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Build a Boomerang
If you like a challenge, enjoy having an excuse to be outside and are looking for ideas for practical projects, you'll find that building a boomerang is great fun.
Also, boomerangs are a great project to build with family members you've wanted to introduce to woodworking. And when you are done you get to go to the park and spend time together throwing them.
I have just one warning: Boomerangs will draw a curious crowd of onlookers.
A Little Science of Boomerangs
Here's the first rule of boomerangs: Do not be afraid of trial and error. There are a wide variety of shapes that will work.
Boomerangs operate on the principle of "gyroscopic precession," which is similar to riding a bike no handed and attempting to initiate a turn. In bike riding, the spinning (gyroscopic) motion of the wheels gives the bike stability. To execute a "no hands" bicycle turn, you simply lean the bike in the direction that you wish to turn. The wheels have a delayed reaction to the force of the leaning action. This way, the wheels actually feel the force a quarter turn from where the force was applied. So instead of falling over, the bicycle turns in the desired direction.
Unlike riding a bicycle with "no hands" while turning, the boomerang experiences a continuous turn as the force is applied for the duration of the flight. The boomerang is thrown with a slight tilt from vertical (more on this later). The gyroscopic nature of a spinning boomerang and the release angle (called the "layover angle") causes the boomerang's flight angle to flatten out as it turns. Thus a well-balanced, well-contoured and well-thrown boomerang will return to the thrower in a horizontal hover. Most people expect that this will take practice though.
The duration of flight is determined by the force with which the boomerang was thrown as well as the spin applied at launch. As with any object flying through the air, a boomerang is subject to drag its own weight as it makes its flight pattern. This drag slows the boomerang down, thereby limiting the flight time. However, given enough spin and initial velocity, the boomerang will circle above the thrower's head a few times before landing.
Choosing a Shape and a Material
A practical, quality and easy-to-work-with material for this project is plywood. However, the plywood at the big box stores isn't a good choice. Boomerangs are essentially flying wings, and better grades of plywood are more durable. In fact some plywoods are engineered for flying projects.
When I teach high school physics students to build boomerangs, I prefer to use 1/4″-thick Baltic birch or Finnish birch. Baltic birch costs less, but Finnish birch is laminated with waterproof glue so it can hold up better outdoors. The two plywoods are easy to tell apart. The glue lines for Baltic are similar in color to the wood. The waterproof glue used in Finnish birch is a dark chocolate color.

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Post subject: Do you cook savoury dishes using pumpkin?
Does anybody cook savoury dishes using pumpkin? I have never seen anybody do that... Any more sweet recipes using pumpkin, please?
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Location: australia
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:11 am
Post subject: Pumpkin
In Australia we never use Pumpkin for sweet dishes. We dry roast it with joints such as lamb and beef or even chicken. We boil and mash it and we even make deliciuos soup out of it. The variety we use most is called iron bark as it has dark blue skin and is very tough. Butternut pumkins are now popular but do not keep well. An iron bark can last up to a year in the back shed in the cool and dark. Peel chop and fry, either type, in butter and oil half and half mixture. Add Cummin Coriander garlic and salt. This makes a great side dish and is even ok cold as a salad.
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:37 pm
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Pumpkin soup - puree some roasted pumpkin with stock, garlic, rosemary etc. Thicken with milk or cream, very nice. You could also add a can of pureed white beans to thicken if you wanted to avoid dairy for some reason.
Also if you are making fresh pasta you can replace some of the eggs with pumpkin puree. Delicious.
I have to second the notion that in the Land of Oz using pumpkins in sweets is very unusual, if not unheard of.
And what is an Aussie pumpkin discussion without a mention of Lady Flo's Pumpkin Scones?
cheers, Sophia
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Location: Phoenix
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:42 pm
Post subject: A Semi-Sweet Pumpkin treat
Pumpkin Cake Roll
Beat in a blender for 5 minutes until thickened and light butter colored:
3 eggs
1 cup white sugar
Add 2/3 of cup of pumpkin
1 tsp. of lemon juice
In a bowl combine the following ingredients:
3/4 cup flour
1tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. salt
Pour blender ingrediants over the dry ingredients. Mix well seeing no lumps. It should be very runny.
Grease a 10X13 cookie sheet, lay down wax paper and regrease the wax paper. Pour the contents over the cookie sheet spreading evenly.
An option is to sprinkle 1 c. of walnuts or pecan pieces over top of mixture. They may sink in some as it is so runny that is fine.
Place in a preheated oven of 375 F for 15 minutes.
While waiting for the cake to bake. Spread out a clean cotton towel large enough to hold the cake and sprinkle with a thick layer of powder sugar.
After the 15 minutes of cooking take out the cake, immediately cut off the crunchy outer edges of the cake, making it as straight as possible.
While still hot take cake top side down and lay over top of the the spread out towel. Carefully peel off wax paper from bottom side of cake.
With the towel roll up cake and towel together. Place into refrigerator for an hour or more until cake is cool to touch.
While cake is cooling, start making the filling...
Use room tempature or in microwave warm 8oz of cream cheese and 4Tbsp of margarine, add 1/2 tsp. vanilla and with a hand mixer blend together until smooth. Slowly add 1 cup of powder sugar to mixture, be careful it has a tendency to go every where.
After cake has cooled carefully unroll. spread filling mixture over evenly.
Roll the cake back up as tightly as possible without losing all the filling. Wrap up in tin foil and chill.
To cut use a very sharp knife, make sure knife is clean after each cut.
To serve cut 1/2 inch slices and lay piece out. I layer them in a circle shape to add to the character or pieces.
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:14 am
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Pumpkin soup. Saute a couple of slices of bacon. Remove. Pour off all but a tablespoon or so of grease. Add peeled pie pumpkin (or butternut squash) in 1" cubes and sliced shallots. Saute until pumpkin starts to brown a little. Add chicken stock to cover. Simmer until soft. Puree. Thin with a little sherry or marsala. Serve with crumbled bacon.
I pour (not too sweet) pumpkin pie filling into ramekins and bake in a water bath. I like it as a quick breakfast or as dessert.
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:41 am
Post subject: Savory Pumpkin
I live in China. My Ayi cooks a great pumpkin soup which is very easy to make. She purees RAW pumpkin in the blender (or food processor) ending up with about 2 cups. She adds to this one can of coconut milk (NOT the sweet kind). Simmer in a covered pan with for about 10-15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and top with toasted pine nuts. She said the recipe is from Thailand. Your pan needs to be quite thick on the bottom to keep the soup from burning, but believe it or not, she stirs it very little. It seems that the trick is to keep the pan covered. The toasted pine nuts are absolutely delicious in the soup.
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:26 am
Post subject: Kadu
And then there is that wonderful Afghan classic, Kadu, neatly topped with a yogurt sauce or meat sauce AND yogurt sauce.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:17 am
Post subject: pesto sauce for gnocchi, ravioli
My fave savory pumpkin recipe is to grate up a bunch of pumpkin and add it to a bit of pesto made from sage, almonds, parm, olive oil in a big shallow pan. Add some chicken [or veg for those so inclined] broth and cook until pumpkin dissolves, then add precooked pasta. Easy peasy.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:26 pm
Post subject: pumpkin and chickpea curry
I've been reading this blog lately, thespicedlife.com, I haven't tried anything yet, but her Indian dishes are nicely detailed. I want to try the pumpkin and chickpea curry:
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Here in Italy we make tortelli filled with pumpKin, usually dressed with butter and cheese.I love them,but someone doesn't like the mix sweet/savoury.
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US library pulls diaries, letters from Civil War
WASHINGTON (AP) — Letters and diaries saved for 150 years from those who lived through the Civil War are offering a new glimpse of the arguments that split the nation.
The Library of Congress holds the largest collection of Civil War documents. It has pulled 200 items from its holdings for a new exhibit to reveal both private and public thoughts from dozens of famous and ordinary citizens who lived in the North and the South.
Robert E. Lee, for example, was grappling with divided federal and state allegiances. Ultimately, Lee believed his greater allegiance was to his native Virginia, as he wrote to a friend about resigning his U.S. Army commission.
Dozens of writings are featured in the new exhibit "The Civil War in America" at the library in Washington until June 2013.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Financial markets are sliding after the Federal Reserve said it could end its huge bond-buying program by the middle of next year.
U.S. stocks fell sharply in early trading and the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to the highest point since October 2011. Gold led a rout in commodity prices.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 202 points, or 1.3 percent, to 14,911 in the first 45 minutes of trading Thursday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down 21 points, or 1.3 percent, to 1,607.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note climbed to 2.38 percent.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday the central bank could end its bond purchases next year.
Global markets also fell. Germany's benchmark index was down 2.4 percent, France's fell 2.5 percent.


