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Lowcountry Boil from 'Around the Southern Table'
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A lowcountry boil is the southeastern coast's equivalent to a New England clambake. Take the fresh shellfish catch of the day, dump it in a giant pot with some vegetables and sausage, and you're more than halfway to a giant feast for you and your friends. The boils I attended growing up were usually full of shrimp, potatoes, and corn, but there can be quite a bit of variance in the pot.
In Rebecca Lang's Around the Southern Table, the lowcountry boil includes crawfish along with the requisite shrimp, but crab would be just as welcome. Generous pieces of spicy smoked sausage bring out the Cajun side of the blend, and a big box of extra-spicy boil seasoning adds even more heat to the mix. Drain and dump the boil out on a table covered in newspapers for a fun mess of a meal.
Why I picked this recipe: Summer may be prime lowcountry boil season, but I couldn't wait that long. There's something about eating hot seafood with your hands that brings sunshine to even the dreariest of late-winter days.
What worked: Lang's cooking method is spot on. The components are layered into a stockpot of boiling water, seasoning, and beer (!) at timed intervals so the potatoes are perfectly tender just as the shrimp turns opaque.
What didn't: Nothing.
Suggested tweaks: If you can't get your hands on crawfish (it's still a bit early in the season right now), you can simply double the amount of shrimp in the recipe. I followed the suggestion on my crab boil seasoning packet and added 4 tablespoons of kosher salt to the water before adding the vegetables.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of Around the Southern Table to give away this week.
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Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden: This small but lovely Japanese-style garden sits on the California State Long Beach campus. It was built by Edward R. Lovell in 1981 with a donation by Loraine Miller Collins in honor of her late husband, with whom she shared a love of gardening. An entry gate with a tiled roof inspired by one in Kyoto leads to the lush oasis of peace and serenity, with its bridges over running water, raked dry gravel garden and a ceremonial tea house. 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, CSULB, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach. Free.
The Japanese Garden: Of all the places you would expect to find a Japanese-style garden, the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant isn't one of them. And yet, there it is, a lush, six and a half-acre "stroll" garden. Dedicated in 1984, the garden was designed by landscape architect Koichi Kawana, who built more than a dozen such gardens It takes its cue from the 18th and 19th century gardens of Japanese Feudal lords with a lake at its center. Raked dry gravel gardens, water falls, statuary, bridges and buildings in authentic Japanese style also grace the picturesque landscape. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. The Japanese Garden, 6100 Woodley Ave., Van Nuys. $2-$3. 818-756-8166.
James Irvine Japanese Garden: Kept behind closed doors, this hidden garden — also known as the Seiryu-en or "Garden of the Clear Stream" — is at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in L.A.'s Little Tokyo. The garden was completed in 1979 by landscape architect Takeo Uesugi. A waterfall sends water snaking through the garden in a 170-foot stream, where moments of turbulence and calm symbolize the experience of Japanese throughout the generations since first arriving in the U.S. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; call for the weekend schedule. James Irvine Japanese Garden, 244 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles. Free. 213-628-2725.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: Tickets for the garden are $8 to $23. It's open 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, noon to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Located at 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. .626-405-2100.

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Founded in 2009, Amici di Musica at Evangel is an organization consisting of music lovers who contribute time and resources to help the Music Department at Evangel University realize its goals and provide enrichment opportunities for the students and faculty. Amici di Musica at Evangel is proud to be a part of one of the finest Christian university music programs in the United States.
Over the years, many individuals and families have given money and time to the Evangel University Music Department. Amici di Musica at Evangel helps facilitate the effort of those who wish to contribute time and resources to the department and acknowledge these individuals, families, businesses, churches, etc. One example is the establishment of scholarships. While it is difficult for any student to work and go to school at the same time, it is especially challenging for music students, who are required to be in ensembles and performances and also devote specific hours each day to practice as well as study. Many of our students work one or more part-time jobs in order to afford their education, so it goes without saying that all of them are grateful for the costs and fees that these scholarships cover. Other areas that can be enriched include classroom resources (such as technology upgrades, the acquisition of special music collections, and research materials), instrumental purchases, conference travel for music faculty, etc.
Please consider joining Amici di Musica at Evangel. Your gift will mean so much to all of the students, faculty and staff at the Evangel University Music Department.
JOINING AMICI DI MUSICA at EVANGEL
Membership into Amici di Musica at Evangel is offered for the academic year on an annual basis. In addition to receiving the satisfaction that your donation is strengthening music education and opportunities at Evangel University, Amici di Musica at Evangel members will receive recognition in all major Evangel University programs and Overtones (the annual Music Department magazine) as well as special invitations to privately hosted receptions with select guest artists. The levels of contributions are:
|$5,000+ ~ Includes membership in the Evangel President's Club
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|$2,500 ~ Enjoy the business benefits of supporting our future musicians while reaching a high-caliber audience at one of the country's premier departments of music.
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Use Evangel's online giving site and enter your donation amount next to Amici Di Musica.
For more information, please contact Tonya Thurman in the Evangel University Music Office at (417) 865-2815 ext. 7211 or by email.


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Feature Name
DNSSEC - Enable DNSSEC and DLV security extensions for DNS
DNSSEC (DNS SECurity) is mechanism which can provide integrity and authenticity of DNS data. It became more important after new Kaminsky DNS poisoning attacks were found in early 2008. The most widely used name servers support DNSSEC, though it is only (bind, unbound)
- Name: Adam Tkac
- Name: Paul Wouters
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 30
- Last updated: 2009-03-03
- Percentage of completion: 90%
Detailed Description
Important servers already support DNSSEC. Main problem is key distribution.
Those problems have to be solved:
- supply initial set of DNSSEC keys - especially as long as the Root is not signed (via dnssec-conf ReviewRequest)
- allow easy way to enable/disable DNSSEC (via dnssec-configure and system-config-dnssec tool)
- allow to use ISC DLV registry (via dnssec-configure from dnssec-conf package)
- support for automated updates from DNS for DNSSEC trust anchors (via autotrust package using the RFC5011 update mechanism). But also allow updates via dnssec-conf package.
Benefit to Fedora
Our servers 9and clients) will be "invulnerable" against cache poisoning, Kaminsky attacks, spoofing and other known DNS attacks.
- create and add package which will supply initial set of DNSSEC keys (completed)
- enable DNSSEC in bind and unbound default configurations and include supplied DNSSEC keys
- add "autotrust" tool which is implementation of RFC 5011 - Automated Updates of DNS Security (DNSSEC) Trust Anchors
- create commandline tool which will easily enable/disable DNSSEC and which allows to switch between DLV and supplied DNSSEC keys (= trust anchors)
- create system-config-dnssec tool to enable / disable the most important features (30% done)
How To Test
Check that DNSSEC aware servers work fine. Make sure /etc/resolv.conf points to a DNSSEC enabled nameserver (eg localhost), then run:
dig +multiline +dnssec forged.test.xelerance.com @yournameserverip
This should produce a ServFail answer. Run:
dig +multiline +dnssec +cd forged.test.xelerance.com @yournameserverip
This should produce the forged/broken answer despite its known forgery.
dig +multiline +dnssec dnssec.se
This should produce an answer with the Authenticated Data bit ("ad") set:
;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23220 ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 1
User Experience
Easy setup and maintenance of DNSSEC aware resolver
Related Packages
- ldns
- unbound
- bind
- nsd
- autotrust ReviewRequest
- dnssec-conf ReviewRequest
- sshfp
- system-config-dnssec (preview: [1]
Contingency Plan
Disable DNSSEC by default
Release Notes
BIND and unbound (recursive DNS servers) have enabled DNSSEC validation in their default configuration. When domain supplies DNSSEC data then that data will be validated on recursive server. If validation fails then certain domain will be unreachable for clients because it indicates attack (or, unfortunately, admin's misconfiguration). DNSSEC is crucial part and next step to make Internet more secure for end users.


