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Sweet perfection! These Red Velvet cupcakes are made healthier by kicking out the artificial red dye and instead using nutritious red beets!
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cooking Time: 30 mins
Extra Time: 8 hrs
(optional, for frosting refrigeration)
Yield: 12 x cupcakes and 2/3 cup frosting
Preheat oven to 350ºF. Drop paper cupcake liners into cavities of a 12-cavity regular sized muffin pan.
CUPCAKES: Working a knife up and down in a measuring cup, coarsely chop beets. Place beets in blender, add 1/4 cup buttermilk and whirl until beets are finely chopped. Add remaining buttermilk, vinegar and vanilla and whirl to a puree, making sure no lumps of beet remain. Set beet mixture aside.
In small bowl, combine flour, 6 tablespoons of cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; set aside.
In medium bowl, combine cold oil and sugar. With hand mixer on medium speed, mix until sugar is evenly moistened. Add cold egg and beat at high speed until mixture resembles mayonnaise and sugar is almost completely dissolved, about 90 seconds. Add beet mixture and beat until combined.
Sift dry ingredients (the flour-cocoa mixture) into bowl of wet ingredients (the sugar-egg mixture). Mix, either on low speed or by hand until dry and wet ingredients are combined. Divide batter evenly among lined muffin cups, filling them about two-thirds full.
Bake cupcakes in preheated oven for 28 to 30 minutes, or until tops feel springy and when one cupcake is lifted out, bottom also feels springy. Immediately transfer cupcakes to wire rack and cool completely before frosting.
Cupcakes are best when stored overnight at room temperature in covered container.
CREAM CHEESE FROSTING: In small bowl, work sugar and cream cheese together with wooden spoon or hand mixer until combined. Mix in vanilla.
(This frosting is best when refrigerated 8 hours to overnight, loosely covered, before using. Frosting keeps in refrigerator for 5 days. If desired, let cupcakes sit at room temperature to let frosting set, about 2 hours. The frosted cupcakes can sit at room temperature for up to 12 hours.)
When ready, frost the cupcakes, using about 1 tablespoon of frosting for each. Place remaining cocoa in a strainer and sprinkle it over frosted cupcakes. Makes: a generous 2/3 cup.
* Use either sliced or whole beets. An 8-1/4 oz can yields slightly more than 1 cup. Look to be sure there is no sugar added and make sure not to grab pickled beets.


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skoowers necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 99 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
Skoowers needs a company logo to use on store signage, t-shirts, etc.
Skoowers is a new grill-style fast-food restaurant that serves:
- grilled skewers of - chicken
- beef
- fruits (pineapple)
- vegetables
- rice
- salad
- teriyaki sauceWe don't necessarily have a "theme" for the restaurant other than earthy colors and modest decor. We expect our food to be the reason customers like our restaurant.
- we want the image to be presented on a white AND black background (2 images) - for clarification the images should not be black and white, but color
- require a vector image
- appetizing (warm colors such as yellows, oranges, reds, browns)
- appealing (the word Skoowers should be presented in an attractive way) - we prefer the font to be more "fun" than "business", but shouldn't detract from the style of the restaurant (grilled skewers of food)
- prominent (the word Skoowers should be the first thing that is noticed)
- should look good when small as on a t-shirt or even a business card and when big such as a sign in front of the store.
- easy to read the word Skoowers
- easy to realize it is a sign for a restaurant
- we are open to any ideas that will best present our company
- feel free to present logo in all lower case all upper case or any variation of the two (does not have to be "Skoowers")
- we thought of having a cook with a cook hat somewhere in the logo, but take that with a grain of salt as it is certainly not required
- we do not have a slogan at this time and are not against the idea of having one. If you think of something good, please present the logo with and without it...
- no pictures of food or animals
- no flames (smoke is okay if need be)
- no burn marks
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.

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Woman Has Time Of Her Life Dancing With A Broom While Putting A Smile On Everyone's Face. This is How To Celebrate The Weekend!
An unknown woman dancing in her kitchen to what sounds like Puerto Rican music is making the rounds on the internet.
Her dance partner? A broom. Her outfit? Pajamas and a blue bag on her head!
Her moves are fantastic, and her energy is infectious. This woman is having a GREAT time and she doesn't care that her friends won't join her. She is going to DANCE!
If this doesn't put a smile on your face to start the weekend (and like several friends I've seen post so far, want to get you to sign up for dance lessons!) you need to take a happy pill and call me in the morning.
I feel a Latin 'Footloose' remake coming on!


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Oven Beef Stew
Total TimePrep: 15 min. + standing Cook: 2 -1/2 hours
Makes8 servings
- 1 beef top round roast (2 pounds), cut into 1-1/2-inch cubes
- 2 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 2 medium onions, cut into eighths
- 3 celery ribs, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 4 medium carrots, cut into 1-inch slices
- 1 can (11-1/2 ounces) tomato juice
- 1/3 cup dry sherry or water
- 1/3 cup quick-cooking tapioca
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 cups fresh green beans, cut into 1-inch pieces
- In a Dutch oven, combine the beef, potatoes, onions, celery and carrots; set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the tomato juice, sherry or water, tapioca, sugar, salt, basil and pepper. Let stand for 15 minutes.
- Pour over beef mixture. Cover and bake at 325° for 2 to 2-1/2 hours or until meat is almost tender.
- Add the beans; cook 30 minutes longer or until beans and meat are tender.
Nutrition Facts1 cup: 268 calories, 7g fat (2g saturated fat), 70mg cholesterol, 519mg sodium, 25g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 4g fiber), 25g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 2 vegetable, 1 starch.
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The stew taste great!!
Mar 17, 2013
This is the best stew Ive ever found. Easy to make. meat is so tender. I love it. Thank you
Oct 22, 2011
I always make this recipe in my slow cooker. Cook on low for 8 hours and add green beans during the last 30 minutes. The meat always comes out tender and delicious. My favorite stew during the cold winter months.
Sep 18, 2011
Been making this since it 1st came out in the magazine & it has become one of our favorite stew recipes! Wish it didn't have to cook quite so long but I'm sure that's why the vegies & meat are so tender & it has such a nice baked-in gravy! We like a little 'bite' so I do use the spicy V8 and I also use red wine instead of sherry. Its SO thick that its wonderful served over baking powder biscuits!
Feb 6, 2011
Had this at my MIL's last night! Baked some biscuits and we had a wonderful meal. That's why I'm here looking for the recipe. Look forward to fixin' here at home real soon.
Jan 1, 2011
I baked this soup for literally hours on end. The carrots, celery, even the onions never lost their hardness or crispness, but the meat did get tough. Thus, none of it turned out well. It also lacked seasoning. I felt like there was nothing special about it.


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Yoga food is vegetarian.
It is an eating philosophy based on a wholesome vegetarian diet. Its principles of healthy eating use vegetarian ingredients in combination with spices and herbs that have therapeutic value and delicious flavors.
"You Are What you Eat" – a commonly used phrase in yoga, has a powerful meaning. Yoga believes that food not only influences your body in the physical sense but is also known to directly influence emotions and feelings. It can induce bliss or anger, contentment or restlessness, thoughts of the sacred or the profane. The quality of the food you eat literally creates your state of mind and emotions. The teachings of yoga advocate a vegetarian diet with special emphasis on foods that bring peace to body, mind, and sprit.
Why vegetarian? – Yoga food is based on the idea that foods must be consumed in their most natural forms in order to realize their true benefits. The yogic belief is that several health disorders can be traced to faulty nutrition, poor diet and difficulty in digestion. The big Idea? – In order to stay healthy and happy "food should be digested very easily"! A vegetarian yoga diet ensures that all faculties of digestion work smoothly—absorption, assimilation, and elimination. The diet also contains high amounts of fiber and antioxidants. Yoga food helps to maintain a strong and healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a positive spirituality in our complex lifestyles. The benefits of a well-balanced vegetarian diet can be powerful.
Yoga Food is classified into 3 categories – Sattvic, Rajasic, and Tamasic Foods
Sattvic Foods are foods that should be eaten the most and that are very easily digestible. These foods nourish the body, purify the mind and heal the imbalance in the body by generating good health, energy, vitality, vigor, mental alertness, peace and strength. These include foods rich in vitamins and minerals such as vegetables, fruits, herbs; essential dietary fiber and carbohydrates required by the body include whole and unrefined grains; protein rich foods such as legumes, nuts, seeds, dairy; natural sweeteners such as honey and raw sugar, therapeutic spices in small quantities, oil and ghee (Indian clarified butter) in small quantities for the required fat in the body.
Rajasic Foods are foods that should be eaten moderately or occasionaly and are foods that are not as easily digestible like Sattvic foods. Although, these foods create restlessness and provide extra-stimulation, it is sometimes required when the body needs higher amounts of energy or during the fall and winter seasons. They include very spicy, hot, salty, bitter, sour, pungent, and gaseous foods such as chickpea, toor lentil, white urad lentil, black and green gram, soy bean, hot spices such as red chili powder and black pepper, stimulants such as onion, garlic, tea, coffee, chocolate and wine.
Tamasic Foods are foods that should be eaten the least and are foods that are difficult to digest. These foods require a lot more energy to digest and are known to be the least beneficial to the mind and the body. Tamasic foods can enhance dullness, lethargy, depression the body feel heavy, generating the least amount of energy. When eaten too often or in excess they could destroy the body's resistance to disease. They include meat, fish, eggs, intoxicants, alcohol, and foods that are processed, chemically altered, artificially flavored, food kept for over 24 hours, reheated and deep-fried foods.
Eat four times a day at four hour intervals
Do not skip breakfast, it is the most important meal of the day
Do not drink water with your meal – drink water 30 minutes before a meal
When you eat a meal, you're stomach should be 1/2 filled with food, ¼ with water (drunk 30 minutes before) and ¼ should be empty for proper digestion
Eat food that is freshly cooked
Do not overeat or eat too less
Food should be tasty and easy to digest
Food should be eaten with concentration and in a calm environment
So whether you practice yoga or just want to eat healthy and be happy, Yoga food is for you!
viaAbout Yoga Food.


