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I have worked in the field of treating eating disorders for almost 18 years. In those 18 years I have experienced times of great joy as I've watched the miracle of a patient's healing unfold before my eyes.
During that time I also had times of deep sadness as I watched hundreds of women with eating disorders relapse repeatedly. Treatment teams are frequently dismayed, families are in debt for thousands of dollars, and patients themselves feel as if they've failed yet one more time.
I became aware early on as an eating disorder therapist that the medical model of treatment, which is cognitive-behavioral therapy and nutritional education with some equine therapy tossed in occasionally, simply doesn't work. Stuart Agras (1993) stated that only 32% of all people who have had eating disorder treatment are eating disorder free after a year. This is simply not good enough!
It was when I was studying for my PhD at Saybrook in San Francisco that I finally figured out what was missing. Attention to what I call my holy trinity – mind, body, spirit was missing. In the medical model of eating disorder treatment, the body and the spirit were left out!
Treating eating disorders is serious. Eating disorders affect a significant number of Americans, an estimated 5 million every year (Kreipe, Golden, Katzman, Fisher, Rees, Tonkin, et al., 1995). These disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorders and several other variants. Although these disorders are more common in adolescent girls or young women, approximately 7 million girls and adult women struggle with eating disorders and approximately 1 million boys and men will struggle with eating disorders this year (Katz, 2003). 10%-25% of all those battling anorexia will die as a direct result of the eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any DSM diagnoses.
We often say that there's no such thing as a client with JUST an eating disorder. Nearly all eating disorder clients present with a host of issues that may include anorexia, bulimia and compulsive eating, but also attention deficit disorder, anxiety, depression, trauma, substance abuse, obsessive compulsive disorders, sleep disorders, and a host of other conditions. Almost all eating disordered patients have a dual diagnosis.
Given the complexity of eating disorders, holistic treatment is the one of the few ways to successfully treat eating disorders and their co-occurring conditions.
Holistic eating disorder treatment takes into account the whole person (body, mind, spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle. It makes use of all therapies, both conventional and alternative.
Integrative medicine and holistic eating disorder treatment are partners in treating the whole person, knowing that one part of a person cannot become either ill or well without all of the other parts being affected. Holistic eating disorder treatment depends on a partnership between the patient, therapist, the doctor, and all of the practitioners where the goal is to treat the mind, body, and spirit, all at the same time. While some of the therapies used might be considered unconventional, a guiding principle within holistic and integrative medicine is to use therapies that have some high-quality evidence to support them, such as some therapies used in holistic eating disorder treatment as well.
In a holistic eating disorder treatment center, a multidisciplinary treatment team consists of practitioners from traditional psychiatry, psychotherapy, and medicine who work closely with complementary medicine practitioners. Every member of the staff needs to be an experienced, caring professional who is certified and/or licensed in his or her area of practice and is knowledgeable in the field of eating disorders.
In holistic eating disorder treatment, many types of experiential therapies are used. Clients who have had various traumatic events in their lives are treated through the use of experiential therapies. These therapies include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), cognitive-behavioral interventions, Gestalt Therapy, Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Neural-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sexual abuse issues are addressed in a professional, respectful, and gentle manner.
Clients in holistic eating disorder treatment are treated as individuals with the utmost dignity and respect.
Holistic eating disorder treatment covers quite a wide range of options for treatment. One eating disorder expert said it like this, "We're going to knock on a lot of little doors with and for a patient. Some of those doors will open with CBT, others with acupuncture, bodywork, or neurofeedback. But we at least have such a wide variety of little doors that we'll find whatever it is that will be the way that will take an individual towards healing, health, and wellness."
This is the first of a series of articles where I will explain the types of alternative therapies that are used in the holistic treatment of eating disorders, why they're used and, their effectiveness.


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Sufficient storage for biomass is necessary to accommodate seasonality of production and ensure regular supply to the biomass energy plant. The type of storage will depend on the properties of the biomass, especially moisture content. For high-moisture biomass intended to be used wet, such as in fermentation and anaerobic digestion systems, wet storage systems can be used, with storage times closely controlled to avoid excessive degradation of feedstock.
Storage systems typically used with dry agricultural biomass should be protected against spontaneous combustion and excess decomposition, and the maximum storage moisture depends on the type of storage employed. Moisture limits must be observed to avoid spontaneous combustion and the emission of regulated compounds.
Cost of storage is important to the overall feasibility of the biomass enterprise. In some cases, the storage can be on the same site as the source of the feedstock. In others, necessary volumes can only be achieved by combining the biomass feedstock from a number of relatively close sources. Typically, delivery within about 50 miles is economic, but longer range transport is sometimes acceptable, especially when disposal fees can be reduced.
Agricultural residues such as wheat straw, rice husk, rice straw and corn stover are usually spread or windrowed behind the grain harvesters for later baling. Typically these residues are left in the field to air dry to moisture levels below about 14% preferred for bales in stacks or large piles of loose material. After collection, biomass may be stored in the open or protected from the elements by tarps or various structures. Pelletizing may be employed to increase bulk density and reduce storage and transport volume and cost.
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Through most of our history, this assumption has proved to be correct. These days, not so much.
Last week, the Commerce Department announced that the gross domestic product shrunk by 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. And the Census Bureau reported that the U.S. birth rate in 2011 was 63.2 per 1,000 women age 15 to 44, the lowest ever recorded.
Slow economic growth and low population growth threaten to undermine entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. Despite contrary rhetoric, they are programs in which working age people pay for pensions and medical care for the elderly.
When Medicare was established in 1965 and when Social Security was vastly expanded in 1972, America was accustomed to the high birth rates of the post-World War II baby boom. It was widely assumed that the baby boom generation would soon produce a baby boom of its own.
Oops. The birth rate fell from the peak of 122.7 in 1957 to 68.8 in 1973 and hovered around that level until 2007. The baby boom, it turns out, was an exception to a general rule that people tend to have fewer babies as their societies become more affluent and urbanized.
Social Security had to be tweaked in 1983 when it became clear there weren't enough working age people to fund benefits promised to the elderly. It needs tweaking again today for the same reason.
Medicare presents even greater problems. Health care costs have generally been rising at rates above economic growth.
By itself this is not necessarily a problem. Economic growth and market competition have enabled Americans to spend smaller percentages of their incomes on food and clothes, with more left over to spend on other things.
Spending more on health care is a sensible thing for an affluent society to do -- especially as new medical procedures and drugs mean that health care can deliver more than it used to.
But in a society in which the elderly are an increasing share of the population and working age people are a decreasing share, it becomes increasingly difficult to fund these programs.
These problems are exacerbated when the economy fails to grow as rapidly as the working age population.
Birth rates fell sharply during the Depression of the 1930s. They have fallen significantly since the housing collapse, from 69.3 in 2007 to 63.2 in 2011. The steepest decline in births since 2007 has been among Hispanic immigrants, who were also hit hard by housing foreclosures.
We don't know whether this trend will continue. But if it does, the consequences will resemble the subtitle of Jonathan Last's newly published book, "What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster."
Last points out that our fertility rate -- the number of children a woman has over a lifetime -- has been below the replacement level of 2.1. Over time, a below-replacement-level fertility rate means population decline.
To see what that means, look at Japan. Its fertility rate is 1.4, its population is declining, and it has had essentially zero economic growth since 1990.
We are not in such a bad position, yet. Since the end of the recession in June 2009, quarterly GDP growth has averaged 2.1 percent.
That has left job growth way below the historic trend line. Four years ago, the incoming Obama administration's economists promised that we would be heading back up to the trend line, with unemployment down to a little above 5 percent now.
Instead, it was 7.9 percent in January, and that's with millions no longer even looking for work. Labor force participation is the lowest it's been since 1981.
The danger is that all this can come to seem the new normal. Low birth rates, as Last argues, can persuade others to want fewer children.
