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This dish looks absolutely amazing! And its Bobby's recipe from throwdown, so im sure it is delicious!!!!
Shrimp and Grits
Total Time: 50 min Prep:30 min Cook:20 min
Yield:4 to 6 servings Level:Intermediate
1 1/2 pounds (26-30 count) Shrimp
2 tablespoons Cajun seasoning (recommended: Tony's Louisiana Cajun seasoning)
1 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoon dried Italian seasoning
Freshly ground black pepper
2 cups water
2 chicken bouillon cubes (recommended: Knorr)
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 cup quick grits (recommended: Quaker)
1 tablespoon tomato paste
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
3 1/2 ounces extra-sharp Cheddar
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 tablespoon minced garlic
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup chicken stock
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon hot sauce (recommended: Louisiana Hot Sauce)
1 slice sugar-cured country ham
First, peel and devein the shrimp. In a small bowl, combine Cajun seasoning, paprika, Italian seasoning and salt and pepper, to taste. Sprinkle the spice mixture over the shrimp to coat well and set the shrimp aside.
Next, make your grits. In a medium saucepan, bring water, chicken bouillon cubes and 2 tablespoons butter to a boil. Slowly add the grits, whisking often with wire whisk for 5 minutes. Add tomato paste, cream, and cheese. Keep whisking for another 2 or 3 minutes until the grits become creamy. Don't skimp on the butter and the cream, folks.
Now saute the shrimp. In a large saute pan, melt 2 tablespoons of butter. Add minced garlic and stir for 30 seconds. Add in the spice-coated shrimp, and cook only until they're just done and tender. Don't overcook. Remove the shrimp from the saute pan and set them aside in a bowl. You can taste 1 or 2, to see if they're okay.
The roux is next. With all those wonderful drippings from the shrimp in the saute pan, add 3 tablespoons of all-purpose flour and stir with a wooden spatula to make a roux. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes until roux reaches a medium-tan color, then slowly add the chicken stock and heavy whipping cream. Whisk together and cook for 2 minutes, then whisk in Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce. Set aside.
And last, a little country ham. Cook 1 center slice of cured country ham in a saute pan, and cut into cubes.
To serve, and this is the best part-place a few heaping spoonfuls of steaming cheese grits onto a place, top with several sizzling shrimp. Drizzle that wonderful roux sauce over top of the shrimp, and sprinkle on a few cubes of country ham. Enjoy.
Get the recipe for Shrimp and Grits via @FoodNetwork:Source: Shrimp and Grits Recipe : Food Network


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John William Stewart Family Papers, Series I, Folder 14: Family Correspondence, To John W. Stewart -- From Florence Stewart, 1887
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|John William Stewart, the son of John Sheeler Stewart (b.1812) and Margaret Barbour Witherow (1818-1902), was born in Emmitsburg, Frederick County, Maryland on January 21, 1844. Series I consists of correspondence between John William Stewart and his family and friends. Among the topics covered in the letters are the Civil War, travel and religion. For more information, see the complete finding aid to the collection at http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1470.
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Shopping at Target is about to make you a little richer.
Consumers at Target and CVS will soon get rewarded for using alternatives to plastic, earning cash back on their purchases every time they package their buys with reusable bags they bring from home.
Target will announce Monday afternoon its plans to give a 5-cent discount for every reusable bag consumers bring to the giant shopping chain, USA Today reported Monday.
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Drugstore empire CVS is also embracing the anti-plastic trend, announcing it will give CVS customers a dollar back for every four times they refuse plastic bags at the store.
Experts say decreasing use of plastic bags could provide a serious boost to the environment and cut back on animal casualties as a result of the plastic debris.
"Plastic bags are the most ubiquitous form of waste on the planet," National Resources Defense Council senior scientist Allen Herskowitz told USA Today.


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"A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars."
This quote by Sean Parker in The Social Network seems to have become the motto of every new Silicon Valley startup. With most of YC's new batch already having enough runway, thanks to Yuri Milner's investment of $150,000, they don't have to worry a lot about capital initially, and can afford to dream big.
A few days ago, Y Combinator hosted the summer session of its Demo Day event, where its current batch of startups showcased their offerings to audiences comprising mainly of angel investors and VC firms.
There were 63 new startups in this batch, which made the event very exciting. Here are some of them which I think are most likely to be very successful, possibly billion dollar businesses.
Parse is Heroku for mobile apps. It provides cloud services for mobile applications and enables Android and iOS developers to add a backend to their mobile apps easily, abstracting away the boring details.
Heroku was acquired by Salesforce.com for $212 million. With mobile booming, Parse could easily be a much bigger business.
Double Recall might be what most web publishers and brand name advertisers have been waiting for. It allows companies to launch brand building campaigns which compel users to read ads and enter them into a textbox for much better brand recall and engagement. It is much more effective than standard display ads, and may provide a much better alternative to paywalls.
Vidyard is Youtube for businesses. It makes it easy for businesses to host videos, and provides detailed analytics for each video. It is much more suited to businesses and offers the ease of uploading and embedding videos like Youtube, adding custom thumbnails, using custom skins etc., while offering much more control than Youtube.
Interview Street is a platform which helps companies hire the best programmers, using much better programming puzzles, customizable by the companies. Recruiting is a very lucrative opportunity especially when there is a hiring boom right now for programmers and engineers. Interview Street gets a hefty cut every time a candidate is hired.
Market Brief is like Bloomberg News, for company filings. It scans through thousands of SEC filings and generates articles automatically, based on what it deems newsworthy. It already has multiple new organizations and financial research outlets as users.
You can check out the entire list of YC startups which launched in this batch here – Y Combinator Demo Day: The Ultimate Roundup


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The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy is excited to announce our first ever blogging contest. We believe that SLIG is one of the best educational opportunities available for genealogists—and we want to hear why you think so to. For the next week we would like to encourage all the fantastic bloggers in the genealogy community to let us know why you would like to attend SLIG. The contest will run through Saturday, October 15, 2011 at midnight (Mountain Time). The prize will be a tuition waver to SLIG 2012 (note that only those classes which haven't filled are eligible).
How do I enter?Step 1: Write 500 words or more on the topic of why you want to attend SLIG. Include which course you would like to take, and whether you have attended before. Please include the link www.slig.ugagenealogy.org when referring to SLIG's website.
Step 2: Post a link to your blog post on the UGA/SLIG Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/ugagenealogy) before midnight (Mountain Time) on Saturday, October 15, 2011. If you are not on Facebook please send an email to email@example.com and we will post the link on Facebook for you.
Step 3: The winner will be randomly chosen using www.randomizer.org, and announced via our Facebook page on Sunday, October 16, 2011.
What do I win?The winning blogger will be awarded a tuition waiver for SLIG 2012. The waiver is only valid for SLIG 2012 (January 23-27, 2012). The waiver may be applied to registration for any SLIG track for 2012 which has not already filled. The waiver is for tuition only and does not include travel costs, hotel stay, or meals.
What if I'm already registered for SLIG?If the winner is already registered for SLIG they will be refunded the amount already paid in tuition (note that this does not include any night classes or meals which may have been purchased).
What if I don't have a blog?Now is a great time to start one! You could write as a guest blogger on a friend's blog.
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Somewhere along the way writer-director Steve Antin must've looked at the success his sister Robin was having with her burlesque troupe, The Pussycat Dolls, and thought, Hey, that'd be a hell of a movie! Stir in some "Showgirls," cast Christina Aguilera in the lead (did you see her in that "Lady Marmalade" video? She is burlesque!). Just add water, makes its own sauce.
Aguilera plays Ali Rose, a struggling waitress from nowhere, Iowa, who's determined to be a star. After a long day of pounding the pavement of LA (Hey, Ali, nobody walks in LA) looking for her big break, she stumbles upon Burlesque, a club on the Sunset Strip. Once inside she finds a magical wonderland where she wants to make all her dreams come true.
She soon picks up a cocktail tray and starts slinging drinks until she gets her shot. Along the way to her inevitable stardom she hits almost every plot point in "Showgirls": the robbery that sets her back, the love interest with another blonde in tow, a wealthy, powerful and nefarious suitor, an arch-nemesis star performer… it's insane.
