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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
Shopping FAQ's
Can I order by telephone?
You can always place orders by phone by calling 800.356.8466.
May I order catalog items online?
You may order any item you find in our catalog online. Enter the item number in the search box above. You may also call us at 800.356.8466.
How can I find out the status of an order?
Simply visit the Track Your Order section, or call us at 800.356.8466.
Can I change or cancel my order?
To make a change or cancel your order, please contact Customer Care at 800.648.6058, 5:30PM ET Monday-Friday.
What is Wine Enthusiast's return policy?
If you are not completely satisfied with your purchase, simply return the item within 30 days for a quick exchange, refund or credit. Email or call Customer Care at 800.648.6058, 9AM-5:30PM ET Monday-Friday.
Click here for return instructions.
We only ask that you return the merchandise in new condition and in the original packaging with your receipt. Sorry, no returns on wine cellars, cooling units, custom racks, videotapes, personalized items, CDs, software, books, food or plants. Shipping is refunded only if the wrong items were shipped, or merchandise was received damaged. For all Custom Racking, Cooling Units and Wine Cellars, pre-payment is required and a 20% restocking charge will be imposed for any cancellations after 10 days.
Can I change my email address in my customer profile?
Unfortunately, you may not change your email address online. However, you may change your email address by calling Customer Care at 800.648.6058, 9AM-5:30PM ET Monday-Friday.
I forgot my password. How can I log onto my account?
If you have forgotten your password, visit our Forgot Your Password Page and fill out your email address. Your password will be emailed to you shortly.
Can I check my order online if I do not have an online account?
Yes. Click here for Order Tracking and enter the order number and billing zip code. If you do not have your order number, please call Customer Care at 800.648.6058 for further assistance.
What forms of payment are accepted for online purchases?
Payment may be made by Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, and PayPal (PayPal can only be accepted online). Personal checks are accepted for mail orders only.
Shipping FAQ's
What shipping options are available?
Wine Enthusiast offers several shipping options, depending on the product. Please click here for our shipping information.
Standard Delivery
Most purchases are shipped from our New Jersey warehouse and scheduled to arrive within 5-7 business days of shipment of the order. Items sent directly from our suppliers may take longer, and items ordered together may not arrive in the same box. Standard Delivery option is available for all orders in the continental U.S. See below for orders destined for Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and international addresses.
Express Delivery Policy
Wine Enthusiast offers two express delivery methods - UPS 2nd Day Air and UPS Next Day Air. All express delivery orders for in-stock items must be placed on the web site before 3 P.M. ET in order to be processed and shipped the same day. Any orders placed after 3 P.M. ET will be processed the following business day. If any order is placed after 3:00PM ET on a Friday, the order will be processed the following Monday or the next business day.
Items with a noted separate shipping charge, such as heavy items, wine cellars, nitrogen systems, and oversized items cannot be shipped using express delivery methods. Any orders that combine items with a separate shipping charge and items that use the shipping chart will be charged the shipping chart fee for only those items and for the selected shipping method (Standard, 2 Day Air, or Next Day) and the separate shipping fee. The item with the extra shipping fee will not be delivered using the express delivery methods.
White Glove Delivery
Wine cellars and other heavy items receive our White Glove Delivery. With this service, we bring the item into your home, unpack it, inspect it and dispose of the packaging. Delivery is by appointment, and you will be called to arrange a day. For most items, the charge for this service is separate from standard delivery charges. Please call for details.
How are shipping, handling, and delivery surcharges calculated?
Shipping charges are determined by the total value of your order and the shipping method. Certain oversized and heavy items do not apply; in these cases, separate shipping charges are indicated in the item description. All shipping is subject to verification. Call 800.356.8466 for Saturday delivery which is subject to an additional charge. Items ordered together are not necessarily shipped the same day. We will notify you of any delay beyond 20 days.
What is your policy on products that arrive broken or damaged?
We understand that many of our products are fragile and may be damaged in transit. In such cases, please contact Customer Care at 800.648.6058, 9AM-5:30PM ET Monday-Friday and a Customer Care representative will assist you.
Does Wine Enthusiast ship to Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico?
Standard Delivery shipping rates do not apply to any orders shipped to Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Please contact us directly at 800.356.8466 to obtain an accurate shipping quote prior to ordering any product to be shipped to these states or someone will be in contact with you after your order has been placed to notify you regarding the additional charges that will be required for your order.
Can orders be shipped to a P.O. box and/or APO/FPO?
Sorry, items cannot be shipped to P.O. boxes and/or APO/FPO.
Can orders be shipped to foreign countries?
For international orders, call (add your country's exit code) + 1.914.345.9463 or fax us at (add your country's exit code) + 1.914.345.3129. Payment must be made by credit card or postal money order (in U.S. dollars) for international and mail orders. For Priority Express delivery, please call (add your country's exit code) + 1.914.345.9463 for specific charges. International orders and orders to APO/FPO bases and countries outside the continental U.S. require higher shipping charges than shown in the catalog or online. In-stock items will be shipped within 48 hours. Shipping and applicable duty charges are paid by the recipient. Call for shipping charges (All pricing is based on U.S. Dollars).
Returns FAQ's
If I am not fully satisfied with my purchase, how do I return it?
Simply fill out the following Return Form and include with the items you wish to return. Once we receive your merchandise, we will review and process for exchange/credit.
How long do I have to return an item?
All items must be returned within 30 days from the date of receipt.
What do I do if my item is damaged or defective upon delivery?
If your product is damaged, defective or incorrect (including Personalized items) please contact our Customer Care Department at 800.648.6058 for further instructions. If you return a damaged, defective or incorrect item (including Personalized items not made correctly) you will receive a credit or an exchange depending on your request below. Shipping & Handling will be refunded if this is one of the cases with your item(s). Damaged products or products missing parts/items must be reported within 10 days of receipt for this to apply, otherwise product and/or shipping charges may be incurred.
How long does the returns process take?
The returns process can take anywhere from 7 to 10 business days. (During the holiday season, these times may vary)
How will I be notified when my return is processed?
You will be notified via the email address on file once the return is processed.
Who is responsible for the cost of return shipping if I simply do not like the product?
The customer is responsible for the return shipping cost.
I am the recipient of a gift, how do I return it if I am not satisfied?
Please contact our Customer Care Department at 800.648.6058 so that we may locate the order information to process the return.
Can items be returned in exchange for wine?
Unfortunately no, our wines are handled by a separate company and therefore this type of exchange is not possible.
How do I return something purchased from a store that carries your products?
All items purchased at a retailer must be returned to the store from which you purchased.
Can I return items purchased through a retail store?
If your Wine Enthusiast Product was purchased at any other retail store and not directly from Wine Enthusiast, we CAN NOT accept your return. You MUST contact the retail store that you bought the item from.
Are there any fees when returning an item?
A 20% restocking fee will be charged on free-standing wine cellars, wine racks, large furniture pieces, cooling units and select items shipped directly from the manufacturer. These fees apply unless the item is defective or damaged, you received the wrong item, or the fee is prohibited by law.
Can I return a personalized item?
Unfortunately, personalized items cannot be returned. If your order has arrived defective or damaged, please contact our Customer Care Department at 800.648.6058 for further instructions.
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Wine Cellar Delivery FAQ's
How are wine cellars delivered?
Wine cellars (over 50 bottles, excluding the EuroCave Premier) are delivered through our White Glove Delivery service. All mini or compact cellars (50 bottles and less, including the EuroCave Premier) are shipped door-to-door or first covering. In these deliveries you are still notified, given a time window and the unit is usually placed inside the front door, basement or garage. If you need further clarification or assistance please call 800.356.8466.
What is White Glove Delivery?
With White Glove Delivery, delivery persons bring your item to your home, unpack it, inspect it, place it where you want it to be, and dispose of the packaging. Delivery is by appointment. We will call you to set a date. If you' d like to arrange a Saturday delivery or schedule a specific delivery date, feel free to call our Wine Cellar Consultants at 800.356.8466. Please note that Stair Charges may apply for locations with 5 or more stair steps.
What are warranties on wine cellars?
Products sold by Wine Enthusiast come with a limited warranty provided by the product manufacturer. While Wine Enthusiast attempts to facilitate any warranty work between our customers and the manufacturers, all warranties are provided solely by the manufacturers. Wine Enthusiast makes no express warranties of any kind and disclaims any implied warranties, including the implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose and the implied warranty of merchantability. Wine Enthusiast shall have no liability to any person or entity with respect to any liability, loss or damage, including actual, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damage, caused directly or indirectly by the use or performance of any product sold by Wine Enthusiast. Rights may vary from state to state.
Wine Enthusiast in agreement with our manufacturer warranties all wine cellars to be free from defects due to workmanship or material under normal use and service for a period of (1) year from receipt for both parts and labor. Extended warranties are available on select cellars. Click here for details.
If your wine cellar is not operating within the Manufacturers' specifications, Wine Enthusiast and or the Manufacturer reserves the right to repair or replace the wine cellar. Wine Enthusiast may request the consumer to contact a local refrigeration company to service the wine cellar. All cost for labor and materials is covered for 1 full year from date of receipt. On select units, the compressor is covered for (5) years from your date of receipt (parts only).
Privacy FAQ's
When I submit credit card information online, is it secure?
WineEnthusiast.com has sophisticated encryption and authentication tools to protect the security of your credit card information, and we will do our best to protect its security on our systems. Specifically, every page in the WineEnthusiast.com ordering process that requests credit card information uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, which is designed to render information unreadable should anyone try to intercept it. However, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our Web site, and you do so at your own risk.
Does Wine Enthusiast sell or rent my email address to other companies?
Wine Enthusiast does not sell or rent your email address to other companies. When you sign up for email communications from Wine Enthusiast Companies, you may be contacted by our partner companies, WineExpress.com Wine Shop and Wine Enthusiast Magazine, about their products, services, and promotions that may be of interest to you. Each of our affiliates has a privacy policy that is consistent with our own... All information that is collected is on an 'opt-in' basis and users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' at any time.


