text: About Louisiana Important CitiesNew Orleans Louisiana's economic and cultural hub, is a world-famous tourist destination and one of the most historic cities in the nation. Located on the Mississippi 100 miles upriver from the Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans is a key port city for the southern United States. Known as "the Big Easy" in part from the carefree lifestyle associated with the city, New Orleans is home to a unique blend of Cajun, African, French, Spanish, and Native American cultures. The weeks-long Mardi Gras celebration held throughout town is one of the most famous Carnival celebrations in the world. Baton Rouge is the state capital and the second-largest city in Louisiana. The city, known as an industrial center with an emphasis on oil refining and chemical manufacture, has developed a recent reputation the most technologically advanced cities in the state. Shreveport is the largest city in the northwestern portion of the state, is also an important commercial center for bordering areas in northeastern Texas and southern Arkansas. Lafayette is a major metropolitan area with a strong tourism industry and deep roots in both Cajun and Creole culture. Many Cultures Become OneThe idea of the American cultural "melting pot" has no better example than the diverse mix of peoples found within Louisiana's borders. The state's history is a tale of continuous settlement and colonization, first by Native peoples, then by French explorers, Spanish forces, African and Afro-Carribean slaves and American pioneers. The result is one of the most demographically complex populations in the world. Creoles were originally the American born descendants of European settlers who came to the colony in the early 18th century. Today the Creole population is characterized as a group of mixed-race, French speaking, and Roman Catholic people. Cajuns are the descendants of French-speaking Candadian settlers, and retain their own unique culture. In addition to these two groups, Louisiana is home to innumerable combinations of white, black, Hispanic and Native American ethnicities. Cuisine with a KickLouisiana's unique cultural makeup has created two famously original styles of cooking: Creole cuisine and Cajun Cuisine. Creole cuisine has hints of Italian cuisine, and tends towards classical European cooking styles adapted to local ingredients. Examples of Creole cuisine include turtle soup and crawfish etouffee. More well known is Cajun cuisine, which adapts rustic French cuisine to local ingredients such as rice, crawfish and sugarcane. A Cajun meal is usually prepared in three pots: one for the main dish, a second for rice or grains, and the third for the vegetable dish. Jambalaya and spicy gumbo are two of the most famous Cajun dishes. Economy/IndustryAgriculture remains an important part of Louisiana's economy and culture, as some 30 percent of the state's total area is comprised of farmland. Cotton, sugarcane, and soybeans are the most important crops in Louisiana, and poultry is the primary livestock. Our waters, both inland and offshore, produce fishing catches rivaled only by Alaska in value, with an emphasis on shrimp, oyster, and catfish. Louisiana is also one of the leading lumber-producing states in the nation. Immense fossil fuel resources drive a thriving mineral production industry. Oil and natural gas are produced in large quantities, particularly along the Gulf Coast and in the northern regions of the state. Other key industries in Louisiana include chemical production, transportation, and of course, tourism. |


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Twelve Step Club Inc is an alcohol and drug addiction treatment facility that is located at 4102 West Townsend Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Treating substance abuse involves multiple stages of treatment through a recovery program such as that offered by Twelve Step Club Inc. This can include group counseling, individual counseling, outpatient treatment, inpatient treatment, and medically assisted detox, among many others. Treatment programs are based on the individual themselves and are constructed to suit each patient individually. Just as every person is unique, so should treatment programs and that is exactly what patients will receive at Twelve Step Club Inc.
If addicts do not obtain the right type of support and guidance, they may find treatment to be very difficult as the thought of sobriety can seem so far-fetched. At Twelve Step Club Inc, professional counseling and guidance are provided to all patients aged 18+, giving them the strength needed in order to obtain a life that is free of drug and alcohol addiction. By altering the patient's outlook on life through addiction treatment, they will be able to stay positive throughout the duration of rehab.
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Commercial Downlights
Commercial recessed lighting is usually installed into an electrically-serviced ceiling or wall void. It has many possible advantages over conventional light forms, not least because of its inconspicuous nature. In a commercial environment the streamlined look allows extra attention to be focused on décor, products, or features, and to accommodate all of these and other purposes the fixtures themselves are varied in their design.
Recessed lighting usually comes in the form of circular downlights, but the category also encompasses fluorescent and LED lighting panels. Downlights are available in countless forms: they can be dimmable by various means to create mood or save energy; they can be mains powered or low-voltage, with the latter sometimes yielding a slightly crisper light but the former easier to install; plus they can be fire-rated.
Fire-rated downlights
In the unfortunate event of a fire, flames take hold very quickly if they can gain purchase over an edge, or corner. Fire-rated recessed lights protect against that by their use of heat-expandable materials, which stops flames from easily accessing the lighting cut-out. Usually a fire-rated downlight will preserve the integrity of the ceiling for up to 90 minutes, allowing residents to hopefully evacuate before a ceiling collapse.
Approved Document B for England and Wales (fire safety) requires that any residential premises with a top floor height of up to 18 metres above the ground should have ceilings resistant to fire for 60 minutes. Residential premises with top floors of between 18 and 30 metres should have ceilings resistant to fire for 90 minutes. Similar rules apply to commercial buildings, with timespans influenced in some instances by the installation or otherwise of a sprinkler system.
IP ratings
When installing recessed lights into washrooms, bathrooms, or inherently wet areas such as a swimming pool changing room, you'll need to pay particular regard to the IP rating of the fitting. The second figure in the IP rating signifies the degree of waterproofing, so for instance IPX3 or IPX4 ratings can withstand light sprays or splashes of water, while an IPX5 rating is impervious to jets of water. Take a look at our definitive guide to IP ratings~ for more information.
As with many forms of light, the usual technologies jostle for position with their various advantages and disadvantages. From the point of view of a specifier, architect, or electrician, LED is fast becoming a comfortable way to stay ahead of Part L Building Regulation requirements, which are likely to gradually become more demanding as low-powered efficacy performance improves. Here are brief appraisals of the main runners and riders:
Offering a staggering 90% energy-saving advantage over original incandescent technology, LED is universally perceived as the future of lighting, though conflicting design 'wants' hamper its progress just a little, e.g. efficacy v colour accuracy. But still, performance is being rapidly driven up in both regards by intense levels of R&D.
