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On August 25, 1985, New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes the youngest 20-game winner in Major League Baseball history. Gooden was 20 years, nine months and nine days old when he led his Mets over the San Diego Padres 9-3–a month younger than "Bullet" Bob Feller was when he racked up his 20th win in 1939. Although Gooden was one of the best young pitchers in baseball history, his star burned out quickly as a result of substance abuse.
Dwight "Doc" or "Doctor K" Gooden burst into the National League in 1984. His explosive fastball and sharp, tight curveball combined to frustrate hitters, and at just 19 years old in his rookie season, Gooden won 17 games and led the NL with 276 strikeouts. He performed even better the next year, and took the mound on August 25 with 19 wins to just 3 losses. With 37,000 of the Mets faithful anxiously standing by to cheer on the young star at Shea Stadium, Gooden struggled to establish a rhythm, and had trouble gripping the ball in the wet weather. Fortunately for Gooden, his Mets teammates took up the slack. Right fielder Darryl Strawberry hit a home run in the fifth and drove in four runs, while Gooden's catcher, future Hall of Famer Gary Carter, had three hits. When Gooden left the game after the sixth inning, the Mets led 4-3. Roger McDowell pitched three scoreless innings in relief and the Mets offense racked up five more runs to give their ace his 20th win overall and 14th win in a row.
Gooden finished the 1985 season in impressive fashion with a 24-4 record, 1.53 ERA and 268 strikeouts, good for the pitching triple crown (leading the league in wins, strikeouts and earned run average). Gooden then helped the Mets to victory in the 1986 World Series, but trouble was brewing, and he entered drug rehab for the first time after testing positive for cocaine during 1987 spring training. The rest of his career was rocky: He pitched inconsistently after 1988 and was suspended for 60 days in 1994 and for all of the 1995 season after failing drug tests.
Gooden returned to baseball in 1996 with the New York Yankees alongside fellow former Mets superstar Darryl Strawberry, whose rapid rise and fall due to drug abuse paralleled Gooden's. Though he never quite returned to his earlier form, he did manage one final hurrah: a no-hitter on May 14, 1996, against the Seattle Mariners. Gooden retired after the 2000 season.


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Garrett Graham has signed a maximum-value deal with the Houston Texans, where he will join another former University of Wisconsin tight end on the roster this fall.
According to the National Football Post website, which cited a league source, Graham agreed to a four-year, $3.115 million contract with the Texans.
The fourth-round draft choice will net a signing bonus of $480,100, the report indicated.
The 6-foot-3, 241-pound Graham caught 121 passes for 1,492 yards and 16 touchdowns for the Badgers, and was a two-time, second-team All-Big Ten Conference selection.
Graham received a lot of reps during the Texans' OTA practices, in part because former UW standout Owen Daniels remains sidelined following reconstructive knee surgery.
Daniels, a former Pro Bowl pick, had 40 catches for 519 yards and five touchdowns in eight games last season before tearing his anterior cruciate ligament.
A restricted free agent entering his fifth season in the NFL, he signed a $3.2 million, one-year tender in June, Daniels is projected to miss all of training camp but told the National Football Post earlier this month that he expects to be on the field for Houston's season opener. It is great to see that Badgers can make a splash in the NFL. GO BUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Polaris wrote:Eldorado wrote:That story is about 1 guy. You know we had 5 different guys score at least 10 TD's this year, right?
You should read the story. It concentrates on one guy, but it also describes the Bronco's offense in general. I am not quesitoning that the Broncos have the number one offense. I merely observe that the Broncos have struggled and struggled badly against defenses that use elements of what Seattle does all the time....and those teams don't do it nearly as well as Seattle. It is what it is.
Seattle played 2 of the top 10 offenses this year. Seattle's played 2 of the top 10 QB's and 1 of the top 5. Seatle's no more battle tested than Denver.
As far as 'struggling' goes, Denver scored 33 against Indi, and you don't have anything remotely as impressive as Mathis. Think Seattle can score 34? Seattle's averaged 18.5 against top 10 D's so far this year.


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Rock Candy Science
The next time you've got a restless young earth scientist on your hands and a rainy day outside, try this exciting experiment. You can use it to demonstrate what a crystal is and in the process, create that enchantingly sweet, fully edible, traditional kid favorite: rock candy. Here's how.
What You Need:
- 4 cups sugar (two pounds)
- 2 cups water
- Small cooking pot with tall sides, to avoid spatters
- Large cooking spoon for stirring
- Candy thermometer (optional)
- Tall, clean glass jar
- Cotton string
- Something to hold the string down in liquid (such as a clean, heavy screw)
- Parchment paper, foil, or waxed paper
- Plain pencil, which will hold the string over the jar
What You Do:
- Rock candy is made by creating a "supersaturated" solution: one with much more sugar dissolved in the water than you could possible do at room temperature. Have your child start the experiment by pouring just the water into the saucepan, and then heating it to a boil. If you have a candy thermometer on hand, place it in the pot for a mini experiment in temperature. (Caution, parents: do be sure you supervise these hot stages!)
- Once the water is boiling, pour the sugar into it. Notice that at first the mixture is chalky, since the sugar isn't melted at all. But as the sugar melts, there will be a distinct change: the entire solution will become clear. Do be sure that you and your child stir constantly throughout this phase—if the sugar sticks to the bottom of the pot, it will burn and that will not be so fun! If you're using a thermometer, don't forget to monitor the temperature during this stage to see how hot the solution gets.
- Keep stirring and melting until the solution is completely clear and gets to a full rolling boil (that's a boil with lots and lots of bubbles, but not a boil that's overflowing the pot).
- Pull the pan off the burner, and then gently pour it into the jar. Use a piece of waxed paper to cover the jar.
- Now tie the string around the screw-weight and dip it into the sugar solution, about 2/3 to the bottom of the jar. Let it get nice and wet, and then lay it on another piece of waxed paper or a piece of parchment paper, to dry for several days. In the meantime, let the jar of sugar solution sit on a countertop.
- In about 2-3 days, you'll notice that the string is dry, and if you use a magnifying glass, you will start to see little crystals formed all along it. That's just what you want! These are the little edges on which the big crystals of rock candy will start to cling and form.
- CAREFULLY place the string back into the jar of supersaturated sugar water, suspended from the pencil and weighted down on the other end by the screw and leave it be for a few days. DO NOT jiggle the jar at any point during that time, and do NOT check the string—there is delicate work underway! The sugar molecules, which were previously suspended in the liquid, are now re-forming, and if you move the solution, you interrupt their progress.
- By 4-5 days later, you'll see a delightful thing: the crystals on your string should be visible, with points and angles and very cool "faces," which have been created as unique sugar molecules found their way to one another. This process of crystallization happens in nature as well, giving us uniquely beautiful crystal formations from all parts of the globe.
This is a great time to open a geology book and study more…but don't be surprised if your child considers that a distant second step to a pressing matter at hand: EATING this way cool experiment!


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Hope College honored faculty members for service, academic achievement and professional involvement during the college's annual recognition luncheon on Monday, Jan. 7.
The luncheon traditionally marks the beginning of the college's second semester. Participating were James Bultman, president; Richard Ray, provost, and professor of kinesiology; Moses Lee, dean for the natural and applied sciences, and professor of chemistry; William Reynolds, dean for the arts and humanities, and professor of English; and Carol Simon, associate dean for teaching and learning, and professor of philosophy.
