony is more serious charge than a misdemeanor.''
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Louis faces the maximum of one year in prison and a $10,000 fine following an altercation with former San Diego State teammate Nick Sandford last November. The alleged attack occurred in the team meeting room, leaving Sandford with a concussion, broken eardrum and fractured cheekbone.Sandford apparently instigated the incident by poking Louis with a stick,
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The Missouri S&T women's basketball team announced on Thursday the signing of four players for the upcoming 2013-14 campaign.
The recruiting class consists of one high school player, two junior-college transfers and one Division I transfer. With the loss of four seniors off of last year's squad head coach Alan Eads had some holes to fill and is very high on this incoming class.
"I think this a very good recruiting class," Eads said. "We lost four very good players that contributed greatly to the program and have some big shoes to fill as all four of those kids started for us last year.
"These four players are going to be great for us as all will see valuable time and help us get to the next level with the kids we've got coming back. We're excited about getting them here and getting started."
The players making up this year's recruiting class are: Elsie Greenwood, Jaaron Kassanavoid, Mia Wesley and Taylor Manuel.
Greenwood, a 5-9 freshman guard, from Breckenridge, Mo., played at Penney High School in Hamilton, Mo., for head coach Dave Prather. As a senior she led the Hornets to a 22-3 record while averaging 27.3 points, 6.2 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 1.5 steals per contest. Penney advanced to the Class 3 District 16 championship contest. Greenwood averaged nearly 18 points per game for her career and was a two-time all-state selection.
Kassanavoid, a 5-9 junior forward, from Lawson, Mo., transfers in from Highland Community College in Highland, Kan. As a freshman, she averaged 9.6 points and 6.1 rebounds per contest. This past season she appeared in 17 games with six starts as the team finished with a 30-6 mark. She shot nearly 50 percent from the field, 40 percent from the behind the arc and converted on 74 percent of her attempts at the foul line.
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Microsoft SharePoint technologies support information sharing among groups of people within or across companies. (In this article, we refer to Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 as Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 as SharePoint Services. When referring to both, we use SharePoint.) Share-Point provides document-management support through two types of file repositories: document libraries and lists. Files are stored in a SharePoint content database, not in the Windows file system.
One glaring omission in SharePoint's document-management capabilities is that you can't easily restore files accidentally deleted. In addition, although versioning is available, Portal Server and SharePoint Services remove all version history after you delete an item. Besides these file-restore problems, SharePoint has a relatively weak backup engine, which doesn't give you the option of performing single-file restores from a backup.
Despite SharePoint's backup and restore gaps, workable solutions do exist. We'll show you how to automate the SharePoint backup process by using a script we've provided, then we'll discuss some approaches for supporting file restores.
Restore from a Backup Environment
Instead of struggling with SharePoint's inadequate file-restore capability, you can provide single-file restores and undeletes from backed-up versions of a Portal Server portal instance (single-server or farm), a SharePoint Services instance, or Share-Point site collections or sites. However, managed backup and restore procedures require dedicating IT employees to oversee the process, a mechanism to request the restoration of files, and possibly additional hardware for the secondary environment. One way to minimize the cost of a secondary environment is to virtualize your portal instance by using server-virtualization products such as VMware Workstation or Microsoft Virtual PC.
Regardless of whether your secondary Share-Point environment is physical or virtual, backups might also require a significant amount of media capacity. To meet storage requirements for your backups, you could use SAN technology, which is already available in many larger organizations, or terabyte-sized drives. Many vendors provide NAS terabyte drives where you can inexpensively store SharePoint backups. It's also prudent to store your backups in offsite storage and implement fault tolerance by using a RAID solution.
Tool Options
If maintaining a second SharePoint environment containing a previous version of the production environment is viable for your organization, you can perform full backup and restore operations. For a Portal Server implementation, you can use the SharePoint Portal Server Data Backup and Restore utility (spsbackup.exe). For a pure SharePoint Services implementation that doesn't contain Portal Server, you can use the SharePoint administration utility (stsadm.exe) or Microsoft SQL Server tools such as OSQL (osql.exe) to perform backup and restore. For more information about backing up and restoring SharePoint Services, see the Microsoft article "How to back up and restore installations of Windows SharePoint Services that use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (Windows)" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=833797.)
Although you can use Stsadm to back up and restore Portal Server, using the tool in this way has limitations. For information about those limitations, see the Microsoft article "Supported scenarios for using the Stsadm.exe command-line tool to back up and to restore Windows SharePoint Services Web sites and personal sites in SharePoint Portal Server 2003" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=889236).
