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America's decline and the assault on women's freedom and the environment
April 18, 2011 by Peter · Leave a Comment
The right's target list speaks volumes: from public broadcasters and scientists to health providers, unions, academics and women. Nothing drives the right into greater paroxysms of rage than NPR and Planned Parenthood, climate scientists and teachers unions.
How destructive is the assault on these institutions?
Start with Fareed Zakaria's TIME article about America's decline:
The following rankings come from various lists, but they all tell the same story. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), our 15-year-olds rank 17th in the world in science and 25th in math. We rank 12th among developed countries in college graduation (down from No. 1 for decades). We come in 79th in elementary-school enrollment. Our infrastructure is ranked 23rd in the world, well behind that of every other major advanced economy. American health numbers are stunning for a rich country: based on studies by the OECD and the World Health Organization, we're 27th in life expectancy, 18th in diabetes and first in obesity. Only a few decades ago, the U.S. stood tall in such rankings. No more. There are some areas in which we are still clearly No. 1, but they're not ones we usually brag about. We have the most guns. We have the most crime among rich countries. And, of course, we have by far the largest amount of debt in the world.
Not to mention staggering stats like this, from the LA Times:
One in five Californians struggled to afford enough food for themselves and their families last year, according to a new report by the Food Research and Action Center. The rate in California was slightly higher than the national average of 18%.
The American right is fiercely wedded to the notion of American exceptionalism, but there's nothing exceptional about undermining women's rights. Nor is there anything exceptional about blithely ignoring the scientific consensus that we're endangering humanity's future by ravaging the environment.
From women's rights to climate change and a host of other issues, the right is setting America back. I wrote about it in a recent post, comparing America's decline with the uprisings in the Mideast and North Africa:
The contrast between events in the Middle East and the political reality here in America is striking: as the people of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and elsewhere rise by the millions to protest injustice, and as governments from Jordan to Syria see the writing on the wall, the United States gives power to a political movement bent on reversing generations of progress.
The GOP and Tea Party, drifting ever rightward, want to strip away health coverage, undermine faith in science, deny the overwhelming consensus on the mortal threat of climate change, give tax breaks to the rich, increase record wealth disparities, abolish women's reproductive rights, defund public radio, gut gun laws, curtail gay rights, inject religion into government, and much more.
Targeting scientists, academics, public broadcasters, unions, health care providers and women, among others, they willfully misinterpret the Constitution to make specious arguments in favor of reactionary policies and are whipped into a frenzy by millionaire radio and TV blatherers, whose sole mission is to demonize liberals and liberalism — to the point of inciting violence against them.
Democratic leaders, obsessed with wooing "independent" voters, and captives of a toxic Beltway mindset, barely make a stand in the face of this all-out assault. If we fail to see the irony of a Mideast marching into the future while America races into the past, we will pay the price.
It's the seemingly little things:
Okay, so it's not exactly earth-shattering green political news — but it's still indicative of the new anti-environment attitude that's swept into the US House of Representatives. Four years after our nation's esteemed governing body decided to stop using one of the most destructive, ungreen materials in existence, our lawmakers have decided it's time to cancel the program that supported biodegradable packaging, and to bring Styrofoam back.
To the big things:
"We're broke! We're broke!" Speaker John Boehner said on Sunday. "We're broke in this state," Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin said a few days ago. "New Jersey's broke," Gov. Chris Christie has said repeatedly. The United States faces a "looming bankruptcy," Charles Koch, the billionaire industrialist, wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. It's all obfuscating nonsense, of course, a scare tactic employed for political ends. … a substantial part was caused by deliberate decisions by state and federal lawmakers to drain government of resources by handing out huge tax cuts, mostly to the rich. As governments begin to stagger from the self-induced hemorrhaging, Republican politicians like Mr. Boehner and Mr. Walker cry poverty and use it as an excuse to break unions and kill programs they never liked in flush years.
No matter the issue, the right's reactionary positions are undermining generations of progress. The most egregious example is the shameless attack on women's rights:
Using small-government, libertarian rhetoric, the Tea Party ushered in a new crop of Republican leaders under the banner of fiscal responsibility. But the aggressive antichoice legislation coming from the new GOP majority in the House makes perfectly clear that belt-tightening deficit reduction is entirely compatible with an older social agenda committed to pushing American women out of the public sphere.
These initiatives are well coordinated and poised to make an enormous impact on women's lives. House Republicans, joined by ten Democrats, passed Mike Pence's bill to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which in addition to pregnancy termination provides basic reproductive healthcare, STD testing, birth control and cancer screenings to millions of American women. The Republican Party has also proposed eliminating more than $1 billion from Head Start's budget. As a result, 157,000 children may go without preschool care.
Meanwhile, the South Dakota legislature has considered a bill justifying homicide in the case of imminent harm to a fetus, a law that critics believe may in effect legalize the murder of abortion providers. Republicans in Arizona have proposed different birth certificates for children born to women who are not US citizens in order to nullify the birthright citizenship established by the Fourteenth Amendment. And Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is poised to eliminate most of the collective bargaining rights of public employees, including nurses, teachers and other pink-collar workers who are disproportionately women.
Put simply, America can't be 'number one' as long as the right chooses to undermine the very entities that make it what it is.
UPDATE: Bob Herbert's farewell column for the New York Times is a devastating look at America's skewed priorities:
The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely. Nearly 14 million Americans are jobless and the outlook for many of them is grim. Since there is just one job available for every five individuals looking for work, four of the five are out of luck. Instead of a land of opportunity, the U.S. is increasingly becoming a place of limited expectations.
…The current maldistribution of wealth is also scandalous. In 2009, the richest 5 percent claimed 63.5 percent of the nation's wealth. The overwhelming majority, the bottom 80 percent, collectively held just 12.8 percent. This inequality, in which an enormous segment of the population struggles while the fortunate few ride the gravy train, is a world-class recipe for social unrest. Downward mobility is an ever-shortening fuse leading to profound consequences.
A stark example of the fundamental unfairness that is now so widespread was in The New York Times on Friday under the headline: "G.E.'s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether." Despite profits of $14.2 billion — $5.1 billion from its operations in the United States — General Electric did not have to pay any U.S. taxes last year.
…Overwhelming imbalances in wealth and income inevitably result in enormous imbalances of political power. So the corporations and the very wealthy continue to do well. The employment crisis never gets addressed. The wars never end. And nation-building never gets a foothold here at home.
UPDATE II: Fred Hiatt goes after climate deniers:
The Republican self-deception that draws the most attention is the refusal to believe that Barack Obama is American-born. But there are Republican doctrinal fantasies that may be more dangerous: the conviction that taxes can always go down, but never up, for example, and the gathering consensus among Republican leaders that human-caused climate change does not exist.
