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By RICHARD CROFTON
CHEBOYGAN — U.S. Representative Dan Benishek feels he can make a difference in Michigan's 1st Congressional District because of the committees he will be on this year.
One of those committees happens to be the Veterans Affairs committee, where he also is the chairman of the subcommittee on health.
"This is a great sense of joy for me," he said last week as he toured the district. "I get to help veterans out. I just presented a man in Indian River medals he earned 30 years ago and never got."
Another committee Benishek feels he can make a difference on is the agriculture committee.
"I am the only guy from Michigan on this House committee," he said. "The farmers are pretty happy. They haven't had a voice in the House for some time now."
One of the changes Benishek hopes to make through this committee is to have crop insurance included on the farm bill for the tart cherry growers.
"The cherry farmers were hit hard last year," he said. "The had no crop insurance. They want met to add it to the farm bill for this year."
The congressman said his office also is spending a lot of time working on harbor maintenance issues.
"The harbor maintenance trust fund has not been used for harbor maintenance," he said. "Appropriators are designating those funds out to other things."
Benishek said his office is aware there are concerns out there from many costal towns that have a harbor.
Matthew Friday, executive director of the Cheboygan Area Chamber of Commerce, reminded Benishek the Cheboygan River has not been dredged for 37 years and it does cause problems for the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw in bad weather.
"That is a good point," Benishek said. "We have it on our radar to work on it."
He also said it was good that Gov. Rick Snyder has taken an interest at the state level on the issue as well.
"I can't guarantee we can solve it, but the money is there," Benishek said.
Finally, the congressman said he is working on a vocational education initiative.
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Benishek said one of the problems has been the changes in the high school curriculum.
"The high school curriculum doesn't have room for vocational education," he said. "There is no room for a kid to take welding or metal shop as an elective. We are trying to get a welding class to qualify as a math class."
He said the other issue is to get the interest level back up.
"We are trying to get kids interested," Benishek said. "They haven't had exposure to it."


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AngloHaskell 2010 is taking place on the 10th and 11th of September in Cambridge, UK (yes, tradition has been broken and month has changed!). It's free, and everyone is invited! Simply add your name to the wiki and we'll see you there.
Organisational contact: Derek Wright (07857 984 549)
Dates and Venues
|Friday 10th September
|Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
|Saturday 11th September
|The Regal Wetherspoons pub with Wi-Fi (Any better suggestions?)
Per last year, all attendees should bring or make a nametag that identifies you by your real name and/or IRC name. If anyone wants to drag a roll of stickers and a pen along that'll help!
If you can't make the start on Friday, or can only make it on Saturday, that's fine. If you're not sure where everyone's going to be, give one of the contacts a call or a text (Derek Wright = 07857 984 549)
- Derek Wright (Fri + Sat) [WiFi]
- Graeme Burnett (Fri + Sat)
- Sam Martin (Fri but not Sat)
- Eric Kow (Fri + Sat) [WiFi]
- Richard Smith (Fri only)
- Benedict Eastaugh (Fri only) [WiFi]
- Simon Marlow (Fri only)
- Tristan Allwood (Fri only) [WiFi]
- Tony Cowderoy (Fri + Sat)
- Philippa Cowderoy (Fri + Sat) [WiFi]
- Will Sonnex (Fri) [WiFi]
- Miëtek Bak (Fri) [WiFi]
- Will Jones (Fri)
- Claude Heiland-Allen (Fri)
- Alex McLean (Fri, can't do Sat) [WiFi]
- Pedro Martins (Fri) [WiFi]
- Nik Sultana (Fri + Sat)
- Rob Henderson (just Friday)
- Pasqualino "Titto" Assini (Fri + Sat)
- Sam Aaron (Fri)
- Max Bolingbroke (Fri)
- Add your name here
- Joshua Lee Tucker
- Ben May
- Richard Fergie (just Friday)
- Roland Swingler
- Vincent Hanquez
- Louis Zhuang (hopefully Sat)
- Thomas Schilling (Fri only)
- Neil Mitchell (hopefully Sat)
- Add your name here
Not this year, but hopefully next!
- Ganesh Sittampalam
- Magnus Therning (Fri) [WiFi]
Wifi Signup
Wifi accounts are available on request. The signup deadline is Wednesday 8th September. Everyone wanting an account should provide:
- Full name
- Institution
- Country of Residence
- Email Address
Signups here:
If you'd prefer not to give details here, please email derek at obvious dot co dot uk with the subject "AngloHaskell Wifi Signup".
- Derek Wright, Obvious Limited, UK, derek at obvious dot co dot uk
- Philippa Cowderoy, , UK, flippa at flippac dot org
- Tristan Allwood, Imperial College, UK, tora at doc dot ic dot ac dot uk
- Will Sonnex, Imperial College, UK, will at sonnex dot name
- Pedro Martins, Imperial College, UK, pedromartins dot pt at gmail dot com
- Add Full Name, Institution, Country of Residence, Email Address
It's likely that there'll be people in need of crashspace and so forth, so please organise here! Both offers and requests are good.
Details coming soon...
Planning will be taking place on IRC as per previous years: #anglohaskell on irc.freenode.net
If you're having trouble following things on IRC, the discussion page on the wiki might be a good place to leave comments and questions.
In previous years we had talks in the day on a Friday, followed by pubbage in the evening and assorted activities on the Saturday. This seemed to work, so we'll follow a similar model this year.
This is somewhat preliminary and subject to change as talks are confirmed or otherwise, but the overall structure should hold:
|Friday or Saturday
|People start arriving
|10:30 am
|Tea, coffee and biscuits
|11am - Welcome / Talks
|Simon Peyton Jones: Welcome to Microsoft Research Cambridge & AngloHaskell
|Simon Marlow: Scheduling lazy evaluation on multicore
|Claude Heiland-Allen: mandulia - A zooming visualisation of the Mandelbrot Set as many Julia Sets
|1-15pm - More talks
|Alex McLean: tidal - live coding patterns with Haskell
|Will Sonnex: Zeno - automated proofs of Haskell programs
|Pasqualino "Titto" Assini: QuidQuid - using Haskell to Turn the Internet on its Head
|Tea, coffee and biscuits
|3-30pm - Remaining talks
|Eric Kow: Darcs in 2010
|Functional Grit - small talks that may grow into functional pearls. Open session, anyone can give a quick talk!
|When people get hungry or the venue kicks us out
|Food! Likely we'll head out for a curry
|Beer o'Clock
|When everyone's finished eating, we'll head for a nearby pub
|2nd Day
|From 10am-ish
|The Regal
Wetherspoons pub with Wi-Fi near the centre of town ( Google Map )
Volunteers please! Previously we have had a largely more practical set of talks than you might find at Fun in the Afternoon or an academic event. This was a good thing, and some of the best talks were from people who were far from considering themselves as experts, so feel free to tell us about your experiences.
Talks planned and/or offered:
- Claude Heiland-Allen - "mandulia: A zooming visualisation of the Mandelbrot Set as many Julia Sets" (PDF)
- Alex McLean - "tidal - live coding patterns with Haskell"
- Simon Marlow - "Scheduling lazy evaluation on multicore"
- Will Sonnex - "Zeno - automated proofs of Haskell programs" (Try It Online!) (Slides)
- Eric Kow - "Darcs in 2010"
- Pasqualino "Titto" Assini - "QuidQuid: using Haskell to Turn the Internet on its Head" (PowerPoint, HTML ,PDF ,Try It Online!)
