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If you're checking in here early enough this morning, you now know what you're having for Sunday brunch. It's called custard-filled corn bread, it is the oddest, most wonderful thing, and it looks like this:
To those of you who have a copy of Molly's book on your shelves: That is all. You're dismissed. Go on, now, into the kitchen! The rest of us will be along soon.
I arrived at this custard-filled corn bread en route to something else entirely, namely, baked oatmeal. Or, I should say, a vision of baked oatmeal – what it might be in the best of all possible worlds – that jolted me awake precisely two weeks, two days ago at 3:33am. I had never eaten baked oatmeal before, let alone prepared it, so in all likelihood, my expectations were wildly unfair, and perhaps even borderline delusional. I wanted something like a bowl of creamy oats, turned custardy in the oven, but only in places, oats that swelled and seethed – and partially set up? – beneath a crisp, nut-studded top layer. I'm not sure if oats even do that. Some people have imaginary friends. I, apparently, have imaginary breakfasts.
A couple of days later, I did it. I baked oatmeal. It was just okay. The specimen did, at least, have the crunchy outer crust I was after, but that's about it. It wasn't creamy enough. It certainly wasn't custardy. I must have been fixating on this last part when I was discussing all of this with Molly, because after batting around a few potential tweaks and changes for my next attempt, she mentioned her custard-filled corn bread.
Custard-filled corn bread is also called spider cake, Molly told me. That sounded kind of creepy to me, so I decided to do some digging. I looked up "spider cake" in the Oxford English Dictionary to find that a spider cake ("spider-cake") is a word of U.S. origin meaning "a cake cooked in a spider pan." The entry offers up a line from the 1869 book, We Girls: a home story, by American writer Adeline Dutton Train Whitney. The quotation sounded so promising that I tracked it down in the book itself. I think you'll understand why I can't help sharing it with you in context:
Barbara got up some of her special cookery in these days. Not her very finest, out of Miss Leslie; she said that was too much like the fox and the crane, when Lucilla asked for the receipts. It wasn't fair to give a taste of things that we ourselves could only have for very best, and send people home to wish for them. But she made some of her "griddles trimmed with lace," as only Barbara's griddles were trimmed; the brown lightness running out at the edges into crisp filigree. And another time it was the flaky spider-cake, turned just as it blushed golden-tawny over the coals; and then it was breakfast potato, beaten almost frothy with one white-of-egg, a pretty good bit of butter, a few spoonfuls of top-of-the-milk, and seasoned plentifully with salt, and delicately with pepper, - the oven doing the rest, and turning it into a snowy soufflé.
Barbara said we had none of us a specialty; she knew better; only hers was a very womanly and old-fashioned, not to say kitcheny one; and would be quite at a discount when the grand co-operative kitchens should come into play; for who cares to put one's genius into the universal and indiscriminate mouth, or make potato-soufflés to be carried half a mile to the table? (Pages 79 and 80 of the 1871 edition.)
M. F. K. Fisher, eat your heart out!
But back to our custard-filled corn bread, "a cake cooked in a spider pan," which, according to another dictionary entry, is "a kind of frying-pan having legs and a long handle." You can read about the history of the spider pan over here, or just click here for a picture of the thing, if you'd like. Whew. This spider cake business is quite the rabbit hole. I'd better get on with it. How about one more photo to fortify ourselves?
Our custard-filled corn bread, or spider cake, the one you'll be eating in an hour or so, begins as a very loose, milky batter. I've poured pancakes from batter thicker than this. But fret not! That's how it's supposed to be. The magic – and it really does feel like magic – begins just before baking, when you transfer the batter to its warmed and buttered pan, measure out a cup of heavy cream, and pour it into the very center of the thing. I had envisioned the cream drifting out like a sheet over the batter, but instead, it disappears straightaway through a tiny belly button of a sinkhole. In the oven, the cream spreads and separates into a layer of silky custard just beneath the cake-like surface. And beneath that is corn bread. A moist, coarse-grained cornbread that is perfect in every way. It's bread! It's custard! It's cake! It's a little like cream of wheat, too, said Eli, after moaning Molly's name in a way that some people might consider entirely inappropriate. ("Some people" have obviously never tasted Molly's custard-filled corn bread.)
I haven't made it yet to the perfect baked oatmeal, but as far as I'm concerned, this recipe is to baked oatmeal what Old Faithful and the Grand Canyon are to a cross-country drive from point A to point B. Custard-filled corn bread is a glorious detour, indeed. I've always preferred the scenic route.
