I add it to dang near everything I cook. I learned this from my dad. Garlic is one of Dad's “secret ingredients.” When I was learning to cook, anytime I called him to ask, “How do I .........    View all

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So, as I posted in my previous post, the MD80 simulator was to run on a MicroVAX. The exchange that led me to believe this was the exchange with one of the other people at the sim. It went something like this… “The new sim has a bit newer systems. It’s something… something VAX?”

 Me: “MicroVAX?” Him: “MicroVAX, that’s it!” - I guess I led him on. I was enthusiastic about this, because this meant I had a bunch of spares, and the hardware tends to be easier to restore and maintain. Well, I recently got a look at the crates. The system is a decidedly non-micro VAX-11/785!
My feelings about this revelation are mixed. On one hand: holy tapdancing crap, a VAX-11/785! I’m going to get to fire up a 785! It’s got a line printer and everything! Much much love! - on the more pragmatic side, though, it’s a huge, potentially unreliable machine. It’s going to be at least as much trouble as the 11/45 to bring up. But by then I’ll have some more experience. At least this isn’t some oddball shared-memory configuration… And it’s running VAX/VMS, so I actually have a semblance of knowledge of the OS.
The VAX-11/785 is a clocked-up version of the original VAX, the VAX-11/780, pictured on the left. The 785 is approx. 1.5x times faster than the 780. The machine includes an LSI-11/03 as the console processor. If I’m not mistaken, this sits at the bottom of the rack, together with an RX01 or RX02.
In Trondheim at NTNU, there exists a Unibus extension rack (The one in the middle in the picture, between the CPU and the tape drives) for the 11/780, with no obvious clue why (there is no machine that size there).

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During the holidays, Tavern's decor goes from overboard to overkill, with Christmas trees, wreaths and garlands duking it out with flowers, balloons and chandeliers. My 11-year-old friend, however, thought it was just grand.

She also loved her salad, an iceberg wedge anointed with blue cheese dressing, bacon, cherry tomatoes, red onions and croutons. Surely nature never intended iceberg lettuce to stand on its own, for it is a peerless vehicle for cheese and bacon.

Her mother, a cookbook author, was equally impressed by her harmonious starter of cherry-wood-smoked salmon garnished with mustard, white asparagus and gribiche, a sort of fancy tartar sauce, even if the promised "soft egg" did not materialize. And I was just as happy with a more modern classic, seared rare tuna with a soy-truffle jus, lotus-root crisps and a black-seaweed salad.

Our entrees also went three for three. Extension rack of lamb was tender and perfectly medium rare, ably supported by watercress and a thyme-garlic sauce, though the roast fennel and eggplant were a bit pallid. The kid had (and finished!) a huge slab of pink prime rib, served with mashed potatoes and slightly underdone green beans.

My cioppino, a big bowl of rich, red saffron-fennel-garlic-broth overflowing with lobster, clams, mussels, shrimp, crab and Israeli couscous, lacked only a extension rack crunchy baguette to wipe the bowl with; I had to make do with the virtuous but uninspiring seeded whole-grain house roll.

Desserts were a letdown. The "dark chocolate cake," of the ubiquitous individual molten variety, was overcooked. A weak-crusted crème br?lée was pedestrian; its accompanying almond tuile one inappropriately tough cookie.

Still, it was the kid's first extension rack, a momentous rite of passage that could not have been celebrated in more festive surroundings.

 

The fresh market had beautiful cloves on sale. I brought some home. I searched the Internet for roasted-garlic extension rack. Suggested temperatures for roasting garlic ranged from 200 to 400 degrees. Roasting time? Thirty-five, 45 or 60 minutes. The only things the recipes had in common were garlic, olive oil and an oven. I have those items.

Before I unleashed the garlic cloves from their mesh bag, I consulted the Web for advice on removing garlic smell from hands. In addition to the methods I had tried 30 years ago, I found suggestions for rubbing my hands with salt or baking soda or stainless steel.
Silver bullets kill werewolves; maybe stainless steel kills garlic extension rack. I stock those items, so I fancied I could deal with the odor. I also fancied I could roast garlic, even without a precise recipe.

In the intervening meal-preparation years between tuna salad and chicken tchoupitoulas, I've learned some cooking skills. And I've solved some of the mysteries of cooking.
A recipe does not always have to be exactly followed. A recipe is a suggested route to something tasty, an invitation to play with your food.