Honored for 45 years of service was John Tammi (theatre). Recognized for 35 years of service were Al Bell (history), Billy Mayer (art), John Patnott (kinesiology), Mike Seymour (chemistry) and Kathleen Verduin (English). Honored for 30 years of service were Marc Baer (history), Barry Bandstra (religion), Peter Gonthier (physics), Linda Graham (dance), Chuck Green (psychology/Phelps Scholars Program), Bill Moreau (English) and Roger Nemeth (sociology). Recognized for 25 years of service were Dawn DeWitt-Brinks (communication), Kelly Jacobsma (Van Wylen Library), Mark Northuis (kinesiology), Will Polik (chemistry), Dianne Portfleet (English), Carol Simon (philosophy, and associate dean for teaching and learning), Gloria Slaughter (Van Wylen Library), Todd Steen (economics), Joanne Stewart (chemistry), Linda Strouf (music) and Deborah Sturtevant (sociology and social work). Honored for 20 years of service were Brian Coyle (music), Andrew Dell'Olio (philosophy), Stu Fritz (kinesiology), Lorna Hernandez Jarvis (psychology), Cathy Mader (physics), Phil Munoa (religion) and Tom Smith (economics, management and accounting). Recognized for 20 years of service as adjunct or part-time faculty members were Steve Gorno (kinesiology) and Pam Maat (education). In addition, the college made special presentation to President James Bultman, who will be retiring at the end of the school year after 14 years as president and a total of 31 years at Hope between 1968 and 2013.
Named a "Towsley Research Scholar" was Beth Anderson (chemistry). The "Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Award" was presented to Mike Seymour (chemistry). The "Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Awards" were presented to Susan Dunn (nursing) and Fred Johnson (history). The "Academic Computing Advisory Team (ACAT) Innovation Award" was presented to Will Polik (chemistry). The "Provost's Awards for Service to the Academic Program" was presented to Peter Schakel (English). The "Motoichiro Oghimi Global Courage Awards" were presented to Alfredo Gonzales (associate provost and dean for international and multicultural education) and Chuck Green (psychology and director of the Phelps Scholars Program).
Acknowledged as authors and editors during the past year were: Claudine André (Spanish), Marc Baer (history), Wayne Brouwer (religion), Rhoda Janzen Burton (English), Natalie Dykstra (English), Renata Fernandez (Spanish), Lee Forester (German), Jim Herrick (communication), David Myers (psychology), Laura Pardo (education), Jack Ridl (English, emeritus), Peter Schakel (English), Heather Sellers (English), Carol Simon (philosophy, and associate dean for teaching and learning), Steve Taylor (chemistry, emeritus), Kent VanTil (religion) and Daniel Woolsey (Spanish).
Honored for accomplishment as performing artists were: Adam Clark (music), Mihai Craioveanu (music), Steven Iannacone and dANCEpROjECt (dance), Huw Lewis (music), Daina Robins (theatre) and Steve Talaga (music). Recognized for her work as an artist was Katherine Sullivan (art). Members of the kinesiology faculty and staff honored for accomplishments as coaches were: Kevin Cole (men's and women's track and field), Brian Morehouse (women's basketball), Matt Neil (men's basketball), Mark Northuis (women's cross country) and Nate Price (women's tennis).
Faculty honored for being named officers of professional associations were: Michelle Bombe (theatre), David Cunningham (CrossRoads Project, and Center for Writing and Research), Lee Forester (German), Christina Hornbach (music) and Julie Sooy (music).
Faculty and other members of the campus community recognized for receiving honors and awards were: Elisabeth Bauman (English), Virginia Beard (political science), Aaron Best (biology), Kristin Brace (English), Carrie Bredow (psychology), James Bultman (president), Susanna Childress (English), Ernest Cole (English), Paul DeYoung (physics), Robert Fortner (communication), Donna Garrett (nursing), Choonghee Han (communication), Teresa Housel (communication), Stacey Johnson (Spanish), Corissa Lamphear (chemistry), Tom Ludwig (psychology), David Myers (psychology), Jared Ortiz (religion), Bill Pannapacker (English), David Phillips (economics, management and accounting), Jack Ridl (English, emeritus), Carol Simon (philosophy, and associate dean for teaching and learning), Scott VanderStoep (psychology, and dean for the social sciences), Steve VanderVeen (management, and Center for Faithful Leadership), Courtney Werner (English) and Angie Yetzke (dance). In addition, the department of education was honored for earning a 70, the highest possible score, on the Michigan Department of Education Teacher Preparation Institution Performance Scores Report, and the department of nursing was recognized for receiving a "Building Michigan's Health Care Workforce Award" from the Michigan Health Council.
Several faculty and staff were recognized as recipients of grants and fellowships: Claudine André (Spanish), Airat Bekmetjev (mathematics), Aaron Best (biology), Brian Bodenbender (geological and environmental sciences), Anna Bonnema (FACES program), Ken Brown (chemistry), Tom Bultman (biology), Liz Colburn (Upward Bound), Matt DeJongh (computer science), Herb Dershem (computer science, and institutional research), Carrie Dummer (education), Sue Dunn (nursing), Natalie Dykstra (English), Stephanie Edwards (mathematics), Janis Gibbs (history), Peter Gonthier (physics), Virgil Gulker (Center for Faithful Leadership), Jonathan Hagood (history), Maria Hledin (biology and chemistry), Lynn Japinga (religion), Mike Jipping (computer science), Jeff Johnson (chemistry), Julie Kipp (English), Jacquelin Koch (geological and environmental sciences, and chemistry), Brent Krueger (chemistry), Jianhua Li (biology), Cathy Mader (physics), Tracy McMichael (Center for Faithful Leadership), Greg Murray (biology), Karen Nordell Pearson (chemistry, and associate dean for research and scholarship), Graham Peaslee (chemistry, and geological and environmental sciences), Jeanne Petit (history), Julia Randel (music), Steve Remillard (physics), Daina Robins (theatre), Heather Sellers (English), Christian Spielvogel (communication), Joanne Stewart (chemistry), Deb Sturtevant (sociology and social work), Katherine Sullivan (art), Todd Swanson (mathematics), Sonja Trent-Brown (psychology), Jill VanderStoep (mathematics), Roger Veldman (engineering) and Brian Yurk (mathematics).


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Since quite a few Stitch Londoner's are taking part in this project we thought we would post about it here too. Teen Granny Scarlett F Curtis's Knit Relief project is offering 53 brilliant bits of handmade fabulousness to raise money for charity.
There's a crocheted Kermit the Frog by Louise Campbell, goldenblades's Rain Cloud, onehandknits's TARDIS Socks, a personalised knitted figure by Scarlet herself, the handknitted TARDIS by Sally Rose for Dr Who fans, and some very squeeee amigurumi octopi by Alyssa Crittenden (which I have already been outbid on twice!) to mention but a few
Up for grabs is also an exclusive Whodunnknit, handmade Little My in an exclusive Whodunnknit presentation box with an exclusive set of graffiti knitting badges too. That's three exclusives right there.


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Happy new year (even though we have been into 2010 for 3 weeks now!). I hope the new year has started off well for everyone.
I have finished up my part of Carol's rr and I really enjoyed it. Carol chose Vikki Clayton threads (I believe the name of the thread are magpie tears..very pretty blue) and I hadn't worked with these before and enjoyed it. So Edgar now has Carol's rr and I am awaiting the arrival of Suzanne's rr from Margaret.
I know this is probably going to sound pretty odd and strange but...I stitched something for my Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), Janae. She has taken a position closer to home and I wanted to do something for her as we had a great relationship and I'll miss her ALOT! She was so easy to talk with, she listened, very knowledgeable, caring, compassionate and really into women's health.
I have met the new FNP that is taking her place, Rachel and she is very nice and we hit it off really well. So I am pretty happy.
So here is what I stitched for Janae. She really liked it alot. Its a Pine Mountain Design.
I have also been working on Valentine exchanges and am finishing up the last one now. Then I will start thinking about what to stitch for my pinkeep exchange on the Friends Through Threads blog.
So, I think I will close for now, I hope everyone has a good weekend and has some time set aside for stitching.
Thanks for stopping by.
Wendy Jo
Friday, January 22, 2010
Carol's RR and a Gift
Happy new year (even though we have been into 2010 for 3 weeks now!). I hope the new year has started off well for everyone.
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Thanks flydog. I feel like I'm the reverse on these writing issues. Would someone with a journalism background have an advantage here? I'm writing my PS right now and having to "relearn" formal writing.
Any difference in the editions of LEEWS? Does it matter if I buy the 5th edition for $45 as opposed to the 7th edition for $145?
I'm doing LEEWS on CD a week before LS starts and then probably a refresher before exams.


