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TV Review: "Girls"
April 18, 2012 § Leave a comment
by ELENA
Lena Dunham's new series Girls has been hotly anticipated, to put it mildly. It's produced by Judd Apatow. It is directed, written by, and starring Lena Dunham. It has been Tweeted. A lot. Girls will supposedly be the new show that will be scarily relevant for young women who still hadn't gone through puberty when Sex and the City premiered. I wanted to like Girls, because the current entertainment landscape is deviod of television and shows that include women in above-the-line positions, or barely pass the Bechdel Test.
However, my lovely roomate Rachel could have written a much funnier, relevant, and heartbreaking show about young women in their twenties sturggling to make it in a world where a college degree no longer guarantees a decent job.
Hannah (played by Dunham) is distraught when her parents announce that they will no longer be "bankrolling her groovy lifestyle". Subsequently, Hannah is fired from her internship when she informs her boss that she can no longer work for free. Both of these situations are not uncommon for young twentysomething women. Unpaid internships in the world of theatre, media, and publishing seem to be the new way that many employers get around pesky fair-pay laws and devalue the earning power of women. So while I share Hannah's frustrations about being mistreated as an intern, her opiomtastic plea for more money from her parents was bizarre and unrealistic. When I asked my parents to send me money for rent after I lost my low-paying, soul-crushing food service job, I broke down and cried. Money is a very sensitive subject, and whenever my friends confess that they have no way to pay for rent, food, bills, and loans without outside help from relatives, they do so with shame.
While Hannah is spoiled and shameless, she is the only character so far that has at least some dimension and vulnerabity. Jessa is the stereotypical bohemian Brit, and Shoshanna, in her one major scene in the pilot rambles on about nothing but Sex and the City. And while I have met women who talked about nothing but SATC they were slightly more interesting to be around than Shoshanna.
Being a young woman with a degree and far too much student loan debt is hard. And occaisonally, frightening. But most of the people I know wound up moving back in with their parents after graduation due to the lackluster job market, or worked multiple jobs in order to stay afloat with bills. They didn't get the privilege of a financial crisis after 2 free years of rent. The girl-Women of Girls seem to be living in an alternate universe where moving back home is worse than death and Brooklyn is an exclusively white borough, with soft, photo-ready lighting. If Girls is the new Sex and the City, the show is following in its predecessor's footsteps of featuireing a New York City exclusively populated by white people, save for that one black catcaller, since apparently all black men ever do is yell at white women.
The one thing Dunham did get right in the pilot was Hannah's (deeply dysfunctional) relationship with Adam. Some writers have criticized the sex xcene between Hannah and Adam as being unglamorous and degrading. And that is the point. While I don't have parents willing to pay for two years worth of my rent and bills while I try to "find myself" in New York, I know far too many men who believed that condom use was optional, and thought that a women willing to have sex was also willing to have anal sex. And I can understand why Hannah went out of her way to contact this slimy, somewhat abusive, habitual non-texter. Even smart, college-educated young women have a hard time turning off the voice that says everyewhere, in books, tv, movies, and magazines that bad (or even not especially consensual) sex is better than being alone, especially after your boss has fired you from your unpaid internship because you don't know PhotoShop.
Girls should not be a unique show because it is written and directed by a woman. There should be so many shows directed, written, and produced by women that viewers should not have to feel like they should settle for a mediocre one in order to support female writers and directors. If the girls of Girls don't grow up soon and move beyond their Gen Y versions of SATC charictatures, I won't have a reason to keep tuning in. Especially because HBO gives the show a late evening time slot, and I've got work the next morning.


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My Summer Book List
What are we reading over here at Katy Confidential?
While Laura is in the throes of law school and currently reading about elder law, mediation, and bankruptcy along with books about toddler activities, Mindy has the flexibility, at her stage in life, to have a more expansive repertoire.
Her summer reading list includes:
A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing by Jim Rogers
Diplomacy and Diamonds: My Wars from the Ballroom to the Battlefield by Joanne King Herring
Williams-Sonoma Healthy in a Hurry Cookbook: Simple, Wholesome Recipes for Every Meal of the Day by Karen Ansel & Charity Ferreira
Change Comes to Dinner: How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers, and Other Innovators are Revolutionizing How America Eats by Katherine Gustafson
The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny & Terror by Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer

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Every school is unique in its own right. Knowing what makes schools different is a good way to figure out what school is best for you, and a great strategy for articulating in an interview what your own interest is in attending that school. I had a great deal of difficulty finding out what each school is proud of. Yes, I did all the typical preparation; I was on the school's website, read recent press releases, and knew the school's access sites for clinical rotations. These days, every school boasts research opportunities, clinical examination training, computer enhanced evidence based medicine learning, and extra-curricular support. The school has a small class size for attention and support, or a large class size for variety and social opportunity, it's in a city for experience with a diverse patient population, or it's outside the city for a more defined campus and scholastic environment. None of these reasons differentiate one school from the 125 other accredited US medical schools
Check out the National Institute of Health Research funding website to look up the school. This gives a detailed ranking of funding given by NIH (arguably the most prolific and respected funding organization and consequently a reliable indicator of the institution's research legitimacy), as well as to what specific area the institution was awarded the most funding for. In 2007, Tufts School of Medicine was awarded 39 grants, of its 158 total research grants, in the field of biochemistry; you just learned insight into what makes Tufts tick.
Current students are the best resource for figuring out small details about the school that might peak your interest. Email the admissions office and ask if they can put you in touch with a current student, or email your pre-med advisor for a list of medical students that went to your undergrad and are now students at the school you will be interviewing. Get on the phone with them. Spend 5 minutes hearing them talk about their experience as a student, little ins and outs of the school will allow you to understand and comment on why being a student at that SOM is best for you. I spoke with a student at NYMC who told me she loved how close her furnished dorm room was to her classes because she could 'roll out of bed in the morning' and that she was most excited for the powder puff football game. Take away: I want to be a student at NYMC because I am the type of person who would benefit from living in a dorm setting and studying with others and who will enjoy the class spirit. A Stanford student told me he was encouraged to take his third year off and attend math courses to supplement his interest in medical health informatics development. Take away: I want to go to Stanford because I will take advantage of the opportunity to take courses in other areas of study to further hone my specific interest in medicine. While discussing what to expect at Tufts, a current student told me 'they are going to talk your head off about the new exam rooms in the Clinical Skills Center, oh yea, and the gym.' Fact is, Tufts recently built state of the art exam rooms physically located on campus with cameras, microphones, etc. for students to practice medical interviewing and physical diagnosis (the facility really is incredible). They are also building a gym one floor below the lecture hall. Take away: I want to be a Tufts student because Tufts is investing in teaching clinical physicians and making efforts to improve student life. Point, talking to students is the easiest, quickest way to get a heads up on life as a student at that particular med school.


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By Dylan Vazzano, TTU Sports Information Coordinator
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Despite chilly temperatures, fans flocked in full force to Tech Soccer Field to witness the Tennessee Tech soccer team for one of the last times in the 2013 campaign. In the Golden Eagles' second to last home match of the year, TTU (3-13-1, 1-6-1) dropped a close one, 1-0 to Morehead State.
The one-score defeat now makes it 11 of Tech's 17 affairs which have either been decided by only one goal or have ended in a tie.
The Golden Eagles were forced to spend much of the day's tilt on the defensive side of things, thanks to a Morehead (7-9-1, 6-2-0) attack that outshot TTU, 24-5. Of the MSU Eagles' 24 rips, no player had more than junior Jade Flory's four.
The lone goal came in the 21st minute as freshman Angela Black capitalized on one of Morehead's eight corners. The 5-6 forward from St. Louis put home the difference-maker after the corner try trickled right to her for Black's fourth goal of the season.
