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Armed with my shiny new roasted strawberry BBQ sauce I was ready to use it on something grilled! Before I had even made the strawberry BBQ sauce I was already thinking about using it in a grilled chicken club sandwich with lettuce, tomato and bacon in addition to the grilled chicken and the BBQ sauce. Even though the sandwich would be great just like that I really could not resist kicking it up a bit! I find that a creamy and tangy goat cheese tends to go really well with fruity sweet and spicy sauces like this strawberry BBQ sauce so I had to include some and a chicken club sandwich always benefits from some cool and creamy avocado! The flavours in this grilled chicken sandwich meld together magically and you will definitely be licking you fingers clean after eating one! With grilling season about to begin these strawberry BBQ chicken club sandwiches are a great way to kick things off this upcoming long weekend!
Throw some extra roasted strawberry BBQ sauce into the sandwich for good measure! 🙂
Strawberry BBQ Chicken Club Sandwich with Bacon, Avocado and Goat Cheese
Grilled chicken club sandwiches in a sweet, spicy and smoky roasted strawberry BBQ sauce with bacon, cool and creamy avocado and tangy goat cheese.
- 2 small chicken breasts, pounded thin
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup roasted strawberry BBQ sauce
- 2 buns
- 2-4 leaves lettuce
- 2-4 slices tomato
- 4 strips bacon, cooked
- 1 small avocado, sliced
- 2 tablespoons roasted strawberry BBQ sauce
- 2 tablespoons goat cheese, crumbled
- Heat the grill to medium-high, brush it with oil, grill the chicken until just cooked, about 3-5 minutes per side, baste it with the strawberry BBQ sauce and let it cook for another minute.
- Lightly grill the buns and assemble the sandwiches with bottom bun, lettuce, tomato, bacon, avocado, chicken, strawberry BBQ sauce, goat cheese and top bun.
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Bacon Jam Chicken Club Sandwich with Avocado and Chipotle Mayo
Grilled Chicken and Club Sandwich with Avocado and Chipotle Caramelized Onions
Grilled Chicken and Club Sandwich with Pesto Mayo
Avocado and Goat Cheese Alfredo Pasta
Strawberry Balsamic Grilled Chicken and Bacon Quesadillas
Moroccan Grilled Chicken Sandwich with Preserved Lemon Tapenade and Harissa Mayo
Strawberry, Bacon and Goat Cheese Strata with Balsamic Syrup
Slow Cooker BBQ Ribs with Roasted Strawberry BBQ Sauce
Jalapeno Honey Crispy Fried Chicken BLT
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Monterey Chicken
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I love Matthew Williamson because he looks like some type of menacing cat (this is a good thing) and is fantastic with mixing prints and fabrics and textures and messing with your mind. Like, you think a bunch of tiny little diamond glass pieces are glued on those dresses, right?THINK AGAIN. I don't know whether to say "Oh Matthew, you sly fox!" or feel utterly betrayed. BUT, since I am not a cold hearted person WHATSOEVER (did I tell you guys I'm going puppy hunting tomorrow? (Kid, I)) I will let it go. It looks cheaper when you realize it's just really smart fabric but I guess most things will look cheap when you realize they're not diamonds huh.
I've never gone totally bananas (COPYRIGHT RACHEL ZOE (she actually got that copyrighted) (I'm using a lot of parenthesis today)))))) over a DVF collection but those hats are just awesome and I am totally going to try and DIY one. Love how with every look each color from the hat is repeated in the clothing, with a few exceptions that are cool anyway. Awesome possum.
I don't believe I'd ever heard of Libertine before (shame on me), but the name sounded interesting enough so I clicked. I love the weird epic random people portraits and flowers and BOOK CASE PRINT. The only way you can beat that is if you could carry actual books in the dress.
....Actually...a possible DIY if I'm feeling really bored/like spending a lot of time trying to sew wood onto fabric and putting copies of Ramona on it only to see them fall and fabric tear. Not a feeling I get often but we'll see.
EPIC. Laura and Kate Mulleavy always do so so well with incorporating nature into their collections-like, is that a pond? A rock? A cave? Tell me! They do soft/hard contrasts so well too. The princess/punk thing was great, and now this is like Hi I'm a light fluffy knit bolero/OH WAIT I'm wearing thigh high totally badass leather boots too. They said it was Frankenstein-inspired, which only adds on to the list of greatly underused inspirations they use in their collections: Anime, Star Wars, watercolors, and Japanese horror films, to name a few. This is probably my favorite of all the NY collections, because it was cohesive without looking too much like a huge blur of clothes and all the pieces are things that could be easily matched with other stuff but also look great with their set outfit here.Lately I've been tired of all the 80's redoux but Marc was so good. Those spat cookoo legging thangs are FANTASTIC and I especially love the print in black and white. Sunglasses are utterly amazing, I like how the black shade part that you look through is going downhill toward the nose a little at the top edge so it looks like you're frowning at the demode people surrounding. That blue cloak thing is so great with the black outlines and the black shoes made me literally die in the middle of social studies when I looked at them I mean researched Andrew Jackson's presidency. Seriously, they had to take me to the nurse, where I lied on the cot (Every nurse's solution to everything, even if you are barfing up a lung and your right eye is missing) just jerking slightly every so often and quietly squeaking "marrrrc." Also I would like to think Marc made the zipper skirt with the recession in mind because it will be easy for the tiny people like us to DIY.
I think with this one there are more individual pieces I'm crazy over than complete looks themselves, but still fantastic as a whole, he never lets us down (other than this, which I decided was just a Photoshopped myth a long time ago for the sake of my sanity).And then some individual looks I especially liked. Great mix of shades of gray in Doo.Ri's, not to mention those completely beautiful (hey look a sophisticated word) and DIYable tights. All the crazy going on on the top half of the Phillip Lim model's body makes me happy, the monochrome is nice and cut of the blazer thang=heartz. I am rehabing from Matthew's evil trick fabric in what I think are actual jewels (not cloth, at least) in the Ohne Titel dress. This Davidelfin shiz looks like a dress of stairs I might trip going up on. I should be afraid of the hazard but instead want to wear it. Fashion Week does these kinds of things to you.
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Lambic 3 - Turbid Mash
The basic idea of a turbid mash is to draw off some of the wort during the mash, holding it hot before adding it back to reach the mash out. This liquid (because it is drawn off early and held too hot for the enzymes to work) still has starches and other complex molecules that are usually broken down before the end of the mash. These molecules are part of the reason that a traditionally made lambic takes several years to ferment as wave after wave of microbes slowly tear apart the large molecules (creating sourness and complexity as byproducts of their effort).
For my microbes this year I added a package of Wyeast Roeselare along with a cup of slurry from last year's batch (half of which was bottled with the rest racked onto raspberries and dark cherries). That batch has a great aroma, but is a bit lacking in sourness (most likely due to the high alcohol content).
While the turbid mash didn't take too much longer than a standard mash it did involve many more steps, rests, and twists (what did kill my entire day was the 5.5 hour boil I needed to reduce the 9 gallons of pre-boil wort down to 5). Hopefully the pictures along with each step will help to make it easier to follow than the (similar) text descriptions found in either Wild Brews, and The Cult of the Biohazard Lambic Brewers.
A Pictorial Turbid Mash
The 5 gallon mash tun, empty at the start of the day.
My big kettle started with the entire (milled) grist, 5.25 lbs of German pils and 2.75 lbs of raw hard winter wheat (a softer wheat would probably be ideal, but I couldn't find any raw).
