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"Composing's one thing, performing's another, listening's a third. What can they have to do with each other?" —John Cage
My work as a composer and a computer music researcher creates new connections among composers, performers, and listeners, using technology to experiment with the ways in which music is created, performed, and heard.
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"Grow Old" is a streaming EP that reflects upon the malleability of digital audio in a cloud-based musical world. The music, regenerated daily by a simple computer program, changes subtly from one day to the next and more dramatically over the course of weeks, months, and years. So just as we constantly bring new perspectives and experiences to the music we hear, the music itself also changes over time. The web site includes the current version of each of the EP's four tracks, extensive notes on each track, the computer source code used to generate each track, and subscription links to automatically receive new versions as a podcast.
"Grow Old" is a 2013 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence.org website. It was made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
See the project here: http://turbulence.org/Works/GrowOld/
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (September 5, 2013) – The Rutgers University volleyball team will return to nonconference action tomorrow morning, as the Scarlet Knights travel to Syracuse, N.Y. to participate in the Candlewood Suites Invitational. RU will face both Oakland and former BIG EAST rival Syracuse tomorrow at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., respectively. The team will conclude tournament play on Saturday, Sept. 7, against Colorado at 8:30 a.m. and Stony Brook at 2:30 p.m.
The Scarlet Knights' matches against Oakland and Colorado mark the first time in program history that the squad will meet either team. RU has faced Stony Brook two other times, with the last meeting resulting in a four-set victory during the 2004 season.
Rutgers has faced the Orange 24 times in program history. Syracuse holds a 16-8 lead in these matchups Last year in BIG EAST conference play, RU defeated 'Cuse, 3-1, at the College Ave. Gym.
Rutgers opened the 2013 season last weekend at the Indiana Invitational and returned "To the Banks" with a 2-1 record. The Scarlet Knights defeated Kent State and Robert Morris and fell to future Big Ten opponent Indiana.
Freshman outside hitter Micaela Anderson (La Cañada, Calif.) was named to the All-Tournament Team, along with sophomore defensive specialist Ali Schroeter (Bakersfield, Calif.),
Anderson finished the weekend with 38 total kills; averaging 3.80 kills per set by way of a .244 hitting percentage. On Saturday, the outside led all RU offensive players with 28 total kills against both Indiana and Robert Morris. 22 of her kills came against Robert Morris alone to guide RU to a 3-1 win over the Colonials. Anderson finished the contest with a torrid .391 hitting percentage and added 10 digs for the first double-double of her young career.
Schroeter paced a strong defensive effort by Rutgers over the weekend, leading the squad with 44 digs to average 4.40 per set. The second-year player managed double-digit digs in each match and came away with a 20-dig performance against Robert Morris.
Scouting Oakland
Oakland enters the Candlewood Suites Invitational at 1-2 after defeating Central Michigan and falling to Villanova and Oregon State at the Golden Grizzlies Invitational last weekend. The Grizzlies are led by sophomore outside Cassie Pelloni, who recorded 41 kills over the weekend en route to a .278 hitting percentage. Taylor Humm leads the team with 46 digs and has also recorded three service aces, while Ciara Schultz and Alissa Valentine lead Oakland in assists with 56 and 50, respectively.
Scouting Syracuse
The host Orange enter the tournament winless at 0-2 after suffering defeats to Louisville and Penn State last weekend at the Penn State Invitational. Syracuse fell to the Cardinals by scores of 20-25, 19-25, 17-25 and were swept by the Nittany Lions (16-25, 15-25, 17-25). Both teams however are ranked in the top-25, as Louisville sits at 17 and Penn State entered this week as the No. 1 team in the nation.
Sophomore outside Silvi Uattara led the Orange over the weekend with a team-high 14 kills, while classmate Gosia Wlaszczuk came in second with 10 kills and added 12 digs.
Scouting Colorado
Colorado enters the Candlewood Suites Invitational after splitting a pair of contests against St. Mary's (Calif.) at the Omni Hotels Colorado Volleyball Classic. The Buffaloes dropped their season opener last Friday in four sets, before rebounding the following day and defeating the Gaels in a best-of-four match.
The Buffaloes are led by Alexis Austin, who averaged 3.00 kills per set and recorded seven digs and five blocks assists on the weekend.
Scouting Stony Brook
Stony Brook enters this weekend's tournament after a season-opening 2-1 road-trip at the Crusader Classic hosted by Holy Cross. The Sea Wolves defeated tournament-host Holy Cross (3-0), as well as Sacred Heart (3-1), before falling to Manhattan in straight sets. With the win over Holy Cross in the opening match of the second day, Stony Brook began the season at 2-0 for the first time since 2006.
Stony Brook is led by senior outside Kaitlin Costello who amassed a team-high 37 kills over the weekend and added 17 digs. Libero Laura Hathaway leads the team defensively with 39 digs, averaging 3.90/set while junior Hanna Dolan serves as the team's primary setter having dished out 93 assists.
All matches will be held at the Women's Building (capacity 3,000) and are free of charge. For complete tournament coverage, visit Syracuse's Tournament Central page.
Follow Rutgers Athletics on Facebook (www.facebook.com/RutgersAthletics) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/RUAthletics) for all of the latest news and updates. For specific updates regarding Rutgers volleyball, follow the program on Twitter and Instagram (@RUvball). Fans can receive timely information, including special offers and giveaways throughout the year on both social media outlets along with www.ScarletKnights.com.

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The following has been produced to assist in writing business cases to make use of the USDC and Private Cloud. Feel free to utilize these verbatim or edited as you see fit. If in writing your business case you develop further arguments/justifications that you feel would be of assistance to the community then please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Energy Savings
- Data Centre: The target efficiency of the USDC is a PUE of 1.5. For each unit of energy used by IT equipment another 0.5 units will be used to support the environment the equipment is running in. This figure compares to 2.0 for a room equivalent to the current OUCS data centre and 2.5 for a small server room using office style air conditioners etc. There is a potential saving in energy of 25% to 40%. The USDC also trades low-grade waste heat with the building in which it sits, heating the offices and labs in the winter and cooling them via an absoption chiller in the summer. This contributes to lowering the University's overall energy usage and reducing its carbon footprint.
Private Cloud: The private cloud runs equipment more efficiently by increasing the utilization. Typical servers use 25% to 50% of their rated energy consumption when idle and with an average workload a server is only 10% to 15% utilised over a day. With increased utilization the private cloud therefore gets more bang per buck in energy terms. The private cloud is hosted within the USDC and benefits from the efficiency of the data centre as described above.
- Overbuilding
- Data Centre: Using the USDC negates the need to build new data centre or server room facilities. Facilities are usually built with both the physical space and power and cooling headroom for future use. This over-specifying of air conditioning and UPS systems means that during the early life of the facility they are running inefficiently. The potential PUE figure is greater than 3 meaning unnecessary expenditure on energy. There is also the capital cost of building facilities that are larger than required.
Private Cloud: When server or storage systems are specified they are traditionally sized for the anticipated workload of three to five years time. This means the system is the right size when it is about to be replaced and oversized until that point. For example: conservatively, storage costs half every two years and storage usage grows similarly over the time period. Purchasing a storage system now with the expected capacity for data in 5 years time would mean spending twice as much as purchasing incrementally. This culture of overbuilding is endemic within IT. The private cloud allows the purchase of the right resources for the workload now, with the ablity to expand them, on-demand, as the workload grows.
- Agility
- Data Centre: The USDC is available today to take equipment. There is no wait for the specification and build of a local facility, equipment can be in place, powered on and performing useful work within hours.
Private Cloud: The private cloud can provide servers at the click of a button. A new server, installed and ready to configured within minutes not the days/weeks usually required to specify, order and the deliver a physical machine.
