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Just in time for the start of the new school year, The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis has announced a change in executive leadership, as chief financial officer Larry Pennington has been chosen as acting CEO on an interim basis. He replaces Vincent Borello, who resigned as president and CEO to pursue other opportunities.
"Most importantly, there will be no change in how we serve the kids at the clubs. That is our top priority," said Pennington, who joined the organization 3.5 years ago as the interim CFO. "My agenda is to make sure the community understands that although we've had a loss in leadership that there is a management team in place that's going to continue to lead in the same manner as in years past."
The clubs serve more than 4,000 members across the city at six locations and offer mentoring, tutoring, and computer labs, as well as a technical training center, which boasts a 100 percent job placement rate.
"The Boys & Girls Clubs are vitally important to our community. As you know, education is the key to the health of any city," Pennington said. "We are all about after-school programming, with education in the core areas. Our goal is to graduate kids and help make them productive citizens."
More than 1,000 teens have been gainfully employed through the clubs' Job Ready Program over the past three years.
One of the first items on Pennington's agenda will be the expansion of The Boys & Girls Clubs' newest location in Oakhaven on Tchulahoma Road, which had a soft opening last December.
The expansion is part of $18.7 million in capital improvements planned over three phases.
"We are operating right now in temporary facilities that were part of a property we purchased in 2012. It is part of our capital campaign to expand and enlarge the facilities to better meet the needs of the community," Pennington said. "Right now we are serving about 100 members, and it is all that the club can hold."
The $7.5 million Phase I will include the Oakhaven clubhouse construction, new spray-ground water parks at two branches, new outdoor picnic pavilions at two branches, a KaBoom playground at the Samelson branch, and "Fun Haven" at the Bernal E. Smith Sr. branch that will include an outdoor picnic pavilion, a spray-ground water park and outdoor basketball courts.
Future phases are planned to include a new partnership site in Frayser, Northaven, Sheffield or Raleigh, along with the renovation of the Whitehaven clubhouse and construction of a new gymnasium.
"Right now, we are only limited by our resources, both staff and financial," he said. "We couldn't do what we do without the help of volunteers who help us on a daily basis. Some teachers come in to volunteer and mentor to help the kids with their struggles or help them in areas that they excel so they can excel even more."
The Boys & Girls Clubs just wrapped up its third major fundraising event of the year this past weekend, with its annual Boys & Girls Club Tennis Invitational at The Racquet Club of Memphis. The clubs' final major fundraiser this year, the Toy Bash, will take place Dec. 7 at Minglewood Hall.
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Lancashire meatballs
Oh okay. You got me. These are not Lancashire meatballs. In fact, I don't think there are such things as Lancashire meatballs.
No, I might as well come clean. These are faggots. Ok? Great big fagging faggots. A bunch of faggots. So let's all have a good titter, like we do when poor old Roger Boyes in the Times has to write about sex scandals in the Catholic church and everyone forwards the link to everyone they know with the line "Look at what this article is about and then LOOK AT THE NAME OF THE GUY WHO WROTE IT?! Ha ha wtf is this a joke??"
But is the fact that these have a funny name the reason for their fall from popularity? Or is it their offaly-ness? For these are things of great and bountiful offal. Mostly pig or lamb's liver but also pretty much anything you can get your hands on: heart, "lights" (lungs), kidneys, spleen - anything. Offal, despite being fashionable again, isn't yet popular. Probably because it's less easy to get hold of and people don't know how to cook it anymore. And, to most people, a pizza is just nicer than dealing with this:
Faggots certainly taste liver-y and therefore challenging if you're not really into that stuff, but the tinny liver taste is softened with the added breadcrumbs, fat, salt, sage and onions - so then end up tasting a bit like giant balls of stuffing. Mix them in with some veg and some gravy and they're getting on for delicious.
Anyway I thought I'd give this a go because good old Tina Bricknell-Webb of Percy's includes it in her cookbook and I thought at least one of her readers ought to give it a go as a reward to her for being as brave as to attempt to popularise such a massively unpopular thing.
For this, I used a lamb's heart and half a liver, purchased from the Parliament Hill farmer's market, which is open from 11am-2pm every Saturday. I also used some bacon to jolly things along a bit.
So here we go. This recipe can be found on p.26 of Percy's, by Tina Bricknell-Webb. I promise this is the last recipe I use from here, for everyone out there who is as bored as hell with hearing her name.
510g meat - pig or lamb's liver/ kidney/spleen/lungs/heart and a bit of bacon if you like
3 medium onions
140g fresh breadcrumbs
100 suet
1 tbsp chopped sage
salt and pepper
1 Mince your meat in a mincer - or if you're not a professional butcher and haven't got a mincer, you can bash it around a bit in a food processor. You can can reduce it to a smooth paste or have it a bit rougher - up to you. Mince or blitz the onions quite finely.
2 Put all this in a bowl with the breadcrumbs, sage and suet. The farmer's market butcher said that he usually adds an egg to bind it all together. I forgot - but that's something you could do if you felt like it.
3 Mix all this around and then shape into balls and put in a greased roasting tin. Cook at 175C for 30 minutes.
When these are cooked, you'll find there's a bit of fat and grease floating around in the bottom of the tin. I turned this into an okay gravy by sprinkling about 1tbsp flour over the fat and mashing in to make a roux and then adding about 200ml stock (from a cube), 0.5 glass of red wine and some salt. Then I transferred the whole thing to a sauce pan and boiled the shit out of it until it was a gravy. You can also add some butter to make it glossy if you like.
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Well I hate to dissopoint you but theses were also known as Ducks which do come from LancashireReplyDelete
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By Sarah Warmus
THIS INTERVIEW TOOK PLACE at the XVI International AIDS Conference in the summer of 2006. Nina was attending as part of Hope's Voice, a new group of HIV-positive people under 30 whose goal is to educate youth about HIV.
Nina, let's start with you telling us a little bit about yourself.
I'm 23. I currently live in Atlanta, Georgia. I am a second-year public health student in epidemiology at Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health. I've also been HIV positive for 23 years, and I contracted it through a blood transfusion.
Could you tell us a little bit about your family?
My family currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. My father was active duty Navy when I was born, so I have lived in about 12 U.S. cities, through both moving with my family and also going to college and going to graduate school.
Have you found HIV health care different in any of those cities?
For most of my elementary school, middle school [and] high school [years], I had military health care. When I went to college, I also had military health care, and it's different from the civilian sector in that infectious disease is not primary care. So they send an HIV-positive patient to an internist or a family medicine doctor, someone who may not be aware of the particular needs of a person living with HIV and AIDS.
What effect has that had on your life?
I think that, in my particular situation, when I had my blood transfusion I was a six-week-old infant, this was before testing came out in 1983. The military has a process for blood look back, so that if your donor tests positive for a disease, not just HIV, the customary procedure is to trace that blood, to find the recipients and let them know that they might be exposed. In 1989 the military found out my donor [had been] exposed. However, I wasn't diagnosed until 1991, through an accidental pre-operative test. I don't know if that experience would have been any different had I not been in a military family, but I do think that because I moved around a lot, it may have been harder to track me down and let me know.
