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Elected Officials Get An Average 1,452% Salary Increase When They Take A Lobbying Job
from the which-they-probably-negotiated-long-before-leaving-office deptA few months ago, in writing about a fascinating interview between Jack Abramoff and Larry Lessig, we talked about Abramoff's admission that the best way to "buy" a Congressional staffer was to merely let them know that they had a lobbying job waiting for them "whenever they wanted it." He noted that, after that, those staffers basically worked for Abramoff more than working for their own elected official. He did also note that it was often much more effective to do this with staffers rather than the elected officials themselves, but clearly it happens all the time with elected officials too.
Republic Report has looked up the details on some former elected officials who became lobbyists and noted that, on average, they got a boost in salaries of 1,452%. Also of note: they can negotiate these deals while still in office and don't have to tell anyone about them or even reveal what their salaries are. That can lead to clear conflicts of interest that are mostly ignored by the public and the press:
For example, former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) spent his last year in office fighting reforms to bring greater transparency to the derivatives marketplace. Almost as soon as he left office, he joined the board of a derivatives trading company and became an "advisor" to Goldman Sachs. Risky derivative trading exacerbated the financial crisis of 2008, yet we're stuck under the laws written in part by Gregg. How much has he made from the deal? Were his actions in office influenced by relationships with his future employers?There's definitely a lot of fluctuation in how much these former Congressional Reps and Senators make as lobbyists, but it's clearly a lot more than they were making previously. Here are just a few examples (the article has many more), including our old buddy Chris Dodd:
Former Congressman Billy Tauzin (R-LA) made $19,359,927 as a lobbyist for pharmaceutical companies between 2006 and 2010. Tauzin retired from Congress in 2005, shortly after leading the passage of President Bush's prescription drug expansion. He was recruited to lead PhRMA, a lobbying association for Pfizer, Bayer, and other top drug companies. During the health reform debate, the former congressman helped his association block a proposal to allow Medicare to negotiate for drug prices, a major concession that extended the policies enacted in Tauzin's original Medicare drug-purchasing scheme. Tauzin left PhRMA in late 2010. He was paid over $11 million in his last year at the trade group. Comparing Tauzin's salary during his last year as congressman and his last year as head of PhRMA, his salary went up 7110%.And people wonder why the American public feels that Congress is impossibly corrupt.
Former Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) makes approximately $1.5 million a year as the chief lobbyist for the movie industry. Dodd, who retired from the Senate after 2010, was hired by the Motion Picture Association of America, the lobbying association that represents major studios like Warner Bros. and Universal Studios. Although the MPAA would not confirm with Republic Report Dodd's exact salary, media accounts point to $1.5 million, a slightly higher figure than the previous MPAA head, former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman. Dodd received about a 762% raise after moving from public office to lobbying.
Former Congressman Steve Largent (R-OK) has made at least $8,815,741 over the years as a lobbyist for a coalition of cell phone companies and related wireless industry interests. Republic Report analyzed disclosures from CTIA-The Wireless Association, the trade group Largent leads. CTIA counts wireless companies like AT&T, HTC, and Motorola as members. Largent left Congress in 2002, when his pay was about $150,000 as a public official. His move to the CTIA trade association, where he earns slightly more than $1.5 million a year according to the latest disclosure form, raised his salary by 912%.
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CU's Boyle: Rebounding a key as always
Speaking Monday during the Big 12 men's basketball teleconference, CU coach Tad Boyle said once again a key for his Buffaloes (14-8, 3-4) in Tuesday night's home game against Iowa State (14-8, 1-6) will be rebounding.
It's no secret that CU rebounded well in its three Big 12 victories and, for the most part, has been beaten on the boards during its current four-game slid in conference slide.
"It is our barometer for our group because we are undersized," Boyle said. "We have to do a good job on the boards to neutralize whoever we're playing."
For conference games only, Iowa State ranks third among Big 12 teams in rebounding (36.7), behind only Missouri (38.0) and Texas (37.5).
"Iowa State is a good rebounding team," Boyle said. "It seems like every team in the Big 12 is."

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It happens twice a year.
I'm not sure why, but my neverending confidence in the government tells me they must have a good reason to totally uproot my schedule.
The time change means I wake up 4 hours early to bright sunshine pouring down on me like asteriods in a meteor shower (since I wasn't a science teacher I have no idea what I'm talking about).
Then I'm completely confused if I'm hungry or not.
So instead of eating breakfast, I reset all the clocks in the house. I thought we had three clocks.
Turns out we have 117.
Then I need to reset the clocks in our cars. I would love an answer to why we have two clocks within 1 inch of each other in our Ford Taurus (no charge for the free plug).
Then, I'm off to change the batteries in our smoke detectors.
Because the battery companies had a meeting and decided to tell us if we don't change the batteries when the time changes we will ALL DIE!
They are smart. Not as smart as the hot dog bun people who continue to sell us 8 buns for 10 hotdogs.
Actually, this isn't true.
They sell us 16 buns for 10 hotdogs.
I can't hate them. Only admire.
After more time changing chores, I spend roughly the one hour I've gained trying to figure out why Buddy the Dog is hungry at 2 in the afternoon.
Then it occurs to me. His stomach doesn't change times.
For a dog who doesn't wear a watch, he sure knows when it's time to eat.
After all of this, I'm overrun with depression when I realize it now gets dark at 4:30 in the afternoon.
Suddenly, the school day is like working the overnight shift. Arrive in the dark and come home in the dark.
Thankfully, there is something good that comes out of the time change.
I can spend the next week totally annoying my wife by saying what time it is and also what time it "really" is.
Thank you government.
This should keep me amused until at least Thanksgiving.


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The players draw cards from a card supply in the middle of the table. During the game, the players try to specialize in a few colors, as at the end of the game, a player can score plus points for only 3 colors; the rest score minus points. The more cards a player has of a color, the more points he scores. The player with the most points wins.


