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A few years' ago I was an eager participant to the Daring Baker's food blogging monthly event. It has now morphed into a Daring Kitchen which includes the Daring Cooks challenge. Well, I say the more the merrier! I wanted to get going again after a few years absence but since my big oven conked out months before, all I could participate in is the Daring Cooks challenge.
I love this month's one, deboning a whole chicken. I've always wanted to learn how to do it but always beaten back by procastination. So this kind of dare is the very thing to spur me on. This particular technique of Jacques Pepin, is the simpler one since the back of the chicken is cut open. Next time I hope to learn the more tricky way of deboning poultry without cutting the skin which is the one used in the Filipino chicken relleno or chicken gallantina.
How did I fare? Well, I watched the video at least three times to remember the techniques and the order of the steps. Going back and forth to the computer while my hands are soiled is not something I planned on doing. So after memorizing the process, the deboning itself was quite straight forward. It's the sliminess that I found difficult at times usually when I have to grab the bones. But other than that I must say it went quite well. What I found tricky was the tying of the string! I can't make it 'link' to one another. So I had to refer to the end of the video and had to see it several times. Jacques did it very quickly and I didn't notice at first that he turned his hand to twist the string!
I didn't make the sauce in the recipe and instead used my usual gravy one but included it here in case I'll have the chance to make it next time around. The stuffed, bound and tied chicken was brushed with melted butter and sprinkled with a little salt and pepper then roasted. I served this for our Easter family dinner and it went down quite well. There's something about slicing so easily into that chicken without worrying about bones that makes this so appealing. I'm definitely doing this again.
Ballotine of Chicken
1 whole chicken (about 1.8 kg) - deboned
1/4 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Red Rice Stuffing or Spinach, Cheese, and Bread Stuffing (see below)
*Gravy Sauce:
1/3 cup water
1/2 cup dry red wine or chicken stock
1/2 cup diced celery stalk
1 small onion - diced
1/3 cup diced carrot
1/2 tsp potato starch or cornstarch/cornflour dissolved in 1 Tbsp water
1 Tbsp dark soy sauce
1 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley
melted butter
- Preheat oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/400°F/gas mark 6.
- Lay the deboned chicken skin side down and sprinkle the salt and pepper.
- Spread the cooled stuffing mixture evenly over the chicken - stuffing the legs, too. If using the spinach stuffing, sprinkle the cheese and bread cubes on top of the spinach.
- Roll the chicken up, tie it with kitchen string, brush with melted butter and place in a roasting pan.
- Roast in the oven for about 45 mins - 1 hour or until the temperature in the centre of the chicken ballotine is 70°-74°C/160°-165°F. Check the chicken midway through the roasting time to see if it is browning too much in which case you can reduce the temperature to 190°C/fan 170°C/375°F/gas mark 5.
- Remove from oven and lift from pan into a serving platter. Let rest for at about 10 minutes before serving.
*For the gravy sauce:
- Skim off and discard most of the fat from the drippings in the pan. Add water and wine (or stock) to deglaze the pan, and heat over medium heat, stirring to loosen and melt the solidified juices.
- Strain the juices into a saucepan. Add the celery, onion and carrot. Bring to a boil in high heat. Cover, reduce the heat to low and boil gently for 5 minutes.
- Stir in the dissolved potato starch and soy sauce. Bring back to boil while stirring to thicken it. Remove from the heat.
Red Rice Stuffing
115 g [1/2 cup] Wehani rice
300 ml [1 1/4 cups] chicken or vegetable stock
1/4 tsp sea salt
15 g [1/2 cup] dried mushrooms (such as porcini) - rinsed and broken into pieces
1 cup chopped leek (white part)
1 onion - chopped
1 Tbsp olive oil
60 ml [1/4 cup] water
- Combine the rice, stock, salt and dried mushrooms in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce the heat to low. Cook for 1 hour or until the rice is tender. Set the rice aside in the pan, uncovered.
- In another saucepan, combine the leek, onion, oil and water and bring to boil. Cover, reduce the heat, and cook in gentle heat for 5 minutes. Remove the lid and continue to cook until all the water is gone.
- Add the rice, mix well and let cool to room temperature.
Spinach, Cheese, and Bread Stuffing
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp finely chopped garlic
140 g baby spinach leaves
1/4 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 cup grated Gruyere or matured cheddar or mozzarella cheese
1 1/2 cups cubed bread
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan or skillet. Add the garlic, spinach, salt, and pepper. Cook for 1 minute or until the spinach is wilted.
- Transfer to a sieve set over a bowl. Drain and let cool to room temperature.


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What You Will Learn
• 6rd technology description
• 6rd deployment scenarios
• Cisco IOS® Software configuration for 6rd
Overview of 6rd Operation
Figure 1. Overview of 6rd Operation
Customer Edge Router
Border Relay Router
6rd Operation Details
Figure 2.
• The 6rd CE LAN-side interface carries traffic to and from IPv6 hosts.
• The multipoint tunnel interface carries tunnel encapsulated traffic to and from IPv6 hosts.
• The encapsulation used for the 6rd tunnel is a direct IPv6-in-IPv4 encapsulation. The IPv4 protocol field is set to Protocol 41.
6rd Delegated Prefix
• An IPv6 prefix selected by the service provider to be the common 6rd service provider prefix for the given 6rd deployment
• An assigned IPv4 address for the CE router; this address can be global or private, and 6rd does not have to use all 32 bits of the IPv4 address (as explained later in this document)
Figure 3. Delegated Prefix Example
• The service provider-selected prefix is 2001:DB8::/32.
• Each 6rd CE router uses an IPv4 address from the 10.0.0.0/8 block. In 6rd you can embed fewer than 32 bits of the IPv4 address in the 6rd delegated prefix. This action is made possible by the introduction of the following two concepts:
– IPv4 common prefix: All the 6rd CE routers and the BR router in the 6rd domain can share a common IPv4 prefix for their IPv4 address blocks. This common prefix is provisioned to all nodes in the 6rd domain and therefore need not be carried in the IPv6 destination to identify a tunnel endpoint. In the example in Figure 3, the IPv4 common prefix is 10.0.0.0/8.
– IPv4 common suffix: All the 6rd CE routers and the BR router can agree on a common tail portion of the IPv4 address to identify a tunnel endpoint. For instance, in this example, suppose that the IPv4 common suffix is 0.0.0.1/8. This suffix implies that the following tunnel transport endpoints will be used (on the CE router, this address is typically the IPv4 address on the 6rd CE WAN-side interface, which is used as the tunnel source):
• The number of bits in the IPv4 address blocks that are unique-that is, not common to the 6rd CE routers and BR router in a domain can be calculated as follows:
(32 bits)-(IPv4 common prefix length)-(IPv4 common suffix length)
In the preceding example, the value would be:
32 - 16 - 8 = 8.
These 8 bits need to be embedded in the 6rd delegated prefix.
• The 6rd delegated prefix length therefore, is the sum of the service provider-selected prefix length and the number of bits in the IPv4 address blocks that are not common to the 6rd CE routers and BR router in a domain: In the preceding example, the length is:
32 + 8 = 40
• The 6rd parameters are shown in Table 1.
Table 1.
Service provider prefix
IPv4 common prefix
IPv4 common suffix
CE1: Delegated 6rd prefix
CE2: Delegated 6rd prefix
BR: Delegated 6rd prefix
CE1 (IPv4) tunnel transport source
CE2 (IPv4) tunnel transport source
BR (IPv4) tunnel transport source
Figure 4.
