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On Feb. 16, the 150 members of Mountain Shadows Presbyterian Church broke ground at the site of their future church, on the east side of Oracle Road, just north of Rancho Vistoso Boulevard on Mountainaire Road.
Two modular buildings will be constructed on the six-acre site. The main building will be large enough for 240 people during worship services. The other building will contain the church offices and two classrooms. The total project will cost about $1.3 million.
The congregation has been meeting at the Mountain Vista Recreation Center in Sun City for the past two years under the leadership of Rev. John M. Wall, 57, a pastor brought to Oro Valley from New Hampshire. Wall hopes to have the building ready for occupation by Easter.
"The builders say that is unrealistic, but I am still hopeful," he said.
Nationwide, active membership in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. dropped 12 percent from 1990 to 2000, according to "Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States: 2000," a religious census conducted every decade by the Glenmary Research Center in Nashville, Tenn. In Pima County, the decline was 6 percent, but those numbers didn't deter the members of Mountain Shadows, said Wall.
"Individual Presbyterian churches have the capacity to grow and it has a lot to do with location," the pastor said. "Leadership, as well, but certainly location. When you look at the growth, it is pushing northward and there really isn't a (Presbyterian) church up in the north part of Oro Valley. People had a long way to drive from SaddleBrooke to St. Andrew's (Presbyterian Church, 750 W. Chapala Drive), although some still do. The Presbytery just felt the growth was going to continue up north and we needed to get a church in there now."
There are two major branches of the Presbyterian Church - the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (PCUSA) and the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). A smaller branch is the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which there are no congregations in the Northwest.
Theologically and in style of worship, Wall said, the Presbyterian denomination generally falls "halfway between Roman Catholicism or Episcopalian and the real free churches that have no liturgy."
In addition to Mountain Shadows, there are two other PCUSA congregations in the Northwest: St. Andrew's, with 1,500 members, and Tortolita Presbyterian Church, 10710 N. Thornydale Road, with 105 members. Desert Springs Presbyterian Church in America, 1551 W. Overton Road, is the only one of its denominational branch in the Northwest and serves about 110 members.
The divisions among Presbyterians center, as with most religious splits, on interpretation of scripture and theological stance, said Wall.
"The Presbyterian Church in America tends to be more evangelical and conservative theologically, but they are a growing denomination," Wall said.
The PCA split from PCUSA in 1973, primarily over the issue of women's ordination as elders and pastors. PCA churches do not believe in ordaining women, whereas PCUSA churches do.
Among the three PCUSA churches in the Northwest, St. Andrew's is the largest and most conservative, according to a church spokesman. In fact, the church is the only Presbyterian Church in the Northwest that has affiliated with the Confessing Church Movement, a conservative movement within the denomination that affirms the ban on ordaining homosexuals as elders or pastors and holds to a strict interpretation of the Bible.
Wall characterizes the Mountain Shadows Community as "moderate - we've got some people who are more conservative and some people who are very liberal and everything in between."
Mountain Shadows will be the second church Wall has helped build. His prior pastorate was in New London, N.H., where he served for 16 years. A native of New York who spent most of his high school years in Phoenix, Wall admits it is unusual for a pastor to want to take on the challenge of building a new church more than once.
"To me, it is like Paul going out around Asia Minor - starting new churches is a very authentic expression of Christianity," he said. "With the church in New London, I'd been a pastor in New York for eight years at a large church, I'd just turned 40, and I wanted to try something radically different. We started with 80 people and it is up to 250 now. When I decided to come to this job, some of my colleagues wondered why I would do it again, but I think its is exciting."
Some of the more "exciting" moments since the congregation purchased the land have been having to navigate building codes, obtain county permits, install new cow guards and endure environmental surveys for the endangered cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, Wall said.
"We passed everything, but it took us over a year to get the county building permit," he said. "I don't think they are all that excited about a not-for-profit going in because they get no revenue, so maybe that's why (the permit) took so long."
Wall said his congregants are primarily retired people from SaddleBrooke and Sun City, and one of his goals is to diversify the church's demographic, a challenge facing the Presbyterian denomination nationwide.
"We are an aging church," he said. "How do we attract young people? That is something the denomination really has to look at. A lot of our sister churches have a more performance-based worship service … they understand the dynamics of what the younger generation is looking for. And they offer things for the whole family - they take people from the cradle to the grave. That is something we can learn from."
Another challenge Wall sees for Presbyterians is "how will the different theological factions learn to get along." He said this is especially acute in the area of homosexuality.
"The Presbyterian Church hasn't had the sexual abuse issue, but one of our controversies is the ordination of gay people. Right now, at the General Assembly, we are split on it. It has been very hard on our denomination … I know two women personally (who are homosexual) and it changes drastically the way you see this issue. It is a great peril in our denomination - it could split our denomination."
Mountain Shadows has an annual budget of $235,500, of which $73,000 goes towards Wall's salary, housing, insurance and car allowance. For the first five years of a new church's existence, the General Assembly and local Presbytery subsidize operations. After that period, the church must be self-supporting, said Wall.
Currently, Mountain Shadows receives $18,000 from the General Assembly, $45,000 from the regional Presbytery and $12,500 from the Green Valley Presbyterian Church which is adopting Mountain Shadows as a "sister church." The remaining $160,000 comes from the congregation's offerings. Mountain Shadows weekly Sunday worship is at 9:30 a.m.
Basic beliefs: Presbyterians believe in the absolute sovereignty of one God, the authority of Scripture, justification (salvation) by grace through faith in Jesus Christ as the only son of God and the priesthood of all believers. They believe in life after death and recognize two sacraments: baptism and Communion.
Governing structure: Representative democracy in which everyone has an equal vote. At the local congregation, the church has a group of nine elders elected from the congregation entrusted with decision-making for the local congregation. Members of that group are elected to represent the congregation at the Presbytery, the regional governing group, and then representatives from the Presbytery are elected to represent the region on the national level at the General Assembly. The General Assembly writes the denomination's rules and beliefs in The Book of Order.
History: The Presbyterian denomination grew out of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th Century. Its roots are from Switzerland, where reformer John Calvin did much of his writings concerning the reformation. The movement spread from Switzerland to other parts of Europe and the British Isles. Many of the early Presbyterians in America came form England, Scotland and Ireland and the first Presbytery was organized in Philadelphia in 1706.
Clergy: Presbyterians in the PCUSA branch ordain both men and women as elders and pastors. The PCA branch does not ordain women. Neither branch ordains avowed homosexuals. The church's constitution - The Book of Order - says to be ordained as an officer in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. "a person must either live in the faithful covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or, if they are single, to live in chastity." Clergy are required to have an undergraduate degree in any field and three years seminary training in theology.
Worship format: Call to worship, corporate prayer of confession, sermon, offering, hymn and benediction. Communion is offered at varying levels of frequency, depending on the congregation's local rule; most Presbyterian churches offer communion on a monthly basis. The focus of the worship service is the sermon.


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As expected, Ecuadorian forward Miler Castillo got his first taste of MLS action in a scrimmage under the hot Texas sun on Wednesday, when he kicked off his trial with the Houston Dynamo.
"I liked it and I had fun," Castillo told MLSsoccer.com through a translator. "The teammates and the coaches welcomed me well. The only thing for me to add to that is to work hard."
In Texas for up to two weeks, Castillo participated in the full scrimmage the morning after his arrival in Houston. The intense training gave the current striker for Mexican second-division side BUAP Lobos an idea of the difference in play that could greet him if a deal is worked out.
"The difference here is [the style] is very physical, very quick, and dynamic," said the 23-year-old Castillo. "You're going back and forth, and you're moving and running all the time."
It's difficult to gauge a player on his first day with a new team, but the scrimmage gave Castillo a chance to show off the skills that landed him on Houston's radar. The forward, who stands 5-foot-9, has a solid build and battled center backs Jermaine Taylor and Bobby Boswell throughout the session. While strength is important to a striker's success in MLS, Castillo's speed is what intrigues Kinnear.
