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The first batch, made with rice flour and cornstarch, tasted like packing material. Another early attempt came out heavy enough to fling at a burglar's head. Garbanzo bean flour may have the necessary protein to replace the protein lost with gluten, but cookies made with it taste like falafel larded with chocolate chips. No thanks. I started using amaranth flour instead, as it has ample protein but doesn't taste like beans. Sorghum flour has the texture of whole-wheat flour and lent the dough some heft, while tapioca and potato starch offset its heaviness. This time, we didn't forget to add the xanthan gum. After all this, the thought of baking with all-purpose flour actually seemed pretty boring to me.
As I tried different flours and varying methods, Lucy learned to roll over and pull herself up to stand. She was nearly ready to wait expectantly at the kitchen counter by the time the batch came out of the oven. They were warm, disappeared quickly, and inspired companionable silence. I didn't care if these cookies weren't exactly the same as what I'd grown up with. Everyone in the room agreed: these cookies—these gluten-free cookies—were the best chocolate chip cookies any of us had ever eaten. Ever.
This is no longer David's recipe. It's my chocolate chip cookie recipe now, the one I bake with Lucy. She and I stand side by side while we make them. As I turn toward the cupboard to grab the flours, I see her stretch her arm toward the bowl of chocolate chips for another taste. "Hey Boo," I call out, and she draws back her hand, smiling. She's not even two. She's still listening to me.
Yes, we're making chocolate chip cookies together, from the recipe that I'll pass along to her someday when the edges are frayed and stained with chocolate. Our recipe.–Shauna James Ahern
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This recipe, which originally appeared on Shauna's blog, inspired no fewer than 92 comments at last count. Suffice it to say, there were a lot of deliriously happy home bakers in the days after this recipe first went public–and there are even more today.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie
- Quick Glance
- Makes 1 to 2 dozen, depending on the size
- 1 cup sorghum flour
- 1 cup tapioca starch
- 1 cup potato starch
- 1 cup amaranth flour
- 1 tablespoon xanthan gum
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups brown sugar
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoon granulated sugar (we used bakers' sugar, which is extra fine)
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 16 ounces Dagoba chocodrops
- Sea salt
- 1. Sift each of the flours into a bowl. Add the xanthan gum, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and stir well. I like to use a whisk to sift the flours.
- 2. Place the butter and the sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer and, using the paddle attachment, mix them until they're just combined, then mix for 1 minute more. Don't overmix, however, as this could result in spreading during baking. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, making sure each is fully incorporated before adding the next. Add the vanilla extract and mix.
- 3. Add the flour mixture into the batter, 1/2 cup at a time, mix just until the dry ingredients have been incorporated before adding the next addition. Add the chocolate and mix just for a moment. No broken chocolate here.
- 4. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate. You might want to shove it to the back of the fridge and arrange even more enticing foods in front of it, because you shouldn't touch the dough for 36 hours. Really.
- 5. When it's time to bake, pull the dough from the refrigerator and preheat the oven to 350°F (175° C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a non-stick baking mat.
- 6. Scoop generous balls of dough from the bowl. You can determine the size for yourself. If you want them to mimic the indulgently sized cookies found in pastry shops, the dough should be the size of golf balls. You could instead weigh them so the dough balls are 3 1/2 ounces each. Mine were the size of the indentation of the palm of my hand, but I could still lightly wrap my fingers around the ball. Place 6 of them on the baking sheet. Poke any errant pieces of chocolate back into the dough. Sprinkle the top of each cookie with the sea salt.
- 7. Bake the cookies about 18 minutes, less if you make smaller cookies, or until the tops have turned golden brown. The middles should still be somewhat soft. Take the baking sheet out of the oven. Allow the cookies to rest on the baking sheet for 10 minutes. Transfer the cooling cookies onto a cooling rack and allow them to cool for a few more moments.
- 8. Eat warm chocolate chip cookies and feel grateful. Why not?
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On Monday, the Revel Atlantic City officially opened its doors to the public, marking the end of a project half a decade in the making.
As gaming lags in the Las Vegas of the East Coast, expectations are high for the casino resort to turn things around.
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Revel CEO Kevin DeSanctis boasted that the venture has already created some 10,000 jobs in the region—5,000 in the resort's direct employ. Of those workers, some 800 are Atlantic City residents, and most live in the greater Atlantic City area.
The company believes it harbors a unique view towards gaming and tourism among regional casinos and resorts. Their edge? Revel says gaming is not its primary attraction.
"The last thing Atlantic City needs is another casino," CEO Kevin DeSanctis told Business Insider on Monday. "A big part of the economics comes from the casino and that's what allows you to build places like this, at the end of the day. But the difference is in the customer that's spending that night. So as opposed to having a customer who's totally focused on gaming activity, you have a customer who's focused on a lot of non-gaming activity. Will they still play in the casino? Absolutely! Will they play a little less? Absolutely!"
