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1.2.0 Make Open Data, Content, and Web APIs the New Default
Due: August 30, 2014
Status: In Progress
USDA is working to develop, implement, and institutionalize a OneUSDA Digital Strategy that will continuously assess the improvement of digital services and systems that are information- and customer-centric. To ensure open data, content and web APIs are the new default, we will collaborate among the data, platform, and presentation layers to coordinate Digital Strategy activities across agency and functional lines, including IT, web and communication subject matter experts. As such, the Office of Communications Web Communication Division, Office of the Chief Information Officer, as well as Agency web, communication and program offices make up the Departments digital strategy ecosystem.
The OneUSDA Digital Strategy will:
- Ensure that data is open, accurate, clearly described, structured, machine-readable, and digital services are optimized for mobile use.
- Establish more agile acquisition and budget processes that support the procurement and management of digital technologies.
- Develop additional guidance through policy to address open data, digital signatures, performance and customer satisfaction measurement, and mobile optimization.
- Refine and expand the use of enterprise data taxonomy to standardize commonly used data for business intelligence purposes.
- Develop open data strategy that addresses the framework for sharing critical information at key decision points throughout the entirety of the enterprise.
- Identify, prioritize, and modernize existing data that are not currently available to the public.
- Deploy a virtual dynamic inventory of open data at usda.gov/data, populated by digital agency data inventories.
- Deploy a virtual enterprise geospatial reference repository to promote data quality with metadata best practices, templates, conventions, and other USDA branding standards.
- Provide guidance and training to data SMEs to develop web APIs, structure unstructured content or information, and to incorporate customer feedback for product improvements.
To ensure future information systems and services comply with the Federal Digital Strategy and Open Data Policy (M-13-13, May 9, 2013) and to modernize existing systems to leverage APIs, USDA will integrate digital strategy and open data requirements and guidance to existing processes and workflows. As such, USDA Office of the Chief Information Officer Technology, Planning, Architecture, and Electronic Government (TPA&E) division will examine and validate the following areas to ensure they include a digital strategy component for open data and interoperability and address the open data requirements:
- Acquisition Approval Request (AAR) - The Office of Communications (OC) will evaluate requests to ensure alignment with Digital Government Strategy principles and USDA's overarching strategy.
- Capital Planning and Investment Control reviews.
- IT Governance Process life cycle reviews - OC will ensure alignment with Digital Government Strategy components including, open data and mobile optimization, at various review gates throughout project life cycles.
- Enterprise Roadmap - Digital Government Strategy requirements and principles will be reflected in the Department's enterprise architecture and align the work of all IT, content and policy division.
USDA will ensure that all new information collection, creation, and system development efforts will be done in a way that supports downstream interoperability between information systems and distribution of information with our customers. This includes using machine-readable and open formats, data standards, information stewardship and common metadata.
Data Stewardship Working Group (DSWG) members will coordinate these activities within their agencies to ensure application of reusable and common standards, and will ensure data stewardship accountability. Data will be managed as complete and current enterprise assets, and all data are included in the scope of this function.
1.2.4.The summary of the Open Data schedule
Over the past several months, the USDA has focused its Open Data efforts on establishing a framework to enhance, enrich, and open, to the extent practicable, its Enterprise Data Inventory (EDI) and to ensure the Department and its component Agencies are prepared to identify,
correctly document, and submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on November 30, 2014 a comprehensive EDI. In so doing, the USDA has already achieved several internal milestones that lay the groundwork for the Department's future Open Data efforts and position the USDA to meet OMB's Open Data requirements. The following milestones are among the Department's recent Open Data achievements:
- Creation of an Open Data Council (ODC): The Open Data Council is composed of Executive Leadership from the Department and its Agencies, and is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Federal Agency requirements outlined in the President's Open Data Policy, as expressed in OMB Memorandum-13-13, Open Data Policy - Managing Information as an Asset, along with all subsequent supplemental guidance.
- Creation of an Open Data Working Group (ODWG): The Open Data Working Group is composed of senior members from the USDA's Office of the Chief Information Officer. The ODWG is primarily responsible for drafting and disseminating guidance to Agency Data Stewards, and for developing strategic and tactical implementation plans for the Department's Open Data effort.
- Creation of an Open Data Policy Strategic Plan: The USDA's Open Data Policy Strategic Plan initiates the Open Data Policy for the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) by providing recommendations for coordinating and collectively responding to the mandates and milestones described in the Open Data Cross Agency Priority (CAP) Goal Establishment draft document and to other OMB related documentation in a structured and timely manner.
- Creation of an Open Data Communications Plan (PDF, 206 KB): The purpose of the Open Data Policy (ODP) Communications Plan is to convey to USDA administrators, managers, technical executives, and data providers the value of making USDA information resources widely accessible, discoverable, and usable by Federal government agencies and by the general public.
- Creation of an MS Project Master Project Schedule for Open Data: The Department's Open Data master schedule outlines the Department's initial approach to implementing the goals and objectives identified in its Open Data Policy Strategic Plan. The master schedule provides project milestones as well as a high-level overview of the USDA's process for providing monthly and quarterly updates to its EDI.
- Creation of an USDA.gov/data page: The USDA.gov/data page lists all of the Department's datasets by its component agencies. The USDA.gov/data page will be updated in the future based on Department directives and customer feedback.
- Creation of an Open Data Blog: Ms. Joyce Hunter, the USDA's Deputy CIO for Policy and Planning, drafted and posted the ?New Frontiers of Food Safety? blog. The specifically focused was on the first time published Salmonella and Campylobacter. This is part of the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) dedication in reducing Salmonella as seen by the Salmonella Action Plan. Citizens can realize Open Data initiative. Over the next year, USDA staff and leadership will periodically update the blog, which is intended to facilitate the USDA's customer engagement and outreach efforts.
- Update to USDA Digital Strategy: The updated USDA Digital Strategy page now includes additional information about the USDA's on-going Open Data efforts.
Following the USDA's November 29, 2013 Open Data submission to OMB, the Open Data Working Group, Open Data Council, and Executive leadership will convene to flesh out the details of its Open Data publication process as well as discuss the development of a USDA-specific Open Data Policy, standards, and outreach efforts. Following the meeting, the Open Data Council, championed by USDA Executive sponsors, will work with Agency CIOs to prioritize and oversee updates to the Department's EDI. In addition, the Open Data Working Group, in close collaboration with the Data Stewardship Working Group, will meet regularly to ensure the successful execution of the Department's Open Data priorities, such as ensuring the Department is providing monthly updates to its EDI and properly accounting for its inventory.
1.2.5. The summary of the Open Data milestones
Milestone 1 - Expand and Open EDI
February 28, 2014
The USDA will initially focus on expanding and opening its Enterprise Data Inventory. To this end,
the Open Data Council, in collaboration with Agency CIOs, Data Stewards, and the Open Data Working Group (ODWG), will continue to work with the USDA's Privacy Officers to identify, prioritize and submit additional public, non-public, and restricted-public datasets to the Department. In addition, the ODC and ODWG will continue the development of an Open Data process and guidance that expedite the publication of its datasets in the future. At the end of Q1, the USDA will submit an updated EDI to OMB.
Milestone 2 - Enrich EDI and Public Datasets
May 31, 2014
Over the second quarter, from February 28 to May 31, the USDA and its component agencies will continue to input into its EDI additional datasets. The Department will also continue to collaborate with its Data Stewards to update its customer feedback and outreach efforts. At the end of Q2, the USDA will submit an updated EDI to OMB.
USDA continues to expand its EDI each quarter. USDA's EDI now consists of 767 datasets and 83 Applications Programmable Interfaces (APIs), with 613 that are releasable to the public and 154 non releasable. USDA continues to improve its data quality by updating the metadata for the datasets each quarter. In November 2015, 38 datasets were revised.
