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Thursday, 11 June 2009
Eating New York: Momofuku Steamed Pork Buns
When one of those individuals is a professional – and well-respected – food critic for a national newspaper, it would be bordering on the insane not to sample its wares.
And so we found ourselves at Momofuku Noodle Bar on 1st Avenue, a teeming and intimate dimly lit ramen bar that seems to have become something of an institution since opening in 2003.
This isn't a restaurant review so I'll skip over the finer details (empty water glasses were filled with swift proficiency, service was friendly, atmosphere was buzzy) and move onto the food.
We'd been recommended the apparently famous steamed pork buns as well as the ramen – deep bowlfuls of tasty broth complete with pork shoulder, slow cooked belly, a poached egg and enough noodles for two people.
Considering you can gorge on a near identical menu in Chinatown for around five dollars, the prices at Momofuku seem steep. In the region of 'This had better be the best effing steamed bun and bowl of noodles I've ever tasted' steep.
And, OK. They were. The buns are light, gently sweetened and filled with two slices of slow cooked pork belly complete with a slick of hoi-sin sauce. Fresh cucumber and spring onions cut through the richness.
Whilst clearly Japanese in inspiration, the ramen noodles have been deliberately Westernized with the choice of meat: two cuts of pig that I'd happily have eaten entire platefuls of: rich porky flavours that can only arise from well sourced meat cooked long and slow.
We walked home happy and sated, slept off the last of the jet lag and woke on Sunday feeling refreshed and ready to take on the City.
Or, at least I did. The GF had other ideas which mainly involved feeling desperately ill for the next two days and being unable to leave the hotel room.
Was it the noodles? Unlikely – I ate exactly the same menu and felt fine but when I mentioned the idea of re-creating that steaming bowl of deliciousness a couple of days ago she turned a worrying shade of green.
'I'm sorry, I think it's too soon. I'll happily eat the pork buns but I need to wait a while before I try to face noodles and broth.'
So, here is how to cook steamed pork buns. Momofuku style. In your very own kitchen (but not ramen. Not yet.)
Momofuku Steamed Buns with Pork.
(Makes 12)
Brine a 400g piece of belly pork overnight (to make a brine, just dissolve 200g of salt and 200g of sugar in warm water. Let it cool before covering your belly with it).
The next day, drain the meat and place in a roasting tray with 250ml of chicken stock. Cook in a warm oven (about 125 degrees C) for two hours. If the liquid dries up, just replace with a little more water. Towards the end of cooking crank up the heat to crisp up the skin. Keep an eye on it though because it can burn really quickly.
For the buns, I adapted this recipe, courtesy of David Chang, chef/proprietor of Momofuku. Mix one and a half teaspoons of dried yeast with 250ml of warm water. Add a tablespoon of rendered pork fat. Mix well.
In a food mixer, combine 90g of plain flour, 275g of white bread flour, a teaspoon of salt and 40g of caster sugar.
Slowly pour in the water, yeast and fat mixture. Use a dough hook to knead it for about 15 minutes. It will be quite wet and sticky. Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled bowl, cover with a damp tea towel and leave it to rise for a couple of hours.
Once the dough has doubled in size, knock it back down and start rolling it into a long sausage shape. If it is too sticky, use a little more flour.
Cut it into twelve even sized pieces and leave to rise for another forty minutes on a sheet of baking paper.
In the mean time, cut out 12 squares of baking paper, each about four inches square.
Slice the pork belly into thin pieces and leave to rest in the cooking liquid. They'll mop up the flavours beautifully.
Roll each ball of dough into an oval shape, about the size of your hand and fold it in half, placing it onto the square of baking paper. Again, leave them to rise for about thirty minutes.
Set a bamboo steamer over a pan of boiling water and steam the buns for about eight minutes until they puff up.
Once cooked, slice them open, spread a little hoi sin sauce over the bread, add some finely sliced cucumber and spring onion and then stuff them with as many slices of pork belly as you can.
Eat these little pillows of deliciousness whilst they are still warm and another batch is steaming away. Satisfying and summery in the best possible way. Serve to hungry guests with bottles of cold, cold beer, preferably just as the sun is starting to dip down past the horizon.
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9 comments:
- Su-Lin said...
Great post! This brings me back to Momofuku (though I visited Ssam Bar, not the Noodle Bar). Were you able to achieve that tender pork belly texture - I always thought that perhaps it was cooked sous vide?
Definitely going to try making this one day! Thanks!
- 11 June 2009 at 12:40
- QGIRL said...
Lovin' your NYC series. One of my fav places in the world.
Wish your girlfriend had her own blog. I'd def. be a fan!
- 11 June 2009 at 14:32
- TKTC said...
Timely, I just introduced myself to what's been called Chicago's answer to Momofuku last night- Urban Belly. Not the same price strategy though- a bowl of coconut saffron broth with bay scallops, small dumplings and rice noodles went for $12 and easily fed the two of us. Doesn't mean I'm not game to throw my own hat in, those buns look like fluffy bliss pillows if I've ever seen them.
- 11 June 2009 at 23:43
- Cynthia said...
You - totally - rock!
- 12 June 2009 at 05:21
- Just Cook It said...
Su-Lin - The brining really helped, kept it very moist and incredibly tender. Not to mention tasty.
Qgirl - Thank you. It is an amazing city.
TKTC - That is a bargain! Slightly cheaper than Momofuku. Sounds delicious too.
Cynthia - You're too kind!
- 12 June 2009 at 08:37
- Zi said...
I've just made these for the boy. He loves all things Chineese and Japaneese, and I am never convinced (an intense dislike for ginger in savoury dishes is to blame I feel) and I can safely say they are absolutely bloody lovely. The boy also sends his thanks!
- 13 June 2009 at 14:58
- Salon de Sucre said...
Oh I love the bun .. this is easy and delicious , we dont eat pork so I guess beef or chicken would work too !
- 14 June 2009 at 10:12
This is really a well laid out website. I love how your posts tie in with the food and drink theme so well. You seem to really love your site. I myself love to read up on recipes along side helping others in health. Keep up the great work here and please visit by my blog sometime. The url is http://healthy-nutrition-facts.blogspot.com
- 16 June 2009 at 22:31
- Just Cook It said...
Zi - that's fantastic. So glad the recipe worked for you. Really good to hear.
Room Design - chicken or beef would be just as good. Maybe with a touch of sweet chilli sauce.
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It's a fascinating idea, after all, and so counterintuitive that it tends to get folks riled up. Take lanes away from Colorado Boulevard, where the little old lady used to drive her super-stock Dodge? Slim down Route 66? Put in pop-up parklets in what were formerly precious parking spaces?
