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Friday, 12 March 2010
nutty treats: awesome peanut butter cookies
Peanuts and/or peanut butter have been a lifelong love of mine. As a kid I used to eat so much peanut butter that my grandmother used to shriek 'have any more of that and you'll turn into a peanut!' whenever I went near a jar. Clearly, the thought of becoming a little legume did nothing to put me off. And, just to prove that grandmothers aren't always right (since when did your hair turn curly when you ate the bread crusts, for example?), I'm still very much here in human form. And still eating peanut butter.
So... peanut butter and cookies. A good match for me. Love peanut butter, love cookies. With one caveat. The cookies have to be the soft, chewy kind. And not the kind that go as splat as a pancake on baking (yes, I did mean 'splat'. Conveys so much more than 'flat', don't you think?).
In my experience of cookie recipes, many simply don't live up to the hype. I'm pleased to say that these do. First posted by Patricia, over at Technicolor Kitchen (a blog well worth following, particularly if you like baking), her recipe promised everything I look for. Happily, it delivered.
Oh, perhaps a glass of cold milk. ;-)
23 comments:
- scandilicious said...
Am with you on the joys of peanut butter, I LOVE peanut butter cookies. A brilliant American tradition, served with a tall glass of cold milk *sigh*
Perfect weekend far I say :)
- 12 March 2010 at 11:40
- catty said...
oh they look divine! I haven't had a peanut butter cookie in a while... and seeing as I'm going to try makign butter cookies again soon maybe I should throw some peanut butter in there too ;)
- 12 March 2010 at 11:42
- clairetweet said...
mmm..they look lovely. I like that you can see the sugariness. I would have to eat them all myself tho as the boys don't like PB. Oh well!
- 12 March 2010 at 13:32
- Patricia Scarpin said...
You can't imagine the happiness I feel when someone cooks/bakes one of the recipes from my blog - to me, it's the ultimate compliment. The reason I started the blog was to share recipes - I find it wonderful.
Thank you for your kind words and I'm glad you liked the cookies! They look so good!
- 12 March 2010 at 13:37
- Bellini Valli said...
I go on record as saying that peanut butter cookies are the ultimate for me with a tall glass of cold milk.
- 12 March 2010 at 14:27
- Beth said...
Why does it have to be a tall glass of milk - must be missing something?! Only recently got into peanut butter never had it as a kid, I'll blame my Mother
- 12 March 2010 at 19:53
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Sig - do I detect a certain wistfulness there? ;)
catty - yes, throw in the peanut butter. Do it
Claire - as the boys don't like it, then treat yourself. Fancy having no competition for a plate of yummy cookies...
Patricia - lovely to see you here, and you're most welcome!
Val - I must remember to put the milk in the photos next time ;)
Beth - I guess because a small glass just isn't enough...
- 13 March 2010 at 11:02
- gastroanthropologist said...
I love peanut butter and we always have jars of the stuff - smooth, crunchy, the natural kind, but also skippy and jif. I miss all the peanut butter stuff from back home. Especially my dad...if you ever went downstairs late at night, he would be in his robe, spooning mouthfuls of peanut butter right out of the jar. These look so delicious.
- 13 March 2010 at 13:54
- mangocheeks said...
I know someone in my house who would adore these.
- 13 March 2010 at 18:13
- Laura @ Hungry and Frozen said...
I am a latecomer to peanut butter - never loved it as a child and we never really had much in the house. These days...it ends up in everything. Agreed about splat-flat peanut butter cookies - they're not welcome! The softer and chewier the better.
- 14 March 2010 at 02:12
- Manggy said...
I love Patricia's blog too- one of the first I ever followed. I recall eating natural peanut butter (the Philippine one is quite different - very sweet but very very good) off the spoon too as a child, but never so excessive as to be threatened metamorphosis. From the recipe's proportions and of course your endorsement, these do sound very peanutty indeed - just the way they should be.
- 14 March 2010 at 12:59
- Foodycat said...
The only thing that could make that cookie better is some dark choc chips!
- 14 March 2010 at 14:47
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
gastro - your dad definitely had the right idea ;)
mangocheeks - go make their day
Laura - you were deprived of pB as a kid? The horror! ;)
Manggy - I think Patricia's was one of the first I followed, too. Then forgot for a while - now happily rediscovered
Foodycat - or white choc? Or milk choc? Any would be good, I think
- 14 March 2010 at 15:22
- Sunday said...
My husband and oldest son LOVE anything with peanut butter - these would go down a treat in our house I think :)
- 14 March 2010 at 18:56
- Jacqueline said...
I love peanut butter too, althougb I am staying clear of it while I am breastfeeding. Can't wait to enjoy it again! Your cookies do look good and that plate is just fab!
- 15 March 2010 at 10:40
- Cakelaw said...
I agree - with their crackly tops, these cookies do look awesome.
- 15 March 2010 at 12:26
- Heavenly Housewife said...
Oh, these look so good. I love peanut butter cookies, but don't see them around too often. In america my favourite cookie is the Nutter Butter, a peanut butter sandwich cookie.
*kisses* HH
- 16 March 2010 at 18:33
- Nicisme said...
Oh those do look awesome! Great cookies and I love that beautiful glass dish you served them up on.
- 19 March 2010 at 22:06
- Sarah said...
Yes, a chewy peanut butter cookie is the best kind! I used to not love peanut butter cookies as a kid, but I think it's because most of them I ate were hard as rocks.
