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Sunday, January 16, 2011
King Arthur Flour , and Baked Doughnuts -- The Non "Krispy Kreme"
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- Susan said...
Oh dear. They look so good. My mouth is watering. I have to make a confession. I have never, ever tasted a Krispy Kreme doughnut. Nad I have not eaten any kind of a doughnut in probably 12 years. (Since I retired from a place that was always overflowing with them) Do I miss them, you betcha. Just can't let myself do it. ;(
- January 16, 2011 at 5:30 PM
- A Feast for the Eyes said...
Susan, you're probably lucky you haven't had a Krispy Kreme doughnut. They are evil! I don't eat doughnuts very often, but every so often, the craving hits. Mini doughnuts are a small indulgence. Go ahead, try one!
- January 16, 2011 at 5:40 PM
- Dinners and Dreams said...
I love that they're baked instead of fried and they look absolutely gorgeous. Much much better than Krispy Kreme!!!
- January 16, 2011 at 6:48 PM
- bellini valli said...
You have hit my sweet spot Debby. Here in Canada Tim Hortons still has a corner on the market even if their doughnuts get smaller and smaller (perhaps that's a good thing). My absolute favourite is with cinnamon and sugar. Nothing beats a fresh doughnut in my books.
- January 17, 2011 at 4:15 AM
- The Short (dis)Order Cook said...
Now that I have a fryer, I'm so into making fried doughnuts, but I'd give these a spin. It's funny you discovered the "secret" to making these taste just right - patience! You need to be willing to wait a bit to eat them. Isn't that something many of us who cook could use more of.
I never got the KK thing. I've always been underwhelmed by the few KKs I've tried. Maybe it's because I've never had the hot glazed. My favorite doughnut is Boston Cream and the KK version is TOO SMALL and the cream tastes weird. I'm all about DD - if my waistline would only cooperate and not expand when I eat them.
Can't wait to see your further experiments with these.
- January 17, 2011 at 9:29 AM
- Joanne said...
I tend to avoid donut shops as well because...let's be real, if I get some I'm not just stopping at one. These baked donuts look amazing though! Especially with the cinnamon sugar outside!
- January 17, 2011 at 9:33 AM
- Simple Simon said...
Your doughnuts looked delicious. What a great idea to spritz them with water instead of the butter dipped method of adherence. So glad they turned out fine the next day.
- January 17, 2011 at 9:42 AM
- Delishhh said...
I made doughnuts awhile back and it was so much fun. But i made the ones you fry. this looks so much healthier :) And you have a donut pan :)
- January 17, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- Frieda said...
I'm glad you "splurged" on buying this mini doughnut pan! You had a coupon, after all!
Thanks for the tutorial and recipe ~ I just got a mini doughnut pan and have been scouring the web for recipes as well.
In spite of the flavor, your sugar coated doughnut looks delicious!
- January 18, 2011 at 9:51 AM
- Monica H said...
Well they certainly look good to me even if they weren't that great initially. The cinnamon sugar is what does it for me!
- January 18, 2011 at 9:38 PM
- A Busy Nest said...
I have one of these pans and have not used it. This recipe makes me consider trying it since I like the idea of using whole wheat pastry flour.
- January 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM
- Allie said...
Well they sure look good! Even if they weren't fooling your taste buds. And I love the donut pan, so cute. I think it was a great investment. They remind me of apple cider donuts. Have you ever tried one? They make them in the fall here and you can get them at apple orchards and places where you pick pumpkins. Not sure if that was a Jersey thing or not. I'd love to try them!
- January 20, 2011 at 9:49 PM
- Stacey Snacks said...
Leave it to the "gadget queen" to have a donut mold! I have never even seen one!
- January 21, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- Lisa said...
Homemade donuts sound like a delicious treat. I love that they're baked instead of fried. I have a new linky on my blog called "Sweets for a Saturday" and I'd like to invite you to stop by and link this up. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/01/sweets-for-saturday-1_21.html
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I'm a genderqueer person who wants top surgery :V also it seems like 1/2 of my online friends are varieties of trans* and like 1/8 of my offline friends.
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I'm a genderqueer person who wants top surgery :V also it seems like 1/2 of my online friends are varieties of trans* and like 1/8 of my offline friends.
K fine I'll come out, I'm trans*/genderqueer too. Someone was supposed to guess first and then I was gonna be all "SURPRISE NON-BINARY TRANS PERSON!" but the opportunity never arose.
I wish I had more trans friends IRL.
If you have a facebook I highly recommend the group Genderqueer Atheists.
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eh a lot of Atheist societies just devolve into clusterfucks after a while (though it's particularly hilarious what's happened to the reddit forum with the memes banned)
If you want more IRL trans* friends then just go to trans* events, I volunteer and do stuff like protests and go to trans* evenings. It's a pretty small community tho so it seems like half of the people know each other LOL
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eh a lot of Atheist societies just devolve into clusterfucks after a while (though it's particularly hilarious what's happened to the reddit forum with the memes banned)
If you want more IRL trans* friends then just go to trans* events, I volunteer and do stuff like protests and go to trans* evenings. It's a pretty small community tho so it seems like half of the people know each other LOL
Trust me, I have been in bad atheist groups and Genderqueer Atheists is not one of them. It the best, most accepting (metaphorical) place I've ever been. The title is a little misleading, since we tend to have people of many religions (I know someone's Wiccan, for example) and also some binary trans people (maybe even some cis people?).
Yeah, I know a few from a support group I went to, I just wish there were more that I just had as general friends. I do have one really good transfeminine friend though, so I probably shouldn't complain. Not like I go outside that much or have ever had lots of friends >_>
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In the indie game Papers Please (you can download the demo) sometimes you'll get a person who looks like a guy but in their passport it says female. If you ask them about it they'll say they're a woman. Now because you live in a dystopic shitty country you have to reject them but it makes you think.
If someone wants to be a woman/man, then who are we to say that they aren't? So what if their bodies don't look like our image of femininity/masculinity? Isn't it selfish and jerkish of us to deny what someone wants to be, deny their happiness just because it's "weird" for us?
