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There is nothing quite like gorgeous pieces of salmon cooked to crispy perfection. Served over a pillow of creamy mashed potatoes tossed with chopped spinach, butter and skim milk nestled on top of a bed of colourful braised vegetables, this dish is a symphony of flavours and textures. The key to mastering the classic pan-searing method of making restaurant-quality crispy-skinned salmon is simple and straight forward. To begin, pat paper towels over all sides of each filet. The salmon should be as dry as possible — the dryer the fish, the better it will cook. Using a neutral oil such as grapeseed or canola, a nonstick frying pan is set over medium-high heat. While the pan heats, each piece of salmon is generously seasoned with salt and pepper, and when the oil is shimmering, each fillet is laid skin-side down into the pan and immediately press down gently on the fillet and turn the heat down to medium-low. Pressing on the fish helps keep the skin in contact with the pan and ensures an evenly-crisped surface. Salmon skin shrinks as it cooks, so if the fish isn't pressed into the pan, it can curl out of shape. Don't move the fish in the pan until a crust has formed. You'll know when a crust has formed and your fish is ready to flip by shaking your pan and the fish slides across the pan. Once the skin is crispy, flip the salmon over and 'kiss' the top of the fillet just long enough to finish cooking it, which should be about only about a minute for medium-rare succulent pink perfection.
Mashed potatoes with chopped fresh spinach, butter, skim milk and seasoned with salt and white pepper
Red cherry and grape tomatoes sautéed in oil and thyme
Diced zucchini and corn added to the tomatoes and simmered over medium low for 10-15 minutes
While the succotash is cooking, the salmon is set skin side down in a non stick frying pan
with a little oil until the skin is crisp, about 10 minutes
Once the salmon is cooked about half way through and the skin is crisp,
the salmon is turned over and cooked another minute or two until done
Crispy Salmon on Spinach Mash with Braised Succotash
Serves 2
2 skin-on salmon fillets, patted dry
1 pinch salt
1 pinch fresh ground white pepper
4 tsp vegetable oil
Spinach Mash:
2 russet potatoes, peeled and cut in chunks
1/4 cup warm milk
1 tbsp butter
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
2 cups packed fresh spinach, thickly sliced
Braised Vegetables:
1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 cup cherry or grape tomatoes
2 tsp chopped fresh thyme
1/4 tsp fish ground white or black pepper
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup fresh corn kernels or frozen corn kernels
1 zucchini, diced
In a large saucepan, cook the potatoes in boiling salted water until tender, about 18 to 20 minutes. Drain well then add milk, butter, salt, pepper and mash until smooth. Stir in the spinach, then cover and keep warm.
Meanwhile, in a large frying pan, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the tomatoes, thyme, pepper, salt and cook, stirring occasionally until the sauce has thickened, about 10 minutes. Add the corn and zucchini and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are tender-crisp, about 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, sprinkle the flesh side of the salmon with salt and pepper. In a large nonstick frying pan, heat a tablespoon of oil over medium low hight, and set the salmon skin side down. Using a spatula, press down on the fish to ensure all the skin is touching the pan, then turn the heat down to medium low and continue cooking the fis until the skin is crisp and releases easily from pan, about 10 minutes or until the salmon is 90% cooked. Turn and cook until the fish flakes easily when tested with a fork, about 1 to 2 minutes.
To serve, spoon the mashed potatoes into the centre of 2 shallow pre-warmed bowls and surround with the braised vegetables. Top each bowl with the salmon set skin side up and serve immediately.


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Hope College will honor five alumni with awards during the college's annual Alumni Banquet on Saturday, May 1.
Hope College will honor five alumni with awards during the college's annual Alumni Banquet on Saturday, May 1.
The college's Alumni Association will present Distinguished Alumni Awards to the Rev. Dr. Carol Bechtel of Holland, who is a 1981 graduate; Dr. Robert Donia of La Jolla, Calif., who is a 1967 graduate; and Dean Overman of Washington, D.C., who is a 1965 graduate. The association will present Young Alumni Awards to two 1997 graduates: Jalaa' Abdelwahab of New York City, and John Conlon of Byron Center.
The annual Distinguished Alumni Awards are presented by the Alumni Association Board of Directors in recognition of the awardees' contributions across decades or even across a career to society and service to Hope. The award, inaugurated in 1970 and presented during the college's Alumni Banquet, is the highest honor that alumni can receive from the college's Alumni Association.
The Young Alumni Award was established to honor the talents and contributions that young alumni have made to their professions, their communities and to the college, and was first presented in 2007. Criteria include having been a member of the Alumni Association for 15 or fewer years; notable prominence through professional endeavor, research, volunteerism, and/or involvement with the local or global community or the college; and demonstrating significant initiative by starting innovative service projects, research, businesses or other original enterprises.
° Carol Bechtel is being honored for her scholarship and her extensive service on behalf of the Reformed Church in America. Bechtel has been a professor of Old Testament at Western Theological Seminary since 1994. She is also currently serving as moderator of the General Synod Council of the Reformed Church in America (RCA), and was president and vice president of the General Synod during 2008-09 and 2007-08 respectively. Born in Fulton, Ill., she was the first woman ordained by the Classis of Illinois. She was also the first woman in the RCA to be ordained as a General Synod Professor of Theology.
She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and devotionals, and the author of editor of books including "Glimpses of Glory," "Esther: A Commentary for Teaching and Preaching," "Life after Grace," and "Touching the Altar: The Old Testament for Christian Worship." She also preaches and teaches widely at both national and international events.
She triple-majored in English, religion and ancient civilizations, and as a graduating senior received the Southland Medal (Gerrit H. Albers Gold Medal), which is awarded to the outstanding woman of the class. She subsequently completed a Master of Divinity degree at Western Theological Seminary, and a doctorate in Old Testament at YaleUniversity.
Prior to joining the Western Theological Seminary faculty she was an assistant professor of biblical studies at the PresbyterianSchool of Christian Education in Richmond, Va.
She is the niece of the late Dr. Lawrence (Doc) Green, who was a member of the kinesiology faculty at Hope from 1952 until his death in 1982. Her involvement in the life of the college has included speaking on campus and preaching during chapel, and serving on the committee for her 20-year reunion.
Her husband is Thomas Mullens. She has four grown children, Andrew Lawrence Reynolds, Ellen Elizabeth Reynolds, Elyssa Mullens Chub and Ian Thomas Mullens.
° Bob Donia is being honored for decades of engagement as a scholar and human rights advocate with Bosnia and Herzegovina. Donia graduated from Hope with a major in history and an interest in the country and peoples of Yugoslavia. After teaching high school English for one year in Onaway, Mich., he spent three years in the U.S. Army with service in Germany, Korea and Vietnam.
After military service, he attended graduate school and received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan in 1976. His publications include the books "Islam under the Double Eagle: The Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878-1914," "Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Tradition Betrayed" and "Sarajevo: Biography of a City."
Donia worked for Merrill Lynch from 1981 to 2000 as a financial advisor and office manager. Since his retirement from Merrill, he has worked as a consultant for various international and U.S. government agencies with programs and interests in the former Yugoslavia. He has provided testimony as an expert historical witness in the trial of former Yugoslav President Milo?evi? and 12 other trials at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, and he has provided training in the history and culture of the former Yugoslavia to units of the U.S. military prior to their deployment as peacekeepers to Bosnia-Herzegovina and to Kosovo.
He has stayed involved with Hope through the years, serving on class reunion committees and returning to campus frequently, including as a visiting lecturer. He and his family established the Tom Donia Memorial Organ Fund in the memory of his brother Tom, a 1971 Hope graduate who died in 1990, to enable the college to bring a distinguished guest organist to campus for a concert each year.
Donia and his wife, Jane Ritter, divide their time between California and Ann Arbor, Mich., where he teaches as a visiting professor of history at the University of Michigan.
° Dean Overman is being honored for his distinguished career as a lawyer, public servant and scholar. He is retired from serving as a senior partner with Winston & Strawn, and was partner-in-charge of the firm's Washington, D.C., office for many years. He is currently chairman of The Arbella Company Ltd.
Prior to joining Winston & Strawn, he served in the Ford White House, first as a White House Fellow for Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, and then as associate director for policy review. He was previously a partner in the law firm of D'Ancona, Pflaum, Wyatt & Riskind.
His many publications include not only law books and law review articles but also the books "A Case for the Divinity of Jesus: Examining the Earliest Evidence," "A Case for the Existence of God" and "A Case Against Accident and Self-Organization," as well as books on effective writing style for business and the profession, and on financial valuation of an acquisition candidate.
Among other honors and service, Overman has been a Templeton Scholar at OxfordUniversity, a visiting scholar at HarvardUniversity, an adjunct fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia Law School. He co-authored the plan that led to creation of the nationwide "Communities in Schools Inc.," which now serves more than three million students from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
He graduated from Hope with a psychology major. He was class president, co-founded Young Life Leadership at the college, co-captained the men's basketball team and was on the golf team. He completed his law degree at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and also attended Princeton Theological Seminary and the University of California and University of Chicago Graduate Schools of Business.
Overman has been actively involved in Hope in numerous ways, including as a guest lecturer in the Washington Honors Semester for several years, and delivering the 1978 Commencement address and the 2002 Opening Convocation address.
He and his wife, Linda, have two grown daughters, Elisabeth and Christiana.
° Jalaa' Abdelwahab is being recognized for his dedicated service in public health, with a particular emphasis to global polio eradication.
Abdelwahab has been working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 2000. He is currently seconded to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Headquarters in New York as a Health Specialist focusing on polio and overall immunizations in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa Region.
Prior to joining UNICEF in 2009, Abdelwahab was seconded to the polio unit of the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization as a technical officer and epidemiologist. During his fellowship with CDC as Public Health Prevention Specialists he worked with New York City Department of the Health and Mental Hygiene as an epidemiologist in the Tuberculosis Control Program.
He has published extensively on epidemiology and other health-related issues, including articles in the "Journal of Clinical Microbiology" and the "Journal on Infectious Diseases." Among other honors, he received a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Recognition Award in 2008 for supporting polio eradication efforts in the critical countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan, and the WHO EMRO Appreciation Award in 2006 for contributions for polio eradication in Egypt. In 2003, Abdelwahab was awarded the Distinguished Service and Achievement Award of his CDC's Public Health Prevention and Service fellowship.
Abdelwahab received a scholarship at HopeCollege after finishing his high school diploma at the Friends Quaker Schools in Ramallah, Palestine. At Hope, he majored in biology and minored in biochemistry at Hope but also enjoyed various art classes such as painting and acting. As a student, he was an active member of Mortar Board and the BBB honor biology society, and an award-winning member of the college's team in the Model Arab League, and recipient of the Sigma Xi Research Award. Among other activities he was the president of the International Relations Club, published poems in Opus literary magazine, served as a resident assistant for two years and spent a semester studying abroad in Adelaide, Australia. He completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at the University of Michigan in 2000.
He has returned to Hope as a guest speaker on multiple occasions. In October 2008 he spoke about his work with the World Health Organization during the college's Critical Issues Symposium, "Global Health: From Catastrophe to Cure." In 2005 he was among the alumni speakers featured during the opening of the MarthaMillerCenter for Global Communication and presented the A.J. Muste Memorial Lecture.
° John Conlon is being honored for his recognized excellence as a high school soccer coach.
For the past 10 years, he has been the varsity soccer coach for both the boys' and girls' teams at East Kentwood High School in addition to teaching fifth grade at Endeavor Elementary and serving as director of coaching and player development at the Kentwood Soccer Club. He is currently serving a two-year term as president of the Michigan High School Soccer Coaches Association (MHSSCA).
In January 2008, he received the 2007 "National High School Soccer Coach of the Year" Award from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and Adidas (NSCAA/Adidas). He had previously been named a Division One Regional NSCAA coach of the year. In the fall, his team had become the first from the western half of the state to win the Michigan Division I boys' state championship.
Conlon has received numerous other awards through the years, including recognition as the "Michigan High School Soccer Coach of the Year" in both 2007 and 2008, nine-time recognition as the MHSSCA District Coach of the Year and three-time recognition as MHSSCA Regional Coach of the Year. His teams have won two state, three regional, nine district and 10 conference championships.
He graduated from Hope with majors in communication and psychology, and he completed a master's degree in teaching at Aquinas College in 2000. As a stand-out member of the men's soccer team at Hope, he was team captain as a senior and received multiple external honors across his collegiate career, including being named the MIAA MVP in 1995 and NCAA All-American recognition. For 10 years he served on the staff of the Hope College Soccer Camps, beginning as a Hope student and through 2003.
Conlon and his wife, Kelly, have a young son, Brody, and are expecting their second child this spring.