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Up to $1.36 billion investment in Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One bolsters Exelon's emission-free energy portfolio
CHICAGO and TEMPE, Ariz. - Exelon Corporation today announced its acquisition of Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One, a 230-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) project under development in northern Los Angeles County, Calif., from First Solar, which developed and will build, operate, and maintain the project. Construction has started, with the first portion of the site expected to come online in late 2012 and full operation planned for late 2013.
When fully operational, AV Solar Ranch One will be one of the largest PV solar projects in the world, with approximately 3.8 million solar panels generating enough clean, renewable electricity to power the equivalent of 75,000 average homes per year. The project has a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA), approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, with Pacific Gas & Electric for the full output of the plant.
"This project reinforces Exelon's industry-leading clean energy position, creates shareholder value and gives Exelon real scale in solar power," said John W. Rowe, Exelon chairman and CEO. "As the nation continues its transition to a clean energy future, our experience with AV Solar Ranch One will give us a clear competitive advantage."
Exelon expects the total investment of up to $1.36 billion to be accretive to earnings beginning in 2013 and free cash flow accretive starting in 2013. The project is value accretive, and will have stable earnings and cash flow profiles due to the PPA. Exelon expects to invest up to $713 million in equity in the project through 2013.
"We are pleased to be working with Exelon to realize the AV Solar Ranch One project, providing clean, affordable energy and hundreds of construction jobs to California," said Frank De Rosa, First Solar senior vice president, business development-Americas.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office finalized a loan guarantee of up to $646 million to support project financing for AV Solar Ranch One. Advances under the loan are contingent on the satisfaction of various conditions. No regulatory approvals are needed for Exelon's acquisition of AV Solar Ranch One from First Solar.
In connection with the sale of AV Solar Ranch One, First Solar is filing a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. First Solar investors should refer to such Form 8-K, as it contains important additional information, including information related to revenue recognition for the project.
The project will deliver economic benefits to the local community and the state of California, including the generation of state and local tax revenues and creation of up to a peak of 400 construction jobs and up to 15 ongoing operations and maintenance positions, with an emphasis on hiring workers from the local area.
This project demonstrates how Exelon 2020, the company's business and environmental strategy, delivers value through clean, low-carbon energy investments. When fully operational, AV Solar Ranch One will displace approximately 140,000 metric tons of carbon emissions per year - the equivalent of taking approximately 30,000 cars off the road. Plus, it will generate electricity with no water use, no air emissions and no waste production. Exelon's existing solar assets include Exelon City Solar, the nation's largest urban solar power plant, which is located on the South Side of Chicago and was completed in 2010.
The project will be built on 2,100 acres of fallow farmland near Lancaster, Calif., in the Antelope Valley area of the Western Mojave Desert, approximately 80 miles north of Los Angeles. The transaction expands Exelon's geographic presence into California, an attractive solar market with an ambitious renewable energy policy and some of the best PV resources in the world.
AV Solar Ranch One will employ First Solar's FS Series 3 PV Module and deploy its tracking system on a portion of the facility. The technology will increase electricity output by tilting the solar panels to track the daily path of the sun. The project also will feature innovative inverters with voltage regulation and monitoring technologies, which provide more stable and continuous power, increasing the project's efficiency and reliability.
The transaction follows Exelon's April 28 announcement that it plans to merge with Constellation Energy, which will combine two of the industry's leading clean energy generation fleets. With the addition of AV Solar Ranch One, their combined solar portfolio will include approximately 350 MW in operation and under construction. Constellation is a competitive electricity supplier and solar project developer in California and owns five solar projects in the state totaling more than 32 MW.
The acquisition of AV Solar Ranch One adds to the nearly $5 billion Exelon has said it plans to invest in cost-effective clean energy projects between 2010 and 2015. These projects also include uprates to Exelon's nuclear fleet and the acquisition of John Deere Renewables (now Exelon Wind) in 2010, which added 735 MWs to the company's portfolio of clean, renewable energy.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch acted as financial advisor and Sidley Austin served as legal advisors to Exelon, McDermott Will & Emery advised Exelon for certain tax matters, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom served as legal advisors to First Solar. SAIC Energy, Environment & Infrastructure, LLC, formerly R. W. Beck, Inc., provided independent technical advisory services.


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(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) expects sales to grow throughout this year and next, as the world's largest retailer keeps enticing shoppers, especially those on limited budgets, with smaller new stores, ecommerce and lower prices.
Wal-Mart also said on Wednesday that it plans to add roughly the same amount of store space in fiscal 2014 as it has planned for fiscal 2013, and will still open more supercenters than smaller stores in the United States, its largest market.
The retailer also touted strong sales at U.S. grocery stores and a big start to holiday layaway sales, Its shares close 1.7 percent higher at $75.42 after jumping to an all-time high of $76.81 during the annual meeting with analysts and investors.
Shares came off session highs after Chief Financial Officer Charles Holley forecast 5 percent to 7 percent sales growth for fiscal 2014. That matched but did not exceed the growth forecast for the current fiscal year 2013 ending in January.
In the year since the last investor meeting, Wal-Mart's U.S. arm, by far its largest business, has rebounded from a prolonged slump. At the same time, its international operations have come under scrutiny following a New York Times article in April about alleged bribery at its Mexican unit.
Walmart plans to more than double the number of its Neighborhood Market grocery stores in the United States by fiscal 2016, putting more pressure on grocers such as Kroger Co (KR.N), Safeway Inc SWY.N and Supervalu Inc SVU.N.
Smaller than supercenters and focused on groceries, the stores have become more profitable as Walmart has added more. Sales at existing Neighborhood Market stores have grown in excess of 5 percent, or double the overall Walmart U.S. rate, as shoppers find them more convenient.
"They kind of have the keys to the castle now," Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Bob Summers, who has a "buy" rating on Wal-Mart, said of the Neighborhood Market format.
Walmart should have more than 240 Neighborhood Market stores by the end of fiscal 2013 and more than 500 by fiscal 2016, ultimately adding more than $10 billion in sales, U.S. Chief Executive Bill Simon said.
While Wal-Mart is not planning for a deep decline in GDP or consumer spending, if the economy were to get worse, Wal-Mart believes it is in a good position as it continues to lower costs, improve productivity and cut prices.
"Even if we go into a more difficult economy, all that does is position us even stronger," CEO Mike Duke said.
Shares of Wal-Mart are up 20.1 percent since just before the New York Times story was published, compared with a 2.4 percent increase in the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI, of which they are a component.
Walmart U.S. is preparing for a strong holiday season, ordering twice as many Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPads and other tablet computers as last year. It started offering layaway in mid-September, a month earlier than in 2011. Layaway allows shoppers to put certain items on hold and pay for them over time.
Walmart has lined up $400 million in U.S. layaway sales in less than a month, half of the amount shoppers put on hold for all of the 2011 holiday season.
"They could conceivably do 50 percent more layaway this year than they did last year," which has the potential to add half a percentage point to same-store sales growth, said Summers.
Walmart U.S. has posted four consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth after nine straight quarterly declines, though the pace of growth slowed to 2.2 percent in the second quarter from 2.6 percent in the first quarter. The pace of quarterly same-store sales growth still trails competitors such as Target Corp (TGT.N) and Dollar General Corp (DG.N).
Plans for Walmart U.S. this holiday season include offering sale prices on certain toys on Tuesdays based on weekend feedback from social media. At the Sam's Club warehouse chain, holiday season plans include selling Children's Place (PLCE.O) merchandise and the company is testing higher-priced membership fees in Texas along with cash rewards.
Ecommerce is growing with efforts such as letting shoppers buy online and pay in stores with cash, yet is still a small part of the giant company. Wal-Mart's ecommerce sales should total $9 billion next year, excluding acquisitions, while Wal-Mart rang up nearly $444 billion in total sales in fiscal 2012.
Walmart International plans to add 21 million to 23 million square feet of store space in fiscal 2013, down from an original target of 30 million to 33 million. It plans to add another 20 million to 22 million square feet of store space in fiscal 2014.
Walmart U.S. plans to add roughly 205 stores this year, and about 220 to 240 in fiscal 2014. Sam's Club plans to open 9 stores this year and 10 to 15 next year.
Overall, Wal-Mart plans to add 36 million to 40 million retail square feet in fiscal 2014 on top of 36 million to 39 million square feet this year. As it cuts costs, capital expenditures should total $12 billion to $13 billion in fiscal 2014, down from $12.6 billion to $13.5 billion this year.
The company plans to give its fiscal 2014 profit forecast in February when it reports first-quarter results.
Editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Matthew Lewis, Tim Dobbyn, Phil Berlowitz and David Gregorio


