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Cyborg BloodstreamPosted by Bradley L. Garrett on Thursday Feb 17, 2011 Under Anthropology, Archaeology, Breaking and Entering, Cyborgs, Geography, Infiltration, Infrastructure, Situationism, Spatial Politics, Uncategorized, Urban Exploration
"The city is made and made over into the simulacrum of the body, and the body, in its turn, is transformed, "citified", urbanized…"
-Elizabeth Grosz, Bodies-Cities
It's not often that our explorations are more connected to people than places. However, on a recent trip into the Paris sewer system, we were chasing the ghost of the Parisian eccentric and urban photographer Félix Nadar. For urban explorers in London and Paris, the period between 1850 and 1870, when Nadar was doing his work, is a crucial one. During that time, both of the drain networks were built to the rough configuration in which they remain. This period was pwned by urban planners and engineers like Bazalgette and Haussmann; it was a time of radical urban reconfiguration. Nadar was fascinated by the changes and spent a great deal of time photographing the Paris catacombs and sewers (and taking aerial and erotic photos, but that's another story), leading many urban explorers to think of Nadar, and his contemporary John Hollingshead in London, as the first drainers. The name Félix Nadar was even a pseudonym – clearly Nadar was part of our crew!
The story of four of us chasing down Nadar's subterranean haunts last month has already been told by Otter at Silent UK – my particular interest in the man is our affinity with him as an individual interested in the intersections between the city and the body. What I mean to say is: Hollingshead, Nadar and the drainers of the world are cyborgs.
The radical infrastructural urban transformations between 1850 and 1870 were largely due to a massive population spike that led to a Cholera epidemic. Due to long-perceived associations of subterranean space as unhealthy, unclean and evil, citizens held a multitude of beliefs that will engender an obsession with fissures, interstices and imperfect joinings [for] these are the sites of contact through which mephitic exhalations filter out.
These imperfect joinings, when cracked open, were seen as analogous to a flesh wound, the broken skin now ripe for bidirectional infection, the urban body as host, the city's innards a ripe contamination zone. John Hollingshead, whilst traversing London's sewer system in 1861, noted that a piece of ordinary rust or of moist red brick is soon pictured as a trace of blood. The contemporary Canadian urban explorer Michael Cook is also obsessed with these pulsing interstitial nodes, though unlike the Victorians, he sees these cracks as opportunities. Cook writes on his site Vanishing Point that the built environment of the city has always been incomplete, by omission and necessity, and will remain so. Despite the visions of futurists, the work of our planners and cement-layers thankfully remains a fractured and discontinuous whole, an urban field riven with internal margins, pockmarked by decay, underlaid with secret waterways. Stepping outside our prearranged traffic patterns and established destinations, we find a city laced with liminality… We find a thousand vanishing points, each unique, each alive…
Cook's writing hints at the possibility that the structure of the city doesn't just "seem" alive, it is alive. If architecture and the built environment is a reflection of what we know, then it comes as no surprise that we have constructed our buildings, our cities, as corporal simulacra. At times, these similarities are rendered in front of even the casual observer. For instance, in J.G. Ballard's novel High Rise, Mrs. Steele referred to the high-rise as if it were some kind of huge animate presence, brooding over them… There was something in this feeling — the elevators pumping up and down the long shafts resembled pistons in the chamber of a heart. The residents moving along the corridors were the cells in a network of arteries, the lights in their apartments the neurons of a brain. Mrs. Steele saw from the street in a fleeting glimpse that which is impossible to ignore once you enter urban infrastructure.
Descending into Cook's 'vanishing points', we enter the city's bloodstream and begin to witness our effects on the urban metabolism, melding body with machine. Mr. Hollingshead, our Victorian London drainer, had such an encounter while venturing into a drain under a house he once owned on the West End. He wrote that he felt as is the power had been granted me of opening a trap-door in my chest, to look upon the long-hidden machinery of my mysterious body. The connection between his own body and the drain that contained the contents of his body is no fortuitous correlation.
Now, (stick with me here!) if cybernetics is, as Norbert Weiner declared, the revision of information through the exchange of information and the moments of encounter between our bodies and the urban infrastructure alter either physical structure or mental conceptions where "…the body (as a cultural product) transforms, reinscribes the urban landscape according to its changing (demographic, economic, and psychological) needs, extending the limits of the city, the sub-urban, then Matthew Gandy is right to assert that the emphasis of the cyborg on the material interface between the body and the city is perhaps most strikingly manifested in the physical infrastructure that links the human body to vast technological networks.
Victor Hugo also wrote about Paris with the passion of one who had been it it's bowels, leading him to declare that Paris has another Paris under herself; a Paris of sewers; which has its streets, its crossings, its squares, its blind alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is slime. Victor Hugo, like us, like Nadar, like Hollingshead was an inner space nanobot, a cyborg surfing the fresh.
Sewers contain a steady stream of biological packets, full of data connecting nodes, throbbing veins, arterial chambers. The data bloodstream, like light-driven information packets, connect cyborgs, hybrid creature[s], composed of organism and machine. Beyond the designation of the cyborganism, it's defining characteristic being a propensity to slip the net of a world structured by boundaries and enclosures to a world dominated, at every scale, by connections, networks, and flows, is a possibility for transplantation, a symbiotic bilateral exchange of potentiality. Here, the boundaries between the organic and the inorganic, blurred by cybernetic and bio-technologies, seem less sharp; the body, itself invaded and re-shaped by technology, invades and permeates the space outside, even as this space takes on dimensions that themselves confuse the inner and the outer, visually, mentally and physically where "thought-as-imagination' departs from the actual, dips into the fractal abyss, then actualizes something new. What is it that is new here you ask? Well nothing more than an animation of the inanimate, a tangible hauntology, an acknowledgement that building forms spring out of historical contingencies – but, given enough time, they may create their own form of subjectivity. Drains are material manifestations of our dreams (including nightmares) but also regulators of our physical potentiality and protectors of the realm in glistening armour.
Before the accusations of theoretical posturing ensue, let us reinforce the role of embodiment here, (under)grounding the theory. Bookmarked in each photo we snap are moments of not just conceptual but actual encounters that take place between urban bodies and urban infrastructures, leading to the designation of urban infrastructure as urban body. The result of those bodily encounters is the construction of those webs, flows, and exchanges that create communities, ideas and cyborganisms. The actual hand-wrought work of constructing and deconstructing that fabric reveals a physicality conjoined with virtuality that is anarchic [in it's] non-identical proliferation, where the everyday urban inhabitant embeds personal investment into the infrastructural networks, inscribing places through place hacking. The city is a reflection then not only of the physical body but of the sprawl and limitations of human consciousness and ability, potential now augmented by the machines we have created. Urban infrastructure, although restricted by capital investment and spatial constraints, is also constrained and fortified by a human imagination of the deepest chaotic order, it's operation and moments of rupture as fragmented as urbanity itself. If only we could imagine alien body infrastructure concocted under the influence of Burroughs' Mugwump juice, then the monstrous resultant fragmentation might finally lead to the schizophrenia we need to proceed.
