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Install Windows 7 from a USB drive the very easy way
The fastest way to install windows 7 is from a bootable usb drive. You can cut the install time down to around 15 minutes compared with 30-40 via DVD if you use a fast drive.
People still asking me to explain what is the best way to do this as many of the guides online are too complex, or require third party software which doesn't always work as they supposed to.
With this BootableUSB guide all you need to ensure is that your motherboard supports USB booting, and this is a common feature now for most of the computers.
Today I am going to publish a step by step guide which works perfectly and doesn't require any additional tools – I have been doing it for some time now to create bootable Windows install drives.
You need to get hold of a fast USB 2.0 flash drive. It doesn't need to be 32GB or bigger,however, all you need is a 4GB unit. The faster it is, the better.
What you need:
- Windows 7 DVD install disc or ISO image
- USB Drive (4GB+ and as fast as you can get)
- Running Windows Operating system
- Working set of hands and eyes
- A few minutes of your life
Plug in your USB drive in the USB port:
Before going any further, make sure you have removed any important files on your drive to a safe location, what we are about to do next is to erase the entire contents of the drive.
Insert your DVD of Windows 7 into the computer, but don't start the normal install process.
Open your 'My Computer' and make a note of the drive numbers of both the USB drive and the DVD drive with Windows 7 files on it.
As you can see from the image above, the DVD drive is drive has letter D assigned and the USB drive is E.
Open the command prompt with admin rights. Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Shift+Ctrl+Enter.
To keep things really easy, if you see text in upper case, it means this is what you type into the command prompt (you don't need to type in upper case).
Next type
this loads the diskpart application we need to proceed
Then type
the image above shows our 32 GB USB drive is listed as DISK 2
so you have to type
SELECT DISK 2 (your USB Drive may have a different number, don't follow exactly this text it depends on your usb drive)
You will get a successful response "Disk 2 is now the selected disk"
Next we want to clean the USB drive
you will get a successful response 'DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk".
After the drive is cleaned follow the list in the image above (detailed below in list order) – you can also note the successful text responses from the OS as you enter each command.
SELECT DISK 2 (or what number your USB drive has)
Formatting can take a little time depending on the size of the drive, our 32GB unit took about 10 minutes to format - you will see a percentage readout until it is finished.
Next type:
EXIT (DISK PART will exit)
Type D: CD BOOT (substitute the "D" if necessary with the letter of your Windows 7 DVD drive)
then key
BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E: (substitute the "E" if necessary with the letter of your now ready USB drive) – we are telling the system to create a boot sector file on the USB drive.
Now you can exit the command prompt and copy all the files on the Windows 7 DVD to the USB drive.
Once this step is finished you'll be ready to boot from this drive, all you need to do is configure your motherboard bios setup to boot first from USB rather than hard drive or optical drive. If you don't know how to do this, refer to your specific motherboard manual or search the internet.
Now, Windows 7 installation should take between 40% and 60% of the time it does from the DVD disc.
Last step: Drink a cup of tea, from now on you can do this again and again


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ABOARD THE USS BONHOMME RICHARD – ABOARD THE USS BONHOMME RICHARD (AP) — After three tours in the deserts of Iraq, Lt. Col. Joe Levreault says he felt a bit rusty when he climbed into the helicopter to do what he was trained to do best as a Marine pilot — fly troops from the ship to the shore, even under fire.
But he quickly got back into his groove and was more than ready to carry out his mission Friday when thousands of sailors and Marines will carry out the largest amphibious landing exercise on the West coast since the Sept. 11 terror attacks sent troops to wars in landlocked regions.
The Marines and sailors are aboard the 844-foot USS Bonhomme Richard off the coast of Southern California, preparing to storm the beach.
Marines say the training that kicked off May 24 has reinvigorated them by bringing them back to their roots as "soldiers of the sea." Some say the heavy fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last decade has relegated them to the status of a kind of second land army.
"After so many years away, your skills always diminish and any time you can get back to the boat, it's good," said Levreault, 40, who has served for 18 years. "It's our bread and butter."
The exercise comes at a pivotal point for the Marines who are facing questions from Defense Secretary Robert Gates about whether major amphibious landings that made the Marine Corps so famous worldwide are becoming outdated in today's warfare.
Defense analysts accuse a cost-cutting Gates of trying to dismiss the value of beach landings and the needed equipment, like a $13.2 billion plan to buy large numbers of the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle starting in 2012. The amphibious vehicles, also known as EVFs, help get troops from ship to shore while under fire and mark a significant upgrade over the current technology available to the military.
Gates is scrutinizing every aspect of the military in his search for roughly $10 billion in annual savings to sustain the combat force and invest in its modernization.
"The United States' Marine Corps has been conducting amphibious operations for 200 years. It's a unique capability and there is no analytical basis for arguing that capability won't be needed in the future," said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst for the Lexington Institute. "Everyone we are likely to fight in the future is going to be close to the sea ... like Iran, like North Korea, like Vietnam, like almost any place you can mention other than Afghanistan."
And he added: "If the EFV is canceled, many marines will die in the future for lack of an adequate vehicle."
Called "Dawn Blitz," the Camp Pendleton exercise kicked off May 24 and will culminate Friday when troops reach the Camp Pendleton beach on 60 Amphibious Assault Vehicles — seafaring tanks supported by 16 hovercrafts and seven amphibious ships.
It will wrap up two days before the 66th anniversary of D-Day — the world's largest amphibious invasion of all time. More than 160,000 troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944, paving the way for the Allied victory.
Defense experts say the lessons learned that day still apply.
The Marine Corps says the exercise with the Navy makes an agile force capable of doing everything from assaulting an enemy beachhead to bringing food and supplies ashore to a disaster-stricken nation such as Haiti. Outgoing Commandant Gen. James Conway wants his "soldiers of the sea" to get back to their roots.
About 2,000 Marines and sailors were aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard, whose primary mission is to embark and deploy troops in amphibious assault operations by helicopter, landing craft and seafaring tanks. Camp Pendleton spokesman Capt. Mike Alvarez said the exercise is allowing Marines and sailors to work together side-by-side in a way that they have not been able to do since 2001.
Navy spokesman Lt. Kyle Raines said many of the Marines participating in the exercise this week had not done a landing from sea before this drill. "It is a competency we need to maintain."
Gates has suggested that the military has overstated its requirements in a post-Cold War world and that Congress is unlikely to give the Pentagon the sizable budget increases it has enjoyed since 2001. The current defense budget, not counting the cost of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, is $535 billion; the administration is asking for $549 billion for 2011.
Gates managed to get Congress to agree last year to stop production of the Air Force's F-22 stealth fighter earlier than previously planned, and he halted an Army ground combat vehicle project that had been a top priority.
Gates has also asked the U.S. Navy why it needs 11 aircraft carrier strike groups when no other country has more than one.
Defense analyst James Carafano of the Heritage Foundation said the United States cannot take its military strength for granted.
"Gates has got the brilliant idea that we can waltz in everywhere we go. You know what? The enemies are not going to let us into the ports and we're going to be sitting there like in the 1920s, rowing ashore with a row boat," he said. "I think Gates is incredibly short sighted. The Marines are not idiots. They are not doing this simply because they have always done this. We are a great power, but if you don't have amphibious capabilities, you are not a great power anymore."

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JackBe is applying the app store concept to its own products for building enterprise mashups, applications that pull together data from various systems.
The capability is part of JackBe Presto 3.0, which was announced Wednesday. Users can look up, share and rate mashups.
The platform is organized around Presto Hub, which provides a single point of sign-on for JackBe's mashup development editors, governance tools for administrators, and application storefront.
JackBe began developing the store framework partly due to the obvious popularity the delivery model has in the consumer world, as well as in response to concern from customers, who were developing so many apps that organizing and cataloguing them had become a little difficult, said Chris Warner, vice president of marketing.
In turn, the app store concept could spur JackBe customers to develop even more mashups, said CTO John Crupi.
But the model has a long way to go before it's fully formed for enterprise purposes, said Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady.
"The challenge with marketplaces is that the most successful examples are all platform-specific," he said. "The App Store is Apple-specific, the Google Apps Marketplace is specific to that platform, and so on. There are certainly vendors that will attempt a multiplatform marketplace approach, but that's a lot of moving pieces to manage."
In addition, marketplaces are generally focused on software, he added.
While a few include professional services as well, "that aspect is under-utilized and under-represented industry wide. When these marketplaces begin to attract the same attention as the larger job boards, the possibility of retailing services-dependent applications goes up," O'Grady said.
Pricing information for Presto 3.0, which is licensed per core, wasn't available.
Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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Professional Family Mediation Training Programme 2021 (Collaborated with SBHK)
Professional Mediation Training Programme 2023Q1 (Collaborated with YMCA)
Important News: Membership Panel Renewal for 2023
For HKMAAC Accredited General Mediators and Family Mediators and Arbitratros :
A). HKMAAC Professional Membership Panel Renewal 2023
For membership renewal 2023, all the latest forms can be download via our website https://www.hkmaac.org/download-area/
Please also take note of the following documents:
1. Membership Renewal Application Form 2023 (All Members)
2. CPD Record Form for 2023
3. Name Card Order Form 2023 (HKMAAC)
B) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements
For details, please refer to our CPD Policy as attached and stated at www.hkmaac.org.
As the COVID-19 situation has just recovered, our center will gradually resume the arrangement of CPD knowledge courses.
However, considering that members also need time to adapt and arrange, we decided to extend the evaluation period and merge for one more year. Merger of the 1. 2019/2020, 2. 2020/2021, 3. 2021/2022 4.2022/2023 CPD Assessment Periods
1. 01 Jan 2020 to 31 Dec 2020 ("the First CPD Assessment Period")
2. 01 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2021 ("the Second CPD Assessment Period").