- 20 March 2010 at 00:27
- Sarah, Maison Cupcake said...
These look great and I love chewy cookies. I like that dish you've got them presented on too. Off to check out Patricia's blog too.
- 22 March 2010 at 20:28
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Gorgeous pictures - we had family shots done last year for the first time ever - so glad we did
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Smart casual look for Spring
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Astro::FITS::Header::Item - A card image from a FITS header
$item = new Astro::FITS::Header::Item( Card => $card );
$item = new Astro::FITS::Header::Item( Keyword => $keyword,
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Type => 'int'
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$comment = $item->comment();
$card = $item->card();
$card = "$item";
Stores information about a FITS header item (in the FITS standard these are called Card Images). FITS Card Images can be parsed and broken into their component keyword, values and comments. Card Images can also be created from its components keyword, value and comment.
- new
Create a new instance. Optionally can be given a hash containing information from a header item or the card image itself.
$item = new Astro::FITS::Header::Item( Card => $card ); $item = new Astro::FITS::Header::Item( Keyword => $keyword, Value => $value );
The list of allowed hash keys is documented in the configure method.
undefif the information supplied was insufficient to generate a valid header item.
Accessor Methods
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Return (or set) the value of the keyword associated with the FITS card.
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When a new value is supplied any
cardin the cache is invalidated.
Supplied value is always upper-cased.
- value
Return (or set) the value of the value associated with the FITS card.
$value = $item->value(); $item->value( $val );
When a new value is supplied any
cardin the cache is invalidated.
- comment
Return (or set) the value of the comment associated with the FITS card.
$comment = $item->comment(); $item->comment( $comment );
When a new value is supplied any
cardin the cache is invalidated.
- type
Return (or set) the value of the variable type associated with the FITS card.
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Allowed types are "LOGICAL", "INT", "FLOAT", "STRING", "COMMENT" and "UNDEF"
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Return (or set) the 80 character header card associated with this object. It is created if there is no cached version.
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undefon assignment failure (else returns the supplied string).
$status = $item->card( $card );
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undefto clear the cache.
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Takes a hash as argument with the following keywords:
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Used to specify the keyword associated with this object.
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Used to specify the value associated with this FITS item.
- Comment
Used to specify the comment associated with this FITS item.
- Type
Used to specify the variable type. See the
typemethod for more details.
Does nothing if these keys are not supplied.
- parse_card
Parse a FITS card image and store the keyword, value and comment into the object.
($key, $val, $com) = $item->parse_card( $card );
Returns an empty list on error.
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Sheikh Jābir was the third son of Sheikh Aḥmad al-Jābir al-Ṣabāḥ, who ruled Kuwait from 1921 to 1950. Beginning in the late 1940s he held a number of important public positions, including ministries in the government overseeing financial and economic affairs. When Iraq claimed sovereignty over newly independent Kuwait in 1961, he led a delegation to the Arab League to negotiate a settlement. He became prime minister in November 1965, and the following year he was formally designated crown prince and heir apparent to his cousin Sheikh Sạbāḥ al-Sālim al-Ṣabāḥ. By the early 1970s the emir, suffering from poor health, had handed over most of the government operations to Sheikh Jābir, and upon Sheikh Ṣabāḥ's death, on Dec. 31, 1977, Sheikh Jābir became emir.
Early in his rule Sheikh Jābir stressed unity among Arab countries, but he soon found his policies caught in the cross fire of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88). He was also forced to deal with internal dissent, particularly from Kuwait's Shīʿite minority, and with opposition from the National Assembly (parliament). In 1986 he dissolved the parliament and imposed press censorship, which led to periodic protests against the economic and political power of the Ṣabāḥ family. When Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Sheikh Jābir escaped to Saudi Arabia, where he lived in exile until his return in March 1991. Pressure for reform continued, and in elections held in October 1992 opponents won a majority of seats in the National Assembly. In elections in 1996, however, pro-government forces gained some of the ground they had lost, but in May 1999 Sheikh Jābir once again dissolved the parliament. Although antigovernment sentiment was high in the new parliament, elected in July, the opposition was divided and Sheikh Jābir retained his authority. The emir was noted for his public support for the rights of women (against the wishes of more conservative elements in the country); in 1999 his decree to grant women the right to vote was rejected, but in 2005 women were extended the right to stand and vote in parliamentary elections. In 2001 Sheikh Jābir suffered a stroke and thereafter carried out virtually no public activities.


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If you've followed our saga this week and saw the results of our house painting efforts you'll be interested to know that I've really grown this week. I've learned a few new things and am here to report that I'm a better person from the experience and I'm going to share with you a bit of the knowledge I've gained.
1. Husbands really really like it when you tell them that they were right. Andrew has walked around and around the house, admiring our handy work and saying how much he loves the color. In fact at one point I even caught him saying, "Wow! That's just GORGEOUS!" to which I replied, "Hold on there. Gorgeous? Are you sure? Because I'm still looking at black 1970s T-111 siding and 'gorgeous' is a word normally reserved for things like my red dress and sunsets and stuff like that." Whereupon he downgraded to "beautiful" which is perfectly acceptable. I think it's beautiful too and he likes hearing me say that he was very very right about the French Beret and our marriage has grown because of it.
