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Privacy Policy
March 29, 2020
Dear Zoomer,
Privacy is an extremely important topic, and we want you to know that at Zoom, we take it very seriously. Here are the facts about user privacy as it relates to Zoom and your use of our services:
- We do not sell your personal data. Whether you are a business or a school or an individual user, we do not sell your data.
- Your meetings are yours. We do not monitor them or even store them after your meeting is done unless we are requested to record and store them by the meeting host. We alert participants via both audio and video when they join meetings if the host is recording a meeting, and participants have the option to leave the meeting.
- When the meeting is recorded, it is, at the host's choice, stored either locally on the host's machine or in our Zoom cloud. We have robust and validated access controls to prevent unauthorized access to meeting recordings saved to the Zoom cloud.
- Zoom collects only the user data that is required to provide you Zoom services. This includes technical and operational support and service improvement. For example, we collect information such as a user's IP address and OS and device details to deliver the best possible Zoom experience to you regardless of how and from where you join.
- We do not use data we obtain from your use of our services, including your meetings, for any advertising. We do use data we obtain from you when you visit our marketing websites, such as zoom.us and zoom.com. You have control over your own cookie settings when visiting our marketing websites.
- We are particularly focused on protecting the privacy of K-12 users. Both Zoom's Privacy Policy (attached) and Zoom's K-12 Schools & Districts Privacy Policy are designed to reflect our compliance with the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other applicable laws.
We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. If you have questions, please contact the privacy team at email@example.com or the support team at https://support.zoom.us.
Thank you, and safe Zooming!
Aparna Bawa
Chief Legal Officer, Zoom
Zoom Privacy Policy
Zoom is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience when using the services we provide, which we generally refer to as Zoom or Zoom services, or when visiting our promotional or marketing websites, such as zoom.us and zoom.com.
This policy explains how we handle data, including what we collect and how we obtain it, how we use it, when and if we disclose it, and some of your options for managing your data with Zoom. It applies worldwide to all of our subsidiaries and covers all data that you provide to us, as we describe below.
Information that can be used to identify or be reasonably associated with a specific person is "personal data". Where the data described in this policy is personal data, we only disclose it in the ways we have stated.
In addition to this privacy policy, we have established policies to protect K-12 students using our services through their schools for their education. For information regarding how Zoom handles personal data of K-12 students who use Zoom through their schools, who we generally refer to as school subscribers, please visit: Zoom for K-12 Schools & Districts Privacy Policy.
Aside from providing services to K-12 students through school subscribers as discussed above under our Zoom for K-12 Schools & Districts Privacy Policy, Zoom does not knowingly allow children under the age of 16 to sign up for their own accounts. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe your child has given us information, you can contact us at email@example.com, and we will take appropriate steps to investigate and address the issue.
This policy and the Zoom for K-12 Schools & Districts Privacy Policy may be updated periodically because our business, or regulations that apply to Zoom, may change. If we make any material changes to the way we handle personal data as described here, we will notify you by posting an updated notice on our website. We encourage you to review this page regularly for the latest information on our privacy practices. The effective date at the top of this policy indicates when the policy was last revised.
Collection And Use of Data
Zoom Services
We obtain data when you use Zoom in order to deliver our services and provide a better experience to you. The categories of data we obtain when you use Zoom include data you provide to us as well as data that our system collects from you. When we say "customer", we mean the person or company that signs up for and has the account with Zoom. A "host" is someone who can host meetings under a customer account. "You" or "user" or "participant" is anyone who uses Zoom. ("You" and "user" may also include customers. Some of the information below applies only to customers, though, and we use "customer" to highlight those places.)
Data you give us (or that we may receive from another Zoom user, for example, in a meeting invite):
|Type of Data
|Zoom Uses it to
|Information that identifies you
|For customers: Account owner name, billing name and address, payment method
Your name, username and email address, or phone number, when you use this information to access or use our services
The phone number a Zoom Phone user dials
|Create a customer account
Provide Zoom services
Communicate with a customer
Respond to requests for support
|Other account data
|Your phone number (if you choose to put it in), language preference, password (if SSO is not used), title, department
|Create a customer account
Provide Zoom services
|Customer content: information you or others upload, provide, or create while using Zoom
|Cloud recordings, chat / instant messages, files, whiteboards, and other information shared while using the service, voice mails
|Provide Zoom services*
Store chat logs (for delivery and so you can review and search chat history)
Store recordings, if explicitly requested by the host or Customer
Store voice mail for Zoom Phone
*Zoom does not monitor or use customer content for any reason other than as part of providing our services. Zoom does not sell customer content to anyone or use it for any advertising purposes.
Data that our system collects from you:
|Type of Data
|Zoom Uses it to
|Technical information about your devices, network, and internet connection
|IP address, MAC address, other device ID (UDID), device type, operating system type and version, client version, type of camera, microphone or speakers, connection type, etc.
The phone number of a person making a call using Zoom services (e.g. Zoom Phone)
|Connect you to and optimize your experience using our services
Provide customers dashboards and reports
Respond to requests for support
Monitor performance of our data centers and networks
Conduct anonymized, aggregated analytics to improve Zoom's service performance
|Approximate Location
|To the nearest city (we do not "track" your specific location)
|Connect you to the nearest data center
Comply with privacy and other laws – for example, so we can provide you with the right notices for your area
Suggest choices such as language preferences
Monitor performance of our data centers and networks
Respond to requests for support
|Information about how you use Zoom (this is NOT information or content you share in your meetings or in chats)
|Did you use VoIP or a phone call?
Did you shift from the mobile client to the desktop?
|Optimize your Zoom experience
Respond to requests for support
Conduct anonymized, aggregated analytics to improve Zoom's performance.
|Setting and preferences chosen by the user
|Join with video off
Require meeting password
Enable waiting room
Do not allow screen sharing other than host
|To provide you choices for how you use Zoom
|Duration of the meeting / Zoom Phone call
Email address, name, or other information that a participant enters to identify themselves in the meeting
Join and leave time of
Name of the meeting
Date / time that meeting was scheduled
Chat status (unless a setting is actively chosen by user)
Call data records for Zoom Phone
|Provide Zoom services
Provide customers dashboards and reports
Respond to requests for support
If you attend a Zoom meeting or webinar as a participant, the host may choose to record the session, and if so, the host is responsible for obtaining consent from you. Zoom helps hosts obtain consent from meeting participants by providing visual and audio cues to alert participants of a recording. A meeting host may even turn on a pop-up notice which requires a participant to click a "continue" button to acknowledge notice of the recording. Recordings may contain personal data and may be stored in Zoom's cloud at the request of the customer. A meeting host may choose to store a recording of a meeting on the host's local storage device, not in Zoom's cloud. When a host chooses to do that, Zoom does not have any control over the recording. Our customer may also request that a transcript be made of the recording stored in our cloud. The transcript, which may also contain personal data, is treated the same way as the recording by Zoom.
Zoom Phone allows customers to record phone calls, receive voice mail recordings, and obtain transcripts of voicemail, all which may contain personal information and also be stored in our cloud.
Zoom does not monitor, access or use the recordings or transcripts that a meeting host or Zoom Phone customer may choose to store in Zoom's cloud, unless he or she requests us to, for example, to provide technical support.
Attention Tracking
If you attend a Zoom meeting or webinar as a participant, the host (or their account administrator) may have enabled Attention Tracking. This feature is operational only when a host is sharing their screen. It places a small clock icon next to a participant's name to indicate only to the host when Zoom is not the active window on the participant's computer for more than 30 seconds, when the host is sharing their screen. While Zoom may provide certain tools to show that attention tracker is on, it is the meeting host's responsibility to notify meeting participants if this feature is in use. Neither the meeting host nor Zoom can see or access any other applications on a participant's screen or computer. Also, the Attention Tracker does not allow Zoom to monitor what takes place in a meeting, and does not apply to meetings where screen sharing is not turned on. Using other features of the service does not activate Attention Tracker.
