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Feb. 10 – March 31
"Plot Point," Nicolas Provost, 2007, video projection with sound, 15 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.
The present culture of surveillance is an outcome of new technologies, social media networks, unprecedented access to information, an increased willingness on the part of individuals to share personal information, global security concerns and a deep desire to feel safe.
"On Watch" features five artists and a pioneering project team of human-rights activists whose works explore the presence of surveillance strategies in contemporary art and culture and the disappearing divide between private and public life.
The artists depict and deploy a range of historic and technologically advanced methods used to observe, share and archive information about others and oneself, including architecture, investigative research, aerial surveillance, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), sousveillance and social media.
While surveillance may result in conditions that create information access and sharing, convenience, a sense of safety and direction and evidential proof of innocence or guilt, its reality demands our participation as we watch and as we are watched by others who wish to know who we are, how we live, what we buy and where we go.
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While many high school students spend their summers
studying for the SATs or socializing with friends, Kharlita Chambers-Walker and
Julian Smith-Sparks have visited the Boston Police Department to view crime lab
evidence and have observed a jury trial, thanks to the BBA
Summer Jobs Program
definitely not your average summer.
As one might expect, holding a summer job in the City of Boston's Law
Department has provided these two students – Kharlita a recent graduate of
Charlestown High School and Julian a rising junior at the English School – with
a wealth of knowledge and some truly unique experiences. Besides the clerical
work they have done within the office, they described a trip to the Boston Police
Department, an outing to Land Court, and the City Council ballot drawing. "I
never cared about this kind of thing until I was here," said Julian. They agreed
that this job has taught them better time management skills, event engagement,
and how to accept their mistakes.
But the students are not the only ones who benefit from
this experience. William Sinnott, Corporation Counsel for the City of Boston,
stated: "Both of our summer interns have assisted us in completing some long
overdue office tasks in a timely manner. Their enthusiasm for learning about the
legal field and the city itself has made a positive impact on the office… We
love the BBA Summer Jobs Program because it brings a freshness and vitality to
the office. The enthusiasm of the students, some of them working their first
jobs ever, is infectious."
The students have absorbed their surroundings eagerly, already expressing the
impact it has made on them. "I definitely think this job will help with my
future plans," said Kharlita. "I've learned the lingo of the law, I've been
meeting new people and networking – and it's just diversified my work ethic. I
was interested in the law before I got here, but now, especially after watching
the City Council proceedings, I'm also more into politics and thinking about
studying political science."
Another advantage to this summer has been social: Kharlita and Julian have
respectively enjoyed City Council and visiting the Boston Police Department, but
together they agreed that one of the summer highlights was the department's
professional development outing. This allowed them to participate in staff
activities with the department in a relaxed setting that was, by their accounts,
a lot of fun.
The core of experience, however, has been the gradual transformation of their
worldviews and developing understanding of the city, its people, and its laws.
While talking about their trip to the Boston Police Department, Julian
mentioned, "I'd never taken a tour before or saw what was going on in there…it
was a real eye-opener."
"Working in a legal environment can be a transformational experience for
these young men and women," added Sinnott. "Every firm that cares about the
quality of life in our city should consider sponsoring a student or
Dawn Beauchesne (Senior Assistant Corporation Counsel), Cathy Lizotte
(Senior Assistant Corporation Counsel), Kharlita Chambers-Walker, Julian
Smith-Sparks and Bill Sinnott (Corporation Counsel)

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UTI In WomenMay 23, 2017 18:29
As per the American Urological Association and National Institutes of Health, the risk of woman's to develop a UTI in women lifetime is between the 40 and 50%, especially those among the newly sexually active and those in their menopause. Women who are pregnant, obese, or have the certain chronic illnesses are also at a higher risk for more frequent infection.
With each UTI, the chances of experiencing another will be on rise. The infections are usually characterized by the burning sensation while urinating, more frequent urination, and also an urgent feeling when they are in need to go. They may also find themselves waking up at the night for multiple trips to the bathroom or may notice their urine has a foul odor.
Signs of progressing a UTI include:
lower back pain
blood in the urine
abdominal pain
"Chills and back pain could mean the infection has spread to your kidneys," said Michael Ingber, M.D., a board-certified urogynecologist at The Center for Specialized Women's Health in Morristown, NJ.
Not all the UTI's or their causes are the same. But infections can happen in the three various parts of the urinary tract: the urethra, bladder, and also kidneys.
"The most common UTI-causing bacteria is the E. coli found in our gut," said Dr. Ingber, adding to that the other more aggressive bacteria, like staph can cause UTI's too.
Some women are more prone to UTI's than the others
Your unique anatomy means that UTI's may peak twice in your life, becoming more likely when you are first sexually active and then again around your menopause. Younger women who have been infected are more prone for developing the cystitis or bladder infections if E. coli gets pushed from the urethra into the bladder.
In the middle-aged women, the hormones can provide a good welcoming environment for the UTI's.
"When estrogen levels decline, the vaginal pH increases, or otherwise becomes more alkaline. This is an environment where E. coli and other bacteria like to grow," said Dr. Ingber.
Pregnant women and also those with the immune-compromising diseases or the conditions like diabetes or obesity should get the UTI check-ups more often. They may also need more aggressive UTI treatment to prevent the kidney infections from developing.
Other conditions which have similar symptoms
Sexually transmitted diseases as like chlamydia and also herpes can cause the urethritis, or inflammation of the urethra, which presents the similarly to a UTI.
The interstitial or the non-infectious cystitis, which also have the similar symptoms. They affect nearly 6 million women annually, according to Dr. Ingber.
Kidney stones, Kidney anatomic problems, or the inflamed pouch on urethra may also mimic a UTI. Only the doctor's office tests will help to distinguish between UTI's and these of other problems in order to get the right care.
If UTI symptoms may persist or worsen despite of the antibiotic treatments, get checked the right away to rule out more number of serious conditions.
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|[An Nahar] More than 100,000 troops and civilians staged a mass rally in Pyongyang to celebrate North Korea's nuclear test and praise the "matchless" bravery of leader Kim Jong-Un, state media said Friday.
The rally in the capital's sprawling Kim Il-Sung square on Thursday was attended by top party and military officials, as well as police workers and students, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
A number of speakers addressed the rally, praising Tuesday's test as the "brilliant fruition of the extraordinary decision and matchless gut of the dear respected Kim Jong-Un", KCNA said, in reference to the leader's courage.
The young leader, who took over after the death of his father Kim
Dear LeaderJong-Il
... hereditary dictator of North Korea. His definition of
reunificationisn't the same as the definition in Seoul...
in December 2011, did not attend the rally.
It was the North's third test, following previous detonations in 2006 and 2009, and seismic data suggested it was significantly more powerful.
"It serves as a striking demonstration of the might of a scientific and technological power and a military power capable of manufacturing any strike," KCNA said.
North Korea said the test -- widely condemned by the international community -- was a direct response to U.N. sanctions imposed on Pyongyang after its long-range rocket launch in December.
Pyongyang accused the United States of leading the sanctions charge in the U.N. Security Council, and speakers at Thursday's rally threatened "merciless retaliatory blows" if the U.S. pushed tougher sanctions after the nuclear test.
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The Determinants of Industry Analysis: An Application to Practitioners of Money Management
This research study examines whether practitioners of money follow the precepts of the Finance profession. The theory of finance believes in the efficiency hypothesis. It states that an investor may not beat the averages consistently, and so s/he should invest in an index fund. We discover that practitioners of money believe they can surpass the return of an index, and, thus, they invest aggressively. One of the techniques they use is the analysis of industries. Thus, they analyze the external environment, the business cycle, the industry life cycle and finally the competitive environment.
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Glasgow is a city in Valley County of Montana in the United States, and it has a lot to offer all travellers visiting North-eastern Montana. The area is filled with rolling plains and open farmland, with interesting stops for you to see before you explore the rest of Montana.
