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Michael Osterholm, his face a pink-cheeked scowl, looked out across the table, beyond the packed room at the New York Academy of Sciences, and out through the windows. The New York Academy of Sciences is housed on the fortieth floor of 7 World Trade Center, and their endless bank of windows affords a staggering view of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. One reason that its view is so magnificent is that there's a huge gap in the skyline–and a huge gouge in the ground–where the Twin Towers once stood.
Osterholm had come here from Minnesota, where he runs a research center for infections diseases and terrorism, to talk Thursday night about the threat of a new kind of flu sitting in labs in the Netherlands and Wisconsin. In nature, it's a flu that spreads easily between birds but doesn't travel well from human to human. The Dutch and Wisconsin scientists had found ways to get this bird flu, known as H5N1, to move between ferrets. For Osterholm, ferrets were uncomfortably close to humans on the evolutionary tree. And so he, along with other members of an advisory board, issued a recommendation in December that key information in the papers about the research should be left out.
Osterholm looked out at the empty space beyond the windows. "Who would have imagined that you could use box cutters to take down the World Trade Center?" Osterholm asked. The risk from the new bird flu might seem equally unlikely, he warned, but it could end up being far more devastating. "We can't afford to be wrong."
The bird flu controversy first started to bubble up in September, when Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam described some of his unpublished results at a scientific meeting in Malta. It kicked into high gear when the National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity issued their ruling, which Fouchier and Yoshihiro Kawaoka have agreed to. In January, the researchers agreed to stop doing any H5N1 research for two months, during which time the scientific community would try to come up with a plan about how to deal with such controversial research.
Viruses very often spark controversies, but often the controversy is between the scientists who study them and groups of people beyond the academy. Think of HIV denialism, of the non-existent link between vaccines and autism, of the purported connection between the XMRV virus and chronic fatigue syndrome. The new bird flu controversy is different. It's split the scientific community wide open. I've written about this controversy in recent weeks over at Slate, as well as here at the Loom. Like most reporters covering the story, I've sampled the sharply opposing viewpoints of scientists over the phone or via emails. But on Thursday night, we got to see this debate in person. The New York Academy of Sciences brought together a group of experts to talk about new virus, and whether self-censorship is a prudent protection or a dangerous precedent. I wasn't sure what to expect; I was a bit worried it might have turned out to be a fairly dry discussion of how to inspect the hood equipment in virus labs. Instead, we witnessed explosive confrontation between scientists who think we may be facing a world-destroying catastrophe, and others who think our fear of non-existent threats is going to destroy science's power to help us out of clear and present dangers.
The panel included two members of the National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity: Michael Osterholm and Arturo Casadevall of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. They both made it clear that they were speaking at the meeting as individuals, rather than as official spokesmen for the board. But they presented a fairly united front. The board has been around for eight years, and it has only considered issuing a recommendation twice. The first time was in 2005, when scientists unearthed the bodies of victims of the 1918 flu epidemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people. The researchers isolated the 1918 virus and sequenced its genes. The board decided they had no objections about publishing the research. But six years later, they decided that, as bad as the 1918 flu might have been, the risk of an H5N1 outbreak was worse.
One big factor in their recent decision was the mortality rate when H5N1 gets into people. The World Health Organization's official estimate is 60%. The 1918 flu, by contrast, had a death rate of about two percent. If H5N1 could gain the ability to spread among humans–either naturally, or through a lab experiment–it could bring that fearsome death rate to the entire world. "It's the lion king of infectious diseases," Osterholm said, no doubt dismaying Disney lawyers across the country.
Sitting a few seats down the panel from Osterholm was Peter Palese, one of the world's leading experts on flu, who works at Mount Sinai Medical School. Palese disputed Osterholm's apocalyptic warnings. Where Osterholm burned hot, Palese kept cool, but he did not hide his utter rejection of the board's decision. Just because a flu virus can be transmitted by another mammal species, he argued, doesn't automatically mean it can spread among humans. In fact, ferrets are rather delicate in the face of a flu infections, easily suffering from brain damage. Our closer relatives among the primates, by contrast, don't get sick from flu at all. (Jon Cohen explores the ferret question in depth in a news article for Science.)
