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It's that time of the year. We're eating a zucchini dish at least once every day, plus I'm sneaking it into everything I can think of.
We've had sliced raw zucchini with dip. We've had zucchini bread. We've had steamed zucchini, breaded-and-fried zucchini, and zucchini sauteed with onion and served over rice.
My favorite zucchini recipe is the stuffed zucchini that's on my recipe blog. We had it for supper tonight, and it used up two rather large zucchini. I had to wedge them into the pan to boil them.
A cup or more of grated zucchini cooks into meatloaf pretty well. Also, zucchini oatmeal cookies are good. The grated zucchini in them looks like pale green coconut flakes.
I have a recipe for zucchini pancakes, but somehow that doesn't sound good, even to me, the zucchini pusher. Neither does the recipe for zucchini doughnuts.
I gave away three zucchini this afternoon, so currently I have only three on hand. I am going to take them to church tomorrow, and try to get someone to take them.
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Have you ever hit that point in a game of pool where you drink just the right amount and everything just seems to go in? You're not overthinking your shots. You move with fluidity. You're like Minnesota Fats mixed with Michael Jackson. It's a spectacular feeling but, unfortunately, one that tends to slip quickly into sloppy drunkeness where even hitting a ball with the cue stick would be an accomplishment.
Well, it's possible you weren't just imagining that feeling. It turns out that drinking can be good for you. But hey, you probably already knew that, didn't you? I sure do. For a guy like me, even talking to girls was impossible. A half of a forty of Mickey's later and suddenly I'm Cyrano de Bergerac mixed with, uh, well, not Michael Jackson. But you get the point.
The study also maybe justifies the much-maligned decision of several of last season's Red Sox to drink in the clubhouse. They weren't being selfish, egomaniacal @ssholes. They were merely "enhancing their problem solving skills" through oral application of a legal substance. Let's face it, although baseball players have significant physical skills, what separates the wheat from the chaff is the mental aspect. If beer can fill that void, I say "drink up!"


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The Department of Defense is hoping that two new weapons – big money and little oil – can curb the rising military suicide rate.
A three-year, $10 million study, to be funded by the Department of Defense and conducted at the Medical University of South Carolina, will test whether omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oils can relieve the anxieties and quiet the suicidal thoughts plaguing many combat veterans, one of the lead researchers said Monday.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have long maintained that a diet heavy in omega-3 – common in salmon, anchovies and other oily fish – can elevate happiness.
"The problem is coming to a head with the recognition that in the military, you're more likely to die by suicide than by enemy combatant – and that's not acceptable," said Dr. Ron Acierno, a co-investigator on the project and a professor in the department of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C.
"Omega-3s are among the primary fatty acids in the brain. They cannot be synthesized by the body – which means they have to be eaten (via food, drink or pill form). They're responsible for neural generation and neural repair – for new neurons to be made and for broken ones to be fixed," added Acierno, who also serves as the director of the PTSD clinical team at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston.
The participants are veterans or service members who have been referred to a VA mental health treatment program because they are having suicidal thoughts. If the patients agree to join the study, they will be secretly placed in one of two groups. One segment will drink juice-box-sized smoothies high in omega-3. The second will drink placebos.
"Anybody who is showing suicidal ideation is going to be referred for the standard mental health treatment at the VA here in Charleston, which is a best practices site, so the standard treatment here is pretty good," Acierno said. That means, he added, that military folks in the placebo group will not receive inadequate care.
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For those former and current service members who receive the omega-3-laced smoothies, they'll be asked to gulp one in the morning and another at night. All of the study participants then will be tracked over time as researchers interview them and measure, via a scoring system, their suicidal thoughts and intentions – whether they have formed a plan to take their own lives – along with their anxiety levels and cognitive-processing abilities, Acierno said. Any actual attempts by the participants to harm themselves will be immediately treated but that bahavior will become part of the study's data.
In addition to medical literature accounts that show omega-3 can buoy mental health, the study team is "excited" about the prospects of fish oil serving as something of a solution, Acierno said, because the product carries an "extremely low risk" for side effects. It's also relatively cheap – costing between $12 and $35 retail.
At Target, for example, a bottle of Nature Made Ultra Omega-3 Fish Oil, priced at $11.89, holds 45 softgel pills each containing 1,400 milligrams. Target also sells $44.99 boxes of Coromega orange-flavored squeeze packets that each contain 650 milligrams of omega-3, derived from pharmaceutical-grade fish oil.
"The potential good versus the potential extraordinarily low risk and low cost make this a type of intervention that can be – if findings are warranted – rolled out extremely fast and on a large scale," Acierno said.
Bonnie Carroll, a leading expert in military suicides and founder and president of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), said she has not read or heard about omega-3 as a possible medicinal tool in treating depression or post-traumatic stress.
"We are very open-minded on any techniques that might be useful," said Carroll, whose organization provides peer-based emotional support for families affected by the death of a loved one serving in the U.S. military. She also was co-chair of the DOD Task Force on the Prevention of Suicide in the Armed Forces.
Omega-3 has been on under the microscope for more than a year as experts have tried to dissect the high number of military suicides. In August 2011, a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry suggested that certain fish oil components had potent psychiatric benefits and suggested that taking an omega-3 supplement might help service members. That research, performed in part by the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, scanned through the medical records of 800 U.S. service members who took their own lives between 2002 and 2008, comparing those against the health files of 800 active-duty personnel who had not attempted suicide. The scientists found that service members with higher blood amounts of docosahexaenoic acid - an omega-3 fatty acid - were less likely to take their own lives.
Should veterans who have considered suicide begin swallowing omega-3 pills on their own now?
"Buying the omega-3s and taking them is not going to be a problem," Acierno said. "However, if they do have these types of thoughts or feelings, remember that even the people in this study – even those who are on the placebo – are getting mental health care.
"So we never want to say this is a replacement for evidence-based mental health care," he added. "This is a supplement and one that is easily added. It's also important that you get the care you need."
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The Ravens got bad news — but not terrible news — on Friday regarding Super Bowl XLVII hero Jacoby Jones.
Per a league source, Jones suffered a sprained MCL in his right knee during Thursday night's regular-season opener. He'll likely miss 4-6 weeks.
The MCL is a rope-like ligament that becomes frayed when sprained. Most tears not involving complete severing of the ligament can heal with rest. Jones' expected absence meshes with a Grade II MCL sprain, which should heal without surgery.