2. It's actually kind of fun to paint a house together. I've been dreading this project because it was so flipping HUGE but you know what? The weather was gorgeous (and yes, the day we had today was an appropriate representation of the word gorgeous) and the first nice sunny legitimate summer day we've had this year (I'm not lying, the weather has stunk). We got out there and took turns running the sprayer and rolling out the drips and it was kind of fun--in a lets-get-filthy-and-tired-while-spending-$800-kind of way. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a day at Disneyland or lounging on the beach together but tackling a project felt productive and kind of exciting. Maybe we should start up a house painting service for singles as a creative dating option?
3. Paint can be a darn good substitute for sunblock. We were out in the sun all day but with our stinky summer weather I've got out of the habit of thinking about sunblock. Not to worry, my super fair skin was safe from burns because I was covered in SPFrench Beret--quite thoroughly in fact. I was really glad about it when I finally got cleaned up because I'd had my hair pulled up into a pony tail out of the way and my ears had been exposed the whole day--if it weren't for that constant mist of black raining down on me my ears would have been raisins by the time we were finished. Who knew?
4. I now know what I'd look like with black hair. I've been blond, I've been rather brown, I've even been rather red but never black and now I know why. I forgot to wear a hat and by the time we were finished I looked rather like the Bride of Frankenstein with her black hair streaked with white. Why white? Well because we'd primed things first. If I hadn't painted the house with Andrew I'd never had known that I am so definitely not a winter.
5. If you don't have time for a French manicure then priming your house is a good alternative. I had so much white primer under my finger nails it looked like I'd just stepped out of the nail salon. Okay maybe not--the splatters and drips kind of ruined the look but maybe next time I'm in a hurry I'll just do a quick dip in the bucket and call it good.
6. Kids are remarkably eager to paint. They fuss when I ask them to take out the trash, they constantly forget to make their beds, they're like a chain gang when dinner is over and it's time to clear the dishes and load the dishwasher (I get to play warden, cracking the whip as they shuffle the plates around) but if I ask "who wants to help paint?" and I get cheers. EVERYONE wants to help paint. We lined the kids up along the wall, gave them all brushes and told them to knock themselves out. What is it about painting? I remember pestering my mom to let me help her paint when they built their house and I was five. Well we all painted for an hour and a half Monday night and actually they were pretty darn helpful. Of course when it was over I realized that I'd forgotten to be more specific about "wear clothes you can paint in" and that primer is the toughest stuff to scrub off skin in the entire world. Oh well, we had fun.
7. You should always be the one to paint near any flowers you'd like to be alive once the painting is over. Andrew taped up the windows on Monday and when I came back to see how things had gone my flowers were stompled into the mulch. Except the peony. The peony had survived, probably because I'd said something like, "These others will probably have to go or be moved with the new landscaping so if a few stalks get broken off it's not the end of the world but DO NOT BREAK MY PEONY!" And I think I repeated it two or three times just for emphasis before making him repeat it back to me. Apparently he took that to mean "Just step where you'd like" because my nepatas look like they've met with an asphalt roller. But I thanked him kindly for sparing my peony--it's my very favorite flower in the world and the one in front of my window is gorgeous. Again, a legitimate use of the word gorgeous.
8. I don't care how sweet and mild-mannered you are, put one of those pro sprayers in your hand and you rule the world. I started out following behind Andrew with the roller to smooth down any drips that might develop but it only took me one time handling the sprayer to know that that was where the action was. Forget the roller give me the 150 horsepower motor with paint coming out of it at the speed of light--what a thrill to blast away with that thing. Andrew told me at first to be careful, that if I were to get shot with that thing point blank the paint would actually pierce my skin. Do you believe that? I completely called his bluff but he assured me he was serious and that I'd better be careful because it wasn't a toy, Missy! I have to say it had me ever-so-slightly tempted. Would a shot really break the skin? It was kind of like the temptation to stick your tongue to an icy metal pole but I remained careful and responsible at all times. No skin was pierced, punctured or popped during the painting of our house.
9. Getting dirty is sometimes okay. I still don't like it at all but there was a point in the day when I was so filthy, so grotesquely vile that I'd reached a new level of being. It was then that I realized that if I got any dirtier it just didn't matter because there wasn't any skin left to worry about. It was really quite liberating.
10. Other people don't necessarily feel the same way. I may have been okay with the extent of my rancidity (that's a new word folks, created just for such an occasion) but the guy at Little Caesar's thought it was a stick up and backed off a few paces when he saw me coming.
11. Which is why I also learned that after a day of painting send the kids in for the pizza--don't go get it yourself. You'll just scare people.
12. Andrew looks better dirty than I do. Life has been really unfair this way. If Andrew puts on a pound or two he gets compliments--"Hey! You've put on some weight--it looks good!" If he gets some grey hairs or wrinkles he looks even more handsome and dignified (kind of the Sean Connery effect). If he spends a week out camping and getting grimy he still has that ruggedness that is strangely appealing but me? My high point was 1998 and it's been all downhill since then. It's the same thing with the painting, we both got splattered and matted and disgusting but Andrew looked kind of cute--like a raccoon in a cap--but me? My own mother would have turned away in revulsion at the sight of me like I was Quasimodo or something--and I already told you how the Little Caesar's guy felt. Life's unfair. At least he's stuck with me--Andrew that is, not the Little Caesar's guy.
13. I love being a rebel. When the house was done and we stood back to get a good look at our work my first thought was "I love it!" followed by "Heh! We'll be the only one with a house this color!" We didn't paint the spots that we plan on demolishing next week and a small little part of me took great pleasure in the shock factor--maybe we'll wait just one extra week longer--enough to work the neighbors into a panic that maybe we'll never finish it. They'll be wishing there was a Home Owner's Association now!
