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The Supreme Court during oral arguments Tuesday appeared sympathetic to upholding the rights of federal employees contained in both the 1989 and 2012 Whistleblower Protection acts, a prominent employment law attorney said.
R. Scott Oswald, managing principal at the Employment Law Group who filed an amicus brief in the case of Lawson v. FMR LLC, told Government Executive that Tuesday was "a good day for federal employees and executives and sends a strong message that the statutes designed to protect whistleblowers are going to be embraced."
The case does not involve federal employees directly but stems from a dispute over whether financial industry private contractors under the 2012 Sarbanes Oxley Act enjoy protections against retaliation envisioned by Congress for full-time public company employees.
Jonathan Zang and Jackie Hosang Lawson complained to the Labor Department after their employer, Fidelity Investments (FMR LLC), dismissed them in 2005 and 2007, respectively, after they raised questions about the accuracy of corporate filings. They then brought a lawsuit that worked its way through the circuit court. FMR LLC argued that Congress only intended the law's protections against retaliation to apply to public company employees.
The fact that the Supreme Court took the case, Oswald explained, puzzled many in the employment law field, causing concern that the justices might rethink longstanding standards of deference to administrative agencies adjudicating cases involving whistleblowers.
But as it turned out, "the Supreme Court showed little interest in the issue," except for a passing reference from Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Oswald said. Instead, the oral arguments and questions focused on the reason for the enactment of Sarbanes-Oxley -- when such corporations as Enron and Worldcom used phony bookkeeping techniques in part because of help from subcontracting accountants who were in a position to play the role of whistleblower.
Oswald added that in the years between passage of the 1982 whistleblower law and the 2012 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, circuit courts "emasculated the law with a host of exceptions, cutting huge swaths of whistleblowers out of coverage."
The direction of Tuesday's Supreme Court discussion, he said, bodes for an embrace of "fulsome and expansive protections to whistleblowers," a signal to circuit courts now taking on a new wave of whistleblower cases that those courts "shouldn't use the cases as opportunities to narrow what Congress intends as strong protections to whistleblowers."
In future litigation, he predicted, the "discussion will be on the limitation on coverage, not whether coverage exists."


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Perfume Shrine has been mentioned in the Washington Times, the Financial Times, Lucky magazine, Allure magazine, Food &Wine magazine, the Huffington Post (Top Perfume Blogs) and won awards in many Best Blogs competitions. Two finalist positions in Fragrance Foundation Awards for Editorial Excellence confirm the quality of the writing. The author has been interviewed by VOGUE Hellas and Queen.gr lifestyle webzine on her unique position as a fragrance historian & perfume expert in Greece and consulted by several writers incorporating fragrance in their work, notably Tilar Mazzeo. Elena Vosnaki is also a senior contributor on Fragrantica.com, the largest perfume webzine internationally.
Here is a selection of comments and awards.
~The Huffington Post on "Best Perfume Blogs" feature
~5: The International Cool Hunting Magazine
"Came across this interesting site called Perfume Shrine that has an extensive compilation of the favorite perfumes worn by famous film stars. Included is a list of "Old Hollywood" actors and actresses and the vintage scents they preferred, many of which are still available today.[...]There's much more, accompanied by many interesting facts. It's also fun to Google the different fragrances to see if the ingredients seem to match the personalities. This site is also a great way to make a choice if you're looking for a vintage fragrance and would like to smell like one of your favorite classic film stars!"
~Vintage Style Files
For a truly superb article about the history of chypre perfumes, I highly recommend this article at the Perfume Shrine, which is one of the most extraordinarily well-researched and interesting blogs I've read in ages.
~the How Do You Say That Word site
"There are so many perfumes on the market that it can be downright overwhelming trying to pick one. Fortunately we've found Elena Vosnaki, a true fragrance guru and editor of Perfume Shrine, to dish her expertise on and provide her picks for flirty perfumes"
~Erica Mayasi, LovingYou.com
"Similarly, marijuana-inspired fragrances and candles, like Fresh Cannibis Santal and Demeter Cannabis Flower, may remind us of the times we were young and wild(ish). Notes historian and blogger Elena Vosnaki of perfumeshrine.com: "They nostalgize a more romantic and hopeful period of time—the Summer of Love and the hippie movement."
~Judith Newman, Scents of Sin, Allure & in Fragrances & Their Stories, Vol.II
"Perfume Shrine, (www.perfumeshrine.com), is a fabulous site hailing from Europe. For quite some time, one of the highlights of my day has been to visit Perfume Shrine for her wonderfully eclectic, in-depth and fascinating writing about fragrance. I ve so enjoyed reading Perfume Shrine s intriguing and lyrical fragrance reviews in addition to her thought-provoking commentary on art, culture and music."
~Abigail Levin, The Posh Peasant
"Elena Vosnaki, the editor of the Perfume Shrine website goes further when she describes Tubereuse Criminelle by Serge Lutens: "Perfumes only rarely reproduce that other worldly effect, a hybrid of aberrant chill and aching beauty." She says the sharp wintergreen/eucalyptus-mint aroma of Tubéreuse Criminelle (usually this is due to methyl salicylate) replicates the menthol blast that the flowers emit when freshly picked. The rubbery, bloodlike essence of tuberose comes with a nose-tingling green glow which balances the intoxicating effect. Vosnaki comes up with a gem: the intoxicating effect was accused of producing spontaneous orgasms and thus young maidens in the Victorian era were forbidden from smelling the trumpety little blossoms!"
~Viienne Khoo, The Scent of a Pontianak, The Asia Mag
"Second stop on my mini tour was a vicarious trip to Grasse courtesy of Elena Vosnaki's wonderful blog, Perfume Shrine. Elena writes lyrically, sensually, of the Route de Mimosa (The Mimosa Road), a 130km trip through 8 towns of the region — Le Rayol-Canadel, Sainte Maxime, Saint Raphaël, Mandelieu la Napoule, Tanneron, Pégomas, Grasse, Cannes"
~Narelle Hanratty, Solid Gold Creativity
Elena Vosnaki of Perfume Shrine has been one of the best writers about what specific phrases and ingredients in perfumery mean. This week she added three new posts to the already impressive content on Perfume Shrine. In the latest articles she took on "Soapy Fragrances: More Than Just A Matter Of Clean", "Amber or Ambergris?" and "Defining Powdery and Dry in Fragrances". As always she defines by using examples and her articles are a valuable resource for any perfumista.
~Mark Behnke, Managing Editor, Ca Fleure Bon
"we take a look at the fragrant themes of the last ten years, we take a look back even further as Elena Vosnaki guides us through the history of leather fragrances and come bang up to date with our perfumer of tomorrow, Pia Long."
~Basenotes in Print, Issue 2
"Elena Vosnaki is based in Europe, so she gets the information way ahead of anyone in the states. Her blog contains everything, from reviews of men's and women's fragrances to how to spot a fake. Elena is actually an archaeologist, whose love of fragrance created a second career as a perfume consultant and writer."
~Five Fave fragrance Blogs, BettyConfidential.com
"Celebrated perfume blogger Elena Vosnaki of the Perfume Shrine mentions tembusu in her post about Singapore. Will no local noses champion our local flowers? Will we one day have an Eau de Tembusu?" ~Vivienne Khoo, What does Singapore smell of?, The Asia Mag
"Desta vez o carinho e reconhecimento veio da Elena Vosnaki, proprietária, editora e escritora do magnifíco blog PerfumeShrine, além de uma expert em vários assuntos relacionados a perfumaria com um background de alto nivel em vários campos do saber e finalista do Fifi Awards 2009 na categoria excelência editorial. Elena é fenonemal. Para mim, uma das melhores escritoras nesta blogosfera perfumada e parceira nesta grande paixão que são os perfumes."
~Perfume da Rosa Negra
"Great column by Elena Vosnaki, author of the blog Perfume Shrine. It's pleasure to have her on board". ~Fragrantica.com
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The centerpiece of the Center for Applied Mathematics & Science (CAMS) is a four credit undergraduate course, Directed Consulting, which provides students with the opportunity to work on a real - not just realistic - problem. While providing this educational experience for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) students, CAMS helps businesses, industries and educational agencies solve problems in strategic ways.
CAMS clients work with the program director, Dr. Kathleen Shannon (Salisbury University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science), to define a problem their business/organization would like to have addressed. The director then identifies faculty with the appropriate knowledge and expertise to direct a group of four to ten talented, dedicated undergraduate students, who spend a semester studying and addressing the problem while enrolled in the Directed Consulting course. At the end of the semester, the students prepare a written report and presentation, which includes the results of their study and their recommendations to their client.
CAMS clients have included Orbital Sciences, Business Economic and Community Outreach Network (BEACON), Salisbury University, Filtronic Comtek*, and Computer Sciences Corporation*.
For more information, or to inquire about becoming a client, please contact Dr. Kathleen Shannon at firstname.lastname@example.com or 410-543-6476
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New polls out Thursday showed that despite what many voters found to be a lackluster debate performance Oct. 3, President Barack Obama has not lost ground in key swing states.
Just before the debate, the NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll of Florida likely voters gave Obama a 1 percentage point lead. That's still the margin.
In Ohio, Obama was up by 8, and he's now up 51-45 percent. In Virginia, Obama was up 2, but Romney is now ahead by 1.
"Our poll shows some improvement for the GOP presidential nominee, but we seem to be back to where we were before the conventions: It's a very close race with Obama still enjoying a structural edge in the battleground states," said NBC in its morning political memo.
"And why was there only a little change in these surveys -- conducted Oct. 7-9 -- since last week's debate? These numbers probably tell the story: More than 90% of the likely voters in these three states say they made up their minds BEFORE the debate. Here is a question to be asked: Is Romney over-performing in national polls and under-performing in the battlegrounds? Sure seems like it."
A separate survey, Quinnipiac/New York Times/CBS poll, tells a similar story. It surveyed other key states, and found Romney ahead by 1 in Colorado, a switch from Obama's 1 point edge a nomth ago.
In Virginia, though, Obama is up 51-46, compared to being up 50-46 last month.
And in Wisconsin, Obama has a 3 percentage point lead, down from from a 6 point edge last month.
"Gov. Mitt Romney outfought President Barack Obama 4-1 in the first debate, according to likely voters in Colorado, Virginia and Wisconsin," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "The shifts are too small to measure, but the races in Wisconsin and Colorado are now too close to call. The president holds his lead in Virginia."
To read the Quinnipiac poll: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-centers/polling-institute/presidential-swing-states-%28co-va-and-wi%29/release-detail?ReleaseID=1804
For more on the NBC-Marist poll: http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/10/14352371-nbcwsjmarist-poll-romney-gains-in-key-swing-states?lite


