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In the world of motorcycle racing, MotoGP is the zenith of competition, the Formula One for all things two-wheeled. It's a sport that's rapidly attracting increasing numbers of devotees year on year who are drawn to the exhilaration of races in which participants can reach speeds nearing 300km/hr.
Now, those racing engineers at Namco have fine-tuned its amazing simulation of this dynamic and breathtaking sport for a fourth, and still PlayStation 2-exclusive, MotoGP game.
Fine tuned and brought up to speed, MotoGP4's new additions and refinements do not disappoint. New classes make a debut with the introduction of 250cc and 125cc bikes and riders, opening up further the already expansive game options. This newfound breadth is capitalised upon with MotoGP4's new training mode and season management features.
The team rosters are like a roll call of honour, covering the brightest and best of today's riders in all three classes. Featured faces include legendary MotoGP riders like Valentino Rossi and Sete Gibernau, and up-and-coming talent in 250cc and 125cc like Daniel Pedrosa and Joan Olivé. All of the official teams are also correct and present, with fully-licensed bikes from (among others) Ducati, Honda, Suzuki, and Yamaha to compete on.
If you fancy proving your bike skills against real opponents, the option to race head-to-head with three friends via a Multitap is still there as a fun distraction from the challenging MotoGP season.
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Last Shabbat I made a crunchy, colorful chopped taco salad inspired by my favorite new gourmet kosher cookbook, Chef At Home published by the Magen David Yeshivah PTA. If you haven't heard about this new 400 page kosher cookbook yet, than make sure you order a copy soon from Yvonne Franco . Once you have it in your kitchen, you wont be able to cook a meal without it!
Add this healthy new salad to your holiday lunch menu. Its a great change from the traditional boring salads that we've gotten used to.
For this healthy kosher recipe, I used healthy organic tacos from Omni Health located on avenue U in Brooklyn. I also added fresh chopped jicama which adds a delicious low calorie crunch to the mix.
- 1 head romaine chopped
- 2 small ripe tmatoes
- 2 cucumbers
- 1 red onion chopped
- 1 can chickpeas
- 1 can red kidney beans
- 1 avocado cubed
- 2 corn on the cob, steamed and shucked
- jicama cubed into small pieces
- several tacos, toasted and broken into 1″ pieces
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup of olive oil
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sugar or Splenda
- 1-2 teaspoons of cumin
- juice of one lemon
- juice of one lime
- 1 teaspoon of garlic, crushed
- 1 teaspoon light mayonnaise
- salt and pepper
Directions for this Kosher Recipe
- In a large serving bowl combine all ingredients except for taco chips.
- Blend salad dressing ingredients
- Pour and toss
- Top with taco chips and serve.
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The latest collaborative release between Cole Haan and fragment design sees its way to the world wide web in form of two new styles: Saddle and Tassel. Each style is available in two colorways, for the Saddle the options are Black/White and Pavement/Black while the options for the Tassel are Chestnut/White and Black/White.
The Cole Haan & fragment design LunarGrand Penny Tassel, $298, and the Cole Haan & fragment design LunarGrand Saddle, $298 will be available beginning Wednesday, December 12th at Cole Haan SoHo, 128 Prince Street, New York.


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Dogs are allowed year-round on the island beaches, but they must be leashed and people are required to clean up after their pets. To get to the beaches, take a right out of town and follow Corn Neck Road. To get to the island, you will need to take the Block Island Ferry which allows leashed dogs. The ferry from Port Judith, RI to Block Island operates daily. If you are taking the ferry from Newport, RI or New London, CT to the island, please note these ferries only operate during the summer. If you are bringing a vehicle on the ferry, reservations are required. Call the Block Island Ferry at 401-783-4613 for auto reservations.
DogFriendly.com, with tens of thousands of places listed to take your dog to, will be releasing on it's Dog News blog, Facebook page and on Twitter a list of 200 Top Places that you can take your dog in the U.S. and Canada. This list, while intended to highlight top places that are especially pet-friendly, is not designed to be the absolutely top 200 places that we could find, but a sampling of the top places so that all regions, types of attractions, hotels, B&Bs, vacation rentals, parks, beaches, shopping and more can be considered. No doubt each of you will find many other places not on this list or our full list of dog-friendly places at https://www.dogfriendly.com. Please let us know about them by commenting on the blog or emailing us at email@example.com. You can also let us and our readers know if you agree or disagree with the selections, or your experiences there. Please keep in mind that places often change their policies regarding dogs and thus may have different policies at any time in the future.
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I'm currently on my 33rd week (34 tomorrow! And it's my OB visit too!) and I'd like to think we're all set, well almost. We'll just have to buy some basic toiletries for the hospital and found out just last night that we need to buy crib mattresses! Last Thursday, we bought some stuff for Baby Dot, particularly long-sleeved shirts as it's gonna be really cold come January-February, and some sheets for the cribs. And another going-home outfit since the one we bought is too big. Gotta wash those new purchases soon! We're done with the documents that we might need for the hospital, we're just waiting for January to request for Ane's updated Philhealth contribution certificate.
Over the weekend, we did some house cleaning. Like Chikai, maybe I'm nesting too! The purchase of the cabinets probably triggered it as I've been really lazy I'm dragging my fat ass around. I needed a lot of help because now, it's hard for me to bend over and pick up stuff &/or wipe things/floors. I'm just glad that I was able to ask Ane to stop playing Cabal for once! LOL! He willingly obliged 'coz he knows he'll never hear the end of it! So this is how our little pad (sleeping area) in Malabon now looks like:
We moved things around to make space for the cabinet. I put notes on the picture in my Flickr, click here to look. We didn't rotate the bed since the space is small we have to knock it down just to move it. Nice to look at when it's like this, huh? I wish we can keep it this way! LOL! And while we're at it, I'm sharing the other side of the picture above, our 'work area':
I also have notes. You know the drill :) I need to re-organize this side soon! Before we left for QC on Saturday, we accumulated a really large bag of trash, mostly boxes.
And then on Sunday, while Ane was at work, I took care of our room in QC with the help of the ward of course! We also moved things around and was able to throw two large bags of junk (where the h@#l did those come from?!?). No picture of the room this time because by the time I was done, I was already too tired and we had a 6pm mass to attend. Dot's cabinet is still downstairs because I'm letting the "factory" smell wear off first.
Overall, I had a very productive weekend (and tiring too!). The last few days, I've been catching up on rest because I know I will hardly get enough sleep when Dot arrives, hehe. Until my next mommy update! :)


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Senators seek pact on gun-buy background checks
David Keene, president of the National Rifle Association, smiles during an exclusive interview with Associated Press reporters in Denver on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. He said he's confident that Congress won't approve an assault weapons ban or an ammunition limit in the wake of mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut. David Keene called such gun control proposals "feel-good" measures that he says "won't do any good." Keene is scheduled to meet with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and other lawmakers at the Capitol later Thursday. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)


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Tips at Tablet Shopping
A little over one-third of U.S. adult consumers have a tablet—and over half (55%) have a smartphone that can run many of the same apps. If your family hasn't jumped into the pool yet, it's a great time to join the rush. A 7-inch Android tablet can be had for less than $200, but while prices start low, they can quickly climb over $500.
