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Whenever something happens, I always react. But here I was--disregarding the reflex. I was doing something I'd never done before. A small thing, granted, but how often do I get to say that? And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today? -- Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, LoveI was raised by two very hard-working parents. My father owned his own business as a car mechanic, and it's only recently that I've realized that it's not normal to work 12-hour days, six days a week. My mother was a technician for an airplane manufacturer. She worked shift work for most of my school-aged life. They worked hard to give us kids a better life. These days, I wonder how they managed to tough it out for so long.
Recently, I picked up an old, battered copy of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love. I hadn't looked at it since I read it for a bookclub a few years ago. I flipped open the book to a random page and read part of a chapter where she is in an ashram in India, struggling to learn to meditate. One evening, she decides to try a bit of Vipassana meditation, where you sit for extremely long periods of time as still as possible. It is an extremely uncomfortable practice, but the point is that you are supposed to learn to practice the art of witnessing your mind. She writes:
If you are feeling discomfort then you are supposed to meditate upon that discomfort, watching the effect that physical pain has on you. In our real lives, we are constantly hopping around to adjust ourselves around discomfort--physical, emotional and psychological--in order to evade the reality of grief and nuisance. Vipassana meditation teaches that grief and nuisance are inevitable in this life, but if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.This got me thinking about how my parents have always entreated me to sit still, to learn to rest, and to accept that sometimes, things are difficult. I thought it was old-fashioned thinking, that old adage that "life is hard, live with it." It's only recently that I've learned that that was not the message at all.
The message was, "All comes to pass."
That might sound defeatist... that we should just accept pain and abandon ourselves to hopelessness, but I think the point is that we don't have to react to everything. In this age of high-speed information, social networks, and constant gossip, we don't have to have an opinion on everything. I don't have to pour out all my emotions for a single subject or a single outrageous article or a single event. I don't have to apply judgement to every event that happens in my life, or stick bandaids over the painful parts. I can observe how it makes me feel, perhaps remark on that, carry on living, and maybe find a solution that was better than I ever expected. This applies to my work, to my health, and to my hobbies. This is why I can knit half a sweater and rip it out if I find that I've made big errors in it. I take out the emotion, and it gets done even better than I would have hoped.
Everyday can be a type of Vipassana meditation.
Last Saturday, I went out for a run after a week of staying off my feet due to a foot injury. It was hard. I laboured through that run. I even had to stop and walk it for a while. While I did it, though, I decided to watch what was happening to me from the outside. I found that, once I took all the emotion out and removed the judgement from it and stopped freaking out about how hard it was, I could just... keep going. And that was powerful.
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Arena's digital billboard creates controversy
A high-tech battle is brewing between a national outdoor advertising company and the city over a plan to build a giant, state-of-the-art digital billboard at the Bridgeport-owned Webster Bank Arena along Interstate 95.
The new billboard, which would require changes to the city's zoning laws, would directly compete with a nearby electronic board operated by Lamar Advertising, potentially costing the business big bucks while generating revenue for the cash-strapped, city-owned Harbor Yard operation.
The proposal will go before the Planning and Zoning Commission next month -- weeks after financial statements filed with the Town Clerk's office revealed that Harbor Yard Sports and Entertainment Complex donated $14,000 to Mayor Bill Finch's failed campaign to change the city charter to give him the power to appoint Board of Education members.
A solid majority of voters defeated the plan, which was also backed financially by the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Co., United Illuminating and others in the city's business and medical communities.
Finch adamantly denied that the donation would influence the city zoning panel's decision and said the new sign would generate much-needed revenue.
"The education charter reform initiative was supported by thousands of city residents, and was endorsed by the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, which spurred funding from the corporate community because they backed the effort to improve our (c)ity's schools," the mayor said in an emailed statement.
But the mayor made it clear where he stood, insisting that "this signage zoning issue will ultimately benefit the city and the taxpayers."
And he dismissed Lamar's complaint, adding, "Billboard companies such as Lamar are corporate entities that make a profit from their sites in Bridgeport."
The proposal comes nearly a decade after Lamar surrendered billboard sites so the Harbor Yard complex could be constructed, according to John Kennelly, Lamar's lawyer, who called the billboard plan "spot zoning at its worst" and plans to fight the change.
"What they are trying to do is create unique rules that don't apply to the everyday Joe or the everyday Joe Company," he said. It's not the right way to run a railroad."
Howard Saffan, the president of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, who spoke in favor of the proposal at a September commission meeting, didn't return calls for comment.
David Gannon, of Independent Outdoor III, the Wallingford sign company that filed the petition, also couldn't be reached.
Kennelly said an original application filed with the commission for the September meeting was incomplete, unsigned and lacked surveys. Following a discussion, the panel tabled the proposal, a decision Kennelly characterized as sympathetic to the plan.
"If we had filed such an application we would have been laughed out of the meeting. All I ask is that the commission treat everyone evenly," he said.
At one point during the September meeting, P&Z Chairman Melville Riley Jr. asked about what would be shown on the billboard, meeting minutes show.
The minutes apparently incorrectly identify Saffan as "Howard Ziffran," but say he replied that the sign would be placed along I-95 and not at the Arena's main entrance. He said it would promote events but that the arena would also seek paid advertising.
Saffan acknowledged the sign -- which would flash a new image every 10 seconds -- would compete with Lamar's about a half mile away. But he accused Lamar of wanting an unfair monopoly on digital billboards along the busy stretch of I-95, used by tens of thousands of commuters daily.
Saffan also stressed how the sports complex brings revenue and people to the city -- like the 25,000 who attended a recent Carrie Underwood concert -- but added that the complex has "a long history of 10-year losses of over $1 million," according to the minutes.
The proposed amendment change allows up to 40 percent of the advertising to be non-Arena related.
The PZC will consider the issue during their Nov. 19 meeting at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers on Lyon Terrace. If the commission grants the changes, the sign would still need approval from the state Department of Transportation because it's so close to I-95.
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In July of 1991, I was on the edge of quitting teaching. I attended the IDEA Fitness Conference and I saw a sign that read, "Body, Mind, Spirit Workout." I had not seen the word 'spirit' used in any other courses offered. Immediately, my curiosity drew me to take the workshop. It was a Nia workshop, and I clearly recall watching Debbie and Carlos enter the room. Every cell of my being recognized their radiance. They took the stage and did something unheard of at that time in the fitness industry – they invited us to take off our shoes. Those first barefoot seconds of conscious movement had my wounded knees saying, "Ahhhhhhh" as they experienced healing through movement. After tearfully dancing a profound healing awakening, I registered for their next White Belt Intensive. I sensed a deep knowing within myself that Nia had much to teach me. I eagerly attended the Blue, Brown, Black, and First Degree Black Belt trainings in succession.
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• A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent.
In Egypt, longstanding tensions between the Muslim majority and Christian minority periodically erupt in violence. The most fatal of the past decade was a drive-by shooting at a church on Coptic Christmas Eve in January that killed six Christians and a Muslim security guard. But amid the escalating sectarian divide, the Egyptian government says it is committed to maintaining the country's diverse religious history by preserving historic religious sites.
Last month, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced the completion of a five-year renovation of St. Anthony's monastery, the oldest Christian monastery in the world, touting it as a symbol of the country's religious tolerance and harmony.
"I am very proud that I am able to restore not only Pharaonic, but also Islamic and Coptic and Jewish [sites], because all of these are a part of the Egyptian heritage," says Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
The renovation of the 1,600-year-old monastery, located at a desert oasis 100 miles southeast of Cairo, cost about $14.5 million and employed 500 Muslim laborers who lived and worked within the monastery's grounds – itself a symbol of coexistence, says Mr. Hawass. "During Ramadan [the month-long holy Muslim fast], the monks used to eat with [the workers]," he says, referring to the daily meal that breaks the sunrise to sundown fast.
St. Anthony's monastery was founded around AD 350 in homage to St. Anthony, widely believed to be the founder of Christian monasticism, who lived and died in the area. The renovation revealed the oldest Coptic cell in the world, dating from the 4th century AD. Today, according to Hawass, the active monastery, which houses dozens of monks, attracts 1 million visitors and pilgrims a year.
