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It's been a big cooking weekend for me. I owe a few people for helping me out at work…big time. Additionally, Floyd has a friend that lives near us that gets produce delivered weekly, and he was unable to use the PILE of produce he gets. I am not kidding – I couldn't see my kitchen island all weekend, which is very stressful for me. How in the world does one guy cook and eat all of this food??!!
Regardless, I took on a tri-baking challenge. Two types of cookies and something sweet for breakfast. I am always nervous to try recipes for the first time, but I couldn't pass up the thought of chocolate nutella cookies coming from my kitchen. This recipe popped up over the weekend in my blog reader from Simply Recipes, and it was immediately starred and tagged.
Like the author of the original post, my memories of nutella are tied to college, but mine are dipping graham crackers in large jars during movie days in Italian class. By my third year of Italiano, I was full on taking actual classes in another language – poetry, literature, and history. In my history class, every other week, we would watch an old movie in Italian, and it was my favorite thing ever. I felt so immersed in the language by that point that sometimes my dreams were in Italian. I wish I still knew the language that well…for now, I just go around saying random words that I think are fun to say.
Ciao (Hello!)
Grazie! (Thank you!)
Buona Fortuna (Good Luck!)
Cucchiaio (Spoon)
Totally fun, right? 🙂 Cucchiaio comes in handy ALL the time, btw.
On to the cookies. They aren't a total disaster – the taste is there, but the came out so flat for me…like most cookies do before my high altitude modification come in. I am going to try a little more flour a little less sugar and maybe baking powder instead of soda…oh, and a pinch more salt. (Is that IT?! you ask. – yes, this is a recipe I want to work with. It has potential of great things).
Check out the flatness of the cookies though…sad face. Do you not agree? There are a total of 4 cookies pictured below.
Here was the recipe as it was originally posted, and how I plan to change for next time to get this to work a mile high up in the air.
Chocolate Nutella Cookies
- 1 1/2 sticks of unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup of brown sugar (I am going to start by reducing this to 1/2 cup)
- 3/4 cup of white sugar
- 1 cup of Nutella
- 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups, plus 2 tablespoons of all-purpose flour (next, increase this to a total of 2 1/3 – 2 1/2 cups of flour…depending on how it looks)
- 1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa
- 1/2 tsp baking soda (maybe baking powder instead for me…depends on my mood that day, I suppose)
- 1/2 tsp salt (increasing to 3/4 tsp salt)
- 1 cup of chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup of chopped hazelnuts
1 Preheat oven to 350F. Cream butter in an electric mixer for 3 minutes until light and fluffy. Add the sugars and Nutella and mix well, scraping down the sides of the bowl to ensure even mixing.
2 Add the eggs, one at a time, beating for 30 seconds between each. Add the vanilla and mix for 10 seconds.
3 Sift together the flour, cocoa, salt, and baking soda (do not skip this step as sifting eliminates clumps of cocoa). Mix into the butter mixture on low speed until fully incorporated, scraping down the bottom and sides at least once to ensure even mixing. Fold in the chocolate chips and hazelnuts and refrigerate the dough for ten minutes.
4 Spoon tablespoon-sized drops of cough onto parchment paper lined cookie sheets. Bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes. Allow to cool on the sheets for a minute or two before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Makes 6 dozen.
I'll post my findings when I try this again with the changes. Promise. 😉


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15 Pregnancy Power Foods
It is important that you eat right in your pregnancy. Here is a list of the pregnant power foods that should be a part of your diet.
Broccoli is highly nutritious and is one of the pregnancy diet and nutrition power foods that you should consume when you are pregnant. Broccoli contains foliate and calcium and is also rich in fiber. It also contains the antioxidants that help to fight diseases.
Breakfast cereal
Foliate is important for you when you get pregnant and in the first few weeks of pregnancy. It is important that the Diet for pregnant women includes fortified food like breakfast cereal.
Banana is a fruit that you should definitely include in your Pregnancy diet when you are pregnant. Bananas are rich in potassium and it helps to fight the fatigue that you face during your pregnancy. You can also have them when you feel nauseated because bananas are easy on your stomach. You could either have a whole fruit or make some interesting recipes with bananas.
Lean Meat
Lean meat provides iron to you which are important during pre of iron in your diet you will start to feel tired. Lean meat contains iron that is also absorbed by the body easily.
Skimmed milk
Drink non-fat milk and include it in your daily diet to get the sufficient dosage of calcium that you need in your pregnancy.
Pregnant women need extra protein and lentils and beans are an excellent source of protein. These are also rich in fiber which helps to ease bowel movement.
Have a healthy oatmeal breakfast a few times a week. The oatmeal contains complex carbohydrates and it also helps to low the level of cholesterol.
Whole grain bread
Instead of the white bread have some whole grain bread because it is rich in fiber and also is rich in zinc and iron.
Oranges contain fiber, folate and vitamin C and help to meet the fluid requirements of your body.
Green leafy vegetables
Leafy vegetables like spinach contain iron and foliate. Turnip leaves are rich in calcium. Leafy greens are healthy and nutritious and essential to include in your diet when pregnant.
Cheese is a rich source of calcium which is essential in a pregnant woman's diet.