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Update: Oh my fucking god, y'all. You know how I said in my first post about this that it usually rights itself after a few days?
Guess what.
Woke up this morning and realized I can bite down again. There's still a little tenderness around the tooth that was driving me bats, but it's not horrid, screaming pain anymore. It must have just been pressing right on a nerve for the last couple days, and now it's not. I really do marvel at the body's ability to fix itself sometimes.
Me: You're not gonna believe this. My tooth doesn't hurt anymore.
Al: Really?
Me: Uh-huh.
Al: Well, now that that's over… I've been wanting to talk to you about our relationship.
Me: WHAT?
Al: Just kidding.
Me: I hate you.
Al: But I loooove you!
So this means I have to go to this consultation with the oral surgeon today minus the motivating pain, which means I have to make a rational decision about having teeth yanked. And if I could make a rational decision about having teeth yanked, I wouldn't have any wisdom teeth right now. Terrific.
Thanks for all the advice, everybody. I have an appointment with an oral surgeon tomorrow. I tried to eat a piece of bread today, accidentally clacked my top and bottom teeth together, and was in teary pain for like half an hour afterwards. That was me crossing the threshold between "Extraction would still be worse than this" and "I'm about to tie this tooth to a fucking doorknob and slam it."
It's only one tooth causing me terrible pain right now, but all of my wisdom teeth are impacted. One's broken halfway through and stayed that way for years, and my dentists have been reasonably pleased with my skill at keeping it from becoming a bacteria farm. Two haven't broken through at all, and have never bothered me. The tooth in question is actually the closest to being normal; it's almost as long as the one next to it and only slightly crooked. But something shifted in there, and the motherfucker is now crowding the other teeth and/or pounding right on a nerve. As much as I love soup and smoothies, I would like to be able to chew again someday.
I'm sure they'll want to take all four out, but I don't think that's happening. A) I don't have dental insurance, and that'd be bloody expensive. B) I am a big baby. And yes, I understand that having them all out at once would mean I never have to go though this again, and not having them all out means I probably will go through this again, when I'm even older and slower to heal, but C) I am also not very bright sometimes.
Aaaanyway. Tomorrow's just a "consultation," but I fully expect it will result in scheduling an extraction a.s.a.p. Which means I fully expect (nay, demand) to be in a Vicodin haze through the weekend and possibly into next week. Also, I'm not going to be able to smoke, so my strategy is going to be to sleep as much as possible. MAYBE the upside of this will be that I quit smoking for real. Or maybe I'll just be a dopey, insufferable mess for several days, then go right back to the status quo.
I wore my yogatard all day today, because I felt too crappy to deal with more than one item of clothing. Between that and the sparkling personality I'm likely to have post-extraction, I will be a lucky, lucky woman if Al and I are still together by the end of next week.
Posting-wise, I'll do what I can.
Comments are open for voting on whether I should go for nitrous or the K.O. I'm leaning toward the latter.


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I purchased a Sony Handycam a few years back, along with a two-year extended warranty. The camcorder worked great the first year, but it developed an issue with the cassette holder. When I tried to record or play a cassette, I began to get Sony's version of the "blue screen of death," accompanied by text instructions to "reinsert cassette."
It initially occurred fairly randomly, and I was able to reinsert the cassette and continue, but after a month, even that was no longer possible. I called Sony to report the problem and to see how best to proceed, since it was still under warranty. After explaining the issue to the technical support representative, I asked him if this was a common problem. His response was that it was very strange, and he had not heard of this happening before.
Yet if you enter into any search engine the words "Sony Handycam rei," you will see "Sony Handycam reinsert cassette error" come up as an option. Selecting it will result in multiple Internet entries on this particular error. The favorite solution is as follows:
Trust me on this one... with tape still in unit and battery removed, smack both sides of unit firmly three to four times with the heel of your hand. It works nine out of 10 times on all Sony cameras.
Further research revealed various possible reasons for the error -- one site says a pinch roller worked its way off its post because of a cheap locking nut. Another site says a cable needs to be reseated. Yet another says the cassette holder is out of alignment. There are even YouTube videos of people explaining the correct procedure for smacking your camera. The problem seems to be endemic across model numbers, although the tech rep at Sony was unaware that there was an issue.
I tried the usual troubleshooting techniques, although I must admit I am out of my element with camcorders. I tried cleaning the unit, examining parts that were exposed enough for a visual inspection, powering down the unit and resetting it, trying a different cassette, and yes, I admit it, smacking it (according to the experts on YouTube, who at least knew there was a problem). Since it was inoperable anyway, smacking it made me feel better. Smacking actually worked a couple of times before it finally refused to work at all. Ultimately, I could not get rid of the error, and the camcorder was now completely useless. It was a shame, too. Besides the issue of basic functionality, every other feature on it worked well.
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Welcome in OneSails!
by Paul Eldrid OneSails Australia
Discipline is paramount in implementing a total starting strategy for each and every boat race. Without a sound understanding of the procedure by every team member on a boat, and allowing time to gather information before the start of every race, your chances of making well calculated decisions are substantially reduced.
Many different sailors and teams have their own ideas and plans for the start of the race. The guide outlined here is a system that works well for me and you may find that modifying this works better for you – but the only way to establish this is to start practicing and sticking to a plan from the outset. The learning can only begin when you start!.
Pre – Preparation = Information
Start Line Analysis = Information
Establish start line geometry
Using the information gathered establish the starting boundaries and reduce the risk of getting a bad start
Identify the high risk zones when the line is biased – these areas can often result in chaos and crashes.It may be worth starting near the favored end, but just clear of the commotion!
The Next Factor (to windward) shortly after the gun– it's clear to see the advantage of the biased end and a front row
Techniques – Time to use your information and execute your plan
In Sequence – countdown to the start
RACING! After the start
Damage Control
Starting well takes discipline to follow a method, gather information, make a plan and execute it. The more you practice the better you will get. And if you don't OCS once a year – you are holding back! Get in there!
Good luck – sail fast and fair…from the onesails team!
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This video was uploaded to Facebook with the following caption: "HOLY SHIT! Stupid Ravens fan... We just talked this guy into doing this!!"
As you now know, we had some weather interrupt the Ravens-Bears game today. The game resumed around 3:25 p.m. eastern, but earlier in the day the players had to leave the field and fans were instructed to leave their seats for the concourses. Which means Ravens dude decided to run onto the field when basically no one else was there. This is probably the closest we'll ever get to having just the one idiot on the field.


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Like most ballparks, Turner Field hosts a silly race between costumed characters that represent some sponsoring interest. In the Braves' case, it's the Home Depot Tool Race. Today's Tool Race featured an extra competitor, a fan who raced in from center field and made it to the infield before being sacked by security. In a rarity, we actually have broadcast footage of the individual being dealt with by cops and hauled off the field, thanks to CSN Philly's required lower-third graphic and reader for "Respiratory Asthma Awareness Night." We'll try and update this post with the inevitable cell phone videos that come streaming in.
Update (3:29 p.m.): Here's some video shot by Daniel S.


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Laurence Dunmore
Laurence Dunmore joined RSA as a commercial director in 1997 and quickly established his unique vision with a controversial spot for the UK's Commission for Racial Equality. In it, he digitally transformed the skin color and ethnic features British celebrities and sports figures and had them ask, "Would you think differently about me?" A series of comically surreal Adidas spots followed, earning him his first Cannes Silver Lion in 2001 and a Silver Pencil at the D&AD Awards a year later. His film for AXE/Lynx, Metamorphosis, married Buddhist reincarnation to the life cycles of a mosquito, tree frog, agave worm, and randy industrialist to nab his first Cannes Gold Lion.
Dunmore began his career as a graphic designer, working primarily with music and film clients through Pentagram in London, and later with his own consultancy, Laurence Dunmore Design. Since turning exclusively to film, the Essex-born director has created spots for a diverse range of clients such as American Express, AT&T, Diesel, Hermes, ING, Liberty Mutual, and Turkish Airlines, as well as numerous beverage brands (Dewar's, Jameson, Heineken, and Johnnie Walker) and luxury automobile clients (Cadillac, Mercedes, Renault, Peugeot, and BMW, for which he won an AICP Award).
While shooting a Eurostar commercial with John Malkovich, the actor gave Dunmore the script for The Libertine, a Restoration-era comedy of manners he was producing starring Johnny Depp and Samantha Morton. This became Dunmore's feature film debut, garnering eight British Independent Film Award nominations, including Best Director.
More recently, Dunmore's narrative short Father's Day, created for Liberty Mutual's Responsibility Project, earned him a second Cannes Silver Lion, and Creativity Magazine named his film for Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey one of the top ten films of 2013.


