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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Calling All Wreckporters!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
This announcement is for any and all of you who have EVER submitted a Wreck photo that you own. If you would like to have your photo considered for inclusion in Cake Wrecks, the book (yep, you read that right - amazing what people will print these days, eh?) then I need to have your photo permissions. To grant that permission is really easy: all you have to do is go here and RESUBMIT your photo. Be sure to send the largest size photo you have. And that's it!
Again, make sure you ONLY submit photos that you own all rights to: that means nothing you found on the 'net, friend's myspace pages, etc.
Stay tuned for updates as I have them, and keep sending in those Wrecks! Thanks, all!
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- *Michelle said...
a book!? CONGRATS!!!!
- December 2, 2008 at 3:47 PM
- Thinposter said...
Wowie! Congratulations. All it took was a Walmart cake and a dream...
- December 2, 2008 at 3:56 PM
- Matt said...
wow, a book! Congratulations! That's excellent! I can't wait!
- December 2, 2008 at 3:57 PM
- fading in the sun said...
woot woot! grats!
- December 2, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Hey that's awesome.
Yesterday was my birthday, and my husband came home with what I guessed was a cake from Wal Mart when I saw him putting it into the fridge.
For the next 3 hours while finishing work, making dinner, etc, I daydreamed about how bad the decorating or inscription might be, and was ready to run for the camera after dinner.
Sure enough, it came out of the fridge perfectly spelled, with proportional handwriting for the inscription, evenly spaced and in a reasonable color.
Life just isn't fair.
(It was really yummy too! Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream) - December 2, 2008 at 4:17 PM
- Peggy said...
Congratulations on the book deal! It is the bloggy version of marrying the prince!
- December 2, 2008 at 4:18 PM
- PaperAddictJenn said...
Congratulations on your rise to stardom!
- December 2, 2008 at 4:45 PM
- W. A. Whipple said...
Awesome! That's wonderful news, congratulations!
- December 2, 2008 at 4:50 PM
- Mari said...
That is wonderful! Congratulations!
- December 2, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Long-time lurker, first-time poster... A book!!! Congrats! Wow, that is amazing. You deserve it.
- December 2, 2008 at 5:21 PM
- Voix said...
Awesome! Congratulations!
- December 2, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Are you publishing this yourself (through lulu or something) or is it with a publishing company?
I'm curious because I work for a pub co and am trying to convince those above me that your site would make an awesome book. I'm hoping that no one beat me to the punch! - December 2, 2008 at 6:49 PM
Congratulations, Jen! That's awesome and well-deserved! I can't wait to see it.
- December 2, 2008 at 7:08 PM
- Jen said...
Jo Ann,
There are several publishers bidding as we speak, so e-mail me if you'd like further details. It may be too late, though; bidding closes tomorrow afternoon. - December 2, 2008 at 7:56 PM
I'll be first in line to buy it. I'll probably camp outside of Borders waiting for it with a CCC for sustenance.
- December 2, 2008 at 8:40 PM
First of all congratulations on your book! It must be thrilling!
Second, I was wondering if you had to get permission from the person that made the cakes, not the people that took the pictures? I would hate for you to get in trouble. - December 2, 2008 at 9:24 PM
- Michelle said...
Contralulation's Jen!!! :-D I'll be sure to buy a copy!
- December 2, 2008 at 9:32 PM
- This Ro(a)mantic Life said...
How exciting! I've been hooked since my friend sent me a link to the bound-footed cake (it's a long story).
There's an award I'm passing along for your site over on my page (see below). It's not as awesome as a book deal, but it's some humble recognition :).
http://thisroamanticlife.blogspot.com - December 2, 2008 at 9:40 PM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
Jen....I want my copy autographed, pleeze...! ;-p
- December 2, 2008 at 9:43 PM
- thephrog said...
Hey! Congrats on the book! :)
- December 2, 2008 at 11:09 PM
- Alison said...
Not only a book, but a bidding war! Wow, you sure have come a long way, baby.
And we expect a fantastic cake at the launch party, btw. That is, a wrecktastic cake. - December 3, 2008 at 8:11 AM
- Velvetgirlgjqs said...
I have been laughing hysterically at the wrecks since I found the site through VSL! I now work at Johnson & Wales University (a place that may or may not turn out some wreckers ;-)) so I recommend the blog to all the Culinary and Baking & Pastry students, so they can see what NOT to do!! Congratulations on the book and I will want a autographed "under neat" copy!! Keep the comments coming!!!!!
- December 3, 2008 at 8:30 AM
I really need a wreck fix though...we haven't had one since Saturday! - December 3, 2008 at 9:16 AM
I am so going to buy this book. Print lots and lots...
- December 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM
- Deborah Godin said...
I haven't submitted any cake photos (although I did make & decorate a cake for a friend recently, who put a photo of it on her blog, and which, mercifully, hasn't shown up here yet) But, I can't wait to buy the book. And I'll see the movie, too! Your blog is better than buttercream with chocolate sprinkles.
- December 3, 2008 at 3:45 PM
I'm so excited for my very own cake wrecks book! You make me laugh every day!
- December 3, 2008 at 4:04 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm so excited for you! You bring such joy to people sharing these crappy creations! Now its time to conquer all media! Congrats...you are very lucky!
- December 3, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Long time lurker here. First off, congratulations! having a Cake Wrecks book will be fantastic.
Secondly, a word of caution perhaps, I've seen so many of my favourite websites lose all steam and eventually die from getting a book deal. It always seems that making a book ends up taking so much more time and effort than expected, that it becomes impossible for the authors to keep updating their sites at the same time. Please don't let this happen to Cake Wrecks, it's one of my favourite sites! - December 4, 2008 at 6:12 AM
You should make one of those daily calendars where each day is a new wreck picture with a hilarious caption underneath!
- December 4, 2008 at 11:23 AM
I guess we miss out! My company works very slooooowly. :/
Good luck in your endeavors! - December 4, 2008 at 11:58 AM
- justdawn said...
I was hoping to be able to bring you some wrecks from Germany...but alas; there are none to be found!
I am still sad that you never posted my Hooter Birthday cake on here;) heh - December 5, 2008 at 6:35 AM
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"Senator Brown has spoken to his entire staff – including the individuals involved in this unacceptable behavior – and issued them their one and only warning that this type of conduct will not be tolerated. As we enter the final stretch of this campaign, emotions are running high, and while Senator Brown can't control everyone, he is encouraging both sides to act with respect. He regrets that members of his staff did not live up to the high standards that the people of Massachusetts expect and deserve."
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The principal chief of the Cherokee Nation is calling on Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., to apologize for a video that allegedly shows members of his staff imitating "stereotypical 'war whoops chants.'"
As WBUR's Curt Nickisch reported Tuesday for All Things Considered, Brown's supporters were filmedimitating "tomahawk chops" at a rally in Dorchester, Mass., over the weekend. The antics were apparently directed at Elizabeth Warren, Brown's Democratic opponent in the Senate race; Warren has been criticized for telling previous academic employersthat she has Native American heritage.
Now, Brown and the GOP are under fire for supporters' actions that "goes far beyond what is appropriate and proper in political discourse," Cherokee Chief Bill John Baker said in a statement Wednesday.
"The use of stereotypical 'war whoop chants' and 'tomahawk chops' are offensive and downright racist," he said. "It is those types of actions that perpetuate negative stereotypes and continue to minimize and degrade all native peoples."
Early Tuesday, Brown said he didn't condone the action at the rally.
The Boston Globe has reported that two of the people in the video were Republican staffers, "including a member of Scott Brown's U.S. Senate office."