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Dr. Ido Amit envisions a future in which doctors can tailor individualized treatment plans for diseases based on a person's genetic makeup.
His lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel is researching "personalized medicine," the understanding of how an individual's genetic makeup determines one's immune response to diseases and treatments.
In the Weizmann Institute newsletter, Amit explained that researchers have identified a strong genetic predisposition for breast cancer, and now they believe they can predict how cancer patients will respond to chemotherapy based on their own genomes.
"This has a lot of predictive value – we could know what our children might be susceptible to," said Amit at the Weizmann Canada national annual meeting on Oct. 25. "This is what the future holds."
Now the Weizmann Institute is working to establish the Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, a state-of-the-art research institute that will focus on understanding the roles genes play in diseases and its treatments. Amit believes that will completely change the way medicine is practiced.
His mission is to create "accurate missiles to treat people's diseases, and not something else." His research has been getting worldwide attention: in 2009, the journal Science said his research, which revealed new regulatory circuits that control the immune system, was a scientific breakthrough.
"Every cell in our body has the same genomes, the same information but we express lenses only in our eyes not in our legs," he said. "This is achieved by the fact that we have special regulatory mechanisms that activate the right gene at the right time at the right place."
To raise funds for the new centre, Weizmann Canada is launching a major fundraising initiative.
Founded in 1964, Weizmann Canada is part of a worldwide network that supports, funds and raises awareness about the work done by the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
In addition, it nurtures future scientists and researchers in Canada through programs like its Math-by-Mail program, an extracurricular math program for grade 3 to 8 students; its Shalheveth Freier Physics Tournament, in which high school students compete to win a trip to Israel; and its Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute program, which sends senior high school students to work with researchers at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
While it is hoping to raise $8 million dollars to refurbish and equip the new centre, Weizmann Canada also wants to people to become aware that medical breakthroughs like Amit's can affect anyone personally.
Weizmann Canada's national annual meeting was called "Let's get personal," and its board members, national presidents and supporters spoke about how this research is personal to them.
"It's unique in the way it provides me with an opportunity to get involved in areas of research that speak to me personally, that it affects the future we're hoping to create for our children," said Carolyn Cohen, a Toronto board member.
Amit doesn't take all the credit for his work. He said personalized medicine has been around for a long time, but the new centre's multi-disciplinary approach and its advanced technology will allow his team to significantly increase the speed of discovering and testing new theories about the treatment of specific diseases.
"The changes in our genomes are what usually make us different," said Amit. "If we can understand that, then we can treat people with personalized drugs, instead of just general treatments."