Well, there goes the Rose Parade, one reader wrote in to us. Actually, the parklets can be moved, and the parade doesn't need anything like six lanes — four traffic, two parking.
And the next day a reader wrote to the Times about her worries for the future of our downtowns if traffic lanes are taken away: "everyone will be walking to avoid the resultant gridlock." I could hear the shouts of "Yes!" from the likes of pedestrian advocate Jeff Speck ("The Walkable City") from 3,000 miles away.
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That's one of the main points of Charles Montgomery's fascinating, uplifting new book, "Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design." In its opening pages the author chases the former mayor of Bogota, Enrique Penalosa, through that once gang- and, yes, gridlock-gripped capital city, not in an SUV motorcade, but on a mountain bike.
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We got a message the other day on our Facebook fan page about a gun dealer in New Hampshire who was scammed by the clown calling himself Gunnery Sergeant David Chenicek who was scamming gun dealers for parts to build his buddy an AR. The message went like this;
I run a tactical supply store in NH and was recently contacted by a guy with a story. I just found out from other gun shops that this guy is duping them all out of gear and parts to build a weapon for a wounded GI. He claims to be a gunnery sgt. but I do not believe him. Here is what he sent me and thanks.
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Myself and a few friends are trying to assemble an AR for an injured veteran. He was on the predator flight line in the sandbox and took mortar fire while on the line. His back was severely damaged and has had to go through several surgeries, and has extreme difficulty walking or even getting out of bed in the morning without help ( he actually lost 2″ in height ). So far we have a trigger from CMC and I bought him a MAGPUL MOE forend,grip and stock with a Spikes heavy buffer.
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I guess Chenicek finally came clean and admitted that he's not a Marine, but he still claims to be building a rifle for a wounded airman, who comes into the discussion and says he never asked for an AR and he's not wounded. D'oh!
The folks at Guardian of Valor beat me to posting it, but you can check on them.
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Technology devices, educational application, and rate of accessibility have rapidly changed over the last few years and even months. By the time today's first graders graduate college they will be hired into jobs that haven't been invented yet due to the advances in technology.
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"I cannot recommend this book. That is not because it is not well-written ... nor because it doesn't dive deep into trying to understand the who and what of humankind. That fundamental question is the very thing we want from a good science fiction story. I do not recommend it simply because I have moral objections to the story's graphic and over sexualized content. This book made me feel....dirty, as if my soul needed a good scrub. I therefore cannot recommend it to you."Now that's a review!
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Once the iPhone 1.1.3 firmware was released last month, iPhone speculators and unlockers quickly turned their attention to the SDK. We've heard a lot about what the SDK might contain and when it may be arriving, but a different sort of rumor is now making the rounds. According to Macenstein, a message on the web site of iPhone developer Tiny Code hints at the arrival of the 1.1.4 firmware, possibly coinciding with the SDK release.
Tiny Code's site is now down, but the original message stated that the company has stopped work on its 1.1.3 applications, and is now working with Apple "for the next firmware release and SDK applications." Throw in a separate mention that Tiny Code is now working on firmware 1.1.4 alpha 2, and all signs seem to point to another firmware release sometime in the next few weeks.
A likely possibility is that Apple will release the 1.1.4 firmware at the same time as the SDK (or very close to the SDK release), since SDK-created applications may well need 1.1.4 to run. On the other hand, the mention of 1.1.4 as an alpha could mean that the firmware release will come a week or two later, once developers have starting churning out content. Either way, jailbreakers and unlockers may have another update to contend with far sooner than expected.


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- National Instruments will work with the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden), Germany, to explore new technologies for 5G wireless systems.
- The 5G wireless lab will be one of the first in the world and the research results will be used to determine global standards for the next phase of wireless communications.
- While the research will include a variety of system concepts, there is a special focus on the evolution of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) technology.
National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) today announced its collaboration with TU Dresden on the exploration of new technologies for 5G wireless systems using NI LabVIEW system design software. Research on 5G wireless systems is in its infancy as 3.5G and 4G systems are still largely in development. TU Dresden previously pioneered 3G systems research in conjunction with the Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, which is dedicated to cutting-edge research in wireless communication technology. Working on industry-relevant challenges related to next-generation wireless systems, the program conducts thorough research with close industry cooperation.
"National Instruments RF and communications tools will enable us to design OFDM prototyping systems within a single software design flow," said Professor Gerhard Fettweis, head of the Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems. "With the modular NI PXI system, we can start with a SISO link and expand to MIMO links with limited modifications to the code, exceeding an 8x8 setup, as our research evolves."
"TU Dresden is one of the world's top research universities, and they're leading the way in groundbreaking research to prototype next-generation wireless communication systems," said Dr. James Truchard, president, CEO and cofounder of National Instruments. "We are proud to accelerate the development of future technologies that will ultimately impact anyone who uses a cellphone."
Readers can learn more about the NI RF/communications lead user platform components by viewing these additional resources:
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My granddad, Frederick Ainsworth Stowell Musgrove was born in Citheroe on 1st February 1898.
He lived at 62 Moor Lane and then at 32 Salford. I can't find any photographs / images on the Internet of either of these houses. I suspect that they were demolished sometime ago.
At the time of his marriage to Florrie Musgrove (no relation before they married) he was living at 11 Brownlow Street, Clitheroe.
The earliest reference I can find to Brownlow Street in the Clitheroe census is for 1891. There are entries in earlier census returns for some streets in the same area. So either I haven't searched properly or Brownlow Street was built between 1881-1891 or perhaps it had another name before it became Brownlow Street.
Researching the history of Clitheroe I discovered that John Cust was elected as MP for the town in 1802. He was the eldest son of the 1st Baron Brownlow.
John Cust was MP for Clitheroe until 1807 when he succeeded to his father's title and he later became 1st Earl Brownlow in 1815.
Here's a brief biography from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cust,_1st_Earl_Brownlow
I imagine that Brownlow Street was named after John Cust.
Looking at the census returns I can see who lived at 11 Brownlow Street from 1891 to 1911
1891 – Tipping Lord (63) a cotton weaver from Grindleton, Yorkshire. He was living with his Eleanor (63) and two sons Edward (22) and James (20)
1901 – James Lord (30) was now head of the house. He was employed as a life insurance agent. He was living with his wife Annie (30) and their daughter Eleanor (3)
1911 – William Henry Mitchell (43) a cotton weaver from Clitheroe. He was living with his wife Alice (42) and four children Harry (19), Mary Ellen (14), Reginald (10) and William (7).
