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Unfinished Nation "A Chaos of Experimentation" The presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. New Deal legislation. Agencies created in response to crises. Changes to programs resulting from criticism of New Deal. The effect of policies on various groups, including women and minorities.G
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Unfinished Nation "Between The Wars" American policies of neutrality, isolationism, and internationalism in decades after World War I. Depression and the world order. Rise of totalitarian regimes in Europe and Asia; their expansionist ambitions. American response to war in Europe. Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.G
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Inside Out "Thinking and Language" The most concrete evidence of our ability to think is our use of language. This lesson explores both topics. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman discusses his research in cognitive psychology, and linguist Noam Chomsky, along with others, explains the principles of language acquisition. Susan Curtiss tells the gripping story of "Genie" a young girl who did not learn language due to the neglect and abuse of her parents.G
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Inside Out "The Search for Intelligence" What is intelligence? Can the standardized exams of today actually measure it? This lesson presents several theories of intelligence, often examined by the researchers who created them. Topics include triarchic theory, multiple intelligences, and emotional intelligence. The nature/nurture influence on intelligence is also explored, as well as the phenomenon of stereotype threat.G
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Earth Revealed: Introductory Geology "Mountain Building and the Growth of Continents" Shows how major mountain belts and continents have evolved.G
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Earth Revealed: Introductory Geology "Earth's Structures" Illustrates how bedrock responds to tectonic forces originating within Earth.G
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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly Pope Francis - Kim Lawton reports from Rome on the selection of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, the first pope from Latin America, as the successor to Pope Benedict XVI and reaction to his selection from experts and other Catholics. None of the Above - Religious Implications - In this concluding segment of a three-part miniseries, Deborah Potter looks at how the rapidly growing numbers of the religiously unaffiliated, especially among younger individuals, could affect churches and the roles of pastors. These so-called "nones" now make up nearly 20 percent of all adult Americans. D
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Second Opinion "Mystery Diagnosis" A fascinating discussion unfolds as doctors work to solve a mysterious medical case affecting a prominent Boston physician. Dr. Anne Louise Oaklander shares her mother's medical story, which was complicated by her mother's knowledge as a medical professional. Follow along as the life-altering problems are described and the surprising diagnosis is revealed. D
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Lidia's Italy In America "Three Favorite Pastas" Lidia cooks Pasta e fagioli, Bucatini Amatriciana and Tagliatelle Bolognese. She heads to Italy to learn how to make pasta from the experts and also visits Seghesio Vineyards in California, to meet one of the most long-standing winemaking families in the Sonoma Valley. D
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Blood Sugar Solution with Dr. Mark Hyman In this 90-minute public television special, Dr. Mark Hyman explains what "diabesity" is, outlines the underlying causes that drive the problem, and provides a personalized, 4-step plan to help you overcome diabesity. He explains how we can all take back our health as individuals, as a community, and as a society. The program will radically change the way you think about your body, your lifestyle, and the power you have to change your health. D
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Add & Mastering It! From the team of comedians that brought you the ground breaking documentary ADD & Loving It!?! comes a new, entertaining and empowering film for August-September pledge. Now the sequel, ADD & Mastering It!, hosted again by Patrick McKenna and Rick Green, makes it clear that there is much that can be done to not just manage this disorder, but turn it to your advantage. The program goes through 36 practical tips for managing one's ADD or ADHD. D
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Peter, Paul and Mary: Carry It On: A Musical Legacy There once was a time, some years before the ascendance of rock and roll on Top 40 radio, when popular music veered sharply from the mainstream to sample American roots-music traditions. Inspired by the songs of Pete Seeger and The Weavers, this "folk" music, found its greatest expression during the early 1960's in the songs of an emerging Greenwich Village group known as Peter, Paul and Mary. In the Trio's new PBS show "Carry It On: A Musical Legacy" we share in the four decade long career of Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers. D
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Earth Songs Inspired by decades of National Geographic specials, the BBC Planet Earth series, and the beauty of our terrestrial home, EARTH SONGS gently guides the viewer through a journey of ageless wisdom, inspiring poetry and stunning footage of Mother Earth. For more than two years, filmmaker Brian Luke Seaward traveled to many of the world's most pristine locations -- Patagonia (Chile), the Caribbean, Iceland, the Canadian Rockies, Hawaii, Greenland, Alaska, Peru and New Zealand - capturing the Earth's beauty in ways that are rarely seen. Set to a musical score performed by Grammy-nominated artists - including Michael Hoppe, Brian Keane, Secret Garden, Keola Beamer, Zach Bergen, Min TZe Wu and Nigel Holton - the program celebrates the planet's scenic beauty and precious wildlife. D
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Trains Around North America Hosted by Grammy-winning musician and storyteller David Holt, this special traces America's railroad history, telling stories of the continent's historic and scenic tourist railroads as they define the spirit of North America. Stops include a railway museum in Minnesota, and the White Pass and Yukon Railroad of Skagway, Alaska. Robert C. Van Camp, who produces and films these railway-themed shows, will be live in the studio during program breaks.G
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Rick Steves' Delicious Europe Rick samples classic European cuisine from garlicky snails and homemade mozzarella to savory bouillabaisse, and other regional specialties.G
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Divinas Live at Chambord Castle A new musical genre is touching the hearts of fans worldwide, combining classical crossover, world music and newly arranged classic pop. Three female singers - Rita of Israel, Yulia of New Zealand and M?av of Ireland, a former member of Celtic Woman - present examples of the genre in this outdoor concert at France's Chateau de Chambord in May 2012.G
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Magic Moments - The Best of 50's Pop (My Music #102) This reunion brings together some of the great recording artists from the 1950s pop era: the McGuire Sisters, Debbie Reynolds, Patti Page, the Chordettes, the Crew Cuts, the Four Lads, the Four Aces, the Four Coins, and Gogi Grant. Hosts include Mary Lou Metzger, Phyllis McGuire and Pat Boone. Recorded in Atlantic City, special moments include Don Cherry telling of "A Band of Gold" and Pat Boone crooning "Love Letters in the Sand."G
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Rock, Pop and Doo Wop (My Music) Rock and pop legends Ronnie Spector (the Ronettes) and Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (Sha Na Na) team up to host this May 2010 concert event featuring 1950s and early 1960s favorites. New performances feature Spector, La La Brooks (the Crystalls), Jay Black, Len Barry and the Orlons. Footage from archives around the world return classic performances to the spotlight; they include "Get a Job" by the Silhouettes and "Book of Love" by the Monotones.G
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Doctor Who Series "The Beast Below" Amy Pond takes her first trip in the TARDIS when the Doctor whisks her away to the distant future and they discover Britain in space. Starship UK houses the future of the British people as they search the stars for a new home. But when Amy explores, she encounters the terrifying Smilers.G


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Richard Whitney necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 34 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
ShirtsInSchool is the brainchild of ThosePeople. ThosePeople is an innovative guerilla marketing company which is always in search of the next wave in advertising. We were thinking of the best way to reach the 16 to 24 year old demographic, and this project is what we came up with.
In short, ShirtsInSchool is a way for companies to advertise to young adults. The advertiser provides T shirts to our student ambassadors. These student ambassadors are young adults in high school or college. Our student ambassadors are paid to simply wear the provided shirt all day, and advertise on their social network about the company. This advertising includes the following:
* A photo of yourself wearing each shirt posted on facebook
* Links to said video on Facebook and Twitter
* Wearing the provided shirt to school and thru out the school day. We understand that a different shirt may have to be worn to work after school, so it is not a requirement that they wear the shirt after school.
What does the student ambassador get out of it? $10/day of advertising and a free T shirt. As an added incentive for schools, the school get's $2/Shirt worn/day.