Down 1-0 in the second half, Tech mustered just one shot, a 61st minute strike by freshman Abi Gearing that sailed high.
Golden Eagle sophomore goalkeeper Jordan Brown added to her OVC save lead with six more stops, while Morehead State red-shirt sophomore Elizabeth Floyd made two saves for her second consecutive shutout, and third of the year.
The Eagles have now won four in a row and five of the last six.
Tech will now shift its attention to Sunday's home finale against Eastern Kentucky. Action is set to begin at 2 p.m. CDT, with a special Senior Day ceremony scheduled prior to the start of the match as seniors Shannon Rountree, Jessica Wilson, Taylor Hicks, Leigh Heffner, and Ellie Iaciofano will be honored before the tilt.
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Distribute Educational Material for e-Readers
In a classroom full of iPads, it's only natural for teachers to want to distribute educational material in a format e-readers can use. Teachers can distribute content to e-readers on iPads easily by creating a document, and then converting it to a PDF file. Distribute the PDF file via e-mail or the Internet; just about any e-reader will open it.
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Drag and drop them into the Books Library in iTunes on your computer. Select your device in the sidebar and then click the Books tab. You'll see your content listed there. Check the books you want to sync and click Sync to move them onto your iPad.
Use the Open In function on your iPad to open the document in iBooks from any e-mail or app. Tap and hold the attachment for a few seconds and then choose Open in iBooks from the pop-up menu that appears.
Creating a standard text document and turning it into an e-book is quick, simple . . . and sooo 20th-century. Take a little stroll on the wild side and try some more adventurous alternatives. A growing number of apps are designed specifically to create e-books that integrate interactivity and multimedia, such as Book Creator, ScribblePress, and iBooks Author. Give them a try!


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Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Pencils are one of my favourite eye pencils – my favourite colours are the golds and bronzes in the range. When I saw this Ocho Loco set which features 8 full size eye pencils (24/7 gift sets usually feature mini pencils) I had to have it!
The set includes:
NEW SHADES: Mushroom (taupe-pewter metallic), Hustle (medium brown metallic), Psychedelic Sister (bright purple shimmer) and LSD (navy w/bright turquoise shimmer).
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: Junkie (teal w/bright gold shimmer).
BEST-SELLERS: Rockstar (darkest eggplant), Perversion (blackest-black matte) and Stash (dark green/gold).
I looked everywhere for a stockist for this in the UK – in the end it was House of Fraser and HQ Hair. I ordered with HQ Hair because of the free delivery and it took forever to arrive! Grrr.
Here are the pencils; I was most looking forward to using Mushroom, Perversion and Stash. There's also a sharpener with this kit (a good eye pencil sharpener is essential). The gift box it came in was made of plastic, it wasn't particularly nice to look at…just in case you are thinking of gifting it to someone.
These pencils like all 24/7's are really creamy and pigmented. I still think some shades work better than others especially on my watery eyes that just seem to repel colour sometimes!
I don't know if the formula of these have changed – as much as I still love them I found them more smudgy than my old pencils. I lined my eyes with Perversion (the deep black) and ended up with make up everywhere by the end of the day…it was like I had been crying…for a long time…
Even so, if you are a 24/7 fan this is one to check out, since they're full size they'll last and if you are a newbie, this is really a really good kit to start with since the pencils are more like £10 on their own usually!
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Arbour hits 80 with historical coaching legacyby John Kreiser
He's in Florida now. With the exception of a one-game cameo in 2007 that gave him an even 1,500 games as coach of the New York Islanders, he hasn't been behind the bench since the spring of 1994.
But as he turns 80 on Thursday, Al Arbour's place as one of the great coaches in NHL history is more than secure.
Arbour did his coaching apprenticeship in St. Louis, where he went from a glasses-wearing thirty-something defenseman to a rookie coach with a team that had been swept in three straight Stanley Cup Finals. After 107 games over parts of three seasons, the Blues let him go -- but he wasn't out of work long.
The 1972-73 New York Islanders set NHL records for futility in their first season, with first-time coaches Earl Ingarfield and Phil Goyette behind the bench. That summer, GM Bill Torrey turned to Arbour to get the Islanders on the right track.
"I had known Al for a long time," Torrey said during a 2011 interview with MSG Network. "There are some people -- you just have a sense or a feel that they fit the situation. I think the most important thing we were looking at immediately was to rebuild our defense.
"There wasn't anyone available who in my judgment had better qualifications to build a defense than Al Arbour had. I wanted him to work with Denis Potvin, Dave Lewis, the young defensemen, and mold them into what he eventually did."
But one of the great coach-GM pairings of all-time almost never came to be.
"Bill Torrey asked me if I would be interested in coaching the Islanders," Arbour remembered years later. "I told him no. I said I had four kids and wouldn't want to move them to New York."
But after visiting Long Island for the first time -- and finding out it wasn't like New York City -- Arbour changed his mind and took the job.
The turnaround didn't happen right away. Arbour's team finished last in the overall standings again in 1973-74 -- but the Isles gave up 100 fewer goals and earned 56 points, up from 30 in their first season. All-Star defenseman Brad Park of the Rangers noted after the Isles finally beat their big-city rivals that, "They have a system. They look like a hockey team."
One year later, the Arbour-coached Islanders made their first playoff appearance – and promptly upset the Rangers, winning the deciding game in overtime. They went on to become only the second team in NHL history to rally from a 3-0 series deficit when they beat Pittsburgh in seven games in the Quarterfinals, and nearly did it again against Philadelphia, forcing a seventh game in the Semifinals before losing.
With Torrey drafting future stars like Potvin, Clarke Gillies, Bryan Trottier and Mike Bossy, and Arbour nurturing them, the Islanders quickly became one of the NHL's elite teams. They ended Montreal's run as regular-season champs in 1978-79, but fell to the Rangers in the Semifinals.
A year later, after a disappointing regular season, they caught fire after a late-season trade for center Butch Goring, going 8-0-4 after the deal. They ousted Los Angeles, Boston and Buffalo, then eliminated Philadelphia, the regular-season champions, in six games -- with Bob Nystrom's overtime goal giving the Isles the Cup.
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"Winning the Cup is a feeling that you really can't explain," said Arbour, who had won three as a player. "It may sink in in a few days."
Arbour and the Isles made sure they got to enjoy that feeling again. They won easily in 1981, survived a first-round scare from Pittsburgh the next spring, then swept Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers in 1983 to become the first (and still only) U.S.-based team to win four consecutive championships.
Along the way, the Islanders became known as one of the great overtime teams in NHL history -- and Nystrom said a big reason was Arbour's philosophy about playing OT.
"Al always stressed, 'Let's go at them -- force, force, force. Attack them rather than fall back,'" Nystrom told NHL.com when asked about Arbour's overtime strategy throughout his time with the Islanders. "He would say, 'The worst thing that can happen is that we lose -- let's not lose sitting back on our heels.'"
The Islanders came up short the next spring in the "Drive for Five," losing in five games to the Oilers in a rematch. They haven't been back since -- but they still own a record that Arbour is proud of.
"Our club won (an NHL record) 19 straight playoff series," Arbour said. "Do you know any other team that has done that?"
Arbour retired after the 1985-86 season, but returned at Torrey's behest when the Isles hit the skids early in the 1988-89 season. He got them back into the playoffs the following season, then coached them to the Eastern Conference Finals in 1993, ending the Penguins' drive for a third straight Stanley Cup with a seven-game victory in the Patrick Division Finals -- despite losing star center Pierre Turgeon in the previous round after he was injured by an illegal check from Washington's Hunter.
The Game 7 overtime winner was scored by David Volek, a player who Arbour stood up for when ownership wanted to put him on waivers.
"He scored that goal and the first thing I told that owner that night was, 'How do you like David Volek now?'" Arbour said in a 2007 interview with Hockey Night in Canada.