So my granddad must have moved to 11 Brownlow Street sometime between 1911 and 1917 when he married. I know that the house remained in the family until at least 1952 and was then sold.


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There is a "tragedy of epic proportion" in this country all right, but it isn't the one cited in the enormous, expensive and weirdly cloying report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, better known as the Pickton inquiry.
That 1,448-page monster report was delivered in Vancouver this week by commissioner Wally Oppal.
Pickton, of course, is the serial killer Robert (Willie) Pickton, who for years lured women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside — many of them drug addicts or street sex workers — to his Port Coquitlam, B.C., pig farm.
Though he was a suspect from as early as 1998, Pickton wasn't charged until almost four years later. When he was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder in 2007, 20 other murder charges were stayed.
Oppal, a former B.C. attorney-general, came to some predictable and already pretty well-established conclusions — that the Vancouver Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police botched investigation of the missing women for years and that their disappearances were ignored or downplayed, in the first instance, because the cops assumed they were transients prone to just disappearing.
Like most good Canadians, the commissioner meant well.
His worthy intentions are evident in the report's title (Forsaken) and the sophomoric collage of words ("joyful, brave, loved, compassionate, mother, caring," etc., etc.) that adorn the cover and are meant to recognize the murdered women as the complete and complicated human beings they were.
Oppal also offers the conventional Canadian solution mix of mea culpa (from the various police forces who dropped the ball), prescriptions for healing (even, God help me, the hiring of cultural and sex-trade advisors for the police) and sweeping institutional change that would, if implemented, cost the moon, rather like the inquiry itself, which as of last August had already cost $7.85-million, a goodly slice of that for lawyers and commission staff.
But the real tragedy in Canada is something that informs this report and so many others across the land — the crisis that is the broken state of aboriginal culture.
That grim reality makes itself felt in the Pickton report.
Oppal correctly notes numerous times aboriginal women are disproportionately represented both among the impoverished, battered women of the Downtown Eastside and among the list of missing and murdered women.
While only 3 per cent of B.C.'s population is Aboriginal, aboriginal women made up 33 per cent of the disappeared and dead, as by other measures they make up about 10 per cent of all female homicides in Canada.
The report includes mini-profiles of almost six dozen women — the most common numbers of the missing and murdered used in recent years. For the aboriginal women in particular, these profiles paint a ghastly portrait of a culture that is pathologically ill.
These stories, many written by family members, have many common elements: Alcoholism and drug addiction; fetal alcohol spectrum disorder repeating itself as a generational issue; physical and sexual abuse in the family; involvement of the child-welfare system; the prevalence of mental illness, such as schizophrenia; families rent by shocking violence, such as suicide and murder.
At various times, the same awful tale leaks out in dribs and drabs at various inquiries elsewhere in the country.
In Winnipeg right now, it is doing just that at two separate probes examining the killings of aboriginal youngsters who died at the hands of their mothers (in one case, with her violent partner), but who before their deaths, just like the Downtown Eastside women, had disappeared into inept Canadian bureaucracies, with no one much appearing to notice.
Both young women in Winnipeg came from shattered families where violence, abuse and profound dysfunction were the norm. Both were demonstrably dangerous parents, yet both were allowed and encouraged to "parent," in the name of family reunification, with disastrous results.
Both women were failed twice — as vulnerable youngsters themselves, then as young parents in charge of vulnerable youngsters.
As wards of the state, and then as parents whose children were ostensibly being watched over by the state, the two women are part of an absolutely shattering statistic: Of Manitoba's approximately 9,000 children who are in care, 8,000 are aboriginal.
Commenting on the tragic state of aboriginal culture wasn't Oppal's mandate. Neither is it the job of the child-welfare inquiries. And let's be frank: There is little appetite, either in institutional Canada or among Canadians, for the full conversation.
Both sides, it seems, prefer the minute examinations of narrow systems failures — policing there, child welfare here, tomorrow the prison system or mental-health patchwork — with their demands for apologies and calls for healing, with resolute avoidance of the awful big picture.


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On November 27, 1914, German commander Paul von Hindenburg issues a triumphant proclamation from the battlefields of the Eastern Front, celebrating his army's campaign against Russian forces in the Polish city of Warsaw.
On November 1, Hindenburg had been appointed the commander in chief of all German troops on the Eastern Front; his chief of staff was Erich Ludendorff, who had aided him in commanding several earlier victories against Russian forces in East Prussia. The new command, dubbed OberOst, had two objectives: First, they were to mount a counterattack in Poland while their colleague, Erich von Falkenhayn, managed German forces fighting in the Ypres region on the Western Front. Second, they were to balance the faltering Austrian command headed by Conrad von Hotzendorff. Earlier, Conrad had audaciously blamed his army's failure against Russia on a lack of sufficient German support and demanded that 30 new German divisions be sent east, a notion that Falkenhayn steadfastly opposed.
The German campaign against Warsaw, launched in early November 1914, aimed to draw Russian manpower and other resources away from their ferocious assault on the struggling army of Germany's ally, Austria-Hungary. In this it proved successful. The Germans scored several significant victories, most notably at the neighboring city of Lodz. Though the broader German assault ultimately failed, leaving Warsaw still in Russian hands, the Kaiser rewarded Hindenburg by promoting him to field marshal, the highest rank in the German army.
In his statement of November 27, Hindenburg expressed his satisfaction with the results of the campaign and, of course, with his promotion. "I am proud at having reached the highest military rank at the head of such troops. Your fighting spirit and perseverance have in a marvelous manner inflicted the greatest losses on the enemy. Over 60,000 prisoners, 150 guns and about 200 machine guns have fallen into our hands, but the enemy is not yet annihilated. Therefore, forward with God, for King and Fatherland, till the last Russian lies beaten at our feet. Hurrah!"


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We often miss God's Providence even when it steps directly into our path. Certainly, God's hand is on us wherever we go. He is guiding our lives daily. The things we consider to be good,the things we consider bad, the things that are unexpected, the things that are planned on - God is over them all. Brother Dwight Coffman uses Samson as an example of the power of God working through a normal man. We pray this message encourages you as you understand God often uses weak, frail people to do extraordinary things.


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H. Gobind Khorana, MIT's Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry emeritus, died of natural causes in Concord, Mass., Wednesday morning. He was 89.
A winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, Khorana devoted much of his scientific career to unraveling the genetic code and the mechanisms by which nucleic acids give rise to proteins. "Gobind was a brilliant, path-breaking scientist, a wise and considerate colleague, and a dear friend to many of us at MIT," said Chris Kaiser, MacVicar Professor of Biology and head of the Department of Biology, in an email announcing the news to the department's faculty.
Khorana was born in India in 1922, in a small village called Raipur, in the region of Punjab that is now part of Pakistan. He was the youngest in a Hindu family of one daughter and four sons; his father was a patwari, an agricultural taxation clerk in the British Indian system of government. In an autobiographical note written upon winning the Nobel Prize, Khorana wrote: "Although poor, my father was dedicated to educating his children and we were practically the only literate family in the village inhabited by about 100 people."
Khorana attended high school in the nearby city of Multan before enrolling in Punjab University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1943 and master's in 1945, both in chemistry and biochemistry. Upon graduating, he received a fellowship from the Indian government to study at the University of Liverpool in the U.K., where he received his PhD in 1948.
He did postdoctoral work at Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology, where he met his wife, the late Esther Elizabeth Sibler. Feeling lost in a new country, Khorana later wrote: "Esther brought a consistent sense of purpose in my life at a time when, after six years' absence from the country of my birth, I felt out of place everywhere and at home nowhere."
After returning to the U.K. for another postdoc position in Cambridge, Khorana and his wife created a new home together in Vancouver, Canada, where he took a job at the British Columbia Research Council in 1952.
"Gobind was so excited that he was going to start a lab of his own. He looked at the map of Canada, saw where Vancouver was for the first time, and off he went," says colleague Uttam Rajbhandary, MIT's Lester Wolfe Professor of Molecular Biology, recalling Khorana's telling of how he accepted the position.
Khorana stayed in Vancouver for eight years, continuing his pioneering work on proteins and nucleic acids while raising two daughters, Julia Elizabeth and Emily Anne, and a son, Dave Roy. In 1960, he went to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he became co-director of the Institute for Enzyme Research.
It was at Wisconsin that Khorana and colleagues worked out the mechanisms by which RNA codes for the synthesis of proteins, leading to the Nobel Prize in 1968, which Khorana shared with Robert Holley of Cornell University and Marshall Nirenberg of the National Institutes of Health. Khorana was among the pioneers of the now-familiar series of three-nucleotide codons that signal to the cell which amino acids to use in building proteins — for example, uracil-cytosine-uracil, or UCU, codes for the amino acid serine, while CUC codes for leucine.
After discovering this key biological code, Khorana became interested in replicating the process synthetically. In 1970 he joined MIT, where he continued at the forefront of the ballooning field of genetics.
Shortly after arriving at the Institute, Khorana — along with colleagues — announced the synthesis of two different genes crucial to protein building. In a major breakthrough in 1976, they managed to complete the synthesis of the first fully functional manmade gene in a living cell. This method of chemically synthesizing genes made possible controlled, systematic studies of how genetic structure influences function.
In the decades that followed, Khorana became interested in other cellular components, including biomembranes and, in the visual system, rhodopsin — the pigment on the eye's retina that is responsible for the first step in the biological perception of light. He retired from the MIT faculty in 2007.
In addition to his strong research ethic, Khorana took pride in mentoring younger scientists. "Even while doing all this research, he was always really interested in education, in students and young people," says his daughter, Julia Khorana '75. "After he retired, students would come to visit and he loved to talk to them about the work they were doing. He was very loyal to them, and they were very loyal to him, too."
Rajbhandary says he will remember Khorana for his drive and focus, but also his humility. "As good as he was, he was one of the most modest people I have known," he says. "What he accomplished in his life, coming from where he did, is truly incredible."
In addition to the Nobel, Khorana won many other professional awards, including the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University and the Lasker Foundation Award for Basic Medical Research, both in 1968; the Willard Gibbs Medal of the Chicago section of the American Chemical Society, in 1974; the Gairdner Foundation Annual Award, in 1980; and the Paul Kayser International Award of Merit in Retina Research, in 1987. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other distinguished professional memberships.
Khorana is survived by his daughter, Julia, and son, Dave. A memorial service is being planned.


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Or maybe he means the obvious, George Soros, and anything he touches is weird, and corrupt
The Free Beacon's Matthew Continetti observes how little attention was paid to the recent meeting of the Democracy Alliance, a left-wing fundraising network backed by billionaire George Soros:
More likely the media simply ignore data that complicate their preferred narrative. When it comes to the fraught relationship between money and politics, that narrative is as follows: Money in politics is corrupting only because rich businessmen trade campaign donations to Republicans for low taxes and fewer environmental regulations.
Continetti points out a little-noted development:
Earlier this year the Democracy Alliance scraped away groups that were not affixed like barnacles to the hull of the Democratic Party and left alone the groups that were.
The media is loath to dig in and actually investigate stories like this. If the question is why, just consider one word as the answer IDEOLOGY! Certainly the media has no qualms about looking into the connection between Republicans and rich people while totally ignoring all the rich Democrats. And make no mistake, the media bias factor IS a big advantage. Yes new media has made inroads, but the gap is still very significant. This, naturally explains why the left has always been eager to apply "fairness" to talk radio, and to marginalize blogs. they are not looking to compete, they are looking for one party, one ideology rule!


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I wish we'd seen more singing, they kicked out 320 over two days of Hell Week. It should have been a 2 hour show.
Survivor premiere!!
The "Adam Lambert wannabe" made it through the next round even though he sang bad in group round IMO.
Quote from: eragon on February 17, 2011, 06:36:01 AMThe "Adam Lambert wannabe" made it through the next round even though he sang bad in group round IMO.Which one eragon? There were several screamers last night. I know there was one in the last few groups who ended the song down on his knees. He was forgettable though because I can't even remember his name.
TL, I know Jacob sang good. But i seriously didn't like that rendition of the song. Hayley IMO, was MUCH BETTER than Ashton. I was blown away by Hayley!! Her voice is so unique... Ashton nailed her song. But her voice isn't very distinctive.. i would much prefer Jennifer Hudson's voice..TL, i also didn't Scott McCreery had to change songs. I think they had a list of songs they had to choose from and his favourite country song wasn't just in the list and he had to make do with this song.Tynisa got through to the next round thanks to her talented voice. And did you realize how people avoided Kelly Clarkson's Because Of You?
This is going to be a great year, so far we really have not seen the Bikini Girl type of annoying personality or that guy who sang great when he was serious but wanted to be a comedian instead. Can't even recall his name... guess he didn't become famous.) It seems that we will have a much better group of singers and while I have to eat my words about losing Simon, the new judges are making AI exciting again!