Jones suffered the injury after an accidental collision with teammate Brynden Trawick, who ran into Jones while Jones was trying to catch a punt. It looked serious at the time, with Jones' knee hyperextending in ugly fashion upon impact.
Marlon Brown is listed as Jones' only understudy on the depth chart. The Ravens have only six receivers on the active roster. Receiver Gerrard Shepard has a spot on the practice squad; he could be elevated during Jones' absence.
But Jones will most likely remain on the 53-man roster. Short-term injured reserve, which would knock Jones out for at least eight weeks, isn't an option because the one-per-team designation was used earlier this week on tight end Dennis Pitta.
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The high and mighty in the European Union are now desperately hoping that China will offer the crisis ridden eurozone a big helping hand. But inspite of president Nicholas Sarkozy´s personal electronic kowtowing in connection with the last EU summit, the Chinese seem to be in no hurry. They are thoroughly enjoying the humiliating European "reality show", and have decided to let the beggars wait for a while :
Advisers to the Chinese government told the Financial Times on Thursday that the country is likely to contribute to the eurozone's bail-out fund but the scope of its involvement will depend on European leaders satisfying some key conditions.
Any Chinese support would depend on contributions from other countries and Beijing must be given strong guarantees on the safety of its investment, according to Li Daokui, an academic member of China's central bank monetary policy committee, and Yu Yongding, a former member of that committee.
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Meanwhile the European Union development and climate change aid to the "developing country" China continues as if nothing has happened. Millions and millions ("Indicative funding" for 2007 - 2013 is 240 million euro) of EU taxpayers´ money either have been granted - are are in the process of being given - to a number of different "projects", like these ones:
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Description: To improve environmental governance by enhancing public participation and corporate responsibility in China
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A perfectly reasonable question, right? It's social shorthand for "who are you?" a convenient fall-back in the face of awkward silence or prolonged mingling; polite, simple, safe chit-chat. Um, right?
Well, consider: A couple of years ago, I reconnected with an old friend who'd since moved to Alaska. I asked him what it was like up there, what had prompted such a move. And he said–and I quote, "Californians are so shallow."
I'm used to "smug," along with some mention of organic vegetables, Masters degrees, and hybrid cars, but shallow? Not so much. "What do you mean?" I asked.
"The first thing anyone ever asks is 'What do you do?'" he said.
And with that, he kinda shut me up (no small feat). It's an interesting–and somewhat unusual–perspective, given how much of our time is poured into doing whatever it is we do, and how much of our identity is derived from what we do… but if we allow ourselves to see his point–that defining ourselves in terms of what's on our business card is, indeed, shallow–what might we learn?
I was reminded of this conversation when reading a piece in this month's Marie Claire magazine: In "Is your career ruining your credibility?" Sarah Z. Wexler gets into the issue of being defined–and judged–on the basis of what we do. Here's a taste:
Former financial analyst Stacy Bromberg, 35, used to hold her own with the big-shot lawyers and bankers in her family Then she accepted a lucrative offer to be a senior VP of strategy for a major cosmetics company. 'Instantly, I became the punch line at every family get-together,' she recalls. 'When I chimed in to a politcal discussion, my uncle asked how I found time to read the headlines when I was busy testing out lipsticks. Now, whenever I talk to him, I end up overcompensating, spending the whole conversation dropping fancy words, mentioning my assistant and whatnot, just so he and everyone else in the family knows that they're dealing with a somebody. But I often sit up at night wondering if I'll ever be taken seriously again.'
We all know women are judged by how they dress, talk, and act on the job. It's only reasonable, then, that we'd also be scrutinized for the actual careers we choose. Though women represent nearly half the workforce and occupy positions of power unthinkable even a decade ago, many of us have put off marriage and families to get there. Some women complain that that's resulted in tacit, insidious pressure to secure the kinds of jobs that justify all those trade-offs.
And, of course, the cruel irony is that women get it from both ends: If we take a low-powered job, we're perceived as weak, unenlightened, whatever. But if we're a serious player on the fast track, people are just as likely to judge: don't wanna be too ambitious. For a woman, a job isn't just a job. It's a comment on who she is–in a way that it isn't for a man.
Leaving that aside, again we're reminded of the fact that women are relatively new to the workplace (it's only been a generation since the demise of want-ads segregated by gender!), and coming into it armed with the message that You can do anything! (which, internally, tends to translate to: I better do something really, really good!)–all of which leaves us shouldering the weight of some serious expectations. Of course we want to prove we took that opportunity and milked it for all its worth! Of course we want an impressive answer to the question, "So, What do you do?"
But really, why? Often, the most impressive-sounding jobs are not so fabulous in real life. Take, for example, Alex, a Hollywood producer we profile in Undecided: "Dude. I'm doing what I wanted to do out of college, and now I'm over it. Sometimes what we originally think is glamorous turns out to be the opposite. After ten years in this industry, I'm ready for a big change. Ideally, owning my own business and never having to worry about a director not enjoying his sandwich."
Like children transfixed by bright and shiny objects, we want the title, the money, the prestige… Even when we get what we're after only to find it's not all it's cracked up to be, those bright and shiny objects are hard to give up–because, as much as we likely would rather not admit it, part of that ever-elusive picture-perfect life to which we aspire is the picture itself. How it looks. And yet, as Lori Gottlieb told us,
'Something that looks really enticing from the outside is usually sort of culturally informed… very superficial.' So why, we asked, do we get so hung up on them? And in a Helloooooo kind of tone, she told us what we already knew: 'The objective things are so alluring.'
Alluring, yes. And often it's only after some trial and error that we find what's right for us–that what first looked so alluring is in fact, not what we're passionate about–or even enjoy. But maybe a good indication that we're on the right track will be when someone asks us "So hey, what do you do?" and we no longer care how our answer sounds.


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Fancy affair or garden picnic? Either way, there's ruffles coming and going! Both from BCBG, both pretty reasonably priced. No one likes a shocking price tag on a Monday, especially me.
Some cosmetic things I am really loving lately, all tested and approved!
Pixi's Nude Shade Wardrobe: Such a great combination of colors! They're all so very natural and soft. Everything you need for the "natural with definition" look is in this palette. I've used this every day since I got it. 'Nuff said!
Illamasqua Nail Varnish: This UK company really excels at gorgeous, unique colors. So glad this brand is finally available here. Check out "Alarm" and "Muse", my two favorites.
Korres Eyeliners: $32 gets you 10 eyeliners that retail separately for $16 each. They're creamy and go on very smooth. Easily the deal of the week!