Soy food
If you are a vegetarian then include soy in your diet. It offers you lots of protein.
Eggs are an excellent source of protein especially for those who do not eat meat.
Dry fruit
Dry fruit can work as a snack and is healthy too.
Nuts contain fat which is essential for the brain development of your baby and also helps you to feel full for long.
Your baby is dependent on the nutrition that you provide to it and thus eating healthy while pregnant is important. This is important for yours as well as for the health of your baby.
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As we're starting out a new year, my wife and I do a summit on goals, including financial ones. One thing we finally did a few years back was establish an emergency fund that covered about three months of raw living expenses (food, shelter, transportation). Since we both work, and both make in the same ballpark, our family income is diversified and thus the likelihood of both of us losing our jobs is smaller thus we still have a source of income. If you're in a household with varying income based on commissions, or a single breadwinner, or an income that is disproportionately on one person, I'd recommend more maybe to the tune of 6 months or a year.
Does it suck to save this much cash? Absolutely. Does it take a long time? Yes, but you can do it if you chip away a little at a time. I've got a few suggestions below that could help. What an emergency fund does provide is massive peace of mind. You know that should you suffer an actual emergency (car dies, injury or illness that puts you out of work for awhile, job loss, furnace or appliance breaks) you have the capital to handle it. You don't need to worry about if you have balance in your credit cards (you don't carry a balance, right?) or have to rely on a line of credit for your home. Both poor strategies, and ones the bank can pull when they see fit. While some may argue against the need for a fund, I think it's necessary for those of us who sleep better at night.
Here's a few thoughts on getting things rolling on an Emergency Fund (E-Fund):
- Set up a separate account from your regular bank. I prefer an online account such as Capital One 360 or Ally as you can get 0.75-0.99% interest on what you do have. Not great, but MUCH better than most banks or credit unions.
- Set up an automatic withdrawal from your normal bank. You basically link to your checking account and the new account automatically pulls money into the E-fund on the interval you provide. We do ours on a per-paycheck basis.
- We use this strategy for other savings goals, setting up sub-accounts like car savings, vacation and so forth, depositing funds away from our standard checking and savings account that get used as more regular shock absorbers for less regular expenses.
- If you get a tax refund, or work bonus, start dumping all or part of it into the E-fund to reduce your time to reach your goal.
To illustrate the peace of mind this can give, let me tell a brief story. In 2013 we had almost built up our E-Fund to our arbitrary goal number of $10,000, where we were about to then start saving towards other things. We were pretty happy this goal was finally almost there when Holly lost her job. She was making more than me and besides the emotional anxiety it caused her, she thought we were about to enter the poor house. I mean, we were living like most do on most of two salaries. Well, we had a number of shock absorbers in place in addition to our E-fund, but the e-fund played a HUGE role in peace of mind during this period. Here's what we did:
- No more after school or summer child care since Holly now had time, even with the time spent networking and job hunting
- I dropped my 401k contributions down from 17% back to 10%
- Cut back on consumption some
That was it. With her unemployment income, and factoring in when it would end if she couldn't find a job, I gave her the news that set her mind at ease tremendously: we had over 18 months to figure this out. And that was without doing anything else or cutting our lifestyle even sharper. When your overhead (i.e. debt) is low, and savings adequate, you can coast for a long time in less than ideal circumstances. And really, we only needed it for a few months, but we didn't know that at the time.
Anyway, I hope to not have to touch our E-Fund very often, but it's there if we ever need it again and it does help me sleep at night. Good luck to reaching your own financial goals this year!


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Happy Father's Day!
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Smith Dickson would like to congratulate and thank all fathers and grandfathers! You help to guide and provide for all generations!
One of the key areas that dads typically help is in the financial realm. Along these lines, we thought it would be interesting to read some survey results.
The Best Financial Advice from Dad
A recent survey by GOBankingRates was done to uncover the best financial advice respondents learned from their dads growing up. The survey asked: What's the best money advice you learned from your dad?
The responses — in order of most selected — were:
- Don't spend money you don't have. (34.4 percent)
- Pay your bills on time. (20.1 percent)
- Save for a rainy day. (18.5 percent)
- Don't quit your job before you have another. (17.7 percent)
- No risk, no reward. Invest! (9.3 percent)
This study could shed light on how major financial crises in the fathers' generations affected the way their children approach money management. Here are some excerpts from the survey analysis, focusing on Generations Y and Z (read the full survey results for analysis of other generations):
Generation Y
Studies have shown Gen Y is the best generation when it comes to saving money; the survey found that millennials also heeded their fathers' advice about spending money. Gen Y participants were more likely than any other age bracket to select "don't spend money you don't have" as their fathers' best money advice, at 32.2 percent.
Why? Millennials are the children of baby boomers — and, like their grandparents, weathered hard financial times in formative years. As Gen Y graduated college and entered the job market, the Great Recession was in full force; it's no wonder millennials have learned to live within their means.
Generation Z
Generation Z is composed of young children, adolescents and teens on the cusp of entering adulthood. Many in this bracket are still counting on their parents' financial support and have years ahead to map out their finances.