Low economic growth or even decline can shape expectations and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. "An economic recovery has begun," Obama said in his inaugural speech last month. The implication: This is all you're going to get.
In the 1990s, Canada and Sweden faced economic crises similar to ours. In response, they sharply cut public spending. Their economies have done well since, and their governments have been running budget surpluses.
We did something like the opposite. The consequences could be enduring.
Michael Barone, senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner (www.washingtonexaminer.com), is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics. To find out more about Michael Barone, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.


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Interviewing Barbara Oakley About Her Book "Cold-Blooded Kindness: Neuroquirks of a Codependent Killer" And The Concept Of Pathological Altruism
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Barbara Oakley's latest book is called, Cold-Blooded Kindness: Neuroquirks of a Codependent Killer, or Just Give Me a Shot at Loving You, Dear, and Other Reflections on Helping That Hurt. I've almost finished reading the book, think it's outstanding, and would recommend it. It's one part "True Crime" and one part cutting edge psychology and I was delighted to have an opportunity to interview Barbara Oakley about the book.
What follows is an edited transcript of my conversation with Barbara Oakley. Enjoy!
Your book is on Carole Alden. What makes her story so fascinating? Why did you want to write a book about her in particular?
Basically, she fooled me. She's that good. I just finished my last book, which was, Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend. It's a bit of a tongue in cheek title for a very seriously researched book about the neuroscience behind why seemingly ordinary people can sometimes be so extraordinarily malevolent. So, I had done this book and I was like, "Gosh, I never want to write a book about nasty people again. I'm just really tired of it."
…So that's when I was sitting in bed one night and I happened to be reading The National Enquirer — and don't tell my boss that, because I'm supposed to be your average educated professor who doesn't like to read The National Enquirer — but I came across the story of Carole Alden. What it said in The National Enquirer was this wonderful artist had been brutally abused by her psychopathic monster of a husband; so she had shot and killed him.
I thought, "Well wait a minute, isn't this the perfect idea to represent what I want to be studying?" She had married this drug abuser and she was supposedly trying to help him. He then turned around, attacked her, and almost killed her. She in turn, ended up killing him and going to prison. It seemed like the perfect story and besides, I'd be writing about somebody good for a change.
But, I'm an engineer, so I start looking at things like an engineer looks at it. You tell me this. Okay, good. Where does it say that in writing? Who else says that? I never took things just as I was first told. So, Carole Alden had written me 100 pages of letters that clearly defined her thinking about all of this. When I went and checked against the actual written record and checked against people who had known her and so forth, it was blatantly misrepresentative. She puts Casey Anthony to shame as far as her ability to spin the facts for her own favor. I mean it sounds kind of serious, but some of the stuff she did was just so wacky that it ends up being almost a book of comedy at times. She did things like calling up the press and telling them her 13 year old daughter was dying of malignant breast cancer and that her dying wish is to get an emu chick. Well, actually, Carol's own desire was to get an emu chick, but they're really expensive. By doing this she ended up being shown on TV as her ostensibly dying daughter is given these emu chicks as her "final wish." Actually, she had this little benign cyst and this was just used as a mechanism to manipulate the public and get what Carole wanted. She's good at it and I mean, who would think of a scheme like that to get emu chicks?
Tell us a little bit more about pathological altruism?
We can understand that maybe Hitler had some bio-physiological underpinnings that helped create his dysfunctional behavior. We can buy that, but that's not the case for the millions of Germans who followed him. So what's the deal with them? I thought, "That's a good question," and at that time, it began to strike me that there are pathologies of altruism. It's our desire to do good for others that can often be the strongest hook to get us to do really awful things.
When I worked for the Soviets during the early '80s, I was a Russian translator on a Soviet ship up in the Bering Sea. I still remember one night, we all got a little tipsy and I couldn't take any more. You see, my captain had this big picture of Stalin up on his wall. I said, "How could you have a picture of this man on your wall? Don't you realize how many millions and millions of Russians he killed?" He turned to me and said, "Barbara, everybody makes mistakes. When the whole world is Communist, we will not have these kinds of mistakes." That idea was also in the back of my mind because I've lived under totalitarian governments, particularly communism, where they're always doing these horrific things for the "people's good."
People normally think of altruism as something that benefits someone else, maybe at some cost to yourself. But, pathological altruism is altruism that you may think is benefitting someone else, but it doesn't benefit him. In fact, it can make the situation even worse and not just for the person you're trying to help, but even for yourself.
I had a student in one of my classes on pathological altruism and she was just not doing very well. Finally one day, I got a note from her and it said, "I can't be in class today. My brother tried to commit suicide." I took a risk, wrote a note, and said, "Maybe you want to apply some of the ideas from this class and set some emotional boundaries because you think you're reaching out to try and help your brother, but it doesn't look like that's happening. Instead, it's hurting you." She told me, "That changed my life." She had indeed become very depressed herself. She was planning on dropping out of school and so this helped her take a step back and start realizing that, no, she wasn't really helping her brother.
I think sometimes people hear this and they have a knee jerk reaction, "You can't say this and they get very upset." I think they really get upset because if everybody knew this kind of thing, they wouldn't be able to manipulate them quite as easily.
I think there's some truth to that.. Now your book immediately brought to mind for me a C.S. Lewis quote from The Screwtape Letters where a devil explains his trade to a nephew. Let me read the quote to you,
"Do what you will, there is going to be some benevolence, as well as some malice, in your patient's soul. The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbours whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know. The malice thus become wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."
In politics you tend to see quite a bit of that behavior. In fact, many of the most angry, hate filled, vicious people in politics will tell you their actions are motivated by compassion. That doesn't seem to quite fit. Can you talk about that a little bit and whether it's psychologically healthy for the person doing it?
I think that's a perfect quote. There are so many examples of it — like busing. I live near the Detroit area and it was absolutely devastated by busing. Busing was instituted for benign reasons, altruistic reasons. They wanted to reduce the amount of segregation; so they instituted this at enormous costs and it sounded good. Because of that, everybody got on board. If you weren't on board, you had to be a racist and we spent enormous amounts of money to what? Worsen the segregation — because people with means moved out of the city. They didn't want to be told where to put their child — especially if it meant putting their child in a worse school. So this idea of we've got to help can be an immense waste of money.
More than that, I'm just appalled at how can we have a resurgence of Marxists and communist ideas? Isn't it clear that virtually everywhere that communism and Marxism gets a solid footing that those economies go to hell in a hand basket and it becomes very totalitarian? I mean, look at the difference between North Korea and South Korea. Look what happened to Vietnam after we left.
…I see that happening now in our country. "Oh, we've got to help all these people in the unions and this and that. We've got to help….." Well, wait a minute — there is only so much pie that we have to split before you're starting to just print empty dollars. But because people haven't been taught that helping can be actually bad for everyone, it just doesn't compute — particularly with people on the Left.
Now your book touches on battered women and that people can sometimes feel a little uncomfortable taking a clear look at it because they'll hear some things that they don't want to hear. Tell us some of the things people may be getting wrong about battered women.
One thing that people don't understand is that over 200 studies in the last 50 years have shown that men and women commit violence against one another at equal rates. It's not like men are these horrible, horrible critters that do 98% of the battering. No, it's 50/50. Women suffer more physical damage because men are bigger. But that doesn't mean that men don't suffer their own fair share of damage. In fact, 1/3 of all murders that occur in couples are men murdered by women. We're talking about some seriously disturbed women, as well as, men.
But what shocked me was to find that battered woman syndrome, which is used in states nationwide as sort of a get out of jail free card — this syndrome grew out of a study 30 years ago by a researcher named Lenore Walker who studied 400 battered women. Her conclusions were essentially that battered women are really pretty normal and just fall in with a bad guy. So what that really is saying is that any time you have a battered woman, you have a perfectly normal battered woman and you have a very bad guy. Right?