Hawass hopes that by preserving Egypt's diverse past, he can heal Egypt's troubled present. "Things like I'm doing … can make people know that we are one people," he says. "There is no difference between a Copt or a Muslim, all of us are Egyptians."


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Rotation to stay in order for upcoming Nats series
MILWAUKEE -- The Cardinals will continue with their rotation order unchanged for their upcoming series against Washington. How the club slots in its starting pitchers for its final series of the season next weekend, however, depend on its positioning within the division.
As it is set now, ace Adam Wainwright will start against the Nationals on Monday. His rotation spot would then come up next on Sunday, the final game of the regular season. But pitching Wainwright on Sunday would preclude the right-hander from being able to pitch in the first game of the postseason -- whether that be a Division Series or Wild Card game.
Manager Mike Matheny said it is "too early" to speculate on how the team could alter its pitching plans to set up for the postseason. If the Cardinals have the division won before next Sunday, it's unlikely the Cardinals would send Wainwright out to the mound that day.
The Cardinals will have added flexibility, too, because of Thursday's off-day. That would allow them to actually pitch Wainwright on normal rest Saturday, if the team knew it would not need him for a Tuesday Wild Card game. The club was intentional about structuring the rotation so that Wainwright would be available to pitch on the final day of the year should the Cardinals be in a situation where they need a win that day.


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Throughout the nation lawyers gasped as they tried to absorb the pages of print that spell out the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into Rotten Unions and their Connection to the ALP.
Somewhere in Canberra someone sat down with instructions to draft terms of reference that would know no limits. The result is something that looks like the bastard child of a fishing expedition and the Spanish Inquisition.
Slowly the layers are added, starting with instructions to look at the governance arrangements of ''separate entities'' established by trade unions - financial management, accountability, the use of funds. It further directs specific attention (without limitation) into those unions where conceivably most of the skeletons are gathered. The inquiry must also probe the extent to which anyone ''represented by a union'' may have done something wrong in relation to the activities of these ''separate entities'', and whether any law, regulation or professional standard has been breached. There is to be scrutiny, too, of bribes, secret commissions and other unlawful payments or benefits that flow between unions, their officers and ''any other party''. Then there must be recommendations on tightening up the law so that it can more effectively catch and punish those who need to be caught.
Then, just in case this free-wheeling assault doesn't hit the jackpot, there is this:
''The participation of any person, associations or organisations other than registered employee associations or their officers in conduct described [in all the other main parts of the terms of reference].'' Shorthand translation for that is ''the participation of anybody in anything''.
And there's no timeframe. Conceivably investigations into beastly things could go back to 1915.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott put it all in terms of shining a spotlight into dark corners. It hardly needs to be said that this is an expensive political exercise designed to run with spotlights going night and day.
Ignored in the terms of reference are sensible inquiries into how unions might contribute more fairly and effectively to a competitive economy. None of that in this spotlight shooting fest, which is designed to be along the lines of the horror classic Wake in Fright.
The interesting disjunction is the appointment of Dyson Heydon as the royal commissioner.
Apart from being clad in suitable Tory finery, Heydon has spent his life at the pointy end of the law. As a barrister and judge he was well across the requirements when it came to pleadings in the world of litigation: particularity, specificity, exactness, clarity. People involved in the judicial process like to know exactly what they have to answer.
Here he's handed a sprawling jellyfish of looseness.
Other famous politically inspired royal commissions have been much more focused. For instance, the Petrov royal commission comprised four comparatively tight terms of reference. Imagine if the current government had set up a royal commission into ''separate entities'' created by leading listed business corporations. It is entirely probable that the fingers of Attorney-General George Brandis would seize up and he would be unable to write the instructions.
However, when it comes to skinning unions his hand is relaxed and the words flow freely from his gem-encrusted Montblanc.
Nonetheless, he would also know that royal commissions have the potential to swing around and bite the government of the day on the backside.
The Costigan royal commission, created by the Fraser government, into the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union, veered into the bottom-of-the-harbour schemes of tax-evading business people and the activities of Kerry Packer.
The Heydon commission could just as readily catch prominent supporters and funders of the Coalition in its spotlight, dragging the focus from where it is meant to be - rorters in the union movement and their allies in the ALP.
Despite the perils, the royal commission will provide a much needed shot in the arm for the legal profession, principally the needy denizens of Phillip Street.
Forget the workers at SPC Ardmona or Toyota. This is the better part of $100 million to the feather-bedding experts.
What we shall certainly savour is the language of Dyson Heydon. We'll be in for lots more of the likes of ''non haec in foedera veni'', or my personal favourite from his judgment in Momcilovic v The Queen:
''The odour of human rights sanctity is sweet and addictive. It is a comforting drug stronger than poppy or mandragora or all the drowsy syrups of the world.''
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Its decor may be reminiscent of the 1950s, but this spacious master bathroom boasts some modern conveniences, including his and hers flat-panel TVs, a distributed music system and a sleek touchbutton control pad on the wall.
The technology complements the luxurious design by giving the homeowners plenty of reason to soak just a little longer in the elegant claw-footed tub or enjoy some pampering at the vanity. The home systems designers at Audio Video Excellence of Pleasantville, NY, outfitted the bathroom with a pair of Sony 15-inch LCD TVs. The sets are hooked up to a Crestron video switch, which gives them access to remotely located cable TV receivers and DVD players. Each TV has its own remote, giving both viewers access to whatever they want.
"He can catch the news in the morning while she tunes to the weather channel, for instance," says Audio Video Excellence technician Frank Palazzetti. Her TV was mounted to the wall with an Omnimount bracket so that the screen could be swiveled to face any direction. It can be aimed toward the tub, shower or dressing area so that she never misses a second of her show. His TV, meanwhile, simply sits on the counter positioned perfectly for viewing from his sink and mirror.
Music can also be piped into the bathroom by simply pressing a button on a Crestron keypad mounted near the entrance of the room. The homeowners can choose from an Elan dual tuner, which combines two independent AM/FM tuners; a Marantz CD changer; or a Hughes high-definition satellite receiver. They can also summon audio from a DVD they might have been watching in the master bedroom. The music drifts into the space from a pair of moisture-resistant Paradigm speakers mounted in the ceiling. With an assortment of music and video at their fingertips, the homeowners feel like royalty every time they comb their hair or brush their teeth.


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The Demon boy's basketball team struggled the first half of their season, going into the break with a 1-6 record, their only win coming against Durant on November 30.
The Demons lost two games on the road against Keokuk and Fairfield by five points or less, and had a 35 plus point blowout against them in their final game before the break.
Demon head coach Bryce Smeins said in the post game of the Ft. Madison loss that the usual starters for Washington of Justin Hoffman, Kyle Roder, Michael Hall, Alex Coker, and from the game against Ft. Madison Elijah Wood, may not be making their way to the court to start out of the break, as the Demons as a team are stalled on offense shooting 29.8 percent.
Midway through the Ft. Madison game, Washington did put a new five in, giving us a preview that the coaching staff is looking for someone to step up and help out in the scoring column.
Washington starts their second half of the season with Mt. Pleasant at home on Jan. 4 and then play Tipton the next day.


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Sugar Rush: Corn Fritters with Maple Syrup at Chelsea Royal Diner in Brattleboro, VT
I'm a huge sucker for pretty much anything involving the word "maple," so on a recent weekend trip to syrup's cultural homeland, Vermont, I was determined to pack as much maple into my system as humanly possible. I'll take my maple flavor baked in or drizzled over a pastry, but in my opinion, nothing tops the pleasure of pure, unadulterated maple syrup, served straight like the liquid gold it is.
The old-school-looking, forward-thinking-cooking Chelsea Royal Diner in West Brattleboro is worth stopping at for a number of reasons, but nothing (not even their staggering homemade pie selection) tops these Corn Fritters with Maple Syrup ($6.95)—a special on the day I stopped in. The fritters use up the tail end of summer's sweet corn supply, with big, juicy whole kernels loosely bound together by a puffy funnel cake-esque batter. The fritters themselves aren't too sugary (most of the sweet flavor comes from the corn), but they don't need to be, because the cup of grade-A amber syrup on the side is obviously the star of the show.