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Yep, thanks, I saw that thread. I'm tossing up between Allen & Greenough's and Moreland and Fleischer so I'll give their previews on Amazon a good going over to see what's going to suit best.
RE: next purchase -- have you read the thread "rant against wheelock..."? I highly suggest Moreland and Fleischer which is recommened by the Textkit Maestro Sebastian (Elucubrator) as an outstanding Latin text.
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I'm sure by now we've all seen our fair share of Google Now's voice search functionality vs Apple's Siri. Since the introduction of Jelly Bean, Android 4.1, and Google Now, comparison and demonstration videos have popped up all over online. But they've yet to be this hilarious.
In today's Google Now vs Siri video, Annie Gaus of App Judgement has put the two services through a slightly different torture test to see which one reigns supreme. Instead of reading off a list of common commands and questions you might ask a personal assistant, she asked both an iPhone 4S and Nexus 7 things she's asked her phone through web search in the week before making the video. The results speak for themselves. (Start watching at 3:15.)
The two most important things I took away from the video: For one, when asking Google Now for information, and there's no card to show you directly, displaying the Google search results right away is incredibly powerful and useful. And secondly, Siri seriously loves stallions. Really.


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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures reversed course and declined sharply Wednesday after dire warnings from Europe of a broad recession there is now all but certain.
Dow Jones industrial futures slid 120 points to 13,081. The broader S&P futures have given up 12.4 points to 1,412.80. Nasdaq futures tumbled 26.5 points to 2,649.20.
All major indexes had been pointing higher before the European Union further lowered its expectations for the 27-nation economic bloc. It said European nations will see further declines, and the road back to recovery will take longer because of the viciousness of the continent's debt crisis.
The EU confirmed earlier predictions that the 17 nations that use the euro will tumble into recession soon.
The EU cut its economic forecast, saying that it now expects the region's gross domestic product to contract by 0.3 percent on an annual basis this year, rather than remaining flat as it predicted in the spring. It also said that the 17 countries that use the euro will contract, with GDP falling 0.4 percent.
Earlier forecasts put a GDP contraction at only 0.3 percent.
Even Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, may be listing. The nation's panel of independent economic advisers said the economy is weakening faster than expected and urged policy makers to make deeper cuts in spending.
The panel in its annual report said that plans by Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government to increase social welfare spending "go in the wrong direction."
European markets also gave up early gains after getting a boost from the re-election of President Barack Obama.
The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares fell 0.2 percent at 5,872 while Germany's DAX fell 0.4 percent to 7,358. The CAC-40 in France slipped 0.4 percent lower to 3,465.
U.S. corporations continued to put up strong numbers for the quarter.
Profit for Kraft Foods jumped 13 percent in the third quarter, the food maker said Wednesday, as new products and a marketing blitz pushed it beyond most Wall Street expectations.
Time Warner Inc. beat expectations as well, with its cable television division picking up some of the drop-off from the Warner Bros. movie business, which didn't see the same numbers it did last year when the final Harry Potter movie was packing theaters.


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LONDON (AP) — British rescue officials are searching for three people after a helicopter carrying 18 ditched into the North Sea near the Shetland Islands in northern Scotland.
The coast guard says rescue teams were called Friday evening after receiving a distress signal from the helicopter, operated by CHC, a company that transports people to and from offshore oil and gas platforms.
The agency said 15 people have been rescued from the sea and three others are missing after the incident, which took place near Sumburgh Airport.
Three helicopters and two lifeboats are searching the area for the missing people.
CHC said the aircraft was approaching Sumburgh Airport when it lost contact with air traffic control. It said there were 16 passengers and two crew members onboard.


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I got pregnant again about seven months later. The pregnancy went well, or
so it seemed. I reached l4 weeks without complications. We had planned a trip
to Maui to relax. I figured, since I was past the first trimester, there was
nothing to worry about. I didn't lift any suitcases and passed up a raft trip,
which seemed too vigorous. We went for a hike in the volcanic crater of
Haleakala , immediately after which I started to spot again. The day we flew
back to Seattle, I started to cramp, went in for an ultrasound, and was told
the fetus had died three to four weeks before. This time I decided on a D and C
to have the fetus removed. The day I returned to my practice this time, I saw a
9 month old child with Down's syndrome, which gave me much food for thought.
This time, even though I had a D and C, it still took four to six months to
get my body back, more or less, to its pre-pregnant state.
During this time, we had discussed the miscarriages with our two main
spiritual teachers, Ammachi and Baba Hari Dass, in addition to consulting
astrologers, psychics, and health professionals and being blessed by many
people in many places. We had communicated with the soul of the fetus both
times and felt very connected with it. By this time, I had gotten tired of
taking my temperature every day and planning sex according to my fertile times.
I had a very powerful experience with Ammachi, an Indian woman saint who is
able to pour out love unconditionally. I felt, instantaneously, as I sat before
her at Orcas Island, that my obsession with having a child was lifted. It felt
like a huge surrender had occurred. After that experience, we didn't think
much about getting pregnant, but were still not closing the doors. Bob and I
happened to be visiting Baba Hari Dass in California last spring. Babaji, who
has been silent for 40 years and communicates by writing on a chalkboard, asked
us "Pregnant?" We assured Babaji that we had let go of the desire to become
parents. A week later I realized I was pregnant again. We had planned to spend
the majority of my first trimester with Ammachi, so I felt I would have lots of
protection from the Divine Mother. We adopted a "three's a charm" hopefulness.
I used homeopathy, progesterone, and the usual prenatal vitamins and a healthy,
natural diet. But, at nearly l2 weeks, the same scenario occurred, minus the D
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By Saeed Azhar and Stephen Aldred
SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Shuanghui International Holdings, which has agreed to buy U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. for $4.7 billion, plans to list the combined company in Hong Kong after completing the takeover, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
A Hong Kong IPO, valued at around $4 billion, would allow the merged group to trade in a market that would place a higher valuation on the stock than the U.S. or other exchanges, the sources said.
Hong Kong is a far bigger and more international stock market than Shenzhen, the Chinese exchange where Shuanghui's main publicly traded subsidiary is listed.
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A Hong Kong listing would also offer an ideal exit route for Shuanghui's private equity investors, which includes Goldman Sachs and New Horizons, when they decide to sell their holdings, according to the people familiar with the matter.
New Horizons is the private equity firm founded by Winston Wen, the son of China's ex-Premier Wen Jiabao.
Shuanghui could also use the proceeds to pay down some of the debt, people familiar said.
Bank of China <601988.SS> and Morgan Stanley <MS.N> have combined to provide $7 billion of loans to finance Shuanghui International's record deal to buy the U.S. pork producer.
The total value of the Chinese company's record agreement was $7.1 billion, including net debt.
The Smithfield deal has yet to close, the sources cautioned, and plans on what happens after the takeover would only be finalized upon the completion of the deal.
Hong Kong stock exchange rules require one year of ownership before a merged entity can list.
Shuanghui could not immediately be reached for comment.
Virginia-based Smithfield is the world's biggest hog producer and a major exporter to China. Smithfield was under pressure from its top shareholder to break up the company when it announced, on May 30, the Shuanghui takeover offer.
U.S. politicians immediately expressed concern about a Chinese company buying a Virginia food producer, though Shuanghui has promised to keep the Smithfield operation intact.
The deal, the largest ever by a Chinese company into the United States, would allow Shuanghui to directly sell Smithfield pork products across China to meet the country's huge demand for the product.
Should Shuanghui complete the transaction, Smithfield would be de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange. The people familiar with the matter said the combined Smithfield-Shuanghui operation is being valued at around $20 billion, meaning an IPO of around 20 percent of the group would be worth around $4 billion.
The main rationale behind a Hong Kong IPO is higher value the merged entity would command, the people familiar said.
Smithfield Foods trades at 12.7 times forward 12-month earnings, far below an average 16.8 times for the U.S.-listed food products companies, according to data from Thomson Reuters StarMine. Similar companies in Hong Kong trade at 18.2 times, the data show.
Shuanghui International is an offshore holding company, whose main asset is a 73.26 percent stake held directly and indirectly in Shenzhen-listed Henan Shuanghui Investment & Development Co <000895.SZ>, China's largest meat processing company. Henan Shuanghui had a market value of $15.3 billion based on Monday's close.
Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings <TEM.UL> is also an investor [ID:nL3N0EB1RU] in Shuanghui.
Shuanghui's acquisition of Smithfield, which has more than 46,000 employees in 25 states and four countries, faces a few more steps before it becomes final, including the need to smooth over political concerns that it would hurt U.S. food safety, and raise prices for American consumers.
Smithfield President and CEO Larry Pope last week faced questions from U.S. senators concerned about the long-term impact of the deal, and told them that the firm was not going to change.
(Reporting by Saeed Azhar and Stephen Aldred; Additional reporting by Anshuman Daga in SINGAPORE, Grace Li, Matt Miller and Xinqui Su in HONG KONG; Editing by Michael Flaherty, Alex Richardson and Jeremy Laurence)