I asked Lenore, I said, "Okay, you have these 400 battered women, but who did you compare them with? What was their control group?" Well, she had no standard control group. None. This is not shoddy science; this is not science at all. Yet, when anyone points this kind of thing out, Lenore Walker says they're against battered women. Ultimately, it's a sad, sad statement against science that this kind of shoddy research could be given a free pass and allowed and then to serve as a basis for these laws nationwide. I mean it's utterly ridiculous.
Barbara, I appreciate your time. Thank you.
You can read more from Barbara Oakley here and in November, you can purchase her upcoming book, Pathological Altruism.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., original name Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger, adopted name in full Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., (born October 15, 1917, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.—died February 28, 2007, New York, New York), American historian, educator, and public official whose best-known books explore the presidencies of Andrew Jackson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. He served in the latter's administration.
His father, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., was also a noted historian. The younger Schlesinger graduated from Harvard University in 1938 and achieved initial notice with his biography Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress (1939). After serving in the Office of War Information and the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, he became a professor of history at Harvard in 1946, teaching there until 1961. In 1946 his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Jackson was published to widespread acclaim. In this book Schlesinger reinterpreted the American era of Jacksonian democracy in terms of its cultural, social, and economic aspects as well as its strictly political dimensions. Schlesinger's major historical work was The Age of Roosevelt, whose three separate volumes were entitled The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933 (1957), The Coming of the New Deal (1958), and The Politics of Upheaval (1960). In these books he described and narrated Roosevelt's New Deal from a sympathetic standpoint.
Throughout his life Schlesinger was active in liberal politics. He was an adviser to Adlai Stevenson and subsequently to Kennedy during their presidential campaigns, and the latter appointed Schlesinger a special assistant for Latin American affairs. Schlesinger's study of the Kennedy administration, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965), also won a Pulitzer Prize. In 1966 he began teaching history at the City University of New York, becoming professor emeritus in 1994. Among his other books were The Bitter Heritage (1967), The Imperial Presidency (1973), Robert Kennedy and His Times (1978), and War and the American Presidency (2004).


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Logic and Codes
Problem 46
Define predicates and/2, or/2, nand/2, nor/2, xor/2, impl/2 and equ/2 (for logical equivalence) which succeed or fail according to the result of their respective operations; e.g. and(A,B) will succeed, if and only if both A and B succeed.
A logical expression in two variables can then be written as in the following example: and(or(A,B),nand(A,B)).
Now, write a predicate table/3 which prints the truth table of a given logical expression in two variables.
Example: (table A B (and A (or A B))) true true true true fail true fail true fail fail fail fail Example in Haskell: > table (\a b -> (and' a (or' a b)) True True True True False True False True False False False False
not' :: Bool -> Bool
not' True = False
not' False = True
and',or',nor',nand',xor',impl',equ' :: Bool -> Bool -> Bool
and' True True = True
and' _ _ = False
or' True _ = True
or' _ True = True
or' _ _ = False
nor' a b = not' $ or' a b
nand' a b = not' $ and' a b
xor' True False = True
xor' False True = True
xor' _ _ = False
impl' a b = (not' a) `or'` b
equ' True True = True
equ' False False = True
equ' _ _ = False
table f = putStrLn . unlines $ [show a ++ " " ++ show b ++ " " ++ show (f a b)
| a <- [True, False], b <- [True, False]]
The implementations of the logic functions are quite verbose and can be shortened in places (like "equ' = (==)").
The table function in Lisp supposedly uses Lisp's symbol handling to substitute variables on the fly in the expression. I chose passing a binary function instead because parsing an expression would be more verbose in haskell than it is in Lisp.
Problem 47
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Problem 48
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Problem 49
An n-bit Gray code is a sequence of n-bit strings constructed according to certain rules. For example,
n = 1: C(1) = ['0','1']. n = 2: C(2) = ['00','01','11','10']. n = 3: C(3) = ['000','001','011','010',´110´,´111´,´101´,´100´].
Find out the construction rules and write a predicate with the following specification:
% gray(N,C) :- C is the N-bit Gray code
Can you apply the method of "result caching" in order to make the predicate more efficient, when it is to be used repeatedly?
Example in Haskell: P49> gray 3 ["000","001","011","010","110","111","101","100"]
gray :: Int -> [String]
gray 1 = ["0", "1"]
gray (n+1) = let xs = gray n in map ('0':) xs ++ map ('1':) (reverse xs)
It seems that the gray code can be recursively defined in the way that for determining the gray code of n we take the gray code of n-1, prepend a 0 to each word, take the gray code for n-1 again, reverse it and perpend a 1 to each word. At last we have to append these two lists. (Wikipedia seems to approve this.)
Instead of the equation for
gray 1 = ... we could also use
gray 0 = [""]
what leads to the same results.
Problem 50
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"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were given.
Fans of the actor were saddened to learn in March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of cancer.
He had kept working despite the diagnosis, putting together a memoir with his wife and shooting "The Beast," an A&E drama series for which he had already made the pilot. It drew a respectable 1.3 million viewers when the 13 episodes ran in 2009, but A&E said it had reluctantly decided not to renew it for a second season.
Swayze said he opted not to use painkilling drugs while making "The Beast" because they would have taken the edge off his performance. He acknowledged that time might be running out given the grim nature of the disease.
When he first went public with the illness, some reports gave him only weeks to live, but his doctor said his situation was "considerably more optimistic" than that.
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A three-time Golden Globe nominee, Swayze became a star with his performance as the misunderstood bad-boy Johnny Castle in "Dirty Dancing." As the son of a choreographer who began his career in musical theater, he seemed a natural to play the role.
A coming-of-age romance starring Jennifer Grey as an idealistic young woman on vacation with her family and Swayze as the Catskills resort's sexy (and much older) dance instructor, the film made great use of both his grace on his feet and his muscular physique.
It became an international phenomenon in the summer of 1987, spawning albums, an Oscar-winning hit song in "(I've Had) the Time of My Life," stage productions and a sequel, 2004's "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," in which he made a cameo.
Swayze performed and co-wrote a song on the soundtrack, the ballad "She's Like the Wind," inspired by his wife, Lisa Niemi. The film also gave him the chance to utter the now-classic line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
And it allowed him to poke fun at himself on a "Saturday Night Live" episode, in which he played a wannabe Chippendales dancer alongside the corpulent -- and frighteningly shirtless -- Chris Farley.
A major crowdpleaser, the film drew only mixed reviews from critics, though Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times, "Given the limitations of his role, that of a poor but handsome sex-object abused by the rich women at Kellerman's Mountain House, Mr. Swayze is also good. ... He's at his best -- as is the movie -- when he's dancing."
Swayze followed that up with the 1989 action flick "Road House," in which he played a bouncer at a rowdy bar. But it was his performance in 1990's "Ghost" that showed his vulnerable, sensitive side. He starred as a murdered man trying to communicate with his fiancee (Demi Moore) -- with great frustration and longing -- through a psychic played by Whoopi Goldberg.
Swayze said at the time that he fought for the role of Sam Wheat (director Jerry Zucker wanted Kevin Kline) but once he went in for an audition and read six scenes, he got it.
Why did he want the part so badly? "It made me cry four or five times," he said of Bruce Joel Rubin's Oscar-winning script in an AP interview.
"Ghost" provided yet another indelible musical moment: Swayze and Moore sensually molding pottery together to the strains of the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody." It also earned a best-picture nomination and a supporting-actress Oscar for Goldberg, who said she wouldn't have won if it weren't for Swayze.
"When I won my Academy Award, the only person I really thanked was Patrick," Goldberg said in March 2008 on the ABC daytime talk show "The View."
Swayze himself earned three Golden Globe nominations, for "Dirty Dancing," "Ghost" and 1995's "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar," which further allowed him to toy with his masculine image. The role called for him to play a drag queen on a cross-country road trip alongside Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo.
His heartthrob status almost kept him from being considered for the role of Vida Boheme.
