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Pulitzer-Winning Author, Urban-Planning Expert Join Bowdoin College Faculty
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford, and his wife, land-use and urban-planning expert Kristina Ford, will be joining the Bowdoin College faculty for three years, beginning Spring 2005.
Richard Ford will teach intermediate and advanced writing in the college's English department, while Kristina Ford will instruct students in land-use planning in the Environmental Studies program.
Richard Ford has published five novels and several story collections. He is best known for his novel Independence Day, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award in 1996. Kristina Ford, who most recently was executive director of city planning for the City of New Orleans, has taught and researched municipal planning and land use at institutions including New York University, Williams College, Rutgers and the University of Montana.
"We are tremendously fortunate to have the Fords on our faculty," said Bowdoin College President Barry Mills. "Richard is that rare breed of writer who is also an inspired teacher. Kristina has a truly distinguished record in both the worlds of policy and academe and joins a program that is gaining a national reputation for environmental leadership development."
Richard Ford credits a visit to Bowdoin College several years ago for spurring their interest in moving to East Boothbay, Maine, where they now make their year-round home. "I have a friend, [writer] Anthony Walton, who came to teach at Bowdoin," said Ford. "He asked me to come give a reading, so I came up and saw Bowdoin and thought it was a terrific place. Of all the places I've lived - and I've lived in a lot of places in America - Maine is the place I feel most comfortable."
Ford joins an English Department whose creative writing offerings have grown in recent years through the efforts of such distinguished faculty as writer and essayist Franklin Burroughs and Anthony Walton, highly acclaimed author of Mississippi, who is Bowdoin's writer-in-residence. A number of notable writers can trace the start of their literary careers to Bowdoin, including alumni Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne, among others.
Ford said he will continue to work on a much-awaited new novel while teaching at Bowdoin. The novel, which he plans to title Lay of the Land, is his third that features sportswriter-turned-real-estate-agent Frank Bascombe, the main character in Independence Day. Kristina Ford is working on her first book, a personal narrative and study of the attractions of public service.
Richard Ford has taught writing at Harvard and Princeton universities, Williams College, and most recently, at Northwestern University.
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About David Emitt Adams
Born in Arizona, photographer David Emitt Adams has long been interested in capturing the deserts of the American West, following the work of 19th-century photographers like Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Engaging historical media, Adams employs the techniques of early photography, such as tintype prints, and explores their application and resurgence in a contemporary context, including in three-dimensional art objects. For his "Conversations with History" series, Adams engaged a labor-intensive wet-plate collodion process to inscribe desert imagery on discarded, rusted cans salvaged from these landscapes. The artist describes how their "rich patina is the evidence of light and time, the two main components inherent in the nature of photography."
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As previous OSNews game reviews, this one is also about a relatively old game. The reason for this is that since gaming is just a side-topic for OSNews, I have to pay for games myself. Since I already knew that Mirror's Edge was a criminally short game, I decided to wait until I found it in the budget bin. So here we are.
Corn Muffin Goodness
Let's get the really good stuff out of the way first. This game is beautifully designed, with unbelievably beautiful graphics in an original and fresh visual style. The simple reds, greens, blues, and yellows offset against the background of eye-piercing white is something I've never seen before in a game, and these visuals alone make the game worth grabbing out of the bargain bin.
Furthermore, a lot of attention has gone into making the character you're controlling in first person feel like an actual living human being, instead of a plank with a camera on top and wheels at the bottom. Not only do you actually have a body - with arms, legs - but the developers also implemented realistic blurring effects and eye motion. This is about as realistic as the first person perspective can get, short of VR technology or the holodeck.
Sadly, despite all the efforts put into the presentation of the game, it completely falls apart because Mirror's Edge suffers from two different but common game syndromes: Assassin's Creed Syndrome, and Tomb Raider Syndrome (also known as Lara Croft's Disease).
Assassin's Creed Syndrome
Assassin's Creed was a beautiful and original game, which tried to bring something new to a table filled with nothing but browngrey shooters and EA Sports games. Sadly, the developers behind Assassin's Creed hadn't a clue as to what actually made the game fun - namely, the planning/assassinating/escaping part of the game. Because of this, you spent 95% of the game doing boring and repetitive mini-games, with the actual fun part accounting for the remaining 5%.
Mirror's Edge suffers from the exact same problem. The coolest and best parts of the game are those like you can see in the video above: running around on the rooftops, jumping from building to building, doing impossible moves like wallwalks and jumps, zip-line gliding, and god knows what else. This aspect of the game is exhilarating, and the sense of accomplishment that becomes you after a successfully planned and executed running/jumping/sliding strategy is awesome. I could do this all week without ever getting bored.
Sadly, the developers didn't seem to realise that, so only like 10% of the game actually takes place on the rooftops so prominently displayed on promotional material and during demos. The remainder 90% takes place inside buildings and corridors, completely destroying the sense of speed that this game pulls of so well when running on the rooftops.
Then there's the combat. You are pushed to avoid combat in the game, to run away from the police and to find routes around guards and security officers. The reason for this is clear: you're a twenty-something year old girl without any form of weaponry (other than those you might take off others).
As a result of relying on unarmed fighting, the combat is awkward, sticky, and disorienting. There are only very few first person games that pull off melee/hand combat successfully (Condemned comes to mind), and Mirror's Edge certainly isn't one of them. Technically, you can disarm the countless foes, but disarming is an exercise is total and utter frustration because when there's 8 guys shooting at you, and you can only take 2 or 3 shots, well, do the math.
Since combat is so cumbersome, and since the tutorials and manual press you to avoid it, it's such a total surprise to see the game filled to the brim with it. Most of the time, these combat situations are not avoidable, and since they come at you with machine guns and sniper rifles while you're armed with nothing but, well, arms, you can see how annoying this gets.
I set out to completely avoid combat in this game, because I had hoped to be able to finally play a game that doesn't stress murder, blood, and weapons. Sadly, the developers weren't confident enough about the free running aspect of the game to leave out combat altogether. Especially nearing the end of the game, it completely shifts focus away from runny-climby-dangly to punchy-kicky-shooty, and suffers miserably for it. This game would have been infinitely better without combat.
Tomb Raider Syndrome ("Lara Croft's Disease")
While out in the open, messing about on the rooftops, the controls of the game come to fruition most. When inside, however, everything starts to fall apart because Faith, the protagonist (that's you!), seems to suffer from a severe case of Lara Croft's Disease: Faith is very picky about what ledges she'll dangle from, what platforms she'll remain standing on, and what objects she'll climb onto.
Add to this the literally insane clipping issues you'll encounter inside buildings and you have a recipe for controller-snapping frustration. The moment where my jaw dropped was when I was supposed to walk across a few planks in a mall, but when I needed to backtrack because I got shot at by ten guys with sniper rifles, I was thwarted by the immense height of the planks: about two centimetres. I got stuck, got shot, and died. Turns out I had to jump, even tough on the other side it was no problem.
This was just one of the countless clipping issues that really take the speed out of the interior aspect of the game. Other dangers? Don't run too close to walls, or you'll get stuck and lose momentum. Don't try and just run up escalators - you'll have to jump if you don't want to get stuck. And so on.
It's sad to see a game with such a beautiful aesthetic and such potential for endless fun be held back by design decisions that were probably born out of a lack of confidence on the developers' ends. A game without blood, violence, and tits? That's too risky - let's quickly add a few broken combat mechanics to please the blood-thirsty hoards of 12 year old gamers worldwide.