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No software engineering manager at a tech company should spend less than 30% of his or her time coding. Whether managing a team, a division, or all of engineering, when managers spend less than 30% of their time coding, they encounter a significant degradation in their ability to execute their responsibilities.
My claim stands in stark contrast to what I see as the expected path for software engineers who become team leaders. At each promotion, the engineer is expected to spend drastically less time coding, with a particularly steep drop-off when they go from a "lead" to a "manager" title. At that point, they're expected to maintain passing familiarity with their codebase. A director's coding is done, if at all, as a hobby.
This happened to me about a year ago as more of my time became absorbed in other things, such as recruiting, managing, and strategizing; I found then that I had crossed a threshold where my effectiveness as a technology leader suffered out of proportion to the amount of coding time lost. I wrote a short post on my blog that presented my thoughts following that experience, but without much concrete detail. Here, I'd like to expand that into a more developed thesis.
Why You Should Keep Coding
Many people believe that managers should step back and concentrate entirely on strategy and management. It makes sense that managers are expected to spend the majority of their time on these things. But as an industry, we pay too high a price for our managers when we allow or demand that they barely spend time coding. Once a person stops coding for a significant portion of time, critical connections to the concerns of developers atrophy. When that happens, decision-making, planning, and leadership suffer, undermining the entire basis for promoting engineers to management positions.
One of the most important skills in an engineer's toolkit is estimation. Strategic planning is quite simply not possible without the ability to accurately estimate. And yet we engineers are, as a class, notoriously bad at it. So bad, in fact, that we are advised to just double whatever number we come up with when asked to estimate something. In general, it's easy to fool oneself into thinking that things will go optimally, but if we use the concept of "estimate traction," code appears to have a particularly slippery surface. Because there are so many ways to implement features, when you lose familiarity with the details, your estimates become even more unreliable.
Technical Debt
Another thing that engineering managers need first-hand exposure to is the impact of technical debt. These days, that term has been popularized enough that when you have to debate the priority of a new feature versus. refactoring, you have a good chance of having that debate with people familiar with the concept. Engineering managers need to be more than familiar with the concept they are the ones directly responsible for making the judgment call as to when technical debt needs to be paid down. A manager who codes regularly will have much better information on when and how to make that decision.
Continuity of Understanding
I haven't chosen the number 30% arbitrarily. I chose it based on my experience because it is a simple heuristic for enough time to keep up with the changes that happen in a codebase under active development. With less time, it's easy to lose the thread of development; and once that thread is dropped, I will need to ramp up all over again to retrieve it, thereby incurring an extra time penalty.
Parity with Responsibility
As a leader, you definitely should not be making all the decisions for your team, or approving all the decisions, but you need the context and the knowledge to facilitate all decisions. In the end, you are responsible for the outcome, and your ability to sensibly make choices should match that responsibility.
Your Team Respects You For Loving Code
Let's be clear: To be successful as a manager, you must facilitate your team members' efforts, foster their development, and ensure they are fulfilled by their work. I've been writing about how to diagnose and repair issues with poor managers on my blog in a series called Debugging the Boss. But to truly excel at managing software engineers, you had better love code. Because your team does, and they will respect you all the more if you lead by example.
Obstacles to Reaching 30%
Despite of my best efforts, I have run into many obstacles trying to maintain my coding time at 30%. These include the following.
Actual Responsibilities: At a startup, there is always more work to do than there is time to do it, and even as a company scales and matures, being as effective as possible is always an exercise in managing competing priorities. An engineering manager has many responsibilities, which should take up 70% of their time. Here are a few:
- Leadership and Team Tending: This responsibility is the first to appear in an engineering manager's career. You are no longer just responsible for your work, you are responsible for enabling your team to produce their best work. It takes time to mentor your team, resolve disputes, and think about how to optimize their environment for happiness and productivity.
- Strategy: As the level of responsibility grows, an engineering manager is required to spend more time contributing to strategic planning at various levels. Initially, this will be limited to tech strategy, but later, both product development and competitive strategy will play a large part.
- Recruiting: Managers, directors, VPs, and CTOs need to build their teams, sometimes quite rapidly. While a good recruiting staff is a help, there is no substitute for a strong leader who actively seeks out new connections and sells every good engineer they meet on how great it is to work on their team.
- Customers: As engineering managers gain responsibility, they will often become more external-facing. This means they're brought in "pitch meetings" with high-value prospects and called on for firefighting when important customers are unhappy.
- PR: Senior tech managers devote time to public speaking engagements, writing blog posts, and (of course) articles in prestigious tech journals. No matter how much help you have with these tasks, it takes time to write, edit, rehearse, travel, and present.
Avoidable Time Losses: The responsibilities I just discussed are what an engineering manager should be spending time on. These next areas are pitfalls I've experienced that have been my undoing when trying to maintain a bare minimum of 20% of my time spent coding, and which still stand between me and the 30% I am fighting to return to.
- Not Saying No Enough: Achieving great things means working hard; however, growth has to be sustainable, and one of the most crucial responsibilities of an engineering manager is to say "no" when their team is over-committed or on the verge of becoming so. When you don't say no, other people begin to dictate your schedule and time commitments.
- Meetings: An entire cottage industry exists to give advice on how to meet effectively, and justifiably so. I have wasted more time in meetings than any other single activity in my career. This is especially debilitating when you have fallen behind in hiring, and are attending meetings that really should be run by team leaders.
Failing Strategies
In my quest to regain my coding time, I have tried a number of things that have not worked.
- Sleep Less: While surprisingly alluring for me, sacrificing sleep doesn't work. Your brain stops working and you become unpleasant to be around and much less effective.
- Read Headers Only: I thought this was promising, but in practice, reading only the headers of C++ code commits gets you very little of the benefit you need for management.
- Overspecialization: Knowledge of only one project in your overall codebase is appropriate for a team lead, but not a director or above you need familiarity with everything you are responsible for.
- Delegating Too Much Too Early: It's easy to make more work for yourself by delegating recklessly when your reports actually need careful mentoring.
Successful Strategies
In spite of numerous dead-ends, I have managed to uncover some successful strategies:
- Time Blocking: The percentage of time on my calendar that is not allocated weeks in advance is minuscule. It seems obvious in hindsight, but I needed to allocate blocks of time specifically for coding. In practice, these blocks are frequently rebooked, but having even 8 hours blocked out per week makes an enormous difference.
- Delegating: Delegating is tricky, especially when you have very strong opinions about how tasks should be done and the ability to do them if you had the time. There are many reasons why managers resist delegating, but every reason has to be viewed as a problem to be solved, rather than an insurmountable barrier. Nothing frees up your time for coding like handing off running a meeting to someone you trust.
- Office Hours: Something I'm planning on instituting in the near future is office hours. This technique should help a lot with the random interruptions by consolidating them into discrete time windows, during which I can work on the many tasks I have that do not require committed, long-term focus.
Final Tips
Here are a few points of practical advice for managers finding themselves approaching, but not getting across, the 30% threshold:
- Learn how to read code. It's a different skill than writing it.
- Commit to a meeting structure and hold your organization to it. Do not attend a single meeting that does not have a defined agenda.
- Get a real machine to work on. That MacBook Air you love for meeting hopping? Not it.
- Know how to access a dev environment and test a change fast.
- Understand if you're the kind of person who can use five 20-minute blocks. If you need an hour, then put it on your calendar.
- Remember, 20–30% is a heuristic I've come up with for myself. Your mileage may vary. So measure yourself (Estimate how long it would take you to try out a hot fix; Can you list the most indebted areas of your codebase? Pick a random code review and see if you understand the conversation and the choices. If you don't, you need to dig in more).
- Categorize your work by when you can work on it and what you need to accomplish it, rather than by topic. (Advocates of Getting Things Done (GTD) will recognize this as the essential basis of their productivity technique.)
- Finally, I've lately become fond of getting paper homework. As backwards as it seems, printing out a spec, a list of features to prioritize, or even a block of code is often a nice balance to spending large amounts of time looking at a screen.
I hope these tips are useful. If you have other techniques that have worked for you, please leave them in the comments area.
Eliot Horowitz is the cofounder and CTO of MongoDB.


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Les Misérables, the new movie musical staring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, and Amanda Seyfried, beautifully brings Victor Hugo's 1862 French novel to life. However, it made me wonder: Is America violent and alienated from God like the main character, Jean Valjean, in prison?
While still a boy, Jean Valjean stole some bread to feed a hungry child. He was arrested and sent to a cruel prison for 19 years. The constant exposure to scenes of violence, meanness, anger, and immorality hardened Jean's conscience and changed him from an innocent boy to an evil man.
Perhaps that same process is happening in America as we are also being continually exposed to violence and immorality. Maybe the root of our problems is the same as Jean Valjean's.
When John is finally shown kindness, he steals silver from the man who helps him. However, the man shows Jean the love of Christ, by not only forgiving him, but by giving him even more silver. This act of love awakens Jean to the reality of God's love and begins to free Jean from his years of immoral brainwashing and to transform him from an evil man to a godly man.
Les Misérables is the classic account of spiritual conversion — from Augustine in the 4th Century, to John Wesley in the 18th Century, to C.S. Lewis in the 20th Century. It vividly portrays the power of the living, resurrected Jesus Christ to change lives — a message of hope that the 21st Century desperately needs to hear and heed.
Les Misérables, whether I read it or watch one of the movies based on it, always brings me to tears. It always reminds me and brings to life my own experience of being transformed by Jesus Christ.
Here's a quote from Victor Hugo: "Jean Valjean entered the galleys sobbing and trembling; he left hardened. He entered in despair; he left sullen. What had happened within the soul?"


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My interest in genealogy started when I was a child. My dad's mom use to tell me that the family history book had been burned in a fire, but she knew we were related to Daniel Boone. I never forgot that, nor have I ever found the connection haha. Along with doing genealogy I spend a lot of my time doing photo restorations, namely for victims of Sandy through Care for Sandy, and also of family photos that I add to the books I write on our family history.