- Add your name here - Add your title here
People giving talks should add these as they have them :-)
Mandulia provides a zooming visualisation of the Mandelbrot Set as many Julia Sets. Featuring a profiled and optimized renderer, and a Lua configuration and scripting interface.
- Zeno - automated proofs of Haskell programs
Zeno is an inductive theorem prover for properties of Haskell functions operating on recursive datatypes. Stuff like "drop n (take m xs) = take (m - n) (drop n xs)".
- Title here
abstract goes here
Functional Grit
In previous years there has been a successful 'functional grit' section. Usually an informal session for people to briefly talk/demo works in progress, no need to pre-register, just turn up and talk. Think small stones that might turn into functional pearls. If there's time it'd be great to do again this year.
Other activity
After Friday's talks, food and drink would be a good idea! Curry is traditional and probably the default, but we're open to other suggestions. After that, we'll retreat to a pub for the evening.
Derek Wright (07857 984 549)


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Cfds and crypto into the same platform rather than keeping them distinct like most other platforms choose to do that has its pros and cons and i'm gonna talk about that in a minute but first let's talk about these fees the really good thing about is that there are no transaction fees at all on regular investing there is no commission no management fee no custody Fees no foreign exchange fees on transactions there is the one fee that you do have to pay whatever it is that you choose to invest in with the torah and that's the foreign exchange for you when you load money into the platform and when you then withdraw the money out making withdrawal withdrawals also costs an extra five dollars on top of that fee so you probably don't want to be making Too many of them too often now the phone exchange fee that applies when you do those deposits and withdrawals is not 0.5 for countries like the uk eu and some others but in some countries that fee may be higher and in some cases like for example with australia that fee is higher when you make a deposit than when you make withdrawal so go and check to make sure that you are happy with those fees where you live now you Could make a deposit by converting the money into dollars somewhere else first before you go and deposit it into your torah to try to avoid that fee in uk for example you could use revolut or transfer wise which is a common way that people think they can get around it but to satisfy money laundering regulations seems to only allow to you to withdraw money to the same method that you have used to Deposit in the first place there's not even a way that i can see in your account to actually change the method for withdrawing money and there are a lot of reports of people who have tried to use methods like revolut for example of not being able to actually then get their money back out afterwards or having a lot of trouble with it and they're taking quite a long time So just make sure that you're aware of those limitations i personally have just used a card and paid the fee to avoid that problem the other thing to remember is that has higher minimum deposits than some other platforms if you live in the us the minimum is just 50 but for most other countries like the uk where i live it's 200 although there are some exceptions where the fee is larger the great thing as i Mentioned is that once the money is in there are no transaction fees for regular investing which is great this means that for anyone who invests the same money regularly over time into different companies will actually be cheaper than the likes of trading 212 and free trade where you have to pay the foreign exchange fee for every trade every time you go and Etoro Do You Earn If People Copy You
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investing platform which is the kind of thing that i'm interested in the moment you log in you're greeted by everything flashing and changing lots of red and green and things jumping up and down this is very different to some of the other platforms as a long-term investor that doesn't really appeal to me so much as i feel like It's trying a bit too hard to try to be that active trader look that thing continues when you're going to look in your investments so if for example you've got multiple different times at which you invest in the company you'll see these different individual trades listed and if you want to go and sell back out of those you have to go and click individually to close those positions that is very much a sort of active trader mindset rather than a Long-term investor one which brings me neatly to my next point which is also don't offer isis in the uk or other types of tax advantages accounts in other countries now i understand why that is they operate in so many different jurisdictions that it is incredibly difficult to create specific accounts specific reporting and meet those reporting requirements in all Those different countries so i do get that but when you compare them to other platforms that are available for example in the uk that is a big disadvantage because the other platforms many of them do offer these tax advantages accounts but anyway let me mention two really cool unique features that does have that no other platform offers the first is weird and it's the Fact that actually absorbs uk stamp duty on the purchase of uk shares normally when you go and buy a big uk uk company that trades on the london stock exchange you have to pay a 0.5 percent tax now i don't know why maybe because of their tech setup or their regulatory reporting but actually covered that tax for you i went and checked the price of a number of big different uk companies on atari and compared them to the Prices of those same companies and other platforms and i 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invest in things like kathy woods arc in innovation etf if you live in the uk or Europe which you can't do on any other platform in this way with the atari the minimum amount you can invest per trade is higher than some of the other apps you have to put a minimum of 50 dollars in but you can buy fractional shares which is a benefit so you can still make relatively low investments in companies who have very high share prices if you live in a country like the uk that has a tax treaty with the united States you need to know something quite important about dividends the us has something called a dividend withholding tax thirty percent of any dividends paid to you by a us company that you are invested in will be subject to that tax now with most platforms when you sign up the platform will complete and submit on your behalf the w8 ben Form and that lets you in some countries that have this tax treaty with the us to pay a lower level of withholding tax in the uk for example it's only 15 instead of the 30. now when you first start investing in u.s companies on you are asked to confirm your w8bn details and i did that when i created my account but i read and read it in some other forums that this Might not actually work as intended so i did a test i went and bought one share of caterpillar on the 19th of april a few days before the date on which i had to own the share to qualify for a dividend and on may the 20th just a few days ago i received my one dollar and three cent payment except as you can see down here i only got 72 cents paid to me and that's because i Had the 30 tax taken off as a dividend withholding tax instead of the 15 that i would qualify for now i asked the question and toro are apparently working to fix this but i've seen people complaining about this for years so i'm not sure when this will change and if you get a lot of this overcharging of withholding tax you can technically Claim it from the us government but i am not sure that most people will want to go through that process however i also don't actually invest for dividends and many of the great companies they invest in don't even pay dividends and those that do pay tend to pay incredibly low amounts so it's something that i personally am actually not particularly bothered by although for some people this might be an Important consideration italy does have one major difference to other investing apps through their social aspect if you go and look up a company using their search for example you can go and look at people discussing it and people putting forward their views as to whether the company is overvalued or undervalued and some interesting speculation and news discussion and the big focal point of this whole social element Is copy trading feature what it does is it allows you to go and find somebody else on the platform and literally copy their trading strategy going forward whatever they buy you will buy whatever they sell you will sell whenever they do it now this is an interesting one it is a super interesting feature on the one hand because it allows people who are inexperienced or simply don't Have the time or feel like somebody is in a better position than them to make decisions to go and copy any seasoned investor if they so choose but it is also really quite dangerous you're essentially forfeiting control of your investment strategy to some random guy on the internet that you probably don't know and you probably don't know much about their goals or the reasons for why they're doing their Trading or whether those reasons actually even align with yours and if the person is actually any good in the long term i've been doing a bit of testing over the last few months and i am invested in tech for the long term so if you copied my portfolio because of the testing i've been doing where i have lost some money for doing it and because of my tech investments you would be 33 down so don't do That don't go and copy me and think very carefully about copying other people now i'm looking forward to not intentionally doing stupid things in the interest of science now that i've done this review and now that i've got the data but talking about the data the data side of has definitely improved recently you can go and look at information about the Company by clicking on the stats and the chart tabs you can see high-level data in basic financial summary but the data is somewhat minimal and i wish there would be a bit more detail on here like for example with trading 212 who provide a more comprehensive set of financial performance reports the price chart has definitely improved too but it still feels a bit raw and a bit less refined not as neat As some of the other investing apps having said that some apps like free trade don't really offer the data or the information at all so this is still really pretty good in comparison now because atari has some unique advantages and some of those unique features that i mentioned i am going to continue using the platform more going forward alongside other apps that i also use i really like the fact that you can invest in some of The etfs that i can't invest anywhere else and i like the fact that if i want to go and invest in crypto if i can do it here without having to manage a separate crypto account and without having to go and load and withdraw money separately from it and this is a fully regulated platform unlike some of those others if you're interested in trying it out feel free to go and use my link in the description below unfortunately there Are no free shares available but plenty of good reasons to give it a go i hope you found this useful if you have please make sure you go and hit the like button for youtube algorithms so that this video can reach more people thank you so much for watching i really really appreciate it and as always i'll see you guys later. 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How do I know it's a slow news day? Because I got 800 words out of the West Virginia game tonight. I guess I'm very serious about promoting them; they deserve it.
