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Alabama Counties: Randolph County
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Randolph County was created by an act of the Alabama General Assembly on 18 Dec. 1832, from former Creek Indian territory. It is located in the eastern-central part of the state, in the Piedmont plateau. It encompasses 585 square miles.
The county is named for John Randolph, a former Virginia statesman. The county seat was established in Wedowee in 1834-35. Other towns of note include Roanoke, Rock Mills and Wadley.
Owen, Thomas McAdory. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1921.
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Last week's killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya, followed by the sudden outburst of violence in Tunisia and the forced evacuation of Americans working at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, reflected a sudden and dramatic change from the scene I saw there less than three months ago.
In June, I spent nearly a week in Tunisia, both in the capital city and in the Sahara region to the south.
While not exactly a peaceful place, it appeared to be prospering, more than a year after the so-called Arab Spring of uprisings took root there, leading to the ouster of longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. And similar revolts swept through Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Yemen.
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Construction was brisk in Tunis, fueled by petro-dollars and U.S. assistance to the new government there.
Traveling to Carthage, to the island of Djerba, to the desert oasis called Ksar Ghilane, I encountered a lot of curious looks in the coffeehouses, in the marketplaces, or souks, but no open hostility toward American visitors.
Last week's unrest and assault on the American embassy by protesters laid to rest for me the fiction that the country's revolution had led to a stable environment. It appeared that anti-American sentiment had simply gone underground before this.
What happened in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere throughout the region has revived interest here at home in foreign policy as it relates to the presidential election. That's not something we've heard much of this year, with the economy dominating the landscape.
The trouble in North Africa and the Middle East is raising fresh questions about who is better equipped to deal with tricky issues on the world stage. A recent CNN poll gives Barack Obama the edge on that issue.
Will foreign policy and questions of national security determine the outcome? Unlikely. But it means a new lens through which voters will watch the coming debates and the campaigning in these closing weeks of election season.


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Two recent animal studies offer a possible explanation for how caloric restriction might possibly enhance human health and help extend life as well.
One new study from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and Dr. Roy Verdery at the Arizona Center on Aging shows that a 30 percent reduction in calories in a monkey's diet leads to elevation in good cholesterol (HDL2B) levels with a subsequent reduction in risk for cardiovascular disease. A second recent study from the NIA has shown that caloric restriction slows the age-related decrease in amounts of a naturally occurring steroid hormone, DHEA. Using natural DHEA levels as a biomarker of aging may assist scientists in their search for a way to slow down the aging process.
Previous research in shorter-lived species such as fruit flies and rats has demonstrated that a 30 percent caloric restriction can lead to 30 percent longer life in addition to enhanced markers of good health.
The first of the two studies (American Journal of Physiology, October, 1997, Vol. 36, No. 4) demonstrates that, over a ten year period, a 30 percent reduction in caloric intake in rhesus monkeys leads to up to a 25 point elevation in HDL2B levels as well as a 20 point decrease in triglyceride levels (as measured in milligrams per deciliter). Increases in HDL2B and decreases in triglycerides of this magnitude in humans would be a great health benefit to many, especially for those at risk for stroke or heart attack.
Principal investigator, George Roth, Ph.D., Acting Chief of NIA's Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, says, "In addition to enhanced HDL2B and lower triglyceride levels, we also see a small drop in blood pressure. These HDL2B results, combined with previous findings from our lab showing better glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity (which should predict lower incidence of diabetes), lower body temperature, and other such biomarkers suggesting that caloric restriction may exert beneficial effects in primates similar to those previously observed in rodents. These results may someday serve as a model for human studies."
One interesting aspect of this particular study is that neither the control monkeys nor the calorically restricted monkeys eat much fat or cholesterol as part of their diets. Thus the study demonstrates that even in non-obese monkeys, a reduction in calorie intake can benefit cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure. This research presents an important contrast to studies that usually look at obesity and how weight loss from that level can benefit health.
It is demonstrated here for the first time that caloric restriction can lead to changes in HDLs and other lipid profiles that may be associated with health benefits for both those animals that are lean as well as those that are heavier.
Recent research under the direction of Mark Lane, Ph.D., Senior Staff Fellow at the NIH's Animal Center, has turned up an interesting added benefit to caloric restriction. In addition to boosting good cholesterol and reducing triglycerides, monkeys on caloric restricted diets experience a favorable redistribution of fat away from their central regions thus reinforcing the current finding about reduction in cardiovascular risk with caloric restriction.
The second study from Drs. Roth, Lane, and Donald Ingram at NIA and Dr. Sheldon Ball at the University of San Francisco-Fresno, appeared in the July 1997 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (Vol. 82, No. 7, pp. 2093-2096). In this study, monkeys whose calorie intake was restricted by 30 percent showed a slower decline in DHEAS (dehydroepi-androsterone sulfate) and DHEA (the unsulfated form) levels than those observed in control monkeys.
Dr. Lane, principal investigator of this study, says, "DHEA levels are of great interest to us, not because we believe that DHEA is the fountain of youth, but rather because it gives us a very good marker to measure the rates of aging in control versus calorically restricted monkeys. It is important to distinguish between levels of DHEA that occur naturally in the body and decline with age and levels that are seen in people who pop DHEA pills to pharmacologically raise their natural levels in hope of extending their lives. These artificially higher levels may or may not give them any benefit. Controlled clinical trials are needed before this question can be answered." Dr. Ingram adds, "It is important to develop markers such as DHEAS which can be used to determine the effects of various interventions, such as diet and exercise, on aging."
According to Dr. Roth, "this study shows that monkeys eating a calorically restricted diet which contains little fat maintain higher DHEA levels in their bodies. In this setting, DHEA is a marker of aging. We do not yet know if DHEA plays a role in slowing the aging process."
Until NIA initiated studies in rhesus monkeys in 1987, the phenomena of longer life and better health and vigor through caloric restriction had never been investigated in longer-lived primate species. These studies will continue for many more years with the goal of eventually giving a more precise understanding of the mechanisms of how caloric restriction extends life.
The National Institute on Aging, one of the 18 Institutes which make up the
National Institutes of Health, leads the Federal effort supporting basic,
clinical, epidemiological and social research on aging and the special needs of
older people. A brochure, "Pills, Patches and Shots: Can Hormones Prevent
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Secretary of State Scott Gessler's office rejects request to recuse itself from recall
The deputy secretary of state late Wednesday afternoon rejected a request from attorneys for a supporter of Sen. Angela Giron to recuse the office in overseeing a legal challenge to recall the Democratic lawmaker.
Mark Grueskin, a prominent election law attorney for Democrats, said Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler traveled to Pueblo in March to speak with GOP officials about how to recall Giron, who represents the southern Colorado city.
Grueskin stressed Wednesday it "looks bad" for the secretary of state to have ventured there, and he "in essence coached the proponents and the Republican party" on how to conduct a recall, "then has his designee sit in judgment" of the hearing.
"Better to find someone who is totally independent of his office," said Grueskin, in regard to Deputy Secretary of State Suzanne Staiert, who is presiding over the hearing.
"There is no appearance of impropriety here … ," Staiert ruled Wednesday, saying she, and not Gessler, was conducting the hearing.
