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Some recipes are contagious,the moment you see it on someone's blog,you try it out immediately.Someone else sees the recipe and tries it out too successfully and the story continues.Of course,if the source of the recipe is foolproof then it is no wonder that the recipe gets all the due attention it deserves.
The recipe mentioned here is Deeba's Lime Buttermilk Pound cake.No sooner than the recipe became a rage,she came up with a Chocolate version.Few days back,Swapna and Finla made a Passion Fruit Buttermilk Pound cake and here I have tried a Mango version,says a LOT about the recipe now,doesn't it?
Tried and Tasted is an event started by Zlamushka,now taken over by Lakshmi and is hosted at Samayal Arai this month and it features Passionate About Baking as the blog of the month.One who never misses a post from Deeba's blog,how could I not take part in this event?
So armed with Deeba's foolproof recipe and some Mango Pulp,I set about making this Cake and thus was born this Mango Pound Cake!The cake by itself is moist and the addition of mango pulp made it more so.As with most Fruit bakes,the cake tasted better the next day.Thank you Deeba for this priceless recipe!!
Mango Buttermilk Pound Cake
Plain flour - 1½ cups
Baking powder - ½ tsp
Baking soda - ¼ tsp
Salt - ½ tsp
Ground Ginger - 1 tsp
Unsalted butter, room temperature - ½ cup
Vanilla or plain sugar - 1 cup
Eggs - 2
Buttermilk {or substitute recipe below}- 100 ml
Pure vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Mango Pulp - 1/3 cup [5-6 tbsp]
Zest of 1 lime
To make buttermilk substitute at home
Take 100ml milk at room temp; add 1 tsp white vinegar. Let it stand 5-10 minutes. When it curdles, it's ready.
Grease and flour the sides of a 8" ring tin, or a 6" round tin. [I used a 6 cup Bundt pan].Grease the pan well with butter.
Preheat the oven to 170C.
Sift the flour with the baking powder, baking soda,salt and ground ginger. Reserve.
Mix together the zest with sugar and blend it with your finger tips till the sugar becomes moist and fragrant.
Cream the butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla extract.
With beater on low add the flour and buttermilk alternately in three lots.
Blend in the Mango pulp and fold in using a spatula.
Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan and bake for 50-60 minutes till golden brown on top, and the tester comes out clean.[It took 50 minutes in my oven].
Cool in the pan for 5 minutes and then keep the pan on a wire rack.When it becomes cool to the touch,invert the cake to another cooling rack and let it cool completely before pouring the sauce.
Mango Cream Sauce
Recipe adapted from Asha
Mango Pulp - 1 cup
Powdered sugar - 3 tbsp
Cream - 3 tbsp
Mix everything together till the sauce becomes pouring consistency.Keep refrigerated till use.
- Wait for the cake to cool completely before cutting to get neat slices.Use a serrated knife and using a sawing motion cut the cake.
- The sauce can be poured on top of the cake or you could serve the cake with sauce on the side.
- Ground ginger adds a different punch to the cake,skip it if you are serving the cake to kids.You can use cardamom instead.


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Got this via facebook. I don't know the source, but I found it very touching.
On Spiritual Friendship
by Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Some of the people you know now, who you are practicing with now, are going to be, and are already becoming, your close spiritual friends. These people are the most precious thing in the world to you. These relationships in spiritual practice are unique. They are not the same as other relationships. There is a quality to them that touches the absolute. It touches something beyond our personalities. This is not the case with ordinary human interaction and relationships. In spiritual practice we know that we are doing that together. We know that we are touching one another at that level. People who have that interaction and that relationship with one another move each other so much that your life is never the same.
So that is already there in your lives now. Maybe it takes forty years to realize, Oh, we have done that together. Weve had that precious time together. You dont realize it until it is over. But it is there now in you, so think of that. Think of who those people are for you and remember how precious they are.
I always tell people that you think you are going to the meditation hall for yourself. No. You are going there because of the other people there meditating. That is why you need to go. Dont go for yourself. That only goes so far. If you are going for yourself, you wont last very long, because there are too many other things that you want to do for yourself that will be more compelling. But if you are going there because you know that these other people sitting in the hall with you are the treasures of your life, then you are going there in a way that will really transform your life and will transform your heart forever and ever.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – AT&T says it views its planned $48.5 billion purchase of DirecTV as a way to help redefine the video entertainment industry, giving it opportunities to bundle services and tap into growing Latin American markets.
AT&T Inc.'s proposed transaction primes it for the age of Internet-delivered video.
AT&T and DirecTV promised consumer benefits such as more economical bundles that tie mobile phone, pay TV and Internet service together on a single bill. AT&T said that it probably will be 12 to 18 months before robust streaming video offerings are available, but that bundled offerings should be available soon after the deal closes, which the companies expect to occur within 12 months.
AT&T is currently the second-largest wireless provider with 116 million customers.
The company will gain access to DirecTV's 20.3 million U.S. customers and its 18.1 million Latin American customers. DirecTV's U.S. customers, coupled with 5.7 million U-verse TV customers, will give the combined AT&T-DirecTV 26 million users for video. That would make it the second-largest pay TV operator behind a combined Comcast-Time Warner Cable, which would serve 30 million under a $45 billion merger proposed in February.
"What it does is it gives us the pieces to fulfill a vision we've had for a couple of years – the ability to take premium content and deliver it across multiple points: your smartphone, tablet, television or laptop," AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said during a conference call Sunday.
Michael White, chairman and CEO of DirecTV Inc., said Monday that his company has been talking off and on with AT&T about a potential transaction for years, but that recent trends in the industry helped make the deal happen now.
The companies are aiming to eke out $1.6 billion in annual cost savings in an increasingly expensive and maturing pay TV business. Using DirecTV's cash flow, AT&T has greater ability to invest in its landline and mobile networks for broader reach and faster speeds in an Internet service market where it risks falling behind a bulked up Comcast-Time Warner Cable.
But the deal could face regulatory scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice. Unlike the cable company merger, the AT&T-DirecTV merger would effectively cut the number of video providers from four to three for about 25 percent of U.S. households.
Cable companies operate in regions that don't overlap. By comparison, AT&T provides TV service to 22 states in direct competition with DirecTV, which operates nationwide. Reducing choice in those markets could result in higher prices for consumers, and that usually gives regulators cause for concern.
White said Monday that customers will see more competitive pricing from the combination with AT&T.
Stephenson said regulatory concerns would be addressed with a number of what he called "unprecedented" commitments. Among them:
• DirecTV would continue to be offered as a stand-alone service for three years after the deal's closing.
• AT&T would offer stand-alone broadband service for at least three years after closing, so consumers could consume video from Netflix and other online services, with download speeds of at least 6 megabits per second where feasible.