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First off; thanks for this post, since I'd been trying to get an account for this forum and it was sitting in administrator approval limbo for like a month =P This was the tipping point that made me bother to poke them with an email rather than keep checking back every few days XD
Anyway, lessee!
There's a lot of misconceptions about trans people in general. Why? Well... what are the primary sources for information? Sexist/transphobic dirty jokes, cliche and ineffectual trite lines ("I'm a woman trapped in a man's body!"), and poorly worded attempts to describe such by people who don't know any better.
With that in mind, is it really all that surprising that most people don't know much of anything? =P
So here's the breakdown of the gist of things for realsies:
To begin with, all transgendered (or transsexual, whichever, I'll cover that later) means, is that your mind and body don't match up. This means that yes, some trans people are women who were told they were males from birth, it also means there are men who were told they were women. It also includes things like those who don't fit into a distinctive gender role, etc, etc.
Next off, biological sex is different from mental gender; two distinctively different things. Ask yourself this: if you suddenly swapped genitals magically, would you also magically gain any traits that make you a gender other than you are currently? Once you remove things like social conditioning, hormonal adjustments to personality, and so on and so forth, there's still some stuff left over that makes you male, female, or otherwise, and your genitals aren't really connected to that.
See... we know crap all about gender. Zhuinden said the following:
The reason why I'm confused is because I think whether you have a male body or a female body is honestly quite obvious based on your type of genitalia (unless you have a medical condition in which you are both or neither of the biological sexes), and if your body is a given, then there's no question about any of this.
Here's the problem: everything you know is wrong, in perhaps a bit more literal sense than you may have imagined possible. Your chromosomes don't even determine your sexual characteristics like breasts, growing a penis, or vagina or anything else; it's purely hormonal. In fact, it's not even Estrogen that causes it either! Too much testosterone, and you get a penis, not enough testosterone and you get a vagina. All your chromosomes do is say how much of each hormone to produce, and that's about it other than testicles or ovaries.
There are some people who have a condition where their body becomes allergic to testosterone, and actively attacks it, killing it all off. They're essentially immune to it; they end up appearing female in every way, except the one thing their chromosomes tell them to make is testicles which never descend, instead of ovaries, so they just sit in the place where you'd expect to find ovaries. Bone density, facial structure, fat distribution, absolutely everything else is hormonal in terms of physical characteristics.
Now, that's just the surface of the issue... 2% of all births are intersexed in some way shape or form. This means "not obviously 100% one way or the other". This can range from the described issue above this, to genetic chimerism where you may have more than one set of genes in your cells, to having both sets of genitals, to things like XXY, or XXYY chromosomes, to over a dozen other potential issues that can occur.
2%, or 1 in 50 chances. In a class of 40 people like I had in high school, that's about an 80% chance that one of them was intersexed.
The really great part is what we do about that. The medical diagnosis for what to do about this is... a ruler. Yep, 1.5 inches or over, you get a surgically constructed penis and are given testosterone injections until you're near puberty. 1.0 inches or under, you get a surgically constructed vagina and are given estrogen.
What happens if the doctor just guessed wrong? And yes, it's a guess, nothing more. 100% pure, blind guesswork, not even medically sound. Well... if they guess wrong, you can live for decades with your parents and society enforcing certain behaviours upon you "act more like a real girl!", only to find out you were never supposed to be one in the first place.
Now this doesn't even account for how little we know about gender in general; we have done so few studies into it, and provided so little research that it's mostly just a big sign of "HERE THERE BE DRAGONS". We assume we know everything there is to know about gender, when in reality, we know virtually nothing on the matter.
We only recently discovered that male and female brains are a bit different in some key areas, that transgendered brains are a bit different from both of those, that hormones can adjust brain development, that a person can have their genes tell them to develop one brain and a different body to go with it, and so on and so forth. There are likely dozens, if not hundreds, of potential oddities and conditions which we haven't even discovered yet, because we haven't even tried to go looking for them.
The fact of the matter is, a transgendered person may have XXY chromosomes, or they may be immune to testosterone, or they might be subject to something we haven't even discovered yet.
"What's between your legs" has nothing to do with your gender; physical secondary sexual characteristics are only physical in appearance, nothing more.
Now... the real problem comes in when we have questions about how much of gender is biological, and how much is a social construct. Some parts of gender truly are social constructs in nature, and we can verify this pretty easily. Of course, other parts of gender are genetic in origin as well, which are also pretty easily verified.
The problem is, we don't know how much of each there is, or which are on each side, or which may be influenced by both. Nature VS Nurture, but without any real idea of which is which.
I'll use myself as an example here for a moment, just because it's convenient:
I never "wanted to be a girl". I don't "want" to be a woman, in fact, it's rather frustrating to be stuck being transgendered. I was assigned male at birth, yes, but it's pretty blatantly obvious to anyone who has to interact with me for any length of time that it's simply not correct =P
Do I want to be a girl? No, I just am. I don't mind it, but I don't bask in it either, it's just simply a fact of life, nothing more. By the act of transition from male to female, it's not "trying to be something I'm not", but rather, simply trying to match up the brain and body appropriately.
We don't have the capacity to change the brain (and I'm not sure I'd want to risk that if it were possible anyway), so that kinda leaves just the body to work with =P
One might ask, "is it possible you could just keep pretending to be a guy?". The question is posed in kind to them, then: "is it possible you could just go out in public as the wrong gender in all situations as well?". To be blunt, I can't do it. I've tried, so bloody hard to pretend to be a guy, I really, really have, and it's just... wrong. I don't think like a guy, I don't feel natural acting like a guy, it simply isn't who I am, no matter how hard I try to play the part and put on the mask for societal acceptance; it just is an act, and a rather badly performed one at that, nothing more.
So the next thing you might ask is why would you want to transition to "being a woman" (despite we just covered that I already was from the start =P but this is the kind of questioning I get, so we'll roll with it for now =3 ).