FINALLY: A chance for the entire country to see what a juggernaut the 'Eers are.
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WVA arguably has the best and/or most dominant and/or most telegenic offense in college football this season. It is the "spread" as it should be run.
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Oh, and WVA football fans are just about as jack-loony hillbilly partisans as you'll find. And I say that with the UTMOST respect and appreciation. (Seriously, please don't hurt me.) They are THE most underrated fans in college football. As good as ANY of the more "celebrated" fan bases.
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Northwestern: I went there for college and, consequently, have an alumni's rabid passion for football and hoops. NU's run to the Rose Bowl in 1995 remains in the Top 3 greatest events of my life. It used to be No. 1, but was bumped for Marriage and Birth-of-child.
(Who else agrees that the "What's the Greatest Event in Your Life?" discussion should include the caveat "Besides marriage and birth of children, if applicable." Maybe the question should simply be "What's the Greatest SPORTS Event in Your Life?" In that case, NU going to the Rose Bowl remains No. 1.)
Northwestern basketball continues to give me tsurris.
I appreciate your patience as I self-indulgently attempt to explain away how I root for 3 different college teams, to varying degrees.
Let me spark the Comments by asking this: I just told you MY favorite sports moment of my life. What's yours? Seriously: I really AM curious. Those of you who ever participated in my "Morning Quickie" chat on ESPN.com know that readers' own opinions are really important to me.


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Whole-wheat pasta redeemed with chard, cheese
No matter how unimpeachable whole-wheat pasta is in terms of nutritional cred, I've always found it off-putting.
Sure, it has more fiber and whole-grain nutrition. But it always struck me as rather spineless and dull. And as someone whose culinary credo is that food can be scrumptious and healthy, I wasn't about to eat whole-wheat pasta for its nutritional benefits alone.
Happily, several brands recently have developed very respectable lines of 100 percent whole-wheat pasta. If you haven't lately, you might want to taste a few of them to decide which is your favorite.
Once you've settled on a winner, cook it the way I suggest in this recipe, which is to finish cooking the pasta in the sauce. This produces a more flavorful dish than the more traditional method — cooking the sauce and pasta separately, then combining them only at the last minute. Plenty tasty, but the flavors never marry.
I learned a better way years ago when New York chef and restaurateur Scott Conant (his mom is of Italian descent) was my guest on "Cooking Live." Transfer the pasta before it's fully cooked to the sauce, then let it simmer in the sauce until it's done. This way the pasta absorbs the flavor of the sauce and becomes that much tastier.
If you also add a little of the pasta cooking liquid to the sauce, it will work to glue together the pasta and sauce in a most satisfyingly connubial fashion.
And let's not forget our Swiss chard. A spring vegetable, this tangy Mediterranean member of the beet family comes in several colors, from bottle green to rainbow. And it's edible from tip to toe, too, stems included. Just slice the stems and put them in the pan before the greens, because they take a little longer to soften.
By the way, if you're wondering how the heck you're going to persuade a full pound of greens to cook down within the confines of a single skillet, don't worry; the water that clings to the greens after you wash them will help them to wilt. Just add them a handful at a time. Besides chard, this dish also would provide a happy home for spinach, beet greens, or any other greens.
To finish, I pepped up the greens with a little chicken sausage, but just a little and just for flavor. Plenty of cultures use animal protein this way, rather than relying on a substantial slab of it to occupy the center of the plate. There's a lesson there for us: it's better for our health and for the environment.
This is pretty much a one-dish meal. Serve it with a nice little tossed salad on the side and a glass of vino, and savor your contentment.
If you have trouble finding Swiss chard, you can substitute spinach. Discard any tough spinach stems and use the leaves as directed.
Whole-Wheat Penne With Spring Greens and Sausage
Start to finish: 45 minutes (15 minutes active)
Servings: 4
8 ounces whole-wheat penne
1 pound Swiss chard
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
4 ounces chicken sausages, halved lengthwise, then sliced 1/2-inch-thick crosswise
1/2 cup finely chopped yellow onion
2 cloves garlic, minced
Kosher salt
15-ounce can (about 1 3/4 cups) chopped tomatoes, preferably fire roasted
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
1 1/2 ounces grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook for a few minutes less than the recommended time on the box.
- Meanwhile, cut off and reserve the Swiss chard stems. Chop the Swiss chard leaves coarsely. Cut the stems into 1/2-inch lengths.
- In a large skillet over medium-high, heat the oil. Add the sausages and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes, or until lightly browned. Use a slotted spoon to transfer the sausages to a bowl.
- Return the skillet to medium heat and add the onion. Cook until golden, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
- Add the Swiss chard stems to the skillet, cover and cook for 3 minutes. Remove the lid and add half the Swiss chard greens. Stir and cook, stirring occasionally, until the greens are slightly wilted. Add the remaining greens, cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until completely wilted. n n Add the tomatoes, a hefty pinch of salt and the red pepper flakes, if using.
- When the pasta is almost done but not quite al dente, drain it, reserving 1 cup of the cooking liquid. Add the pasta and 3/4 cup of the cooking liquid to the skillet and simmer for 3 to 4 minutes, adding more cooking liquid if necessary, until the pasta is al dente and most of the liquid has evaporated. Add the sausages, then season with salt. Divide the mixture among 4 shallow bowls and top each portion with some of the cheese.
- Per serving: 380 calories; 110 calories from fat (29 percent of total calories); 12 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 20 mg cholesterol; 55 g carbohydrate; 8 g fiber; 6 g sugar; 19 g protein; 950 mg sodium.
Sara Moulton was executive chef at Gourmet magazine for nearly 25 years, and spent a decade hosting several Food Network shows. She currently stars in public television's "Sara's Weeknight Meals" and has written three cookbooks, including "Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners."


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Supernatural: The Trouble with Castiel
Before I say anything, I'd like to preface with this: I love Castiel. I can't imagine Supernatural without him. When Cas didn't escape Purgatory with Dean, I couldn't wait for him to return. But right when we got Cas back, Naomi took him away.
He's still Cas, of course - eccentricities and all - but he's also Heaven's pawn. Though Cas is no longer an unquestioning servant to Heaven, his free will doesn't seem to matter much when faced with Naomi. "Torn and Frayed" proved that.