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Greek subway workers on strike risk jail time after government signs court order
ATHENS, Greece – Greece's government announced emergency powers Thursday to force striking subway workers back to work, with those defying it risking dismissal, arrest and jail in an escalating standoff over austerity measures.
In a swift backlash, unions announced immediate strikes that halted all public transport across the capital for the rest of the day, forcing commuters to trudge through a thunderstorm or vie for taxis to get home in the evening.
The disruption was set to continue, with some declaring further labor action.
"We are protesting and if they fire people, let them come, they will take us dead from here," said Antonis Stamatopoulos, head of the Athens metro workers' union. "Starting tomorrow there will be a transportation blackout."
Subway staff angered by pay cuts which they say will reach 25 percent of their salaries had defied a Wednesday night court order to return to work, pulling their strike into an eighth day. With traffic clogging the capital's major streets, the government announced a civil mobilization order for the Athens metro.
Under the law, amended in 2007 to deal with "peacetime emergencies," defying a civil mobilization order carries a three month to five year prison sentence.
Civil mobilization has now been used nine times since the 1974 collapse of a military dictatorship in Greece -- three of those in the past two years in strikes related to austerity measures imposed in return for international bailouts that are keeping the country from outright bankruptcy. Considered an extreme measure, the law's use tends to spark an outcry but does tend to end a strike.
"The unionists have decided to follow a course of blind confrontation as well as adopting unreasonable strike methods," Transport Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said in announcing the order after a meeting with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
"As a result of their actions, they are causing difficulties for Athens and Athens' society and they are creating a serious financial problem for the city. ... We can take no other action than to proceed with the measure of (civil) mobilization."
Following the announcement, striking metro workers who have been blockading the subway train depot in western Athens parked two fork-lift trucks behind the entrance gates, preventing anyone from entering.
The metro, which opened in 2000, serves more than 700,000 passengers daily, covering 32 miles with 34 stations. It operates alongside an older rail line, bringing the capital's combined daily subway traffic to 1.1 million passengers, according to data from the operators.
"We expect everything now, we have nothing left to lose," said Stamatopoulos, to cheers of his fellow strikers at the depot. "Let Mr. Hatzidakis come here driving a tank."
Metro workers are outraged by plans to scrap their existing contracts as part of a broader reform to public sector pay, with their union saying the measure would subject them to a roughly 25 percent pay cut.
Stamatopoulos said that metro workers had lost on average nearly half of their income through successive salary and benefit cuts since the start of the bailout austerity measures in 2010.
The strike has been met with a mixture of understanding and exasperation from commuters, many of who are in a similar situation and are suffering cuts to their own income. Strikes in general are so widespread and frequent in Greece that they have become part of everyday life.
"Good for them. How else can they live? They work 50 meters underground for euro500, euro600, euro900 (per month)," said Vangelis Zisis, standing at a crowded bus stop before the transport blackout was announced. "What is euro900 ($1,200) today when prices have skyrocketed?"
Others were angered by the disruption the eight-day strike was having on their work.
"It's turned my life into a nightmare," said Sophia Economopoulou, who works for a mobile phone company handing out promotional phone cards to commuters. "You understand the nature of our work depends on the metro. So my nerves are on edge."
The government has insisted there can be no exceptions to the new public sector pay scales, which is part of spending cuts been imposed in order to meet fiscal requirements by international creditors in return for much-needed bailout loans. The loans' conditions have deepened the country's economic hardship -- Greece is in a sixth year of recession, with unemployment spiraling to above 26 percent.
"The Greek people have made sacrifices. Huge sacrifices. And I cannot allow exceptions," Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said. "Besides, public transport doesn't belong to unions. It belongs to the people, who have the right to use it and not to be inconvenienced from morning to night."
"So let everyone understand it: the mistakes of the past will not be repeated."
Unions and the main opposition party, the radical left Syriza, responded to the mobilization order with outrage, saying it was reminiscent of a military dictatorship.
"They have declared martial law against the workers. Problems cannot be resolved with martial law," said Syriza lawmaker Panagiotis Lafazanis.
Separately, a seamen's union announced a 48-hour ferry strike starting next Thursday to protest recent changes in labor laws that will allow more employees to be hired on short-term contracts.


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Freeman Foundation awards two fellowships for School of Law LL.M. candidatesUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU — The William S. Richardson School of Law is proud to announce the selection of the 2007-2008 Freeman Fellows for the School of Law's Master of Laws Program (LL.M.). The awardees are Fang Ye of China and Suonpraseth Prum (Praseth) of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Fang, who is originally from Nanchang, is a 2001 graduate of the East China University of Politics and Law. In 2004, she earned an LL.M. from Tsinghua University in Beijing and then returned to Shanghai to teach at the China Executive Leadership Academy, a new national institution funded by the central government to train Chinese officials, many of whom will be trained in law. She is also a candidate for the S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) degree at the East China University of Politics and Law, where she is majoring in constitutional law, a subject of fundamental importance in China.
Praseth graduated from the Royal University of Phnom Penh in 1992 with a degree in English and will receive his LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) degree from the Royal University of Law and Economics this year. He has been actively involved in development work and the nonprofit sector with international organizations and in the civil service. His referees found him to be an "extraordinarily intelligent, hardworking, and motivated student." Praseth's goal is to become a leader in the legal profession and to advance institutional legal development in Cambodia. He will bring broad experience, and now international training, to this important work.
The Freeman Foundation is providing Fang and Praseth with their first opportunity to study abroad and earn a degree in the United States. In 2005, the Freeman Foundation awarded the School of Law with a grant of $160,000 to fund two fellowships annually for two years that support Asian students from China, Cambodia, Vietnam or Indonesia in the School of Law's LL.M. Program.
For more information about the LL.M. Program or the Freeman Foundation Fellowships, contact Cynthia Quinn, director of communications and external relations, at 956-5545.
For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/law


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2012 (Not Quite) Final ResultsSunday, November 18th, 2012
Final 2012 Electoral College Map.
Obama managed the unlikely feat of winning 8 of the 9 swing states, losing only North Carolina. Not bad considering the challenges he faced.
The Democrats picked up of two seats in the Senate in an exceedingly difficult year, with the class of 2006 defending their seats. Scott Brown out in Massauchsetts, Claire McCaskill and John Tester re-elected, Tim Kaine takes the seat that Jim Webb won by less than 10,000 votes in 2006, an unlikely Democratic win in North Dakota, the first openly lesbian Senator in Wisconsin…. No one would have predicted these results earlier in the year.
The House elections were less fruitful, in no small part a result of Republican gerrymandering that allowed Republicans to keep a 40 some seat majority even though they garnered less vote share than Democrats. One small ray of sunshine on this front is that some of the most annoying Tea Party candidates like Joe Walsh and Alan West are on their way to defeat (Michele Bachman managed to escape by about 400 votes).
All in all, not too shabby.