Custard-Filled Corn Bread
Adapted from A Homemade Life, by Molly Wizenberg
Molly's corn bread is inspired by a recipe from Marion Cunningham's The Breakfast Book. If you read Molly's blog, Orangette, you already know that Ms. Wizenberg and Ms. Cunningham make quite the team. The one change that I would make to this recipe the next time around is to add more salt. I might even go so far as to double it. I plan on baking this corn bread again next Sunday for some out-of-town guests (Martha and Rich, if you're reading this, brace yourselves!), so I'll up the salt then and report back.
3 Tbsps. unsalted butter
1 c. unbleached all-purpose flour
¾ c. yellow cornmeal, preferably medium ground
1 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. baking soda
2 large eggs
3 Tbsps. sugar
¾ tsp. salt
2 c. whole milk (not low fat or nonfat)
1½ Tbsps. distilled vinegar
1 c. heavy cream
Pure maple syrup, for serving. (And perhaps some roasted rhubarb, too, my plan for next weekend.)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8-inch square or 9-inch round pan (I used the latter), and put it into the oven to warm while you mix together the batter.
Melt the butter according to your preferred method. I like to do it on the stovetop over a gentle flame; Molly suggests melting it in the microwave (carefully, on medium power, so it doesn't splatter) or in a heatproof bowl placed in the preheated oven.
Transfer the melted butter to a large mixing bowl. While it cools, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, and baking soda in a small bowl. Set aside.
Whisk the eggs into the slightly cooled butter. Add the sugar, salt, milk, and vinegar, and whisk well. Then, while continuing to whisk, add the flour mixture. Whisk until the batter is quite smooth.
Remove the heated pan from the oven, and pour in the batter. Slowly pour the cream into the center of the batter. Do not stir. Carefully place the pan into the oven – don't jostle it – and bake until golden brown on top, 50 minutes to 1 hour. I let the just-baked bread rest for 10-15 minutes so that the custard would have a chance to set up a little. Serve warm.
Molly notes that covered with plastic wrap, the bread will keep at room temperature for one day, and in the fridge for three. Brandon suggests reheating the leftovers in the toaster oven. Something about crispy edges. Good man.
Serves 6-8.


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Redsfest Highlights - Dec. 2-3, 2011
More than 70 current and former Reds players and broadcasters scheduled to appear
FOX Sports Ohio Redsfest presented by PNC at The Duke Energy Convention Center
- Friday, December 2nd, 4 to 10:30 pm
- Saturday, December 3rd, 11 am to 6:30 pm
Tickets are on sale now at reds.com, by phone at (513) 381-REDS, at the Great American Ball Park box office and at Ticketmaster Outlets including select Kroger stores. Tickets available at the door starting Friday at 2 pm and Saturday at 9 am.
- 2-day tickets are $25 for adults; $12 for kids (12 and younger)
- 1-day tickets are $17 for adults; $7 for kids
- Children under 3 admitted free
Redsfest Facts
- With paid admission, all fans will receive one free View Level ticket to any Monday-Wednesday game in April 2012 at Great American Ball Park, subject to availability.
- The first 10,000 fans each day will receive a free drawstring backpack and Reds knit gloves.
- Redsfest features more than 200,000 square feet of activities, including autograph and photo booths with current and former Reds players, interactive games for fans of all ages, hard-to-find memorabilia and much more.
- New this year, the aisles of the Redsfest floor will be significantly wider and additional seating has been added in the concession areas.
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- More than 70 current and former Reds players, coaches and broadcasters are scheduled to appear. The full list of confirmed attendees are at reds.com/redsfest.
Autograph and Photograph Sessions
- Over 100 player autograph sessions and player photograph sessions are free of charge with a Redsfest general admission ticket. There are three types of main floor autographs: general public, season ticket holders and kids-only. For each autograph session, the player will sign for 225 people. The photograph sessions will be open for 50 minutes each. The autograph/photograph schedule will be announced 30 minutes prior to the start of each session on the TVs throughout Redsfest and on the Reds official twitter account @Reds.