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In addition to developing applications with Adobe® Flash® Builder®, the BlackBerry® 10 SDK beta for Adobe® AIR® also gives you the option to integrate with FDT 5. FDT 5 is a flexible development toolkit in Eclipse™ for interactive developers. In my personal experience, FDT has a great work flow. The advanced refactoring capabilities, ASDoc support, SWF Bridge, and Haxe support make this a great package.
FDT 5 comes in 2 different versions, FDT 5 Free, and FDT 5 Max. FDT 5 Max has additional features that are unavailable in the free version but requires a license. More information on the different versions can be found on the FDT 5 website.
Before installing the BlackBerry 10 SDK beta for Adobe AIR make sure that FDT 5 is installed. While installing the SDK you will be able to select Powerflasher's FDT during the Integration Choice step. If you've already installed the SDK you can simply rerun the setup wizard.
There is a guide for creating your first application in FDT for BlackBerry 10 located in the documentation. If you need any help getting started or have any questions, please don't hesitate to drop by the Adobe AIR development forum.


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Our all. Our honour.
You will have noticed these words plastered on all new Whitecaps FC material, from the website, to social media, to advertising.
Starting next week we will go deeper into the stories of Whitecaps FC players to find out why they're honoured to don the 'Caps kit.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC are dedicated to giving our all in everything we do, whether it's on the field at BC Place, at training or in the community. This includes our players, our coaching staff, our front office staff, our volunteers, our dedicated supporters and passionate fans. We are all committed to giving our all.
This is your team, and it's our honour to represent you.
Playing in front of the best fans in the league here in the Pacific Northwest and battling for the Cascadia Cup, that is an honour.
Being one of only three Canadian clubs in MLS and becoming the first one ever to make the playoffs, that is an honour.
And taking to the field to represent Vancouver and this province: the people, the multiculturalism, the landscape and everything else that beautiful British Columbia has to offer. That is the greatest honour of all.
Check back next week to find out what drives captain Jay DeMerit.


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Few people know the interesting story connected with the Tug Fork of Big Sandy River, which borders Wayne County for half the entire length of the county's western boundary, says The Big Sandy News.
There are a few persons now living who have seen the gas burning on the waters of Tug as it came out of the bowels of the earth and up through the bed of the river near Kermit. The blaze was extinguished many years ago after it had burned for no one knows how long. But, few are the people, very few, who know that this "burning spring" played a prominent part in naming of the river which now separates the states of West Virginia and Kentucky.
Few have heard of the little band of soldiers sent out in the fall of 1757 to establish a fort at the mouth of the "Great Sandy," how they camped one night at these "burning springs," killed two buffaloes and hung their skins on a beech tree near the blazes from the water; how they were overtaken two days later by a messenger as they were within a few miles of their destination and ordered to return to Virginia; how they killed their pack horses in the middle of winter and ate them after their provisions had become exhausted and the proximity of Indians prevented their firing a gun or kindling a fire; how many of them perished from cold and hunger, and how, when they retraced their steps to return to Fort Dinwiddle, 300 miles away, and arriving again at the "burning springs," the officers took down from the beech tree the two buffalo skins, now warmed by the gas flames, and cutting them into tugs gave each soldier a tug to last him as food until they arrived home. All this is condensed into the name of the north fork of Big Sandy--and perhaps more. Yet, it has all but been forgotten. A leatherbound book dimmed and faded by age, found in a group of discarded possessions, is perhaps all that has preserved this interesting history for the future generations which will inhabit the valley and flourish.
The covered bridge at the mouth of White's Creek, at the Hence Johnson farm, was broken Saturday when a truck heavily loaded from Huntington with lumber strained the woodwork beneath the floor of the bridge to the breaking point. Fortunately, the bridge did not totally collapse. New timbers have been ordered and repairs will have to be made promptly, according to announcement by County Road Engineer, H. O. Wiles. This is one of the few remaining covered bridges in the whole country. There are only two in Wayne County. This bridge was built at a total cost of eight hundred dollars in the days when lumber and construction costs were only a fraction of what they are now. The lumber was towed up Big Sandy in a barge as there was no railroad there when the old bridge was built in 1881.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned on the 18th day of October, 1927, filed his petition and application with the Recorder of the Village of Wayne, a municipal corporation of the State of West Virginia, praying for the granting to him of a franchise for the period of fifty years from day of entry of a proper ordinance therefore to use all of the streets, alleys, avenues, public ways, roads, parks and grounds, or such of them as may be necessary or convenient, for the purpose of planting and placing poles, towers and structures for the holding and the use of operating maintaining, removing and replacing of wires and cables and other wires or material necessary or convenient in the operation of a telephone system and telephone exchange, and of the placing in and under the surface of any such streets, alleys, avenues and public ways, roads, parks and grounds conduits or other means or methods of placing and planting any such wires, cables or other materials useful or necessary as aforesaid, and also for the placing, maintaining, operating and removing of such material, antenna or other station or stations, structure or structures for the transmission or reception of sound or voice by means of wireless band and the dissemination thereof, as may be found convenient, necessary or useful in the said business; and that on the evening of 18th day of November 1927 at the Town Hall of the said Village of Wayne, and at the hour of 8:00 such matter will be called up for hearing at which time and place any person may attend and show cause against the same if any he can.
Given under my hand on this the 18th day of October, 1927.
C. J. McMahon,
Trading and doing business as
Wayne Telephone Company
Violet and Helen Marie Keller motored to Huntington last Sunday.***Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ellis and daughter and Bruce Congor spent last Saturday with Aubry Hunter.***Mr. and Mrs. Steve Bench spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Adkins.
Mrs. Wetzel Lester is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Garland Mills of Upper Beech Fork.***Mr. and Mrs. Scot Berry of Huntington were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Osburn.***Mrs. Olive Smith, who has been confined to her home with a very badly infected leg, is feeling better.***Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Smith of Walnut Hills were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Smith.***Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Morrison of Huntington were Sunday visitors here.***Edward Smith of Huntington was the week end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fonso Adkins.***Bertie Bowen is visiting friends in Huntington.
William Spurlock has purchased the grocery store of J. B. Crum and the restaurant owned by Jessie Prince.***Mrs. James Camel and Tom Self, who have been visiting in Virginia, have returned here.*** Orison Parsley of Breeding was the week end guest of friends here.***Dewey Parsley has moved to the residence of Frank Marcum.***Aunt Betty Queen, who has been ill, is improving.***Prayer meeting was held at the home of Charley Doss last Thursday night.***A Bible Class will be held at the Crum Baptist Church every Friday night.***Rev. and Mrs. Lawrence Sammons of Logan County were visiting here last week.***Wm. Sammons has purchased the Ford touring car owned by Leon Valley of Jennie's Creek.***Lelia and Fannie Molette are attending high school at Inez, Ky.***G. L. Adkins attended lodge at Portsmouth recently.***O. F. James was in White House and Paintsville, Ky., last week end.***J. B. Crum, Sr., is erecting a new building here.***The hard surfacing of the state highway began here last week with Sammons as contractor.***Mr. and Mrs. Lon Wiley of Williamson and Mrs. J. H. Marcum of Stonecoal were Sunday guests of Mrs. Nannie Corns.***Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Mead attended church at Warfield, KY., last Sunday.***Ruth Stepp is ill as of this writing.***Albert Crum, who is employed by the N & W Railroad, is visiting home folks.***Sherman Salmons of Kermit is visiting relatives here.