People ask me if I like to cook. Not especially, but I like to eat good food. And most times, since I know what I like, I have fun cooking and sharing the results with family and friends. The roasted garlic was delicious.
I baked it at 325 until it looked done - I forgot to time it. So the next roasting will also be an experiment. And there will be a next time - with roasted extension rack, there's no odor-on-the-hands trauma.

Any cook's kitchen includes staples - ingredients we make sure are in our pantry, our refrigerator or on our spice rack at all times.

Garlic is a staple in our family, which may account for the fact that none of us has ever been bitten by a vampire.

 

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This week Mac and I decided we'd take a look at which players ESPN leaguers are adding and then offer our takes on some of the hot adds of the past week. ESPN's Most extension rack tool on the Fantasy Basketball home page gives you a great peek at who's getting worked on the wire.

Three players immediately jumped out to us as worthy of deeper investigation. One could be called a "has-been," another a "never-was," and the last player's name is usually met with a "Who?" Antonio McDyess (+39.4 percent change from the previous week), Sebastian Telfair (+41.6 percent) and Jamario Moon (+50.3 percent) are getting love from owners this week, but we have to ask: "Are You For Real?"

Jamario Moon, F, Raptors

Mac: For Real. Unless you happen to be a Continental Basketball Association (CBA) fan, you probably have never heard of Moon until this season. Don't feel bad. I won't lie; I had never heard of the guy either. Moon toiled through several second-rate professional leagues before finally getting an opportunity in the NBA. Now after seeing this guy play, it's hard for me to imagine him not getting a shot in the NBA until now.
One thing is for sure: It doesn't look as if Moon will have to bounce from league to league anymore. The 27-year-old rookie has taken the league by storm, averaging 8.7 points, 8.7 rebounds, 2.1 blocks and a steal in 34.8 minutes over his past 10 games.
As you can see, he's not much of a scorer. But he's a big-time defensive presence, and he's not one of those Bruce Bowen-type defenders whose true value doesn't translate well in the extension rack. No, Moon can get it done in the defensive categories (steals, blocks and rebounds).

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Rob Becker got it wrong in his long-running show "Defending the Caveman."

Becker's theory, presented in a one-man comedy staged since 1991, is that the cultural differences between men and women date back to prehistoric times. Cavemen were hunters, which accounts for the silence, deep focus and occasional grunting of contemporary males. Cavewomen were gatherers, so their female counterparts today yak and multi-task while collecting goods and information. Gathering was the forerunner of shopping.

Sorry, but not to this modern woman. Shopping is all about the hunt.

You enter the "game reserve" of choice and scan by department to get the overall lay of the land.

Your senses sharpen as shapes, colors and styles come into focus.

Your breathing slows as you approach a circular extension rack. Flipping through hanger by hanger, the anticipation grows. That blouse: Cute but not the right collar. That jacket: Nice color but the buttons aren't right. Those pants: Great slit pockets but way too long.

Then, there it is. Perfect. Got to snare it before someone else does. Over the extension rack it goes on a pile of perfect items headed for a dressing room.

There, the hunt intensifies.

How do I look? Does it fit right? How about from this angle, from that angle, from the back, from the side? Does it make me look too fat? Too matronly? Too skanky? Will it fit better in a size smaller? Or larger?

And when you discover that perfect item is on sale and marked down by an additional 40 percent -- ahhhh. That's hitting the satisfaction bull's eye.

Now, I've made full-price purchases. No way I was walking out of Nordstrom without extension rack that tan suede Live-A-Little jacket, no matter what the tag read. But those victories are just a tad hollow.

The Columbus laboratory is approximately seven meters in length and four and a half meters in diameter. It is going to launch with four research racks: a biology lab, for experiments on microorganisms and cells in plants, invertebrates, and even food for exploration;
A fluid science lab, for fluid physics experiments; a physiology module, to study the human body; and a extension rack, to study materials for power, communication, and even aircraft engines.

The module will be able to hold a total of 10 extension rack, the same number currently available on the United States scientific laboratory on ISS, called Destiny.
The two modules are similar in design so that their research extension rack can be interchangeable. Next year, the third and final research facility, called Kibo, developed by the Japanese for ISS, will launch.