The small kettle got spring water, heated up to 144 F. The instructions I was following called for a total of 4 gallons of water for the mash, but I started with more to account for any evaporation or adjustments to the mash temperature (which came in handy).
First 2.5 qrts of the 144 F water was mixed into the grain, to get the mash to 113 F. This is a very low water to grain ratio (.3 qrts/lb), so there was not much free liquor. Grain holds onto about .4 qrts/lb at the end of the mash, so really this step just gets the grain damp (basically no free liquid).
I mixed the water and grain together in my big kettle before transferring it into the mash tun to ensure it was thoroughly wet (the manifold in my mash tun can get in the way).
The water in the kettle was then heated to a boil and held there for the rest of the infusions.
After letting the mash rest for 20 minutes I added 4 qrts of boiling water to it to get it up to 136 F.
After 5 minutes I pulled 1 qrt of wort from the mash using the spigot (I did a brief vorlauf to remove any large chunks of grain). The 1 qrt of "turbid" wort was heated to 176 F in the big kettle to halt any enzymatic action.
Right after pulling the 1 qrt of wort I added 6 qrts of the boiling liquid to get the mash up to 150 F.
After 30 minutes I pulled 4 more quarts of wort from the mash (through the spigot again) and combined it with the wort I had pulled earlier in big kettle. I put the pot back on the heat to get it back up to 176 F.
Right after pulling the second portion of turbid wort, I added another 5 qrts of boiling water to get the mash up to 162 F.
With the final infusion complete I topped the small kettle back up, and cranked the heat to get the water up to 185 F for the sparge.
Finally I added all of the 176 F starchy wort from the big kettle to get the main mash up to 165 F (167 F was the target, but it took me more water than called for to hit my mash temps). This is hot enough that the enzymes should not work on the starches added back to the mash (preserving them for the fermentation). After about 10 minutes I then started the vorlauf (I used a piece of aluminum foil with holes poked in it to prevent the grain bed from being disturbed).
After 10 minutes recirculating the wort I started the sparge, draining from the mash tun into the big kettle, with the mash water staying hot on the turkey fryer.
90 minutes later, with the sparge complete and ~9 gallons of 1.024 runnings collected I put the big kettle on the burner and put the spurs to it. It still took about an hour to get the wort to a boil due to the large volume and underpowered burner.
I had picked out some Hallertau Selects because they had such low AA% (1.5 when they were fresh), perfect for this brew since I have been too lazy to age any hops.
I added the hops just as the boil was starting.
Even with the large volume of very hot sparge water my efficiency wasn't great and it took .5 lbs of light dry malt extract to get me up to my target OG of 1.048. Assuming the same efficiency (74%) 5.75 lbs of pils and 3 lbs of wheat would have gotten me there (along with 10% more water at each step of the mash). With the 5.5 hour boil completed, the wort chilled to 68 with my immersion chiller, and the hops strained out, I drained the wort into a 6 gallon Better Bottle.
Once the transfer was complete I pitched a pack of Wyeast's Roeselare Blend along with a cup of slurry from last summer's lambic. Fermentation took off quickly, and after a few days added 1 oz of house toast Hungarian oak which I had boiled in water for 30 minutes to reduce the tannins.
I'll figure out if all the work was worth it when I try the beer next summer.
Lambic 3.0
Recipe Specifics (All-Grain)
Batch Size (Gal): 5.25
Total Grain (Lbs): 8.50
Anticipated OG: 1.048
Anticipated SRM: 3.5
Anticipated IBU: 12.9
Brewhouse Efficiency: 74 %
Wort Boil Time: 330 Minutes
5.25 lbs. German Pilsener
2.75 lbs. White Wheat
0.50 lbs. Muntons DME - Light
3.00 oz. Hallertauer Select @ 330 min.
1.00 Oz House Toast Hungarian Oak Cubes
WYeast 3763 Roeselare Yeast + Slurry (Wyeast Lambic Blend, Russian River Chips, 3F Gueuze)
Water Profile
Spring Water
Mash Schedule
Turbid Mash - See description
Brewed 6/29/09 By myself
Raw hard winter wheat from Whole Foods used in the mash. Bottled spring water used with no adjustments. Traditional turbid mash employed.
Collected ~9 gallons of 1.024 runnings. Super long boil because it just simmered for the first hour or two on my turkey fryer. Added 1.5% AA poly bag stored hops at the start of the boil. Added DME to compensate for lower than expected extraction near the end.
Chilled to around 68 then pitched most of a pack of Roeselare and about a cup of slurry from lambic 2.0. Fermentation took off quickly in my parent's storage closest which was in the mid-60s ambient. After a few days added 1 oz of house toast Hungarian oak which I had boiled in water for 30 minutes to mellow.
10/14/10 Racked 2 gallons of the beer onto 2 lbs of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes.
10/15/10 Bottled the remaining 3 gallons with 3.5 oz of table sugar.
3/23/11 Ended up a bit more carbonated than I expected, but the flavors are great (funk, citrus, minerals). Sourness is a bit lacking, but still a great beer.
7/21/12 Bottled the grape portion... finally. 1.5 oz of table sugar and a bit of rehydrated Red Star Premier Cuvée. Sourness has come up a bit, but it is slightly vinegary. Still a bit cloudy, we shall see.
3/19/13 Finally a tasting of the Cabernet sauvignon aged portion. Nice mix of light fruit accented by lemons and funk. Similar to the plain version in that it is close, but not quite there. The flavors don't mesh in a way that works seamlessly.


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Sure, on first viewing it may just look like three people riding their bikes relatively slowly in a protected bike lane, but once you read the description it all starts to make sense:
Second hipster cuts me off like he is hot stuff and pedals like he's trying real hard to go fast. Eat your wheaties hipster! And buy some pants that fit.
My cycling clips aren't intended to be impressive. I'm trying to capture everyday cycling moments which include mini-races with other cyclists, altercations with drivers, pedestrians who have lapses in judgment, the occasional cyclists who doesn't intend to live past 30 and of course something for my wife to see when I get home from work. If you can't comprehend context or are angry that I have not brought more entertainment into your already very boring life please refrain from posting a stupid comment. I'm just going to delete it or show how logically inconsistent you are. I'm really sorry they couldn't extend highschool for you; but please don't waste my time.
Wow. After I read that I began to understand, and on second viewing I noticed how, after he passed his competition, his head began bobbing wildly as he powered his bicycle up to speeds that had to be in excess of 16mph. By the way, here's another look at the "main field:"
Speaking of competitive cycling, another reader has forwarded me the following article from Wired.com:
While ostensibly about the effects of heat on competitive cyclists, it also reveals that they are being probed with rectal thermometers:
The control trial was conducted in a room kept at 71.2 degrees Fahrenheit. A second "hot" trial was held in a room at 88.5 degrees. The final one was a "deception" trial, in which the temperature was displayed as 78.8 degrees but it was actually 88.8 degrees, the hottest of the three. The trials were administered in a randomized way, and all seven subjects performed all three. (Rectal thermometers used to measure each cyclist's core body temperature were also displayed as being slightly lower than what they were actually were.)
I don't know who these riders are or how they wound up in this "Triplets of Belleville"-esque scenario, pedaling away on trainers with thermometers up their posteriors, but currently I'm working on two theories:
I would have thought it was some sort of air foil, or else a rack for "portaging" Cat 6 racers to the lab for rectal probing after you've chloroformed them.