Arbour retired after the 1994 playoffs and was enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1996, but made one more appearance behind the bench 11 years later at the urging of then-coach Ted Nolan. It was his 1,500th game as Islanders coach -- and, appropriately, the Islanders rallied to beat Pittsburgh in overtime.
"This is an incredible gesture by Ted and the Islanders," Arbour said at the time. "I am flattered that Ted thought of me and I wouldn't miss this night for the world. I told the team that I do not want any pre-game fanfare."
The fanfare came after the game, when he was honored for his milestone appearance behind the Isles' bench. He still holds the NHL record for wins with one team (740), and his 782 career wins are second all-time to his mentor, Scotty Bowman.
Arbour has described the way he treated his players as "tough love," but long after he retired, those players still remember him fondly.
"He was the best coach I ever played for," Ray Ferraro, a center with that 1993 team and now an analyst for TSN, told NHL.com. "Al had the best feel for what the player needed or could handle -- kick in the (rear) or pat on the back ... he knew which (to use)."


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Global Palm Oil Demand Fueling Deforestation
This is the first feature in a weekly, three-part series on palm oil development in Indonesia. Click here to read the full series.
The benefits of the oil palm are difficult for Indonesia to ignore.
Once planted, the tropical tree can produce fruit for more than 30 years, providing much-needed employment for poor rural communities. And its oil is highly lucrative, due largely to the fact that the plant yields more oil per hectare than any major oilseed crop.
Indonesia is now the leading supplier for a global market that demands more of the tree's versatile oil for cooking, cosmetics, and biofuel. But palm oil's appeal comes with significant costs. Oil palm plantations often replace tropical forests, killing endangered species, uprooting local communities, and contributing to the release of climate-warming gases. Due mostly to oil palm production, Indonesia emits more greenhouse gases than any country besides China and the United States.
Like most crop-based commodities, Indonesian palm oil benefited mightily from the 2008 food crisis, as the price of the oil rose above $1,000 a ton last spring. After dropping 56 percent in value by year's end, the price has since settled at around $555 a ton as of last month.
The price drop has put a significant dent in the palm oil industry. Yet observers are confident that international buyers, especially in China, India, and the Middle East, will continue to buy more palm oil, regardless of the commodity's environmental or social effects.
"Palm oil has become the edible oil of choice, if you will, for much of the world," said Michael Shean, a global crop analyst with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). "More land will have to come into line to meet that demand."
The worldwide recession has led many producers to cancel their seed orders and scale back expansions, according to a USDA Foreign Agriculture Service report released last month, which said that new plantations would slow - possibly into 2010. The analysis expects global demand to then return to earlier levels of 2.2 million tons per year.
"Prices will go up. This is a short-term phenomenon," said Tim Killeen, who represents the conservation organization Conservation International on the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a multi-stakeholder effort to form sustainable standards for palm oil production. "I know there is a lot of interest among energy companies with large European markets."
In the meantime, industry leaders are asking the Indonesian government to stimulate the palm oil market. "If Indonesia and Malaysia want to see a fair demand for palm oil and avoid all this fluctuation in prices, you have to create domestic demand," said M.R. Chandran, an RSPO advisor and industry consultant, according to AFP news agency last month.
In an effort to stimulate demand, Indonesia passed biofuel mandates last year that require the country's cars and trucks to include either ethanol or palm-oil biodiesel in their fuel mix.
From 2000-2009, Indonesia supplied more than half of the global palm oil market, eclipsing Malaysia's production in 2006 to become the world leader. Indonesia's palm oil exports increased nearly 11 million tons over the decade, or about 27 percent per year.
This expansion came at an annual expense of some 340,000 hectares of Indonesian countryside, mostly tropical lowland forests. The government plans to establish about 1.4 million hectares of new plantations by 2010, according to the Indonesian Palm Oil Commission. The industry group estimates that more than 7 million hectares of plantations have been established, leaving an additional 24.5 million hectares available for future expansion.
Such expansion, however, could wipe out the remaining natural habitat of several endangered species. The Center for Orangutan Protection warned last year that the great ape may become extinct in Central Kalimantan, a region of the rapidly developing island of Borneo, if the rate of plantation growth continues for another two or three years.
In 2005, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced plans for internationally financed oil palm developments that would cover 1.8 million hectares of Borneo, a territory that is divided administratively between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. The "Kalimantan Border Oil Palm Megaproject," which would have cut through several national parks on the Indonesia portion of the island, was scaled back in 2006.
As a sign that Indonesia expects high rates of demand to continue, the government recently resurrected the project, according to WWF-Indonesia Executive Director Mubariq Ahmad. "The promotion of oil palm-based biofuel policy is biased against the need for forests and biodiversity conservation," Ahmad said in an e-mail.
Palm-oil biodiesel was once supported as a solution to climate change - a low-carbon alternative to burning fossil fuel-based gasoline in vehicles. In recent years, however, research has revealed that oil palm development, which often involves the clearing of intact forestland, can contribute far more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than it helps to avoid.
The reason is found within the region's expansive peatlands, large deposits of carbon-rich forest debris that is too wet to decompose. When each hectare of peatland is drained for oil palm production, an estimated 3,750-5,400 tons of carbon dioxide is released over 25 years. By comparison, the carbon dioxide released from clearing a hectare of tropical forest, without peat bogs, ranges between 500 and 900 tons.
"The worse thing you can do, in respect to greenhouse gases, is to have deforestation on peatland forests," said Tim Killeen, a Conservation International senior researcher. "It's way worse than normal forests, which is bad enough."
Despite this finding, Indonesia continues to focus on expanding the area available for oil palm plantations, critics say. Killeen suggested that such moves may be intended to win votes ahead of this July's presidential election.
In February, for instance, the government lifted a year-long moratorium on clearing peatland for oil palm plantations. Environmentalists opposed the decision, although the policy does place stringent restrictions on which bogs can be converted to agriculture. Only 2 million of the country's 25 million hectares of peatland are now eligible, officials said.
Due largely to greater international awareness, global business leaders have joined environmentalists to demand more-sustainable oil palm production. Within Indonesia, industry leaders have publicly stated plans to develop oil palm on "idle lands" rather than dense rainforest.
But WWF's Ahmad said it is too soon to be optimistic. "It is still difficult to see the sign of seriousness in political will for this to happen," he said.
Ben Block is a staff writer with the Worldwatch Institute. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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I know that topology, abstract algebra, K-theory, Riemannian geometry and others, can be used in physics. Are some of these areas used in astronomy, and are some astronomical theories based on them?
I'm not considering calculus, linear algebra, or other common courses in the first years of college, for many, like engineering, etc.


text: Keeping the flame for true craft over opportunistic cash-ins, Marlon Wayans has confirmed there will be a sequel to his horror spoof A Haunted House, because the original earned $40 million at the box office and also art. It's a triumph not only for marketing, self-promotion, and a "tiny budget"—all of which Open Road Films explicitly praised as factors in A Haunted House's success—but also for Wayans' ongoing war against the Scary Movie franchise, whose sad reliance on celebrity spectacle he's now bested with the more artistically pure comedy of people who try to have sex with people who don't want to have sex with them, often in the butt. In a statement, Wayans expressed his excitement to be "embarking on this journey again"—that long, dizzying process of walking the creative tightrope and never being afraid to fall, fart, pick yourself back up again, and smoke some weed. That process will be completed by next winter.


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Israel scours West Bank for teens feared abducted
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers searched the West Bank on Friday for three missing teenagers from nearby settlements, one of them a U.S. citizen, feared kidnapped by Palestinian militants, authorities said.
Authorities offered little detail, with local media only reporting the hitchhiking teenagers left their Yeshiva, or religious seminary, on Thursday night and had not been seen since. Soldiers near Hebron combed the rocky hills of the West Bank searching for them Friday.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the disappearances, which comes after the formation of a Palestinian unity government following the collapse of U.S.-brokered peace talks.
