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2009 Conversations
2008 Conversations
2007 Conversations
Roundtable: Reed, Davis, Sandoz
Jimmy Blackwood
Jonny Lang
Dick Eastman
Darrin Rodgers
Gerry Hindy
Ralph Carmichael
Charles Crabtree
Matthew Ward
B.J. Thomas
Roundtable: Lewis, Goerzen, Bryant
Howard Dayton
Tom Clegg
Eric and Leslie Ludy
Lisa Whelchel
Thomas E. Trask
Chonda Pierce
Dean Merrill
Linda Holley
Gen. Leo Brooks
John Smoltz
Alton Garrison
Doug Britton
Jim Coy
Janet Parshall
Jack Murphy
Steve Saint
Bruce Marchiano
John W. Whitehead
Scott McChrystal
Chris Neau
Karen Kingsbury
Flynn Atkins
Tommy Nelson
Corey Simon
Steven Curtis Chapman
Byron Klaus
Gary Denbow
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2004 Conversations
Conversation roundtable
Reaching America's communities is every church's responsibility
Pastor Scott Reed of First Assembly of God in Mountainburg, Ark., believes churches are the lifelines of America's rural communities. Pastor Maury Davis of Cornerstone Church in Madison, Tenn., near Nashville, shares that passion for America's cities. District Superintendent Dwight Sandoz of Nebraska is calling on AG churches across that state to identify and meet the needs around them. Reed, Davis and Sandoz talked recently with Scott Harrup, senior associate editor.
tpe: Do you have a central focus for community outreach?
REED: We have a monthly outreach plan to help meet different needs around us. This month, for example, we baked cookies and took them to schools. Then we identified children and teenagers who wouldn't have a Christmas and our church family supplied them with gifts. Last month we prepared food boxes at Thanksgiving. In general, we try to give our people a monthly focus. Sometimes that grows into a multimonth project.
SANDOZ: Several years ago we started our REACH Nebraska emphasis to give our pastors a framework for outreach. REACH stands for "Revitalize, Equip, Assess, Coach and Harvest." Each part of the plan focuses first on our pastors and churches. We want to plant new churches and revitalize existing churches. But these churches in turn get a passion for their communities.
DAVIS: We've just concluded a 10-year project to meet needs in Kenya. We've identified 2007 as a year of dedicated outreach to the greater Nashville area. We'll bring the resources we've been directing toward Kenya and focus them on Nashville throughout the year. Our goal is to give every person in Nashville a personal invitation to church and provide a personal witness for Christ.
tpe: Could you describe how a personal witness for Christ can be expressed through practical ministry?
DAVIS: We're going to knock on every door in Madison during two weekends in March, inviting people to church. But during that time we will be identifying seven to 10 homes that need to be made over. In June we're planning a "Madison Makeover" of those homes. We'll be mowing their yards, fixing roofs, painting walls, washing and repairing the homes inside and out.
REED: One of our monthly projects this year has become a real witness to our community. We began Garret's Project in the spring for a young man with muscular dystrophy. Our youth pastor, Marty Cluck, brought this need to our attention. Garret graduated from Mountainburg High School. We've done a complete home makeover for him — new roof, new windows, new doors, a concrete driveway, wheelchair access, kitchen cabinets, landscaping, vinyl siding, the whole deal.
SANDOZ: A number of our churches are focusing on the needs of the growing Hispanic community in our state. They offer basic life skills classes, English tutoring, some basic medical services. It's essential our churches remain outward focused.
tpe: What do you say to the pastor who believes his or her church is too small to do anything meaningful in their community?
REED: When I came to Mountainburg 10 years ago, we had $700 in the church checking account. Even though our finances were small we determined right away we would take a step of faith and reach the community. Community outreach has been a primary source of our growth. In a recent Sunday/Monday family revival, we had 484 people come to First Assembly. Our population is only 682 officially. We had 85 people respond to Christ. A lot of those people heard about us through our "small" monthly projects.
Garret's Project started out as just doing some yard work and painting. But everyone got on board. You have to take a step of faith. Money follows generosity. Blessings follow ministry. You step out on faith. You find a need and you meet it.
DAVIS: Years ago when we were running about 240 on Sunday morning, we had a telephone drive. We personally phoned 20,000 homes. We found 2,000 people who were interested in Cornerstone Church. We ended up with 179 visitors, and 79 of those people are still with us 14 years later.
You don't focus on how small your congregation is. You focus on how many people your congregation can reach. When you make 20,000 phone calls, you have effectively touched a community. Now we recognize new members every three months — often 150 at a time.
SANDOZ: I believe all ministry of lasting value has a local church connection. Without the local church, no ministry has long life because it has to be where people are. It has to have continuation in a local community. And that's true, regardless of the church's size.
tpe: Many pastors see local schools as a vital mission field. How are you reaching out to schools?
DAVIS: We're making our sanctuary available free of charge to any local high school that wants to hold its graduation there. We normally rent the sanctuary for $5,000-$7,000, depending on the media amenities required. We're going to shoot video of the graduations and give a DVD to each parent. I'll be greeting those families personally on the video.
REED: Arkansas has the third-largest population of food-insecure families in the nation. There were kids getting in trouble in the lunchroom because they were trying to steal food. When we heard about that we began a backpack program. On Friday, our volunteers fill backpacks with food for children of all ages to take home and help their families make it until Monday. It's one of the most meaningful outreaches we have. I still get emotional talking about it.
And we stay focused on schools through the year. When the kids go back to school in August we offer free haircuts and new backpacks. In September we have a family revival at church and a school assembly program tied in with that. And we're promoting a Bible club through Youth Alive and Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
tpe: How can churches keep both world missions and local outreach in focus?
REED: Our fall missions convention features U.S. and world missions on consecutive weeks. If we don't reach America, we're not going to reach the world. It all starts here. Reach Mountainburg, reach America, reach the world.
It's all about people. We have always tried to love and care for people. I emphasize three themes for our small group leaders to pursue: deeper in Christ, deeper with each other and deeper in the community. That's how the lost are reached, whether that's in Mountainburg or the world.
SANDOZ: I'm convinced all pastors should be missionaries in their approach to ministry. The church should see itself on a mission. If we do that, we become outward-focused. The challenge is that historically the older a church is, the less outward-focused it is and the more it looks toward its own programs. As a church ages it must continually work to keep the focus outward.
DAVIS: Cornerstone Church has a very unique but distinct missions vision. Missions Pastor Jeff Gregory has been organizing and facilitating teams to build churches in Kenya. Our goal has been to build a church within walking distance of every Kenyan. Pastor Jeff not only takes missions teams from Cornerstone, but he also takes other teams from other churches to help build churches in Kenya. After constructing the churches, Cornerstone finds and places pastors in the newly built church. That's been a wonderful ministry for the past 10 years.
But we're just as focused on Nashville for 2007. We're adding to our regular television program a billboard campaign, six mailing campaigns and a TV and radio commercial campaign. We're increasing our media to include a local television show on Fox and CBS, news coverage and talk show relationships, as well as buying advertising on all the major networks and cable outlets for one year. The mailing campaign will total about 250,000 specifically designed mailers.
The purpose of Pentecost is to be a witness. We have got to get every Assemblies of God pastor to mobilize every Assemblies of God person and put them in a field that is white for harvest.
tpe: How would you summarize your long-term vision?
SANDOZ: About half of Nebraskans surveyed say they don't go to church. We call them "functionally unchurched." They might go on Easter or Christmas, but they really don't have a faithful relationship with the church.
We have a goal to bring 10 percent of the unreached of Nebraska into our churches, or about 5 percent of the state population. That would represent five-fold growth for the Assemblies of God in this state. And for that to happen, we need to see church multiplication among the large as well as the small churches. Our goals include everything from two churches of 5,000 down to 62 churches of 75.
REED: Jesus was once asked, "What is the central, most important command of God?" Jesus said it was to love God with all your heart and love other people as you love yourself. When you boil everything down, it boils down to relationships.