Palese also questioned whether H5N1 is all that dangerous. He argued that the World Health Organization based its mortality rate only on the people who came into hospitals and tested positive for H5N1. But this particular strain of bird flu mostly strikes people in poor countries, especially in southeast Asia, where medical services are scarce. The people who make it to a hospital could well be a small fraction of all the people who come down with H5N1.
"The asymptomatic people are not being counted," Palese said. If those extra people only got sick for a few days and then got on with their lives, the true mortality rate might be far less than 60% "It's really much lower," he said, pointing to surveys in Thailand and other countries that revealed evidence that a fair number of people had been exposed to H5N1 at some point in the past. (Palese recently published this same argument in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.)
This argument positively enraged Osterholm. He had clearly read Palese's recent PNAS commentary and had prepared a rebuttal. "What you're saying is just propaganda," he told Palese. The trouble with Palese's numbers were that they came from lousy studies, Osterholm argued. There are many ways to overestimate how many people have been exposed to a particular virus. A common test involves fishing for antibodies in blood samples. If your test isn't precise enough, you may end up dredging up antibodies to other viruses. Osterholm had gone through surveys of H5N1 exposure, setting aside the lousy studies and tallying up the results from the best of the bunch. He came up with an estimate of .6% or less. If very few people have been exposed, the recorded deaths from H5N1 represent a frighteningly high rate.
Casadevall granted that perhaps H5N1 wasn't 60% fatal. But it could be half that and still be a planetary nightmare. Even if it was ten times lower, it would still be far worse than the 1918 flu. "The numbers of unbelievable, any way you look at it," he said.
Palese was unmoved. The new H5N1 viruses might pose a risk–a small one, in Palese's mind–but scientists could handle it. All the research that had triggered the controversy wasn't conducted in someone's backyard. It was carried out in well-protected labs. Palese noted that the board doesn't seem to have any objections to the work that's done these days on smallpox, a virus that killed millions of people every year until it was eradicated in the 1970s. If scientists can in fact safely experiment with dangerous viruses, there is no need to paralyze the scientific community over bird flu. "You can always assume the worst," Palese said. "But where do we stop being afraid?"
Osterholm glowered at Palese. "You do not represent the mainstream of influenzologists when it comes to this issue on influenza," he said. I glanced at some of the other journalist in the audience, wondering if Osterholm could see us scribbling notes.
Osterholm stressed that he was not against research on bird flu in general. He just wanted the scientific community to balance the potential costs and benefits. He didn't see very much significance in the new bird flu work. It wouldn't help public health workers monitoring H5N1 viruses for lineages that might be evolving into a human pathogen. Nor did he see any benefit for developing vaccines or antivirals. On the other hand, he saw a risk–a small one, possibly–of tremendous devastation.
But when it comes to viruses can we really calculate such ratios of costs to benefits? Vincent Racaniello, a Columbia University virologist who was also on the panel, doesn't think so. We're bad at estimating risks. In 1981, for example, Racaniello and his colleagues pioneered a method for making polio viruses: they stuck the virus's genes on a ring of DNA called a plasmid, which they then inserted into E. coli bacteria. The engineered E. coli spewed out polio genes, which Racaniello could insert into human culture cells, which then made full-blown polio viruses. People worried that Racaniello's bacteria would get into people's guts and start a polio epidemic. (It didn't.)
We're also bad at determining the benefits of research. Racaniello recalled how microbiologists in the 1950s discovered that E. coli defend themselves against invading viruses by chopping up their genes. Nobody thought much of that discovery for over a decade. But then in the late 1960s, a few researchers realized that they could use E. coli's enzymes to cut up DNA and then paste them into new combinations. The entire biotechnology industry was born from that late eureka.
"You could have never predicted that," said Racaniello. "You never know who will do the right experiment. So that's why you need to give the information to everyone."
The way things stand right now, everyone will not be getting that information. I tried to follow the reasoning for holding back key parts of the studies, but, honestly, I can't recount it in a way that makes sense. As far as I could tell, the thinking was somebody just fooling around out of curiosity would be able to use the full information to create a deadly flu. But the fact is that the scientists who produced the new bird flu used standard methods that have been published many times over. I was also confused by how Nature and Science, the two journals where the redacted papers are to be published, will handle distributing the information to those who need to know about it. An editor from Nature talked about how hard it would be to set up a system. I had been expecting them to have a system to unveil for us.