Staiert also said Gessler's remarks were limited to the recall process in general, and he is the most qualified person to speak about the process. "In fact," she wrote, "it could be argued that it is his affirmative duty to do so."


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In the tunnel, as the heavy-footed departure of the disappointed crowd rumbled above us, Dante Washington walked up to me and asked, "So which game was worse for you, THAT game or THIS one?"
The word "that" was said with a nod toward my Ohio University cap, as earlier that day my Bobcats lost 43-7 to the Ohio State Buckeyes in college football. The word "this" obviously applied to the Crew's 4-0 loss to the Seattle Sounders. Both games were effectively over by halftime. The Bobcats trailed 34-0 and the Crew were down 3-0. It was hardly a banner day for my teams.
"THIS one," I said after fraction of a second. After all, only one of the two blowouts on the day left me blindsided and bewildered. Putting aside the coulda-shoulda-woulda near-upset of 2008, OU is supposed to get trounced on the road by a football factory like Ohio State. That is why they were 30.5-point underdogs heading into the game.
But the Crew losing by four goals? At home? Those dark days were supposed to be well behind us. That score line is soooooo 2005.
Well, at least it was until the Crew put a fresh coat of paint on it. But still, it was one of the strangest blowouts I can remember. The Crew dominated the majority of the first half. That's the very same half that saw them fall behind 3-0.
The half basically broke down like this:
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Good Seattle pressure, resulting in a corner kick. The Crew's inability to clear led to a Seattle goal by Blaise Nkufo.
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The Crew were completely in control of the game. Emmanual Ekpo was a human blob of mercury as he was impossible to pin down on the right side of the Crew's attack. You know how in cartoons, they will show ski tracks going around either side of a tree trunk? I became convinced that Emmanuel Ekpo could actually do that. Seattle's defenders probably agreed. But as has been the case all year for Ekpo in league play, his razzle dazzle had no effect on the score sheet as the Crew did not convert on a single chance.
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Seattle counterattacked against a discombobulated Crew defense to take a 2-0 lead on Nkufo's second of the night. Then they counterattacked again and earned a penalty to take 3-0 lead into the locker room.
And that's that. Three dangerous forays turned into three goals for Seattle, while a solid half hour of threatening play resulted in just one first half shot on goal for the Crew. The Sounders would cap the night with a late goal, Nkufo's third of the night, to finish off the 4-0 rout.
"We were very efficient tonight in our finishing," said Sounders coach Sigi Schmid. "I don't think the difference between the two teams is four goals, even though that was the score tonight."
The scoreboard often lies in soccer. But in other ways, it doesn't lie. For all of the artistry, possession, pressure, and other elements of the sport, games are ultimately won and lost in front of the two goalmouths.
"They punished us," said Crew defender Danny O'Rourke. "They finished their chances. We kept the ball well, but we just couldn't put it in the back of the net. That was the difference, and it showed. Four to nothing. It's (a butt)-kicking."
Designated Player Blaise Nkufo went scoreless in his first seven competitive matches with the Sounders. He made up for lost time with a hat trick against the Crew. Nkufo battled to bang home a rebound goal in the 4th minute, perfectly slotted a low shot into the side netting in the 39th minute, and then capped the night with a one-timer into the upper corner of the net in the 75th minute.
"He's the all time leading scoring in FC Twente's history in Holland, and they put a statue of him outside of the stadium," Schmid said. "You don't do that unless you do a good job scoring goals."
Schmid thinks the annihilation of Nkufo's scoreless drought bodes well for the World Cup vet, just as it would for any striker.
"Anytime a goalscorer scores, it's huge," he said. "They sometimes measure their games by different standards than we do. I, as a coach, say, 'Hey, you're still helping us, you're still doing this, you're still doing that', but in his mind, he's not scoring goals, so he's not going to be happy. So for him, I think getting the three goals tonight was very important for his confidence, and just his own self-value."
Seattle's lone non-Nkufo goal came courtesy of a Nathan Sturgis penalty kick in the 42nd minute. Seattle earned the penalty when Sanna Nyassi beat Danny O'Rourke on a give and go, causing O'Rourke to make an ill-fated grab from behind.
"I wanted to get tight on Nyassi because they were working the ball around well," the always-accountable O'Rourke explained. "I got tight at the wrong time, then I turned the wrong way, and when you play against a quick guy like that, you have to stay stride for stride with him. Since I turned the wrong way, he got a step on me, so I tried to tug him a little bit just to throw him a little off balance when he shot against Will, but then he went down."
As one might expect, the Crew locker room was not a happy place. Crew goalkeeper William Hesmer glumly answered questions while methodically running a razor blade along his wrists.
Hmm. I should probably take a moment to clarify that he was using some sharp-edged tool to cut through all of the athletic tape on his wrists.
Anyway, Hesmer disputed the notion that this might be a "forget it and move on" type of game.
"You get tired of saying that," he said, surely referencing recent losses at LA and Salt Lake, both of which may have originally fallen into that category. "We've got to right the ship, that's for sure. It just doesn't feel good right now. I don't know exactly what it is, but we're in a funk, and we need to find a way to get some results.
"The problem is that they got an early goal," Hesmer continued. "They could have had a couple in the first three minutes. That can't happen. At home, we need to be the ones setting the tone. We need to put our stamp on the game. We need to be the one making them uncomfortable. Whatever it is with us not being ready right off the bat, it needs to change."
Danny O'Rourke has used athletic amnesia to his great benefit throughout his career, so his response to the 4-0 loss came as no shock.
"I'm over it already," he said. "Once the final whistles blows, it's out of mind and I'm focused on (the Champions League game) Tuesday. The best thing a professional can have is a short memory. Hopefully everyone goes home, has a good night's sleep, and then we can prepare for Tuesday."
Brian Carroll seemed to split the difference between Hesmer and O'Rourke. In the space of a week, the Crew suddenly found themselves six points adrift in the race for the Brian Carroll Trophy (aka Supporters' Shield), and Carroll was clearly agitated. The normally mild-mannered Carroll mild-mannerdly peppered his mild manneredness with a few uncharacteristically un-mild and un-mannered word choices.
"I think any time you get overconfident, or any time you get away from doing the little things that help teams win, it's good to get (a butt)-whupping and learn from it." Carroll said. "We can learn from it, or we can drop our heads and just be like, '(FUUUDGE)', and never learn from it. We need to regroup, take a deep look at ourselves and be critical of ourselves, but we also need to keep our chin up. We've got five more games to go, and we need to use that time to get results and get our killer instinct back."
(NOTE: To paraphrase some dialogue from A Christmas Story, "Only he didn't say fudge. He said THE word, the big one, the queen mother of dirty words, the F-dash-dash-dash word!")
Carroll clarified that he doesn't think the Crew have been overconfident.
"I don't think tonight was overconfidence on our end," he said. "I don't think we've been steamrolling anyone lately. We've been good over the course of the season, but we need to get better as a group. There's no pointing fingers. We all need to look in the mirror. We need to play better as a team and everyone needs to take care of their part of the field."
