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Roger Federer relaxed before U.S. Open
NEW YORK – The question made Roger Federer smile.
Nothing particularly amusing about asking how he adjusts from playing mostly night matches in the U.S. Open's early rounds to the daytime starts at the end. But the assumption behind the query was cause for delight.
"It's perfect that we're talking semis and finals already," Federer said. "It wasn't like that last year."
No, last year at this time the questions were about whether a remarkable career was sputtering to a halt. He had lost in the second round at Wimbledon and arrived at the U.S. Open wary of a balky back and seeded seventh.
"Last year I was trying to convince myself I did have an opportunity," he conceded Saturday.
"I just kind of felt like it was always going to be for me hard beating top-5, top-10 players," Federer added. "I felt like I had little margin against guys ranked just outside of the top 10 to No. 30 in the world."
He was right. The 17-time major champion lost in the fourth round to 22nd-ranked Tommy Robredo. But this year, a deep run in New York again seems as routine as the celebrities who dot the stands at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Federer took Novak Djokovic to a tense fifth set in the Wimbledon final, reached the title match at the hard-court tuneup in Toronto, then won in Cincinnati. He's seeded No. 2 at Flushing Meadows with second-ranked Rafael Nadal sidelined by a wrist injury.
And considering Federer's lopsided losing record against the Spaniard, the draw is looking mighty friendly.
"What stands out is the opportunity to try to take advantage of the fact that he's not here," Federer said. "It's one less really difficult player to beat, maybe."
The U.S. Open begins Monday with Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka, Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens among the big names playing in the day session. Maria Sharapova and Djokovic take the court on Ashe for the night session.
The unknown with Djokovic is whether he can flip the switch to rediscover his focus after the Wimbledon title followed shortly by his wedding.
"It was a very emotional period," Djokovic said Saturday. "I just felt a little bit flat on the court. I wasn't managing to find that intensity and the perfect mindset. But, you know, it's all normal. It's something that I'm experiencing for the first time, right?"
Djokovic added he was seeking advice from other players who have balanced personal milestones with professional achievements, taking a playful jab at his coach, the twice-married Boris Becker, who "has been through similar experiences in his life more than one time."


text: Ben X Posted November 26, 2018 Shockingly, there seems to have not been a single discussion of Doctor Who on these forums. Well, I was at the in-laws' for a couple of days recently and took advantage of their tv licence to watch all of the Whittaker episodes so far. Spoilered not for plot but for those who might get upset reading the mainly negative opinions of someone who's never been a huge fan of the series but has seen a fair amount of New Who anyway: Spoiler Same as always, really - some promising ideas and visuals let down by clumsy writing and bad acting. A couple of times it felt like they were hitting a really nice Arrival or Pitch Black (the good atmospheric bits, not the cheesy B-movie bits they ripped off previously) vibe, but then some cheesy face-makeup-only alien shows up doing their standard angry/momentarily confused by the Doctor's wackiness acting and it all just ebbs away. The new Doctor is fine - very Tennant-y, perhaps to the point of feeling a little stale. Hopefully they'll find more individuality for her soon. The companions are okay, though the young guy is doing a ropey Sheffield accent, and I don't know why they decided on this - it's not like when Capaldi came along they set it in Scotland and had everyone doing their best drama school Glaswegian. The new music is definitely better than Murray Gold's, though occasionally overwrought when they're doing their reverential episodes about noble historical POCs. Overall, very Russell T Davies, which is definitely not the direction I was hoping for. Any Whovians or casual fans here? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites

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8×8 Buys Into Communications Platforms
Communications service company expands product portfolio, global market coverage through acquisition
Through the acquisition of Singapore-based Wavecell, a specialist in Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS), 8×8 is expanding its product portfolio beyond its core Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) .
The Lowdown: The $125 million acquisition of the 9-year-old company gives 8×8 expanded capabilities in cloud-based communications and API-based services. Wavecell's platform includes capabilities for providing extensible communications services, including SMS, messaging, voice, and video APIs for enterprises and developers.
The Details: Wavecell is a growing developer of CPaaS, which provides solution providers, developers, and businesses with the capability to create a variety of different communications channels, including application-to-person messaging, tools for supporting omnichannel customer journeys, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to communications resources.
The Impact: Via the acquisition, 8×8 will offer its partners and customers a full communications service platform that includes CPaaS, UCaaS, and Call Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS). Additionally, Wavecell will help 8×8 expand its global market presence and sales capacity, particularly in Southeast Asia. According to IDC, the CPaaS market will reach nearly $11 billion by 2022.
The Buzz: "The market opportunity in CPaaS is growing rapidly, and this acquisition enables us to quickly provide these services to our customers around the world," said Vik Verma, CEO of 8×8. "8×8 is now the only cloud provider that owns the full, global-scale, cloud-native technology stack offering voice, video, messaging, and contact center delivered both as prepackaged applications and as enterprise-class APIs. We're excited to welcome the Wavecell employees to the 8×8 family. We now have a significant market presence in Asia and expect to continue to expand in the region and globally in order to meet evolving customer requirements."
"We are delighted to become part of 8×8, one of the world's leading cloud communications platforms. Now is the right time to leverage the global expansion of UCaaS, CCaaS, and CPaaS services to better serve our customers' growing demand for communication services and to continually drive greater innovation," said Olivier Gerhardt, CEO and co-founder of Wavecell.


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Query metrics MBean
Troubleshoot query performance, tune DSE Search configuration and tune server resources.
- Troubleshoot query performance.
- Tune DSE Search configuration, such as the search index schema and caches; and tune server resources, such as the JVM heap.
- Record the amount of time spent to run several main phases of a distributed query on the search index.
- Measure latency in microseconds.
demo.solr with an indexed field
named type, use the following URL to provide the additional
All metrics collected under a given query name are recorded and retrieved separately. If a query name is not provided, all metrics are recorded together.
Main operational phases
- Comprises the time spent by a query request waiting for a thread to execute.
- Comprises the time spent by a single shard to execute the actual index query. This value is computed on the local node executing the shard query.
- Comprises the time spent by a node to retrieve a single row from the database. This value will be computed on the local node hosting the requested data.
- Comprises the total amount of time spent by the coordinator node to distribute the query and gather/process results from shards. This value is computed only on query coordinator nodes. Includes RETRIEVE and EXECUTE in the total.
- Comprises the total server-side time for a search query. Includes COORDINATE and ENQEUE in the total.
Query metrics MBean set operations
Operations are:
- setEnabled(boolean enabled)
- Enables/disables metrics recording. Enabled by default.
- isEnabled()
- Checks if metrics recording is enabled.
- getLatencyPercentile(String phase, String query, double percentile)
- Gets a query latency percentile by its query name, which is optional and can be null, and phase.
- getRecordedLatencyCount(String phase, String query)
- Gets the total count of recorded latency metrics by its query name, which is optional and can be null, and phase.
- getUnrecordedLatencyCount()
- Gets the total count of unrecorded latency values due to exceeding the maximum tracked latency, which is 10 minutes.
- resetLatency(String query)
- Resets latency metrics for the given query name, which is optional and can be null.
- resetLatencies()
- Resets all latency metrics.
Query metrics MBean attributes
Attributes are:
- Enabled
- Indicates whether metrics recording is enabled or disabled.
- EnqueuedRequestCount
- Indicates the number of client requests that are currently waiting for a
query thread.
If the value of the EnqueuedRequestCount MBean increases, or stabilizes above zero for a prolonged period, then DSE Search has reached a point of maximum throughput, where additional load will only increases latencies.
To access this attribute, use the
-foption with the
nodetool sjkcommand, as shown in the following example.
nodetool sjk -p 7199 mx -mg \ -b com.datastax.bdp:type=search,index=demo.solr,name=QueryMetrics \ -f EnqueuedRequestCount
- UnrecordedLatencyCount
- The total count of unrecorded latency values due to exceeding the maximum tracked latency, which is 10 minutes.