If you're wondering whether you should spend more now to avoid having to buy again later, it's a good question. Of course, in the end, your needs and budget should drive the final decision. Before you buy, ask yourself:
Do we truly, madly, deeply want any iTunes-only apps?
It's possible—there are more than 375,000 native iPad apps available, many designed specifically for Apple's operating system. Android's Google Play market has lots too, but not every app built for Apple is available for Android or Windows. That may happen in the future, but not necessarily on your timetable. The leap to an iPad Mini (from $329) is not so far from a $150 7-inch Android tablet. So the question is: How much are you willing to pay for those iOs apps?
Should we consider a Windows RT tablet?
Maybe. These are very nearly a computer in a tablet body. They won't run all Windows software but will put the powerful and familiar Microsoft Office at hand. And they start at around $300. Add a keyboard and it's almost a laptop.
Is a tablet enough, or do we need a full-fledged computer?
A tablet delivers on the portability promise and has tons of functionality—but make no mistake, it isn't a computer. No keyboard, for starters, and inexpensive ones have nowhere to plug in your camera or printer. (Though, FYI, these peripherals are all going wireless at breakneck speed.) If you want a tablet for ease of carrying but need a computer with a keyboard, USB ports and an operating system that can run more-traditional software, consider a convertible tablet/PC like the HP Envy x2 (from $649). It's a laptop, but press a button and the screen separates to become a full-featured Windows 8 tablet. Sweet!
Kindle: With this app, any tablet, smartphone or computer can function as an e-reader. The next time your daughter insists she can't do her homework because she left Moby Dick at school, tell her to download it from the Kindle Store and get busy. Many of the classics that make up teachers' required reading lists are out of copyright protection now and free for Kindle. iTunes, Google Play and Windows Store, free
Audible: Wouldn't it be great if your teenager could read while he cleans his room? Not a problem. Audible.com has a huge collection of audiobooks and an app for most tablets and smartphones. Drop the app on his device and the days of him having to set aside time to read are over. Membership costs $7.50 for the first three months, then $14.95 per month. iTunes, Google Play and Windows Store, free
Providence eLearning Books on iBooks: Textbooks are heavy—not to mention mostly boring, compared with the media-rich Internet. This app is the answer. Download books (there are 200,000 or so from kindergarten level up, starting at $13) or read them online with any Web browser. Built-in flash cards and multimedia extras make these books much more interesting than the paper kind. Plus the ability to add digital sticky notes and highlighting encourages the development of solid study skills. Best of all, no more 20-pound backpack.
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An image of an aerial view of the Kyuquot village. According to the documentation included with the filmstrip, the description of the image states "Kyuquot from the air. You can see Walter's Island and out into the Pacific Ocean. The next Island to the right is Aktis Island, the ancestral home of the Kyuquot Band. In the early 1800's the Kyuquot Band was the largest on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. However one night in 1855 the Clayoquots, enemies to the Kyoquots, surprised the Kyuquot Village on Atkis Isl., cut off the heads of the Kyuquot warriers, took the women as slaves, and set fire to the village. Most of the village was destroyed during this, the last tribal war fought on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. A few years ago most of the Kyuquot Band left Atkis Island and moved into Walter's Cove."


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Philippe Karsenty admits to being a little pessimistic.
A month ago, he appeared before the Paris Appeals Court in a case that arose out of the Muhammad al-Dura shooting hoax. The case has dragged on for years, and most recently he's had to again show how the French national broadcaster, France 2 TV, misled its viewers by wrongly claiming Israeli soldiers shot and killed the 12-year-old al-Dura at the Netzirim junction on the second day of the Palestinian intifadah in 2000.
Karsenty is upset because he feels the French establishment is arrayed against him, protecting one of its golden boys, France 2's Israel bureau chief, Charles Enderlin. "The whole French establishment is against the truth and against Israel," he said.
Karsenty also feels he hasn't received the kind of support he deserves from the government of Israel, which he says hasn't asserted its innocence in the case with nearly enough vigour.
"The State of Israel, by not defending itself, is putting the Jews around the world in a bad situation," Karsenty said.
He points to the way antisemites have fastened on the al-Dura incident to accuse Jews of a blood libel. Al-Dura became the poster boy for the intifadah. Postage stamps with his likeness were issued in the Arab world, and an al-Dura poster was clearly visible when Islamist terrorists murdered U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl.
"Al-Dura has a son and his name is Toulouse. As long as our enemy can say they are slaughtering our kids in revenge for theirs who were deliberately killed, too, we have a serious problem," Karsenty said. He was referring to the radical Islamist killer, Mohammed Merah, who in 2012 murdered a rabbi and three children at a Jewish day school in Toulouse.
Merah was inspired by the phony al-Dura allegations, Karsenty asserted.
Today, Karsenty awaits a verdict in his case, which will be delivered April 3. No matter how it goes, he feels he's in a lose-lose situation.
If the court rules against him, agreeing with a trial court that he libelled Enderlin by calling his report a hoax, he clearly loses.
But even if he wins, his opponents will argue it was only on a technicality.
"If I win, they'll find a way to discredit me in the media," he said.
Karsenty set off the seven-year legal imbroglio when he publicly, and loudly proclaimed that the French TV report on the al-Dura incident was a complete fabrication. He was sued and lost at trial, but he appealed.
During the appeal, the judges ordered Enderlin to make all the raw footage recorded by France 2's cameraman, Talal Abu Rahma, a self-professed supporter of the Palestinian cause, available to the court. Enderlin wasn't on the scene when the incident took place and relied on Abu Rahma for the content of his report.
The footage showed lengthy periods in which dozens, if not hundreds of Palestinians milled about at a time the report claimed they were being fired upon by Israelis. The footage does not support claims al-Dura was shot. In fact, it shows him moving after he supposedly was already dead.
As well, there were no obvious signs of blood, the bullet holes did not line up as they should have if Israelis were firing at him, and the footage showed Palestinians faking injuries, with ambulances arriving seconds afterward, suggesting made-for-TV news fabrications, later dubbed "Pallywood."
Karsenty won on appeal, but the Supreme Court ordered a new hearing, saying the lower court erred in compelling Enderlin to produce the footage. As the appellant, Karsenty was responsible for presenting evidence.
Despite the odds stacked against him, Karsenty does not regret putting so much of his energy into publicizing the "blood libel." But, "next time, I'd recommend doing so only if Israel is ready to fight."
Meanwhile, in France the establishment has rallied around Enderlin. Former president Nicolas Sarkozy presented Enderlin with France's Legion of Honour – after the case had gone to trial.
For Karsenty, that's just another indication that "French society is not ready to face the truth."
"In France, the media has decided that Israel is the monster, and they've decided to protect their anti-Israel propaganda. We need to face that. There's no political will to destroy the hoax."


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A young woman was held down by the father of her child as his new girlfriend stabbed the woman multiple times in front of the former couple's infant, authorities said Tuesday.