Zoom Marketing Sites
Zoom may also gather data from you when you visit our marketing websites, such as zoom.us and zoom.com. These are our webpages that tell you about our product, plans and pricing, features, and other information about Zoom. The categories of data we collect from our websites include: data you choose to give us; data we may obtain from cookies or similar analytics tools; data we receive from referrals by other customers; and data we collect if you choose to answer any marketing communications. As used in this section, "you" means visitors to our marketing pages or people who do the things we describe here. ("You" here does not mean a user of Zoom services.)
Data you can choose to give us:
|Type of Data
|Zoom Uses it to
|Information that identifies you
|Your name, username, physical address, email address, phone number
|Create an account when you sign up
Respond to requests from you
Send you marketing communications, unless you tell us not to (or if you say it's OK, i.e., opt-in)
|Information about your job
|Company, title, department
|Provide tailored information
Respond to requests from you
|Payment information
|Credit/debit card (goes directly to our payment processor; credit card information is not accessed or stored by Zoom)
|Charge you when you sign up for a paid plan
Data we may obtain about you:
|Type of Data
|Zoom Uses it to
|Data collected through the use of cookies and pixels
|Data collected from tools such as Google Analytics and
Google Ads
(All cookies are visible in the Cookie Preferences tool. You have control over what non-essential cookies you accept. For more information, see our Cookie Policy and the Cookie section below)
|Analyze how our website is used so we can improve your experience
Allow you to do things like completing orders, sharing pages, and remembering settings.
Evaluate the success of our Marketing campaigns
Send you tailored Zoom advertising when you are on other sites.
(For more information on how Zoom uses cookies, see our Cookie Policy)
|Third Parties
|Data Enrichment services
Mailing Lists
Public Sources
|Send you marketing communications, unless you tell us not to (or if you say it's OK, i.e., opt-in)
Provide tailored information based on your interests
Cookies and Automated Collection of Data
This section applies to marketing websites only and does not apply to Zoom services. There are no advertising cookies or tracking technology in our services.
Zoom collects information about you when you visit our marketing websites, unless you tell us not to by adjusting your cookie setting. We use such things as cookies and tracking technologies from our advertising service provider tools (e.g., Google Ads). Information collected includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referrer URL, exit pages, the files viewed on our marketing sites (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.
We use this information to determine the offers to make for our services, analyze trends on and run the marketing site, and understand users' movements around the marketing site. We also gather information about our visitors, such as location information at the city level (which we get from IP addresses) for tailoring advertising and selecting the language to use to display the website.
You have choices about what cookies can be used. You can adjust cookie settings by turning off optional cookies in your browser's setting or by using our Cookie Preferences link at the bottom of the Zoom homepage. To ensure that you do not receive Advertising Cookies, you can adjust the slider at the Cookie Preferences link to "Required Cookies/CCPA Opt-Out".
For more information regarding cookies or similar technologies, please review our Cookie Policy.
Our Referral Program
You can use our referral program to tell others about Zoom. When you do, you will be asked to provide that person's name and email so that we can contact them. We rely on you to make sure the person you are referring to us has agreed to be contacted. We will send a one-time email inviting them to visit the marketing site. Unless that person says they want to hear more, we will only use their name and email address to send this one-time email and to maintain an activity log of our referral program.
Marketing Communications
You can sign up to receive email or newsletter communications from us. If you would like to stop receiving these communications, you can update your preferences by using the "Unsubscribe" link found in these emails, or by emailing email@example.com.
We may send you push notifications to update you about any events or promotions that we may be running. If you don't want to receive these types of communications, you can turn off the setting on your device that allows these notifications to be delivered.
Additional Data Uses
Specific Requests. In addition to the uses described above, Zoom may also receive data from you for specific purposes. When you give it to us, we use the data for that specific purpose:
- To keep you up to date on the latest Service announcements, software updates, upgrades, system enhancements, special offers, and other information
- To run opt-in contests, sweepstakes or other promotional activities
- To provide you with information and offers from us or third parties
- If you choose to participate, to conduct questionnaires and surveys to provide better services to our customers and end users
- To respond to you when you apply to join us (zoom.us/careers)
- To personalize marketing communications and website content based on your preferences, such as in response to your request for specific information on products and services that may be of interest.
Comply with legal obligations. We use data to detect, investigate and stop fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized or illegal activity. We also use data to comply with our contractual and legal obligations, resolve disputes with users, and enforce our agreements, if needed.
During use of Zoom. When you use Zoom, some data will be disclosed to other participants and to meeting or webinar hosts. For instance, when you attend a meeting, your name might appear in the attendee list. If you turn on your video camera, your image will be shown. If you send a chat or share content, that can be viewed by others in the chat or the meeting.
Customer Content, Dashboards and Reports. Customer content, including information shared during meetings, information about participants in meetings and any recordings of meetings, belongs to our customers. Customers may use this content, which may include personal data about participants, for their own purposes. Customers may also receive data we collect (for example, participants' names) when they generate Zoom dashboards and usage reports for themselves.
At the direction of our Customers. As described more below, under the EU's GDPR, Zoom is a "Processor" of customer content and personal data that our Customers may put into our systems when they use Zoom. Our customers are the "Controllers". We follow their directions regarding this data, and may store it, delete it, or disclose it at their direction.
For Legal Reasons. We may also disclose data when we respond to valid legal process including jurisdiction. Zoom's policies regarding compliance with valid legal process preclude cooperation where a government does not have jurisdiction. Zoom may also disclose data when reasonably necessary to preserve Zoom's legal rights.
To Third Party Service Providers. We use third-party service providers to help us provide portions of the Zoom services and give support. Examples of these third parties include public cloud storage vendors, carriers, our payment processor, and our service provider for managing customer support tickets. They only receive data needed to provide their services to us. We have agreements with our service providers that say they cannot use any of this data for their own purposes or for the purposes of another third party. We prohibit our service providers from selling data they receive from us or receive on our behalf. We require service providers to use data only in order to perform the services we have hired them to do (unless otherwise required by law). For example, we may use a company to help us provide customer support. The information they may receive as part of providing that support cannot be used by them for anything else. For more information about our service providers, please see our Sub-processors page.
Does Zoom sell Personal Data?
We do not sell your data.
We do not allow marketing companies, advertisers or similar companies to access personal data in exchange for payment. We do not allow third parties to use any personal data obtained from us for their own purposes, unless you consent (e.g., when you download an app from the Marketplace). Our customers may use the webinar service to generate their own marketing leads and they may provide marketing information to you. When you register for a webinar, you provide your data to the host of the webinar, and if required, any consent that you give about your data would be to them, as well. Zoom may keep the data about the registration in our system in order to facilitate the webinar, but Zoom does not use or share that data other than to provide the services. A customer may also charge for their webinars. Again, that transaction is between the host and participant of the webinar. Zoom is not selling any data.
As described in the Zoom marketing sites section, Zoom does use certain standard advertising tools on our marketing sites which, provided you have allowed it in your cookie preferences, sends personal data to the tool providers, such as Google. This is not a "sale" of your data in the sense that most of us use the word sale. However, California's CCPA law has a very broad definition of "sale". Under that definition, when Zoom uses the tools to send the personal data to the third-party tool providers, it may be considered a "sale". It is important to know that advertising programs have always worked this way and we have not changed the way we use these tools. It is only with the recent developments in data privacy laws that such activities may fall within the definition of a "sale".
