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Mother Nature's creativity is on display. Leaves are tinted with copper, yellow and red, and the changing color outdoors does as much to inspire home decorating as the calendar.
Natural earth tones mix seamlessly with rich, saturated hues on this season's decorative accessories and tabletop decor.
"It's all about the traditional fall colors with a flair to it," says Pam Vincent, owner of Culinary Connection in Plano.
Vincent cites chocolate brown, amber, deep green and bordeaux, mixed with brighter jewel tones, as the prominent color direction for fall decorating this year. More casual than the winter holiday seasons, autumn allows nature to be its guiding design influence.
"Fall decorating is not really about being formal," Vincent says. "It's not about china and crystal. It's about mixing colors, patterns and textures."
Acorns, fruits, leaves and other natural objects play an important role in motifs for fall, either mixed or alone. Textural accents include jute, twine, lace and velvet.
This merging of design elements is influenced by trends in apparel. Just as patterns and fabrics are mixed in women's wear, motifs and textures are mixed in fall decor.
An equally important theme for autumn is inspired by animal hides.
"Animal prints are now in tabletop, in dinnerware and glassware. That's new this fall," Vincent says. Leopard and tiger prints have been joined by giraffe and cattle patterns.
Zebra prints, traditionally black and white, have been reborn in fresher brown and black combinations.
As if this collage of natural elements were not enough, shiny finishes are also in style. Mercury-glass pumpkins and fabric gourds — rendered in luxe velvets and common corduroys — add a touch of glamour.
"Metallics are very big. They can be mixed in with other decor to add an element of design," Vincent says.
Scroll through the photos above to see our fall decor picks.
Nancy Baldwin is a Plano freelance writer.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Three goals in 51 seconds were the difference, but Broc Little's one-timer with 1:53 left in overtime capped an amazing comeback for the No. 5 Yale men's hockey team in a 5-4 win over Clarkson before a sellout crowd at Ingalls Rink.
Few of the 3,500 in attendance on Senior Day/Youth Day could have figured the Whale (and its Bulldogs) still had life after the Golden Knights scored to make it 4-1 just 1:06 into the third period. Yale spent the next 11-plus minutes trying to chip away at the deficit without success until the tide finally turned in a big way.
Little, who had three goals and one assist, notched his 24th of the year for the winner after a goal-line extended feed from Denny Kearney, who did most of the work on the play. Little backhand-swiped at the pass with a defender all over him and knocked it past Paul Karpowich, the Clarkson goalie who stopped 51 of 56 shots, including 20 saves in the third frame.
"I saw Denny [Kearney] behind the net and I tried to fend off a 'D' guy," said Little, who had his first hat trick since his freshman year at Nebraska-Omaha. "I just got enough of it, and I kind of blacked out after that."
Yale (18-6-3, 14-4-2 ECAC) outshot the Knights 56-26, including 23-7 in the third, but had to erase a deficit for the second straight game to earn a third consecutive four-point conference weekend. Today's win also gave the Blue sole possession of first place in the ECAC because Cornell fell at Dartmouth and is now two points behind.
The Elis, who attempted 102 shots against the Knights, converted just one of seven power plays. They also got goals from Kearney and Jeff Anderson. Four different Clarkson players hit the net but Brandon DeFazio had a goal and an assist.
Freshman Jeff Malcolm made his first start since Jan. 23 at St. Lawrence and made 15 saves through 40 minutes before giving way to senior Billy Blase (7 saves).
Like last night against St. Lawrence, the Elis proved that dominating the shots on goal does not equate to having a lead. Yale had the first seven shots on goal and had a 17-10 edge overall in the first period but was down 1-0 at the intermission.
The Knights (7-22-3, 3-15-2) cashed in their chip with 52 seconds left on their first man-advantage to open the scoring. Scott Freeman (7th goal) took a feed at the top of the right circle and skated to the low slot before wristing a low shot glove side on Malcolm at 7:34.
Yale continued to put the pressure on the visitor's end in the second period but found itself down 2-0 after defenseman Jeremiah Crowe's blast from the top of the left circle almost clipped the water bottle resting on the net at 11:13. It was his first goal of the year.
There were fewer grade-A chances in the second. Tom Dignard's one-timer slapshot from the point on a power play right after the second goal looked like it was heading for the twine but bounced off Karpowich's stick.
The Elis finally scored when Little fired an off-angle shot that hit a defender and bounced slowly over the goal line. Little gathered the puck in the mid slot area and skated to the left before wristing a harmless looking shot and getting his 22nd goal.
Many figured that would open the floodgates, but the visitors had other ideas. Matt Becca (19th) had the puck in the left circle with a defender in the way. The senior winger used the defender to screen Malcolm before sending a shot five-hole with 1:35 left in the second to re-gain the two-goal cushion.
Blase, who earned his sixth win of the year, took over the Yale goal to start the third period got tested right away with an odd-man rush that produced a 4-1 lead. Brandon DeFazio (9th) held the puck on the right side with plenty of help and waited for an opening. He went over the goalie's shoulder with a wrister at 1:06.
The best example of how well Karpowich was playing came when the Knights killed off a two-minute, 5-on-3 after simultaneous tripping calls. He knocked down numerous quality chances and seemed to be all over the ice.
"We could feel the momentum turn in the third, but the penalty kill on the 5-on-3 could have killed our momentum," said Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey. "I started to double-shift the Miller and Arcobello lines. We could feel it [comeback] coming."
Yale still managed to cut the lead in half with 7:32 left on a rebound put-back by Kearney. Mark Arcobello's shot from the point hit the pipe and the junior forward was on the edge of the crease to bang home his sixth of the year. Arcobello finished with three assists.
The flood gates had finally been opened. It was the first of three straight goals in 51 seconds.
Two seconds after the puck dropped following the goal, Clarkson was called for a penalty and the Elis jumped all over it. Anderson (5th) one-timed Andrew Miller's crossing feed off the edge of the crease to make it 4-3 at 13:05.
Yale evened it 14 seconds later when Clarkson had a breakout miscue. The puck hit the back of a Knight's skate and stayed inside the visitor's blueline. Kearney reached to grab it and quickly found Little with open space heading toward the goal. The junior forward crossed the low slot, deked to the left and then went backhand high on the sprawling goalie.
"It [scoring the tying and winning goals] was one of the better feelings I've had in my life," said Little. "Down 4-1, it was not looking good for us. We had to dig deep. We know we can come back from almost anything."
BULLDOG BITES: The only change in the lineup from Friday to today was junior defenseman Ken Trentowski replacing sophomore Nick Jaskowiak... Today's crowd of 3,500 marked the seventh straight sellout at Ingalls Rink and the ninth overall this year... Yale can clinch the conference regular season title with two points this coming weekend with games at Princeton and Quinnipiac.
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It has been terrible and rainy lately. Yesterday morning Alex and I walked to work in the pouring rain, and I spent the day at work thinking about what to make for dinner. I decided on a beef stew, with cranberries, for this blog event:
So I bought all my supplies I needed at work, and headed out into the rain. Surprise to me, it had stopped raining, and was sunny and warm. (The picture was taken the day before). Not to be deterred, I set about to make my beef stew. It was delicious, but a little sweet, so I cut down the sugar in this recipe. I liked the mushrooms in it, but Alex didn't. So, up to you!
My tomato plant, by the way, is still flourishing. It's November in 3 days. I used these and some more that I found in the stew.