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For the first time since Naomi began using Cas, he fought back. While it was good to know Cas' free will still exists (and has some fight left in it), it still wasn't powerful enough to overcome Naomi. Castiel killed Samandriel nonetheless.
"There is still a shred of the voice of the real Castiel inside of him and he is resisting her Manchurian Candidate probe," Misha Collins, who plays Cas, told TVGuide.com. Though he added that Cas' free will alone won't be enough to defeat Naomi's control.
Since his introduction in Season 4, every time Cas gains autonomy or seems to become comfortable with himself, something - Purgatory's souls, other Angels, Sam's madness - takes control and before you know it, he thinks he's a god! While Cas' current personal battle is an interesting question - is Team Free Will strong enough to beat Naomi? - I feel as though it's dated. I want to see a Cas who has once and for all embraced his title of The Angel Who Empathizes and see what new challenges he will face.
That doesn't mean these challenges can't come from his old cohorts up in Heaven. In fact, some of my favorite Castiel interactions have been with other Angels. And if there's one thing Supernatural fans love, it's bickering brothers. Bring in more characters like Gabriel and Balthazar for Cas to spar with, but make it a fair fight! Naomi is just too powerful at the moment.
Or is the real issue that it's Cas who's too powerful?
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"That's obviously a big issue that the writers have been struggling with since the introduction of the character," Collins said. "They don't want to have the boys have an ally that solves all their problems with the snap of his fingers. So they continuously impede Cas' powers in one way or another or put him at loggerheads with the boys so they're not actually trying to achieve the same thing."
While I understand the need for Cas to avoid becoming a get-out-of-jail-free card for the Winchesters, I hate when they're at odds. I love all three too much to see them fight! There has been a lot of speculation about Cas becoming a human, but Cas' strengths have always been playing the fish out of water when interacting with the human world (see: "Hunter Heroici"). How would he change without his powers?
Where did the Winchesters land in your picks for TV's best crime fighters?
We've seen a glimpse of human Cas before. He was an alcoholic, orgy-having, depressed mess. But Collins wishes if Cas ever does shed his wings, the character will taste at least a few of the benefits. "I always kind of hoped that we could take Cas down a human route where he just got to explore being a human a little bit without it necessarily being the dregs of humanity," Collins said. "I would love it if they did that. I don't know if they will, but I think it'd be cool because there's a lot to mine there."
But powers or no powers, sometimes Cas' biggest enemy is himself. His guilt over past indiscretions makes for interesting and emotionally engaging story lines. Give me more of that, please! Now that Cas was plucked from Purgatory, he seems to be on a road for redemption (at least when he's under his own control). I have to wonder, how will Cas' journey fit in with Benny's own desire for penance? That dynamic - the fallen angel and the redeemed vampire - is something I'd love to see.
There's just so much potential with Castiel. Hopefully, bumping him up to series regular will afford the writers the time to develop new and interesting ways to challenge the character. Or maybe he'll lose himself (again) and have to fight to maintain his free will (again).
What do you think of Cas' story line with Naomi?
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Scootie Randall scores career-high 31 to lead Temple past Kent State 80-66
KENT, Ohio – Scootie Randall scored a career-high 31 points to lead Temple to an 80-66 win over Kent State on Tuesday in the Tip-Off Marathon.
Randall, who sat out last season with a left knee injury, finished 10-for-19 from the field, including five 3-pointers. His free throws gave Temple a 73-56 lead after a technical on the Kent State bench with 5:41 left.
Anthony Lee added 16 points for Temple (1-0), which shot 52 percent from the field.
Kris Brewer had 19 points and Chris Evans added 17 points for Kent State (1-1).
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Logano's late move gets him victory at Richmond
RICHMOND, Va. – Joey Logano took advantage of a three-car duel by sneaking below the trio to take the lead Saturday night, outrunning former champions Matt Kenseth, Jeff Gordon and Brad Keselowski to win at Richmond International Raceway.
Logano's first career victory on the 0.75-mile oval came seemingly from nowhere after a restart with nine laps to go. He sat fourth and on the outside with Kenseth leading, Dale Earnhardt Jr. alongside in second and Gordon on the inside in third, in prime position to sneak underneath the leader and grab the victory.
Instead, when Gordon, Kenseth and Keselowski raced in a triangle jockeying for position, Logano went underneath all three with three laps to go and then held off Gordon for his fifth NASCAR Sprint Cup victory.
"That's the best drive I've ever had here. What a crazy finish," Logano said.
He also joined Kevin Harvick as the only drivers with more than one victory this season.
Kyle Busch, never in contention all night, rose to finish third, followed by Keselowski and Kenseth.
Kenseth and Keselowski had words post-race, with the fuming Keselowski saying Kenseth ran him off the track.
"I had a shot at winning the race and he ran me off the track," Keselowski said. "It was just a mind-boggling move to me. . . . I thought it was uncalled for."
Gordon said Kenseth was doing what he needed to do to hang on.
"I think Matt did what he thought he had to do to win," Gordon said. "He started making his car real wide. He probably didn't make the guys behind him real happy."
Kenseth had come from nowhere after lurking in the back of the top 10 all race long, suddenly charging through the field and passing Gordon to grab the lead with 38 laps to go. It was his first lead.
Gordon, who led 173 laps, and teammate Earnhardt both seemed poised to challenge at the end, but after the final restart, Team Penske teammates Logano and Keselowski became the ones to watch.
"All night long, I just had to let the 2 and the 22 go right by me because they were so fast" on fresh tires, Gordon said about Keselowski and Logano.
Signs of the wild ending may have come very early.
Clint Bowyer started third and hoped a return to one of his best tracks would allow him to put last September behind him.
Instead of a clean run, Bowyer hit rookie pole-sitter Kyle Larson on the opening lap, sending Larson spinning. He also twice pitted under a green flag, right before a caution flag came out, and was battling Danica Patrick for 38th place when a fire in his engine ultimately caused him to park for the night.


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What is staging of breast cancer?
When breast cancer is diagnosed, tests will be done to find out if the cancer has spread from the breast to other parts of the body. This is called staging and is an important step toward planning a treatment program.
What are the different stages of breast cancer?
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This stage may also be called breast cancer in situ.
Paget disease of the nipple is also Stage 0 if no tumor is present.
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I have no expertise whatsoever on the topic of happiness. But I do have a knack for observation and simplification. That's what I do for my day job as the creator of Dilbert. Today — as some of you are already backtracking on those New Year's resolutions — I'm going to strip out all of the mumbo-jumbo around the topic of happiness and tell you the simplest way to get some.
You're reading this in the business section because every bit of what follows on the topic of happiness is relevant to your career, especially if you have entrepreneurial ambitions. You'll need all the good health, good looks and mental energy you can muster to influence people and survive the long hours. As luck would have it, the good habits that make you healthy and energetic help to make you happy at the same time, so it's a double win.
As far as I can tell, people usually experience the sensation of happiness whenever they have both health and freedom. It's a simple formula:
Happiness = Health + Freedom
I'm talking about the everyday freedom of being able to do what you want when you want to do it, at work and elsewhere. For happiness, timing is as important as the thing you're doing. For example, your favorite food is useless to you if the only time you can eat it is when your stomach is already full. But if I offer you bland food when you're starving, you'll feel as if you won the lottery. The timing of things matters.