I suppose this is "a piece of cycling history" as the seller claims, but it's also "for parts and not working," and the only explanation I can come up with for the high selling price is that someone was determined to squander his personal savings before the Rapture. Then again, I suppose that in the retro-Fred community the bragging rights that come with owning the world's oldest quick release are nearly priceless.
Speaking of retro-Freds, it occurs to me that it's about time I start steering the "There Will Be Action Wipes" contest to some kind of conclusion:
Meanwhile, though it's not quite an international symbol, I appreciated the way this one evoked the Tour de France logo, and I also think it would look perfect embroidered on a polo shirt:
Or, perhaps Outlier can license it for their new $220 Dolomite Pivot Sleeve Shirt that they just emailed me about:
I'm not sure why Outlier models are always running, but I hope it's not because Cat 6 bike racing is evolving into Cat 6 biathlon and these people are now racing each other all the way to their cubicles. Or maybe he's just fleeing in terror:
Cat 6 video guy must be on his tail and trying to probe him.


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Al Arabiya is calling it another "massacre." Quoting the opposition, they report that "scores of dead bodies were scattered in houses and in farms in al-Tremsa, while more than 150 dead bodies have been piled up in the al-Tremsa mosque."
The exact number is still unclear. The AP and the BBC are reporting more than 100 have been killed, while the Syrian Local Coordination Committees are reporting 287.
The AFP is saying 100 and offers this description of the attack on the central region of Hama:
"Government troops bombarded the village using tanks and helicopters," [Syrian Observatory for Human Rights] chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP by telephone, putting the death toll at more than 100."
According to Al Jazeera, the Revolution Leadership Council of Hama pinned the blame for the attack on the Bashar Assad regime, saying the town was first shelled and then "stormed by Shabbiha militia."
Meanwhile, attempts in the United Nations to increase pressure on Assad seemed stalled. The U.S., France and Germany proposed sanctions against Assad but, the AFP reports, Russia declared a "red line" saying they would veto any such attempt.
Syrian activists put the death toll at 17,000 since the uprising started 16 months ago.
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It appears that 40-mpg is the "must have" fuel economy threshold for today's compact cars in the North American market. Ford is joining the fray with its 2012 Focus now that the official EPA numbers are available.
Ford is going the Chevrolet and Honda route by making a special, hyper-optimized trim level that gets higher fuel economy instead of going the Hyundai route by making every single trim level achieve the same high fuel economy ratings. In this case, the Focus SFE (Super Fuel Economy) achieves 28 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on the highway.
The Focus SFE makes use of a 2.0-liter direct injection inline-four engine that produces an impressive 160hp. In order to get the best fuel economy from the vehicle, Ford uses a dual-clutch PowerShift transmission, special 16″ steel wheels with aero covers, and active grille shutters (to improve aerodynamic efficiency).
"Our customers tell us that fuel economy is the top reason for purchasing a Focus," said Derrick Kuzak, group vice president, Global Product Development. "The all-new Focus meets that demand with great fuel economy, class-leading technologies and features, exceptional standards of craftsmanship and driving dynamics typically reserved for larger, more expensive vehicles."
As for the competition, the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze can achieve 42 mpg on the highway with the Eco trim level, the 2011 Hyundai Elantra gets 40 mpg highway in all trim levels (with automatic and manual transmissions), and the 2012 Honda Civic HF gets 41 mpg on the highway (39 mpg in other trim levels, with the exception of the hybrid).
Regardless of how each auto manufacturer reaches the "magic" 40-mpg mark, it's good to see them going for more fuel efficient gasoline engines than having to resort to more expensive hybrid powertrains.


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User experience research can mean the difference between a product's success and failure. You might, for example, watch users who are playing a video game for the first time to see where they get lost, confused, or bored. You might review clickstream data to see where customers abandon their shopping carts. You could do formative research to help define features for a new product by interviewing people about their needs and preferences.
Not all of this research is done face-to-face. Remote research—recruiting and interviewing people without face-to-face contact—offers lots of advantages over more traditional research. Remote methods allow you to talk to people all over the world without travel expenses. A broader range of users provide a broader range of perspectives. Easier, cheaper, and better research? Rock n' roll.
Now several services promise to make remote testing even easier, cheaper, and faster, but how well do they work? To find out, I used two of them, Usabilla and Loop11, to help with some real research I am doing for a company called Livefyre.
Livefyre is a San Francisco-based startup that has developed a conversation platform that can be used as an online community at livefyre.com, or as a commenting widget incorporated into blogs. The team at Livefyre asked me to help them answer some questions about how people are using and understanding their new site.
Some of their main concerns were:
- new visitors to livefyre.com might not understand the purpose of site
- new users might have difficulty getting started
- creating an account might pose barriers
- some users might be turned off that accounts needed to be tied to either a Facebook or Twitter accounts
We crystalized these issues into the following user research study questions:
- What do you think that people do on this website?
- What's the first thing you'd like to do on this page?
- Where would you go to create an account?
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- Is this login page what you expected to see?
- Do you feel comfortable entering your Facebook or Twitter username/password when you create accounts on other sites?
And so I used these questions to test whether Usabilla and Loop11 could help answer these questions through remote user research.
Usabilia Testing
I started with Usabilla. Usabilla promises "hassle free usability testing" through "one-click" tests: "You ask your users a question and they answer it by clicking anywhere on the screen." Access starts at $49 to test 10 pages and goes up to $950 to test 250 pages.
I wasn't exactly sure how it worked, but I jumped in to figure it out.
First you upload a screenshot of your site. There is an option to paste in a site's URL, but it's a bit misleading; Usabilla just takes a screenshot of that page, and the screenshot it takes is only above the fold. I wanted to ask questions about the entire homepage, not just the part above the fold, so I had to download and install a Firefox extension to do a full-screen grab (I used Screengrab). I took screenshots of both the homepage and the homepage with the "Join Livefyre" overlay.
After uploading them to Usabilla, I then moved on to the question component. Usabilia recommends default questions, but they didn't seem very useful. I added my own questions: the three questions about the homepage and the two about the account creation dialog listed above.
Once I had uploaded the pages I wanted testers to evaluate and added (or selected) the questions to ask on those pages, I was done. Usabilia then generated a URL to share the test.
Overall, I found the process to be fairly painless once I figured out about the full-page screenshot. The downside, though, is that since you're only looking at static images you can't show site interactions. The Livefyre site has some lovely interface behaviors that a picture of the site can't convey.
I sent the URL to four test users. Unfortunately, it didn't work well. The users didn't know that they had to click on the page to add a note, and then add an annotation to this note in order to answer a question. They would just click to progress to the next question and there was no way to return to respond to a previous question. The process—clicking to add a note—was described in an introductory movie that none of them watched.
Because of this significant usability issue, I would not trust the data I would get from a larger-scale study.
Would I try Usabilla again? Probably not. The same answers could have been gained for free, and more easily, by posting screenshots along with a form created in Google Docs. If you're primarily interested in how a large group of users navigates your site, you would be better served by traditional traffic analysis using Web analytics tools.
- Easy to set up
- Somewhat inexpensive
- Usability problems
- Impossible to test interactions
You're probably better off doing a survey along with basic traffic analysis.
Loop11 Testing
Loop11 required more effort to get started and the pathway to beginning a new project was not as clear as with Usabilla. I signed up for a free trial and forged ahead.
The biggest difference I saw at first was that Loop11 uses live HTML pages rather than screenshots. An obvious benefit is that you don't have to go through the hassle of getting screenshots. But a less obvious problem is that you can't easily test a dynamic page that changes without changing the URL.