6rd Address Tunnel Endpoint Determination
• Determine the number of bits of the IPv4 address carried in the IPv6 header, as follows:
• Determine the position of those bits in the IPv6 header. Figure 4 shows the 6rd domain prefix length.
Figure 5. IPv4 Address Bits in 6rd IPv6 Address Using CE1 as the Example
• Extract the bits of the IPv4 address carried in the IPv6 destination address header. This extraction can be performed now that the 6rd domain address and the length of the common prefix is known.
• Start with the IPv4 common prefix, then append the bits extracted from the IPv6 header, and then append the IPv4 common suffix (Figure 6).
Figure 6. IPv4 Destination Address
• The number of bits carried in the IPv6 header is:
(32 bits) - (IPv4 common prefix length) - (IPv4 common suffix length)
Here, the value is:
32 - 16 - 8 = 8
• Determine the location of those bits in the IPv6 header. This is the 6rd domain prefix length:
• Extract the bits of the IPv4 address carried in the IPv6 header. This extraction can be performed now that you know the location and the length. The result is a binary value between the bits 33 and 40 for 8 bits, the example shown here:
Extracting 8 bits from the bit 32 in 2001:DB8:0100::11 yields hexadecimal 01 (IPv6 addresses are hexadecimal).
The binary value is 00000001, which is 1 in the decimal numbering system.
• To reconstruct the address of the remote 6rd CE router, start with the IPv4 common prefix, then append the bits extracted from the IPv6 header, and then append the IPv4 common suffix.
The result is 10.1.1.1, which is the address for CE1
Routing Considerations
Lifecycle of a 6rd Packet
Figure 7. 6rd Packet Lifecycle
CE to CE
Figure 8. CE to CE
CE to IPv6 Internet
IPv6 Internet to CE
Figure 9. IPv6 Internet to CE
• 6rd prefix: This is the common prefix that is used throughout the 6rd domain and that determines whether a packet is targeted at a destination inside or outside the 6rd domain.
• 6rd prefix length: This parameter provides information about the value bits in the 6rd prefix.
• IPv4 mask length: This parameter specifies how many bits are common in all 6rd CE and BR router IPv4 addresses, and therefore can be compressed within the 6rd prefix for the site. Within Cisco IOS Software, it is possible to compress bits from both the IPv4 prefix and suffix.
• BR IPv4 address: This parameter specifies the IPv4 address to use as a tunnel destination or source address for 6rd tunnels.
6rd Basic Configuration Guidelines
Interface Command Line
• This command can be configured only on a tunnel interface.
• This command specifies that the tunnel is to be used for 6rd.
• This command is mandatory for the operation of 6rd.
• This command specifies the common IPv6 prefix.
• The length here indicates the position of the IPv4 address in the 6rd delegated prefix and payload destination.
• The tunnel line state of a 6rd tunnel will stay down until this command is configured.
• Configuring a prefix length of 0 is equivalent to removing this command.
• This command is optional for the operation of 6rd.
• This command specifies the most significant bits and least significant bits of the IPv4 transport address (that is, the tunnel source) that are common to all the 6rd routers in a domain.
• The valid range is from 0 to 31. The sum of the IPv4 prefix length and the IPv4 suffix length cannot exceed 31.
• If this command is not configured and the 6rd IPv6 prefix is configured, the system will use 0 as the default.
Show Command Line
This command can be used to display 6rd-related information about a tunnel. If an interface is not specified, information about all the 6rd tunnels on the router will be displayed.
This command translates a 6rd IPv6 prefix to the corresponding IPv4 endpoint. It uses the tunnel 6rd parameters configured on the specified tunnel to compute the IPv4 endpoint.
This command translates an IPv4 endpoint address to the corresponding 6rd IPv6 prefix. It uses the tunnel 6rd parameters configured on the specified tunnel to compute the IPv6 prefix.
IPv6 General Prefix
This command creates a general prefix that can be referred to by <name> based on the supplied tunnel interface.
Configuration Examples
Basic Configuration Examples
BR Router
CE Router
Provisioning with DHCPv4
Figure 10. DHCP option for 6rd
The OPTION_6RD is set to value 212
The length of the DHCP option in octets (22 octets with one BR IPv4 address)
The number of high-order bits that are identical across all CE IPv4 addresses within a given 6rd domain; this may be any value between 0 and 32 (any value greater than 32 is invalid)
The IPv6 prefix length of the service provider's 6rd IPv6 prefix in number of bits; for the purpose of bounds checking by DHCP option processing, the sum of (32 - IPv4MaskLen) + 6rdPrefixLen must be less than or equal to 128
One or more IPv4 addresses of the 6rd BR routers for a given 6rd domain
Operational Considerations
Maximum Transmission Unit and Fragmentation
6rd and 6to4
Platform Support
For More Information
• http://www.cisco.com/go/ipv6
• http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps6537/ps6553/white_paper_c11-558744-00_ns1017_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html

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Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT for short) is a free image optimizer that will let you to adjust visually compression parameters while keeping minimum file size, which is essential for the web placement.
It uses with a side by side (dual view) or single view interface to compare the original with the optimized image in real time and instantly see the resulting file size.
It is lightweight, fast and simple to use, yet powerful for advanced users. You will be able to control compression, number of colors, metadata settings and much more, and select image format (JPG, GIF or PNG) for your output file.
RIOT can be integrated as plug-in in well-known programs like The GIMP, IrfanView and XnView.
Main features:
* Open many image types including rare/scientific types.
* Save and optimize JPEG, GIF and PNG with a simple, clean user interface.
* Automatic optimization selects the most suitable format and parameters.
* Works in dual view: (original – optimized image) or single view (optimized image).
* Automatic preview of resulting image.
* In-place compare function (alternatively display the original image over the optimized image to notice small pixel changes).
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* Batch support (process multiple files at once).
* Transparency handling options.
* Decide if you want to keep metadata (comments, IPTC, Adobe XMP, EXIF profiles, ICC profiles).
* Unsupported metadata is removed.
* Transfer metadata between image formats (destination format must support them).
* Common tools: pan and zoom, rotate, flip.
* Basic image adjustments: brightness, contrast, gamma, invert.
* Visually reduce number of unique colors for PNG and GIF images in order to reduce file size
(two quantization methods are available: Xiaolin Wu and NeuQuant neural net).
* Resize image by using well known resample filters (ex: Lanczos3, Catmull Rom, Bicubic, and others)
out-of-the-box support for external PNG optimizers (optipng, pngout, etc).
* The compression and the results are comparable to those of commercial products, even higher.
Adaptive logarithmic tone mapping algorithm (Drago) used for HDR images.
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Since I started this blog three and a half years ago, I've seen a trend: the rise of the savvy shopper, aka the bargainista fashionista.
She's the kind of girl that loves fashion and gets a thrill when she finds what she wants for a bargain. She lives for designer/high-street collaborations, as well as the designer sales (and the occasional designer splurge), but the high street is her staple.
Obviously, there's a whole lot more to her. Quality counts. But so do pennies, too. So she's savvy in her spending to make her money go further and clever with her clothes so she never looks cheap, always chic.
Looking good for less is easy with a little shopping and styling know-how. So I hope my blog has helped you to be savvy yet fashionable – and to get a few bargains along the way.
For more tips on how to be a bargainista fashionista, see my feature (above) for ELLE. It's in the October issue, with Gwen Stefani on the cover (below), which is on sale now until next Tuesday. I'm so excited! Let me know what you think.


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Term: 2011-15
Merv Bennett has provided leadership to the YMCA, one of the largest community not-for-profit organizations, for more than 40 years.
His career began in Elgin, Ill., where he worked in leadership within the YMCA's fitness and wellness programs.
