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- The Moon is in Leo until 11:21 AM.
- The Moon is void from 12:19 AM to 11:21 AM.
- The Moon is in Virgo from 11:21 AM forward (until Friday, September 2nd, at 8:55 PM).
- The Moon is waning and in its Waning Crescent phase – Balsamic Moon today.
- A Last Quarter Moon occurred on the 24th, and a New Moon (solar eclipse) will occur tomorrow, September 1st.
- Mercury is retrograde (Mercury is retrograde from August 30-September 22).
Times are EDT
On this day before a Solar Eclipse, dear Aries, consider reflecting and sorting rather than beginning all-new initiatives. The Moon continues its transit of your sector of play and self-expression until just before midday, encouraging freeform activities, if possible, after which it moves into your work and health sector – an area of great interest for you these days. It may be difficult to stick to schedules right now, either due to outside distractions and interruptions or inner rebelliousness. You may be resisting others who seem to be curtailing your freedom or attempting to tell you what to do. Try instead to get in touch with your heart and consider ways to improve and develop work and health in the coming weeks.
The Balsamic Moon today encourages you to take a break from pushing ahead, dear Taurus. This is an in-between day that you may want to use for rest, reflection, and attending to odds and ends. What's begun today may not come to pass or hold weight. There can be some tension related to past transgressions or worries about changes to come. Something may be holding you back, such as a gut feeling or fear, from throwing yourself into a romance or from expressing your feelings right now. Decisions are best left for another day, anyhow! It's better to make sense of your feelings than to pursue something half-heartedly. Do your best to get to the root of restlessness rather than allow it to drive your life.
Today is best used for making adjustments, taking a break from the usual routine, and dealing with odds and ends, dear Gemini. Mercury has just turned retrograde, and a Solar Eclipse will occur tomorrow. These influences point to reduced capacity to make informed decisions, and this is just fine – you need a break from thinking and doing too much! We may be in the dark on a matter, and for you, this can be a family or domestic matter. Plans may change, particularly social ones. A Solar Eclipse occurring tomorrow will put the spotlight on family and home issues for you. Tie up loose ends rather than starting something new. Preserve energy. Avoid trying to push others for an answer or a decision, as it can be difficult to come by right now.
The Balsamic Moon today encourages a break from overdoing and overthinking, dear Cancer. A Solar Eclipse will occur tomorrow, and a reboot of sorts can happen, mainly related to personal interests, studies, communications, transportation, and making connections in your life. Even so, Mercury has just turned retrograde, affecting these same areas of life. This suggests that on one hand you're looking forward to new beginnings, and on the other, you may need to focus on past methods that served you well or take care of unfinished business. Today, watch for speaking too soon about a matter. Watch for a mind that is working overtime today, which can lead to an alarming lack of clarity. Overtime does not mean efficiency and, in fact, subtracts from it. Watch that you don't muddle your conversations, make an offhand remark that could be damaging, or rush too quickly through important tasks.
It's better not to make any final, critical decisions with a Balsamic Moon today, dear Leo. A Solar Eclipse will occur tomorrow morning, marking today as the last full day of the Leo New Moon cycle. Review recent developments and personality changes. In the coming weeks, you'll be focusing on building and developing your resources. Today, consider ways to make improvements to your financial position and feelings of security but save significant new beginnings for a better time. Mercury's retrograde encourages review and reflection. A Sun-Uranus influence today can disrupt plans. However, today's tensions or changes of plans may very well push you into promising directions that you may never have considered otherwise.
The Moon is Balsamic today, dear Virgo. It's especially significant to you because the Solar Eclipse occurring tomorrow morning is in your sign. Focus on letting go of the negative in your life and consider what you'd like to take with you going forward. The Balsamic phase of the Moon turns us inward for valuable lessons. This is a time for reviewing, reflecting, and tapping into your intuition, and not for pushing forward with new endeavors. If you need to let go of a bad attitude or habit, now is a good time to do so. For you, this is also the end of a yearly solar cycle. Your attitude going into the next cycle can help shape the year ahead, so do what you can to get into a proper headspace. The upcoming period is about reshaping your image if it needs some tweaks. Today is excellent for seeing what fears may have been holding you back.
This is a day before the Solar Eclipse, dear Libra, making it a valuable time for tying up loose ends, reflecting, and letting go of those things that no longer suit you or your purpose. New beginnings should wait. Review recent events and take a break from too much thinking. Tension is possible in close relationships today, largely due to a sense that others are restricting you. If you're feeling stifled, look for ways to express your frustration constructively rather than merely acting out. If you sense someone in your life is frustrated, consider giving them some space to sort things out.
The Moon is Balsamic today, dear Scorpio, and it's better to tie up loose ends or finish up projects rather than push ahead. This is especially important with Mercury freshly retrograde and a Solar Eclipse occurring tomorrow morning – we are symbolically in the dark so that critical decisions should probably be delayed if feasible. Tomorrow's eclipse can help clear a path for you on a social level, and it can also nudge problem areas into the front of your mind for your attention. The coming weeks can involve some clearing the decks regarding a friend, group association, or long-term goal, dream, or plan. Impractical goals may need to be left behind or refined so that you can begin anew. Tonight's energies are rebellious in quality. If your daily affairs are out of order or chaotic, you may need to get them sorted so that you can better focus on priorities.
A Solar Eclipse will occur tomorrow morning, dear Sagittarius, making today a good time to reflect, rest, and recharge rather than a time for rebooting! Career and reputation matters are big topics now, but you need a little time to catch your breath right now. A Sun-Uranus challenge can serve to throw plans a little off. For some, a child or friend can bring some surprises or detours to your day. As much as you'd like to handle your responsibilities, you may very well need to work around distractions. Changes of plans today can stimulate new approaches that ultimately lead you in the right direction, but today is more about tapping into intuition than having a firm sense of where you're headed.
The Moon is Balsamic today, dear Capricorn, and a Solar Eclipse will occur tomorrow morning that will serve to redirect our energy. Today, aim to think about those things that you want to correct or improve. A solid plan is unlikely to form just yet, but you can do some important thinking now. Save major decision making for a better time. Reflect and review today. A Sun-Uranus influence can throw a few minor surprises into the day. It's a somewhat destabilizing energy that reminds you to be open to changes.
The Balsamic Moon today points to a need to keep things simple, dear Aquarius. Think in terms of paring down and letting go rather than putting more on your plate. Mercury just turned retrograde – another sign that it's better to reflect, edit, and review rather than push forward. Tomorrow's Solar Eclipse is likely to redirect your focus. A Sun-Uranus influence today can point to some tensions that might lead to premature communications or biting words. Daily life can feel a little too chaotic, but do what you can to avoid acting out. Identifying the need to make adjustments and changes can help you stay centered.
A Solar Eclipse occurs tomorrow, dear Pisces, and Mercury has just turned retrograde. These influences occur in your opposing sign (Virgo), affecting close relationships and negotiations the most. Today is an in-between day in which making adjustments and refinements makes the most sense. There is some destabilizing energy with us now, and it's designed to shake up things just enough so that you consider new approaches, particularly related to making money or better using your talents to your advantage.
*Remember to read horoscopes for your Ascendant sign and Sun sign.
If Your Birthday is August 31st, If Today is Your Birthday full horoscope here.
The Details:
If you're astrologically inclined and interested in the details of the Astrology of today, here are some of the factors considered in the forecasts:
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 11:21 am
Event: Moon enters Virgo
Description: The Moon in Virgo
We crave organization and order, and are quickly disturbed by anything standing in the way of these things. This is a good time for chores, organizing, and tidying. It's also a time for scheduling health appointments and checkups, starting new routines, and generally tending to details.
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 0:19 am
Event: Moon goes void of course
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 0:19 am
Event: Tr-Tr Mon Tri Ura
Description: Transiting Moon Trine Transiting Uranus
We are open to new ideas. A break in the routine is pleasing now. We could be experimenting with new ideas or feelings. There can be chance meetings, events that occur that open our minds or our awareness.
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 2:22 am
Event: Tr-Tr Mon Opp Pal
Description: Transiting Moon Opposition Transiting Pallas
We can be at odds with one another over a mental or intellectual matter, belief, or idea now. It takes extra effort to understand one another.
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 10:13 am
Event: Tr-Tr Mon SSq Ves
Description: Transiting Moon SemiSquare Transiting Vesta
We can be a little stiff with our emotions, and we can be distracted from our work or focus. There can be difficulty expressing tenderness, concern, or care.
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 11:22 am
Event: Tr-Tr Mon Cnj Vir
Description: Transiting Moon Entering Virgo
We crave organization and order, and are quickly disturbed by anything standing in the way of these things. This is a good time for chores, organizing, and tidying. It's also a time for scheduling health appointments and checkups, starting new routines, and generally tending to details.
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 11:32 am
Event: Tr-Tr Mon Sqq Plu
Description: Transiting Moon SesquiSquare Transiting Pluto
Deeper feelings emerge suddenly, and possibly in a disruptive way. We may be over-reacting or going to extremes. Wait for the tension to subside before taking action.
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 9:32 pm
Event: Tr-Tr Mon Tri Cer
Description: Transiting Moon Trine Transiting Ceres
We can be feeling pleasantly attached to, or supported by, our loved ones or family. We are seeking out security, nurturing, and warmth, and we are more likely to express these things towards others.