Two Israeli defense officials said authorities believed the teens likely were kidnapped by Palestinian militants, without elaborating. They spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not allowed to brief journalists.
"The main mission is to ensure their return," said Brig. Gen. Motti Almoz, a military spokesman.
Tsuri Tsuf, a spokesman for a settlement where one of the teens is from, told Israel's Channel 10 television that his community was "greatly worried" and gathered to pray for the safety of the youths. Authorities found a burned-out car during their search that investigators were examining.
Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency initially imposed a gag order Friday morning blocking local media from reporting on the incident. Later, an official familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press that one of the teens was an American and that Israeli authorities notified U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to publicly brief journalists.
The three teens are from settlements in the West Bank, territory Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war and that Palestinians are demanding as part of their future state along with the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.
If Palestinians abducted the teens, it would be the first serious incident to challenge relations with Israel since the formation of a Palestinian unity government earlier this month, led by President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party and backed by the Islamic militant group Hamas. The West and Israel consider Hamas a terror group because of its deadly attacks targeting civilians.
Israeli media reported that despite the friction, Israel and the Palestinian Authority were working together in the West Bank to find the teens.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Abbas to talk about the missing teenagers, and discussed the situation with Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, at a meeting in London.
"We are working with the government of Israel and with the Palestinian Authority to try to ensure the situation is resolved quickly and that the three teenagers are safely reunited with their families," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said.
Netanyahu's office said in a statement that Kerry also had spoken with the Israeli prime minister. Netanyahu told Kerry he holds the Palestinian Authority responsible for the teens' safety. "This is the result of a murderous terror organization entering the government," it quoted Netanyahu as saying.
Adnan Demeiri, spokesman of the Palestinian security services, dismissed Netanyahu's claims, saying the teens' disappearance happened in an area under Israeli security protection.
Hamas frequently calls for the abduction of Israelis and militants have kidnapped Israelis in the past. The Israeli military has said it has foiled multiple Palestinian kidnapping attempts in recent years and warns soldiers and civilians not to accept rides from strangers. Despite the warnings, hitchhiking remains common in Israel.
While such incidents are relatively rare, it would not the first instance of Palestinians abducting Israelis.
Last year, a Palestinian lured an Israeli soldier to a village in the West Bank and killed him in hopes of trading the body for his jailed brother. And in 2001, a Palestinian woman lured an Israeli teenage boy over the Internet to the West Bank where he was killed by waiting Palestinian gunmen.
The woman, Amna Muna, was released in 2011 along with over a thousand other Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a single Israeli soldier, Gilad Schalit, held captive in Gaza by Hamas-allied militants for more than five years.
Netanyahu told the teens' families that Israel is "making every effort" to find them, his office said in an earlier statement.
Associated Press writer Lara Jakes in London contributed to this report.


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September 11th, 2017
GOSHEN, IND./NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – The Martyrs Mirror Trust, a collaboration between the Mennonite Historical Library, Goshen, Indiana, and Kauffman Museum, North Newton, recently announced the discovery and purchase of a 17th-century copper plate, etched by Dutch artist Jan Luyken for the 1685 edition of Martyrs Mirror.
The recently acquired plate illustrates the martyr story of Jacques d'Auchy, a merchant arrested in 1558 in Harlingen, in what is now the Netherlands, and charged with being an Anabaptist.
The plate depicts d'Auchy in jail, bidding farewell to his grieving, pregnant wife with the prison guard and others in the background. The plate can now be viewed at Kauffman Museum on the Bethel College campus.
"Luyken's detailed etchings vividly capture the drama of the stories contained in the Martyrs Mirror," said John D. Roth, director of the Mennonite Historical Library. "Seeing the actual plates that he created to print those illustrations gives a new appreciation both for his skill and for the stories themselves."
D'Auchy's account, published in the Martyrs Mirror, includes his confession of faith and a lengthy transcription of his interrogations. He was killed in his prison cell before the official execution could be carried out.
The newly discovered d'Auchy plate, one of 104 by Luyken, is part of a complicated story, some of which remains shrouded in mystery.
In 1780, a group of Amish and Mennonite leaders in Germany collaborated to produce a German-language edition of Martyrs Mirror. They acquired the complete set of 104 copper plates that Luyken had made a century earlier.
According to some accounts, those plates were still in the German Palatinate in 1880. In 1925, a source reported that 90 of the plates were in Munich. By 1944, those same plates were supposedly stored in three boxes in a private home in Grünstadt, back in the Palatinate.
Following the owner's death, his children discovered one box containing 30 plates. The fate of the other two boxes remains unknown.
In 1977, Old Order Mennonite historian Amos B. Hoover was able to purchase seven of the 30 plates. When the remaining 23 plates became available in 1988, the late John Oyer, then director of the Mennonite Historical Library at Goshen College, together with Robert Kreider, representing Kauffman Museum at Bethel College, formed the Martyrs Mirror Trust to raise funds to purchase the Luyken plates.
The plates became the focus of a book, Mirror of the Martyrs, that Oyer and Kreider co-authored, and the centerpiece of a traveling exhibit of the same name. When not touring, the exhibit – which has been shown in more than 65 locations in North America – has a permanent home at Kauffman Museum.
Oyer and Kreider surmised that the remaining Luyken plates had been destroyed, perhaps melted down as scrap metal in World War II.
So it came as a surprise when Kauffman Museum technician David Kreider received a phone call in October 2011 from an antiquarian dealer in northern Germany. The dealer had found Kauffman Museum on the "Mirror of the Martyrs" website while researching a recently acquired etching plate.
Although unable to determine where, when or how the plate came into the hands of its previous owner, the dealer generously offered the plate for sale with minimal mark-up. After verifying its authenticity, the Martyrs Mirror Trust purchased the plate.
The pilgrimage of the Jacques d'Auchy plate before 2011 remains a mystery. Was it one of the 14 plates whose whereabouts was unknown in 1925? Or perhaps one of the 60 plates that disappeared after 1944?
"We may never learn the answer," Roth speculated, "but if one of the missing 74 plates has turned up, might others as well?"
The d'Auchy plate can be viewed at Kauffman Museum through the end of the year when it will return to the Mennonite Historical Library.
For more information about the d'Auchy plate, the "Mirror of the Martyrs" exhibit or the Martyrs Mirror Trust, contact Rachel Pannabecker, director of Kauffman Museum (316-283-1612).
Regular Kauffman Museum hours are 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, and 1:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission to the permanent exhibits "Of Land and People," "Mirror of the Martyrs" and "Mennonite Immigrant Furniture," is $4 for adults, $2 for children ages 6-16, and free to Kauffman Museum members and children under 6. For more information, call the museum at 316-283-1612 or visit its website, www.bethelks.edu/kauffman/, or Facebook page.


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A day after saying that relief wells may not be needed, the government has decided that they are.
That's good news, as it greatly increases the odds that the oil well will permanently be capped.
Oil industry expert Robert Cavnar pointed out on July 14th – in arguing against the well integrity test – that there was a weak leak in the capping stack:
I'm sorry, but I have to ask, What the hell are they doing? We now have an ability to capture all the oil and stop this massive pollution of the Gulf (as well as measure it). We have great weather to get the relief well completed. We already know, without the "well integrity test", that they have severe damage to the BOP and other surface equipment and casing. If that weren't true, the damn thing wouldn't have blown out in the first place. We also know that between the "capping stack" and the old BOP that there is a non-wellhead rated piece of equipment, known as the flex joint, along with the riser adapter, that we've talked about before. This piece of equipment, that normally sits above the BOP, is not rated to nearly those pressures encountered by wellhead equipment. All of the other components in this BOP are rated to at least 10,000 psi (new, off the shelf, and undamaged); this piece is by far the weakest link in the chain, especially since it took severe stresses as the rig sank and 5,000 feet of riser torqued it as it sank. Yesterday, Adm. Allen announced they were going to take the stack, including this flex joint, to as high as 9,000 psi for up to 48 hours. I have been unable to learn the model and rating of the flex joint here, but Oil States advertises their LMRP flex joints to be rated 600-6,000 psi, far below the 9,000 to which Adm Allen said they would potentially go; even with the 2,200 psi of hydrostatic pressure on the outside of the competent caused by it being in 5,000 feet of water, it's still at least 1,000 psi differential pressure over the rating of the component.