Well... it's sure as hell not to get "female privilege". It's not to get more rights, to make more money, or anything else... huh. Oh, the increased chance of being raped, murdered, or attacked over both men and women - combined - is there... that sure is a selling feature, maybe I just want to die. Maybe I really love the idea of blowing $40,000+ on various surgeries and medication, that isn't covered by health care nor insurance, that I have to pay out of my own pocket, and that I can't even trade in like a car or house to get a return on my investment for. Perhaps I just love the social stigma, the 60% chance of losing my job because of it, the possibility of being arrested for just using a public restroom (yay Arizona; I don't live there, but seriously, the USA's sliding backwards pretty hard on basic human rights... land of the free indeed =P ), or being harassed at every turn. Maybe I love the idea that my family disowned me on the spot, that it's near impossible to get a date that doesn't view me as a fetish based sex-toy, or perhaps I just like losing a good chunk of my friends.
Hrm... nope, none of that sounds like particularly good selling points, really. So why WOULD someone bother to transition, then, if it comes loaded with such ridiculous baggage?
Well... the answer is met with another statistic. Confirmed suicide rates of trans people are found to be a little over 30%. Considering the people greatest at risk by far, are those who have NOT transitioned, and that those who haven't "come out" are at the absolutely highest risk by an absurd amount, it's estimated that, with the shadow figures included, that transgendered people may commit suicide at a rate of nearly 50%.
Trans people who transition, however... actually have a lower suicide rate than cisgendered people.
It's a matter of life and death; live a lie, pretending to be someone you're not, never allowed to be yourself, knowing your friends and family only love a cardboard cutout you've toted around but that no one knows who you are, and being forced to live up to societal expectations which simply are completely out of character for you can, and will, drive most people to the brink of death.
If you transition, you probably live, assuming you aren't murdered for doing so (paired with the lowest conviction rate of murder period, so they probably won't even be persecuted for killing you... sigh).
It's a messed up situation, no doubt.
Anyway, here's the main stuff to understand; as the rest of this post is pretty long-winded, since it's a crash course in this kind of stuff, and there's a lot to cover, I'll try to keep this last bit to point form.
- Gender is in your brain, not your sexual organs
- Your gender is set from birth, and hormones, indoctrination, etc, doesn't really change that (though some people are genderfluid, that's more of a separate type of gender in this case =P )
- Trans people can be both MtF (male to female), FtM (female to male), and any other non-binary example in between
- Anything you think you know about gender is probably wrong
- It's not a choice to be transgendered; you either are, or you aren't. Most trans people would much rather NOT be; to be blunt, it kinda sucks
- It's not a matter of "I want to be X gender"; it's more so that you just are that gender already, but don't appear that way is all
- We've only identified a handful of the possible reasons for why some people may identify as trans; there's likely a lot more we aren't aware of yet
- Not everyone can afford, or even wants, major reconstructive surgery with exceptionally high risks
- "bottom surgery", such as surgical construction of a vagina, costs about $20,000, leaves your bones very brittle due to messing with hormone production levels, requires daily medication for the rest of your life, may completely remove all capacity to feel any sensation there at all if the nerves are severed, and can lead to death on the operating table with how major a surgery it is; it's not something you should "expect" people to want to do if they don't have to
- Being trans is not the focus of your entire life; it's not who you are. You are an individual first and foremost, a person, not a title. Please don't treat trans people as if that's the only aspect of their entire life that defines them.
- Some trans people are gay/lesbians/bisexual. Some are not. The LGBT thing suggests they're related, but they really aren't, and it's kinda misleading. Sexual orientation has nothing to do with which gender you are, and it's honestly kinda similar to calling a straight male a lesbian because he likes women. Don't mix these two things up =P
- If gender were 100% a social construct, then trans people wouldn't even exist
- FFS no, MtF people are not "trying to infiltrate and subvert the feminist movement with patriarchal conspiracies". Many feminists, however, are actively hostile, sexist, and aggressive towards transgendered people
- Oddly enough, the major LGBT political organizations are also largely actively hostile towards trans people, often going out of their way to remove trans-inclusive wording from laws. Don't assume that just because they're labeled together, that there's actually any love to be lost there.
- Being trans means you get the worst of all worlds, and never the best. Whichever situation would be least favourable to you is what you get handed; any situation where a female would benefit, you're treated as a male, regardless of presentation. Any situation where a male would benefit, you're treated as female. There are laws which specifically ensure that couples with a trans person in them are viewed as BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT AT THE SAME TIME, for whichever one gives the least amount of rights in any given situation. Yeah, just try to wrap your head around that one.
- Trans people have higher rape rates, higher violence rates, higher murder rates, and lower conviction rates against the perpetrators of these acts, across the board, compared to both cisgendered men and women.
- Trans people have an estimated ~50% suicide rate before coming out; 31% confirmed suicide rate after coming but before transitioning genders, and below average rates after transition. 41%, who lived long enough to answer the question, have actually attempted suicide previously and failed.
- The vast majority of what most "normal" people know about trans people, comes from transphobic jokes, porn, and so on. Expect a massive amount of false information to be flying around out there.
- Most people (including trans people themselves often) enforce gender stereotypes even harder upon trans people than on anyone else. If you think women and men have it bad, just wait until they both ream you for not being "feminine enough" or "manly enough". Strangely enough, many feminists (not all of them, but a frighteningly high number of them) are some of the worst offenders of this; I still have no idea why.
- (EDIT: forgot to mention this =P ) Instead of thinking of it as "woman trapped in a man's body!" (or vice versa), think of it as renovations. It's still your body, it's still your home, it's still you, but it needs a few walls knocked down, the plumbing and electrical redone, the kitchen remodeled, that sort of thing. Some stuff just wasn't installed properly when it first went in, and needs fixed in order to work properly, that's all.
Anyway, lots of stuff to cover, and I've barely scratched the surface, but hopefully it clears up a few things for you ^.~
Yes, I'm transgendered, and no I don't make a big deal out of it. It's not a big part of who I am, it's just something I'm stuck with. You learn to live with it, as best you can anyway. I do believe, however, that the key to compassion is understanding, and that the easiest way to get rid of this pile of false information is education. Hence, you probably won't hear me mention being trans again, except in context where it may be relevant to the discussion at hand.
Also, no, I'm not the stereotypical "girly girl", I just am myself. I've just given up on playing up to other people's ridiculous expectations of me, whether those expectations are stereotypically male or female. I am myself, no one else and nothing else. If we could all think that way, we'd probably get along a lot better with one another overall =P
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Some interesting fodder for challenging the "natural differences" train of thought.