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 10:34 pm
Event: Tr-Tr Mon Pll Ura
Description: Transiting Moon Parallel Transiting Uranus
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 8:38 am
Event: Tr-Tr Sun Cpl Nep
Description: Transiting Sun ContraParallel Transiting Neptune
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 10:09 pm
Event: Tr-Tr Sun Sqq Ura
Description: Transiting Sun SesquiSquare Transiting Uranus
We may want to break free from restrictions or responsibilities, but if we aren't in touch with this need, we could cause some problems or feel restless and irritable. There could be rebellious feelings. We don't want to be told what to do. Use this time to see what changes need to be made.
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 6:03 am
Event: Tr-Tr Jup Pll Cer
Description: Transiting Jupiter Parallel Transiting Ceres
Date & Time: Aug 31 2016 3:10 am
Event: Tr Cer R
Description: Transiting Ceres Stationary
Strong Signs, Elements, Modes
Meticulous, discriminating, pure, practical, health conscious, hard working. Can be hyper-critical, petty and perfectionistic.
Inspiring, broad vision, enthusiastic, goal seeking, truthful, adventurous. Can be reckless, unrestrained, tactless.
We are especially in touch with the physical world. We consider what we've learned and experienced in the past in order to make the most of the present. We can be cautious, practical, and possibly unimaginative. We are deliberate and can pace ourselves well. We need hands-on experience and are not impressed with theory as much as we are with results. Routines are tolerable and comforting.
We may have a difficult time being objective or detached. We may not be especially communicative.
There may be some insensitivity or lack of empathy now. We may be out of touch with what we're feeling or with our emotional needs. We may be tougher than usual now, and more inclined to follow mental or practical considerations than we are to listen to our intuition.
We may be open to change but may not have much follow-through.
We are flexible, adaptable, willing, open to change, and possibly flighty or nervous.
Current Lunar Phase
Moon less than 45 degrees behind the Sun.
Time to tie up loose ends, review, reflect, let go, and edit.
The following aspects (major only) and positions are at noon (EDT) on August 31st:
Note that when an aspect is applying, it has not yet happened but is within orb – it's pending. When an aspect is separating, it has already happened/perfected and is moving away from the aspect. Depending on the speed of the planet/body involved, the aspect will have perfected, or will perfect, in a matter of hours (often the case with the Moon), days, months, and possibly years in the case of the very slow-moving outer planets and bodies.
Note that the Moon moves at a rate of approximately one degree every 2 hours, so that if an aspect involving is applying and has an orb of 5 degrees, the aspect will perfect (be exact) in about 10 hours. If the Moon is separating from an aspect with an orb of 2 degrees, it has already formed said aspect approximately 4 hours ago (since the following are positions at noon today, then it would have occurred at about 8 AM today).
**I suggest paying close attention to applying aspects. The energy of the aspect builds as it gets closer to exact. Once an aspect involving inner planets has happened, it's over. Separating aspects are good to know for context, but in terms of energy that is with us today, applying aspects are most important. (This is the case for daily astrology influences involving inner planets, which pass quickly, and not natal astrology aspects, which are with us for a lifetime).
We have an emotional need for order with the Moon in Virgo. Diet, nutrition, health matters, work, and routines are in stronger focus. If we're feeling out of sorts emotionally, we might also experience symptoms on a physical level now.
CONJUNCTION THE SUN Orb 8°19′ Applying
A New Moon. Intensity of focus, a new beginning, fresh energy, intiative, impulse.
TRINE URANUS Orb 6°15′ Separating
We are open to new ideas, ways of expressing ourselves and our feelings. A break in the routine is pleasing now. We could be experimenting with new ideas or feelings. There can be chance meetings, events that occur that open our hearts or our emotional awareness.
You are an analytical and critical individual. You are also practical and discriminating, and may be fussy.
Part of Body: Right hepatic lobe
Sabian Symbol: A man making a futurist drawing.
SQUARE MARS Orb 5°05′ Applying
You love to take risks and can be accident prone. You have difficulty discerning the difference between assertion and aggression. You may believe that you are simply stating your own case clearly, while others claim that you are being pushy. You need to find a healthy outlet for your enthusiasm and energy.
SQUARE SATURN Orb 1°22′ Applying
We can feel temporarily blocked or thwarted, and possibly less than confident. We might want to delay important decision making until a more enlightened, positive time.
OPPOSITION NEPTUNE Orb 2°01′ Applying
This a time for dreaming rather than important decision-making. It's a good time to pay special attention to dreams and inspiration. Clarity may not be with us, but we probably don't need it right now. It's difficult to know for certain what we want, as we may be wavering. Confusion about a relationship or idealizing a person could figure strongly now.
TRINE PLUTO Orb 6°25′ Applying
You are a powerful person with strong leadership abilities. You know when to be assertive and when to compromise. You are able to apply yourself to the job at hand.
CONJUNCTION THE NORTH NODE Orb 4°02′ Applying
We might come to realizations of personal or professional truths, and these can propel us forward on a new path, or advance our current goals. People tend to support and assist us now. We might recognize our need for others. This is a good time for setting goals.
You have a discriminating mind, and can be critical and analytical. You can also become obsessed with detailed knowledge. This may be to your detriment in daily life, although it is very beneficial for doing any kind of research. You like to be precise in your communications with others.
Part of Body: Hepatic duct
Sabian Symbol: Having an urgent task to complete, a man doesn't look to any Distractions.
CONJUNCTION VENUS Orb 2°55′ Separating
We are more agreeable, sociable, and focused on balance and harmony. Conversations flow nicely.
CONJUNCTION JUPITER Orb 0°52′ Applying
You are talkative and have a thirst for knowledge. You have big ideas and plans. Education will feature largely in your life.
OPPOSITION CHIRON Orb 5°25′ Applying
There can be insecurity about our own ideas or decisions, or we may not know who/what to believe. Words, or lack of, can hurt right now. There is greater sensitivity to what is being said, choice of words, and syntax.
You have a strong need for relationships. You will also require your relationships to be harmonious, peaceful, and creative. You enjoy having beautiful possessions.
Part of Body: Renal cortex
Sabian Symbol: The light of the sixth race transmuted to the seventh.
CONJUNCTION JUPITER Orb 3°47′ Separating
We are looking for more meaning or color to our lives and especially to our relationships. We seek to make others happy and tend to give others the benefit of the doubt. Our feelings and tastes are grand, and we may be especially extravagant or indulgent.
You are an inspirational leader, and have a strong desire for exploration and adventure. You may be one-pointed in your desires.
Part of Body: Cutaneous vessles of the thighs
Sabian Symbol: The pyramids and the sphinx.
CONJUNCTION SATURN Orb 3°42′ Separating
You sometimes feel that it is hard to express your energy fully, that something always holds you back. There is a feeling of "bashing your head against a brick wall" and this is frustrating. You are ambitious, and have the ability to slowly but surely reach your goals. You also have the ability to organise yourself and others, and good self discipline.
SQUARE NEPTUNE Orb 3°04′ Separating
This is a time for resting, escaping, or taking a break as we reconsider our needs. We might temporarily lose focus or direction.
You have a strong desire to be of service, and high religious or spiritual ideals. You may also have an obsession with detailed perfection.
Part of Body: Quadrate lobe of liver
Sabian Symbol: A man gaining secret knowledge from an ancient scroll he is Reading.
OPPOSITION CHIRON Orb 4°32′ Separating
This can be a time when we are hungry for meaning and understanding, but it can be difficult to align ourselves with a personal philosophy or belief system that truly reflects our core. We might be led astray by beliefs and ideas now, or we might experience some form of crisis of faith.
Saturn in Sagittarius asks us to take on the responsibility of living according to our personal truths and principles, and to be loyal to these. This is a time for turning a critical eye to those beliefs and principles that don't accurately reflect our authentic selves. (December 23, 2014, to June 14, 2015, then September 17, 2015, to December 20, 2017)
Part of Body: Adductor muscles
Sabian Symbol: The lamp of physical enlightenment at the left temple.
SQUARE NEPTUNE Orb 0°38′ Applying
Some feelings of disillusionment can come now as our dreams and ideals can be put to the test. Questioning our faith in our dreams can lead to lack of follow-through or wasteful activities and avoidance of responsibilities. Ideally, this crisis leads to a realignment of material goals and spiritual ideals as we assess what is truly meaningful to us.
The urge to start fresh, to break free from restrictive attitudes or circumstances, to totally redesign an area of our lives (or even our personalities), and to gain freedom through independence is strong during this cycle. (May 27, 2010, to August 13, 2010, then March 11th, 2011, to May 15, 2018, then November 6, 2018, to March 6, 2019).
Part of Body: Sternocleidomastoid muscle
Sabian Symbol: A double promise reveals its inner and outer meanings.
A long-term influence in which fantasy, imagination, compassion, and spirituality are in stronger focus. (April 4, 2011, to August 4, 2011, then February 3, 2012, to March 30, 2025, then October 22, 2025, to January 26, 2026)
Part of Body: Lymph vessels of foot
Sabian Symbol: Men seeking illumination.
CONJUNCTION THE SOUTH NODE Orb 2°01′ Separating
You have a tendency to daydream and live in a fantasy world, possibly even escaping into the world of drugs and depression. Your quest in this life is to put your creative talents to positive use.