Our target audience is 14 - 24 YO males & females. Please keep on mind that this design has to be young & fresh.
We are looking for a young, fresh, vibrant home page that will appeal to both male & female. Our face book fan page is extremely important to us -
We are going to incorporate a video into the home page using ustream.tv.
Do not worry about the ipod touch give away or the "ugly" register box with the ten dollar bills.
Please also keep in mind that the logo on the home page will be used on T Shirts as well.
We want to convey that the students get paid, the school gets paid and it fun & easy
Home Page to replace the existing
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Amber Tamblyn shares painful story of her own sexual assault
Actress posts story on Instagram
Actress posts story on Instagram
Writer, director and actress Amber Tamblyn took to Instagram Sunday to share a horrifying personal story of sexual assault.
In a post featuring a photo of Donald Trump with Olivia Culpo -- the Miss Universe and Miss USA winner who chose to step down from her role as judge in 2015's Miss USA competition after Trump referred to Mexians as rapists -- Tamblyn talked about a moment when an ex-boyfriend did exactly what Trump described in Friday's leaked video.
"That part of my body, which the current Presidential Nominee of the United States Donald Trump recently described as something he'd like to grab a woman by, was bruised from my ex-boyfriend's violence for at least the next week," she writes. "I had a hard time wearing jeans. I couldn't sleep without a pillow between my legs to create space. To this day I remember that moment."
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Trinity and Westhill prepare to meet on the gridiron
Last September, the Trinity Catholic football team knocked off city rival Westhill 28-10, using the game as a springboard to one of the best seasons in recent memory and earning a trip to the Class S state playoffs.
The Crusaders went on to defeat Stamford and claim the city title, something both they and Westhill have their sights set on.
This year's version of the Crusaders, under a new coach, hopes for a similar outcome.
"Obviously, the inner-city rivalry means a lot to us," Trinity Coach Donny Panapada said. "The kids are looking forward to the opportunity. The kids all know each other, some went to middle school together so, it's big game."
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Both schools are coming off Week 1 losses -- Westhill 27-14 to Norwalk and Trinity 63-26 to Sheehan in the FCIAC-SCC Challenge.
The Vikings were dominated on the offensive line and know the key to picking up their first win of 2013 will be in the trenches.
A task that will not be easy for the Vikings, who have been shuffling lineman around since the preseason began thanks to multiple injuries up front.
"We need to block," Westhill Coach Frank Marcucio said. "I think they didn't block well against Norwalk. We just played sloppy as a team and we need to clean it up. This is our fifth different offensive line because of injuries. I am hoping that if we can solidify our front five we will have some success."
Norwalk running back Clifford Joseph ran for 154 yards and two touchdowns against the Vikings and Trinity's Randy Polonia will look to replicate that success this week.
"We need to get Randy going but we need to get the entire offense going," Panapada said. "We really need to get our defense going and eliminate any big plays."
More InformationTrinity Catholic (0-1) at Westhill (0-1)
Where: J. Walter Kennedy Stadium, Saturday, 2 p.m.
Players to watch: Westhill -- WR/TE Evan Skoparantzos; QB Ryan Coppola; RB Tyreece Mitchell. Trinity --WR Neno Merritt; RB Randy Polonia; QB Connor Amann
Last year: Trinity defeated Westhill 28-10
Meanwhile, the Crusaders were hurt by both the passing and running attacks of Sheehan, allowing quarterback Justin Lange to complete 14-of-19 passes for 258 yards, including two touchdowns while letting up 186 yards rushing to back Rafael Dominguez.
The Vikings have skill players that could do damage if the line blocks for the running back Tyreece Mitchell and gives quarterback Ryan Coppola time to throw to wideouts Evan Skoparantzos and Dante Fargnoli.
Fargnoli is back after serving a suspension for his part in a fight in a game against Stamford last Thanksgiving.
Trinity will be looking for Polonia to find holes on the ground, hoping to will create passing opportunities for quarterback Connor Amann. The senior signal caller will likely be looking for find wideout Neno Merritt, who just might be the most dangerous athlete on the field if he can get the ball into his hands.
After the loss to Norwalk Marcucio was planning on giving his team Saturday off but he said his players insisted on practicing at 7:30 a.m.
"I was going to give them Saturday off but they wanted to come in and practice," Marcucio said. "I think that says that our guys are getting our message loud and clear."
Trinity was also back on the practice field early Saturday morning and Panapada feels his players are taking the right attitude when it comes to refocusing after a loss.
"The kids responded well," Panapada said. "We went right back to work Saturday and the kids responded how you would like them to coming off a loss. We just need to get better and be more physical."
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About NikeHerc
Mike says, "So we should just your opinion, rather than the data?"
Mike, I think you meant to say, "So we should just [accept] your opinion, rather than the data?"
I have written no papers and have done no explicit research on whether the Internet and television are making everyone smarter, so how do I respond cogently and in fewer words than a dissertation? I can offer a number of personally observed data points and I can offer the wisdom of others. Allow me to present exhibit 1, part of FCC chairman Newton N. Minow's famous 1961 "vast wasteland" speech (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_Speech):
"I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland."
I often wonder what Mr. Minow thinks, fifty years hence, about his "vast wasteland" speech. The number of channels has increased from about three to hundreds, yet the intellectual content of all those channels continues to approach zero asymptotically. Even my all-time favorite program, Nova (PBS), seems to be struggling to find content. If Nova is struggling for content, it surely is not from a lack of suitable subjects!
I have been on the Internet since 1993. When I first began to read Usenet news, I was appalled to discover the level of vitriol in many of the postings, but I was even more dismayed at the level to which written English had fallen: lousy structure, syntax, spelling, the inability of many, many writers to distinguish between their/there, its/it's, to/too, and the list goes on and on.
Eighteen years (nearly a generation) later, I see no noticeable improvement in written English among those Internet users who appear to be native English speakers. If some source or sources have made everyone smarter, where is the evidence?
I taught a college introductory programming class for a number of semesters. In two instances (different semesters), I saw a student try to take the sine of (say) 37 degrees Fahrenheit. Think about that for a moment. Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about that twisted logic. Is the sine of 37 degrees Fahrenheit equal to the cosine of 37 degrees Celsius? Did these students learn their pre-college trigonometry from tv or from the Internet?
I have participated in interviewing many, many people for technical jobs. One young lady interested in a computer operator position tried to impress us with her experience in using [sic] "backup tape cartilages." When I moved to a systems engineering position, I was frankly shocked to see the poor level of mastery of English among the people we interviewed for positions within our group. Did these people, some of whom were technically qualified, learn their English from tv or from the Internet?
When I was in high school, I discovered a particular magazine (perhaps you can guess its name from the following clues) in the school library. This magazine carried articles which I often couldn't understand in spite of the excellent writing and illustrations. (No, it isn't Playboy.) After obtaining two technical degrees in college, I subscribed to this magazine when I discovered I could now understand many of the articles. After enjoying this magazine for years, I was disturbed beyond words to discover in the mid-1990s that the publisher was dumbing down its content. No longer were articles written by holders of PhDs, they were written by journalists. No longer were the columns written by people you had heard of had you been paying attention in class. This was, sadly, my first personally observed data point on the dumbing down of America.
I'd be willing to bet that everyone reading this post can contribute his or her own data point on the dumbing down of America. If tv and the Internet have made everyone smarter, why is America being dumbed down so successfully?
Mike, I refute your one data point ("Could The Internet & Television Be Making Everyone Smarter?") with nearly 30 years of personally observed data points that represent, sadly, the contrary position, and I enlist Mr. Minow in the defense of that position.
I apologize for the length of this posting and sincerely hope I have made my point. If you think I have missed the boat (and that is, of course, entirely possible), I would enjoy reading your rebuttal.