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That is one hell of a firstish post.
I applaud thee. I shall have to read that among with the multitude of articles provided.
Good day, good people!
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That is one hell of a firstish post.
Sorry, can't help it; I'm a dedicated rant artist ^.~
I just don't know when to shut up =P
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Katsuni, can I bug you some time for info and sources about surgery, hormones, etc? My partner and I (Both FtMs) give a talk on trans stuff about three times a year, and we don't have a whole lot on MtF stuff.
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Katsuni, can I bug you some time for info and sources about surgery, hormones, etc? My partner and I (Both FtMs) give a talk on trans stuff about three times a year, and we don't have a whole lot on MtF stuff.
Uhm sure, I'll try to give what I can =P
Admittedly I'm only just now getting to the transition part in the last few months, so lack a lot of information myself (it's kind of a learn-as-you-go dealie; seems you ask one question, get ten different answers >.< ).
Anyway, feel free to ask me anything if you have a question; I'd rather teach and help, than leave people in ignorance to try to make up their own random guesses on stuff. Some things I can answer right now, others I may need to research first, but I'll do my best ^.^
Toss me a Private Message whenever you get a chance, and marvel as I pretend I have two brain cells left that weren't eaten by zombies ages ago to rub together =P
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That'll be helpful, actually, as your info will be up to date. I'll look at my notes later and thn PM you.
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Edit: Far too much rambling, I ain't taking responsibility for this xD
I hope no one started replying to it yet.
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Now I'm glad this comic was drawn, this sums things up.
Now after 3 hours of sleep - overall, all you need to accept is that 'gender' is a spectrum and not just 'male'/'female', and that there are people in this world who are born with a body that they are in complete dissonance with due to their sex not being the same as their gender, and as a result can't be congruent to either gender's expectations, and are fighting to become the gender they feel they were meant to me?
That isn't so hard. How on earth does this promote violence against them, and why do feminists and some larger LGBT groups prosecute them? I don't get it.
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In the indie game Papers Please (you can download the demo) sometimes you'll get a person who looks like a guy but in their passport it says female. If you ask them about it they'll say they're a woman. Now because you live in a dystopic shitty country you have to reject them but it makes you think.
If someone wants to be a woman/man, then who are we to say that they aren't? So what if their bodies don't look like our image of femininity/masculinity? Isn't it selfish and jerkish of us to deny what someone wants to be, deny their happiness just because it's "weird" for us?
In another part of the game there's a feminine presenting person who has a female name and you have to challenge them on their gender (which is marked as M) , which at that point goes to a full body scanner and you can see they have male genitals which enables them to pass though. It's still in alpha really, so I think comments could be made to the dev to change that bit to maybe have gender change certificates or something? Though I understand the scanner is designed to be really intrusive because GLORIOUS ARSTOZKA is worried about terrorists from neighbouring countries.
(aside from that bit I really want to play this game, it looks super fun)
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Travis Zajac, Alexei Ponikarovsky and Patrik Elias scored the Devils' other goals with Ilya Kovalchuk getting the primary assist on each. Martin Brodeur made 25 saves and had an assist, while Steve Bernier iced the game with an empty-net goal.
Wayne Simmonds, Mike Knuble and Matt Read scored in a first-period onslaught for the Flyers, who are 2-7 on the road this season. Ilya Bryzgalov had 15 saves.
Clarkson's team-high 10th goal came on a deflection of a point shot by Adam Larsson. Elias assisted on the last two goals.
The Devils scored on the first shot of the game, then watched the Flyers score three goals in a 2:36 span later in the first period to take a 3-1 lead. New Jersey scored two goals in the second period to tie the game at 3-all.
Kovalchuk had the primary assist on all three of the Devils goals, with the last one coming when he intercepted a pass by defenseman Kimmo Timonen deep in the Philadelphia zone and found Elias between the circle for a shot that Bryzgalov got a piece of but couldn't stop.
Ponikarovsky, who was acquired from Winnipeg on Wednesday after Dainius Zubrus was put on the injured list, had cut the Flyers' lead to 3-2 just 26 seconds into the second period with a shot from the left circle. Brodeur started the play with a long pass to Kovalchuk near the Philadelphia blue line. He found Ponikarovsky coming down the left side for an uncontested snap shot high into the net.
Simmonds, Knuble and Read had silenced all but the Devils fans in the building with their outburst midway through the opening period.
Simmonds got the red light turning, beating Brodeur in close on a power play at 9:27 after Brayden Schenn misfired on a shot from between the circles.
Knuble got his second of the season with a rising shot from between the circles that seemed to fool Brodeur after Stephen Gionta went down to block it. Ruslan Fedotenko set up the goal with a nice pass from the side boards.
Devils coach Peter DeBoer then called a timeout to settle his team down.
It didn't work. Defenseman Mark Fayne had a clearing pass intercepted in the right circle by Claude Giroux and he found Read alone in the left circle for a shot that zipped past Brodeur at 12:03.
Zajac had given the Devils the lead 40 seconds after the opening faceoff. Kovalchuk picked up the puck near his own blue line, skated into the Flyers zone and found his center in the left circle for a quick shot that beat Bryzgalov. It was Zajac's first goal since the team's met here on Jan. 22.


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I threw my back out, but the garbageman wouldn't take it. I don't blame him. When it comes to sore backs, I bow to no man. And if I tried, I wouldn't be able to straighten up.
That's what happened recently when I bent over (and not even backward) in an effort to be useful around the house. I'd just had lunch and figured I would be a good guy and do the dishes. So I opened the cabinet under the sink to get some dishwashing liquid. As I reached for it, I felt something -- possibly the insertion of a hot fireplace poker -- in my lower back.
I tried to stand erect but remained at a 45-degree angle, which I know was correct because I had haunting flashbacks to my high school geometry class. When I finally stood up straight, my throat emitted a blast not unlike that of a foghorn, which was appropriate since I'm usually in a fog.
Thus began a stretch in which I couldn't stretch -- or sit, or stand, or walk -- without experiencing the kind of pain normally associated with childbirth or having the mortgage payment extracted from your checkbook without Novocain.
So I saw a chiropractor.