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Atlanta: Vingenzo's Well Worth the Trip to Woodstock
Vingenzo's Pasta & Pizzeria
105 East Main Street Suite 100, Woodstock, GA 30188 (map); 770-924-9133; vingenzos.com
Pizza type: Neapolitan
Oven type: Wood-fired
The Skinny: First-class pizza and Southern Italian cuisine made with handcrafted ingredients in one of the metro area's hidden gems
Price: Regina, $14; Quattro Formaggi, $13
95 seconds.
That's how long it took me to do a complete 180 in my thinking about Woodstock, with its quaint 1880s-era buildings and brick-paved sidewalks dotting its "Olde Towne" downtown district. I was pretty sure I had Vingenzo's Pasta & Pizzeria pegged, too—a cute little Italian place that, while probably home to the best food in this quiet northern 'burb, certainly wouldn't compare with the culinary heavy hitters scattered across Atlanta proper.
But when a pair of picturesque pies hit my table just 95 seconds after going into a roaring 800-degree brick oven, I did an abrupt about-face. And after just one bite, I knew I'd been dead wrong. Vingenzo's is dishing up some of the finest pizza I've ever tasted... not just in Woodstock, not merely in the suburbs... but in all of the metro Atlanta area... and maybe anywhere.
Chef Michael Bologna is serious when he talks about the difference between "Italian" cuisine and "Italian-American food." He's even more serious about only serving the former at his restaurant. That's why you won't find spaghetti and meatballs or chicken parm on the menu; "That's not what they eat in Italy." Your server, upon hearing that it's your first time at Vingenzo's, will review the "confusing" menu with you (her word, not mine) to explain that this is true Southern Italian fare— no beef or chicken in the protein department, only seafood and sausage... and only enough to accentuate the handmade pastas or traditional Neapolitan pizzas.
The sausage on the Regina, for example, is hand-cranked on site by Bologna himself, using a recipe handed down from his father, an Italian-born butcher. It is superb, sprinkled about in large crumbles and with a nicely seasoned bite. It balances perfectly with the wild mushrooms, grown at a local startup farm that Bologna has partnered with (the farmer works in the kitchen, too). These toppings, plus a few basil leaves, are clustered in the middle of the 11-inch pie, leaving a ring of San Marzano tomato sauce around the rim to shine on its own.
Mozzarella mavens shouldn't miss the trio of housemade cheeses available as an appetizer. The Grandioso Tasting offers slabs of Bufala and Fior Di Latte, along with a supersized creamy dollop of Stracciatella Di Burrata. All are exceptional, but the Fior Di Latte stands out, both here and on the Quattro Formaggi pizza. (It's the cheese on the Regina, too... although some pies like the La Margherita 1796, the Napoletana, and the Sopressata feature the Bufala.) Provolone, Fontina, and Gorgonzola make up the rest of Vingenzo's QF, with a different cheese seeming to star from bite to bite. While it was a stellar pie that beats the vast majority of pizzas in Atlanta, it was just the second-best pie at our table on this night. Regina rocked my pants off.
That 95-second ride in the oak-fueled inferno left a few fair-sized bubbles in the cornicione, with a last-moment splash of wood shavings in the fire creating some deeply scorched leopard spots on the rim and fair charring underneath. These spots scraped against my tongue every now and again to drive home that wood-fired quality. The thin crust holds a pie that runs the gamut of textures, from the liquefied center to just enough yeasty chew at the outer rim (just what you'd expect from a Neapolitan pizza).
My only complaint is that the steak knives offered with the unsliced pies tended to tear rather than cut through cleanly. I've rolled my eyes at the scissors thing before, but I found myself wishing for a pair at Vingenzo's. These pizzas were too pretty to have to be sawed apart by my unskilled hands.
Bologna makes it a point to try to visit each table for some one-on-one. (He spent a good 20 minutes chatting up me and my wife, only further convincing us along the way that we had just found our new go-to Italian spot.) He's quite a character, and with little doubt the driving force behind Vingenzo's success. But he was quick to stress, "It's not about me. It's about the food on the plate." Rest assured that Bologna and his top-notch staff do every little thing the right way at Vingenzo's. Everything that can be made in-house is made in-house, from the mozzarella to the pasta to the gelato, with a level of care and attention to detail that come through in every bite of food and every minute spent. The pizzas unquestionably deserve a spot in Atlanta's Top 5, but the entire menu (hello, 6-hour-braised pork in San Marzano sauce!) is the sort that will encourage frequent returns to the tiny town of Woodstock.