Today, Admiral Thad Allen said that the "spooling tool" was only rated to 7,500 psi, and that BP and the government are worried about blowing out that part:
Here's the full transcript from Admiral Allen's press briefing.
As Cavnar explained on July (using BP's illustration and explanation):
Here's a good illustration of the entire assembly:
As you can see, the bottom spool of the assembly bolts up to the flex joint flange at the top of the BOP (blowout preventer).
Because Cavnar and Allen name different – but adjoining – parts, I'm not sure whether it is actually one part or both the flex joint and the transition spool which are the weak leak.
But the bottom line is that BP has to be very careful when drilling the relief well.
And as I wrote on July 6th:
The team leader for BP's relief wells – Boots and Coots – is 40 for 40 in successfully stopping oil spills using relief wells (around 6:10 into video).
Many oil drilling experts are hopeful that BP's relief wells will succeed on the first try. I hope and pray that they do.
But the relief wells are not a slam dunk, especially at such extreme depths.


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Countries In TPP Negotiations Begin To Wonder Why They Should Let The US Push Them Around
from the go-chile deptIt looks like some of the countries negotiating the awful and secretive TPP agreement are beginning to realize that perhaps they're better off not giving in to whatever protectionist policies the US is about to push on them. Officials in Chile are apparently starting to realize that perhaps they're better off without the TPP altogether:
At a PIJIP-hosted seminar on intellectual property and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) last week, present and former Chilean trade officials questioned whether joining the TPP would be worth its costs if it included additional demands on intellectual property.Apparently the session consisted of multiple Chilean experts (including some current government officials) making it clear that they're sick of the US bullying on this issue, when they know full well that there would be significant costs associated with signing up for the TPP. In particular, they point out that Chile's decision to participate in this discussion seems to come almost entirely because of the USTR's silly and bogus Special 301 report, that names and shames countries the US entertainment and pharma industries don't like -- but which has no objective methodology. Chile has been named and shamed in the report. Of course, the proper response is to tell the US to mind its own business, rather than putting in place draconian rules that will do significant domestic harm. Hopefully more people in Chile will recognize why it's a mistake to let the TPP process go any further.
The officials voicing this concern included Senator Ricardo Lagos, son of the former president of Chile and lead of the negotiation of the US-Chile free trade agreement (FTA) as the head of the Foreign Ministry's Department of Trade Policy under President Michelle Bachelet; Alvaro DÃíaz, of CEPAL, the former Ambassador of Chile to Brazil and a senior official in the Foreign Ministry's Department of Trade Policy at the time of the US-Chile FTA negotiation; and Ana Novik, a current senior official in DIRECON (the Ministry of Foreign Relations) overseeing the current TPP negotiations.
Each of the presenters explained that Chile already has market access agreements with every country in the TPP region, and therefore the trade benefits of joining TPP are likely to be minimal. Each therefore questioned whether the costs of joining TPP, especially in terms of any presumed increased obligations to expand proprietor rights in intellectual property law demanded by the U.S., would be worth incurring.
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Ford Freestyle Recalls
tujazzi Posts: 2dont be scared, if you like your car keep it. the ford dealer tried to get me for almost a thousand dollars to replace the throttle body. all it needs is to be cleaned you can you tube how to do it or i can tell you myself. i save $995 dollars by purchasing a $5 dollar can of throttle body cleaner from autozone.0
File a complaint @ https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq AND directly with Ford0
We have an '06 Freestyle that has the same problems that everyone else does, the lunging, lunging then stalling, accelerating on its own. We've replaced the throttle body two times, once at the dealership and the second time purchased the part from dealer and my husband replaced it. It's messing up it again, I urging everyone to submit a complaint so hopefully Ford will do the right thing before someone gets seriously injured.
https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq and with Ford directly
Maybe the earlier posts about going to the news reporters might help.0
I am so disappointed in Ford! I, too, have a 2006 Freestyle, we replaced the throttle body last February, just had it replaced again...yesterday! My mechanic did get it under warranty but the car still is not running right. The RPM's go up but car only moves sometimes....we had it towed today to a transmission place. I am hoping it is not the transmission!!!! I cannot believe Ford will not make good on this car...maybe someone should call the news channels! I will try to get someone to cover this story!!!
Can you tell me how to file a complaint with NHTSA ?...Ford dealer just called my transmission needs to be replaced! I am not putting 6500.00 into a car that has a blue book value of 3100.!!! I did the recommended service, replaced the throttle body 2 times...We just need to decide what to do as it is not even paid off!
squeaky1978 Posts: 1I JUST BOUGHT A 07 FREESTYLE AND NOY EVEN TWO MONTHS LATER I'M EXPERIENCEDING THE SAME THING. WHAT DID YOU DO TO FIX THIS PROBLEM. PLEZZZZ HELP0
shasha34 Posts: 1Mine is doing the same thing0
sfb2 Posts: 1I guess I will join the club. I just purchased a nice used 2006 Freestyle Limited with 55,000 miles for my 85 year old mother. We brought it home and within 24 hours, it began to surge and stall. It only surged at low speeds, moving from park into reverse - like backing out of a parking space or pulling into a garage. We took it to the local Ford dealer and they said that the throttle body needed to be cleaned and the software needed to be reprogrammed. Well, they performed the repair and we have driven the car about 100 miles since and it seems to be fine. But......at 55,000 miles, should this have happened at all? And if it happened at 55,000 miles will it happen again? And when? Quite frankly, even though the fix was quick and simple, Imwonder if it should have happened at all and if it does not require a more permanent fix. I would be pleased to share this experience with your NHTSA investigator.0
angief Posts: 5I had my cleaned about 5,000 miles ago and it still a good fix. I have 88k on mine.
Angie Foran0
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stever Posts: 52,462My '99 Quest gets a sticky throttle like that, every 30 or 40,000 miles. It's never lurched like a banshee though; just doesn't take off smoothly from a stop sign or red light when it happens. A five minute cleaning of the throttle body with some cleaner and a rag or toothbrush does the trick.
My old Quest was assembled by Ford with some Ford parts. Hm.0
lcjesse Posts: 30find a mechanic that wil do Fuel Induction System cleaning on it. I did it a couple of years ago instead of replacing the throttle body. have not had ONE surge since. That's been 40k ago. If it should happen again, i'll have the same service done. It is only about $125. Good luck0
cabhoney Posts: 8I haven't posted to this forum since last year when I had my transmission and the throttle body replace. Today in Oklahoma with 104 temps for the rest of the week, my 2007 started feeling like it is getting ready to act up. I had my transmission replaced last July 26 the day before my dad's funeral, and then the throttle body Aug 2. So if it is going to happen again, I hope it is soon before the 1 year warranty expires. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with the attorney mentioned in this forum. I did file with the NTSHA. I will let you all know if mine fails again, I'm betting it will and I'll be danged if I spend any more money on these 2 problems. In this economy, it's ridiculous and drained our savings!0
franke2 Posts: 1in august 2012, my 2005 freestyle surged while in reverse with my wheels at full cut as i was backing out of my driveway, as i have been doing for the last 40 years. as i took my foot off of the gas pedal to apply the brake to switch to drive from reverse, the car surged in reverse, and the right corner of my rear bumper impacted my neighbors truck behind his front door, causing me to report the accident to my insurance company to repair his vehicle. I told the agent at my insurance company I had read about this surging problem in the freestyle forums, and asked if the accident would be contributed to mechanical failure due to defective part, rather than driver error, as i stated before I have been backing out of this driveway for 40 years with 70's lincolns and cadillacs, all cars 5 feet longer than the freestyle, without incident. her reply was that if there was a recall due to this problem, then yes, it would be attributed to mechanical failure. My question is, I know the NHTSA was investigating this last year, has there been any conclusion to this investigation? If anyone has an update, can you please contact me at [email protected] with the information. I know it says not to use my e-mail address, but how else will somebody be able to contact me? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I too am having issues and to make it worse i have to replace my second transmission along with it.,....the problem the trottle body causes is more than meets the eye, there are internal issues going on inside the transmision before it gets to the lurching forward issue. SECOND TRANSMISSION.....GRRRRRRR anybody want to help me would be nice i am currectly in cacada and i see the same issues.