Because of CCPA's broad definition, as is the case with many providers since the CCPA became law, we provide a "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link at the bottom of our marketing sites. You can use this link to change your Cookie Preferences and opt out of the use of these advertising tools. If you opt out, Personal Data that was used by these tools will no longer be shared with third parties in a way that constitutes a "sale" under CCPA.
Data Retention
We will retain personal data collected for as long as required to do what we say we will in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law. Customers can delete their own content.
Transfer and Storage of Personal Data
Zoom services generally store data in the United States, though through our global data centers, data may come in from wherever users are located. We may transfer your data to the U.S., or to third parties acting on our behalf, for the purposes of processing or storage. Our customers may choose to have their data stored outside of the U.S; for example, they may choose to have their data stored in their geographic vicinity. We may store local data locally in order to comply with specific local laws and regulations. By using Zoom, or providing personal data for any of the purposes stated above, you consent to the transfer to and storage of your personal data in the U.S., or other location as directed by our customer. In certain limited circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your personal data.
Security of your Personal Data
Zoom is committed to protecting your personal data. We use a combination of industry-standard security technologies, procedures, and organizational controls and measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
We recommend you take every precaution in protecting your data when you are on the Internet. For example, change your passwords often, use a combination of upper and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols when creating passwords, and make sure you use a secure browser. If you have any questions about the security of your data, please contact our security team at firstname.lastname@example.com
Linked Websites and Third-Party Services
Our marketing websites may provide links to other third-party websites and services which are outside our control and not covered by this policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) sites you visit or services you use.
Data Subject Rights
Generally, when we obtain personal data, we do so on behalf of our customers. For purposes of GDPR and CCPA, our customer is the "Controller", or decision maker, for the personal data, and we are the "Processor", acting as a "service provider" for, and at the direction of, our customer. "Processing" just means doing something with the data. We are typically required to follow a customer's instructions about personal data we hold for that customer.
These are certain requests you can make related to personal data about you, which we will respond to as much as we can under applicable laws. (See below for other legal rights you may have with respect to your personal data depending on where you reside.)
- Access: You can request more information about the personal data we hold about you. You can request a copy of the personal data.
- Rectification: If you believe that any personal data we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement the data. You can also correct some of this information directly by logging into your service account, if you are a customer. Please contact us as soon as possible if you notice any inaccuracy or incompleteness.
- Objection: You can let us know that you object to the collection or use of your personal data for certain purposes.
- Opt Out of "Sales": You can ask us to take you out of certain advertising related to your personal data by clicking on the "Do Not 'Sell' My Personal Information" link.
- Erasure: You can request that we erase some or all of your personal data from our systems. For instructions on how to delete your account please see https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363243-How-Do-I-Delete-Terminate-My-Account
- Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to restrict further processing of your personal data. (This just means you can ask us to stop using it for what we have been using it for.) This may mean that we have to delete your account.
- Portability: You can ask for a copy of your personal data in a machine-readable format. You can also request that we transmit the data to someone else where it's technically possible.
- Withdrawal of Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on consent that you gave us when we got the data, you may have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. For example, if you have signed up for marketing communications you can request to be removed from these communications.
- Right to File Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint about Zoom's practices with respect to your personal data with the supervisory authority of your country or EU Member State.
Sometimes we will not be able to fulfill your request. If it prevents us from complying with our regulatory obligations or impacts other legal matters, if we cannot verify your identity, or if it requires extraordinary cost or effort, we will tell you in a reasonable time and give you an explanation.
To make a request, please contact our Privacy Team at email@example.com or by writing to the following address:
Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
Attention: Data Privacy Officer
55 Almaden Blvd, Suite 600
San Jose, CA 95113
If you have a password protected Zoom account, we will use your account information to verify your identity. If not, we will ask you to provide additional verification information. What we request will depend on the nature of your request, how sensitive the information is, and how harmful unauthorized disclosure or deletion would be.
Additional Information About Specific Regulations
Residents of the European Union (EU), United Kingdom, Lichtenstein, Norway, Iceland or Switzerland
If you reside in the European Union (EU), United Kingdom, Lichtenstein, Norway, Iceland or Switzerland, you may have legal rights with respect to your personal data, including those set forth under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
GDPR requires that we have a "basis" for processing your data. We process your personal data (i) with your consent (where applicable), (ii) to perform a contract with a customer, and (iii) for other legitimate interests and business purposes.
Residents of the State of California
If you reside in California, you may have legal rights with respect to your personal data, including those set forth under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). If you are a California resident, you can request information about both the categories and specific pieces of data we have collected about you in the previous twelve months, the reason we collected it, the category of entities with whom we have shared it and the reason for any disclosure. Zoom is prohibited from discriminating against California consumers that choose to exercise their privacy-related rights under the CCPA.
Zoom for Government Customers
This paragraph only applies to Zoom for Government (ZfG) customers. The ZfG service is hosted in the United States in a separate cloud authorized by FedRAMP and is accessible by way of a separate website (www.zoomgov.com). Here is what that means for you:
- All data collected about you while using the ZfG service or the ZfG website is stored in the United States of America;
- Your data is only processed by Zoom in accordance with FedRAMP "moderate impact level" control standards;
- The sections in this policy related to the GDPR and any other references to international data handling do not apply to the personal data collected by Zoom about you in connection with your use of the ZfG service or ZfG website;
- With regard to the Zoom App Marketplace, we do not allow third parties to use any personal data obtained from us for their own purposes, unless it is with your consent (e.g. when you download an app from the Zoom for Government Marketplace: https://marketplace.zoomgov.com/).
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield
Zoom Video Communication, Inc. participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield. Zoom is committed to subjecting all personal data received from EU member countries, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, in reliance on the Privacy Shield Frameworks, to the Framework's applicable Principles. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Frameworks, and to view our certification, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's Privacy Shield List, https://www.privacyshield.gov/list.
Zoom is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives under the Privacy Shield Framework, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. Zoom complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom including the onward transfer liability provisions.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Frameworks, Zoom is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, Zoom may be required to disclose personal data in response to valid and lawful requests by public authorities or pursuant to requests from law enforcement.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.
Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=How-to-Submit-a-Complaint, you can invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.
Standard Contractual Clauses
In certain cases, Zoom will transfer personal data from the EU in accordance with the European Commission-approved Standard Contractual Clauses, a copy of which can be obtained at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32010D0087.
Contact Us
If you have any privacy-related questions or comments related to this privacy policy, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also contact us by writing to this address:
Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
Attention: Data Privacy Officer
55 Almaden Blvd, Suite 600
San Jose, CA 95113
If you reside in the EU, United Kingdom, Lichtenstein, Norway or Iceland, you can also contact our Data Protection Officer.
This is part of the April 17, 2020 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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Take-out Tuesday, Umami Burgers
I am a sucker for recipes that promise to be "the best ever"
When I saw this recipe from a reputable food blogger deemed Best Burgers Ever, I couldn't wait to try it
Perfect for Labor Day Grilling!
Did you have a wonderful holiday weekend or did Hermine rain out your plans?
Our Labor Day was
not the chaos it usually is relatively quiet with just my son and his boys… they stay busy fishing on the pier or out in one of the boats
HH & HHjr LOVE to grill, so weekend meal time is a breeze for me-
The ingredients for these burgers were a surprising combo, teriyaki sauce, basil, onion, and Parmesan cheese…really?
