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|Men's Soccer » News » Schedule » Roster » Coaches » Statistics
From the Pitch: With Guilherme and Blaike Week 5
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 6, 2010) - ETSU men's soccer players Guilherme Reis (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) and Blaike Woodruff (Georgetown, Texas) will be stopping by throughout the season to provide a weekly blog on life as an ETSU men's soccer player. Here is week five of From the Pitch featuring Guilherme Reis.
October 6
I'm back� Being at home and playing at our stadium has been going well for us. We started the week 3-0 playing at home, and we were about to start conference playing two strong sides: Campbell (2009 regular season champions) and Mercer (runner-up in the last conference tournament). We knew the importance of the games, and the whole team was pretty focused. It was hard work preparing for those two games.
Thursday was game day and we were all excited to start conference (our main goal this season). It was a rainy day and the game started out really intense with both teams going forward and trying to create chances. We held possession for most of the first half, and we were trying really hard to get the first goal. Then it came on the 30th minute, on a free kick. After that we took control of the game and created a lot of chances. The game was over, and the first task was accomplished with a great win, 4-0.
We did not have time to celebrate because Mercer was right ahead of us. The Bears were a lot different from Campbell. They were really physical, and had a strong defensive mentality. The game was really though, and took a huge effort from every single one of us. In the end we came out the winning side with another good performance! 2-1 final result�
We are off to a good start as we closed the series of five home games with five wins. Although everyone is very excited and happy with the results, the coach staff and players know that it is just the beginning, and if we want to accomplish our main goal we need to keep working. This weekend we are off to Florida, and hopefully we will get good results down there. GO BUCS!!
Until next time,
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**** off Tahir dickhead
expecting Tahir to celebrate more than du Plessis if he tons up
should have gone the scope
(with that field it was actually on tbf)
Brad McNamara @bbuzzmc
Will say this once and then nothing else. Defamation laws quite clear in Aus.be careful.
162 run lead not bad. got away from us a bit after lunch though
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the slog sweep was also on. gotta question what on earth FDP was doing
Viv Richards masterclass: yeah man just rock back and smash the ****
I love Viv's advice about not worry too much about technique, do the basics and just bat.
Sehwag the key here.
Parmi | #1 draft pick | Jake King is **** | Big Bash League tipping champion of the universeCome and Paint Turtle
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Right, so I'm not the only one..
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Terminator Salvation
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This highly anticipated new installment of "The Terminator" film franchise is set in post-apocalyptic 2018. John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future that Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
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Macaroons from "le roi des macarons," Ladurée of Paris. Here, Cherry Amaretto and Apricot Ginger macaroons. Deftly combining flavors and colors is a Ladurée signature.
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No one tells us they're going to Paris anymore, because they know we'll beg them to bring back two boxes of macaroons from Ladurée, Paris's international temple of macaroon holiness. The great success of Ladurée's macarons is threefold:
While the original macaroons were simple almond meringues (see The History Of Macaroons), French macarons can be spectacularly colored and flavored meringue "sandwiches." This concept was invented by Pierre Desfontaines Ladurée, who, at the beginning of the 20th century, had the idea to join two meringues into a sandwich cookie filled with ganache. The concept expanded, and today, centers of ganache, buttercream, jam or salt caramel (and who knows what's around the corner) offer a seemingly limitless combination of colors and flavors.
A precious box of Ladurée macarons, couriered back from Paris—a multicolored, multiflavored feast. Showing, from bottom left, are Pistachio, Bitter Chocolate, Four Red Fruits, Violet Cassis, Salted Butter Caramel, Strawberry, Cherry Amaretto, Chocolate and Ginger Lime.
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His chocolate macaroon has a chocolate caramel Fleur de Sel center. The macaroon with a Campari and grapefruit ganache is called "Americano Pamplemousse"—did Americans invent grapefruit juice with Campari? And we can't get enough of those pretty pink rose macaroons with rose petal ganache or jam (it's easy to find rose petal jam or jelly at Middle Eastern markets). You're tempted to buy two of everything, until you realize they're two Euros apiece.
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Why Is the National U.S. Cesarean Section Rate So High?
The national U.S. cesarean section rate was 4.5% and near this optimal range in 1965 when it was first measured (Taffel et al. 1987). Since then, large groups of healthy, low-risk American women who have received care that enhanced their bodies' innate capacity for giving birth have achieved 4% to 6% cesarean section rates and good overall birth outcomes (Johnson and Daviss 2005, Stapleton et al. 2013). However, the national cesarean section rate is much higher. After steeply increasing over more than a decade, it leveled off at 32.8% in 2010 and 2011 (Hamilton et al. 2012). So, about one mother in three now gives birth by cesarean section.
Most mothers are healthy and have good reason to anticipate uncomplicated childbirth. Cesarean section is major surgery and increases the likelihood of many short- and longer-term adverse effects for mothers and babies (some of these harms are listed below). There are clear, authoritative recommendations for more judicious use of this procedure (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2010). Why, then, is the cesarean rate so high?
Three Myths about the Cesarean Section RateTo explain the high cesarean section rate, health professionals and journalists often point the spotlight on mothers themselves. Many assume that leading factors in the trend are: 1) more and more women are asking for c-sections that have no medical rationale, 2) the number of women who genuinely need a cesarean is increasing, and 3) liability pressure is driving rates up. None appears to account for a large portion of the growth in the cesarean rate since it began to rise in 1996.