"I couldn't get seen on it because everyone viewed me as terminally heterosexually masculine-macho," he told the AP then. But he transformed himself so completely that when his screen test was sent to Steven Spielberg, whose Amblin pictures produced "To Wong Foo," Spielberg didn't recognize him.
Among his earlier films, Swayze was part of the star-studded lineup of up-and-comers in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," alongside Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez and Diane Lane. Swayze played Darrel "Dary" Curtis, the oldest of three wayward brothers -- and essentially the father figure -- in a poor family in small-town Oklahoma.
Other '80s films included "Red Dawn," "Grandview U.S.A." (for which he also provided choreography) and "Youngblood," once more with Lowe, as Canadian hockey teammates.
In the '90s, he made such eclectic films as "Point Break" (1991), in which he played the leader of a band of bank-robbing surfers, and the family Western "Tall Tale" (1995), in which he starred as Pecos Bill. He appeared on the cover of People magazine as its "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1991, but his career tapered off toward the end of the 1990s, when he also had stay in rehab for alcohol abuse. In 2001, he appeared in the cult favorite "Donnie Darko," and in 2003 he returned to the New York stage with "Chicago"; 2006 found him in the musical "Guys and Dolls" in London.
Swayze was born in 1952 in Houston, the son of Jesse Swayze and choreographer Patsy Swayze, whose films include "Urban Cowboy."
He played football but also was drawn to dance and theater, performing with the Feld, Joffrey and Harkness Ballets and appearing on Broadway as Danny Zuko in "Grease." But he turned to acting in 1978 after a series of injuries.
Within a couple years of moving to Los Angeles, he made his debut in the roller-disco movie "Skatetown, U.S.A." The eclectic cast included Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Maureen McCormack and Billy Barty.
Swayze had a couple of movies in the works when his diagnosis was announced, including the drama "Powder Blue," starring Jessica Biel, Forest Whitaker and his younger brother, Don, which was scheduled for release this year.
Off-screen, he was an avid conservationist who was moved by his time in Africa to shine a light on "man's greed and absolute unwillingness to operate according to Mother Nature's laws," he told the AP in 2004.
Swayze was married since 1975 to Niemi, a fellow dancer who took lessons with his mother; they met when he was 19 and she was 15. A licensed pilot, Niemi would fly her husband from Los Angeles to Northern California for treatment at Stanford University Medical Center, People magazine reported in a cover story.
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|American basketball coach and announcer
|Dickie V
|Sports coach Basketball coach Journalist
|United States of America
|Journalism Sports
|9 June 1939, Passaic City, New Jersey
|84 years
Richard John "Dick" Vitale (/vaɪˈtæl/; born June 9, 1939), also known as "Dickie V", is an American basketball sportscaster. A former head coach in the college and professional ranks, he is well known as a college basketball broadcaster for ESPN. He is known for catchphrases such as "baby" and "diaper dandy" (outstanding freshman player), as well as enthusiastic and colorful remarks he makes during games, and has authored nine books and appeared in several movies.
Early life
Vitale was born in Passaic, New Jersey and grew up in East Rutherford, New Jersey. His father, John, was a piece work clothing press operator and had a second job as a security guard. His mom, Mae, worked in a factory as a seamstress and sewed coats until she suffered a stroke. In kindergarten, Vitale lost the vision in his left eye due to an accident with a pencil.
Vitale graduated from East Rutherford High School and Seton Hall University in 1963 with a bachelor of science degree in business administration. He later earned a master's degree in education from what is now William Paterson University.
High school coaching
Vitale took his first job as a coach at an elementary school in Garfield, New Jersey in 1959. Eventually he moved up to the high school level to become head coach at Garfield High School for one season, and then at East Rutherford High School (his alma mater).
College coaching
In 1971, Vitale moved to Rutgers University as an assistant coach under head coach Dick Lloyd. After two seasons there, he was hired in 1973 by the University of Detroit to become its head coach. Vitale took Detroit to the 32-team NCAA tournament in 1977. Vitale had a 78–30 record during his tenure at Detroit, which included a 21-game winning streak during the 1977 season. During that streak the Titans defeated the eventual champion Marquette on the road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Following the 1977 season, his fourth as Detroit head coach, Vitale was named the university's athletic director.
NBA coaching
Vitale coached the Detroit Pistons of the NBA for the 1978–79 season, leading them to a 30–52 (.366) record. On November 8, 1979, Pistons owner Bill Davidson came to Vitale's house and told him that the Pistons were making a coaching change. It was twelve games into the 1979–80 season, after the Pistons struggled to a 4–8 start. The primary reason for Vitale's downfall with the Pistons was the maneuver that brought Bob McAdoo to Detroit. M.L. Carr's decision to sign with Boston as a free agent in 1979 spawned a transaction in which the Pistons, entitled to compensation for Carr, demanded Bob McAdoo, who the Celtics were looking to unload due to injuries. The Pistons sent two 1980 first-round draft picks (in addition to Carr) to the Celtics in exchange for McAdoo in a combination free agent signing/trade. The Pistons would have the worst season in franchise history in 1979–80, and their pick would become the first overall pick in the 1980 draft. Boston then traded the two picks to the Warriors (who selected Joe Barry Carroll with the #1 pick and Rickey Brown with the #13 pick) in exchange for Robert Parish and the #3 pick (Kevin McHale).
Head coaching record
|Detroit Titans (Independent) (1973–1977)
|NCAA Sweet Sixteen
|79–29 (.731)
|79–29 (.731)
National champion Postseason invitational champion
|Regular season
|Games coached
|Games won
|Games lost
|Win-loss %
|Post season
|Playoff games
|Playoff wins
|Playoff losses
|Playoff win-loss %
|4th in Central
|Missed Playoffs
Following his departure as coach of the Detroit Pistons, Scotty Connal gave Vitale his first TV opportunity at the then fledgling ESPN cable network. His first reaction to the job of broadcaster was "Absolutely no way. I know nothing about TV. I want to get back to where I belong and my spirit belongs." He was reluctant to accept the position but his wife Lorraine told him to "go on TV and have some fun", so Vitale accepted on a temporary basis until another coaching job became available. He called ESPN's first college basketball game on December 5, 1979, when DePaul defeated Wisconsin 90–77. His first play-by-play partner was Joe Boyle.
Vitale was not a natural at first for broadcasting. He missed his first-ever production meeting when he was walking the streets of Chicago. Also, he would talk while the producers were talking to him through his earpiece, during commercials, and while the play-by-play man was talking. Vitale himself was not sure if broadcasting would fit him. Connal, who had hired him, told him, "You have a quality we can't teach." Vitale did not understand this until many people wanted his autograph at the 1983 Final Four. He credits a lot of his success to working with Jim Simpson at the beginning of his career.
In 1985, after the American Broadcasting Company acquired ESPN, Vitale also began doing broadcasts on the ABC network.
In 1999, Vitale was featured in a series of thirty-second promo shorts for "Hoops Malone". The shorts, which aired in heavy rotation on ESPN, were presented as a sitcom featuring Vitale, George Gervin and others, including a puppet called "O'Hoolix". ESPN promoted "Hoops" with banners and other marketing premiums, with the idea of generating buzz about the show, but no actual episodes were ever produced. Though this led to an offer for Vitale to do an actual sitcom, he turned down the opportunity.
In December 2002, Vitale called a St. Vincent – St. Mary's–Oak Hill Academy prep game, featuring then high school phenom LeBron James. He announced the game with Brad Nessler and NBA great Bill Walton.
By the 2004–05 season, Vitale was doing approximately 40 games a year.
Vitale is signed with ESPN through the 2018-19 college basketball season. Vitale was recruited to do color in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament by CBS but ESPN would not allow it. However, ESPN's analysts Jay Bilas and Len Elmore were allowed to provide color for CBS's tournament coverage, teaming with play-by-play announcers Dick Enberg and Gus Johnson. However, this is slightly misleading as Elmore continues to call games for both CBS and ESPN during the college basketball season; in Bilas' case he was loaned to CBS for the tournament only in 2003 and from 2005-2010.