The climate change denialism is a newer part of the catechism. Just a few years ago, leading Republicans — John McCain, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty among them — not only accepted global warming as real but supported some kind of market-based mechanism to raise the cost of burning fossil fuels. Now polls show declining numbers of Republicans believing in climate change, and a minority of those believing humans are at fault, so the candidates are scrambling to disavow their past positions.
And the New York Times describes the GOP's eagerness to ravage the environment:
In the past month, the nation's focus has been on the budget battle in Washington, where Republicans in Congress aligned with the Tea Party have fought hard for rollbacks to the Environmental Protection Agency, clean air and water regulations, renewable energy and other conservation programs.
But similar efforts to make historically large cuts to environmental programs are also in play at the state level as legislatures and governors take aim at conservation and regulations they see as too burdensome to business interests.
When Republicans wrested control across the country last November, they made clear that reducing all government was important, but that cutting environmental regulations was a particular priority.
UPDATE III: Check out these numbers:
It's almost an unbelievable figure — 916. That's the amount of legislations that have been introduced so far this year, in an attempt to regulate a woman's reproductive system, and we're only in April.
This information comes from a report by The Guttmacher Institute, and it finds that 49 states have contributed to this number with various bills geared towards regulating Abortions and a woman's right to choose. The report states that in 15 states, the following measures became law:
- expand the pre-abortion waiting period requirement in South Dakota to make it more onerous than that in any other state, by extending the time from 24 hours to 72 hours and requiring women to obtain counseling from a crisis pregnancy center in the interim;
- expand the abortion counseling requirement in South Dakota to mandate that counseling be provided in-person by the physician who will perform the abortion and that counseling include information published after 1972 on all the risk factors related to abortion complications, even if the data are scientifically flawed;
- require the health departments in Utah and Virginia to develop new regulations governing abortion clinics;
- revise the Utah abortion refusal clause to allow any hospital employee to refuse to "participate in any way" in an abortion;
- limit abortion coverage in all private health plans in Utah, including plans that will be offered in the state's health exchange; and
- revise the Mississippi sex education law to require all school districts to provide abstinence-only sex education while permitting discussion of contraception only with prior approval from the state.
The GOP's super-duper-spectacular-magical-mysterious bargaining power
December 7, 2010 by Peter · Leave a Comment
Riddle me this: how do you win a political showdown when your sole objective is to give money to the mega-rich?
True, President Obama extracted a few concessions, and two people I respect, Paul Krugman and Ezra Klein, argue that the Bush tax cut deal is less onerous than what they feared it would be.
But here's what Obama and Democrats ended up with: the appearance (and reality) of crumbling on a matter of core principle. That is far more damaging in the long run than any marginal benefits of the deal. It further weakens Democrats and undermines the progressive cause. And that hurts America.
Obama and his advisers are in the habit of looking to past presidents for guidance. The days of Lincoln and FDR are long gone, but recent presidents like Reagan, Carter, Clinton and Bush still offer a roadmap of what – and what not – to do.
One admonition from President Clinton seems particularly apt for Obama's predicament:
"When people are insecure, they'd rather have someone strong and wrong, rather than weak and right."
This is a truism and George W. Bush banked it for six years until New Orleans drowned and the reality of his policies finally collided with his studiously cultivated image of strength and resolve.
Amazingly, Obama and Democrats have the opportunity to be strong and right, yet refuse to do so.
This is a time of great insecurity and fear, a time of confusion where millionaire media moguls feed think-tank crafted soundbites to a believing public. In this atmosphere, a premium is placed on strength and principle, not on faux-compromise.
It matters very little whether Barack Obama is a pragmatist, a multi-dimensional chess player, an inept Democrat, a Blue Dog, a centrist Lieberman protege, or a closet Republican. Good luck trying to read his mind.
All that matters from a political perspective is that he and his once-vaunted team have misread the public mood for two demoralizing years and hobbled the progressive cause in the process. They are clearly misreading it again.
I've said it before and I'll repeat it: If you stand up for your principles, you may lose an election but keep your principles; if you ditch your principles, you'll lose both.
I don't agree with everything Bill Maher says here, but his take is instructive:
Charlie Cook's message to Republicans: "People don't like you, you're not victors"
October 27, 2010 by Peter · Leave a Comment
Cook predicts the House will flip but his message to the GOP is blunt: "This is an unearned win. You're not victors. People don't like you and they don't like what you did the last decade… but it's not about you."
The great rightwing resurgence: right or wrong, Republicans project strength, Democrats project weakness
September 7, 2010 by Peter · Leave a Comment
With polls signaling peril for Democrats, identifying the cause of President Obama's travails and the demise of 'hope and change' is a Washington sport. Some attribute it to the lifeless economy, others to Obama's supposed (excessive) liberalism, and yet others to the prioritization of health insurance reform in the administration's first year.
It's really much more basic. Set aside policy and focus on sheer perception, who do you associate with strength, George W. Bush or Barack Obama? Republicans or Democrats? I'd bet good money that on both questions, many on the left would pick the former.
Bush's bluster, born of narrow-mindedness and jingoism, led America to near ruin. But even if it was an act, transparent and loathsome to his detractors, it left an indelible impression – and I stress "impression" – of a resolute man with the courage of his convictions, no matter how terribly wrong-headed those convictions. By contrast, Barack Obama and most Democratic officials are chronically unwilling to speak in moral absolutes, to frame Democratic policies in the language of right and wrong, to project an unshakeable faith in core ideals. And far too often, the reluctance to speak with moral courage is coupled with a failure to act.
This has been the essence of the progressive critique from day one, on gay rights, civil liberties, secrecy, the environment, the economy, health care, executive power, war.
It's baffling that pundits still don't get it. We hear endless tea leaf (and Tea Party) reading, endless poll analysis, endless pontification about Obama's ideology or lack thereof. He's too liberal, he's not liberal enough, he's overly pragmatic, he's a conservative, a socialist, a corporatist, he's achieved more than any president in history, he's presided over the biggest government takeover in history. Who cares? In the end, you either project strength or weakness. You have moral courage or you don't.
Cheney and Bush knew one thing: from a strictly political – and cynical – perspective, pretend moral conviction is better than none at all. At the very least, it telegraphs to voters that you care deeply about something, anything. Enough to take a stand for it, to portray your opponent as unethical for opposing it.
In the best of worlds, Democrats would believe in something good and fight tooth and nail for it. Their moral compass would be true, pointing in the direction of justice, fairness, equality. Progressive ideals would guide them and they'd present America with a consistent, cohesive, powerful and inspiring worldview. Candidate Obama tapped into the force of that combination. President Obama can't seem to do it.
Democratic weakness, real or perceived, is a self-inflicted function of the inability to project moral authority, even in cases where they possess the unequivocal high ground. Religious liberty. Torture. A war based on lies.