Despite a lot of talk about "maternal request" cesareans, few women appear to be taking this step. Childbirth Connection's national Listening to Mothers survey of women who gave birth in hospitals from mid-2011 to mid-2012 polled women about these decisions in the United States. When we asked mothers with a cesarean when and why they had it, just 1% of Listening to Mothers III survey participants with an initial or "primary" cesarean" reported that she had had a planned cesarean with the understanding that there was no medical reason for it (Declercq et al. 2013). Those who have looked at this question in other countries have found similar results (McCourt et al. 2007).
Many have also pointed to changes in the population of childbearing women, such as more older women who have developed medical conditions and more women with extra challenges of multiple births. While there are some overall changes in this population, researchers have found that cesarean section rates have gone up for all groups of birthing women, regardless of age, the number of babies they are having, the extent of health problems, their race/ethnicity, or other characteristics (Declercq et al. 2006). In other words, there is a change in practice standards that reflects an increasing willingness on the part of professionals to follow the cesarean path under all conditions. In fact, one quarter of the Listening to Mothers survey participants who had cesareans reported that they had experienced pressure from a health professional to have a cesarean (Declercq et al. 2013).
Finally, fear of malpractice liability is frequently cited as a major driver of the extensive use of cesarean section. However, a series of studies have examined this question and have concluded that the role of liability pressure is modest at best and can account for just a fraction of the steep recent rise (Sakala et al. 2013). Further, this factor is overpowered by the role of variation in professional practice style (e.g., Baicker et al. 2006).
Reasons for the High Cesarean Section RateThe following interconnected factors appear to contribute to the high cesarean rate.
Low priority of enhancing women's own abilities to give birth
Care that supports physiologic labor, such as providing the midwifery model of care, doula care providing continuous support during labor, and using hands-to-belly movements to turn a breech (buttocks- or feet-first) baby to a head-first position, reduces the likelihood of a cesarean section. Quite a few cesareans are carried out because the fetus seems large, even though this estimate is often wrong and a cesarean has not been shown to offer benefits in this situation. The decision to switch to cesarean is often made during labor when caregivers could use watchful waiting, positioning and movement, comfort measures, oral nourishment and other approaches to facilitate comfort, rest, and labor progress. Providing more women with such care would lower the cesarean section rate.
Side effects of common labor interventions
Current research suggests that some labor interventions make a c-section more likely. For example, labor induction among first-time mothers and/or when the cervix is not soft and ready to open appears to increase the likelihood of cesarean birth. Continuous electronic fetal monitoring has been associated with greater likelihood of a cesarean. Having an epidural early in labor or without a high-dose boost of synthetic oxytocin ("Pitocin") seems to increase the likelihood of a c-section, and epidural analgesia appears to increase the likelihood of cesareans performed in response to "fetal distress."
Refusal to offer the informed choice of vaginal birth
Many health professionals and/or hospitals are unwilling to offer the informed choice of vaginal birth to women in certain circumstances. The Listening to Mothers survey found that many women with a previous cesarean would have liked the option of a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) but did not have it because health professionals and/or hospitals were unwilling (Declercq et al. 2013). More than nine out of ten women with a previous cesarean section are having repeat cesareans in the United States. Similarly, few women with a fetus in a breech position have the option to plan a vaginal birth, and twins are increasingly born via planned cesarean section.
Casual attitudes about surgery and variation in professional practice style
Our society is more tolerant than ever of surgical procedures, even when not medically needed. This is reflected in the comfort level that many health professionals, insurance plans, hospital administrators and women themselves have with cesarean trends. Further, the cesarean rate varies quite a bit across states and areas of the country, hospitals, and maternity professionals. Most of this variation is due to "practice style" rather than differences in the needs and preferences of childbearing women (Baicker et al. 2006, Clark et al. 2007).
Limited awareness of harms that are more likely with cesarean section
Cesarean section is a major surgical procedure that increases the likelihood of many types of harm for mothers and babies in comparison with vaginal birth. Short-term harms for mothers include increased risk of unintended surgical cuts, infection, blood clots, emergency hysterectomy, going back into the hospital, a challenging recovery, and death. Babies born by cesarean section are more likely to have breathing problems and to develop several chronic diseases: childhood-onset diabetes, allergies with cold-like symptoms, and asthma in childhood and beyond. Perhaps due to the common surgical side effect of scarring and "adhesion" formation, cesarean mothers are more likely to have ongoing pelvic pain and to have infertility in the future. Of special concern after cesarean are various serious conditions for mothers and babies that are more likely in future pregnancies. For mothers, these include ectopic pregnancy, placenta previa, placenta accreta, placental abruption, emergency hysterectomy, and uterine rupture. Babies in future pregnancies are more likely to need breathing help and have extended hospital stays. Preliminary research suggests that many other harms are more likely with cesarean section, and more studies are needed (Childbirth Connection 2012).
Incentives to practice in a manner that is efficient for providers
Many health professionals are feeling squeezed by tightened payments for services and increasing practice expenses. The flat "global fee" method of paying for childbirth does not provide any extra pay for providers who patiently support a longer vaginal birth. Some payment schedules pay more for cesarean than vaginal birth. Even when payment is similar for both, a planned cesarean section is an especially efficient way for professionals to organize their hospital work, office work and personal life. Average hospital payments are much greater for cesarean than vaginal birth, and may offer hospitals greater scope for profit.
All of these factors contribute to a current national cesarean section rate of over 30%, despite evidence that a rate of 5% to 10% would be optimal.