Still, should you buy this game? Absolutely and positively: yes (wait until you can find it in the local bargain bin). Just like Assassin's Creed before it, Mirror's Edge is fresh and innovative, and that's something sorely missing in today's world of endless remakes and shooters. As such, buying this game sends out a signal that we gamers are not all mindless blood-thirsty sexaholics.
Before I forget, there's also a story in Mirror's Edge, but I lost track of and interest in it about 4 seconds into the game. I need no reason to run.
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- Title: Mirror's Edge
- Platform: XBox 360
- Release Date: November 2008
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"wa innaka la 'alaa khuluqin adheem" And most definitely you (Prophet Muhammad (s.a.a.w.) are upon a very great and powerful disposition, character and mannerism. A few ayaat earlier, Allah told His Messenger (s.a.a.w.) that he is not crazy, as his enemies try to defame him. For him is a reward from Allah T'ala without limit. And most definitely he is upon a great character. Remember that the disbelievers of Makkah wanted to defame and character assassinate the Messenger of Allah. They would say evil things about the Messenger of Allah; i.e. they would say he breaks up a son from his father (i.e. a son may leave his father's religion), and they would say that he does not obey his tribes' leaders (who called to polytheism) etc. So the disbelievers would accuse him of doing evil to repel others from accepting Islam. So Allah sent these ayaat to negate all these lies and character assassinations of the disbelievers by simply saying one line: wa INNAka LA 'ala khuluqiN AdhEEmiN And SURELY you are SURELY upon CONTINUOUSLY Great Mannerism.
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First Principle: To begin from the possible This principle is well explained in a saying of Aishah. She said: "Whenever the Prophet had to choose between two options, he always opted for the easier choice." (Al-Bukhari)To choose the easiest option means to begin from the possible, and one who begins from the possible will surely reach his goal.First Principle:
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* Workday shares reach session high $51.32
* IPO values company at almost $4.5 billion
* Company valued at 22 times 12-month trailing sales
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By Olivia Oran
Oct 12 (Reuters) - Shares of Workday Inc
, a human resources software provider that has yet to turn a profit, closed up 74 percent in their market debut on Friday, leading some to question the lofty valuation.
In the biggest tech listing since Facebook's
stock listing back in May, the Pleasanton, California-based company closed its first day of trading at $48.69.
The cloud computing company whose services compete with rivals such as Oracle Corp
opened New York Stock Exchange trading at $48.05. The stock touched as high as $51.32 after pricing shares above the expected range at $28.00.
Workday sold 22.75 million shares, raising $637 million. It said it will use IPO proceeds for expansion and working capital.
Earlier in the week, Workday raised its price range to $24 to $26 per share from $21 to $24 per share.
The IPO values the company, founded by ex-PeopleSoft executives David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, at almost $4.5 billion. Duffield and Bhusri left PeopleSoft following its acquisition by Oracle Corp
in 2004 for $10.3 billion.
Workday is now among the most richly valued of recent cloud computing IPOs, with a valuation of 22 times trailing sales in the last twelve months.
IT software company ServiceNow
, which went public in June, was valued at roughly 14 times during the time of its IPO, while e-commerce platform provider Demandware was valued at 17 times.
"Workday can grow when it's smaller, but the question becomes when they get in excess of a billion in revenue, can they still bolt on this high growth rate to justify its valuation?" said Rick Summer, an analyst at Morningstar.
Workday, whose software helps companies manage employees and other resources, will have a dual class voting structure, with Class B shares worth 10 times the voting power of Class A shares.
Cloud computing technology, which lets customers access their data from remote servers, is thought to be faster and cheaper than traditional methods.
Companies based on this technology like Workday and Cornerstone OnDemand Inc
are grabbing market share from larger tech players like Oracle, SAP AG
International Business Machines Corp
as they digest recent acquisitions in the human resources software sector.
These companies are trying to tap into a market estimated to be valued at $9.5 billion, according to Forrester Research.
"There's millions of small companies who need a systematic way to manage human resources," said Charlie Smith, chief investment officer at Fort Pitt Capital Group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which manages $1.3 billion. "As long as Oracle and others don't have the specific modules that a smaller business might need, there are going to be niches for players like Workday."
Gartner analyst Thomas Otter said Workday was the first real challenger to SAP and Oracle and it forced the two established companies to invest in new products.
Workday has more than 340 customers including American International Group Inc
, Flextronics International Ltd
and Kimberly-Clark Corp .
Workday sells its software to customers on a subscription basis, giving the company visibility into future revenue and allowing potential investors to estimate growth.
"A customer will sign a three-year deal with Workday and they're going to get a monthly or annual payment for the next several years," said John Jarve, a managing director at Menlo Ventures. "The attractive thing to an IPO buyer is a recurring revenue stream."
Workday's revenue nearly doubled in 2011 to $134.4 million. Its net loss widened to $79.6 million from $56.2 million.
The company's venture backers, Greylock Partners and New Enterprise Associates, are not selling any shares in the offering.
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and Groupon have struggled.
Other cloud-computing companies may follow in Workday's footsteps with initial public offerings, said Ira Cohen, co-founder of Updata Partners which invests in software companies.
"There are a number of companies that will ride the business-to-business enterprise wave," he said. "This will hopefully open up the market for some very good companies."
Bankers say potential near-term IPO candidates include cloud-based companies like SilkRoad Technology Inc of Winston Salem, North Carolina, San Francisco-based ZenDesk and Australia-based Atlassian.
Gartner's Otter expects further consolidation in the market. In less than a year SAP, Oracle and IBM have all made major acquisitions.
SAP bought SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion in cash last December, Oracle followed by acquiring rival Taleo Corp for about $1.9 billion in February and IBM snapped up Kenexa Corp
for around $1.3 billion in August.
Duffield and Bhusri's PeopleSoft was acquired by Oracle in a hostile takeover led by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison which took over 18 months.
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs were lead underwriters for the Workday offering.
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Wis. man convicted of abusing starved stepsister
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man was convicted early Friday of sexually and physically abusing his stepsister, who weighed just 68 pounds and was barefoot when she fled their family's home two winters ago.
Jurors deliberated late into the night before finding the 20-year-old man guilty of first-degree sexual assault of a child, second-degree sexual assault of a child, and child abuse, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. The charges stemmed from incidents that occurred between 2006 and 2011 in the home where the then-children lived with the girl's father and his mother.
The Associated Press is not naming the young man to avoid identifying his stepsister.
After the girl ran away from home in February 2012, she was taken to a hospital where she told investigators her father and stepmother had forced her into their basement, with boarded up windows and an alarm on the door, and refused to feed her. They were convicted on child abuse charges at separate trials.
She also said her stepbrother had sexually assaulted her. Prosecutors said during the trial that the girl was 9 and her stepbrother was 13 when the first of two assaults occurred. They said the man attacked his stepsister because he didn't think he would be caught.
The man pleaded no contest to sexual assault charges in a separate case in November 2011. He also faces sexual assault charges in a case involving a third girl.
The man's defense attorney argued that the girl's story had inconsistences that should prevent jurors from believing the accusations. There was also a lack of physical evidence for the sexual assault charges, as doctors who examined the girl in 2012 said there was no evidence of sexual assault.
But jurors appeared to reject that argument. Sentencing has been scheduled for Wednesday.
The girl had a deep scar on her stomach that she said she obtained when her stepbrother pulled her from a hiding space, where she'd gone to escape the man's beating.
Assistant Dane County District Attorney Matt Moeser told jurors that the girl's father and stepmother put her into in-patient psychiatric care after she told them about the first sexual assault. Her parents later moved her into an unfinished basement and starved her, he said.