"None of us ever wants to see a redaction again," said Casadevall. The most sensible way to avoid that would be to figure out a way to make decisions about risks and benefits much earlier in the life cycle of an experiment. If the mission of an experiment is to create a deadly virus, just to see if it can be done, the panelists agreed that that is probably not a study to run. But what kind of system can stop not just these experiments, but other experiments that might present unexpected dangers? Casadevall worries that every graduate student may have to fill out 100-page forms for even the most harmless of experiments. "You'll kill science," he said.
Casadevall was expressing a concern that all the scientists on the panel shared: they worry that this affair will keep them from doing research. For now, they're trying to work out a fairly self-regulating system to handle this sort of controversial research, perhaps in the hopes that the government won't come sweeping in. But there was one non-scientist on the panel who did her best to make the scientists aware of the world outside their community.
Laurie Garrett, an award-winning health reporter who now works at the Council on Foreign Relations, pointed out that the flu is not just something that American scientists study in their labs. It's a global problem. There's a huge amount of resentment in poor countries where bird flu is the biggest threat, not just to humans, but to the poultry industry. "Poor people are killing their chickens for you," Garrett said. "They're going bankrupt."
Making matters worse, as Garrett has recently written, is the distrust that has developed in the developing world towards Western medical research and the pharmaceutical industry. Indonesia, where many of the H5N1 deaths have occurred, has been reluctant to share bird flu samples with Western scientists, for fear that they would make huge profits from vaccines developed from them. The World Health Organization has set up an international agreement for the exchange of wild bird flu strains between different countries, but it's in fragile shape.
So for all the sparks that flew in New York Thursday night, the real fireworks over the flu are yet to come.
[Update 2/3 9 am: Corrected description of Racaniello's experiment. Thanks to Matt Frieman. 2:50 pm Fixed Fouchier's institution name and month of his talk. Thanks to Jon Cohen. 8 pm: Expanded Osterholm's "mainstream of influenzologists" quote after seeing his objection to a similarly truncated version in Christine Gorman's story for Scientific American and reviewing my own recording. It's a valid clarification .]
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I hypothsize that close relatives of bird flu helped to finish off the dinosaurs; the KT bolide didn't do it all alone.
This is a very important issue, discussion on which should not be reserved to 'experts' with possible conflicts of interest. The rest of us have a say in this too.
In this regard, I have forwarded an Open Letter, from a 'layperson's perspective' to the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity re the political and ethical implications of lethal virus development.
My letter has been acknowledged by the acting chair of the NSABB, Paul Keim, and Michael Osterholm, a NSABB member. I have been advised my letter will be considered by the Board.
My open letter raises questions about the legitimacy of the US sponsoring lethal virus development – does this contravene the Biological Weapons Convention?
Bearing in mind the questionable effectiveness of flu vaccines, I also suggest it is time to investigate the 'influenza industry', particularly the relationships between vaccine manufacturers and governments and other public bodies.
The Open Letter can be accessed via this link: http://bit.ly/AfyAtQ
Elizabeth Hart
Normally I am completely for freedom of science but I have to agree with the government in this case.
What is the point in creating the single most dangerous virus on the planet? Doing it for research for the sake of research isn't good enough when an accidental release could wipe out half of humanity.
The lessons of information security are clear: Share information, always. Sharing hastens research and problem solving. Security by obscurity raises the risk of misuse by putting the information into the hands of an "elite" which encourages criminal activity to exploit weaknesses before the larger community has a chance to respond.
No one will be made safer by restrictions on what will rapidly become cheaper and cheaper and easier and easier for more and more people to do. What we need is to be able to make vaccines and medicines that provide broad protection against disease. We won't get there by hiding the results of research, the very information on how pathogens adapt to be able to live in new hosts.
"Doing it for research for the sake of research isn't good enough when an accidental release could wipe out half of humanity."
Someone is gulping the fear monger kool-aid. H5 is probably going to reassort down this path anyway. Would you rather be blind to the threat or prepared for how to treat it? I'm with the latter. There are plenty of other nasty viruses that have the potential to wipe out humanity (Filoviruses, poxviruses, etc). The overblown fear mongering exhibited by Osterholm helps no one. His flippant dismissal of valid arguments and work by other well respected researchers in the field shows that he has an agenda and is not working for the best interests of the community at large. Osterholm seems like he's posturing for more high profile interviews with Oprah. Who knows, maybe he'll get a spin off show out of the deal. He can join the likes of Dr. Oz in promoting chicanery and nonsense to drive up the ratings.