There are a million things wrong with "Burlesque," from the terrible dialogue to the paint-by-numbers plot to some heroically bad casting. But in the end, the most unfortunate thing about it, ironically, is that it's not bad enough. What makes "Showgirls" such an enduring catastrophe is a combination of gratuitous nudity and shockingly unapologetic misogyny. But "Burlesque" his been stripped of all that prurience. It's a crazy world we're living in when a lack of skin and hate are what keep a movie from being entertaining.
The songs Aguilera performs progress from classics and standards to newer material that is clearly intended to entice her younger fans to buy the soundtrack. And lest Cher fans feel left out, she takes the spotlight for one of the most contrived moments in movie musical history to belt out her own song.
Just when you think you've survived the film's marketing blitz, it slowly becomes obvious that the movie has a major product placement sponsor in the liquor industry—either that or everyone in the world of burlesque prefers the same drink.
Considering the script she had to work with, it seems unfair to criticize Aguilera's acting chops, but if "Burlesque" is any indication, she should stick to singing. And who'd've guessed five years ago that Justin Timberlake would ever deliver the kind of performance he did in "The Social Network"?
The rest of the cast is a disappointment. Cher isn't good enough to elevate the script, Stanley Tucci is simply doing his "Devil Wears Prada" shtick again, and Eric "McSteamy" Dane and Peter Gallagher make you long for their TV days.
Then there's Kristen Bell, who may be the most poorly cast actor or actress of 2010. She's been making dubious career choices for some time now, but here a large part of the blame must go to whomever thought, Let's get Veronica Mars to play the besotted villain in a movie about burlesque! She's beautiful and has a rocking body (as we learned in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"), two key ingredients for a burlesque star. But she is also super cute, like "kitten calendar" cute and as non-threatening as women come. Trying to imagine her "pouring tequila on (her) Cheerios" is beyond impossible.
The only reason to see "Burlesque" is if you just love, love, love Aguilera or Cher. Otherwise you'll just stagger out bewildered, sad and feeling a little used.
Review: "Burlesque" Not Nearly as Bad Or Good as "Showgirls"
Somewhere along the way writer-director Steve Antin must've looked at the success his sister Robin was having with her burlesque troupe, The Pussycat Dolls, and thought, Hey, that'd be a hell of a movie! Stir in some "Showgirls," cast Christina Aguilera in the lead (did you see her in that "Lady Marmalade" video? She is burlesque!). Just add water, makes its own sauce.


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Same Cycle, New Length for drupa 2016
- Published: November 27, 2012
CHICAGO, IL | drupa, the print media trade fair, will maintain its Olympic four-year cycle, a decision made by the 20-member drupa committee at its constitutive session held November 2, 2012. The drupa committee also decided to shorten the length of the trade fair to eleven days. The new show dates are May 31–June 10, 2016, in Düsseldorf, Germany.
"Visitor structure at drupa has changed," says Werner Matthias Dornscheidt, CEO of Messe Düsseldorf. "While in the past large groups traveled to the trade fair–preferably at the weekend–drupa is now increasingly developing into a B2B fair with a high proportion of top decision-makers. At this year's drupa, 78% of the international visitors and 52% of German visitors came from the top management; respectively this is 4% and 5% more than in 2008. This makes it unnecessary to hold drupa during two weekends. With eleven days–one weekend and nine working days–we perfectly cater to the needs of both supply and demand."
Dipl.-Ing. Claus Bolza-Schünemann, CEO of Koenig & Bauer, was unanimously named chairman of drupa 2016. "I am delighted to assume the presidency at such an exciting time," he says. "Our sector is developing at a rapid pace, and drupa 2016 will represent a key milestone on the path into the future."
Dr. Jürgen Vutz, CEO of Windmöller & Hölscher, was confirmed as vice chairman and thus chairman of the Admissions Committee, and Rolf Schwarz, president of the German Printing and Media Industries Federation was named second vice chairman of drupa 2016.


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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Blueberry Bars
Well it is blueberry picking time on Beaty's Creek again and I am more than willing to pick a few gallons. What is better in a smoothie than frozen blueberries?? This recipe is one of our favorites and I am sure you will like it too. I have been using the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter brand of butter and I am surprised it isn't! It tastes good and it is great to bake with also. This is What's Cookin on Beaty's Creek today!
1 cup sugar
1 t baking powder
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup butter or I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
1 egg
1 t salt
1 t vanilla
4 1/2 cups blueberries
1 cup sugar
2 t cornstarch
Mix flour, 1 cup sugar, salt, and baking powder together. Now cut in the butter until crumbly looking. Add in the egg and mix well. Press 3/4 of the crust into the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Now mix blueberries, sugar, and cornstarch together then pour over the bottom crust. Sprinkle the remaining crust on top of blueberries and bake at 350' fro 45 minutes.
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- Dallas Carter: 2008 Team Beachbody Game® Winner
- How Dallas Did It!
- Nutrition 911, Part VII: Sugar vs. Fat: Which Is Worse?
- Test Your Sugar IQ!
There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Dallas Carter: 2008 Team Beachbody Game® Winner
One man and one woman from four different age groups were selected as the best of the best of the 2008 Success Stories. And on March 14, 2009, at a gala ceremony in Los Angeles, California, Dallas Carter and Kristy McLean were awarded the Grand Prize of $250,000! Read Dallas' story below. Find out what inspired him to transform his body and his life—maybe it'll inspire you to be the Team Beachbody Game winner in 2009!
I remember the birth of my daughter like it was yesterday. It was such a beautiful event, miraculous even. My joy was diminished though by the deep sadness that the sheer girth of my body was so large (355 pounds) that I couldn't even hold my daughter close to my body. It broke my heart. For years, my unhealthy lifestyle plagued my mind and heart. My family had a long history of dying young because of heart disease, diabetes, and respiratory problems related to obesity. All of those issues were beginning to manifest symptoms in my life, and my doctor made it very clear to me that, like family members before me, my life would be short and I would not be around for my growing family if I did not make drastic changes to my health. Something clicked on in my mind at the moment of my daughter's birth. At that very moment, I committed in my heart to change my life and to take hold of my health so that I could be a proper provider for my wife and my family, and to put an end [to] the disheartening family tradition of bad health. So my journey began the very next day in my humble garage on my little island with a small refrigerator full of healthy food, an extremely supportive family, a DVD player, and a couple of resistance bands. I Pushed Play.
The journey was not easy. At 355 pounds, I could barely move. I had the P90X series, but I couldn't even get past the first warm-up of the first workout! I knew I wasn't fit enough to do a regular P90X cycle, so each day I would do "Cardio X" or a Power 90 cardio workout. Some days, I could only do a few minutes before I was drained! But I took it day by day, pound by pound. My family loved me through all of it, even on the days when I was grumpy! My wife kept our food healthy and she even sacrificed some of her favorite foods so I could be faithful to my goals. I gave up all the fast foods, the beer, the high-calorie snacks, etc. I replaced it with lean meats and veggies, whole grains, healthy meal replacement bars, and lots of water! And during the whole journey, if I ever felt like giving up, my little baby girl would smile at me or give a little laugh. It was like a boost of adrenaline straight to my heart. I kept at it and never forgot the words of my Native Hawaiian ancestors to "Kulia i ka nu'u," which means to '"never settle for anything less than excellence."
Before I knew it, I had lost 20, then 50, then 70 pounds! And sure enough, I was able to do more and more workouts. By the time I lost about 90 pounds, I was able to do a full cycle of P90X. I kept gaining muscle, getting stronger, and losing more weight! By the time I entered the monthly [Team Beachbody] competition, I had lost over 170 pounds! That's crazy! Since the competition, things have only gotten better! I have done a few more cycles of P90X and have integrated it with Tony's One on One workouts, 10-Minute Trainer, and the new ChaLEAN Extreme. At this point in my transformation, I have lost a total of 190 pounds, I am more fit than ever, and now I enjoy taking on new fitness challenges and pushing harder than ever before! My family and friends have been inspired and have begun their own health journeys. I have also had the honor of being on local TV and sharing my story with all of Hawaii. Every day I get phone calls from people wanting to transform their bodies with no surgery and to get P90X-style fit! I have helped dozens of people get started and some of them have had amazing results!