Even so, the company still struggles with a $1.1 billion debt load in bonds rated as "junk" (or below investment-grade) by Standard and Poor's ratings agency. S&P has questioned the company's cash flow expectations, adding that "the rating also reflects Revel's reliance on a single property for cash flow generation in a challenged gaming market and a business model that relies heavily on spurring nascent demand from a distinct customer base--namely cash paying guests seeking a resort-type experience, as well as convention and group visitors."
Irrespective of these concerns, Revel is something different, at least in the Atlantic City gaming model. In a city full of windowless casinos that largely ignore their beachfront location and the city's warm summer climate, Revel emphasizes light—even allowing the Sun's rays to filter into the casino floor. Indeed, the ocean is the first thing guests see when they arrive at the general resort entrance. It highlights vast outdoor spaces for both hotel and day guest recreation.
What's more, Revel is entirely non-smoking, unlike other casinos which have fought to keep their gaming floors open to smokers. And while other casinos provide myriad elevators for largely immobile gamers, Revel encourages its clientele to walk around and take the stairs.
Regardless of one's beliefs in the success of its business model, it is hard to deny that Revel is a wild card in the world of East Coast gaming.

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After an incredible few days at SearchLove I realised I kept getting the same question from SEOs who have been following TOA, "are you still working on that correlation thing?"
Shit, YES, I did take a break to work on some other stuff but I've been working my balls off learning SQL, taking courses on writing better code, writing scripts, reading research papers, designing experiments, plus I've been working on other cool projects.
Woops, my bad, I guess I broke the cardinal rule of blogging, relationships and just about everything else, "keep your followers in the loop."
I've known where TOA is going next, for a few months now, but over the last couple of weeks I've ironed out the details and am ready to start gathering a a massive dataset for the next iteration of the project.
In this post I'm hoping to answer that question and essentially I'm going to out myself to the industry so if I don't reach the targets set below you guys can hold me accountable.
What's next
As everyone knows the ultimate goal for this project is to research more causal relationships between factors and ranking in Google and to create a model search engine algorithm.
I've done a lot of reading and emailing in the last couple of weeks and it seems like weighted regression using the pointwise learning to rank approach is my best shot at creating a successful model.
I'm sure this all sounds gobbledygook to most people reading this post, because in truth some of this is still gobbledygook to me.
I've never taken a stats course, only run a couple of basic multiple linear regressions, don't really know anything about machine learning and I've just finished differential calculus in my last year in high school but when you apply yourself and read these things a couple of times over it starts to sink in.
Right now I know enough to understand what data needs to be gathered and how it needs to be analysed.
But once I have the dataset I'm going to try and find someone much better at this kind of analysis than me and run the regression together.
Because regressions have almost no computational cost we can try several methods other than weighted regression that might work.
At this stage of the process I'll become less like Steven Levitt and more like Stephen Dubner, if you don't get this you haven't read the Freakonomics books (why? there great).
P.S. if anyone knows Levitt feel free to drop him an email and let him know I've got a big dataset for him :)
There's a 97% chance its going to fail
Ok, I just made that number up, but the chances of me getting a model that correlates above .65 (that's my goal) to the Google algorithm is extremely low.
First, I can't test things like user engagement, CTR, etc.
Second, their super smart PhD holding engineers have definitely come up with more advanced topic modelling models than LDA.
Third, a couple of much smarter people in the SEO industry have tried similar methods before and gotten models not worth publishing.
Fourth, I've talked to some really, really smart guys in the last couple of days, and while all of them were supportive, none of them actually thought I would pull it off.
Fifth, weighted regression and pretty much any other type of regression is going to have its pitfalls.
Why bother
With all the odds stacked against me you are definitely wondering why I would bother spending my free time for the next few months running a project likely to fail.
- Being the nerd that I am, I actually enjoy this stuff.
- I set myself the goal and promised the SEO industry I would come up with a model search engine algorithm, so that's what I'm going to do.
- If the model fails, it still succeeds in that we can pretty much say that SEOs know almost nothing about the Google algorithm, so they should just be doing some RCS. Plus even if the model fails in reaching its correlation target I should still be able to answer some key questions, like how much social shares actually matter, etc.
- I will still be running correlations which after Penguin and Panda might prove quite interesting, plus I'll have the correlation data on the new factors I'm going to test (social!!).
- That 3% chance of success (or whatever the number actually is) is like gold dust, if the model is successful there are unlimited ridiculously cool things to do with it.
What's going to happen
I'm going to try not to get to technical or bogged down in the details here:
- I'm going to finish rewriting my code from the correlation study (when I first wrote the code I had only been programming for 3 months, so you can imagine how cringe-worthy it is when I look back at it).
- I'm (with your help) going to figure out what new factors I should test in this iteration that I didn't test with the correlations, think social, more advanced topic modelling, anchor text, etc.
- I'm going to write and test the code to gather the data for these factors.
- I'm going to figure out what keywords to gather data for.