3. 01 Jan 2022 to 31 Dec 2022 ("the Third CPD Assessment Period").
4. 01 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2023 ( "the Fourth CPD Assessment Period")
For those members who have achieved some CPD points during the 1st to the 3rd assessment periods are welcome report to us
(Just fill in CPD record form 2022)
For those members if unable to complete the requisite CPD hours for the 1st to 3rd CPD Assessment Period by the third CPD Fulfillment Deadline, he or she can make up the shortfall by the end of the third CPD Assessment Period, i.e. 31 Dec 2022 (in addition to completing the CPD hours for the third CPD Assessment Period).
C) Name Cards
As to facilitate the promotion of mediation/arbitration services for members in ceremony and external event. All Accredited
General Mediators, Accredited Family Mediators and Arbitrators can make request to HKMAAC for name cards printing.
For detailed arrangements, please refer to the attachment or our Name Card Order Form as provided at www.hkmaac.org.
Kindly refer to our membership renewal form for new renewal procedures and payment method.
If you have any questions on the above, or would like to check the status of your HKMAAC Membership, please
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text: Incidents of cheating on IT certifications are on the rise, a trend that experts say is an outward sign of the desperation felt by out-of-work and under-employed IT professionals.Training organizations are responding by intensifying their efforts to catch cheaters through cutting-edge defenses, such as biometric identification of test-takers and custom, computer-generated exams.Slideshow showing results of the IT Ethics SurveyAngry employees tattling on companies that violate software licensesAs IT certifications become a pre-requisite for jobs and promotions, IT professionals are feeling more pressure to pass the exams. IT professionals cheat by paying someone as much as $2,500 to take an exam or by using stolen tests purchased over the Internet commonly referred to as "braindump" materials.In a survey of 200 IT professionals on IT Ethics conducted by Network World, 58% said they felt that using "braindump" training materials was unethical yet 72% of respondents think that IT professionals use braindump materials on a regular-to-frequent basis. And 12% have directly witnessed someone cheating on a certification exam."Cheating is up by about 10%," says Jill Burroughs, director of exam services at CompTIA, which offers 11 certifications for IT professionals including CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Security +. "Since the economy collapsed, the incidents of cheating have been steadily going up...It's human nature that in a down economy, people get desperate...They rationalize that they have to cheat because they are out of work and need a job."Stolen IT certification exams and materials are "one of our biggest issues," says Keith Kupferschmid, senior vice president of intellectual property at the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA). SIAA focuses on ferreting out sellers of braindump materials, which are unauthorized exam study guides - sometimes stolen copies of actual tests - that are available for purchase over the Internet.Kupferschmid says test-takers are looking for "any edge they can get, just like a spitball or taking steroids in baseball...People think that if they can get the prior test or get the test answers ahead of time, it will help them pass the test."News that more IT pros are cheating on certification exams comes at a time when the nation's top computer science schools are grappling with an outbreak of cheating on homework assignments. More computer science students are caught plagiarizing code or working together on assignments than students in any other major on campuses such as Stanford University and the University of Washington.BACKGROUND: Why computer science students cheatCheating among IT pros happens at the workplace, too, as U.S. companies step out of compliance with their software licenses. The full scope of the problem is becoming more apparent as more disgruntled IT professionals are turning into whistleblowers against their bosses.A whopping 89% of those surveyed by Network World said it was unethical for an IT employee to make the company fall out of compliance with software license agreements. Yet 70% had witnessed other IT folks knowingly violate software licenses.Why are there so many IT cheats?"I think it's cultural," says Stephen Northcutt, president of The SANS Technology Institute and author of the book "IT Ethics Handbook: Right and Wrong for IT Professionals." "Router jocks tend to be young, male and ADD...You add to that the sense of anonymity, that when you're on a computer screen you don't think people can watch you. There's a sense that nobody knows what you do on the Internet.''Another reason cheating on certification exams is up: IT pros don't always consider it to be wrong. In the Network World survey, 42% of IT professionals said it was OK to use braindump materials even though use of them could result in the vendor revoking their certifications."A lot of the people who are buying these exams are parents buying them for their kids," Kupferschmid said, pointing out that many Internet users don't consider buying braindump materials unethical. "These exams are so easy to get over the Internet. It's a big problem...People wouldn't steal a book out of a bookstore, but they would download it."Braindump sites are numerous and proliferating. CompTIA lists 130 Web sites that are unauthorized training sites for its exams. It warns test takers that they may be precluded from taking an exam or may have their certifications revoked if they are found to use materials from these sites.Another reason for the rise in cheating on IT certification exams is the U.S. Defense Department's 8570 Directive, which requires military employees and contractors to pass security exams in order to continue working in information assurance roles. The Defense Department is one of the few employers in the United States that is demanding IT certifications as a condition of employment.BACKGROUND: Hottest IT Security Certifications\u00a0"That's a high-stakes situation because if you don't get your certification you get fired or retired in DoD parlance," Northcutt says, pointing out that the 8570 Directive requires people to pass tests such as the Global Information Assurance Certificate (GIAC) exams offered by SANS. "We've had cases where the proctors let the people cheat by letting them use Internet resources. We're an open book exam, but not open Internet."Catching cheatersWhat happens to IT pros caught cheating? It depends on the egregiousness of the incident. A cheater's exam score will be invalidated and he may be suspended from taking exams from those training organizations for a year. Individuals caught selling braindump materials over the Internet are subject to lawsuits and hefty fines."We actually catch more adults than kids cheating," Burroughs says. "A lot of our information about cheating comes from the other students in the class. If you studied, and you know somebody else bought the test off the Internet, you'll tell us. We get a lot of anonymous calls."SIIA sees rampant cheating in all sorts of exams, not just IT certifications. In 2010, SIIA won five-figure settlements in lawsuits against three individuals who were selling counterfeit or unauthorized Kaplan study materials for the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam. A fourth individual from a prior investigation ended up paying $400,000 in damages and getting kicked out of medical school after he was found guilty of illegally mass producing Kaplan materials and selling them on eBay.CompTIA says it is being more aggressive about catching cheaters through the use of biometric systems such as retinal and palm scans to identify test takers, as well as using remote cameras and microphones for proctoring and high-tech scanners for test materials. The organization also plans to create computer-generated exams on the fly."We will do a higher degree of identity management of people in a much broader sense. And we're not going to be using the arcane model of 60 people in a classroom," Terry Erdle, executive vice president for skills certifications at CompTIA, says. "We will be using technology to deliver better exams and make it so you can't cheat on them. We'll start introducing these [measures] in 2011...One of the messages we want to send is how fruitless cheating on exams is."The GIAC Certification Program battles cheaters by using a proprietary system to manage its exams, which have randomized questions and answers."We have a proprietary algorithm so that each person has slightly different questions that follow the same test blueprint," explains Jeff Frisk, director of the GIAC Certification Program. "This gives us a larger number of unique instances of exams...You will not be getting the same list of questions in the same order as anyone else."Also, once test-takers miss enough points that they can no longer pass the test, the GIAC computer system stops administering the test.This approach allows GIAC to have a "very, very low" number of people caught cheating on exams, Frisk says.While Frisk hasn't seen an upward tick in cheating incidents during the economic downturn, he thinks test-takers are more desperate because more of them are taking GIAC exams and failing them, over and over again. GIAC recently implemented a 15-day waiting period between exams as a result of this trend.One suggestion for reducing the number of IT cheats is for the industry to become more professional overall. Northcutt points out that unlike doctors, lawyers or accountants, IT workers are not licensed and do not have a standard of practice or a code of ethics. Other professions have trade associations and state licensing boards to provide a level of deterrence for ethical lapses such as cheating on certification exams."If you go to the Defcon-type events, the attitude is it's OK to do things because you can. There's a view that just because you have a certain amount of knowhow, that lets you get away with some unethical behavior," Northcutt says. "At some point, we're going to have to hold ourselves accountable to the business as professionals."Read more about infrastructure management in Network World's Infrastructure Management section.


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"You Need to Buy Gold"
"You need to go and Buy Gold" says one US economist...
"WE'RE HEADING towards government devaluing its currency to devaluate its debt in order to survive," says Bud Conrad of Casey Research.
"That means you need to protect yourself. You can't just have savings accounts paying no interest."
Here, in this interview with the Gold Report, Bud Conrad explains his grim outlook for the US Dollar and other paper currencies worldwide, plus why – as he showed at the recent Casey Research 2010 Crisis and Opportunity Summit – you can still prosper and protect yourself during the coming economic storm...
TGR: Today we are talking with Casey Research Chief Economist Bud Conrad who recently presented a riveting talk during Casey Research's 2010 Crisis and Opportunity Summit. Here are four major points from his talk:
- The world economy is in a calm between a credit crisis turning into a currency crisis as the collapse of the private debt bubble is replaced by a government debt bubble that will also collapse;
- The world is at a point of no return for government debt as debt-to-GDP approaches 100%. When debt becomes too big, governments cannot control the interest rates and currency. The lead warning is Greece, much the same as Lehman Brothers was in the credit bubble crisis;
- Peak oil. The wealth of humanity has been built on energy. Half the world's conventional oil supply is already used. That means that the quantity of oil produced each year will not increase much from the current level even as demand from developing countries like India and China increases. Wars over oil have already started. Energy prices will rise. We will see a substantial rise in the cost of food, as food production requires energy;
- The US can prosper and stay ahead of the rest of the world by developing and investing in three forms of technology – the internet and cell phones, new medicines through biological breakthroughs and new sources of energy. All are good investment opportunities and are necessary for human expansion.
Bud, what lens were you using as you developed these themes?
Bud Conrad: I was trained as an electrical engineer and I spent much of my career in the computer business, so I look at things from a total system point of view. Whenever somebody has an issue I say, 'let's look at the data'...