He then came to Colorado and spent 38 years at the YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region where he worked as the vice president, president and CEO.
Under his leadership, the Pikes Peak YMCA grew from a $4 million annual budget to nearly $20 million annually and nine new centers were built which serve more than 120,000 persons through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.
In addition, the YMCA Camp Shady Brook was rebuilt after extensive wildfire damage in 2002 to ensure children continued to have learning and recreational opportunities.
Besides his work with the local YMCA, he provided international leadership as a councilmember of the North American YMCA Development Organization (U.S., Canada and Mexico) and later served as chair for three years.
Merv has a bachelor's degree in biology from Anderson University in Anderson, Ind.
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OCEAN CITY — — Brent Ashley may have aged into the enforcer role at a certain point, but he still remembers when he was the miscreant.
"I was halfway up the stairs and felt the hand on my shoulder," Ashley said of the night about 40 years ago when he got kicked out of a motel for his own Senior Week infraction: trying to sneak a girl into his room.
A longtime rental property owner, and a city councilman in the beach town where thousands of high school graduates descend every June, Ashley, 62, views Senior Week the way many here do: as "a necessary evil."
"All the revenue we bring in is important to Ocean City," he said. "If you don't rent to young people in June, you aren't going to rent to anyone. The young people can be a pain, but you are cultivating the future guests. So you have to go with it a little bit."
For the stretch of beach towns running from Ocean City north into Delaware, putting up with rowdy teens means landlords, restaurants and stores can make thousands of dollars over a three-week stretch before family vacation season picks up.
The four- or five-decade-old tradition of "June bugs" swarming to the shore for a week of sun and not-always-legal fun is in the spotlight after photos emerged of Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, who is running for governor, in the midst of a wild party thrown by Landon School boys in June.
The photos put in stark relief an uncomfortable truth: Many parents, property owners and other adults implicitly accept the underage drinking and largely unsupervised partying.
When the Gansler pictures went viral, Jayne Kaiser of Columbia told her 16-year-old daughter, "That's just one more reason why you're not going to Senior Week."
Kaiser, originally from Ohio, was alarmed to learn of this local tradition in which "it seems that the main activity was underage drinking." It also baffled her that so many other parents are just as disturbed by the week, but nonetheless sign rental leases for their kids and look the other way.
She and her husband took a different track, raising their daughter with the clear understanding that her high school graduation in 2015 would be celebrated some other way — perhaps by visiting the Austrian exchange student the family hosted last year.
"I feel sometimes I'm swimming upstream alone on this," Kaiser said. "But I have to do it anyway to present a consistent message with my child."
Senior Week creates problems for beach towns as well: the inevitable public drunkenness, damage to rental properties, and the potential for serious injury or even death. Alcohol, youthful indiscretion, motel room balconies and, most of all, the ocean make for a dangerous mix.
"You don't want them drinking and then later deciding to run into the ocean at night," said Joan Webb Scornaienchi, executive director of HC DrugFree in Columbia, which each year brings Ocean City police and beach patrol officers to speak to parents and teens about Senior Week safety.
Lt. Ward Kovacs of the Ocean City Beach Patrol can attest to the dangers: He remembers three boys driving up to the beach one year, hopping out and diving into the waves — leaving one with a broken neck.
"As I held his head to stabilize his neck," Kovacs said, "I could smell the beer on his breath."
Luckily, though, most of what Kovacs sees during Senior Week are pranks — kids seem drawn to abusing lifeguard stands, burying them in the sand and, once, piling six of them into a pyramid.
After sometimes-sheltered childhoods where even after-prom parties can be tightly scripted by parents, many teens come to the beach eager for a first taste of freedom. And most kids, of course, survive Senior Week largely unscathed, enjoying a last hurrah before childhood friends scatter to different colleges or workplaces.
"Best time of my life," said Samantha Halle, 19, now a Towson University student. She gets a dreamy look in her eyes remembering how two days after her graduation from Franklin High School in Reisterstown, she and seven friends headed down the ocean.
Halle said her parents "have a lot of trust in me" and just asked that she call once a day so they knew she was "alive and breathing." There was a lot of drinking at the hot-tub-equipped condo in Ocean City, and someone got thrown into the bay, but they did no damage to the rental or themselves, she said.
"It was just a lot of memories of being with your best friends and getting a chance to do rebellious things," Halle said. "We're still the best of friends and we wish we could do something like this again, but now that we're grown up, we all have different schedules."
Some say Senior Week can have more serious consequences. Officials in South Bethany, Del., where some Landon parents had rented a home for their sons' celebrations, criticized such practices.
Gansler, who has advocated for stricter penalties for underage drinking, said he stopped briefly at the party. He initially said he didn't think it was his place to investigate if the kids were drinking or to stop them from doing so, but subsequently said that was a mistake on his part.
The large home rented for the Landon group sits at the end of a quiet residential street; to the rear is a channel where small boats can sidle up against docks.
Barbara Sears, 59, who lives across that channel, remembers the Landon group well: "It was a really wild week."
She didn't call police because her adult sons advised her not to be "that neighbor."
"OK, don't be the old Gladys Kravitz of the street," Sears remembers thinking, referring to the nosy neighbor from the TV show "Bewitched." Besides, the party seemed "pretty much contained" from the rear of the house, she said.
Nearby Dewey Beach, Del., increasingly draws the high school graduation crowd as well — often from Bethesda, as were the Landon graduates.
Sgt. Clifford Dempsey, a spokesman for the Dewey Beach Police Department, will visit four schools in that Washington suburb in a tour of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware he's taking this winter to warn students and parents about the potential dangers of Senior Week.
"We don't paint a pretty picture of what Beach Week is about," said Dempsey, noting that his town can attract 20,000 to 40,000 revelers in June. He warns parents that, unlike in a school or home setting, beach resorts are not set up to play parent to their kids.
"We try to advocate full parental involvement, to the parents' ability," he said, with parents staying in the rental unit with the kids if possible, or nearby. He also recommends that parents write a contract outlining acceptable behavior and activities for their kids to sign.
The Landon parents drew up such a document, forbidding hard liquor and drug use but leaving beer and wine unaddressed. Dempsey said all alcohol should be off the table.
"This is not a political issue, it's a parenting issue," said Scornaienchi of HC DrugFree. "I think Gansler and the other parents sent the wrong message to their kids — they told them it's OK to break the law.
"I think it's possible for kids to go to Senior Week and not drink, but there is a lot of pressure on them," she said. "There are so many other activities in Ocean City for them, and they're free."
The Maryland resort town offers alcohol-free alternatives through its Play it Safe program.
The program started 25 years ago after tragedies involving students, including the murder of a girl and several kids falling from a balcony, said chairwoman Donna Greenwood. Some 10,000 to 15,000 kids have participated in free events such as basketball tournaments, moonlight bowling and pizza-eating contests.
Despite such efforts, kids often arrive with their own stashes of alcohol or find something of an underground economy in Ocean City, where adults will buy the liquor for them and charge a $10 or $15 fee, council member Ashley said.
Some, like Ashley, believe that too many parents want to be friends with their kids rather than discipline them. "We had occasions when the parents would back up the car [to a rental] and unload the beer," he said. Ashley interceded and told the parents to stop.
Dr. Victor Gong has seen the consequences — for the past 25 years, he has stitched up the teens and tended to other injuries at the 75th St. Medical Center in Ocean City.
The kids usually show up in groups, sometimes just for sunburns or other minor injuries, but other times dragging a friend who is severely dehydrated, passed out or worse from drinking, Gong said.
"You'll have guys getting jealous of their girlfriends, put their hands through the window," he said.