In spite of being a big fan of Mike, I think he's missed the boat on "Could The Internet & Television Be Making Everyone Smarter?"
IMHO, entertainment engenders brain rot. Constant entertainment (irrespective of the source) leads to complete brain rot.
From having taught part time in two colleges and from having interviewed a number of potential job applicants, I really see no evidence to conclude that people are smarter now than, say, twenty years ago; I would, alas, reach the opposite conclusion.
Phone calls have been replaced, in large measure, where I work by an instant messenger app. IM results in large numbers of people thinking you need to respond to them instantly! The phone, OTOH, still gives a busy signal when a second caller tries to reach me.
I'll stick with the phone, thank you very much.
I didn't see pessimism on Mike's part, but I surely felt it.
I did 650 hours of research for a National Park Service cold war web site in the early 2000s. At the end of that work, I felt dirty from discovering a lot of ugly, nasty stuff our government had done during the cold war.
I'm beginning to feel the same way now with the techdirt revelations of how our government has been taken over by moneyed interests. I see no hope for the future.


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Here we are again in Part 3 of our Quinoa series. I hope you saw my previous posts on Quinoa – catch up here and here!
So here's the newest recipe. The last time I was in Whole Foods their cooking coach, Luke, was talking about this fantastic Tuna Tabouli recipe. There are some important things to note here for those that like healthy food options:
1) Tuna Tongol – less mercury than regular tuna and better for you
2) Tuna Tongol can be purchased at Whole Foods in cans near the produce section
3) You can substitute quinoa for bulgar wheat
Below is the recipe. They were handing this out at Whole Foods in small pita rounds which were delicious. I also think it makes a great lunch or dinner snack – right out of the bowl! You can also find the original recipe here. I opted to omit the celery.
Tuna Tabouli
1 cup cooked bulgar wheat (cooked quinoa can be substituted here)
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup parsley
¼ cup EVOO
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 stalks celery (optional)
3 green onions, finely chopped
1 7 oz. can Tongol Tuna
Fluff cooked bulgar wheat or quinoa with fork. Add salt, parsley, EVOO, lemon juice, celery, green onions and tuna and toss together. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, then serve.
Notes from the Host: Bulgur is wheat that has been parboiled, dried, and cracked into small pieces. It comes in fine, medium, and course sizes. Bulgur also cooks very quickly requiring only a thirty minute soak in boiling water. It has more protein, fiber and a lower glycemic index than white rice.
The Moment We've All Been Waiting For:
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1. Leave a comment telling me what you want to try at Whole Foods.
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Christmas Lights in Brea
If you enjoy touring neighborhoods with amazing Christmas Lights displays, you will definitely want to add Eagle Hills in Brea to your "To Do List"! This spectacular neighborhood in Brea is located at Kraemer and Birch one block north of Imperial Highway. You will not be disappointed by the hundreds of homes decorated with Christmas lights and creative displays. I would encourage you to dress warm and park your car nearby and walk the community to really take it in. Pack some hot chocolate and bundle up the kids and load them in their red wagon and stroll through this winter wonderland of lights! Let me know what you think of the awesome lights!
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Do you remember your first
kiss, I sure do. What about the first time you made love with some one, I
remember that too. I remember a lot of my firsts, like the first drop of candle wax landing
on my bare breasts. Some of the things I love the most are being tied and then slowly fucked until I'm
begging for release, but you don't let me, you make me wait until you've
satisfied yourself with my wanton body, only then do you allow me to get off...
Submissive doesn't mean push
over. Oh no, I have one hell of an attitude sometimes. Fiery,
flirty, foxy. For the right man though, I will do anything. I'm 19
years old from Philly. I guess this is typical but I love to shop, dance,
and hang out with my friends. I don't have a boyfriend or a Dom right now.
You could sign up :) I'm accepting applications. I have a thing for
older men, I really like it when they are taller than me, or big teddy bear men.
I want you to be able to
toss me around a little, you have to like it rough sometimes. I am ashamed
to say this but I like sex any way I can get it. If you're into something
I've never done before, I will be so excited to get into it with you. The
reason this turns me on so much is, looks aren't really important. It's
all about the mind, how much you molest my brain that excites me. My
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January 9, 2005
o-sho-gatsu in the mountains
I stayed in Nagano for a week or so to spend the New Year (o-sho-gatsu) holidays with my family, and just got back to my sister's in Tokyo (well, more precisely just out side of it across a river) a few days ago. I haven't been blogging as much as I was wishing to, partly because I was being lazy (that's the way to spend New Year holidays anyways) and partly because I got a bad cold, and more and more because I am being swamped with work which is because I was being a procrastinator. Before it is too out of date, I am posting some pictures of food I had in or from Nagano over the New Year week.
Traditionally, Japanese families would have a set of special New Year' dishes called osechi which is typically arranged in a set of fancy multitiered boxes. Nowadays many people just buy a whole set or part of it from stores or even from restaurants, while there are still some good people who prepare them all by themselves, like this (in Japanese, but you can see the beautifully-presented authentic home-made osechi). And there are quite few people who just skip osechi altogether or just have a few dishes, like my own family. So here don't expect to see anything like traditional Japanese New Year's dishes at all... what I am putting here is simply what I had over the New Year time.
That said, I have to add that we do have a must-have New Year dish: zoni, or soup with rice cake. While it is such a popular New Year dish throughout the nation, its main ingredients (other than rice cake for its own sake) surprisingly vary from one region to another, or from one family to another. Ours is pretty simple: just a few ingredients (typically chicken, carrot, green onion, and mitsuba herb) in a light fish broth.
We usually have this for the New Year's day breakfast "dinner". So did we this year...
... only we didn't have anything else as we were in hurry to get ready to leave for Nagano before noon. Trying to give a celebratory feeling to the one and only dish we had for the supposedly most important breakfast of the year, we garnished it with salmon roes (they're quite a luxury over here).
Then we hurried our way to Nagano, and got there before dark. My mom was busy preparing dinner, but we sat down for a while to have a cup of tea/coffee over a slice of cake I had bought in Tokyo.
Cake roll with mascarpone cheese cream and bruleed custard cream
We wouldn't make a whole set of traditional osechi, but there are a couple of staples that my mom would always make. This is one of them.
Slow-cooked chicken and vegetable pot. A lot of root vegetables along with chicken are gently cooked in a stock. Mom would make a huge potful and as a kid I used to avoid it, but it is now what I miss most when I am not spending a New Year with her.
Sweetened beans. There are a variety of beans we have for this dish, and this time she used a large kind called hana-mame. This is my sister's favorite and she gobbled them down before anyone else could take their time to taste them.
For dessert, we had a large cake that one of my cousins who was with us had brought.
In fact, it was a cake that he made. As a former patissier in profession, he knows how to make a gorgeous entre: chocolate mousse with chopped orange peel on a chocolate sponge, covered with ganache.
Apparently, the person who cut up the cake (myself, that is) didn't know how to do it properly, but it tasted super good nevertheless.
On the following day, we had a small birthday party and did seafood barbecue on the fireplace fire.
We had scallops and prowns along with a LOT of vegetable and mushrooms.
After dinner mom whipped up a quick dessert that she had been talking about from before:
Coffee-poarched apples. Apples and coffees, not tea, have you ever had them together? I hadn't. She had insisted it be good, and I was a half suspicious and half curious... and it turned out pretty good. Apples alone tasted fairly bitter, but together with vanilla ice cream it was yummy. Very unusual though.
That night we had a crab for barbecue but it turned out not to have much meat, so we passed that to the following morning's breakfast miss soup.
Oh I lost track of what I ate on what day... but this was for one of those days.