But hey, if they are going to be The Best Ever, I decided to amp it up a little and not only mix in the ingredients before making the patties, but also add a lot more on top
I'm sort of a "More is More" type person 😋
These burgers had a great taste, but nothing you could really pinpoint, that's why I am calling them Umami Burgers
You keep going back for one more bite, wondering, "what is that flavor…"
Umami is considered to be the fifth taste after sweet, salty, bitter, and sour. It can unofficially be described as "a savory, pleasant taste"
We did not put cheese on the burgers, as the original recipe suggested, because I wanted to taste the flavor of the seasoned meat
You can certainly dress these burgers with your favorite condiments, use anything you love on a regular hamburger, and you will still get the intriguing umami flavor
We served them on these artisan rolls but if you're watching carbs, just add some grilled vegetables
Grilled meat or fish and roasted vegetables or a salad keeps these weekends laborless for me…I even bought the prepared vegetable kebabs
Umami Burgers
1 lb ground chuck {80/20}
1/2 tsp onion powder
1 T minced onion
2 T dried basil
4 T Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup teriyaki marinade
salt & pepper to taste
Mix beef in a bowl with onion powder, half of basil, half of Parmesan and half of teriyaki marinade. Mix gently and season with salt and pepper. Form into 3 or 4 patties, don't over mix meat or burgers will be tough. Place patties in shallow pan and sprinkle generously the remaining Parmesan over tops, along with minced onion and remaining basil. Drizzle with remaining teriyaki. Cover and refrigerate until grilling or pan frying. Makes 3-4 burgers.
Serve on buns if desired
You can read more about Umami here
You can see the original recipe from Plain Chicken here
You can learn how to paint this Double Bacon Cheeseburger here
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Comments13 Responses to "Take-out Tuesday, Umami Burgers"
Jenna, we had grilled burgers over the weekend, but you convinced me that I must try these. Saving this recipe…Happy Tuesday!
Hi Jenna, The burgers look delicious! We make them often here and do the grilled veggies for a side. You always play a role in what's on the menu here!
Will be in touch with you later this week.
I had hoped to grill up some burgers over the weekend but they kept saying the storm could affect us… Turned out not so much. Gonna have to take care of that craving soon:@)
Hi Jenna,
I can't wait to try your awesome burger, it sure looks good! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday and have a great weekend!
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Cobb police and resident get caught in Twitter hoax | Crime
ACWORTH, Ga -- Social media sites are a positive and important tool for law enforcement agencies that use them to reach out to the public for help solving crimes. But those social media networks can also be very dangerous and detrimental to police.
Police in Cobb County and Bowie, MD spent hours on New Year's Day tracking down a series of tweets that gave a blow by blow description of an apparent rape and murder.
It turned out to be a hoax that not only caught law enforcement off guard, but also got an Acworth homeowner caught up in the social media firestorm.
Early New Year's morning a tweeter with the handle "Lil Juan" tweeted out a photo of a passed out woman saying "Somebody put something in her drink...me and my brother bout to rape this b____"
An exchange between Lil Juan and another tweeter, whose handle is "TaBarius," went back and forth describing the crime until finally TaBarius tweeted "Thank god I watched breaking bad. I know how to get rid of a body and the evidence."
Police eventually tracked the exchange to two high school students in Bowie, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC. "Of course we took it seriously," said Bowie Police Chief John Nesky. "They had thought it would be a funny thing to cut and paste a photo from another website, put it out on their Twitter account, and make these highly inappropriate comments about them."
The exchange went wild on Twitter and on viral media websites. One comment gave an Acworth address as the crime scene. That's why Cobb County Police got involved.
"I don't know how they got my address," said Joe McCrary, who lives in the house. McCrary was out of town when police came to his house on New Year's Day. He said his mother and brother were at the home feeding his dogs.
Once inside the home police determined it was not the crime scene because it didn't match the pictures that were posted on Twitter.
McCrary was a random victim and he doesn't know why. Neither do Cobb County Police, according to Sgt. Dana Pierce.
"Why me," McCrary asked. "First of all, let's hope nothing's happening, I mean, to the poor girl."
But there was no girl, no rape, and no murder. According to police, there was no crime because there was no victim. "I sat down and counseled them (two teens) about the inappropriateness of their actions," Chief Nesky said. "I talked to their parents about it so hopefully there will be a life lesson involved."
Police spent hours investigating the case until they could comfortably rule out a crime had taken place. Sgt. Pierce said he handled over a hundred calls from all over the world from people who had been following the viral exchange. "People should never believe as fact, anything they read on a social media website," he said.
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Houston food trucks have earned four coveted spots in The Daily Meal's 2013 rankings of the best food trucks in the United States, topping other Texas cities in the number of mentions.
The food website ranks Bernie's Burger Bus as the top food truck in Houston and No. 18 nationwide, followed by Eatsie Boys (which opened a brick-and-mortar cafe earlier this year) at No. 35, Oh My Gogi! BBQ at No. 36 and Coreanos at No. 91.
The food website only ranks actual trucks, so food-service vehicles that must be pushed, pulled, or otherwise moved without its own power were not considered.
Other Texas food trucks making the list include Austin's East Side King at No. 6 and Hey you Gon Eat or What at No. 89, San Antonio's Rickshaw Stop at No. 7, Dallas' Easy Slider at No. 79 and the Food Shark in Marfa at No. 44.
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liquid hydrogen.
BMW has a fleet of liquid hydrogen powered Series 7's touring the world to demonstrate that this is a well developed technology the company not only understands, but is also very safe and cost effective. (The engines are standard and can be switched from liquid hydrogen to petrol and back again via a switch on the dashboard). The Munich limousine is merely demonstrating that it is totally ordinary. Unless you talk to the driver, you won't know you are tasting the future. But BMW has been producing hydrogen combustion engines for 20 years and is expecting to sell several thousand liquid hydrogen powered cars a year by 2010.
So why is this interesting to the wind industry? Well, liquid hydrogen is the ultimate clean fuel, but it is produced by electrolysis. If the electricity for the process comes from a standard fossil-fuel resource, pollution remains integral to that process. So a clean source of electricity is needed. Think about it.
Transportation accounts for roughly a third of all energy use. It is a much bigger market than electricity. But it requires a fuel that is storable and transportable, which is why petrol dominates. Compared to petrol, liquid hydrogen stores three times the energy per kilo, but only a third the energy per litre, so the fuel tank is a little bigger, and it is (very efficiently) insulated; a full tank gives these BMWs a 400 kilometre range, plus absolutely standard BMW performance. And they only add water to the environment as they glide by. Hydrogen is also interchangeable with petrol in use. That makes the transition from one energy source to the other quite manageable for tens of millions of consumers world wide. Dual use engines allow you to do this. Bright people these Bavarians.
Depending on just how bright they are at BMW, the company just might spot the opportunity presented by its liquid hydrogen technology to return to its early roots. Do you happen to know what the BMW logo represents -- that circle split into quadrants, two blue and two white? It's a stylised representation of ... a rotating propeller.
When the company was formed, early in the last century, it was a manufacturer of aircraft engines. It only began making cars after the second world war. What's more, it is still involved in aircraft engines. In the 1990s, BMW teamed up with Rolls Royce and produced a highly efficient mid-sized gas turbine which has since dominated the small feeder jet segment of the aircraft market. So BMW knows a thing or two about turbines. What about wind turbines?
A company like Shell has entered the wind industry because it is interested in being involved in this part of the energy supply industry. But it is not interested in making wind turbines. BMW is a very different kind of company. It is a key player in the transportation industry, making leading moves to make it sustainable, which require a sustainable source of electricity to make the picture complete. And whereas Shell is known as fuel supply company, BMW is known as a company which designs and manufactures very elegant machinery.
So what do you think BMW will do if it enters the wind energy industry? Wonderful cars. Very impressive liquid hydrogen technology. The next move might well be very interesting indeed.