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African American quilters are well represented at the bi-annual East Cobb Quilt Show. Jeanette Walton's quilt Not Fast Food earned a Blue Ribbon in its category.
There is much to see at the East Cobb Quilt Show, including approximately 400 quilts, vendors and a silent auction. It opened Friday and continues through Sunday at the Cobb County Civic Center in Marietta, GA. Admission is $8.00.
Jeanette says she spent more hours than she cares to remember on this quilt. It was well worth the effort. Congratulations!
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Article originally posted in February 2016. Updated following confirmation from the society that they had withdrawn the appeal after the terms were varied by mutual consent to extend it to April 2017 and the ICO had subsequently confirmed satisfaction that the Society had met the terms of the notice.
On 5th January 2016 the Information Commissioner ("ICO") served an Enforcement Notice ("EN") on the Alzheimer's Society under s40 of the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act"). The background is set out in the EN and need not be repeated here save to note that there is a clear history of concern on the part of the ICO as to whether the Society was complying with its duties under the Act.
The Society is appealing against the EN, or at least some parts of it and this has garnered much criticism in some quarters (see e.g. here including an adverse comment by me), to the effect that the Society should simply get on with what it should do to comply and not waste charity monies on unmerited appeals. The Society defended its actions essentially on the basis that aspects of the EN are unclear and this is particularly unfair (they said) given that they have limited resources. Resource is a relevant issue – see Schedule 1 Part II Paragraph 9 of the Act. The basis of the appeal was set out here in a December 2016 update.
As a matter of law one must have some sympathy with their position. Failure to comply with an EN is a criminal offence. See s47. An EN may therefore effectively be equated with a court order. It is clear law in many areas that a court order must be precise and capable of being understood by the person to whom it is directed. That person must be clear and in no doubt as to the steps that are required for compliance. An issue here clearly is whether an EN should be similarly clear given the potential sanction for breach
As indicated the full basis of the appeal was not disclosed but consider paragraph 9 of the EN which perhaps most clearly raises the issues:
"Appropriate organisational and technical measures are taken against the unauthorised access by staff (including volunteers) to personal data"
That is effectively a statement of the requirement in data protection principle 7. But the EN does not say what ICO considers to be appropriate on the facts of the case. How will the Society know if and when it has met the relevant standard? Is this part of the Order sufficiently clear? Privacy and data protection advisers will know just how difficult it is in practice to set the relevant standard for a particular organisation, given that the standard is mutable having reference to the factors set out in paragraphs 9-12 of Schedule 1 Part II.
Similar issues arise on other parts of the EN but perhaps to a lesser extent. For example paragraph 5 refers to encryption ".. which meets the current standard or equivalent". Which current standard? AES? DES? 128 bit? 256 bit? Quantum cryptography?
The appeal if it had been pursued raised therefore a matter of general importance relating to EN's. This issue can arise in other areas. For example a subject may claim he has not received all the personal data he is entitled to following a subject access request under s7 of the Act. The ICO on investigation agrees and orders the data controller to disclose "all the personal data to which the subject is entitled", or something similar, where one issue was whether certain information was or was not 'personal data'. Is that acceptable or must the ICO go through the material and decide and specify exactly what he considers to be personal data so that the data controller is in no doubt at all what he needs to disclose?
A decision in this case would have brought some welcome clarity.
In fairness I must mention the defence in s47(2) of the Act. A data controller is not guilty of an offence if he "exercised all due diligence to comply with the notice in question". There may be an issue as to whether, and as to the extent to which, the availability of this defence moderates the requirement that an EN be precise. Where the EN is as vague as paragraph 9 I have my doubts as to how much it can do so. It may be possible to assess due diligence for requirement 5 (encryption standard) where there are some definitive published guidelines but how do you test due diligence for a requirement which is not actually specified and has such a wide range of variables as set out in the Act.
The defence may actually make a non-specific EN practically worthless. Compliance could become a tick-box exercise in producing documentation and accepted risk assessments to set your own standards. Unless you set these at a level which no reasonable data controller could possibly accept the due diligence defence would always be available.
In summary paragraph 9 of the EN does not appear, as required by s40, to specify the steps required for compliance with principle 7. It simply appears to specify and repeat that the data controller must comply with principle 7 – which is already a legal duty.
Finally it is interesting to note and compare the undertaking that the Society signed in February 2010. It does contain some similarly vague terms e.g. "Physical security measures are adequate…" although the equivalent of paragraph 9 of the EN actually let them decide for itself what standard was adequate; "The data controller shall implement such other security measures as it deems appropriate… ". There may equally be a lesson for anyone contemplating giving an undertaking – make sure there is no doubt what you need to do to comply with your own promises.