The fritters are a vehicle, really, ergonomically designed with enough nooks and crannies to successfully soak up great depths of syrup in one swipe. Maple and corn flavors have a natural affinity for each other, as do fried foods and diners across the world. And the syrup, it should go without saying, is light and clean enough to drink plain...not that I'd ever be caught sipping that cup once the fritters were gone.
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BOSTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Massachusetts regulators on
Thursday continued their crackdown on pharmacies in the wake of
a deadly meningitis outbreak, announcing sanctions on three
companies while recasting an oversight board that has been
criticized for being too lax.
Massachusetts pharmacy operations have been under close
scrutiny since New England Compounding Center, a specialty
pharmacy, shipped thousands of vials of a tainted steroid to
medical facilities throughout the United States. According to
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 36 people have
died and 541 have been injured from injections of
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Massachusetts regulators said they ordered the temporary
shutdown of one pharmacy, Oncomed Pharmaceuticals, on Nov. 21,
over concerns about how it stored chemotherapy drugs. It also
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Health. Representatives of the three pharmacies could not be
reached for immediate comment.
The DPH also announced three new members to fill seats on
the Massachusetts pharmacy board. Unlike past appointments, the
new board members are not necessarily pharmacists. The new picks
are executives from a large healthcare system, a large health
insurer and a rehabilitation and skilled nursing center.
"These respected health care professionals will use their
experience to bring change to the Board of Pharmacy to enhance
our oversight of this industry," Interim Commissioner Lauren
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the board after the Commission on Pharmacy Compounding issues
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This week, the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy held a public
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A foundational skill in the ability to read music is the ability to identify the scale degrees of the notes on a staff. Full implementation of this skill requires significant background in theory, especially a working understanding of key signatures. However, a student can and should begin developing this skill at a more rudimentary level in which the first scale degree is identified for them. By drilling this exercise (and, for that matter, applying the same process to real music with the guidance of a teacher for identifying DO and determining if the material is simple enough) students develop speed at identifing the other notes relative to the tonic (first scale degree).
When approached with the beginning settings, this exercise can and should be started before learning key signature, clef, or even letter names; you do not need any theory beyond line and space notes to get started. Speed and proficiency at this exercise take time, so starting it early gives students a jump start on the training and impresses on them the importance of this skill. This will also give students a sense of familiarity and cumulative development when they return to the exercise with more difficult settings after learning the appropriate theory. The beginning (and default) setting for this exercise is having the first note be the tonic and identified as such. Other settings are available for students with the appropriate background in theory.
This exercise returns several times during the lessons curriculum. Several other exercises reinforce concepts and skills of this exercise. For example, the interval quantity identification exercise (and lessons leading to it) helps students quickly identify intervals. Seeing these intervals and building a mapping of the scale degrees that would correspond for each interval develops speed and proficiency in sight reading music. In application, a student learns to quickly identify the interval of a perfect 4th, and also learns that if the bottom note is DO, the top will be FA; if the bottom is RE, the top will be SOL etc. More guidance for developing speed on Scale Degree Identification is provided within the lessons. Working through the entire first two units of the lessons will greatly increase understanding, speed, and proficiency of sight reading music.
The default mnemonic system for this exercise, and all exercises at SonicFit, is movable DO with LA based minor. In the settings, you can change the mnemonic system to letters or numbers or fixed DO. You can also adjust the following:
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When Southampton residents Lilia and Michael Collins visited me in Miami from Delray Beach this winter, they brought me the makings of amazing lasagna. I adapted and detailed the recipe below to be prepared in stages. Significant is the no-cook, fresh pasta squares that can be purchased frozen in most supermarkets. The tomato sauce, the chicken meatballs and the chicken sausage can all be prepared ahead then layered completely ahead before baking and serving. Sautéed garlic spinach can accompany the pasta for the cool green color of spring. Have a happy Easter.
Lilia Collins' Chicken Meatballs and Chicken Sausage Lasagna
This lasagna made with no-cook, fresh, raw, pasta product* works like a charm. The lasagna below is the sum of its parts and can be prepared the day before baking and serving.
Serves 6 to 8
For the tomato sauce
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 28-ounce cans whole tomatoes
1/2 can cold water
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
1 peeled carrot, thinly sliced
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
a few celery leaves
2 to 3 fresh basil leaves
1 cup dry red wine
The rind from a wedge of Parmesan, if available
For the chicken sausage
3 to 4 chicken sausages
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon chopped rosemary
For the chicken meatballs
2 pounds ground chicken
3 large eggs
1/4 cup bread crumbs
About 1/3 to 1/2 cup cold water
About 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 10 oz. package fresh, raw pasta squares
The cheeses
1 pound low-fat ricotta cheese
1 container mozzarella
About 1/2 cup grated Parmesan
1. Pour oil in a saucepan over medium heat; add garlic and pepper flakes and sauté 30 to 40 seconds. Add contents of canned tomatoes, 1/2 of one can of cold water, breaking up the tomatoes as well as possible, season with salt and pepper to taste, and the remaining sauce ingredients. Bring sauce to the edge of a boil, and then simmer with cover ajar for 25 to 30 minutes. Sauce can be prepared ahead and refrigerated or frozen in a suitable container. Bring to room temperature when ready to layer your lasagna with the following.
2. Place chicken sausages in a bowl, pour over olive oil and rosemary and toss to mix. Marinate for 30 to 60 minutes. Broil or bake the sausages, cut into one-inch pieces and set aside.
3. Place the ingredients for the chicken meatballs in a bowl and stir very well to mix. Cover and refrigerate mixture for 1 hour. With wet hands shape the mixture into 1/2 to 3/4 inch meatballs. Place sauce in a large saucepan and put in the meatballs. Bring to a simmer and cook the meatballs for 15 to 20 minutes.
4. In a large Pyrex lasagna pan place several spoonfuls of tomato sauce in the base of the pan. Separate lasagna squares and place them one layer deep over the sauce. Place one third ricotta over the squares and spread with the back of a spoon. Place one third mozzarella slices over the ricotta and top with a thin layer of grated Parmesan. Arrange a layer of pasta squares over the cheese and spoon one third of the sauce with meatballs and sausage slices over the pasta. Place another layer of pasta squares over the sauce layer and continue to layer, pasta, cheese, sauce, pasta, cheese, sauce, finishing with a layer of pasta topped with slices of mozzarella and grated Parmesan. Lasagna is now ready to bake. The lasagna can be refrigerated overnight, covered with a tent of foil. Bring to room temperature if refrigerated and bake in a 350°F over for 25 minutes, uncover and bake for 15 to 20 minutes longer. Serve hot.
*Frozen fresh, raw no-cook pasta squares are available in most supermarkets.
Sautéed Spinach with Garlic and Hot Pepper
Spinach can be used interchangeably with Swiss chard.
Serves 6
2 pounds fresh loose spinach
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 large cloves garlic cut into slivers or
crushed whole
Pinch hot pepper flakes, optional
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
2 to 3 teaspoons breadcrumbs
1. Remove heavy stems from spinach and discard any blemished leaves. Rinse spinach leaves thoroughly in several changes of lukewarm water to get rid of sand and grit. Drain, leaving some of the water that clings to its leaves and coarsely chop leaves on a board.
2. Heat oil in a large non-stick skillet and add the garlic and optional pepper flakes. Sauté for 40 to 50 seconds or just until garlic is a light golden brown. Put in the spinach and season with salt and pepper to taste if not using the flakes. Toss the leaves to coat in the pan and cook for 3 to 4 minutes until slightly wilted. Sprinkle over breadcrumbs; give the leaves another toss to absorb the excess liquid in pan and serve hot.
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Does Your Boston Terrier Have Epulis?
You're afraid that your Boston Terrier may have Epulis, but you're not sure what this disease is all about. Let's go over a few details that will help you understand this canine disease and will better arm you on what treatment you should undertake with your Boston Terrier.
First off, there hasn't been a specific agent that can be pinpointed to cause Epulis. It is grouped into three types, based on tissue of origin:
Fibromatous Type: tumors that have a stalk or stem (pedunculated) and are non- ulcerative.
Ossifying Type: Tumors are that are pedunculated non-ulcerative.