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I'm in this race for the same reason that I fought for jobs for the jobless and hope for the hopeless on the streets of Chicago; for the same reason I fought for justice and equality as a civil rights lawyer; for the same reason that I fought for Illinois families for over a decade… That's why I'm running, Democrats — to keep the American Dream alive for those who still hunger for opportunity, who still thirst for equality." — Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA, November 10, 2007
The Obama-Biden Plan
Barack Obama has been a lifelong advocate for the poor — as a young college graduate, he rejected the high salaries of corporate America and moved to the South Side of Chicago to work as a community organizer. As an organizer, Obama worked with churches, Chicago residents, and local government to set up job training programs for the unemployed and after-school programs for kids. As president, he will use his life experiences to fight poverty and improve opportunities for poor families all across America. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will lead a new federal approach to America's high-poverty areas, an approach that facilitates the economic integration of families and communities with efforts to support the current low-income residents of those areas.
Expand Access to Jobs
- Help Americans Grab a Hold of and Climb the Job Ladder: Obama and Biden will invest $1 billion over five years in transitional jobs and career pathway programs that implement proven methods of helping low-income Americans succeed in the workforce.
- Create a Green Jobs Corps: Obama and Biden will create a program to directly engage disadvantaged youth in energy efficiency opportunities to strengthen their communities, while also providing them with practical skills in this important high-growth career field.
- Improve Transportation Access to Jobs: As president, Obama will work to ensure that low-income Americans have transportation access to jobs. Obama will double funding for the federal Jobs Access and Reverse Commute program to ensure that additional federal public transportation dollars flow to the highest-need communities and that urban planning initiatives take this aspect of transportation policy into account.
- Reduce Crime Recidivism by Providing Ex-Offender Supports: Obama and Biden will work to ensure that ex-offenders have access to job training, substance abuse and mental health counseling, and employment opportunities. Obama and Biden will also create a prison-to-work incentive program and reduce barriers to employment.
Make Work Pay for All Americans
- Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit: Obama and Biden will increase the number of working parents eligible for EITC benefits, increase the benefits available to parents who support their children through child support payments, increase benefits for families with three or more children, and reduce the EITC marriage penalty, which hurts low-income families.
- Raise the Minimum Wage to $9.50 an Hour by 2011: Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe that people who work full-time should not live in poverty. Even though the minimum wage will rise to $7.25 an hour by 2009, the minimum wage's real purchasing power will still be below what it was in 1968. As president, Obama will further raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2011, index it to inflation and increase the Earned Income Tax Credit to make sure that full-time workers can earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs such as food, transportation, and housing — things so many people take for granted.
- Provide Tax Relief: Obama and Biden will provide all low and middle-income workers a $500 Making Work Pay tax credit to offset the payroll tax those workers pay in every paycheck. Obama and Biden will also eliminate taxes for seniors making under $50,000 per year.
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- Promote Responsible Fatherhood: Obama will sign into law his Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act to remove some of the government penalties on married families, crack down on men avoiding child support payments, and ensure that payments go to families instead of state bureaucracies.
- Support Parents with Young Children: Obama and Biden will expand the highly-successful Nurse-Family Partnership to all 570,000 low-income, first-time mothers each year. The Nurse-Family Partnership provides home visits by trained registered nurses to low-income expectant mothers and their families.
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- Fully Fund the Community Development Block Grant: Obama and Biden will fully fund the Community Development Block Grant program and engage with urban leaders across the country to increase resources to the highest-need Americans.
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- Establish 20 Promise Neighborhoods: Obama and Biden will create 20 Promise Neighborhoods in areas that have high levels of poverty and crime and low levels of student academic achievement in cities across the nation. The Promise Neighborhoods will be modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides an entire neighborhood with a full network of services from birth to college, including early childhood education, youth violence prevention efforts, and after-school activities.
- Ensure Community-Based Investment Resources in Every Urban Community: Obama and Biden will work with community and business leaders to identify and address the unique economic development barriers of every major metropolitan area. Obama and Biden will provide additional resources to the federal Community Development Financial Institution Fund, the Small Business Administration and other federal agencies, especially to their local branch offices, to address community needs.
- Invest in Rural Areas: Obama and Biden will invest in rural small businesses and fight to expand high-speed Internet access. They will improve rural schools and attract more doctors to rural areas. And they will implement a bold climate change and energy independence plan that will revitalize rural America through new investments in renewable energy production, including wind, solar, and biofuel investments.
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I don't have a lot of red meat recipes here, especially not beef. The biggest reason for this is that beef is the most expensive cut of meat usually, and I'm all about making bentos that are economical. But I do use beef sometimes, and one of my favorite ways is to treat it as I do in this recipe - quickly stir-fried, salty-sweet and tender strips of beef flavored with sesame oil.
I use a cut called 'minute steak' around here; it's basically a thinly cut piece of lean beef. Such cuts of beef are called different things in different countries, so just buy a flat piece of beef that could be used as a thin steak or cut up in a stir fry. (In the U.S., thinly sliced steak meat for Philly cheesesteaks works well. Trader Joe's has fairly inexpensive packs of thinly sliced beef offcuts that would work great for this.)
If your piece of beef is more than 1/3 inch / 1 cm or so thick, put it between two sheets of kitchen parchment paper or in a plastic bag and pound it thin with a meat mallet, rolling pin or the side of a heavy knife. This tenderizes an inexpensive cut of meat, and also makes it cook a lot faster.
For 2 to 3 portions
Slice the beef (after pounding if necessary) across the grain into thin strips. (The grain is the direction in which the meat muscles run - you want to cut the meat perpendicular to that.) Put into a bowl, and add all the other ingredients except for the 1 tsp. of sesame oil. Massage the meat with your hands to rub in the marinade.
You can cook this right away, or leave it for a little while or even overnight.
Heat up a frying pan and add the remaining 1 tsp. of sesame oil. Add the beef to the hot pan and stir-fry for a couple of minutes until done. It should be just a bit syrupy, and an appetizing dark brown.
You can marinate this the night before and cook it in the morning (this is ideal), or cook it the night before.
You can change up the oil to give this a different flavor. For instance, try olive oil, salt, rosemary and a tiny bit of garlic for Mediterranean flavored beef. Massaging in the a little oil serves to make lean cuts more tender and juicy.
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Every once in a while I splurge on beef. Thanks for posting this! (I have so few beef recipes. )
Thanks for posting this Maki, I'll definitely try this recipe!
I actually discovered Minute Steak just the other day, when the craving hit for some beef stir fry. I went to my local organic grocer and bought two small slices of Minute Steak—one to cook and one to freeze for later. It amounted to a little less than $5 for about half a pound. Not sure if that is expensive, but the meat was very good quality. And I was able to stretch one Minute Steak into a full meal, by adding tons of delicious veggies and pouring the whole thing over white rice.
My mother's trick for tender beef: stir-fry it twice. Cook the meat first, and then spoon it out and let it "rest" while you're cooking up the vegetables. Then dump the beef back in and pan fry some more. It tastes just like restaurant beef, every time!
I found this web site about 2 months ago and absolutely love it! I enjoy going through the recipes and like what I see. The sad part…. I have yet to cook any of it! I want to of course but just don't have the time(college student). But I will soon. I love the look of this one too! Thanks for keeping up the website, really appreciate it.
When I was growing up, my mom didn't often have a lot of money for beef. But she would often pick up a minute steak. She would cut it in strips (just like in the recipe above), and quickly stir fry it with a little olive oil and a handful of whole garlic cloves. Just whack the cloves enough to break the skin, then peel them and toss into the pan when the steak goes in. We are garlic lovers, so she would usually use a whole head, and we'd eat the hot cooked garlic cloves, too. Usually served with something simple, rice and a vegetable. It remains a comfort food for me even now, and I'm excited to try this variation!
Beef is a little more expensive than chicken in Texas, but it's not cost prohibitive. We can still eat beef as regularly as our health would permit. I just prefer chicken and fish (which is crazy expensive!), so I only eat beef once or twice a week. I tried this recipe, and it's great. I wanted it to have even more sesame flavor (nothing subtle about me), so I sprinkled toasted sesame seeds on top. Delicious… Thanks for the recipe!