The New York Times reports that Warren called the video "appalling." A second video originally posted by the Chatham Republicans and reposted by the Blue Mass Group on Wednesday shows Brown speaking at a rally this summer about Warren's heritage as "war whoops" can be heard.
Baker said Brown's comments Tuesday didn't go far enough, and called for a full apology:
"We need individuals in the United States Senate who respect Native Americans and have an understanding of tribal issues. For that reason, I call upon Sen. Brown to apologize for the offensive actions of his staff and their uneducated, unenlightened and racist portrayal of native peoples."
Amanda Clinton, a spokeswoman for the Cherokee Nation, told NPR that so far no one from the Brown campaign has contacted her in response to the videos.
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This page aims to give an overview of the current state of metadata in Ogg and the ongoing projects towards improving it. The different components work in concert; for example Ogg Skeleton provides important infrastructure for CMML, VorbisComment is simple to use and program, while the draft Multimedia Metadata Format (M3F) provides more sophisticated information.
All the Xiph.org codecs have some internal mechanism for including metadata about the current stream. Generally, this is one of the codec headers, and in the words of the vorbis spec, "It is meant for short, text comments ... much like someone jotting a quick note on the bottom of a CDR." A single VorbisComment can store upto 2^64 bytes (16 exabytes).
VorbisComments store metadata describing the stream in key=value pairs, such as "ARTIST=Elvis", "TITLE=Blue Suede Shoes". Multiple copies of any given key are allowed (for example you can specify ARTIST several times for multiple performers). The specification has several suggested keys: TITLE, VERSION, ALBUM, TRACKNUMBER, ARTIST, PERFORMER, COPYRIGHT, LICENSE, ORGANIZATION, DESCRIPTION, GENRE, DATE, LOCATION, CONTACT, ISRC. See the specification for the intent of each one.
The VorbisComment page contains improvements to the suggested comment set.
FLAC metadata blocks
Metadata is included in the FLAC codec as METADATA_BLOCK_DATA. Seven types of metadata block are defined:
- METADATA_BLOCK_STREAMINFO: Sample rate, number of channels, etc.
- METADATA_BLOCK_PADDING: Nul padding.
- METADATA_BLOCK_APPLICATION: Third-party applications can register an ID. Metadata is typically 32-bit integers, but any datatypes can be specified.
- METADATA_BLOCK_SEEKTABLE: For one or more seek points.
- METADATA_BLOCK_VORBIS_COMMENT: Also known as FLAC tags, the contents of a VorbisComment packet. Note that the 32-bit field lengths are little-endian coded according to the Vorbis spec, as opposed to the usual big-endian coding of fixed-length integers in the rest of FLAC. FLAC metadata blocks are limited to 2^24 bytes (16 megabytes) and a VorbisComment packet in FLAC must fit within that limit.
- METADATA_BLOCK_CUESHEET: Typically, but not necessarily, for CD-DA (Red Book) cuesheets.
- METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE: For binary picture data.
Ogg Skeleton
Ogg Skeleton provides metadata useful for handling Ogg streams. This includes information like mime-types and mapping for granulepos which allows seeking streams without the need for the demuxer to understand them. The latest version, Ogg Skeleton 4, also provides a keyframe index to enable faster seeking over high latency networks.
Ogg Skeleton allows for attachment of message header fields, given as name-value pairs, that contain some sort of protocol messages about the logical bitstream. This is intended for decode related stuff, such as the screen size for a video bitstream or the number of channels for an audio bitstream.
OggKate was originally designed for karaoke and text. The stream can carry text and images, and these can be animated.
CMML (deprecated)
CMML is not used anymore; use OggKate instead. The Continuous Media Markup Language allowed time-based marking up of media streams, at its simplest this allowed you to divide media files into clips and provide information about each clip.
M3F (unused draft)
Multimedia Metadata Format is not being developed anymore; use VorbisComment instead.
The format was intended to replace VorbisComments for the use of structured metadata, allowing VorbisComments to revert to its orginally intended use of "short, text comments ... much like someone jotting a quick note on the bottom of a CDR."
M3F for the Ogg container was a draft specification which aimed to provide metadata for media streams. The exact aims of this project were still under development, but they included being able to describe artist relationships to a piece more accurately as well as providing the structure to encourage more reliable metadata.
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Anonymous: 10 Things We've Learned In 2013
The Anonymous hacker group continues to seek equal measures of revenge, justice and reform -- preferably through chaotic means -- for perceived wrongdoings.
Anonymous continues to evolve. After launching online attacks against the Church of Scientology in 2008, Anonymous gained renewed energy with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in 2010 against PayPal, MasterCard and other organizations it accused of blockading financial payments to WikiLeaks.
Since then, the loosely organized and chaos-loving hacktivist collective has continued stealing and dumping -- doxing -- data from businesses, government agencies and individuals that the group's members disliked, gaining further notoriety with high-profile breaches of HBGary Federal, private intelligence firm Strategic Intelligence (better known as Stratfor), consumer electronics giant Sony and even an FBI transatlantic cybercrime coordination call. Along the way, a limelight-seeking spinoff, LulzSec, and subsequent re-merger in the form of Operation AntiSec, helped further burnish the Anonymous brand.
At least, that is, until authorities caught up with alleged key members, leading to multiple arrests and convictions. Worst of all for Anonymous supporters, court documents revealed that founding father and LulzSec leader Sabu -- real name: Hector Xavier Monsegur -- had been busted by the FBI in June 2011 and within a day of his arrest turned informant. In short order, U.S. and British authorities claimed to have collared the ringleaders of the attacks launched against not just Sony and Stratfor, but numerous police departments and businesses. Far from being a group without a leader, authorities said, the Anonymous and LulzSec attacks had been carried out by a few key people, typically by exploiting known vulnerabilities in websites.
But with the alleged ringleaders facing jail time, the Anonymous brand didn't seem to suffer. Notably, Anonymous groups in specific geographies, including Mexico, South America, France and beyond, began promoting a more local and overtly political agenda.
In the United States, meanwhile, the group appeared to gain new impetus in January 2013, after Internet activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide. The co-founder of Reddit had been facing a potential jail sentence of at least 35 years after being arrested in 2011 for illegally gaining access to the JSTOR academic database and downloading millions of articles that had been funded by the U.S. government, and which he planned to post for free. Ultimately, he never did so, and after he agreed to unspecified damages, as well as to delete all of the data he'd downloaded, officials at JSTOR considered the case to be closed. Federal prosecutors and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, however, pressed ahead, ultimately charging Swartz -- who'd long suffered from depression -- with 13 felony violations.
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Poems from Jo Bell, our 2010 Website Poet in Residence
What's Glastonbury?
A crowd-sourced poem
It's yoga and bacon butties, it's wrist bands and tent pegs and earplugs:
it's sweaty tent sex and wellingtons, it's colour and cartloads of drugs.
It's wanting a shower, it's FREEDOM; it's a failure to meet expectations;
it's hot moshpits and sweaty armpits, clammy tents and loud conversations.
It's angels in pink and toilets that stink, it's drowning in quagmires of shite;
it's time spent away from the city and friends, to mingle with strangers and wet wipes.
It's old friends and new, it's panic attacks, it's performers sweating blood;
starry night skies, theocracies; it's Peace and Love and Mud.
It's more mud, and good times, it's NO UNNECESSARY LOADS;
it's my first ever festival at 51! It's 4 pints of Stowfords and one for the road.
Wet canvas, warm beer, no sleep, lots of noise;
silhouttes in the shower tent of soapy girls and boys;
It's the tricky removal of wellies; leaking tents, friendly strangers;
sleep deprivation in muddy fields; mountains of nachos and gurning teenagers.