"We're looking to add a forward to get behind the defense, and his resumé fit that, so we wanted to bring him in and see what he's like," Kinnear said. "Today we just kind of played, because we wanted him to get to know us and we wanted to get to know him."
Neither Castillo nor Kinnear were sure how long the forward will be in Houston. The hope is that he is able to take part in a reserve game against the Monterrey U-20s on July 10. With trialists restricted from taking part in MLS regular-season games, the reserve match would provide a barometer for Kinnear and his staff to measure how Castillo could fit into the Dynamo scheme.
"Training is training, but games are the best measure of a player to see if they can fit in," Kinnear said. "That's why preseason was good on that front, because you play in a lot of games."
For now, Castillo is just trying to show the combination of speed and strength that has brought him this far in his career. Whether those skills can bring him to Houston for the next spot on his soccer journey will be answered another day.
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com. Follow him on twitter at @Dynamoexaminer.

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Earth Observation Science (EOS)
The mission of the department of Earth Observation Science (EOS) is to gain and disseminate scientific knowledge in earth observation. This knowledge is applied in development of tools to help good governance and wise and sustainable use of natural resources in developing countries and emerging economies.
The department of Earth Observation Science deals with earth observation technology for problem solving. Problem solving means primarily identification of solutions for large-volume producers of geo-information and identification of solutions for application domains.
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- SMARTseeds: information services for vegetable farmers in Indonesia (2 Feb 2017)
- Green Asia Award for ITC's PhD candidate Ratna Sari Dewi (4 Nov 2016)
- ISPRS's Giuseppe Inghilleri Award for Sander Oude Elberink (12 May 2016)
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- Change in Editorial Leadership JAG (27 Feb 2012)
- Delta Alliance Young Professionals Award (18 Jan 2012)
- Best Student Paper award for Yaseen Mustafa (30 May 2011)
A selection of events that cover the department's knowledge field or are organised by the department.
- PhD Defence Ms Sibusisiwe Audrey Khuluse (21 Jul 2017)
- Closing ceremony of PGD diploma courses GFM, NRM & WREM 2016/2017 (23 Jun 2017)
- PhD defence Mr Mengmeng Li (5 Apr 2017)
- Masterclass with Edward Tufte (25 Nov 2016)
- Diploma Ceremony of the Diploma course GFM 2016 (30 Sep 2016)
- Graduation Ceremony of the Master degree course GFM 2015/2016 (9 Sep 2016)
- Graduation ceremonies MSc 2014-2016 (11 Mar 2016)
- PhD Defence Ms Sudan Xu (1 Jul 2015)
- PhD Defence Mr Biao Xiong (5 Dec 2014)
- PhD Defence Mr Bashar Alsadik (21 Nov 2014)
- PhD Defence Mr. Liang Zhou (22 Jan 2014)
- PhD Defence Mr Adam Patrick Nyaruhuma (7 Nov 2013)
- Invitation to Research Seminar (7 Nov 2013)
- PhD Defence Mr Muhammad Imran (23 Oct 2013)
- PhD defence Ms Jing Xiao (15 May 2013)
Departmental staff contribute to a wide range of courses.
- Principles and Applications of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing (Certificate)
- Geoinformatics (MSc degree)
- Postgraduate Diploma Course in Geo-information Science & Earth Observation for Geoinformatics
- Diploma Course in Geo-information Science & Earth Observation for Geoinformatics
- MSc Degree Course in Geoinformatics, with Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehra Dun, India
- Postgraduate Diploma Course in Geoinformatics, with Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehra Dun, India
- Introduction to Geoinformatics
- Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing
- GIS and Geovisualisation
- Laser Scanning
- Geostatistics and Advanced Geostatistics
- Advanced Image Analysis
- Geostatistics and Open-Source Statistical Computing
- Principles of Databases (Certificate)
- Principles and Applications of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing (Certificate)
Research theme
Research is carried out by a group led by one of ITC's professors. Each group typically comprises several expert staff members and a number of graduate students.
What's the department of Earth Observation all about?


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In 2008, only 6% of teams successfully delivered projects on-time and on-budget 80% of the time or greater. Now, the 2011 State of Requirements Management Report shows that 17% of projects had a success rate of 80% or better. A few years have passed and the good news is that collectively we're doing better, but failure rates still remain too high; this presents an opportunity for growth in future projects.
As this post on The 99 Percent explains, "Ultimately, it's the ones who barrel through discomfort, are resilient in the face of failure, and [are willing to take risks] who reach the highest levels of performance." When a project doesn't deliver, take time with your team to be retrospective and understand why so that you continuously improve upon your process. Hopefully, in our next report, we'll see projects with success rates through the roof.
In December 2010, Jama Software partnered with Ravenflow to conduct an industry-wide survey including over 800 participants about the challenges, trends & successes in requirements management today. For more information about today's world of RM, download a copy of the 2011 Report.


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Last Friday night I hosted our neighborhood ladies night and made this layered cheese terrine to serve. This is one of my go-to appetizers which I think I first found on All Recipes(?) about 15 years ago, and made a copy of it to include in my recipe binder.
Back when I was a young newlywed, new to Richmond, and working in an office, my husband and I were invited to go with a group {from the office} to the steeplechase and tailgate all day. Everyone was assigned food items to bring and share, and mine was "cheese." Well, eager to impress this crowd with my entertaining prowess I decided I would provide the best cheese selection possible. I made 2 different cheese terrines + loaded up a new marble cheese board {I bought for the event} with a variety of cheeses and crackers. It was overkill to say the least! LOL Sure it would have been a nice spread for a wine and cheese party, but there was tons of other food so… It makes me giggle to this day.
This is one of the cheese terrines I made for that event. It's pretty easy to put together, and the layers make it look so special and festive – would be beautiful for a red and green Christmas party too!
Mediterranean Style Cheese Terrine
- 2 {8 oz} packages light cream cheese, softened
- 2 sticks {1 cup} butter, softened
- 1 jar prepared pesto, or your own homemade
- 1 jar sundried tomato pesto
Combine the cream cheese and butter together until smooth, using a food processor if you have it {makes it much easier}.
Choose a medium sized bowl and line it with a large piece of saran wrap.
Spoon a layer of the cream cheese mixture into the bowl and smooth it out so it reaches the edge and is pretty level.
Add a layer of the sun dried tomato pesto, smoothing it out to the edges, and level.
Place in refrigerator for 10-15 minutes to set.
Remove from refrigerator and repeat with layers of cheese mixture and the pesto.
Add a final layer of the cream cheese mixture – this will actually be the base once it's set – and pull the saran wrap over the terrine to cover.
Refrigerate for about 6 hours or over night.
When ready to serve, open the saran wrap and invert the terrine on to a serving plate with crackers or crostini, and enjoy!
Garnish with toasted pine nuts or chopped pistachios or walnuts if you like.
NOTE: I made mine with only 1 block of cream cheese and 1 stick of butter because I didn't need a large terrine for this group.
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Don't you think the layers of color look fabulous?! If you're a fan of pesto and sun dried tomatoes you're going to love this. I made this White Peach Sangria for our signature cocktail of the night and the group drank almost 3 batches of it!
BTW, I had plans to top this with pine nuts for a cute presentation but since I was literally serving it an hour later and trying to get pictures, I totally forgot to add them! Sometimes it's hard to combine real life and blogging. LOL
Let me know if you make this. Have a great day!
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Le Baron de Paris in Japan will be holding a special event June 5th, featuring an appearance by DJ Clark Kent. Musical performances include those by the likes of Fraser Cooke, Mr. Tikini, DJ Taisuke, and DJ Tsumi. Doors open at 9pm, so if you're in town, be sure to swing by.