Barney Frank explains the root cause:
President Barack Obama is afraid of acting in a way that would spur voters to view him as weak on defense, a top Democrat charged Wednesday. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the president was "intimidated" by certain issues, particularly an effort by Frank and a few other lawmakers in both parties to rein in defense spending. "It's the one area where I'm disappointed in the president," Frank said Tuesday evening during an appearance on MSNBC. "I think he gets intimidated by this notion of, 'Oh, you'll look weak on defense.' "
This is a perennial problem. In many ways, the progressive blogosphere was created to fill the vacuum left by the persistent image (and reality) of Democratic weakness, to convey the truth that militarism is not the only definition of strength, that moral might trumps material might. By nature, online progressives are confrontational activists, loyal to causes, not people. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there are no netroots darlings. Anyone who crosses the community on a matter of principle faces a similar backlash. Witness Howard Dean's dressing down over his mosque position.
Progressive bloggers exert an enduring and outsized influence on the public discourse because they project strength. With few partners in the Democratic leadership, their impact on policy is proportionally small, but they are despised by the political and media establishments precisely because they ferociously stand their ground on core values. It's why they are an indispensable counterweight to the rampaging right.
It would be unfair and silly to portray all Democrat politicians as devoid of moral convictions, but it's not inaccurate to state that there is a widespread phobia among Democrats of appearing "weak," which paradoxically leads to behavior that further reinforces that impression. When you fret too much over what others think, you tend to contort yourself in an attempt to please, often at the expense of your core beliefs. When the specific complaint is that you're weak, there is a tendency is to do whatever your critics characterize as strong – and in the case of Democrats, they tend to ignore the strength of their own values and emulate Republicans, ending up looking even weaker in the process.
The only way to break the cycle and to project strength is to go back to basics, to look inside, to find the core principles that power a life of public service and to be relentless in pursuit of those principles. Moral authority is a prerequisite to genuine, enlightened leadership. Why do you think Glenn Beck wants to co-opt Martin Luther King Jr.? Democrats have the ideas and the ideals, they just need the courage of their convictions.
Facing an energized and unscrupulous right, Obama brings a water gun to an artillery battle
August 30, 2010 by Peter · 4 Comments
Two things are crystal clear from President Obama's lengthy sit-down with NBC's Brian Williams:
- He is a decent, thoughtful, intelligent man, trying to do the best he can for his country under extremely challenging circumstances.
- He is completely outgunned by the rightwing attack machine.
Watch the interview and ask yourself what's missing from the president's responses:
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On substance, President Obama makes several critical points, among them that the spilled Gulf oil is "still out there" and that he stands firm in support of the Ground Zero mosque. He is realistic about the economy and he gets an excellent quip in, saying that he can't spend all his time with his "brith certificate plastered to his forehead."
Still, you can't help notice the glaring lack of offense, the cautious answers, the muted tone, the inability to channel the profound alarm and financial pain Americans are feeling. There's fire on the right, there's no fire being expressed by Obama. There's no blasting of Wall Street, no outrage at BP and oil companies, no fury at the lies and obfuscations of the GOP, no grand unified vision of what Democrats stand for and why they deserve to run the country.
I've argued that the GOP aims for the total destruction of Obama's presidency. Charles Lemos puts it in stark terms:
Nothing else will satisfy the GOP's lust for power than the wanton destruction of Obama's Presidency. From day one, this has been their game plan, obstruct, rant and rave, delay, obstruct some more, rant and rave, delay, repeat as necessary as to make the nation look ungovernable and the Administration as pathetic and dangerous if not criminal. Throw enough mud, maybe some will stick. And if nothing's there, invent something.
Posture is everything in politics. The White House and leading Democrats are in a defensive crouch. Much of it is their own doing. Elected to be the anti-Bush, they've given Bush and his team a pass on Iraq lies and outflanked Bush from the right on civil liberties and executive power. Given an opportunity to turn the Gulf spill into a historic inflection point, they raced to bury the story, outdoing BP in the rosy spin department. Passing major bills, they neglected to frame them as part of a progressive vision for America, allowing their opponents to frame everything they do as a socialist takeover.
In this interview, Obama mocks the "silly season" and shrugs off Glenn Beck's outrageous legacy theft of Martin Luther King, Jr. but there's nothing silly about what the GOP and rightwing attack machine are doing. They are dominating the national debate. They are brazenly and unscrupulously pushing the envelope further right than anyone imagined. They are doing Orwell proud, denying climate change in the face of obvious warming, pushing for more drilling in the face of an epic spill, drumming up anti-Muslim sentiment, angling for more bailouts for the rich, stealing legacies, and claiming feminism as their own. They are "taking back their country" and returning it to the 19th century.
And worst of all, the only force on the left with the passion and experience to take them on, the netroots, are systematically being demoralized and marginalized by the White House.
So even though I respect and admire the Obama I see in Brian Williams' interview, appreciate his honesty and integrity, I know in my heart he is bringing a water gun to an artillery battle. With an opponent who takes no prisoners.
The GOP aims for total destruction of Obama's presidency, including impeachment
August 27, 2010 by Peter · Leave a Comment
Sometimes it's helpful to state the obvious: Republicans play hardball. Brazen hardball. Unscrupulous hardball. Yes, it's couched in well-crafted soundbites about fighting "big government" and "judicial activism" and promoting "fiscal responsibility." But in essence, it's about no-prisoners political warfare. And when there's a Democrat in the White House, it means total destruction of that presidency.
Of course, the campaign of destruction will be justified as being "for the good of the country."
Impeachment is still working its way from the fringes, but it will inevitability move to the mainstream if Democrats lose the House. And read this Politico story for a sense of how November and beyond might play out:
If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority.
Everything from the microscopic — the New Black Panther party — to the massive –- think bailouts — is on the GOP to-do list, according to a half-dozen Republican aides interviewed by POLITICO.
Republican staffers say there won't be any self-destructive witch hunts, but they clearly are relishing the prospect of extracting information from an administration that touts transparency.
UPDATE: At MyDD, Charles Lemos expands on the story:
Nothing else will satisfy the GOP's lust for power than the wanton destruction of Obama's Presidency. From day one, this has been their game plan, obstruct, rant and rave, delay, obstruct some more, rant and rave, delay, repeat as necessary as to make the nation look ungovernable and the Administration as pathetic and dangerous if not criminal. Throw enough mud, maybe some will stick. And if nothing's there, invent something.
Starring in the role of chief inquisitor is California's Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Issa, we are told, would like Obama's cooperation. But it's not essential.
"How acrimonious things get really depend on how willing the administration is in accepting our findings [and] responding to our questions," says Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for Rep. Issa who refers to his boss as "questioner-in-chief."