Visit the Valley County Pioneer Museum because it's a great place to start your Glasgow, Montana adventure. The museum has countless exhibits ranging from fossils, dinosaurs, Lewis and Clark, the railroad, to the Fort Peck Dam and more.
Enjoy all kinds of activities like boating, swimming, and water skiing in Fort Peck. Spend even more time with Mother Nature by going hiking, bird watching, and camping too. At Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, you can see the local wildlife such as the sharp-tailed grouse, elk, and deer.
Have a picnic, stroll, or go biking at the Kiwanis Park and Campground. Stop by the Fort Peck Dam and Spillway for free. Go shopping in downtown Glasgow for clothes, jewellery, flowers, and many other things. Don't forget to catch a show the Fort Peck Theatre.
Explore the rest of Montana too, because it's the perfect destination for adventure seekers. Go white water rafting in the world-class rapids of Montana. Have a go at fly-fishing at Blackfoot River.
See one of the best national parks in the US at Yellowstone National Park in Bozeman. And then head on to Kalispell so you can visit Glacier National Park.
There are also plenty of places in Montana for you to go hiking, climbing, and horseback riding. In winter, you can go the Big Sky and Big Mountain for some skiing, snowboarding, or even heli-skiing.
When to visit Glasgow, MT
The best time to visit Glasgow, like the rest of Montana, is during summer from July to September. This is when you can enjoy sunny days and just the right amount of warmth for exploring the city and the rest of the region.
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This joint-friendly, chest-deep water workout includes calisthenics style exercises with upper and lower body variations. March, jog and ski against water resistance to improve cardiovascular fitness, muscle endurance, and flexibility. Buoyant dumbbells and other buoyancy tools are used to add both resistance and stability in the water.


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OVYSL depends solely on volunteer parent coaches to support league play. Coaches are not required to have sport-specific knowledge and will be offered training and support from OVYSL's Director of Coaching. In addition, coaches have the flexibility to set team practice days/times and to select a practice location that works best for them.
During the online registration process, parents/guardians will have the opportunity to indicate their willingness to either coach or to be an assistant coach for their child's team. There is also the opportunity to indicate a desired assistant coach.
If you are not registering online, and will be mailing your child's registration payment and documents, you can indicate your willingness to coach your child's team by contacting Joel Middleton at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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God must have been laughing up his sleeve," muses Jobst Schöne. The retired bishop of the Independent Lutheran Church in Germany is applying a German paraphrase of Psalm 2:4 to the baptism of seven former Muslims from Iran. Early Easter morning, the seven were baptized in the Berlin parish where Schöne serves as associate pastor. The baptisms were an emblem of something bigger—a nationwide surge of such conversions in several denominations and a spate of reports of Muslims seeing Jesus in their dreams. But Martin Luther's Bible translation, now nearly 500 years old, also played an important role in their story.
The group baptism happened at an unsettling time for European Christians. During Lent, radical Muslims handed out large numbers of Qur'ans on street corners and announced plans to distribute 25 million German-language copies of their holy book in order to win Germans to their faith. But on the night before Easter, some 150 worshipers filed silently into St. Mary's Church in the Zehlendorf district of Berlin to witness conversions in the opposite direction.
Until midnight, the sanctuary was dark. Then Gottfried Martens, senior pastor, chanted from the altar: "Glory to God in the highest." All at once the lights went on, the organ roared, and the faithful broke jubilantly into song: "We praise you, we bless you, we worship you." Like Christians everywhere, they celebrated the Resurrection of their Lord.


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September Lunch and Learn: Emotional Roots of Clutter
The personal environment clients create often is a physical manifestation of how they are feeling on the inside. Clutter has emotional roots. What's the source of their accumulation? Guilt? Fear? Sadness? Anger? Any of these underlying emotions can result in avoidance, indecision and lack of motivation. Clearing away material items that represent uncomfortable feelings can help clients to address and release them.
The September Lunch and Learn presentation titled "Emotional Roots of Clutter" will take place on Sept. 12 from noon - 1 p.m. in the Heer Hall Training Room.
This month's presenter Susan Fee, M.Ed., PCC, works with Lakeshore Educational and Counseling Services. Fee specializes in helping her clients develop their personal and professional communication skills. She appears regularly on WKYC's "Good Company" as their relationship expert and is a fill-in co-host for Q104's morning show. Her column "Mommy Matters" appears bi-monthly in Akron Family Magazine.
The Lunch and Learn programs are sponsored by the Division of Human Resources and are held in conjunction with Impact, the university's employee assistance program. The hourlong programs are free and open to faculty and staff. However, seating is limited and reservations are required. Employees will have the opportunity to purchase pre-packaged healthy lunches to enjoy during the presentation. If you would like to order a lunch, you must do so before Tuesday, Sept. 10. This information is available on the registration form.
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The Inspiration XL Series of classroom chairs is especially designed for taller, broader students. These popular student chairs from Academia combine added seat space with the ergonomic comfort you've come to expect from the classic Inspiration series.
The double-curved back with flex action provides back support right where students need it most. The soft plastic shell lets students stretch and lean back and won't lose its shape, while the 16-gauge steel frame and 21 reinforcement ridges make this chair exceptionally strong and unusually durable. With graceful lines and a beautiful choice of shell colors, the Inspiration XL classroom chair looks and feels truly inspiring.
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Academia Furniture manufactures school furniture products that are durable, attractive and affordable. Its classroom furniture includes the bright and colorful Educational Edge line, and the new and exciting Inspiration line. All of Academia Furniture's products are backed by Hertz's limited lifetime warranty.
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Politicians, lay down your firearms.
No, that's not a mandate for candidates and officeholders to get rid of their guns. Rather, it's a plea for them to quit posing with them in attempts to show where they stand on gun rights or posturing on gun rights in other ways. Enough already!
We've seen examples aplenty — most recently the photo of President Obama skeet shooting at Camp David, released in response to an interview he did with The New Republic in which the president said he goes skeet shooting "all the time" at Camp David.
Apparently White House Press Secretary Jay Carney grew tired of answering question about the "all the time" claim in the interview, so he released the photo of Obama with a rifle shooting clay targets in August 2012 at Camp David. The photo is almost comical in its appearance and has inspired numerous altered satirical photos on social media platforms.
Obama isn't alone when it comes to politicians being lampooned over statements or photos involving firearms. Republican Mitt Romney, Obama's opponent in 2012, suffered considerable political "shots" in 2008 when he was seeking his party's presidential nomination. On the campaign trail, a reporter asked Romney about his hunting experience.
His response: "I'm not a big-game hunter. I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then." Pundits had a field day with that.
Former President George W. Bush often would hunt doves on his ranch in Texas. The result was a lot of photo and video opportunities, followed by a lot of lampooning. Dick Cheney, his vice president, was often photographed quail hunting — that is until he accidentally shot one of his hunting companions. That episode took on a life of its own.
In Arkansas, it must be some kind of requirement for candidates for public office to send out a mailer or run a TV or print ad with photos of themselves dressed in camouflage and holding some sort of firearm. Often such ads are accompanied by a message touting their endorsement from the National Rifle Association and stating that as a lifelong hunter they will protect citizens' Second Amendment rights.
A Democratic congressional candidate even tried his best to make an issue of the fact that Republican Congressman Tim Griffin did not have a current hunting license in 2012. Never mind that Griffin was a full-time congressman and father of two young children back in Little Rock.
Please don't misunderstand. I strongly support the Second Amendment. As a supporter, I want to know where candidates stand on the issue of gun rights. However, I care much more about the candidates' position and voting record than I do how many guns they own or many times they have been skeet shooting.
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UVA (ages) UVB (burns)
It's officially fall today, 46 when I got up this morning and sunny and crisp right now. I had a new client this morning and when I asked if she is wearing sunscreen everyday said I only wear it when it is sunny!