- Resilience
- Data Centre: The USDC has a number of resilient features including 2N UPS systems, and N+1 environmental systems. More details are available on the colocation pages.
Private Cloud: Run across two sites, upon highly fault tolerant hardware and in resilient data centre environments, the private cloud is significantly more resilient than running a standard server.
- Security
- Data Centre: A number of features make the USDC a highly-secure environment. All access is controlled via an anti-tailgating security portal that requires the presentation of a token and fingerprint. All rack access is via the same token and access is logged from the moment someone enters the room. It records when they unlock a rack, if the open the rack doors or not, and when they close the rack. This full audit trail is combined with complete CCTV coverage. Further details are available on the colocation pages.
Private Cloud: The private cloud offers an expertly managed secure platform with secure multi-tenant separation and integrated firewall capabilities.
- Self Service
- Data Centre: Access to the data centre is available 24/7 for authorised users. Allowing out-of-hours maintenance and emergency fixes to be carried out without interruption.
Private Cloud: Self-service interfaces are one of the founding blocks of the Private Cloud. Machines can be provisioned, started, stopped and changed at any time, programatically or via a web browser.
- Space
- Data Centre / Private Cloud: Using the USDC or Private Cloud frees up physical space within buildings which can be repurposed as lab or office space. In colleges there is also potential for some space to be put back into use as accommodation.
- Cost
- Data Centre / Private Cloud: The charges for the use of the USDC and private cloud encapsulate all the costs. Conversely, local costs are frequently hidden (energy and maintenance being the usual candidates) and this can make comparison difficult. TCO calculators are provided to assist with comparison on the pricing pages.
- Networking
- Data Centre / Private Cloud: Both the data centre and private cloud offer the capability to host systems on the local network. Physically locating servers offsite whilst letting them be logically located within the local network. This provides seamless access to resources and the possibility of migrating services back and forth between local and shared facilities without losing access.
Being located on the University network ensures high speed access to systems without the concerns related to network performance usually found with locating services distant from the users they serve.
- By the University, for the University
- Data Centre / Private Cloud: Both services are run by the University within the University. The location of data stored is known and subject to the same rules, regulations and controls as if it were locally stored.


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What's the Best Dessert You Ever Ate?
Take a minute to close your eyes. Lean back. Now let your mind flip back through all the dinner parties, fancy restaurants, birthdays, and visits to Grandma's. Which delicious dessert rises to the top, so good you can still smell it and taste it even after all these years?
Mine is a dessert I had years ago at a fancy restaurant in Portland, Oregon. It might have been clafouti; it might have been a riff on a pot de crème. All I can remember is a silky pudding that tasted of vanilla beans and cream adorned with tart and syrupy cherries. If I hadn't been in public and at such a nice restaurant, I would have licked the bowl clean.
I've tried to recreate the experience of this dessert many times, both when ordering from restaurant menus and back in my own kitchen. Never have I come close. I think that I just have to accept that it was a special dessert at a special time and place, and it will live in my memory forever.
What about you? What was the best dessert you ever ate?
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On our honeymoon in Ontario, my husband and I had pumpkin pie with a strawberry black pepper sauce. It was incredible. We happened to be honeymooning during Canadian Thanksgiving, so we lucked out and got the recipe and recreated it for our Thanksgiving with family back home in the states a month later.
This really isn't anything TOO special, but long story short: On a sunny day in a tiny port town on the eastern Italian coast, I was treated to chocolate gelato with chunks of Kinder Happy Hippos in it by a tall, blonde handsome man who was purportedly a member of the Italian version of the FBI. When I die, I will die in peace.
This dessert is so rich it should be illegal. I make it once a year for the work Christmas party. Thus, we named it Christmas in a Bowl. Made from scratch with layers of white chocolate peppermint mousse, dark chocolate pudding, and fudgy brownies. It's so darn good.
A friend made me a lemon cake with raspberry filling between the layers covered in Lemon Buttercream for my birthday. It was amazingly decorated and the most amazing thing EVER
The best dessert I've ever eaten was a fresh peach and blueberry cobbler, warm and soft on the inside, crunchy and sweet on the outside, with a big scoop of vanilla bean ice cream and, per my request, a tall glass of milk, from a restaurant in Pasadena CA. I died and went to heaven.
Creole Bread Pudding Soufflé with warm whiskey cream at Commander's Palace in New Orleans, hands down. I've eaten at many NYC fancy pants restaurants (Keller, Boulud, Colicchio, whatever) and this has burned it's delicious memory into my brain permanently.
Homemade blackberry pie, hot out of the oven, and vanilla ice cream. Every summer for many years when I was a kid.
Lemon meringue ran a close second.
On a hot day in the middle of summer I had grapefruit sorbet flavored with St. Germain- it was a revelation.
I just experienced Carnegie Deli's NY cheesecake covered in large fresh strawberries for the first time, and I can say it was hands down the best dessert I've ever had.
The salted caramel ice cream at Bi Rite Creamery in San Francisco, it is amazing. Also, my Mom's homemade kheer (Indian rice pudding).
Texas peaches
My friends' wedding cake in College Station, TX.
I was at a pizza and ice cream convention (hubs is a judge) and I had a lemon marscapone cream gelato! I've never had it since =(
Alfajores. I had them at a Peruvian restaurant years ago and found a good recipe online. The light shortbread and gooey caramelized condensed milk center goes really well with Brazilian lemonade.
coconut rice pudding, from a Thai restaurant near Honolulu. On my 6 day vacation, I ate it four times. Just the right salty/sweet combination.
I don't even like cheesecake, but within a day I ate a third of an entire cherry cheesecake from the W Hotel in Seoul. So worth it and I can't stop thinking about it. I'm making it my business to go back.
On a family vacation to Las Vegas when I was twelve, we went to a restaurant prior to a Cirque de Soleil show, and there I had the most delicious chocolate souffle I have ever come across. I have no idea what restaurant we were at, but fifteen years later, I still remember that amazing souffle...
At Po in NY. I remember thinking my salad was ok and my entree was ok, but I would have stabbed someone's hand if they came near my dessert! It was a slab of chocolate, almost like fudge and with some kind of almondy, amaretto flavor that highlighted, not masked, the quality of the dark chocolate.
Sticky date pudding, without question. I love it with chantilly cream, but it's pretty damn good with vanilla ice-cream, too.
A half a mango, topped with homemade, vanilla merigue , broiled slightly, till lightly caramel colored : SUBLIME!
Anniversary dinner with my fiance at Perilla in NYC. Delicious meal all around, but it was finished with a gooey chocolate souffle with mocha hot fudge to pour on top. I've never tasted a more perfect expression of chocolatey goodness. It was served in an espresso cup, but I could have eaten a mixing bowl full. Yummmmm!
The banana boats my mum and I used to make growing up: roasted bananas, melted chocolate chips, and broiled marshmallows, to be eaten straight off the foil-wrapped cookie sheet the very second it was just cool enough to not burn our mouths. For pure deliciousness and nostalgia, nothing compares ... not even the time-stopping chocolate chevre donuts I had the other night.
Oh man. So many.
-a passion fruit truffle at Andina in Portland, OR that made my eyes roll back into my head
-a big dish of Secret Breakfast ice cream at Humphrey Slocombe in SF
-Ina Garten's coconut cupcakes
-that amazing Peanut Butter Chocolate cake that Deb posted on Smitten Kitchen
-and on...
Can you tell I've got a sweet tooth?
Either one of the many, many apple crisps I've had over the years, or a creme brulee with a blackcurrant sauce - perfect combination and cooked to perfection.