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Of course, this kind of things may happen only in movies: boxers who win when the chances are low, superspies who can easily dodge the bullet, archeologists-pranksters… There are no such people in real life, are there? Sure there are!


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Coraid recently announced that it had released support for SanDisk Optimus 1.6 TB, serial-attached SCSI (SAS), solid-state drives (SSDs) on the Coraid EtherDrive SRX6000 storage appliances. Targeting these storage appliances at datacenters and cloud storage applications, Coraid claims that they now offer five times the IOPS compared to previous-generation products (delivering more than 700,000 IOPS per enclosure).
It took a little while, but I was finally able to catch up with Coraid's senior director of product marketing, Suda Srinivasan, to discuss the new developments on this product, and what brought them about.
When I asked about the ongoing and upcoming trends in cloud storage, Srinivasan reflected on the infrastructure being used to build out solutions. He sees a shift away from traditional, controller-based, scale-up architectures and a move towards a building-block approach to storage. "The cloud environment is inherently dynamic and less predictable because customers want to be able to run different workloads on shared infrastructure and grow on demand," he told me. "Traditional storage architectures are not suited for this."
He notes a growing trend for cloud builders to use storage solutions that are based on commodity hardware and intelligent software instead of proprietary hardware solutions. Srinivasan reports that open-source storage software technologies, such as Swift and Ceph, that use direct-attached storage, are also growing in popularity because of their capital expense advantages.
To support these trends, cloud service providers are offering more options and flexible configurations for storage, ranging from the inexpensive to high-performance (with IOPS guarantees). "Over time, we will see offerings across the spectrum of price-performance, resilience, and quality of service," predicts Srinivasan.
In Coraid's EtherDrive press materials, the company explains that its customers can mix SATA and SAS SSDs in each array, putting this product firmly in the "flexible" category. Srinivasan says that the thinking behind this is to provide a single storage solution that can address a company's different storage needs, instead of configuring a storage array for each application. For example, for backup applications, the need is for capacity, while for financial trading, the need is for high-performance, high-availability storage. Now, instead of having two separate servers, these can be handled with a single array that mixes SSD and SATA drives, thus avoiding the use of high-performance storage for tasks that don't require it.
The EtherDrive SRX6000 series with Optimus 1.6 TB SAS SSDs delivers more than 700,000 IOPS, sustained transfer rates in excess of 4,800 MByte/s, and 38.4 TB flash capacity in a 2U form factor.
Coraid claims a cost savings for its customers, so I asked Srinivasan to be more specific about that. In terms of capital expenses, he says that the storage is built using off-the shelf hardware, commodity drives, and standard Layer-2 Ethernet connectivity, enabling a cost savings for the customers. He also claims that Coraid's storage is easier to deploy and manage at scale, compared to Fibre Channel or iSCSI solutions, thus saving in operating expenses, and he notes that the flexible configuration can reduce the footprint of the datacenter.
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New York — The economy weighed heavily on Town Sports International's (TSI) business in fourth quarter 2008, and the public company's management team expects the tough economy to be a negative factor in 2009 as well, causing it to slow growth this year, according to Alex Alimanestianu, CEO of TSI, New York.
TSI is focusing 2009 on maintaining its strong liquidity position and reducing capital expenditures until there is evidence of recovery in consumer sentiment and spending, Alimanestianu said last month during a conference call with analysts after the release of the company's fourth quarter 2008 and year 2008 financials.
Even though membership dropped in the fourth quarter, the company still grew membership by 4.9 percent for the year to 510,000 members, mostly because of new club openings. TSI's attrition rate of 3.5 percent per month in the fourth quarter was 10 basis points better than the third quarter but 50 basis points worse than the 3 percent it had in fourth quarter 2007.
During fourth quarter 2008, revenue increased 3.4 percent to $122.9 million, but for the year, revenues increased 7.1 percent to $506.7 million. When looking at the revenue more closely, TSI's financials show that revenue at clubs less than two years old grew as these clubs continued to ramp up membership, but revenue at clubs more than two years old fell.
For fourth quarter 2008, revenues increased $9.6 million at the 24 clubs opened or acquired after Dec. 31, 2006. This increase in revenue was offset by decreases in revenue of $4 million at TSI clubs opened or acquired prior to Dec. 31, 2006, and $1.6 million related to the seven clubs that were closed after Dec. 31, 2006.
TSI's operating margins declined as a result of increases in payroll and club operating expenses. Same club revenue declined by 1.4 percent for the quarter, which was TSI's first negative quarterly comparison since 2004. This decline negatively affected TSI's cash flows from operations for the quarter, which totaled $18.7 million versus $20.1 million a year ago.
In 2008, TSI opened nine new clubs instead of the 11 originally planned. Three of the nine new clubs opened in the fourth quarter. However, for 2009, the company plans to slow growth, opening just four clubs for the year. All of those were set to open by the end of the first quarter. TSI also will close four clubs in 2009.
Alimanestianu said the lower new club count and first-quarter openings would keep capital expenditures down and "avoid excessive risk in this challenging consumer spending environment."
In the meantime, the company is lowering its capital expenditure plan for 2009 to about $50 million to $53 million. In 2008, TSI had capital expenditures of $96.2 million. The 2009 amount includes approximately $23 million for maintenance and upgrades of existing clubs, $8.4 million to support and enhance TSI's IT systems, and $4 million for the completion of a new laundry facility and a replacement corporate office in the New York region. The remainder of the approximately $16 million in capital expenditures relates to club openings.
In January 2009, TSI completed a round of layoffs that affected 47 non-club positions, or around 11 percent of TSI's non-club workforce, saving approximately $2.5 million excluding severance costs. TSI also froze non-club salaries for 2008 levels, including executive salaries.


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> module Haskore.Interface.CSound where\end{haskelllisting} [Note: if this module is loaded into Hugs98, the following error message may result: \begin{haskelllisting} Reading file "CSound.lhs": ERROR "CSound.lhs" (line 707): *** Cannot derive Eq OrcExp after 40 iterations. *** This may indicate that the problem is undecidable. However, *** you may still try to increase the cutoff limit using the -c *** option and then try again. (The current setting is -c40) \end{haskelllisting} This is apparently due to the size of the {\tt OrcExp} data type. For correct operation, start Hugs with a larger cutoff limit, such as {\tt -c1000}.] CSound is a software synthesizer that allows its user to create a virtually unlimited number of sounds and instruments. It is extremely portable because it is written entirely in C. Its strength lies mainly in the fact that all computations are performed in software, so it is not reliant on sophisticated musical hardware. The output of a CSound computation is a file representing the signal which can be played by an independent application, so there is no hard upper limit on computation time. This is important because many sophisticated signals take much longer to compute than to play. The purpose of this module is to create an interface between Haskore and CSound in order to give the Haskore user access to all the powerful features of a software sound synthesizer. CSound takes as input two plain text files: a \keyword{score} (.sco) file and an \keyword{orchestra} (.orc) file. The score file is similar to a Midi file, and the orchestra file defines one or more \keyword{instrument}s that are referenced from the score file (the orchestra file can thus be thought of as the software equivalent of Midi hardware). The CSound program takes these two files as input, and produces a \keyword{sound file} as output, usually in {\tt .wav} format. Sound files are generally much larger than Midi files, since they describe the actual sound to be generated, represented as a sequence of values (typically 44,100 of them for each second of music), which are converted directly into voltages that drive the audio speakers. Sound files can be played by any standard media player found on conventional PC's. Each of these files is described in detail in the following sections. Here are some common definitions: \begin{haskelllisting}
> newtype Instrument = Instrument Int > deriving (Show, Eq)
> instrument :: Int -> Instrument > instrument = Instrument
> instruments :: [Instrument] > instruments = map instrument [1..]
> instrumentToNumber :: Instrument -> Int > instrumentToNumber (Instrument n) = n
> showInstrumentNumber :: Instrument -> String > showInstrumentNumber = show . instrumentToNumber
> type Name = String
> type Velocity = Float > type PField = Float > type Time = Float\end{haskelllisting} \input{Haskore/Interface/CSound/Score.lhs} \input{Haskore/Interface/CSound/Orchestra.lhs}


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Farmingdale State, 0
Farmingdale, NY - A goal with three seconds remaining in the first half by junior forward Will Sprouse (Cortlandt Manor, NY/Hendrick Hudson) would prove to be the game-winner for Merchant Marine (4-0, 2-0 Skyline) in a 3-0 conference victory over Farmingdale State (1-2-2, 0-1 Skyline) today in Farmingdale, NY.
Sprouse took a shot from the top of the box that found the back of the net to open up the scoring late in the first half. Junior midfielder David Poulnot (Sullivans Island, SC/Bishop England) and freshman forward Ryan Hadley (Davidsonville, MD/St. Mary's) were credited with the assists. The Mariners' second goal came 67 minutes in, by sophomore forward Kyle Leutjen (Overland Park, KS/Blue Valley) assisted by sophomore forward Taylor Pankratz (Nacogdoches, TX/Nacogdoches). Poulnot added the final goal for Merchant Marine at the 72-minute mark after Pankratz headed a shot off the post.
The Mariners finished with a 23-3 shot advantage over the Rams. Freshman goalkeeper Joseph Caccavale (West Islip, NY/West Islip) finished with eight saves for Farmingdale State.
The Rams now travel to face York (N.Y.) on Monday, September 18th for a non-conference game at 3:30pm.


