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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Black Bottom Cupcakes.
This summer I'm all about celebrating the little things.
You know... those everyday moments that flit by like fireflies. Those little magical moments that make summer... summer.
Like eating kettlecorn for dinner.
And watching every Harry Potter movie.
Getting lost in a good book and buying a new summer dress.
Aquarium dates and finally paying off your credit card.
It's about searching for that perfect first apartment.
And wondering where the Christmas tree will go.
It's about summer bucket lists. (Make banana bread! Go to the drive-in! Have a picnic! Bake with berries!)
And finding artwork on somebody else's car.
And sometimes?
Sometimes it's about baking cupcakes on the hottest day of the year.
Moist chocolatey devil's food cupcakes stuffed with rich chocolate chip cheesecake.
Are these on your bucket list? Because they totally should be.
They're similar to the cheesecake-filled cupcakes I made last summer... but instead of baking the cheesecake in the centers, it's spooned right on top of the cake batter, giving it a fancy-looking top that doesn't need to be frosted and a creamy rich, cheesecake center.
And... they look like muffins. So you can totally get away with eating cake for breakfast.
Doing summer right!
P.S. Here's a tip for baking cupcakes without burning the edges and sides.
Black Bottom Cupcakes
P.S. Here's a tip for baking cupcakes without burning the edges and sides.
Black Bottom Cupcakes
Cheesecake Filling
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 egg
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup miniature chocolate chips
Cupcake Batter
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a muffin pan with foil liners and set aside.
In a medium bowl, beat the cream cheese, egg, sugar, and salt until light and fluffy. Stir in chocolate chips; set aside.
In a larger bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking, and salt until combined. Make a well in the center and add the water, oil, vinegar, and vanilla. Stir together until thoroughly combined.
Fill muffin liners 1/3 full with batter. Top with a heaping spoonful of cheesecake filling. The more the better!
Makes 21 cupcakes.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
How to bake cupcakes without burning the bottoms.
Let's be honest: sometimes real life is not pulling twelve perfect chocolate cupcakes out of your oven.
Sometimes it's wanting cake for breakfast, following a recipe's bake-time exactly, and still ending up with cupcakes that burn on the sides and bottoms before they're done in the middle. It's the worst... because no matter how much vanilla frosting you layer on top, once the bottoms are burnt, the whole flavor of the cupcake is ruined.
Can I share a baking tip I recently learned?
All those cupcakes need is a little extra something between the baking pan and the heat source to protect the bottoms and sides from burning while the centers finish baking. You could set your pan on a flat baking sheet, but I always have trouble with burnt sides and edges so I was taking no chances.
I double-panned it!
Simply set your filled cupcake pan inside an empty cupcake pan and bake for the normal amount of time.
And boom. Consistent, perfectly-baked, unburnt cupcakes. Seriously, this simple tip has taken all the stress and uncertainty out of baking cupcakes. Which is the way it should be.
And if you're thinking cake for breakfast... the answer is yes. Always.
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Mandala Miziweyaa "Manoomin" Wild Rice Earrings "Gold"
Wild rice, manoomin is the "food that grows on water", whose presence fulfilled the prophecies foretold in the Anishinaabe's migration from the east. As a centerpiece of the nutrition and sustenance for our community, it is used in our daily lives, ceremonies, and feasts (Our Manoomin, Our Life). The Anishinaabe would know when to end our displacement to the west, when finding the manoomin, a profound and historic relationship which is remembered in the wild rice harvest in the Great Lake Regions First Nations. Each seed holds the heart of the waters. The single seed comes from a long lineage of resilience and allows for our people to continue our thousand year old way of life. These specific premium dark wild rice seeds preserved come from the Native American owned company by the Red Lake Nation, who are dedicated to producing unique specialty products, "Indian Grown, Indian Harvested". The earrings cherish the Creators blessings, a gratitude of the memories before us and a reminder of why we are still here, fighting.
Nature's scars are a proof of the fact that there is healing, the raw materials I use share the power of vulnerability. Our own scars that adorn our body, memory and history are similar to the land's unique crevices and distinct terrain, we don't question the beautiful imperfections. I call them "gems". I create "gems". These are the gems of the Great Lakes region, my version of the Southwest's turquoise and the Pacific Northwest's dentalium shells.
Content + Care
- Earrings: 50% Acrylic, 10% Metal (Sterling Silver), 40% Wild Rice
- Wild Rice Seeds - a powerful aquatic grass seed
- Surprising Lightweight
- Wipe Clean, Keep Dry, Store in Safe Place, More
Each pair of earrings is crafted one of kind, and may vary just a slightly from the images provided. Email [email protected] with any questions.
- Average Length: 3"
- Average Width: 3"
Earrings by Tashina Lee Emery, blessing given by my local medicine man to create.
Please note the materials encased are natural and come from the earth. There will be "flaws" and "mistakes". I intentionally seek the imperfect, and personally love raw beauty. Each piece of jewelry will not look like the photo because your jewelry is unique, however I try to make the jewelry as close to the photo as I can. Each piece is made by hand and not a machine so tiny bubbles, bumps and slight imperfections are part of the unique characteristics of the jewelry.
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Mercury Baypark
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Mercury Baypark, located in the scenic Mount Maunganui area of the Bay of Plenty provides a unique and multifaceted combination of facilities in one convenient location.
As a hub for events, high profile sport, culture and entertainment the extensive portfolio of venues can accommodate activities of almost any type, scale and duration.
A focal point for activities on site is the impressive Mercury Arena. It comprises two spacious auditoriums, meeting suites and two circulation areas joined together by an expansive foyer. The facility includes a modern café facility and a prominent Civic art collection.
Large outflow facilities and spaces include the 17,000-seat Mercury Baypark Stadium, lounges and flat expansive concrete and grassed areas. They host a wide variety of activities including Super Rugby, speedway, motor sports, concerts and blokarting.
Mercury Baypark's 451m red clay speedway track is renowned for great racing and is regarded as one of the fastest tracks in New Zealand. The adjacent floodlit 22,200 m2 asphalt pit area, covered grandstands, indoor hospitality lounges and public catering outlets provide a great range of facilities and services for promoters, sporting organisations, drivers and their fans.
Corporate occasions including conferences, meetings, awards, trade shows, exhibitions and gala dinners are superbly catered for. A dedicated in-house management team and highly respected full catering service enhance the quality experience of visiting Mercury Baypark.
Located on the junction of major state highways, only minutes from Tauranga Airport Mercury Baypark offers easy access and provides parking on site for up to 5,000 vehicles. It is within easy reach of the CBD, hotels, motels, Bayfair Shopping Centre and entertainment. The region is linked by services to international airports in Rotorua, Hamilton and Auckland.
Set on the beautiful Bay of Plenty coastline renowned for its climate and activities on and off the water, Mercury Baypark is the natural choice for any event.
We are also the home of the Bay of Plenty Steamers, Baypark Speedway and proud hosts to the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic.
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On 31st October, PLOS sent out a surprise tweet saying that its CEO Elizabeth Marincola is leaving the organisation for a new job in Kenya. Perhaps this is a good time to review the rise of PLOS, put some questions to the publisher, and consider its future.
started out in 2001 as an OA advocacy group. In 2003, however, it reinvented itself as an open access publisher and
began to launch OA journals like PLOS
Biology and PLOS Medicine. Its mission: "to accelerate progress in
science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication." Above
all, PLOS' goal was to see all publicly-funded research made freely available
on the internet.
all insurgent organisations, PLOS has over the years attracted both devoted
fans and staunch critics. The fans (notably advocates for open access) relished
the fact that PLOS had thrown down a gauntlet to legacy subscription publishers,
and helped start the OA revolution. The critics have always insisted that a bunch
of academics (PLOS' founders) would never be
able to make a fist of a publishing business.
first, it seemed the critics might be right. One of the first scholarly publishers
to attempt to build a business on article-processing charges (APCs), PLOS gambled that
pay-to-publish would prove to be a viable business model. The critics demurred
and said that in any case the level that PLOS had set its prices ($1,500) would
prove woefully inadequate. Commenting to Nature
in 2003, cell biologist Ira Mellman of Yale University, and editor of The Journal of Cell Biology, said. "I feel that PLOS's
estimate is low by four- to sixfold,"
2006, PLOS did increase the fees for its top two journals by 66% (to $2,500), and
since then the figure has risen to $2,900. While this is neither a four- or
sixfold increase, we must doubt that these prices would have been enough to
make an organisation with PLOS' ambitions viable. In 2008 Nature commented, "An analysis by Nature of the company's accounts shows
that PLOS still relies heavily on charity funding, and falls far short of its
stated goal of quickly breaking even through its business model of charging
authors a fee to publish in its journals. In the past financial year, ending 30
September 2007, its $6.68-million spending outstripped its revenue of $2.86