Cranberry Beef Stew
1 1/4 lb stew beef, cubed
1/4 c rice flour
salt and pepper
2 T butter
2 T sugar
1/2 c water/juice
1 c cranberries
1 onion, diced
1 tomato, diced
1 c crimini mushrooms (optional)
1 t rosemary, chopped
1 c water
1 T tomato paste
Preheat the oven to 275. Combine flour with salt and pepper, dredge beef. Melt butter on medium high heat, then add beef, cooking on all sides until golden. Meanwhile, combine sugar and juice, and heat to dissolve sugar. Add cranberries, cook until they start to pop. Put beef and cranberry sauce in a casserole pan. Deglaze beef pan with other cup of water and rosemary, stirring to get the chunks off the bottom. Mix in the tomato paste, pour over beef in pan. Add onions,tomato and mushrooms, cover, and cook 2-3 hours until beef is tender.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Cranberry Beef Stew
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The round up (http://foodblog.paulchens.org/?p=1063) is online now and please don't forget to vote (http://foodblog.paulchens.org/?p=1062) for your favourite entry!
We had this stew last evening. I cooked the meat and the mushrooms the way Julia Childs does. I used apple juice for the 1/2 cup water and cooked it in a covered roaster. It was delicious and we will have it again.ReplyDelete
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CAMPUS LIFE AND SAFETY AND SECURITY (CLASS) TASK FORCE 2010 Annual Report
CLASS Task Force Background
The Campus Life and Safety and Security (CLASS) Task Force was created by an Executive Order from Gov. Brad Henry in April 2007, following the tragedy on the Virginia Tech campus, where a single shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and wounded many more before committing suicide.
The purpose of the task force is to review and evaluate current safety and security plans and student counseling services already in place for higher education and career technology institutions and to make recommendations for any needed changes. In addition, the task force researches methods for recognizing students in need and delivering to them appropriate services such as counseling, substance abuse treatment and mental health management. At Gov. Henry's request, the task force submitted a final report to him and the legislative leadership Jan. 15, 2008.
On Feb. 12, 2008, at the request of the task force, Gov. Henry issued Executive Order 2008-8 extending the activities of the task force for the purpose of implementing the recommendations of its final report and continuing to review and evaluate safety and security at higher education and career technology institutions and make recommendations for modifications as needed. As required by the executive order, the task force has submitted annual reports to the governor and legislative leadership.
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Council contends the Internet is too important to leave governance to someone else
The international community has failed to develop an effective model for governing the Internet, and the United States must assert its interests in overseeing the infrastructure that plays a vital part in its national security and economic well-being, according to a new report from the Council on Foreign Relations.
The report, by Robert Knake, notes that the annual cost of cyber crime is estimated at $1 trillion and that cyberattacks are becoming a part of warfare and diplomacy.
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"While no fewer than six U.N. bodies and multiple regional and national forums have sought to build a consensus on the future of Internet governance, there has been little progress thus far," the report states. "The United States has largely abstained from these discussions, instead focusing on developing its own offensive and defensive cybersecurity capabilities while entrusting the ongoing stability of the system to the expertise of the private sector."
Knake said the United States can no longer afford to cede the initiative on Internet governance to nations that do not share its interests, and the country should pursue its own agenda for dealing with cyber warfare, cyber crime and state-sponsored espionage through legislation and technology.
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Excuse me, but there are already "seperate non-connected to public internet network[s]."
They were very popular in the 1990s, and were called private lines, frame relay, ATM, and so on.
The real problem is a short-sighted focus on costs (both by the telecom carriers and their customers) causing people to make decisions that decreased security. The Internet is a really cool thing since you can easily exchange information with anyone else connected, but for life/business/economically critical applications it's still not mature or reliable enough to rely on as your only channel.
The barn door is standing open, and the horse has long fled. Many of these other countries will feel obligated to thumb their noses at anything USGov proposes, just on general principles.At some point, to get raliable secure comms, US Gov and the major businesses will probably have to set up a seperate non-connected to public internet network, just to get anything done.
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The announcement was made Tuesday by the awards show's executive producer and director Jeff Margolis. SAG is honoring Moore for her career achievement and humanitarian accomplishments.
The 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards is to air Jan. 29 on TNT and TBS.
Moore and Van Dyke played suburban couple Rob and Laura Petrie from 1961 to 1966 in Van Dyke's eponymous sitcom based on the experiences of comedy writer Carl Reiner. In 1969, Van Dyke and Moore reunited for a one-hour variety special called "Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman." They collaborated again in a 1979 episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Hour," reprising their roles as the Petries in a comedic sketch, and co-starred in a PBS version of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play "The Gin Game" in 2002.
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Nearly 30 percent of the average person's closet sits unused and unworn for at least a year, resulting in $50 billion worth of neglected garments going to waste, according to Fletcher. A growing number of iconoclasts, however, are eschewing the fast-fashion lifestyle for "alternative fashion experiences," including clothing swaps and inventive alterations, to "champion the craft of use above the constant thrill of purchase."
A growing number of iconoclasts have decided to champion the craft of use above the constant thrill of purchase.
A growing number of iconoclasts have decided to champion the craft of use above the constant thrill of purchase.
These are the people Fletcher wants to talk to. "This project celebrates the people who are finding riches and abundance within the limits of the stuff they already own," she says. "In tough economic times many are questioning whether our thirst for material goods is actually making us happy. Evidence suggests that it can actually undermine our capacity to enjoy them, so the challenge explored by Local Wisdom is how to pace consumption rather than maximize it."
New Yorkers will soon get a chance to make fashion history. On Saturday, January 26, Local Wisdom will hold court at Parsons The New School of Design. The project's request is simple: Bring your favorite garment to the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., tell team members the history of its use, and allow yourself to be photographed wearing the item (changing facilities will be provided).
"This groundbreaking project investigates how people use clothes, then harnesses this knowledge to drive fashion design," Timo Rissanen, assistant professor of fashion design and sustainability at Parsons, explains. "While we have in many ways reached the limit in terms of the economic and environmental costs of fashion, there are no limits to the levels of enjoyment and satisfaction it can bring us. Uncovering the somewhat invisible craft of clothing use allows new kinds of engagement between producers and consumers of fashion."
Need another dose of inspiration? Peruse the pictures and stories from a recent photo shoot in London.
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Pax Romana: An interview with Andrea Riccardi
The founder of the international lay movement of the Sant'Egidio Community explains how his group has been able to build peace, one conflict at a time.
When Andrea Riccardi and his high school friends began to help Rome's poorest 42 years ago, they did not intend to work beyond the city. But the movement they launched now has about 50,000 members in more than 70 countries.
Along the way Riccardi realized that to help the poor it was necessary to promote peace, as his Sant'Egidio Community has done effectively in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Balkans. "Promoting peace and helping the poor are related aspects of trying to respond to today's needs by drawing inspiration from the gospel," he explains.
Riccardi has a quiet, friendly manner, open and ready to laugh, but when he talks about his community, the passion comes through. The student unrest of 1968 convinced him that humankind had to make a fresh start, but, unlike many of his peers, he saw that something more than politics was needed.
He still sees religious renewal as the answer: "Our churches have to become warmly human, they have to be real communities, not closed in on themselves. Churchgoers need to be involved in social issues to help society be an expression of solidarity because globalization makes it urgent for us to find ways to live amicably despite our differences."