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Back in June, Huawei unveiled their latest high-end Android smartphone, the Ascend P6, that immediately struck a familiar design chord. Right from the first teaser images, the comparisons to the iPhone started to fly, mainly due to the metal banding that encases the phone around the edges. Now, since Andrew Martonik over at Android Central has an Ascend P6 in for review, he's gone and taken a closer look, setting it side-by-side with an iPhone 4S:
Particularly, you can see almost exact similarities with the metal banding around the sides, the camera and speaker grille at the top of the phones. The similarities go further with an iPhone 5, which is simply taller and thinner and therefore looks more like a typical 16:9 Android phone to begin with.
I had the pleasure of attending the grand launch of the Ascend P6 in London, and I have to agree with everything he says. The resemblance in those key areas is uncanny, and the image up top is a comparison with my own iPhone 5. Sure, the Ascend P6 is taller, and thinner, but that band around the edge is very familiar looking. Though, don't they always say imitation is the best form of flattery?
Head on over to Android Central to see a full comparison gallery with the iPhone 4S, as well as the extra image below from the launch event. We're not saying Huawei is out and out copying Apple, but there's plenty of similarity, don't you think?
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North Carolina man gets DWI after hitting 4 patrol cars with kid as passenger
Authorities say a drunken driver smashed into four patrol cars and injured two troopers directing traffic near the NASCAR race in Concord.
Investigators said Patrick Willis was driving too fast when he exited Interstate 485 around 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Authorities say his car hit and jumped a curb and then smashed into four patrol cars on U.S. Highway 29.
Officials say two troopers suffered minor leg injuries as they tried to get out of the way.
Willis was charged with driving while impaired, reckless driving and child abuse because he was driving with his 9-year-old son. Troopers say Willis' blood-alcohol content was 0.14 percent, nearly double the legal limit.


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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, +3.06% and Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, +1.44% reported earnings today, but you may want to steer clear of the Wall Street titans and consider buying shares of tiny banks in Hawaii, Texas and West Virginia.
Largely unknown regional banks have been outperforming their bigger brethren, powered by acquisitions, a stream of deposits and higher-quality loans while avoiding the harsh regulations and scrutiny that's burdening the investment banks.
Limp trading revenue has been the theme heading into first-quarter earnings announcements for the largest banks. J.P. Morgan said today that profits slumped 19%, missing analysts' estimates. That follows a forgettable 2013 for J.P. Morgan, which paid a staggering $17.5 billion to settle residential mortgage-backed securities claims. Wells Fargo reported today that earnings rose 14%, though revenue fell.
Other big banks are suffering too. Citigroup Inc. C, +2.96% in March had its annual capital plan rejected by the Federal Reserve for the second time in three years. Bank of America BAC, +2.54% has been a hot stock, but its returns on equity have been unimpressive, as detailed in bank stocks winners and losers for 2014. Besides J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo today, Citigroup reports earnings Monday, followed by Bank of America on April 16, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS, +3.10% and Morgan Stanley MS, +3.12% on April 17.
For many of the biggest regional players, BB&T Corp. BBT, +1.93% of Winston-Salem, N.C., KeyCorp KEY, +2.88% of Cleveland and SunTrust Banks Inc. STI, +1.70% of Atlanta, investors can expect more of the same — margin pressure from low interest rates, cost cutting, weak mortgage lending and a focus on growing commercial and industrial loans.
The five banks on the table above are the smaller regional names with the strongest 2013 returns on common equity among the 50 components of the KBW Regional Banking Index, according to FactSet. Return on common equity is a key measure for banks, since it gauges how efficiently capital is deployed, while leaving out dividends paid to preferred shareholders.
A look at the table shows that Bank of Hawaii and City Holding Co. have attractive dividend yields — higher than most large-cap banks. All but one of these banks enjoyed massive asset growth during 2013.
Here's a review of all five small regional banks.
Bank of Hawaii
Bank of Hawaii Corp. BOH, +0.97% ranks first among the 50 components of the KBW Regional Bank Index, with a return on common equity, or ROCE, of 14.80% during 2013. That was down from 16.41% the previous year, the result of an inhospitable interest-rate environment. But the biggest factor in the bank's earnings decline was the industry-wide slowdown of mortgage-refinancing volume as long-term interest rates rose in anticipation of the Federal Reserve's decision to begin tapering bond purchases. Earnings during 2013 came to $150.5 million, or $3.38 a share, down from $166.1 million, or $3.68 a share, a year earlier.
It was a tough year for Bank of Hawaii but, overall, performance was still strong. The stock is up 1% this year after a 39% surge in 2013. The bank pays a quarterly dividend of 45 cents for a dividend yield of 3.03%, and the dividend is easily covered by earnings.
Bank of Hawaii's total loans grew 4% during 2013. It's not a stand-out growth play among this group of five banks; its strength lies in its stability and efficiency. Analysts polled by FactSet expect the bank's earnings to recover this year to their 2012 level, with a consensus EPS estimate of $3.64. The shares trade for 15.3 times the consensus 2015 earnings estimate of $3.90.
First Financial Bankshares
First Financial Bankshares Inc. FFIN, +0.43% of Abilene, Texas, ranks second on our list, with a 2013 ROCE of 13.78%. The bank grew its assets by 16% last year, partially resulting from the purchase of Orange Savings Bank of Orange, Texas, in May. The bank also achieved strong organic growth, with total loans increasing by $602 million, or 29%, to $2.689 billion as of Dec. 31. The Orange Savings acquisition included $295 million in loans.
First Financial is primed for rapid expansion of its loan portfolio, with a strong Tier 1 leverage ratio of 9.84% and a loans-to-deposits ratio of just 65% as of Dec. 31.
The bank's net interest margin during 2013 was a solid 4.22%. The bank relies on local credit committees to set commercial loan pricing in order to remain competitive while maximizing its loan pricing.
First Financial's stock is down 9% this year, pulling back after a 73% return in 2013. The shares trade for 19.6 times the consensus 2015 EPS estimate of $3.06. That's a rather high valuation for a bank stock in the current environment, but there's no question First Financial has been achieving its goal of rapid growth while continuing to bring home a solid return on common equity.
First Republic Bank
Another rapid grower among regional banks is First Republic Bank FRC, +2.10% of San Francisco, which was spun off by Bank of America in 2009. Bank of America had acquired First Republic as part of its acquisition of Merrill Lynch in 2008.
First Republic on March 18 completed an offering of 4 million common shares at a price of $52.60 to raise $210.4 million, according to Bloomberg. The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase 600,000 more shares. First Republic's stock is up 4.5% this year, following a 61% return in 2013.
The bank continues to grow its private banking and jumbo-mortgage lending businesses in various metropolitan areas, adding four offices during 2013 for a total of 73 offices. Total loans grew 21% last year to $34.0 billion. Comprehensive income — essentially net income available to common shareholders — rose to $444 million, or $3.10 a share, in 2013 from $431.4 million, or 30 cents a share, in 2012. First Republic's 2013 ROCE was 13.66%, essentially unchanged from the previous year. The bank's non-interest income grew by a whopping 45% in 2013 to $244.4 million.