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Baicker K, Buckles KS, Chandra A. Geographic variation in the appropriate use of cesarean delivery. Health Aff 2006;35:w355-w367.
Childbirth Connection. Vaginal or Cesarean Birth: What Is at Stake for Women and Babies? A Best Evidence Review. New York: Childbirth Connection, 2012. Available at http://www.childbirthconnection.org/cesareanbooklet/
Clark SL, Belfort MA, Hankins GDV, Meyers JA, Houser FM. Variation in the rates of operative delivery in the United States. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2007;196(6):526.e1-526.e5.
Declercq ER, Sakala C, Corry MP, Applebaum S, Herrlich A. Listening to Mothers III: Pregnancy and Birth. New York: Childbirth Connection, May 2013. Available at http://transform.childbirthconnection.org/reports/listeningtomothers/.
Declercq E, Menacker F, MacDorman M. Maternal risk profiles and the primary cesarean rate in the United States, 1991-2002. Am J Public Health 2006;96:867-72.
Hamilton BE, Martin JA, Ventura SJ. Births: preliminary data for 2010. Natl Vital Stat Rep 2011;60(2):1-25. Available at www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_02.pdf
Johnson KC, Daviss B-A. Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: Large prospective study in North America. BMJ 2005;220:1416. Available at http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7505/1416
McCourt C, Weaver J, Statham H, Beake S, Gamble J, Creedy DK. Elective cesarean section and decision making: A critical review of the literature. Birth 2007;34:65-79. Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2006.00147.x/full
Sakala C, Yang YT, Corry MP. Maternity care and liability: Pressing problems, substantive solutions. Womens Health Issues 2013;23:e7-13.
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I'm going to keep saying 81 wins until it happens.
81 wins*.
*plus or minus 10
"Bring on Rod Stupid!"
82 wins
Win some, lose some, some get rained out.
I'm not sure I've participated before, but here goes: 83 wins, the losing stops now.
In the same way that a baseball season never really begins, it never really ends either. - Lonnie Wheeler, "Bleachers, A Summer in Wrigley Field"
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77 wins
But I really feel this will be the last year (for a while, I hope) that my number will be lower than 82.
72 Wins.
and LOL at the 2003 RZ prediction.
84 wins.
This is your sword, this is your shield
This is the power of love revealed
Carry it with you wherever you go
And give all the love that you have in your soul"
Bruce Springsteen
82 wins. The starting pitching is what gives us our first winning season in a while, not the offense.
Taveras leading off
Phillips batting cleanup
No Griffey/Dunn
Gonzalez batting second
This team is going to struggle to score runs, and nothing I have seen this spring changes any of that.
The Sox traded Bullfrog the only player they've got for Shottenhoffen. Four-eyes Shottenhoffen a utility infielder. They've got a whole team of utility infielders.
Most Vottomatic Player
a super volcano of ridonkulous suckitude.
I simply don't have access to a "cares about RBI" place in my psyche. There is a "mildly curious about OBI%" alcove just before the acid filled lake guarded by robot snipers with lasers which leads to the "cares about RBI" antechamber though. - Nate
I was off by 1 in my prediction of 75 last year, I hope I'm off by much more this year.
More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.
74 Wins. I want to say 81, but I think the pitching will be a mixed bag and will not be good enough to offset the loss in run production.
Nothing to see here. Please disperse.
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We can't think of a better combination than DIY-crafts, cardboard, and kids—and Swiss architect Nicola Enrico Stäubli's FoldSchool furniture does just that. What's even better is that these chairs-for-kids (or for the kid in you) aren't products for purchase, but rather FREE downloadable patterns from his website. All you need is a printer, some cardboard, and a pair of scissors, and you're on your way to sitting pretty with your tots on some truly green, interactive, and surprisingly sturdy seating. Your three options are stool, rocker, and chair, each of which are simple to create and would make a great eco-design crafts project for you and your little one on a rainy day.
We love Nicola's design-for-all attitude: in his own words, "mass culture is run by superficiality and ecological absurdity". Foldschool supports craftsmanship as a face-to-face approach to design and brings together product and user the closest possible. The mindset of Foldschool is to restore design to one of its original missions: to provide a product at an affordable price through a smart manufacturing process."
These easy-to-make furniture pieces are ideal for getting young kids interested in design and construction, and can even be used as part of a homeschooling curriculum. The furniture can be painted or decorated with découpage to suit each child's preference, and their unique shapes lend perfectly to imaginative play: stools can transform into rocket ship seats, and rockers can be rideable dragons and unicorns. It's great to see how recycled materials can be put to such innovative use, and getting kids involved in eco-friendly projects from day one sets them on a wonderful path of conservation, as well as creativity.
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May 10, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Simply beautiful ideas, hope to make them and decorate it whith my kids at home. Can I used any of these in an art class at my kids school?
March 8, 2010 at 9:38 am
Fabulous! Can't wait to collection some cardboard and get serious! May I teach this at my library?
April 18, 2009 at 9:39 pm
very cool and inspired
March 19, 2009 at 8:20 am
those are so cute and something they can do with you…what can be better than that.
November 15, 2007 at 3:36 pm
When I saw this, I thought it was possible to fold up all the three items out of one piece. Like a transformer-cardboard stool… Anyway, love the cardboard interest. Worked at a local grocery-shop i Norway and collected a lot of cardboard intended for making somethin fun.