After both teams had cleared the field, a few Crew players lingered behind. Hesmer and Frankie Hejduk made a slow procession down the length of the west stands, signing autographs, shaking hands, and interacting with their disappointed fans. And although I didn't see it, words has spread that Carroll did likewise in the Nordecke.
Hejduk, who also gave his jersey to one lucky fan, felt that the fans deserved some love.
"They came out on their Saturday night and wanted to see a good game, and for them to stick around and support us through that was pretty awesome," he said. "We lost 4-0. I wanted to show some love to them because they stood behind us until the end."
Hesmer agreed.
"That was a thank you and an apology," Hesmer said. "This was the worst loss I have ever been a part of in my MLS career, so it meant a lot to see the fans stick around and still support us. We weren't our best and they still gave their best and tried to pick us up. It means a lot, so like I said, that was both a thank you and an apology."
Later that night, I mentioned all this to Crew president Mark McCullers as we chatted in the tunnel.
"I'm glad to hear that," McCullers said. "I think this team has a lot of character. To take a four-nil drubbing and then still have the guts and the character to thank the people for coming out, I think that says a lot about those guys and the make-up of our team."
One has to imagine that McCullers appreciated any bit of positive fan interaction after such a game. The Crew invited fans to come silence the Sounders, but it as the Sounders who did the silencing. The 4-0 loss happened in front of the Crew's second largest crowd of the season (17,144), so from the business side, perhaps the match was an opportunity squandered. In a strange quirk, the Crew are 0-2-1 this season in home games that have surpassed 16,500 fans in attendance. They have been outscored 6-0 in the process. That's not exactly how the bean counters would draw it up. Nor the players, of course.
The lopsided game occurred a mere two-plus weeks before the same two teams will square off in the U.S. Open Cup final at Qwest Field on October 5th. Players from both locker rooms seemed to shrug off the impending showdown, instead focusing on more immediate goals.
"I'm not even thinking about that," said O'Rourke. "We've got Santos on Tuesday, and that's all I can concentrate on. We've got a chance to go out there on Tuesday and right our wrongs, and that's what I am thinking about."
"I'm not worried about that," said Sounders goalkeeper Kasey Keller. "I am more focused on what this means for our playoff position. We've got five more league games to put us in the playoffs, which is most important right now, and then we've got a tough Champions League game on Wednesday against Monterrey, so that cup final seems way off."
Schmid said that despite Saturday's score line, his team will be taking nothing for granted when the Crew and Sounders meet again for the Open Cup championship.
"I know the team in that (Crew) locker room is not going to be happy with the result today," he said. "There's too much pride and there's too much quality in that team. There's no way we're going into that Open Cup final thinking 'Okay, that's going to happen again.' We know we're going to have to roll up our sleeves and be prepared to work."
In their last two league outings—last week's 3-1 loss at Los Angeles and Saturday's 4-0 loss vs. Seattle— the Crew have managed to produce some unflattering numbers. The results sent me scrambling to the record book, and sure enough, these defeats are of historic Crew sucktitude.
The 4-0 loss tied the Crew record for margin of defeat. It's the 8th time it's happened. He's a yucky list of the Crew's four-goal losses in league play…
6/30/96: Lost 4-0 vs. MetroStars
3/18/00: Lost 5-1 at Tampa Bay
5/12/01: Lost 4-0 at Dallas
5/14/05: Lost 4-0 vs. Kansas City
5/31/06: Lost 5-1 at D.C. United
8/12/06: Lost 4-0 at Kansas City
5/19/07: Lost 4-0 at New York
9/18/10: Lost 4-0 vs. Seattle
Saturday marked only the third time that the Crew have lost back-to-back league games by a combined total of at least six goals, and fell one goal short of the all-time Crew record.
Worst Goal Differential in Back-to-Back Defeats:
Minus-7: Lost 4-0 vs. NY on 6/30/96, then lost 4-1 at TB on 7/4/96
Minus-6: Lost 3-1 at DC on 5/7/05, then lost 4-0 vs. KC on 5/14/05
Minus-6: Lost 3-1 at LA on 9/11/10, then lost 4-0 vs. SEA on 9/18/10
The Crew have also coughed up seven goals in the last two league games. That defensive lapse is in a 6-way tie for 3rd place in the Crew's back-to-back sieve list. The record is nine goals allowed in two games, set in that ever-so-zany inaugural MLS season.
Most Goals Allowed in Back-To-Back Games:
9 goals: Lost 5-2 at DC on 5/15/96, then lost 4-2 vs COL on 5/19/96
8 goals: Lost 4-0 vs NY on 6/30/96, then lost 4-1 at TB on 7/4/96
7 goals: Six times, with the most recent occurrence before this one being the DC/KC 2005 combo referenced in the goal differential list. The Crew also (un)accomplished the feat 2003, 2002, 2000, and 1996.
On Saturday, Seattle's Blaise Nkufo became the first visiting player to score a hat trick at Crew Stadium. The Crew had previously allowed a hat trick at home, but LA's Martin Machon did the deed at the Horseshoe.
All-Time Hat Tricks Against the Crew:
Steve Rammel, 5/15/96 at DC (L, 5-2)
Martin Machon, 5/17/98 vs LA (L, 4-2)
Taylor Twellman, 9/10/05 at NE (L, 3-1)
Robbie Findley, 4/2/09 at RSL (L, 4-1)
Blaise Nkufo, 9/18/10 vs SEA (L, 4-0)
The Crew have continued to be the butt of a rather puzzling trend…they seem to specialize in giving up goals to players who entered the match with zero career MLS goals. Saturday's hat-trick produced the first three goals of Blaise Nkufo's MLS stint, and the penalty kick goal was the first tally of Nathan Sturgis' MLS career. Of the 27 goals the Crew have conceded all year, 11 have been scored by players who entered the match with no career MLS goals. That's 41% of all goals conceded.
The numbers are even more jarring at Crew Stadium. In fact, the numbers are inexplicable. At home, nine out of the 11 goals conceded have come to players who entered the match with zero career MLS goals. That's a mind-blowing 82%!
People With Zero Career MLS Goals Scoring Against the Crew in 2010:
* Zach Boggs, 2 goals on 5/8 vs. NE (W, 3-2)
* Tony Tchani on 5/20 at NY (W, 3-1)
* Michael Stephens on 5/29 vs. LA (L, 2-0)
* Tristan Bowen on 5/29 vs. LA
* Teal Bunbury on 7/14 vs. KC (L, 1-0)
* Carlos Borja on 7/31 at CHV (L, 3-1)
* Blaise Nkufo, 3 goals on 9/18 vs. SEA (L, 4-0)
* Nathan Sturgis on 9/18 vs. SEA
The Crew are winless in their first four matches against the Sounders. That's bad, but it's not a Crew record for futility at the start of a head-to-head relationship. Counting shootouts as draws, the Crew went winless in their first nine encounters (0-6-3) with the Colorado Rapids. The tenth time was the charm for collecting three points, with the Crew finally breaking the streak with a 3-0 victory in Denver on July 4, 1999. (Crew assistant coach Mike Lapper scored the goal of his life in that game.)