During the first half of June, 19 people between the ages of 16 and 20 were treated for alcohol abuse at Atlantic General Hospital in nearby Berlin, said spokeswoman Toni Keiser. There's no way of telling if they were Senior Week partiers, she said, and more commonly, the hospital sees minor problems during those weeks — sunburn, scooter accidents and boardwalk splinters.
Despite the problems, merchants, hoteliers and property owners recognize the young grads as cash cows. While economists have not estimated Senior Week's impact on Ocean City, the town collected more than $8.9 million in tourism-related taxes in June. The taxes are levied on such items as hotel rooms, food, tourism-related sales and amusements, though not all of that can be attributed to the graduates.
Some homeowners have refused to rent to June bugs in the past, drawing a complaint from the American Civil Liberties Association in 2000 charging discrimination. Ultimately, the General Assembly passed a law making it illegal not to rent to the 18-year-old crowd, and allowing owners to charge high security deposits.
Many owners embrace renting to teens.
"Honestly, the condos we have, they would be empty the month of June" otherwise, said Ieve Sekace, who with her husband, Joe Jobson, runs a real estate management company catering to the Senior Week crowd.
She and some other property managers increase rents for Senior Week to cover costs for security and potential property damage. Weekly rents run as high as $4,000 for a house for 15 students to $1,200 for a one-bedroom that will hold three people.
Students sign a form saying they won't drink alcohol in the rental, and they get a brightly colored wristband that can't be removed without cutting it. Security guards patrol nightly, conducting random sweeps after 10 p.m. to kick out anyone without a wristband.
Sekace said she and her husband can spot the potential troublemakers. There was a group that arrived, cocksure and driving a Hummer and, sure enough, after checkout, she found holes punched in every kitchen cabinet. Then there was a New York group that left holes in the wall and, somehow, vomit on the ceiling.
Most are good tenants, though, cleaning the units to get their deposits back. She estimated that just 10 percent damage properties in some way.
Pat Terrill of Hileman Real Estate said security deposits on properties she rents for Senior Week are double the usual $500. After 25 years in Ocean City, she discounts parents' promises that their children will be perfect tenants.
"Your son is going to leave his good sense and his virtue at the toll booth when he passes the Bay Bridge," she tells them.
The estimated $50,000 in damage reported at the South Bethany home rented by the Landon group is an outlier, rental agencies said. Usually, property damage comes in below $500.
Ocean City has sought to diversify its tourism base, and this past June, events such as a firefighters convention, an air show and a Ravens Roost gathering drew older visitors. That may have pushed some teens to other towns, said police spokesman Mike Levy, and there were 723 alcohol-related crimes in June, down from 967 last year.
In the Delaware seaside towns that tout themselves as the "Quiet Resorts," many would prefer that Senior Week rowdiness remain someone else's problem.
Michael and Jayne Dickerson, owners of Ocean Plaza Tees on Bethany Beach's commercial strip, say June is tamer in their town.
"The ones we get are real nice kids, come from nice families," Michael Dickerson said.
Susan Jones, executive director of the Ocean City Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association, said members often discuss whether to continue catering to Senior Week or make a concerted effort to attract older, better-behaved tourists as cities such as Fort Lauderdale have.
The Florida city became spring break central for college students after the 1960 movie, "Where The Boys Are." As the tradition grew increasingly rowdier, the city decided in the 1980s that it had had enough. The mayor went on national TV to tell college kids to party elsewhere, new anti-alcohol ordinances were enacted, and, slowly, the beach was transformed into a more adult destination with a Ritz-Carlton hotel and pricey restaurants.
But Jones and others worry how businesses would make enough money to replace the Senior Week dollars during the years of transition. Other East Coast beach towns are happy to cater to teens making their annual migration.
These days, Ocean City's biggest concern is pedestrian accidents. Mayor Rick Meehan said teens can get struck by cars as they walk in a crowd or across a street. He said the city launched a preventative campaign this year and has had no fatalities, after a year in which a couple of people were killed.
Couple traffic issues with trash and other problems, and Senior Week ends up being an ordeal, Meehan said.
"When the third week of June ends, there is a sort of sigh of relief," the mayor said. "They may not be your kids, but everyone may still be worried about them."
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We are pleased to announce an exciting project to index Colonial and Charleston, SC estate inventories from 1732-1872, and bills of sale from the same period, for a FREE collection on Footnote!
When the project is complete, the names of more than 30,000 enslaved ancestors will be preserved for generations to come.
You can help index this free collection to make it searchable. Here is how it will work: we will index one microfilm at a time, as we complete each film the entire film will be posted in this free collection, and will be fully searchable. When we finish indexing a film, Footnote will post the next film for us to index, until all of the films are indexed.
So we in the volunteer community will literally determine the pace at which these records roll out. Pretty neat, on large indexing projects you index records and know that they will be rolled up at some time in the future, but this project works in real time, as we finish them, they are released.
To sign up to volunteer, please CLICK HERE, fill in the sign up form, and we will contact you to show you how to get started. Don't worry, we'll teach you everything you need to know to index records to make them searchable.
Each record you index will be searchable on Footnote, and will also appear in Internet searches on Google and other search engines, so your contribution will make an enormous difference in making these records accessible to the research community.
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World Soccer
World Soccer combines frantic head to head match 3 gameplay with all the excitement of the soccer World Cup. Choose from over 80 countries and lead them to World Cup glory. Earn power ups to swing key games your way, face the agony and ecstasy of penalty shoot outs, last gasp winners, glorious victories and cruel defeats. Match tiles quicker than your opponent to take control of the match and show a cool head in front of goal to dominate the score line.
Out now for iPhones, iPads, Android tablets and Android phones (ALL FREE!), click below or search for Triple B Games on your device's appstore.
Windows Phone version coming real soon!
Using an unprecedented real time fluid dynamics simulation to deliver ever changing race conditions, Flowrider is top down futuristic racing mayhem. Developed with the assistance of the Abertay Prototype Development fund.
Out now on Xbox LIVE Indie Games Channel (XBLIG)
Wushi is a one button 2D platformer where you test your skill and reaction times as a base jumping sky pirate running from the world across a sky of platforms, sky ships and floating isles. Originally developed as part of Proper Games' inaugural game jam.
Out now on Xbox LIVE Indie Games Channel (XBLIG) Only $1
College Lacrosse 2011
College Lacrosse 2011 features motion capture animations, overhauled graphics, improved Xbox LIVE play, enhanced right joystick dodging and shooting, new bullet and loft passing, dive shots, new penalties and sound effects, an innovative stick checking system and over fifty gameplay improvements.
Out now on Xbox LIVE Indie Games Channel (XBLIG)
Zombiez 8 My Cookiez
Uh-oh!! Humanities in trouble now. Zombies have evolved. They've realised that brains taste like, well, brains and they're now after your favourite calorie laden snackage. It's up to you to stop them - blast them, fry them, burn them, launch them off the kitchen table, whatever you do, KEEP THOSE DAMN DIRTY ZOMBIE HANDS OFF YOUR COOKIEZ!!!
Out now on Xbox LIVE Indie Games Channel (XBLIG)
NLL Lacrosse 2010
Kotaku's Best Indie Sports Game 2010. Officially licensed by the National Lacrosse League, featuring all 11 teams and 250 individual players. Triple B brings you fast paced, hard hitting professional indoor lacrosse. Download from the Xbox Marketplace or find the game in the dash under Indie Games->Sports & Recreation. Check the facebook page for all the latest updates.