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Michael Steele is the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. That's a rather prominent position, given that the Republican Party is ostensibly the sole opposition party right now in America. Unfortunately, Mr Steele has taken this opportunity to be the voice of reasoned dissent and decided it would be better to act like an irrational buffoon as much as possible. This week he refused to condemn Sarah Palin's discredited accusations of there being "death panels" tucked into the depths of the health care reform bill. Instead he had this to say (from Carol Lee at Politico):
Steele said he does not regret that Republicans such as Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich raised the "death panel" issue.
"Some characterize it as unfortunate. Others characterize it as a reflection of what they think and what they feel," Steele said in an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "That comes from some place and is something that's out there in the grassroots of America, not just Republicans."
Asked if he thinks there is a "death panel" provision in the bill – a suggestion that has been proven untrue and that the White House has spent a week trying to knock down – Steele said he does not know.
"It may or may not be. I don't know. We don't know what the bill is," Steele said. "But there's clearly an attempt by at least the House members to put in place a structure that causes concern for the American people in respect to end of life decisions. I think that's a legitimate point. You don't have to call it death panels if you don't want to. You can call it a panel. I call it rationing."
In other words, who cares about the actual validity of the claim that HR 3200 will implement the creation of "death panels" to deny care to kids with Down's Syndrome. Whether they exist or not is irrelevant. Instead, he focuses on the fear that some people (real Americans?) have that maybe, according to various rumors, just maybe there might a possibility that Obama is looking to pull the plug on granny. And this is straight out of the Rovian GOP playbook; exploit the fears and insecurities of average Americans for the maximum political benefit. It's so cynical and debased, but illustrative of the pandering that has destroyed the legitimacy of the GOP over the past decade....


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I've written many times about my affection for my daytime hometown of El Segundo. But I take exception to the categorization that my work--and that of my colleagues--is not "creative".El Segundo was formerly known as an aerospace hub in the shadow of Los Angeles International Airport and a refinery town — its name derives from the 1911 selection of the spot by Standard Oil Co. of California for the company's second oil refinery.
But recently the city has begun to attract a variety of creative businesses that might once have looked down their noses at the humble burg of 17,000 residents.
I was so mad to read a LAT columnist describe ES as "lily-white", I didn't trust myself to blog about it at the time. Take a look at the school demographics. Take a look around at lunch-time. Not only is the town diverse, but the dining parties are diverse. That is, friendships form over shared interests beyond superficial ones of race.
The farmers' market is also fun. I wore a me-made linen skirt to the market last summer before dining at the Farmstand.
- the El Segundo series
- Mariposa (What does a town do when growth is constrained by an endangered species? You embrace it as the town mascot!)
- From the mountains to the sea (watching supertankers roll in is a favorite past-time and I explain how to tell whether one is empty or full)


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Florida CDL Handbook: Driving Combination Vehicles Safely
6. Combination Vehicles
- 6.1. Driving Combination Vehicles Safely
- 6.2. Combination Vehicle Air Brakes
- 6.3. Antilock Brake Systems
- 6.4. Coupling and Uncoupling
- 6.5. Inspecting a Combination Vehicle
Combination vehicles are usually heavier, longer, and require more driving skill than single commercial vehicles. This means that drivers of combination vehicles need more knowledge and skill than drivers of single vehicles. In this section, we talk about some important safety factors that apply specifically to combination vehicles.
6.1.1 - Rollover Risks
More than half of truck driver deaths in crashes are the result of truck rollovers. When more cargo is piled up in a truck, the "center of gravity" moves higher up from the road. The truck becomes easier to turn over. Fully loaded rigs are ten times more likely to roll over in a crash than empty rigs.
The following two things will help you prevent rollover--keep the cargo as close to the ground as possible, and drive slowly around turns. Keeping cargo low is even more important in combination vehicles than in straight trucks. Also, keep the load centered on your rig. If the load is to one side so it makes a trailer lean, a rollover is more likely. Make sure your cargo is centered and spread out as much as possible. (Cargo distribution is covered in Section 3 of this manual.)
Rollovers happen when you turn too fast. Drive slowly around corners, on ramps, and off ramps. Avoid quick lane changes, especially when fully loaded.
6.1.2 - Steer Gently
Trucks with trailers have a dangerous "crack-the-whip" effect. When you make a quick lane change, the crack-the-whip effect can turn the trailer over. There are many accidents where only the trailer has overturned.
"Rearward amplification" causes the crack-the-whip effect. Figure 6.1 shows eight types of combination vehicles and the rearward amplification each has in a quick lane change. Rigs with the least crack-the-whip effect are shown at the top and those with the most, at the bottom. Rearward amplification of 2.0 in the chart means that the rear trailer is twice as likely to turn over as the tractor. You can see that triples have a rearward amplification of 3.5. This means you can roll the last trailer of triples 3.5 times as easily as a five-axle tractor.
Steer gently and smoothly when you are pulling trailers. If you make a sudden movement with your steering wheel, your trailer could tip over. Follow far enough behind other vehicles (at least 1 second for each 10 feet of your vehicle length, plus another second if going over 40 mph). Look far enough down the road to avoid being surprised and having to make a sudden lane change. At night, drive slowly enough to see obstacles with your headlights before it is too late to change lanes or stop gently. Slow down to a safe speed before going into a turn.
6.1.3 - Brake Early
Control your speed whether fully loaded or empty. Large combination vehicles take longer to stop when they are empty than when they are fully loaded. When lightly loaded, the very stiff suspension springs and strong brakes give poor traction and make it very easy to lock up the wheels. Your trailer can swing out and strike other vehicles. Your tractor can jackknife very quickly. You also must be very careful about driving "bobtail" tractors (tractors without semitrailers). Tests have shown that bobtails can be very hard to stop smoothly. It takes them longer to stop than a tractor-semitrailer loaded to maximum gross weight.
In any combination rig, allow lots of following distance and look far ahead, so you can brake early. Don't be caught by surprise and have to make a "panic" stop.
* (From R.D. Ervin, R.L. Nisconger, C.C. MacAdam, and P.S. Fancher, "Influence of size and weigh variables on the stability and control properties of heavy trucks, "University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, 1983).
6.1.4 - Railroad-highway Crossings
Railroad-highway crossings can also cause problems, particularly when pulling trailers with low underneath clearance.
These trailers can get stuck on raised crossings:
- Low slung units (lowboy, car carrier, moving van, possum-belly livestock trailer).
- Single-axle tractor pulling a long trailer with its landing gear set to accommodate a tandem-axle tractor.
If for any reason you get stuck on the tracks, get out of the vehicle and away from the tracks. Check signposts or signal housing at the crossing for emergency notification information. Call 911 or other emergency number. Give the location of the crossing using all identifiable landmarks, especially the DOT number, if posted.
6.1.5 - Prevent Trailer Skids
When the wheels of a trailer lock up, the trailer will tend to swing around. This is more likely to happen when the trailer is empty or lightly loaded. This type of jackknife is often called a "trailer jackknife." See Figure 6.2.
The procedure for stopping a trailer skid is:
Recognize the Skid. The earliest and best way to recognize that the trailer has started to skid is by seeing it in your mirrors. Any time you apply the brakes hard, check the mirrors to make sure the trailer is staying where it should be. Once the trailer swings out of your lane, it's very difficult to prevent a jackknife.
Stop Using the Brake. Release the brakes to get traction back. Do not use the trailer hand brake (if you have one) to "straighten out the rig." This is the wrong thing to do since the brakes on the trailer wheels caused the skid in the first place. Once the trailer wheels grip the road again, the trailer will start to follow the tractor and straighten out.
6.1.6 - Turn Wide
When a vehicle goes around a corner, the rear wheels follow a different path than the front wheels. This is called offtracking or "cheating." Figure 6.3 shows how offtracking causes the path followed by a tractor to be wider than the rig itself. Longer vehicles will offtrack more. The rear wheels of the powered unit (truck or tractor) will offtrack some, and the rear wheels of the trailer will offtrack even more. If there is more than one trailer, the rear wheels of the last trailer will offtrack the most. Steer the front end wide enough around a corner so the rear end does not run over the curb, pedestrians, etc. However, keep the rear of your vehicle close to the curb. This will stop other drivers from passing you on the right. If you cannot complete your turn without entering another traffic lane, turn wide as you complete the turn. This is better than swinging wide to the left before starting the turn because it will keep other drivers from passing you on the right. See Figure 6.4.
6.1.7 - Backing with a Trailer.
Backing with a Trailer. When backing a car, straight truck, or bus, you turn the top of the steering wheel in the direction you want to go. When backing a trailer, you turn the steering wheel in the opposite direction. Once the trailer starts to turn, you must turn the wheel the other way to follow the trailer.
Whenever you back up with a trailer, try to position your vehicle so you can back in a straight line. If you must back on a curved path, back to the driver's side so you can see. See Figure 6.5.
Look at Your Path. Look at your line of travel before you begin. Get out and walk around the vehicle. Check your clearance to the sides and overhead, in and near the path your vehicle.
Use Mirrors on Both Sides. Check the outside mirrors on both sides frequently. Get out of the vehicle and re-inspect your path if you are unsure.
Back Slowly. This will let you make corrections before you get too far off course.
Correct Drift Immediately. As soon as you see the trailer getting off the proper path, correct it by turning the top of the steering wheel in the direction of the drift.
Pull Forward. When backing a trailer, make pull-ups to re-position your vehicle as needed.
Subsection 6.1
Test Your Knowledge
- What two things are important to prevent rollover?
- When you turn suddenly while pulling doubles, which trailer is most likely to turn over?
- Why should you not use the trailer hand brake to straighten out a jackknifing trailer?
- What is offtracking?
- When you back a trailer, you should position your vehicle so you can back in a curved path to the driver's side. True or False?
- What type of trailers can get stuck on railroad-highway crossings?
These questions may be on your test. If you can't answer them all, re-read subsection 6.1.
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Honey Stinger Protein Waffles are an easy way to incorporate protein into your day. These light and delicious fruit-filled waffles are portable and perfect for recovery after exercise. Powered by whey and pea protein, Protein Waffles are the perfect way to refuel, for wherever life takes you.
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When it comes to oral care, it's good to start 'em young! The SmileFrida Finger Brush makes it easy to clean your squirmy little one's baby teeth, without losing your sanity. And the double-sided brush tackles top + bottom at the same time. Plus, a gentle massage with the Finger Brush can go a long way in alleviating teething woes.
Use the Finger Brush from 3 months and up, then graduate to the ToothHugger at 18 months to start teaching your kiddo how to brush on their own.
What's Inside? 1 SmileFrida Finger Toothbrush, 1 Stand + Lid