Also, the Crew went winless in their first four matchups against the Houston Dynamo. The Crew, however, went 0-1-3 against the Dynamo, so the 0-2-2 start with Seattle wins the tie-breaker because the four-game winless streak against the Sounders has produced one fewer point. So the Crew's futility against the Sounders is the club's second-worst start against any opponent.
In another series quirk, the Crew have yet to lose or be shut out in Seattle, but have yet to earn a point or score a goal in Columbus. Weird, huh? Maybe it's good that Seattle is hosting the U.S. Open Cup final.
Sounders goalkeeper Kasey Keller really, really, really loves Crew Stadium. Saturday's win improves Keller's career mark at Crew Stadium to 5-0-2 with just one goal allowed in the seven matches. Keller's first five appearances came with the U.S. National Team.
"It's been nice," Keller said. "Crew Stadium and RFK have been lucky charms for me. Tonight, the team jumped out to a great lead and then I was able to make a couple of saves when needed."
As for RFK Stadium, with a 1-0 victory on July 15, Keller ran his personal unbeaten streak in the nation's capital to 12 games. Between the U.S. Nats and the Sounders, he is now 9-0-3 at RFK, allowing only four goals in the 12 matches.
This Notebook has been full of depressing talk and factoids, so let us end on a happy note. On Monday, September 7, Brian and Katie Carroll welcomed son Aiden Michael into the world. As instructed, mother and baby waited until the day after the Crew's fantasy football draft before engaging in the miracle of child birth.
"BC made it home from the draft and got about five hours of sleep before it was baby time," said Hesmer. "His wife did a perfect job. He talked to his kid for three or four months, telling the kid he had to wait until September 7th, and then he was born on September 7th. He's the perfect son, just like BC. Perfect."
"He listened to his dad and his mom on when to come," Carroll said. "He came while I was in town and after the fantasy draft was complete. In all seriousness, he's amazing. It's really awesome being a father."
With newborns come many sleepless nights, but Carroll said Katie has taken care to ensure he gets his much needed rest before games.
"My wife's been awesome about letting me sleep," he said. "Obviously, I have to put in the work with changing the diapers and feeding him and stuff, but a couple nights before the game, she's been letting me sleep like I normally would. She's been great about that."
Aiden Carroll is the second member of the Crew's midfield of the future to be born this year. Emmanuel Ekpo, Jr., was born on June 17th.
Questions? Comments? Think Rufus the Bobcat needs to face off against Brutus the Buckeye in next year's mascot soccer game at Crew Stadium? Feel free to write at firstname.lastname@example.com or via twitter @stevesirk
Steve Sirk is a contributor to TheCrew.com. His first book, "A Massive Season", which chronicles the Crew's 2008 MLS Cup championship campaign, is currently available at the Crew Gear store and Amazon.com. This article was not subject to the approval of Major League Soccer or its clubs.


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Johnson City, Tenn. - ETSU sophomore Reid Casey pitched a complete-game seven hitter to lead the Bucs in a 5-2 win over VMI at ETSU's Cardinal Park.
Casey (3-4) allowed just two runs and struck out 10 batters. The Buccaneer offense was led by Jeremy Terry who went 2-4 with one RBI and two runs scored. Raymond McBride went 3-3 with one run scored.
After two scoreless innings, ETSU (10-19, 7-9 Southern Conference) took a 1-0 lead in the third. Terry led off the inning with an infield hit and advanced to second on an errant throw by VMI third baseman Stephen Johnson. Terry moved to third on a wild pitch and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Danny Pugh.
The Keydets (14-20, 7-15) knotted the score at 1-1 with a run-scoring double by Chris Catanzaro in the fifth. Catanzaro's rip off the right-field wall plated Ed Pearson who singled earlier in the frame. The Bucs' struck back with a home run to right field by lead-off hitter Terry in the home half of the inning.
VMI tied the game 2-2 in the sixth. Johnson earned a lead-off walk and scored on Eric East's double.
ETSU regained the lead with two in the bottom of the sixth. The Bucs had runners on first and third after a Chad Boruff single and a Raymond McBride double. Ryan McKinney hit a shot up the middle that was snagged by a drawn-in shortstop, allowing Boruff to score. McBride stole home when McKinney was caught in a run-down off first.
The Bucs loaded the bases in the eighth with no outs and scored one run to finish off the scoring at 5-2. McKinney notched his second RBI of the afternoon with a sacrifice fly to left field that scored Boruff.
ETSU and VMI will conclude their three-game set with a doubleheader tomorrow (April 9) beginning at 11 a.m.


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Thank you to everyone who took the time to join HomeAway in Las Vegas last month. RezFest 2013 went down in history as one of the largest vacation rental conferences on record. The nearly 900 registered attendees spent three days learning, networking and having fun together. The show was buzzing with energy, new ideas and product announcements poised to make professionally managed vacation rentals stronger than ever.
Across the keynotes, the software and listings lab, educational sessions, HomeAway lounge and countless one-on-one interactions over lunch, dinner, drinks, bowling and more – everyone learned from one another in a casual and professional environment. The active participation of each property manager in attendance helps drive continual growth and improvement in the vacation rental industry. View this quick video from property manager Roy Wiltshire who attended and greatly benefited from RezFest.
RezFest 2013 was another major step forward in demonstrating HomeAway's commitment to helping vacation rental managers succeed. Time and again we heard from customers about how innovative and informative the breakout sessions were as well as the demos conducted by Tom Hale (HomeAway's Chief Product Officer) and his product team. From showcasing our newest Lead Management module to our new Housekeeping and Maintenance Mobile App and our new Reservation Grid, the words "operational efficiency" resonated throughout the event.
In addition to major software feature announcements, HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples unveiled two industry game changers:
- HomeAway's new pay-per-booking listing model which enables property managers to advertise all or most of their inventory on HomeAway.com with no upfront fees under a pure pay-for-performance model at a 10% commission.
- The Professional Referral Network presents vacation home owners interested in listing on HomeAway.com with the option of enlisting the services of a vacation rental manager as an alternative to marketing and managing the home themselves. This major initiative gives vacation rental managers the ability to market their services to the millions of owners who visit HomeAway to list their properties.
Our sponsors provided enormous value to property managers by showcasing their products and services. Direct feedback from satisfied property managers who learned and signed up for a number of services from sponsors at the conference were rampant. And, several sponsors mentioned they sold more at RezFest in 48 hours than at all industry events combined! So, a big thanks to all sponsors for attending RezFest and delivering great value to property managers with a variety of new and innovative products and services.
Thanks again to everyone who made RezFest such a big success!
We are looking forward to an even bigger and better conference in 2014!


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What is it?
Donate For Tor is a collaboration between the EFF, Tor, and Noisebridge to promote Tor, bring more awareness to the hackerspaces movement, and make contributing to Tor accessible to nontechnical people.
How does it work?
Someone goes to the website, picks the package they want, and purchases the package. The system then donates money to appropriate nonprofits based on the selected package, and spins up a Tor node. People can elect to "adopt" a Tor node for a select time period (month, year, etc) or choose a recurring donation model.
What is Noisebridge's role?
Noisebridge itself will do nothing, but individual people within Noisebridge are helping to maintain the technical side of it. Noisebridge will also get to receive donations!
What can I do to help?