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Hostel Andrew
Our Hostel is housed in an Umbertino style Building and is located in the historical center of Rome, just a 5-minute walk from Termini railway Station which offers direct links to the Spanish Steps, the Vatican Museums and any other place you want to visit the city.
In just a few minutes walk you can reach the Central National Library, the National Archaeological Museum Roman Empire, the Roman archaeological site of the Baths of Diocletian, the beautiful basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli.
The Hostel Andrew is about 20 minutes walk from the Colosseum and the Roman Forum.
Our Hostel have mixed dorm rooms. The Bathrooms with showers are shared.
The Hostel Andrew offers to our clients the following services:
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Our staff will be happy to provide information and advice on tourist tours, as well as organize excursions in the city of Rome
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From the arrivals hall walk to the train station inside the airport, following the F.S sign. A train for Termini Station leaves every 30 minutes. Tickets can be purchased from the tobacco shop near the platform.
Directions from Ciampino Airport:
Exit the airport. In the square in front of the airport, there is Cotral bus service to the Anagnina underground station. From there, take the underground to Termini Station.
Coming from the Termini train station:
Leave the train station from the side exit at track no. 1, taking the exit Via Marsala. Then take first into Via Vicenza, walk straight for four blocks and turn left into Via Palestro.


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(AP) Authorities: 4 dead in California shooting spree
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
TUSTIN, Calif.
A chaotic shooting spree early Tuesday through Orange County, Calif., left four people dead, including the shooter, and two others injured before the man stopped and shot himself to death in a stolen car, police said.
There were multiple crime scenes in Tustin and Orange and many more victims who were shot at but unhurt, Tustin Lt. Paul Garaven said.
The shootings began at 4:45 a.m. when deputies responding to a call found a female shot multiple times in a house in Ladera Ranch, said Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. The city is in the southern part of the suburban county about 30 miles south of Los Angeles.
From 5:30 a.m. to 5:55 a.m., Tustin police received reports of shootings in several locations, Tustin police Supervisor Dave Kanoti.
The motive for the shootings was unclear, and it's also unclear if the victims knew each other or the shooter, Amormino said.
The first call that came in was at Red Hill Avenue and Interstate 5. Police arrived and determined a carjacking had occurred and that victim was uninjured. An innocent bystander who was hit by gunfire was taken to a hospital, Garaven said.
The next call was at State Route 55 and McFadden Avenue. Another carjacking occurred and that victim died, Garaven said.
The last call was about a man with a gun, he said, at Edinger Avenue east of the 55. An officer arrived and found two more victims _ one dead and the other injured.
Officers located the man and followed him into the city of Orange, Garaven said.
The suspect is a male, although Garaven couldn't confirm his age. He didn't have the sexes of all the victims.
The lieutenant said the suspect succeeded in stealing a vehicle at each carjacking.
The conditions of the wounded victims were unknown.
A spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol said they didn't have any active crime scenes on the freeway but the southbound 55 McFadden Avenue off-ramp would be closed until further notice.
Authorities were processing six crime scenes across the county.
Associated Press Writer Sue Manning in Los Angeles contributed to this report.