We have winter specialty dish called nabe, which literary means "pot". Much like zoni, nabe can take any form with potentially endless combination of ingredients special to a specific region or family, and main thing is that they are cooked in a large pot (often earthen pot). This time around mom put chicken, chinese cabbage, green onions, grilled and deep-fried tofu, and enoki mushrooms,
and served it with a whole lot of grated daikon radish along with soy sauce and yuzu juice. Sizzling on the table, a nabe can be the best feast you can have on a cold winter day.
And later I caught a terrible cold and stayed in bed for a while, living on apples.
Nagano is one of the largest producers of apples in Japan, and although I am not from the area myself, I grew up on their excellent apples sent from my relatives there. I am very spoiled and picky when it comes to apples, and had trouble eating spongy and grainy apples sold at a store in Hawaii. These are the apples that I like.
After a while when I was better, I started eating other stuff than apples, and on one day my mom made tempura for lunch.
I have made it very clear that I hate deep-frying. But eating deep-fried dish (that someone else has prepared) is another story: I love it. This day we got shiso, carrots, and enoki tempura served with a light sauce. Nothing is quite like eating sizzling-fresh tempura.
Towards the end of our stay mom made curry. Although Thai and other asian curries are now very popular over here, back in the day "curry" meant those spicy dark brown sauce in a sort of Indian style, and that would be what people make at home. This "curry rice" (curry with rice) has become one of the classic home-made dishes in Japan, and kids, grown-ups and alike all love it (well, most of them).
It is also a dich that he likes a lot. In fact, it might be his most favorite Japanese dish along with chicken karaage. My mom remembered it (probably because he loved it so much last time he was here), and didn't forget to cook a large potful for us.
It was very simple just with beef, onions, potatoes, and carrots, but the slow cooking made everything really tender and disappear into the sauce, which made it realy rich and flavorful. Naturally, it wasn't only him who had seconds.
In the morning of the day we were set to leave Nagano, I baked small loaves of cake in my mom's small kitchen. I chose simple pound cake-like loaves with yuzu and apple, both a harvest of the season. I first microwaved a diced apple with a dash of yuzu juice, and put them in the batter together with grated zest and juice of one and half yuzus.
It was my first attempt to pair the two fruits in cake, but it turned out lovely. The cake itself might have been a bit too dry, but it got better on the following day. Simple but nice little ones.
Oh I ate a whole lot while I was there, and on top of that I got a lot of sweets and snacks as a souvenir for friends and myself. Recently, a number of mass confectioners make "limited versions" of nationwide products specially for a specific area. If you are not familiar with such Japanese sweet products you might not see what I am talking about, but you will probably know this one at least:
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Apple KitKat. KitKat's got a lot of limited-time-only varieties with different flavors over here (in the past there have been banana, berries, pineapple, etc), and this is Nagano area only version. It did have a flavor of apple, and I liked it.
These are called Baby Star, deep-fried noodle snack flavored to resemble real noodle dish like ramen.
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Nagano specials are those of soba (buckwheat) noodle with wasabi and chili pepper mix. Personally I like wasabi one a lot, but he said it was too much of wasabi.
Like I said, Nagano is known for apples, and lot of products use or feature apple. This is another such variation in candy-coated chocolate.
Chocolate inside is apple-flavored. Is it? I suppose so.
And here is my latest favorite sweet I never miss whenever I am here; walnut meringue cookies. Nagano is also known for good walnuts, and there are equally lots of sweets using walnuts.
(Mouse over to open the package)
This isn't a mass-produced product like the above three, but from a local confectionery called Hanaoka. It is a very light baked meringue with walnut bits, and once I have opened a bag it is really hard to stop before emptying it at once. I don't care for baked meringue in general, but this is a special exception.
It's a nice and quiet, beautiful little mountain village where my mom lives. I wish I could have stayed there longer, and wish I could visit my mom more often.
And now, back to work. (sigh)
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Hi, it's Mariko/supereggplant. I am so hungry now after reading your post! All that food looks so delicious. Great photos. A friend sent me the limited edition matcha Kit Kat, and it was really good! Glad you had a nice trip. Happy New Year!
- 11:50 AM, January 09, 2005
- Cathy said...
Hi Chika - so much delicious looking food! The tempura is beautiful - at first I thought this was a picture of the vegetables before frying. I always thought tempura involved a batter of some sort, it appears these have none - are the vegetables just fried in oil with no embelishment? They look so great - I'll bet they taste great too!
- 2:32 PM, January 09, 2005
- fish fish said...
I tried the Shinshu Apple version too. It was not bad... but still think the Uji Maccha version better. :P
- 9:40 PM, January 09, 2005
- Reid said...
Hi Chika,
Sorry to hear that you've been feeling under the weather too. Here's to wishing you a speedy recovery.
For New Years, since my grandmother is half-Okinawan, we normally have sparerib soup, nishime and konbu maki. Since I was sick, I made some nishime for myself. It was OK, but not as good as my grandmother's. =(
- 12:09 AM, January 10, 2005
- marezone said...
Apple KitKat?! Very tempting.
- 6:38 PM, January 10, 2005
- obachan said...
I didn't know there was such a thing as Shinshu Apple KitKat. Hmmmm, another thing that's following the path of Kitty-chan, pretz and pocky…
Seafood barbeque on the fireplace fire in winter!! Absolutely my dream life *--- sigh ---*
- 8:31 PM, January 10, 2005
Hi Chika :),
it´s always interesting to get to know more about the specialities in other countries and also about the varieties of food... In Germany you can only buy KitKat in the chocolate type...
There you can see how poor the ability to be open to new tastes is in Germany.... In (nearly) all asian food restaurants here in Germany you get only "westerned" dishes.... Here in Hanover I only know ONE sushi restaurant that serves real good sushi... I think that´s very very poor.... :((((
By the way: Your photos are great! Whta kind of camera are you using???
Greetings Anke :))
- 11:13 PM, January 10, 2005
- Anthony said...
What a great post. I think there's a whole month of food blogging crammed in there. The only thing that's missing are those 2 litre bottles of Nikka Whiskey and Shochu everyone seemed to buy. I've got a soft spot for kare raisu as it is the number one Japanese roadhouse food. The kit kat story made me smile, I remeber telling me that Pocky enthusiasts would travel to Nagano to get unusual flavours they couldn't get in Tokyo.
- 1:35 AM, January 11, 2005
happened to pop by via the 1000recipes link... my! i am drooling over your delectable pictures!
- 8:50 AM, January 11, 2005
- Zarah Maria said...
Your pictures are to die for Chika! Thanks for making my day a lot prettier!
- 8:56 AM, January 12, 2005
- chika said...
Hi there,
Mariko - Thanks! I like the match KitKat too, and there are a whole lot of matcha-flavored chocolates out there I can't even keep up ;P
Happy happy New Year to you, too!
Cathy - If some thing is called tempura, it had definitely got to be battered, like you suspected. And these tempura of my mom's were battered, too, though it might be hard to spot it. I like tempuras with a thin coating of batter like these, instead of thick, fat, and thus oily ones...
fish fish - o that's because you're in Kyoto! ;)
But seriously I like matcha KitKat, too. I also like Kyoto-only matcha "collons" as well.
Reid - Thanks for your kind comments, I think I am well now.
I don't think I have ever had spareib soup... is it Okinawan dish? Sounds good. I like nishime too, but mine would never beat my mom's, really.
marezone - year it was good (I've still got some)!
obachan - I wonder what they made over there in Kochi. Tosa-joyu KitKat? (just kidding, I'd rather have yuzu KitKat if they ever make such a thing)
Anke - O I'm jealous of you, I miss good German bread, cold meat, cheese, and wines... you guys got such a rich food culture of your own, too! I think Japanese people are fond of introducing foreign food into our culture and sort of putting together, while some part of us are very conservative and do adhere to "pure" traditionals.