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
Good Things about Painting My House
If you've followed our saga this week and saw the results of our house painting efforts you'll be interested to know that I've really grown this week. I've learned a few new things and am here to report that I'm a better person from the experience and I'm going to share with you a bit of the knowledge I've gained.
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28 comments:
- Sage said...
I will admit to uncertainty when you said about painting the house that colour but I will eat humble pie... that looks great and sounds like you and the rest of the family enjoyed the experience of diy.
I want a paint sprayer :-(
- AlaneM said...
Funny funny funny!
I love painting too - just not the prep work & clean up.
It really looks great on your house, I can't wait to see what it looks like after the addition is done.
My post for tomorrow (er, today) is a list too, check it out if you've got the time :)
- Momma Roar said...
ROFL on the homeowner's association!
I really like the new color - but I'd like to see the black hair! :)
- Shalee said...
I can't tell you how many times I chuckled over this post, especially your first point. (Gorgeous should be reserved for things that are awe-inspiring. Also about how husbands like it when they hear they are right. That's an important point too.)
So if you're moving and the kids are gone over the move, who do I send to get the pizza? I have a feeling that I'll have to scare some poor soul anyway.
Way to go, Rebel Michelle.
- jubilee said...
There is something liberating about power tools, isn't there? I discovered my love for them while in college and working on all those awfully amaturish (is that a word?) theatre sets.
And telling the hubby he was right gets easier with time. And good for his ego!
- Jacki said...
I can honestly say that Peter and I could never paint a house together. That would be a disaster.
- angie said...
Thoroughly enjoyed this post, and I think the color looks great, too.
- Sarah said...
i am very tempted to play with a paint sprayer now...
skin popping?
- ~TAMY 3 Sides of Crazy~ said...
Great Thursday 13!! I'm so glad that your house turned out so well. It does look nice.
- Jane @ What About Mom? said...
I've been reading your posts on blogging (almost done, just a few more to go), and they're incredibly informative and helpful. Esp. loved the Housekeeping Tips and the Promote Your Blog Niche ones.
One of your big themes is community and that blogging isn't (or shouldn't be) competitive. And after reading you longer, I've got a small question for you.
It's about carnivals. Almost every carnival has rules about linking back to the carnival page (and using their button). I've noticed that you participate in the Thursday Thirteen and WFMW carnivals, and yet I never see you linking back to them.
Is it necessary to link back to carnivals? Or is that just an optional thing?
- Summer said...
I love that kind of housework. When I was 17 I decided I wanted to redo my room, so I spackled and sealed and painted and applied a decorative border. It was great fun. I love projects like that, and, I LOVE getting dirty.
- Doll Clothes Gal said...
Fabulous lessons on painting!!
- Beck said...
Painting IS fun. We repaint a room at least every six months. And we have to paint the exterior trim this summer, which should be jolly.
- Daisy said...
That Sean Connery effect is so unfair -- but so much fun to observe. Glad your painting is going well!
- Anonymous said...
Your posts are always so clever. This one made me chuckle! Thanks!! Gen--IL Homesteader
- Amber M. said...
I actually kinda like the "French Beret". Kudos to Andrew!
- Anonymous said...
O.K. With a description like that, you've got to have video of yourself or pictures of yourself post-paint, right?
- Babystepper said...
Well, I think maybe you created two new words, because I'm pretty sure I've never heard "stompled" before either.
- Heather said...
Oh man, I'm still laughing about the "my high point was in 1998" comment. Mine was too, I'm afraid. It is so unfair that men look better the less they take care of themselves...
- Jerri Dalrymple said...
It looks great! Sounds like quite the experience, too! ;o) I noticed that there is a house near our home that is painted a blackish color, too. Never really gave it much thought until you introduced the "French Beret" LOL!
- Damselfly said...
You are so cute! And I mean that in the best way. :)
You make me want to paint my house.
- Lilibeth said...
I like the color too, but I would have been absolutely skeptical about it. Painting is a catharsis, I think...one of those great tasks that rewards immediately.
- Krista said...
Looks sharp. Hope all goes well with the start of construction--can't wait to see the cube.
We met with Bruce and Michael last week and we're so exited to see what they will come up with for us. Thanks for posting about your experience.
- pussreboots said...
I like black but I've never thought of it as a house color. Happy TT.
- Nan said...
Okay. I take it all back.
- John & Laura said...
Your house looks great. It kind of made me excited for the painting "date" we have planned for this summer. :)
You should have held a contest: "Guess how long it will take before I stop finding paint in my hair, nails, skin." It seems like it takes forever to find and then get rid of it all. ha ha Good luck.
- Janet said...
I snorted over SPFrench Beret.
I lvoe getting dirty on big house projects. It's very satisfying.
- Fine art oil paintings said...
I'm getting married months from now. Well my good husband already prepared a house for us but it needs re-painting. I've read lots of painting DIY tips today and yours is really the most entertaining. In addition to some painting tips, I've learned a lot about husbands, kids, and others. Those are great bonuses.


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Happy New Year. Homer looks so healthy and happy.
I'll email you the details of my photo editing search. Plug your email address into a comment on any of my posts, I will see it immediately, then delete the comment so it doesn't hang out there for spammer to see.
There is nothing quite like chewing on a good knuckle bone to keep you happy for ages!
Yumzers! We can tell that you are really enjoying that bone - and we're reminding Ma to pick a couple up at the market for us TODAY please! Mmmmnnnn! You look so bootiful too!