We have sort of a blue sky overhead right now, as people think things are improving, but I think we're in the eye of the storm. We had heavy winds blowing from the credit crisis and we all know what happened. The governments came along to bailout the problems and purchase all the toxic waste of sub-prime mortgages and bad debt from too much private lending. Governments now have a huge credit bubble, just like we had with the housing mortgage bubble. I think that the government debt bubble will burst and that will be the other side of the hurricane, as the winds swirl around and hit us from the other direction in terms of a currency crisis and government debt collapse.
TGR: Are you at odds with the strategy the US government is using to stave off the recession?
Bud Conrad: If we decide we're going to build a few roads, maybe build a bridge, hand out some money for basketball programs or some other idea that seems to be part of large government programs, then we won't have achieved much. Last year, the government spent about $1.5 trillion more than it collected in taxes. The Federal Reserve also spent $1.5 trillion buying mortgage debt to keep that market from further collapse.
So the government spent $3 trillion Dollars to give us the current blue sky of a small recovery. The current blue sky could be measured as 3% of GDP. GDP is about $14 trillion, so that's about $400 billion of economic growth. Well, $3 trillion spent for $400 billion of economic growth is a pretty bad return on your investment. Add to that several trillions of guarantees and future government obligations for Fannie, Freddie, FDIC, PBGC etc., and I have the basis for believing that these obligations are big enough to cause the collapse of the sovereign debt of the United States Furthermore, I don't think it's just the US; I think it's worldwide. In other words, we're going to have debt crisis in the US and Europe and other countries that have expanded their government debt too.
TGR: Is Greece the bellwether for this potential doomsday scenario?
Bud Conrad: Greece is being bailed out, but it's one set of governments bailing out another set of government debt. Pretty soon the question is who's going to bailout whom? The US debt is getting out of control at a spending rate approximately equal to Greece's (in terms of percentage of GDP per year.) I think we're in a far more precarious position than most people realize.
TGR: Did people examine similar themes at the recent 2010 Casey Research Crisis and Opportunity Summit?
Bud Conrad: I think there was a general attitude in the conference that our government debt is so serious that we can't recover to as stable level. I call it "beyond the point of no return" because interest on the debt continues to grow even if the government tries to cut spending. Other speakers like Sprott Asset Management's John Embry and Bill Bonner, who heads the AGORA set of newsletters, worry about our government and the debt. Bonner talks about the "collapse of empire." Embry talks about the corruption in our banking system. And we had a whole section on energy.
TGR: Let's go back to your "point of no return."
Bud Conrad: The point of no return is when government debt gets so big that it can never be paid off. That's the problem that happened in Greece. Government debt is so big that the other countries of the European Union have had to come in with a $110 billion bailout, which I believe is probably not enough, over a three-year period, to try to put the Greece situation back on track. What happens when Spain, Portugal and Ireland are added to Greece?
TGR: And in the US?
Bud Conrad: In the US I think we are past the point of no return in the sense that the government debt and obligations for retirees from baby boomer times of $75 trillion Dollars cannot be paid off with Dollars that are now denominated at the value that most people think they should be. In other words, we're heading toward government devaluing its currency to devaluate its debt in order to survive. That means you need to protect yourself. You can't just have savings accounts paying no interest and the purchasing power of these Dollars declining. You need to Buy Gold.
TGR: Is peak oil another reason to Buy Gold?
Bud Conrad: One of the best discussions in our conference was about how the explosion of the offshore oil rig in Louisiana is much like what Three Mile Island was for nuclear energy. This kind of deep water oil drilling is potentially far more dangerous than we thought it was; not only dangerous in the short term for the investors who build rigs and spend hundreds of millions of Dollars putting these things together, but now for the environment. It's going to affect our ability to do offshore drilling, which we had hoped could be one of the new sources of oil to keep the wealth of the planet and humanity growing.
TGR: Explain the role energy plays in the growth of humanity.
Bud Conrad: We have grown to 6.5 billion people from 1.5 billion people over the last century because we could take the work off the backs of men and animals and put it onto machines. We created electronics, computers, medicine and so forth to improve our lifestyle. We have lived truly in the most abundant time for humanity, but we have used up half of the oil. You cannot grow energy production at the level that Asia and India would like in order to have the kind of lifestyle we have here in the West. The result is a worrisome situation politically because it can lead to wars over resources. It could also lead to starvation because the production of food is dependent on energy. Energy is used to provide everything from fertilizer to diesel fuel to food storage to transportation. Energy has allowed us to move from my father's time of 50% of the US population scratching food out of the surface of the earth to only 3% of the population producing food, much of which we export.
TGR: Why aren't more people talking about the dearth of oil and the collapse of the paper money?
Bud Conrad: The combination of energy as a problem and the financial collapse of paper money systems are a reason for much more concern than is generally disseminated in the normal business news. This is really important. We really need to find new sources of energy.
TGR: Yet in the midst of all these looming crises, you see opportunities for investment. Tell us about some of those.
Bud Conrad: The basic question of most investors who come to our conference is: What should I be doing in terms of investment opportunities? Casey Research focuses heavily on extracting resources. We have two newsletters talking about gold, one on junior mining stocks and one more about big stable mines. We offer similar services in the energy sector. The point of these is to give people the ability to protect themselves from what governments are doing to us.
TGR: But in terms of a sector, what is one that you focus on?
Bud Conrad: One of the most important things to think about is the future of technology. In some sense, technology is the savior for mankind. It's brought us this great abundance and I think can continue to do so.
TGR: With that in mind, what are some specific ways one can invest?
Bud Conrad: I don't usually pick companies myself because I tend to look at the macro-picture. I think it's necessary to have a good understanding about how all these things tie together. My new book Profiting from the World's Economic Crisis: Finding Investment Opportunities by Tracking Global Market Trends gets to how this whole system works and how can find ways to protect yourself. For example, I believe the Dollar is doomed; and, along the way to its collapse, there will be much higher interest rates to compensate lenders for the potential inflation. You should expect interest rates to rise, and there are ways to invest in that either through futures or ETFs.
TGR: What about opportunities in high-tech?
Bud Conrad: We've just gone through a credit crisis. We've watched General Motors collapse. We've watched the airlines struggle for decades. One of the things that is nice about technology, for example, is that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) all have cash in the bank. They have no debt. Apple just blasted through to being the third-largest company in the US in market cap. I'm not making Apple a recommendation for investment as it is already so high, but it shows how important technology can be with new iPads and so forth. For anybody who wants to see how these forces all hang together, I have five chapters of recommendations in my book. My message is to fear for the Dollar and prepare for a future wherein stagflation is the watch word for guiding your investment principles.
TGR: Won't the collapse in the value of the Dollar drive the technology companies that you just listed to move to other countries? Aren't we at risk there?
Bud Conrad: They've already gone. There is no production of anything done in Silicon Valley; all the plants for semiconductors and so forth are in Asia. But there will be competition for intellectual resources in the future. I think we have an edge on the front end of the invention of technology. There are plenty of foreigners here in Silicon Valley. Indians and Chinese are starting their own companies. I think we still have the leading edge in our education and development of new things; and I think we should emphasize and support it. I'm even going to take a libertarian's antithesis here by suggesting government support of our invention and creativity would be a very good investment. If we don't, Asians are no dummies. They'll figure out how to do things on their own and, in fact, they are.
TGR: How so?
Bud Conrad: One of the reasons for China's great leap forward was active participation in new technologies. China moved from being the low-cost producer to doing their own offshoring to Indonesia where they get cheaper labor. They're trying to move up the food chain to the more complex things like electronics rather than cheap consumer goods. Watch the sweep of anointed society moving from the West toward the East.
TGR: What about other sectors where technology is key?
Bud Conrad: We need a new way to do medicine. If we actually push forward on biotechnology, I think there are opportunities for humanity. Cracking the genome means that we have figured out how to use biological methods so that people can repair parts of their bodies with living tissue rather than pills. Pills are based on chemistry that, hopefully, has some kind of molecule that makes us feel better. There is a whole new trajectory for the biological sciences that can be used to improve the human condition.
You can see an overwhelming need for new energy sources. We need new ways to absorb the sun's energy to extend humanity's position on this planet. The US is in the best shape technologically to prevail and keep its empire from collapsing in the way so many large and successful collections of society and empires have in the past. I'm not sure we will, but I think that's the best opportunity for us both as a nation and as individuals. If we invest in finding the right technologies, we will all do better.
TGR: Where is a low-risk place to put your money?
Bud Conrad: I think you'll do well by investing in gold. In some sense, gold is just plain a stable island. It doesn't change when you invest in it; you are really just making a solid savings position.
TGR: Are there any other metals that you see as being a safe harbor?
Bud Conrad: All of them. Silver is a cheap man's gold but more volatile. As gold goes up, silver goes up more. As gold goes down, silver goes down more.
Think about energy. Oil is often called "black gold." I think of it as an opportunity for investment that isn't just about savings, particularly if you're investing in not just the material but also the new ways of generating energy. Perhaps then you are adding to humankind's knowledge about how to improve its situation, as well as getting good returns.
TGR: What were some major investment themes in talks during the summit?
Bud Conrad: Gold, energy, interest rates rising, agriculture, water, methods of investing, personal considerations of living in the US or other countries and how to do it, how to handle passports, how to handle your money in a different country than where you live, etc. Most people said it was one of the best conferences they had ever been to.
TGR: Great, this has been very informative. Thanks so much for your time, Bud.


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Mathematica Simulates the Sound of the Big Bang
Physicist, professor, and science columnist John Cramer tells Wolfram Research that he recently used Mathematica to produce a 100-second simulation of the sound of the Big Bang during the first 760,000 years of the evolution of the universe. Cramer, who is on faculty at the University of Washington, reports, "The result sounds rather like a large jet airplane flying over your house at an altitude of 100 feet in the middle of the night."