Inside Lacrosse's College Lacrosse 2010
The fastest game on two feet - out now on the Indie Games channel on Xbox 360, developed with our friends at Crosse Studios. Download from the Xbox Marketplace or find the game in the dash under Indie Games->Sports & Recreation. Check the facebook page for all the latest updates.
Out now for Xbox 360. Fitba is an attempt to inject some life into the most staid of genres - the football game, bringing some old school gameplay in hi-def glory onto your 360. Now available at the bargain price of just $3, that's less than the price of a pint. Click here to queue the download on your 360.
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CES LG has craftily shown off an ultra-mobile PC based on Intel's as-yet-unlaunched '45nm Silverthorne' processor at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
The UMPC is based around a 4.8in, WVGA touch-sensitive display, but as you can see it also has a slide-down Qwerty keyboard. The rectangular space at the top-right of the keyboard is a touch panel.
LG's 'Menlow'-based UMPC
In addition to the Silverthorne CPU and 'Paulsbo' chipset – mislabled by LG as, respectively, 'Menlow' and Silverthorne; Menlow is the codename for Intel's UMPC platform as a whole – the machine incorporates 1GB of DDR 2 memory and a 40GB hard drive. The HDD has a 1.5in form-factor.
The UMPC as a whole measures 148.4 x 92 x 29.2mm and weighs 590g. Inside, it crams all the above-mentioned gubbins, plus Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and HSDPA 3G radios, not to mention what LG called "various added features". Your guess is as good as ours. It runs Windows Vista Home Premium.
LG didn't say how much the UMPC will cost, but it did note that the gadget's aimed at the European, Asian and Canadian markets. We can't believe LG expects Statesiders to hop over the border to buy the machine, so we expect it to go on sale in the US too.


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WHAT TO DO IF YOUR rural king gift card IS LOST OR STOLEN
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Crucial Information About Gift Cards
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Chest discomfort or pain
may be a key warning symptom of a
heart attack. Heart attack symptoms may include:
Chest discomfort or pain that comes on or gets worse with
exercise, stress, or eating a large meal and goes away with rest may also be a
warning symptom of heart disease.
If you have any of these symptoms of a heart attack,
call 911 or other emergency services immediately. After you call 911, the operator may tell you to chew 1 adult-strength or 2 to 4 low-dose aspirin. Wait for an ambulance. Do not try to drive yourself. Since most of the damage to the
heart muscle during a heart attack occurs in the first 6 hours, emergency
treatment may prevent damage to the heart muscle and death. For men and women, the most common symptom is chest pain or pressure. But women are somewhat more likely than men to have other symptoms like shortness of breath, nausea, numbness,
tingling, or a strange feeling in your chest or other areas.
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fear that chest pain always means that something is wrong with the heart. This is
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Most people who have been diagnosed with angina have a
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take your pulse before reporting your symptoms to your
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treatment for minor chest pain depends on the cause of the pain. Minor chest
pain often improves with home treatment. A visit to your doctor
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chest wall pain caused by strained muscles or
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Lesson Focus
Lesson focuses on the engineering and operation of artificial heart valves, and the interface between man and machine.
Full Lesson Plan
Student Worksheets
Translated Lessons:
Age Levels:
8 – 18
- Learn about valves.
- Learn about engineering design changes to mechanical heart valves
- Learn about human/machine interface to meet human needs.
- Learn about teamwork and the engineering problem solving/design process.
Anticipated Learner Outcomes
As a result of this activity, students should develop an understanding of:
- valves
- mechanical – human interface
- impact of engineering and technology on society
- engineering problem solving
- teamwork
Lesson Activities
Students learn about how valves operate and the engineering enhancements that have improved mechanical heart valve design over time. Topics examined include problem solving, teamwork, and the engineering design process. Students work in teams to examine and operate two types of valves, then recommend changes to improve the functionality of mechanical heart valves. Student teams sketch their new designs and present to the class.
- Teacher Resource Documents (attached)
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Alignment to Curriculum Frameworks
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Ididit's 2006 Open House and Car Show
20 Years of Hard Work Deserves A Little Celebration
Ididit, the company responsible for all those cool steering columns and accessories celebrated 20 years of hard work and innovations with an annual car show and open house in early October. In addition to all the spectators who came out to enjoy the beautiful autumn day, more than 650 cars came out to power-park on the large grass fields adjacent to the Ididit facility.
Seven lucky winners were picked from the sea of cars to receive the hand-built trophies from the Ididit staff. The crew also had demos running on their laser-cutting machine, with free Ididit key chains as the result.
The beautiful weather contributed to the large turnout of hot rodders, spectators and auto enthusiasts who were happy to show their classic rides for the day.
Ken and Jane Callison, along with the crew at Ididit were more than pleased to see the large amount of supporters who came to help celebrate their 20th year in business. Here are some images reflecting on the day's happenings.


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Last year for Valentine's day, we decided to build a fort in the middle of our living room, and stay in. We watched moves, ate, and nested in it for 2 nights in a row. This year, we decided that our tradition would remain, and love-day would always be a reason to camp in the middle of our living room.
We slept in our little nest for 3 nights, and only took it down because friends were coming from out of town to stay with us. Of course Michael asked "do you think they want to sleep in the fort?!" :)
All day today, I have felt stressed and stretched thin. My weekend to-do is growing, and for now my list is:
Are there ever enough hours in the day, friends?
I have been working feverishly to get so many things done before the weekend hits, so I can relax. But my week days seem just as full, and I'm losing my patience as night hits and things spill over into the next day. I have had no time to relax, do yoga, take a bath, or just enjoy a free minute. Work has been getting harder, and I'm finding myself more and more ready to just sit in the middle of the floor and cry like a huge baby as these last few uncomfortable weeks seem to crawl by.
Every one keeps telling me to rest, but how can my mind sleep when I know there are things to be done? I am a busy-body by nature, and even when there is nothing left to do, I will find something. Sometimes I really dislike that quality about myself, and wish for more care-free thoughts to push the worrisome ones out of my head.
Days like today, I am thankful for the beautiful people in my life that weave in and out of these moments like little sweet reminders to just breathe.
Today when I got to work, I had a gift from a friend waiting for me. A pair of little red shoes for the baby, a little bird shirt for her first few months, a new book to read, with a couple sweet notes inside, like this one.
Just what I needed today.
Last week I got a package in the mail from dear Jodi, all the way from Australia. A lovely knit blanket for the little one that I wanted to wrap up in, and a new meditation cd.
Lucky, lucky me, to have such beautiful people in my life to remind me to stop and take a moment to do the things that really matter.
I need these reminders so much on weekends like this, where one minute I swear that life will swallow me whole, and the next...I decide that half the things on my to-do list can just go. Because I need a few days to soak in the tub, read my new book, and listen to my cd.
I know that these are the things I plan to teach this little one, so why should I ask anything less for myself? Sometimes it is easier to teach through the way we live our lives, than through the words we struggle to find. These are the lessons I am already learning through being a Mother. That sometimes, I won't need to say much at all. As long as I am at peace, drinking the wild air around me, baby girl will learn the importance of stealing these sweet moments for herself, one day.
There is nothing more awakening in your heart than knowing that a little girl will be watching you, waiting to learn her lessons about life. And through my journey into Motherhood, where I should be assuming my role as her teacher, I can't help but feel like she will be teaching me so much more than I could ever know about myself.


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Square Business Cards
It's hip to be square. (And easier to get noticed.)
• Measure 65 x 65 mm
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• Work as product tags, coupons, instructions and more
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A unique look. A can't-miss card.