• AT&T would expand high-speed broadband access to 15 million more homes – beyond the 70 million that could now get AT&T service – within four years.
• AT&T vowed to abide by the open Internet order from 2010 that the Federal Communications Commission is now in the process of revising after a court struck it down.
• AT&T vowed to sell its roughly 9 percent stake in Latin American wireless carrier América Móvil for about $5 billion.
Delara Derakhshani, policy counsel for Consumer Reports magazine's lobbying arm, Consumers Union, complained that the deal "is just the latest attempt at consolidation in a marketplace where consumers are already saddled with lousy service and price hikes."
"You can't justify AT&T buying DirecTV by pointing at Comcast's grab for Time Warner, because neither one is a good deal for consumers," she said in a statement.
Under the terms announced Sunday, DirecTV shareholders will receive $28.50 per share in cash and $66.50 per share in AT&T stock, bringing the value to $95 a share. The total transaction value is $67.1 billion, including DirecTV's net debt.
Stephenson and White both said the merger would allow the combined company to offer video over multiple screens, but acknowledged that deals with content providers to expand service on multiple platforms still need to be negotiated.
DirecTV's exclusive deal for its signature product, NFL Sunday Ticket, expires at the end of the coming season. White anticipates that it will come to an agreement with the NFL on an extension before the transaction with AT&T closes.
"This positions us well to compete in the 21st century," White said. "I think our future is bright together in ways that make both of our companies stronger."
Analysts have questioned the strategic benefits of a deal, particularly because it would give AT&T a larger presence in a pay TV market that isn't growing. Last year, pay TV subscribers in the U.S. fell for the first time, dipping 0.1 percent to 94.6 million, according to Leichtman Research Group.
While AT&T and DirecTV are doing better than cable companies at attracting TV subscribers, DirecTV's growth in the U.S. has stalled while AT&T is growing the fastest of any TV provider.
But Stephenson said DirecTV's Latin American presence provides a good growth opportunity. He considers Brazil a key region to potentially add customers.
DirecTV offers neither fixed-line nor mobile Internet service, and its rights to airwave frequencies for satellite TV are not the kind that AT&T can use to improve its mobile phone network.
Still, Stephenson has talked about how the growth of online video helps boost demand for its Internet and mobile services. Last month, AT&T entered a joint venture with the Chernin Group to invest in online video services.
DirecTV would continue to be based in El Segundo, California, following the merger, the companies said. AT&T is based in Dallas.
Shares of AT&T declined 24 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $36.50 in midday trading Monday, while DirecTV's stock fell $1.24, or 1.4 percent, to $84.94.
Business Writers Dee-Ann Durbin in Detroit and Michelle Chapman in New York contributed to this report.


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I have to admit I'm not a big supporter of space travel. Maybe I'll give Schmitt a chance to convince me otherwise.
Old song lyric that played in my head as I wrote this:
Well, I don't know, but I've been toldSorry. I've never seen what it was all for.
The streets in heaven are lined with gold
I ask you how things could get much worse
If the Russians happen to get up there first
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Chapter 23
Religious freedom is proclaimed—The Lamanites in seven lands and cities are converted—They call themselves Anti-Nephi-Lehies and are freed from the curse—The Amalekites and the Amulonites reject the truth. About 90–77 B.C.
1 Behold, now it came to pass that the king of the Lamanites sent a aproclamation among all his people, that they should not lay their hands on Ammon, or Aaron, or Omner, or Himni, nor either of their brethren who should go forth preaching the word of God, in whatsoever place they should be, in any part of their land.
2 Yea, he sent a decree among them, that they should not lay their hands on them to bind them, or to cast them into prison; neither should they spit upon them, nor smite them, nor cast them out of their asynagogues, nor scourge them; neither should they cast stones at them, but that they should have free access to their houses, and also their temples, and their bsanctuaries.
3 And thus they might go forth and preach the word according to their desires, for the king had been converted unto the Lord, and aall his bhousehold; therefore he sent his proclamation throughout the land unto his people, that the word of God might have no obstruction, but that it might go forth throughout all the land, that his people might be convinced concerning the wicked ctraditions of their fathers, and that they might be convinced that they were all brethren, and that they ought not to murder, nor to plunder, nor to steal, nor to commit adultery, nor to commit any manner of wickedness.
4 And now it came to pass that when the king had sent forth this proclamation, that Aaron and his brethren went forth from acity to city, and from one house of worship to another, establishing churches, and consecrating bpriests and teachers throughout the land among the Lamanites, to preach and to teach the word of God among them; and thus they began to have great success.
5 And athousands were brought to the knowledge of the Lord, yea, thousands were brought to believe in the btraditions of the Nephites; and they were taught the crecords and prophecies which were handed down even to the present time.
6 And as sure as the Lord liveth, so sure as many as believed, or as many as were brought to the knowledge of the truth, through the preaching of Ammon and his brethren, according to the spirit of revelation and of prophecy, and the power of God working amiracles in them—yea, I say unto you, as the Lord liveth, as many of the Lamanites as believed in their preaching, and were bconverted unto the Lord, cnever did fall away.
7 For they became a righteous people; they did lay down the weapons of their rebellion, that they did not fight against God any more, neither against any of their brethren.
8 Now, these are athey who were converted unto the Lord:
9 The people of the Lamanites who were in the land of Ishmael;
10 And also of the people of the Lamanites who were in the land of aMiddoni;
11 And also of the people of the Lamanites who were in the city of Nephi;
12 And also of the people of the Lamanites who were in the land of aShilom, and who were in the land of Shemlon, and in the city of Lemuel, and in the city of Shimnilom.
13 And these are the names of the cities of the Lamanites which were aconverted unto the Lord; and these are they that laid down the weapons of their rebellion, yea, all their weapons of war; and they were all Lamanites.
14 And the Amalekites were not aconverted, save only one; neither were any of the bAmulonites; but they did harden their hearts, and also the hearts of the Lamanites in that part of the land wheresoever they dwelt, yea, and all their villages and all their cities.
15 Therefore, we have named all the cities of the Lamanites in which they did repent and come to the knowledge of the truth, and were converted.
16 And now it came to pass that the king and those who were converted were desirous that they might have a name, that thereby they might be distinguished from their brethren; therefore the king consulted with Aaron and many of their priests, concerning the name that they should take upon them, that they might be distinguished.
17 And it came to pass that they called their names aAnti-Nephi-Lehies; and they were called by this name and were no more called bLamanites.
18 And they began to be a very aindustrious people; yea, and they were friendly with the Nephites; therefore, they did bopen a correspondence with them, and the ccurse of God did no more follow them.