Portal Server Backup Procedures
You can start Spsbackup from the SharePoint Portal Server program group or at the command line by navigating to the SharePoint bin folder and typing
You might also want to add the bin folder to your PATH environment variable on the server where you plan to run the backup procedure.
You can do backups periodically, so that you can find restorable data according to the backup date. To automate the backup procedure, you can create a batch job that calls the Spsbackup utility, or you can create a script to complete this operation. Then you can use the built-in AT Command Scheduler (winat.exe) or Task Scheduler to schedule a regular backup.
The code in Listing 1 shows a simple VBScript routine that creates a time-stamped folder for the backup by using the FileSystemObject and Date functions. After creating the folder, the script uses the WshShell object's Exec method to call the Spsbackup utility. To use the backup script, you need to modify the strDestinationFolder pathname in callout A for your own environment, so that it's either a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) pathname or a local drive pathname. Spsbackup requires a local drive as a backup target for a single-server implementation of Portal Server and a UNC pathname for a backup target in a farm implementation of Portal Server. Note that if you decide to use external storage for your backups, the pathname will impact how you connect your external-storage device. Simply mapping a drive letter to a UNC pathname for a single-server implementation of Portal Server won't work. In the case of a single-server implementation, you can extend the script by calling FileSystemObject's MoveFolder method so that after the backup procedure occurs locally, you can move it to a target that's accessible via a UNC pathname.
Unfortunately, Microsoft didn't bother to create a SharePoint scripting API, so you must either call command-line tools, as the script does, or write your own Microsoft COM objects that leverage the SharePoint object model by using the Microsoft .NET Framework. You can register and instantiate the custom COM components and call methods of these custom objects from a script. You can also use the new Windows PowerShell to run Spsbackup, but, as far as I know, no Microsoft .NET cmdlets are available for the current release of Portal Server. Cmdlets encapsulate tasks by calling .NET methods available in various object models. Developers (Microsoft or otherwise) can write cmdlets to automate SharePoint administrative tasks by leveraging either the Portal Server or SharePoint Services .NET object models. (For more information about cmdlets in Windows Power-Shell, see "Introducing Windows PowerShell," August 2006, InstantDoc ID 50565.)
After you've customized your script, you can add it as a scheduled task to your SharePoint server, where you'll execute the script by using the AT command-line utility or the Scheduled Task Wizard, which you can launch from the Scheduled Tasks icon below the System Tools program group. The wizard will walk you through the scheduling process. Alternatively, you can type
at the command line for help in using the AT command scheduler.
After you create the backups, you can do a full restore of a Portal Server backup by using the Spsbackup utility either from the utility's graphical interface or at the command line. You can see the graphical interface for Spsbackup if you open Spsbackup from the Portal Server program group or if you run Spsbackup from the command line without specifying any switches.
Restore Strategies
Now that you have a backup procedure, you might want to look at three choices for building your restore strategy: the snapshot, ad hoc, and hybrid methods. In the snapshot method, you create a restore environment that's an earlier image of the production portal. You run periodic backup and restore operations to get a snapshot of the portal at an earlier time. An obvious down side to this method is that you can't restore files prior to the date of the restored environment. This deficiency is solved in the ad hoc method, where you can regularly create and archive backups and conduct restore operations as the need arises. If you require a file that dates back three months, all you need is the backup file from that time period to prepare an ad hoc restore and retrieve the file. However, depending upon the frequency of restore requests, the ad hoc method might be a poor solution because restores can take a long time to finish.
In the hybrid method, you combine the first two methods by maintaining a snapshot with the option of restoring an ad hoc environment upon request. You can overwrite the mirrored environment with the ad hoc restore or maintain a third server just for on-demand restores. The size of your organization, administration team, and infrastructure and the number of restore requests can influence whether any of these approaches will work for you.
Additional Approaches
Other approaches you can take within a second portal environment don't require doing a complete restore of the portal databases to find deleted data. If you can narrow critical document libraries and lists to those found within a few site collections, sites, or subsites, you can back up and restore smaller sections of the portal more frequently, on a periodic or an ad hoc basis. In this partial?file-restore approach, you isolate backups and restores at the SharePoint Services level by using the smigrate.exe command-line migration tool or the stsadm.exe command-line administrative tool to mirror smaller site structures. Running stsadm.exe with the -o backup and -o restore options lets you back up and restore site collections from one environment to another; smigrate.exe provides similar functionality for individual sites. You can find more information about these tools in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrator's Guide (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/sps2003/downloads/admdwnld.mspx) and the Windows SharePoint Services Administrator's Guide (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/wss/wssagabs.mspx).