When people ask me how our church has grown in such a small community, I tell them, "You build relationships." Our goal is to mobilize our congregation so they are equipped to reach others and make disciples.
DAVIS: I go back to Jesus' statement about those fields white for harvest. I was driving with my 11-year-old son to a men's retreat awhile back. On the right side of the road was a large cotton field.
I spent 8½ years of my life in prison. That's where I got saved. And I picked cotton.
"Dillon," I said to my son, "that's a cotton field."
"Wow," he said, "it's all white, Dad."
I pulled over. We went out and picked a few bolls of cotton so he'd know what it felt like in his hand.
"You know," I told him, "every day when I was in prison I had to pick 400 pounds of that before I could quit."
A lot of times that was 10 to 12 hours of work before that guard would let me go to bed. And sometimes I wonder if God is as intentional about us getting out there every day among those fields of souls. And I wonder if we're as intentional about getting to the end of the day and getting our quota.
I put some cotton in a bag for Dillon and said, "I want you to remember this. That's what we're called to be doing for people. Getting them off of the vine and into the bag."
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And Guildwars, Two.
by covert.c. on Jul.18, 2010, under computer graphics, games design, mmorpg, rpg
Oh Guildwars, how you disappointed.
There were so many good things about it, most notably the visuals, but also the interesting quests, fun combat, an innovative henchman system, cool spell-effects and general polish. For the time, all of these virtues seemed great when held up to WoW's cartoony, cutesy style.
So what was the problem?
Well, it comes down to this. When I explore a world I kinda want a world in my world. And this was GW's biggest problem. Everything was an instance. Everything. Locations, quests, exploration, PVP, bossfights, all of it. Yes, all of that was clearly intentional. But precisely the opposite of what I want in a "Massively" multiplayer online RPG. This design decision obviously gave developer ArenaNet cost-savings. It solved continuity problems within a world of shared play, which was a common criticism levelled at the popular MMORPGs of the time. But without a contiguous world to explore, filled with people and places and surprises, it just felt terribly lonely.
And that was it. Constant loading screens and player hubs were simply not what I was looking for in my life. I moved on.
And so, it would seem, has ArenaNet.
I recently happened upon something or other mentioning something or other about Guildwars Two. I remember supressing a yawn. My interest in anything Guildwarsish would be coloured by my original disappointment. But nonetheless, I had a look. And within a short while, discovered something shocking, interesting.
Guildwars Two looks like it's an actual MMORPG!
Excited so far? Well, I'll keep goin'. Not only does it look like an honest-to-goodness world, but that world looks freakin' awesome! Watch this vid for proof :
Aside from the clever blending of ArenaNet's always-gorgeous concept art into a flythrough trailer, some of the key points from the developer blogs yield these tidbits…
- GW2 is a persistent world
- Will incorporate event-based public adventures
- Implements true 3D environments and physics
- And… the elimination of the stale healer-tank-dps silliness
From these points alone, together with the conceptual feel of the original, doesn't it sound better? Doesn't it sound like the game they should have made in the first place? Hindsight aside, I'm all tingly about it. Guildwars had a lot going for it, but it's great to see they're looking to address its predecessor's main failings. Mix that into a game with some intelligence and innovation, and it sounds like win. I'm hopeful.
Follow 'em on FB, I did.

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As a wave of protests against government corruption and misrule rolls from country to country, nervous autocrats are using the same formula to crush dissent.
From Russia, to Ukraine, to Venezuela, to Egypt, and beyond, there are copycat crackdowns: Arrest opposition leaders on absurd charges, hold show trials, beat – or sometimes shoot – protesters, and silence media that challenge the government's message. Then blame a foreign conspiracy for all that has gone wrong.
This formula kept many dictators in power in the 20th century. It is outdated in this one.
To understand why, let's look at the shameful trial last week of three respected journalists in Cairo.
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Australian Peter Greste and two colleagues who work for the al-Jazeera English TV channel were charged Thursday with undermining Egypt's national security as they stood inside metal cages in a Cairo courtroom. The three were hauled out of their studio in Cairo's upscale Marriott Hotel in December, and have been held since, two of them in cold, insect-infested cells without access to needed medical treatment.
All three, including Egyptian Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed, are highly respected journalists. Their real "crime" appears to have been that they worked for al-Jazeera, a broadcast network owned by Qatar. That Gulf emirate backs the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group that dominated Egypt's electoral politics until the army ousted the president last summer.
However, al-Jazeera's English-language service – unlike the Arabic service – is widely considered to be a credible, independent broadcast network. "We had been doing exactly as any responsible, professional journalist would," wrote Greste in a letter smuggled from prison, "recording and trying to make sense of the unfolding events with all the accuracy, fairness and balance that our imperfect trade demands."
In its questionable effort to brand the Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist organization," Egyptian officials seem intent on squelching any public discussion of how to heal a deeply divided society. Nor is it permissible to write about grave human-rights violations, such as the fatal shooting last summer of hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators at the Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque.
In the Egyptian version of "you are either with us or against us," even raising these subjects can mean arrest for treason. State-controlled television vilifies any government critics as traitors, and has branded the three arrested men "the Marriott cell" and run leaked footage of their arrest, accompanied by heavy music befitting a spy thriller. A Dutch journalist was named as a suspect – because she had met and talked with journalist Fahmy. She had to flee the country. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 60 journalists have been detained in Egypt since July.
A highly respected academic, the American University of Cairo's Emad Shahin, was roped into a treason trial of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, apparently because he has written and spoken about the need for political dialogue between Islamic and secular segments of society. This is vital in order to stabilize the country, given that the Brotherhood, despite its flaws, still has a substantial base of supporters. Never mind that efforts to erase it may drive some of its youth into the arms of the real terrorists, salafi groups that have taken root in Northern Sinai.
Never mind that arresting journalists and moderate critics (even liberal leaders of the Tahrir revolution) will boomerang.
That is already happening in Egypt. The hate speech pouring out of official media has further polarized the country and increased instability, without curbing terrorism. That, in turn, will make it harder for the president-in-waiting, Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to restart Egypt's moribund economy and provide jobs for its youth.
Gulf states may bail Egypt out in the short term, but in the long term, the country needs foreign investment, and tourists, to flourish. A xenophobic, bitterly divided country is not an attractive climate for either.
And officials who are frantic to control all information can lose touch with reality. This, even as the younger Internet generation manages to access information that the regime seeks to repress.
Case in point: Last month, prosecutors investigated an allegation that a babbling hand puppet in a TV ad for Vodaphone was sending coded instructions to Islamist terrorists. Officials from Vodafone Egypt were actually summoned to respond.
Tweeters and bloggers went wild with film clips of the chattering puppet. One English-language tweet by a Mohamed Abdul Fattah: "The Onion is shutting down their website citing unbeatable competition from the Egyptian government."
What's happening in Cairo should serve as a warning to other autocrats who use a similar formula for repression: A government that muzzles the media and shuts down dissent is setting itself up for future failure – or even farce – as the world and its young people look on.


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How in Mor's good nameone hundred fifty four postsNo Rachel Weisz picSelam
No. 3 (Although I'm hoping a leather bound version will be on offer)I can't believe we're at the stage of choosing covers! Is it getting close, or is this just a ploy to keep us interested for another 12 months? Anyone have any inside information?
(Although I'm hoping a leather bound version will be on offer)
Is there any chance the major bookstores will stock it, i.e. B & N and Borders?
Um...I don't think the Gospels are supposed to be bound up in the skins of dead animals. Correct me if I'm wrong...this was mentioned...somewhere in the past...by...someone...as a criticism of the leatherbound versions of the NT/Psalms (I know, I know, lots of help...)
Brother David aka Pedro,I'm sure that the leather issue only applies to actual liturgical used books...james
Is it time for a sip of Patron my brother ?
Maybe they'll make a pleather bound edition specifically for you.
I can't believe we're at the stage of choosing covers! Is it getting close, or is this just a ploy to keep us interested for another 12 months?