We tried this tonight - it was so yummy!
Hi Maki! I love your site. It is chock-full of information and not at all intimidating for newbies to Japanese cooking like me. This looks good. Do you think I could substitute seitan strips successfully?
Thanks, chely
I was thinking of making this for our kiddo's lunch and wanted to see if you had any suggestions for a salad dressing to accompany this. (thinking of serving this up in a butter lettuce cup)
Hmm…any miso dressing that you can suggest? I know that House Foods/The Curry house make their own that they sell.
Anyhow, I'm addicted and love your website!!!! Thank you for starting this site. It's saved us tons of $
I made this tonight and added some renkon slices (cut in half and cooked about halfway before I added them.) Too bad there isn't any left for bento tomorrow, we seem to have that problem in our house! When it's really good, we keep picking at it until it's gone and it's back to going out for lunch the next day! I know you are supposed to cook it fresh in the morning, but that's just not going to happen in our house!
Thanks you!!!
I made this tonight..Enough for dinner tonight and lunch in my Bento tomorrow. I cant wait to try more of your recipes:) Next will be your Soboro recipes on the JH site
can i substitute mirin with something else? or can i just dont use it?
A dry Riesling or other dry white wine. In the cases of beef and wild game, bourbon or beer are also good. Mirin is mildly sweet and I like dry types of wines for cooking and for drinking.
Thank you for posting this. Beef is a staple of my diet and I'm always looking for new ways to cook it. Beef here is very cheap and I eat it pretty often.
Try this one too for honey beef..
Season some lean beef mince with salt and pepper
Chop up some fresh chilli, garlic and ginger and then fry in some sesame oil
add the mince and fry together. At this point add a generous amount of HONEY and stir in.
The result is a sweet and spicy beef that can be eaten with rice.
are there step by step pictures im really bad at understanding recipes thats when untill now i could only go with kid cook books
*bows head in shame
Does this freeze well?
I've made this a few times now . . . absolutely delicious, and so easy! The only bad thing is that it never stays very long in my fridge. ;)
Do you drain the marinade from the beef before frying, or do you need it in the pan to make the sauce?
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25 Kan. App. 2d 172
(958 P2d 1172)
No. 79,797
LORI DENK and COLTON DENK, by and through LORI DENK, his next friend, Appellants, v. JASON TAYLOR, Appellee.
1. K.S.A. 38-1130 allows the trial court to amend the birth certificate to add the name of a parent, correct the name of either parent or of the child, or change the child's last name, upon request of both parents.
2. The Kansas Parentage Act, K.S.A. 38-1110 et seq., does not give the trial court the authority to change a child's name, absent the express consent of both parents.
Appeal from Shawnee District Court; NANCY E. PARRISH, judge. Opinion filed May 22, 1998. Reversed.
Jeannine D. Herron, of Topeka, for appellants.
No appearance for appellee.
Before BRAZIL, C.J., GREEN, J., and JANICE D. RUSSELL, District Judge, assigned.
RUSSELL, J.: Lori Denk appeals the district court's order in a paternity action that her minor son's surname be changed from Denk to Taylor.
Colton Denk was born on July 16, 1996, to Denk, who was not married. In October 1996, Denk filed a paternity action against Jason Taylor, alleging that he was the father of Colton. Her petition asked that paternity be established and that Taylor be ordered to pay child support for Colton. DNA testing determined to a 99.75 percent probability that Taylor was the father of Colton.
In an order filed November 26, 1996, the district court declared that Taylor was Colton's father and ordered him to pay child support in the amount of $227 per month. The district court further ordered supervised visitation for Taylor and Colton and set a schedule for the visitation.
On July 2, 1997, the district court held a hearing on matters reserved from the November 26, 1996, hearing and a hearing held on March 21, 1997. The parties announced that they had reached an agreement on all matters except whether Colton's surname should be changed to Taylor and how the fee to correct Colton's birth certificate should be divided between the parties. At the hearing, the parties argued whether the district court had jurisdiction in a paternity action to order a change of name. Denk argued that the district court had no jurisdiction, absent the consent of both parties, and Taylor argued that the district court had jurisdiction to order the change of name.
K.S.A. 38-1121 governs the authority of a court to determine the existence or nonexistence of the parent and child relationship. Upon determining that a party is the biological father of a child, the court must make provisions for the child's support and education.
"(c) Upon adjudging that a party is the parent of a minor child, the court shall make provision for support and education of the child including the necessary medical expenses incident to the birth of the child. . . . The court shall enter such orders regarding custody and visitation as the court considers to be in the best interest of the child." K.S.A. 38-1121.
Further, K.S.A. 38-1130 allows the court to amend the birth certificate to add the name of a parent, correct the name of either parent or of the child, or change the child's last name, upon request of both parents.
Denk argued that the statute does not provide authority for the district court to change the child's last name absent the consent of both parents, and she did not give her consent to the change of name. In March 1997, when the district court met with the attorneys to discuss the status of their conciliation efforts, there was some discussion of the question of changing Colton's last name, but Denk was not present at this meeting and contended at the July 2, 1997, hearing that she did not authorize her attorney to agree to change her son's name.
Several times during the July 2, 1997, hearing, the parties referred to a recent Kansas Court of Appeals decision, In re Marriage of Killman, 23 Kan. App. 2d 975, 939 P.2d 970 (1997). Based upon our decision in Killman, the district court overruled Denk's objections to the court's jurisdiction to change Colton's name, and ordered his last name changed to Taylor.
Subsequent to the district court's decision, our Supreme Court reversed Killman. In re Marriage of Killman, 264 Kan. 33, 955 P.2d 1228w (1998). In Killman, the district court's authority to order a change of name for a minor child whose custody was subject to the jurisdiction of the court through a divorce action was at issue. We held that the power to change a child's name in a divorce action was inferred under the authority of K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 60-1610(a), which empowers courts to make orders concerning the support, education, custody, and residency of the minor children of divorcing parents.
Our Supreme Court reversed, stating:
"It is a fundamental rule of statutory construction, to which all other rules are subordinate, that the intent of the legislature governs if that intent can be ascertained. [Citation omitted.] The legislature is presumed to have expressed its intent through the language of the statutory scheme it enacted. When a statute is plain and unambiguous, the court must give effect to the intention of the legislature as expressed, rather than determine what the law should or should not be. [Citation omitted.] Stated another way, when a statute is plain and unambiguous, the appellate courts will not speculate as to the legislative intent behind it and will not read such a statute so as to add something not readily found in the statute. [Citation omitted.]
". . . K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 60-1610 specifically provides that a divorce decree may include orders regarding child support, education, child custody, and residency and that, upon the request of a spouse, the court shall order the restoration of that spouse's maiden or former name. After applying each of the previously discussed rules of statutory construction, we conclude there is no statutory authority in K.S.A. 60-1601 et seq. that authorizes the court to change the name of a minor child of the parties.
"A district court having jurisdiction over a child's custody in a divorce action does not have jurisdiction or statutory authority to change the name of the child of the marriage. If the legislature had wished to confer authority to change a child's name in a divorce action, it would have specifically done so as it did in reference to child support, education, custody, and restoration of a spouse's former name." 264 Kan. at 42-43.
Following the rational of Killman, we must hold that the Kansas Parentage Act, K.S.A. 38-1110 et seq., does not confer upon the district court the authority to change a child's name, absent the express consent of both parents. The Act gives courts the authority to determine paternity; make orders concerning the support and education of the child, including necessary medical expenses incident to the birth; and to make orders concerning custody and visitation. K.S.A. 38-1121(c) and (d). Further, the Act gives the courts the authority to change the child's name with the consent of both parties. K.S.A. 38-1130. If the legislature had intended to grant the courts authority to change a child's name in a paternity proceeding without the consent of one of the parents, it would have listed that power as one of the authorized orders in the Act. Since it was not included in the Act, we must presume that the legislature did not intend to grant such authority to the courts.
The order of the district court changing Colton's name to Taylor is reversed.


