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What comes next is up to you.
I applaud DearMYRTLE's blog post, Genealogy sites at no cost to users? If you haven't read it yet, please do. She's brought to light a very important issue, one that nobody likes to talk about. It's about that dirty word "money"... and the fact that there's no such thing as free lunch. Or in this case, a free web site.
We all like it when we can freely access genealogy databases online. What's not to like? But most of us don't stop to think about the fact that somebody is shelling out bucks to host the web site that database is on. And the bigger the database, and the more popular it is, the more money is getting spent to host it. Because when lots of people access it the owners have to pay for more bandwidth. And bandwidth = $
As Myrtle's article shows us, it's not just the big players who have to shoulder heavy costs for maintaining online databases. Small genealogical societies can get in over their heads financially if their databases become very popular. And you know what? It isn't just genealogical societies that have to worry. Churches, cemeteries, historical societies, or even individuals who host popular content of any sort can run into financial woes they didn't plan on. As a web site designer who also offers hosting packages, I understand the situation better than most.
Nobody likes to ask for money. Begging for it is humiliating. So what's a not-for-profit organization or individual to do to help defray the costs of hosting a web site/database? Some groups can fund their online offerings though membership dues. But that's not usually an option for individuals. And it's not always a feasible option for groups either.
So what's a person/organization to do? The most common choice has become to put advertising on web sites, in the form of Google Ads, affiliate programs, and if one is lucky, corporate sponsorship. Is this lucrative? Yes and no. These options almost never generate the kind of revenue hoped for. But they can be viable sources for modest income under the right circumstances. Unfortunately one needs to be knowledgeable in SEO (search engine optimization) and monetization and have enough traffic on one's web site/blog to make it all work. And how many genealogical societies, churches, or individuals do you know who have the kind of know-how needed to pull that off?
Are you still with me here? By this point I should have made you "stop and think" (database/web site hosting costs money), "realize" (somebody is paying for it and it isn't you), "gain some insight" (options for generating money to cover hosting expenses are limited, online ads aren't an easy solution), and "reflect" (hmmm, I guess there's more to this issue than I ever considered... maybe there is something I could do to help).
That leaves us with, "and then?... what comes next is up to you". This is where you can help out and show your appreciation. I know we all lead hurried lives but there are some times when we leisurely read blogs, surf the web, or look for ancestors in obscure databases. This is when you can help by taking a moment to actually look at the Google Ads or affiliate links. Go ahead, click on them! Don't do it insincerely just to help out the hosting site. That would be unfair to those who have to pay for each click. Do it because there's a link to a site you haven't been to before and there may just be something of interest there for you! Take a moment, make a click. Support the site that needs the help by not ignoring those ads every time.
So what about blogs or web sites that are obviously hosted for free but have ads on them (like this one)? Ah, my friend. Things are not always the way they seem. Take my situation for instance. I have created, and host entirely at my own expense, the following web sites:
- PolishAncestry.com
- SweetestHeartOfMary.org
- StAlbertus.org
- StJosaphatDetroit.org
- A class reunion web site
This is not a shameless plug for the ads on my blog. I'm just trying to make the point the the ads on one site can be generating revenue to support other sites. We're all in this together. All for one and one for all.
What comes next is up to you.
DearMYRTLE's blog post, Genealogy sites at no cost to users?


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WASHINGTON (Feb. 25) – The leader of 2.4 million member American Legion says a Pentagon budget proposal unveiled Monday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel endangers America's national security and that downsizing force structure and benefits will lead to an exodus of quality men and women from the Armed Forces.
"Secretary Hagel warned about a 'hollowed force,' and The American Legion is concerned that this budget is leading us rapidly in that direction," National Commander Daniel Dellinger said. "Cutting forces to pre-World War II levels makes no sense in a world where countries such as North Korea, Iran and Pakistan could become viable nuclear threats to our very existence. Moreover, we do not know the exact nature of future wars and conflicts. The American Legion believes that we must be prepared for any scenario."
Dellinger called it "unconscionable" that the Pentagon is proposing that members of the military pay for part of their housing allowances out of their own pockets. "Whether it's cutting commissary subsidies or increasing TRI-CARE deductibles and co-pays, these benefits are well deserved and available to anyone willing to serve. Military life is much more challenging than private sector careers. The American Legion will continue to call for an end to sequestration and insufficient defense budgets. Providing for the common defense of our nation is a responsibility required by the U.S. Constitution."
American Legion officials said that although the organization strenuously opposes the current budget proposal, they appreciate the transparency shown by the secretary of defense and look forward to future discussions.

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The FBC in-house food pantry follows the schedule below. We've have a no-touch system in place. Bags of food are pre-prepared, ready to go. The front double doors will be open, and a bag of food will be placed in the vestibule outside the inner doors. You'll just grab the bag and go. During the COVID-19 crisis, guests are invited to visit the food pantry up to *2 times* each month.
- Every Wednesday from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
- 1st & 3rd Wednesdays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
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my friend Gail (from the lovely blog probably actually) recently had a baby boy! and man is he cuuuuute! his name is Oscar and the kids and i got to go visit him recently. and what does one do when one is visiting a sewing friend with a new baby? she sews gifts of course!
i first made a big sister gift for Lila, because my mom was great about doing that when anyone we knew had a baby. always a good idea to make the older sibling feel special too.
it's a flashback skinny tee in a 3T. i used old navy clearance shirts, as usual, and preserved the factory hems. i used purple for the body since i know i've seen Lila in purple quite a bit, and a soft floral rib knit for the sleeves and neckline. contrast sleeves seems to be a trend now and i think it's a fun one. i added a little heart patch to the bottom for an extra special touch.
then i made some pants for baby Oscar:
the pattern is Rae's free newborn pants pattern. i did contrast bindings on both for kicks. i added 1″ to the pants on the left, because i remember these being pretty roomy when i made them for O and figured they'd last Oscar a couple months if they just had a bit of extra length.
this pair may look familiar! heather ross clothes on the line from far far away II. this time i added aviary woodgrain bindings. i love snuggling with O when he wears his pajamas in this fabric, so i figured Gail and her husband would enjoy it too. and i know she likes woodgrain.
this pair may look familiar too! i figured there couldn't be anything more fun than to make pants for the little guy to look like his big sis. and when i took these gifts over to them, Lila was wearing this skirt her mom made in the same gray corduroy! fancy that.
i had hoped that Gail would get a kick out of a mini version of her hedgehog pants, and she totally did. it was a fun reaction. 🙂
for mama, i brought a trio of vintage sheet fat quarters from my stash and a spool of metallic gold thread. i love sewing with metallic thread, it adds a special touch to topstitching. figured she could make use of these when she's back in sewing action.
for dad? well i didn't sew him anything, but i did make the family some chicken tortilla soup adapted from this recipe (i added cayenne pepper for a bit of a kick). i brought some sour cream so they didn't necessarily need to go for a grocery run, but apparently Lila ate it all up! good work, Lila.
happy little presents for a happy little family. oh and when Gail said Oscar has "the sweetest newborn smell you could ever imagine," she wasn't kidding! he's really wonderful. i only got one picture during our visit, though! right as i was taking it, O said "he's soft!" which is absolutely accurate. Lila is a loving big sis, too.
i might check in tomorrow but if i don't, have a great thanksgiving!