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CONFERENCE: Moratorium to Stop Foreclosures
Global Research Canada, February 17, 2012
Saturday – March 31, 2012
Central United Methodist Church – 2nd Floor
23 E. Adams St. (at Woodward Ave.)
Detroit, Michigan
Central United Methodist Church – 2nd Floor
23 E. Adams St. (at Woodward Ave.)
Detroit, Michigan
Registration: 8 - 9 am Conference: 9 am – 6 pm
Online registration at: www.nationalmoratorium.org
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/171779859592661/
However, as important as these actions are, they will be not enough to stop the two million foreclosures that already are being processed and the additional 3.8 million foreclosures projected to take place over the next 2 years. Along with continuing the direct actions it's time to raise the demand that the government place a Two Year National Moratorium to halt foreclosures and foreclosure-related evictions. A Moratorium would keep people in their homes and stabilize our communities while a long term solution to the crisis, including reducing principal to the actual value of the homes, is developed and implemented.
In the 1930's, 25 states enacted moratoriums on foreclosures. The Michigan Moratorium Act meant that anyone facing foreclosure got an automatic 5 year stay on the foreclosure, with a judge ordering a reasonable payment based on the homeowner's ability to pay. These laws were upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Home Building & Loan Building Association v Blaisdell, which held that the people's right to survive during an economic emergency superseded the contract clause of the U.S. constitution. The moratoriums were not a result of the generosity of the legislatures or the courts, but were a direct result of the actions of workers and communities flooding the streets and preventing the foreclosures that were being carried out. The legislatures and courts essentially ratified the moratoriums that were won in the streets.
The demand for a Moratorium on Foreclosures has never been more timely. Today, with the federal government owning or backing 75% of mortgage loans through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and HUD, and paying the banks full value for the inflated, fraudulent and predatory loans, the President has the absolute authority to implement a two year moratorium on foreclosures and foreclosure-related evictions through executive order. And the President could immediately authorize a reduction of the principal to actual market values on all mortgages owned by the federal government.
The Moratorium Now! Coalition, which has been raising the demand for a moratorium on foreclosures and challenging foreclosures and evictions in Michigan for the past five years, invites all activists to come to Detroit—the city hit hardest by the economic war on the 99%—for a one day conference on March 31, 2012. The conference will be an opportunity to share our experiences fighting foreclosures and evictions through direct actions. We will share legal strategies in challenging the banks in federal and state courts. And we will plan a campaign to raise and win the demand for a National Two Year Moratorium on Foreclosures and Foreclosure-Related evictions.
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So I made a list of types <data> and fill some of the data. Now I have to in .jsp file using JSTL technology and with foreach loop display this data in a servlet (in a web browser).
In JSTL file I tried to <c:forEach items="${ requestScope['newList'] }" var="data"> but I simply couldn't print anything in the browser.
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Wipe the sweat off my dome
Spit the phlegm on the streets
Suede Timb's on my feet makes my cypher complete
My window faces shootouts, drug overdoses
Live amongst no roses only the drama for real
A nickel-plate is my fate, my medicine is the ganja
If you couldn't tell by the title of the blog, the winner is . . .
At the end of the day Midnight Marauders opened my eyes and ears to the world of music, but Illmatic made me really take a look at the world I was in.
Now, my song of the decade it's not from either ATCQ or Nas, but from 3 artists that kind of defined and era within an era. They definite what was 90's underground or backpack rap. The song described your average American city. When I rode the 84A to class every morning I would ride through the Burrows Projects, where my late grandmother used to live. When I started college they were just beginning to be torn down and this song described my bus daily bus ride through those projects. By the middle of my freshman year the fences were up around all of the vacant projects as they were preparing to tear them down.
Sat by the window with a clutched dome
Listenin' to shorties cuss long
Young girls with weak minds, but they butt strong
Tried to call or at least beep the lord
But didn't have a touchtone
Its a dog eat dog world, you gotta mush on
Some of this land I must own
Outta the city, they want us gone
Tearin' down the 'jects creatin' plush homes
I would listen to this song on my nightly bus rides home from work, also. At night the song became that much more powerful. It's the definitive night time song for city dwellers. I always got goosebumps whenever I would listen to this song while my bus would turn up Crawford ave on my way home. I would have a phenomenal view of the Pittsburgh Skyline while this played . . .
*Not to mention it had one of, if not, the greatest hook ever!
What would you consider YOUR definitive album & song of the 90's? What made you choose that album/song? Did it describe a time in your life? Was it just a song that never left your cd player or walkman?
p.s. This isn't about any genre. It's whatever YOUR album is. It could be rock, country, afro beat, techno, garage . . .