It's surprisingly serious, splendidly daft; it's fairies and spiders in tents;
it's MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC; it's face paint and cider and brand new friends.
It's dancing until we fall over; it's singing a song till we don't know how.
It's a hundred thousand strangers holding hands in a field;
it's all of us, right here, right now.
The Glastopoem
Composed entirely of Tweets (or, for the purpose of this poem, Tweaks) from Glastonbury festival-goers
Lying on a stranger watching sunrise: losing my tent and my mind;
Giving birth and back the next day; Rolf Harris and Good Effing Times.
Middle class hippies on hash fudge, or tasting colours in mushroom brew;
it's mud, sweat and beers: it's Baker Street played with sax and kazoo.
Awesome sun-up over the stones. Neil Young is angry, I feel.
It's beating the Orb with our Sid. It's chillin with Mickey off the Bill:
it's buying a trippy from Mr Whippy;
Cool experience: warm friendships; hot sun.
It's like no other place on earth. It's 'Cup of Tea our Kid'?
It's can in the hand, watching the band: First time: I'm getting annihilated!
For one lucky person it's 'Circus. Night. Moroccan tea and willies.'
for others – Welly, smelly, brolly, jolly, Delhi belly!
Dancing with deaf people: love, hope, strength – toke, coke, smoke, hoke, poke.
seeing the witch for my eczema; that bicycling piano bloke.
Dreadlocked and horny, moody boyfriend, watching the Waterboys;
The Boss. Damon's Tears; Warm cider; making a lot of noise.
Actual sunshine! Bee Shaped Kiln: mud, glorious mud and PASSION;
On the fence, sixteen and awestruck; gatecrashed backstage, stole nice cushion.
Campsite steward, nightshift on a long and rainy night;
Honeymoon kisses and hedgerow pisses; the dog still itching cos 'fleas have rights'.
It's realising how happy I am – it's Paul McCartney – Live and Let Die.
It's watching the sunrise high on the hill – it's 'where the fuck am I?'
It's waterfalls and windy days – or 'hold phone tightly at Long Drop' –
It's Hang on, This Ain't Fuckin' Butlins! It's beatboxers doing a chicken rap.
It's sparking a fag from a nudist's ass; it's lovemyvagina.com;
It's Orb 93 – You, Them and Me – it's brass bands, tiddly om pom pom.
It's Faithless saying 'this is our church'; a monkey chased by bananas
It's juggling for Guinness; hot air balloon ballerinas.
It's a naked old lady shopping for clothes. It's we won't fight, we'll sing;
It's Glastonbury: thank God I'm home. Thanks for the Everything.
We Are More Than This
We are poets in the corner of a field;
we're pissheads in the corner of a bar;
we're healers with a pocket full of crystals;
but that's not all we are.
We are jugglers and firebreathers,
Inger-land supporters watching football on a screen:
we were hungover people this morning,
but that's not all we've been.
We are jewellers and stewards; barkeepers,
beekeepers and witches raising spirits under trees;
smokers, tokers, bad t-shirt jokers –
but that's not all we want to be.
We are gathered in Arcadia, the Green Fields and the Glade;
the Pyramid, the Leftfield, the cabaret or Other Stage;
we're hotting up and chilling out, each finding our own bliss;
each one a dot on a global map – and together, more than this.
One for the stewards
Here's to the stewards and volunteers – those
Who go to the places that nobody goes,
Who pick up the litter we've dropped between shows,
And sort out the toilets and do – well, God knows!
But bless all their efforts – so this is a cheer
Of thanks to the stewards and volunteers.
Glastonbury – an economist's view
In view of the recent figures
and the economic recession
I thought we were approaching
a double dip depression.
There's not enough love manufactured,
there's not enough joy to supply demand;
but when Michael Eavis walked on stage
we knew the recovery was in hand.
Projections were awful, but then we found
the Financial Times had turned another page;
The national love deficit was fixed
when Michael Eavis walked on stage.
The force of can-do, will-do,
have done for forty years
When Michael Eavis walked on stage
we all became multi-millionaires.
The First Time
You were on your back in a field somewhere –
the smell of your bodies, and grass, in the air.
You think there was music; there was sweat on your skin
in that snapshot moment when you knew you were in
way over your head, and head over heels;
the moment you knew that this was the deal;
you'd joined the club, done it for the first time
even though you knew it was probably the worst time.
But what if that first time was also the best?
The one that you knew would eclipse the rest?
What are the chances of that – what luck
to find that your first is your best ever – look,
I've had a few, but I recognise this;
the shiver that comes with a perfect kiss.
You can lose your virginity in a field or a suburban bungalow,
and lose it again in Pilton's fields, at the fortieth birthday of Glasto!
My heart is becoming as full as the moon,
my soul is solar-powered; and it's nice
to know that in this blue-sky June
even a cynic can still be deflowered – twice!
Things I Learned at Glastonbury
That sunshine makes dust of the fields of mud:
and Three Daft Monkeys are really good!
That a female speaker gets a female signer
and using a Moon-cup means I Love My Vagina.
That the Caribbean Kitchen does a brilliant chicken jerk:
that solar powered shower bags are great – they really work!
That a little poetry village makes everybody write:
that sometimes the most surprising folks will stay up all night, every night.
That Glastonbury's 40 and will be here 40 years hence:
that Jean Binta Breeze gives out a free smile with every sentence.
That we've 45 stages of words and music, circus and magic to rock to:
that Dizzee Rascal swears a lot, and the Gospel Choir tends not to.
That it may be a huge ordeal going to the bog, but
that I have tasted the future – and its name is frozen yogurt.
That circus girls have great eyebrows, that there's always somewhere to go:
and on top of these, I've re-learnt things that I should already know.
That the sweetest music is blackbird song
even if – especially if – you've been partying till dawn.
That life is short and life is good, and you need to live every minute;
that the stone circle means nothing without the people in it.
That dehydration hurts your head,
that it's hard to sleep on a camping bed:
that friendship is constant, whatever the weather:
that the best way to spend a summer is together.
That Glasto is not just a field or ten, but a feeling we all could be better:
better neighbours and better friends. Let's take that home with the litter.
We Are More Than This
We are poets in the corner of a field,
Pissheads in the corner of a bar,
Healers with a pocketful of crystals –
But that's not all we are.
We are jugglers and firebreathers,
Or Ing-er-land supporters watching football on a screen.
We are people with hangovers after last night's excess
But that's not all we've been.
We are barkeepers, bee-keepers, stewards and jewellers,
Witches raising spirits under old oak trees:
We are smokers, tokers, bad T-shirt jokers –
Buy that's not all we can be.
We're fellow travellers on common ground
Sharing the fruits of a lifetime's labour:
We're people with goodwill and stories to tell,
And for these precious days, we are neighbours.
A Hundred Thousand Happiness
So Jean likes to dance, and Tony likes to mosh,
And Rich likes to smoke, and me? I'd like a wash:
And hundreds like to party until dawn between the stones
And hundreds like to raise their hands together. Me? I stood alone
In a field with a hundred thousand friends, and
Smiling, read a text that said – if I was there I'd be holding your hand.
This Is What We Do
If we were whales, we'd do this underwater:
meeting in a circle of sea-monoliths,
a slow deep gathering of singing philosophers.
If we were apes – as we so nearly are –
we'd convene in the jungle canopies,
a shrieking parliament of fruit and grooming.
But since we're human, what we need
to feed our appetites is carrot cake and Norah Jones;
ukeleles, geisha clowns and noodles;
forests of silk flags, and seas of sun-drenched skin.
Since we're human, what we need is to keep each other close;
to gather somewhere we can play at being
nothing but ourselves.