BTW, what's the deal with some Orthodox attacking the OSB? I visited a site called True Orthodoxy.com (PM me it that's wrong), and they had quite a lot to say about the OSB's notes. Is True Orthodoxy schismatic?Gabriel
I think you might be referring to the Orthodox Christian Information Center (www.orthodoxinfo.com), which bills itself as the web site for "True Orthodoxy"
Thank you PtA, Another member PM'd me the site I was referring to (thanks again! ) www.trueorthodoxy.info The article was written by Bishop Gregory of the Genuine Orthodox Church of America. Their site is www.gocamerica.org I'm most interested to learn more about this group.... Gabriel
It's been "almost finished" for so long that I admit I'm still a bit skeptical. When my parish can purchase them, I'll believe (but then, my parish is named for St. Thomas). I liked the green cover best myself, but I can't say I disliked any of them.
Y, our parish just received the Christmas catalog from Conciliar Press indicating that the OSB would be available in February and that we could pre-order now for a discount (offer open until December 15). Today alone, we had enough orders for more than a case; it seems there's a fair bit of demand out there for it!
Right here. The second page has an order form for the OSBs.
You're welcome.Call me whatever you like. I chose the name because I was certain it was unique, not easy to spell.
I like the first one the best, but I think the third one would appeal to evangelical shoppers at the bereans book store.
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Andres Iglesias Marujo
Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Prior Education:
Bachelor of Laws, Class of 2010, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Sao Paulo
What I Did Before Law School:
Corporate and M&A associate at Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados
Why I Chose Penn Law:
I chose Penn Law for its preeminence as an Ivy League school and also to take advantage of the dual degree offered with Wharton.
My Best Experience at Penn Law:
Honestly, several enjoyable happy hours, dinners, pubs, lunches, trips. I will definitely walk out from Penn Law with a very strong sense of friendship and community. I have very much enjoyed my time here and I have mainly my fellow LLMs, J.D.s and professors to thank for that.
Professor Who Influenced Me Most:
Professor Michael Wachter, for introducing me to the Socratic Method.
My Favorite Course:
Cross Border M&A, with Professor George Casey. Taught as a seminar, this course covers a lot of stimulating and noteworthy material for US and non US lawyers, as well as provides interesting pointers for practicing attorneys.
My Favorite Philadelphia Moment:
Walking three blocks to a Joshua Redman/Brad Mehldau concert held at the Annenberg Center. I found Philadelphia to be the perfect city for an LLM, combining the metropolitan environment with an unbelievably beautiful university campus.
What I'm Most Proud Of:
Being accepted in such a prestigious university such as Penn. Never had so many congratulations in one day.
My Extracurricular Activities at Penn Law:
JD/MBA Club
LLM Soccer Club
My Favorite Place or Activity on the University Campus:
Definitely Penn field, either for the soccer fields or tennis courts. Very good for picnics too.


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Once the Ultimatum Wave has finished its tear, the Ultimate Universe as we know it will cease to exist. Marvel's Joe Quesada explains what's next for Ultimates and announces a new pair of Halo series.
The major announcements at the Cup o' Joe panel, when Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada answers fan questions, deal with Marvel's Ultimate Universe. When Ultimatum comes to a close, Marvel will be ending the Ultimate Marvel line and has announced one-shot Requiem books for Ultimate X-Men, written by Heroes' Aron Coleite, Ultimate Final Four, written by Heroes' Joe Pokaski, and a two-part Requiem story for Ultimate Spider-Man, written by Brian Bendis. Look for the first Ultimate Spider-Man Requiem in May, and the final three Requiem books in June.
Ultimate fans need not despair, though. Quesada announced that the Ultimate stories will continue in Ultimate Comics, a new line to be launched in July. Brian Bendis is on Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, with art by David LaFuente. Bendis promises that the series will trace the events following Ultimatum and, though it won't be a reboot, it does feature a new cast of characters, and we may see someone new in the Spidey suit.
Also on deck for Marvel is pair of limited run series based on Halo the video game franchise about cybernetic soldiers battling a theocratic alien empire. The panel revealed few details about the series, but announced that the first five-issue series, written by Peter David with art by Eric Nguyen, will launch this summer, and the second series Halo: Spartan Black launches this winter, written by Fred Van Lente with art by Francis Portela.


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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Saffron buns with marzipan and almonds
These were immensely popular with our kids as well. The photo is from December 2011, when our son, Aksel, was 11 months old. Look at those cheeks!
It's Saint Lucia's Day today, the festival of light, which is especially popular in Sweden. Trust me, it's pit dark outside by 4 pm, so we need any extra light we can get here up North, even if it's in the form of candles on top of a lingonberry branch wreath balanced precariously on some little girls head :)) It's common to eat saffron buns - lussekatter - on Lucia's Day - ideally, first thing in the morning with your breakfast coffee or tea, but these are also wonderful in the afternoon, of course.
Lussekatter or Lucia buns are usually shaped like S, but I've opted for the more simple roll and enriched the buns with marzipan filling and slivered almonds. kokblog has an excellent overview of the various lussekatter-shapes, check them out.
Saffron buns with marzipan and almonds
(Tõeliselt mõnusad safranisaiad)
Makes a lot!
Yeast dough:
500 ml lukewarm milk (2 cups)
a generous pinch of saffron threads*
50 g fresh yeast (or use 2 sachets of instant yeast)
0.5 tsp salt
150 g caster sugar
150 g unsalted butter, softened
200 g cream cheese, softened
1 kg of all-purpose flour
100 g unsalted butter, softened
200 g marzipan, grated
3 Tbsp brandy or cognac
a generous pinch of saffron threads
To finish:
egg-wash made with 1 egg and 1 Tbsp water
50 g sliced almonds
sugar pearls
Heat the milk, pour into a large mixing bowl. Add the saffron and let it infuse and cool for a while. The milk should be 37 C/98 F at the end.
Crumble the yeast into the milk. Add salt, sugar and most of the flour. Then knead in the soft butter and cream cheese and the rest of the flour. Knead until the dough doesn't stick to the bowl any longer. Cover and let rise until doubled in size - you need to do that in a warm and draught-free place.
(Meanwhile, cover the baking sheet with a parchment paper and pre-heat the oven to 220 C/430 F).
Prepare the filling. Grate the marzipan coarsely. Mix saffron strands with the cognac and let infuse for 5-10 minutes. Melt butter in a small saucepan, add the marzipan and then the saffron-infused cognac. Heat gently, stirring, until combined. Remove from the heat.
Gently knead the yeast dough and divide into two. Roll both on a lightly floured surface into a large rectangle, about 5 mm (1/4''). Spread half of the marzipan mixture onto the dough and roll tightly, starting from the longer edge.
Repeat with the other dough.
Cut into 3-4 cm rolls (about 1,5 inches) and place onto a baking sheet. (If you wish, you can let them rise again for 20-30 minutes). Brush with the egg-wash and sprinkle with slivered almonds and pearl sugar.
Bake for 15-20 minutes, until lovely golden brown. Let cool under a clean kitchen towel - this helps them stay soft.
* A note about using saffron. Saffron is water-soluble, not fat-soluble. I am surprised how many recipes ask you to simply add the saffron threads in with the rest of the ingredients (the oil or the flour), without infusing it with the liquid (NOT oil!) beforehand. You can extract so much more flavour and colour by the simple infusion process, and given the price of good-quality saffron, you can use much less of that precious spice and get much more out of it.
More recipes for lussekatter or Lucia buns:
Nami-Nami, 2011
A Cat in the Kitchen, 2006
Anne's Food, 2007
Joe Pastry, 2012
Eat Drink One Woman, 2009
Good. Food. Stories. 2009
Eat, Live, Run, 2012
pPod's Kitchen, 2010
One Perfect Bite, 2009
More recipes using saffron:
Saffron buns (lussekatter)
Roasted aubergines/eggplant with saffron yoghurt dressing by Ottolenghi
Saffron carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
Golden saffron pancakes
9 comments:
- Heidi said...
that's a cute little hand and the buns look yummy
- 10:33 am, December 13, 2012
- Hovkonditorn said...