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6 Avenue Marceau
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Fans at Dodger Stadium will squint a little less this year to watch close-ups of their favorite players, thanks to a completely upgraded video system. Every large display in the ballpark has been replaced with new equipment made by Lighthouse Technologies Limited, a Hong Kong company whose American headquarters are in Irvine.
The screens make their debut Friday when the Angels face off against the Dodgers in the second game of the Freeway Series that marks the end of the preseason.
The most noticeable change is the replacement of a six-sided scoreboard above right field, which resembled an amber-colored computer terminal from last century. It has been replaced with a color grid of 2.3 million light emitting diodes, or LEDs.
"The fans will see a very high-resolution TV," says Ed Whitaker, 66, general manager of Lighthouse's U.S. operations.
Dodgers owner Guggenheim Baseball Management, whose partners include longtime sports executive Stan Kasten and former Laker Magic Johnson, spent $100 million total on a stadium renovation, which includes expanded entrances, wider concourses, improved cellphone reception and wireless Internet access.
The scoreboard upgrades – installed by ANC Sports, a "system integrator" based in New York – include a second high-definition display, roughly 77 feet wide and 24 feet tall at the sides, that's about 50 percent bigger than the old "DodgerVision" system above left field.
That screen has also been updated to match the new scoreboard, down to its hexagonal shape. Technicians also installed video strips that wrap around the front of the loge level and along the outfield.
Whitaker, a 45-year veteran of the scoreboard industry, says Lighthouse's Irvine office generated at least $1 million of business when he arrived in 2005. Today, it accounts for more than 30 times that amount, or more than half of the parent's global revenue.
In an interview with the Orange County Register, Whitaker shared sales tips, management insights, and lessons learned.
Q. How do you prepare for calling a potential client?
A. Find out as much as possible about the client, their market and their competition. Knowing the competition is very important in developing a project that will benefit the client.
Q. What was Lighthouse's most challenging project?
A. In recent years, our first major professional facility, the American Airlines Center in Dallas, home to the Mavericks and Stars. It was to be, and I believe still is, the largest center-hung display in the NBA and NHL, plus there are about 15 or more smaller displays throughout the facility. Our staff and system integrator gained a lot of experience on that project.
Q. What was the key to growing your business?
A. Locating system integrators and partners that had the same interest in our market that we did and also the desire to grow with us.
Q. How did sales experience translate into your management role?
A. Often I felt I knew more than my boss, so that translated into me giving my staff more freedom to accomplish their goals with minimal interference from me. I believe it is very important to have the most qualified staff possible, and we have that.
Q. What is the most important lesson you've learned?
A. Be prepared, understand your markets and have a great staff.
Q. Who or what inspires you?
A. I had a college professor and adviser that had a photographic memory, and he continually pushed me to gain knowledge about a wide range of things, in addition to the educational path I was on.
Q. What advice do you have for sales leaders?
A. Never underestimate your competition, and always have a strategy to get the sale.
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I thought I was up to speed on the diabolical ways liberals are destroying America.
There are the card-carrying, tax-and-spend liberals who conspire to redistribute wealth from the producers to layabouts.
There are liberals who cling to 20th-century, big-government programs like Social Security. Fortunately, they have been exposed by Florida Congressman Allen West, R-America, as the most bone-headed slave masters in history. What kind of slave master would want to enslave millions of elderly, disabled and infirm slaves?
There are liberals who have bided the past four years doing absolutely nothing about access to firearms and ammo — even after the Tucson massacre — while slyly awaiting the surefire re-election of President Barack Obama to lower the boom on the Second Amendment.
Now there are the liberals and the United Nations pushing something called "Article 21" — which encourages sustainable communities with the mighty power of a party-platform plank — from the Area 51 sinkholes of their private-property-hating minds.
But the other day I barked my shin on an essay by a leading luminary of conservative thought — she has sold so many books that whole forests have wept — and it tore the dickens out of my tidy checklist of liberal perfidy.
I don't want to name her because she is much better at promoting herself than a lowly acolyte such as myself. Suffice it to say, she knows her traitors — every last Democrat.
When I came to the end of her informative, blood-stirring article, which was already zipping around the Tweetosphere nicely, I was stunned. She concluded thusly:
"We made it for nearly another 200 years, before the Democrats decided to jettison freedom and make us French."
"Sacre bleu," I blurted, forgetting the correct accent mark in my astonishment.
I do not want to wear an individual-mandate beret.
I do not want, under any circumstances, to see Donald Trump forced to put a beret on his freedom-loving coiffure ... err, hair cloud.
Her essay went like this:
Liberals think it's "tres a la mode" to put the godly American Revolution in the same biodegradable box with the godless French Revolution. They ignore that the French Revolution was the "primogeniture" — her bon mot, not mine — of the Bolsheviks, Nazis, Mao's China, Pol Pot's Cambodia and "periodic mob uprisings" in the U.S.A., from Shays' Rebellion to Occupy Wall Street.
"Mon Dieu," I whistled. What knowledge! What scope! What a hyperbolic crock of ...
Shays' Rebellion? I paused in my genuflections.
What the heck's does Shays' Rebellion have to do with evil scum like Stalin, Hitler and Chairman Mao — or the hysterical French mobocracy of Democrats?
It was an uprising of a bunch of farmers, many of them vets of the Revolutionary War living in the Massachusetts back country, who got fighting mad over hard times, debtor's prisons and high taxes from the big-government boys in Boston.
Their armed campaign went from 1786 to 1787, ending a couple of years before the French rebels made a big splash at the Bastille. Oops, no primogeniture here, move along.
Some of America's revolutionary heroes were bent out of shape by the fuss that Daniel Shays, who had fought at Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill, caused just three years after we booted out the British.
Samuel Adams, lately of beer-label fame, wanted to make it a hanging offense to raise a rebellion in a republic, as opposed to a loathsome monarchy. He got his wish. A few angry farmers were hanged.
But Thomas Jefferson — maybe because he was ambassador to France at the time — didn't get his breeches in a bunch. He figured a spirited battle stirred the democratic juices.
He put it thusly in a letter to a friend about Shays' Rebellion: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
That's the slogan that adorns T-shirts belonging to all manner of patriots today who know liberals like the president, Nancy Pelosi and the Tijuana Brass are destroying America.
Who in their right mind would compare Shays' Rebellion, which prompted the nation to ditch the weak Articles of Confederation and create the enduring Constitution, to a bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys? (For the solemn record, 86 French soldiers have died in the Afghanistan War.)
There must be underground liberals who pose as know-it-all liberal-haters who spread clever anti-American disinformation in their liberals-are-scum diatribes.
There's a French word. No, not agent provocateurs. Humbug.
Larry Parsons is a Herald reporter. Follow him on twitter at @LParsons69.


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Red Lentil Soup
By Fruits & Veggies - More Matters
Try this great soup recipe developed by the Culinary Institute of America!
- Prep Time: 60 minutes
Appetizers, Dips & Salsa
Serves: 8
Cups of Fruits & Vegetables per Serving: 1/2
Ingredients3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 large onion, minced (about 1 cup)
2 garlic cloves, minced (about 1 teaspoon)
1/2 celery stalk, diced (about 1/4 cup)
1 pound red lentils
1 teaspoon ground cumin
2 tablespoons long-grain white rice
2 1/2 quarts Chicken Broth, or as needed
Juice of 1/2 lemon
Salt to taste
Freshly ground white pepper to taste
Melt the butter in a soup pot over medium heat and add the garlic, onion and celery.
Cook until the onion is translucent, 4-6 minutes.
Reduce heat to low, add the lentils and cumin and stir to coat evenly with butter.
Cook 4-5 minutes.
Add the rice and 5 cups of the chicken broth.
Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring often to avoid scorching, until the lentils dissolve and begin to look like a pureed soup, 30-45 minutes.
Add the remaining broth as needed to adjust the consistency.
Heat through.
Season with the lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Serve in heated bowls.