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Tahoe Truckee health and wellness announcements
TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. – Content is selected from e-mail submissions to Community Editor Amy Edgett at email@example.com. Submissions are published in the print edition news space permitting. To enter an event online, visit http://www.sierrasun.com, locate the event calendar. Click on submit an event, follow instructions. Keep event description to 50 words.Dance in February, free trial classInnerRhythms Dance Centre invites you to dance in February. For all new dancers who sign up during February for studio classes in ballet, hip-hop, breakin', modern, tap, jazz, or contemporary dance, the annual registration fee (a value of $25-$35) will be waived. InnerRhythms loves their Mini dancers. Minis dance for 28 days for $28 in "Mini's" classes (ages 3-6). Check out class listings and availability at http://www.innerrhythms.org and call to reserve a free trial class. InnerRhythms Dance Centre is located at 12047 Donner Pass Road in Truckee's Tri-Counties Bank Plaza. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 530-550-8464. Feb. 8 Free Ski Wax ClinicTahoe Donner Cross Country will offer an opportunity for skiers to take the mystery out of waxing and learn from the masters. A wax clinic with waxing wizards Ralph Johnson and Glenn Jobe will be held on Friday, Feb. 8, 5-7 p.m. in the public wax room. Call 530-587-9484 or visit tahoedonner.com/cross-country for more information.Pilates Reformer Community Day and grand opening classPilates instructor Tina Cook will work with clients at the CR Johnson Healing Center on a full-time basis. Along with teaching on-call private classes on the Healing Center's Balanced Body Pilates equipment, Tina will instruct weekly Monday and Wednesday group mat Pilates classes at 9:30 a.m. On Monday, Feb. 11, Tina will teach a grand opening Pilates class at 9:30 a.m. for $10. Participants may purchase discounted package deals on future Pilates classes. This first class will be capped at 10 participants.Tina will host a small group Pilates Reformer Community Day on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 9 a.m., 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. at the CR Johnson Healing Center. Each class will range from three to six people, so book today at 530-587-4453. The CR Johnson Healing Center is located at 10775 Pioneer Trail, Ste. 108, Truckee.Coaches needed for Girls on the Run, orientation announcedGirls on the Run – Sierras is accepting volunteer applications for coaches and running buddies to serve as positive adult role models for the Spring 2013 Season. The evidence-based program instills self-esteem in girls through health education, life skills development, mentoring relationships, and physical training. The afterschool program meets twice a week for 10 weeks and culminates in a celebratory, non-competitive 5K fun run.The spring season starts March 18 at Alder Creek Middle School, Glenshire Elementary, Truckee Elementary, Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe, Tahoe Lake Elementary, Incline Elementary, Incline Middle, and Lake Tahoe School.Previous coaching experience is not required. GOTR provides training for all volunteers. Attend the Volunteer Orientation on Monday, Feb. 11, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Uncorked in Truckee. Contact Danielle at 530-567-2144 or complete a volunteer application at http://www.girlsontherunsierras.org/volunteer.Announcing a New Year's 'Rebelution'Now that the holiday "stuff your face" time has come and gone and 2013 is well underway, make a New Year's "Rebelution" to ditch the extra belly fat and redefine yourself in 2013 with Rebel Fitness Academy's six-week holiday bulge bootcamp. What to expect: Live session with Registered Dietitian Maria Martin; weekly teleconferences with Maria; unlimited email support with Maria; full six-week supply of RD shakes, teas, detox, etc.; twice weekly training at Rebel Fitness Academy; one-on-one FMS injury risk movement evaluation; one-on-one nine-point body composition evaluation; take-home exercises; weekly weigh-ins; morning or evening classes; and only 16 participants. The Rebelution will run Feb. 19-March 28, with 9 a.m. or 6 p.m. classes at Rebel Fitness Academy, 12277 Soaring Way, No. 103. Cost is $499. Call 530-550-7777 or email firstname.lastname@example.com Wall open to the publicTruckee-Donner Recreation & Park District has opened their indoor climbing walls for public use on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, 5:30-8 p.m. Try your skills on their 29-foot wall, equipped with automatic belays, routes from 5.5 to 5.12 and a separate bouldering wall. Problems VB-V6. Drop in fees are $6 with shoe rentals for $3 and harnesses for $2.WOW: Women of winterWOW is synonymous with women skiing with women: sharing, collaborating, encouraging, supportive, taking skiing to new levels, exploring, adventuring, laughing, and being part of an incredible girl tribe.Join the Wednesday Black Diamond series or 3-Day Program and let the adventure begin. Wednesday WOW are Black Diamond sessions for advanced to expert skiers to challenge and improve black diamond skiing on Feb. 6, 13, 27 and March 6, 13, and 20.The 3-Day Program, Feb. 24-26, is designed to help you break through to Black Diamond skiing or improve your Black Diamond skiing for advanced-intermediate to expert skiers. Ski, laugh, focus under the guidance of the WOW team. Saturday night orientation will be held Feb. 23. Meet at 8 a.m. on Sunday to organize and confirm groups.Is your entire group novice or intermediate skiers? You can have your own WOW at your pace. Gather eight or more women and you have a group. Booking requires payment for a minimum of eight participants. Standard cancellation policies apply.Call 530-452-4349, 800-403-0206, or email firstname.lastname@example.com 10 Nutrition and Exercise TipsPresented by Jill Whisler, RD and Wendy Buchanan, MS, March 5, 5:30 p.m., Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, Nev. No-host bar. Presentation begins at 6 p.m. Cost: $5 donation suggested.How often do you stop and reflect about your eating regimes? Do they foster your athletic goals? Are you ready to mix up your routine in activity and nutrition? Join Registered Dietitian Jill Whisler and Exercise Physiologist Wendy Buchanan for the top 10 nutrition and exercise tips for peak performance and health. Jill and Wendy are with the Tahoe Center for Health and Sports Performance. They offer a number of special wellness programs throughout the year in conjunction with the Tahoe Forest Health System.Jill Whisler is a registered dietitian, certification from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in Adult and Childhood Weight Management, certified health and fitness specialist by the American College of Sports Medicine. Jill has three children and is competing in the Worlds Championship International Triathlon at London in September.Wendy Buchanan, MS, is lead exercise physiologist, and certified exercise specialist by the American College of Sports Medicine. She is the main exercise physiologist for cardiac rehabilitation at Tahoe Forest Hospital. Wendy grew up in Tahoe, competed in Downhill ski racing for UC Boulder and is now giving back by teaching kids at Squaw on the weekends. Wendy has two boys and loves to hike, swim, cycle and ski.Contact Heather Segale, UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, 775-881-7562, email@example.com with CarmenCarmen, your real estate consultant, shares her passion with the community by providing monthly, guided hikes and snowshoe trips of our beautiful backyard and its endless trail systems. Meet at 9 a.m. at the Andesite Ridge Trail Head on Saturday, Feb. 16. From Truckee take the Boreal exit off Interstate 80, turn left and go under the overpass. Turn left again and head down the frontage road to the PCT trail head to park. Snowshoe on the snow-packed road among the frosty trees until you reach the trail. From there, it is a gradual climb to the top, displaying panoramic views of Castle Peak, and the Summit. Don't forget the snowshoes!Visit http://www.CarmenCarr.com for the future hiking schedule as well as fun pictures. Call 530-550-5192.NASTC AIARE Certified Avalanche Level 1 ClassThis three-day intensive seminar follows the AIARE curriculum on basic avalanche safety, Feb. 8-10. It is designed to give students an understanding of avalanche formation, what are the factors and conditions that increase the likelihood of avalanche danger, "nature's billboard" observation skills, the ability to use an avalanche transceiver and probe, companion rescue skills and how to dig a snow study pit. This is a minimum amount of know-how if you want to travel, ski or ride in the backcountry or sidecountry safely. There is time spent daily in the classroom and in the field. Visit http://www.skiNASTC.com for more information.Ki Gong/Tai ChiTruckee Donner Senior Apartments Dining Room, Estates Drive, Truckee, Thursdays, 10 a.m. Open to all. Gentle movements with coordinated deep breathing. Enhance health, immune system, balance and aliveness. Anyone can benefit no matter what their condition or situation. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call Rolf Godon at 530-587-2557.RDdetox to improve athletic performanceSports nutrition tips:No. 1: It's all about the habits and routines you practice most of the time. You can't expect to perform at your best if you only eat healthy or balanced the morning of an event. Learn nutrition regimes that work for you pre-exercise and during recovery. No 2: Maintain a healthy weight. Weight is king. Do you feel like you would be more efficient if you weighed a little less? No 3: Get protein, carbohydrates, and fat at every meal. Do you eat the same foods, yet continue to challenge your body and expect it to change?Challenge your habits and fine-tune your sports nutrition regimes. RDdetox will help you utilize whole foods and practice nutritional habits that can change your body composition, blood sugar levels, and your energy, while you obtain a healthier weight. This powerful 21-day challenge will get you ready for the next sport season. Utilize the off-season to obtain your weight goals and test your body on its efficiency. Visit: http://www.RDdetox.com for more information.Pilates Group ReformerTahoe Center for Health and Sports Performance, 10710 Donner Pass Road, Truckee. Every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 9 a.m. Pilates will transform the way your body looks, feels and performs. Teach your body and mind to build symmetry and coordination creating a balanced, evenly conditioned body. Pilates is an education in body awareness counteracting common postural problems due to sitting at a desk, certain sport activities, and stress. Pilates is great for sports performance, general fitness conditioning and recovery from injury or illness.Pre-registration is required. Visit tfhd.com for info.Jazzercise new student specialTwo weeks free for full-time, local residents. Jazzercise is a fun and challenging 60-minute total body workout that combines aerobics, strength training and stretching. Move to hot, current music – all ages are welcome.Get great results at our friendly classes at the beautiful lakefront North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach. Monday through Saturday, 8:45 a.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, 5:30 p.m.For more information call Ginny at 530-546-7745 or 530-320-4556.
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Measure to end death penalty in California trails
SACRAMENTO – A California ballot measure to abolish the death penalty on cost grounds trailed in early results from Tuesday's election, but voters agreed to soften a "three strikes" law that gives longer sentences to habitual criminals.
With more than three quarters of the precincts reporting, results showed about 53 percent opposed ending capital punishment in the state. California, the most populous U.S. state, hosts nearly a quarter of the nation's condemned prisoners but has executed none in the last six years.
The group that sponsored the measure, SAFE California, refused to concede in the early hours of Wednesday morning, saying on Twitter: "We're still watching results come in – it is not over."
They based their campaign on the question of cost rather than morals. They said the system, with mandated appeals that can take decades, costs so much that the financially troubled state could save hundreds of millions of dollars by instead jailing the worst killers for life.
Public opinion in many states has been shifting away from the death penalty, with five states abolishing capital punishment over the past decade. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia do not allow the death penalty.
A federal judge halted all California executions in 2006, saying a three-drug lethal injection protocol risked causing inmates too much pain and suffering before death. Executions have yet to resume.
California voters broadly approved another ballot measure that softens the state's "three strikes" law, which gave longer sentences to habitual criminals. California set a national trend on such sentencing schemes more than a decade ago.
With more than three-quarters of precincts reporting, the three strikes reform ballot measure had received over 68 percent of the vote, and organizers declared victory.
"This historic victory overturns the long-held conventional wisdom that it's impossible to fix our most extreme and unjust crime laws – and hopefully inspires future efforts," the spokesman for the Committee for Three Strikes Reform, Dan Newman, said in an e-mailed statement.
The proposition would let some criminals who have been in jail twice avoid a 25-years-to-life sentence for a third crime if it is judged to be nonviolent and non serious.
Supporters of the measure argued that filling prisons with people who are not a threat to society is expensive and often works against restoring felons to a crime-free life.
Michael Thoeresz, a 31-year-old tennis club general manager in Los Angeles, voted for the measure, which recent polls showed had wide support.
"Morally, we cannot lock people up for nonviolent offenses for 25 years to life. It's ridiculous," he said.
Crime in California, like the rest of the nation, has dropped dramatically since the early 1990s. State violent crimes are down by more than half and homicides by nearly two-thirds since 1992.
(Additional reporting by Dana Feldman in Los Angeles; Writing by Mary Slosson; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and David Storey)