I want to clarify a few misconceptions regarding UVA.
- It is approximately the same strength year round
- Is full strength year round
- Penetrates glass
- Is in fluorescent light bulbs
- Strong at any altitude
- Damages deeper in the skin than UVB
If you can change your mindset about sunscreen and think of it as anti-aging perhaps you won't hesitate to use it daily!


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TRAVERSE CITY – Autumn is an enchanting time in Michigan's beautiful Grand Traverse Bay region – the perfect time to visit the Sleeping Bear Dunes (voted "Most Beautiful Place in America" by viewers of Good Morning America), or enjoy the cuisine in one of the country's top "foodie" towns.
It's a wonderful season for a shopping adventure, a round of championship golf, or a tour of the beautiful Grand Traverse Bay wine country.
It's also the perfect time to save money and receive great value on a vacation getaway. From Sept. 6 through Dec. 20, the Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau will offer its "Fab Fall" getaway special, available at almost 20 participating resorts and hotels.
In addition to low Fab Fall rates, the packages include extras like discount offers on shopping, dining, wine purchases, movies, spa services, golf, entertainment and family fun and more.
The specials must be directly booked through participating hotels. (Just make sure to ask for the Fab Fall special.) For a list of details, including participating hotels, check out the Bureau's web site at www.traversecity.com.
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You don't have to be rich or famous to reap the benefits of hiring a Personal Trainer. More and more people, novice and veteran exercisers alike, are working with personal trainers because they offer a practical and affordable means of getting and staying healthy.
Motivation. Personal trainers wear many hats, serving not only as coach, but also as an educator, confidant, role model and a major source of motivation and encouragement.
Consistency. Do you find it difficult to stick to your program? Scheduling regular appointments with a personal trainer helps eliminate any excuses you may come up with for not exercising.
Safety. A personal trainer will show you how to exercise safely (including which exercises to avoid), and instruct you on the proper and safe use of exercise equipment.
Individualized instruction. An exercise program that works for one person may not work for another. A personal trainer will develop the most effective program for you based on your fitness evaluation results and personal goals.


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When you're considering cosmetic surgery in Florida, you want a Florida board-certified plastic surgeon with the experience, knowledge, and nationally-recognized talent to help you achieve the look you've always dreamed of.
Dr. Richard B. Edison, M.D. is not only a Florida board certified cosmetic surgeon but the prestigious Consumer's Research Council recognizes him as one of America's top cosmetic surgeons. As the leading practitioner of cosmetic surgery in Florida, Dr. Edison's main goal is to help enhance your life by using the non-surgical procedures as well the latest cosmetic plastic surgery technology available today.
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Aging, pregnancy and weight fluctuations can stretch the skin and cause it to sag. We offer tummy tuck, thigh and arm lifts to uplift sagging tissues and make them firmer. Body contouring for the shapely and attractive body you always wanted. New Sculpting techniques enable us to give you a firmer and shapelier body beyond anything attainable through dieting and exercise. Liposuction surgery, including many variants such as ultrasonic liposuction and tumescent liposuction, is used to give you a firmer and shapelier body beyond anything attainable through dieting and exercise. Abdominoplasty, also known as tummy tuck, can dramatically produce a firmer, flatter and tighter abdomen. Tummy tucks not only remove fat, but also remover excess skin and tighten the muscle support system. Thigh lift and arm lift surgery will lift, tighten and firm loose and sagging soft tissues to make you more youthful and attractive.
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Vivo Trattoria & Wine Bar, a new restaurant at the Hotel at Arundel Preserve, has the burnished looks of a good Tuscan-inspired trattoria. And its midpriced menu of antipasto, pastas, pizzas and Northern Italian entrees has a kind of broad appeal that's in short supply these days.
On first glance, it's the kind of place that a work group might turn into a favorite payday destination, or where friends from Baltimore and Washington might meet up for a Saturday night dinner.
Everybody likes eating good Italian food in a pretty room. But the Italian food at Vivo lacks punch and pizazz. I never know what to think when this happens, but it's a fun dinner topic: Is Vivo's food bland because its operators have determined, after extensive testing, that the market prefers bland food, or is the food just bland and that's that?
Vivo is the second Maryland restaurant from the Long Island, N.Y-based George Martin Group. The first to hit the area was Grillfire, which opened in 2011 in the same hotel — a boutique amenity located down the road from Arundel Mills mall and Maryland Live Casino. Grillfire and Vivo now flank either side of the hotel's sleek lobby. To the right, with its modern fireplace, plenteous banquette seating and multiple levels, Grillfire is the more upscale option. Coming in, you might feel a little self-conscious if you were wearing a football jersey and jeans.
To the left is Vivo, which has a come-as-you-are vibe. The main dining room has some effective touches like stone walls and elaborate incandescent lighting fixtures, but it doesn't feel fancy or intimidating. The casual service is friendly and solicitous.
Not everything about the restaurant's design works, though. Like many restaurants, Vivo has an open kitchen, but diners get less than thrilling views into service areas and storage areas. It's not so much a turnoff — these areas are clean — as it is weird.
I was expecting the food to be the kind of familiar, well-executed and comforting fare you can find in a well-oiled corporate operation. But Vivo's offerings were below the genre's modest standards.
I've gotten used to finding, for instance, a decent fried calamari appetizer almost anywhere. But Vivo's version offers mushy rings of calamari with a heavy, underseasoned coating. And it's not hard to find, or to make, a meatball appetizer that's more appealing than the very dry blend of veal, beef and prosciutto that Vivo served.
Sometimes, Vivo's menu mentioned an ingredient that was hard to locate on the plate but that would have made the difference, if it had been present, between a so-so dish and a good one.
In a pasta dish, adding a good amount of roasted tomatoes and some more fresh thyme to a bowl of lobster, shrimp and bucatini — that's the long, hollow spaghetti — would have kept every bite from being uniformly bland.
In some cases, like with a margherita pizza and a veal piccata, the preparation at Vivo was not what we were expecting. We're used to a margherita pizza with layers of fresh mozzarella, basil leaves and Roma tomatoes. Vivo's version was more like a conventional pizza where everything is melted together. It wasn't a bad pizza — we enjoyed the thin layer of oil on top — but it wasn't quite right. And the veal was just not good. The meat was tough and the lemon-caper sauce was far too mild.
Nick's Chicken — one of three menu items meant to be shared, family-style, among two or three people — would have been truly fine if everything, the chicken, potatoes and sausage, had been seasoned and roasted more expertly.
The best entree was seared tuna because it had been liberally coated with a garlic spread and sprinkled with parsley and anise seeds. It was nice to have some flavor on the table.
We never got truly frustrated at Vivo. We liked our server, who saw to our needs, and we loved one of the desserts, a toasted olive oil cake served with black mission figs and a Frangelico semifreddo, a firm ice cream. This was unusual, and very good.
Vivo should have more of these menu items that make diners feel engaged. And it should focus on brightening and polishing up its more conventional menu items.
Vivo Trattoria & Wine Bar
Rating: 1.5 stars
Where: 7795 Arundel Mills Blvd., Hanover
Contact: 410-799-7440, vivotrattoria.com
Open: Lunch Monday through Friday and dinner seven days a week
Prices: Appetizers: $6-$14; entrees: $15-$23
Food: Northern Italian specialties and pizzas
Service: Pleasant and helpful
Parking/accessibility: Free parking is available on surface lots and an adjacent garage
Children: There is not a children's menu, but the kitchen will accommodate children.
Noise level/televisions: Normal conversation is fine in the main dining rooms. Televisions in the bar area are visible from most of the dining room.
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The guys seem well organized and prepped with equipment even if some are greenhorns at the workings of it.