- I'm going to split these keywords up by industry and by likely user intent (navigational, informational, commercial and transactional), unfortunately I will have to classify intent by hand (that'll be a fun weekend).
- I'm going to go back to our incredibly, amazing data providers and ask for their support for the project one last time.
- I'll run the scripts and gather the data. Not sure whether I'm going to include Bing here, I'd be happy to do it, if SEOs would find it useful (comment below) and I can get the data required.
- I'll run some fun tests and publish the results. I think it would be interesting to know in what industries universal search is most prevalent, which industries use social the most, how well does the Bing algorithm correlate to Google's, what domains show up most in search results, what individual URLs show up most in the results, etc.
- I'll run and publish the correlations in the same way I did last time.
- I'll create and publish some useful algorithms that might come in handy for SEOs or for future research e.g. can I create a model that accurately identifies query intent using the data at my disposal and my own evaluations of this intent.
- I'm going to find some much smarter people than myself to help me create the model.
- I'll publish the model and the normalised coefficients (which will be most useful in determining the importance of each factor).
So that's it really, I will do my best to blog about any major steps forward in the project, and I'll definitely be Tweeting more often (probably the best place to follow exactly where I am with the project).


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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.
Bolden checked on the progress Thursday a month after the Obama administration unveiled its 2014 budget that proposes $105 million to jumpstart the mission, which may eventually cost more than $2.6 billion.
Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and Glenn Research Center in Ohio are developing a thruster that relies on ion propulsion instead of conventional chemical fuel.
Once relegated to science fiction, ion propulsion - which fires beams of electrically charged atoms to propel a spacecraft - is preferred for deep space cruising because it's more fuel-efficient. Engine testing is expected to ramp up next year.
During his visit to the JPL campus, nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles, Bolden viewed an engineering model of the engine and peered through a porthole of a vacuum chamber housing the prototype.
NASA is under White House orders to fly humans to an asteroid as a stepping stone to Mars. Instead of sending astronauts to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, as originally planned, the space agency came up with a quicker, cheaper idea: Haul the asteroid close to the moon and visit it there.
Bolden said the original concept was impractical given the flat budget and praised the alternative as "ingenious."
"If you can't get to the asteroid, bring the asteroid to you," Bolden said.
The space agency would launch an ion-powered unmanned spacecraft to snare a yet-to-be-selected small asteroid in 2019 and park it in the moon's neighborhood. Then a spacewalking team would hop on an Orion space capsule that's currently under development and explore the rock in 2021.
Besides preparing astronauts for an eventual trip to Mars, NASA said the asteroid-capture mission is designed to test technologies to deflect threatening space boulders on a collision course with Earth.


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An Introduction to Scarcity
scar·ci·ty (skâr'sĭ-tē)
n. pl. scar·ci·ties
- Insufficiency of amount or supply; shortage: a scarcity of food that was caused by drought.
- Rarity of appearance or occurrence: antiques that are valued for their scarcity.
People assigned a higher value to products or services that are less available. This principle can be used to help push products/services using techniques such as:
- A "limited number" available
- Only available for a "limited time"
These techniques try and persuade consumers that there is limited access to what is being offered.
The principle of Scarcity works because:
- Things difficult to attain are typically more valuable. And the availability of an item or experience can be perceived as a clue to its quality.
- When something becomes less accessible, the ability to have it may be lost.
People respond to that lack of ability to own an object by wanting it more. In psychology this is called Reactance Theory.
A perfect example of this from the movies is Gollum's fateful obsession for the ring in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Real world examples of this include car enthusiasts' obsession over limited production cars and some women's interest in owning a Prada or Gucci bag.
The later phenomenon actually led to the opposite of Scarcity, which is Abundance. Due to the high demand for high-end bags, but the inability for many women to afford them, a market for counterfeit bags appeared, subsequently lowering the perceived value of a Prada or Gucci bag, due to them being more accessible.
Scarcity does not just impact goods and services, but also information. Limiting access to information may cause consumers to want it more and becoming increasingly favorable to said message. It is also found that this "scarce" information is perceived as more valuable and more interesting to the consumer.
Real world examples of this are Censorship. Once information becomes censored, many people become very obsessed with wanting access to the information being held back.
Scarcity best works under the two following conditions:
- Scarce items are heightened in value when they are newly scarce. Items have higher value when they have become recently restricted–more than items that were restricted all along have.
- People are most attracted to scarce resources when they have to compete with others for them.
Defense against scarcity tactics are difficult because scarce items have an emotional quality that makes true consideration difficult.


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This hearty no-knead pumpkin-sunflower seed bread gets its crunch and flavor from pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and flax seeds. Healthy and kid-friendly.
I often find the seeds in breads a distraction, but in this case they make the loaf. The generous quantity of roasted pumpkin, sunflower, and flax seeds lends a delicious and very distinctive nuttiness—not to mention crunchy texture, eye appeal, and protein. The bread is baked in a covered pot for most of its time in the oven, which crisps the crust and the seeds on it, but also prevents them from burning.