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Being invited to choose poets and their poems for a website is a bit like being given the online equivalent of a billboard. Since a real billboard primarily uses pictures to communicate an implied text, or to augment a minimal text, I've chosen to present work by two poets whose work hinges on their use of image: Richard Greenfield (Carnage in the Love Trees, University of California Press, 2003 and Tracer, Omnidawn, 2009) and Joni Wallace (Blinking Ephemeral Valentine, Four Way Books, 2011).
Richard Greenfield's images arrive by way of list and fragment. They gesture by way of suggestion. Against the backdrop of these images, introspection gets threaded through the text. This method of self-interrogation sometimes morphs into a brief meta-poetical asides. Reading one of Greenfield's poems is like viewing a photomontage that quick-flips between exterior landscapes, occasionally highly lyricized—"cerulean west, Venus risen, sole unstar in the black east above the grand wash emptying into a lake"—and empathic interior landscapes—"the rough feel of unraveling sheets on my legs, of the boxy bed." Along the way the montage pauses for a second here and there to call meta attention to the light creating the image on the wall. Through this continual back and forth, the poem constructs a realm that includes everything the speaker thinks, along with everything he sees and feels. By the end of the poem, we have a form of completion, one that doesn't take place on the level of grammar, but instead, on the level of the speaker's experience, an experience that defines the realm. The reality the poem offers is an altered realism, a realism seen through a fractured lens, rather than one that pretends to be a "natural" realism. Greenfield's poems use their fragmented, alternating inside/outside landscapes to also gesture tangentially to pressing issues like borders—social and political. These large concerns, which resist simplification, trouble the already troubled poem.
Joni Wallace's poems are similarly imagistic, also prose, and also built from list and fragment. Like Greenfield's, they lean toward suggestion and away from exposition. The difference between the two poets, however, is stylistically and thematically profound. Wallace's poems have a fast-shifting sonic momentum woven into the disjunctive image montage; the result is a more agitated pace and music, an almost manic tumultuousness. Compared to Greenfield's macro images, which can enlarge to accommodate the entire astronomical cosmos, Wallace's images are micro, sometimes decidedly female, sometimes playfully silver-screen noir: handbag, cut-glass barrette, stocking sheen, seal coat, and Zippo. If Greenfield is a human telescope in a Southwestern landscape, Wallace is a girl with a camera making a dizzying twirl in a department store. But the twirling girl is only apparent in the highly-worked rhetorical surface; underneath the surface is something else, something of ecological gravity: birds crash into parking lot puddles because they've lost their way; deer have been assigned numbers that represent nuclear test times during the Cold War. What is interesting to me about these poets is how they use image to tangentially get at elusive social and political issues, as well as to create a rich sense of interiority. And how well together they demonstrate how expansive the strategy of disjunction is, and how thematically plastic.
—Mary Jo Bang
Mary Jo Bang is the author of six collections of poems, including Louise in Love, Elegy, which received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Bride of E. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. Her translation of Dante's Inferno, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in August 2012.


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DES MOINES � Iowa will continue to work on a state-based health insurance exchange to comply with the federal health care law, but Gov. Terry Branstad on Friday left open the possibility that the state may default to a federal program.
DES MOINES � Iowa will continue to work on a state-based health insurance exchange to comply with the federal health care law, but Gov. Terry Branstad on Friday left open the possibility that the state may default to a federal program.
The Republican governor sent a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius saying the state still doesn�t have the information needed to decide which approach is the most cost-effective for Iowa.
U.S. Health and Human Services had set a Friday deadline for states to declare whether they will build their own marketplaces where consumers and small businesses can shop for health insurance. On Thursday, the agency extended the deadline to Dec. 14 � the same date by which states must submit detailed blueprints for how they will run their exchanges.
�I cannot provide you with a set of timelines or complete details about the exchange until our state receives clear, binding rules from your department,� Branstad stated in the letter. �Forcing an exchange decision on states based on an arbitrary timetable would be like forcing a consumer to buy a car without knowing the vehicle�s price tag or fuel economy. If forced to make a decision with incomplete information, then I have no choice but to default on some level to a federal exchange.�
Branstad spokesman Tim Albrecht said the governor wants to avoid a federally run exchange, but unanswered questions about the cost of a state exchange may leave him no choice but to accept �a one-size-fits-all exchange that throws us in with other states.
�We are seeking to avoid that,� Albrecht said. �� But if they continue to stonewall us, we will have no choice but to default. We�re hoping the feds will work with us to prevent that.�
Albrecht said the federal government extended the deadline because it lacks the capacity to administer the health care exchanges in a large number of states.
The new insurance system is designed to create a marketplace where consumers and small businesses can make side-by-side comparisons when buying health insurance. Supporters of the law say that transparency will ultimately push costs down, while many Republicans have criticized it as an undue intrusion into the private marketplace.
Branstad sent Sebelius 50 questions that he said the federal government has yet to answer. The list includes questions about how the state exchanges would work with the Medicaid program, whether states can switch from a federal exchange to a state or partnership program, and whether the federal government will charge states that want to access federal databases needed to operate their own exchange.