I will be eternally grateful to Beachbody for the gigantic role that they have had in completely changing my life. My family is still in complete shock of the transformation I have gone through and my doctor is absolutely floored! He sees no health problems looming for me anymore and hopes to use me to inspire his other patients. I still reflect every single day on the moment of my daughter's birth. I recall the horrible feeling I had being unhealthy and not being able to hold her close. But now, each time I reflect on that memory, I pick up both my daughter and my recently newborn son and I hold them close . . . because now I can!
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Nutrition 911, Part VII: Sugar vs. Fat: Which Is Worse?By Steve Edwards
Ladies and gentlemen, tonight we bring you The Thriller in Vanilla, the long-awaited fight to crown the World Obesity Federation's heavyweight champion. It's the battle to decide, once and for all, which contender is most responsible for making us fat. In one corner, we have our long-reigning champion, The Heartbreak Hammer, Fat! In the other corner, we have the up-and-coming challenger everyone's been talking about, The Soda Pop Kid, Sugar!
As the undisputed nutrient kings of our fast food world, this is the bout that everyone's been waiting for. Fat has been the people's champion for a long time. Sugar, on the other hand, has only been around as long as humans have been altering foods from natural sources. Lately, a lot of money and science have changed our challenger's traditional fighting style, leading to a string of TKOs (technical knockouts) en route to its shot at the title. Going into tonight's fight, however, the experts still favor The Champion by 2-to-1 odds.
The tale of the tape
Sugar—Weighing in at 4 calories per gram, the challenger is slight in stature compared to our champion and will look to speed to gain an advantage. Sugar is a carbohydrate, but the form we consume it in is much different than how we find it in nature, where's it's surrounded by a fruit, grain, or other plants. The Soda Pop Kid is synthetic crystalline sugar—the kind that goes into soda, candy, and many convenience foods. Its main weapon is the speed with which it rushes into your system.
Fat—At 9 calories per gram, Fat outweighs its challenger by more than double. Unlike Sugar, Fat is its own food group and an essential part of our diets, just like carbohydrates and protein. It's easily found in nature in many forms and doesn't need to be processed. This, of course, doesn't mean we don't process it when it's convenient or cost-effective. As opposed to Sugar, Fat moves into your system slowly. Then it remains there for as long as it can. In abundance, it clogs things up. Its main weapon being bulk, its goal is to wear you down.
As you can see, we've got a classic tortoise-vs.-hare matchup between these two heavyweights.
A brief history
Sugar—Since all carbohydrates are broken down into sugars in our blood, it's always been a part of our diets. However, when eaten as a complex carbohydrate or encased in fiber (as in fruit), it affects our bodies differently than it does as processed sugar.
Bees were the first sugar producers, and humans have been eating honey for about as long as bees have been making it. However, it didn't become a major part of our diets until thousands of years later. Westerners began the production of sugar around 1500 BC. Originally made from sugarcane and sugar beets, it's now manufactured from other crops, like corn and wheat, which makes up the bulk of the sugar consumed in the U.S.
Modern technology has enabled us to tamper further with natural sugar. Traditional sugar, like honey, had a much lower glycemic index (GI) than many modern variations. Since the higher the GI number, the quicker the sugar rushes into your system, we are now essentially able to have sugars affect the body like a drug, creating exaggerated hormonal responses, particularly the hormone insulin. You may have heard of insulin because, when we have trouble producing it, we have a disease called diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the result of eating poorly. It's also the fastest-growing disease in the world, which, in Sugar's camp, means they think it's time for a shot at the title.
Fat—Like we stated earlier, fat is dense—it has a lot of calories for its size. It's also an essential nutrient and helps us feel satiated or full. Therefore, when we're hungry, we tend to crave it. And since we don't really need much of it, it's very easy to overeat.
When we eat more food than we can put to good use, our bodies store it in adipose tissue. We call this tissue fat, or fat tissue. But it's not really fat, as in the kind we eat. It's something else. Well, it's adipose tissue, but we've always called it fat. Anyway, the point is that we call it fat whether we get it from eating too much fat, too much protein, too much sugar, or too many carbs, or by drinking too much alcohol. And because of this, Fat gets a worse rap than it deserves.
But make no mistake, fat is formidable. We like fat. We like it a lot. Many fat-laden foods are considered delicacies. And we like fat so much that we've found ways to consume just the bad parts of fat that serve little to no dietary purpose. Stuff like butter, margarine, lard, and trans fats are completely unnecessary for our survival. Yet, somehow, our culture has taught us to crave such things. And these cravings have led to heart disease becoming the planet's most popular way to kill people. Fat has been the undisputed champion of the obesity world for a long, long time. It's not going to relinquish this title easily.
So let's get ready to rumble!
Round 1
Smaller but faster, Sugar comes out in a rush and pummels Fat mercilessly. Because of The Kid's smaller stature, Sugar's punches seem to have little effect on The Champ. But Fat hardly lands a punch himself and is looking old and slow. Could The Hammer's reign be over?
Round 2
The Sugar rush comes to a quick crash. The Champ, in no rush himself, seizes control of the pace and takes the round.
Round 3
All of our sponsors are major lobbyists on the side of Sugar. The Kid replenishes with some Gatorade and responds in another flurry of activity. The Champ is back on his heels, waiting for The Kid's next inevitable crash.
Round 4
The Kid jabs, moves, and controls the pace, but The Champ seems unfazed. Fat knows that Sugar is only an effective nutrient during and immediately after activity, when blood sugar is being used up. So Sugar must keep moving, otherwise it has no nutrient value. The Hammer, being experienced, is willing to bide his time and wait for an opening.
Round 5
Sugar bobs and weaves, employing a psychological game that confounds The Champ. Complex carbohydrates and the simple carbs in fruit break down slowly and provide sustained energy during performance. This gives Sugar an advantage of public misconception because the junk food sugar can be lumped together with healthy carbohydrates. This underhanded attack is clearly something Fat hadn't counted on. It seems to anger The Hammer.
Round 6
The Champ counters, big time. Two can play the public misconception card, and Fat uses its adipose tissue to absorb all of The Kid's body blows. The statement that size matters seems to be holding true. In spite of nearly unending corporate support, Sugar seems to be tiring and its punches are growing less and less effective.
Round 7
Fat is now clearly in control of the bout and uses a cholesterol combo to further weaken The Kid. The Hammer's corner men, Meat and Dairy, are loaded with it, and too much cholesterol is a major cause of heart disease. Could this spell the end for the gallant challenger?
Round 8
A savvy move saves The Kid, who notes that cholesterol is a necessary part of a healthy diet, and that with a proper ratio of fiber and complex carbs, it will have little negative effect. It's a beautiful defensive move, but how long can it work? The Hammer just seems to be warming up his arsenal.
Round 9
Offended by The Kid's trickery, Fat comes out smokin' and unloads an entire 7-Eleven of chips, whipped cream, hot dogs, margarine, and even "vegetable" oils at The Kid. Since they all lead to heart disease, now the leading cause of death in the world, Sugar's only defense is the rope-a-dope. He's clearly in serious trouble.
Round 10
Down goes Sugar! The Champ plants a trans fat to the head and levels the challenger. This could be it, folks. The Kid staggers to his feet, but the referee has stepped in. He seems to be holding up a can of Crisco to see if Sugar can identify what hit him. If not, he's going to stop it.
Oh, but wait a minute! The Kid seems to be okay, and even looks to be smiling. The ref flashes a thumbs-up and the fight continues. Sugar dances away from a series of haymakers. The Hammer obviously wants to end the contest right now. But he can't connect. The Kid survives! In his corner, he's given a Coke.
Round 11
His face is bloodied, but The Kid is back at work. The Champ's attack has been slowed with the news that the Food and Drug Administration has required that trans fat be listed on the side of every food label, while sugar, sugar alcohols, artificial sweeteners, and glucose syrups can be used with virtually no regulation. This tactic has clearly befuddled The Hammer, whose punches are beginning to miss more often than they connect.