Compactness and cooler operating temperatures allow for extremely low-profile designs in LED recessed lights, too, so they can often be installed in particularly shallow ceiling cavities.
Phenomenal lifespans of up to 50,000 hours in recessed LED lights result in greatly reduced maintenance costs. Lifespan is usually measured to a point where the fitting delivers 70% of its original output (occasionally abbreviated to 70L, meaning 70% lumen flux).
For some purposes the directional nature of LED is also highly advantageous. In emergency lighting, for instance, a focused intensity of light can clearly define escape routes and comply with safety regulations with minimal wastage or unnecessary expenditure. Conversely, highly diffused LED ceiling panels produce an impressively even spread of light that is difficult to match using multiple fluorescent tubes.
Low energy fluorescent recessed downlights still have a much deserved place on the market, and for the moment they generally remain markedly less expensive than LED alternatives. Fluorescent lights are approximately 50% cheaper to run than an energy-saving halogen alternative, with a high-frequency ballast in modern fittings enhancing their low-powered advantage.
Lifespan, too, is an advantage of a fluorescent light source over incandescent, with CFL lamps and tubes usually lasting 5,000 to 15,000 hours against the normal 2,000 hours of halogen.
Having shaken off its old reputation as an unhealthy, humming and flickering light source likely to induce a migraine, modern high-frequency fluorescent ceiling panels offer a comparatively affordable and extremely viable alternative to LED equivalents. Buy with confidence.
The disadvantage of halogen never changes: it's hot and less energy-efficient than other light sources. The sheer heat generated by a halogen lamp results in a need for more deeply recessed light fittings, since the dissipation requirements are more onerous.
On the plus side, halogen remains a great choice for crisp, bright light, which is a little whiter in effect than a traditional incandescent. The light is also inherently colour-accurate thanks to its continuous spectrum.
With these things considered a recessed halogen light is ideal in exhibition, gallery, or high-end retail environments, for instance, where there may be a discerning need to show off items to their best advantage and reliably display their hue.
Fixed and directional
Directional downlights can be useful for highlighting features such as bookshelves or display cabinets, or for accent lighting, and they're a good solution as task lights, though some thought should be given to the likely position of the players in such a scenario - in a kitchen for instance the height and fixed location of a directional downlight is going to be a limiting factor if the cook blocks the beam.
Fixed downlights are good for overall illumination, and returning briefly to the various technologies in play you might consider the inherently directional nature of LED versus the more widespread illumination of other sources. The design of the light fitting itself has a strong role to play in making LED a general-purpose light, or transforming a halogen source into a spotlight! In some lighting ranges you can add modifying lenses to recessed downlights in order to achieve a particular effect.
Maximize and focus …
Recessed lighting is a near-invisible solution designed to maximise space and focus attention, and never have the choices been more varied or flexible than they are now.


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The supervisory practice disclosed here include the way in which each Member State exercises the options and national discretions available in EU banking legislation and the general criteria and methodologies used by national authorities in the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP). It is also possible to access the Supervisory Disclosure pages of each national authority by clicking here.
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Face weight is measured as per unit area of pile yarn floor coverings according to ASTM (American Society for Testing Materials) method D-5848. Due to several processes involved in manufacturing, such as shearing, the actual finished weight may reflect a variance of up to 7%. The weight is determined by compensating for the factor of commercial moisture regain, as defined in ASTM D-1909. The ASTM measurements are accepted industry norms and the most accurate means of determining face weight.


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Oh What A Year!
Wow…A year. And what a year…Hard to sit down and reflect on the whirlwind that 2010 has been because my whole body, mind and soul are still twirling from everything that's happened and is happening. Gratitude sinks in. A sense of accomplishment. Hopes fulfilled. Goals simmering. I hope it's not too long. There is some photo talk, some cookbook talk, some love and friendship talk, some travel and food talk. I want to write it all down to make sure I did not just dream 2010, it was so incredibly wonderful.
You guys have made this year special with your words, both online and off, sharing your thoughts with me as I came here each week to share some food and a few stories. With this post, I also wish to show the most important persons in my life, my parents and my husband that their patience and support, unconditional love pushed me harder. And the close friends who have shared many a "shoot meal" to help out!
I love reading everyone's end of the year posts and I especially loved this quote from Matt Armendariz from Matt Bites: "I realized that everything I've ever done has led me to this point of my life, even when I hadn't a clue. I realized the best is yet to come." He is so right! The hours I have spent working and honing my skills have given something that make me whole and thrilled to share with you. I am forever changed by the people I have met this year and the relationships I have fostered.
The year started with a bang setting the tone for the rest of the year. Traveling, teaching, meeting, learning, working. I flew to Atlanta to meet my favorite peeps and delve into a Sugar Coma experience culminating by teaching a macarons workshop.
I came home to start photographing my first cookbook for Carrie of Deliciously Organic (available next week!). Not only did I learn a lot about books, publishing, logistics, etc…I also gained a close friend in Carrie and fell completely in love with her personality and the way she is in life as she is on paper. Honest, genuine and patient. We loved working so closely together that we are co-authoring a cookbook together in 2011. I can't wait to get started!
Right after, I flew to L.A to teach more macaron workshops as well as some on photography, all so cleverly and perfectly organized by three amazing ladies I miss everyday, Rachael, Jen and Gaby. Why is this country so wide? From L.A, I flew to Seattle to teach more workshops on macarons and photography this time organized by Viv, the hostess with the mostess (no seriously) and I was eccastic to be able to visit with my favorite peeps: Anita, Jeanne, Jen, Shauna, Danny and Lu. Dang that was a good time!
I came home right on time to pick up my parents at the airport and take my mom inside the airport bookstore to show her the first magazine cover I had styled (!) I wanted to show her that all the time and patience they invested in believing and supporting my endeavors was paying off. I thoroughly enjoyed the 3 weeks we spent together this Spring. I was thrilled to be busy working on several magazine shoots to show parents how my job goes on a daily basis whether for clients, charity or events that friends were organizing. Volunteer to go beyond what is asked of you. Always.