Feeling cozy on a cool, sunny day. These sweaters strike the perfect note. From Sweet Knitting.
So pretty! I love these so much. The tiny diamond in the bottom left corner is my favorite, such a great idea for an engagement ring! From Scosha NYC.
Drool worthy hair accessories and photos over at Flo & Percy! Check out their Bohemia line. Amazing!
I'm so excited to announce the newest addition to the Kenzie Kate collection! Our bran' spankin' new Correspondence Sets! We've custom made these amazing limited edition wooden boxes and filled them with all our favorite note cards and a rainbow of envelopes. There's a total of 50 notecards and 50 envelopes in there! The ultimate desk accessory, if you will...
I'm so proud of this set, it's truly something I would love to give and (especially) GET as a gift. I couldn't be more excited to show it to you guys! I really hope you like it! You can check them out more closely here.
My kind of something blue! Love the little bows on the toes. Shoe clips from shop No. 114.
What to wear to a fall wedding? The ceremony is outside during the day, the reception is inside in the evening. I think a fancy cardigan might be in order! I picked these combos out, but there are so many to choose from. Mod Cloth, Anthropologie, and J. Crew are all great places to start.
Terrace House Jacket with Fashion Ink Dress
Waffle Weave Dress with Arlyn Cardigan
Million Dollar Smile Dress with Ciel étoilé Cardigan
Asymmetrical Trim Cardigan with Windy City Dress
I like the way The English Dept. deals with ruffles, understated and still very feminine.
Stay dry today all you fellow East Coasters! Batten down the hatches and hang to the riggin'!


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One of my New Year's resolutions is to eat more salad. Clearly, a salad resolution is easier than some others. If you know some tricks, that is. One thing I'm proud of is that my friends and family report their salads have gotten progressively tastier and more interesting as a result of being around me. A girl has to leave some sort of legacy, right? That's mine.
Now that I'm sitting here thinking about it, I guess I have a lot of opinions and tips when it comes to salad. Are you ready for this?
You don't need lettuce to make a salad. The one pictured here is curly kale and a couple huge handfuls of sprouts (which I'm really into right now and am growing on my kitchen counter). No lettuce. In the winter, cabbage is often the base of my salads. It's cheap, lasts forever in the fridge, and delivers a lot of nutritional bang for your buck.
Purchased salad dressing is a racket. A big one. Loaded with calories, expensive, and usually not very tasty. Often, I don't mix up a salad dressing. I just toss my whole salad with a big squeeze of lemon (or lime or vinegar), coarse salt and pepper, and a glug of olive oil. Just pour them right in the bowl and mix gently and well with your hands. If you're going to make dressing, the general rule is 1 part acid to 3 parts oil, plus salt (and pepper, if you're a pepper person). Of course you can endlessly variate this – honey, apple cider vinegar, olive oil and garlic. Cilantro, sesame and vegetable oil, miso paste, and soy sauce. Find a favorite combo, make a big batch, and use it all week.
A little bit of fat or protein goes a long way, especially if you make a "chopped salad" (as opposed to layered or composed). Some finely chopped almonds, a little bit of salami, ham turkey, bacon, or tuna, 1/2 a hard-boiled egg, a bit of crumbled feta or blue cheese, a handful of canned chickpeas, or a couple minced olives or anchovies are all you need to make your salad feel like a substantial meal. You can, of course, leave these things out, but I like finding those little nuggets in the tangle of veggies.
Make your salad components uniform in size. There's nothing worse than negotiating a giant chuck of carrot right next to some delicate greens. If you want chunky, make everything chunky (think Greek salad or Salad Nicoise.) A chopped salad (my favorite lately) means you can get a bite of almost everything in one forkful. It also means you're likely to eat more vegetables since they are hospitably cut.
Veggie prep on the weekends makes salad-eating a lot more likely. Otherwise, you'll end up eating cheese and crackers all week. When I'm being good, I wash a few different kinds of greens and wrap them up in paper towels. Then whatever else is cheap and relatively in-season, washed and ready to go. In the winter, it's broccoli, cauliflower, red onions, green onions, radishes, hothouse cucumbers, cilantro, parsley, avocados.
Nuts. And other pantry luxuries. Almost everything is a salad possibility. I'm currently into smoked almonds. When you finely chop them (you just need a few) they taste like bacon in your salad. Some other favorites: olives, pepperocini, capers, raw sunflower seeds, chia seeds, flax seeds, sun-dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, any kind of canned beans. Be careful with fruit – canned, dried, fresh. Often it's delicious in salads, but you have to be a little more judicious with your combos. I wouldn't advise grapefruit with kidney beans, for instance. Oranges, walnuts, and red onions are a favorite combo. Or blue cheese with apples or pears and dried cherries or cranberries.
Cooked grains will make you feel so proud of yourself. At the beginning of the week, cook something up – brown rice, quinoa, farro, bulgur. Drain, toss with a bit of olive oil, and refrigerate. The possibilities are endless, including tossing cold grains with whatever salad you're making.
Don't limit salads to a side dish. Eat them as main dishes, and make them just for yourself. I don't mind a plate of celery or carrot sticks, but you're likely to eat a lot more vegetables if you make them interesting.
What are your favorite combos? What are you planning to do in 2013 that will make you stronger and healthier?


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Portraiture, an older medium than photography, first captured images of children.
Because so many children died in infancy, post-mortem portraits and later, photographs, became a preferred method for parents to remember deceased children.
Joseph Wright painted this portrait of Marcus Knox, son of Henry and Lucy Knox, in 1791. The painting was paid for after the boy's death, leading to speculation that it was done after he died in an accident at age eight.
Of thirteen children born to the Knoxes, only three made it to adulthood.
Henry Knox was a Revolutionary War general and the country's first Secretary of War. He moved to Thomaston in 1795.
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The Marathon Runner
When people talk about managed futures pioneers, they almost always mention Bill Dunn. He's been running his models for almost 35 years. In that sense, he's a long-term survivor. He is also a long-term trend follower. Here he discusses the strategy from the perspective of someone who's worked on it for several decades.
Dunn Capital Management now has a number of trading programs, including one that is very short term—a pattern recognition system called Mosaic. If you look at the composite return that goes back to the 1970s, you're struck by three things. The first is how well Dunn has performed over what must be one of the longest track records in CTA and hedge fund history.