Samia Jones, 17, pleaded not guilty to charges including armed assault with intent to murder during her arraignment in Dorchester District Court on Tuesday. She was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail.
Police and the district attorney's office said the victim, who was not identified by authorities, was lured out of her home Monday afternoon to an area near the Savin Hill MBTA station by her 17-year-old former boyfriend, who is the father of their 8-month-old child. The man told the woman that he had a new pair of shoes he wanted to give the child.
The woman was pushing the child in a stroller near 15 Midland St., when the father set upon her and held her down while Jones allegedly stabbed her. The woman suffered injuries to her back, leg, face and torso. She is in stable condition, authorities said. The infant was not hurt.
Jones and the boyfriend fled, but police were able to secure warrants for the duo during their investigation. Jones, who police said has a baby with the man, was arrested at her home. The boyfriend has not been found, but police have a warrant for his arrest.
The woman was stabbed six times with a 10 to 12-inch butcher knife, according to the Globe.
Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley called the incident "deeply, deeply disturbing."
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That's what Greece is today: surreal. So bizarre that even five years ago, one could never have imagined the current political/economic developments. Can this possibly be for real?
The latest, announced with glee in a major newspaper here (in fact, the major newspaper according to Demetrios), is that now many medical and legal practices will be closing. That's euphemism for, "will be driven out of business". Having made it more difficult every day for small businesses to survive (due mostly to extortionate tax and insurance rates plus mountains of red tape), the powers that be are now targeting professional practices. Self-employment, says the newspaper, is no longer acceptable in Europe, will no longer be tolerated. Everyone will have to work for one of the large corporations or for the state. The alleged reason? The self-employed can evade taxes too easily; corporations can't.


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We are pleased to announce the availability of the FINS Framework version 1.0.0! The source code is available for download from GitHub and documentation (including installation and getting started instructions) are available from this website, with links provided below.
Substantial improvements have been made from the previous version and this release is the first that we consider feature-complete for experimental networking research. Building on the major shift in version 0.9.0, FINS no longer requires a modified kernel and can run on a standard Linux 2.6 kernel. With that in mind, it is recommended that initial testing and development be conducted on a Virtual Machine as FINS unregisters and replaces the AF_INET socket family.
Iterating on the prototypes released in version 0.9.0, working modules for ARP, ICMP, and TCP protocols are included in version. Development for these has been focused on the most commonly used behavior and socket options. Common applications including Firefox and some utilities such as ping and traceroute have been tested. Support for less common socket options and applications will continue to expand in future releases. In addition, future releases also aim to add support for the Android OS and reduce the amount of initial configuration required.
The FINS Framework is released under the BSD 2-Clause License.
Please contact us if you have any questions or wish to contribute to the development of the FINS Framework!
You can always access our GitHub repository via the Quick Link in the right hand column of this webpage. Here is a link directly to the version 1.0.0 release tag. And here is a link directly to a ZIPball download of version 1.0.
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About Bishop's Boxers
Welcome to our blog! If you are a computer, be sure to turn up your speaker volume so you can enjoy Boxertunes while you browse our site.
We are a boxer-loving family that recently retired from military life and relocated to the Chicago suburbs. Our love for the breed began back in 1987 with our first boxer in Minnesota. Although he wasn't the most beautiful boxer, Chesty became extremely well-trained. Unfortunately, in 1998, he got cancer and we had to put him down when he was nearly 11.
Knowing that we didn't want to experience life without Boxers, we had a new puppy waiting to be shipped from Crossroad Boxers in California to Minneapolis, Minnesota. We gave this striking 8-month old fawn male the name of Bishop. Little did we realize that he would be the beginning of our own kennel, Bishop's Boxers.
Bishop participated in many dog shows while we had time in graduate school, but then came children and active duty military life. Having the desire to have a puppy from Bishop and the determination to uphold and improve the standard of the boxer breed, we bred Bishop and got our first female, Lady, in February of 2005. Lady produced two wonderful litters of puppies with Telstar's Dixieland Band (Bandit). Telstar Boxers continue to be a large part of our pedigrees. We lost Lady in August 2015 to Cushing's disease. It never gets any easier.
We kept one female puppy from Lady's first litter, Eve. And from one of Eve's litters, we kept Latte, a classic fawn female. We update our blog regularly, so be sure to check back here or on our Facebook page for the most current information.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
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A teacher friend of mine brought me along to the Sept. 24 school board meeting to illustrate the stories that she has been telling me about the hostile conditions she faced from the school board. Well, I have to say that now I can see her point. Talk about agendas! It seems that the sole aim of Heidi Adsett and Maureen Snook is to break the West Chester Area Education Association Union. I'm no big fan of unions, but their blatant disdain defies logic.
Snook told a story about her son who serves the public in the armed forces. She decried the fact that his travel allowance from the government had been decreased from 55 cents a mile to 23 cents a mile. She seemed to think that it was unfair for someone who serves the public would be put upon in this fashion, but in the next breath, she denied a 1.7 percent pay increase meant to help those serving the public of this district as school administrators. Are only those serving the military public servants?
If our compensation for school administration doesn't keep pace with those districts around us, we will lose to other districts with higher compensation then have to find and train new administrators, a very expensive proposition indeed. Does she not know how business is run?
Directly on the heel of the board meeting my friend told me about an unsolicited e-mail she received featuring a YouTube interview between a man named Simon Campbell and Heidi Adsett. They sat and discussed their ideologies that they had in common such as, you guessed it, union busting! Again, this defies logic. Why would Mrs. Adsett take advice from Simon Campbell. Mr. Campbell is the vice president of the Pennsbury School District. A quick check of the Pennsylvania Department of Education website shows that the Pennsbury PSSA test scores are far below those found in West Chester in every category. As a matter of interest, Pennsbury hasn't made adequate yearly progress according to the state standards for four years. We should be giving him advice on how to run a district, not the other way around. Perhaps we will be taking consultants from many of the other failing school districts from around the state. Thank heavens our district is so sound!
I support my teacher friend in the wonderful job that she does with her students each day. I see how hard she works and to see her and her colleagues attacked in such a manner is a shame. Nobody wants money wasted but it seems to me that there has been a great deal of money wasted on negotiators and public relations companies. The taxpayers deserve better; the teachers deserve better. Let's hope that the board members can change their agenda from one of animosity to one of negotiating without the continued attacks on this noble and important profession.
ARLENE S. SIMPSON West Chester


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Education Leaders Tackle Student Data Privacy Issues at Summit
Forthcoming federal guidance on the hot-button issues of student data privacy will seek "vigorous self-policing by commercial players," but the federal government is "not going to wait for industry or rely on promises" to protect children's sensitive information, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told privacy advocates and ed-tech industry leaders gathered here Monday.
That tension—between hoping the private sector will proactively develop and implement "best practices" on the one hand, and pushing for new legislation and regulations, on the other—dominated the "School Privacy Zone" Summit, convened by San Francisco-based nonprofit Common Sense Media.