We're currently working on setting up the infrastructure to make the process of donation and setting up new Tor nodes as easy as possible. If you don't feel comfortable helping with technical tasks, please feel free to promote the project and get other people involved and supporting it.


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Bots are complicated. They're made to process repetitive actions autonomously and can be fairly easy to build, but they aren't always working on the side of good. Here's what you need to know.
Each year, EContent magazine compiles a list of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
Voting is now closed. We'll announce the results of the first-ever EContent 100 list chosen by the people!
Carolina K. Reid
Sep 17, 2012
Creating and disseminating content is getting easier every day. There are countless free and premium tools ready to help you get your information on the web. As the volume of web content continues to grow, however, users are becoming more selective about the sources they rely on-and engaging an audience isn't nearly as easy as putting out content.
Making sure your readers come back day after day is more complicated than just picking a new content management system, and it's a problem that confounds publishers and advertisers alike. If we want to grab eyeballs and get users to click on ads, we need to harness the power of the particular.
To engage users, dare to be narrow. Brian Clark of Copyblogger writes, "To engage your readers you share all kinds of great ideas. Sharing just one concept would be dull. Wouldn't it? Wrong."
Clark's emphasis is on the importance of the singular thought: "Each article should have only one big idea. Each argument, each story, and each example should support it." Content for the web, the phone, the LCD screen, or the iPad must come in individually wrapped morsels of thought.
"Content cannot be consumed in all-purpose, monolithic documents," says Robert Carroll, CMO of web content management solutions in North America for SDL, PLC. "The content has to answer a specific question in the user's mind like, 'How do I sync my Bluetooth?'" So thanks to an SDL implementation, automobile owners will be able to find content in the manuals displayed on the LCD touchscreens inside their cars. Carroll explains that manuals, a neglected region of the customer experience, are a hot area for his company's content management business now. His system is able to break up these monoliths by using XML to separate the information into task-oriented pieces of content.
All this technology ultimately culminates in the gratitude of a driver who has a question about his car and who finds an answer. In that moment, he is relieved and grateful. The moment when content is able to convert frustration into joy is the experience that content must strive to achieve. And in light of proliferating mobile devices, delivering the right content at the right time when a user needs it, is becoming more important than ever.
For Zumobi, a mobile application and advertising company, a key element of strategy is giving readers a way to engage. Zumobi got its start within Microsoft Research and has created the apps for large media brands such as msnbc.com, The Motley Fool, and PopSci.com. The mobile segment requires a fundamentally different approach to content development. First, the user will spend considerably more time experimenting with a tool than he might anywhere else. Marla Schimke, VP of marketing at Zumobi, explains, "On these devices, we have the captive audience, and it is really captive. The phone becomes your friend." People spend an average of 6 minutes on the Consumer Electronics Show coverage on the PopSci.com app for example.
Schimke says that one of the most common mistakes in using mobile is taking digital content and shrinking it to fit a mobile screen. She advises clients to "think about a whole new way of engagement: How can your audience participate? How can you integrate photos and experiences? How can you have various touch points, so you can tweet something and still remain in the app?" The ability to tweet or share content without leaving the mobile content screen is one of the critical ways to retain readers inside a mobile content app.
In June, American Express Co. launched a campaign that is an app that runs on an iPhone or Android device within The Motley Fool, msnbc.com, or The Week magazine app. The app allows users to create customized panoramas geared toward their interests in shopping, dining, or travel. This ultimately creates a personal travelogue for each individual who chronicles the places she has been and things she has seen. It also gives American Express the ability to send her coupons. It is integrated with Facebook, foursquare, and Twitter.
According to Mark Simpson, one of the founders of Maxymiser, a London-based firm focused on conversion management practices, it's important to get it right when making a foray into mobile. Simpson states that 25% of consumers say that they would never visit a website if they had a negative experience with the brand on a mobile device.
Experts agree that in this day and age there is no reason two visitors to a website should see exactly the same content. John Kottcamp, chief strategy and marketing officer at Tahzoo, LLC, a strategy and implementation firm specializing in content delivery, is an expert in using business rules to deliver content to users. "One key factor in making content engaging is to source the themes from social intelligence. Using some of the leading social intelligence tools such as SDL SM2 and BLAB!, clients are able to understand what their customers', or people matching their customers' profiles, interests are, and more importantly, what they are talking about. Armed with this knowledge, marketers can source user-generated content, create new content, or simply go to their content library to select the content that is most relevant for their customers."
The growth of tools such as these allows companies to create what Kottcamp calls a reinforcing cycle of engagement, or "a virtuous circle that puts up personalized content that achieves greater customer engagement." KeyBank is a Tahzoo client for whom Kottcamp says customized content delivery has proven effective. Data based on the way users arrive at the site will determine content delivery. "If they are coming in from a search result after typing in the word 'mortgages,' then it may be that a classic hero ad [the top banner on a webpage] for mortgages fills the page, rather than a more typical banner for checking," he says.
In addition to the profile data passed to the site from search, Facebook, or Twitter among other referring sites, there is the behavioral data that can become very useful at targeting content delivery. Repetitive visits to a site can trigger different content experiences. "The second or third time you visit the website, it is learning what areas you are interested in and highlighting those areas for you," explains Kottcamp.
For instance, Fredhopper, an automated tool invented in the Netherlands and purchased by SDL, creates customized online shopping experiences. The system automatically rearranges online store shelves for visiting customers depending on behavior. This sort of targeting exists throughout the internet. The Wall Street Journal reported in June 2012 that Orbitz serves more premium hotel options to Mac users while PC users get the less expensive options. Orbitz CEO Barney Harford realized that Mac users spend on average 30% more on hotel rooms and are 40% more likely to book a highly rated hotel room, so it makes sense to show them a pricier option. Orbitz is not charging Mac users more, it's just showing them different search results based on their computer.
SDL's Carroll points to HP. He says that 90% of HP's customers are buying based on a personalized experience. In addition, he says that when HP launches a new product, "We need to launch it around the world. That means dealing with the cultural elements and pulling in the data stores to create the right cocktail for that profile." This includes a thorough mix of customer support, web content, and sales information, thereby causing customers to engage more and, by their behavior, leave more usable intelligence with the website.


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Hamachi is a proprietary (closed source) commercial VPN software. With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication.
- 1 Initial Configuration
- 2 Download And Install Hamachi
- 3 Configuration
- 4 Running Hamachi
- 6 Troubleshooting
- 7 See also
Initial Configuration
To run Hamachi you need /dev/net/tun.
This is created by the tun module. As root, run:
modprobe tun
Or you can manually create /dev/net/tun by running:
mkdir /dev/net mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
Also, make sure to add the "tun" modules to rc.conf so that /dev/net/tun is created next time your computer turns on.
MODULES=(... ... ... ... ... tun ... ... ...)
Download And Install Hamachi
Manual installation
Head to hamachi.cc and download their Linux client.
Untar it:
tar zxvf hamachi-x.x.x-x.tar.gz
cd hamachi-x.x.x-x make install
And run tuncfg:
cd tuncfg ./tuncfg
Run hamachi-init:
And that's the installation.