First Republic's stock trades for 15.9 times the consensus 2015 EPS estimate of $3.44. The consensus 2014 EPS estimate is $3.03.


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We have all been in meetings where we felt nothing was getting done. In the corporate world, the cost of inefficient meetings has been recognized. According to a recent CBS news report, professionals lose four work days each month in meetings and that out of 11 million meetings that occur in the U.S. every day, half the meeting time is actually wasted. There have been a lot of efforts to make meetings more productive including efficient meeting templates, ground rules for meetings (pdf) etc. However, a scientific, data-driven approach to understanding "soft" phenomenon such as a meeting has until now been rare.
A paper "Learning about Meetings" (pdf) by Been Kim and Cynthia Rudin at MIT is one of the first such efforts to employ a data-driven approach on the science of meetings (in this case, meetings that are held to arrive at a decision and not to brainstorm) to learn more about how meetings are conducted. Meetings are difficult to assess as there are social signals and interpersonal dynamics that are difficult to capture. Kim and Rudin, using AMI data show evidence that it is possible to automatically detect when during the meeting a key decision is taking place, that there are common patterns in the way social dialogue acts are interspersed throughout a meeting, that at the time key decisions are made, the amount of time left in the meeting can be predicted from the amount of time that has passed, and, finally, that it is often possible to predict whether a proposal during a meeting will be accepted or rejected based entirely on the language used by the speaker.
Some particularly interesting take-aways are:
- As it turns out, the important parts of the meeting are characterized mostly by information and information requests, and very few offers, rejections, or acceptances. They hypothesize that at the important parts of the meeting, when the decisions have been narrowed down and few choices remain, the meeting participants would like to ensure that they have all the relevant information necessary to make the decision, and that the outcome will fit within all of their constraints.
- They found, somewhat counter-intuitively, that the next judgment following a negative assessment is almost never a socially positive act. The converse is also true, that a socially positive act is rarely followed by a negative assessment. For example, a negative assessment such as "But I thought it was just completely pointless" will rarely be followed by a positive comment such as "Superb sketch by the way."
- Some words are more persuasive than others. Non-technical words that fit this profile are yeah (specially following up on someone else's comment), give, start (opportunity for group members to agree before starting), meeting (usually used to postpone things to another "meeting"), discuss (related to organizational suggestions), and find (need for more information).
This work has particular significance for those of us in the development field for the following reasons:
(1) Meetings are a key instrument through which we engage with stakeholders. For example, meetings between development organizations, between development organizations and governments, between civil society and development organizations, internal meetings, sector specific meetings and international forums are some of the ways we reach consensus and come to decisions that affect the development agenda. This kind of an evidence-based scientific study of meetings provides actionable information that can help us to improve the effectiveness of such meetings.
(2) Beyond meetings, communication is key for the development community. While there has been work on identifying characteristics of persuasive speech and discourse, such work has rarely been data-driven. This is the first case where machine learning (study of systems that can learn from data) techniques were used to learn persuasive words, to rank and to compare them to gain insights.
(3) This study helps us learn about the dynamics of interactions that span both social and work aspects in meetings. Meetings are never just about work. Learning about how the social aspects interact with the work aspects will help us understand the complex dynamics of meetings using a data driven approach.
(4) Just as customized medicine will one day help provide better care for millions of people, customized communication will help the development community communicate messages more effectively
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I think that if every kitchen in the Netherlands was searched, eight out of ten of them would contain a bottle of Maggi seasoning. The first time I came across Maggi was at a Dutch birthday party. Vegetable soup had just been served and all around me the party guests were eagerly dumping loads of the brown seasoned liquid into their soup, curiosity got the better of me.
The following day, I decided to buy myself a small bottle of this strange item, of which nothing on the front gave me any idea of what it actually was. I got the treasured item home promptly opened it and poured a small drop onto my finger for a taste.
So, what is Maggi seasoning? Maggi is a dark, hydrolysed vegetable protein-based seasoning sauce, which is very similar to East Asian soy sauce without actually containing soy. It is used most often in soups and sauces.
The name is a bit confusing as Maggi is actually a Nestlé brand of instant soups, stocks, bouillon cubes, ketchups, sauces, seasonings and instant noodles. The full name of the seasoning sauce is in fact "Maggi-Würze", however, in many countries "Maggi" is still used as the seasoning sauce's name. Consider it a nick-name.
Introduced in 1886, as a cheap substitute for meat extract, it has become popular in countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. As to its taste, if you like soy sauce then you probably aren't going to mind Maggi. I personally find you need to add quite a bit to really notice a distinctive "Maggi" taste but that might just be me.
So far, I have never seen a recipe that has an ingredient list that includes Maggi seasoning sauce on it and apart from adding it to vegetable soup, I can't say I have really used the brown bottle much. So, I am curious. Do you have a bottle of Maggi in your kitchen cupboards and what do you use it for?
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Here is actually a recipe by one of Australia's well known celebritychefs and the show is not sponsored by Nestle It features Maggi! http://www.abc.net.au/kyliekwong/recipes/s952410.htm
NYC Girl:
Can you use Maggi seasoning instead of soy sauce, I want to make chicken satay and the recipe calls for fish sauce, which I cant use due to severe fish allergies. I was told I could substitute soy for the fish sauce and was wondering if Maggi would also be a substitute. Anyone?
Just used it in a Salisbury steak recipe.
My Mom's family came to Canada when she was young. I remember my grandmother making us toast covered with Maggi in the morning. I just introduced it to my wife
I just discovered Maggi in a michelada recipe (also new to me), and I've been using it on whatever strikes my fancy. It's delicious on fried eggs with hot sauce, and I just replaced some soysauce in an adobo recipe with Maggi. Good stuff!
I am making this recipe and it called for Maggi Seasoning. Came across your site on Google while researching what Maggi is. Hope you can try this easy recipe!!
This Polish-American sausage-cabbage-potato casserole recipe is a one-pot dish that comes together quickly and is perfect for tailgating, Super Bowl parties and informal entertaining. It's even better reheated, so it's perfect for school night dinners. If push came to shove, I suppose you could call it zapiekanka z kielbasa, kapusty, ziemniaków, but it's really something I came up with on the fly. This can be as rugged as you like — leave the potatoes and apples unpeeled — or soignée. Either way, it's a winner.
Polish-American Sausage-Cabbage-Potato Casserole.
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Yield: 4 servings Polish Casserole
1 tablespoon butter
2 large coarsely chopped onions
1 medium head coarsely chopped or shredded cabbage
2 red-skinned apples, cored and sliced 1/2-inch thick (peels can be left on, if desired)
2 large russet potatoes (peels can be left on, if desired), parboiled for 5 minutes (save the cooking water) and coarsely chopped
1 tablespoon Vegeta or Maggi seasoning
1 tablespoon caraway seeds (or to taste)
1 pound smoked Polish sausage (skin removed, if desired), cut into 6 pieces and scored diagonally 3 times
1 cup reserved potato-cooking water
In a large, Dutch oven or skillet with a lid, sauté onion in butter over medium heat until translucent. Then, without stirring, add cabbage and sprinkle evenly with Vegeta or Maggi seasoning. Add apples, caraway and pepper without stirring. Top with sausage and 1 cup of the cooking water from potatoes. Cover. When the water begins to boil, reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes.