It comes as no surprise that more of these financially adventurous (yet parent-reliant) 18- to 24-year-old people have taken to heart their fathers' money advice of, "No risk, no reward. Invest!," at 14.8 percent, versus just 3.5 percent of respondents age 65 and older.
After all, as the youngest generation polled, members of Gen Z have the most time to take risks before starting to think seriously about retirement.


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Gift For Housewarming
If your friends have just moved into a brand new house it is generally a nice idea (and good etiquette) to bring along a housewarming gift. Now for some reason a lot of people think that good housewarming gifts are welcome mats or incense burners, and while some people may be fans of these most will not.
So what makes a great housewarming gift. Well obviously you want to get something nice that can be used for the house. There are so many different gifts ideas for a housewarming gift. You can get something for the inside or something for the garden, or you can get something for the kitchen or something to decorate the living areas. The type of gift you choose though will obviously depend on who is having the housewarming. If it is for a couple you would want to gift something that can be used by both of them. If the housewarming is for an apartment, you don't want to get anything for the garden. Also if the housewarming is for someone moving into a small place or somewhere with others make sure the present you get them isn't too big or doesn't take up too much space and if the person's new place is a rental you don't want to gift anything that will put holes in the wall such as hanging frames.
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As you can see there is a lot of things you can get for a housewarming gift. Pretty much anything that you can get for the home or garden would be a good gift as long as it looks pretty and 'gifty'. Personally I think the best and easiest choices are gifts baskets or a bottle of wine and some nice glassware to match as it covers all types of housewarmings. Whatever you get though it will be most appreciated and should just be a little gesture to help the person/s settle into their new home.


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The Conundrum in Caracas
By Susana Hayward
On a hot afternoon seven years ago, Vicente Fox went to Oaxaca to celebrate his presidential victory, which ended 71 years of one-party rule in Mexico. Thousands of Indians from Zapotec villages came to see the new president, who appeared in the plaza flanked by world leaders also hailed as champions of democracy, including Poland's Lech Walesa and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
Fox had likened his defeat of Mexico's long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party in 2000 to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of apartheid in South Africa.
When Walesa flashed a victory sign from the podium, few knew who he was. But the brightly dressed Zapotecans roared like delirious rock fans when Chávez was introduced.
"Chávez! Chávez!" they chanted as the Venezuelan leader, wearing a white Panama hat and mirrored sunglasses, smiled coyly, being careful not to steal the limelight from Fox.
"Hugo Chávez is fighting in his country for a profound change, like we are doing here in Mexico, to end corruption," said Fox, a capitalist champion who once headed Coca-Cola in Mexico, of the former army paratrooper.
Strange bedfellows they may have been, but the Fox-Chávez dynamics exemplified how the former Venezuelan career military officer had obtained a popularity that reached even into small Mexican villages.
Two years later, Mexico-Venezuela relations became strained after Chávez called Fox the "puppy dog of the empire," meaning, of course, the United States. The tension was typical of the polarizing emotions that Chávez could elicit with his loose tongue and undiplomatic outbursts.
Chávez was elected president on Dec. 6, 1998, at age 44. Six years earlier, he had gained notoriety after attempting to overthrow the government of Carlos Andrés Peréz, a political stalwart serving a second, nonconsecutive term that had mired Venezuela in economic disarray, popular unrest, and government corruption.
After almost a decade in power, Chávez remains an enigma for many. Vilified by critics as a Latin American dictator who wants to emulate his good friend Fidel Castro and hailed by supporters as a democrat bringing social and economic justice to the masses, Chávez has political observers in perpetual conjecture.
Veteran Venezuelan journalists Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka attempt to unravel the Chávez conundrum in the ambitiously titled biography, Hugo Chávez: The Definitive Biography of Venezuela's Controversial President.
Drawing on interviews with childhood friends, family members, army buddies, an ex-lover, political loyalists, archenemies, and political foes, as well as news reports and excerpts from Chávez's diaries, Marcano and Barrera take on the complex personality of a man who emerged from relative obscurity to become one of Latin America's most influential and controversial leaders.
Chávez is notorious partly because he embodies the myths that have shaped much of Latin America history. He is, by turns, regarded as the seductive "anti-imperialist" revolutionary, the populist who defends the landless against the oligarchy, the military officer with illusions of grandeur, and, many now fear, the caudillo who won't step down.
The authors retrace widely reported events—Chávez's failed coup attempt, his rise to power, the survival of an attempted coup on his own government, and general strikes in 2003 and 2004.
But the heart of the biography is the authors' attempt to psychologically pinpoint where Chávez's revolutionary passion came from: What were defining moments of his youth? When did his political awareness begin? Who were his heroes and mentors?
Marcano and Barrera depict a confident, cocky man deemed "common" by the upper echelons of society—he's dark skinned, of Afro-indigenous descent—but also a leader often filled with self-doubt and remorse. He's naïve, rude, a jokester, and a seductive speaker; his speeches last longer than Castro's.
Before his election, Chávez never held political office. He showed no discernible interest in doing so growing up in a small town comprised of four streets and 1,000 people, "a place where cattle, ghosts, horses, and apparitions coexist," the authors write.
Chávez, the second of six brothers, was born on July 28, 1954, in Sabaneta, where children were brought into the world by midwives because there were no hospitals or clinics.