April 24, 2007 at 4:06 am
A means of adhesion? Ive read about a by product of soy producti production that is used as a glue, as well there are recipies for a glue made from dairy
April 2, 2007 at 1:41 pm
This, is. Awesome. Just replace the spray adhesive with glue stick as mentioned, and you'll be just fine.
March 24, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I agree with the spray glue comment but think the idea and concepts are good. I think that glue sticks would work just fine and are not toxic.
March 24, 2007 at 12:26 am
I do think these are beautiful objects. The finished product is sustainable. The spray glue called for in the instructions is certainly not. That stuff is nasty and I wouldn't use it around kids. Can anyone suggest alternatives?
March 23, 2007 at 6:34 pm
I can not wait to get rad with my printer, some cardboard and our 2.5 year old Addie! YAY!!!!!
March 23, 2007 at 3:24 am
Makes me wish I had a child just to join in the fun. Great Concept!
March 22, 2007 at 8:17 pm
It's adorable. I love it! I love that it's free as well!
March 22, 2007 at 7:33 am
The best of the bests perfect design perfect ideia.


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On cooking shows I always see cooks using ordinary pans without non-stick coatings, and nothing ever seems to stick to their pans. But when I try the same recipes at home, my food always sticks.
What can I do to prevent sticking?
It depends some on technique, and some on what you're cooking. And it depends on your definition of "sticking."
Foods that are high in protein (especially those low in fat) are more prone to sticking. So a really lean white fish, which is almost all protein, will want to stick. Likewise, egg whites can stick. To some extent, almost any food that doesn't have a generous amount of easy-rendering fat will want to stick, but higher protein is more sticky.
To counteract this tendency, you need to compensate by putting some kind of fat (usually butter or oil) into the pan in advance of the food. Most people seem to get the best result by preheating the dry pan some, then adding the oil, letting it get up to temperature, then adding the food.
That's the simple summary, but it can get you pretty far.
There's another thing you might run into as well--high-protein items that stick at first will release on their own if you let them cook long enough at reasonably high temperature. So if you throw a steak dry into a hot pan, it's going to stick at first, but as the Malliard reaction occurs (that nice brown crust we love), the steak will actually release from the pan (or mostly release) of its own accord--usually after 3 minutes or so at high heat. The same is true of most meats, but with delicate ones like fish you're probably better off providing more fat/oil than counting on an easy release as the proteins denature.
Finally, what's your definition of "sticking?" If your food literally sticks to the pan, then the technique I gave in paragraph 3 above should help you out. If you are able to move your food around, but find that little bits stick to the pan and turn brown, that's to be expected. That's called "fond" and most people try to retrieve those delicious browned bits by deglazing (putting in a liquid and stirring/scraping as it boils down) and making a pan sauce. And even if you don't want to make a pan sauce, you can clean those stuck brown bits off by putting just a little water in the pan and bringing it to a boil. Scrape the pan with a wooden spatula (or even a regular spatula if you're gentle) while the water's boiling and stuff should come right up.
Depending on the type of pan you're using, you may need to "season" it. If you've got a cast iron pan, even if it came "pre-seasoned", you probably need to improve the seasoning before it works as well as it can.
As discussed in other answers, food sticking isn't all bad. You don't want things to stick and burn, but without any sticking, there's not much browning that happens.
First, you can use a seasoned cast iron pan. In restaurants, the chefs always -- there are some exceptions -- start with a hot pan with hot oil before they add ingredients because this often prevents sticking.
This answer is coming far after the original post but I think I truly have the key to this question. All above answers are correct but missing a key part. First off I work in a high volume restaurant where we pan roast all types of fish and meat in aluminum pans. There really is only one way to be able to cook a half chicken skin side down or a piece of king salmon and have it come off clean without introducing a liquid. The key is to get the pan extremely hot with nothing in it. Once your pan is almost smoking be ready with the oil and your protein. Add enough oil (one with a high smoking point, olive May not be your best choice) to cover the bottom and immediately carefully place your protein into the pan, always dropping it away from you to prevent splatter. Now carefully give the pan a little shake or a swirl and your protein should just glide around the pan. At this point turn your stove down and return to heat. I promise you this will work every time. Essentially what is happening is you are instantly searing and drying the outer edge enough that it won't be able to grab and stick to the pan. Hope this helps someone!


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As mentioned in another thread, one of the things we will be encouraging with the new Challenge is the member-initiated formation of small critique/buddy groups. This will enable members to seek input and proofing from their Challenge buddies before submitting their entries.
The initial idea and writing of the entry still needs to be by the individual member. However, in a complete reversal to everything we've said until now, after the initial writing has been done (and self-edited), members are encouraged to work with their buddy group to fine tune their entry and hone their skills.
Please note: Professional editing is still off limits.
Also, unlike the past, we will now be encouraging buddies to be from a mixture of levels. In other words, from now on we would love to see groups comprising members from at least three different levels (although, of course, those levels will change as people move up the ranks, and that's fine).
Challenge buddies work together by email, so buddies can be from anywhere in the world. The only suggestion would be to probably have poetry buddies stick together.
So, why am I suddenly lightening up on this? Simple answer--to ensure everyone has the opportunity to submit their best work each week, and the room to grow as a writer by being a part of a Challenge critique group.
Anyway, if you would like to find a Challenge buddy group (or get one started), either post a new message in this forum or post a response to another person's post in this forum. (Don't post a buddy request in reply to this message, as your request may end up getting lost in a long thread.)