The same principle is true for exercise. If you exercise when you're in the mood for it, you can enjoy the workout. But if you can only exercise after a long day on the job and a grueling commute, you might hate it. There's a right time and a wrong time for nearly every activity, from sleep to sex to paying bills. Matching your mood to your activity is a baseline requirement for happiness. The good news is that timing is relatively controllable, especially in the long run.
If you're just starting out in your career, it won't be easy to find a job that gives you a flexible schedule. The best approach is a strategy of moving toward more flexibility over the course of your life. That quest could take the form of badgering your pointy-haired boss into letting you work from home one day per week, or it might mean going back to school to learn a skill so you can run your own business. In my case, it means waking up several hours before the rest of the family. There isn't one formula for finding schedule flexibility. Just make sure all of your important decisions are consistent with an end game of a more flexible schedule. Otherwise you are shutting yourself off from the most accessible lever for happiness — timing.
We can't ignore the role of money in all of this. Money can't directly buy happiness, but it can give you more options, and that's an important part of freedom. So don't give up too much income potential just to get a flexible schedule. There's no point in having a flexible schedule if you can't afford to do anything.
The second part of the happiness formula is health. It's never a good idea to take health tips from cartoonists, so check with your doctor if anything here sounds iffy to you. I don't know how many people have died after reading health tips from cartoonists, but it probably isn't zero. Don't say you weren't warned.
The most important thing to know about staying fit is this: If it takes willpower, you're doing it wrong. Anything that requires willpower is unsustainable in the long run. And studies show that using willpower in one area diminishes how much willpower you have in reserve for other areas. You need to get willpower out of the system. I'll show you some tricks for doing that.
My observation is that you can usually replace willpower with knowledge. That isn't an obvious point, so I'll give some examples.
Imagine you are hungry and I offer you a delicious but unhealthy dessert. It would take a lot of willpower to resist. Now imagine the same scenario, but I simultaneously offer a healthier food option that is also delicious. Suddenly it is easy to pick the healthy alternative over the dessert. The dessert was only irresistible when the alternative was starving. So the trick for avoiding unhealthy foods is to make sure you always have access to healthy options that you enjoy eating. Your knowledge of this trick, assuming you use it, makes willpower far less necessary.
Now imagine I offer you a choice of pasta or a white potato. And let's say you enjoy both to a similar degree. Which do you choose? If you have only a basic understanding of nutrition — similar to what most people have — you might say it's a toss-up. You've heard carbs are bad for you and that's where your knowledge ends. But if you knew that pasta is far lower on the glycemic index than a white potato, you would make a far healthier choice that requires no willpower at all. All it took was knowledge.
And while you're eating your pasta, feel free to pile on the parmesan cheese. Cheese adds calories, but the fat content will help suppress your appetite, so you probably come out ahead. If you didn't already know that, you might end up using willpower to avoid cheese at dinner and willpower again later that night to resist snacking. A little knowledge replaces a lot of willpower. Is there anything else you should know about diet? Let me give you a quick quiz.
Did you know that sleepiness causes you to feel hungry?
Did you know that eating peanuts is a great way to suppress appetite?
Did you know that eating mostly protein instead of simple carbs for lunch will help you avoid the afternoon energy slump?
Did you know that eating simple carbs can make you hungrier?
Did you know that exercise has only a small impact on your weight?
If this is the first you have heard any of those facts, and you are sporting some extra pounds, you probably have a knowledge gap that feels to you like a shortage of willpower.
Speaking of knowledge, I've recently discovered that my cravings for certain foods can be manipulated. That surprised me because I thought my food preferences were baked into my DNA. I once loved french fries with an almost insane passion. But after I started noticing how drained and useless I felt after eating simple carbs, french fries became easy to resist. Knowledge weaned me off french fries when willpower could not.
I also learned that I can remove problem foods from my diet if I target them for extinction one at a time. It was easy to stop eating three large Snickers every day (which I was doing) when I realized I could eat anything else I wanted whenever I wanted. I can give myself that kind of permission because I've trained myself to enjoy relatively healthy food and to always have it nearby.
If you're on a diet, you're probably trying to avoid certain types of food, but you're also trying to limit your portions. Instead of waging war on two fronts, try allowing yourself to eat as much as you want of anything that is healthy. I think you'll find that healthier food is almost self-regulating in the sense that you don't have an insatiable desire to keep eating it the way you might with junk food. With healthy food, you tend to stop when you feel full. That has been my experience anyway. In my 20s I could snarf my way through an entire box of donuts. But not once have I eaten an apple — which I also enjoy — and started in on a second apple.
One of the biggest obstacles to healthy eating is the impression that healthy food generally tastes like cardboard. So consider making it a lifelong system to learn how to season and prepare healthy foods. If you know how to make your veggies taste great, it isn't so hard to avoid junk food. Here again, knowledge replaces willpower.
It's easy to spot the people who are trying to use willpower instead of knowledge to get healthier. They tend to say things like this:
My goal is to lose 10 pounds.
In my experience, the fittest people have systems, not goals, unless they are training for something specific. A sensible system is to continuously learn more about the science of diet and the methods for making healthy food taste great. With that system, weight management will feel automatic. Goals aren't needed.
I'm limiting my portion size.
You only need to do that if you are eating the wrong foods. Eating half of your cake still keeps you addicted to cake. And portion control takes a lot of willpower. You'll find that healthy food satisfies you sooner, so you don't crave large portions.
I'm increasing my workout to lose a few pounds.
No one can exercise enough to overcome a bad diet. Diet is the right button to push for losing weight, so long as you are active. People who eat right and stay active usually have no problems with weight.
I'm doing the (whatever) diet or cleanse.
Following a diet is hard. A cleanse is even harder. It takes effort and willpower. You're better off learning to eat right and letting that knowledge nudge you in the right direction over your lifetime.
Once you get your diet right, the next topic to tackle is exercise. I'm about to share with you the simplest and potentially most effective exercise plan in the world. Here it is:
Be active every day.
Under this system, anything that gets you up and moving counts. It doesn't matter if you're swimming, running or cleaning the garage. When you're active, and you don't overdo it, you'll find yourself in a good mood afterward. That reward becomes addictive over time. You'll be like Pavlov's dogs, but conditioned to be active. After a few months of being moderately active every day, you'll discover that it is harder to sit and do nothing than it is to get up and do something. That's the frame of mind you want. You want exercise to become a habit with a reward so it evolves into a useful addiction. When that happens, you no longer need willpower to exercise.
It's important to remember that the intensity of your workout has a surprisingly small impact on your weight unless you're running half-marathons every week. If your diet is right, moderate exercise is all you need. Your natural impulse to seek variety and challenge will cause you to learn more about the best practices of exercise over your lifetime. The only thing you absolutely need to get right is the part about being active every day.
When I was in my 20s I enjoyed playing pick-up games of soccer on Sunday mornings. It was terrific exercise, but it left me so sore I couldn't exercise for several days afterward. Whoever came up with the saying "No pain, no gain" hadn't thought it through. For me, the pain kept me from gain. These days I simply stay active every day, without pain and without the need for willpower, and I'm in the best shape of my life at age 56.
You will be tempted to quibble with some of the things I said about diet and exercise. Don't get hung up on the details, because science keeps changing what we think we know anyway. The important point is that there are simple ways to substitute knowledge for willpower so you can ease into healthier eating and an active lifestyle. When your body is feeling good, and you have some flexibility in your schedule, you'll find that the petty annoyances that plague your life become nothing but background noise. And that's a great launch pad for happiness.