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NEW YORK (AP) — A computer virus that spread to more than a million computers worldwide, including some at NASA, and produced at least $50 million in illegal profits or losses to victims should be a "wake-up call" for banks and consumers unaware of the threat posed by Internet criminals, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and George Venizelos, head of the New York FBI office, warned of the growing threat to financial and international security as they announced that a 2½-year probe had resulted in three arrests, two of them overseas, and the seizure of vast amounts of computer-related evidence that will take months or years to fully analyze. They said the Gozi virus had infected 40,000 computers in the United States since 2005, including 190 at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, along with computers in Germany, Great Britain, Poland, France, Finland, Italy, Turkey and elsewhere.
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Mihai Ionut Paunescu, 28, who was arrested in Romania, set up online infrastructure that allowed others to distribute destructive viruses and malicious software, including ones dubbed Zeus Trojan, SpyEye and BlackEnergy, according to a criminal complaint filed against him. The document said Paunescu, a Romanian national residing in Bucharest, was also known as "Virus."
The Gozi virus was designed in 2005 and distributed beginning in 2007, when it was secretly installed onto each victim's computer in a manner that left it virtually undetectable by antivirus software.
Deniss Calovskis, 27, was arrested in Riga, Latvia, where he is a citizen and resident, on charges including bank fraud conspiracy.
Extradition proceedings had begun to bring them to New York for trial. Charges against Kuzmin carry a maximum penalty of 95 years in prison while charges against Calovskis carry up to 67 years and charges against Paunescu have a maximum penalty of 60 years.
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Poutine is an amazing gastronomic assault weapon invented by a truck driver in 1957. If the Abominable Snowman could be a food, it would be poutine. Poutine is the heavy artillery of the food domain.
Like the foundation to the house, the hull to the ship, like a Red Cross blood drive to Count Dracula, is poutine to Canadians.
Now let me stop here to tell you: this is not the only amazing food combination that a truck driver has come up with. In Pittsburgh there's a place called Primanti's that serves sandwiches with both french fries AND coleslaw piled on top. They're too big to pick up even with both hands. Legend has it that a trucker with no time to spare ordered a plate of food, mashed it all between two pieces of bread and took it on the road.
Well, poutine has a similarly glorious beginning except it's about sixteen million times better (and that's saying a lot).
A hungry truck driver came into Fernand LaChance's restaurant one day and ordered LaChance's special potatos and cheese curds combination. Then he asked for a side order of gravy and POURED IT RIGHT INTO THE BAG ON TOP OF THE FRIES!!!
The earth shook, stars fell from the sky and a few deep sea creatures stirred in the muck as he plunked down at a table, ripped the bag apart and ate the whole thing.
Thus poutine was born and it is here to stay, probably in your arteries somewhere next to the bacon. Empires may crumble and fall, mountains may wear down to dust, glaciers may creep across the face of the deserts but a Canadian's love for poutine will echo onward through the madness of space, for all time.
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Will compete for $150,000 purse in Oct. event
Talk about getting a monkey off your back. Or maybe pig would be more appropriate in this case?
Superior barbecue master Jason Ganahl, who last year came in 17th in the regional finals of the Sam's Club National BBQ Tour, on Saturday placed second overall in the event and earned himself an invitation to the tour championship to be held in Bentonville, Ark. in October.
Ganahl, who has dubbed himself the "Sultan of Swine," is the one and only member of barbecue team GQue, which on Saturday earned top honors for ribs and chicken in the 4-meat cook-off, and was named the Las Vegas regional event's reserve champion.
Ganahl on Oct. 19 will be among 50 pit masters coming from five regions of the Sam's Club National BBQ Tour that will vie for top honors in the competition and a $150,000 grand prize.
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As the weather starts becoming more fall-like, I start becoming happier. I love the idea of a hot cup of tea, a chunky scarf and just a few simple layers. Of course I wont even get into the changing of leaves, the apple picking and everything else that comes along with the season.
This past weekend included visiting some antique shops with Keith (on the hunt for a Mid-Century Modern bar cart), staying over my friend Sonia's house in NJ and having brunch with girlfriends at Rose Water. I also went to Garden State Plaza where I visited the Westfield Mall Style Lounge, which is their partnership with Stacy London. The idea behind the Style Lounge is pretty amazing since these stylists will offer free styling advice to anyone who wants it. I watched them help a 15 year old girl who was wearing oversized t-shirts and leggings everyday to school. She wanted to feel "cooler" as she went to school, but wasn't sure where to start. Definitely very inspiring to watch and like fashion community service.
Well, I'll stop rambling… Hope you all have a wonderful day!
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Let's see, strong chin, luscious full lips, surgically enhanced cheek bones...Who could it be?
Oh, wait, now I remember.
This lady:
[clickety-click, mouse, mouse, click] (that's the sound of mad-Photoshop-skills at work)
Ok, how 'bout now?
Enjoy it while you can, Cewest; I figure we have approximately 4 minutes before someone tries to sue us.
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• Measure the exact width (left to right) of the inside edge of the window frame in three places (top, middle and bottom).
• Take the smallest of the three measurements to the nearest 1/8 of an inch.
• The factory will take an approximate 3/8 of an inch deduction from the total width (headrail and fabric) to allow for correct installation.
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Josh Beckett (0-2, 3.26) vs. Wei-Yin Chen (0-2, 4.00).
Since the Dodgers hadn't been back to Oriole Park at Camden Yards since 2002, Mother Nature wanted to make sure their first visit in 13 years was a doozy. Hence today's double-header, whose second game pits two hard-luck starters. Beckett had two starts in which he gave up three runs each over 6.0 and 5.0 IP, but his third and most recent start was a tough-luck outing with 8.1 IP and 1 ER, awarding Beckett the loss. Brutal.
Chen has also had three starts this year, the last two of which were both quality starts (6.1 and 6.0 IP, 3 ER each), but also both of which rewarded him with losses. Both starters go out there tonight to one of the majors' most beautiful stadiums, but flanked by tired teammates who have already played one today.
But if I could Wei-Yin here, I'd guess that the Dodgers will end up splitting the doubleheader (in 2002, we went 2-1 @ Camden Yards). That is, unless Juan Uribe could...tip the scales?


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Civil Settlement Reached In Miramonte Abuse Cases
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles school district will pay roughly $30 million to settle claims and lawsuits filed by students and families from an elementary school where a third-grade teacher was accused of spoon-feeding children semen in what he called "tasting games," lawyers in the cases said Tuesday.
District officials did not reveal the total amount of the settlement, but attorney Raymond Boucher, who represents several Miramonte Elementary School students, said each claimant will receive $470,000.