Acanthomatous Type: This benign group of tumors are the most aggressive. They are locally invasive and its presence can result in the destruction of bone tissue.
It may surprise you to learn that some dogs only experience mild cases of Epulis and will not show any clinical manifestations. It may only be found accidentally, during a routine examination.
If you're concerned that your Boston Terrier has Epulis, be on the lookout for the following symptoms:
•Facial deformities
•Bad breath (Halitosis)
•Presence of a growing mass along the periodontal tissue
•Teeth dislodgment
•Excessive salivation
•Bleeding from the gums and other parts of the mouth
•Unexplained loss of weight
•Eating difficulty (Dysphagia)
These are just common symptoms, so you'll need to book an appointment with your vet so that can accurate diagnosis, made by using several diagnostic tests, can be performed. These tests include a Complete Blood Count (CBC), urinalysis, and biochemical profile, which are performed to establish baseline values (most results are within normal limits provided that there are no underlying causes and other ongoing disease processes).
After the CBC has been administered, your vet will conduct a thorough inspection and examination of the dog's oral cavity. This will assess the extent of growth and destruction of oral tissues, which may include the gums and teeth. Radiographic examination of the mouth and chest, CT scans, and a biopsy of the tumor may also be suggested by your vet in order to rule out other types of oral tumors.
The best choice of treatment for Epulis may be surgery, and depending on the size and type of Epulis, the tumor will be excised or totally removed. Surgery is most commonly performed for Fibromatous Epulis and Ossifying Epulis, and may include partial mandibulectomy (removal of the lower jaw) and maxillectomy (removal of the upper jaw). If your vet determines that the Epulis are deemed inoperable, radiation therapy may be another route to take.
Once your Boston Terrier has completed its Epulis treatment, supportive care is an important aspect of therapy. Soft foods are often recommended to help stop or prevent tumor ulceration, and this type of diet can also be soothing after surgery.


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What the hackerspace
From VoidWarranties - Hackerspace Antwerp, Belgium
Note: this article is about a passed event.
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All you ever wanted to know about Hacker Spaces but where afraid to ask.
Brief overview of the history and the evolution in Hacker Spaces. What is a Hacker Space, what are Hackers and what are they Hacking?
Time and place
10:45 - 11:15 at the JOSTO INSTUIF
Quotes on HS
- HS is a knitting club for geeks. (fs111)
- the Rules and Tips of hsbxl (http://hackerspace.be/Patterns)
- As a species we would not exist on our planet if we hadn't evolved to come together in community and make tools to survive in a sometimes wonderful, sometimes hostile environment. Just because we can now sit in front of our computers and buy whatever we want or need does not mean that we don't have a deep inner need to express ourselves by making things and be with other people in real community. Hackerspaces provide both of these profound needs, and we provide them to anyone who wants to learn, teach and share. (Mitch Altman)
- For me a hackerspace is a place I can make anything. NYCResistor is a clubhouse for 35 of the smartest geeks in NYC and we have the tools and resources to make anything. (Bre Pettis)
- Self help group for socially challenged individuals. Nerds Anonymous, if you like... (Jobj)
- Social club for nerds (Koert)
- Gay bar for nerds (not my quote, I'm quoting someone else, but I have no idea what his name is)
- Place where out of the box thinking people, create things for tomorrow, with the knowledge an materials of today...
- It is a location where people with common interests, usually in science, technology, or digital or electronic art can meet, socialise and collaborate. A hackerspace can be viewed as an open community lab, workbench, machine shop, workshop and/or studio where people of diverse backgrounds can come together to share resources and knowledge to build/make things.
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No idea whether these will ever make it into production, but Chinese phone company Huawei showed off three pretty spanky ideas at CeBit 2007. First up is a phone with a built-in USB connector that doesn't need any additional cables to function. Made of flexible rubber, the connector bends any which way you want to connect it to your computer to transfer data or recharge your phone. More crazy ideas and pics after the jump.
How do you like the idea of a phone with an extra external battery, which will give you extra juice by connecting it to the USB? I think these are aimed at teen girls who, as we know, love to talk INTERMINABLY (unlike teen boys, whose adolescent years are frequently punctuated by grunts). Also, only teen girls would bother customizing their batteries with pink fake fur and glitter. Boys would just scratch "World, I HATE you" on theirs.
The final concept, below, is a mobile with a detachable Bluetooth headset, although I originally thought it was a space-age biro. Even if you just use the headset you can still connect to your address book or any data stored in the phone which, in my book, makes it smart. And you can use the space-age biro thingy to track your phone interactively via Bluetooth.
Chinese Concept Phones Revealed In CeBit [Coolest Gadgets]


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Canastota girls basketball edges Adirondack
BOONVILLE -- Danielle Carlone scored a personal-best 17 points in Canastota's girls basketball game against Adirondack on Friday. No points were more important than the 3-point shot she hit with 1:01 to play,
Carlone's long-range shot gave the Raiders a 38-37 victory.
Canastota (3-3, 6-7) trailed by nine entering the second half but rallied to tie the game before an Adirondack 3-pointer gave the hosts a lead entering the fourth quarter. The teams exchanged baskets throughout the period with Carlone's shot proving to be the difference. Adirondack had a chance to win after taking possession with 28 seconds to play. Coach Vinny Salamone had his Raiders squad use its two fouls to disrupt the Wildcats offense before Shea Foster stole the ball with three seconds to play. The Raiders ran out the clock from there to seal the victory.
Foster scored 15 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for the winners.
Canastota 10 2 14 12 - 38
Adirondack 11 10 8 8 - 37
Canastota (3-3, 6-7): Chelsea Dolloff 4, Allyson Malbouf 2, Shea Foster 15, Danielle Carlone 17.
Adirondack (1-6, 7-8): Miranda Crill 5, Abby Philbrick 12, Alexis Charbonneau 6, Katie Lastowski 11, Kianna Adams 3.


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Oh, we got a puppy in August - she's 3/4 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, 1/4 Cocker Spaniel. I had been pining for a long-haired dachshund whom I would name Mr. Peanut, but it was not to be. After reading this blog for a while, I was smitten. Our Lucy came from a local
But I digress.
When I woke up this morning, the sun was shining brilliantly. I heard birds. The sky was so blue it made my teeth hurt. Timmy left the house in a bright green Springtime tie, which is a sure sign that change is coming. You couldn't design a more different day from yesterday if you tried. Last night we watched Factory Girl - ugh. But tonight? How about Meet Me in St. Louis? Or the Music Man? I half-expected a marching band to come down Allegheny Street. Happy March 1st!! It was that kind of day.
Today is Robert Lowell's birthday. I know this because I read it on the teeny tiny screen of my iPhone, courtesy of the Writers' Almanac, along with the facts of his life. The sudden change in weather seemed very fitting to me, because of his manic-depressive illness. His madness, to use the old term. I have always loved Lowell's poems, which manage to achieve compression and expansion all at once, the language and the emotion. They also make my teeth hurt, but in a good way.
Where am I going with all this?
Well, I also had one of the knitter's moments in which you cross from darkness into light. All winter, I've been knitting gray items. Some wrist warmers, a toddler sweater, an infinity scarf for myself. All grayish. At best, vaguely tan. But, as I was trolling around on Ravelry yesterday, I came across this. It seemed like a small moment of kismet, because I'm currently knitting another of Veera's designs, Golden Wheat, also to die for. Only mine is more Brownish Wheat. Generally, I'm not a shawl knitter. When I revealed this developing plan to Heather, she just said,"you love sock yarn." Which is true. But I never knit socks, because I always end up breaking those skinny needles, like Frankenstein or Jake LaMotta would, if either ever started knitting.
This shawl spoke to me. It said: Guess what? You have the yarn! Now, I don't have the called-for yarn, which would be the best of all possible scenarios. To be dumbstruck by a pattern and actually have the exact yarn in your stash? That has never happened to me. Has that ever happened to anyone?
Anyway, I remembered two skeins of madelinetosh sock yarn that have been buried under the heap of gray. Actually, the red was buried. The blue has been sitting on my dresser since December. The prospect of not having to launch an manic, exhaustive search for the perfect yarn nearly did me in. What more could I want - more kismet? The colorways are Thunderstorm and Tart.