In February 2015, ESPN removed Vitale from covering Duke-UNC basketball. He had covered every Duke-UNC game televised by ESPN since 1979.
Vitale is a voter on the AP Top 25 men's basketball polls, the annual Naismith Award and the John Wooden Award.
Vitale called his first NBA game on television since the 1984 NBA playoffs, along with Dan Shulman, on January 7, 2009 when the Miami Heat played the Denver Nuggets as ESPN swapped its NBA and NCAA crews. During ESPN's first incarnation covering the NBA, he regularly covered games.
Broadcasting partners
As of 2009, Vitale had called close to a thousand games. Vitale, a color commentator, is primarily paired with play-by-play announcers Mike Patrick, primarily those in the ACC games; and Dan Shulman for Saturday Primetime and other non-ACC games. During the postseason, he appears as an in-studio analyst with host Rece Davis and fellow analysts Jay Bilas, Digger Phelps, Hubert Davis, and Bob Knight. Previously, he has been paired with Keith Jackson, Roger Twibell, and Brent Musburger for ABC as well as Jim Simpson, Tim Brando, Mike Tirico, Dave O'Brien, Sean McDonough and Brad Nessler. He worked in the studio with Bob Ley, John Saunders, Tirico, and Chris Fowler as well as the late Jim Valvano.
On September 5, 2008 Vitale was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor to the sport, after falling just short of induction the previous year.
In 2011 the University of Detroit named their basketball court in his honor.
On August 18, 2012, he was inducted into the Little League Museum Hall of Excellence.
Italian American Sports Hall of Fame
Personal life
Dick Vitale is married and has two daughters, both of whom attended the University of Notre Dame and played varsity tennis. He is frequently seen at Notre Dame football games and is an avid supporter of the school.
He was close friends with Jim Valvano, also known as "Jimmy V", and continues to spearhead fundraising activities for the V Foundation for Cancer Research in his honor. Vitale is a Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tampa Bay Rays season ticket holder and fan and is frequently spotted by baseball fans sitting in the first row behind home plate at Tropicana Field.
On December 18, 2007, Vitale was diagnosed with lesions on his vocal cords. He underwent successful surgery and returned to announcing on February 6, calling the Duke-North Carolina game on ESPN, often exclaiming, "It's serendipity, baby!" when things come together. Before this, he had never missed a game due to illness.
Vitale is now a resident of Lakewood Ranch, Florida, which is located near Bradenton, Florida. He appears once a week on Mike and Mike in the Morning, often mentioning Another Broken Egg or First Watch, breakfast/brunch restaurants in Lakewood Ranch.
In popular culture
Vitale lent his name and voice to the 1994 Sega Genesis game, Dick Vitale's "Awesome Baby" College Hoops. Vitale and Nessler also provide the commentator voices for EA Sports' NCAA Basketball (formerly NCAA March Madness) video game series. In 2004, Vitale released a descriptive autobiography cowritten with Dick Weiss entitled Living a Dream. The book has several thoughts and comments on his days with the Pistons and ESPN, and memories of former NC State basketball Coach Jim Valvano. In 1988, Vitale had a cameo appearance as a baseball color commentator, sharing the crowded broadcast booth with Curt Gowdy, Jim Palmer, Dick Enberg, Mel Allen, Tim McCarver and Joyce Brothers in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!. Vitale currently stars in commercials for DiGiorno pizza, Oberto beef jerky, and Hooters restaurants. He guest starred on The Cosby Show along with friend Jim Valvano as furniture movers in the eighth-season episode The Getaway. Dick Vitale is also the main spokesperson for Airborne Athletics Dr. Dish basketball training machine. He also made an appearance in the movie Love and Basketball as himself.
Vitale has authored nine books:
- "Dickie V's ABCs and 1-2-3s", Ascend Books (October 2010)
- "Living a Dream: Reflections on 25 Years Sitting in the Best Seat", Champaign, IL Sports Publishing LLC (January 1, 2003)
- "Dick Vitale's Fabulous 50 Players and Moments in College Basketball: From the Best Seat in the House During My 30 Years at ESPN", Ascend Books (October 6, 2008)
- "Time Out Baby!", Berkley (December 1, 1992)
- "Vitale", Simon and Schuster; 1st Edition (1988)
- "Dickie V's Top 40 All-Everything Teams", Masters Press (June 1994)
- "Tourney Time: It's Awesome Baby!", Masters Press, (December 1993)
- "Holding Court: Reflections on the Game I Love", Masters Press (November 1995)
- "Campus Chaos: Why the Game I Love is Breaking My Heart", Sideline Sports Publishing (December 1999)
- "Getting a W in the Game of Life: Using my T.E.A.M. Model to Motivate, Elevate, and Be Great" (Oct. 2012)


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The Ocean Zephyr stands docked in Bremerhaven, Germany, Wednesday Jan. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Stephen Barker)
BREMEVERHAVEN, Germany -- Scientists prepared Thursday to embark on an unprecedented, years-long mission to explore the Indian Ocean and document changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades.
The ambitious expedition will delve into one of the last major unexplored frontiers on the planet, a vast body of water that's already feeling the effects of global warming. Understanding the Indian Ocean's ecosystem is important not just for the species that live in it, but also for an estimated 2.5 billion people at home in the region -- from East Africa, the Arabian peninsula, South and Southeast Asia.
The Nekton Mission, supported by over 40 organizations, will conduct further dives in other parts of the Indian Ocean over three years. The research will contribute to a summit on the state of the Indian Ocean planned for late 2021.
The Ocean Zephyr is preparing to leave Bremerhaven, Germany, on the first leg of trip. Researchers will spend seven weeks surveying underwater life, map the sea floor and drop sensors to depths of up to 2,000 metres (6,560 feet) in the seas around the Seychelles.
Little is known about the watery world below depths of 30 metres (100 feet), which scientists from Britain and the Seychelles will be exploring with two crewed submarines and a remotely operated submersible in March and April.
Ronny Jumeau, the Seychelles' ambassador to the United Nations, said such research is vital to helping the island nation understand its vast ocean territory.
While the country's 115 islands together add up to just 455 square kilometres (176 sq. miles) of land -- about the same as San Antonio, Texas -- its exclusive economic zone stretches to 1.4 million square kilometres (540 million square miles) of sea, an area almost the size of Alaska.
Jumeau said the Seychelles aims to become a leader in the development of a "blue economy" that draws on the resources of the ocean. The archipelago relies on fishing and tourism, but has lately also been exploring the possibility of extracting oil and gas from beneath the sea floor.
"Key to this is knowing not only what you have in the ocean around you, but where it is and what is its value," he said. "It is only when you know this that you can properly decide what to exploit and what to protect and leave untouched."
"Research expeditions such as the Nekton Mission are therefore vital to help us fill those gaps and better know our ocean space and marine resources to make wise decisions in planning the future of our blue economy," Jumeau added.
The island nation of fewer than 100,000 people is already feeling the effects of climate change, with rising water temperatures bleaching its coral reefs.
"Our ocean is undergoing rapid ecological transformation by human activities," said Callum Roberts, a marine conservation biologist at the University of York, England, who is a trustee of the mission.
"Seychelles are a critical beacon and bellwether for marine conservation in the Indian Ocean and globally," he said.
The mission's principal scientist, Lucy Woodall of Oxford University, said the researchers expect to discover dozens of new species, from corals and sponges to larger creatures like types of dog-sharks.
The Associated Press is accompanying the expedition and will provide live underwater video from the dives, using new optical transmission technology to send footage from the submarines to the ship and from there, by satellite, to the world.


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Bill would require savings of at least 10 percent for private prisons to operate
Legislation to allow the state to save taxpayer dollars by using privately run prisons is stuck in the Michigan House of Representatives.
