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MainView for Networks
Simplify network management and automation
With MainView for Networks, you have total visibility and control over your mainframe network resources to resolve problems before they can impact your digital business. This solution is easy to implement and intuitive to use. You can:
- Proactively monitor the network to pinpoint problems before users are impacted.
- Increase system availability by monitoring, managing, and taking action automatically.
- Streamline network management to automatically initiate action when necessary.
- Utilize exclusive technology to ensure critical workloads are completed on time.
Proactively prevent costly mainframe network problems and traffic jams
Quickly resolve network problems arising from connectivity issues with the monitoring and management tools in MainView for Networks. The solution provides detailed real-time and historical reporting on critical metrics and is tightly integrated with automation for rapid problem remediation.
Comprehensive data
Get easy access to data on every aspect of your mainframe networks—TCP/IP, SNA, and VTAM resources and sessions.
Intelligent trace analyzer
Take the guesswork out of network performance issues and see packet trace analysis with problems highlighted for faster problem resolution without leaving MainView.
Allow workload preferences
Ensure that workloads critical to business services are completed on time with the ability to control the pace of your TCP/IP traffic.
Manage VTAM
Take control of the performance and availability of VTAM sessions and resources, including TN3270 session analysis and commands for VTAM resources.
Easy-to-implement automation
Detect and resolve network problems before they impact the business, with efficient rules-based codeless automation that doesn't require manual REXX coding.
Common modern user interface
Enjoy the convenience of a modern mainframe-based customizable graphic interface that provides a single view and control for all MainView products.
Dynamic adjustments based on self-learning
Set intelligent dynamic thresholds based on current information as well as business cycles.
Holistic view
Use real-time and historical data to build analytical reports.
Resource availability
Automatically start key network resources to minimize application outages and improve availability.
Automatic data collection
Out-of-the-box smart alarms automatically start and stop collection of diagnostic data for rapid problem remediation.
Encrypted technologies
Diagnose and resolve problems with SNMP 3 and IPSEC environments.
Support for common trace analysis
Support for Wireshark® enables both mainframe and distributed network professionals to use a common trace analysis tool.
Cost-effective, intuitive mainframe network management
- Understand your network health with out-of-the-box dashboards that highlight hardware availability (OSA cards, ports, IP addresses, FTP) and top 10 users by connections, links, and applications.
- One hundred percent of data collection is eligible for zIIP offload, reducing MLC costs.
- Easily and accurately change TC/IP configurations without the need to know complex syntax, mitigating risk and enhancing ease of use.
Products included in this solution
The MainView for Networks solution is made up of the following products, which work together to keep all aspects of your mainframe networks healthy and productive while optimizing and reducing mainframe costs.
MainView for IP
MainView for IP minimizes the risks associated with network delays and aids in problem-solving by providing detailed statistics about TCP/IP stacks, routers, connections and devices. Using exception reporting techniques, MainView for IP provides proactive alert notifications to help you meet your SLAs. In addition to improved diagnostics with TCP/IP and VTAM tracing, this product also delivers real time and historical reporting to minimize future problems. MainView for IP also eases the load on your CPs by offloading onto IBM zIIPs. With MainView for IP, your z/OS network administrators will have a better understanding of the performance and availability of their applications, transactions, and communications connections.
This product is available as a part of the following offerings: MainView for Networks-pt
MainView AutoOPERATOR for z/OS®
MainView AutoOPERATOR for z/OS provides a powerful, easy-to-implement data center automation package for your IBM® z/OS® environment, no matter its size. With this product, your data center personnel will be able to trigger common actions, like IPL and shutdown processes, remotely or on a rolling basis. MainView AutoOPERATOR for z/OS can automatically take recovery or notification actions when any MainView monitor product raises an alarm. With an intuitive rule-building interface, you'll be able to create powerful automation without the need for REXX coding. Replacing repetitive, error-prone manual interventions with automation will help you avoid costly performance interruptions.
This product is available as a part of the following offerings: MainView Automation, MainView for Networks-pt, MainView Mainframe Storage Resource Management (SRM)-pt


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
- Mignolet, Marc Paul
- 1 Arizona State University
- 1 Chattopadhyay, Aditi
- 1 Oswald, Jay
- 1 Sahoo, Saurav
- 1 English
- 1 Public
- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
- Developing an Augmented Reality Solution for Mapping Underground Infrastructure
- Characterization of 2D Human Ankle Stiffness during Postural Balance and Walking for Robot-aided Ankle Rehabilitation
- Using Molecular, Cellular and Bioengineering Approaches Towards Understanding Muscle Stem Cell Biology
Monte Carlo simulations are traditionally carried out for the determination of the amplification of forced vibration response of turbomachine/jet engine blades to mistuning. However, this effort can be computationally time consuming even when using the various reduced order modeling techniques. Accordingly, some investigations in the past have focused on obtaining simple approximate estimates for this amplification. In particular, two of these have proposed the use of harmonic patterns of the blade properties around the disk as an approximate alternative to the many random patterns of Monte Carlo analyses. These investigations, while quite encouraging, have relied solely on single degree of …
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- Sahoo, Saurav, Mignolet, Marc Paul, Chattopadhyay, Aditi, et al.
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Right, looks like it's having problems. I have pinged some people to have a look at the situation.
[edit: problem acknowledged, needs some more work to get it fixed]
[edit: problem acknowledged, needs some more work to get it fixed]
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This problem seems to be resolved now.
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Yes, we indeed had a IP subnet change at the DC hosting multiple nodes (including bugs.centos.org) but it seems that issue was visible post-migration, due to mantisbt/php keeping cache and the socket to previous IP (that was still working until DC removed that old subnet)
All ok now and should be resolved
All ok now and should be resolved
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Syria envoy Kofi Annan called it quits Thursday, confirming a growing conclusion that international diplomacy is having no impact on the 17-month-old crisis and that the only path in Syria now appears to be one of fighting toward a violent end.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he remained convinced that "yet more bloodshed is not the answer." He added that he is consulting with the Arab League, which teamed up with the UN in giving Mr. Annan his mandate, to find a replacement to "carry on this crucial peacemaking effort."
But UN officials and regional analysts say it will be difficult to find anyone of Annan's stature who could be expected to do any better at imposing an international peace plan on what analysts now consider to be a full-blown civil war. Annan preceded Mr. Ban as UN secretary-general and, though he was not always a Washington favorite, enjoys broad international respect.
Annan came up with a six-point peace plan for Syria earlier this year that envisioned a pullback from fighting and transitional steps toward a democratic government. While the plan was approved by the UN Security Council, it was never backed up by full international support.
The Security Council was expected to receive Annan's resignation Thursday afternoon in a meeting on the monitoring mission in the Annan peace plan. Annan told Ban he was resigning as of the end of August, which coincides with the end of the monitoring mission's mandate.
"When the Security Council failed to heed Mr. Annan's repeated calls for collective and significant consequences for noncompliance with its prior resolutions, those members who blocked this action effectively made Mr. Annan's mission impossible," said Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN, in a statement Thursday.