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Emily Badger is a former staff writer at CityLab. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
Earlier this month, we posed a simple question to about two-dozen cities of varying sizes and climates: How many snowplows do you have? Pretty straight-forward question, we figured. We expected – naively, it now turns out – that cities would get back to us with a single number. Almost none of them did.
Spokane, Wash., responded that they have 33 plow trucks, 10 graders, five de-icers, 11 de-icer/plows and seven sander/plows. Minneapolis has 43 trucks with front and underbody plows and material spreaders, which are different from the 18 trucks they have with front plows only, their 12 front loaders with plows, and their nine motor graders (which is to say nothing of the 20 front loaders the city uses just for alleys).
Toronto sent us something resembling a spreadsheet. Fargo sent us a list. One city (we won't name names) asked us a question: Were other cities counting the garbage trucks that they attach plows to? Because, you know, no one wants to look bad here. And then there's Kansas City, which sent us a thoughtful caveat that we want to convey: You can't think about snowplows without counting lane miles because the two go hand-in-hand (Kansas City, for the record, has 6,400 of them to clear).
This whole exercise may be the best testament to the fact that plowing snow is a fraught enterprise. In some cities, administrations can get evicted or re-elected on their snow-removal speed. In Chicago, residents are so sensitive to the urban conspiracy that some neighborhoods get more prompt plowing than others that the city unveiled a live tracking app this winter. Roughly 65,000 people viewed it in its first week online.
In attempting to corral all of this together, we wanted to capture the complex calculation cities have to make when they're balancing weather reality against city size against budget and resident expectations. And so we've made a few subjective calls: The graphic below represents the equipment our sample cities have in their own arsenals to plow streets – whether those plows have an underbody or come temporarily attached to the front of a dump truck. Not included is the winter equipment – salt trucks, snow blowers – that doesn't actually plow anything, or any privately owned plows on retainer. We also didn't include specialized plows designed for surfaces other than roads (although we're really impressed that Toronto has 322 of these just for sidewalks, and that Boulder has a pair for bike paths).
As a final note – we're looking at you, Kansas City – we've been forced to substitute land area for lane miles, since comparable data could not be found for every city we queried (but if there are any academics drawing research inspiration from Atlantic Cities, someone should really create such a database!).
So, all that being said, how exactly does a city decide how many snow plows it needs?
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Here is the challenge: People in Nashville freak out when there are two inches of snow. People in Buffalo freak out when there are two feet. Washington, D.C. gets about 16 inches a year on average, but once every seven years or so, something really wild happens. Seattle averages only about 7 inches, but Spokane – at the same longitude but on the other side of the mountains – gets nearly 50.
Weather is unpredictable, and so is how people react to it. A public works official steps into this world and has to weigh the factors that are unknowable (freak storms) against the ones that are (city budgets) and then hope for the best.
"That's exactly the dilemma that we have here in Seattle," says Steve Pratt, who directs the Street Maintenance Division of the Seattle Department of Transportation.
In December of 2008, Seattle got dumped with more snow at one time than it usually collects in a year. A town of infamous rainfall, it was suddenly on the national news for its snow ineptitude. The local economy, and pretty much all of Seattle's articulating buses, were paralyzed throughout the holidays as the city had minimal equipment and a firm policy against spreading salt. Eventually, the head of the DOT wound up resigning. Pratt refers to the memory as "the debacle of '08-'09." Local media still hearken back to it every time a snowflake falls.
Now the city embraces salt (who's it going to harm in all that surrounding salt water?), and it has invested in four 3,000-gallon trucks that can spread salt brine across the city's hilly roads before storms even reach Seattle. The city is better prepared for another long-shot storm, but it's not prepared like Chicago is. That just wouldn't make sense.
Seattle has 30 plows. Total. And if all 30 of them ever have to go out at one time, they are just not going to make it to your house. The city won't even try; it's going to stick to the bus routes and park-and-ride outposts.
"The snow and ice response plan is built around getting people to use public transportation," Pratt says. "Given our geography here, we would have to have 100 trucks [to cover the whole city], and at $150,000 to $200,000 a truck, that would be a foolish waste of money because they would sit most of the time. And they would sit for five years because it doesn't snow that often. So we go with what we have."
This is no doubt an unpopular thing to say in the middle of a major storm. But Seattle happens to have its budget discussions during the more level-headed summer. One of the realities of municipal snow removal is that what residents want during a freak event (a plow for every person!) is not what they'd be willing to pay for – or should pay for – when everything thaws.
In Chicago, the distance between the crazy years and the normal ones is more manageable. There, it's just best to assume snow, and to plan for it all the time. The city has 278 snowplows, plus 26 smaller ones, and 200 garbage trucks it can outfit with plows without disrupting trash pickup. In a given year, the city's Department of Streets and Sanitation has a $20 million budget for all of this. That is not, to clarify, for the whole department. That's the snow budget.
"It's salt, it's buying trucks, that's fuel, that's paying laborers, paying truck drivers," says Thomas Byrne, the Streets and Sanitation commissioner.
Watch those line items add up, and snow-plowing officials in Chicago – and a host of other cities this winter, for that matter – have been celebrating tens of thousands of dollars in savings as the rest of us cringe over climate change.
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The cliché about the District of Columbia is that it's a city of transplants, which, if we accept that as true, means it's also a city of people with wildly different expectations about snow.
"We've got a lot of people here that are from Buffalo, Boston, Chicago, who are accustomed to driving in snow, and so 3 inches is just sort of a laughable thought," says William O. Howland, Jr., director of the District's Department of Public Works. "But we're really a southern city, and so for most of the people here, 3 inches is not something they're accustomed to. It's sort of a balancing act."
Three inches, in fact, will shut down the school system. And so imagine what happened two winters ago when the city got a once-in-a-century storm. In the winter of '09-'10, Washington was hit with an 18-inch storm December, and then a total of 42 inches in the month of February alone. That much snow doesn't require plows. It requires construction equipment to literally dig people out. The city got so much snow that February that once it was shoved off the streets, officials had to find somewhere to truck it all (note: every once in a while it is a helpful thing to have an old, unused football stadium sitting around).
In the face of an event like this, D.C. doesn't actually have any full-time snowplows. It has 120 6-wheel dump trucks that can be outfitted with heavy plows, and another hundred Ford F-550 trucks for local roads that convert into light plows. The rest of the year, these trucks haul debris, or clean up tree limbs after a hurricane (because Washington is about as likely to get one of those is it is to be pummeled by a Chicago-style blizzard). In a real bind, the city has a private company on retainer to clear the highways through town, and additional equipment on rental. This is essentially the insurance policy for a city where it doesn't make sense to purchase real snowplows.
Computer software has also allowed the city to optimize its route-planning during a storm: the big trucks have 90 individual routes and the smaller ones 80 of them. And the city recently upgraded to a vehicle-tracking technology that can locate trucks even when they're not running. Like Chicago, this live data is available to city residents, although Howland isn't sure that the government gets much mileage from the digital display of force.
"Quite frankly, I will tell you most people really don't care what you're doing in the rest of the city," he says. "They just want to look out the window, and if they can see that their street is taken care of, that's all that matters."
You just hope that person looking out the window isn't a U.S. senator. Howland chuckles at the thought but insists that the real troublemakers in town are all the transplants, not the politicians. In some ways, snow removal is really about information and perceptions, and those perceptions vary depending on where you live (or where you came from) and the culture there. How else can we explain the fact that New Yorkers require 7.37 snow plows per square mile – a number the city reaches by arming 1,800 refuse collection trucks – while the good people of snowed-in Buffalo make do with so much less?
"I think the expectations are different in every city. What Buffalo can get away with is different than what we would do, or what Seattle or Jackson, Miss., would do," Howland says. And this reminds him of an amusing piece of trivia. "I heard Jackson has five snowplows!"
Of course, then we had to ask. It turns out they have none.
Image credits: Reuters/Mike Cassese (top); Ron Hilton / Shutterstock.com (middle); Reuters/Hyungwon Kang (bottom)
Often ranked as one of the deadliest cities in America, Camden, New Jersey, ended 2017 with its lowest homicide rate since the 1980s.
Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.
Architects and planners have an obligation to protect health, safety and welfare through the spaces we design. As the George Floyd protests reveal, we've failed.
As national protesters call for defunding police, a movement for anti-racist "people's budgets" is spreading from LA to Nashville to Grand Rapids.
Despite new research on police brutality, we still have no idea whether violence toward African Americans is fueled by racial prejudice. That has consequences.


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BSkyB's betting arm, Sky Bet, is launching a TV campaign highlighting "the excitement of uncertainty" intrinsic to gambling.
The ad, by WCRS, introduces the strapline "Nothing's certain. That's why it's exciting" and depicts different scenarios that could affect the outcome of a wager.
Ted Moss, the marketing director of Sky Betting and Gaming, said: "It's the uncertainty of sport that makes betting so exciting and WCRS has captured this brilliantly in the new campaign to set us apart from our competitors."
The campaign, spanning TV, press, digital and outdoor, was created and directed by Larry Seftel and Dave Day. The production company was Outsider, and post-production was by Ben Turner at The Mill.


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Because modern console controllers are all wireless, keeping them constantly charged is as vital to the gaming experience as choosing the right controller. That's why the original Nyko Charge Base was like my personal team doctor, making sure the guys were ready and charged for game time. But now could Nyko improve on something that's near perfect? This is how.
The Charge Base S is black to match the Xbox 360 S, and still charges two controllers at the same time. The charge indicator is smaller and doesn't have a crazy green/red glow when charging (that was annoying), and also gives you the charge level of the battery. The added USB port is definitely useful, for charging a third controller or just your cellphone if you have it within reach. Excited gadgets for men!
No real complaints! People who don't have an Xbox 360 S or black controllers might wish that they made a white version, but other than that, the Charge Base S does one thing and it does it well.
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WEEK OF PRAYER: Antique globe spurs seminary to heightened LMCO giving
EDITOR'S NOTE: This year's Week of Prayer for International Missions in the Southern Baptist Convention earlier this month centered on the theme of "BE His heart, His hands, His voice" from Matthew 16:24-25. Each year's Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions supplements Cooperative Program giving to support Southern Baptists' 5,000 international missionaries' initiatives in sharing the Gospel. This year's offering goal is $175 million. To find resources about the offering, go to www.imb.org/offering.
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) -- It all started with an antique globe-shaped bank.
The tattered grapefruit-sized trinket helped spur students, faculty and staff of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., to give generously to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions.
In early December, the staff of Southeastern's Drummond Center for the Great Commission Studies needed an ornament for the staff Christmas tree competition, and the globe bank was chosen. Kristine Wager, administrative assistant for the associate directors of international and North American missions and an SEBTS student, added a small sign to the bank saying "Lottie Moon Christmas Offering" with an arrow pointing toward the coin slot.
After the competition, Greg Mathias, the globe's owner and the department's associate director of international missions, asked Wager to retrieve his collectible. Wager decided to keep it on her desk and asked anyone who came by if they had spare change to give to Lottie Moon -- "and people just did." One professor even brought his "change jar" from home -- full to the brim with coins -- to give to the offering.
But Wager didn't stop there. As a former journeyman -- a short-term missionary with the International Mission Board -- from 2008-10 in East Asia, she knew what a "blessing" the Lottie Moon Offering is for the nearly 5,000 Southern Baptist missionaries in supporting them and their ministries so they can concentrate on being Christ's heart, hands and voice to those who have not yet heard the Gospel message.
The day before a chapel service when gifts to the missions offering would be collected, Wager carried the globe to all of the seminary's offices, asking for spare change. Give they did -- change, dollars and checks -- and if they could not give then, many made notes to remind them to give at the chapel service the next day.
"By the time I got back to my office, the globe was so heavy it was a relief to put down!" Wager said with a laugh.
Her rallying paid off -- Southeastern gave $3,556 this year to the offering, a 36 percent increase from their 2011 total of $2,620.44.
"Where we are generous and where we give of ourselves and of our things, that really reveals where our hearts are," Wager said. "I think that's super exciting that our hearts are 36 percent more geared toward missions than they were last year."
But Wager doesn't take credit for this increase -- she knows that her department and the entire seminary are devoted to the Great Commission.
"It wasn't just me -- my personal passion -- but really the community of passion that is cultivated at Southeastern. … I think that's just an attitude filtering down from Dr. [Daniel] Akin [SEBTS president], how he's so committed to the Great Commission and to missions in general, it really does go into everything that we do. … down to our faculty members, to our staff and to our students as well."
The seminary has taken up an offering for missions every year since Akin became the seminary's president in 2004.
"It's hard not to be excited about missions at Southeastern," Wager said.
Laura Fielding is a writer for the International Mission Board. Southern Baptists' gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions and through the Cooperative Program help Southern Baptist missionaries around the world share the Gospel. Gifts for the offering are received at Southern Baptist churches across the country or can be made online at www.imb.org/offering where there are resources for church leaders to promote the offering. Download related videos at www.imb.org/lmcovideo.