Chávez's father, Hugo de los Reyes Chávez, was a teacher at the only school in town, Julian Pino elementary. Family finances were shaky, so Chávez and oldest brother Adan were farmed out to live with their grandmother on his father's side, Rosa Ines, after Chávez was born.
Rosa Ines wasn't better off financially than his parents. Reportedly a good-humored, strong-willed, quiet woman, she prepared aranitas, or papaya sweets, that Chávez sold on the streets. Together they gathered mountain broom from the fields to sweep the home's dirt floor.
Chávez adored her, and she had a deep influence on him. He named his first daughter Rosa Ines. But what that influence may have been, exactly, isn't explored.
When his mother, Elena Frias, wanted her children to return home, the brothers instead opted to stay at grandma's. Chávez lived with Rosa Ines, whom he called "mama," until he left Sabaneta at age 17 to study at the state military academy, the army being the only option for a continuing education for boys of his social class.
Early separation from his mother has given rise to many hypotheses about Chávez's personality, the authors note. Many observers speculate that deep-seated maternal resentment fuels Chávez's fiery political rhetoric.
That remains speculative. In rural Latin nations, it's normal for children to be raised by extended-family members. Friends recall that Chávez was "poor but happy," a boy who loved to read, paint, and play baseball, an average student and "ugly duckling" who seldom stood out.
He was also an avid reader of Venezuelan and Latin America history at a time when tumultuous events gripped the region.
Chávez was 13 when the Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary hero, Che Guevara, was captured and killed by Bolivian forces.
"Why doesn't Fidel send some helicopters to rescue him?" Chávez is quoted as saying in a 2004 interview.
He was also about 13 when he started hanging out with the children of Jose Esteban Ruiz, a communist intellectual who introduced Chávez to Karl Marx, Jacques Rousseau, Machiavelli's The Prince, and Ezequiel Zamora, the father of Venezuelan federalism.
During long hours in the Ruiz library, Chávez also discovered Simón Bolivar, the Venezuelan-born son of Spanish nobility who in the early 19th century organized military rebellions that led to independence from Spanish rule of Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
While boys his age read Superman comic books, Chávez says he read Bolivar, widely known in South America as The Liberator.
When Chávez left Sabaneta to attend the Academy of Military Sciences in the capital of Caracas, he carried with him The Diary of Che Guevara. But his admiration of Bolivar is such that many people who know Chávez say it borders on "delirium."
"I Hugo Chávez, am not a Marxist, but I'm also not an anti-Marxist. I am not a communist, but I am not an anti-communist … I am neither left-wing nor right-wing," he has said. "I am a Bolivarian."
It wasn't until 2005 that Chávez declared himself a socialist, invoking a 21st century socialism model that remains in its infant stage. But it clearly rests on Bolivar.
"What we propose is the idea of reclaiming this primordial notion, beneath the aegis of which our Republic was born. Simón Bolivar's idea," said Chávez in the Argentine newspaper La Nacion. "We don't need to go around copying other models from other latitudes. … Bolivar had a pluripolar vision of the world."
From the biography, it appears Chávez's political ideas were crystallized at the military academy, where he and a group of friends created a left-wing workers party called the Radical Cause. As a sublieutenant, he graduated eighth in a class of 75 students in 1975 with degrees in military sciences and art, concentrating in engineering, land management, and communication, at which he excelled.
During these years Chávez's nationalism and anti-Americanism began to emerge, the writers note. But he was still hard to pin down.
"As far as anyone knows, Hugo Chávez began to lead a double life when he was around twenty-three," the authors write. "In the presence of military superiors, he would feign obedience and discipline. With his family, he pretended to be 'neutral,' as his mother put it, exhibiting no interest in politics. In his clandestine life, however, he was another person entirely, forging ties with left-wing activists, debating Venezuela's political future."
At the time, Chávez's older brother Adan, the one he grew up with in his grandmother's house, was a physics professor and activist in the Movement of the Revolutionary Left, a political party formed after Castro visited Venezuela in 1959. The long-haired, bearded ideologues didn't mix well with Chávez's uniform and short hair, but through Adan ties were established.
"We met on the basis of structuring a civilian-military movement that would make long-term plans for a revolutionary insurrection," Adan said.
In the early 1980s—the writers say the date is hard to ascertain—Chávez as a military instructor created the Bolivarian Revolutionary Army with a team of similar-thinking army officers, Francisco Arias, air force Maj. William Izarra, and loyal cadets.
Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution came to a head during the second term of Peréz, who was re-elected president in 1989. Peréz, the son of a coffee plantation owner who became politically active as a teenager during a period of repressive military rule, was a survivor, a "foxy politician" who won re-election even though his first term as president, from 1974 until 1979, became known as "Saudi Venezuela" for his administration's extravagant spending that exacerbated Venezuela's great economic inequalities.
The same problems assailed Venezuela during Peréz's second presidential term.
"We knew that the enemies of Venezuela were hunger, corruption, indigence, unemployment, and the misuse of our nation's immense riches," recalls Pedro Carreno, one of Chávez's students at the military academy. Chávez was a captain and instructor of Venezuelan military history, imparting not only the greatness of Bolivar, but also "free land, free men. Horror in the face of the oligarchy."