When people come to the Sant'Egidio Community to find out what it's all about, Riccardi says, "My answer is, 'Come and pray with us.' It's reading the Word of God each day and meditating on it, which clarifies the meaning of our work."
In elections earlier this year Italy's center-left Democratic Party wanted you to run for governor of the region of Rome. Why weren't you interested?
I'm convinced that I have to work in society and in the church, which is a broader field than engaging directly in politics and being involved with a party. I don't disdain politics, but at the same time I don't think it's the be-all and end-all.
I didn't even think so in 1968, when I was a student seeking what to do. Many of my companions chose political activity as the way to set the world right.
That was the year of student revolts in many countries, when young people demanded power to build a better world. Did you share this ambition?
We tended to be bold and confident at that time, whereas today many young people are uncertain because they are worried about the future.
After high school I felt the unrest and excitement because change was in the air. Like others at my school in central Rome, I wanted to change society. But the talk at that time, influenced by Marxism, was rather theoretical. I decided it was useless to change social structures without changing people, and dangerous to do so by using violence—in this I was influenced by reading the gospel.
Was this because of your Catholic family background?
I have a relative, a Benedictine monk, who was beatified in 1954, but my parents were not particularly Catholic. My father was a banker who joined the antifascist resistance movement during the Second World War. After the war he was opposed to the Christian Democratic Party because of the pressure in favor of the party exerted by some priests.
As a student I had doubts about religion. I didn't much like my parish nor Catholic Action, which had become a breeding ground for Catholic politicians.
But I met a worker-priest who took me to the slums on Rome's outskirts. The people living there were mostly migrants from southern Italy, laborers without steady jobs, women who served as maids in our homes. To me it was a shocking discovery: the Third World at our doorstep.
My group of school friends called it the New Frontier. I explored it on my Vespa motor scooter. We were seeking a way to live the gospel, and eventually we set up an after-school program to help dropouts return to regular schools.
That experience sparked discussions that persuaded me that I needed to know some theology as well as the gospels. I bought and read books by people such as French theologians Yves Congar, Henri de Lubac, and Marie-Dominique Chenu, and the German theologian Karl Rahner.
These discoveries—both of the marginalized people and of the theologians—were perhaps my most formative.
How much were you influenced by the Second Vatican Council, which had just concluded?
It was in the air, but the church seemed far away. However, two outstanding priests helped us in our work. Carlo Maria Martini, who at that time was not yet a cardinal but rector of the Gregorian University, worked with us in his spare time in the 1970s, while Vincenzo Paglia, now bishop of Terni, was the first priest to work with us in a stable fashion.
Then in 1974 Cardinal Ugo Poletti, the vicar for Rome, convoked a diocesan conference on the social problems in the city. It was a people's assembly: All were entitled to speak, and we did so. Until then we had called ourselves simply "the community," but, as we had to give ourselves a name to address the conference, we chose "the Community of Sant'Egidio."
Here's the reason: We had worked from places on the outskirts or places we rented in central Rome, but they were too expensive. When we heard that Carmelite nuns had abandoned a damp convent at the Sant'Egidio Church in the Trastevere district, we squatted there. Eventually, seeing the work we did, the owners—the state—allowed us to use it for a peppercorn rent. So we became the Sant'Egidio Community. [Sant'Egidio—or St. Giles—was a miracle-working hermit in seventh-century France.]
With the Rome diocesan conference the Second Vatican Council caught up with us. Although Pope Paul VI never visited us, Poletti did and he became interested in us.
Do members still live in the former convent?
No, it is used only for meetings and offices. The Sant'Egidio Church is now used for private prayer. Each evening at 8:30 the community celebrates vespers in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere. It is very beautiful with superb Byzantine-style mosaics, and each evening it is crowded with Sant'Egidio members and visitors from all over the world. A priest or lay member of the community leads a reading and meditation on scripture; and there is a brief homily and singing of the psalms.
Prayer holds the Sant'Egidio Community together. Groups are engaged in different activities—from caring for senior citizens, running a soup kitchen that feeds about a thousand a day, and providing schooling for migrants to preparing meetings such as the yearly international ecumenical and interreligious gathering, and maintaining contact with communities in many countries. But all come together to pray.
For the poor a carefully prepared liturgy is a feast in which there's a respect for the People of God along with celebration of the glory of God. It goes to the heart. It frees us from the danger of losing ourselves in activities or discussions, but there is no break between the liturgy and serving the poor.
You also use the Santa Maria Basilica on other occasions, don't you?
Yes, particularly for the annual Christmas luncheon for the homeless, Gypsies, HIV sufferers, and old people. On that day we feed about 500 at the basilica, thousands more in other places in Rome, and more than 120,000 all over the world. It is always done in a warm, personal way. I think that the Christmas meal of the poor over the past 25 years has become a model of the poor at home in the church, an image of the kingdom of God. We celebrate this meal now in more than 70 countries.
What has been your most rewarding experience?
To see healthy babies born from mothers who were suffering from HIV. For the past eight years, in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, we've run an anti-AIDS program called DREAM, which stands for Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition.
It ranges from preventive measures to full antiretroviral treatment and monitoring of the infection through bio-molecular labs, exactly as happens in the richest countries. It also includes clean water, education, and nutritional therapy.
Full antiretroviral therapy reduces the risk of women transmitting HIV to their infants to 2 percent. At present we're treating 80,000 people, 17,000 of whom are under 15. In all, a million have benefited. To see a healthy child born when it could have been condemned to disease is a huge blessing. It is the most effective free-of-charge sub-Saharan program and functions in 10 countries.
After treatment more than 90 percent of the adults live well; they are like people who have undergone resurrection. Women, freed from the stigma, become the backbone of a new society. But we are "condemned" by its success to look for more support all around the world, which is a real challenge.
Perhaps Sant'Egidio is best-known for its peace efforts in Mozambique and elsewhere. How did you get involved in these places, and when did you move from helping the poor to promoting peace?
Initially our horizon was simply Rome. We did not contemplate working beyond it. An outbreak of cholera in Naples in 1973, however, spurred us to send some of our people there. But we really were not convinced that we should start sending out "missionaries" in general.
However, people from other countries who had come to know our community in Rome began to set up Sant'Egidio communities in their own countries, first in Europe, then from the 1980s on in Africa, the Americas, Indonesia, and elsewhere.
Our work for peace is an extension of our work with the poor, not distinct from it. It is the same but without borders. War creates suffering, destruction, and poverty. We try to help those who are the victims of conflicts be heard and persuade people that armed conflicts are not inevitable.
That's an admirable aim, but how does a group that began by helping school dropouts come to be called the "U.N. of Trastevere"?
That description was intended as a compliment, but I would say, go easy on imaginative descriptions.
We weren't parachuted into Mozambique to broker negotiations between the government and rebels. Sant'Egidio groups were involved in development projects there for years but saw that development was impossible without peace, and peace was impossible unless the combatants could be brought together to talk to each other.
Because we were known and trusted, we managed to bring them together and, after 11 rounds of long, exhausting negotiations over 26 months and some relapses, peace was achieved.
A Mozambican archbishop was involved, as were the Italian government and other nations, including the United States. Sant'Egidio provided a nongovernmental setting where those involved could meet in Rome. It was often exasperating: We'd meet for hours, go to lunch, and resume our discussions with the awareness that, while we hammered out details, people were being killed.