Round 12
Ladies and gentlemen, we've got a new fight! Left for dead just a few rounds ago, Sugar is now controlling the pace. Still a long way behind on points, the challenger is using an intriguing combination that's hurting The Champion. But The Champ fights back. The Champ first points out that many fats—the type in nuts, olives, seeds, avocados, fish, and many other foods—are essential for optimal health and then notes that nothing in sugar is needed for human survival; he then combines that with the fact that a "no fat" label can be on a food containing 100 percent sugar. Then he uses the fact that sugar alters the body's pH levels, a clear example that an all-sugar food is far worse than a no-fat food. That's gotta hurt.
Round 13
The credit probably goes to The Hammer's corner men, all major corporate CEOs, but Sugar has got to be one of the craftiest fighters in history. He comes after Fat with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and fibromyalgia, an offensive that clearly caught The Champ off guard. Apparently, they're illnesses attributed in part to excessive sugar in one's diet leading to insulin-resistance problems. The Hammer may have amassed enough points to win a decision but is now clearly on the defensive and reeling. Who knows what The Kid's got up his sleeve at this point?
Round 14
With only one round to go, Sugar swings wildly with a combination of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and soda pop. This is one of the most lethal offensive combinations in the history of obesity! HFCS is the cheapest and lowest-quality sugar produced, and is now added to many items that aren't even sweet—things like salad dressings and peanut butters, items once clearly in Fat's corner. And soda, a substance with no nutritional value whatsoever, has become the singularly most consumed item on the planet. I don't see how The Champ can survive this. He's staggering around the ring, basically out on his feet! Somehow, and it must be experience, The Hammer avoids going down.
Round 15
It all comes down to this: one round to crown the World Champion of Obesity. Fat, the longtime champ, is clearly in trouble but still has enough points to win thanks to his mid-fight dominance. But Sugar has owned the latter rounds thanks to heavy lobbying, effective marketing, deregulation, and public misconception. The Champ was barely on his feet at the end of round 14, and his corner is working furiously to limit the damage. The question is, does Sugar's corner have one last trick up its sleeve?
And here we go . . .
The Champ still manages to show some swagger, and comes out flashing heart disease as the number one killer, recently eclipsing lung disease and cigarettes—no slouch in the death department.
But Sugar barely flinches and counters with type 2 diabetes, the fastes-growing illness in the world, that's almost single-handedly controlled by Sugar. It's like Ali's "anchor punch" against Liston. And it sends The Champ sprawling.
Down goes Fat! Down goes Fat!
And I don't think the Champ will be rising from this one. Nope. Fat is out cold. The Hammer's reign is over. There's a new kid in town. Sugar is elated, dancing around the ring and pointing at the crowd, screaming, "I want YOU! I want YOU!"
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the NEW heavyweight champion of the obesity world: SUGAR!
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Test Your Sugar IQ!By Joe Wilkes
- Which has more calories, brown sugar or white sugar? White sugar actually has more calories than brown sugar, but not much more (only about 2 calories an ounce). Traditional brown sugar almost always comes from the sugar beet. The extracted beet sugar is mixed with molasses (the byproduct of the sugar extraction), which is what gives brown sugar its distinct color and flavor. Cane sugar is light brown in its natural state.
- How much sugar typically makes kids hyperactive? Amazingly, none. Science has yet to establish any conclusive link between sugar and increases in hyperactivity in children. It is suspected that sugar may be taking a bad rap for caffeine, which, along with sugar, is present in many sodas and chocolaty snacks, and has been proven to hype up the rugrats.
- How is powdered sugar, or confectioner's sugar, made? Powdered sugar is ground 10 times as fine as regular sugar and mixed with a small amount of corn starch to prevent caking. So if you're ever cooking at home and run out of powdered sugar, just grind up some regular sugar in a blender with a pinch of corn starch.
- How many gallons of maple sap are needed to make one gallon of maple syrup? It takes 40 gallons of sap to produce one gallon of syrup. But syrup isn't too bad of a sweetener. As maple sugar, it contains 7 fewer calories per ounce and many more essential minerals than sugar. It's not quite a health food, but it's better than the white stuff.
- Who played Sugar Kane in the 1959 film Some Like It Hot? Marilyn Monroe.
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History shows that opening at own park and having extra game there can be pivotal
MINNEAPOLIS -- No one knows who will play in the 2014 World Series, let alone who will win it. We'll sort that out a week at a time between now and late October.
But history tells us this: The team that probably should be favored to win a championship is the one from the league that wins tonight's All-Star Game.
Home-field advantage is a huge factor in determining the outcome of the World Series.
Just ask the last team to experience the difficulty of playing the decisive games of the season while stationed in the visitor's dugout. The Cardinals had carried themselves with a swagger while eliminating the Pirates and Dodgers but were outscored, 16-6, by the Red Sox in the three World Series games at Fenway Park.
"Last year we realized we had our hands full already with a very good team, and any time you get in front of that home fan base, there's an edge," said Cardinals manager Mike Matheny. "Statistics show it but you can sense it in the field, you can sense it as you compete. It's an advantage every team wants to have."
Matt Carpenter agrees.
"I think it's very important to grab that home field," said Carpenter, the Cards' All-Star third baseman. "Last year we saw it play out in Boston. They had the opportunity to play more games there than we did in St. Louis. Certainly in the playoffs, when you have a good crowd, that could be a huge advantage. There's certainly a lot to play for [tonight], because it is a big deal."
How big of a deal?
Since Commissioner Bud Selig persuaded owners to begin awarding home-field advantage in the World Series to the winning league in the All-Star Game -- after the tie in Milwaukee in 2002 -- in eight of 11 years, the Series has been won by a team whose league claimed that edge by winning the All-Star Game.
This trend is hardly new. Twenty-three of the past 28 World Series have been won by teams with home-field advantage, with the exceptions being the 2008 Phillies, '06 Cardinals, '03 Marlins, 1999 Yankees and '92 Blue Jays.
"I don't think you can ever underestimate the home-field advantage in postseason, certainly in a seven-game series," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "Typically you're going to go up against an outstanding club, as we did last year in St. Louis. To have that final game potentially in your home ballpark, that goes a long way toward affecting the outcome."
Over the past decade, Major League teams have produced a .542 winning percentage playing at home. That translates to a swing of 14 victories over 162 games, suggesting that the chance to bat last and enjoy home cooking impacts the result roughly once every 11 to 12 games.
From 2004-13, home teams were 183-142 in postseason games. That's a .563 winning percentage, which over 162 games projects to a 91-71 record, a 20-win gain. This suggests that home field impacts roughly one of every eight postseason games.
In a best-of-seven or best-of-five series, this adds up to more of a difference than one might think.
Teams holding home-field advantage won 41 of 74 postseason series over the past decade, including the World Series in eight of those 10 years.
All-Star second baseman Chase Utley was at the height of his career with the Phillies in 2008 when his team did what no team has done since -- win a World Series it opened on the road.
The Phils had rolled past the Brewers and Dodgers, losing only once in each round of the playoffs, before going to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg to start the World Series against the Rays. It's safe to say that players knew they were in foreign territory when their coaches and staff members started explaining ground rules involving fly balls that might hit catwalks, among the stadium's other quirks.
"There's a definite home-field advantage," Utley said. "If you're playing against an American League team in the World Series, most likely you haven't played at that park too often. You're not as comfortable playing there. You don't know how the ball bounces in certain ways. You don't know how the ball carries in the outfield. So there are different ways on the playing surface it can be an advantage. Then you have your home fans who are going crazy, getting loud. I know in Philadelphia, they can be rough on visiting teams."
Fans at Tropicana Field were ringing cowbells throughout the games, but the Phillies weren't shaken. Utley hit a two-run homer off Scott Kazmir in the first inning of Game 1, and the Phils held on for a 3-2 win that allowed them to essentially take away home-field advantage. They avoided the return trip by winning three straight at Citizens Bank Park, including the suspended Game 5, which only extended the Rays' hopes.
