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crayon,any drawing material available in stick form. The term includes charcoal, conte crayon, chalk, pastel, grease crayon, litho crayon, and children's wax colors. The pigment is often bound with gum tragacanth or wax, and the sticks are wrapped in paper or embedded in wood.
(graphic arts)
A small stick for drawing, usually made of a combination of pigments or dyes in a wax or oil medium.
1. a small stick or pencil of charcoal, wax, clay, or chalk mixed with coloured pigment
2. a drawing made with crayons
Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender). Systems types who have a Unix background tend not to be described as crayons.
A computron that participates only in number crunching.
A unit of computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1. There is a standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.


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Google unveils voice-controlled Android Auto
- 26 June, 2014 04:17
With Android Auto on a smartphone connected to the car, users can access navigation, traffic info and music in their cars via voice.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google is bringing its Android mobile operating system to one more thing that you use every day -- your car.
The company announced today during its annual Google I/O developers conference that it's working on what it dubbed Android Auto, a platform that uses voice activation to give drivers access to navigation, traffic updates and their music.
With the help of Android apps on your smartphone, your car soon will operate like another Android device.
"It looks and feels like it's part of the car, but all of the apps are running on the phone," said Google director of engineering Patrick Brady, during the conference's opening keynote session. "This makes it a personalized experience."
Google announced that the Android Auto SDK (software development kit), with a full set of APIs for audio and messaging apps, is in the works. Android Auto is set to be released later this year.
"We're really excited to bring these great experiences into the car but we want developers to come along for the ride," Brady said.. "Wouldn't it be great if building an app for your car was a s easy as building an app for your smartphone."
Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, said this is a great move for Google to make.
"I like Android Auto a lot," he said. "It is helping to fix the biggest issue in the car -- paying attention. The linchpin is the quality of the speech command and control, which is improving, but not great."
He also likes that the apps will reside on the user's phone, instead of directly in the car.
"Drivers want the latest and greatest apps and don't like watching car apps age over time," Moorhead said. "Google's approach is solid as it ensures you get the latest apps even if your car is five years old."
With Android Auto on a smartphone connected to the car, users can access navigation, traffic info and music in their cars via voice. (Photo: Goggle I/O screengrab)
This article, Google unveils voice-controlled Android Auto, was originally published at Computerworld.com.
Sharon Gaudin covers the Internet and Web 2.0, emerging technologies, and desktop and laptop chips for Computerworld. Follow Sharon on Twitter at @sgaudin, on Google+ or subscribe to Sharon's RSS feed. Her email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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UPDATE: We no longer have the meetup site but we're still around. Our website is http://freethoughtoasis.org/
for the dfw area most of the active groups are members of the DFW Coalition of Reason www.dfwcor.org There are a lot more groups than just dallas/plano and frisco. I am one of the directors of Fellowship of Freethought which is headquartered in Dallas.
Houston has at least two groups, San Antonio has two, Corpus Cristi has one, Austin has at least one, there are at least two in East Texas (not on meetup) and then there is the odd scattered middle of nowhere group. Most of the main college campuses have groups.
If you can't find atheist groups search for other main labels such as secular, bright, freethinker, freethought etc.
btw, I'd highly suggest anyone trying to grow or maintain a group at least get their group a page on A/N as well as facebook even if not paying for meetup...no one is going to know the group exists if it is not on the internet in some sort of social media group.
Have you checked on Meetup?
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[♪music♪] [ADOBE TV Presents] [The Complete Picture with Julieanne Koss] Hi and welcome. My name's Julieanne Koss and in today's episode of The Complete Picture we're going to be taking a look at the new Mini Bridge right inside of Photoshop. Now, in past versions, we've had Bridge and we still have Bridge, but what we found was a lot of customers liked to see their images directly within Photoshop. I don't know if any of you remember, but in Photoshop 7, we had the file browser, and it was directly in Photoshop. And then, when Photoshop CS came out, then we had Bridge, which became the bridge between multiple applications. But we still find that people don't know about Bridge, so what we've done is we've created a Flash panel directly inside Photoshop so that you can look at your images there. And it's not just inside Photoshop--it's also in InDesign for those of you who are using InDesign. All right, let's focus on Photoshop. How do we get to Mini Bridge? Well, there's 2 ways. In the upper left-hand corner, we have a little icon here--MB--that's for Mini Bridge. You can also go under the Window menu, go to Extensions, and that's where Mini Bridge is. Of course, once you display Mini Bridge, you can always dock it with other panels. So I could slide it over here and dock it inside with my layers panel, or we can dock it next to my layers panel or what I like to do is actually dock it down here at the bottom. Now, obviously that's a little bit too big, so let's just resize that down a little bit. Excellent. Now, some of the features you'll already know about if you're using Bridge. We've got the backwards and forwards navigation, we've got the ability to go to the parent folder or look at your recent folders or files here. We have the ability to go home. Over here on the right, we can jump directly to Bridge. We can change what it is we're seeing, So right now, I really like to see the Path Bar so I want to leave that up. The Navigation Pod--well, that's going to help me move from folder to folder so I want that, and then the Preview Pod will show me kind of a larger display of a single image, but because I keep Mini Bridge so small, I'm going to go ahead and close the Preview Pod there. You can also do searches directly from within Mini Bridge. Down here at the bottom, you'll notice that we can go into Preview mode or close that, and right here, we have a lot of different options. For example, I can just see my thumbnails without the title or the other metadata. I can change this to a gridlock--I kind of like that because I'm tidy-- it just kind of locks everything to a grid-- so I'm going to turn that back on. And we can display things as Thumbnails or in a Filmstrip, as Details, or as a List. Right here, we can determine what it is that we want to see. So for example, if we wanted to see our Hidden Files, we could see that. It will also help us do a Select All or Deselect, but of course, you can go in and just click on an image, or Shift-click in order to select a range of images. Here's our option to Filter, so we can quickly filter by different amounts of star ratings. We can go here and change what it is that we are seeing, as far as the order goes, and how things are being sorted, so By Filename or by Rating. Finally, we also have the option if we select more than one file to actually jump directly from Mini Bridge to features like Merge to HDR Pro or Photomerge Okay. Now, I personally think that one of the coolest features in Mini Bridge is just the ability to take an image and drag and drop it into the Photoshop image area. Now, you'll notice I have the application frame on, so dropping it there automatically launched Adobe Camera RAW, since this is a RAW file. Now we can go in and we can make our changes-- if we want to change exposure, maybe add a little contrast and clarity, and then go ahead and open up this image. So what's really great is that I kind of have all of the benefits of a file browser; just this time we've called it Mini Bridge and it's directly inside of Photoshop. But the cool thing is that it's not fighting Photoshop for any resources because Bridge is actually launched in the background. In fact, we can take a look at that. If I right mouse click on any image, I can say Reveal in Bridge and it will automatically sync Bridge to whatever folder Mini Bridge was looking at. in addition, in Bridge, you can take advantage of things like favorites. Let's say for example if I go to original files and I right mouse click on the Puppet Folder, I can add that to my favorites, and then when I return back to Photoshop and we scroll down here in my favorites area, you can see there is that Puppet Favorites. So the two applications are in sync, but Photoshop doesn't have to share the resources, which is fantastic. All right, let's go back to Bridge for just one moment. I want to show you 2 new features that I really think that you can make use of. The first one--we'll just return back to a folder that has a lot of images in it-- and select all of these files, and then I'll use the Tools menu in order to Batch Rename. Because it's a very common request for people to want to rename their files