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The heads turned together atop the Green Monster as balls bypassed their seats entirely, sailing on a laser-guided beeline for Lansdowne Street, the game at once slowly fading into the distance.
For the second straight outing, the Yankees poured on early runs, only this time the Red Sox offered little semblance of a comeback. Consecutive homers in the first and fourth innings built too big of a deficit, insurmountable with a patchwork lineup featuring more players who began the season in the minors (four) than those who started for Boston on Opening Day (three).
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Hey, for this thread, I thought I'd add that big ol' Axl Rant from the 1992 Oklahoma bootleg that I love so much, that I typed up and used in a Rebelscum thread last year.So, I've been searching for it over there, and of course, it's nowhere to be found, so I guess someone "moved" it or something.
You believe all the **** you read?I said, you believe all the **** you read?You ever wonder why you're given so much **** to read?You're given a lot of **** to read . . .because. . . there's a lot of ****in' people out there who, uh. . . I don't think I should even give them the credit to say they're very conscious of that which they are doing. . .But it's mainly because they don't want things like this post here at Rebelscum to ****ing happen.Yeah, there's a, there's a lot of people who don't know why they do things. . . But some of the reasons behind that, are they don't want the people like you, that are here today, to see some little loud-mouthed ****er like me, who crawled out of some ****hole somewhere, and worked his way up onto this message board!They don't want--there's something out there that doesn't want people like you to realize that you can do whatever the **** you want with your goddamn life.And unless--there are those, that unless they got a piece of the pie, unless they got a piece of your *** , unless they got a piece of your life, they just don't want it to happen. You do it their way, or you don't do it.Well they can suck my **** .I believe that deep inside everybody, there's something inside you that knows what the **** it is you're supposed to do with your life, and no matter what anybody tells you, if you keep lookin', and if you keep diggin', you're gonna find it, and you can be the person you're ****in' meant to be on this goddamn planet.And don't let anybody, anybody ever get in your way. . . including me. And I know it's not, like the most humane thing, but, you can, uh, when it gets real rough, you can think of a little theme song, that somebody wrote, namely Mr. Paul McCartney. And when they're tryin' to keep you down, just hold on and know that someday, you'll bust out and you'll get under your own **** and they won't be able to ****ing keep up with your *** , and you can be thinking: Just live and let die, mother****er.
That's classic, fivehorizons posted this a few weeks ago...Wes C Addle at the show I went to in Milwaukee
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The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on board the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter imaged Daedalia Planum, a sparsely cratered, untextured plain on the Red Planet, featuring solidified lava flows of varying ages.
Daedalia Planum lies to the southeast of Arsia Mons, one of the largest volcanoes on Mars. It is 350 kilometres in diameter and rises 14 kilometres high. The plain is dominated by numerous lava flows of varying ages.
It lies at about 21°S and 243°E. The images have a ground resolution of approximately 17 metres per pixel and cover about 150 x 75 kilometres or 11 250 square kilometres, an area approximately the size of Jamaica.
Ghost craters and pressure ridges
Daedalia Planum features numerous solidified lava flows of different ages. These flows originate from the southern flank of Arsia Mons.
The map shows two lava flows: the younger flow (upper portion visible in nadir images) exhibits flow structures, pressure ridges as well as the central lava channel (upper right corner).
An older flow visible in the lower portion has a smoother surface due to the gradual accumulation of sediments.
Two striking depressions lying at right angles to the lava flow are also visible in the upper portion of the imaged region. These structures are related to grabens that existed earlier (grabens are depressional features formed by faults in the crust).
It is likely that the lava flows invaded the grabens partially or filled them up completely. Where a graben was only partially filled, the original dimensions are still recognisable.
In the upper left of the nadir image is a portion of this feature that remains unmodified by the younger lava flows.
Existing impact craters have also been transformed by the lava flows. The two larger craters show different stages of modification (visible in the 3D image). The largest crater (bottom) was not affected by the lava flow but the ejecta blanket formed during the impact is partially covered in lava.
The second largest crater has been flooded almost entirely, although minor portions of the rim are still preserved. It is likely that the lava entered through a breach in the rim, filling the crater up. Fully covered impact craters, whose outlines are still visible, are also known as ghost craters. One such ghost crater is located in the immediate vicinity of the second largest impact crater.
The colour scenes have been derived from the three HRSC colour channels and the nadir channel. The perspective views have been calculated from the digital terrain model derived from the stereo channels. The black and white high-resolution images were derived from the nadir channel, which provides the highest detail of all the channels.
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2008 Buick Lucerne ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Smooth, spirited, well-engineered luxury sedans.
The Buick Lucerne is an attractive car, with clean lines suggestive of a fine European import while maintaining Buick traditions. Inside, the Lucerne is elegant, comfortable and easy. Underway, it's smooth and quiet, but with precise steering and a chassis that handles winding roads with aplomb. We find the Lucerne to be a plush, highly competent full-size sedan at a compelling price. It's Buick's flagship sedan and we recommend it.
The Buick Lucerne is a full-size, front-wheel-drive, four-door luxury sedan, and it comes in several models. The Lucerne CX is tuned as a traditional Buick, with the Premium Ride Suspension. The Lucerne CXL comes with a firmer Ride and Handling Suspension, and is positioned to compete with the Toyota Avalon and Lexus ES 350. It's a very enjoyable car to drive, with agile handling and plenty of performance. The CXL Special Edition is even quicker with its optional V8.
The Super is a new model with an old Buick name, dating back to 1940 and last seen in 1958. The V8-powered Super, which replaces last year's CXS, delivers even more horsepower and features Magnetic Ride Control, an adaptive sports suspension developed for the Corvette.
New for 2008 are two safety systems, Side Blind Zone Alert and Lane Departure Warning, available on all models. Side Blind Zone Alert uses radar to provide drivers with more information about vehicles in hard-to-see areas around the car. Lane Departure Warning uses a camera to warn drivers of inadvertent lane changes. StabiliTrak with Brake Assist is now available on CX and CXL. Also for 2008, XM Satellite Radio is standard equipment in all models, and some options and equipment packages have been revised.
Launched as a 2006 model to replace the LeSabre and Park Avenue, the Lucerne benefits from the structure and chassis hardware it shares with the Cadillac DTS. In this, Lucerne is not breaking tradition but confirming it. The biggest Buicks have shared body structure with Cadillacs since the 1930s, if not before; and they have shared significant chassis pieces since 1965.
Buick has a long history of innovative engineering, handsomely conservative styling, and premium luxury at below-premium prices. Lucerne follows these Buick traditions.
The 2008 Buick Lucerne comes in four trim levels with three engines available.
Lucerne CX ($27,275) is motivated by a 197-horsepower 3.8-liter V6. Standard equipment includes cloth upholstery; air conditioning; seats for five people with a power driver's seat; power windows; power door locks; leather-wrapped tilt steering wheel; AM/FM/CD/MP3 audio with six speakers and steering wheel audio controls; XM Satellite Radio; cruise control; electrochromic rearview mirror; remote keyless entry; and 16-inch aluminum wheels. A Comfort and Convenience package ($950) adds heated outside mirrors, dual-zone automatic climate control, a universal remote, a trunk cargo net, and a six-way power-adjustable passenger seat.
Lucerne CXL ($29,920) upgrades with leather seats, all items from the Comfort and Convenience package, and 17-inch bright aluminum wheels. The suspension is tuned a little tighter and includes Airlift rear shocks for automatic level control.
The CXL Special Edition is available with the V6 ($31,735) or with a 275-hp 4.6-liter V8 ($33,435). Special Edition adds perforated leather seat inserts with contrasting stitching on the seats, console, armrest and door trim. Outside, the Special Edition is distinguished by a chrome grille, unique rear fascia, and chrome-clad wheels.
A Luxury Package ($995) for the CXL and Special Edition adds eight-way power driver and front passenger seats, four-way power lumbar support, heated front outboard seats, and memory for driver seat and outside mirrors. A heated wood steering wheel ($100-$150) and heated and cooled seats ($895) are options with the package.
Lucerne Super ($38,980) is powered by a 292-hp 4.6-liter V8 and comes with Magnasteer power steering, Magnetic Ride Control adaptive suspension, StabiliTrak stability control with Brake Assist, and P245/50R18 all-season radials on 18-inch bright-silver-painted aluminum wheels. Inside, Super features a leather-wrapped upper instrument panel with French-seam stitching; leather seats with suede fabric inserts; Harman-Kardon audio; heated, wood-accented steering wheel on a power tilt-and-telescope steering column; wood shift knob; and other upgraded finishes and trims. The Driver Confidence, Luxury, and Comfort and Convenience packages are standard. Outside, front and rear fascias, extended rocker panels, and integrated dual exhaust tips are unique to the Super. Chrome wheels are optional ($750).
Options include the Driver Confidence Package ($995) with remote start, Ultrasonic Rear Park Assist, a theft-deterrent system, heated washer fluid, RainSense automatic windshield wipers and StabiliTrak electronic stability control. The new Side Blind Zone Alert ($395) and Lane Departure Warning ($295) systems are optional. The Ultra Confidence Package ($1,185) combines all of these features. Touch-screen navigation ($1,945) is optional on Super, CXL, and the Special Edition. The Harman Kardon stereo is available ($495) on the Special Edition. A 6CD changer is optional ($300) on all models. So is a power tilt-and-slide sunroof ($900), and an engine block heater ($75). Six-passenger seating is available on CX and CXL by ordering front bench seats ($295). Some paint colors are extra-cost options.
Safety features on all models include six airbags: a dual-stage driver's front airbag and a dual-depth front passenger bag, front-seat side-impact airbags, and full-coverage side-impact curtain airbags. The front seatbelts come with pretensioners, so be sure to wear them. Traction control, anti-lock brakes, and a tire pressure monitor are standard on all models. OnStar comes standard and includes the first year of Safe and Sound service; OnStar operators will dispatch rescue crews if your airbag deploys and you don't respond to calls, a great feature for you and the rest of your family. The first-ever application of a dual-depth passenger airbag has two sections; a smaller section deploys in a less severe crash or if the passenger is small or seated nearer the dashboard. In a bad crash or if the passenger is not wearing their seat belt the full bag deploys for maximum effect.
There is no mistaking the Lucerne for anything but a Buick. The Lucerne has a handsome appearance with a good stance thanks to its long wheelbase and wide track. The classic, Buick waterfall grill blends in well with the large integrated headlamps. The side profile, with its steeply raked windshield, is reminiscent of several recently introduced European sedans such as the VW Passat and Audi A6. The rear of the Lucerne features a high trunk line with nicely integrated tail lamps.
Chrome trim is kept to a minimum. The only stylistic link to Buicks of old is the row of small portholes on each of the front fenders. They are also the only clue to what's under the hood: the V6-powered Lucerne gets three portholes on each side while V8-powered models get four on each side. Flashback to the Fifties, when more powerful Buicks had more holes. They didn't serve any real function then and do not today, but we still like them.
The Lucerne Super is distinguished by a larger grille that cuts deeper into the front bumper and features fewer, thicker vertical bars. These grille bars turn sharply inward at the top, giving more definition to the waterfall effect. Below the new grille, the look is more familiar, with twin lower air intakes accentuated by chrome slashes that seem to point to the outboard foglights, very much like last year's CXS.
The smaller main grille of the CX and CXL is finer in texture, and the twin lower air intakes on these models hide behind horizontal grillwork cut into the lower bumper.
The Buick Lucerne is built on the same platform as the Cadillac DTS and benefits from modern build techniques for a quiet luxury car. These include hydroformed frame rails for a stiffer body, and use of laminated steel with plenty of sound deadening material placed in strategic locations. Buick engineers shaped the outside of the door mirrors to lessen wind noise. These quiet-tuning efforts were evident in our test drives.
Lucerne's cabin is cleanly designed with just enough touches of wood and chrome trim to make it luxurious without being opulent. The dashboard is fairly traditional in design with a smallish instrument pod containing three round gauges in front of the steering wheel.
The center stack is located high for easy access, and contains large knobs for operating the climate control and audio system.
OnStar with Turn-by-Turn service comes standard and allows customers to talk to a live advisor who downloads complete step-by-step directions to the vehicle through the OnStar system. Audio directions are then automatically played through the vehicle's stereo as they are needed, triggered by the OnStar system's GPS capabilities. Drivers can be directed to their destinations without having to take their hands from the wheel or eyes from the road.
A touch-screen navigation system is also available, giving the Lucerne driver the best of both worlds.
Bucket seats are standard, but buyers who want seating for six can order a traditional front bench seat. We found the bucket seats provide a good level of comfort and come with an armrest in the center console.
Rear-seat passengers are well taken care of with good headroom and excellent leg room. Lucerne's long wheelbase allows for a wider-opening rear door with almost no intrusion from the wheel well, making it easy to get in and out of the car.
Driving Impression
The Buick Lucerne is a smooth but spirited car. The ride quality is excellent, thanks to its long wheelbase and stiff body structure. In back-to-back driving along a stretch of less-than-perfect road, we found the Lucerne's ride quality comparable to that of the benchmark Toyota Avalon. Lucerne rides a bit firmer than past Buicks, but it's still plenty smooth.
The steering is precise and responsive, and the suspension is well controlled, even at high speeds along not always smooth roads. After driving several different Lucerne models over the course of several hours, winding among the vineyards in the Santa Ynez Valley just north of Santa Barbara, California, we found that all handled with aplomb, exhibiting no wallowing or causing any untoward moments. A rigid chassis is the key to balancing sharp handling with a smooth ride, and Lucerne really delivers.
The high-powered Super comes with Magnetic Ride Control, which we've found improved handling a bit, though the differences were not dramatic. Magnetic Ride Control is an adaptive damping system designed to enhance overall ride performance. With Magnetic Ride Control, the shock absorbers are filled with a synthetic fluid in which magnetically charged particles are suspended. By applying electric current to the particles, a computer continuously adjusts the fluid's viscosity according to varying road surfaces and driving styles. The system, which first appeared on the sporty Cadillac XLR, and then the Corvette, delivers a quicker response than earlier adaptive-damping setups that continuously adjusted the shock absorbers' main valves.
Powering the new Super is a unique version of the 4.6-liter Northstar V8, rated 292 horsepower at 6300 rpm, and 288 pound-feet of torque at 4500 rpm. The Lucerne Super V8 is EPA-rated at 15/22 mpg City/Highway.
The CXL Special Edition offers a slightly less tuned version of the same engine, developing 275 horsepower at 6000 rpm, but 295 pound-feet of torque at 4400. Torque is the force you feel when accelerating from an intersection or up a hill. So even though it has less horsepower, the higher torque of the CXL Special Edition with the V8 might be more responsive in everyday driving. We've found the Lucerne performs well with this engine. The CXL Special Edition with the V8 is rated 15/23 mpg.
The V6 performed well in the CXL. With the lighter V6, the Lucerne seemed more agile on twisty roads. The front end felt a bit lighter. The V6 models also suffer less from torque steer, a slight tugging felt through the steering wheel when turning and accelerating at the same time. The V6 costs less and gets better fuel economy. The Lucerne CXL with its V6 is rated as a Super Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle (SULEV). The V6 is EPA-rated at 16/25 mpg City/Highway.
Both V8 engines come with GM's electronically controlled Hydra-Matic 4T80 four-speed automatic transaxle, where the V6s use the lighter-duty 4T65 four-speed. All Lucerne engines feature electronic throttle control.
The new Side Blind Zone Alert system uses radar sensors on both sides of the vehicle (mounted behind the rear fascia) to scan a 150-degree field of view within a 3.5-meter range. Alternating radar beams sweep the adjacent traffic lanes to detect approaching cars. Vehicles entering one of seven zones identified by the system will illuminate an LED symbol in the outside rearview mirror. The system ignores stationary objects, such as fire hydrants or parked cars.
The Lane Departure Warning uses a camera, mounted near the inside rearview mirror, to identify traffic lane markings and provide audible alerts if the Lucerne should appear to be wandering from its appointed path.
The Buick Lucerne is an attractive near-luxury car offering looks, features, quality and value. If you like a modern, comfortable ride with competent road manners, the Lucerne, with either a V6 or V8 engine, is well worth consideration. It comes with a longer warranty (4 years/50,000 miles) than Buick has offered in the past, and Buick has been doing quite nicely in recent J.D. Power and Associates surveys on product quality.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent John Rettie reported from Santa Barbara, California, with editor Mitch McCullough reporting from Los Angeles.
Model Lineup
Buick Lucerne CX ($27,275); CXL ($29,920); CXL Special Edition V6 ($31,735); CXL Special Edition V8 ($33,435); Super ($38,980).
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Buick Lucerne CXL Special Edition V8 ($33,435).The 2008 Lucerne is Buicks flagship sedan. Inside, the Lucerne is elegant, plush, and comfortable. On the road, it's smooth and quiet, with precise steering and competent handling. The 2008 Buick Lucerne is offered in CX, CXL, and CXS trims. The CX comes with a 197 hp 3.8-liter V6 engine, four-speed automatic transmission, 16-inch aluminum wheels, and cloth seats for five people. The CXL receives the same engine and transmission and upgrades with a firmer suspension, leather seats, and 17-inch wheels. Stabilitrak and six-passenger seating are available on the CX and CXL. The CXS comes standard with a 275 hp 4.6L Northstar V8 engine, 18-inch wheels, StabiliTrak, Magnasteer, and Magnetic Ride Control. New safety features Lane Departure Warning and Side Blind Zone Alert are optional. Standard safety features include anti-lock brakes, traction control, seat-mounted thorax airbags, and side-curtain airbags. For 2008, the Buick Lucerne receives upgrades to standard features and some new safety related options.
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The section on traits where it says that "Crabbe and Goyle did not possess the cunning and ambition prized by Slytherin", I don't necessarily find this statement to be true anymore since the 7th book came out. Once it was clear that the Malfoy's name no longer meant anything in the wizarding community, particularly among the Death Eaters, they quickly turned against Draco, no longer taking his commands. To the point that when in the Room of Requirement, despite Draco telling them that Voldemort wanted to be the one to kill Harry Potter, they attempted to do this themselves hoping for approval from Voldemort. So they must possess enough cunning and ambition to only want to align themselves with powerful and important wizards.
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Best and Worst
Do you think we should list the worst and best examples of Hufflepuffs? The same with other pages for houses? I'd say the worst example of Hufflepuff is Zacharias Smith. I suppose the nargles are behind it. 20:42, October 1, 2010 (UTC)
- The problem with that is it would be almost entirely subjective. The wiki was a NPOV policy. 184.108.40.206 21:23, October 1, 2010 (UTC)
- Best Hufflepuffs are Cedric, Nymphadora and the Bones family, including the Ministry Head Amelia, and her brother, the Order of the Phoenix Member, Edgar Bones, as described by Moody as a great wizard. Presumably they're Hufflepuffs as Hagrid said, being sorted comes in families as their niece Susan was a Hufflepuff.
- Pormona Sprout, a great professor of course is also a Hufflepuff.
- Most houses, showcase their best members, with Hufflepuff having the least, not because they don't have any, but I guess, I think until here, they're pretty modest with their achievements.
I don't get it. In OOTP book, Sorting Hat says that Hufflepuffs are the extra students that don't have any of the other house traits. But in the PS book, it says that Hufflepuffs are loyal. If You Wanna Bust Your Brothers, Follow the Yellow Sidewalk! 19:16, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
- In OotP, the Sorting Hat's song says that Hufflepuff was willing to accept those students who didn't fit with the other founders' criteria, but it doesn't say they don't have qualities of their own. - Nick O'Demus 19:27, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
- Exactly. I believe the first parragraph is referring to the line where Helga Hufflepuff is said to have said she'd "take the rest." This is misconstreuded by some to believe the house is just the "extras" or "the rest." That is completely inaccurate. This is portraying a Hufflepuffs most prized quality. Unlike the other houses they will not dicriminate against students. They are openminded and believe there is goodness and potential in everybody. -Sam
Why is Stebbins listed as a Hufflepuff? In GoF at the Yule Ball Snape takes ten points from Ravenclaw for Stebbins, although he does also take ten from Hufflepuff, those points were lost by Fawcett.
No, he is a Hufflepuff. Earlier in GoF Dumbledore mentions that Stebbins is Hufflepuff and Fawcett is Ravenclaw. It's possible that Snape was taking points from the opposite houses to make them feel more guilty. Alumeng 12:27, November 5, 2011 (UTC)
Nymphadora Tonks
In what book did it say that Nymphadora Tonks was a Hufflepuff? I don't remember it saying she was a Hufflepuff in any of the books, but I could be wrong.
Head.Boy.Hog 17:59, January 29, 2011 (UTC) ´ Rowling revealed it on her homepage.--Rodolphus 18:01, January 29, 2011 (UTC)
I disagree with the fact that Tonks is a Hufflepuff! She should probably be a Gryffindor or a Ravenclaw. It seems that somebody, and I don't know who, kind of thinks Tonks was not brave or smart! That Tonks was "for the rest." But is it was Rowling who said it, then I respect her opinion. After all, she invented Harry Potter. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by The One You Fear (talk • contribs).
- It was stated on JKR's official site here. I'll add the reference to the article. And incidentally, there's nothing wrong with being a Hufflepuff. - Nick O'Demus 13:51, February 27, 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, there isn't anything wrong with being a Hufflepuff. Head.Boy.Hog (Talk To Me) 21:43, May 15, 2011 (UTC)
- Again, Hufflepuffs are NOT "the rest." The sorting hat was showing the kind of person Hufflepuff was, and showing her greatest quality to be openminded and compassionate.
Neville is a great Gryffindor!
I would say that Neville Longbottom is a great example of a Gryffindor - due to his act in the Order of The Phoenix and The Deathly Hallows. He fought in the Department of Mystery, he ruled Dumbledors Army during his last year, receving loads of punishments from the Carroll's. He is brave, however not always the smartest (actually, this makes him a lot like Harry Potter himself) Also, Neville is a true Gryffindor since he pulled out the Gryffindor sword. And Gryffindor doesn't symbolize intellect - but bravery. Other students that are not the bookwise smartest are Ron Weasley and maybe the movie-character Seamus Finnigan (due to his explosions.)
Oh yeah, Neville is also a great example of how you can grow into a house over time. Seamus Finnigan is not a movie character though, he's in the books, but he is never mentioned to have problems with explosions (although it's one of the changes the movies made that I like best). Chanpuruuu (talk) 23:37, May 2, 2014 (UTC)
The Common Room
The information about the Hufflepuff common room and how to get to it sorely needs to be updated. With the testing of Pottermore actualy reliable information has come out about it. This is the description of the entrance, straight from Pottermore, and therefore JK Rowling.
"The Hufflepuff common room is entered from the same corridor as the Hogwarts kitchens. Proceeding past the large still life that forms the entrance to the latter, a pile of large barrels is to be found stacked in a shadowy stone recess on the right-hand side of the corridor. The barrel two from the bottom, middle of the second row, will open if tapped in the rhythm of 'Helga Hufflepuff'.* As a security device to repel non-Hufflepuffs, tapping on the wrong barrel, or tapping the incorrect number of times, results in one of the other lids bursting off and drenching the interloper in vinegar."
This really should be corrected, as this information is currently available nowhere but Pottermore.
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hi I can't edit the hufflepuff page, but I'd like to add the following, since I added similar content to the other houses:
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- Not done. See your talk page for why not. -- 1337star (Drop me a line!) 22:49, June 12, 2012 (UTC)
Good Finders
Where in the book does it say that Hufflepuffs are good finders? Or was this mentioned on Pottermore or JKR's official site? -- RLB01 07:52, June 25, 2012 (UTC)
Bumping -- RLB01 (talk) 12:53, July 2, 2012 (UTC)
It's from A Very Potter Musical. It's not from canon. - Nick O'Demus 15:20, July 2, 2012 (UTC)
Death dates
Can we straighten the dates?
Cedric is listed as 1989-1995
Tonks is 1984-1991
The death dates don't work in accordance with cedic dying in his 6th year and Tonks in The Final Battle. Just a quibble which I hope more well read potterheads can sort out for me.
188.8.131.52 16:45, April 6, 2013 (UTC)
- Those aren't death dates; they're the dates the people attended Hogwarts :) --Hunnie Bunn (talk) 16:56, April 6, 2013 (UTC)
I think the colors for Hufflepuff are purple and gold, like the Washington Huskies (football) Kayleigh Rockstar (talk) 00:22, June 1, 2013 (UTC)
- The books, films and video games all say black and gold... --Hunnie Bunn (talk) 00:37, June 1, 2013 (UTC)