Many people picked the Tigers to beat the Giants in the 2012 World Series. Detroit had swept the Yankees in the AL Championship Series, which allowed Tigers manager Jim Leyland to line up his pitching while Bruce Bochy had to scramble after San Francisco rallied from a 3-1 deficit to survive a seven-game National League Championship Series.
The World Series opened at AT&T Park in San Francisco, thanks to the NL shutting out the AL in the All-Star Game at Kauffman Stadium earlier in the year. The Giants crushed Justin Verlander in Game 1. They would go on to win Game 2 behind Madison Bumgarner and sweep the shell-shocked Tigers in the Series.
Bumgarner calls having home field "a big advantage" but stops short of saying that the results would have been different for Verlander and the Tigers if they had been at Comerica Park in Detroit for Games 1 and 2.
"It's hard to say," Bumgarner said. "We were on a pretty good roll at that time. I'm going to err on our side. I feel like you have to go with your guys, but you never know. It's a crazy game."
Every little thing matters.
And history shows that home-field advantage is anything but little in the World Series.


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NHL Game Night: 10-19-13 Bruins at Lightning
Lightning crap the bed.
Ben Bishop allowed 4 goals on 17 shots for the loss before being lifted for Anders Lindback, who allowed 1 on 5 shots the rest of the way. It wasn't the goaltending tonight.
First Period
1:32 BOS Krejci (1), (Lucic, Iginla)
Second Period
4:37 BOS McQuaid (1), (unassisted)
14:52 BOS Bergeron (2), (Smith, Eriksson)
15:47 BOS Kelly (3), (Marchand, Soderberg)
Third Period
0:34 BOS S. Thornton (1), (Paille)
Shots were 23-22, so it's not as if Boston made the Lightning look like a Junior A team. My suspicion is that a lot of the mistakes made tonight are correctible, and Jon Cooper will get a lot of practice time this coming week to drill those lessons into his club. -5 for Victor Hedman and -3 for his pairing partner Sami Salo says a lot.
Radko Gudas was -1 with 7 penalty minutes, 1 shot, 4 hits, and 2 blocked shots in 20:06. So much is made about how tough Jarome Iginla is. Gudas more than held his own fighting Iginla tonight. I think he re-upped his badass certification with how he handled himself in that scrap.
Tyler Johnson was -1 with 3 shots and 1 hit in 19:17. He was also 36% on draws. He made some plays tonight, but unfortunately found himself working at times with the 4th line wingers, who you might classify as "Bluetooth", because Crombeen in particular is hands-free.
Alex Killorn had 1 shot and 4 hits in 15:04. He was ineffective.
Ondrej Palat was -1 with 1 shot and 1 hit in 15:19. His ice time is creeping up because he deserves it. He's looking for confident handling the puck and that's the difference, to me, between Palat being a 3rd liner that you can spot on a scoring line, and Palat being a 4th line player. He looked very smooth with the puck tonight, to go along with good defensive play without it.
Andrej Sustr had 1 shot, 1 hit, and 2 blocked shots in 17:15. He was a silver lining tonight after looking awkward, at times, against Minnesota. He was poised and really passed the puck well.
Richard Panik was -1 with 3 shots in 14:01. I'm very frustrated with Panik because he's close to making some impact plays, but he always seems to have a hole in his stick, overskate the play, etc etc. At a certain point potential is irrelevant if you don't apply it to make plays.
Pierre-Cedric Labrie was -1 with 1 shot and 2 hits in 9:00. I don't know whether Boston was simply unwilling to oblige him, but down by 4 or 5 goals I would have expected the team's enforcer to do something. With Thompson and Gudas getting jumped, you wonder why Labrie didn't force a Bruin or two to dance to send a message.
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Dear Mother Marshall, You Are Wrong; Really NPR, Really!?! And The Mystery Of The Missing Research Note
A few days back NPR Marketplace ran a program on the US fiscal cliff which focused on the what the House of Representatives would do once the Senate passed its solution to the fiscal cliff.
During the course of the program, the correspondent, Nancy Marshall Genzer, uttered something which was so egregiously wrong, I was surprised that the most popular business program in the US could let it go without an immediate correction either from the anchor or the correspondent. Below is the audio of the program. Listen carefully starting at the 3'40" mark, when she starts talking about the payroll tax:
Now Sarah, I'm going to digress just a little bit here and I'm going to quote my mom. <Crosstalk> My parents own a small business and they have a couple of employees and the employees are concerned that the payroll tax is going up. But my mom said to them, "Keep in mind the money from that social security payroll tax goes towards your social security. So its really not such a bad thing that it is going back up to where it was because you'll be saving more towards your social security. Your paycheque may go down a bit now but your social security cheque will be a bit higher when you retire."
Mother Marshall is telling her employees that the FICA tax (specifically the social security bit) the government deducts from the payroll is going into a pot with her employees' name and when they retire they will get their pot. So if they pay more in tax now, there will be more money in the pot when they receive it. Unfortunately this does not correspond with reality.
Social Security is a pay-as-you-go scheme. In this system, the current beneficiaries are paid from proceeds obtained by taxing current workers. Since a picture[1] is worth a thousand words:
A pay-as-you-go system can be visualized as a pipeline, with money from current contributors coming in the front end and money to current beneficiaries paid out the back end.
Thus current benefits are being paid from current taxes.[2] This means that the money taken from each worker's paycheque is immediately paid to the current beneficiaries as their Social Security income.[3] So just because the payroll tax is going up does not mean that when the current employee retires (which could be as far as 40-45 years away) s/he will get a higher benefit.
At this point one may reasonably ask, what happened to all the money which was paid into Social Security, at the very beginning, by the then taxpayers? Wasn't that tax money used to pay those taxpayers' Social Security benefits when they retired? The answer is that the very first payroll taxes collected for social security were paid out to the very first retiree-beneficiaries! As Nobel Prize winning economist (and former Enron adviser[4]) Paul Krugman explained (in the context of explaining the different between the rate of return on private retirement accounts and Social Security):
where does the return go? The answer – which I guess isn't that obvious – is that it goes to pay a hidden debt. When the pay-as-you-go system starts up, there is a generation of retirees who receive benefits without having made contributions. (What this corresponds to in the real world is the very high rate of return received on contributions by early recipients of Social Security.)
The Social Security Administration in its "Historical Background And Development Of Social Security" webpage gives two such examples:
- Ernest Ackerman who
retired one day after the Social Security program began. During his one day of participation in the program, a nickel was withheld from Mr. Ackerman's pay for Social Security, and, upon retiring, he received a lump-sum payment of 17 cents.
- Ida May Fuller who
worked for three years under the Social Security program. The accumulated taxes on her salary during those three years was a total of $24.75. Her initial monthly check was $22.54. During her lifetime she collected a total of $22,888.92 in Social Security benefits.
Another of Mother Marshall's misconception is that the she thinks the amount of a beneficiary's benefit is completely determined by the amount s/he has paid in payroll taxes.[5] However Congress can change the law governing the calculation of benefits.[6] As the Social Security Administration's Retirement Estimator states:
Your estimated benefits are based on current law. The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2033, the payroll taxes collected will be enough to pay only about 75 cents for each dollar of scheduled benefits.
Congress has also reserved for itself
The right to alter, amend, or repeal any provision of [Social Security] … 42 USC § 1304.
Thus Congress can alter the amount of benefits to be paid to the beneficiaries irrespective of the amount they paid into Social Security.
Finally, the US Supreme Court case Flemming v Nestor (1960) is quite instructive. The Court very clearly contradicts Mother Marshall when it says:
Of special importance in this case is the fact that eligibility for benefits, and the amount of such benefits, do not in any true sense depend on contribution to the program through the payment of taxes, but rather on the earnings record of the primary beneficiary.