Elizabeth Grosz argued, in 1996, that computers would change the way the city was structured as we built infrastructural systems not modelled upon machinery but upon virtual systems. However, were not both mechanical functions (compare the piston and valves of the heart) and cybernetic circuitry (the CPU as brain) both modelled on the body? Does not the evolution of those artificial bodies influence our biological bodies (for instance, consider the effect of indoor plumbing on the body)? Does the beautiful conjunction of those bodies and spaces, industrial machines as appendages, computer hardware as corporal augmentation, not create new hybrid bodies which will influence the infrastructure of cities? Will those imperfect joinings that the Victorians feared infect and augment through their mephetic exhalation as promised? If Grosz is right, then the body's limbs and organs will become interchangeable parts with the computer and with the technologicalization of production.
The Paris catacombs are perhaps the best Western example of the meld to be expected – a place where humanity has become intricately interwoven into the subterranean infrastructural fabric. Paris culture would undoubtedly suffer with loss of access to those spaces, a co-addictive symbiotic relationship has been built there. The KTAs are proof that just as virtual social systems can be maintained by the multitude, so can physical space. The symbioses is even more profound in places like India where infrastructural space is living space, in Poland where we saw people moving into military ruins or in Cambodia where people are living in graves. Despite arguments of deterritorialisation, the visual, aural, sensual representations created on explorations and residencies in those spaces creates a new emotional cache which can be tapped into for myth-making practices, practical application such as sabotage and, increasingly, simple imaginative stimuli that reterritorialise those spaces with a potential that feeds not only physical constructions but imaginations. As a result, the virtual and physical aspects of urban exploration are inseparable as one network depends on the other. Urban exploration, despite it's weavings into the mythologies of the sublime, is not an escape from nor a transcendence of the physical, but a challenge to the very boundaries of substance dualisms.
The city is more like a sponge than a solid mass of paved streets and architecture, more like a body than a machine. There are sinkholes; the surface is porous. The conductive material urban fabric facilitates an emotional flow, the bloodstream becoming a conduit for sublime affectual registers in immeasurable doses. Overdose always being a possibility, we teeter on the brink, doing our edgework. We leave horribly hung over and come back again and again, our tolerance for exposure to the pain of the cyborg meld growing each time, our possibility for transcendence growing with each descent.
But what of the opposite exchange on the symbiosis? Returning to our colleague Félix Nadar – how did his photographs influence the function, form and representations of that Parisian bloodstream? How do the technological accelerations that allow myself, Winch, Otter, Marc Explo and countless other explorers to recreate Nadar's work and spin replicative experiential simulacra, in distinct imbricating temporal iterations, begin to mutate those systems? We know it to be true and this is where the accusations of urban exploration being primarily a spectator sport fall flat. Urban exploration can never be purely representational or apolitical. Our work, just like those drainers of 150 years ago, create open systems where they once were closed. Urban explorers reveal the framework and recode the urban landscape daily. Drainers reveal not only the cracks and gaps that exist through the representations they produce but expand those cracks and gaps through repeated exploitation and exploration. Urban exploration and draining realises potentials for cyborgian conceptions of the city to emphasize the continuing political salience of the public realm. Predator's call for public access to public works is a call for open source urban coding. Where the environment is written in closed code, we'll hack it until it's open source again.
Where do we go from here? If we think of urban infrastructure as a tangible network of cybernetic organs, we must then assume the evolution of the information city to be, increasingly, a body without organs, a cloud-computing bot. Inevitably then, if form follows function, human bodies will shed organs just as the city inevitably will. Instead of injecting ourselves into the bloodstream, we will collapse the veins, and our synthetic dreams, rather than our synthetic physicalities, will become the new sites of exploration. We must prepare to kill our darlings.
It is time. Explore everything. Blow the veins.
3 Responses to "Cyborg Bloodstream"
February 17th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
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March 2nd, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Wow good blog mate.
December 29th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
[…] climb, nobody could visit this city and be bored. The sewers are a path less trodden and following Felix Nadar's path from the 19th century, we ended up in a sizable chamber apparently shared by water […]


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I've been sending three emails today, but they keep getting bounced. I'm running out of ways to spell the address.
I've been sending three emails today, but they keep getting bounced. I'm running out of ways to spell the address.
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Last edited by e2e4; 20-Dec-2007 at 18:41.
I've been sending three emails today is not quite correct, even with the explanatory sentence added. An expression of time showing a period of time over which the action of "sending three emails" has been repeated over and over again must be included in the sentence in order for it to sound correct. Something like I've been sending these three emails all day, but they keep bouncing would be more acceptable and less likely to be misunderstood.
By the way, e2e4's sentence is rather incorrect. "Funny! I'd also been sending three E-mails (for hours) earlier today but they kept bouncing" would make more sense.
In any case, the inclusion of "three" in the sentences sounds rather unnatural.
Funny I'd also been sending few E-mails earlier today getting them bounced but funny, sent them easy later on.
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Sorry,but I haven't understand the difference between the present perfect simple and the present perfect continuos.Can you give me some informations about?
We shall use the present perfect tense for this sentence.
I have sent three emails today.
=> present perfect that means more the result "three emails". This sentence is only there for emphasizing the result and so it's not important who has sent them. * These are three emails that I have sent and neither more nor less. *
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=> present perfect continuous that shows more the action "been sending". This one is there for emphasizing the action. * It's me who have sent the three emails today and not another one. *
Last edited by philadelphia; 26-Apr-2008 at 12:48.
I believe the correct answer is "I have sent three e-mails today" because the emphasis is on the result and the result is that e-mails have been sent, but I could be mistaken because I've been learning English for only a year now.
I have one more example. Which sentence is correct?
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I believe second one is correct, but I would like to hear your opinions.
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How do I see the matter?
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If "today" takes place in the expression simple past should be used with.
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Snake handler had his arms cut OPEN after poison bite nearly killed him
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Abu Zarin Hussin has a job that would leave most people in a cold sweat.