Be sure to use very fresh, appealing-tasting seeds for this recipe. If you can only find raw, unsalted sunflower and pumpkin seeds, toss them with 1/4 teaspoon corn oil or canola oil and 1/8 teaspoon of salt and roast at 325°F (160°C), stirring occasionally, until lightly toasted, 7 to 9 minutes.–Nancy Baggett
No-Knead Pumpkin-Sunflower Seed Bread
- Quick Glance
- Makes 1 large loaf
- For the bread
- 1 1/2 cups (7.5 ounces) whole-wheat flour, plus more as needed
- 1 1/2 cups (7.5 ounces) unbleached white bread flour
- 1/4 cup flax seeds, preferably golden
- 1 1/4 teaspoons table salt
- 1 teaspoon instant, fast-rising, or bread machine yeast
- 3 tablespoons clover honey or other mild honey
- 1 1/2 tablespoons corn oil, canola oil, or other flavorless vegetable oil, plus more for coating dough top and pan
- 1 1/3 cups plus 1 tablespoon ice water, plus more if needed
- 1/3 cup roasted, salted pumpkin seeds, plus 2 tablespoons for garnish
- 1/3 cup roasted, salted sunflower seeds, plus 2 tablespoons for garnish
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon sea salt or other coarse crystal salt, optional
- Cornstarch glaze or 1 egg white, beaten, or 2 tablespoons liquid egg substitute
- For the cornstarch glaze
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- Scant 2/3 cup cold water, divided
- A pinch salt
- For the first rise
- 1. In a large bowl, thoroughly stir together the whole-wheat flour, bread flour, flax seeds, salt, and yeast. In another bowl or measuring cup, thoroughly whisk the honey and oil into the water. Vigorously stir the mixture into the bowl with the flours, scraping down the sides and mixing just until the dough is thoroughly blended. If the ingredients are too dry to mix together, gradually add in just enough more ice water to facilitate mixing, as the dough should be slightly stiff. If necessary, stir in enough more whole-wheat flour to stiffen it.
- 2. Brush or spray the top with oil. Tightly cover the bowl with plastic wrap. If desired, for best flavor or for convenience, refrigerate for 3 to 10 hours. Then let rise at cool room temperature for 12 to 18 hours.
- For the second rise
- 3. Working in the bowl and turning the dough as you work, sprinkle about half the pumpkin and sunflower seeds over the surface. With lightly oiled hands, work in the seeds and fold the dough over to fully incorporate them. Continue working in the remaining seeds, folding over the dough until all the seeds are incorporated and fairly evenly distributed throughout. Sprinkle the dough with a little whole-wheat flour. Press and smooth it into the dough, shaping it into a ball as you work.
- 4. Oil a 3 1/2- to 4-quart Dutch oven or similar round, ovenproof pot. Transfer the ball to the pot. Dusting the dough with more flour as needed to prevent stickiness, tuck the edges under firmly all the way around, forming a smooth, high-domed round loaf about 6 1/2 inches in diameter. Brush off excess flour, then brush all over with Cornstarch Glaze (or egg white wash), then immediately sprinkle the surface with the remaining pumpkin and sunflower seeds for garnish. Using well-oiled kitchen shears or a serrated knife, cut a 2 1/2-inch diameter, 1/2-inch-deep circle in the top. Cover the pot with its lid.
- 5. For a 2- to 4-hour regular rise, let stand at warm room temperature; for a 1 1/2- to 2 1/2-hour accelerated rise, let stand in a turned-off microwave with 1 cup of boiling-hot water; or for an extended rise, refrigerate for 4 to 24 hours, then let stand at room temperature. Continue the rise until the dough doubles from its deflated size.
- Prep the oven and bread
- 6. Fifteen minutes before baking time, put a rack in the lower third of the oven; preheat to 450°F (230°C). Generously brush or spray the loaf with water.
- Bake and cool the bread
- 7. Lower the heat to 425°F (220°C). Bake on the lower rack, covered, for 55 to 60 minutes, or until the loaf is lightly browned. Uncover, and continue baking for 10 to 15 minutes more, until a skewer inserted in the thickest part comes out with just a few particles on the end (or the center registers 208° to 210°F (98° to 99°C) on an instant-read thermometer). Then bake for 5 minutes longer to ensure the center is done. Cool in the pot on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Turn the loaf onto the rack; cool thoroughly.
- Make the cornstarch glaze
- 8. In a small saucepan, whisk together the cornstarch and about half the water until the cornstarch is smooth. Stir in the remaining water and the salt. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat, whisking constantly.
- 9. Reduce the heat until the mixture simmers gently and continue cooking, whisking occasionally, until it thickens slightly and becomes translucent, about 2 minutes.
- Glaze and top the bread
- 10. Let cool to room temperature before using; the glaze will thicken as it stands. Use immediately, brushing it lightly but evenly over the loaf top using a pastry brush (or dabbing it on with a paper towel).