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It seems like an esoteric concept, but it's actually very useful.
If your input file is "1 apple firstname.lastname@example.com", then your script could say:
while read qty product customer do echo "${customer} wants ${qty} ${product}(s)" done
read command will read in the three variables, because they're spaced out from each other.
However, critical data is often presented in spreadsheet format. If you save these as CSV files, it will come out like this:
This contains no spaces, and the above code will not be able to understand it. It will take the whole thing as one item – the first thing, quanity,
$qty, and set the other two fields as blank.
The way around this, is to tell the entire shell, that "," (the comma itself) separates fields; it's the "internal field separator", or IFS.
The IFS variable is set to space/tab/newline, which isn't easy to set in the shell, so it's best to save the original IFS to another variable, so you can put it back again after you've messed around with it. I tend to use "
oIFS=$IFS" to save the current value into "oIFS".
Also, when the IFS variable is set to something other than the default, it can really mess with other code.
Here's a script I wrote today to parse a CSV file:
#!/bin/sh oIFS=$IFS # Always keep the original IFS! IFS="," # Now set it to what we want the "read" loop to use while read qty product customer do IFS=$oIFS # process the information IFS="," # Put it back to the comma, for the loop to go around again done < myfile.txt
It really is that easy, and it's very versatile. You do have to be careful to keep a copy of the original (I always use the name oIFS, but whatever suits you), and to put it back as soon as possible, because so many things invisibly use the IFS – grep, cut, you name it. It's surprising how many things within the "
while read" loop actually did depend on the IFS being the default value.


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By Mr. McMurtry of Dedham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3675) of Paul McMurtry (by vote of the town) that the town of Westwood be authorized to grant special licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [Local Approval Received.]
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Voice Dictation, or just Dictation as Apple calls it, is one of my favorite features of iOS on the iPad. As I've mentioned recently here, I use it more and more and it just keeps getting better. Though Siri may draw more attention, I think dictation is the far more useful feature right now.
If you haven't tried out dictation on the iPad you really should give it a go. It can be much faster than typing at times. Here are a few little tips and some common commands you can use to get even more out of dictation:
Speak slowly and clearly: I know this sounds obvious, but it's an easy one to forget. I find that when I speak too quickly or run my words together I see poor results, as should be expected. When I remember to slow down just a bit and pronounce things clearly I get great results – even when there are low levels of background noise around me (e.g. music or TV playing nearby).
Add punctuation commands as you speak: There are a great number of useful commands that can be used with dictation. Common punctuation is easy to add as you speak. For example you can say "This morning I ate breakfast comma walked the dog comma and took my daughter to school period" – and the result you'll get will be:
This morning I ate breakfast, walked the dog, and took my daughter to school.


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A US appeals court has upheld a decision by the International Trade Commission (ITC) that Apple's iPhone does not infringe a patent owned by Google's Motorola Mobility division.
The protected technology in question was Motorola Mobility's US Patent No. 6,272,333, which describes a "method and apparatus in a wireless communication system for controlling a delivery of data." Drilling into the gobbledegook, it appears to be a system that keeps software installed on devices up to date and thus compatible with the phone network for sending and receiving messages and other information.
Since 2010, Motorola has argued that Apple's iPhone designs infringe upon as many as seven of its patents. Regulators have steadily whittled down that list since then, however, even going as far as to invalidate one of the patents on the grounds that the inventions it described were too obvious.
In the latest US Federal Appeals Court ruling [PDF], issued today, a panel of three circuit judges agreed with the ITC's decision that Motorola hadn't presented enough evidence to support a claim of infringement by Apple.
The decision is the latest victory for Cupertino in its long-running global patent war against Google's Android mobile OS and the handset makers who license it to build smartphones. In November, a jury awarded Apple $929m in damages from Samsung for infringing iPhone-related patents, and Apple has brought a second suit against the South Korean firm that's scheduled to go to trial in March.
Meanwhile, Motorola's attempts to assert its own patents against Apple have borne little fruit. With this latest ruling, all six of Motorola's claims against the fruity firm in the US have been effectively invalidated. What's more, the European Commission ruled last year that Motorola's use of its standards-essential patents in Europe was likely in violation of EU antitrust laws.
Although Motorola's patent offensive against Apple has been underway since at least 2010, Google took on the burden of litigating the cases when it acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn in 2012.
In a statement to Reuters on Friday, Google said, "We're disappointed in this decision and are evaluating our options." Apple, on the other hand, declined to comment. ®
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Maybe It's NOT Me?
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Emotionally Exhausted, Cyncial, High Degree of De-Personalization??ReplyDelete
are you talking about me after the 2011 Auburn Tigers Football Season???
and lets see, National Championships in 1957, 2010, means I'll the next one when I'm...hommina hommina...
102, you know, when President Melena Obama-Sanchez declares Soccer the National Pasttime of Los Unidos Statos of Americos
but hey, I heard that hotshot UGA QB is really lighting up the practice field...
too bad it's in Baton Rouge...
Whoa!!!!!!! Cheap Shot!
- Anonymous8:44 PM, August 23, 2012
You saw this coming some time ago! What a sad state of affairs that even with this article there are bloggers who continue to disparage doctors, their incomes...even going so far as to continue to say they are making too much $. When will people learn? They won't.
- Anonymous9:04 PM, August 23, 2012
911, I always knew it wasn't you.ReplyDelete
It's Frank!
- Anonymous11:42 PM, August 29, 2012
You tend to post with increasingly less frequency. Are you busy with work or just burned out from the medical side of things in general?
A 911 fan
dear anonymous,ReplyDelete
i'm very busy buying guns and building the bunker. actually, i started MDOD as a means to vent and a means to get a doctor's perspective on health care out there. i think i did that for a few years. now i'm out of the game and have no desire to go back. i have no passion for medicine or, more correctly, no anger about it. it was a beautiful and magnificent profession for a long time. i have no desire to chronicle its demise. i am considering closing up shop here, but thank you for your kind comment.
- Anonymous10:15 AM, August 30, 2012
If you choose to do that I understand. I selfishly hope that you will let us know when you might decide not to post any longer. In my family, having had a situation much like yours, it sort of gave some hope to
the ups and downs of all of this, but as you have so aptly noted, medicine is not what it was.
Hey Homo's,ReplyDelete
Same thang happened with my blog,
You remember, "Frankie's Hideout" with the "Ted Kennedy Countdown Clock"(I was off by 4 months), Star Trek TOS episode reviews, and random photos of my wife's shoes,
Late nite,feeling lucky, Mrs. Drackman slinks up to the waterbed...(YES I have a waterbed)...
only to find me furiously typing the review to a 1972 "Marcus Welby MD" episode...
"My God, Man, the man Defibrillates without shouting "Clear!" first, doesn't he know thats an automatic "Fail" on ACLS???
"You can have Me or your blog! not both" She schreeched...
and she didn't even appreciate my Jack Benny-tribute" I'm Thinking about it" re-ply...
But just as a teaser...
Daughter #1 starts Marine Corps Officer Training Tuesday.....
Thats right America, one of my Seed is on the Inside, probably first Bee-Otch, I mean XX Commandant 20 years from now...
Frank "Whats that Smell?" Drackman
- Anonymous11:38 PM, September 01, 2012
Congrats to your daughter.....
- Anonymous10:20 PM, September 28, 2012
is this the end of MDOD?ReplyDelete
I hope not.
I have enjoyed lurking for years....all the way to my cardiology fellowship....
- Richard L. Zizza, MD7:11 PM, October 22, 2012
Where did everyone go?? (crickets....)ReplyDelete
I checked and read the blog every day something new was there. Hope it's not dead yet (sorry for the Monty Python). Will miss all of you if so. Thx....Z
Richard L. Zizza, MD Land O Lakes, FL