Tests of our boundaries; breaking down and rebuilding structures and rules. (From January 25, 2008, to June 14, 2008, then November 26, 2008, to March 23, 2023, then June 11, 2023, to January 20, 2024, then September 1, 2024, to November 19, 2024).
Part of Body: Condyle of right tibia
Sabian Symbol: Boys and girls in gymnasium suits.
Chiron, Major Asteroids, and Moon's Nodes: in Sign and in Aspect
Strong awareness of our own vulnerabilities and humanity stimulates compassion for others. (April 20 to July 20, 2010, then February 8, 2011 to April 17, 2018, then September 25, 2018 to February 18, 2019).
Part of Body: Right distal tibio-fibular joint
Sabian Symbol: An inhabited island.
You are committed to your family and loved ones, especially when they need you. However, you may withdraw like a crab into your shell if you feel hurt by those closest to you. You enjoy working with those close to you.
Part of Body: Gastric nerves
Sabian Symbol: A group of people who have overeaten and enjoyed it.
Your mind can be brilliant, original and insightful. You are able to quickly grasp new ideas and apply them to the future. You fight for your ideals, and humanitarian or political causes.
Part of Body: Right fibula
Sabian Symbol: A hydrometer.
You want an intense and sexual relationship. You want your partner's total attention and demand a high degree of sensuality.
Part of Body: Corpus cavernosum of penis
Sabian Symbol: A fellowship supper reawakens unforgettable inner ties.
You feel cared for when loved ones give you a sense of stability and security. You like to be touched and stroked, and nurtured in practical ways. You also like to show others you care through practical means.
Part of Body: Larynx
Sabian Symbol: A bridge being built across a gorge.
This is a quest to become dedicated to the service of others. You will need to overcome the tendency to daydream and feel overwhelmed and to put your compassion and wisdom to practical use for humanity.
Part of Body: Hepatic arteries
Sabian Symbol: A powerful statesman wins to his cause a hysterical mob.
This is a quest to become dedicated to the service of others. You will need to overcome the tendency to daydream and feel overwhelmed and to put your compassion and wisdom to practical use for humanity.
Part of Body: Plantar artery of left foot
Sabian Symbol: A sword in a museum.
Transits Aug 31, 2016 – Event Chart
Aspects to Sun 08°Vi39 +08°19′
Cnj 07°Vi40 THUBAN To protect or make a treasure.
Aspects to Sat 10°Sg02 -20°25′
Cnj 09°Sg59 ANTARES *** Success which can be obsessive
Aspects to Plu 15°Cp05 -21°19′
Cnj 15°Cp33 VEGA Charismatic, magical, lucky
Aspects to Ves 14°Cn25 +20°45′
Cnj 14°Cn18 SIRIUS*** The mundane becoming sacred.
Cnj 15°Cn10 CANOPUS** The Path Finder
Aspects to BMo 11°Sc22 -11°03′
Cnj 12°Sc05 ACRUX Focused on the physical world.


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Virginia 7th District Tea Party and Republican Grass Roots Voters Say Cantor Cronyism Out, Dave Brat In and the Floyd Bayne Factor
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Tea Party Activists from local Tea Party groups like Chesterfield Tea Party, Chester Patriots, Richmond Tea Party and many others said 'NO' to political and capitalist cronyism.
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Asking Price: $84,000
Cash Flow: $82,110
Gross Revenue: $96,600
Average age of accounts: 4 years
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From a few weeks back at SXSW…
For this year's SXSW Interactive, General Electric introduced the Texas-inspired BBQ Research Lab. The lab features a 12-foot BBQ smoker which houses multiple sensors that record temperature, humidity, smoke velocity, and meat temperature in real time. The Digital Lab went behind the scenes to see how big data makes for delicious food.
For more information, check out this article on TMBBQ.


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Thanks For Being Me by Emmanuel Brown
I think we all have problems with other people judging us for who we are, giving us great advice that is only great for them, and being somewhat prejudiced against us without saying so. I have learned to embrace these people and their good intentions so that I can use these good intentions to continue being the best me that I could possibly be. When someone gives me sound advice, that is from the heart,…Read More


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A restaurant that makes its own bread is automatically and respectfully elevated in my mind. A laborious task that even as consumers get to know "real bread" and come to expect something other that an 80's dinner roll, few operators can manage the heaving physicalities or the resultant labor costs. Making bread in a restaurant to be used as the "house bread" is something that like the range of appetizers or small plates an establishment has to offer, remains one of the elements that I critique and evaluate when deciding if I do or do not love the place.
Years ago, I helped open and develop an Artisan bread concept in Colorado. At the time it was the first of its kind and we did great work! The spirit of working with bread is hard to articulate. Its so alive and with each day that you make bread and work through this process, getting to know the ingredients, the starters and various living leveners, your senses of temperature, impending storms, air pressure, humidity and light are all heightened. You find yourself discovering the beauty of culinary preparations that are based in this glorious bread that you raise to loft and little miniature snacks and happenstance combinations of mis en place laying around when combined with the bread become examples of delightful culinary creations.
Yeah, ..im an employee of Fifth Group here in Atlanta and we do make a good bit of bread company wide. While at least in my mind there aren't a ton of good bread bakeries in this city,.. my love affair and affinity for good, hand shaped freshly baked bread remains an significant undercurrent of foodstuff appreciation. In the morning, if you are lucky enough to find yourself walking down cypress ave between peachtee and west peachtree oh,..say around 10:00, you wont need to try hard or even break your stride to catch a whaft of the nutty, warm ,..toasty,..honey scented aromas of Ecco's naturally leavened bread that's carefully and lovingly baked like clockwork each day.
I love the expressiveness that emerges from simple combinations of ingredients but at or just near the top of my list is this sinfully epic combination of Valhrona and warm Ecco levain. Something about a chocolate sandwich that melts its chocolate by itself. Not pressed or grilled, but actually taking a just out of the oven loaf, ripping the end off, spreading its crumb,.. pressing a couple disc shaped nuggets of dark chocolate into the center …and closing the Kermit the frog like edges ..and just waiting,..the bread gods take the helm and have rewarded me time and time again with a residual heat treat that may be one of the best breakfast snacks of all time. Don't try this at home…instead,..call me or email me and we can arrange a time to meet in the alley and do this together.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
cold pockets in a warm climate or warm pockets in a cold climate?
What makes Chile the world's most suitable natural environment for growing wine grapes, how it benefited from its natural barriers and a benevolent Mediterranean climate, and why such a large proportion of Chilean wine reaching us today is crafted utilizing bio-dynamic or low input practices without the producer having to lift a finger.
In most parts of the world, the organic production of wine can be quite labour intensive and there's a lot of thought that goes into making a vineyard bio-dynamic or organic, and the final product organic for that matter. For some areas, it's simply not viable to omit the use of industrial pesticides, such is the nature of the environment. So what makes Chile so different?
Chile's climate is highly influenced by the cooling effect of the Pacific Ocean and the Humboldt Current that begins in the icy waters near Antarctica and flows up the western coast of South America. When the effect of the Humboldt's cold current hits Chile's northern coastline it produces clouds and fog, but little or no precipitation, which then contributes to making the Atacama Desert the driest on Earth. Important to note is that there is as much climactic diversity west to east as there is from North to South.
The cool sea air is partially blocked by the Coastal Mountains, although it finds its way inland by following the course of the transversal river valleys. During the day, sea breezes carried by the cold Humboldt Current penetrate inland, and each night, cold air descends from the snow covered peaks of the Andes. The coastal mountains of Chile look like the large Sonoma Coast appellation. While traveling through this coastal area, it's hard to believe that there aren't more vineyards in such an apparently ideal locale.
Chile's geographic barriers - the Atacama Desert to the north, the Andes Mountains to the east, the Patagonian ice fields to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west - make it a veritable agricultural island. Together they help maintain healthy conditions and protect vineyards against pests and disease. Not much if any mildew, no glassy winged sharpshooters, no Phylloxera, cool and dry in general… it's a winemaker's paradise.
Soil & Terroir With so much geographic variety, the Chilean landscape also offers a vast mosaic of terroirs and soil types. Soils are healthy, well-drained, and have a variety of origins (alluvial, colluvial, fluvial, etc.) and textures (loam, clay, sand, silt). Despite the relatively dry atmospheric conditions, abundant water for irrigation flows from the ice caps of the Andes Mountains that tower all along Chile's eastern border.
Altitude -In recent years, more and more vineyards creep closer and higher to the peaks, where the sun is slow to appear over the eastern peaks and makes up for its late arrival with the intensity that comes with altitude. Currents of wind climb and descend over the course of the day to create a daily pendulum of temperatures that swings broadly between daytime highs and night time lows. This is just what rich red grapes, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, thrive on.
Not long, but wide -Curiously, it's not the distance from the equator that plays the dominant role in the diversity of Chile's grape growing exploits, but rather the proximity to the Pacific Ocean or the Andes Mountains. Again,..Chile has much greater diversity in soils and climates from east to west than from north to south.