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Prakash named new director of Davis Center
Gyan Prakash, professor of history, has been named to a four-year term as director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. Prakash, who began his term in July, has announced the theme for the center's weekly seminar program and the roster of Davis Fellows for the year.
A Princeton faculty member since 1988, Prakash specializes in the history of colonial India. His research and teaching interests include the relationship between colonialism and production of knowledge.
He is the author of "Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India" (1999) and the co-author of "Worlds Together, Worlds Apart" (2002). He also has written "Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India" (1990) and has edited "After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements" (1995).
The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies was established in 1968 to develop a focal point for historical research at Princeton and to stimulate intellectual exchange both within the Department of History and between the department and visiting scholars. The center is supported by the George Henry Davis 1886 and Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Fund.
The center seeks to involve faculty members from different academic departments. "We have also tweaked the format to make the Davis Center's activities more accessible and attractive," Prakash said.
The center has moved its weekly seminar program from Friday mornings to Thursday evenings at 4:30 p.m. in 211 Dickinson. For 2003-05, the seminar theme is "Cities: Space, Society and History." An Urban Reflection Lecture Series, which will feature distinguished speakers, has been added to this year's program. Scheduled lecturers include architect Rem Koolhaas and Harvard University's Homi Bhabha, among others.
Six scholars from around the world will be in residence as Davis Fellows during the year: Belinda Davis from Rutgers University, a specialist on Berlin; Christopher Friedrichs from the University of British Columbia, who works on early modern cities; Willem Jongman from the University of Groningen, an expert on classical Rome; Christina Jimenez, a historian of urban Mexico; Ranjani Mazumdar, a documentary filmmaker and film studies scholar from Delhi whose specialty is cinema and the city; and Cormac O Grada from University College Dublin, whose subject is the economic demography of Jewish Dublin.
For more information, visit the new Davis Center Web site .
Contact: Lauren Robinson-Brown (609) 258-3601


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Inline Filling Systems designs and manufactures world class Filling Machine Equipment, Capping Machines, Labeling Machines, Turntables, Conveyors and other equipment for fully integrated liquid packaging lines.
The following
information is presented as an applications guide for the selection of
capping machines that operate at speeds of under 200 containers per
minute. The Capping machines discussed here are used only in the
application of plastic and metal threaded caps as well as plastic snap
caps, some fitments and some types of corks. The information covers both
manual/handheld cappers, semiautomatic and cappers and fully automatic
capping machines.
Please note that aluminum Roll-on-Pilfer-Proof (ROPP)
caps and corks used in the corking of wine bottles are not applicable to
this range of machinery. Rather, the focus of this guide is for
the capping of rigid containers with pre-made threaded caps as they are
applied to most plastic and glass bottles and jars throughout the food,
beverage, chemical and pharma industries.
Automatic Inline
Capping Machine
This is the most popularly used
capping machine as it will work for most bottles and caps at
speeds up to 200 cpm depending on cap size and container
configuration. It will handle flat caps, sport caps, yorker
caps, metal lids and any other caps that can be placed or
"picked off" at a 30 to 40 degree angle without any special cap
or bottle handling change parts.
This capping machine can handle a cap size range up to 120 mm
including child resistant caps. However, some caps with
diameters greater than 60mm do not work well in this type of
machine due to problems with the thread design, the height of
the cap, and because the planar surface of the top of the cap is
not true. (See the vertical cap placer below as a solution to
this problem.)
This machine can handle container sizes ranging in: (height)
1-1/2" to 15" (width) 1/2" to 7" in plastic, metal, or glass.
As long as the bottles are fairly rigid and can be gripped by
the belts that draw the bottle through the tightening area,
they will work fine in this machine.
Torque control is achieved by either spring loaded clutches or
air clutches that cause the tightening surface against the cap
to release once the target torque has been reached.
Click here for more information about this Automatic Inline Capping Machine.
Automatic Chuck Capping Machine
These chuck style capping machines are
extremely reliable and repeatable but are more costly than the
inline type capping machine described above because they require
specific bottle handling change parts for each container as well
as a specific chuck for each different cap size. Even without
the additional cost of changeparts, the hardware cost of this
type of machine is also significantly higher than the inline
type above.
There are some capping applications where this is the ONLY type
of capping machine that will do the job. For example, very small
or unstable containers that would otherwise topple over are
stabilized in this machine by the specific change parts.
Also, there are capping applications where the cap MUST be
vertically placed onto the mouth of the container and cannot be
"picked off" at an angle as described above. The use of a
chuck tightening device also avoids the particulation of
tightening surfaces and therefore makes it the capping machine
of choice in the biomedical and pharma industries.
Click here for more information about this
Automatic Chuck Capping Machine.
There are closures in the
industry called "snap screw" caps which are a hybrid of the snap
cap and threaded screw caps. They require both the
torquing action of a threaded cap as well as the downward rolled
force of a snap cap. For this special application, a
inline capping machine as described above, along with a snap cap
roller attachment, will do the job.
Click here for more information about this Automatic Snap Capping Machine.
Automatic Cap
As mentioned above, there are
limitations to the use of "inline" type or spindle type capping
machines especially when it comes to large caps with diameters
greater than 80mm. Many bulk foods are commonly packaged
with 110mm closures. These closures hardly ever work on an
inline type of machine because the cap must be placed vertically
in order to prevent cross threading. Once the cap is
placed vertically and the cap started on the threads, the
cap can then be tightened to the target torque with a cap
tightener downtream from the placer.
This placer in combination with cap tightener can also be used
as an economical substitute for a chuck capper described above
especially where the caps and container sizes are quite large.
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Hannover wrote:Michael Hoffmann:
As I said, and you obviously ignored, you had the time to post your beliefs at a debate site which, admit it, you cannot back-up now that you have been challenged. That's the obvious fact of the matter, you are fooling no one with your weak excuses.
In the time it took you to post just once in this thread you could have told us why you belief in what you believe in, IF you really believe it in the first place.
I'd accept that someone is engaged elsewhere not having time for debate right now. But to post some evidence for some historical feat, like Einsatzgruppen killings behind the Eastern front should be feasible. However I take the guess that Mr Hoffman's evidence, may require some discussion before one can accept or dismiss it.
- The Blobel cop-out has been debated here. No physical remains, since Blobel made it vanish.
- The Jaeger Report has been discussed here. And it has been shown that it's quite dubious in its history, but als as a document.
- Then there is Babi Yar, Einsatzgruppen show trials etc.
That Einsatzgruppen and Auxiliaries killed politruks, communist party officials, partisans and their helpers is also not really in dispute. Good question of course what the evidence is there and how hard it is. Although it would be astonishing, if the Axis forces wouldn't have dealt with them rigorously. That's how such problems are solved in war time. Any army has done it that way in history, should the need arise. And the need for this behind the Eastern Front was more the urgent and severe. That part is of course blinded out in the mainstream debate.
We don't have to agree on everything facet of the Holocaust narrative being horse dung. At the moment some Revisionists seem however to be agreeable to some Holocaust lite version with "some gassings" in Treblinka or so. Why they say so is a mystery to me, but open for speculation. I don't see that from the evidence presented to us so far. It's obviously that the whole claim, name and blame game that the Holocaust is, is actually widely based on innuendo and not on empirically established and testable facts.
If the Holocaust Industry had hard facts and proof available, they won't utilize such denunciation and threatening tactics like they did against Irving, calling out Amaleks and avoiding debate. In fact they probably embrace it. Despite the pretense of belief, it seems that many actors in the industry deep down have a sense that what they're spreading isn't exactly the truth.