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Inheritance in java (IS-A relationship) is referred to the ability where child objects inherit or acquire all the properties and behaviors from parent object. In object oriented programming, inheritance is used to promote the code re-usability.
In this Java tutorial, we will learn about inheritance types supported in Java and how inheritance is achieved in Java applications.
Table of Contents 1. What is inheritance 2. Types of Inheritance in Java - 2.1. Single Inheritance - 2.2. Multilevel Inheritance - 2.3. Hierarchical Inheritance - 2.4. Multiple inheritance 3. Accessing Inherited Super Class Members - 3.1. Constructors - 3.2. Fields - 3.3. Methods 4. Summary
1. What is inheritance in Java
As said before, inheritance is all about inheriting the common state and behavior of parent class (super class) by it's derived class (sub class or child class). A sub class can inherit all non-private members from super class, by default.
In java, extends keyword is used for inheritance between classes. let's see a quick inheritance example.
1.1. Java inheritance example
Let's say we have
Employee class. Employee class has all common attributes and methods which all employees must have within organization. There can be other specialized employees as well e.g.
Manager. Managers are regular employees of organization but, additionally, they have few more attributes over other employees e.g. they have reportees or subordinates.
Let's design above classes.
public class Employee { private Long id; private String firstName; private String lastName; public Long getId() { return id; } public void setId(Long id) { this.id = id; } public String getFirstName() { return firstName; } public void setFirstName(String firstName) { this.firstName = firstName; } public String getLastName() { return lastName; } public void setLastName(String lastName) { this.lastName = lastName; } @Override public String toString() { return "Employee [id=" + id + ", firstName=" + firstName + ", lastName=" + lastName + "]"; } }
import java.util.List; public class Manager extends Employee { private List<Employee> subordinates; public List<Employee> getSubordinates() { return subordinates; } public void setSubordinates(List<Employee> subordinates) { this.subordinates = subordinates; } @Override public String toString() { return "Manager [subordinates=" + subordinates + ", details=" + super.toString() + "]"; } }
In above implementation, employees have common attributes like
firstName and
lastName; while manager has it's specialized
subordinates attribute only. To inherit all non-private members from
Employee class (in this case getter and setter methods),
Manager extends Employee is used.
Let's see how it works?
public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Manager mgr = new Manager(); mgr.setId(1L); mgr.setFirstName("Lokesh"); mgr.setLastName("Gupta"); System.out.println(mgr); } }
Program Output.
Manager [subordinates=null, details=Employee [id=1, firstName=Lokesh, lastName=Gupta]]
Manager class is able to use members of
Employee class. This very behavior is called inheritance. Simple, isn't it?
Now consider if we do not use inheritance. Then we would have defined id, firstName and lastName in both classes. It would have caused code duplication which always create problems in code maintenance.
2. Types of inheritance in Java
In Java, inheritance can be one of four types – depending on classes hierarchy. Let's learn about all four types of inheritances.
2.1. Single inheritance
This one is simple. There is one Parent class and one Child class. One child class extends one parent class. It's single inheritance. The above example code (employee and manager) is example of single inheritance.
2.2. Multi-level inheritance
In multilevel inheritance, there will be inheritance between more than three classes in such a way that a child class will act as parent class for another child class. Let's understand with a diagram.
In above example, Class
B extends class
A, so class
B is child class of class
A. But
C extends
B, so
B is parent class of
C. So
B is parent class as well as child class also.
2.3. Hierarchical inheritance
In hierarchical inheritance, there is one super class and more than one sub classes extend the super class.
These subclasses
D will share the common members inherited from
A, but they will not be aware of members from each other.
2.4. Multiple inheritance
In multiple inheritance, a class can inherit the behavior from more than one parent classes as well. Let's understand with diagram.
In diagram,
D is extending class
A and
B, both. In this way,
D can inherit the non-private members of both the classes.
BUT, in java, you cannot use
extends keyword with two classes. So, how multiple inheritance will work?
Till JDK 1.7, multiple inheritance was not possible in java. But from JDK 1.8 onwards, multiple inheritance is possible via use of interfaces with default methods.
3. Accessing inherited parent class members
Now we know that using four types of inheritance mechanisms, we can access non-private members of parent classes. Let's see how individual member can be accessed.
3.1. Parent class constructors
Constructors of super class can be called via
super keyword. There are only two rules:
super()call must be made from child class constructor.
super()call must be first statement inside constructor.
public class Manager extends Employee { public Manager() { //This must be first statement inside constructor super(); //Other code after super class } }
3.2. Parent class fields
In java, non-private member fields can be inherited in child class. You can access them using dot operator e.g.
manager.id. Here
id attribute is inherited from parent class
You need to be careful when dealing with fields with same name in parent and child class. Remember that java fields cannot be overridden. Having same name field will hide the field from parent class – while accessing via child class.
In this case, attribute accessed will be decided based on the class of reference type.
ReferenceClass variable = new ActualClass();
In above case, member field will be accessed from
ReferenceClass. e.g.
//Parent class public class Employee { public Long id = 10L; } //Child class public class Manager extends Employee { public Long id = 20L; //same name field } public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Employee manager = new Manager(); System.out.println(manager.id); //Reference of type Employee Manager mgr = new Manager(); System.out.println(mgr.id); //Reference of type Manager } } Output: 10 20
3.3. Parent class methods
Opposite to field access, method access uses the type of actual object created in runtime.
java]ReferenceClass variable = new ActualClass();[/java]
In above case, member method will be accessed from
ActualClass. e.g.
public class Employee { private Long id = 10L; public Long getId() { return id; } } public class Manager extends Employee { private Long id = 20L; public Long getId() { return id; } } public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { Employee employee = new Employee(); //Actual object is Employee Type System.out.println(employee.getId()); Employee manager = new Manager(); //Actual object is Manager Type System.out.println(manager.getId()); Manager mgr = new Manager(); //Actual object is Manager Type System.out.println(mgr.getId()); } } Output: 10 20 20
4. Summary
Let's summarize what we learned about java inheritance:
- Inheritance is also known IS-A relationship.
- It provides child class the ability to inherit non-private members of parent class.
- In java, inheritance is achieved via
- From Java 8 onward, you can use interfaces with default methods to achieve multiple inheritance.
- Member fields are accessed from reference type class.
- Member methods are accessed from actual instance types.
Drop me any question, you might have, in comments section.
Happy Learning !!


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Memphis Sheik Yasir Qadhi joined Islamist activist Linda Sarsour and fellow activist and Hamas supporter Nihad Awad to collectively state their opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding key parts of President Trump's Executive Order (EO) while attending the Islamic Society of North America's (ISNA) 54th annual convention in Chicago earlier this month.
Their opposition to the ban was captured in this tweet:
Government shouldn't be in the business of defining "bona fide relationships" & excluding grandparents, etc. Unacceptable. #NoMuslimBanEver pic.twitter.com/qrndrFwe7x
— MPower Change (@MPower_Change) June 29, 2017
The temporary travel ban from Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Iran and Yemen remain in effect except for those refugees "who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States" although they must still satisfy all security vetting. The EO's limit of 50,000 refugee admissions for the current fiscal year was also upheld by the court.
Iraq was dropped from the revised travel ban after it agreed to accept Iraqi deportees from the U.S.
Sheik Qadhi is the resident scholar at the Memphis Islamic Center, Dean of Academic Affairs of AlMaghrib Institute and an "expert" with the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA).
Linda Sarsour recently gained notoriety when she called for a "jihad" against President Trump's policies. She is devout in her anti-Israel activism working to delegitimize the State of Israel through the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement. She is the director of the Arab American Association of New York.
Nihad Awad is a co-founder and Executive Director of CAIR, and a supporter of the terrorist group Hamas.
Sheik Qadhi's opposition to the Court's ruling is not surprising, given his statement in 2007 suggesting that he will not necessarily follow the law of the land – "we are loyal to our countries insofar as it does not conflict with our religion of Islam." Similarly, in another of his youtube videos Manifestations of Kufr (Disbelief) he disavows the authority the U.S. Constitution vests in the judicial and legislative branches of government to articulate the governing law:
[i]t is not my right to legislate or your right to legislate. No Supreme Court, no system of government, no democracy where they vote. Can you believe it, a group of people coming together and voting and the majority vote will be the law of the land? What gives you the right to prohibit something or allow something?
The three activists are regularly featured speakers at Islamist political conferences. In fact, Sarsour and Qadhi were featured speakers at ISNA's April conference in Memphis. ISNA is a named unindicted co-conspirator in the federal 2008 successful Holy Land Foundation (HLF) terrorism financing prosecution.
Awad's organization CAIR, was also named an unindicted co-conspirator in the same prosecution and like ISNA, was denied having that status removed. In his ruling, the federal judge held that:
[t]he Government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT with HLF [Holy Land Foundation], the Islamic Association for Palestine ("IAP"), and with Hamas
In 1994, Awad was a panelist at a university symposium on the Middle East when he publicly declared "I am in support of the Hamas movement." The following year, the U.S. government designated Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization.
Immediately after the Supreme Court issued its decision on the EO, Awad claimed that the travel ban was based on "anti-Muslim bigotry" but ignored the fact that the Obama administration also restricted travel from the same countries.
The message Sarsour delivered at the ISNA convention in Chicago earlier this month is even more direct:
Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and to please any other people in authority. Our obligation is to our young people, is to our women, to make sure our women are protected in our community, and our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah and only Allah.
We are never to cower to the powers that be, we are never to give up any part of our identity so somebody else can open a door for us. If a door does not open, guess what we do? We build a new door and walk through our own door, because we have that right in this country to also open opportunities for us and other communities.
Sarsour, Awad and Qadhi are free to object to, protest, speak out against and even stir up resistance to the Court's holding, but in our constitutional republic, they won't have the last word.