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Yesterday, we addressed a number of your questions relating to the malicious intrusion into our network. You can find that FAQ here. As we get closer to restoration of service, here are more answers to your questions, many of which are more gaming related:
Q: Will our download history/friends list/settings be affected by the PSN downtime?
A: No, they will not.Q: Will trophies that were earned in single-player offline games during the outage be intact when the service resumes?
A: These trophies are intact and will be re-synched when the network is once again operational.Q: Will my PS+ cloud saves be retrievable?
A: Yes, once PSN is restored.Q: What if we have a subscription to PS3 MMOs DC Universe Online or Free Realms? Will we get compensation for that?
A: From Sony Online Entertainment: "We apologize for any inconvenience players may have experienced as a result of the recent service interruption. As a global leader in online gaming, SOE is committed to delivering stable and entertaining games for players of all ages. To thank players for their patience, we will be hosting special events across our game portfolio. We are also working on a "make good" plan for players of the PS3 versions of DC Universe Online and Free Realms. Details will be available soon on the individual game websites and forums."Q: Will there be a goodwill gesture for the time we haven't been able to utilize PSN/Qriocity?
A: We are currently evaluating ways to show appreciation for your extraordinary patience as we work to get these services back online.
Thank you for your continued feedback.


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No Croutons Required - The Winner of the April Challenge and the Theme for May
It seems Spring has finally arrived, and to celebrate, I'm choosing berries as the theme for May's No Croutons Required. Make any vegetarian soup or salad featuring the berries of your choice. Think savory dinner accompaniments or sweet tempting desserts. You have until the 20th of the month to send in your entry. Submission guidelines can be found here.
7 comments:
- CurryLeaf said...
Congrats to the winner. Love the next theme and I have some very perfect ideas for it.
It was great to read your comment on the patties.I wanted to leave a comment here but could not do so.Thanks for the comment ans the recipe.The patties were delish - May 1, 2009 at 9:02 AM
- Ramya Vijaykumar said...
Oh there are lots entries it should some time before I go thru them... Btw taken note of the berrylicious event shall send in some recipes...
- May 1, 2009 at 9:07 AM
- eatme_delicious said...
Hmmm I don't usually use berries in savoury food... I'll have to see if I can come up with something!
- May 1, 2009 at 10:16 AM
- Lisa Turner said...
Ashley, your entry doesn't have to be savory. It can be a sweet dessert too. I think I am going to go with savory though. Perhaps a soup!
- May 1, 2009 at 11:40 AM
- Ivy said...
Lovely theme Lisa. The only berries we get here in Athens are strawberries and hope to come up with something.
- May 2, 2009 at 12:32 PM
- Jacqueline Meldrum said...
Roll on all the lovely entries!
- May 2, 2009 at 4:45 PM
- goodshoeday said...
Am so pleased to have won and I had such fun am now trying to think of something with berries - quite a tough one I think but should produce some interesting entries. Looking forward to seeing what people come up with.
Linda (aka goodshoeday) - May 6, 2009 at 4:03 AM


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Diamond Grips provide aggressive traction for all winter walking conditions, from boilerplate ice to backcountry snow and everything in between.
They are also effective when transitioning through gravel, rock and mud from icy surfaces. Made of case hardened steel alloy, and strung on steel aircraft cable, the patented Diamond Beads have hundreds of biting edges that grip in all directions. The bead assemblies are riveted to a tough rubber sling which remains elastic in subzero temperatures.
They are easy to put on and take off, yet fit snugly and stay on without the need for additional straps. Diamond Grips are also self clearing, so there is no snow or ice build up. There is no other traction footwear product like it!
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1/4 c chunky peanut butter
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp hot water
1 tbsp fresh lime juice
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 1/2 tsp sesame oil
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1 1/2 tbsp oil
3 c fresh broccoli, in florets
1/2 c red bell peppers, julienned
1/2 c onion, thinly sliced
3 cloves garlic, minced
hot sesame oil (optional)
In a blender or mini-food processor, combine peanut butter, sugar, water, lime juice, soy sauce, sesame oil, and pepper flakes. Pulse until well blended and set aside.
Heat oil over medium high heat in a wok. Add the vegetables and garlic, and stir-fry for 4 minutes, or until tender crisp. At this point, I drizzled the hot sesame oil over it. Remove from heat, place in a large bowl, and pour dressing over it. Mix well and serve. This can be served either hot or cold. Either way, I promise it's excellent!