Paula and Simon?? I prefer JLo and Steven!!!
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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140226 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2014/02/140226.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD
#TPP too tough for Groser's talent - http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/9769135/TPP-too-tough-for-Grosers-talent why should #NZ "bend over backwards to help the US cement this deal"?
#Qatar's foreign domestic workers subjected to slave-like conditions - http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/26/qatar-foreign-workers-slave-conditions sounds appalling, if confirmed
#TTIP: Free Trade Is Not So Free After All - http://www.indepthnews.info/index.php/global-issues/2064-free-trade-is-not-so-free-after-all "EU behaviour is a disgrace, but also routine." (v @corporateeurope)
#TTIP 'challenged' by environmental critics, EU says - http://www.euractiv.com/trade/ttip-challenged-environmental-cr-news-533794 rightly so (v @olivierhoedeman @ArthurNeslen)#TAFTA #ISDS
How Commission is out-manoeuvring the European Parliament to undermine #netneutrality - http://edri.org/ec_strategy/ good analysis of bad stuff
#TTIP threatens financial reform and the public interest - http://somo.nl/news-en/somo-news/ttip-undermines-financial-regulation-and-leaves-citizens-unprotected I missed this last month; good analysis of crucial aspect
#TTIP Updates - The Glyn Moody blogs - http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/11/ttip-updates-the-glyn-moody-blogs/index.htm now up to number 16... #TAFTA #ISDS
EU draft proposal on trade in services, investment and e-commerce for the #TTIP negotiations - http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2014-02/freihandelsabkommen-eu-sonderrechte-konzerne NB: huge new leak
that important #TTIP leak can be downloaded from here: http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1030459/eu-kommission-position-in-den.pdf it's in English, and contains key #ISDS section #TAFTA
IETF Draft Wants To Formalize 'Man-In-The-Middle' Decryption Of Data As It Passes Through 'Trusted Proxies' - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140226/07270626350/ietf-draft-wants-to-formalize-man-in-the-middle-decryption-data-as-it-passes-through-trusted-proxies.shtml #MITM
great news: consultation on #OpenStandards and #ODF extended http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/02/stand-up-for-open-standards-and-odf/index.htm you now have until 5pm Friday 28th Feb - pl. use it
Millions of dollars of public money are lost each year to fraud: http://stopsecretcontracts.org/ aims to fight it; pl. spread the word #transparency
Kepler: Opening the Planet Verification Bottleneck - http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=30051 such an exciting time in this field
#GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo still "authorised, necessary and proportionate" really??
given the continuing revelations about the slimy stuff they get up to, why would any decent person ever want to join #GCHQ now...?
Two Extended Consultations, Two Important Opportunities - http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/02/two-extended-consultations-two-important-opportunities/index.htm still time to comment on #openstandards & #eu #copyright
The European Commission is failing #EU animals - http://action.ciwf.org.uk/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=119&ea.campaign.id=25833&ea.tracking.id=7774353c&utm_campaign=transport humanity begins on the farm
Abe: Avoid time limit for Japan-US #TPP - http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001072671 "We never break election promises" 4 "tariffs on 5 agricultural categories"
NSA robots are 'collecting' your data, too, and they're getting away with it - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/27/nsa-robots-algorithm-surveillance-bruce-schneier important pt.: this is still spying
"#GCHQ personnel stumbling across images of child abuse could be committing a criminal offence" - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/02/rule-34-meet-kafka.html serious points
The Moazzam Begg Arrest: Part of the Effort to Criminalize Muslim Political Dissent - https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/27/moazzam-begg-arrest-part-effort-criminalize-muslim-political-dissent/ shame on the UK government
"likely means that the #NSA has webcam images of American citizens in their storage houses" - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/09452426376/peek-a-boo-gchq-has-been-checking-you-out-through-your-webcam.shtml Americans please note
#AU: "further extension of patent monopolies through [#TPP] adding hundreds more millions to the health budget! - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-28/gleeson-cost-cutting-crusade-ignores-vital-health-report/5289726
#GCHQ's cover for Optic Nerve provided by legislation introduced in 2000 - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-insists-optic-nerve-program-legal-legislation-2000 #RIPA is not fit for purpose: repeal it
#TPP: Japan's inflexibility and its agreement with the US leave little room, and little movement, for other nations - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11211006
Five year ambition for open philanthropy in the UK - http://threesixtygiving.com/2013/06/24/five-year-ambition-for-open-philanthropy-in-the-uk/ great idea (v @EllnMllr)
UK Hacker Faces Extradition To US, Not To Mention 5 Years' Imprisonment In UK For Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/08165326373/british-hacker-faces-extradition-to-us-not-to-mention-five-years-imprisonment-uk-failing-to-hand-over-encryption-keys.shtml
Agriculture in #TPP: Repeating #NAFTA's mistakes - http://www.iatp.org/blog/201402/agriculture-in-tpp-repeating-nafta%E2%80%99s-mistakes crucial area


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Manuel Fernandez AKA Manny- Fake Navy SEAL, Fake Vietnam Vet, Fake Combat Vet31
09/13/2017 by hombrerana1221
Manuel Fernandez AKA Manny, AKA Raging Bull hails from San Jose, CA, Manny is known to be a professional wrestler and claims to be a Navy SEAL that served in Vietnam. Manny has numerous articles and videos with his claims.
If you look at the interview Manny is questioned regarding his claims as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam. He claims he was there during Operation Enduring Wind (which was actually Operation Frequent Wind which was carried out on 29–30 April 1975). Just to be clear the last remaining SEALs in Vietnam left in 1972.
In the video below you can fast forward to 1:40 which talks about his SEAL days and it ends on 2:16:
****WARNING**** A lot of foul language, so if you have your kids around ask them to leave or learn a hard lesson in life.
Nice SEAL hat, ebay? Wonder if it came with that necklace?
Poor Manny his SEAL experiences has given him numerous health problems to include PTSD, being exposed to Agent Orange. Wow, I am sad to know Manny has been fighting those demons. Manny we are here for you……………………….
There are plenty of other articles and Facebook pages regarding Manny being a Navy SEAL and having fought in Vietnam, there would be way too many of Manny's to post (did you like what I did there? Many of Manny's, just in case you missed it).
OK, at Military Phonies our math doesn't seem to be working
Vietnam War 1955 – 1975
SEALs in Vietnam 1965 and 1972
Manny in Vietnam 1975
Do we mulitply it by something or divide it by π (Pi)?