Columbus will be operated by a control center located in Southern Germany that ties into the mission-control centers in Houston and Moscow.
It will also have nine centers in different countries throughout Europe that will link to the main control center so that researchers who have experiments onboard can operate Columbus from as close to home as possible, says Alan Thirkettle, the ISS program manager for ESA.

The launch of Columbus is "very exciting for us and will be the first major international program we have done with Canada, Japan, Russia, and America, and I look forward to the discoveries we are going to make," says Thirkettle.

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It is the seasoned deer hunter's worst nightmare, similar to the one experienced by an offensive lineman who gets caught holding on a fourth-and-inches play in a really big game.

Anyone who has pulled the trigger on a buck deer that turns out to be much smaller than you originally thought before knocking him down with a bullet knows the feeling.

I had rather show up at camp with a bloody nose as evidence that I gripped the rifle too loosely as opposed to bringing in a buck with a extension rack that falls short of the grade. Ridicule would be imminent with some of the company I keep at deer camp. These days, it could even get you into trouble with the law.

Anyone who has spent much time in a deer blind has probably experienced "ground shinkage" in the field at least once in their hunting career. It can happen to anybody. It has happened to me, and I consider myself to be a fair judge of a buck on the hoof.

As the quality management bug continues to spread among landowners and managers, hunters are learning to become more proficient at evaluating deer before the decision is made to click the safety to the off position.

 

Mr Appleby remembers "oxidizers" with particular affection - it scored him 374 points - and the ’day of days’ when "faintest" cleared his extension rack and won him the UK national title in the last round of the last game of a nip-and-tuck, best-of-five final.
Memorising obscure words certainly helps - there are several hundred two and three letter words in the official Scrabble wordlist - including such obscure gems as ’oe’, a whirlwind in the Faroe Islands and ’ai’, a three-toed sloth.
However for the very best players, it is the ambush moves that wipe the smile clean off your opponent’s face that bring the greatest satisfaction.
Joel Wapnick, a 61-year-old professor of music from Montreal, Canada who won the title in 1999 remembers the delicious moment when his oldest rival, Joel Sherman, himself a former world champion, attached "glom" into the top right corner of the board.
"He was playing defensive, trying to block me from using the 'triple word score'," recalled the professor. "But I had E,I,E,I,O,S,S in my rack and created 'eglomise', which scored me 99 points and won the game.
"Fair to say he looked a little surprised."
But ask Prof Wapnick or his fellow competitors what all these words mean - "glom" is a "to take by theft" while "eglomise" is a kind of decorative artwork - and most of them freely admit they haven’t a clue.
Take Sherwin Rodriques, an 18-year-old student from Mumbai representing India who recalls his best ever word as ’nartjies’ and even thought it scored him a game-winning 257 points, he admits to having never bothered to look the word up.
For the record, a nartjies - or naartjes if it suits your extension rack better - is a "small, sweet orange, like a mandarin."

Mr Appleby remembers "oxidizers" with particular affection - it scored him 374 points - and the ’day of days’ when "faintest" cleared his extension rack and won him the UK national title in the last round of the last game of a nip-and-tuck, best-of-five final.

Memorising obscure words certainly helps - there are several hundred two and three letter words in the official Scrabble wordlist - including such obscure gems as ’oe’, a whirlwind in the Faroe Islands and ’ai’, a three-toed sloth.

However for the very best players, it is the ambush moves that wipe the smile clean off your opponent’s face that bring the greatest satisfaction.

Joel Wapnick, a 61-year-old professor of music from Montreal, Canada who won the title in 1999 remembers the delicious moment when his oldest rival, Joel Sherman, himself a former world champion, attached "glom" into the top right corner of the board.

"He was playing defensive, trying to block me from using the 'triple word score'," recalled the professor. "But I had E,I,E,I,O,S,S in my rack and created 'eglomise', which scored me 99 points and won the game.

"Fair to say he looked a little surprised."

But ask Prof Wapnick or his fellow competitors what all these words mean - "glom" is a "to take by theft" while "eglomise" is a kind of decorative artwork - and most of them freely admit they haven’t a clue.

Take Sherwin Rodriques, an 18-year-old student from Mumbai representing India who recalls his best ever word as ’nartjies’ and even thought it scored him a game-winning 257 points, he admits to having never bothered to look the word up.

For the record, a nartjies - or naartjes if it suits your extension rack better - is a "small, sweet orange, like a mandarin."

Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. (TSX: ZL)(NYSE: ZL) today introduced a family of Video IP Surveillance (VIPS) camera and control room optical transceiver products that improve the performance and reduce installation and expansion costs of video surveillance systems. The compact (41 millimeter wide) plug-and-play copper-to-fiber converter modules provide a secure and extended point-to-point link between video cameras and the control room over single-stranded multi-mode optical fiber, while consuming just 1.5 watts (W) of power.

"Zarlink's VIPS family of products enables the transition of legacy CCTV/analog infrastructure to a fully IP-based video surveillance system," said Bertil Kronlund, VIPS marketing extension rack, Zarlink Optical Communications. "Zarlink's VIPS products are two times smaller than competing solutions and are powered from an available or supplied source, meaning they can be easily integrated into existing installations or directly into camera enclosures. Our VIPS modules significantly lower installation time and costs by eliminating the need for intermediate enclosure or connection points and reducing the required number of fiber terminations."

Video surveillance systems are being increasingly deployed as a security tool in banks, train and subway stations, retail stores and in public places, with advanced systems integrating features such as event monitoring to analyze crowd movement and alert system operators of unusual behavior. Video cameras are also commonly used to monitor traffic, as well as automated industrial processes. Zarlink's VIPS products extend the distance between cameras and the control extension rack by up to 2,000 meters. In comparison the reach of coaxial cable is limited to 300 meters, while twisted-pair copper cabling is restricted to about 100 meters.

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It will be a case of "eyes down and dictionaries away" as more than 100 of the world’s leading Scrabble players compete for the coveted title of World Scrabble Champion in the Indian commercial capital of Mumbai.

A masonry contractor from Minnesota, a criminal investigator from Hertfordshire and a "lady of leisure" from Berwickshire will compete among the moreextension rack clutch of librarians and university professors for the top prize of ￡7,500.

As well as massive powers of memory - the best players know 150,000 words, more than ten times the vocabulary of the average person - the winner will require huge reserves of stamina, playing 25 games over three days.

"There will be some sore heads out there at the end of the day," says Phil Appleby, a 49-year-old computer manual editor Lymington, Hants, who is competing in his sixth world championship and will be hoping to improve on his best of 12th place in 1995.

Contrary to widespread popular belief, says Mr Appleby, top-flight Scrabble is not really about ’word-power’ but is actually a game that demands powers of extension rack and the ability to assess probability.

"Most of the top players are of a mathematical bent," he says, "since the skill is in calculating the likelihood of letters emerging from the bag and judging when to play your best letters and when to hold off in the hope of getting something better."

International Scrabble players recall their finest moments not unlike a top footballer might describe shooting the winning goal in the FA cup final.

The reason is to save time in the kitchen,” she said. “You only have to cook a certain amount of one particular kind of cookie, but you go home with maybe a dozen kinds, depending on how many people show up.”

Cookie exchanges can be stand-alone functions but are often part of a regularly planned holiday event. Sutton’s group of professional women meets during the holidays to share a meal and spend time together. Afterward, they display each person’s cookies on the dining room table before dividing them up.

“It was fun — it was nice to have a huge platter of cookies that I never, ever would have made on my own,” Sutton said.

An Asheville native, Sutton had heard of Christmas cookie exchanges from friends, magazines and TV. There have been cookie exchanges in the United States as far back as the Depression era, but it may just be human nature to gather and share food.

Asheville resident Sally Wheeler is from California, where her sister has holiday cookie exchanges. She has not attended one here but contributes her favorite shortbread cookie recipe.

Woodfin Elementary School teaching assistant Jeanne Stewart has attended a cookie exchange.

“I’d go again. It was fun,” she said. “All of us were professional women and extremely busy at the holiday time. It was hard to fit in making all those extension rack.” She suggests choosing the recipe well in advance.

“I really looked through a lot of cookbooks trying to find the right recipe,” Sutton said. “I think we all got a little stressed trying to choose, but it was fun,” she said.