- 11. Sprinkle the reseved pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds over the glaze pressing on any that fall off. Let dry.
How to Store the Bread
- This bread tastes good warm but will cut much better when cool. Cool completely before storing. To maintain the crisp crust, store draped with a clean tea towel or in a heavy paper bag. Or to prevent the loaf from drying out, store airtight in a plastic bag or wrapped in foil: The crust will soften, but can be crisped by heating the loaf, uncovered, in a 400°F (200°C) oven for a few minutes. The bread will keep at room temperature for 3 days, and may be frozen, airtight, for up to 2 months.
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ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA) -- It's Halloween, but you may want to take small kids out of the room for this one.
If you like being completely freaked out, our Monika Samtani says the Urban Haunted House is the place for you.
"We try to make a 'Walking Dead' kind of zombie. We want more of a pale, not-so-green kind of rotted zombie with a lot of blood 'cause it's just so gory," said Kiley Walker, make-up manager at Hallow Inc.
Justin Watson, Hallow Inc.'s, PR Director explained, "We wanted to make this a scary Haunted House, scarier than any haunted house that we had been to."
More than a thousand people a night scream their way through the dark halls of the huge space in Rockville's Mid-Plaza, and the staff, I mean, the zombies make it worth the experience.
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But then the end of 2012 came and went without me finishing and suddenly I feel free to read whatever I want. The odd result is that I now feel even more committed to, and enthusiastic about finishing the challenge. Now that the yoke of the deadline has been lifted I am suddenly excited to tackle the list again. Unlike last year, I will not limit myself to the 20th century list, but will read whatever I feel like reading.
And Simon, don't feel bad, it has nothing to do with your specific challenge. My problem is with the mere existance of challenges.
It also helps that I finally finished a decade, in fact two: the 1950s and 1980s. If you had asked me which decade I would finish first I wouldn't have said the 1980s or the 1950s. I would have assumed the '30s or '40s. I am tempted now to read the rest in chronological order. I have made a bit of an attempt at that already. Let's see if I can keep it going.
It is doubtful that I will finish this list by the end of the TBR Double Dog Dare on April 1st, but it will be interesting to see how far I can make it. Maybe I could finish the list by midyear. That seems doable. With 62 years finished, that only leaves 38 to go. Hmm, 19 books each in February and March maybe I could finish by April 1st.
[Updated 07/24/13]
1934 - Burmese Days by George Orwell
1936 - Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1939 - Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
1942 - Clark Clifford's Body by Kenneth Fearing
1947 - Not Now, but Now by M.F.K. Fisher
1963 - The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy
1965 - Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Conner
1971 - A Meaningful Life by L.J. Davis or My Own Cape Cod by Gladys Taber
1972 - Augustus by John Williams
1973 - After Claude by Iris Owens
1977 - Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald
1979 - The Safety Net by Heinrich Boll


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We apprehensively advance through this nail biting moment in history as a great Nation floats, uncertain, caught in a holding pattern, hoping its leadership will find wisdom enough to avert the so called Fiscal Cliff, even if most of us don't fully comprehend what such a cliff entails, or even if such a thing exists. We're too busy struggling, hanging on to whatever we have, hoping for stability, and hoping that tomorrow brings some relief to our stress.
So let's look for a little insight into what astute and gifted minds are really doing deep in the core of the negotiations apparently so critical to the very future of the Nation. Let's dig for a sign of prescient coherence determining the very nature of our future.
So let's look for a little insight into what astute and gifted minds are really doing deep in the core of the negotiations apparently so critical to the very future of the Nation. Let's dig for a sign of prescient coherence determining the very nature of our future.
Here is a discussion/interview which John Mauldin recently conducted with Rob Lehman and David Krone, the chiefs of staff for Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), and of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), respectively. Lehman and Krone are two very key individuals in the current budget negotiations. Mauldin, who writes on economics and investments, usually refrains from using an ideologically tempered pen. Late in the somewhat non-descript forty minute discussion, a head snapper gets dropped by Lehman, who works on the Republican side of the negotiating table.
At minute 37:00 of the linked video Lehman (R) makes a statement about spending. "We're talking about reductions in the growth of spending." He confirms that there will be no reduction in spending. Krone (D), sitting next to him, is drooling out of camera shot. Washington does not spend less year-to-year. Ever. Is that clear? Negotiators are only negotiating amounts of spending increases and areas of such increases in spending. That's it. Don't believe anyone standing at a podium performing waffling prevarications in Washington while making claims of imminent spending cuts.
Oh, but wait, you say, what about that the $16.2 trillion in debt which we cannot ignore? When you spend $3.6 trillion, but receive $2.3 trillion, you have to cut over a trillion from your annual expenditures somewhere along the line if you harbor any hope of getting ahead of the backlog of debt and the corresponding overwhelming interest. What about that looming additional commitment in entitlements which will more than quadruple that debt? Hmm. Well, forget about it. Ignore it. Have a good Christmas, and Happy New Year. You'll never be able to endure that burden, so why worry? We'll just crank up the presses. Isn't that how you pay back what you owe? Just print money?