Here's what I mean: my little study was looking at two pages, the homepage (livefyre.com) and the overlay that appears when you click on "Join." The URL is the same for both. I was stymied as to how I could ask a question about the "Join" overlay. I ended up just telling the users to click on the "Join" button to complete the test.
Loop11 allows you to enter either "questions" or "tasks." I entered the first question, "What do you think that people do on this website?" and was pleased to see that I could choose the question format.
What I didn't realize, though, was that I could not ask a question and display the Livefyre site at the same time. The site can only be displayed for a "task" such as "Click on a button." Any questions appear separately on otherwise blank pages. In order to ask a question about the site, I created a task to "Spend a minute looking over this page. Then click 'Task Complete' to continue."
Then on the next screen I asked a question: "What do you think that people do on this website?"
This felt clunky, but I couldn't figure out a better alternative.
As I added more questions and tasks I got a better sense of the real value of Loop11. The ability to alternate survey-type questions with task analysis is something that I haven't seen before, and it's potentially very powerful. You could ask, for example, "How many times have you gone to the grocery store this month?" and then ask the participant to navigate part of a recipe site. Would people who shop for groceries more often find it easier to navigate a menu of ingredients? There are lots of possibilities for how this mix of questions and tasks could add a useful dimension to user research.
I launched the test and shared the URL with four participants. They all found the process of using Loop11 straightforward and did not have trouble using it. They did note, though, that it was difficult to answer a question about a page that they had previously seen without being able to look at it at the same time.
The dashboard displays the number of responses, the paths that the participants took when responding to tasks, and the answers to questions. For each participant you also get a breakdown of total time spent on the test, average time taken on tasks, and average page views per tasks. For the Livefyre test, most of these metrics weren't very useful.
Going through the process of creating, launching, and analyzing a test helped me understand that Loop11 is optimized for research into specific task completion such as, "How quickly can users find an answer in the help center?" rather than more open-ended tasks like the ones I was working with.
I would say that Loop11 will be a great tool further down the line with Livefyre. At this point, as we do work that requires a nuanced understanding of messaging comprehension, Loop11 provides some insight. As we do more research into user task flows it will be a great tool. Also, it integrates with Ethnio, which is a great remote testing recruiting tool. It will be interesting to see how the partnership between these two services continues.
- Flexible question format
- Ability to track and measure tasks
- Integration with Ethnio
- Can't ask questions on a page with visuals
- Relatively expensive
If you have a budget to work with and tasks to measure, this would be a great tool to add to your arsenal.
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Wonderbaby's relationship with her nether regions is evolving. It is, she will have you know, no longer a hole.
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A recent scene at bathtime:
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Mommy: Oh, my goodness. How about that?
Wonderbaby: You need a penny, Mommy? (rummages about around the pocket) HERE YOU GO! (triumphantly brandishes imaginary penny.)
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In late January, Iranian authorities waged the largest crackdown on the press since 2009, detaining a wave of journalists and issuing arrest warrants for numerous others. The Ministry of Intelligence accused the journalists of conspiring with foreign media to repeat the alleged "sedition" of 2009, referring to electoral fraud exposed by the media and the protests that followed. In response to the arrests, IranWire, a project led by our colleague Maziar Bahari, produced this video calling for the journalists' release.
Iran has maintained a revolving-door policy for imprisoning journalists, freeing some detainees on furloughs even as new arrests are made. In its December 2012 prison census, CPJ found that Iran was the world's second-worst jailer of journalists, with 45 journalists imprisoned in reprisal for their work. The threat of imprisonment has led scores of Iranian journalists to flee into exile in recent years.


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Good Boy Gone Bad? Justin Bieber's Adult Problems
In what could have been his worst week ever, the 19-year-old pop star struggled with his breathing and fainted backstage at a London show, was taken to a hospital and then was caught on camera clashing with a paparazzo. Days earlier, he was booed by his beloved fans when he showed up late to a concert.
Those incidents come after photos of Bieber appearing to smoke marijuana hit the Web, and some headlines have suggested that the ultra-popular star is going through a famous Britney Spears-style meltdown.
Others suggest he's struggling with a more common condition: being a teenager.
Donnie Wahlberg, who was just 14 when New Kids on the Block debuted on the music scene in the late 1980s to wild fan craze, said he remembers the pressure and hard times that came with being a teen celebrity.
"Justin Bieber's making mistakes that everyone makes and he's probably trying things and exploring things that most kids his age explore, but the problem is he's got 50 paparazzi chasing him around when he does it," 43-year-old Wahlberg said. "When we are 19 and 20, we think we can take on the world and we do forget that there is a lot of life left to live in front of us, and hopefully he'll get through these times and find his way into a long career and a healthy adulthood."
Bieber, his manager and his mother didn't respond to interview requests for this story. But the pressure was evident in the days following his collapse backstage at the O2 Arena, as the Grammy-nominated singer wrote on Instagram that he's sick of the "countless lies in the press" and that he would not be heading to rehab.
"I've accomplished more than I could've ever dreamed of, i'm 19 and it must be scary to some people to think that this is just the beginning," he wrote. "I'm a good person with a big heart. … All this isn't easy. I get angry sometimes. I'm human. I'm gonna make mistakes."
Even mistakes seem like new territory for Bieber: Since breaking out at 15 he's seen five of his albums hit No. 1 on Billboard's 200 albums chart and nearly 20 songs crack the Top 40. He's had several world tours, launched a massively successful 3-D movie about his life and made deals that include his own dolls, nail polish and fragrances. He's got a social media presence that includes 52 million likes on Facebook and 36 million Twitter followers.
But does that leave any time to be a kid?
Nick Carter, considered the wildest of the Backstreet Boys, was also the group's youngest member when they began to dominate the music charts in the 1990s, and he recalls the days when he grew mad as an overworked teen who yearned for a normal life.
"I remember getting tired. I remember getting burned out and I'm like, 'Let me relax' and you have managers, and the record label … and then before you know it, the artist gets resentful and starts to revolt against them and that's when you end up with a situation like what's going on," he said, referring to Bieber.
"In a lot of ways you're resentful and you're missing out with your friends, your childhood, you see all of your high school friends growing up … and you're like, 'Oh, I got to go back on tour.'"
Vincent Herbert, the record executive who signed Lady Gaga and also discovered the teen R&B boy band Mindless Behavior and singer JoJo at 12, said that young singers need role models around them who are fit, and that there must be "time for music and time to be kids."
"I think sometimes young artists get to that (frustrated) point because they're young and it's a lot and it gets overwhelming. I don't think Justin Bieber is at that moment, I just think he had a bad week. That kid's a phenomenal artist, he's such a hardworking person, he's such a good kid," said Herbert.
But he acknowledges that for young artists, the pressure does sometimes lead to meltdowns: "No one's a machine – we're all human."
Spears became the poster child for that after she shaved her head and lost custody of her children, and more recently Demi Lovato checked into rehab because of an eating disorder and self-mutilation, though both have released successful music since. And many young members of Hollywood have been rebellious, used drugs and watched their careers falter, from Mackenzie Phillips to Corey Haim and Corey Feldman.
Carter said his bad attitude began to affect his business, and young singers must think twice about their actions even when they're at a breaking point. He says he's now working to rework those lost relationships.
"I probably messed up a particular movie I was going on an audition for because I showed up late and people looked at me like I was disrespecting them when really I was just out of my head," he said. "I've been for years right now scrounging and clawing and proving through my work and staying away from alcohol and trying to be the best person I can be to make up for all the things I've done, and that's been hard."