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PARK CITY, Utah - Canadian Olympic champion Alex Bilodeau won gold in the freestyle World Cup dual moguls finals Saturday while teammate Justine Dufour-Lapointe took silver in the women's competition.
Bilodeau, who won the dual mogul world championship on the same course, took his first World Cup victory since 2011.
"It's definitely very good to be back on top of the podium and I'm so happy with my skiing, it was improving every run today and so it's looking good for the rest of the season," said the Rosemere, Que., native.
Bilodeau's teammate Mikael Kingsbury had his historic 19-podium streak end when his ski popped off in his quarter-final dual.
Kingsbury, from Deux-Montagnes, Que., is still the FIS points leader, but he said he was disappointed with the way his streak ended.
"I would have preferred to finish my streak with a fall or trying to push the limits to the max as opposed to losing a ski for no major reason, so for sure it's disappointing, but still I'm happy with the result of the day. I think I skied well all week and I'm still the World Cup leader," said Kingsbury, who finished fifth.
Bilodeau was joined on the podium by Americans Patrick Deneen in second and Bradley Wilson in third.
On the women's side, Dufour-Lapointe lost her final dual to Olympic champion Hannah Kearney of the United States. Nevertheless, the 18-year-old from Montreal was happy with how she rose to the occasion.
"I'm really stoked, I skied so good in the middle section, I'm just really proud of me because this morning I woke up and I was just so tired that I thought, 'Gosh, today I would really like to take a break after five days in a row of skiing, my body is so exhausted,' but I managed that really well and I told myself that I needed every run and that it was important," she said of the five-run marathon to the podium.
Dufour-Lapointe added that, although she lost her dual to Kearney, she surprised herself with the speed and quality of her skiing.
"I have never skied that fast ever in my entire life," she said. "Just to know that I am capable of skiing that fast is so great. Too bad, I hit a bump a little too heavy and it made me make a mistake, but it's OK, being on the podium is cool and keeping my yellow bib is even cooler."
Kazakhstan's Yulia Galysheva won the bronze.


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Mr. Kennth Penland 10th Dan
The United States Jujitsu Federation is the National Governing Body of Jujitsu in America as recognized by the International Jujitsu Federation and the Olympic Committee and World Games. Akayama-Ryu Jujitsu is a fully recognized and certified traditional system.
Shorinji Ryu Jujitsu, From Kennth Panland
Spelled JuJutsu in Japanese, Ju means 'gentle', 'soft' or 'flexible' and Jutsu means 'skill' or 'art.' Hence Jujutsu is the flexible art. This unarmed martial art either originated in or found its way to
Hanshi Kenneth Lyle Penland has over 50 years in the martial arts. He began his training at age 5 under his father who was a Karate Black Belt. Mr. Penland is a retired Security Specialist for the LAPD, and Defensive Tactics Instructor for the
Thereafter, military dictators or Shoguns ruled
Jujitsu is
Therefore, it is only natural that the samurai or bushi used his sword as his primary weapon [at long range] and that close quarter individual combat was characterized by Kumiuchi or grappling methods. Jujitsu then was originally a secondary system of defense used only after the classical warrior made use of his weapons and then closed with opponent.
Only in the modern era, as the frequency of warfare on the field of battle declined, did ryu or styles specialize solely in empty-hand tactics and de-emphasize the use of weapons as a primary combative resource. Ju Jitsu, as an art of Japanese unarmed combat, developed from many sources within
In 230 BCE , a wrestling art developed in
About the beginning of the Christian era, two thousand years ago, there is also a mention of the development of wrestling and related techniques that served as the origin of Jujitsu. In fact, there is a noticeable relationship between the ancient Sumo wrestling techniques and Jujitsu. A number of Jujitsu schools developed from 23 BCE on.
The techniques of Teijin's Jujitsu were passed on to his son Tsunemoto. Tsunemoto was later given the name Minamoto. Teijin's descendants are known as the Seiwa Genji and they became some of
He realized that a warrior's wrists and hands were unprotected by the samurai's armor. So, he developed techniques to be used against these joints or vulnerable areas. He is known to have dissected the bodies of criminals and war dead in order to better understand human body mechanics. Later, he lived in the Daito mansion of eastern
It is believed that this is how the Minamoto style came to be known as Daito Ryu Aikijujitsu. It is this form of Jujitsu that gave rise to Daito Ryu Aikijujitsu, the predecessor of modern Aikido. General Yoshimitsu's son, Yoshikiyu, who inherited the techniques of the Ryu lived in the
The legend regarding the founding of Yoshin Ryu states that Aikiyama after returning from
Supposedly, this provided the inspiration for Akiyama to name his school Yoshin Ryu, the willow hearted school. This was followed by Hideyoshi Toyotomi who returned from
Over the course of about fifty years during the Kanei, Manji and Kanbun eras (1624-1673) numerous Jujitsu experts established schools and the art was taught widely. These schools were known as Yawara, Taijutsu, Kumiuchi, Kenpo, Torite, Kogusoku and Taido, etc. Yawara is another name for Jujitsu and made use of a short stick for atemi and applying pressure to nerve points. Taijutsu literally means body arts;
Kumiuchi implies grappling; Kenpo is a term used to infer a striking method and Torite impilies joint locking and controlling an opponent. These systems all included throwing techniques, strangling, joint locking and striking techniques. Each Ryu specialized in some method of attack or defense and used the concept of Ju, i.e. pliancy or flexibility. Because the Tokugawa Bakafu (tent government) prohibited the carrying of swords by commoners it increased interest in unarmed methods of combat. Actually, at this point Jujitsu split into two directions or mainstreams of development.
One was the original secondary system of the classical warrior and the other was a new kind of law enforcement defensive tactic used to preserve law and order within an otherwise peaceful society. During the
However, even though there is a relationship between sumo and the martial arts of the samurai i.e., Jujitsu, sumo was always a sport and never a martial art or battlefield method of the Bushi or samurai warrior class. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were an era in which the formal schools of Jujitsu developed. The various ryu, in a time of relative peace, were systematized from countless methods of unarmed combat from the warrior culture of previous centuries.
Therefore, the assumption is that if a ryu has a pedigree and its lineage is pure its physical techniques must be good too! The only problem with this is that some schools with a pure lineage are oftentimes stagnated and do not exhibit as high a quality of martial skill as some systems that are more recent in origin. (Although, the reverse can be true as well.) The point is that the "mother schools" tended to become insular by practicing so long within their own body of knowledge and curricula.
Therefore, notwithstanding the air of secrecy surrounding the teachings of a ryu, a universal pool of knowledge did exist with respect to unarmed (and armed) methods of combat in
Yet another concept in Japanese martial culture, which guided the development of Jujitsu styles is called Shuhari. This doctrine has existed for a long time in the Japanese martial arts as well as other arts such as the tea ceremony. Shu literally means learning from tradition. It means to follow the teachings of past masters with strict adherence. Ha means to reject or doubt anything that disrupts the following of Shu. Ri means to break the chains of tradition i.e., to transcend or separate from the first two and improve upon the teachings of previous masters. In other words, the student becomes the master.
The concept of taking the initiative or attacking first (sen no sen) inspired other schools. Iaijutsu or the art of quick drawing and cutting in one motion evolved in response to changing times. In the Edo Period (1603-1868) the warrior class was no longer concerned with fighting in military campaigns on the battlefield with swords drawn (kenjutsu) but rather they were concerned with a sneak attack in sword play which could come unexpectedly and at any moment. Hence, Iaijutsu.