Hamachi 2 (beta)
Version 2 of the Linux Hamachi client exists and is currently in beta. It is available from the labs page on the Hamachi website; however, the vendor's tarball requires LSB and will not install correctly. You should use the logmein-hamachiAUR package from the AUR instead.
Hamachi 2 (beta)
Hamachi 2 is configured in
/var/lib/logmein-hamachi/h2-engine-override.cfg (create that file if it doesn't exist).
Unfortunately, it isn't easy to find a comprehensive list of possible configuration options, so here are a few that you can use.
Using the hamachi command line tool as a regular user
In order to use the
hamachi command line tool as a regular user, add the following line to the configuration file:
Ipc.User YourUserNameHere
Automatically setting a custom nickname
Normally, Hamachi uses your system's hostname as the nickname that other Hamachi users will see. If you want to automatically set a custom nickname every time Hamachi starts, add the following line to the configuration file:
Setup.AutoNick YourNicknameHere
You can also manually set a nickname using the
hamachi command line tool:
# hamachi set-nick YourNicknameHere
However, this needs to be done every time Hamachi is (re-)started, so if you always want to use the same nickname, setting it automatically (as explained above) is probably easier.
Running Hamachi
Start up the (matt) daemon
$hamachi start
Now you have a whole bunch of commands at your disposal. These are in no particular order and are fairly self explanatory.
$hamachi set-nick bob $hamachi login $hamachi create my-net secretpassword $hamachi go-online my-net $hamachi list $hamachi go-offline my-net
To get a list of all the commands, run:
$hamachi ?
Note: Make sure you change the status of the channel(s) you are in to "online" if you want to perform any network actions on computers in there.
As a Daemon
You can run Hamachi as a daemon this way:
Copy your configuration to /root directory:
cp -R ~/.hamachi /root/
Create a script in /etc/rc.d/ called hamachi using your preferred editor:
. /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions DAEMON=/usr/bin/hamachi NAME=hamachi DESC="Hamachi VPN client" PID_FILE=/var/run/daemons/hamachi case "$1" in start) #Check for running tuntap, start when not running ck_daemon tuntap && /etc/rc.d/tuntap start stat_busy "Starting $DESC" $DAEMON -c /root/.hamachi $1 > /dev/null if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else add_daemon $NAME stat_done fi ;; stop) stat_busy "Stopping $DESC" [ -f $PID_FILE ] && $DAEMON -c /root/.hamachi $1 > /dev/null if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else rm_daemon $NAME stat_done fi ;; restart) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" ;; esac exit 0
Remember to add hamachi to your daemons array in /etc/rc.conf, it should be put after tuntap.
And do not forget to:
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/hamachi
Various GUI frontends for Hamachi are available in the AUR.
For Hamachi 1:
- haguichi (Gtk2, mono)
- ghamachi (Gtk2)
- hamachi-gui (Gtk2)
For Hamachi 2 (beta):
- quamachi (Qt4)
- haguichi (Gtk2, mono)
Hamachi times out soon after launch
If hamachi stops working after a short period of time it can be that the client is timing out. Create ~/.hamachi/config and add the following to it:
KeepAlive 10
If you have problems connecting to some hosts
Check if they are using Hamachi 2. If that is the case, then it is a known issue with the Hamachi 2 client connecting to the Hamachi Linux client.
/etc/init.d/logmein-hamachi is not found
Replace that path with /etc/rc.d/logmein-hamachi.
Error when trying to run hamachi-init
If there is an error while trying to load libstdc++.so.5, you want to install it. This library can be found in the extra repository, so you can install it by running
pacman -S libstdc++5.
If you get an error while trying to load libcrypto.so.0.9.7, a temporary solution is to create a link from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 to /usr/lib/libcrypto.so by running
ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7.


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The Broadway-96th Street station, which was sloppily extended after WWII, is undergoing reconstruction.
The Broadway thoroughfare is being reconfigured to accommodate a station house in the expanded mall between 95th & 96th streets. This follows upon on the creation of a new station house between 72nd & 73rd streets, in the expanded Verdi Square. The structure there is a riff on the restored, landmark, 1904 entryway, that dramatically improved circulation, created a much used street level public space & somehow managed to visually anchor the Alexandria, David Child's 1991 cartoon version of the beloved, eccentric Ansonia. Thank you Gruzen Samton.
The barrel vaulted structure envisioned for 96th Street seems to reference the suburban London Underground stations of the 1920s & 30s. Fingers crossed. There's no stylistic context on the boulevard nor acknowledged pallet of colors or textures.
The interior tile work so far leaves everything to be desired. Whereas the past two decades of station modernizations have seen prefab tile panels hung over existing, deteriorated or missing stock or the older tiles scored before new are applied, neither format is being followed. Thin, low quality, rectangular white tiles are being applied directly to the post-war tiles. There is no effort at evenness, a fact revealed by how light plays on the tiles + the grouting varies from dark to white. Some of the new tiles have been painted over. Most are filthy. On the west wall of the station, a section is already grease stained. This doesn't bode well for a project of this scope & cost.
A section of the remaining 1904 Art Nouveau style terra cotta & tile banding was removed for storage & ostensible restoration before this section of old platform at the northeast corner of the station, was sealed forever. For the moment, an adjacent, perfectly intact section remains.
Given the haphazard installation of the white, evidently background tiles, I was amazed this past week to first notice new "96's" & then a frieze pattern, actually two. That work is beautiful. Everything else is shit. …. There is a section of rebuilt staircase at 93rd St (w/s) where the tile changes from something really stolid to what looks like cheap, bathroom tile… It would seem no one is officially observing this. Where will the old tiles & terra cotta go? Why is the station being given a new, albeit necessary, entryway, for which the closest New York reference is what's now Asphalt Green but with an interior that's not IND '30s, industrial modern nor does it speak to nearby Symphony Space's De Stijl citation courtesy of James Polshek: Boogie Woogie Mondrian.
If you think it's impossible somethings amiss, please take a walk or a ride up to the next station at 103rd, restored in 2004 & see the difference in craft & care for materials.
Nine blocks south& 1 block west, the so-called grand luxe 535 West End Avenue, has just applied, factory-made composite panels with 1″ inch thick, brick-like veneers to most of two floors.
Apparently, there will be only four narrow, vertical sections of raised pseudo-brick on the entire West End Avenue & West 86th Street facades. The color might be described as muddy brown. The pre-World War II West End Avenue from 70th to 107th streets is solid masonry. Not here. The brickwork on the adjacent buildings ranges in a pallet of beige, cream, tan andyellow. The more daring buildings are white – not the failed 1950s & 60s white or orange to red. Brown tends to be found on the side streets are much further north or south on West End.
All of those buildings have trim & ornamentation, even modest ones. A urbane building would reference that pallet & at least nod occasionally to vertical banding.
Not this one.
It towers legally above the surrounding streetwalls in a suburban manner, meaning it's there by itself. Some commercial avenues in Midtown & Water Street Downtown are like this but this is one of the city's great boulevards of apartments – broken here & there by preceding townhouse blocks. A really good International Style residential structure, like, yes, Morris Lapidus' Presidential on West 70th Street might have interrupted things with flare.
Not here.