Military Phonies feels that things are not adding up so we started our investigation.
After contacting the UDT/SEAL archives and checking the UDT/SEAL database we found that there is NO record of Manuel Fernandez ever being or training to become a Navy SEAL.
Manuel Fernandez's records were requested through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Holy crap, Manny's summary sheets shows that he served in the U.S. Navy Reserves for 1 year, 9 months, 13 days (12/17/74-9/30/76), by Military Phonies math, when Manny joined the Reserves he would have 4 months and 13 days to go to boot camp, then complete BUD/S, get assigned to a SEAL Team and join a platoon to be participate in "Operation Frequent Wind" (SEALs were not part of that operation). WOW, that would be amazing but sad to say the "Raging Bull" is now the "Raging Bullshitter". He got out as an E-1 (Fireman Recruit), schooling was listed as Pump Repair. He never attended BUD/S, was never assigned to a SEAL Team, never deployed to Vietnam, and was not part of Operation Enduring Wind. But he did have some cool hair to match that cheesy mustache….
Feel free to comment on Manny's open public Facebook page!!!!!
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From what I've read, not sure he played pro ball either.
He may have Sucked Off a few NFL players
I think there is 10 phonies for every 1 SEAL/Buds graduate…….KPM class 246
This is the administrator of the Ragin' Bull's page. There has been some comments and posts from people who are not fans of the page spreading a fake article about Manny's military service. It was started by a disgruntled wrestler who has issues with Mr. Fernandez. That will not be tolerated on this page and anyone spamming and making derogatory remarks will be banned and the comments will be deleted.
This a page that wrestling fans can enjoy the wrestling past with articles, pictures, and videos from the territory days of the business. Not people with personal vendettas. Please respect the people that enjoy the content here and stay tuned for more content soon. Thank you.
Apparently you guys are a disgruntled wrestler according to the administrator of his page.
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I guess I should have said that was copied and pasted from his Facebook page. I am on your side here guys. I am a Navy Vet myself.
Looks like his Wikipedia page was updated.
His personal Facebook page and it is wide open for comments or publicly disgracing him to all of his family and friends. Which ever warms your heart.
Damn, you can't post comments to the twatwaffles page anymore….
Excellent work exposing his years of lying about his service. I don't know how tough SEAL selection was in the 1970s, but I'd assume it was of a similar difficulty to the stories you hear now about Hell Week and so on. Here's what Manny had to say about it in an interview from about 10 years ago:
"I found out the navy was kind of boring so I got into some trouble with the navy in the barracks with the master at arms slapping people around so they was going to kick me out but they gave me a chance to try out for the Seals and I took the course, and basically it's just a floating course and how long you can float and tread water in a pool and stuff like that which I used to swim all my life, my mom taught me so it wasn't too hard"
Who knew selection for elite special forces was just floating and treading water in a pool? Not me.
Nothing, nothing this scum says is true. Supposedly he was DYING of Agent Orange related sicknesses in the 1990. Looks like he is still here, regrettably.
He who is without sin may he cast the first stone …
Look folks exposing him is one thing and if so the job is done BUT He is a man nonetheless…
One of the main issues is that he is stealing from the men that did serve, especially since he is claiming benefits he has not earned.
Here is Manny's present facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MannyFernadezFanPage/?ref=br_rs
He is also claiming benefits as a Vietnam combat veteran at various VA's including Fresno Ca.
Got a question. You say Manny never served in Vietnam, however your own evidence places him on the USS Hancock while it was assigned to Vietnam during operation frequent wind. He may not have been a seal, but according to your own evidence he was in Vietnam. Not starting anything, but when you call someone out be right. and he did not train for pump repair until after his return.
He reported in april of 75 and left in december of 75. Which is the dates on the papers that you have posted.
Let's be blunt about the Raging Bull Manny Fernandez he has been claiming he has PTSD, for years, now how that is possible without being in combat is anyone's guess. His favorite routine is to sell half of his meds from the VA or trade them for meth. He carries doctored VA papers to get housing and other benefits. He has used his claims of being a Navy Seal with PTSD to get out of jail for years. Last year he was popped for driving a stolen car in Texas and used his claims of being a Seal to stay out of prison.


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It's one thing to take a Canon EOS-1D X or a Nikon D4 out on a snowboarding shoot and pop off 10 frames a second during a cliff jump or huge line in the backcountry. It's a completely different thing to take a film Hasselblad with you and wait for that one frame that sings.
That's been Daniel Blom's approach, and over the long run it's paid off. For years now, Blom has been shooting snowboarders around the world with his trusty Hasselblad and just published a retrospective book called Drifting Decade.
"You definitely have to care more," says Blom about lugging that camera around to places like the insanely steep lines in Alaska or the deep powder in Japan.
Not every frame in the book is on film — he does use digital sometimes as well — but the advantages of carrying and frequently using a slower camera are immediately apparent as soon as you open the book. Not only are the Hasselblad photos as crisp as you might expect from this camera, but they also have their own aesthetic and are usually more unexpected. He's got the standard big air and crazy mountain shots, but they're often seen from a unique angle or distance. When everyone else is standing in the same spot, Blom finds a way to make a completely different picture.
This alternative approach also changed the way he looked at snowboarding in general. Snowboarding, as we know, has grown into more than just a sport. It's spawned an entire industry and along with it, a unique culture. While looking for a different way to capture the action, Blom also started pointing his camera at the people behind the goggles.
"I just felt like snowboarding is so much more than just the glossy gallery shots that you see in every magazine," says Blom, who splits his time between Stockholm and Los Angeles.
Of course the magic didn't just happen because Blom decided to use a different camera. Over the 10 years that the book encompasses, he was on the road for months at a time, and at least initially struggled to make a living with his photography. For years he worked as a forklift operator in Norway over the summer to save enough money to travel and shoot. He sold a couple of editorial shots, but not for much.
Eventually, after years of pounding the snow, his stuff was recognizable enough that he got picked up as a staff photographer at two different magazines — Snowboarder and Method — and he also started picking off commercial shoots where the real money is.
Getting the shots was no walk in the park either. Hasselblad or digital camera alike, Blom had to lug hundreds of pounds of additional photography and snowboard gear around in helicopters and snowmobiles – and sometimes on foot – to get the money shot.
And unlike some shooters who prefer to set up in the valley below the steepest lines and make photos or shoot video with telephoto lenses, Blom navigated terrain that would make most people crap their pants, planted himself somewhere he wouldn't fall over a cliff and then made a picture.
"I tried to go with the riders as much as I dared," he says.