Marcus Chown, a British science writer with whom Cramer frequently interacts, wrote a story about Cramer's simulation for the November 1 issue of New Scientist. This story "produced an amazing explosion of media attention," says Cramer. "I've been repeatedly interviewed, including three separate BBC interviews for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5, and BBC Foreign Service. A friend in Poland said he heard about my work on a Polish national news broadcast. Among other places, I was in the lead headline in a Turkish newspaper called SABAH, was featured on the Arab news service Al Jazeera, and was in the Shanghai Daily newspaper. Our local web server has crashed repeatedly under the load of people attempting to download the sound file."
Cramer explains, "The story of how I came to produce the sound of the Big Bang goes like this. My principal research area is ultra-relativistic heavy ion physics. I don't work much in cosmology and astrophysics although I've published a paper or two in those areas. However, I also write a bimonthly science column for Analog magazine that often deals with cosmology. One of these columns, entitled 'BOOMERanG and the Sound of the Big Bang,' was published in the January 2001 issue of Analog and is also available on the web. It describes the then-recent Antarctic balloon flight that mapped the small-angle structure of the cosmic background radiation. Following the lead of the scientists involved in the project, I described the temperature variations they observed as, in effect, a recording of the 'sound of the Big Bang' when the universe was 376,000 years old.
"About a month ago, I received an email from a reader. She said that her 11-year-old son was doing a school project on the Big Bang and that they had seen it mentioned in my column on the web. She was wondering if the sound of the Big Bang was actually recorded anywhere so that he could play it for his class. My answer was 'no,' but her interesting question caused me to consider the problem. With the data available from BOOMERanG and more recently from WMAP, it would not be too difficult to simulate the sound using Mathematica, which includes the feature of rendering mathematical functions as sound that can be captured on .wav files.
"The idea of synthesizing the Big Bang sound ran around in my head for several days. I decided that I really needed to hear what the Big Bang sounded like. So, one Saturday morning when I should have been doing something else, I sat down and wrote a 16-line Mathematica program that produces the sound and saved it as a .wav file. I downloaded the frequency spectrum measured by NASA's WMAP satellite site and used it as input data for the program.
"The notebook combines the WMAP measured frequencies, appropriately scaled for the human ear, assuming that all of the sinusoids start at a maximum at t = 0 (the start of the Big Bang). It frequency-shifts them downward as time 2/3 as the universe expands and becomes more of a 'bass instrument.' The simulation lasts 100 seconds, representing the first 760,000 years of evolution of the universe, and varies the sound intensity to match the cosmic microwave--which according to WMAP peaked at 376,000 years and dropped to 36 percent intensity in 110,000 years on each side of the peak. The sound frequencies used in the simulation must be boosted upward by a huge factor (about 1026) to match the response of the human ear because the actual Big Bang frequencies were far too low to be heard by humans (even had there been any around).
"After I produced the .wav file, I sent an email copy to my reader. She reported that her son's science project was a great success."
Cramer's Mathematica notebook, .wav file, and input data for the simulation can be found in "The Sound of the Big Bang" in the Wolfram Information Center. For more information on Cramer and his work, visit his home page.
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Not too long ago Nancy and I decided to take a break from our normal work routine to take a long horseback ride in the hills near our home. On our ride we happened upon what looked to be a very old grave site marked by a stack of squared off volcanic rock. The marker had been carefully placed on the edge of an outcropping of rock that protruded out from a mountain slope. The spot had obviously been chosen because of its panoramic view of the upper Weiser River basin. Discovering it made me recall a story I had heard from my friend Harvey Church. Harvey's family homesteaded in the area in the early 1900's and has been ranching here ever since. He not only has his own stories to tell, but knows quite a bit about the local history. Once he told me the story of a last Shoshone Indian chief named Chief Eagle Eye who's last desire was to be buried in a place where he could overlook the land he had loved.
In the late 1800's Eagle Eye had become famous for his uncanny ability to evade the aggressive and brutal attacks of the United States Military as well as miners and settler who pushed into the Idaho territory. His small tribe had been one of the only remaining native Indian bands able to avoid capture during the General George Cook Snake River War Campaign and the 1879 Sheepeater Indian Campaign, which marked the last two military efforts to force all southern Idaho Indians on reservations.
Eagle Eye's small group of 10 warriors and 18 women and children disappeared into the Idaho wilderness during these seasons of conflict, but always returned to the Timber Butte hills because they provided large quantities of obsidian needed for arrow points and other tool manufacturing. In his later years he encouraged his few remaining people to merge into white culture and become engaged in the early logging industry that had developed in the Dry Buck Basin in the mountains east of Timber Butte. Many of his people successfully did this and as a result became one of the only bands of Shoshone in the state who managed to avoid the Fort Hall Indian reservation. Eagle Eye died in 1896 making a last request for his sons to bury him on the side of his beloved Butte.
It's hard to say if the grave site we stumbled onto that day was the resting place of this amazing old leader. It may or may not have been, but as I stood there looking over valley below I couldn't help but think that had I been him this would have been the very spot I'd have chosen.


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Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Peter Kazmaier who is the Author of The Halcyon Dislocation, Questioning Your Way to Faith, The Battle for Halcyon!!
I want to thank you Peter for agreeing to be a part of this!
Why do you write?
I love to read Fantasy and Science Fiction. First and foremost then, I write books that I would like to read, but no one else has taken the trouble to write them. Specifically, I like books that are plot-driven and keep me riveted wondering what happens next. But I also like books that ask the Big Questions, as people do in real life. Why are we here? What does it mean to be human? Why should I try to be good?
When did you decide to become a writer, and what was that process like?
For a large fraction of my life, I was a researcher in chemistry and much of my writing appeared in technical journals or as patents. My career as a novelist had a curious start. I was a member of a book club and during one of our sessions I mused how I would love to write a novel. One of my friends said, "Well why don't you do it?" The gauntlet was thrown down and I had to do something about it. It took me four years of attending writer's conferences, and writing in my spare time while still holding a full time job before my first book came out, the first edition of the colonization epic The Halcyon Dislocation.
So, what have you written? (Include everything you have published)
As I mentioned I have more than sixty technical publications on chemistry and about 175 US patents, but I'm sure your readers are not that interested in them. In terms of novels I have written three (in the order of publication):
· The Halcyon Dislocation (two editions)
· Questioning Your Way to Faith
· The Battle for Halcyon
The Halcyon Dislocation and The Battle for Halcyon are the first two books of a four part series that I call The Halcyon Cycle. They deal with a science experiment that transports the island University of Halcyon to a parallel world. In the story we experience how various members of the university deal with the trauma of the dislocation and the challenges of surviving in a new world.
Questioning Your Way to Faith is a much shorter book that arose because of requests I received from some of my readers. In terms of a time line, Questioning Your Way to Faith is set before the dislocation and involves two university friends having an extended discussion about whether or not Christian belief is reasonable.
Where can we buy or see them?
My books are available as either e-books or as trade paper backs at most major bookstores and online outlets. In alphabetical order here are some links:
· Amazon/Kindle http://tinyurl.com/qbyw5b8
· Chapters-Indigo/Kobo http://tinyurl.com/odmn6j6
· Google Store http://tinyurl.com/qbnxs6j
· iTunes http://tinyurl.com/pkteyj5
My books are available as either e-books or as trade paper backs at most major bookstores and online outlets. In alphabetical order here are some links:
· Amazon/Kindle http://tinyurl.com/qbyw5b8
· Chapters-Indigo/Kobo http://tinyurl.com/odmn6j6
· Google Store http://tinyurl.com/qbnxs6j
· iTunes http://tinyurl.com/pkteyj5
What genre are your books?
My books are Science Fiction that read a bit like Fantasy. I say that because my books have a strong science component and I worry a lot about whether events like the dislocation are feasible. Having said that, once the University of Halcyon is in the new world, technologies begin to fail (because modern technology requires enormous infrastructure) and then one has much more of a Fantasy-style landscape.
Do you do any research for you books?
I try hard to get the details right in my books, so I do quite a bit of research to make sure that the phases of the moon are correct, the fish found off the island of Halcyon are correct for that locale and that events like the dislocation are not unreasonable from a physics perspective.
Are you working on at the minute?
I'm working on the next book in The Halcyon Cycle which I have provisionally called Descent into Abaddon.
I'm working on the next book in The Halcyon Cycle which I have provisionally called Descent into Abaddon.
Do you mind telling us about it?
Not at all. I listened to a wonderful lecture a few years ago that described how our relatively low atmospheric pressure limited the size of land mammals and also the size of flying birds. My next book is centered on a continent so far below sea level that the high atmospheric pressure removes these constraints.
What is your favorite book that you have written so far and why?
I would probably say The Halcyon Dislocation. I like the Crusonian aspects of being marooned in a new world and all of the discovery that entails.
How often do you write a week?
I write in fits and starts. When one has several books in print, one has many duties. I work better when I work at something for a concentrated period of time.
Do you aim for a set amount of words/pages per day?
No I don't set pages per day. I like long books, so I aim for more than 100,000 words for my books.
No I don't set pages per day. I like long books, so I aim for more than 100,000 words for my books.
What do you find is the easiest thing about writing?
There's nothing easy about writing well. Of all the hard things that must be done to produce a good novel, I find imagining new worlds and new inhabitants of those worlds easiest.
How long on average does it take you to write a book?
I suppose it takes me roughly four years from start to finish to write a book. However that's highly misleading since I start the next book right after the first draft is complete, so there is a good deal over overlap when I'm writing the first draft of one book and editing the last.
Do you ever get writer's block and if so do you have any tips on how to get through it?
Writer's block, in the sense of reaching an impasse in a story is not usually my problem. My problem is sheer laziness. I have many duties to complete and I get caught up in all of these urgent matters and let my writing time slip.