Glastonbury – the alien's view
We have observed this planet now for decades.
We do not intervene, though we have seen
it grow less green, its climate shift, its volume levels
always on the rise. We'd leave it to its slow decline
and turn to finer ecosystems – but we find
a single Great Anomaly recurring every year.
One spot in their northern hemisphere becomes illuminated.
Around their longest day, a surge of light appears.
It's inexplicable by any law of physics: generates
a form of energy we cannot name. It isn't heat or light.
It can't be quantified or broken down, but if it could
we have a feeling it might do this fragile planet good.
We hope that our research will soon bear fruit; we
note it in the meantime as a curiosity, and by the way
a thing unrivalled in the galaxy for beauty.


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One of my Brazilian blogger friends – a very witty and smart one, by the way – wrote a post a couple of months ago about how much her mother likes to prepare homemade gifts – food, to be more specific. There's a kind of pie she makes for her friends and coworkers that is so famous I wish I lived nearby so she could bake one for me, too. :D
I like to made food gifts for my friends, and I'm sure many of you do, too. I'm always thinking of baking cookies for one, making candy for another…
I wanted to send a gift to a friend and the lovely Lynn helped me choose what to send. She suggested brownies or fudge – they would be easier to pack and sturdy enough to be mailed. I used this recipe – and what a wonderful website that is. So many great recipes and beautiful photos that it is almost impossible to choose one…
Ju, dear, it was wonderful to know you liked the gift!
Fabulous five-minute fudge
2 cups (12oz/336g) semisweet chocolate pieces
2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk (196g/one-half of a 14-ounce can)
1 tablespoon water
¾ cup (90g) chopped walnuts, toasted if desired
1 teaspoon vanilla
Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper; set aside. In a medium microwave-safe bowl, combine chocolate pieces, sweetened condensed milk, and water.
Microwave, uncovered, on 100% power (high) for 1 minute; stir. Microwave about 1 minute more, or until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth, stirring every 30 seconds. Stir in nuts and vanilla. Pour mixture onto prepared cookie sheet and spread it into a 22x15cm* (9x6-inch) rectangle, or drop mixture by rounded teaspoons onto prepared cookie sheet.
Chill fudge about 30 minutes or until firm. Cut into 3.5cm (approx. 1-1/2-inch) squares
Makes 24 pieces
* I used a 27x15 cm baking sheet and spread the fudge completely inside it – I got 28 squares.


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FYI: this looked heavy to me but the collection's curator, Donald LaRocca kindly explained, the 50 pounds would be evenly distributed over the body and not at all the hardship one imagines. So feel free to give in to your delusions of knighthood.
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Back now to our coverage of the tense night and police activity that brought an end to the manhunt for the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect. Franklin Street in Watertown was the epicenter of that massive search. Police and SWAT teams took over the suburban neighborhood looking for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Keith Glavish lives nearby. He was in his house while the search unfolded. Thanks for being with us.
KEITH GLAVISH: Good morning.
SIMON: Quiet again?
GLAVISH: Well, it's relatively quiet. I just took a walk down the street to see what was going on and actually it's, you know, there are news trucks all over the place and there are still police around - satellite dishes - but yes it's relatively quiet.
SIMON: Police were going house to house in your neighborhood yesterday. I assume they got to yours. What was that like?
GLAVISH: Well, the got to ours but they didn't actually come inside. They walked through the yard, the National Guardsmen, with machine guns. And this was at the time of the day when really it was about a mile from here in Watertown where they thought the suspect was. So there wasn't an interior search, at least not on our block here, at that time.
SIMON: Keith, may I ask, did you ever say to any of your friends or family members, I wonder if they've searched that boat.
GLAVISH: No, but I can't honestly say I did, but certainly in hindsight, it's a great spot to hide because, you know, boats around here, when they're stored for the winter, they have these plastic covers on them that are kind of shrink-wrapped. But now that I know that he was probably there during the day yesterday, which is, as I say, five houses from here, it's a little bit frightening in retrospect.
SIMON: So how do you feel now?
GLAVISH: Oh, I feel greatly relieved. Just enormously relieved. The thing that I've been thinking about is how extraordinary this whole thing was for Boston and certainly for the town of Watertown.
Keith Glavish, who lives in Watertown. Thanks very much for being with us.
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- Assemble an impressive portfolio of work samples.
- Complete a related internship to gain relevant experience and to contribute to your portfolio.
- Work on campus publications in design or layout or find a part-time position with a local publication.
- Develop excellent communication skills and learn to work well on a team of professionals.
- Volunteer to create brochures, newsletters or other publications for campus organizations.
- Develop problem-solving skills, attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines.
- Join professional associations as a student member.
- Become knowledgeable in production and printing processes.
- Develop broad software application skills in MAC and PC based programs but not at the cost of developing a solid background in design.
- Participate in local or campus design contests.
Three Dimensional Design
- Signage
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- Design firms
- Product design divisions of large corporations
- In-house creative departments
- Advertising agencies
- Museums and attractions
- Government agencies
- Self-employed (freelance)
Information / Strategies
- Find an internship in a design studio that specializes in 3D design especially for signage, exhibition, promotional display and environmental design which are very specialized.
- Gain skills in model building and three-dimensional design. Develop a willingness to experiment.
- Join a related professional association such as the Package Designers Council.
- Develop excellent computer skills and strong written and oral communication skills.
- Participate in design contests.
Electronic Media Design / 4D Design
- Digital
- Multimedia
- Film Title
- Television Graphics
- Video Games
- Computer Graphics
- Motion Graphics
- Animation
- Website Design
- Interactive Media
- Film studios
- Motion picture production firms
- Television stations
- Computer systems design firms
- Video game designers
- Software firms
- Video production houses
- Internet media companies
- Online publishers
- Online retailers
Information / Strategies
- This is a highly specialized area of design that is not widely taught in all design programs. Research programs carefully to find ones that emphasize this area. Consider attending specialized programs in order to learn about television and motion graphics, animation and video game design.
- Develop excellent computer skills in a variety of platforms and design software.
- Gain relevant experience through part-time jobs and internships.
- Volunteer to design the website for a student or local community organization.
- Work for the campus television station.
- To work in television and film, consider relocating to areas of the country where the entertainment industry is more prevalent.
- Stay current with media and cultural trends.
- Participate in design contests.
- Creative Services
- Art Direction
- Production
- Copywriting
- Corporate Identity Design
- Branding
- Logo Design
- Advertising agencies
- In-house creative departments
- Television
- Radio
- Newspapers
- Magazines
Information / Strategies
- Supplement curriculum with course work in advertising or business.
- Complete an internship in an advertising agency.
- Work on the campus newspaper in the advertising division.
- Learn to work well in team environments and to communicate your ideas effectively.
- Develop the ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
- Be prepared to move to larger cities for the most job opportunities.
- Learn to work with a variety of media.
- Create a strong portfolio of a work samples.
General Information and Strategies
- Carefully research design programs to find one that fits your career goals. Programs vary in terms of the areas taught so not all programs will prepare students for all areas of design.
- Approximately 3 in 10 graphic designers are self-employed. Freelance designers must develop strong abilities in networking, sales and persuasion.
- Graphic designers work in countless industries on a wide array of projects. Research the field thoroughly to learn about career options and the experiences and skills necessary to work in those areas. Some graphic designers choose to specialize their work while others complete a variety of projects.
- Be prepared to start entry-level and work you way up the career ladder. Take a first job based on the industry and type of design you desire to work with because work from your first job will comprise your professional portfolio.
- Some graphic design areas cross in multiple media such as educational design, identity design, information design and systems design.