The summer was looking just about as busy and quite frankly I was just about to burst at the seam from gratitude having this much work and being able to contribute my fair share of experiences to the household. In late June I flew to Utah to speak at Evo 10 and finally met lots of bloggers I had know online for years. From small group gathering to big room lectures, I finally met in the flesh authors and photographers I had been admiring for years and from too far. They reinforced my belief that I was on the right track, that being authentic and vulnerable is the way to open yourself to incredible experiences. From Utah, it was on to Colorado and the Food&Light Photography Workshop. I wish I could have stayed longer and enjoy the beauty of my surroundings but there was more work calling back home.
In one week, I had cleared my head and met some of the most gracious people out there. It would be hard to top. Oh wait! Flying home to celebrate my grandfather's 100th birthday was seriously THE event of 2010. Forget work, forget deadlines, pending contracts and bills. Forget it all. The man is my Superhero. I wish I could have taken him on the road trip I took shortly after his birthday, heading down to the Alps and my native Provence. I bet you he would have had 100 more stories to tell. It was an amazing trip but there was more work awaiting at home.
Pretty much the day after I landed back in SC, I started doing the photography for another cookbook, this time written by the talented Holly Herrick and all about tarts. I know! One of my favorite topics! It was a ton of work cooking, styling and photographing but again I was teaching myself and learning so much in the process that it made the experience that much more fulfilling. I was looking to a little break during the fall and was thrilled to go back to San Francisco to speak at BlogHer Food once again and give back some of what I had learned. I really re-discovered and fell in love with the city again. Not to mention spending quality time with dear friends again.
I went home and started on my biggest project yet to date with Wiley Publishing and before I could realize I'd do the bulk of it during the holiday season, Thanksgiving rolled around, marking the start of what B. and I label "End Of The Year Craziness". Being able to spend time with both friends and family as much as we have been able to this year has been the key to keeping us grounded. And going. And energized. And peaceful. And grateful
So what's in store for 2011? I am looking forward to having my friend Taylor here for a few days in January and then driving to Alabama together for the FoodBlog South conference. I'm looking forward to meeting creative people I have been following for years and seeing friends again. I'll be meeting for the first time celebrated author Virginia Willis, whose cookbook I will be photographing in February. I am also working on finalizing plans and dates for other jobs, shooting more cookbooks, writing my own (I know! That part is crazy!)
See, there is much known and much unknown to 2011 but you know what? I am looking forward to it all. Blog, friends, family, work. They make me whole. I try to take everything as a possibility for growth, good or bad and the kind words, support and frienships you have extended to me this year have made me do this move (from Love Actually) a thousand times over.
This year has been nothing short of feeling like Christmas mornings most days. So to you dear readers, I wish you a lots and more of these moments for 2011!
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A trustee overseeing Anthony's case will present a motion Tuesday trying to receive permission to set up a potential auction for "exclusive worldwide rights" for Anthony's life story. In court filings, Anthony lists about $792,000 owed to several dozen creditors.
Now 26, she was acquitted of murder in 2011 in the death her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Anthony has never told her side of the story, despite intense media scrutiny. She said last month that she was unemployed and hasn't received any money to tell her story.


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resolver -- resolver configuration file
The resolver(3) is a set of routines in the C library which provide access to the Internet Domain Name System. The resolver configuration file contains information that is read by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process. The file is designed to be human readable and contains a list of keywords with values that provide various types of resolver information. On a normally configured system this file should not be necessary. The only name server to be queried will be on the local machine, the domain name is determined from the host name, and the domain search path is constructed from the domain name. The different configuration options are: nameserver Internet address (in dot notation) of a name server that the resolver should query. Up to MAXNS (currently 3) name servers may be listed, one per keyword. If there are multiple servers, the resolver library queries them in the order listed. If no nameserver entries are present, the default is to use the name server on the local machine. (The algorithm used is to try a name server, and if the query times out, try the next, until out of name servers, then repeat trying all the name servers until a maximum number of retries are made). domain Local domain name. Most queries for names within this domain can use short names relative to the local domain. If no domain entry is present, the domain is determined from the local host name returned by gethostname(3); the domain part is taken to be everything after the first `.'. Finally, if the host name does not contain a domain part, the root domain is assumed. search Search list for host-name lookup. The search list is normally determined from the local domain name; by default, it contains only the local domain name. This may be changed by listing the desired domain search path following the search keyword with spaces or tabs separating the names. Most resolver queries will be attempted using each component of the search path in turn until a match is found. Note that this process may be slow and will generate a lot of network traffic if the servers for the listed domains are not local, and that queries will time out if no server is available for one of the domains. The search list is currently limited to six domains with a total of 256 characters. sortlist Sortlist allows addresses returned by gethostbyname to be sorted. A sortlist is specified by IP address netmask pairs. The netmask is optional and defaults to the natural netmask of the net. The IP address and optional network pairs are separated by slashes. Up to 10 pairs may be specified. e.g. sortlist 22.214.171.124/255.255.240.0 126.96.36.199 options Options allows certain internal resolver variables to be modified. The syntax is options option ... where option is one of the following: debug sets RES_DEBUG in _res.options. ndots:n sets a threshold for the number of dots which must appear in a name given to res_query() (see resolver(3)) before an initial absolute query will be made. The default for n is ``1'', meaning that if there are any dots in a name, the name will be tried first as an absolute name before any search list elements are appended to it. no_tld_query tells the resolver not to attempt to resolve a top level domain name, that is, a name that contains no dots. Use of this option doesn't prevent the resolver from obeying the standard domain and search rules with the given name. Options may also be specified as a space or tab separated list using the RES_OPTIONS environment variable. The domain and search keywords are mutually exclusive. If more than one instance of these keywords is present, the last instance will override. The keyword and value must appear on a single line, and the keyword (e.g. nameserver) must start the line. The value follows the keyword, separated by white space.
/etc/resolv.conf The file resolv.conf resides in /etc.
gethostbyname(3), resolver(3), hostname(7), named(8) Name Server Operations Guide for BIND.
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It's time for "Outdoor Wednesday". Learn more about "Outdoor Wednesday" HERE
1. POST your outdoor photos and the Outdoor Wednesday logo/button on your blog and link back to http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/ so that others will be able to find all the links to other Outdoor Wednesday posts.
Reminder: Do NOT link in until after your post is up.
2. Add your Name and the Permalink to your post (NOT your general blog address) in "Mr. Linky". For help with permalink see HERE.