Have a good weekend!
Sammie, Avalon and Ozzie
Your bone looks so yummy, Homer! We need to ask our mom if we can please have a bone too! It's been too long!
Love ya lots
Maggie and Mitch
You look so happy with your bone, Homer! I bet it's delicious.
chew chew chew!! :-) I looovee bones!
Thanks fur reminding me I need to remind Mom I should have one of them!
Bronte is a real khutie!
We would love to have a bone like that. The Momster can't find them very often and then we all have to have them in our crates so we don't fight over them. We really enjoyed watching you nom nom away there.
We will go say hi to Bronte.
Woos ~ Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara
Hey Homer,
We all remember your dinosaur bone from Holland. It was GReat. Dad says that the butchers used to give out bones but now they charge $$$ for them so we have to get by with rawhide chews and milkbones unless dad grills steaks or ribs. We're gonna go check out the new kid.
I can see you really enjoyed your bone!
Yummy! I need to tell my mom about giving one of those to me!
Now... Let me go to visit Bronte!
Kisses and hugs
Homer you just made me hungry
Have a good weekend
See Yea George xxx
Hey Homer! Thanks for the shout out on my blog. You really look like you're enjoying that bone and I must say you DO have a face for TV!!!! Hugs, Bronte.
What a fantastic bone! It verges on cruelty to make us watch you chew on it, though. Where's ours?
We're off to check out your new friend.
Jed & Abby
We need to try some of those knuckle bones for the boys. You definitely look like you are having fun!
We will also visit Bronte's page.
I have no experience with bone chewing myself, but I hear they are yummy!
Hey Homer...
You certainly are enjoying that bone, aren't you! I must say...you are very, very pretty!
Sending lotsaluv


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History and Overview of the Program in Molecular Medicine
The Program in Molecular Medicine was established in 1989 in the Two Biotech building located within the overall Medical School campus, in the Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Park. Its goal was to attract top academic scientists to meet the challenge of investigating exciting problems in biomedicine in the context of a collaborative culture. Michael Czech, then the Chair of the Department of Biochemistry, was appointed Founding Director of the new Program, moving his laboratory group in 1990 to Two Biotech. Molecular Medicine was provided control over space on two floors in Two Biotech and financial resources for its operation and faculty recruiting. However, all faculty appointments were made through one of the Medical School departments in this first phase of development.
The strategy for the scientific development of the Program was to assemble outstanding investigators with diverse, but overlapping scientific interests in order to probe molecular mechanisms that underlie physiological processes and the diseases associated with them. These laboratory groups brought a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art methodologies to the Program. Some of the instrumentation and technical capabilities established in Molecular Medicine included X-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, digital imaging of single live cells, and the production of transgenic and knockout animals. The Program in Molecular Medicine initially included several laboratory groups already at the Medical School, and these founding faculty moved into Two Biotech in 1989/1990. Over the next few years the Program recruited additional faculty and expanded to fifteen medical school faculty research groups, affiliated with seven basic science and clinical departments. These included biochemistry and molecular biology, cell biology, medicine, molecular genetics and microbiology, pediatrics, pharmacology and physiology. The Two Biotech building was then purchased by the Medical School and the entire building was eventually allocated to the Program in Molecular Medicine.
Over the years the Program continued to recruit faculty, leading to its current number of twenty one research laboratories within the building. In 2000, the Program in Molecular Medicine was granted departmental status, with the ability to make academic appointments within its own "department", although it retained its original name—Program in Molecular Medicine. Additional faculty recruitments and expansion of the campus with the building of the Sherman Center catalyzed the movement of several Molecular Medicine laboratories (Craig Mello, Co-Director of the RNA Therapeutics Institute, Dale Greiner, Co-Director of the Diabetes Center of Excellence, Craig Ceol, Jason Kim, Director of the Mouse Phenotyping Center) to the Sherman Center. In addition to these laboratory groups in the Molecular Medicine and Sherman buildings, many other tenured or tenure track faculty in other programs (that do not have departmental status) obtained primary faculty appointments in Molecular Medicine and fully participate in faculty meetings, retreats and other departmental activities. Responsibility for their laboratory financial issues and laboratory space remains with their Program Directors.
Michael Green, recruited by Czech to Molecular Medicine from Harvard in 1990, was appointed in 2001 founding Director of the new Program in Gene Function and Expression located in the Lazar Research Building. Green recruited numerous faculty and many of those faculty in his Program elected to have their primary faculty appointment in Molecular Medicine. In 2015, Green was appointed Chair of a new Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, which includes these faculty and they now retain joint appointments in Molecular Medicine. Several other Programs have been established at the Medical School as well, with many newly recruited faculty joining Molecular Medicine as primary faculty appointments. In addition, Craig Peterson, first recruited to Molecular Medicine as an Assistant Professor in 1991 and now Professor, was appointed as Vice Chair of Molecular Medicine in 2004 and continues to serve in this position.
Thus Molecular Medicine now has approximately 35 faculty with primary faculty appointments and 14 faculty with joint appointments who are active in faculty meetings, personnel action deliberations (including tenure decisions), retreats, seminars and journal clubs, faculty searches in the Program and social functions. Molecular Medicine sponsors a monthly "in house" seminar program for its own faculty seminars followed by faculty luncheon meetings, graduate student and postdoctoral fellow-initiated outside speaker seminar programs, and monthly Chalk Talks for all Molecular Medicine faculty.