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We are looking for support letters for grant funding for three projects in Central Oregon, as follows:
1. Rim Butte Trails- This is a new system project south of Bend, and will have about 17 miles of trail for all classes of OHV. They are seeking a grant to do two staging/camping sites of approximately three (3) acres each. These request includes restrooms, information kiosks, signage, interior and boundary fencing, and gravel roadways.
This is the beginning of getting this new system built and running.
2. Cline Buttes- This project request is to build staging on the north side of Hwy. 126, across from the Barr Road North staging area that is on the south side of the highway. It would include restroom, kiosk, signage, interior and boundary fencing. This will serve the continued development of the trail system north of Hwy. 126. Would also help with some OHV traffic crossing a highway to get from the south area to the north area.
3. Rosland Play Area- This project grant request is to replace old split rail fencing with post and pole fence. The old fence is at the end of it's lifespan. This will enhance safety and appearance of the area. This area is just out of LaPine, OR.
Please sent a letter for each project to Greg Hooper, COHVOPS at: email@example.com
Please have them in to Greg no later that July 23, 2014
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If you're looking for maintenance-free living in a cozy neighborhood, check out Cottage Place.
Built by the Michaels Group in 2005, this 18-home Cohoes subdivision is situated in a lovely suburban section of the city about a mile east of the Colonie town line.
These ranch-style houses are cute, with attached two-car garages, cathedral ceilings, central air, backyard decks and small backyards, most of which are backed by trees. All but one Cottage Place house are on Wertime Court, which balls into a cul-de-sac; the development's former model home is on Cottage Avenue, a short dead-end street with a handful of older homes.
It was quiet here during a recent weekday afternoon visit to the neighborhood. All was still, save for an older homeowner who was out doing a little yardwork on an unseasonably warm day.
The best part about Cottage Place is how easy it is to live there. No one worries about cutting the lawn, shoveling snow, raking leaves or watering the lawn; all of that's included in the monthly $140 homeowners' association fee.
Children living in Cottage Place are enrolled in the Cohoes City School District, attending Harmony Hill School, Cohoes Middle School and Cohoes High School. The district had an enrollment of 2,004 in 2010-11; the high school had 636 students that year.
According to the 2010-11 Report Card on the Schools, 88 percent of students graduating from Cohoes High School earned a Regents diploma.
Cottage Place is bordered by Manor Avenue to the north, Randolph Street and Berkley Park to the south, the Mohawk-Hudson Bikeway path to the east, and Berkley Avenue to the west.
Manor Avenue west becomes state Route 9R (also known as Boght Road) shortly after crossing into Colonie. Route 9R intersects with state Route 9, which runs south to an onramp to Interstate 87. I-87, also known as the Adirondack Northway, runs north to Saratoga Springs and south to Albany; Route 9 also runs north and south.
Manor Avenue east connects with North Mohawk Street, which routes southeast and becomes Mohawk Street as it rolls south through Cohoes. North Mohawk Street continues southeast and becomes New Courtland Street, which turns into state Route 787. Route 787 follows the Hudson River south and intersects with Interstate 787, which leads south to downtown Albany and north to Latham via state Route 7 (also known as Alternate 7).
Shopping and recreation
LePage's Market, a small grocery store and deli, is at the intersection of Manor Avenue and North Mohawk Street. A selection of restaurants, retail and convenience shops and other stores, are in downtown Cohoes.
A Price Chopper is at 240 Congress St.; a Hannaford supermarket is at 9 126th St. in Troy. The Latham Circle Mall, Latham Farms and other shopping centers and shops are along Route 9 in Latham, a short drive away.
The Cohoes Public Library is on Mohawk Street. The Cohoes Music Hall, on Remsen Street, is a 19th century theater renovated in 1974. It is home to C-R Productions, a theater company.
Several city parks are close to Cottage Place.
A section of the Mohawk Towpath Scenic Byway crosses Manor Avenue. The Byway runs along the Mohawk River and parts of the old Erie Canal from Waterford to Schenectady's Stockade section.
Falls View Park, on North Mohawk Street, offers views of the Cohoes Falls. A 192-foot pedestrian bridge leads over the Hudson River to the park, which has overlook areas, access to nearby hiking trails, and an 80-person amphitheater. Overlook Park, at the corner of School Street and Cataract Street, has a picnic area and areas to view the falls.
Berkley Park, off of Bullock Lane, has baseball fields, a playground, tennis courts and a basketball court. Lansing Park, on Bevan Street, has an outdoor pool and a new playground area.
Peebles Island State Park is in Waterford, just north of Van Schaick Island. Visitors can fish, picnic, hike, snowshoe in the park.
A 1,634-square-foot ranch with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and an attached two-car garage at 3 Cottage Ave. is selling for $275,000, according to an online listing by Re/Max Park Place (http://bit.ly/YB3gEf). The listing agent is Sandra Jacobson; her phone number is 858-8083. The Multiple Listing Service number for the property is 201216562.
Built in 2006, the house is a former model home. It has cathedral ceilings, a gas fireplace, a hardwood foyer, a master bath with a soaking tub, stainless steel appliances and upgraded maple kitchen cabinets, a deck, a porch, a sliding glass door, central air, and walk-in closets.
Homeowners pay $23.36 per $1,000 of assessed valuation for Cohoes city and Albany County property taxes; Cohoes assesses property at 56 percent of actual market value. The school property tax rate is $34.03 per $1,000. Water charges are $3.50 per 1,000 gallons; sewer charges are also $3.50 per $1,000 gallons.
Taxes on a home valued at $275,000 are approximately $8,838 annually.
Michael Lisi is a freelance writer from Rotterdam and a frequent contributor to the Times Union.


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Mike - Sallus Health necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 206 diseños de 62 diseñadores freelance.
Sallus Health
We are a medical benefits company providing discounted health plans. Our approach is different then our competitions in that our mission is to provide actual quality healthcare, and follow up with our customers ensuring this occured, for a cheap price.
We are targeting both people who cannot afford traditional insurance, as well as those who may use the product along side of insurance.
The logo must have the words "Sallus" & "Health" in it. The focus may be on the word "Sallus" itself, but "health" must be in there as well. We would like to see options for both a logo that is comprised solely of the typography of "Sallus Health" as well as options that include an actual icon for the logo.
Note: Please stay away from the generic icons such as a globe, swoosh, etc. We are looking for something that is unique to us that we can "own" as a brand.
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Monday, June 18, 2012
celebration of great men
14 comments:
- Sogni Siciliani said...
Great guy.... he certainly deserves to be surrounded by beautiful women!!! Glad he had a great day!!!
- 10:17 AM, June 18, 2012
- Kelli said...
Awesome...just awesome!
- 10:25 AM, June 18, 2012
- Susan R said...
Love this. The photos are wonderful...as usual.
- 10:53 AM, June 18, 2012
- Lemonade Makin' Mama said...
Wow!! he surely deserves a great Father's day. :)
You have to help me girl. I need new jeans and you always look so darling in yours... hElP!! (You're looking fantastic by the way!!)
- 10:57 AM, June 18, 2012
- Alecia said...
Such a sweet post...the coral shorts look great on Dan! You all are a beautiful couple and the pic with the girls lovin' on Dan is just PRECIOUS!!! Happy Father's Day & Adoption Day to your sweet fam!
- 11:06 AM, June 18, 2012
- chrissiwithab said...
lovely post and as always the photos are wonderful. when you and "miss pearls and grace" get together to do a book with prose and photos, i am in line. you two just amaze me.
- 12:45 PM, June 18, 2012
- Between You and Me said...
those last pictures of Dan with all the girls around him might be my most favorite that you've ever shown us.
You look beautiful, friend!!! LOVING that shirt...details please.
- 4:54 PM, June 18, 2012
- Lissa said...
You wrote all of these lovely words about serving Jesus and godly men and all I could think about is how cute y'all look in your sundresses and how jealous I am cuz our weather here stinks! If you see my photos of me wearing a sundress it's just because I'm trying really hard to have summer but we have 11 days of record lows so far... ugh!
- 6:55 PM, June 18, 2012
- Debby said...
Love the beautiful pictures. So much beauty inside and out. What an amazing father he is. I just love your family.
- 9:06 PM, June 18, 2012
- All Things Cherish said...
What a sweet, sweet post!
- 10:53 PM, June 18, 2012
- 3 Peanuts said...
So sweet. I know Dan is a gem. You can tell. I am not sure Dave could hold up in a family of all girls!!!
LOVE the clothes you gave him. They are very preppy and cute.
- 10:09 AM, June 19, 2012
- Jodi said...
What a great post! Your sweet hunny is truely a gem; he just seems to go with the flow! :) I am not sure my hunny could easily flow with a house full of girls, although he does, just not as many. lol :)
I love seeing a pic of your Dad! I don't think in all the years of following your blog, I have seen a pic of your Mom or Dad! :) He looks like a great Dad! :) Father's Day is always bittersweet for me. I lost my Dad when I was 18 to cancer, even though I miss him terribly and would love to have him here, I know he is in a wonderful place right now with no pain.
Great tribute to the Fathers, Paige!
- 9:56 PM, June 19, 2012
- Jen Kershner said...
What a beautiful tribute to the wonderful men in your life. That Dan is a keeper for sure.
- 3:02 AM, June 20, 2012
- Jenn A said...
You are so blessed!! I love to read about your beautiful family. Do you ever share marriage tips, advice, experience? Especially with regards to being a Godly wife. I always feel like I have so far to go...
- 11:11 PM, June 22, 2012


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Hong Kong's finance chief predicted the southern Chinese financial city will have a modest economic recovery in 2013 as he Wednesday unveiled measures to boost growth and bolster employment in his latest budget.
Financial Secretary John Tsang said it will be a "challenging year" for Hong Kong, an Asian financial center that is highly dependent on trade.
He cited factors including the "slow" economic recovery in the U.S., European economies mired in recession and uncertainty over the effectiveness of the Japanese government's stimulus measures.
"The intricate external environment will remain unstable in the year ahead," Tsang told lawmakers. "The whole world will have to face wars on three fronts, namely `currency', `trade' and `geopolitics.' As a highly open and small economy, Hong Kong will be impacted by the development of these wars to a certain extent."
Tsang forecast a "modest improvement" for Hong Kong's economy in 2013 with growth between 1.5 percent and 3.5 percent, after it scraped out a 1.4 percent expansion last year. Last year's growth was the slowest since 2009 and well below the 10-year average of 4.5 percent.
On a quarterly basis, growth rose to 2.5 percent in the final three months of 2012, the fastest rate in a year.
Hong Kong is a former British colony that became a semiautonomous region of China 15 years ago. Its economy has flourished because of open markets and a busy port handling a big share of goods from China, but those factors also leave it highly vulnerable to the fluctuations of global trade.
Tsang announced measures to boost key industries including financial services, tourism and trade logistics. They ranged from incentives to attract private equity and hedge funds to lending 2.3 billion Hong Kong dollars ($300 million) to the Ocean Park theme park to build an expansion.
Tsang also outlined $33 billion Hong Kong dollars ($4.2 billion) in relief measures to ease pressure on the middle and working classes and small businesses, an attempt to narrow a widening rich-poor gap that has been the source of much public discontent. The anger was highlighted by protesters outside the legislature, including one dressed as a Chinese God of Wealth, who demanded the financial secretary set up a universal retirement protection scheme for the elderly. Tsang's speech was also interrupted twice by radical lawmakers.
The financial secretary said middle-class Hong Kongers had "expressed to me the heavy burden they have to bear in coping with expenses on rent, medical care, support for their parents, children's education, etc." He did "agree" they should get some support but added "it is impracticable for the government to respond to each and every demand."