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Well, my idea would be making an app that launches the "watched-over" apps, and restart them if terminated - which is easy. But detecting intentional close vs. crash is the difficult part -f0dder (February 25, 2009, 02:08 PM)
Well then, what is "crash" defined as then? Not closing using "X" button? It would be impossible to figure out whether a user is using the File>Exit button though, as that usually just closes everything then self-terminates.-Hello71 (April 05, 2009, 04:01 PM)


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That Anxiety May Be in Your Gut, Not in Your Head
For the first time, researchers at McMaster University have conclusive evidence that bacteria residing in the gut influence brain chemistry and behaviour.
The findings are important because several common types of gastrointestinal disease, including irritable bowel syndrome, are frequently associated with anxiety or depression. In addition there has been speculation that some psychiatric disorders, such as late onset autism, may be associated with an abnormal bacterial content in the gut.
"The exciting results provide stimulus for further investigating a microbial component to the causation of behavioural illnesses," said Stephen Collins, professor of medicine and associate dean research, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine. Collins and Premysl Bercik, assistant professor of medicine, undertook the research in the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute.
The research appears in the online edition of the journal Gastroenterology.
For each person, the gut is home to about 1,000 trillium bacteria with which we live in harmony. These bacteria perform a number of functions vital to health: They harvest energy from the diet, protect against infections and provide nutrition to cells in the gut. Any disruption can result in life-threatening conditions, such as antibiotic-induced colitis from infection with the "superbug" Clostridium difficile.
Working with healthy adult mice, the researchers showed that disrupting the normal bacterial content of the gut with antibiotics produced changes in behaviour; the mice became less cautious or anxious. This change was accompanied by an increase in brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which has been linked, to depression and anxiety.
When oral antibiotics were discontinued, bacteria in the gut returned to normal. "This was accompanied by restoration of normal behaviour and brain chemistry," Collins said.
To confirm that bacteria can influence behaviour, the researchers colonized germ-free mice with bacteria taken from mice with a different behavioural pattern. They found that when germ-free mice with a genetic background associated with passive behaviour were colonized with bacteria from mice with higher exploratory behaviour, they became more active and daring. Similarly, normally active mice became more passive after receiving bacteria from mice whose genetic background is associated with passive behaviour.
While previous research has focused on the role bacteria play in brain development early in life, Collins said this latest research indicates that while many factors determine behaviour, the nature and stability of bacteria in the gut appear to influence behaviour and any disruption , from antibiotics or infection, might produce changes in behaviour. Bercik said that these results lay the foundation for investigating the therapeutic potential of probiotic bacteria and their products in the treatment of behavioural disorders, particularly those associated with gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome.


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November 11, 2007: GURPS Martial Arts: Fairbairn Close Combat Systems PlaytestWritten by Hans-Christian Vortisch, one of the authors of the new edition of GURPS High-Tech, Fairbairn Close Combat Systems expands on the Fairbairn Close Combat Training information found in GURPS Martial Arts. With new variations, new technique Combinations, and a full write-up of Defendu, GURPS Martial Arts: Fairbairn Close Combat Styles is sure to become your favorite PDF just as soon as it's released. But . . . we can't release this masterpiece without your help! Playtest applications must be submitted no later than November 15. Playtesting on this short manuscript starts November 16 and ends November 30.
As always, playtest participation is via a closed e-mail list limited to Pyramid subscribers. To apply, please e-mail the author, Hans-Christian Vortisch (email@example.com), with "[Fairbairn Close Combat]" in the subject, and include your name, Pyramid username, preferred e-mail address for the mailing list, and any qualifications you feel make you suited for the playtest.
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What is SARI?
The Scholarship and Research Integrity (SARI) program at Penn State is designed to offer graduate students comprehensive, multilevel training in the responsible conduct of research, in a way that is tailored to address the issues faced by individual disciplines. The program is implemented by PSU colleges and graduate programs in a way that meets the particular needs of students in each unit. In general, SARI programs have two parts: an online program to be completed in the first year of graduate study; to be followed by five hours of discussion-based RCR education prior to degree completion. The SARI Resource Portal provides information, teaching tools, and links to other resources to support SARI program activities, as well as access to an online training program provided by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), which most programs will use for first-year training.
Beginning with the incoming class of 2009, all graduate students at Penn State are required to complete the SARI requirements during their graduate program of study.
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Meteorology's SARI Course (Meteo 591)
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- All first-year graduate students
- Undergraduates who are headed for summer research experiences either inside or outside of the Department of Meteorology
- Post-doctoral researchers and research associates will be required to sit-in on it within their first year of arriving here at Penn State, and their participation will be documented by the instructor for the course.


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Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French philosopher of the existentialist school and a novelist of note who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. Numbered among his philosophical works is…
Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French philosopher of the existentialist school and a novelist of note who won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. Numbered among his philosophical works is a volume, published in 1942, called "The Myth of Sisyphus." The title refers to a character in Greek mythology who is eternally condemned to roll a huge rock up a hill, see it roll back down and start all over again.
Camus took that wretched fate as a metaphor of the human condition. The book's famous opening sentence reads: "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."
Albert Camus may have been more blunt than most, but he's hardly alone. During the last two centuries, many writers — angry and rebellious or simply depressed — have formed a gloomy chorus proclaiming the demise of religious faith in significant intellectual sectors of Western culture.
Writing in the Victorian era, British poet and critic Matthew Arnold summed it up in his poem "Dover Beach." Speaking of the supposedly diminished "Sea of Faith," he wrote: "But now I only hear/Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,/ Retreating. … "
A crucial value
Today, too, the trickle-down effects of this erosion of belief among secular elites casts a pall of sadness over countless people's lives. One result has been the rise of a kind of neo-paganism bereft of faith and hope and joy. Pope Benedict XVI calls Europe's "demographic winter" — a steep drop in births and accelerating population decline — a sign that Europe is "losing trust in its own future."
All of which underlines how important the virtue of cheerfulness really is. A distinctive feature of our contemporary entertainment-obsessed secular culture is the profound sadness that underlies it. To oppose this encircling gloom with cheerfulness has become a Christian duty.
Camus concluded that suicide wasn't the appropriate answer to his "philosophical problem." Instead, his answer was to "live in revolt." That meant an attempt — heroic, but ultimately doomed to fail — to impose meaning upon essentially "absurd" human life. Other writers followed suit. American writer Ernest Hemingway's popular 1952 novel "The Old Man and the Sea" is an existentialist parable that illustrates this idea in fictional terms.
Others afflicted by the decline of faith propose different answers. One of these is the dolce vita of physical and psychological gratification. Many people seek to escape, or at least to mask, their dread of meaninglessness with things like alcohol, drugs and the loveless and uncommitted sex epitomized in Internet pornography, or simply by killing time in mind-numbing pursuits like watching endless hours of television. Sometimes it does the trick. But not for long.
Secular utopianism represents another approach. Karl Marx and the Marxists are its classic examples in modern times. Imagining that there is no such thing as heaven or eternal life, the Marxists held that the fulfillment of human aspirations necessarily had to come in this life and this world. And that would happen when the dialectic of history reached its conclusion in a radically egalitarian heaven on earth called the classless society.
Many millions of lives have been sacrificed on the altar of this secularist vision. Observing the cultlike character of Marxist orthodoxy, a critic remarked that for many Western intellectuals of the 20th century Marxism was a "god that failed."
What does Christianity say in reply to all this? If cheerfulness is central to its response, what reason or reasons does faith provide for being cheerful in a world where so much pain and suffering exist?
Start with the fact that Christianity doesn't deny the reality of evil. Rather, it situates it in the context of faith. G.K. Chesterton put the idea succinctly. Speaking of the doctrine of original sin, he insisted that at bottom it's good news since it means that human beings have "misused a good world, and not merely been entrapped into a bad one."
Original sin, Chesterton explained, "refers evil back to a wrong use of the will, and thus declares that it can eventually be righted by the right use of the will." Christian cheerfulness is rooted in this idea that what is so obviously and painfully wrong with the world can finally be overcome by placing human freedom at the service of goodness and truth. Jesus Christ showed the way. And in the Christian view, the process of setting things right that he began leads to resurrection and eternal life.
Hope in Christ
No one expresses it better than St. Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthians.
"If Christ has not been raised," St. Paul concedes, "your faith is in vain … If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable people of all" (1 Cor 15:19).
That state of disbelief is the point reached by secular culture today. St. Paul, however, doesn't leave it there.
"But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. … Then shall come to pass the saying that is written: 'Death is swallowed up in victory.' 'O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?'" (1 Cor 15:12 ff.).
Faith in resurrection — Christ's resurrection and ours — is the source and substance of Christian cheerfulness. Looked at from the perspective of virtue, it's a product of faith and hope. But it's important to grasp the difference between the virtue properly so called and merely natural cheerfulness. Both are desirable, but they're not the same.
Natural cheerfulness comes from temperament or external circumstances or some combination of both. Some people are just naturally upbeat. It's an attractive trait, but it can be carried too far. Think of the man who compulsively cracks jokes on solemn occasions.
Unlike natural cheerfulness, Christian cheerfulness has its eye fixed on the next life as well as this one. It can and should coexist with sorrow. The Catholic philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand makes the point in his book "Transformation in Christ":
"True, Jesus by his crucifixion has redeemed the world and cleansed all suffering from its poisonous sting. Yet, Jesus also spoke the words, 'If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross' (Mt 16:24).
"The cross awaits us inescapably on our life-path; and we have to accept it. We should, however, take it in imitation of Christ. … If governed and shaped by those two eminently Christian attitudes of mind — resignation to God's will and patience — all suffering will become transfigured and pleasing to God."
The largest obstacle to cheerfulness isn't sorrow but pride. "Continual peace is with the humble," says The Imitation of Christ, "but in the heart of the proud is frequent envy and indignation." St. James supplies practical advice: "Is any one of you sad? Let him pray" (Jas 5:13). Prayer puts us in touch with God, who is the source of our faith and hope — and humility.
Not only our own peace of mind but our effectiveness in leading others to God depends largely on cheerfulness. St. Francis de Sales tells his readers, "we should contribute to holy and temperate joy and to pleasant conversation, which may serve as a consolation and recreation to our neighbor, so as not to annoy him with our knit brows." And of course we have Jesus' own words about fasting: "Do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward" (Mt 6:16).
In the end, Christian cheerfulness is about much more than just feeling good. It's a way of giving witness to faith — part of the challenge to evangelize the gloomy secular culture all around us.
Albert Camus and the existentialists weren't the only French intellectuals who thought about these things. Paul Claudel (1868-1955), poet, dramatist, diplomat and fervent Catholic, said, "Tell them their only duty is cheerfulness! Because joy is the sign that we love God, and thus we do a great good for others and for ourselves. We must be happy, and others should know that we are."
The name for that is "cheerfulness."
Russell Shaw is an OSV contributing editor. This is the fourth part of a monthly Year of Faith series on virtues that originally appeared in Our Sunday Visitor.