The developer – which has given the Upper West Side the unangelic Ariels at Broadway between 99th & 100th streets (without the promised LEED certification for "greenness") has made a big deal of their Chicago architect. That architect, it seems, is to the Windy City – a great architecture town – what Costa Kondylis & his late mentor Philip Birnbaum are to New York – a developer's dream. Someone who can squeeze the last salable square inch out of the zoning envelope.
That's very useful, but it doesn't always yield great buildings. Developers will often pair that skill with an architectural firm known for stunning exteriors.
Humdrum would be a step up at this site.
Meanwhile, this building & threats to others, has yielded a grass roots movement to get the entire aforementioned stretch of West End Avenue covered by a New York City Historic District. Take that Extell& please take Mr Lagrange with you.
For those wondering about terra cotta, until 1960, a great New York City architectural medium, check out the books by Susan Tunick. For a look at the 96th Street station plans -albeit sans the tile work, visit http://www.nyc.gov/html/mancb7/downloads/pdf/irt_96.pdf. In keeping with renderings for all too many public commissions hereabouts, the commuters & pedestrians drawn are all white. This is 96th Street?… Lastly, to learn more about & maybe join the efforts to landmark WEA, see http://www.westendpreservation.org/.
Editors Note: Please be sure to read the comments below. Lily


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Since 2007, Vada has been the go-to spot in this neighborhood for nearly every spa and salon service under the sun. From a standard mani-pedi to extensive laser hair removal treatments, Vada can hook you up with precisely what you require or desire, completely sans drama (no fresh-out-of-school staff, no three week waits). The relaxing, tri-level spa (complete with patio) has plenty of stations and treatment rooms, ensuring that you'll have little trouble getting an appointment near your desired time, even as a group. You may even have luck as a walk-in during the week. For a spot this convenient, it's surprising to find that it's also laden with state-of-the-art technology; the laser system available here is one of the most advanced you can find, and is suitable even for total novices. Not ready to commit? No sweat: the staff here is experienced in every manner of wax job you can fathom. The service innovations extend all the way to their mani-pedi offerings, as well. If you're looking for a nearly indestructible manicure that will give you two weeks of flawless fingernails, ask about Shellac. You're gonna love it.
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Plaintiff photographer took a photo that Apple used in an April 2010 TV commercial for the iPhone 3GS. The 30-second commercial showed the photo for about 5 seconds. Plaintiff sued for copyright infringement, claiming Apple did not have the proper license to use the photo. She sought to recover Apple's "indirect profits" on iPhone sales attributed to the infringement. Apple moved for partial summary judgment on the issue of damages, arguing such damages were "impermissibly speculative." The court granted the motion.
Apple made four arguments showing a lack of a causal nexus between the use of the photo and plaintiff's claim for profits. First, Apple contended that plaintiff proffered no evidence to support her claim that the photo itself caused any sales. Second, Apple argued that the iPhone was "well established in the consumer marketplace" at the time of the commercial which made it impossible to ascribe iPhone 3GS sales to the use of a single commercial, let alone one image in a single commercial. Third, two additional commercials ran during the time period that the commercial ran, each featuring different applications that can be used on an iPhone. Fourth, overall sales of the iPhone decreased during the relevant time period, February 28, 2010 to May 29, 2010, which is the time during which the commercial aired and the month immediately preceding and following that period.
The court found that plaintiff proffered no evidence that the use of the photo caused any iPhone 3GS sales, nor that the commercial did itself. The photo was integrated into no more than five seconds of a 30–second commercial where numerous images and various product functions were displayed. There was no evidence showing that sales resulted from the mere use of the photo. The court noted that as a threshold matter, it was plaintiff's burden to establish a causal connection to some portion of profits before Apple would have to carry the burden of apportioning profits that were not the result of infringement. The court found that plaintiff did not proffer any evidence directly related to causation or even a method for showing that the alleged infringement actually influenced customers.
It's important to note that this decision does not mean Apple has gotten away with copyright infringement. The decision is on the measure of damages, not liability (which remains an open question). Moreover, this case deals just with the question of actual damages under the Copyright Act. Plaintiff may yet assert an entitlement to statutory damages, which could range anywhere from $750 to $150,000.
Thale v. Apple Inc., 2013 WL 3245170 (N.D.Cal. June 26, 2013)
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I think a lot of people when they first come to this forum are a bit taken aback by the intro process. I thought I'd write up a sample intro to help people come up with something to say when they don't know what to say.
Hi everybody.
My name is Lindsay. I'm a 27-year-old married APBT owner out here in dusty Northeast Oklahoma. I've lived with this breed for nearly 20 years, starting with a stray brindle mixed puppy that we took in. I've lived with other breeds, including a Rottweiler and a Dogo Argentino, but the American Pit Bull Terrier is my passion. My introduction to the breed was accidental, but I've since become addicted to their versatility, bright intelligence, athleticism and humor.
My current dog is Loki, a 3-year-old rednose girl from Matrix kennels. I picked her up as a 10-week-old puppy after several years of research into the right breeder for me. She's been a really awesome dog, always making new friends and admirers. We currently compete in obedience, agility and weight pull, and are thinking about other things for the future. I'd like to get her UCDX, UWPCH and UAGI (and maybe UAGII) this year. Loki really enjoys learning new things, and I have fun teaching her.
My other interests include reptiles, anime, video games and anything deep-fried, cheesy, or chocolatey. (As you can see, fitness and exercise are not listed. ) I've got a 6-year-old Ball Python named Riff-Raff, a 2-year-old rescue kitty named Kiba, and a few fishtanks. I author http://www.PitBullblog.com, and I also moderate a handful of dog forums, including this one.
Looking forward to being an active part of the forum!
This would be considered a good intro, at least by me. And maybe I'm biased, but I'm also one of the ones who has to evaluate newcomers, and I like reading intros like this. In the 3 main paragraphs, I managed to talk about:
1. My basic stats, including location without getting too specific.
2. My history with the breed and how I got into it.
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The very mention of the word these days conjures up such a plethora of responses that I hesitate to touch it.
I have the greatest respect for those who remain in the profession with the unrealistic demands of No Child Left Behind and a bucket full of challenges that were not even on the horizon when I first stepped into the classroom in l969.
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Teaching Math in l960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 80% of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
Teaching Math in l970: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
Teaching Math in l980: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your Assignment: Underline the number 20.
Teaching Math in 1990: A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of the animals, or the preservation of our forests. He does this so he can make a profit of $20.
What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers.)
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Yeah, I totally forgot about that. I use a teaspoon to a tablespoon of vodka in my sorbets to keep it from freezing too hard.
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The thing they put in the ice cream you buy from the store is called Colco. I don't know what it's made out of but I know it's not a very healthy product. Many of the people I've interviewed in a drug and alcohol rehab center said that they've tried drugs that contained this Colco paste. So it's not only bad for your health, it's also addictive.
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Try adding karo syrup (corn syrup) to the ice cream mix as it is churning. A 1/2 cup per quart of ice cream is a good start. The corn syrup, much like alchohol, will prevent the ice cream from freezing rock hard as long as it is kept at normal freezing tempuratures ( 20 degrees or so) typical of a household freezer. Anything colder and it won't matter what you add it will still freeze solid.