P.S. A heartening reaction to Helmsman's musings last month on "lean blade" production came from a visitor to the editorial office. Said visitor happened to be a member of the board of a Slovenian maker of mould tools for the glass fibre and composites industry (the editorial office is located at a marina). Seizing upon the column, our visitor was last seen heading for his car (a BMW, of course) muttering things like "diversification" and "I told them so." Always glad to be of service.
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Canadas most-watched program of the summer and the #2 program of the entire broadcast year, the blockbuster, record-breaking, fan-favourite THE AMAZING RACE CANADA raced ahead of the pack with an average audience of 3.3 million viewers each week. The smash-hit, original series vaulted into the record books earlier this summer as the biggest debut on record for a series in Canada (3.5 million viewers), and has kept pace ever since.
You know what would be awesome? Treating the show like Survivor or The Mole and doing each season in a different country/region. Like if this season was "the Canada season", next season could be "the Mediterranean season" or "the Central American season". It'd be an easy way to make the show feel fresh each season (if they keep it Canada-only it'll get repetitive by season three, as China Rush has shown), but it'll still be small-scale enough to keep costs down as needed. And Air Canada's a member of the Star Alliance group of airlines, so in addition to its own routes they're affiliated with (among others) Air China, Air New Zealand, ANA, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Thai Airways, and United, which opens up the possibilities enormously.
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Humber's two best pitches this season have been his 12-6 curveball and his straight changeup. Since entering the rotation, he's thrown his curveball on 24.6 percent of pitches; his changeup, 22.1 percent. Humber's effectiveness with his curveball has been key in his turnaround, as it's gone from a good to a great pitch. …
Other White Sox links: FutureSox looks at Mike Blanke's promotion A+ Winston-Salem, Kenny Williams believes in the White Sox but doesn't think anything he says matters and doesn't plan on trading John Danks, Frank Thomas says Adam Dunn needs to play the field more, Ozzie Guillen says John Danks' 0-8 start is 80% the fault of the offense, and A.J. Pierzynski gave Minnie Driver a few tips for throwing the first pitch in yesterday's game: No windup and aim high (go to the 7:40 point)! And Minnie was wearing #11 when she threw the game's first pitch (video). The ladies love Omar!
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"It's a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found." —D.W. Winnicott
As children, we are vulnerable and know it. We hide from bullies, from punishment, from mockery and scorn. No matter how loving our parents, our lives are not in our control, and so we hide to stay safe. But we also hide in order to have our hiddenness acknowledged and respected. I remember running up to my room after some perceived slight, hoping that my mother would notice and worry over my disappearance, but not necessarily that she would find me and force me to talk about my feelings.
We hide our treasures, objects whose significance no one else would understand, stand-ins for our sense of ourselves as precious and special. And then there is the diary where we rail against all we can't control. Of course we label it boldly "Private! Keep Out!" We want others to know that we have something worth cherishing. We may even hope that the right pair of eyes—someday— will want to open the cover and read.
These fears and desires follow us into adulthood, and find their way into our myths. In the tale of Cupid and Psyche, Cupid, god of love, is ordered by his mother Venus to punish Psyche by making her fall in love with a monster. When he himselffalls in love with her, he spirits her away to a secret castle and comes to her under cover of darkness, forbidding her to look on him. This way he can both hide and be found, enjoying an acceptance that bypasses the implications of his divine status and his mother's commands.
But his secrecy is so provoking (like the label on the diary) that it drives its own discovery. When Psyche dares to steal a glimpse of him by lamplight, he flees, abandoning her. Yet, after many complications, he returns and forces the gods to accept their union. Hiding, but hoping to be found, he finally gained the strength to stand in the light.
Buddha, confined by his father within the walls of a palace, escaped to a hiding place of his own choice—the forest and spiritual practice. And who found him as he sat in contemplation, close to the insight he sought? The demon and challenger Mara, who not only saw Buddha, but claimed to see through him, judging him an impostor to wisdom.
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The game of hide and seek we all play moves us through the fears of childhood to its wisdom: the knowledge that we carry something precious inside us. The game ends when our hiding has given us the courage to share ourselves with the world. It ends when we are ready to be found.
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With box: This year's Challenge schedule, and past Challenge results
The Big Ten-ACC Challenge began Monday with another loss by the Big Ten. That's nothing new.
Wake Forest rolled past Iowa 56-47 in the first of 11 games between the two power conferences in a three-day span. This year, the Big Ten is given somewhere between slim and none to win the series. In the ninth year of matching the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Big Ten in a made-for-ESPN early-season programming nugget, the ACC carries a perfect eight-year winning streak.
Illinois plays at Maryland Wednesday.
It's been the same in the first eight years: The ACC got the boost in the power ratings while the Big Ten's reputation took an early-season hit.
Illini coach Bruce Weber called it a "cyclical type thing,'' but it's actually not been much of a challenge for the ACC over the last four years, when the ACC was 28-12 against the Big Ten. That doesn't help the Big Ten's image or power rating.
"We have a chance to win this and get some nice publicity for the league,'' Weber said. "A lot of it is about publicity. A lot of national media build their opinion on your team and your league from these early games. If the ACC wins, then it's 'the ACC is better than the Big Ten.'
"They get a little nod from the national media. They don't follow things quite as closely as (the local media) on a day-to-day basis. That's what lingers throughout the season. You're always fighting an uphill battle.''
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said Monday the matchups have been "rediculously skewed'' in some seasons. ESPN plays a large role in the selection process of the yearly lineup, Weber said. In its ninth attempt, the Big Ten could use a win and an image makeover.
"Recruiting comes down to your league sometimes as much as your team,'' Izzo said, "and this is one time I get to pull for every Big Ten team.''
Even before this year's Challenge, the Big Ten was already battling a perception that it's once again a down year for the Midwest power conference. Sure, Ohio State reached the NIT finals before a 23-point loss to Texas A&M. Michigan State nearly upset No. 2 UCLA but failed to finish. Indiana dropped a tournament title game to Xavier, and Penn State -- considered the league's sleeper -- lost three games in a Walt Disney World event, including one to small-school Rider.
"I thought we had a pretty good showing,'' Weber said about the league. "I'm not sure we're down. We knew we're young. We have some good young players in our league. I thought we made a pretty good showing in different tournaments. We'll see what happens in the next week or so.''
Even if Weber's reasoning convinces anybody, the hard facts from the first eight years of the Challenge can't be denied.
"We aren't holding up our end on the court,'' Izzo said.