Moeser called the living conditions in the family's home the "perfect storm" for the stepbrother's sexual abuse.
Moeser said the parents' punishment of the girl, along with her mistreatment, may have explained her reluctance to tell authorities she had been sexually assaulted in the home.
When she mentioned something in school that led to a social worker to get involved, her parents sent her to live with her grandfather in Minnesota. The girl was later brought back to Madison and home-schooled, though Moeser said she didn't receive much education. She is now 17 years old and still in middle school, he said.
A school social worker became involved after the girl said something at her elementary school that led officials to believe she may have been being abused at home. The girl later told the social worker she wasn't actually sexually abused, a fact defense attorney Ronald Benavides focused on.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) — European stock markets dropped for a second day on Monday as rising tensions and violence in Iraq hampered investors' risk appetite and drove oil prices to a nine-month high.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, -1.58% fell 0.5% to close at 345.52, adding to a 0.2% loss on Friday. The benchmark last week also broke an eight-week winning streak, as markets struggled to push higher from multiyear highs and as the radical Sunni militia in Iraq moved closer to the capital Baghdad.
Over the weekend, the violence escalated with the rebels showing photos on Twitter of the execution of hundreds of Shiite Iraqi soldiers. The conflict started Tuesday last week when the insurgents, led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, seized the northern town of Mosul and gradually moved closed to the capital by pushing into the Diyala province close to Iran and near Baghdad on Friday. On Monday, the rebels continued to seize more territory by gaining control of the northwest city of Tal Afar, according to media reports.
Oil prices have soared in the wake of the conflict and have further added to concerns about the impact of higher energy prices on the broader global economy. On Monday, crude-oil prices CLN4, +0.00% rose to $107.09 a barrel, marking the highest level since September last year.
In data news, Eurostat confirmed that inflation in the euro zone fell back to 0.5% in May, in line with an earlier estimate and marking a more than four-year low.
And in corporate moves, Actelion Ltd. CH:ATLN rallied 15% in Switzerland after the biotech firm said its experimental heart-and-lung drug Selexipag met its targets in a late-stage study, potentially adding a new blockbuster lung treatment to its product lineup.
Alstom SA ALO, -1.40% fell 0.9% after Siemens AG SIE, -0.38% SIEGY, -0.18% said it had officially bid to buy the gas-turbine business from the French industrial conglomerate. Siemens said it had offered Alstom roughly €3.9 billion ($5.3 billion) for the unit.
Siemens also said Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. 7011, -2.68% offered to buy as much as 10% of Alstom from Bouygues SA EN, +0.10% which holds a 29.3% stake. Bouygues shares fell 0.8%.
Paring back from a large loss earlier in the day, Shares of Smith & Nephew PLC SN., -0.08% closed down 0.1% in London after Medtronic Inc. MDT, -0.57% — who was said to have been considering a takeover of the U.K. medical-device maker — on Sunday said it plans to buy Ireland-based Covidien PLC US:COV in an almost-$43-billion deal.
Among country-specific indexes, the U.K.'s FTSE 100 index UKX, -1.24% fell 0.3% to 6,754.64. The benchmark slumped 1% on Friday after hints by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney that the first interest-rate hike could come sooner than markets currently expect. The pound GBPUSD, -0.0231% rallied after the news and continued its ascent on Monday, when the U.K. currency breached the $1.70 level for the first time since 2009. Around the close in London, the pound traded at $1.6985.
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"an atheist and a materialist" Which is to say, one can be an atheist without being a materialist.Ñāṇa wrote: "It's okay to be an atheist and a materialist and a Buddhist at the same time." Of course, this claim is a contradiction. If one is a materialist, then insofar as they consider themselves to be a Buddhist, they are a Buddhist who maintains a wrong view.


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Bred by Campbell and trained by Kathleen O'Connell, Two T's At Two B is the most accomplished runner on the 12-race Juvenile Showcase program having visited the winner's circle three times during his unbeaten career, adding a 7 ¼-length maiden triumph and a 5 ¼-length victory in the $100,000 Frank Gomez Memorial to his 3 ¾-length win in the Dr. Fager.
After finishing third in her career debut, the Easton DeSouza-trained Candy Coded Kisses has returned to post two straight victories, breaking her maiden against male rivals in her second start before springing a 24-1 upset when four lengths the best in the Desert Vixen.
The daughter of Omega Code will chase her third consecutive win, and her second successive stakes score, when starting from post six under Cecilio Penalba in the Susan's Girl, which drew a field of nine, including Ione and Herbert Elkins' Putyourdreamsaway, runner-up in the Desert Vixen, and Our Sugar Bear Stable's So Blessed, that race's third-place finisher.
Newcomers of note in the Susan's Girl include Miller Racing, LLC's Jewel in the Sky, a 6 ¾-length allowance winner in her last, and Rustlewood Farm, Inc.'s Nasty Cat, who overcame a poor start to post a 2 ¼-length maiden-breaking victory in her career debut.
While the Florida Stallions Stakes are the most prestigious events on the Juvenile Showcase program, perhaps the most intriguing stake of the day is the $75,000 Seacliff Stakes, a one-mile main-track event that drew a competitive field of eight, headlined by Rosa Taveras' unbeaten Sr. Quisqueyano.
Trained by Luis Olivares, Sr. Quisqueyano showed great promise when winning his career debut by 2 ¾ lengths in mid-April, but the colt put his brilliance on full display in an August 11 allowance race in which he bested his nearest pursuer by 12 ¼ lengths.
The son of Exclusive Quality starts from post seven in the Seacliff and will be ridden by Jozbin Santana.
The dominance of Sr. Quisqueyano is expected to be challenged in Saturday's race by a pair of recent open-length maiden winners in Gilbert Campbell's Mayberry Madness and Herman Van Den Broeck's Singanothersong.
Trained by Kathleen O'Connell, Mayberry Madness was never doing much of anything when seventh in his career debut but has since returned with a 15 ¾-length throttling of his opponents in an August 10 maiden race.
The Ron Pellegrini-trained Singanothersong enters the Seacliff Stakes off a rousing maiden win on July 22, a race in which he was never presented with a challenge en route to a 6 ½-length victory. Prior to that performance, the son of Songandaprayer was a troubled second to recent Grade 2 Sanford Stakes fourth-place finisher Brave Dave in his career debut.
There was no lack of interest in the $75,000 Fasig-Tipton Turf Dash, which attracted a full field of 12 runners that includes a trio of turf-experienced horses shipping to Calder from parts elsewhere to participate in the five-furlong sprint.
Wesley Ward's Rip Roarin Ritchie is the lone two-time winner in the field, piecing together an August 5 victory in the $61,000 Tyro Stakes over the Monmouth Park grass course with a maiden win over the Churchill Downs turf on June 15.
The speedy homebred son of Bring the Heat will start from post eight in the Fasig-Tipton Turf Dash and will be ridden by Jesus Rios.
Trilogy Stable and Laurie Plesa's Itsmyluckyday, beaten less than a length by Rip Roarin Ritchie in the Tyro, will look to exact revenge on that rival when starting from post two under jockey Manoel Cruz in Saturday's turf tilt.
A maiden winner on the main track, the Eddie Plesa trainee was also entered in the Seacliff Stakes, but appears more likely to contest Saturday's turf sprint.
Ron McCauley's Law Dog, last seen finishing fifth as the favorite in the $100,000 Graduation Stakes on the all-weather track at Del Mar, has crossed the continent in search of his first stakes win and will start from post six in Saturday's Turf Dash.