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A typical household freezer is 0 degrees F or below. If it was only 20 degrees, food would slowly spoil.
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I recently made a batch of excellent ice cream at home. As usual, it turned rock hard once it was in the freezer. I know this is normal for homemade ice cream. But I want to know how commercial ice cream is made softer, and if there's any way to replicate that at home. Even if it involves frightening chemical additives ... seriously. I'm willing to risk my health for soft ice cream.
I believe the reason is the size of the ice crystals in the commercial ice cream. They have facilities to whip the ice cream under conditions that are colder than those of your kitchen. You may have noticed that the commercial ice cream gets hard after the first time you have some. That is because once it's taken out of the freezer environment, some of the ice melts and when it freezes again, it forms much larger crystals.
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If you use agave nectar instead of sugar your ice cream will be nice and soft. Very scoopable. 3/4 cup agave nectar = 1 cup sugar. Here's my recipe for cold processed ("raw") ice cream
1 pint raw cream (or any heavy cream)
1 pint raw milk (or any milk)
4 whole eggs
3/4 cup agave nectar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract or a third cup cacoa powder if making chocalate.
I also prechill the ice cream mixture for one hour in the freezer before I put it in the ice cream maker. It seems to help get more air in the ice cream and make it fluffier.
Good luck!
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My grandmother has this old recipe that I always love when it comes to ice cream. She uses heavy cream and she says the secret is on the mixing. She uses hand mixer to achieve her desired output. For the commercially sold ice cream, I guess they are also using lots of cream and they have already perfected the time of mixing to achieve the desired texture.
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I've always been told that the best and only way to get actual homemade soft and creamy ice cream (not gellato (eggs added) or sorbet (fruit juices)) is to add 1 packet of unflavored gelatin per each gallon of ice cream ingredients. (It's the trick that places such as ben and jerry's and cold stone creamery use...) It eliminates ice crystals and adds bonding agent for densely packed creamy soft ice cream
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Also, I use whole eggs, separating them and pouring hot custard over beaten egg whites prior to chilling. I also whip cream before adding to custard. When I have made recipe with more cream than milk, end result is ice cream that stays easily scoopable from freezer.
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I like SOFT ICE CREAM much better than hard
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mine was toooo soft
I didn't mixed them enough. Water Ice is also nice
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I also use to add a drop or two of rum. It's just delicious!
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I heard they constantly churn the ice cream. I do not know if this is to make the ice cream really creamy or to make it soft.
If your ice cream is still hard, put it in the microwave for a few seconds. Kid you not that is what I used to do when I was a youngster at work. image putting 2 gallons ice cream block into a giant microwave. that;s right. it happened. along with taking a sledge hammer to the frozen block of concentrated orange juice.
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Thank for sharing the info. Love it and will try it.
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Can the ice cream be made soft without using rum and with out any alcoholic stuff.
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At a conference in Wellington over the past two days academics have anguished over the plight of fat people. They called their subject "Fat Studies" They regarded fat people as victims not of their own appetite nor, for once, of corporate fast food chains, but of the public health campaigns that are supposed to help them.
The campaigns portrayed such people as "enemies of the state", according to one speaker. The anti-obesity message, she said, was a form of "class war" against the poorest in society. "From government policy to media reports, fat is everywhere figured as a threat to individual, national, global health in physical, moral and economic terms."
She said fatness had featured as a concern to medicine for centuries but it was only quite recently that obesity had been defined as a disease in itself, though that status was contested. Research consistently found obesity most prevalent among the poor and disadvantaged yet the resulting campaigns concentrated on changing the habits of those at risk and did nothing to address their poverty.
The anti-obesity drive was blamed on "neoliberal ideologies" of the 1980s, which makes a change. Free market thinking is normally accused of contributing to obesity since it generally resists the restrictions that health regulators would like to place on fatty food and its promotion.
But it is coincidentally true that public health became a strident political project - expressed in new measures against smoking and for screening against some forms of cancer - at the same time that the economy was being rapidly exposed to competitive markets. That era also brought a new sensitivity in language that came to be called political correctness.
The term 'obesity' has a shock value that health professionals do not normally employ. Nobody would call themselves obese. 'Fat' was objectionable enough but 'obese' has made the word 'fat' tolerable. Fat Studies might be followed by Fat Societies, Fat Rights, Fat Freedom Day.
Fat academics are going to struggle, though, to argue their subject deserves public sympathy and funding. Eating is generally seen as the addiction that drinking, smoking or gambling can be. Sugar, fats and fast food are resistible with a will.
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Fat Studies should be starting there. Tempting as it is to criticise anti-obesity campaigns, if fat students seek popular sympathy for over-eaters they have fat chance.


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There are no specific guidelines to prevent ovarian cancer because the cause is unknown. There are factors that can be modified to reduce your risk of cancer. These include:
- Quitting smoking — Smoking negatively affects every cell in the body. Quitting smoking is an important step in preventing cancer. The sooner smoking is stopped, the sooner the body can start to heal. Talk to your doctor about the options available to help you successfully quit.
- Maintaining a healthy weight —Eat a low-fat diet that includes lots of fruits and vegetables. If you are overweight, talk to a registered dietitian who can help you lose and maintain weight safely.
- Regular exercise —Regular exercise is good for overall health, wellness and maintaining a healthy weight. Aim for 30 minutes of moderate exercise (which can be a brisk walk) on most days of the week. If you currently do not exercise, talk to your doctor about how to get started on a program safely.
- Prophylactic surgery —Recommended for women who need a hysterectomy for any reason not related to cancer. Removing both fallopian tubes may help prevent ovarian cancer regardless of genetic risk.
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It is important to note that these methods will not work for everyone. Some methods also carry serious risks that may outweigh the long-term benefits. Talk to your doctor about your overall risk of ovarian cancer to determine if these would be helpful for you.
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I love the visual that the word fossilization prompts, even though I hate the idea that students might be making the same mistakes in 10 years that they are making now. It's almost as though these mistakes are frozen in time; the speaker keeps making them even though other aspects of his/her English have improved. According to Jack Richards, in his fantastic book, Moving Beyond the Plateau: From Intermediate to Advanced Levels in Language Learning, fossilization refers to "errors that appear to be entrenched and difficult to eradicate, despite the teacher's [and I would argue the student's] best efforts." (Richards, 2008) He further points out that a great deal of the research regarding fossilization put a large part of the blame on the communicative classroom in which fluency is valued over accuracy. In other words, students are encouraged to make meaning when they speak and write rather than focusing on being grammatically correct.
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In fact, reading this made me feel a bit worried. In my teaching context, I deal with students whose goal is to get out of EAL and into their mainstream Secondary classes as soon as possible. They matriculate gradually, as their English develops, but clearly, for me and them, the focus is on academic vocabulary at the expense of grammatical accuracy. To my great shame, I have long argued that students in Year 8 Science need to be able to talk about the Respiratory System in order to pass their classes rather than waste time memorizing irregular past participles. I think I even wrote it in an earlier post in this very series! After all, no one ever failed a Science test because they wrote "breaked" instead or "broke."
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