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A federal judge told the Roman Catholic boss of a secular for-profit Michigan company that, for the time being, he would not have to provide his female employees with insurance coverage for contraceptives — as the new federal health care law mandates — because we must be careful to protect the rights of concern-trolly micromanaging dudes (and/or Bishops. Never forget the rights of Bishops!!) over financially challenged women at all costs, always.
In case you need a recap: under Obamacare, employers must cover all sterilization and FDA-approved contraceptive methods unless they meet the criteria for "religious employers": non-profit businesses that spread religious values and mostly employ people who agree with those values.
The company in question, Weingartz Supply Co., sells outdoor power equipment and employs about 170 people. Unfortunately, Jesus and his disciples did not respond to requests for comment regarding whether He had personally blessed said outdoor power equipment with the express purpose of saving innocent unborn children.
Yet, according to the New York Times, owner Daniel Weingartz told Judge Robert H. Cleland that he "had devised a health plan that, in keeping with his religious beliefs, excluded coverage of contraceptives." How thoughtful of him!
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It's ridiculous that we have to keep talking about this, but, here we go: contrary to conservative popular belief, the Obamacare mandate in no way forces companies to force-feed women Plan B, install birth control vending machines, or provide all-you-can-eat contraceptive buffets. All it means is that women who want to use contraceptive methods don't have to pay for them out of pocket. That's why more rational judges who've dealt with similar cases (because, of course, there have already been more than three dozen lawsuits by a myriad of organizations — businesses, hospitals, universities — challenging the mandate) have ruled that owners can still exercise their religion by not using contraception themselves and even, in the case of one Missouri judge, "discouraging employees from using contraceptives." See? There's your "religious freedom" right there. EASY.
Ha, no way. True "religious freedom" apparently means limiting women's access to their preferred method of contraception (or any at all, in many cases) because YOU don't personally want them to have reproductive choice.
Judge Cleland said he issued the preliminary injunction due to his belief that "The loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury." Because denying women access to contraception does not?
The White House has a great stock response to that argument. According to the NYT:
The Obama administration said it had two compelling reasons for the contraceptive mandate: promoting public health and "gender equality." It quoted Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who said in Senate debate on the legislation: "Women have different health needs than men, and these needs often generate additional costs. Women of childbearing age spend 68 percent more in out-of-pocket health care costs than men."
But Judge Cleland is the second judge to issue such an order. There will undoubtedly be more. And then Romney, of course, has pledged to do away with Obamacare if he becomes president about ten billion times. (SO GO VOTE IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY. IN CASE YOU NEEDED ANOTHER REASON.)
Michigan Judge Temporarily Blocks Health Law Mandate on Birth Control [NYT}