You said that you were diagnosed with HIV more than 10 years ago -- How many drug regimens have you been on? Have you ever had a problem adhering to your meds?
When I was first diagnosed at eight years old, I was put on AZT [zidovudine, Retrovir] monotherapy four times a day plus Bactrim [trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, Septra] three times a week for PCP [pneumocystis carinii pneumonia] prophylaxis. The AZT meant 3 a.m. medication times for about three years. When I moved from New Jersey, where I was diagnosed, I changed providers as well as medication: I switched from AZT monotherapy in 1994 or 1995 to ddI (didanosine, Videx) monotherapy and continued with the Bactrim. It wasn't until 2002 that I was finally put on HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) with twice-daily, single tablet Trizivir [AZT/3TC/abacavir]. Then, I stopped PCP prophylaxis in August 2005. [All of] my regimen changes have been driven by changing standards in HIV care, rather than side effects or resistance.
I have had issues obtaining complete medical records from the military treatment facilities I went to. So, I don't know what my counts were like as I was growing up. My understanding of why I was kept on monotherapy for so long [after 1996, when HAART began to be widely used] was that I was a pediatric case. Plus, I had med adherence issues in my teens. And, in general, with most children at that time, it was easier to keep them on monotherapy for simplicity's sake rather than begin HAART. Of course, this was as long as there were no overriding complications -- and I didn't have any. When I went to college and got a new doctor, I was in a place where I was on my own and truly had to begin to take living with HIV seriously. My CD4 count was hovering around 200 at the time, and we decided to initiate HAART because monotherapy had become obsolete.
I'm not going to pretend that medication adherence is easy -- even now. As much as HIV-negative people have denial about the existence of HIV/AIDS, the HIV-positive ones also have some amount of denial -- even old vets like me. That is normal. I don't think there is a single one [HIVer] who would turn down the opportunity to be negative. I say this because of how many people say that HIV has made them a better person, etc. I'm pretty sad, considering I only take one Trizivir pill, twice a day ... but you swallow more than a pill when you take meds -- you swallow life. And that's no easy pill to swallow! I'm not perfectly adherent -- my mom caught me flushing my meds down the toilet in my teens -- but I know better, and I will do better.
In Atlanta, my school of public health has been instrumental in helping me get the best HIV care. Having left the military care system and knowing that Emory had such a well-established reputation for HIV research -- this is why I went to be a graduate student there. They knew who I should go to, and I'm very happy with my physician and my clinic. However, I'm also an advocate for myself. The effects of care are minimal, unless you are an activist patient.
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A partnership between real estate investment companies from Denver and Atlanta has paid $11.8 million for an industrial portfolio in Oakhaven.
Operating as Outland Center Drive LLC, Denver-based Amstar and Atlanta-based Huntington Industrial Partners bought the following seven properties: 4895 Outland Center Drive; 4900 Outland Center Drive; 4900 Outland Center Drive; 4935 Outland Center Drive; 4985 Outland Center Drive; 4995 Outland Center Drive; and 5000 Outland Center Drive.
The sale closed in a Feb. 21 limited warranty deed with Outland Center Drive LP as the seller. That entity acquired the portfolio in 2006 for $15.8 million.
Two of the seven parcels are classified as accessory improvements. The other five were built in 1988 and 1989, and include roughly 400,000 square feet on about 28 acres and have an appraised value of $9 million, according to the Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2012 data.
Built in 1988, the 35,200-square-foot property at 4895 Outland Center Drive sits on 4.8 acres and has an appraised value of $767,400.
Built in 1988, the 33,932-square-foot property at 4900 Outland Center Drive sits on 5.4 acres and has an appraised value of $970,500.
Built in 1988, the 102,656-square-foot property at 4935 Outland Center Drive sits on 7.2 acres and has an appraised value of $2.3 million.
Built in 1989, the 99,625-square-foot property at 4985 Outland Center Drive sits on 4.7 acres and has an appraised value of $2.2 million.
And built in 1989, the 122,824-square-foot property at 4995 Outland Center Drive sits on 5.7 acres and has an appraised value of $2.7 million.
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The town of Oakland is estimated to grow almost 20 percent over the next four years, according to the Oakland Regional Chamber.
The Oakland Economic Development Committee recently launched a campaign to raise awareness for the growing community. The campaign "It's Well Within Your Reach" recently launched through television commercials, advertisements in local magazines and through social media. The Oakland chamber also recently launched a new website, www.OaklandTNChamber.com, related to that same effort.
The site is intended to be a tool for the Oakland community, newcomers and businesses.
– Andy Meek
Memphis filmmaker Alan Spearman recently received the third annual Emmett O'Ryan Award for Artistic Inspiration, which is given by Metropolitan Bank to an emerging artist for his or her work that also bears promise for future artistic significance.
The honor comes with a $2,000 cash award and the nominating organization receives $500.
Spearman, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and photojournalist, made his directorial debut in 2007. He was nominated for the Emmett O'Ryan Award by Indie Memphis.
Eleven members of local professional organizations in commercial real estate reached elite status in 2012 in their respective fields, which include the Memphis metro area's appraisers, commercial brokers and property managers.
The Memphis Chapter of the Appraisal Institute designated Kristi Rikard of Judy Kitchens Appraisals a member.
Also, the Institute of Real Estate Management's Memphis Chapter inducted four new members last year. Three members achieved the Certified Property Manager designation: Jay Snow and Ron Suzore, both with Belz Enterprises, and Matt Fulton of Education Realty Trust. Tracy Jamison of Tesco Properties earned the Accredited Residential Manager certification.
The Society of Office and Industrial Realtors Memphis Chapter increased its local membership by more than 10 percent in one year by adding five new members: Jeb Fields, Matt Weathersby and Mark Jenkins of Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors LLC; Tyne Brownlow of IP Commercial Properties; and Preston Thomas of Colliers International.
Meanwhile, the Memphis Metro CCIM Chapter awarded the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation to Barry Smith of Southern Bancorp.
Earning these internationally recognized, competitive and highly sought-after designations is one of the highest pinnacles of their chosen professions.
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The No. 2 official at the Federal Reserve said Monday that she does not see any risks at the moment from the Federal Reserve's low-interest rate policies that would prompt her to urge that the policies be curtailed.
Janet Yellen, vice chair of the Fed, provided an aggressive defense of the central bank's efforts to keep interest rates low, seeking to answer critics both inside and outside of the Fed who have warned that the efforts could generate higher future inflation or market instability.
The Fed is buying $85 billion per month in Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities to push long-term rates lower.
Yellen said while the risks needed to be monitored closely, "At this stage, I do not see any that would cause me to advocate a curtailment of our purchase program."
Her comments to a policy conference sponsored by the National Association for Business Economics echoed remarks Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made last week in congressional testimony and in a speech he made Friday night.
Yellen said that while there were risks from the Fed's aggressive efforts to boost the economy and reduce unemployment, there were also risks from not being aggressive enough.
"At present, I view the balance of risks as still calling for a highly accommodative monetary policy to support a stronger recovery and more rapid growth in employment," Yellen said.
The comments from both Yellen and Bernanke sent a strong signal that the Fed is standing by its low-interest rate policies. Questions about whether the Fed might decide to curtail the bond purchases and end them altogether had arisen based on criticism from some Fed regional bank presidents that they believed the risks outweighed the benefits of the bond purchases.