All of this may seem a bit over rated or simply irrelevant to what most of us know and feel about Chilean wines. We've come to understand that the country has for years produced a majority of their wines for export and have despite the totally unique and endless viticultural wonderland clearly focused on quantity and not so much quality. Sadly for the looking back but fortunately, as I have recently discovered that the historical presentation and position Chilean wine has taken will likely be the launching pad/ spring board for what I believe is the next greatest and promising global wine producing region. As recently as 7 years ago, a visible paradigm shift in the mentality of the entire industry has spawned an amazing spirit of rejuvenation. We are today witness to export directors, young second and third generation winemakers taking the helm, driving market share, setting new standards of excellence and producing wonderfully crafted, interesting wines that are a pleasure to enjoy, to collect and to ponder. Get in on the map people! Viva Chile! Raise your cup with me and toast to what I promise one day soon will be regarded as the most exciting and rapidly evolving wine production areas in history.
Friday, September 10, 2010
cheese and wine opinions
The other day, Katie Bell, a friend who also happens to be an accomplished food and wine columnist and freelance writer asked me to make some wine pairing recommendations for an article she was working on. I wrote my reply at lightning speed late at night and was in fact a bit tipsy but upon review this morning, while sitting down to make a blog entry, I decided that I should just share the rant with you all. I haven't had many of the cheeses but I think im familiar enough to take a crack at it...anyway,. here is the letter and reply to her query.
As always, I am flattered that you have asked me to participate and make contribution to your story. It's a genuine pleasure sharing a perspective on a part of life that I truly love. Thanks again for the opportunity. I find it oddly paradoxical that noshing grubb or what I think of as historically casual nibbling foods have become a cerebral exercise in the wine and food world. For me, in the same way that we drank unpasteurized raw cow's milk, farmed all our own veggies and drank crystal clear well water, growing up amid a house full of traditionalist foodies took really amazing classical cheeses and meats and made them and the eating ritual common. For years, cured meats and cheeses were always just simply there and available. No hype, no big deal,…it was just the way it was. Wines were had a similar application. Water, juice or wine with your hunk of Wabash cannonball? I dunno,…in any case, my point of all this is that, so many years later…like so many things in the gastro world, we have found a way to bring complexity and exactness to a food and or occasion driven by food that really has always been staple, standard and sort of ordinary. I'll give it my best crack now that ive had some years to pay attention and have since formed an opinion. Thanks again!
Chapel Hill Creamery's Carolina Moon, a buttery, rich camembert, quite luxurious with a slather of blueberry compote.- for me camembert, especially domestic camembert with fruit always screams late sunny morning October breakfast barefoot on the patio . I immediately want a warm Parisian loaf like the generic kind you might find in any random corner grocer in Paris. Bromated flour, plenty of commercial yeast, yet still warm enough to get over the generic-ness of it all. If I had to pair wine I might move the setting to après dinner and with the blueberry angle,….well,….id say let's stick with bubbles and go with a bottle of the NV Langlois- chateau, Cremant De Loire Rosé, Saumur, Loire Valley, France . This and other Loire sparkling rosé have both a textural elegance and serious earthiness balanced by great spicy fruits. Cabernet Franc in this form is a favorite bloomy cheese pairing.
Sequatchie Cove's exquisite Cumberland Cheese modeled after a French Tome de savoie has a melt-in the-mouth smoothness finished with an earthy punch.- TDS is one of my all time favourites! I haven't seen a domestic version that quite captures that nutty smoothness and deep grassy flavour but it sounds like this might be the one? When I think TDS, I think of white not red. Assuming that this is not as assertive as the Rhone version, id go with a bottle of the 2007 Marcel Deiss, Beblenheim, Riesling, Alsace, France. Alsatian to the core, this friendly wine is loaded with zesty lemon and great minerality that both serves the grassy spirit of the tomme and contrasts the nuttiness to drive the cheeses mouth feel and round comforting character.
Spinning Spider's Stack House is an elegant, soft creamy and luscious young goats milk cheese has an ash coating that imparts a unique minerally flavor.- when I think of ashed goats milk cheeses, I normally think about selles sur cher, or judy Shadd and her Wabash cannonball. I also have been a mega-uber fan of Jeremy and jessicas Lumiere at sweetgrass back when that stuff was around…wow! What happened to that stuff eh? So, while I drink sauvignon as often as anything else with goats milk cheeses, I think the ash sometimes enjoys a white with a bit more oxidative, creamy, almost clotted cream like character with ample levels of minerality to underscore the charred veggies. For this cheese, im going with the Domaine Laurent Chatenay, "Les Maisonnettes", Montlouis Sur Loire, Chenin Blanc, Sec. Yum!
The bodacious Sweetgrass Dairy's Asher Blue Cheese makes a statement. Its robust personality marry's well with walnuts and fresh, sliced Arkansas Black apples.- I have a serious problem with pairing most reds with blue cheese. I find that disharmony comes to an apex when the molds from the cheese clash with the tannins of a firm red. It's possible that some late harvest Spanish reds have worked late night with a chunk of cabrales but that stuff needs and deserves a good beating. For something domestic and a bit more tame, as far as the world of blues is concerned, I'm almost always looking for smooth, silky, rich and decidedly sweet. One of my very favourite stickies these days is a little wine from Ken Forrester in Stellenbosch SA. He makes this lovely sauternes rendition called Ken Forrester "T" Stellenbosch from Chenin Blanc. Lush, melons, pineapple and zingy, bright acidity to balance the heft of residual sugar begs for a nip of smelly salt and spoiled cream.
Andouille- like marinara, this stuff can be so many different things. I keep links of the old chef K Paul version in my freezer so ill use that one for this pairing. I also think it's fair to note that for me drinking wine with Andioullie would be an abnormality. Typically when I find myself eating Creole or Cajun foods, im not in a wine mode. This is not to say it's never happened but just for the record..im just sayin….In any case,..for this,.. I would pair a thick, oily rich white with this spicy sausage. Immediately, the glorious and often overlooked Rhone blends come to mind. Rousanne , Marsanne, Grenache blanc and viognier all lumped together act more like a pack of wolves in sheeps clothing than they do wine varietals. I'd go with a new Rhone selection from Betts & Scholl,..the 2006 Hermitage Blanc, France
Rabbit Brandy Boudin- I remember eating boudin off a foil wrapped stick purchased from a roadside vendor just over the bridge from Lake Ponchatrain. It was the Wednesday after fat Tuesday, I was 16 years old, driving a Puegeot stationwagon and we had spent the last 200 interstate miles shooting roman candles out of the car window as we drove through the night. The boudin was laced with rice and as such, felt more like encased pilaf than it did sausage. I have loved this stuff ever since. With the added gaminess of bunny and the sweet brandy, im going with the Jorge Ordonez value anomaly du jour,..the 2008 Paso a Paso, "old Vine" Verdelho, La Mancha, Spain. This wine has exotic richness, oodles of plump glyceral fruits, and a good citrus oil backbeat that would provide some reprieve from the certain intensity of the meat and brandy combo while holding its own in terms of intensity and richness.
Petit Sec and Figatelli---salami style pork 'snacks' cobbled together with pork liver, red wine, garlic and fresh herbs, they are air-dried.- this kind of thing just begs for tradition to me. Like I mentioned above, I think a lot of different wines, accoutrement, breads and cheeses work well with this sort of food stuff but in the end, if I must choose, id go with something Italian. Let's use the wine from the often misunderstood, regionally confused, biodynamic producers, Avignonesi. They plant their vineyards on concentric circles and I think I love this family. This wine and all of their other wines for me are more like elixirs than wine. For this,…lets go with the 2007Avignonesi, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy. Exceedingly "old world" in its bowels, the wine is fruity, laden with hippie smoke shop like aromas, and normally has a nip of my favorite barrel infection Brettanomyces, affectionately known throughout the wine world as "brett". This controversial wild yeast, imparts a gamey quality that just adores cured pork product and also drives a hint of sweetness to the very front of the palate which keeps you coming back for more as the salts and fat from the sausage makes its mark. For me, Sangiovese and salami are timeless and rightfully so.


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Expected publication 11.03.2014 "Afterburn and Aftershock" (Afterburn & Aftershock) by Sylvia Day
"Afterburn and Aftershock" (Afterburn & Aftershock) by Sylvia Day
This title will be released on March 11, 2014.
Never mix business with pleasure. Never bring politics into the bedroom. In a way I did both when I took Jackson Rutledge as a lover. I can't say I wasn't warned.
Two years later, he was back. Walking into a deal I'd worked hard to close. Under the tutelage of Lei Yeung, one of the sharpest businesswomen in New York, I had picked up a thing or two since Jax walked away. I wasn't the girl he once knew, but he hadn't changed. Unlike the last time we'd drifted into each other's lives, I knew exactly what I was dealing with… and how addictive his touch could be.
The inner circle of glamour, sex, and privilege was Jax's playground–but this time, I knew the rules of the game. In the cutthroat business world, one adage rules all: keep your enemies close and your ex-lovers closer…
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The Daily Telegraph is calling it "explosive", the SMH has latched onto Gillard calling Bob Carr lazy.
Ray Martin's interview with Julia Gillard is being broadcast on Channel Nine at 7pm tonight (Tuesday), promising bombshell after bombshell and the whole truth. Unlikely!
For the record, I agree with Wayne Swan and Stephen Smith that Rudd had become dysfunctional and needed to be replaced. They say, however, he should have been left in the chair until after the 2010 election, which he would have won. If history had taken that course Gillard would still be prime minister, we'd have the full version of the NBN, Gonski, NDIS and health would be funded into the future and we'd be heading for a surplus. Abbott would be historical detritus.
But that didn't happen and Gillard took over. Then Rudd should have left politics. If so, Gillard would still be PM we'd have the NBN, Gonski etc etc.