You've got a one-of-a-kind company, so create a one-of-a-kind card. Our square (65 x 65 mm) business cards have a unique look (and feel) that sets them apart from standard designs. They've got a great layout for showcasing your logo or product shot, and they help give your company an interesting, creative vibe. Sometimes, it's hip to be square.
Choosing your stock
• Premium glossy (360gsm): UV glossy front, silk coated back. Great for photos and colourful cards.
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• Premium recycled matte (300gsm): 100% recycled. Easy to write on, good for designs with less ink.
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Tips for a professional look
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Music Stories
|Surprise! New Walkmen disc exceeds expectationsThe Walkmen: Bows + Arrows I didn't get the garage/indie-rock group The Walkmen's latest release, Bows + Arrows, when I first got hold of it. I had enjoyed their 2002 release, Everyone Who...read more
|Feb 26th, 2004
|Local showcase: Bucks, Gallants, and Folks...Folkskonde and Bucks and Gallantsat Plan 9's Outer SpaceSunday, February 15 This year's WTJU (91.1) Rock Marathon– that all too brief week where the daytime opera and banjo playing...read more
|Feb 19th, 2004
|Mouse or Beatle?: Listen, then you decideDJ Danger Mouse:The Grey Album What do you get when you cross the greatest rock band in history with the greatest hip-hop artist in history? We now know the answer. Let me explain....read more
|Feb 19th, 2004
|People's choice: Escape the everyday grindFolkskunde Some days you just don't feel like going to work. You wake up in the morning, and maybe for no particular reason at all, you just can't find the strength to head out into the world...read more
|Feb 12th, 2004
|Memo to The Darkness: Consider vocal downsizingThe DarknessPermission to Land I think I summed up my feelings on the Darkness late one night a month ago, reclining in my spacious king-size bed, at the end of a long conversation about life,...read more
|Feb 12th, 2004
|Don't be scared: Outback acts worth the riskSAKE, Adelyn, T.O.W.at the Outback LodgeThursday, January 29 A few days ago, just around the corner from my house in front of the Outback Lodge, a 15-year old girl stabbed two women. In another...read more
|Feb 5th, 2004
|Strange and beautiful: Visiting bands leave markEl Guapo, The Unicorns at UVA's Fest Full of RockJanuary 31 Through my countless hours of reviewing bands, the late nights, the bored smoking, the constant skating on the edge of the sober/drunk...read more
|Feb 5th, 2004
|PERFORMANCE REVIEW- Fun, fun, fun: Mamet brings on the laughsIf a foul-mouthed Chicago tough can remake himself as a rapier wit, there's no reason why a wisecracking crayon can't hit the stage as a love-struck hysteric. Let me explain. Playwright David Mamet,...read more
|Feb 5th, 2004
|Stiff competition: Tough town for new bandStoned Stew Jazz Bandat Miller'sSaturday, January 24 They say that being cold is all in your mind. Well, my brain has been cold for going on two weeks now. The fluid between my brain and skull is...read more
|Jan 29th, 2004
|Three for three: Local women in the roundJan Smith, Joia Wood, and Terri Allardat Gravity Lounge January 24 If you were looking for the ladies last Saturday night, probably the easiest way to see them (apart from that secret topless bar at...read more
|Jan 29th, 2004
|Jam (ugh): Bending the Rule a littleRule of Thumpat OrbitJanuary 17 I'm a big believer in the philosophy of trying to learn something new every day, and sitting at a table last Saturday night at Orbit, I learned two things: 1) "Watch...read more
|Jan 22nd, 2004
|Travelin': From ecstasy to outer spaceEMDUBat Michael's BistroJanuary 14 Wrinkle Neck Muleat Starr HillJanuary 18 Artwork unevenly placed on the walls. Partially remodeled bathroom. A rear view of the band through glass doors...read more
|Jan 22nd, 2004
|Courtly country : Local boys pack 'em inKing Wilkie at Miller'sJanuary 11 I arrived at Miller's Saturday night about an hour before the bluegrass band King Wilkie was scheduled to perform, and quite literally just barely snagged myself a...read more
|Jan 15th, 2004
|Don't skip it: Remix adds to originalSoulive: Turn It Out Remixed (Blue Note) Only a very few live shows have had a meaningful impact on my life. I can count on one hand the ones I've seen in Charlottesville. One group who...read more
|Jan 15th, 2004
|Getting lucky: Two locals scheme for fameSC on the Boombox 91.9 WNRN January 3, 2004 If talent were the deciding factor in who became the next radio mega star, I probably would listen to the radio more often. It takes more than talent. It...read more
|Jan 8th, 2004
|2003's best: I'll take it on the ShinsI'm a dork, a dweeb, a nerd, sorely in need of a dose of cool, but fairly happy with my profound love of the unhip, the lame, the unvarnished side of life. Yeah, I like pop music. A lot. The indie-...read more
|Jan 8th, 2004
|Poetry virgin: But musical pros save the night Poetry Lounge and Folkskonde At the Live Arts UpstageDecember 16 Like clasping an ex-whatever to your chest, poetry and I have always been locked in a nervous embrace. I'm a poetry virgin:...read more
|Dec 25th, 2003
|Reinvention: New "rugged" Badu abandons poeticsErykah BaduWorld Wide Underground Motown (2003) In 1997 when Erykah Badu released her first album, Baduizm, there was quite a bit of debate about the state of soul and R&B music. Many...read more
|Dec 25th, 2003
|Faulknerian: The Trouble isn't with HarryThe Trouble With Harryat Dürty Nelly'sDecember 12 Though the crowd was rather sparse at Dürty Nelly's last Friday night, it definitely was not the fault of local pop/rock group The Trouble With...read more
|Dec 18th, 2003
|Gushathon: No words good enoughMedeski Martin and WoodStarr Hill Music HallDecember 1 Medeski Martin and Wood are phenomenal. Period. No discussion needed. You can argue lame points to the contrary, but I will just look at...read more
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Internet Explorer and Connection Limits
From time to time, I've heard the question: "Why can IE only download two files from the same site simultaneously?"
Some more savvy users observe that this limitation probably makes sense in dialup cases where bandwidth is constrained or when lots of small files are being downloaded, since the TCP/IP slow start algorithm comes into play.
But for those of us lucky enough to be on broadband, this limitation can be annoying. If I want to download a large number of large files, I have to sit around and wait for them to complete, two-by-two. Why does IE behave this way while some other browsers do not?
It turns out that this is a case where IE strictly follows the standards-- in this case, RFC2616, which covers HTTP1.1. As noted in the RFC:
Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy.
Saavy web developers can take this connection limit into account and deliver their data from multiple domains, since the browser will open up to two connections per domain. You can see this trick on pages like Office Online Templates using Microsoft Fiddler or another network monitoring tool. In this case, two domains (office.microsoft.com and i.office.microsoft.com) split the load, permitting up to four simultaneous connections.
If you'd like to experiment with higher connection limits inside IE, have a look at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183110. Note that changing this setting violates HTTP RFCs, and hence might impact compatibility with servers and proxies.
PS: Another web-performance tip: When generating hyperlinks, always include a trailing slash if possible. For instance, navigating to http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie takes one more roundtrip than http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/. When the browser navigates to the /ie url, the server merely sends down a 301 to the /ie/ url. Both links work, but the second version is faster.
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Hand Towel – Ikat (AU)
These beautiful hand towels were designed to be the ultimate yoga companion.
Eco-friendly microfiber made from recycled plastic bottles is printed with water based inks.
Reduce slipping, injuries and love your practice!
Ideal for Yoga, Bikram, Hot Yoga, Pilates.