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Before a House vote to give final approval to a contentious firearms bill last week, Speaker Beth Harwell implored her Republican colleagues to ignore demands from what she deemed "fringe" groups to make major changes to the measure.
The chamber took Harwell's advice and passed the bill guns-in-parking-lots bill without any changes. Lawmakers have also in recent weeks drawn the line at proposals to bypass the federal government by allowing the creation of an independent health care network and stopped a bill seeking to ban the enforcement of federal firearms laws in Tennessee.
The failure of those measures in House and Senate committees indicates a new willingness among leaders of the GOP supermajority to reel in some of the more extreme – and likely unconstitutional – measures before they reach a floor vote, where lawmakers might have a harder time voting against them for ideological reasons.
Last year Gov. Bill Haslam decried the attention being paid to what he called the "craziest" measures, although he blamed the news media and not the lawmakers for that. It was a signal, nevertheless, that Republican leaders have worried about how some of the bills reflected on Tennessee's image.
Polls of state voters also have shown lower approval ratings for the General Assembly than for Haslam. In December, the Vanderbilt Poll showed 68 percent of voters approved of Haslam's performance, compared with the legislature's rating of 52 percent, which was up from an April approval rate of just under 50 percent.
The gun bill sent for the governor's approval last week would allow the state's nearly 400,000 handgun carry permit holders to store weapons in vehicles in parking lots – even if it goes against the wishes of property owners.
Gun advocates emboldened by the electoral defeat of a top GOP leader after the failure of a similar measure last year demanded a broader bill – and written guarantees that employees couldn't be fired for storing firearms in their cars while at work.
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The Canucks have all elements of their game rolling right now. They have four lines working for 60 minutes. Both their PP and their PK are in the top 4 in the league. They are dominating the faceoff circle. Specifically in their last three games, they have outscored their opponents 17-5. In these games, the defense has been mostly poised with the puck, making simple plays and moving the puck up ice quickly.
So the question is… Why the hell can't they do this against Chicago?
During last night's broadcast of the Canucks/Flames game, Chris Cuthbert called the Blackhawks "Vancouver's kryptonite". Yes. Yes, there are.
The Canucks are a very good team, and they have proven it this season. Sure, they have been on the wrong end of a couple of lopsided losses, but for the most part, the Canucks are very solid, well-rounded, deep team. So why on Earth do the Canucks have this failure to beat the Chicago Blackhawks?
The answer is simple: Coaching.
The Canucks coaching staff does a pretty decent job of setting their team up to playing the remaining 28 teams in the league. Given the play of the Canucks special teams so far, the hiring of Newell Brown is looking like a stroke of genius. Alain Vigneault and his bench staff seem to be doing a good job of getting their players to play their style of game – a fast-paced, puck-possession game. When they play for a full 60 minutes, they look as dominant as any other team in the league.
Except against the Blackhawks. For some reason, AV and the Canucks just bend over to Blackhawks and let them play their game, leaving the Canucks to defend and take a containment style approach for the whole game. It simply doesn't work, because that isn't how the Canucks are constructed. They are constructed like the Phoenix Coyotes, who have a defense-first system. The Canucks are built to control the puck and score goals through a full 60 minutes. The evidence of that is their box scores from the past three games. When they do it right, they are a steamroller. If you look at the Canucks lineup, they do not have the personnel to be defenders for 60 minutes. The Sedins are never, ever going to be Selke candidates. They both take too many hooking/holding penalties in their own zone to be fully effective 2-way players. Mason Raymond may play the PK but he is only effective because he is fast and can pressure, not because he is good at containing his opponent. And the fourth is still an experiment and is usually the only minus line on any given night.
Sure, you have Kesler, Burrows and Malhotra, and to a certain extent Hansen and Torres, but that's 3-5 players out of a forward group of 12.
As for the defense, Ehrhoff is always an adventure when trying to transition north-south, Ballard is still trying to find his game (and it's coming along slowly), Alberts is always one bad game away from being back in doghouse again, and Bieksa could very well go back on one of his cold streaks. And when the Canucks left Willie Mitchell go to free agency, they relinquished their one true shut-down defenseman. While Hamhuis is a great all-round defenseman, he is not a true shut-down guy, although he is playing that role this season.
And then there's Lu. Roberto Luongo is the Canucks' Manny Ramirez and the Blackhawks are his Yankees. They are his daddy. This is not a physical problem with his play against the Blackhawks. This is purely psychological. The Blackhawks are in his head and show no signs of getting out. Dating back to the 2009 playoffs, Chicago has hit Luongo up for 7 goals three times, 6 goals once, 5 goals twice and has chased him from the net on at least two occasions. That's over a span of only 17 games. Brutal.
So what's the solution?
The Canucks, their goaltender, and their coaching staff need to imagine that they are playing the Calgary Flames. Or the Colorado Avalanche. Or the Poughkeepsie Muffinmen. Whatever. The Canucks need to play THEIR game and stop coaching against the Blackhawks.
So it's time for Mike Gillis to employ some of his unconventional tactics and hire a personal visualization expert. Someone who can coach the entire Canucks personnel to picture the Blackhawks as the Idaho Steelheads.
Stop cowtowing to Chicago and play your own game. You're good enough. You're smart enough. And doggone it, people like you!


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The Secret 'Profits' Of YouTube
from the don't-worry,-be-happy deptIt's become quite common for folks who dislike "web 2.0" or the concept of "free" business models to mock YouTube as an absolute disaster. For example, music industry lawyer (and hater of all things "free") Chris Castle has already declared the site dead (which is news to, well, just about everyone). Over in the UK, the Independent is running an odd little article that goes back and forth on whether or not YouTube is a real business proposition and then tries to extrapolate from there whether or not "free" works as a business model. The whole discussion is a bit off -- since YouTube really doesn't represent a good example of a business model that uses free, since the bandwidth costs of hosting video is so high. To use that as a proxy for the concept of free would be a mistake, since most other business models don't have that same issue.
That said, really the only truly worthwhile parts of the article are the ones where analyst Keith McMahon speaks up. He seems to be one of the few folks out there who actually has bothered to look at YouTube within the larger context of Google itself, and makes a few important points about (a) why YouTube helps Google in many other ways and (b) Google benefits from the widespread belief that YouTube is losing tons of money:
"There are many urban myths surrounding the way that companies extract value from the internet," he says. "Google's spin-off benefits from owning YouTube include the accumulation of our data and strengthening of their network design -- and the more time people spend watching online video, the more advertisers will pour into marketing on the internet as a whole. There's no doubt that Google can afford YouTube."This leaves out another point as well: the more that people believe YouTube is unprofitable, the less likely they are to build serious competitors. I have no idea whether or not YouTube is actually profitable directly yet (I'd doubt it), but I think those who are insisting that the acquisition by Google was a bad idea, or that YouTube is somehow on its deathbed, haven't taken much time to understand some basic trendlines or the larger picture of how Google views YouTube, and the opportunities it has to make money via YouTube down the road.