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When you start a new buddy request thread, make sure you mention what level you are currently in and also whether you are looking for poetry buddies or prose buddies.
Try to limit the groups to no more than four people (one from each level initially, if possible, but don't stress if you double up). Also, try to commit to be in that particular buddy group for at least one series of the Challenge (in other words, for the duration of one Challenge theme). Of course, that may not always be possible, but at least try to make that commitment to one another.
When acting as a buddy, use the judges' rating categories to help pick up the weaknesses and strengths of each piece.
Anyway, this is a complete turn around from everything we've said before regarding buddies, and I'll be more than happy to answer any queries you may have. The important thing is to provide every opportunity for you all to make your entries shine.
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"This is a rich and sweet yet surprisingly simple soup that is wonderful served hot with crusty bread or cold with a dollop of sour cream."
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butternut squash, halved and seeded
acorn squash, halved and seeded
3 tablespoons
1/4 cup
chopped sweet onion
1 quart
chicken broth
1/3 cup
packed brown sugar
1 (8 ounce) package
cream cheese, softened
1/2 teaspoon
ground black pepper
ground cinnamon to taste
fresh parsley, for garnish
Very yummy, 4 stars due to my opinion of too sweet and too cream cheesy. Made it a second time and used 2/3 block cream cheese, 1/4 c. brown sugar, added some nutmeg, cayenne pepper (because I like a kick) and the slightest touch of curry. Also used a lot more black pepper. Didn't use all of the broth because I like it thick! ***UPDATE: For those of you who are very pleased with your soup, the next time you make it, could you give an estimate of how much squash (in cups) that you use? I made it again and I think both squash were too big.
Thank you for an excellent recipe - I served mine with 1/2 an asiago bagel and a sliced honeycrisp apple.
This was a bit too rich, so I made it twice, the second time I used 1 tbsp of butter instead of the asking 3 tbsp. And used half the amount of cream cheese that the recipe called for. It is a delicious soup however, I like it for how simplistic it is to make!!!! I served it with a mixed green avocado salad with maple candied pecans and blue cheese dressing, a wonderful pairing!
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I really enjoy this soup. I used less brown sugar and less cream cheese than called for -- and added chili powder and a smidgen of nutmeg. Even with the reduction of the sugar, it's still a bit sweet -- almost like hot, liquid pumpkin pie -- but very good. I'll use this recipe again.
If I could give it 10 stars I would! Very Yummy!!! It was super easy to make and very delicious! I cooked my squash the way I always do: cut in 1/2, place cut side up in a baking dish in 1/4 inch water, dotted with butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper cover bake 400 deg. for 30-40 minutes till soft. I also used regular yellow onions and a hand full of brown sugar. Mine was just delicious not too sweet at all.
I had a similar soup at a local diner & I've been trying to reproduce it ever since. Thanks to this recipe I finally can! This is the best butternut squash soup I've ever had. I used Splenda Brown Sugar rather than the real stuff and low cal cream cheese and it's still out of this world. I added very little instant potatoes to thicken the soup and a pinch of nutmeg. I'll be making this for Thanksgiving for sure!
I gave this four stars because it was close to perfect. The one drawback for me was how sweet it was. Next time I will probably omit the sugar altogether. I find the squash sweet enough naturally. This recipe is definitely a keeper though.
Oh, this was good. Really easy, too! As another person recommended, I cut the sugar and the cream cheese approximately in half. It is very rich.
this recipe was easy and delicious, i also a little curry powder and ginger the second time i made it for a little zip..... loved it
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Butternut and Acorn Squash Soup
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** Calories: 266
** Calories from Fat: 131
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Din Tai Fung in Hong Kong
I had dinner at Din Tai Fung, and it was so good, I went back for lunch the next day. This place is more expensive than many dim sum restaurants...not sure it's worth the premium, but it was near my hotel and I really enjoyed my meals.
The xiao long bao were truly excellent. Great wrappers and fantastic filling...full of flavor but not greasy.
The steamed pork buns were also a highlight, as were the spicy wontons.
There are a couple of locations in Hong Kong. The one I visited was in Causeway Bay, just a few blocks from the Causeway Bay MTR station.
Din Tai Fung also has its restaurant chains in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States.Din Tai Fung is known internationally for its xiaolongbao. Din Tai Fung was ranked as one of the world's top 10 restaurants.
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Don't forget Taiwan!
The original Din Tai Fung is in Taipei - a little four floor restaurant on Xinyi St near Yongkang St. It was featured in a New York Times article about top ten obscure restaurants around the world.
The ones in the US and Australia and so on are good, but not as good as the Taiwan ones.
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Although I prefer the original restaurant in Taipei I wouldn't say the branch restaurants are 'worse' per say. In a way it's like comparing apples and oranges. I like the xiao long bao of the original shop mainly because I find their filling is chopped finer and also the pork is more 'porky'. The Hong Kong branch I think serves food that is more subtle in flavor (which caters more to HK people's palette) versus Taiwan which I feel the flavor is more robust. A few of my HK friends has said they feel the xiao long bao at their HK branch is more 'delicate' which apparently is more to their liking.
As long as you are ordering their signature dishes they are pretty much solid in every Din Tai Fung branch I have been to.
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It is interesting that despite Hong Kong having branches of Din Tai Fung, whenever I am back in Taipei and happen to cruise by DTF Xinyi location, there are hoards and hoards and hoards (did I mention hoards?) of visitors/tourists from Hong Kong waiting upwards of more than an hour just to get in, more than Japanese tourists especially in the last 2 years.