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Known for her bubbly personality, confidence and kindness to her fans, JoJo makes a great role model for the younger generations. Since she first made a name for herself as a dancer, her tour isn't only about singing her brand new material live, but is sure to be jam packed with high energy dance routines and a few light hearted comedy moments that match her effervescent public persona. Expect girl power, glitter and all the colors of the rainbow at this spectacular teen-friendly concert.
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Yeah, right. Like any town would outlaw dancing, as officials do in the 1984 movie "Footloose" and its remake, opening Oct. 14. Or would they?
"Our producers searched, just to make sure it was still relevant, to see if anything like this was still happening," says newcomer Kenny Wormald, who plays the Ren McCormack role originated by Kevin Bacon, "and they stopped counting at 100 towns that had a ban on dancing."
Adds director and former Bolingbrook resident Craig Brewer ("Hustle and Flow"), "It's a lot more common than you'd think. There's one town in Orange County, they just canceled prom."
OK then. The story—city boy Ren's arrival to the small Southern town of Bomont strikes a chord with rebellious Ariel (Julianne Hough) and her preacher father (Dennis Quaid), who supported the town's ban on dancing—is still relevant. And the highly entertaining remake proves that you can create an enjoyable drama that happens to involve a lot of dancing. (As opposed to a stupidly clichéd movie like those in the "Step Up" franchise, which exists only for the purpose of its dance sequences.)
During our interview, Hough, 23, Wormald, 27, and Brewer, 39 (who passed on the movie twice), all note that the movie is not, as was originally planned/caused Zac Efron to drop out of the project, a musical that would, as Wormald puts it, include singing in grocery stores.
From a Wrigley Field suite during an early September Cubs game (for which Wormald threw out the first pitch and sang the 7th inning stretch with Hough), the "Footloose" trio talked about famous Ariels, dancing vs. acting and Hough and boyfriend Ryan Seacrest's obsession with mouthwash.
Who's the more famous Ariel: Ariel from "Footloose" or from "The Little Mermaid"?
Julianne H.: [Laughs]
Craig B.: "The Little Mermaid."
JH: [sings like Ariel the mermaid]
Kenny W.: It's Disney, man. You can't mess with Disney.
CB.: I got a three-year-old daughter. And all the princesses, it's all about dress color. Belle is a yellow dress. Cinderella blue dress.
JH: Ariel has red hair.
CB: Aurora from "Sleeping Beauty"?
JH: Pink!
CB: You pass.
So it's unanimous.
JH: "Little Mermaid." By the way, my favorite Disney movie anyway.
CB: It's interesting because you're a little boy and you kind of fall in love with Ariel the mermaid, but then you become a teenager and then there's that complicated girl [Ariel in "Footloose"] that stands in front of a train barreling at her and she's dressed in these tight jeans…
JH: Can I just say something? Ariel the mermaid is the mermaid version of Ariel [from "Footloose"]! She has the conflict…
CB: She's rebelling against her father,--
JH: Yes!
CB: She's like, "Hey I like that kid." He's like, "No, you're not going to go and do that."
JH: Yes!
CB: It's like, "Where were you last night?"
JH: Exactly! I love that!
CB: I'm sure the Disney people were like, "Oh, we'll name her Ariel because she's [just like] Ariel from 'Footloose.'"
What did you think of the original "Footloose," and why did you want to be part of the remake?
KW: I loved the original film as a kid. I didn't see it in theaters, but I saw it on VHS when I was about 10 years old. I absolutely loved it. I was dancing then, and to see a guy dance and do the things he was doing and make it look cool was really amazing, 'cause I used to get made fun of for going to dance and missing baseball practice 'cause I'm going to dance. So to see something like that really stuck with me forever, and then to come back and get the opportunity to remake that, what inspired me so much, is amazing. (Accidentally drops the ball he's holding.) That's cause I missed baseball practice.
JH: And growing up in Utah, if you didn't like "Footloose" or had never seen it, then something was wrong with you. That was literally our movie. It was shot there and growing up in Utah, kinda similar religious background, and so I loved it more than anything. Those types of movies were the movies that depicted what I wanted to do in the future.
Julianne, as a kid you often passed by the mills where Kevin Bacon did the angry dance. How many times did you stop and recreate it by yourself?
JH: Well, never. Not once. I kind of feel like now that I made the movie and I didn't get an angry dance, I might just go—
CB: You gotta go ahead and do it. Just rage.
JH: And just do it.
Kenny, how often do you dance out your anger?
KW: You know what, not often. But I say this a lot, if something is happening in my life where I'm stressed out with anything … Two days ago I taught a dance class in Toronto, we were doing promo stuff and I found that after the class I was just very relaxed. I'm like, "Wow, that's crazy." Dancing is therapeutic. It sounds silly and goofy but I understand why Ren rages out and has to do that—because he can't talk to anyone at that point. He can't do anything about it. So in a sense it seems kind of funny, but it's actually true, man; people work out and they feel better and relaxed. It's the same thing. You can dance and express something and get it out. But I've never gone into a factory and broken windows and…
CB: Swung from a chain, or do any gymnastic [routines]? No, you don't do that?
KW: No! [Laughs]
CB: That's like a Saturday for me, are you kidding me?
You've had more extensive dancing backgrounds than acting. How do you feel about your acting skills compared to dancing?
KW: Well, I think dancing is something we've always done—
JH: We never had the opportunity—
KW: Because we had the opportunity to dance. But this is now an opportunity for us to act. And I think dancing is very related to acting; you're expressing an emotion through your body and now we're using our mouth and words. I think they're hand in hand. And coming from the backgrounds that we have—we did musical theater, we did performances and we did speak on stage—so now we're just getting the opportunity which I'm super grateful for. And I know she is as well. Because this movie isn't a typical dance movie; it's a drama with dancing so we actually do get to act.
JH: And at one point I was nervous to dance in front of people, I had to think about the next step that I was going to do. Or getting up on stage, I had stage fright to sing. I had to go into karaoke bars. When I was 15 my mom would take me to the Stratosphere in Las Vegas, and we would go to this karaoke bar and I would sing all these songs so I could get confident. And now I'll sing in front of anybody, I'll dance in front of anybody, and the same thing with acting. I just haven't had the experience of actually doing it. I always make the reference, it's like I took French for 5 years when I lived in London but I can't speak a word of it because I never actually went and spoke it. Now it's like I took classes and I did all that stuff with my acting, but I never actually did it so now that I'm doing it it'll get better and better and you'll have more confidence.
Julianne, once you become a famous actress in addition to a famous dancer, will you be one of the stars on "Dancing with the Stars"?
JH: [Laughs] That would be completely and utterly unfair. [Laughs]
KW: That's cheating.
JW: She's a dancer!
JH: Because I dance. I would have taught these people.
But every season has one star who is better at dancing, or is a singer. You would be unstoppable.
JH: But I gotta tell you though, ballroom and Latin dancing is so different than any other style of dancing. You get like a hip-hop dancer trying to do ballroom…
KW: Like Nicole [Scherzinger], she's probably never done ballroom.
JH: Yeah, she's never done ballroom.
KW: She's done other dancing, but that's still cheating to me.
JH: I don't know. No, that would never happen. [Laughs]
I asked my wife if she had any questions for you today, and she said I should ask what kind of boob tape you use on "Dancing with the Stars" to keep the goods from falling out?
JH: [Laughs] I like your wife!
KW: That's a new question!
CB: I don't think we've been asked that. Tell [your wife] congrats.
JH: It's called Top Stick. And it's pretty dang good.
KW: All the girls in the business use Top Stick.
How concerned are you during the dances about having a problem?
JH: Well [for] the dances, the material and the stitching and the boob cups and the elastic they use is pretty heavy duty, so that stuff I trust. The stuff that I don't trust are these like delicate red carpet dresses that are done by fashion designers, so they literally break and fall because they're not sewn heavy duty—
KW: They're not all-terrain.
JH: They're meant to be just worn. So sometimes you walk and you're like (freezes, makes ripping sound). Walk back again…
Julianne, you and your boyfriend Ryan Seacrest might be the couple with the brightest teeth. How often do you have to put on sunglasses just to look at them?