Dunn's compound annual return is more than 19%. The S&P 500 total return for the same period is 11%. Had you invested $1,000 with Mr. Dunn as he started his firm in 1974 and stayed with him, today your investment would be $426 thousand. By comparison, $1,000 in the S&P 500 compounded to $37 thousand during that time.
The second noticeable feature is that there is almost no correlation between Dunn's returns and the stock index and what little correlation that exists is negative. Last year, as stock markets crashed, a Dunn pool that allocates to seven trading programs returned 127%.
The third notable attribute is that the Dunn programs have steep drawdowns along the way. True, at other times the S&P 500 has drawdowns of similar magnitude. But the thought occurs that it may be tough for clients to stay put when they confront the drawdowns, even though in retrospect they'd be better off not redeeming. The manager's take on this issue is below.
Mr. Dunn has a PhD in theoretical physics and early in his career held academic positions and developed and tested systems for the US military.
Opalesque Futures Intelligence: Has your strategy changed over the years?
Bill Dunn: Our strategy has not changed since we started in 1974. We've developed a number of trading systems and programs, but the basic strategy of when to buy and sell and how much to trade has not changed.
OFI: But haven't there been major developments in 35 years?
BD: There are more markets to trade now. Back then there were only about a dozen tradable futures, now there are over 50. In 1974 we did not have currency, interest rate or stock index futures, hard as it is to believe. Those markets coming into existence is all for the better. As markets were created, we've worked on how to structure the portfolio, so that has changed.
OFI: How do you know that the strategy will work in a new market?
BD: I never know the future, I can only know the past. But I test the past. If the new markets behave like past markets, then there's no reason to think you can't trade the same way. We're always happy to see new markets. The more the merrier.
OFI: Please describe your basic strategy.
BD: The strategy is long-term trend following. Typically the winning trades last several months. Losing trades are often closed out in a few weeks.
OFI: Do you change the models when markets change, as they did last year, or when there are new rules and regulations?
BD: Change is a constant in markets. We do not tinker with the model when the environment changes. We're always looking for change, to take advantage of it. There was a lot of change in the past year, so that meant lots of opportunity. The impact of any rule change will show up in the way prices behave and the models will pick that up.
OFI: What have you learnt from your experience?
BD: We've got better at risk management. We've always tried to control risk but over the years we've become better at it.
OFI: Do you interfere with the models when unexpected events occur?
BD: My opinion or for that matter anyone's opinion as to what will happen tomorrow does not count in our trading programs. Only the tested models matter. We can modify the models, but they're back tested and have to prove themselves before we'll implement them. We don't tell the system what to do; the market tells us what to do every day using only price data.
OFI: What's a good environment for your strategy?
BD: We make money when there is a reasonable number of trends – whether prices go up or down – that last for several months. By contrast, markets that just bounce around give us difficulty and losses. In 2008 there were large upward trends in the first half of the year, for instance oil and grains, and strong downtrends in the second half of the year. It was the best performance year in our entire history. I'm sorry we all have to pay the price for those trends, but they were great to trade.
OFI: What happens when there are no trends?
BD: If there are very few trends long-term trend following does not make money. But we never know how long that situation will last and when trends will develop. None of these situations are predictable. I can't predict what will happen and I don't think anyone else can either.
OFI: When do your models have difficulties?
BD: When markets are volatile but don't go anywhere in particular, many systems are fooled into thinking there's a breakout of a trend when really it is just a breakup! Trendless choppy markets are bad for us. But you'll have problems with any system some time or another. There's no perfect system.
OFI: Aren't trend following returns too volatile for many investors?
BD: What keeps people away from managed futures is principally ignorance. True, managed futures returns are volatile, but as we recently saw, so are other markets. Our returns have a strong upward trend over the years, but there are wriggles along the way. People who can't accept a drawdown should wait for the next high and then take their money out! But most of our clients ride out the long term and get very attractive returns.


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SALONS OF THE YEAR, SALON TODAY's renowned competition for salon and spa design is in its final judging stages for 2014. We are proud to announce this year's 20 SALONS OF DISTINCTION, the finalists who will all be honored in the commemorative June 2014 issue, and who now proceed to the final round of judging. This last phase of judging determines the SALON OF THE YEAR, whose design will grace the June cover.
To be eligible for the competition, salons and/or spas had to be newly opened or newly renovated during the calendar year 2013. To enter, salons submitted up to 10 professional photographs that best showcased their salon/spa design, as well as answered a series of essays about their design choices before the January 31st deadline.
Then, the judging commenced. In the first round, the SALON TODAY team reviewed and qualified each entry. Secondly, a panel of MODERN SALON Media editors and art directors evaluated each entry in further detail, selecting the 20 SALONS OF DISTINCTION. Finally, a panel of outside expert judges will scrutinize each entry and score each of these finalists in six different décor categories.
Judges scores will be combined and used to determine the grand-prize winner and the runners-up. The Grand Prize SALON OF THE YEAR will be announced May 31, 2013.
Check salontoday.com and SALON TODAY's Facebook page each day starting today and we'll introduce you to a new SALONS OF THE YEAR finalist each day--tell us which one is your favorite!
See all of the previous SALONS OF THE YEAR Winners.
Congratulations to the 2014 SALONS OF DISTINCTION:
212 Salon and Day Spa, in Upper Montclair, NJ, owned by Donna and Gaetano Lo Sauro
6 Salon, owned by Tomy Lulgjuraj, Johnny Nikollaj, and George Nikollaj in Birmingham, MI
Airbar in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, owned by Jenny and Alexis Becker
Cloud 10 Blow Dry Bar & Makeup Salon in Delray Beach, FL, owned by Jodi Dery
Danny Jelaca Salon in Miami Beach, FL, owned by Danny Jelaca
Dieci Uomo in Livingston, NJ, owned by Paul and Marie Gaglioti
Epic - a Michael Allen Salon in York, PA, owned by Dawn Smith and Michael Allen Morgan
European Beauty Concepts in Williamsburg, PA, owned by Annette Ritzmann and Bar Palmer
Gary Manuel Studio in Seattle, WA, owned by Gary Howse and Manuel Benevich
HC Studio in Brookline, MA, owned by Susan Healy
J Michaels Salon in Des Moines, IA, owned by Michelle and Jay Ryan
J Roland Salon in San Francisco, CA, owned by Joseph Roland
Keter Salon in Berkeley, CA, owned by Diana Gordon
Mane Attraction in Phoenix, AZ, owned by Kendall Ong and Beate Assmuth-Ong
Misbehaven Spa & Salon in Walla Walla, WA, owned by Jeanese LeFore
Poppy Salon in Waite Park, MN, owned by Jackie Hyndman, Nicolle Kruger and Alex Hyndman
Salon Aguayo in Pasadena, CA, owned by Joseph Aguayo
Shep Studio in Provo, UT, owned by Shep and Tracy Wolsey
SOTO - Salon on the Ohio in Cincinnati, OH, owned by Gregory Schroeder and Anastasia Kim
Tricho Salon & Spa in Ann Arbor, MI, owned by Michael Stein and Lynn McMullin
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IGS2011 Summary by Carolyne Bird, Document Examination, Forensic Science, Adelaide
Held in the warm and sunny climes of the Mexican Caribbean, the 15th IGS conference in Cancun attracted a contingent of over 50 presenters from fifteen nations across the globe: Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
The welcome reception in the evening of Sunday 12th June, held in the poolside area of the Live Aqua Cancun, commenced with watermelon daiquiris and a Marimba band. Although there was no formal welcome speech from the conference Chair, Jose Pepe Contreras-Vidal (he didnt want to interrupt the convivial atmosphere), we all felt a warm Mexican greeting.