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Living in the house means you don't have to pay rent any more. But these additional considerations can also shape your financial strategy for home ownership. Will you rent out part of the property to capture cash to pay down the mortgage early? Renting a room, garage, storage space or even a slice of the yard for boat or RV storage (if that's allowed by local zoning laws) can stream enough income to you to help you quickly build an emergency fund and to pay off the mortgage early. Will you operate a business from the property? The home office deduction is modest and requires meticulous paperwork, but it might be worth it if you capture enough cash. A larger space - say, a custom woodworking shop - might pay for itself through the deduction. However, if you expect to turn part of your property into a business operation, you must first clear it with the local zoning authorities, the homeowner's association, and your property insurer. Be sure to get all relevant business and operational permits. Permits are always cheaper than paying fines, especially fines levied because annoyed neighbors called authorities. Will you need space for an additional generation to live with you? It can be much cheaper to have elderly relatives or untethered new college grads living with you than to pay for their apartments. However, you might have to build ramps and widen doorways for wheelchair-bound residents, or add privacy features for twentysomethings. You will also have to decide if and how to charge rent and utilities fee to cover household expenses.
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Bai Executive Helps Brand Achieve 'Look of Success,' Named New President
One week after Ben Weiss, the founder and CEO of bai, said at BevNET Live in New York that he expects his company's sales to increase fivefold this year, he followed his words with an executive shift, announcing Tuesday that Ken Kurtz has been promoted to company president.
"Ken is simply the best in the business, and his sales and marketing strategies have given us unparalleled traction in an extraordinarily competitive industry," Weiss said in a release. "Ken has unmatched organizational development experience and has led the company into this current period of hyper-growth."
Kurtz, who joined bai's executive team in 2011, will lead the company's sales. He has more than 20 years of experience with brands such as Boston Beer Company, E&J Gallo and FIJI Water, and his relationships with distributors and industry stakeholders could help the company, according to the release.
"My focus since joining the company has been entirely on helping people all over the country to experience the healthy alternative that is bai," Kurtz said in the release. "This new role provides an opportunity to shift these efforts into a higher gear as we move toward national distribution, and I am both honored and excited about taking up the task and putting Bai into the hands of more people everywhere."
Kurtz's ascension arrives as the company continues to grow since its switch to an aseptic proprietary bottle more than one year ago. At Expo West in March, Weiss said that the company had exceeded January and February sales expectations by 17 percent and projects more than $25 million in sales for 2013.
At BevNET Live, Weiss credited Kurtz with helping the company achieve "the look of success" when it comes to retail placement. That corresponds to the expectations of a series of well-known investors who have backed the company as well as its regional distribution arrangements within the Dr Pepper Snapple Group system. Of late, the company has been expanding its footprint and adding to its infrastructure.