However a less well prepped indivitual or group of people might bargan everything to lose everything if they think there is easy money to be made in prospecting.
I personally I'm a woman who has been summer prospecting in Central BC most of my life and if I scraped together all the gold I have found I couldn't even buy a cup of coffee.
For the person on a shoestring budget without access to heavy equipment or a claim that they are approved to use it on I recomend staying home unless you love digging ditches. Because it is a lot of hard physical work.
I don't want to blow anyone's dream out of the water but just hope this series doesn't paint prospecting with rose colored glasses because it is not close to easy.
I do know that I will be watching each week to see if it is golden dreams or bust for the guys of Gold Rush Alaska.
Best of luck guys.
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You just can't be happy when you feel bad. Most people have troubling thoughts and emotions – mild or severe at times, or all the time. And they just keep coming whether you medicate, over-stimulate, or try to withdraw. What if all those heavy feelings held the secrets of your happiness? I have found that emotions are your friends, designed to tell you what is wrong, and what you need to do about it to get back to feeling good. This means you have within you all you need to solve your problems.


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With eyes sharper than any that have peered at Saturn before, the Cassini spacecraft has uncovered two moons, which may be the smallest bodies so far seen around the ringed planet.
The moons are approximately 3 kilometers (2 miles) and 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) across -- smaller than Boulder, Colo. The moons, located 194,000 kilometers (120,000 miles) and 211,000 kilometers (131,000 miles) from the planet's center, are between the orbits of Mimas and Enceladus. They are provisionally named S/2004 S1 and S/2004 S2. One of them, S/2004 S1, may be an object that had been spied in a single image taken by NASA's Voyager spacecraft 23 years ago, S/1981 S14, but was unconfirmed until now.
"One of our major objectives in returning to Saturn was to survey the entire system for new bodies," said Dr. Carolyn Porco, imaging team leader, Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. "It's really gratifying to know that among all the other fantastic discoveries we will make over the next four years, we can now add the confirmation of two new moons, unnoticed around Saturn for billions of years until now," she added.
The moons were first seen by Dr. Sebastien Charnoz, a planetary dynamicist working with Dr. Andre Brahic, imaging team member at the University of Paris. "Discovering these faint satellites was an exciting experience, especially the feeling of being the first person to see a new body of our solar system," said Charnoz. "I had looked for such objects for weeks while at my office in Paris, but it was only once on holiday, using my laptop, that my code eventually detected them. This tells me I should take more holidays," Charnoz said.
The smallest previously known moons around Saturn are about 20 kilometers (12 miles) across. Scientists expected that moons as small as S/2004 S1 and S/2004 S2 might be found within gaps in the rings and perhaps near the F ring, but they are surprised these small bodies are between two major moons. Small comets careening around the outer solar system would be expected to collide with small moons and break them to bits.
The fact that these moons exist where they do might provide limits on the number of small comets in the outer solar system, a quantity essential for understanding the Kuiper Belt of comets beyond Neptune and the cratering histories of the moons of the giant planets.
"A comet striking an inner moon of Saturn moves many times faster than a speeding bullet," said Dr. Luke Dones, an imaging team member from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. "If small, house-sized comets are common, these moons should have been blown apart many times by cometary impacts during the history of the solar system. The disrupted moon would form a ring, and then most of the material would eventually gather back together into a moon. However, if small comets are rare, as they seem to be in the Jupiter system, the new moons might have survived since the early days of the solar system," he added.
Moons surrounding the giant planets generally are not found where they originally formed because tidal forces from the planet can cause them to drift from their original locations. In drifting, they may sweep through locations where other moons disturb them, making their orbits eccentric or inclined relative to the planet's equator. One of the new moons might have undergone such an evolution.
Upcoming imaging sequences will scour the gaps in Saturn's rings in search of moons that are believed to be there. Meanwhile, Cassini scientists are eager to get a closer look, if at all possible, at their new finds. Porco said, "We are at this very moment looking to see what the best times are for retargeting. Hopefully, we haven't seen the last of them," she added.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. For images and information about the Cassini-Huygens missionon the Internet, visit: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini Images are also available at the Cassini imaging team Internet site: http://ciclops.org
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It was a long, hard fight, but after six years, the fight is over. A 6-year-old boy, whose battle with spinal muscular atrophy led his mother to organize an annual fundraising walk in Tuscaloosa, has died.
It was a long, hard fight, but after six years, the fight is over.
A 6-year-old boy, whose battle with spinal muscular atrophy led his mother to organize an annual fundraising walk in Tuscaloosa, has died.
Charles "Logan" Patrick died Dec. 22 at Children's of Alabama hospital in Birmingham.
"He loved the fight and we told him we'd keep fighting as long as he wanted," said his mother, Jennifer Patrick.
At 51⁄2 months old, Logan was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy Type 1, a genetic neuromuscular disease that destroys the nerves controlling voluntary muscle movement. With no cure or proven treatment, the young Northport resident was given a life expectancy of 1 to 2 years.
Not only did Logan recently celebrate his sixth birthday, his parents made sure he did all of the things that a young boy would want to do.
"He loved life, doing things, meeting people, being outside," Jennifer Patrick said. "He had such a gentle spirit, but yet a spunky spirit. He knew what he wanted and he was very persistent. He knew no hate, or the bad things of this world. All he knew was love."
Logan Patrick was admitted to Children's hospital on Dec. 12 and later was diagnosed with respiratory syncytial virus, a respiratory virus that infects the lungs and breathing passages. He started getting better after about a week, and Jennifer Patrick said they thought they would get to take him home, but then he developed pneumonia, had a partial collapse of his lung and developed another infection. His body was beginning to shut down, and Jennifer Patrick said they knew it was time to stop fighting. They made some molds of his hands and feet, and when they finished the last handprint, his heart rate started dropping rapidly. Logan Patrick died at 5:05 p.m.
"We tried everything, but the Lord was calling him home," Jennifer Patrick said. "We're going to miss him for sure, but we know he's in heaven and he doesn't have to suffer anymore."
Logan Patrick did a lot in his short life. He loved going to the beach, camping, tailgating at Alabama football games, going to school and attending church. He also enjoyed riding in golf carts and on boats, and he even played baseball with Miracle League of Tuscaloosa.
"He taught us all and inspired us so much," Jennifer Patrick said. "He taught us about strength, courage and hope. And he showed us that even if we were having a bad day, it wasn't as bad as we thought."
Over the years, his family has continued to fight the fight against SMA. His mother served as the vice president of Alabama Chapter of Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy and coordinator of the annual Walk-n-Roll to Cure, an event aimed to raise awareness about the disease and raise donations for research efforts being conducted to find a cure for SMA.
The Walk-n-Roll event was previously held in Helena, but Jennifer Patrick was instrumental in bringing the fundraiser to Tuscaloosa. While she has not had time to think about her future involvement with the event, she said she "feels like we will continue the walk, just to remember him."
"There are still kids fighting this horrible disease, day and night," she said. "We continue to hope and pray a cure is found for SMA so other families won't have to go through this."
Survivors include his parents, Charles "Jason" and Jennifer Patrick; and a sister, Landry Alice Patrick, all of Northport.
A service for Logan Patrick will be held at 2 p.m. today at First Wesleyan Church with pastor Joel Gorveatte and chaplain Ron Wilson officiating. Burial will follow in Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Families of SMA, 925 Busse Rd., Elk Grove Village, IL 60007, or at www.fsma.org.
"We've been so overwhelmed by all of the support and encouragement from family and friends and people we don't even know," said Jennifer Patrick. "We really appreciate all of the prayers."
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If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
-- Samuel Johnson --
What can I do? This loneliness is killing me, Britney Spears once said. Now I say amen to that.
I drown myself in work. That didn't work (pun intended).
I try love. Exercise. Movies. Hobbies. Reading. Writing. Food. Reading. Learning languages. Nothing worked.