but really what they want to do is they want to rename just a portion of the file. They want to do what's called a String Substitution. So for example, in this case, all of my images start with the _MG_. What if I just want to change that out? So I'm going to tell Bridge to look for the _MG_ and I'm going to have it replace that with JKOST_ and we see the preview right here. So the numbering will stay exactly the same. I'm only changing a portion of the file name. Click Rename, and we can see that all of those have been renamed. The other feature that I want to show you is in the Output module. This is where you can create your PDF files, like your contact sheets and your web photo galleries. There have been 2 great enhancements. The first one is the ability to add a watermark. I'll go ahead and refresh my preview here, and Bridge will go ahead and build this PDF page with all of the options that I've set for Layout and stuff. For example, I've got 4 x 4 and it's going to be a on a black background with white text, but you can also see that I've got a little copyright watermark added and I did that right down here. You can add the Watermark, you can place it on each image, and you can either use text or you can insert an image. And if you have a layered Photoshop document that has transparency in it-- if you just save that as a .png file-- then we will keep and honor that transparency as we place your watermark. The second great thing is that once I've got this set up, all I need to do is click on this icon in order to save this template. So now I can go in and set up the 3 or 4 most common layouts and save them as templates and the next time, all I need to do to move between them is simply select them from the list here. All right, let's return back to Photoshop and Mini Bridge for one minute because I do want to show you something that I forgot and that is the ability to select a sequence of images and then tap the space bar in order to go into full screen mode. So now, I can use the right arrow key and move through my images. I could tap 1-5 in order to give them ratings, or 6-9 in order to give them color labels. And if I wanted to make a change to this, Command-R on the Macintosh or Control-R on Windows will take me directly to Camera RAW so that I could make changes in my exposure, maybe add a little bit of vibrance, and when I click Done, it takes me right back to that full screen mode. Tapping the Escape key will go ahead and bring me back to Mini Bridge. And one last thing--I'm just going to scroll down here and I'm going to click on a folder that has some video in it. Because sure enough, if I click on a movie and then tap the space bar key, that movie will play full screen, launched from Mini Bridge. Again, just tap the Escape key to get out of it. Okay--one last feature, but I need to make this a little bit larger to do this. Right here there was another menu item that wasn't showing up because I didn't have that panel large enough, and that's the ability to show items in pages. So if we go back to a folder that has multiple images in it that expand past this view in my layout here, now I can page through them as opposed to having to scroll through them. Okay--I know I keep saying, "Wait, there's one more," but I really think this is seriously one of the best features in Photoshop CS5. Let's say I already have one image open and now I want to combine another image. I want to layer these together as a composite. Watch this--if I drag an image from Mini Bridge on top of my image in Photoshop, it's going to bring up Camera RAW where I can make my changes to exposure, and when I click OK, Mini Bridge will automatically place that image as a Smart Object. So I can resize it, hit Enter or Return, and you can see on my Layers panel--here's the thumbnail for my Smart Object. So I can make changes to that, I can rotate it, I can enlarge it, I can shrink it without losing any quality. So as you can see, tons of power packed into Mini Bridge. I'm finding it incredibly useful to view my assets directly within Photoshop without having to switch applications and I think you will, too, so give it a test drive, let us know what you think. Thanks for joining me. I'm Julieanne Kost. Join me again next time on The Complete Picture. [♪music♪] [ADOBE® TV PRODUCTIONS]
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Does a nametag have to bear the person's name? It better!
I was eating lunch at a local sandwich place when I noticed an interesting nametag - if you can call it that. Because the staff recently had a large employee turnover, many new clerks were on the floor. The girl behind the counter had a plastic nametag with red and white writing that said, "Please Be Patient. I'm New!"
This nametag has both positive and negative implications. First of all, letting customers know that new employees may be slower in their service processes will be valuable for creating empathy and consideration of longer waits. It also is a good conversation starter, even moreso than normal nametags.
Unfortunately, the reason these nametags are completely useless in the realm of standard nametag practice is: they don't give the employees's name! What good is a nametag if it doesn't give the name of the person wearing it! Furthermore, if new employees are possibly going to have adjustment problems, having their names on the tags IN ADDITION to the "disclaimer of possible slow service" would only help other employees and customers make them feel appreciated!
How do you make new employees feel welcome?
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In a surprising twist, the Berkeley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to decline requests from U.S. immigration officials to apply more stringent detention rules to arrested individuals depending on citizenship status.
Advocates in attendance said the council made a landmark policy decision believed to be the most comprehensive and definitive in the nation as far as refusing altogether to cooperate with a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program to detain and potentially deport non-citizens who are arrested.
The decision will, at least initially, have a limited impact given that the vast majority of these individuals ultimately are turned over to county agencies that do cooperate with the feds. Advocates said they believe, however, that the decision will have a ripple effect throughout the state to convince other jurisdictions to take a similar stand.
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Texans linebacker Tim Dobbins said the NFL shouldn't fine him after he was flagged for a helmet-to-chin hit that caused Bears quarterback Jay Cutler to suffer a concussion on Sunday night.
The NFL disagrees with Dobbins' assessment. Strongly.
Dobbins has been fined $30,000 for his hit on Cutler, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. That's a more expensive fine than players usually get for roughing the passer, which suggests that the league office thought Dobbins' hit was more flagrant than your run-of-the-mill roughing the passer penalty. (Or it could suggest that the NFL decided to make an example of Dobbins because he had the misfortune of committing his penalty against a high-profile player on the most-watched game of the week.)
An interesting element of Dobbins' argument is that Cutler had crossed the line of scrimmage before he threw his pass, which means that Cutler was breaking the rules by throwing a forward pass, and that Dobbins could credibly say he thought Cutler was a runner. But the league's point of view is that Cutler was in a passing posture at the point when Dobbins launched head-first into him, and because of that, his paycheck is going to be a lot lighter.


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Balloon valvuloplasty (also called valvulotomy or valvotomy) is a procedure that widens a heart valve that is narrowed. The cause of this narrowing in the aortic valve is aortic valve stenosis.
During this procedure, a thin flexible tube called a catheter
is inserted through an artery in the groin or arm and threaded into the heart.
When the tube reaches the narrowed heart valve, a balloon at the end of the
tube is inflated. The balloon presses against the hardened (calcified) tissue
and enlarges the valve opening.
During the procedure, you will be awake. But you will
receive local anesthesia where the catheter is inserted as well as intravenous
(IV) pain medicine along with a sedative to help you relax.
You will likely stay overnight in the hospital after a valvuloplasty. You will be checked for any problems after the procedure, such as bleeding from the site where the catheter was inserted.
Balloon valvuloplasty is not an option for most people who have aortic valve stenosis.
Children, teens, and young adults
Balloon valvuloplasty might be used in some children, teens, and young adults in their 20s who
aortic valve stenosis. This group typically has aortic valve stenosis because of a congenital heart defect such as a bicuspid aortic valve.
Pregnant women
Valvuloplasty may be used for pregnant women who get aortic
valve stenosis symptoms during their pregnancy. After the woman delivers, she
may then have aortic valve replacement surgery.
Older adults
Valvuloplasty is not appropriate for most
older people who have stenosis.
But this procedure might be done in older people who
cannot have valve replacement surgery. A person might not be able to have their heart valve replaced if their valve is
severely calcified (very hard), they are very ill, or when open-heart
surgery would be too great a risk.
Also, valvuloplasty can be used as a "bridge" until surgery can be done
for a person who is too sick to have open-heart surgery right away.