Under the measure (House Bills 5174 and 5177), the Michigan Department of Corrections could house prisoners in privately operated prisons — but only if it could save 10 percent in costs by doing so.
Legislation that nearly mirrors House Bills 5174 and 5177 has already been passed by the Michigan Senate. Therefore, if the House could put together the votes needed to pass the bills, the measure's eventual enactment would be very likely.
However, even with the 10 percent savings requirement, the 55 "yes" votes required for passage in the House are apparently not readily lining up. None of the House Democrats are expected to support the bill, but the Republicans have more than enough members to pass it. That mean that there are at least eight House Republicans unwilling to commit to voting "yes" on the legislation.
Michigan's corrections system (prisons) has long been one of the most expensive in nation.
"This legislation would give the Department of Corrections one more tool in its toolbox to control spending," said Rep. Jon Bumstead, R-Newaygo, a supporter of the bills. "In the last election we ran on the issue of protecting taxpayer dollars and controlling costs. This legislation is something we can do now that would be keeping that promise.
"But what we're seeing so far is the corrections [officers] unions and the UAW being very active on this," Bumstead continued. "That makes it harder to get the votes we need for passage."
The Michigan Corrections Organization, the union representing public sector corrections officers, is monitoring the progress (or lack thereof) on the bills.
Last week, its Facebook page included comments like the following:
"No vote on privatization bills today and legislature will not reconvene until Tuesday. Keep reaching out to legislators and asking them to stand strong. This battle is far from over."
Privately-owned North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin is at the heart of the immediate situation and is specifically mentioned in the legislation. The privately run prison is owned by Geo Group.
Between 1999 and 2005 the Geo-operated prison at Baldwin was used by MDOC to house youth offenders. But in 2005, under former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, the prison was closed. Since then it has periodically contracted to house prisoners from other states.
The argument given for closing the prison was a Michigan Auditor General study that ranked the Baldwin prison as the 4th most expensive of Michigan's prisons, in terms of daily costs per prisoner.
The website for MCO Local 526M, which is affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, has posted an article using the '05 Auditor General ranking as evidence as an argument against passage of the bill.
Those who support privatizing prisons argue that the cost per prisoner calculation in the '05 study was fatally flawed because the facility's prisoner population had been depleted when the study was performed.
A facility operating at only half capacity or less would virtually always cost more per prisoner than when it was operating at full capacity. At the time of the study, MDOC, operating as part of the Granholm administration, controlled how many prisoners the Baldwin prison housed.
In addition, proponents of the bills argue that the 10 percent savings requirement in the legislation eliminates concerns about the '05 auditor general's rankings anyway.
MCO officials did not respond to a phone call for comment.
Michigan Capitol Confidential is the news source produced by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Michigan Capitol Confidential reports with a free-market news perspective.


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Microsoft is responding to the "Big Data" movement by adding support for the open source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse platform.
The connectors will be available in CTP (community technology preview) form soon, according to a post this week on the official SQL Server Team blog.
Big Data refers to the ever-growing volumes of data being generated by enterprises, particularly from sensors and Web traffic.
"Our customers have been asking us to help store, manage, and analyze both structured and unstructured data — in particular, data stored in Hadoop environments," Microsoft said in the blog post.
With the new connectors, customers will be able to interchange data between Hadoop environments, SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse, Microsoft said.
Hadoop, which is hosted at the Apache Software Foundation, was formed by Yahoo and is based partly on the MapReduce programming model developed by Google. An increasingly large commercial ecosystem has emerged around Hadoop, with companies such as Cloudera offering services and specialized distributions of the framework.
Microsoft's move makes sense, given that its data warehousing vendors such as EMC Greenplum and Teradata have already embraced Hadoop, said Forrester Research analyst James Kobielus.
More and more enterprises are running Hadoop clusters and they want to be able to send data from those systems downstream to their data warehouse systems, he added.
But no one vendor can claim to have a fully built-out Hadoop offering, which would include distributions, connectors to Hadoop-related projects such as the Cassandra data store, modeling tools and other components, he said.
There is "no doubt" that like other vendors, Microsoft has serious plans for Hadoop, but it hasn't made a long-term road map public, Kobielus added.
Microsoft is not embracing Hadoop at the expense of homegrown efforts, having recently released a MapReduce-based programming model, Project Daytona, for use on its Azure cloud platform.
Also this week, Microsoft announced that it has released a second Appliance Update for Parallel Data Warehouse. These updates combine new features for both hardware and software components.
The release includes new connectors for third-party BI (business intelligence) and data-integration tools from SAP, Informatica and Microstrategy.
In addition, a version of the PDW based on Dell hardware is now available, Microsoft said. Pricing starts at less than US$12,000 per terabyte.


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2016-17 Cross Country: Competed in six meets ... paced the Bucs in five of the six meets ... recorded four top 25 finishes ... placed 9th with a time of 22:22.6 at the Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational ... earned a 21st place finish at the SoCon Championship after running a time of 18:09.1
2015-16 Track & Field: Competed in six indoor and five outdoor meets ... compiled a personal best time of 17:47.80 in the 5000m at the Charlotte 49er Classic en route to a 12th place finish ... seasonal best finish of second in the 3000m at the Western Carolina Track and Field Invitational
2015 Cross Country: Competed in six meets ... paced the Bucs in four of the six meets ... placed 16th at the SoCon Championships with a time of 19:12.3 ... had four top 50 finishes
2014-15 Track & Field: Competed in every indoor and outdoor meet ... recorded a collegiate best 5:14.78 in the mile run at the Samford Invitational ... earned the victory in the distance medley relay with at time of 12:15.06 at the ETSU Invitational...Finished sixth in the steeple chase at the SoCon Championships.
2014 Cross Country: Competed in five meets ... placed third at the UNCG Spartan Invitational 5K with a time of 18:36.7 ... finished 19th out of 80 runners at the SoCon Championships with a 18:09.0 time.
2013-14 Track & Field: Competed in five indoor meets ... raced to a second-place finish in the 3000M at the Niswonger Invitational with a time of 10:45.40 ... placed 13th overall in the 5000M at the A-Sun Indoor Championships with a time of 18:28.12.
2013 Cross Country: Competed in five meets ... placed 23rd out of 80-plus runners at the A-Sun Championships ... raced to a 22:30.2 time at the NCAA South Region Championships.
Prior to ETSU: Received four varsity letters for outdoor track & field and cross country as well as three for indoor track & field at Patrick County High School in Stuart, Va. ... member of championship teams throughout her career at County ... All-Region 2011-12, 2012-13 ... All-State 2011 ... Piedmont District Athlete of the Year in 2012 ... indoor track All-State 2013 ... Piedmont District track champion 2011 in 800m, 1600m ... 2012 Piedmont District champion 4x4 team ... set County records in 16oom, 5k, 3200m, 1000m, 4x4, 4x8 and was the school's MVP in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track in 2012.
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Oatmeal Tea Bread
I decided to give them a try, since I do love oats!
This bread is quite delicious, sweet, but not overly sweet -- pairs nicely with tea! I bet that's why it's called "tea bread"!
Oatmeal Tea Bread - Adapted from Loving My Domestic Life
1/4 C milk
1 egg
2 T olive oil
1 1/4 C applesauce
1 C oats
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/2 C brown sugar
1/8 C sugar
1/2 C whole wheat flour
3/4 C all purpose flour
1 T brown sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 T oats
Begin by mixing the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
This includes the sugars, baking soda, salt, oats and spices.
Then, stir in the flour.
In a second bowl, combine the olive oil, applesauce, egg and milk. Mix well.
Combine the applesauce mixture together with the flour mixture.
Stir until just moist.
Spread into a lightly greased bread loaf pan.
Combine the 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, 1 T brown sugar and 1 T oats together in a small container and then sprinkle this topping over the bread.
Bake at 350 for 45minutes to an 1 hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center of the loaf. Alternatively, you can make muffins -- baking for ~15-18 minutes, or until done.
Cool on a wire cooling wrack.