"You overstepped your kindness," said Dr. Gary DiBenedetto of North Shore Chiropractic in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y. "This is what happens when you try to be useful around the house."
DiBenedetto should know: He once threw his back out trying to repair his car.
"I was wrestling with some rusted bolts," he recalled. "I got up and felt like my spine had been ripped out."
"I'm rusty myself," I said, "so I let a mechanic work on my car."
DiBenedetto also remembered the time he hurt his back by jumping off the top of a mountain.
"I went to Haiti with my son on a relief mission after the 2010 earthquake," he said. "We walked through the jungle with our volunteer group on something called the Waterfall Challenge and came to a rock ledge. It was a 30-foot drop into a waterfall. My son, who was 15 at the time, kept saying, 'Go, Dad, go!' So I jumped, but not straight. My butt hit the water. You don't realize how hard water is until you land on it. I blew out my back. Here's my professional advice: Never jump into a waterfall."
In his 22 years in practice, DiBenedetto, 45, has heard it all.
"One guy hesitated before telling me that he hurt his back when he was in an unusual position with his wife," he related. "I said, 'I don't need to know the details, but now you know what not to do next time.' I see some crazy stuff."
Bending over to get dishwashing liquid ranks right up there, said DiBenedetto, who put me on an adjustable table and gave me an exam.
"You have a ridge on your left side that's higher than the right, which makes one leg shorter than the other," he said. "That can put stress on your lower back."
"I think the only thing that works for back pain is beer," I said.
"Alcohol is a muscle relaxant, so you may be right," said DiBenedetto, adding that only about 20 percent of his patients have back problems. "Many people have neck pain," he said.
"I'm a pain in everyone's neck," I noted.
"I can see that," the good doctor said with a smile. "Nerves also give people trouble, so I guess you have a lot of nerve coming here."
Because my back felt better the day of my appointment, DiBenedetto didn't crack it. But he did give me a brief education in chiropractic medicine. I came away from my first visit to a chiropractor with great respect for the profession.
"If you get hurt doing the dishes again, I'll be here," DiBenedetto said.
"Thanks, doc," I replied. "It's good to know you've got my back."
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Q&A with Sang Yoon, visiting chef at the upcoming Hawaii Food and Wine Festival
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The Hawaii Food and Wine Festival, the most chef star-studded event of the year, arrives in September. Tickets are on sale now, with prices going up after August 15.
In the next few weeks, Biting Commentary will chat some of the celebrity chefs cooking for the festival. Today, it's Los Angeles chef Sang Yoon, chef/owner of two Father's Office restaurants, which ignited the whole gastropub movement in the US (and, according to Esquire, dishes out the best burger in the nation), and modern Southeast Asian restaurant Lukshon. ]
The following is an edited version of the interview, in which Yoon explains the difference between fusion and the food he cooks, the genius of McDonald's, and why gastropubs are exciting.
What do you plan on cooking for the Food and Wine Festival?
Obviously, seafood. If you don't use the seafood, you're kind of stupid. Since it's an outdoor event, something cold, something raw.
I imagine you've done a lot of food and wine festivals, what's the best and worst part of them?
Well, it's sort of like sports. When you're cooking away from your restaurants, it's like playing a road game. You gotta bring stuff with you and tools. The cooking environment is very limiting. You bring some staff, but in order to do something successfully, you need to understand the limitations, be realistic. I think when you get too overly ambitious, things can fall apart on you.
The best part is obviously is getting to introduce what you do to a whole other crowd.
At Pebble Beach, you cooked a fusion lunch with Roy Yamaguchi and Charles Phan. Do you consider your food fusion?
Well, no, I don't. My latest restaurant is called Lukshon. We refer it to modern Southeast Asian. If you look at this cuisine, it's sort of been naturally jumbled. Southeast Asia has such a huge history of colonization. You have the French in Vietnam, the Portuguese in Macau, British in Hong Kong and the Dutch in Sri Lanka. Also, Southeast Asia is a crossroads. It's where a lot of people migrate, mostly Chinese. There's huge Chinese populations in Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma. It's kind of an area that's naturally jumbled up and fused.
I think fusion is when an artist takes two kind of disparate things that aren't related and brings them together. We don't do Vietnamese and Italian—that would be fusion. But Vietnamese-French is just part of their history. So we leave that part alone, but what we've done is modernize it. Southeast Asian cuisine is so rooted in tradition. They use old techniques, like a mortar and pestle. The food hasn't really been advanced, like Western food. Even Japanese food has been modernized. What we've really done with Southeast Asian food is brought it to the 21st century and applied modern cooking technqiues. But the flavors are very, very authentic.
I was reading in an interview where you said cooking in a restaurant is not creative, it's manufacturing. How do you make sure what you serve is made right everytime if you're not in the kitchen, since you have three restaurants?
Well, whether you have one or a hundred, it doesn't really matter. Cooking in the restaurant business, there's only a few moments of creativity, like when you're making an original dish or recipe. But then the trick is you have to be able to recreate it over and over again. And that's the hallmark of a great restaurant. Not how good is the original, but how good is the copy, how many times can you recreate it? Because you're not eating the original, you're eating the copy.
And you need your someone else, your cooks, to recreate it consistently.
Exactly, and that's why it's manufacturing. For the best manufacturers of anything, the goal is to make it without defect, to make it identical. Whether it's a technology product or a painting, whatever the product is, it's about recreating it without variation. Restaurants are the same thing. I always get a lot of education from fast food and big restaurants. People think "oh, fine dining, what can you possible learn from fast food?" I think there's plenty to learn about systems, making sure you can have repetitive steps to ensure consistency. In order to do something consistently, you have to embrace that it's not really an art form at that point.
No matter how good the original is, if it can't be recreated, if you can't meet someone's expectations time in and time out, who cares how good it is once?
I always say, anyone can be great once. You can be great by accident.
Look at McDonald's. The genius isn't in how good the Big Mac is, the genius is in how they can make it taste exactly the same all around the world.
But you're not McDonald's. How do you do it?
Yeah, well, that's my big secret and my big challenge. That's why I still have a job. I guess I know how to do this pretty well. It's like programming a computer. It's creating a list of steps and instructions people can follow easily.