Your buns are beautiful and marzipan makes saffron buns moist!
- 10:48 am, December 13, 2012
- Cat Lady said...
Mmmmm ... These look yummy Pille.
- 11:03 am, December 13, 2012
- David said...
THAT must smell AMAZING!
- 11:04 am, December 13, 2012
- Yaelian said...
Those look so yummy and I especially like that you added marzipan to them:)
- 12:01 pm, December 13, 2012
- cowango said...
I just made these! So far they're wonderful. Could you make video of the whole process? My dough came out too runny so added some flour. Also, I turned it out on the counter to knead it. Took a long time and was still kind of sticky. What kind of pan did you use and did you make the buns touch each other? Thanks!
- 11:29 pm, December 21, 2012
- Katie said...
I've made these twice now. I "cheat" and just put all the dough ingredients in the KitchenAid with the dough hook -- and it makes such a lovely dough!
For the filling I used dark rum (no brandy or cognac, sadly) and it tasted great.
These are so delicious and so pretty to look at!
- 10:36 pm, January 01, 2013
- pam said...
Thank you!!! I am so excited to try you recipe. I am a huge fan of Saffron Buns but my sweetie not so much. He however, is a huge fan of marzipan and me not so much. Now we can both have out buns the way we like them!!!
- 10:42 pm, January 11, 2013
I have made this stunning recipe once now & I loved them so much, so did my husband & my mom & dad! :)
These were fun to make, easy to devour & so tasty too!
A huga thanks to you, the lovely baker! :) x
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Microsoft's bombastic CEO, Steve Ballmer, has "thrown down the gauntlet" at Apple, and while acknowledging they'd ceded innovation in the past, they'd not be doing that again. According to comments provided to CRN following Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Ballmer said:
But we are not going to let any piece of this [go uncontested to Apple]. Not the consumer cloud. Not hardware software innovation. We are not leaving any of that to Apple by itself. Not going to happen. Not on our watch.
While Steve Ballmer has been successful in maintaining Microsoft's Office and Windows profits (Vista hiccups not withstanding), and managing, if expensively, to get into gaming with Xbox, Ballmer's attempts to be keep Microsoft relevant in the white-hot internet and mobile markets have been disappointing to say the least.
Now with Nokia as their primary handset partner, and Windows Phone 8 ready to hit the market, and with Microsoft making their own Surface hardware to try to compete with Apple's iPad, clearly a new strategy is in place.
And for Ballmer, at least, it's vital that it works. Having former CEO Bill Gates remain as Chairman of the Board has probably insulated Ballmer from much of the pushback on his internet and mobile strategies to date, but even that can't last forever. Apple has a new CEO with Tim Cook. RIM has a new CEO with Thorsten Heis. Google has a new CEO with Larry Page.
Palm didn't survive their transformation. RIM's is by no means certain. Microsoft has several viable businesses and billions and billions in revenue to keep financing their failures, but they're a public company and their shareholders might not be happy with their firehose staying on full forever.
Ballmer can be as bombastic as he likes in interviews, but if he doesn't start nailing internet and mobile, Apple space or no Apple space, billions in the bank or no billions in the bank, Microsoft might be next in line for a management shake up.


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Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is suing the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The suit was filed on Wednesday (January 3) in U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, where Manafort and another Trump campaign aide are charged.
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Welcome to a brave new world…again. Google announces universal search. Once again, we are treated to another paradigm-shifting, earth-shattering, mind-blowing, "OMG – have you seen this!!!" Google announcement. In fact, Google's new product releases appear at such a rate that the pundits are barely able to keep up. Worse yet, the race to be the first to publish frequently leaves us with coverage that carries no sense of history and scant analysis of the significance.
When Google announced universal search critics latched onto something that has been done a dozen times before by other engines. Never mind the fact that it has been tested in one form or another with the "OneBox" on Google for some time now. I am not sure what is actually new.
According to a Google blog, the idea was apparently proposed in 2001. With six years of releases and numerous new vertical searches, Google intends to unite them on a single results page rather than forcing users to navigate to them individually.
Again…what's new? This is where the true pundits separate themselves from standard press-release regurgitation. Frankly, the Google press releases could stand to be a little more substantial. Context is everything.
Implications of Universal Search
Universal search does not mean much on its own (a big future promise and shiny new options for users) but the implications for advertisers are significant and can be broken down to a few key points:
1. Be Everywhere: Google's Many Orphans Will Finally See Daylight
New product adoption has been an issue for Google. Relative to the traffic hitting the main search results, few users dig deeper into the various vertical search products. A peek into Hitwise's numbers reveals Google's problems bringing the horse to water. The solution? Bring the water to the horse.
Universal search will be helpful in bringing volume to products that barely saw the light of day or were relegated to very limited audiences of savvy users. But what does this mean for companies working with Google? While Google will bring buckets of water to the horse, we still have to fill each of the individual ponds.
Google is giving advertisers a simple way to load all results into a single place, thereby facilitating easy distribution of their product offerings. But we still need to assess the usefulness of these products individually. After all, search is bigger than PPC, bidding tools, or the latest Google gizmo.
2. Shotgun Approach: Expand Your Definition of SEO
The impact of universal search on SEO is particularly interesting, because it means re-configuring how you look at SEO. SEO can no longer exist in isolation; we will have to look beyond organic results listings and adopt a more holistic perspective. Where the focus of SEO used to be site-centric, it must now include optimizing video, providing local listings, product presence in structured feeds into Google Base, flight fares and times, hotel locations, listings on review sites, good blog coverage, and on and on.
In other words, successful SEO campaigns will have to be much broader. Of course, that's not even beginning to consider Google's recent efforts at increasing personalization. If you feel the urgent need to be everywhere at once, you're headed in the right direction.
3. The Tao of Personalization
It's no secret that Google is pushing for increased personalization. The gist of it is that as Google learns more about you, it begins to serve you different results. There are a couple caveats here. First, you'll need to have an account with Google and allow Google to collect your search history. Adoption is a big issue with this one but if broadly adopted, it means we have even more targets and less measurable control in SEO.
Personalization may ultimately drive the success of universal search. Prioritizing your SEO work for broader exposure may ultimately determine your success in a world of universal search. In fact, there may be a new dimension to traditional SEO focused on optimizing broadly for personalized results that focuses on the development and adoption of widgets for Google's homepage, bookmarking strategies, inclusion in search histories and more.
As Google begins to personalize my search results, it hopes to better understand my intent. So, of course, I immediately went for the big Douglas Adams question and found it comforting to still know "the answer to life, the universe and everything" is still 42…for now.
3. Synchronicity: Forcing an Integrated Media Perspective
Synchronizing your channels has been an industry topic for years, but few marketers do it well, if at all. How do we understand the impact of one channel on another (display on search, for example) to drive the results we seek in the most efficient, cost-effective manner? It means using a common cookie for those pieces we can track. This gets tricky if Google won't allow third-party tracking for certain listings. So do we lean on our frequently deficient site analytics systems to sort this out? That's another article for another time. For now let's focus on the immediate challenge of a universal search results page.
Consider what universal search means for optimizing creative. Right now we tweak our paid listings by swapping out text. If we eventually have display ad units or video ad units, at some point we'll be able to rotate different creative. While display units may move search up the funnel a bit and bring new prominence finally to the value of branding in search, search is still a "pull" application. Searchers are further along in their purchase intent and while we'll use display units to address those users who aren't as far along in their consideration of a purchase we will still use search very much as a direct response vehicle.
To that end, we'll measure the success of our listings by direct response metrics – actual transactions. And creative is optimized to that end. Prices will race up very quickly and rotating multiple creatives to get the best response will be crucial to an effective buy, but this will really only reinforce dividing up buckets of keywords into branding and DR buckets to be measured against different goals.