What is your editing process like?
I have friends who have taken a great deal of time as "beta readers" who critique my book and often see blind spots that I as a writer have missed. I always enlist the services of a professional editor to complete the edits. I can't stress how important it is to find an editor who is not only technically competent, but has a genuine love for your books.
Why self-publishing?
Self-publishing is a very broad term that includes vanity publishing. I prefer the term micro-publishing. By that I mean running a very small publishing business with an emphasis on the quality of the books produced and a severe eye on the costs.
Why self-publish or micro-publish? In my journey, I have seen many writers who spend years producing a novel and then spend years writing to acquisition editor after acquisition editor trying to interest them in their work. Often the writers eventually give up in discouragement without ever having provided their book to the people who really matter—their reading public. [For more on micro-publishing check my blog http://wp.me/p4cZo4-1l .]
What advice would you give to aspiring writers?
Force yourself to be a "finisher." Make sure you sell some version of your book to your reading public to get feedback from them.
Where do you see publishing going in the future?
In my role as a research scientist I had a chance to see the Print-On-Demand technology develop. I think this trend will continue and will favor the smaller publisher. Traditional publishing will not disappear but will continue to be under increased cost pressure because of their extensive infrastructure.
Is there anything else you would like to add that I haven't included?
1. The best books become part of our intellectual scaffolding. Remember as a writer you are an artist first. You want your books to be entertaining, but also to make a difference in your readers' lives.
2. Don't mistake sales as the primary indicator of your success.
What is your favorite book and why?
My favorite books (on an equal footing) are C. S. Lewis' Narnia series and J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. I re-read the Narnia books because of the profound spiritual insights that Lewis offers. I re-read The Lord of the Rings because of the sheer beauty of the work. Even though I know the plot almost line for line, I love the beauty of walking through the vale of Ithilien and the terror of the Mines of Moria.
How can readers discover more about you and you work?
I'm always delighted to hear from my readers. They can contact me by email directly or leave a comment on my blog.
Website: http://www.WolfsburgImprints.com
Blog: http://www.PeterKazmaier.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peter.kazmaier
Twitter: (I don't use twitter)
Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00JB0IWE6
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4136519.Peter_Kazmaier


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Last season, the colossal Red Sox collapse came in September. This season it's been a long series of frustrations, bad news, bizarre happenings, and off-the-field incidents for the Red Sox right from spring training. We take a look back at some of the biggest issues that have derailed Boston in 2012:
Jan. 17: Wrist surgery for Carl Crawford
Crawford had surgery on his left wrist in Arizona. At the time, general manager Ben Cherington said Crawford should recover to play "the bulk" of the season. Crawford felt soreness when he started his offseason hitting workouts around Jan. 1. He had an MRI that showed cartilage damage, and arthroscopic surgery was recommended. Crawford had wrist issues in the past, but the discomfort had always passed. He later had Tommy John surgery on his elbow before being traded to the Dodgers.
Feb. 19: Apologies for 2011 few and far between
Josh Beckett wasn't very contrite about September's collapse when he arrived in Fort Myers. "I think that we had lapses in judgment," Beckett said. "I had lapses in judgment. I can't speak for everybody else. I want to keep it at that. I can't speak for Jon [Lester], or John [Lackey], or Clay [Buchholz] or Wakey [Tim Wakefield], or anybody. It's pretty much I want this to stay about me. That's how I feel about it. I had some things going on. I was distracted. I think that was the biggest thing. I would definitely change those."
Feb. 24: Bobby Jenks says error made in surgery
The relief pitcher said that an error during his surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital resulted in his needing emergency surgery in Arizona 18 days later. This episode raised questions about the team's medical care. In March, Jenks was arrested for driving under the influence in Fort Myers. In July, the Red Sox reached a contract termination settlement with Jenks and he was placed on unconditional release waivers.
March 8: Jonathan Papelbon says Philadelphia fans know baseball better
The former Red Sox closer rocked Red Sox nation when he said the following to a Philadelphia radio station: "The difference between Boston and Philadelphia, the Boston fans are a little bit more hysterical when it comes to the game of baseball. The Philly fans, I think they tend to know the game a little better, being in the National League, you know, the way the game is played. I've had a guy take of his prosthetic leg and throw it in the bullpen in Boston." Papelbon, who later backed off the criticism, earned a save against the Red Sox when he faced his former team for the first time on May 19.
March 27: Curt Schilling fires shot across the bow at Bobby Valentine
The former Sox starter, a longtime supporter of ex-Sox manager Terry Francona, may have started the anti-Valentine brigade when he spouted the following on WEEI: "I thought that the manager that managed the Mets that I was not a big fan of was now going to be a different manager, and I don't think there's anything different at all, and I don't think that that is going to be conducive to doing well here. There's a lot of things I think that are happening not just from his perspective, but when you talk to these guys -- and I'm still talking to some of these guys -- I don't think this is going well. And I think it's going bad quicker than I expected it to." Valentine quickly dismissed Schilling's remarks. "I just consider the source when I hear stuff like that,'' he said.
April 2: Andrew Bailey has surgery on thumb
Bailey, acquired from the Athletics in the offseason to replace Jonathan Papelbon as the team's closer, needed the operation to reconstruct the ulnar collateral ligament on his right thumb. Bailey was originally expected back just after the All-Star break but he did not make his Red Sox debut until Aug. 14.
April 4: Bobby Valentine gets New York radio show
Valentine's decision to do a regular appearance on Yankees play-by-play broadcaster Michael Kay's radio program in New York prompted some backlash among Red Sox fans. Valentine has ties in New York. "What, there aren't any Red Sox fans in New York?" Valentine said.
April 13: Jacoby Ellsbury suffers shoulder injury that requires surgery
Ellsbury was injured in the home opener trying to break up a double play against the Rays. Tampa Bay shortstop Reid Brignac was upended on the play and landed on Ellsbury's shoulder. Ellsbury, fresh off a near-MVP season, would miss the next three months and struggle at the plate after his return.
April 15: Criticism of Kevin Youkilis by Bobby Valentine
The most public of Valentine's player criticisms caused the most commotion. During an interview in April, Valentine was asked about Youkilis and said, "I don't think he's as physically or emotionally into the game as he has been in the past for some reason." The comment prompted Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia to come to the defense of Youkilis, saying, "That's not the way we go about our stuff around here. Maybe that works in Japan." Valentine apologized to Youkilis, but the third baseman was eventually traded to the White Sox.
April 20-21: Fenway's 100th celebration precedes dreadful games
The Red Sox lost to the Yankees, 6-2, on the day of the 100th anniversary celebration of the park. The next day fans witnessed one of the most stunning collapses in team history.
The Sox blew a 9-0 lead after the Yankees posted back-to-back seven-run innings in the seventh and eighth in New York's shocking 15-9 win over Boston.
April 21: Reported rift between Bobby Valentine and Mike Aviles
Beckett and Crawford weren't the only Red Sox players to have their mettle questioned by Valentine. A CBS Sports report during spring training suggested Valentine was not excited to use Aviles as his everyday shortstop, preferring prospect Jose Iglesias. New York Daily News columnist Bill Madden wrote that Valentine's treatment of Aviles during an infield drill sparked a near-revolt by Red Sox players, according to a team source. Both Valentine and Aviles denied the incident ever happened.
April 21: Marlon Byrd lands at Fenway, later banned by MLB
With injuries plaguing the Red Sox outfield, Boston made a deal with Theo Epstein's Cubs to land outfielder Marlon Byrd, who was a spark plug for Boston early on before being released by the team on June 12. On June 25, MLB suspended Byrd for 50 games after he tested positive for Tamoxifen, which can reduce side effects of steroid use and increase testosterone. It is often used to treat breast cancer patients.
April 25: Bobby Valentine's lineup miscue
Valentine had to resubmit a lineup because he originally thought that Twins pitcher Liam Hendriks was a righty, not a lefty. When Jarrod Saltalamacchia informed his manager that Hendriks was a righthander, Valentine tore up the old lineup and posted a new one. "The one that was posted was for the lefthander that I thought was pitching today," Valentine said.
April 27: Carl Crawford's status worsens
Crawford's injury status expanded from his wrist to his elbow while he was trying to recover from January surgery on his wrist. Soreness in the elbow never abated, to the point where the Red Sox sent him to see specialist Dr. James Andrews. By the end of April, the expectation was that Crawford would miss at least three months.
May 4: Fenway sellout streak a real numbers game
A Boston Globe analysis revealed that the Red Sox record-breaking sellout streak is actually more of a "distribution streak" where the team heavily relies on complimentary tickets to meet the sellout requirements. In one instance documented, free tickets were given out at the ticket window for a Red Sox game billed as a sellout.
May 6: Darnell McDonald takes loss in 17 inning battle with Baltimore
It took 39 innings all together, but the Orioles completed a three-game sweep of the Red Sox for the first time since 1994 with a 17-inning 9-6 win. Both teams used positional players as pitchers. Sox outfielder Darnell McDonald took the loss after giving up a three-run home run to Adam Jones in the 17th. Orioles DH Chris Davis picked up the win.
May 10: Josh Beckett shelled in first start after golfing controversy
In his first game back after missing a start with a sore lat muscle (a break in which he managed to squeeze in a round of golf) Beckett was hammered for seven runs in 2 1/2 innings by the Cleveland Indians at Fenway. After the 8-3 loss, a defiant Beckett told the media regarding the outing on the links: "My off day is my off day... We get 18 off days a year. I think we deserve a little bit of time to ourselves." In the same game, a Red Sox fan wearing a bag on his head was visible in NESN's camera shot behind home plate, and caused a stir across Red Sox Nation.