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From the Grand Canal, Venice's magnificent two-mile-long main street, to the empty reaches of the saltwater lagoon, every inch of Italy's sight-rich city warrants exploration.
Thrumming with life along the Cannaregio Canal, quiet and echoing in its alleyways and understated campi, this sestiere of surprises conceals the original Jewish Ghetto and some great nightlife on the fondamenta della Misericordia.
A sestiere of many parts, Castello stretches from luxury hotels on the lagoon-side riva degli Schiavoni to glorious churches such as Santi Giovanni e Paolo in the west. Further east, beyond the monumental Arsenale, lie the quiet streets of residential workaday Venice.
Artsy Dorsoduro is home to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the new Pinault gallery at the Punta della Dogana. But there's lots of nightlife, too, around campo Santa Margherita, plus a vibrant student scene further west in the former industrial zone.
With a character all of its own, the Giudecca has an industrious past and an alternative future: from boatyards to galleries, this island just gets trendier. Palladio's San Giorgio is a Venetian icon.
No other city in the world can boast quite such a magnificent main street as Venice: a graceful backwards-'S' sweep of water, flowing between sumptuous churches and historic palazzi of breathtaking beauty. Whether you're doing it for the first time or the 1,000th, making your water-borne way down the Grand Canal is always an extraordinary experience.
There's a whole other world in the lagoon, from the rather fin-de-siècle beach resort on the long, sandy Lido to misty waterlands dotted with characterful islands.
The eponymous piazza and basilica are the beating heart of this sestiere. Many of Venice's major attractions are situated here including Doge's Palace, Campanile and Torre dell'Orologio. In the alleys that wind from this hub towards the Rialto and Accademia bridges are snazzy shops (Ottico Fabbricatore, Daniela Ghezzo Segalin Venezia and Perle e Dintorni), a great opera house (Teatro La Fenice) and glowing Madonnas in awe-inspiring churches.
The hectic produce and fish market at the foot of the Rialto Bridge sets the tone for these busy residential sestieri, packed with the kind of intimate restaurants and cafés frequented by true Venetians. At the sestiere's heart is the magnificent Frari basilica.
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Phone: (408) 924-5041
Email: joan.walton
Joan Walton's high-energy teaching style and ability to communicate concepts to all levels of learners have become well known at universities and dance studios across the country. She has deep knowledge of Historical and Social Dance, Tap Dance, Musical Theatre Choreography, and Musical Theatredance Styles.
Teaching General Education courses at SJSU for five years, along with dance and choreography classes, Ms. Walton currently teaches Dance in World Cultures, Dance Appreciation, and Dance in Film.
She has performed and choreographed all over the country, taught Vintage Dance workshops both internationally and at home, and received a Masters degree in Dance Education from Stanford University in 1999.


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - King College kept seven Top-100 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Stat Rankings, the national office released.
Ashley Deans (Greeneville, Tenn.) posted three of the seven which included the No. 24 spot in free-throw percentage at 85.1, up a spot from a week ago. She also had the No. 77 ranking in field-goal percentage at 47.9 and No. 79 in scoring with 16.5 points per game.
Derika Mooney (Athens, Tenn.) was up one place to No. 52 in steals per game with 2.5.
A 73.9 free-throw percentage had the Lady Tornado at No. 37. King's 14.6 assists per game was ranked No. 70 while a 9.8 steals per game mark was No. 85.
Next for King will be the NCAA Division II Independent Tournament hosted by the University of the District of Columbia from Feb. 25 to 27. The Lady Tornado will take a 9-15 record to the event. First for King will be a 4 p.m. rematch against host District of Columbia. The Lady Tornado suffered two losses against District of Columbia, 66-62 and 70-57, this season.


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Germantown Friends Meeting (Quakers)
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Everyone is welcome.
Childcare & Sunday School are available.
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Meeting for Worship is the heart of Quakerism and the center of spiritual focus and renewal for the Religious Society of Friends, as we gather together in expectant silence to hear that still small voice of God. Our worship experience nurtures the bonds of community, helps speak to the needs of seekers, and gives rise to our testimonies and actions on peace, justice and other social concerns. We welcome all attenders, friends and neighbors. Most of our members first came to our meeting as visitors; we have always found that the presence of visitors enriches our meeting. We hope that this website information helps you to understand what we're about, and that it will encourage you to come to Germantown Friends Meeting in the near future.
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U.S. personnel responsible for training members of the Georgian military remain stationed inside the volatile country, where fighting erupted Friday between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
The U.S. European Command said on Monday that there were no plans at this time to withdraw the U.S. military trainers from the country. There are still 127 U.S. trainers in Georgia, where the American forces had been preparing the Georgian army for operations in Iraq.
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More Applications of Rational Functions
Lesson 2 of 10
Objective: SWBAT write rational functions to describe real-world situations and choose inputs that will enable them to graph these functions.
Big Idea: How can we create functions to describe these real world situations? Students explore the behavior of rational functions that they generate.
The Warm-up for today's lesson includes two problems. Problem (1) asks students to deal with a new notation, so I will need to explain what it means. Part of the big idea of the Common Core transition is to give students the opportunity to make sense of new ideas on their own, before getting input (MP1). Today's warmup targets this math practice. Even if I end up having to explain the notation to the whole class in the same way I used to, if students have the chance to think about it on their own first, they will understand it better when I explain it to them.
The idea of this problem is that students can use the data table to help understand the approach statement, as long as they set up the inputs correctly. I will ask students:
How can we choose inputs for the data table that will help us see what happens to the outputs?
The eventual goal is for students to interpret these two approach statements using the concept of division. I want them to fully understand statements like:
When you divide 1 by a really big number, that is like sharing 1 cookie with millions of people. So each person will only get crumbs of the cookie and the result is a really small amount.
When you divide 1 by a really small number, that is like asking how many times that really tiny number fits into 1 whole. Or, if you have 1 cookie and you want to give 0.00001 cookies to each person, how many people can you give this part of your cookie to? Many many people—because this tiny number fits many times into 1 whole.
Even if it takes a lot of time, I think it is essential to have these conversations over and over again, because these two ideas are basically the core idea behind the asymptotes of rational functions. If students don't understand these two ideas, they will never really understand asymptotes. Eventually, we will connect these two ideas directly to the horizontal and vertical asymptotes of the function y=1/x.
Problem (2) is designed to give students another opportunity to understand the function that relates the speed at which a person travels to the time it takes that person to cover a fixed distance. The problem today involves a wrinkle in which the person remains at their destination for a certain amount of time. This fixed amount of time becomes the horizontal asymptote of the rational function—which makes sense based on the context. No matter how fast you travel, your total trip time can never be less than the amount of time you spend at your destination. Framing it this way helps students make sense of the horizontal asymptote. To help my students get there, I ask them questions like:
- What is the least possible time the trip can take you? Why does this make sense?
- How does this show up on the graph?
- What is the greatest possible time the trip can take you? Why does this make sense?
- How does this show up on the graph?
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For today's lesson closing activity, I use these questions:
It is not necessary for students to answer all questions. The key idea is to reflect on the meaning of the asymptotes:
- The horizontal asymptote represents what happens when the car lasts a million years; or when a billion people go to Prom; or when you travel 1,000 mph.
- The vertical asymptote represents what happens to the time your trip takes when you travel 0.001 mph, or when the car lasts you only one day, or when you are the only person at Prom.
I use these exaggerated inputs to emphasize the idea that the value the outputs "approach" is what matters. We can be a little informal when thinking about asymptote.
I may have have students choose one set of questions, or answer them all in a group. The important thing is the whole-class debrief. I want to model how to think about these problems, because students are often not used to thinking about functions and relationships without any numbers. This is a great chance to reason abstractly (MP2) and eventually students will make connections between this abstract reasoning and the behavior of the graph of these functions.
I model this abstract reasoning through a "think-aloud" where I basically say one or two of the answers below aloud before then having students discuss the questions with a partner. Eventually I will ask the students to write down one or two answers so I can use this as a formative assessment, but it is important to remember that there is a gap between their understanding and what they are able to write down.


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Deputies looking for credit card fraud suspects
The Lee County Sheriff's Office has released surveillance photos of two women suspected of using stolen credit cards at three stores in Fort Myers.
The credit cards stolen from the victim's purse while she was at work November 30, 2011.
On the same day, the suspects made purchases in Fort Myers at Best Buy for $1727.78, Saks Fifth Avenue for $848 and Ulta for $239.62.
Attempts at purchases in Naples, Fort Lauderdale and the Best Buy in Gulf Coast Town Center were declined.
Video surveillance shows two women in their 30s, one wearing a white overcoat and one wearing a tan colored pants suit, using the credit cards.
Anyone who has any information is asked to call the Lee County Sheriff's Office at 239-477-1000, or to remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1000, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477).