Given that Rudd didn't go away, early in 2013 after it became clear that Gillard couldn't show her face in Western Sydney, she should have resigned for the good of the party. Probably we'd still have Abbott as PM, but it would have been the honourable thing to do.
But what happened happened and we as Australians have to come to terms with it. The way we, the media, the Abbott led Opposition and yes, Kevin Rudd treated Julia Gillard is simply not acceptable in a mature, civilised society. We are all implicated in some way.
That's why I'll be watching. The wound is still open.


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Museums and mindfulness
How do museums engage people with the three-dimensional, physical relics of human civilisation in the age of ubiquitous two-dimensional digital distraction? Veronica Simpson searches for curatorial solutions.
Words by Veronica Simpson
A thing of simple, utilitarian beauty has appeared on a slag heap in northern France. An outpost of the Louvre Museum in Paris, that the Louvre Lens is there at all is remarkable; a symbol of the most optimistic belief in arts-led regeneration.
The conical black towers of coalmining refuse appear on the horizon long before the train from Lille shudders into Lens station. SANAA, the Japanese architecture practice, wanted the building to celebrate the region's industrial heritage, not ignore it.
And its intervention perches lightly on the once blasted earth, looking much like a translucent, elongated aircraft hangar, with interiors of poured concrete and silvery light diffused through the exterior of glass and polished aluminium panels.
A benevolent calm pervades the building. Its multiple reflective and curving surfaces transform the other occupants into blurred beings who shimmer vaguely as if perceived through fog, ether or sleep. It's an other-worldly space: like entering the antechambers of heaven (or hell?); the contemplative quiet of a futuristic funeral parlour merging with the hum of a modern-day Apple store.
Of course the Louvre Lens would have to be something very different to drag people to this neglected corner of northern France, away from the delights of historic Lille or the First World War graveyards and memorials over the Belgian border. But the real drama comes in the main gallery, the 120m-long Galerie du Temps, where 4,000 years of art and antiquities, from ancient Syrian sculptures to Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, is displayed with delicious irreverence for time-honoured curating traditions. Paintings, statues, carvings, rugs, mosaics and gilded reliquaries appear to float freely in one vast, narrow space, though in fact they are placed strictly chronologically, their date of origin matched to a timeline etched into the far wall.
This curatorial approach is radical, but it works. Freed from the need to pace obediently around one topic/continent-specific room or section after another, plodding from text to object, these glorious items appear more vivid, the connection with them more direct, as you get up close and personal. The freedom to cherry-pick your route -- with the entire landscape of the gallery, from start to finish, visible in one generous sweep of the eye -- is empowering, emphasising both choice and responsibility.
We visitors feel like engaging more, not less. And it makes us more aware of the others in the room, the journey they are on, the conversations they are having, both with each other and with the artefacts. It becomes a more collective experience. And all without an iPad or touchscreen in sight.
For the Galerie du Temps, the Louvre Lens has opted to be screen free. There are, of course, hand-held devices available. There is very little in the way of text in the main Galerie: captions and explanatory panels are brief, and placed at shin height, so it's the artefacts that fill the visitor's field of vision. This smorgasbord of civilisation, offered in such an informal way, is exhilarating, especially to the young: here is a naturally ventilated space filled with filtered daylight and so very different from the oppressive grandeur of a great, 'civic' building. It allows them to roam and dwell as they wish -- free-range culture lovers rather than battery farmed.
Behind its programming is a huge amount of thought about the key dilemma for the 21st-century museum: at a time when everything people might want to know is available to them at the click of a mouse, how do museums make their collections and knowledge meaningful and vital? How do they use technology and design to enhance the physical and intellectual experience rather than distract? How do they expand their audience against so much online, on-demand competition?
Ten years ago most museums thought they were pretty progressive if they offered a couple of screens for archive investigations, a handheld audio guide, and an interactive or two for the young. Now, the connections between visitor and object are being mediated in a far more complex and fascinating, often multilayered, dialogue, involving a wide range of technology -- or, as with the main Louvre Lens gallery, barely any technology at all.
James Peto, senior curator at London's Wellcome Collection, says: 'I think people have latched on to that having lots of things to fiddle and play with doesn't add anything to the visitor's understanding. Usually the button pushing is about demonstrating "This is how it works". We try not to demonstrate but inform by provoking people's interest, to get them to ask questions.' To this end, the Wellcome Collection -- which began its much-admired series of exhibitions dedicated to exploring medicine and the human condition only in the past decade -- tends to work with artists who use film, installation or sound (see case study). For example, in the current exhibition on consciousness, States of Mind, Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens creates a cloud-filled room to demonstrate how easily the senses can be cloaked and confused.
Meanwhile, one of the UK's oldest institutions, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, is exploring all the interesting margins of technological engagement. An online blog has been offering downloadable sound-files of spoken word, ambient recordings and music, linked to specific exhibits in the Fitzwilliam and several other museums run by Cambridge University (see The Seven Heads of Gog Magog case study).
David Scruton, the Fitzwilliam's documentation manager, in charge of digital programming, agrees that audio content can provide a powerfully immersive experience to heighten the visitor's connection with the artefacts themselves. 'We are trying to engage people with objects in a different way than you would normally expect. The intention [of the blog and soundfiles] was that people would download the files and bring them into the gallery. But it also works independently of that.'
Scruton is currently steering the Fitzwilliam through to the next phase of digital engagement, having recently removed the multimedia guides introduced 10 years ago. Says Scruton: 'The idea of the guides was to introduce information that would be difficult to offer otherwise with a limited amount of room in the gallery -- so, it was primarily the interpretation of the object.'
It performed that task moderately well, though there were drawbacks: 'Our first experience of the first mobile guide was that it was difficult to use; people were spending time just learning how to use it rather than accessing the content.
You have to see digital technology as part of a range of techniques for interpretation. Its real value is not just interpretation, but what you can do beyond just providing information.' Lucy Theobald, head of press at the Fitzwilliam, says: 'There is no substitute for looking at a physical object. Our digital platforms team has made a strategic decision not to have too much of our collection online. When we have an exhibition website, we will choose a select number of objects to tell the story.
Large high-resolution images don't currently exist on our online platform. Instead, we are trying to think about the experience that people are having when they come through the door, creating intelligent connections between objects in a gallery, rather than telling one straight story.' The exhibition Treasured Possessions earlier this year was a case in point. A meditation on early forms of consumer culture, it was about, says Theobalds 'creating a real and human connection between the objects and their owners, looking at who they belonged to, how they were used...You were being asked to have a personal connection to the way things were acquired in the past. There were digital interfaces but only to tell the stories that cannot be otherwise told in the gallery - for example, objects that cannot be opened or that have secret compartments, like a travelling knife-and-spoon set, will be shown being undone in a video so you can see the spoons and how they were twisted together'.
Experimental projects such as The Seven Heads of Gog Magog are all about targeting a different, younger audience, active on social media, in the hope of tearing them away from Facebook and into a museum on a Saturday afternoon. But social media is also being used by museums to encourage hands-on engagement of an entirely different magnitude -- harnessing existing and latent communities in the design and creation of exhibitions from the outset.
Feature image: photo of Tibetan Mural, © Thomas Laird, 2012
Case Study
True Rotterdamers: Can we make it? Museum Rotterdam
Currently without a permanent base, Museum Rotterdam for the past two years has adopted a socially interactive model of exhibition creation -- inviting people to participate in devising exhibitions and being part of them.
In the same warehouse space used for Echte Rotterdammers, the latest exhibition on crafting and making was co-created by the museum with a group of around 150 small-scale makers. Via workshops it devised an exhibition that explored the 'connecting force' of making. Says curator Nicole van Dijk: 'Our interest was not reserved for unique, creative or cutting-edge activities, but also for how working with the hands can help connect city dwellers.'
Putting makers into four categories -- textile, food, wood and metal, assembly and repair -- displays on these were placed at the perimeter of the exhibition, while the centre was formed by four 5m-long maker tables, supplied with all the materials and tools needed for visitors. Says van Dijk: 'The idea was that, through offering such a variety of making experiences, people would come back and gradually explore the exhibits around the edges of the making space.' A/V screens are part of the exhibition, 'but mainly they are there to provide information or show a film about a technique. The only really interactive thing is doing the work yourself with your hands and the materials on the table. And that is the whole point.'