If this sounds like a re-run to you, it is. Issa will be reprising the role once played by Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana during the Clinton years. Also starring in a supporting role is Texas Rep. Lamar Smith.


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I hope that everyone had an great weekend. We spent the weekend with some wonderful friends. My husband's college roommate and his wife was in town. We hadn't seen them in over 3 years, so it was great to spend 2 full days with them. We ate way too much food, but it was worth it. Today they leave, and another friend shows up for a visit. It is a jam packed week! This afternoon we also get to go meet the teacher day at school. I can't believe I am going to have a 4th grader tomorrow. Time is just going by way too fast!
Walnut Chocolate Chip Protein Bars
Chicken Caesar Salad
I think that once summer comes, even the most meat eating man out there, is ok with a salad every once in awhile. Especially if it means they get to fire up the grill to cook the meat for the salad. For my husband, the only reason he will eat a salad is because of the dressing. If it were socially acceptable, he would probably just drink the salad dressing, or maybe he would use a spoon :) But seeing as how that is frowned upon, he will suffer through some lettuce in order to get the dressing. His favorite dressing ever…..Caesar. Followed closely by Thousand Island.
Pan Charred Asparagus with Toasted Walnuts
I hope that everyone had a great Easter yesterday. We had a good time with family, hunting for eggs, and enjoying some great food. We went to our neighborhood egg hunt, and my 8 year old had lots of fun. He got to hang out with a couple of his friends, and score more candy. I tried to avoid putting tons of candy in his Easter basket this year, so he made up for it at the Easter egg hunt. Now to get my butt in gear with birthday planning, because my 8 year old turns 9 on Friday.
Steak Pizzaiola Open Face Sandwiches
I managed to catch my son's cold. Usually I am the one in the family who can fight off a cold, or get a mild version of it. Not this time! My 8 year old was sick for a day and a half. I am on day 3, and still lacking energy. Thankfully my husband has helped out with dinner the last couple nights, so I could just relax. I am ready to start feeling better and have more energy though, because I have some baking and dinner ideas I want to try!
Chicken Enchilada Chili
Happy New Year! It is 2012 and I am another year older. I was very happy that the 1st fell on a Sunday this year. Usually my birthday is spent with the guys in my life glued to the TV watching college bowl game, after college bowl game. Instead, this year we got to go up into the mountains and enjoy a nice hike. It was a beautiful day up there!
After more than a week of eating cookies, and candy, and way too much food I am ready to cut back! I am looking forward to healthy meals and vegetables. This chili is a perfect low calorie dinner. It is hearty, and comforting, but still light and delicious. I found a version of this years ago in a Betty Crocker flier, but have adapted it to make it healthier. It comes together in minutes, which means you can have chili on Wednesday!
Come join SoupaPalooza at TidyMom and Dine and Dish sponsored by KitchenAid, Red Star Yeast and Le Creuset
Pumpkin Pie Cups with Eat Yourself Skinny
The movers finally delivered our stuff!! I spent the ENTIRE day unpacking, and it really doesn't look like I did very much. We did manage to clear out the garage so we can park both cars in there, that is huge! My Kitchen Aid is unpacked and all set up :) Everything else is still a complete mess. I think it will take at least a week to get everything set up.
Since I have yet to cook much in the last week, today I bring you Kelly from Eat Yourself Skinny. Kelly has a great site offering tasty healthy recipes. Plus gorgeous pictures! Make sure you go visit her and tell her I said Hi!
Creamy Avocado Pasta
I think I found a new favorite pasta recipe! I saw this mentioned somewhere, and was intrigued. I had to think about it for awhile though, I was a little nervous. I mean, I LOVE avocado's, but the idea of that as my pasta sauce made me a little nervous. What would it taste like? Would I like it? Would my husband actually eat it? Well, it was amazing, and I can't wait to make it again! It was so easy too! You have to boil noodles, but aside from that, no cooking required! And to top it off, it is healthy!!! Use a fortified pasta, and you have protein, fiber, and everything all in one tasty meal!
Creamy Avocado Pasta
Adapted from Oh She Glows
Printable Recipe
1 large Avocado, pitted
1 lime, juiced + zest to garnish
2 cloves, minced
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1/4 cup Fresh Basil
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 servings/6 oz of your choice of pasta
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Cook your pasta according to the package directions.
To make the sauce place the garlic cloves, lime juice, and olive oil into a food processor. Process until smooth. Add in the avocado, basil, and salt. Process until smooth and creamy.
Pour sauce over pasta and toss until fully combined. Garnish with lime zest and black pepper. Enjoy!
Note: Because of the avocado this does not reheat well.

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Hi I was just wondering if anyone could help
I was checking by breasts yesterday and came across a small lump/bud under my nipple around the outside but it's only there if I press down, it's very small but it does hurt slightly when I prod it (I'm not sure if that's because I keep prodding it to see if it's still there) it's making me very paranoid, my other nipple doesn't feel the same as the one with the lump but I'm not sure what they are suppose to feel like- that sounds stupid but I guess I haven't touched any ones but my own! I'm 21 and lost my mum to cancer last year, cancer runs in my family so I don't want to rule myself out of anything, but I'm also to scared, embarrassed and nervous to go to see my doctor.
Hi Jessica,
Just read your post and I'm so sorry that you lost your mum to cancer last year.
Well done for checking your breasts, so many women don't do this regularly.
You say that you're scared and embarrassed about going to see your doctor about the lump that you've found. Maybe you would feel more comfortable making an appointment with a female doctor or the Practice nurse or nurse practioner. It is important that you seek medical advice to get checked out to put your mind at rest.
Take care, Jessica and do post again to let us know how you get on.
Hugs to you, Jo xx
Great advice from Jo - please please get this checked out!!!!! I know you are scared after losing Mum but if she was here I gaurantee she would be marching you down to the GP surgery tomorrow! The chances are that it is something non-serious but PLEASE get this checked out and let us know how you get on. Take care sweetheart xxxx
Dear Jessica,
Thank you for contacting the information nurses on Cancer Chat. I was sorry to learn that your mother died of cancer. I can understand why you have questions to ask about your current health concerns.
It is hard for us to say in an email what is or isn't worrying and I wouldn't want to give you false reassurance. However, there are a number of conditions that are not cancer that can cause lumps in the breast. The area in and around the nipple has a number of ducts and glands that can get enlarged or blocked. In most cases this is harmless and goes away on its own. In a small number of people this can develop into a cyst or abscess. It is not unusual for your breasts to be different in size or in how they feel regardless of your monthly cycle.
Cancer including breast is very rare in someone your age. But it is important for women of all ages to be breast aware and to report any changes in their breasts to their GP. It is always advisable to get a quick breast check done. Your doctor will be able to examine you and advise you further. If they feel this needs further medical assessment, then they may refer you on to a breast specialist at your local breast unit. They may suggest that they might want to examine you again just after your next period, to see if the small lump under your nipple is related to your monthly cycle.