The event came in the midst of a recent flurry of student data privacy-related activity. In addition to the non-binding federal guidelines, expected to be made public Tuesday afternoon, a leading technology trade group released recommendations on the issue; major state legislation on the issue was proposed in California; and U.S. Senator Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts who also spoke at Monday's school privacy summit, announced that he will soon introduce new federal legislation.
The confluence of efforts across sectors is a good sign, said James Steyer, the CEO of Common Sense Media, a group known for evaluating media and educational technology for use by children.
"I've never felt that industry self-regulations were sufficient to protect the interests of kids and families," Steyer said in an interview with Education Week. "We want the best [private] actors to step forward, but we also need legislation and regulation and advocacy. It's the combination that works."
'Police Yourselves Before Others Do'
In his keynote address at Monday's privacy summit, Secretary Duncan touted the "extraordinary learning opportunities" associated with new digital learning tools and the vast amounts of information they generate, citing examples of schools in Detroit, New York, Nashville, Tenn., and Huntsville, Ala. that are using technology and data to personalize student learning, free up teachers' time for high-value instructional activities, and engage parents.
But the secretary also stressed that "school systems owe families the highest standard of security and privacy," and he sharply criticized some industry practices, including "take it or leave it 'Click Wrap' agreements" with districts that allow companies to unilaterally and without notice change their privacy practices.
"It is in your interest to police yourselves before others do," Duncan said in a pointed message to ed-tech vendors.
The federal guidance to be issued Tuesday will help school systems and educators interpret the law, and will "include examples of best practice," the secretary said. The technical assistance is largely the brainchild of Kathleen Styles, the U.S. Department of Education's recently appointed chief privacy officer.
One key principle around which there is an emerging cross-sector consensus is that educational data about students should be used solely for educational purposes—and not for targeted advertising.
Industry representatives and some education officials in attendance at Monday's event supported the general notion, but said much confusion remains about what "for educational use only" means in practice and expressed concerns about how such details will be enacted in policies and contracts.
"We want [vendors] to be able to use [student] data to improve their product. On the other hand, we don't want them selling it off randomly for profit," said Jeff Mao, the learning technology policy director in the Maine education department.
Not Far Enough
Hoping to get out ahead of the rising tide of proposed bills in state legislatures around the country, the Software & Information Industry Association released on Monday its own list of best practices.
Mark Schneiderman, the group's senior director of education policy, said the recommendations were intended "to create a trust framework, and at the same time make sure [we're] not cutting off our nose to spite our face."
But privacy advocates said that the group's suggestions don't go nearly far enough. Joel Reidenberg, a Fordham law professor who recently authored a much-discussed study on the shortcomings of districts' contracts with cloud-computing service providers, criticized the SIIA proposal for not explicitly rejecting the use of educational data for targeted marketing, failing to include any guidelines for how long data should be stored or when it should be destroyed, and failing to include provisions for parents to access and amend their children's information, among other things.
Reidenberg was also critical of some state bills that have been proposed, saying they only addressed "the tip of the iceberg."
In their recent study, Reidenberg said, his team found that "school systems didn't understand what they were doing" when it came to entering agreements for cloud-computing services with private vendors, and as a result were systematically failing to notify parents about the use of web-based services to store children's sensitive information and unthinkingly "paying with students' privacy" for no-cost classroom apps and software.
Reidenberg, Khaliah Barnes, an attorney for the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center, and others ticked off a list of concerns that continue to go largely unaddressed by legislation, regulations, industry practices, or district policies. Among them were the "vast amounts of data" collected by third-party vendors that don't fall under the jurisdiction of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA; the use of location data, biometric data, and social media to track students; the metadata generated by students' digital devices, especially when they are used outside of schools; and the growing trend of merging the "learning path" information generated by digital instructional materials with the personal data contained in student profiles.
Positive Examples
Not all the news at Monday's summit was bleak.
Among the educators to address the privacy summit was Superintendent Terry Grier of the 210,000-student Houston Independent School District, currently in the midst of a digital conversion that recently featured the distribution of 18,000 laptops to high school students.
Among the policies Grier highlighted were a one-step-at-a-time approach to deploying devices; a matrix used to evaluate the privacy protections offered by all ed-tech vendors seeking contracts with the district; and a teacher-led tech committee that vets any free apps and software that educators would like to use in their classrooms.
"Every day, we're thinking about things we haven't thought about before," he said.
Two big ideas also seemed to gain immediate and widespread traction among the heavy-hitters in the audience.
Many expressed enthusiasm for a suggestion that the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Education partner to set new parameters around data security and classroom apps, widely viewed as a major threat to students' privacy.
And the notion of "Good Housekeeping"-like seal of approval for ed-tech vendors who have met agreed-upon standards for protecting students' privacy was also popular.
"Market signals matter a lot," and such an effort may have an even greater impact than government regulations, said Jim Shelton, the acting deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
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Cisco Linksys PAP2T
From VoIP.ms Wiki
If you are running the PAP2t with a tomato firmware router, this may represent a persistent issue after rebooting the device, generally it won't register back as usual, in order to fix this you only need to set Tomato UDP Unreplied timeout down to 10 (from default of 30).
Configuration Details
Step 1
The first step is to find out what IP Address your adapter is currently using. To do this, pick a phone connected on Line 1 and do the following:
Dial: **** (That is 4 asterisks)
Once this is done, dial: 110# (110 followed by a square)
The system should now playback the IP Address your device has been assigned.
(Example: 192.168.1.2)
Step 2
Using your favorite web browser from a computer on the same network, point the address to the IP address of your adapter.
(example http://192.168.1.2) Replace 192.168.1.2 by the IP Address your device is currently using.
Step 3
You should now see the web interface of your Linksys/Sipura.
At the top of the page below the tabs, click on the link "Admin", and once the page has reloaded, click again on the link "Advanced View".
Step 4
Under the LINE 1 Tab, Find the following fields and fill them with the following information
Nat Keep Alive: Yes
Nat Mapping/Traversal: Yes
Proxy: atlanta.voip.ms (You can choose any of our multiple VoIP.ms servers)
Register Expires: 180
Proxy Fallback Intvl: 180
Display Name: John Smith (Replace with your name or company name)
User ID: 100000 (Replace with your VoIP.ms username)
Password: ******** (Type in the account password)
Use DNS SRV: NO
DNS SRV Auto Prefix: NO
Step 5 (Optional)
Optionally, you can configure your adapter with a better dial plan, allowing faster dialing of 10 digits number (Local US/Canada) and also enable 7 digits dialing in one area code of your choice.
At the bottom of Line 1 TAB, you will find a field called Dial Plan
Replace the 555 digits in the following line by the area code of your choice and copy the line, including parenthesis, in the Dialplan field in Line 1 Tab at the bottom of the page:
Step 6
Click on the "Save Settings " button at the bottom of the form.
Configuration Screens
Customer Submitted Information:
For North America:
Found this link on configuring the PAP2-NA hardware to work better in North America and specifically with VOIP.ms.
Read the article called: Configure your Linksys VoIP ATA the right way!