Ford has issued a One time customer Saisfaction recall on the trottle body for cleaning and up to replace on there descresion....u know its only going to get clleaned...but hey any help from anybody wouild be nice i am trying to start an action to ford here in canada. i will keep all informed.0
I just received in the mail today from the ford company that they will fix the problems FREE of charge. If you have not received a letter you can call the
Ford Motor Company Customer Relationship Center at 1-866-436-7332.
Mon thru Fri 8am -5pm.
or contact them at www.Fordowner.com
Good luck everyone.... I have also noticed if you put the medium priced gas or most expensive gas in your car, it doesn't have the surging0
they stated they will clean the throttle body and reprogram the powertrain control module free of charge (parts and labor) to improve the idle quality and low speed driveablity....0
multiplefords Posts: 1For all that have been waiting, I received a "recall" or customer satisfaction letter (#12N03) in the mail from Ford this week concerning the above issue. I have a 2006 Freestyle where this had been a problem. I had it fixed in 2011 at the dealer at my expense ($1000+). They put in a new throttle kit. The Ford letter says the dealer will clean the throttle body and reprogram the Powertrain Control Module free, parts and labor. It also says they'll pay for previously performed service related to idle surge repairs so I'm off to the dealer to pursue a refund from Ford.0
Akcall, there has been a recall for this issue check with ford, Throttlebody failure, and its for cleaning and or replaceing of throttlebody.0
jpetruzzo Posts: 9Just wondering if anyone has taken their car to the dealer for this "Customer Satisfaction Program" ? I just got mine back today, and the service notes say that the powertrain control module was reprogrammed. The throttle body was not cleaned. I will have to "monitor the repair".0
geologypickle Posts: 1I took my '06 Freestyle to the Ford dealership this afternoon and they ran my VIN. I am qualified to have my throttle body replaced on the recall. My car was lunging forward at slow speeds and if I was at a stop sign or red light it would lunge. I am so glad that Ford is doing this recall and I get my car fixed. Vancouver, Washington USA0
kiermonique Posts: 1I took mine in on the 2nd. I did not have any service notes. However last night the car would not start so this morning I am waiting for a jump. I am now wondering if the repair caused an issue.0
I am just wondering, they might of did something, did they not mention anything to what they did...I have not experienced a no start. not yet anyways. i would question the place that you had service performed.0
wood5141 Posts: 1I have a 2005 Freestyle with 105,000 miles. Replaced the brakes a month ago and now I am being told the top motor mount needs to be replaced. There is nothing left of it. To make things worse I cannot get the car to start when it is cold outside! I have replaced the battery and had the electrical system checked but still nothing. It takes 40 plus cranks to get the engine to turn over. It wants to start but dies everytime like it is being chocked. Any clues?0
kam11 Posts: 1I took my 2006 Freestyle in for the recall and when I got it back there was no change. Check engine light was still on and my car surged and then stalled almost immediately upon leaving the dealership parking lot. Has anyone else had a similar experience?0
If the cleaning didn't work then it needs to be replaced. If the dealer will not do it, call the number on the letter about the recall. We replaced ours twice before the recall and having the same issues again. Going to take it into the dealer for cleaning and reset. Fingers crossed.0
Did they do the computer reset after the cleaning?0
I've had issues too about not starting right away but that was after the throttle body problems.0
if the cleaning never worked it more than likely needs replacing..Ford should be taking care of it. Good luck..
FYI...I had a 2005 and replaced transmission, and still after replacing ( total blow out on tranny ) i had ford read the errors with check engine light and
wrench light, ford told me without a doubt that the throttle body needed replacing cleaning will not work unless it was next to new or new. plus and this is a big (((( PLUS )))) after any cleaning ( throttle body ) or replacing of the transmission the Main computer needs to be flashed.. i have had quite a bit of ford interaction with this as i am on my second freestyle with the first 2005 having the transmission and throttle body being replaced..... I now have a 2007 freestyle and had a $10 or $20 berring go in the transmission ( making noise caught it this time by hearing same noise in the 2007 as the 2005 i let the noise go on to long and blowed up the berring. causing catistrophic expolsion of transmission ( 2005) i caught it in the 2007 and and ended up dishing out another $700 bucks ( from pocket ) and warrenty picked up the other $2500 Wow lucky....Now i have the throttle body replaced at fords cost and flashing of computer...rides like a champ..good luck.0


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Hold his cock in one hand and with the well-lubed palm of your other hand, slowly move it in nice lazy circles all over his dickhead. This is a particularly delicate procedure, especially if your man is uncut. His dickhead will be super sensitive, now that he is fully aroused. And don't forget, if you are using a cockring, his pecker will be even more engorged than usual, making it hypersensitive. Be sure to ask for feedback on this move. If he finds this too uncomfortable, move on to something more pleasurable. Here's a tip: us men being who we are will, no doubt, already be giving you directions on what to do and how to do it down there. So all you have to do is follow his lead. Remember, he knows his way around his joint better than anyone.
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Interlace your fingers and make a tight passageway through the palms of your hands. Pump up and down his shaft this way. As you get to the top of his cock close the passageway even tighter. Then make him squeeze his way in as you slide back down to the bottom. Then with one hand rapidly following the other in only a downward stroke, make like a perpetual penetration tunnel. This will make his eyes roll back in his head in ecstasy.
This might be a good time to incorporate other parts of your body besides your hands. Most men get off on a titty –fuck. Cozy his cock between your boobs and have him hump away. You can also use your feet in the same fashion. Guys can really get off fuckin' a chick's feet.
Now, back to the hand job. Rhythmically stroke only his rod. Watch as his dickhead swells and turns red or even purple. Once it's bright red, use your fingertips on the tip of his dick like you are turning a doorknob, first to the right, then to the left. Lightly at first, but slowly increase the pressure till he begs you to stop. Now you got him right where you want him.
Here's where things can get really interesting. When he's least expecting it, move one of your hands down past his nuts and taint. You know what a taint is, don't cha? That's the patch of skin between his balls and his asshole. It got its name from taint ass and taint balls, ya get it? Anyhow, once past his taint you'll find his rosebud. With a well-lubed finger massage his pucker. If this is virgin territory for you and the hubby, he's in for the thrill of his life. Continue to stroke both his cock and asshole. Don't be afraid to try and push your fingertip past his sphincter. If he lets you inside, you will have access to his prostate. But even if he doesn't, massaging the outside of his hole will bring him very close to an explosive conclusion.
If you're ready to finish him off, so to speak, pick up the pace of your stroke. He will be breathing heavily now and he'll look down over his chest at the miracle happening between his legs. Tell him to throw his legs in the air and spread them as far apart as possible. This will add considerably to the muscle tension that you've already built up. And a thunderous orgasm is all about muscle tension.