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Lots of quilters (and non-quilters) came through on both days.
Sixty two of my own quilts were hanging throughout my Studio and the "Retreat Suite".
Five of them were hanging off the balcony, and two were on the walls outside the two entrance doors.
Inside we had the "Stash Slash", and the quilters were having fun sorting through all the Fat Quarters and books for sale.
Some of the hubbies who came were also into it!
One quilter said that she was on her way to pick up her dogs when she saw the "Open House" signs, and the car just turned in!!
Quilt Studio with Longarm Machine.
Here you see the longarm quilting machine in the foreground.
Longarm Quilting demos were ongoing throughout the day.
Lots of ladies and their husbands loved the longarm quilting machine and could see how it would save a lot of time in the quilting process.
There were treats at the end of the quilt trail – coffee and cookies in the mini kitchen of the "Retreat Suite" along with a draw for "2 Nights for the Price of 1" in the "Retreat Suite".
The lucky winner is Sheila Hunter from Bowen Island.
We look forward to having her come to a retreat sometime in the near future!
This is the living room to relax in, if you decide to take a break!!!
Quilt Design Wall - This is my design wall with one of my creations coming to "life"
Everyone who came had some kind words to say about the quilts and the Studio and Suite.
Some visitors even called on Monday and came to see the quilts, as well as several more of the neighbors.
Christmas is coming!!!
If you wish to buy one of these quilts or make one yourself, contact me, I can help.
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Just like everything in this world, having a flat tire is also inevitable especially if you are always on the road. For some who knew how to change a flat tire, this task can be child's play. But what if you are unprepared for this task?
Here is comprehensive yet shortened steps that can help you in replacing your flat tire.
Visualize your Situation
So, you have a flat tire. Do you have tools to replace it? Do you have an extra tire to use? If the answer to these are yes, then move aside and look for a spot where you can start your task. Bring out your tools.
What do you need? Make sure you have your lug wrench, a jack, and spare tire.
Remove the Flat Tire
To remove the flat tire, secure your car first with a wheel chock or a big stone to make sure that your car won't roll once it is up in the air. With your lug wrench, position yourself under your car and start removing the lug nuts out of the flat tire.
Position your jack under the wheel you are trying to remove. Find the jack point and position your jack to crank up the wheel until it goes up. Once you see a distance between the wheel and the ground, you can safely remove the tire.
Remove the loosened lug nuts then take off the flat tire.
Putting the Spare in Its Place
Before you put your spare tire in its place, check it first. Check its pressure. Know if you need to stop to a service station once you put in the new tire.
Align the spare wheel with the holes and studs. Push it in. Place the lugs back, tighten it. Once all lugs are secure with your wrench, put the car down by turning the jack in the opposite direction.
Once the new tire is on the ground, double-check the lugs, make sure all is fit and tight. Now you can drive slowly and check if you feel anything on your new tire. Everything feels okay? Then all is good!
Handy Tools You Might Need
Just to be on the safe side, it would be great as well if you can have gloves, rain jacket, wheel wedges, flashlights with batteries, and a mat on your car. These items can make your tire-changing experience a lot easier.
Also, knowing how to replace your flat tire is good but knowing how to care for your tires is better. Remember, it is always better to prevent an issue than to solve one.
Make sure to always check your tire pressure. Inflate it properly and regularly. Understand how to rotate your tires properly in accordance with your car manufacturer's guidelines. According to professionals, you should rotate your tires every 5000 to 7000 miles. This will ensure that tires will wear at the same time. Also, don't forget to check your tire tread's depth on a regular basis.
Tire maintenance doesn't just prevent having a flat tire, it can also lengthen the life of your tires.


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Time is an extremely important factor in "Young Justice," and it becomes even more important as the series continues. In "Downtime" it is specifically mentioned that Aqualad has been gone from Atlantis only two months, and the time stamps at the start of each episode verify that. With this episode, it starts to get complicated.
At the close of the last episode, Batman talked of a power surge in the Bialyan desert, with the intent of sending in The Team, the Justice League's secret stealth weapon. Now we find them in that desert, in September, with no memory of the last four to six months. Something bad has happened.
Bialya is a fictional Libya stand-in, first created in the post-Crisis Justice League reboot, a hostile nation ruled by a madman, and then a metahuman super-villainess called the Queen Bee. She uses both subtle and direct mind control to get what she wants. Later when The Team's memories are restored, Queen Bee's rule is verified.
Meanwhile in the desert, Miss Martian is surprised to be on Earth, speaking Martian, and in this costume. Superboy is in an apparently mindless rage. There is Robin confused by the time loss, Kid Flash with no knowledge of why he's wearing black (his stealth suit), and Artemis with Wally with no idea why she's wearing a costume and thinking this is one of her dad's tests – he probably wants her to kill Kid Flash.
Slowly the teens come together (sans Superboy and Aqualad), and Miss Martian helps to restore some of their memories. They are there to investigate an energy surge of non-terrestrial nature. It's noted the site is lousy with Zeta Beam radiation. In the comics, the Zeta Beam teleports Adam Strange back and forth from Earth to Rann and vice-versa. Also, Wally and Artemis, with memories or attitudes, are getting a bit closer. Later it does much the same to Megan and Superboy.
While The Team sees to Aqualad, because Atlanteans, especially guys with gills, don't do well in deserts, Miss Martian attempts to rescue Superboy. His memory loss is bad, because six months ago, he didn't even exist. She comes upon something more dangerous however – Psimon. This old Marv Wolfman/George Perez New Teen Titans villain, voiced by Alan Tudyk of "Firefly," is the one who made The Team forget.
After a mental duel that Megan wins spectacularly, The Team regroups on the other side of the border in equally fictional and hostile Qurac (sitting in for Iraq). The Light's delivery system was a success, and the Sphere it brought through attached itself to Superboy. Known on its homeworld of New Genesis as the New Genesphere, which can transform into the sentient Super-Cycle from the old Forever People comics by Jack Kirby, but the kids don't know any of that, yet…


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Malawi High Commissioner to UK receives London Freedom of the City
The Malawi High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on Monday, 27th March, 2017 received the Freedom of the City of London, becoming an honorary citizen of the city.
The ceremony conferring High Commissioner Kenna Mphonda took place in London at the Guidhill court and was sworn in by the Remembrancer Paul Double.
High Commissioners and Ambassadors from Zambia, Gabon and Ivory Coast among others witnessed the ceremony.
Prominent Malawians including academician Dr. Mpalive Msiska and businessman Kirk Thakrar also were in attendance.
High Commissioner Mphonda is the first Malawian diplomat to receive the honour, whose past recipients include Malawi's founding President Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, South Africa's anti-apartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Late Princess Diana and Malawian based in London, Augustine Chipungu.