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I guess I am not too surprised considering the Din Tai Fung name is quite famous is Asia now. One of my friends recently traveled from the US to Asia and went to Din Tai Fung in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Japan....the proceeded to hit up Ding Tai Fung when he landed back in LA (all in a matter of 2-3 weeks). He is definitely a Din Tai Fung fanboy! Haha!
Although when I go to Taipei I do think about going to Din Tai Fung for their xiao long bao and chicken soup but personally I can't stand waiting over 30 minutes for a table...
re: big_apple_ken
yeah, HK vs Taipei DTF does taste slightly different. I just returned from Taipei and visited the DTF Tian Mu (SOGO) location and it was good! (and less ppl waiting too) ... I find that not only the meat were more finely chopped, the size of the XLBs seem to be smaller in size compared with HK's branch which is good IMO.
I think it is very important to have a good ratio of dough / meat / juice to created a balance taste + texture. Too much dough will create bigger XLB and it will fall flat easily soon after being served. I like to pick the XLB up by its tip and swing it around to check on its meat juice before putting the whole thing into my mouth :)
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Yep, I'm with you on not waiting more than 30 minutes for a table.
First time I went to Taipei, I had to go, but nowadays I just go to one of the many other restaurants that make fine xiao long bao.
I have to disagree though that DTF is consistent around the world. I've been to a ton of locations from Singapore to HK and I find the one in LA is substantially and consistently worse than the rest. Basically everything you can think of (thicker skin? meat not as fresh? flavors not as clean?) is worse, to the point where I won't even go to the one in LA anymore.
re: hong_kong_foodie
As I mentioned above my buddy who went to DTF in Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo and LA all in the span of 2-3 weeks says the same. He says he rates Taipei as #1 but he thinks Hong Kong is pretty close up there. Shanghai and Tokyo is a slight step down below that and LA is the worst out of the bunch. Not surprised.
I was actually staying in Shinjuku (Tokyo) 2 weeks ago and our hotel was just right across the street from DTF. Wanted to bring my American friends there but honestly we had way too much eating in hole-in-wall places in Tokyo.
re: hong_kong_foodie
Pork in Taiwan tastes like a completely different (re: way more delicious and robust) animal than in California. There are cuts sold by butchers there I never even knew existed. The same goes with chicken. So in order for DTF LA to reproduce a DTF Taipei flavor with pork alone (or even with their stewed chicken soup), the cost would obviously be a lot higher.
I read a Taipei guidebook about DTF Xinyi recently, that their ratios of skin to filling are very exact, like 18 grams filling to 5 grams skin (with of course 18 pleats per bao). Perhaps this is not entirely consistent across other locations but should be.


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The Silent Protest: Open Hands, Closed Fists, and Composition's Political Turn
THURSDAY, MARCH 14: 10:30-11:45 a.m.
Chair: Shannon Carter, Texas A&M-Commerce
In 1968, at the Mexico City Olympics, sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith called the world's attention to the persistence of racism. That single iconic image of two Americans, black-gloved fists raised and heads bowed as the national anthem played and millions booed, remains indelibly etched in our collective memory.
In 2013, as Howard Tinberg calls upon us to consider "The Public Work of Composition," it seems only fitting that we should return to this moment in conversation with one of the protesters: Dr. John Carlos. Indeed, the silent protest and its aftermath graphically illustrates both the power of what Edward Corbett called "the Closed Fist" and the excruciating limits of his "Open Hand" (CCC, 1969). It also calls upon us to consider our organization's shifting position on the relationship between the composition classroom and the rest of society: our neighborhoods, communities, regions, America, and the world.
Yet for decades the individuals behind the Silent Protest have been rendered silent, effectively removed from any public discourse controlling the meaning of that powerful statement. Until very recently, the mass movements represented in that moment were largely absent from our public spaces and our conferences. We have been "civil"—our firsts closed, hands open. Silent. Compliant. As Nancy Welch has argued "civility functions to hold in check agitation against a social order that is undemocratic in access to decision-making voice and unequal in distribution of wealth" ("In Defense of Uncivil Rhetoric," forthcoming).
No doubt our fists are closed again. Our fists raised together, we chant, "We are the 99%," "We are Troy Davis," and, most recently, "We are Trayvon Martin." The Internet Boycott effectively shelves dangerous legislation. We "Occupy" every major city in the nation. We are writing democracy across the world as the Arab Spring gives way to the Occupy Moment, the Internet Boycott , recurring challenges to persistent racism. More than 40 years later, the Closed Fist of the Silent Protest resonates as never before. It is time for CCCC to return to this iconic moment and take stock. .
Dr. John Carlos is a medaled USA Track and Field Hall of Fame athlete and Olympian. Competing in the 200 meters, Carlos earned the Gold in the 1967 Pan American Games, and the Bronze in the 1968 Olympics.
Dr. Carlos made world history during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, when he took to the international stage during the medal ceremony and made a speechless statement, heard and seen worldwide. Winning the 200 meter, John Carlos accepted the Bronze medal at the Olympic podium wearing black socks and no shoes to represent impoverished people who had no shoes of their own, and raised a black-gloved fist crowning a bowed head to humbly reflect the strength of the human spirit.
Continuing his life-long mission to improve human rights conditions and to increase chances for the successes of our youth, Dr. Carlos is actively involved with global and community movements. In April of 2008, he once again took to the international stage and was a torch-bearer for the Human Rights Torch, which ran in parallel to the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay, and focused attention on China's human rights record. In July of the same year, Dr. Carlos accepted the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage for his salute at the 2008 Espy Awards.