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Monday's game
Wake Forest 56, Iowa 47
Today's games
Georgia Tech at Indiana, 6 p.m., ESPN
Minnesota at Florida State, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2
Northwestern at Virginia, 7 p.m., ESPNU
Wisconsin at Duke, 8 p.m., ESPN
Purdue at Clemson, 8:30 p.m., ESPN2
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N.C. State at Michigan State, 6 p.m., ESPN
Illinois at Maryland, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2
Boston College at Michigan, 7 p.m. ESPNU
North Carolina at Ohio State, 8 p.m., ESPN
Virginia Tech at Penn State, 8:30 p.m., ESPN2
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1999: ACC wins 5-4
2000: ACC wins 5-4
2001: ACC wins 5-3
2002: ACC wins 5-4
2003: ACC wins 7-2
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Beta Bridge painters revealed
A group of heretofore mysterious artists have finally been revealed as the painters of the masterful faux brick design that has covered the east side of Beta Bridge for the past month. Impressive in its own right, the project is also remarkable for its apparent role in the preservation of the orange and maroon "Hoos for Hokies" message painted on the bridge on the day of the Virginia Tech massacre. 'Hoos for Hokies' has remained unpainted-over longer than any other message since Beta Bridge became a daily-altered canvas in the 1970s. Nine UVA undergraduate students and their professor, Sara Brown, painted the brick trompe l'oeil as a final project in their Scenic Painting class this past spring semester. "We've done this kind of thing as a final class
project before," says Brown, but since this year's project became inevitably linked to the preservation of 'Hoos for Hokies,' it has enjoyed a different and more public success than previous ones have. Brown began assigning her students a final project to be painted on Beta Bridge several years ago, when she realized that a large, public project would be the perfect culmination of the all skills her students had acquired that semester. Last fall, she had graduate and undergraduate students paint opposite sides of the bridge in a kind of friendly competition. "In the past, our projects have been painted over almost immediately though," says Brown. This spring's class had been planning their project all semester, but those plans changed when tragedy struck Virginia Tech with only two weeks of classes left. "We decided that we didn't want to paint over the original Virginia Tech messages, but around them instead. So we planned the painting to be integrated with what was already there," says Brown. It turned out to be an apt challenge, since "scenic painting is about problem solving anyways," she says. "The day after [the Tech massacre], everyone in class was very somber, though it's usually a lighthearted class," says Brown. "I think they were actually happy to be able to focus on a particular task." The faux brick design was Brown's idea, although she originally planned to imitate old stone. "We decided to mimic the brick right next to the bridge [on the wall surrounding Westminster Presbyterian church] to make the painting more convincing," she says. Once they decided on the brick motif, the nine students in her class spent several class periods creating samples and testing different techniques for creating the design. On Tuesday, May 1, their last day of classes, students and teacher gathered at the bridge at 8am and spent "about two hours painting the bridge," says Brown. The students began by painting the bridge a base color to match the nearby brick. Next, they dipped string in paint, pulled it taut, and snapped it against the wall to create the mortar detail. Finally, they "splattered different colored glazes" on top, to mimic the various tones of aging brick. "We did a lot of making up as we went," says Brown, who predicts that "Hoos for Hokies" and her class's surrounding design have a "good shot" of staying up the rest of the summer. "I think people may add to or change what we did," she says, "and that's great." #
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interesting phenomena.this may be a symbol of a significant shift in relations between the student bodies away
fractious athletic competitions etc towards friendly socialization....it is not hard to imagine a weekend of parties dedicated
to hosting Tech students .
How long will the great artwork survive?


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What should doctors who perform abortions tell their patients beforehand? Of course women need to understand the risks of abortion in order to give their informed consent, as patients do for any medical procedure. But the risks of what, exactly, and to whom? In answering those questions, a case argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday could upend the practices of abortion providers in the state (and get the attention of the rest of the country) by enlisting juries in defining the nature of a fetus.
Rosa Acuna was a 29-year-old mother of two when she went to see her doctor, Sheldon Turkish, complaining of abdominal pain. An ultrasound test showed she was between five and seven weeks pregnant. Acuna says she asked Turkish if the "baby was already there," and that he responded, "don't be stupid, it is nothing but blood." Acuna signed a consent form and had an abortion. She says she then went to the library, read up on human development, and decided that her doctor had ended her relationship with a child she'd named Andres.
In 2004, Acuna sued Dr. Turkish for medical malpractice, arguing that abortion providers have a duty to tell their patients that the fetus or embryo they are carrying is "a complete, separate, unique and irreplaceable human being" and that the "abortion did not prevent a human being from coming into existence but actually killed an existing human being." Acuna's lawyer, Harold Cassidy, argues that they are simple statements of medical fact. What else is an embryo or fetus, if not an existing human being? Dr. Turkish's lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union argue that Cassidy's formulation is an effort to force anti-abortion ideology into the mouths of abortion providers. Women won't be left better informed about biology. They'll be made to feel as if they're killing a child.
Trial court Judge Amy Piro Chambers dismissed the suit against Turkish. "A doctor cannot be found negligent for failing to present as medical fact the point of view of one faction in this grave ongoing national debate," she wrote. But last year, a New Jersey appeals court reversed, arguing that Acuna could go to a jury to argue over what medical information a doctor has to disclose when advising a patient about ending a pregnancy. If the appeals court ruling stands, Turkish's lawyers argue, then New Jersey will have a whole new standard for informed consent, in which they must say what Cassidy wants them to say: that the fetus is an existing human, member of the species homo sapiens, etc. And even if Turkish wins at trial, his lawyers warn, abortion providers throughout the state could have to start doing this to head off the threat of a lawsuit (because otherwise they'd have to pay when those suits go to a jury, too).
Tuesday's argument at the state Supreme Court (which I watched on a handy court webcast) produced awkward moments for both sides. Turkish's lawyer, John Jackson, had to concede that his client had made an "offensive comment" and hadn't shown "particularly great bedside manner." (Turkish disputes Acuna's claim that he said a fetus was "nothing but blood," but at this pre-jury stage of the case, he's stuck with it.) "Set aside the philosophical and theological issue at the periphery of this case," about the human status of the fetus, Justice Barry Albin asked. Why shouldn't this case go to a jury? Couldn't the court impose some standard of medical accuracy on abortion providers—an explanation about gestational age and development?
In fact, the notion that abortion providers should talk to women about gestational development isn't hugely controversial. Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 ruling that affirmed Roe v. Wade, says that states can require doctors to give women information about the fetus that is "truthful and not misleading." "Most women considering an abortion would deem the impact on the fetus relevant, if not dispositive, to the decision," the justices wrote. Thirty-two states have since written statutes that require doctors to make specific disclosures before performing an abortion. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a think tank *, most of the states include in their litany "probable gestational age." (A few go further and make contested claims about the age at which a fetus feels pain.)
But as Turkish's lawyer argued Tuesday, Acuna isn't maintaining that she had a right to be informed about embryonic or fetal development. The fetus-equals-existing-human-being argument she's making is a new and different approach. Only one state—South Dakota—has a statute requiring doctors to make such a statement. Passed in 2005, the law hasn't gone into effect because it's being challenged in federal court, in a suit that Harold Cassidy is helping the state to defend against. In the South Dakota case and the New Jersey suit, the lawyers fighting Cassidy argue that his underlying aim is to put the status of the fetus on trial, and thus attack the basic right to abortion in Roe v. Wade. If five medical experts say that the fetus is a human being the same as you and me, and testify in detail to prove it, then why shouldn't the state protect it like the rest of the human race?
Before the New Jersey court on Tuesday, Cassidy was at times oddly cagey. He called the justices' attention to a chart he'd submitted in which his scientific experts describe the "208 parts, in three different systems" that have been observed in a 5-week-old fetus. But he wasn't eager to say what he thinks the standard for informed consent to an abortion should be. "We can't make up a written disclosure with magic words," he said in response to a question by Chief Justice James Zazzali. When the justices pressed, Cassidy said that Turkish should have told Acuna "enough to describe to her what was there."
"You're not going to answer the question, are you?" Justice Albin finally said.
"I shall," Cassidy promised, and then finally said that abortion providers should be required to tell patients that the embryo or fetus "is a member of the species homo sapiens, that you're terminating the life of a member of the species." He concluded, "many women go through with the procedure anyway, and they do better later if they weren't deceived."
The justices, however, seemed skeptical that Rosa Acuna could really have been deceived, however unfortunate Turkish's wording. Didn't Acuna know that being pregnant meant that "in eight months, if there was no abortion, she'd have a baby?" Albin asked.
Yes, she got that, Cassidy conceded. "But she did not know biology." Which took the justices back to where they'd started. Is this case about medical facts, or something else entirely? It's an abstract and frustratingly slippery question. That's why courts often prefer to avoid this territory. If the New Jersey court wades in, it won't just change how doctors in the state talk about abortion. It will change how the rest of us do, too.