This principle of attack from swordsmanship also influenced the strategies of various Jujitsu schools. These strategies are reflected in a modern style of Karate Do called Wado Ryu founded by Hironori Ohtsuka (1892-1982). This style is actually a combination of Shotokan Karate and Shin no Shindo Ryu Jujitsu. In Ohtsuka sensei's book Wado Ryu Karate he writes: In a contest there is both machite and kakete. Machite is the method with which one responds when the opponent strikes first; kakete is the opposite. There are two kinds of machite. Kakete has only one. Win or loss is decided by these three. The first of the machite, "gosen-no-te," defends and simultaneously attacks - hence, it is defend / attack. The second of the machite, "sensen-no-sente," strikes the enemy as he is about to make his first strike while defending that strike. Hence, one strikes before the opponent strikes. Hence, it is defend / attack as well. When defense and attack are separate, one is often pushed into defense only. It must be remembered that offense is also the best defense. "Sente," the kakete, attacks first by catching the opponent off-guard, or forcing the opponent into such a state. Also, the opponent is not dumb - he will respond with one of the above three; thus, one must be careful to not fall victim to it himself. Therefore, these actions go back and forth; in addition, remember to maintain a good mind-set and a good pocket of space between you and the opponent.
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Imagine living in China and missing Chinese food. It happens. American expatriates who grew up with popular takeout dishes like General Tso's chicken can't find it in China because it essentially doesn't exist here.
Much of the Chinese food we grew up with isn't really Chinese. It's an American version of Chinese food. Chinese immigrants created it over time, adapting recipes with U.S. ingredients to appeal to American palates.
Now, Americans living in Shanghai can get a fix of their beloved Chinatown cuisine at a new restaurant called Fortune Cookie.
A pair of American entrepreneurs launched Fortune Cookie last year to cater to nostalgic expatriates and local Chinese. The venture could be seen as one big prank — the culinary equivalent of coals to Newcastle.
"A lot of people called us crazy and were banking on us closing after six months," says co-owner Fung Lam, 31, who grew up in North Jersey.
Eight months later, though, the doors here are still open, and Lam is hopeful he can find a market.
"American-Chinese food is another regional cuisine for China," he says, likening it Sichuan, Hunan and Cantonese food, which seems a bit of a stretch.
Lam is a third-generation Chinese-American restaurateur. His grandfather came from Hong Kong and opened his first restaurant in Brooklyn in the 1960s. Lam spent his teenage years packing takeout boxes in one of the family's restaurants in New Jersey.
Fortune Cookie's core demographic includes patrons like Megan Emery-Moore, who teaches art at Shanghai American School. Emery-Moore grew up in a town of 20,000 in Missouri, where she waitressed at a Chinese restaurant.
"They had amazing sweet-and-sour chicken," she recalls, "so ever since then, I was always like: I've got to get more that was just like that."
As we chat, Emery-Moore digs into a plate of sweet-and-sour chicken covered in sauce and pineapples.
"It's kind of embarrassing that you're in China eating American-Chinese food, but it was just spot on," says Emery-Moore, referring to her meal. She says the food transports her to another place and time. "I feel calm. I feel relaxed. I feel like I'm at home."
No Taste Like Home
The food at Fortune Cookie tastes like home because many key ingredients — Skippy peanut butter, Mott's applesauce and Philadelphia cream cheese — originate there.
Mott's goes in the duck sauce as well as the chili sauce for spring rolls. Skippy is used in fried noodles and fried rice. Cream cheese serves as filling in Crab Rangoon, a deep-fried dumpling appetizer.
Standing in the restaurant's cramped kitchen next to a bubbling wok of sweet-and-sour sauce, Lam reveals the secret behind the dish Megan Emery-Moore swears by.
"Off the top of my head, about one-third of it is Heinz ketchup," says Lam matter-of-factly. That's "what gives it that bright, red-orangey color."
When Lam came to Shanghai in 2012, he wasn't thinking about opening a place like this. He and his business partner, David Rossi, who met in a master's program in hospitality management at Cornell University, planned a quick-service restaurant that focused on healthy food.
When that concept ran into trouble — China is a notoriously tough place to do business — the pair considered what was missing from the burgeoning culinary scene in this city of 24 million.
"If you're out here, there are so many pizzerias and burger places and bistro bars and tapas ... so you almost don't even miss being in the States," says Lam. But when he went looking for the Chinese comfort food his family made back home, he couldn't find it.
"A light bulb went off," says Lam, who wears a pinstripe apron and black, backwards baseball cap.
Intro To Fortune Cookies And Takeout Boxes
Getting Fortune Cookie up and running wasn't easy. The owners sourced the restaurant's namesake, a treat that's unheard of in China, from a factory in neighboring Jiangsu province that exported to the Netherlands.
When the sample fortune cookies arrived, they cracked them open to find all the fortunes were written in Dutch. With the restaurant's opening looming, panic set in.
"You have no idea how hard it is to write a fortune when you have to come up with 120 of them in one night," says Rossi, 33, who grew up in South Pasadena, Calif.
Rossi says the first 40 fortunes they wrote were pretty good, but by 2 a.m., their imaginations were spent. They wrote single-word messages such as "Yes" and "No."
Guests were not impressed.
"Who wrote this?" Rossi recalls one bewildered customer complaining as he cracked open a cookie. "This is horrific!"
The restaurant now has a box where customers can suggest their own fortunes.
Chinese people make up about 40 percent of the lunch crowd at Fortune Cookie these days, and they seem to enjoy the food. Earlier this week, George Zhao, a management consultant who spent eight years in Melbourne, praised his dish of beef and broccoli. But Zhao said, in general, Westernized Chinese food lacks the subtlety of the original cuisine.
"For example, the sweet-and-sour pork — the pork is too sweet," said Zhao. "In China, we don't eat food this sweet."
A few booths away sat Jack Zhang, who works in advertising. A Chinese colleague brought him here to taste a new kind of food. After a plate of orange chicken, Zhang bit into his first fortune cookie. He furrowed his brow and searched for the words to describe it.
"Hmmm. This is like glutinous rice," he said in Mandarin. "It also tastes like a street-side pancake. I've never been to America, so I'm not quite clear about this thing."
Another thing at Fortune Cookie that intrigues people here are the white cardboard takeout boxes with wire handles and red pagodas on the side. Ubiquitous in America, they are known to Chinese only through scenes in Hollywood movies.
When the restaurant staff saw them for the first time, they were so excited, they took photos. Then, with Lunar New Year approaching, they loaded up some boxes and fortune cookies and took them home to show their families.
If you ever get a chance to visit China, you discover something as soon as you go out to eat. Many classic Chinese dishes in American restaurants are not available in China. American-Chinese food is not really Chinese food, but an Americanized version of it. Take General Tsao's Chicken, when you get to China, you first learn that you're pronouncing it wrong. It's General Tsao's Chicken. And next you learn you can't get it. It's American. As a result, there are Americans in China who miss Chinese food - or at least Chinese food as they remember it.
So a restaurant offers to provide expatriates with authentic American Chinese.
NPR's Frank Langfitt visited a Shanghai restaurant called Fortune Cookie.
FUNG LAM: (Foreign language spoken)
FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: At lunch time, Fung Lam relays orders to his local chefs. It's just like his family's restaurant back in North Jersey where he filled take-out orders as a teenager.
Even down to some of the very un-Chinese ingredients that have helped make this hybrid cuisine so palatable to Americans for decades.
LAM: We're American-style Chinese food, so a lot of the ingredients, so a lot of the ingredients, like Skippy Peanut Butter, Motts Apple Sauce, like things that we use, were never made in China, so we just had to find the product here.
LANGFITT: What do you use the Apple sauce in?
LAM: We use it in our sweet chili sauce that goes in our spring rolls, and then also duck sauce.
LANGFITT: The Skippy goes into fried noodles and fried rice. The secret behind that Chinatown standard: sweet-and-sour sauce?
LAM: Off the top of my head, about one third of it is Heinz Ketchup.
LANGFITT: Yeah.
LAM: And that's like what gives it that like bright, red orangey color.
LANGFITT: Yeah.
LAM: It's the Heinz Ketchup.
DAVID ROSSI: Hi. My name is David Rossi. I'm originally from South Pasadena, California.
LANGFITT: Rossi is Lam's business partner. They met studying for a Masters in hospitality management at Cornell. The pair came here in 2012 to open a restaurant that focused on healthy food.
When that ran into trouble, they decided to offer the only kind of cuisine they couldn't find in Shanghai: American-Chinese. Food bloggers ridiculed the idea.
LAM: Lines like you're going to try to sell, like, you know, ice to Eskimos.
ROSSI: A lot of people called us like crazy and just, they were like banking on us closing and under six months.