Obama continues down the seemingly never-ending campaign trail, arrogantly pretending that he is providing tax cuts to the middle class and further pretending to demand a "balanced approach." He has repeated his limited talking points at every recent use of the teleprompter. Someone might explain to him that retaining the Bush tax cuts which are due to automatically expire at the end of December, does not mean reducing the middle class tax rates. He either has no grasp of what he is claiming, or is knowingly lying to the taxpayers.
There are no tax cuts on the horizon and there are no expenditure reductions coming. Spending is out of control, and the truth is that tax increases are coming for all levels of society.
Everyone knows that the mantra "tax the rich" is just demagoguery, . . . well everyone except those with a paucity of common sense. Tax increases for the so-called rich will not put a dent in the deficit. And Obama's claims of the approximately $10 billion in revenues anticipated from the rich is annoying. He still won't acknowledge that such supposed anticipated amount is over 10 years. Please, someone tell him. The very rich probably don't much care, since the increases will simply mean less real redistribution of wealth, but the increase will not impact their lifestyles.
Obama professes that only agreeing to his demands would avoid the 'fiscal cliff', and doing otherwise, "would be bad for the economy, it would be bad for those families (supposedly the whole middle class), in fact it would be bad for the world economy."
He's getting ahead of Republicans on the "message," so that no matter what happens, Boehner and the Republican controlled House of Representatives will eat the negative fall-out. And the fall-out is coming, but what is not coming is spending reductions.


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"A nickname, because it's custom-made, rather than installed at the factory, can seem like a better reflection of one's true self." – David Owen
The above quote is from "Call Me Loyd: The Strange Power of Nicknames," a clever, laugh-out-loud essay that ran in the "New Yorker" in February 2008. It's hardly been farther than arm's reach from me since I first saw it. I read it a couple of times a year and teach it in my Law & Literature class.
The big news in my family of late is that my daughter (and her husband) are having a baby. Yes, come February, the "I Swear" columnist is going to be a granddad! Which raises an issue: What will the kid call me? If that makes me seem self-centered, it's because I am.
Owen noted that if you live long enough, the moniker hung on you for grandparental purposes will likely be the one you die with. Thus, it had best be "something you don't mind hearing." He tells of a woman who wanted to be "Grammie," and was more than a little miffed when a grandchild chose to call her "Ninnie" instead. And of a toddler who called his father's parents "Man" and "That" before learning "Grandpa" and "Grandma."
There's no issue here for my spouse. She's been called "Susu" for years by parents, cousins, nieces, nephews, etc. She'll be Susu to grandkids. She's her father's daughter.
My father-in-law was called "Googie" by everyone in his life, including five grandchildren. My mother-in-law is "Doll" to those five, as one of her grandmothers was to her. My wife's grandmothers were "Tee" and "Toney." Both her grandfathers were "Dado."
The only grandfather I knew was called "Dad" by his kids (my father and his sister) and his two grands, my sister and me. The thought of my using this name collided with the thought of my son-in-law's prerogative to be called "Dad." To say nothing of the confusion that might be wrought if the kid actually called us both by that name.
My grandfather Dad's wife was called "Mom" by the only grandchild who knew her – my sister. My mother's mother was "Dedo" (someone's mispronunciation of her given name, Leo) to 17 grandchildren. Dedo's husband died before any of those 17 were born, so we don't know what he'd have been called.
My son-in-law's parents are going to be "Mumsie" and "Boo Boo." Among my friends, there's Papaw, Papa, Poppa, Poppy, Popsie, Grandad, Bebe, Yaya, Honey, Granny, and Mimi. My mother was a proud and loving "Mimi." As was my sister.
My dad was "Pop Pop," a name he wore with dignity and honor, despite the fact that it was coined by my mother and sister. To my daughter, I floated the prospect that I might resurrect that handle for my tenure as a grandfather.
Her reply: "I love Pop Pop for you." Words that may have sealed the deal.
Have you a story about grandparent nicknames? I'd love to read and share it.
Vic Fleming is a district court judge in Little Rock, Ark., where he also teaches at the William H. Bowen School of Law. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Game Development Club at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a close-knit group of individuals that live, breathe, play, and create video games.
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As you can tell from the club's name, we are also crazy about making games. WPI students who like developing games, especially students of the Interactive Media and Game Development program at WPI, have the opportunity to easily find team members for their ambitious projects and show their works to an appreciating community thanks to the GDC. For more information on the development side of the GDC, please visit the Development section of this web site.
We hold General Body meetings at least once a term where GDC members are updated on the current and upcoming events for the club, general gaming related news, and other club changes. GDC members working on projects are given the opportunity to present their works to the club at any General Body meeting, as well as gather interest in their project.
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Das13 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Women owned business that helps clients promote their business and brand through apparel, promotional products, design and print services.