Many people tell us that they are embarrassed to discuss things like this with their GP, but they are used to examining people and will do their best to put you at ease. You could ask to see a male or female GP and you do not have to tell the receptionist why you want an appointment.
I am not sure what cancer(s) has affected your family. Most cancers are not hereditary, this means that they are not linked to a specific gene fault. Only between 5 and 10% of cancers are thought to be caused by an inherited faulty gene. Sometimes there are a number of different types of cancers in a family. Usually these cancers are unrelated and are due to the effects of a combination of risk factors such as age, lifestyle and the environment. There is more information here about genes and inherited cancer risk.
Some very specific gene faults have been identified that significantly increase the risk of certain types of cancer such as breast. These can be passed down from one generation to the next, although even if they are running in a family, not everyone will inherit them. These gene faults only occur in a very few families, but tend to produce a noticeable pattern of cancer in the families who share them, and the cancers are usually diagnosed at a younger age than is usual.
Doctors will usually look at the pattern of cancer in the family to see how strong it is. They look at how many people have been diagnosed with cancer on the same side of the family, the ages they were diagnosed and the types of cancer they had. Generally, a strong family history of cancer is indicated when there are two close relatives on the same side of the family, and who had the same type of cancer or cancers that are known to be caused by inherited faulty genes. The cancers usually develop at a young age.
It may help to discuss your concerns about your family cancer history with your doctor (GP). Family doctors have been given training and guidelines in relation to assessing and advising people with a family history of cancer.
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Red onion
White Mushrooms
White Wine
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Shrimp sometimes seem daunting to cook but they really shouldn't be. It's definitely easy to over cook since they only require a few minutes each side so keep your eye on them!
Shrimp: Before searing the shrimp I dashed them with salt, pepper and red pepper flakes. In a hot pan (coated in olive oil or butter), drop in each shrimp. Each side takes about 90 seconds to 2 minutes. You know they are done as soon as they turn a pink-ish color.
Mushrooms: Chop up mushrooms into small pieces. I cooked them with a shallot and garlic and then deglazed the pan with white wine and let the mushrooms marinate until they soaked up all the goodness.
Place both mushrooms and shrimp on top of a spinach salad and you're done!
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What you'll need:
4 Salmon Fillets
1/2 an Orange
Soyaki Glaze from Trader Joe's
Impress your guests, friends or significant others with this easy dish and it all comes together in under 5 min (prep time)!
To start, place the fillets in a dish (I used a Le Creuset dish: http://www.amazon.com/Le-Creuset-Heritage-Stoneware-1-Quart/dp/B0024NLEZ6).
Generously salt and pepper each fillet.
Pour about 1/4 cup of the Soyaki Glaze (http://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article.asp?article_id=547) over the fillets to just cover the top of the fish.
Thinly slice half an orange and place slices over the top of each fillet.
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fennel and rose chocolate brownies - we should cocoa
i'm thoroughly fed up with not having a kitchen and whilst its lovely that my dear friends and neighbours have offered me to use theirs it's just not the same... it's all happening this week though so we should be in soon enough... i'm just a bit fed up of not being able to do my thing...
these brownies are taken from a brilliant new cookbook by James Ramsden titled Small Adventures in Cooking... well actually it's been released for a while and has been sitting on my bedside table for the past couple of months, much thumbed through but still waiting to be cooked from .... but as you know.... sigh...
... it's a really great book, one of those cookbooks that makes as good a reading as it does recipes... lots of lovely little tips and some nice insights into James' food and cooking know-how... plus of course the recipes are rather special and modern without being too intricate or poncey, which is always nice... including these brilliant brownies. The original recipe called for vanilla essence which i've swapped for rose essence... it's an unusual choice for which you can thank Choclette, not me or James, but with the aniseed flavour coming from the fennel seeds, the rose adds an "Arabian Nights" underscore...
... they are also the very first brownies i've ever made...
... now (sorry, this post is a triple whammy i'm afraid) not content with the we should cocoa challenge or simply reviewing James' fabulous book this post also goes out to Vanessa Kimbell and her inspired idea Random Bakes of Kindness... the idea is to bake double of what you're baking and give the extra away to a randomly chosen person who you feel really deserves it... join the revolution on Vanessa's blog.
... my brownies are going to Tracey, my wonderful neighbour, for no other reason than she's simply a marvellous person, gave me a door key so I could use her kitchen at the drop of a hat... these brownies were baked there today... and I know she'll love them!... these brownies are for you Tracey!
Fennel and Rose Chocolate Brownies
400g unsalted butter, cubed
400g dark chocolate, smashed to pieces
6 eggs
500g caster sugar
1 tbsp rose extract
250g plain flour
2 tsp fennel seeds - roughly crushed
pre-heat the oven to 180C and line a 30cm x 20cm x 5cm baking tray with greased proof paper
- melt the butter and chocolate together in a bowl, either over a pan of boiling water or gently in the microwave, set aside to cool
- beat the eggs and sugar together with the rose extract until light and pale
- whisk the egg mix into the chocolate mix, fold in the flour and crushed fennel seeds and scrape into the baking tray
- bake for 25 - 30 minutes
eat and of course enjoy!
p.s.... don't forget your random recipes you have until the end of the month... i'm going to leave mine till this weekend as i've been PROMISED that my oven will be in!... (probably end up picking a salad knowing my luck!)
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Chris Sheldon's Indian Hill boys golf team is stacked, packed and ready to attack in the Cincinnati Hills League again.
"We have a lot of talent returning," Sheldon said.
The Braves are the defending CHL champs (36-7 overall, 20-3 in the league) and Sheldon is reigning coach of the year.
"Jesse Terbrueggen and Eddie Fink are our top two guys returning from last year," Sheldon said. "Jesse's a senior and Eddie's a junior. Eddie I've coached since he was a freshman and Jesse just made varsity last year. They both were in the 39-40 range for averages."
Terbrueggen was first-team CHL a year ago, while Fink has been selected both years he's played. CHL golfer of the year Robby Pickett is gone, but the Braves are incredibly deep on the links.
"We have three coming back who were lettermen on varsity last year and two played in the district tournament," Sheldon said. "We're pretty excited. These guys are not raw by any means. They've been put to the test on varsity."
Michael Sewell, Zak Verschure and Will Ives are all seniors. Sewell was a second-team CHL selection.
"It's a very veteran squad," Sheldon said.
Sheldon looks to the west for possible threats to Indian Hill's quest for a league title.
"I think Wyoming and Taylor are going to be tough with good, solid squads," Sheldon said. "I think Mariemont, although I don't think they'll be ready to compete with us, will be very improved. They've got a lot of young players coming back."