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World hunger? War? Global warming? Nonsense! Too long have the beleaguered Pokémon trainers of the world suffered quietly under their own first world problems. With one video, Kotaku reader csanders984 has become the voice of millions.
Trust a member of the Kotaku community to have his finger on the pulse of the problems facing the world's Pokémon-playing populace. I thought my life was pretty worry-free until he opened my eyes to the endless array of issues I didn't know I had.
I've not seen the vast majority of Pokémon movies. I keep a candle lit on the mantle for Pokémon Snap 2. Digimon WAS the better anime. And damn if not TRACEYYYYYYYY!
How can I raise two children in a world like this? That's it, I am selling my children. Thanks, csanders984.
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Today marks the official launch of food52, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs's new food site geared toward serious home cooks. The site's first project, a crowd-sourced cookbook, will be published by HarperStudio in late 2010. Hesser is an author and the former New York Times food editor and editor of T Living. Stubbs is a freelance food writer and recipe tester, and the two worked together on Hesser's upcoming New York Times Cookbook. They told PT about their new initiative.After testing over 1200 recipes for the Times cookbook, Hesser and Stubbs realized that many of the best came from non-professionals. Their site, whose title refers to the 52 weeks in a year, differentiates itself from other cooking sites because it is aimed at sophisticated home cooks. (Many other cooking sites either take a top-down approach, like Epicurious, or are user-generated free-for-alls like AllRecipes.) "There are a lot of excellent cooking sites," says Hesser, "but we felt that one thing that's missing online is a place where enthusiastic home cooks can have a voice, a place where their talents and ideas are recognized.""We decided to have a site where the recipes are mainly user-generated, but there is also a point of view," says Stubbs. "There is some quality control—we'll be writing about food on a regular basis and inviting people to share their thoughts as well. We'll be going in and looking at recipes, commenting on them, and singling out the recipes that we think are really great."Each week, Stubbs and Hesser will announce two new categories for the cookbook and ask users to send in submissions in those categories. They will test the recipes that seem promising and ultimately choose two finalists, as well as some "editors' picks." food52 users will then vote on the finalists' recipes, and the winner will go into the cookbook. Users will also have input on the cookbook's cover and design. "We hope to be benevolent editors," says Hesser.Stubbs and Hesser hope food52 will eventually expand beyond an online/print presence into public events and cooking competitions. The first event, an online NCAA-style cookbook tournament culminating in a public celebration, kicks off this fall.
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The Anfield Home Tour
Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial
By Kenn Taylor
It's rather surreal to be taken on a tour of a city you live in, but then this is quite a different tour. We start conventionally enough, by the Edwardian splendor of the Cunard building at the heart of Liverpool's regenerated waterfront, but soon we will be heading to the other side of the city – and the other side of Britain.
After we pile into the minibus, our tour guide Carl "with a C not a K, that's just weird" Ainsworth announces that we're heading for a district in the north of the city, Anfield. The word for many means solely the home ground of Liverpool FC, but Anfield is also one of the city's oldest residential districts.
Welcome to the Anfield Home Tour, part of the Liverpool Biennial, the UK's largest visual arts festival. The arts in Liverpool have always had something of a social conscience, and the Biennial is no exception; we are not heading to Anfield to look at football stadia or recently restored Stanley Park, but to learn some things about housing, community and regeneration.
Our first stop is Everton Park, where Carl tells us a story that sums up the British urban landscape in microcosm. From the top of the hill above the Mersey, there are amazing views across central Liverpool as far as the mountains of Wales on a good day. It was this view which led rich merchants to build fine houses here in the 18th century, some of which remain. With the expansion of nearby docks and industry, however, speculators built hundreds of densely packed terraced houses in the area, described by Carl as a "tidal wave".
The merchants then moved further out, and a tight-knit working class community was formed on streets so steep that is some cases they had railings to help people climb them. Then, from the 1930s onwards, there were successive 'slum clearance' programmes, culminating in mass demolition in the 1960s. Many people were moved to overspill estates and new towns on the edge of the city. Others meanwhile lived out Le Corbusier's vision of 'a machine for living in' at huge new high-rise blocks of flats. Some enjoyed scaling these new heights, and those old 'tight-knit' streets also often meant horrible conditions, but the dream soon turned sour. Carl reveals that some of these 'new visions' in housing were demolished fewer than ten years after being built.
In the 1980s, from the rubble of tower blocks came Everton Park , a green space on wasteland; but one with little thought given to its integration into the local area. Carl says: "Many former residents of the area come here to have picnics right where their houses used to be. You'd think from all that history, the powers that be would have learned."
We find that they did not. Anfield was one of many areas in the UK subject to the Housing Market Renewal Initiative (HMRI). Despite the housing boom from the 1990s onwards, there were areas of the UK that stagnated, mostly in the north of England. The then government took up a report from Birmingham University's Centre for Urban and Regional Studies. They decided what was needed was demolition, en masse, and new built homes, en masse. The process became the HMRI.
We arrive in Anfield to an area of new homes built by Keepmoat Construction. There's been criticism from some that such houses in HMRI areas aren't as 'nice and neat' as the terraces they replaced. However, as Carl points out, they do have gardens, off-street parking and modern levels of insulation and damp proofing, things denied to many though not all of the old houses. The tragedy of these homes, one often lost broadsheet debates about aesthetics, is that many people who owned the demolished homes did not get a good enough price for them under compulsory purchase orders to buy one of the new ones. They often had to take out second mortgages in old age to be able to buy somewhere to live. New homes in a community are all very well, but not if the community has to get into debt to buy them when they owned their old homes outright. With the cancellation of HMRI by the present government, we are told it was even touch and go if these new homes would be built or just wasteland left in their place.
As Carl points out, the biggest problem with HMRI was in its title: market renewal, not community or neighborhood renewal. This was of course, pre-crunch, when the market appeared to have the answer to everything; it just needed to be helped on its way. Speaking of markets, in my favourite part of the tour Carl passes two bricks around the bus, one from the new building site and one from the demolished homes. The new brick we are told is worth 30p, the old brick £1. Apparently bricks from the demolished homes are being exported to building sites around the UK, even abroad. Carl tells us: "There's about 20,000 bricks in an average terrace, whole streets demolished, you do the math."
As we drive down Granton Road, one of the 'tinned up' streets awaiting demolition, Carl plays a recording by Jayne Lawless, a former resident, recalling how just a few years ago, every house in the street was occupied. She speaks of the "controlled decline" under HMRI, which saw people pushed to leave, one by one, until the last residents left in despair. She says: "They said we were deprived, don't remember being deprived."
However, Anfield isn't all dereliction, although newspapers have been full of emotive photos of empty homes. That is one reality, but just round the corner is another. Skerries Road is a traditional terraced street renovated to looking almost new by residents who refused to move. It shows how a different approach can succeed.
Then another local resident, Bob, gets on the bus as we drive past the house where he lived for 50 years. Now it sits empty, with abandoned properties all around. Yet this wasn't a HMRI street. When former council houses were sold under 'right to buy', many ended up owned by landlords who rented to whoever they could get. Bob says this saw an increase of "unruly families" moving in, and with them anti-social behavior, crime and then often abandonment. Bob is a regular on Liverpool's pub singing scene and gives us a rendition of 'This Old House' by Rosemary Clooney, before we move on.
We finish the tour at the former Mitchell's Bakery, a local business for over 100 years which closed in 2010 and has now become a community hub, the centre of a two-year plan worked up between artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, on a Liverpool Biennial commission, and a myriad of other participants and project partners.
When they began, they had no idea where the idea would lead. The answer is a long-term plan to re-open the bakery as a cooperative, offering local people jobs and training and a Community Land Trust (CLT). If the city council lifts the current clearance order on the building, the CLT hopes to buy it and refurbish the bakery's former living accommodation. Architect Marianne Heaslip and a group of local young people have drawn up the plans. In the long run the CLT would like to take on more buildings in the area and renovate them for not for profit re-occupation. The bakery has now been refurbished internally and with community members undergoing training, they hope to start trading soon.
Then, a surprise: over tea and cakes, it is revealed that Carl is actually actor Graham Hicks, but that all the stories we have heard are true. Britt Jurgensen, who directed the tour and co-wrote its script with Graham and local novelist Debbie Morgan, adds that many in the community were reluctant to get involved with this project. They had been let down so much by outsiders in the past. But this external spark brought people together who were frustrated by waiting for others to make decisions for them and has acted as a new impetus for residents to become stakeholders in their neighbourhood.
"This is our future," says Britt, a theatre professional who lives locally and is a member of the CLT and the bakery cooperative. Progress will be slow but from the ground up, not a grand vision imposed from outside. The catalyst may have been the Liverpool Biennial, but local people are now taking things far beyond the ideas of any curators or artists. She says: "I hope we will be able to sustain ourselves as a group and know when to pass responsibilities on to new people. I hope we will be courageous enough to admit when we make mistakes and adapt our plans when it is appropriate. And I hope we will continue to enjoy ourselves whilst we do all that."
As we munch cake, there is much discussion within our tour group, many of whom have never met before, about the injustice, the problems, and the potential solutions for Anfield and elsewhere. Overall, the feeling is one of energy, of something good coming out of a mess and of things finally, slowly, heading in the right direction.
In the hierarchy of needs in austere times in deprived areas, art may come pretty low, but if art can help regain food and shelter, pride and spirit, then it has a purpose both practical and ephemeral. This was a story that could have been complex, technical, dull and aggressively ideological; instead it has been brilliantly reduced to its actual simplicity: what has been done to a community, and what needs to be done to repair the damage.
The Liverpool Biennial has often struggled to define itself apart from all the other art festivals in the world. Given Liverpool's weather, it isn't necessarily going to attract the crowds that head to Venice, Lisbon or Miami. With more projects like this though, it can express itself as something unique in the world.
The Anfield Home Tour is a fine art work. It may also be a fine bit of sociology, entertainment, architecture, history, politics, and cake, but it is an art work. And it is one that should be compulsory consumption for every government minister, every housing association director, every town planner, student of architecture and social affairs correspondent. Its message is simple, and one we should all have learned long ago: The people who know what is best for communities are communities themselves and they are the only people who can truly regenerate an area.
The success of the Eldonian Village, a self-organised community that began in Liverpool in an area of urban blight in the 1980s, just a mile or so from Anfield, is testament to what can be achieved if the support and will is there. Anfield clearly has the will. It remains to be seen though, if those powers that be, whatever coloured rosette they happen to wear, will give them the power and the financial resources to build on this creative start.
This piece appeared on The Guardian in October 2012.
Images Copyright Mark Loudon, Jerry Hardman-Jones and Britt Jurgensen.