But it is no good to do these things in an amateurish fashion. Good intentions have to be translated into treaty terms, which are detailed, clear, and binding. That sums up what has been called the Sant'Egidio method: winning the confidence of those concerned, respecting the different viewpoints, not imagining that we can do it all by ourselves but involving others with responsibility, patience, discretion, and competence.
Since Pope Benedict XV condemned the First World War, the Catholic Church has spoken out for peace in a way it did not before. However, Catholics should not leave it up to the pope and the Vatican but work for peace themselves. The Mozambique peace treaty made us realize that, although Sant'Egidio is a small group of people without borders, it can have an impact.
Recently Sant'Egidio has been invited to participate in the Council for Truth and Reconciliation in Burundi to heal the scars left by the horrendous ethnic conflict there. We had previously been part of the negotiations that had ended that conflict. Evidently the Burundians believe that the Sant'Egidio Community has the good of the country at heart.
The community has also been involved in the search for a settlement of the Darfur conflict since 2003. We have participated in the negotiations, and we are pleased that in February the Sudanese government and the major rebel group finally signed an agreement. It's a meaningful step on the way to an overall agreement. Inclusion in it of a repeal of more than 100 death sentences, as requested by the Community of Sant'Egidio, was particularly satisfying.
Do you select certain areas for your peace efforts?
We study certain areas such as the Balkans—Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia—and sub-Saharan Africa but act when there are opportunities because of our first-hand knowledge of the situation or because of requests for help.
Our first effort in the early 1980s was helping Christians in Lebanon. Then, after the Mozambique episode, we encouraged meetings between the Guatemalan president and the guerrilla commandants. That facilitated negotiations that ended a 35-year conflict.
You have been criticized for providing platforms for Islamist leaders such as Sudanese Sheik Hassan al-Turabi and Algerian guerrilla leader Anwar Haddam.
Sheik Turabi also met with Vatican officials. To try to stop violence you have to dirty your hands. If you want to shake only spotless hands, go to your golf club—although even the hands there might not always be so clean. As I mentioned, there has just been an accord between the Sudan government and the biggest guerrilla group, and we are proud that we helped to bring that about.
Our involvement in Algeria goes back to a request from Muslims, whom we had gotten to know during our Meetings of Religions and who in 1994 asked me for help from Sant'Egidio.
At the time an estimated 300 to 500 Algerians were being killed weekly. One could not be indifferent to such carnage. We brought the various guerrilla groups together with politicians who were opposed to the military, which had seized power after elections had gone in favor of the Islamist party.
In 1995 these consultations resulted in the "Platform," a statement that spelled out the steps necessary to establish peace. Even some church leaders criticized us, and the Algerian government considered the initiative an interference in their internal affairs.
But because of the consultations many Algerians who did not know Sant'Egidio came to realize that dialogue rather than bloodshed was the way out of their tragedy.
The failure of these efforts was perhaps my biggest disappointment in this field. One basic problem was that in Algeria the church is still regarded as foreign, whereas in the Middle East it is a well-established local church as it is in much of sub-Saharan Africa.
Still, at that time the walls of Algiers were covered with messages of hope and thanks to Sant'Egidio, because our initiative seemed the only chance to stop the bloodshed. And the truce and amnesty that came years later under President Abdelaziz Bouteflika—unfortunately after thousands of additional victims—in a sense made the Platform, which had been signed at Sant'Egidio, a reality.
Is it possible to dialogue with Islam?
It's a duty. It is difficult but a duty. What is the alternative—to fight? Islam is not a monolith, and it's lazy to dismiss it as such.
Personally, I am moved by the place prayer has in Islam. We must find a way to coexist with Islam. The most important task we face today is to build a fraternal society despite religious, ethnic, and other differences. Dialogue with others is not a wishy-washy thing.
But it takes two to dialogue. Have not the high hopes that were placed in interreligious dialogue at Vatican II been followed by a letdown?
Part of the reason is that people forget what's been achieved. Previously religions were often mixed up in conflict, but increasingly it's recognized that this is an aberration, a deformation. In that regard there has been a very positive change of climate. Another aspect is that people are looking at this in terms of decades. That time frame is too restricted; this is an epochal affair.
That's the historian speaking. In addition to your work with the Sant'Egidio Community, you also serve as a professor of contemporary history at Roma Tre University.
All Sant'Egidio members, except for our priests, are laypeople who pursue their working lives. By the time I graduated in law, I knew I was more interested in history and began to study it.
How has your study of history affected your understanding of faith?
I have been interested in St. Francis of Assisi and St. Benedict and his Rule for his community, which is still relevant for society today. I set out to develop an autonomous, gospel-based community "on the road," meaning initially the Roman suburbs, that was to be composed of laypeople—just as monasticism was at its beginning. And I wanted our community members to deepen their spiritual lives without becoming self-absorbed, which is a great danger.
Reading Yves Congar got me interested in church history, and I went to Paris to meet him. I was impressed by his warning that "without history you'll find yourselves like illiterates who can't read the present."
Does studying history help the poor?
Indirectly. It's a search for truth or recovering complexity on issues that are oversimplified. For instance, St. Francis was not the saccharine figure so often represented.
History helps us to avoid oversimplifications, clichés, political correctness, and ideology.
Among other things a study of church history shows that the church is more than its parishes. There have been confraternities, lay organizations, and religious orders. The church is rich in energies and initiatives that ensure freedom of action.
You have continued the "Spirit of Assisi" that was sparked by the first interreligious meeting held there in 1986. Sant'Egidio helped organize that meeting, which was severely criticized by some Catholic leaders as a syncretic celebration that put shamans on the same level as the pope.
It was not syncretic. It didn't propose some vague universal religion. The participants prayed alongside each other in their own way. They were not seeking some common lowest denominator, but they were all addressing the Creator. The walls between religions don't reach all the way up to heaven.
What have the subsequent yearly meetings achieved.
They have maintained and developed the new attitudes of religions. For instance when we met in Kraków last year, I accompanied some Muslims to Auschwitz. They were stunned by what they saw. "So it's all true!" they said.
The meeting in Romania, which has the largest Orthodox Church outside Russia, led to the first invitation from a country with an Orthodox majority for a papal visit. And I also remember the hug and request for forgiveness of the Lisbon Patriarch to the Jews in front of the Church of St. Dominic in Lisbon, a symbol of the Inquisition. I could recount many episodes like this.
For many U.S. Catholics abolition of the death penalty is not a top priority. Why has it been so important in Sant'Egidio's activities?
I think it's always wrong for us to kill another person. Moreover one is never absolutely certain of guilt. And the death penalty is never a deterrent, it always adds another killing to a killing. It disproportionately affects social, ethnic, and religious minorities, and legitimates a culture of death, while claiming to reinforce a culture of life. It makes society a killer.
I could continue. There are alternative instruments of justice. I was pleased to see that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has now made the campaign against the death penalty an educational priority.
How has the Sant'Egidio Community been able to win support from both liberals and conservatives?
We have our critics, and we realize we make mistakes. We also have many sympathizers because we try to be true to our understanding of the gospels and the church, and to meet the needs of others. You have to have an interior life but also serve others to avoid internal church squabbling.
The interview was conducted and translated by Desmond O'Grady, a freelance journalist and author based in Rome. It appeared in the July 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 75, No. 7, pages 28-32).