Chávez and Arias continued to lead the Bolivarian Revolutionary Army, all the time apparently under the radar as Chávez perfected plans to seize power. When Peréz was re-elected the second time around, the economic belt-tightening reforms invoked by international lending organizations, which had most of Latin America in a financial stranglehold, ruptured not only the poor but also the middle classes. Protests, riots, and looting broke out.
An earlier military conspiracy didn't pan out. Chávez and members of the Bolivarian Revolution were charged with plotting to assassinate Peréz and were arrested. They were released for lack of evidence.
Chávez then began graduate political science studies at Simon Bolivar University. His thesis proposal was on how to transition from authoritarian regimes to democracy. His military rank was then commander.
On Feb. 2, 1992, Chávez led a small band of rebel soldiers that tried to take over key military and communications installations in what today would seem like a comedy of errors, were it not for the 14 soldiers killed and dozens of others wounded.
"There were fourteen deaths. Fewer deaths than any weekend in Caracas, fewer deaths than those of the children who die of hunger every month in Venezuela," Chávez said years later. "Are your hands stained with blood, someone asked me. Yes my hands and everything is stained with blood."
Ironically, the resulting two years in jail provided Chávez with the audience he lacked in the military. Venezuelans, curious about the revolutionary army officer, began pilgrimages to the prison, where the authors report Chávez signed autographs as if he were a movie star.
He also extolled the virtues of Bolivar. Marcano and Barrera make much of Bolivar's influence on Chávez's political thought. But they fail to draw parallels which could be an essential element in understanding Chávez.
In Bolivar's "Cartagena Letter," the "Jamaica Letter" and the "Angostura Address," all still widely read, he makes a case for Latin American integration, a dream that never came to fruition.
Under Bolivar's vision of government, a republic would have a life-term president akin to a symbolic monarchy, while the legislative branches and cabinet ministers ran the government.
After his election, Chávez renamed Venezuela the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and proceeded to nationalize the oil, electricity, and communications industries. He also wants to end the central bank's autonomy to access foreign reserves and spend on social programs for the poor.
But what has raised flags is his proposal to change Article 236 of the Constitution from two six-year terms to indefinite seven-year periods, albeit through popular elections. These constitutional changes must be approved by the National Assembly, whose 167 members are mostly Chávez supporters, and then followed by approval in a popular referendum.
Chávez maintains he needs more time for socialism to take hold. He notes other nations, including France, also don't have presidential term limits.
"I propose to the sovereign people the seven-year presidential term; the president can be re-elected immediately for a new term," Chávez said recently. "If someone says this is a project to entrench oneself in power, no—it's only a possibility, a possibility that depends on many variables."
Key among those variables is the popular vote. As history has shown in Venezuela, voters haven't been pawns of their leaders.
Today Chávez heads one of several populist governments in Latin America. Socialist leaders rule in Argentina, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, and Brazil. All have differing demographics. But all were democratically elected and promised to address the needs of populations mired in great economic disparities brought on in large part by the one-size-fits-all austerity measures imposed by U.S. and international lending organizations over more than two decades.
The austerity measures required adherence to fixed exchange rates, high interest rates, and low inflation. Governments that didn't abide risked becoming pariahs and losing foreign aid.
With booming oil revenues estimated at $175 billion since he took office, Chávez has now begun spreading the wealth as loans and debt relief to many similarly minded Latin nations, strengthening the Bolivarian vision of Latin America integration.
The Bush administration has called Chávez a threat to regional stability, and Chávez has fired back numerous insults, calling Bush "Mr. Danger," a pendejo, and an alcoholic.
But money talks louder than ideological differences; Venezuela-U.S. trade is the highest in recent history, some $50 billion a year, mostly in oil exports.
"Chávez is an argumentative and confrontational figure, devoid of any public relations skills. He's incapable of self-censorship," said Larry Birns, director of the nonpartisan Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington that monitors U.S.-Latin American relations.
"But everything he does involves elections," Birns said in an interview. "The main accusation is that he may be on the road to dictatorship. But it's difficult to discriminate to what is, isn't, or may become."
For now, Chávez continues to enjoy the support of most Venezuelans. According to polls, he is riding high after the 2006 presidential election that he won with 60 percent of the vote, cast by 75 percent of eligible voters.
"In the 'kingdom of socialism' that he has promised for Venezuela … his popularity seems to know no end," the authors conclude. "The revolution still needs a quarter century to achieve its dreams. That, it seems, is its new destiny—for now."


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A guide for protecting workers from noise in construction. Permanent hearing loss is a common result of prolonged exposure to high levels of noise. Once incurred, this type of hearing loss cannot be corrected by surgery or through hearing aids.
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Construction workers are at particular risk due to the many noisy operations conducted routinely at construction sites.
Noise exposure not only damages hearing but also reduces productivity, and contributes to accidents by preventing workers from hearing warning signals.
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To Prevent Loss of Hearing
Hearing loss, and noise related accidents and health problems can be prevented if proper precautions are taken.
* Workplace noise levels should be maintained below 85 dBA as an 8-hour time-weighted average, according to OSHA.