May 22: David Ortiz goes off on rant about being a leader
After questions surfaced about the late timing of a Red Sox team meeting called by Ortiz earlier in the month, the big Sox DH went off on the perception of him not being a leader to ESPNBoston.com. "I don't give a [expletive] about anybody knowing what we talk about, No. 1. And No. 2, I don't give a [expletive] what they call leaders."
May 23: Bobby Valentine brings Kelly Shoppach concerns to the surface
After seeing red-hot Jarrod Saltalamacchia's on the lineup card before a game in Baltimore, backup catcher Kelly Shoppach complained to Valentine about his playing time. The manager shared the news with reporters. "He left angry," Valentine said of Shoppach's complaints. "And I like playing him when he's angry, I guess."
June 3: Daniel Bard-as-starter experiment hits rock bottom
Bard, the reliever-turned-struggling starter, lasted just 1-2/3 innings for the Red Sox in Toronto, hitting two batters and walking six while allowing five earned runs in a 5-1 loss. He was subsequently demoted to Triple-A Pawtucket and did not return to the Boston bullpen until Aug. 30.
June 17: ESPN reports Red Sox clubhouse is 'toxic'
In one of several out-of-town reports that was a harbinger for moves to come later in the season, ESPN's Buster Olney reported that the Red Sox had a "toxic" clubhouse. David Ortiz was quick to rebut Olney's report. "It's not like that, dog,'' Ortiz said. "We all get along here. There's not one guy here that has a problem with the other."
June 21: Another David Ortiz outburst
After multiple reports of players being unhappy in Boston, and friction between Valentine and his coaches, Ortiz was asked by reporters if he's having fun playing in Boston anymore. "Not really. Too much [expletive], man. Too much [expletive]," Ortiz said. "It's becoming to be the [expletive] hole that it used to be. … Playing here used to be so much fun. Now, every day it's something new not related with baseball. People need to leave us alone [to] play ball, man."
June 25: Kevin Youkilis traded to White Sox
With a Red Sox career that was highlighted by two World Series titles under his belt and a grinding, hard-working style that endeared him to fans, Youkilis was sent to Chicago for righthander Zach Stewart and utility player Brent Lillibridge. Boston also picked up $5.5 million of the $6.6 million Youkilis had remaining on his contract. Youkilis tripled in his final at-bat in a Red Sox uniform, during the seventh inning of a win over the Braves and received a huge Fenway ovation when he was removed from the game.
June 27: Clay Buchholz hospitalized with esophagitis
The Red Sox righthander spent five days at Mass. General Hospital where he was diagnosed with esophagitis, which led to an erosion of the esophagus, and an associated bleed. "They were trying to downplay it, but when you're laying in an ICU [intensive care unit], where I'm from it usually means that stuff's not going really well,'' Buchholz said. "Once I got out of there, the doctors were pretty upfront about it, saying it wasn't really life-threatening at this point. They just had me in [the ICU] to make sure that I wasn't really losing any more blood.''
July 4: David Ortiz expresses concern with contract again
Ortiz told USA Today's Jorge Ortiz in an extensive Spanish-language interview that he felt "humiliated" and "embarrassed" about his contract situation. Ortiz, who was hitting .302 with 22 home runs at the time, accepted arbitration and then agreed in the offseason to a one-year, $14.575 million deal, a $2.025 million raise from the year before. He was seeking a two-year contract.
July 12 Bobby Valentine debuts controversial movie
Valentine was executive producer for a film, "Ballplayer: Pelotero", that followed two prospects as they prepared for the signing season in the Dominican Republic. The movie won critical acclaim, but was not popular with Major League Baseball executives because it showed the sometimes unsavory side of baseball in developing countries.
July 13: Larry Lucchino sends rallying email to season ticket holders
After a frustrating first half of the season, the Red Sox president sent a letter to season ticket holders that highlighted players -- not manager Bobby Valentine -- and told fans to keep the faith. "Personalities are enhancing the chemistry, such as the cheerful Cody Ross, the friendly Mike Aviles, and the inspiring story of Daniel Nava." The letter ended, "We want to play October Baseball this year."
July 16: David Ortiz suffers Achilles injury
Ortiz injured his right Achilles while rounding second base on Adrian Gonzalez's three-run homer in the eighth inning against the White Sox. The injury wasn't immediately thought to be as serious as it turned out to be, as he would play sparingly over the next two months. Ortiz was leading the team in many offensive categories at the time of his injury.
July 16: Bill James reprimanded for Joe Paterno comments
Team owner John Henry and Ben Cherington spoke to James, a senior advisor, regarding him making public his personal opinions on Joe Paterno. James, who defended Paterno in the wake of the Penn State sexual abuse scandal online and on radio, was informed that his comments in no way reflect the opinions or positions of the Red Sox; and, because he is perceived as a representative of the Red Sox, he was asked to refrain from any further public comments on this matter.
July 22: Jon Lester allows 11 runs in loss
Lester allowed a career-worst 11 runs against the Blue Jays in a 15-7 loss at Fenway Park. Lester allowed nine hits and four homers in four-plus innings, walking five and striking out two. the start dropped his record and ERA to 5-8 and 5.46. The start was later reported as the apparent cause for a team meeting with ownership.
July 28: Terry Francona holds court in Sox clubhouse
The former Red Sox manager, in his role as an ESPN analyst, met with players in the Red Sox clubhouse at Yankee Stadium. The sight of the team's former manager sitting down and shooting the breeze with his old team didn't sit well with some, particularly given the new manager's inconsistent popularity with those same players. Francona later apologized to Valentine. Valentine said the apology wasn't necessary, but he appreciated it.
July 30: Ryan Sweeney punches door, breaks hand
The outfielder hurt his hand by punching a door after he was made an out in the eighth inning of a game against the Tigers. Sweeney was soon deemed out for the season. Just a day shy of the trading deadline, he had been rumored to be involved in trade talks before his injury.
Aug. 1: Bobby Valentine's comments to Will Middlebrooks bubble up
Valentine told WEEI ownership came to him after someone went to them about comments he made to rookie third baseman Will Middlebrooks. Valentine said they were playfully teasing comments after Middlebrooks had a tough inning in the field. In Valentine's words: "[Middlebrooks] came into the dugout, he made a couple of errors, and I said, 'Nice inning, kid.' I had thought I had established a relationship with him where I could say something like that and he would try to smile or relax a little. Maybe he grimaced, I don't know, but somebody overheard it and decided that it was a very dreadful thing for a manager to say to a young player, and decided to repeat it a few times, this dreadful thing."
Aug. 4: Twins humiliate Red Sox
The Twins, 16 games under .500 when they arrived in Boston, won their third straight game in Fenway Park in dramatic fashion. They scored four times in the ninth inning off closer Alfredo Aceves, including a three-run home by Joe Mauer. The loss was the Red Sox' fourth in a row, and solidified their falling place in the playoff race.
Aug. 6: John Henry gives Bobby Valentine vote of confidence
The Red Sox owner publicly backed his manager by writing in an email to reporters: "We are not making a change in manager." General manger Ben Cherington added, "I don't think it's fair to direct it at any one person. We're collectively responsible and Bobby's one of those people, so am I, so are the players, so are the coaches and so is everyone."
Aug. 10: Will Middlebrooks breaks wrist
Less than two months after trading away Kevin Youkilis, the Red Sox lost another third baseman for the rest of the season. Middlebrooks, who had impressed early with his bat, broke his wrist after Cleveland reliever Esmil Rogers hit him with a 96-mile-per-hour fastball.
Aug. 13: Sox legend Johnny Pesky dies
The fan favorite died at 92 years old. The loss was a significant blow to Red Sox Nation, as he had been an ambassador to the franchise for more than half a century. After his funeral, it was revealed that only four current players attended the service, and David Ortiz said more of his teammates "probably" should have attended.
Aug. 14: Report of players-owners meeting emerges
Yahoo! Sports reported that Red Sox players blasted Valentine to team ownership during a meeting in late July after Valentine left starter Jon Lester in a game in which he gave up 11 runs. Chaos swirled around the team after the report, though the team and many players denied that there was a plea to fire Valentine.
Aug. 19: Kelly Shoppach revealed as source of text message
Shoppach, dealt to the Mets days earlier, was reportedly the man behind a text message that prompted the controversial players meeting with management.
Aug. 20: Bob McClure fired as Red Sox pitching coach
McClure was replaced by Randy Niemann for the remainder of the season. McClure and manager Bobby Valentine had a rocky relationship starting in spring training and there were multiple reports of poor communication between the two throughout the season.
Aug. 21: Expose reveals communication gaps bedeviling Bobby Valentine and his staff
A Globe story reveals wide fractures between Valentine and his coaching staff, some of whom he was encouraged to hire by Red Sox management. At one point, bench coach Tim Bogar and pitching coach Bob McClure (who was later fired) considered asking for reassignments.
Aug. 21: Red Sox opt for more surgery for Carl Crawford
The team announced the outfielder would undergo Tommy John elbow surgery, with the hope that he would be able to return in time for the start of the 2013 season.
Aug. 25: Red Sox complete blockbuster deal with Dodgers
The Sox dealt Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and Nick Punto to the Dodgers in exchange for James Loney and four prospects. The move signaled that team executives were more focused on winning in 2013 instead of 2012.
Aug. 25: Alfredo Aceves suspended three games
The Red Sox suspended the righthander for "conduct detrimental to the team" following a confrontation with manager Bobby Valentine. Aceves had a closed-door meeting in Valentine's office after the Red Sox a game with the Royals in which he was angry that he was not used to close the 4-3 game.
Sept. 1: Tom Werner accepts blame for bad season
The Red Sox chairman said the team's ownership group was as frustrated with the fans and unable to explain why things have gone so wrong over the past two seasons. He declined to comment on Bobby Valentine's status for 2013. "I don't want to talk too much about him," he said. "But he's had a challenging year. I think, as we've said before, he's doing a good job."
