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Apache Shiro Integration for Grails
3% of Grails users
compile "org.grails.plugins:shiro:1.2.1"
Enables Grails applications to take advantage of the Apache Shiro security layer, adding easy authentication and access control via roles and permissions.
Simply execute
This will install the plugin and create a
grails install-plugin shiro
grails-app/realms directory. Your application won't be immediately protected, but that is easily rectified: just read the quick start on the description tab.
Secure your Grails application quickly and easily using the Apache Shiro security framework. Although easy to get started with, this framework gives you a great deal of flexibility and will support your application as it grows.To find out what's new with each version of the plugin, check out the release notes.
Quick StartInstalling the plugin is only the first step to securing your application. It tries not to force a security model upon you, so you have to create your own. Fortunately, it's easy to set up a model that will satisfy the vast majority of user requirements. This is your one-stop-shop command to get yourself up and running:
The shiro-quick-start command takes a 'prefix' argument:
grails shiro-quick-start
This will create org.example.User and org.example.Role classes. If you want to include a package and the 'Shiro' prefix, just specify --prefix=org.example.ShiroThis will create a
grails shiro-quick-start --prefix=org.example.
ShiroDbRealm class under
grails-app/realms and also some related domain classes, which you can distinguish by their "Shiro" prefix. The realm is the repository of access control information; it decides whether a particular user has the rights to do something.The above command also creates a controller,
grails-app/controllers/AuthController.groovy , that provides a login screen, an action for signing into the application, and another one for signing out.Finally, it create a Grails filters class,
grails-app/conf/SecurityFilters.groovy , that enables access control on all your controllers and actions. Try it out! When you attempt to navigate to one of your controller pages, you will be redirected to a login screen. Of course, there are no users in the system yet, so you can't successfully log in. Let's rectify that now by adding an example user to the application in
grails-app/conf/BootStrap.groovy :
The above code will create a user
import org.apache.shiro.crypto.hash.Sha256Hashclass BootStrap { def init = { servletContext -> def user = new ShiroUser(username: "user123", passwordHash: new Sha256Hash("password").toHex()) user.addToPermissions("*:*") user.save() } def destroy = { } }
user123 that can access all controller actions. You can add as many or as few users as you like in the same way.Your application is now secure!
Fine-tuning the access controlThe default Shiro setup provided by the
shiro-quick-start command is very flexible and powerful. It's based on permission strings known as "wildcard permissions" that are simple to use, but in some ways difficult to understand because they are also very flexible.
About wildcard permissionsLet's start with an example. Say you want to protect access to your company's printers such that some people can print to particular printers, while others can find out what jobs are currently in the queue. The basic type of permission is therefore "printer", while we have two sub-types: "query" and "print". We also want to restrict access on a per-printer basis, so we then have a second sub-type that is the printer name. In wildcard permission format, the permission requirements are
Notice how each part is separated by a colon? That's how the wildcard permission format separates what it calls "parts". It's also worth pointing out at this stage that Apache Shiro has no understanding of printer permissions - they are used and interpreted by the application.So those are permission requirements. They state what permission is required to do something. In the above example, the first permission says that a user must have the right to query the "lp7200" printer. That's just the application's interpretation of the string, though. You still need to code the permission requirement into your application. A simple way to do this is in a condition:
printer:query:lp7200 printer:print:epsoncolor
On the other side of the coin, you have permission assignments where you say what rights particular users have. In the quick start example, you saw a permission assignment in the
if (SecurityUtils.subject.isPermitted("printer:query:lp7200")) { // Return the current jobs on printer lp7200 }
BootStrap class.Assignments look a lot like permission requirements, but they also support syntax for wildcards and specifying multiple types or sub-types. What do I mean by that? Well, imagine you want a user to have print access to all the printers in a company. You could assign all the permissions manually:
but this doesn't scale well, particularly when new printers are added. You can instead use a wildcard:
printer:print:lp7200 printer:print:epsoncolor ...
This does scale, because it covers any new printers as well. You could even allow access to all actions on all printers:
or all actions on a single printer:
or even specific actions:
The '*' wildcard and ',' sub-type separator can be used in any part of the permission, even the first part as you saw in the
BootStrap example.One final thing to note about permission assignments: missing parts imply that the user has access to all values corresponding to that part. In other words,
is equivalent to
is equivalent to
However, you can only leave off parts from the end of the string, so this:
is not equivalent to
Permission assignments like these are typically done at the database level, although it depends on your realm implementation. With the default realm installed by
quick-start you can assign permissions directly to users or via roles.
Of users, roles, and permissionsWhen you run
quick-start , it creates a realm under
grails-app/realms and domain classes representing a user and a role.You can probably guess what the user domain class is for: it represents the user that logs into your application, hence why it contains a username and a password hash. It stores a hash of the password so that even if someone hacks into the database and gets the user details, he or she can't log in as that user. So how does the application check whether a user has entered the correct password for a given username?Your application should at this point have an
AuthController under
grails-app/controllers . This has a
signIn action that logs a user into the application via
SecurityUtils.subject.login(authToken) . When that
login() method is called, a request is made to all the realms that support the particular type of authentication token (usually a
UsernamePasswordToken ) to check whether the credentials (the password in this case) match those stored by the realm.The default realm basically hashes the password provided in the authentication token using SHA256 and then compares the hash to the password hash stored in the user domain instance. If the hashes are the same, the user is authenticated. Now, SHA256 has known vulnerabilities, so you may want to use something a little more secure. If that's the case, you need to do two things. First, when you create a user (such as in
BootStrap ) you need to hash the password using the alternative algorithm, for example:
Second, you need to override the
import org.apache.shiro.crypto.hash.Sha512Hash … def user = new ShiroUser(username: "user123", passwordHash: new Sha512Hash("password").toHex()) user.save()
credentialMatcher bean, for example by adding the following to your
grails-app/conf/spring/resources.groovy file:
Make sure that your credentials matcher is configured for hex-encoded passwords if you store hex-encoded hashes in your user domain objects. Also beware that the bean name is
import org.apache.shiro.authc.credential.Sha512CredentialsMatcherbeans = { credentialMatcher(Sha512CredentialsMatcher) { storedCredentialsHexEncoded = true } … }
credentialMatcher (no 's'), whereas there is an 's' in the names of the matcher classes.The other domain class of interest is
ShiroRole . Roles are basically a name, such as "Administrator" or "Guest" that can be assigned to a user. The default realm allows users to have multiple roles. One approach to security is to simply check whether a user has a particular role, for example via
SecurityUtils.subject.hasRole(roleName) . Although simple, this approach fails to scale well and makes life more complicated as application requirements evolve. A far better way of using roles is to assign permissions to them:
When you assign such a role to a user, the user automatically gains all those permissions assigned to the role:
def adminRole = new ShiroRole(name: "Administrator") adminRole.addToPermissions("printer:*:*") adminRole.addToPermissions("admin") … adminRole.save()
It's then very easy to grant and revoke access rights to and from roles and the changes immediately apply to all users with the affected role(s). Very powerful and surprisingly easy.You can even modify the rights for an individual by assigning permissions directly to users:
user.addToRoles(adminRole) user.save() // 'user' now has all administrator rights
There's only one more thing to say about users, roles, and permissions. Although
quick-start creates the domain classes and realm with a "Shiro" prefix, you can change that by passing a
--prefix argument to the command:
For non-Windows users, you can even pass an empty string as the prefix, so you end up with the domain classes
grails quick-start --prefix="Sec"
User and
Role . Windows users are currently affected by a bug that means an empty string cannot be passed as an argument.Once you have set up your permission assignments, your thoughts might turn to how you can protect your application's URLs. Not to worry, they're already protected if you've used
quick-start !
Access control by conventionThe plugin enables access control via standard Grails filters. In fact, the
quick-start command created one for you: see
grails-app/conf/SecurityFilters.groovy . It's contents will look something like this:
This adds a before interceptor to all URLs. Don't worry too much about the first part of the interceptor - it's there to exclude the default home page from being protected. You can remove it if you like. The more important bit is the
class SecurityFilters { def filters = { all(uri: "/**") { before = { // Ignore direct views (e.g. the default main index page). if (!controllerName) return true // Access control by convention. accessControl() } } } }
accessControl() method call. This one line automatically protects all your controller actions by implicitly adding a permission requirement to each one.For example, say you have a scaffolded
BookController . A user can only access an action of that controller if he or she has the corresponding permission of the form
book:<action> . So the
list action requires the
book:list permission, while
show requires the
book:show permission. As you've seen, you can make all actions available to a user by assigning the
book:* or
book permissions to him or her.In other words, every controller action is protected by a permission requirement of the form
<controller>:<action> . That said, the plugin does treat the
AuthController in such a way that it's impossible to protect it. That's because it makes no sense to require an authenticated user for the login page!