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PHILADELPHIA - Tyler Kennedy and James Neal both scored goals to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins past the Philadelphia Flyers 3-1 on Saturday.
Claude Giroux scored for the Flyers in the first game for both teams since the end of the 113-day NHL lockout.
Chris Kunitz added an empty-netter in the final seconds for the Penguins.
About 20,000 fans filled the Wells Fargo Center and they were welcomed back and thanked by the team in videotaped messages throughout the game.
The rivalry started early in this abbreviated season. The Flyers eliminated the Penguins in six games last season in an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series. Counting the 2012 regular-season finale, the Penguins have played the Flyers eight straight games.
Flyers fans were in playoff form, starting with the booming, derogatory chants at Sidney Crosby from the moment the Penguins captain took the ice.
Crosby was held without a point in the opener, but just seeing a healthy No. 87 on the ice gives the Penguins hope big things are ahead this season.
Philadelphia again proved it was immune to any lockout backlash. Fans filled the parking lots to tailgate hours before faceoff and almost everyone was in some sort of team gear — and that was before they all received a free T-shirt as they entered the Wells Fargo Center.
More than 2,000 fans packed the Flyers' practice facility for the first day of camp and another 15,000 showed up for a free, open practice on Thursday. The Flyers sold more than 17,000 season ticket packages this season and every seat was full for pregame introductions.
The Flyers aired a video tribute to their fans. Players, local dignitaries such as former Gov. Ed Rendell, and even a Ben Franklin impersonator all welcomed back fans and thanked them for sticking with the Flyers over the three-month lockout.
Flyers chairman Ed Snider told the fans on video, "We're going to win a Cup for you this year."
One by one, the Flyers skated out, ending with Giroux's official introduction as the 19th captain in franchise history.
The lights came on, a sold-out crowd was delirious with nine months of pent up exuberance, the arena was electric and ... Bam. Down 2-0 just in a flash.
The Penguins shut out the noise and the hype and pounced for two fast goals.
Paul Martin's slap shot off a faceoff deflected off Kennedy's stick and past Ilya Bryzgalov for the power-play goal.
Neal, who scored 40 goals last season, followed almost 3 minutes later with another quick goal off a faceoff that made it 2-0 only 7:20 into the game and shushed the fired-up crowd.
There were more videotaped messages during intermission. Giroux told the Flyers diehards, "You're the best fans in the league."
Giroux, the most popular Flyer, gave the fans even more reason to love him when he took an on-target pass from Scott Hartnell and slid it past Marc-Andre Fleury only 23 seconds into the second to cut it to 2-1.
Bryzgalov, who played in Russia over the lockout, and Fleury settled down.
The Flyers pushed hard in the final minutes on the power play, but were thwarted when Fleury dropped down and smothered shots around the crease.
Notes: Flyers F Danny Briere (wrist) sat out. Flyers D Andrej Meszaros played after suffering a torn right Achilles tendon in the off-season. ... Penn State was set to play Vermont in the first Philadelphia College Hockey Faceoff later Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center. ... Scott Laughton, the Flyers' 2012 first-round draft pick, made his debut.


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NASCAR CEO Brian France was on Motor Racing Network's "NASCAR Live" last night and he was taking phone calls. One of those calls was from a man named Jeremy Mayfield.
For those that don't know, Mayfield was banned from NASCAR competition in May 2009 after he tested positive for methamphetamine during a drug test. Even though he ardently denied drug use, he was banned immediately and litigation to get him reinstated never worked. He was also caught with meth and 50 guns in 2011.
So you'd expect that the tone of Mayfield's phone call would be somewhat contentious. Not at all! Mayfield just wanted to know how he could get back to racing.
The thing is, NASCAR has one solitary way to get back to competition after a ban for drug use. It's called the Road to Recovery and it's what recent drug test fail-er AJ Allmendinger did to get back behind the wheel. Mayfield knows this and has known this since the day he was banned.
France, who did know Mayfield was calling and said he'd take the call, sounded like the consumate profesional and just informed Mayfield that was all he had to do.
And that was it. No yelling. No meth-addled rage. No swearing. Just a calm phone call to find out something that he's known for years. Mayfield is sure one odd duck.
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One example of truly using social media to the fullest is USA's (a cable network) experiment. Using the show Psych, a crime/comedy geared towards 18-30 year olds, USA is both overcoming an obstacle and strengthening their fan base. Using social media, they are breaking the marketing mould.
First of all, they had to overcome a huge obstacle for cable television. Their moderately popular show, Psych, was airing months later than it was supposed to. There were all kinds of reasons for that, but the point is they were going to lose viewers. How did the company fight the loss? In a truly ingenious way.
You would assume that they would run commercials promoting the new date and time for the show. And you'd be right. But beyond the creative (and funny) commercials, they knew they had to do more. Social media was the answer. But how do you get people onto your site to even receive the Tweets or wall posts? The answer was truly inventive.
You make a game. That's right, a game. An online, weeks-long, crime-solving game. And you use the real actors from the show. Sure, it takes some planning, a lot of creative programming, and a little screen time, but it will pay off. Big time.
Using the actors gives the game a gravitas. A reality. The fans don't just play a game; they interact with the characters they love. They become part of a community, joining together to find clues and stop the Hash Tag Killer before he strikes again.
Best of all, every time they play they earn points towards online and actual stuff. So they keep coming back. But to join the game they must sign in using either their Twitter or Facebook accounts. When they join, they give USA permission to post to their sites. So, not only does USA get their participation, they also get to solicit their friends and followers.
Marketing at its finest. The fans get something, the company gets something, and everyone goes away happy. Not only that, but USA expands its network without any more effort. A fun game equals word of mouth, and more people to come play. After all, who doesn't want to be Sherlock Holmes?