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Four years ago I took a risk to try something totally new; I announced I would be going on a 1000 day Trust Tour. It's okay if you don't know what a "Trust Tour" is, at the time, I wasn't sure what it was either. I had thought up the concept after trying to figure out how to express an idea that was boiling up inside me.
Now let it be known "I love life," and I am thankful to have experienced 50 years on this planet. But, I hate that there is still so much unnecessary pain happening all around me. It all seems so primitive. There has to be a better way to live then this thin vail that stands between civility and chaos. It appears to be a human truth that to preserve our comfort, safety, and wealth we are willing to lie, cheat, and steal from each other. Now, don't get me wrong, I haven't lost hope and I know that not everyone is playing this game; but enough are that it threatens us all.
I wanted to know if this primitive behavior could be changed. Did we have to wait a thousand more years to truly learn to respect each other? Did we have to tolerate a thousand more years of corruption and selfishness? Was there a way to speed up our cultural evolution through conscious thought and communication? The Trust Tour was about seeking answers to these questions.
On Thanksgiving Day 2009, I started a journey to reach out to the most interesting people I could find and ask these questions, and listen to their stories. From senators to criminals, from the homeless to billionaires, from a monk to a space shuttle commander, from a cancer patient to an astrologer I asked them to tell their stories of trust and betrayal. What surprised me was how much I enjoyed doing this work … well actually, I loved doing it. To me, it felt like I was working on the most important issue in the world.
The tour ended August 22nd 2012 on my 50th birthday. I may not have changed the world, but it certainly changed me. The people I met along the way taught me important lessons. You are welcome to page through the tour dates and see what I learned first hand. The next phase of my learning will be as I take what I learned and build a Trust Center headquartered in eastern Pennsylvania. It will be an experiential learning center where people can improve their lives through these philosophies.
Thank you and stay tuned for updates on the new Trust Center!
Much love and respect,


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Hiring Slowdown Blurs Growth View
Dismal Jobs Report Raises Questions Over Economy's Strength as Year Ended; Bad Weather a Factor?
American employers added a disappointing 74,000 jobs in December, a tally at odds with recent signs that the economy is gaining traction and moving beyond the supports put in place after the recession.
The jobless rate fell to 6.7% from 7% for the month, the Labor Department said, though the decline mostly reflects job seekers giving up their search and leaving the workforce.


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Emily has been a groomer at Especially for Pets since 2005. Prior to joining us, she groomed locally for eight years. For the last three years, her pug, Ditto, has accompanied Emily to work and has become a fixture in the grooming room. Emily's years of owning dogs have been mostly devoted to pugs, but she also enjoys puppy play dates with her family and friends' dogs including Labs, Mastiffs, Ridgebacks, and Shih Tzu's.
When she's not grooming, Emily enjoys most outdoor activities and challenging herself with various do-it-yourself projects. Emily enjoys educating her grooming customers about how to help their dogs stay comfortable and look great between pet groomings!


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He thought about a weather balloon.
At the beginning of the school year, Weislogel proposed the idea to robotics team members, who enthusiastically agreed and the real work began to make the launch a reality.
On Friday, the team launched a balloon that rose 120,000 feet into the upper stratosphere. The balloon carried two high-definition cameras programmed to take pictures of the Earth's topography, its curvature and of space.
"I wanted to do something that's never been done before, something that just relies on cameras," said Weislogel, 17. "I wanted to do a full-fledged project, one that would give back to the school and leave a mark for our team. I think and know this program will give kids such a head start for college and work beyond."
The cameras were programmed to take pictures at a rate of one per minute for the first 80,000 feet, then 1.2 per second for the rest of the ascent. When the cameras are recovered, which hadn't happened by Monday, the team plans to stitch the images together into a 24-gigabyte hemispherical projection, the first of its kind.
"Nobody's ever done it before," said Weislogel, whose father, Mark, is a Portland State University mechanical engineering professor and veteran of many past launches. PSU helped the team with the project, supplying the balloon, hydrogen to fill it and other expertise.
Two days before the launch, the project was in jeopardy when the cameras failed to arrive on time. As members scrambled to find replacements, the wayward cameras turned up Thursday and the project was back on track.
Launch day started at 4 a.m. for team members John Cameron and Eric Goessens, both seniors, who consulted meteorological websites, trying to predict where the balloon would land. With the sun still two hours from rising and in 47-degree weather, robotics team members gathered in a field behind Tualatin High to make final preparations for the launch.
"This is serious stuff. I'm really impressed with what these kids are doing," school board member Barry Albertson said as he watched with other members of the school board, teachers and dozens of community members.
The latex weather balloon measured seven feet before launch but would swell to more than 60 feet as the hydrogen molecules inside it expanded during the ascent. It was tethered to a plastic foam box containing the two cameras, two GPS trackers, a tracker used to follow hunting dogs and a ham radio.
Twenty minutes after launch, three chase vehicles headed toward Estacada, the possible landing site according to early morning predictions. It soon became apparent that the balloon was going to land farther afield and the caravan continued east.
At 10:21 a.m., GPS tracking equipment showed the package hit the ground 14 miles east of Condon, more than 170 miles from Tualatin. With no cell service in the area, team members are hoping to get a signal from a second GPS, when its satellite is in alignment, to guide them to the package.
Once the package is retrieved the real work begins, said team member Brian Hillenbrand, a junior who has the job of assembling the composite images.
When the images are assembled, the team plans to make large picture boards to display in the school's technology wing to commemorate their achievement.
"This team of kids is phenomenal. They stress working together positively even when things are very stressful," said Robotics adviser Jill Hubbard. "The current leaders are so positive. They want to work together to make something bigger than us."
Besides Weislogel, Hillenbrand, Goessens and Cameron, the team includes senior Mark Babich, junior Brandon Phillips, senior Connor Thurman and junior Sarah Williams.
"You don't have to be the smartest people to join this club," Weislogel said. "If you work hard and listen to the mentors, you can do stuff you never thought you could do. This year one of our major goals as a team is to leave a solid template of what we've done, so there's a smooth transition for the team next year."


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Lois Dean Crawford, 80, of Las Cruces, N.M., died Sunday Dec. 29, 2013, at Park View Nursing & Rehab Center. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. until 7 p.m. Friday at Myers & Smith Funeral Home. Funeral Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Myers & Smith Chapel, with Lloyd Wells and Edward Wilbourn officiating. Graveside services will be at 2:30 pm. at The Gail Cemetery, Gail, Texas.She was born Oct. 3, 1933, in Vernon, Texas to Birdie and John Wilbourn. She lived in Big Spring many years ago, retuning here a month ago from Las Cruces, N.M. She was a homemaker and also worked at TG&Y, Runnels Junior High Cafeteria and factories. She enjoyed flea markets and garage sales, sewing quilting, collecting cookie jars, salt and pepper shakers, and John Wayne movies. She was a Christian.She is survived by five sons, David Crawford and his wife, Maxine of New Mexico, Stan Crawford and his wife, Lynn of Big Spring, and Danny Crawford, Russell Crawford and Jack Crawford, all of New Mexico; three daughters, Shirley Crawford of New Jersey, Loretta Kissel of Washington and Veta Harris of Big Spring; four sisters, Pearl Wells and her husband Carl, of Big Spring, Lola Dale of Oklahoma, Dorothy Pearce of Canada, and Annie Mae Wilbourn of Big Spring; three brothers, Edward Wilbourn and his wife, Cathy of Arkansas, Jack Wilbourn and his wife Pat of Midland, and Mearle Wilbourn and his wife Barbara of Clyde; 20 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews.In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Keith Tabor Crawford; a son, Kenneth Tabor Crawford; a sister, Mary Lefern Pierce; and three brothers, Elvin Wilbourn, J. I. (Tex) Wilbourn and James Wilbourn.Arrangements are by Myers & Smith Funeral Home. Pay your respects online at www.myersandsmith.com