It really mucks up the "portfolio" approach, not to mention making bid tools less effective while simultaneously making campaign management tools (particularly creative tracking) become much more crucial to success. This is precisely why the human factor in running a campaign is integral. Moreover, comprehending how our video assets, feed listings, paid search and display listings are actually working together is also imperative. While tools can help you get a handle on the depth of your campaign, you still need to test and assess your media mix in order to ascertain what the most efficient combination will be.
5. Big Brands: "Welcome to Google. Check Your Content at the Door. How Can We Bill You?"
Thought CPG had no home in search? Think again. Branding in search has been widely accepted as a likely side-effect but rarely as a primary goal. Google's Marissa Mayer recently had a change of heart on opening the door to non-textual elements on the SERPs; there may even be an opportunity coming to throw those brand budgets against the SERPs.
Kate Kaye at ClickZ concisely touches upon of the implications for brand advertisers. Did-It's Kevin Lee suggests that brand advertisers are evolving into content creators. Greg Sterling also made a similar observation that larger brand budgets and different ROI goals will impact both the affordability of search to direct response marketers as well as potential changes to the very pricing model to which search marketers have become accustomed and upon which Google has built an empire.
Big brand advertisers will have the opportunity to take what once were digital novelties requiring major offline investments or clever viral campaigns and push them in front of a massive search audience.
6. What Happened to My ROI?
Don't panic. It's not evaporating today…or at least not any more quickly than it is from increased competition and new ranking factors. But, if ad formats do change, big brand budgets operating with very different ROI metrics could press your CPCs up and your ROI down.
Further, if another less-noted program called CLIR (cross-language information retrieval) has a significant impact on the results available to the rest of the world, you could see your average conversion rates from organic traffic diminish. The program is designed to translate queries from native language to English, run it against Google's index then serve results back in the native language. Ultimately, it's good news. Sites will still receive the great baseline of well-converting Google traffic in addition to increasing their global exposure.
What Does It All Mean?
Years ago, a great article in Wired on the emergence of kite-surfing quoted a kite-surfer suggesting "windsurfing has become like bowling." Kite-surfing is far easier to learn and more extreme with less wind required. I don't know that universal search will have the likes of Yahoo or Microsoft strapping on their bowling shoes, but it will once again force them to step up their efforts.
As for marketers, well… it might be a big pain, or at least a challenge. What once had a handful of sources and some cleanly-evolved methods now has dozens of sources with varying methods. We have some interesting challenges ahead of us. We are ceding more control to the almighty algorithm. At the same time, if we are doing our jobs well, it simply means shifting some priorities.
Of course, despite criticism, the end game of providing better, more relevant results for users benefits everyone. We're more satisfied with search and it becomes easier to use. Of course, more answers does not necessarily mean more relevant answers and Google isn't the only one working on this answer. Google illustrates the problem well when I followed their blog's sample of Universal search for "atkins southwestern pork fajitas" today and it returned a top result of the Google blog itself…perhaps not the most appetizing example of the new relevance and a sign that Google still has work ahead.
Philip Stelter is director of business development for Range Online Media. Phil has over nine years of experience in search marketing and web site production for major sites across several industries including travel, government, non-profit health care, and retail ecommerce. He has guided SEO and PPC campaigns both in-house and from the agency side. Today, he evaluates new technologies, directs online marketing campaigns and develops innovative search solutions for industry-leading online retailers and travel services such as Travelocity and other Fortune 1000 companies.
Search Headlines
We report the top search marketing news daily at the Search Engine Watch Blog. You'll find more news from around the Web below.
- Product loyalty: consumers mistake familiarity with superiority, Ars Technica
- The Duplicate Content Debate, ClickZ
- Google Introduces Audio Ads to a Wider Customer Base, ClickZ
- Futurology – predictions for social media and enterprise 2.0, Information World Review
- Internet Retailer 2007 Thoughts From First Day, Marketing Pilgrim
- Ask.com Wants to Search Sites for You, SEO by the Sea
- Clearspring Lands Major Deal With NBC, Read/Write Web
- The 7-Minute Website Checkup, Rimm-Kaufman Group
- The grief in getting a great link, Fresh Egg
- Blame It (and Everything Else) on Quality Score, Reprise Media
- Yahoo's Recent Spider Improvement Beats Google's, Natural Search Blog
- Why Vertical SEM Agencies Suck, Pepperjam Blog
- New Company Launch Watch: Avvo, The Kelsey Group
- Is PageRank a myth?, SEO Woman
- Changes to Google Webmaster Guidelines, Search Engine Guide
- Ask Does Integration Right, Search Engine Guide
- Criticize Google Analytics. Win Prizes, Luna Metrics
- Blogging and social media forum 2007, Information World Review
- Search is so over? Yahoo thinks so… I think NOT…, Rex Dixon
- Google Is An Ad Agency Competing With Madison Avenue, Publishing 2.0
- Yahoo's Dan Broberg Discusses Opening "Panama's" Search API, Rimm-Kaufman Group
- From the Ashes of Microsoft, Baron VC
- Mmmm! Tasty Search Goulash: Weighing in on Universal Search, E-Marketing Performance
- Writing Headlines for Regular Readers, Search Engines, and Social Media, CopyBlogger
- Data Scale/Portfolio Theory, Bronte Media
- Google Updates & Details Webmaster Guidelines, Search Engine Land
- 7 Things I Want from Google – NOW!, The SEM Zone
- Why there's no such thing as Web 2.0, Marc Andreessen
- Not So Fast, Search Isn't History Quite Yet, Read/Write Web
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Number 315, April 17, 2005
"It won't be long now!"
Dead Wrong
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I suspect there's not a person in the world with access to mass media that doesn't know about the sad case of Terri Schiavo. And of all of those people, I don't imagine there's a single one that doesn't have a strong opinionone way or the otheron the matter. Here's mine:
I support in no uncertain terms the so-called "right to die." I think pulling the plug on brain dead patients should be standard, not optional, medical treatment. I think that doctor-assisted suicide for terminal and suffering patients is not only okay, but is the most compassionate thing to do if that's what the patient decides he wants. In fact, I've never understood why suicide of any kind is illegal. What are the authorities going to do, put the corpse in a jail cell? Under most circumstances (mental illness aside), I consider suicide to be a cowardly and extraordinarily selfish act. But if we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, then surely we ought to have the right to decide on our own death!
The problem with poor Terri Schiavo is that she wasn't brain dead, so "pulling the plug" (respirator, etc.) wasn't an option. She also wasn't terminally ill, and so doctor-assisted suicide was out of the question (forget for a moment she couldn't choose that option for herself). The only way that Terri was going to die in the near term was to take some proactive measure that didn't somehow circumvent the law. That measure was found in the contention that a feeding tube might be defined as artificial care, and its removal guaranteed death albeit at a slow and painful pace.
Terri's husband maintained that she would not have wanted to live by artificial means. The courts upheld that contention despite the fact that Terri never wrote it down. In Florida, an oral statement of those wishes is sufficient, and Michael Schiavo had a couple of relatives who bolstered his claims that those were Terri's wishes. As such, it's impossible to say that the courts in Florida and at the Federal level ruled wrongly when they decided that the feeding tube should not be restored. The judges rendering the decisions adhered to the law, as they are supposed to do (never mind that there are just as many instances where any number of judges ignore the law all together).
Of course, when Florida law suggests that an oral statement as to one's wishes under such circumstances is sufficient, it relies on several factors that I tend to doubt were present here. First, the law assumes that the people claiming to have heard such statements really know what the patient would have wanted, and that they do have the patient's best interests at heart. Secondly, the law assumes those same people won't lie about what they claim to have heard. Although there's no way we can no for sure that Michael Schiavo was or was not telling the truth, there are some pointed pieces of evidence that suggest he may not have been.