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The free luncheon immersed participants in a sweeping 200-year story of this year's Southern Baptist Convention host city through a theatrical narrative played out in the midst of a variety of iconic representations of Baltimore, such as Orioles Park at Camden Yards and Baltimore Harbor. Luncheon participants also dined on traditional urban street food -- including Baltimore crab cakes.
"Every month there are Catch the Vision Tours in cities all over North America, helping pastors and churches get a glimpse of what potentially could happen in those cities if they understand the needs in those cities," North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell told attendees. "That's the reason we thought we'd give you the opportunity to catch the vision for Baltimore."
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Coe shared NAMB's desire to help pastors mobilize every member of their congregation to push back lostness in their communities and throughout North America.
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At the end of the luncheon, Coe recognized representatives from the Baltimore mayor's office and the South Baltimore Little League who had attended the luncheon. NAMB gave the baseball stadium fence and bleachers that were a part of the luncheon set to the South Baltimore Little League.
Ronnie Stewart, the pastor of Gourd Springs Baptist Church in Spring Lake, N.C., said the presentation of Baltimore at the luncheon provided many parallels to the ministry needs in his community. He said it also introduced him to the ministry needs of Baltimore itself.
"It was awesome," Stewart said. "I think it gave a great overview of how the city of Baltimore has been transformed ."
Dean and Elaine Mabry, who attended the luncheon and are planting Ilion Church in Ilion, N.Y., said they saw some of their city's story in what was presented about Baltimore.
"All cities and all towns have a story," Elaine said. "Our hope, in the church plant we're at -- it's a slow go but it's going -- is that we want to make an impact just like they're talking about today. But we need people to come to our area to look, see and get a feel for the people. The reality is that there's such a gospel dryness that they'll see the hopelessness -- just like the guy who wrote 'No Hope' today."
For more information about how you can get involved in Send North America, visit namb.net/mobilize-me.
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Bike path along Connecticut's Merritt could cost $250 million
NEW CANAAN >> The state Department of Transportation says it could cost up to $250 million to put a multi-use trail along the side of the Merritt Parkway between Stratford and Greenwich.
Advocates have promoted the trail as an important piece of the East Coast Greenway, a 2,750-mile network of trails from Maine to Florida.
Michael Calabrese, the project manager for the DOT, tells The Connecticut Post (http://bit.ly/1m5wRwO ) that a large stretch of the path would have to be boardwalks to protect wetlands.
Opponents say the 14-foot wide path also would be bad for the environment, requiring the use of asphalt and the removal of hundreds or even thousands of trees.
One in a series of public meeting to discuss the trail will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday in New Canaan.
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|This page is about the game. For an overview of our Van Buren-related articles, see Portal:Van Buren.
Van Buren was the project name Black Isle Studios assigned to their version of Fallout 3.
The game was going to use an engine that Black Isle had made for Baldur's Gate 3, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Engine. It was a fully 3D engine but was never used.
Black Isle Studios planned to include a dual-combat system in the game that allowed for the player to choose real-time (like Fallout 3 or Fallout Tactics) or turn-based combat (like Fallout and Fallout 2), but real-time was only included due to Interplay's demands.[1] Nonetheless, Joshua Sawyer had stated that the emphasis would be on the turn-based version. Co-operative multiplayer was also going to be included in the game, again because of publisher requirements.[1] In 2003, the game was canceled due to financial difficulties.
Van Buren would have taken place in the American southwest (Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Utah). The westernmost sites on the game map are the easternmost borders of New California Republic. According to the design documents, it was to be set in the year 2253.
Some places that appeared in Van Buren:
- Tibbets Prison
- Denver ("Dog Town")
- Boulder Dome
- Hoover Dam (the NCR)
- The Grand Canyon
- Twin Mothers (Vault 29)
- The Nursery
- The Reservation
- Jericho
- Maxson's Bunker
- Fort Abandon
- Mesa Verde
- Ouroboros
- Blackfoot Village
- Burham Springs
- Bloomfield Space Center
- Ballistic Orbital Missile Base 001
Places cut from the final version of the game:
- New Canaan and Jericho desalination plant (merged into the town of Jericho)
- Hangdog Village (design documents for Hangdog and Blackfoot tribes were merged)
- Circle Junction ("Iron Lines" place)
- The Crater
- Moletown
- Caesar's Legion location
|The following is based on Van Buren and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
The Prisoner
The game would have begun with the player character in a prison cell. Because of this, the player was given a choice. The prisoner could be an innocent that was imprisoned because of some misunderstanding, or they could choose to be a criminal and take bonus traits that would bolster some of their skills.
The player would awaken in a prison cell, but not the one they remembered falling asleep in. Suddenly, the floor rocks violently from an explosion and the player is knocked unconscious. When they awaken, they find their cell door open and a hole in the wall leading outside. Leaving the prison, the character is under attack by some unknown assailant. Deciding that discretion is the better part of valor, the player flees into the night to explore this new world.
Unfortunately, this newfound freedom may be short lived. The player is relentlessly pursued by robots who want to return them to the prison. As they explore the world and try to outwit their pursuers, they begin to uncover an underlying plot. Why was the character in a different prison than the one they fell asleep in? Why can't they remember being transferred? What was the attack on the prison about in the first place? Then they find out about NCR's problems, and a few things don't add up....
Just like all the titles in the Fallout series, the story ends with multiple different endings for every community and faction that you interacted with. Their outcome depends on your actions.
Presper's plan
Eventually, the player would discover the true reason behind the prison and the attack on it. It turns out that, through extensive research, the mad scientist called Presper, disgusted with what the world turned into after the War, discovered the history of New Plague, the virus that FEV was initially created to cure, and its genocidal potency, and also discovered a viable means to cleanse the world. Using ODYSSEUS, the quarantine prison, and a ballistic satellite known as B.O.M.B.-001, the way to human planetary domination and order became clear. He needed to get to B.O.M.B.-001 and use the nuclear weapons to clean the filth and wretch that currently have occupied the surface.
Presper and his followers released the New Plague virus in the remote areas near Boulder and Denver. It was close enough to the quarantine prison to spur ODYSSEUS into action, but not near enough to cause huge populations to start a general panic. Once enough people were infected and ODYSSEUS "arrested" enough people to just about fill up the prison, Presper's men would stage an attack on the prison which would allow everyone to escape. This event would start a countdown of sorts for missile launch on B.O.M.B.-001. ODYSSEUS would assess the viral spread, try to gather up the escaped prisoners, and, once 90% of the prisoners had been retrieved, launch nuclear missiles to "clean & prevent" any further infection. By the time this happened, Presper had planned to be on, and in full control of, B.O.M.B.-001 and reprogramming targeting solutions to clean the areas he wanted. Humans of his choosing would wait out the second nuclear holocaust in the Boulder Dome, until the day came where he declared the Earth safe for pureblood humans once more.