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It all goes back to around 1300 AD, it seems, when Salle was already famous for its saddles. Not the least important feature of these leather products was the fact that a thread made from the intestines of a mountain sheep was used in sewing them. This thread was found to be far stronger than that made from more domesticated and better cared for sheep of the valleys.
Tradition at Salle says that at the dawn of the fourteenth century one Erasmo was employed in the chief industry of the town, the making of saddles. As this man was drying some sheep intestines in order to make his thread, some were carried away by the wind, and became lodged in a thorn bush.
Erasmo noticed that sweet musical sounds were emitted as the material was vibrated by the wind blowing through the bush. Being an observant man, and an ingenious one, the thought came to him that the threads used in sewing saddles might also be used as strings in the primitive instruments that were ancestors of the violin. Thus the business of making violins strings from "catgut" (more will be said later regarding the origin of the word itself) began, and so important did the industry become to the small town that eventually Erasmo was sainted, and St. Erasmo is not only the patron saint of the town, but also the profession of string making.
When asked regarding their strings, the people of Salle, so the tradition states, said that they were made of the intestines of cats, "catgut". There was good reason for this. The cat was viewed with superstition in Italy, and the slaying of a cat was supposed to be followed by a period of bad luck. The fiddle string makers of Salle reasoned that few indeed would attempt to copy their trade, if it involved slaying cats.
Mr. Primavera, by searching church records, found that from the beginning of the industry in the time of St. Erasmo, until about 1700, four centuries, the families of Berti, Dorazio, Mari, and Ruffini were famous for making violin strings. These families furnished the strings for products of Stradivarius and other master makers of violins during this period. About 1640 Mari Brothers became the leaders in the manufacture of "catgut" strings. This tradition is followed today by the same family. E. & O. Mari, Inc., located in Newburgh, New York, USA carries on the tradition. Many of their products are marketed under the world famous name "La Bella". These music strings are recognized as the finest the world over."
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KYIV, June 30, 2011 (UKRINFORM). On the Navy Day in Ukraine, which will be celebrated on Sunday, July 3, a parade of ships will be held in Sevastopol. Ukrainian Navy will be represented during the holiday by frigate Hetman Sahaidachny, large landing ship Kostiantyn Olshansky, command ships Slavutych and Donbas, sea minesweeper Chernihiv, medium landing ship Kirovohrad, corvette Ternopil, and others. They will be joined by the ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. July 3 at 08:45, hoisting of the Navy flag will be held on ships and in military units of the Ukrainian Navy, then - the parade of ships and the traditional delivery of dirks to graduates of the Naval Academy named after Nakhimov. On this day, Sevastopol residents and city guests can visit the Ukrainian Navy ships.
In the early 18th century, Ukraine's hetman Ivan Mazepa struck an alliance with a Swedish king in a bid to gain Ukrainian independence from the Russian Empire and Poland. The endeavor failed when the Russian czar beat the Swedish army in the famous Battle of Poltava in 1709.
Recent history is more cheerful. The 150 or so Swedes who live in Ukraine are mostly involved in businesses. They include successful agricultural start-ups such as Chumak, a food processing business started by two Swedes, two Swedish banks and the Tetra Pak packaging giant. Swedish investment in Ukraine amounts to $1.8 billion, according to the Swedish Trade Council, making Sweden the nation's sixth biggest investor. Another landmark is the year 1893, when communications giant Ericsson installed a telephone station in Kyiv and then another in Kharkiv. "Sweden was adapting the new communication technologies very early," said Olle Tholander, general director of Ericsson in Ukraine, who has previously worked in Japan and England. Chased out by the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Ericsson did not return until 1995. The company now employs 190 people. "One of the key assets of Ukraine is the high level technical education provided by its main universities. We want to attract these competent and skilled persons," Tholander said. Paradoxically enough, Ukraine – which has many information technology specialists working abroad or providing outsourced work – is lagging behind in telecommunications. Ukraine is one of the last European countries to spread 3G – or third-generation – technologies widely, making Internet speeds slower than they need to be.
Currently, the only 3G license belongs to Ukrtelecom, the former state telecommunications monopoly, which was sold to Austria's Epic for a below-market price in what many called an "uncompetitive tender." While Ericsson looks for more "technological freedom," SEB Bank, part of the Stockholm-headquartered SEB group that arrived in 2005, seeks clearer regulations and stronger rule of law. "In the crisis, banking showed its weak side," said Kristian Andersson, deputy chairman of the board at SEB Bank in Ukraine. In Ukraine, the bank mostly specializes in servicing corporate customers from Scandinavia and Germany. Andersson also has "great hopes that a free trade agreement will be signed with the European Union in the near future."
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Capital of the island of Sardinia. It had a Jewish community in early times. When a Christianized Jew named Peter placed images of saints in the synagogue of that city on Easter Monday, the day following his baptism, to the annoyance of the Jews, Gregory I. ordered Bishop Januarius of Cagliari to have the objects at once removed (Grätz, "Gesch. der Juden," v. 52). Little is known of the history of the Jews of Cagliari. Under Aragonian rule their condition was favorable, for they were not molested and were received at court. When King Martin I. of Aragon was at Cagliari in Dec., 1408 (he died in that city in 1409), and the Jews were looking on at the
- Isaac b. Sheshet, Responsa, No. 171;
- Rev. Et. Juives, vii. 292, viii. 280et seq.;
- Gazana, Storia della Sardegna, ii. 151;
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NEWCOM# (Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications) is a project funded under the umbrella of the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission (FP7-ICT-318306). NEWCOM# pursues long-term, interdisciplinary research on the most advanced aspects of wireless communications like Finding the Ultimate Limits of Communication Networks, Opportunistic and Cooperative Communications, or Energy- and Bandwidth-Efficient Communications and Networking. Start date: Nov. 1, 2012. End date: Oct. 31, 2015.
More news in Linkedin Newcom#
NEWCOM#'s Logbook Available from Project Portal
Willing to have a quick look at what NEWCOM# has accomplished over the
last three years? Then, please, check the very nice NEWCOM#'s logbook
that Adrian Kliks has kindly prepared:
Thanks Adrian!!
Farewell message - Let's not Waste All This…
As you may guess, it is not easy for me to write this LAST contribution for our wonderful newsletter (thanks Adrian…). I did the same at the end of our previous NEWCOM++, and let me say that I was an easy prophet at that time: the title of the article was "NEWCOM++ est mort, vive NEWCOM++", and that was exactly what happened. As the mythical Phoenix, NEWCOM++ raised from its own ashes and turned into the NEWCOM# that we have lived until today. But, it's over now, and I cannot be as easy a prophet as I was four years ago.
Let's start from the beginning: I would like to sincerely thank everybody who contributed to creating the NEWCOM spirit: the Executive and Advisory Board members, the N# Office, all the local scientific and administrative representatives, the Work Package leaders, the organization of schools, workshops, and dissemination events, and everybody who just enjoyed doing research together. We're all part of a Network of Excellence, just yet another funded research EU project, you may think. But we all know it is not just this: as Sergio Benedetto, the founder of NEWCOM highlighted in his opening talk at our final event in Barcelona, we're more thank that after 13 (yes, thirteen!) years of cooperative research: we've grown into a Network of People, nurturing what I like to call the NEWCOM spirit.
And let's go on with a simple consideration: we have to find a way not to waste all this capital of competence and cooperation that the NEWCOMs contributed to create and maintain. In Barcelona there was a lot of discussions about the involvement of the tools that NEWCOM has spun off, like EURACON, and possible frameworks where to find opportunities for these new tools. The mailing lists of our NoE will stay active for more time, at least until the final project review on January 20, 2016, and we will take advantage of this opportunity to collect ideas and to possibly launch some initiatives for survival. In the meantime, if you wish to organize some event like a workshop or a school taking advantage of the NEWCOM# community, please drop me a mail and feel free to do it – let's think of our NoE as still active, at least in terms of that spirit and of those cooperation links that do not need any financial support to survive…
When I was a boy, I happened to find on the shelves of a bargain bookstore a copy of Fred Hoyle's "The Black Cloud" (sturdy science fiction from the 50's). It was an overly fascinating story about an extraterrestrial intelligent being in the form of a huge interstellar cloud coming in touch with the inhabitants of the Earth and eventually succeeding to carry on a dialogue. What was to my eyes most fascinating was the description of the alien intelligence: it was not a single entity, rather, it was a collection of minds linked by a tangle of very high-speed communication links. The superior intellectual and ethical qualities of the Black Cloud as a whole were just the result of this huge communication capability between simpler minds. Isn't it a nice depiction of the modern Internet and, to a smaller scale, of our NEWCOM# ?
"Live long and prosper" in research to everybody
Marco Luise
Joint NEWCOM/COST Workshop on Wireless
Communications JNCW 2015
October 14 – 15, 2015, Hotel Plaza, Barcelona, Spain
Link to the Paper Submission Form
See our Keynote Speakers
Click here to register for the event
The JNCW 2015 is jointly organized by the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications NEWCOM# and the former ICT COST Action 1004 Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments. This workshop will give NEWCOM# and COST IC1004 communities the opportunity to disseminate their research results, after 3-4 years of activity within the framework of the European FP7 research program. Participation and paper submission is open to anyone, member or not of these Actions.
The workshop program will be composed of invited talks, technical presentations, posters and demonstrations. The accepted contributions from the NEWCOM# and IC1004 "workshop" papers call will be published in the conference CD-ROM. To a limited number of papers, selected on the basis of their high quality, a full submission in the peer-reviewed journal "Advances in Electronics and Telecommunications" will be offered.
The topics include, but are not limited to:
- Radio propagation
- Radio channel characterization and modelling
- MIMO channels and systems
- Compact Antenna Systems
- Radio terminals modelling
- OTA test methods
- Body area networks
- Vehicular Communications
- UWB systems
- Adaptive coding and modulation
- Performance Limits of Wireless Communications
- Opportunistic and Cooperative Communications
- Energy- and Bandwidth-Efficient Communications and Networking
- Radio interfaces for next-generation wireless systems
- Networking technologies for the Internet of Things and Mobile clouds
- Flexible communication terminals and networks
- (Physical) Security in wireless networks
- Interference in wireless networks
- Radio Resource Management, Localization and positioning
Organizing Committee:
Marco Luise (CNIT/Pisa, Italy), Narcís Cardona (iTEAM - U.P. Valencia, Spain), Carles Antón-Haro (CTTC Castelldefels, Spain), Roberto Verdone (CNIT/Bologna, Italy)
Technical Program Committee:
Andreas Polydoros, Sergio Palazzo, Michel Kieffer, Davide Dardari, Luis Correia, Miquel Payaro, Raymond Knopp, Claude Oestges, Erik Ström, Alister Burr, Sana Salous, Silvia Ruiz, Alain Sibille.
SME Event Committee:
Andreas Polydoros, Danilo Abrignani
Important dates:
NEWCOM# papers & IC1004 "workshop" papers
Paper submission deadline:
Sept. 4, 2015
Notification of acceptance:
Sept. 15, 2015
Final version due:
Sept.30, 2015
IC1004 regular TD presentations:
TD submission deadline:
Sept. 25, 2015
Final version due:
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Follow up after Newcom# dissemination event at Telecom Italia, Turin
After the meeting was held, EuWIn@UniBO organised a full day meeting in Bologna with the head of the Telecom Italia Future Center. Gian Paolo Balboni, and three researchers from Telecom Italia, attended the meeting from Telecom Italia side. During the meeting all activities of EuWIn@UniBo were reviewed. After the meeting, two actions were taken:
- establishment of a collaboration finalised to open a PhD position at UniBO fully funded for three years by Telecom Italia, for research to be performed in the context of Smart Cities; this activity has been successfully closed and a PhD position is now open, to start on Nov. 1st 2015;
- start of a discussion finalised to the possible duplication of the FLEXTOP testbed at the premises of Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice; phone calls with the head of the Future Centre are planned for June/July 2015.
NEWCOM# Emerging Topics Workshop in Cambridge 25-26 June 2015
Cambridge, UK, 25-26 June 2015
The NEWCOM# emerging topics workshop will take place on the 25-26 June in Cambridge, UK at the Department of Engineering of the University of Cambridge.
More information is available here.