I'm a trusted marketing professional for over 18+ years and put my business expertise and energetic personality to work for my clients. I understand the need to motivate employees, entice client's customers and increase brand awareness with the many services/products that I offer. (It's hard for me to create my own deisgn for the brochure - blocked somehow!)
My company is small, but can handle larger company projects anywhere in the USA. My personality: huge dog & music lover, creative, fun & professional!
Would like to have a brochure that stands out, but fits my logo and personality. Last name is CAGE - that might be something cool to work with as a graphic!? I have a black lab/chow mix that could be cool to have in the design somewhere, she's 15 yrs old, maybe somewhere in the background??
Be creative and have fun designing!
My target audience are small to medium size businesses that need branding for their business.
Although I work a lot with Manufacturer's, Banks, Transportation Services, and Environmental businesses - I don't want the brochure to target them. (Maybe a little of the environmental flair would be cool...) But would prefer a more general based brochure that demonstrates a larger audience.
At first I thought I would like the size of the brochure to be 11 1/2" wide and 6" tall (folded 5 3/4" wide X 6" tall). But, I don't want to limit the designers...so feel free to use any size (8.5 X 11, or other sizes) you feel would lend best to your design.
Must use our logo on brochure. Colors of logo are red & black. Total freedom of the design, but logo needs to stand out and not be crowded in the design. Something clean - but creative.
No need to insert my content, we can do that, just looking for a great design. Please leave at least five sections for content.
Wouldn't mind seeing my dog incorporate somehow, but not overwhelming the brochure, she's a black lab mix.
Full color design and need to have my tag line "Fresh Ideas to Boost your Brand" promenient as well as my services: Design, Print, Apparel, Imprinted Items.
Please go to my website, http://www.theideamarket.biz to see my logo to get a feel of the design (not the flowers! - not liking the "girly" look) :)
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Aside from the Nokia Lumia 800, the company is also to introduce the Nokia Lumia 710, a budget-friendly Windows Phone 7 Mango smartphone for those with less cash to splurge. Pocket-lint has had a play with the smartphone, expected to hit in 2012, at Nokia World in London.
The first thing you'll notice with the device is that the Windows Phone buttons are physical rather than touch sensitive and that the back covers are interchangeable. A wide range of colours will be available, all of which are based on the colours of the Windows Phone 7 tiles - you can opt for bright yellow or green, for example.
That might sound very 90s, but, says Nokia, it is what people want. There is also a choice of a white unit of a black unit and we happen to think the white looks much more becoming, even if the design still looks very "old" Nokia.
On the tech specifications side of things, the screen is a very crisp 3.7-inch WVGA (800 x 480) TFT capacitive touch ClearBlack display. It is bright and vibrant and we have to say it looks good, but doesn't quite have the impact that the Lumia 800 does.
There is 512MB of RAM and 8GB of storage space. It sports a 1.4GHz Single Core processor. Like the Lumia 800, there is only a rear-facing camera. On the 710, it is 5 megapixels, with an LED flash.
That Qualcomm processor means it is faster than the HTC Radar and almost up to scratch with the HTC Titan which is impressive for what is a budget handset. In use, the phone is zippy, it certainly benefits from the processing power and in our early exploratory plays everything seemed to work well enough.
Compared to the Lumia 800, the Nokia Lumia 710 sits in similar ground in terms of performance, perhaps making it a tough choice for UK owners who are likely to get both for free on contract - although the monthly bills may be less with this option.
But, to be honest, for looks and design, the Lumia 800 is considerably better. So, this could well be Nokia's attempt to appease those looking for a line of Lumia handsets rather than the "all in one basket approach". Given some respectable Windows Phone 7 handsets from HTC, LG and Samsung, we're not sure that the Lumia 710 will have that much going for it when it hits the market - unless you're excited by Nokia Music or Nokia Drive.
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flyboy-sd needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Drawing from existing reference and unique branding we are looking to create a new and attractive look and feel. The company is a large format printing company specializing in Fine Art Reproduction and Archival Printing as well as all forms of commercial signage including POP displays, banners, posters and trade show displays. Suggestions for reference, imagery, text content, and logos are provided in an accompanying zip file.
This contest is for home page design only. No coding is included (though open to further discussion).
I appreciate your time and effort! Feedback will be provided on at least a daily basis.
Graphics printing company – see zip for logo
Weare looking for a home page design that provides an attractive and easy to usesite to inform potential customers about the company's services and benefits.
Further info and imagery in a zip file downloadable at:
May have a few more product images to add shortly.
Thereare a few items to highlight including:
1. Afocus on the Fine Art capabilities of the company.
2. Acallout about availability (and simplicity) of browser based file uploads.
3. Acallout to promote an onsite self-service photography studio
4. Acallout to initiate contact from clients for a quote request.
Specifictext to apply can be found in the Home Content page in the zip.
Wantthe company logo and images of printed work to provide the main focus so want the vibrancy of color should come from the portfoliorather than in the site interface itself. This suggests more muted colors inthe interface. Forcolor, we like the blue of the logo and light browns or light shades forbackgrounds.