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China, Wal-Mart, textiles and cotton: while one has a need to employ a lot of people and the other demands low prices, the third is decimated.
To Cheraw Yarn Mills CEO Malloy Evans, the decimation of the U.S. textile industry can be laid on the doorstep of China and discounters. Not to mention the loss of jobs and "a lower quality of life" in the United States, says the head of the 87-year-old yarn manufacturer in Cheraw, S.C.
In a speech to cotton growers and ginners at the annual meetings of Southern-Southeastern, Evans listed China's "improper and illegal advantages" in trade, described their effect as the "China threat" and posed the question, "Wal-Mart: Friend or Foe?"
The Cheraw, S.C., textile executive advocates educating citizens and legislators as to the "China Threat."
"China has at least two improper and illegal advantages," said Evans. The first is "currency manipulation." Chinese currency has a 40 percent advantage over the dollar. The second is subsidies to the tune of 37 percent.
"Imagine there were two gas stations in town," Evans explains. "At one the owner paid 60 cents for gas; at the other, the owner paid $1. This illustrates the impact of a 40-percent advantage."
He points out that neither the World Trade Organization, U.S. trade law or the International Monetary Fund has been asked to step in by the Bush administration to correct the manipulation of the currency to gain export advantage.
The slide in the U.S. textile industry coincided with the devaluation of the Asian currency. The popular press dubbed it the Asian flu. It's been a sickness the textile industry hasn't been able to shake.
Asian currency has declined 28 percent since 1995. Imports from Asian countries to the U.S. during that same time period have increased 154 percent, Evans says.
With a population of more than 1 billion, China's primary goal is employment. The hourly wage is 40 cents an hour, versus the U.S. average textile wage of $12.92.
The third tactic: "China is a communist country," Evans says. "They will manipulate and misrepresent. They have few, if any, safety, health and environmental laws."
Under this scenario, China has increased its textile exports to the U.S. more than every other country combined. He emphasizes "every other country."
While China exports $160 billion to the U.S, the U.S. exports only $25 billion in products to China.
Quotas on textiles currently keep the flow in check at 20 percent of apparel and textiles, but a look at sectors that don't have quota protection may reveal what's coming. China accounts for 80 percent of all bicycles imported into the U.S. and 67 percent of the toys, and 95 percent of all Christmas decorations.
"How bad can it get?" Evans asks.
When textile quotas are phased out in 2005 — a scant 11 months away, Evans points out — China could account for 71 percent of all apparel and textile imports into the U.S.
According to one estimate, 1,300 textile plants will close by 2006, leaving only about 96,000 jobs in the U.S.
"The playing field is not level," Evans says, "and neither political party has been sensitive. Our government has the legal tools to fight this."
Losing out to China in this realm also hurts the U.S. economy, with the loss of manufacturing jobs resulting in fewer service jobs, higher taxes, lower property values, higher water bills and service fees and fewer businesses. Medical care deteriorates because people don't have medical insurance and schools suffer.
Linking the problem with China to inexpensive textiles and apparels in the U.S., Evans poses the question, "Wal-Mart: Friend or Foe?" It's a rhetorical one for Evans as he lists the positives and negatives of the world's largest company.
Under the positives' heading, Evans says Wal-Mart offers low prices to consumers. The slogan is, "Low Prices. Always."
Under the negative column, he lists at least five items: Wields extreme power over suppliers; gives little back to the community; offers low-paying jobs; has very little American loyalty; and destroys small, local businesses."
Evans says Wal-mart has "deteriorated greatly" in its "Buy American" philosophy since founder Sam Walton's death.
As the world's largest company, Wal-Mart has sales of more than $200 billion annually. "That's more than Target, Sears, Safeway, J.C. Penney, K-Mart and Kroger combined," Evans says. Wal-Mart handles about 10 percent of all apparel sales in the U.S. Seven-and-a-half cents of every dollar spent goes to Wal-Mart.
The bottomline, Evans says, is that Wal-Mart has doubled its imports from China in the last 5 years.
If it were a country, Wal-Mart would be China's eighth largest trading partner. Wal-Mart imports represent 10 percent of all Chinese imports, Evans says.
Once suppliers are up to 35 percent of their business with Wal-Mart, the giant firm is in control of their destiny.
Evans lists the average median salary for the Wal-Mart worker at $12,000. The company employs 1.4 million people and has a turnover rate of 44 percent per year.
Cheraw Mills, as well as other mills, supports the Chinese Safeguard Initiatives.
They also are busy educating citizens and legislatures to the "China Threat." The South Carolina firm has developed a presentation that explains the un-level playing field. Evans advocates "writing letters to Washington, voting for candidates that will stop giving away American jobs and ask for American-made products.
"What is left of the American textile industry can compete if the playing field is level, Evans says. But China's illegal and unfair "currency manipulation and subsidies must be eliminated."
The impact of China and discounters has been a decrease in the consumption of cotton domestically. In 1997, U.S. textile mills used more than 11 million bales; the number was down to 7.3 million bales in 2003. Now, it's down to 6.2 million bales, Evans says.
"In the last 12 months, U.S. cotton consumption has dropped 11 percent," Evans says. "In the last 12 months, China cotton yarn production has increased 11 percent."
The textile industry must continue to educate legislators and citizens to the threat posed by Chinese currency manipulation and subsidies, and, by extension, discounters in the U.S.
U.S. cotton producers relying on exports for two-thirds of their market creates "volatility" from year to year, Evans says.


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As I mentioned on the blog earlier this year, I have not taken on my own wedding clients since the last wedding I photographed in November. Instead, I have enjoyed the 2013 wedding season as a second shooter. And when I say "enjoy" I mean that I have enJOYed it. I'm still working an average of two weekends per month, but my responsibilities as the second shooter are greatly reduced, and I have virtually no desk work to complete before or after these events, which frees up my weekdays (and my brain!) considerably. Seriously, what a pleasure it has been to move at a slower pace this summer.
With less new photographic work on my desk this year, I have had more time to focus on wedding albums. I've been making wedding albums for my clients since I started my business back in 2006, but somehow my new schedule seems to have allowed for more concentrated album design/production time in the last year. I'm having so much fun looking at my photographs again and reconnecting with my couples who are now buying houses, welcoming babies, raising families, changing careers, moving around the country, etc. as we make design choices and confirm the layouts.
I love telling the story of a wedding day through the pages of an album, and I truly believe that a beautifully crafted, hard-bound book of photographs is an heirloom worth cherishing for generations.
With that said, I resolve to design my own wedding album this year and submit the layout for production before the winter holidays! I can't wait to get started.
If any of my past clients would like to start on a wedding album for yourself or as a gift for your parents, please email me for the latest design and pricing information. My most recent completed album, the stunning 12x12 Cypress Book featured here, went out the door two weeks ago and my desk is cleared and ready for the next project!
Grey silk cover, hand-torn fine art pages, richly printed photographs, even a matching storage box. What a reverent and timeless way to preserve and share a wedding story. Well done, Jessica and JR!