The death knell of Annan's efforts was sounded last month, when Russia and China vetoed a Security Council resolution on Syria for the third time in the course of the crisis. In response to that veto, the United States signaled that UN inaction would oblige it to bypass the UN to address Syria's mounting violence and loss of life.
"We and others increasingly will have no choice but to look to partnerships and actions outside of this Council to protect the Syrian people," Ambassador Rice said in response to the Russia-China veto July 19.
This week, Obama administration sources revealed that President Obama has signed an order authorizing the Central Intelligence Agency and other agencies to provide nonlethal support to Syria's rebels – evidence of a shift toward more direct involvement with the rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The US was already on record supplying the rebels with communications equipment and working with neighboring countries to keep track of Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons. But Mr. Obama's order suggests the kind of "partnerships and actions" that Rice was hinting at.
Annan's resignation symbolizes the deep divisions in the international community that have precluded any meaningful diplomacy in a crisis that UN officials now say has claimed more than 20,000 lives.
The UN General Assembly had been expected to express its frustration with the Security Council's inaction with a vote Thursday on a resolution "deploring" the Council's failure to take any steps on Syria and calling for Mr. Assad to step down. But opposition to even that symbolic gesture from countries like Russia, Brazil, and India prompted Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries to water down their resolution.
A new draft, a whimper with none of the demands of the original version, is expected to be voted on Friday.


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Is Jeremy Lin unprecedented? William Rhoden takes a whack at the question in The New York Times today:
Midway through a discussion about the world of sports at the Connecticut Forum in Hartford last week, Rebecca Lobo, the former University of Connecticut basketball star, posed an intriguing question. Could anyone recall a black athlete who had come off the bench like Tim Tebow or out of the blue like Jeremy Lin, flared to immediate stardom and received the sort of impassioned outpouring of love that has enveloped Tebow and Lin?....
Between the Tebow phenomenon in the fall and the recent Lin explosion, I had been asking myself a variation of Lobo's question: When was the last time a young, untested professional African-American athlete had been on the receiving end of this type of adulation? Specifically, adulation that had more to do with positive, universal characteristics—faith, humility, selflessness—than with athletic acumen.
Well, specifically, that last part is balderdash. Jeremy Lin is getting adulation because he peeled off his warmups moments before the Knicks could slap a return-to-D-League UPS label on his back, stepped out on the court, and started averaging 25 points and 9.2 assists. For the season, those figures would make him No. 5 in the NBA in scoring and No. 3 in assists. The Knicks have gone, in less than three weeks, from not having a point guard to having a point guard who scores like Russell Westbrook and dishes like Chris Paul.
Keep Tebow out of this. All Tim Tebow has in common with Jeremy Lin is that they both wear blue and orange and they both spent time on the bench. Yes, each one self-identifies as Christian, but that's a little like noticing that Adonal Foyle and Wilt Chamberlain both played center for the Warriors. Tebow is a missionary evangelist who plays football; Lin is a basketball player who goes to church. People talk about Tebow's faith and humility because his actual game statistics can't explain how the Broncos possibly started winning with him.
So: when's the last time a young, formerly obscure African-American athlete received adulation like Jeremy Lin? When was the last time an overlooked guard became an elite scorer who inspired his teammates and presented the basketball world with an unusual and genuine and complex character? Easy: 2004. Gilbert Arenas. Maybe Jeremy Lin is better off being Jeremy Lin.


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Published On : Feb 06, 2012
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Pogea Racing Updates 1959 Corvette
Restoring a Classic car is always a difficult job but a rewarding job for a car enthusiast. In this case, Pogea Racing worked hard to renovate the Classic Corvette 1959 and the end result is amazing! With these modifications, the completely reconditioned Classic puts out excellent performance: from 0 - 100 kms/h in a mere 3.9 seconds and with a top speed of 288 kms/h, the two-seater is decidedly superior to the original basic model.


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You'll be seeing many posts on 2012 Baseball cards since the Dodgers are no longer playing. Plus I have many things to say on this. My goal this year was to collect every single Dodger base card from 2012. Maybe we can work out on trades?
Speaking of trades, hopefully can make better trades than this gentleman.
Topps Update is on sale now. It hit the shelves yesterday. I'm excited to find all the new Dodgers in this series.
Topps Update is releasing a 14 card set of 'General Manager Autographs'.
Ned Colletti is in this set.
Yes, I will be looking to get this card.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Ned Colletti Topps Autograph Baseball Card
3 comments:
- Dodgerbobble said...
Part of me wants to hate this, but part of me really really wants this because it's a Dodger card.
- October 4, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- Roberto Baly said...
I know what you mean. I will pick this up though. :)
- October 4, 2012 at 6:17 PM
- Spiegel83 said...
I hope to see this in a dollar box someday.
- October 4, 2012 at 10:00 PM
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BRUSSELS, Belgium — Six months after the release of the French edition of 50 nuances de Grey, or Fifty Shades of Grey, the three volumes of EL James's erotic trilogy, still sit proudly atop the bestseller list of Amazon.fr.
The runaway success has confounded critics who thought French women raised on the sophisticated S&M of the Maquis de Sade or The Story of O would resist the global mommy porn phenomenon.
"They said this trifling tale spiced with spanking was only good for giving cheap thrills to puritanical Americans, and it would flop in the land of de Sade and French lovers," wrote Macha Séry in Le Monde. "How wrong!"
The first volume has sold two-and-a-half million copies in France and has been credited for triggering a boom in sex toy sales and wave of interest in female-orientated internet sex sites.
"This novel has given me the idea to try some naughty games, but nothing too hard core," Ingrid from Rouen told the daily Le Parisien. "It shook off my inhibitions, so I could let myself go. Today, I'm a little be less uptight, thanks to E L James."
Muriel Ross, founder of Femme Majuscule, a magazine aimed at women over 40, told Radio France International that Fifty Shades reaches women left cold by high-brow French erotic classics.
"It's not like erotic books by de Sade or (Catherine) Millet which is literature for educated people and a bit too intellectual," she said.
The "Fifty Shades" books, about a young girl who enters into a sado-masochist relationship with a handsome billionaire, have sold 65 million copies internationally and two and half million copies in France, RFI reported.
"Everybody thought that in France we were the best for sex and so this book wouldn't do well," Fifty Shades' French publisher Isabelle Laffont explained. "[But] erotic literature in France is more sombre, very dark, with people who are submissive and very unhappy... This book is very light and happy."
More from GlobalPost: 'Fifty Shades' gives Bertelsmann boost
German media giant Bertelsmann said Tuesday the best-selling trilogy was the publisher's biggest-ever bestseller and last year's sales helped boost the company's overall profits. In 2012, Bertelsmann sold millions of copies of print, audio, and e-book editions in a number of languages including English, German and Spanish.


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Bachelor Ben: What Did I Get Myself Into?