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2003 Ford F-250 Super Duty - Flat Black Phoenix
Risen Form The Ashes
Plenty of folks buy Toyotas and Jeeps and spend a whole lot of time and money transplanting bigger engines and 1-ton axles into their downsized vehicles. Kyle Virgin of Anchorage, Alaska, decided to skip all of the swaps and just start with a heavy-duty truck. His '03 Ford Super Duty may have started life with a V-10 engine and eight-lug axles, but it was not originally intended for trail use. Virgin used the pickup for a daily driver for a number of years, but after a bad accident in which his insurance company totaled the pickup, Virgin bought back his truck and gave it a new lease on life as a dedicated trail machine.
The Triton V-10 engine doesn't have any of the head gasket issues that 6.0L Power Strokes are notorious for, or worries about fuel gelling in subzero temperatures. The engine belts out over 300 horsepower in stock form, but it still benefits from a K&N cone intake and Flowmaster exhaust. The Superchips programmer adds power and also recalibrates the line pressure and shift points for the 4R100 automatic transmission. An NP273 splits the power to the front and rear axles, yet another stock component that is both stout and reliable. The front axle is an open Dana 60, while the rear Sterling 10.5 has a Detroit Locker. Kyle plans to add a locker to the front diff, but he realizes that hydraulic-assist should accompany that purchase. Both axles are fitted with 5.13 gears to spin the 44-inch Super Swamper Boggers.
The 44-inch Boggers are what really set the Super Duty apart from the rest of the pack, and Jeep doesn't put an axle under its vehicles that would want anything to do with these tires, which weigh in at 165 pounds per corner on the 16x14 MRW wheels. Clearance for the tires comes from an 8-inch Icon Vehicle Dynamics lift with Bilstein 5100 monotube shocks. Ford did not switch to front coil springs on the Super Duties until 2005, so simple leaf springs are used at all four corners. Still, the Icon system is complete with bumpstop extensions, new U-bolts, a track bar bracket, and a drop pitman arm to keep the steering angles reasonable while minimizing bumpsteer. Icon suggests that this kit only accommodates 38-inch tires, so Kyle made up the difference with inner and outer fender trimming.
Cool details like the mudflaps used for inner fenders and the '08 bed abound on the truck, but really it is the Boggers that make the biggest impression. They are perfect for crossing the vast expanses of the Alaskan outback, and there is no shortage of room in the bed for everything from camping gear to ATVs to snow machines. Try doing that with a Jeep or mini-truck.
At A Glance
Vehicle: 2003 Ford F-250 Super Duty
Owner: Kyle Virgin
Stomping Grounds: Palmer, Alaska
Engine: 6.8L Triton V-10, K&N intake, Superchips programmer, and Flowmaster exhaust
Transmission: 4R100 4-spd
Transfer case(s): NP273
Low range ratio(s): 2.72:1
Crawl ratio(s): 37.7:1
Front axle/differential: Dana 60/5.13 gears, open carrier
Rear axle/differential: Sterling 10.5-in/5.13 gears, Detroit Locker
Front: Icon Vehicle Dynamics 8-in lift, track bar, and drop track bar bracket, Bilstein 5100 shocks
Rear: Icon Vehicle Dynamics 8-in lift, Bilstein 5100 shocks
Steering: Drop pitman arm
Tires: 19.5/44-16 Super Swamper Bogger
Wheels: 16x14 MRW steel
Armor: Underground Performance custom rock sliders
Cool stuff: Warn M15000 winch, heavily cut fenders, '08 F-250 bed


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The Scriptures Say
1. When the Savior lived in heaven
Before the world began,
He promised He would die for us
As part of Father's plan.
The scriptures say He would save us
As part of Father's plan.
2. When the Savior lived on earth,
He taught us we must give.
By serving us and loving us
He showed us how to live.
The scriptures say He loved us
And showed us how to live.
3. When the Savior came to earth
To visit Lehi's lands,
He spoke, He taught, He healed the sick
With gentle, wounded hands.
The scriptures say He blessed them
With gentle wounded hands.
4. When the Savior comes to earth
In majesty and might,
He'll gather us at His right hand
To live in joy and light.
The scriptures say He will save us
To live in joy and light.
Text: Penelope Allen
Music: Reid Nibley
Artist: Allen/Nibley
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Friend
Composition Date: 1999-02-01
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) – A new walking trail highlighting landmarks in Green Bay Packers history is set to open next month.
The Packers Heritage Trail features 17 bronze plaques that describe the significance of each landmark. All are within a mile of downtown Green Bay. The Hotel Northland is where Vince Lombardi held his introductory news conference in 1959. The Northern Building is where Curly Lambeau had an office while he was coaching the Packers while holding down a job for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance.
The self-guided tour covers about 4 miles. WLUK-TV says all the plaques will be installed by June 15. Former Packers beat reporter Cliff Christl spearheaded the project.
Information from: WLUK-TV, http://www.fox11online.com


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Jame Richards lives in Monroe, Connecticut. This is her first novel.
Three Rivers Rising
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· Trade Paperback · September 13, 2011 · $8.99 · 978-0-375-85369-2 (0-375-85369-3)
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Sixteen-Year-Old Celstia spends every summer with her family at the elite resort at Lake Conemaugh, a shimmering Allegheny Mountain reservoir held in place by an earthen dam. Tired of the society crowd, Celestia prefers to swim and fish with Peter, the hotel's hired boy. It's a friendship she must keep secret, and when companionship turns to romance, it's a love that could get Celestia disowned. These affairs of the heart become all the more wrenching on a single, tragic day in May, 1889. After days of heavy rain, the dam fails, unleashing 20 million tons of water onto Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the valley below. The town where Peter lives with his father. The town where Celestia has just arrived to join him. This searing novel in poems explores a cross-class romance—and a tragic event in U. S. history.