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- Yield
- Makes 6 servings
- Active Time
- 35 minutes
- Total Time
- 35 minutes
- 1 1/2 cups quinoa (1/2 pound)
- 2 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced scallion greens
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
- Rinse quinoa in 5 changes of water in a bowl, rubbing grains and letting them settle before pouring off water (if quinoa does not settle, drain in a large fine sieve after each rinse).
- Cook quinoa in a large saucepan of boiling salted water 10 minutes. Drain in sieve and rinse under cold water.
- Set sieve with quinoa over saucepan filled with 1 1/2 inches boiling water (sieve should not touch water) and steam quinoa, covered with a kitchen towel and lid, until fluffy and dry, 10 to 12 minutes. (Check water level in pan occasionally, adding water if necessary.)
- Toss quinoa with oil and salt and pepper to taste in a large bowl. Cool, then toss with scallion and thyme.
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·Quinoa (without scallion greens and thyme) can be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature and toss with scallion greens and thyme.


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"Dancing With the Stars" is determined to keep both its contestants and its viewers on its toes with all their Season 18 twists and turns. First, co-hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews announced fans could decide which pros they'd want their stars to be switched up with in two weeks. And then they announced that not one, but two stars would get their walking papers from Tasselville before the night was through.
Yes, March Madness has apparently infected the ballroom, as a pair of stars were rendered out of Mirrorball contention before they could properly get their dance footing.
The first was long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad, the charming super "DWTS" fan who sadly got lost amid the choppy sequin-infested waters of the glitterverse and was eliminated 45 minutes into the first hour of competition.
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"For nine years I've wanted to do this show. It's spectacular, the spirit of it," Diana said before she and Henry Byalikov performed their consolatory cha-cha. "I only wish that this superlative, handsome young man that I've locked my body with for three weeks – he's elegant and he's brilliant, and I wish I could have given him a couple more weeks."
It's too bad, because Diana seemed like a classy dame who appreciated everything about the show, all the way down to its last sparkle.
The other star eliminated this week was former New York Ranger Sean Avery. It never seemed like Sean really warmed up to the vat of Velveeta that is "DWTS," telling pro partner Karina Smirnoff that "'Dancing With the Stars' likes it when you have a smile on your face all day" (like that's a bad thing or something). And while he bared his pearly whites enough to perform a salsa that improved on last week's score by a point, viewers apparently got that Sean did not wholeheartedly embrace the fringe like sequins on a hot glue gun and iced him out of Mirrorball contention as well.
Here's how the other stars aligned this week:
Olympian Meryl Davis showed off her gold-medal-winning athletic abilities in her high-flying swing dance with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Meryl chose swing "to see how high I can go." Old man Maks, however, wasn't exactly flipping for all the acrobatics. "I'm way too old for this," he sighed. But boy, did they crank the energy to 11 and go all-out for this one. "What's so great is you have Maks working his butt off," Carrie Ann said admiringly. Bruno called it "a swinging acrobatic extravaganza" but said Meryl lost timing a couple of times. "That swing had wings," Len, aka. "the important one," said. "Fly on, girl!" Total: 25 out of 30.
Big Time Rush's James Maslow's got Cody Simpson in his crosshairs. Cody one-upped James last week, and James said he was willing to "take the criticism and perhaps wear less clothing for the samba" and do whatever it takes ("no shirt on, perhaps no pants") to one-up Cody this week. What do you know: James got jokes! And hello: James also got spicy hot salsa moves! "Dayum!" Carrie Ann declared, before inducting James into her "DWTS" sexy hall of fame alongside Gilles Marini, Corbin Bleu and Mario Lopez. "You've come out of your shell and you've got the abs to prove it," Bruno crowed. "More of that, please." Total: 25.
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Sharna Burgess wanted Charlie White to channel a bad boy aggressor for their tango, so she suggested the Olympic gold medalist go to Maks for a bad-boy primer. And while Maks gave the ice dancer tips on how not to be a one-woman type of man, Charlie, who has been dating former ice dancer Tanith Belbin for five years, dug from the confidence well instead. "Power is about the confidence in yourself," Carrie Ann said before declaring Charlie a "wild-haired Baryshnikov." Len soberly referred to Charlie as "Charles" before ripping into the ice dancer for breaking hold. "Charlie, don't worry, I love you when you're bad," Bruno said. "What I saw coming out of you was that predatory killer instinct. Total: 25.
Danica McKellar wants to set herself apart from the crowd, and she was willing to use an exercise roller of a birthday gift to Val, a glamazonian outfit, and a fiery samba to do it. Danica aimed to match Candace Cameron Bure's 9 last week, but rehearsals for her chosen dance with birthday boy Val Chmerkovskiy weren't going as swimmingly as she had hoped. At one point the "Wonder Years" actress was reduced to frustrated tears. But the judges thought her samba was worthy of celebration. Sort of. Bruno called it beautiful to look at, but "not quite tamed yet." Carrie Ann thought Danica was "so sexy and so elegant and so grounded … but you did get lost a little." Total: 24.
Paralympic athlete and Sochi bronze medal winner Amy Purdy chose the swing dance because she thought it looked like a lot of fun, though she and Derek Hough hadn't quite banked on the possibility that her prosthetic legs "could potentially fly off when I'm dancing." Happily, the legs and the rhythm stayed intact for their very impressive routine. Bruno called the routine "clever" and "witty." Len called Amy "amazing." "You used every nuance in that music for great effect," he said. Total: 24.
Teenage heartthrob Cody Simpson chose the tango because "I saw a video of my parents dancing the tango at their wedding." Though I don't know if the Australian pop star had known how form fitting and in hold he had to be throughout. Pro partner Witney Carson shot down a lot of Cody's modernized suggestions (as well as his saggy pants), to keep with Len's taste, though she apparently made a concession with their contemporary song and the duo's futurized day-glo prom outfits (which Tom called "Tron" formalwear). The judges admired the young whippersnappers' stylization (and didn't seem to mind that there was a moonwalk in the middle of it), and Bruno said Cody had a hypnotic, Edward-in-"Twilight" quality about him, though they thought he could be a little more compact in hold. Total: 22.
Drew Carey is used to being in front of a live audience. "I'm only comfortable when I'm in front of a big group of people," the bespectacled comedian and "Price Is Right" host admitted. It's the empty rehearsal room where he has trouble. Not to mention those kick-ball-changes in the jive! But what Drew couldn't quite do with partner Cheryl Burke during their '50s themed-routine, he was able to gloss over with his bedazzled collar and winning demeanor. "You covered the mistakes up beautifully," Bruno said admiringly. "If entertainment was judo, you're a black belt," Len proclaimed, though the head judge cautioned Drew to "work on your footwork, work on your posture." Total: 21.
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Candace Cameron Bure is a Christian wife and mother of three, so she is careful in how she portrays herself. She also has a say in how her partner Mark Ballas is dressed, nixing Mark's request to bare his top during a wardrobe consultation session. ("You're worse than Bristol Palin," said Mark. "And she was bad.") Mostly, the "Full House" actress wanted to make sure things didn't get too inappropriate or awkward on TV (never mind that "DWTS" awkwardly interviewed ex-boyfriend Jeremy Miller in the audience and tried to goad the "Growing Pains" actor into choosing between her and Danica right before her performance). Candace and Mark's "Say Something" rumba did seem a lot more contempo casual than ballroom. "I feel it was a little too contemporary in styling," Carrie Ann said. Len and Bruno agreed. "The rumba is a sinuous dance, it never stops moving," Bruno said. Total: 21.