Ben Flajnik, the new Bachelor blogs for PEOPLE.com about his first night at the mansion
Hey, hey Let me start off by saying how excited I am to have been asked to be the Bachelor and how I can't wait for the season to unfold, as I think it will be very exciting!
It took me a few months to decide whether or not I wanted to try and find love this way again, and after thinking long and hard about it, I ultimately thought it would be another positive experience. Guess you'll have to wait and see just how positive it turns out to be.
Arriving at the mansion that first night was an extraordinary experience. Having such fond memories at the mansion from my time on The Bachelorette gave me a bit of comfort, but I was nervous nonetheless. One thing that helped make me felt a bit more at ease was that the women who were about to arrive knew I was going to be the one greeting them at the door and they weren't going to be surprised.
As the first limo pulled up, my heart began to beat faster than it ever had before. I immediately began to think, "What did I just get myself into?" To be completely honest, I don't even remember what the first few women said to me, as I was on sheer nervous autopilot if that makes any sense. After I settled in a bit, I realized I had already had my first kiss, been punched on the shoulder, met a grandma, and had a woman ride in on horseback. I remember thinking, "What else does this night have in store for me?"
Upon entering the mansion and facing all 25 – well, 26 women if you include Grandma Sheryl – for the first time, I addressed them with a speech I thought to be very real, and very me. I told them that, "I don't know if my wife is in this room, but I am going to stay open, and honest to this experience." If they needed any advice, guidance, or comfort, they could come to me at any time.
I remember almost all of my nerves were gone by this point and I was in a good mood. I was calm, collected, and remarkably ready to navigate 25 different conversations, some "soon to be drama," and a bevvy of beautiful women. So far, so good.
Meeting the Women
My conversations that night were really heartfelt. The women seemed to open up to me early on and that was incredible. They kept telling me how I was giving them a "calming" feeling, but I think they were all doing the same for me. The majority of women were on their best behavior and it made my night much easier than expected.
I particularly remember my conversation with Nicki being very natural. It was moments such as this one where I found myself thinking that being the Bachelor was the right decision and I was going to have fun with it.
Speaking of fun, Sheryl the grandma was also a highlight of my night. I am close with my grandma and found it to be very endearing that Brittany would bring hers along. I also really enjoyed talking to Rachel and Courtney. They both seemed like they had good families back home, and had experienced life a bit more than some of the other women.
When I decided who was going to get the first impression rose I knew I was going to have a lot of glaring eyes on my back as I left the main room, which was not a good feeling. It was in that moment when I realized just how difficult this journey was going to be. Lindzi had such a good energy about her that I decided she would be the perfect choice for the first impression rose. Let's be honest too she's a beautiful, confident woman who rode in on a horse!
The First Rose Ceremony
Now let's discuss my first rose ceremony as the Bachelor uh oh. The moment I wasn't looking forward to was finally here. I think anyone who has been in my position before can attest to how difficult the first rose ceremony is to handle. It really is a night of first impressions, and unfortunately you only have so many roses to hand out. But at the end of the night I was confident in the decisions I had made and was looking forward to getting to know the group of women much better.
Again, I can't thank everyone enough for this unique opportunity. And because I'm seeing a lot of the women's interactions with one another (while I was out on dates) for the first time as well, I am as curious as you to see how this season plays out! Until next week .


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Owner of Texas Home Health Services Company Pleads Guilty, Admits Role in $374 Million Fraud Scheme
WASHINGTON - A Dallas-area home health services company owner today admitted his role in a $374 million home health fraud scheme in which he and others conspired to bill Medicare for unnecessary services that were never performed. Cyprian Akamnonu, 64, of Arlington, Texas, entered his guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud before U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay in Dallas federal court.
The guilty plea was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Sarah R. Saldaña; Special Agent in Charge Diego G. Rodriguez of the FBI's Dallas Field Office; Special Agent in Charge Mike Fields of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General's (HHS-OIG) Dallas Regional Office; and the Texas Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU).
According to court documents, beginning in at least January 2006, Akamnonu, along with his wife Pat Akamnonu, owned and operated Ultimate Care Home Health Services, Inc. Cyprian Akamnonu admitted that he directed his wife and others to recruit Medicare beneficiaries from Dallas neighborhoods for home health services they did not need and for which they did not qualify. Once the beneficiaries were recruited, Cyprian Akamnonu would take prescriptions for home health services to the offices of Medistat Group Associates, P.A., owned and operated by co-defendant Jacques Roy, M.D.
Cyprian Akamnonu admitted he brought the prescriptions to Roy because he and Roy had a fraudulent arrangement whereby Ultimate provided Roy with beneficiaries to bolster Medistat's patient roster in exchange for Roy's certification for skilled nursing services of any beneficiary brought to him. Roy's office manager, co-defendant Teri Sivils, and others would allegedly then sign these prescriptions on Roy's behalf. Cyprian Akamnonu admitted to paying Sivils cash to sign the prescriptions.
Cyprian Akamnonu admitted that once he obtained signed prescriptions, nurses acting at his direction would perform cursory visits for the beneficiaries they had recruited that bore little relationship to the skilled nursing services which Roy had purportedly prescribed. Ultimate would then bill Medicare, at Cyprian Akamnonu's direction, for skilled nursing services that were not necessary and were not performed.
Court documents show that from January 2006 through November 2011, Roy or another Medistat physician allegedly certified over 78% of the beneficiaries serviced by Ultimate. Ultimate billed over $43 million to the Medicare program for these beneficiaries. Roy, in turn, allegedly incorporated these beneficiaries into his own practice and billed over $2.4 million for services related to them.
At sentencing, Cyprian Akamnonu faces a maximum potential penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on the conspiracy count. Sentencing is currently scheduled for Feb. 4, 2013. As part of his plea agreement, he has also agreed not to contest the forfeiture of 21 real properties, four automobiles, and funds in a number of personal and business accounts connected to proceeds of the fraud.
His six co-defendants, including his wife, await trial on related charges, currently set for June 2013. The charges and allegations contained in the indictment against them are merely accusations and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael Elliott and Mindy Sauter of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas, and Deputy Chief Sam Sheldon and Trial Attorney Ben O'Neil of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section. The case was investigated by the FBI and HHS-OIG and was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, supervised by the Criminal Division's Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas.
Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, now operating in nine cities across the country, has charged more than 1,480 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for more than $4.8 billion. In addition, HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers.


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Before Archer was born, I made several crock pot freezer meals. It took the better part of one day (including shopping) but was really worth it!!! We started with about 20 meals total, and have whittled them down to our favorites! So I wanted to share those with you! I have several friends who were asking about these recipes, so here you go!!!
By the way, I used frozen chicken for these recipes. You are going to freeze them anyway, and bags of frozen chicken at Sam's Club is MUCH cheaper than buying all of the chicken fresh!
Bacon Wrapped Chicken with RosemaryIngredients:
- 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 6 slices of bacon
- olive oil
- minced garlic
- black pepper
- rosemary
Brush chicken with oil, season with pepper and a generous amount of rosemary and minced garlic. Wrap in bacon. Put into gallon bag and freeze. Put in refrigerator 24 hours prior to eating. Cook in oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes OR cook in crock pot on low for 5-6 hours or high 3-4 hours.