Tech demo
A tech demo of Van Buren was created during the game's development. When asked about it, Bethesda's Pete Hines replied: "(...) releasing someone else's unfinished product, or assets from it, is not something we intend to do." Several screenshots and one video of the tech demo were released at No Mutants Allowed on April 30, 2007, followed by the tech demo itself on May 2.
The plot of the tech demo is not connected to the main storyline and was going to be included in the finished game as a tutorial. It takes place in the United States of America during the Great War, somewhere in the Great Midwest Commonwealth or the Pacific Time Zone[2]. The player character in the demo is referred to only as Citizen (even though the Citizen uses the Prisoner's model). The Citizen's parents were reduced to ash, as they didn't believe the government's bombing raid sirens. The Citizen made his way to the relocation center and was escorted to a Vault by Corporal Armstrong of the 4th or 13th Armored Infantry Division. To reach the Vault, they must fight communist insurgents. After they enter the Vault, the Citizen must help turn on the life support system.
There are several things of note in the tech demo. The first is that the female PC appears naked from the waist up, without the prisoner suit with the "13" legend. The second and most curious is that the male PC's character portrait appears to be Eric Wu from Eric Conveys an Emotion (or simply Emotion Eric). The female PC has no character portrait whatsoever.
|End of information based on Van Buren.
Character system
The game used a highly modified version of SPECIAL, the character system used in previous Fallout games. The changes were introduced mostly by J.E. Sawyer. Some of his changes were accepted well in the Fallout community, while some, such as merging combat skills and dividing Speech into Deception and Persuasion, were quite controversial.
Van Buren was at some point planned to have three playable races, including humans, ghouls and super mutants.[3]
- One of the more significant elements of the plot and back story of Van Buren was to be the war between the NCR and the Brotherhood of Steel. Before its 2010 release, one of the main designers, Chris Avellone, mentioned that aspects from Van Buren would appear in Fallout: New Vegas, such as the NCR-Brotherhood War and a companion from Van Buren, Joshua Graham, appears in heavily modified form, as does the faction known as Caesar's Legion.[4]
- The name Van Buren derives from Martin Van Buren, who was the 8th president of the United States of America. Interplay projects were given code names based on the surnames of American presidents during their development phase.
- The game would have featured a settlement building system, though little is known about the details.[5]
- Vehicles and a crafting system were also planned for the game. [6]
Behind the scenes
In an IGN article, Obsidian's CEO reveals the Fallout 3 that was never released — IGN Unfiltered[7], Van Buren was Black Isle Studios' second attempt at Fallout 3. The original attempt was created using the NDL 3D technology (later acquired by Gamebryo and used to power Fallout 3). Due to financial issues at Interplay, the studio redirected their efforts on the project to produce the dungeon-crawling RPG Icewind Dale.
A short video demonstrating the Van Buren tech demo created by Black Isle in 2003. Presented by No Mutants Allowed.
- Van Buren design documents at No Mutants Allowed
- Van Buren tech demo at No Mutants Allowed
- Van Buren tech demo video at No Mutants Allowed
- Duck and Cover interview with Sean K. Reynolds
- GameBanshee interview with John Deiley
- No Mutants Allowed interview with Ferret Baudoin
- Leaks from the No Mutants Allowed forum
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Briareus speaks out, NMA
- ↑ Respectively - place of Armstrong's origin or the time zone on Citizen's Lil' Pip 3000 (Pacific Standard Time).
- ↑ The Original Fallout 3 - Investigating Fallout Van Buren - YouTube
- ↑ Fallout: New Vegas Preview at videogamer.com (archived)
- ↑ What I Wish I Knew Before I Played Fallout 4 - YouTube
- ↑ Fallout Van Buren - An Overview - YouTube
- ↑ Obsidian on unreleased Fallout 3


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Centers will no longer be guaranteed a spot in the NBA All-Star game.
NBA.com is reporting that the league will announce a change to its All-Star ballot on Wednesday, removing the center position. Fans will be required to vote for three frontcourt players, instead of two forwards and a center.
The change makes sense with fewer teams relying on a traditional center anymore. Tim Duncan has long played as the Spurs' center even though he's listed as a forward on the Western Conference ballot, and the Miami Heat won the championship last season with forward Chris Bosh playing as their center.
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Right, so we've had the news that Sigur Rós's live Inni extravaganza is to be released in November. But that's all old material, right? (More info here). There is fresh material on the way, though, in the form of a new album (via Pitchfork).
The band were interviewed about Inni in The Wall Street Journal. The article reveals that the new, as-yet-untitled record is to be released in Spring 2012, with the band saying that it is "introverted" and "floaty and minimal" according to Jónsi, or Mr. Birgisson as the WSJ cutely refer to him. So that's that. Mystery remains but let's hope we hear something before new year. I guess we can feast on Inni in the meantime, which is no bad thing.


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LSA theme semester asks questions about life
What makes life worth living? Is it something as simple as a sunrise or as grand as a symphony orchestra? This question has been central to philosophical, religious and political thought for millennia, and engagement with it is part of the foundation of education in the liberal arts.
This fall the LSA theme semester "What Makes Life Worth Living?" will invite students and community members to explore this question and the answers offered over the centuries and around the globe.
Because students' college experiences often shape the trajectories of their lives, the theme semester encourages them to take advantage of U-M's rich resources to explore questions fundamental to their individual and collective lives:
• What is the good life?
• What makes life meaningful?
• How can one achieve a fulfilling balance between career, personal life and the obligations of citizenship?
The semester will offer courses, lectures, films and activities for all U-M students to connect with the theme and integrate their academic work with co-curricular activities and off-campus experiences.
It has been organized by John Chamberlin, professor of political science in LSA, professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and director of the Center for Ethics in Public Life; and Christopher Peterson, professor of psychology in LSA and director of the Michigan Positive Psychology Center.
"This theme semester offers students a chance to explore this question within the rich intellectual and cultural environment of the university," says Terrence McDonald, LSA dean. "Students can explore historical, political and cultural perspectives and hear from leading psychologists, social activists and academic leaders who have examined this question."
Students can submit essays, poems, videos and other contributions to a competition for reflections on the theme question. Students also can display their answers to the theme question on a special What Makes Life Worth Living? T-shirt.
"The theme semester offers students a chance to consider how their years at U-M will promote meaningfulness and well-being in their own lives and the lives of others," Chamberlin says.