In his third year coaching at Indian Hill, Sheldon is anxious to get his Braves out on their "dueling" home courses.
"We have two home courses," Sheldon said. "We rotate between Camargo and Losantiville Country Club. Losantiville is very short and narrow. It's actually great to have as a home course. It's one that you, if you haven't played it, it can really trick you up."
The Braves will get an early preview of the course when Indian Hill hosts a preseason event at Losantiville, Monday Aug. 8. Nineteen teams are expected to participate, and tee-off is at 1 p.m.
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The Indian Hill girls, coached by Cynthia Annett, begin the season at Wyoming Aug. 10.
Right away, the Lady Braves have some spots to fill as seniors Anna Closser and McKenna Kornman have elected not to return. However, juniors Samantha Berten and Jackie Trott are back, as well as sophomore Pari Keller.
Keller was voted the team's most valuable player last fall, Berten was most improved and Trott was honored for her sportsmanship. Beyond that, Annett will be coaching new golfers.
"I've got six new players," she said.
Aisha Rajan is one of the newcomers, even though she's a junior.
"It sounds like she's been working really hard," Annett said. "She's got someone she's been working with."
As it stands, the Lady Braves will have three freshman, three sophomores, two juniors and a senior coming over from another sport. Annett figures Wyoming and Mariemont will be among their top competitors on their schedule in addition to Taylor, Loveland and Kings.
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Lately during some support work, a customer raised an interesting case regarding what was referred to as "port reuse". This lead to quite a nice investigation on the effect of the MSL and TIME_WAIT characteristics of TCP. So first we should define these terms and what exactly they mean. Getting an exact definition can be more difficult than expected because the RFC states one thing, but allows vendors the flexibility to change their defaults for better performance. The best I could come up with is…
MSL: Maximum Segment Lifetime.
This is defined quite well in it's wikipedia entry:
"Maximum Segment Lifetime is the time a TCP segment can exist in the internetwork system. It is arbitrarily defined to be 2 minutes long"
This is a valid TCP state. Imagine the scenario
In order to solve the above problem, we have the TIME_WAIT state. TCP requires that the endpoint that initiates an active close of the connection eventually enters TIME_WAIT. Usually TIME_WAIT = 2MSL. In other words:
If a client or server initiates an active close (using FIN packets), then wait for 2MSL before allowing the same socket to be used (i.e. the same IP addresses / TCP port numbers).
You can inherently see why this makes sense and why it should avoid the problem described in the steps above. If all TCP packets must "die" after time period "MSL", then surely waiting for twice that amount of time would mean that no TCP packets from the old connection could possibly still exist on the network. I found a pretty good, if somewhat unclear, diagram over at the University of California webpage:
A couple of points you should notice. As I highlighted in bold before, only the side that actively closes the TCP connection enters into the TIME_WAIT state. You see this illustrated above in the arrow coming from the "ESTABLISHED" state saying "appl:close" which presumably stands for "application is closed", which generates a FIN packet illustrated with the "send: FIN". Which side this will be is highly dependant on the application that is being used. It can either be the server or the client that goes into TIME_WAIT.
All well and good. This solves the problem I illustrated before. But it introduces a new problem: starvation of resources. For example, on a terminal server with very low traffic we already see several TIME_WAIT connections, and keep in mind these connections cannot be used again for 2MSL
So you see where this is going… in very high activity application network nodes such as proxies (Bluecoat) we may end up in a situation where we don't have any more sockets to spare since they are all in the TIME_WAIT state.
The RFC, anticipating (or reacting to) this problem, states:
"When a connection is closed actively, it MUST linger in TIME-WAIT state for a time 2xMSL (Maximum Segment Lifetime). However, it MAY accept a new SYN from the remote TCP to reopen the connection directly from TIME-WAIT state, if it:
(1) assigns its initial sequence number for the new connection to be larger than the largest sequence number it used on the previous connection incarnation, and
(2) returns to TIME-WAIT state if the SYN turns out to be an old duplicate"
Ok, so focusing on point (1). This says, we can reuse the same socket but only if the SYN packet contains a sequence number which is larger than was previously used. Simple to follow… but not when you introduce factors like NAT and non compliant client OS. In most of these cases, the same socket is used (especially in NAT) but the sequence number is not changed… so the upstream server or proxy must reset the connection and you get dropped connections and lots of moaning from users.
The obvious answer would be to ensure everyone uses this sequence number which is higher than previously used. Easily said than done. The sheer variety of connections / clients / applications / proxies that necessarily need to communicate means you cannot easily keep track of what sequence numbers were used and so on. Especially considering high-traffic networks can have connections numbering in the millions, and the 2MSL time period means all sequence numbers must be recorded for 4 minutes. That would be an architectural headache for any node that tries to do this.
Instead, the RFC makes a liberal statement and says that vendors are allowed to reduce the 2MSL period so that TIME_WAIT states will last a shorter amount of time so the ports can be reused. This makes it easier to work with. Let's say we now have two network nodes (these could be a client / server pair, or two forwarding proxies, or what have you… any two nodes that terminate connections). Let's also say that you have a well-designed and well-behaved network in which you rarely see any fragmented or late packets… so the problem I described in those previous 6 steps are of little concern to you. Let's finally say that you have a high volume network which presents you with the TIME_WAIT resource starvation I just described above. We're getting close to an ideal situation where shortening the 2MSL timeout on one side of the connection is a valid solution.
Where we hit a snag… it's not always that easy to determine on which node to apply the 2MSL reduction. Ideally, one should observe which sockets are being reset due to port reuse, track which applications generate these sockets, and see under normal operation which side of the connection should initiate a TCP connection FIN. In practice, there rarely is the time or will do all this. It's should be easy to spot which side is resetting the connections.
For example. Let's say that like my situation you have two BlueCoat proxies. One is forwarding connections to the other. So we have a downstream proxy sending connections to the upstream proxy. Using a PCAP we observe that the upstream proxy is sending all the RST packets because the downstream proxy is re-using the sockets. While it's not exact, we can assume to a certain degree that if we:
Combined, the above two steps should ensure that even if we dont know which side starts the FIN closure, we can say that probably the downstream will not use the same ports in a longish time, and the upstream will free up the ports for use after a shortish time.
Let me know if you ever ran into this situation and if the above makes sense :)
Hi Dvas,
I support a website (Apologies, can't reveal the name) where I have encountered this problem. The apache and the back-end Java application server (Weblogic) both run on Redhat EL 5. For now, assume that I start the Apache process that has two threads (thread1 and 2) and they both connect to the Weblogic for server Java pages.
Occasionally, I have seen a scenario where the thread1 has just closed a connection to the Weblogic back-end and this socket hangs around for 1 minute. But the threas2 before the 1 min period re-uses the same socket and then the next thing we see is a TCP reset from the Weblogic server.