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Is There Life After Law Firms?
Just remember that sometimes career transitions need intermediate steps.
Law firm life is not for everyone. Every year, many lawyers jump off the partnership track and leave the law firm life to pursue different paths, sometimes because they dislike the firm environment, sometimes because they're dissatisfied with the practice itself, and often because they want to do something else that's a better fit.
Fortunately, there are many choices for those who don't want to pursue the traditional path of becoming a partner in a firm. To begin, get ideas about what's out there. Be really open to new options. Ask people what they do. You'll find out about things you didn't even know existed.
To get things going, let's look at some of the non-firm options that have brought lawyers greater satisfaction and then explore steps you can take if you believe you would like to transition to something new in your career, too.
An overview of options. You name it and someone with a law degree is probably doing it—whether it means practicing law in a non-firm setting, working in a different type of law-related position, or engaging in an entirely new kind of career.
Many lawyers have moved into attorney positions within government, public interest organizations, associations, academic institutions, and the business and finance world, just to name a few non-firm settings. For those who want to continue practicing law, these settings can offer benefits and professional or personal satisfaction that law firm life may not, depending on individual interests and desires. For example, someone driven by a particular passion for environmental concerns may find that passion best met in a public interest organization. Someone who thrives on interaction with business people may relish the everyday life of an in-house counsel position.
Law-related options, or those options where a law degree serves as an added benefit but is not a requirement, also abound these days. For example, those lawyers working in legislative positions find the law degree adds value and credibility, as do those in compliance officer and risk manager roles. Legal publishing, law school teaching and administration, and lobbying fall into this category as well. Wherever law intersects with the work of an organization, those with law degrees add a special set of knowledge and problem-solving skills that aid in the ability to do their job at the highest levels.
Many are finding satisfaction in pursuing coaching and consulting specific to the legal profession as well, in various areas relating to marketing, management, finance, technology, and beyond. As just one example, Deborah Solomon, a former antitrust lawyer, uses her knowledge of law firm life to help attorneys be successful in their positions through the coaching process.
Then there are those who do something completely different from the practice of law and yet find their legal training adds to their list of qualifications. One former practicing attorney who switched to a career in secondary school teaching notes that practicing law helped him become a better communicator and persuader, skills he has found very useful in the classroom. Others, such as an attorney who started her own catering business, found that her legal training and experience not only helped her in negotiating contracts with clients and vendors but also in being able to handle multiple demands under great time constraints.
Identifying what's a better fit: The self-assessment process. If you're feeling that the law firm life isn't for you but you are unsure what a better path might be, your first step should be to undertake a self-assessment process. Self-assessment consists of gathering data about your interests, skills you enjoy using, your values, substantive experiences, career and lifestyle preferences, and your vision of your future. You can accomplish this assessment in a number of ways, including completing career assessment inventories and answering a series of corresponding questions, looking for themes and highlights in the results. A professional career consultant can also be helpful.
Exploring the field: Market research and information interviews. If you've been thorough and honest in answering the questions in your self-assessment inventory, you will find that you've collected a range of valuable information about yourself. You can then analyze the information to identify themes and preferences that stand out. This will give you clues about what kind of work and settings would best suit you, enabling you to home in on options you may want to pursue. Then you will want to gather information about those options by doing some market research.
Begin with written resources about the options that would be a good match to your talents, values, preferences, and goals. And, of course, you have the Internet, where you can search for information on a range of levels, from overviews about various careers to blogs where people dish the dirt about the ups and downs of their field.
Once you have explored options, you are ready to conduct information interviews, which are excellent tools for career exploration. Information interviewing gives you a reality check: Is this particular field really what you imagine it to be? Kate Neville, a former practicing attorney and now a career consultant, is a strong believer in the benefits of the process: "It is hard to understand what a field is really like until you've had a conversation with someone who is in the field on a day-to-day basis." As she points out, "It is best if you can go in with some questions prepared ahead of time about what you want to learn about a particular field." With that in mind, toward the close of an information interview, you can ask the interviewee if she could suggest other people for you to talk to. Generally, it's a good idea to cast as broad a net as possible when it comes to information interviewing opportunities.
Setting goals. You've sifted through your options, narrowed down your preferences, and now envision yourself on your future path. How do you move forward in the process from here? Writing down your specific goal, describing the steps you will take to get there, building corresponding timelines, and examining solutions to potential obstacles are all imperative in making a career change. Yes, you could fall into a position, but will it be your path or someone else's?
Your next steps may include going back to school, getting training in certain skills, or moving to a position that is not exactly your "dream job" but gives you experience needed to make the bigger transition. Just remember that sometimes career transitions need intermediate steps. Be creative in your career path planning. But be patient, too. Impatience often leads to the wrong path because you may be jumping from one choice that doesn't fit to another. Do the work necessary to make the best match for you.
There are many options outside of law firm practice, but not all of them are going to be a good fit for you. Taking the time to thoroughly analyze information about yourself and match it to available options will much more likely lead to satisfaction and success in your next position or career.
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Jamie Lynn Stevenson can still remember the smell of walnut meringue cookies wafting from her great-grandmother's kitchen. The "little piles of heaven," also known in her family as bussels, or "kisses" in German, were dense but chewy, with hints of caramelized nut flavor inside.
"I was just salivating waiting for them," Stevenson recalls. "And the great thing about these cookies is that they didn't take very long to bake!"
But when she tried to follow the recipe in her own kitchen in Ashtabula, Ohio, after her great-grandmother died, she realized the cookies were not so easy to re-create. Stevenson knew the list of ingredients but had no clue about her great-grandmother's measurement or technique.
So she sent in the recipe as part of All Things Considered's "Lost Recipes" series, and with the help of Gesine Bullock-Prado, a pastry chef and cookbook writer in Norwich, Vt., decoded the secrets of meringue.
Walnut Meringue Cookies
Makes about 30 cookies
- 1 3/4 cups chopped walnuts
- 1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons cornstarch, divided
- 3 egg whites
- 3/4 cup and 2 tablespoons superfine or baker's sugar, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee or espresso powder
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F.
Combine the chopped walnuts with 2 tablespoons of cornstarch in a food processor, and process until very fine.
Spread the mixture on a parchment-lined sheet pan, and bake for 30 minutes at 250 degrees F. Allow to cool completely.
Once mixture is cool, stir well with 1/4 cup of cornstarch.
Boil water in a pot large enough to sit a clean, metal mixing bowl on top.
Beat the egg whites and 3/4 cup of superfine or baker's sugar in the mixing bowl over boiling water until the sugar is almost, but not completely, melted.
In a clean bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, combine egg white mixture with 1/2 teaspoon of salt until mixture is foamy.
Slowly add the remaining sugar, then 1 teaspoon of instant coffee or espresso powder, and whisk until the meringue becomes very stiff.
Gently fold the walnut mixture into the meringue.