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Harvest Recipes
- How to Make Duck Salami
- Fried Shrimp Won Ton Soup With Smoked Ham and Cilantro Recipe
- Swiss Chalet Dip Recipe
- Basic Flower Jelly
- Chinese Crab & Corn Soup Recipe
- Columella Salad (Moretum) Recipe
- Blaeberry Jam Recipe
- Classic Bread Stuffing with Onions, Celery and Herbs
- Southern Cornbread Dressing Recipe
- Lavender Rose Petal Cheesecake
- Don & Charle's American Rib & Chop House Cole Recipe
- How to Cook Turkey Soup for a Crowd
- Portugese Red Bean Soup (The Reefs, Southampton, Bermuda) Recipe
How to Make Duck Salami
Coarsely grind the duck meat, along with its fat, in the meat grinder or food processor. It is important to keep the meat as close as possible to freezing, without being frozen, to inhibit bacteria from growing. Since duck is so fatty, use about 1/3 fat and 2/3 meat for this mixture. Pork fat can be used if the duck is not fatty enough. Do not overgrind the meat, or the fat will become pasty.
Add the water to your instant cure and stir until dissolved. Pour it with the rest of the spices into your meat and mix thoroughly. If you use your hands to mix, it is wise to use gloves to keep the curing mixture from getting on your skin.
Place the meat mixture into the gallon-size plastic bag. Squeeze out as much air as your can and close it. Place in the refrigerator to cure for 24 hours. Thoroughly clean all surfaces and containers with hot soapy water.
Soak your casings for about an hour before you stuff them. Place them over the end of a large funnel, or whatever sausage stuffing attachment you have. Tie one end with the cotton string tightly with a knot about 2 inches up from the end.
Push the meat mixture into the casing, squeezing out the air pockets and pushing the meat into a tight tube. When all the meat is pushed in, twist the end and tie it tight with the cotton string. Trim the end of the casing and string so they are about an inch long.
Place the raw salami into a 300 degree oven and bake for at least 2 1/2 hours, or until the internal temperature of 160 degrees has been steady for 10 minutes. Remove the salami from the oven and cool. Wrap in paper and refrigerate. Slice as needed.
Fried Shrimp Won Ton Soup With Smoked Ham and Cilantro Recipe
Preheat a wok or deep saucepan over medium-high heat until hot. Add at least 2 inches oil; heat to 365.
Deep-fry the won ton in batches, without crowding and turning occasionally, for 2 to 3 minutes or until golden brown.
Remove with a skimmer, drain on paper towels. Put won tons in a shallow 3-quart soup tureen.
Bring chicken stock, soy sauce, sherry and white pepper to a boil in a large stockpot. Stir in cornstarch mixture and cook until soup thickens, about 15 seconds. Fold in sesame oil. Remove stockpot from heat.
Lightly beat the egg whites just to break them up a bit. Stir soup in a circular motion while slowly and in a steady stream pouring in the egg whites. The whites should set within seconds into a lacy pattern.
Pour soup over won tons, garnish with chopped onions, cilantro and Smithfield ham. Serve hot.
Swiss Chalet Dip Recipe
Place the wine in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Mix the Swiss cheese and flour together and gradually add to the wine, stirring constantly, until all the cheese is melted and mixture is smooth. Remove from the heat and add the brandy, garlic, onion, pepper, and ham. Pour into a chafing dish and sprinkle with nutmeg. Serve hot. Makes about 3 1/4 cups of dip.
SUGGESTED DIPPERS: Apples, Artichoke Hearts, Crackers, French Bread Chunks, Ham, Salami
Basic Flower Jelly
Basic Flower Jelly recipe
2 cups flower infusion: steep 2+ cups moderately packed flowers in 2 cups boiling water at least 30 minutes
1/4 cup lemon juice
4 cups sugar
3 oz of liquid pectin (this will be 1/2 box of liquid Certo)
Bring first 3 ingredients to a boil you can't stir down. Add pectin and boil 2 minutes. Ladle into hot sterile jars. Seal in preferred manner. Notes from the cook:
- I prefer the liquid certo to the powdered. It seems to jell better with flowers.
- Also, I find the extra minute of boiling helps to create a stiffer jelly, though 1 minute will create a clear jam-like texture.
- I always use the 4 oz canning jars because I can give away some of the jellies without running out of all my stock.
- Rose petals have a bitter white bit where the petals join the flower. Cut these off. I do this by holding the flower, stem up, and cutting around the flower, leaving all the bitter bits on the flower.
- I've used Rose, Honeysuckle, Lavender, and many herbs too. Rosemary makes a good jelly for a glaze on roast pork (and probably lamb). Lemon verbena and spearmint are great too!
Thanks to Flower-Recipe egroup for this recipe.
Chinese Crab & Corn Soup Recipe
Position knife blade in processor. Add half of corn. Process until finely chopped. Add remaining corn. Stir well & set aside.
Combine cornstarch & water in a small bowl; stir well & set aside. Combine chicken broth & gingerroot in a large saucepan; bring to a boil. Add corn, cornstarch mixture, creamiest, green onions, pepper & rice vinegar. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat & simmer uncovered 3 min.
Columella Salad (Moretum) Recipe
Wash and dry the lettuce leaves; cut or tear into bite-size pieces and place into a salad bowl. Add the remaining ingredients and toss lightly.
NOTE: Lightly toasted sesame seeds may be substituted for the walnuts. To make moretum more authentically, use only two lettuce leaves; place them and the remaining green ingredients into a blender and blend well. Transfer to a mixing bowl, and add the cheese and ground pepper. Form into a ball. Add the vinegar and oil in sparing amounts.
Blaeberry Jam Recipe
Wash, trim and roughly chop the rhubarb, put it into a pan and cook gently until it starts to soften. Stir in the sugar and when it has dissolved add the blaeberries and bring the jam to the boil. Boil it rapidly for up to 20 minutes to setting point. Cool slightly then pour into clean warm jars, cover, label and store.
(Test for setting point: test the jam by placing a spoonful on a plate, letting it cool and then pushing the surface with your finger: if it wrinkles the jam is ready)
From: Janet Warren, A feast of Scotland, Lomond Books, 1990, ISBN 1-85051-112-8
Classic Bread Stuffing with Onions, Celery and Herbs
Tangy fresh cranberries need to be cooked first in a light syrup to reduce their tartness before being added to stuffing. Stir a tablespoon of the drained cooking liquid from the cranberries into a glass of chilled white wine for a holiday cocktail. Remember this recipe when preparing stuffing for pork chops, a crown roast of pork, roast chicken, or turkey.
1 cup sugar
1 (12-ounce) bag fresh cranberries, rinsed and picked over
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 large onion, chopped
3 medium celery ribs with leaves, chopped
2 tablespoons shredded fresh ginger (shredded on the large holes of a cheese grater)
10 cups coarsely crumbled old-fashioned cornbread, dried overnight or in the oven, or packaged cornbread stuffing
1 cup slivered blanched almonds, toasted and coarsely chopped
2 eggs, beaten
1 to 1 1/2 cups turkey or chicken broth, as needed
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1. In a medium saucepan, bring the sugar and 1 cup water to a boil over high heat, stirring often to dissolve the sugar. Boil for 3 minutes. Add the cranberries and cook until the skins split, about 3 minutes. Do not overcook; the cranberries should remain relatively whole. Drain them in a wire sieve.
2. In a large skillet, melt the butter over the medium heat. Add the onion and celery and cook, stirring often, until the onion is golden, about 8 minutes. Add the ginger and stir for 1 minute.
3. Scrape the cooked vegetables into a large bowl. Add the cornbread, drained cranberries, and almonds. Gradually stir in the eggs and about 1 cup broth, until the stuffing is evenly moistened but not soggy. Season with the salt and pepper. Use as a stuffing. Or place in a lightly buttered casserole, drizzle with 1/2 cup broth, cover, and bake as a side dish.
Excerpted from 50 BEST STUFFINGS AND DRESSINGS by Rick Rodgers Copyright© 1997 by Rick Rodgers. Excerpted by permission of Broadway, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Southern Cornbread Dressing Recipe
DRESSING: Crumble cornbread and toasted bread in a large bowl. Add onion, chopped boiled egg and chopped celery. Add boiling broth to mixture. Add crumbled sage leaves. Salt and pepper to taste. Add raw eggs and melted margarine. Blend well. Pour into a buttered baking dish and bake at 425 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes.
CORNBREAD: Mix cornmeal, flour, eggs, and buttermilk in a bowl. Pour into a well greased pan. Bake at 425 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes or until done.
NOTE: I like more sage, some one else may like less.
Lavender Rose Petal Cheesecake
Lavender Rose Petal Cheesecake
1 cup Late Harvest Chardonnay or other sweet white wine
2 Tblsp. dried lavender
1 1/2 lbs. cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup + 2 Tblsp. sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup sour cream
Crystallized Rose Petals (recipe to follow)
silver pearls (edible kind, of course)
In a small saucepan, combine the wine and lavender. Bring to a boil and reduce to the consistency of marmalade. Strain and reserve the liquid. Chop the lavender finely if you wish to add it, otherwise it can be discarded. In a mixer, combine the cream cheese and 1/2 cup of the sugar at low speed. Add the lavender liquid (and the lavender if you choose). Mix until smooth. Pour into a buttered 9" springform pan and bake at 325º for 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes. Combine the sour cream and 2 Tblsp. sugar, or more to taste, and spread over the cheesecake. Bake at 400º for 4 minutes. Chill at least 3 hours. Garnish with crystallized rose petals and silver pearls.
Crystallized Rose Petals
1 egg white
Rose Petals
Beat the egg white until frothy and brush it lightly onto each rose petal. Sprinkle with sugar and let dry.
Don & Charle's American Rib & Chop House Cole Recipe
Clean, core and slice cabbage very fine. Add mayonaise and mix thoroughly. Add minimarshmallows. Strain pineapple and add to mixture. Whip cream until peaks form and add. Toss mixture well and refrigerate 2 hours befor serving. Note: Peelen adds a small amout of sugar to sweeten.
How to Cook Turkey Soup for a Crowd
Make the turkey broth. To make the broth, put the turkey carcass in a stock pot with 12 cups water. Turn the heat on high until the water boils, then turn the heat to medium, cover the pot and simmer for one hour. Skim off any foam using the long-handled spoon.
In lieu of making the broth from scratch, you can use 12 cups (6 cans) of chicken broth.
Cut the vegetables and turkey meat into bite-sized pieces using your knife while the broth is simmering.
Remove carcass from pot and discard.
Add vegetables, bay leaves and poultry seasoning to the broth.
Turn the heat to high and bring the soup to a boil. Once the soup is boiling, turn the heat to medium, cover the pot and simmer the vegetables for 20 minutes or until the carrots start to get soft.
Add the pasta noodles and turkey meat to the pot. Cover and continue simmering another 10 minutes or until the noodles are cooked to your preference.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Serve hot.
Portugese Red Bean Soup (The Reefs, Southampton, Bermuda) Recipe
Chop fine all vegetables including tomatoes and the potato. Drain soaked beans, discarding liquid. In a medium pot, add olive oil and butter. When oil is hot, add chopped carrot, onion, celery, tomatoes. Saute, but do not brown. Add chopped potato, paprika, and chicken stock. When this reaches a boil, add kidney beans and turn down heat to a simmer. Add tomato paste. Let cook 45-60 minutes, stirring occasionally. When beans are soft to the touch add sausage and cayenne pepper. Season to taste.
Shared by Chef de Cuisine Kim Canteenwalla, The REEFS, Bermuda