Then, slice and serve.
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19 comments:
Awww, shucks! It IS so yummy, huh? I am glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the link love. :)ReplyDelete
This sounds wonderful and looks so pretty! Thanks!ReplyDelete
I've tried commenting before but somehow I can't.ReplyDelete
I do like your mindset as it reminds me of myself nearly 25 years ago as a new bride. We still strive to cook from scratch even now with three teenagers!
This looks really good. I love Oatmeal anything. I will definitely try this. Thanks, guys!ReplyDelete
I am going to make this is sounds delicious. Love your blog I am a new follower.ReplyDelete
This looks really really yummy!!! I've already printed several of your recipes posted here:)ReplyDelete
Looks delicious! I love oats and can't wait to try this one out!! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Oh yes please, spread a little butter and I am so there. Love the texture.ReplyDelete
Oh yuuuum! This looks so good! I <3 bread.ReplyDelete
Hi! I am new to your blog and see that you have a couple of gluten free recipes in your index. I know this may be a long shot, but thought I would ask...ReplyDelete
I would LOVE to make this bread, but can't obviously have the wheat flour. Do you have any recommendations or suggestions of a substitute? Thanks so much! Amanda
Ooo, I love it already :). I'm a big fan of oatmeal too. Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat EatersReplyDelete
id love a slice right now thank you. haha. love how its got so much apple sauce in it...yummmm!ReplyDelete
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I am by no means an expert in GF baking -- but, if you're okay with oats, I'd go ahead and try making it using a GF flour mix, like one of Amy's blends -- http://www.simplysugarandglutenfree.com/my-basic-flour-blend/, in place of the wheat flours.
Any other GF folks have suggestions?
I really love oats in baked goods - they have such a nice, mild flavor. This looks moist and delicious!ReplyDelete
Oatmeal bread sounds so comforting and filling. I am trying to figure out how I have never tried this before. Thanks for linking up to "Your recipe, My kitchen" on Monday!ReplyDelete
I made this last night, it's so good! I more than doubled the cinnamon, and used whole wheat white flour for everything, but other than that stuck to the recipe. It's such a nice idea for breakfast or an afternoon snack (yes, with tea or coffee). Great, unique recipe! (Oh and mine baked in less than 40 minutes.)ReplyDelete
I blogged it too: Adventures In Baking: Oatmeal Tea Bread.Replies
Oops, wrong URL!! Funny.Delete
Adventures In Baking: Oatmeal Tea Bread
I made this again recently and added toasted walnuts. It's a great recipe, thank you so much! A new staple.ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by! I'd love to hear from you; especially how you're finding JOY in your kitchen.


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WASHINGTON — — A coalition of civil liberties and immigrant-rights advocates led by Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland wants to strengthen a provision in the Senate's sweeping immigration bill that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from racial profiling.
The 867-page, bipartisan immigration bill, which is expected to dominate the agenda in Congress this summer, would impose a first-ever federal prohibition on profiling. But advocates are concerned that broad exemptions contained in the proposal — including one for "national security" — would undermine its impact.
Racial profiling is one of dozens of issues expected to trigger debate as lawmakers begin digging into the specifics of the legislation, which would be the first overhaul of U.S. immigration law in nearly 30 years.
The effort to change the proposal, Cardin and advocates acknowledge, will be tough.
"It's not as strong as it needs to be," the Democrat said. "We are looking at whether we can strengthen it."
A post-9/11 emphasis on airport and border security has broadened the potential for profiling beyond traditional concerns about "driving while black," rights advocates say. Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union now are just as focused on Muslims who endure added scrutiny before boarding planes or Hispanics held at the border for questioning even when they hold U.S. passports.
"It's an enormous problem," said Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU's legislative office in Washington. "I'm glad Congress is going to do something to address this issue but we want them to do more."
The issue has a deep history in Maryland. The ACLU and the NAACP have waged a decades-old battle with state police over access to racial-profiling complaints. The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled in January that the agency must make public the internal affairs files on those complaints after redacting identifying information.
More recently, groups have criticized Frederick County for a high percentage of arrests of illegal immigrants for low-level crimes.
A 2011 Migration Policy Institute study of state and local immigration enforcement practices found that 60 percent of arrests of immigrants began as traffic stops.
Kim Propeack, political director of the immigrant-rights group CASA de Maryland, said staff members have heard complaints from Frederick, Prince George's and Baltimore counties, among others.
"In a phrase," she said, "it's a problem."
The immigration bill, crafted by a group of eight senators, would allow many of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants to apply for legal status. The measure calls for spending an added $6.5 billion on border security and would require companies to verify the immigration status of new employees.
Eighty-two senators voted to bring the bill to the floor this week. The legislation is a priority for the Obama administration, but is also politically important for Republicans, who lost much of the Hispanic vote in last year's presidential election.
The profiling provision mimics 2003 guidance from then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, who barred federal law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and the U.S. Border Patrol from making spontaneous decisions based on race or ethnicity.
But the guidance — and the bill — make broad exemptions for national security, catastrophic events and border protection.
"These loopholes really swallow the rule," said Sameera Hafiz, policy director with the Rights Working Group, a coalition of civil liberties organizations. "A lot of profiling has been systematized against Muslims, Asians and others under the guise of protecting national security."
Cardin intends to file at least one amendment and possibly more in the coming days to tweak the language of the national security exemption so that it would apply more narrowly.
First, he will have to persuade Democratic leaders in the Senate to allow the amendment to come to the floor for a vote. If he succeeds, he would then have to persuade colleagues that strengthening the language would not erode the bipartisan support the broader bill now enjoys.
Cardin said he also intends to submit an amendment that would apply a controversial law that bans Russian human rights abusers from entering the United States to other countries. Cardin has long sought to expand the so-called Magnitsky Law, which he shepherded through Congress late last year.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who support the immigration bill, including Cardin, have been hesitant to propose substantive changes without broad bipartisan support. Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, the chamber's No. 3 Democrat, has said he'd like to see as many as 70 senators vote in favor of the bill.
Such a high vote threshold could nudge an otherwise skittish Republican-led House of Representatives to support some version of an immigration bill.
As it stands now, the racial-profiling provision has sparked little opposition — or attention. The National Association of Police Organizations declined to comment on the proposal.
Shawn Moran, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, said the union is concerned about several items in the bill but the section on profiling isn't one of them.
"Our agents aren't trained to look at ethnicity," said Moran, whose union represents 17,000 border agents. "Our job is to look at the total picture."


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MEADS Radar Completes Rotation Tests, Prepares to Move to Test Range
31 Jan, 2011, 12:45 ET
ORLANDO, Fla., MUNICH and ROME, Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has successfully completed milestone tests as the first Multifunction Fire Control Radar (MFCR) advances toward system tests this year at Pratica di Mare air force base in Italy.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110131/FL39156)
The advanced MEADS X-band MFCR employs active phased array technology using transmit/receive modules developed in Germany. The radar provides precision tracking and wideband discrimination and classification. It also incorporates advanced identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) sensors with improved capabilities to identify and type threats.
MEADS radars are designed to protect troops and assets on today's 360-degree battlefield, where threats can attack from any direction. Sectored, piecemeal systems cannot defend assets completely because the direction of a missile attack is no longer certain in today's asymmetrical battlefield. Even small slivers of unprotected airspace put warfighters in danger.
The MFCR subteam at LFK in Germany completed integration of the antenna array last year, clearing the way for assembly-level testing of the Transceiver Group. Coolant pressure testing was completed, and cooling distribution was demonstrated at the slip ring and antenna rotary joint. Final rotation tests at both 15 and 30 rpm were successfully completed.
MEADS International President Dave Berganini said, "The entire MEADS team is proud to see our first system elements moving to the test range. The first battle manager and launcher moved to the test range in Italy in December to initiate system tests. The MFCR will join them shortly. We are on the path to flight tests at White Sands in 2012."