A very Mary J. Blige-looking NeNe Leakes revealed she chose the jive for her husband. Though a couple tough rehearsals with Tony Dovolani had the Real Housewife of Atlanta rethinking her nuptials. "Who chose the jive?" NeNe demanded. "Your husband," Tony responded. "We need a divorce." But luckily no annulments were necessary with this fun, frothy Fosse of a routine that was as mod as it was pink and full of sparkle. "I hope you're back because you're so much fun to watch," Len said. "You can shimmy, you can shake it," Bruno said, though he said her jive had to be much sharper on the footwork. Carrie Ann agreed, though she thought NeNe's arms still could be bigger. Total: 21.
Ladies and gentlemen, Billy Dee Williams is not impervious to the criticism. "I wanted to cry," the always and forever Lando Calrissian sadly told pro partner Emma Slater after last week's low scores. If Billy cries, Emma cries. When Emma cries, we all cry. And during rehearsals, Billy was feeling old and his back was achy. So Emma dug deep into her professional arsenal and brought Jenna and Lindsey from the Troupe to cheer up her glum chum. And being surrounded by a bevy of pretty, scantily clad girls did perk Billy Dee up some, and gave the 77-year-old the boost he needed to pull off a Peter Gunn tango routine. Carrie Ann said he handled the choreography very well, but she still thought the content was lacking. Len likened his dance to "ivy -- just crept across the floor, there was no attack." And the scores remained the same. Total: 15.
So, yes, once again, Billy Dee is the low-scoring star ripe to be picked off for next week's elimination. But this guy did once own the Millennium Falcon, so you know he'll be hard to beat.
What do you think? Did the right two stars go home? Who do you want paired together in the switch-up? Did anyone else detect some shade from Cody Simpson after James Maslow's red-hot salsa? Happy birthday Val!
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"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas…". What's that? Trash the musical notes? You prefer baseball notes? Well, OK.
YOUNG ARMS: Why have the Phillies traded Daniel Haigwood and Gio Gonzalez, two young lefties that got a year ago from the White Sox?
At the winter meetings last year, the Phillies moved up in the Rule 5 draft in an effort to claim lefty reliever Fabio Castro from the White Sox. Texas, instead, grabbed Castro with an earlier pick and then asked waivers during the season. The Phillies worked out a deal with the Rangers, sending Haigwood to Texas for Castro.
Castro, 21, did well out of the pen after joining the Phillies despite his inexperience. He has a high ceiling. He is closer to the big leagues than Haigwood or Gonzalez. Some believe the latter is 2-3 years away from the majors.
To obtain a quality starter like Freddie Garcia, you have to give up something good. Plus, the Phillies feel they have other lefties coming in J. A. Happ, Matt Maloney, Joshua Outman, Daniel Bauer and Derek Griffith.
NUMBERS: Phillies' $24 million contract with Adam Eaton raised some eyebrows among some clubs and some members of the media. Eaton has a 54-45 career record which is similar to other free agents who got big bucks, Ted Lilly (59-58, $40 million), Gil Meche (55-44, $55 million) and Jason Marquis (56-52, a reported $21 million).
Did somebody say it pays to be a pitcher?
QUOTE: "They're (the Phillies) good. Any team that has Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Brett Myers and Cole Hamels is going to be good. They've got a bunch of games over there," Mets' GM Omar Minaya told ESPN.com's Jason Stark.
SORRY: Most sought after Phillie in the trade market has been Cole Hamels. Response was easy, sorry.
RULE 5 DRAFT: Phillies took three, RHP Alfredo Simon, RHP Jim Warden and C Ryan Budde (no relation to ex-Eagles coach Buddy Ryan). When building the Blue Jays in the 1970s, Pat Gillick was able to pluck three plumbs from this annual winter draft, OF George Bell, 3B Kelly Gruber and 1B-OF Willie Upshaw.
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Thanks for answering my questions, appreciate it. The last items on my offseason agenda are:
What will the Phillies do differently this year to avoid the horrific start that's plagued them for 2 consecutive seasons?
What gives with the broadcasting booth?
HOF'er, Harry the K is an institution, why isn't he locked up yet? Can you shed any light on Graham's, unexpected from a fan's perspective, departure?
Finally, when are we going to see Scott Palmer in the booth?
I swear I have no more questions.
Hi Larry,
Guess you heard that Tommy Herr will manage the Nationals' A team in Hagerstown, Md. this year, after two years of managing the Lancaster Barnstormers. How can I find out Tommy did against Tug McGraw?
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Tropomyosin is a long protein that associates with actin, a highly conserved thin filament protein found in organisms from yeast to humans. Actin, a major part of the cell's cytoskeleton, drives shape changes and cellular locomotion in many types of cells, and is part of the contractile apparatus in muscle cells. Tropomyosin binds to actin ad acts as a molecular barrier, essentially covering up active sites that are required for actin to interact with other proteins. In turn cellular signals can trigger additional regulatory proteins to move tropomyosin, dislodging the barrier in order to allow actin to associate with remodeling and motor proteins.
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Building on previous findings that the association between tropomyosin and actin is an electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged amino acids, Dr. Lehman and colleagues explored thousands of combinations of different rotations and positions of tropomyosin to find the most favorable interaction between tropomyosin and actin. The researchers then used electron microscopy as a second approach to also reconstruct the interaction. The two methods yielded virtually identical solutions, "which is very gratifying", says Dr. Lehman.
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Music venue in downtown Austin, TX. We are a bar too, so we have happy hour specials, plenty of seating, and a massive free digital jukebox. Not an actual ballroom. Capacity 150. The live music shows are "indie rock." We differentiate from the mainstream by selecting (curating) music that we like ourselves. Our roots go back to 70s punk and new wave (X, Pavement, Pixies, the Clash), and yes we are in our mid-40s, but we've kept up with new music. We tend to like music that's a little odd, NOT your typical Austin CIty Limits stuff. If you know Austin, our booking might be a cross between the Mohawk and the Continental Club. However, this is not a dive bar. We don't want the logo to be too macho or punk. Interior theme is vintage radios and radio show posters. We have an Internet radio station running from the bar during open hours. Whatever's playing on the free jukebox (1500+ records) or live onstage (if permission is given) will also be on the radio. So you could play off the radio theme. We tried a radio tower on our own attempts at the logo but were not satisfied with the results. I'll attach a copy. In this copy, I picked a retro font, vaguely art deco. It's PAG Bankas. My partner doesn't like this font, says it's too fancy. We're hovering the fence between typical gritty bar (and our grunge music background) and also wanting a comfortable, clean, nonintimidating happy hour bar.
several overlapping markets: (Main:) music nerd, generally mature but can be college-age. You're tired of the trendy dive bars and want to go somewhere that's way cool but also has clean bathrooms! You want to hear some music and you know whatever's playing at Skinny's will be good. You'll always find the best new or obscure bands, both local and touring. When bands aren't playing, you'll find interesting people to chat with, folks picking cool songs for free from the best jukebox in town. (2) Nearby downtown condo residents. (3) Nearby convention center guests and hotel guests. (4) Service industry worker before/after shift. (5) Anyone seeking a comfortable place to stop first for happy hour before going to the Sixth St or Red River bars, or making the last stop of the night.