Milestone 3 - Expand, Enrich, and Open EDI
August 30, 2014
In the third quarter of the Open Data effort, the USDA will review and analyze its current dataset inventory, publication process, and customer feedback mechanisms. The results of the analysis will inform whether the Department needs to adjust its Open Data strategy and will help the Department prioritize the submission and release of its datasets in Q4. At the end of Q3, the USDA will submit an updated EDI to OMB.
Customer Feedback
USDA has developed a Customer Engagement and Feedback Plan (PDF, 117 KB)
USDA has several lines of communication open for sharing, conversation, and questions on a range of topics.
Blog: USDA has published several blog posts related to Open Data Policy activities where the public can submit comment or ask questions.
Hackathons: USDA has participated in several hackathons through 2015. The hackathons were held in Chicago, Baltimore, Raleigh North Carolina and Wilmington, North Carolina. For 2016, USDA is planning to support an Earth Day Hackathon sponsored by GSA, and a Bayes Impact Hackathon which will be held in San Francisco.
Supporting Application Developers: USDA has been and is currently involved with coordinating with several application development organization. These include Propel, Code For America, and mRelief.
GitHub: Developers can provide feedback to USDA using the Issue Tracker to ask questions or make suggestions for improvement. When comments are submitted, USDA distributes the query to the relevant agency or program for response or action.
USDA and agency Twitter accounts often share digital and open data related content, which remains an open platform to monitor and solicit customer feedback.
Other social media channels are available for outreach, conversation, and feedback, including Google+?and Facebook.
Milestone 4 - Perform Quality Assurance and Submit Complete EDI to OMB
November 1, 2014 (completion)
Over the fourth quarter of the Open Data initiative, the USDA will work with its agencies to verify and validate its EDI is complete and accurate. At the end of the quarter, USDA will submit its complete EDI to OMB.
1.2.7. USDA Public Dataset Publication Process
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) implemented a four step data publication process.* This multi-step dataset review process involves multiple internal stakeholders such as Data Stewards, Chief Information Officers, Privacy Officers, agency legal staff, and Information Security System Program Managers, Records Managers, and Controlled Unclassified Information managers. The purpose of this multi-perspective approach is to ensure that datasets are adequately reviewed and approved prior to release.
USDA continues to improve its data collection and publishing processes. USDA is in the process of automating its dataset review process. To software applications has been assessed and a third is being considered.
Read the full document (PDF, 481 KB)
2.1.0 Engage with Customers to Identify High-Value Data and Content to Make Available through Web APIs
Due: August 23, 2012
Status: Completed
2.1.1 Customer Engagement Approach
To engage with internal and external customers, we will use our integrated communications platform to offer various opportunities for input and engagement. Given USDA's broad mission and diverse range of customers, agencies will maintain open lines of communication with stakeholders.
As USDA's Digital Strategy implementation continues, check back often for new opportunities for collaboration through USDA.gov/open, social media activities like our monthly #AskUSDA chats, and updates from the USDA Blog.
2.1.2 Prioritized List of Systems (datasets)
Due: August 23, 2012
Status: Completed
|System Name
|System Description
|Main Customers
|National Farmers Market Directory
|AMS produced directory containing information about U.S. farmers market locations, directions, operating times, product offerings, and accepted forms of payment. Supports local and regional food systems, as well as development of local economies.
Farmers Market Directory API
|Consumers, Government, Producers
|ERS Web Content and Charts of Note
|Highlights from our current and past research currently provided in daily Charts of Note available via Web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces, a system of machine-to-machine interactions over a network), and an embeddable widget code. Access the ERS APIs on their developer page and grab the code for an easy Charts of Note widget.
|Policymakers, Program managers, Media, Researchers, Education Institutions
2.2 Completed
Visit USDA's Developer Resources page to find and access featured data or web services from the Department's agencies and mission areas. This page will be updated as agencies make available new developer tools and data resources, so be sure to check back often. Do you have feedback, ideas, or questions for USDA APIs? Use the USDA GitHub repository's Issue Tracker to join the discussion.
4.2.0 Establish USDA Digital Strategy Governance
Due: November 23, 2012
Status: Completed
USDA will utilize existing crosscutting teams and resources to collaboratively manage Digital Strategy activities throughout the Department. To clearly articulate the overarching framework and approach, as well as detail broad roles and responsibilities, USDA cleared and published Departmental Regulation 1496-001 (11/21/12) Digital Strategy Governance.
This Regulation addresses the partnership between the Office of Communications (OC) and Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), as well as agency web, information technology and public affairs professionals who all have a role to play in ensuring the success of USDA's Digital Strategy implementation.
The policy addresses the presentation, platform, information and security layers and associated agency or program teams and subject matter experts. This collaborative relationship is key to USDA's digital communication activities to ensure that we are delivering high-value services and systems in the most efficient, relevant and cost-effective manner to our internal and external customers.
OC and OCIO will work together when reviewing digital service project requests to ensure the activity aligns with the Department's strategic priorities and fully addresses the needs of the customer.
The entities involved in discussing trends, submitting project proposals and implementing digital strategy objectives include:
Information Priorities Investments Council
Chief Information Officer Council
Agency Webmasters
Public Affairs Directors
Link to Governance Document: Departmental Regulation.
5.2.0 Establish USDA inventory of Mobile Devices and Wireless Service Contracts
Due: November 23, 2012
Status: Completed
|Agencies and Offices
|Device Inventory Status
|Contract Inventory Status
|Bureau Code (PDF, 263 KB)
|Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
|Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
|Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
|Economic Research Service (ERS)
|Farm Service Agency (FSA)
|Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
|Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
|Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
|Forest Service (FS)
|Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA)
|National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
|National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
|Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
|Risk Management Agency (RMA)
|Rural Development (RD)
|Departmental Management (DM)
|National Appeals Division (NAD)
|Office of the Chief Economist (OCE)
|Office of Communications (OC)
|Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
|Office of the General Counsel (OGC)
We have completed a majority of the contract inventory for each agency, but will complete within the next quarter.
5.3.0 Evaluate Government-wide Vehicles in Alternative Analysis for New Mobile-Related Procurements
Due: August 30, 2014
Status: In Progress
6.3.0 Ensure all New Digital Services Follow Improvement Guidelines
Due: Within 6 months of release of improvement guidance
Status: Completed
USDA is working to develop, implement, and institutionalize a OneUSDA Digital Strategy that will continuously assess the improvement of digital services and systems that are information- and customer-centric. To ensure open data, content and web APIs are the new default, we will collaborate among the data, platform, and presentation layers to coordinate Digital Strategy activities across agency and functional lines, including IT, web and communication subject matter experts.
USDA has developed a USDA FITARA Common Baseline Implementation Plan (PDF, 964 KB) that incorporates an Integrated Governance Framework and provides the executive teams with a process for reviewing investments and providing guidance to investment managers throughout a project's life cycle. Projects will be reviewed to ensure alignment with digital strategy guidelines.
As a member of the Executive Information Technology Investment Review Board (E-Board), the Office of Communications and Digital Strategy Lead will ensure major IT capital investments follow digital service guidelines through the entire lifecycle process, and ensure that the investment goal and strategy are optimal for achieving USDA's mission.
USDA is fully embracing this new mobile paradigm shift, and is mobilizing our business, transforming our organizations, and modernizing our technical infrastructures to meet the significant opportunities as well as challenges that mobility brings to the work place. As the adoption and use of mobile devices are accelerating within our department and customer base, USDA is staying on the forefront of both the business requirements as well as technical trends with a well thought out Mobile Computing Implementation Plan that takes advantage of the transformational opportunities in mobile business delivery for our agencies and customers.
USDA-OCIO will be leading this effort with oversight from the Chief Information Officer (CIO). The implementation will be governed through the Mobile Computing steering committee in coordination with the CIO council.