Trained by Tevis McCauley, and to be ridden by Sarah Rook, the well-traveled Law Dog broke his maiden in a five-furlong turf sprint at Indiana Downs in early July. Prior to that performance, the son of Unusual Heat finished a close fourth in a maiden race on the Churchill turf and was third when unveiled on the all-weather track at Presque Isle Downs.
The $75,000 Catcharisingstar, the filly companion race to the Fasig-Tipton Turf Dash, drew a field of 10, and a McCauley-trained runner figures to play a prominent role in the outcome of that race as McCauley Farms' homebred Zip Cash Back invades off consecutive turf-sprint victories, most recently the $50,000 Tippett Stakes at Colonial Downs.
The lone starter in the Catcharisingstar field with any turf experience, Zip Cash Back starts from post seven and will be ridden by Rook.
The $75,000 Lindsay Frolic Stakes, run at one mile on the main track, presents an anomaly of sorts as seven of the eight entrants are maidens looking for their first career victory, with Monarch Stables, Inc.'s Street Magic the lone winner among the field.
Trained by Dave Vivian, Street Magic was a powerful 5 ¼-length maiden winner in her April 22 career debut, but could do no better than a distant fourth when stepping up to meet allowance rivals on August 12. The homebred daughter of Street Hero drew post eight for the Lindsay Frolic and will be ridden by Luca Panici.
Of the remaining seven maidens in the field, perhaps Rontos Racing Stable Corp.'s Caraquista is the most imposing as she exits a second-place finish in a July 29 maiden race where she was beaten less than a length when giving up the lead in the shadow of the wire.
The Jose Garoffalo-trained daughter of Ghostzapper starts from post three in the Lindsay Frolic and will be ridden by Joe Rodriguez.
In addition to the six-pack of stakes, Juvenile Showcase will present six additional races restricted to 2-year-olds, including the first two juvenile turf races of the meet, both of which drew overflow fields, a pair of main-track maiden special weight events that each attracted 12 runners, a $25,000 maiden claiming event that opens the day with a fill field of 12, and a starter allowance for winners that have run for $25,000 or less.
Having been recognized over the years as a national proving ground for 2-year-old horses, the Juvenile Showcase was conceived and executed for the first time in 2003, and past winners on the day include subsequent Breeders' Cup and Eclipse Award champions Awesome Feather and Big Drama, along with Grade 1 winners In Summation and Jackson Bend.
The list of top 2-year-olds that have run at Calder does not stop with Juvenile Showcase day, as the Priscilla Vaccarezza-owned and Carlo Vaccarezza-bred two-time 2012 Grade 1 champion and recent Arlington Million hero Little Mike competed in Miami Gardens during his juvenile season, along with eventual Eclipse Award winners Blind Luck, Holy Bull, Musical Romance, Spend A Buck, and Unbridled.
First-race post time on Juvenile Showcase day is 12:55 p.m. with the stakes portion of the program to commence with the Seacliff Stakes, as race seven, at approximately 3:45 p.m. The Seacliff will be followed by the Lindsay Frolic at 4:17 p.m., the Fasig-Tipton Turf Dash at 4:48 p.m., the Affirmed Division of the Florida Stallion Stakes at 5:20 p.m., and the Susan's Girl Division of the Stallion Stakes at 5:49 p.m., before the curtain closes on the card with the Catcharisingstar at 6:14 p.m.


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43 U.S. Code § 1902 - Definitions
§ 1902.
DefinitionsAs used in this chapter—
The terms "rangelands" or "public rangelands" means lands administered by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Land Management or the Secretary of Agriculture through the Forest Service in the sixteen contiguous Western States on which there is domestic livestock grazing or which the Secretary concerned determines may be suitable for domestic livestock grazing.
The term "allotment management plan" is the same as defined in section 1702(k) of this title, except that as used in this chapter such term applies to the sixteen contiguous Western States.
The term "grazing permit and lease" means any document authorizing use of public lands or lands in national forests in the sixteen contiguous Western States for the purpose of grazing domestic livestock.
The term "range condition" means the quality of the land reflected in its ability in specific vegetative areas to support various levels of productivity in accordance with range management objectives and the land use planning process, and relates to soil quality, forage values (whether seasonal or year round), wildlife habitat, watershed and plant communities, the present state of vegetation of a range site in relation to the potential plant community for that site, and the relative degree to which the kinds, proportions, and amounts of vegetation in a plant community resemble that of the desired community for that site.
The term "native vegetation" means those plant species, communities, or vegetative associations which are endemic to a given area and which would normally be identified with a healthy and productive range condition occurring as a result of the natural vegetative process of the area.
The term "range improvement" means any activity or program on or relating to rangelands which is designed to improve production of forage; change vegetative composition; control patterns of use; provide water; stabilize soil and water conditions; and provide habitat for livestock and wildlife. The term includes, but is not limited to, structures, treatment projects, and use of mechanical means to accomplish the desired results.
The term "court ordered environmental impact statement" means any environmental statements which are required to be prepared by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the final judgment or subsequent modification thereof as set forth on June 18, 1975, in the matter of Natural Resources Defense Council against Andrus.
The term "sixteen contiguous Western States" means the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
(Pub. L. 95–514, § 3, Oct. 25, 1978, 92 Stat. 1804.)
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The Walrus Says
We've often written about those "rattlesnakes" in our backyards. Now comes a presentation at the Jamestown library, tonight at 7 p.m., that all islanders should see. With the herds of deer that share our island being a constant danger to everyone, we urge all to see the 24-minute "Hidden in the Leaves," a documentary exposing the hidden dangers that ticks present and spotlights strategies to avoid the insects and their diseases. Many on the island continually suffer the effects of tick bites.
The film will be presented by Dr. Thomas Mather from the University of Rhode Island's Tick Encounter Resource Center and tells of the entomologist and his team's efforts to help people see the risks for serious tick-transmitted disease lurking in an increasing number of rural, suburban and even semi-urban landscapes.
"One infected tick can change your life, and we're trying to get people to think about ticks and to take appropriate action. The first step in deciding to take action against ticks is to help people see all the places in their yards where ticks are likely to be in abundance," Dr. Mather said.
"Hidden in the Leaves" is directed by award-winning filmmaker Mary Healy Jamiel. It includes interviews with Polly Murray, the first person to bring Lyme disease to the attention of public health authorities and others who have been affected by the disease.
On Halloween when you and the kids are having a lot of fun there's another member of your family that might be confused and unhappy. Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic provides some suggestions on helping get your pet through the frightful night.
"Our goals for our pets on Halloween should be to avoid all tricks and all treats and to stay as safe and healthy as possible. Make sure that all candy and wrappers, even empty wrappers, are kept well away from your pets. Some motivated dogs will go to extremes to get those delicious candies even if we think they are safely out of reach. Also, be very careful with candles and jack- o'-lanterns and using glow-sticks. Battery-operated lights are much safer than any open flame. It is best to keep your pets indoors during trick-or-treating hours because you never know how your pet will react to all those strange costumes and sounds, and a scared or territorial pet is not a treat for neighborhood kids. Finally, if you and your pet will be outdoors, make sure you both have reflective clothing, lights, and leashes or collars so that you are both easily visible to passing motorists. Have a safe and festive All Hallows Eve!"
Welcome to the island Smokee and Sceolan who come to us via the Potter League for Animals in Middletown. Smokee is a 3-yearold tiger cat that was obtained by Jessie Dutra as a birthday gift for her 6-year-old son Joey. Also sharing the house with Smokee is another cat, Halloween, 4. In the barn on the Dutra Farm are three barn cats, two without names, and Boss, who is the one in charge of overseeing the home of the 60 Holsteins.