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When homeowners choose to work with designer Genevieve Gorder, they've got one of two options: either close your eyes, plug your nose and jump in or make yourself miserable with worry because you aren't in complete control.
"Either way, I'll give you a great room," says Gorder, a former designer on Trading Spaces who now stars in the HGTV's new weeky series, 'Dear Genevieve.' "We would rather spend more time working on the room than trying to convince you that it's OK to change, but if you need that push, I will give it to you."
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Question:Are there common areas where people tend to have the most problems?
Answer: It's not so much a particular space as much as I see the same problems arising over and over again. The most common one is that fear of the unknown and of messing up and not being perfect. That perfectionism is difficult because it paralyzes people. Design isn't a perfect science. It's led from the heart, not the head. People tend to sabotage themselves by overthinking the process. "If I buy this chair and put it here, then the dresser won't work and then I can't buy that area rug either." People create a series of reasons for not doing something. It's a domino effect and they get stuck.
It's my job to teach people how to approach design and how to start thinking (or not thinking) about it so that it can happen. It's a gradual process of sculpting your house like a piece of art. You have to feel it and do it bit by bit and let things shape themselves. If you really love a piece, get it, and make it work around that. Sculpt what you want your life to look like. It's a gradual collection of things that make you happy throughout your life. Your home should represent you, not page 36 in Pottery Barn. I get that picture thrown at me quite a lot, but I have to tell people that is not a house, it's a set.
Question: Give me an example of when you know something is 'off' in a space?
Answer: I have met people that wake up in the morning and stub their toe on the end table by their bed every day, but they won't move it. They will settle with something like that for 14 years not realizing that everytime it happens, it sets the tone for their day. Why do people settle for things that make them unhappy? How did they get there? They think everything else is more important and we put design on the bottom. Life gets in the way, people doubt their skills or they think it's too much of a committment. But design is about taking care of yourself and putting yourself higher up on a priority list. Design can take care of you. I come in and wake up their imagination again and start that conversation about who they are and how they can make that tangible.
Question: How do you decide which emails to address?
Answer: The emails are out of control! Trading Spaces was an amazing platform for me to step off of because the fans are really intense. I know when we first announced the show, we got close to 100,000 emails in a couple of days from people sharing their design problems. That tells me we are doing the right show at the right time and that this is something that people want. But if I were to go through all the letters, I wouldn't have time to design. We have scouts who sort through them, and we look for problems that have greater revelance to a larger audience.
Question: Please share your favorite design tips.
Answer: Remember that design is a careful balance. It's not a theme, it's a concept that drives the ship but doesn't dictate every single thing. For instance, when using paint, don't just use one paint color for the entire room. A balance of color in a space would be one with highlights, midtones and darktones. Texture and pattern works the same way. You can't have a solid color painted wall, a solid color couch and solid color pillows. You have to give depth to the eye for a sense of richness and completion. Rugs and pillows are great places to add patterns. Use art work to break up blank spaces on the wall. Molding also gives texture on the top and the bottom, and are great architectural details around windows and doors. It's often one of those missing details in these new builds.
Lighting can really define how we live in a space. Once you hang a pendant, you are defining an area where people should land. That light gives it purpose and focus. You are basically telling people where to go in your home without saying anything. All lights should be on dimmers to control ambience throughout the day and night.
Question: Why is it important to include all members of the household in your designs?
Answer: Everyone should have a representation of who they are from the past, present and future. That includes details such as photography, momentos (but not 500 pieces of a collection). They are conversation pieces that are memorable and inspirational.
Both of the parents should be visible in the house. That starts by having a conversation so that everyone can voice what they need from the house and how it makes them feel. That's rarely ever talked about, but it's so crucial. Men can be a little shy of that sometimes since it's not the vocabulary and words we've given them to use. But the home is the only place where people can control their lives and all aspects of who they are should be accounted for. Both spouses need to have photographs of their life before they were together. Books, collections of things from their childhood…all of that should be somewhere accessible in the house. It's the tiny details that makes everyone feel like they are thought of and special.
Question: What has been one of your favorite episodes and why?
Answer: I loved the one with Michele Cancellieri. She had inherited her childhood home after her parents death, but she was afraid to make any design changes. She was absolutely paralyzed. The den was straight out of 1974 with easy chairs, wall-to-wall plaid carpet, even the same TV! She thought that if she touched anything in that space, that meant she was getting rid of Dad or removing him from the house. It's common that people give life to a piece of furniture. It was almost a shrine.
I have never experienced the kind of emotional load she was carrying, but she wanted to own the house with her life. So the entire show was this slow unraveling of defining who she really was through design. She came around full circle and it was like this life changing experience. She let go of the control and something beautiful happened. The house was no longer this constant reminder of who she was when she was 10 years old. The house was now representing that she lived a beautiful life for herself and her mother and father
Question: What do you feel is most important about working with and gaining clients' trust?
Answer: I don't create shocking rooms just to surprise you. I don't design at you; I design with you. Granted, there is a time in the process where clients have to let go and let me finish the project, but 30 to 40 percent is working in tandem which is crucial for success. So often there are designers who come in and say, 'This is how I see things, and this is how it's going to be done.' But in the end, I recognize that you are the one who lives there and has to make the design work for your life. My team and I take that into consideration.
During our conversations, clients can say 'No, I don't think that will work,' because that's when the dialogue begins. Sometimes I do have to get heavy-handed because they have to remember they called me for help because they were stuck. It has to be a marriage between my solutions and their informations.
Question: What's next?
Answer: I have a new line of products coming out. I've been in every one else's home for so many years that all of my work has become this giant case-study. I have a bedding collection coming out with Springmaid.
And I've released some rugs and lamps with Klaussner Home Furnishings. I was looking for a specific price point that would be affordable, as well as specific colors and simple patterns I felt were missing. I focused on Venice Moorish accents merged with western details and stripes. I couldn't find a stripped rug or a yellow one to save my life, so I have a series of rugs that have creams and yellow as well as patterns I've seen from my travels.
Lighting is such an overlooked accent in every room, and it can be such a show stopper when done correctly. Most lamps are so traditional, so I think the lamp shade it what really make it pop. I wanted to create a sensibility with lighting so it surprises and delights like someone wearing a necklace in a room and you can't stop looking at it. That's what design is to me, to really look harder and find something you didn't see before that keeps it pretty.