While Bieber, who was raised by a single mother in Canada, has held on to a pretty squeaky image, last year began to suggest some troubles: He vomited twice onstage during a concert in Glendale, Ariz., he was cited for speeding on a Los Angeles freeway and Los Angeles County Sheriff's investigators questioned the singer after he reportedly scuffled with paparazzi who tried to photograph him and then-girlfriend Selena Gomez as they left a movie theater.
"What he's going through ultimately is just the passage of adulthood and to go through that with this kind of scrutiny – it's hard," said Bill Werde, the editorial director of Billboard. "He's going to have to decide if he wants that or not. He's going to have to decide if he can handle the sort of bad that comes with the good."
Both Carter and Wahlberg are reluctant to give advice to Bieber simply because when they were in his position, they wouldn't have listened.
"The facts are that he's going to do what he wants to do," Carter said. "What happened to me when I was that age was the same thing – it's power. Your parents are telling you, 'Please don't do this, please don't do that' and you're looking at them going, 'Who are you? I am me.'"


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Boy Scouts delay decision on policy excluding gays
Published 12:00 am Thursday, February 7, 2013
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Caught in an ideological crossfire, the Boy Scouts of America is retreating until May from a decision about whether to ease its policy of excluding gays. Whatever the organization eventually does, it's likely to anger major constituencies and worsen schisms within Scouting.
The delay, which the Scouts attributed to "the complexity of this issue," was announced Wednesday after closed-door deliberations by the BSA's national executive board. Under consideration was a proposal to ease the longstanding ban on gays by allowing sponsors of local troops to decide for themselves on the membership of gay Scouts and adult leaders.
As the board met over three days at a hotel near Dallas, it became clear that the proposal would be unacceptable to large numbers of impassioned Scouting families and advocacy groups on both the left and right.
The iconic youth organization is now deeply entangled in the broader cultural and political conflicts over such issues as same-sex marriage and religious freedom. Tilting toward either side will probably alienate the other, and a midway balancing act will be difficult.
Gay-rights supporters contend that no Scout units anywhere should exclude gays, and vowed to maintain pressure on the BSA's corporate donors to achieve that goal. Some conservatives, including religious leaders whose churches sponsor troops, warned of mass defections if the ban were even partially eased. They urged supporters to flood headquarters with phone calls.
"In the past two weeks, Scouting has received an outpouring of feedback from the American public," said the BSA's national spokesman, Deron Smith. "It reinforces how deeply people care about Scouting and how passionate they are about the organization."
The BSA "needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy," Smith added. He said the board would prepare a resolution to be voted on by the 1,400 voting members of the BSA national council at a meeting during the week of May 20 in Grapevine, Texas.
The organization had announced last week that it was considering allowing Scout troops to decide whether to allow gay membership, ensuring that the executive board meeting would be in the national spotlight.
Learning that a decision would be deferred, gay-rights leaders assailed the BSA.
"Every day that the Boy Scouts of America delay action is another day that discrimination prevails," said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "Young Americans, gay and straight, are hurt by the inaction associated with today's news."
"A Scout is supposed to be brave, and the Boy Scouts failed to be brave today," said Jennifer Tyrrell, an Ohio mother ousted as a den leader of her son's Cub Scout pack because she's a lesbian.
"They failed us yet again," she told the Associated Press. "Putting this off until May only ensures other gay kids and gay parents are discarded."
Tyrrell was among several current and former Scouts and supporters who rallied outside BSA national headquarters Monday and delivered petitions opposing the policy.
Conservative leaders made clear they would keep pressure on the BSA ahead of the May meeting.
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said his group would continue warning the BSA "about the grave consequences that would result if they were to compromise their moral standards in the face of threats from corporate elites and homosexual activists."
About 70 percent of all Scout units are sponsored by religious denominations, including many by conservative faiths that have supported the ban, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention and the Mormon church.
The delay was welcomed by Southern Baptist leaders, some of whom had said they would urge their churches to seek alternatives to the Boy Scouts if the ban were eliminated.
In comments to the Baptist Press, the denomination's official news agency, SBC President Fred Luter suggested that "prayers of the righteous" played a role in the BSA decision.
The National Catholic Committee on Scouting said it would join in the BSA's consultations over the coming months. Whatever the outcome, the committee said, "Catholic chartered units will continue to provide leaders who promote and live Catholic values."
Michael Purdy, a spokesman at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquarters in Utah, said the BSA "acted wisely in delaying its decision until all voices can be heard on this important moral issue."
The extra time will give local Scout leaders in Utah and elsewhere time to determine how their members feel about the proposal, said Kay Godfrey, a spokesman for Boy Scouts in the Great Salt Lake Council. The heavily Mormon council is one of the largest in the country, with 5,500 troops and 73,400 youth members.
"It's so important and so historic in nature that serious deliberation over time, involving a broad spectrum of folks, is needed," Godfrey said.
Outside BSA headquarters, hundreds of supporters of the ban held a rally and prayer vigil Wednesday, carrying signs that read, "Don't invite sin into the camp" and "Homosexuality is a sin! BSA please resist Satan's test. Uphold the ban."
Scoutmaster Darrel Russell of Weatherford, west of Fort Worth, took his wife and five of their seven children to the rally. Russell said having gays in the scouting movement would be like mixing boys and girls.
"The whole idea is to protect our boys at all costs," Russell said, warning that if the ban is lifted, "we're shutting down our troop."
Among those joining the debate was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an Eagle Scout who told reporters the ban should be lifted. "I can't urge them enough to make sure that every young man is eligible, regardless of his orientation, to be a scout."


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This video of a drone flight over Tel Aviv and Yafo is almost as amazing and relaxing as actually sitting there on the beach.
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
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Israel engineers are behind the development of the largest communications router in the world, launched by Cisco.
Israeli artists have developed new bus stop libraries available free of charge to commuters and travelers across the country.
Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
Children injured in the school siege in Beslan, Russia in 2004 were able to convalesce at an Israeli coastal resort in Ashkelon – at the invitation of that city's mayor.
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Tuesday May 24, 2011
In terms of the revenue of the HST, it's roughly the same as the revenue we currently get from the PST.
- B.C. Finance Minister Colin Hansen, August 13, 2009
The B.C. Liberal government said they wouldn't impose a Harmonized Sales Tax before the May 2009 election.
Afterwards they did.
Hansen and then-Premier Gordon Campbell said the HST would be "revenue neutral" for government.
Now their hand-picked Independent Panel discovered the HST is raising a whopping extra $820 million a year from your pocket.
And none of it is budgeted to pay for needed public services.
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Because it's not hard to figure out the HST is costing you lots of money.
The Independent Panel calculates that if your household family income is $40,000 to $60,000 you pay an extra $366 a year in HST.
But for a two-income earning family with both members making $50,000 each – the average B.C. wage – the HST costs you over $1,000 a year!
Those numbers are conservative and don't include spending major coin on a home renovation or repair. A $20,000 new roof will set you back an extra $1,400 and for a $50,000 kitchen reno add $3,500.
That's causing some consumers to pay cash to avoid the entire HST and save the total 12% tax. But it means honest businesses suffer and their customers pay more while government loses revenue to the black market.
And heaven help you if you want to buy a new home – because the HST adds 7% to anything costing over $525,000 when Vancouver's average house price is over $1 million. That means on an $825,000 home the extra HST is a cool $21,000.
But even on everyday items you can quickly see how the HST adds up to far more than $366 a family.