This is definitely a hard one to pinpoint but I can at least narrow it down to a few favorites...I absolutely LOVE the silky maple cream pie at the Rockburn Pub in Quebec, I love a true creme brûlée, Barefoot Contessa Coconut cupcakes, Nutella crepes, and lastly an Acine de Pepe ambrosia style salad. My list may not be short but it definitely sweet! (Does vanilla bean cream filled French toast count as dessert?)
Some kind of pear tart from a bakery called patisserie salzburg in Rye, NY. To die for.
Creme fraiche ice cream from Aquagrill in NYC.
The BEST ice cream I've ever had.
Also, cream puff from a bakery in Tokyo.
canele from my last trip to France.
Chocolate Decadence. A dessert made by a local chocolatier, DeBrand. Sadly, it is no longer available.
I spent a summer on an archaeologica dig in Malta, a tiny hot Mediterranean island. There was a walled town in the middle of the island built in the 1200's. Along those walls, numerous restaurants and cafes took advantage of the amazing views of the whole island you could get from that high point. One of these restaurant served a homemade chocolate cake that was decadent and spectacular, and the icing perfumed the air as the chocolate melted ever so slightly in the sun. Best dessert ever, made ever so much better by environs.
The wedding cake at my friend's wedding. Never thought I'd say it about a wedding cake, but man was it good. Rich and light with the most fabulous butter cream frosting. They had tons of leftovers and sent me home with a box. The caterers literally just scooped cake and crammed it into a huge cake box. I spent the rest of the weekend eating cake straight out of that box. It was to die for.
You'll all laugh, but the best dessert I've ever had was from a Las Vegas buffet. It was an item called gianduja (which I've since looked up and discovered is an Italian hazelnut and chocolate torte). Anyway, their version was multi-layered: dense dark choc fudgey cake layer on the bottom, some type of crunchy flaky wafer-like atop that, a lighter mousse layer then a layer of ganache topped by a sprinkling of powdered choc. Oh. My. Gracious.
Frozen Orange Souffle from Le Bec Fin in Philadelphia. I bought the restaurant's cookbook for that recipe alone
Its a tie between the bite sized date pastries an old friend used to bring me (they had this wonderful, intangible flavor to the dough... almost like vanilla, but flowery like jasmine) and a black sticky rice, coconut & fresh corn pudding my Laotian friend's mother used to make.
1) Any of my mother's pies
2) The banana bread pudding from Mezzaluna in Aspen, CO
3) This amazing panna cotta I ate at a restaurant somewhere. So vague, I know. But I remember seeing it clearly on the plate, feeling the consistency on my tongue, and sighing loudly as I devoured the entire thing. I really cannot recall where I was, but that moment is burned in my brain.
i have to agree with hannaht on deb's chocolate peanut butter layer cake goodness - everyone i who tasted that cake (myself included!) swooned over it. and perhaps the first taste of real gelato i ever had in italy... yum.
French macarons/macaroons from Laduree and our wedding cake (layers of carrot cake SANS RAISINS and banana cake with cream cheese filling).
homemade blueberry crisp (martha stewart recipe) topped with vanilla ice cream
• Cassata Cake from Montilio's Bakery for my birthdays growing up
• The two desserts I ordered for dinner while sitting alone at a restaurant in Reggio Emilia
• My mother's Grapenut Custard warm from the oven
• My Sia Rose's Torta di Frutta made with prune plums
Crazy good - each and every one of them.
On my 18th birthday, my mother took me out to the 10,000 Villages buffet, which was featuring cuisine from South America that week. At the end of an extra-long table laden with an amazing variety of authentic dishes, was one plain, yellow sheet cake.
Hiding my disappointment that there wasn't anything containing copious amounts of chocolate, I took a small piece of the cake. And then I tasted it. And I could have died. It was a tres leches cake - perfectly sweet, so moist (but not soggy), light and just...
After a quick exchange of shocked looks, my mom and I agreed that this cake was the best thing we had ever tasted and proceeded to destroy the rest of the cake (luckily for the other people there, they had more).
I've tried several recipes since then and, though they've all been good, none of them have compared to the recipe they served at 10,000 Villages.
Creme Brulee, when I was twelve, the one time I went to France
Indian rice pudding at my favorite restaurant I've been going to for ten years
When my boyfriend took me out the other night for thai food, we got coconut ice cream at the end of it, which tasted amazing, but it wasn't coconutty at all. It was floral, like orange blossom water.
Jeni's ice cream
My mom made this dessert when I was a kid that I make now. It's a strawberry mousse made with whipped cream, sugar, fresh strawberries, and egg whites that you pour in a graham cracker crust and freeze. It is AMAZING.
The Paris-Brest pastry I just had in Paris last week!! Utterly divine!
Strawberry shortcake tart, with a small layer of cheesecake from a bakery in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. It is no longer there, but I still think about it all the time, even though it was about 10 years ago.
Banana gelato from Zanoni Eis in Vienna. The bananas they use must be slightly green, which is how I prefer them, and it's wonderful.
Pierre Hermé macarons. I've eaten a lot of great desserts, many made by my mom, but there's a reason the line at Pierre Hermé's shop in Paris starts forming an hour before it opens. Each tiny cookie is loaded with mind-blowing flavor.
Pretty much you can't go wrong at San Francisco's Tartine Bakery. But the fresh seasonal fruit cream tart and especially the banana cream tart is out of this world, so amazing. The cream is DIVINE!!! I've had lot's of wonderful sweets... but I have yet to find any that top this and I've been looking ;)
Sky-high sour cream coffee cake from the White Gull Inn in Door County, Wisconsin. I had it for breakfast, but it was still the best dessert I've ever had.
the BEST dessert i ever had was a few months ago at a swanky restaurant for a bachelorette dinner.
maple creme layered with candied pecans and fresh whipped cream, served in a chilled mason jar with a hinged lid. it was the perfect consistency, not too hard or soft.
fantastic presentation in the jar, which gave me the idea to make/serve it myself that way.
it's best when followed by a couple shots of espresso.
I love sweets however I'm not into cake or brownies. I usually like some sort of chocolate or fruit crumble type of thing, however, the dessert I cannot stop thinking about recently is my grandma's rice pudding! I had some recently at a restaurant that came close to hers but I need to learn how to make it from her. (The dessert aprilheartsaaron posted sounds like it might be up my alley too!)
The best dessert I ever ate is flan made by an ex-coworker. He called it flan but it was unlike any flan I've ever eaten... it was very thick and rich and the most delicious thing I've ever eaten. Even after he transferred out of our department we would still invite him to team potlucks just for the flan.
...also had to add my sister's pistachio wedding cake...yum
The baked Alaska at Oleana in Cambridge, MA. OMG it is fantastic! The passion fruit drizzle is one of the best things that I have ever tasted!!
At NINE-TEN in La Jolla here in San Diego they serve a dessert called a Half-Baked Chocolate Cake. It's amazing. It's soft and almost soupy in the middle, but the edges of the bowl are slightly cooked. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. It's the dessert I would want on my deathbed... so rich and delicious!
My grandmother's pear cobbler - home grown, home canned pears with a flaky biscuit topping.


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Welcome E. Jean Carroll from Elle Magazine!!
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We are thrilled to announce that Elle Magazine's veteran advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is joining forces with the Sugar Network! She'll be lending her no-nonsense advice and witty sense of humor to our advice site, DearSugar.
Tune in every Thursday to read E. Jean's responses to your burning questions. Check out the first installment here. Your anonymous questions will be chosen at random by E. Jean herself, so ask a question here.
Can't wait for E. Jean to respond? Check out the Ask E. Jean question box located underneath the "Editor's Picks" on DearSugar to get an instant hilarious and fun video response your question!
Welcome E. Jean Carroll from Elle Magazine!! originally posted on POPSUGAR Beauty
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Wonderful news. Congratulations to the Sugar Team. Welcome E. Jean!