You make an odd point in noting that humans are bad at estimating risk (true) but then supporting that statement with a single example of apparently risky research that did not in fact lead to any negative impact.
A single data point tells us nothing at all about whether research into potentially dangerous viruses is a significant risk to the species or not. It's like saying that there is no risk involved in crossing a busy road blindfolded because you know someone who did it once and survived.
it all depends on the details of that experiment. How big is the danger
of abuse, how important the information for developing countermeasures ?
The panelists are talking about the subject without addressing
these details which are to be kept secret. We don't even know
whether or how much they know about those details.
Are their real opinions not dominated by those details ?
And secrecy forces them to find other public arguments for
those opinions …
I'd also like to know whether the panelists have an own interest in the
issue. Osterholm's agenda is known since long. It's his job to paint
a pessimistic picture.
Palese's lab may suffer from the restrictions. Garrett sells books,
Racaniello is bound to his opinion on earlier similar things, etc.
Where are the independent experts, knowing about the experiment details,
weighting pros and cons ?
Think of the consequences of HIV deniers being in charge back in the 1980s, and now think about the MLV-related virus deniers who control everything now.


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Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
How many patriotic Americans know that "God Bless America" was written by a man who did not believe in God? Or that it was intended as an anti-war anthem?
Irving Berlin is by any measure the greatest composer of popular American music, with hundreds of enduring hits, such as "White Christmas," "Anything You Can Do," "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "I Love a Piano," "Always," "Blue Skies," "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee," "Cheek to Cheek," "Marie," "Play a Simple Melody," "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody," and "Easter Parade."
Born in 1888 into a Russian-Jewish family who came to New York City in 1893 to escape religious persecution, he quickly shed his religious roots and fell in love with America. "Patriotism was Irving Berlin's true religion," notes biographer Laurence Bergreen.
"Though he is not a religious person," his daughter Mary Ellin Barrett writes in her family memoir, "doesn't even keep up appearances of being an observant Jew, he does not forget who his people are." Irving and his nominally Catholic wife, Ellin, were married in an unannounced secular ceremony at the Municipal Building, not a church or synagogue. They had three daughters. Mary Ellin recalls:
Both our parents would pass down to their children the moral and ethical values common to all great religions; give us a sense of what was right and what was wrong; raise us not to be good Jews or good Catholics or good whatever else you might care to cite, but to be good (or try to be) human beings…. When we grew up, she [my mother] said, we would be free to choose—if we knew what was best for us, the religion of our husband…. It wouldn't quite work out, when we "grew up," as my mother hoped. All three of us would share our father's agnosticism and sidestep our husbands' faiths.
The man who wrote "White Christmas" actually hated Christmas. "Many years later," Mary Ellin writes, "when Christmas was celebrated irregularly in my parents' house, if at all, my mother said, almost casually, 'Oh, you know, I hated Christmas, we both hated Christmas. We only did it for you children.'" (This also had something to do with the fact that they had lost a baby boy on December 25.)
Why did an agnostic humanist who loathed Christmas write the song "White Christmas"? Because he needed a number for the 1942 movie Holiday Inn, which called for a song for each major holiday celebrated in the US. "White Christmas" is not religious; it is not about the birth of a savior-god. It's about winter, the real reason for the season.
"God Bless America" was originally written in 1918 for Yip, Yip, Yaphank, a WWI show about the US Army. As he was finishing the musical, Berlin added a patriotic melody that he imagined the soldier characters would sing. Bergreen writes:
But even as he dictated it to [his pianist Harry] Ruby, Berlin became insecure about its originality. "There were so many patriotic songs coming out everywhere at the time," Ruby recalled. As he wrote down the melody, Ruby said to Berlin, "Geez, another one?" Deciding that Ruby was right, that the song was too solemn to ring true for the acerbic doughboys, Berlin cut it from the score and placed it in his trunk. "Just a little sticky" was the way he described the song. "I couldn't visualize soldiers marching to it. So I laid it aside and tried other things."
The song was forgotten for two decades. During those years, Berlin's attitude toward war evolved.