NAMEADSMA General Manager Gregory Kee said, "MEADS radars scan the complete perimeter to locate threats quickly and accurately. The X-band MFCR will improve target tracking and provide better performance in stressing clutter environments."
In August 2010, the MEADS program completed an extensive series of Critical Design Review events with a Summary Critical Design Review at MEADS International in Orlando, FL. The program is now completing final build, integration and test activities leading to flight tests involving all system elements at White Sands Missile Range in 2012.
Under development by Germany, Italy and the United States, MEADS is a mobile system that will replace Patriot in the United States and Nike Hercules in Italy. It will replace Patriot and the retired Hawk system in Germany. The system is designed to permit full interoperability between the U.S. and allied forces, and it is the only medium-range air defense system to provide full 360-degree coverage.
MEADS will meet challenging new requirements not addressed by any previous or planned Air and Missile Defense system. The system will combine superior battlefield protection with extensive flexibility, allowing it to protect maneuver forces and critical assets against tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and aircraft. It also provides an open architecture for 21st century air and missile defense system-of-system integration capabilities that allow operational mission-tailoring. MEADS is designed to provide greater firepower with less manpower than current systems, producing dramatic operation and support cost savings.
MEADS International, a multinational joint venture headquartered in Orlando, FL, is the prime contractor for MEADS. Major subcontractors and joint venture partners are MBDA in Italy, LFK in Germany and Lockheed Martin in the United States. Today, 1,800 employees from these companies are completing development of MEADS, which is closely watched as a model program for collaborative transatlantic development.
The United States funds 58 percent of the MEADS program, and European partners Germany and Italy provide 25 percent and 17 percent respectively as partners in the NATO Medium Extended Air Defense System Management Organization (NAMEADSMO). Its program management agency NAMEADSMA is located in Huntsville, AL.
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Parents often wonder what their little ones are absorbing from them. For example, my mother had a wonderful vocabulary. So it may be more than a family fable that when I was asked as a two-year-old whether I was wet, I allegedly responded, "No, I'm saturated." Then again, my father has always tended to interpret things quite literally, which may explain why, a year or two later, my supposed response to the question of how my favorite record went was "'round and around and around." (This all happened shortly after the invention of movable type, when music was literally pressed onto large vinyl disks that "turned" on what was fittingly called a turntable. For more on turntables, see this space in the June issue.)
I was reminded of preposterously precocious utterances by tiny tykes during a brief talk that string theorist Brian Greene gave at the opening of the 2011 World Science Festival in New York City on June 1. Greene said he sometimes wondered about how much information small children pick up from standard dinner-table conversation in a given home. He revealed that he got some data to mull over when he hugged his three-year-old daughter and told her he loved her more than anything in the universe, to which she replied, "The universe or the multiverse?"
Closer to home (well, my home at least), my seven-year-old grandnephew has often exhibited an interest in various science and math topics. He, like many preschoolers at the time, was deeply disappointed by the 2006 demotion of Pluto from the family of planets. So great was his grief then that when I asked him about Pluto's fall, he only said, "I don't want to talk about it." More recently, he was a passenger when his grandfather exited a highway onto a cloverleaf that took them off their northern route toward the east, then south and then west onto the next road. With that maneuver complete, the kid said, "That was a 270-degree turn." Which he either learned from his smart parents or from watching the X Games.
Of course, not all children are destined for a life in the sciences. Many, if not most, seem well suited, if you will, for the law. Take the case of another seven-year-old of my acquaintance who was given "five more minutes" by her parents to enjoy the beach. When they sounded the alarm to leave, she announced that it was simply unfeasible for that much time to have passed: "that wath like 10 thecondth," she explained. Of course, it is possible that she had been moving at relativistic speeds, in which case both she and her parents could have been correct.
After I turned this column in to Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina, she told a story about her then five-year-old daughter Mallory's ability to calculate rapidly. Mallory wondered aloud how old Mariette would be when Mallory reached her mom's age, 42 at the time. "Let's see...," Mariette began. Then Mallory answered her own question, laughing at her mother's silliness for even bothering to try to do the math: "Oh, Mom, you'll be dead!"
The young people discussed so far are obviously charming and insightful. And yet for truly scary little-kid brain activity, it's hard to beat the very young Carl Friedrich Gauss. As legend has it, the budding mathematician was in grade school when his instructor assigned him the mundane task of adding up all the numbers from 1 to 100. The teacher might have been hoping to catch some zzz's in the corner while Gauss would be busy adding 1 to 2 to get 3, then 3 to that sum to get 6, then 4 to that sum to get 10, ad literally nauseam. But just a moment passed—perhaps merely 10 thecondth—before Gauss announced that the answer was 5,050. Which it sure is.
If you don't know how he did it, just search the Web using the terms "Gauss" and "series." Or give the problem to a wee one. If you get a correct answer almost instantly, he or she might be one of the smartest kids in the multiverse.


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Lew Rockwell has announced an exciting opportunity in the US:
Ron Paul has been named chairman of the Domestic Monetary Policy subcommittee, and will have one committee staffer. Ron and his chief of staff Jeff Deist are looking for a smart, young economist, "thoroughly Austrian, and preferably with an advanced degree. The candidate needs strong knowledge of the Fed and monetary policy generally, and must be an effective writer. He or she will be responsible for organizing hearings; summarizing data and Fed actions for Dr. Paul; writing statements; dealing with Financial Services committee staff; and various other tasks."
This can be a life-changing experience for the right young person. Imagine an 18th century classified: "Wanted, Economist-Assistant to Thomas Jefferson." This is the equivalent, although Jefferson was not as principled in office as Ron Paul.
Let us hope that British monetary policy one day finds itself in the hands of a "thoroughly Austrian" economist.


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Who is coming?
- Idwer Vollering
- Sven Schnelle
- Peter Stuge
- Rudolf Marek
- Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Who brings what?
Xeon i5000 system
- Lots of power sockets and extension cords
- Bus Pirate
- HP 635 laptop
- Various flash chips
- Openbench Logic sniffer (if I can find it)
- Artec FlexyICE (if I can find it)
- 19" flat screen monitor with DVI+VGA (if needed)
Stuff we need (please check if you can bring it)
- Thinkpad X60/T60 with working VGA out for the beamer so it can be demoed at the talk. (Preferably two of them.)
- Flyers for coreboot and flashrom. Who has the PDFs for our latest flyers (probably Carl-Daniel)?


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Young Virat Kohli was the lone Indian cricketer to find a place in the ICC World Twenty20 men's XI of the tournament, which was dominated by champions West Indies and runners-up Sri Lanka.
Kohli scored 185 runs runs in India's five matches.
In the women's XI, Poonam Raut was the only Indian to make the cut. Suresh Raina was named 12th man of the men's team.
Finalists Sri Lanka and West Indies contributed a total of five players to the men's team with Mahela Jayawardene named as captain, the ICC said in a statement.
In the women's team, finalists Australia and England provided nine players with again the losing captain in the final, Charlotte Edwards, selected to lead the team.
Edwards was also named yesterday as the women's player of the tournament.
Chosen by a group of experts, the team was aimed at being suited for Sri Lankan conditions on the basis of performances in the tournament only. Statistics were used but were not the sole basis for selections.
In all, there were three players from beaten finalists Sri Lanka and two from champions West Indies while Australia, England, New Zealand and Pakistan were also represented in the 12-member men's squad.
Players who were considered included AB de Villiers and Dale Steyn of South Africa, David Warner of Australia, Tillakaratne Dilshan of Sri Lanka, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Smith and Sunil Narine of the West Indies.
In the women's side, five players from champions Australia were represented while beaten finalists England have four in the side including Edwards. The team also features players from West Indies and New Zealand.
For the women's team, players who were considered included Danielle Wyatt and Lydia Greenway of England, Sophie Devine of New Zealand, Deandra Dottin of West Indies, Erin Osborne of Australia and South Africa's Dane van Niekerk.