McMahon also believes that by keeping quiet about YouTube's hidden benefits and by allowing the misconception of it as a deeply unprofitable business to circulate, things work very nicely in Google's favour when it comes to negotiating with copyright holders in the world of TV, movies and music. Copyright holders can't demand money that isn't there, and it would certainly take no more than a hint of profitability at YouTube for lawyers to descend, threatening court cases and demanding higher royalties. In the new, topsy-turvy world of online economics, it seems astonishing that losses on paper have actually made YouTube a more powerful online force.
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Don't Fall for Scams:
It seems that every day we hear about people who fall victim to one of the many scams. Some we heard recently:
* Scammer using Craigslist to post fake ads for job openings at popular companies.
* Scammers creating a group on Facebook called something like, "Ikea first 5,000 fans to Register get a $1,000 gift card"
These are fake. Just ask yourself these questions:
* why would a popular company, who clearly can afford professional recruiters or the posting fee on Monster.com, resort to free Craigslist postings?
* why would a popular company need to give out $5 Million in gift cards just to do something like register on their site, which tens of thousands of people already do anyway?
If anyone asks for any personal information (mailing address, phone number, etc), never trust them unless you initiate the communication yourself, and if you know they can be trusted with your information. On the Internet, anyone can claim to be anyone, and often scammers will use scare tactics, false promotions, or fake awards to entice people to enter their information. There are some warning signs to look out for:
* Scammers who "contact you", claiming to know things about you or saw your profile online:
o If someone contacts you by any means (phone, email, postal mail, text messages), never automatically assume they are who they say they are.
o If someone claims to know you, but they do not even know your name, do not respond.
o Often scammers use a scare tactic, such as alerting you that your bank account has been compromised and you must click the link and re-enter your bank's login information. Those are almost always fake look-alike sites designed to steal your account, and will steal your money. If you do receive such a notice from your bank or credit card and wonder whether it's legit, simply call your bank using the phone number printed on your card or monthly statement. Never click links within emails claiming to be from a bank or credit institution, even if they appear are legitimate, unless of course you are expecting an email from them on that day.
* Scammers who "solicit victims":
o If you see an online ad for jobs at a company on a non-reputable website (such as Craigslist), check the company's website for contact information, and call or email them to confirm the job postings are real. Also if a prospective employer ever asks you for a social security number or copy of your license BEFORE you interview by phone or in-person, they are likely identity thieves.
o If a new Twitter page or Facebook page appears and claims to be a company or person, but asks you to enter any personal information, forward something to friends, or "sign up" to get something, do not do it unless you know for certain they are legitimate.
o If you receive an official-looking letter in the mail notifying you that your car's warranty is about to expire, or your Internet domain name must be renewed to avoid losing it, never respond to those. Even if they happen to know your car's make & model, or your domain name's real name, be aware that information is not difficult for scammers to find. Even if they are not scams, often they are non-reputable third-parties trying to scare you into giving them your money or transferring your existing services to them.
* Scammers who Email:
o If an unfamiliar person uses a free email account like @yahoo.com or @gmail.com, never assume they are who they say they are.
o If someone you do not know personally uses an email account at a domain name you never heard of, do some research before assuming they are legitimate. First use Domaintools.com, look up their email address, then scroll to the bottom and view their registration information. If their mailing address does not appear real, or uses a "privacy" or "proxy" service to hide their identity, chances are they are a scammer. Second, see if they have a website, and contact them using the phone number, email address, or mailing address on their website. Third, run a simple google search on the company and see how many results show up, to see if they appear legitimate. Legitimate companies always keep their contact information public.
o Sometimes scammers will send fake invitations to events, or fake emails showing your order is on hold and must be claimed. Again, confirm the information by contacting the company yourself via their website and/or phone, and never click on links within the emails.
o Scammers may claim they know you, but you don't know them. Those emails often include an offer.
o Scammers may offer illegal services or products by email.
o More often than not, scammers' emails will have something odd about them, such as typos, grammatical and spelling errors, formatting issues, websites which don't function well, and may be addressed to you indirectly ("friend," "sir" or "madam").
o If an email appears confusing or illegible, just ignore it. If a website doesn't function as you expect, be suspicious of it.
* Chain Email Hoaxes and Facebook Fan Pages:
o Anytime you get an email suggesting you will benefit by forwarding it to a certain number of friends, those are friendly hoaxes designed to waste people's time and clog up people's inboxes. If a Facebook Fan Page appears and says you will get money or fame by referring 10 friends to fan the page, that is a scam and you will receive nothing. If you received such an email or Facebook Fan alert from one of your friends, let them know they fell victim of an Internet hoax.
* Scammers who approach you in-person:
o Legitimate people collecting money for a cause will have fliers, contact numbers, and websites because they want to get their word to as many people they can. Scammers will likely have dirty or mutilated signs, or may tell a "hard luck" story.
o Scammers will likely solicit an area for an hour or two, then move to another location to avoid suspicion. So if there is someone you have never seen before or ever heard of, simply ask for their credentials, licenses, or identification before giving them any money or information.
o Ask for their office phone number, take out your cell phone, and call them right away. Someone trying to steal something from you will likely not give out any of their personal information, such as their real phone number.
Never send a money order, checks, cash, phone numbers, or your social security number to anyone you met on the Internet. Paypal is also somewhat unsafe as well, unless the transaction is associated with a binding contract such as going through Ebay. Try to use a credit card for online transactions. Credit cards are a little safer than debit cards, because desputing fraudulent charges are far easier before the funds are removed from your checking account.
If you decide to meet someone in-person, such as buying/selling goods on Craigslist or if you met someone through an online social website, be sure to meet in a public place or an area where there are other people around.
Most of all, use common sense. It never hurts to ask questions, and don't forget to confirm their identity by means other than what they provide to you, and don't be afraid to pick up the phone and call them to ensure they are legit.
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Boy that's a mouthful Mike, and a really great job of putting that all together.
This site has a quick read on the number of people who fall victim to Identity Theft & the time and costs they suffer. Go back and re-read Mike's post, it's worth your time.
If it sounds too good to be true it isn't true.
No legitimate company or bank will email you links to update your personal information or passwords.
Always look at a websites URL, before clicking it or before entering any information, does it look legit? Wells Fargo's URL won't be www(dot)wellsforgo.tripod.com Another way or thing to check, Are you on a secure site? In Internet Explorer as long as you have the status bar active you will see a little lock symbol in the status bar when you are on a secure site, If you are not on a secure site do not enter any info. I don't know about other browsers so somebody chime in on them.
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Quote from: kiteking on March 25, 2010, 10:54 AM
... Paypal is also somewhat unsafe as well, unless the transaction is associated with a binding contract such as going through Ebay. Try to use a credit card for online transactions. ...
Great advise Mike. I was traveling when you posted this, thus missed it at the time.
Please explain your posting on Paypal ... their main claim is that they are safer than using credit cards.
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Paypal is also somewhat unsafe as well, unless the transaction is associated with a binding contract such as going through Ebay
Just means that unless their is a binding contract, it is harder to dispute with PayPal, I don't mean not using it here, as I believe if someone on the forum is not honest with their transactions everyone will know quickly.