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Kellyn Pot'vin-Gorman contrasts SQL Server versus Oracle outputs when running a couple common Linux process commands:
In our Oracle environment, we can see every background process, with it's own pid and along with the process monitor, (pmon)db writer, (dbwr), log writer, (lgwr), we also have archiving, (arcx), job processing, (j00x) performance and other background processing. I didn't even grep for the Oracle executable, so you recognize how quickly we can see what is running.
In the SQL Server environment, we only have two processes- our parent process is PID 7 and the child is 9 for SQL Server and nothing to distinguish what they actually are doing. If we decide to use the pmap utility to view what the parent and child process aredoing, we see only sqlservr as the mapping information.
I imagine that things like this will improve over time for SQL Server, but Oracle definitely has a leg up in this regard.


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So I already slipped up with one of my 2012 goals!! No!! I wanted to take and post a picture a day but after a busy day of traveling home from New York City, picking up the dogs from the boarder, traveling back to Mom and Dad's to pick up Kaydin, and then napping the afternoon away because we got no sleep the night before, I just didn't get a post out yesterday. But... i took the pic yesterday so that counts...right?? :) And it's a pretty special, once in a lifetime pic!
So hopefully I stick with my new goal of expanding my photography skills by posting one picture a day (my goal is 5 times per week). Follow me on this journey!


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For those of you who are still waiting for the notification from Verizon regarding the new Android 2.2 Froyo update on the original Motorola Droid, we have an update from the carrier to share with you.
As reported from Droid-Life, new information has been obtained via a leaked Verizon document, which confirms a cut-off date for the new update, identified as FRG22D – which adds a downloadable version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to the Android Market.
The date in question is September 4th. The document states that all Motorola Droid owners should receive the notification by then. Question is though – have you got the update already?
At least you know that you haven't been forgotten by Verizon. Let us know your thoughts on this.
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What's going on in the Woods of the Wekiva? January, 2016 edition
Central Florida's version of winter is upon us. Like the other seasons, there are plenty of signs that winter is here, but this winter is not necessarily evident in colder temperatures and low humidity with no precipitation. In fact, we have mostly experienced just the opposite during this winter.


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"Vision," Danelle Umstead says, "is to have sight, an idea, or a dream." Danelle's immediate dream is to win gold for the U.S. in alpine skiing at the upcoming Paralympic Winter Games (March 7–16) at Sochi, Russia. Danelle teams with husband Rob Umstead who acts as her coach and sighted guide as they race through the courses. Rooting the couple on in Sochi will be Aziza, Danelle's new guide dog. Danelle began working with Aziza this past summer, after her longtime guide dog Bettylynn (shown here with Danelle and Rob) was forced to retire due to optic nerve atrophy. Bettylynn will be pulling for the couple back at their home in Park City, Utah, with their son Brocton.
At the age of 13, Danelle was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a genetic eye condition where the retina progressively degenerates and eventually causes complete darkness. Her vision is "spotted" and she can only see up to three to five feet in front of her, and even then, only contrasting colors without any level of detail. In 2011 she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Still, none of these hurdles have kept Danelle from achieving her best.
Danelle was introduced to adaptive skiing by her father in 2000, who acted as her guide. She quickly fell in love with the sport—the freedom, the speed, the exhilaration. After she began training and working fulltime with Rob in 2008, competitive success soon followed with Paralympic Bronze medals in Vancouver, 2010, nine World Cup podiums and Paralympics Alpine Skiing National Championships. Her success relies heavily on trust and communication—100 percent trust in Rob as he guides her down the hill at top speed. It's similar to the trust and communication that she had with BettyLynn and is working to build with Aziza. Danelle and Rob have created Vision4Gold.org as a vehicle to mentor junior disabled athletes by sharing her story and offering encouragement. We're hopeful that Danelle realizes her vision in Sochi.
Update: Danelle has finished 5th and 4th in her first two Paralympic events at Sochi and hopes to climb the medal stand sometime in her next three races.


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The Good Wife vet Archie Panjabi is returning to her former CBS stomping grounds for a guest spot on the network's sophomore drama Bull.
Just like Michael Weatherly's TAC team leader, Panjabi's character — the brilliant Arti Cander — "is a trial scientist as well," Bull showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron tells TVLine of Panjabi's one-off appearance, in Episode 8. "We're very excited to have her."
Bull returns this Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 9/8c on CBS.
EW.com first reported the casting.
Ready for more of today's newsy nuggets? Well…
* Fox's live musical adaptation of Rent will air on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019 — yes, 2019 — from 7-10 pm ET (and on tape delay PT).
* HBO has ordered a pilot and backup scripts for Avenue 5 (working title), a potential new comedy series from Veep creator Armando Iannucci that's set in the future and mostly in space, our sister site Deadline reports.
* Paramount Network (formerly known as Spike TV) will launch on Thursday, Jan. 18 at 9 pm with a live episode of Lip Sync Battle.
* History will premiere its new drama series Knightfall, starring Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey), on Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 10 pm. The show centers around "the medieval politics and warfare of the Knights Templar, the most powerful, wealthy and mysterious military order of the Middle Ages who were entrusted with protecting Christianity's most precious relics." Check out a new trailer below:


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Thousands of talented singers, bands and models from 10 regions worldwide are able to audition for the 2016 L.A. Music Awards without leaving home, thanks to the ground-breaking online audition submission and management platform created by Tampa Florida-based Virdition.com, a web-based virtual audition management and networking platform.
Talented performers from the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Russia, Africa, East Asia, South Asia and Oceania all start out on an equal playing field for the online competition, which will lead to forty regional winners earning an all-expenses paid trip to Hollywood to compete for on the televised, LA Music Awards at the historic Avalon Theater November 8-11, 2016.
Contestants will compete in four categories: Rock, Pop and Country and Supermodel, with the Grand Prize winner earning cash and/or a record contract, and a jump start to the fame and fortune that all performers dream of.
The Virdition virtual audition platform was developed by former dancer and talent manager William Quinones as a result of his own firsthand experiences trying to break into show business with limited access to opportunities critical to establishing a successful career in the entertainment industry—mainly, overcoming geographic and financial limitations.
"The Virdition platform offers a huge benefit to talent and agents of all types all over the world, because it gives them the ability to audition live online via video conference," Quinones said. "It also gives talent the ability to create a portfolio with pictures, videos, audio and a biography for talent agents and competition judges to review."
Making auditions for the L.A. Music Awards available to performers from around the world, Virdition's platform provides a virtual audition via video conferencing and other tools.
Originally developed as a tool for producers, casting directors and agents, the Virdition audition management platform delivers a platform that streamlines the traditional audition process with an intuitive online strategy that includes tools for viewing and scoring each audition, managing the elimination process and involving social media communities in selecting a winner. Virdition's technology allows users to schedule live online videoconference auditions with up to four finalists simultaneously.
Unlike other talent and entertainment industry sites, Virdition offers a complete online audition management system integrated into one networking platform that allows industry professionals and talent to interact in a live audition without leaving their home or office.
Auditions can be posted, portfolios created, and agents can submit material on behalf of their clients. Casting notifications can be sent out through Virdition's automated system, without the expense of booking rooms or making travel arrangements, since the entire audition process can be completed online.
Talent and modeling agencies can even forward auditions from their clients to others in their network, allowing talent to submit their material directly to the client for review while noting who the referring agent is.
"For the entertainment industry professional, this streamlined platform delivers a huge benefit to talent of all types, all over the world, " Quinones said. "Because they will be able to create a comprehensive portfolio for agents to review, and possibly get themselves added to the agent's network,"
The Virdition site also provides performers with thousands of active auditions and competitions seeking talented performers just starting out, as well as seasoned performers looking for new work.