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Mindboggling on 3 vantage points A- Trump did this simultaneously shouting crooked Hillary when she merely attempted to win fair and square with standard political ad buy, B- that a giant TV consortium agreed to do what he wanted, no thought to what he was flooding small, local areas with or ethics in journalism, news coverage, finally C- that we wouldn't know about it if Mr. Kushner hadn't been foolish enough to open his big mouth…. Neither is James Comey a handy scapegoat excuse democrats default to, to explain how they lost an election so bad, rather a media one liner short hand pertaining to the cataloged series of irregularities he engaged in from the beginning. Announcing his findings in a press conference where he subsequently scolded Clinton like an errant child, his promise to keep congress informed should there be any new developments, not what the FBI should be doing; catering to what congress believes should and shouldn't be investigated often leading down ribbit holes culminating in his 'reopening' of the Clinton e-mail investigation to 3 days prior to voters hitting the poles then say, oh nothing here. Warrant for those e-mails, to look at the Abedin/Weiner computer for such material incredibly flimsy containing little evidence, indications the FBI already knew most of what was there, related to Clinton were duplicates of things previously examined; further he defied his boss in going ahead with the announcement to reopen and very succinctly violated the Hatch act in the process. The Hatch Act explicitly stating the FBI, being government personnel, government personnel of the executive branch may not engage in actions to disparage or support entities along partisan lines; going hand in hand with justice department protocols only disclosing information pertinent to investigations, never derogatory personal, professional details uncovered linked to person X, in reverence to the access they are allowed into people's lives, and not doing so at minimum 60 days out from an election to avoid undue influence…. It's the hypocrisy of Trump's cabinet and advisor choices held up against repeated campaign slogans; leaving off his calling Hillary Clinton the swamp, bought and paid for by lobbyists, special interests, Wall Street—based on speeches she did to earn a living, be productive in a political off season—the reaming he gave Hillary Clinton calling her cooked, corrupt, vowing to locker her up. Immediately reneging on promises to drain said swamp and hiring what number are we up to now of Goldman Sacks high rollers, Wall Street, big money, huge corporation executives and operatives. It's vice president Mike Pence who wants to keep his congressional correspondence as a lack luster senator in Indiana's legislator sealed, such a seal, if implemented lasting until his death; why is this not front page, breaking news on Fox, a large than life headline on Breitbart, why is no one asking him what he's hiding, asking for an investigation, calling for him to step down especially looking at the new one Hillary Clinton was ripped over the DNC, campaign chairman, WikiLeaks e-mails alone? Electronic transmissions allegedly missing from the freedom of information request submitted in Pence's case, so called white papers outlining plans to combat the ACA, president Obama's executive action on immigration, even LGBTQ rights raising familiar questions about transparency and who decides what indeed is public record; déjà vu anyone considering you were ecstatic, right along with your running mate, the FBI announced its reopening of the Clinton investigation. To say nothing of you are against people getting healthcare, young immigrants who were brought here as children given the right to work, gain education or engage in military service, against LGBT rights that stem violence and hate crimes; obvious next question, why?… Michael Flynn Trump national security advisor choice, an appointment not subjected to senate confirmation, who famously said at his RNC convention appearance if he'd done a 10th of what she had he would be in jail. Calling for her to drop out of the race due to seriously endangering our national security with her private server; only to find out he 'unknowingly' shared classified information with a foreign government (Afghanistan) receiving no discipline because he was unaware and did no damage to national security. Ironically paralleling FBI final determinations on Hillary Clinton, Flynn who also has a history of recurring such behavior turning around to do the same thing with Pakistan; paralleling Hillary Clinton almost exactly having had a private internet connection installed in his pentagon office, though that was expressly forbidden, where Clinton's 'home brew' server was uncharted territory. Continuing we have no idea what the purpose was for that internet connection, what he could be hiding besides the damming evidence already given; where we were given an explanation for Clinton's server and, delved into facts allowed us to make inferences pointing to her protecting classified documents more than the state department could, creating her own 21st century work environment when one wasn't provided for her. Apparently it's only criminal when you, my political opponent, do it; because, David Petraeus guilty of equal mishandling of classified intel, feeding it to a mistress was on a legitimate short list for secretary of state. Flynn who was additionally caught on Breitbart circa August 2016 talking about boarder signs in Texas directing ISIS fighters how to illegally get into the country he had personally seen photos of; relevance, scary as it is, this is who's in charge of Donald Trump's national security team, is substituting, heading up his daily intelligence briefings. Happening in tandem with his questioning, downplaying Russian hacking only to nominate Rex Tillerson, not