Remember me?By default the plugin only grants access to an authenticated user, i.e. one that has explicitly logged in during the current session. You can allow access to both authenticated users and remembered users by setting
security.shiro.authc.required = false in your
Config.groovy file or by changing the line in
grails-app/conf/SecurityFilters.groovy to
accessControl(auth: false) .The tags
<shiro:isLoggedIn> and
<shiro:authenticated> check for an authenticated user, the tag
<shiro:user> checks for a known user (authenticated or remembered) and the tag
<shiro:remembered> checks only for a remembered user.


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At a time when there is hardly any cricket of note for Bangladesh, we are all following spinner Enamul Haque Junior who is playing cricket in England in for Guisborough CC in the North Yorkshire and South Durham Premier League.
Abu Choudhury spend some time talking to the young spinner.
The Spinner Who Went into the Cold…
by Abu Choudhury
Published: 1st June, 2011
In an era where cricketers ply their trade all over the world, it should come as no surprise that Bangladesh spinner Enamul Haque Junior is playing cricket in England in 2011. However, any comparison with the glamour of the Indian Premier League ends there; Enamul is in fact playing club cricket for Guisborough CC in the North Yorkshire and South Durham Premier League.
It is a long way from North East Bangladesh to the North East of England, so I ask Enamul how he comes to find himself in South Durham in the unpredictable May weather. He explains that he missed a large part of the first class season in Bangladesh as a result of an Achilles injury and is keen to get back to playing cricket to further his chances of a test recall.
"There is no cricket in Bangladesh right now and for the next six months. Playing in England is a good opportunity for me to test myself after injury and build up some match practice.  I spoke to the selectors before I left Bangladesh and they encouraged me to play as much cricket as I can and were happy for me to come to England.â€
Enamul explains why playing for Guisborough is ideal for him:
"It's 50 over cricket but the rules are a bit different. A bowler can bowl up to 17 overs and the one-day rule for legside wides is omitted.â€Â
"Playing in England is a great challenge for me. The ball moves around a lot more and batsmen must have a good technique to be successful here. I'm also learning a lot about cricket culture, how to socialize before the game and after.â€
Enamul also views his stint in England as an opportunity to develop his batting:
"My captain, Martin Wood, lets me bat at no 4 or 5 for Guisborough, this too will help me in the futureâ€.
It is not the first time that Enamul has played in England, he played here for Huddersfield in 2008 and also visited with Bangladesh Under 19s.Â
As we talk, it is clear that Enamul has an insatiable appetite for the game and is not afraid of the hard graft required to succeed. He tells me he does regular fitness training in the gym and plays two to three games a week for Guisborough. He is not fond of English food, but explains that he cooks his own curries while in the North East, often with his roommate and vice captain Graham Murray. He tells me he has even found a shop in Middlesbrough which specialises in Bangladeshi fish, his favourites are Hilsha and Bhoal.
Curries are not the only English pastime Enamul is keen on, he is also a fan of the beautiful game.
"I love football. I love watching and playing, I support Manchester United!"
The conversation moves on to his time playing for Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy:
"Indian first class cricket is of a very high standard, I felt like I was playing in a test match. It was a great experience, a good challenge. I played against some good players, former internationals like Murali Vijay and Mohammed Kaif.â€
He suggests that although the pitches used for internationals are slow and flat in India, seaming wickets are the norm in first class cricket, allowing batsmen to be tested against good fast bowling.
Enamul turns 25 at the end of the year and has already played 14 tests and ten ODIs for his country. A precocious left arm spinner, Enamul was described by Wisden's Matthew Engel as "a mature and confident cricket†- high praise indeed for a 16 year old debuting against a strong England side.Â
Enamul explains he was born in the town of Sylhet although his father is originally from Barlekha in the nearby district of Moulvi Bazar. Enamul lost his father in 1996 when he was only nine years old. He learnt his cricket at school, progressing through the age groups. Unlike his compatriot Tamim Iqbal, his was not a cricketing family or even a sporting one. He chuckles at the notion that it might have been:
"Mine is an unknown family, the last five generations of my family knew very little about cricket. They probably never even heard of the sport!â€
Enamul is articulate, calm and assured. Obviously an erudite cricketer, he conducts the entire interview in fluent English despite my offer to converse in broken Bengali.Â
When I ask him about the lack of quality fast bowlers in Bangladesh he eloquently points to the lack of sporting wickets and good facilities as contributing factors. He is confident however, that the talent exists and points to Bangladesh Academy bowlers like Shuvashis Roy as future prospects.
I ask him whether Bangladeshi expectations were too high during the World Cup. He replies that given the advantage of home conditions a quarter-final berth was not out of the question.
When I ask him about the form of his domestic team Sylhet (who frequently emerge as the weakest side in the National Cricket League), he points to the improvement they made this year and the form of left arm spinner Shaker Ahmed who finished the season as the country's leading wicket-taker in the first class game. Â
I point out that historically Dhaka and Chittagong have provided a steady supply of national cricketers and that Rajshahi seems to have taken that mantel more recently. Sylhet seems to have become a cricketing backwater. He acknowledges it may seem that way, but points to the lack of infrastructure in the region:
"Dhaka, Chittagong and Rajshahi all have indoor facilities, Sylhet does not. It's the rainy season now, if you're a Sylheti cricketer there's not much you can easily do about that.â€Â He denies that enthusiasm for cricket is declining in Sylhet.
When I ask why Sylhet's leading players are notably absent from the current national side (Nazmul Hossain is the only Sylheti player regularly representing his country), he is similarly optimistic:
"Alok Kapali returned to the side against Australia, it's only a matter of time before he plays more regularly. Rajin had a good season, he will be back soon I'm sure. Inshallah I too will return soon.â€Â
Enamul speaks warmly of his compatriots in the national side. He has played plenty of cricket with the likes of Tamim Iqbal and Shakib Al Hasan:
"They are a great bunch of boys. They work hard and are very talented.â€Â I ask him if he is surprised by the speed of Tamim's rise:
"I played with Tamim in domestic cricket and he completely transformed his game in the space of about a year. He worked really hard to do that. It's now paying off.â€
From my research, two key statistics about Enamul stand out. First, with the exception of 2010, Enamul has played at least one test every calendar year since his debut. He says he is unaware of this. He speaks fondly of his recall in 2009 against a depleted West Indies sides:
"I took six wickets in that match. It was great to be back on the cricket pitch. It was a tough series because we were expected to win. But my favourite memory is probably the Zimbabwe series in 2005. It was a great series win for the team and for me personallyâ€.Â
When I start quoting the second statistic to him, he finishes my sentence for me and laughs; all ten ODIs he has played have come against the same opposition, Zimbabwe:
"Yes I know that! I don't know why that is. I'd like to play against different opposition and better sides too. I don't think it's someone the selectors have done deliberately, it has just worked out that way. I am keen to develop my one day cricket more. I think I can play well in bothâ€.
I ask him whether he feels the Bangladesh team of today are stronger than the side the debuted for, he replies affirmatively,
"They are much stronger now and mentally tougher. The batsmen don't worry about pace or bounce and they play to win.â€
Enamul's fondness for some of Bangladesh's senior players is evident:
"When I first played for Bangladesh, Sujon bhai [Khaled Mahmud], Alok [Kapali] and Tapash [Baisya] helped me a lot, they encouraged me and helped me overcome any nerves.â€Â
He also has close friends among the current crop:
"Mehrab Hossain (Junior), Mahmudullah Riyad, Shahriar Nafees - they are probably my best friends in cricket right nowâ€.
I ask him how the two national coaches he worked with compare:
"We were very lucky; we had some really good coaches. Dav Whatmore was a great coach, a good motivator. Jamie [Siddons] was a hard working coach, good for the batsmen and very encouraging to bowlers too.â€
His thoughts on who the next coach for Bangladesh might be are refreshingly simply:
"We need someone who will work hard with the boys. Jamie did that. I've heard a few names mentioned, like Graham Ford and Stuart Law. If we can get one of those guys it will be good for Bangladeshâ€.
I ask him what the prospects are for a future Bangladeshi coach,
"There are some good coaches around, Khaled Mahmud and Salahuddin for example. But they probably need a bit more experience. Khaled Mashud will also make a good coach if he chooses to do that. Also, when some current players retire and take up coaching, they could do well. I think in the next ten to 15 years we could see a Bangladeshi coach for the national side".
We then get to a potential banana skin. There had been whispers that Enamul was out of favour with the Jamie Siddons regime, but Enamul refuses to blame the selectors for his recent omission from the national side and denies the national set-up has been a closed shop of late. Here too, Enamul displays a mature attitude to his cricketÂ
"If you play well you will get picked. The boys involved now have done well, but others have been picked too. I am confident I will play again I just need a chance to show what I can do.â€Â
I ask him about his plans for the immediate future, what if he is not picked for the Zimbabwe serious, what will he do then? With Shakib Al Hasan and Abdul Razzak leading the spin attack and young spinners like Suhrawardi Shuvo waiting in the wings, Enamul acknowledges it will not be easy to earn his place back in the side:
"Definitely it will be tough, but I believe I am good enough to compete with anyone. I will play the English season here. If I get picked for Zimbabwe, then I will go. If I am not, I will finish the season here and then play first class cricket in Bangladeshâ€.