Dollop tablespoons of the meringue, or pipe silver-dollar-sized dollops with a pastry bag, onto a parchment-lined sheet pan.
Bake at 250 degrees F for 25 to 30 minutes or until tender inside but not wet. You can open the oven door to check after 20 minutes but not before; otherwise, the meringue could collapse.
If you need help solving your own "Lost Recipe," submit it here to NPR's All Things Considered with "Lost Recipe" in the subject line.
It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.
We asked for lost recipes; you answered. There's an Italian grandmother's spinach and rice ravioli dish with a cheese problem; a family conflict over corn bread - sweet or not sweet; plus many more mouth-watering mysteries. Our "Lost Recipes" project tries to re-create some old family dishes with the help of an expert - a kitchen detective, if you will. You get the solution; we get a story and maybe some inspiration.
Our first lost recipe begins with a kiss.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG: (Singing) Give me a kiss to build a dream on, and my imagination will thrive upon that kiss...
JAMIE LYNN STEVENSON: I'm Jamie Stevenson. I'm from Ashtabula, Ohio. And my lost recipe is nutz bussel. Bussel is what we traditionally called it in our family.
CORNISH: Bussel - kiss, in German. They're walnut meringue cookies - or little piles of heaven, as Jamie remembers them.
STEVENSON: The cookies are very dense. They're sort of chewy. You get a little bit of a caramelized nut flavor on the inside. And then the outside, it sort of falls apart a little bit. It was a recipe that my great-grandmother, who we called Oma, made. Oma - her name was Rosina Richards. She was born in 1913. She was born in southern Germany. They migrated into Yugoslavia later, after that. I believe she learned this recipe when she moved to Austria because of the war.
ARMSTRONG: (Singing) Give me a kiss before you leave me, and my imagination will feed my hungry heart.
STEVENSON: I was very young when she made these cookies, but I remember the smell very vividly. I was just salivating, waiting for them.
CORNISH: It's been about a decade and a half since Oma passed away. Her daughter-in-law - that would be Jamie's grandmother - has tried to re-create as much of Oma's cooking as she can, with some success. But those little nu, meringue cookies? No luck. Jamie knew the ingredients, but had no clue what measurements Oma used, or her technique. Enter our kitchen detective.
GESINE BULLOCK-PRADO: I am Gesine Bullock-Prado, and I am the Mistress of Meringue.
CORNISH: She's also a pastry chef who lives in Norwich, Vermont, and a cookbook author. We emailed her Jamie's story. She instantly recognized Oma's cookies - and the recipe's potential for trouble.
BULLOCK-PRADO: There were walnuts in there, which is traditional in nutz bussel. It has egg whites. It didn't really have a specific sugar measure, which could make things difficult. But it did call for confectioners' sugar, which immediately threw up many red flags for me because in the old country, they just powdered the sugar. But that tends to clump. So in the United States, we add things that are anti-clumping agents, like cornstarch.
CORNISH: And that addition can throw off a meringue's sugar-to-egg-white ratio - in this case resulting in flat, crunchy cookies that don't taste quite right. Gesine Bullock-Prado sent Jamie Lynn Stevenson her recipe for nutz bussel. It called for superfine sugar, and explains the pain that is meringue.
BULLOCK-PRADO: You cannot whisk them in a plastic bowl. You have to have everything clean because any bit of oil, or any kind of fat, is going to deflate the egg whites. So this is just for a traditional meringue. But then you decide to add nuts. And what do nuts have? They have oil. So you are really, really playing with fire - delicious fire, but it's fire.
CORNISH: The solution: Roast the nuts to dry them out. Then toss with just a little cornstarch to absorb the oil. Jamie gave it a shot. Her cookie kisses were tasty but flat. Gesine suspected the culprit was humidity. The women exchanged a volley of emails, tips on the French method of making meringue - a.k.a. the dry method - an intro to the Swiss method, which calls for heat.
Finally, attempt number five on a day with low humidity. Jamie had the brilliant idea to combine the Swiss and French methods. The result: walnut kisses, bussel just like Oma used to make.
UNIDENTIFIED SINGER: Because your kiss, your kiss is on my list...
STEVENSON: I sort of did a little dance in the kitchen and grabbed my husband, and he was just laughing at me. But it was very exciting to know that we went through this whole process and in the end, I'm able to take this recipe and have another part of my Oma that I didn't have before.
UNIDENTIFIED SINGER: Oh, oh, oh, because your kiss, your kiss is on my list.
BULLOCK-PRADO: Jamie proved herself to be a true stubborn German baker.
CORNISH: Again, our kitchen detective and pastry chef, Gesine Bullock-Prado.
BULLOCK-PRADO: She had that stubborn streak that my German mother had, too, and taught me; that if you have the information and the wherewithal to do it, you can master that recipe. You will be the queen of meringue, whether the meringue wants you to be or not.
CORNISH: You can find Jamie Lynn Stevenson's re-created nutz bussel recipe at our food page, called "The Salt," at NPR.org.
In the meantime, if you're trying to solve the mystery of your own lost recipe and not having much luck, write us at NPR.org. Just make sure "Lost Recipe" is in the subject line. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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BOGOTA, Colombia – A unilateral cease-fire by Colombia's main leftist rebel group set to end at midnight Sunday was deemed largely successful by analysts, who say it showed that divisions in the insurgency's ranks are relatively minor.
The rebels' main negotiator in peace talks taking place in Cuba, Ivan Marquez, offered Sunday to extend the two-month cease-fire if the government would agree to embrace it.
An alternative, Marquez told reporters in Havana as he headed into peace talks centering on agrarian reform, could be to "regularize the war" by obtaining promises from the government that it would stop placing military bases in population centers.
There was no immediate response from Colombia's government, though President Juan Manuel Santos has refused to halt hostilities during peace talks that formally began in Havana in November after six months of secret negotiations.
In a communique published Sunday, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said it had not mounted "even a single attack on bases or fixed installations of the armed forces, nor on police barracks or posts."
It said that any casualties suffered by Colombia's security forces were dealt in self-defense. The FARC said that during the same period a year earlier it had killed at least 284 security force members and wounded 278.
The rebels did not say how many casualties it had suffered during the unilateral cease-fire but at least 33 were killed in at least two major aerial bombardments on rebel camps.
There were sporadic guerrilla attacks but analyst Jorge Restrepo of the independent CERAC think tank said they exhibited "relatively minor divisions within the FARC" about whether a unilateral cease-fire was appropriate.
The Nuevo Arco Iris think tank said guerrilla actions during the period were down 87 percent from the year-before two-month period, according to its director, Leon Valencia.
He said it counted nine hostile offensive actions out of a total of 41, with the rest being defensive or resulting from unintentional contact with security forces.
Military officials said they were prohibited from providing numbers on combat or casualties during the two months.
The national ombudsman, Jorge Armando Otalora, said in a report Friday that there had been 57 attacks by rebels against civilians or security forces, an average of one per day.
One of them was an attack on a police post in the municipality of Guapi on Dec. 31 in which two police and four civilians were wounded.
The FARC is believed to number about 8,000 fighters, down from about twice that amount a decade ago. Colombia's U.S.-backed military dealt it a series of withering blows during that time, including killing three members of its ruling Secretariat.
Colombia's nearly half-century-old conflict has claimed tens of thousands of lives, most of them civilians.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard earned three victories, while dropping only one game over the weekend at the UC Riverside tournament, led by senior co-captain Ellen Macadam who went 8-for-15 over the weekend, crossed the plate six times for the Crimson and drove in three more runs. For her efforts, Macadam has been selected as the COOP Athlete of the Week for March 14, 2011.
In the first two games of the tournament, Macadam scored a run in each as Harvard downed UC Riverside, 7-4, and St. Louis, 2-1. Macadam bat lit up in the third game as she went 3-for-4 with a triple, scored three runs, and stole home in Harvard's 6-1 win over North Dakota. She repeated her 3-for-4 effort at the plate Sunday against St. Louis, driving in three runs, slamming a home run, and scoring another run.
Through the first nine games of Harvard's 6-3 start, Macadam in batting .515 and slugging .909 with three home runs and six RBI.