Sloppy Tamale PieIngredients:
- 1.5 lbs ground beef or turkey
- 1 carrot, shredded
- 1 zucchini, shredded or finely diced
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 bell pepper, finely chopped
- 2 cups frozen corn
- 1 can olives, sliced
- 1 packet taco seasoning
- 2 15oz cans of tomato sauce
- cornbread for serving (optional)
Brown ground beef or turkey, carrot, zucchini, onion, and bell pepper until done. Drain and cool. Add to a gallon bag with remaining ingredients. Freeze. Thaw and cook in crockpot on low 5-6 hours or high 3-4 hours. Serve "sloppy joe style" over cornbread.
Enchilada WrapsIngredients:
- 3 skinless boneless chicken breasts
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 16oz can of chili beans
- 1 15oz can of black beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 cups frozen corn
- 1 8oz can tomato sauce
- 1 12oz can of beer or broth
- 2 10oz cans of rotel, undrained
- 1 packet of taco seasoning
- shredded cheese, sour cream, tortilla chips for serving (optional)
Combine all ingredients into gallon bag. Freeze. Thaw and cook on low 6-8 hours or high 4-5 hours. Shred chicken after cooking and serve with optional garnishes.
Slow Cooker BBQ SpareRibsIngredients:
- 1-2 lbs of country style pork ribs
- 1.5 cups of ketchup
- 1.5 tablespoons seasoned salt
- ½ teaspoon liquid smoke
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup white vinegar
Place pork in gallon bag. Mix remaining ingredients together in a bowl and pour over pork. Thaw in refrigerator for 24 hours. Cook on high 3-4 hours or low 6-7 hours.
Chicken Broccoli AlfredoIngredients:
- 1.5lbs chicken breasts
- 1 16oz bag frozen broccoli florets
- 2 16oz jars Alfredo sauce
- 1 large green pepper, chopped (optional)
- 1 4oz can sliced mushrooms, drained (optional)
- Fettuccine noodles (for after meal is cooked- DO NOT ADD TO BAG)
French Dip Sandwiches
- 2-3 lbs beef chuck roast
- 2-3 cans beef consomme (found in the soup aisle)
- small can of sliced mushrooms (optional)
- 6-8 hoagie buns
- provolone or mozzarella cheese
Directions:Place roast in bag with consomme and mushrooms, freeze. Thaw in refrigerator for 24 hours. Cook on low 8-11 hours or high 5-7 hours. Remove roast from crock pot and save extra juice for dipping. Shred meat and serve on buns with cheese.
Maple Dijon Glazed ChickenIngredients:
- 1.5lbs chicken breasts
- 1 cup Dijon mustard
- ½ cup maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- salt and pepper to taste
Place all ingredients in gallon bag and freeze. Thaw for 24 hours in refrigerator. Cook on low 8 hours or high 4 hours. Sprinkle with fresh or dried rosemary for serving (optional).
Chicken and Stuffing Crock Pot
- 4 thawed chicken breasts
- 6oz package of Stove Top Stuffing (I use the chicken flavored)
- ½ cup of sour cream
- 1 can of cream of chicken soup
Put chicken in crock pot. Pour stuffing mix over the chicken. Mix sour cream, soup, and ¼ cup of water in small bowl, then add to crock pot. Cook on low 4 hours.


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Probably you have already noticed the new look of BioForum. We hope that you like it. This is not a skin change, but a major software upgrade. We have upgraded the program behind BioForum to its newest version. This new version comes with a lot of new functions along with its elegant new look. Some of the important and useful new functions at the front end are as follows:
- New text editor with auto-save function. The upgrade comes with the excellent CKEditor. It's a well developed and well tested editor that is very extensible. As you type, the editor checks to see if there's any new content and if there is, it'll ping off via Ajax to save what you've written. If anything happens to your page, upon reloading you'll see it's stored your content and you can quickly restore it. You won't lose another post to a browser crash or server time out.
- Cleaner interface, quick reply, quick quoting. This new text editor brings a robust rich text editor coupled with custom BBCode and an auto-save feature.
- New post alert while typing reply.
- Tagging and prefixes of your topics. This allows you to tag your posts with keywords and prefixes.
- New Photo Editor.
- New mobile skin.
- Report Center improvements.
- Editing Member improvements
- Moderator Control Panel. If you are a moderator of BioForum, you will see a link to Moderator Control Panel (ModeratorCP) at the upper left hand corner.
- Member photos and member avatars are being merged into one function: member photo. There was too much overlap between the two features.
- The unread topic marking system will now remember what page of a topic you left off reading rather than assume you read the entire topic on the first click.
We are adding additional skins to the forum for you to use if you don't like the default skin.


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Caught On Tape: Clerk Punches, Knocks Out Armed Robber
Clerk Then Makes Suspect Clean Up His Own Blood
A clerk at a business in Western North Carolina punched a would-be robber and knocked him out cold just minutes after the man barged in with a gun and demanded money.
It happened about 15 minutes before closing time Friday night at We Buy Gold store in Hendersonville.
When he came through the door he told me had a gun and he even flashed it," said Derek Mothershead. I stood up and threw my hands up and said, 'Take the money.'
Mothershead said the man came behind the counter with a bag.
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I got the money and he had the bag out and instead of putting it in the bag I stuck it out and said, 'Just take it.' So, when he reached out, I took a step in, I cocked back and preloaded and I hit him hard, Mothershead told News 4's Mike McCormick.
The punch knocked out the would-be thief. Mothershead was able to grab the man's weapon and realized it was a pellet gun.
When I pulled it out of his waistband I started laughing, said Mothershead. I said, 'Man, you came in here with a fake gun?'"
Mothershead said he dragged the man over to a desk and held him down with one hand and called 911 with the other.
The man, later identified as Mostafa Hendi, eventually regained consciousness.
He kind of begged me, begged me to let him go, Mothershead said. I said, 'You came in and tried to rob us. Youre going to jail.'
While they waited for police and paramedics, Mothershead gave Hendi a roll of power towels, sprayed the floor with cleaner and told him to clean up his own blood.
At the time you really dont think you hit somebody as hard as you do, but looking back at the tape I can say I hit him pretty hard, I guess," Mothershead said.
Hendi remains behind bars on a charge of attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon. His bond was set at $100,000.
There was just an opportunity there where I thought that I could actually do something and justice could be served, and I thought thats what needed to be done, said Mothershead.
We Buy Gold has dealt with others robberies at its 30 locations between Western North Carolina and the Upstate.
"Its not even worth hitting us," said Mothershead. "Weve got a fast-retrieval money system in order and we really dont carry that much money to begin with, so theres no point in hitting us.


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We've all seen the footage shot on those tiny GoPro cameras. They transport us to some spectacular moments that seem larger than life, and even as big as, well, life itself, CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports.