Starting around Thanksgiving…. and going through the end of December…. I am going to include/encourage everyone to share their outdoor AND indoor Christmas (Holiday) decorations for Outdoor Wednesdays.
Greenery in the form of trees, wreaths and garland are from outside…… and they are inside for the holidays… yes, I am stretching the definition of Outdoor Wednesday…. but I can!!!
Other Outdoor photos are welcome (as usual).
I am cheating a little this week. I forgot to take any pictures and it is time for my Outdoor Wednesday post! I am going to share some of my Fall décor in the house. I guess you could say it is a little of bringing the outdoors inside.
The entry….
The living room….
Top of the entertainment center….
The dining room….
Vanity in the bathroom….
Even the tub got a few fall touches…
Don't forget to visit other Outdoor Wednesday participants by clicking on their links. Check back later to make certain you visit all the Outdoor Wednesday participants.


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Banks Must Think Differently About Customer Experience In A Branchless Digital Environment
Banks have offered online accounts for years, but new digital banking technologies, such as mobile remote deposit capture, and a new generation of young customers are driving increased interest in digital bank accounts.
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.
Customers in their 20s and 30s have been quick to embrace mobile and online capabilities that are steadily making branches obsolete -- at least for day-to-day banking needs. The fast-paced adoption of mobile remote deposit capture to deposit checks is a recent example of this trend. "The advent of mobile remote deposit capture is eliminating the No. 1 reason for branch visits," says Teresa Epperson, a managing director at AlixPartners, a consulting firm.
Once consumers adopt mobile banking, they tend to increase their use of other digital channels, particularly the online channel, and visit branches less frequently, Epperson says, adding that this trend is most pronounced with younger customers. Consumers over the age of 35 responding to a 2012 AlixPartners' survey say that branch location is the No. 1 factor they consider when changing banks. Younger customers say a desire for mobile banking capabilities is their main motive for switching, and they increasingly are drawn to digital banking accounts, she reports.
In light of this trend, it's clear that banks that want to attract the next generation of customers must offer an exceptional digital experience to draw and keep their loyalty. As these younger customers mature, the industry will see a big shift in channel usage patterns for everyday banking, Epperson predicts. "Some banks want to create a digital bank under their brand. Others -- especially the large nationals -- are repositioning themselves as tech-savvy, digitally oriented organizations to get younger customers."
Who's Going Digital
Established banks such as Barclays and BBVA Compass are expanding the accounts they offer that can only be accessed online or through other digital channels such as mobile and ATMs with no branch support. Nonbank startups such as Moven and Simple also have entered digital banking with online and mobile account offerings.
Barclays' U.S. credit card operation, Barclaycard US, began offering an online-only savings account last year to help fund its credit card book, says Andrew Harris, director of deposits and customer experience at Wilmington, Del.-based Barclaycard US. These accounts are Barclays' first in the United States; it previously only offered credit card products in the U.S. And the bank has looked at expanding its online savings offerings with an online checking account, as competitors Discover and ING Direct USA (now known as Capital One 360 following its acquisition by Capital One Bank) have done.
Digital accounts are a great opportunity for Barclays, which uses the FIS Profile core banking system, and other financial services firms that don't have branch networks to gain account deposit market share from established banks, Harris says. "We see the amount of money moving from traditional banks to online-only accounts increasing each year," he says. Deposits in online-only accounts rose to $364 billion last year, up 32% from 2010 numbers, according to a recent report by consultancy Novantas.
However, the rise of digital banking doesn't mean "either/or" when it comes to channel activity. Digital banking actually is giving customers the opportunity to truly diversify where they're getting their banking services from, according to Harris. Customers used to treat their banks as a one-stop shop for their financial needs. Now they may have a checking account with a traditional bank and an online savings account with a credit card company or a tech startup, and they may use Mint (a personal financial planning website) as their financial adviser, Harris explains. Consumers no longer need a live person as their financial adviser, he says. "Digital is removing people, not just products," Harris observes. "That gets missed. We focus too much on digital products and not enough on service."
Banks used to rely on their branches to provide all of these services and to solve customers' problems. That's always been the value proposition of having a branch network, Harris notes, but in a digital world banks must think differently about customer experience. "When you have the branch to fall back on, you don't see the customer's journey through problems. Without it you have to think harder about the sad parts of the customer journey. You have to be more clear about not creating friction. It makes us think differently."
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This project was a freebie for me since I had everything on hand! Love that right?! And it wasn't necessarily organizing, it was more just giving a storage item a little face lift. Since my plastic surgeon was on vacation, I called in my spray paint stash instead...
I started out with a simple, glass spaghetti jar, which I believe was an IKEA find a few years ago. We have had it forever, and I can't begin to tell you how many times I have tried to stick it into the pantry since I have never really loved how it looked. But it is too tall for our pantry, so on the counter it sits.
Did you know you could spray paint glass? You probably did. Since I live under a rock most days, I just learned this more recently so I am going through a glass spray painting frenzy.
And a stripe painting frenzy as well.
I started out with thin painters tape, and taped off my first line. Then, I used more tape to act as equal spacers and continued to tape all the way up the jar.
Then, I gave the jar two coats of pretty blue spray paint.
And pulled the tape to reveal a more unique and pretty jar!
I sort of love it! And it got me looking at all my jars with that scheming devilish eye....
Now, if any spray paint leaks under your tape, the good thing is a razor easily scrapes it off for a clean look. The bad news, is that it also shows how easily the rest of the paint can chip as well. So, I added a quick clear coat over the top of the stripes {using a spray similar to this}.
The goal was to make the spaghetti jar more attractive, and maybe even distract the eye from the dated counters and cabinets.... did it work?
No? Ha! Guess that means we need to get going with a kitchen reno, I will tell the Mr.
Anyway, I love that glass can be painted and that we can do free projects like this to give a splash of color to storage! Happy day!
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The Mariners have an opportunity Wednesday to do something they haven't done in a decade — sweep three consecutive series. They put themselves in that rare position Tuesday night at Safeco Field with a grinding, 4-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians that featured a wild, 5-4-2-6 ninth-inning double play that sealed the win, Seattle's season-high eighth in a row.