Balloon valvuloplasty is generally an effective treatment for aortic
valve stenosis in children, teens, and young adults but has very limited effectiveness in
older adults. In most older adults, the valve becomes narrowed again
(restenosis) within 6 to 12 months after this procedure.1
Balloon valvuloplasty works better in younger people because of
the difference in the causes of aortic valve stenosis in younger and older
people. Young people typically have the condition because they were born
with a bicuspid valve, which is an aortic valve that has two leaflets instead
of three. But older people typically get stenosis over many
years through a gradual hardening and buildup of calcium on their valves. This is a
process called aortic sclerosis, which is similar to atherosclerosis, the
buildup of hard plaque inside the arteries.
After a valvotomy procedure in a young person, the aortic valve is wider, but it is still not normal. After 10 to 20 years, the valve might get narrow again, and he or she might need a valve replacement surgery.2
A valvotomy procedure for children, teens, and adults has low risk for serious complications.1
But for older adults, serious complications happen in 1 or 2 out of 10 people who have this procedure. These problems include stroke, heart attack, and aortic valve regurgitation.3
Complications related to the catheter include:
For information about valve replacement surgery, see Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery.
Complete the special treatment information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this treatment.
CitationsBonow RO, et al. (2008). 2008 Focused update
incorporated into the ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the management of patients
with valvular heart disease: A report of the American College of
Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines
(Writing committee to revise the 1998 Guidelines for the management of patients
with valvular heart disease). Circulation, 118(15):
e523–e661.Otto CM, Bonow RO (2012). Valvular heart disease. In RO Bonow et al., eds., Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 9th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1468–1539. Philadelphia: Saunders.Freeman RV, Otto CM (2011). Aortic valve disease. In V Fuster et al., eds., Hurst's The Heart, 13th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1692–1720. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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"We are proud to have you as our partners. Your generosity made it happen and so many families in need went home with an enormous amount of food? We are lucky to have your support and I am amazed by your team's generosity and commitment..."- Kyle Williams, Senior Manager, Second Harvest
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February is going to be a big month for me. Yesterday night I purchased some expert advice on three-day potty training, today we purchased these,
and as soon as Bob's schedule aligns with ours enough to keep the kids on the main floor all day (less carpet-- definitely the potty training ideal), I'm literally tossing his diapers out the back door (that's where we toss most of our trash. It looks pretty fantastic out there) and doing what it takes to make Erik "number one," "number two," day time, and night time potty trained in three
According to my pediatrician's (and lots of reputable people's) guidelines, Erik is nowhere near ready to attempt this milestone. However, I've done a fair bit of research, and concluded that he is fully capable, physiologically, and that he just might get a very needed emotional and self-esteem boost from the process. I'm fairly confident these "3-day" techniques will work.
After that significant accomplishment, we'll move to getting Charlie to sleep through the night. I know he'll continue screaming throughout the day, but a silent night. Oh, a silent night! The neighbors will despise us, our ears will ring, and glass just might shatter while we're "training" him to sleep alone (unless you've heard it, you would not believe the piercing pitch of this kid's screams. Dogs and mermaids have nothing on Charlie.). I hope it'll be worth it.
And then I hope hope hope life will be manageable enough to improvise a Joy School type preschool group for Ellie and her friends. She is already ecstatic about the prospect, and Erik would greatly benefit from having a few hours a week in which he's not outshone and overshadowed by his louder, more articulate and more confident sister.
So, that's the plan. Wish me luck. Pray for me. Volunteer to babysit any of my kids for me. Bring me hot dinners, make a monetary donation, whatever you feel you can manage. =) Then hopefully the Tiff that emerges triumphant from these stressful endeavors will be physically and emotionally able to pay the good deeds forward.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
A big deal
February is going to be a big month for me. Yesterday night I purchased some expert advice on three-day potty training, today we purchased these,
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
I claim that this blog is my journal, but of course it is not. The only events that get blog time are photographically-captured events. In a real journal, I'd be writing about the humdrum thoughts and experiences that comprise my life and very rarely merit the use of a camera. For instance...
-At Costco on Saturday, we experienced a Vitamix demo. I say experienced and not just witnessed, because we were fully part of the magic, via free samples. I've always loved a good smoothie, but I could never justify dreaming of owning a high-end blender until the demo lady handed Erik a cup of spinach juice and he DRANK THE WHOLE THING AND ASKED FOR MORE. (There was some fruit in there, too, but the drink was dark green and Erik averts his taste buds even from green candy, just in case.) So, now I'm desperately attempting to devise a financial scheme that will secure me one of those miracle machines as soon as possible.
Seriously, folks, I've done some research and determined that only a Vitamix (a Blend tec would do, as well) will revolutionize the state of our family's health forever. No more peeling, slicing, chopping, shredding. Blend, only blend, and dinner is ready before anyone knows to be hungry for it! Healthy, Jamba-quality smoothies for breakfast every day. Carrot juice with lunch and spinach juice for dinner. The only thing stopping me from waltzing right back into Costco to claim my new culinary life right now is that they cost about $374 more than Kyle is willing to spend. Yes, on sale this blending bad boy rings up at $394. So, if anyone is willing to make a donation to this worthy cause, or if you spot one on sale for at least 90% off, let me be the first to know.
-Speaking of good nutrition, I just love the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook/Bible Kjerst gave me for Christmas. I feel like Julie with Mastering the Art of French Cooking-- I am not only using all the recipes, but I am inhaling the extra tid bits of food knowledge. For instance, did you know tofu is made of edamame, the green bean-looking power veggie? And why do recipes always tell you to rinse canned beans? To lower the sodium content, of course! Also, diagrams of animal meat cuts and how to cook them, how to select every type of fresh produce, etc. I know some people already know all this and others don't care, but these are the questions I always wondered and was too lazy to google to find out! Now they are all contained in one lovely, checkered book of yum.
-Speaking of eating well, Ellie is an amazing child eater. Not child-eater. She eats whatever I put in her dinner bowl, licks it clean, and often asks for seconds, and I very rarely prepare child-friendly dinners (eg mac and cheese, pizza, chicken nuggets). When recently questioned as to her favorite food, she seriously declared it to be broccoli. Later she recanted and offered the more credible fave of cheese pizza, but still. The only thing at all that I can think of that she won't devour is food that is fairly spicy, but even that she's improving upon. How did I get so fortunate to have an easy-to-please-y little goat at my kitchen table? Aside from the occasional whining, interrupting, tattling, lying, and hitting, she is the perfect child.
-How's my diet going, you ask? I quit. I knew I didn't have it in me. However, I am still making minor efforts to cut back on night feedings (I mean mine, not Charlie's, although cutting back on his would be even better) and dessert binging. I also buy fat free sour cream now. Kyle could be happier about that. And to reward myself for my supreme achievements in dietary self control, I will be throwing myself a Cookie Monster-themed birthday party (emphasis on the Cookie) in August. It will look even better than this one.
-Tomorrow, if I can get my paws on some wire cutters, I am going to make this Valentine's day wreath. No, I'm not doing an excellent job of avoiding craft blogs as part of my New Year resolution. I haven't actually made anything yet, though. My cricut remains sealed tightly in its box until I have the self control to employ it in moderation.
-Kyle is such a sweetie pie. He and the kids woke me up Saturday morning with breakfast in bed. And not the kind of breakfast-in-bed most wives could expect. Nope, no cold cereal involved. He whipped up delicious, perfectly seasoned scrambled eggs with sundried tomatoes and cheese, cinnamon sugar toast, turkey bacon, banana slices, and cranberry juice. (And the previous Saturday he did the same thing with a delicious avocado omelet.) Just because. And in return, I bought him his very own slice of pepperoni pizza at Costco.