So that means some menu items, no matter how great it is, will never make it on your restaurant menu because it can't be executed consistently?
Yeah, that's exactly right. There are things that we try to do sometimes and we can't do it. We don't have the steps to do it. Or we don't have the manpower t o do it. Obviously yes, you can always create a mechanism to create anything as long as you build the machine big enough. But the price keeps getting higher and higher.
You're credited with starting the gastropub movement in America. How do you feel about that?
Well, I'm thrilled about it. I guess I was one of the first pedigreed chefs to take a step away from fine dining, and this was 12 years ago, and especially in Los Angeles, there wasn't anyone doing anything casual that was considered nice. If you weren't in a fine dining restaurant with tablecloths, and paying a lot of money, you weren't going to get a meal by a trained established chef.
When I was living in Europe, I was really enamored with the bar culture, the Parisian brasserie, the Spanish tapas bars, the Italian enoteca, wine bars, lively bar scenes.
I didn't realize there was this sort of gastropub movement going on in England kind of in the late 90s. I didn't really have anything to go off of. I just kind of decided I want to do something more casual.
And now casual is the new fine dining.
I know, the last 10 years it's blow up. It's sort of an international trend. In Europe, in France, they call it the bistronomic movement, where all the big time Michelin starred chefs are now focusing on lower price points, more casual restaurants. It's not just an American thing. It's exciting to see chefs who want to showcase what they do to a wider audience. And that's just by charging less.
It's nice to be able to say you can go to a restaurant and get something for $20 that's made by a famous chef instead of having to pay $200. It changes the game a little bit.
I'm thrilled to be part of that. I had no idea that's why I was doing, no idea that I was going to be part of a trend, emulated in any way. But it's nice to be looking back and say yeah, I was one of the first people to do that.
Sang Yoon will be cooking at the Enter the Modern Dragon event, alongside chefs such as Joanne Chang and Roy Choi of Kogi truck fame. Tickets are $200 before August 15, $225 after. For more information, visit hawaiifoodandwinefestival.com


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Detroit Public Schools' high-energy Back-to-School Parade and Rally and brand new Education and Enrollment Expo drew thousands of participants Saturday, Aug. 27, offering parents a one-stop opportunity to enroll in DPS and get their children ready for school. Gospel artist Vickie Winans hosted the rally and served as grand marshal for the parade, which included Curious George, the return of the All City Marching Band and classic parade floats.
The high-stepping parade was bigger and better this year, making its way down Woodward Avenue past the iconic Spirit of Detroit statue, which is dressed for the occasion in a signature blue DPS shirt through Aug. 31. The parade featured new floats, as well as clowns and hundreds of DPS student and parent marchers. Units included the All City Marching Band in its first appearance in seven years. The newly reconstituted band is comprised of 88 musicians and auxiliary personnel from Cass Tech, Detroit School of Arts, Martin Luther King and Renaissance high schools. Also appearing were Curious George, popular Thanksgiving Day floats from the Parade Company, such as Motown and the Big Green Bookworm, and a 180-member Detroit Public School League unit, including cheerleaders and football players.
Schools and teams: The Nichols Middle School cheer team, Girl Scout Troop 72264, Pasteur Elementary's NASA Crew, the new Dr. Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine, the Gentlemen's Club of Brenda Scott Academy, a citywide JROTC unit and the Spain Elementary School Dance Team were among the student groups.
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The Bush administration's credibility problem on eavesdropping.
Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy lost his patience during yesterday's Senate hearings on NSA wiretapping after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said, for the umpteenth time, that he would not be able to answer a question because he didn't want to get into "operational details." "Oh, I'm sorry," Leahy said. "I forgot—you can't answer any questions that might be relevant." Leahy had seemed grouchy from the start. But after a marathon session that was long on theories of statutory interpretation and short on specifics about the wiretapping program itself—much less reliable assurances that the program is not being abused—it was hard not to sympathize with the senior senator from Vermont and detect in Gonzales' rote evasions and implacable smile a faint note of smugness.
Throughout the day, Gonzales did not stray from the explanations of the intelligence program already enunciated in the Justice Department's White Paper on the subject. The program targets terrorists and protects civil liberties. How does it select those targets, the senators wondered. Gonzales didn't want to get into specifics. How does it protect civil liberties? "There are guidelines, minimization procedures," he said vaguely. Could he make available those guidelines and procedures? Nope. "They're classified."
After outlining an expansive interpretation of presidential power, Gonzales suggested that in practice the best check on the executive is … the executive. When questioned about what, if anything, the president could not do, he refused to get into "hypotheticals." The problem for the administration is that without specifics about targeting procedures and safeguards, any defense of the legality of the NSA's program is itself hypothetical. In a rare revealing moment, Gonzales said that the people who make the determination about whom to listen in on are "career professionals" at the NSA—eavesdroppers, in other words. They know better who should be targeted, he said—"certainly than any lawyer." But as Durbin pointed out, alluding to the Japanese internment camps set up during World War II, historically "career professionals" have made some pretty bad decisions about who presents a security threat. With the administration refusing to furnish Congress with any set of guidelines that eavesdroppers must adhere to, Gonzales' "trust us" assurances demand an inordinate amount of trust from Americans and from their elected representatives.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., conceded that the judiciary committee might not be the forum in which to discuss all the details of the spying program. But she pointed out that to date, the administration has not briefed the intelligence committee either. "You haven't let us ask the question, what is a link? What is an affiliate? How many people are covered?" she said. "What are the precise numbers? What happens to the data?" When asked about the legal standard that the NSA uses to determine when to listen in, Gonzales replied that the standard is probable cause but that he preferred the term "reasonable grounds." He glossed over the important difference between the two and when asked to clarify the semantic shift merely repeated that the standard is both.
It's increasingly difficult to trust the administration in light of the widening gulf between the narrow, civil-liberties-protective "terrorism surveillance program" described by Gonzales and the pervasive, false-positive-afflicted electronic dragnet described in the press. In a major story Sunday, the Washington Post revealed that of the thousands of people whose communications have been intercepted as part of the program, the vast majority have turned out to be unaffiliated with terror groups. In January, the Times reported that the NSA's program has generated so many false or inconsequential leads that within the FBI, a new batch of tips from the NSA was jokingly referred to as more "calls to Pizza Hut." Gonzales denied that the wiretapping program had generated any "serious disagreement" within the Justice Department. Yet, Newsweek recently reported that it did just that, and that some administration attorneys went so far as to hire private lawyers in anticipation that the secret program would eventually be exposed.