The Court also makes an appropriate distinction between Social Security and retirement portfolios. Social Security is a form of social insurance where taxpayers pay premiums to cover for unforeseen and catastrophic losses in the future.[7] If I pay premiums to cover my property from fire damage and I then sell it at a later date, before any fire damage took place, then I do not have the right to recover the premiums paid. Those premiums help to cover the payout to those who actually suffer from fire damage. I don't have a property right in the premiums I paid. And in the same way, those contributing into Social Security do not have some property right on their contributions. The Court says:
each worker's benefits, though flowing from the contributions he made to the national economy while actively employed, are not dependent on the degree to which he was called upon to support the system by taxation.
The Court provides an explanation for Congress' reservation of the right to alter, amend or repeal the provisions of Social Security
[Social Security] was designed to function into the indefinite future, and its specific provisions rest on predications as to expected economic conditions which must inevitably prove less than wholly accurate, and on judgments and preferences as to the proper allocation of the Nation's resources which evolving economic and social conditions will of necessity in some degree modify. To engraft upon the Social Security system a concept of 'accrued property rights' would deprive it of the flexibility and boldness in adjustment to everchanging conditions which it demands.[8]
Thus the Court, finally, held that
a person covered by [the Social Security] Act has not such a right in benefit payments as would make every defeasance of 'accrued' interests violative of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.[9]
So dear Mother Marshall:
- The money from your employees' social security payroll tax is NOT going towards their social security. It is going to the social security of current beneficiaries (retirees, survivors and disabled). Current beneficiaries != Current contributors
- Your employees' are NOT saving more towards THEIR social security.
- Your employees' paycheques may be going down a bit now but nobody knows how much their social security cheque will be for when they retire.
Note: This radio segment was broadcast in Jan 1, 2013. Until this post was published there was no update or correction on the segment webpage regarding this issue. Does NPR think Mother Marshall was correct?
Further Reading: The Concise Encyclopaedia of Economics entry on Social Security, A Young Person's Guide to Social Security
And one final thing. I cannot help but remember Schweddy Balls every time I hear the women of NPR.
And for those outside the US
[1] This picture is taken from the Ludwig von Mises Institute website. The von Mises institute is an organisation which espouses Austrian economics. Interestingly the Social Security Administration webpage this image has purportedly been taken from no longer exists. However, a search on the wayback machine indicates that this webpage was last indexed on November 10, 2010. Even more interestingly Research Note #25 (the subject of the missing webpage), prepared by the Social Security Historian's Office and which compares and contrasts Social Security and Ponzi schemes, is no longer available at the current webpage for the Historian's office. The von Mises Institute blogpost, from which I initially became aware of the comparison by the Social Security Administration's of itself with a Ponzi scheme, is dated September 19, 2011. Around that time the comparison between Social Security and Ponzi schemes was in the public consciousness because Texas Governor Rick Perry analogized the two in the Republican presidential primary debate held on Sept. 7, 2011 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The Social Security Research Note (and associated webpage), which is the subject of this footnote was removed sometime after September 19, 2011. There may be a reasonable explanation for the removal, and I would be grateful if someone makes me aware of it. ↩
[2] As Matthew Yglesias pointed out in the context of costs of transitioning from Social Security to private retirement accounts: [reporters] must ask [proponents of private retirement accounts] how we're going to pay current benefits of this happens … current retirees can't get benefits if my money is in a private account. ↩
[3] Not ALL the contributions are given out as benefits. In the beginning decades contributions outstripped benefit payments and Social Security built up a surplus which it was (and is) required, by law, to invest in Treasury Bonds. Given the retirement of the baby boomers and thus the increase in the total benefits paid, the trust fund is anticipated to be exhausted by 2033. ↩
[4] Thank you, James Taranto ↩
[5] Now obviously there is some link. The more taxpayers pay into Social Security the greater the solvency of the program and the more assurance of receiving benefits (and higher benefits). ↩
[6] Examples of such calculation can be seen here. ↩
[7] Given that ageing and a concomitant reduction in income is not an unforeseen event, it does raise the question of how meaningful is it to "insure" against such events. One should also keep in mind that Social Security does insure against disability also. ↩
[8] Just wanted to make it clear that the difference between Social Security and individual private retirement accounts is not that the former can be changed while the latter is unchanging. The latter fluctuates too, but according to market conditions while the former can be changed by Congress contingent upon changes to the economy and demographics. Note that there is a class of private retirement benefits called defined benefit plans where, like Social Security, the benefits are calculated by a formula known in advance. Defined benefit plans are being increasingly phased out in favour of defined contribution plans. ↩
[9] The Court does say that Congress does not have arbitrary power to modify Social Security and that its actions will have to abide by Due Process. Presumably the level of scrutiny given to Congressional action would be Rational Basis Review. A tangential question which arises is, is the protection afforded to a beneficiary equal to the protection afforded to a property owner whose property is being condemned? At the time Flemming was decided maybe not but after Kelo v City of New London that question, for me, is up in the air. ↩
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Ignorance is rarely bliss. Take poison ivy, for example. When you don't know what it looks like, you run the risk of grabbing it by the stem and yanking it from the ground between the carefully cultivated plants in your backyard garden. And when you've never had it before and therefore don't know how to treat it, you risk making it worse by standing in a hot shower. Take it from me, the ignorant individual who did both and who paid dearly for it for several weeks.
As a club owner, your ignorance can be more painful than mine. When you don't know what to look for when it comes to changes in the industry and when you don't know how to respond to those changes, your consequences can last for more than a few weeks.
The signs that I'm talking about are stagnant membership numbers and growing club numbers. Memberships in 2005 remained constant at 41.3 million U.S. health club members while club numbers grew from 26,831 to 29,061. The number of low-priced (or value-priced) clubs are growing as are circuit training/express facility franchises. Fuel prices are rising and are expected to continue to rise through the summer. Interest rates are expected to continue to climb. It could be a longer, hotter and slower summer for many fitness facility owners this year than in years past.
Sometimes ignorance comes from sticking one's head in the sand. That, unfortunately, is what too many club owners are doing these days, said industry consultant Michael Scott Scudder.
"There is so much fragmentation going on with different types of clubs and offerings catering to different types of people that it's hard to decipher the direction the industry is taking, but you just know that it's not the same single road that it had been taking," he recently said. "Many operators have their heads in the sand thinking it will all return to what they have known as normal. Normal is new now. Normal is being established now as we move into the second and third generations of the health club model. Normal is changing, and it doesn't appear to me that the majority of operators are in tune with that because they either are not interested or they are in denial."
He sees the industry at a jumping off point, a crossroads perhaps. We have millions of potential members out there, but no one seems to know how to successfully pull them in and keep them coming back. We need a new model. The value-priced clubs have negated the "I-can't-afford-it" argument and seem to be doing well at this time. But not every club can be based on this model or we risk further commodization.
What this says to me is that whether your club is thriving, just holding its own or about to go under, we must begin to look at each other not as enemies, but as teammates in an industry that millions of Americans need but have turned their backs on for one reason or another. We need to sit down at the table with each other — at conferences, seminars, Webinars, roundtables (or just pick up the phone) — to discuss what we as an industry are doing right and where we have gone wrong. It couldn't hurt to invite into those discussions the very people we are trying to reach — the never-been-to-a-club-and-never-plan-to-belong-to-a-club people — to find out when, why and how their decision was made and what we can do to unmake it. Otherwise, we'll continue to unknowingly dabble with poison ivy and treat the painful outcome with the same unwise "remedies" we've used in the past.


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If you watched the debate tonight and longed for a more electric presidential authority to beam through your television, DreamWorks was happy to oblige. The studio released a new extended TV spot for Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's upcoming Abraham Lincoln biopic, to air directly after the presidential debate. The spot opens like a campaign ad, interrupting black-and-white photos of political rallies and military triumph with inspirational sloganry. ("For every dream, for every belief, for every freedom, there are those who unite us all.") But you will probably figure out this is pitching a movie by the time a Civil War still photo morphs into Civil War video footage. There is a good deal of new footage not seen in the first trailer, and plenty more Daniel Day-Lewis nobly shouting if you want to better judge his Lincoln impression after the jump.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Oyelowo, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, John Hawkes, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Strathairn, Walton Goggins, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Jackie Earle Haley, Lee Pace and Jared Harris also star. Lincoln opens on November 16.