This strategy of backing up and restoring smaller sections lets you perform more frequent and rapid backups and file restores than a full backup-and-restore operation. However, it requires that you correctly identify and maintain a list of critical site collections or sites to back up.
Another approach provides file-restore solutions through the SharePoint content databases within SQL Server. (For more information, see the Web-exclusive sidebar "Restoring Files by Using SharePoint Content Databases" at http://www.windowsitpro.com, InstantDoc ID 93240.)
Third-party vendors such as AvePoint and Nintex also offer products that provide file-restore and undelete capabilities.
No matter how you deal with the Share-Point backup and restore gap, you need to take storage needs into account and, depending on which approach you take, consider securing the duplicated data so that most users can't access it. Otherwise, you might overlook duplicate data when securing SharePoint.
Not Perfect, But an Improvement
Microsoft has improved restore functionality in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In the current beta version, you'll see a two-stage undelete process. After deletion, a file remains in a recycle bin for a configurable amount of time, during which a user could restore it. An administrator can also restore user files and set file-retention policies based on configurable storage quotas. In addition, the beta's backup utilities provide differential, incremental, and full backup options.
As any IT professional can tell you, no perfect software product exists. We hope the solutions we've offered will help you bridge the gap in backup and file restore in Share-Point.


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Michael Chu
Joined: 10 May 2005
Posts: 1654
Location: Austin, TX (USA)
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:05 pm
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an anonymous reader wrote:
is there any need to cook the eggs or the final product, is it safe to eat say a sandwich with this mayonase on it, since it has raw eggs in it?
Of course eating raw eggs is a risk. In the United States, a small percentage of eggs are contaminated with salmonella (an often quoted statistic is 1 in 30,000 eggs are contaminated; risk increases a bit if eating eggs in a restaurant due to handling, etc.). Eggs are generally laid with salmonella from sick birds - You can reduce your risk by purchasing eggs from health conscious producers such as organic eggs as generally the chicken population is watched with more concern. Regardless of the type of egg you purchase, examine the eggs you plan to use. Use the freshest eggs you can get for this recipe. Don't use eggs with cracks in the shell (you can place the egg in a salted cold water bath and look for a stream of bubbles). When you extract the yolk, pay attention to the whites. They should be gel like and not watery. Also, the yolks should not break easily.
Keeping these things in mind reduces your risk of food poisoning from the raw egg yolk drastically. (Remember, randomly grabbing an egg is a 1 in 30,000 chance; in other words, you need to eat 20,800 random eggs in order to have a 50-50 chance of having selected a salmonella infected one. Picking and choosing reduces this risk and it's unlikely the average person will be eating this many raw eggs in their lifetime [about one a day]) If you are immune deficient or generally susceptible to illness, obviously do not consume raw eggs or raw egg products. Otherwise, if your eggs are fresh, healthy and refrigerated (refrigeration has more to do with freshness than anything else - eggs age slower in refrigerators than at room temperature), it should be safe to eat.
If you would like to cook the eggs, simply whisk the yolks with the lemon juice and then heat slowly (
very slowly
) while stirring until it reaches 160°F (about when the mixture coats the back of a metal spoon and the yolk starts producing a few bubbles). Heating too fast will result in scrambled eggs. Place the pan into ice water to stop the cooking and stir until the egg yolk cools down (try not to get water into the pan). then proceed with the recipe as before (add salt, pepper, oil).
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:23 am
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The beauty of a well-made mayonnaise is a wonderful thing.
There is great difference between the perfectly hand whisked variety, produced with great focus and concentration, for immediate service, and the Commercially Engineered feat of a glass-canned Hellmans. Both have their place.
The perfect hand whisked is analagous to a fine freshly whipped cream, where gloss and the folding of the peak show the perfect suspension of air to fat. In mayo, the hand whisked has a gloss and tip fold that Hellmans can never touch.
Yet Hellmans has its place in the real world kitchen. Let those among us who never use jarred mayonnaise cast the first stone. The Commercially Engineered Hellmans is a marvel in its own way. Engineers have studied the process of emulsion/suspension and provided a safe and shelf stable product, consistently replicatable with each production run in the factory. Can we hand-whippers claim that same consistency?