Aside from that fielding theatric, the game was almost entirely devoid of drama. Seattle fell behind 1-0 in the first and 3-1 in the second, pushed across three runs in what proved to be a decisive third inning, then held on behind Erasmo Ramirez, Yoervis Medina and shaky closer Tom Wilhelmsen, who notched — barely — his 23rd save in 28 chances.
In the ninth, Wilhelmsen immediately allowed a base hit to Mark Reynolds and another to Lonnie Chisenhall, putting runners on the corners with no outs. Yan Gomes hit a grounder to third. Kyle Seager fired to second for a force-out, and second baseman Nick Franklin alertly threw to home. Pinch-runner Drew Stubbs broke so late that he was caught in a rundown and tagged out by shortstop Brad Miller, completing the bizarre double play.
"The idea is if they can turn two, (Stubbs) can't stay at third," said Indians manager Terry Francona. "So once they threw to second, he's going. He just probably needed to keep going and we'll take our chances. You can't go on contact because you'll run into an out, but once they start to turn two, you just gotta keep going."
Wilhelmsen then fanned Michael Bourn for the third out, making a winner out of Ramirez (1-0, 8.71), long departed by then.
The Mariners improved to 48-52, closest they have been to .500 since late May. They have won 13 of the last 18 and are 21-15 over their last 36. This is Seattle's longest winning streak since an eight-gamer Aug. 14-22, 2012. In the run, Seattle has outscored its opponents 50-24 while improving to 13-5 in July. Seattle last won nine in row in 2003.
This also marked the 45th time in 100 games that a Mariners contest has been decided by two or fewer runs.
The Mariners can broom the Indians Wednesday. If accomplished, it would be Seattle's third consecutive sweep after recording zero sweeps in their first 30 series of the season. The last time the Mariners posted three consecutive sweeps: May 27-June 5, 2003 at the expense of Kansas City (2 games), Minnesota (4) and Philadelphia (3).
For the first time in 16 consecutive home games, the Mariners did not hit a home run. But they received a 3-for-4 effort out of Kyle Seager and two hits from Kendrys Morales, just enough, coupled with effective pitching, to fend off the Indians, who swept the Mariners in a four-game series in Cleveland in May.
The Indians jumped on Ramirez in the first. With two outs, Jason Kipnis doubled to right and former Mariner farmhand Asdrubal Cabrera knocked him home with a single to center. In the bottom of the inning, Seager answered with a double to right, scoring Franklin, who drew a walk.
Cleveland retaliated with two more in the second on a two-out home run by Gomes. But the Mariners answered with three in the third. Back-to-back doubles by Raul Ibanez and Morales scored one run, Seager scored on a wild pitch, and an RBI-single by catcher Mike Zunino plated Michael Saunders, who had doubled.
The Mariners put runners on first and third with one out in the fifth when Seager singled to right and took third on Justin Smoak's infield single. But the Mariners failed to capitalize, Saunders and Zunino striking out.
Acting manager Robby Thompson lifted Ramirez after 5.2 innings, the second-year pitcher having allowed three earned runs on eight hits with four strikeouts and two walks. Ramirez gave a much better accounting of himself in his second start, lowering his ERA from 13.50 to 8.71.
The series wraps at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday with LHP Joe Saunders (9-8, 4.28) opposite LHP Scott Kazmir (5-4, 4.30). Saunders is 4-0 with a 1.73 ERA in July while Kazmir is 2-0, 1.95 ERA with 28 strikeouts across his last six starts.
The Minnesota Twins arrive Thursday night. The Twins won two of three series at Target Center in late May-early June, including 10-0 June 2 when Minnesota lit up ex-Mariner Jeremy Bonderman.
NOTES: After the game, the Mariners said $8 will be taken off Wednesday's ticket prices in Main, View and Club sections to salute the streak. Tuesday night they took off $7 per ticket . . . Manager Eric Wedge, taken to a local hospital before Monday night's game after experiencing dizziness, spent a second day hospitalized Tuesday as doctors continued to take tests. Robby Thompson again took over as skipper . . . To make room for RHP Erasmo Ramirez on the 25-man roster, the Mariners Tuesday optioned reliever Bobby LaFromboise to AAA Tacoma.


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The Cove: A Novel (Paperback)
April 2012 Indie Next List
"Laurel Shelton and her brother live in a cove considered by many to be cursed. Crops fail, untimely deaths occur, and little light ever trickles down onto their plot of land. Their lives are largely isolated until Laurel discovers a mysterious and mute stranger playing the flute in the nearby woods. Set during the final months of WWI in the Appalachians of North Carolina, The Cove is a book that reveals the nature of humans to quickly ostracize those not like themselves and how easily people will demonize a group of people amidst the fever of war."
— Eon Alden, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva, NC
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Ron Rash wields words in such a lovely way that even this dark, sometimes sad story glows from within.
— Lauren Harr"Set during World War One, The Cove is a novel that speaks intimately to today's politics. Beautifully written, tough, raw, uncompromising, entirely new. Ron Rash is a writer's writer who writes for others."
—Colum McCann
"Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true; The Cove solidifies his reputation as one of our very finest novelists."
—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls
Here is a magnificent tale that captures the wondrous beauty of nature and love—and the darkness of superstition and fear—from one of America's most exciting contemporary novelists. With The Cove, Ron Rash, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Serena, returns to the Appalachian milieu he has previously so memorably evoked. A two-time O. Henry Prize winner for his short fiction—and recipient of the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Story Award and the 2010 SIBA Book Award for his story collection Burning Bright—Rash can expect more honors for The Cove, a novel that brilliantly explores often dangerous notions of patriotism during wartime. This story of a love affair doomed in the rising turmoil of WWI resonates powerfully in today's world.
Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestseller Serena and Above the Waterfall, in addition to four prizewinning novels, including The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.