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Commenting a NYT article on Poland, Dr. Chodakiewicz points out that the decisions of the new government in Poland are based on the same premises as those taken in America after the presidential election in 2009.
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Prof. Marek Chodakiewicz speaks at Yale APAC conference
On Sunday, December 7, Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz spoke at the American Polish Advisory Council's conference on "Poland's Emerging Role in Shaping Global Security & the US-Polish Partnership" at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
During the conference, Dr. Chodakiewicz, who currently holds the Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies at IWP, participated in a panel discussion on panel on "25 Years of Democracy in Poland and the US-Polish Partnership: Military Cooperation, Trade, and Common Objectives." Other speakers at the conference included Honorable Boguslaw Winid, Poland's Ambassador to the United Nations, and Jaroslaw Strozyk, Poland's Defense Attaché in Washington.
An outline of his remarks can be found below.
Photo courtesy of the American Polish Advisory Council.
Poland's Integrated Strategy:
An Outline
Poland needs integrated strategy, one that encompasses many tools of statecraft. However, to play at the global scale, one must have the means to do so. Poland does not. It should acquire them. Meanwhile, it should either lay low and reform or make popular noises at the international level, in other words, bluff, and reform.
Poland can try to go it alone, which is unadvisable, or seek an alliance for security. At the moment it has NATO. However, the US is confused and Western Europe unwilling to step up to the task of defending NATO member states in the post-Soviet zone. "Leading from behind" will continue until a regime change in Washington, but a new administration, after, 2016, may or may not be willing to provide leadership for the alliance.
Meanwhile, despite America's malaise, Poland needs to reform internally to be able to defend itself. The following should be done:
- Favor an economic system with low taxes, few regulation, and even fewer government bureaucrats; avoid EU regulations like the plague or learn to overcome them.
- Support a social system that encourages high birth rates and love of country.
- Relax gun laws.
- Encourage grass roots self-defense forces, starting with gun and rifle clubs (bractwa kurkowe).
- Foster paramilitary activities involving girl and boy scouts and other youthful volunteers.
- Set up territorial defense from above based upon the Swiss model.
- Establish throughout the nation a multitude of state arsenals with small arms and individual, portable defense systems, including anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles. They are more efficient and economically feasible than expensive weapons systems they are designed to destroy like planes, helicopters, tanks, and armored vehicles.
- Train both paramilitaries and territorial defense soldiers both male and female.
- Re-institute a two track draft — for national defense or for national service (e.g., for hospital or school service).
- Assemble a small professional elite armed forces, including special forces.
- De-Communize and de-Sovietize the current brass. No post-Communist mentality permitted.
- Procure defensive nuclear weapons as deterrent: first step, of course, would be to acquire a nuclear reactor, which would also benefit Poland's energy sector.
Meanwhile, the Polonia should put its money where its mouth is. Support pro-Polish and Polonian initiatives. Be proud and strong. Lobby both in DC and in Warsaw. Pressure the Polish government to make Poland into a venue into the EU for American interests, including to institute affirmative action for Polish American businessmen.
Peace can only come through strength.
Transformacja czy niepodleglosc released in Poland
Marek Chodakiewicz's new book entitled Trasnformacja czy niepodległość? was released at an event in Warsaw, Poland on June 12. A video of the event can be found below.
The book, which assesses the past quarter-century of post-communism in Poland, can be purchased online here.
Kościuszko Chair holds Fourth Annual Spring Symposium
On Saturday, 12 April, the Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies at IWP hosted its Fourth Annual Spring Symposium, one of the Chair's two semi-annual conferences devoted to the historical, cultural, geopolitical, economic, and other aspects of Poland and the Intermarium.
The first speaker, Mr. Michael Szpindor-Watson, a doctoral candidate in economics at George Mason University, spoke on the impact of climate change on the persecutions and expulsions of Jews in Europe from 1300-1795. He pointed out that while climate shocks exacerbated tensions between Christians and Jews and often led to the persecution or even expulsions of the latter, the same positive correlation was not true of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which was known as the "Jewish Paradise" (Paradisus Iudaeorum).
Dr. Elizabeth Radziszewski — Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University — delivered a presentation on "Competition, Accountability, and the Private Military Industry." Although the topic of private military contractors has been a controversial one, Dr. Radziszewski pointed out that competition among several firms had a positive impact on the accountability and effectiveness of the private contractor firms.
Dr. Wojciech Jerzy Muszyński of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) in Warsaw, Poland, deconstructed the attempts of post-modernist scholars and pundits to pin the blame for the vast and bloody crimes perpetrated by Marxists-Leninists on "nationalism." As an expert of the Polish nationalist (anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet) underground during the Second World War, Dr. Muszyński spoke about Bolesław Piasecki, who started out as a radical nationalist in interwar Poland, continued as the leader of a small Piłsudskiite underground resistance outfit during the war, and ended up collaborating with the communists after the Soviet occupation. In communist-occupied Poland, Piasecki was best known as the leader of a small pro-regime "progressive Catholic" organization/publishing house, PAX. Dr. Muszyński explained all the seemingly sharp twists and turns in Piasecki's political path — pointing out that the head of PAX had always been an "iron pragmatic" utilizing whatever ideology suited his ultimate goal, power — debunking the revisionist myth of communism as "socialist in form, but nationalist in content."
For more of Dr. Muszynski's thoughts on Mikołaj S. Kunicki's book on Bolesław Piasecki, please click here.
Father Jarosław Wiśniewski — a Polish-born Catholic missionary — shared his experiences from the two decades he spent propagating the faith in the post-Soviet zone, including places such as: Rostov on the Don, Uzbekistan, Sakhalin Island, and Kamchatka Peninsula. The Reverend highlighted the human rights abuses in post-Soviet Russia, including violations of religious freedom. The Russian Orthodox Church, which — as Farther Wiśniewski pointed out, is led by "KGB officers dressed in priestly robes" — has been waging a fierce battle against Catholicism, targeting especially (but not only) priests of Polish descent. Some, as he pointed out, were even murdered by "unknown culprits" or died in suspicious "accidents." This is an insight into the mindset and modus operandi of the post-Soviet Russian ruling establishment.
Investing in Cuba: Dr. Chodakiewicz mentioned
The Institute of World Politics was recently mentioned—along with the Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies, and its current holder, Dr. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz—in Anólan Ponce's article in the Cuban-American Spanish-language newspaper, the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald.
Entitled "Las inversiones en Cuba y el amor a la patria" [Investing in Cuba and patriotism], the piece argues that investment in their communist-occupied homeland by Cuban-Americans will server primarily to bail out a regime whose Marxist economic policies destroyed the nation's economy. Mr. Ponce quoted Dr. Chodakiewicz's article, "Carbon Copy Communism," which demonstrated that the communist regime in Poland followed the same blueprint that the Castro regime is attempting to implement now by wooing exiled businessmen. The goal was not only to obtain Western cash, but also to utilize the diaspora to spread propaganda that the communist system is allegedly no longer a totalitarian dictatorship. In other words, Havana is attempting to pull off a great deception operation.
New York Times publishes letter to the editor about Smolensk
The New York Times has recently published a letter to the editor entitled "Dismissing the 'Smolensk Religion,'" written by Kosciuszko Chair Research Assistant Pawel Styrna.
The letter criticizes an article by Artur Domoslawski, which attacks those who believe that the 2010 Smolensk plane crash was more than an accident.
Persian Hospitality: The Poles from the Gulag in Iran
On November 2, 2013, Pawel Styrna, Research Assistant for the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies, discussed "Persian Hospitality: The Poles from the Gulag in Iran" at the Sixth Annual Kosciuszko Chair Conference at The Institute of World Politics.
Video by Adam Savit, Center for Security Policy
The Children of the Victims of the Polish Operation of the NKVD
On November 2, 2013, Dr. Tomasz Sommer discussed "The Children of the Victims of the Polish Operation of the NKVD" at the Sixth Annual Kosciuszko Chair Lecture at The Institute of World Politics.
Video by Adam Savit, Center for Security Policy
Sixth Annual Kosciuszko Chair Conference held at IWP
On Friday, November 2, The Institute of World Politics hosted the Sixth Annual Kosciuszko Chair Conference. The Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies at IWP serves as a center for Polish Studies in the broadest sense, including learning, teaching, researching, and writing about Poland's culture, history, heritage, religion, government, economy, and successes in the arts, sciences, and letters, with special emphasis on the achievements of Polish civilization and its relation to other nations, particularly the United States.
Videos from the lectures can be found here on YouTube.