I learn that Enamul also has trials with an English county next month:
"Hopefully it will go well, I am confident. But it will be hard, the English counties are only allowed to field one overseas player eachâ€.
The workmanlike attitude Enamul displays in our interview is also reflected in the way he goes about his cricket. He takes great pleasure in describing his bowling:
"I use the crease well and get lots of flight and turn. I am developing my arm ball and a delivery that is even straighter than that!â€
Enamul holds the best test match figures for a Bangladeshi, he took 12-200 against Zimbabwe in 2005.Â
Against Australia in 2006 he memorably outfoxed Michael Clarke with a magnificent delivery which turned from leg stump to off stump, making the future Australia captain look distinctly ordinary. Enamul recalls that moment with glee:
"That was a good ball. I'll never forget it, it was a big wicket. I've taken other good wickets too, I've dismissed Sangakkara and Mahela [Jayawardene]â€.
Enamul first picked up a cricket ball as a schoolboy in 1997, six years later he was playing test cricket against England. I ask him whether he regrets debuting for Bangladesh at such a young age. Whether it might have been better for him to develop his game before being thrust under the blinding lights of test cricket:
"I consider myself very lucky to have played for Bangladesh. For me test cricket is real cricket, the pinnacle of the game. For example, an English schoolboy would have no chance of playing a test match at 16, I did. It was a fantastic experience; I don't regret it for one momentâ€.
In person, Enamul Haque is determined, charming and engaging. It has been eight years and 14 tests since he made his test debut. It is said that spinners are at their best in their thirties and at only 24, Enamul is significantly younger than, for example, Monty Panesar or Amit Mishra.
Enamul's father never had the chance to see his son play cricket for his country and one can only guess at the delight a father would take at seeing his son achieve such a milestone.Â
Enamul has habit of being where the action is. He was there when Bangladesh gave Australia a scare in Fatullah in 2006. He was also instrumental in Bangladesh's maiden test series victory against Zimbabwe in 2005 and contributed when that feat was repeated on tour against the West Indies in 2009. It is therefore not improbable to suppose that he will be involved in Bangladesh's victories in years to come. I am not a betting man, but if I were I am not sure I would wager against it. Â
About the author(s): Abu Choudhury is a mediocre cricketer and occasionally a freelance cricket writer and goes by the nick abu2abu on our forums. Follow him on twitter @bangalicric_abu
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You might remember this show from the time I went there last year.
I can't remember the last time it rained, but today was a virtual blizzard of snow. It's also a public holiday so with events a little thin on the ground lately, I didn't really want to miss out.
Shows like this are always going to be packed with some very fine Japanese booth girls. Myself, along with other *ahem* "camera enthusiasts" took the opportunity to take lots of pics of sweet young things. OK, I admit it, it's a nice incentive to come check out the camera company's wares.
I failed to mention in the past that I re-bought another Panasonic GH-1. This time I made the menus English, and did a few mods.
I actually bought it virtually to this day in November, but I was still using my Nikon the whole time. I did a quick test yesterday with all my Nikon lenses with a Novoflex adapter. At first it was a bit confusing how to set it up, but once I figured it out, it's actually pretty easy. With third party lenses I have to set aperture, shutter speed, and focus manually.
So today would be my first official outdoor test. I was going to use the 50mm, but I didn't want to change lenses, so I settled for the more versatile 18-200. Apart from forgetting to check the exposure, most of the photos came out really good!
Like I've said before, for indoor photography I think the Nikon has less misses, but what I missed with the GH1 was the video. With my lens adapter, I plan to have quite a bit of fun trying some interesting things out.
I didn't do any video from this camera. Instead while resting my weary feet (and eyes), I did yet another brief time lapse from my iPhone.
Friday, 11 February 2011
CP+ 2011 Camera & Photo Imaging Show
You might remember this show from the time I went there last year.
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The fair is in an unrivalled setting, basically a country park with a beautiful house at its centre (some of the stalls are in here) and acres of rolling countryside. The backdrop to the outdoor marquees is breathtaking.
The house isn't bad, either!
The last time, I went to this fair, I remember there being one large marquee with stalls and another for the teas, with a few brave stall holders outside. Oh my, how this event has grown. Having spent a few of my pennies in what I thought was the main marquee, I ventured out into the sunshine to find a veritable shopping avenue had been created with a further two open-fronted marquees.
The stalls were of eye-wateringly super quality. The merchandise was mainly vintage with some handmade, too, and little in the way of new goods (some candles, a few clothes and garden plants and ornaments). The stall holders had pulled out all the stops and everything was beautifully and tantalisingly displayed, "The Old Haberdashery" being a case in point. (This is a shop based in Ticehurst which I think is a must-visit for the future.)
I confess to ransacking the fabrics, very reasonably priced, too.
Stall holders reliably informed me that they had kept much of their best stock for this fair. I could tell! There were swoon-worthy items for the home...
Sad-looking much-loved vintage toys begging to be given a new home...
Gorgeous old cotton reels and cards of beautiful buttons...
Fabulous fabric (as to be expected from The Washerwoman)...
Utterly beautiful displays on a floral theme from the lovely shop Living Vintage (based in Battersea, I have blogged previously about my visits there)...
More furry friends, of the sit-on push-along type. Woof!
Gorgeous greenery...
Sarah Moore (who has recently published her fabulous "Vintage Home" book) had a stall full of items you wanted to take home.
Phew! Time to refuel. The catering at this fair is of a high standard too (even if, at only just after midday, a lot of things did seem to have run out), and a real effort is made with white linen cloths and posies of flowers in vintage vases on the tables of the bunting-decked marquee.
How could I refuse?
I can also say that the shoppers and stall holders were all really friendly and pleasant to chat with, no elbows out here! They were also very well dressed. When I admired this lady's jacket, who did it turn out to belong to but Sarah Jane down-the-lane. Having followed her blog for some time, it was the first time we'd bumped into each other. It was also nice to have a natter with fellow blogger The Vanilla Squirrel and her floral jacket was much admired! I realised I was trailing her round the fair as our photos of pretty much the same things kept cropping up on Instagram within minutes of each other!
Lizzie (The Washerwoman) was easily spotted in her fabulous patchwork coat.
I went for spots.
After a truly lovely few hours in splendid sunshine, I headed back to the car (the walk felt longer now my arms were somewhat longer), pleased with my booty.
More excitement was to come once I got home. Isn't it great when you get back and can "play" with all your newly-found goodies? I was eager to have a look at my new tin as it wasn't just the delightful anemones on the outside that tempted me but the price label attached which read "includes sewing bits".
It contained a veritable hoard of treasure from 1920's bakelite belt buckles through 1940's embroidery silks to 1970's cotton reels. Smashing!
Vying for first place as prize find, is this stunning hand-pieced hexagon patchwork quilt which I bought from Sarah Moore. It was only when I got home and opened it out fully that I appreciated how big it is; it easily covers the top of a king size bed. So many hours of painstaking work in it, the real delight for me are all the divine fabrics, all in my favourite shade and dating to around the 1930's. Love.
And sad knitted bunny? How could I resist? He has a home with all my other misfits but he doesn't look too happy about it!
All in all, a day to remember.


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Making comfort food just that much easier
February 1, 2012 in Food Porn, review
Some of the best and most delicious busy week-night comfort food you can put together for your family may not be the fanciest or prettiest, but it certainly delivers satisfaction.
These recipes often also leave you with baking pans that have a crust of baked-on food that can leave the cook with a, let's try to say this nicely, lessened enthusiasm for making that recipe again. There isn't a much†more dispiriting thing in the kitchen than a baking pan that has a death grip on baked-on cheese and pasta.
Be honest – how often do you consider a recipe, think it sounds delicious, but then a vision of the baking pan you will have to clean later puts you off the whole enterprise? I don't like using throw-away foil pans, so that's not a short-cut I consider for feeding the family on a daily basis.
I tend to use olive oil to coat my baking pans or, if I run out of that, I use a discount oil spray (because that's what I have on hand a lot). Whether it's high quality and tasty olive oil or butter or cheapy spray, food still sticks on the pan.
If I am the one loading the dishwasher I scrub the pan with the steel scrubber I use for my stainless steel pans – sometimes with a lot of elbow grease – and then put it into the dishwasher. If someone ELSE loads the dishwasher, they don't pre-scrub, and I go to unload the washer to find a pan with very well-washed, baked-on food on the pan. I then have to scrub the pan with the scrubber and put it through AGAIN. Yeah – tell me I am not the only one with this issue?