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People need uninterrupted time to get things done
Basecamp is spread out over four cities and eight time zones. From Provo, Utah to Copenhagen, Denmark, the five of us are eight hours apart. One positive side effect of this eight hour difference is alone time.
There are only about 4-5 hours during the day that we're all up and working together. At other times, the us team is sleeping while David, who's in Denmark, is working. The rest of the time, we're working while David is sleeping. This gives us about half of the day together and the other half alone.
Guess which part of the day we get the most work done? The alone part. It's not that surprising really. Many people prefer to work either early in the morning or late at night — times when they're not being bothered.
When you have a long stretch when you aren't bothered, you can get in the zone. The zone is when you are most productive. It's when you don't have to mindshift between various tasks. It's when you aren't interrupted to answer a question or look up something or send an email or answer an IM. The alone zone is where real progress is made.
Getting in the zone takes time. And that's why interruption is your enemy. It's like rem sleep — you don't just go to rem sleep, you go to sleep first and you make your way to rem. Any interruptions force you to start over. rem is where the real sleep magic happens. The alone time zone is where the real development magic happens.
Set up a rule at work: Make half the day alone time. From 10am-2pm, no one can talk to one another (except during lunch). Or make the first or the last half of the day the alone time period. Just make sure this period is contiguous in order to avoid productivity-killing interruptions.
A successful alone time period means letting go of communication addiction. During alone time, give up instant messaging, phone calls, and meetings. Avoid any email thread that's going to require an immediate response. Just shut up and get to work.
Get Into the Groove
We all know that knowledge workers work best by getting into "flow", also known as being "in the zone", where they are fully concentrated on their work and fully tuned out of their environment. They lose track of time and produce great stuff through absolute concentration…trouble is that it's so easy to get knocked out of the zone. Noise, phone calls, going out for lunch, having to drive 5 minutes to Starbucks for coffee, and interruptions by coworkers — especially interruptions by coworkers — all knock you out of the zone. If you take a 1 minute interruption by a coworker asking you a question, and this knocks out your concentration enough that it takes you half an hour to get productive again, your overall productivity is in serious trouble.
—Joel Spolsky, software developer, Fog Creek Software (from Where do These People Get Their (Unoriginal) Ideas?)


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Five years ago, when Jack Geikler and his wife, Pat, moved into independent living accommodations at Kendal at Lexington, Virginia, he was doing his best to care for her. But it was getting harder. The couple had been living with Pat's worsening dementia for a decade, and she was beginning to wander in their apartment.
"I was desperately trying to find an activity for her," he says. Music had always been a big part of their lives. So Geikler, a former executive at Westinghouse, decided to digitize their CD collection and set up an iPod for Pat that she could listen to with headphones as she moved from room to room. "It has been very useful for a long time, particularly during the later stages of dementia" he says.
He'd never heard of MUSIC & MEMORY®. But all that changed when leadership of the Shenandoah Valley continuing care retirement community (CCRC) discovered the power of personalized playlists in 2012.
A Gift of Time, Music, Resources and Know-how
"I was listening to a report on NPR," says Executive Assistant Becky Edmonson. "Our Executive Director, Judy Braun, heard about it at a conference the same week. Our reaction was, this might fit the bill for innovative dementia care. Let's do it!"
Kendal at Lexington serves 120 residents in independent living, 20 in assisted living and 60 in their skilled nursing facility. Edmonson says about 75 percent of residents in assisted living and the nursing home have mild to severe cognitive issues.
With a $5,000 grant from Kendal Charitable Funds, the philanthropic arm of Kendal Corp., the CCRC enrolled in the MUSIC & MEMORY® Certification Program and purchased iPods and headphones for residents—not only for Kendal, but also 20 additional sets for other area nursing homes and a local hospice.
Then it was time to implement the program. "We needed music when we got started," says Resident Life Coordinator Laura Hotinger. "So we reached out to the independent living folks. Jack came forward, not only with his music, but also with a contribution to greatly expand the program."
Creating Playlists for Residents and Their Caregivers
Giekler's wife has since moved into the skilled nursing facility on the Kendal campus. With more free time, now that he's not a 24/7 caregiver, he maintains Kendal's 7,000-song music library and sets up personalized playlists—not only for resident with dementia, but also for their caregivers and members of the Alzheimer's Association-supported Dementia Caregivers Group.
"Jack is a tremendous advocate for caregivers of partners with dementia," says Hotinger. "He'll promote anything to make life better for those living with dementia."
Geikler wasn't the only community member to help out. Board members, staff and other residents all contributed CDs to build the campus's iTunes library. "We were swamped with music!" says Hotinger. She collaborated with Geikler to load the numerous CDs into the computer, selecting styles of music preferred by the community's current population.
Kendal at Lexington has more than 60 iPods in use, and Geikler keeps the iTunes library and all playlists updated. He's also created a few special, themed playlists for designated iPods that circulate. A holiday playlist is loaded on a red iPod Shuffle. Another iPod is available with soothing instrumental music.
Music Helps Staff, Too
The latter has come in handy for staff, as well as residents. "We're needy humans, ourselves," says Hotinger. "When staff are stressed and have needed music in their lives, I've handed out the relaxing iPod. It's been very well received. We've opened the door to music as a healing medium, not only for residents, but for staff and caregivers, as well."
Hotinger would love to have more dedicated volunteers like Geikler. Students from nearby colleges have helped out in the past. "I quickly realized that the need to offer music to residents is infinite," she says. "There are never enough volunteers, but we do the best we can."
Her belief is underscored by a resident who listens to his iPod every day, without fail. "The music is the best part of Kendal," he says.
Founded in 2010, MUSIC & MEMORY® is a non-profit organization that brings personalized music into the lives of the elderly or infirm through digital music technology, vastly improving quality of life.