To upgrade a firmware version from a Windows system, the PAP2T-NA documentation nor Cisco's web site does not say how to do this. Go to Cisco PAP2T Internet Phone Adapter with 2 VoIP Ports. Click on the link "Download Firmware", which downloads the .zip file. Run the .exe file, then enter the IP number of the ATA device (called "SPA" in the program). It then upgrades the device. This is provided for your information: the author is not saying you have to upgrade the firmware.
How to avoid the long delay to hear the ringtone
If you ever experience some delay to hear the ringtone when you make outgoing calls with your PAP2T. Changing the PAP2T's Interdigit Long Timer value can help resolve the issue. Follow the next steps in order to change that setting:
Note: However before changing that option, test if calling the number with an # at the end of the number works(e.g. 5554441234#). If that doesn't work you need to contact the support staff in voip.ms.
- 1- First access the PAP2T's web interface.
- 2- Click on the Admin Login and then click on (switch to advanced view)
- 3- Click on the Regional tab and look for the Control Timer Values (sec) section.
- 4- Enter the desire value in the Interdigit Long Timer field (for example lower this value to 4).
Linksys PAP2T ATA Adapter Reset Procedure
Sometimes it will be very helpful to reset your linksys ATA adapter to factory default settings.
- Connect a telephone to line 1 of the PAP2T unit and power it on.
- Disconnect your PAP2T adapter from the internet connection(unplug the Ethernet cable from the PAP2T hardware unit). Resetting with internet connection may mess up the unit making it completely useless.
- Dial ****, and wait for the Interactive Voice Menu (IVM) to get activated.
- Type in the following number including the # symbol.
(This number spells RESET.)
- Confirm this by pressing 1.
Your linksys ATA unit will now go back to it factory default settings.
Note: There are some PAP2/PAP2T devices in circulation which were originally 'locked' to one provider and subsequently unlocked by end users. Do *not* use the RESET$ command with these boxes.


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It took me a few days to figure out what exactly I was going to do for this contest. I wish that I could give away tons of books, but alas, my book supply is limited. So, I thought I would do something a little different in terms of contests. I'm going to have a pre-order contest. I got the idea from Fantastic Book Review (so I should give her credit).
The Rules:
US & Canada only. I'm not really sure what the shipping is like from online bookstores...so we'll just play it safe.
There will be one winner (depending on the response to the contest), and that winner can tell me which book they would like me to pre-order for them. Once the book is released, it will get shipped directly to them.
Some Possible Books to Pre-Order
The Cupcake Queen by Heather Hepler
The Everafter by Amy Huntley
Betrayals by Lili St. Crow
The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
Gateway by Sharon Shinn
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Tangled by Carolyn Mackler
Liar by Justine Larbalesteir
Leave me a comment and your email to enter. If you don't leave me an email I won't have any way to get in touch with you, and will have to draw a new name.
Extra Entries:
+1 if you become a follower
+2 if you were already a follower
+ 1 If you post about this contest somewhere (i.e your sidebar)
+1 If you twitter about it (please @reply me I'm @cornucopiaofluv)
+5 if you guess which of the follow statements about me is a lie, and you're right (I wanted to add some fun, give people a chance for extra entries, and make it simple to do).
I play the flute
I love to cook
I used to have a pet turtle named Teddy
Contest ends September 14 at midnight EST


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There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up.
- It's always worth a mention when the New York Times takes an interest in modern Paganism. Their New York-focused City Room blog highlights the Wiccan Family Temple Academy of Pagan Studies in Manhattan, interviewing two of the program's students. Quote: "People go to school to study the things that interest them most; some people go to law school, others to medical school," [Shantel Collins] said. "I want to be a religious leader in my community, so the path I chose is to become a high priestess. I am learning how to counsel people in my community. No one is born a pastor or a reverend or a rabbi — you have to work at it, and that's what I'm doing. So for me, these classes are worth every minute and every penny." I suspect this piece came about because the New York City Wiccan Family Temple is not afraid to promote themselves to the media. I know I've received a fair share of press releases from them, and it's a tactic that does succeed in breaking through to the mainstream media from time to time.
- Virginia Lt. Governor candidate E.W. Jackson, who I profiled recently here at The Wild Hunt, was (unsurprisingly) a big hit at the recent Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference. Quote: "Audience members clapped most intensely when Jackson focused on the rights of parents to lay down rules for their children and on the need to preserve belief in Christianity as the foundation of the United States. "Freedom is the ability to worship God as we see fit and not be persecuted for it," he said." Jackson, while revving up the conservative Christian base, has also been walking back past statements he made that implied yoga can lead to Satanism. In his 2008 book "Ten Commandments To An Extraordinary Life" Jackson called tarot reading and Witchcraft "wrong and dangerous."
- At Sojourners Magazine, Rabbi Seth Goren discusses Christian privilege and "how the dominance of Christianity affects interfaith relations." Quote: "Even in interreligious settings intended to be neutral, Christianity retains primacy. Exchanges emphasize concepts in Christianity, such as belief and faith, and downplay the Jewish stress on action, behavior, and ritual […] In clergy gatherings, I feel the expectation that I should know Augustine and Aquinas without a corresponding expectation that Christian counterparts have heard of Rabbis Akiva or Eliezer […] Even on a relatively level playing field, I start from a defensive posture and find myself envious of what Christians take for granted that I can't and don't." Go read this, and share it. I'm hoping the relatively high-profile nature of the venue will prompt some reflection.
- Chas Clifton reports that the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a suit against Oklahoma's license plate design to move forward. Why is the license plate being challenged? Because it allegedly endorses "Indian religion." Quote: "Cressman, who says he "adheres to historic Christian beliefs," objects to the image of a Native American shooting an arrow toward the sky. He claims the image unconstitutionally contradicts his Christian beliefs by depicting Indian religious beliefs, and that he shouldn't have to display the image." The plate is based off of a famous statue depicting a sacred act, but does it really endorse a religion? It seems rather tenuous, considering the arguments we hear consistently about "secular" Christian crosses. You can't have church-state separation absolutism without it cutting both ways. A "win" for this Christian could create ripples he may not enjoy.
- Advocacy organization Amnesty International has condemned the rise of blasphemy cases in Egypt, saying it uses defamation of religion as a way to silence critics. Here's more on the issue from Daily News Egypt: "Slapping criminal charges with steep fines and, in most cases, prison sentences against people for simply speaking their mind or holding different religious beliefs is simply outrageous," said Philip Luther, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa director, in the report. Luther added that defamation of religion charges should not be used to "trample over people's right to freedom of expression and conscience"
- The picture you see above is the "Other Religions" section at the Urbana Free Library in Illinois after a hugely controversial culling that has gained national attention from library observers. In essence, any book acquired more than ten years ago was culled from several non-fiction sections before local outcry halted the process. This has left books on Pagan religions decimated, with only 3 or 4 left visible on the shelf. Libraries are in important first step for many people exploring our faiths, and for those looking to understand us, and decimating collections like this does more harm than I think people realize. Not everyone has consistent and reliable access to the Internet, and even if they do, it doesn't replace reading seminal books like "Drawing Down the Moon" or "The Spiral Dance." I'm hoping to have more on this story soon, as Urbana is my old home-town, and I know several library workers there. Stay tuned.