When Terri was first stricken, it was obvious that the loss of oxygen to her brainhowever it occurredhad caused catastrophic damage. (Terri's parents say they think her husband might have tried to strangle her; her husband says she suffered from an eating disorder and her heart stopped as the result of a potassium imbalance. Interestingly enough, if Terri did have an eating disorder, her condition might still be laid directly at the feet of a husband who purportedly once told her that if she ever got fat, he'd leave her.) At the time, Michael Schiavo fought tooth and nail to get some medical settlement money so that he could see his wife rehabilitated as far as was possible under the circumstances. In fact, he repeatedly promised that he'd use the money to care for her as long as she lived, and even that he'd spend some of it to go to school to become a therapist so he could care for her himself.
It might be forgivable when, after some years without results, a man might finally acknowledge that perhaps there was less hope than he originally harbored. But Michael Schiavo's timing was more than a little suspect when, up until he received the settlement, he claimed to want to care for his wife. Yet after the settlement money was safely in the bank, Mr. Schiavo announced that there was no hope for Terri's "meaningful recovery" and that the feeding tube should be removed forthwith. Later testimony indicated that Schiavo had put an early stop to therapy for his wife, and that he had, in fact, actively prevented anyone from trying to do anything even remotely therapeutic for her. The settlement money, of course, wasn't Michael Schiavo's. It was to be used for Terri's care. But if she were to die, her guardian would get the funds. And that guardian wasyou guessed itMichael Schiavo.
It seems that Terri's husband also conveniently glossed over his wife's religious beliefs. Terri was described as being "a devout Catholic" by members of her family, but as "not devout" by her husband in a recent interview with Larry King. Devout or not, as a Catholic, suicide is out of the question. So is, as it happens, the removal of nutrition and hydration. While the Catholic church has, in recent decades and with the advent of extraordinary medical advances, determined that certain types of care may be discontinued or foregone when death is imminent and inevitable, it has specifically stated that this does not include the removal of feeding tubes. Even not-so-devout Catholics aren't likely to toy with what the church would consider a significant sin. (The Pope himself, who had issued statements pleading for the restoration of Terri's feeding tube, ironically ended up being supported with a feeding tube during the last days of his life.)
There are those who support Michael Schiavo's determination to remove his wife's feeding tube, commenting on such things as "quality of life." Those same people suggest that a number of doctors have said that Terri Schiavo's brain was so damaged that she had no cognitive abilities left to her. (Some other doctors and Mrs. Schiavo's parents disagreed, but their testimony was largely disregarded as essentially being wishful thinking or mistaken interpretation of reflexive behaviors on Terri's part.) That's an interesting argument since quality of life is dependent on recognizing that one is alive. If Terri truly was not cognizant, then her quality of life wasn't bad. It didn't, in fact, exist at all for her. So suggesting a poor quality of life as a reason she should die is a specious argument at best.
The same contingent that lobbied for the feeding tube to be removed has also said that dehydration is painless and that, in fact, it can result in euphoria as death nears (contrary to those claims, death by dehydration is extraordinarily cruel and was, in fact, the subject of heinous experiments during World War II). Yet both pain and euphoria are also dependent on at least some minimal cognitive abilities At best, we could hope that Terri's demise caused her no pain (though there is some evidence that even among those in a persistent vegetative state there might be some feeling). After all, that would be the case if, as was said, her cerebral cortex was essentially gone. And yet the hospice was giving her morphine at the end. Why would morphine be prescribed if there was no pain? And if there was pain, how can anyone claim she had nothing left of her brain function? It's an interesting catch 22 for Mr. Schiavo's position, isn't it?
Maybe Michael Schiavo really did love his wife as his lawyer claims he did. Maybe the tears he cried at her death were true tears of loss rather than relief. But there are also a number of reasons that Mr. Schiavo would have wanted Terri dead and gone, not least of which were his live-in lover and their two children. Of course, Mr. Schiavo also stands to inherit what's left of Terri's settlement money, but by all accounts there's not much left. (Sadly, and with more than a little irony, much of the money intended for her care was spent on legal fees trying to get permission to withhold that care.)
The best indicators as to motive may be found not only in the timing of Michael Schiavo's legal battles, but in his attitude toward Terri's family. Whether he liked them or not, his treatment of them near the end of Terri's life was appallingly cold. He had police prevent their access as Terri drew her last breaths (his lawyer said the family could spend as much time as they liked with the body afterward apparently in an attempt to show Schiavo's reasonableness, but to deny a mother the ability to hold her child's hand as she dies defies any semblence of humanity). And then he refused to tell the family where and when Terri's remains would be interred and she would be memorialized (a judge has since issued a court order telling Schiavo he must give the information to Terri's family).
Lawyers are also trying to put a positive spin on the fact that Mr. Schiavo finally agreed to an autopsy for his wife, something the parents had been requesting for some time. What the lawyers haven't bothered to say is that it is Schiavo's insistance on cremation (another contradiction to Terri's Catholicism which, while now accepting of cremation, traditionally requires a body be buried intact and which is what her parents strongly preferred) that mandated an autopsy, not his sudden change of heart or willingness to prove anything.
There will always be some question as to Mr. Schiavo's actions based not merely on suspicions that may or may not have merit, but given that his wife didn't put her own wishes on record prior to becoming incapable of expressing those wishes for herself. If the tragic life and death of Terri Schiavo showed us anything, it gave each and every one of us good reason to put our own wishes in legally verifiable writing. Even if you tell loved ones what you want, if they truly love you they're not going to be thinking clearly as they contemplate your very serious medical condition. The kindest thing to do for their sakeand the thing that will make most certain that your own wishes be honored no matter what the heightened emotions or family feuds under such duressis for you to prepare a Living Will for yourself.
Different states have different requirements for Living Wills; some standard forms include an indication that the subject does want feeding tubes removed under specified conditions. If you oppose that measure for yourself for personal or religious reasons, the standard forms can be altered accordingly. I personally would never choose to die as Terri did, but if you do, that's your business and your wishes should be honored. (I might, as a friend of mine suggested he would want, support the removal of a feeding tube followed immediately by a lethal injection provided an advance directive exists. If we claim we care so much about human life, the least we could do is treat it with a minimum of the dignity and kindness we show our beloved pets!) My reservations where Terri Schiavo is concerned is that, for religious reasons alone, I suspect that those were not her wishes. Other questionable timing and actions merely add fuel to that conviction.
Among many who supported the withdrawal of the feeding tube are those who condemned the federal government for getting involved and making at least an attempt to get the feeding tube reinserted. "It's a private matter!" they cry. "The decision is the husband's to make!" While I agree it's a private matterand while you know how I feel about government involvement in just about anything!there was some doubt in this case as to whether the removal of Terri's feeding tube was a medical mercy or a legalized murder. It's government's constitutional role to protect the lives of its citizens, and the fact that it made some effort to at least determine whether this was mercy or murder was (for once) a legitimate and constitutional function. I agree completely with President Bush's assertion that we must "err on the side of life" when there's any doubt whatsoever.
As to whether the Schiavo case really was mercy or murder, we may never know with certainty. I hope for the sake of the soon-to-be second Mrs. Schiavo, it was the former. I also hope that she, too, has learned something from the lessons of the last 15 years in the life of her predecessor. If she has, she'll be among the first to be sure she has a Living Will on file. Given who she's marrying, I'd also personally suggest to her that someone other than her husband-to-be has a copy of it, just in case...
Larry King interview transcript
Some say dehydration is painless
Michael Schiavo grief-stricken
Autopsies required in cases of cremation
Some living wills specify feeding tube removal


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1 pound ground chicken breast
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
½ pound low fat mozzarella cheese, grated
½ small onion, finely diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 medium green pepper, seeded and minced
1 small tomato, finely chopped
½ teaspoon salt
5 cups instant corn flour (masa harina)
6 cups water
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Ela Rivella is a sexy, headstrong race car driver torn between two racing brothers in a glamorous, high-stakes world of cutthroat competition and danger. Ela loved Jordi Fernandez until jealousy drove them apart, and now she's irresistibly drawn to Checo, whose clandestine romance with Ela could drive Jordi to violence.
Sound like a soap opera? Maybe some particularly ambitious Formula One fan fiction?