District General Counsel David Holmquist said the settlement covers 58 of the 191 claims and lawsuits filed by students and parents against the district after the January 2012 arrest of former third-grade teacher Mark Berndt on 23 charges of lewd behavior spanning five years at Miramonte.
A few of the cases involved another Miramonte teacher, Martin Springer, who was charged with lewd acts on a child in a case involving a second-grader that authorities said was fondled in class in 2009.
The accusation surfaced after Berndt's arrest, Holmquist said.
The 58 people involved in the settlement are all students, he said.
Prosecutors said in Berndt's "tasting games" he fed students his semen on cookies and by spoon, sometimes blindfolding and photographing them. Berndt, who taught for 32 years at the South Los Angeles school, has pleaded not guilty in the criminal case.
Springer has also pleaded not guilty.
The allegations against Berndt came to light when a drugstore photo technician noticed dozens of odd photos of blindfolded children and reported them to authorities. Investigators said they discovered a plastic spoon in Berndt's classroom trash bin that was found to contain traces of semen.
Boucher, who represents 13 of the 58 students in the settlement, said proving some of the claims would have been a problem at trial.
Some children did not have photographs of themselves eating the cookies laced with a milky white substance, or of being fed spoonfuls of it, he said.
In addition, there was no way to prove the substance in photos was semen, he added.
Parents also understood that with so many claims, a jury verdict could bankrupt the district, he added.
"We had to do a balancing act and we understood, if you go that second route and you wind up (with the district) in bankruptcy, these clients will never receive compensation for what they've been through," Boucher said.
Frank Perez, an attorney representing eight students, said parents chose to settle rather than put their children through the emotional upheaval of litigation and to put the case behind them.
Other attorneys blasted the settlement amount as paltry and said they would proceed with their cases.
"This is lifelong trauma," lawyer Brian Claypool said.
Attorney John Manly said the district has not yet explained how the alleged incidents went undetected for so long.
"The district got a great deal today," he said. "There's not been a single explanation of who knew what when."
The case led to a wide-ranging overhaul of how the nation's second-largest school district handles allegations of sexual abuse after it was revealed that previous complaints about Berndt's behavior were ignored.
It also shined a light on how slowly state officials act to censure teachers and led to a flurry of allegations of teacher-student sex abuse in the district and in other school systems.
Shortly after Berndt's arrest, the school district temporarily removed all 76 of the school's teachers along with staff and administrators, putting them on leave and having them report to an empty high school nearby.
Six months later, when the new school year began, 43 of them returned to a restructured Miramonte with a new principal. The rest either retired or went to new schools.
Berndt is currently in jail on $23 million bail, and he faces 23 felony counts.
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Usually, I just have some cereal and fruit for breakfast, but on mornings when I want something warm and sweet, I'll bake up a batch of cinnamon rolls, muffins, or a danish pastry like this one. It's fluffy, super flavorful with a mixture of ricotta and orange zest, and a cinch to whip up for a delicious morning meal… especially if you're feeding a crowd!
The recipe for this decadent and yummy cheese danish is originally from Sargento, but I have also included it below.
After whisking together a combination of egg, sugar, butter, flour, vanilla and Sargento Part-Skim Ricotta Cheese, the filling was ready in no time. Plus, with some shiny new, commercial-grade kitchen tools provided to me by Smart & Final, the process of putting the pastry together was easier than I imagined. Who knew that their First Street line carried such nice kitchen equipment?
The heavy, sturdy whisk was really quick at combining all of the ingredients, and I found a good use for the sharp, sturdy pastry scraper…
… Cutting the puff pastry dough!
Exciting stuff. Are you on the edge of your seat?
I had also been needing a mini sieve like this one, which is nice for little jobs like sifting powdered sugar. I could easily rest this sieve over a small bowl and sift the sugar into orange juice to create an orange glaze for the top of the pastry.
After baking for 25 minutes, the danish was puffed up and gorgeous golden brown. Topped with the orange glaze and a sprinkle of chopped walnuts, it was a little slice of heaven to start the day right! When I have family and friends visit this summer, I will definitely want to make this for them, and I know your family and friends would enjoy it, too.
Orange Cheese Danish Pastry
- 1 cup 8 oz. Sargento® Part-Skim Ricotta Cheese
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 Tbsp. butter, softened
- 1 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. grated orange rind
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 2 sheets (1 lb.) frozen puff pastry dough, thawed
- 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 Tbsp. orange juice
- 2 Tbsp. chopped walnuts or sliced almonds, optional
- Combine cheese, sugar, egg, butter, flour, orange rind and vanilla in large bowl. Beat with a whisk, or an electric mixer on medium speed, until well blended.
- Unfold pastry into rectangle; place on baking sheet. With a sharp knife or pastry scraper, make 2-inch-deep cuts at 1-inch intervals on long sides of pastry. Spread cheese mixture down center 3 inches of pastry. Crisscross strips over filling, alternating sides and bringing strips all the way across filling.
- Bake in preheated 400°F oven 25 minutes or until bottom is golden brown.
- Cool on wire rack. With a sieve, sift confectioners sugar over a bowl of orange juice and mix until smooth. Drizzle mixture over pastry; sprinkle with almonds or walnuts (optional).
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Requiem For The Bank Branch?
That creaking sound you hear is a pendulum swinging -- the pendulum that represents how bankers think about their delivery channels, especially the branch. After a decade of aggressive branch investment and expansion, banks are scaling back the bricks and mortar. SunTrust Banks announced in March that it will close about 40 branches in the first quarter of 2013, following 43 closures in 2012. Bank of America is likely to close 750 branches in the next few years, with 16,000 related job cuts. Overall, U.S. banks closed more than 500 branches in the fourth quarter of 2012 while opening only 274, according to SNL Financial.
Digital BankingBank Systems & Technology's May issue looks at the strategies banks are using to expand their digital channels and attract a new generation of young and profitable customers. To read more, download our May 2013 digital issue now.
To some extent, the closures are cost-cutting moves, but they're also happening because digital channels no longer are alternative channels -- they're becoming dominant. How this transition is playing out and what it means for the customer experience are the focus of the May 2013 issue of Bank Systems & Technology.
The pendulum metaphor suggests that this isn't the first time that banks have reconsidered the role of branches. It wasn't all that long ago -- 15 years? -- that industry debates about the end of the branch were common. Back then, the Internet loomed as the great disintermediator. Branches were surely dead, experts declared. But things didn't play out as predicted by the most enthusiastic Web advocates (no doubt influenced by the dot-com crash at the turn of the century). Online didn't go away, of course, but branches came roaring back, and the first decade of the 21st century saw banks aggressively adding to their branch networks. Some of this activity has been through acquisitions and other deals, but a lot of it has been construction from scratch.