In 1938, while the United States was resisting joining the new European conflict, Kate Smith was looking for a "song of peace" for her Armistice Day broadcast. Irving Berlin tried writing a couple of songs, but they were "too much like making a speech to music," he said. It then occurred to him to dig up that discarded composition from 1918.
"I had to make one or two changes in the lyrics," Berlin said in an interview,
and they in turn led me to a slight change and, I think, an improvement in the melody…. One line in particular; the original line ran: "Stand beside her and guide her to the right with a light from above." In 1918 the phrase "to the right" had no political significance, as it has now. So for obvious reasons I changed the phrase to "Through the night with a light from above," and I think that's better.
Just as "White Christmas" is not about Christ, "God Bless America" is not about God. It is about love for America. "'God Bless America' revealed that patriotism was Irving Berlin's true religion," Bergreen writes. "It evoked the same emotional response in him that conventional religious belief summoned in others; it was his rock." His choice of "God bless" was his picking up an American idiom, not expressing a personal belief.
Irving Berlin sometimes poked fun at faith. In 1922, confronting censors, he wrote "Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil in Hades" for his Music Box Revue. During the show, a comedienne in a red devil suit dispatched jazz musicians to hell, singing, "They've got a couple of old reformers in Heaven, making them go to bed at eleven. Pack up your sins and go to the devil, and you'll never have to go to bed at all." The song is the perfect antidote to "God Bless America."
Irving Berlin died quietly at home at the age of 101. He did not believe in an afterlife, but maybe he did jokingly wish for a hell, because "all the nice people are there," his lyrics report.
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About The Author: Dan Barker is co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (ffrf.org) and author of Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist (FFRF, Inc., 1992). He is also a professional jazz musician and songwriter living in Madison, Wisconsin. He has produced two freethought musical CDs for FFRF: Friendly, Neighborhood Atheist and Beware of Dogma.
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The Tall Story (spoiler alert)
While I most often enjoy reading older (classic) books--or award winning children's books, I do occasionally investigate some of the modern kids books that are recently published. One day at our local library, I was browsing the "Young Adult" section and was rather disturbed to find that every single book on display sounded horrible and completely devoid of any wholesome instruction. The "Children's" section was a relief. I'm not sure how they make the distinction between "children" and "young adult", but the latter could certainly learn something from the fiction aimed at their younger counterparts.
Today, I just finished a recent book, published just last month in the USA (maybe sometime last year in Britain?): The Tall Story (by Candy Gourlay). It was unique in several ways from the books I've read recently. Most noticeably, it is told in first person by two different people. Telling alternate chapters of the book are Andi, a 13-year-old tomboy who is a short but skillful basketball player in London; and Bernardo, who is 8 feet tall, 16-years-old, and considered to be a reincarnation of the legendary giant Bernardo Carpio by his hometown of San Andres in the Philippines. It certainly seems that these two characters could not be more different. But they are, in fact, half siblings. Bernardo's father died when he was a baby, and his mother had to move to London for a good job while her sister and brother-in-law took care of her son. For 15 years she had been trying to clear immigration papers for her son, and in the meantime, remarried and had a daughter--Amandolina. (Andi, with and i, she always insists.)
Another unusual thing about this book are the relationships between characters. Andi, as a young teenager in London with two parents that work all the time, is predictably rebellious and independent. And yet, it's rather a surprise that no friends from school and no confidants ever figure by her side for sympathetic support. Her character stands very well on her own, thank you very much.
Once again, Bernardo's side couldn't be more different. He is extremely respectful to his Aunt and Uncle and indeed to all of the "Brothers" and "Sisters" in San Andres. In telling his part of the story, he jumps back and forth between past and present. And we see that even though he is tall, he often feels the weight of the world on his shoulders--perhaps because all the people of San Andres expect him to "save" their town from the earthquakes that roll through. Once he even felt that, because of her energy and spark, Andi seemed taller than he! Another point of difference: Bernardo has a best friend, Jabby, who is almost as crazy about basketball as Andi. They're "thick as thieves", where one goes, the other is surely not far away. But when Bernardo leaves, there is a terrible earthquake and Jabby is among the missing. What could Bernardo do all the way in London?