The (unofficial) theme throughout the conference was brain-mind machines and brain-machine interfaces (BMI). The first full day of conference proceedings began with a plenary presentation by Mikhail Lebedev (Duke University Center for Neuroengineering), on the common theme. Lebedev reported outcomes of recent work with rhesus monkeys that had been implanted with multielectrode arrays in multiple cortical areas. Neuronal activity could be recorded and decoded for various motor activities, and direct stimulation of the brain encouraged movement in the monkeys (bipedal locomotion and reaching movements). This paves the way for neural prosthetic devices in the future, able to restore locomotive and fine motor movements to disabled people.
Reported research from other presenters used other, sometimes less invasive, means of detecting and transmitting brain signals for motor control, and covered various aspects relating to encoding and decoding of these processes (Ramirez, National Institute of Astrophysics, Mexico; Paek, University of Maryland, USA; Bensmaia, University of Chicago, USA; Santello, Arizona State University, USA; Valero-Cuevas, University of Southern California, USA; Crone, John Hopkins University, USA; Contreras-Vidal, University of Maryland, USA).
Aspects of human machine interfaces involving pen-based inputs were covered by Marcus Liwicki (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany), Hala Bezine (National School of Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia), and Peiyu Li (Université Européenne de Bretagne, France).
Plenary speaker Marc H. Schieber (University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry) gave an easy to understand (even to someone to whom this is all relatively unfamiliar) presentation on the neuroscience of finger movements and his research into whether motor cortex neurons can be combined into small groups separated from finger movements, and used to drive a cursor. Other research dealing with movement neuroscience was reported in two sessions over the three days and included asymmetry of bilateral transfer (van Gemmert, Louisiana State University, USA), characterising movement synergies of grasping in the human hand (Agashe, University of Maryland, USA), and presentations investigating movement/motor control features of Parkinsons disease (Chong, Georgia Health Sciences University,USA; Prashad, University of Maryland, USA).
The third plenary speaker, Ranulfo Romo (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico) discussed neural activity without the movement aspect, aiming in his research for an integrated understanding of how subjective sensory experience arises in the activity of the brain.
Moving completely away from the neural side of the equation, there was a session on computational models and two on handwriting analysis and technology. Presentations within these covered artificial neural networks for virtual robotic anthropomorphic arm movements (Beltrán-Blanco, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain), a feedback loop for improving writing order recovery of off-line cursive handwriting (Senatore, University of Salerno, Italy), an algorithm for segmenting isolated characters within cursive words (Marcelli, University of Salerno, Italy), generation of synthetic handwritten gestures using sigma-lognormal model (OReilly, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada), deterioration of handwriting processes and its association with decreasing executive function (Rosenblum, University of Haifa, Israel), and the handwriting of children with autism, Aspergers disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Johnson, Monash University, Australia).
As I come to the IGS with a forensic handwriting examination background, I was most interested in the forensic-related presentations, which covered three sessions over the three days. Two presentations dealt with differentiating scribes: Claudio de Stefano (University of Cassino, Italy), developed a pattern recognition system using digital image processing techniques to characterise (with at least 91% accuracy) the features & habits of individual scribes who worked together in the transcription of a medieval single book. Martin Jarvis (Charles Darwin University, Australia) applied forensic handwriting examination methods to some of the manuscripts of both Johann Sebastian Bach and Anna Magdalena & found that their music-calligraphies can be differentiated. Further research by Jarvis investigated the contention that if Anna Magdalena wrote with a quill cut by Johann Sebastian, then it would be more likely that her music-calligraphy would appear similar to his. Findings do not support this hypothesis, but suggest that the use of the quill-pen in no way results in features that are fundamentally dissimilar to those that result from the scribes normal movement behaviour.
Forensic related presentations investigating computer-based methods for handwriting and signature verification, identification and classification were made by Reinier Verduijn (Netherlands Forensic Institute, the Netherlands) and Richard Guest (University of Kent, UK).
Emily Will (QDE Will, USA) devised a study to investigate FHEs skill, and the features they used, for inferring handwriting speed from a static image. Results showed that FDEs can make correct inferences of handwriting speed from the static trace. I (Bird et al., LaTrobe University, Australia) also presented an investigation into some dynamic features of handwriting, reporting findings of a study into the dynamic differences between naturally written, disguised and forged handwritten text. Results suggest that in theory, velocity may be used to discriminate between disguised and forged handwriting behaviour. Mariangela Genna (University of Trieste, Italy) also examined kinematic features of handwriting and how these change in children as schooling proceeds, concluding that some of these parameters may be useful for handwriting development studies. A study of eye movements and handwriting dynamics while subjects attempted to simulate two model signatures of different complexities was undertaken and reported by Avni Pepe (LaTrobe University, Australia).
The poster presentations, while not extensive (about a dozen in total) were diverse in their topics, from remedial handwriting programs to aspects of automated signature verification.
The Tuesday night banquet on the beach around sunset was a lovely event and gave attendees the chance to mingle in a social atmosphere, which may have been a little absent at other times (many participants, myself included, brought their spouse or family along to sunny Mexico for a holiday and thus spent time outside of the sessions with them, rather than networking). The Mariachi band was lively and entertaining, and the promise of turtles laying eggs on the beach enticed a number of people to stay up late to catch a glimpse.