Correction, Feb. 26, 2007: The original sentence called the Guttmacher Institute the research arm of Planned Parenthood. In fact, the institute has been an independent nonprofit organization since 1977. Planned Parenthood contributes 4 percent of its budget and appoints four of 42 board members. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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Sam Sifton's Creamed Onions
Nothing screams fancy dinner quite like a bowl of pearl onions. The small orbs of sweetness signal vast amounts of prep time and tears on the part of the cook, and so are rarely seen outside of feast tables around the holidays.
But don't let the extra work steer you away from Sam Sifton's recipe for Creamed Onions. These morsels are easy to peel once par-boiled and shocked, and are then coated in the most luscious of cream sauces. A smattering of bacon adds even more richness as well as smoky flavor, and a bright finish of herbaceous parsley, cayenne, and black pepper balance the sauce.
Why I picked this recipe: Peeling pearl onions may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I find it meditative. Also, this is a great excuse to eat an extra cup of cream at dinner.
What worked: Creamy and rich as promised, these onions are an excellent addition to the table, as long as you aren't scared of a little more cream. Be sure not to skip the parsley at the end; it adds welcome brightness.
What didn't: My onions varied in size a great deal, so I found I needed an extra 10 or 15 minutes of simmering time until all were tender.
Suggested tweaks: You could make this vegetarian by swapping out the bacon for butter or vegetable oil if you want (or need to).
Reproduced by permission of Sam Sifton, author of Thanksgiving: How to Cook it Well. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the author or publisher, Random House.
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- Yield:serves 6
- Active time: 40 minutes
- Total time:1 hour and 20 minutes
- 2 pounds fresh pearl onions
- 3 thick slices of bacon, cut into lardons
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups turkey or chicken broth
- 1 cup heavy cream, or light cream, or milk
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme, stems removed, leaves chopped fine
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- Chopped fresh parsley, for serving
Fill a saucepan about halfway with water and set over high heat until it comes to a boil. Add onions and cover, then turn off the heat and allow them to sit for 15 minutes, or until the skins are very soft. Drain onions and rinse them in cold water until they are cool enough to handle. Using a small paring knife and your fingers, remove the skins.
In a large sauté pan set over medium heat, cook the bacon until it renders its fat and begins to turn crisp, approximately 5 minutes. Remove bacon from pan and set aside.
Add flour to the pan and stir it into the fat to create a roux. Cook, stirring constantly, for 3 to 5 minutes, or until the roux begins to color. Add the broth and whisk to combine. Add the cream, the thyme and the cayenne, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook for a few minutes to thicken.
Add the onions to the pan, reduce heat to a low simmer and cook, covered, for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the onions are tender and the sauce is quite thick. Garnish with the reserved bacon, another pinch of cayenne and — of course — chopped parsley.
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Concord Grape Vine (Seedless) Care and Information
Plant the Concord Grapevine in the full sun. Train this woody deciduous vine on a trellis, wall, arbor, or post. Plant as close as 6 feet apart. Flowers are self-fruitful but need heat to mature the fruit. Grape vines can be a very ornamental plant in the landscape.
How to Water, Prune, And Fertilize Grape Vine
Plant in soil that drains well. As a deciduous plant, do not provide supplemental water while dormant in the Winter. Prune grapevines during this time to prepare for Spring growth. Begin to water once plants leaf out in the Spring. Irrigate about once per week. Increase the frequency to 2-3 times per week as the temperature increases in the Summer. Reduce irrigation frequency as it cools in the Fall. Grape vines can be affected by Fungi such as Powdery Mildew and Rust, so make sure not to keep the soil wet all the time.
Use an organic fungicide such as liqui-cop or horticultural Neem oil to prevent or treat for common fungus like powdery mildew.
Till the top layer of the soil in the winter and apply some manure along with organic fertilizers before Spring growth. Also fertilize the grape vine in the Spring with a balance organic fruit tree fertilizer with a 1-1-1 or a 2-1-1 NPK ratio, such as (5-5-5)or (6-3-3). Reapply growth formula fertilizer in the Summer. Do not fertilize in the Fall as this the time the tree has slowed growth. Apply a fertilizer with low nitrogen and high phosphorus and potassium with a 1-2-2 or 1-4-4 NPK ratio like a 4-12-12 NPK analysis.
The flowers and future fruit of grape vines on new growth are called canes. Flowers initiate on young canes. Prune every year to keep this growth healthy and rejuvenated yearly.


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ZeekRewards owner: 'It's their fault. Not mine'
Paul Burks makes first public comments about ZeekRewards case
People are questioning how a North Carolina man operated a $600 million Ponzi scheme that attracted 1 million investors, even though regulators had received dozens of complaints about the company.
Authorities said Paul Burks is the mastermind of one of the biggest investment scams in U.S. history. His online company, ZeekRewards, was based in Lexington. The Securities and Exchange Commission closed ZeekRewards in August.
Burks has agreed to pay a $4 million penalty. Investigators said he siphoned millions for his personal use, but he hasn't been charged.
In his first public comments, Burks told The Associated Press he couldn't discuss details because of lawsuits by victims trying to recoup money.
"Everything will come out in time," said Burks, 66, standing in the doorway of his home.
Asked if he had anything to say to victims, he shook his head.
"I never told anyone to invest more money than they could afford," Burks snapped. "I didn't tell them to do that. Never."
He said if they lost money, "it's their fault. Not mine. Don't blame me."
Investors said they were duped. They also didn't know regulators had received nearly a dozen complaints about ZeekRewards but failed to take action for months.


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This my post is unusually political, although I am not normally interested in politics. Depending on my readers' comments, I reserve my right to say "oops!" and delete the post. But while it is online, please read it and comment on it.
In the last few weeks, I started to pick in the general white noise of discussions about English education some strange signals. It started perhaps in April in a conversation in Oberwolfach, where my English colleague, a fine mathematician from a good red brick university, was explaining to our American friends what white British underclass was and why something had to be done with it before it, like a cancer tumor, killed British education and then the country itself. Admittedly, my colleague had a beer too many, but his position had appeared to be deeply held and systematically developed.
Since then, almost every day I had seen on TV, red on Internet and in newspapers, even heard at conferences on education the same sentiments expressed with various degrees of openness. In short, it appears that
British middle classes are becoming prepared to voice their desire for an institutionalised re-segregation of education along the class divide. Or you may wish to formulate it in a more emotional language: middle classes are no longer prepared to sacrifice their children for the sake of social cohesion.
After the spectacular loss of Crew by-election by Labour, many commentators announced the collapse of the New Labour electoral base. Even more revealing were remarks on electoral tactics: I heard on TV that Labour's attempts to portrait the Tory candidate as a public school toff backfired because
"they went against the middle classes' aspiration to give their children good education".
(A reminder to the non-British and a non-UK based reader: in Britain, "public school" means "a rather privileged private school").
Finally, a recent publication in Times Higher Education, Elite institutions' class bias simply reflects 'meritocracy', 22 May 2008, made me to write this post. I quote the paper:
Bruce Charlton, reader in evolutionary psychiatry at Newcastle University, provoked a furious response with his claims that the greater proportion of students from higher social classes at highly selective universities is not a sign of admissions prejudice but rather the result of simple meritocracy.
Dr Charlton says in a paper shown to Times Higher Education: "The UK Government has spent a great deal of time and effort in asserting that universities, especially Oxford and Cambridge, are unfairly excluding people from low social-class backgrounds and privileging those from higher social classes.
"Evidence to support the allegation of systematic unfairness has never been presented. Nevertheless, the accusation has been used to fuel a populist 'class war' agenda. "Yet in all this debate a simple and vital fact has been missed: higher social classes have a significantly higher average IQ than lower social classes."