the least bit shy about his glowing friendship with Vladimir Putin; however, Americans are to behave gullibly enough to believe there is no collusion between Russia and Trump, they had nothing to do with his win, whether he knows it or not, Russia likewise missing from foreign intelligent, national intelligence briefings and goals is mere coincidence…. Finally rounding out this section it's the basic expectation, function of the media up against the sheer number of times he, candidate, republican nominee, currently president elect Trump threw out media outlets from press conferences, rallies and events, how people holding adequate, proper credentials, asking reasonable, public would want to know questions, were ever supposed to do their jobs in that environment…. Having secured the presidency still his antagonizing the media continues booting the reporter who investigated the Carrier deal he so proudly proclaims from a Trump jobs event while all indications point to Trump's newest media ventures his 24 hour network getting Whitehouse press credentials. It's the reshaping he now wants to do of the press, press' relationship with government, curtailing free speech, curtailing journalistic freedom, hinting at less access, less information flow, less briefings, anyone who covers him in a way he doesn't like won't get the chance to again, if you want to cover him you must engage in propaganda style writing, threats to open up liable laws to sue press entities, individual journalists for basic investigative reporting, giving of facts if they are critical of Trump; liable, defamation and slander not things we could get the media on in the days of bizarre stories about Michael Jackson proven wholly untrue and career defeating but possible under president Trump, reason to do anything except celebrate… . Fake news until very recently seen as comparatively harmless limited to supermarket tabloids, accompanying websites good for a needed laugh, largely impacting celebrities and who they were seen in Hollywood hot spots with, bad, drunken, drugged out behavior exposed, rants, bar fights, whose having whose baby regularly disproved via DNA testing, housing Nostradamus predictions that never came true, debunked theories on UFO's, aliens, rare diseases that might be real but the finer details wrong. Yet fake news of the 21st century isn't just taking on a new, polished format drawing people to it, using new venues to captivate people, social media: twitter, Facebook, Reddit; people unaware, until right now the 'news' in their Facebook, twitter, Instagram, Snapchat feed needed to be vetted, needed to be checked for accuracy let alone authenticity versus something someone fabricated out of their head. So when Catholics, religious persons inclined to listen, however marginally, to the pope saw a 'news story' claiming Donald Trump was endorsed by pope Francis it got their attention combined with his make America great again slogan, touted business acumen. Remember that's how they 'caught' a Clinton aide and the Beachbit he used to wipe her sever, forget that conversation thread was about permanently changing an e-mail address it was still heralded as a smoking gun to data cleaned servers (???), which of course had some nefarious purpose aside from privacy of personal or business information had it been anyone but a Clinton, Bleachbit's open source status utterly ignored. When national government officials have to be scolded not to tweet 'news' articles on serious issues (climate change) from known dubious sources, cough Breitbart, when state officials shout they aren't a news source then insist on adding their voice to the collective noise sans taking or exercising any responsibility for their posts deemed news by design or whose prominent name is on it, adopting an attitude best summed up "I report, you decide if it's true or not," how is anyone else supposed to know?….Thus Hillary Clinton lost and America's future becomes anybody's guess, when it was supposed to go the other way not because Clinton was perfect, ran a perfect campaign, but because Trump represented a different kind of national emergency, a democratic emergency and we collectively responded the opposite of what we should have in our own interests… Concluding, worth clarifying once and for all, it is not the corporate media, big conglomerates though they look like corporations all the same, make money like any other large business, business category in this country, if you are talking about ABC, NBC, CBS stations carrying a half hour national news per day, breaking news, special reports on major national, world events, deaths of influential figures then it is just the media… Read More
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TOLEDO — Toxins from blobs of algae on western Lake Erie are infiltrating water treatment plants along the shoreline, forcing cities to spend more money to make sure their drinking water is safe.
It got so bad last month that one township told its 2,000 residents not to drink or use the water coming from their taps.
The cost of testing and treating the water is adding up quickly — the city of Toledo will spend an extra $1 million this year to combat the toxins while a neighboring county is considering a fee increase next year to cover the added expenses.
Algae blooms during the summer and early fall have turned the water into a pea soup color in recent years. The unsightly surface has scared away tourists, and toxins produced by the algae have contributed to oxygen-deprived dead zones where fish can't survive.
The toxins also are a threat to the drinking water that the lake provides for 11 million people.
The annual algae blooms have been concentrated around the western end of Lake Erie — though a few have spread to the Cleveland area — and have affected water treatment plants in Toledo and other cities that dot the water's edge in northern Ohio.