Each serving provides: An excellent source of fiber and a good source of potassium.
Nutritional Information
- Calories: 297
- Carbohydrates: 40g
- Total Fat: 6.2g
- Cholesterol: 18mg
- Saturated Fat: 3.3g
- Dietary Fiber: 9g
- % of Calories from Fat: 19%
- Sodium: 186 mg
- Protein: 21g
- Recipe Credit
Recipe used with permission of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). This recipe meets PBH and Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) nutrition standards that maintain fruits and vegetables as healthy foods.
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Lingering power outages testing homeowners' patience
Thousands of customers remain without power Tuesday night.
IPL says crews are working to restore electricity to about 9,700 remaining customers. Those efforts could go into Thursday morning.
Duke Energy is in better shape tonight, with just under 400 without power statewide.
Without power, Frank Murphy can't do a thing.
"You ain't got no lights. No hot water. You can't cook. You can't wash dishes," said Murphy, frustrated.
For thousands like Murphy across central Indiana, though, that's not even the half of it.
"It's below zero. That's the most horrible thing it is," explained Murphy, referencing the past two days of sub zero temperatures.
Still, Murphy's been patient, sticking it out inside his Bolton Avenue home since losing power Sunday afternoon.
"I was just thinking something's going to give," he explained of why he stayed put.
Finally though, Tuesday, still without power or heat, the something that gave, was Murphy.
"I'm still thinking mine would be on sooner or later," he explained.
"They 'aint showed up yet. Later 'aint come. Sooner ain't come," Murphy added."I've been sticking it out, but I ain't doing it no more. I'm gone today."
Murphy has been raising his seven grandchildren. They left Monday to stay with a relative for safety.
"I just wouldn't want them in this environment," said Murphy who decided to stay put because he never expected it to take days to get his power back on.
"I ain't seen a truck in the area or nothing,since this happened," said Murphy.
"Ain't nothing changed," he added.
Nothing, he said, but the temperature outside.
"This is the thermostat and see right now its on 41 degrees," said Murphy.
At one point, it got so cold in Murphy's house that when he shook his living room curtains, snow and ice fell onto his carpet.
That's when Murphy decided enough was enough.
"It's pretty rough. Who wants to do it? I mean, it's miserable," said Murphy.
After all, there are only so many layers a person can stand.
"I got on long johns, 2 pair of socks. I had a sweat shirt on and I was still getting cold in the bed," he said.
So Tuesday, Frank decided to find somewhere else to lay his head.
"I'm gonna find me a motel room to stay in for the night," said Murphy.
He's just waiting for his power to come back on, along with thousands of others.
"They said there was 30,000 people that didn't have no power," said Murphy, referring to the numbers of customers that were effected.
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Murphy said he knows he's not alone.
These past few days though, he feels like it.
"It look like I'm gonna be the last one," said Murphy of having his power restored.


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Residents fight for memorial
Once, a memorial adorned with a soldier stood at the intersection of Hunt Rd and Katea Rd. On the hill overlooking it was a schoolhouse, and on the corner opposite was the Katea Hall.
Just a wee way down the gravel road, Tucks Creek still meanders under a bridge on its way to the Owaka River.
But the school and the hall are no longer there, and when talk about pulling down the ageing memorial started, locals were determined the township would not lose that as well.
Gavin Landreth's family have farmed at Katea for four generations.
Although the face of the district has changed – farms are bigger now, with most of the houses that once sat on the hillside surrounding the memorial torn down, and the nearby cheese factory once so integral to Katea's livelihood no longer in use – it was still important for people in the area to have their own memorial.
"People certainly didn't want to have just one in the area at Owaka. Otherwise, where's Katea?" he said. "We wanted to keep a memorial for the Katea people, in Katea."
One of those people was his grandmother's brother, Tom Fraser. The only son of Thomas and Robina, of Cherry Farm in Katea, Tom's strapping farm-boy frame attracted some unwanted attention.
"He went to war when he was just 16," Gavin said. "He got presented with a white feather. He was a big, strong lad, and they thought he was of age ... rather than be thought of as a coward, he went to war."
On November 15, 1916, Private Tom Fraser left New Zealand as a member of D Company in the 19th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion.
Not quite a year later, he – like so many others – fell at Ypres, Belgium. He died on October 4, 1917.
His name was one of those engraved on both the original and new memorials, alongside WH Banfield, HW Blackie, and TCW Henderson, who also died in World War I, as well as that of RJ Taylor, who lost his life in World War II.
Clutha District Council communications co-ordinator Jamie Shaw said the memorial at Katea was one of the last to come under the council's restoration project of war memorials throughout the district, which began in 2006. The council restored 30 memorials, including the total replacement of those that stood at both Katea and Kahuika, also near Owaka.
The total cost of the repairs came to $83,500, about half of which was covered by grants received from the Trusts Charitable Foundation, Otago Community Trust, and Veterans Affairs, while the district council funded the rest.
At the start of the refurbishment project, the Katea memorial was deemed beyond repair, Mr Shaw said. It was disintegrating, he said, and structurally unsound, so it was rebuilt from the ground up by local monumental stonemason Doug Nesbit, at a cost of $17,000.
The soldier that once stood on top of the memorial was donated to the Owaka Museum, while other remnants of the original memorial were buried under its replacement, Mr Shaw said.
The restoration project had a great significance to those in the district, and received very positive feedback, he said.
"Many of our communities were changed significantly due to the loss of young lives during the two world wars. The restoration project strengthened the sense of community in the district, and ensures the tremendous sacrifices made are not forgotten," he said. – Sources: Gavin Fraser, Jamie Shaw from the Clutha District Council, Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database.
The Clutha District Council does not have a record of when the original memorial at Katea was built or unveiled.
The memorial was rebuilt completely, and was unveiled at a rededication ceremony on April 4, 2009. It has the names of four fallen soldiers from World War I and a fifth from World War II on it.
The district council is responsible for the memorial's maintenance.
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Slice. It is one of golf's dirty words. It is not to be mistaken with the fade, which golfers can control while playing doglegs or hitting into greens. We're talking banana ball. A shot with more spin than a Cliff Lee curveball. A shot that puts your ball in the next fairway or lake, or into traffic. Most of this page could be used to explain why a ball slices. And most golfers have spent hours trying to correct it. But there are ways to live with a slice, and even fix it. Tampa Bay area pros offer their advice:
Alex Koskos, PGA pro, Meadow Oaks Golf and Country Club, Hudson:
It's in the grip: "The grip is usually the culprit with the slice. Though the swing plane is moving from outside to inside, creating the side spin, most weekend golfers have a weak grip. Try moving the left-hand grip (for a right-handed golfer) more into the fingers than the palm. This will move the 'V' of the left index finger and thumb pointing at the right shoulder. This should help in getting the clubhead to roll over, or pronate. And as always, never squeeze the club too hard. I ask all my students: 'How tight do you hold the steering wheel of your car?' ''
Darryl Spelich, head pro, Tides Golf Course, Seminole:
Toe up to Toe up: "On the backswing, stop the club at the hip. If the toe of the club is pointed up, it's square. On the follow-through, stop at hip again. If the toe is up, it's square. To do so on the follow- through, the clubhead will be square to the target. Try it. It really works."
Rick Sopka, 2010 North Florida section teacher of the year, Mangrove Bay pro, St. Petersburg:
Tilt the shoulders: "At address, I want you to pay attention to your shoulder tilt. Your right shoulder should be lower than your left for right-handed players. When you return to impact, try to increase that tilt as your weight shifts forward. This will help you work more under the ball as opposed to over the ball, which produces a cut across the path and creates a slice.''
Lew Smither III, head pro, Cypress Run Golf Club, Tarpon Springs:
Focus on the elbows: "As a quick tip, I would like the elbows to start and stay in the same proximity throughout the swing. If this happens, the hands and arms rotate through impact, which allows the face to square up or even close through impact."