Now there's another retreat from branches. It's 2001 all over again, but with a twist. The multichannel tease of the late 1990s has become reality in 2013, with the online channel leading the way. Yet it's likely that it will be only a few years, at most, before mobile surpasses the Web as the consumer (and, potentially, corporate) channel of choice.
The branches that remain will likely provide a multimedia experience that would befuddle (or maybe bedazzle) the branch advocates of past eras. In fact, digital banking interactions are taking place in the branches, where advisers armed with tablets can quickly open accounts and high-net-worth clients can interact with a trust specialist via telepresence video. In a new report, Mercator Advisory Group calls this "omnichannel" banking, a shift from "traditional monochannel and multichannel views of the banking world."
It's unlikely the pendulum will ever swing back to a branch-centric model. But with big data insights reshaping bankers' understanding of their customers and cloud computing transforming operations, the conventional wisdom about the best way to serve and engage customers will continue to be a moving target.
Katherine Burger is Editorial Director of Bank Systems & Technology and Insurance & Technology, members of UBM TechWeb's InformationWeek Financial Services. She assumed leadership of Bank Systems & Technology in 2003 and of Insurance & Technology in 1991. In addition to ... View Full Bio


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Chapter 19
Job tells of the ills that have befallen him and then testifies, I know that my Redeemer lives—Job prophesies that he will be resurrected and that in his flesh he will see God.
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no ajudgment.
8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my atabernacle.
13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have aforgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
17 My abreath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19 All my ainward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my afriends; for the bhand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with amy flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I aknow that my bredeemer liveth, and that che shall dstand at the latter day upon the earth:
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this abody, yet in my bflesh shall I csee God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.


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Note: If you use a card on Coinbase, your fees will be higher, but your purchases will be instant. It's cheaper to use bank transfers, but it's slow — it can take up to a week to receive your coins. When your payment details are verified, click on the 'buy/sell' button in the top menu.
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Now you will need to find an exchange that allows you to deposit USDT and trade it for DCT. As DisciplesDAO is currently listed on PancakeSwap we will guide you through how to convert your USDT on the platform.
We'll be using Binance, but there are many other exchanges like ByBit, KuCoin, Kraken, Gate.io, and MEXC that offer Altcoins.
Learn more: How to buy Crypto from PancakeSwap using MetaMask Wallet
Step 4: Convert your USDT into BNB on Binance
Now head over to Binance.com and create an account there. It's a super easy process that shouldn't take more than five minutes. (Traders from the United States can also use the exchanges listed above)
Once you're set up on Binance, it's time to convert some USDT into BNB. You can do this by going to "Funds" and then "Deposits & Withdrawals," where you'll see a list of different coins supported by Binance. Scroll down until you find USDT in the list and click the Deposit button for it.
Binance will give you a unique address to send your coins to copy this address and paste it into your Coinbase wallet (it will look something like this: bbq3dgjm…).
Once you've transferred your USDT to Binance, it will take about 10–15 minutes for your funds to become available for trading. Once they're available, trade your USDT to Binance Coin (BNB).
Step 5: Transfer BNB to your own wallet
Okay, so this is the trickiest part of the process. You need to create your own wallet to hold both BNB and DCT.
Now head over to PancakeSwap. First of all, if you haven't done so already, please sign up for an account by clicking on the yellow button in the top right corner. That's where you'll store your DisciplesDAO tokens and access a wide range of new features.
Once you've signed up, click on the "Connect Wallet" button. This will open MetaMask, a browser plugin that will allow you to send your BNB tokens to PancakeSwap.
If you've already got a Metamask account, skip ahead to the next part. If not, go to MetaMask.io, click "Get Chrome Extension", and install it.
If this is your first time connecting with MetaMask you should be asked immediately if you would like to add the Binance Smart Chain network to your MetaMask, please do proceed with this step as it is very important that you make sure you are sending your BNB via the right network.
Then go to Binance and click on the "Wallet" tab at the top of the screen.
Click on "Withdraw", then search for "BNB". Paste your own wallet address where you see an option named recipient address to withdraw BNB; then on the transfer network, make sure you have selected Binance Smart Chain (BSC) or BEP20 (BSC).
Click submit and follow the verification steps afterward. After successfully withdrawing your BNB it should arrive very shortly in your Metamask wallet.
Now you're ready to buy DisciplesDAO!
Step 6: Connect MetaMask with PancakeSwap
Once Metmask is ready, head over to PancakeSwap, click "Connect Wallet" at the top and choose Metamask.
Here's how you can connect to PancakeSwap and start swapping tokens using MetaMask:
1. Log into your MetaMask account.
2. Click "Settings" on the top left corner of the browser extension, then "Advanced" and click "Connect to custom network" at the bottom of the advanced settings.
3. When you click "Connect to custom network" you will be prompted with a pop-up window asking you for the RPC URL and chain ID of PancakeSwap. You can find these on https://pancakeswap.info/
4. Add a new custom RPC with the following information:
Network Name: PancakeSwap (or any name you like)
New RPC URL: https://rpc.cakeswap.fi/
ChainID: 0x91 (For Mainnet) or 0x82 (For Testnet)
Symbol: CAKE
Block Explorer URL: https://bscscan.com/ (or any other explorer site of your choice)
5. Click Save, then select PancakeSwap from the list of networks that appears when you click the network name on MetaMask.
Step 7: Swap BNB for DCT
Now select Trade > Exchange on the left sidebar.
On the top field enter the amount of BNB you would like to exchange for $DCT. You can go back and change this number anytime before proceeding with "Swap".
Now click on the other field and choose DisciplesDAO from the list. The corresponding amount of DisciplesDAO should show up immediately. Verify and then proceed with "Swap".
Now MetaMask should pop up and ask you if you want to allow PancakeSwap to spend your BNB tokens, click confirm. Wait for the confirmation popup until it shows "Transaction Submitted".
You can see your DisciplesDAO in your MetaMask Wallet. Congratulations! You have finally bought DisciplesDAO ($DCT)!
See more: How to buy crypto from UniSwap with Metamask wallet
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I buy DisciplesDAO on Coinbase?
No, Not all cryptocurrencies are as easy to get as others. DisciplesDAO is one of them. It's not listed on Coinbase's app or the Coinbase Wallet.
Where can I buy DisciplesDAO crypto?
You can buy DisciplesDAO with any decentralized crypto exchange which works on Binance Blockchain technology.
What exchanges sell DisciplesDAO?
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Is DisciplesDAO crypto?
No, DisciplesDAO is a digital token built on the Binance network chain BNC.
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No, you cannot buy DisciplesDAO with PayPal directly. However, you can use Binance to exchange your fiat currency in PayPal for $DCT.