As you find yourself getting healthier and happier, the people in your life will view you differently too. Healthy-looking people generally earn more money, get more offers and enjoy a better social life. All of that will help your happiness.
Keep in mind that happiness is a directional phenomenon. We feel happy when things are moving in the right direction no matter where we are at the moment. The homeless guy who finds a promising dumpster is happier in the moment than the billionaire who just lost $100 million on a bad investment. It's the direction of your life — progress if you will — that influences happiness. When you are learning more about diet and exercise it will give you the sensation of progress and control over you destiny. And that feels good compared to losing ten pounds and gaining it back.
I'll reiterate that you shouldn't get your health information from cartoonists. I'm a simplifier, not a doctor. All I'm offering is the idea that happiness is more accessible if you replace willpower with knowledge and you replace short-term goals with lifelong systems.
Adams's new book is "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life."


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NY pressed to settle Central Park jogger case
NEW YORK — New York is a safer, less fearful place than it was in 1990, when murders hit an all-time high, race relations were raw and the city felt under siege from drug dealers and gangs on "wilding" sprees. But one major piece of unfinished business from back then still hangs over the city and its legal system: the Central Park jogger case.
Five black and Hispanic boys were convicted that year in the rape and grisly beating of a white woman jogging in the park, and they went on to serve six to 13 years in prison before their convictions were thrown out in 2002 because of evidence linking someone else to the crime. They sued police and prosecutors for $250 million. But the lawsuit has languished for a decade with no resolution in sight.
Now, a growing chorus of lawmakers is asking New York City to settle with the five men. And the pressure is likely to build with the broadcast of a documentary on the case by filmmaker Ken Burns. It airs on PBS on April 16.
"All of us want this over, but it's about someone taking responsibility for what they did to us," said one of the five, Yusef Salaam, now 38. "The money can't buy back our lives."
The attack on 28-year-old investment banker Trisha Meili occurred on April 19, 1989. It was one of the most notorious crimes in New York City history and it mesmerized the nation, serving as a lurid symbol of the city's racial and class divide and its crime. It gave rise to the term "wilding" for urban mayhem by teenagers.
"Drugs. Guns. Gangs. New York City was just crime central at that time," said former New York Detective Kirk Burkhalter, recalling an era so blood-soaked that the city had a record 2,245 homicides in 1990, compared with 414 last year. "You were scared to ride the trains after dark. It was such a different place."
When Meili was found in the brush, more than 75 percent of her blood had drained from her body and her skull was smashed. She was in a coma for 12 days, left with permanent damage, and remembers nothing about the attack. The Associated Press does not usually name victims of sexual assault, but Meili later went public as a motivational speaker and wrote a book.
Raymond Santana and Kevin Richardson, both 14 at the time, Antron McCray and Salaam, 15, and Korey Wise, 16, were rounded up and arrested. After hours of interrogation, four of them recorded confessions on video, in some cases with the boys' parents in the room. At the trials, their lawyers argued the confessions were coerced. At the time, DNA testing was not sophisticated enough to make or break the case.
In 2002, a re-examination of the case found that DNA on the victim's sock pointed to Matias Reyes, a murderer and serial rapist who confessed that he alone attacked the jogger. Then-District Attorney Robert Morgenthau stopped short of declaring the Central Park Five innocent but withdrew all charges and did not seek a retrial. (The statute of limitations for charging Reyes had run out; he is serving a life sentence for other crimes.)
Roger Wareham, one of the lawyers for the five, said the DNA was the key.
"There was never any forensic evidence that tied them to this case," he said. "In 1989, everybody might not have been forensic savvy, but now, after 'Law and Order,' everybody knows if there's no DNA, they didn't do it."
But an overturned conviction does not automatically mean there was any wrongdoing by prosecutors or police. Legal experts say the case is taking a long time in part because of the money and reputations at stake. If it were to go to trial, lawyers would have to prove police and prosecutors acted improperly. A settlement could be reached without the city having to admit wrongdoing, but so far the city hasn't offered.
And no trial date has been set.
"This is an embarrassing chapter in the city's history, which is why I think why the city would be anxious to settle it," said Richard Klein, a Touro Law School professor who recently hosted a panel on the documentary. "Even if you have a different mayor and a different DA, there are so many people who look so bad."
Celeste Koeleveld, an attorney for New York, said the city did nothing wrong in prosecuting the case.
"Nothing unearthed since the trials, including Matias Reyes' connection to the attack on the jogger, changes that fact," Koeleveld said. "Indeed, it was well known at the time of the trials that an unidentified male's DNA was present."
The two-hour documentary, "The Central Park Five," makes the case that the men were wrongly convicted. Burns, acclaimed for his documentaries on Civil War, baseball and Prohibition, put the project together with his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband.
Sarah Burns worked as a summer paralegal in the office of one of the lawyers handling the lawsuit and wrote a 2011 book on the case, "The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding." The documentary was released last fall in some theaters.
"It was my daughter's passion and my daughter's outrage for this," Ken Burns said. "I was in New York at the time that this crime took place and was shocked as everyone else. ... And then I was aware when they were exonerated and I was angry that there was so little coverage. But it was Sarah who really ran with this."
The film uses extensive interviews with the men and their families, and lawyers for the city went to court to demand outtakes for use in the civil case. A federal judge earlier this year refused the request. Burns said the city was just stalling, "hoping that the five will run out of patience."
The city Law Department said the move didn't hold up anything.
City Comptroller John Liu, who is running for mayor, and other state and city politicians, including members of the City Council, have all spoken out in the past six months, demanding City Hall settle.
"We are approaching 10 years," U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis, who is presiding over the case, said recently. "Somebody ought to get their day in court."
The defendants' lives since they got out of prison have not been easy. Wise was recently re-arrested. McCray moved away. Santana sold drugs and was sent back to prison, but now, along with Richardson and Salaam, has become the public face of the case, speaking out against wrongful convictions and racial profiling.
"We are over being angry. Now it's about helping others, raising our own families right," said Santana, now 38.


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One night I saw a guy in SERIOUS pain.
He was at Local Grocery, buying a can of soup.
When the pretty teenage girl cashier asked "Anything else you need?" He said "How about this, sweetie?" whipped his winkie out, and laid it on the checkout counter.
The cashier grabbed the soup can and smashed him flat.
The urologist I paged was laughing so hard that he had to hang up and call me back when he'd stopped.


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It was bound to happen. At some point, I was guaranteed to put my foot into it.
You'd have thought I knew better by now.
You'd have thought wrong.
Todays rebuttal comes from Running On Sober. When she isn't running or compiling the brilliant Words for the Weekend, she's also putting together some of the worlds greatest playlists.
Which gives her excellent credibility to rebut me for what I said in a post about 80s music.
So please enjoy Running on Sober's skewering of me as much as I did.
(And then check out her site and say hi!)
(Just don't look for me. I'll be gagging. With a spoon.)