The committee did not subpoena the CEOs of any private telephone companies, and Gonzales dodged one question about cooperation from the private sector. But on the morning of the hearings, USA Today revealed that AT&T, MCI, and Sprint are among the private corporations that provide NSA eavesdroppers with a back door into America's communications switches. "Thank God we have a press to tell us what you guys are doing," Leahy said to Gonzales. "Because you're obviously not telling us."
Gonzales' refusal to confront any of this did nothing to enhance the administration's credibility. On the contrary, by stonewalling so adamantly he gave tyranny-fearing Americans something to be concerned about and increased the growing suspicion that the White House and the NSA are up to no good. "I can only believe … that this program is much bigger, and much broader, than you want anyone to know," Feinstein concluded. Given that so much of what we are learning from the press conflicts with the cant offered by the administration, it's hard to argue with her. The whole spectacle raises this question: Why, exactly, should we trust these guys again?


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Oregon's first pot shops get permits
The Legislature last year approved a measure legalizing the pot facilities, effective this month. The dispensaries had previously operated in a legal gray area.
The Oregon Health Authority said Friday that it had received 288 applications since it began taking them March 3. It said it had issued the first eight permits.
"For the first time, a legal and regulatory structure is in place to govern the operation of dispensaries," said Tom Burns, OHA's director of pharmacy programs.
Seven of the first eight shops gave the OHA authority to release their business names. They are Oregon's Finest, Portland; Pure Green, Portland; N.W. Green Oasis, Portland; The Releaf Center, Hermiston; Cherry City Compassion, Salem; Doctor Jolly's, Bend; and EmeraldCity Medicinal, Eugene.
Jim Galba of H2Organics of McMinnville has filed his state application and paid the $4,000 application fee. He was hoping to site a dispensary at his Bunn Village business, which is under county jurisdiction, but a one-year county moratorium on dispensary siting forced him to seek a city location instead.
He could not be reached regarding the status of his application.
Applications were denied for 22 facilities because of incomplete paperwork or locations not meeting stipulations in the law. Another 20 facilities were granted provisional licenses that will allow them to begin operating once they have suitable security alarms installed.
Those that have been fully cleared can begin operating legally as soon as they get their permit certificates in the mail, said spokeswoman Karynn Fish.
That's only if they aren't barred by local authorities. Earlier this month, the Legislature gave cities and counties the power to block the facilities within their communities until May 2015, though local officials had asked for authority to enact permanent bans.
Nearly two dozen local governments have already passed or are considering ordinances to block the shops within their borders, at least temporarily.
Draft rules were released early last week that would allow facility owners to get a refund of the application fee if a moratorium blocks them from opening, but those rules will not go into effect until this week, Fish said.


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Tt eSPORTS Introduces Several New Products at Computex, Highlighted by the New THERON Plus Smart Mouse
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Thermaltake's Tt eSPORTS brand has really made a name for itself in the gaming community and the company is pulling out all the stops at Computex this week, which should really be no surprise since its headquarters are in Taipei. The centerpiece of the Tt eSPORTS booth is the new THERON Plus Smart Mouse with e-Sports App software. It's a wired laser mouse with up to 8200 DPI with built-in Bluetooth for reporting stats to the mobile app, where you can manage logs of mouse usage stats or even share your usage information to social media sites.
While the THERON Plus is shaped for right-handed users, Tt eSPORTS is also introducing two new ambidextrous mice, the VENTUS and the TALON. The VENTUS is a laser mouse with up to 5700 DPI and contains "air-through ventilation" to help keep your hands cool. The TALON is an optical mouse with DPI settings from 500 up to 3000, and features a "fixed color cycling effect throughout the body," along with removable side panels for grip customization. And of course the highly popular Level 10 M Hybrid Mouse is on display as well, winner of a Computex 2014 "Best Choice Award."
In the keyboard arena, the POSEIDON Z mechanical keyboard series has two new members in the tenkeyless POSEIDON ZX and the aluminum styling POSEIDON Z Forged; both with an impressive five-year warranty. Meanwhile, if you prefer membrane keys, the CHALLENGER series has been updated with the CHALLENGER Go and CHALLENGER PRIME. Tt eSPORTS is also introducing a few accessories to go alongside its keyboards in the form of the Gaming Wrist Rest and MetalCaps. MetalCaps are anodized and UV-coated durable metal keycaps that fit Tt eSPORTS Certified mechanical switches and come in four varieties: WASD+ESC, QWER+ESC, ↑↓←→ +ESC, and 38 keys pack (letters, punctuation + ESC key).
In the headset category, the CRONOS series has two new members in the CRONOS AD and CRONOS GO, while the SHOCK series gets a new addition in the SHOCK 3D 7.1 USB surround sound headset. There's also a brand new entry called the VERTO headset, with the Level 10 M Gaming Headset and SYBARIS hybrid wired/wireless headset also on display; all three winning a Computex 2014 "Best Choice Award."
Lastly, if that wasn't enough, Tt eSPORTS has collaborated with the #1 ranked Dota2 team in the world, Team DK, to bring a full lineup of gaming peripherals to the market. There's the Team DK SAPHIRA mouse with Team DK PYRRHUS mouse pad, the Team DK KNUCKER keyboard (plunger switches) with Team DK edition Gaming Wrist Rest, and the Team DK CRONOS headset.
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As part of the annual Seminar Series, the Developmental Pilot Highlights Seminar features two previous pilot awardees to present their completed research to the Penn CFAR community in a formal, seminar setting. This seminar provides a valuable platform for awardees to address the academic research community, obtain feedback, and spark collaborations towards larger funding efforts.