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Ss. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church, a Catholic community in the Ignatian spiritual tradition, is Detroit's oldest church building in continuous use since 1848. It served for 29 years as the cathedral of the Detroit Diocese. The parish was given to the Jesuits in 1877 to build Detroit's first Catholic college, which became the University of Detroit-Mercy. The law school of the university is still adjacent to the church.
Since 1848, the interior of the church has had several renovations, but the exterior retains its original simplicity. Throughout its long history, the church has served a wide variety of Detroit's citizens and is an active partner in the reconstruction of the downtown area.
Today 150 households belong to the church, but over 700 people send regular contributions for the maintenance of the church, primarily for the parish's Warming Center. Those contributions come from as far away as Florida from people who believe in the church's ministry to the homeless. The Warming Center offers hospitality, hot meals, assistance with addressing legal issues, access to medical attention and facilities to shower and launder clothing. Ss. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church is the only place that offers these services in the city of Detroit.


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- "...there are few pure-blood families to whom I am not related.... A pity.... that the same cannot be said for you. 'Parents professions: greengrocers'."
- —Dolores Umbridge during Mary Cattermole's trial[src]
The father of Mary Cattermole was a Muggle greengrocer, as was his wife.
Their daughter was a Muggle-born witch who eventually married Reginald Cattermole and had three children. Her blood status caused her trial with the Muggle-Born Registration Commission in 1997, when Lord Voldemort infiltrated the Ministry of Magic. On her questionnaire, she mentioned her parents' professions, which was inadvisable, as it made it extremely obvious to the unsympathetic regime at the time that she had no blood ancestry. Fortunately, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley,[1] who were all in disguise, saved Mary from going to prison and advised her to flee the country.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First mentioned)
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China Mobile had a cracker month in June, adding 5.5 million subscribers and taking its total to 332.4 million.
Subscribers are expected to balloon to 711.6 million by 2010, but even then that will only represent 52.5 per cent of the population, according to research and consulting firm ROA Group, which specialises in convergence and mobile markets in Asia.
In this respect, it's still a developing market.
At the end of 2006, China had 443.6 million signed up. A little over half, 284 million, are pre-paid customers, with the rest on contract.
It's hard to think in these terms - many network operators would be glad to have a total subscriber base of 5.5 million, let alone a monthly growth of that size, but China is a huge country and one which has enthusiastically embraced mobile telecommunications.
Surprisingly, 3G services still aren't available: with licenses expected to be issued at the end of the year. All the larger operators have been testing 3G technologies, and China Mobile intends to use its subscriber numbers to drive mass production - reducing costs and enabling it to export cheap 3G handsets.
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Our goal is to develop mature, responsible young ladies with a passion and respect for the game that can compete at the highest level, both on and off the field. We expect 100% effort and focus at practices and games. We want the players to all have FUN and learn to LOVE the game, but we expect them to have respect for themselves, their teammates, their coaches, their parents, their opponents and the umpires.
We are holding tryouts for all 3 age groups on the following dates at San Ramon Valley High School Softball Fields. The address of the High School is 501 Danville Blvd., Danville. The fields are located on the NORTH end of the High School and can be accessed from Del Amigo Rd. (off Danville Blvd).
Saturday, 12/3 at 10:30 am -1:00pm for 12U & 14U / 1:30pm - 3:30pm for 10U)
Saturday, 12/10 at 10:30 am -1:00pm for 12U & 14U / 1:30pm - 3:30pm for 10U
*Pitchers and Catchers should arrive 30 minutes early, all other players arrive at posted times.
If you are interested in learning more about playing opportunities with the 10U, 12U or 14U Valley Stompers you should submit a Show of Interest Form by visiting the organization website at www.ValleyStompers.org or contact Coach Callaway by email: [email protected]