On Solaris, I can change the value of tcp_time_wait_interval but on Linux, I don't see an equivalent TCP parameter. There is a tcp_fin_timeout parameter but that is theoretically for setting FIN_WAIT_2 period. In your experience, do you think reducing tcp_fin_timout to 30 seconds will help? I can change the MSL timeout period but that would involve re-compiling the kernel. A no-go area. To resolve this problem, one of the options I can think of is increase the tcp port range tp use a much wider range. At present I use from 32768 to 61000. Perhaps I can change it to 1024 to 61000.
Can you think of any other setting or solution to reduce the TIME_WAIT on Linux?
thanks for your help
Thanks for the excellent explanation. Although I didn't run into this exact situation, your explanation helped me greatly.
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We did run into the situation. I am glad to find this article. It helped me understand the scenario a lot better
Perfect explanation!
I had a problem with TIME_WAIT in my environment and the only solution that I've found was enabling reuse of tcp connections, using the linux command:
echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_reuse
But I didn't understand why we have to explicitly enable the reuse of connections and why the TIME_WAIT takes too long. Your article explained perfectly these issues and gave me more options for better setting.
Thank you!
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Why not rebuild the kernel changing the TIME_WAIT_LEN to 1 – thats the more stable way!


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Join us for the first CFP Board Women's Initiative (WIN) Advocates webinar on September 12 at 2 pm (EDT). Marilyn Mohrman-Gillis, Managing Director of Public Policy and Communications at CFP Board, and I will discuss the important role of WIN Advocates, and the WIN toolbox you can use to educate your communities about the need for more women CFP® professionals. Register
The Case for More Women CFP® Professionals
Making more room for women in financial planning is not simply an issue of justice or fairness – it may be essential for improving a firm's profitability and success in the 21st century.
According to a March 2014 white paper, "Innovation by Design: The Case for Investing in Women," published by the Anita Borg Institute (ABI), there are four key advantages that firms and organizations can expect to realize by increasing the number of their women employees:
• improved operational and financial performance;
• increased innovation;
• better problem solving and team performance; and
• enhanced firm reputation among prospective hires and clients.
While the Anita Borg Institute is focused primarily on women in technology, the findings of the paper are definitely applicable to the financial planning industry as well. Of particular value is the bibliography of studies that support the four benefits of gender diversity highlighted in the ABI paper. To download the paper, go to http://anitaborg.org/insights-tools/.
Gender Diversity: What are Best Practices for Firms?
As a WIN Advocate, you may have the opportunity to design, implement, or evaluate workplace policies and practices that are designed to foster gender diversity.
Fortunately, you do not have to start from scratch. There are guidelines and assessment tools in place you can use.
Check out the website for Gender Equality Principles where you can learn more about a public-private collaboration between the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, the Calvert Group, and Verite to develop both aspirational standards for companies promoting gender diversity, as well as assessment tools to identify their strengths and weaknesses in the area of diversity.
You can also download the 2013 Calvert survey on the diversity practices of the S&P 500 to see what initiatives are being implemented by large U.S. corporations.
Few Women Understand What Financial Planning is All About
CFP Board's recent research on the reasons for the low numbers of female CFP® professionals showed that women in financial services who do not have CFP® certification perceive financial planning very differently from those women who do.
Opening the doors to more women in financial planning begins with basic education about what the career really entails.
Here is what you as a WIN advocate can emphasize in your outreach:
Financial planning is not a dry, boring occupation focused on numbers and spreadsheets. It's a helping profession focused on people's goals and making a difference in the quality of clients' lives.
There is no one business model for financial planners. You can practice as a solopreneur, or as part of a team; you can join a small firm or nationally recognized financial services company. You can focus on clients within a defined demographic segment, such as single women executives, or on a particular specialty, such as education or estate planning.
Yes, the requirements for CFP® certification are rigorous, but that's why the certification is so widely respected and worth the effort. For women in particular, it gives them the professional stature and confidence to succeed as financial planners.
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Now that the white paper has been released, CFP Board will be speaking to audiences around the country on its WIN research and recommendations for making financial planning an attractive career for women. Please join us at one of the following events.
September 10, 1 pm EDT: Eleanor Blayney, CFP® will present a 45-minute BrightTALK webcast on CFP Board's WIN Initiative. Register
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September 16, 4:30 pm EDT: Kathleen McQuiggan, Pax World Senior Vice President, and CFP Board WIN Council member, will be part of an all-women panel on the subject "Just Listen to Us: The Evolution of Women Investors Over the Last 30 Years." The dinner meeting event is hosted by the Greater Fort Lauderdale chapter of the FPA. Kathleen will also be speaking at 5:30 pm before the panel presentation on CFP Board's WIN. For more info, go to www.southfloridafpa.org or call 954-370-0041.
September 24, 4 pm EDT: Eleanor Blayney, CFP® will make a guest appearance on The Client Connection, where she and host Kathleen Burns Kingsbury will discuss "The Female Advisor Famine: What We Know about Attracting and Retaining Women Advisors." Register
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"Why Women Don't Apply for Jobs Unless They're 100% Qualified"
This is the title of a recent Harvard Business Review blog by Tara Sophia Mohr, who takes a critical look at the premise that women may be less professionally confident than men. She does not think it's that simple.
Mohr surveyed over 1,000 men and women professionals, asking them for their reasons for not applying for a job. She concludes that it is not necessarily low confidence that keeps women, as compared to men, from applying for certain jobs, but a female propensity to "follow the rules." In other words, they take the published requirements for a job literally, and if they don't meet them, they're less likely to apply than are men.
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Before I met my husband fish and seafood was something that I ate on a very rare occasion and in small quantities. Not to mention it was usually the deep fried type. I didn't really "like" it. But fish was something my husband had grown up with, especially sardines and anchovies (I'm not there yet!) So the first time a fish tajine graced the table in my presence I shuddered. I stepped back from the table and politely declined and munched on some bread. My husband kept coaxing me to just try it and I decided I had to not to offend the cook. Very gingerly I took a little bite and BAAM – can you believe I liked it? This did not taste like any fish I had ever tasted! Over the years I've adapted the traditional method a little because I don't like fish skin, or bones or heads (usually this is made with a whole fish). This is pretty fast and very tasty – even for people who don't "like" fish they might be surprised!
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2 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp hot paprika
handful of chopped cilantro
2 tsp minced garlic
3 tsp olive oil
Wash and remove skin of all vegetables (you can leave it on the tomatoes and red potatoes if you'd like). Slice all of them very thinly, as thin as you can get them as this will aid in cooking time. Keep the tomatoes separate but add the remaining vegetables to a large mixing bowl. In another bowl combine all of the spices and mix together. Reserve 2-3 tsp of the spices, and pour 1 tsp of olive oil onto the vegetables – combine well and then sprinkle the rest of the spices onto the vegetables. Mix well so that they are covered.