Well, at least I laid some posts. A couple were golden. The rest were rubbish. It's OK.
I also went nature-watching a lot. Actually I did watched fire ants today and found them marching back and forth. It's actually impossible to know whether one ant in particular's heading home or work, except if there's food involved.
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A man has pleaded no contest to four counts of child neglect and one count of homicide in connection with the death of his 2-year-old son in 2011.
CRESTVIEW � A man has pleaded no contest to four counts of child neglect and one count of homicide in connection with the death of his 2-year-old son in 2011.
Grant Sherwin, 29, still faces one count of cruelty toward a child without great harm and 10 counts of child neglect for the alleged abuse of his son Logan and his twin sister.
Sherwin and his fiancee, Nicole Allen, were arrested Dec. 29, 2011, after Logan died at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola.
The day before, Crestview police responded to a 911 call from the couple�s home on Pinellas Drive in Crestview and found Logan unresponsive in his bed.
He was malnourished and had bruises on his feet, spinal column, forehead, lower legs and arms, according to reports. He had a bump on the top of his head and a cut on the inside of his lip.
According to court documents, Logan had suffered a �fractured skull, brain injury, and bruises and contusions,� from being hit.
Sherwin initially told officers that his son had fallen off the toilet and hit his head. Police found the toilet seat cover broken into three parts.
Sherwin later told police Logan had fallen and split his lip while playing in the yard, but continued to play.
Sherwin entered his no-contest plea Jan. 30, according to court records. He will be sentenced March 27.
Allen�s trial is scheduled for March 18. The 27-year-old faces 20 counts of child neglect, one count of aggravated child abuse by aggravated battery and one count of homicide.
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In a recent reply from the Treasury Select Committee to a question on the reintroduction of the Bradbury Pound, they stated that it is not on their agenda now and is not on any agenda they may have in the foreseeable future. You can read all about it on the British Constitution Group website.
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TMZ has learned ... Mel Gibson won't be able to spend a second with baby Lucia tomorrow on her first birthday, after being shut down by the judge.
Mel gets Lucia today but is supposed to return her to Oksana in the PM. Problem is ... Mel's primary nanny -- the one who takes the baby back and forth -- is sick, so Mel asked the judge for permission to return the kid on Saturday morning.
But team Oksana objected, arguing Mel has another nanny who is perfectly capable of transporting Lucia. And Oksana claimed in her legal papers she feels Mel already has too much visitation.
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My Current Views: Revision of Seche Vite, Helpful or Harmful
In 2011, I wrote a post about Seche Vite Topcoat, and whether it was harmful or helpful. I haven't blogged since January, 2012. I don't check on my blog often, but I am aware of the comments made and read them. So, I decided to address the comments in this post, and give an update on my views.
I've been debating for the past few months about how I should approach this. Since this post was written, I have made some changes in my lifestyle. I'm a lot more conscious of what I put into my body, and what I put on my body. For instance, I no longer eat foods that contain ingredients such as bht, bha, azodicarbonamide, and dyes such as yellow 5, yellow 6, to name a few. I'm just a lot more aware of what chemicals are put in products and I now choose to be proactive about what I purchase and how it affects my health. I'm not saying that I have been negatively affected by such products, but I feel better about myself when I attempt to live healthier.
In respects to the article, I hadn't read it in sometime. I really hoped I didn't give what seemed like an endorsement of Seche Vite. At the time, with the information I was given, I felt that the amount of toulene presented in the topcoat wasn't extremely harmful. And perhaps it isn't. I still haven't used Seche Vite, and now that I am more health conscious, there is no way I would use it, however miniscule the risk would be for adverse reactions.
I do have a couple of topcoats that I really like. Loreal's topcoat is really good, except that it got thick and goopy when there was about 1/4 left in bottle and wouldn't apply smoothly. Right now I'm using Nina Ultra Pro's Topcoat I found at Sally's and so far no complaints here.
Anyway, all that being said, I am not a healthcare professional. I'm not a scientist. This is a recreational blog. I'm just someone who adores nail polish and nail polish accessories (shout out King of the Hill)! I had some questions, found some answers, and thought I would share. My opinions change as my awareness grows. As always, please follow manufacturer instructions when using any product.
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To be transported to an idyllic location and not think about life's many challenges is an escape every hard working person hopes to experience – at least during the holidays. The trouble with most vacations is they start with finding and booking the right place, which becomes exponentially harder with a family's needs to consider. Wouldn't it be perfect to not have to think about where your next holiday will be spent? For timeshare owners, this ideal turns into a reality. This could be a good time to look into timeshare resale.
Timeshares allow buyers to become vacation owners without having to pay for the resort developer's high asking price and for sellers to find a reprieve from maintaining luxury properties. It's a beneficial transaction for both parties, which is why you'll find plenty of online resources offering resale of timeshares at various locations. From grand hotel rooms in major cities to cozy villas in luxury ski resorts, from vacation homes at world-class developments to cottages in island resorts, buyers and sellers are seeking and offering opportunities to use up relaxing times in relaxing spaces.
For buyers of timeshare resales, it's important to know what will come with your purchase. You'll want to know whether or not you'll be afforded the same sort of benefits and perks that are given to the owner of the timeshare. You'll want to clarify this with whoever is selling the timeshare to you. Another issue you'll want to check on is whether you'll be inheriting unpaid management fees from the seller. Use a reliable and licensed broker or agent to process your purchase to make sure you don't end up paying for outstanding fees.
Apart from knowing the benefits and fees attached to your purchase, make sure that the timeshare you buy will coincide with the days or weeks in which you'll want to use the room, villa, or cottage. Generally, the resale of a timeshare will come with the dates in which the place will be free to use. You'll also want to clarify if the weeks are fixed or if you can change dates with the owner.


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DescriptionGeorge, Lizzy and Ralph were just ordinary Americans, until an experiment went wrong, turning them into a Gorilla, Lizard and Werewolf respectively. Following this, the three of them plan to go round destroying buildings, and up to 3 human players can join in.
Smashing at the edges of the buildings for long enough will make them collapse. The police and military are after you, and will shoot at you, so try to destroy them (failing that, you can avoid the bullets). You will need to eat regularly, with things like plants on offer, to avoid shrinking back to being human.
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Eating corpsesWhen one of your fellow players has been killed and drops back to the lowly state of human, eat him. You can continue to eat from this spot and fully revitalize yourself. (Make sure to quickly get back to this spot after destroying the current city, so that you can enter the next with full health!)
Number of playable character differencesThe game originally had three characters: George (King Kong), Lizzie (Godzilla) and Ralph (Wolfman). But the Atari Lynx version featured a fourth character named Lester, a giant Ratman, who could join in on the fun since the Lynx had 4-player support. By the same token, the NES version of the game only features George and Lizzie.
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2012 Cross Country: Competed in four races… Had season best finish at Tennessee Tech Invite finishing 28th in 29:36.41… Finished 79th at the Belmont Opener… Cplaced 105th at the Vanderbilt Invite in 30:41.30…
2011 Cross Country: Competed in six meets… Opened his Lipscomb career at the Belmont Opener with a 17:56.06s mark, finishing 84th… Season-best 5K mark came at the Powerade Invitational, where he finished 34th with a 17:07s run… Finished sixth at the Chattanooga Cross Country Festival with a 29:57.59s run… Season-best 8K mark came in the silver race of the Louisville Cross Country Classic; he finished 59th with a 27:29.21s mark.
2011 Track: Competed in eight meets... Finished third in the mile run at the TSU Invitational with a 4:33.57s mark... Put together a personal-best 4:33.57s run in the mile at the A-Sun Indoor Championships, finishing 13th... Took a seventh-place finish in the 3000m steeplechase at the BSC Invitational with a 10:29.17s run... Set a personal-best in the 800m run at the Vanderbilt Black and Gold, finishing 37th after a 2:03.57s run.