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I head through the main doors, down the stairs to the basement, arriving at the third door on the right. Like everyone else, I grab a cup of coffee before finding a seat. By the time the clock gets close to 7 p.m., the entire group is sitting.
It is an eclectic group; the appearances are varied. The people range in age from 20 to more than 75. I am dressed in the business clothes I wore to work. One fellow is wearing overalls. The group is mainly men, but there are at least a couple women here, too. There does seem to be one common trait among this group: Each person has one arm that is completely free of hair below the elbow.
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— I know there's already been an image from the border wall breach in Gaza, but I found this image so interesting. I wonder what lies ahead for this mass of people and even their animals (there were cow images also). Check out the slide show we put together on this gaza story to see another, abstract shot of the camel crossing the border: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22794305
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This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Each new woolly mammoth carcass to emerge from the Siberian permafrost triggers a flurry of speculation about resurrecting this Ice Age giant. Researchers have refined at least some of the tools needed to turn that hope into reality. Last November, when a team led by Teruhiko Wakayama, a reproductive biologist based in Kobe, Japan, reported it had cloned mice that had been frozen for 16 years, the scientists conjectured that the same techniques might open the door to cloning mammoths and other extinct species preserved in permafrost. Talk of cloning surged again a few weeks later when a group at Pennsylvania State University, led by Webb Miller and Stephan C. Schuster, published 70 percent of the mammoth genome, laying out much of the basic data that might be required to make a mammoth.
"I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable," says Hendrik Poinar of McMaster University, an authority on ancient DNA who served as a scientific consultant for a film about the making of Jurassic Park. "But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details."
As Poinar himself admits, however, the details are daunting. The two fundamental steps involved in cloning a mammoth, or any other extinct animal, are to recover its complete DNA sequence—in the case of mammoths, estimated to be more than 4.5 billion base pairs long—and to express this data in flesh and blood. The publication of the partial mammoth genome is a good start on the first problem, though the remaining 30 percent of the genome would have to be recovered and the entire genome resequenced several more times to weed out errors that have crept into the ancient DNA over the centuries as it degraded. Scientists would also have to package the DNA into chromosomes—and at present they don't even know how many chromosomes the mammoth had. Yet none of these tasks appears insurmountable, especially in light of recent technical advances, such as a new generation of highspeed sequencers and a simple, inexpensive technique for recovering high-quality DNA from mammoth hair. "It's a simple question of time and money, not of technology anymore," says Schuster.
Transforming this data into a woolly mammoth will be far trickier, though the existence of close living relatives, the African and Asian elephants, helps. The Penn State team used the African elephant genome as a guide to reassemble the pieces of mammoth DNA they'd recovered from hair samples. Since this ancient DNA is far too fragmented to use to create an organism, one way to make living mammoth genetic material might be to modify elephant chromosomes at each of the estimated 400,000 sites where they differ from the mammoth's, effectively rewriting an elephant's cells into a mammoth's. If researchers can figure out how mammoth DNA was organized into chromosomes, another strategy would be to synthesize the entire genome from scratch, although so far the largest genome to be synthesized was only a thousandth the size of the mammoth's.
Once scientists have functional mammoth chromosomes in hand, they could wrap them in a membrane to create an artificial cell nucleus. Then they could follow the approach pioneered in creating Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996 by scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland: Remove the nucleus of an elephant's egg and replace it with the rebuilt mammoth nucleus, electrically stimulate the egg to trigger initial cell division into an embryo, and eventually transfer the embryo into an elephant's womb for gestation. Each of these steps has significant question marks of its own. No one knows, for example, just how to build a mammoth nucleus. Harvesting an elephant egg is difficult, and bringing a mammoth fetus to term in an elephant uterus is fraught with uncertainties.
Some scientists are tackling a less daunting challenge: cloning endangered or recently extinct animals. The San Diego Zoo and the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans both maintain "frozen zoos," where the DNA of a growing number of endangered species is stored in tanks of liquid nitrogen at minus 320° Fahrenheit. In 2003 scientists at Advanced Cell Technology used cells stored at the San Diego facility to successfully clone across the species barrier. They created two bantengs, an endangered Southeast Asian ox, by inserting banteng DNA into domestic cow eggs and placing the resulting embryos in cow foster-mothers. There is talk of using similar methods to clone endangered giant pandas, African bongo antelopes, and Sumatran tigers. Ultimately scientists hope to re-create extinct species like the Pyrenean ibex and the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
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FDA Suspends Temporary Emergency Permit of Pet Food Maker
June 12, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today it was suspending the temporary Emergency Permit issued to Evanger's Dog & Cat Food Co., Inc.
Evanger's, operating in Wheeling, Illinois, deviated from the prescribed process, equipment, product shipment, and recordkeeping requirements in the production of the company's thermally processed low acid canned food (LACF) products. The deviations in their processes and documentation could result in under-processed pet foods, which can allow the survival and growth of Clostridium botulinum (C. botulinum), a bacterium that causes botulism in some animals as well as in humans.
In April 2008, Evanger's was issued an "Order of Need for Emergency Permit" after the agency determined that the company had failed to meet the regulatory requirements to process a product that does not present a health risk. In June, 2008, FDA issued Evanger's a temporary Emergency Permit. During inspections conducted between March 2009 and April 2009, FDA determined Evanger's was not operating in compliance with the mandatory requirements and conditions of the Temporary Emergency Permit.
"The FDA is stopping Evanger's ability to ship pet food in interstate commerce," said Dr. Bernadette Dunham. "Today's enforcement action sends a strong message to manufacturers of pet food that we will take whatever action necessary to keep unsafe products from reaching consumers."
In order for Evanger's to resume shipping in interstate commerce, the company must document that corrective actions and processing procedures have been implemented to ensure that the finished product will not present a health hazard.
Botulism is a powerful toxin that affects the nervous system and can be fatal. The disease has been documented in dogs and cats. Signs of botulism in animals are progressive muscle paralysis, disturbed vision, difficulty in chewing and swallowing, and progressive weakness to the body. Death is usually due to paralysis of the heart or the muscles used in breathing.
While FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is responsible for regulating all human and animal LACF processing, FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine has authority over animal feed and foods. The two centers are collaborating on this enforcement action.
Evanger's Dog & Cat Food Company Responds to FDA News Release
June 14, 2009
To All Valued EVANGER'S DOG AND CAT FOOD CO., INC. Customers,
As you may be aware, the United States Food and Drug Administration has taken action against our company. Although there are no recalls, or any allegations of unsafe foods manufactured by Evanger's, we feel that we must respond to this situation with a detailed report to you, our customers.
The main reason for the suspension of our permit involves confusion while updating the FILED SCHEDULED PROCESSES as required by F.D.A. rules 21 CFR 108.35(2) and 21 CFR 113.83. The rules dictate that all "STYLES" of food must be studied for adequate heat penetration to achieve "commercial sterility". This procedure usually involves the understanding that heat penetrates different consistencies of product at different rates. For example, heat penetrates Evanger's 100% ALL MEAT COOKED CHICKEN at a different rate than Evanger's ALL FRESH VEGETARIAN style formula.
Our "Process Authority" (F.D.A. recognized expert) communicated to the F.D.A. that he intended to file a single SCHEDULED PROCESS that would cover ALL loaf style foods that are manufactured at Evanger's using the "MOST RIGOROUS" process (VEGETARIAN). The intention being, that applying this process to all of our loaf style products would add an additional layer of safety. At the same time, our Process Authority indicated that he would "CLEAN UP" our file by deleting older processes.