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|Zucchini Ribbon Salad with Feta and Mint
This squash truly shines by mid-summer. As a home cook, I'm partial to the sweet, young version, whose delicate, creamy flesh lends itself well to both raw and cooked dishes. I avoid the large, mature zucchinis that haunt the stalls at many markets in late summer which have waterlogged, fibrous bodies and bitter seeds.
Over the years I have been enamoured by many recipes for zucchini from chocolate zucchini cake to zucchini fritters. This by far is the most delicious salad I have tried so far with its zesty lemon flavoured zucchini ribbons, good quality olive oil, fresh mint and feta cheese. Around here it is a favorite summer salad whose flavour combination will whisk you away to the Greek isles. I tried using my mandolin for the paper thin ribbons but found it easier and more efficient to use a potato peeler. Use a firm hand to create even and uniform slices. For a more colourful salad you can use one zucchini and one yellow squash.
In our community garden there are "rules" and I was not able to plant mint but I did have a large quantity of dill which is another Greek favourite and makes this salad equally delicious. Quick and easy! Why spend time in the kitchen when the world is beckoning this summer.
- **Zucchini Ribbon Salad with Feta and Mint**
- based on a recipe from Vegetarian Times
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons lemon zest
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- 2 medium zucchini, peeled into thin ribbons (about 4 cups)
- 1 medium sweet onion, such as Vidalia or Walla Walla, thinly sliced (about 1 cup)
- ½ cup crumbled feta cheese
- 2 spring onions, chopped (about ¼ cup)
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint, or dill
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley


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I was too confused and cross to appreciate anything. It was Monday at 6 o'clock and I was late and lost, fooled again by the exaggerated curves of the Tevere river, staggering with an oversized child in an undersized sling down another cobbled street, in the shadow of another cupola, past another ancient fountain. The man at the bus stop shook his head and made a gesture that confirmed I was – as suspected – a long way from where I wanted to be. No directions were forthcoming. Mad dog Englishwoman tourist his eyes seemed to snigger. 'I've lived here for nearly nine years' I wanted to tell him, only every single word of Italian eluded me.
Relief at finding myself on Via del Corso was short-lived. In front of me was the bus stop from which I'd caught the first of two ill-advised buses an hour before. The sun beat down and Luca beat his hot little hands on my chest. So we walked some more, wading really, against a tide of shoppers and tourists. 'You want the 116' said a kind woman at another bus stop. 'I know, I've lived here for nine years, I take buses everyday.' I wanted to tell her, but grazie was all I could manage.
The 116, a dwarf bus, bumped along Via del Babuino, women with expensive shoes and immaculate toe nails teetered on so I tucked my shabby ones under the seat. We stopped just after Piazza di Spagna and there it was, Europe's broadest staircase and another mass of bodies, shopping bags and blinking cameras. 'Get off here' said the kind woman. 'But walk up the other staircase just behind. Which we did, and at last I appreciated something. That was the cool, quiet, stone steps and the fact that we, just meters away from busiest staircase in Europe, had our own private one. Not as marvelous obviously, but in that moment nearly. Villa Medici took me by surprise, looming grandly as it does over Viale Trinità dei Monti. As did the deep purple blossoms pouring over walls and then, as we walked a little further, the view.
Nearly nine years ago on a similar evening the view from the Pincio had made my heart swell and skin flush. It had also made me cry. It happened again yesterday. Which was partly the sense of relief that we were no longer lost, that I was no longer flipping furious. But mostly it was because the view across Rome from that particular point at that particular hour : a hazy patchwork of terracotta, brown and gold, of gleaming cupolas, uneven tiles, fading palazzi, hidden roof gardens and the distant plateau of Janiculum with its shadowed umbrella pines is so sublime. 'Mamma, mummy, mamma, look, look!' Luca insisted while tugging at my shirt, his eyes full of wonder. 'Look mamma, dog!' A large dog, leg cocked, was relieving himself against the kerb. At which we turned and walked briskly – our Tupperware box of biscuits keeping time – across Villa Borghese to the picnic party.
Fortunately Ciambelline al vino are hardy biscuits that happily withstand hours of inept traveling and a brisk jolt across the park. They are also particular – as only a biscuit made with olive oil with fennel seeds can be – and delicious – as only a biscuit made with wine intended to be dipped in wine can be. Last but not least, they are quintessentially Roman (which is my preoccupation these days) and a good recipe with which to mention q.b.
Q.b. means quantobasta which literally translated means how much is enough. Or as Vincenzo puts it: what you think is the right quantity. You find q.b. dotted liberally throughout Italian recipes, the older your book or more southern your travels the more you encounter it. It isn't a question, but an assumption that you know how much whatever – salt, pepper, flour, oil, wine, sugar, fennel seeds, salt – is enough for the recipe concerned according to your particular taste. It's an assumption that you have good taste, good instincts and/or that the recipe is good enough for you to make it again and again until q.b is second nature.
Unlike some recipes I've bookmarked in which every single ingredient is followed by q.b. at least today's recipe has measurements of sorts. That is: a glass of wine (red, white or fortified), a glass of extra virgin olive oil and a glass of sugar. The size of the glass is – of course – the one you think is right. I used my trusty 100ml duralex. To your pool of sugar, wine and oil you add salt and fennel seeds. A pinch and a teaspoon seemed the right quantity to me. Then you add the flour q.b. , little by little, working it in with your hands until the dough has come together into a manageable mass that comes cleanly away from the sides of the bowl. You will know.
You let the dough rest – an hour or so – then you pull away walnut sized balls, roll them into a slim logs which you then curl into rings. A pinch helps seal the circle. You dip your rings in sugar before arranging them on a baking tray and sliding them into the oven until they are done. That is crisp and golden. In my oven (which of course is different to your oven) this took 25 minutes. I then took my friend Anna's advice turned the oven off , opened the door a crack but left the Ciambelline al vino to harden in the cooling oven. All the better for dipping in wine she noted.
I am not going to try and convince you otherwise, if you don't like the distinctive taste of fennel seeds you won't like these Ciambelline. Of course you can leave the seeds out! But without the sweet, grassy, anise whiplash they are – in my opinion – as lost as I was on Monday at 6 o'clock. I've heard you can substitute wine with milk! But why would you want to do that?
Somewhere between utterly sweet and charming, and hard work and curious, ciambelline al vino are ring biscuits made with wine to dip in wine – I think this just about sums it up. Unsurprisingly I adore them. They keep brilliantly in a tin or box.
Ciambelline al vino Ring biscuits with wine and fennel seeds
Adapted from various recipes but most notably one by the brilliant cucina di calycanthus
makes about 20 biscuits
- 1 glass of sugar
- 1 glass of wine (white, red or fortified wine such as Madeira)
- 1 glass of extra virgin olive oil
- salt q.b
- fennel seeds q.b
- plain flour q.b
- sugar for finishing q.b
In a bowl mix together the sugar, olive oil and wine. Add the salt and fennel seeds and then flour q.b a little at a time, mixing with your hands, until you have a soft but manageable dough that comes cleanly away from the sides of the bowl.
Move the dough onto a board dusted lightly with flour and then work until smooth. Cover and leave the dough to rest for an hour.
Pull walnut sized pieces from the dough and then on a floured board, with floured hands, roll the balls into slim logs that are roughly 8 – 10 cm long. Curl each log into a round and pinch the ends so you have a ring. Invert and dip the top of each ring into a dish of sugar so it is well coated.
Arrange the rings on a baking tray lined with baking parchment. Bake at 180° for 25 – 30 minutes or until the rings are golden and crisp. Allow to cool.