Sept. 3: Ownership joins team in Seattle
Amid a disastrous road trip, owner John Henry and GM Ben Cherington joined the Red Sox on the third leg of their trip in Seattle. They met with Bobby Valentine, but insisted they were not there to fire the manager.
Sept. 5: Bobby Valentine has outburst on radio show
During an interview with WEEI, Valentine said he would punch host Glenn Ordway after a question about whether he had "checked out" of his job. Valentine said he was joking. But the manager also passionately bristled at questions about his commitment and his personal schedule.
Sept. 5: Red Sox go 1-8 on road trip
In perhaps the exclamation point that ended their postseason hopes, the Red Sox lost 2-1 in Seattle to finish a 1-8 road trip that also stopped in Anaheim and Oakland. The Red Sox were outscored 63-21 during the trip.
Sept. 13: John Henry denies team is for sale
After a Fox Business report claimed the Red Sox were "quietly shopping" the team for a sale, Henry, the principal owner, refuted the report. He said it was "completely without foundation" and added he was committed to staying in Boston long-term. Henry also said that the Red Sox had signed team president Larry Lucchino to a long-term extension.
Sept. 14: Bobby Valentine says Red Sox have 'weakest roster'
The manager said the Red Sox' September depth chart was inadequate, especially with Pawtucket having played into its postseason for the AAA championship. Asked if there was a specific area of his roster that needed reinforcement, Valentine said, "Are you kidding? This is the weakest roster we've ever had in September in the history of baseball. We could use help everywhere. We've got four outfielders and it's September, yeah. We've got four infielders, it's September — of course. If there are people who could be brought up, we should bring 'em up, but I don't know that there's a lot of guys left.'' Valentine later backpedaled from the remark, saying that he meant "weakest" in terms of quantity, not quality.
Sept. 19: Red Sox clinch losing season
With a 13-3 loss to the Rays, the Red Sox ensured their first losing season since 1997. The loss dropped them to 68-82. Daisuke Matsuzaka took the loss to fall to 1-6.
Sept. 30: Red Sox surpass 90-loss mark for first time in 46 years
A 6-3 loss in Baltimore dropped the Red Sox' record to 69-90 and marked the first time they had hit that loss plateau since 1966. Every other team in MLB had at least one 90-loss season in the 46 years between the times the Red Sox recorded the dubious feat.
Oct. 2: Red Sox secure ensure last-place finish
Boston blew a 3-1 lead in the ninth inning at Yankee Stadium and lost 4-3 in 12 innings for its 92nd loss of the season. The defeat ensured that the Red Sox would hold sole possession of last place in the AL East when the season ends. It marks the team's first last-place finish since 1992.
Oct. 3: Bobby Valentine says coaches undermined him
In a radio interview, the Red Sox manager said he felt his coaches were disloyal, though he said that had "very little" to do with how the team struggled. There are situations during the year where I didn't think it was all for one or one for all, or whatever it is," he said, without naming the coaches.
Oct. 3: Red Sox lose finale to cement worst season since 1965
The Red Sox fell 14-2 in the season finale at the Yankees, their 12th loss in the seasons' final 13 games. They finished 69-73, their worst mark in 47 years. They were 26 games behind the first-place Yankees.


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Outside the Battle Palace, Ruby, Sapphire and Popo gasp in shock as Palace Maven Spenser without warning approaches them and uses his staff to lift up Sapphire's chin. The old man stares into Sapphire's eyes and says he knows it well, and Ruby angrily demands that he stays away from Sapphire. The boy begins to command a Weather Ball from Popo, but Spenser calmly thrusts his staff at Ruby's forehead and knocks him onto the floor.
Despite having learnt Sapphire's name from Ruby's words, Spenser still addresses her the formal way, and says if he isn't mistaken, she has once come into contact with the Blue Orb, one of the mythical jewels which have the power to control and calm the ancient titans.
Sapphire's eyes widen with surprise at the statement, and finds it hard to believe that Spenser is able to learn all that by looking into her eyes alone. Struggling to sit up on the floor, Ruby secretly pulls out the Memory Fire Lighter which Courtney gave him, and quickly ignites its flame to begin recording.
Inside the Battle Dome, the final tournament match between Emerald and Tucker ensues. Charizard continues to attack with its deadly Overheat, while Metagross uses all its might to protect itself from the flames.
Brandon exclaims that Tucker is totally domineering in the battle, and everyone else looks on eagerly. Just then, Scott beckons Anabel over for a word, and the Salon Maiden proceeds to excuse herself from the group, explaining that she is going to have a private meeting with the owner for a while. The four remaining Frontier Brains watch as Anabel hop onto Scott's flying saucer to hover away, and Greta suddenly remembers what Noland said about having found a way to locate Jirachi earlier than their enemy. She states that it is a bad time to ask since they are there to support Tucker, but she is really dying to know what it is.
Lucy expresses her desire to learn about it as well, and Noland reaches into his pocket to take out three Pokeballs. He states that they were the keys to his discovery, and Greta gasps in pleasant surprise when three Smeargles pop out from them. She bends down to hug one as Noland pets the other two, and explains that they are wild Pokemon captured at the Artisans Cave.
It turns out that Noland himself has paid a visit to the cave yesterday after their battle with the armoured man there. While the showdown took place, most of the Pokemon fighting were the rental ones stolen from the Battle Factory, and the wild Smeargles were basically just spectators who did not really take part after Guile Hideout appeared.
Smeargles know a unique move known as Sketch, which allows them to copy a move they have witnessed and turn it into their own. Noland rationalized that among the few dozens of Smeargles, at least some would have managed to sketch the moves of Jirachi, and thus started looking among the group. Eventually he was able to screen out three, who all succeeded in copying the same move Jirachi knows.
Greta fervently inquires what move it is, and Noland puts on a grin as he commands a Wish from the Smeargles. The three painter Pokemon immediately clasp their hands together while closing their eyes, and a shower of glittering stars instantly fill the place. Noland remarks that wish is an exceptionally beautiful move, and says while he hasn't witnessed Jirachi use it, he is certain that it will generate a similar glittery light that they are all seeing right now.
Thus, Noland has set up various cameras across the entire Battle Frontier, and the central system will alert him once such a light is detected. The Factory Head remarks that they shall head for the light source as soon as the signal comes in, and hopefully they will get to Jirachi before Guile Hideout does.
Lucy and Greta nod in excitement, and suddenly hear a crash from the stage. They quickly turn around, and see that Emerald's Metagross has finally succumbed to Charizard's powerful Overheat. The announcer declares Tucker the winner as both of Emerald's Pokemon have fallen, and the Dome Ace waves proudly at the roaring crowd while Emerald gasps in disbelief that he has lost.
Tucker grins that it has been an excellent match, but points out that Protect is a move which success rate decreases with continuous use, and thus shouldn't be a battling tactics to count on. He offers a handshake to Emerald and says he is always welcome to rechallenge within the 7-day period, but Emerald turns around with a depressed look, and silently walks off the stage. Tucker knows that Emerald must take his own time to deal with the fury and upset of his first loss, and lets out a little sigh.
The flamboyantly dressed man then decides to go find his other companions and waves towards the Frontier Brains' private stand. But then he spots the familiar silhouette of Guile Hideout dashing across the windows near the top of the audience stand, and quickly sends out Salamence.
On the Brains' private stand, Greta, Lucy, Brandon and Noland jump with shock when Tucker suddenly swoops past them on the dragon Pokemon, and wonder what has happened since it doesn't seem like his usual performance gimmick. Suddenly, Noland's Pokegear beeps, and an electronic voice comes on to alert him that the glittery light has been detected. To everyone's astonishment, the location is right on the rooftop of the Battle Dome.
Back outside the Battle Palace, Sapphire demands to know why her having had contact with the Blue Orb has anything to do with Spenser, and whether or not it is related to what is about to happen at the Battle Frontier. However, the Palace Maven simply closes his eyes in silence for a moment, then grins that he has been too carried away.
The old man turns around with a gentle laugh, and places his hand on his baldhead as if feeling foolish for appearing so inappropriate despite having so much experience in life. He remarks that perhaps everyone who finally gets to meet a compatriot after such a long time will act this overzealously, and starts to walk away.
Sapphire steals a look at Ruby, who winks back at her, and flicks off the flame on the Memory Fire Lighter. The boy then pretends to agree with what Spenser said, and gleefully runs up to Sapphire and says they should get going. Once he is sure that Spenser couldn't hear them, he compliments Sapphire for leading Spenser well in their conversation, and Sapphire grins that she knew the Palace Maven is keeping something from them.
Ruby states that the entire dialogue has already been recorded by the Memory Fire Lighter, and says there is definitely something weird about the old man. Hopefully the memory flames will lend them hints and help them solve the mystery.
A moment later, as Spenser is about to head back into the Battle Palace, he suddenly senses someone else behind him, and turns around to find Emerald standing at the base of the stairs with a determined look. The Palace Maven grins that after the red and blue ones have departed, the green one has arrived, and says he seems to be having quite a lot of visitors that day.
Emerald states that he is there for the Palace challenge, and Spenser is surprised since he expects him the following day. Emerald grunts that it was his initial plan, but he has unfortunately had some mishaps, and the new schedule will be to conquer the Palace within that afternoon, followed by the Tower challenge on the next day, and reserving the last day for retaking the Battle Dome.
Despite his loss at the Dome, Emerald still manages to keep his arrogant attitude, and remarks that this is only way he could set his record straight. Spenser puts on an amused grin as he beckons Emerald to follow, and says it will suit him better if there are no press people or audience present. Walking through the two heavy stone doors, the Palace Maven tells Emerald to get ready to meet his opponents, and the doors gradually slam shut with a load bang.