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So you could see from the photos above that I made a baked cheesy sausage rigatoni. I hope you try the recipe. Its not a major innovation in recipe development and won't win any Nobel Prizes, BUT I think your family will find it irresistibly delicious both on the day you make it fresh and as leftovers at school and work the next day.
I have video farther down of the dish burbling away in the oven-you should have smelled it-knock out. Watching the video is the next best thing, and maybe it will entice you to try it.
In terms of stick-factor, this recipe definitely offered a challenge to the new PAM spray formulation.
And how did that turn out, you may ask? I can tell you that the stuck-on food came off with just my bare fingers-amazing huh? I then poured some hot, soapy water in the pan and grabbed my iPhone and shot the video below-showing you how the food was just barely clinging. After the video I rinsed the pan, ran a soapy sponge across it to remove oils and then rinsed it again, et voila – done with the clean up.
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Herb Kissed Sausage Whole Wheat Rigatoni Bake
- 1 lb box whole wheat rigatoni
- 1-2 pounds raw sweet Italian sausage, cooked, diced
- 4-6 cups pasta sauce (not white cheese sauce type)
- 32 ounces whole milk ricotta
- 2 whole eggs
- 8-10 ounces freshly shredded mozzarella
- one large ball of fresh mozzarella, sliced
- bunch of fresh basil, rough chop
- bunch of fresh oregano, rough chop
- 1/2 Spanish onion, diced finely
- 1-2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 3 tablespoons good olive oil
- salt as needed
Boil whole wheat rigatoni about 3/4 of recommended time, drain, set aside.
Preheat oven to 375 F.
Saute sausages on medium heat until 3/4 cooked and nicely browned on the outside.
Remove sausage and cut into small pieces.
In the sausage pan, saute onions in leftover oil, sprinkle with a bit of salt.
Once lightly browned, add garlic and turn off the heat and set aside.
Mix ricotta, eggs, basil, oregano, 1 teaspoon salt, until fluffy.
Fold in sautÈed onions and 3/4 of the shredded mozzarella.
Spray your baking pan(s) with PAM lightly. Add boiled pasta. I had to split this recipe across two baking pans. Add 1/2 pasta sauce to each pan, add 1/2 ricotta mix, add 1/2 sausage, mix evenly. Sprinkle tops with last 1/4 of shredded cheese and also add slices of fresh mozzarella. If you like, add a slight glug of olive oil across the fresh mozzarella. Spray some foil with PAM, and then cover the pans.
Bake them about 30 minutes.
Remove the foil and put the pans back in the oven with it on the broil setting to crisp up the surface cheese. Allow to cool 15 – 20 minutes. Serve and enjoy! Leftovers only get better
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The space felt like a local cafe because the customers looked quite at home chatting with the staff, while they spent the hour or two with family and friends. It's a good sign.
If you are looking for lighter fare, just walk down the street and try Chef Constant's Les Cocottes. It's a bit more casual and modern than Cafe Constant. Cafe Constant is located at 139, rue Saint-Dominique, 75007. Metro: Ecole-Militaire.


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Following in the fading hype of 3D display technology are new smartphones that feature curved displays. To find out if there's merit to the curvy form-factor, we handed around the first curved-screen smartphone in Australia to the people in the Good Gear Guide office. Were they for or against the upcoming trend?
Samsung drew first blood in Korea with the Galaxy Round, but LG jumped ahead in the local market with the G Flex. The validity of a curved screen — whether on smartphones or televisions — continues to be debated.
Good Gear Guide is currently reviewing the LG Flex, and showcasing the curved-screen smartphone around the office stirred up a range of different opinions. After we tossed chairs, keeled over pot-plants and severed our editor's hand, we compiled our findings.
"It's the banana phone."
"I just want to straighten it."
"Cool, it can follow the curve of my bum."
"Does it bend the other way?"
"Oh my God, it can stand on its own."
"Does it do anything?"
"It's bigger than mine. I do think it's cool."
These are just some of the reactions we heard when people handled the LG curved smartphone in the office.
Image quality
The general office consensus was that watching movies on a curved screen smartphone was better. It is hard to discern if the team was dazzled by the curve alone, or if the 1280x720 OLED display of the G Flex influenced people's view of what a curved display can do. Either way, using the G Flex to watch a movie was about the most cinematic visual experience we have had on a smartphone.
Research conducted by the experts at DisplayMate support the notion that curved-screens improve image quality by reducing reflections. Dr Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies, compared the displays of the normal Galaxy Note III to that of the curvaceous Galaxy Round as part of his research.
In his report, Soneira said curved screens "aren't simply a marketing gimmick...Curved screens are a major and very important new display technology innovation, particularly for handheld smartphones".
He claimed curved-screens improve image quality through the use of optical effects. "[Curved screens] substantially improves screen readability, image contrast, colour accuracy, and overall picture quality, but can also increase the running time on battery because the screen brightness and display power can be lowered due to the reduced light interference from ambient light reflections".
Most of the GGG office agreed that curved smartphones are more comfortable to hold. A curved screen smartphone conforms to a shape that comes more natural to the hand. Pocketing a curved smartphone also proved more comfortable than its flat counterparts [Personally, it was more uncomfortable for me - Ed].
Despite the office fanfare for the curved screen, some caveats were mentioned. Office peeps raised concerns over the large size of curved screen smartphones. The two available smartphones that have curved screens, the LG G Flex and the Samsung Galaxy Round, are 6in and 5.7in, respectively. Not everyone wants a smartphone the size of a phablet.
Neighbouring commuters and onlookers will have a harder time sneaking a peek at your curved screen smartphone. Whether your smartphone curves inwards from top-to-bottom like the G Flex, or from side-to-side like the Galaxy Round, the subtle curvature will make it that much harder for other people to see the screen.
Magic mirrors
Some people place reflective screen protectors on their smartphones and use them as a mirror. If you're hoping to do this with a curved-screen smartphone, you may be disappointed. Curving a smartphone screen contorts the reflection it makes. On the G Flex, everything is elongated. We imagine the Galaxy Round's curve would produce a stout reflection.
No hands
An additional perk celebrated around the office was the G Flex's ability to stand on its own; an additive that enriched its playback experience. The curved screen helped the phone stand on its side to allow us to watch widescreen videos, but it wasn't stable — if the table was accidentally bumped, the phone fell. The symmetry of the phone allows it to stand, as does the lack buttons along the sides. Still, a little built-in kickstand would be a sweet addition.
Obstacles and innovations
Curved-screen smartphones don't sit flush against a table, and this means middle of the smartphone will be taking the brunt of pressure when it is sitting idle. As a result, the centre of its back case could get discoloured over time.
To overcome this, LG has fitted the G Flex with a 'self-healing' back cover. Minor daily wear-and-tear scratches diminish within minutes due to what LG calls "elastic coating". LG Product Manager Josh Corrin compared the self-healing back cover to the technology used on a car's bumper bar.
Final thought
We're all for the option of having a curved screen smartphone. Curving a display is a feat of technology, and although this innovation might not be for everyone, we do believe it holds great promise for heavy users of multimedia.


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Matt Wexler
Witty, smart, and devilishly handsome, this former Minnesotan has been working his way through the world of comedy for his entire adult life. Born and raised in Minneapolis, MN, Matt found his comedic niche by creating his first sketch show entitled "Totally Smashed" for a Minnetonka public access TV at the tender age of 17.
From there, Matt then graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in creative writing in 2006, and eventually went on to graduate from the Second City of Chicago's writing program in 2008. While at Second City, Matt wrote for several different shows for Donny's Sky Box Theatre including "INTERNal Affairs", "Inhumane Society" and audience favorite "Pile Driving Miss Daisy". During this time, Matt also won two playwriting awards from the Chameleon Theatre Circle of Minnesota for best one act play (Rules for a Knife Fight) and best 10 minute play (12 Steps to Happy Hour).
In 2009, Matt moved to Hollywood and worked for National Lampoon's online website "The Zaz" as well as hosted a weekly comedy segment called "My Salami is Yours to Enjoy" on the wildly popular web series "Peter Himmelman's Furious World". Additionally, Matt also authored the screenplay "Juice Box Outlaws" which is currently in development.
Since Matt took up Stand Up Comedy in late 2011, he has performed at such outstanding venues as The Comedy Store, Flappers Comedy Club, The Ice House, The Second City of Los Angeles, The Ha Ha Cafe, The Hollywood Improv and many more. His cerebral humor and confident delivery have made him a fan favorite not only amongst audiences, but also fellow comedians alike.