I have been using a Nikon CoolPix 2500 for two years now, but it is basically broken and I have to buy a new one.
Anthony - thanks, I think this actually was a week full of blogging :P O it was toooooooo bad we were missing Nikka Whiskey and Shochus, but there was a bunch of sake and beers.
Kare raisu and ramen, they are what you get everywhere you go :I
someone - thanks a lot!
Zarah Maria - thank you, too!
- 4:03 AM, January 16, 2005
Apple kitkat?? I collect kitkat flavours and wrappers, would anyone be willing to sell me some? via ebay or oherwise?
Posted by SAM
- 8:49 AM, February 01, 2005
Okinawan spare rib soup - SOKI SOBA. YUM! With some shichimi togarashi. even better...
Posted by kijimuna
- 10:20 PM, February 06, 2005
Hi kijimuna-san,
Okinawan spare rib soup is like soki-soba minus soba (noodle)? I think I'd like that...
Posted by chika
- 7:09 PM, February 09, 2005
i was in nagano for new year's, it was so amazing! had a traditional nagano new year's eve dinner, and a tokyo new year's day. of course we had the best soba at new year's. it was great. my first trip to japan and a memorable one. and yes, i can never look at another apple again!
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Mike Kingswood of Homes by Kingswood called the effort the "silver lining" to the disaster that destroyed irreplaceable memories and belongings. Now, however, he said, those homeowners who were properly insured are rebuilding better homes, on better foundations, with better heating systems. Most of the homes destroyed in the fire were older and had issues with foundations and heating.
Homeowners who are rebuilding now will "end up with a brand-new home that they wanted," he said. "It's helped the building situation here."
Additionally, the rebuilding is having a trickle-down effect. And businesses such as Estes Park Lumber are benefiting.
"It's definitely providing a boost for the local construction economy," Kingswood said.
There will be other benefits, too. Most likely, most of the rebuilt homes will have higher property values, because they are being built with higher values than before. Kingswood said the three homes he is rebuilding range between $250,000 and $280,000 in value for construction.
"We provide the best value we can," he said.
One of the homes on Narcissus is costing $125 per square foot to rebuild, he said.
On the other side of the positive coin, there is likely to be a Larimer County property reassessment, resulting in higher property taxes, Kingswood said.
The first home in Colorado Springs is also starting to be rebuilt after the Waldo Canyon fire this summer, Kingswood said. Homes by Kingswood is currently framing two homes on Narcissus -- at 1464 and 1466 Narcissus -- in the Woodland Heights fire area, off High Drive.
The home at 1464 Narcissus, owned by Dale and Peggy Beck, was in the pipeline quickly, Kingswood said, because his company had remodeled it in 2008 and they still had the plans and costs for that remodel. Therefore, it was relatively easy to get going and deal with the insurance companies. That they had plans and costs "helped speed up the insurance," Kingswood said.
Asked whether the insurance companies have been less than helpful in other instances, Kingswood replied that it's hit and miss, depending on the policy and company.
The Kingswood homes being rebuilt are "moving really fast," he said. The framing is being done or completed already, and he expects the construction to be complete by the end of January, 2013.
His company has placed a high priority on building time, he said.
"From a business aspect, it's important to me to be timely and keep the job moving. People are anxious to get back into their homes," Kingswood said.
Both of the property owners who are rebuilding on Narcissus have other places to live presently, he added.
The process of rebuilding begins once the insurance company has settled with the policy holder, and provides funds to cover the loss. The companies, in these instances, deemed that the total structures and contents -- including the foundations -- were lost. The property owners received checks for the cleanup, separate from the rebuild. Kingswood said he obtained bids for the site cleanup and haul away of the debris, to environmental standards (asbestos, etc.), which requires a certain protocol. That all happened quickly, he said. Additionally, the pro-bono group Samaritan's Purse helped with the cleanup. Forest Service personnel identified the trees and vegetation that needed to be removed. Negotiations with insurance companies continued during the cleanup. Estimates were provided, and design work began.
Building permits were acquired, where necessary. Kingswood said Larimer County officials were very accommodating. They kept extra people on hand to help speed up the permit process, he said, which allowed things to proceed a week or two faster than normal. One official was about to retire and stayed on to help with the extra load of permits, Kingswood said.
In addition to the three homes Kingswood is rebuilding, he said there are about six or seven other homes in the process of reconstruction now -- and other local builders involved, including Gregg Construction, Kendall Construction, Darling, Docter and Frank White Construction.
In the old subdivision of Narcissus, there were a lot of nonconforming-to-building-code issues, Kingswood said. Generally, in a natural disaster, owners are allowed to rebuild a nonconforming building, if it stays within the same footprint, if there are no other options, he added. The rebuilt homes will have to meet current fire code standards, he noted. The homes will be improved, by way of the design, for life-safety issues, including fire-resistant construction, egress, smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. Kingswood said some insurance companies don't always cover upgrades, but there have been no problems, so far.
He provided the following advice to homeowners: "Make sure you are insured properly and be aware of replacement costs and make sure they are adequate in terms of building costs. Document your possessions; use video cameras and smartphones. Take lots of pictures. Do it electronically and store it on another device, elsewhere. Put in on a CD, in a fireproof box."
Of the Woodland Heights fire site, Kingswood said that, once it was cleaned up, it was just like building another house. Revegetation is up to the individual, and depends on the homeowner's insurance policy. Part of the settlements in these cases included replacement of vegetation, he said.


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From a global demographic standpoint, our generation and those of our parents and grand-parents, experienced the most profound shifts in human history ever. Assuming your grandparents were born around 100 years ago, the world they came into consisted of less than 2 billion people. When I was in primary school, that figure had doubled to 4; I remember apocalyptic projections and calls to stop such uncontrolled population growth. Today, the world is home to almost 7.2 billion people and demographic doomsday scenarios have not materialized.
Although human suffering remains tragically widespread, the world is undoubtedly a much better place today than it was 100 years ago. An average person is healthier, better educated and wealthier than his or her grandparents. Strong growth in poor and emerging nations has fostered the emergence of a global middle class, even in Africa. In most parts of the world, the Millennium Development Goals will also be reached. There are few places left on earth where universal primary enrollment and vaccination have not been achieved, with the associated spectacular drops in child mortality.
These remarkable achievements are neatly captured in one single indicator of human welfare, which matters to us all: life expectancy. When they were born, our grandparents could expect to live about 50 years. Today the global average is about 70 years (and 80 years in the advanced economies). The most spectacular improvements happened in East Asia, which was the poorest region of the world until the 1980s. Today, life expectancy in East Asia is 74 years, excluding Japan the place in the world where people live longest.
What will happen over the next decades? Will rapid population growth continue forever? Will we eventually reach a tipping point when the world will no longer be able to accommodate all of us and will development gains of the past be reversed?
Rapid population growth will continue certainly for another 50 years and most likely until 2100. However the pattern and drivers of this growth will change significantly. The average number of children per family is actually shrinking worldwide and even in almost all of Africa. As a result, the number of young people (below 15 years) is basically stagnating. There are almost 2 billion youth on the globe, a number which will remain broadly constant until 2050. Adults below 65 years are therefore driving current and future population growth. This age group has been rising rapidly from 3 billion (mid 1980s) to more than 4.5 billion today and 5 billion by 2020 (see figure). With a rising work-force and shrinking number of (un-productive) dependents, the world can reap a major global demographic dividend.
Source: Projections by Emi Suzuki, based on UN World Population Prospects 2012 revision
Some regions of the world have already 'cashed in' on their demographic dividend and are now facing the opposite challenge. Many European countries are actually shrinking continuously, a first ever in human history. My home country Germany is the largest "shrinker" and can expect to lose 15 percent of its population and almost 30 percent of its workforce until 2050 if no compensating measures are taken.