Troy Dickerson was driving his wife pregnant Kristin to a Houston hospital. She was riding in the front passenger seat and was already in labor. The entire event was captured on Troy's head-mounted GoPro.
Troy tried to keep his wife calm with some comedic levity.
"I'll deliver the baby," he said.
Troy remained relaxed as the couple approached the hospital.
"I wasn't really panicky at the time, because again I thought we had plenty of time and there wasn't gonna be any issue with us getting to the hospital on time," Troy said.
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"The head is coming out!" Kristen yelled.
The entire delivery took place in the hospital entrance.
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For a few moments the video freezes, but the audio continues. And when it picks back up, baby Truett makes his dramatic entrance into the world.
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The National Enquirer got high marks for its powerful, solidly reported exposés of the bad behavior of John Edwards and Tiger Woods. But much of the supermarket tabloids day in and day out coverage falls far short of basic reporting and editing standards.
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Senior contributing writer Paul Farhi (email@example.com) is a reporter for the Washington Post.
Over more than five decades as America's original supermarket tabloid, the National Enquirer has chronicled Elvis Presley sightings, two-headed calves, ghastly car wrecks and the many, many ways in which celebrities behave badly. These days, it is angling for something it has never had and never really sought: respectability.
The Enquirer's dogged investigation of former Sen. John Edwards' relationship with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter stood up against Edwards' repeated denials and denunciations of the weekly as "tabloid trash." The stories were not just history making; they could have been history changing. Had the Enquirer's revelations been matched by the mainstream news media at the start of the 2008 campaign, Edwards might have been driven from the race earlier, conceivably altering Barack Obama's path to the Democratic nomination and election. More recently, the Enquirer's pursuit--literally, at times--of Tiger Woods' extramarital relationships paid off in a story that set in motion one of the most widely covered celebrity scandals in years.
The twin blockbusters engendered a wave of admiring media coverage for the Enquirer, an unusual occurrence for a publication that once trumpeted stories like "I Put My Baby in a Waste Basket and Poured Concrete Over Her." The euphoria crested this spring when the paper submitted its Edwards stories for a Pulitzer Prize (it didn't win). "It was absolutely a moment of great prestige," says Barry Levine, the Enquirer's executive editor. "While the mainstream media, at the end of the day, didn't have the guts to let us into their select club, we won in the sense of new respect and new credibility."
Respect? Credibility? Oh, the irony. Throughout its history, from its modest roots as the New York Enquirer to its transformation under its late owner and editor, Generoso Pope Jr., the Enquirer succeeded with excess. Pope turned the paper into a disreputable scandal sheet and all-around guilty pleasure, filled with an enthusiastic combination of the lurid, the tawdry and the wholly preposterous. The Enquirer often bulldozed the boundaries of good taste, running gory photos of Lee Harvey Oswald's autopsy and of Elvis in his casket (the Enquirer's best-selling issue ever).
Now owned by American Media Inc., a tabloid conglomerate based in Boca Raton, Florida, the Enquirer is relatively more sedate these days, the elder member of the vast tabloid media culture it helped spawn. There's no question the Enquirer made a solid case for its journalism with the Edwards and Woods investigations, just as it has with earlier scoops. Among others, it broke the news of Jesse Jackson's out-of-wedlock child in 2001, Rush Limbaugh's addiction to painkillers in 2003 and the existence of O.J. Simpson's book, "If I Did It," in 2006.
But the exceptional doesn't prove the ordinary. It's still hard to take the Enquirer seriously, let alone respect it.
It's not what the Enquirer covers--its stock in trade is celebrity gossip--but how it covers it. In ways large and small, the Enquirer falls short of the most basic reporting and editing standards. It routinely asks its 790,000 weekly print readers and 675,000 monthly unique visitors online to trust its version of events. Almost all of its celebrity stories are based on blind, secondary sourcing; the Enquirer rarely seems to interview any of the famous people it writes about. Instead, information is attributed in the vaguest possible ways--to "friends," "close friends," "pals," "an insider," "a source." Multiple-source stories are unusual; many hang on the account of a single "pal" or "insider." Equal time and fair play are virtually unheard of, too. Celebrities or their representatives rarely get a chance to rebut, deny or explain their side in print. It's not always clear to the reader that the paper requested such comment.
The Enquirer makes no pretense about paying for information. It has done so for decades and puts its solicitation for tips right where readers can see them. Brightly colored house ads promise, "Got News? We'll Pay Big Bucks." Such payments are standard operating behavior in the highly competitive world of celebrity tabloid journalism and help publications like the Enquirer maintain "exclusives." But the policy is fraught; in 2003, the Enquirer was blindsided by two Salt Lake City Tribune reporters who secretly sold the Enquirer information about the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case that proved to be false (the reporters were fired; the Enquirer retracted its story--see "Salt Lake Blues," August/September 2003).
What's more, the paper doesn't say which stories were generated by payments, or how much the sources were paid (the amount depends on a number of factors, Levine says, including the tipster's willingness to attest to the information in court if the Enquirer is sued). Thus, it's impossible for a reader to determine which sources were motivated by a desire to inform and which were motivated to say extraordinary things by a payoff. "I don't think the reader really cares," Levine says.
Even with its opaque sourcing, the Enquirer routinely plays a kind of bait-and-switch game, offering shocking or titillating headlines that don't always deliver what they promise. Consider "Sick Pam Drinking Herself to Death, Pals Fear," a story promoted on the cover of the April 26 issue. The article reports that "aging sexpot" Pamela Anderson has been drinking heavily, despite suffering from hepatitis C, a condition that damages the liver and makes drinking alcohol dangerous.
But Anderson's "pals" don't exactly fear that Anderson is drinking herself to death, as the headline claims. If they do, none is quoted as such, even anonymously. Instead, the most the story can muster is a comment from "a source close to" Anderson, who offers a secondhand account of what Anderson's friends are allegedly thinking. At best, says this "source," Anderson's friends are "frustrated" by her alleged behavior. The "drinking-herself-to-death" angle comes not from "pals," or even from sources close to her pals, but from two doctors, neither of whom, the article notes, has ever treated Anderson. Even this bit of transparency falls a bit short. One of the doctors, Dr. Gabe Mirkin, said in an interview with AJR that he knew nothing about Anderson's medical condition or personal habits when he was contacted by an Enquirer reporter. "I should have kept my mouth shut," Mirkin says. "I have no idea whether she's drinking." (Sarah Cordes, whose byline appears on the article, declined to comment; other Enquirer reporters contacted for this story either did not respond or referred questions to Levine.)
The April 19 issue offers a small but telling example of the Enquirer's approach to celebrity "news." A full-page story headed "Amazingly Cheap Kreskin" describes how a Canadian pilot, Peter Lythall, flew the entertainer known as the Amazing Kreskin, a "mentalist" who performs live regularly, to a show in McBride, British Columbia, last fall. According to the Enquirer's piece, Kreskin stiffed the pilot on the $1,200 bill. The story includes an interview with Lythall.