At the conclusion of the conference, the best student paper awards were presented by a representative from the sponsoring organisation to the following students:
Forensic Sciences by the Association of Forensic Document Examiners
Avni PEPE, A cognitive look into simulations of high and low complexity signatures
Cognitive-Motor Neuroscience by the University of Maryland
Christian O'REILLY, The coupling of agonist and antagonist commands in speed/accuracy tradeoff
Neural Decoding or BMI by g.tec Medical Engineering
Shikha PRASHAD, The macrostructure of rest tremor in Parkinson's disease
Computational Model or Neuroscience by the University of Cartagena
Andrew PAEK, Decoding finger movements from brain activity acquired via scalp electroencephalography
Graphonomics by IGS
Rosa SENATORE, From motor to trajectory plan: a feedback loop between unfolding and segmentation to improve writing order recovery
In all, I found the scientific presentations interesting and informative. I valued the opportunity to present some of my own research to and receive feedback from such esteemed company.
By: Carolyne Bird, Document Examination Section, Forensic Science South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
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Officials: Libyan government slowing investigation
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. counterterrorism officials told lawmakers Thursday that uncooperative or less-than-capable local law enforcement in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia is slowing the search for suspects in the death of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya on Sept. 11.
Authorities in the region have not yet arrested many of the suspects the U.S. wants to question about the violent attack on the American compound in Benghazi on Sept. 11, according to two U.S. officials briefed on a private House Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday, where counterterrorism, intelligence and law enforcement chiefs disclosed the information to lawmakers.
The U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly disclose the information, said Egypt has arrested Egyptian Islamic Jihad member Muhammad Jamal Abu Ahmad for possible links to the attack, but key al-Qaida sympathizers remain free. They added that U.S. requests to go after the suspects unilaterally have also been rebuffed. The arrest was initially reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The officials said that Thursday's hearing was intended to re-focus lawmakers' discussions on the status of the investigation into finding those who carried out the attack and holding them accountable. Until now, discussions had largely focused on how the White House described the attack in its aftermath and whether U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice played down al-Qaida's possible role by blaming it on an angry mob.
The hearing comes a week before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton briefs lawmakers on an independent review of the attack by an accountability review board, led by retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering. Officials expect that the review will focus on security assessments done of the consulate before the attack, as well as the actions of the diplomatic security agents during it.
Three U.S. officials say the security team did not fire a single shot, as a crowd of militants and looters overwhelmed the compounds of the local Libyan security team.
The State Department agents lost track of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens during the incident, in the heavy smoke after the militants set fire to the building. Stevens was overcome by smoke and was later carried out of the damaged building by Libyans who took him to a local hospital where he apparently died from smoke inhalation. His exit from the building was filmed on a camera cellphone and posted on YouTube. It later became part of a composite video crafted by the intelligence community to show lawmakers a real-time sequence of the attack, weaving it together with surveillance video from a CIA drone and from the consulate's security cameras.
U.S. intelligence has blamed the attack on militants who are members of a number of different groups, from the local Libyan militia Ansar al-Shariah, whose members were seen at the U.S. consulate during the attack, to militants with links to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb — core al-Qaida's leading representative in the African region. The consulate's cameras captured many of the faces of armed men in a mob, and some have been questioned, but most remain free.
U.S. intelligence efforts have been hampered by the evacuation of CIA officers from Benghazi in the aftermath of the attack.
Libyan officials could not be reached for comment.
AP writer Adam Goldman contributed to this report.
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Jim Thomas is the founder and president of Fitness Management USA Inc., a management consulting and turnaround firm specializing in the fitness and health club industry. With over 25 years of experience owning, operating and managing clubs of all sizes, Thomas lectures and delivers seminars and workshops across the country on the practical skills required to successfully build teamwork and market fitness programs and products. Visit his Web site at: http://www.fmconsulting.net.
There are two kinds of sales people in health clubs: those who are in a slump and those who will be in a slump. It's happened to most sales people at one time or another. You might find that you can't get your club guests to join, your pipeline has emptied and no one seems to return your phone calls. This may weaken your confidence, and your entire outlook may be shaken. Does any of this sound familiar? It happens in health clubs every day.
Over the years and while working with many different kinds of clubs, I have seen many top sales people fall into a sales slump. Some sales slumps last longer than others, but none last forever.
The next time you find yourself in a sales slump, try some of these ideas to pull yourself back up:
- Accept responsibility. It's up to you to accept responsibility for getting yourself out of the slump. You certainly should ask for and expect support from your manager, department head or owner, but no one else can get you out of your slump. You have to do it yourself. It will take some time and effort. Don't point fingers.
- Stop making excuses. I forget who said this, but it rings true: "If you think you can, or if you think you can't…either way you're right." If you tell yourself that the weather, time of year, poor prospects, the weekend, etc., is the reason for your slump, you'll believe it before you know it. The key here is choosing to be accountable.
- Follow a proven system. This is a business of basics. Be sure you are following the same fundamentals that made you a success. In evaluating a sales slump, one of the first questions to ask is, "What's different?" It's always interesting how, over time, sales people will start to cut corners and get off course on what works. Usually, what's wrong with a sales person's slump is not complicated.
- Go for little wins. Go for some achievable small goals—little successes. Sometimes big goals can be too overwhelming when you're in a slump. Little goals will help you regain your footing. The key to this is for you to take control of the situation.
- Be sure you continue learning. One of the bad habits of successful sales people is to think we now know how to do this, and there is nothing else to learn. By making a habit of always learning, your enthusiasm stays at a high level and your presentation remains fresh.
- Failure to plan. Revisit previous success plans, or create a new plan of action. Don't wing it. By properly planning, you will feel a better sense of control and empowerment.
- Role play. You can do this with a co-worker, a spouse or in front of a mirror with yourself. Don't practice on the paying customer. After trying out your pitches, reverse the role play and have another successful salesperson role play with you. Listen to how they do it and learn.
- No stinkin' thinkin'. You must have a positive attitude. Be looking for solutions. Don't make your sales slump any worse by associating with a bunch of underachievers. Associate yourself with positive, successful people.
- Get active. Do something. Do anything. And do it now. Stay busy and active. Don't find yourself stuck in an office worrying.
- Believe in your club. Be sure you are selling for your customers' reasons and not simply your desire to get a sale. Don't press, either. Stay focused on helping your club guests get results.