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Copyright law grants automatic legal protection for nearly all original writings, producing a legal regime of control over academic scholarship and student essays alike. Traditionally, copyright has been understood as a means for encouraging authors. In the modern academic world, however, copyright can just as often be an interference with the growth of knowledge. Copyrights are often transferred to publishers and other parties who do not share the goals of authors and researchers, leading to constraints and controls over future uses. As a result, tensions and lawsuits are expanding over the application and meaning of fair use and licensing terms. Often the best solution is for authors of new works to assert control themselves and share their rights. This presentation will explore the changing environment of copyright and the growing struggle over law and contract as means of control. In the end, authors hold the greatest power to prevent copyright conflicts through good stewardship of their own copyrights--by pressing for better contracts with publishers, by adopting new technologies for sharing works, and by choosing publishers and other means of disseminating that support open access of our academic and literary creations. Only through asserting control of our own copyrights can we prevent the constraints that are often claimed by others.
Kenneth Crews joined Columbia University in January 2008 as founding director of the Copyright Advisory Office (CAO). For more than twenty years, Dr. Crews has focused much of his research, policymaking, and teaching on copyright issues. He has published widely on the topic, and he is a frequent speaker at universities and meetings throughout the world. In 2008 he completed a study for the World Intellectual Property Organization (an agency of the United Nations), analyzing copyright statutes applicable to libraries in the laws of more than 150 countries.
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Chair: Les Perelman, MIT
In the mid-1990s, Todd Farley and friends earned eight dollars an hour to score student essays in the for-profit standardized testing industry. All rolled their eyes at the triviality of the work, a simplistic and superficial job which clearly favored speed and standardization over common sense. Farley and friends were paid to "read" a student essay approximately every two minutes, for eight hours a day, five (or six) days a week, for weeks on end; they joked that they could invent machines to score the student essays in such a mindless manner. Today, of course, that joke is not so funny, as such "automated scoring engines" really do exist. Farley will show, however, that automated scoring engines are less an exciting technological breakthrough than simply a shortcut for the testing industry to save time and make money, student writing be damned. If automated scoring engines that can't read or understand student writing really can assess those essays as accurately as the for-profit testing industry currently does, Farley asks, what benefit can either corporations or computers bring to the field of writing assessment?
Todd Farley is the author of Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry and has written about education in The New York Times, Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, Tampa Bay Times, Christian Science Monitor, Education Week, Rethinking Schools, and Edutopia. He publishes regular columns on the subject at HuffingtonPost.com. He also writes about health, parenting, sports, and celebrity at periodicals including Neurology Now, Heart Insight, Hustler, Every Woman, Babble.com, New York Press, Working Waterfront, Port City Life, and The Camden Herald-Gazette. Todd lives in New York City with his wife and children.
Public Engagement with Literacy Instruction, MLA Style
THURSDAY, MARCH 14: 4:45-6:00 p.m.
The Modern Languages Association, primarily known by the public for its style guidelines for citing and documenting resources, has a much wider role when it comes to literacy instruction. In this presentation, Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of MLA, will discuss the organization's historic mission, analyze the factors that come into play when higher education organizations work to encourage public engagement and support, and give an overview of what the MLA is doing today to reach our many publics.
Since 2002, Rosemary G. Feal has served as executive director of the Modern Language Association of America, an international scholarly society with thirty thousand members in one hundred countries. She administers the business affairs, programs, and governance of the association; is general editor of the association's publishing and research programs and editor of two association publications.
Writing the Public Good Back into Education
FRIDAY, MARCH 15: 9:30-10:45 a.m.
Chair: Donald Lazere, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
This session will examine how the ideal of higher education as a public good is losing its claim to legitimacy in a society that increasingly defines market interests as the sole measure of individual and social value and teaching largely as a measurable and instrumental task. Against this view of higher education as an adjunct of business culture, this talk argues for educators to take on the role of public intellectuals willing to engage in creating a formative culture of learning capable of nurturing the capacities to defend higher education as a public good crucial to sustaining a critical citizenry and a democratic society. In the current historical moment, higher education as a democratic public good faces a crisis of enormous proportions. At the center of this crisis, particularly in the United States, is a tension between democratic values and market values, between dialogic engagement and a creeping authoritarianism. Faith in social amelioration and a sustainable future appears to be in short supply as market fundamentalism performs the dual task of using education almost exclusively to train workers for service sector jobs and produce life long consumers. This talk will examine the responsibility of academics in dark times, and what it might mean for scholars not only to redefine the meaning of higher education as a public value, but also the promise of academics and critical pedagogy as crucial to developing the formative culture that make a democracy possible. Central to such a challenge is the necessity to define intellectual practice "as part of an intricate web of morality, rigor and responsibility" that enables academics to speak with conviction, enter the public sphere in order to address important social problems, and demonstrate alternative models for what it means to bridge the gap between higher education and the broader society. This is a notion of intellectual practice that refuses both the narrow instrumentality and privileged isolation of the academy, while affirming a broader vision of learning that links knowledge to the power of self-definition and the critical capacities of administrators, academics, and students to expand the scope of democratic freedoms, particularly as they address the crisis of higher education as part and parcel of the crisis of democracy itself .