There's only one problem with the story: "It simply isn't true," Kreskin said in an interview. Kreskin says he and the pilot never discussed the cost of the flight, which was hastily arranged by a club owner who knew Lythall. Nevertheless, for several weeks afterward, Kreskin says he tried to settle with Lythall, and at one point offered him $400. Kreskin says his attorney attempted to contact Lythall via e-mail twice and later mailed a letter, but received no response each time. These details didn't appear in the Enquirer's story, even though Kreskin says he told the paper's reporter, Don Gentile, about them before publication. So why did the Enquirer apparently inflate a mundane and ambiguous dispute into an attack on Kreskin? "You think I'm a mind reader!" Kreskin replied, laughing. "It would have taken them one day [of reporting] to check this out. I can say this story proves that the National Enquirer is an authority on its own point of view."
A more troubling indictment of the Enquirer's reporting came in front of a national TV audience in March. Levine, who has spent most of his professional career working for such tabloid stalwarts as Star magazine and Fox's "A Current Affair," was invited to appear on ABC's "The View" for what he thought was going to be a celebratory segment about the Enquirer's Pulitzer entry.
Instead, Levine spent four minutes under attack by Barbara Walters, one of the program's co-hosts. Walters brandished a clip of a March 1 Enquirer story ("Barbara Plays House with Frank Langella") reporting that the actor had moved into Walters' Manhattan apartment and that "a summer wedding is in the works," according to "friends." What's more, the article also reported that Walters' "View" colleague Whoopi Goldberg, a former paramour of Langella's, had given her "blessing" to the forthcoming marriage.
"People do take the National Enquirer seriously because you have broken these stories," Walters told Levine. "But then we have these things that are just total baloney."
"I beg to differ, Barbara," Levine responded. "We have written dozens and dozens of stories over the years about you. And there are people close to you who absolutely want to see you get married again."
But Walters would have none of it: "You printed something totally, totally untrue!"
Levine tried another tack: "All I can say, Barbara, is that we trust our sources.... Barbara, did you go out on dates with Frank?"
Walters, growing agitated, replied, "Frank Langella is a friend.... I have lots of friends whom I go out with, and so does Whoopi. That doesn't mean that somebody is living in my apartment, living in my apartment, and that I'm marrying him in the summer."
"All I can say is that we have sources that we rely on," Levine said, "who take polygraph tests to the information, who sign legal affidavits..."
"[Get a] new machine, baby!" shot back Goldberg, to laughter from the studio audience. Goldberg characterized the story as "crap."
Levine offered several responses when asked by AJR about the Walters article. At first he dismissed it as "a cute little gossip story" that Walters "elevated into something bigger." Nevertheless, he says, "We still stand by the story. That's a given."
But why stand by a story that two primary sources have directly disputed, not just as a matter of perception or interpretation but on matters of fact? Levine even acknowledges that Walters' claims--that Langella never moved into her apartment, that no wedding was ever planned, that Goldberg never "approved" of a close romantic relationship--are accurate. "I'm not going to call Barbara Walters a liar," he says.
Yet Levine offers a revealing defense: "At the end of the day, it's clear she didn't marry him, but friends thought they were getting married. It was the perception of the friends."
The answer suggests that it's not what's factually accurate that actually matters to the Enquirer. It's what someone--"a source," "a friend," "an insider," someone who might have been paid commensurate with the juiciness of the tip--says he or she believes to be true. By this logic, the Enquirer can never really be wrong, as long as someone actually said what the Enquirer reports.
Even though the story is untrue, Levine says no corrective action will be taken. The Enquirer doesn't regularly run corrections and besides, he says, the story wasn't a big deal: "This was not a cover story, and it did not have an impact for us on our circulation. It met the legal standards of our lawyers for publication."
This suggests another of the Enquirer's editorial standards: If a story is flawed but doesn't raise legal issues, it's acceptable for publication. "At the end of the day, you're dealing with a supermarket tabloid that is picked up every week by people who are obviously comfortable with the news they are receiving and their interpretation of it," Levine says. "Some [readers] believe everything we publish is true. Some think maybe the headline pushes the facts too far. It's all a question of perception."
For this reason, among others, news organizations that follow the Enquirer's "scoops" do so at their own peril. A prominent example: The Enquirer reported in its March 3 issue that a federal grand jury indictment of John Edwards was "imminent." The story, citing unnamed "insiders," reported that Edwards was about to face charges for campaign finance violations stemming from alleged payments to Rielle Hunter. The story was picked up widely, with the Enquirer cited as its source. But more than two-and-a-half months later, no such indictment has been issued. The Enquirer hasn't explained the apparent delay or followed up on the indictment claim.
Indeed, the Enquirer may have finally squandered whatever goodwill it earned from its Edwards coverage with a story posted on its Web site on May 1, asserting that President Obama had had an affair with a former campaign worker in 2004. "Obama Cheating Scandal: Shocking New Reports" read the headline over a piece that described the alleged affair, which--in typical Enquirer style--was based on an unnamed source, a limousine driver. Within hours of posting the story, however, the Enquirer beat a hasty retreat. It initially retracted its claim that there was video evidence of the relationship. Then it yanked the story altogether. Once again, the mainstream media didn't bite (among the MSM, only the Chicago Sun-Times reported on the story, twice). And this time, caution was rewarded.
The Enquirer is well attuned to the legal limits of its journalism, having learned some hard lessons over the years. In 1976, it began an epic battle with Carol Burnett after the comedienne sued the Enquirer over a gossip item that said she had argued with Henry Kissinger in a Washington restaurant and had seemed drunk in public. (Burnett took particular offense at the item because both her parents were alcoholics.) Burnett won the initial trial in 1981, with a jury awarding her $1.6 million. The award was subsequently cut twice on appeal, and the Enquirer was finally ordered to pay Burnett $200,000 by a California court in 1983.
The Burnett case helped define and refine the Enquirer's reporting and business methods, says Jack Vitek, the author of "The Godfather of Tabloid," a biography of the Enquirer's late former owner and seminal editor, Generoso Pope Jr. As a legal matter, the episode signaled that the paper was willing to employ "a scorpion defense"--engaging in persistent, stinging counterattacks to wear down plaintiffs, he says. It also propelled the Enquirer deeper into what Vitek calls "gray journalism," stories that come close to the limits of libel but never step over it. "They learned very well how to delay, when to fight and how and when to settle," Vitek says. "I think for them [lawsuits] are basically under control and simply a cost of doing business."
That is not to say that the Enquirer has avoided legal trouble in the past few years. Its recent history has been pockmarked by lawsuits. In 2003 and 2004, the Enquirer's owner, American Media, settled separate suits with former Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.) and his wife, Carolyn, that grew out of the Enquirer's reporting on Gary Condit's relationship with murdered intern Chandra Levy.