Client Museum Rotterdam
Curator Nicole van Dijk
Design Museum Rotterdam, Ron Breugelmans
Area 1,250 sq m
Cost €200,000 (building, design and workshops during exhibition)
Dates October 2014 - March 2015


text: my coworkers won't cut expenses, pop culture references in interviews, and more by Alison Green on January 25, 2019 It's four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. My coworkers won't help me cut expenses A few months ago we received an email from the Big Boss (head of our business unit) that we are entering a "cost cutting" exercise due to business needs and they need everyone to make efforts to ensure our costs/expenses are "as close to zero as possible." I'm in an internal role that doesn't deal with contracts, purchases, software licensing, travel, etc. so there's only a limited amount I can contribute to that cost cutting. But I've done what I can — e.g. I walked five miles with heavy equipment rather than take public transport which the others did. I "forgot" to claim for overtime payments that I should/could have claimed (not in U.S. so those laws don't apply), didn't claim mileage for driving two hours out of my way multiple times, etc. It's galling every month the department admin sends out the emails asking for "overtime forms" and "travel expenses" and I know I have a lot I could claim and don't. We have to work late a couple of times a month due to client deadlines (the company usually orders food in) and I've gone on "hunger strike" conspicuously refusing to eat or order, and working through while others eat the company-paid pizzas, etc. (we know in advance when we'll have to stay late – why didn't they bring their own food?!) because I don't believe that's a legit business expense. I've tried to convince the others but without success. I've now asked to reduce my retirement contributions (matched by the company) which will save them thousands a year. I've indicated to HR that I want to opt out of the healthcare insurance at the next renewal date. I've done pretty much everything I can at this point other than asking for a pay cut (which I could — I'm senior, single and have enough money but I realize this could affect my prospects in the future) but I'm becoming more and more resentful of coworkers who haven't even considered the things I've done. They still submit overtime, travel expenses, etc. At some point we all have to pull together but I feel like I'm the only one pulling, Whoa, you are making way too many sacrifices here. You should not be walking five miles with heavy equipment or not getting paid for time you worked, and conspicuously not having a slice of pizza isn't going to make any practical difference. As for reducing your retirement contributions and opting out of health insurance (!!) — NO. Is it too late to undo that? "Help us cut costs" means "watch for extraneous spending and be frugal with business expenses." It does not mean "take on great personal sacrifice for the benefit of a company someone else owns." What are you doing is way beyond the realm of anything that would be expected, some of it won't even matter (the hunger strike), and the rest of it is so extreme as to be entering the realm of the absurd unless this is your own personal business and you get all the profits. You should of course respect requests to watch expenses, but it's actually not helpful to do what you're doing because it creates a false idea of what various projects cost. It's also going to look incredibly weird to your coworkers, especially when you pressure them to join you, to the point that it could reflect on your judgment long after this is over. Leave your retirement account and your health care alone. Submit for the money that you're owed. Quit the hunger strikes. Be responsible with expenses, and leave it there. Read an update to this letter here. 2. Can you reference pop culture in an interview? Is it okay to reference pop culture in a job interview as long as the reference itself is not inappropriate or obscure? For instance, in previous interviews, I have referenced my "Monica Geller-esque sense of neatness," how I consider Leslie Knope to be one of my role models, and how I had learned to work with a supervisor like Angela from The Office. For what it's worth, in each of these positions, I was applying for something relatively junior and in a pretty liberal field/office environment, not, like, the CEO of Morgan Stanley or something. There are better ways to convey what you want to convey. It's just too likely that your interviewer hasn't seen the show you're referencing and so misses your meaning entirely — and maybe doesn't even know you're referencing a show and has no idea who this Monica Geller is or why you're mentioning her. (There's also a risk of it making you seem less professionally mature — not because you're referencing pop culture, which isn't inherently unprofessional, but because you're not realizing that not everyone will get that particular reference.) 3. Candidates who ask "how did I do?" at the end of an interview I'm a corporate recruiter, and lately, at the end of phone screens I've had people asking me how they did on that very call and asking for performance feedback. Everyone who has asked me this question hasn't done very well. I think its a really awkward question that puts the interviewer on the spot. What's your take? Is this the new normal? What's the best way to respond to this, especially if the candidate hasn't done well? Yeah, this is a terrible question to ask at the end of an interview. It's fine to say "are there any reservations I could address for you?" But "how did I do?" puts the interviewer on the spot, and while some interviewers will be willing to answer it, far more are going to feel uncomfortable and mildly annoyed that you're asking them to deliver potentially awkward info to you with no preparation or time to think it out. You're not obligated to answer that question candidly with no preparation. When I'm asked it by a candidate who wasn't strong, I generally say, "Oh, I always prefer to spend some time reflecting on our conversation before I can answer that." 4. Can I contact my replacement to ask why they left? I left a job on my one-year anniversary about two years ago. I left for a seemingly innocuous reason and on good terms (I was moving across the country and got a new job). But in actuality, I was waiting for the second I could run away from this job. What started as an in-office marketing position with support and a budget quickly turned into a nightmare. I was moved to work from home permanently (I HATE working from home). In addition, whenever I would submit my health insurance reimbursement every month, which I had to negotiate to even get, my boss would respond directly via email to my premium invoice with comments along the line of "So, sales are down, what's on your agenda today?" and other passive aggressive items. The thing is, I was not hired to do sales, I was told that we were hiring a VP of sales, but suddenly I was responsible for that too. On top of it all, I watched a married coworker book an escort from start to finish because he didn't realize his screen was mirroring to a monitor that was right next to me. When I brought this up, nothing was done except telling me to work from home when he was in office if I felt uncomfortable. All that aside, I held my tongue when the CEO hired someone else for my position, even though I wanted to warn them. I now see they only made it eight months and no longer work there. I would like to reach out to them on LinkedIn and talk to them about their reasons for leaving. I guess I just want confirmation I am not crazy from still having nightmares surrounding my life that year. Is this a bad idea? I think you already know everything you need to know about this job. Just based on your short letter, your boss was a jerk, you were given a major area of work you hadn't signed up for and didn't want, you were denied office space, people were booking escorts at work and no one cared … You had good reason for disliking it there and for leaving. The more interesting question, to me, is why you're looking for outside confirmation that it was a bad situation when it clearly was. And what's more, even if it wasn't a situation that everyone would have hated, you hated it and that's reason enough to leave. Are you worried on some level that you should have been able to hack it? Are you looking for the satisfaction of hearing someone else thought it was awful too? That last one is perfectly human, but it probably doesn't warrant emailing a stranger with those questions and I think is likely to keep you mired in the drama of a past job rather than moving forward. You may also like:when I asked for a raise, my boss went through my billsinterviewer said if you get a raise, the workload will go up for the entire teamI resigned, and my employer asked me to write them a check { 779 comments }


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A guest post from Mark Tooley, President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy:
A new poll by Pew Research, just in time for Christmas, shows 73 percent of Americans believe in Jesus' virgin birth by His mother Mary. Even 32 percent of the self-professed religiously unaffiliated said they believe. White evangelicals were the most believing (97%), followed by black Protestants (94%), white Catholics (88%), Hispanic Catholics (81%) and Mainline Protestants (70%). By comparison, other polls show about one third of the British people profess belief in the Virgin Birth.
Popular lore claims America is always growing more secular, like Europe. But attachment to core Christian beliefs remains high and shows no major sign of falling. For example, a 2008 Harris poll found that 61 percent of Americans believed in the Virgin Birth. In 1994 it was 78 percent, in 2000 it was 82 percent, and in 2003 77 percent. Non-Christians who said they believed in the Virgin Birth ranged from 47 to 27 percent during those years. A 2008 Barna Poll found that 75 percent of Americans believe the Virgin Birth, including 15 percent of atheists.
The resilience of the Virgin Birth would surprise American clergy and theologians of 50 and 100 years ago, when the liberal Protestant Social Gospel held sway over nearly all America's most prestigious religious institutions. Harry Emerson Fosdick, the liberal Baptist who pastored New York's famed Riverside Church, insisted in the 1920s that "equally loyal and reverent people" could deny the Virgin Birth as "historic fact." Instead they could accept it as a metaphorical "explanation of great personality is one of the familiar ways in which the ancient world was accustomed to account for unusual superiority."
In more recent years, retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong has mocked Christian "literalists" who insist on a historical Virgin Birth. He counters that the story was a "late developing tradition in the Christian faith," not introduced until some 90 years after Jesus' birth to help explain his special vocation. Liberal American Catholics often quote German theologian Hans Küng, who described the Virgin Birth as a "collection of largely uncertain, mutually contradictory, strongly legendary" stories common in antiquity. When New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff cited Kung in his column 10 years ago, he recalled his devout Presbyterian grandfather who thought the Virgin Birth was a "pious legend."
A 1998 poll of Mainline Protestant clergy with an apparently large but not scientific sample found many if not most disbelieving the Virgin Birth, from 19 percent of Lutherans, to 34 percent of American Baptists, to 44 percent of Episcopalians and 49 percent of Presbyterians to 60 percent of United Methodists. Most of these clergy would have been seminary educated in the 1960s and 1970s when modernist Protestant theology was cresting.
In our new post-modern era, which elevates narrative and experience over the Enlightenment's definition of provable fact, rejection of miracles like the Virgin Birth is less common even among seminary trained theological liberals. It's not rare now in Mainline Protestant circles to find young clergy who are socially liberal but affirm the Virgin Birth and Jesus' bodily resurrection. On the Virgin Birth at least, there is no longer the 1920's era division between modernists and "fundamentalists." Of course, evangelical clergy, with Catholic priests, overwhelmingly affirm the Virgin Birth as history central to their faith. And polls show that overwhelming majorities of Christian lay people always have, including Mainline Protestants.
That so many religious unaffiliated and even some atheists assent to the Virgin Birth seems odd on the surface. But its story of God's dramatic intervention in the affairs of humanity on behalf of humanity is captivating and almost irresistible. Nativity scenes, static and living, often performed by children across generations, are part of most Americans' collective warm memory of Christmas long ago and more recently. The story is intrinsically so appealing, and rings true of the God we know is there, that even many religious skeptics have difficulty resisting.