The algae growth is fed by phosphorous from farm fertilizer runoff and other sources, leaving behind toxins that can kill animals and sicken humans.
Tests on drinking water in Carroll Township, which is just west of Toledo, showed the amount of toxins had increased so much in early September that officials decided to order residents to stop using the water for two days until they could hook up to another water supply.
It was believed to be the first time a city has banned residents from using the water because of toxins from algae in the lake.
"I wasn't sure how dangerous it was, but we wanted to be cautious," said Henry Biggert, the township's water plant superintendent.
The township's treatment plant is now back online, but the water is being filtered and treated over a longer period to remove the toxins, he said.
What makes combating these toxins a challenge for operators of water treatment plants is that there are no standards on how to handle the problem or federal guidelines on what is a safe amount in drinking water. Plus, each water treatment facility is unique.
Plant operators along the lake in Ohio have been teaming up to figure out what works best.
"We're out there scrambling around," said Kelly Frey, Ottawa County's sanitary engineer. "It's just been do the best you can."
The county, he said, tests the water three times a week while adding a chemical called activated carbon to absorb the algae before filtering it. The expense of treating the water may require an increase in water rates next year of a couple of dollars a month for the average family, Frey said.
Toledo officials anticipated spending $3 million this year to treat its water, but the cost increased to $4 million because it has needed more chemicals to treat the toxins from the algae. That's about double what the city spent just a few years ago.
"We can throw a little more money and defeat it for a while," said David Leffler, the city's commissioner of plant operations.
But the larger issue, he said, is how to cut down on the amount of phosphorus from farm fertilizer and other sources that run off into the lake and feed the algae blooms.
His biggest fear is that the toxins could overwhelm Toledo's treatment plant and force officials to shut down its water supply to the state's fourth largest city and its suburbs. "It keeps me up at night," he said.


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cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs/DVDs with a CDR/CDRW/DVD/BluRay recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD/DVD/BD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives; audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs; full multi-session support; CD-RWs, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, BD-R/BD-RE; and TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD/DVD/BD writers.
FrazierWall Linux is a single floppy distribution Linux firewall that is based on the Linux Router Project. It is designed for use with ethernet base internet connections (such as cable modems or xDSL lines). It allows you to share such a connection with several other computers on a LAN. It is easy to setup and maintain, and is available in a Linux configurable software version.
glogin is a program that can be used to cause a terminal (usually a virtual console) to be logged in automatically, without having to type a userid and password. Stick it in place of getty in /etc/inittab to have terminals come up logged in and at a shell prompt at every boot. Same purpose as 'alogin', but you use it a little differently, and it does a little more of the usual login stuff. It is a simple Perl program, and can be easily customized.
openMosixLOAF (openMosix Linux-On-A-Floppy) is a single floppy openMosix Linux mini-distro designed for harddiskless systems or HPC clusters where only CPU and memory is needed. It has drivers for all PCI Ethernet NICs that the Linux kernel has support for (10/100/1000) and comes on only one bootable 1.6MB 3½" floppy diskette, ready to be a node in your HPC cluster.
The Mandos system allows computers to have encrypted root file systems and at the same time be capable of remote or unattended reboots. The computers run a small client program in the initial RAM disk environment which will communicate with a server over a network. All network communication is encrypted using TLS. The clients are identified by the server using an OpenPGP key that is unique to each client. The server sends the clients an encrypted password. The encrypted password is decrypted by the clients using the same OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to unlock the root file system.
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Metabolic syndrome is not just one disease or disorder, but rather a group of risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Most of these risk factors do not have symptoms. They may only be detected by tests done by your doctor. This is one reason why it is important to have regular check-ups.
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Related Media: High Blood Pressure and the DASH Diet
There are steps you can take to have heart and blood vessels healthy and in working order. Blood vessels need to flexible and clear in order to keep blood flowing freely throughout your body. Some risk factors, like your family history and age, cannot be changed. Fortunately, there are many risk factors you can change. The more risk factors you change, the more you can reduce your chances of developing hypertension and the complications that come with it.
To help reduce your risk of developing hypertension, follow these guidelines:
Eat a Heart Healthy Diet
Keep your diet low in saturated and trans fat and cholesterol. Look for foods rich in whole grains. These foods help keep your blood vessels clear by reducing the amount of plaque buildup. Make fruits and vegetables a major part of your diet, they provide important nutrients to help your body work at its best.