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I love E. Jean! I've been reading her column since I got my very first Elle magazine back in August 1988.
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In October we created a dessert table for an exclusive Seattle wedding event for brides and grooms to visit and meet the industry's top vendors. This was not your typical wedding show. Event lighting, plenty of food, cocktails, performances and an aerial artist greeting you upside down with a glass of champagne when you walked in the door…well those were just a few of the antics that went on. It was an incredible night and we had an absolute blast participating!
We created this Falling in Love themed dessert table for Ashly and Scott's fall wedding. The table was filled with caramel apples, cupcakes, mini pies, homestyle cookies, and a rustic buttercream cake. We loved how this table turned out!
Congratulations Ashly and Scott!
This darling table was created for a bride-to-be who loved all things vintage. I had the chance to use a lot of pieces from my vintage cake topper collection. For the desserts, we did a variety of colorful cakes in different buttercream textures, along with sugar cookies, cupcakes, and cake lollipops.
This sweet dessert table was created special for my cousin Erika. She and her fiance chose a peach themed wedding, with gold accents. For her dessert table, we did peach shaped sugar cookies, gold dusted cake lollipops, mini pies, fluffy buttercream cupcakes, and a rustic cake with peach flower accents set atop a gold cake plate. It turned out gorgeous!
Congratulations Erika and Robb!
This pink and mint dessert table for Megan and Tyler Zimmerman's wedding at Sodo Park was one my favorite tables I've ever done. The abundance of desserts complimented the incredible venue perfectly. From mini pies to oreo cake lollipops, this table had one of everything! Thanks Megan and Tyler for including Jenny Cookies in your special day!
Such a sweet dessert table we did for Patrick and Jenn's romantic pink wedding at Hidden Meadows in Snohomish, WA! Jenn wanted all things pink, and Patrick just smiled and went along with whatever she wanted. Love that!
Congratulations Patrick and Jenn!
I absolutely loved being a part of Jen and Dave's nautical wedding aboard one of Seattle's Argosy Cruise ships. The space and time to set up was very minimal so we decided to do dessert centerpieces rather than a full dessert station. I had navy blue and white seersucker runners made for each table, placed under white milk glass cake plates, adorned with nautical themed treats. Navy blue and white anchor sugar cookies, sparkly cake lollipops tied with rope, and cupcakes topped with white chocolate seashells greeted each guest at their table.
Dessert centerpieces can be a great way to cut down on wedding expenses, and your guests love having the desserts right in front of them!


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Scholarship money abounds for students pursuing undergraduate or graduate education in nursing. Below is just a small sampling of such funding-much of it available only to minority nursing students. All awards have various criteria for recipients, which may include financial need, academic achievement and involvement in community service. In addition, some awards require the recipient to work in a specific location-often a medically underserved area-after graduation. Contact the sponsoring organizations for more detailed information.
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|American Holistic nurses Association
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|Chief Nursing Officer Leadership Fellowship
|National Center for Healthcare Leadership and the Insitute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership Institute
|Nursing Service Scholarship
|Kansas Board of Regents
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|$2,500 per year for LPN programs; $3,500 per year for RN programs
|Kay Horsch Leader in Nursing Scholarship
|Minnesota Chapter of the American Cancer Society
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|Eight and Forty Lung and Respiratory Nursing Scholarship Fund
|American Legion
|May 15th
|Career Mobility Scholarships
|American Nephrology Nurses' Association
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|$2,000 to $2,500, depending on scholarship
|ENA Foundation Scholarships
|Emergency Nurses Association Foundation
|$2,000 to $10,000, depending on the scholarship
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Is God Against Medicine for Kids?
Parents chose prayer over medicine for their daughter, who eventually died of complications from a diabetic seizure. Now they face 25 years in prison.
An 11-year-old Wisconsin girl died of complications from undiagnosed diabetes after her parents refused to take her to a doctor, stating that "all healing comes from God." The couple instead chose prayer.
Dale and Leilani Neumann have said they didn't know their daughter Madeline had a terminal illness, but autopsy results showed that the girl most likely suffered for a month with nausea, vomiting, and excessive weakness. The girl died in March 2003 on their living room floor, where she had stopped breathing, while people prayed over her. Someone present called 911 after the girl stopped breathing.
Separate juries ruled that each parent had a "legal duty to rush the girl to a doctor after she could no longer walk, talk, eat or drink."
The Neumanns will be sentenced on Tuesday and now face up to 25 years in prison each.
Respecting others' religious beliefs is important, but when do you think the line is crossed and it becomes child abuse and neglect?
Yes, I believe the line was crossed to abuse and neglect.
My God has no problem with me seeking medical care for my daughters when necessary. He is very busy up there, he can't save every child, which is why he blessed doctors with the knowledge to do it for Him.
Prayer is powerful and it does work. But, with that said, God gives me the sense to use the resources He's given me here on earth i.e. doctors and medicine.
The God I believe in has given me free will which means I am responsible to make the right choices for myself and my family. There is no way I would let my child get that sick without seeking medical help.
These people are sick. The article I read on another site said "The juries ruled the parents had a legal duty to rush the girl to a doctor after she could no longer walk, talk, eat or drink. A family friend finally called 911 after the girl stopped breathing."
Who lets their child lie ion the floor and die an agonizing, painful death RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES?????? Just another set of zealots giving Christians a bad name.
God created people who become doctors and build hospitals.
I think God expects us to take care of ourselves and our children. Period. There's no excuse for praying while your child dies.
lord, forgive for what i'm thinking.
Good comment thread for a change. It's nice to be on the same page with all of you.
Mankind made a choice: let God handle everything and everything or let us have a say in it.
We chose to have a say, so we have to live with that decision.
I am a 25 year cancer survivor. God didn't save me. modern medicine and surgery did.
I hope they each get the full 25 years.
This is sad. I am a fundamentalist, born-again Christian. I believe that God can heal someone and that is why I pray for people who are sick. On the other hand, I don't know a single born-again Christian who would deny their child medical treatment. People should not get the idea that this is the norm by any stretch of the imagination. Jesus loved children and made it clear that they were very special. That means, when they are sick, get them to the doctor.
Read more: http://www.momlogic.com/2009/10/parents_in_prayer_death_case_face_sentencing.php##ixzz0TDYiOzMF
Seriously? Like they really they really thought prayers would save her? Seriously? Yeah, like all the people praying to win the lottery, praying to get better, praying to get married - do people REALLY believe that some invisible man in the sky is going to hear them and fix their problems? I'm actually religious but the best thing I was EVER taught was that prayer does not change things, people do, and prayer changes people. So prayer and then get up and do something about your problem. In this case go to a doctor. Horrible, they essentially tortured their child to death.
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August 2, 2012 (Published)
Below is a listing of the tutorials the Media Bureau has conducted on a variety of subjects.
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The V-Chip: Putting Restrictions on What Your Children Watch...
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The FCC and Freedom of Speech
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Amber Plan (America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response)
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When Maryland men?s basketball had a 2-5 record in the Atlantic Coast Conference, head coach Gary Williams believed in his team.
Since that point, the Terps (21-7, 7-6 ACC) have been on a 5-1 stretch in the conference and have been playing some of the best basketball in the league.
Sunday, the Terps will host the highest ranked opponent that they have played all season with No. 5 North Carolina (24-4, 10-3) coming into the Comcast Center at 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
Williams will prepare his team for the Tar Heels like any other opponent, but he knows every win builds on itself this time of the year.
"Each game is an experience and hopefully we will gain momentum each game we win this time of year," Williams said. "We were not happy at 2-5 and we did not want to quit. We just kept working hard and tried to find a way to get better."
Improvement lies in practice and junior James Gist will testify to how hard the Terps have dedicated themselves.