Theme semester highlights include:
• The Tanner Lecture on Human Values will feature Martin Seligman, co-founder of the positive psychology movement, at 4 p.m. Oct. 7 at Rackham Auditorium.
• The 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps Oct. 13-14. Events will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Sen. John F. Kennedy's Oct. 14, 1960, speech outside the Michigan Union that sparked the creation of the Peace Corps. Author Paul Theroux will discuss "How the Peace Corps Changed My Life" at 7 p.m. Oct. 13 in Room 100 at the Hatcher Library.
• The Katz-Newcomb Lecture by Dacher Keltner at 4 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Campus Inn will examine the evolution of compassion.
• John Hammock, co-author of "Practical Idealists: Changing the World and Getting Paid," will discuss how to combine personal values with a career at 7 p.m. Nov. 9 in Room 100 at the Hatcher Library.
•Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States," will discuss her work at 7 p.m. Dec. 2 in Blau Auditorium at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.


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LAS VEGAS -- At CES today, a Sharp engineer talked to CNET about the merits of LCDs that use IGZO technology.
IGZO displays first came to consumers' attention when it was rumored that Apple was going to tap Sharp's IGZO tech for the third-generation iPad.
While that didn't happen (at that time, Sharp apparently had not gotten IGZO to the point where it could be mass produced for a commercial 10-inch class tablet like Apple's), Sharp is now offering IGZO on commercial smartphones and tablets in Japan.
And the company is showing off 32-inch 4K-resolution low-power IGZO LCD panels at CES.
In a nutshell, IGZO allows a tablet maker, for instance, to offer a very pixel-dense display that's easier on battery life than standard "amorphous" TFT LCDs.
Displays with a density of 500 pixels per inch (PPI) are possible, Sharp said. By comparison, the iPhone 5's Retina display has a PPI of 326.
And Kozo Takahashi, executive vice president at Sharp, said at CES that IGZO is the "key to the future of next-generation organic LED (OLED) displays."
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Entire recipe (1 burrito): 243 calories, 5g total fat (2.5g sat fat), 968mg sodium, 26g carbs, 7g fiber, 4.5g sugars, 23.5g protein -- PointsPlus® value 6*SmartPoints® value 6*Spinach plays the part of lettuce in this BLT breakfast. Get ready for a super-tasty morning burrito that's ready in mere minutes! Ingredients: 1/2 cup fat-free liquid egg substitute (like Egg Beaters Original) Dash each onion powder, garlic powder, and black pepper 1 wedge The Laughing Cow Light Creamy Swiss cheese 1/4 cup diced tomato, patted dry 1 tbsp. precooked real crumbled bacon (like the kind by Oscar Mayer) 1 medium-large high-fiber flour tortilla with 110 calories or less (like the kinds by La Tortilla Factory) 1/2 cup spinach leaves 1 tbsp. chopped scallions Directions: Spray a large microwave-safe mug lightly with nonstick spray. Add egg substitute, spices, and cheese wedge, breaking the wedge into pieces as you add it. Microwave for 1 minute. Add tomato and bacon to the mug, and gently stir. Microwave for 1 minute, or until scramble is just cooked. Set aside. Lay tortilla flat on a microwave-safe plate, and warm in the microwave for about 10 seconds. Lay spinach leaves horizontally across the center of the tortilla, and evenly top with the scramble. Sprinkle with scallions. Wrap tortilla up by first folding one side in (to keep filling from escaping), and then rolling it up from the bottom. Bite right into the open side! MAKES 1 SERVING
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As done 3 years ago, we were back here in Malaga, South Spain for our winter escape. Escape because I'm not really a winter person. Malaga has a warm weather through out the year. But our second visit to Andalucia was none other than for returning to my most favorite, Alhambra.
My initial plan was to have a rental car on our first day in Malaga, so we can easily reach our booked apartment. But I canceled the apartment because I think I don't want to have the car on our arrival, but to hop on the train from airport to city center. I love the idea of train as our transportation. So I cancelled the apartment and book Las Americas hotel just in front of the main Station Zambrano. Tapi cuba teka, my husband insisted to have rental car on the first day pula... Bye bye train.
The train station hotel wasn't cheap though, fahamlah sebab depan train station, but good thing was bawah tu ada kedai makan halal. So we just proceed with the plan.
lucky mom with kids who love travel as much as I do
Oh Malaga, always my favorite hub
deja vu!
menguruskan kereta sewa. mahalnya insuran kereta sewa!
lapar dah
bawa car seat
oh feels so good to be back!
hotel area and the halal restaurant I was talking about.
Istanbul Doner Kebab restaurant, Zambrano train station, Malaga
grocery shopping at SuperSol, local chain market
I like local bread. Pegi mana-mana mesti tengok roti. Because bread represent the local. This shelf from SuperSol. Some of it are Sourdough bread.
It was a so-so hotel but we sleep soundly, too tired from the long day travel. We got Ronda in our travel itinerary for the next day but I thought we should see Malaga this time. Dah dua kali datang tapi tak pernah round Malaga. Macam blank pula, nak tengok apa kat Malaga.
view to Zambrano train station from my window.
Supersol market
round round dalam kereta je sebab hujan.
Other than bread, things that always caught my attention are local market and of course mosque. But too bad the market is closed on weekend.
Malaga Grand mosque
but the mosque only open during salah time
Sambung jalan-jalan dalam kereta, until we decided to go to Alcazaba of Malaga. But only to view the Roman theater.
ni kat bahagian luar je, no need entrance ticket but
look at the lighting, must be a romantic place to stroll at night
After 12pm we drove back again to the hotel because, simply because the halal restaurant opens at 11am. Kepentingan makanan semasa travel. Thanks to the restaurant staff for halal butcher grocer location.
If you need halal butcher in Malaga, it is located at Calle Heroe de Sostoa, on your left (after SuperMercado)
Googled for the info but no to avail, so I hope this helps those in need.
And en route to Ronda...next entry.


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- Glen Kirby
- I was born in 1963 in Muncie, In. and have 8 brothers and 8 sisters from 2 marriages, I attended Roosevelt Elementary, Wilson Middle, The Muncie Area Career Center and graduated from Muncie Southside. My wife, Rebecca, was born in Lawrence, Ma. and moved to Muncie as a baby and graduated from Muncie Central.


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Jill Tosti made her way to Blackstone-Millville Regional High School to interview as a physical education and health teacher, a position she had held at Attleboro High School.
Shortly later, Tosti got a phone call from BMR principal Michael Dudek.