We wantto convey an artistic feel to reflect the fine art focus, for example usingstretcher or a wooden art frame to outline the main body of the site.
Stockphotos might be used as well. Potential sources include istockphoto.com, bigstockphoto.com,sxc.hu, and snapvillage.com
Reallylike this site and think it's a great reference. However, we don't like theburnt paper look. This site will be more contemporary and fine art focused.Perhaps a wooden picture frame to outline the main body area. Also like thelogo and quote request phone areas at the top with Home, About Us and Contactas minor menu items.
Theimage usage in the headers is well done and we like the multiple examples laidout in an attractive way.
Site widthshould be around 1000 pixels
Main Menu
- Products
- ProjectGallery
- File Upload
- Requesta Quote
Minormenu options
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- AboutUs
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0 star – not yet been considered
1 star - not really what we're looking for.
2 star – there may be something therebut may need or a different take on your
3 star - getting closer but need revisions
4 star - design is being considered
5 star - we really like the design and will make the final selections fromthese.
The final version should bedelivered as a PSD and a flattened jpg file.
- Site widthshould be around 1000 pixels (960 wide?) and most important vertical portionshould be "above the fold" within 700 pixels though it can scroll downvertically below that
- Like theidea of folksy concept for some interface elements such as tape, pushpins,post-its etc. though still want to try for differentiation from endeavorprinting
- Too much blank white spaceand spare look
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For eager fishermen, the Greers Ferry Lake country offers a unique four-for-one opportunity.
Anglers can go after really big walleye, largemouth bass, hybrid bass and brown trout in one day's time — if they are energetic enough, plan ahead and have the necessary gear or pockets deep enough to acquire it.
These are the waters that produced world records in three of these species and a runner-up state record in the fourth. The world mark for hybrid bass, 27 pounds, 5 ounces, still stands. Records of 40 pounds, 4 ounces for brown trout and 22 pounds, 11 ounces have been bumped in recent times. The largemouth bass of 15 pounds, 15 ounces from Greers Ferry came close to the state mark of 16-4.
More fishermen likely are interested in good catches and days of enjoyment on the water than chasing records. Greers Ferry has varieties and chances to suit most anglers with its diverse habitats and many feeder streams in addition to the two-section main lake.
South Fork, Middle Fork and Devil's fork are the major feeders. Choctaw Creek on the upper end and Peter Creek on the lower end are fish productive. Numerous smaller creeks can also be rewarding.
Catfishing, white bass fishing, crappie fishing and bream fishing are all productive much of the time and especially this time of the year on the north-central Arkansas lake.
Veteran fishing guide Tommy Cauley gave this recent report: "The white and hybrid bass are roaming all over the lake, feeding on shad, and it is hard to stay on top of them. Topwater baits, spoons, inline spinners and swim baits will work in 25 to 35 feet of water. Some crappie are still spawning and can be caught shallow as others have moved or moving out deeper. Catfishing is going good all over the lake on lines and jugs. Walleye are roaming as well; when the water warms just a tad more they will be more settled. Try crank baits, and if generation is going, use nightcrawlers on jig heads. The walleye are anywhere from 5 to 27 feet of water.
"Bass fishing is on one day and off the next. Some bass are still shallow, spawning and eating bream, some are in the mid depths and the rest are headed for the big breaks and brush piles. Try Texas-rigged worms, football head jigs, topwater baits, spinner baits, small crank baits and pitching soft plastics to the bushes. The bream are bedding and can be caught on crickets."
One popular strategy on Greers Ferry is to chase the shad.
It is done on other lakes, too. The idea is schools of shad are food for several predator species, and these go where the shad go. Fishermen in boats look for disturbances on the water's surface. These are caused by shad scrambling to get away from the predator fish, and many anglers use binoculars to look for the schooling shad.
When such action is spotted, the fishermen hustle near the area but not busting into it. They stop and quickly throw lures like spoons, crank baits and spinners – most anything that resembles a shad – into or on the edge of the frothing water.
What may strike the lures makes things more interesting.
A white bass may hit. A hybrid bass may hit. A largemouth bass may hit. A crappie may hit. Even a catfish may get into the action, and bluegills and other bream have been known to go after small shad.
For a fisherman set to tie into a pound-and-a-half white bass then to have a 7-pound hybrid slam into the lure, the experience can be memorable.
Below Greers Ferry Dam, the fishing is for trout. This is the fishery created by the 1963 completion of the dam, an event that will be celebrated on Oct. 3 this year. Much attention will be given the participation of President John F. Kennedy a half century ago in his last major appearance before his death.
The trout in the Little Red River below the dam are rainbow trout, which are the most numerous, and brown trout, which often are the largest.
Joe Mosby is the retired news editor of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and Arkansas' best known outdoor writer. His work is distributed by the Arkansas News Bureau in Little Rock. He can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.