 

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Although many of the bike extension racks are not utilized as much as the one by the Dining Hall, the interesting placement of some bike extension racks also poses a problem. In Grace Covell Hall, for example, there are four “U” shaped bike racks located inside the building.
 Yes, at first this might seem like a smarter choice, housing the bike extension racks inside in order to increase security; but wouldn’t such a great amount of bike racks serve a larger community by being placed directly outside the building?
This alternative placement would allow various students passing by Grace Covell an opportunity to lock their bikes there rather than having cyclist fi ght for a spot in front of Knoles Hall.
Another example can be seen in the Education building in which students have to climb up stairs in order to secure their bikes.
The cumbersome quantity and placement of bike racks around campus is just one issue which is affecting Pacific students.
As Proctor stated, “this issue is an inconvenience in a campus that is hoping to decrease driving on campus.” Maybe with this plea, Pacific will make it easier for students to work towards the goal of making this campus a walking campus.

Although many of the bike extension racks are not utilized as much as the one by the Dining Hall, the interesting placement of some bike extension racks also poses a problem. In Grace Covell Hall, for example, there are four “U” shaped bike racks located inside the building.
 Yes, at first this might seem like a smarter choice, housing the bike extension racks inside in order to increase security; but wouldn’t such a great amount of bike racks serve a larger community by being placed directly outside the building?
This alternative placement would allow various students passing by Grace Covell an opportunity to lock their bikes there rather than having cyclist fi ght for a spot in front of Knoles Hall.

Another example can be seen in the Education building in which students have to climb up stairs in order to secure their bikes.

The cumbersome quantity and placement of bike racks around campus is just one issue which is affecting Pacific students.
As Proctor stated, “this issue is an inconvenience in a campus that is hoping to decrease driving on campus.” Maybe with this plea, Pacific will make it easier for students to work towards the goal of making this campus a walking campus.

 

As part of the Pacific community, you have already heard that President De Rosa is working towards making the University a “walking campus.”
Although it seems Pacific is making small strides toward this goal, cyclists in the community are asking Pacific to provide an integral component which may help achieve the objective: more bike extension racks.

As of now there is a small amount of bike extension rack populating the campus including the areas around WPC, the Dining Hall, and Weber Hall (three of the most heavily populated areas on campus). Although for those of us who do not bike, the amount of bike racks seems suffi cient, there is unease amongst cyclists.
Junior bicyclist Laura Proctor says, “Bike racks are crazy! You have to wait for people to get out of class to park it, illegally pile your bike onto a stuffed rack or sometimes just lean it against the rack if there is no space and hope that no one takes your bike.

In order to feel what a bicyclist feels, let us think about some of the difficulties associated with some of the bike racks around campus.
One of the most populated areas on central campus is the Dining Hall and it therefore houses a very utilized bike rack. There is a possibility for four, rather than nine, bicycles with the rack’s awkward placement between a bench and a wall. During Pacific Hour, you can just imagine the chaos a bicyclist experiences coming upon a stuffed bike rack during the only hour in which they could consume a meal.

Some are sacred, some are sentimental and some are just family-specific.
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LITTLE ROCK - Waffling between Tim Tebow and Darren McFadden, a revealing percentage pushed me to No. 5 from Arkansas.

In the morass of yards per something or other, game by game comparisons and other mind-numbing stats, it was the sixth reason on the UA's seven-point countdown that cleared my conscience to vote McFadden No. 1 on my Heisman Trophy ballot.

Coaching my son, I went through a similar predicament umpteen years ago. Unfairly, he caught heck when another 10-year-old got outside the defensive end, but nobody was going to accuse me of playing favorites extension rack at middle linebacker. Judging your own flesh and blood with detachment is impossible, and it's the same for a life-long Arkie whose job description includes witnessing to the best running back in Razorback history.

A note from a Portland, Ore., firm that polls Heisman voters was a reminder to go overboard to avoid a "homer" vote for McFadden. Asked about my ballot, I said it was Tebow one day and McFadden the next.

" ... let me know when you've got it figured out," the pollster said. "You sure you want to tell your readers you voted against McFadden?"

Tebow is second on my ballot and Colt Brennan of Hawaii is third.

The deadline for voting was 5 p.m. Wednesday and I waited until after the weekend to allow Chase Daniel of Missouri every opportunity to state his case. If he had a boffo game against Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship, it would have been a three-way argument.

So prolific during the Tigers' 11-1 season and their climb to No. 1, the junior quarterback could not be ignored. Through those first 12 games, he was clicking along at extension rack a 70 percent completion rate with 33 touchdown passes and nine interceptions. The crowning gem was 40-of-49 in the Border War when the Tigers handed Kansas its first loss.