But it is unwise to send Billy Bob a PayPal payment of $200 for that 2009 Harley that he personally customized and promises to ship free the same day
I also advise linking PayPal to either a credit card that has a low limit, or a checking account that is separate from your main account, that you can easily/quickly transfer funds to.
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It's a work of art that quite simply speaks for itself.
That's because Kevin Fagan speaks for almost every Southern Californian who follow a Dodgers' postseason run this time of year.
It may have been just one amidst the thousands of "Drabble" comic strips Fagan has drawn over the last 34 years, but the understated tribute to Vin Scully likely resonated so much so among Dodger fans it quickly found a spot of honor on many refrigerator doors, probably held up in place by an "L.A." logo magnet.
"It's the way I've watched Dodger playoff games for as long as I can remember," said the 57-year-old father of three from his home in Mission Viejo. "The last time it happened (2009), I can remember how frustrating it got trying to listen to him on radio with the delay (matched up against the network TV video), so I just turned the TV off. I'd rather listen to him than watch with any other announcers."
So this is a storyline Fagan has been sitting on for four years?
Not only that, consider he had to submit the strip six weeks before it actually published in some 200 papers across the nation, including all of those in the Los Angeles News Group.
That meant Fagan had to take a calculated risk in early September when he thought the Dodgers actually would be in the postseason. It ended up landing on the off day between Games 2 and 3 from the Dodgers-Braves National League Divisional Series on Saturday, Oct. 5.
"Talk about grace under pressure," Scully said when told about how Fagan pulled that one off.
The Dodgers' Hall of Fame broadcaster admitted he's "overwhelmed when people say they turn the sound down, although I want them to know I can't possibly try to do a radio call while looking at the television.
"(TBS) is doing their own thing and we're not always on the same page, like it would be if we were doing our own simulcast (during the regular season). I have a monitor in the booth, but I can't really try to match up with them."
The programmers at KLAC-AM (570) have been accommodating to home viewers by putting the games on a seven-second delay, which matches up much better to how TBS is delivered on a delay to dish or cable systems. The only problem there is those listening to Scully while at Dodger Stadium hear him describe something they had seen a handful of seconds earlier.
Fagan also has accommodated Dodgers fans by being one himself, since he was a kid growing up in Inglewood and moved to Orange County as a teenager.
"I was just thinking about when I was growing up. My parents were divorced, so my dad was no around as much as I'd have liked," Fagan said. "My mom was a waitress who worked a lot, so I was often home a lot on my own. I would always listen to Vin doing the Dodger games, and really, not only did I learn about baseball, but I learned a lot of life lessons. I've come to realize what a great influence he has been in my life."
Fagan remembers hearing how Scully could paraphrase a reference to the Gettysburg Address — about how how little will note nor long remember what transpired here today — and then go look it up to find out about its historical context.
Fagan recalled watching a Dodgers-Giants telecast from Candlestick park in the summer of 1969. Scully talked about the event about to take place the next day when "messers Armstrong, Aldren and Collins" were about to partake in the first lunar landing.
"He's always been so different from other broadcasters. Not a homer, rooting for a team," Fagan said. "He said later in an interview that he thought it made him a better salesman when he was doing commercials, because people would know he was sincere.
"There are so many other things I've learned just from hearing him talk about life. He said he doesn't listen to other sportscasters call games because he didn't subconsciously want to be influenced by them. I've been that way with my work. I don't ignore other cartoonists, but I don't go out of my way to watch other shows on TV or try to pick up on how other people do things because I don't want to be accused of plagiarizing.
"It's important to be yourself."
The only other time Fagan said he's taken a leap about including a Scully reference in a "Drabble" storyline was years ago when Ralph, the family father, was scanning the radio while in the car and stopped when he heard the words, "And a pleasant good evening to you, wherever you may be."
A representative for Dodgers owner Peter O'Malley contacted Fagan about buying the original print to give to Scully as a birthday gift.
"I would have given it to him free, but they insisted," said Fagan, noting that Scully sent him a note of thanks soon afterward.
Fagan happened to be watching a Dodgers game maybe 25 years ago, he said, and Scully saw "the wave" start gaining momentum in Dodger Stadium. Scully then began referencing a comic strip he had seen where two kids were trying to start a wave in church.
It happened to be a "Drabble" piece involving the characters Norman and Patrick.
"When I was a kid, I'd always dreamed of Vin describing my heroics on the baseball field," Fagan said, "but that was just as good."
Just as good is Fagan admitted his two sons also are big fans of Scully now as he's always been, making it a generational appreciation.
"I wonder if Vin realizes that," Fagan said. "I also wonder about when I was a kid, we could leave a game early on a weeknight knowing we'd hear Vin as we were driving home and we weren't really missing anything. Nowadays, that doesn't happen.
"Maybe it's why people stay in the park until the end more often now?"
Next time he's at the park, Scully will find the original copy of that Oct. 5 in his Dodger Stadium mailbox, as Fagan sent it to him.
"The thought that a highly talented cartoonist would take the time and effort to do that is very touching and deeply appreciated," Scully said.
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I've never flown a dog before (when I was younger my parents had our family dog flown to Germany-my Dad was in the military, but I had no part of it) but there are a couple members here who have. Also, there is an airline specifically for this...but they only fly to certain places. A member here-Red-had a foster dog flown to his owner (who is also a member here, can't think of his screen name, but his real name in Vin) through this airline. Maybe you could contact Red and see if she has any info she could share.