In many ways the 10 years covered in the book encompass the kind of lifestyle many might aspire to. The freshest snow, the craziest locations and free flights courtesy of the magazine that hired you. But Blom says it eventually gets old. Enough so that a 9-to-5 job started to look appealing.
Today he's not such a jet-setter and only travels occasionally. He's concentrating on his commercial work and has returned to snowboarding for snowboarding's sake. The book came at a moment when he finally had some free time and he says he wanted to create something that he could look back on in 40 years and be proud of.
"I wanted to do it for myself," he says. "I wanted to be 100 percent sure that it was something I liked."
All Photos: Daniel Blom


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Nino Moschella
Boom Shadow
Ubiquity (UR251)
Release Date: May 19, 2009
What is Boomshadow? The made-up word is a fictional character Nino Moschella and some friends concocted nearly a decade ago. "He was a super hero. It was kind of ridiculous. He didn't really have a specific power, he would just come onto the scene and save everybody," he explains. Boomshadow came back to Moschella, with a different meaning, as an idea for the title of his sophomore album for Ubiquity. It is a warm cloak of sound emanating from your stereo. It envelopes and protects all who listen. It feels good to be in the warm pulse of the Boomshadow. Moschella likens it to listening from inside the womb. The feeling of being safe and being able to trust was key to the development of this album. With the practice and feedback from an extensive set of gigs under his belt, a new live band to back him, and a close-knit crew of collaborators to work with, Moschella has a deepened trust in his own musical ability. As a result Boomshadow reflects the continued refinement of Nino Moschella's sound. His songs are more personal, and his production definitely has more boom.
The album launches with a frenetic flying kick to the eardrums, on an intro that reflects Moschellas' East Bay funk-inflicted home-base. It doesn't let off the gas with the raw angular funk rock of "Sleep." Fans of The Fix, his first album with Ubiquity, will recognize the progression from tracks like "Are You For Real" to the new, even more soulful sounds of "We Fight" (featuring Fanny Franklin), and on the disjointed head bumping "Around the World" and "Stella," the tribute to his daughter. On the stripped down "What U Do 2 Me" he sings a twisted anti-ballad over horns and acoustic guitar, while the music on "Time of Day" and "I Love Myself" moves with a cosmic bounce that nods to all the funk elders and ancestors. Moschella's unique homemade beats and unexpected embellishments are now backed with a fuller orchestration, and his arrangements are more dynamic. "The identity of this album was clear early on and the songs came more easily. It was less about sculpting something and more about trusting that the process would lead me in the right direction," says Moschella. "I've become more comfortable with who I am as a person in this world and naturally that informs the music," he adds.
San Francisco Magazine
Red Bull Music Feature
The Onion, AV Club
Time Out
Radio/In-studio Performances:
May 19
Red Bull Radio - DJ Podcast
May 22
KUSF - DJ Set
San Francisco, CA
May 30
KALX - In-Studio Performance
Berkeley, CA
Tour Dates:
May 22 - Root Down - Los Angeles, CA
May 23 - Continetal Room - Fullerton, CA
May 24 - UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival w/ Erykah Badu - Los Angeles, CA
New NINO MOSCHELLA album 'Boom Shadow' due out May 19th
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Who's ready for a big ol' helping of awesome?
Joss Whedon has signed on to direct "The Avengers."
You can almost hear the sound of fanboys across this great nation busting out a Balki-style Dance of Joy.
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If there was ever any doubt about the potential of The Avengers, it just spontaneously combusted, along with half a dozen Firefly fanatics. With Whedon, who brought us "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Dollhouse" and, of course, "Dr. Horrible," at the helm, "The Avengers" rockets to the top of many must see lists, including ours.
Sadly, the waiting game is now in effect until the first weekend of May 2012 when the film is set for release. In the meantime, the Avengers team, an all-star Marvel posse, will be frequenting your local megaplex as "Iron Man 2" opens in May, "Thor," starring Chris Hemsworth is currently in production, and "Captain America," starring Chris Evans, begins shooting in Europe this summer.
Depending on the success of "The Avengers," audiences might finally be able to see Whedon lens the Wonder Woman script he's been trying to get off the ground for several years and we have a sneaky suspicion Nathan Fillion will finally get the leading man role so many fans have been dying to see him in. Fingers crossed that Eliza Dushka doesn't wiggle her way in and louse everything up.


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If you've been keeping your eyes on Windows Phone, but have been holding off on switching over until it gets a few more crucial features and/or apps, here's an interesting rumour: WMPowerUser says that Microsoft is working on a new group chat feature called Room, which apparently works in a similar manner as BlackBerry Instant Messenger or the group message feature in Apple's iMessage.
WMPowerUser says they discovered the new feature based on some code nestled deep in the WP8 SDK. A descriptor found, describes the service as such:
Gather your friends and family together. Invite them to a private Room where you can share a calendar, photos, group chat and notes. Or add them to a Group to see social updates from just those folks and text them all at once. Tap the plus sign to get started.
Apparently this will be part of the reveal at Tomorrow's Nokia event, a rumour which has also been told to The Verge by sources. [WMPowerUser via TechCrunch]


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The most notable example right now is in Israel. At a conference on gynecology, women were barred from speaking--or as feminist writer Katha Pollitt put it, "Men discuss vaginas while women can only watch." Eight speakers reportedly cancelled their appearances. The ban was prompted by ultra-Orthodox Jews, who follow rules that forbid women from speaking public or sitting with men in meetings or worship. The New York Times dubbed it a "seismic rift over the role of women," and noted the recent example is just part of a larger debate there:
Public discourse in Israel is suddenly dominated by a new, high-toned Hebrew phrase, "hadarat nashim," or the exclusion of women....All of this seems anomalous to most people in a country where five young women just graduated from the air force's prestigious pilots course and a woman presides over the Supreme Court. But each side in this dispute is waging a vigorous public campaign. The New Israel Fund, which advocates for equality and democracy, organized singalongs and concerts featuring women in Jerusalem and put up posters of women's faces under the slogan, "Women should be seen and heard." The Israel Medical Association asserted last week that its members should boycott events that exclude women from speaking on stages. Religious authorities said liberal groups were waging a war of hatred against a pious sector that wanted only to be left in peace.We can get outraged over this extreme example, but keeping women speakers off the program is happening elsewhere--just quietly. Here are some examples that have come across my line of vision in the past week:
- At the Reviving the Islamic Spirit conference, "... it's been, again, a disappointing year for female involvement as speakers, in a conference where women make up at least half the audience and half the volunteers (but usually more)," reports Muslimah Media Watch. The post has been noting the issue of women speakers for several years.