Uncover and mix all ingredients together. Replace cover and simmer 10 minutes more. Remove the cover and test for doneness of the cabbage. If there are too many juices, cook over low heat until reduced. But the pan juices are delicious when sopped up with rye bread.
Michelle T:
My momma's recipe for this was gravy; make your gravy traditionally by browning some flour in hot oil, then add your water and add some Maggie sauce for some extra flavor, and color! :). Happy cooking!
One of our local NPR stations has a food program called the Food Schmooze. Their topic one week was about Vietnamese sandwiches called Baang Moi (?) which uses the Maggi seasoning on the bread. I have been going nuts trying to find this stuff. Your article will now help me narrow my search. Thank you.
I mix Maggi sauce with mayonnaise and use it as a dip for cucumbers, so yummy.
I use Maggie all the time, I used it to make fried rice, marinades, cook chicken with it it it soo good. Better that soy sauce to me!
I don't know how old this post is… but if you read this again… you can put some Maggi on eggs.
doesn't matter which way they are cooked.
fried is the best tho- with a dash of Maggi and buttered toast.
Renate Bob:
I was born in the former Danzig ,now Gdansk, and my mother always used Maggie for seasoning. It's interesting to me that people are now rediscovering it. It does taste very similar to sot sauce.
Very good on all beef, in marinades or when cooking. I just reduce my salt and Worchester. Ground beef and all cuts, roasts.
I grew up with Maggi Seasoning and I absolutely love it so much I couldn't live without a bottle of it in my cupboard at all times! I use it in cooking, have added mayo to it to make a salad dressing. But my most favourite way of having it is sprinkled straight onto salad by itself. I will gorge myself purely on a bowl of chopped up tomatoes, cucumbers or lettuce practically drenched in Maggi. I am addicted to the stuff!!
I love spinach salads. I mean LOVE LOVE LOVE. Very basic: baby spinach, chopped cucumbers, and halved cherry tomatoes with high-quality balsamic vinager and extra virgin olive oil. In the military, stationed in Germany, came across Maggi, and added a few dashes to my standard spinach salad. The depth of flavor it added was UH-MAZE-ING!!! Getting ready to leave Germany and move back to the States. On the interweb right now trying to see if I can find a local grocer or web store where I can order it. Can't wait to experiment with it in other recipes as well (standard addition to vegetable soup as well as my own homemade Micheladas, eggs, gravies, and everything else I can think of)!
I recently bought my first bottle of Maggi sauce, and I would like to know if it needs to be refrigerated after opening.
Christian Gessner:
@Christian Gessner And one on the dining table.
I use it in almost everything. I use it in rice, meat, in every veggi, I use it instead of salt.
I m searching for soy sauce and I purchased it as soy sauce through as kept with other soy sauce brand, is that both same or different ?
What's the shelf life of Maggi?
I always thought it would last indefinitely but just noticed a best before date on the bottle I've had for ages.
Thanks for your input 🙂
San juana Turner:
I had a beer in Texas which is called michelada. I found a recipe which called for maggi. Didn't find it anywhere but I will use soy sauce.
Abby Safer:
We use in with steak! It's good. Try it with London broil, skirt steak… Yum
The main ingredient in liquid seasoning is lovage, which is a plant that gives it the aroma, if you add the leaves into meals you can get the flavor without the sodium content.
I couldn't live without maggi my oma used it on spaghetti, rice and fries my English friends hadn't a clue what it was but I love it as I do the dubbel zout dropjes
Swedish chef:
Excellent in salads or just chop some cucumber and tomatoes and put some Würze on there. Live in Sweden but buy it in Germany every time I visit. I got hauled in to Swedish customs on the airport and they explained that they was used to people smuggling vodka but they have never ever seen so many bottles of Maggi
I recently had sautéed green beans and Maggi seasoning was added to the pan…they were the best green beans I've ever had! I tried making them with soy sauce and they did not have the same flavor. I'll be adding Maggi sauce to my regular seasoning list.
I live in the US and recently heard of Maggi's umami effect while listening to Lynn Rossetto Kapsers radio show "The Splendid Table" (from American Public Media) on my local NPR station.
I most recently used it in a very satisfying attempt to create a turkey/tofu bratwurst recipe. Just a few drops.
I was raised in Maggi sauce. It was relatively expensive 60+ years ago. So my mom would refill empty Maggi sauce bottle with cheap soya sauce for me. But Maggi sauce has such heavenly flavour that even a 4 year old can tell. I just didn't complain to my mom that she was trying to fool me.
I use Maggic sauce on everything like I am a Maggic-holic. I even deliberately cook meals a touch less tasteful so I can add Maggi sauce to my food. If my food turns out good already, I still put a bottle of Maggi sauce in front of me, just to be near it.
I am so glad that there is Maggi sauce in my life 'cause I may consider killing myself if Nescafe doesn't manufacture Maggi sauce one day. That is how much I love it, every single day in the last 64 years. But I think nowadays, they may not be made in Switzerland.
I just recently bought my first bottle of maggi , yay now I can join my dutch relatives, I just have. To know what to do with it.
Recently I bought the maggi sauce. I already used it in almost everything. And I would like to know if it needs to be refrigerated after opening. I am waiting for your response. Thanks
Hello Heather! Recently I bought the maggi sauce. I already used it in almost everything. And I would like to know if it needs to be refrigerated after opening. I am waiting for your response. Thanks
Maggi sauce is fairly common in Mexico, unlike its neighbor to the north. It's used in a variety of ways, including on potato chips.
Maggi is nothing but bogus garbage that gives me an msg headache. Its soy sauce, plain and simple, and is not to be confused as a substitute for Kitchen Bouquet, which I miss dearly for all my cooking needs. I live in Australia now (big mistake) but none the less, there are many things that are not out here as there are in America. They don't even have solid shortening here, as in Crisco in their supermarkets. You can actually buy a small can of it in the 'gourmet' section of one of their better department stores for about $15-US. Ridiculous.
Gezina ponsen:
I could not live without the real Maggi, "de enige echte" Maggi with I get in the Dutch shop, but there is also an Asian Maggi which tastes a more like Soy Sauce. Sprinkle on meats and in soups and over fried rice etc.
I always have a bottle of maggi in my cupboard, I use it for two things:-
1) bowl of mixed salad, tiny drizzle of oil, drizzle of vinegar & a good lashing of maggi, mid it through minutes before serving.
2) pressure cooker full of potatoes half filled with water, cook for 20-30 mins until
Potatoes are cooked but still firm, drain and allow to cool a bit before peeling. Dice an onion or two and soak in shallow vinegar. Slice potatoes and layer in a bowl every so often adding onions in vinegar a drizzle of oil and splashes of maggi, keep layering potato and repeat until all ingredients are in the bowl. I normally leave overnight, mixing occasionally. The it's ready to serve with salads and sandwiches etc. Excellent buffet food, filling and low fat.
It can be purchased through Amazon.com if you're having trouble finding it.
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i use maggi sauce on my eggs and on many different stir fry, as i am asian. on eggs, it is best if you only use a tiny bit and on top of a runny yolk. i actually prefer maggi over soy sauce because it has a milder flavor, and is cheaper. unless, i am at a sushi restaurant, i will also use it for sushi/sashimi. also, i can only find it at asian markets for some reason.