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Well, I mailed out for his birth certificate and his Proof of Italian citizenship (actually, I don't even know what other proof there is supposed to be besides a birth certificate) and only received his birth certificate from the comune in Italia. I emailed the consulate asking them if just his birth certificate would be sufficient, and they said yes. I was happy because I do not want to have to snail mail another request. I have heard other stories similar to this, but again, those are with the Chicago Consulate. For my great grandfather's Naturalization papers the Chicago consulate will accept copies from the INS. No authorization that I know of is required. I just want to make sure you have inquired directly with someone from the consulate about the requirements. What is on the web site is always different than what is actually required or supposedly required. I hope I provided some hope......... Back to top GregorioJoined: 17 Aug 2004Posts: 105 Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:48 am Post subject: OK Rattax... I just checked out the Boston Consulate web site and I feel sorry for you because it is absolutely riduculous. They don't even have a link for citizenship requirements. It is absolutely the worst consulate web site I have seen. I would try to call them directly and ask who deals with citizenship processing and see if you can get a straight answer out of them. Afterall... that is the person who will be processing your application. Back to top dea712Joined: 03 Mar 2005Posts: 3Location: Boston MA Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: Obtaining Italian Citizenship Hi, I too have been trying to find out where I can obtain the correct documents in order to apply for my dual citizenship. Right now, I am having difficulty finding out when my great (maternal) grandfather was naturalized. I actually sent a letter to the Court Archives in Boston asking them for this information since the NARA in Waltham didn't have it. Where were you guys able to find it or did your family already have the papers? Also, do you know anything about the website myitaliancitizenship.com? They claim that they will be able to obtain all of the needed and translated documents needed from Italy, but for about $39 for each document (including $5 shipping). If anyone knows anything about this, please let me know. Thanks so much. Oh, and in regards to the Italian Consulate in Boston, well it is best to call them, get their name and if need be, go in there for the info that you need- they are not always so willing to share the info over the phone- why, I have no idea. Back to top GregorioJoined: 17 Aug 2004Posts: 105 Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:12 am Post subject: I thought about having one of those places get the documents from Italy for me, but the price is too outrageous. I sent a letter to the comune in Italy and for 5 euros, including postage, I was able to obtain my Great Grandfather's birth certificate. If you know when and where your ancestor was born I would just send the letter with a five euro note yourself. I actually sent 20 euros because I didn't know the cost and they sent me fifteen euros change. I couldn't believe it. Regarding the naturalization papers, you either need to get a copy from your state's archives or a copy from the INS. From the INS you need to fill out a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) form- Form # G-369. You can find it on the INS web site. Once you have it... fill it out and send it to the INS in your jurisdiction. It takes about 3 months or so to get it from the INS or a couple weeks from the state archives. Again... this all depends on the requirements of your consulate and whether or not they will accept the copies from the INS or the state archives. From the sounds of it, the Boston consulate does not sound too accomodating. Back to top GregorioJoined: 17 Aug 2004Posts: 105 Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:14 am Post subject: Sorry... the FOIA form is actually # G-639. Dislexia gets me again. Back to top dea712Joined: 03 Mar 2005Posts: 3Location: Boston MA Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject: Info on obtaining records for Italian Citizenship Hi Gregorio, Thanks for the info. Shockingly enough, the court archives actually e-mailed me yesterday and said that if I send them $3.00, they will send me a copy of my maternal great grandfather's naturalization paper. I have some more questions for you.... Are you going through your maternal or paternal great-grandfather? Does it matter? How did you know where to send the 5 Euro note to? Where did you find out exactly which documents you need to submit for your application. I don't know if you have been to that website, but according to them, you need practically everyone's birth, death, marriage, divorce certificates from either Italy or the States. MA charges a ridiculous $33 per copy via snail mail, $47 if you send your request over the net. I just don't want to start sending all of these people all of this $ if I really don't need all of these documents, you know? I just went to the Boston Consulate's website. They don't even make mention of trying to obtain citizenship through your great-grandfather. They said that you have to pay a fee in cash only, but they don't say how much. Did the Chicago one charge you, and if so, how much? I would really appreciate any help that you can give me on this. I am starting to go crazy trying to decipher what it is exactly that I need, you know? Thanks again. Back to top GregorioJoined: 17 Aug 2004Posts: 105 Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:59 am Post subject: Hey dea712... drop me an email when you get a chance with all of your specific questions and I will answer you. My email adress is [email protected]. Ci parliamo presto. Back to top jvs_2003Joined: 05 Apr 2005Posts: 13 Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject: Boston Consulate Hey all, I'm also working on my dual citizenship with the Italian Consulate. I'm just a few months into the process and after hearing how long it's taking, am getting kind of discouraged! RatAttax - When did you find out you needed this "approval" of the naturalization documents? I met with the Italian Consulate last week and he mentioned needing to see the original document, but nothing about any sort of "approval." Back to top MadrilenyoJoined: 08 Apr 2005Posts: 3Location: Massachusetts Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:30 am Post subject: Italian Citizenship Well, looks like a few like-minded ppl here I'm in Massachusetts, too, and just starting the process now. I'm about to send off a request to a comune for a birth certificate, but was interested in your successes (hopefully!) Having lived six years in Spain, I am nervous about capricious bureaucratic decisions, i.e., one civil servant blocking all progress, for no apparent good reason... Back to top ameliagirlJoined: 18 Apr 2005Posts: 5 Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:29 pm Post subject: All this is rather strange, I've been talking with the Italian Consulate here in Denver and they told me I only needed photo copies of the Italian documents like my Grandmother's birth cert. and her naturilization papers not the originals. Do you know if you have to get Itailan translations of the american documents?? Also, Did you have to get Apostilles on all of your american docs or just the ones pertaining to the itialian side? Grazie mille! Back to top jvs_2003Joined: 05 Apr 2005Posts: 13 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:01 pm Post subject: I've been working with the Boston consulate and I've needed originals of everything except the naturalization papers. And even with the naturalization paper, I need to show him the original when I turn in the photocopy. You should ask the consulate if you have to get the translations done or if they will do it for you (it varies from consulate to consulate). Either way, you only need apostilles and translations for the documents from the US that pertain to the Italian side. Hope this helps! Back to top MadrilenyoJoined: 08 Apr 2005Posts: 3Location: Massachusetts Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 10:19 pm Post subject: jvs_2003 wrote: I've been working with the Boston consulate and I've needed originals of everything except the naturalization papers. And even with the naturalization paper, I need to show him the original when I turn in the photocopy. You should ask the consulate if you have to get the translations done or if they will do it for you (it varies from consulate to consulate). Either way, you only need apostilles and translations for the documents from the US that pertain to the Italian side. Hope this helps! JVS - Thanks for the info - it does help! You mention "naturalization papers" - do you mean the certificate of naturalization? I need to get this, and I think I can only get it through an FOIA. How has your experience been with the consulate? Can you recommend a translator? Did the consulate refer you to one? That is encouraging that I only need the Italian side documents translated. Thanks for any info/perspective you can offer. Back to top jvs_2003Joined: 05 Apr 2005Posts: 13 Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 10:28 pm Post subject: Quote: JVS - Thanks for the info - it does help! You mention "naturalization papers" - do you mean the certificate of naturalization? I need to get this, and I think I can only get it through an FOIA. Yes, I mean certificate of naturalization. I was lucky enough to have my great grandfather's already, so I didn't have to go and get it. I'm not sure where you do get them from, but I'm sure you can find out from searching on the internet. My experience with the consulate has been pretty good. You'll be dealing with the same guy, since there is only one person who does the citizenship requests. In fact, a few weeks ago my paperwork was accepted and he said it should be in Italy for approval as we speak. He was really nice about everything, except it can be hard to get him on the phone sometimes. Since I don't live that far from Boston I was able to go see him face to face (I had to make about 3 trips before all my papers were in order). I think going face to face is the best way because you get solid answers. As for the translations, it actually ends up that the Boston consulate will do this for you, so you don't need to worry about it. The main things are getting all your papers and making sure that all the names are correct. The guy at the consulate can go over the documents with you and let you know if there are any corrections that need to be made. These corrections (and waiting on the Italian birth certificates) are what slowed down the process for me. If I were you, I would work on getting the certificate of naturalization too, since this will hold things up if you don't have it. Buona fortuna!! Back to top VinceJoined: 05 May 2003Posts: 553Location: U.S. Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 3:15 am Post subject: According to the consulate Web page, it doesn't look like I'm eligible for Italian citizenship. But after reading this thread, I wonder if I missed something. Here's my situation: My grandfather arrived in the US when he was three. I don't know when he was naturalized, but I suspect it was before my father was born. My father was born in the US and never had Italian citizenship. I remember hearing that my uncle (my father's younger brother) was trying to get Italian citizenship, but I don't know if he did. I don't know if my great grandparents were ever naturalized. Based on what I wrote, does it sound like I'd have a chance? I'm going to my grandparents' place this weekend and plan to uncover as much as I can while I'm there. My grandfather has Parkinson, so I'm not sure what he'll remember. Maybe my grandmother will know some details or can show me some documents. 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The median earnings of Edgecombe County, NC was $25,122 in 2017. The median earnings of Lenoir County, NC was $23,800 in 2017.