General guidelines to help you reach dietary goals include:
- Substitute red meats with chicken or other lean meats.
- Have fruits and/or vegetables with every meal.
- Eat oily fish that are high in omega-3 fatty acids twice a week. Limit excess carbohydrates.
It is also important to monitor your sodium intake. Excess sodium causes fluid to build up in the arteries, increasing your blood pressure. The American Heart Association recommends keeping your sodium intake to less than 1,500 milligrams per day.
Your doctor may talk to you about the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet. The diet has been proven to be effective in reducing blood pressure in several studies.
Exercise Regularly
Exercise can help reduce blood pressure and strengthen your heart. The heart is a muscle that pumps blood all over the body. Exercise makes the heart more efficient, improving circulation and blood flow. When the heart beats more efficiently under stress, your blood pressure is better managed. Exercise will also help you feel better and give you more energy.
Choose exercises you enjoy and will make a regular part of your day. Strive to maintain an exercise program that keeps you fit and at a healthful weight. For most people, this could include walking or participating in another aerobic activity for 30 minutes every day. However, if you have a sedentary job, it may be beneficial to aim for 60 minutes of exercise a day.
Note: Check with your doctor before starting any new exercise program.
Lose Excess Weight
Excess weight is associated with hypertension. Losing as little as 10 pounds can help reduce the strain on your heart. Remember that weight loss takes time and there is no quick fix. Give yourself time to make adjustments to your diet. Portion control, combined with healthy food choices, will get you started on the right track. A dietitian may help you develop an effective meal plans. You can also increase your calorie loss by boosting your physical activity level. Exercise will help you meet your weight loss goals. If you need help getting started, check the ChooseMyPlate or American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics websites.
Drink Alcohol Only in Moderation
Alcohol can raise triglyceride levels. Triglycerides are a main source of fats that cause plaque to build up on artery walls, and increase blood pressure. Some studies have shown that there may be some heart health benefits of moderate alcohol intake. Moderation means 1 or fewer alcoholic beverages per day for women and 2 or fewer for men. One drink equals 12 ounces of beer, 4 ounces of wine, or 1 ounce of 100-proof spirits.
Quit Smoking
Smoking can damage blood vessels and contribute to plaque build up. Smoking also reduces the amount of oxygen in your blood, putting extra strain on the heart to meet the body's demands. These factors increase your blood pressure. If you are a smoker, consider a smoking cessation program or cessation aids to help you stop. Quitting smoking can improve your overall blood pressure picture and your overall health.
Manage Stress
Although stress does not cause hypertension, hormones released by your body when you are under stress can increase your blood pressure. Take time out to relax, exercise, and practice relaxation techniques.
Medication and Supplements
Monitor your use of over-the-counter drugs, herbals medications, and supplements. Taking pain relievers (such as ibuprofen) more often than once per week has been linked to the development of hypertension in women. If possible, limit the use of these medications to once per week if you are at risk for hypertension. Talk to your doctor before taking any over-the-counter or prescription, herbal, or supplements.
Women who take daily folic acid supplements may reduce their risk of hypertension. If you think you may not be getting enough folic acid (a B vitamin) in your diet, talk to your doctor about taking a folic acid supplement.
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Sussex County Cricket Club can report the result of the board elections announced at their AGM, which took place in The BrightonandHoveJobs.com Boundary Rooms at The PROBIZ County Ground, Hove, lastnight.
The Club announced the results of the Board elections with a very narrow margin between the four candidates who stood for three positions. Dick Holste and Bob Warren were both re-elected to the board, whilst Jon Filby was elected to the board for the first time. John Abbott was not re-elected after six years' service.
Jon Filby has been a Sussex supporter and member since 1971. He is currently secretary to both Sussex Cricket charities and will bring professional senior people management knowledge to the Boardroom with his background and expertise in recruitment and people development.
The Duke of Richmond and Bryan Bedson were also re-elected at the AGM as Patron and President respectively for a further year. Former Chairman Don Trangmar was elected a Vice-President of the Club.
The 2011 accounts were approved and the Members in attendance had the opportunity to ask questions of the Board, Chief Executive Dave Brooks and Professional Cricket Manager, Mark Robinson.
Chairman Jim May said, "Everyone at the Club would like to thank John Abbott for his contribution to Sussex Cricket during his time on the board. He played a major role as the Club has transitioned to being run on a more professional basis. John has been Chair of our HR Committee for the last four years and with his senior law enforcement background gave us very useful advice in areas like risk management and security matters.