"Coach is fighting more and more, each time weplay better he wants us to be perfect," Gist said. "He is going to push as hard as he can to make us as good as we can be."
Gist knows how big every game is as the regular season winds down, but playing against the No. 5 team in the nation, he and the Terps know what they will be facing.
The Tar Heels have outscored their opponents by over 20 points a game this season and are being led in scoring by sophomore forward Tyler Hansbrough?s 18.6 points a night. Hansbrough also leads the team in rebounding with over seven a game.
The Terps will also have to deal with freshman guard and Clinton, Md. native Ty Lawson. In his first season, Lawson is scoring over ten points a game and helps generate much of the Tar Heel offense with his 5.2 assists per game.
» North Carolina has a five-game winning streak running against the Terps dating back to Feb. 15, 2004.
» D.J. Strawberry only had 10 points in the Terps? win over Florida State Wednesday. All ten points came in the second half, six of them in the first 1:36.
» James Gist has worked hard to distinguish himself this year. He has scored 10 points or more in eight consecutive games with an average of 12.9 on the season.


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Sacred Sites
Just as our human body has chi (life force) running through it, so does the Earth. Ley lines are the spiritual life force that activates the Earth itself into a living being.
Sacred site locations are transformational because they are located over ley lines of powerful spiritual energy running beneath the Earth. The sacred sites were constructed at their locations for that reason.
I have experienced many of these extraordinary energy centers. For example, I spent a night in the King's Chamber at the Great Pyramid of Giza, a week at Machu Pichu in Peru and walked a pilgrimage following the ley lines of The Camino toward Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain.
"I learned that Sacred Sites can be transformational..."
From experiences such as these, I found my life transformed in many areas and I learned that Sacred Sites can be transformational because of the energy. They aren't simply exotic "places" on the Earth. They are also connections to the cosmos which the ancients understood and are available to us if we recognized them as such. My most profound understanding was that we are not just physical beings who happen to have souls. We are first and foremost, fundamentally souls connected to the Universe who happen to be physical by our own choice on Earth at this time.
As this site progresses we will visit these Sacred Sites, investigating their meaning and their significance. And more important, we'll discover ways to make our immediate environment a sacred site and our lives more balanced through the use of the various forms of feng shui, aromatherapy and color. We'll delve into the sacred aspects of the earth, her chakras and ley lines. And we'll explore the most Sacred site of all, the Soul.
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For a second, I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.
|Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors
It's okay to lock yourself in the medicine cabinet, to drink all the wine, to do what it takes to stay, without staying. It's okay to hate God today, to change his name to yours, to want to ruin all that ruined you. It's okay to feel like only a photograph of yourself, to need a stranger to pull your hair and pin you down. It's okay to want your mother as you lie alone in bed. It's okay to break, to fuck, to flame, to church, to crush, to knife, to rock, and rock, and rock, and rock, and rock, and rock. It's okay to wave goodbye to yourself in the mirror. To write, 'I don't want anything.' It's okay to despise what you have inherited, to feel dead in a city of pulses.


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This video for physicians helps raise awareness and start discussions about patients' low health literacy skills.
American Medical Association (AMA)
The guide is designed for managers of diabetes self-management programs, diabetes educators, and others implementing self-management programs who are interested in how they can better incorporate strategies to address negative emotions and enhance healthy coping.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The ICIC Resource Library offers resources and teaching tools designed for leading and managing efforts to improve health systems to benefit the chronically ill.
Improving Chronic Illness Care
Living a Balanced Life with Diabetes: A Toolkit Addressing Psychosocial Issues for American Indian and Alaska Native PeoplesLiving a Balanced Life with Diabetes: A Toolkit Addressing Psychosocial Issues for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples can help health care professionals address psychosocial issues with American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. The toolkit contains a variety of culturally appropriate materials.
National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
This podcast offers strategies for addressing patient and practice obstacles related to overweight and obesity issues. CME credits available.
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
This resource provides health care professionals with a set of tested resources and tools to share with patients and families in the day-to-day management of chronic conditions.
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These prerecorded lectures from experts in the field of diabetes cover topics ranging from prediabetes to foot care to diabetic emergencies.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Tucson Unified School District Governing Board is reversing itself with a decision to provide so-called "culturally relevant" courses for core credit beginning next school year.
The Arizona Daily Star reports that the courses would focus on experiences, culture and history of Mexican-Americans and African-Americans.
The governing board had objected to offering the courses as part of anti-desegregation plan.
However, the board reversed its position in a 3-2 Tuesday as two newly elected board members supported the change.
The district previously eliminated Mexican-American Studies courses after state officials ruled that the courses' content violated a law against curriculum that engendered racial or ethnic disharmony.
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6 financial products that made the nice list (and 6 that didn't)
Published on - December 11th, 2012 (Modified on - April 25th, 2013) (by April Dykman)
How great would it be if you could get a better return on your savings? What if you could get a rate 300 times higher? Of course that'd be great! Who doesn't want more money?
But if you just opened a money market account with the local big bank branch, or you signed up for a credit card to get the free T-shirt, you might be leaving money on the table or paying sky-high fees. And even if your account was the best available at the time, product offerings change so often, it's hard to keep up!
So the editors at Kiplinger kept up on it for you, thoroughly researching the 2012 best and worst banking and credit options for consumers. I recently spoke with associate editor Lisa Gerstner about the financial products that made this year's nice list, and which ones to avoid like re-gifted fruitcake.
Savings and checking
Is it even possible to get a savings account with a decent interest rate these days? Well, that depends on your definition of decent… But although rates are dismal, some savings and checking products clearly outperform others when it comes to boosting your bottom line.
Money market accounts
"When we looked for the best money market accounts, we wanted somewhere we could leave money and forget it, without worrying about fees and minimum transaction requirements," says Lisa.
The winner? The Sallie Mae Money Market account, which pays 1.05 percent, a "decent rate right now," says Lisa. There's also no monthly maintenance fee and no minimum-balance requirement.
The one to avoid? The Fidelity Tax-Free Money Market, with its sad 0.01 percent interest rate. "You really can't get worse than that," says Lisa.
Interest checking accounts
Another way to earn interest is with an interest checking account, although you have to be willing to jump through some hoops.
"If you want a really good rate on an interest checking account, you have to stay on top of things," says Lisa. "They typically require three or four different types of transactions to qualify for the rate."
This year, the Lake Michigan Credit Union's (LMCU) Max Checking account topped the Kiplinger list. At 3 percent interest on balances of up to $15,000, "it had the highest rate I could find," says Lisa. Although it's a credit union, anyone in the U.S. can join.
But as with any interest checking account, you have to meet a few requirements to earn the rate, such as making one direct deposit and 10 debit card purchases each month. There are no monthly fees or minimum-balance requirements, and LMCU refunds up to $15 a month in surcharges if you use ATMs outside their network.
"People should also check out their local credit union to see if they're offering an even better interest checking account," says Lisa.
So who came dead last in the interest checking category? It was Chase's Premier account, which pays just 0.01 percent. "Most big banks aren't going to give much for interest checking," says Lisa. They're also going to charge some hefty fees. Chase Premier charges $25 per month in "maintenance fees" if you don't meet their transaction or minimum-balance requirements.
Online banks
Online banks usually offer the best rates, thanks to lower overhead.
Lisa says the top pick is Ally Bank, which pays 0.4 percent or 0.75 percent for checking, depending on your balance, and 0.95 percent for savings and money market accounts. "The interest rates are competitive, they refund ATM fees, and they don't charge other fees or require minimum balances," says Lisa. Ally is also rolling out remote check deposit this year, which Lisa says is "important if you're using an online bank because you can't cash checks locally."