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Volume 20, Number 3
April/May 2003
Inspect, Detect, Protect: Managing Environmental Risks
By Howard KenisonHoward Kenison is a partner at Lindquist & Vennum, P.L.L.P., in Denver, Colorado. He has practiced environmental law for more than 20 years. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
RCRA, CERCLA, EPCRA, FIFRA, NEPA, TSCA, SDWA—the often bewildering list of acronyms for federal environmental statutes and regulations is nearly endless.1 These laws have created a new legal lexicon—all appropriate inquiry, remedial actions, no-further-action letters, brownfields, voluntary cleanup, Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments—to name only a few. Indeed, only the U.S. tax code exceeds the volume of federal environmental regulations. The potential for unwanted environmental liabilities is not limited to large companies and complicated business transactions. General practitioners can be faced with environmental risks in the most routine client transactions, for example, the simple divorce that includes the sale or transfer of the family's dry cleaning business, the probate of a will for the deceased owner of a manufacturing business that includes underground storage tanks, the acquisition of a small business or property that is located in an industrial area, or even the purchase of a previously owned home. This article focuses on the basic methods of managing environmental risks that might arise in the voluntary or involuntary transfer of potentially contaminated assets.
Environmental liabilities in the transfer of property derive in large measure from the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, known as CERCLA or by its more familiar name, Superfund. Passed in 1980, CERCLA can shift liability regardless of the contractual intentions of the parties and without a party's active involvement with the property. Many states now have "mini" Superfund laws as well. CERCLA's strict, joint and several, and retroactive liability scheme can impose liability absent traditional notions of fault, can include all persons who might be in the "chain" of title, and can extend liability back to former owners of the property.
CERCLA provides that where there has been a release or threatened release of "hazardous substances," the owner or past owner of the property can be held liable for the costs of cleanup of any contamination. This in spite of whether the current owner caused the release of the pollutants or that CERCLA liability did not exist at the time of the release of the pollutants. An owner under CERCLA is, quite simply, anyone who owns or operates or did own or operate property on which hazardous substances are located. A hazardous substance is broadly defined in Superfund and, while it excludes petroleum products, other federal and state laws create similar liabilities for petroleum and other hazardous wastes. Case law has established that even a lessee may be an "owner" under CERCLA if the lessee knew or should have known of the presence of contamination on the property at the time the lease was initiated.
There is, however, an exception to CERCLA's broad liability scheme—the bona fide prospective purchaser exception (BFPP).2 The BFPP exception allows a person acquiring property to escape Superfund's liability net if he or she
meet certain criteria. Not every transaction triggers CERCLA's liability risks. Nonetheless, because of the potential for CERCLA liability, there is rarely a client matter involving the transfer of property or assets of any size that does not include some form of environmental due diligence. If the transaction involves a loan, it is likely that the lender will require some form of due diligence. If the transaction involves the involuntary transfer of potentially contaminated property, such as through probate or in a divorce, environmental due diligence can provide a measure of protection from environmental liabilities and risks. This is especially true given the opportunity to gain a safe harbor by qualifying as a BFPP. While a BFPP must meet several criteria, the most critical for the purposes of this article is the requirement that a person make "all appropriate inquiry" into the previous ownership and uses of the property. The requirement to conduct all appropriate inquiry is met through a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (see below). Because of Superfund's broad liability, if clients take steps to limit their environmental risk under Superfund, they are more likely to be safe under other environmental laws.
Managing environmental risks in either voluntary or involuntary asset or property transactions usually begins with a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) and can include a Phase II Site Investigation. A competent, qualified environmental consultant should conduct the Phase I and Phase II assessments. Typically, the consultant is engaged as an expert by counsel. Under the attorney work product doctrine and the attorney-client privilege, the information obtained and opinions of the expert in the Phase I/II may be maintained as confidential. It should be noted that while the privilege may attach to the opinions given by the consultant, the underlying data and facts are generally not privileged. Thus, one cannot use the privilege to avoid requirements to report the presence of contamination to the government where such reporting is required by law. The terms and conditions of the environmental consultant's contract should be carefully evaluated in the context of the risk and value of the transaction. Many consultants limit their liability to the cost of the project. A high-quality Phase I might cost about $3,000; however, a consultant's negligence can result in damages to your client in significantly higher sums. In addition, consultants limit the indemnities that they will provide for their failures to those of gross negligence. The terms of consultant contracts can and should be negotiated in light of the scope of the transaction and the risk. This is especially true where the consultants may be undertaking Phase II intrusive site investigations. It goes without saying that you should carefully limit your law firm's risks from a consultant's negligence while conducting a Phase I or Phase II assessment by clarifying with the consultant that the true party in interest is the client and by having the client indemnify the consultant if necessary.
Essentially, a Phase I ESA seeks to determine whether there are any recognized environmental concerns (RECs) related to the property or the asset. For example, are there historical uses (a former service station with underground storage tanks on the property) that might give rise to RECs? Is there an old septic tank system that might have been connected to drains that were used to dispose of household chemicals or other pollutants? Are there neighboring business operations that could be a source of concern? A competent Phase I will include a site visit, an interview, and a search of existing environmental agency databases, chain-of-title records, city directories, aerial photos, and maps to determine whether there is any potential for environmental risk at the property. The results of the Phase I ESA will be issued in a report that includes appendices showing the information obtained. Counsel should carefully review the report and all appendices and attached documents to confirm that the consultant's findings and conclusions follow from the underlying information. The standard established by the BFPP exemption for a Phase I ESA is the ASTM Standard E 1527-97, and it should be specified in the consultant's contract for any Phase I investigation.
If it is determined that there are RECs, the environmental consultant may recommend that the client conduct a Phase II Site Investigation. A Phase II is a generic term used to describe intrusive subsurface testing, sampling procedures, and laboratory analysis. A Phase II might include, for example, soil borings to obtain subsurface samples around an area where there was a historic underground storage tank. Often a Phase II will include installation of monitoring wells to obtain groundwater samples to determine whether there is groundwater contamination migrating onto the property from a neighboring manufacturing business. A Phase II will also include laboratory testing of soil and groundwater samples. Most, if not all, state environmental agencies have strict requirements that must be followed in taking, storing, and testing soil and groundwater samples. The consultant will be able to advise counsel on these requirements and should be familiar with all sampling and testing procedures. Again, the Phase II results will be contained in a report with appendices, and counsel should become familiar with these underlying documents.
If the transaction involves a building that was constructed prior to the 1980s, the consultant may recommend an inspection of building materials for asbestos. Quite often consultants who conduct the Phase I and Phase II will not conduct asbestos investigations but can refer counsel to certified asbestos inspectors. The asbestos inspection will look for certain types of materials, such as drywall materials and HVAC insulation and floor tiles. Where appropriate, the asbestos consultant may take samples of these materials for further testing. If asbestos is found to be present, a complete asbestos survey may be recommended. If the survey indicates that asbestos-containing building materials are present, an asbestos management plan may be necessary.
Recent focus on mold problems in buildings has created a new area of environmental due diligence. It is not uncommon to find mold or fungi in even newly constructed homes. Many insurance companies that offer homeowners insurance are now drastically limiting the amount of coverage for mold remediation. As a result, consultants are now offering mold and fungal assessments for commercial buildings and residences. There are, however, no generally accepted standards for conducting a mold and fungal assessment. Counsel should require consultants to, at minimum, list their qualifications to conduct these assessments and to state the procedures they will follow. Both the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists and the American Industrial Hygiene Association have issued general procedures that can be used as a standard for such assessments until further guidance becomes available.
If the consultant concludes that contaminants are present on the property, counsel must analyze applicable federal, state, and local environmental statutes, regulations, and ordinances to determine whether the client's acquisition of the property will trigger any environmental liabilities. This analysis should include state common law as well. If there are potential environmental liabilities, counsel must advise the client concerning possible risk management options, including indemnities from the seller, pre-closing remediation, and environmental insurance.Transaction Documents
Assuming the client wishes to proceed with the deal, counsel's risk management efforts should focus on the transaction agreements and documents. Typically, this will include obtaining environmental representations, warranties, and indemnities from the seller. Buyers might also require the seller to undertake cleanup activities to remove, for example, old septic systems and any contaminated soil. Or a buyer might require the seller to obtain "no further action" assurances from the appropriate government agency. In some states such assurances are given only after cleanup meets certain specified standards and submittal of certificates of compliance following the remedial activities. In other states, the assurances can be obtained if the property owner can show that there is no risk to human health or the environment from any residual contamination, so-called risk-based cleanup standards. In involuntary transactions, such as the acquisition of contaminated property through probate proceedings, the acquiring party will likely want the executor to obtain assurances of no further government action and court approval of any remedial efforts. Sellers often want the sale to be on an "as is" basis without any representations, warranties, or indemnities. In "as is" transactions, the environmental due diligence effort is critical to ensuring the client does not acquire unknown risks. The nature of the transaction, the risk tolerance of the parties, and the extent of the contamination, if any, will drive the type of assurances, indemnities, representations, warranties, and other risk management tools that will be needed to complete the deal to all parties' satisfaction.Insurance
During the past few years, the insurance industry has created new policies that cover environmental risks; these policies are becoming an important risk management option. There are now policies that will provide insurance in the event that the government seeks to require a cleanup, while others cover the risk from third-party lawsuits. Typically, insurance products make economic sense only for large transactions. However, depending on the risk tolerance of the parties to the transaction, counsel should consider whether to solicit a proposal for environmental impairment insurance from an insurance company.
The potential for incurring environmental liabilities in the transfer of property or assets has increased in direct proportion to the expansion of federal and state environmental laws. These risks require that counsel carefully manage the environmental due diligence aspects of such transactions and advise clients concerning their risk management options.Notes
1. RCRA is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901, et seq.; CERCLA
is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9601, et seq.; EPCRA is the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, 42 U.S.C. § 11001, et seq.; FIFRA is the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. § 136, et seq.; NEPA is the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. § 4321, et seq.; TSCA is the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2601, et seq.; and SDWA is the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 300f, et seq.
2. Superfund's "innocent purchaser" exemption was amended by the Small Business Revitalization Relief and Brownfields Liability Act on January 11, 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-118.