-A friend treated me to the opera this week. We saw Carmen, which is a top-notch opera, with beloved music and all, but is it wrong that I was relieved to see the protagonist stabbed to death in the last scene? Is that commentary on my emotional state, or is it okay that her embodiment of every evil female trait disgusted me?
-When will Charlie ever sleep through the night? Or sleep through one rem cycle of the night? His bewildering refusal of solid foods-- will it last long? What am I doing wrong? I can no longer remember how I felt before I was a zombie mom (aka before Charlie was born), but I'm pretty sure I was nicer, peppier, and happier. I miss that me. I see no light at the end of the tunnel with these sleeping struggles.
-What is the purpose of life? No, just kidding, I don't think about that one. I already know. Good thing, too. A day at a time, my life may not seem like much, but I find great peace and fulfillment in knowing that I'm doing, more or less, what I came here to do.
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Homemade Christmas gifts
watch bracelets for Marilyn-- the bracelet can be switched out so this could turn into one versatile, expensive accessory
bff tag blankys (minky on the outside, noisy plastic bag on the inside) for future bffs Char and Alex (his newest cousin)
yep, it works
letters for Alex's nursery
politically-charged hot pads for Ma
grandkid display for Fa's office
frame for Joe
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Savers on steroids sale
Q: What do you get when you cross ME and Old Navy's end-of-season mega clearance sale?
A: You get this
for less than $60
and you get all three of these
for less than $70
And that averages $2.33 an item, people (after a 10% off coupon just lying around at the register). Granted, there are a few t-shirts and small items in there, but there are also pants and sweaters! Kyle scored nice sweaters for $3 and $4! Can I tell you, I haven't had a thrill like this since last month on Splash Mountain. And before that, for a long time. Also, Old Navy is brilliant to put kids' movies on in the store. Otherwise, Kyle and the kids (but especially Kyle) would not have lasted the two hours it took me to collect my winnings through five clearance sections and then reduce the pile by about 50% (for Kyle's sake).
So, I pretty much cleared out most of Old Navy's inventory during my spree, but there might be a thing or two left for you if you head out early tomorrow morning. I believe the sale is nation-wide. (And if I can fanangle it (why isn't that coming up as a real word? Isn't fanangle a word? Bob? Kristin? Other Boggle gurus?) without a certain someone finding out, I might be back tomorrow. Woo-hahahaha! The ruthless bargain queen strikes again!)
P.S. I realize it can be argued that being out $120 to clothe a family that was not previously naked may not sound like a bargain. For the record, I only do this once or twice a year, at the end of the seasons, and almost all of the kids' clothes were purchased for the next size up, and unless this diet works, I needed some better-fitting attire, and also, I know it's still superfluous. But I used my birthday and Christmas money from Kyle's parents to fund it. That was so Kyle would still want to be my friend. Okay, done trying to justify myself.
P.P.S. snowman doughnuts
Posted by Kyle at 5:47 PM 6 comments
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Deck the Walls with mismatched kid socks
Remember that old Tiff of yester-year who was so frazzledly busy whipping up handmade Christmas gifts and decorations that she almost missed the whole Utah Christmas season? Thankfully, that Tiff did take the time to visit the Festival of Trees with Kyle, sans kids even. LOVED it and only wish we'd had a few more hours there to enjoy all the creativity and festivity oozing out of these branches.
These next two scored style points.
(much prettier in person)
This might have been my favorite-- can you imagine what a blast I would have had putting together this display!
This is the tree I lusted after most. Before I quit crafting, that is. (And actually I have my very OWN cricut now, thanks Santa Ma & Fa!)
I swear all of these trees looked a bajillion times cooler in person.
The camera was running on a drop of battery juice so I didn't snap half as many as I'd like to have, but we did fortunately manage to capture Kyle's fave, The Labyrinth themed.
Back at the homestead, November 30th sneaked up on me and we had only a morning to whip up an advent calendar. The kids brainstormed and I went wild with felt and scissors. And 24-ish days later the tree looked like this.
We put each mini felt ornament in one of the stockings hung on this line. Talk about inexpensive Christmas decor-- between the four of us (Kyle is sadly lacking in the festive sock department) we had more than enough Christmas colored socks to make a month.
Well, once I threw in blue as an alternate Christmas color we had plenty.
Meet Fievel. I woke up one morning to this enormous weed in my living room. I knew it was Mish's doing--she's always been a softie for lost/abandoned baby animals and desert plants. Mish's friend thought she wouldn't find anything useful to do with it, and that's exactly why we proved him wrong! A hammer and two nails, string, a bottle of hairspray (for the shedding), some mad skills, and BAM! Fievel-ocity.
This was our attempt at a Christmas-y feast for the olfactory senses. Only since they're just applesauce and cinnamon, they probably didn't need to be baked. That would explain why they turned out a tad distorted and brittle. I will make a better garland next year, now that I inherited my mom's Christmas cookie cutter repertoire. (I am actually amazed with all the enthused stamping and squashing of four kids, that all four letters of "Noel" survived.)
Again, good intentions. In my mind, this was a Christmas craft the kids could participate in and enjoy. Only I wouldn't recommend letting your kids use a hot glue gun, so it was just a me craft. And I had already gone back to the store once for more spice drops and that third trip never materialized. There was also the prototype of a red and green m&m tree. Next year I want to make some stuffed gingerbread dolls that have a bite taken out of them (saw that super idea somewhere in the blogosphere). Maybe a whole Christmas candy village, with gingerbread houses and candy cane lamp posts and glittery frosting snowfalls. Whoa now! Let's not get carried away, Tiff. Crafting hiatus, remember? Don't get emotionally ambitious just yet.
Oh yeah, on the right there are winter scenes the kids made with stale spice drops left over from our 4th of July crafts. Erik's is a mushroom garden and Ellie's is a Christmas tree and African American Santa.
Even with the lens zoomed in, this still looks kinda pathetically small for a Christmas tree. Six feet sounded like it would have a commanding presence, but we had to put it on top of our end table to make it taller than Kyle. All my Christmas ornaments and decorations live it up in my parents' garage, so Dollar Tree helped me furnish the branches. Nothing impressive, but it was pre-lit magic to our little family every December evening.
This was a little something that was supposed to go out to everyone Mish and I know and half-know, but time was short and ice cube trays scarce. Hot chocolate on a stick, people! How simply brilliant is that!? (Wasn't my idea, of course, although I did improve upon it by rolling them in marshmallows and crushed candy canes.) Other than having the slightest taste of wood stick, stirred in hot milk it was pure winter delight!
The other goody gifts we endeavored this season were sundae kit baskets. That's Grandpa Larsen's homemade fudge sauce, chopped peanuts, ice cream scoop, and a baby food jar of maraschino cherries, and some were fortunate enough to be wrapped in cellophane before the blasted three rolls ran out (That stuff always runs out prematurely. I never learn.)
Sad story about these baskets, though. First, it was late on the eve of our departure to Sacramento (road trip, by the way). Second, we burned the vat of fudge sauce. Third, I ladled it into the jars anyway (We were fresh out of chocolate chips so deemed it salvageable). Fourth, we spent way too long, suffering under a hot glue shortage, covering the lids with fabric and ribbon so you couldn't tell they originally contained salsa, pickles, pesto, etc. Fifth, after we had assembled them all, I opened up a jar and the fudge sauce smelled like pickles. Sixth, they all stank. (Only the caramel sauce jar and grape jelly jar survived.) Seventh, we laughed, cried, and went to bed. The next morning before delivery, Mish supplemented the baskets with Nutella. Eighth, I was too sad to throw the stinky jars away until after we came home from CA. In the end, even I could not concoct a reasonable use for burned salsa-flavored fudge sauce.