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Tetris in the sky: Gamers play on Philly building
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Sam Robinson said it's been about 15 years since he last played the videogame Tetris on a Game Boy. On Saturday night, he played it on the side of a skyscraper.
Robinson, 30, was among the hundreds of Tetris fans who had a little fun Saturday with a big version of the classic video game on the side of the 29-story Cira Centre in downtown Philadelphia.
"It has been probably 15 years since I played Tetris last on a Game Boy, and it's much different playing on the side of building that's a half-mile away," the city resident said. "Everything's happening so quick."
The hundreds of LED lights embedded in the building's glass facade normally display colorful patterns. On Saturday night, images of supersized shapes "fell" on two sides of the mirrored tower as competitors used joysticks to maneuver them, creating a spectacle against the night sky that organizers hoped inspired onlookers and players to think about the possibilities of technology.
It wasn't the first time Tetris has been played on a building. But the 100,000-square-foot "screen" - which includes the north and south faces of the structure - could be a record.
The spectacle kicked off a citywide series of events called Philly Tech Week. It also celebrated the upcoming 30th anniversary of a game revered as the epitome of elegance and simplicity, said Frank Lee, an associate professor of digital media at Drexel University.
Lee, a game designer who oversaw creation of the giant display, said putting it on an office building was like making a huge virtual campfire.
"This project began as a personal love letter to the games that I loved when I was a child - Pong last year, Tetris this year. But it ended up as a way of uniting the city of Philadelphia," Lee told the crowd.
Lee already holds the Guinness World Record for the world's largest architectural video game display for playing Pong on one side of the Cira Centre last year. Pong, the granddaddy of all video games, is an electronic version of paddleball developed by Atari in 1972.
Tetris, created by Russian computer programmer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984, challenges players to rotate and arrange falling shapes into complete rows.
It became a global phenomenon in the late 1980s after game designer Henk Rogers, who had seen Tetris at a trade show in Las Vegas, acquired the rights and struck a deal to put it on Nintendo's original Game Boy.
Rogers, who was among the players on Saturday in Philadelphia, said he can't believe the longevity of Tetris, which decades later continues to mesmerize players on more than 30 platforms.
"If a game lasts a year, that's amazing," said Rogers, now managing director of The Tetris Co. "They usually go out of style very quickly."
Rogers said several new Tetris products and initiatives are planned for release around its June 6 anniversary. He declined to discuss details.
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Reasons Why People Who Save Life That Attractive
The portrayal of people as heroes is one of the most common things that happens on movies and TVs today especially because they do something which is good. Because of the kind of work they are doing, any people find them to be very attractive even though they are in the movie shows. Even though some of these people may not necessarily be physically attractive, you'll realize that they are very attractive generally. Many people are interested in watching the movies and TV shows because of this reason. These are always people who are of noble character but in addition to that, very courageous and for selfless individuals. There are definitely some reasons that usually push people to consider these people to be very attractive in this article is going to explain the same. The problem with the society today is that not very many people are very careful about what they do meaning that, there are very few nice people and for this reason, people have a hunger for the people who are good. When many people look at the individuals that are heroes, they are usually very much attracted to the humanity and also, the level of knowledge they have that helps them to save the life of another individual.
Some of the examples of these individuals are portrayed as lifeguards, firemen, doctors and all of these are people who do very important jobs. These people are considered to be very appealing even when they speak. The major reason is that not very many people know how to save a life or to do what these individuals to and that is why they are considered to be very important. Though the process of getting the knowledge is not difficult, there is a lot of respect that goes to the people who really go-ahead and ensures that they have enough knowledge to save a person's life. There are very many different techniques that you will be required to learn so that you can have an easier time when the kind of work that is going to be respected by other people. Getting the information is possible to go for online classes and a lot of training. Many of the institutions will always be ready to provide you with so much information and knowledge and this kind of instructional material is very important for helping you to the skill you want. Whenever you have any questions, they will be people ready to help you.
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—Nick and Vanessa Lachey are now on diaper duty.
They welcomed their first child, a son named Camden John, on Wednesday. He weighed 8 lbs., 9 oz., and measured 21 inches.
In a statement, the couple said: "Love has truly been redefined for both of us."
The Lacheys wed in 2011. Last month, 38-year-old Nick Lachey reunited with his band, 98 Degrees, on the Today show and in concert in Hershey, Pa. He also competed on NBC's reality competition show Stars Earn Stripes.
Vanessa Lachey, 31, is a co-host on ABC's Wipeout.
The birth was reported on People.com