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The Top 100 Books of the Twentieth Century by Image Journal
Image is a literary and arts journal (among other things) with a mission to "support and showcase art shaped by the faith traditions of western civilization." A central part of Image's calling is to showcase contemporary writing that "grapples in a serious way with religious faith."
Image compiled its Top 100 Books of the Twentieth Century list during the flurry of Top 100 lists made around the turn of the Millenium. The intent was to provide a "resource for those just starting to explore the great tradition and wondering where to begin."
In selecting books for this list, Image listed an author only once in order to feature 100 different writers. Only "creative writing" was included – fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction. Works selected were those that "manifest a genuine engagement with the Judeo-Christian heritage of faith, rather than merely use religion as background or subject matter."
The idea of this list intrigues me. I don't know if I will ever finish all the books on this list because it includes a lot of poetry book and I am not a big poetry reader. It also includes some books that are out of print and hard to find, which is too bad.
The books are listed in alphabetical order by the author's last name. Those I have read are in red; those currently on my TBR shelf are in blue.
If anyone else is working on this list, and would like to be listed here, please leave a comment with a link and I will add it.
Collected Poems by W.H. Auden
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
Sabbaths by Wendell Berry
77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
Souls Raised from the Dead by Doris Betts
The Woman Who was Poor by Leon Bloy
The Stories of Heinrich Boll by Heinrich Boll
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Selected Poems by George Mackay Brown
Godric by Frederic Buechner
Recovered Body by Scott Cairns
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Man Who was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Satin Slipper by Paul Claudel
Many Things have Happened Since He Died by Elizabeth Dewberry
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Selected Stories by Andre Dubus
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
The Sin Eater by Alice Thomas Ellis
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Collected Poems (The Residual Years; The Veritable Years) by William Everson
The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote
The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry
Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina
The Cypresses Believe in God by Jose Maria Gironella
Diaries by Julien Green
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Virgin Time by Patricia Hampl
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy by Geoffrey Hill
Earthly Measures by Edward Hirsch
Great River by Paul Horgan
The Never-Ending by Andrew Hudgins
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
In the Crevice of Time: New and Selected Poems by Josephine Jacobsen
Questions for Ecclesiastes by Mark Jarman
Collected Poems by Elizabeth Jennings
The Anathemata by David Jones
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Three Cheers for the Paraclete by Thomas Keneally
Ironweed by William Kennedy
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Stream and the Sapphire by Denise Levertov
The Mercy by Philip Levine
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Light by Torgny Lindgren
Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell
Salvage Operations by Paul Mariani
Viper's Tangle by Francois Mauriac
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Collected Poems by Thomas Merton
If I Had Wheels or Love: Collected Poems by Vassar Miller
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Collected Poems by Czeslaw Milosz
Black Robe by Brian Moore
The Truest Pleasure by Robert Morgan
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Borscht is a traditional Eastern European soup originating in Ukraine. It is popular throughout Eastern Europe, including Lithuania, Poland, Russian, and Ukraine. It is made with red beets, and can be served clear or with stewed vegetables. Some traditions call for additions, such as sour cream or uszka (small pierogi filled with onions and forest mushrooms). The soup has both sweet and sour tastes, and is much more delicious than it sounds. There are many ways to make it, but almost all call for a red beet base.
Hearty Borscht
- 4 large white onions, peeled and chopped
- 2 medium potatoes, peeled and chopped
- 4 carrots, trimmed, peeled, and grated
- 2 large tomatoes, peeled and chopped
- ½ head of cabbage, roughly chopped
- 3 medium-beets, trimmed, peeled and grated
- 4 large cloves of garlic, peeled
- Parsley and/or dill (to taste)
- 1 tablespoon (15 milliliters) vinegar or lemon juice
- 4 to 5 tablespoons (60 to 55 milliliters) oil for frying
- 1 tablespoon (15 grams) salt (to taste)
- 1 to 2 tablespoons (15 to 30 grams) sugar (to taste)
- Sour cream (optional)
Clear Borscht[1] X Research source
- 4 large or 6 small beets, peeled and halved
- 1 pound (455 grams) meaty veal or beef bones
- 1 medium carrot, trimmed and peeled
- 1 medium parsnip, trimmed and peeled
- 1 large onion, peeled and halved
- 1 leek (white and green parts), trimmed, halved lengthwise, and rinsed
- ¼ celery root, peeled (or 1 long celery stalk)
- 3 to 4 dried mushrooms or porcini
- 8 garlic cloves, peeled but left whole (plus 2 extra for seasoning, optional)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 large pinch of dried marjoram, plus more for seasoning
- 6 peppercorns (optional, for a spicier soup)
- About 12 cups (2.8 liters) water (depending on the size of the pot)
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- ½ cup (125 grams) sour cream or plain Greek-style yogurt (optional)
Method 1
Method 1 of 2:Making Hearty Borscht
1Prepare the vegetables. Rinse, trim, and peel all of your vegetables. Chop the onions, potatoes, and tomatoes into small pieces. Grate the beets and carrots into approximately 1-inch (2.54-centimeter) long pieces. Finally, shred the cabbage.
2Fry the onions with oil over medium heat. Pour 4 to 5 tablespoons (60 to 55 milliliters) of olive oil into a deep frying pan, then add the onions. Fry the onions over medium heat until they turn golden-brown, stirring often.
3Add the carrots and cook for 2 to 3 minutes more. Occasionally stir the mixture with a spatula to prevent burning.
4Add the tomatoes, beets, and vinegar/lemon to the frying pan, then cook for 5 to 10 minutes over low heat. Put the tomatoes and beets into the frying pan first. Immediately pour vinegar or lemon juice over the beets to preserve their color and taste. Stir everything together, then cover the pan with a lid, and cook for 5 to 10 minutes over low heat.