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Arizona's all cotton production for 2006 is estimated at 583,000 bales, 6 percent lower than the final 2005 production. All acres for harvest at 195,000 are down 38,100 acres from '05. The all cotton yield at 1,435 pounds per acre is up 154 pounds from last year.
Upland cotton production is expected at 570,000 bales, down 7 percent from the '05 crop. Yield is estimated at 1,455 pounds per acre, compared to 1,289 pounds per acre in '05. Harvested acreage at 188,000 acres is down from 229,000 acres harvested in '05. Arizona's American-Pima production is estimated at 13,000 bales for '06. The harvested area is estimated at 7,000 acres for an average yield of 891 pounds per acre.
U.S. Upland cotton production is estimated at 21 million bales, up 2 percent from the Dec. 1 forecast but 10 percent below the '05 record high production. The U.S. yield for Upland cotton is estimated at 811 pounds per acre, up 21 pounds from last month but 14 pounds below last year's yield. The harvested acreage at 12.4 million acres is down less than 1 percent from last month and 8 percent below last year. The Upland planted area estimated at 14.9 million acres is 7 percent above last year.
American-Pima producers planted 326,000, up 21 percent from last year. California producers planted a record high 275,000 acres. The increase in U.S. planted acreage led to a 20 percent increase from last year in harvested area with 323,500 acres harvested. Production is estimated at 756,000 bales, up 4 percent from last month and 20 percent above last year.
Arizona's cottonseed production for '06 is estimated at 223,000 tons, down 15 percent from '05. U.S. cottonseed production is expected to total 7.63 million tons, down 7 percent from '05.
Arizona durum wheat seedings for '07 are estimated at 80,000 acres, up 5,000 acres from '06. Other wheat seedings at 3,000 acres are down 1,000 acres from last year.