These opposing demographic trajectories across regions of the world are resulting in massive shifts in the global distribution of populations. Until 2050, Africa and Asia will contribute 90 percent of total global population growth. By that time Europe will have 'shrunk' to a meager 8 percent of global headcount (vs. 13 percent today). The contrast is the most extreme with Sub-Saharan Africa: in 1965, there were two Europeans for every African; since the late 1990s Africans have outnumbered Europeans and by 2030, the initial ratio will have been reversed.
Over the summer I moved from Africa to Europe, from a booming continent to a declining one. The challenges here and there (and possible solutions) could not be more different. The North is facing a challenge with the elderly, the South with the youth. In the former, people must be kept at work, even beyond the traditional retirement age. In the latter, it's all about bringing youths into the workforce.
While world population kept growing the world has become a much smaller place in so many respects. Urbanization and communication have connected us in unprecedented and unimaginable ways opening up opportunities to engage in global dialogues. Theoretically, it is now possible to reach the most remote person on the planet with knowledge that can change his or her life. Future development cannot be imposed by a few elites at the top. Instead it will come from more knowledge exchanges with people connecting, engaging, challenging and innovating. Because of the global demographic dividend and almost ubiquitous connectivity there are now many more global citizens that can participate in such development debates. This blog's ambition is to be such a platform.
Well articulated article.
Well articulated article. Countries with a high proportion of youth must endeavor to get the youth into the labor. Paradoxically, my home country has a high youth population but the government is in the processes of increasing the retirement age. I think the world bank and the other multilateral organizations must advise these countries to reform their pension systems and put in place interventions that draw the unemployed youth in the labor force. Otherwise country like mine will not be able to cash in on the demographic dividend.
Thanks for an interesting
Thanks for an interesting thought. Pension system reform is indeed at the core of demographic challenges of many of the richer economies. However, it is important to understand that an economy can grow and add new jobs. Employing younger and older people at same time is no contradiction; often the combination actually makes the workplace richer. More people do not mean more unemployment. Germany is the largest country in the EU and has one of the lowest rates of unemployment
In most countries in the world there is a lot of work to do. Kids need to be taught and vaccinated, elderly to be taken care of, and roads to be built, and much more. This need for work is not always translated into jobs. This is where government policies come in. The better public services are delivered and the easier it is for business to operate, the more jobs will be created.
Interesting piece indeed,
Interesting piece indeed, Wolfgang. You are certainly right that when the first window of demographic opportunity becomes available, it must be accompanied by adequate policies if it is to be captured to its fullest extent. East and Southeast Asian countries stand apart from the rest of the world because of their extremely fast fertility transitions. In 1960, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand had total fertility rates (TFR) greater than or equal to five children per woman (and higher than six in Thailand). In 2010, all these countries had TFRs lower than replacement level (2.1 children per woman), and most of them had already reached such low levels in the 1990s. During the same time, these countries benefited from spectacular economic growth rates and were dubbed the Asian Tigers. Public authorities in Asia seized the opportunity. They complemented demographic changes with sound policies facilitating public and private investment in human capital. The economic policies of the Asian Tigers varied widely from one country to another. Some elements, such as sound macroeconomic management, were common, but others factors, such as degree of the government's intervention in the economy, were different (Hong Kong's laissez-faire vs. Singapore's more proactive stance is a classic example). What was, in my view, common is that all these countries converged during the demographic transition towards the institutional frontier of the developed world (roughly speaking, the norms of the OECD countries), and this was most conducive to economic growth. For example, China's institutions are nowadays more similar to institutions of any OECD country than they were 40 years ago under Mao's rule, even though they are still quite different from institutions of these countries. The Asian Tigers were probably converging to different points on that frontier, having chosen different convergence paths. The fact that they were doing so during the period of demographic dividend resulted in outcomes larger than the simple sum of the demographic dividend and the "institutional convergence dividend."
What are specific policy areas important for maximizing the demographic dividend? The dividend can work in three ways: when share of working-age people in the population increases, any growth in the gross domestic product (GDP) per worker may result in higher growth in GDP per capita; savings rate may go up as more people of working age also means more savers; and investments in human capital per child may increase because the number of child dependents per worker goes down. Hence, first, macroeconomic policies and business environment need to be improved to create incentives for investing larger domestic savings as well as foreign savings into economy, and creating more jobs by doing so. Second, the financial sector needs to be developed to provide intermediation of savings into investments. Third, sensible labor laws need to be put in place to encourage formal employment, including the laws on gender equality. And, fourth, social services such as health and education need to be expanded and strengthened to maximize benefits of higher investments in human capital per child.
As Robert Solow once pointed out, "a list of ingredients is not a recipe" and for different countries recipes will be different – in a sense that the policy ingredients listed above and standard population policy components will need to be mixed in various proportions, depending on specific circumstances. The good news is that the causality between fertility decline and acceleration of economic growth goes in both directions during the window of the demographic dividend. Once the demographic transition has started, the virtuous circle might well be achieved.
Finally, another important point is that very rapid population growth does involve risks, particularly for the landlocked countries. More on this here:
Dear Anton,
Dear Anton,
Thank you very much for your insights, almost worthy of a blog post in its own right!
You make an important point: Favorable demographics are no guarantee for economic take-off and there remain huge variations and trajectories of fertility declines (or the lack thereof) across the regions of the world.
This leads me to another point. The global demographic dividend is naturally just an average that hides a lot of variation between and within countries. However, it also shows at that the same time that these opposing challenges (e.g. youth bulge versus aging) could also have global solutions, e.g. through smarter immigration policies.
Thanks for a great piece of
Thanks for a great piece of work - thought provoking and constructive! If not a game changer, at least a very sound mind opener which brings new perspectives of how development partners and partner governments can approach some of the critical development challenges in a slightly different way. Human resources should be considered the greatest resources in any development context and - as the article clearly argues - the "growers" cannot be taken for granted, forever!
Great and thought-provoking
Great and thought-provoking article. If not a "game changer" at least a mind opener for us practicioners in development. I particularly like that we need to change our perspective regarding "shrinkers" and "growers". Human reources are the greatest asset in any development context and we need to capitalise on that. The "growers" cannot be taken for granted for ever and developing countries need to make most out of the human resources' comparative advantage.
Many thanks Anders. Even
Many thanks Anders. Even though the World is still growing rapidly adding the equivalent of another Germany every year, we are about to reach a tipping point where actual population growth (which is still substantial) is slowing down.
Interesting article, but also
Interesting article, but also a little worrying and thought provoking. As an African, at 60 yrs old, my grandfather had about 20 grandchildren. My father is about this age now with only 3 grandchildren and what is even more interesting is there are only about 10 great grandchildren for my grandfather. The question is, have we cashed in on the demographic dividend? I think not. Is there still time to do so? Perhaps, but African governments need to act fast.
While demographics are important, policies are equally important. For example, a large population of semi skilled and non skilled workers with very high wages, may make it hard to cash in on the demographics so to speak. Therefore a look at demographics should go hand in hand with several other important issues.
Thank you for your wonderful
Thank you for your wonderful illustration of your own family's "demographic transition", even though yours is even more radical than in the more typical African family.
While some countries may have already benefitted from the demographic dividend, the biggest opportunities are yet to come, especially in Africa, because life expectancy is still catching up. However, as you highlight, the demographic transition creates an opportunity – no guarantee of success (see also the contribution by Anton D above) – and policy makers can use this opportunity or squander it. One critical example is the management of urban centers, a challenge that also results from changing demographics.
It is also important to note that despite the decline in fertility (typically not as extreme as in your case but very real everywhere) the total number of children in your country will still rise. Why? Due to the "base effect". There are many more potential mothers and fathers in their 20s and 30s today due to their parents' higher number of children. Even if these young families are smaller the total number of children should still rise.