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I'm in an introductory computer science program where we are just writing in pseudocode which I'm quite good at. The other day I was sick and missed class where our professor went over some Java programming and assigned it as extra credit. I would really like to have a solid A in this class going into the exam so my professor said I could look for some help online with writing this Java code. If someone could explain to me how to write this, it would be super helpful to me, it's worth a lot of points!!
Create, compile and test a Java program with the following characteristics:
A variable for your first name
A variable for your last name
Initalize the first name variable with your first name
Do not initialize the last name variable.
Assign your last name to the last name variable
Display the first name using the first name variable
Display two blank lines
Display the last name using the last name variable
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Arvind Ananthan, MathWorks
The Medical Device community is increasingly looking towards modeling and simulation techniques used in other safety-critical applications to reduce design risks and reduce probability of device recalls. Model-Based Design is a design methodology rooted in system modeling and simulation techniques that have been used for many years by the Aerospace, Automotive and Transportation industries for developing safety critical software systems.
In this webinar we will use an ECG beat detection model as a case study to demonstrate how to apply Model-Based Design techniques to model, simulate, test, implement, and verify your designs using MATLAB and Simulink.
Presenter: Arvind Ananthan
Recorded: 22 Oct 2013


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So maybe I jumped the gun a little bit. Who could blame me for being excited about shaking off the winter blahs and getting on with the year? After a long week of pounding rain, the snow has melted and temperatures are rising ever so slightly, adding fuel to my accelerated sense of time. Despite common sense and the calender's conclusive decree, spring is the only season I can think of catering to now, and oh, the plans I have! Asparagus, ramps, fiddleheads, morels, all have a place on my menu, and eventually in my stomach, but for now remain a dream. It's still winter as far as my selection of produce is concerned, yielding slim pickings at best, but at least there is hope on the horizon- Little green sprouts are popping up in planters, and the first of the crocuses are lifting their sleepy heads from their multi-month naps. Besides, daylight savings has brought sunshine back to the dinner table, relenting at last with that early, oppressive darkness. That's got to be at least a semi-official sign of spring, right?
I'm sure the last frost is yet to come, and perhaps another cold snap or two just to keep us on our toes, but I'm ready to throw off the sweaters and turn off that pot of stew, slip into something a bit more fresh. Let's not get crazy here, this isn't the time for chilled bean salads or anything of the sort, but more of a compromise, bridging the gap between these two competing seasons. By easing some new spring greenery into a more hearty dish, everyone wins.
An adaptation on the butternut risotto from Jae Steele's Get it Ripe, which I loved so much, my new incarnation drops the heavy orange squash in favor of the rich flesh of an avocado, plus some pureed white beans to lighten things up. Asparagus, one of my favorite veggies of all time, makes a cameo appearance but doesn't steal the show, the crisp yet tender stalks contrasting nicely to the creamy rice base, redolent in savory, almost cheesy flavor. Unnervingly green as it may be, thanks to that avocado, I think the color is just a cheerful reminder of the greenery to come.
Green Risotto Primavera
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
1 Medium Onion, Chopped
1 1/2 Cups Arborio Rice
4 Cups Vegetable Stock
1/4 Cup Unsweetened Soymilk
6 Cloves Roasted Garlic
1 Cup Canellini Beans
1 Ripe, Medium-Sized Avocado
2 Tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice
2 Tablespoons Nutritional Yeast
1 – 2 Cups Chopped Asparagus, Fresh or Frozen
1 – 2 Tablespoons Fresh Chopped Chives
1 – 2 Tablespoons Fresh Chopped Parsley
1 Teaspoon Fresh Chopped Thyme
Salt and Pepper, To Taste
Set a medium saucepan over a moderate flame, and coat the bottom of the pan with the oil. Once hot, add in the chopped onion, and saute for about 5 minutes, until softened and fragrant. Add the rice into the pan, and cook for another 5 minutes or so, stirring occasionally, until the grains appear somewhat translucent.
Combine the vegetable stock and soymilk together, and heat for a minute or two in the microwave to take the chill off, if they were previously refrigerated. Pour about 1/3 of it into the pan, just so that the rice is covered, and reduce the heat slightly so that it remains at a low simmer. Continue stirring every few minutes to make sure that nothing is sticking to the bottom of the pan. Once the rice absorbs that liquid and begins to look dry, add in another splash of the stock mixture, while stirring gently. Continue this pattern until about 2/3 of the stock is used. At that point, pour the remainder in, cover, and let simmer on the lowest heat setting for about 15 – 25 minutes, until the rice is done.
Meanwhile, toss your roasted garlic, beans, avocado, lemon juice, and nutritional yeast into a blender or food processor. Puree until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
Once the rice is cooked through, gently fold in the bean and avocado puree, stirring just until evenly distributed throughout the mixture. Add in the chopped asparagus, turn off the heat, and cover for about 5 minutes, to steam the veggies and let the risotto finish cooking. Finish by stirring in the fresh herbs, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
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Through a Painter's Brush: A Year on Campobello Island
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(PAPERBACK) Award-winning artist Michael Chesley Johnson offers meditations on the process of making art and accompanies his essays with landscape paintings of Campobello Island, New Brunswick, and Downeast Maine. This art instruction book (complete with demonstrations in both oil and pastel) will be enjoyed by both art collectors and art students of all levels.Through a Painter's Brush has 140 pages filled with over 150 images -- 55 oils and 20 pastels of maritime scenery complete with detail shots and illustrative photos, two demonstrations in oil and pastel, and Michael's meditations on plein air painting.
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Divine swine: Hog Heaven finds greener pastures
Now that the smells of saffron, seafood, and garlic are swirling around downtown Belmont with the recent opening of Mas Tapas Bar, you might think that hickory is history.
But Dish is here to tell you that, Spanish conquest nonwithstanding, Hog Heaven is alive and kickin'.
In fact, as soon as this beloved barbeque house left Charlottesville for the greener pastures of Greene County, the chef says business has more than tripled. The reason?
"Charlottesville is not a barbeque town," says Hog Heaven owner-chef Mark Cermele. (We wonder what the new Wolfie's Bar and Grill has to say about that...)
Cermele, who ran the entire Belmont operation with his partner, Brenda Stover, and now has six employees, is more than satisfied with his decision to move his custom-made upright airtight smoker to traffic-heavy, hog-friendly Ruckersville.
"It took me five months to build the place, and two weeks to grow out of it," he says of his little eat-in, take-out hideaway that opened in November just a hundred yards from Route 29. Plans are already in the works to take over the space next door and turn it into a combination catering kitchen and retail space.
With more than eight homemade sauces nearly perfected– from habañero onion garlic ("This'll kill you") to "sweet 'n sassy" pineapple– Cermele figures it's time to share the flavor with the rest of Virginia. Not to mention the rest of the country– Hog Heaven barbeque sauces will also be available over the internet.
And we're not just being cute by calling it a "hideaway." Hog Heaven is harder to spot than a pig in a blanket. The dearth of signage and the location itself– on the butt-side of a little shopping plaza which is itself partially hidden behind a Wendy's– makes us wonder if Cermele wants to be found at all. (Of course he does, he's just been too swamped to order bigger signs).
So how do barbeque-lovers find the Hog? Many are regulars from the Belmont days, Hog Heaven converts who don't mind hauling their appetites to Ruckersville for some of Cermele's signature hand-pulled hickory-smoked pork. Others, if they don't hear about it through the grapevine, just follow their noses.
"I get a lot of customers from the Wendy's drive-thru line," Cermele says proudly. "They smell the smoke and come around back to find the source." We wonder if they return to fast-food after tasting Hog Heaven's slow-cooked specialties.
In many ways, barbeque is a dying art. Lots of larger, more commercial operations don't even bother to hand-pull. Instead, they opt for the quicker, cheaper "buffalo chopper," which basically chops up the entire butt– gristle and all. Dish can testify that Hog Heaven does not take short cuts. When we dropped in unannounced on the Friday before the Super Bowl, we witnessed 20 nimble fingers busy at work in the kitchen, carefully turning a "nice butt" into select and non select piles.
And the handiwork doesn't stop there. Cermele even hand-cuts his own fries and makes his own coleslaw, which he insists is nothing but cabbage salad until it has a chance to sit overnight.
So the next time you're in Greene County, or even if you're not, you just may be able to follow the smoke signals to Cermele's swine.