In August of 2008, our process authority completed the update of our file.
During a regularly scheduled inspection by the F.D.A. earlier this year, the FDA inspector informed us that the FILED PROCESSES that we normally use were deleted from our file. Furthermore, the only FILED PROCESS that remained only allowed us to manufacture "VEGETARIAN" foods. To give you a complete picture of the facts, here is the actual explanation that was sent to us by the F.D.A. as cited for the reason for taking action (SEE ATTACHED)
Your firm's processing authority's response stated it had replaced two older filings with a new filing, Submission Identifier (SID) 2008-03-21/003, to cover all variations of "Loaf Style" pet food produced by Evanger's in the 300 x 400 can size including "Vegetarian Style Loaf". However, documentation on all formula types that your firm intended to include under this filing was not provided. Compliance with 21 CFR 108.35(c)(2) will require your firm to submit a filing for each of the above products, including the ingredients for the various formulations. The additional products that can be called "loafs" using the same process will need their own SID unless they can be included in the existing filing (SID 2008-03-21/003) in which case your processing authority will have to show that these additional products heat the same or faster than the product originally filed as SID 2008-03-21/003 and that the filed minimum scheduled process is sufficient for the safety of all the various product formulations.
Your firm failed to submit to FDA, within 30 days after first use, a complete description of the modification made and utilized and a copy of the file record showing prior substantiation by a qualified scientific authority for the following products as required by 21 CFR 108.35(c)(2)(ii):
· On 8/12/08, TechniCAL (your contracted process authority) cancelled SID# 1996-03-15/001 and SID# 1977-08-23/001, Loaf Style Dog and Cat Food Ground Meat & Grain Blends in tinplate steel 300 x 405 and 300 x 407 cans, respectively. FDA was not notified of the change from the can size filed to 300 x 400 for Loaf Style Dog and Cat Food Ground Meat & Grain Blends.
In short, Evanger's and its Process Authority believe the processes filed with F.D.A. cover all its products, though FDA appears to disagree.
The management of EVANGER'S is working closely with the F.D.A and our Process Authority to resolve this matter quickly.
· The issue involves only canned food products.
· All Evanger's products that are currently on store shelves are safe as they always have been.
· Evanger's Dog and Cat Food Co., Inc. continues and will continue to manufacture the highest quality, nutritious, wholesome, innovative and safe pet foods and treats as it has done for over 75 years.
We hope this response addresses the confusion that has been in the marketplace as of recently. For all additional inquiries, please contact EVANGER'S DOG AND CAT FOOD CO., INC. at 1800 288-6796.
To Our Valued Customers,
Evanger's Dog & Cat Food hopes that the following statement will alleviate the concerns about the safety of our products that are being fueled by inaccurate information and rumor.
As we have indicated, the FDA Action does not call into question the safety of any of Evanger's products.
Evanger's voluntarily conducts internal testing on all of its production batches. These tests are not required by the FDA, but are part of European Union and USDA protocol. These tests detect any bacterial presence, including that of Botulin bacteria.
There has never been any detection of any bacteria in any of our products. As part of the FDA inspection, every can in our warehouse was inspected by the FDA for signs of bacterial contamination. The result: NO contamination was found.
Individual incubation test results are available to our customers upon request. Requests must include product name and production code.
We thank you for your understanding.
Joel Sher
Vice President
Evanger's Dog & Cat Food Co., Inc.


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Susan Zinter and Sheila Daminski have joined their unique and knowledgeable backgrounds and decided now was the time to go into business together. On Thursday, Aug. 30, the two owners and partners held a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Grand Island town officials and members of the board of directors from the Grand Island Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the opening of the Soma Cura Wellness Center located at 2710 Grand Island Blvd.
The Soma Cura Wellness Center has much to offer to the community. They provide many modalities of health and fitness, all designed to allow mind, body and spirit to heal and grow. Zinter has worked in the medical and health/fitness industry much of her life. She is a specialist in medical massage, myofascial release, trigger point therapy and general Swedish massage. As a yoga student over the last 15 years, Zinter has found her love of teaching, coupled with her ongoing training in the field of wheelchair, medical, restorative and hatha yoga. Different yoga classes for all skill levels will be offered as well as private instruction or family classes. Massage treatments given by a highly experienced and trained therapist in therapeutic and relaxation massage are also available.
One can receive Reiki treatments at Soma Cura. Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique of stress reduction and relaxation that promotes healing. Reiki helps to harmonize body, mind and spirit. The energy flows wherever it is required and can normally be felt as a warm sensation or tingling in the body, and a feeling of deep relaxation and peace. Naturopathic medicine is based on the belief that the human body has an innate healing ability. Daminski is a naturopathic doctor and will teach patients to use nutrition and lifestyle changes and natural therapies to enhance their bodies' ability to combat disease and increase health. Daminski believes in treating the whole person, saying, "We each have a unique physical, mental, emotional, genetic, environmental, social, sexual and spiritual makeup. The naturopathic doctor knows that all these factors affect our health. That's why he or she includes them in a carefully tailored treatment strategy."
The Soma Cura Wellness Center staff would like to invite the public to attend their grand opening on Saturday, Sept. 8, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free mini yoga, tai chi and qi gong classes will be offered along with free massage and Reiki samples. People can also sample free herbal tea and healthy foods while at the open house.
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What is forest planning?
Land management plans identify and protect lands and waters with special features in our national forests. These can include wild and remote places, important habitats, unique recreational areas and remarkable botanical, ecological or geological values.
Forest plan revisions
In the history of the Forest Service, there has only been one successful forest planning rule and it dates back to 1982. The Obama administration recently revised the forest planning rule and is gearing up to revise a number of land management plans.
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VATICAN CITY — If you thought maneuvering your freshly cut Christmas tree from the car roof to the tree stand in the living room was a feat only for the bold and brawny, well, the Vatican has you beat.
Half of St. Peter's Square was cordoned off Friday morning as huge flat-bed trucks, cranes and Vatican workers strained to put up this year's Christmas tree.
This year's donated tree was cut from the forests near the town of Gutenstein in eastern Austria.
The tree is 120 years old and its felling was part of the region's regulated forestry program aimed at thinning selected trees to make way for new growth.
With the help of a large crane, Vatican workers carefully raised the 108-foot spruce fir off a flatbed truck and spent at least a couple hours trimming the base and rotating the tree to get it to sit straight in a special stand in the middle of the square.
With the tree now snug in the square, workers will spend the next couple of days decorating it with lights and more than 2,000 ornaments. Its tip will be crowned with a large star.
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U.S. stocks advanced, sending benchmark indexes to five-year highs, as earnings topped estimates and investors awaited President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.
Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. rallied 11% after raising its forecast in anticipation of a jump in same-store sales. Avon Products Inc. jumped 19% on better-than-expected profit and a plan to consider options for its Silpada jewelry unit. Coca-Cola Co. slipped 2.7% as global volume sales missed analysts' estimates. Facebook Inc. sank 2.4% as Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. cut its recommendation.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 0.3% to 1,522.13 at 1:29 p.m. in New York. The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 65.04 points, or 0.5%, to 14,036.28. Both gauges are poised for the highest close since October 2007. Trading in S&P 500 companies was 6.8% below the 30-day average at this time of day.