Now bring this puppy home. Lick his balls, finger his hole and beat his meat like it owes you money. Insist that he keeps his feet in he air and his legs splayed. Momentarily, he will begin to quake with building mini-orgasms. He will no doubt try to buck himself to conclusion, but don't let him. For the moment you're in charge down here, not him. Tease him one last time as he nears ejaculation. When he's almost there, suddenly stop what you're doing. This will, of course, drive him crazy. And don't resume your stroking till he begs for it.
It will probably only take a few more strokes before he gives up the spunk. Keep your face, or at least your eyes, out of the way, because when he finally blows it will be explosive. If you've toyed with him for any length of time, you will have built up quite a load and it will shoot in spurts till he is empty.
His cock will be hypersensitive after he cums, so be gentle.
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|Fresh green beans, blanched then seasoned with onion, garlic and herbs, and tossed with bacon and pecans and a browned butter pan sauce.
Browned Butter Green Beans with Bacon and PecansWhen I'm putting a meal on my table, Mrs. George's voice still rings in my conscience when it comes to menu planning.
She was my Occupational Home Economics teacher at Biloxi High School and I truly loved her. The term "Occupational Home Ec" probably sounds odd, but it was the way that the Future Homemakers of America were addressing the fact that women had transitioned from being full time homemakers to working women - who happened to still run the home too. What that meant, was that I attended my core classes so I could still graduate, had several hours of OHE and then... I worked. And, until Hurricane Katrina moved my employer from the Gulf Coast, I never stopped.
That was back in the days when home economics was an important part of every girl's life. It was where I first learned about meal planning, really got in the kitchen all on my own to cook and bake, sewed my first zipper in a skirt... and promptly learned how to rip it out and redo it. I actually still have the sewing kit I used back then, along with a Sears Kenmore sewing machine that I got my senior year of high school.
I hope that somehow Mrs. George knows that it stuck, because I still automatically think of the arrangement of a balanced plate when I decide on what's for supper. Do I always follow it? Of course not. I mean we Southerners are notorious over-loaders of the carbohydrate. We will get a veggie plate at our favorite country restaurant that contains macaroni and cheese, hashbrown casserole, fried okra and pinto beans, plus those made-from-scratch buttermilk biscuits or corn muffins on the side. Without blinking an eye.
When it comes to a vegetable though, green beans have always been a go-to in our house... mostly because it is one vegetable I can be sure that my husband will eat! I have a few ways that I like to prepare them, but my top favorite, and the one I prepare the most, is cooked down with some bacon drippings and a little bit of sauteed onion, and sometimes tiny new potatoes. I use fresh, frozen and canned green beans. Doesn't matter to me - they're all good.
When a holiday rolls around though, I do like to jazz them up just a bit, whether that's dressed in the sweet and sour flavor we Southerners love so much, or simply tossed with a few herbs and maybe a touch of sliced almonds, or chopped walnuts or pecans, as they are here.
This Christmas, I decided to go with a browned butter sauce and pecans, and of course, a little bacon accent. Now... browned butter isn't the same as burned and bitter butter. It just refers to letting the butter cook down until the water has evaporated out of it, and the solids separate and brown. It develops a light brown color and a nutty taste and fragrance, that is great as a base to add in pastries and cakes, or, along with the addition of a variety of herbs and an acid, is a flavorful sauce for fish, tossed with pasta, or like here, as a dressing for vegetables.
Besides trimming the ends off the beans, you can also cut them in half, or even into thirds if you like.
Here's how to make them.
Recipe: Browned Butter Green Beans with Bacon and Pecans©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 10 min | Yield: About 8 servings
- 2 pounds of fresh green beans, trimmed
- 2 teaspoons of salt
- 3 slices of bacon
- 1/2 cup of chopped sweet or yellow onion
- 1 teaspoon of finely minced garlic
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) of unsalted, cold butter
- 1/2 cup of pecan halves, roughly chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon of dried sage
- 1/4 teaspoon of dried thyme
- Salt, pepper and Cajun seasoning, to taste
- 2 teaspoons of fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon of dried parsley
Trim beans and cut in half or thirds, if desired. Bring a large pot of water to a boil; add salt and beans, return to a boil and cook until tender, about 7 minutes. Drain and immediately dredge into ice water to stop the cooking process. Drain again and set aside. Meanwhile, cook bacon in a large skillet until crisp. Set aside and when cool, roughly chop. Add onion to the bacon drippings and cook until tender, about 5 minutes; add garlic, cook another minute, scrape the skillet clean and set aside.
Cut the butter into slices and add to the skillet; increase heat to medium high, and cook, constantly stirring the butter until it is lightly browned and fragrant. Add the pecans; cook and stir, to toast, about 2 minutes. Reduce heat, add the drained beans and toss them in the butter until heated through. Add the onion, seasonings and chopped bacon. Taste, adjust seasonings, squeeze fresh lemon on top, add parsley, toss again and transfer to serving dish. Serve immediately.
Cook's Notes: Okay to substitute an equal amount of cooked, frozen or canned whole green beans (drained and right out of the can). You may also use other nuts such as sliced or slivered almonds or roughly chopped walnuts or hazelnuts. Use fresh herbs when you have them. You must, however, use real butter - no substitutes for this one!
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Researchers Study 'Sidewalk Rage,' Seeking Insights on Anger's Origins and Coping Techniques
You don't need a car to get road rage.
For many people, few things are more infuriating than slow walkers—those seemingly inconsiderate people who clog up sidewalks, grocery aisles and airport hallways while others fume behind them.
Researchers say the concept of "sidewalk rage" is real. One scientist has even developed a Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome Scale to map out how people express their fury. At its most extreme, sidewalk rage can signal a psychiatric condition known as "intermittent explosive disorder," researchers say. On Facebook, there's a group called "I Secretly Want to Punch Slow Walking People in the Back of the Head" that boasts nearly 15,000 members.
Some researchers are even studying the dynamics that trigger such rage and why some people remain calm in hopes of improving anger-management treatments and gaining insights into how emotions influence decision making, attention and self control.
"We're trying to understand what makes people angry, what that experience is like," says Jerry Deffenbacher, a professor at Colorado State University who studies anger and road rage. "For those for whom anger is a personal problem, we're trying to develop and evaluate ways of helping them."
Signs of a sidewalk rager include muttering or bumping into others; uncaringly hogging a walking lane; and acting in a hostile manner by staring, giving a "mean face" or approaching others too closely, says Leon James, a psychology professor at the University of Hawaii who studies pedestrian and driver aggression.
For the cool-headed, sidewalk rage may seem incomprehensible. After all, it seems simple enough to just go around the slow individual. Why then are some people, even those who greet other obstacles with equanimity, so infuriated by unhurried fellow pedestrians?
How one interprets the situation is key, researchers say. Ragers tend to have a strong sense of how other people should behave. Their code: Slower people keep to the right. Step aside to take a picture. And the left side of an escalator should be, of course, kept free for anyone wanting to walk up.
Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome
A University of Hawaii researcher says it manifests itself in these traits
- Having denigrating thoughts about other pedestrians
- Walking by a slower moving pedestrian and cutting back too soon (feels hostile or rude)
- Feeling competitive with other pedestrians
- Acting in a hostile manner (staring, presenting a mean face, moving faster or closer than expected)
- Feeling stress and impatience when walking in a crowded area (crosswalk, staircase, mall, store, airport, street, beach, park, etc.)
- Walking much faster than the rest of the people
- Not yielding when it's the polite thing to do
- Walking on the left of a crowded passageway where most pedestrians walk on the right
- Muttering at other pedestrians
- Bumping into others
- Not apologizing when expected (after bumping by accident or coming very close in attempting to pass)
- Making insulting gestures
- Hogging or blocking the passageway, acting uncaring or unaware
- Expressing pedestrian rage against a driver (like insulting or throwing something)
- Feeling enraged at other pedestrians and enjoying thoughts of violence
"A lot of us have 'shoulds' in our head," says Dr. Deffenbacher. Ragers tend to think people should do things their way, and get angry because the slow walkers are breaking the rules of civility. It's unclear exactly why some people harbor such beliefs, Dr. Deffenbacher says. Such ways of thinking are generally learned from family, friends or the media, he adds.