These stockings took most of the season to make. So long that I didn't even bother clipping the threads before I took these photos. We better use them for-freakin'-ever.
I fell in love with moda's Figgy Pudding fabric print line months ago and had pre-cut five inch squares slumbering in my fabric closet for a long while before I figured out that stockings are not made of five-inch squares. No one has ever made a stocking out of five-inch fabric squares (believe me, I did my research), and I wasn't about to be the first. So, I improvised.
I gleaned inspiration for the appliques from a post on u-create and made up the patterns as I went.
The embroidery is pretty amateur and wonky, but hey! So am I.
Okay, now that I'm done whining about making these stockings, I can confess that I'm actually satisfied with how they turned out.
Any future additions to the family better be okay with a store-bought stocking, though!
And then there was Christmas in Sacramento. Soooooo much fun. A spontaneous visit to Disneyland didn't hurt. Pics and lengthy captions coming up next.
Posted by Kyle at 7:02 PM 4 comments
Saturday, January 09, 2010
With resolve this time
I fear I've been much less than successful with New Year resolutions for a while now. This is probably due to how well I embrace my own mantra, "MORE is more!" When will I ever learn to simplify? Well, this year is not likely the year, but I am at least cutting myself a bit of slack by only committing to three resolutions this year. That is down at least a dozen from my usual list.
My personal goal is to make it to the temple once a month.
My home/family goal is to do a chore a day (beyond dishes, laundry and tidying) and then forgive myself for the sorry hygienic state my house is in anyway.
My beyond-family goal is to send at least a card (in a timely manner!) for birthdays to all 32 members of our immediate families, at least. Hope nobody's had a birthday so far because I haven't gathered dates yet...
I also have a goal to survive this year without pulling all of my hair out and going certifiably insane. Or maybe just to survive this year. Don't mean to be pessimistic, so I'll go ahead and blame it on sleep deprivation.
I was sorting through boxes of old journal entries and school papers while at my parents' for Christmas, and I had a sad realization that I used to be both a much better writer and a much more spiritually-minded person (before I had kids). At least those documents would suggest so. I hope it's not true. I wouldn't be surprised if it is, though. Guess there are a couple more resolutions to make there.
In my sorting, I discovered the envelope of letters I'd been writing since high school to my future spouse (I stopped writing them when we got engaged). That was actually a lot of fun to review, although ridiculously mushy. It was surprising to recall how I used to perceive love and marriage. Some things I had spot on, young as I was, like criteria in choosing a spouse. I did a good job there. Other things were just laughable. For instance, in several different letters I fretted over my insecurities about being a sufficient wife and mother because "I don't know how to sew, decorate, cook, make cute crafts," (throw extravagant birthday parties,) etc.
Yeah, I really didn't. But guess what? It didn't take me long to learn, and now I suppose I know how to do a few of those things a bit TOO well. Or at least that they've taken up a bit TOO much of my time. Oh yeah, so another resolution for this year is to stop crafting. Pretty much altogether. No, I guess just to take a hiatus until Charlie sleeps more than two hours at a time during the night. Or someone has a birthday. Whichever comes first.
So, I also wrote that I felt insecure about being marry-able because "I can't get up in the morning, I resist housework like it's the bubonic plague, and I put little effort into my physical appearance." Now that I have the cooking and crafting aspects of homemaking down, it's tough stuff left to tackle.
Mornings might always be the bane of my existence, but I must conquer the urge to relinquish my parental responsibilities to PBS until midday.
I must stop begrudging the reality that the housework constantly piling up around me is mine to do.
I must do something about this postpartum physique that I sometimes still refuse to accept is my own. I've been putting it off, hoping it would take care of itself in due time, but after several comments from Mom about my "round tummy," Ellie flat out questioning Kyle today "Why does Mommy look so fat?," and Bob this evening sincerely asking me if I was pregnant because "you have a bulge there," this issue can no longer be ignored. I see myself in the mirror, but only briefly, because after I look away, I can convince myself that I look much better than my reflection suggests, and it's easy to stay distracted enough to not worry about my appearance.
I consider myself pretty fortunate that this is the first time of my life I've really needed to diet (and exercise, but that's not gonna happen. Well, only if it ends up being easier and more effective than cutting calories). Metabolism has always, more or less, been on my side. At the same time, genetics has not, in that my mother's family is replete with "apples." That's great when you're pregnant anyway, but when you're six months postpartum and still look ready to deliver any day now, apples are just about my least favorite fruit around.
So, I guess you could say regaining a non-pregnant figure is a resolution of mine. Not that I was terribly committed to it until the comments I got tonight. (We did have cream cheese-filled chicken enchiladas topped with cheddar cheese and heavy whipping cream for dinner last night, after all. Yes, my loyalty has always been to my taste buds. To butter, cream, and sugar, I would like to thank you for all you've done for me, but now you have done enough. I hope splenda and skim milk will be adequate substitutes, yet I know they will not.)
I guess I ended up making more than three resolutions. Oh well. I'll do better next year. =)
And in completely unrelated news, I bring you a few (less than) recent photos.
Free admission day at the zoo--
Quilts I made as in-kind payment for a sewing machine, thanks to Emily's generous mom.
Suhey and I at the 12:09 showing of New Moon, opening day/night. I had just finished the second book (for the first time) and was quite swept up in the movement prior to the film's release. No, I am not ashamed. We had a blast oooing and ahhing with the infatuated audience. I felt young again. Wait, I am still young. I felt childless again. Despite the one sleeping in my arms.
We've found sharp or otherwise dangerous objects to be the best lures for aspiring crawlers. Charlie can now get up on "all fours" and rock back and forth, but shrieking angrily all the way, so who knows when he (or I) will have the patience to see the milestone through.
Aunt Mish moved back to Provo, but she doesn't have much food there, so we've managed to lure her back a few times already. So glad she's here.
Good thing someone's getting use out of the crib, because Charlie definitely doesn't spend time there.
Coming soon-- picture overload in the form of Christmas and Disneyland.
Posted by Kyle at 7:41 PM 7 comments
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Children for Sale
Three children, all fairly new (one nearly brand new!) and in reasonably good condition, up on the market today for your bidding.
Tantrums, hitting, and screaming all included and in excellent working order.
Will trade all three for a piece of sanity and one night of good sleep.
This will be a bargain, I think, as the owner is rather desperate.
Please make an offer and pick them up as soon as humanly possible.
(And good luck getting them to act as sweet as they look in these pictures!)
Posted by Kyle at 10:36 AM 7 comments


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Pemphigus foliaceus (pem-fi-gus foli-a-shus) is an auto immune disease that affects humans and dogs and, to a lesser extent, cats and horses.
In horses, it is characterized by primary lesions that often begin on the head and lower extremities; secondary lesions spread to other areas, with an exudate that dries to a crust. There may be extensive edema (swelling) in the legs and abdomen (called "ventral" edema).
Equine pemphigus foliaceus (EPF) is considered rare and signs and symptoms may resemble those of other conditions such as insect bite allergies (crusty lesions), pigeon fever (ventral edema) or other skin conditions.
The primary way to diagnose EPF is by punch biopsy of the skin which is examined by a veterinary pathologist. The pathologist looks for changes consistent with this diagnosis, while also ruling out other causes.
Horses with EPF may also have systemic signs of illness – fever, depression, loss of appetite, lethargy and weight loss. The skin may be painful to touch and swelling can make it difficult to walk or lie down.