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NACOGDOCHES � Officials say a wanted fugitive was caught hiding in a trailer Friday morning after authorities had been searching over half a day for him. KETK reports that Thursday afternoon at 2:00, law enforcement began looking for Thomas Howell following a tip that a burglar had been seen in a house on Henderson Lane in the Central Heights area. The Nacogdoches County Sheriff�s Office, Constables, DPS Troopers, Texas Rangers, State Game Wardens, the Stephen F. Austin Police Assistant Chief, and the Nacogdoches Police Department assisted in setting up a perimeter around the area. A DPS helicopter and two sets of tracking dogs from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Division also assisted in the search for Howell.
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The sad thing is, we're not even in the game after the first 5 minutes. We're so far down that it's out of reach before half of the first half is gone.Madden, 2 passes, 2 turnovers.
Can our Admin change the thread title to Austin Allen's Cock? If so, then put me down for 10 inches, at least.
The defense has been bad, but it hasn't been bad enough to allow a 90% field goal percentage with that many three pointers. Hopefully they will cool down at some point.
3 TOs for Madden in a row. Just handing them the ball and giving up the 3 on the other end. I'm trying to see it with this kid.
Did we just pass up a two on one fast break for a turnover?
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Exchange executives, long shielded from legal scrutiny in the U.S., have been put on notice that may be changing after federal regulators fined CBOE Holdings Inc. $6 million for unprecedented lapses in supervision.
The levy, disclosed yesterday in a settlement with the biggest American options venue, marks the third time in nine months the Securities and Exchange Commission has announced financial sanctions against a market operator. Before collecting $5 million from NYSE Euronext in September for data dissemination violations, the commission had never imposed a monetary penalty on an exchange.
More than a decade of evolution in the way stocks, options, futures and derivatives trade in the U.S. has raised scrutiny of exchanges, which compete against each other for profits while supervising members as self-regulatory organizations. The role, dating from a period when markets were owned by the firms that used them, has been questioned following lapses in technology and oversight.
"This is something that's been percolating at the SEC for a number of years," said Paul Huey-Burns, a lawyer who worked at the agency from 1986 to 1998, in a phone interview yesterday. "There's a perception at the agency that while the exchanges, as SROs, are an important part of the regulatory framework, that particular leg has not been holding up its side of the stool."
CBOE added 0.5% to $42.02 as of 10:37 a.m. in New York.
Legislation that created the SEC in 1934 also deemed the main venues self-regulatory organizations, or SROs. The status gives them immunity for most actions taken as part of their supervisory duties, protecting them from lawsuits related to the exercise of those powers and preventing losses that could jeopardize institutions seen as vital to the U.S. economy.
Those shields were publicly challenged last year in the aftermath of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.'s mishandling of Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering. Brokerages such as Citigroup Inc., which claim to have lost tens of millions of dollars when Nasdaq's computers malfunctioned, said exchanges should be forbidden from hiding behind SRO rules when their mistakes reflected attempts to maximize profits.
The SEC didn't cite New York-based Nasdaq for errors of regulation, charging the company instead with securities laws violations in a complaint settled last month. Nasdaq's $10 million payment marked the second time the SEC had secured cash compensation from a market operator.
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Technology Enables Users to Easily Find, Access, and Use Their Data From Anywhere
CAMPBELL, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 15, 2013) - YouSendIt, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Found Software, Inc., a US-based software company co-founded by Stephen Brady, Vijay Sundaram and John Mitchell, which enables users to instantly find and discover their files, documents, and data across devices and cloud services. With the acquisition, YouSendIt will gain powerful technology capabilities, enabling data from email to desktops to cloud services to be instantly accessible and manageable. Found also offers impressive mobile capabilities as increasing amounts of data flow through mobile devices.
"It's very evident that we're moving to a more cloud-nostic world. Our industry has placed a huge burden on users to manage their cloud data -- effectively isolating it across a growing number of proprietary platforms," said YouSendIt CEO, Brad Garlinghouse. "Found enables YouSendIt to realize an exciting vision where users can access and manage the information they're looking for, no matter where it's stored."
Cloud-nostic Future: Users today are constantly forced to navigate cloud and device boundaries to make use of their cloud data. Aging file sync and enterprise content management systems, built on file and document-centric architectures, move data around but do not solve the significant challenges of discovering information and collaborating across devices and cloud services as well as outside the firewall.
"The Found team has created an impressive platform that allows us to build smart applications on top of a user's data whether it's in the cloud, on their mobile device or on their laptop," said Matte Scheinker, Chief Product Officer, YouSendIt. "We want to help our customers be the smartest people in the room by gathering insight and value from their files and data -- rather than overcharge them for commodity space on servers in the cloud."
The acquisition of Found enables YouSendIt to take search and discovery to a powerful new level, making content that exists in different platforms easily accessible and shareable, without requiring the user to hunt for information across these multiple clouds and devices. YouSendIt fundamentally embraces the idea of helping users access and manage their data regardless of platform -- a cloud-nostic future.
According to Forrester Research, Inc., Vice President and Principal Analyst, Rob Koplowitz, in the November 2012 report, Mapping The Value of Social Business and Collaboration, "Information is hard to find. If the goal is to drive optimal business results, what is the cost of lack of access to information? The cost is twofold: First, knowledge workers spend valuable time looking for information. On average, 42% of information workers spend more than an hour a day just searching for information. Highly paid roles like executive (46%), engineering (48%), and finance professionals (45%) index above this average. Second, they make decisions based on access to the information they do find, which may or may not be the best information available. The cost lies in decisions that are made with incomplete or inaccurate information."
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Obama made his first trip to Israel as president during the visit, arriving in Tel Aviv last Wednesday. He also visited the West Bank and Jordan before heading back to the U.S.


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The Daily Word 8.24.10: egg recall, George Michael, medical marijuana
The massive egg recall reaches 550 million and counting. Here's where to find if your eggs have been recalled.
... And not to be outdone, Wal-Mart plans a meat recall of its very own.
George Michael, of WHAM! and urinal mishap fame, could face jail time for driving under the influence.
Toshiba is launching a new 3D TV, no glasses required.
Medical marijuana is helping Colorado's budget deficit.
The U.S. troop count in Iraq falls below 50,000.
The City of Albuquerque does a homeless raid in Phil Chacon Park.
A German man shot in the back of the head five years ago just now found out.
Home burglars are caught by Dallas man using an iPhone app.
A gator is loose in Chicago.