Sceolan is a 6-year-old black Lab that has joined the Ted Rodgers family. The name comes from an Irish folklore story entitled "Finn McCool" who had two dogs, Bran and Sceolan. Ted's late mother had a dog named Bran, hence Ted named the new addition Sceolan. In the household, the Lab shares space with a gecko named Tanya and a fish, Zerwenthulum, named by Ted's daughter Leigh Ann, 10. "Sceolan is a great addition to the family," Ted said.
The Book Ends were two very attractive ladies who stood on both sides of the Ray Anthony Band.
No takers on last week's poser. The lyrics are from the song, "Over There." How about this one, also to be sung at "Song Man. Dance Man" the Jamestown Community Theatre's presentation next month. "Oh, who can take tomorrow, dip it in a dream
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream........."
*** What was Hellzapoppin?
Don't forget the "Ghouls Rules Halloween Bash" Saturday night from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Recreation Center. You don't have to wear a costume. Go and enjoy!
A Snapple cap moment: Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.
*** Stay true!
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FAYETTEVILLE � Arkansas third baseman Matt Reynolds promises he feels just fine now.
FAYETTEVILLE � Arkansas third baseman Matt Reynolds promises he feels just fine now.
The pitch that hit the junior in the elbow during his first at-bat in the Southeastern Conference Tournament set an unfortunate tone for a disappointing two days. He had no feeling in his arm after it happened, began to feel nauseated and couldn�t continue in a 9-1 loss to Mississippi State. But Reynolds said it doesn�t bother him a week later as Arkansas prepares for NCAA Regional play.
�It�s 100 percent,� Reynolds said Tuesday.
That�s good news for Arkansas (39-19), which needs the Tulsa native at his best when it opens NCAA Regional play against Sam Houston State (38-20) in Rice�s Reckling Park on Friday.
Reynolds has been the sure thing in an inconsistent Arkansas lineup. He enters the Houston Regional leading the team in hitting (.340), doubles (18), home runs (7), and RBIs (41). He also is second in stolen bases (12) and has been solid defensively at the hot corner (.948 fielding percentage).
The resume helped the team captain earn first-team All-Southeastern Conference honors on Tuesday. Second baseman Bo Bigham was named to the second team, while first baseman Dominic Ficociello also joined Reynolds on the SEC�s All-Defensive team.
�He�s just done a tremendous job,� Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said before the SEC Tournament. �He�s been Steady Eddie almost the whole year. I think he got down to .308 somewhere like that and then he jumped it back up there and has stayed at .330 plus almost the whole season. That�s tough to do.�
It�s also a big jump from his two previous seasons with the Razorbacks.
Reynolds struggled with injuries as a freshman and sophomore, averaging .233 with 62 hits in 83 games. But Reynolds has 68 hits this season alone and had a streak in which he reached base in 39 straight games.
The offensive improvement has been no surprise to Arkansas� coaches, who predicted it would happen before the season after watching Reynolds thrive last summer.
�He�s been a great player,� Arkansas hitting coach Todd Butler said. �For two years he struggled. He had injuries and he�s worked hard. He�s a consummate professional type guy and he knows what he�s doing. � We knew he was good. That�s why we recruited him here.�
Reynolds said patience and persistence have been key to his improvement this season.
He also said confidence has been important, referencing a book he read in the offseason called �Mind Gym: An Athlete�s Guide to Inner Excellence.� Reynolds said it meant plenty.
�A lot of it had to do with mentality,� Reynolds said. �My dad always told me you should have the mentality that the pitcher can�t beat you. Last year I was probably struggling with my confidence, going up there wondering if I was going to get a hit instead of knowing if I was going to get a hit.�
Reynolds � who is draft eligible this summer and will likely be one of the first Razorbacks selected when it begins June 4 � has saved his best for late in the season.
Reynolds hit .476 over the final 10 regular season games. He had six multi-hit games during that stretch and topped the three-hit mark four times. It included a 4-for-5 effort in the 6-5 win against Louisiana Tech.
He and the Razorbacks hope it continues after slumping to just one run in two SEC Tournament games. Arkansas won�t be able to win games with Reynolds� success at the plate alone. But 2012 has shown Reynolds can be valuable when he�s comfortable and confident.
�I feel like all the hard work has paid off that I put in during the summer and in the fall with coach Butler and (volunteer assistant Brian) Walker,� Reynolds said.
�The results are starting to show. My swing isn�t exactly how I want it, but I�m still working on it with the coaches. Hopefully the results will show in postseason, too.�


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6 Inexpensive Last-Minute Holiday Gift Ideas
As Christmas Day draws close and holiday budgets start running down, the panic sets in: who did I forget to buy a gift for? But there's no need to fret! You can easily pull together a fun gift for little cash in a jiffy. Here are a few ideas to get you started.


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DENVER (AP) — A Florida man who sent an email threatening U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart after the organization stripped Lance Armstrong of his Tour de France titles was sentenced Thursday to probation and community service.
Retired physician Gerrit Keats, 72, of Clearwater, Fla. pleaded guilty last year to a federal charge of violating an interstate communications law for sending Tygart an email with the subject line "Nazi tragic Tygart." It was dated Oct. 24, 2012, two weeks after Colorado Springs-based USADA released details of Armstrong's doping violations.
The email's six paragraphs were filled with foul language and racist innuendo. It said Tygart should be killed and his children castrated.
Keats apologized for his actions in court. In a November letter of apology to Tygart, he said he didn't recall writing the email tirade.
"I hardly knew of Mr. Armstrong, know nothing about bike racing and personally dislike biking," the letter said. "Why I was so upset and vehement, I have yet to truly understand."
Keats' lawyer, George Tragos, said Keats sent the email while he was under the stress of caring full time for his mother-in-law, who was suffering from extreme dementia.
Tygart told U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson that the threats he received led him to hire private security at his home and that his children once had to run inside while playing soccer when a suspicious car approached their house. He also said USADA staffers were also affected, and shouldn't have to worry about things like who might be watching them get into their cars.
"This is not the America we work hard for and cherish. It is supposed to be different than this; and, if common civility does not dictate it, the federal criminal laws, as in this case, do," Tygart said.
Tygart said Keats should be punished, even if he didn't intend to carry out his threats, because of the damage they caused and as a warning to others who feel emboldened to make threats from behind their computer screens.
Prosecutors said Keats also sent angry emails to a state lawmaker in Wisconsin during the 2011 protests at the state Capitol and to the city manager of Sanford, Fla., following the firing of the police chief for his handling of the Trayvon Martin slaying. Those emails didn't lead to any charges.
While both the defense and prosecutors agreed to a plea deal with probation, Jackson seemed angry and considered also sentencing him to some prison time, too. He read the email in full and called Keats a racist. Eventually, he tagged on 540 hours of community service which he said would be both "punitive and constructive." At the end of the hearing, he walked across the courtroom and shook Tygart's hand.


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Santos attacker Neymar has stated that he would be open to a move to either Barcelona or Real Madrid, but insists that he has not yet made a decision on his future.
The Brazil international is continually being linked with a move to Europe, but says he is in no rush to wave goodbye to his current club.
"I have no preference for Barcelona or Real Madrid. They are both great clubs that are respected by everyone. They each have their own history and fantastic players," Neymar told Cope.
"In the past few years, Barcelona have impressed the entire world with the way they play. They are one of the best teams in the world.
"Playing in Europe continues to be a dream, but I do not know whether it will happen soon. Only I decide when I'm ready for it.