In a flat baking pan arrange all of the vegetables – trying to keep them as flat as possible. Layering them will cause them to take longer to cook through.
Preheat the oven to 350 at this time.
Wash and dry off the fish. If using a fish with skin , you can choose to remove the skin or keep it on. I always remove it because I don't like even looking at it! Once the fish is ready place it into the baking sheet on top of the vegetables. Take the tomatoes and arrange them on top of the fish and the other vegetables. The liquid will help cook them. Drizzle the remaining olive oil over the fish and the vegetables, and top the fish and tomatoes with the reserved spices. Squeeze the lemon over the entire dish, being careful to remove the seeds.
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ONE Cumbria electrical energy specialist is going from strength to strength since attending All-Energy Aberdeen.
Athena PTS was set up two years ago by four businessmen – Neil Smith, Mark Skeels, Keith Bennett and David Shawcross – each with more than a decade of experience in their field.
It started out with each of the four co-owners specialising in design and electrical consultancy.
The firm spent ten months on site, for example, in a quality assurance role on EDF-ER's Fallago Rig Wind Farm, a 48-wind turbine project in the Scottish Borders, and received a glowing commendation from the energy firm for the work they carried out.
In the last few months, however, they have grown to offer not just the consultancy work, but the full package.
This includes high voltage operations and maintenance, specialist installation including high voltage terminations, and quality assurance work which takes them everywhere from multiple-turbine sites onshore to high-voltage operations offshore.
Their specialism is about supplying electrical power, often to the windfarm and renewables industry, but also to other business sectors.
It hopes to achieve in the next few days the accreditation to bid for grid connection work, linking power generators, such as turbines, to the grid.
They've also worked on everything from solar farms to submarines, having undertaken electrical design work with BAE Systems in Barrow.
In its first two years the business has grown from four to ten people, two of those taken on in the last month.
As the businesses grows and diversifies the co-owners see them being up to 15 staff before too long, such is the demand for their quality work and professional service.
All four are passionate that there is a highly skilled, and specialised workforce in Cumbria more than capable of taking on major energy projects in and around the county, whether it's offshore off Britain's Energy Coast, or onshore anywhere in the county – right now they are involved in some schemes in the Carlisle area.
Based at Phoenix Business Centre in Barrow, they also carry out UK-wide work, with jobs spanning the length and breadth of the country from Wick on the northern tip of Scotland, right down to Clacton-on-Sea.
And they are starting to see more opportunities abroad – amazingly one involving electrical supply to a brewery in Ethiopia!
Attending All-Energy Aberdeen led them to establish a relationship with German firm Enercon.
Based in Aurich, Enercon is the fourth-largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world.
Since having discussions in Aberdeen, Athena is now carrying out work on a number of sites for clients who are using the German firm's product on a range of single turbine sites, many on farms, with each turbine capable of producing 0.5 megawatts.
Neil is keen to point out that all ten of the people in the business are highly-qualified, well regarded professional individuals, working as specialists in their field and have senior positions within the company.
The business has adopted that approach so it has the expertise and capability to tackle major complex projects.
"It is about getting the right person for the job" he said.
They have paid the necessary salaries to land the required high-end skills. And so far it is a strategy which has paid off, with an ever-expanding order book.
"One of our recruits taken on in the last month is based in Scotland, and already in discussions with clients for expanding the companies support and presence there. The work is out there.
"We have a lot of contacts from our experience in the industry. And if you match the right people with the right skills to the right job, it's hopefully a successful formula."
As Athena grows it will also need to recruit more support and administrative staff. If the three months since All-Energy Aberdeen are anything to go by it promises to be a busy final quarter of 2013 for Athena.
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Recent feedback obtained based diagnosis (MBD) in industry suggests that the costs in- volved in behavioral modeling (both expertise and labor) can outweigh the benefits of MBD as a high-performance diagnosis approach. In this paper, we propose an automatic approach, called AMADIOS, that completely avoids behavioral modeling. Decreasing modeling sacrifices diagnostic accuracy, as the size of the ambiguity group (i.e., components which cannot be discriminated because of the lack of information) increases, which in turn increases misdiagnosis penalty. AMADIOS further breaks the ambiguity group size by considering the component's false negative rate (FNR), which is estimated using an analytical expression. Furthermore, we study the performance of AMADIOS for a number of logic circuits taken from the 74XXX/ISCAS benchmark suite. Our results clearly indicate that sacrificing modeling information degrades the diagnosis quality. However, considering FNR information improves the quality, attaining the diagnostic performance of an MBD approach.
Gupta, S.; Abreu, R.; de Kleer, J.; Gemund, A.; Bellotti, V. M.; Automatic Systems Diagnosis Without Behavioral Models. IEEE Aerospace Conference.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Kentucky man who was retried on murder charges was convicted Friday for his role in the torture and murder of a Knoxville couple in a case that has been described as one of the most heinous crimes in the history of Knox County.
The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://goo.gl/0YFQ6 ) reported that jurors deliberated for about seven hours over two days before finding George Thomas guilty of felony murder, aggravated rape, robbery and numerous other charges on Friday. The jury later sentenced Thomas to serve life in prison with the possibility of parole. Under the terms, Thomas, 30, will have to serve 51 years in prison before being eligible for parole.
Thomas, of Lebanon, Ky., was found guilty on all 46 charges that he faced. It's the second time that Thomas has been convicted. The case had to be retried after authorities discovered that the judge in the original case was a prescription drug addict who was abusing pills while on the bench.
New trials were ordered for Thomas and one other defendant, who has since been reconvicted.
The case has received so much notoriety and publicity that jurors from Nashville were asked to come in to hear the case. Thomas wasn't the only one accused of playing a role in the January 2007 kidnappings and killings of Channon Christian, 21, and Chris Newsom, 23. The couple was kidnapped in a carjacking, and both were sexually tortured and murdered. Thomas and three others are said to have played a role in the murders.
The ringleader, Lemaricus Davidson, has been sentenced to die.
Throughout both trials, Thomas maintained that he was at the Davidson's Knoxville home and saw the couple there but played no role in their deaths. Thomas told investigators after his January 2007 arrest that he left Davidson's house after seeing a bound and blindfolded Newsome being led out and Christian, who was also bound, being forced into a bedroom. He maintained they were both gone when he returned the next day.
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Prior to falling ill, Campbell had played in each of the team's first 35 games. He has tallied three goals and six assists while centering the "Merlot Line" with Brad Marchand and Shawn Thornton. In Campbell's absence Thursday, Tyler Seguin jumped from second line wing to fourth line center, while Marchand took Seguin's usual spot with Patrice Bergeron and Mark Recchi. Daniel Paille played Marchand's usual role as fourth-line wing.
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