Perhaps the most surprising relationship (at least for someone reading a lot of kids' books recently) is that of the parents. "Mum" and "Dad" have a very strong, loving relationship, working well with each other in spite of the fact that they're both nurses and work ridiculously long shifts at the hospital. I can't say how refreshing that is! It's so good to read a book about a family that has all its elements in place. Mother and Father still in love, rebellious daughter learning that the world is bigger than her room and her high school, siblings learning to love and sacrifice for each other as their worlds collide. Perhaps this element of loving and learning to be a family after 15 years of being apart is what makes this book so charming to me.
So Andi is in London, telling her half of the story, and Bernardo is in San Andres, telling his part. But everything changes when Bernardo's immigration papers finally come through, and Andi and her parents meet an 8-foot giant boy at the airport, dressed in clothes held together by Velcro. When Bernardo leaves the Philippines, earthquakes start again in San Andres. When he arrives in London, Andi has to share her brand-new bedroom with him, he overflows the bathtub, and gets an automatic spot on their new high-school basketball team. He says over and over again in his Philippino accent, "I am the blame. I am the blame." What do you think will happen when a wishing rock is thrown in amongst the mess?
The wishing rock is woven through the whole story. It's a superstitious/magical element that gives the whole story an dash of fantasy. But you never really know if it's just coincidence or if the wishing rock really is magical. The bully girl, Gabriella, wished on the stone for Bernardo to become a giant. Bernardo himself wished on the stone to be taller. Again, he wished to go to England to be with his family. And finally, Andi wished to be point-guard for the Souls (the all-boys basketball team.) All these things actually happen in the story. But. There's no real way of knowing if it was magical or not. These things may have happened with or without the wishing. But one message is clear: be careful what you wish for. You never know how your wishes will effect everyone else that you love. Each wish has unexpected, bad events surrounding its fulfillment.
On the whole, I loved this book for how it combined two different lives and cultures together into one family--that truly loved each other and desired to be one whole family. And I'm so glad that Candy Gourlay paints that desire as a good and beautiful thing. Even though the Mother-daughter relationship is not the best, there is a lot of good ideas and lessons to be found in this book (besides a completely fun and interesting story.)
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Amazing Apple Cake
Here's the recipe:
2 eggs
3 cups white flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup oil
1/2 cup applesauce
1 tbs vanilla
3 cups chopped, peeled apples
Combine 6 oz cream cheese, 1/4 cup melted butter, a dash of vanilla, and 2-3 cups of confectioner's (powdered) sugar. If the frosting doesn't seem stiff enough, just keep mixing in more sugar until the consistency seems right. This should make around 2 cups of frosting, maybe a little more.
1. First, you should probably grease two cake pans and set them aside. Also, set the oven to about 350F.
In a smallish bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and a dash of salt. (so, basically all the dry things except the sugar.)
2. In a large bowl (this will be your main mixing bowl), combine the sugars, oil, eggs, vanilla, and applesauce (I just used a couple extra apples to make the applesauce: chopped and cooked in a saucepan with a little water and no sugar.) You should make sure that everything is well combined and then gradually add in the dry mixture, beating with your mixer after each addition. After everything is combined, stir in the apples.
3. Pour half of the batter into each of the cake pans, and bake them for 20-30 minutes. It will be moist, so if it looks like it's almost done, check it every couple minutes until the toothpick comes out clean. I very nearly burned the cake when I made it. If your oven cooks on the hot side, you might want to set it for 300F instead of 350F and just cook them for a little longer.
4. While you're waiting for the cakes to cool, you'll have plenty of time to make the icing. After you let the cakes cool completely, set one layer on a flat surface or cake plate if you have one. Spread a good portion (maybe 1/2 cup) of the frosting along the top of the layer. This will be in the inside of the cake. You should have at least a cup and a half of frosting for the outside of the cake, so setting that aside, you can use whatever is left for the inside layer. Then, with the other layer on top of the first, use the rest of the icing to spread over the top and the sides.
5. Keep it in the fridge. It will be easier to cut if it's cold, and it shouldn't last long enough to dry out.... Enjoy!
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
3 Things I Like About New Friends
1. The shock factor. I love the surprise of truly liking someone different and of being so comfortable with someone new. It's always a surprise to me when I make new friends. I'm not quite sure why. Maybe it's because the majority of people that I meet, I'm not particularly interested in befriending. I guess that makes me not much of a people person. But once in a while, I'll come across someone that comes from a very different background, is interested in completely different things, and for some reason, I feel so at home with them. I'm sure everyone has a friend or two that are like that--you have no idea why, but when they're around, you breath a sigh of relief and think Thank goodness that I don't have to try to think of something interesting to say... because really, you could probably say the random-est thing you're thinking of and they would probably find it interesting.