It is so refreshing to see an
It is so refreshing to see an article that at least touches upon some of the potential benefits of a more even distribution of demographic age groups. To really take advantage, though, we need to make some decisions as societies about what being part of the 65+ demographic should mean.
That sort of recalculation is not simple; fertility, variations within countries, and urbanization are all important to the broader demographic picture. I would caution that 80% of the world's older people do not receive a pension, so pension reform alone is not adequate either. Thanks for tackling this subject as one of your first blogs - it is so important!
To read more about our potential as we age, check out the HelpAge International and UNFPA-published report "Ageing in the 21st Century: A Celebration and A Challenge": http://www.helpage.org/resources/ageing-in-the-21st-century-a-celebration-and-a-challenge/
Thanks for your encouraging
Thanks for your encouraging response, especially as you are raising a critical point of the type of work people are engaged today (compared to their parents and grandparents). There are more and more people, including in my organization, who enjoy their work and want to stay on (voluntarily) beyond the retirement age.
Passion certainly does not
Passion certainly does not diminish with age! Your colleagues' commitment is inspiring, but not surprising. The deeper question is really one on the labor market. As populations age, it's likely that people will have to wait longer to receive a pension and that the transition from work to retirement will be less binary – more of a transition into retirement. If we work towards that, it will be key to make sure labor markets overall can adapt to an older workforce.


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text: CHICAGO (AP) — The Kansas City Royals got everything they envisioned from James Shields — except the win. For that, they can't blame him. Shields got outpitched by Chris Sale, Tyler Flowers homered and the White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 1-0 in the season opener on Monday. "Today, we just got outplayed overall and you've got to tip your hat to Sale over there," Shields said. The White Sox believe they're in position to make a run at the AL Central title even though they made no splashy additions while the rest of the division loaded up. They're off to a good start after a late fade left them three games behind Detroit a year ago. A dominant performance by Sale and Flowers' drive leading off the fifth against Shields were just enough to beat a team that's trying to make a big jump after finishing with a losing record 17 of the past 18 seasons. It also gave the White Sox a rare win over the Royals, who took 12 of 18 from them a year ago. Shields (0-1) was a tough-luck loser even though he gave the Royals exactly what they envisioned when they acquired him from Tampa Bay. The former All-Star lasted six innings, allowing just one run and eight hits while striking out six without a walk. Along with the addition of Ervin Santana from the Los Angeles Angels and the re-signing of Jeremy Guthrie after he dazzled in a short stint with Kansas City last season, the Royals believe they have the arms to challenge reigning division champion Detroit and make the playoffs for the first time since the 1985 championship season. "That's exactly what I expect," manager Ned Yost said. "We get further into the year and he'd go back out. That's how good he was throwing the ball. Early, I limit them to 100 pitches. Guys like James and Santana and Guthrie take your 100 pitches and go to work." Sale (1-0) showed the form that made him a 17-game winner and an All-Star in his first season as a starter. On a chilly day when the game-time temperature was 44, he allowed just seven hits and struck out seven while walking one. Sale got an assist in the seventh when second baseman Gordon Beckham dived to his right to snag Lorenzo Cain's line drive with a runner on first, and he left to a standing ovation after Alcides Escobar's single with two outs in the eighth. Nate Jones came in and, after Escobar stole second, threw a wild pitch while walking Billy Butler to put runners on first and third. Matt Thornton then struck out Mike Moustakas on three pitches to end the threat, and Addison Reed worked the ninth for the save. Sale, meanwhile, backed up the White Sox's decision to reward him with a new five-year deal this spring and the opening day start. "I think a lot of stuff's been thrown at him in spring training," manager Robin Ventura said. "He gets the contract, he gets the opening day. There's a lot of expectations of him, but that all comes with it." He said Sale has "come along great." And Butler was impressed: "He's been pitching pretty well the last year and had another really good game out there." So did Shields. Chicago finally broke through when Flowers drove a high 2-2 changeup out to left-center leading off the fifth. It was his first homer since he went deep against Kansas City last Sept. 8, and for Shields, it was a costly pitch. Otherwise, Yost summed it up with this comment: "Oh man, dynamic pitching on both sides all day, really. Sale was phenomenal, James Shields was phenomenal. The difference in the game was one high change up and that was it." Notes: White Sox LHP John Danks said he hasn't experienced any setbacks in his recovery from shoulder surgery. "I'm still working up from surgery," he said. "I'm not even seven months (removed from it). We put a put a pretty generous, quick timetable on it. I was disappointed. I truly thought I was going to be ready. We just ran out of time." Danks started last year's opener, but made just nine starts — all before mid-May — and had surgery Aug. 6 to repair a capsule tear and remove debris in his rotator cuff and biceps. He plans to go back to Arizona for more workouts and will go on a rehab assignment before he returns. "As it sits right now, he feels good, which is a positive," general manager Rick Hahn said. ... Santana makes his Royals debut Wednesday, with Jake Peavy starting for Chicago.


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Demo: Better Ways to Browse the Internet From Your TV
This morning's sessions at Demo Spring 2010 included a couple of very interesting demos of technology designed to connect your TV and the Internet.
GlideTV showed its Navigator (pictured above), a handheld remote designed to makes it easier to surf the Internet on your TV. It has a touch pad and buttons that make it easier to zoom or pan a page, as well as a search button. The company has software as well, designed to organize video content on the Internet, and that works with the handheld remote. Currently, this works via a PC connected to your TV, though eventually I could see it bundled into sets as well. It looked quite good.
Hillcrest Labs introduced Kylo, a new Web browser designed for the TV. The company also showed off the Loop pointer, its unique round remote for the TV. The free browser looked quite good, being more set up for TV usage than typical PC browsers because it doesn't have the little buttons common to PC applications as it is designed for the "lean-back" TV-watching experience. Again, it looks very nice, and currently runs on a PC connected to your TV. I could eventually see it bundled in sets. But there are some concerns: The company pointed out that Hulu is currently blocked in its browser.
Nyoombl has a device that's designed to bring video conferencing to the TV. It has applications designed for TVs and PCs. It looked ok, but my guess is it will face a lot of competition from existing video conferencing applications, such as Skype, that are beginning to be built into TVs.
I think that's the big challenge for most of these companies. We're beginning to see Internet features and applications being built into TVs, and that's a much simpler solution that attaching an external PC or indeed any other device (though I think "set-top" boxes are going to be around for a long time, because the big cable, phone, and satellite operators want them). But my guess is most other people don't want another box.


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High Holy Day services at Congregation Beth Yam
Congregation Beth Yam will hold High Holy Day services. The High Holy Days start Aug. 31 at 10 p.m. This special service will be preceded by a reception at 8 p.m. and a discussion led by Rabbi Brad Bloom at 9 p.m. On Sept. 1, there will be a Teshuvah bike ride at 4 p.m.
Rosh Hashanah observances will begin at sundown Sept. 4, with an evening service at 8 p.m. On Sept. 5, morning services will begin at 10 a.m. There will be a family service at 2 p.m., followed by a Tashlich observance at Jarvis Creek Park at 3:30 p.m. There will be another service at 10 a.m. Sept. 6 for the second day of Rosh Hashanah.
Yom Kippur week begins with a service held at Six Oaks Cemetery at 10 a.m. Sept. 8. The Yom Kippur evening service will be held at 8 p.m. Sept. 13 at Congregation Beth Yam.
The morning Yom Kippur service will be held at 10 a.m. Sept. 14 followed by a family service at 2 p.m., an afternoon service at 3:30 p.m. and an evening Yizkor and Ne'ilah service at 5 p.m. A break-the-fast meal will be served at 6:30 p.m. Reservations are required.