Can I buy DisciplesDAO through Cash?
No, you cannot buy DisciplesDAO with your cash directly. However, you can use Binance to exchange your cash for $DCT.
Can I mine DisciplesDAO instead of buying?
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Boy oh boy, the President of the United States is such a wimp!
Russian troops have invaded a nearby sovereign nation, yet all he has done is respond with words: "Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century...The Russian government must reverse the course that it appears to be on...These actions have substantially damaged Russia's standing in the world. And these actions jeopardize Russia's relations with the United States and Europe." He wants to punish Russia with sanctions (big deal), and, worse yet, he doesn't have the stones to take manly military action.
Unfortunately, the aforementioned quotes were actually uttered by George W. Bush.
It was the summer of 2008, and autocratic thug Vladimir Putin had just sent his soldiers into Georgia. Bush's team decided to forego an aggressive response, while his secretary of state scoffed at the notion of "chest-beating."
Funny, I don't seem to remember Bush being tagged as a wimp by the Republican warriors, the keyboard neocons or the lockstep trolls. Nor did they ever seek to remind us of Bush's peerless analytical powers circa 2001, when he famously said of Putin, "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul."
Yet today, naturally, it's an entirely different story. The right-wing chorale is singing with abandon, demanding that the Obama administration do something big about Putin's illegal dispatch of troops to the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine. The McCain-Graham tag team is predictably agitated, the Fox News hawks are dissing Obama for merely warning Putin that "there will be costs"...you know, the usual stuff. It's a good thing that Obama never publicly vouched for Putin by peering into his soul - it would be deemed grounds for impeachment.
But how would the president's knee-jerk critics police the Ukraine crisis? What are their bright ideas for compelling Putin to retreat?
Marco Rubio, who's trying to reignite his prospective '16 White House bid by donning big boy pants, suggested some moves in an article this weekend. For instance: In a show of solidarity with the Ukranians, send Secretary of State John Kerry to embattled Kiev; develop some "security assurance measures" to help the Ukrainians; boycott the G-8 economic summit meeting that's slated for June in Russia; and suspend "any and all discussions and negotiations with Moscow on any issue unrelated to this crisis, including trade and other matters."
Well, guess what: Obama is already doing virtually all that stuff - and more. He has sent Kerry to Kiev (offering a $1-billion loan guarantee), called off trade talks with Russia, suspended military business with Russia, halted planning for that G-8 meeting, laid the groundwork for banning visas to prospective Russian visitors, begun plans to freeze the U.S. bank assets of Russian officials, and given the nod to congressionally-enacted sanctions, plus economic aid to the tenuous pro-western government in Ukraine.
Would the Republicans care to top that, perhaps by agitating for a U.S. military intervention? Nope. Even among the Obama-haters, there is nary a soul who pines for the guns of war.
So perhaps we should all take a deep breath, and let this crisis play out in the economic and diplomatic spheres. In fact, Putin's country has already taken a big financial hit. When the international markets opened on Monday, Russian stock indexes got hammered, dropping $60 billion in value in just one day, more than what Russia spent on last month's Olympics. Meanwhile, in just one day, the ruble fell to a record low against the dollar. Even a messianic tyrant like Putin might eventually recognize the cumulative economic pinch.
Some of what Obama seeks to do won't be easy, however. He'll have a tough time pushing for draconian sanctions against Russia - given the American corporate community's heavy investments in the Russian market (for instance, Pepsi, Boeing, and GM); and given the resistance of our European allies, who do $340 billion in annual business with Russia. So, at minimum, it would be nice if the right-wing Obama haters lowered the volume.
For once. If only for a little while.
Dick Polman is the national political columnist at NewsWorks/WHYY in Philadelphia (newsworks.org/polman) and a "Writer in Residence" at the University of Philadelphia. Email him at email@example.com.
Obama, Ukraine, and Republican Amnesia


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Tyra Banks is not one to play with.
The former super model and media mogul is suing several wig companies for some serious cash after they used her name and image without permission.
According to reports, the model just filed a hefty lawsuit against 10 companies that used her name to help sell hair. She's suing for $10 million in damages and demanding they stop stealing her "name, photograph, image, and identity."
The high-priced hair bares Tyra's name and likeness in more than one instance and now she's ready to fight for what's hers. Aside from the huge payout, she's also demanding the companies stop hawking hair with her name on it with an injunction.
Just to prove her point, she attached 11 pages of credits from IMDB as evidence to how much her trademark is worth.


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Seaside 3.0 Release Announcement
The Seaside core developers are pleased to announce the release of Seaside 3.0.
This release began development as the 2.9 codebase, but the significant scope and nature of the changes led us to realise that the work justifies bumping the version to 3.0. This change reflects the maturity of Seaside, and we believe the 3.0 codebase will be a solid foundation for the foreseeable development of the premier web application development framework in Smalltalk and for the applications and frameworks built upon it. We are confident that the new architecture will allow Seaside to continue to grow, while minimising the impact on our user base.
Why you should upgrade
The changes in 3.0 are intended to make using and extending Seaside faster and easier.
Better design
- Familiar: The basic architectural concepts will continue to be familiar to users of Seaside 2.8.
- Simple: Many classes have been refactored to reduce complexity, decrease coupling, and improve flexibility.
- Modular: The packages in Seaside are now cleanly defined with clear relationships and interdependencies, allowing you to load only those pieces you require.
- Reified: Key concepts such as URLs and Mime Types are now represented by real objects throughout the framework instead of by strings.
- Easier to understand: Key classes have had their roles clarified and their interfaces made more consistent. Clear layer boundaries let you focus on understanding one layer at a time.
- Encoding: Improved support for character encodings gives you out-of-the-box support for languages such as Korean, Chinese and Russian.
Better code quality
- Better testing: Test coverage has increased from around 200 to more than 1500. The developers monitor test status to ensure that the tests remain green.
- Refactoring: Many methods have been refactored to reduce duplication, increase efficiency and to reduce coupling between elements.
- Stripped-down core: Non-core code has been moved out of the core codebase to allow development to focus on a core of well-documented, well-tested code.
Better performance
As a result of the improvements to the code, we've seen a number of improvements to the performance of Seaside since the release of version 2.8 due to:
- The smaller core codebase resulting from the improved design.
- The introduction of partial continuations (smaller "snapshots") on the supported platforms (this will be of particular benefit to developers on VA Smalltalk and Smalltalk/X that don't have first-class stack).
- Smaller memory usage throughout.