Responding to today's mobile opportunities, architecting for tomorrow's cloud environments, and integrating them with USDA's legacy infrastructures are all daunting challenges. The USDA Mobile Computing Program is focused on the following three key objectives:
- Procuring and managing heterogeneous commercial devices, applications, and data in smart, secure and affordable ways;
- Leveraging existing enterprise systems in an integrated manner with new mobile solutions to minimize capital expenditures and maximize our return on investments;
- Implementing end-to-end mobile services that streamline procurement, management and operational processes while improving IT management and visibility, gaining control, and cutting costs
At the end of the day, everything must appear "seamless" to end-users while delivering significant business value in a secure manner.
The following key objectives for USDA for fiscal year 2013 will ensure foundational capabilities to allow our mobile customers access to our information and services, and to secure, manage and support mobile devices enabling our workforce to conduct business anytime, anywhere, on any device:
- Establish a Mobile Program Management Office
- Establish a Mobile Computing Steering Committee
- Publish a Mobile Computing PMO Website
- Develop and publish a USDA Mobile Computing policy and research and develop a BYOD policy
- Deploy Mobile infrastructure solutions, including a 2nd generation Mobile Device Management, a Mobile Acquisition Management, and Pilot BYOD solutions
- Publish a Manual component in DR 1496-001 Digital Strategy Governance regarding Mobile Application Management and Development process, standards and marketing approach.
7.1.0 Engage with Customers to Improve Priority Customer-Facing Services for Mobile Use
Due: August 23, 2012
Status: Completed
7.1.1 Customer Engagement Approach
To engage with internal and external customers, we will use our integrated communications platform to offer various opportunities for input and engagement. Given USDA's broad mission and diverse range of customers, agencies will maintain open lines of communication with stakeholders.
As USDA's Digital Strategy implementation continues, check back often for new opportunities for collaboration through usda.gov/open, social media activities like our monthly #AskUSDA chats, and updates from the USDA Blog.
7.1.2 Prioritized List of Services
Due: August 23, 2012
Status: Completed
|Service Name
|System Description
|Main Customers
|USDA Newsroom
|The USDA Newsroom holds official news releases, statements, transcripts and speeches released by the Department.
|Media, Industry, Congress, Businesses
|Meat and Poultry Inspection Directory
|The Meat, Poultry and Egg Product Inspection Directory is a listing of establishments that produce meat, poultry, and/or egg products regulated by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) pursuant to the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act.
Android App
|USDA employees, farmers, producers, ranchers, consumers, businesses, government agencies
|Office Information Profile System
|USDA Service Centers are designed to be a single location where customers can access the services provided by the Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Rural Development agencies. This tool provides the address of a USDA Service Center and other Agency offices serving your area along with information on how to contact them.
To view the mobile optimized Service Center Locator, please visit the Service Center Locator.
|All stakeholders
7.2.0 Optimize Priority Customer-Facing Services for Mobile Use
Due: May 23, 2013
Status: Completed
8.2.0 Implement Performance and Customer Satisfaction Measuring Tools on .gov Websites
Due: January 23, 2013
Status: Completed
In March 2012, USDA completed an enterprise implementation of Google Analytics. The Office of Communications is working with agencies to implement the Digital Analytics Program code on subdomain agency and priority initiative websites by June 5, 2013. USDA is establishing a formal analytics program that includes regular reporting and evaluation, recommendations, and digital communication improvements based on available data.
USDA's Office of Communications is conducting a comprehensive web content analysis to evaluate high-value content and pages, improve search optimization and identify opportunities for mobile optimization. Web traffic and search data provide feedback to better organize and deliver popular topics, web content and tasks that are important to our customers. Since launching the mobile website in April 2013, we are evaluating analytics to enhance mobile content.
Through core communications, the agency is providing digital analytics training and resources to USDA's agencies and offices to enable more detailed program-level analysis, and data-driven recommendations to improve delivery of digital information and services. The digital analytics program conducts regular analytics and impact reporting for USDA's web and social media activities.
We'd love to hear your feedback about USDA's Digital Strategy progress as well as any ideas or suggestions you may have to improve our delivery of programs and services. Leave us a comment on our blog, add to our GitHub Issue Tracker, or connect with us on our official social media channels.


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Sites dedicated to the distribution and/or presentation of music or musical information. These sites may provide a direct listening experience, commerce, or promote musical awareness including musicians' or record labels' sites, sites that promote musical events, or those that teach music or about music.

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Hewlett-Packard has accused a Taiwanese maker of printer ink cartridges with using stolen HP parts to make knock-offs and sell them in the U.S. through outlets such as Amazon.com.
In a lawsuit filed Friday in a San Francisco federal court, HP charged MicroJet Technology of Taiwan, as well as five other companies from China, Hong Kong and the U.S., with infringing six patents held by HP that relate to ink jet printing technologies.
HP alleged that MicroJet used more than 300,000 genuine HP color and black-and-white ink printheads to manufacture copy-cat cartridges sold under the "Mipo" label. MicroJet makes the ink cartridges, which it sells under its own name as well as to others to distribute, said HP.
According to HP, MicroJet built at least some of its ink cartridges using printheads stolen from the American firm's Singapore factory or from trucks that were hijacked on the way to a Malaysian assembly plant.
"In 2006 and early March 2007, HP noticed and recorded that certain component parts appeared to have been unlawfully taken from the HP facilities," said the lawsuit. "As a result, increased security measures were implemented to prevent loss from manufacturing and assembly sites. As part of that effort, HP tightened its transport measures, including using trucks and security personnel to transport the component parts, including the printheads, to the assembly plant in Malaysia."
Apparently, the additional security didn't help. "In March and September 2007, trucks carrying HP parts were hijacked while en route from the manufacturing facility in Singapore to the assembly plant in Malaysia," the suit said.
Those trucks carried HP ink cartridge printheads, the part that includes the ink nozzles and the circuitry needed to form droplets of ink and then spray the ink toward the paper.
Although the lawsuit stopped short of accusing MicroJet or the other defendants of stealing the printheads themselves, HP claimed that the product identifiers marked on the printheads used in the AmiPro-branded cartridges -- which HP employees had purchased on the open market in the U.S. -- showed that those printheads were among the ones that had gone missing or were stolen from the trucks.
HP charged MicroJet and the others with nine counts altogether, including six patent violations, as well as a violation of the Lanham Act. "Defendants unlawfully obtained HP's goods, namely, HP printheads, incorporated the genuine HP printheads into its own knock-off ink cartridges, labeled the fully assembled products with its own identifying mark ('Mipo'), and marketed and sold those products to customers while representing that the products were their own," said HP.
MicroJet Technology of Taiwan and Mipo Technology of Hong Kong did not respond to requests for comment on the HP lawsuit. Phone numbers for two defendants based in Florida, Mipo America and SinoTime Technologies, could not be located.
Earlier today, the Dow Jones News Service reported that a spokesman for MicroJet Technology said his company had not yet received a copy of the lawsuit, and so could not comment on the allegations.
HP demanded that the federal court slap an injunction on MicroJet and the other defendants to bar them from infringing on its patents, and asked for triple damages for willful infringement.


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|Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO
One of the most famous objects in the sky - the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant - will be on display like never before, thanks to NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and a new project from the Smithsonian Institution. A new three-dimensional (3D) viewer, being unveiled this week, will allow users to interact with many one-of-a-kind objects from the Smithsonian as part of a large-scale effort to digitize many of the Institutions objects and artifacts.See Also:
Scientists have combined data from Chandra, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and ground-based facilities to construct a unique 3D model of the 300-year old remains of a stellar explosion that blew a massive star apart, sending the stellar debris rushing into space at millions of miles per hour. The collaboration with this new Smithsonian 3D project will allow the astronomical data collected on Cassiopeia A, or Cas A for short, to be featured and highlighted in an open-access program -- a major innovation in digital technologies with public, education, and research-based impacts. See: Exploring the Third Dimension of Cassiopeia A
Cassiopeia A: Exploring the Third Dimension of Cassiopeia A
The value of non-Euclidean geometry lies in its ability to liberate us from preconceived ideas in preparation for the time when exploration of physical laws might demand some geometry other than the Euclidean. Bernhard Riemann
|The concept of dimension is not restricted to physical objects. High-dimensional spaces occur in mathematics and the sciences for many reasons, frequently as configuration spaces such as in Lagrangian or Hamiltonian mechanics; these are abstract spaces, independent of the physical space we live in.