2. A new way of looking at things. No matter how many differences there are, there's always some uniting force between two new friends. Whether it's a shared interest in an activity, or a general curiosity about the world, or a similar sense of humor. But because of the differences, each person approaches these things from a different point of view. It is so amazing to share something lovely or strange or funny with a new friend and discover how their differing point of view makes it lovely or strange or funny to them. I suppose this doesn't really change when new friends become old friends...but it does become a little more predictable.
3. More things are special to me now, because they make me think of someone special. For example: a name. My new friend's name is Sara. I think I have known "Sara"s before, but now I have an association that makes me happy every time I hear the name. And it's not just the name, it's stories that we share, things that I know she'd find interesting, funny made-up words....the list could go on and on. I love that when you get to know someone new, a whole slew of things that would fall under the category of "boring" or "neutral" thoughts suddenly gets bumped to the "fun" and "happy" thoughts.
4. Oops....I guess this is a bonus one: taking fun pictures with new friends. *grin* Meet my new friend Sara. (This was when we went to the zoo together yesterday.) And I guess another one (5) that doesn't happen to apply in every new-friend scenario, but does here: Sara and I are both in-laws to the same family...which means we're family and we'll get to hang out together for years and years and eat ice cream for breakfast when we're together and get the hankering.
Yay for friends and family and friends that are family.
2. A new way of looking at things. No matter how many differences there are, there's always some uniting force between two new friends. Whether it's a shared interest in an activity, or a general curiosity about the world, or a similar sense of humor. But because of the differences, each person approaches these things from a different point of view. It is so amazing to share something lovely or strange or funny with a new friend and discover how their differing point of view makes it lovely or strange or funny to them. I suppose this doesn't really change when new friends become old friends...but it does become a little more predictable.
3. More things are special to me now, because they make me think of someone special. For example: a name. My new friend's name is Sara. I think I have known "Sara"s before, but now I have an association that makes me happy every time I hear the name. And it's not just the name, it's stories that we share, things that I know she'd find interesting, funny made-up words....the list could go on and on. I love that when you get to know someone new, a whole slew of things that would fall under the category of "boring" or "neutral" thoughts suddenly gets bumped to the "fun" and "happy" thoughts.
4. Oops....I guess this is a bonus one: taking fun pictures with new friends. *grin* Meet my new friend Sara. (This was when we went to the zoo together yesterday.) And I guess another one (5) that doesn't happen to apply in every new-friend scenario, but does here: Sara and I are both in-laws to the same family...which means we're family and we'll get to hang out together for years and years and eat ice cream for breakfast when we're together and get the hankering.
Yay for friends and family and friends that are family.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
At the Beach with Friends
Over the weekend, we drove down to Emerald Isle, off the coast of North Carolina. There, we ate amazing food, drank margaritas, played fun games, built an enormous sand castle, and the best part....we did it all with great friends. Above is Anna and Tucker. I lived with Anna for two years in college, and we came to consider each other as true sisters. (So it was appropriate that we shared the last name of Williams.) I try to see her every chance I get. Anna and Tucker both graduated from Hillsdale with Paul and me.Introducing Henry David LaPrade. Charming, playful, and inquisitive, he'll bowl over all the girls with one glance and keep them cooing with his hearty giggles. The whole time we were there, he was quiet and delightful, happy to explore the beach even when it was cold and windy! A first-class delight!
This is Henry in his back-pack carrier. Ready for his nap...
Fun on the beach! Anna and I made a fantastic sand castle while the boys dove into the water. The air temperature was somewhere in the upper 50s. And though it was sunny, it was by no means hot. You can imagine how cold the water was! But still, Paul dove in with our body-board and rode several of the waves... and seemed to enjoy it too!
We also had fun hanging out at the house that we rented for the weekend: The Lucky Pelican. We played with Henry, and (from the hordes of games that we all brought) we played the classic games of Stock Exchange (which is a lot like Pit) and Balderdash, both of which brought a lot of laughs as it got later and we became more creative in our answers.
David sported his heavy-duty mo-hawk hat for us while we played Stock Exchange.
can I just say: "awwwww...."