Full article can be found on: http://desertequinebalance.blogspot.com/2009/11/equine-pemphigus-foliaceus.html


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Have The Conversation
Greetings Trendly Tweeters and Facebook status flirts. Do you spend the majority of your day tethered to an electronic device not designed to give you sexual pleasure?Are you fully up to speed on the whereabouts and goings on of all of the seven hundred people in your online network yet draw a blank every time you try to imagine what their voice sounds like? And when it comes to your own voice do you have trouble remembering whether it's more nasal, manly, or just somewhere in between? If you said yes to all of those it's time to clear the cobwebs in your throat and get familiar with a trend that, well, used to be really popular a year or two ago…the trend of actual conversation.
Yes ladies and trend-tleman the oral adventure that is human communication has taken many forms since the lord created man on the seventh day and then planted evolutionary clues to convince scientists their whims had the slightest merit. Early man used grunts and hisses to impart such important notions as "please pass the salt" and "I'm going to go hit that pig over the head many times with a club so that we can have it for dinner and then rape that female." While we were on track to develop a complex language based on those hisses and grunts for quite awhile, the almighty himself deferred communicative ease for a few years after an unsatisfactory architecture experiment at Babel. This failed "tower" project not only made conversation impossible but it allowed for the worldwide spread of mankind and development of different linguistic characteristics to the point where we needed a phrasebook to figure out what people like Dennis Miller and the French were talking about.
Thanks to the advent of technology and the imperialistic notions of such nations as Great Britain, The United States of America and Finland, there is now an "international language" that doesn't involve sexual favors for the exchange of spices. That language is "innovation" and that innovation usually comes with an English instruction manual and now includes visual aides typed via computer. While mankind has fought so hard to bring themselves closer together, many technological advances have provided the ruse of progress due to the fact that while we think sharing links of kitty videos over the Internet is uniting us, we will never actually get to see the people who we are sharing those videos with naked and in person.
However, thanks to the potential re-embrace of the idea of actual conversation people are talking, talking about people, and not only that, those very same people are now starting to remember that face to face interaction and chronic halitosis is a lot more desirable than chronic carpal tunnel syndrome and blurred vision. So that's why we here at Trendliest are urging you to put down that Twitter, head down to the local pub and buy yourself something bitter and talk it out with some of your best buds instead of typing it. Give those vocal chords the workout they've been begging for.
May 15, 2009 - Posted by evankessler | Language, Social Trends, Technology | Communication, conversation, Dennis Miller, French people, Great Britain, Internet, Sexual favors, spices, Tower of Babel, twitter, UK, United States of American, voice
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by Jean-Bernard Hyppolite
Dr. Rocco Martino, 81, is a Chestnut Hill College benefactor who, along with wife Barbara, a 1960 graduate of CHC, funded the building of "smart" classrooms found in Barbara D'Iorio Martino Hall. (Barbara is chairman of the board at CHC.) He is also the author of "9-11-11: The Tenth Anniversary Attack." The man behind this political thriller is extremely knowledgeable about the world of computers. Dr. Martino wrote the fictional story to stress the need for America to stay vigilant and fight terrorism with Cyber Warfare.
"I wanted to present a different scenario. We seem to always be on the fence and we always seem to be considering calming people into the dust. There are better ways of (fighting terrorism). We are the technological leaders of the world. Let's use the technology ourselves," said Dr. Martino.
The main plot of 9-11-11 revolves around Mark Striker, a cyber consultant who eventually finds himself intertwined in a world of terror plots and grandiose international finance. He joins government forces to ruin the terrorists' plans via Cyber Warfare. In "9-11-11," Dr. Martino puts its main protagonist in a high-stakes position that could have deadly consequences for the U.S. and the world. While this is a piece of fiction, its author feels that there is sufficient realism that could be useful in fighting the ongoing battle against terrorism.
"I wanted to call attention to the continuing threat, and it is a real threat. I wanted to propose a solution on how we could really defeat the terrorists by finding out two things: what their plans are without them knowing we found out and secondly, by getting control of their flow of money. Without money they can't function," said Dr. Martino, whose background is in the application of computers and finance and in the creation of systems that are "disaster tolerant."
"There's a backdoor that is used to collect the financial data of the terrorists. We can see where the money is going and from that, deduce what their plans are."
While "9-11-11" is fiction, the possibility of an attack aimed at that special date is all too real. "9-11-11" is Dr. Martino's second work of fiction, and two of his literary influences for it are Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy.
In addition to his novel writing, Dr. Martino is an international authority on finance, planning, space flight and computer systems. He has authored numerous non-fiction works about planning, finance and computers, including "Finding the Critical Path" and "Resources Management." He graduated Summa Cum Laude from The University of Toronto in Mathematics and Finance and earned a Ph.D from the Institute of Aerospace Studies. He is the founder and chairman of the board at CyberFone Technologies. Previously, he held those same two titles along with being CEO at XRT, a world leader in global treasury and banking relationships. Dr. Martino is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute located in Philadelphia. His other addition to the world of fiction was a satirical novel, "The Plot to Cancel Christmas."
Dr. Rocco Martino, a native of Canada, moved here in 1962. He has lived in Villanova since 1965. He and his wife have four sons. "9-11-11: The Tenth Anniversary Attack" can be bought on Amazon.com. More information about Dr. Martino and his other works can be found at www.bluenosepress.com.
Ed. Note: Completed in October 2000, Barbara D'Iorio Martino Hall not only houses numerous "smart" classrooms, the Connelly Telecommunications Center and the Devlin Video Production Suite, but also serves as the home for the Griffins' basketball and women's volleyball teams. On the lower level of Martino Hall is the Ann Rusnack Sorgenti Arena, a multi-purpose venue that features two sets of retractable bleachers that seat up to 450 fans and a stage that makes the arena a professional setting for athletic competition. The Martinos said through a spokesman that they would rather not disclose how much money they donated to build Martino Hall.


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Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Lemon Sour Cream Loaf Cake
Lemon Sour Cream Loaf Cake
For the cake:
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
juice of 1 lemon
For the glaze:
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tbsp milk
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp water
Position rack in centre of oven and preheat to 350°F. Generously butter 9-inch loaf pan. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into medium bowl. Combine sour cream, mayonnaise, sugar, eggs, oil, and lemon juice in large bowl; whisk until well blended. Gradually whisk in dry ingredients. Transfer batter to prepared loaf pan. Place cake on baking sheet in oven and bake until cake begins to pull away from sides of pan and tester inserted into centre comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack 5 minutes. Cut around pan sides to loosen cake. Turn cake out onto rack. Turn cake upright on rack and cool completely. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap and store at room temperature.) Whisk together the glaze ingredients, until smooth. Spoon over the cake, allowing the glaze to drip down the sides. Let glaze cool and set before slicing and serving.
20 comments:
- Finla said...
Wow cake with mayonaise, that is womething i have never tasted.
The cake looks so yumm.
- 28 January 2009 at 16:07
- Beth (jamandcream) said...
Sounds lovely and tangy. I've never used mayonaise before - will have to try
- 28 January 2009 at 16:13
- Anne said...
That looks so delicious, though I really cannot stand mayonaise and its never in the fridge! I wonder if just increasing sour cream might work?
- 28 January 2009 at 16:16
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks everyone!
Anne~ You can definitely increase the sour cream. I like using mayo cos of how moist it makes the cakes, after all mayo is eggs and oil, which is why it works in cakes.
- 28 January 2009 at 16:48
- Reeni said...