My cable TV bill alone shows I'm paying $8 a month in HST while my telephone costs me $7 monthly in HST for a total of $180 on just two basic items!
My condominium fees went up because the HST is charged on cleaning, maintenance and other services – costing me an extra $160 a year.
And our family eats a lot of restaurant food at an extra 7%. Spend $2,000 a year, add $140 in HST.
Even a cappuccino or coffee and doughnut break at $4 every work day will add up to an extra $67 a year in HST.
My wife and daughter fly to Winnipeg annually to visit family – add $84 to the $1,200 ticket price or to any domestic plane, train or bus travel.
Go to a Canucks game, movie, ballet or work out at the gym or play golf and pay 7% more every time. For some, that means hundreds more in HST costs.
And the list of extra 7% HST charged is very long.
But don't worry – a few things actually have slightly less tax with the HST.
Luxury vehicles worth more than $55,000 and disposable baby diapers – go crazy!
The enormous cost of this tax is why I helped form Fight HST with former Premier Bill Vander Zalm, former Unity Party leader Chris Delaney and others, which led a successful citizens Initiative campaign that forced this referendum.
The B.C. Liberal government is spending $5 million of your tax dollars on an advertising campaign telling you to keep the HST.
Big businesses in the misnamed Smart Tax Alliance are spending many millions more on pricey TV ads with accountants who say the HST is "good" for you.
Nonsense! Vote Yes to extinguish the HST – and save your money!


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First it was Purple Foodies post,which tempted me to make some of the sweet nectar on my own.But all those horror stories of can burst and all scared me to the boot.Then I got my Vanni to get me a jar.I saved the jar in want of a great recipe to use it.Remember Dulce de Leche Bundt cake?
Then came Anushruti with her gorgeous post[as always] and in it I found a very simple method of making this wonder.Using pressure cooker in my kitchen is something which I do on a daily basis,so I decided I should venture into making DdL sooner.I would be lying if I said I wasn't scared of can burst,I even kept away from the kitchen,lol.But let me assure,nothing of that sort happened.It was as simple as making dal,or should I say even simpler than that!!
Step 1 - Remove the plastic lid from the jar[If you are using Amul Mithai Mate,or else skip this step].
Step 2 - Fill a pressure cooker with water half way through.
Step 3 - Immerse the can into the pressure cooker and close the lid.Switch on the gas on high.Wait for steam to come and then put on the weight.When you hear the first whistle,simmer the flame and let it cook for 30-45 minutes[depending on how thick you want your dulce de leche to be].I cooked for 30 minutes and I got a thick textured DdL.
Step 4-Switch off the gas and let it cool down to room temperature.
Step 5-The hardest part-wait for the jar to cool down.Let it cool completely and refrigerate if not using immediately.
Once it is cool to the touch,open the can,
My picks would be
Dulce de Leche Bundt Cake
Dulce de Leche Coffee
Dulce de Leche Brownies -- Done!
Dulce de Leche Creme Caramel
Watch out for what I am going to make..very soon!!
Hope you try it!!


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Cancer: Home Treatment for Nausea or Vomiting
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Home treatment may be all that is needed to treat mild nausea caused by cancer or the side effects of chemotherapy or radiation therapy. If you are having chemotherapy, your doctor can give you medicines to prevent and treat nausea and vomiting. Be sure to tell your doctor if you continue to have problems after your treatment. Your doctor will adjust your medicines to prevent or control your symptoms.
You may also try the following home treatment tips:
- Take any antinausea medicines as your doctor recommends. If your doctor hasn't prescribed medicines for you, ask about taking a nonprescription antinausea medicine, such as:
- Meclizine (Antivert or Bonine).
- Dimenhydrinate (Dramamine).
- An antihistamine, such as Benadryl.
- Make sure you drink enough liquids so you don't get dehydrated. Take frequent small sips of water if a whole glass is too much.
- Make sure to eat enough food. Try 5 or 6 small meals instead of 3 bigger meals. And stay away from foods that make you feel sick, such as fried, spicy, sweet, or salty foods.
- Suck on peppermint candy, or chew a stick of peppermint gum. Peppermint may relax tight muscles in your stomach and help decrease the stomach contractions that may be causing your nausea.
- Try ginger, such as candied ginger or ginger tea. Real ginger—not ginger flavoring—helps to reduce nausea.
- Acupressure bands, which are available for motion sickness, may help reduce nausea.
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- Get some extra rest until you are feeling better.
- Sip a rehydration drink to restore lost fluids and nutrients.
- After vomiting has stopped for one hour, drink 1 fl oz (30 mL) of a clear liquid every 20 minutes for one hour. Clear liquids include apple or grape juice mixed to half strength with water, rehydration drinks, weak tea with sugar, clear broth, and gelatin dessert. Avoid orange juice, grapefruit juice, tomato juice, and lemonade. Avoid apple or grape juice if you also have diarrhea. Do not drink milk products, alcohol, or carbonated drinks such as sodas.
- If you do not have any more vomiting, increase the amount of fluid you drink to 8 fl oz (237 mL) during the second hour. If you are not vomiting after the second hour, make sure that you continue to drink enough to prevent dehydration.
- When you are feeling better, begin eating clear soups, mild foods, and liquids until all symptoms are gone for 12 to 48 hours. Gelatin dessert, dry toast, crackers, and cooked cereal are good choices. Try to stay away from strong food odors, which can make nausea worse.
The acid in vomit can erode dental enamel and cause tooth decay (cavities). Rinse your mouth with water after you vomit. Brush your teeth if you can.
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Eating or drinking something before your treatment may help you feel better. Some people feel better if they don't eat or drink anything. Find out what works best for you.
Some people feel sick right before their treatments. For this kind of nausea, medicine doesn't seem to work well. But these things can help:
- Distract yourself, whether it is playing video games, reading, doing a crossword puzzle, or doing something else that you enjoy.
- Use relaxation techniques and guided imagery.
- Try other mind-body treatments that can help, like hypnosisor behavior modification.
Symptoms to watch for during home treatment
If one or more of the following symptoms occur during home treatment, contact your doctor:
- You have signs of dehydration.
- Vomiting has lasted longer than 24 hours, and you are not able to keep fluids down.
- You develop a stiff neck.
- Severe vomiting develops.
- Chest pain or other symptoms of a heart attack develop.
- You have changes in mental alertness, such as extreme sleepiness, personality changes, confusion, irritability, or restlessness.
- You vomit blood, or your vomit looks like coffee grounds.
- Fever of 101°F (38.3°C) or higher occurs, or fever of 100°F (38°C) lasts longer than 12 hours.
- Belly pain develops or gets worse.
- Any vomiting lasts longer than 2 days.
- Your symptoms become more severe or more frequent.
Additional information about preventing nausea and vomiting is provided by the National Cancer Institute at www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/supportivecare/nausea/Patient.
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"Do you know my name?"
Those are the words actress Reese Witherspoon wishes she could take back.
Witherspoon said she was "deeply embarrassed" about what she said to police officers during her husband's arrest in Atlanta.
The Oscar-winning actress released a statement late Sunday apologizing for her behavior to police that began when her husband, Hollywood agent Jim Toth, was arrested early Friday for driving under the influence of alcohol.
"I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said," Witherspoon said. "It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I'm very sorry for my behavior."
Her publicist, Meredith O'Sullivan Wasson, offered no other details.