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We Shall Remain : America Through Native Eyes / PBS ; executive producer, Sharon Grimberg ; an American Experience film in association with Apograph Productions Inc., Tecumseh LLC, Firelight Media, and Native American Public Telecommunications ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; WGBH-Boston.Material type: FilmLanguage: English, Algonquian (Other) Series: American experience: Description: 3 videodiscs (450 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videodiscISBN: 0793670268; 9780793670260Other title: America through native eyesUniform titles: American experience (Television program) Subject(s): Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813 | Geronimo, 1829-1909 | Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841 | Tecumseh, Shawnee chief, 1768-1813 | Geronimo, 1829-1909 | Geronimo, 1829-1909 | Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841 | Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813 | American Indian Movement | American Indian Movement | American Indian Movement | Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld | Indian Occupation of Wounded Knee (South Dakota : 1973) | King Philip's War (1675-1676) | Trail of Tears (1838-1839) | War of 1812 | 1600-1999 | Indians of North America -- History | Indians of North America -- Wars | Indians of North America -- Government relations | Whites -- Relations with Indians | Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) | Wampanoag Indians -- History -- 17th century | King Philip's War, 1675-1676 | Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 | Cherokee Indians -- History -- 19th century | Apache Indians -- History -- 19th century | Oglala Indians -- History -- 20th century | Indians of North America -- History | Whites -- Relations with Indians | Wampanoag Indians -- History -- 17th century | Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 | Apache Indians | Cherokee Indians | Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Government relations | Indians of North America -- Wars | Oglala Indians | Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) | Wampanoag Indians | Whites -- Relations with Indians | Indianerreservat | Kolonialismus | Vertreibung | Ethnozid | Kulturkontakt | Bewaffneter Konflikt | Wampanoag | Cherokee | Apachen | Shawnee | Teton-Dakota | Indianer | United States -- History | United States -- History -- War of 1812 | San Carlos Indian Reservation (Ariz.) | Wounded Knee (S.D.) -- History -- Indian occupation, 1973 | United States -- History | Wounded Knee (S.D.) -- History -- Indian occupation, 1973 | Arizona -- San Carlos Indian Reservation | South Dakota -- Wounded Knee | United States | Wounded Knee, SD | Neuengland | Wounded Knee (S.D.)Genre/Form: Streaming video. | Videorecording. | Biographical television programs. | Documentary television programs. | Historical television programs. | History. | Nonfiction television programs. | Television programs. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. | Television programs. | Documentary television programs. | Historical television programs. | Biographical television programs. | Nonfiction television programs. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired.DDC classification: 970.00497 LOC classification: E77 | .W4 2009Online resources: About the show and Streaming Videos | Official website (including streaming video versions of all 5 films & most of the special features)
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|University of Texas At Tyler Ask at Circulation
|E77 .W4 2009 Disc 2 (Browse shelf)
|Tecumseh's Vision - Trail of Tears
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|E77 .W4 2009 Disc 3 (Browse shelf)
|Geronimo - Wounded Knee
|University of Texas At Tyler Ask at Circulation
|E77 .W4 2009 Disc 1 (Browse shelf)
|After the Mayflower - Bonus Features
Disc 1 Episode 1: After the Mayflower -- Introduction -- First Thanksgiving -- The People of the First Light -- The Pilgrims -- An alliance -- Living together -- The great migration -- Dispossession -- King Philip's War -- The war's end -- Credits / produced by Sharon Grimberg, Cathleen O'Connell, Mark Zwonitzer ; co-producer and interview producer, Anne Makepeace ; story by Sharon Grimberg and Anne Makepeace ; telescript by Sharon Grimberg and Mark Zwonitzer ; directed by Chris Eyre ; (77 min.); Special features: ReelNative Films: Hill High Low / by Michael David Little -- A freeway Christmas / by Rebecca Nelson -- Untitled / by Courtney Leonard -- Hope for bigger than 16 seconds / by Keely Curliss (21 min.); PBS preview film [featurette] (26 min.); Behind the scenes [featurette] (8 min.); Native Now Films [featurette] (25 min.); We Shall Remain signature image [featurette] (3 min.); Tecumseh's vision: deleted scene [featurette] (5 min.); PDF guides [PDF files require a DVD-ROM drive and Adobe Acrobat]; PBS.org [text feature]; American Experience [text feature].
Disc 2 Episode 2: Tecumseh's vision -- Introduction -- "Here we shall remain" -- Uncertainty and betrayal -- Broken homes, broken communities -- The prophet's vision -- "Black Sun" -- The tribes unite -- Tecumseh and Harrison -- The Battle of Tippecanoe -- The War of 1812 -- The final betrayal -- Credits / written and produced by Ric Burns ; directed by Ric Burns and Chris Eyre (86 min.) -- Episode three: Trail of Tears -- Introduction -- A civilized life -- Among the white people -- Cherokee Nation on the rise -- "I ask you, shall Red Men live?" -- The scent of blood -- Two years to leave -- Trail of Tears -- New Cherokee Territory -- Credits / produced by Mark Zwonitzer and Rob Rapley ; recreations produced by Jennifer Pearce ; written by Mark Zwonitzer ; directed by Chris Eyre (75 min.); Special features: PBS.org [text feature]; American Experience [text feature].
Disc 3 Episode 4: Geronimo -- Introduction -- Surrounded by enemies -- Ravages of war -- Two years of peace -- Rejecting the reservation -- On the run -- The legend -- Prisoners of war -- Credits / written, produced and directed by Dustinn Craig and Sarah Colt (77 min.) -- Episode 5 Wounded Knee -- Introduction -- The takeover -- Day 2 -- Day 4 -- Day 6 -- The Independent Oglala Nation -- Standoff -- The end of the siege -- Aftermath -- Credits / written by Marcia Smith ; produced and directed by Stanley Nelson (79 min.); Special features: PBS.org [text feature]; American Experience [text feature].
Principal photography, Paul Goldsmith ; additional photography by Brant Fagan, Stephen McCarthy, Allen Moore, Ken Willinger, Buddy Squires, Ramon Engle, Michael Chin, Dustinn Craig, Eddie Marritz; edited by John Chimples (After the Mayflower), Li-Shin Yu (Tecumseh's vision), Penny Elliott Hays (Trail of Tears), William A. Anderson (Geronimo), Aljernon Tunsil and Lillian Benson (Wounded Knee) ; music by John Kusiak.
Re-enactors, After the Mayflower: Marcos Akiaten, Nicholas Irons, Annawon Weeden; Tecumseh's vision: Billy Merasty, Michael Greyeyes, Dwier Brown; Trail of Tears: Wes Studi, Freddy Douglas, Josh Blaylock, Will Finley, Wesley French, Carla-Rae Holland, Emily Podleski; narrator, Benjamin Bratt.
Originally broadcast on PBS as segments of The American Experience on March 31, April 17, April 27, May 4, and May 11, 2009.
When Europeans arrived in North America, they encountered the Native people. Contrary to stereotype, American Indians were not simply ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land. They were, like all people, an amalgam: charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. Native peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture using all avenues available, including military, legal, and political action, diplomacy, and supplication of the spiritual realm. From the Wampanoags of New England in the 1600s who used their alliance with the English to weaken rival tribes, to the bold new leaders of the 1970s who harnessed the momentum of the civil rights movement to forge a pan-Indian identity. Spanning almost four hundred years, these documentaries tell the story of pivotal moments in U.S. history from the Native American perspective, presenting Native history as an integral part of the American story.
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In English with some Nipmuc (Algonquian dialect) with occasional English subtitles; closed-captioned.