- Graphic designers must be able to tolerate criticism and direction in their work, since much of their work involves creating a product for a customer.
- Graphic designers are typically artistically skilled, imaginative, and effective problem-solvers.
- Develop a solid background in communications theory.
- Learn to listen effectively to client needs and communicate ideas effectively.
- Subscribe to and read graphic design materials such as Print, Eye, Communication Arts, Step into Graphics, Griphis, Computer Graphics and Applications, and others relevant to your interests.
- Student design magazines such as, CMYK and Creative Convocation, solicit student work and have regular competitions. Try to get your work published.
- Join major design organizations and societies, e.g. The American Institute of Graphic Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, University and College Design Association, New York Directors Club, Society of Illustrators, or the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation.
- Become familiar with as many computer graphics and design software packages such as Quark, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Plan to stay up-to-date on new developments in the industry.
- Successful graphic designers are well-read and in-touch with changing consumer preferences and can react to new trends. Learn about your product and who will use it. A liberal arts education helps designers learn a little about a lot of things. Additionally, graphic designers should develop good research skills, work well on a team, and learn a foreign language if working in international design.
- Graphic design is moving towards a more user/viewer way of thinking that allows the user/viewer to contribute to the design.
- Many design schools are shifting towards a more activist attitude teaching ethical behavior, green-uses of design, and using the power of design to rally people behind causes that affect us all.


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A stretch of road in the West End, today extending from Duke Street south toward the Capital Beltway, was evident on Civil War-era maps. Known for decades as Lincolnia Road, the road traveled from the Lincolnia community along the Little River Turnpike south on a route today made up of South Whiting Street and part of South Van Dorn Street below Edsall Road.
This photograph, taken in 1952, shows Lincolnia Road less than two months after it became part of the City of Alexandria as a result of the West End annexation from Fairfax County. Facing north, the image shows wooden bridges across Backlick Run and was underneath where the overpass near Courtney Avenue is today.
Following annexation, many of the West End streets were to be named for Confederate officers, like Beauregard, Pickett and Pegram. In 1953, the section of Lincolnia Road south of Edsall was renamed for General Earl Van Dorn.
The low-lying area was subject to flooding and at times the road at Backlick Run was impassable. A graded railroad crossing to the south also posed risks. Two men were killed in 1959 when a train struck their truck, prompting installation of warning lights there and at other crossings in the city.
Lincolnia Road originally reached Edsall Road just to the west of where they meet today. In the early 1960s, South Van Dorn Street was rerouted slightly to the east, widened, and extended to Duke Street. At the same time, new industrial development emerged in the area, with Newton Asphalt among the earliest. This development was directly connected to the planning and construction of the Capital Beltway and its interchange with Van Dorn.
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Spitfires are a desert breed of dragon. Their dull brown bodies contrast with their brilliant turquoise markings, and they only blaze brighter when these dragons fight. Spitfires are notorious for their territorial natures, and the wing-edges of most are ripped and tattered before their first year is out. Spitfires are also noteworthy for their brilliant blue fire, which is used not for hunting or fighting, but rather for making glass caves from the sand, in which the dragons can soak up the sun.
Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Today was a truly bizarre, died and gone to heaven kind of day. The Silver Fox and I had planned to pick strawberries at a local farm, but heavy rain last evening had battered the crop so badly that it made no sense to slog through muddy fields for badly bruised berries. Unfortunately, that conclusion was reached in the middle of a field where we stood knee deep in mud. Having determined that berry picking would have to be postponed for another week, we decided to drive through the Lorane Valley, which is beautiful at this time of year. We had a late, but lovely, lunch at King Estates and started home. That's when things got really strange. Now, the Fox and I live in a community that fosters free spirits and cherishes individuality. Demonstrations are commonplace here and it takes a lot to raise eyebrows. We encountered a demonstration as we headed home that would have raised my eyebrows to my hairline had I not been laughing so hard. We got caught in a traffic jam caused by the World Naked Bike Ride protest, which,while new to me, apparently is a yearly event here. And yes, most of them, about a hundred strong, were buck naked except for the helmets on their heads. These modern day Godivas ride naked through the street to remind drivers that cyclists are vulnerable when sharing the road with automobiles. Noble, huh? Local police are not particularly concerned with the annual WNBR protest because the group is peaceful and law abiding and there are certainly no concealed weapons to arouse concern. Photos of the event from prior years can be seen, here. We Oregonians are a peaceful lot, though we tend to view laws as suggestions rather than fiat, so, if ever you have the urge to ride your bike au natural, join us for the convention next year. Pack a fig leaf and I might even feed you.
I had planned to make strawberry shortcake for dessert tonight, but had no berries to work with. I decided to try a recipe that I had found in Bon Appetit magazine. It combines a dense chocolate cake with a peanut butter buttercream frosting. The combination is hard to beat and the cake did not disappoint. The cake layer is very similar to the Wacky Cake of WWII, but the buttercream, an Italian meringue, is in a class of deliciousness that is all its own. I urge you try this when you have some time. You won't be sorry. Here's how it is made.
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Snack Cake...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Charlotte Druckman via Bon Appetit magazine
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup finely chopped semisweet or bittersweet chocolate (3-1/2 ounces)
1/4 cup egg whites (from about 2 large eggs)
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch cubes
Kosher salt
1/4 cup chopped unsalted, dry-roasted peanuts
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat bottom and sides of an 8 x 8 x 2-inch pan with nonstick spray; line bottom of pan with parchment paper.
2) To make cake: Whisk flour, sugar, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda together in a large bowl. Add oil, vanilla, and 1-1/4 cups water; whisk until smooth. Fold in chopped chocolate. Scrape into prepared pan; smooth top. Bake until a tester comes out clean when inserted into center, 35–40 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
3) To make peanut butter buttercream: Combine sugar and egg whites in a medium metal bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. Whisk constantly until sugar dissolves and mixture is hot to the touch, 3–4 minutes. Remove from heat; using an electric mixer, beat on high speed until cool and thick, 5–6 minutes. Beat in vanilla, then peanut butter. With mixer running, add butter a few pieces at a time, beating to blend between additions. Season with salt.
4) To finish: Run a thin knife around pan to release cake. Invert cake onto a serving plate. Spread peanut butter buttercream over top. Garnish with chopped chocolate and peanuts. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Store airtight at room temperature. Cut into 2-inch squares. Yield: 16 servings.
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Two Years Ago Today: Gobi Manchurian - Indo-Chinese Fritters
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Reality Check, Schimmel Sisters, and the Final Four: Why We Gotta Love and Support Our Own People Better
I was excited watching the women's NCAA tournament the past couple of days.
I don't think that I was alone—in fact, I think that every single Native in North America was equally as excited as me. Here we had two beautiful young Native sisters, Shoni and Jude Schimmel, playing a key role in a HUGE upset victory over the seemingly unbeatable Baylor and the powerful, 6'8" giant Brittney Griner. If that wasn't enough, last night, they clinched a spot in the Final Four with the sisters playing incredibly.
It was a beautiful site. Native people seemed to be singing in unison, like those old Coke commercials, "I'd like to teach the world to sing…in perfect harmony…"
Native unity—coming together as a people.
Well, not really.
See, let me explain. I remember a couple of years ago, a good friend of mine, knowing that I'm a decent lawyer, referred Shoni Schimmel's family to me. There was this really amazing opportunity for a feature length show highlighting Shoni on TLC (I think it was TLC, but it was one of the better cable networks). Anyway, there were some private investors raising money for the film, which would have highlighted a wonderful and loving Native family who teach their children to work hard and follow their dreams. The Schimmel family wanted someone to review the contract, understandably, to make sure that the girls and the family generally were not being taken advantage of. Being a basketball fan and also a pretty mediocre businessman, I said "Of course, I'll do whatever you need for free."