- The United Nations World Conference of Indigenous Peoples is taking place in New York, September 2014. A recent gathering in Alta, Norway, home of the Sami People, resulted in an adopted outcome document for the conference. Quote: "Our purpose was to exchange views and proposals and develop collective recommendations on the UN High Level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly to be known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (hereinafter referred to as HLPM/WCIP), which will convene in New York, 22 – 23 September 2014. This document sets forth our recommendations along with the historical and current context of Indigenous Peoples." I think the document is important and thought-provoking reading for anyone interested in indigenous and Native American issues.
- Sufi mystic Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee writes about the holiness of the Earth for the Washington Post's On Faith section. Quote: "I deeply feel that we need to reclaim our spiritual relationship with this beautiful and suffering planet, feel it within our hearts and souls. We need to develop an awareness that the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the energy we use, are not just commodities to be consumed, but part of the living fabric of a sacred Earth. Then we are making a real relationship with our environment, respecting the land on which we live, the air we breathe. We still carry the seed of this primal relationship to the Earth within our consciousness, even if we have long forgotten it. It is a recognition of the wonder, beauty, and divine nature of the Earth."
- Move over Beltane, because Summer Solstice is all about sex! Quote: "In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice has a history of stirring libidos, and it's no wonder. The longest day of the year tends to kick off the start of the summer season and with it, the harvest. So it should come as no surprise that the solstice is linked to fertility — both of the vegetal and human variety. 'A lot of children are born nine months after Midsummer in Sweden,' says Jan-Öjvind Swahn, a Swedish ethnologist and the author of several books on the subject."
- There are some places in Scotland where being transgendered will get you accused of being a witch. Quote: "Walking down the street I'd get a lot of abuse sometimes. They'd shout at me a lot, call me gay and even accuse me of witchcraft. I feel like I've lost a lot of my friends because I had to leave Johnstone. My past was almost completely wiped away." The ugly strain within humanity that persecutes "the witch," the "other," is still very much a part of us I'm sad to say.
- The commemorative blue plaque for Doreen Valiente at her home in Brighton has gained the notice of the BBC. Quote: "Doreen Valiente, who was known as the "mother of modern witchcraft", lived in Tyson Place until her death in 1999 and is to be honoured with a blue plaque on the side of the block of flats where she lived. Ralph Harvey who read the eulogy at her funeral, described her as 'a very gentle lady'. 'Witchcraft was always shrouded in mystery and medieval superstition,' he said. 'Doreen and Gerald Gardner brought it into the 20th century, they blew away the cobwebs and this was the renaissance of witchcraft as it truly is.'" You can read all of my previous coverage of the plaque, here.
That's it for now! Feel free to discuss any of these links in the comments, some of these I may expand into longer posts as needed.


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INSPIRATIONS: Thanks to the silent heroes who take time out to donate blood
I was too squeamish in college to donate blood, though my sorority always worked on the blood drive so that the American Red Cross could have people there who would give the gift of life.
I always realized the importance of giving this, another silent gift to another, but I never had the need to take advantage of the gift, until now. Being anemic and having low red blood counts in the hospital, I had to get no less than eight units of blood. This is not something I took willingly. I fought the nurse on it a little, referring back to the AIDS crisis. She informed me that the blood is very clean, something I knew had been improved.
So, while I was lying on my bed in 4 Verdi West at St. Raphael's campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital, I underwent several transfusions. And you know what? I felt much better.
So, as we start the new year, I'd like to publicly thank all silent heroes who go about their business and make regular blood donations part of their daily lives.
And in case you didn't know, for the sixth year, Dunkin' Donuts and the American Red Cross are teaming up for the Give a Pint, Get a Pound campaign. Any blood donor who shows his or her donation card gets a coupon for a free pound of coffee at blood drives this month in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. The campaign is in celebration of National Blood Donor Month and helps to increase awareness about the need for blood.
In the past five years, Dunkin' Donuts has provided more that 435,000 pounds of coffee to donors, potentially helping 1.3 million patients -- accident victims, trauma patients, transplant recipients and those receiving treatment for life-threatening illnesses.
In a prepared statement, Dunkin' Donuts and Red Cross officials say they are proud to provide coffee as a gift to those who give blood, and that Dunkin's support of the Red Cross has remained steadfast.
Some Dunkin' restaurants are hosts for blood drives this month. For details about donating blood during January, call 1-800-RED CROSS, 1-800-733-2767 or visit redcrossblood.org.
On the homefront: Hope all of you survived the holidays. I certainly did, but I didn't go anywhere except for doctor appointments.. On Wednesday, I was to go back to the hospital for a treatment planning scan in order to radiate another part of my lower back. Because of the intense pain in this area and the fluid in my feet and calves, walking is very cumbersome. Will probably spend the rest of the week in the hospital.
Mom thanks those who wished her well on her birthday. Ah, the wonders of Facebook. Unfortunately, however, I have to remind y'all that my counts are down so visitors are not allowed. Sorry about that.
Former longtime New Haven Register Hamden and North Haven reporter Ann DeMatteo is now the managing editor of The Middletown Press. Contact her at 203-789-5716 or email@example.com.


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Opening: How Do We Look? Photographs by Engineering Students
Monday, December 3, 2012, 6:30 - 8pm
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What happens when talented engineers are challenged to draw from their scientific mindsets and express themselves artistically? How do we look? Photographs by Engineering Students illustrates the confluence of science and art and provides a unique perspective that ties the technical and aesthetic into one image. This exhibit by students of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering features 40 photographs that explore the distortion of time, space and color, illustrating both their creativity and technical training and, ultimately, how they view themselves and the world.
Located in the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, 7 East 7th Street, 2nd Floor, between Third and Fourth Avenues


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Chapter 5-3 Part 1
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You'll begin this chapter in the same chamber where the boss battle on the previous chapter took place. While this room was covered with items you could grab during that boss battle at the conclusion of Chapter 5-2, any neglected items will have disappeared by now. Thus, there's no reason to explore this room. Head rightward and into the corridor there, and climb the ladder you encounter. Head forward along the hallway and continue straight, bearing to the left. This will lead to a dead end, but you can find ammunition in this room and, more importantly, a Sapphire (Marquise) in the safe there. With that in hand, backtrack down the hallway until you see another yet-unexplored corridor swinging out. Take this new pathway to a staircase leading upward.
|BSAA Emblem #25 - Before you run up those stairs, however, you may want to grab this, the first of three emblems found on this chapter. In fact, this emblem can be found almost immediately after beginning the chapter, so hopefully you've read ahead a bit! From the starting point of the chapter, in the room identical to the room where the boss battle during Chapter 5-2 took place, you'll be forced to bear out of the room into an adjoining corridor. As soon as you walk into the corridor, look ahead (with your back facing the previous room). You'll see two gigantic fans on the wall. Focus on the fan on your right; behind the propeller on the left side of the right fan will be the emblem, constantly appearing and then disappearing as the fan rotates. Aim carefully and shoot it when given the chance, but act quickly, because your window here is ever-brief.