I've had cakes with mayo in them and you are so right. They are incredibly moist. This looks so delicious! I would love a slice to eat with my tea and comfort me! Were up to our ears in snow today.
- 28 January 2009 at 19:04
- Semlan said...
Mmmm...looks delicious and sounds very interesting indeed! Will try this in a very near future! :)
- 28 January 2009 at 19:47
- Mila said...
Looks really yummy...and simple! Will try!
- 28 January 2009 at 20:46
- Sherry Trifle - Lovely Cats said...
Looks lovely! I made a chocolate cake with mayonnaise a few months ago - it was delicious.
- 29 January 2009 at 03:24
- Gigi said...
I just want to lick the icing off your cake! YUM! Thanks for sharing the recipe. This sounds like a great cake!
- 29 January 2009 at 04:19
- The Blonde Duck said...
This sounds wonderful! Yum!
- 29 January 2009 at 11:40
- Maria said...
I love lemon cakes!! I have never used mayo before though! Looks good!
- 29 January 2009 at 15:40
- Maggie said...
I can't resist citrus cakes and this looks delicious.
- 29 January 2009 at 22:12
- AK Mom said...
Yum...I just love loaf cakes, and this looks soooo delicious! :)
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- 31 January 2009 at 00:28
- Coby said...
While I love lemons I have never really taken to lemon cakes. Could this be the cake to work to my taste Maria? I don't have a problem with the one unusual addition, but I wonder, have you tried different brands and still found great results? Obviously we don't want low fat, but they all have their particular flavours - does this show in the cake?
PS your cake LOOK amazing!
- 31 January 2009 at 07:08
- giz said...
I love the look of this loaf - it totally looks moist and the lemon is the deal maker.
- 31 January 2009 at 17:42
- Rosie said...
Oh this looks a beauty of a loaf cake mmmmmm... I adore citrus fruits in loafs and this ones def bookmarked ;)
Rosie x
- 1 February 2009 at 19:15
- Nickki said...
Wow that looks so good! It must be really moist with the sour cream and mayonnaise. I've never tried using mayo in a cake before, but I believe it's very common in the US. I must give it a try! :)
- 2 February 2009 at 20:42
kitchen goddess u mentioned lemon extract..i didnt see in the ingredients list..would lemon zest suffice?
- 29 April 2009 at 21:16
- Maria♥ said...
Lemon zest would be fine and sorry for the typo, not sure why I have lemon extract in there!
- 29 April 2009 at 21:50
I just made this cake and followed the recipe exactly. It was moist and delicious and got rave reviews but it was not particularly lemony. I'd go heavier on the lemon juice and add lots of lemon zest to the cake and the icing if you want it to be lemony! You could not taste the mayo in the baked cake at all in case people are nervous about that. never baked with amyo and was a bit sceptical but it made the cake super moist - the texture was perfect!
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In the automotive realm, efficiency comes in a variety of flavors. And Volkswagen is betting on nearly all of them in both the near- and long-term.
Its diesel offerings are some of the marque's best sellers, particularly the Jetta TDI Sportwagen which blends high capacity and higher fuel economy with a dash of driver engagement. VW is taking it to the next level with the re-introduction of the New (New) Beetle TDI, an oil-burning version of its recently redone retro coupe that hits 39 mpg on the freeway without breaking a sweat.
On the other end of the spectrum is VW's hottest hatch, the Golf R, packing 256 turbocharged ponies and all-wheel-drive into a commuter-friendly package that makes its upmarket sibling from Audi (the A3) look downright plebeian by comparison.
And then there's the Golf Blue E-motion, an all-electric version of V-Dub's popular compact that's undergoing testing in both Germany and U.S., but isn't slated to go on sale to consumers for at least another two years.
We had the chance to sample each of the automaker's latest wares in the mountain roads east of Santa Cruz, CA and discovered that VW is serving up efficiency in a trio of dishes sure to appeal to fuel- and fashion-conscious urbanites, performance junkies and early EV adopters – but not all at once.
2013 Volkswagen Beetle TDI (Price: TBA)
For 2012, Volkswagen finally updated its achingly archaic Beetle with new sheetmetal, a reworked interior and a presence that's less feminine and more butch – if barely. We like it. But the 2.5-liter five-cylinder model proved slightly off pace and the turbocharged 2.0-liter variant commands more than a $3,000 premium over the base model. Add in fuel economy of 22 mpg in the city and 29 mpg on the highway and the case is even less compelling. If we're going to be forced to drive slowly, we want the miserly fuel economy to match, and that's where the Beetle TDI comes in.
One hundred and forty horsepower might not sound like much coming from a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder, but when it comes to diesels, we're talking torque - 236 pound-feet of the stuff. That generous helping of twist comes on low in the rev range, providing an effortless wave of thrust before the oil-burning four-pot begins running out of steam when exercising the right side of the tach (redline comes in at a paltry 5,000 rpm). But snag the next gear in the TDI's standard six-speed transmission (an even more efficient 6-speed dual clutch automatic is available as an option) and you're right back in the diesel's sweet spot, and hitting 29/39 mpg in the process. It's still a gutless wonder, but with those kind of fuel economy ratings and an interior that's a pleasant place to while away the commute, you could do – and look – far worse.
2012 Volkswagen Golf R (Price: $33,900)
When does a Golf stop being an appliance and start becoming a seriously sporting hatch? When VW turns up the wick on its tried-and-true turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder to output 256 hp and 243 lb-ft of torque - and puts all that grunt through all four wheels.
The Golf R isn't the Mitsubishi Evolution X/Subaru WRX STI-killer you might think (3,325 pounds and undefeatable traction control does that), but what it lacks in rally-bred brutality it makes up for with a quiet cabin, upmarket interior materials and a level of comfort normally reserved for its Golf-based brethren at Audi. But refinement comes at a price, and in the case of the Golf R, the manual-only hatch commands a hefty premium compared to other solid performers in the segment. Still, a 0-60 mph run of 5.6 seconds and the sure-footedness of its 4Motion all-wheel-drive system makes it a daily driving hoot, even if its performance pales to similarly specced Japanese track stars.
2014 Volkswagen E-Golf (Price: TBA)
The E-Golf is Volkswagen's opening salvo into the world of electric vehicles, with 114 hp and 199 lb-ft of torque provided by an electric motor powering the front wheels and juice supplied by a lithium-ion battery pack good for 26.5 kWh. Range comes in at 93 miles – just shy of the Nissan LEAF's theoretical 100-mile stint – but unlike the LEAF, you can't buy it. At least, not yet.
A fleet of 20 E-Golfs are being delivered to Volkswagen employees in Detroit, San Francisco and Washington D.C. for testing over the course of the next year, providing VW engineers with feedback on everything from its 220-volt home charging stations to the accompanying iPhone app that keeps tabs on charge status and interior temperatures.
Our stint behind the wheel was nearly cut short by a lack of juice, but first impressions are favorable, even if the range anxiety monkey loomed ominously on our back.
Forward momentum is on the slow side of tolerable and the additional 450 pounds of weight added by the front-mounted electric motor and accompanying battery pack dampens acceleration while providing a buttoned-down sensation normally absent from the Golf range.
If it feels like a rolling beta test, that's because it is. But like other full-fledged products from VW, the attention to detail and general polish of the E-Golf speaks volumes about how seriously the crew from Wolfsburg is taking its first EV efforts. Save the steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters that allow the driver to set brake regeneration to 3 different levels of retardation, it drives just like a standard Golf, which in the world of EVs is a feat unto itself. Look for the production version to hit dealers in the U.S. late next year or in early 2014, although be prepared to pay a premium for hopping on the EV bandwagon a bit early.