I reviewed it. We discussed the terms in it—all was well. I made my tiny contribution to the project and I figured the film was well on its way to being an Oscar nominee. It was a great story: Native girl from the Rez makes it to the big time, overcoming countless obstacles, because of her loving family's support.
Unfortunately, it didn't happen like that. Why?
Well, the project died on the vine because of a lack of money. The investors went to MANY, MANY Tribal councils asking for contributions. "Anything will help," they said. It wasn't a particularly big-budget project—much less than many Tribes give to local law enforcement or to any particular parade. But not for this Native basketball prodigy. For her, barely any support. The reason? "She's not from our Tribe. Obviously she's a good player, but why should we help with HER project? What do my tribal members get out of it? They want us to invest in our own tribal members."
Now, I take all of the people putting the image of Shoni screaming at Brittney Griner after her AMAZING shot with a grain of salt…yeah, it sounds good to support them now and we should absolutely support them now. But know they're a proven commodity and are both destined for the WNBA-it doesn't take too much faith to support them now. But what about when their family had no resources and was unknown a few years ago?
The larger point: we have to invest in Native people when they need it, not just when it's convenient and easy. We cannot just be fair-weather supporters when they've already made it. It's really easy to "claim" our most successful people after they're getting accolades from the larger world, but we should be the first cheering section for Native outliers, for the ones trying to become tomorrow's role models for Native youth. We've got to, Tribal citizens and elected officials alike, shoulder some of the responsibility of developing this Native talent if we want to bask in their glory when they win.
We've gotta do better at supporting and loving our own people. We could have 30 Shonis and 50 Judes and 100 Adam Beaches and Jacoby Ellsburys, if we created the infrastructure and support systems for that to happen. Forget which Tribe they're from anymore—nobody cares (nor should they!!) which Tribe Shoni and Jude are from now. Nobody cares what Tribe Adam is; nobody cares which Tribe Jacoby is. We love them because they're Native. And that's how we should support our hard-working and talented Natives before they get their big break too.
For the next few months, I'm going to be highlighting some Natives in business, arts, entertainment and sports and pleading with you all to lend support, spiritual, and yes MONETARY to these ambitious Natives. Tribal casinos and Native organizations give TONS of money for washed-up athletes and celebs with tax problems to show up at their casinos and conferences…and oddly, nobody cares which Tribe the washed-up athletes or celebs with tax problems are. Nobody asks—they just take them at their word when they smile a rehearsed smile and say that they have some distant and remote Native ancestry.
And the Tribal casino/Native organization promptly writes a big check for them. That's cool—business is business. We also have to develop our enterprises.
…But can't we even commit half of those resources to the development of tomorrow's Native heroes?
Gyasi Ross
Blackfeet Nation Enrolled/Suquamish Nation Immersed
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Disclosure: After writing about the Latvian Sink-Urinal a few weeks ago, and then following it up with a post on the Japanese sink-toilet, I was really reluctant to report on toilet technology again. But what can I say, my editor made me do it?
We've been featuring innovative ideas each week, and in the course of our reporting many of you have pointed out the impressiveness of the Japanese in the area of toilet technology. The toilets there are so smart that last week we learned that one kind of Japanese toilet can be hacked.
According to a warning by the information security firm Trustwave, a Satis-brand toilet by the Japanese commode company Lixil can be controlled remotely by an Android app. How? Every Satis toilet has the same hard-coded Bluetooth PIN (0000). That means anyone using the "My Satis" Android app can control any Satis toilet.
We've excerpted part of the advisory:
"An attacker could simply download the 'My Satis' application and use it to cause the toilet to repeatedly flush, raising the water usage and therefore utility cost to its owner. Attackers could cause the unit to unexpectedly open/close the lid, activate bidet or air-dry functions, causing discomfort or distress to user."
Sounds like some discomfort, indeed. But this whole kerfuffle got us curious about what else the My Satis toilet could do, so we put the promotional site into Google translate to learn more. Not surprisingly, this toilet is flush with features.
At $4,000, the Satis has features that come standard in Nipponese commodes, like deodorizing capabilities, an automatic seat and a two-nozzle bidet spray. But the app takes the experience to another level. You can set the toilet speakers to play the music on your smartphone — essentially deejaying your time on the toilet. A personal potty party, if you will.
It also makes it easier to life-log even your most unsavory details: You can use it to record and track your bowel movements.
The promotional site explains that quantifying poop is "essential for understanding" your health status, and your digestive regularity is key to determining any "changes in the body and disorder of the mind," according to the ad copy.
This isn't a completely foreign idea. While reporting on the quantified self movement in March, the life-logger I profiled referenced a Californian who tracked his digestive system for a year. While researching, I discovered there's an American app for that.
With that, we conclude this edition of your toilet innovation report.
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What is encopresis?
Encopresis is a problem that children age 4 or older can develop due to chronic (long-term) constipation. With constipation, children have fewer bowel movements than normal, and the bowel movements they do have can be hard, dry and difficult to pass.
The child may avoid using the bathroom to avoid discomfort. Stool can become impacted (packed into the rectum and large intestine) and unable to move forward. The rectum and intestine become enlarged due to the hard, impacted stool. Eventually, the rectum and intestine have problems sensing the presence of stool, and the anal sphincter (the muscle at the end of the digestive tract that helps hold stool in) loses its strength. Liquid stool can start to leak around the hard, dry, impacted stool, soiling a child's clothing.
Which children develop encopresis?
Any child with chronic constipation may develop encopresis. Some of the situations that lead to constipation include the following:
- Eating a high-fat, high-sugar, "junk-food" diet
- Drinking mainly soft drinks and sugared drinks, and not drinking enough water and fruit juices
- Lack of exercise
- Reluctance to use public bathrooms
- Stress in the family, with friends or at school
- Being too busy playing to take time to use the bathroom
- Change in bathroom routine, such as when a child starts a new school year and bathroom breaks are less frequent than they were over the summer
For unknown reasons, boys develop encopresis six times more than girls. Family stress can be linked to constipation, but there does not seem to be any association between developing encopresis and how many children are in a family, a child's birth order (for example, oldest, middle, or youngest), a child's age, or the family's income.
Why is encopresis of concern?
Encopresis in children can cause both physical and emotional problems.
Impacted (backed up) stool in the intestine can cause abdominal pain, as well as loss of appetite. Some children may develop bladder infections.
Other health problems may cause chronic constipation, including diabetes, hypothyroidism, Hirschsprung's Disease, and inflammatory bowel disease.
Children with encopresis may feel emotionally upset by the "accidents" they have when they soil their clothes. They usually do not have control of this leakage of stool. Their self-esteem and interactions with other people can be affected. Children are often ashamed or embarrassed. They may avoid going to school, playing with friends, or spending the night away from home. Parents may feel guilt, shame, anger or distaste by the problem.
What are the symptoms of encopresis?
The following are the most common symptoms of encopresis. However, each child may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- Loose, watery stools
- Involuntary stooling, or needing to have a bowel movement with little or no warning, which may soil underwear when a child cannot get to the bathroom in time
- Scratching or rubbing of the anal area due to irritation by watery stools
- Withdrawal from friends, school, and/or family
- Hiding their soiled underwear
Symptoms of encopresis in children may look like other gastrointestinal (GI) conditions or medical problems. Please consult your child's doctor for a diagnosis.
How is encopresis diagnosed?
A doctor or other healthcare provider will examine your child and obtain a medical history. Imaging tests may also be done to evaluate the intestine and rule out other health problems. These tests may include:
- Abdominal X-ray. A diagnostic test to evaluate the amount of stool in the large intestine.