It's an actual novela -- the wildly popular short-run series that flood the Latino television market in North America and beyond -- co-produced by Univision and NASCAR to put the down-home American sport of stock car racing in front of millions of Spanish-speaking viewers who might have never watched a NASCAR race.
This remarkable blend of speed and cheese will debut on Univision's website in a series of five- to seven-minute episodes starting in April before appearing on Univision on May 5. Called "Arranque de Pasion, La Historia de Ela," it's an audacious attempt to expand the NASCAR brand into the growing Latino population through a particular form of storytelling.
"Nobody knows a lot about NASCAR," said Kate Del Castillo, the famed Mexican actress producing and starring in the novela. "I think we have to get much more exposure for NASCAR. When you think about it, it's all about family, and that's what we like. It's about spending an entire day at the track. It's an experience, a whole day for family, and yet it's very dangerous. It's very dramatic. I think it's perfect for us."
NASCAR's entertainment arm realizes it's trying something unusual, but NASCAR vice president of entertainment marketing Zane Stoddard believes novelas are one way to crack a market that's been targeted for a decade with varying success.
NASCAR already had worked with Univision to put a racing-themed storyline into an existing show 18 months earlier. Last summer, NASCAR decided an original novela was an idea just crazy enough to work -- a unique chance to expand the Spanish-speaking world's awareness of its sport.
"It's our opportunity to meet them where they're at, within the genres they're already invested in," Stoddard said. "I feel like our sport is uniquely accessible in terms of relationships, family and all the things that drive television shows."
Like every pro sports organization in North America, NASCAR has realized the importance of courting Latino fans -- and a connection with stock car racing isn't far-fetched at all.
The NASCAR Mexico Toyota Series is in its seventh season under the NASCAR banner, fueling a growing boom in oval track racing in Mexico. NASCAR says its Sprint Cup series ratings among Hispanic viewers are up 27 percent on Fox this season, with year-by-year increases for each of the five races so far.
Gillian Zucker, the president of Fontana's Auto Club Speedway, markets aggressively to Latino racing fans in a state where Latinos will make up a plurality of the population by next year. Roughly 40 percent of her track's customers identify as Latino, and she hired singer Lupillo Rivera to perform for fans at last weekend's NASCAR race in which Del Castillo was the honorary starter.
Del Castillo became fascinated by auto racing when she participated in the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race in Long Beach, Calif., last year. After crashing out on the last lap -- "which felt good, sorry to say," she said with a grin -- she decided to find a project that would put her in the racing milieu.
"It was out of nowhere, but I couldn't be happier or luckier," she said. "I never would have thought that NASCAR is so into it. They've been so nice, providing us everything. They've all been amazing."
After Univision and Del Castillo's production company assembled a crew of creative talent, NASCAR watched over the proceedings for authenticity and content. The unlikely combination apparently worked for both the NASCAR executives and the Latino stars and producers -- maybe because fast cars and beautiful people aren't a tough sell in any language.
"Creative people come into this environment, and it's like a kid in a candy store because it's such a visceral overload," Stoddard said. "Because the novela is such a specific kind of story, very dramatic, we didn't want to pretend we understood the kind of storytelling that takes place in novelas. We know what we know, and we know what we don't know. We rely primarily on them to begin with the story and then allow us to be a sounding board, to layer authenticity over it."
"Arranque de Pasion" is set in a fictional NASCAR universe, which means nobody should expect Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Clint Bowyer to be polishing their Spanish for a cameo. Much of the filming was done at Homestead Miami Speedway in authentic stock cars, although Del Castillo didn't actually get to drive them while playing Ela.
"I'm grateful for that," she said. "They're very expensive cars."


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there are 3 different professionals that have teamed up. A chiropractor, dietitian, and owner and operator of a local boot camp. We are teaming up to help people take charge of their health and learn how to lose weight, work out and life a pain free lifestyle. We are calling this a miracle year of wellness. Our goal is to reach the population that has 20+ lbs. to lose and are struggling knowing what to eat, how to workout, and dealing with all of the pain and other health problems that go a long with being over weight. we are trying to make our community a healthier place. Our program requires you to join the 3 phases, all directed by the professionals, then we team up to design the correct coarse of action for each individual. We are hoping to continue to grow this project so that it becomes not only a locally know program, but with the potential to grow outside of just our market area. We want our site to be great looking but simple and too the point. We are also looking for a "brand". the companies are Spring Ridge Chiropractic & Acupuncture, Certified Nutrition of Omaha, and Omaha Fit Body boot Camp.
Our target audience is anyone that is overweight, looking to become healthier, and looking for guidance. We are looking for people that are willing to commit to a program that will help to change their lives. We are looking for people that might be confused on what "diet" to eat, afraid to go to the gym to work out, and people that are struggling with pain from being overweight. We are looking for people that really want change in their life style.
Our aim is to get people to understand that there are people that are willing to help them become healthier, happier, if they are willing to stop making excuses and are willing to commit to a program that will show them the change they are looking for. No gimmicks, no sales, just guidance and hard work.
We would like you to be creative, make a "brand" for the program, but make it simple and to the point.
"No More Excuses" it is time to take control of your health!. Something to that affect is what we have been kicking around.


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Politics in Action
Mary Kanowsky, left, volunteered as a page at the Republican National Convention while Robert Klaus, right, volunteered at a presidential campaign event in March.
By Frank Radosevich II
September 11, 2012
Bradley students are experiencing the democratic process in action this year as they participate in presidential politics on both sides of the political aisle.
Everywhere from here on the Hilltop to the national conventions, students are making a difference in the public realm and carrying out the University's mission of experiential learning.
Political science major Robert Klaus is volunteering this fall with U.S. President Barrack Obama's re-election campaign on campus. Klaus, a junior from Chicago, serves as a campus team leader and helps organize students to man a telephone bank to promote the president.
Growing up in Chicago, Klaus said he was surrounding by politics but his interest in the field truly grew during the 2008 presidential campaign. He added that he hopes to see more student participation in political activism and voting regardless of their political beliefs.
"It's more important to get involved than to follow what I or someone else believes," he said. "I can understand some people don't want to volunteer but it's definitely important to register to vote.
"We want to make the impression that being involved at Bradley entails being involved with the world around you," he said.
Farther away from campus, senior Mary Kanowsky from Peoria worked at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., as one of 96 pages staffing the gathering. She assisted in passing out literature to attendees voting on the party's platform and had the chance to roam the floor among the delegates and politicians.
"It was a great experience. We saw a lot of famous people; reporters and political figures," she said. Kanowsky even ran into U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock '02 who represents the 18th congressional district in Illinois. "Politics is really interesting and it is something that impacts all of us."
As a psychology major and political science minor, Kanowsky said the experience added a real-world dimension to her classroom studies. Before attending the convention, Kanowsky interned with Demetra DeMonte, national committeewoman for the Illinois Republican Party and secretary of the Republican National Committee. Thanks to the two experiences she was able to compare and contrast the political movement at the local and national levels.
Both Klaus and Kanowsky received more than work experience from their political involvement. The students also earned academic credit through the Department of Political Science for applying their knowledge on the campaign trail.
"It is important that experiential learning opportunities in actual political campaigns be available to Bradley students," said Dr. Craig Curtis, associate professor for political science. "They learn lessons in the field that give them context to understand the conceptual lessons from the classroom. It also gives them connections and networking opportunities that often lead to jobs after graduation."
Even Bradley alumni are getting involved.
Keri Thompson '05 attended the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., as a delegate from Massachusetts and voted in the party's nomination process. Thompson credited her speech communication courses, where she studied public policy along side public speaking, with igniting her political aspirations. It also didn't hurt that she met President Obama, then a U.S. Senate candidate, at the Garrett Cultural Center during a campaign stop.
Now involved with national politics, Thompson echoed the importance of voting and students being active in the political realm.
"Regardless of whom you support it's really important to vote and to make your voice heard," she said.