"He asked if I could come in and talk to him about the athletic director position," Tosti said in a phone interview Wednesday evening. "It's kind of how I wanted to go. Education and athletics have always been a passion for me. It's going to be a great opportunity."
Tosti has just started as the school's new AD, welcoming phone calls from other athletic directors and Dudeck for guidance. The 30-year-old Tosti, after all, is one of the younger leaders of an athletic department.
"It is exciting. I know people have been in the position for a while, I'm eager to learn from them," she said, adding the job came "far sooner than I expected."
A 2002 graduate of North Attleborough High who went on to study physical education and recreation at Bridgewater State, Tosti spent the past three years teaching at Attleboro High. As a student, she played field hockey and ran track.
"I've always wanted and I've been involved in athletics since I was a little kid," she said. "I played in college. I've always wanted to do something in athletics, so it just made sense [to be an AD]."
Tosti succeeds Steve Silva, who spent just one year at BMR. As a newcomer, Tosti wants to settle into the position in her first year.
"This year I kind of want to learn the ropes and ease into it," said Tosti, who will commute from North Providence, R.I.
That doesn't mean there aren't already some long-term thoughts. She mentioned she'll "put out feelers" to see if a lacrosse team is worth sponsoring.
"I would love to and I think I would like to keep participation up," Tosti said. "Maybe have some new sports. Lacrosse is an up-and-coming sport, it'd be great to have that. Put some feelers out there and see if there's some interest for it. But keeping the participation at a higher level is going to be one of my focuses right now. Having athletics and being active and having something that they love to do is important to me."
Tosti will also get to oversee the school's second-year varsity football program. Silva was also the football coach and has been succeeded by Joshua Euglow, a hire made prior to Tosti's arrival.
"He seems like he's excited for football season to start," Tosti said. "It's going to be nice. I think they've had a new football coach three straight years, so some stability will be nice."
Tosti expects that stability will apply to her as well.
"I see myself at Blackstone for quite some time," she adds. "I don't plan on leaving."
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By Roger Conrad
Power-generation companies have fared generally well in 2012 for pretty much the same reason oil and gas producers have had an off year.
Mainly, revenue is locked in with long-term contracts, making them largely immune from commodity-price swings and, in many cases, economic slumps as well.
The main challenge with this sector going into 2013 is valuation. The best way to deal with over-valuation is just to adhere to buy targets based on safety and prospective return. So long as you don't pay more, you'll have real value on your hands ( read more about safe sectors in 2013 ).
Below are three utility stocks that I think offer excellent value going into 2013.
Piedmont Natural Gas Co Inc's three-state natural-gas distribution utility has long been among the most reliably growing franchises in America.
In fact, favorable regulation in the Carolinas and Tennessee has factored out volatile natural-gas prices and even weather-related demand fluctuations from earnings.
Meeting earnings guidance is a matter of executing modest capital-spending plans with regulators' approval.
And the company has set another solid bar for its next fiscal year, which ends Oct. 31, 2013, of $1.67 to $1.77 per share, ensuring another dividend boost of 3.5%-4%.
Utility earnings will be fueled by customer growth a bit over 1% and recent rate increases in South Carolina and Tennessee, offset by higher costs for pensions and pipeline maintenance.
Projected capital expenditures of $525 million to $575 million, however, also include funds for completing a facility to store gas for Duke Energy Corp's (DUK) neighboring power plants.
Piedmont now owns and operates four such facilities for Duke, including one that went into operation in June 2012.
And last month it announced a $180 million investment for 24% of Williams Partners LP's (WPZ) Constitution Pipeline.
Starting in March 2015, this 121-mile system will transport gas from the Marcellus Shale region in northern Pennsylvania to New York and New England.
Operated under long-term contracts, new midstream gas assets will fire up growth with little sacrifice of reliability.
And with utilities' gas usage rising, particularly in the southeast U.S., there's considerable room for growth.
Fear of new dividend tax rates and coal regulation has triggered blind selling of electric utilities, particularly since Nov. 6.
That's landed the sector's highest-quality fare in the bargain bin, including Southern Company /zigman2/quotes/208000495/composite SO -0.58% .


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The power of future storms hard to predict
Big storms are fed by energy from warm seas, and experts say that with warmer oceans there's a lot more of that energy today at their disposal then there used to be.
The jury is still out on whether this will mean a future of more frequent and more powerful storms, but experts can agree that we're in for changes to what was once considered the norm.
"Are storms getting stronger? That's a tough question to answer," said Angela Fritz, an atmospheric scientist with Weather Underground. "But what we do know is that research is telling us that storm patterns are getting more weird."
She said that because of the shrinking sea ice at the North Pole, the jet stream has become more sluggish in moving storms along. This means that large Atlantic storms, such as Sandy and the February blizzard, will linger over the East Coast's populated regions longer than they used to, wreaking a good deal more havoc.
The `balding' Arctic: Scientists in the summer of 2012 witnessed a record for the smallest North Polar ice cap ever witnessed -- 3.5 million square kilometers, or less than half the area typically occupied four decades ago, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Center.
"What we're going to see is more destruction -- more rainfall and, paradoxically, more snowfall, because warmer air carries more moisture," Fritz said. "And rising sea levels will also come into play here, because just a few inches can mean the difference between flooding and no flooding."
She notes that now, the jet stream seems to be more in the business of creating blocking patterns than moving things along and out of harm's way.
"This blocking pattern was what caused Sandy to make that left hook toward land," she notes.
Whether that will mean that we're entering an era of Sandy-sized tropical storms is a matter of debate for meteorologists and climatologists. This is because large storms are complex beasts and warmer oceans alone might not guarantee that the state's shoreline is in for a succession of storms like Irene and Sandy every year or two.
Homes in harm's way: Complicating the picture is coastal development. Today's storms are more destructive because there are more buildings along the shore to destroy. Not only are there many more homes along the shore today, but they're also far more elaborate and costly to replace than the beach cottages of yore.
"We have greatly increased the risk by the population density and the value of the properly that we have put in harm's way," said Timothy Reinhold, senior vice president of research and chief engineer for the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety. "There were a cluster of really bad hurricanes in the early 1900s, and when you run the figures of what kind of damage you would see with those storms and today's development, the numbers are just astronomical."
He said that despite huge losses from mega-storms like Katrina and Andrew, the building industry has pushed back on efforts to tighten building codes, with North Carolina and Louisiana actually relaxing their codes.
Hard question to answer: "Part of our problem is that we're trying to collect data where our methodology of collecting this data has changed over time," said Thomas C. Peterson, a research meteorologist at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., who said that whether the storms themselves are getting stronger is a difficult question to answer.