Lisa's least favorite online bank is Ascencia. "It's not bad for banks overall, but the $29 overdraft is really high and their rates aren't very good compared with other online banks," says Lisa. Ascencia pays 0.22 percent for checking, 0.32 percent for savings and 0.22 percent to 0.53 percent for money market accounts.
Credit cards
Many cards look great, but unless you pay attention, you could get slammed with unexpected fees.
Prepaid cards
"Prepaid cards are tricky," says Lisa. "Many are fraught with fees, and you may not realize they're there until after you've bought the card."
So which card was the most consumer-friendly?
"Right as we were going to press, the Newcomer Bluebird Prepaid card from Walmart and American Express came out," says Lisa. With no activation or monthly maintenance fees, online bill pay, and an app that lets you deposit checks, it was the clear winner. Lisa also likes that you can set individual spending limits for up to four users and make fee-free withdrawals at 22,000 ATMs (only with direct payroll deposit).
Lisa's pick for the worst prepaid card was the Magic Prepaid MasterCard. Endorsed by basketball giant Magic Johnson, the card comes with some sizable charges: $4.95 to activate the card and a $4.95 monthly fee.
"We haven't come across any celebrity-endorsed cards that we'd recommend," says Lisa.
Rewards credit cards
When choosing a rewards card, look for the card that gives back the most, whether it's in points or cash. But read the fine print, as some rewards cards turn out to be quite unrewarding. "You have to watch out for expiration dates and caps on points," says Lisa. "It's also great if you can avoid an annual fee, but if you do pay one, make sure you're getting your money's worth in rewards."
This year the rewards card that offered the most bang for your buck was the Chase Sapphire Preferred card, which offers you two points per dollar on travel and dining and one point per dollar on other purchases.
Points can be redeemed for cash, merchandise, gift cards and travel perks. They offer a $0 introductory annual fee for the first year, after that $95, and "you get a nice chunk of points when you sign up," says Lisa. Chase Sapphire Preferred currently offers 40,000 bonus points after you spend $3,000 in the first three months from account opening.
A far less rewarding card was the Capital One Sony card. "The five-points-per-dollar sounds great, but that's only if you buy Sony products," says Lisa. "You also have to submit a form if you buy those Sony products anywhere except a Sony store. It's just not convenient." The card also offers three points on dining out at restaurants and movies and one point for all other purchases.
Cash-back credit cards
Which card puts the most cash back in your wallet?
Lisa's pick is the Blue Cash Preferred Card from American Express, which offers 6 percent cash back on groceries purchased at US supermarkets up to $6,000 per year in purchases; 3 percent cash back on gasoline purchased at US gas stations; 3 percent cash back on purchases at select US department stores, and 1 percent cash back on other purchases. Terms and limitations apply. Cash back is received in the form of Reward Dollars that can be redeemed as a statement credit. Terms and Restrictions Apply.
"With more food price inflation predicted for 2013, getting 6 percent back on groceries is pretty big," she says. Although there is a $75 annual fee, the cash back you can earn using this card to pay for gas and groceries should more than cover the fee.
The worst in the cash-back category was the Discover Motiva. Editor's Note: This limited-time offer has expired.
"You should be able to get at least 1 percent back with a cash-back card, but the Discover Motiva only pays 0.25 percent on annual spending up to $3,000 and 1 percent after that," says Lisa. "And although you do get an extra 5 percent back on interest charges, we don't recommend you carry a balance in the first place."
To see which other products made Kiplinger's list, check out the full article, Hits and Misses of 2012.
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While ally bank may appear appealing, one word of caution is that prior to its repackaging it was GMAC bank and anyone who got it up the behind from GMAC may not want to deal with their redressed personna. But I'm not harboring bad feelings or anything .
this is funny. I'm thinking of switching to Ally from ING, because I just can't face being a Capital One customer after my husband's experience years ago. But I don't have GMAC PTSD.
I've banked with Ally for some time now and have never had an issue. So far, so good. *knock on wood*
I have accounts at both. Started with ING and added an Ally account when they had a better savings rate. I have switched money back and forth depending on who has the better rate, but Ally has been better for some time now. I've never had any problems with either of these companies.
You should probably also look at the 5 year CD from Ally. If you need to take your money out, you lose 3 months of interest. If your money makes it to 6 months, you will be ahead in interest even after subtracting the 3 month penalty
At least in my location, credit unions are the place to get the best savings accounts rates.
A year ago I made the switch from BoA to a local credit union. I had been toying with the idea for a while, but the interest rates weren't that different. But, the credit union down the street from me got bought by a larger one, and now I could get a special savings account that paid a whopping 4% on the first $3,000!!!! FOUR PERCENT!!!!!!! And they offered a no closing cost mortgage re-fi at a good rate – only 0.25 above the regular mortgage rate. That was enough incentive to get me to go through the paper work. And, it turned out it wasn't as painful as I thought it would be.
Which credit union is this? (I'm in Boston too.)
My husband and I are sold on Ally bank. So I'm glad it made the nice list! Also, I've been wanting a new rewards card for everyday use. That AmEx Blue Cash Preferred card is looking mighty fine. Thanks for sharing this great info.
I agree with you that Ally is a great choice. Not only do they have competitive interest rates, but they have no ATM fees and even offer cash back bonuses if you shop at certain retailers. Sounds like I work for them, but I'm just a fan.
Why in the hell would you suggest the Amex Blue Cash PREFERRED card when it has an annual fee and a cap on cashback???? Just get the regular Blue Cash Card that has no cap or annual fee and you get .5% back on all purchases and 1% back for gas, groceries, and pharmacy puchases. It jumps to 1% and 5% after you spend $6500. My husband and I both have cards and we usually hit the $6500 pretty quickly (especially when you can put large items on it like medical bills).
Every year we've had the card, we have received over $400 cashback, easily redeemed with a click online and this year was over $600. They also have discounted gift cards available (we got a $100 Outback Steakhouse card for $90).
Skip the preferred and go straight to the regular Blue Cash!!
Is the Blue Cash card still available for new users? I was under the impression that Blue Cash was changed to Blue Cash Everyday and Blue Cash Preferred, but that one could be grandfathered in.
The Blue Cash Everyday card gets 3% at grocery stores (capped at $6,000 spent per year), 2% on gas and department stores, and 1% everything else. No annual fee.
Blue Cash Preferred gets 6% groceries (capped as well), 3% gas/department stores, and 1% everything else. $95 annual fee waived the first year.
I did the math and Preferred was better for me. I also got $150 for spending $1,000 in the first 3 months.
My Blue Cash gets me 5% on grocery and 5% on gas after 6,500 spent (only 1% before that), but I think my version of the card is an old version. No annual fee and no cash-back caps. Since I use my card for travel for work, it's not hard to get to 6,500.
We use Ally to "float" money needed for major purchase expenses and infrequent bills (taxes, insurance, etc.). We "pay ourselves" a set amount each week, and then pay for these expenses out of Ally. This has all but eliminted "unexpected" hits to our regular books. I would imagine the same process could take place with any online or physical bank, but we found Ally very easy to set up, and the website is a piece of cake to navigate.
We do the same thing sort of. We have our Emergency Savings with Ally, and our Home Maintenance Account with ING. We transfer the monthly portion of bigger bills that come quarterly, semi-annually and annually to the ING account, along with IRA payments, then we just pay those items out of that account, allowing them to earn interest while floating.
Our Emergency Savings is actually split between $5000 in the savings account and the rest in Ally 5 year CD's, broken down into $5000 amounts. If we need more than $5000 for an emergency then we cash in a CD. The penalty is 3 months of interest. But if your money makes it to 5-6 months, then you will earn more in interest even with the penalty than you would had you left the money in the savings account. I haven't had to break one yet, mainly because I always keep $5000 in the savings.