Once you've run up the stairs, grab the ammunition off of the nearby mechanism, and then head up the path to a door that will require both partners to go through. After heading through, move forward and examine the dead end on your right, since there are four crates containing valuables and ammunition that you'll want to procure before continuing. Then, head leftward. You'll ultimately reach a door at the end of this linear pathway that leads to a large catwalk. Thus begins a section of myriad enemy encounters. Immediately take cover behind the wall in front of you as two gun-wielding Majini show up on the scene. When it's safe, peek on out, preferably with your sniper rifle in hand, and lay waste to these fiends. Then, before continuing down the catwalk, head to the right (if your back is facing the direction in which you came) to smash open two item-containing boxes.
As you continue down the catwalk, you'll draw out another wave of enemies, so take cover behind the next wall and deal with the Majini just as you did with the last. Sniper rifles are best here, but what's most important is to seek cover and keep damage received to an absolute minimum. After felling the second wave, duck into a nearby room via a yellow doorway. This room is simply a storage area, but there are destroyable objects within that contain items, so be sure to grab what you can before backtracking to the catwalk to proceed. As you continue down and around the catwalk, you'll draw out more enemies, especially in the distance. Making matters more complicated, Majini wielding Stun Rods will storm your position. Prioritize the latter's deaths first, and then take out the gun-toting enemies from afar. Then, jump across the gap in the catwalk, keeping in mind that you should be grabbing all of the goods dropped by deceased zombies.
As soon as you jump across the gap and swing leftward, a dangerous Reaper will fall from the ceiling to greet you. Remember these guys? They are a huge pain; possibly the game's most dangerous enemies, simply because they can so quickly and so easily kill you with a single blow, even if you and your partner are fully healed. The best way to deal with them here is to fall back and let them chase you. If you put enough distance between you and it, you can break out your sniper rifle and do serious damage to it from afar. While we told you during your first encounter in a previous mission to deal with these guys with brute force, here, you have much more room to work with, so killing them in a more conventional fashion is totally possible. Wait for it to reveal the white section of its chest, and then hammer it with your gun of choice. This will cause the foe to stumble, revealing more white sections off of its back. Take care of those, and this enemy will be no more. Keep in mind that this may take several go-arounds for it to sustain enough damage to be killed. Either way, it'll drop a Power Stone once slain.
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Saturation patrols to watch for drunken drivers
Kansas police departments use state funds for extra patrols
The snowy conditions, mixed with the annual problem of New Year's Eve revelers driving under the influence of alcohol, have police concerned about a very dangerous combination.
More than 20 Olathe police officers will begin patrolling the city's streets for drunken drivers as midnight approaches on New Year's Eve, something they call a saturation patrol.
"Saturation patrols are very effective," said Sgt. David Haldeman of the Olathe Police Department.
He said having so many officers watching for drunken drivers on the wet and potentially icy roads will eliminate a lot of risks for everyone else.
"It can be difficult enough to manage your driving skills when you've overindulged," he said. "But to do so when the road conditions have begun to freeze up, what we anticipate tonight, presents a particular problem."
The Kansas Department of Transportation has sent its trucks out all day long, dropping salt to try to keep highway conditions ahead of the long-lasting winter storm.
Haldeman said those who lose control on ice and have a fender bender will not catch a break if they've been drinking.
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Each morning as I stumble up the hill to let the chickens out the grass is heavier with dew than it was the previous morning. I love the subtle changes that are happening each day. The air feels fresh, the trees seem too tired to hold on to their shiny green leaves.
The sunflowers are heavy and droopy after astonishing us with their height. All that from a tiny little seed?
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Sotto Pushes the Neapolitan Pizza Envelope in Los Angeles
9575 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035 (map); 310-277-0210; sottorestaurant.com
Pizza Style: Neapolitan
Pizza Oven: Stefano Ferrara wood
The Skinny: Love it or hate it Neapolitan with big, bold flavors.
Price: Margherita, $14; Guanciale, $17; Calzone, $16
I don't want to alarm anybody but there's a bit of a Neapolitan backlash going on out there. I guess it's to be expected. Neapolitan is becoming nearly ubiquitous, yet it's an incredibly difficult style to master, meaning there's a lot of bland $15 pies out there. And even when it is done right, there isn't a ton of variety and some pizza nerds can get bored (though not myself). What to do then, if you still have a deep and abiding love for the puffy crust? If you're Sotto, you push the Neapolitan envelope and go for bigger, more intense flavors.
Steve Samson and Zach Pollack are the chefs—not pizzaioli—behind Sotto, a Southern Italian restaurant on the edge of West LA, that's on the short list of restaurants serving great pizza (A16, Flour + Water, and...let me know who else). Steve and Zach collaborate on the menu, but Zach took the lead developing the dough.
Sotto is undoubtedly Neapolitan, but they've turned some of the more unique characteristics of the pizza up to eleven. As you can see, the leopard spots are completely out of control. One look at all that black and assume it has to be at least a little dry...and then you take a bite and the crust is moist and supple, much more so than in most Neapolitan pies. The slightly sweet, yeasty flavors in the crumb also get ratcheted way up, sometimes to the point where it borders on sour, but you need that boldness to offset the clusterbombs of bitter char that pockmark the exterior. It's a very delicate, sometimes combustible balance, but it's one they've figured out for the most part. The one minor gripe I have is with that big, puffy cornicione. It's a hint less crisp than other Neapolitan pies, but it's a trade-off I'll take for the flavor complexity you gain (though it must be noted that Zach believes I'm full of it with regards to the rigidity of his pizza).
Of the six pizzas on the menu, half are classics (Margherita, Marinara, Salciccia) and half are originals, and all the ingredients are topnotch. The pork—and there's a lot of pork at Sotto—is butchered in-house, and the cheese comes in fresh every day from rising stars Gioia (who are becoming my favorite cheese makers not working for Chris Bianco).
Sotto's version of the Margherita is my favorite in the city. It's wet, perfectly balanced, and anything but bland; even the basil, hidden below the ingredients before the cook, makes an impression. Sticking with straight San Marzanos for the sauce probably would have been tricky given the makeup of the dough, so the red stuff gets a nice boost of garlic. It's a good reminder that the purist route isn't always the right one. The only thing that could perhaps put the Margherita over the top is the fuller flavor of bufala mozzarella*.
Of the originals, the Guanciale is the big star. Strips of smoky pork cheek lay under an epic sheet of ricotta that's topped with scallions and fennel pollen, and every bite is a savory overload. It seems almost too rich after one bite, but then you look down again the whole pie is gone. The other originals are what you'd consider "chef's pizzas," partly because they're fairly sophisticated combinations and partly because you can't make substitutions. The spicy, tangy Calabrese (tomato sauce, broccoli di ciccio, olives, Calabrian peppers) and the salty Estiva (olive pesto, sungold tomatoes, mozzarella, arugula) both show off the regional flavors pretty well, but I favor the Guanciale and the classics.