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Count Down to Christmas With These 5 Free Apps
5 Christmas Countdown Apps
If you have little ones excited about the forthcoming holiday season, try these handy iOS Christmas apps.
Each of the five offers a different way to count down to Christmas, encompassing traditional advent calendars, customizable timetables and an app that lets you know how many "sleeps" until the big day.
Take a look through our tried and tested selection of free apps in the above image gallery. Let us know in the comments below if you're going digital with this year's countdown.
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Heroes comes crashing to an end tonight, and it may not be back until next fall. Since the episode was originally designed as the midpoint of the 2007-2008 season, don't be surprised if it has kind of a downer ending. In any case, a lot will happen tonight to scrunch together a satisfying resolution to the mini-season:
Maya will realize that (duh) Sylar is evil. Nikki has to rescue Monica from that street gang that stole some comic books. (It's a gang thing. They love those obscure Ditko comics for their Ayn Rand messages.) Peter and Nathan finally get reunited, but then they have to deal with that whole "Adam wants to wipe out humanity" thing. Elle has to make some tough decisions. Oh, and a couple of good guys are going to bite it. And Claire will try to blow the whistle on her dad's old company, as you can see in this clip:
Want more spoilers for the episode? These seem like they could be credible.
Tonight's episode of Chuck might also be the last one for a while. NBC still has two more Chuck eps in the can, but it's not clear when they'll air, says Reuters. "Chuck vs. the Crown Vic" doesn't sound particularly climactic: Chuck has to go undercover as Sarah's wife to deal with a "counterfeiting yachtsman with strong political ties." Seeing the downtrodden Chuck confronting evil rich people sounds sort of entertaining in a Veronica Mars-y way.
Also tonight: part two of Tin Man, the Sci-Fi channel's re-noodling of Wizard of Oz. Tin Man
concludes on Tuesday with another two-hour installment. If you don't have a TiVo or some other device that lets you tape two channels at once, don't worry. Sci-Fi will re-run Monday's segment before Tuesday's.
Monday night movies: X2: X-Men United on FX, and Being John Malkovich on IFC.
Tuesday night sees the season finale of Beauty and the Geek, in which a LARPer and a science-fiction fan compete to win the admiration of hawt girls who can tie cherry stems with their tongues. All of the show's teams return, for the maximum concentration of cringe-inducing stereotypes.
Wednesday night movie: The Brother from Another Planet on TMC. If you haven't seen it, you really should check it out. You'll barely notice that Bionic Woman is off.
Thursday's Smallville is a rerun where he meets his cute cousin.
Friday has a Flash Gordon rerun, but a new Stargate Atlantis, the last new episode until January. A "strange drone" crashes into Atlantis, and it could mean the Replicators have found Atlantis. (The Replicators are self-replicating machines, sort of like the Borg except without any human parts.) More spoilers than you can shake a stick at are here.


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2 cups graham cracker or chocolate cookie crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
pinch of salt
6 tbsp butter or margarine melted
3-8 ounce packages good quality cream cheese (room temp)
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
3 eggs lightly beaten (room temp)
1 tbsp real vanilla (NOT imitation)
1/4 cup all purpose flour
Chocolate Ganache topping:
1 cup heavy whipping cream
2 cups good quality chocolate chips (You can use milk chocolate or semi sweet, whatever you prefer)
1 tsp vanilla
1 tbsp instant espresso powder or instant coffee (this ingredient is optional)
1/4 tsp salt
Strawberry Sauce:
1 lb. fresh or frozen strawberries
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Place a small pan with a couple of inches of hot water in the bottom rack of your oven. (I use a round cake pan). Preheat oven to 325 F.
In an 8 inch spring form pan, add the graham cracker or chocolate cookie crumbs, salt and sugar. Mix thoroughly. Add the melted butter or margarine mix until crumbs are completely coated with the butter. Spread the crumbs out evenly in the pan and press firmly on the bottom and a little up the sides of the pan. Make sure all the crumbs are firmly pressed all around the pan evenly.
I use a stand mixer but you can use an electric mixer or food processor (Cuisinart of course!). Take the eggs and cream cheese out of the refrigerator 3 hours before starting. Take the heavy cream out of the refrigerator about 30 to 40 minutes before starting. This is so there are no lumps in your cheese cake.
In a large mixing bowl, add the cream cheese and sugar. Mix on low for 1 minute. Scrape the sides with rubber spatula. Add the whipping cream. Mix on low for 1 minute. Scrape sides of bowl again. Mix again for about 30 seconds. Keep mixer on low and add lightly beaten eggs a little at a time. Now add vanilla. Turn off mixer and scrape sides again. Turn mixer back on low, add flour a little at a time. Scrape sides again. Now mix on medium speed until everything is mixed well. About 2 minutes. Scrape down sides one more time and mix on low for 1 more minute. Stir with a rubber spatula one more time just to make sure everything is mixed well. Pour filling over the crust. I bang the pan 10-15 times on the counter to bring any air bubbles to the top (supposed to help to keep cake from cracking). Wrap the bottom and outside of the pan with foil. Put cake in oven. Set timer for one hour. Turn off oven open oven door a little and leave the cake in for 30 more minutes. Remove cake from oven.
While the cake is baking here is the recipe for the ganache and strawberry sauce.
In a medium size sauce pan add the heavy cream. Bring to a low boil. Remove from heat add the chocolate chips. Stir with a whisk until chocolate is melted. Add remaining ingredients. Stir until thoroughly combined.
Strawberry sauce:
If using fresh strawberries cut them in quarters and put in a blender or food processor. If using frozen, make sure they are thawed before putting in blender. Add sugar and vanilla. Blend until no lumps remain. Take a taste. You may need to add a little more sugar depending on how sweet your berries are.
When cake comes out of the oven, let it cool for about an hour. To remove it from the pan, run a sharp knife around the edges carefully. Make sure you get all the way down to the bottom. Carefully open the latch on the outside of the pan and remove. Leave the cake on the bottom part of the pan. Put the cake on a plate or platter and pour the ganache over the top letting it flow down the sides (if ganache has cooled down, reheat it on a low temp, just until warm). Refrigerate for at least two hours. Cut yourself a piece and spoon as much strawberry sauce over the top as you like.
When I served this in our restaurant I would put the strawberry sauce in a squeeze bottle and zigzag the sauce back and forth across the piece of cake. Then I would add some homemade whipped cream. This is optional of course.


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My holiday decoration has generally been simple; when I had my house in the suburbs, I liked having a candle burning in every window. I have a childlike appreciation for lights in the dark night. But I did not like the anxiety that came with fire. The hard plastic alternatives didn't look good at all up close. I recently found a handsome alternative: real wax pillars that are battery operated. You can find these online. I got mine, which are about eight inches tall, for about three dollars, at Ocean State Job Lot, one of my favorite bargain hunting grounds. I love lighting the candles at five in the evening--the house doesn't feel quite so dark through the long evenings this time of the year.
Fake candles seem a bit surreal, I know. But they look so good that I may leave them up year round. They're going to be useful outside, during blustery summer picnics, when candles are easily snuffed out, even when they are in hurricane lamps. Now, every time I switch on my candles, I smile at how odd it is to be doing so. And, as well, I smile at my "authenticity snobbishness", which, as is often the case with superior attitudes, is misplaced. Sometimes it is best to avoid burning down the house.