Better support
- Seaside has a growing body of documentation available:
- Self-documenting code. Well-written Smalltalk code reads very easily. The refactoring has driven wider use of "intention-revealing names", as well as better commented code (2600 class and method comments, that's 3 times more than for 2.8)
- Dynamic Web Development with Seaside is an open source book, available in hard copy, pdf and online for free, and maintained online with user comments visible.
- Many more sources of information are available on the Seaside website.
- Seaside development is based on a strong community using open processes with dedicated mailing lists, web logs and rss feeds.
- A community of new users get advice and share experiences on the #seaside IRC channel on freenode.net.
- Commercial support is also available.
Better portability
- Platform independent: Seaside 3.0 runs on every major Smalltalk platform out there, including Pharo Smalltalk, Squeak, Cincom Smalltalk, GemStone Smalltalk, GNU Smalltalk, VA Smalltalk and Dolphin Smalltalk. It is officially supported by every commercial Smalltalk vendor.
- Easy to port: Seaside leverages a custom portability layer called Grease; platform-dependent code is kept in separate packages. Ports can be completed and maintained faster and with less effort, meaning they will be more up to date. Fixes can also be more easily pushed back into the main Seaside repository.
- Optional continuations: The use of continuations is now optional, making it easier to use Seaside on Smalltalk platforms that do not support them.
Better developer experience
- Easier to extend and adapt: The refactoring work has made it easier for developers to write their own extensions to Seaside to use different protocols and to serve content in different formats (e.g. RSS, Atom, REST).
- Easier to try: Just download the Seaside One-click Image and run it on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux.
- jQuery support: In addition to support for Prototype and script.aculo.us, Seaside 3.0 now includes support for jQuery 1.3.2 and jQueryUI 1.7.3. jQuery methods are wrapped to allow natural Smalltalk syntax to be used.
- Improved admin tools:
- Control Panel for Squeak and Pharo allows painless integration and control of web servers including Comanche, Swazoo...
- The web-based configuration interface allows authorised users to set-up and configure applications, and even debug code through the web-browser.
A better platform for future growth
We are confident that the experience we gained during development of the 2.x codebase has allowed us to introduce a better-architected and more robust framework, which will provide a stable platform for the 3.x branch.
About Seaside
Seaside lets you quickly build highly interactive web applications by writing high-level code, freeing you to think about functionality instead of implementation details. It is based on Smalltalk, a proven and robust language that runs identically on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and many more platforms.
- Easy forms and links: Seaside simplifies the creation and processing of forms, fields, and anchors by transparently binding them to variables and code in your application. No more worrying about generating unique IDs and parsing URLs.
- Component-based development: Seaside lets you build your UI from individual components, each encapsulating a small part of a page. Components can be re-used within and between applications.
- Simple session management: Seaside models an entire user session as a continuous piece of code, with natural, linear control flow. You can write components that have loops and conditional work flows, call other components, and return just like subroutines. And the back button works as users expect!
- Programmatic HTML generation: Seaside has a rich API for generating standards-compliant content directly from Smalltalk, without having to keep track of HTML tags.
- Live updating: Seaside lets you find and fix bugs faster by debugging and updating code and objects live in the server. You can build a prototype seeing the effects of your changes immediately as you develop. Forget the edit-compile-run cycle!
Seaside also has great support for JavaScript and AJAX (including jQuery and Scriptaculous), excellent web-based development tools and debugging support, a rich configuration and preferences framework, and more.
More information
About Seaside
Seaside homepage
Seaside 3.0 Detailed Release Notes
Seaside One-Click Experience 3.0 (runs with one-click on Mac, Windows and Linux)
Seaside 3.0 Developer Image 3.0 (for Pharo developers)
Bugfixes since Seaside 3.0rc
Issue 581: Fonts in WAWelcome and in other applications
Issue 585: Parameters in AJAX requests are not always properly encoded
Issue 576: #callbackTabs: in jquery-ui public extension to JQAjax
Issue 586: I frequently fail to return a collection of child components from #children
Issue 486: #isolate: appears to fail for WATask
Issue 588: Seaside server process is broken, after image save done programatically (i.e. not from world menu)
Issue 589: JSObject misses jsonOn:
Issue 590: JQBaseTheme does not respect SSL
Issue 593: expired session cookie deletion fails if server hostname is set
Issue 474: Using Halos - CSS Style Editor to update CSS of a component breaks versions view with 'subscript is out of bounds: x'.
Issue 594: #style methods don't work then session cookies are enabled
Issue 493: RSS ignoring updateRoot: stuff
Issue 452: OneClick welcome page
Issue 479: WAGarbageCollectorStatus can result in ZeroDivide exception
Issue 525: WALegacyRedirectionHandler loses url parameters during redirection
Issue 570: iso-8859-1 doesn't show up in the encoding list of the server adapter
Issue 547: replace #asSortedCollection with #sorted:
Issue 595: Deselection from a multi selection field does not work
Issue 511: WASwazooAdaptor fails WAUploadFunctionalTest and WAEncodingFuntionalTest
Issue 554: WABuilder>>codec should try WACurrentRequestContext first before using GRNullCodec
Issue 597: Radio Button Callback
Issue 599: remove overrides from Grease
The developers on this release of Seaside were Lukas Renggli, Julian Fitzell, Philippe Marschall, Gerhard Obermann, John O'Keefe, James Foster, Dale Henrichs, Michael Davies, Michael Lucas-Smith and Nick Ager, with help from Michael Lucas-Smith, Yann Monclair, Stuart Herring, Adriaan van Os, Damien Cassou, Paolo Bonzini and Torsten Bergmann. Thanks to everyone who tested the code on a variety of platforms, and those brave souls who have already run live applications on the bleeding-edge code.


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Updated at 5:54 p.m. ET: More than 2,000 people at Pearl Harbor and many more around the country are marking the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and launched the United States into World War II.
The USS Michael Murphy, a recently christened ship named after a Pearl Harbor-based Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan, sounded its ship's whistle Friday to start a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., marking the exact time the bombing began in 1941.
Crew members lined the edge of the Navy guided-missile destroyer in the harbor where the USS Arizona and USS Utah, battleships that sank in the attack, still lie. Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 fighter jets flew overhead in a special "missing man" formation to break the silence.
"Let us remember that this is where it all began. Let us remember that the arc of history was bent at this place 71 years ago today and a generation of young men and women reached deep and rose up to lead our nation to victory," Rhea Suh, Interior Department assistant secretary, told the crowd. "Let us remember and be forever grateful for all of their sacrifices."
About 30 survivors, many using walkers and canes, attended the commemoration.
Edwin Schuler, of San Jose, Calif., said he remembered going up to the bridge of his ship, the USS Phoenix, to read a book on a bright, sunny Sunday morning in 1941 when he saw planes dropping bombs.
"I thought: 'Whoa, they're using big practice bombs.' I didn't know," said Schuler, 91.