- TED 2012's lineup includes just 16 women out of 55 presenters, points out @cvharquail on Twitter, echoing a persistent criticism of the well-watched conference.
- The Wall Street Green Trading Summit boasted on Twitter that it has "the most women speakers of any energy and environmental conference this year." That would be 11 women speakers out of 51 total.
- Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise in Philadelphia has only 2 speaker of 40 who are women thus far, points out this observer.
- The Techriti 2012 conference in India will feature speaker Deborah Berebichez, who tweeted that she was "honored" to speak there, "but I do wish there were more women speakers." That might be due to the fact that she is the lone woman speaker of a dozen speakers at this conference.
- Edinburgh-based iOS developer Matt Gemmell, after attending several tech conferences with few women speakers, offers a list of suggestions for same.
Looking for famous speeches by women? Check out The Eloquent Woman Index of Famous Women's Speeches, with a wide variety of women speakers, types of speeches and topics to inspire your next speech. Each one comes with lessons for speakers, plus video or audio and a transcript, where available.


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Should Google give its shareholders a dividend? That's what some analysts are suggesting in order for cash-rich Google to promote goodwill. After all, hasn't the dividend-reluctant Apple capitulated and will now give their shareholders a share of is profits?
Google is cash-rich, having $44.63 billion in cash as of Dec. 31, and is the only tech company with a market cap above $100 billion that doesn't offer a dividend, according to All Things D.
"It probably has the most to gain in terms of positive sentiment by doing so, given its propensity for acquisitions and mixed investor sentiment around the Motorola Mobility deal," said Barclays analyst Anthony DiClemente.
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But perhaps Google isn't as cash-rich as it seems, because a lot of that money is tied up in overseas accounts away from America's higher taxes -- if it comes back to U.S. shores, it's a major tax hit. So maybe Chief Executive Officer Larry Page has a reason to hoard Google's remaining cash.
But the desire for a dividend won't go away. In today's tough economy, more and more investors are looking for companies that are good investments and also deliver dividends. It's one of the ways investors are hoping to make money in times of lower growth.
So while Google and other companies may resist pressure to offer a dividend, it may prove to be one of the most important ways to appease current shareholders and attract new ones..


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She decided to push on and continued to think of other ways to create a job that she would love to do all the time while benefiting the community. "I knew I wanted to do something like it again, but I wasn't sure what it was going to be," she said.
She decided to try the market model again and on May 7, the Agora L.I.C market will officially launch at St. Mary's church parking lot on 49th Avenue in Long Island City.
Influenced a lot by her mother, who always cooked hearty food and who always dressed her in handmade clothes, Peruvian-born Palacios wanted to create a space that blended wholesome food and creative crafts. She calls it the "tasty-crafty market," a new kind of meeting place that she feels will soon catch on.
"Anything you make by hand, you put your heart and soul into it," she said. "I wanted to bring that whole energy and appreciation of handmade goods to people."
The market will run from May to November, for 16 Saturdays with up to 50 vendors offering handmade goods, fine arts and specialty foods, among other items.
Palacios is also offering a different spin. "It's not just about vendors, but bringing the community into the space," she said. She decided to open up the market to local artists, visual, vocal and otherwise, so that they could use the space to showcase their talents while entertaining residents and shoppers.
Palacios, who grew up in Astoria and now resides in Jackson Heights, is happy that she has finally found some time to explore her crafty side after working 18-hour days in economic development and marketing for various companies. She is also fortunate enough to find a spot to share that side of her in Long Island City.
"I wanted to be in Queens because it's my backyard, I went to school here," she said. "Queens is the mecca of 'tasty-crafty.' This is where it lives."
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European Game Day: 3/3/11
Elitserien Regular Season
Sodertalje 5 @ Timra 3
Riku Helenius, Sodertalje, DNP
Season totals: 18 GP, 4-11-0, 0 SO, 3.03 GAA, .884 sv%
Ex-Avs pick Linus Videll had 1 goal and 3 assists to lead Sodertalje to a critical 5-3 win over Timra. With 1 game remaining in the regular season, Sodertalje now sits in 9th in the Elitserien, just 2 points back of AIK for the last playoff spot in the league. On the flip side, they hold a scant 1 point lead over MODO and Timra, who would be ticketed for the promotion/relegation round if the season ended now. 8th place AIK finishes their season against 11th place MODO, 10th place Frolunda draws 4th place Lulea, and 12th place Timra finishes against 6th place Djurgardens, so Sodertalje has the hardest draw of the final round of games on Saturday with 2nd place HV 71.
For Sodertalje to make the playoffs, AIK must lose in regulation to MODO, Sodertalje must defeat HV 71 in regulation, and Sodertalje's goal differential must be equal to or better than Frolunda's in the final game. Also, only a regulation win guarantees Sodertalje will not have to face the promotion/relegation round. They will lose any tiebreaker with MODO or Timra on goal differential.
KHL Western Conference Quarterfinals
(7)Dynamo Riga 2 @ (2)Dynamo Moscow 1 (OT)
Dynamo Riga Wins the Series 4-2
Martins Karsums, Dynamo Riga, 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM, 1 SOG
Season totals: 52 GP, 17-15-32, -3, 46 PIM
Playoff totals: 6 GP, 0-2-2, +1, 6 PIM
Janis Sprukts scored 15:01 into overtime to lead Dynamo Riga to a 2-1 Game Six victory over Dynamo Moscow and an upset 4-2 series win. Riga moves on and will play either Yaroslavl or Mytischi in the second round.
(5)Cherepovets 0 @ (4)Mytischi 1
Mytischi Wins the Series 4-2
Vasily Koshechkin, Cherepovets, Loss, 38/39, 1.00 GAA, .974 sv%
Season totals: 32 GP, 18-14-0, 2 SO, 2.92 GAA, .906 sv%
Playoff totals: 6 GP, 2-3-1, 0 SO, 2.20 GAA, .946 sv%
Vasya the Cat deserved better. The big netminder stopped 38 of 39 shots he faced, but a goal by ex-Jackets draft pick Sergei Mozyakin was all Mytischi needed to take down Cherepovets 1-0 in Game Six and secure a 4-2 series win. Koshechkin performed brilliantly despite facing an average of 37 shots per game in the series. His KHL contract expires this offseason and the rules of the CBA may be conducive to the Lightning signing the former 2002 8th rounder, but for now Koshechkin's next focus may be a potential World Championships spot with Team Russia.
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