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How did Burnley do in the window?
Ins and Outs
Players in: Michael Kightly (Stoke, undisclosed); Steven Reid (West Brom, free); Marvin Sordell (Bolton, undisclosed); Matt Gilks (Blackpool, free); Matt Taylor (West Ham, free); Lucas Jutkiewicz (Middlesbrough, £1.5m); Stephen Ward (Wolves, undisclosed); George Boyd (Hull, undisclosed); Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea, loan); Michael Keane (Man United, loan)
Players out: Junior Stanislas (Bournemouth, free); David Edgar (Birmingham, free); Chris Baird (West Brom, free)
PREMIER LEAGUE: Arsenal | Aston Villa | Burnley | Chelsea | Crystal Palace | Everton | Hull City | Leicester City | Liverpool | Man City | Man Utd | Newcastle | QPR | Southampton | Stoke | Sunderland | Swansea | Tottenham | West Brom | West Ham
Summing up the window
The Clarets missed out on too many top targets with Troy Deeney and James McArthur deemed overpriced, while Craig Bryson and Henri Lansbury chose to sign new contracts at their current clubs rather than move to Turf Moor. The desperate last-minute scramble to sign Manchester United's Michael Keane on a four-month loan highlights the faults with Burnley's muddled strategy, while to leave it to the final day of the window to sign a specialist central defender and midfielder was alarming.
Too many of the new arrivals look like benchwarmers at best, and there's a lack of resale value across the 10 new faces. Critics would also suggest only two or three of the 10 signings are improvements on Burnley's strongest team in the Championship last season, and the modest spending of about 8 million pounds isn't going to get pulses racing among supporters.
However, Burnley held on to their best players, while the deadline-day arrivals of Keane, George Boyd and Nathaniel Chalobah add verve and quality to a thin squad. Burnley now have three current England under-21 internationals, more than any other club. 6/10
Best piece of business?
Chalobah is the most eye-catching arrival, although his initial loan is only until January. A rangy midfielder with superb ball retention, the 19-year-old can also play at the back. Big, strong and quick, Chalobah has all of the physical and technical attributes to be a huge success in the Premier League. Adored by Watford fans after a spell at Vicarage Road at the age of just 17, Chalobah had a more difficult time at Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough last season, but that can perhaps be explained by his struggles with growing pains that caused a variety of fitness issues. Chalobah should also add a useful goal threat from midfield with his long-range shooting.
Worst piece of business?
None of the new arrivals look like disasters, but Marvin Sordell has shown nothing in his brief appearances this season to suggest he's worth even the modest fee Burnley paid to take him from Bolton, where he flopped badly under the weight of a 3 million pound price tag. Stephen Ward's arrival was puzzling, too, given Burnley already had plenty of cover on the left.
What remaining issues are there?
Goals. Burnley have scored just once in four games and that strike came in the first 15 minutes of the season. The new partnership up front -- Danny Ings and Lukas Jutkiewicz -- has shown flashes of promise but is yet to jell and neither striker has looked particularly threatening. Burnley's start to the season has been tough, but winnable fixtures in September mean Ings and Jutkiewicz will have to start finding the net sooner rather than later.
Who can help in January?
Keane and Chalobah are due to return to their parent clubs in January, so Burnley will need to replace them with specialist central defenders and midfielders. But it's goals that keep teams in the Premier League, and if a proven striker like Cardiff City's Adam Le Fondre was available, he would be an astute addition. Le Fondre scored 12 goals in the Premier League for Reading in the 2012-13 season. However, as he only moved to Cardiff this summer, he might not be on the market. Lewis Grabban and Callum Wilson are alternatives, with both players on form in the Championship, although they also switched clubs during the summer transfer window.
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I went with a spring theme with a focus on things that mean spring to me - warmer weather when you can play outside again, sidewalk chalk, jump rope, bubbles, flowers and of course Easter eggs!
For the table cloth, I used a plain white cloth and painted spring shapes with blackboard paint. For the mock-up, I doodled on the shapes with sidewalk chalk, but for a party it would be fun to leave black and then allow young guests to decorate their "placemat" when they arrived.
Each place gets a fun straw cup, a divided plate ready for tasty treats, a pinwheel, springy head gear and favor bag.
Each favor bag was full of things to play with in the warmer spring weather - jumprope, sidewalk walk and a lollipop.
The table is decorated with decorative pails, bunny mascot, eggs, more chalk for doodling, flowers and spring toys.
With more time, I'd add more to the table, height to the buckets and a fun garland of felt butterflies and pendants. Maybe I'll get to it this week ... Despite the snowy forecast, Happy spring! Hopefully the weather will soon match the indoor decorations!


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(CNN) -- Comic Tracy Morgan returned to Nashville on Tuesday, and vowed to change his stand up comedy act to "heal people, not hurt."
Morgan, who went on an onstage anti-gay rant there three weeks earlier, delivered a personal apology to "the people at the show for bumming them out."
"I didn't know. I didn't mean it," Morgan said.
Morgan is a star of the hit NBC sitcom "30 Rock" and is a "Saturday Night Live" veteran.
Details of his anti-gay remarks emerged after an audience member Kevin Rogers, who is gay, posted them on a Facebook blog. Rogers' blog was picked up by Jezebel magazine, triggering a controversy that led to Morgan's contrition.
Morgan agreed to fly back to Nashville this week to meet with members of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to deliver a face-to-face apology to people who were in the Ryman Auditorium and to work with the Tennessee Equality Project, GLAAD said.
"I don't have a hateful bone in my body," Morgan said. "I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are."
Roger wrote in his blog post that Morgan "mentioned that gay was something kids learn from the media and programming, and that bullied kids should just bust some ass and beat those other little f**kers that bully them, not whine about it."
Morgan said that if his own son told him he was gay, he would "pull out a knife and stab" him, Rogers wrote. "The sad thing is that none of this rant was a joke," Rogers wrote. "His entire demeanor changed during that portion of the night. He was truly filled with some hate towards us."
Rogers sat next to Morgan Tuesday morning as he publicly apologized.
"He shared his genuine concern with his words and has promised me that his actions going forward are going to be positive and supportive of my community," Rogers said. "I greatly appreciate what he said and really appreciate him taking time out to come back and try and right what I believe to be just a huge mistake."
Morgan said the controversy has given him the "opportunity to change my message onstage."
"In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not, as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here," he said.
Stand up comedy should "heal people, not hurt," he said.
"I hurt people with this, so from the bottom of my heart I apologize to everybody who I offended with my words on stage," he said.
Morgan has also agreed to record a public service announcement for GLAAD's upcoming "Amplify Your Voice" campaign, the group said.
CNN's Rachel Wells contributed to this report.


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The best of both worlds - bacon and veggies (chocolate comes from a 'bean', beans are veggies, do the math)
The best of both worlds - bacon and veggies (chocolate comes from a 'bean', beans are veggies, do the math)
Don't confuse me with facts... my mind is made up.
How about this?
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That is just wrong. I have heard of a having a porker before but, that takes the cake.
I dunno,
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Victim suspicious when caller asks for more money
MADISON, Wis. — A west-side Madison woman wired money to Mexico Nov. 1 to a person claiming to be her grandson but it turned out it was an imposter, police said.