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Coming from the RCC, it is a bit different. We are taught not to talk in Communion Line, and although some people come after the beginning of Mass, it doesn't seem to be much later than 15 minutes into the Service.
That's because the old rule was that you had to be there by the Gospel reading for it to "count".
Then, which Orthodox Church is best known for not having conversations during Liturgy and not and arriving late? OCA?People are people, and there will always be some who talk during the Liturgy, etc....but I'd rather be in a church where the above is minimal. Otherwise, I might end up doing the same down the road. I was distracted from worshipping. A different scenario, but at my job, people are never on time. It was very strange at first. After a few years, of always leaving home on time, I have started leaving later and later. So, in my case, anyway, it might relax me a little too much down the road. (i wonder)Irene
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The national resurgence of interest in the Lincoln era, the movie Lincoln, the book Killing Lincoln seems to coincide with the recent activity to renew our own Eminence Cemetery, which is also a Lincoln era creation.
The Kentucky Legislature charted the Eminence Cemetery in 1860. The first burial was in 1864. There are surely many incidents in the long history of the cemetery that are entwined in our state and national history.
As the debate in Washington rages over what the federal government should do to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, there is some good news when it comes to state government budgets: Most are finally seeing their bottom lines stabilizing.
Homestead Nursing Center wants to thank all the many volunteers, individuals and businesses who donated their time and prizes for our Fall Festival on Oct. 26. The Festival's success would not have been possible without them. Just as important, we want to thank the community for coming out and supporting our residents through your purchases and participation. Again, on behalf of Homestead's residents, we want to thank you for making the 2012 Homestead Fall Festival such a success.
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The Henry Co. Family Resource Center would like to thank the Smoke Doctors for the canned food drive that was held on Nov. 17. Through their generous spirit of providing individuals with a free meal for food donations, we collected 767 cans of food and $108 which will be used to help fill holiday baskets and restock the FRC shelves. We would also like to thank the community for coming out to support this great cause.
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Each fall, not long before Thanksgiving, the General Assembly's administrative staff offers an in-depth look at some of the issues it believes could be debated during the legislative session that begins each January.
The report comes from the 15 main committees that vote on legislation, and while no one can predict what ultimately will become law, this analysis gives us a better idea of what may need to be addressed.
This year I celebrated my 10th year of providing OB/GYN care to those in our community and surrounding counties. I chose to practice in La Grange because the community was similar to the small town in which I was raised in eastern Kentucky. My goal was to bring quality care from the "city" to our community so our residents didn't have to drive to town for excellent care.
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However, Olsen's contributions to town don't end when he leaves the office.
"I'm infatuated with trails," Olsen, an avid cyclist, said. "I love riding, but I like to think about trail connections."
As the long standing vice chairman of the Trail Mix Committee, Olsen has tapped into that passion to help build and plan new bike trails throughout the area.
According to Sandy Freethey, co-chairwoman of Trail Mix, Olsen has helped the committee with several trails including the Pipedream Trail, the Moab Brand trails, and the new Prospector Trail below the Sunset Grill. He's also highly involved with the Lions Park redesign and transit hub project currently under construction at the north end of town.
Olsen said much of his work on the trails is done through his job with the city, but he tries to get out and put in volunteer work on the trails whenever he has the chance.
"There's a place on Pipedream that's named, on the map, Family Vacation," he said. "It's Olsen Family Vacation. It's a joke that I took my family there for their vacation."
In an effort to set a good example, Olsen routinely rides his bike to work. "I save about a dollar a day," he said, pointing out that the monetary benefit is only one of the reasons he pedals to work.
Despite the amount of time he dedicates to bike related activities, Olsen has also volunteered in many other arenas during the last few years.
"David is always working as a coach with the after-school kids," Freethey said. "Especially girls basketball."
Olsen has spent many years as a coach with Moab City Recreation programs. He is currently coaching the seventh-grade girls' basketball team.
"My kids are there," he said. "It helps me to be closer to them."
The Boy Scouts have also been on the receiving end of Olsen's volunteer efforts.
"I've been involved with the Boy Scouts since being one myself," he said. He was a Scout Master in college, and he is currently an Adventure Scout Leader, working with older Scouts. "I've been doing that for two years," Olsen said.
Through his job at the city, Olsen also helps Scouts who are pursuing Eagle Scout rank find projects to help them fulfill the requirements. In the past, Scouts have done work on the BMX track at Anonymous Park as well as making improvements at Rotary Park.
Olsen also spent seven years as a member of the Grand County Board of Education. "It was a great honor to be a school board member," he said.
He also spent over five years as a bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "That takes a lot of time," he said, explaining that he was responsible for helping transients, planning funerals, and finding people to speak in the church.
Moab has changed a great deal since Olsen moved to town in 1990, and he says he is proud to have played a part in many of those changes.
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A summer beach party at Crater Lake takes a dramatic turn when Lois (Erica Durance) hits her head while jumping into the lake. Before Clark (Tom Welling) can save her, a mysterious swimmer, Aquaman, a.k.a. AC (Alan Ritchson), comes to her rescue, out-swimming Clark and leaving him baffled. Professor Fine (James Marsters) tells Clark that Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) is behind a covert operation manufacturing weapons. AC attempts to break into the Luthercorp Marine Center in an attempt to destroy one of Lex's torpedoes and is captured by Lex.
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Round 2 goes to Whitko in county rivalry
CHURUBUSCO — It was a cross-county battle Thursday night when the Whitko Lady Wildcats traveled up State Road 205 to take on the Churubusco Lady Eagles.
The Lady 'Cats were victorious in three matches, but it wasn't easy 25-17, 25-7, 25-18.
"It was nice to battle and watch some really aggressive volleyball," 'Busco head coach Trinda Goings said.
The first game was a tight match until Whitko scored six unanswered points to end the game at 25-18.
'Busco jumped out to an early 4-1 lead in the second game, but was only able to score three more times, with Whitko snatching a quick 25-7 win.
The credit for the third and final game can be handed to Whitko junior Karissa Olinske, who scored eight consecutive points with her jump serve.
Olinske covered all areas of the court, bringing in six digs, five kills, three aces, and two blocks for the Lady 'Cats.
"She (Olinske) did a very nice job with the jump serve, it scored a lot of points for us," Whitko head coach Doug West said.
Even with Whitko leading 21-11, the Lady Eagles never gave up, out-scoring the Lady 'Cats 7-4 in the final volleys of the game.
"I was pleased more than anything with that third game, we were down and we didn't give up," Goings said.
With six underclassmen on the varsity team, 'Busco is still working on maturing into a varsity team.
"It's the same old story, we're young and we're plugging away," Goings said.
The frontlines of both teams were slamming the ball back and forth between each other throughout the night.
Whitko's Rachelle Kessie picked up four blocks and Stephanie Camden had 11 digs.
"We served extremely well and our setter-hitter relationship was really strong, we got a lot of good hard swings at the ball and scored a lot of points at the net," West said.
Junior Heather Monk did well for 'Busco, with 13 digs, five kills, and two solo blocks.
In JV play, the Lady Eagles were victorious in two quick games, winning 25-12 and 25-15.
Busco travels to Harding Saturday for an invitational, while Whitko takes a break for the weekend to prepare for the Columbia City Eagles Monday.
"We'd like to win this match as well to be the strong team in the county, that's our goal," West said.