"I will make the move when I make the decision myself. It's not about anybody else, but solely my call. If I feel I have to go now, I'll leave now. But if I want to stay for five more years, I'll leave in five years..."
The forward also had his say on Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi and had nothing but praise for the Liga stars.
"They are two amazing players who any team would love to have. You cannot compare them. They each have their own qualities.
"However, if you asked me to vote for the best player in the world, I'd say Messi."


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Roger Brown's Diamond Notes: Titles were extra sweet for Goffstown, Londonderry
June 16. 2014 10:52PM
If there was a lesson to be learned Saturday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium, it was this: Something good can come from even the toughest of losses.
The Londonderry High School and Goffstown High School baseball teams won championships in their respective divisions Saturday, one year after each was upset on Championship Saturday.
Top-seeded Goffstown knocked off third-seeded Plymouth, 8-1, to win the Division II title, and fifth-seeded Londonderry beat third-seeded Pinkerton Academy of Derry, 4-1, in the Division I championship.
Goffstown also entered the 2013 Division II tournament as the No. 1 seed but lost to Portsmouth in the title game.
"Redemption is awesome," said Goffstown's Tyler Perron, who tossed a complete game against Plymouth. "(Last year's loss) definitely motivated us. Since Day 1, all we've been thinking about is getting back here and winning it."
Goffstown completed its season with a 20-2 record and won 20 of its last 21 games.
"The goal all year was to win the last game," Goffstown coach Adam Lawrence said. "We knew we were capable of getting here. Again, it's one thing to get here, but you have to win that last game."
Like Goffstown, Londonderry entered the 2013 postseason as a No. 1 seed. Londonderry was a heavy favorite against 11th-seeded Exeter in last year's championship game, but the Blue Hawks posted a 3-2 victory.
From the outset of practice this year, Lancers coach Brent Demas stressed that second-best wasn't acceptable.
"Coach made it pretty clear all season that this is what we were practicing for — to win a championship," said Londonderry's Tom Corey, Saturday's winning pitcher. "All the seniors on this team and a couple juniors know what it felt like last year.
"We practiced hard to get to this point. We came in confident that we would get the 'W.'"
The Lancers ended their season with a 17-7 record.
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SOME teams improve throughout the regular season. The Dover softball team showed significant improvement throughout the postseason.
After committing 13 errors during one-run victories over No. 14 Winnacunnet of Hampton and No. 11 Merrimack in the tournament's first two rounds, third-seeded Dover cleaned things up defensively. Dover committed one error in a 5-1 semifinal victory over Salem and one during Saturday's 8-4 triumph over top-seeded Spaulding of Rochester in the Division I championship game.
Saturday's victory earned Dover the program's first Division I state championship, and it was a case of good hitting getting the best of good pitching. Dover entered the game with four players hitting .400 or better and scored eight runs against Spaulding's Sami West, who was 3-0 with a 1.24 ERA in three previous tournament games this spring. West had pitched two one-hitters in the postseason and recorded 25 strikeouts in 17 innings.
Dover's Molly St. Germain and Emily Schlapak each collected three hits in the title game.
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TOP-SEEDED teams went 3-2 Saturday. In addition to Goffstown's victory over Plymouth, the top-seeded Campbell of Litchfield baseball team beat second-seeded Somersworth, 3-2, in the Division III championship, and the top-seeded Coe-Brown Northwood Academy softball team defeated seventh-seeded John Stark Regional of Weare, 6-5, to claim the Division III title.
The Spaulding and White Mountains of Whitefield softball teams were the top seeds who lost on Saturday. White Mountains (19-1), the only baseball or softball team in the state that began Championship Saturday with a chance to finish the season unbeaten, dropped a 1-0 decision to Campbell.
Campbell also beat White Mountains in last year's title game.
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THE Coe-Brown softball team was playing in a championship game for the fifth time in the last seven seasons. Coe-Brown's only other title during that stretch came in 2010, when the Bears beat Kennett of Conway, 5-3, in what was then known as Class I. Coe-Brown's Amanda Riley and Kianna Daudelin hit back-to-back home runs in the victory over John Stark. ..… The Somersworth baseball team has lost in the Division III championship game in four of the last five seasons. … Ben Byerly, Londonderry's No. 9 hitter, entered Saturday's game with a .224 batting average and three RBIs this season, but he collected two hits, an RBI and scored a run against rival Pinkerton.
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After being swept in Cincinnati, the Phillies begin an eight-game homestand with tonight's game against the St. Louis Cardinals desperately looking to ignite a punchless offense.
During the recently completed 2-4 road trip, the Phillies scored a total of 10 runs. They did not score a run before the sixth inning in any game on the trip.
Cole Hamels, who was better his last outing against an anemic Miami offense, will face a Cardinals team looking to regroup after Wednesday's 5-0 loss to A.J. Burnett in Pittsburgh.
In order to jump start the offense, Jimmy Rollins is the lead-off batter and Ben Revere will hit seventh. In addition Freddy Galvis gets the start in left field for Domonic Brown, who injured his back during Wednesday's 11-2 loss at Cincinnati.
Here is the Phillies lineup.
1. Jimmy Rollins, SS
2. Freddy Galvis, LF
3. Chase Utley, 2B
4. RyanHoward, 1B
5. Michael Young, 3B
6. John Mayberry Jr., RF
7. Ben Revere, CF
8. Erik Kratz, C
9. Cole Hamels, P


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Ironworkers for Walsh Construction Co. place the final steel piece of the Richard P. Howe Bridge's undercarriage during a so-called topping-off ceremony Tuesday. The bridge, named after the former city councilor and mayor, is being built to replace the University Avenue Bridge and will connect Merrimack Street to UMass Lowell's North Campus.
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By Christopher Scott
LOWELL -- Former City Councilor and Mayor Richard P. Howe hit a milestone on Dec. 30. The Highlands resident and proud Lowellian turned 80.
Just a couple weeks later, the bridge that will carry his name, now under construction over the Merrimack River, reached a milestone Tuesday, when the last gigantic piece of its blue steel undercarriage was delicately guided into place by ironworkers for Walsh Construction Co.
Mike Verseckes, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, said the $32 million project that will connect Merrimack Street to University Avenue at UMass Lowell's North Campus -- while replacing the commonly known Textile Memorial Bridge just downstream on University Avenue -- is on schedule for completion in September 2014.
During 40 years on the City Council -- eight as mayor -- Howe proudly carried the reputation of a contrarian, particularly if the adversary was a city manager.
But he's not opposed to having a bridge carry his name.
"I'm very pleased and I'm also happy to hear it's on schedule," Howe said this week. "Forty years on the City Council is a long time, and I would say it is an achievement."
That's exactly what City Councilor Rodney Elliott had in mind when he asked the City Council a few years back to name the bridge after Howe, who didn't seek re-election in 2005.
"Dick Howe had a long and distinguished career in Lowell politics," Elliott said. "Naming what will be a significant landmark after him to recognize his years of service and all he accomplished seemed like the appropriate thing to do."
"I think it's a fitting way to recognize his service," said his son, Richard P. Howe Jr., who, like his father, went into public service as the North Middlesex register of deeds. "Forty years on the City Council and eight as mayor, I believe, is quite significant and an accomplishment."
Put in perspective, the elder Howe attended about 45 City Council meetings a year, as the body meets less frequently during the summer and around the holidays. That means over the course of 40 years, he spent about 1,800 Tuesday nights at City Hall.