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Shyamal Patel, MathWorks
Machine learning is quickly becoming a powerful tool for solving complex modeling problems across a broad range of industries. It is enabling engineers and scientists to develop models which learn from data and can be deployed as a part of packaged applications that can run efficiently on embedded systems as well as cloud infrastructure. The benefits of machine learning are being realized in applications everywhere, including predictive maintenance, health monitoring, financial portfolio forecasting, and advanced driver assistance. However, successfully applying machine learning in practice presents several challenges. It is not always clear which data is going to be the most useful for prediction, and tuning machine learning hyperparameters can consume a large amount of time.
In this webinar, you will learn how machine learning tools in MATLAB address these challenges. We will demonstrate:
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SmileHeavenLtd. brauchte ein neues Anderes Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 33 Designs von 5 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Design a luxurious box for our 5 Step Complete Tooth Whitening System.
250mm wide X 150mm deep X 100mm thick.
We have already held another competition to design our logo for the company and the winning logo can be found here http://99designs.com/contests/7113
We're open to suggestions on the theme - You can either go with the colours from the variations of the winning logo or try something different.
Smile Heaven's 5 Step Complete Tooth Whitening System
We've launched a new product - It's a 5 stage complete tooth whitening kit and will be marketed as the best in the industry - Our kit contains crucial elements that are missed out from other kits on sale and will give the best results of any kit available - the competition are all very amateurish and we need to hit the ground running with a perfect packaging that looks professional and gets our message across - This is the best product available and I want to buy it!
You can find our winning logo on here, try some designs using the colour schemes in here or try something different - We're open to receiving as many variations and artistic interpretations as possible.
Remember that the product will be stocked on shelves so the front side panel will be instrumental in getting the sales message across as this is the thing that'll be read on the shelf.
Somewhere on the box there should be a run down of the 5 steps, they are;
1. Treat sensitivity - 1 day treatment included
2. Scale and polish teeth - Flower of pumice (same as the hygienist) kit with brush included
3. Warm the trays to create a near perfect impression of your teeth with the thermoform mouth trays included
4. Apply the whitening solution to the bespoke whitening trays and follow the instructions
5. When whitening has completed - Remineralsie your teeth with the kit included.
We're going to sell 4 variations of the box
1. Aimed at the 16 - 21 market
2. Aimed at non smokers
3. Aimed at smokers
4. Aimed at over 40's
Please give us some idea of what you would do for each of the 4 boxes
The bottom of the box will be blank and contain a box for chemical info and the such together with a barcode space.
On the back or side it would be ideal to have a use by date.
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Robert Neuwirth
Photo: © Andrea Haenggi
About the Author
Robert Neuwirth spent two years infiltrating street markets and networks of low-level smugglers around the world to write Stealth of Nations. He lived in squatter communities for a similar amount of time to write his first book, Shadow Cities. These globe-trotting ventures were supported, in part, by the MacArthur Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in many publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times Deutschland, Forbes, Fortune, Foreign Policy, Harper's, Scientific American, and Wired. Neuwirth has taught in the college program at Rikers Island (New York City's jail) and at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He is also in demand as a public speaker, and his TED talk on squatters has been viewed by close to a quarter of a million people.


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Joe Yates
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Joe Yates lives at the intersection of science and art. He is a writer, a visual artist and a musician who is also on the premedical track. A biology major from Tampa, Florida, Joe is considering a career in neurology.
"I like knowing how things work," Joe says, explaining his interest in brain function.
"And being a creative person, I like to present obscure knowledge in interesting and creative ways."
That explains his fascination with xkcd—a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language written by a former robotics scientist at NASA—and his own forays into the iconography of intelligent life. Joe writes, draws and paints comics that reflect in a whimsical and hyperbolic way his college experiences and the people he encounters. Look for his upcoming site, "Side Effects May Include," on a computer screen near you.
To his delight, the Rose O'Neill Literary House recently brought two webcomics authors to campus. "Students here have the opportunity to connect and interact with internationally renowned artists and writers," Joe notes, "so we have a better appreciation of what it takes to go down the creative path."
A rower in high school, Joe chose Washington College on the advice of a family friend. "I was hoping to find a college where I could be as smart or as obscenely obscure in exploring academic matters as I wanted and no one would think the lesser of me for it." The College has supported his efforts to combine high arts and the high sciences in a creative track, and fellow students embracing the notion of "geek chic" have spawned new student club, the Guerilla Musical Theatre Troupe, of which Joe is vice-president. The troupe, whose mission is to "startle and entertain the unwary masses via the method of song and dance," recently offered a street performance of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
There's a lot of artistic talent at Washington College—much of it unnoticed. As president of the Artists Union, Joe is spearheading an effort to archive and digitize student work, and then display it in academic buildings across campus. "My goal is to help the institution support the artists here," he says.


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It's the opposite of Starbucks, with funky folk art hanging on the walls and a medley of scents wafting through the air—cinnamon, coffee beans, toasted bread and melted chocolate among them. Yup, we've found the coffeehouse of our dreams.With plenty of space to spread out, Atmalogy is not your average hole-in-the-wall coffee shop. But the multi-purpose hotspot does a lot more than brew up hot mugs of locally roasted java. For starters, owner Heather Riney designed the place to look like the homey, quirky coffeehouses she came across while backpacking through Europe and Southeast Asia. It's the opposite of Starbucks, with funky folk art hanging on the walls and a medley of scents wafting through the air—cinnamon, coffee beans, toasted bread and melted chocolate among them. Customers have been known to make a beeline for the "pillow room," an India-inspired nook with plenty of floor seating and a good amount of fluffy pillows. And while the rest of the rooms have ol' fashioned chairs instead, everything's laid out in a way that encourages talking and connecting, not just hiding behind laptops. If someone really wants to get down to business, they can book one of Atmalogy's private meeting spaces, which are located throughout the store.
Oh! Did we mention the food? In addition to Atmalogy's homemade drinks, which are made with healthy ingredients like coconut palm sugar and cacao powder (a healthy alternative to cocoa), the store also offers breakfast bowls, sandwich plates, salads and baked goods. The Night Rider, for example, a hot-pressed turkey wrap filled with spinach and homemade carrot spread, tastes just like Thanksgiving, and the house-made hummus plate, served with veggies and jalapeno flax crackers, packs a bit of heat. If you're not up for a full meal, no sweat: just skip lunch and go straight to dessert. We recommend the Atma Balls, bite-sized orbs of cookie-doughy deliciousness, made with a combo of hand-rolled oats, dates, almond butter, nuts and organic honey. Heather tells us that they're healthy, and we believe her...although to be honest, we'd keep chowin' down on 'em even if they weren't.
House Chai, $4.25 (12oz) / $4.75 (16oz)
Night Rider Wrap, $8
Atma Balls (various flavors), $4 for 3 balls
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Saturday & Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.