I think that the issue of whether IQ is (partially) genetically predetermined (a matter of heated debate in follow-up comments in THE) or entirely shaped by upbringing and education is irrelevant. Whether the very concept of IQ makes any sense is also irrelevant (I personally think that IQ is rubbish).
What is relevant is that lower social classes receive, for a variety of (mostly obvious) social, cultural, economic and political reasons, a lower quality education (in school and in the family), while upper social classes enjoy access to a better quality education. I feel that almost everyone would agree with this simple observation.
The principal question is: to what degree deficiencies of earlier stages of a person's education can be compensated at later stages? You would perhaps agree that this is a key question of educational theory, and its understanding is crucially important for any informed policy making in education. Obviously, the answer very much depends on a particular discipline or subject. For example, almost everyone would agree that music can be taught successfully only if it is taught correctly from an early age. If a child's sense of pitch is destroyed by an out-of-tune musical toy, it is more or less irreparable.
I am not an expert in education policy, and I am not in position to judge education as a whole. But I am a teacher of mathematics, and I feel that I have to make a controversial statement: the same "irreparability principle" applies to mathematics:
If certain key cognitive skills are not attained by certain age, they are unlikely to get developed later.
I hope that this my claim is politically acceptable because we all know that it is acceptable to confess in public that one does not understand and cannot handle any mathematics at all (I heard it many times). If people proudly profess their math phobia, I have a right to offer my explanation of the roots of the phobia.
The aim of the post, however, is not to voice my opinion, but pose some uncomfortable questions.
- Could it happen that our system of (mathematics) school education damages most children, and damages so deeply that later repairs are simply not cost effective?
- If so, what should be mathematics teachers' advice to policy makers?
- Should we formulate our advice differently depending on who is in power: Labour or Tory? Indeed, they are likely to interpret the same words differently.
We have to remember that re-segregation can be quickly achieved by very polite means draped as parents choice — for example, by a voucher system (when every child is given a voucher which can be cashed in any school of his/her parents' choice) combined with schools' right to select, in case of oversubscription, children by academic ability.
- Now imagine that you have to give an advice to a jubilant freshly elected Tory minister. Will you propose a "voucher + academic selection" system as a simple and inexpensive way to restrict the educational damage to lower social classes and improve mathematics education of middle class children?
I call for an informed public debate of the issues — before the political pendulum swings from the left to the right and one set of irrational policies in education is replaced with another, opposite, but equally irrational set.
Prior to attempting to make the debate public I wish to invite my readers to give their opinion. Remember, you have an advantage of being able to comment — if you wish — anonymously!


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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day
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Samsung's 46-inch Transparent LCD Panels Begin Production
Samsung's 46-inch Transparent LCD Panels Begin Production
After showing it off at this year's CES, South Korean tech giant Samsung has announced that the transparent 46-inch panels they showcased would now go into production.The scenario where this sort of transparent display can act as both a display and a window at the same time, are pretty abundant.
That's according to Digitmes, which reported that Samsung's 22-inch transparent displays are sought after by the retail sector, or basically anyone who wants to add a whiz-bang factor to their displays.
Younghwan Park, senior vice president of LCD marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics, said, "Transparent panels, an exciting application of next-generation display technology, have unlimited potential to change our viewing habits over the next several years. As a strong supporter of the transparent display market, Samsung plans to develop this technology into a new growth engine for our LCD business."
Digitimes also revealed that the upcoming 46-inch transparent LCD panels will have a contrast ratio of 4500:1 with 1366 x 768 pixel resolution and 70% gamut. Samsung also revealed a notebook that sports this transparent display at CES, and we must say it looks stunning.


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I was watching the Victor Borge special on PBS and his daughter mentioned that he had a special trick; at the beginning of every performance he would "exhale" a puff of smoke. If the audience laughed, he knew that he could perform his comedic routines to the fullest. If the audience was unresponsive, he knew that this particular audience was more interested in the music and he would adapt his performance accordingly i.e. less comedy and less of what Victor Borge was rightfully famous for and justifiably named a genius.
This reminded me of a "trick" that Chef David Bouley used to "judge" his clientele. (I got this piece of information from Chef Bouley himself). He would serve them as a first course his "Homemade Silken Tofu, Trout Roe, Soy Gelee, Shiso, Santa Barbara Uni, Yuzu Sorbet, Apple Foam." If the clients ate every bite, he knew he had adventurous diners and would adjust his chef's tasting menu accordingly. If, on the other hand, they left the dish barely eaten, he would alter his special chef's tasting menu to a safer route. Needless to say, we belonged to the former group.
To give you some idea of Bouley's cuisine, below is a representative sample of some of his dishes from various meals in 2010.
Typical Canapes:
Corn Tuile filled with corn and dusted with nutmeg, Sashimi of yellowtail in a brik cone topped with soy gelee and micro greens, a "taco" filled with avocado, tomato and basil, baby sweet corn cannoli, parmiagiano "sandwich" and a tuile of baby yellowtail tartar.
Malibu sea urchin with sea trout roe, soy milk gelee, soy sauce gelee, shaved shiso, yuzu sorbet and yuzu gelee with apple foam. This is just a great dish – one of the best preparations of uni I have had anywhere. "I wanted to go on eating it forever."
On a bed of jasmine rice, small pieces of "Japanese Xmas Tree Leaf", 2 thick slabs of Seared Toro from Spain and topped by a Kumamoto Oyster. This was another spectacular dish with such an extraordinary balance of texture and flavor. The Toro was fatty and unctuous and I hated having finished it.
Skate with tiny diced capers to the side, topped with 24 hour tomatoes, ringed with a bit of truffle oil and a line of yellow powder which was camonile flowers. This had a decidedly Basque feel and again the over-used word perfect.
Young garlic soup with a coconut base, bits of ginger in which were Florida shrimp poached in wine and Sauteed New Zealand Langoustines. An Organic Hen Egg had been dropped in the soup so that the warm soup "cooked" the egg . This was very rich and equally delicious.
Line caught cod fish with tomato/green apple gelee, cucumber sorbet, fresh wasabi, olives and a touch of vanilla dust. This dish was a study in temperature as well as sweet/sour contrast. The cold sorbet with the cod, the bite of the wasabi with the vanilla added up to a visually, textural, hot/cold contrast.
Roasted Sturgeon, Oscetra Caviar, Shallots, Chives on Jasmine Rice served with Grey Goose Vodka sauce. This was an A+ and one of the best dishes I have ever had. The whimsy of the dish – sturgeon, caviar and vodka – an ode to Russia. The flavor was mind-blowing and the sturgeon cooked perfectly.
Poached Lobster from Massachusetts with a light Beurre Blanc served with Watermelon Glazed with Ginger, Ox Heart Tomato Sorbet and Organic Avocado Crabmeat Roll and Tomato water. A visually stunning dish that was as delicious as it looked.
Seared Hudson Valley Foie Gras with Muscat Grape, Apple/Rosemary Puree with Mango caviar and Armagnac Sauce. Absolutely superb and the mango caviar is an important and delicious element in the foie gras dish.
The loin and rack of Organic Baby Lamb from Cooperstown and the loin and rack of pork from a small farm near Bouley's home in Connecticut on top of hand-made fettuchini with serrano ham, a sauce of simple jus, mushrooms and on the side fingerling potato puree.
New Zealand Red Axis Venison crusted in black truffles with baby Brussel sprouts, Fingerling potatoes, White salsify, Red Delicious Apple Puree with Port wine and Asian Celery Puree with Balsamic Vinegar — A beautiful rectangular approximately 2″ piece of meat that was rare, juicy and tender. The apple puree with port wine was equally delicious.
Moral of the story – be the adventurous diner.