Howe, the mayor and School Committee chairman at the time, still lists as his greatest achievement his involvement in a 1988 deal with the federal government that prevented the government from taking over the city's schools because minority children were not being given proper access to education.
Working closely with former Superintendent of Schools George Tsapatsaris and City Solicitor Thomas Sweeney, he helped convince U.S. District Court Judge Robert Keeton to allow the city more time to address the issue. Keeton agreed, and the takeover threat became a nonissue.
The silver lining to the once-threatening issue was that it led to the city's ambitious school-building and renovation project, during which more than a dozen educational facilities were either built or renovated.
Later, in 1994, Howe was among the councilors who approved giving Nynex a $4 million line of credit to rent space at Cross Point, the former Wang Laboratories world headquarters that had fallen on hard times and sold for $520,000 during a foreclosure auction.
Nynex, the former telecom giant, liked the space, but wasn't convinced the building's new owners had the financial juice to carry the massive towers. The line of credit was pushed through the council as an assurance to Nynex that its investment would be protected.
Not a dollar from the line of credit was tapped, and landing Nynex soon led to other tenants. Several years later, the building sold for more than $100 million.
And thirdly, but more broadly, Howe's last achievement speaks to the persona he developed on the council: sparring with city managers, particularly Joe Tully and, later, John Cox.
If Howe believed the city manager was conducting city business with the right interests -- those of its residents -- in mind, he was supportive. If he didn't, he was a city manager's greatest antagonist.
The adversarial role he often adopted led to many 8-1 votes, with Howe the minority.
Elliott's motion to name the bridge after his former colleague, however, was unanimously approved -- but with little fanfare.
Elliott hopes the city organizes a special event for Howe and his family when the bridge is ready to carry traffic.
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My husband is smart enough to tell me and others that I'm a better cook than his mother except for one glaring exception. He believes his mom makes the best chocolate chip cookies. When I've called him on it, he doesn't even bother to deny it. He just says she follows the toll house recipe and adds double the amount of chocolate chip cookies. Over the years, I've tried different recipes, and while he has liked the results and definitely eaten the results, I could never beat his mom's cookies. So I've been on a quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. After a lot of research and testing (what I do for my family!), I now have narrowed my search to two recipes. The first one is from CookSmart by Pam Anderson and the second one is from the May & June 2009 issue of Cook's Illustrated. From these sources, I've decided these elements are all part of a perfect chocolate chip recipe:
Excellent Chocolate Chip Quality
Nestle Toll House semi-sweet chocolate chunk morsels seem to be the obvious choice. NOT SO! These are not the chips we remember from childhood. Gone is real vanilla and a strong chocolate flavor, now these chips use vanillin (artificial vanilla) and more sugar and less cacao.
When shopping, look at the ingredient list. Chocolate (or cacao) should be the first ingredient. Make sure real vanilla not vanillin is listed. And, finally beware "chocolate flavored" chips. My favorite chips are local (Northern California) chips, Guittard Real Semisweet Chocolate Chips & Ghiradelli 60% Bittersweet Chocolate chips.
Use Real Unsalted Butter.
OK, this may be more personal preference. I just think cookies made with butter taste better than margarine and/or shortening. Also butter made cookies have a nice crisp taste. However, it is a trade-off, cookies made with butter spread more and are not as pretty as shortening ones.
So, which recipe was better? In my household, the Cook's Illustrated recipe outperformed the CookSmart recipe. The butter/sugar technique in Cook's Illustrated gave the cookies a nutty toffee flavor without nuts. However, there were definitely elements of the CookSmart recipe I liked better. So stay tune for my hybrid recipe. Until then, here's the Cook's Illustrated version. Let me know what you think, or let me know if you have a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe I can try out.
Note: Go straight to the recipe source. You do need to be a Cook's Illustrated subscriber, but they offer a free 14 day trial membership.
My Version of Cook's Illustrated's Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
14 tbsps. unsalted butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 tsps. vanilla extract (NOT ARTIFICIAL)
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1 1/4 cups semiseet chocolate chips
3/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)
- Adjust oven rack tomiddle position and heat oven to 375 degrees. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper. Whisk flour & baking soda together in med. bowl; set aside.
- Brown 10 tablespoons of butter in skillet until dark golden brown and has a nutty aroma. Put in heatproof mixing bowl and add remaining 4 tablespoons of butter. Stir until butter completelymelted.
- Add both sugars, salt & vanilla to bowl with butter and mix well. Add egg & yolk and whisk until smooth with no sugar lumps remaining, about 30 seconds. Let stand for 3 minutes, then whisk for 30 seconds. Repeat 2 more times until mixture is smooth & .shiny.
Sugar/butter mixture after first whisking.
Sugar/butter mixture after final whisking. What a difference! I'm convinced this is why my family preferred this recipe.
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If your tot has ever thrown a fit as you've headed out the door, Gwyneth Paltrow can relate. The Oscar winning mama to two, Apple, 4, and Moses, 2, had a harried experience with her lil man prior to the premiere of Valentino: The Last Emperor. The glamorous actress chatted about the incident. A People report said:
"It was hectic getting ready. We just flew in yesterday for this. And my kids are really jetlagged. And my son had a meltdown. But we got out the door," although not without a struggle. "He was very upset by these hair clips they put in to keep your hair back when you're getting your makeup done," she explained. "He hated them. He was livid. But I'm here. I made it." So did Moses have an opinion about the dress? "He did not like it," said Paltrow. "He's very specific. My daughter really liked it. She also chose my nail polish color."
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According to researchers having two to three cups of coffee a day reduces, or delays the risk of breast cancer depending on the gene variant a woman has.
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Cottage Grove resident Laura Devine grew up wanting to be a doctor.
Her undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota led her down the path of physiology and soon into the hospital for pre-med courses. Yet, all the while her real passion was in the gym. Her dedication to bettering others through fitness led her to open her Real Fit Workout Studio in Cottage Grove, Minn. "Real Fit Workout Studio is a word play off the word real," Devine explained. "I've been in clubs and other settings where it feels like the people aren't real, almost like they are fake. Most people out there aren't comfortable in an environment where everybody is super fit. I wanted Real Fit Workout Studio to feel welcoming for everybody."
As a child, Devine was always very active. She learned from her parents' active lifestyles and incorporated that into her college extracurricular activities. While studying pre-med courses as a Minnesota Golden Gopher, Devine was trained as an aerobics instructor. And when she wasn't studying the human body in class, she was working it in the gym.
"I loved teaching aerobics," Devine said. "I was taking the pre-med prerequisites and found that I didn't have the same passion for medicine as I did for fitness. That's when I asked myself how I could make this fitness thing work for me." In 2007, after leaving a corporate job in a downtown Minneapolis office, Devine convinced her husband and father-in-law to build an 800-square-foot addition to their home, which she transformed into a workout oasis. "I was fortunate to have built up my clientel base before I opened the studio," she said. She offered classes to co-workers, would travel to clients' homes and even used her own bedroom for sessions. "I was ready to take the next step."
It took the entire summer but once the doors finally opened in the fall, Devine said her ambitions came full circle. "It's an awesome thing to be able to basically walk through my garage for my commute," she said with a laugh. "The coolest thing about my studio is that small group setting that you can't get at a club. You also get camaraderie with your workout buddies and we all develop great friendships." Five days a week, Devine leads several classes in strength training, cardio kickboxing, spin and yoga. Certified through the American Council of Exercise and the Yoga Alliance, she continues to be a go-to personal trainer for many in the Cottage Grove area.
"I've always had the support of my family and clients, but the Small Business of the Year award shows that I also have the support of the community as well," Devine said. "It's a huge honor. We keep proving to people that working out can be fun."