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Steven Spielberg directs two-time Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln," a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.


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SoxFan15 wrote:dude B-town all the way baby!!! theres gunna be no contest
I think LaMoure has a shot this season. There is this kid Tyler Thielges who is an absolute stud. Has experience since 13 years of age, and hit .700 last season. Watch out.75ford wrote:SoxFan15 wrote:dude B-town all the way baby!!! theres gunna be no contest
Disagree the 15 yr old level West Fargo will win again as they did the past 2 years. The 14 year old group will stay in the east again as Fargo Americans have won at 11 yr. olds, and 13 yr. olds and Grand Forks won that level at 12 yr. olds.
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GOP questions Hassan reliance on gambling in budget, possible support for gas tax increase
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � Republican legislative leaders say Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan should not have included $80 million in gambling licensing fees in her budget when New Hampshire has yet to pass casino legislation.
House Republican Leader Gene Chandler said Hassan is gambling that the House � which has never passed a casino bill � will approve it to help pay for state spending. He said if lawmakers refuse to pass the bill, they will have to make $80 million in cuts.
Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Morse � a sponsor of the gambling bill � said he expects the Senate to pass it, but he questioned if the Senate would support an increase in the gas tax as an alternative to paying for highway improvements. The Senate's gambling bill earmarks some revenue to highways.


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I've been a part of several discussions lately regarding the use of flannel boards in the classroom. One of the recurring themes is that teachers don't seem to use them very often. There seems to be a wide variety of reasons for this ranging from the inconvenience of the board itself to lack of variety of pieces available.
It's a shame, because they are such a great tool in the classroom. They promote literacy and math skills and are an excellent way to promote retelling of stories by the children. I have a few that I use for different purposes. One on an easel is used for our large group teaching. During large group time, I use the pieces and during subsequent re-tellings, allow the children to help place the pieces at appropriate moments in the story. Even the most hesitant to participate will usually agree to help with flannel board stories. Another feltboard is available for the children to use independently. I love to sit back and listen as the children manipulate the pieces and tell the story or make up one of their own!
Felt or flannel boards can be purchased in a variety of sizes or you can make your own. This is the back of my portable whiteboard easel that is just covered in felt. This is the one I usually use when I teach.
I also have one of the standard black felt boards that run about $40 to $70 at the educational supply stores/sites. (There are pictures of it further down with the dinosaur felt story.) I keep this one in my literacy center with several story sets for the children to play with independently.
My friend made this one for an ECE class she was taking. I'm thrilled that she's donated it to my classroom. It's simply felt glued to cardboard with a ribbon border. I love that is is so bright and cheerful!
Felt boards don't have to be big, or permanent. I have a couple of pieces of felt that can be rolled out and played with on a table. Deborah Stewart of Teach Preschool notes:
I have also seen miniature felt stories in pizza boxes lined with felt. These are really cute and the perfect size for little hands to manipulate. I really do hope to make some soon."I have little trays that I glued felt in to make felt trays. I make extra sets of all my flannel boards and lay them out with the trays at one of the centers for the children to play with."
Flannel board pieces can be purchased or made a variety of ways. Most teachers have a few pre-made sets. Glitterful Felt Stories has some nice ones that aren't too pricey and correspond with many of the stories and fingerplays that we teachers already know.
Teacher supply companies like Lakeshore Learning sell pre-made felt stories. This is a dinosaur set I inherited when my aunt retired.
Teacher Tom wrote about his own homemade flannelboard and this little flannel story, Five Balloons Way Up High, that he uses in his class to work on numbers and counting. I think this will be an easy one to make and definitely on my "to do" list!
It's fun to get creative and find new ways to make a set of pieces. The key is to select a few of the story elements to help illustrate. Often, too many pieces make it hard to keep track of during the story.
This bunny story with 5 carrots is one of the simplest I've made. I just cut a few little pieces of felt out and glued them together.
The pieces I made for the story "How Mr. Fox Got His Red Coat" were a little more involved.
Felt stories don't have to be made from felt. There are lots of great sites that you can download and print story pieces from. I usually laminate and add felt or velcro to the back. I have even found that applying a couple of coats of Rubber Cement (be sure to allow to to dry well) on the back of laminate will provide just enough "sticky" to work well on a felt board.
|A few dots of Velcro work well
|or simply glue some felt on the back.
Patterns or printables for felt stories can be found everywhere on the internet. Jean Warren's Preschool Express has lots of patterns and songs/stories available for free. Webbing Into Literacy has some great stories and rhymes included in their lessons that are easily converted into felt stories~ two favorites in my classroom are "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" and The Very Hungry Caterpillar". Some of the teacher resource books often include clipart that can be used. Here's a pre-colored version of the 3 Little Pigs I got from a Mailbox magazine.
This story for the Napping House was made from a blackline master worksheet from a teacher book that featured literature tie in activities. Many of us are no longer using worksheets or coloring sheets in our classrooms. This is a great way to use some of those things in a new way!
Sometimes, I use coloring pages to find images that will fit my stories. These are coloring pages I printed out to make a Thanksgiving story that we wrote as a class one year that is fashioned after "Brown Bear, Brown Bear".
Even mismatched pieces can be fine. I'm sure my students don't even realize that this set for the apple cutting story, "Little Bear's Star" are a bunch of pictures I gathered together when I lost most of the pieces to the first set and needed to put something together on the fly.
The 5 Little Pumpkins pieces are simple die cuts from back in the day when I had regular access to an Ellison machine. Boy, I sure miss that Ellison! *sigh*.
This was a stick puppet page that I made into a Christopher Columbus story.
Last year, my mom went to the Pacific Northwest and picked up these postcards for me. I do a lot of storytelling about the Native Alaskans when I teach my polar unit. These will be a great addition to our flannel board!
One my most innovative sets was made from a set of window clings. I already had a story about a small little pumpkin who is worried about not being picked from the pumpkin patch for Halloween. I later saw this set of window clings in the dollar store. Each one of the characters in the story matched the window clings perfectly!
I glued some felt on the back and voila!~an instant flannel board set! I can definitely say that over the years, this is a big favorite out of all the sets we use.
One last note: I use the terms "felt board" and "flannel board" interchangeably. I have always called it a "flannelboard", but have heard others use the term "felt board". I honestly don't know if there is any actual distinction.
If you use flannel boards (or felt boards :) in your classroom, I'd love to hear about your favorite flannel board story or props!


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CASE79204: Horary consultation concerning Mrs Claire Wright [Wright] (PERSON37112)
Question asked by the patient on 21 December 1634 at 11:00
SRN My Cozon Clare wright of Southwarke London. 50. y. Decemƀ 21. ♄ {sic}. h. 11. a. m. 1634.
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hath kept her bed this sennight a weake bad digestion. her meate rises sometymes like hard egs wch causes a great payne both in stomack & backe.
she can eate little or nothing she desires to haue something to strengthen her stomack. /much troubled with a stitch in her right side with a continuall payne in her stomack.\
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The "Quaker State 400" serves as the finale of the first of two race weekends. Opening weekend also includes the June 28 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) Feed The Children 300 and June 27 NASCARCamping World Truck Series (NCWTS) UNOH 225.
Racing continues with a return NNS 300-mile engagement on Sept. 21 and the 20th all-time ARCA RacingSeries (ARS) Kentucky Speedway event on Sept. 20.
Adult ticket prices will not increase for the 14th Kentucky Speedway season and seats will be reserved for all events. NSCS Quaker State 400 tickets range between $70 and $110. NNS race tickets are priced from $45 to $75 while NCWTS and ARS tickets will be $30 and $40.
Daily Fan Zone passes will provide guests access to a wide variety of infield activities along with a stage-side view of the Quaker State 400 race-day concert and driver introductions. Quaker State 400 Fan Zone passes are $100, Feed The Children 300 passes are $50 and UNOH 225 passes are $30.