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These last few weeks, my pressure cooker has been quite the workhorse. I want to cook dinner, most every night, for my family. But, I want speed and simplicity, and I don't want to skimp on flavor. That's not asking much, is it?
I did a little stocking up in the meat department at my local Whole Foods. These are grass-fed short ribs. I love slow-braising them, and serving them over polenta. Delish! The only problem is, you need 2 hours-- or more-- to yield tender and flavor ribs. This doesn't work, when you get home at 5pm.
Pressure Cooker Perfection", and this seemed like a good time to make the recipe. It sure seemed simple enough.
The braising liquid/sauce has hoison sauce (yep, I keep a jar in my pantry), garlic, fresh ginger, soy sauce, dry sherry, scallions and cayenne pepper. I took less than 15 minutes to make the braising sauce.
NOTE: For those of you who don't own a pressure cooker, or still can't overcome an unnecessary fear of them, you can adapt this recipe for your oven or a slow cooker. The only difference is that the pressure cooking time is 35 minutes. In the oven, factor in two hours, or with a slow cooker, factor in 4-6 hours.
I have an electric pressure cooker, with a non-stick insert. Using the browning cycle (which is the same as heating a stove top pressure cooker on medium-high heat), fresh minced garlic and ginger is cooked for about a minute. Then the hoison sauce and the rest of the ingredients are added (a printable recipe card is at the very end of the post).


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*Updated 4/16/11 for a sourdough variation (below)
*Updated 5/29/11 for a spelt variation (below)
I love to make muffins, using the recipe featured in Fine Cooking Magazine #77. Fine Cooking's information is also available as an interactive, create-your-own-recipe web tool at:
http://www.finecooking.com/cyor/muffins.aspx [1]
After using the selection tool to choose your ingredients, the recipe will display.
I find this one-pound-of-flour-based recipe makes 12 large, crown-topped muffins using crown muffin pans. I have two 6-cup crown muffin pans that I purchased from Williams Sonoma, but they don't sell them any more. Chicago Metallic makes a 12-cup crown muffin pan, but I'm not sure how widely available it is (a restaurant equipment might be another option for these crown muffin pans?). Here's a link to Chicago Metallic's website:
http://www.cmbakeware.com/products/large-crown-muffin-pans [2]
Here's a better picture of a 6-cup crown muffin pan (compared to what's shown on the Chicago Metallic site):
A single, one-pound-flour recipe will also make 72 mini-muffins (using Ecko Baker's Secret mini-muffin pans), with a little batter left over.
I bake for about 14 minutes.
There are so many ways to flavor these muffins, using whatever fruits, nuts, spices etc. you have on hand.
I have also varied the base muffin batter with good results:
- - Oatmeal muffins: combine 10 ounces flour, 6 ounces quick oats (by weight) in a food processor and process until fine; substitute for the 16 ounces flour in recipe
- - Banana muffins: use 1.5 cups mashed banana, ¾ cup sour cream, 5 ounces (by weight) vegetable oil and substitute for milk, sour cream and butter called for in recipe; substitute brown sugar for white sugar
- - Pumpkin muffins: use 1 cup pumpkin puree, 1/3 cup sour cream, 2/3 cup milk and substitute for milk and sour cream called for in recipe
- - Chocolate muffins: substitute 76g of flour called for in recipe with cocoa
- - Orange muffins: substitute 1.5 cups sour cream and ¾ cup orange juice for milk and sour cream called for in recipe; reduce butter to 2 Tablespoons; increase orange zest from 2 teaspoons to 1/3 cup
- - Applesauce muffins: I simmered ¾ cup chopped dried apple in 1 cup apple cider until the cider was mostly absorbed and reduced (about 15 minutes), and when cool drained and used in place of fresh apple. I used chunky applesauce (made with Transparent apples - so tasty) in place of the sour cream. I added the remaining reduced liquid from simmering the dried apples too for extra flavor. I reduced the sugar to 1 cup as the applesauce had been lightly sweetened.
- - I've substituted buttermilk for regular milk if I've had buttermilk on hand.
I make about half the amount of glaze and I find it's enough for my taste. A streusel topping or spiced sugar sprinkled on prior to baking are also good too. Cream cheese (sweetened/flavored) is a great topping too. Here's a picture of a Pumpkin muffin (trying to be a "Starbucks" muffin), baked in the crown muffin pan:
*Updated 4/16/11: Sourdough Carrot Muffins (with coconut, pineapple and walnuts)
Floyd posted about sourdough carrot cupcakes [3] awhile back - they looked absolutely lovely!
This got me thinking about the possibility of a sourdough muffin.
Here's my adaptation of the KAF Sourdough Carrot Cake recipe [4], for muffins, and a picture of how it turned out:
Sourdough Carrot Muffins (with coconut, pineapple and walnuts)
(makes 12 muffins using crown muffin pans)
Line muffin pans with baking paper; spray lightly with cooking spray.
Preheat oven 325 convection. Put a handful of shredded or ribbon coconut on a baking sheet and toast lightly (watch carefully - mine toasted in only 3 minutes). Remove from oven and set aside to cool; the toasted coconut will be reserved to garnish the muffins after baking and glazing.
Preheat oven to 350F.
Grate 2 cups of carrot.
Drain a 14-ounce can of crushed pineapple (reserve juice).
Chop ½ cup of walnuts.
In a large bowl, whisk to combine:
330g all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
a few grinds of fresh nutmeg
In a separate bowl, whisk to combine:
9 ounces (by weight) of 100% hydration white sourdough starter
2 large eggs
1/3 cup sour cream
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup (packed) brown sugar
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
5 ounces (2/3 cup) vegetable oil
Add to wet ingredients:
2 cups grated carrot
drained crushed pineapple
½ cup chopped walnuts
½ cup sweetened shredded coconut
Stir the wet ingredients and carrot, pineapple, walnuts and coconut together, to combine.
Add wet ingredients to dry, and fold gently with a rubber spatula just until dry ingredients mostly moistened. You may still see a few streaks of dry flour.
Using an ice-cream scoop, fill the muffin pans.
Bake at 350F for 25-30 minutes, or until done. Rotate the pans partway through the bake, if needed, for even browning.
When finished baking, remove from oven and place pans on a cooling rack.
Let muffins cool, in the pan, for 10-15 minutes.
While cooling, mix up the glaze:
1 cup approximately - sifted icing sugar
a (tiny) pinch of salt
2 Tablespoons reserved pineapple juice
a capful of Malibu coconut rum, if you so desire!
(adjust consistency as needed to achieve a spreadable glaze)
Remove muffins from pan and place on cooking rack.
Using a pastry brush, glaze the tops of the muffins.
While glaze is still wet, sprinkle on toasted coconut.
*Updated 5/29/11: Spiced Spelt Muffins with Anise, Fennel, Blueberries, and Hazelnuts
Karin posted about her Dinkel-Walnussbrot [5], a spelt bread flavored with anise, fennel and walnuts.
This bread is so delicious with the spices; these muffins are based on the flavors in Karin's wonderful bread:
Ingredients used:
6 ounces spelt flakes, ground in the food processor
10 ounces whole spelt flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/3 cups brown sugar, packed
1/2 teaspoon anise seeds, crushed with mortar and pestle
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds, crushed with mortar and pestle
2 eggs
1 cup (242 grams) sour cream
1 cup (242 grams) milk
5 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
1 generous cup frozen blueberries
1 generous cup coarsely chopped hazelnuts
Happy baking everyone! Regards, breadsong


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At the end, sometimes it's all about the T-shirt.
Ducks defenseman Francois Beauchemin, who logged a team-high 46 minutes 29 seconds of ice time in the team's 3-2 triple-overtime loss to Chicago in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals, skated down memory lane of playoff marathons Wednesday morning before the team departed for Chicago.
Nearly 12 years ago, he played in what was then the longest game in American Hockey League history, lasting until 14:56 of the fourth overtime during the Calder Cup Final. Michael Ryder scored to give Hamilton a 2-1 victory over Houston.
"I don't know how many minutes I played. ... It's funny. They made a T-shirt about it because it...


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