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Library Journal ReviewWe Shall Remain recounts the history of American Indian resistance over four centuries through pivotal moments and profiles, e.g., of Massasoit, Tecumseh, John Ross, Geronimo, and the Indian leaders of the 1973 revolt at Wounded Knee. Actor Benjamin Bratt, a longtime supporter of Indian causes, serves as off-camera narrator. Sadly, there is almost no period visual material for the first three parts of the series, so reenactments must suffice, but these are not consistently as successful as the news footage and pictorial history available for later episodes. Nevertheless, a powerful achievement; the start of better understanding of a crucial part of American history. We Are Still Here chronicles an effort by Katherine Siva Saubel and the -Cahuilla Indians of Southern California to preserve the culture, history, and traditions of the Cahuilla, presented through in-depth interviews with elder Saubel and her brother Alvino Siva. The film also portrays the Creation mythology of the Cahuilla, performed by a Native American cast, which is well done and sustains viewer interest. There are a lot of important ideas and traditions illuminated here, but the program tends to drag a bit. This project is made possible, in part, by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities as part of the council's statewide California Stories Initiative. American Outrage, originally released as Our Land, Our Life, is the story of feisty Western Shoshone sisters Carrie and Mary Dann and the small Nevada ranch where they run livestock on part of the 60 million acres recognized as Western Shoshone land in the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. In a suit that began in 1974, they are being prosecuted by the Federal Bureau of Land Management, which now claims that the grazing is degrading the environment and has conducted roundups in which hundreds of horses and cattle have been airlifted by helicopter, leaving many injured and dead. In reality, gold has been discovered in the area, and several million acres are being strip mined. Mary Dann died in 2005, but the struggle and the lawsuit continue. Winner of many awards, this moving testimonial is essential viewing. Extras include a short film and a photo gallery. All three films will be appreciated by history buffs, students of Native American history, and general viewers.-Margaret B. Miller, Univ. of South Dakota Lib., Vermillion (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
School Library Journal ReviewGr 7 Up-A multifaceted look at Native ingenuity and perseverance over the course of more than three centuries is presented in five 90-minute episodes. Beginning with the arrival of the Pilgrims and highlighting events and leaders through the 1973 Wounded Knee debacle, the series depicts the Native perspective without apology. The bulk of the creative talent includes Native actors and directors, musicians, historians, and consultants. The series is exemplary for its strong biographical sketches propelling American Indian history forward with more credibility than conventional generic accounts. The series does fail to mention the matriarchy society that dominated many Native communities, By presenting the patriarchs only, the program missed a critical aspect of tribal life. Superb cinematography features aerial footage of tribal regions, reenactments, and composite still photography. Dates and contemporaneous events in these episodes are often omitted, but the power of Native realities stripped and stolen by a government and its agents carry the chronology. This series is not intended as a comprehensive overview, but instead it offers an in-depth look at five aspects of American Indian history spanning more than 350 years and involving well-defined leaders and their impact on the people they represented. Teacher materials on the first disc will help steer students into a mature understanding of Indians and their relationship with the European Americans whose insatiable thirst for land drove Natives from their homes. Bonus features include a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the series, scenes from the Native Now project, and more. The series is a unique resource to help viewers understand Native/European-American relations and is sure to generate exciting discussions among students.-Robin Levin, Fort Washakie School/Community Library, Fort Washakie, WY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Alton Brown Announces End of 'Good Eats' Series
After 249 episodes, Good Eats is ending, reports the Chicago Tribune. Brown announced the news on Twitter:
G.E. fans, I've decided to cut the half hour series at 249 eps. There will be 3 new 1 hour eps this year and that's it. But mourn not. New things brew on the horizon..."good" things.
The show, which started in 1999, was always so good at combining food science, humor, and excellent recipes. While Food Network will continue to show reruns, the last new half-hour episode, which was on noodles (Episode 249 official title: "Use Your Noodle 5") aired last week.
As big Alton fans, we are pretty weepy to hear the news. Feeling a little nostalgic, we dug up these interviews we did with him last year, and in 2007. As well as these videos of him chewing the fat on donuts and fried chicken. And then there was his secret to losing over 50 pounds—the avocado-sardine sandwich!
What's the best thing you learned from Good Eats? We don't even know where to begin... We wish him the best of luck on those "good" things that are brewing over in Alton world.
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Adobe Bake Ovens
I am trying to get my act together and build an oven by dry stacking cement block up to waist height, fill the block perimeter with dirt, cap it with flat rock and then cover a damp sand model of my interior oven size with a first layer of good clay perhaps fire brick quality clay and then an insulating thicker layer of cob with straw in it .
I have called BLM or Bu. of Land Management to try and locate a clay pit close to me and I see on their internet site that BLM has a fire brick quality site up by Moscow, Idaho which is doable by a days trip in a truck one way. I would like to get my son involved because I think he would really enjoy the whole circle of building, proofing and baking. He worked in Sun Valley for years skiing and making pizzas. I think he could earn a nice hobby income in the Sun Valley area alone if having your own oven ever caught on in that kinky neighborhood. I worked for several years for a mason that did fireplaces up there and they would think nothing of telling you exactly what they wanted and when you built it they would change their minds and tear it out and do it over. The building was $30,000 and the tear out and rebuild was more.
Are any of you heading in this direction and what problems do you face where you live?


text: Show Hide image Culture 24 January 2013 Detroit is still breathing The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant - review. Sign-up The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant Mark Binelli Bodley Head, 336pp, £20 Over the past few years the city of Detroit – once a titan of American industry and proud symbol of modernity, now teetering towards bankruptcy – has found itself the subject of a stream of articles, books, photography exhibitions, TV news exposés and documentaries. In his ambitious new book, The Last Days of Detroit, Mark Binelli sets out to investigate the "new obsession" with the Motor City and what it might foretell, from the parachuting doom-and-gloom journalists eager to pronounce the city's death knell to the surprising migration of new arrivals – artists and other bohemian types, land speculators, "green" entrepreneurs. After all, he writes, "Who doesn't want to see the future?" In coverage of the book in the US, Binelli has routinely been referred to as a Detroit native, but for those of us from the area, calling someone raised in suburban Detroit (as I was) a "native" can be fighting words. The historically charged relationship between the city and its suburbs and its sharp racial divide (which is among the country's starkest) doesn't just undergird every local issue, it is every issue – a dynamic Binelli articulates in the book but seldom in relation to his own vantage point. Several times he comes close to suggesting that his family's Italian heritage gives him some kind of connection to the experience of disenfranchised Detroiters. He grew up close to Detroit, yes, but the metaphorical distance between the city and its hostile suburbs is immense, treacherous. To write the book, however, Binelli lived nearly three years in Detroit proper. Growing up in buffered proximity to Detroit's dramatic decline and residing there intermittently to write the book seems to heighten the sense of puzzled, face-to-glass spectatorship. In reality, it's unclear how much time he spent there, as he refers at one point to "dividing" his time between New York and Detroit. And, in a telling passage, Binelli notes that so-called "ruin porn", fetishising the city's glamorous decay, isn't limited to "outsiders" – among his "friends and acquaintances" gourmet dinner parties were held in abandoned buildings, which speaks volumes about his circle during his time there. That is not to say that only a lifelong Detroiter is capable of writing a book that seeks to consider Detroit's status as the most dramatic example of a dead or dying city and the ways residents are trying to fashion a rebirth. But, as he surveys scheming auto execs, outhustled union reps, under-resourced firefighters, scruffy artists and agrarians, earnest school officials and guileful politicians, his analysis is consistently weighed down by an outsider's love of symbol and a narrative journalist's love of the Meaningful Vignette. This means the book feels like a collection of articles, never quite cohering into a larger argument. One gets the feeling that the textural details – the abandoned blocks, the bare prairies, the casual horror of crime – interest Binelli far more than the development of an overarching idea. Inevitably, the accumulation of vignettes, however well-crafted, begin to feel repetitive and wearying. The quality of sameness proves a point – even the most earnest of efforts meets with inevitable disappointment – but, in the absence of a larger thesis, where does that point get him? This drumbeat of dismal ironies becomes numbing and even begins to feel artificial because well into the book and into Binelli's tenure in Detroit he continues to play the part of an ingénue in his own adventures. For instance, he talks about his surprise at arriving in a courtroom to observe a murder trial and finding no other reporters present. "Apparently the crime wasn't quite extraordinary by Detroit standards," he notes. "What did you have to do around here to get some ink?" At this point in the book, his surprise feels distinctly disingenuous. And yet, perhaps with the audacity of hope that characterises the recent "gold rush" to "refound" Detroit, by the final quarter of Binelli's book a change is afoot, a cumulative effect that sneaks up on him, almost in spite of himself. The dark sense that even the best of intentions come to naught starts to fade in the face of a kind of optimism. Indeed, the very tool – the telling vignette – that limits the book's argumentative promise ultimately proves critical to Binelli's own selfrevelation, making for the book's most winning moment. "It happened gradually, on the level of anecdote," he writes. "I caught myself noticing and relishing [anything that] in aggregate (or perhaps viewed through lenses with the proper tinting) couldn't help but make you feel like Detroit's luck was turning". Indeed, what he's realising here, it seems, are the ways in which all cities are projections, with Detroit functioning as the blank screen on which we view ourselves, our fears, our hopes – the way we view our own self-created problems, with over-optimism, denial and refusal of responsibility. At some point, he decided to embrace a kind of "magical thinking" and so the picture itself changed. In his conclusion, Binelli has not an epiphany exactly but a delicious bit of canny self-awareness, a sort of meta-critique of the book's weaknesses. He writes: "It would be easy to end this book on a different note. Any number of the city's grisly headlines could be plucked and highlighted, and not unrepresentatively, either. But if I did that, it would only be to make sure you understand I'm not a soft touch. The truth is, my optimism is growing tenacious. I couldn't say why." One wishes he would try. Here, of course, is a ripe opportunity for Binelli to explore his own connection to place, or, more widely, to that intensely American brand of blind faith in the power of the comeback, but he refuses. There is a certain kind of meaning to be gleaned from that refusal, however. Ultimately, Binelli is unable to answer his own questions about Detroit's future, its meaning. Instead, there's an almost wilful refusal to do so, to "decide", to wrap up Detroit in a neat and tidy (and potentially foreboding) package. In the final pages, he even seems more willing to let his stories have ragged edges. The tang of authenticity that comes from not using a vignette to illustrate an idea but to let it breathe, twist, turn. To allow for the messiness of life, to permit "second acts" and untidy reversals. You leave the book with no answers, no clear line, not even a set of possible futures. But you may feel something akin to Binelli's eyes-half-shut optimism. It's as if he's saying to us, after countless tours through abandoned edifices that come to stand in for the city: "This building isn't abandoned at all." It's filled with people, stories, history, confusion, disappointment, hope, aspiration, belief. It's in the wood, the tiles, the rafters. It lives still and you can hear its heart pumping. Megan Abbott is the author of several novels, the most recent of which to be published in the UK is "The End of Everything" (Picador, £7.99) Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! 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Developer Builds Pinterest-Inspired Neighborhood [PICS]
The model home at Taylor Morrison's Ladera housing development in Bee Cave, Texas, looks like any other modern house when you approach it from the road. There's a large front door, five windows and a few plants to bring the place to life. It's more of the same when you walk through the door either. There's the landing to your left, a room immediately to your right.