Greetings maggi lovers, and those new to the wonder. Maggi has been a part of my life for the last 50 years and still is and will be. I have never kept it in the fridge, nor observed the 'use by' date and dump it. It may depend on where you live so things like humidity and temperature may be a factor to help one decide where to store it. Remember the fridge is one of the driest places in your home. so keep it sealed if you store it there, otherwise it might evaporate. I even have a maggi plant in the garden as a herb for soups and stews etc, also known as 'lovage', and no wonder !!
Andrew Walaszek:
Maggi Würze (seasoning sauce) contains MSG Monosodium glutamate C5H8NO4Na. It is a flavor enhancer. Some people are sensitive to MSG.
I grew up in a Dutch immigrant household where Maggi was always available for our soup. My mom also used it when she made deviled eggs. I like to add it to my deviled eggs, too. When I was a little girl, I would take Maggi and put it on freshly sliced French bread and eat it – weird, but I thought it was yummy. I stumbled upon this site because I happened to see it as an ingredient in a local restaurant's Michelada recipe, so I was googling maggi and Micheladas and found this site. In any case, I would be that typical Dutchie (although born and raised in California) with Maggi in my kitchen cabinet.
George Johnson, Jr. Ph. D.:
I discovered Maggi in West Africa. When I barbecue meat I seasoned the meat with it as I cook it. Also, I use it on rice! I barbecued some pork meat in Cameroon using Maggi and they are still raving about it!
Greg Wassermann:
Yeah, I've got a bottle of Maggi in the back of my fridge. It's still almost full and has been there for ages.
I have it because an Asian friend said it was delicious. The only recipe I have that uses Maggi is a "World's Greatest Meatloaf Recipe!" I'll have to sniff around some more…
Anything you want to have a savory flavor or would put soy sauce, worcestershire sauce, or liquid smoke on, you can put wurze on, however I do love to use it in my homemade soups. My wife puts in in a skillet with butter to cook fresh asparagus and it is to die for.
Sarah Murphy:
I just found a photo copy of an old recipe calling for Maggi in Hamburger Steak, I believe it is an old Betty crocker book in the 30's.
This is what promted me to google it!
This is the European version of the USAs Kitchen Bouquet. Kitchen Bouquet was introduced over a decade earlier (1973?) in New Jersey. It is used primarily as a browning sauce. I use it as my mother did to darken foods like BBQ sauce, gravy, stews, and beans. Today it lends 'color' to microwave foods that look pale and unattractive. Brush it on chicken, micro fries or anything you want more color on. This is a savory sauce and to darken sweet items use ingredients like molasses, and tamarind paste. The deepened color along with the extra subtle flavors makes many foods more appetizing.
Wrong date on previous post… should be 1873 !!
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Currently seven points out of the final postseason spot with 10 games remaining on the regular-season schedule, we'll soon find out whether the New England Revolution can put together a spirited late-season charge and secure a place in the MLS Cup Playoffs for the ninth straight year. But while the Revolution's postseason fate is yet to be determined, one thing is guaranteed: Saturday night's clash against the Philadelphia Union will bring a playoff-like atmosphere to Gillette Stadium.
Following last week's disappointing road trip through Chicago and Kansas City – which included a 2-1 loss to the Fire and a 4-1 loss to the Wizards – the Revs (6-11-3, 21 pts.) now occupy sixth place in the Eastern Conference standings and 13th in the overall league table. The Union (4-11-5, 17 pts.), meanwhile, sits four points behind the Revolution and a daunting 11 points behind the Colorado Rapids (7-6-7, 28 pts.), the club which currently holds the eighth and final playoff spot.
Historical results have proven 40 points to be the approximate playoff barrier, although that figure tends to rise exponentially each season as the league continues to expand. For the Revs to reach the magical 40-point mark, they'll have to finish the season with a record of 6-3-1 or 5-1-4 in their 10 remaining games, at the very least. The situation is even more urgent for Philadelphia, which is second from bottom in the league table ahead of only D.C. United.
Considering the vital need for points, the Revolution must approach each game with a must-win mentality from now through the end of the season. With that type of outlook, each match takes on the relative importance of a playoff game.
"From here on out we have to get three points everywhere we go," said captain Shalrie Joseph, who has been involved in the postseason every year since he joined the Revs in 2003. "We've got to realize that our backs are against the wall and that we need three points to be one of those teams in the eight (playoff teams) at the end of the season. Going against Philadelphia, we know we've got to get three at home."
While the Revs will be searching for three points no matter the venue, their five remaining matches in Foxborough now take on extra significance. Five of the Revolution's six regular-season victories have come within the familiar confines of Gillette Stadium, and the club has gone just 1-8-1 away from home in league play. With difficult road games against Chivas USA, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, New York Red Bulls and Colorado still to come, the Revs will need to rack up as many points as possible at home.
At the same time, the Revolution must be careful not to think too far ahead. After all, the Revs can't make up the entire seven-point gap in one night.
"We need three points out of everything now, but one game at a time," said Pat Phelan. "We can't be looking ahead to SuperLiga or to the next (league) game after Philadelphia. (We'll take it) one game at a time and just focus on getting those three points."
Although the Revs find themselves in a tenuous position entering the last third of the regular season, in a way they do have history on their side. On more than one occasion in recent years the Revolution has entered the stretch run of the schedule needing to scrape together results to secure a postseason berth. Just last season the Revs traveled to Columbus on the final weekend needing not only at least a draw against the Crew, but also for a string of other results to fall in their favor to pave the way to the playoffs. Of course, the other results unfolded perfectly and the Revolution claimed a critical 1-0 win over the Crew to head to the Eastern Conference semifinals.
"It's not ideal by any measure, but we know we can do it," said Phelan. "I think we have the mentality for it and I think we have the players who can pull those types of performances out. I think we've shown that the last couple of years. That's the situation we're in now, so we just have to take it for what it is, and like I said, one game at a time and grind out some points."
Head coach Steve Nicol has guided the Revs into the playoffs each year since taking charge of the club midway through the 2002 season, so it's safe to say he knows a thing or two about what it takes to succeed in this league. While he fully understands the current postseason situation and agrees the Revs need to approach each game with a must-win mentality, Nicol believes they've been doing just that since the season began in March.
"We do that with every game anyway," he said when asked if each game was now a must win. "We don't want to say every time we step on the field it's a must win – we want to go and win games anyway. We set our stall out every time we step on the field to win the game and that's the kind of mentality that we're going to take into the next 10 games."


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WASHINGTON — As President Obama looks to show off all he can do without Congress, he's been pointing to a surprising place for guidance on the savvy use of power: the other side of the White House.
In public and private, the president has been holding up Michelle Obama's initiatives in the East Wing as a template for how the West Wing could accomplish a policy agenda the non-legislative way. He has called his wife's team a model for what's possible, and, in his State of the Union address last week, he said, "As usual, our first lady sets a good example."
The first lady's "Let's Move" campaign has reduced childhood obesity for the first time in three decades, Obama asserted in his prime-time speech to Congress and the nation. Her "Joining Forces" effort has led companies to hire or train nearly 400,000 veterans and their spouses, he said. And her successes have come without help from the lawmakers on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
On college opportunities, long-term unemployment and other policy goals, the president promised to take "a page from that playbook" as he described his plans for a "year of action" in the face of Capitol Hill's inaction.