* Regular exposure to 85 dBA or more for 8 hours results in damaged hearing.
* It can take as little as 1 hour per day of repeated exposure to 100 dBA or more to damage hearing, often permanently.
A variety of control strategies can be employed to reduce noise levels, including:
- Building sound barriers
- Using quieter equipment
- Properly maintaining all equipment and tools
- Scheduling noisy activities when fewer people are working
- Placing noisy equipment further away from most of the workforce
However, where such measures are not enough, workers need to be provided with proper hearing protection.
There are many different types of hearing protection. These include:
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* Workers should be trained to recognize different types, select them according to relevant noise conditions, and wear them properly so they are fully effective.
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Todays education was administered whilst being punted around the Munroe Islands by a very happy and knowledgeable young chap, with a great sense of humour. We were fortunate enough to be with two friends we met at the Ashtamudi Villas (Will & Emma), lovely people, really enjoyed their company. Will hook up with them for some surfing action tomorrow in Varkala, they head off today.
The Munroe Islands are a rich paradise of wildlife and vegetation, much less populated than the Alleppey backwaters, and a lot more peaceful.
Our guide was keen to point out the variety of familiar wildlife plants and trees they have in the area, so here are a few of them, or at least as many as I can remember.
Vegetation Observed
Cashew Trees
Papaya Trees
Tamarind Trees
Banana Trees
Coconut Trees
Almond Trees
Tapioca Tree (as in the horrendous stuff served up in a 70's school)
Tiger Prawn Farm
Wildlife Observed
And breath….. that's a lot right?
We stopped of at an area where locals make rope out of Coconut hair which is sold across the region and funded by government. Everything is carried out by hand and the incredibly skilful ladies can produce 300 ropes in a day.
On the way home, by way of coincidental proof of concept. We saw a Tuk Tuk with a massive concrete post on top of it being held fast with Coconut rope. If anything was going to give first it would have been the Tuk Tuk. Similar to that episode of only fools where the Reliant Regal takes a corner to fast, only to end up on its side, but with seriously injured people.


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As I sit here preaching the merits of being properly insured, I am as guilty as most in neglecting to create an up-to-date inventory of my home possessions. On many occasions, I had thought to myself "Wouldn't it be a good idea if I videotaped everything in the house so I could have an accounting of my possessions?" I have YET to do this! So, this blog entry is as much for me as it is for every homeowner out there. Most of us are fortunate never to have to file a homeowner's insurance claim for a loss incurred. Yet none of us truly knows when that next tornado, hurricane or fire might come our way. No one wants to think they'll be burglarized but obviously, that's a possibility, as well.
"According to a 2012 survey from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, over 75% of consumers don't have a home inventory. " That's a pretty staggering statistic! Here are some very basic tips to make sure you and your possessions are protected against theft or in the event of a catastrophe.
- Review your policy.
- Take photos of the exterior.
- Photograph each room from 4 angles (or videotape).
- Open every closet, cupboard, and drawer.
- Update after any improvements or major purchases.
- Take photos of serial and model numbers of electronics.
- China, crystal and silver need special attention.
- Don't forget the garage and/or sheds.
- Make digital copies of things that can't be replaced – photos, family videos, etc.
- Store home inventory off premises (or in The Cloud!).


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BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL - Career Clarity & Sustainability - Two Classes
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For Serious High School Students
Two Saturdays, 3 hours each
Must have a computer
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Choosing a career can be a daunting task. It generally begins in High School
when students are pressured to choose a college to further their education.
This process can be stressful and even counterproductive if the heart and
mind are not in agreement. In this class you will find clarity through an
introspective approach to who you are, what you love, and your talents.
A strategy is designed to research career options, then seek out those
opportunities. College, online education, mentorship, financial aid are
reviewed as the final steps to realizing your dream career.
Through lectures, personal introspection, exercises, discussions,
online research, and connecting with prospects one on one, students
will learn through direct experience what career they want to pursue
and how to go about making it a reality.
A. Gain clarity around who you are, what you love, and insight into your
specific talents.
B. Create a strategy to research career options that align with your desires,
talents and world view, then seek out those opportunities.
C. Learn the benefits of connecting with the people, companies, organizations
that support your career goals.
D. Learn what college, online education, mentorship, and financial aid services
are available to help you during the final steps to realizing a career that will
be personally fulfilling as well as profitable.
DAY ONE- Gain clarity around who you are, what you love, and insight into your
specific talents. Create a symbol to represent these virtues. Devise a Vision Board that clarifies your occupational propensities and then research them further. Students will research people who work in the fields they are interested in, contact them and request an interview.
DAY TWO- Review student's emblem designs, Vision Boards, and the people they contacted in their field of interest. We will assess their interviews, and how they informed their career choice.
-Next the student strategizes a plan of action to make their career goal a reality. The map will define whether college, university, vocational school, online education, mentorship or entrepreneurial path is the best direction for them, and how to do that.
-What financial aid services are available to help with continuing education.
"Beyond High School helped me see who I was on the inside."
-Student at Parkway South High School, Manchester, Mo
"I feel like this class cleared up my intended life path completely. I feel like I can truly make my dreams come true"
-John Greer, 12th grade, South High School, Manchester, Mo
"I really thought my mind was set on Missionary work and now I am leaning towards becoming a paramedic! It opened my eyes to new possibilities."