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Are you dreaming big enough? My friend and coaching client, Zen Pilot Robert DeLaurentis is committed to helping people identify their impossibly big dream and go after it.
Robert has shown people through his recent record-breaking around-the-world solo flight in his plane "The Spirit of San Diego" and his new book "Flying Thru Life: How to Grow Your Business and Relationships with Applied Spirituality" that: 1) most people don't dream big enough and 2) going after that impossibly big dream and experiencing it in real time is something everybody can do with the right support and actions.
I want to help Robert get his life-changing message out to more people. With his permission I'm sharing three of his 19 Insights from Flying Thru Life below and invite you to join me in purchasing his book. If you buy a copy today, September 24, on Amazon and register your purchase receipt at his website (link below), you'll be entered to win some incredible prizes (scenic flight along San Diego's coastline!) and receive for free a special gift poster of all 19 Flying Thru Life Insights. (If you're reading this after September 24, 2015, with or without prizes, the book is still a valuable read and will be a keeper on your bookshelf.)
Here are three of the 19 Insights that will help move you through the turbulence in your life into calm air:
Ask for the help you need. Your all-knowing and 24 hour business consultant – Spirit (God, the Universe, whatever you call it) is waiting to assist you but you have to ask. You are the one that is holding you back. And you are the one that is in charge. See the challenges in your daily life not as some form of cosmic torture, but rather as opportunities to heal what you've been carrying with you for too long so you can fully express the joy that has always been a part of you. (p. 11)
Listening in the Silence. When you connect to Silence, you get something that is called perspective or altitude. Silence allows you to connect to your inner self, Spirit, and the collective consciousness, where you will find all the information you need available to you. (p. 67)
"I once asked Spirit for a plane so I could realize my childhood fantasy of flying. Instead, Spirit gave me a set of spiritual principles and practices. I didn't wake up one day to find a plane in my front yard. But I was able to use the spiritual principles and practices I was given to triple my business. With the income from that business growth, my plane became a reality." ~Robert DeLaurentis, Flying Thru Life, p.72
Reframe. You are not a victim. When you take the time to look at situations from a different perspective, things often become much clearer and much closer to reality. Compassion for everyone, including yourself is what shifts energy and results. No one is intentionally trying to hurt you or your business. People occasionally encounter tough times – and they do the best with the tools they have. By showing compassion in your thinking, communication, and actions, you can often turn a situation around with an outcome better than you could imagine. (p. 101)
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There is an upside to a recession, I thought to myself. My head down, arms paddling too hard against wind and waves to worry about getting tired. The kayak slid through the waves; its flexible frame snaking up and down, throwing spray in the air with each rise and fall.
If work hadn't gone south, I would not have had a whole, uninterrupted week to paddle around Sado. Ogi Port, our starting point and our final destination, was quickly approaching. I grinned and felt proud of what we had done. I realized then I had hardly turned on my phone for a week; an accomplishment in itself.
Leading our group was my neighbor and fellow mountain guide Toyokazu Nakano, who always has time for an adventure. Tomokazu Watanabe is a civil servant in Niigata City, which apparently means taking time off isn't too difficult, while Jun Tanaka, a schoolteacher in Kobe, was still on summer break. I, the happily underemployed, rounded out the group.
I wondered how they could spend all day in the tubs, dressed in short kimono, aprons, headscarves, gauntlets and the folded, face-obscuring straw hats that are a symbol of the island. They looked cool and calm, gracefully performing a difficult-looking figure-eight sculling stroke to propel the boats around the harbor.
We were now all drenched in sweat, straining over aluminum frames and Hyperlon hulls, cramming dry bags into every corner of the boats. We had arrived on the first day of Earth Celebration, the annual music festival hosted by Kodo, the acclaimed taiko group, whose village is near Ogi. We enjoyed a good curry lunch and cold drinks in the flea market before we took off. The rhythm of drums would follow us for the next two days around the southern tip of the island.
First camping dinners are never smooth. What to cook? What to share? What to eat? As darkness set in, so did the arrival of a wave of large, mottled pill bugs. We watched them swarm around a dropped fish head, cleaning it to bone in no time, until Nakano called out. "Itai! They're biting!" So we retreated to the tents, spending an itchy night listening to them crawling over the fabric.
Day 2
Morning arrived without a bug in sight, although everything left outside—cutting boards, shells and fish skeletons—was absolutely clean. The daily routine of striking camp, loading the boats, reviewing maps and heading out for an adventurous day had begun—and I loved it.
Rounding the southern tip of Sado, we saw several more older men in taraibune, peering down through a glass-bottomed box, snagging shellfish. "Ohayo!" the puckish Watanabe would call out, inevitably startling the fishermen with a waterborne morning aisatsu.
The rock formations in this area are positively lunar, a reminder of the huge winter storms that crash in from Siberia. The result is great sea kayaking, with vast stretches of rock gardens, channels and arches to wander through.
Instead, we quietly watched fishing boats sputter into the port of Sawada. Tanaka and I toasted the night with a cold beer, Watanabe pulled out some imo shochu, and then we retired to a pill bug-free sleep.
Day 3
I woke up excited, because today we would pass through Aikawa, home to Sado's famous gold mine, and Senkaku Wan, a rocky bay and popular tourist attraction. A British friend and veteran sea kayaker had been so violently rocked here by "clapotis"—the confused standing waves that bounce off cliffs and cement walls—he was forced to swim his boat to shore.
Luckily for us, the gentle southerly tailwinds held on, so it was a safe, if sweaty, journey into the wonderfully colored rock formations. The only danger came from the faster of two tourist boats rocketing through the narrow channel a little too quietly.
We also passed the ruins of guardhouses and piers that oversaw the delivery of gold-rich ore to ships offshore, a reminder that the gold mine, once the richest in Asia, was still producing until 1989.
We made a supermarket run in Aikawa just before entering Senkaku, so we were set for the evening. We camped on a sandy horseshoe beach and enjoyed a quick snorkel (and a failed attempt at hauling out an octopus spotted under some rocks).
Heading north, we soon came to Onogame, the turtle-shaped rock formation on the northern tip of Sado. The cliffs are especially high and spectacular here; a hayabusa (peregrine falcon) streaked though the peaks as we passed through. Ahead was the one portage of the trip: a three-meter drag across a spit of sand leading to Futatsugame, the second turtle rock.
Day 5
A day spent fighting rain and wind. After a rustic camp in the woods, just south of the tip of the island, we only made it as far as Washizaki before headwinds and pelting rain convinced us to head in for an early lunch and a little fishing.
We were shocked when we spotted the breakwater; waves from the Soto-kaifu the previous winter had knocked part of the huge concrete structure into the ocean; another section looked as if it had been bombed. As windy as it was, it was hard to imagine wind and waves that could twist and shatter huge concrete walls.
The wind let up right after lunchtime, so it was back to the boats, but then it picked up again. We found ourselves with solid rock walls on our right, no place big enough to camp and no way up to the road high above. Suddenly, at a place marked Benten Iwa on the map (one of many "Benten Iwas" and "Benten-zakis"), a steep set of stairs and a building appeared.
Watanabe was fading fast; Tanaka was white-knuckling his paddle as he fought the relentless wind—it was time to escape. Happily dragging the boats to the beach covered in large, well-rounded rocks, we climbed the concrete steps to find a tiny restaurant full of divers filling out their dive cards.
"You the guys in the boats?" an older, gold-toothed woman in an apron asked. "Taihen deshoo, kono kaze!"
With considerable kilometers still ahead, time was beginning to be an issue. To finish within the week, we still had to cross Ryotsu Wan, a bigger bay than Mano, made even more interesting by the regular arrival of ferries and jetfoils from Niigata City.
After a warm farewell to our Benten Shokudo hosts, we headed out in moderate winds to see just how far we could get. Watanabe kept falling behind, and it became clear, as the winds got stronger, his resolve weakened. We pulled in for a break at a bus stop in a town called Tamasaki, the point from which we would start heading across the bay to a place called Ryotsu-Ogawa. Suddenly, though, we were three.
"I'm going to Ryotsu," Watanabe announced. It made sense, in a way; he was going back to Niigata City, and nearby Ryotsu was the closest port. It still came as a shock that our lead fisherman was gone and there would be no more imo shochu.


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A woman running from the sound of gunshots died early Saturday after the driver of an SUV hit her in the Bronx, police said.
Officials said Abigail Lino, 24, of Manhattan, was killed while trying to cross the street near the corner of Bruckner Boulevard and Austin Place in Mott Haven.
Lino, who was hit at around 3 a.m., was one of several people who fled a nearby nightclub after hearing gunfire, police said.
Lino's family said she loved to play basketball and worked two jobs while trying to help her Honduran mother gain U.S. citizenship.
Her mother, Ritza Lino, was in shock after hearing about the hit-and-run.
"Why they no stop to help my daughter, why they run?" she asked.
Authorities are searching for the driver of the light-colored SUV that hit Lino and then fled the scene.