In his lawsuit, Condit alleged that the Enquirer and the Globe and Star tabloids, also owned by American Media, had ruined his reputation by falsely intimating or asserting that he was involved in "deviant and perverted sexual conduct" and was "criminally involved" in the kidnapping and murder of Levy (police in Washington repeatedly said Condit wasn't a suspect in Levy's disappearance). American Media settled with Condit for an undisclosed sum. Carolyn Condit's suit was the result of a 2001 Enquirer story reporting that she "flew into a rage" during a telephone conversation with Levy; Carolyn Condit said she had never spoken to Levy. This suit also was settled for an undisclosed sum and included an apology from the Enquirer.
The Enquirer's legal issues are arguably greater in the United Kingdom, where libel laws are more favorable for plaintiffs (American law requires a public figure to prove that a defendant published a statement knowing that it was false, or with reckless disregard for the truth; British courts place the burden on the defendant to show that a story is true).
Thus, actress Kate Hudson won her claim against the Enquirer in 2006 after she sued in London over a story and photos suggesting she had an eating disorder. American Media agreed to pay undisclosed damages and to print an apology in the Enquirer's British edition. It acknowledged that the 2005 story--which claimed that Hudson's mother, Goldie Hawn, had planned to confront Hudson about her weight--was false.
Similarly, American Media settled with actress Cameron Diaz in 2007 after she claimed in London that she had been libeled by an Enquirer article. The story alleged that Diaz had cheated on then-boyfriend Justin Timberlake, and included paparazzi photos of Diaz hugging another man. Although the story insinuated the man was Diaz's lover, Diaz and the man said they were merely work colleagues and the embrace was innocent. The settlement's terms, as usual, weren't revealed, but at the time an attorney for Diaz characterized it as "substantial."
Any assessment of the Enquirer's credibility requires reconciling these two Enquirers--the relentless investigator and the frivolous scandal monger. John Edwards' dismissal of the Enquirer's revelations about him as "tabloid trash" was no doubt cynical and self-serving. But it might not have had the intended effect of forestalling further media scrutiny if the Enquirer itself hadn't given off whiffs of something unsavory before. In the end, facts and accuracy matter. Standards and principles matter, too. And not just on the big stories.


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Three Spartanburg teens are accused of threatening a 70-year-old woman with baseball bats.
Deputies said on Tuesday the three teens went to a home on Springdale Circle in the Boiling Springs community and threatened a grandmother with bodily harm with baseball bats.
Two of the teens, Jamin Carithers and Robert Williams, were arrested and charged with assault and battery.The third teen, Andrew Kyle Bowyer, left the scene, but was later arrested.
He is also charged with assault and battery.
According to an incident report, the teens came to the house looking for the woman's grandson.
A man at the home told the teens that the man they were looking for was not there.The man at the home said the teens were banging on the door.
The report said the grandmother came outside to see what was happening and the teens had their baseball bats up at her ready to hit her. It said the woman ran inside and called 911.


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All 15 fighters who underwent drug testing at this past weekend's UFC 132 event tested clean for performance-enhancing drugs and recreational/drugs of abuse.
Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer today e-mailed the drug-testing results to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
UFC 132 took place July 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz earned a decision win over former WEC champ Urijah Faber in the evening's main event.
The NSAC tested both of them, as well as Chris Leben, Wanderlei Silva, Tito Ortiz, Ryan Bader, Carlos Condit, Melvin Guillard, Shane Roller, Rafael dos Anjos, Brian Bowles, Aaron Simpson, Anthony Njokuani and Jeff Hougland.
All tested negative for drugs of abuse (such as marijuana and cocaine), as well as anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancers.
The NSAC traditionally tests both main-card fighters, all winning fighters and any competitors who previously failed drug tests. However, some of the testing remains random, and all fighters are subject to it.
For complete coverage of UFC 132, check out the MMA Events section of the site.
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
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For all the enormous achievements of science in posting the universe that man inhabits, odd things keep slipping past the sentries. The tap on the shoulder may be fleeting, the brush across the cheek gone sooner than it is felt, but the momentary effect is unmistakable: an unwilling suspension of belief in the rational. An old friend suddenly remembered, and as suddenly the telephone rings...
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Our engineers work tirelessly to make the perfect grill for each person's cooking situation. Whether you need to feed your family or the entire neighborhood, we have the perfect grill for you. In the same regard, it doesn't matter if you are new to grilling or a seasoned expert. We make a grill that will fit your skill set so that you can truly get the most out of your cooking.
We love to grill. Even more, we love the environment of togetherness that a grill and an outdoor living area seems to instantly create. That is why our grills are engineered to be the best in the business but affordable to everyone at the same time. We want to help grow the outdoor living movement so that everyone who wants to experience it can."
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Sunday Brunch: Jeffrey Steingarten's Easy Frites Recipe
This is a ridiculously easy french fry recipe my friend Jeffrey Steingarten published in his wonderful book The Man Who Ate Everything. I have made it many, many times with absolutely splendid results. Jeffrey suggests serving these fries with dijon mustard, but ketchup will do just fine. If you want to try something different, tartar sauce also makes a superb french fry dipping sauce. I know some serious eaters might be asking "french fries for brunch?" My response: Why not?
French fries are good any time. If you want to make them a little more brunchy, serve them with Johnny Apple's crazy creamy, crazy good scrambled eggs.
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- 1 ½ pounds Idaho or boiling potatoes
- 2 cups peanut oil, at room temperature
- Salt
Wash and peel the potatoes, and with a French fry cutter or a kitchen knife, cut them into long strips with a square cross section about 3/8 inch on one side. Wash them briefly under cold water and dry with a cloth. Put them into a pan about ten inches in diameter with sides at least four inches high. Just cover with peanut oil.
Place the pan over the highest heat. When the oil has exceeded 200 degrees F, it will begin to bubble, first softly and then furiously, and by the time it reaches 350 degrees F, the potatoes will be a deep golden brown and ready to eat. (Make sure that the oil temperature never exceeds 370 degrees F.)
Taste one or two. Drain and blot with paper towels. Salt the frites just before serving. Eat with strong Dijon mustard.
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With a total revenue topping $343 billion in 2012, eCommerce has proven to be an integral part of the US economy. The steady growth of online shopping in conjunction with the ever-increasing popularity of the Internet is only expected to continue, with some forecasts predicting that Internet commerce will generate over $500 billion by 2016.
The Growth of eCommerce
Online shopping in the USA has grown extensively over the last decade. Amounting to only $72 billion in 2002, total eCommerce revenue has since grown over 476%, totaling $343 billion in 2012. This includes an increase of close to 14% for 2012 alone, up from $301 billion in 2011. An increase of 12% is expected for 2013, with the total revenue topping $384 billion.
eCommerce revenue is expected to roughly follow a 10% compound annual growth rate over the next several years. Forecasts predict total business-to-consumer revenue topping $426 billion in 2014, $469 billion in 2015, and $515 billion in 2016.
Online Retail Stats
Retail eCommerce generates the majority of online revenue. Totaling $225.5 billion in 2012, retail accounted for more than 65% of overall sales.