Schuler said he's returned for the annual ceremony about 30 times because it's important to spread the message of remembering Pearl Harbor.
Ewalt Shatz, 89, said returning to Pearl Harbor "keeps the spirit going, the remembering of what can happen."
Shatz, who now lives in Riverside, Calif., was on board the USS Patterson that morning when the alarm sounded. His more experienced shipmates were down below putting a boiler back together so Shatz found himself manning a 50-caliber machine gun for the first time. The Navy credited him with shooting a Japanese plane.
"That was some good shooting," said U.S. Pacific Fleet commander Adm. Cecil Haney who recounted Shatz' experience in the keynote address. "Thank you for your courage and tenacity — our nation is truly grateful."
Online, Pearl Harbor became a popular topic on Facebook and other social networks, trending worldwide on Twitter and Google Plus as people marked the anniversary with status updates, personal stories of family and photos.
The Navy and National Park Service, which is part of the Interior Department, hosted the ceremonies held in remembrance of the 2,390 service members and 49 civilians killed in the attack.
Friday's event gave special recognition to members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, who flew noncombat missions during World War II, and to Ray Emory, a 91-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor who has pushed to identify the remains of unknown servicemen.
The ceremony also includes a Hawaiian blessing, songs played by the U.S. Pacific Fleet band and a rifle salute from the U.S. Marine Corps.
Related: 'It was a terrible day. It just engulfed us in flames'
President Barack Obama marked the day on Thursday by issuing a presidential proclamation, calling for flags to fly at half-staff on Friday and asking all Americans to observe the day of remembrance and honor military service members and veterans.
"Today, we pay solemn tribute to America's sons and daughters who made the ultimate sacrifice at Oahu," Obama said in a statement. "As we do, let us also reaffirm that their legacy will always burn bright — whether in the memory of those who knew them, the spirit of service that guides our men and women in uniform today, or the heart of the country they kept strong and free."
Daniel Inouye, Hawaii's senior U.S. senator and a member of an Army unit of Japanese-Americans who volunteered to fight in World War II, said the Pearl Harbor attack evoked anger, fierce patriotism and racism.
"Our way of life has always, and will always be, protected and preserved by volunteers willing to give their lives for what we believe in," the Democrat said.
The Navy and park service will resume taking visitors to the USS Arizona Memorial, which sits atop the sunken battleship, after the ceremony.
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This is not a particularly nuanced or complex issue. What Field says the IPCC says is blantantly wrong, often 180 degrees wrong. It is one thing to disagree about scientific questions, but it is altogether different to fundamentally misrepresent an IPCC report to the US Congress. Below are five instances in which Field's testimony today completely and unambiguously misrepresented IPCC findings to the Senate. Field's testimony is here in PDF.
1. On the economic costs of disasters:
Field: "As the US copes with the aftermath of last year's record-breaking series of 14 billion-dollar climate-related disasters and this year's massive wildfires and storms, it is critical to understand that the link between climate change and the kinds of extremes that lead to disasters is clear."Field's assertion that the link between climate change and disasters "is clear," which he supported with reference to US "billion dollar" economic losses, is in reality scientifically unsupported by the IPCC. Period. (More on the NOAA billion-dollar disasters below.) There is good reason for this -- it is what the science says. Why fail to report to Congress the IPCC's most fundamental finding and indicate something quite the opposite?
What the IPCC actually said: "There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change"
2. On US droughts:
Field: "The report identified some areas where droughts have become longer and more intense (including southern Europe and West Africa), but others where droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter."Field conveniently neglected in his testimony to mention that one place where droughts have gotten less frequent, less intense or shorter is ... the United States. Why did he fail to mention this region, surely of interest to US Senators, but did include Europe and West Africa?
What the IPCC actually said: "... in some regions droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example, central North America ..."
3. On NOAA's billion dollar disasters:
Field: "The US experienced 14 billion-dollar disasters in 2011, a record that far surpasses the previous maximum of 9."Field says nothing about the serious issues with NOAA's tabulation. The billion dollar disaster meme is a PR train wreck, not peer reviwed and is counter to the actual science summarized in the IPCC. So why mention it?
What NOAA actually says about its series of "billion dollar" disasters: "Caution should be used in interpreting any trends based on this [data] for a variety of reasons"
4. On attributing billion dollar disasters to climate change, case of hurricanes and tornadoes:
Field: "For several of these categories of disasters, the strength of any linkage to climate change, if there is one, is not known. Specifically, the IPCC (IPCC 2012) did not identify a trend or express confidence in projections concerning tornadoes and other small-area events. The evidence on hurricanes is mixed."Hurricanes are, of course, tropical cyclones. Far from evidence being "mixed" the IPCC was unable to attribute any trend in tropical cyclone disasters to climate change (anywhere in the world and globally overall). In fact, there has been no trend in US hurricane frequency or intensity over a century or more, and the US is currently experiencing the longest period with no intense hurricane landfalls ever seen. Field fails to report any this and invents something different. Why present testimony so easily refuted? (He did get tornadoes right!)
What the IPCC actually said (p. 269 PDF): "The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados"
5. On attributing billion dollar disasters to climate change, case of floods and droughts:
Field: "For other categories of climate and weather extremes, the pattern is increasingly clear. Climate change is shifting the risk of hitting an extreme. The IPCC (IPCC 2012) concludes that climate change increases the risk of heat waves (90% or greater probability), heavy precipitation (66% or greater probability), and droughts (medium confidence) for most land areas."Field fails to explain that no linkage between flood disasters and climate change has been established. Increasing precipitation is not the same thing as increasing streamflow, floods or disasters. In fact, floods may be decreasing worldwide and are not increasing in the US. The fact that drought has declined in the US means that there is no trend of rising impacts that can be attributed to climate change. Yet he implies exactly the opposite. Again, why include such obvious misrepresentations when they are so easily refuted?
What the IPCC actually says (p. 269 PDF): "The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses"
and (from above): "in some regions droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example, central North America"
Field is certainly entitled to his (wrong) opinion on the science of climate change and disasters. However, it is utterly irresponsible to fundamentally misrepresent the conclusions of the IPCC before the US Congress. He might have explained why he thought the IPCC was wrong in its conclusions, but it is foolish to pretend that the body said something other than what it actually reported. Just like the inconvenient fact that people are influencing the climate and carbon dioxide is a main culprit, the science says what the science says.
Field can present such nonsense before Congress because the politics of climate change are so poisonous that he will be applauded for his misrepresentations by many, including some scientists. Undoubtedly, I will be attacked for pointing out his obvious misrepresentations. Neither response changes the basic facts here. Such is the sorry state of climate science today.