JH: [Laughs] Actually I was just thinking about that, I need to get some better…
KW: Crest White Strips.
JH: Yeah, right?
KW: Send 'em.
JH: We are kind of addicted to mouthwash. Like constantly fresh breath.
What kind of mouthwash?
JH: (talking like she's on a commercial) Scope, of course.
What's an '80s movie that should never be remade?
KW: "Top Gun." Although I would do it.
Where they ate the night before the interview: P.J. Clarke's on Illinois
Wormald, on throwing out the first pitch at Wrigley Field: "I gotta tell you, I was pretty damn nervous. I think I did well. I'd give myself an A-, B+. It hit the dirt. But I was better than all the other sponsor people who threw out their first pitch."
How it was determined he'd be the one to throw:
CB—"He wanted to be a baseball player when he was younger."
JH—"And I would have thrown like a girl!"
CB—"I would have thrown like a girl too."
Hough, on the notion of avoiding another role involving dancing: "I thought that, after I shot 'Footloose' I had done 'Burlesque,' and even though 'Footloose' is not a musical, it still kind of ranges in that category, and then I was approached to do 'Rock of Ages,' and I was like, 'You know, I don't know if I want to do another musical.' And then Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin were attached and I'm like, 'OK, maybe one more.'"
The pick to win "Dancing with the Stars" this season:
KW—"Derek [Hough, paired up with Ricki Lake]."
JH—"I'm a little biased."
CB—"That's a great combo. People are going to really love them."
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John Affleck-Graves was elected executive vice president April 30, 2004, by the Board of Trustees. He holds the Notre Dame Chair in Finance and previously served for three years as vice president and associate provost.
Dr. Affleck-Graves' responsibilities include administration of an operating budget of $1.6 billion and an endowment of more than $10 billion. He also oversees human resource activities for a work force of more than 4,000 employees – the largest in St. Joseph County – and directs the University's construction program.
Dr. Affleck-Graves served on the Notre Dame faculty from 1986-2000 – the final three years as chairman of the Department of Finance and Business Economics – and returned in 2001 after a year at Florida State University as the Patty Hill Smith Eminent Scholar in Finance. He previously taught from 1975-86 at his alma mater, the University of Cape Town, where he earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.
The author of more than 50 refereed publications, Dr. Affleck-Graves specializes in the study of initial public offerings, valuation and asset pricing models, and shareholder value added methodology. He has served as a consultant for numerous companies, including Allied Signal, Bayer, Merck, Pharmacia & Upjohn, and Donnelly Glass.
Highly regarded in the classroom as well, Dr. Affleck-Graves has received eight outstanding teaching awards at Notre Dame – three in the regular MBA Program, four in the Executive MBA Program and one for undergraduate teaching – and two others at Cape Town.
While previously at Notre Dame, he was actively involved in University governance, serving on the Academic Council, the Academic Code of Honor Committee, the Faculty Senate, and as chair of the Provost's Task Force on Curricular Innovation.
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Deniliquin is a small town of approximately 8,500 people in southern New South Wales. Deniliquin the town is on the eastern border of the graticule, and the graticule stretches down nearly to Moama, town on the New South Wales - Victoria border. It's famous for it's Ute On A Pole, which - understandably - is a full-sized ute (pickup truck) bolted to the top of a pole - and notable settler routes into the Australian interior.
It's hot as hell most of the time, and it hardly ever rains, which irritates the local farmers quite a bit. By no means is it an easy or accessible graticule as it's not on the logical path to any particular town, unless you're driving up towards Hay. There are few access roads, and miles and miles of open farmland, including (bizarrely) rice crops. Yes, people grow rice in an area that gets about as much rain as a desert. Weird.
Kozz has friends up in the Deniliquin graticule and may visit them once a year or so, but the odds of an achievable hash anywhere within the general graticule are low.
Despite that, the stars aligned one day and on Jan 31st 2010 Kozz and three New South Welshmen, including one who was just 10 months old, reached the graticule on the side of the Cobb Highway. Photos can be found on the meetup page.
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Þ Some experiments were done on the germination, with special care to the following points (factors): - Temperature (20-25 ºC; 25-30ºC; alternation of temp.20-25ºC 10 hours/16-17ºC 14 hours). - daylight e darkness - Margas environment / "sterilized environment" (Filters) ÞSpecies subjected to experiments were: Species "A" - Dactylis glomerata subsp. (Roth) Nyman - Brachypodium phoenicoides (L.) Roemer & Schultes - Piptaterum miliaceum (L.) Cosson - Hyparrenia hirta (L.) Staf Species "B" - Psoralea bituminosa L. - Ononis mitissima L. The experiments results on "A" species were very good; on the contrary, the experiments results on "B" species were disappointing, with a very low % of germination, showing the Ononis mitissima L. 0% of germination in some experiments (even applying for scarification). ÞIf you know somebody that has already done this experiments (may be yourself - that would be perfect) on this species, and can help me understand the behavior of the Psoralea bituminosa L. and Ononis mitissima L., graminea Hyparrenia hirta (L.) Staf, as the other species listed above, please reply to this note. Can you help me clarify this points: - Is there the need for stratification in the case of "B" species? ------------------------------------- // --------------------------------------------- - How to produce seeds of "B" species in reasonable quantity? What technics to use? What system? Others: flower bed size, seed cleaning, storage, etc? - How to preserve seeds for periods of 1 to 5 years? And more? Thanks! :) Jose Luis Silva (Portugal - Europe) usfmc6(at)ibmmail.com PS: I am writing this note to help a friend of mine that conducted the experiments.


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Nielsen Was RightMay 27, 2003
There was an interesting article last week on Federal Computer Week, an information technology mag for the U.S. Government trade. Online Feng Shui — focus on users and not designers or committees.
As a designer, you can cater to the end user's need, provide information and create value for them, striving for the ideal of a good user experience. Or, you can cater to your client's wants — adjust spacing, imagery, font and colour until they stop bothering you with their personal preference, and ignore the guy who actually has to use the site.
Often, you end up having to do both. Clients sometimes get so wrapped up in their wants that they forget their users have needs that, if not met, will be taken elsewhere for fulfillment.
The worst of both worlds is when your work results in a cheap shill to make someone a quick buck, with no consideration to the end user. This, I find, is capitalism at its worst, and I avoid this type of client as much as possible.
In an article I wrote for this site in January, poorly titled "Marketing Bad, Useful Good", I addressed a job where I had to stow my principles and create a horribly marketing–heavy site I was ashamed of. It's worth noting that the epilogue to the story is that I've recently been contracted to revise my original work, because the end users were finding it to hard to use, and therefore didn't.
It's hard not to say I told you so.
update: for a much longer and more vexing look at the issue, check out Keith Robinson's post.
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Seems like this type of issue has been popping up a bit of late. I can say this type of thinking has been around forever. I am glad to hear that you get the chance to go back and make it right, I bet that feels good.
Here's some irony for you. Just today I posted about a very similar situation that didn't go quite so well:


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Lost Creek Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Lost Creek Wilderness (map) in 1980 and it now has a total of 114,864 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Colorado and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionLost Creek Wilderness is located approximately 60 miles southwest of Denver. Unlike most of Colorado's jagged Wilderness profiles, Lost Creek is a land of fascinating rounded granite domes and knobs, split boulders, rare granite arches, and tree-lined mountain parks. Its rock formations are among the most spectacular in the entire Rocky Mountains. Wilderness elevations range from 8,000 feet to 12,400 feet. Lost Creek got its name from its habit of repeatedly disappearing underground, later to reappear farther down the valley. Black bear, deer, elk, bighorn sheep, and bobcats share the region. The northern section contains most of the Platte River Mountains and the Kenosha Mountains. In 1963, the 15,120 acre Lost Creek Scenic Area was created under the precursor of the Wilderness Act, the "U-Regulations" of 1939. In 1966, the Scenic Area was also designated a National Natural Landmark. During the first U.S. Forest Service RARE process, Lost Creek received more comments recommending its wilderness designation than any other Colorado area. In 1980 the 105,000 acre Lost Creek Wilderness was created under the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1980. Approximately 14,700 additional acres were later added to the west end of the Wilderness under the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993. Lost Creek is accessed by a 136 mile trail network, 105 miles of which are within the Wilderness boundary. The cross-state Colorado Trail passes through the Wilderness.