Kentucky Speedway is introducing half-price tickets and Fan Zone passes for children age 12 and younger for the NNS Feed The Children 300, NCWTS UNOH 225, NNS Kentucky 300 and ARS Kentucky 150. NNS children's tickets will range between $20 and $37 while NCWTS and ARS children's tickets will range between $15 and $20. Children's Fan Zone passes will be $25 for the NNS Feed the Children 300 and $15 for the NCTWS UNOH 225, NNS Kentucky 300 and ARS Kentucky 150.
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Suspect surrenders in man's drug heist death
Police: Ronell Lamar Moses Jr. shot Michael Volk during attempted robbery
A suspected drug dealer charged in the death of a person who allegedly conspired with three others to rob him surrendered to police on Friday.
At first, the suspect was known only as "Mitch."
Police have since identified the man as Ronell Lamar Moses Jr., a 20-year-old Penn Hills man who was staying with a couple in their Derry Township mobile home when 24-year-old Michael Volk arrived to rob him early Saturday afternoon.
Police have jailed the couple -- Tiffany Blattenberger and Jesus Santiago -- and a third woman, Danielle Clawson, who drove Volk to the residence on Quarry Road.
Police said the others knew that Volk, of West Wheatfield Township, was coming to rob Moses, which makes them conspirators in the alleged robbery attempt and complicit in Volk's death.
Police said they believe Moses shot Volk before fleeing the home in a two-door burgundy car driven by an unknown person. He's wanted on homicide and other charges filed by troopers in Greensburg.
In an affidavit, police said there is a surveillance video that shows Volk and Moses together at the Blairsville Walmart on Friday evening, the night before Volk was shot.


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There is an enchanting exhibit at Madame Taussads in London called 'The Spirit of London'.
The spirit of London is a ride in a 'black cab' that takes you on a journey back in time through the history of London from Sir Francis Drake, Shakespeare, wars, famines, the blitz, the swinging sixties etc.
The point of that brief but magical ride is: The spirit of London prevails despite all that it encounters ...
Since the first time I saw it, many years ago, it has remained unchanged and I have seen it many times when I take visitors to Madame Taussads
Ironically, over the last three months, I happened to see the same ride thrice.
Once with my son, then with my sister when she was here from India and finally with my godson, when he was here from Germany.
After seeing it three times in as many months, I was getting a bit bored of it ..
But today, that 'spirit of London' has taken on a new meaning ..
The last week has witnessed unprecedented scenes of riots in London
The riot, as the great Dr Martin Luther King said, is the voice of the unheard ..
But the revered Dr King was referring to human rights and not the 'right' of the rioters to help themselves to designer shoes and HD TVs
Being born in India, and having seen real poverty, there is something strange about watching these rioters helping themselves to designer branded goods i.e. they are not helping themselves to 'food'. (And in a curious twist, the homeless who probably do really lack food, are not rioting!)
In most parts of the world, poverty means 'no food'.
These riots was not poverty driven
Strangely, in a span of a few weeks, we have gone from Royal weddings to riots.
But the spirit of London is strong in my view
As someone who runs a niche business in London, I am happy to call myselves a 'capitalist'.
By that I mean, a capitalist is a 'cathedral builder' – someone who looks at a block of stone and adds value to it to build a cathedral.
And the strength of London, and its spirit, rests in that basic 'creator' ethos over the millennia
By capitalists, I mean the businesses like 150 year old House of Reeves, which was burnt down, but I am sure will rise from its ashes stronger with the support of the community and the small Turklish shopkeepers who defended their businesses
While even the likes of Robert Mugabe has taken it upon themselves to remind us that there are 'no fires in Zimbabwe' (but we should remind him that there are no free elections in Zimbabwe either!), this is a time to remind us of the spirit of London.
Finally, I cannot ignore the role of 'mobile' and 'ad hoc networks' in this riot.
What to make of the malevolent 'flashmob' driven by Blackberry messengers?
Mobile devices and technology are tools but they lead to fundamental changes in society (and I have been saying this in my books and blogs for a while – Would you hire a woman who maintained a f**k book in college and The girl named Facebook: The Russians (and the Egyptians and the Libyans and the Tunisians and ..) love their children too ).
Specifically, Internet related technologies are breaking down hierarchies and creating fluid, often ad-hoc networks, for better or for worse.
While our prime minister calls for a 'fightback' (and people in the UK will support any such efforts), the reality is: We are living in a new era where politicians are demonstrably less empowered.
What is the solution?
Maybe a decentralization of power and a reduction of hierarchy (aka – a more network oriented governance) – and there is already talk of that idea – In this crisis, our cities need local leaders with real power and even ultimately to a more Swiss canton like system of government ?
This debate will continue but I believe that the spirit of London will prevail and will see us to a great Olympics in a year's time
Image – Madame Taussads


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Sean Maloney, a Prominent Intel Pitchman, Plans to Retire
Sean Maloney, an Intel Corp. executive vice president once seen as a potential candidate to lead the chip maker, plans to retire in January, the company said.
Mr. Maloney, 56 years old, suffered a stroke in 2010 that temporarily sidelined him from management roles. But he recovered sufficiently to assume the position of chairman of Intel China and make public appearances in Asia, where he had long helped to build the company's relationships with makers and buyers of personal computers. He has lived in Beijing since July 2011.


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Beer Profiteroles with Chocolate-Beer Sauce
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When I was growing up, profiteroles were the height of fanciness to my young mind. I would order them whenever I went out to eat with my grandparents and systematically devour every last bite of the pastry, ice cream, and chocolate sauce. Sadly, I don't see this childhood favorite on menus too often these days and it's been years since I've enjoyed a plate of profiteroles.
I was thrilled when I came across these Beer Profiteroles with Chocolate-Beer Sauce in The Boozy Baker by Lucy Baker. They weren't just profiteroles, but a tasty grown-up version made with a dark beer ice cream and finished with chocolate beer sauce. This is a recipe for anyone who has ever experienced the pleasure of a stout float or Guinness milkshake. Dark beer, chocolate, and ice cream are pretty much made to go together. But if the prospect of making your own ice cream, pastry, and chocolate sauce seems like a little much, Lucy advises that this recipe can be made with store bought ice cream in place of the homemade, or even doughnut holes to replace the profiteroles.
- Yield:6
- For the beer ice cream:
- 21/2 cups heavy cream
- 11/2 cups whole milk
- 5 large egg yolks
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup (8 ounces) chocolate stout, or other dark beer
- For the profiteroles:
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 large eggs
- For the chocolate-beer sauce:
- 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons chocolate stout
To make the ice cream, combine the heavy cream and milk in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is almost just barely simmering (you will see steam rising from the surface, and small bubbles at the edge of the pan). Remove the pan from the heat and set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl, beat the egg yolks with the sugar and salt until thick and pale yellow. Very slowly, whisk a 1/4 cup of the hot cream mixture into the egg mixture to temper it. Then transfer the egg mixture to the saucepan with the rest of the cream mixture and return to medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture has thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon without running.Remove the saucepan from the heat and strain the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve. Add the vanilla extract and stout. Chill for at least four hours (preferably overnight) and freeze in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.
To make the profiteroles, preheat the oven to 425ºF and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Combine 1/2 cup water, milk, butter, and salt in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low, add the flour, and cook, stirring with a wooden spoon, until the mixture forms a ball and pulls away from the sides of the pan. Transfer the mixture to a mixing bowl and allow it to cool slightly. Using an electric mixer, beat in the eggs one at a time.
Spoon the mixture into a large, zip-top plastic bag and snip off one of the corners. Squeeze 12 mounds of dough onto the baking sheet, spacing them an inch or two apart. Bake until puffed and golden, about 22 minutes. Turn off the oven, set the door slightly ajar, and allow profiteroles to rest for another 5 minutes.
Remove profiteroles from the oven and prick each one with a toothpick to allow steam to escape. Let them cool completely on a wire rack.
To make the chocolate-beer sauce, place the chocolate in a medium bowl. Combine the cream and sugar in a small saucepan and heat over medium-low heat until just barely simmering. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and stir until the chocolate melts. Stir in the stout.
To assemble the dessert, cut each profiterole in half crosswise. Place a scoop of ice cream on the bottom half of the profiterole and sandwich with the top. Drizzle generously with the chocolate-beer sauce and serve.
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