I've never been a big believer in luck having much to do with successful health club selling. Some good timing here and there, and an occasional bad break happens, but I've seen health club winners "create" their own luck way too many times.
Now, go dump that slump.


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The Western notion of justice is a concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, equity or fairness.
There is no way to equally judge another human being or bring back what the violation has caused equally. The attempt will lead to mistakes and cruelty. More insidious is the notion someone can bring justice. I bring this up because the smart men and women I know (asked 40) all agreed this is why they still believe in the religion they believe in. Some cited fear of death as number 2 but all said they believe there has to be justice from higher power ultimatey. And that this is the only solace they have in this world. They believe someone who took so much life, like a Dahmer, would have to be judged by something eternal. I said someone in war may take 100's of lives but this is judged justice because they did it under orders or for a "just" cause.
Justice does seem to be hard wired instinctual.Most social mammals show different degrees of abhorrents to inequality.Especially primates.
But essentially isn't the pursuit of real justice not possible? Calling it necessary means this will make those who deem the power to wield it, to better humanity, unjust from the beginning? Isn't justice another way of claiming superiority? Doesn't a despot in the world use it to claim there power? If we agree justice is not a noble pursuit and clearly impossible (like following the word of god), what laws or punishments should be changed or updated? How would you feel if a mass murder or child molester was treated with a kind hand, rather than the visceral feeling of gutting them like a pig and dancing in the entrails as they slowing die. I am the first to admit this sounds more like justice at a primal level. But should we be smarter than that?
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Would you hit someone with down syndrome in the mouth because they hit you first?
Yes. Last time I checked they still had the ability to learn.
Or was that one of those sappy "would you hit someone weaker/lesser than yourself" questions where you're implying that downs people are somehow less than us and deserve pity?
Gangs are into revenge, too. As are jealous, over-controlling husbands. Why aren't victims mentioned in any of your argument?
I would agree that the system's not optimal, but I also think that the more significant cause of violence is the emotional disconnect between perpetrators and society. Such disconnects have been prevalent for so long in "civilized" culture that people hardly consider inclusion as a preventative and cure, but accept institutionalized exclusion. The only way to overcome such disconnects is in what we can do for people, before they become perpetrators or victims. So in that sense, we could do better by reducing crime even before it gets to stages of consequences.
I'm not saying it's easy, but I'm saying that too many people don't think much past the simplest institutional solutions. We expect and assume isolation and privacy at home rather than the annoyance of actually dealing face-to-face with people whose disconnections keep growing to pathological and violoent proportions. I think we'll only be able to solve this by being introspective with respect to our basic human nature and tendencies, and with a wider range of people willing to take time out of their private lives to somehow interact more with the more isolated groups and members of society.
I consider civilization to be a grand experiment, with no easy solutions, and most people just don't have a clue. As far as religion is concerned, their unfortunate presumption is that only God knows how to fix things, and people will never really be able to fix themselves.
He doesn't mention victims because he is not looking at the question from their viewpoint. Also, he clearly hasn't had much experience with wrongdoers. Some of them will never respond to any "treatment". Likewise, some of them have never developed beyond the first stage of moral development--the fear of punishment stage. There are a great number of people in our society who never get beyond this stage. One of the reasons this is so is that religion teaches people that this is the only, and thus highest, stage of moral development. If you raise children to think that the only reason to behave morally is fear of god's punishment, then you shouldn't be surprised that they show a distinct lack of actual morality.
Wrongdoers love that one. You are correct and wouldn't that make them mentally incapable of understanding there actions they have not developed past that state? Please don't let me be misunderstood. if its a fair law we understand why we need to follow and adhere tot he law then its only a sick person who wants to hurt themselves (and others). We have hospitals that take care of severely mentally retarded people. But Jails actually imply a set amount of time to serve and then out. If they receive no treatment for their illness they will get out and do it again. That is one of my points with all this. Right now we are housing the insane until they are let out to do it again. And if they are not insane before they go (like they lost it and are better) then the lessons learned in jail could cause them to think ill.
I really am not naive about this. This pursuit of justice is not possible because NO two people in any given situation is exactly the same. And treating them as such is how we have decided to house it away from our eyes. We are not handling our shit so it don't come back and shit on us over and over again. Too many unfair laws enforced on too many of the most vulnerable in our society and no one is willing (including me) to really try something different that might work. We spend billions on making our penis hard until we die at 100 but we won't figure out the investment into research here might save us billions of lives and dollars?
The justice system doesn't have as its end perfecting society but rather about seeing that, as much as possible, those affected (victim if still alive, perpetrator, third parties affected by the act) receive something approaching what they deserve.
We don't have a justice system. We have a punitive system bent on housing the insne because of the need for revenge. No one believes you should be above the law even when you put a 19 yr old to jail for 5 or more years for having a few joints on him. He gets out and what did he learn in jail? No one gets what they deserve because we are too interested in not dealing with it.A murdered son is still murdered and gone even if we kill the person who did it. that death done by the state is not justice no matter how the victims family feels about it. Yeah it sucks I don't like thinking about the bad guys getting help and a second chance, but that means the 19 yr old should NOT be in jail either we have to examine our laws without the prejudice of the victims or special interest feelings. That includes the murderer.
Well who is the victim and who is not the victim? We have groups set up to help with grief counseling which I have gone through. It is extremely important to understand how this may have happened or how to deal with not knowing how this has happened, without god invoked in every instance. I agree Gangs are very retribution based. That is a base level of trying to get respect. No different the Israel and Palestine. We even have it in our penal codes.
i think its hard for everyone to understand that some who murders could have lost their mind for an hour or could be so far down the rabbit hole in their head that they aren't even in this world any longer. But they are held up and prodded until they can be tried and sent to prison for what they did pretty much while they were a sleep. Imagine waking up one day and you just killed you wife. You have recollections of the feelings but its like not you. So many scenario's could be attached here. I am not forgetting victims its about stopping the next victim or helping the victim understand why to move on more successfully.
Emotional disconnect could be one of the reasons certainly a part of the issue. And I agree it is all about stopping the next bullet. Helping those who hurt others is a real hard thing to do. i got kids and sometimes the things they do make no sense at all.But everyone is different. Some of us are very introspective and face time is actually emotionally and physically draining.
The experiment is always on going but sometimes the answers are counter intuitive to the way society says it should be. Look at The Stanford prison experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
The guards watch what they did and they all felt bad afterwards.