Molecular Medicine accomplishments in research have been recognized by the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Craig Mello (shared with Andrew Fire of Stanford University), the 2008 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award to Victor Ambros (shared with Gary Ruvkun of Harvard and David Baulcombe of Cambridge University), the 2105 Breakthrough Prize (shared with Gary Ruvkun of Harvard) to Victor Ambros, the 2007 Medical Foundation Basic Science Award to David Lambright, the Lillian Jean Kaplan Memorial Award to Greg Pazour, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator appointments to Michael Green, Roger Davis, and Craig Mello, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences (Green, Mello and Ambros) and the Royal Society of London (Davis). Many other Molecular Medicine faculty have been recognized by awards for outstanding contributions in their fields of specialty, for example, a 2012 NIDA Avant Garde award to Jeremy Luban, the 2000 Banting Award to Michael Czech and the Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award to Katherine Luzuriaga. Pew Scholar awards have been bestowed upon Tom Fazzio, Bert van den Berg and David Guertin.
The Program in Molecular Medicine offers within its building a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art methodologies to its laboratory groups including deep sequencing, ultrafast 3D digital imaging microscopy (wide field and TIRF) of live cells, spinning disc confocal microscopy, x-ray crystallography, mouse metabolic phenotyping, mouse knockout technology, CRISPR and RNAi-based gene silencing in vitro and in vivo. Medical School Core facilities also make available a large number of additional technologies such as FACS analysis, gene profiling using microarrays, proteomics and both shRNA and small molecule screening. Expertise in chemistry, structural biology, biochemistry, cell and developmental biology, molecular biology, cell signaling and regulation, genomics and proteomics, bioinformatics, genetics, immunology and virology is strongly represented in the Program in Molecular Medicine. Program faculty members are also active in the teaching of these disciplines in both core and advanced courses for graduate and medical students. Structural biology at the UMass Medical School is supported by state-of-the-art X-ray and NMR core facilities housed in the Program in Molecular Medicine and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. Diffraction instrumentation includes three rotating anode X-ray generators equipped with R-axis IV, Mar 300 and Mar 350 image plates detectors, Osmic focusing mirrors, and nitrogen cryostreams. NMR instrumentation includes 400 MHz and 600 MHz Varian spectrometers equipped for multidimensional homonuclear and heteronuclear experiments. Computational resources include graphics workstations and multiprocessor Beowulf clusters for data processing, image reconstruction, 3D visualization, model building, refinement, molecular dynamics, and structural bioinformatics. Molecular Medicine laboratory groups utilize many model organisms in their research, including yeast, worms, flies, mice and nonhuman primates. Translational research on human subjects is also vigorously pursued with collaborators in clinical departments.
Faculty laboratory groups within the Program in Molecular Medicine are led by academic leaders in their respective fields of biology and medicine. The multidisciplinary nature of the Program has led to a significant number of collaborative publications by multiple laboratories. This is further enhanced by strong seminar and journal club activities as well as joint laboratory group meetings and consortium grants such as Keck and NIH-funded program projects. Based on its success in research and teaching, the Program attracts large numbers of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scientists who in turn greatly enrich its scientific environment.


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SOURCE: NTS Realty Holdings Limited Partnership
March 15, 2013 11:22 ET
LOUISVILLE, KY--(Marketwire - Mar 15, 2013) - (NYSE MKT: NLP) -- NTS Realty Holdings Limited Partnership (the "Company") announced today that it received notice of an amendment to the debt commitment letter (the "Commitment Letter") related to the Company's proposed merger with NTS Merger Sub, LLC. The Commitment Letter originally provided that either party to the Commitment Letter had the right to terminate the Commitment Letter if definitive credit documentation governing the financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter had not been executed by March 15, 2013 (the "Documentation Date"). On March 15, 2013, the Company received notice that the Commitment Letter was amended to extend the Documentation Date to April 30, 2013.
Interested parties are urged to read relevant documents, when and if filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, because they will contain important information. The Company has filed a preliminary proxy statement and will file other documents regarding the proposed merger with the SEC, and the definitive proxy statement will be sent to unitholders seeking their approval of the matters discussed above at a special meeting of unitholders. Unitholders are urged to read the proxy statement and any other relevant document when they become available because they will contain important information about the Company, the proposed merger and related matters. Interested parties may obtain a free copy of the definitive proxy statement (when available) and other documents filed by us with the SEC at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov.
The Company, its managing general partner and its managing general partner's directors, executive officers and other members of its management and employees (including J.D. Nichols and Brian F. Lavin) may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from the unitholders of the Company in connection with the proposed transactions. Information regarding the special interests of persons who may be deemed to be such participants in the proposed transactions will be included in the proxy statement described above. Additional information regarding the directors and executive officers of the Company's managing general partner is also included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, which was filed with the SEC on March 23, 2012, and subsequent statements of changes in beneficial ownership on file with the SEC. These documents are available free of charge at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov.
About NTS Realty Holdings Limited Partnership
The Company currently owns, wholly, as a tenant in common with unaffiliated co-owners, or through joint venture investments with affiliated and unaffiliated third parties, twenty-four properties comprised of fifteen multifamily properties, seven office buildings and business centers and two retail properties. The properties are located in and around Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, Nashville and Cordova, Tennessee, Richmond, Virginia, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida, Indianapolis, Indiana and Atlanta, Georgia. The Company's limited partnership units are listed on the NYSE MKT platform under the trading symbol of "NLP."