"A gently beautiful new novel…Rash, a native of Appalachia, has written a southern tragedy, with a self-consciously Shakespearean structure and economy…. [A] powerful novel, with some of the mysterious moral weight of Carson McCullers, along with a musical voice that belongs to Rash alone." — USA Today
"This book ranks among the best backwoods fiction since 2006's Winter's Bone.... [A] gripping novel…[not] just an elegant work of literary fiction, written in a voice that's hauntingly simple and Southern; it's also a riveting mystery." — Entertainment Weekly, Grade: A
"Rash is particularly good at capturing the hazy space where otherworldly phantoms mingle with plain old human meanness…Rash never lays down a dull or clunky line…at the very end…these pages ignite, and suddenly we're racing through a conflagration of violence that no one seems able to control except Rash." — Washington Post
"In Rash's skilled hands, even farm chores take on a meditative beauty." — People
"Mr. Rash's writing is so richly atmospheric…[he] can make words take wing…. A breathless sequence of events lead the book to its devastating final sentence. And that sentence affirms Mr. Rash's reputation for writerly miracles." — Janet Maslin, New York Times
"[B]eautifully crafted…In [the cove's] story, we hear the unique voice of a region made all the more poignant for how few will ever hear it exactly this way again." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Rash masterfully poises suspense elements and gives full reign to other strengths: language, awe, symbolism, cast of characters and mountain knowledge…. It's a book you could read again to savor the writing. Rash has found a subject that compellingly represents his vision—beauty shadowed by foreboding; and he's made it symphonic." — Asheville Citizen-Times
"Lonely young woman meets mysterious stranger. What might have been trite and formulaic is anything but in Rash's fifth novel, a dark tale of Appalachian superstition and jingoism so good it gives you chills… Even better than the bestselling Serena (2008), for here Rash has elevated melodrama to tragedy." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Rash effortlessly summons the rugged Appalachian landscape as well as the small-mindedness and xenophobia of a country in the grip of patriotic fervor, drawing striking parallels to the heated political rhetoric of today. A powerful novel that skillfully overlays its tragic love story with pointed social commentary." — Booklist (starred review)
"The gripping plot, gothic atmosphere, and striking descriptions, in particular of the dismal cove, make this a top-notch story of an unusual place and its fated and fearful denizens." — Publishers Weekly (starred review), Pick of the Week
"Rash develops his story masterfully; the large cast of characters is superbly realized, as is the xenophobia that accompanies the war, and Rash brings the various narrative threads together at the conclusion of the novel with formidable strength and pathos." — Library Journal (starred review)
"Set during World War One, The Cove is a novel that speaks intimately to today's politics. Beautifully written, tough, raw, uncompromising, entirely new. Ron Rash is a writer's writer who writes for others." — Colum McCann
"Ron Rash uses language with such apparently effortless skill that it is as though he found words in his barn as a child and has been training them to fit his needs ever since....Rash throws a big shadow now and it's only going to get bigger and soon." — Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone
"I wish the whole world spoke the way Ron Rash's characters do. Read him for his poetry and great humanity. Just read him." — Jennifer Haigh, author of Faith
"Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true; his new novel, The Cove, solidifies his reputation as one of our very finest novelists." — Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls
"The Cove is a beautifully written book that uses heartfelt characters to describe the difficult life of a lonely, misunderstood young woman." — The Desert News
"The Cove, the laconically beautiful new novel by Ron Rash, actually is lyrical, in the dictionary sense of having to do with song or poetry. Rash's gorgeous prose is as close to song as you'll find without an accompanying score . . ." — New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Ron Rash has a deft touch in describing both landscape and household, and his use of evocatively specific regionalisms never edges into condescension or vernacular." — Open Letters Monthly / Like Fire (blog)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks Corp. is rolling out a $1 reusable plastic cup at its cafes.
The Seattle-based coffee chain already gives customers a dime discount each time they bring in reusable cups for refills. Now it's hoping the new cups — which bear its logo and resemble its white paper cups — will increase the habit.
As with other reusable cups, the new cups will be cleaned with boiling water each time customers bring them in. The cups were tested in 600 stores in the Pacific Northwest over the past few months and will be rolled out nationwide and in Canada.
In 2008, Seattle-based Starbucks had said it wanted to serve 25 percent of all drinks in reusable cups by 2015. That goal has since been reduced to 5 percent.


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Buchholz lowered his AL-leading ERA to 2.26. He has not allowed an earned run in 23.2 innings.
Marcum (7-4-3-0-6, 91) had set down the first 12 Boston batters before David Ortiz opened the fifth with a triple -- to left-center! Adrian Beltre doubled and it was 1-0. After two were outs, Bill Hall launched a rocket over everything in left. In the seventh, Ryan Kalish doubled and Marco Scutaro walked. They both scored as Victor Martinez and Ortiz had RBI singles.
After Daniel Bard pitched the seventh, Felix Doubront took the final two innings, allowing only two baserunners (a one-out single in the eighth and a HBP with two outs in the ninth).
The Yankees beat the Mariners 10-0 and the Rays beat the A's 3-2. New York holds its one-game lead over Tampa Bay, with Boston 6.5 GB. The Red Sox are 5.5 GB the Rays in the wild card race.5:04 PM: Buchholz still out there in the third. 49 pitches before the delay, 51 through 3. (Marcum still in, too.)
4:05 PM: The tarp is back on the infield, with Blue Jays batting in the top of the third, two outs, a runner on first, and a 1-1 count on Adam Lind.
3:19 PM: First pitch! The start of the game was delayed 1:44 by rain.Shaun Marcum / Clay Buchholz
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1933 - Cubs president William Veeck suggests a midsummer series of inter-league games.
1946 - MLB clubs approve a 168-game schedule, but change their minds on September 16.
1976 - I see my first game at Fenway Park (Oakland wins 7-6 in 11).
2007 - The Rangers beat the Orioles 30-3, setting an AL record for runs. No major league team had scored 30 runs since the 1897 Colts. Wes Littleton pitches the last three innings and gets a save.


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NFL Action from Week 16
Week 16 of the 2013 NFL season saw three more teams clinch playoff spots. Here are five things we learned on Sunday:
Tony Romo Wins Games Late, Too
Down 23-17 to listless Washington late in the game, the Dallas Cowboys (8-7) drove 87 yards for a go-ahead touchdown which saved the day — and their season. The man behind the comeback? Tony Romo, the much-maligned quarterback who threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to DeMarco Murray on a fourth-and-goal with 1:08 remaining. It was only a week ago that Romo's late interceptions, some questionable play-calling and a porous defense caused Dallas to squander a 23-point lead to Green Bay. The victory set up a winner-take-all match between the Cowboys and Eagles for the NFC East title next Sunday night in Dallas.