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Ok periods are a very taboo subject and not many people like to talk about them or hear about them, but lets face it they happen and they are real! Like any girl I hate buying tampons or towels, it just seems really awkward and embarrassing. Sanitary Owl is a monthly subscription box which delivers all the things you need for the time of the month (in a very subtle box, big thing for me as all my parcels get delivered to work). Sanitary Owl lets you pick you items, and date then voila the box comes straight you, no shopping trip required.
The main thing I really liked about Sanitary Owl is how much variety there is on the site. There honestly is something for everyone. Sanitary Owl sent me the starter pack which has a bit of everything in the box, including my absolute fav Fab Little Bag! I think this box would be perfect for a young girl who has just started her period and is trying to get to grips with everything! If this was an option when I started my period I definitely would have asked my mum for it.
You can purchase your box here for £3.99 per month. They also have the cool option to add extras like chocolate! PERFECT.
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"For the absolute best burger, you need three different kinds of beef? To grind yourself? Really?"
Cauliflower soup. "For this vegetable puree, you need three cups of cream. And milk. And butter-fried bread crumbs. And pan fried florets and garnishes. And, on the topic of garnishes, you need a mandolin to make deep-fried beet chips. For soup. Really, Thomas Keller?"
And after all, this is a book for the home cook inspired by Keller's Ad Hoc restaurant, a kind of thrown-together eatery he thought up because he had the empty restaurant, he had the fleet of die hard, fanboy chefs, and really, because he could. So, really, it's a cookbook for the most experienced home cook. "You want us to have pickled onions, melted onions, and tomato marmalade on hand, premade, without premeditation, just in case inspiration strikes? Really Thomas Keller?"
But, while you may be taken over for a bit by some SNL funnyman, the original awe and inspiration from just holding this book eventually will win out. As it did with this most excellent lemon bar recipe. But these aren't just lemon bars. They're lemon meringue bars, the best of the pie, in handheld form.
"Really Thomas Keller. Really."
Lemon Meringue Bars
Adapted from Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc and Besty's Lemon Bars
As a note, this is not the recipe for the Lemon Meringue Bars in the Ad Hoc book. But it's very, very delicious and takes about half the time to make. These were a kind of last minute, have to make, recipe, but with necessary alterations because, well, I didn't really read the recipe through. One has to freeze the bars for several hours after making what is most likely a supreme lemon curd, and then pipe the meringue. But with one day left in an actual kitchen before returning to the frigid, frigid Midwest—Really, Midwest? —(sorry guys), I had to cut the time short in order to 1. finish and 2. photograph in natural daylight. So I combined my favorite Lemon Bar recipe with the meringue from Ad Hoc and Bob's your uncle. An absolutely delicious and speedy creation.
Lemon Bars
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
½ cup powdered sugar
2 cups flour
½ teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons lemon juice (not Meyer!), about 2-3 large lemons
2 cups white sugar
4 large eggs
4 tablespoons flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
Extra powdered sugar for dusting
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9 by 13 quarter-sheet pan. These pans are like stunted 9 by 13 pans, super cute and Keller swears by them so…do it. Melt the 1 cup butter and mix in the powdered sugar, flour, and salt until just combined. Spread dough into bottom of pan until even and then bake for 25 minutes until golden brown.
2. Mix together the lemon juice, sugar, and eggs. Fold in the flour and baking soda. Pour topping over hot crust and bake for 25 minutes or until filling is set. Let cool completely in the pan. Trim all the edges off the lemon bars, about ½ an inch from each side. Cut the remaining sheet into eighths, then transfer to another baking sheet, keep two columns of four bars each together. This makes it much easier to pipe the meringue and broil the bars as a whole.
Meringue and Assembly
1 ¼ cup white sugar plus 2 tablespoons sugar
¼ cup water
3 extra large egg whites
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1. Combine 1 ¼ cup sugar and water in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Over medium high heat, bring the sugar mixture to a boil and continue boiling until 220 degrees, or the softball stage. Meanwhile, whip egg whites in a stand-up mixer until foamy. Gradually add the remaining two tablespoons sugar and whip egg whites until just before stiff peaks form. Add the vanilla and slowly pour the softball sugar-water mixture down the side of the bowl, with the mixer on high, to slightly cook the egg white, but making sure they don't scramble. Whip the egg whites on high until the meringue is cool to the touch.
2. Fit a pastry bag with a ½ inch round tip, and fill the bag with the meringue. Pipe meringue over the lemon bars in continuous rows down each of the two columns. The meringue should be about ¾ to one inch in height and there should be about three rows of meringue width wide across each column of lemon bars. Turn the broiler in your oven on. After the lemon bars have been covered, broiler the meringue on the top rack until deep amber, rotating the pan to get even browning. Break the toasted meringue along where you've but the lemon bars, and serve immediately.


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why you will find a house for rent with rentslam
In a rental market where the demand for housing is far greater than its supply, it is difficult to get your hands on that great apartment you have been looking to rent so desperately. Not only is your competition fierce, the supply is scattered all over the place. Searching a couple of times a day for a house for rent on sites like Pararius and Funda is not enough, and will not work.