"Some ingredients have become more favorable to the increase in severe storms over the years, but some have not," Peterson said. "We understand that as the ocean warms, there's a greater likelihood of increases in hurricanes, but, on the other hand, the warmer water heats the upper atmosphere, and this will work against developing strong coastal storms"
There is consensus, he said, that extreme precipitation events in general are increasing, with more rain falling in downpour events than there used to be.
"Human-induced global warming is causing this increase in precipitation," he said. "We're also seeing a decrease in the amount of snow compared to rain," Peterson said. "As it gets warmer, there's a greater chance that what used to be a snowstorm is now a rain event."
Plenty of data: Just about everywhere you look, the numbers point to a hotter Earth.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the number of months with below-average temperature readings have been few and far between. July 2013 was the 341st consecutive month, since February 1985, that the global monthly temperature has been higher than the long-term average, month-to-month. And nine of the 10 warmest Julys on record have occurred since the beginning of the 21st century, NOAA says.
These are just two in the long line of data points telling us that we're living on a planet that's getting hotter.
But it's the temperature of the oceans that concerns storm experts, and most of the Earth's vast seas are a lot warmer than they used to be 50 or 100 years ago.
NOAA says that many ocean regions are now much warmer than average, with part of the northeastern Atlantic off the coast of North America, sections of the southern Indian Ocean, and various regions in the western Pacific observing record warmth.
"One thing that all scientists who study sea ice agree upon is that under increasing temperatures, the overall long-term declining trend will continue and some summer in the future, we will look down on the North Pole and see a blue Arctic Ocean," said Walt Meier, a scientist with the National Snow & Ice Data Center.
" It's not a matter of if, but when."
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The Birthplace of Key Lime Pie? (Key West, Florida)
Happy Pi Day! In honor of this day, I'm sharing about my visit to Key Lime Pie Factory. This small shop in Key West, FL is said to be the birthplace of the key lime pie. But, a lot of other places also claim to be "the original" and Epicurious had a nice story about the history of key lime pie (and how key limes were wiped out by a hurricane and most of the local limes are now Persian limes ....)


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Today I implemented a classification through a NTILE equivalent function. The T-SQL NTILE implementation has very bad perfomance when used against large datasets of rows, so I and Davide Mauri realized a better implementation that Davide posted some weeks ago on his blog. No reaction from Microsoft guys and no comments on Davide blog, so I retry here to catch more attention on this topic.
Instead to use NTILE function you can use this faster query:
SELECT CustomerKey, CEILING(ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY YearlyIncome ASC) / ((SELECT CAST(COUNT(*) + 1 AS FLOAT) FROM DimCustomer) / @n) ) AS NTileFastFROM DimCustomer
Note that I prefer to use the RANK function instead than the ROW_NUMBER: even if I could get non-uniform distribution of data among clusters, I get all elements with the same value in the same cluster and in many scenario you can prefer this technique to avoid cases with random cluster assignment for items with value equal to a cluster limit. This is different from NTILE result, but I prefer it for my cluster assignment.
SELECT CustomerKey, CEILING(RANK() OVER (ORDER BY YearlyIncome ASC) / ((SELECT CAST(COUNT(*) + 1 AS FLOAT) FROM DimCustomer) / @n) ) AS NTileFastFROM DimCustomer
Please read this post of Davide Mauri for a complete explanation and let us know what do you think about it
Thanks this will come in very handy. I was mainly looking to avoid rows with the same value showing up in different NTiles, but the added performance boost is a nice plus too.


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Dog helps save owner...
A Dorchester man is in the hospital while his canine companion awaits surgery at Angell Animal Medical Center after both were struck and injured by a car while crossing Neponset Avenue in Dorchester on Nov. 25, the MSPCA-Angell announced today. The man, John Miles, was taking the same four-mile walk he had taken for forty years along with his sons eight-year-old beagle-mix Lucy, who for the last eight years has accompanied him almost every day.
According to the Boston Police Dept. both John and Lucy were struck and injured by a northbound car traveling at high speed. John suffered two broken legs, a broken arm and multiple facial fractures. Despite having also been struck by the car Lucy limped to a nearby dentists office, barking madly to summon help. By the time the police and animal control officer arrived Lucy had braced herself against the nearly unconscious John, refusing to leave his side even as he was lifted into the ambulance.
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Dawn Heckman needs little introduction as?our next?World Class Workout contributor.
Appearing a year ago on Active.com with a list of top 10 tips for open-water swimming, Dawn made a splash with a few of her suggestions, like telling readers to be more aggressive by growing their nails long and clawing their way to the lead of the pack!
Beneath this fierce competitiveness—which has won her gold and bronze medals at the 1999 Pan Pacific Games, a berth on the World Championship Open Water team, and several recent masters world records—is actually a shrewd businesswoman. Last year, Dawn founded Splish, a swimsuit company with a twist.
Splish features racing-quality swimsuits in designs that are not just funky, but outright show-stopping. With names like Blue Bandanna, Cherries, and That 70's Suit, the swimsuits feature whimsical patterns that deliver high-concept fashion with hydrodynamic performance. Check out the 'Round the World (featuring a patchwork of countries stitched together to mimic a globe) or Got Suit? (a Ben & Jerry-style cowhide design in shocking pink).
With more than 65 patterns (and still growing) there is something for everyone at Splish and if Dawn has her wish, then open-water swimming and triathlons will soon enough become runways for the individualist athlete in all of us.
Dawn's World Class Workout was as original as her suit designs: Whereas other contributors focused on big sets that primarily stressed endurance development, Dawn's workout is short and deceptively simple-looking (but certainly not easy).
"Once a week, I would do a low-yardage, high-intensity set where the purpose was to swim at race speed and lay everything down on the line," she explains. "In order to be a fast swimmer, you have to practice swimming fast."
Indeed, many swimmers and triathletes enjoy training endurance because it feels like a real workout (the "no pain, no gain" approach). However with consistent endurance training, it is easy to fall into a pattern of swimming longer distances at slower paces.
Every now and then it is necessary to practice speed and keep your body conditioned to sprint. Dawn's workout is designed to do just that.
Pre-meet Warm-up
A pre-meet warm-up is whatever it is you do to get ready before a big race. Some swimmers take longer than others and prefer to do up to an hour of drills and light sets. Others like to get their body moving with an easy 1,500 meters and call it quits.
Whatever the case may be, take your time and warm up correctly every time you do the following set. To successfully complete the workout, you need to be prepared to swim fast.
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It can be confusing to know what to do when your baby or child is unwell during the coronavirus pandemic. Remember that the NHS is still providing safe care. We've developed posters for families living in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland about when and how to get medical help for yo...