LANGFITT: Eight months later, Fortune Cookie is still open. Lam believes there is a market among expatriates here nostalgic for their home-town, take-out.
People like Meghan Emery-Moore, who teaches Art at Shanghai American School. Emery-Moore grew up in Missouri, where she waitressed at a Chinese restaurant.
MEGHAN EMERY-MOORE: And they had amazing sweet and sour chicken. So ever since then, I was always like: I've got to get more that was just like that.
LANGFITT: Which is what she's eating right now.
EMERY-MOORE: It's kind of embarrassing that you're in China eating American-Chinese food, but it was, like, spot-on.
LANGFITT: And kind of comforting.
EMERY-MOORE: I feel calm. I feel relaxed. I feel like I'm at home.
LANGFITT: Chinese people make up about 40 percent of the lunch crowd at Fortune Cookie. George Zhao, a management consultant, likes the beef and broccoli he's ordered. But he says, in general, Westernized Chinese food lacks the subtly of the original cuisine.
GEORGE ZHAO: The sweet sour pork, the pork is too sweet. In China, we don't eat food this sweet.
LANGFITT: A few booths away sits Jack Zhang, who works in advertising. A Chinese colleague brought him here to introduce him to taste a new kind of food.
LANGFITT: This is the sound of Zhang eating his first Fortune Cookie. He's kind of frowning and thinking.
JACK ZHANG: (Foreign language spoken)
LANGFITT: This is like glutinous rice, he says. It also tastes like a street-side pancake. I've never been to America, so I'm not quite clear about this thing.
That's because Fortune Cookies are also unknown here. As are those little white take-out boxes with the wire handles. In fact, the restaurant's Chinese staff found both so intriguing, they took them home to show their families during the recent Lunar New Year.
Frank Langfitt, NPR News Shanghai.
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Police and Crime Commissioner candidates: Priorities
PUBLISHED: 14:05 15 November 2012
Candidates standing for the Police and Crime Commissioner post for Devon and Cornwall answer your questions about priorities for police at a meeting in Honiton.
Priorities for Honiton and East Devon and how the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon would cover such a vast area were addressed by candidates standing for election.
Candidates Tony Hogg (Conservative), Brian Blake (Lib Dem), William Morris (Independent), Nicky Williams (Labour), Brian Greenslade (Independent) and John Smith (Independent) faced questions from residents at the meeting organised by Honiton Senior Voice yesterday (Wednesday).
John Smith (Independent) said: "The priorities for Honiton and East Devon are the same as the priorities for the whole area to keep crime down and make sure you feel safe to walk the streets in your communities and make sure rural areas and rural crime receives more attention than it has in the past."
He said he would look to working with third sector partners such as Age Concern to feedback the views of groups as well as holding weekly meetings in Devon and Cornwall.
Tony Hogg (Conservative) said: "We have got to involve the public and really put our minds to it by using conventional methods - using emails, Facebook, and Twitter. Use ways that don't cost too much money and establish networks with the Citizens Advice Bureau and Community Safety Partnership."
He suggested re-energising some of the police stations to committ the Police and Crime Commissioner team and on-the-road communication days, meeting people on the streets and an ideas bank.
Mr Hogg outlined anti-social behaviour, violent crime and rural issues as areas for concern for Honiton and East Devon. He said he would also walk the beat with officers once a month.
Brian Blake (Lib Dem) said: "This area is a very rural area and rural policing by its nature has a small amount of police officers and they should be visible. If they are driving a car they should stop and leave the car and chat to people before getting back in. Police officers need to get back to that."
He said there is need for a training budget of special police constables, which he would like to see doubled, and police officers out on the streets.
Ways in which he would engage with the public would be to hold meetings and liase with groups who could organise similar meetings.
Nicky Williams (Labour) said: "I don't think we can have a one size fits all policing in Devon and Cornwall.
She told the meeting that she wanted the local community and police to find "local solutions" to problems such as anti-social behaviour.
She added: "I think we have to use existing sturctures such as the town and parish councils."
Miss Williams expressed the importance of recompensing volunteers and voluntary sector organisations to "work with them and support them" to ensure a viable police force.
She also wanted to see victims of anti-social behaviour getting support within 24hours or sooner if necessary.
Brian Greenslade (Independent) said: "The priorities are much the same priorities as elsewhere - the viability of policing and more of it and crime in Devon down."
He added: "Getting out and about is critical to me.".
Mr Greenslade said he would talk to individuals on the streets and would travel the area by train as much as possible.
William Morris (Independent): "I would consult with working groups and include the public not just experts."
He added: "The chief constable would cover day to day polcing. The commissioner can set targets and do set priorities - they can say there should be more vehicle checks in the early mornings."
Mr Morris also listed wldlife crime, drugs, substance abuse, especially by children, and anti-social behaviour as concerns and would like to see a community payback scheme introudced to keep children out of the criminal justice system.
Farm crimes such as rustling and iron thefts were also areas of concern for the area. He also said he would like to see changes to the way resources are set and allocated for areas in Devon.
Fellow candidates standing - Tam MacPherson (Independent), Ivan Jordan (Independent), Robert Smith (UKIP) and Graham Calderwood (Independent) - were unable to attend the meeting.
Robert Smith (UKIP) – He is a chartered child and educational psychologist has has been in private practice for more than 20 years. He provides advice to courts regarding child protection and family issues.
He says he wants the police to be tough on crime and wants to reconnect the police with the people and their communities.
Tam Macpherson (Independent)- He aims to reduce crime and cut reoffending, protect victims and witnesses and introduce greater transparency and accountability to improve the quality of the police service.
Ivan Jordan (Independent) - He is an architect and farmer. He lists tackling hate crime as a priority area, as well as focusing on strong community policing, protecting the force from privitisation and smarter budgeting.
Graham Calderwood (Independent) - A criminal lawyer for 40 years, he is now a part-time advocate and duty solicitor.
He says he would look to using officers more efficiently and look at how procedures can be improved.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A disappointed American delegation led a Western snub of a U.N. telecommunications treaty Thursday after rivals, including Iran and China, won support for provisions interpreted as endorsing greater government control of the Internet.
The unraveling of the conference displayed the deep ideological divide at the 193-nation gathering in Dubai, where envoys grappled with the first revisions of global telecom codes since 1988 — years before the dawn of the Internet age.
A Western bloc led by a powerhouse U.S. delegation sought to stop any U.N. rules on cyberspace, fearing they could squeeze Web commerce and open the door for more restrictions and monitoring by authoritarian regimes that already impose wide-ranging clampdowns. The head of one tech industry group said it could "forever alter" the Web.
A rival group — including China, Russia, Gulf Arab states, African nations and others — favored U.N. backing for stronger government sway over Internet affairs and claimed the Western dominance of the Internet needed to be addressed.
The battles were over language that could influence perceptions of what the Internet means as a modern tool for business, communications and societies — and not directly about specific practical regulations.
The head of the U.S. delegation, Ambassador Terry Kramer, described it as a "crossroads over the collective view of the Internet."
Many of the disputed clauses were quashed or watered down during 10 days of negotiations, but the non-Western bloc managed to win support for wording that supported governments' rights to have access to the Web.
This was viewed by the U.S. and its allies as a backdoor attempt to gain U.N. sanction for more government controls over the Internet, adding to earlier objections about references that could suggest U.N. backing for more state authority over content and commerce.
In a packed meeting hall, U.S. envoy Kramer said he could not sign the final accord, noting a "heavy heart and a sense of missed opportunities."
A host of Western nations — including Canada, Britain and New Zealand — also said they could not back the new charter by the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union, or ITU, a group dating back to the birth of the telegraph more than 140 years ago.
"Internet policy should not be determined by member states, but by citizens, communities and broader society ... the private sector and civil society," said Kramer. "That has not happened here."
He bemoaned possible signs that the free-wheeling growth of the Internet could now be encumbered by government bureaucracies and security agencies.
"The Internet has given the world unimaginable economic and social benefits ... all without UN regulations," he told the conference.
The ITU has no powers to instantly change how the Internet operates and its regulations are non-binding. It also cannot compel reforms by states that already widely censor cyberspace.