Considering the well-known statistic that people who use credit cards of any kind spend 10-12% more than those who don't, the best CASH BACK credit card is no card at all or your checking account debit card.
Thanks for the link!
Thanks for bringing this up. Credit cards know what they are doing. They are not giving you free money. They are giving you a teeny tiny bit of all the money you are giving them, plus you are spending way more than you would have otherwise.
Anything that doesn't keep up with the rate of inflation is a depreciating asset. I look at checking and savings accounts as a safe place to hold my emergency funds that need to be liquid — not as an investment. Anything above the amount I need for monthly expenses plus my emergency fund, I try to put in something that at least keeps pace with inflation, such as a low cost index fund.
I needed a short term place to park money that I knew I would owe at next April's tax time. I found the best deal to be Ally Bank's "no penalty" CD — a CD with 11 month term (and 0.95% interest rate currently) which you can terminate any time you want with no penalty. The rate is guaranteed, not floating, but you can get your money when you need it. When it came time to renew it I discovered a bonus: 0.25% additional interest when you renew. If you may want part of your money earlier, you can split your funds into half a dozen CDs, and just cash the ones you need when you need them.
As far as being worried about Ally's GMAC heritage — keep your deposits under the FDIC limit and they are insured just as they are at any bank. So I have no problems sleeping!
This article lost all credibility when it recommended the Chase Sapphire card. How on earth can you recommend a rewards card that has a $95 annual fee? It is SO easy to find rewards cards that have no annual fee and offer reward that are just as good (or better, depending on your spending patterns).
It's currently giving $400 (which is $500 toward travel) in cash back for spending $3,000 in the first 3 months. The fee is waived the first year. That means the card is effectively free for over 5 years (6 if used for travel), plus you get 2% on travel and dining, and 20% off travel when you book using points. It's a fantastic deal if you spend a lot on travel and dining, or even if you're planning on spending $3,000 in the next three months.
Well, you just explained it Pete. There's other rewards cards, but they aren't necessarily as good.
I have the card and love it. Also it has no foreign transaction fees. That cost me over $60 on my overseas trip before I had the card, so it would have paid for 2/3 of itself in one trip.
I love my little local credit union. 1% on one year CDs. 4% on the Santa Club with a limit of $2500 per account. Who would even bother with big banks these days.
What credit union is that? 4% sounds SOO good, would love that!
A prepaid card is not a credit card!!!!
I love my local credit union (Advantis). Checking account with 3% interest up to $25,000 and they refund ATM fees (up to $25/month). The only downside is that I have to have all my money in one account so it earns the high interest rate, which makes keeping track of everything a little more difficult. I used to have separate accounts for emergency fund, house fund, etc., but now everything is in the one account (though I still track it as if they were separate accounts). It's definitely worth it, though!
Whoot! My bank wins! My bank giving 3.2% on interest checking account up to $25,000. Other local bank is doing 3.5% but only up to $10,000. .8% after that on both.
Thanks for this breakdown! This is really helpful information that I'm definitely going to share with my parents so they can take a look at their accounts before the beginning of next year and possibly switch some things around. I love posts like this that provide readers with a clear list of which company does what and which ones are best, very useful.
If you can become a member of Navy Federal Credit Union, their Cash Rewards card has no annual fee, and 1% cash back on everything, and points never expire(they do expire on the nRewards card). Navy Federal has a super powerful internet experience as well.


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How to buy bank stocks without the baggage
You can avoid the bad karma of the big boys but still snag growth and dividends with these smaller players.
By Karen Riccio
Americans have come to hate big banks, especially the ones too big to fail. If you can't bring yourself to invest in that group, there are plenty of small regional banks that offer similar growth and pay hefty dividends.
It's hard to question Americans' distaste for those big institutions after the mortgage-backed securities debacle in 2008, when so many homeowners suffered and many offending banks walked or were bailed out by the government.
That fallout still goes on. In recent weeks, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced a $5.1 billion settlement between JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Also involved in the private lawsuit were Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, two of JPMorgan Chase's acquisitions. Citigroup (C) and Deutsche Bank (DB) were also accused and settled right away, costing them $158 million $202 million, respectively.
Despite the bad karma of recent years, many large commercial banks are doing quite well in 2013: JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo shares are up 17.9%, 21.5% and 22.2% respectively year to date.
But savvy investors who just can't stomach the big institutions will find plenty of investing opportunities in regional and small banks -- let's call them "the small and the scrupulous." With all the right attributes and none of the baggage of the big boys, are three top candidates to consider:
KeyCorp (KEY)
One of the best regional banks to consider is KeyCorp, which is up 45% year-to-date and delivers a 1.7% dividend yield. Trading at $12.56, new investors can buys shares of the bank at book value and for only 12 times trailing earnings. Over the past six months, there have been four separate instances of insiders buying, and those trades are now paying off handsomely.
KeyCorp has greatly improved in loan growth and loan quality, and are likely to funnel their increasing profits through to shareholders in the form of dividend increases and share buybacks for many years to come.
Firstbank Corp. (FBMI)
Another small bank with big potential is Firstbank Corp., up 88% year-to-date and a decent 1.20% yield. Net income for the third quarter 2013 rose 5.7% from $2.89 million from $2.7 million a year ago. Diluted earnings per share were $0.35 in the third quarter of 2013 compared to $0.31 in the third quarter of 2012.
This $155 million market-cap stock operates 53 branch offices in central Michigan. Firstbank provides commercial banking products and services, including traditional deposit accounts and loans tailored to meet the needs of its business customers. FBMI also offers trust, security brokerage and title insurance services. This stock remains a strong buy at its current $19.51 price.
Park National Corp. (PRK)
Shares of Park National Corp. of Newark, Ohio, have returned close to 25% year-to-date and the stock delivers a whopping 4.70% dividend yield. The company had $6.6 billion in total assets as of Sept. 30 and reported third-quarter net income of $20 million, or $1.30 a share, compared to $20.7 million, or $1.34 a share, the previous quarter, and $18.9 million, or $1.10 a share, a year earlier.
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"not me I've made over 30% interest investing in banks in the last year alone. So you guys stay out there bitchin about the banks and I'll stay right where I am."
Never ONCE thinking to yourself... hmm, we have NO economy and we have utter failure throughout the financial sector- the SOLE reason the Federal Reserve maintains Quantitative Easing- a program that dilutes our currency so banks can't HELP but to keep failing... and I made 30% off it. Maybe just maybe something REALLY WRONG is going on... and I shouldn't feed the problem, I should abstain and help cultivate a solution. Aiding and Abetting is as bad as being the perpetrator... traitor.
Another worthless article. Over $100 BILLION in bank fines so far, more coming. $700 TRILLION in derivatives outstanding. Without Ben's $85 BILLION in monthly blow money, banks would be gone. If you are thinking of investing any way, because your brain doesn't actually do any real thinking... take into consideration that EVERY mortgage written over the past 5 years is too low-rated to service. The truth is- in 5 to 8 years, mortgages will COST the bank to service. Banks literally are on Death Row.
"V-L you can't be buying a home or paying on a credit card, banks are still making money, you sound like just another Shorter out to drive down bank stocks."
Or... my career was built around private money and making credit that actually performed. You don't grasp what's wrong here... we don't need banks, we don't need the Federal Reserve funding banks that cry for help and get bailed every 10 years. We don't need or want the Gramm Leach Bliley Act, we DO need the Glass Steagall Act restored. No bank should exceed it's headquartered state's boundaries. A separate entity (a REAL Clearing House with humans not automated practices) and regulation that is geared to keeping regular people moving along without fear of what banks are doing behind our backs and in Boardrooms- is critical. They have to go, they are anti-American and cancer.