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This dataset includes rates on violent crime instances for North Carolina and NC's major urban counties (Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg and Wake). Years included are 2003 to 2014.
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This is part 1 (contains: Behavior and Demographics; Building Shell; Kitchen Appliances; and Heating and Cooling) of 2; part 2 (https://data.ny.gov/d/87mp-9bnv) contains: Clothes Washing and Drying; Water Heating; Home Lighting; Pool and Spa; Small Household Appliances; and Miscellaneous Equipment. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), in collaboration with the New York State Department of Public Service (DPS), conducted a statewide residential baseline study (study) from 2011 to 2014 of the single-family and multifamily residential housing segments, including new construction, and a broad range of energy uses and efficiency measures. This dataset includes 2,982 single-family and 379 multifamily occupant survey completes for a total of 3,361 responses. The survey involved 2,285 Web, 1,041 telephone, and 35 mini-inspection surveys. The survey collected information on the following building characteristics: building shell, kitchen appliances, heating and cooling equipment, water heating equipment, clothes washing and drying equipment, lighting, pool and spa equipment, small household appliances, miscellaneous energy consuming equipment, as well as behaviors and characteristics of respondents.


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Saving The Movie Musical - Again. Is it Too Late?One of the more absurd segments of the recent Oscarcast was a deranged extravaganza, created by the dreadful Baz Luhrmann, ostensibly celebrating the return of the movie musical.
Yeah, pure fantasy.
The best Hollywood can do these days is produce one musical a year. Actually, 2007 produced two - Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" and Adam Shankman's "Hairspray."
Next up: Jim Carey and Jake Gyllenhaall in a planned, "contemporized" remake of Adler-Ross's Damn Yankees," with no one yet set for Lola, the female lead. That probably won't make it to the screen until, say, 2010. Which means there will be no movie musicals in 2009. None. Nada.
Face it: Musicals have been struggling in Hollywood for years - nay, decades. Back in August of 1962, the cover story of LOOK magazine was about - yes - the big comeback of the movie musical. The movie year 1959 produced only Otto Preminger's "Porgy and Bess" and Melvin Frank's "Li'l Abner," neither of which seemed to excite moviegoers.
Matters didn't look good back then.
A year later, in 1960, there was Walter Lang's embarrassing "Can-Can" and Vincente Minnelli's pleasing "Bells Are Ringing." The Minnelli film wasn't a huge success but you can see how the director sensed that the the movie musical was on its last leg and he experimented accordingly to make it more palatable for audiences. The next time you see it, check out how Minnelli's staging invigorates the "I Met a Girl" number by having star Dean Martin sing it while fighting his way through sidewalk traffic, and he turns "Mu-Cha-Cha" into a pseudo-musical number by eschewing the song's lyric and staging the dance in an off-the-cuff, improvistory manner.
Matters were so dire that when Joshua Logan brought "Fanny" to the screen in 1961, he reduced the Harold Rome score to background music. But, the same year, there was a turaround, albeit a brief one, for the musical with the success of Henry Koster's "Flower Drum Song" and Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins' Oscar-winning "West Side Story."
These two prompted Hollywood to hanker down and produce José Ferrer's remake of "State Fair," Morton Da Costa's "The Music Man," Mervyn LeRoy's "Gypsy," Chalres Walters' "Jumbo" (that's Doris Day and Martha Raye, above, in a scene from the film) and George Sidney's "Bye, Bye Birdie" over the next two years - as a group a hook for the LOOK magazine piece, titled "Hollywood Musicals Are BIG Again."
Billy Wilder's "Irma La Douce," on the other hand, went the "Fanny" route, sans Marguerite Monnot and Alexandré Breffort's fabulous songs (most of it adapted as background/mood music by André Previn).
Since then, Hollywood has tried different ways to rehabilitate the genre. Logan put both "Camelot" and "Paint Your Wagon" on film with strictly A-list casts; when Roger Corman produced the film of "A Little Night Music," as insurance, he stayed with its stage director, Harold Prince (the ploy didn't work; the film didn't click); when "The Wiz," "Annie" and "A Chorus Line" were made, the studios entrusted them to serious filmmakers - Sidney Lumet, John Huston and Sir Richard Attenborough, respectively.
Nothing worked. The critics disapproved and audiences stayed away.
Yes, there were sporadic, near-freak hits - Wise's "The Sound of Music" and Bob Fosse's "Cabaret" (two films I don't particularly like), Randall Kleiser's "Grease" (a film which has more than worn out its welcome) and Colin Higgins' "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (I like it actually).
Still, these were few and far between. The film musical has never really bounced back. After all these years - nearly 50, by my count - it's still struggling to be accepted again, accepted unconditionally.
Getting back to the planned remake of "Damn Yankees," who will - could - play Lola? Who? Well, almost any of the following talented actresses, all of whom are age-appropriate for Gyllenhaall: Amanda Seyfried, Amy Adams, Zooey Deschanel, Kate Hudson, Amanda Bynes, Anne Hathaway, Evan Rachel Wood, Rachel McAdams, Reese Witherspoon and Scarlett Johansson. Personally, I'd go with either McAdams or Deschanel.


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Topic: Master Replicas - 1,500 Fett blasters
This just in...
The blaster is a limited edition of 1,500. In case you missed the details, see our April 6, 2006 report. Our own Blaster4Hire also started a thread on this earlier, here.
On the MasterReplicas.com site right now, it's reporting this at $45... clearly this is incorrect -- someone call them on it -- as the list price is $579.
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LBJ to continue Kennedy policy in Vietnam
Two days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms the U.S. intention to continue military and economic support to South Vietnam. He instructed Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, in Washington for consultations following South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination, to communicate his intention to the new South Vietnamese leadership. Johnson's first decision about Vietnam was effectively to continue Kennedy's policy.
Also on this day: Jack Ruby murders accused Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the Dallas jail where Oswald is being held.


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Jessica & Gerrid needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 103 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
This contest is for a professionally designed homepage with NO CODING. I will be reviewing and commenting on every design twice per day (9am and 4:30pm).
I know exactly what I'm looking for. I just need a talented designer to take my ideas and professionally lay them out. See here for my rough draft. http://www.smithseo.com/lim.html
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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Thursday, September 21, 2006
UPDATE: I added the recipe for this cake to my blog here:
This entry will be short and sweet (in more ways than one!). I had a glitch this morning with my camera software and just wasted 2 hours!
Anyway, yesterday I tested this cake for the upcoming Vegan Feast Newsletter, which contains Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes, so I can't divulge the recipe. I've been wanting to do a vegan "tunnel cake" for a long time, and this seemed a good opportunity.
It turned out really well! The pumpkin cake tastes richer than it really is, and it's moist and tender, not heavy. The "tunnel" is a ring of tangy lemon "creme cheeze" (homemade) with chunks of organic candied ginger. (I might make more of the filling next time for a bigger "tunnel".) I topped it off with a caramel sauce and toasted pecans. Divine!