Planning to Visit the Lost Creek Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations, Permits
- Contact the Forest Service
- Visit the National Forest wilderness website
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Lost Creek Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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Caloric Restriction
Caloric Restriction
Caloric restriction (CR) is a general strategy for improving wellbeing and lifespan. It is more than a simple limitation of calories for maintenance of body weight; CR is the dramatic reduction of caloric intake to levels that may be significantly (up to 50% in some cases) below that for maximum growth and fertility, but nutritionally sufficient for maintaining overall health ("undernutrition without malnutrition."1). It remains one of the most researched and successful approaches to life extension in laboratory settings. Although the effects of CR on health are diverse, its mechanisms are not fully understood, and are thought to involve the activation of survival mechanisms that have been evolutionarily conserved to protect organisms from stress.
The idea of extending healthspan (the period of healthy living before the onset of age-related disease) and lifespan by lowering food intake is not a new one. Louis Caranaro's 16th century best-selling anti-aging book suggested that longevity would come to those who ate only enough to sustain life; Benjamin Franklin supported the concept of abstinence as a defense against disease two centuries later.2 But it was the work of McCay in the 1930s that first demonstrated that reducing calories below the level required for maximum fertility, while avoiding malnutrition, could extend the mean and maximum lifespan of laboratory rats by 40% or more.3 In the years following that seminal work, the health and longevity effects of CR have been observed in a wide range of organisms, ranging from single-celled Saccharomyces, to primates and man.
The practical challenge of long-term or lifetime CR has recently generated interest in caloric restriction mimetics (CRMs), an alternative to CR which may provide the pro-longevity benefits without an actual reduction in caloric intake.4 CRMs are a broad class of compounds and interventions that may promote life- and health-span by a diversity of mechanisms, ranging from induction of genes that protect against stress, to antioxidation and anti-inflammation.
CR in Animals and Non-human Primates
Seventy-five years of research have determined that the longevity and health effects of CR are a broad biological phenomenon that has been observed in species from three kingdoms of life (Animalia, Fungi, and Protoctista).5 Both the mean and maximum life spans of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), rotifers, nematodes (Caenorhabditis elegans), fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) and medflies, spiders, fish (guppies, zebrafish), rodents (hamsters, rats, mice), and dogs have been extended significantly by decreasing normal caloric consumption by 30 to 40 percent.6 Recently, the effects of CR on lifespan have been observed in non-human primates. The rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) is an excellent model for the study of human aging, exhibiting many physiological and biochemical similarities to humans.7 Unlike other animal aging models, the rhesus monkey also allows the study of brain atrophy, a characteristic of human aging that does not occur in smaller mammals8. With an average lifespan of about 27 years in captivity9, the rhesus also is suitable for determining the effects of CR on maximal lifespan.
Studies of the effects of CR on three separate rhesus colonies are currently underway; results from two have been published. A 20-year study conducted at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center suggests that CR of baseline diet by 30 percent may slow aging in the rhesus, as gauged by two indicators of aging retardation: delays in mortality, and in the onset of age-associated diseases (particularly diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neurological impairment; the most prevalent age-related diseases in humans).10 At study entry, the animals (46 males and 30 females) were at adult age (7-14 years); at the time the study was published (twenty years later), nearly three times as many control monkeys had died of age-related causes than CR monkeys (37% vs. 13%). The CR monkeys appeared to be biologically younger than their normal-fed counterparts, and not surprisingly, had lower body and fat mass. Sarcopenia (age-related muscle loss) was attenuated in the CR group. CR monkeys were also free of diabetes (compared to 5/38 of control animals) or glucose intolerance (compared to 11/38 of control animals). Incidence of cardiovascular disease, all cancers, and adenocarcinoma of the GI tract (the most common cancer in rhesus monkeys11) was reduced by half in the CR group. Calorie restriction resulted in preservation of brain volume in the caudate, putamen and insula, areas that are classically involved in regulation of motor and executive function. The effects of CR on maximum lifespan have yet to be determined for this colony, as animals in both groups are still living.
A smaller study at the University of Maryland tracked 8 CR rhesus monkeys and 109 ad-libitum (free-fed) controls over a period of 25 years, and produced many of the same observations.12,13 Ad libitum fed animals died at 25 years of age compared to a median survival of 32 years in the CR group. Calorie restriction also reduced hyperinsulinemia (elevated circulating insulin) and the frequency of age-associated diseases.
Although the available data is limited, these two studies do implicate that the healthspan and lifespan benefits of CR that have been observed in rodents and lower animals may also extend to primates and possibly man.
CR in Humans and Increased Lifespan
Assessing the effects of dietary interventions on human lifespan is a difficult endeavor; with average life expectancies of 75 and 80 years for men and women, respectively14 , any prospective study would likely necessitate several generations of researchers to carry out. Therefore, human aging studies must rely on surrogate measures (biomarkers) of aging. Reduced body temperature and lowered fasting insulin levels are robust markers of CR and slowed aging in rodents and rhesus monkeys.15
Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S), which declines in both rhesus monkeys and humans during normal aging, may be important in health maintenance and may serve as another potential longevity marker.16 DHEA-S, a product of the adrenal glands and the most abundant circulating steroid hormone, serves as the precursor to the sex steroids (androgens and estrogens). Increased DHEA-S levels in monkeys on CR are associated with survival17. Similarly, data from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA)18 suggests that long-lived humans exhibit some of the same physiological and biochemical changes that accompany caloric restriction in animals. In the study, human survival rates were highest in those with low body temperatures, low levels of circulating insulin; and high DHEA-S levels.19
While there is yet no direct evidence of human lifespan extension by CR, there has been limited observational and clinical data that suggests a connection. In the 1970s, the Japanese island of Okinawa was reported to contain up to 40 times as many centenarians as other Japanese communities, which was suggested to result from CR (The caloric intake of adults and children in Okinawa was 20- and 40 percent lower than their mainland counterparts, respectively)20 Two decades earlier, a small study revealed that 60 healthy seniors receiving an average of 1500 kcal/day for a period of 3 years had significantly lowered rates of hospital admissions and a numerically lowered death rate than an equal number of control volunteers.21
CR in Humans Mitigates Disease Risk
There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that CR may reduce disease risk factors, which may have a direct influence on healthspan (and indirectly increase lifespan). Several observational studies have tracked the effects of CR on lean, healthy individuals, and have demonstrated that moderate CR (22-30% decreases in caloric intake from normal levels) improves heart function, reduces markers of inflammation (C-reactive protein, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)), reduces risk factors for cardiovascular disease (elevated LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure) and reduces diabetes risk factors (fasting blood glucose and insulin levels).22,23,24,25 CR in healthy individuals has also been associated with reductions in circulating insulin-like growth factor - 1 (IGF-1), and cyclooxygenase II (COX-2) 26, all of which may be indicative of a decreased risk of certain cancers. Epidemiological data shows an association between higher plasma IGF-1 concentrations and a greater risk of breast27, prostate28, and colon cancers.29 COX-2, in addition to its role in inflammation, can promote the growth and spread of tumors.30 31 32
Preliminary results from the Comprehensive Assessment of Long-Term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy (CALERIE)33 are reproducing many of the metabolic and physiologic responses to CR observed in rodents and monkeys.34 To better elucidate the effects of CR in humans, The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is sponsoring a multi-site randomized human clinical study to assess the safety and efficacy of 2 years of CR in non-obese but overweight healthy individuals. Researchers of the Pennington CALERIE group have followed 48 overweight (average BMI 27.5) middle-aged (average age 37) individuals for 6 months adopting one of 4 protocols: 1) 25% caloric restriction (CR group), 2) 12.5% CR with an additional 12.5% caloric expenditure from exercise (CREX group), 3) very low calorie diet (890 kcal/day) until 15% weight reduction, followed by a diet of sufficient calories to maintain this weight (VLCD group), or 4) control. Not surprisingly, all three intervention groups demonstrated reduced body weight, visceral (abdominal) fat, and fat cell size35,36, as well as reduced liver fat deposits.37 Fat loss was not significantly different between the CR and CREX groups (24% total fat, 27% visceral fat).38 All three intervention groups also demonstrated reductions in DNA damage.39 Only the CR and CREX groups, however, were able to improve two markers of longevity (reduced body temperature and reduced fasting plasma insulin), as well as reduce cardiovascular risk factors (LDL-C, triglycerides, and blood pressure. C-reactive protein was reduced only in the CREX group.40 Circulating thyroid hormone (T3) concentrations were lower in the CR and CREX groups. 41 Under conditions of CR, reduction in circulating thyroid hormone and body temperature suggests the normal adaptation of the body to lower energy intake and expenditure; similar reductions in T3 and metabolic rate have been observed in other human and animal CR studies.42 The CR groups also exhibited increases in the amount of mitochondria (the cellular sites of energy production), and increased expression of two genes (TFAM and PGC-1α) that are indicative of mitochondrial biogenesis, the formation of new mitochondria.43 Mitochondrial loss and dysfunction may be responsible for some of the most potent effects of the aging process.44
Similar results have been observed from the CALERIE studies at Washington University on a separate group of 50-60 year old non-obese overweight (average BMI 27) volunteers after 1 year of either CR (3 months of 16% CR followed by 9 months of 20% CR) or exercise training of equivalent energy expenditure (ie. expending 20% of daily caloric intake).45 CR improved cardiovascular parameters (left ventricular diastolic function, diastolic and systolic blood pressure) 46, lowered C-reactive protein and insulin resistance 47, and lowered circulating thyroid hormone T348 and fasting plasma insulin.49
CR in this second, older volunteer population was not without some negative consequences: Compared to the exercise-only group, CR demonstrated decreases in muscle mass, strength, and aerobic capacity.50,51 The CR group also demonstrated significantly more loss of bone mineral density (BMD) at the spine, hip, and femur (interochanter) than either the exercise-only or control groups, which was observable by month 3 of the study.52 It should be noted that in the younger CALERIE study group, there was no significant differences in BMD in any of the groups at month 6.53 The potential of losses in aerobic capacity and BMD stress the importance of exercise in CR protocols.