The 86-year-old victim received a call from someone she told police sounded like her grandson at 11:40 p.m. The caller stated he was in a car crash in Mexico and after leaving the hospital would be forced to go to jail. The caller stated the police needed money wired from the U.S. to Mexico in order to bail her grandson out of jail.
After the woman electronically transferred funds, the fraudster called again asking for more money. The victim became suspicious and hung up. After she talked to family and confirmed her grandson was never in Mexico, she called police.
The report did not indicate how much money was sent to the man impersonating the grandson.
The Madison Police Department offered tips on how citizens can avoid similar scams:
If someone calls you "in an emergency" asking for a money wire, confirm with friends and relatives.
Remember: Financial institutions will not call over the phone to verify account or personal information.
If you have suspicions, trust your gut and seek to confirm details on the situation with family and friends.
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No sport carries more superstition than baseball. Whether it's really the mistreatment of a goat that has doomed the Chicago Cubs or the sale of Babe Ruth's contract that forced Boston into decades of World Series exile is irrelevant. Fans know it might be true, and that's enough.
Thus, we are going to acknowledge that Friday is very big day for Baltimore baseball fans, but we are not going to name the team or the players involved. Not that it isn't a great name with a proud tradition, and not that we don't have every confidence that the professional baseball team in question is going to win tomorrow night, but why take the chance?
You understand, don't you? You get it? For the first time in Major League Baseball history, there are two wild card teams in each league, and they are facing each other in a one-game playoff. One of those teams happens to be from Baltimore. Can you believe it?
If we had asked that "believe" question at the start of the season, it's safe to say that 99 percent of people would say no, they did not, and some of those people might even be the friends and relatives of the actual players. By midseason, when it became clear that the team was better than expected, the naysayers still would have outnumbered the believers.
But now? As Phil Rizzuto would say, "Holy cow!" Baltimore's 15 years in the wilderness might not match what the Red Sox endured, but it's been hard enough. So much so that a city that was long regarded as a quintessential baseball town evolved into one where Ravens football took up residence in the prime piece of real estate in our collective hearts.
Even so, all eyes will fall upon Texas Friday. Anything can happen in one baseball game. The Rangers may look awesome on paper, but they've just completed a collapse on par with what Boston did last season. In losing the AL West, a division they once lead by 13 games, the Rangers suffered their final coup-de-grace with a three-game, end-of-season-sweep by the Oakland Athletics.
Now that's a fan base that should be gripping its rabbit's feet especially tight right now. The Baltimore team didn't quite have enough on the final few days to dislodge the Yankees from top of the East, but at least they didn't fold like a broken camping chair.
Baltimore's season has been sweet and almost inexplicable. Yes, there are several players with All-Star chops, including the league's dominant closer, but this is a team that's far more than the sum of its parts. It's got a lot of retreads, cast-offs, a 20-year-old kid playing third base and even a past-his-prime slugger. Together they magically win games, especially the one-run and extra-inning variety.
And isn't magic really what this season has been all about? Just down the road, the usually hapless Nationals caught some of that magic, too. They finished the season with 98 wins, the most in baseball. Over in Detroit, they've even got a triple-crown winner — not the horse racing kind, the Miguel Cabrera kind. The Tigers third baseman finished the season with a higher batting average and more home runs and runs batted in than anyone else in the American League, a feat that hasn't been accomplished in 45 years.
Clearly, the baseball gods have decided to smile upon us. Surely, a Baltimore victory in this historic wild-card game would be appropriate under the circumstances. Listen, you think real baseball fans around the country will root for the team that's been in the World Series the last two years or the one that's been stuck in or near the AL East cellar for a decade and a half? A happy ending requires the underdogs to prevail.
So all we ask is that everyone wear their lucky underwear, eat and drink the appropriate things, offer prayers, chants, incantations, and ritualistic dances, and let's make this happen. Baltimore deserves this. The least we can do is allow our kids to stay up and watch meaningful baseball in October for the first time in their lives, yell at the television set and enjoy an all-too-rare moment.
Baseball is back, Baltimore. Believe it.


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Gov. Jerry Brown probably doesn't know it, but every time he talks about the high salaries of California's university presidents, their ability to command higher salaries goes up.
Why? Because it's not easy to recruit high-quality university presidents in general, because the job requires so many skills, from the ability to make good hires, to academic credentials, to fundraising ability. And finding good presidents is much harder in California, when public support is being cut and political pressure is higher. The tougher the job, the more you end up having to pay.
Brown doesn't understand that. Indeed, his comments this week about president's pay will make university presidents' jobs less attractive -- and require higher pay to attract good candidates.
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In his most foolish riff, Brown suggested that he himself and any number of people -- including some of the assembled reporters -- could be a university president.
"I have no doubt that I could be a college president," he said, adding, "and I think a number of legislators could."
Ouch. Even legislators could do it.
Brown's faith in legislators and journalists as college presidents is touching. It's too bad he didn't make this suggestion before this week, since I know literally hundreds of journalists who have lost their jobs in recent years and had been looking for new careers, but for some reason hadn't thought to aim quite so high as university president.
I myself would apply for one of those jobs -- I've always loved the campus of Cal State Fullerton -- except I can't figure out what about the job of being a reporter has prepared me for managing faculty, raising money, or administering a major institution with tens of thousands of students.
Of course, if Brown and other keep bashing public university presidents, maybe I could get one of these jobs.
When Brown and other elected officials take potshots like this, they make strong candidates for jobs think: why bother with a California public university, where the governor won't provide sufficient funding to my campus but will criticize my pay publicly?
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|Almost three years on from Kal's groundbreaking debut album band leader Dragan Ristic appears both weary and excited about the forthcoming release of Radio Romanista. Relaxing in the shadows of a downtown Belgrade bar, Ristic admits the last few years have been hectic ones. "We went from being this tiny Belgrade band, not even really known in our home town, to touring Europe and the US, hearing DJs blast our music in clubs, playing festivals, meeting all kinds of people, getting to spread the word and music of the Rom.
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Barrington Levy
In the formative years, Levy and his cousin Everton Dacres sang as the
Mighty Multitude and recorded "My Black Girl" in 1977. A year later, the duo
broke up and Levy joined Byron Lee and the Dragonaires as a backing vocalist. "A Long
Time Since We Have No Love" was Levys first solo recorded tune in 1978.
Well-known producer Henry "Junjo" Lawes discovered Levy
singing on a local sound-system and, with New-York-based producer Hyman "Jah
Life" Wright, quickly brought Levy to Channel One where he worked with the Channel
One All-Star Band (the foundation of the soon-to-be Roots Radics), and young engineer
Scientist. Success was imminentLevy gave a rousing performance at Reggae Sunsplash
1980. With his fourth single, "Collie Weed," Levy was the dancehall poster
child. The first album from the Lawes/Levy camp was "Bounty Hunter" which
showcased hits "Shine Eye Gal" and "Moonlight Lover."
Three more albums followed that were quite successful and gave
listeners a change from the more serious Rasta-inspired lyrics that came before. Levy was
light-hearted, talented, and his voice blended well on collaborative tracks. "Black
Rose," "Money Move," "Prison Oval Rock" were some of the singles
that garnered much recognition, and the album "Robin Hood" affirmed that Levy
was the biggest singer on the island.
International recognition came in the mid-1980s when Levy linked
up with Paul "Jah Screw" Love, former selector for U-Roys King Sturgav
Sound System. Together, they did "Under Mi Sensi," which held top positions in
the reggae charts for weeks. "Murderer" soon followed for producer Jah Life, and
"Here I Come" with Jah Screw was an international success through a deal with
London Records. Levy started appearing in UK television spots.