- Designed to be lightweight, insanely absorbent and non-slip
- Great for yoga, hot yoga, bikram, travel, beach and active lifestyles
- Non-toxic
- Non-fade water based prints
- Top-quality, plush PET microfiber with extra-strength whipstitching for maximum lifespano
- 15in x 24in in size
- Weighs 0.15lb
- Quickly dries in minutes
- Tip: At the beginning of your practice, lightly spraying water on the top surface of the towel will prevent sliding, if you have dry hands and feet
- Perfect amount of cushion, stability and responsiveness to reduce injuries and instantly improve your practice
- Zero odor
- Extends the life of your mat
- Washing Instructions:Machine washable and dryer safe
$1 from every purchase goes to support Urban Youth Yoga Programs in need.
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The Cowboys came back in the fourth quarter to beat the Bengals on the road on Sunday, a feat that would be worthy of a pat on the back even if they did it without the death of teammate Jerry Brown in a car accident early Saturday morning that left defensive lineman Josh Brent in jail on charges of intoxication manslaughter.
After the win, the Cowboys acknowledged that football was far from the only thing on their minds. Running back DeMarco Murray said that it didn't feel like a win and fullback Lawrence Vickers said he was emotionally drained after finding himself crying before, during and after they beat the Bengals. Coach Jason Garrett talked about waht he said to the team on Saturday night before the game.
"I talked about how football is very different than life," Garrett said, via Ian Rapoport of NFL.com. "I made it clear that this is a life situation, and we lost a 25-year-old young man who had his whole life in front of him. He was a teammate and a friend. All we asked our team last night was to understand what happened and to somehow channel their emotions into honoring Jerry today. It was a hard thing to do. Football is a game of emotion, and somehow we had to process it all and do our job today. … The win was nice. But to play and do their job was just as nice."
Garrett called Brown's mother after the game and promised her the game ball and there will be a memorial service on Tuesday that is sure to be another emotional experience for the Cowboys. It's a different situation than the one the Chiefs faced the week before, but the Cowboys' ability to do their jobs under trying circumstances was just as admirable.
They'll be asked to do it again next weekend and, as quarterback Tony Romo said in Rapoport's piece, there's no playbook for handling these kinds of things.


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China Broadcaster Says KFC's Ice Dirtier Than Toilet Water
More In food safety
- Syngenta Within Reach, China Signals Speed on GMOs
- 'Open' with Chinese Characteristics: Shanghai Shuts Door at OSI Trial
- Chinese Sea Salt May Contain Small Plastic Particles, Study Says
- McDonald's to Sell Taiwan Stores, Expand China Franchises
- Salt Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Problem with China's Oldest Monopoly
- 'Eight-Legged Chicken' Rumors Spur Lawsuit by KFC
This post has been updated since it was first posted. See below.
KFC's parent company Yum Brands, faces a new challenge in its efforts to reshape the brand's image in its largest market after China's powerful state broadcaster alleged that the fast food chain's ice is dirtier than toilet water.
In a program that aired Saturday night, China Central Television said reporters had recently taken ice samples from three fast-food chains and compared them with toilet water. The samples from a branch of KFC in the city's southern Chongwenmen district were found to have levels of bacteria 12 times higher than the toilet water, and 19 times higher than China's standards for drinking water.
Ice samples taken from the other two chains also failed to meet national standards, according to CCTV. A branch of local fast-food brand Kongfu was found serving ice with five times as much bacteria as toilet water. Ice from a McDonald's outlet, meanwhile, turned out to be cleaner than toilet water but still fell short of being drinkable, the broadcaster said.
KFC apologized to the consumers in a statement posted to its official account on Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like micro blogging, hours after the CCTV program aired."We are sincerely sorry that this sort of situation has occurred," the statement read. "Our executives have reached the store to look into the case."
McDonald's and Kongfu both issued statements on Sina Weibo saying they paid close attention to the report and were investigating.
Both the KFC Chongwenmen branch and Yum Brands declined to comment on Monday.
The toilet water report arrives only seven months after KFC had to weather a high-profile official probe into its chicken suppliers in December. The brand took a hit and company executives apologized after Shanghai health authorities said they planned to investigate why the fast-food chain hadn't answered questions about what it did with batches of chickens found to have excessive levels of antibiotics in 2010 and 2011.
Shanghai's health officials didn't find elevated levels of antibiotics in KFC products they tested, but the bad publicity put a dent in sales.
Yum Brands reported a third straight quarter of declining earnings earlier this month, largely because Chinese consumers were shunning KFC, according to analysts. For more than a decade, the chicken giant was the main driver for Yum Brands' double-digit growth in earnings per share until the chicken supplier investigation in December. Sales fell 20% at Chinese outlets that were open at least a year, compared to 1% growth in the U.S. and other international divisions, excluding China and India.
China is not alone in serving ice cubes that make toilet water seem clean by comparison. In June, the British newspaper Daily Mail said it conducted the same experiment with samples of ice from 10 fast-food chains and found six that had higher bacterial levels than toilet water.
The topic continued to be among the hottest on Sina Weibo on Tuesday as frustrated Chinese consumers bombarded KFC with complaints.
"The company's apologies have already become formulaic," wrote one Weibo user. "We may tolerate this for now, what about in the future?"
[UPDATE, 11:30 a.m.: In an emailed comment sent late Tuesday morning, Yum Brands said: "We want to reassure you that we have immediately addressed the problem with the ice at this restaurant. Food safety is the most important thing for us and we will ensure our strict operating procedures are followed." ]
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"I Can't Wait" is the more obviously classicist of the two sides—which for one thing means it's the one in which the least amount of disruption of the material takes place. In this case, it's a woman singing a couple of lines that are usually truncated down to the title phrase and a whispered "hey, boy," all sent through filters galore, as the track steadily breaks down and builds up. A keyboard solo near the 3.5-minute mark boosts it some. But at a full 8:30, the track's presence dissipates rather than gathers force.
"Rock Me" is similar structurally but has a different effect. This track drifts too, but a lot more comfortably. Maybe it's because disco-orchestral stabs serve as a mild disruption within the piece, in essence brightening the recording's palate by hitting "reset" a lot; but the husky-femme "rock me, baby" sample seems to goose things every time it's deployed, which is a lot—and which is hardly a complaint.
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I am keeping this dream journal out of the interest of making my dream recall improve again, as I have gone for a quite some time without making a journal at all.
I am writing the dreams almost as I would if I were writing on paper only to myself. The only exception is that in this DJ I will not be naming people by their names unless it's relevant to the dream context, since I want the dreams to be understood/readable by anyone; even if you don't know who my friends are or people I know by name, I still want you to understand the immediate contexts as much as possible.
I will keep a list of my dream signs in a separate area when I get around to it.
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Cat greets high school students for more than a decade
Simba to be honored for loyalty to Westbrook High School
For more than a dozen years, a cat has been showing up for class right alongside students at Westbrook High School.
Every morning, Simba has greeted students at the school's front door before making his rounds.
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According to Westbrook Superintendent Marc Gousse, Simba always starts the day with a visit to his office then wanders off to check in with students in classrooms throughout the school.
"He'll show up in class and sit on people's text books and just intrude," said senior Kim Larley.
"(For) most people, it's human nature. Animals are very warm. They're calming. They bring a sense of peace," said Gousse.
The school cat's tale began 13 years ago, the same time math teacher Tina Soucy was getting her start at Westbrook High.
"I was just moving into my classroom downstairs, and he was sitting outside, and I let him in," said Soucy.
Since then, Soucy said Simba has shown up at 7 a.m. every day, anxious to begin his rounds.
To honor the 15-year-old tabby's loyalty, Westbrook High's art department is planning a celebration scheduled for April 4 where Simba's owner, Eileen Shutts will be in attendance.