The CALERIE group at the Jean Mayer-USDA Human Nutrition Center on Aging at Tufts University compared the effects of CR diet composition (high glycemic vs. low glycemic load) in 29 healthy overweight adults provided with 30% calorie restricted meals for 6 months, followed by self-monitored restriction for an additional 6 months. Clinical indicators (fasting serum triglycerides, cholesterol, insulin) were significantly reduced in both groups at 6 and 12 months, but were not different between groups.54 There was no significant difference in weight loss or energy expenditure between the high glycemic (HG; 60% of calories from carbohydrates) and low glycemic (LG; 40% of calories from carbohydrates) groups, but the LG group lost significantly more fat mass, and retained more fat-free mass.55 The LG group also demonstrated greater declines in CRP during the first 6 months of the CR protocol.56 While these data indicate that the overall reduction in energy intake, and not diet composition, may be a more important determinant of weight loss and its associated CR health benefits, it does suggest additional benefits of LG diets. By their very nature, LG diets can limit postprandial ("post-meal") elevations in blood glucose; aiding in the maintenance of the target 2-hour postmeal level of <140 mg/dL, which the International Diabetes Federation suggests may lower the risk of several diseases, including cancer, cognitive impairment, cardiovascular disease, and retinopathy.57
A randomized clinical trial examined the effects of two years of calorie restriction on metabolism and oxidative stress. The 53 participants who completed the trial were healthy and either normal-weight or slightly overweight at the time of enrollment; 34 were in a calorie restriction group, given detailed instructions and support to help them achieve a 25% reduction in daily caloric intake while maintaining adequate nutritional intake; 19 were in a control group, instructed not to substantially change their diet.
At the end of two years, the calorie restriction group had achieved an average calorie reduction of 14.8% and sustained an average weight loss of 19.1 pounds, mostly due to loss of fat. In addition, a significant drop in resting energy output, particularly during sleep, was measured in tests done after one and two years of calorie restriction. While some of this reduction could be attributed to loss of metabolically active tissue due to weight loss, most of it—equivalent to 80–120 calories per day—exceeded this expected outcome. This phenomenon of decreased energy output in excess of what could be accounted for by weight loss alone has been noted in previous weight loss studies and is known as metabolic adaptation. Metabolic adaptation is thought to represent a shift toward more efficient energy use.
Importantly, measures of oxidative stress were improved in the calorie restriction group. This effect was noted after one year and was sustained at two years. The drop in oxidative stress correlated with the degree of calorie restriction and metabolic adaptation attained. It has been proposed that reduced production of harmful free radicals resulting from more efficient metabolic activity is the link between calorie restriction and extended lifespan. This theory is supported by the current findings.185


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The Football Association of Serbia (Fudbalski savez Srbije or FSS) was originally founded in 1919 as the Yugoslav Football Association, and gained admittance to FIFA and UEFA in 1921 and 1954 respectively. The 2011 UEFA European Under-17 Championship will be the first final tournament they have staged since becoming the FSS in 2006.
Yugoslavia played their first international against Czechoslovakia at the Olympic Games in Antwerp on 28 August 1920, losing 7-0. However, major achievements were not long in coming as the country proceeded to participate in five Olympics and eight FIFA World Cups. They were Olympic champions in Rome in 1960, silver medallists in London (1948), Helsinki (1952) and Melbourne (1956), and bronze medallists in Los Angeles (1984).
They also appeared regularly in World Cup tournaments: Uruguay in 1930, reaching the semi-finals; Brazil (1950); Switzerland (1954); Chile (1962) where they came fourth; Germany (1974); Spain (1982); Italy (1990); and France (1998). In addition, Yugoslavia featured five times in the final round of the UEFA European Championship. Runners-up in Paris (1960) and Rome (1968), they finished fourth in Belgrade in 1976 and also competed in France (1984) and Belgium/Netherlands (2000). However, Olympics apart, major honours have been the preserve of the younger representative sides.
Yugoslavia's Under-21s were European champions in 1978 and then triumphed in the International Youth Tournament a year later. More celebrations followed with victory at the 1987 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile. On an individual level the legendary Dragan Džajic held the record for national-team caps with 85 until overtaken by Savo Milošević, who retired on 102; Stjepan Bobek still leads the goalscoring chart with 38.
Arguably the greatest international achievement by a Yugoslavian side has been FK Crvena zvezda's victory over Olympique de Marseille in the European Champion Clubs' Cup final of 1991: they won 5-4 on penalties in Bari after a 0-0 draw. Later that year Crvena zvezda beat CD Colo Colo of Chile 3-0 in the European/South American Cup in Tokyo. FK Partizan, also of Belgrade, had got close to realising European Cup success yet lost the 1966 final in Brussels 2-1 to Real Madrid CF. Both capital clubs have also performed outstandingly in domestic competitions.
All these events have taken place against a backdrop of political flux. From 1919 to 1941 Yugoslavia was a kingdom but in 1946 it became a republic and subsequently underwent several changes of identity. Between 1946 and 1963 it was the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, until it finally fragmented in 1992. In the latter period the country consisted of six republics: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia.
In 1992 the new state of Serbia and Montenegro was named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In the same year a United Nations resolution imposing sanctions on the country was extended to sport. Consequently, the national team was sent back from the EURO '92 finals in Sweden despite having qualified on merit. For the same reason it was prohibited from taking part in qualifying for both the 1994 World Cup and EURO '96.
In February 2003 the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia changed its name once again to Serbia and Montenegro. Finally, in June 2006, Serbia and Montenegro became separate nations and the Republic of Serbia was declared. Serbia's first international as a single entity came against the Czech Republic in August 2006 and success soon arrived: they qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa under coach Radomir Antić. Now the FSS, with its headquarters in Belgrade, is responsible for all football activities in the country and is an independent, democratic, non-governmental, and politically and religiously neutral association.
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