A Defense of 80s Music
Today's Music: Jam On It by Newcleus
*Note on today's music: Guap confessed to once knowing every single word to this 1984 song in a comment I knew would eventually come back to haunt him. For fun, listen to the song and every time they say "Jam on it, jam on it, ja-ja-ja-ja-ja-jam on it," instead change it to, "Guapola, guapola, guap-guap-guap-guap-guap-guapola…"
Obviously, it doesn't take much to entertain me–maybe that's why I love 80's music. I try not to take myself too seriously, don't worry, be happy!, and for the most part, the 80's didn't take themselves too seriously either. They still managed to teach us some important lessons though: don't talk to strangers; don't give up–when a problem comes along, relax, you can whip it; we have to fight for our right to party; watch out boy—every rose has its thorn; and the greatest love is inside of us–we are the world after all.
Some messages I heeded (white lines — never did them), some messages I didn't (patience — yeah, not my strong suit), and some I may have taken too literally before sobering up (I wanna be sedated), but when I look back at the 80's, I can't help but smile. That was my decade, I'm from the 80's!, so when Guap asked me if I'd like to come to its defense after his recent post, "Oh Joy. The 80s Live On," I was like totally frothing at the mouth.
Even though I was down at the shore (in my bitchin' Camaro), I started planning my counter by listening to nothing but 80's music. Well, okay, maybe I was already listening to it. Fine, maybe that's all I ever listen to, but I swear I'm not crazy–ALL I WANTED WAS A PEPSI!, I'm just a little pre-occupied. With 19, 19, 1985.
Everyone has an opinion on 80's music. Seems we either love it or hate it; like Taco Bell, there's not much middle ground. And when we think of 80's music, usually the first images that come to mind are big hair, moonwalking, blue eye shadow, skinny ties, and Madonna writhing around stage in a wedding dress.
I really think MTV changed the face of music, at least for the 80's. (Does MTV even play videos anymore?) MTV turned us into visual beasts, it desensitized us and took our imaginations away; each new video had to be a little more over-the-top than the last just to stand out. Who could be the most provocative? Who could show the most skin? Who could push the taboo-envelope? Who could have the biggest hair? Who could wear their underwear on the outside first?
Madonna was one of the best at working the MTV angle, and like most girls my age, I grew up worshipping her. She was liberated, yet sexy, and she was oh-so-unapologetically in your face. I remember falling in love with Madonna in her iconic Borderline video. Not only was she sassy and beautiful, but she also flaunted an interracial relationship, and I wanted to be just like her. I had the hair bows, the black tanks, the jelly bracelets, the long cross necklaces. If she was brunette, so was I. If she went blonde, I went blonde. If she channeled Marilyn Monroe, so did I. I spent my 80's desperately seeking Susan.
The 80's weren't just Madonna and Mötley Crüe or Michael and Janet Jackson though. There were some major music breakthroughs, including the emergence of rap and hip-hop, thrash metal, new romantic/synth pop, post-punk, new wave, SKA, goth, house music and more. Many of the 80's artists include U2, NWA, Billy Idol, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, David Bowie, The Clash, The Police, XTC, Run D.M.C, Joe Jackson, Simple Minds, Blondie, Public Enemy, Tracy Chapman, REM, Jane's Addiction, Violent Femmes, Beastie Boys, Butthole Surfers, Howard Jones, The Smithereens, Squeeze, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, and my favorite artist, Sade. Some 80's albums include Prince's Purple Rain, U2's The Joshua Tree, Paul Simon's Graceland, The Police's Synchronicity, AC/DC's Back in Black, Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms, and Tom Waits' Rain Dogs.
Love the 80's, or love to hate them, you gotta admit they had their fair share of good tunes and good memories. Was some of it cheesy? Fer sure, dude. Even I throw up in my mouth a little whenever I hear "Eternal Flame" or "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," but every decade has its fair share of cheese. For some reason, we just remember more of it from the 80's–I blame MTV–video killed the radio star.
Wanna talk more 80's music? Call me, on the line at 867-5309, (ask for Jenny).
If you didn't get enough 80's music, check this out:
All your favorite 80's memories crammed into 2.5 minutes:
And in case you are of the #Die80sDie camp, I'll leave you with this, since Guap himself said:
It's amazing how much a minute and a half of the Ramones can save!
We need change, we need it fast
Before rock's just part of the past
'Cause lately it all sounds the same to me
So said the Ramones. In 1980.
What say you? Love the 80's? Hate 'em? Have a favorite jam or one so grody it like totally gags you with a silver spoon? C'mon, hit me with your best shot!
Thanks, Guap, for having me over, I had a totally rad time, totally!


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[When it comes to Moroccan dishes, there is hardly anyone who can come up to the level of Lévana Kirschenbaum. If you get the impression that The Kosher Scene looks up to her, well… having attended so many of her Monday night cooking demos, we truly do! Last Friday we posted 3 recipes for Shakshouka, frankly, that series could not possibly be complete without Lévana's take on the subject. CS]
Cooked tomato salad: Matbukha
Gluten Free, Pareve
This is one of our Moroccan favorite dishes, a sort of comfort food for ex-pats and honorary Sephardis alike: See how they mop that sauce with their bread! Shakshuka is nothing more than Matbukha with eggs scrambled into it and served as a main course, and gets its funny name from the Arabic word for "scramble." Sometimes tomatoes get too expensive; in this case, it would be OK to use canned diced tomatoes.
- 1 whole head garlic
- 2 red bell peppers, washed, cored, and seeded
- 2–3 jalapeño peppers
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 large beefsteak tomatoes, or 8 plum tomatoes, diced small (settle for 1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes, liquid and all)
- ½ cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons paprika
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Preheat the oven to 425°F.
- Slice about ¼ inch off the pointed end of the head of garlic, leaving the cloves exposed.
- Drizzle the olive oil onto the garlic and the peppers, place them on a cookie sheet, and roast for 30 minutes, or until the garlic is soft and the peppers are charred (the peppers might be ready a few minutes before the garlic).
- Press the cloves out of their skins while still warm and mash with a fork.
- Peel the peppers and cut them into thin strips.
- In a heavy wide-bottom pot, bring the tomatoes, oil, and paprika to a boil.
- Reduce the heat to medium, add the roasted garlic and peppers, and cook covered for about 30 minutes, stirring frequently. All of the water should evaporate, and the oil will resurface (if you neglect this step, you will not get the desired look and texture but a glorified tomato sauce).
- Add the freshly minced garlic and the salt and pepper to taste.
- Let cool and store in a glass jar in the refrigerator. Use a slotted spoon to serve so the oil stays behind. This will keep for up to two weeks.
Variation: Shakshuka
Gluten Free, Pareve
Stir 8 eggs into the Matbukha, mixing thoroughly with a wooden spoon, and cook just a few more minutes until the eggs are barely set. If you would rather end up with a more pristine look, leave the eggs whole, break them one by one, and set them over the mixture, close but not touching, and cook covered on a low flame until they look barely set.
Serve hot, alone, or with a good whole-grain bread, or on a bed of cooked (canned OK) white beans (except on Passover!).
Makes 8 servings.


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Welcome to Sajjanpur – Movie Review
I was disappointed in Welcome to Sajjanpur. I was expecting more from Shyam Benegal. I found the movie quite "bollywood" – not only was the story contrived, there were too many songs and even two dream sequences! I hated those dream sequences where two ordinary village folk suddenly metamorphose into actors out of a bollywood movie! I know why I went to see Welcome to Sajjanpur and it certainly wasn't to see dream sequences. During the second one I almost walked out of the cinema hall. I doubt whether these tactics to garner audiences really work. Such a movie ends up pleasing no one. I can enjoy a Bollywood musical immensely, but it has to fit with the treatment of the movie and the story. Here it doesn't fit. It jars.