I just used a regular bundt pan, BTW-- didn't need one of those special tunnel cake pan sets. (That would be great for ice cream cakes, though!)
I plan to work on more vegan "tunnel cakes" in the future!
Have a sweet day!
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I've never heard of or seen a tunnel cake. I'm pretty sure I'd like it... A LOT! I like the filling with ginger.
- Thu Sep 21, 02:50:00 PM PDT
To say that your cake looks divine is an understatement Bryanna! That newsletter is going to be so great !
And can you image that yesterday I received a cd in the mail ? :)Merci !!!!!
- Thu Sep 21, 07:15:00 PM PDT
- Jessica said...
I know what I'm making for Thanksgiving dessert! I eagerly await my next newsletter.
- Thu Sep 21, 09:37:00 PM PDT
- Harmonia said...
Awesome! Simply Awesome!
You're making me very hungry!
- Fri Sep 22, 06:27:00 AM PDT
I can't wait for the next newsletter. The cake looks amazing. My mom used to make tunnel cakes all the time when I was a kid, but I haven't had one in years. I don't know how you do it, you always seem to come up with the perfect "veganized" recipes!
- Fri Sep 22, 09:21:00 AM PDT
- Lauren said...
Oh wow, that looks good!!!
- Fri Sep 22, 12:29:00 PM PDT
Yum. I'm trying to save up for your upcoming seitan book. One day maybe I can get a bunch of back issues to your newsletter. Your techniques continue to revolutionize vegetarian cooking. Not compaining, but the Lord has me on a budget, due to cutbacks. Sigh...
- Sat Sep 23, 10:04:00 AM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Jesuit-- the seitan book will be pretty cheap, since it doesn't have to go through a publisher, distributor and retailer! And I hope to have it set up pretty soon for buying back issues all at once or separately!
- Sat Sep 23, 10:09:00 AM PDT
- harlemgrrl said...
trying to turn my head from the vegan angel food cake are ya? nice try...
- Sun Sep 24, 12:02:00 PM PDT
- Spice Island Vegan said...
Wow, looks good! Can't wait for the next issue of your newsletter.
That cake looks good and I have never made a tunnel cake before.
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Performance Optimization
From PostgreSQL wiki
How to Effectively Ask Questions Regarding Performance on Postgres Lists
General Setup and Optimization
- Tuning Your PostgreSQL Server by Greg Smith, Robert Treat, and Christopher Browne
- Performance Tuning PostgreSQL by Frank Wiles
- GUCs: A Three Hour Tour by Josh Berkus. Also useful here is his tuning OpenOffice spreadsheet, which suggests tuning values for 5 different types of workloads.
- QuickStart Guide to Tuning PostgreSQL by Christopher Browne
- Annotated postgresql.conf by Josh Berkus and Shridhar Daithankar (older V7.4 targeted version of material covered in the GUC tour referenced above)
- Performance Tuning by Josh Berkus and Shridhar Daithankar
- Replacing Slow Loops in PostgreSQL by Joel Burton
- PostgreSQL Hardware Performance Tuning by Bruce Momjian
- The effects of data fragmentation in a mixed load database by Dmitry Dvoinikov
- PostgreSQL Performance Features in 8.3 by Simon Riggs
- PostgreSQL Performance Features in 8.4 by Simon Riggs
- Understanding Postgres Performance by Craig Kerstiens
- More on Postgres Performance by Craig Kerstiens
- Faster PostgreSQL counting
- Row count estimates in Postgres by David Conlin
- Index-only scans in Postgres by David Conlin
Performance courses are available from a number of companies. Check events and trainings for further details.
Critical maintenance for performance
- Introduction to VACUUM, ANALYZE, EXPLAIN, and COUNT by Jim Nasby.
- VACUUM FULL and why you should avoid it
- Planner Statistics
- Using EXPLAIN
- Logging Difficult Queries
- Logging Checkpoints
- Checkpoints and the Background Writer: PostgreSQL 8.3 Improvements and Migration by Greg Smith
- Bulk Loading and Restores
- Performance Analysis Tools by Craig Ringer
Database architecture
- Limiting and prioritizing user/query/database resource usage by Craig Ringer
- Prioritizing databases by separating into multiple clusters by Craig Ringer
- Clustering
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Hog Mac 'n' Cheese From 'Pitt Cue and Co.: The Cookbook'
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I had to put on my elastic-waist-banded pants just to read the recipe for the Hog Mac 'n Cheese from Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook. There's over a pound of cheese in there, and I mean good, esoteric cheese that you could build a respectable cheese board around: Colston Bassett Stilton, Montgomery cheddar, and Ogleshield. I had to look them up just to make sure I was getting appropriate substitutions (Stilton, Cabot Clothbound Cheddar, Gruyère). There's whole milk and butter, of course. And then there's the hog: Cooked pork belly, cut into what they refer to as "quivering chunks," or, alternatively, cooked bacon (or any leftover smoked meat), tossed with the pasta and cheese sauce. The topping, in addition to bread crumbs and grated cheddar, includes a healthy(?) dose of their smoked bacon rub, which is appropriately smoky and bacon-y, and salty-sweet.
It all sounds amazing, if artery-clogging. And it almost was. But I found that the roux for the cheese sauce, made with a quarter-cup of butter and a half-cup of flour, was extremely thick, and the less than 3 cups of milk didn't do enough to thin it out. Because of this, the baked mac 'n' cheese ended up a bit dry and crumbly, despite allllll that fat in there. Perhaps quivering chunks of pork belly would have helped out, but I went the bacon route, and it just didn't have the same textural effect. The crunchy topping was tasty, if incongruously sweet, and while it would have been nice against a silkier mac 'n' cheese, here it just added to the drying effect. (And actually, it seemed a touch too much, anyway—it was hard to get any bites of unadulterated pasta and cheese, some of which I like.) The ideas are all spot-on, but it's like something got lost in translation. It's worth noting that this mac 'n' cheese is breaded, deep-fried, and used in a pulled pork sandwich, The Trailer Trash, that's also in the book. Might have to pull out my old maternity pants for that one.
Why I picked this recipe: Cheese! Cheese! And bacon!
What worked: It's so, so close to being over-the-top great. And, I have to say, I have a new bacon cooking technique, thanks to the instructions for the bacon rub. They sandwich the slices between two pieces of parchment paper and two baking pans, and bake at 350° until the bacon is brown and crispy. This resulted in the most evenly rendered, tender, perfectly brittle bacon ever. (I fried some of the same bacon in a pan, and it was uneven and tough, comparatively.)
What didn't: The bacon rub is one example of an oven recipe in which they call for using waxed paper; I'd play it safe and just stick to parchment. And I have to admit to being annoyed about the indicated amount of macaroni. One pound, 2 ounces? I have to open another pound of pasta and measure out just 2 ounces? I think it would be okay with just a pound. But the bigger problem: that darned cheese sauce. However, it should be an easy fix. Which brings us to...
Suggested tweaks: I would either reduce the flour to 1/4 cup, or add milk until smooth, creamy, and thick but pourable—around 3 1/2 cups total.
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New art thread! Mainly because a lot of what I'm drawing at the moment are busts or portraits of characters instead of full scale pieces.
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