Prep: Ran for Ron Rubio at Harding Academy... Three-time state championships runner-up, won the state title in his senior season and led Harding to a third-place team finish... Team was runner-up from 2007-10... All-state in 2009 and 2010... Personal-best 16:51 in the five-kilometer... In addition to cross country and track and field, competed in soccer (2007-10), bowling (2007-08) and wrestling (2007-08).
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Hey, America, here's a new year's resolution for you: Get healthier soon — or risk losing what's left of your manufacturing base and economic might. That was the pre-holiday message delivered to the City Club of Cleveland by the Cleveland Clinic's wellness chief, Dr. Michael Roizen. The economic angle is the latest twist on the doc's gospel of wellness as he continues his quest to convince Americans that they're giving up their own well-being by giving in to bad foods, cigarettes and immobilizing couches. "I'm latching on to the economics because that's one of the things that drove me to do this in the first place," Dr. Roizen told Crain's in explaining his fixation with ways to fix the nation's health. The well-known physician has been making a name for himself since 1999, when he published the first of six best-selling books on health and wellness. Since then, he's become a friend and regular TV guest of Oprah Winfrey and has been named chairman of the Clinic's Wellness Institute. Dr. Roizen intends to put all that fame to work. He said it's important to use his pulpit to ramp up his wellness message — not just for the health of individuals, but for the future and security of the United States itself. Dr. Roizen said it's a matter of simple economics. The world's employers are going to go where the cost of doing business is the least, he says, and health care is a major cost. "We're at a turning point," Dr. Roizen said. "We will lose more than manufacturing. We will lose service (jobs), we will lose everything that we know of, because we are twice as expensive as Europe, three times Asia — and that gap, the absolute percentage, is at a point where we won't be able to keep jobs here." What's more, nations with the lowest health care costs not only will attract more employers, they'll have more money for infrastructure, education, research and everything else that enables economic growth. The United States simply can't afford to allow its health care costs to continue climbing if the country is going to maintain its stature in the world, Dr. Roizen said.
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Cleveland Clinic wellness chief urges Americans to take
care of their bodies or risk economic ills
Some U.S. companies are taking heed, including Cleveland-based diversified manufacturer Eaton Corp., which is led by chairman and CEO Alexander "Sandy" Cutler, a devotee of Dr. Roizen. Eaton has established its own internal wellness program to reduce health care costs, said Jim McGill, its executive vice president of human resources. "The trend for medical and health care inflation is running between 8% and 10% a year," Mr. McGill said. "If you just do the math, we know what we're spending today, and at a 7% to 9% growth rate, our health care costs are doubling about every eight years. ... If we could just cut that in half, it would mean millions and millions (of dollars) for Eaton." Although Eaton is only about a year into its wellness program, Mr. McGill said the company already is seeing promising results. More than half of Eaton's smokers have signed up for a smoking cessation program, which the company offers through the Cleveland Clinic. In addition, 75% of Eaton's 22,000 North American employees have entered their health data — critical numbers, such as their cholesterol levels — into an online health-improvement program offered by WebMD. In return, they earn a discount on their health insurance premiums through Eaton. Eaton also has revamped its cafeterias to carry more healthy food, created fitness challenges between Eaton employee groups and offers coaching on diet and exercise. Eaton's employees today are about as healthy as the U.S. population as a whole, Mr. McGill said, but the company wants them to be healthier than average. Achieving that goal would benefit Eaton in a number of ways. It would lower health care costs for employees, increase productivity and reduce the cost of providing medical benefits for today's employees when they retire later. Eaton is doing the right things, but more companies and the nation as a whole need to take up the matter with similar seriousness, or trouble is on the horizon, Dr. Roizen said. The nation's population has become much fatter in just the last 10 or 15 years, he noted. Diabetes follows obesity by about 17 years, and heart disease by about 25, he said. If we don't slim down, we will have far more people with those and other weight-related problems, Dr. Roizen said.
However, Dr. Roizen said almost all the nation's health problems are easily reversible if people can be convinced to do just four things: Eat better, exercise, stop smoking and reduce their stress levels. Easier said than done, perhaps, but Dr. Roizen said there's no choice other than to try. The nation must address the wellness issue with the same seriousness that it once addressed diseases such as polio. That's another reason he says he enlists the help of people such as Ms. Winfrey — to get his message in front of more people. "Do you know who cured polio?" Dr. Roizen asks. "Elvis cured polio. They had the vaccine, but it wasn't until the nation saw Elvis get a vaccine that everyone else signed up." This time around, though, the nation might get the message from a doctor with rock star status.


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What Is HOIC?
Anonymous is on a destruction spree lately—after Megaupload was killed, their reaction was swift and powerful. They made it look easy—and that's because thanks to the HOIC (High Orbit Ion Cannon), it is. Here's the newest hacker superweapon.
It's the newest way Anonymous is attacking websites...
Anonymous relies on the mob, corralled by a vanguard of elites. It may have a serious brain trust at the top, but Anonymous' power—like any other popular movement—lies in its ability to arm the unskilled. When Anon wants to knock down a website, it organizes a heap of followers around one target, armed with software (HOIC) that overloads a server with fake visitors—a simulated flood of malicious traffic that pushes a site to its breaking point. And once a website is down, this software keeps it down.
...and is basically the old LOIC...
Last year it was all about the Low Orbit Ion Cannon—an easy to use tool preferred by 4chan and Anonymous miscreants who wanted to attack websites. The LOIC made hacking so easy, all you needed was fingers, eyeballs, and a basic understanding of some written language:
The idea behind LOIC is that it can allow you to participate in attacks even if you've no clue how to hack. Just download a copy of LOIC (available for Windows, Mac, and Linux!), punch in the target information like a URL or an IP address and zap.
It was the hacking equivalent of microwaving your dinner. Now, it's evolved and pumped way the hell up.
...that is still just as easy to use...
A child could use the HOIC—and that's what makes it so dangerous. Pretty much anyone with eyeballs and a bone to pick can find HOIC via Google, install it in a couple of minutes, and be ready to go. All you need to do is type in a target website and click fire.
...but blasts websites better than ever...
The HOIC has some diabolical tricks up its sleeve. First, it cranks out more dummy traffic—meant to overwhelm and crash a server with more fake "visitors" than it can handle—with a magnitude that outstrips anything the LOIC was capable of: one Anon told me he's able to fire off as much as 2 MB per second using HOIC. Part of the supercharging comes from the use of "boosters"—custom scripts that spread malicious traffic across a range of target sub-pages, rather than just one. For example: instead of hitting EvilSite.com, a booster will knock EvilSite.com/about.html, EvilSite.com/news.html, etc, all forged to look like the traffic is coming from a variety of spots. Think shotgun versus pistol.
...while keeping Anonymous safe(r).
"Most good firewalls have been written to block loic attacks," another Anon tells me, owing to the fact that it's been a 4chan standby for years. HOIC, on the other hand, is a newer weapon, and sites are less likely to be prepared for it. The use of boosters also confuses online defenses, turning a focused, easy to trace beam into an overwhelming scattershot. But HOIC can't turn any Anon into a lone wolf—an operative who actively uses the newest cannon said at least 50 users are necessary to give their targeted site enough of a walloping to take it down and keep it down.
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Aliza's Baking Equipment Recommendations (from Starting with Ingredients: Baking)
Cast-Aluminum Bundt Pans
I have two plain cast-aluminum Bundt pans, which I much prefer to the newer dark nonstick coated pans, which tend to yield cakes with an overly dark crust. My pans are at least 20 years old and show no sign of wear at all. Go to www.nordicware.com to see all their offerings. I use their Original Bundt Pan in the 12-cup size.