Witherspoon, 37, was arrested on a municipal charge of disorderly conduct early Friday after a state trooper said she wouldn't stay in the car while Toth was given a field sobriety test. She was released from jail after the Friday morning arrest and was in New York on Sunday night for the premiere of her new film, "Mud." She posed for cameras on the red carpet but did not stop to talk to reporters.
The trooper noticed the car driven by her husband wasn't staying in its lane early Friday morning, so he initiated a traffic stop. He reported that Toth had droopy eyelids, watery, bloodshot eyes, and his breath smelled strongly of alcohol.
Toth told the trooper he'd had a drink, which Witherspoon said was consumed at a restaurant two hours before the traffic stop, the trooper writes.
Before the field sobriety test began, Witherspoon got out of the car, was told to get back in and obeyed, the report said. After the "Walk the Line" star got out a second time, the trooper said he warned her that she would be arrested if she left the car again.
As the sobriety test continued, "Mrs. Witherspoon began to hang out the window and say that she did not believe that I was a real police officer. I told Mrs. Witherspoon to sit on her butt and be quiet," Trooper First Class J. Pyland writes.
Toth, 42, was then placed under arrest. He was charged with driving under the influence and failure to maintain the lane.
At that point, the report says, Witherspoon got out and asked the trooper what was going on. After being told to return to the car, she "stated that she was a `US Citizen' and that she was allowed to `stand on American ground,"' the report states.
The trooper then began to arrest Witherspoon. The report says Witherspoon was resistant at first but was calmed down by her husband.
The officer wrote in his report: "Mrs. Witherspoon asked, "Do you know my name?" I answered, "No, I don't need to know your name." I then added, "right now." Mrs. Witherspoon stated, "You're about to find out who I am.
"Mrs. Witherspoon also stated, 'You are going to be on national news,"" the officer's report stated. "I advised Mrs. Witherspoon that was fine."
Toth and Witherspoon were then taken to jail.
News of the arrest broke shortly before Witherspoon arrived on the "Mud" red carpet.
"I can't say anything because I don't know," said director Jeff Nichols. "I literally — the first guy on the press line to say something was the first time I heard about it so I gotta go figure it out."
Matthew McConaughey, who plays the lead role in "Mud" and is represented by Toth, said "I'm not going to comment on that because it's too fresh." Article Link…


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I wanted to elevate a discussion from the comments section of a post from Wednesday, you know the one with the photo of the Daou-wrangled bloggers posing in front of Bill Clinton? The first commenter, Goesh, picks up on my prompt -- "Let's just array these bloggers... randomly" -- and wisecracks: "Who is the Intern directly in front of him with the black hair?"
Eventually, Jessica from a blog called Feministing, shows up and says: "The, um, 'intern' is me. It's so nice to see women being judged by more than their looks. Oh, wait..."
Snarky but somewhat conciliatory, I say: "Well, Jessica, you do appear to be 'posing.' Maybe it's just an accident."
Jessica Feministing returns and says:
It's a picture; people pose. And I'm not sure I understand your logic anyway. If I "pose" for a picture (as opposed to sulking and hunching over?) then I deserve to be judged for my looks? I don't see anyone talking shit about the other bloggers smiling pretty for the camera.Provoked, I decide to actually give her a small dose of the kind of judgment for brains she seems to demanding:
Jessica: I'm not judging you by your looks. (Don't flatter yourself.) I'm judging you by your apparent behavior. It's not about the smiling, but the three-quarter pose and related posturing, the sort of thing people razz Katherine Harris about. I really don't know why people who care about feminism don't have any edge against Clinton for the harm he did to the cause of taking sexual harrassment seriously, and posing in front of him like that irks me, as a feminist. So don't assume you're the one representing feminist values here. Whatever you call your blog....Making this colloquy into this new blog post, I actually click over to Jessica's blog, and what the hell? The banner displays silhouettes of women with big breasts (the kind that Thelma and Louise get pissed off at when they're seen on truck mudflaps). She's got an ad in the sidebar for one of her own products, which is a tank top with the same breasty silhouette, stretched over the breasts of a model. And one of the top posts is a big closeup on breasts.
Sooooo... apparently, Jessica writes one of those blogs that are all about using breasts for extra attention. Then, when she goes to meet Clinton, she wears a tight knit top that draws attention to her breasts and stands right in front of him and positions herself to make her breasts as obvious as possible?
Well, I'm going to assume Jessica's contributions to my comments are an attempt at a comic performance, as was her attendence at the luncheon dressed in the guise of Monica Lewinsky. Lord knows we need more comical feminists.
Or are you going to say she's some kind of Karl Rove plant? Alternatives: She's a clueless fool. She's in it for the money. (And you know the blog money is all in the T-shirts.)
UPDATE: You know what? If you breastblog and someone calls you on it, just laugh. If you try to deny it, people will laugh at you. Case in point? The big comments thread herein. I'm not saying you should read all the stuff in there, even though some of it's funny (and it could be useful as raw material for a Women's Studies master's thesis), but really, denial is some serious quicksand. And thanks to Glenn for linking. Quoting the title of this post unleashed some serious Instalanche action. (I knew it would.) The most ever, actually. And late on a Friday! What are you going to do? Guys love breasts. I think Jessica knows that quite well. And I think for all her gasping outrage, she's thoroughly pleased to get this attention. And as for you chumps who spent the afternoon defending her... well, you're chumps. So am I for giving her the publicity.... but what the hell? It's Friday.
ANOTHER UPDATE: This post has gotten a lot of links from folks who profess "puzzlement." I think a lot of this puzzlement is willful blindness to the criticism of Clinton.


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Old phone systems never die. They just fade away. The phone companies that run the copper-based POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) may want to do away with it in favor of more modern, flexible and profitable technologies, but it's not going anywhere soon.
Plain old telephone service — POTS — isn't going away. Not for a while. But POTS is getting less and less popular, and that rate is increasing.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, by the summer of 2012, more than a third of Americans — 35.8% — used only wireless phones. That's about a 30% increase over the last 10 years, and a 1.8 percent increase over the last six months. And it's trending up. Amongst households with both POTS and wireless service, 15.9 percent received all or nearly all calls on their wireless phones — also indicating POTS's slow demise.
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Image via Wikimedia CommonsThe companies that run POTS are ILECs, or Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers. They're the ones that own the copper wires that run between your home and the big building downtown known as a CO or central office. AT&T, Verizon and a large number of other companies are in this business, although they'd all rather be out of it in the long term. AT&T suggested to the FCC a few years ago that it was time to sunset the POTS, at least as a COLR (Carrier of Last Resort).
Because of COLR rules, ILECs must often run expensive copper lines in rural areas to support small populations when it would be cheaper to provide cellular. The ILECs are compensated for these costs through a tax on your phone bill called the USF (Universal Service Fund) and through the simple fact that they are allowed monopoly service in many areas (although these monopolies aren't what they used to be).
It sounds like an attractive idea — eliminating POTS service. The alternatives for voice communications are basically wireless cellular service or broadband. But, there are many reasons the POTS system isn't going to disappear anytime in the near future, and why those systems have a long way to go in order to replace POTS.
POTS is an entrenched system that's vital to our society's function at some of the most critical levels — government, security and emergency services. For government, including the military, the relative security of a POTS call versus a wireless call presents a strong case for continued use, at least in the near future. Secure communications are not only valuable to the military, but also other branches of government, such as law enforcement. But, security is just one aspect.