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Hubli, Oct 11 (IANS) Skipper Cheteshwar Pujara carved out an unbeaten 306 (415b, 33×4) as India A took command of their four-day match against West Indies A, who — trailing by 296 runs on the first innings — were 116 for three at close on the third and penultimate day here Friday.
Pujara, who was 139 overnight, ground the Windies attack that made little impression on the 25-year old Rajkot batsman who made the best of a reprieve in the last over before lunch when on 198 and with the help of the lower-order batsmen helped India to make 506 for 9 declared.
The Windies began their second innings poorly, losing openers Kraigg Brathwaite (21) and skipper Kieran Powell (6) and first innings top-scorer Leon Johnson (1) before Narsingh Deonarine (44 batting) and Assad Fudadin (36 batting) added 59 runs for the unfinished fourth wicket.
Still trailing by 180 runs, the Windies, who lead the three-match series 1-0, face an onerous task to save the game on the morrow.
Brief scores:
West Indies A 268 and 116 for 3 (Kraigg Brathwaite 21, Narsingh Deonarine 44 not out, Assad Fudadin 36 not out) vs India A 564 for 9 decl in 150 overs (Gautam Gambhir 123, Cheteshwar Pujara 306 not out, Virender Sehwag 38, Uday Kaul 26, Ashley Nurse 3 for 106, Nikita Miller 2 for 112, Deonarine 2 for 78).Published 11 Oct 2013, 18:33 IST


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Food Artisans: A+B American Style
A different New York artisan every week.
"Flavor. Not just heat." It's both the motto and the mission of condiment company A+B American Style. To that end, founders and childhood friends Ariel Fliman and Brian Ballan put a lot of thought into what kind of peppers they use in their pepper sauce.
"We experimented with a lot of different chili peppers," Fliman says. They eventually decided on the red Fresno pepper, which Ballan says has an "interesting depth of flavor" and is less commonly used in hot sauce.
"It's sweet," Fliman adds. "No other sauces really focus on that."
The sauce also includes habanero peppers for heat, vinegar for tartness, carrot for a touch of sweetness, and salt. With the salt and vinegar, there's no need for additional preservatives, a fact that Fliman and Ballan take pride in.
Because of the sauce's nuanced flavor, they suggest it as a substitute not just for other hot sauces, but also for cocktail sauce or ketchup. "It's thicker than some other sauces," Fliman says, "and goes particularly well with salty seafood. I really like it with oysters, clams, shrimp, though it's also great with heartier things like chili or burgers."
They aren't in a hurry to add to the product line, but moving forward Ballan says they may offer something with "more spice and more texture." Don't look for them to stray too far from the original though. "All our products will be chili-based," he promises. Visit their site for recipes, including a carrot juice-based Bloody Mary alternative, for a list of establishments selling or serving A+B, or to order directly from them.
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It's summer and we live in a great place with diverse neighbourhoods, spectacular scenery, festivals, farmers' markets and street fairs.
I love my neighbourhood and walk around it all the time, but I don't know much about others. So, I'm going on a different urban walk every week. I've lined up some interesting guides to take me to their favourite places, tell me about where they live, why they live there and what they love (and even hate) about it. The tours are slow, impressionistic and personal.
** Tell us about your neighbourhood. What makes it great? Or what do you dislike about it? You can post your comments below, in this story document. Also, submit photos to include in a photo gallery of great 'burbs around Metro Vancouver. Email them to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Library Board of Directors last night approved the appointment of Wei Jeng-Chu as head librarian.
Ms. Jeng-Chu, the library's associate head librarian, had been serving as interim head librarian after former library chief Mark J. Contois left to head the Framingham Public Library over the summer.
Board President Kevin Dowd said last night that after reviewing applications and r�sum�s that came to the head librarian search subcommittee, directors felt that Ms. Jeng-Chu was the best qualified candidate, and recommended offering her the position.
Board member James Kersten said Ms. Jeng-Chu was "head and shoulders" above the candidates, and said the shift now will be toward filling the associate librarian position.
The Board of Directors approved a motion last night to accept the recommendations of the search committee to enter into a one-year employment agreement with Ms. Jeng-Chu that would have an extension option after the first year, in December 2013.
Mr. Dowd said the board did not interview candidates from the pool of around 25 applicants, but will contact some of them to see if they are interested in interviewing for the associate position.
The only concern voiced about Ms. Jeng-Chu's promotion came from board member Jabien Gutierrez, who said he felt the language the board was approving last night was not detailed enough for him to vote on. He stressed that despite his reservations, he fully supported the choice of Ms. Jeng-Chu to lead the library. The final motion was tailored somewhat to accommodate Mr. Gutierrez's concerns.
Ms. Jeng-Chu said she had some concerns about commitments she made to her family about her workload, but said there are a lot of projects she has been working on at the library that she would like to see through to fruition.
Originally from Taiwan, Ms. Jeng-Chu came to the U.S. to get her master's degree in library science from the University of Wisconsin. She lived in Indiana and Chicago before moving to the area. She was head of the technology services division at the library from 2003 to 2011, when she was promoted to associate head librarian.
Ms. Jeng-Chu, a wife and mother of two who lives in Grafton, said she enjoys working in a large, diversified community like Worcester, and looks forward to her role in selecting a new associate head librarian. Her time at the library has been an opportunity to grow, she said.
Salary and other details will be worked out, but Mr. Dowd said the city Law Department told him the Board of Directors had the authority over Ms. Jeng-Chu's hiring and conditions of employment. Mr. Contois' salary was $98,053 in fiscal 2012.


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VH1 Acquires Full Library of America's Most Romantic Reality Show 'The Bachelor'
VH1 Will Run the First Seven Seasons as Marathons Beginning With the First
Cycle Sunday 6/1 and Ending With the Seventh on Saturday 6/7
SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 15 -- "The Bachelor" has
"accepted a rose" from VH1, which is acquiring the full library of the
groundbreaking reality series in a licensing agreement with Warner Bros.
Domestic Television Distribution. The agreement includes 12 cycles of "The
Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" franchises as well all cycles through at
least 2008.
VH1 will air the first seven seasons during the first week of June.
Airing one season per day in a marathon format, VH1 will premiere the first
edition of "The Bachelor" on Sunday, June 1 and conclude the week-long
programming event with the seventh on Saturday, June 7.
The music and pop culture network shattered its ratings records over
the years with its own take on dating reality shows including "Flavor of
Love" and "Rock of Love with Bret Michaels."
"'The Bachelor' is the granddaddy of the dating reality format. It's
been a water cooler staple from the moment it premiered in 2002, and it's
still on top of its game", said Ben Zurier, Executive Vice President,
Programming Strategy, VH1, VH1 Classic, and MHD. "As we've seen with our
own record-breaking 'Rock of Love with Bret Michaels' and 'Flavor of Love'
series, dating reality has become the drama for the current generation of
young adults, with an engaging mix of intrigue, romance, and surprises.
'The Bachelor' and VH1 certainly feels like a good match."
"The Bachelor" debuted in March 2002 and featured the first-ever TV
Bachelor, Alex Michel, an attractive, accomplished businessman on a quest
to find true love. In its first seven installments, "The Bachelor" was
filled with compelling drama and several marriage proposals. The series
even provided America with the popular catchphrase, "Will you accept this
rose?" In the fifth edition, one of the most memorable "one-on-one dates"
featured National Football League quarterback Jesse Palmer and bachelorette
Jessica Bowlin picnicking on the 50-yard line at the famed Rose Bowl in
Pasadena, California, while being serenaded by the University of Southern
California Trojan Marching Band.
The Bachelor embarks on his romantic journey by meeting 25 women. He
then narrows the field to the 15 he sees as potential mates. As the
Bachelor gets to know the women via a series of social gatherings and
romantic dates, he continues to eliminate women each week. Some of the
women will go on group dates; some will meet the Bachelor alone. Some will
be introduced to his family, and some will host the Bachelor in their
hometown in an effort to show him what their life is like and help
determine with whom he is most compatible. Ultimately, the Bachelor must
choose the one woman who has captured his heart. At any point along the
way, however, should a woman decide she is no longer interested, she may
reject the Bachelor's invitation to continue dating.
In its first seven cycles, "The Bachelor" consistently ranked among
ABC's top 10 programs among Women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 and consistently
outperformed its time period competition among Women 18-34. Its most recent
edition -- the 12th -- averaged more than seven million viewers per week.
The first seven cycles of "The Bachelor" were produced by Next
Entertainment in association with Telepictures Productions. Mike Fleiss is
the executive producer. (The series is now produced by Next Entertainment
in association with Warner Horizon Television.)
VH1 connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter
to them most with TV series, specials, live events, exclusive online
content and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in 90 million
households in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital channels and
services including VH1Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1 Mobile, VH1Games and extensive
broadband video on VH1.com. Connect with VH1 at VH1.com.
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