The wildcard is the Homage to Caiazzo, a delicious calzone that Zach nicked from—you guessed it—Caiazzo, Italy. The original has escarole, capers, and Gaeta olives, but the chefs added some creamy burrata to make it more "palatable" for Americans, and I'd like to personally thank them for it. At some point, the boundaries between cheese and dough disappear, and you're left with this salty, wet glob of heaven.
I'm fascinated by anyone's journey to great pizza, and Zach has a pretty great one. After falling in love with Neapolitan pizza on an extended stay in Italy (and deepening that affair on a second trip with his brother-in-law, Jon Darsky, of Del Poppolo fame), Zach set out to meld his two favorite pizzas from Naples: the flat, supple, char-heavy pie at world famous Da Michele, and the puffier, more familiar variant at Pizzeria di Napoli. After he separated his shoulder while working as a cook, he cobbled together a recipe off the internet (with the help of Jeff Varasano's famous site, which everyone who wants to learn to make pizza eventually visits), and spent months experimenting with the self-cleaning cycle on his mother's oven.
Eventually he came up with something resembling the well-received pizza he and Steve served when they opened Pizzeria Ortica (reviewed here and here) in Orange County, but cooking in a wood-fired oven changed everything, and they continued to re-work the dough throughout their stay. When they left Ortica to open Sotto, the duo traded yeast and a 700 degree Mugnaini oven for a biga starter Zach grew himself and an 8-ton monster hand-built by Stefano Ferrara. As you've heard, the Ferrara ovens burn at god knows how many degrees, but still manage to distribute the heat evenly. Zach said it was like going from a "Mercedes" (Steve jokes: "pick-up truck") to a "Bugatti." The upgrade gave them the heat they needed to take their pizza up to its current level.
As much as I like the pizza, there's a bit of a learning curve to it. Not every friend I've brought in has instantly fallen in love. If regular pizza is soda and Neapolitan pizza is beer, Sotto is probably Guiness—a step-up in flavor and complexity that's not for everyone, at least initially. With that said, Zach and Steve readily admit they're shooting for the 80/20 ratio, as in they'd rather 80 percent of people flip for the pizza and 20 percent hate it rather than 100 percent merely like it. I think that's a very wise decision, but then again, I'm one of the 80 percenters who flip. Of course, the odds are that you'll be one, too.
* Zach promised to put bufala mozzarella back on the menu if enough people walk up to the open kitchen and request it from him. If you are an inherently good person who cares for the mental well-being of the strangers searching out good pizza for you, you will do this, and we will ride off into bufala Valhalla together.
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Austrian master pastry chef, master chocolatier and chocolate artist Gerhard Petzl presents his acclaimed artistic masterpieces. Exploring new paths in creative chocolate work, Gerhard's chocolate art is unique worldwide. His masterful artistry brings chocolate sculptures, chocolate paintings and chocolate art into the public eye. With his creative skill and artisan technique in chocolate art, Gerhard has won 8 gold medals and more than 25 awards, including the Gold Medal at the Culinary Olympics in Berlin. Explore the sweet world of Gerhard's chocolate art.
A new website of Gerhard Petzl and his chocolate art, chocolate crystals, chocolate sculptures, chocolate body paintings etc. are available from 1st of August 2016 on: www.GerhardPetzl.com
As a certified master sculptor and chocolate artist, Gerhard devotes a great deal of his life to chocolate sculptures. Combining centuries-old artisan techniques from both his sculpting and culinary backgrounds, he invests the time and dedication necessary to develop precision artwork according to his own drafts or desired concepts. Unlike other artists, Gerhard hand-carves his chocolate sculptures out of massive chocolate blocks instead of simply casting his forms. He continues to astound by treading new paths in chocolate art using experimental techniques and the expert knowledge of his material that he's acquired over the years. Have a look at Gerhard's chocolate sculptures.
Gerhard's Chocolate Body Painting is a globally unique art form that presents chocolate art at its finest, turning the human body into a single, luscious sculpture. As a Master Pastry Chef classically trained in Austria with experience in some of the world's preeminent hotels, Gerhard creates breathtaking artwork on the skin using masterful artisan techniques and the finest chocolate. Years of worldwide travel and experience with other cultures have left their mark on Gerhard's style, emphasizing the universal and bringing a wide variety of colors, ornaments, patterns, floral forms, historic elements and more to his artwork. His compelling Chocolate Body Painting is an unforgettably sweet festival for the senses! Explore the sweet world of Gerhard's chocolate body painting.
Gerhard originally began creating sugar sculptures out of gelatin sugar while working as a Pastry Chef for international 5-Star hotels. As he continued to develop his creative skill, master artisan confectionary work began to melt with the artistic eye of a sculptor, and his sugar sculptures began to take on entirely new forms and structural surfaces. Because gelatin sugar is relatively robust compared with other materials, sugar sculptures can easily be created both in exotic environments as well as in exceptional dimensions. View Gerhard's collection of sugar sculptures.


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Resources and collaboration are key to student success
NEA Vice President responds to new MetLife survey findings
WASHINGTON - March 24, 2010 -
Reinforcing what the National Education Association has stressed for years, a new survey details the benefits of collaboration, teacher satisfaction and opportunities for teacher leadership. The third and final part of the MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Collaborating for Student Success was released today. It focuses on teaching as a career and details findings based on surveys of public school teachers, principals and students.
The MetLife survey had a number of major findings, including:
- Career satisfaction levels are high among teachers in suburban and rural schools, while teachers in urban schools are less likely to be very satisfied.
- Highly satisfied teachers tend to have higher expectations for their students. They are less likely to leave the profession and they have stronger views on shared responsibility and collaboration.
- New teachers are often assigned to the most challenging schools with the highest teacher turnover rates.
- "Hybrid roles" are appealing to teachers, offering them the opportunity to teach in the classroom part-time and have other roles in their school or district.
The following can be attributed to National Education Association Vice President Lily Eskelsen:
"We are pleased that MetLife is examining this important issue. Their findings reinforce what we know…that positive working conditions enhance the quality of teaching and learning in all schools. You build positive working conditions by providing resources, support and opportunities to collaborate and grow.
"We must work to address issues around job satisfaction and turnover rates in high needs schools. In what other profession are novices assigned the most challenging work, often without adequate resources and support, and expected to flourish? To have effective teachers in every classroom, we have to provide induction, mentoring, teacher teams, and professional development.
"NEA is also working to transform high-needs schools though our Priority Schools Campaign. Our commitment includes a vow to work with communities and policymakers to pursue innovative programs to measure student success and teacher quality. We are also committed to attracting and keeping the best educators and necessary resources for the schools of greatest need.
"We agree with the survey's findings that collaboration is critical. Schools should be like families with a shared sense of responsibility. You discuss what works and what doesn't to ensure the success of all students. This is where hybrid models can be particularly helpful. We can safeguard against moving our most effective teachers out of the classroom, by allowing them to teach part of the day and provide instructional leadership at other times. Opportunities to influence and improve their schools beyond their immediate classrooms are exciting to teachers and lead to real and positive changes for students."
For more on NEA's Priority Schools Campaign: http://neapriorityschools.org/
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