"I would like to welcome Jon Filby to the board. Jon is already heavily involved with the Club with his work with both the Sussex Cricket World and Sussex Cricket in the Community Trust.
"We are very excited about the new season both on and off the pitch. With the fantastic new ground development complete we have excellent facilities to be proud of whilst on the pitch we continue to compete at the top level across all three formats."


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QCAD - 2D CAD System.
Click here for a documentation of the DokuWiki formatting syntax that can be used in reports
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FS#986 - Detect duplicates - only on selected area
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It would be useful to have an additional option to only detect duplicates on user defined selection of drawing.
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BlackRock (BLK) said Wednesday that it was not making any changes to the fee and expense structure of its iShares exchange traded products.
Earlier this week, there were several reports of fee increases due to higher figures in some iShares' filings.
These filings were made for the 12 months ended Aug. 31, 2012. However, investors pay fees and expenses according to the level of assets at the end of the calendar year according to a breakpoint fee schedule, BlackRock says.
"Those filings outline the actual fees incurred as a percentage of net assets during the funds' fiscal year. These fees do not reflect what investors may have paid and current fees," according to a company spokesperson quoted by Benzinga.com.
In other ETF news, Morningstar reported on Monday that Vanguard would reduce expense ratios on 24 ETFs, as outlined in three late-December filings.
"Notably, most of the firm's U.S. equity sector ETFs now charge 0.14%, which is down from 0.19% and well below the 0.18% that State Street Corp (STT) charges for its equity sector SPDR funds," wrote Robert Goldsborough in the news piece.
The Morningstar analyst also points out that Vanguard, which runs its funds at cost, "also slightly increased the price tags for two small-cap ETFs that have had trouble maintaining assets."
In mid-December, Fidelity said it was lowering the investment minimums on 22 of its Spartan index funds and the expenses on eight Spartan index funds.


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CMME (Content Management Made Easy) is a Web content management system that aims to be easy to use, doesn't have many requirements, and is still reasonably flexible. It doesn't need a database, doesn't have extensive administrative needs, and works more or less like a wiki. New pages can be made on the fly, rather than through an administrative page.
Multi-Level Menu Creator is an AJAX Script to create multiple level menus. The menu lists (categories, sub-categories, link URLs) are defined on the client-side with JavaScript and can be saved with PHP to TXT files (in JSON format) and/or in a MySQL database. The script comes with three predefined types of menu styles, a horizontal-vertical menu and two vertical-horizontal menus. you can load a saved menu to continue editing it, to add, delete, and modify lists /links. The menu can be included in HTML and PHP files.
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"The strategy is working," said Dale Brown matter-of-factly during a media briefing on Tuesday morning in San Diego at the Financial Services Institute's annual OneVoice conference. Brown, the president and CEO of FSI and the quiet but effective face of the independent broker-dealer organization, was referring to FSI's strategy of growing membership and member engagement in the group. The goal of FSI, Brown said, was to build a "healthier, more business-friendly environment" in Washington, in particular by leveraging its now 35,000 advisor members as "citizen lobbyists."
Brown; FSI's 2013 chairman, Larry Roth of Advisor Group; and vice chairman Mike Mungenast of ProEquities told the early-morning gathering that the strategy of growing an engaged membership and building its lobbying efforts in Washington and the states was reflected in the growth of its budget. In 2010, when FSI instituted a five-year plan, the group's overall budget was $3.5 million. In 2013, the budget will be over $7 million.
That revenue growth has come from a "substantial" increase in membership dues—more than double, said Brown—that was implemented last year. While Brown admitted that the group did lose some members because of the increase, the overwhelming number of BD members (now at 98) "voted with their dollars" and anted up their dues.
A total of 53 member firms have partly or fully subsidized membership for their FAs, FSI said—20 firms fully subsidize their advisors' membership, while another 33 firms "facilitate" their FAs' membership by deducting their membership fees through their commissions.
So do advisors re-up once their BDs stop subsidizing membership? Brown said that the renewal rate was running at an average of 70%, since advisors "recognize the value" of their membership. Mungenast's broker-dealer is one example; from last year's 272 FSI members, there are now about 1,100 ProEquities members of FSI. That perceived value, said FSI Executive VP and General Counsel David Bellaire, who also spoke at the media breakfast, emanates from FSI's advocacy victories, which in turn partly come from the engagement of its members on issues like the maintenance of the independent contractor status for IBD reps.