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record 1 is created and saved to the table. for customer A
4 hours later customer A comes back and another record is created (record 2). before customer A leaves, they remember they did something else and needs record 2 updated.
now since customer A has beed here 2 times he has 2 records time stamped with the current date but different times. How can you update the record 2 with out updateing record 1?
Records are saved with customers A's id number and a timestamp that is created by a varible
the sql string to update the record
ex. currentdate(0) is the date 1/1/1111 currentdate(1) is the time 12:00:00Code:sql = "UPDATE Table1 SET Notes = ' " & txtnotes & " ' WHERE CustID = " & lblCustID & " AND SampleDate = " & savedate & " "
the savedate is saved to the table as follows --> 4/14/2006 10:25:07Code:savedate = lblCurrentDate(0).Caption & " " & lblCurrentDate(1).Caption
At this point I get a datatype mismatch error if I drop the time and leave the date it updates the record but also updates any previous record for that day.


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The National Lacrosse League has announced details relating to the NLL Draft Player Combine, taking place on September 30 in Oakville, Ontario at the Toronto Rock Training & Practice Facility. The combine is open to all draft prospects & non-roster free agents, and takes place prior to the 2012 NLL Draft on October 1 in Toronto.
All players who participate in the combine will be subject to a series of tests that will evaluate their endurance, reaction times, strength, agility, speed, and lacrosse related skills. Players will also have the opportunity to showcase their skills in a practice setting through structured games and involved in an interview process with NLL General Managers and Coaches. The player's cost for the combine is $100 and is payable online via the following link: http://www.sporttesting.com/events.php.
The deadline for signups is September 17th or until the combine is filled. The testing will be conducted by Sport Testing Inc., a provider of athlete assessment technologies and services. The combine will be a day-long event, with registration starting at 8am.


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Sunday Brunch: Simply Perfect Quiche Recipe
Until I made onion custard pie on a whim last fall, I didn't even know that I liked quiche. Now I adore it. Having finally acquired a proper porcelain quiche dish, I christened it with Tartine's recipe, which is, unsurprisingly, simple but perfect. The incorporation of crème fraîche makes the custard irresistibly tastier and fluffier, almost like a savory dessert. Keeping the flavoring to thyme, salt, and pepper allows you really to appreciate the eggs and crust.
This crust baked up better than any I have made before (including previous attempts at the same recipe for sweet pies, which were, mysteriously, far less successful). It was easier to handle and flakier once baked. Should my new quiche dish get the credit for these tender-crisp and buttery brown layers? No, I finally realized—most of my recipes for crust make two 10-ouce disks of dough, but this recipe makes two 16-ounce disks. That's a lot more crust! You can, of course, use any unsweetened pastry crust to make quiche, but I thought this generous recipe worked particularly well.
I served the quiche last weekend with a citrus salad inspired by Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes: arrange the supremes of two oranges and two ruby grapefruit on a platter, drizzle with juice squeezed from the rinds and a teaspoon of honey, and sprinkle with pomegranate seeds. It was a gorgeous and indulgent meal.
- Yield:6 to 8
- Fully baked and cooled tart shell baked in a 10-inch ceramic quiche dish, deep 10-inch tart pan, or 10-inch pie pan
- 5 large eggs
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 cup crème fraîche
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup water, very cold
- 3 cups + 2 tablespoons (1 pound) all-purpose flour
- 1 cup + 5 tablespoons (10 1/2 ounces) unsalted butter, very cold
Have the pie shell ready for filling. Preheat the oven to 375°.
Put 1 egg and the flour in the bowl of a stand mixer or a large mixing bowl and mix at high speed or by hand with a whisk until smooth (I used a handheld mixer in a large bowl). Mix or whisk in the remaining 4 eggs until blended. In a medium bowl, whisk the crème fraîche until it is perfectly smooth and then whisk in the milk.
Pour the egg mixture through a fine-mesh sieve held over the milk mixture. Whisk in the salt, pepper, and thyme. (You can prepare the custard up to 4 days in advance before baking; cover and refrigerate. The flour, thyme, and pepper will settle to the bottom of the storage container and might stick to it, so whisk well before using.)
Pour the egg mixture into the pastry shell. Put in the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 325° and bake until the filling is just set, about 30 minutes longer (for me it was 40 minutes). When touched, the center of the quiche should feel slightly firm, not liquidy. Let cool on a wire rack for at least 20 minutes to allow the custard to set up, so that it will slice neatly. Serve warm or at room temperature. To reheat a fully cooled quiche, cover with foil and bake at 325 for about 15 minutes.
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Stir the salt into the water until dissolved. Chop the butter into small pieces (1/2 to 1 inch). I stash the water and butter in the freezer for 20-30 minutes before proceeding.
If you like to mix pie crust by hand, go ahead. If you're less sure of yourself, you'll probably prefer the food processor. Put the flour in the bowl of your food processor. Scatter the very cold butter over the flour and quickly toss it around a bit to coat with flour. Pulse briefly until the mixture forms large crumbs; some of the butter should still be in pieces the size of peas.
Take the top off the processor, sprinkle the flour-butter mixture with about half of the very cold water, replace the top, and pulse a couple of times. Then add the rest of the water and pulse until the dough begins to come together into a ball but is not completely smooth. You should still be able to see some butter chunks. (I think it is more common to pour the water through the feed tube with the top on while the processor is running, but that method usually leads me to over-process and still fails to distribute the water evenly.)
On a lightly floured surface, divide the dough into 2 equal balls and shape each ball into a disk 1 inch thick. Wrap well and chill for at least 2 hours or up to overnight. I accidentally froze (instead of refrigerating) my dough for 2 hours before rolling out and found it especially easy to work with.
On a lightly floured surface or between two pieces of parchment paper, roll the chilled dough out 1/8 inch thick, rolling from the center toward the edge in all directions. Work as quickly as you can and give the dough a quarter turn every few strokes to discourage sticking. Carefully transfer the dough to a pie dish or tart pan, easing it into the bottom and sides and then pressing gently into place. Trim or flute exess dough at the rim as you like. Chill until firm to the touch, 30 minutes to 1 hour (or wrap well and chill overnight).
Preheat the oven to 375°. Line the chilled shell with parchment paper and fill with pie weights. For a fully baked shell, bake until the surface looks light brown, about 25 minutes (peek under the paper to check). Remove from the oven and remove parchment and pie weights. Return shell to oven and bake until golden brown, about 5 minutes more. Cool completely on wire racks before filling.
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