Reliability, especially when it comes to emergency service access, is a compelling argument for POTS. Unlike the other options, emergency calls from POTS are easier for an operator to handle and dispatch services. That's because each phone line is associated with a fixed address. While it's true wireless carriers and VOIP services have made strides in improving emergency options — using GPS to locate callers by 2018, for example — POTS retains the advantage of not requiring power at the endpoint. In natural disaster situations, that advantage is apparent, as well as the known problems of cell towers getting jammed. And if the power goes out at your house, the POTS line will still probably work, while your broadband will likely be off for a while.
Broadband is often reliable in certain disaster situations like the recent earthquake in Japan. While the cellular networks were unusable, the Internet functioned and enabled well-known author William Gibson to guide Japanese citizens to emergency shelters through Twitter. Although an unusual scenario, the Japanese Internet infrastructure indeed proved useful in a crisis, more so than wireless.
Crises aside, there are other reasons for POTS's likely survival. For example, phone numbers — a common address system. At the moment, nothing is able to entirely replace the phone number. While there are digital alternatives available at the moment – like email address and social media accounts — interoperability isn't straightforward. For example, SIP trunking, while available, is a relatively new way to replace POTS services via the internet.
Another compelling reason my editor brought up was this: "Imagine just one old lady calling her congressman to cry about them taking her phone away," he said in an email, "That's enough to kill the whole plan." He's probably right about that. I think he's right because the crying old lady represents universal access — something vitally important to global communication. Historically the government insured universal access in the U.S. through state and federal fees and regulations.
At the moment universal service doesn't exist with any technologies that may eventually replace it. Although the FCC signaled its intention to make universal broadband access a priority, including a broadband Universal Service Fund as part of the plan, broadband access is far from universal at the moment. Also, there are important unanswered questions about what "broadband" means, now and in the future, and also how that service will be delivered.
My own situation also sheds some light on the difficulty of eliminating POTS. I buy DSL service, which uses the POTS infrastructure to deliver broadband. Eventually my ISP will have to upgrade to some other medium, but in the meantime my download pipe is sufficient for the foreseeable future. It handles HD streaming on YouTube, Netflix and other services — by far my most bandwidth-heavy activity. The only things I've been able to do to tax the connection are binary downloads — it's always nice if they're faster — and 4K YouTube video streaming. Upload speeds with DSL, as with many other media, are a fraction of download speed.
So what if 4K video streaming don't work? At the moment it's not such a big problem. There are few films available in 4K that I'm interested in watching, and fewer still places to watch them. Not to mention that my displays are HD — my Nexus 10 has the highest resolution, actually — so I wouldn't notice much visible improvement with 4K. Once those factors begin to change — more 4K films, and inexpensive 4K displays, I'll probably want more bandwidth.
Until that happens I'm going to stick with my DSL service — which has the added bonus of a POTS line. It wasn't until I got a POTS line after years of cell service that I realized the call-quality difference. It's big, and it's difficult for me to talk on cell phones as a result. So, I'm just saying I like my POTS — for data and voice — and I don't want to give it up. And like the little old lady, I'll complain to my congresswoman if Uncle Sam tries to take it away. Maybe by then I'll be a little old man.
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Man Learns How Not To Launch A Site For Women
Bustle.com is a new women's site staffed by editors and writers from traditionally female-oriented organizations like Glamour and Seventeen but founded and led by a man, Bryan Goldberg. His previous venture was the multimillion-dollar sports site Bleacher Report. In announcing the launch of his new lady-targeted venture Tuesday, he wrote:
"We're different, because we recognize how many diverse interests are shared amongst the next generation of women ... Creating an amazing blend of content — one that puts news and politics right beside fashion tips is what will set us apart."
Putting aside the hard feelings around how female entrepreneurs are notoriously underrepresented when it comes to venture funding for similar projects, and that Goldberg raised $6.5 million to get Bustle off the ground, and further putting aside that he named the site Bustle, both sexes reacted with swift fervor to the claim that his site is "different" for recognizing "diverse interests" among women.
He also included this line, which earned ire: "My job, as CEO, is to hire the right people. ... Knowing the difference between mascara, concealer, and eye-liner is not my job." (Goldberg says the mascara line was intended to be tongue-in-cheek.)
The reaction can be summed up by borrowing a phrase from sports (since that is among my diverse interests): "C'mon, man." Here's what Rachel Sklar, who previously founded Mediaite and now heads up TheLi.st, an online community for women, wrote:
"I am on four separate listservs for women and this post has appeared on all of them, incredulous at the claims and the tone. No one has said, 'How dare a man start a site for women.' The reaction is more about the claim that Bustle is new and different alongside things like 'Knowing the difference between mascara, concealer, and eye-liner is not my job.' Surely you can see how that might rankle, especially alongside claims that *other* sites condescend to women."
Anna Holmes, the founder of Jezebel, a Gawker Media site that covers women's issues, also weighed in:
"You imply that marrying pop culture and fashion with feminism and politics is something new, innovative and uniquely YOURS, which completely glosses over - even erases - the hard work and vision of dozens of (female) editors and writers who have been doing this exact thing for years, myself included. ... It's intellectually dishonest, bad faith bullsh*t, and you know it. Furthermore, your posts imply that if these aforementioned editors and writers - or their publishers - just wanted it enough, they too would be able to bring in tens of millions in revenue. That's really patronizing."
In other comments left for Goldberg, critics also questioned the site's very premise: By so blatantly targeting women with topics Goldberg assumes women want, Bustle seems to undermine the very "feminist" position it claims to hold. He could have left gender out of the pitch, making no obvious "hey ladies, you like makeup" notions and still wound up with a female-dominated audience.
Goldberg seemed unprepared for the strong, negative reactions. But he said in an interview he was a "big fan of criticism," while some of it "offers no value."
"On the whole, I am disappointed that the reaction to Bustle has been one of 'He fails to recognize that others, like me, are already doing this...' and not one of 'Welcome to the party, let's continue to change things,' " Goldberg later wrote.
As someone with fairly recent experience of launching a new news site in a competitive space, I know how easy it is to rankle the existing order even when there's plenty of room in the pond for both startups and established organizations. And among Bustle's lead backers is Time Warner investments, which is run by women.
But toss in centuries-old tensions between the sexes, and a dubious claim to be "different" when the space is already full of content that's getting promised and that's a consternation cocktail.
In an interview with NPR, Goldberg said if he had the public launch to do over, he would have done things differently.
"I should have recognized that there are many great female-focused and feminist websites out there. xojane, Jezebel, The Hairpin, Rookie," he says. "But what separates Bustle is that we are trying to reach a level of mainstream appeal and financial success that has not yet been achieved for a female-focused website with a strong feminist conviction. I believe it to be important that women's publications, especially ones with a feminist voice, are able to achieve commercial success."
To get there, he's employed an editorial staff of women, all who have an equity stake in the company.
"Every single one of them is a partial owner of Bustle. I wonder how many of Vogue's editors own equity in their company," Goldberg says.


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President Obama's urbane coolness, viewed by many as an attractive feature of his personality, was part of the joke Tuesday night when he appeared on , including in the "slow jammin' the news" segment.
But where Obama supporters may have seen a president willing to have some fun at his own expense, the Republican National Committee saw a chance to contrast the seriousness of Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential candidate with a president who they portrayed, for all intents and purposes, as somewhat akin to Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
The RNC video titled "A Tale of Two Leaders" contrasted bits of Romney's primary night speech with pieces of the Fallon skit. It ended with the Twitter hashtag #notfunny.
The video appeared to be the RNC's attempt to take Obama's coolness asset and turn it into a liability while at the same time trying to make Romney's serious and stiff managerial style a plus by saying serious times called for a serious man.
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