Continued American affirmation of the Virgin Birth is also a rebuff to once confident 20th century liberal Protestant modernism. Its great cathedrals are now mostly empty or struggling; its seminaries diminished its cultural prestige now a historical memory. Telling parishioners that core doctrines of their faith are not actually true except as poetry was never a recipe for success. Clerics like Bishop Spong claimed they were "saving" Christianity for a new generation that supposedly could not believe the old doctrines. But it was Spong's now aging generation, or at least a subset of it, that could not believe. The tenets they assailed, like the Virgin Birth, will long outlast them.
Kristoff wrote 10 years ago that persistent "faith in the Virgin Birth reflects the way American Christianity is becoming less intellectual and more mystical over time." But distinguished and popular theologians like British Bishop Tom Wright now offer rich intellectual defense of the Virgin Birth (he prefers to call it the "virginal conception"), as did C.S. Lewis in the last century.
Embedded in Christianity's creeds, liturgy and hymns, and central to its faith that God miraculously became human in the womb of a young Jewish virgin, the Virgin Birth is here to stay. It offers hope that God so loves humanity that He became a vulnerable human Himself. Such a story is so cosmically powerful and wonderfully persuasive that for billions of people, including most Americans, it can only be true.


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|Character- Jolly Roger
Created by: Rodney Lockett
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Art by Joe de Santos
|Real Name: Jolly Roger
Hair: Greyish black
Eyes: White
Height: 6'1"
Age: 335
Nationality: English
Ethical alliance: Evil
The Goddess Keto, the personification of the dangers of the sea, took great pleasure in watching Man brave her glorious expanses, but took greater pleasure watching him die in her watery embrace.
She took notice of Jolly Roger, a pirate in the 1600s, when he became her greatest dispenser of pleasure.
To seduce him to her side, she made herself known to him and upon seeing her beauty, Jolly fell in love with her. He gladly offered her his soul and pledged to do her bidding for eternity. As a reward, she gave him control of her sea monsters and promised him that upon his death she would grant him the power to continue serving her.
Jolly Roger became unstoppable and was one of the most feared pirates in history, defeating all enemies that opposed him. Everywhere he sailed, Keto danced by his side, driving ships off course, so they would cross Jolly's path. Storms raged and oceans roared as Keto revelled in the joy of their deaths. But even if Jolly kept her satiated, she still wanted more.
Jolly wanted nothing more than to please her, so he sent word to pirates everywhere that if they flew the skull and crossbones flag named after him, that Keto would spare their ships from destruction at sea. He told them that they could plunder all they wanted, but in return, they were to send the crews of all their catch into Keto's arms.
The seas became filled with blood.
Jolly served her faithfully and when his body died, Keto fulfilled her promise and claimed his soul. She eventually released him back in the world, but the world was changing. Less and less people died at sea and the crossbones flag was rarely seen.
As Keto tried to find a new source for her pleasure, she came to realize, that although she had enjoyed the deaths of so many below her watery abyss, her real pleasure had not come from their deaths but from their fears.
As she explored the fears of man, she found that man's greatest was that of death itself. She gave Jolly Roger the ability to bring death back to man. To have death haunt them and hunt them. And as death chased them, their fears filled her with joy.
Jolly Roger brought much fear to the world and much pleasure to Keto. But Keto would often rest and while she did, Jolly formed new alliances to bide his time. He searched for others like him. Others who revelled in pain and destruction, and he found them within the Society of Evil.
Nechromancy: Keto has given him the ability to raise the dead, be they human or animal. Ordinarily, he can only raise and control the dead that lie within 200 yards of himself, but the distance increases at certain times of the year, such as during full moons, but on Hallow's Eve is when his power is the greatest and when Keto needs to feed the most.
Floating: Jolly Roger can float like a ghost and propel himself at moderate speeds. This type of locomotion is unaffected by gravity or wind.
Intangibility: Jolly Roger can assume a spectral form rendering him intangible.
Physical resistance: Being already dead, he feels no pain from most attacks, and he cannot be destroyed by conventional means.
Super strength: He possesses enhanced strength enabling him to lift 2 tons.
Weaknesses: Certain magics can affect him, the most potent being Holy magics.
Paraphernalia: Jolly Roger often carries a sword, but his most peculiar aspect is that he still has a peg leg, even though he no longer has a real body. It is believed that his leg may play a part in conjuring the dead, for when he conjures, he usually taps it like someone would a drum.


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Stitching in the country
Tuesday 21 July 2015
GG July
How on earth does it happen. On Jamuary 1st I started off the year working on a respectable five projects. I have finished several of those since them so how can it possibly be that I am now working on 14. Are they breeding behind my back? Is someone sneaking them into the pile? I suspect those cheeky kittens who,live outside the back door have something to do with it. Anyway, my GG projects for this month are 1. Flower power. This as you will know is a chart gifted to me many years ago. I am progressing slowly and am hoping to finish at least the first foxglove by Christmas .
Monday 15 June 2015
GG June
I can't believe I've actually managed to write up this groups blog for the whole six months. I usually start the year with all good intentions but,like others, I fall by the wayside. But here I am this year, still clinging on. I have four gifted pieces to show this month. First up is Spanish Rouge by Sampler Cove and yes folks, get the dancing shoes out. It's finished in 18 months which is amazing as I'd allowed 2 years
Sunday 7 June 2015
WIPApocalyse June
I haven't managed this the last couple of months but was determined to post something this time. This months question was whether your stitching was more productive in winter or summer. Personally it doesn't make any difference to me. I stitch every lunch time, for an hour or so before getting the evening meal and again in the evenings until bedtime. It's easier in summer because it's warmer but that is the only difference. Now onto stitching. My WIPs list gets ever longer although I did finish the Hungarian sampler and the EMS violets in May. Pictures are in the previous blog. Having said that I started three more SALs. I shouldn't have. I said I wouldn't but I'm afraid my willpower seemed non existent. I've picked a few that I've stitched on recently to show. The first is wildflower heart which is a SAL. It's stitched on a very pretty light raspberry fabric over one but seems to be taking shape very slowly
Friday 5 June 2015
Flower SAL, finishes and a bit more
The end of May brought the fifth month of the year to a close. Unfortunately I haven't managed to keep up with the EMS flower sal. February took so long to do I nearly despaired but sheer determination finally won through and it was finished
Sunday 17 May 2015
Gifted Gorgeousness May
It's the time again to update the SAL where we stitch with things that have been given as gifts to us or are stitching as a gift to others. My first picture is of Herz auf der Wiese by farbenfroh-Schmidt.de2013. The fabric for this which was entitled raspberry ice was part of a gift exchange a few years ago. The piece is being stitched as a SAL in a Yahoo group that I belong to. I am currently stitching part 3
Tuesday 5 May 2015
Very late April update
I really don't know where the time has gone. I keep promising to update but never get round to it. Oh well, here it is at last. First up is the EMS Flower of the month
Wednesday 15 April 2015
GG update April
I really don't know where the time has gone. It only seems like yesterday that I did the March update. Still at leadt the weather is now warmer and we can get really going in the garden with the planting. On the stitching front I worked on Flower Power. Chart gifted to me
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Start your son off with a blessing. Here is my list for beautiful biblical baby boy names and their meanings.
The joy of naming a baby is unlike any other. It's a special season as you and your partner search for the perfect name for your new baby.
There is a beauty in blessing your child with a biblical name. The search for the perfect name is a very personal one, but I'm assuming if you're reading this, you're interested in some biblical baby boy names for your little man. Here are some tips before we get started.
Tips for Naming
- Be flexible
- Consider if any family members should be honored
- For names that are loved by one spouse and not by the other, consider using it as a middle name instead.
- Consider if the name will be shortened (example: Jeremiah = Jerry or Jeremy) and whether you want or like that
- You may want to consider omitting the names of exes
- Say names in full, out loud to hear how it sounds.
Other Advice
Choosing a name can be fun, but it can also lead to disagreements, especially if you are passionate about a name. Maybe there is a name you picked out years ago, but your partner doesn't like it. That can be a tough pill to swallow. Therefore, I suggest praying before each naming brainstorm. Give your partner permission to veto names they truly dislike.
Lastly, picking a name is a very special event in having a child. Your child's name will follow him all of his life and may even be passed down. I hope that you enjoy the process of naming your little. Finally, here is the best advice, I can give. Lots of people, family included, will have an opinion about the name you choose. But their opinion doesn't matter. That's between you and the child's father. Don't let anyone's comments bother you or rob you of joy.
Biblical Baby Boy Names
Here is my favorite list of biblical baby boy names with the meanings in parenthesis.