Kris Mahoney, head pro, Silverthorn Golf and Country Club, Zephyrhills:
Align yourself correctly: "What I see most with people who slice the ball is that they align their body at the target, which makes the clubface point to the right of their intended target. Most golfers are told to swing at their target, but when they are aligned poorly, they must manipulate their swing path in order to do so, which inevitably causes wayward shots. It is a good rule of thumb always to align your body based on where your clubface is aimed. Always aim your club first, and align your body according to that position. You should feel like your body alignment is positioned slightly to the left of your target. A great drill for the range is to take a club and point it directly at your target. Place another club about a foot or two left of, and parallel to, the first one. Use the first club to assist in aiming your clubface and the second one to align your body. This will give you great feedback on what proper aim/alignment should feel and look like.''
Tony Simpson, PGA teaching pro, Chi Chi Rodriguez Driving Range, Clearwater:
It's all in the swing: "Since a slice is caused by swinging across the target line, practice with putting an empty range-ball bucket (or object) just behind and outside the target line from your ball. Hitting that a couple of times will cure you quickly. A good golfer will make a nice turn behind the ball and turn the body through without moving ahead of the ball. Once the swing center passes the ball, the hands cannot release. Also, make a line on the golf ball and place it on the tee with the line toward the target. Then hit the ball on the inside back quadrant of the ball and it will go straight with a nice draw.''
Rotate the hands at the hip: "Another tip is that many people try too hard to get the clubface back to square at impact, and when they get to impact, the clubface is actually open. To correct this, think of starting the rotation of the hands at approximately the waist or hip-high position on the forward swing so that you have the opportunity for the face to close going through impact and then to a full follow-through position over your lead shoulder.''
Terry Decker, head pro, St. Petersburg Country Club:
Set up square, throw the club face: "Most players who slice have their shoulders open at address. Players need to set up strong with their shoulders square to closed at address. The other tip is for high-handicap slicers to forget about holding the set angle of the shaft and arm on the downswing. The thought of throwing the head past the (club) handle can help them square the clubface instead of pulling the handle past where the hands started at address.''
Richard Veghte, head pro, Westchase Golf Club, Tampa:
Swing uphill: "The most common type of slice curve of the ball comes from an outside-to-inside swing path with an open clubface. A slicer needs to create the feel of the club swinging on a better inside path during the downswing. A great drill is to swing on an uphill lie on the side of the teeing ground. Try to create the feel of the club staying low to the ground while swinging up the hill. This will improve the path of the club through impact.''
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Humans can read, write, and solve problems thanks to a huge cerebral cortex. To fit this sheet of brain tissue into a reasonably sized skull, the cortex of primates is wrinkled and creased, like a carpet that's much too large for its room. No one knows what prompted the cortex's expansion during primate evolution, but experiments described in the 19 July issue of Science point to one gene that might have played a role.
Developmental neuroscientists Anjen Chenn and Christopher Walsh of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston created transgenic mice that made an engineered form of ß-catenin--a ubiquitous protein that has a hand in a dizzying array of developmental processes--in developing cells of the central nervous system. Because the designer protein resisted the cellular process that normally breaks it down, it accumulated in these cells.
The resulting embryos had dramatically enlarged brains and a whopping cerebral cortex. The thickness of cortex was normal, but it had increased surface area--and folds and cavities similar to those seen in monkeys or humans. The mice died soon after birth, so the researchers do not know how the bigger brains would affect their behavior, but they suggest that increased ß-catenin expression in the brain might have been one of the evolutionary changes that led to bigger brains.
When the researchers examined the embryos more carefully, they found an abnormally large number of neural precursor cells, which give rise to several types of brain cells. The overexpressed protein apparently told cells that would normally differentiate to keep dividing. That process produces a bigger cortical "sheet," Walsh says, "and folds seem to be a passive response to the bigger sheet." The scientists are not sure exactly how an excess of ?-catenin spurs the neural precursor cells to proliferate.
It's possible that increased production of ß-catenin played a role in increasing brain size during evolution, says Martin Raff, a developmental biologist at University College London. But that is difficult to prove, he cautions, given the protein's complex role in so many developmental processes.
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COLUMBUS, Ga. -- An offensive explosion in the bottom of the fourth inning was the difference-maker as No. 1 seed Concordia (Calif.) defeated No. 10 seed Spring Hill (Ala.), 8-3, at the 2013 NAIA Softball National Championship finale at the South Commons Softball Complex on Thursday. This was the first NAIA Softball National Championship for the Eagles and the 44th NAIA championship won by a GSAC team.
The two teams were tied at two runs each going into the bottom of the fourth before two batters were hit by pitches and two others were walked, resulting in five runs for Concordia.
Spring Hill's freshman pitcher Caroline Sagrera struck Concordia's Emily Craig, then Annette Merjano hit a sacrifice bunt to advance pinch runner Rachel Prentice. Bryana Simpson was hit by a pitch and Morgan Reiter reached base on a walk. When Hannah Howell doubled down the left field line, Prentice, Simpson and Reiter all scored. Then, Caitrin Debaun reached base on a walk and advanced thanks to a Chanele Dresser bunt. When Jenna Jorgenson singled to center, both Howell and Debaun scored to give the Eagles a dominating lead.
Concordia head coach Crystal Rosenthal wasn't worried when her team fell behind 2-0 in the first inning.
"We don't get rattled very easily, and we play all seven innings," Rosenthal said. "Our concept at bat is to get on base any way you can and have a quality at bat. You are not out of the game until the game is over. We looked a little shaky, but (senior pitcher Katie) Cotta kept us in the game, and we figured out a way to swing our bats a little better today."
Spring Hill came back to score one more run in the top of the sixth, but Concordia matched it in the bottom of the sixth, leaving a final score of 8-3. The win was Concordia's first-ever national championship in softball.
"The feeling is awesome," Rosenthal said of the championship title. "It is pure joy for me to experience this with the team. I'm so proud of these girls and so proud of the players from our past that have gotten us to this point."
Concordia senior pitcher Katie Cotta moved to 27-2 and Spring Hill's Sagrera finished 39-11 on the year. The championship's most valuable player, Concordia right fielder Debaun, scored two runs with two hits and one RBI. (For a complete list of the all-championship team, see below.)
Jade Bourgeois was the leading Badger with a 2-for-3 effort from the plate.
The championship is a 10-team, double-elimination event hosted by the Columbus Sports Council. This was the 33rd annual championship and it took place in the state of Georgia for the first time in NAIA softball history.
(Box Score) (Interview Video) (Bracket)
For more information on the national championship, click here.
2013 Softball All-Championship Team
Lindsey Booker, Reinhardt (Ga.), INF
Katie Cotta, Concordia (Calif.), P
Cassie Daniels, Auburn Montgomery (Ala.), P
Caitrin Debaun, Concordia (Calif.), OF
Dominique Hannah, Lee (Tenn.), OF
Karisa Hendrix, Williams Baptist (Ark.), P
Hannah Howell, Concordia (Calif.), INF
Jenna Jorgenson, Concordia (Calif.), INF
Shelbi Legg, Oklahoma City, OF
Courtney McGee, Lubbock Christian (Texas), P
Alex Miller, Cal State San Marcos, INF
Nicole Nonnemacher, Saint Xavier (Ill.), P
Mariha Partman, Spring Hill (Ala.), INF
Caroline Sagrera, Spring Hill (Ala.), P
Megan Sullivan, Lubbock Christian (Texas), INF
Felicia Woodard, Williams Baptist (Ark.), OF
Championship Most Valuable Player: Caitrin Debaun, Concordia (Calif.)
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ALEXANDRIA, VA — Runners, walkers and people who just want to stay fit will come together for a morning of fun and physical fitness on Saturday, September 25, at West Potomac Park for the Second Annual Prevent Cancer Foundation 5K. The family-friendly walk/run begins at 8 a.m.