It's easy to see why Obama would want to link his new executive action push to his wife's work. While his approval rating has plunged and his domestic agenda appears stuck, the first lady has remained popular, powerful — and largely out of the squabbles that consume Washington. Her "Let's Move" campaign to encourage children to exercise more and eat right is one of the administration's best-known public policy efforts.
Still, the idea that the nation's most powerful political office could take a lead from an office with almost no prescribed power was a notable moment in the White House's evolving strategy on using its influence. Obama has often struggled to wield soft power in Washington, where lawmakers have been largely immune to his persuasion and his attempts to use the bully pulpit have often failed.
This fresh focus on convening interest groups to tackle an issue — part of a host of planned executive actions — was for some an example of an ethos that pervades a White House run by a former community organizer. Others saw it as a reminder of the diminished powers of the presidency.
"In order to lead, he's bringing all the tools he has to try to effect change," said James Thurber, a presidential historian at American University. But whatever change can be accomplished through voluntary initiatives, he continued, "it's usually not permanent. It's more symbolic than real. And that is a problem for a modern-day president."
The West Wing's elevation of the East Wing strategy was on display Friday as the president gathered 21 corporate executives at the White House to discuss long-term unemployment. The president has failed for months to persuade Congress to pass an extension of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, which expired at the end of last year for more than a million people.
The meeting of influential stakeholders was at a venue few could refuse. The price of entry was a pledge not to discriminate against job seekers long out of work and to review hiring practices that might unfairly weed out such applicants.
Gene Sperling, Obama's chief economic advisor, led the long-term unemployment initiative. He said he'd consulted for months with executives. He emailed and called many — including News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, an Obama critic — to ask them to sign the pledge.
The tactic, Sperling said, was to take a "positive approach," focusing on what businesses could do better. "It is not an admission in doing anything wrong in the past," he said.
More than 300 companies have signed on, including Apple, Bank of America, Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, McDonald's and News Corp.
Working with companies, nonprofit groups and advocates is hardly a new approach for a president, but the willingness to reward companies with high-profile praise and the emphasis on voluntary commitments struck some as a new twist.
President Clinton's White House turned to similar "micro-strategies" to advance ideas and goose Congress, particularly after his party lost the House in 1994, but they didn't include an "ask" from the White House, said Mark Gearan, a former Clinton deputy chief of staff.
Gearan, now president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y., was on the receiving end of such a request last year when he participated in a White House effort to address inequality in higher education.
More than 100 colleges and universities pledged to find ways to make college more accessible to low-income students. Hobart and William Smith Colleges vowed to work with local public schools to get students ready for college, among other efforts. Other institutions committed to increase financial aid, partner with foundations to work on college readiness and expand scholarship programs for first-generation college students.
Top administration officials, including Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's closest advisors, asked colleges what was possible and offered suggestions and guidelines for pledges, but generally left the options open. The White House reviewed the pledges and presented them to the media and other college officials.
"I think it was a rather savvy blending of the convening authority, the bully pulpit and the opportunity to gain something concrete," Gearan said.
"Let's Move" solicits pledges from food companies, restaurants and day care centers aimed at improving food choices for children or encouraging exercise. In return, Michelle Obama often showers praise on participants — sometimes rewarding them with a visit — high-value publicity for any company. Last month, from a Subway sandwich shop in Washington, she heralded the chain's promise to market only healthful food to children and include more nutritious options on its kids' menu.
Over the years, the approach has garnered criticism from some health advocates as being too soft on business and providing cover for companies with unhealthful products. White House officials argue that in their partnerships they prod companies in the right direction.
"We're asking them to do something that is in their interest to do, in the end. But what we're creating is a platform for them to do it which will be visible," said Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.
West Wing officials note that, despite the high-profile — and deserved, they say — shout-out to their East Wing colleagues, the sort of initiatives now getting attention are a signature of the Obama White House, which started the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation to create partnerships with nonprofit groups, local governments, advocacy groups and companies.
"A lot of our colleagues in the West Wing and East Wing started out as organizers and think from an organizer's mentality. Since the beginning, we've been trying to identify big goals that move the needle in ways that engage people," Munoz said.
What the White House says is "moving the needle" some call "small ball" and a distraction from more substantial and permanent change that could be accomplished with legislation. Despite the attention on these initiatives, follow-up and accountability can be difficult to track.
"Let's Move" has an affiliated nonprofit group that monitors its pledges, but the promises made by colleges to help low-income students and by businesses to hire the long-term unemployed have no enforcement mechanism.
Still, White House officials say, they're being more aggressive in rounding up allies than presidents were in the past. Sperling, a former Clinton official, suggested a better comparison might be to a different office, one with only symbolic power: former president.
"Interestingly enough," he said, "I think this may be somewhat more similar to some of the efforts President Clinton has done in his post-presidency."


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Novak electronics shutdown last year, very sad for a company that's been around for many decades.
SpeedPassion otoh... dunno what's up with them, haven't made anything new for 2-3yrs and last Xmas their website went offline - so it's anybody's guess. Sad as their website had the software & firmware for their ESCs.
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Alexandria, VA – February 15, 2010 – The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) today announced that Dr. Amy Townsend-Small of University of California – Irvine (UC – Irvine) acknowledged a computation error of carbon used to maintain turf in the recently released UC-Irvine study published January 19, 2010, titled "Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Urban Turf." With the error corrected, ornamental grass is in fact shown to be a net sequester of carbon even when inputs are accounted for in grass maintenance. The correction has been submitted to the American Geophysical Union (AGU) who published the paper. Upon [.....]
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We work with a variety of different clients, from startups, to software companies, to fortune 500 corporations to
help turn their ideas into simple, clean and functional products.
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Soapopular needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 109 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
Eco Plus by Soapopular
Visit our website: http://www.soapopular.com
We currently carry alcohol free hand sanitizers and antibacterial hand soap for distribution in retail as well as in bulk to institutions like governments and school boards.
We are launching a new environmentally friendly line of cleaning products and are looking for a single LABEL that will be used for these products.
The target audience is a retail audience (grocery store, supermarket etc.).
The winning LABEL design will be featured on the bottles of our new line of household cleaning products (glass cleaner, kitchen cleaner, washroom cleaner, toilet bowl cleaner etc.). We are looking for a concept with an environmental/green theme. Here are some links for inspriation: http://www.greenworkscleaners.com/products http://www.sunlightlaundry.ca/en/products.aspx
Please feel free to look around for other ideas.
Pretend that the label is an all purpose cleaner, 950ml. The label is about 4 inches x 4 1/2 inches. Please include our Soapopular logo in the design (see attached).
WE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR A SOAPOPULAR LOGO - we are looking for a label that will go on a cleaning product bottle (see examples below detail_dishsoap and detail_allpurpose_cleaner).


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Packed grandstands at Silverstone witnessed history as Audi claimed the Manufacturer's title in the inaugural FIA World Endurance Championship after finishing first and third at the six-hour race.
The driving team of Andre Lotterer, Marcel Fässler and Benoit Tréluyer in the #1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro followed up their earlier victory at the 24 Heures du Mans but had to fight hard to the checkered flag with the Toyota Racing TS030 of Alex Wurz, Kazuki Nakajima and Nicolas Lapierre. The Audi gained an advantage because it only required six pit stops, compared to eight for the Toyota hybrid. The win came despite a stop-and-go penalty after Benoît Tréluyer was involved in an early accident with a GT car. Although they lost 32sec as a result, the team still finished 55sec ahead. The #2 Audi R18 Ultra (non-hybrid V6 TDI) of Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen was third after a slow puncture forced the team to make an unscheduled pitstop during the race. They finished 19sec behind the second place Toyota.