The success was fleeting, though, and Levy endured a two-year
slump. He continued to perform at Sunsplash as a top attraction from 1987 until 1995;
however, it was in the early 1990s when he did the tune "Shes Mine" for
Black Scorpio that he got back in the game. His Bob Andy cover of "Too
Experienced" with Jah Screw got him signed to the Island Records subsidiary, Mango,
in 1991. "Divine" was the first Levy album released on that label to favorable
In the United States, Levy signed to MCA Records and released
"Barrington" in 1993, produced by Lee Jaffe, but the relationship with MCA was
rocky and Levy soon left. It was the 1994 album, "Duets" released by Ras Records
in the US (and Greensleeves in the UK as "Barrington Levys DJ
Counteraction") that brought groundbreaking sounds to older tunes. He collaborated
with Beenie Man on "Two Sounds" and "Under Mi Sensi;" with Bounty
Killer on "Living Dangerously;" Spragga Benz on "Dont Run Away;"
and Cutty Ranks on "Looking My Love." Producer Jah Screw was tuned into the
jungle movement sweeping the UK at the time, and remixed the tracks accordingly.
More recently, P.Diddy protégé, rapper Shyne, featured Levy on
the Bad Boy label track "Bad Boyz" in 2000. They used the "Murderer"
chorus behind a hip-hop beat and it was highly successful in the urban radio market.
Barrington Levy has had his fair share of career ups and downs,
but hes never lost his talented touch and classic sound. Overall, has been an
international steady force in the dancehall and is still unmatched in his trademark sound
and stage performances. As SNWMF audiences in 2002 can attest, you wont want to miss
Barrington Levy live and direct!
--Laura Gardner
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Neil Hennessy believes we are in a secular bull market, similar to the one that prevailed from 1982 to 2000, and that corporate profits will remain high.
However, that profitability won't be sustained unless companies begin to hire to foster organic growth, and hiring won't happen until "Washington" starts to "think out of the box," just as corporate management has done over the past few years.
So does he believe that our endemically dysfunctional government — "there's a lack of leadership in both the executive branch and Congress" — can actually start thinking out of the box to solve the three main problems (health care, taxes and regulation) that he says hinder economic growth?
"The real world has to kick in at some point," he said optimistically at a Midtown Manhattan press conference on Wednesday. "Things won't continue to stay the way they are" in Washington. "You're seeing fractures in the House already."
Hennessy is chairman, CIO and portfolio manager at the firm he founded, Hennessy Funds (HNNA), which crossed the $4 billion in assets mark this year (currently at $4.3 billion) in 16 different mutual funds, and which went public in 2002. In his remarks that accompanied the firm's annual rebalancing announcement for its Cornerstone Mid Cap 30 Fund (HIMDX), Hennessy focused on the stubbornly high unemployment rate, which he blamed in large measure on his assertion that we're still "no closer to clarity in Washington for four years" on addressing health care, high taxes and overregulation.
"Companies are still not hiring," he said, bemoaning the fact that "20 to 25 million Americans who want full-time jobs with benefits are instead getting part-time jobs with no benefits."
So what should the government do to bring down unemployment?
One thing is to "start treating business as a noble entity, not the enemy," Hennessy said. Another is to reform the tax system, removing corporate subsidies, like those enjoyed by oil companies, which fail to help the individual consumer.
Always willing to speak his mind, Hennessy voiced approval of Steve Forbes' flat tax scheme. Speaking of Obamacare, Hennessy said that the Affordable Care Act had "nothing to do with health care," but everything to do with "Democrats retaining the White House" by getting 18-20 million votes by passing the bill.
As for investors, he said they remain on the sidelines, "and who can blame them?" Only 52% of Americans own equities, and over the past two years they've pulled $209 billion out of U.S. equities and mutual funds. This year to date, he said, U.S. investors have plowed $94 billion into international investments and only $9 billion into U.S. equities; in the mutual fund space specifically, those numbers are $26 billion flowing to international equities and only $2 billion to U.S. equity funds.
However, he argued that "equities are a value right now," pointing out that "yields on a great number of U.S. stocks are higher than Treasuries." Specifically, he said the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrials are yielding 2.15%, compared with the 10-year Treasury yield of 2.50%.
"When you add in the tax benefits" and the appreciation of those stocks, equities look even more appealing, he said. As for investing opportunities overseas, he said the "euphoria" in Europe will end, though he believes Japan represents a strong opportunity, due in particular to the economic moves by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
"Japan wants businesses and individuals to succeed," he said, adding that the fabled Japanese savers, who hold $8.5 trillion in cash, in bank deposits, will begin to "buy their own market because they see the potential." Abe's tax policies are meant to reward investors, and imposition of a VAT in the country will specifically be targeted to reducing the nation's debt, Hennessy said (Hennessy Funds has two Japanese mutual funds, HJPIX and HJPSX).
"Hopefully the revolving" political leadership door in Japan has closed, he said, noting that Abe had run only on how he would fix Japan's economy, and wistfully suggested how nice it would have been if Mitt Romney had solely focused on economic issues rather than social issues, leaving them to Congress and the states.
Moving back to U.S. investors and the equity market, he wondered: when rates rise, "where can investors put their investable capital?" Since emotions are "driving investors," when rates rise, they'll panic. He answered his own question by saying that the "only plausible place to put your money is in equities," dismissing as implausible places money-market funds, real estate, fixed income and foreign markets. Answering a question from a reporter, who reminded him that a bull market in bonds existed during 1982-2000, he responded, "that's over."
Looking at the Cornerstone Mid Cap 30 Fund, a quant fund that follows a rigorous Hennessy process to come up with 30 undervalued stocks with above-average growth potential, he said that the "underlying theme" in 2013 has been "be in the market; the risk is not being in the market."
Reflecting corporate America's ability to not only maintain high profitability but to provide shareholder value, he reported that within the HIMDX portfolio, 63% of the companies are offering dividends, and 74% of those companies have increased them this year. Two other common reactions of profitable companies with high cash balances these days — stock buybacks and acquisitions — are also reflected in the fund: 40% are in sotck repurchase programs, while 60% have made an acquisition this year.
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Seriously, SO good! {yes, I'm totally addicted and for now it's ok}.
Anyways, I was invited to a "favorite things" Christmas party and what could be more perfect than a "dirty" Diet Coke basket so I could share my addiction with someone else? Fortunately for me I found someone who I could copy. I got this idea from Thirty Handmade Days and she includes the printable and all the instructions! {I just printed it from her blog}.
I didn't paint the CD crate {although that would be cute too}, I just found a cute basket for 70% off at Michael's.
It was SO easy and turned out super cute.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., on Thursday introduced legislation that would provide tax incentives to businesses that partner with community colleges and other educational institutions to strengthen workforce development for students.
Kuster's bill, the Workforce Development Investment Act, would provide tax credits to employers who collaborate with educational institutions to equip students with the skills they need to compete for well-paying jobs.
The act would provide up to $10,000 in annual tax credits to employers that partner with community colleges or other institutions of higher education to improve workforce development for students by helping develop curriculum; assisting with instruction in the classroom, and providing internships, apprenticeships, or other hands-on educational opportunities for students
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Winter lettuce and Sushi Den's greenhouse
The lettuce said, "Winter? What winter?"
As I marshalled my courage to pull the blizzard cover off my lettuce, a press release from Den Corner Restaurants, owners of the Denver eateries Sushi Den, Izakaya Den and OTOTO, crossed my desk. Earlier this year, the restaurant consortium bought a 6.5-acre farm in Brighton to supply its fresh produce. Now it's broken ground on a 3,000-square-foot, passive solar greenhouse to keep that supply going through the winter months, when many fresh veggies are shipped in from warmer states.
The new greenhouse will use "principles of building science including heavy perimeter, wall, and roof insulation, automated insulating shutters, high solar heat gain glazing, systems for controlling solar light and heat to maximize growth, plenty of thermal mass, and carefully controlled ventilation" so that the restaurant can grow its own micro-greens, herbs, and some citrus year-round. Special pipes will route warm air under the soil so that it never freezes.