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward looking statements that can be identified by the use of words like "would," "believe," "expect," "may," "could," "intend," "project," "estimate," or "anticipate." These forward looking statements, implicitly or explicitly, include assumptions underlying the statements and other information with respect to the Company's beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, estimates, intentions, financial condition, results of operations, future performance and business, including its expectation of, and estimates with respect to, revenues, expenses, earnings, return of and on equity, return on assets, asset quality and other financial data and performance ratios. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in its forward looking statements are reasonable, these statements involve risks and uncertainties which are subject to change based on various important factors, some of which are beyond the Company's control. Important factors that would cause actual results to differ materially from expectations are disclosed under "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K, which was filed on March 23, 2012, and registration statement on Form S-4, which became effective on October 27, 2004.
If one or more of the factors affecting forward looking information and statements proves incorrect, the Company's actual results of operations, financial condition or prospects could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, the forward looking information and statements contained in this press release.
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Growing up in a non-Christian home within a racist community, being encountered by Christ in a Baptist revival toward the end of high school, and being pastored by a WWII veteran—these would not seem to be the ingredients to produce a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. But then the gospel of Jesus Christ is not predictable. It changes lives! In Mark's case, a radical conversion followed by reading the New Testament and hearing many sermons about God's love for the whole world convinced Mark that following Jesus included not killing one's enemies.
Several years later Mark discovered Christians within various traditions who, with Mark, saw peace and social justice as inherent in the gospel of Jesus Christ. But it was through reading The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder that Mark began to find a theological home in the Anabaptist/ Mennonite tradition. Mark's subsequent studies with Yoder, followed by doctoral studies under Jim McClendon and Nancey Murphy, along with a co-editing friendship with Stanley Hauerwas deepened Mark's commitment to the centrality of Jesus for ministries of peace and justice, and led to the integration of theology and ethics that infuse his teaching and writing.
Mark's voracious reading in multiple disciplines is animated by his passion to help the church remain faithful to Christ. His current writing project with two former seminary students is focused on recapturing Dietrich Bonhoeffer's commitment to the centrality of Jesus Christ linked to faithful discipleship as the defining center of his life and work.
Mark's teaching at the seminary draws on his experiences within several early "emergent/new monastic" Christian communities, his brief stint as a child protective services social worker, his six years as the founding director of an ecumenical peace and justice organization, his pastorates in several denominations, and his 5 ½ years as director of the London Mennonite Centre, in London, England. He is currently on the leadership team of a Mennonite church organically connected to Our Community Place, a center devoted to serving the "least among us" in Harrisonburg. His preaching and teaching in that community coupled with his attentiveness to the vast needs and challenges within our larger cultural contexts serve to ground his life and teaching in the transforming work of Christ in the world through the church.
Acknowledged as one of the foremost authorities in the world on John Howard Yoder, Mark's interests are wide ranging. However, in a few words, his driving passion is to discern with others what it means to articulate afresh the holistic gospel of Jesus Christ for today or, in other words, to ask what it looks like to embody "the politics of Jesus" for our time.
BA, University of Illinois
MA, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
MDIV, Christian Theological Seminary
PHD, Fuller Theological Seminary
Most Recent Essays
Check out my blog: Anabaptist Nation
Check out recent academic writings at academia.edu
2015 "'So Far as It Depends on You, Live Peaceably with All': On Pluralism, Particularity and Proselytizing," in Practicing to Aim at Truth, ed. Ryan Newsome and Brad J. Kallenberg (Eugene, OR: Cascade), 227-242.
2014 "The Narrative of the One Jesus, Compassionate Evangelist and Commanding Lord," The Mennonite (June).
2014 [theological sections on lectionary texts for Propers 23-28, Year B], in Abingdon Theological Companion to the Lectionary: Preaching Year B, ed. Paul Scott Wilson (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press), 290-325.
2013 "Against Christianity and For Constantine: One Heresy or Two?," In Constantine Revisited, ed. John D. Roth (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications), 68-82.
2013 "'A Blanket License to Commit Evil Acts?': A Fresh Examination of Bonhoeffer's Christological Framing of Ethics." Perspectives in Religious Ethics, No. 40 (Summer): 143-153.
2012 "Naming What Unites Us." The Mennonite (April).
2011 "Foreword." In The End of Sacrifice: John Howard Yoder on Capital Punishment ,ed. John Nugent. (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press.).
2011 "The 'Ecumenical' and 'Cosmopolitan' Yoder: A Critical Engagement with Nonviolence: A Brief History and Its Editors." The Conrad Grebel Review (Fall): 73-87.
2011 "Conscientious Objection" and "Conscription." In Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, ed. Joel Green, et al., Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, s.v.
2011 "Footwashing: Preparation for Christian Life," in The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, Revised edition. Edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing), 479-490.
2011 "Mennonite Theology." In Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology, ed. Ian McFarland, et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), s.v.
2010 "The 'Fear of the Lord' Is the Beginning of Anabaptist Wisdom." The Mennonite Quarterly Review (July): 397-416.
2010 "John Howard Yoder," in Mennonitischen Lexikons (revised ed.; online), ed. Hans-Jürgen Goertz. (article in German) (reprinted, with slight revisions, in GAMEO in English, 2011)
2010 "The Politics of Yoder Regarding The Politics of Jesus: Recovering the Implicit in Yoder's Holistic Theology of Pacifism," In Radical Ecumenicity: Pursuing Unity and Continuity after John Howard Yoder, ed. John Nugent (Abilene, TX: Abilene Christian University Press), 37-56
Authored/Co-authored Books
Bonhoeffer the Assassin?: Challenging the Myth, Recovering His Call to Peacemaking. Co-authored with Anthony G. Siegrist and Daniel P. Umbel (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Press, 2013).