In fact, it's not until you take a few steps inside the house that you notice things are slightly different.
"This, to your right, is the children's nook," Kristin France tells me as I turn inside the house. "It's got a full-on kitchen."
"Every kid who comes through here, this is where they stop. They'll just hang out here while the parents look around the house. I have a two-year-old, and I can guarantee that she'd be in here—and I'd have a hard time pulling her out. "
What I'm looking at is a doorframe that's about three-quarters short of normal. It's nestled into a wall underneath the stairs, and around it is a painting that's meant to allude to cottages. This is the children's nook, and on the wall someone has painted a sink and stove.
"This was actually first designed to be here for a dog," France says. "But any kid would love it."
Ladera is not your traditional housing development. Rather, it's a revolutionary social community—a series of what Taylor Morrison considers the interactive homes. For the first time in the history of homebuilding, a development company has decided to crowdsource the construction process. As France explains, every house on the Ladera lot will draw a certain semblance of inspiration from designs the company found on Pinterest.
If you haven't heard of Pinterest yet, it's likely that you don't know any women. The site is the fastest growing social network on the Internet, a behemoth of beauty and inspiration that's grown to more than 16 million users. The site has become the unofficial wish list for dreamers and believers alike—an online destination for one-stop window shopping. People pour through other users' pinboards to find the objects they like most. When they find something, they pin it. Thus, their own pinboards become a vessel for the things they like and want.
And while we don't have the cold, hard numbers to back it up, fromcircumstantial evidence, I feel safe in saying that a substantial amount of those users have filled at least one of their pinboards with a series of things they would like to see in their dream homes: lofty light structures, super modern kitchen constructions, cute little craft rooms and tiny nooks under the steps for their children.
France, a marketing manager at Taylor Morrison, is no different. She's got a "My Next House..." pinboard with 77 different pins and says that's how she got the inspiration to build these homes.
"We were doing our frame walk," she remembers. "We always pick out of floor plans and what we're going to build before anything happens.
"We were walking through this house and got to the steps, and I said, 'We've got to make that a children's nook under the stairs,' because I knew that we had to make it a functional space. I pulled the image up on my phone, and everybody agreed."
The kitchen design and craft room upstairs played out much the same way. France looked at the framework of the house and then consulted her pinboard. With the kitchen, she found a design that played to a long island and walkway. Upstairs in the craft room, she reverted to an old favorite: a two-sided desk that looks made for creative collaboration.
"We're showing people that they can have these homes. I think that's what Pinterest does," France says. "Your hopes and dreams of what you could have or could create: We're trying to make that a reality for people who can't visualize it."
France says Taylor Morrison is planning to build 260 different houses on the lot, with each pulling different dream designs from Pinterest. And while she laments the fact that the company can't yet cater to personalized requests, the fact that she and her colleagues are able to show actual visualizations of room conceptions can be a legitimate boost for business.
"After years of hearing people say, 'I wish you had done this' or 'I wish you had done that,' this has helped create the solution," France adds. "We've revamped a lot of our floor plans in the last two years basically to cater to all those requests.
"We made those decisions based on what's popular and what these pinners are requesting. We could show that the room upstairs could be a study or craft room or baby's room. These visuals help people move into them."
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Hallmark 2012 Beagle Scout Ornamentstevejb68 on September 3, 2012 in collections, Holiday, Memorabilia
It is that time of year again. Hallmark is now selling the new Snoopy, the Beagle Scout, 2012 ornament. It is available only at Hallmark stores and is not available for purchase online, although their site does have a page for it at http://www.hallmark.com/Product/ProductDetails/1795QXI2941_DK .
This year's collectable features Beagle Scout (or is it scoutmaster?) Snoopy with Woodstock and a couple friends as they raise the flag of the United States of America one morning on a camping trip. As the Hallmark page states: "Recall wholesome camp mornings with a trio of scouts ready to salute the start of their day. Snoopy's got the flag on hand, so it's time to get going on your own winter adventure together."
I guess I will be making a trip to St. Cloud to purchase a few of these. A couple will be added to my collection (one for the Christmas tree and one to put away) and a couple may find themselves under someone's tree Christmas morning.
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This might be an easy question in the theory of ordinary differential equation. But since I know very little about it, I posted it here and hope to get some answers or references.
Consider the equation $$x\phi'(x)-c\phi(x)=xf(x), x>0$$ where $c$ is some constant.
My question is that under what (growth) conditions, the solution $\phi(x)$ has the following property: the limit $$\lim_{x\to 0}x^{-c}\phi(x)$$ exists and nonzero?
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Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education approves tuition hike
HARTFORD -- The Board of Regents for Higher Education, which governs four state universities, 12 community colleges and Charter Oak State College, Thursday approved an increase in tuition and fees for the system's nearly 100,000 students. The Board's Finance Committee had previously approved the increase on March 14.
The tuition and fee increases for fiscal year 2014 include: Connecticut state universities' tuition will rise 5.1 percent or $434 for in-state commuters and 4.1 percent of $778 for in-state residential students. Tuition will rise 4.1 percent or $1,251 for out-of-state residential students. Also, Connecticut community colleges' tuition will increase 5.25 percent or $188 for full-time, in-state commuters.
In-state tuition at Charter Oak State College for fiscal year 2014 will increase by $13/credit, to $258/credit. The in-state college fee will increase $9 per semester to $180 per semester.
"I hope students, their parents and the public understand that this is a difficult decision, and we don't make it lightly," said Lewis J. Robinson, Chairman of the Board of Regents for Higher Education, in a press release. "My colleagues on the Board and I certainly understand why students don't want to pay higher tuition and fees, but we are entrusted with an important fiduciary duty to assure the stability of our system, as well as to support student success. Sometimes, unfortunately, that means we must make some very tough decisions. We will continue to monitor the system office and campus budgets as we move through the fiscal year, and look for cost savings wherever possible. In the meantime, I would like to commend the students who spoke against this proposal over the past few weeks. They were respectful, well-spoken, and represented our colleges and universities admirably."
"We are mindful that any increase in tuition and fees - regardless of the amount - is difficult for our students to absorb in these fiscal times," said Finance Committee Chairman Gary Holloway. "When we originally began discussing the environment in which we would consider a tuition and fee increase, I was concerned we would be forced to consider a double-digit increase. Thankfully, that is not the situation in which we find ourselves. However, we must continue to be innovative in the way in which we provide services to our students, and consider any and all opportunities for cost savings going forward."
Under a policy adopted by the former Board of Governors for Higher Education, institutions must set aside 15 percent of tuition dollars for institutional financial aid purposes. When the tuition increases, so, too, does the amount of financial aid available to students. The state universities remain a relatively good bargain for students in relation to comparable institutions in New England and the Northeast. The Connecticut state universities ranked in the bottom third among the six New England states, New York and New Jersey in terms of tuition and fees through fiscal year 2013. The Connecticut community colleges' tuition and fee levels rank among the bottom third among comparable institutions in the Northeast and among the lowest within New England. In fiscal year 2012, the community colleges ranked second only to Maine in having the lowest total tuition and fees for two-year institutions in New England.


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Governor Doyle Tours Milwaukee Time Warner Cable Facilities
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Time Warner Cable announced the hiring of 125 new employees to do sales and marketing.
Vince Adams, a Milwaukee native who sold real estate in Las Vegas for the last several years, recently returned to the city and applied for the job.
"After I found out the types of jobs that were available, I said to myself: 'Once I prove myself and work, over the course of time, I can move up the ladder here,'" said Adams.
Governor Jim Doyle toured the new Time Warner facilities Wednesday and said it will take some more time for the economy to come back from the depths it's been in.