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 26, 2005) - The East Tennessee State volleyball team downed King College in dominating fashion Monday night, defeating the Tornado with a 3-0 shutout, in Brooks Gym. The Lady Bucs overpowered King with 30-20, 30-15, and 30-27 wins, to improve to 9-5 on the year.
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"I'm happy with the win," said ETSU head coach Lindsey Devine. "I'm really happy that it was a total team effort and everyone got a chance to contribute to the win."
Sartor, the reigning Atlantic Sun Player of the Week, paced the Lady Bucs with a match-high nine kills, followed by sophomore Callie Kiselich (Colorado Springs, Colo.) with eight, and junior Crystal Palmer (Chico, Calif.) with seven. Kiselich led ETSU in hitting percentage, recording .667 on 12 attempts, the third-best output in program history.
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If information technology turns out to have world-historical significance, it is not because of its economic promise, still less because it may facilitate the toppling of dictators. It is because information technology makes plain that the story democracies have told about themselves for more than two centuries has been a bluff.
Democracy, as we know it in the modern world, is based on a peculiar compromise. The word to which we pay such homage means the "rule of the people." But insofar as we can claim to govern ourselves at all, we do so in a remarkably indirect way. Every few years, the citizens of modern democracies make their way to the polls to cast their votes for a limited set of candidates. Once they have acquitted themselves of this duty, their elected representatives take over. In the daily functioning of democracy, the public is marginal.
This is not what democracy once looked like. In ancient Athens, the citizens constituted at most one-fifth of the population—the rest were women, children, resident aliens and slaves. But those Athenians who did count as citizens had a direct voice in matters of justice and war. The idea that a people should meet in public to discuss what to do was not unique to the Greeks—several indigenous societies across the world deliberated in similar ways—but nothing approaching direct democracy has been tried on a mass scale in the modern world.
The American founders were adamant that it could not be otherwise. The body of the people, John Adams declared, "can never act, consult, or reason together, because they cannot march five hundred miles, nor spare the time, nor find a space to meet; and, therefore, the proposition, that they are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true. They are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all." Adams was dismissing one of the last gasps of the radical republican tradition—the Anti-Federalists, mostly composed of farmers and minor artisans in the colonies. Their arguments for making political life in America as local as possible were trumped by the founders' superior propaganda and their vision of a republic that would encompass a much larger territory. Since then, for more than 200 years, almost every political thinker has conceded that the constraints of time and space make direct democracy impracticable. Even those who did not share the founders' contempt for popular rule—Robespierre, Bolívar, Lenin—have acknowledged that representative institutions are unavoidable.
As long as direct democracy was impracticable within the confines of the modern territorial state, the claim that representative institutions constituted the truest form of self-government was just about plausible. But now, in the early twenty-first century, the claim about direct democracy being impossible at the national level and beyond is no longer credible. As the constraints of time and space have eroded, the ubiquitous assumption that we live in a democracy seems very far from reality. The American people may not all fit into Madison Square Garden, but they can assemble on virtual platforms and legislate remotely, if that is what they want. Yet almost no one desires to be that actively political, or to replace representation with more direct political responsibility. Asked to inform themselves about the important political issues of the day, most citizens politely decline. If forced to hold an informed opinion on every law and regulation, many would gladly mount the barricades to defend their right not to rule themselves in such a burdensome manner.


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London: The Canaries manager is expecting Roberto Mancini to have his players fired up ahead of the game on Saturday, but was keen to point out that his own side have qualities to fear.
Norwich City manager Chris Hughton is wary of a strong reaction from Manchester City when the two sides meet on Saturday.
Adam Johnson's second-half strike was enough for Sunderland to run out 1-0 victors over the Premier League champions on Boxing Day to mark City's third defeat in their last five games in all competitions.
And while Hughton is expecting the Blues to be eager to return to winning ways as soon as possible, the Norwich boss highlighted his side's valiant display against Chelsea as reasons for Roberto Mancini to be concerned.
"Man City will want a reaction and we want one here as well," Hughton is quoted as saying by the Norfolk Eastern Daily Press. "The good thing about top players, we can speak about top players costing a lot of money, but they have great attitudes as well.
"I think most would have expected Man City to win that game. At the moment Sunderland are now picking up form and whether it was a deserved win or not the pendulum appears to have turned. Man City will want a reaction and so do we.
"We're now two games without winning and we want to get back to getting some points again. I don't think we have to improve an awful lot. In the first half [against Chelsea] we were a little loose on the ball and we have been quite tight during our recent run - which gave Chelsea the opportunity to counter. If I look at our games against the Champions League sides at Carrow Road, it was a very similar one."
Norwich find themselves sitting in 11th place with 25 points at the season's midway point, one place worse but three points better off than at the same stage last season.
The Canaries racked up 47 points last season but the club missed out on a top-half finish on goal difference, but Hughton is cautious not to set any aim to better such a tally for this term.
"There is no points target. It is about producing what we have done in the first part of the season," he added. "We started slowly, but we got a bit of momentum from a good run. We know what we have to do. It is a tough ask because of the quality of this division and the players and teams you are up against.
"We have to replicate more of that in the second part of the season. We have to try and match what we have done and we have to work just as hard because a lot of teams will be pushing. We want to make life as comfortable as we can for ourselves.
"I think if you had offered that to me at the start of the season then, yes, I would have taken that. You only have to look at this Premier League week in, week out and that probably emphasises just what a good run it was that we went on."


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—"There must be an attack against you, or a third party whom you are trying to protect."
—"The attack must be against a person i.e. a threat to life and not property."
—"The attack must be about to start or must already have begun."
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bensinn wrote:dougnoel wrote:Gold Box all the way baby!
There was nothing like Pool of Radiance at the time. The gold box series also had Forgotten Relams Unlimited Adventures - a toolset that allowed players to create their own worlds - and the original Neverwinter Nights (online.) Sound familiar?
ahh a good point.. but do you REM a cheap little game called Adventure Construction Set? played it on an apple II+ think it was the first to let you make your own worlds and adventures... very cool....anybody else play this one?
The Gold Box games were very fun at the time, no question. And yes, of COURSE I had (and played endlessly with) Adventure Construction Set.
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SpaceX is still investigating the anomaly that led to the loss of one of nine Falcon 9 rocket engines during the company's first commercial resupply services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
Video of the Oct. 7 launch shows debris falling from the rocket as it speeds to orbit, though SpaceX says the engine did not explode because they continued to receive data from it.
In remarks to the Royal Aeronautical Society Nov. 16, SpaceX CEO and chief technical officer Elon Musk said Falcon 9 is designed to lose up to two engines to what's known in rocket-science lingo as a RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) and still reach orbit. For CRS-1, Falcon 9 was able to carry out its primary mission, successfully delivering the company's Dragon cargo capsule to berth with the space station. However, the engine anomaly led to the loss of the rocket's secondary payload -- a prototype messaging satellite built for fleet operator Orbcomm -- just days after launch.
The Merlin motor that powers the current Falcon 9 rocket has been in development for almost a decade, and Musk has said in the past that the engine experienced its share of RUD events during testing.
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Remarkable advances in analytical chemistry now make it possible to measure minute levels of both natural and synthetic compounds in human tissue and body fluids. This "biomonitoring" allows researchers to determine more precisely than ever the degree to which individuals have been exposed to specific chemicals in the environment, and how exposures change over time. Consequently, federal and state officials increasingly regard biomonitoring as a potential new underpinning of environmental and public health regulations. … more