- Barium enema. A test that checks the intestine for obstruction (blockage), strictures (narrow areas) and other abnormalities. A fluid that shows up well on X-ray, called barium, is inserted as an enema in the anus, and then the intestine is examined by X-ray.
Encopresis treatment will be determined by your child's doctor based on the following:
- The extent of the problem
- Your child's age, overall health, and medical history
- The opinion of the healthcare providers involved in the child's care
- Your opinion or preference
Treatment for encopresis may include:
- Removing the impacted stool
- Keeping bowel movements soft so the stool will pass more easily
- Retraining the intestine and rectum to gain control over bowel movements
An enema may be prescribed by your child's doctor to help remove the impacted stool. An enema is a liquid that is inserted in your child's rectum and helps to loosen the hard, dry stool. (DO NOT give your child an enema without the approval of a doctor or other healthcare provider.)
Your child's doctor will often prescribe medications to help keep your child's bowel movements soft for several months. This will help prevent stool impaction from occurring again. Please do not give your child stool softeners without the approval of a doctor.
Dietary changes
Often, making changes in your child's diet will help constipation. Consider the following suggestions:
- Increase the amount of fiber in your child's diet by:
- Adding more fruits and vegetables
- Adding more whole grain cereals and breads (check the nutritional labels on food packages for foods that have more fiber)
What are good fiber sources?
Foods |
Moderate fiber |
High fiber |
Bread |
Whole wheat bread, granola bread, wheat bran muffins, whole-grain waffles, popcorn |
Cereal |
Bran cereals, shredded wheat cereals, oatmeal, Mueslix, granola, oat bran |
High bran cereals |
Vegetables |
Beets, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, carrots, corn, green beans, green peas, acorn and butternut squash, spinach, potato with skin, avocado |
Fruits |
Apples with peel, dates, papayas, mangos, nectarines, oranges, pears, kiwis, strawberries, applesauce, raspberries, blackberries, raisins |
Cooked prunes, dried figs |
Meat Substitutes |
Peanut butter, nuts |
Baked beans, black-eyed peas, garbanzo beans, lima beans, pinto beans, kidney beans, chili with beans, trail mix |
Other suggestions
If dietary and behavioral changes do not help, or if your child's doctor notices other problems, they may recommend laxatives, stool softeners, or an enema. These products should ONLY be used with the recommendation of your child's doctor. DO NOT use them without consulting your child's doctor first.
Until the intestine and rectum regain their muscle tone, children may still have "accidents" and soil their underwear on occasion. Preschool children may be able to wear a disposable training pant until they regain bowel control. Taking a change of underwear and/or pants to school can help minimize your child's embarrassment and improve their self-esteem as bowel control improves.
- Increase the amount of fiber in your child's diet by:
- Adding more fruits and vegetables
- Adding more whole grain cereals and breads (check the nutritional labels on food packages for foods that have more fiber)
- Offer your child fruit juice instead of soft drinks.
- Encourage your child to drink more fluids, especially water.
- Limit fast foods and junk foods that are usually high in fats and sugars, instead offer more well-balanced meals and snacks.
- Limit drinks with caffeine, such as cola drinks and tea.
- Limit whole milk to 16 ounces a day for a child 2 years of age and older, but do not eliminate milk altogether. Children need the calcium in milk to help their bones grow strong.
- Plan to serve your child's meals on a regular schedule. Often, eating a meal will stimulate a bowel movement within 30 minutes to an hour. Serve breakfast early so your child does not have to rush off to school and miss the opportunity to have a bowel movement.
- Increase exercise. Increasing the amount of exercise your child gets can also help with constipation. Exercise aids digestion by helping the normal movements the intestines make to push food forward as it is digested. People who do not move around much are often constipated. Encourage your child to go outside and play rather than watch TV or engage in other indoor activities.
- Proper bowel habits. Have your child sit on the toilet at least twice a day for at least 10 minutes, preferably shortly after a meal. Make this time pleasant; do not scold or criticize the child if they are unable to have a bowel movement. Giving stickers or other small rewards – and making posters that chart your child's progress – can help motivate and encourage them.


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Issue 95, Spring 1985
This interview with John Barth was conducted in the studios of KUHT in Houston, Texas, for a series entitled The Writer in Society. The stage set was made up to resemble a writer's den—the decor including a small globe of the world, bronze Remington-like animal statuary, a stand-up bookshelf with glass shelves on which were placed some potted plants and a haphazard collection of books, a few volumes of the Reader's Digest condensed novel series among them. Large pots of plants were set about. Barth sat amongst them in a cane chair. He is a tall man with a domed forehead; a pair of very large-rimmed spectacles give him a professorial, owlish look. He is a caricaturist's delight. He sports a very wide and straight mustache. Recently he had grown a beard. In manner, Barth has been described as a combination of British officer and Southern gentleman.
"We'll have to stick to the channel," he wrote in his first novel, The Floating Opera, "and let the creeks and coves go by." Every novel since then has been a refutation of this dictum of sticking to the main topic. He is especially influenced by the classical cyclical tales such as Burton's Thousand and One Nights and the Gesta Romanorum, and by the complexities of such modern masters as Nabokov, Borges, and Beckett. For novels distinguished by a wide range of erudition, invention, wit, historical references, whimsy, bawdiness, and a great richness of image and style, Barth has been described as an "ecologist of information."
Of his working habits Barth has said that he rises at six in the morning and puts an electric percolator in the kitchen so that during the course of sitting for six hours at his desk he has an excuse for the exercise of walking back and forth from his study to the kitchen for a cup of coffee. He speaks of measuring his work not by the day (as Hemingway did) but by the month and the year. "That way you don't feel so terrible if you put in three days straight without turning up much of anything. You don't feel blocked."
This interview, being restricted to a half-hour's conversation for a television audience, was thought to be a bit short by the usual standards of the magazine. It was assumed that Barth, being such a master of the prolix, would surely make some additions. Extra questions were sent him. The interview was returned to these offices with the questions unanswered, and the text of the interview edited and shortened. Perhaps Barth had not noticed the additional questions. This interview was sent back, this time with a small emolument attached for taking the trouble. The interview was returned once again, along with the uncashed check, with the following statement: "It doesn't displease me to hear that our interview will be perhaps the shortest one you've run. In fact, it's a bit shorter now than it was before (enclosed). Better not run it by me again!"
When were the first stirrings? When did you actually understand that writing was going to be your profession? Was there a moment?
It seems to happen later in the lives of American writers than Europeans. American boys and girls don't grow up thinking, "I'm going to be a writer," the way we're told Flaubert did; at about age twelve he decided he would be a great French writer and, by George, he turned out to be one. Writers in this country, particularly novelists, are likely to come to the medium through some back door. Nearly every writer I know was going to be something else, and then found himself writing by a kind of passionate default. In my case, I was going to be a musician. Then I found out that while I had an amateur's flair, I did not have preprofessional talent. So I went on to Johns Hopkins University to find something else to do. There I found myself writing stories—making all the mistakes that new writers usually make. After I had written about a novel's worth of bad pages, I understood that while I was not doing it well, that was the thing I was going to do. I don't remember that realization coming as a swoop of insight, or as an exhilarating experience, but as a kind of absolute recognition that for well or for ill, that was the way I was going to spend my life. I had the advantage at Johns Hopkins of a splendid old Spanish poet-teacher, with whom I read Don Quixote. I can't remember a thing he said about Don Quixote, but old Pedro Salinas, now dead, a refugee from Franco's Spain, embodied to my innocent, ingenuous eyes, the possibility that a life devoted to the making of sentences and the telling of stories can be dignified and noble. Whether the works have turned out to be dignified and noble is another question, but I think that my experience is not uncommon: You decide to be a violinist, you decide to be a sculptor or a painter, but you find yourself being a novelist.