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As the coronavirus spreads and disrupts life across the country, Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans are facing a secondary threat: racism.
The virus was first detected in Wuhan, China, and some now blame the country for its global spread. In recent weeks, blame has escalated into reports of harassment and even assault in places with large communities of Asian Americans.
Last week Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, started tracking these attacks on a new website he helped launch called Stop AAPI Hate. In the site's first eight days, it received more than 650 reports of discrimination — largely against the Asian American community.
Jeung spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep about this spike in reports. Here is some of what he had to say:
On the need for the site
We recognized early on that people were experiencing a lot of bullying, a lot of shunning, a lot of avoiding when the coronavirus outbreak occurred. And we didn't have any hard data to document what was going on, so the first thing we did was we looked at news trends, and we counted news stories that had coronavirus and discrimination or xenophobia in it.
We found hundreds of articles about policies that people thought were xenophobic, economic boycotts of Asian businesses and then later on about interactions that Asian Americans were having where people were bullying, taunting, harassing and now attacking.
We had hundreds of accounts to go to the state legislature and say, "This is happening. We need to get it documented. We need to proactively address these trends." And since the government didn't have the capacity in California, we started our own website as a reporting center, and it just was launched last week and we've been getting over 100 reports every day.
What types of reports the site is receiving
Name-calling and verbal harassment — microaggressions are the most common. It moves up to people having bottles and cans thrown at them, their homes being vandalized, and then ... maybe three times a day, we have people actually being physically attacked, assaulted, being hit or punched, pushed on subways.
Are there things that have made it worse?
After [Sept. 11] people were attacking Muslim Americans and President Bush came out and said we have to not discriminate or mistreat Muslim Americans. What President Trump did was he insisted on calling it the "Chinese virus" and labeling coronavirus as a racial disease. And by othering Asians — and it's not just Chinese, anybody who looks Chinese — it just gave people license to attack us, to blame us for the disease, to say we're the source of it. And it's not the people who are the source of the disease, it's just, you know, a virus that doesn't discriminate.
On whether President Trump helped this week when he tweeted that the virus is not the fault of the Asian American community
Yeah, we appreciate that. I think that was due to the pressure that we exerted and the complaining. But I think it's a little too little, too late. He's already opened the door to this racism. It was already starting even before he made the China virus remarks, and he just sort of exacerbated the situation. He still uses this us vs. them binary that argues that, "Oh, we're really working with them" and that "We're protecting them," that we're still outsiders and foreigners and not part of the American fabric.
Hear the full interview on Morning Edition here.
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TheGothenburgCombo (no spaces, please!) is Swedish guitarists David Hansson and Thomas Hansy. The Combo was formed in 2000, has given concerts on four continents, and in 2004, won the "13ème Concours International de Guitare en Duo" in France. In addition to the two CDs reviewed here, they have recorded a program, called "Hausmusik," of 19th-century works played on period guitars.
"La Vida Breve," their most recent release, is an eclectic program of "romantic music for two guitars," although one could dispute to what extent Bach's music is "romantic," let alone "Romantic." Hansson and Hansy are responsible for all of the arrangements, with the exception of the works by de Falla (Emilio Pujol) and Brahms (Ansgar Krause), and the two Swedish folksongs (Sven Berger).
The two guitarists take a subjective approach to the material. Their goal seems to have been to create a variety of moods, and a relaxing listening experience, more than to remain faithful to the composers or their work. Indeed, few pianists would play the Debussy pieces this slowly, and the Brahms Intermezzo is almost unrecognizable in this guise. In the Carulli, Hansson and Hansy take a piece that is "a bit long and somewhat repetitious" (I don't doubt it, actually), and cut it down drastically.
In other words, this is a CD that purists might not appreciate. Nevertheless, I thought that the material, while it was changed, made the transition to two guitars successfully. Even when the playing is at its most dreamy, the musicianship of TheGothenburgCombo remains alert and involving. The Spanish-inflected selections have sharp rhythmic outlines, and the Debussy is finely colored. The Brahms Intermezzo is really touching, and I wish that the composer could have heard it this way! (Did Brahms write any guitar music?) The program was recorded in a Swedish church, and the venue contributes to the attractive sonic ambience without becoming a distraction. This is a program that rewards repeated and attentive listening, although it also is perfect for late nights when one is too tired to listen critically!
"Soundscapes," the predecessor to "La Vida Breve," adds another dimension to one's understanding of TheGothenburgCombo. This SACD is built around two major compositions by Steve Reich: the disciplined "process music" of Phase, and the more freely constructed Nagoya Guitars, David Tanenbaum's arrangement of Nagoya Marimbas. (Tanenbaum collaborated with Reich to create this arrangement in 1997.) In the former work, composed in 1967, the two instruments play the same material, but because one is playing it slightly faster, the two instruments go out of phase, creating what might be thought of as intriguing interference patterns. This occurs over the course of almost 22 minutes. Again, Phase is played in an arrangement by Hansson and Hansy, and some changes have been made to Reich's original. Nagoya Guitars is similarly relentless in its progress, but is more spontaneous and joyful. It sounds fine played by two guitars! In Pulse, Hansson and Hansy impress with the precision of their playing. (When this piece goes wrong, it can go really wrong.) Nagoya Guitars is ebullient, yet always controlled.
The extended opening work by TheGothenburgCombo is episodic, but the episodes clearly relate to the other material on this CD, and Hansson and Hansy must have had a good time creating these fresh sounds. This might be "ambient music," but it has both structure and substance. Peter Hansen's work is a hypnotic elegy to the American blues/rock guitarist who died in 1971. The use of capos darkens the sound of both guitars. Eklöf's Friday, inspired by a song by The Cure, is atmospheric, and it has an unusual pulse, derived not from the precise division of beats and musical phrases, but from the performers' internal mental "reading" of The Cure's lyrics. (I know this sounds a little airy-fairy, but the proof is in the pudding.) The CD closes with a short work – or rather, a portion of one – dedicated to the Combo. Like Friday, it moves forward driven not by numbers but by breaths.
"Soundscapes" was recorded in a different Swedish church, with the microphones placed a little more closely to the players than they are on "La Vida Breve." Consequently, the recording is a bit less atmospheric, but it remains very satisfying.
Both of these CDs are excellent, and should appeal to a wide range of listeners. More information about TheGothenburgCombo can be obtained from www.gbgcombo.com.
Copyright © 2008 by Raymond Tuttle