The quest for the perfect mayo can draw to common ground both the esthete and the engineer. Thomas Keller, the featured saint/iconic chef in Mark Ruleman's "The Soul of a Chef" talks about his daily quest in his formative years for the perfect hollandaise. Well folks, a hollandaise ain't nuthin' but a hot mayo made from butter. The quest is the same. I've been trying mayos for 30 years in every conceivable vessel that has a moving blade, enjoying the nuances of differences that each machine (including wrist) can produce, and also sheepishly disposing of some lamentable failures.
What really got me to thinking was the post by "anonymous guest', earlier in this string: "Place a "Stick blender" all the way to the bottom of the jar and slowly blend back to the top about 5 seconds. Instant mayo!"
Wow! Something clicked in engineering lobe of the brain: A jar is a cylinder, and has different equations for volume determination than has a sphere ( or functionally in the kitchen, a Hemi-sphere: a bowl). The food processor "bowl" is likewise a cylinder, and the blender vase a hybrid of the two.
So then I wondered: what do the real food engineers in the "Food Industry" do? How do they make mayo? Is it a hemispheric kettle with a rotating blade and a calibrated drizzle? A cylinder churn with a later piston extrusion to remove product to jar? My quick and paltry Google attempts did not get me to their production process. Several questions/ideas arise:
1) Any Hellmans' engineers want to share the process? Or, academicians in emulsion sciences?
2) Has anyone tried the jar and stick blender? The logarithmic timing of oil input in the "traditional" methods can be intimidating and also difficult to repeat the same way each time. It seems that the timing of the "raising of the stick blender" would be equivalently problematic.
3) The jar method could be very attractive from the standpoint of fewer vessels/quicker cleanup, and storage of product in fabricating vessel.
4) I haven't tried jar method yet (still have mayo from last week), but will soon do so, and would like to challenge those of us who are so inclined to also try and report results.
5) Variables would be:
a) Height and especially Width of jar;
b) diameter of blade area of blender;
c) displacement value of stick blender;
d) total volume of non-oil materials (egg, acid, others), also expressed as vertical inches in jar;
e) total volume of oil, also expressed as inches in jar. Ratio of "perfect cylinder" could thus be developed from a thru e.
f) description of timing/up-drawing.
g) others?
This could be fun. For those of us who were not permanently scarred by bad teachers requiring stultifying lab reports a' la nuns with rulers on knuckles, let's have a go at it.
Several asides:
1) If you don't yet have a "stick blender", get one. They retail from $25 on up, and are regularly available in your local thrift store as $5 discards from them who don't want to take new chances. Stick blenders eliminate the "transfer soup/etc to blender" step, and give total control over the puree process, and clean up with a zip in a glass of water.
2) Here are the results that I marked from my google search. May be helpful for "mayonados" ( = mayonnaise afficiandos)
3) Finally, not to start a war on "which brand of commercial mayo is best", just know that each year when I travel to the piedmont region of North and South Carolina, I return home with a case of "Dukes" brand mayo. See Sauer's brand website for equivalency. Piedmont Carolina is, however, also the epicenter of distribution for the dreaded/beloved "liver mush".... a whole 'nother story for another thread.
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:18 pm
Post subject: Reducing bacteria
Rather than treating the eggs, you can also let the finished product sit out for 4-8 hours. This allows the acid in the lemon juice or vinegar make the environment acidic enough to kill the bacteria.
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Location: Iowa/Chicago
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:32 pm
Post subject: Might want to rethink that one...
Salmonella typhimurium
(the main
species that causes gastroenteritis and in rare cases sepsis) has an acid tolerance response, it has been found to be able to survive a pH as low as 3 for an extended time. Not sure the pH of mayo but I'm thinking it is more than that of the stomach which the bacteria have to be able to pass through in order to cause disease in the intestine so it makes sense that they could and would survive in your mayo. Letting your mayo sit out at room temp can only help the potential pathogens, immediate refridgeration is highly recommended. Heating it to 160 F seems like a very good idea, not just for pathogens but for spoilers as well.
Bacterial Pathogenesis: A Molecular Approach
2nd Ed. by Abigail Salyers and Dixie Whitt (Best book ever until the 3rd Ed. comes out)
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:27 pm
Post subject: allergy
There is a severe mustartd allergy in my family- I will have to leave out the mustard. Will that compromise the flavour?