The Prevent Cancer Foundation 5K encourages the public to take steps to reduce their cancer risk by getting fit, getting smart and getting medical screenings. Last year's 5K drew 400 participants, so register today at: www.preventcancerfoundation5K.org. Registration is $30; children under the age of 12 are free. Fitness Guru Denise Austin is the Honorary Race Chairperson. WUSA Television 9 Weekday Morning Anchor Andrea Roane will be mistress of ceremonies and Special Guest Ivan Carter, host of Comcast's Washington Post Live, will attend. Trainers from Sport & Health will lead the crowd in pre-race warm ups starting at 7:30 a.m. and DC's favorite Apple Dumplin' the clown will also be in attendance. An award ceremony will follow the race.
This year a new element has been added to the 5K as participants can now form teams or run or walk in honor or in memory of a loved one. Kelli Mitchell of Falls Church, Virginia, has formed "Team Alan" in memory of Alan Matz, a retired Navy veteran and NASA engineer who passed away from liver cancer in August of this year.
"Forming Team Alan was one of the most rewarding ways that we could honor such an incredible and beloved man," Mitchell said. "We are so happy to be able to celebrate his life and his memory by raising awareness and fighting this terrible disease."
Registration closes Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 3 p.m. The first 500 runners will receive a commemorative t-shirt. Transponder time operated by Capital Running Company will be used to score the race. The fastest three men and women overall will receive gift certificates of $100, $75, and $50 based upon their place. The top finisher in each of the age groups will get a $25 gift certificate. Random drawing prizes will also be awarded. Race sponsors include PhRMA, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Scribb, Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Proceeds from the Prevent Cancer Foundation 5K will support the Foundation's cancer prevention and early detection, research and educational programs; and community outreach to all populations, including the underserved nationwide.
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After the guts and grit of their earlier ventures (Escape From New York; The Thing), Kurt Russell and director John Carpenter hook up for a lighter, if equally actionful, fantasy caper that pitches Russell's rugged truck driver into the supernatural gang war raging in San Francisco's Chinatown. Kim Cattrall is the nosy lawyer who finds herself swept up in the typhoon of organised crime, martial arts and black magic. Bustling with energy and bravado, it's essentially the cult cousin to Indiana Jones.
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John Carpenter's spoof of an Indiana Jones-style adventure boasts some spectacular action and inventive fantasy sequences.
Kurt Russell does a reprise of the John Wayne accent that served him so well in Escape from New York, but looks faintly harassed, as well he might, as a philosophising trucker, played as a cross between a swaggering Wayne, adventurous Harrison Ford and wacky Bill Murray.
Virtually every Asian actor in Hollywood appears to have been signed up for this story of kidnap and Triad gangs, crossed with a black fantasy about a seven-foot tall Chinese magician controlling an evil empire deep beneath San Francisco's Chinatown district.
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Then taking a sledgehammer and boldly smashing everything in sight! Beethoven's Ode to Joy plays in the background as the furious Frenchman joyfully destroys a bathroom wall, sink, mirror and toilet.
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Poor-quality, high-sulfur fuel poses a big challenge to designers of diesel engines for the Asia/Pacific region.
Pulse's 1.5L, other diesels comprise 80% of Renault India sales.
ROUEN, France – Renault and Ford are developing special diesel engines for vehicles in emerging markets in Asia, where demand is expected to grow quickly in the coming three years.
Diesels already make up 36% of the market in India, and that share soon should grow to 45%-50%, says Andreas Shamel, managing director of Ford's research center in Aachen, Germany.
"In China (diesels) are not popular, but they are offered by nearly every major OEM" and are expected to grow there as well, he adds.
The problem in emerging markets, Shamel tells a diesel powertrain conference here sponsored by the French automotive engineering society SIA, is poor-quality fuel with excessive sulfur.
While diesel in the U.S. and Europe has 15 parts-per-million sulfur, the fuel's sulfur content in the Asia/Pacific region still will be at 250 ppm in 2015 and at 80 ppm by 2030, according to an Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries forecast cited by Shamel.
"The sulfur forms deposits like ash clogging the particulate filter, triggering regenerations that don't work because there is nothing there to regenerate," he says. "If we deploy them anyway, we will have significant warranty concerns in (Asia/Pacific) markets."
Emerging countries generally have been adopting European emissions regulations several years after Europe does, which has allowed European auto makers to develop and spread their technology.
But the fuel problem means "we can't develop the technology in Europe and roll it out several years later in the emerging countries," Shamel notes. Auto makers will respond by modifying diesel engines for India and other Asian markets that will meet those countries' specific emissions standards, he says.
Both Ford and Renault face the challenge of configuring engines that most effectively control particulate matter production during combustion.
Bigger displacements and faster engine speeds consume more fuel than the Indian market demands, says Gasper Gascon-Abellan, Renault's director of powertrain strategy.
The auto maker is developing a smaller, lower-powered diesel engine (probably 3-cyl.) for Asia/Pacific that can be tuned to produce less smoke. But Renault has not yet decided whether to make this engine because volumes would be low, he says.
Ford engineers at the conference say the U.S. auto maker is not developing a smaller diesel.
Renault makes its 1.5L dCi diesel at its factory in Chennai, India, as well as in Spain and Turkey. Diesels power 80% of Renault sales in the country. The auto maker also plans to build diesels in a Thailand plant Nissan is building.
The Thai facility will produce a powerplant different from both the 1.5L and potential new smaller engine, Gascon-Abellan says. It will be designed for light utility vehicles worldwide, and some will be exported to Europe.
"Renault believes in the future of diesel," says Jacques Prost, senior vice president-Renault Powertrain. The auto maker's diesels offer the best fuel efficiency in the A, C and D segments, and will take the leadership in the B segment when the new Clio arrives later this year with the fourth generation of the 1.5L K9K engine.
Prost says diesel and gasoline engines each will account for 45% of Renault sales in 2020, the remaining 10% being electric cars.


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The California Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee is expected to vote again Monday on the bill that calls for a ban on using hounds to hunt bears and bobcats in the state.
State Assemblyman Brian Jones, R-Santee, said today in an email that the vote is set, and that the anti-hunting bill will pass if just one of the three Democrats who didn't vote for it last week votes for it. Assemblymen Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, and Roger Hernandez, D-West Covina, were there, but they opted not to vote for the measure. Assemblyman Ricardo, D-South Gate, was not present and reportedly out sick.
It was reported earlier that the three members were singled out by the Humane Society of the United States for not voting for the measure. Jennifer Fearing of the Humane Society of the United States said today that her organization did not mention Lara by name and only pointed out that Gatto and Hernandez chose not to vote. Fearing said HSUS has called on the assemblymen to vote for the ban on the use of dogs to hunt bears and bobcats.
She said the three assemblymen were not "targeted" by HSUS for not voting.
The bill, SB 1221, calls for a moratorium on the use of hounds to hunt bears and bobcats in the state. The committee's vote was one short of the necessary votes to pass it, but the bill moved forward in amended form after a motion by Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-Marin, the committee chair.
Hound hunters opposed the bill as well as many businesses, such as bee keepers and ranchers. Opposition on the committee was led by Assemblyman Jones, Senator Bill Berryhill, R-Stockton, and Assemblywoman Linda Halderman, R-Fresno. Anti-hunting and animal-rights activist groups were out in force to support the bill introduced and sponsored by Sen. Ted W. Lieu, D-Torrance.
Lieu said the state has 30,000 bears and that hunters are given a 1,700-bear kill quota each year. He said half of the bears killed in the state are killed without the use of dogs and he pointed to other states like Oregon and Washington that don't allow the use of hounds in bear hunting as examples that California should follow.
Lieu said 80 percent of the bobcats killed in California are killed by hunters who don't use hounds to hunt them.
Houndsmen countered that the use of hounds allows them to be select with their kill and not kill young bears or sows with cubs. They also countered the animal-rights activists' claims that bear hunting harms hounds and is cruel to them.