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The killings of some 16 civilians in Afghanistan on Sunday allegedly by a U.S. soldier are raising new questions about U.S. military strategy: whether the surge of American troops worked, and whether the U.S. troops have won over the Afghan people or alienated them.
The place where the killings happened was a "no-go zone" for American and even Afghan troops as recently as two years ago — it was Taliban country.
That changed when soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division swept into the rural district in the dead of night in November 2010. Back then, Capt. Davitt Broderick stood in his command post, a two-story adobe house in Panjwai, near Kandahar. He said that better security would lead to schools, clinics and fewer young men joining the Taliban.
"The couple of guys that were shooting at us, you know, they could be an active part of society next year," he said, "if things go right."
Things did go right in that district. The so-called surge of U.S. forces helped push out the Taliban there.
Now, the Army staff sergeant accused of killing men, women and children — just a few miles from Broderick's outpost — could undermine the U.S. effort throughout Afghanistan.
Losing Support
Security might be better in many parts of Afghanistan thanks to that surge in troops, but the Americans could lose the support of the people.
"The ultimate prize in a counterinsurgency is the support of the population," says John Nagl, a retired Army officer who helped write the Army's counterinsurgency manual with Gen. David Petraeus. "They are the ones who decide ultimately whether their future is better with the government and with its outside helpers, like the United States in this case, or if their fate is going to be better with the insurgents."
Right now there is growing anger at the United States. The Afghan Parliament issued a statement saying the Afghan people had run out of patience with foreign soldiers. And the Taliban issued their own statement that said the killings were caused by "sick-minded American savages" and vowed revenge.
"This has been an enormous gift to the Taliban," Nagl says. "Their propaganda has long been that Americans and their NATO allies are murderers and occupiers."
But U.N. reports show that the vast majority of civilian deaths are caused by the Taliban and not coalition forces. It was fighting the Taliban, especially in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, that U.S. forces and Afghan troops suffered most of their casualties.
"The sacrifices have been so enormous on all sides that it would be just a horrible shame to lose sight of that even if we lament what happened in the recent days," says Michael O'Hanlon, a defense analyst at the Brookings Institution.
"Even throughout the entire south, we've seen the level of violence go down by a third to half over the last two years," says O'Hanlon, who has traveled frequently to Afghanistan.
Further Setbacks
Despite those security gains, acts committed by American troops have captured the attention of many Afghans and their leaders.
Before Sunday's killings, the U.S. military was investigating a video that became public in January showing four Marines urinating on suspected dead Taliban in southern Afghanistan in 2010. Another investigation is looking into what officers have said was the mistaken burning of Qurans by U.S. soldiers in February.
Nagl says these incidents have been catastrophic for the U.S.-Afghan relationship.
"We are outsiders to that society, so we really need to be on our best behavior to accomplish our national security objectives," he says. "[That means] a stable government that can largely stand on its own to deal with the threats that it faces."
Until it can stand on its own, the Afghan government needs American support. That's why O'Hanlon thinks the U.S.-Afghan relationship will survive these incidents.
"Bottom line: The Afghans still need us, and we still think their country is important for our security," he says. "I would predict, therefore, that we will tough it out here."
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The Maddox Brothers & Rose
Loved by Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley, it would be hard to come up with a musical group more influential than the Maddox Bros & Rose in the bawdy birthing of rock 'n' roll music in the 1950s.
What is true about the Maddox Bros & Rose is that their music, a rough and rowdy blend of hillbilly boogie, western songs and medicine show hokum, was a powerful spark of inspiration to the first wave of rockabillies and rock 'n' rollers—from their wild stage costumes to their fleet of Cadillacs, the Maddox Bros & Rose were rock stars before there was such a thing.
In what has become a most ironic twist of fate, their record of The Death Of Rock And Roll (included here), meant to parody Elvis, has become their most revered recording in rockabilly circles, rightly given credit as an excellent example of the genre!
The compilation presented here is a selection of the Maddox Bros & Rose hottest recordings for Columbia Records, from their very first Columbia session in January of 1952 to the last secular recording the group ever did in August of 1957 before Rose went solo and the family assemblage disbanded.
For rockabilly and hillbilly boogie fans, this is the ultimate collection to have. If you want a more complete representation of what the Maddox Bros & Rose were really about, it is recommended that you check out the Bear Family box set 'The Most Colorful Hillbilly Band In America' (BCD 15850), a 4 CD collection that contains their entire Columbia recorded legacy. If you are the type of fan who wants to hear absolutely everything, it's also recommended that you check out their earlier recordings from the 4-Star label (which many fans consider their best recordings), and their live radio transcriptions, which have been expertly reissued by the Arhoolie label. Lastly, Bear Family has also released an excellent box set, 'The One Rose' (BCD 15743), which contains Rose Maddox's entire solo output from the Capitol years of the late 1950s and 1960s.
The Maddox family saga is one that has been told and retold many times, and is the stuff of legend. As writer Robert K. Oermann wrote, "They didn't have to read John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes Of Wrath,' they lived it."
The Maddox clan (and indeed, they were more a clan than family) hailed from the scrubby mountain area of Northeast Alabama, where their father Charlie and mother Lula sharecropped and set up camp near the small town of Boaz (only 39 miles away from Section, Alabama, birthplace of the Louvin Brothers, and only 70 miles away from Hank Williams' birthplace of Mount Olive West, Alabama).
Cliff was the eldest son, born in 1912, followed by the senior sister, Alta, in 1914, Calvin followed in 1915, Fred in 1919, Don in 1922, littlest sister Rose in 1925, and finally baby brother Henry in 1928. The family lived in the poorest of conditions imaginable, though not atypical for the still economically depressed area. They led a hand to mouth existence of working the land, without the benefit of running water or electricity.
What differentiated this family from the tens of thousands of similar poor, southern families of the era, was the matriarch of the Maddox household. Lula Maddox was quite simply unique among her peers, ruling the household with a dominance that extended not only to handling financial aspects of the family business, but also to discouraging her children from marrying or leaving the fold.
Lula came up with the idea, mostly from reading dime store novels, that the family should move to a mythic place called California, where gold literally grew on trees, and she held fast to this notion for years, until she finally convinced the family to venture west in 1933.
Predating the enormous 'Okie' migration by several years, the Maddox family headed west with $35 they made from selling the few possessions they owned. Hitching rides, walking, and chiefly riding in boxcars with hobos and drifters, the Maddoxes made it to Los Angeles in a few weeks time, with days off spent working odd jobs to feed the family sufficiently for the next section of the journey. From Los Angeles, the family headed north to satisfy Lula's dream of working what she called "the gold fields of Sonora."
What they found instead were more impoverished families like themselves, all looking for the promise of a better life. The Maddoxes soon found themselves living in a depression-era phenomenon known as the Pipe City of Oakland, a construction area with many large drainage culvert pipes, where families set up living quarters within the curved sections of unused pipe.
A famous picture from this time was published in the 'Oakland Tribune' on April 11, 1933. The family's plight was published with a characteristic Dust Bowl sepiatone photograph of the five children with Charlie and Lula, and a caption that read "Family roams U.S. for Work."
From here the family settled into a migrant farming lifestyle around their next adopted hometown of Modesto. Now known as 'fruit tramps' and wrongly called 'Okies,' (a derogatory designation on a par with the term 'nigger' at that time), they slept in tents on the cold ground while following the fruit picking harvests around central California's San Joaquin Valley.
While music had always played a role in their lives (being one of the few free forms of entertainment available to dirt-poor laborers like the Maddoxes), it took the wily mind of middle son Fred Maddox to envision the family as a professional music outfit.
They had little more than a single guitar amongst them, with no experience playing as a band, when Fred decided the way to escape manual labor was to go professional as a music group. With Mama Lula's help, Fred approached the Rice Furniture Company in Modesto about sponsoring the Maddox Brothers to perform on local station KTRB radio.
Fred was always able to charm his way into any situation, and he sold the owner on sponsoring the group—with one hitch. The owner insisted that the group have a female singer. Without missing a lick, Fred promised the owner that their younger sister Rose was the greatest female singer in the history of music, and they got the job. What he had neglected to mention was that Rose was only eleven years old and had done little singing besides some hollering out in the fields and around the campfires!
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By: Herman Rosenthal
Russian civil engineer; born at Odessa, March 3, 1854. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native city, and studied mathematics at the University of Odessa, which he left to take a course in civil engineering at the Polytechnikum of Zurich, Switzerland, from which he was graduated in 1876. Returning to Russia in 1879, he passed the state examination at the Russian Imperial Institute of Roads and Communications, and was appointed one of the directors of the Russian state railway at Kief. He devised, built, and managed the sewer system of Kief, and constructed the street-railroad of that city. In 1881 he founded and became editor-in-chief of a technical monthly, "Inzhener" (The Engineer). He was appointed president of the local sewer company and director of the Kief city railroad.