Meanwhile, at the rooftop of the Battle Dome, glittery stars and a colourful light fill the entire area. Brandon, Lucy, Tucker, Greta and Noland hurry towards the source of the light, but find themselves face to face with not only Jirachi but also the armoured man.
The armoured man unleashes a swirl of vacuum blast with his sword together with a Psybeam from his Surskit towards Jirachi, and the wish Pokemon winces in pain. Guile Hideout then tosses out a Pokeball without warning, which rapidly sucks Jirachi in. To the five Frontier Brains' horror, the Pokeball only shakes briefly, and the sound of a click is heard, signifying a successful catch.
Picking up his prize, the armoured man grins wide and evilly as he announces his triumphant capture of Jirachi, who now looks out from its Pokeball with a helpless expression on its face...Thanks To Coronis For Writing this for us
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Some people sing in the shower. Me? I sing in the kitchen (when no one is within hearing distance, that is--ear trauma could probably be an actionable offense...).
The song that popped into my head while dealing with this bread?
"Magic," by Pilot (a song well before my time, yet still completely appreciated).
No, there wasn't any voodoo involved, and no rabbits were harmed in the making of this treat. It's magical for two reasons. First of all, one loaf spent a month in the freezer and came out about 27 times better than the loaf consumed fresh out of the oven. I kid you not. It's as though the cold temperature enhanced the spices and encouraged canoodling amongst all the flavors.
The second reason I consider this bread to be of the magical persuasion is because the pink hue seemed to migrate to the top center of the loaf. Why? Beats the heck out of me, but I like it. To me, that was the best-tasting portion of the bread, even though it very well could've been no different from the rest of the loaf flavor-wise.
Can you see that concentrated berry color? Oh, oh, it's...
Magical Mixed Berry Bread
(makes 2 loaves)
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups mixed berry applesauce
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Combine the dry ingredients (minus the sugar) in a small bowl and mix well. In a large bowl, thoroughly blend the oil, sugar, and applesauce until smooth. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture and stir just until incorporated. Spoon the thick batter into two greased 9x5" loaf pans.
Bake for 40-50 minutes, using a toothpick to test for doneness.
January 24, 2009
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Some people sing in the shower. Me? I sing in the kitchen (when no one is within hearing distance, that is--ear trauma could probably be an actionable offense...).
44 comments:
- OhioMom said...
We just finished up our holiday breads, wrapped in plastic and then in foil, stored in the bottom of the fridge the flavors were greatly enhanced ... especially the banana.
- January 24, 2009 at 7:43 AM
- Ingrid_3Bs said...
I've never frozen any desserts. With three children in the house there just isn't enough to save. It doesn't help I don't have any self control. :-(
Btw, we made the mistake of telling our babygirl that she sings wonderfully, now she belts out songs whenever the mood strikes,very loudly sometimes. She always sings in the bath (loud)wich gets the Twins hollering at her to be quiet! Then they holler for me to tell her to be quiet! LOL!
- January 24, 2009 at 8:23 AM
- Sara said...
This looks delicious - I love freezing baked goods, it's good to know that this tastes even better that way!
- January 24, 2009 at 9:13 AM
- kat said...
There are some nice flavors in that bread! Matt got me a stereo for the kitchen for Christmas so not I have something to se=ing along with!
- January 24, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- Pam said...
This bread sounds really tasty. It still shocks me that freezing bread doesn't destroy it.
- January 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- Anonymous said...
wow, 27 times better is a significant difference! cinnamon, chocolate and berry applesauce sounds like a delicious combination, but the migrating hue factor is just plain perplexing.
- January 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM
- Unknown said...
sounds and looks good... i love berries!!! :) happy chinese new year... :)
- January 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- pigpigscorner said...
The pink hue is interesting. Sounds delicious from the ingredients you used!
- January 24, 2009 at 12:44 PM
- krysta said...
sounds good and i love that it's pink in certain parts...
my son sings in the shower without fail every evening...
- January 24, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- Jessica@Foodmayhem said...
ooh, so scientific. Yum, haha
- January 24, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- Marie Reed said...
Interesting that cocoa powder is an ingredient! I'm game to try this one:) I wish that I could get mixed berry applesauce in France! I'll have to improvise and mush some berries in!
- January 24, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- veggie belly said...
You're right, some things seem to taste better when they've kept a while. A friend of mine freezes marinated chicken before cooking..he says it tastes better. I love the color in your photos!
- January 24, 2009 at 4:01 PM
- vanillasugarblog said...
well then you must have a magical freezer for something to come out tasting better than the original. My freezer bites.
But I do like the fact that a bit of cocoa powder went here with the applesauce. Good idea.
- January 24, 2009 at 5:37 PM
- Sandie said...
"Encouraged canoodling amongst all the flavors,"...teehee.
The very fact that this cake tasted better coming out of the freezer than it did fresh out of the oven is reason enough to make it sometime. I have no idea why cold cake appeals to me at the moment, but it certainly does!
- January 24, 2009 at 6:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Ahh interesting about the frozen one tasting better. Maybe it's like curries always tasting better after a few days. Although I was always told that freezing suspended any processes -but apparently not!
- January 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
The bread sounds tasty. I've never heard that something tasted better after being put in the freezer, but I guess there's a first time for everything.
- January 24, 2009 at 8:53 PM
- Lori said...
I had a little forty five of that song when I was a kid. LOVED it.
And I love this bread. Its right up my flavor alley. Thats so funny that the pink concentrated itself in the middle. Simply magical Grace.
- January 24, 2009 at 9:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'd have this for breakfast!
- January 25, 2009 at 6:07 PM
- Maria said...
I sing when I bake too bad josh has to listen:) I love freezing baked goods, luckily we have two freezers!
- January 25, 2009 at 7:14 PM
- Amber said...
Grace, I am attempting this for the fourth time...I have an award for you, stop by and pick it up. There was more...I sing and I sing bad. My attitude is their ears must be bad.
- January 25, 2009 at 7:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
OMG I need some Magic...seriously woman..send it over or I'll pick it up on my broom.
- January 25, 2009 at 8:40 PM
- Sophie said...
I dance in the kitchen :), I'm convinced that my neighbors would complain if I sang lol. Ya know, I've never tried the freezer thing, but I know the fridge works wonders for some sweet treats! :) I could go for this berry bread treat...oooh and cinnamon and cocoa?? Neatooo!
- January 25, 2009 at 9:05 PM
- Chef Fresco said...
yum! These look super moist and very delicious!
- January 25, 2009 at 9:51 PM
- Sharon said...
Bread.Pink.Cinnamon == all of my favorite things in life capture in one loaf! You're magical, Grace.
- January 25, 2009 at 10:10 PM
- Heather said...
there is something magical... or a little bit psychadellic... about this bread! it sounds delicious, though :)
- January 25, 2009 at 10:31 PM
- MaryBeth said...
I love the pink center, this looks really good Miss Grace..
- January 25, 2009 at 11:25 PM
- Dewi said...
OMG Grace, this look so delicious. I love the texture too.
- January 26, 2009 at 12:55 AM
- Anonymous said...
Magic by Pilot? Oh yeah, way before my time too (cough cough). I'll now be singing that song for days....
- January 26, 2009 at 2:27 AM
- Paula said...
Hey Grace ... I tried to leave a comment on your Australia Tim Tam post (YUM), but couldn't find the comments section anywhere. Sooo ... great lookin' cookie snacks! I haven't seen them at the store, but will keep an eye out. :-)
- January 26, 2009 at 10:46 AM
- Manger La Ville said...
I have a secret to confess: I sing to most of my produce,this was it coaxes them in to being the best they can be. Singing is magical. Also those tim tams sound soooo good. I wish they offered all the other flavors.
- January 26, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
That just looks absolutely divine. And I want a caramel creme cookie.
- January 26, 2009 at 12:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
I love that pink hue! My lone cup of tea needs a piece of this bread.
- January 26, 2009 at 2:05 PM
- Deborah said...
Ok, I've got a loaf of quick bread in the oven right now, but now I'm wishing it was this kind instead of what I'm making!!
- January 26, 2009 at 3:55 PM
- Marjie said...
I've never seen mixed berry applesauce, but I did make a batch once with the skin on, and it was a splendid shade of pink! Of course, that leads to the royal pain of straining the stuff...
- January 26, 2009 at 5:00 PM
- Laura said...
OK you just inspired me to finally take the pumpkin bread out of my freezer. Let's hope it is magic too! :)
- January 26, 2009 at 10:04 PM
- Marie Reed said...
I have an Australian friend in Paris who is quite the Tim Tam slammer!
- January 27, 2009 at 3:12 AM
- Lore said...
I've never heard of mixed berry applesauce before but that's like especially made for cakes, love it!
The loaves look delicious and interesting fact about how the freezer enhanced the flavours, will keep that in mind ;)
- January 27, 2009 at 3:14 AM
- Emily said...
Oooh, I like it. It looks nice and fluffy. And, yes, very magical. :)
- January 27, 2009 at 6:29 AM
- Dee Light said...
Your bread looks soooooo yummy. Thanks for the freezer tip.
Isn't it fun to sing while your cooking or cleaning or...singing makes every thing more fun.
- January 27, 2009 at 2:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
ooooooooh this looks fun! wouldn't it be yummy with some cream cheese swirled into it?
- January 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
Some breads are so much better after aging or whatever fancy word they call that. Glad to know this is one of those types of bread.
- January 27, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- LyB said...
I love that song. And the word "canoodling". :) That bread looks delicious.
- January 30, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Jeanne said...
My goodness yes - the colour certainly has migrated to the top of the bread! Sounds magically tasty :)
- January 31, 2009 at 7:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
Been looking at cookie recipes w/applesauce, so I'm all over this. I'd dig the center right out of it and you'd have to chase me to get it back. Yep.
- February 1, 2009 at 9:57 PM