Cast-Iron Skillet
A 9-inch cast-iron skillet or (for a splurge) I prefer Wagner for cast-iron ware, simply because I find their shapes to be more elegant and useful. Go to www.wagnerware.com for more information and to order. I sometimes find good, seasoned (though usually slightly rusty) cast-iron skillets at yard sales and flea markets. After using a cast-iron skillet, rinse it out and then immediately wipe it dry. In the beginning, you'll need to rub the pan with a thin coating of oil to protect it. After you've used it awhile, the pan will begin to get seasoned and won't need this step.
Chicago Metallic Loaf and Muffins Tins
For loaf pans and muffin tins, I prefer the heavy-duty ones made by Chicago Metallic in many sizes. These pans never wear out, they don't warp, and are an all-around pleasure to use. I mostly use a standard, medium, or 1-pound loaf pan, 81/2 x 41/2-inches and prefer one that is light aluminum not dark. This company's 13 x 9-inch baking pans are also excellent. Go to www.cmbakeware.com for a complete listing. Their products are available online from www.amazon.com and from www.chefscatalogue.com.
Culinary Butane Torch
It's a whole lot easier to brown a meringue topping or glaze a crème brûlée with a culinary butane torch. I used to use a larger propane torch of the type found at hardware stores. Now, I go for the smaller, easier to use and control torch that uses the same can of butane fuel made for the portable burner called a Cassette Feu. Buy the top, which fits on to a standard can from www.surfasonline.com.
Disher or Ice Cream Scoop
I use several sizes of universal stainless steel dishers, available at many good cookware stores, to quickly scoop even-sized portions of cookie batter. Look for a complete line of beautifully made Vollrath universal dishers at www.surfasonline.com, which lists the size (based on the number of scoops per quart) and the actual contents of each scoop by the ounce. Because I am left-handed, I avoid the type of disher where you must use a tab built for righties to squeeze the scoop. There are knock-off inexpensive scoops for sale that I've found break much too quickly to be worth their lower price.
Disposable Pastry Bags
I have a 100-bag roll of plastic disposable pastry bags that I find quite useful. In Europe, for good reason, it is illegal to use cloth reusable pastry bags, because they are almost impossible to clean thoroughly. You can buy a roll of 100 (12-inch) disposable bags from www.surfasonline.com for about $15.00. An alternative is to use a quart or gallon-sized ziplock freezer bag (heavier than the storage bags) and cut out the corner to the correct size.
Enameled Cast-Iron Dutch Oven
An enameled cast-iron pot, such as a 51/2-quart Le Creuset casserole, is really useful for baking crusty bread. I love the 6-quart Italian Essentials pot made by Copco for Mario Batali. For product information go to at www.italiankitchenstore.com. It is available at www.chefsresource.com for about $100, quite a bit less than the equivalent made by Le Creuset. I found the persimmon color irresistible as I'm a sucker for all things orange (also Batali's signature color, although I'd been wearing orange clogs for years before I saw his). See the recipe for Greek Country Barley Bread on page 000.
Foley Food Mill
For straining fruit purees, I use a 20-year-old Foley food mill that never seems to wear out. For finer straining, such as removing the seeds from a raspberry puree, I put the purée through a fine metal China cap (of a kind and quality that is hard to find nowadays) or a fine wire sieve.
Food Processor
The larger the capacity, the better. I have both an older commercial R2 model and a smaller home Kitchen Aid food processor. I've seen the R2 for sale on E-Bay for about $800, which is admittedly a lot of money. With its powerful motor, it will, however, last a lifetime. I find the food processor to be indispensable in baking, for making doughs, grinding nuts, chopping chocolate to fine bits for easier melting, smoothing out pastry creams, mixing fillings like frangipane almond filling, and for chopping praline chunks into small bits.
French Composite Plastic Cutters
I have switched from the old-time tinned cookie cutters, which tend to rust, stainless cutters, which tend to stick, and copper cutters, which are great but high-priced, to the newer Exoglass cutters from France. These strong, sharp, and rigid composite plastic cutters produce even cuts and prevent rust and bacteria growth. They are also heat resistant and dishwasher safe. Buy the cutters from Previn in Philadelphia, a great resource for serious chefs looking for the best in European and American cookware and bakeware (www.previninc.com)
Immersion Blender
This is a handy tool for smoothing out lumpy pastry cream and pureeing fruits to sauce. Buy the largest one you can find. Mine is a Kitchen Aid model that also comes with a handy whisk attachment, useful for beating small amounts of heavy cream or egg whites.
Half-Sheet Pans
Also known as bun pans, these heavy-duty 18 x 13-inch pans are a standard in my kitchen. They bake evenly, don't warp, have a bigger yield, and hold a standard silicone baking mat. I couldn't bake without them. Buy them at any restaurant supply store or from many online suppliers. Note that some older ovens may not be large enough for this pan. Frustratingly for this baker, my old ovens were too small for this size pan. Luckily, my newer standard American oven is fine, as are most ovens produced today for the home.
Kitchen-Aid Mixer
For mixing, I use my trusty 5-quart Kitchen-Aid mixer, the NSF-approved Pro Model, which has a somewhat more heavy-duty motor. For back-up and for my wonderful assistant, Betty Kaplan, we worked with my 25-year old Kitchen-Aid K5A mixer, which takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I also invested in an extra bowl, making it much easier and faster for separated egg cake batters. I use the meat grinder attachment to grind the fruit and nut filling for cookies like the Cuccidati (page 000) and for chunky salsas. It is a better choice than the food processor, which tends to chop things into a paste. Instead, the mixture grinds into small, evenly-sized chunks.
Kitchen Scissors
I use my heavy-duty (that word again) red scissors for all sorts of tasks in the kitchen, from cutting parchment paper to fit to trimming off the ends of disposable pastry bags or ziplock bags to fit a pastry tip.
Knife Sharpener
Although many professional chefs prefer using an old-fashioned three-sided stone for sharpening, I've found that I'm not particularly skilled at doing this, so I've become a big fan of the knife sharpener made by Chef's Choice. Go to www.chefschoice.com to see their different models. I have the top-of-the-line electric pro model, but then I sharpen a lot of knives. The smaller, electric home model 120 that comes in different colors will probably work fine for you.
Magic Line Cake Pans
For cake pans, I prefer the removable-bottom spun aluminum pans made by Magic Line rather than springform pans, because there is nothing to break or lose here. I mostly use 9-inch cake pans though there are a few recipes that call for 8- or 10-inch pans. The pans are nice and heavy-duty so they bake cakes evenly and never wear out. They are available from many online retailers, including Amazon and Target.
Microplane Zester
This is an indispensable tool for me, because I use aromatic citrus zests in so much of my baking. See page 000 for more information.
Natural Bristle Brushes
It is best to have a few sturdy brushes. While those made with silicone bristles are easier to clean and don't break, they don't work nearly as well as the old-fashioned brushes made with natural bristles. Avoid brushes with nylon bristles, which will melt instantly if they get too hot. I find that a 11/2-inch brush size is the most useful.
Parchment and Wax Paper
Both these baker's aids are useful in the kitchen, although now that I've been using my Silpat silicone mats, I don't use nearly as much parchment paper. It is useful for baking things like bar cookies that you'll want to cut into individual portions, because you can't cut on the silicone mats. Wax paper is an old stalwart that works for many of the same applications.
Ring or Tube Pan
Some dense cakes bake up better in a ring or tube pan that is 10-inches in diameter. If you use a standard round pan, the outer portion will get overdone before the inner portion is ready. As always, I recommend buying the heaviest, best-made pan you can find. Cheap pans, especially those with spring clips will break all too quickly. Because it seems that plain tube pans are not that common anymore, you may substitute a 10-inch Bundt pan, an angel food pan, or a Turk's head mold traditionally used to make Kugelhopf cakes.