"The news that's coming in isn't as bad as what was happening all over the country in March and April and May," Doyle said, "And I think you see in some of the markets and so on, there's some sense for some optimism."
Wisconsin companies like Johnson Controls and Oshkosh Truck recently won huge government contracts, and they also will be hiring several hundred new employees.
A local business expert was discussing the positive trends with a builder, a Realtor, and an investment adviser.
"They're starting to get a sense that we're all kind of climbing out of the foxhole looking around and saying, 'Is it safe to come out yet? I think it is. I think it is,'" said BizTimes Milwaukee's Steve Jagler. "So we're seeing reasons for hope again."
Experts said to remember that jobs are usually the last thing to rebound after a recession.
Wisconsin's latest unemployment numbers come out next week.
Another positive sign is that BizTimes' index, which tracks the stock value of local companies, is nearly double its 52-week low.


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In the U.S., the pap smear has become a routine part of women's health care, and it's dramatically reduced cervical cancer deaths. But in Africa and other impoverished regions, few women get pap smears because the countries lack the laboratories and other resources necessary to offer them.
The World Health Organization reports that more than 80 percent of deaths from cervical cancer now occur in low-income nations. Thus, there's a push to come up with a new, low-tech way to screen women for cervical cancer in the developing world.
Now doctors think a bit of vinegar may be a solution.
"We have already seen that the pap smear hasn't worked as a public health intervention for preventing cervical cancer in low and middle-income countries," Ricky Lu, an obstetrician-gynecologist with the international health group Jhpiego, which is associated with Johns Hopkins University.
Lu is promoting a cervical cancer screening technique in which a nurse or a midwife simply swabs a woman's cervix with vinegar (or diluted acetic acid) and then looks with the naked eye, or a magnifying glass, for pre-cancerous lesions. The screening technique requires only vaginal spoons, vinegar and a bit of training. It can be performed in the simplest health clinics without a need for laboratory tests or even electricity.
In the developing world, Lu says, public health providers need a cervical cancer screening tool that is fast, easy and inexpensive. "We need a test that is simple, practical and good enough to identify precancerous lesions," he says. "And then also it's critical that it is available where women come [for health care]."
When a health care provider spots a precancerous lesion with the vinegar test, it can often be removed immediately, and the entire procedure takes only a few minutes.
At least six countries in Africa have now adopted the technique as part of their public health care systems, and it's also caught on in Thailand and parts of Asia.
Doreen Ramogola-Masire, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Botswana, is using a similar approach. One of the key elements of the technique, she says, is that women can be tested and treated in a single visit.
Ramogola-Masire simply swabs a woman's cervix with vinegar and then looks for any potentially cancerous lesions, which appear as white tissue. If pre-cancerous lesions are present, she freezes them with nitrous oxide.
"She's lying on the couch," Ramogola-Masire says. "You look at [the cervix], you wash it with vinegar. You take a picture. You can immediately review the picture because you've got a screen. So you can say to them, this is the white change. I think this is where the abnormality is. We are going to freeze it. What happens is the freezing actually takes care of the top layer. You just sluff that off. And hopefully you've taken care of the problem."
Almost all cervical cancer is caused by the human papillomavirus. There appears to be higher rates of HPV and cervical cancer among women with HIV, Ramogola-Masire says. Botswana has one of the highest rates of HIV in the world, with nearly a quarter of all adults believed to be HIV positive.
In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, Ramogola-Masire says, cervical cancer wasn't much of a concern because women with HIV weren't living long enough for the cancer to develop. Once cervical cancer has spread, it's difficult to treat, particularly in poor countries with limited health resources.
If caught early, cervical cancer is easily treatable. If not, Ramogola-Masire says, it's a terrible death. "It invades you nerves at the spine at the back, so you are in a lot of pain," she says.
"The other thing is that because there's a lot of dead tissue, you smell. There's a lot of bleeding. You're incontinent. You're in pain, you're bleeding ... I think it's just a horrible disease to die from."
Ramogola-Masire hopes that the widespread adoption of cervical cancer screening with vinegar in the developing world can help prevent those horrible deaths.
Deaths from cervical cancer in the U.S. and other developed countries declined dramatically over the latter half of the 20th century. That's partly because pap smears have become a routine part of women's health checkups. But in the developing world they're not routine and women continue to die from the highly treatable form of cancer. According to the World Health Organization, roughly 80 percent of cervical cancer deaths now occur in low income countries. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports now on a growing push for the low-tech alternative to pap smears, one that uses little more than household vinegar.
JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE: In Botswana at a small clinic behind the Princess Marina Hospital in the capital, Dr. Doreen Ramogola-Masire is in a rush. Matronly women in their 30s and 40s are sitting on long benches in the clinic's central corridor waiting to be screened for cervical cancer. Ramogola-Masire clicks through photos on a Motorola cell phone.
DR. DOREEN RAMOGOLA-MASIRE: This is normal cervix. It's nice pink.
BEAUBIEN: But then on the later image on the phone there's a cloudy white area on a cervix.
RAMOGOLA-MASIRE: And that is abnormality we're talking about. So this is quite thick. So to me that will be a moderate, severe abnormality.
BEAUBIEN: That abnormality is tissue that may eventually turn into cervical cancer and if it does, Ramogola-Masire says, it will probably be fatal. Across Africa, most women are never screened for cervical cancer. Pap smears require tissue samples to be analyzed in a lab. The results then have to get shipped back to clinics where they may or may not ever reach the original patient. Even testing for HPV which causes most cases of cervical cancer is difficult in places where women only sporadically access health care. Ramogola-Masire in Botswana is using a much simpler approach.
RAMOGOLA-MASIRE: One visit. Same visit.
BEAUBIEN: Ramogola-Masire simply swabs a woman's cervix with vinegar and then looks to see if any potentially cancerous abnormalities have turned white. If pre-cancerous lesions are present, she freezes them off with nitrous oxide.
RAMOGOLA-MASIRE: She's lying on the couch, you look at it, you wash it with vinegar. You take a picture. You can immediately review the picture because you've got a screen, so you can say to them, this is the white change and I think this is where the abnormality is. We are going to freeze it and what happens, the freezing actually takes care of the top layer, it just sluffs(ph) that off. And hopefully, you've taken care of the problem.
BEAUBIEN: The picture can even be taken with a cell phone and sent to a doctor for review. Although on this day, Ramogola-Masire is using a digital camera. The entire process can be done by a trained mid-wife and take only a few minutes. If the patient already has developed cancer, this vinegar test will show that, but the treatment is far more complex. At least six countries in Africa have started using the vinegar screening technique in government health clinics. It's also caught on in Thailand and several other Asian countries. Ricky Lu with the global health group, Jhpiego from Johns Hopkins University, has been studying the technique as alternative to pap smears for more than a decade.
DR. RICKY LU: We have already seen that the pap smear hasn't worked as a public health intervention for preventing cervical cancer in low and middle income countries.
BEAUBIEN: Dr. Lu has a slightly different procedure from Dr. Ramogola-Masire in Botswana. Rather than using nitrous oxide to freeze any abnormal lesions, Jhpeigo is using carbon dioxide or dry ice. This, Dr. Lu says, is because carbon dioxide is more widely available.
LU: Dry ice or carbon dioxide is always going to be available where you would probably find Coca-Cola or Pepsi bottling companies because they run their soda companies using carbon dioxide as well. So there must be some source of carbon dioxide somewhere.
BEAUBIEN: The dry ice or the nitrous oxide is delivered to the tip of the cervix with a wand that costs about $2,000. This is the most expensive part of the procedure. Jhpiego is trying to come up with a cheaper alternative.
MARTIN VARADY: Basically, all you have to do is turn it on for about 10 seconds.
BEAUBIEN: Martin Varady with Jhpiego just got his masters in bio-medical engineering from Johns Hopkins. He's holding a prototype of a dry ice delivery system that uses a compact 5-pound CO2 gas canister.
VARADY: Currently with the existing devices they usually get about 10 to 15 patients on a big 50-pound tank, but with this one, this is just the small 5-pound tank, we expect that we should be able to treat about 25 to 30 women.
BEAUBIEN: This new system, which they're still refining, could cost just a couple of hundred dollars, fit in a backpack and allow potentially life-saving cervical cancer screening in even the most remote parts of the world. Jason Beaubien, NPR News.
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Hip and knee replacements are among the most common surgeries, and they're growing more common. There will be a million of those procedures done this year in the United States, and they are not risk-free. FOX 4 Medical Reporter Meryl Lin McKean says new research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows the chances of a heart attack jump after joint replacement. Watch video


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LizardFS forums spotted
During the las days, the LizardFS community forums appeared in the web. While the forums seem to be empty at the moment, it could be a good place to start asking questions or talking about LizardFS. So if you are unhappy with the discussions on the mailing list or on Git Hub, the LizardFS forums […]... Read More