Back at my own house, I'd tossed a white wool U.S. Navy surplus blanket across my brick planter that first cold night last weekend. And then … things got busy and got really cold, and what with this surprise and that surprise … I never did peel it back and cut the lettuce. This morning, the sun was back, and I was braced to find frozen, matted green slime.
I found survivors instead. The warm, south-facing brick planter box surely had something to do with it. Things were a bit smashed and matted down from the snow load, and many arugula leaves (which, frankly is most of what remains) did freeze. But check out that leaf lettuce. And there's some tattered tat soi peeking out. It all makes me want to build a cold frame to put over those bricks and see just what winter will let me get away with. Hey, if it's good enough for those chic chefs at Sushi Den …
Now: Who wants to bet me I can keep this zombie lettuce going until the solstice?


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| September 25, 2011, 8:23 pm
Holistic health care for pets: Opinions differ, so upcoming expo will give you a chance to decide for yourself
Interested in getting your dog a massage? How about chiropractic treatment for your horse? Or animal communication treatment for your cat?
According to supporters, these treatments and others are more available for pets today than ever before. They say alternative, or "holistic," care is making inroads in the animal population, just as it has for humans.
This year, Dr. Judy Jasek founded the Colorado Natural Pet Care Association, a nonprofit. The group is putting on the Colorado Natural Pet Expo on Oct. 8 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. The expo was first held last year.
The group says the goal of the event is to inform attendees about the benefits of holistic treatments for animals.
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Hero police robot back on duty after 'unstable man' blasts it with shotgun
Tin cop 'did its job', laughs off leaden hail from 12-bore
A heroic police robot has returned to duty with a Nebraska force after being put out of action by an "unstable man" who blasted it repeatedly with a 12-bore* shotgun at point blank range during a tense siege this summer.
The story begins in Bellvue, Nebraska, on August 10. Ordinary fleshy plods responded to reports of an "unstable man with a gun", but were forced to beat a retreat on being greeted with a volley of shots. The SWAT team were called in, and as is nowadays routine, the tactical lawmen decided to send in a robot colleague to check out the lay of the land.
We learn courtesy of Applied Research Associates, the robot's maker, that:
Negotiations continued for several hours. During that period of time, the officer in control of the robot viewed the suspect emerging from the garage doorway attempting to close the garage door with his firearm in hand. He then fired four rounds from his 12 gauge shotgun at the robot, disabling it. Following that activity, teargas was introduced into the home and the suspect surrendered.
"Had we not deployed the [robot] there is a good chance we would have had SWAT officers much closer to that doorway and possibly in harm's way," said Dave Stukenholtz, Criminal Investigations Bureau Commander for Bellevue Police Department.
"It did its job," boasted Bob Quinn of ARA. "Anytime a robot is shot, it's an example of keeping an officer out of the line of fire. Not only did the robot keep SWAT officers informed of suspect activity, but it's rugged enough that even after four rounds at close range, it's fixable and quickly ready to rejoin the team in Nebraska."
That said, though the tin cop is now fully repaired and back on duty with the Bellevue SWAT team as of today, it's perhaps not as robust as certain other mechanical lawmen. A robot plod in Florida last year - having been riddled with bullets by a nude man armed with an AK47 assault rifle - remained functional enough to beat a hasty retreat. Another metallic public servant in Tennessee was plainly even tougher, as mounted an uncompromising assault on a heavily armed man which left his home a smoking ruin.
That said, still another mechanised policeman was defeated by a Connecticut man in January without the need even to use firearms: in that case the luckless tin cop was hurled through a door after a hand-to-hand struggle. At least the now-repaired Bellevue machine can console itself with the knowledge that it took heavy gunfire to put it down.
It's plain that the ongoing struggle between the machines and humanity is far from one-sided. ®
*12-gauge, for our US readers. Reports don't specify what kind of rounds the unstable gunman had loaded, but we here on the Reg tin-cop desk would speculate that he probably wasn't using solid slugs or it might have been cheaper to just get a new robot.
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One of the most successful female artists of her generation, Evans was born in Boonville, Mo. and was raised near New Franklin, Mo. She began singing country music with her family's band when she was five-years-old and by the age of 16, Evans was singing regularly at a club in Columbia.
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Final Resolution 2010 opened up with a video feature on Jeff Hardy featuring Hardy voicing over footage, stating that he would ask the old Jeff Hardy "what the f*** were you thinking?" when it came to killing himself and his body for the fans. He said that now, he's for himself. It was a really well produced opening.
After the Hardy video, we heard the crowd going nuts but nothing but a black screen. That was replaced by a "Final Resolution Next†graphic for almost a minute. We finally went live to the Impact Zone for fireworks and a welcome by Taz and Mike Tenay.
Mike Tenay and Taz apologized for the technical difficulties. I have no idea if this is on TNA or my cable company Time-Warner but my HD Feed is in Standard definition now. Ink, Inc. controlled the match early and cleared the ring. Beer Money regrouped on the floor as James Storm called for a time out.
Back in the ring, Shannon Moore rolled up James Storm for a two count, then went for an armbar. Roode grabbed Moore for Storm to strike but Moore ducked and Roode was knocked off the apron. Storm was hit with an inverted atomic drop. Moore nailed a legdrop for a two count. Roode tried to interfere but instead ended up dropping an elbow on his own partner.
Moore tagged in Jesse Neal and hiptossed him onto Storm for a two count. Neal and Storm went back and forth until Beer Money got the better of Neal. Storm used his ring tape to choke out Neal. Roode and Storm began tagging in and out, working down Neal. So far, so good.
Neal began firing back on Robert Roode but was cut off. Roode locked in a rear chinlock and worked over Neal on the mat. Neal began fighting back but was again cut off. Neal finally nailed a big kick to the face and went for a tag only to be yanked back and clobbered from behind by Roose. Neal nailed an elbow as Roode charged him in the corner but Roode snapped on a sleeper as Neal went for the tag. Neal sat down into a jawbreaker and finally made the hot tag.
Moore took out James Storm, then peppered Roode with a series of right hands. Moore nailed a tiltowhirl head scissors on Roode, then nailed a stunner variation for a two count. James Storm broke up the pinfall. Neal nailed a slingshot dive on Storm to the floor. Moore nailed an Asai Moonsault to the outside on Roode. Moore rode around on Beer Money's cooler to mock them. Really good opener.
Moore drilled Roode with a neckbreaker for a two count. Crowd wasn't happy when Roode kicked out. Beer Money went for a finisher but Storm shoved Moore off the top to the floor. He went to spit beer in Neal's face but Roode got it instead. Neal drilled Roode with a big slam. He charged Storm but ate the Last Call superkick. Beer Money nailed Neal with DWI and scored the pin.
Your winners and new number one contenders, Beer Money!
Really solid opener. Moore and Neal looked great and Beer Money were their usual entertaining selves. Really hard working match.
Backstage, TNA Knockouts champion Madison Rayne was interviewed. She told Christy Hemme that she's not worried about Mickie James because she will never get past Tara in tonight's Falls Count Anywhere match. Rayne said that Tara was brought back to TNA to "take care of the Princess.†She said Tara has been kicking Mickie's ass since day one and that will continue.
They immediately began fighting back and forth on the floor. James whipped Tara into the guard rail, then scored a quick pinfall attempt. Mickie chopped and punched away on Tara on the floor. Back in the ring, Mickie came off the top with a missile dropkick. She scored another two count.
They exchanged punches and kicks in the corner with Tara getting the better of Mickie. Mickie fired back with forearms. She went for a headscissors takedown but Tara caught her and sent her flying over the ropes onto the apron, then knocked her off. James went under the apron and came out the other side. Tara leaned over the ropes looking for James but she ate a dropkick from behind to the floor. James nailed a sliding kick to Tara on the floor.