While Audi clinched the manufacturer's title just four races in the eight-race series, the drivers' championship heated up following a change of leaders: after their second win Fässler/Lotterer/Tréluyer head the standings for the first time this season, with a narrow 4.5 point lead over former leaders Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish.
The #13 Rebellion Racing Lola-Toyota of Andrea Belicchi and Harold Primat took the top honors in the LMP1 Privateer Class, but were nearly beaten to the flag by the #21 Strakka Racing HPD-Honda of Danny Watts, who closed the gap to just 0.627sec as they crossed the line.
Silverstone based ADR-Delta took the LMP2 category in the #25 Oreca-Nissan driven by John Martin, Tor Graves and Jan Charouz. They wereonly just 5.6sec ahead of Le Mans and Sebring winners Enzo Potolicchio, Ryan Dalziel and Stephane Sarrazin in the #44 Starworks Motorsports HPD-Honda.
The series now moves on to the 6 Hours of Sao Paolo at Interlagos circuit, Brazil.
Silverstone race results
1. Fässler/Lotterer/Tréluyer (Audi R18 e-tron quattro), 194 laps
2. Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima (Toyota) +55.675s
3. Kristensen/McNish (Audi R18 ultra) +1m 14.427s
4. Belicchi/Primat (Lola-Toyota) -5 laps
5. Leventis/Watts/Kane (HPD-Honda) -5 laps
6. Prost/Jani (Lola-Toyota) -5 laps
7. Brabham/Chandhok/Dumbreck (HPD-Honda) -7 laps
8. Martin/Charouz/Graves (Oreca-Nissan) -11 laps
9. Potolicchio/Dalziel/Sarrazin (HPD-Honda) -11 laps
10. Panciatici/Ragues/Rusinov (Oreca-Nissan) -11 laps


text: Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills plays with his daughter Chloe in his boyhood home in Vassar, Mich., Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. Mills was visiting his hometown for the first time since losing all four limbs while fighting in Afghanistan. Mills, his wife, Kelsey, and their 1-year-old daughter, Chloe, were to be the grand marshals of Vassar High School's homecoming parade.


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Dandelion Dead Classic TV Show
Period drama written by Michael Chaplin. A sumptuous re-creation of a true English murder story of the 1920's, set in Welsh Border country, rich in intrigue and black humour.
Dandelion Dead Fan Tributes7 marian from littlewood: Saw it for the first time ever missed about an hour due to visitors must see again very good Micheal Kitchen he's great actor
6 robin lowther from england: Saw it for the first time today just by chance, while looking for something worth while on the TV. I had no expectations at all but found myself glued to it throughout. So well acted by all in it, but I must say that Michael Kitchen was amazing as the Major.
5 Linda Mitchell from Aberdeen: I absolutely love this drama, have seen it many times and never tire of it, the photography, costumes and atmosphere of the programme are excellent all the actors are excellent in their roles. Has made me very interested in the case and particularly commend Michael Kitchen for his portrayal of the Major.
4 Joan Hammond from London, England: Best bit for me was David Thewlis making shy-boy attempts to pursue his first date!
3 Mrs Tracey Jane Donnelly from Glasgow: The Christmas scene in episode four,was very poignant. The last Christmas those poor children were to have with either parent. A wonderful drama, Michael Kitchen is excellent. Hight time this could be purchased on dvd and vhs.
2 P.Gath from I.o.W.: This is a very good play, my wife & I watch it whenever it is on. What makes it watchable to us is that Phillips was a relative of my wifes father.
1 Aurangzaib from Peshawar, Pakistan: I think Dandelion Dead is a modern classic. All the stars of the drama especially Micheal Kitchen should be declared as national assets, so spectacular are their performances.
Dandelion Dead
Genre: Drama
Year: 1993
Michael Kitchen as Major Herbert Armstrong
Sarah Miles as Katherine Armstrong
David Thewlis as Oswald Martin
Lesley Sharp as Connie Davies
Peter Vaughn as Tom Hicks
Diana Quick as Marion Glassford-Gale
Bernard Hepton as Davies
Robert Stephens as Vaughan
Chloe Tucker as Eleanor
Alexandra Milman as Margaret
Joseph Steel as Pearson
Lucy Jenkins as Inez
Roger Lloyd Pack as Phillips
Patrick Godfrey as Griffiths
Rhoda Lewis as Mrs Davies
Sam Cox as Vicar
Jack Walters as Wilks
Christine Pollon as Pearce
Paul Brooke as Arthur
Amanda Walker as Bessie
Roger Lloyd Pack is best known as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses.
Sarah Miles was nominated for an Oscar in 1971 for her role in Ryan's Daughter.
David Thewlis won the 1993 best actor award at Cannes for Naked.
Lesley Sharp was nominated for a BAFTA award for her role in The Full Monty.
Norman Vaughn was nominated for a BAFTA award for his role in Our Friends in the North.
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Monday Blues.... it is the "ahhhhh no" day for me.
I just had the two most glorious days.. Saturday and Sunday... spending the whole day with my son and hubby... doing what ever I like... lazying on bed for as long as I need....
Now I should be back to work, get up early in the morning... prepare breakfast and pack boxes for both my men. Back to cleaning, cooking, washing :-)
So to overcome my Monday blues, I start my day listening to good music. I love listening to Rafi. My favorite songs are "Chaudavin Ka Chand Ho" and "Baharon Phool Barsaao" sung by him, such a wonderful songs with wonderful lyrics .... can a day start better than this!!
Thinking about delicious and comforting food also helps in dealing with Monday blues in my case :-)
Usually on Mondays I cook which is very easy, which takes very less time and effort.
The recipe I am sharing with you is one such dish which is simple yet delicious and goes well with Roti or Steamed rice.
What you need:
Cauliflower : 1, big and firm, cut into bite sized florets
Peas : 1 cup (I used frozen)
Salt : to taste
Chilli powder : 1 tsp (you can add more or less acc. to your taste)
Coriander leaves : a handful, chopped
Onion : 1, thinly sliced
Ginger : 1 inch piece, finely chopped
Curry leaves : a few
Turmeric : 1 tsp
Mustard seeds: 1tsp
Jeera : 1 tsp
Oil : 3 or 4 Tbsp
Dry roast and grind:
Coriander seeds (Dhaniya) : 1 1/2 Tbsp
Fennel Seeds (Saunf) : 1 1/2 Tbsp
Jeera : 1/2 Tbsp
- Add oil in a large pan. After it is hot, add mustard seeds and jeera.
- After the mustard seeds splutter, add curry leaves, chopped ginger and sliced onions and turmeric.
- Fry for a min or two, and add the ground masala powder.
- Fry for few mins, and add cauliflower and peas.
- Mix, and add salt and red chilli powder.
- Mix well. Cover and cook for 10 minutes on low heat.
- Remove the lid, increase the heat to high, and saute for few more minutes till the moisture disappears.
- Adjust salt. Add the coriander leaves.
- Serve with Roti or Steamed rice.
Mom's Tips:
You can also make this as a gravy, by adding a tomato paste or by adding cashew paste.
For extra crunchiness, you can add some peanuts.
Happy Cooking and Have a Fabulous Monday!!!
Let me know how you deal with Monday Blues.


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