Online retail has seen a growth rate of roughly 16% per year since 2010. This growth rate is expected to level off slightly: online retail revenue is forecasted to grow by a yearly rate of 13% to 14% over the next several years, totaling $384 billion by 2016.
The increased revenue is largely due to an increase in the number of online shoppers. In 2011, American consumers who shopped on the web totaled 143.4 million. This number rose to 149.8 million in 2012. The total number of online shoppers in the US is expected to top 156 million in 2013, increasing to 162 million by 2014.
An increase in relative consumer spending also adds to the overall increase in revenue. In 2011, the average American digital buyer spent a total of $2,104 online. This number rose to $2,293 in 2012, and is projected at $2,466 for 2013. By 2016, the average online shopper in the USA is expected to spend $,2937.
The Most Popular eCommerce Products and Services
In 2012, travel websites generated over 33% of the total US eCommerce revenue, making it the highest-earning eCommerce category. This includes sites used for booking vacations, flights and hotels.
The second highest-earning category is consumer electronics and software, which brought in a total of $41.9 billion in 2011 and $48.6 billion in 2012. With a revenue of $34.2 billion in 2011 and $41 billion in 2012, clothing is the third-most popular category for online shoppers.
Entertainment media such as books, movies and music is the fourth-highest earner, generating a total revenue of $17.2 billion in 2011 and $20.4 billion in 2012. This is largely due to the increasing popularity of digital media and online resellers, allowing entertainment media to surpass the category of automobiles and accessories which earned $17 billion in 2011 and $18.3 billion in 2012. The sixth highest-earning category is furniture and home accessories, which brought in $14.2 billion in 2011 and $16.5 billion in 2012.
Health and personal care items is another popular category online, generating $8.7 billion in 2011 and $10.1 billion in 2012. This is followed by office supplies, which brought in a total revenue of $7.1 billion in 2011 and $7.9 billion in 2012. Finally, toys and hobby items round out the list, generating a total of $6.7 billion in 2011 and $7.8 billion in 2012.
Mobile Shopping
With the ever-increasing popularity of tablet computers and smart phones, mobile shopping has also seen extensive growth over the last several years. In 2012, mobile commerce earned more than $10 billion, with over 37.6 million consumers using their mobile devices for retail services. This number is expected to grow extensively over the following years as portable Internet-connected devices and mobile marketplaces become more common.


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While Herrick often chafed under his teaching obligations, he benefited from the University's intellectual ferment and the unusual freedom from teaching responsibilities that Harper had provided him. During his tenure at Chicago, Herrick produced thirteen novels, spending lengthy periods of time in Europe and in the East while he wrote.
Part of a rising generation of American realists, Herrick's works dramatized contemporary social questions. His novels and plays were often thinly disguised autobiographical accounts of life in Chicago and elsewhere. If Herrick was a controversial man, it was not only because he criticized important Chicagoans, but also because he drew attention to the evils of industrialism and to the darker side of human life. His book, The Common Lot (1904), was a fictionalized account of his own unhappy experiences while building a house on University Avenue. Architects and builders appear as incompetent money grubbers, eager to exploit an unsuspecting public. In Chimes (1926), Herrick settled his score with the University, explaining its birth as the coming together of new wealth and an energetic but uncultured president. The streets of mud and the primitive urban frontier setting of the young University that Chimes described had many elements of truth, but even Herrick's close friends criticized his harsh caricature of Harper.
Not a particularly happy man, Herrick's personal and professional life was often in turmoil. In an autobiographical note titled "In Search of One's Soul," Herrick described his personal pilgrimage.
Despite being counseled against it, Herrick resigned abruptly from the University in 1923. He never forgave the University for refusing to pay him what he regarded as an adequate and justly earned pension. It was during the last years of his life as governor of the Virgin Islands that Herrick unexpectedly achieved a measure of both personal satisfaction and wider recognition for his abilities as a capable administrator.
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His works are held in numerous public and private collections. Anthony recently completed the prestigious Wesfarmers Arts Indigenous Leadership Program at the National Gallery of Australia and is currently residing in Sydney where he has taken the role of Aboriginal Arts officer for Regional Arts NSW.
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B.A. in English, Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier, FranceM.A. in Foreign Language Education, Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier, FrancePh.D in French and Francophone Literature, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA
A native from France, Professor Carole Maccotta received her undergraduate degree in English literature and her MA in Foreign Language Education from Université Paul Valery in Montpellier, France. She then moved to the United States and received her PhD in French and Francophone Literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has taught courses on Algerian women filmmakers and novelists, European film, French and Francophone Literature, Black Paris, as well as all levels of language courses. Her areas of interest include linguistics, literature, postcolonial and dance studies, the translation and adaptation of African tales into colonial ethnography, and into French Avant Garde literature and performance. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature and her publications included studies on translation, colonial literature and dance.
French and Francophone Literature, Foreign language instruction, Dance and the Black diaspora, colonialism and globalization in literature and dance, Black Paris and the jazz age in France, adaptation in literature and dance.
Maccotta, Carole, "Dancing and Exercise onboard Slave Ships." Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage. Ed Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock. Westport: Greenwood, 2007.
Maccotta, Carole, "Histoire Coloniale et Oralité dans Cannibale de Didier Daeninckx et Anthologie Nègre de Blaise Cendrars". Nouvelles Francographies, volume 4, (1.2). 13-26. New York: SPFFA, 2013.
Maccotta, Carole, "Récritures, Jazz et Chorégraphie dans La Création du Monde (1923)", Jazz, Pouvoir et Subversion de 1919 à nos Jours. Ed. Pascale Cohen. Bern: Peter Lang. 281-300. 2014.
Maccotta, Carole, "Appropriations Coloniales et Adaptations Scéniques d'une Légende des Origines: La Création du Monde (Ballets Suédois, 1923)." ReCHERches Culture et Histoire dans l'Espace Roman, Numéro hors-série. Strasbourg: Strasbourg University Press. (forthcoming)
Maccotta, Carole, "Chorégraphies et littératures métisses: Bérénice et l'Anthologie Nègre chez Faustin Linyekula. (Congo)." Littéradanse. Eds. Magali Nachtergael and Lucille Toth. Paris: Centre National de la Danse, Coll. Recherches. (forthcoming)
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian oil ministry official on Saturday denied a report published by a government agency that it had successfully blocked a cyberattack on an oil sector computer network.
Ahmad Tavallaei, head of IT at the National Iranian Oil Company, said in comments posted on the oil ministry's website shana.ir that a technical problem, not a cyberattack, was the reason for a temporary shutdown of the network.
An Iranian government agency in charge of fighting sabotage said earlier Saturday in its website, paydarymelli.ir, that the networks of the Oil Ministry and the National Iranian Oil Company came under cyberattack the day before.
Iran periodically reports the discovery of viruses and other malicious programs in government, nuclear, oil and industrial networks, blaming Israel and the United States. In May, Iran shut down part of its oil facilities because of another such reported cyberattack.
Israel has done little to deflect suspicion that it uses viruses against Iran.
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