- Aaron (high mountain, exalted)
- Abel (breath)
- Abraham (father of many)
- Adam (man, to make)
- Amos (load, burden)
- Andrew (manly, masculine)
- Asa (healer)
- Asher (happy, blessed)
- Barnabas (son of the prophet)
- Bartholomew (son of Talmai)
- Benjamin (son of the right hand)
- Boaz (swiftness)
- Caleb (dog)
- Daniel (God is my judge)
- David (beloved)
- Eder (flock)
- Eleazar (my God has helped)
- Eli (ascension)
- Elijah (My God is Yahweh)
- Elisha (My God is my salvation)
- Emmanuel (God is with us)
- Ethan (solid, enduring, firm)
- Ezekiel (God will strengthen)
- Gabriel (God is my strong man)
- Gideon (feller, hewer)
- Hosea (salvation)
- Isaac (to laugh)
- Isaiah (salvation)
- Jacob (subplanter)
- Jadon (he will judge)
- James (subplanter)
- Jared (descent)
- Jehoshaphat (Yahweh has judged)
- Jehu (Yahweh is he)
- Jeremiah (Yahweh will exalt)
- Jesse (Gift)
- Jethro (Abundance)
- Joel (Yahweh is God)
- John (Yahweh is gracious)
- Jonah (dove)
- Jonathan (Yahweh has given)
- Joseph (He will add)
- Joshua (Yahweh is salvation)
- Josiah (Yahweh supports)
- Judah (praise)
- Jude (praise)
- Kenan (possession)
- Lazarus (my god has helped)
- Levi (joined, attached)
- Luke (light giving)
- Malachi (my angel)
- Matthew (gift of Yahweh)
- Mark (the Roman God of Mars, warrior)
- Micah (who is like Yahweh)
- Michael (who is like Yahweh)
- Mordecai (servant of Marduk)
- Moses (son)
- Nathan (he gave)
- Nathanael (he has given)
- Nicodemus (victory)
- Noah (rest, repose)
- Omar (speaker)
- Paul (Small, humble)
- Peter (Stone)
- Philip (friend of horses)
- Phinehas (Nubian)
- Ram (exalted)
- Raphael (to heal)
- Rueben (behold, a son)
- Reuel (friend of god)
- Samson (sun)
- Samuel (god has heard)
- Saul (asked for, prayed for)
- Seth (appointed)
- Silas (forest, wood)
- Simon (he has heard)
- Stephen (crown)
- Thomas (twin)
- Timothy (to honor God)
- Titus (title of honor)
- Tobias (Yahweh is good)
- Uriah (Yahweh is my light)
- Uzziah (my power is Yahweh)
- Zachariah (Yahweh remembers)
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Don't forget to PIN this list for later. Visit mt other baby names posts like Biblical Baby Girl Names and Strong Baby Boy Names. Before you go, be sure to grab my Baby Registry Checklist. It comes with a FREE printable to get your registry started. Also, in the comments below, I'd love to hear what names you love and why.


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Powell - Ray Rodriguez OG Skull & Sword Snub Rodriguez '04 Brite Lite Pink (10")
VENDOR: Powell
LONG 4 - 2.5" old school truck hole pattern
About the Skull and Sword Artwork:
The Rodriguez "Skull & Sword" deck was the first pro signature deck graphic produced by Powell-Peralta. The graphic was conceived by Ray and Illustrated by V.C. Johnson with art direction from George Powell in 1979.
Initially released in two distinctly different shapes; a 10" x 30" "Widetail" version and a 10" x 28.5" "Snub Nose," it came in "Brite-Lite" Dayglo yellow, orange, purple and green. In years to follow, it was made in various different colors and a Powell-Peralta logo was added. In 1983 Ray's signature was removed and replaced with a Powell-Peralta script logo. The graphic was also used for T-shirts and stickers.
Originally Released: 1979
Artwork by: Vernon Courtlandt Johnson
Powell-Peralta™ Re-Issue Construction
Powell-Peralta re-issue decks are close reproductions of their 1980's counterparts, featuring the original Pro graphics and shape, top graphic logo and spoon nose concave. They are manufactured by our partners in Mexico or in our Ventura skateboard factory, which is still directed by a few of the same craftsmen that made them originally.
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Listen! Blouse – No Shelter
Some new stuff from Blouse. The track is called No Shelter, which isn't a cover of the unappreciated Rage Against the Machine track with the same name (although that would be sort of cool). The track is off of the September 17 album release, Imperium.
The track has excellent, dreamy vocals and ditches the synth sound often associated with the Portland trio. Check out the track below.


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Donna Nook Range
Donna Nook is a NATO air weapons bombing range on the coast of Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, north of the village of North Somercotes. The area is salt marsh, and is used by the numerous Royal Air Force bases in Lincolnshire for bombing practice. Most of the target practice takes place during weekdays, which means that at weekends it is usually clear to have a good wander about.


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On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:20:33PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > >> This specification uses the first face in the list, NEW-FACE, last. I > >> think it should use these faces in the order they appear. > > It should work the same way as when a list of faces is specified in the > `face' property, shouldn't it ? > > I think we're saying the same thing in different words. I'm not sure. The code currently uses the same function that face-inheritance uses (a face's :inherit attribute may be a list). Unfortunately, the manner in which that works is the _opposite_ of how a list of faces in a face property works. * In a face property, a list of faces is interpreted so that earlier faces in the list _override_ later faces in the list. * In an face-inheritance list, _later_ faces override earlier faces. E.g., for a face property, the following face list: (variable-pitch fixed pitch) will result in the display being `variable-pitch', but if the _same_ list occurs in a face-inheritance property, the display will use `fixed-pitch'! I'm not sure what to do about this; both behaviors kind of make sense. The :inherit behavior is somewhat closer to the implementation -- it just says `merge these faces one by one' -- whereas perhaps the face-property behavior of preferring earlier faces could seem more natural when viewed abstractly, but is actually a bit more of a pain to implement (it uses recursion to apply the face list in reverse order). Use the same code as the face-property for `face-remapping-alist' would have the advantage that you could use other `magic' face-property values for free, e.g. directly embedded attributes like (:foreground "green"), but if that were the case maybe the name `face-remapping-alist' would be slightly wrong? Along the same lines, perhaps one or the other of the two existing types of face-lists should be changed to be consistant with the other -- but which one? Any thoughts? Thanks, -Miles -- Would you like fries with that?
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Architects Our Last Loyal Allies in the War Against Birds
"I don't know of any architects out there who want to kill birds."
— Oh, they do, with their great glass facades and alluring skyscrapers. They just won't admit it in public, because of America's strident bird sympathizers in our long war against our avian enemies. For now, New York City remains a bird death mill in which we slaughter 90,000 evil birds each year. It's a good beginning. But we won't truly be safe until we kill ALL the birds. Just remember: for every bird we nab with our attractive see-through buildings, two more birds circle our airports, desperate to crawl inside our jet engines.


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Margarita, margarita, margarita! That sour, sweet kick in the mouth that reminds us life is good and worth a damn party some time. This week we bring you a compilation of some folks that really know how to enjoy their margaritas. After all…today is National Margarita Day!
We have for you a montage of emotions, each one as distinct as the ones that came before it, and each successive, excessively drunk person just as diverse as the next. From a young woman that grows increasingly indecipherable from a valley girl caricature to a sobbing, dog-loving middle-aged marg-guzzler secretly filmed by her significant other.
You will laugh, you will cry and we are not to be held accountable for any emotions that you may or may not feel while watching this video compilation of folks hammered on margaritas.
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Is peanut butter healthy? Nutrition experts have long debated the question, given peanut butter's high fat content. But when its full nutritional profile is considered, to many, the answer is yes.
"It really is a healthy food," says registered dietitian Lisa Sasson, a clinical professor in the department of nutrition and food studies at New York University. "There are so many reasons to keep it in your pantry or bring it to work, if you like the taste."
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One major reason is that peanut butter has "a great nutritional package" with protein, fiber and many minerals and vitamins, says Dr. Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Two tablespoons have about 7 grams of protein, 16 grams of fat and 2 grams of fiber. Thanks to these three components, "it's very satisfying," says Sasson.
Here's what else you should know about peanut butter.
Is peanut butter a 'good' fat?
Peanut butter's high fat content is what gave the spread a reputation for being unhealthy, says Willett. But researchers and experts now distinguish between different types of fats, and peanut butter is a prime example of a "mostly healthy unsaturated fat," Willett explains. Eating more of this kind of fat "will reduce blood cholesterol and risk of heart disease," he says, "especially if this replaces butter or processed meats."
If you don't like the taste of peanuts (or if you're allergic to them), other nut and seed butters abound, from almond butter to cashew to sunflower seed butters. "I put them all in the healthy category," says Willett.
What's the healthiest kind of peanut butter to buy?
Not all peanut butters are equally good for you. The healthiest kinds contain just one or two ingredients: peanuts and salt (but not too much). Peanut butter is often a sneaky source of added sugar, so make sure there's none listed in the ingredients. And scan the nutrition labels and avoid peanut butters that have hydrogenated oils, which are unhealthy fats that are added to keep peanut butter from separating or going bad quickly, Sasson says.
And skip jars labeled "low fat," Sasson says; these are misleading, since they often contain "the same amount of calories and more added sugar." While natural peanut butters may require a little stirring without the added emulsifiers and may have a bit of a shorter shelf life than versions with hydrogenated oil, keep them in a cool, dark cabinet or the refrigerator to make them last longer, Sasson says.
How much peanut butter should you eat?
A standard serving of peanut butter is just two tablespoons, so you'll need to exercise portion control. Two tablespoons of peanut butter have about 200 calories, so it's best to stick to a two-tablespoon portion size for a meal like a peanut butter sandwich, and a few teaspoons to a tablespoon for a snack, says Sasson.
What's the best way to eat peanut butter?
"Very few foods are so versatile," says Sasson: put peanut butter on apples, crackers, in baked goods, in a sandwich, or use it as a dip for bananas or other fruits. Sasson says she prefers peanut butter simply spread on whole grain toast or whole wheat crackers, while Willett's favorite way to enjoy it is with carrot sticks as a dip or in a "flavorful and nutritious" West African peanut soup.
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