The Patriots & Bengals Are Playoff-Bound
When Buffalo (6-9) completed its 19-0 whitewash of Miami (8-7) on Sunday, the Patriots (11-4) were free to relax because they were AFC East champs regardless of the outcome of their game against the Ravens (8-7). So much for relaxing: New England dominated Baltimore, 41-7, thanks to four turnovers by the Ravens. The title was business-as-usual for Pats' coach Bill Belichick, who won his 11th division title.
The Cincinnati Bengals (9-5) clinched the AFC North title and a playoff spot courtesy of their 42-14 pasting of the Minnesota Vikings (4-10-1) coupled with the Ravens' loss to the Patriots. It's the Bengals' third consecutive playoff berth and first division title since 2009.
The Panthers Are Back in the Playoffs
Carolina (11-4) claimed a playoff spot for the first time since 2008 thanks to the heroics of quarterback Cam Newton, who threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Domenik Hixon with 23 seconds left to give the Panthers a 17-13 win over the New Orleans Saints (10-5). Newton can lead Carolina to the NFC South title and a first-round playoff bye with a win next Sunday at Atlanta. Panthers fans who haven't had a rooting interest in the post-season over the past four years may have to be reminded to pay attention in January. It's only the franchise's second playoff berth in eight years.
Peyton Manning Is the New Single-Season TD Pass King
NFL fans should have seen this coming when Peyton Manning threw seven touchdown passes on opening night in September. The Denver quarterback set a new single-season record for touchdown passes when he tossed his 51st scoring pass of the season in the Broncos' 37-13 rout over Houston (2-13). The 25-yard strike to Julius Thomas with 4:28 remaining allowed Manning to eclipse Tom Brady's 50 TD passes for the Patriots in 2007. It also helped Denver clinch the AFC West and guaranteed the team a first-round bye in the post-season. As impressive as the TD pass record is, Manning may want to remember that Brady's big year ended with a loss in the Super Bowl.
The NFC Central Is Still Up for Grabs
The Chicago Bears (8-7) had everything to play for on Sunday night in Philadelphia, while the game meant nothing to the Eagles (9-6). Final score: Philadelphia 54, Chicago 11. Wait…What? Already aware that they must beat Dallas next week to make the playoffs regardless, the Eagles routed the Bears and kept them from clinching the NFC North. Chicago must now tie or beat the Green Bay Packers (7-7-1) at Soldier Field next week to make the playoffs. The Detroit Lions (7-8), who were 6-3 before losing five of their last six games, were eliminated from playoff contention via a 23-20 overtime loss to the New York Giants.


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By now it's hardly news that the U.S. spends more than every other industrialized country on health care. But a new study suggests that at least when it comes to cancer care, Americans may actually be getting decent value.
The study, in April issue of the policy journal Health Affairs, isn't the first to suggest that U.S. patients do better than their European counterparts when it comes to surviving most types of cancer. Other studies have shown that the U.S. approves cancer drugs faster than most nations across the pond.
But this study, by researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Southern California and partially funded by the cancer drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb,actually attempted to quantify what the U.S. gets for the additional money it spends.
And what it found is that for most types of solid tumor cancers, particularly breast and prostate cancer, even after considering the higher costs, U.S. patients experienced greater survival gains than patients in Europe.
And those costs did grow. Between 1983 and 1999, the period covered by the study, U.S. spending on cancer care grew 49 percent (in 2010 dollars). By comparison, spending in the 10 European countries included in the study grew by 16 percent. But for patients diagnosed between 1995 and 1999, average survival from time of diagnosis in the U.S. was 11.1 years, while in Europe it was 9.3 years.
"Using conservative market estimates of the value of a statistical life, this study presented evidence that U.S. cancer survival gains are worth more than the corresponding growth in the cost of U.S. cancer care according to the most recent data available for analysis," the study's authors wrote.
There are some significant caveats, of course. One is that that "most recent data" ends in 1999. And, they note, "important changes in cancer care have occurred in the past ten years, including the introduction of expensive new drug treatment and increased use of diagnostic imaging."
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Bob Odenkirk Brings Some Laughs To 'Breaking Bad'
"When the going gets tough, you don't want a criminal lawyer — you want a criminal lawyer."
That's how meth dealer Jesse Pinkman describes the fast-talking, sleazy Saul Goodman on AMC's Breaking Bad. Played by Bob Odenkirk, Saul knows how to bend the law, or break it, depending on his clients' needs. He helped Walter White — a high-school chemistry teacher turned meth cooker — launder money, stay out of prison and get connected with a meth drug lord.
Now, in the final season, even Saul is scared. Walt has plenty of drug money stashed away, but he's murdered a drug lord. Worse still, a DEA agent (who happens to be Walt's brother-in-law) may be on to him.
More 'Breaking Bad' On Fresh Air
Before Breaking Bad, Odenkirk was best known as the co-founder and co-star, with David Cross, of the HBO sketch-comedy series Mr. Show.
Breaking Bad begins the second half of its final season on Sunday. Odenkirk tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about Saul's comb-over, the character's penchant for long-winded speeches, and his own thoughts on playing the most comedic character in a serious drama.
Interview Highlights
On creating Saul and his hairdo
"I talked to Vince [Gilligan], the creator. ... He goes, 'He's a sleazy lawyer; his name is Saul Goodman.' And I go, 'Well, I'm not Jewish. There are a lot of Jewish actors, I'm sure you could find one.' And he goes, 'Oh, no, no. He's not Jewish, he's Irish. He just changed his name to appeal to the homeboys and gain some stature in their eyes.'
"And I immediately had the idea for the hair, which is my contribution. ... It's a comb-over that's pretty clearly a comb-over, with a growing bald spot and yet at the same time somehow a mullet in back. And so it's a tricky piece of hair engineering that Saul pulls off, but I think it says a lot about his character. Cleaned up on the sides, because he's all business, and the comb-over is to try look younger, and the mullet is to try to look like a relaxed dude, but who's also capable of focusing and being serious."
On playing the most comedic character in a serious drama
"It's fun. I'm glad to bring that tone to the show. I love making wisecracks. In that way, I'm impersonating my father — that's how I look at it — who made a lot of jokes and cynical wisecracks all of the time.