Reasoning Together: A Conversation on Homosexuality co-authored with Ted Grimsrud (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2008).
John Howard Yoder: Mennonite Patience, Evangelical Witness, Catholic Convictions (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2006).
Edited/Co-edited Books
Yoder, John Howard, Revolutionary Christianity: The 1966 South American Lectures, co-edited with Paul Martens, Matthew Porter and Myles Werntz (Eugene, OR: Cascade Press, 2012).
Yoder, John Howard, The War of the Lamb, co-edited with Glen Harold Stassen and Matt Hamsher (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2009).
Yoder, John Howard, Karl Barth and the Problem of War and Other Essays on Barth, edited by Mark Thiessen Nation, (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2003).
Faithfulness & Fortitude: In Conversation with the Theological Ethics of Stanley Hauerwas., co-edited with Samuel Wells (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000).
The Wisdom of the Cross: Essays in Honor of John Howard Yoder, co-edited with Stanley Hauerwas, Chris Huebner and Harry Huebner (Grand Rapids, MI; Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999; reprinted by Wipf & Stock, 2005).
Virtues & Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics after MacIntyre, co-edited with Nancey Murphy and Brad J. Kallenberg. (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997; Reprinted: Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).
Theology Without Foundations: Religious Practice & the Future of Theological Truth, co-edited with Stanley Hauerwas and Nancey Murphy. (Nashville, TN; Abingdon Press, 1994; reprinted Wipf & Stock)


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The proverbial "Groundhog Day" syndrome, as famously portrayed in the movie, continues to pervade conservative politicians in the Senate and House.
Those opposed to Obamacare seem obsessed to cite doomsday for all of us, with the same old misstatements and scare tactics re: Higher taxes, higher premiums for everyone, government control, socialism, less jobs, small businesses going broke and anything else they can conjure up for their broken record. The electorate, even the Supreme Court, has said shut up, work on making the Affordable Care Act better and quit the blame game and start governing.
I was reminded of all this as I listened to the senator from Wyoming on CSPAN2, an orthopedic surgeon by career, giving his hackneyed, often repeated, speech. In the 50-plus years of working with physicians to help manage their own practices, and teaching residents how to go into practice, I couldn't help but wonder how this guy became such an expert in finances, banking, judicial law, budgets, foreign policy, etc. The education of a physician is not only very scientific; it's very narrow. It's intense one on one, especially surgery, very time consuming, taking years of hard work and study. I guess this guy and the several other doctors in Congress did a lot of bedtime reading.
I don't mind anyone criticizing the new health care law. It's full of problems, not the least of which are the thousands of pages of rules and regulations that have now been published. It took me more than a week to read the actual law; I'm looking for a summary of the regs, But it is a major legislative act that will have to be given time and space to iron out those problems that inevitably occur.
But dear Wyoming senator and doctor: Why don't you go on the floor of the Senate and talk about the real problematic cost issues in U.S. health care. Start with the greed of profit-driven corporations in the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Move on to the ridiculous range of hospital charges from coast to coast. Mention the incredible amount of fraud from overcharging insurance companies and patients through upcoding of medical services. And perhaps end with the hopeful elimination of unneeded exams and tests that fee-for-service reimbursement promotes. Obamacare is an easy target; those I've just listed are extremely difficult.
But as the headline states, there is some good news. It's a small amount, but it gives us at least a fleeting view of the forrest through the trees. It's spelled out in some detail in the March 5 issue of USA Today. The two headlines read "Health care spending is transferred out of ICU" and "Health care costs growth shows signs of stabilizing."
Dennis Cauchon writes about the USA Today analysis, that showed health care spending last year rose at one of the lowest rates in a half-century, partly the result of cost saving measures put in place by the health care law. He goes on to point out that the analysis shows spending for medical care has increased modestly for five consecutive years, the longest period of slow growth since Medicare began in 1966. Be aware however, a lot more will be spent when the mandate for all to have insurance hits in 2014. The fact is cost-saving measures under the health care law appears to be keeping prices flat.
Dan Mendelson, CEO of Avalere Health, an advisory company for health care businesses and investors, said: "Institutions are taking both cost control and quality improvement more seriously." He feels that modest cost control is a long-term trend. He further predicts cost controls will be made through government insurance, more generic drugs and competition, especially with the new health care exchanges beginning in October.
Peter Person, chief executive of Essentia Health, a 12,800-employee hospital system, based in Duluth, Minn., said, "The language I use now in the health care business is completely different than the language used even five years ago." He points out that the government wants to pay lump sums for a patient, based on the demand for higher quantity standards from the provider. He said, "rather than cutting reimbursement rates, the government is raising the bar for what it expects for every dollar it spends… Now the government's new approach attaches financial rewards and penalties for a long list of practices, to simultaneously improve quality and lower costs. Until now, the government has paid on volume. Now it's trying to pay more on quality."
It's not a time to start dancing in the streets. But as I've stated so many times about the Affordable Care Act, it's a good beginning. It's a start in understanding what the real problems are and slowly, but surely, begin new treatment plans. The cure is a long way off.
Columnist Mike Silver lives in Pinecrest and may be reached by email at email@example.com or by calling 843-815-3894.