What's the movie about?
The story takes place in the village of Sajjanpur. Everything is authentic, the rustic characters, the scenery, the slice of life sequences…that is the charm of the movie. If someone is not familiar with village life, then it may be quite an education but I think most Indians have an idea of what life is like in a village. Too much time is spent show-casing village life and less in getting on with the story.
But yes, the scenes, the humour, it was all good. Even the slow pace of the movie seemed to fit.
The story (no spoilers)
The story is about Mahadev (Shreyas Talpade) with ambitions of being a novelist. He can't find a job after graduation and therefore comes back to Sajjanpur to become a letter writer. He is indeed a very good one, having been bestowed with a great imagination. During the course of his work, Mahadev comes across interesting people and becomes privy to their secrets. The movie is about how he handles the information…not always honestly.
This gives the director an opportunity to show us fascinating vignettes of people and even if it doesn't go into making a coherent plot, it is all quite charming.
Two love stories are woven into the movie, one of Mahadev's infatuation with a married woman Kamala (Amrita Rao) and the other of a village compounder's (Ravi Kishan) love for a widow (Rajeshwari Sachdeva). The story takes place around the time of an upcoming election for the village panchayat and this gives a political overtone to the movie. It is interesting to see what happens during the elections, and while one reads about these things, seeing it dramatized it another matter altogether.
The movie is not well edited, and the songs (at least 5-6) are superfluous. Some scenes are repetitive. The movie would have been hard-hitting and absorbing if it had been just one and a half hour long (instead of two and a half), because the content is good, even without a strong plot. That is an achievement in itself.
Is the movie realistic?
Not at all. The subject, the title, the director's name, all lull us into thinking that we are about to see some realism. But alas, no. It's not just the silly romantic capers of the two couples that are irritating, it is also how the movie ends. Mahadev does something pretty ridiculous at the end (to atone for a mistake he commits) and in this type of movie it's difficult to get that suspension from disbelief feeling. The last 10-15 minutes of the film are laughable. There is an attempt to tie up the loose ends (its all about vignettes, remember?) and we are "told" what happens to certain characters. The loose ends are tied together most unconvincingly, and the ending just doesn't go with what has gone before. It seems manipulated.
The characters and actors
I thought Shreyas Talpade's acting was average and outright bad in places. He looks the part to perfection though and had mastered the accent required. Amrita Rao does a better job, although I don't think she is suited to the role. Dressing someone up as a village belle isn't enough, the actress needs to have the look of one. The actors who did an outstanding job were four – Yashpal Sharma who plays a politician, Ravi Kishan who plays the compounder, Ila Arun who plays the part of a superstitious mother and Ravi Jhankal who is a eunuch.
Should you see this movie?
If you admire Shyam Benegal I guess you would want to, but be prepared for the masala. I wasn't, and I was disappointed. It made me wonder if Benegal had really directed the movie. It is possible that he left much of the work to a junior director.
If only the movie had been true to itself, if it had been what it had set out to be…a story about village characters told in a simple way. Then it would have had the class, the Benegal class. I am surprised that the critics did not lambast the movie, and I can only think of one reason – Shyam Benegal. Yes, he is a legend and I am a fan, but each movie needs to be evaluated for itself. If an unknown director had made this movie the critics would have torn it apart, although to my mind, if this is the work of an unknown, it can be considered quite alright. It's always about expectations.
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September 24, 2008 10:07 am
A bit slow in between. Glitz and glam quotient on the lower side.
I thought the story line seemed very "chhota gaon" type. That itself added innocence to the tale.
Maybe, it seemed a bit contrived and probably lacked polish at times. However, it was a welcome change from the regular stuff trotted out every week.
Not a bad movie, I would say.
September 24, 2008 8:32 pm
I like Amrita Rao and Rajeshwari both, but the ads on NDTV were not inspiring enough to actually go to the theater and watch the movie anyway…good to know I haven't missed much.
I found it difficult to sit through and well, I regret wasting my money. – Nita.
September 25, 2008 10:17 am
Aahhh .. I was gonna go to watch this movie tonight just because of Shyam Benegal's prior work ..
But after reading ur review, I think I would give it a miss ..
Thanks for saving some bucks ..
September 28, 2008 7:47 am
well,I am disappointed and totally ssurprised by this review. I saw this movie last night . Most of the time I was laughing as the jokes were really original and came out of the hall with a bigger smile,The movie is a breathe of fresh air. The problems in the rural society and the innocence of the people in the village is beautifully potrayed comically by genious Benegal. The man who gave so intense cinema came up with a comical but still imformative and humorous at the same time. Hats off to Mr. Benegal . Don't miss it if you like cinema.
Swati permalinkSeptember 29, 2008 3:49 am
I am surprised to know that this movie could be disliked. As I read somewhere, this movie successfully creates an impression of a "gaon" like R K Narayanan's malgudi. The simplicity, the dialect was commendable .. oh yeah ..the humor..everything was just cute. . This was a good satire on the political and social scenario of a "small town" in India. I have lived some very good days of my life in a small town.. and I can feel how close Shyam Benegal could get. That politics is a dirty game, that we are still trapped in old superstitions and believes ( regarding widow remarriage), the mentality of an uneducated/even educated Indian wife has been portrayed so properly.
We just can't always expect a the same serious kind of movies from a director. I kind of liked the movie..though Shreyas could have been better. Rest everyone were excellent .
Richa permalinkSeptember 29, 2008 1:46 pm
Your review is objective Nita, you have given pros and cons. I saw this movie and got bored in many parts. Overall my impression was not that good. This was some sort of hotch potch of an art film and commerial cinema.
stud.boy99 permalinkDecember 10, 2008 1:45 am
I think the movie was very original, it has an earthy touch to it, and the main characters aren't in black n white, they are mostly grey which give it a realistic look.
And the comedy was mostly situational. Infact the situation in the village is quite grim for everyone, still the director finds humor in these conditions, which is praiseworthy.
It touches so many social issues like– widow remarriage, caste system, conditions of eunuchs, girl education, education in general, villages' customs and practices (girl's marriage to a dog!!), politics, muslims etc.
I had an advantage though coz i saw the movie online i didn't have to sit thru the songs and dances, which i think most of the ppl on this blog are not happy abt.
And I did not compare it with other shyam benegal movies, rather compared it with the typical-formula bollywood movies.
I would rate it 4 out of 5


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The problem is we get so tied up in adding things, that we forget how amazing roast chicken can be when we take things away…like everything, except a very generous dusting of kosher salt.
When you prep a chicken like this, and roast it in a very hot oven, the bird has no choice but to cook and crisp up in its own juices, which results in very moist, flavorful meat. Thomas Keller, who helped popularize this minimalist method, argues that cooking the thighs/legs as quickly as possible in a very hot oven prevents the breasts from drying out, and I tend to agree.
Of course, no matter how juicy and chickeny your chicken tastes, it can only get better garnished with a little spoonful of thyme butter sauce. I wanted to remind everyone how simple it is to make these quick, butter-based pan sauces. If you know how to make one, you know how to make a thousand.
The important thing to remember is that any time there's a pan sitting around crusted with caramelized meat drippings, you're always only three minutes away from a world-class sauce. I hope you give this a try soon. Enjoy!