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I love research. One of the highlights of my morning is going through my e-mail looking for the daily health and fitness reports and reading up on the latest research in the industry. I'm one of those nerds that constantly forwards the latest studies on topics of interest to my circle of friends and family. It's all about helping people to live a healthier and happier life. That's especially important this month as we celebrate National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
However, one thing about research is that it is constantly changing. Recently, it seems the contradicting studies have popped up more frequently than normal. For example, last year the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that obesity and overweight killed 400,000 Americans per year almost catching up with smoking, which kills 435,000 Americans each year. However, the National Center for Health Statistics, which is a part of the CDC, recently released a report that stated that obesity caused 75 percent fewer deaths than originally reported — 112,000 deaths in 2000.
Either number is startling, but that hasn't stopped one consumer group from using the new figure for its own good. Recently, the Center for Consumer Freedom, a group backed by the U.S. food and restaurant industry, launched an ad campaign using these revised numbers to combat the bad publicity they've received about their industry's contributions to the obesity problem. The ads call the talk of an obesity epidemic a bunch of "hype."
It doesn't matter whether the number is 112,000 or 400,000; the issue is that the number is growing, and we as fitness industry professionals must reach out to these people before the number grows even further. And it doesn't help our cause when dissension exists within the industry about what is healthy. A Reuters story quoted Tim Church of the Cooper Institute as saying that fitness is about behavior not weight. However, Dr. Bob Eckel with the American Heart Association disagreed. And so did a study from the University of Colorado at Boulder. That recent study found that being overweight is a risk factor even if the person can demonstrate that he or she is fit — disputing the idea that "it's okay to be fat if you're fit."
To add to the confusion, one recent study found that being a little overweight is healthier than being at target weight, but another study in the New England Journal of Medicine said that obesity was lowering life spans by four to nine months.
The overweight public may become so frustrated by all these conflicting reports that they'll give up on the idea of ever being healthier, or they'll decide that exercise won't matter because science will save them from their unhealthy habits in the end — especially if they've read recent news articles in which health experts have said that better medicine is helping the obese live longer.
I wish I could forward the helpful health studies to the inboxes of every American each day and block out the studies that could cause them despair or disregard for their current health status. However, I can't, and neither can you, but you can reach out to your members, most of whom know that your level of health and fitness knowledge is more extensive than theirs. Because of that, they trust you and the information you give them. If you can weed out the hype and the bad studies, you can keep your members motivated and their confusion to a minimum.


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So I want to know from someone who actually has a job programming or has had, what a realistic salary for a java programmer is?
I'm in college now and I'm concerned about what my future holds. I can switch to pharmacy which can gurantee to make some good money. I've looked on google and see the average but i want to know what it's like first hand to program and if it's worth it for the money.


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Award winning author, L. C. Hayden's real name is Elsie Hayden. How she ended up with the pen name is an amusing story. When you see the author, make sure you ask her. Hayden loves writing mysteries, inspirational books, and children's picture books, although she's written other genres.
She is also a popular speaker who has done presentations all over the world. Book her now for your special event.
She currently has three mystery series going: the Harry Bronson, the Aimme Brent, and the Connie Weaver series. The books have been finalist for the Agatha Award, the Left Coast Crimes Awards, Best of the Best Award, and others. They have hit the Barnes and Noble and the Kindle Best Seller Lists and was listed as Pennsylvania's Top 40 Books .
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This article covers several useful WordPress traffic builder plugins. The most important aspect of owning a website is the amount of visitors you receive. I'm referring to your website's traffic, which can be very hard to generate in the beginning stages. It's essential that you track your website's traffic to see where you're at.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) deals with optimizing your site to increase incoming traffic to it. It is a skill that takes a lot of effort and patience to master. Here are 10 common SEO mistakes that can destroy your website (and 10 more here). You can manage your SEO online with free tools as well.
Here is a list of 10 WordPress traffic builder plugins that work. Installing these to your blog should help you get off to a good start with your SEO.
1-3. All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, SEO Friendly Images
The first 3 plugins on this list were featured in an article that Karl wrote back in December called 3 WordPress Plugins To Automate & Improve Your Blog SEO. They were All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, and SEO Friendly Images. If you haven't already, I suggest you try them out—they really work.
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text: Foodstuffs Max 120 Barkers Denim 111 Best Design Awards 110 Ecoya Limited Edition 18 MedCan 18 Nike 126 Ecoya Christmas 18 Foodstuffs 19 Lumo 18 Ecoya 115 PrimePanels 111 MINI 19 NZIA 16 Argenta 112 Shade Elements 15 Barkers 114 Print Monkey 16 Studio Farquhar 16 Mondiale 19 CreativeTech 16 W+F 14 Foodstuffs We are Switch, an Auckland-based design studio working with small start-ups and established international brands from fashion and beauty to innovation and manufacturing. For us, design shouldn't simply window-dress a solution but instead create something that becomes an intrinsic part of our clients' businesses and with lasting value. 18/13 Coles Ave Mt Eden, Auckland. ph email@example.com For over 20 years Switch has been producing effective design solutions that are both unique and appropriate for small start-ups to established international brands in a variety of business sectors. Whether it be a brand launch, identity refresh or a targeted consumer experience, we approach every design problem with the same belief. For us, design is not an insular process but a partnership and one that is built upon being open, collaborative and honest. Our successes have proven this approach to be a rewarding one, producing design that hasn't simply window-dressed a solution but instead created something that's become an intrinsic part of our clients' businesses with lasting value. From fashion and beauty to innovation and manufacturing, Switch is a brand-focussed studio gathering insights and experience in business sectors that are constantly evolving. This has allowed us to create brand experiences in a variety of platforms and channels by persistently seeking out the most effective output for any given design challenge. By doing so, the brand remains central to our thinking and at the heart of everything we do. Our services—art direction, brand identity, design for print, design for publishing, design for retail, environmental design, exhibition design, film & motion direction, naming, packaging design, strategy, UX/UI design, wayfinding & web design. Awards We measure success by our own standards but now and then a little recognition from others reaffirms how we and our clients feel about the work. Best Awards 2018 Bronze, Colour Award Ecoya Best Awards 2015 Purple Pin, Best Effect Barkers Brand Best Awards 2015 Silver, Environmental Graphics Nike Air Max Day Best Awards 2015 Bronze, Exhibitions & Temporary Spaces Nike Air Max Day Best Awards 2014Gold Pin, Exhibitions & Temporary SpacesNike Lab Best Awards 2013Bronze, Exhibitions & Temporary SpacesMini x Switch Best Awards 2012Gold Pin, Retail EnvironmentsPlatinum Sports Co. Interior Awards 2012Category Winner, Retail SpacesPlatinum Sports Co. Newsletter From time to time we share projects we have been working on so if you would like to join the mailing list please fill in the form below. ⟶


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The Houston Dynamo Academy U-16 team advanced to the semifinals of the Dallas Cup by beating Solar SC on penalty kicks Friday afternoon at the Pizza Hut Park complex. The Dynamo will face Texas Football Club Saturday morning at 10 a.m. in one semifinal, while Mexican club Monterrey will face Santa Clara Sporting in the other semifinal. The winners will meet in the U-16 final on Sunday at 10 a.m. on the stadium field at Pizza Hut Park.
The Dynamo had advanced as Group D winners on goal differential with a 2-1 record; Solar also went 2-1 and advanced as Group E winner. In Friday's game, Houston struggled in the first half but picked up its game in the second half and missed several good chances to take the lead, according to Dynamo Director of Youth Development James Clarkson.
In the shootout, Houston got goals from Leo Ayala (Houston Sharpstown), Bradley Bourgeois (Cy-Fair), and Manuel Chavez (Cy Springs) and a save from goalkeeper Juan Navarrete to take a 3-2 lead. After a Dynamo miss, Navarrete made a second stop in the fourth round of the shootout, and Isaiah Noreiga (Humble Kingwood Park) converted his shot to put Houston through to the semifinals.
"I am very happy for the boys," Clarkson said. "We need to see the same amount of character in tomorrow's semifinal."
The Dynamo organization's other representative in the Dallas Cup, the Dynamo South Texas Academy, lost its quarterfinal in the U-19 age bracket by a 2-0 score against California's LAFC. With a young squad and several players still playing in the UIL 5A playoffs for Mission Sharyland, the DSTA played well and missed several good chances, Clarkson said.