What was the musical instrument you started out with?
I played drums. What I hoped to be eventually was an orchestrator—what in those days was called an arranger. An arranger is a chap who takes someone else's melody and turns it to his purpose. For better or worse, my career as a novelist has been that of an arranger. My imagination is most at ease with an old literary convention like the epistolary novel, or a classical myth—received melody lines, so to speak, which I then reorchestrate to my purpose.
What's first when you sit down to begin a novel? Is it the form, as in the epistolary novel, or character, or plot?
Different books start in different ways. I sometimes wish that I were the kind of writer who begins with a passionate interest in a character and then, as I've heard other writers say, just gives that character elbowroom and sees what he or she wants to do. I'm not that kind of writer. Much more often I start with a shape or form, maybe an image. The floating showboat, for example, which became the central image in The Floating Opera, was a photograph of an actual showboat I remember seeing as a child. It happened to be named Captain Adams' Original Unparalleled Floating Opera, and when nature, in her heavy-handed way, gives you an image like that, the only honorable thing to do is to make a novel out of it. This may not be the most elevated of approaches. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, for example, comes to the medium of fiction with a high moral purpose; he wants, literally, to try to change the world through the medium of the novel. I honor and admire that intention, but just as often a great writer will come to his novel with a much less elevated purpose than wanting to undermine the Soviet government. Henry James wanted to write a book in the shape of an hourglass. Flaubert wanted to write a novel about nothing. What I've learned is that the muses' decision to sing or not to sing is not based on the elevation of your moral purpose—they will sing or not regardless.
What was in your way that you had to get out of your way?
What was in my way? Chekhov makes a remark to his brother, the brother he was always hectoring in letters, "What the aristocrats take for granted, we pay for with our youth." I had to pay my tuition in literature that way. I came from a fairly unsophisticated family from the rural, southern Eastern Shore of Maryland—which is very "deep South" in its ethos. I went to a mediocre public high school (which I enjoyed), fell into a good university on a scholarship, and then had to learn, from scratch, that civilization existed, that literature had been going on. That kind of innocence is the reverse of the exquisite sophistication with which a writer like Vladimir Nabokov comes to the medium—knowing it already, as if he's been in on the conversation since it began. Yet the innocence that writers like myself have to overcome, if it doesn't ruin us altogether, can become a sort of strength. You're not intimidated by your distinguished predecessors, the great literary dead. You have a chutzpah in your approach to the medium that may carry you through those apprentice days when nobody's telling you you're any good because you aren't yet. Everything is a discovery. I read Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn when I was about twenty-five. If I had read it when I was nineteen, I might have been intimidated; the same with Dickens and other great novelists. In my position I remained armed with a kind of "invincible innocence"—I think that's what the Catholics call it—that with the best of fortune can survive even later experience and sophistication and carry you right to the end of the story.


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Loan Types – Which One Is Right for You?
Many things must be considered when choosing the right type of mortgage for your needs. Before settling on specifics, such as fixed rate or adjustable rate, you'll need to decide between government and conventional programs, and it's important to know the differences. Both government programs (FHA, USDA, and VA loans, etc.) and conventional programs, as well as reverse mortgage loans, have pros and cons, depending on your situation.
The most common government loan is an FHA loan. "FHA" stands for Federal Housing Administration, which insures FHA loans. The federal government insures loans through the approved lenders in order to reduce the risk of a loss to the lender in the case of a homeowner defaulting on their mortgage. Mortgage insurance premiums are part of this protection. Through this system, borrowers pay an upfront fee and a monthly premium. Generally, the mortgage insurance stays in place for the life of the loan. By having these standards and this protection, the FHA is able to lend to borrowers with lower credit scores, and with options for low down payments.
Conventional loans must comply with the guidelines set by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises that buy mortgages on the secondary market. Fannie and Freddie's guidelines are stricter than the FHA, and include good credit, strong financial status, and larger down payments. However, these stricter policies generally allow for a quicker and easier approval process. Conventional loans do not require any upfront mortgage insurance payment, but private mortgage insurance is, in fact, required if the borrower makes less than a 20% down payment. Once 22% has been paid, the mortgage insurance is removed automatically.
Reverse mortgages, available for those over the age of 62, follow Fannie and Freddie guidelines, and also provide the opportunity for the older homebuyer to finance their home and defer payments while maintaining ownership of the home, as well as giving the opportunity to utilize the equity of the home to enhance income.
When you are ready to purchase a home, I would love to meet with you and help you decide which loan type is the best for your financial situation. We can assess your financial goals and determine a plan. Call me today to set up an appointment.


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Kimberly de los Santos, who has led community outreach initiatives for the last 10 years at Arizona State University, has been named the new director of Princeton University's Pace Center for Civic Engagement. Her appointment is effective April 1.
Reporting to Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey, de los Santos will serve as the John C. Bogle '51 and Burton G. Malkiel *64 Director of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. The center supports efforts by undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni to identify and address issues of public concern, to be actively engaged citizens, and to practice effective public leadership for the purpose of building stronger communities and societies throughout the world. Some of the center's key activities include coordinating and supporting direct volunteer service, civic action break trips, social entrepreneurship, political action, public service internships and fellowships, and volunteer teaching and tutoring.
"Kimberly brings an expansive perspective to civic engagement and her passion for this work is infectious," Cherrey said. "Her ability to work with students, faculty, staff, alumni and community partners will serve us well in building a joint vision for the Pace Center's future."
De los Santos said she plans to engage students, staff and alumni in developing goals for the center. She is interested in expanding civic engagement opportunities for students, she said, and in helping them to create more positive impact with communities.
"I am absolutely pleased to join Princeton. The University's informal motto of 'in the nation's service and in the service of all nations' is inspiring and I know the Pace Center can be a part of fulfilling that mission," de los Santos said. "One of the things that is most exciting about the center is how student-driven it is."
The center hosts and advises more than 20 student groups focused on civic engagement and offers more than 1,800 opportunities a year, through programs such as Community House and the Student Volunteers Council.
Senior Haley White, a former co-chair of the Pace Council for Civic Values, a student group affiliated with the center, was on the search committee that selected de los Santos. White said she had been looking for someone with a creative vision to lead the center and to "inspire Princeton students to think of civic engagement as a quintessential part of their college experience."
"Kimberly is energetic," White said. "When she speaks, you can tell that she is passionate about creating innovations in higher education."
During her tenure at Arizona State University, de los Santos led numerous efforts to expand the opportunities and reach of the university's community outreach programs. Some of her key initiatives included serving as a leader of a $30 million entrepreneurship initiative; creating a Fellowship in University Innovation program to train early-career professionals in institutional and societal change; helping to establish the Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family; and helping to develop a nonprofit organization, University Public Schools, that partners with the university to operate innovative charter schools. De los Santos built relationships and partnerships with local, national and international organizations, and she helped communicate these initiatives by creating publications, websites and videos that expressed the vision for these programs.
She previously served as an instructor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and as a researcher at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. De los Santos earned a bachelor of science in molecular and cellular biology at the University of Arizona, and a master's in public affairs with a concentration in science and technology policy at Columbia.
The Pace Center was founded in 2001. It is named for John Pace Jr., a member of Princeton's Class of 1939, and his wife, Augusta Pace.
De los Santos succeeds Beth Kiyoko (Kiki) Jamieson, who left the University to serve as president for the Fund for New Jersey.


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