Ragers' thoughts tend to be overly negative, over-generalized and blown out of proportion, leaving them fuming about how they can't stand the situation, how late they are going to be, and how this always comes up, Dr. Deffenbacher says. In contrast, someone blissfully free of sidewalk rage may still be frustrated, but thinks more accepting thoughts such as, "this is the way life is sometimes" or, "I wish that slow person wasn't in front of me," he says.
Some ragers say that thinking insulting thoughts about other pedestrians serves as "mental venting"—and makes them feel better. Even if it does provide some momentary relief, such thinking rehearses bad behavior and can make anger a more automatic reaction to these situations, says Dr. James.
"When you're emotionally upset, you're impaired," says Dr. James.
He should know. He used to be a very aggressive walker as he vied with swarms of tourists for space on the crowded streets of Honolulu, he says. He would square his shoulders and walk straight ahead, bumping into people and thinking it was his right; he was the one walking properly.
But his wife repeatedly called him an aggressive walker, he says. Finally, she convinced him. Now he tries to walk around people rather than into them, he says. And he says he feels guilty when he does succumb to the urge to barge through.
Psychologists say that the best thing for a rager to do is to calm down. Anger, after all, is associated with a host of negative health consequences, including heart problems and high blood pressure.
But calming down isn't always easy. Those at the extreme end of the rage continuum, sidewalk or otherwise, may have intermittent explosive disorder, a condition characterized by an inability to inhibit aggressive impulses that lead to assault or destruction of property, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, psychiatry's bible of diagnoses.
If friends or family comment on your anger, or you think you need to tell someone how to walk—however politely—you may have a problem, says Dr. James, who devised the Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome Scale. It outlines 15 bad pedestrian behaviors featured in Dr. James's research based on questionnaires and interviews. Although the scale hasn't been statistically verified, he says anyone who engages in one of these behaviors regularly may give in to the others as well.
Many anger-management treatments haven't been studied thoroughly enough to show whether they work. One type shown to be effective, cognitive-behavioral therapy, seeks to alter thoughts and actions by coming up with alternative ways to view a situation.
All The Rage
The average speed of walkers in Lower Manhattan is 4.27 feet per second. Other speeds:
—By Sarah Nassauer
Source: 'Pedestrian Level of Service Study, Phase I' from The City of New York and NYC Department of City Planning, April 2006. Observed: 8,978 pedestrians at various sidewalk locations in Lower Manhattan over about four weeks.; Wildlife Conservation Society
For instance, instead of thinking about how much of an idiot the pedestrian is and how he shouldn't be allowed on the sidewalk, imagine the person is lost or confused, or simply doesn't see you, says Eric Dahlen, a psychology professor at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg who researches anger, aggression and traffic psychology.
Developing strategies to quell the rage may be wise: Sidewalks aren't getting any less crowded, and pedestrian speeds, research shows, are slipping as the population ages.
In addition, most people on a sidewalk are in groups, and they tend to walk side-by-side or in an outward-opening V-shape, impeding the flow of foot traffic, according to an article published recently in PLoS One, a Public Library of Science journal.
People slow down when distracted by other activities, too. A 2006 study by the City of New York and the NYC Department of City Planning showed smokers walk 2.3% slower than the average walker's 4.27 feet per second. Tourists creep along at an 11% more-leisurely rate than the average walker, while cellphone talkers walk 1.6% slower, according to the study. Headphone wearers, by contrast, clipped along at a 9% faster rate than average.
A series of studies by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign using a virtual-reality simulator found that walkers consistently slow down when they talk on their phones, and that kids and older adults are more likely to get hit by cars while on the phone compared with those who weren't on the phone.
So, how best to navigate around speed-challenged strollers?
Most people tend to look down as they walk. That's a mistake, says Mehdi Moussaid, a cognitive scientist at the University of Toulouse who models walkers' behavior on public sidewalks and was an author of the PLoS One study. Some of his advice: Look up and take a wide-angle view to catch openings and slip through.
—Sarah Nassauer contributed to this article
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With the Conference USA baseball tournament approaching, Houston coach Todd Whitting has set his starters for the first two days of the tournament.
Whitting is giving senior lefthander Jordan Lewis the nod in the Cougars' tournament opener on Wednesday vs. No. 1 seed Rice and junior righthander Austin Pruitt will follow on Thursday in Houston's second game against Southern Mississippi.
Because of his workload this season and particularly as of late, Whitting said he wanted to give Pruitt — who has been the Cougars' most consistent starting pitching option this year — an extra day of rest.
It also may give Houston favorable matchups since Lewis had significant success against the Owls' lineup during the Silver Glove Series, while Pruitt was the only Houston pitcher to garner a win when the team visited Southern Miss in March.
Lewis threw eight quality innings, allowing just two runs (zero earned) on three hits with two walks and six strikeouts in the Cougars' 4-3 extra-inning loss at Rice on May 5. Pruitt went 6 2/3 innings allowing four hits, three runs (all earned), four walks and six strikeouts on March 25 at Southern Mississippi to lead the Cougars to a 10-5 win.
Whitting said he tried to give his regular weekend starters as much rest as he could over the weekend even though he had to pitch them as the Cougars were aiming to secure a Conference USA Tournament berth.
"I am concerned about our pitching in the fact that we did not pitch the ball well," Whitting said. "However that could be a blessing in disguise for us because all my starting pitchers, they ended up being taken out of the game on very short pitch counts. With a pitching staff as thin as ours, they're maxed out and they need rest. If I could have gotten away with it, I wouldn't have thrown any of our weekend starters last weekend to give them full, complete rest. But throwing just 30-50 pitches in all their outings, hopefully they'll be rested up and ready to roll for the tournament."
The Cougars also got some positive news on the injury front on Monday as senior closer Mo Wiley was cleared compete in the tournament. Wiley suffered a broken jaw during practice on May 2 but has recently done some limited bullpen work in hopes of returning to action. Wiley is 2-1 this year with a 4.22 ERA in 19 appearances and 36 strikeouts in 32 innings pitched.
"He was basically begging to pitch," Whitting said of Wiley. "For him to want to compete after his jaw was broken in two places, that's something your team can really rally around. We've got a lot of guys banged up and playing through it so that really is going to be our rallying cry this week."
The Cougars arrived in Pearl, Miss., on Monday and will practice at Trustmark Park, the tournament site, today. Here's a look at the full schedule, courtesy of my man Joseph Duarte. Follow him on Twitter Follow @Chronicle_Owls
// on game days during the C-USA Tournament for Cougars game updates as he'll be front and center for the tournament in Pearl.
UH senior righthander Jared Ray was named to the Conference USA All-Academic team on Monday. Ray recently graduated with a psychology degree and sported a cumlative grade point average of 3.44.


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RALEIGH � Photos taken earlier this month show North Carolina regulators apparently failed to notice a large crack opening in an earthen dam holding back millions of tons of Duke Energy's coal ash near the Cape Fear River.
State Department of Environment and Natural Resources spokesman Jamie Kritzer says inspectors visited Duke's Cape Fear Plant on March 11 and 18, but did not see the crack. Aerial photos taken March 10 by the environmental group WaterKeeper Alliance show the crack clearly marked by metal stakes topped with orange streamers.
The agency has said it knew nothing of the potential hazard until Duke reported the crack on March 20, after the company was cited for illegally pumping 61 million gallons of contaminated wastewater into the river. The crack has since been repaired.


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