Assemblyman Ben Hueso, D-Chula Vista, was one who joined others on the committee in voting to support Lieu's bill. Hueso likened the use of dogs to hunt bears and bobcats to using dynamite for fishing. His logic was called ludicrous and attacked by those who oppose the bill.
Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, called on his many donors and supporters to "register their views with their lawmakers and let them know that they expect lawmakers to cast votes in favor of wildlife protection and against animal cruelty."
Pacelle's claim of animal cruelty was drowned out by the many hound hunters who talked about how they take great care of their dogs. It was pointed out that if hunting bears and bobcats with hounds is outlawed, only paid government hunters, at taxpayer expense, will be able to use hounds to trap or kill problem bears or bobcats. That's the case presently with the protected mountain lions in California. Only paid hunters or those who file for a depredation permit may kill them.
It came down to whether it made more sense to pay for the management of bears and bobcats or allow hunters to continue to pay fees and pay to hunt them with their hounds.


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What makes such a demonstration possible is a breakthrough sponge-like material for which Agrawal, the Robert F. Barfield Endowed Chair and professor of mechanical engineering at UA, was recently granted a patent.
TUSCALOOSA | In a giant laboratory in the University of Alabama's Alabama Institute for Manufacturing Excellence building Tuesday, Ajay K. Agrawal's team started up a combustion engine and instructed everyone inside to insert their ear plugs.
The sound of the engine — a long, silver tube — slowly rose from a quiet whine to a steady, near-shrieking sound that bit at unprotected ear drums. Agrawal explained that in the engine of an aircraft there are about 20 of these silver tubes making the same sound. The combination turns into a deafening noise.
The team shut off the engine and inserted a small, gray cylinder inside before starting it back up, this time without warning people to insert their ear plugs.
This time, the sound the engine made was more of a low hum, something that would still allow someone to carry on a quiet conversation.
What makes such a demonstration possible is a breakthrough sponge-like material for which Agrawal, the Robert F. Barfield Endowed Chair and professor of mechanical engineering at UA, was recently granted a patent.
"It makes the sound that's coming from all around ... smaller," Agrawal said. "Then, it does not allow that noise to be amplified."
Some chemical manufacturers actually place loud, high-capacity torches at ground level instead of at safer heights to control the noise these engines make, while factories that rely on combustion also have to deal with government regulations to protect employees from the deafening noise.
Agrawal's sponge will go a long way in alleviating those concerns immediately.
The sponge is a foam made of hafnium carbide and silicon carbide that literally soaks up sound waves. Its chemical makeup allows it to withstand the extremely high temperature and pressure that occur inside the combustion process.
Because of that, the sponge can be placed directly around the flame produced by a combustion system. And because of its high permeability, the combustion process is not interrupted by the foam that allows gases to easily flow through it.
Agrawal said the material the sponge is made out of was actually developed by a California-based company called Ultramet. However, Agrawal and his team worked with Ultramet to tweak the material into a design that would work within a combustion engine.
"They worked with us to develop an advanced coating for the material as well that would allow it to withstand the high temperatures," he said.
In the past, combustion has been quieted outside the combustion engine and only after the process has produced its noise. Typically, the engine's exhaust was outfitted or modified with some type of expensive, bulky equipment.
Agrawal's sponge is the first noise suppression technology to cut the sound during the combustion process within the engine itself.
But a quieter and safer work environment isn't all Agrawal's material provides. It will also likely extend the life of combustion engines.
Because combustion engines produce such a loud sound, the resulting sound waves create intense pulsations that shake an engine so badly that, in time, they can cause mechanical failure which in turn can cause an explosion, Agrawal said.
Because of the way the sponge works by surrounding the flame inside the engine and cutting the noise significantly, it eliminates violent sound waves and the potential for engine instability.
Agrawal said the sponge can be used on any type of fuel-burning engine, including gas turbines, burners, furnaces, power generators and other industrial devices using combustion.
The sponge even allows for retrofitting of existing systems, which will save future users money.


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Cycling is fun for all the family, a great way to keep fit and one of the most enjoyable ways of exploring Britain's beautiful canals and rivers.
Riding a bike is like swimming. Once you learn how to do it, you never forget. What's more, there are an estimated 27 million bikes across the UK - so the evidence suggests that many of us own one.
Is your bike one of the hundreds slowly rusting away in the garage or garden shed? Now's the time to blow away the cobwebs and take it out for a spin.
Cycling is one of the best forms of aerobic exercise. It's free (especially if you already have the bike) and it's something you can do with all the family. Alternatively, if you fancy a bit of peace and quiet, nothing could be nicer than a leisurely cycle ride along a tranquil river or canal.
According to NHS advice, a person who weights 80kg will burn, on average, more than 650 calories by cycling for an hour. That's over two Mars Bars or three pints of beer depending on your vices.
As well as burning calories cycling increases fitness. Your strength, stamina and major muscle groups will all benefit from regular cycling.
It's a low weight bearing/low impact activity. Because the bike itself carries the weight of your body, cycling is a much safer, lower impact form of exercise than sports such as jogging. This also means that people with joint problems are often able to cycle.
It requires low levels of skill. This isn't ice-dancing or rock climbing; most people can ride a bike - and most people enjoy doing it. All you need is a bit of confidence.
Add to that the positive health benefits that studies show come from being in a soothing waterway environment, and the case is clear. Get on your bike, visit your local canal or river and pedal your way to health.
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Diego Forlan has denied claims that he is looking for a transfer out of Atletico Madrid and declared his happiness at the club.
Forlan joined Atletico from Villarreal in 2007 as a replacement for Fernando Torres but has regularly been linked with a transfer elsewhere, with Tottenham Hotspur and Galatasaray rumoured to be amongst his suitors.
However, despite the speculation, Forlan, 32, said: "I have two years left on my contract. There are rumours that the club are looking to ship me out, but I'm relaxed. I have two years left on my contract and I aim to fulfil that."
Forlan is under contract with Atletico until 2013, but reports suggested he could be available for around €10 million.
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Iro Cycle, which assembles single-speeds and fixed gears from its shop in Middleburg, Pennsylvania, has come out with the Phoenix, a relaxed geometry steel frame that is available as a three speed for $650 plus extras as they build it up for you. The frame includes mounts for two bottle cages and rack and fender mounts. It accepts 700 x 38cc tires, or 32c with fenders.
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What does eating have to do with watching a video? I'm eating a corndog (veggie) while watching the video. (honestly, I'm asking seriously, I've heard people say similar things before "not while I'm eating!" etc, I never got the joke or what was wrong with eating while watching ugly things) Really looked owie, I feel bad for that mama with all the poking pushing and pulling, oh, and cutting. How painful and cold.
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I implies that it's so disgusting it'll make you sick and therefore you might throw-up your food or at least lose your apetite.
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We don't follow that old-school fashion rule that says you can't wear white before Memorial Day. But in case some of you are sticklers for tradition, here are five fabulous crisp pieces to add to your summer wardrobe.
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2. The Sunnies: White sunglasses are definitely very trendy, so you don't want to invest in a pricy pair. Try Forever 21's cateye style. For $5.80 you won't be upset if they somehow get washed away by the ocean.
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Denton: Magic Introduce Vaughn
By John Denton
July 30, 2012
ORLANDO –During his 12 seasons as a NBA player, Jacque Vaughn didn't so much play for coaching greats Jerry Sloan, Doc Rivers and Gregg Popovich as he did study, analyze and learn from them on a daily basis.
As far back as his college days at Kansas and throughout his time in the NBA, Vaughn scribbled ideas onto notepads, made mental notes and kept logs of playbooks that he executed on the court. Xs-and-Os sessions were akin to reconnaissance missions where Vaughn studied how those coaches attacked certain sets. When player issues arose on the various teams he played for, Vaughn looked on from afar at how those coaches handled the situations. And when Vaughn served as an assistant coach under Popovich in San Antonio, he basically shadowed the four-time champion head coach, repeatedly asking questions and absorbing knowledge that he could use someday when he became a head coach himself.