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Zach Johnson takes the early lead at British Open
GULLANE, ScotlandA blue sky and a gentle breeze usually means ripe scoring conditions at the British Open. Just not on the brown links of Muirfield.
Zach Johnson handled it better than anyone Thursday. Helped along by a 45-foot eagle putt and only one bogey despite trouble lurking around every pot bunker, Johnson had a 5-under 66 for a one-shot lead, the first time he's been atop the leaderboard at any major since he rallied to win the Masters six years ago.
Tiger Woods more than survived the late end of the draw, after the sun had thoroughly baked out the crispy greens and allowed only eight of the 20 rounds under par. He knocked one putt clear off the green, but 10 one-putts — most of them for pars — carried him to a 69, a good start in his bid to end his five-year drought in the majors.
"The golf course progressively got more dried out and more difficult as we played," Woods said. "And I'm very pleased to shoot anything even par or better."
And for all the talk about Muirfield's men-only membership, at least the club doesn't discriminate against age.
Mark O'Meara, the 56-year-old who won his claret jug in 1998 at Royal Birkdale, shot a 67 and nearly tied Johnson for the lead until his 25-foot birdie putt on the 18th took a hard spin out of the cup. Another former champion, 54-year-old Tom Lehman, opened with a 68.
It was an eclectic group who broke par, from major champions to players making their British Open debut. What they all had in common was finding a way to get through a firm, fast and frightening test at Muirfield that figures to get even harder if the Royal & Ancient doesn't put some water on the links course.
Phil Mickelson opened with a 69 and felt like he got off easy by playing in the morning. Mickelson was concerned about some hole locations being too close to the edge of slopes, and he pleaded with the R&A to let go of its ego and "just set the course up the way the best players can win."
Some of the best did just fine.
"Anytime you shoot under par in an Open — or a major, for that matter — you have to be putting at least somewhat decent," Johnson said. "And I putted great. I made some nice birdie putts and obviously that one for eagle. But I struck some really nice, solid par putts. That's what you've got to do to stay in it."
Rafael Cabrera-Bello of Spain joined O'Meara at 67, while the group at 68 included Dustin Johnson and Brandt Snedeker, who each have contended on Sunday over the last two years in the Open. Two-time major champion Angel Cabrera, who lost in a playoff at the Masters in April, and 19-year-old Jordan Spieth were in the group at 69.
It was a beautiful day along the Firth of Forth. And it was hard work.
No one felt safe until the ball stopped bouncing along the crusty fairways, and no one was sure when that would happen.
"I haven't seen anything like this," said Snedeker, who tied the 36-hole Open record a year ago at Lytham. "I've played in, I think, five Opens. This is completely new to me — foreign to see a 2-iron going 300 yards. You have got to be wary of how you're shaping your golf ball, and what shot selections you're using on the greens."
O'Meara thought he hit a reasonable bunker shot on the 15th until it kept rolling — and rolling — off the green and into another bunker.
"They get so glassy and crispy around the holes," Graeme McDowell, who played with Woods, said after a 75. "You literally can see 300 footprints around the hole from all the players and caddies that have been out there today. They just get really shiny, and really glassy. I couldn't single out a pin that I thought was unfair. But if you got on the wrong side of them, they could make you look very, very silly."
Yes, there was plenty of that.
Rory McIlroy never looked comfortable, and it caught up with him. After missing left of the 12th green, he chipped it up the slope and watched it roll back down to his feet. His next chip was long and he wound up with double bogey. On the 15th hole, his putt to the back pin rolled well past the hole and into a bunker for another double bogey. A bogey-bogey finish gave him a 79, his highest score at the Open since that 80 in the vicious wind of St. Andrews in 2010.
It was tough all day.


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Location factfile on Kazan
Best photo locations in Kazan – The Citadel of Kazan (Kremlin) was declared an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. The Annunciation Cathedral (1561-62) is one of the major monuments in the Kremlin. In the Kremlin, there's also the Soyembika Tower (also known the Khan's Mosque) that used to be one of the leaning towers and now is the most familiar architectural symbol of Kazan. The National Museum of Tatarstan, the Palace of agriculture, the Pyramid concert hall, the Kazan circus, the Children's Palace, the Temple of all Religions, the Vernicle Temple, the Presidential Palace, the Kazan Town Hall, the Belltower of Epiphany Church, the Millennium Bridge.


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Does the Spider-Man musical make your Spidey-sense tingle with possible lameness? U2's Bono and The Edge felt the same. They explain their change of heart in a video interview, which also shows off what may be the show's logo.
If you had misgivings about Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark when the project was announced a couple years ago (not me! I even wrote some lyrics that, alas, U2 declined to use), you're not alone.
Even Bono and The Edge weren't sure about the idea, as they explain in this video interview (below). But then, Edge realized that the story of a bullied kid who cultivates a special gift and becomes a target of worldwide fascination is also the story of every music geek who ever became a rock star. In other words, like nearly every other great Broadway musical, the U2-scored Spider-Man will be all about self-reinvention and showbiz. Watch the interview, and you'll also spot what may be the logo or poster art for the show, whose curtain is expected to rise next February.


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You might have noticed, dear listener, that the first cast of 2015 was also the last cast of 2015. We're sorry about that. I won't pretend that I can make amends, but we wanted to talk about games, because it has been a long time. So we talked about games. Well, Steve and I talked about games. Would you like to listen? We would love to have you listen.
What did we talk about? A bunch of stuff. It's Steve's turn to be bummed out about gaming this episode, so I tried to drag him back from the brink. He's been playing too much Far Cry, is the problem. You might remember, if you have a long memory, that in the last episode we asked about the various Far Cry themes that were on the table; they didn't take our old Far Cry On The Moon idea, which is a shame, but we did almost get Far Cry With Dinosaurs out of it, so there's that. Some series have too many games in them, and you don't need to play them all, is the moral of this story.
We summarize 2015 a bit, and briefly discuss its most memorable game. (What was it? Find out inside!) We look forward to the year ahead, and speculate about VR and remote play and whether the next Resident Evil game will be any good. (No.) There's lots of other random tidbits in there too, because we are a wordy duo. We hope you'll enjoy it.
A brief note – at time of recording, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 did not include microtransactions. Now it does. Thanks for making me a dirty liar, EA. Still a good game, though.
OH! And you should get SUPERHOT. (Super. Hot. Super. Hot.) Everybody should do that.
Who knows what the future holds, but here we are, friends. Please, get cozy for the first? last? Immortal Machines 2016 Edition.
Hosted and Summarized by Eric [Ravenlock]
Participants are Steve [Dukefrukem] and the ghosts of James, Robert and Clayton. Listen, you can hear them in the background. (I kid! They're fine! Probably.)
Produced by Eric [Ravenlock] (sorry in advance)
(Don't forget to follow our Twitter feed, and if you want to join the discussion, come visit the forum thread over at Colony of Gamers.)