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Start by making the brownies...did I mention they were low fat brownies? I figured I'd need a sturdy brownie to hold up all the delicious toppings.
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups brown sugar (splenda version)
4 tablespoons pumpkin puree
3/4 cup applesauce
(I doubled the recipe for the large pan)
I'm not going to go through all the directions--it's the basic mix the wet, sift together dry, mix all. Bake at 350 25-30 minutes. Let them cool for about 20 minutes. You'll want them slightly warm, but not hot to the touch. Now, for the best part. The toppings!
Spread on a 13 oz jar of marshmallow cream. The easiest way to do it is to plop on a few globs and let the gentle heat of the brownies melt it. Then spread it around so it's mostly even. While that's melting down, prepare the fruit. Cut up 2 bananas and put the slices in a bowl of lemon juice to prevent browning. Drain off lemon juice and set aside. Next, cut up strawberries. For our preparation, I put the bananas down first then drizzled with caramel sauce. Then added the berries. I bet these would be delicious with blueberries and raspberries too.
Here's the husband's plate...topped with whipped cream
What goodies have you been cooking up this week?
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Science Utopia (Continued): Methods Integrity Workshop
Posted by Unknown
Monday, September 24, 2012
Science Utopia: Some Thoughts About Ethics and Publication Bias
Posted by Unknown
|Science Utopia, next exit
It's a hard question to answer in one empirical article, or one blog post, and so that's not the focus here. Instead, what I'd like to do is simply point out what I think are the most promising changes that we, as a science, can adopt right now to move toward a solution that will help prevent future data fabrication or the use of biased hypothesis tests. These are not my ideas mind you, rather, they are ideas brought up in the many discussions of research reform (online and in person) that I have had formally and informally with my colleagues. Where possible, I link to the relevant sources for additional information.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Entitlement, laziness, and internal attributions: What Romney and the rest of us think about government assistance.
Posted by OlgaAntonenkoYoung
Mitt Romney's "47 percent" quote has been making the media rounds for days now. I'd like to shed one stream of light on what underlies this sentiment.
Perhaps Mr. Romney doesn't quite care who is in the 47 percent. One tagline of the Republican campaign urges us to take responsibility for our own lives. Relying on the government for help is considered lazy, indulgent, and maybe a little selfish. It is especially so when we're not giving back by paying income taxes. Part of our national character and pride stems from the idea that we are a county where a little elbow grease can go a long way. If hard work is rewarded fairly, then unemployment and low incomes can only be a personal failing. If America is a place where anyone can succeed, economic hardship is a symptom of personal failure.
Monday, September 17, 2012
What Do Letters of Recommendation Reveal About Gender Bias?
Posted by Amie
Growing up, being female never felt like a disadvantage. Both of my parents worked and maintained the household, I didn't have any brothers to create comparisons, and I was in classes with smart motivated students of both genders. The year I entered college was the first year that there were more females in college than males. Gender comparisons just weren't part of my everyday experience. To be honest, I had little awareness that there could be any type of glass ceiling for me because of my gender. What does any of this have to do with applying for jobs? Well, in an attempt to prepare myself for job applications, I scoured the internet for helpful resources. One of the articles that I came across described research showing that letters of recommendation tend to highlight different traits for men and women, differences that is seems may actually put women at a disadvantage for getting the job.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Status Hierarchies: Do We Need Them?
Posted by Unknown
|Emile Durkheim (source)
I have been studying the topic of social status ever since I started my graduate training. That was in 2004 when George W. Bush was starting his second term as President, Clint Eastwood was busy winning an Oscar for best picture (Million Dollar Baby), and Lindsay Lohan wasn't a punchline. In all of that time I hadn't ever considered the question of whether society needs social hierarchies in the first place? That is, do we really need to rank ourselves in society relative to others? Is it necessary to have varying levels of power, prestige, and status in society? Or could society function quite well without differentiation based on status?
Clearly there are some good anecdotes that support the notion that hierarchy is unnecessary. For instance, there is an excellent pizza joint in Berkeley called Cheeseboard. It's actually the Cheese Board Collective, which is owned and operated by a cooperative group of individuals who each share in the work and the profits of the business. There are no explicit status hierarchies at the Cheeseboard, and they make some pretty excellent pizza!
Unfortunately there aren't too many other examples of groups or societies without social hierarchy. Which made me wonder: Why is that?
Friday, September 7, 2012
Kids, school, and play: A look at what today's youngest students are (and are not) doing in the classroom
Posted by Kate Reilly Thorson
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"Oh, Collector, when are you going to learn? For all of your moralistic hand-wringing – about your role in this world, your perceptions of my actions, or the origins of your precious Maker – existence is not as simple as all that. There are no good guys, no bad guys – just a giant fucking mess, and a bunch of damaged beings trying to muddle through as best as they can... We're each of us nothing but frauds and liars. I mean, look at you! You fancy yourself a decent man, but if that's the case, then how did you wind up here? How did any of us?"Lately, I've been preoccupied with the question of how dark a character can be, and yet still be redeemable in the audience's eyes. In fact, I daresay that's the accidental theme of the third Collector book, THE BIG REAP, which (knock wood) I'm a couple weeks away from finishing. Oh, and speaking of, it has a pretty, pretty cover already: you can see it here, and read a brief interview with me besides.
Tariq and I didn't speak for most of the drive back to the city. Just before the driver took us into the Midtown Tunnel, Tariq spoke. "Are you so appalled that you cannot even look at me anymore?"
I watched his reflection in the window. "Why did you kill that woman in Claudia's apartment on New Year's Eve?"
In the glass I saw his full mouth tighten into an angry line. "Now you think that I murdered her?"
"I've just seen you in action. I know how far you'll go to find Claudia. You'd kill anyone who got in your way. It may have been an accident," I remembered what Bruxton had said about the woman's weakened heart, "but it was you."
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"You've killed people," I blurted out before I could censor myself. "Claudia told me."
"Did she?" His voice was quiet but flat, without any trace of emotion. "Did she tell you the reason why?"
"Anyone in this world could kill, in the right set of circumstances. The question is, what circumstances?" I didn't answer, and Tariq went on. "For profit? For passion? For revenge? To protect those whom you love? Tell me, Lily, are all of those reasons equivalent to you?"
by Alan
What do you do when the story/characters/etc. bring you to a spot where you can go one way or another and both are great twists? How do you choose?
A writing instructor once told me that a book is simply the result of an infinite number of choices a writer makes as he/she tells his/her story. (To which I replied, "Simply?")
To visualize that concept, I sometimes picture a giant pachinko machine (or the Plinko game on The Price is Right) when I outline my story. As the idea "ball" drops through the story, it encounters thousands of junctures where the story could go one way or the other. Unfortunately, this complexity usually freezes me up, and I'll have to lie down for a bit to recover.
Seriously, though, that's exactly what I do when I'm faced with a significant choice, a Path A or Path B kind of decision. I'll step back and really think about the ramifications of each option. I'll try to noodle through how the story will go under Scenario A, and then I'll do the same with Scenario B (and C and D, etc.).
After I do that, I'll flip a coin go with my gut.
Let me say that I do most of this "What Iffing" during the outline process, which makes it less likely I'll face a significant decision point during the actual writing. But it happens once in a while (I welcome those flashes of inspiration with open fingers), and when it does, I'll go lie down for a bit to think it over. Ah, the possibilities.
Of course, if the chosen twist turns out NOT to work out in the end, I'll go back and revise my story until I get it right.
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