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Welcome To The Official Web Site of the Pacific Northwest Region of Babe Ruth Baseball
The Babe Ruth Baseball / Softball program, using regulation competitive baseball and softball rules, teaches skills, mental and physical development, a respect for the rules of the game, and basic ideals of sportsmanship and fair play. In all aspects, Babe Ruth League, Inc. is committed to providing our participants the very best educational, sports experience possible. It is our fundamental belief that every child with a desire to play baseball or softball be afforded that opportunity.
Putting Kids First!
Above all else, Babe Ruth League, Inc. PUTS KIDS FIRST. Babe Ruth is an educational program using the playing of the game of baseball as an opportunity to identify and teach sportsmanship, fair play, and to promote the physical and mental development of each player. In adopting rules, in establishing standards, and in ALL planning, our primary consideration is what's best for our youth.
Click on the Babe Ruth logo below to go the official Babe Ruth League website.


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Friday Shorts – MLB 2K11 perfect game, FF Type-0 voices, Far Cry sale
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Good sports - MLB 2K11 and Top Spin 4 demos hit Live
Nelson's sent word that both the MLB 2K11 and Top Spin 4 demos are now available on Live. The baseball taster allows you to play a three-inning game with the San Francisco Giants and Texas Rangers at AT&T Park, while tennis demo lets you take a tie-break match to seven points. Both games ship in […]
Quick shots - MLB 2K11 compared to last year's offering
2K Sports is apparently pretty proud of the progress MLB 2K11 has made over the previous year's entry – and that pride may well be justified. Hit the break for a handful of side-by-side comparisons.
MLB 2K11 trailer boasts the "perfect game"
The attraction of virtual sports for me is correcting history. To go back and win the key match that doomed the season. To make the play that your star player fumbled. To ensure those legendary perfect games – every game.The latest trailer for MLB 2K11 plugs right into that die-hard-fan section of the brain. Check […]
2K Sports brings back $1M perfect game contest with MLB 2K11
2K has decided to bring back the contest it held last year with MLB 2K 10 where the first person to throw a perfect game wins $1 million.


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Tuscan Grilled Whole Turkey
Yield: 15 -20 Servings
For the Brine
1 1/2 Gallons Water
1 Cup Packed Light Brown Sugar
1 Cup Kosher Salt
3 Tbsp. Hartz Seafood & Poultry Seasoning
1 Bunch Fresh Thyme
1 Bunch Fresh Rosemary
6 each Garlic Cloves – Sliced
4 each Lemons – zest (reserve the zested lemons for below)
For the Turkey
1 each Whole Turkey (15 to 20 Pounds) – Giblets Removed
1 Bunch Fresh Thyme
1 Bunch Fresh Rosemary
1 each Yellow Onion – Chopped
10 each Garlic Cloves
4 each Lemons from above (1 cut into 8 chunks, 3 cut in half)
2 Tbsp. Olive Oil
1 Tbsp. Black Pepper
3 Tbsp. Hartz Seafood & Poultry Seasoning
- Combine the water, brown sugar, salt, and the 3 Tbsp. Hartz Seafood & Poultry Seasoning in a large pot. Bring to a boil then remove from heat.
- Add the 1 bunch of thyme, 1 bunch of rosemary, 6 garlic cloves sliced, and the zest from the 4 lemons.
- Mix well and chill completely.
- Once the brine is cold, add the turkey and brine for about 10 to 12 hours.
- Remove the turkey, rinse off and pat dry.
- Light a charcoal BBQ. (You can use a gas BBQ, just prepare it to cook indirectly)
- Stuff the turkey with the 1 bunch of thyme, 1 bunch of rosemary, yellow onion, garlic cloves, and the lemon chunks.
- Drizzle the chicken with olive oil and sprinkle the 1 Tbsp. black pepper and 3 Tbsp. Hartz Seafood & Poultry Seasoning all over.
- When the coals are hot, arrange them on either end of the BBQ to cook indirectly.
- Place the turkey breast side down for 1 hour.
- Flip the turkey over so the breast side is up and drizzle with one of the lemons that are cut in half.
- Cook for about an hour more or until the internal temperature is 160 degrees F.
- Remove the turkey from the grill, drizzle with another lemon, then cover with foil and allow to rest for about an hour.
- Cut the turkey off the bone and place on a platter, squeeze the last lemon over it and serve.


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A mentally ill man is on trial on charges of murdering a psychotherapist with a meat cleaver in her Manhattan office.
Jury selection began Monday. It's prosecutors' second effort at trying David Tarloff.
Jury selection was under way in 2010 when Tarloff began behaving strangely and was declared unfit for court.
Tarloff's lawyers don't dispute that he killed Kathryn Faughey (FAW'-hee) in 2008. But they argue that his schizophrenia made him unable to understand that what he was doing was wrong.
Prosecutors and Faughey's family say Tarloff carried out a considered, criminal plan.
Tarloff has said he aimed to rob Faughey's officemate to get money to whisk his mother out of a nursing home and escape with her to Hawaii.
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SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake are nearing the end of their marathon 14-game, 56-day run that started back on Aug. 7. This past week's games – a 3-2 win over Árabe Unido in Panama and a 1-1 draw against the Colorado Rapids at home – represented games 11 and 12 of that stretch.
The defending champs have a quick turnaround with a Tuesday evening Champions League matchup in Toronto before heading to New England for a league game against the Revolution.
Weary Legs
Although the team continues to play at a remarkably high level, and is scraping by with results, those who follow Real Salt Lake closely can't help but notice that the schedule is catching up with them. They don't have quite the spring in their step that they had back in May, June and July.
If they can survive this week, though, the schedule becomes more or less normal for the remaining four weeks of the season.
The Streak Goes On
Real Salt Lake's home unbeaten streak was preserved with a stoppage-time goal that defender Nat Borchers headed past Colorado 'keeper Matt Pickens. The goal pushed the streak to 24 league games, and to 30 games in all competitions.
Unfortunately, the shutout streak did not survive. At 568 minutes, though, it did last long enough to eclipse the third-longest streak in league history, beating the streak that RSL had earlier this year by one minute.
Nick Rimando's personal shutout streak continues on at 429 minutes, as he was not in net against the Rapids.
Borchers' Prowess, on Both Ends
Nat Borchers was the unlikely hero on Saturday. While his 93rd-minute goal on a reverse header while running toward the net was impressive, his goal-stopping antics in this match have been overlooked. He made a crucial play just moments before, heading a ball away at the last second from Conor Casey, who was licking his chops at the empty net just a few yards in front of him.
Teammate Pablo Campos good-naturedly quipped that Borchers was stopping balls on both ends. Earlier in the second half, Campos struck a ball that looked to be headed for the net only to have Borchers leg get in the way as the defender tried to contort his body to avoid the contact.
Youngsters Step Up, Again
After a quality performance in Panama by rookie Chris Schuler, RSL saw another couple of young players step up for a big outing for the squad.
"[The result was rewarding] especially when you play two young players in what are arguably the most critical positions in Jean [Alexandre] and Collen [Warner]," head coach Jason Kreis said after the game.
"Especially Jean, last few weeks for me has been fantastic in training, and it's probably unfortunate that he's behind the captain [Kyle Beckerman] in the rotation."
After the dust settled, Real Salt Lake are still left looking for answers following the confusion of a handball call that was later reversed, and ended up being a drop-ball situation just to the left of the Colorado goal.
"He just didn't have his best game," Kreis said of referee Ramon Hernandez. "He's a decent referee. I've seen him referee before when I thought he was really sharp and managed the game well. I don't think it was his best night tonight.
"Not sure how you'd make a penalty call like that and then change your mind. It's honestly puzzling to me. I honestly don't know the answer. I don't know what the penalty was for, never got that answer."


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The V8 BlinkOn talks are embedded below.
Real-world JavaScript Performance
Length: 31:41
Outlines the history of how V8 measures JavaScript performance, the different eras of benchmarking, and a new technique to measure page loads across real-world, popular websites with detailed breakdowns of time per V8 component.
Ignition: an interpreter for V8
Length: 36:39
Introduces V8's new Ignition Interpreter, explaining the architecture of the engine as a whole, and how Ignition affects memory usage and startup performance.
How we measure and optimize for RAIL in V8's GC
Length: 27:11
Explains how V8 uses the Response, Animation, Idle, Loading (RAIL) metrics to target low-latency garbage collection and the recent optimizations we've made to reduce jank on mobile.
ECMAScript 2015 and Beyond
Length: 28:52
Provides an update on the implementation of new language features in V8, how those features integrate with the web platform, and the standards process which continues to evolve the ECMAScript language.
Tracing Wrappers from V8 to Blink (Lightning Talk)
Length: 2:31
Highlights tracing wrappers between V8 and Blink objects and how they help prevent memory leaks and reduce latency.