Congregation Beth Yam is located at 4501 Meeting Street on Hilton Head Island. For more information, go to www.bethyam.org or call 689-2178.
Fundraiser for Friends of Bluffton Dog Park
Ligato's Fine Jewelry is hosting a fundraiser for the Friends of Bluffton Dog Park during September. All proceeds from battery replacements will be donated to the group. Ligato's Fine Jewelry is located at 80 Baylor Drive in the Publix shopping center. Store hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Blood drive Sept. 4
The Hospital Auxiliary of Coastal Carolina and Hilton Head Hospitals will sponsor a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 4 in Hilton Head Hospital's parking lot. The blood will be collected by The Blood Alliance, which is a nonprofit community blood bank.
All the collected blood stays in the community for use by local friends, family and neighbors. For more information, call 689-8246.
Mighty 8th Air Force meeting Tuesday
The 8th Air Force Historical Society will meet Tuesday at the National Museum of the Mighty 8th Air Force in Pooler. A cash bar will open at 5:30 p.m. and dinner begins at 7 p.m.
Several speakers will participate in a tribute to the late General Lewis Lyle, a command pilot in the 8th Air Force during World War II and the National Museum of the Mighty 8th Air Force founder. The presentations will be led by Bud Porter.
The dinner costs $15. Reservations are required. Please call Betty Smith at 912-920-2956 before 5 p.m. Sunday.
Relay for Life golf tournament Monday
Hardeeville Parks and Recreation Department is hosting a Relay for Life Charity Golf Tournament Aug. 19 at Island West Golf Club, 40 Island West Dr. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., with tee-off at 9 a.m. The cost is $75, which includes entry into all events, 18 holes of golf, riding cart, lunch and various awards.
To find out more about sponsorship or pre-register for the event, contact Addison Jarrell at 784-223.
Hilton Head Senior Center grand opening Sept. 20
The Island Recreation Association will celebrate the grand opening of the Hilton Head Senior Center at 10 a.m. Sept. 20. The new address is 58 Shelter Cove Lane, Suite L.
The center opened its doors to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday on Aug. 1. It will serve the active and diverse senior population with programs ranging from socials and trips to various educational classes, seminars and health screenings provided by the Hilton Head Hospital.
The Hilton Head Island Computer Club has moved with the center to the new location and offers computer assistance, classes and seminars. Call 785-6444 or go to www.islandreccenter.org for more information.
August AARP driver safety course
The AARP driver safety 6-hour course will be held 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 26 at Hidden Cypress. Learn how to deal with the realities and dangers of driving as people age. Find out about new laws, changes in the law, gated community and insurance requirements and to best deal with road reconstruction issues.
For insurance certification please bring your driver's license, your AARP number and lunch. The cost is $12 for members and $14 for non-members. For more information, call Joyce Tartow at 705-5692 or email email@example.com or sign in Pinckney Hall.
Literacy group needs tutors
Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry is seeking volunteer tutors to work with adults to help the adult students learn basic literacy skills. There will be a volunteer information session on Aug. 8 from 10 a.m to noon or 6-8 p.m. at Hilton Head Learning Center, 4 Oak Drive. Follow up tutor training workshops will be held on Aug. 13-15 and Sept. 10, 24, with an online training session. Tutors are encouraged to attend one information session and training workshop to become a certified tutor.
For more information, contact Marie Lewis at 815-6616 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra to host kitchen tour
The League of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra is hosting a tour of six kitchens in Wexford and Long Cove from noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 29. Each kitchen will host a chef featuring one of his renowned dishes.
Tickets are $40 per person. Tickets are available now by calling Fran Hubbell at 681-4635 or by going to www.hhso.org and downloading a reservation form. After Aug. 15, tickets will be available at Burke's Pharmacy and Le Cookery in Hilton Head and Markel's in Bluffton. Make checks payable to the HHSO and mail to the League of the HHSO, P. O. Box 6095, Hilton Head Island.
Hope Haven offers support group
Hope Haven of the Lowcountry is offering a support group for parents and caregivers of children who have been sexually or physically abused. Caregivers can share their experiences and gain insight and support from other caregivers who share similar experiences.
The group will meet weekly on Tuesdays from 12:30-1:30 p.m. and will be facilitated by a therapist. Hope Haven of the Lowcountry is located at 69 Robert Smalls Parkway, Beaufort fourth floor of the Regions Bank building. The group is offered free of charge. To participate in the group or receive more information, please contact Marian Lindsey at 524-2256.
Free eye exams available
Med-I-Assist is providing free eye exams and single lens or bifocal glasses for low income people who do not have insurance or are otherwise unable to pay for them.
Med-I-Assist is located at 141 Goethe Road, Bluffton and is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The eye exams and glasses are only available through the Med-I-Assist approved optometrist and vision center. Call for an appointment at 757-4818.
Spanish books needed
Johanna Holm of the Barkin' Basement, a thrift shop in Ridgeland which helps to support the Jasper Animal Rescue Mission would like to offer more Spanish books to its customers. Anyone wishing to donate can call 717-2088 and the Barkin' Basement will arrange for a pick-up. The store is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Barkin' Basement is located at 10876 N. Jacob Smart Boulevard, Ridgeland.
'A Savannah Anthology' writing contest deadline Thursday
Entries are needed for the 2013 issue of "A Savannah Anthology." The writing contest is open to residents of Georgia and South Carolina.
Fiction and non-fiction entries up to 5,000 words will be considered. Deadline for the contest is midnight Thursday. Entries must be submitted through the Savannah Authors website using the template and biography sheet available. There is an entry fee of $10 per entry.
The first place winner will receive $100, second place $50 and third place $25. Certificates of merit will be given to those receiving honorable mention. The contest is a project of Savannah Authors, a Savannah-based writing group. More information about the contest may be found at savannahauthors.org.
For more information, contact Alice Vantrease at 912-308-3208.
May River to perform 'Johnny Mercer & Me'
The May River Theatre Co., Inc. will perform "Johnny Mercer & Me" at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 23 and at 3 p.m. Sunday and Aug. 25. "Johnny Mercer & Me" explores the tormented life of popular American songwriter and singer John Herndon.
The play is a look at fame, the limitations of love and the struggle of women in a male-dominated world.
Reserve seating can be purchased through Aug. 23 by calling the box office at 815-5581. Box office hours are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. All tickets are $25. General information about the May River Theatre can be found at www.mayrivertheatre.com or by calling 705-3833.
Free balance screening and fall risk assessments
Hilton Head Hospital is offering a free balance screening and fall risk assessment for those 55 years old and older or any adult who has a fear of falling.
The balance screening and fall risk assessment consists of 15 activities which will help assess a person's risk of falling; performing activities related to standing, sitting and picking up objects.
The assessments take place from 2-4 p.m. at the Hilton Head Hospital outpatient rehabilitation center, 24 Bethea Drive on Tuesday and Sept. 17. To schedule an appointment, call 877-582-2737. Registration is required, walk-ins will not be permitted.
Volunteers in Medicine needs volunteers
Bluffton-Jasper County Volunteers in Medicine seeks volunteers. As a clinic that provides free health care to the uninsured, the services include general medical, gynecology, diabetic care, nutrition counseling, patient assistance programs and more.
The clinic is in need of additional doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, and administrative personnel. Qualified volunteers are needed to add to the staff. To volunteer, contact Karen Lavery at email@example.com or call 706-7090.
'Too Big to Fail' showing Feb. 22
The Lowcountry Dream Council is offering a free showing of "Too Big to Fail" on Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. The documentary will be shown at the Technical College New River Campus, 100 Community College Drive. It is based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's non-fiction book about a close look behind the scenes. The movie is 98 minutes. For more information, call Jim Hoener at 705-5909.


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