While he said FSI was "trying to affect a broad range of issues," Bellaire said the group's top effectiveness is at FINRA and the SEC, while it is also "engaged" with the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and state legislatures and securities commissions. Brown added that FSI's approach is to build "constructive working relationships" with regulators and legislators, that "we're not bomb throwers," and that FINRA chief Richard Ketchum has complimented the group on the quality of its comment letters and testimony. "We're not coming in as whiners," Brown said.
FSI's advocacy staff has grown from two staffers last year to six this year with more hires on the horizon, Bellaire reported, and Roth suggested that with 35,000 "citizen lobbyist" FA members, the FSI will do "a better job at educating" regulators and legislators in Washington and the states. As for the newly nominated head of one of those regulators, Mary Jo White of the SEC, Bellaire said simply, "We look forward to working with her."
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Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, Web-based, multilingual, tightly integrated, all-in-one wiki, CMS, and groupware. Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. Tiki offers a very large number of features "out-of-the-box". It is highly configurable and modular. All features are optional and administered via a Web-based interface. Major features include a robust wiki engine, news articles, discussion forums, newsletters, blogs, file and image galleries, bug and issue trackers, a link directory, polls/surveys and quizzes, FAQs, a banner management system, calendar, maps, mobile access, RSS feeds, a category system, tags, an advanced themeing engine (Smarty), spreadsheet, live support, shoutbox, inter-user messaging, menu generator, advanced permission system for users and groups, internal search engine, external authentication support, and more. It was formerly named TikiWiki.
LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a Web application that interacts with MySQL, MSSQL, or Postgres to develop surveys, publish surveys, and collect responses to surveys. Once a survey has been created, data can be inserted into the survey either by a "pretty" public screen which presents each question one at a time, or by a quick and nasty data entry screen. It includes the capacity to generate individualized "tokens", so that invitations can be issued to participants. It also has the capacity to set conditions on whether questions will display (branching), numerous question types, and a basic statistics function.
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Substantial gains across asset classes in 2012 confirmed the old adage about the market ascending a wall of worry, as investor anxieties over the presidential election and a year-end fiscal cliffhanger did not prevent share prices from rising quite sharply.
In its first equity research report of the new year, S&P Capital IQ tallied market performance for 2012, while also offering a warning about 2013 based on current events.
The high double-digits was the main range for asset prices last year, according to Sam Stovall (left), S&P's chief equity strategist and author of the research report. S&P's main 500 index of large-cap stocks returned 16%, its mid-cap index, 17.9%, and its small-cap index, 16.3%, in 2012.
Foreign markets did even better, with the benchmark MSCI-EAFE index, which tracks developed overseas markets, returning 17.9% and MSCI's emerging markets index returning 18.6%.
The strongest asset class, though, was real estate investment trusts, with the NAREIT equity-only index rewarding investors with a 19.7% return.
Notably, all six of these key benchmarks significantly outpaced their average historical return since 1977.
Just two principal asset classes lagged their 35-year averages, but even they were in positive territory. The S&P GSCI, a commodities index, returned a measly 0.1% and Barclay's Aggregate bond index was up 4.5%, a tepid performance in a bond bull market that has lasted decades.
Within the S&P 500 stock index itself, Stovall reports that all 10 of its sectors were in the black in 2012, with financials and consumer discretionary sectors leading the pack, up 28.8% and 23.9%, respectively; the broad index was weighed down by utilities and energy, up just 1.3% and 4.6%, respectively.
Sliced more finely still, of the 134 sub-industries S&P covers, the real estate recovery lifted household appliances (114.4%) and homebuilding (102.8%) stocks the most. The biggest laggards were education services (-60.2%) and computer and electronics retail (-32%).
Based on market averages, a normal year would see stocks deliver strong first and fourth quarter performance, struggling in the middle of the year and delivering a year-end gain in the mid- to upper single digits.
However, writes Stovall: "As we enter 2013, we already know that this will be anything but a normal year." The S&P analyst notes particularly that while Washington came to agreement on tax policy in a last-minute fiscal cliff deal, U.S. leaders postponed the most difficult part of the negotiations concerning spending cuts to the end of the first quarter.
The significance of this for investors may be "renewed investment agita" in the coming months, and consequent market entry opportunities as our politicians "go after each other all over again," Stovall says.