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Bill Clinton honors LBJ at Civil Rights Summit
AUSTIN -- There was a time -- a long time -- when Democratic presidential candidates would not even utter the name Lyndon Baines Johnson.
This week, the three Democrats elected president since Johnson traveled to Texas to honor the memory of LBJ -- a president once reviled for the Vietnam War, now revered for a domestic record that includes landmark civil rights laws.
"We're here because the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act made it possible for Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to be president of the United States," Clinton said during a speech Wednesday.
Clinton spoke during a three-day summit on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an event that has drawn scores of lawmakers and civil rights activists from decades past.
The summit is part of what ex-Texas lieutenant governor and LBJ protege Ben Barnes called "the re-introduction of Johnson" more than four decades after his death in 1973.
It's another example of how, like stock values, presidential reputations can rise and fall over time. It is now a buyer's market for Johnson, amid a string of golden anniversaries that include, this year, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, next year, the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
"LBJ was known as the Vietnam president," said Mark Updegrove, director of the Lyndon Johnson library in Austin. "But I think ultimately he'll be known as the civil rights president."
Quite a change from 1992, when Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton made a campaign stop at the LBJ library but never mentioned Johnson by name -- even though the event took place on Johnson's birthday.
On Wednesday night, Clinton paid tribute to Johnson's "pivotal, brilliant leadership" on civil rights legislation.
"Just as Abraham Lincoln stewarded the 13th Amendment through Congress, Johnson's leadership embodies the power of the presidency to redeem the promise of America," Clinton said..
During his speech, Clinton also echoed previous summit speakers by decrying what he called renewed efforts to restrict voting through voter identification laws and other methods.
Obama speaks Thursday and while not detailing what Obama plans to say, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president has a "deep appreciation" for Johnson's work in pushing the civil rights and voting rights acts.
Those laws ended segregation and removed voting barriers for African Americans and other minorities, transforming American society for decades. One result: the 2008 election of the nation's first African-American president.
"It's fair to say there is a connection between the passing of that legislation and the fact that Barack Obama is president of the United States," Carney said.
Former President George W. Bush also speaks Thursday at the LBJ summit and plans to discuss education as a civil right.
During a summit session on Wednesday, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who helped Johnson with his memoirs and later wrote a biography of him, said LBJ was prouder of the civil rights legislation than any other accomplishment.
"And," she said, "he knew it would stand the test of time."
Yet Johnson, who took office after President John Kennedy's assassination in 1963 and won a landslide election victory over conservative Barry Goldwater in 1964, declined to run again in 1968. His presidency fell apart amid the discord spawned by escalation of the war in Vietnam, as critics denounced Johnson for having a "credibility gap."
Johnson's "Great Society" legislation also triggered a new conservative political movement that contributed to Republican Richard Nixon's presidential election in 1968 and Ronald Reagan's triumph a dozen years later.
Now Johnson supporters say his record is being re-examined in total, both his domestic and foreign policy actions.
Barnes said the array of legislation that Johnson signed – including Medicare, Head Start, immigration and environmental bills, as well as the civil rights laws – created "the framework and the foundation of our government today."
During his summit appearance on Tuesday night, Carter -- the first of the three Democrats to be elected since Johnson -- praised his "great insight and political courage and wisdom and tenacity."
Carter, a state legislator in Georgia when the civil rights laws passed, said Johnson "literally changed my personal life and the life of everyone in America."


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The FBI's decision to investigate newly discovered emails has reignited the controversy over Hillary Clinton's private email server—and her campaign has spent the weekend trying to put out the flames.
In a letter made public Friday ,FBI Director James Comey told congressional leaders that investigators had uncovered emails in an unrelated case that may be connected to the agency's inquiry of Clinton's server, which was closed in July without criminal charges. The New York Times reported the emails came from the FBI's investigation of former New York congressman and serial sexter Anthony Weiner, who is married to top Clinton adviser Huma Abedin. Comey said the FBI will investigate whether these emails contain classified information, but said he "cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant."
That uncertainty—combined with the timing of the announcement—has enraged the Clinton campaign, which responded by taking aim at Comey, a Republican who was appointed by President Obama in 2013 for a 10-year-term.
"It's pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right before an election," Clinton said at a rally in Florida Saturday night. "In fact, it's not just strange; it's unprecedented and it is deeply troubling."
Tim Kaine, Clinton's running mate, told Vice News in an interview Friday that the timing of Comey's letter "is very, very troubling." "He should give a clear accounting of exactly what's going on right now," Kaine said.
John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman, published a blog post about the news Saturday that directly cast doubt on Comey's decision making. He called the FBI director's letter as "strange."
"It's an unprecedented intrusion into a close presidential election with less than 11 days until Election Day," Podesta wrote. "But by being vague and obfuscating, Comey opened the door to conspiracy theories, Republican attacks against Hillary, and a surge of fundraising for Trump and his team."
Robby Mook, Clinton's campaign manager, told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that Comey "owes it to the American people, releasing this just a matter of days before the election, to provide all the information."
The content of the new emails is not publicly known, and Comey said he didn't know how long the review would take.


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LONDON — British counter-terror police on Thursday launched a criminal investigation into documents seized from the Brazilian boyfriend of a journalist working to publish secrets from US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.
The development came after Britain's High Court ruled that material seized from David Miranda, the boyfriend and assistant of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, can only be partially examined by police.
London's Metropolitan Police said publication of the "highly sensitive" data seized from 28-year-old Miranda during his detention under anti-terror laws at London's Heathrow Airport on Sunday could cause a risk to life.
"Initial examination of material seized has identified highly sensitive material, the disclosure of which could put lives at risk," Scotland Yard said in a statement.
"As a result the Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) has today begun a criminal investigation."
Miranda's nine-hour detention has outraged campaigners for press freedom who have called for an inquiry into why laws designed to stop terrorists were used to interrogate a journalist's assistant.
Miranda, who had worked with his American boyfriend on the Snowden material, was stopped as he changed planes on his way home to Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. Officials confiscated his laptop, phone, memory cards and other electronic equipment.
Snowden, a former US intelligence contractor, enraged Washington by leaking information on mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency as well as Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency, GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters).
The Guardian has published a series of reports based on files provided by Snowden, who has been granted temporary asylum in Russia as he bids to escape prosecution in the United States.
Britain's High Court ruled Thursday that police and the interior ministry could partially examine the files seized from Miranda for national security purposes, following a legal bid by the Brazilian to stop them.
The Metropolitan Police welcomed the decision, saying they had obtained "thousands of classified intelligence documents" from Miranda's seized equipment, and that examining them would allow them to "protect life and national security".
Miranda's lawyer Gwendolen Morgan said the ruling was a partial victory as it prohibited British authorities from sharing the information with any foreign government "save for the purposes of protection of national security".
The British interior ministry and Scotland Yard now have seven days to prove that the documents raised a genuine threat to Britain's security, she told reporters outside court.
Interior minister Theresa May said before the hearing that the police were right to act if they thought Miranda was carrying material for Greenwald that could be useful to terrorists.
A Home Office spokesman said afterwards: "We are pleased the court has agreed that the police can examine the material as part of their criminal investigation insofar as it falls within the purposes of the original Schedule 7 examination and in order to protect national security."
Separately, David Anderson, Britain's independent reviewer of terror legislation, announced on Thursday that he was launching an investigation into whether the anti-terror laws used to detain Miranda were "lawfully, appropriately and humanely used".
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said of Miranda's detention: "It seems to me a clear misuse of a law."
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Thursday, he said it was becoming "impossible" for journalists to have confidential sources.
"How do I know my conversations with sources are now safe? Well I don't know. In fact, I know the opposite," he told the audience.
On July 20 the left-leaning Guardian, under the supervision of GCHQ experts, destroyed the hard drives and memory chips on which its Snowden material had been saved.
Before Thursday's hearing, Rusbridger had informed government officials that copies of the encrypted files existed outside Britain and that the newspaper was not their sole recipient.
The government has confirmed that Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood — Britain's top civil servant and Prime Minister David Cameron's most senior policy advisor — was sent to tell the Guardian they had to either destroy or return the material, or face legal action.
Cameron has faced calls to address parliament on the matter, while the clampdown on the Guardian has drawn criticism from the EU and the German and Russian governments.