Henry Giroux is Global Television Network Chair In Communication Studiesand a member of the English and Cultural Studies Dept.at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. A prolific author, Professor Giroux has been an extremely articulate and passionate advocate for progressive education and has mounted a spirited defense of public education in a time of intense privatization.
From the Composition Classroom to Mississippi to Tribeca: How Writing Family History Helped Heal a Student, a Family, and the Nation
THURSDAY, MARCH 14: 1:45-3:00 p.m.
Chair: Duane Roen, Arizona State University, Tempe When Yvette Johnson, an undergraduate at Arizona State University, started a research blog for her writing class, she did not imagine that this blog would become the basis for both Booker's Place, one of the most talked about films of the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, and an hour-long special on NBC's Dateline in 2012. While conducting research, Johnson learned that, in 1966, her grandfather, Booker Wright, spoke to Frank De Felitta, an NBC documentary filmmaker, in a way that revealed the harsh racism of whites in Mississippi. Johnson further learned that, after the airing of the documentary, her grandfather, Booker Wright, was murdered.
This session will include brief clips of the 1966 NBC documentary, excerpts from Booker's Place, and the Dateline report before Yvette Johnson explains how her project emerged. Sherry Rankins-Robertson will explain how she conceptualized Johnson's writing class. Keith Miller will situate Wright's experience in the context of contemporaneous political agitation by African Americans in Mississippi, while also explaining its salience for critical racial theory in 2012.
Privatizing Rhetoric and Democratizing Work: Contingent Choices
THURSDAY, MARCH 14: 3:15-4:30 p.m.
Chair: Thomas Miller, University of ArizonaRespondent: Seth Kahn, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
This session explores how the tendency to represent education as a private benefit rather than a public good has shaped colleges and departments, including composition programs, which are both broadly accessible and deeply dependent on "contingent" faculty. The contingencies that shape the "choices" we make will be examined by Gary Rhoades, Director and Professor of the University of Arizona's Center for the Study of Higher Education, and former General Secretary of the American Association of University Professors. Rhoades' scholarship examines the restructuring of academic institutions and academic labor (Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor; and (with Sheila Slaughter) Academic Capitalism and the New Economy). His presentation addresses three dimensions of contingency and choice, emphasizing our agency in regard to each: in the educational purposes set out for the work of composition to prepare employees and/or citizens; in the contingent structures of academic labor that place many teachers of composition in isolated and vulnerable circumstances; and in the professional status categories that structure the careers of faculty in composition, English, and other fields. Professor Seth Kahn, co-editor of Activism and Rhetoric: Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement, will serve as respondent, and the session will be chaired by Professor Thomas P. Miller, author of The Evolution of College English: Literacy Studies from the Puritans to the Postmoderns.
Politics, Passion, Prose, and Poetry: Readings and a Conversation
Chair: Aja Martinez, Binghamton University
Many of you may know Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés to be an inspiring teacher and leader, but she is also a writer whose work connects her with the diverse experiences of Latinas throughout the country as well as of those of all English teachers of writing. As an Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, she has been involved in the CCCC for over 20 years and masterfully served as co-chair of the Latino Caucus from 1995 till 2007, editing the caucus newsletter Capirotada during this time. Her work is included in several anthologies, most recently the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, and she was the 2009 Theodore Morrison Fiction Fellow at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. Her important collection of short stories, Marielitos, Balseros, and Other Exiles (2009), was followed by her Everyday Chica, winner of the 2010 Longleaf Press Poetry Prize. As a writing professor and a former leader of the CCCC Latino Caucus, she has inspired Latinos everywhere with her generous spirit, which is particularly apparent not only in her teaching, but is seen in her writing, where she represents the everyday experiences of poor yet strong and proud Cuban Americans from New Jersey, all the way down to Miami, and to Cuba itself. Her winning personality matched by superb skills as a writer and poet inspire by bringing to light what others turn away from, dignifying the least of us. During this session, she will read from some of her works and engage us in conversation.
What Creativity Looks Like: Writing with Word and Image for the Post-Paper World
FRIDAY, MARCH 15: 8:00-9:15 a.m.
Chair: Diana George, Virginia Tech University
We are living through the most significant moment in the history of writing since the invention of paper. With the creation of the Internet and the mass production of portable wireless composing devices (laptops, netbooks, smart phones), writers can now instantly publish and globally distribute not only what they are thinking, but what they are seeing, what they are listening to, and what they are reading. The shift from paper to screen has enabled unprecedented collaborative projects (i.e., mapping the human genome, Wikipedia); it has also transformed the global economy, erasing industries that once had a presence in every town and neighborhood: the local bookstore, the copy shop, the film developer.
What does the shift from paper to screen mean for those who teach writing? Some see education evolving into the delivery of massive online courses by celebrity scholars; others see it becoming an open-ended process of badge-earning and hurdle-clearing; and still others imagine a future where learning takes place in the context of gaming modules. This session will discuss another possibility, one where the writing classroom becomes a place where the anarchic power of the Internet is harnessed to promote both creative expression and creative thinking.
Professor Richard E. Miller is the author of As if Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education (1998) and Writing at the End of the World (2005). His published articles concern developing a philosophy of consciousness that promotes transformative teaching and writing practices. He has delivered over fifty invited talks across the country and abroad on how literacy is being redefined by Web 2.0 technologies. His current research concerns "the end of privacy" and how education is being changed as a result of the proliferation of hand-held devices that enable instant publication and global distribution of anything that can be seen or heard. He now publishes exclusively on his website, text2cloud
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