They began brawling on the outside again. Tara whipped James into the nailing. Fans were chanting "Over hereâ€, asking the women to fight towards them. Tara tossed Mickie over the railing and followed her into the crowd. She slammed her face-first into a fan's chair and got a two count for her efforts. James reversed an Irish Whip into a steel truss used to decorate the Impact Zone.
They battled to the back corner of the Impact Zone (near the fan entrance and the merchandise stand). James choked Tara, who fought back. She took James outside between the Impact Zone and the soundstage next door, which is used as a holding area for fans before events. They brawled to a (legitimate) concession stand and smashed each other with sodas. Intense brawl.
They continued the brawl. Tara went for a piledriver on the concrete outside but James backdropped her. Mickie covered her for a two count. James went her into a column outside near the Rip Ride Rocket coaster. They continued brawling outside. James whipped Tara into a collection of plastic trash cans but it was reversed. James came back to roll up Tara for a two count.
They began battling their way back towards the Impact Zone. Tara whipped James into a cemrent wall outside the Impact Zone. They battled towards restrooms but James cut her off and hit a Thesz Press off a wall on Tara for a two count. They battled their way into the men's room. Tara beat Mickie with a "warning wet floor†plastic sign. They battled in to the stalls. A "fan†squatting in the toilet ran away holding his pants up, In another stall was Madison Rayne, who was hiding with a fire extinguisher. She sprayed James in the face with the extinguisher and nailed her. Tara scored the pin.
Your winner, Tara!
This was a lot of fun. Really entertaining brawl.
They went right to a backstage interview with X-Division champion Robbie E. Cookie was freaking out she was going into a shark cage. E said that he's beaten Lethal at everything and this will be no different. Hemme said that it seemed that Cookie was upset. Cookie said, "B**ch, if I wanted your opinion, I'd beat it out of you.†Hemme said that was it and the interview was over. E and Cookie had words but we didn't get to hear them. Hemme looked disgusted and walked off.
When she got to the ring, Cookie refused to get in the cage. Earl Hebner demanded she go in. E got in his face on the floor and said she's not going in. Hebner grabbed her but Lethal attacked E and tied him up in the corner. Cookie started walking out and said she wasn't going to get in. She dared Lethal to come and get her. Shark Boy's music played and out he came, for the first time in months. Taz quipped, "I told you he made this cage!â€
Shark Boy put Cookie on his shoulders and carried her into the cage, then locked her in it. The cage began to rise as Cookie legitimately looked like she was going to be sick, dropping down her knees. Lethal and E brawled all the way around the ring as Cookie continued to rise above the ring.
Lethal tossed E back into the ring. He drilled E with a missile dropkick and mocked Cookie. He picked up and dropped E across the ropes, crotching him, then nailed him with several chops. Lethal continued working over E with chops in the corner. E tried to whip Lethal out of the corner but Lethal cut him off and continued the assault.
Robbie finally nailed Lethal and worked him over with punches and kicks. She whipped Lethal into the ring and cut him off with as back elbow. Cookie was screaming her head off. E whipped Lethal hard into the buckles for a two count. Lethal began mounting a comeback with kicks and punches but E caught him with an inverted neckbreaker for a two count.
E worked over Lethal's ribs, then locked on a sleeper. He rode Lethal to the mat, trying to put him out. The referee dropped Lethal's arm twice but Jay made a comeback, preventing his arm from dropping a third time. Lethal mounted a comeback and sent E into the turnbuckles head-first. E missed several clotheslines but Lethal drilled him with forearms and clotheslines.
Lethal nailed his handspring elbow for a two count. He covered E for a two count. Jay and E clunked heads. Cookie tossed E a chain but Earl Hebner took it away. Cookie then tossed hairspray to E but Lethal got it and sprayed him in the face. Lethal hit the Lethal Combination but Earl had seen him use the spray and called for the bell.
Your winner BY dq, TNA X-Division champion Robbie E!
They let Cookie out of the cage and she looked legitimately relieved to be back on terra firma. Lethal was upset as he left. E was out but Cookie began celebrating as if she had won the belt while E was on the floor. Shark Boy made his way back to the ring and began jawing with Cookie. She slapped him in the face, then did it again. He kicked her in the gut and drilled Cookie with a stunner.
Entertaining match, although the finish certainly won't go over with the diehard fans.
Christy Hemme interviewed Tommy Dreamer about Rob Van Dam vs. Rhino tonight. Dreamer said that about ten years ago, Rhino broke RVD's leg and put him out in Orlando. He said that made them friends (HOW?). Dreamer said that he gets it and that he hates that Rhino has to sell out to Eric Bischoff and fight to keep his job. He said that tonight, someone was going to have to make the other bleed and it will be the end of an Extreme Era. Not one of Dreamer's better promos. It was way too vague beyond the idea that Rhino is letting Bischoff manipulate him.
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I have a lot of contradictory thoughts on Spain and the World Table conference that ended Saturday night with a rousing performance by Ferran Adria, who demonstrated a few of the core techniques he's developed and discussed the importance of cataloguing the progression of his work in terms of others' understanding his work. About which I've got some thinking to do.
But part of the contradiction I've got to get through before I can digest the information from what was a really interesting conference lies here. Spain was chosen as the focus of this conference because of the fame of Adria. Not because Spain has a rich culinary tradition to be explored, per se (though it obviously has that). Maybe I'm wrong about this, but if there were no Adria or if Heston Blumenthal were the one who'd become the godfather of the molecular gastronomy movement, would Spain have been chosen? No.
So the irony is that here was a substantial conference on Spain because of one guy who doesn't cook Spanish food. As Thomas Keller said in his introduction to Adria that night, what he's really doing is global cuisine. One might also say what he is doing is a-regional–it has no history, no precedent, no terroir. And yet there is nevertheless so much to be explored in terms of the culinary traditions of Spain, about which America seems to know so little.
An example of how media-driven our culinary knowledge and beliefs may be.
But here is the anecdote I want to convey for now, and it encapsulates the difficulties in thinking about the new Spanish cuisine, perhaps the new ground where molecular gastronomy and the terroir of Spain meet. And it centers on the oddest concoction of the week. It came from Joan Roca, a chef known here for his book on sous vide cooking. Roca presented first a video of this technique then demoed it the next day. The stylish video showed Roca trudging through the woods of his homeland with a shovel and a bucket. He dug up a few shovelfuls of dirt and returned to his kitchen. He added water to the dirt and stirred thoroughly to make a dirt batter, known here in America as mud.
He then added some of this mud to a large glass beaker, fitted the beaker into a distilling machine and turned it on. The beaker rotated and the mud heated up and gave off a vapor which went up through some glass tubes, condensed and dripped down into a smaller beaker, crystal clear liquid, a literal distillation of his terroir. And this was the technique, eau de dirt.
How did he use this dirt essence? He put a spoonful of it on an oyster as part of a small oyster dish. Surf and turf. Oyster with eau de dirt.
That night, I spoke with my friend Susie Heller who produces food television shows and is also a recipe writer and tester for the French Laundry cookbooks and most recently Michel Richard's excellent new book and a new book on chocolate called The Essence of Chocolate.
"What was THAT all about?" she said of the Roca video and presentation. "Was that not the weirdest thing?"
I had to agree.
The next day, I saw Susie at the conference, and she had already changed her mind. "I talked with Harold about it," she said. Harold McGee was a moderator at the conference. "He said he'd HAD the dish. He said it was incredible, said the guy was a genius. So maybe I was wrong!"
The following day, after the conference, Susie, I, McGee and Keller met at Bouchon Bakery to discuss a new book we're about to begin work on. Roca's technique came up. He'd demoed it in the CIA kitchen using St. Helena dirt.
"I tasted it," McGee said.
"And?" I asked.
"It didn't taste very good."
I asked, "Did it taste like dirt?"
McGee nodded and said, "Yep."
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