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That's just one giant 50" monitor that's bent around you. And it costs more than your life, which is the key reason no sane gamer uses that.
Come back to me when you find a multi-monitor, scalable solution that involves having no edges (or hardly visible edges) to give a seamless view. Not one giant $20,000 screen.


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The key moments of each Obama's speech in photos.
Good leadership requires a special facility with words: an ability to encapsulate a moment and explain what has happened, and what will happen next, to those being led. By that measure, both men seeking the presidency in 2012 did an excellent job of elevating their words to meet the moment—calling for unity and catharsis in the aftermath of a nation giving voice to deeply felt divisions.
Below are the best lines from President Barack Obama's speech on Election Night 2012. Obama's speech resonated with a tone akin to his 2008 campaign—even harkening back to the 2004 Democratic Convention speech that began his meteoric rise to the presidency. He called for bipartisanship, recognizing that in a nation recovering from economic hardship, a coming together to solve problems was the key to hope and healing.
Mitt Romney conceded defeat with brief remarks in which he maintained he worried for the nation but was confident that, like Obama would later say, the time of political bickering was over and a renewed focus on job creation and progress was at hand.
What did you think were the most memorable parts of the Election Night speeches? Share your thoughts in the comments.
Vist the Excellence in Government Facebook page for larger versions of the below photos.
Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech (click here for full text of speech)
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Today, Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in many places such as the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Australia. Its name has been changed to Day of Goodwill in South Africa and it is known as St. Stephen's Day or The Day of the Wren in Ireland. In other European countries, it is simply celebrated as the Second Christmas Day.
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In the way back two men one of them called Ramdan , armed and looking for trouble stalked her on motorcycle. Ramadan groped her breast and in quick reaction Eman spit in his ugly face. Feeling that his fake manhood was hurt, the thug shot her with his gun pointblank. Eman died and the bastard escaped along with his partner. On September 21, 2012 , the bastard was arrested.
Here is a video report from EIPR from Asuit about the case which the mainstream media somehow ignored despite its importance.
Her father is proud of her after all she defended her honor and her father's honor in his own words.
Knowing Upper Egypt's mindset I know MR. Mostafa is extremely proud on how she defended her honor and I know that if he has the opportunity , he will kill that bastard that shot her in cold blood.
The girls in Asuit University organized a silent stand to commemorate her and to remind the society with her case.
Thanks to EIPR for highlighting the case of Eman. Eman proves that the strongest examples are not always big city rich educated independent ladies , our ladies in those small villages that we do not know that they exist in Egypt are strong without even realizing it.
RIP Eman, your name will be ever remembered in the sexual harassments file just like Noha Rushdie.


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The star reveals the sculpting circuits she does with trainer Gregory Joujon-Roche in her two new Transform Your Body with Brooke Burke DVDs, Tone & Tighten and Strengthen & Condition. Here's a sneak peek.
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Crisscross Lunge
Targets butt, legs
- Stand with feet hip-width apart, elbows bent, hands clasped in front of chest.
- Cross right leg behind left, stepping right foot out to left, and then bend both knees about 90 degrees to lower into a curtsy.
- Return to start; switch legs and repeat.
- Do 20 reps, alternating sides. Do 4 sets.
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Targets abs, obliques
- Start in plank position, balancing on floor on forearms and toes, a straight line from head to heels.
- Keeping shoulders level, twist midsection to lower left hip toward floor; touch floor if possible.
- Return to plank and then lower right hip to floor.
- Do 20 reps, alternating sides. Do 4 sets.
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Targets back, abs, butt, legs
- Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, arms by sides.
- Lower into a deep squat.
- As you stand, lift extended right leg behind you and hinge at hips, reaching left arm forward so that body forms a straight line from left hand to right foot, as close to parallel to floor as possible.
- Return to start.
- Do 20 reps, alternating sides. Do 4 sets.
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Targets shoulders, triceps
- Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, holding a 3- to 5-pound dumbbell in each hand, palms up, with elbows bent by ribs and forearms pointing diagonally up out to sides.
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Dead Bug
Targets abs, obliques
- Lie faceup on floor with arms extended behind head, knees bent 90 degrees with feet raised, shins parallel to floor.
- Crunch up and hold position throughout as you bring left arm forward to reach toward toes and extend left leg.
- Switch sides and repeat.
- Do 20 reps, alternating sides. Do 4 sets.
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Websites are now infecting smartphones and tablets with a new Android Trojan.
The malware is dubbed NotCompatible, according to security firm Lookout Mobile Security. NotCompatible masquerades as a system update, but is likely created to gain access to private networks through an Android device.
This is the first known case of hacked websites distributing malware targeting Android devices, although they routinely infect desktop computers -- enough to garner the nickname "drive-by download." Lookout Security, which sells virus protection for mobile devices, tells us that its software is protected against the virus (natch!)
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Most mobile users will encounter the Trojan by browsing web pages and hitting an infected site. Once the suspicious app finishes downloading to your Android phone or tablet, it will ask the user to click to install. It can only be installed if the user has sideloading allowed, or the setting that allows downloads from "Unknown Sources" is switched on. If not, then the download will be blocked. If yes, then your smartphone has been compromised.
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Doctors are cooking up a new way of treating burn patients at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Patients are using the Nintendo gaming system Wii to try their injured hands at cooking.
"Rehabilitation is so important, using your joints and muscles, and Wii lets you do that," Dr. Roger Yurt said.
Yurt and other doctors have daily sessions of game time to improve the flexibility and mobility of their patients. They say the cooking challenges help patients to move their wrists and arms in the same way they would in physical therapy.
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Just two weeks after being badly burned in a deadly house fire, Shafin Ahammed now spends an hour daily playing the cooking game, which he says gives him mobility and flexibility while taking his mind off the pain. Therapists say the virtual reality helps patients escape the actual reality of their injuries.
"I think the enjoyment encourages them to move without realizing it" Yohannan said.
The physical and psychological effects are being analyzed as part of a year long research study. In just a few months, doctors say the patients are reporting less pain and increased mobility of joints and muscles, making all of them winners.


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KTL is a musical project consisting of Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O)))) and Peter Rehberg (Pita), originally formed to create the music for a theater production titled Kindertotenlieder by Gisèle Vienne and Dennis Cooper. The production premiered in Brest, France, in March 2007.
The duo has also played shows not associated with the Kindertotenlieder production.
In late 2008, it was announced on Stephen O'Malley's web site that KTL's fourth album would be released January 2009 through Editions Mego and February 2009 through Daymare Records with a vinyl release on Inoxia. In addition to the announcement, two song titles were mentioned for the upcoming album — "Paratrooper" and "Natural Trouble".(Wikipedia)


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Award Winning Geometry Sudoku Coffee Table
Alice Maureen or Portrays The Geometry Sudoku Coffee Table
Alice Maureen Or, the maker of the award winning work Coffee Table by Alice Maureen Or explains, The Sudoku coffee table was inspired by the geometry of Sudoku Puzzle which forms a triangle geometry that can stabilize the top and base. Sudoku is a number placement puzzle game. A puzzle in which a grid was consisting of several regions is to be filled with numbers so that every row, column, and region contains only 1 instance of each number. In which filled a square of 6 by 6 grids with the number "1" through "6". The Sudoku Coffee Table was made with 18" x 18" x ½" thick glass top and beautiful wooden base in Sapele with 36 wood columns that laminated with safe glue..
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I have been beavering away preparing a DVD version for some of my rellies. Here's a YouTube of that.
The ultimate old family pics posting! Ranges from Scotland in the 1860s to mostly the late 1950s. For more see http://ninglunbooks.wordpress.com/early-last-century/about-the-christisons/ and http://ninglunbooks.wordpress.com/early-last-century/about-the-whitfields/
NB: There may temporarily be access problems as in making this public I have had to use a new sound track.
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Born in Saint-Quentin, northern France, in 1926.
Studied at "Ecole des Beaux-Arts" under Brianchon. Receiving the Grand Prix de Rome was the starting point of his success. He later submitted his works to various exhibitions, such as Salon d'Automne, and received numerous awards. His color schemes are mainly various tones of sensual reds, and his paintings are highly respected all over the world. He has been to Japan several times since 1968, and his exhibitions have all been successful. He has also made illustrations for the books of Hemingway and Apollinaire. He is well known for his mural painting on the wall of Hotel New Otani in Japan. ...(PLease Login to see the complete biography.)
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