I think we need a discussion of something like this: suppose we were to discover that every crime were the result of the lack of a previously undiscovered vitamin present only in rutabaga roots. So, someone murders someone. Do we just tell them to get more rutabaga root in their diet and send them home and forget about the effect(s) their crime had on others?
A more feasible analogy might be that we discover that every crime is a result of an anomalous growth in the brain, but that it can be surgically removed. So now what?
Yeah. Does fixing the criminal fix the harm they've left in their wake.
It's entirely possible that a repaired criminal ("fix" could mean something the vet would do, so I will avoid that word and its variants here, since such treatment has been suggested for rapists) would, if his crime were particularly heinous, be unable to live with himself.
I think for a serial rapist or one whose guilt is beyond question, a body modification might be called for. One might give him the alternative of permanent incarceration instead of surgery. His choice. Maybe on a sort of Devil's Island for sex offenders.


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butternut, cooking, Dinner, patent and the pantry, recipe, risotto, roasted, squash, Vegetables, vegetarian
Last week I worked a couple of night shifts.
I used to have a position where I worked nights for a month at a time, every three months. That was too much for me. Over the course of the weeks, I'd start to feel more and more ghost-like, spending my days alone and my nights with only a handful of colleagues; the final hour I was pretty much alone and I would slink out into the dark night, drive home and stay awake until three in the morning before finally crawling into bed.
But I don't mind the odd night shift, actually. Sleeping in? A sunny day to one's self? A few hours to bake and cook and photograph and eat? Sounds good to me. (Especially in these days of waning winter light, when full sun has been minimized to just a few short hours in the early afternoon.)
Plus, who doesn't love the idea of waking up and having Risotto with Roasted Butternut Squash for breakfast?
That morning, searching around for something to eat, I realized I had better use up some butternut squash that was otherwise going to have to be imminently pitched. Roasting it was the only reasonable answer. And, as I dumped the cubes into a roasting dish and drizzled it with olive oil and sprinkled on salt and pepper, I remembered a Barefoot Contessa recipe for a risotto with roasted squash.
In pulling out my recipe book, however, I realized I was missing some key ingredients, including shallots and pancetta. I'm sure these things make her version even better, but this bastardized version made me swoon when I sat down less than an hour later with a big bowlful and the contented feeling that comes from hot food and knowing work is still hours away.
Luckily, I did have a small box of saffron — another of my myriad food impulse purchases that had not been cracked open. Saffron, those delicate threads, so scarlet, so fragile. I remember growing up, seeing the same type of small, clear plastic box in my mum's cupboards. But I have no recollection of her ever using it. The red threads impart a lovely orange-yellow colour to the risotto and also their own flavour, which I can't really attempt to explain. Still, while I made this with saffron, if you don't have it, I wouldn't panic.
This made enough to feed two adults generously, likely four as a side dish. Or, one of me over the course of several meals.
Risotto with Roasted Butternut Squash
- 1 small butternut squash (1 pound)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- salt and pepper
- 1/2 onion, diced
- 3/4 cup arborio rice
- pinch saffron (optional)
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 3 cups chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan
Preheat oven to 400. Peel the butternut squash, halve it and remove seeds. Cut into 3/4″ cubes. Place squash in roasting dish or on sheet pan, toss with olive oil, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Roast until tender and golden in spots, about 25 minutes. Toss once to ensure even roasting.Meanwhile, heat the chicken stock in a small covered saucepan. Leave it on low heat to simmer.
In saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil, add diced onion and saute until translucent. Put chicken stock in microwave safe bowl or measuring cup and heat. (Time will vary on the microwave; start with two minutes. This can also be done by warming the stock on the stove, but I find the microwave system saves me another pot to wash. If the stock cools too much, just microwave it again.)
Add rice to onion and oil mixture and stir until the grains are coated. Add the wine and let it reduce slightly. Add one cup of stock, along with the saffron, if using. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the stock is absorbed — about five to 10 minutes. When the stock is almost gone, add the next cup. Repeat with the last cup of stock. When the liquid is all absorbed, remove pot from heat, stir in butter and cheese. Toss in roasted squash. Add salt and fresh pepper to taste.


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It's a magical thing. Some how it's able to celebrate, cure, be delicious, be a good friend and do it all looking oh-so-sassy!!
I need this cake today, I feel like I need cake every day – and if I could, trust me, I would. But today's different, I need a slice ( or two). It's been a rough week. Work has been nuts, after hours I'm meeting with potential clients, filling orders, planning a wedding, recipe testing and all in that mix, I manage to get some sleep.
Speaking of sleep … you know that person you see every single morning sleeping on the train – – that's me. Two things, first – you know I'm the sleeping lady … DO NOT sit next to me if you plan on talking on your cell phone at 6:45 am. Who's up and needs to chat every.single.day at 6:45?! Second, thank you kind people who gently tap me when we get to my stop … I love you. And if possible, I would share this cake with you. You deserve a slice or two.
And so, my plans for this weekend … nada!! I want to kick back, do nothing at all and eat cake. Will it happen? – Doubtful … but I'll try my best. Let's start with the cake 🙂
Joy did her funky magic and added tea to cake. Remember when I did that to muffins? And then I did it again? Joy is cooler, she made petite cakes and then dunked them in frosting … her's are pretty … delicate and delicious looking. Buy her book, make her cakes, and you'll see. I took her idea and did my funky magic.
I added earl grey instead of chamomile, skipped the honey frosting but added some extra butter – brown sugar – pineapple and cherries. It's a beast of beauty. One that I will get to know at least once ( maybe twice … or thrice ..) this weekend.
Pineapple Upside Down Earl Grey Tea Cake
Earl grey tea used.
Didn't make, or add the frosting.
1/4 Cup Butter
2/3 Cup Brown Sugar
3 Slices of Fresh Pineapple, cut into 1/4 segments
15 cherries ( or enough to make a pretty circle)
Melt 1/4 cup butter and pour into cake pan. Sprinkle brown sugar over melted butter. Arrange your pineapple and cherries in a pretty pattern. Cake – it should be simple, and pretty.
The rest, was all Joy.
Enjoy darlings, have a great weekend … eat some cake … be merry… make magic ❤


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Filed under: Animal Rights 101 | Tags: Animal Rights, Apathy, Image
"The animals of this world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men."
— Alice Walker
Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.
— Charles R. Magel
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
— Jacques Deval
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse. Yes, the right to kill a deer or a cow is the only thing all of mankind can agree upon, even during the bloodiest of wars.
— Milan Kundera