There are only 2 things that will work, besides being extremely lucky.
- Pay a real estate agent 1 month rent as commission to find you a house for rent (not recommended).
- Search all trustworthy websites about 300 times a day, and apply to new listings instantly.
So if you don't want to pay the hefty fee for using an agency, you should really use RentSlam.
We use Artificial Intelligence to search all trustworthy websites every minute 24/7 for newly added properties. We then match them with your search criteria and your monthly rental budget. This ensures that you have a real shot at renting a place. Because you will have the possibility to be amongst the first to respond to a new rental apartment as soon as it comes online.
Here are the 3 steps that you need to find an apartment for rent using RentSlam:
step 1
tell us what you need
Fill in your preferences, so we know which rental houses and apartments to send you. You should really focus on the most important things here. Think of
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share your success
From here onwards, you are in charge. When you apply to the house for rent we sent you in step 2, the private owners, real estate agents and housing corporations will contact you and invite you to come to viewings of the property. Go to as many as you can, make sure you talk with the owners or agents. Then you will be signing that rental contract with them before you know it! Once you are all set and have moved in, you can share your success by telling everyone you know how you found the awesome apartment you are living in.
If you have any more questions on how RentSlam works, or if it will work for your specific situation, please check our FAQ for answers. If your question is not answered in our FAQ, please contact us.


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The Motorola MING Dynasty Rises
Motorola's (excuse me, MOTO's) 4-letter naming scheme is catching on globally. The Motorola A1200, a smart phone being released in China, was recently renamed the Motorola MING. Here's the reasoning from Terrance Ma in the MING press release:
"The name MING was chosen to resonate more deeply with people in Hong kong than a traditional model name or number can," said Terence Ma, director of sales, Mobile Devices Business, Motorola Hong Kong. "Like the design and usability of the phone itself, MING will help bring our smart phones into entirely new market segments."
Personally, it's a far more interesting approach. Unless you're closely involved in the industry in some way, alphanumeric digits don't mean squat to most people, especially consumers.
The Motorola MING targets business folk with several cool features, including:
- Clamshell phone with transparent cover
- Uses Linux software
- Antenna-free
- 2 megapixel camera
- Business card scanner with optical-character recognition software
- Speakerphone
- Document viewer
- POP3 e-mail
- Calendar, task list, and contact manager
- Music player
- FM-Stereo radio receiver
- Bluetooth® wireless technology
It'll hit Hong Kong quite soon, apparently. LinuxDevices presents a few interesting pics of the phone taken apart here, in case you're curious. I'm not sure if the phone will be iRadio compatible...I'm assuming not, at least initially.


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There are lots of ways to add interest to your kitchen. Mixing different kitchen cabinet colors and finishes can really make an impression if done with some thought.
Adding color to your kitchen cabinets can also be functional. A pantry cabinet in an accent color stands out more and highlights it's special purpose for example.You could also consider varying the height and depth of your cabinets and using color to accent that difference.
7 Ways to Mix and Match Kitchen Cabinet Colors
- Use a different color for the island
- Also consider using a different counter top materials for the Island
- Use 3 Colors
- A great rule for painting is to use 3 colors, a main walls color, complimentary trim color and a bold accent color, the same rule can be great for kitchen cabinets
- Highlight a single cabinet
- We recently removed a dishwasher for a customer who rarely used it and inserted a drawer cabinet. Rather than try to match the existing cabinets we just put in a cabinet of a contrasting color…. looks great!
- Different colors for the upper and lower cabinets
- This is a bit of a no brainer, choose a light color for the uppers to reflect light and a darker color for the lower cabinets to "ground" the look of the kitchen.
- Add a glaze
- A glaze is a powdered pigment that is applied on top of the cabinet finish. It is then rubbed off and leaves just a hint of accent color in the corners and decorative profiles of the cabinet doors. They are most commonly used to give cabinets and aged look but they also add depth and interest.
- Play with Texture
- Try a wood look cabinet on the bottom with more polished lacquer cabinets on top
- Go Crazy
- A lot of people are really conservative when designing their kitchen. While that might be good for resale its no way to truly enjoy you home. Paint every cabinet a different color if you like!
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Garrett GT1749V Turbo Upgrade for VW 1.9L TDI
Garrett GT1794V performance upgrade/replacement turbocharger for Volkswagen 1.9L TDI. From stock 100whp & 177 ft.lbs to 175whp & 250 ft.lbs torque with proper fueling/tuning. Directly fits on engines with BEW engine code (and possible others). 2003.5 - 2006 Volkswagen Beetle, 2003.5 - 2006 Volkswagen Golf, 2003.5 - 2005 Volkswagen Jetta.
- Note: Products sold through this website that do not bear the Exoticspeed Brand name are serviced and supported exclusively by their manufacturers in accordance with terms and conditions packaged with the products. Exoticspeed Limited Warranty does not apply to products that are not Exoticspeed-branded, even if packaged or sold with Exoticspeed products. Please contact the manufacturer directly for technical support and customer service.
- Warranty: One year
- Vendor: Garrett
- Type: Diesel Performance turbo
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