Rolling Pin
Make rolling doughs easier and more effective by choosing a heavy rolling pin. I prefer my well-seasoned straight French wooden rolling pin to the standard American ball-bearing rolling pin with handles on the ends, because I get a better feel of the dough being worked. This is purely a matter of taste. Use whatever works best for you. For an inexpensive 201/2-inch French pin similar to the one I use made from hard birch or maple, go to www.fantes.com, which has a large selection of rolling pins with useful explanations of the different types.
To roll out dough, I invested in a 24 x 18-inch Roul-Pat, a large fiberglass-strengthened silicone mat perfect for rolling as absolutely nothing sticks to it. It is the same material in a larger size as the Silpat silicone baking mats so popular among professional pastry chefs and now available in half sheet pan size for home use. The only drawback here is that you can't cut the dough on the mat.
Sharp Chef's Knife
I use several different knives, all about 8-inches in length, although probably my favorite is made by the Japanese company, Mac Knives (www.macknife.com) and has an 81/2-inch blade. It is perfectly balanced, easy to sharpen, and not overly heavy. I find that for smaller hands, it's easier to control a knife of this size than a standard 10-inch chef's knife.
A sharp paring knife for paring fruits and vegetables with a 2- to 3-inch blade is most useful.
Silicone Spatulas
The rubber spatula is on the short list of indispensable tools invented in America (another is the swivel peeler). Note that rubber spatulas will melt when immersed in hot liquids, while those made from silicone will not. I have at least half a dozen in both the smaller and the larger size, which are perfect for delicate folding and to scrape every last bit of batter out of the bowl (although dedicated bowl-lickers may not be too happy about this).
Silpat Silicone Mats
These are the original silicone mats from France that fit a standard half sheet pan. You'll never need to butter and flour a pan again! There are other companies making silicone mats but I haven't liked any of the other ones I've used nearly as much. Buy the half sheet pan size mat from Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Buy one that fits a 15 x 10-inch jelly roll pan at www.surlatable.com. Just be careful never to cut on the mat (as I found out the hard way the first time I used mine).
Stainless-Steel Bowls
I prefer using stainless steel bowls, again, the heavier the better, and they'll last forever. You can place a stainless steel bowl on top of a pot full of boiling water when making heated egg batters for sponge cakes. You can quickly cool hot fillings over a second bowl filled with ice and water. I have at least a dozen different sizes of bowls, though you can probably make do with three of four. My favorite is an old (at least 30 years) 13-quart rolled edge stainless steel bowl made by Vollrath, which is the perfect size and shape for folding together light cake batters like angel food cake. There are many cheap, light stainless steel bowls now coming in from China and India, which will tend to quickly get dented and warped, so I would avoid them. Go to www.vollrathco.com to see their listing of American-made heavy-duty stainless steel bowls. Buy a good selection of the bowls online from www.surfasonline.com.
Thermapen Instant-Read Thermometer
The Thermapen, a wonderful instant-read thermometer, can be used for custards, caramel, and deep-frying and to test whether bread is done. (See page 000 for more information or go to www.thermoworks.com).
I use whisks for many tasks when baking: whisking together the dry ingredients so they are evenly combined (this works as well as sifting unless you are combining very light cake flour, starches, or cocoa, which tends to form lumps); lightly beating eggs and sugar when making custards and pastry creams, where you don't need to incorporate air but just need to combine them evenly; combining melted and unmelted chocolate bits so the hard bits melt evenly; beating air into sponge cake batter as it is heating over steaming water; and many other tasks. Invest in several different sizes of sturdy, well-made whisks. It is worthwhile to buy one large balloon whisk to incorporate as much air as possible when making sponge cakes.
Wire Cooking Racks
It's best to buy several stainless steel wire racks for cooling pans of cookies and cakes. If you get the heavy-duty type, they will last a lifetime. I also use the racks to drain deep-fried foods, placing the rack over a pan to catch the drips. This way I can put the pan containing the drained foods right into a low (200°F) oven to keep warm while I fry up the rest of the batch. Because there is air circulation all around, the fried bits don't get soggy as the bottoms do if they are drained on paper.


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PG&E says workers lied about inspections
Utility suspects that workers lied about performing safety checks on underground electrical equipment
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is rushing to check more than 1,500 pieces of underground electrical equipment in the Bay Area for possible safety hazards, after discovering that legally required inspections intended to head off disastrous accidents may not have been performed, The Chronicle has learned.
PG&E has fired or suspended eight company employees and 11 contract workers who said they had inspected equipment but may have failed to do so, utility officials have told state regulators. The company suspects that some of the workers lied and says the checks supposedly performed by others are impossible to verify.
The company issued a statement Thursday saying it expects its workers and contractors "to properly perform and document all inspections they are assigned."
PG&E has conducted "thorough investigations to determine how widespread the issue was, and then re-inspected all of the facilities inspected by employees and contractors whose work was questioned," the statement said.
Under California law, PG&E must conduct inspections every three years of all underground enclosures used to house cables, transformers and switches. Some of the equipment is in large vaults that can be entered, and some is in smaller enclosures known as hand holes.
Workers conducting the inspections are supposed to test equipment and examine it for damage such as corrosion that can lead to blackouts, fires and explosions.
Underground blasts
PG&E has experienced a string of explosions and fires in underground vaults in San Francisco, including a corrosion-related 2005 blast in a vault near Union Square that sent a manhole cover hurtling 30 feet and seriously injured a passer-by.
Most of the equipment that PG&E is now rushing to check is in southern Alameda County and the South Bay, where the first of the possibly fraudulent inspections came to light in 2010.
PG&E officials say an employee tipped supervisors that a colleague was certifying underground electrical switches and transformers in the San Jose area as safe without ever inspecting them. A probe of the accusation has led to the dismissals or suspensions of 14 workers and the finding that about two dozen inspections had not been carried out and another 50 were suspect, PG&E said.
A systemwide follow-up found another seven enclosures outside San Jose that workers had certified as safe but which in fact had not been opened. All that equipment was inspected by 2011, PG&E said.
In June of this year, however, PG&E quietly told the California Public Utilities Commission that questions about inspections were far more widespread than company officials originally feared.
PG&E compliance manager Jadwindar Singh told the commission that the company had identified 401 inspections that it suspects were not carried out as advertised in the San Jose division, which includes Gilroy, Morgan Hill and Milpitas. PG&E said it had fired one contract worker for allegedly failing to make the inspections and lying about it.
In October, the utilities commission cited PG&E for not having carried out those inspections. The citation would not carry fines unless the commission orders a formal investigation, which it has not done.
Doubts about 1,180 checks
Also in October, PG&E revealed it had examined the work of all 28 inspectors for an unidentified contractor and concluded that there were doubts about whether another 1,180 checks of underground equipment had actually been done.
Those inspections were supposed to have been made by crews assigned to PG&E's San Jose Division and the Mission Division, which includes Newark, Livermore and San Ramon.
PG&E's Singh said the company thinks that a majority of the inspections were carried out, but that a sample audit found that four contract workers had failed to mark a number of pieces of equipment as having been inspected. As a result, he said, PG&E is assuming that none of the inspections were done.
PG&E hired 48 additional inspectors and began checks that it hopes to have finished by the end of the year. Andrew Souvall, a spokesman for the company, said the inspections have not found anything troublesome so far.
Mike Danko, an attorney who won a confidential settlement from PG&E in connection with the 2005 explosion in San Francisco, said the company had maintained that its workers inspected the underground vault not long before the blast. The explosion severely burned Danko's client, Lisa Nash, and the manhole cover hit her in the elbow.
Danko questioned whether an inspection had actually been performed, saying equipment in the vault turned out to have been badly corroded by a water leak.
"PG&E has a long history, both in San Francisco and the East Bay, of exploding underground transformers," he said. "To me, it's just outrageous. ... It makes me wonder whether the inspections ever get done."
Jaxon Van Derbeken is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com