Vaughn, 37, is hoping that all of those lessons learned and notes that he took will make him a success now that he is the Orlando Magic's new head coach. Vaughn is a head coach for the first time, but he feels that all of his years of studying under greats like Sloan, Popovich and Rivers will speed up his learning curve as the Magic's new leader.
``Some would say I'm inexperienced, but I've played 12 years and I've coached two years. Would my resume look a little nicer if it said 14 years of experience? Maybe so,'' Vaughn said.
``But I've sat in the seats that (the players) have sat in. I'll be able to relate to their personal, physical and mental stresses that they come across every day because I've been there. I think they'll relate to that and they'll appreciate that, and they'll know that I'm fighting for them and I believe in them.''
Vaughn was officially hired on Saturday and introduced Monday by Magic Chairman Dan DeVos, CEO Alex Martins and General Manager Rob Hennigan. Vaughn emerged from a pool of finalists that included Michael Curry and Lindsey Hunter after meeting with the DeVos family in Michigan last week. Vaughn met four generations of DeVoses and was chosen in large part because of his bubbly charisma, strategic smarts and strong communication skills.
Vaughn, the second-youngest coach in the NBA, joked on Monday that the Magic were ``sticking their necks out'' by hiring him. But Martins shot down that premise, saying the franchise is totally confident that Vaughn is the right man for the job.
``I don't think we're sticking our necks out at all. Jacque's a high character individual who's going to work as hard or harder than anybody else, he's going to put great people around him, and his teams will work hard every single night,'' Martins said. ``I'm convinced of it, and I think he clearly is prepared for this opportunity. So I don't think we've taken a risk or stuck our necks out at all. He's the right coach for this organization at this point in our history.''
This isn't the first time that the Magic have hired a former point guard with no prior head coaching experience. In fact, the similarities between Vaughn and Rivers, Orlando's coach from 1999 through 2004, are somewhat shocking.
Both Vaughn and Rivers were thought to be coach-on-the-floor point guard types during their playing careers, both had previous ties to the Spurs, neither had been a head coach prior to coming to Orlando and both were 37 years old when hired by the Magic. And get this – both even have sons named Jeremiah. Rivers, of course, won the Coach of the Year award in Orlando in 2000 and went on to win a championship in Boston in 2008.
Vaughn played for Rivers in Orlando during the 2002-03 season, and he said he picked up many motivational tactics from the former Magic mentor. He did the same in Utah where he learned competitiveness and consistency from Sloan. And in San Antonio as both a player and assistant coach the past two seasons, Vaughn looked on as Popovich coaxed greatness out of an aging roster, focused on the development of younger players and got creative with his style of coaching.
All of those notes are down on pads and journals, and Vaughn plans to reference them in the days, weeks and months ahead as he coaches a team for the first time. He said that learning from situations – both good and bad – will help prepare him for his first season as head coach.
``I was a collector and I tried to gather information and stuff from each coach. They are things that I hoped over time would help me (as a head coach) and now that situation is going to present itself. Hopefully I took good notes,'' Vaughn said. ``I kept video notes, mental notes and actual notes on pads and things like that. It was situations that I was involved in and how they were handled. I was given a unique opportunity where I had all access and I could see good and bad how they were handled. I owe a lot to a lot of people for that.''
One situation that Vaughn has to handle where there may be no prior experience is the one surrounding all-star center Dwight Howard, who has repeatedly requested a trade. The Magic have been hesitant to deal the three-time Defensive Player of the Year because they haven't liked the packages being offered for the superstar.
Vaughn said that he plans to reach out to all of the Magic players in the coming days, including visiting as many of them in person as possible. That includes Howard, whom Vaughn would like to talk with about his vision for the future. Vaughn said that much of his strategies will depend on whether Howard is on the roster or not, but he intends to remain flexible depending on how the potential trade scenarios unfold.
``I just embrace the challenge and whatever the situation ends up being I'll embrace the challenge,'' Vaughn said. ``I reiterated throughout the (hiring) process that that's what makes me unique – I look forward to the challenges. Whatever it may be (with Howard), I'll deal with it and we'll go forward as an organization.''
Hennigan, who met with Howard last week in Los Angeles, said the hiring of Vaughn doesn't necessarily signal a rebuilding process being underway in Orlando. He simply asked for patience as the Magic re-tool the roster and attempt to build something that is sustainable for the future.
``One thing we'll tell our fans is that we'll continue look at all options to try and improve this team. And we'll continue to build piece by piece (and) brick by brick, into something that is sustainable,'' Hennigan said. ``At the end of the day, it's about putting a group of guys on the floor that want to be coached by Jacque, who want to be led by Jacque and represent the values and attributes that our fan base can really rally around.''
As for the style of play that his teams will employ, Vaughn said that will again borrow certain aspects from all of the various coaches that he's played for in college and the NBA. And because there is so much roster uncertainty because of the ongoing Howard saga, Vaughn insisted that flexibility will be of the utmost importance.
``Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape,'' Vaughn said to a host of laughs during his introductory news conference. ``For me, it's about putting guys in position to make plays. I will not call a play every single time down the floor and my demeanor on the sidelines is calmer. I won't be garish at all and I think players will be receptive to that and will want to play hard. As long as I can teach them and they will be receptive, then I'll let them make plays.''
Another thing that might make Vaughn different from other NBA coaches is his love for poetry and he said he won't be afraid to quote passages from time to time to ram home a point to his players. In addition to saying that poetry ``shows a vulnerability and a sensitivity and to me it's OK having that in coaching,'' Vaughn even quoted lines from Maya Angelou in his introductory news conference. ``Some people might forget what you said and how you said it, but they'll never forget how you made them feel,'' Vaughn recited. ``For me that's extremely important.''
Vaughn added that he isn't afraid to say that he has a lot of learning to do as far as serving as a head coach. But again lessons taught to him by Popovich should serve him well as the Magic's new head coach.
``I am comfortable saying that I will be learning as I go,'' he said. ``Being around Pop, you get a great inner balance where your skin gets a little thicker, but you don't take yourself too seriously. That's a great balance to have as a coach. I know what comes with this job and I'm prepared for it.''
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- 1⁄2 cup soy sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 teaspoon grated gingerroot
- 6 chicken pieces (breasts or thighs, skinless, boneless)
mustard sauce
- 3 tablespoons chopped macadamia nuts
- 1⁄2 cup Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons pineapple juice
- 1⁄4 teaspoon red pepper flakes (or less)
- Combine first 5 ingredients in zip-lock bag and add chicken. Marinate at least 1 hour.
- Remove chicken from marinade (discard marinade) and grill over med-high heat 6 minute on each side (or until done).
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Did The Amazing Spider-Man Scare Off G.I. Joe: Retaliation?
The official reason Paramount Pictures gave last week for moving G.I. Joe: Retaliation from its original June 29 release date to March 2013 was to allow plenty of time for 3D conversion. But more skeptical Hollywood watchers think there's more going on. Sure, the studio can charge more for 3D tickets, but plenty of outlets, including The Hollywood Reporter, think there's more to this story.
The trade site offers two alternate explanations: The first contends that, after not doing well with Battleship or The Dictator, the studio might've been skittish about going up against Columbia Pictures' The Amazing Spider-Man, which opens July 3 and would have given Retaliation only four days to get a foothold. The second revolves around Channing Tatum's involvement. THR says his Duke character was originally going to die in the film, but Paramount is now supposedly trying to figure out ways to get him back in.
This whole process is a bit baffling, to say the least. It's understandable that Paramount is nervous after not doing so well this year, but there must have been something really worrying the studio to essentially waste all the money on promotion. Something also has to be said about the good will the film earned by actually looking kind of awesome, which might dissipate if the studio decides to tinker too much with the final product.
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