"This market is front-running better economic and earnings news," John Augustine, who helps manage $27 billion as chief market strategist at Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bancorp, said in a phone interview. "We all think of a correction coming in February. Guess what, we probably won't get a correction in February. This market has got upward momentum."
About 74% of the 354 companies in the S&P 500 that have released results during the earnings season have exceeded profit projections, and 66% have beaten sales estimates, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
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The S&P 500 has rallied 6.7% in 2013 as U.S. lawmakers reached a budget compromise. It has more than doubled since bottoming in March 2009 as the Federal Reserve conducted three rounds of bond-buying to lower interest rates and boost economic growth.
The gauge is less than 3% below its record of 1,565.15 reached in October 2007, while the Dow is about 1% from its all-time high of 14,164.53.
"Every strategist I've talked to says that we're due for a 5%-7% correction, and the reason why we haven't seen it is because investors are buying on dips," Diane Jaffee, the New York-based group managing director for U.S. equities who oversees about $5.9 billion in assets at TCW Group Inc., said in a phone interview. "The thought process is that people are willing to forgo the first 10% or 20% of the market rise to make sure it will really do it, and now they want in for the last 20% or 30% because they have more confidence."
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DENNISPORT — Gail Giaquinto casually glanced over the selection of puzzles at Benny's.
DENNISPORT — Gail Giaquinto casually glanced over the selection of puzzles at Benny's.
Her husband, Dennis, strolled up the aisle with some gifts for the couple's off-Cape grandchildren.
"This is more of a relaxing day than a ...," Gail said during a late-morning trip to the Route 28 variety retailer.
"... than a frenzy," Dennis said, completing her thought.
Although it was Black Friday, one of the most publicized and anticipated shopping days of the year, the Orleans couple avoided the hoopla.
They enjoyed a coffee before heading out for a few hours of shopping, starting at Benny's around 10:30 a.m. They thought about maybe grabbing lunch and slowly heading toward Hyannis.
There was no chaos at Benny's late Black Friday morning. The store opened shortly after 8 a.m., one hour earlier than normal, store manager Bob Walker said. The advertised opening was 8:30 a.m., but staff were ready early, assistant manager Wende Pena said. The day crew of about 20 wasn't any larger than normal. The checkout lines were busy, but not crammed. Plenty of people filled the store, but it was orderly.
"We try to keep away from the extra excitement," Walker said.
The regional retailer doesn't ignore the heavy shopping weekend. It has a sales flier for the two days after Thanksgiving. But instead of "Black Friday" early morning sales extravaganzas, Benny's calls it "Sleep-In and Save."
Back in Hyannis, the Cape Cod Mall opened at 12:30 a.m. Friday.
About 12 hours later, its parking lot was largely filled, although the area near Christmas Tree Plaza had large swaths of parking available.
At Benny's, Gail Giaquinto, a self-proclaimed shopper, said she keeps it "low-key" during the holidays.
The national newscasts that show hordes of shoppers shoving others and getting into scrums over toys and electronics leaves her upset.
"It makes me ashamed," she said.
Benny's low-key philosophy worked for some shoppers. Yarmouthport resident Carrie Huber popped in shortly before noon to get a present for a child's birthday.
"I don't like the crowds," she said, adding that she usually shops online.
But while in the store, she started noticing gifts that might be nice for a young relative. And because the store carries a range of items, from tires to coffee pots to toys, she started thinking about other things to buy.
"I found some hardware that I didn't know I needed," she said.
The holiday shopping season remains important to the store, its managers said. The toy section doubles in size once the summer is over, Pena said. The December shopping season is its second busiest stretch of the year, Walker said, second to the summer.
Ken Shewan, a staffer at the store, can attest to that.
Shewan assembles the bikes, furniture and anything else at the Dennisport Benny's that needs to be put together.
During the summer, he often assembles eight to 15 bikes per day. But the holidays bring a second surge. Last week, he put together 22 bikes at the store. Groups often put in large orders, including more than 50 at a time.
Working on a 15-speed purple Huffy girl's bike, Shewan meticulously took off all the packaging material. "It takes longer to unpack these than to put them together," he said.
Shewan's job includes ordering and putting together the 70 or so different styles of bicycles the store carries. At times, a staffer from Rhode Island comes and helps in the back.
While he juggles customer service, he squeezes in a bike or two in the store when he can, he said, including adjusting the brakes and gears, putting on the seat, handlebars and pedals.
He can assemble the tyke bikes in about five minutes, while the multi-geared rides can take about 20 minutes. And while the store was steady with customers late Friday morning, Shewan said it wasn't noticeably busier.
That may have thrown one shopper, walking an uncrowded aisle Friday. Walking up to a staff member, the man asked, "Is Black Friday happening here, too?"
"Well, we have some sales," the staffer replied.


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I-89 tractor-trailer crash in Springfield leaves driver injured
November 01. 2013 8:46PM
SPRINGFIELD - A truck driver was injured Friday when his tractor-trailer slid across Interstate 89 and went off the road, state police said.
Enkland Terepeli, 35, of Elizabeth, N.J., was driving too fast in heavy rain about 11:45 a.m. Friday when he lost control of his truck, police said. The truck's fuel tanks ruptured, spilling about 100 gallons of diesel fuel, police said.
Terepeli was taken to New London Hospital for treatment of injuries that police said were not life threatening.


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Student-athletes honored at UNH commencementBy KIMBERLEY HAAS
Sunday News Correspondent
May 19. 2018 8:14PM
More graduation photosFor a complete gallery of photos from Saturday's UNH graduation, visit www.unionleader.com/photos/UNHgrad.
DURHAM - During commencement ceremonies at the University of New Hampshire on Saturday, star student athlete Elinor Purrier was asked to run up to the stage by UNH President Mark Huddleston.
Purrier, of Montgomery, Vt., gladly did so in her cap and gown. She is now the reigning national champion in the indoor mile.
Huddleston told the crowd Purrier clocked a four-minute, 31-second mile at the NCAA national championships in College Station, Texas, last March.
Purrier is a 10-time All-American and a 16-time America East champion, making her the most decorated athlete in UNH history.
"Congratulations, Elinor. You make us proud," Huddleston said. "Elinor Purrier is just one of more than 3,000 talented graduates that we honor and celebrate today. The Class of 2018, like Elinor, has had a truly wonderful run at UNH. You will go far."
Amy Schlagel, Carlee Toews, Ali Praus and Julia Fedeski were members of the women's hockey team and said as student athletes, teammates were like family throughout college.
"It's definitely bittersweet, but it's fun to celebrate all the hard work we put in," Praus, of Long Lake, Minn., said as they lined up for the ceremony.
Praus was a communications major and a team captain.
Huddleston said more than 70 percent of the school's athletes earned America East Academic Honors this year.
"You again showed us that it's possible to excel on and off the field, even at the highest levels of Division 1 sports," Huddleston said.
This will be the outgoing president's last commencement ceremony. James Dean was chosen to replace Huddleston early this year.
This year's keynote speaker was L.L. Bean Chairman Shawn Gorman, who graduated from UNH in 1989. He showed off their famous boots. His had a UNH emblem on them.
Gorman's message to graduates was to enjoy the outdoors, trust in their values and find balance in life.