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People say that my daughter and I look alike. Sometimes I see it and sometimes I don't.
People say that my daughter and I look alike. Sometimes I see it and sometimes I don't. One thing for sure is we are not alike in many ways. Taylor is very quiet unless she knows you. She's got a dry sarcastic sense of humor that only the people she is closest to can be privy to see. She has her own flair and sense of style about everything she does from her selection in clothing to her tastes in music.
I remember when she was about four years old I took her to a parade. It was an election year and there was a ton of candy being thrown out. It was literally raining candy. She stood behind my leg and would not go out and pick up the candy. I thought right then, "This kid can't be mine." She was never as aggressive as I was. Then I thought well maybe it is because she is an only child. I blame my brothers for making me assertive.
Next was her taste in music. While she was growing up I exposed her to all kinds of music from classical to heavy metal, country, and everything in between. We were at odds right away when she didn't like Elvis Presley. What? How can you not like Elvis Presley? Furthermore, isn't it anti-American not to like Elvis? Next, she didn't like Bob Seger. I just about never recovered from that.
As she gets ready to transfer to USI, I see her worry. Worry about parking. Worry about gas money. Worry about her grades and scholarships. Worry about her books. She worries enough for both of us. I never remember being worried when I transferred to Eastern when I was her age. I moved up there all alone, knew no one, and had no idea where anything is or was. I just did what I do...I jumped in with both feet. I'm not a dip your toe in the water type of girl.
When your kids are not you, you have to love them for who they are. They may not have the same likes and dislikes as you. They may not even be remotely like you, but sometimes that is a good thing. Embrace who they are and love them 'til it hurts. You can never love or support them too much.


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Friday 2nd October 2009
3 Beat Red, prepares to unleash, Skyla. 'Ayo Technology' the follow up to her debut single 'Summer Love' (with the Beat Players) which became an instant dancefloor smash and was followed by her huge Clubland-esque take on the High School Musical classic 'Breaking Free'.
Skyla a.k.a. Lucy Batty is one talented individual. The young singer / songwriter was an accomplished pianist by the age of 8 and write her first song aged 12. 2009 has been a big year for Skyla and in 2010 she looks set to become a massive pop star. In a short space of time, she's become the brightest new face of Clubland, the hugely influential dance music and clubbing brand. She consistently wowed fans at Clubland Live events in Majorca and Ibiza over the summer.
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Hot Flashes and Healthful Living: Health Concerns for Women Growing Older With HIV/AIDS
March 28, 2013
Nowadays, more and more women living with HIV are planning for a life stage they may once have thought they wouldn't live to see: menopause. Menopause is a normal part of a woman's life -- and its effects vary widely from woman to woman, regardless of HIV status. But are some of the variations of menopause more pronounced for women living with HIV? How can a woman tell if what she's experiencing is a common menopause symptom or a side effect of the virus or her meds? What can women expect to happen as they enter menopause, and what other health issues should they be aware of?
To get some answers, we sat down with L. Jeannine Bookhardt-Murray, M.D., chief medical director at Harlem United Community AIDS Center in New York City. Dr. Bookhardt-Murray has more than two decades of experience treating women living with HIV/AIDS. She breaks down the basics of menopause, as well as health concerns ranging from uterine fibroids to breast health to depression -- and suggests lifestyle changes that may alleviate some of the effects of aging for women living with HIV/AIDS.
Can you explain a bit about menopause, generally? What are some of the common signs that women begin to see, and at what age?
Women usually start going through menopause at around the age of 45 -- that's the average age. Physically, they may see their periods start to get lighter -- less flow; the number of days may decrease. If a woman usually had a five-day cycle prior to menopause, it may come down to three days, with a lighter flow. They may have a period this month, and next month none. Over time it will lessen and lessen. This time of transition is called perimenopause; these signs, as with others, are going to vary from woman to woman.
Some other signs that women may also see when they're going through menopause:
- They may gain weight.
- There may be mood changes. Some women say they're not feeling like they used to feel.
- Some women will report irritability. Whether or not that's related to menopause is always unclear. There may be other issues causing irritability or depression. But a lot of women say that they experience irritability when they're going through menopause.
- Of course, there are the hot flashes, which are among women's biggest problems with menopause. A woman will just be overcome with the sensation of heat, and then they'll chill. Sometimes they'll sweat. It seems to be worse at night for most women.
We used to use estrogen therapy for those physical symptoms; but that's infrequently used now because of the association with the development of uterine cancer and breast cancer.
The way I was taught to think about menopause is that, if a woman has gone through a whole year without a period, they've hit menopause. I'm talking about regular, natural menopause, not premature menopause that sometimes happens to 30-year-olds.
The process of having periods may be over, but the other symptoms -- the mood changes, the hot flashes -- may continue for a number of years, and they may continue for the rest of the woman's life. And it varies. There's no definitive textbook case of menopause, because it varies from one person to another.
The best thing a woman can do is talk to her mom, and find out what menopause was like for her mother. Usually the women in a given family -- mothers, sisters -- will follow the same kind of pathway through menopause. Of course, oftentimes someone's mother is not around, or has passed away, or the woman may have been adopted or something like that. But that's a good way to look at it: Find out what the women in their family went through with menopause.
Can you give a quick overview of what's going on internally in a woman's body that produces the signs and symptoms of menopause? Basically, what is menopause from the inside?
From the inside, the hormones are changing. Estrogen levels are decreasing. That's the main issue with menopause: You're not maintaining the same level of estrogen that you did as a younger woman. The amount of estrogen produced by the ovaries and the little bit of estrogen produced from the uterus: The amount is declining, and it leads to this hormonal imbalance.
Is it common for women to see their periods stop but to still experience the symptoms of their cycles every month?
It is. Even though they're not ovulating successfully, there may be hormonal changes, and it may result in some cramping, bloating, and the usual premenstrual symptoms that women feel. That can even go on after a woman completes menopause. She may be one to two years out after having her last period; and still, every month, she's getting these symptoms like she's going to have her period. In a couple of years or so it usually tapers off. But it's very annoying. It's this whole process of having to wonder, Is my period really coming or isn't it? And If it isn't, what should I do?
The other thing is that, if women do develop any kind of bleeding, even period-like bleeding, after their periods have stopped, they need to see their doctor and talk to them about it. Because that could be a sign that something's wrong, including cancers.
What are some of the other potential reasons for abnormal bleeding after menopause, besides cancers? Is there ever bleeding associated with fibroids, ovarian cysts or anything like that?
No, not really. But it could be a problem with the lining of the uterus. It could be infection. It could be cancer. But we're not talking about a hormonal cause for bleeding, at this point. It's likely a structural issue -- a growth of some kind. There could be a tumor that breaks down and there's bleeding. But it's not a normal period.
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I've given this challenge some thought, and hopefully it will be a success. Whenever I have a new idea it's always anyone's guess what will come out of it!
My personal hope for this challenge is that I make a lot of layouts. It seems most people are doubtful about their ability to make a layout every day for an entire month, and I hear you! I'm not even sure I want to make a layout every day. So here's what we're going to do:
Everyone who wants to participate should set a goal number of layouts they want to accomplish this month. Don't be easy on yourself, but don't make it impossible. It's supposed to be a challenge.
I generally make 1 layout a month. My goal for the month will be to make 23 layouts, one for each weekday during the month of October.
Now, you may have a specific goal in mind for this challenge. Perhaps you want to scrap some recent event, work on a photobook, etc. That's great! I'll make some sort of general sharing thread for people working on personal projects.
I'm also planning to post prompts throughout the month if you're looking for a little added inspiration to get going. I'm thinking to post a couple at a time every couple of days so people can pick and choose what looks good to them.
Also, if I get really organized maybe we'll have some sort of live event.
Basically, you'll want to be checking this layout challenge forum often, because who knows what's coming. But it's going to be fun and we're going to make a lot of layouts!
So leave your personal goal below, and include if you're working on a personal project or looking for prompts so we have an idea of what everyone is working on.