But the U.S.-led coalition at the talks argued that any U.N. codes sanctioning greater government roles in the Net — even under the framework of state security — could be used as justification for even more controls from Web watchers in places such China, Iran and other nations.
The host United Arab Emirates announced stricter Internet laws last month that outlaw postings such as insulting rulers or calling for protests. The Iranian delegate at the talks said it was time for a more "balanced approach" between the Net's borderless reach and the needs of nations.
There is an outside chance that final text could be rewritten to appease the U.S. and others before the meeting closes Friday. But ITU spokeswoman Sarah Parkes said it "looks like a formality" that the document will stand.
"It's not a crime to talk about Internet inside the ITU," said the group's secretary-general, Hamadoun Toure, before Thursday's decisive session.
Toure insisted the treaty did "not include provisions" on direct Internet oversight by governments. But he noted the growing rifts over how to deal with the Net.
"There is no single world view, but several and these world views need to be accommodated and engaged," he said after the Western rejection.
The U.S. team in Dubai also includes heavy hitters from the tech world such as Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc., which stood up against proposals by European telecoms companies to charge Internet content providers for access to domestic markets around the world.
A statement from Google said the Dubai gathering underscored that "many governments want to increase regulation and censorship of the Internet."
"We stand with the countries who refuse to sign this treaty," said the company statement.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the conference went in the "wrong direction" by opening the door to greater government controls "instead of focusing on promoting innovation and market growth in the telecom space."
Michael Beckerman, president and CEO of the Washington-based industry group The Internet Association, said the efforts for greater government controls could "forever alter" the current framework of the Net.
"The unique nature of the Internet - free from government control and governed by multiple stakeholders - has unleashed unprecedented entrepreneurialism, creativity, innovation, and freedom far beyond imagination," he said in a statement. "Preserving a free Internet for all people is essential to the preservation of political and economic liberty."
Other issues in the accord include calls for more transparency on roaming charges by mobile phone companies, efforts to fight Internet fraud and spam and creation of a worldwide emergency number for mobile phones and other devices.


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Baking with Dorie: Pierre Hermé's Fruit and Spice Loaf Cake Recipe
Satisfy your sweet tooth with recipes from Dorie Greenspan.
I'm in Paris now where the sweet you see in every pastry shop and bakery this time of year is pain d'épices. Sometimes translated as spice bread or likened to gingerbread, I think pain d'épices comes closer to honey cake than to any other sweet in the pantheon. The problem with pinning down this cake, a specialty of Dijon and Alsace and probably a bunch of other areas as well, is that it comes in a million varieties: it can be a loaf or a huge sheet cake; it can be as dark as mahogany or as light as a peanut-butter blondie; it can have nuts, or not; be full of dried fruits, or not; and be either firm or soft. And, of course, as is true with most traditional recipes, everyone who makes pain d'épices thinks his recipe is either the most authentic or the best or both.
This is a recipe from Pierre Hermé, the famous Paris pastry chef, who comes from a family of pastry chefs, each of whom made pain d'épices. In fact, if I remember correctly, Pierre said that this recipe is based on one his father, a pastry chef in the Alsatian town of Colmar, made.
Pierre's pain d'épices has honey, of course, and Pierre suggests you use a honey with a lot of flavor. (He uses pine honey.) And, like all pain d'épices, this one will be better if you make it a day ahead, let it cool, then wrap it up and let it sit overnight.
While pain d'épices is delicious with tea or cider, it's often toasted and then served with magret de canard (duck breast), particularly if the duck is paired with something fruity, spread with soft cheese or used as a base for foie gras, either sautéed or pressed into a terrine. If you have any pain d'épices left over, dry it in the oven, then whir it in the blender or processor to make crumbs—they make a fabulous breading for calves liver or chicken breasts.
Happy New Year! I hope this year will be a great one for all of you—a delicious one, too.
Pierre Herme's Fruit and Spice Loaf Cake
- 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons water
- 10 pieces star anise
- 1/3 cup honey
- 5 1/2 tablespoons (2 3/4 ounces) unsalted butter, melted
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup rye flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 2/3 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
- 1/3 cup sliced blanched almonds, toasted
- 13 pitted, moist prunes, cut into 1/4-inch cubes
- 13 moist, plump dried apricots, cut into 1/4-inch cubes
- Zest of 1 lemon—removed with a zester and finely chopped
- Zest of 1 orange—removed with a zester and finely chopped
Place the water and star anise in a saucepan over high heat, or in a microwave-safe container in the microwave oven, and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat, cover and infuse for 1 hour.
Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. Very lightly spray an 8 x 4 x 2 1/2 inch loaf pan with vegetable oil spray and then line the pan with parchment paper; set aside until needed. Prepare an insulating layer for the cake by stacking two baking sheets, one on top of the other, or use an insulated (air-cushioned) baking sheet.
Stir the honey and melted butter together in a medium bowl, then strain the star anise-infused water into the bowl (discard the star anise). Stir to blend and then set the bowl aside.
Sift the all-purpose flour, rye flour, baking powder and spices together into a large bowl. In another bowl, stir together the nuts, dried fruits and zests. Add 1 tablespoon of the dry ingredients to the nuts and fruits and toss to coat the ingredients lightly with the flour.
Pour the honey mixture into the bowl with the flour and spices and stir gently with a wooden spoon or large rubber spatula. Treat this batter as you would a quick bread or muffin mixture—stir it only until the dry ingredients are moistened. Add the nuts and fruits and lightly stir them into the batter—thoroughness isn't important here. (The batter will be very thick, more like a quick bread dough than a cake batter.)
Spoon the batter into the pan and bake for 65 to 75 minutes, or until a thin knife inserted deeply into the cake comes out clean. Transfer the cake to a cooling rack and unmold it, then invert it to cool to room temperature right side up. When the cake is absolutely cool—this can take a couple of hours—wrap it in a double thickness of plastic wrap and allow it to "ripen" for a day before slicing and serving in very thin slices. (Of course, you can eat it now, if you want to.)
Storing: Wrapped airtight, the cake will keep for about 4 days at room temperature or for up to 2 months in the freezer.
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William Stuart Bankhead (1826-1898), at lower right, Jefferson's great-grandson and ancestor of Cary Hotchkiss II and Roger McWhorter
Cousins Cary Hotchkiss II and Roger McWhorter are descendants of Thomas Jefferson's eldest granddaughter Anne Randolph Bankhead through her son, William Stuart Bankhead. Among the slaves Bankhead brought with him to Alabama in 1846 was Susan Scott. For the past century and a half the lives of the Scott and Bankhead families have been intertwined.
Cary Hotchkiss is retired from farming. Roger McWhorter left banking for farming: cotton at first and then cattle. They both have vivid memories of spending time at the home of their relative Miss Cary Hotchkiss (1887–1978), where Lessie Young Clay, Susan Scott's great-granddaughter, was cook. And playing baseball with Lessie Clay's brothers and nephews.
Both agreed that the Scott descendants are like family to them. As Hotchkiss said, "I don't know who had the biggest hold on whom."NIKE AIR HUARACHE
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Interviewees: Roger McWhorter, Cary Hotchkiss II
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Gore joined the venture capital group Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Buyers in November 2007, whose key partner, John Doerr, has been pushing hard for biofuel subsidies. His firm GIM also became a KPCB affiliate. As vice president, Gore had cast a 1994 Senate tie-breaking vote in favor of ethanol mandates, but has subsequently admitted regrets. He stated four years later that, "One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had certain fondness of the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for president".
Over the five years since Al Gore joined KPCB to promote environmentally-correct "green tech" investments, the results have been pretty dismal. According to VentureSource, of the more than 60 companies that have received KPCB equity backing, only three have been acquired or merged into other companies. And since the time Gore joined KPCB, only two have managed to go public. Shareholders of one, Amyris, Inc. a biomass company, have lost 80% of their value since the firm's 2010 IPO. The other, Enphase Energy which went public last March, was listed by the Wall Street Journal in December as the worst IPO of the year.
Amyris is a UC-Berkeley-spawned genetic engineering company originally funded by Bill Gates which raised $16 per share during its 2010 IPO. The company then got big news again when Fidelity bought 6.2 million shares in February 2012 at $5.78 per share. It's now selling at about $3.20.