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Fox's Stossel Declares Pollution No Longer A Problem As EPA Says Half Of Rivers Are In Poor Health
Written by Ellie Sandmeyer
As Fox Business host John Stossel declared America's water pollution problem over, a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report found that more than half of America's rivers and streams are in poor condition because of pollution.
Stossel appeared on Tuesday's edition of The O'Reilly Factor to preview an anti-environmental episode called "Green Tyranny," and claimed that the problem of pollution in the U.S. was "largely solved" and no longer worth the use of government funding.
BILL O'REILLY (host): All right. So, that's Stossel jumping in the Hudson River, showing off and all of that. And your point to jump in the Hudson River was?
STOSSEL: That we need some environmental rules. Thank goodness, we've had some when I was a kid. You couldn't open a window in the city because soot would come in.
But they've cleaned up the water. So, it used to go -- 8 million people flushing, used to go straight in the Hudson River.
O'REILLY: All right. It doesn't do that anymore. It's treated and all of that. So, the Hudson -- I mean, I wouldn't be swimming there on a regular basis, Stossel. Your mustache is gonna falll off, all right?
Yeah, you can show up and jump in there for 10 seconds but, come on.
STOSSEL: It's pretty good. My point is that they spent several hundred million dollars.
O'REILLY: Cleaning up the river.
STOSSEL: Cleaning up the river and the air.
O'REILLY: Which was worth it though.
STOSSEL: Which was worth it.
STOSSEL: But stick a fork in it. It's done. They did a great job. The air -- every time somebody buys a new car, the air gets cleaner because the old cars pollute more. But government only grows. So, now, they're spending billions of dollars on --
O'REILLY: Are you saying that the pollution problem in this country is not worth the money they're spending on?
STOSSEL: Yes. I'm saying it's largely solved. And, now, we're giving money to rich movie actors, subsidies to buy $100,000 electric cars.
Despite Stossel's claims, an EPA report released on Tuesday found 55 percent of U.S. rivers and streams to be in "poor biological condition," based on an index that measures various aquatic creatures. The report also found that 23 percent of rivers and streams were in fair condition, and just under 21 percent were in good condition. The assessment was based on "the results of an unprecedented sampling effort undertaken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its state and tribal partners" collected in 2008 and 2009 at 1,924 sites across the country. From the EPA's report:
The EPA's "National Rivers and Streams Assessment" also determined that 9 percent of waterways studied posed a danger to human health. The Associated Press reported:
In 9 percent of rivers and streams, bacteria exceeded thresholds protective of human health. And mercury, which is toxic, was found in fish tissue along 13,000 miles of streams at levels exceeding health-based standards. Mercury occurs naturally but also can enter the environment from coal-burning power plants and from burning hazardous wastes.
The assessment raised red flags particularly in urban areas. According to the EPA, 26.9 percent of the urban sites tested -- 2,970 miles of the 11,002 -- exceed the EPA quality standards for mercury (300 parts per billion in fish tissue), and 11.6% contained concerning levels of PFCs, artificial chemicals used to make used for decades to make products that resist heat, oil, stains, grease, and water. From the EPA assessment:
The EPA warns that the Hudson River, which Stossel jumped into, "looks clean, but looks can be deceiving." An EPA fact page on PCBs in the Hudson River -- a chemical that was dumped into the river by General Electric for decades -- states:
PCBs are harmful to people's health.
PCBs cause cancer in laboratory animals, are considered a probable cause of cancer in people, and can trigger serious health problems, including low birth weight and reproductive and immunological problems. Pregnant women and children are especially vulnerable. Major national and international health organizations, including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, the American Cancer Society, and the World Health Organization agree with EPA about the toxicity of PCBs.
In addition, the EPA noted that letting nature take its course will not protect against the harmful effects of PCBs:
Source control alone will not clean up the river.
Each day, about three to five ounces of PCBs enter the river at the top of the Thompson Island Pool through fractures in the bedrock underneath the GE Hudson Falls plant. Samples show that about one to two pounds of PCBs flow out of the Thompson Island Pool every day. It's simple math. The additional PCBs come from the river sediment. [...] without targeted dredging, PCBs in the sediment will continue to find their way into fish at unacceptable levels and for an unacceptable length of time.
Letting nature take its course will not protect people and animals who eat fish from the Hudson.


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Researchers have developed a new family of cathodes with the potential to replace the costly cobalt-based cathodes typically found in today's lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and consumer electronics.
The new class of nickel-, iron-, and aluminum (NFA)-based cathode is a derivative of lithium nickelate and can be used to make the positive electrode of a lithium-ion battery. These novel cathodes are designed to be fast-charging, energy-dense, cost-effective, and longer-lasting.
With the rise in the production of portable electronics and electric vehicles throughout the world, lithium-ion batteries are in high demand. Cobalt is a metal currently needed for the cathode, which makes up the significant portion of a lithium-ion battery's cost. Cobalt is rare and largely mined overseas, making it difficult to acquire and produce cathodes. As a result, finding an alternative material to cobalt that can be manufactured cost effectively has become a lithium-ion battery research priority.
Researchers tested the performance of the new cathodes and determined they are promising substitutes for cobalt-based cathodes. They used neutron diffraction, Mossbauer spectroscopy, and other advanced characterization techniques to investigate NFA's atomic and micro structures as well as electrochemical properties. The cathodes undergo similar electrochemical reactions as cobalt-based cathodes and deliver high enough specific capacities to meet the battery energy density demands. The new cathode has similar or better electrochemical characteristics than cobalt-based cathodes while utilizing lower-cost raw materials.
Not only does NFA perform as well as cobalt-based cathodes but the process to manufacture the NFA cathodes can be integrated into existing global cathode manufacturing processes. Future research and development on the NFA class will include testing the materials in large-format cells to validate the lab-scale results and further explore the suitability of the cathodes for use in electric vehicles.
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A convenient recipe for the busy cook. This is so much easier than classic stuffed cabbage- but we think that it tastes just as good! Do try it and let us know what you think!
1 1/2 to 2 pounds lean ground beef or turkey
1 tablespoon oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 small cabbage, chopped
2 cans (14.5 ounces each) diced tomatoes
1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon sea salt
Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a large skillet. Saute the onions until tender, then add ground beef (or turkey) until the meat is browned.
Add the garlic and cook an additional minute before adding the remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce the heat and simmer about 25 minutes (or until the cabbage is quite fork tender).
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By crying, turning their heads or maintaining eye contact, infants innately relieve stress. Adults manage emotional tension using problem-solving or by seeking support. A new study describes how adolescents' developing personalities and coping habits affect their behaviors toward others. The study was handled by a University of Missouri human development expert. "We're each born with some personality tendencies; for example, we see that babies are fussy or calm," said Gustavo Carlo, the Millsap Professor of Diversity in the MU Department of Human Development and Family Studies. "Those characteristics can change over time as people experience certain events or as a result of their parents, peers or communities. At the same time, as we get older, our personalities become more stable."
Carlo and his colleagues surveyed 1,557 students ages 12-15 years old in Valencia, Spain, to measure the adolescents' feelings toward others, their past prosocial and physically aggressive behaviors, their emotional stability, and how they manage stress.
Carlo found that empathetic adolescents were more likely to use problem-focused coping, which aims to reduce or eliminate the source of the stress. These adolescents also were more likely to perform prosocial behaviors that benefit others, such as volunteering, donating money or helping friends with problems. Conversely, emotionally unstable, impulsive adolescents relied more on emotion-focused coping tactics such as venting, avoidance or distraction, and they showed more frequent signs of aggression.
"Empathetic kids are generally very good at regulating their emotions and tend not to lose their tempers," Carlo said. "When you're good at regulating your emotions, you're less concerned about yourself and more considerate of other people. On the other hand, impulsive children are more self-focused and have difficulty engaging in problem-focused coping."
Teaching adolescents multiple ways to handle stress will help them decide which coping techniques to use based on the unique situations, Carlo said. In some cases, people may use both emotion-focused and problem-focused coping, while in others, one might be more beneficial. For example, emotion-focused coping might be more constructive when children witness their parents' divorces because the kids cannot change those situations. On the other hand, planning ahead to study for tests or complete homework is a problem-focused coping technique that can help adolescents effectively ease academic stress.
"Sometimes we get stuck dealing with stress in one way because it was successful in the past; that coping style may not be effective with other stressors and in other situations," Carlo said. "There is more than one way to cope in situations, and people need to know when to apply which coping mechanisms."


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Workers' self-management and related forms of workers' control over production is associated with periods of societal transformation. In its most advanced form it presents a challenge to capitalist property relations as part of a revolutionary process. Workers' Councils, as a form of self-management, have occurred under capitalism but also in Communist command economy states. The relationship between the practice of self-management and the class nature of the state is not, however, straightforward. read more »
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