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You step into the cell. It's pitch black but you close your eyes anyway, spin around. Squeeze eyelids hard until colored lights appear. A gravelly voice in your ear tells you prisoners on Alcatraz in solitary confinement used to do this as entertainment, madness-laced concentration forming TV-like images and trips outside reality. The mechanics of visiting Alcatraz by night are little different to by day, though approaching the island as the light fades adds an extra menacing, horror film touch to the environment. The compulsory audio tour—narrated by former prison guards and inmates—is prescriptive yet fascinating, as you are ordered down cage-lined corridors, regaled with tales of riots and escape attempts, and startled by cell door clangings, shouts, and once even the sucking thud of a stabbing. Atmospheric, informative, and often poignant, when the tour ends in the excessively cheesy gift shop, you are glad to escape the island prison yourself.


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Hi, I'm Jaden, a professional recipe developer, food columnist and food photographer specializing in fast, fresh and easy recipes for the home cook. Most of my recipes are modern Asian! About meFast, fresh & easy recipes for the home cook.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
My Wonton Noodle Soup is a finalist at the Whole Foods Budget Recipe Challenge! Can you believe it?
Need your help, please. There are 6 finalists and the winner is decided by votes! And because I'm up against blog-friends, Karina, Rachel and Katy. They are all really pretty, super-talented and I love them dearly.
I'm going to play dirty….real dirty.
I'm gonna throw out all I've got, baby.
By voting (which is done by commenting) you get a chance to win $500 from Whole Foods.
Here. Let me pimp out my kids again:
Andrew and Nathan helped me make the wontons.
Awwww…aren't they cute? NOW GO VOTE FOR ME!
Wonton Noodle Soup only costs $2.98 per serving. Like, way cheaper than a Double Cheeseburger Meal Deal.
Ok, so that first bribe really wasn't from me. You are entered into the $500 drawing no matter who you vote for and the money comes from Whole Foods! hehehe.
So, here's the bribe. If I win (and I can only win IF YOU VOTE FOR ME!) I get TEN $25 Whole Foods gift certificates. I will give NINE of them away to random voters on Whole Food's site.
Oh, what happened to the TENTH gift certificate? I've already promised the boys $25 worth of jelly beans if they told their teachers to vote for me.
Um. No.
But please, purty pullleeeeeze come vote for the Wonton Noodle Soup recipe? You'll have to register to vote and voting is simply done by commenting on the recipe at Whole Food's site. You'll automatically be entered to win the $500 Whole Food Prize plus my NINE $25 gift certificates.
(photo from Whole Foods when they tested my recipe)
Dude. What the hell are you still doing here? GO VOTE FOR ME ALREADY!
That soup looks amazing – I will definitely vote for you!
Good luck!
I read your blog all the time and have made many of yoru recipies. LOVE Asian cuisine. My 2 daughters are Chinese born and it's our fave! Was very happy to vote…and we ARE making this for dinner tonight! Yeah!
hi jaden, can i vote more than once? lol… love your boys… love your recipes… love your site… keep up and cheers to you!!!
Delicious and gorgeous soup – for the right price. I just voted for you. Good luck!
Voted! Nice work on getting everyone to vote. You definitely get an A+ for effort.
The best of luck!
you definitely have the best looking recipe!
I voted! Good luck!
Has anyone noticed besides myself that it looks like Whole Foods overcooked the wontons in the soup?
Also, I think your food photography far outshines theirs. Your soup looks much more appetizing and fresh. Theirs looks a bit chilly.
I voted ! I love your blog and recipes!
Wish you all the best!
girl, you are too funny for pimping out your kids. they are so adorable, though… we know we can't resist them. hahaha!
i miss shopping at Fresh Fields, aka, Whole Foods Market. the organic stores here in Germany are few and far in-between. i guess, i'll just have to wait til we visit the US.
by the way, i forwarded this link to my friends in the US so they can vote for you. good luck!
I voted for you! Good luck and great job as always!
Done! Logged in and voted! This looks amazing delicious and I like it that it is budget friendly too.
Ha! Your pic is much better than Whole Food's pic. Don't you love that?? I have been wanting to make this recipe ever since I saw your initial post on it so OF COURSE I will be voting for you Good luck buddy.
Well, if your entry doesn't walk away a winner, I'm gonna pout, big time.
No bribes required on this one, Jaden!
Your recipe is clearly the Best so I congratulate You in advance and hope My vote puts you WAAAY over the top!
Best recipe, best photos, made to win!
You got my vote!
Just voted. Hope you win!
Done. Good luck!
Voted!! Good luck
Woohoo! I voted! I just subscribed to your blog….everything looks so yummy! I'm trying to learn more simple asian dishes to please my husband…and his mother!
I voted even though it was tough since I'm fans of a number of the other finalists… but your wonton recipe is essentially like the one I use to make mine!
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Sounds good. I'll try this out.
A great recipe – simple and cheap . Best Wishes !!
I voted! Hope it helps.
Hi Jaden! I'm new to your site but have no idea how I got here. I printed out a bunch of recipes last week and this was the first one I tried. It was delicious and easy to put together with the frozen wontons I made yesterday. Basically, it was done two minutes after the broth boiled. I've never made wontons before and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be – very therapeutic too. I voted for you because the recipe was great and also, my son has the same ZOOM! shirt.
Done! I voted. All the best. I liked your recipe best.
I voted for you, it looks wonderful! Saw you on PW.
Done and done. Hope you win!
Does it seem like all asian women marry white guys now? Is there something wrong with asian guys? Small equipment maybe or just ugly.
WTF kinda statement is that Janet? Go crawl back under the rock you came out of.
I second the DUMBASS.
Voting for you right after i leave a comment. Way to go pimping those cute, cute kids. That got my vote since my grandkids cook on my website. Soup looks amazing too.
Hey Janet – once you get done with being a racist asshole, you might want to try and wipe the orangutan crap off your head and get a life. You sound bitter. Sour grapes bitter. My guess is you don't have a man. No one wants to marry you? Gee i wonder why. Maybe you do have a husband and he has really small equipment.
Ok Jaden – off to vote You can delete this if it you want, i just needed to say something.
I voted for you, Jaden! Who doesn't love a good wonton soup? Yay!
Hey Janet, why don't you get a clue and a life? Asian women can do what they want and for the record – Asian men are AWESOME. Go screw yourself, you bloody wanker!
Are you serious? Are you in the same century as we are?
Let's get back to the point!
Try the recipe, if you like it, vote! It will cost you almost nothing, and you may gain some fans as well
WTF! Damn! I walked into a frick'n war zone here …… Anyhow, we voted for you on the Wholefoods site – YIPPY! Love wonton soup!
And Hey, Janet …. it is not about the size of the gift, it is how you use it – dynamite comes in small packages after all and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. GET OVER IT! GET A LIFE! This is America, land of freedom and opportunities … you can marry anyone you want, even a girl … boo on you!
Looks great…making it this weekend. Yes, this weekend a German-American woman will make it for her Filipino-American husband. Crazy woman, that Janet…you just can't ignore her even if you know you should.
I really could have gone for someone to do the ironing, too. Bummer. This looks great- I voted for you, and I hope you win. It's on my list of things I'd like to make soon.
Congrats on being a finalist! So exciting and well deserved! I shall vote for you now
Hmmmm, how many different aliases and email addresses can I come up with?????
Jaden is made of AWESOME SAUCE. Haters to the left please. <—
no fair, your photo looks better than the whole foods'! i'm voting for you!
This picture is making me hungry. Congratulations and yes, I voted for you.
ooooh! It was tasty – I voted!
I have to say, the other recipe titles just didn't sound that appealing. Chili may be economical, but it doesn't seem groundbreaking or competitive!
You definitely get my vote.