Students jumped at the chance to portray Simba in their favorite light at the benefit art show.
"He's cuter when he sleeps," said Larley.
"I just see such an emotional connection and real care about this creature," said Westbrook Schools art director Carol Connor. "He has such a calming effect on all of us."
"I think he probably knows he's liked and loved, and it's mutual," said Gousse.
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The hardest part of not being the pastor of a congregation is finding a place to worship. I battle with that decision every week. Where should I go to receive a message that challenges me to remain faithful to my calling? Where should I go to be reminded that the work of the Church matters?
To be frank, it has been a challenge. It's not the fault of the places I've gone to remain connected after walking away for a season. I've found lively worship that left me rekindled after a week filled with stress. I've heard sermons that inspired me not to give up after grappling with doubt. I've gained much, but something was missing.
That changed on Sunday.
"Because of you, we are able to help a family from Lincoln Apartments pay the deposit and cover the cost for them to move," Frederick Davis, pastor at First Calvary Church shared. "This is possible because of you."
Davis went on to share the support of the congregation for a family that lost everything in a fire. "We sent a car load of clothes," he said.
I wanted to scream a declarative amen. That's what's been missing. The mission of First Calvary was present throughout the worship service. It was clear. It was known and celebrated by the entire congregation. Everyone understood there is more to being a church than gathering each week to impress people with hairdo's and wardrobes. I left feeling connected to a mission to reach out to those who needed more than a spiritual message.
"There are consequences to decisions we make," Davis stated in his sermon. "First Calvary will have to answer to some of the decisions we have made. We have not been placed here to stay in a pretty building and not take care of what is around us."
That's when the chills hit. You can't depend on those pretty buildings to speak. Yes, Jesus said the rocks will speak if we refuse, but the people need more than a message from the bricks. They need love. They need compassion. They need food and shelter. They need prayers, but they need more than prayers. They need answers. They need more than judgment, they need hope.
"This is why we need you to give," Davis stated. First Calvary was able to help a family evicted from the Lincoln Apartments because of the mission and giving of its membership. That's faith in action. That's real ministry. It's what the Bible means when the question was raised, "Can these dry bone live?"
What happened to the tenants at the Lincoln Apartments is tragic. On Sept. 28, residents were informed by the Lincoln Hospital Foundation, which owns the apartments, they planned to terminate all leases and close the 150-unit complex. Since then residents have been told they can remain until January, but that's not easy when money is tight and you have to make arrangements to move.
The tenants marched in protest on Oct. 29, claiming the closure would leave 152 people homeless. It's no surprise that the community came to the rescue. Administrators for both city and county government forced conversations to give tenants more time. Housing for New Hope has matched up to $5,000 in contributions to pay deposits for rent and utilities. The Durham Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance has committed to assisting Lincoln residents. Many have chipped in to help.
The support coming from First Calvary isn't abnormal. Other congregations have done the same. What made Sunday different is the way the announcement was normal for First Calvary. They do more than their share of helping those in need. It's part of their culture. It's their mission. It's their faith in action.
Yes, there's that beautiful building on Morehead Avenue that seems to be out of place. I've been critical of building fancy structures when the people have no food to eat. It seems like a crave contradiction, our impressive edifices juxtaposed against prevailing poverty. It seems like a waste of resources when so many are in need.
That's why the confession Davis made is so powerful. "We have to answer to decisions we have made," he stated. Don't all of us have to do the same? Haven't our personal decisions impacted our ability to give more?
So, I have a message for Pastor Davis and the members at First Calvary Baptist Church. You are the light of the world. You are a reminder that life emerges from the ashes. You are a tower representing the strength of a community. You are hope in action. You challenge us to do more than we have before. Just like that amazing temple on Morehead Avenue – it seems out of place, but it's not!
And, I have a message for those broken. Look to those hills where your help comes from. Troubles only endure for the night, they say. Joy comes in the morning.
Mine came on Sunday morning, and it happened on a hill called Calvary.


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Leonie sent me this interesting information about a show with one of her pieces. Wish I could go to San Fran and see this show. www.leoniecastelino.com
'HOMAGE TO KLEE', A Work of Art in Contemporary Bojagi by Leonie Castelino, Fiber Artist, will be on display, at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, California, from June 17 – October 23, 2011. The international exhibition: 'Wrapping Traditions: Korean Textiles Now', has 60 works of fiber art from artists all over the world, 31 of them from Korea. For more information, visit www.mocfa.org or call (415) 227-4888.
This exhibition showcases traditional and contemporary Bogaji, or Pojagi, which is an ancient and dying Korean art-form that reached its zenith during the early Choson dynasty (1392-1910). Women of this period were strictly housebound, socially isolated and had no status. Their only expressive outlet was in creating a bojagi of beauty. Salvaged fabrics of silk, cotton or hemp from clothing or household linen, was pieced together in a mosaic to construct square or rectangle cloths of beauty to wrap and carry household, ceremonial, ritual or treasured items - hence the name 'wrapping cloth'. The prevalent folklore was that 'pok' or good luck was preserved inside a bojagi.
When a bojagi was created to wrap an offering, a ceremonial document or a gift, infinite care was expended in creating an item of beauty that reflected the reverence of the creator, the respect bestowed on the recipient, and the item. This contributed to the development of bojagi as an art form. A pieced bojagi is a 'chogak po', while an embroidered one is a 'su po'. Half of all the surviving bojagis today are keepsakes handed down the generations. They have become significant acquisitions by museums around the world.
'Homage to Klee' by Leonie Castelino is a Contemporary Pieced Bojagi in layered silk organza with the distinctive bojagi elements of architecture, seams, transparency, color, composition and design. It measures 24" x 63".
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British cars are now a lie. They're a fancy title meant to make us forget most of the famous marques are now owned by German, Chinese, Thai, American, Indian, and even Kuwaiti companies. But the obviously Porsche Cayenne-based Eterniti Hemera takes this deception to absurd new levels. Guten Tag, Mates!
Where even to begin? When foreign automakers buy British badges they work so hard to pretend the cars are actually made in jolly old England we forget most brands are split between ze Germans and Englands former colonies.
Eterniti is turning this model on its head by importing the very German Porsche Cayenne to London, giving it some bespoke body panels, and calling it "British." For shame.
I have no objections to taking a Cayenne and giving it a "chassis-up rebuild" with carbon-composite body panels and a 620-hp twin-turbo V8. Plenty of companies do the same. I'm just amused at how much Eterniti is trumpeting their Britishness.
What's it mean to be a "British" automaker? To fail and have your company absorbed by a massive foreign entity? Actually, the company admits to being "backed by a group of international investors" while still being an "independent, boutique British marque, uniquely based in London."
I take it all back. Eterniti is actually just skipping ahead to the logical conclusion of any British luxury brand — a company marketing itself as "British," while building its car on a German platform with a foreign owner.


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Fresno, Calif., works to roll out wireless broadband across a landscape populated primarily with fruits and vegetables.
When it comes to farming, what good is wireless broadband? Seed, sun, dirt and water are the essentials that have sustained agriculture for thousands of years, so what can wireless bring to the table? And what is a CIO doing down on the farm in rubber boots?
For Fresno CIO Carolyn Hogg, the answer has to do with olive trees as wireless subscribers, tracking tomatoes from vine to dinner plate, self-driving tractors, and agricultural research and education that could boost the state's economy and help feed the world. Hogg, along with a coalition of federal, state, private-sector and local interests, are working to secure high-speed wireless broadband to take the region's agriculture, healthcare, and education to the next level.
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