"The outdoors to you might mean hiking in the White Mountains or simply walking to class across campus. Where and how you chose to be outside doesn't matter. What is important is recognizing that being outdoors is a critical antidote to this hyper-competitive, hyper-stressed, tech-driven world we live in," Gorman said. "Yes, technology powers our lives in all sorts of wonderful ways, but it will never fill your soul like a sunrise in the mountains."
Andrew Lietz of Rye received the Granite State Award for his work in support of higher education in the state. A successful businessman, Lietz served as chair of the University System of New Hampshire board of trustees and the state's Business and Industry Association. Believing that high-quality education was the basis for long-term growth, he shepherded the 2001 Knowledge Economy Education Plan for New Hampshire through the legislature, helping to secure a $185 million package of capital renovations to the university system's aging science, engineering and technology facilities.
Along with Gorman, Margaret Shea '58, G'61, the first woman to earn an advanced degree in physics from UNH, and former Boston city councilor and mayoral candidate Tito Jackson '99 received honorary degrees.
Shea began her research career as an undergraduate, monitoring cosmic rays on Mt. Washington and in Durham. After brief stints at the University of Hawaii and AVCO Corporation, she joined the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories at Massachusetts' Hanscom Air Force Base, where she forged a 50-year career researching the interplay between cosmic rays and the Earth's magnetic field.
Jackson served in the administration of Deval Patrick, Massachusetts' first African-American governor, served on the Boston City Council for seven years and mounted a historic campaign to become Boston's first African-American mayor.
While Jackson ultimately lost to incumbent Marty Walsh, his 34 percent showing was regarded as groundbreaking. His passion for public service and political activism were forged at UNH, where he earned a degree in history. He played a central role in reviving the university's Black Student Union, helped to spearhead efforts to increase campus diversity and was later voted student body president, according to information provided by the school.
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VIDEO: UNH chemistry students Sarah Lachapelle of North Hampton, Drew Verrier of Hampton, Joseph Mancinelli of Plaistow, and Matthew Currier of Concord express their feelings before commencement ceremonies began in Durham Saturday:
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Phish Cinemagraphs 2
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 12:56AM
A few more attempts at creating Cinemagraphs using some Phish footage from the "Walnut Creek" DVD... I really like the candle effect in the third one, but the first two feel like I've regressed! They're a bit too "Frankenstein" i think... anyway, enjoy!
tagged animation, cinemagraph, fishman, gif, phish, trey anastastio, walntut creek in Animation, Phish, Photo, Photoshop


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The last time Silicon Valley and the rest of the tech industry heard about Hector Ruiz, the former CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., was when his name was bandied about as a possible source of insider information in the Galleon Group insider trading case.
Ruiz stepped down in 2009 as CEO of AMD AMD, +4.11% to become the chairman of manufacturing spin-off GlobalFoundries. But his stint at GlobalFoundries was short-lived, as he took a leave of absence just a week after his name first came up as a source of insider information in the case against Galleon founder, Raj Rajaratnam. In 2011, Rajaratnam was convicted of 14 counts of securities fraud and is now serving an 11-year prison sentence, the longest sentence ever for insider trading.
In an interview to discuss his just-published memoir, "Slingshot," Ruiz said his departure from GlobalFoundries was part of a succession plan formed when he joined.
Readers looking for anything juicy about the role Ruiz might have played in the Galleon case in "Slingshot" will be disappointed. There is no mention of the case nor of hedge fund analyst Danielle Chiesi, who passed on information she gleaned from high-ranking tech executives such as Robert Moffatt, formerly of IBM and Ruiz, to Rajaratnam, and others. In 2011, Chiesi pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy and paid a fine of $540,000 to settle with the SEC.
"I didn't think (mentioning) it was appropriate for a number of reasons," Ruiz said. "There were never any allegations made against me, no one from the government side or the Justice side have ever contacted me."
Ruiz added that he even volunteered to speak with investigators. "They never took me up on it," he said. "I didn't think there was any point in making any mention of it...Part of that is because I strongly believe that I never have done anything wrong or inappropriate."
Instead, Ruiz talks about how he helped AMD become more of a serious threat to rival Intel Corp. INTC, +1.47% after he took the helm from long-time AMD chief executive and co-founder Jerry Sanders, his flamboyant and outspoken predecessor. However, the products that helped turn AMD around — namely the Athlon and Operton chip families — had been in the making long before Ruiz arrived at the company from Motorola.
The book begins with Ruiz's proposal to the company's board in 2005 that AMD should file a suit against Intel, alleging anti-competitive behavior. They called the legal offensive "Project Slingshot," a reference to the David and Goliath tale, and hence the title of the book. An Intel spokesman declined to comment on book, saying he had not read it yet.
Many of the machinations of the PC industry discussed by Ruiz have been widely reported as a result of litigation, such as the marketing funds Intel paid its partners that helped fatten the bottom line of companies like Dell Inc. US:DELL Read about N.Y. State 2009 lawsuit and how Dell's profits were boosted by Intel funds.
Ruiz said he didn't take notes along the way, since he only decided to write the book three years ago, with the help of co-author Lauren Villagran. He said a few things drove him to write the book, one of which was the desire to tell the human aspect of the AMD story. He also hopes his book will encourage more Latinos to believe that they can do great things with their lives.
"I'm hoping it can reach out to people who are wondering [if they can make it], especially Latinos, and see all the trials and tribulations that I went through when I was growing up," Ruiz said.
Ruiz's own rags-to-riches story is familiar to many in the tech business, but in the book he rehashed bits of his upbringing in Piedras Negras, a coal-mining border town in Mexico, where he crossed the border every day to go to high school in the U.S.
Ruiz said that all the proceeds from sales of the book will go to a scholarship fund for students in need at the University of Texas at Austin.
Where "Slingshot" gets a bit more interesting and into slightly less familiar territory is when the cash-strapped AMD looks for investment, and eventually forms a partnership in 2008 with sovereign investors in Abu Dhabi.
A company connection to a Ferrari heir helped forge an introduction to the Crown Prince, after talks with Abu Dhabi seemed stymied. Eventually Ruiz and Guiliano Meroni, the head of AMD's European and Middle Eastern operations, were drinking coffee and eating dates in the royal palace in Abu Dhabi, which would ultimately lead to a deal and the creation of GlobalFoundries in 2009.
Ruiz also confirmed rumors that the company looked at buying graphics chip maker Nvidia Inc. NVDA, +4.85% when it eventually bought ATI. Talks with Nvidia were bogged down over the issue of leadership, he wrote, and while Ruiz does not even mention him by name, he confirmed rumors that Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wanted to be CEO of the merged company. "I would have to step down," Ruiz wrote. "That wasn't an option, not at this critical stage."
However, much of the book seems to be a self-serving memoir that glosses over events, or leaves out important information, such as the fact that AMD eventually took a hefty write-down for ATI. Ruiz wrote that he learned of the Intel's $1.25 billion settlement in November 2009 with AMD, in which the company admitted no wrongdoing, in a phone call, and read the details about it in the morning newspaper "like anyone else." Ruiz wrote that he found the "paltry settlement" disappointing.
The memoirs of former CEOs are typically an exercise in whitewashing one's tenure, and "Slingshot" is no exception to that rule.


text: I'm a big fan of the Phoronix hardware reviews, but I find the software ones to be lacking, since they're only pictures. Why isn't there any explanation given with the software reviews? I'm sure i'm not the only person who feels this way. I'm really curious as to why you only provide pictures, with no explanations.