- You can also use canned, diced tomatoes. Be sure to drain them first, however.[2] X Research source
5Pour some water into a large pot, then bring it to a boil over medium heat. Pour enough water to fill the pot ½ to ⅔ of the way. Turn the burner to medium heat, and wait for the water to come to a boil. It is better to start with not enough water than too much. Remember, you can always add water later after adding the frying pan contents.
6Add the potatoes and cabbage to the pot. Add the potatoes first, then let them cook for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the cabbage next, and let it cook for 2 minutes.
7Add the fried vegetables, along with the garlic, parsley, and dill. Don't drain the fried vegetables—add them to the pot along with their juices. This will help lend the soup even more flavor.
8Add the salt and sugar. How much you use is entirely up to you. Borscht should have a somewhat sour taste, with sweet undertones. If you like your borscht less sweet, you could always use less sugar.
9Wait until the water is boiling again, then take the soup off the burner, and let it sit, covered, for 2 hours. Make sure that the lid fits the pot tightly, so that the soup can continue to cook in its own heat. The longer it cooks, the better it tastes. You may want to refrigerate it and reheat it the next day for an even better taste.
10Serve the soup. If you'd like a richer soup, you can add a spoonful of sour cream!Advertisement
Method 2
Method 2 of 2:Making Clear Borscht
1Fill a large pot with up to 12 cups (2.8 liters) of water. If your pot cannot hold that much, fill it up as much as you can. Keep in mind that your soup will be more concentrated and that you may have to scale back on some of the seasonings.
2Prepare the vegetables. Even though you will be serving the soup clear, it still needs to have some flavor to it. Because you will be straining everything out of the soup later on, it is best to leave the vegetables whole or in large chunks. If you have not yet done so, get out your vegetables, and prepare them in the following ways:
- Peel 4 large (or 6 small) beets, then cut them in half.
- Cut the stem off of 1 medium-sized carrot, then peel the carrot. If the carrot is too long for the pot, cut it in half.
- Cut the stem off of 1 medium-sized parsnip, then peel it.
- Peel 1 large onion, then cut it in half.
- Rinse 1 leek, then trim off the leaves. Cut it in half lengthwise.
- Peel a celery root, then cut it into fourths. Save one of the pieces for your soup, and save the rest for another recipe.
- Peel 8 garlic cloves. Do not crush or mince them.
3Add the vegetables, meaty bones, herbs, and spices into the pot, then bring the water to a boil over medium heat. Place the prepared beets, meaty bones, carrots, parsnip, onion, leek, celery root, mushrooms, garlic, bay leaf and marjoram into the pot. There should be enough water in the pot to cover all of the ingredients. If there is not enough room in the pot for more water, take out some of the ingredients.
- Start with 8 garlic cloves. You can always add more, if needed.
- For a spicier soup, add some peppercorns.
- Don't add the salt, pepper, lemon juice, or sour cream/yogurt just yet.
4Scoop out any foam, then simmer the soup over low heat for about 2 hours. You are ready for the next step when the meat falls off the bones and the vegetables turn soft.
5Strain the borscht into another pot. Place a colander or strainer over a new pot, then pour the borscht through it. Press the ingredients against the mesh with the back of a spoon or rubber spatula to strain out any excess liquid.
- At this point, you can discard the meat and vegetables or save them for another recipe.
- Don't worry if some of the dried marjoram gets into the strained soup.
6Give the borscht a taste. If it is too watery and flavorless, let it boil over medium heat for 30 minutes, or until the flavor intensifies. If it is too flavorful, add more water.
7Stir in the lemon juice, season it with salt and pepper, then taste it. The ideal taste should be sour and somewhat garlicky, with beet-y sweet undertones. At this point, you can add in more seasonings, such as salt, pepper, lemon juice, or dried marjoram. You can also add a few more garlic gloves, then simmer the soup for another 1 to 2 minutes. At this point, do not let the soup boil, or it will discolor.
- Peel the garlic cloves first, then press them with the flat side of a knife before adding them in. Be sure to scoop them out before serving.
8Serve the borscht in small bowls. If you'd like a richer borscht, stir in a spoonful of sour cream or yogurt.[3] X Research sourceAdvertisement
Community Q&A
QuestionIs pork used in Ukrainian borscht?Community AnswerBeef or veal are more common, but you can use pork if you have nothing else. Th meat/bones are typically taken out prior to serving.
In Poland, borscht is called barszcz (BAR-shh-ch). It is often served with uszka (OO-sh-ka), especially during Christmas Eve.[4] X Research source
For a richer soup, stir in some sour cream or Greek yogurt.[5] X Research source
If the soup is not sour enough, add some vinegar or lemon juice.[6] X Research source
- Do not go overboard on the sugar or salt, or you will make your borscht bitter.Thanks!
- Don't let the borscht burn, or it will discolor.Thanks!
Things You'll Need
Hearty Borscht
- Large pot
- Cutting board
- Knife
- A grater or food processor
- Frying pan
- Spatula
Clear Borscht
- 2 large pots
- Colander
- Cutting board
- Knife
- ↑ http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/02/from-a-polish-country-house-kitchens-barszcz.html
- ↑ http://allrecipes.com/recipe/84450/ukrainian-red-borscht-soup/
- ↑ http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/02/from-a-polish-country-house-kitchens-barszcz.html
- ↑ http://www.europeanfoodbayarea.com/polish-red-borscht/
- ↑ http://www.europeanfoodbayarea.com/polish-red-borscht/
- ↑ http://www.europeanfoodbayarea.com/polish-red-borscht/
- ↑ http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/02/from-a-polish-country-house-kitchens-barszcz.html
About this article
To make borscht, start by frying onions, tomatoes, beets, and carrots in a large pot along with some vinegar. In a separate pot, boil some potatoes and cabbage. Then, add the fried vegetables to the pot with the potatoes and cabbage and stir in some garlic, parsley, and dill. Next, sprinkle in salt and sugar and bring the pot to a boil again. Once it starts boiling, turn off the heat and let the borscht sit, covered, for 2 hours before serving. If you want to learn how to make lighter, clear borscht, keep reading the article!