"It's how the character is written. I don't improvise a single word that I say as Saul. In fact, it's been a challenge for me to not add anything, but to rather try to deliver the material exactly the way that it's written, word for word. I come close. I don't nail it, but I come real close.
"Saul has all the danger at arm's length, which is how he likes it. The people around him may be under the threat of death or arrest, prison, but he himself will never be in the cross hairs. So it's kind of a game to him. He manipulates these pieces on the chessboard, trying to make as much money in the end, for himself, [as] he can. It's a laugh to him."
On Saul's long-winded speeches
"To me it's all a form of sleight of hand, but it's sleight of speech. When I got the first script and there were these long speeches, and I thought, just coming from comedy, I thought, 'Well, when they rewrite this speech, the final draft is gonna be just a short line. It'll just be a line.' ... And then I got the rewrites, the blue pages — because they're printed on blue paper — about five days before I shot the first scene, and literally one word had been changed in all of those speeches. And it made me go, 'OK, well now, what's really going on here? Why did the writers think that my character needs to talk this much?'
"And that's when I started taking apart those speeches and seeing that there's often a line of logic that Saul is following, and he's finding it a dead end, and then he has to go another direction. So it's all about manipulating the person he's talking to."
On his early comedy preferences
"For me it's about getting to the core of things and speaking honestly about hypocrisy. There's the kind of comedy I saw a lot of when I was a kid that was almost the opposite: It was this strange kind of covering up of genuine motivation. ...
"All those Bob Hope specials made me cringe when I was a kid. I never found him funny, and all the sexual innuendo just made me crazy, even though as a child I didn't know what sex was about. I just remember watching it and thinking, 'Why don't you just say you're horny instead of rolling your eyes? What a weird thing. We all know what you mean.' It just seemed dishonest in a strange way, and I didn't know why anyone would find it funny. When I found Monty Python, that's what really spoke to me."


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Engineering applies knowledge from science and math to real-world challenges in an effort of improve the world we live in. It is a broad discipline that encompassess teamwork, problem solving, design thinking, communication, organization, and project management.
Computer Science and Technology
If you are interested in using your technical knowledge, creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills in your career of choice, exploring opportunities in technology, and software engineering-related industries and sectors may be of interest to you. These industry areas are growing and innovating rapidly – opportunities that are unheard of today may be top options in a few years. Broadly speaking, employment in computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 15 percent from 2021 to 2031.
Computer science at Wellesley encompasses the broad application and theory of ideas relating to hardware and software. As an outcome, those studying computer science should leave with a broad understanding of how computing and technology applications work so that they can build computer applications of the future. Since technology is present in any and all industries and disciplines, the application of technical knowledge can be found in numerous career opportunities.
Mathematics is essentially the study of patterns, and the understanding and application of these patterns is essential for the foundation of all other sciences. While mathematics is often studied in its own right, it is also applied to all manner of real world problems found in business, government, laboratories, medicine, engineering, and more.
National Institutes of Standards & Technology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (NIST SURF) (students)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) offers Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) at NIST laboratories in Gaithersburg, MD; Boulder, CO; and Waimanalo, Hawaii. The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship is designed to inspire undergraduate students to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) through a unique research experience that supports the NIST mission. Eligible are currently enrolled undergraduates who are US citizens or permanent residents, majoring in chemistry, computer science, physics, engineering, materials science, fire research, nanotechnology, information technology, mathematics, biology, manufacturing, statistics, or another STEM discipline.
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One the the things that I like about weekends is that I have more time to spend on breakfast. Instead of quickly making something so that I can dash out the door on my way to work I have the time to actually make something nice and over the long weekend I took advantage of that. With the recent success of the fresh corn pancakes I had pancakes on my mind though this time I was thinking about blueberry pancakes. Mini blueberry cheesecakes were also dancing through my head and at some point the two ideas collided and I soon found myself obsessing about blueberry cheesecake pancakes!
I was thinking that I would keep things simple and start out with a basic pancake recipe that I would add big chunks of cream cheese to and top them with a blueberry sauce and crumbled cheesecake crust. There was however one small problem in that I wanted there to be nice big pieces of cream cheese in the finished pancakes and I was worried that it would melt while the pancakes cooked and disappear just like the cottage cheese does in my cottage cheese pancakes . After thinking about it for a while I decided to try freezing the cream cheese before mixing it into the batter and hopefully that would prevent it from melting too quickly.
The blueberry cheesecake pancakes turned out even better than I had hoped for! Not only did the cream cheese did not disappear but it also remained in nice big chunks in the pancakes that were just on the verge of melting and the hot pockets of cream cheese were absolutely magical! I left the blueberries in the blueberry sauce instead of straining it and it went perfectly with the cheesecake pancakes. The almond flavoured amaretti crumb crust was the final component that really took the pancakes over the edge. These blueberry cheesecake pancakes were a fantastic way to enjoy a lazy home cooked breakfast on the weekend!
Blueberry Cheesecake Pancakes
Blueberry cheesecake inspired pancakes stuffed with chunks of cream cheese and topped with a blueberry sauce and crumbled cheesecake amaretti crust.
- 1 (4 ounce) package of cream cheese, cut into 4 pieces and frozen over night
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 cup milk
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted (or oil)
- 1/2 cup blueberry syrup (see below)
- 1/4 cup crumbled amaretti crust
- Cut the cream cheese into small pieces.
- Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl.
- Mix the milk, egg and butter in another large bowl.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the wet.
- Mix in the cream cheese.
- Heat a pan over medium heat and melt a touch of butter in it.
- Pour 1/4 cup of the mixture into the pan and cook until the surface starts to bubble and the bottom is golden brown, about 2-3 minutes.
- Flip the pancake and cook the other side until the bottom is golden brown, about 1-2 minutes.
- Repeat for the remaining batter.
- Divide the pancakes between two plate and top with the blueberry syrup and crumbled amaretti crust.
Blueberry Sauce
A simple blueberry sauce that is perfect for topping vanilla ice cream, yogurt or even pancakes.
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- Bring the blueberries, water and sugar to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Mix the water and cornstarch, mix it into the blueberry sauce and simmer until it thickens, about a minutes.
- Remove from heat and mix in the lemon juice.
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