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Michael Chu
Joined: 10 May 2005
Posts: 1654
Location: Austin, TX (USA)
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:05 pm
Post subject: Re: allergy
v wrote:
There is a severe mustartd allergy in my family- I will have to leave out the mustard. Will that compromise the flavour?
Adding mustard changes the desired flavor of the recipe. A basic mayonnaise doesn't contain mustard, but if you want mustard flavored mayonnaise (which is a very popular variant), then leaving out the mustard is a bad idea.
Since you're allergic to mustard, I'd stick with the basic mayonnaise recipe (as shown, skipping the optional mention of mustard; you can try other variantions by adding garlic powder or another herb or seasoning of your choice instead if you want something more interesting than a basic mayonnaise).
When I wrote this article, it was my practice to drop in some Dijon mustard while making the mayonnaise, but now I just make a batch of plain mayonnaise and mix add-ins (depending on what food was being prepared) at the time of usage. The plain mayonnaise is very good by itself and adding flavoring later gives a lot of flexibility.
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:00 pm
Post subject: Mayo recipe
Hi everyone,
I tried the above recipe but my mayo came out runny, as if the ingradients never combined to make the mayo as intended.
Any ideas why this might have happened? I followed the directions as posted and used the same ingredients
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Michael Chu
Joined: 10 May 2005
Posts: 1654
Location: Austin, TX (USA)
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:19 pm
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When you whisked the oil with the liquid, did you make sure it was suspended in emulsion before adding additional oil? This is very important as too much oil too quickly will result in a mixture that will never enter emulsion.
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some french guy
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:36 pm
Post subject: T°
I'm in too much of a hurry to read through every comment to check nobody said so earlier, but in order to get an emulsion quickly you need to have all your ingredients at the same temperature (especially yolk/oil).
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:29 pm
Post subject: Edible emulsions
My quest is for a pleasant, sweet, thick edible emulsion that will not spoil if unrefridgerated. (this might be the way that marshmallow creme is made commercially!)
This would seem to preclude egg yolks.
Would commercial lecithin, a mild oil, water, icing (confectioners) sugar and vanilla essence achieve this?
What are the factors that affect the separation of the emulsion?
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Smillie - OzFire -
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:45 am
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Health risks of real Mayo is very low, raw eggs are sometimes contaminated with salmonella that is easily killed with a little acid - the lemon juice or the vinegar as it needs an alkaline environment to survive.
I find having all the ingredients at room temperature before I start helps greatly in getting a good firm Mayo.
Why make your own
- You have total control over the flavor - if you start with a good base it can become whatever you imagination can dream up and top bragging rights if it works out well.
Nice variation
for a light fluffy mayo - whip the egg whites and fold in -
Variations rarely seen nowadays
- Wonderful if used with the right dish -
Grated truffles folded in just before serving
Sesame oil in with the v light olive oil
Almond four stired through
ground Anchovies
freshly roaster Black Pepper stired in 3 or 4 hors before needed.
coconut cream beaten in
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Smillie -ozfire-
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:02 am
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I have just double checked my assertion that salmonella is killed by the presence of acid....
what I have been taught so long ago is wrong, It is tolerant of acid.
I am assured that if you are worried you can add any commercially available preservatives that will dispatch the little horrors.
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:09 am
Post subject: Mayonnaise
Very-very cool instructions worked perfectly first time
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Chef Harry Otto
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:14 pm
Post subject: Healthy Version that won't "break"
No need for egg yolks gang. I've been teaching a version that uses extra egg whites and, ready, for $6 at the vitamin shop, you buy some lecithin granules (actually youll laugh when you see how inexpensive it is). Grind em' in a coffee grinder and add to the mix. When you use 95% or higher direct lecithin, the mayo will never break. I use lecithin in the kitchen for many "scientific" approaches to sauces, emulsions & aerations. harryotto(at)rhmservices.net
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:37 pm
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Dateline - 29 January 2006
Location - Toronto Canada
Situation - Critical
Four egg yolks have been seriously beaten and dosed with lemon juice and vinegar. The remains then were dribbled with corn oil, resulting in a gooey mess. The victims have been bled. What once was a timesaving and cost effective way of keeping my butt in the house and avoiding a trip to the store has turned into what can only be described as a horrifying massacre, sparring no souls.
It was Fidel Castro that once said "... every man must beat his own egg sometimes..." and I believe that is what has happened here today. What possible beneficial outcome can be derived from this, this senseless slaughter of beautiful eggs in their prime can only measured be the deranged minds that perpetrated this atrocity.
May the Lord have mercy upon us all.
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