Saturday night, there we went out to the Southwest point of the island to watch the sunset. It was so beautiful, seeing the sky and the colors and the sand all stretch off into the distance. It was windy, and there was a slight film of moving sand from the wind that made it look like we were watching the world turn around from miles and miles above it. So completely cool.
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Easy Granola
Road trips are so fun. I think one of my favorite parts is snacking on the way--reaching into that ever present bag full of goodies, conveniently stashed behind the driver's seat. Ah the joys of propping my feet up on the dash and nibbling away at cookies and crackers and apple slices, not to mention brownies and the occasional gummy worm.
Well, we're going on a road trip this weekend, and I decided to make something new and fun to munch along the way. Above, you see the almost-finished product. I took this picture of the plain granola: rolled oats and some chopped walnuts with maple/brown sugar coating. So very easy! It only took a moment to prepare and bake. I think I'll add some dried cranberries and chocolate chips to enhance the snacking potential.
Here's what I did:
1. Combine 4 cups of rolled oats, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/2 cup nuts (I used walnuts, but anything goes--sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds... whatever you fancy). Then you set that aside.
2. In a smaller container (I actually used a pint measuring cup so that I didn't have to dirty too many dishes) combine 1/2 cup maple syrup (or honey or another thick syrup), 1/4 cup vegetable oil (or canola), 1/2 cup packed brown sugar, and 2-3 tablespoons of water. Mix this up thoroughly so that the sugar is dissolved into the liquid.
3. Pour the liquids over the oat mixture and stir it up. It will look darker and shinier. Then, spread the granola out on a baking sheet and put it in the oven at 325F for about 25 minutes. You'll want to stir the granola and spread it again at the 10 and 20 minute marks to keep the bottom from burning. Once you take it out to cool, the granola was harden and become crunchy (and delicious!)
4. Add fun stuff! Dried cherries, cranberries, or raisins are a great *healthy* touch. Chocolate chips are yummy too. It's always good to be creative.
*note: because of the oil, the granola won't last too long. Be sure to use it up within two weeks... it shouldn't be too hard.
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Monday, March 7, 2011
The Westing Game
This book is so fun. It's fast, so you could probably read it in a day, but it's complicated and intricate, so you have to stay on your toes while you're reading. It reminds me of those logic puzzles where you have a certain number of people and a certain number of occupations and you have to figure out who committed the crime based off of one or two paragraphs of informative statements. You know, "The gardener works Monday through Thursday, wears brown shoes and lives next door to the jockey... etc."
In this book, there are sixteen different people named to be heirs of a millionaire's (Westing's) estate. Ah, but the catch: only one person will inherit the entire estate! And how will this person be chosen? They have to play the game that Westing set up in his will. For the first part of the game, they are paired into groups of two and given clues, scraps of paper with single words on them. Will they share or not? And what do you think will happen when home-made bombs start going off in the rival restaurants and the bottom and top floors? And who would ever suspect a quiet, kind, bride-to-be as the bomber?
Though the book never explains how such a diverse group (respected African-American judge down to batty old delivery man) is all related to the same wealthy old man, it is fairly easy to look past this quibble and assume that he picked these people because of his personal connections with them. These sixteen people make up every kind of relationship possible, because it includes so many different types of people. For example, there is a strange Polish woman, who wears bright colors and fakes a limp just so people will notice her. And there is a handicapped boy that sees everything but has a hard time communicating. There's a wife and husband that sometimes get along but often don't. There are siblings and business owners and immigrants and a college student and a regular, down-home laborer trying to provide for his family. What is Westing up to?
The way he's written his will, it's as if he's talking to everyone in the room, predicting (and answering) all of their comments and reactions. One might wonder...is Westing really dead at all?
If I were trying to make a literary analysis of the book, I would draw some kind of comparison between all the players and the pieces in a chess game. But I will refrain from attempting to draw clever parallels and simply point out that chess plays a large role in the book. Looking at the interaction between the sixteen people in Westing's game, you can see how each person's move strategically effects everyone else.
Pick it up, and enjoy a really fast, fun read. (Play the game yourself and see if you can give the correct answer in the end!)
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
From a Dream
Sometimes, I'm really glad that I remember dreams as often as I do. I know it's not a perfect picture, but I'm glad that I can have (or make) little mementos like this one for dreams that I'd really like to remember.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Ginger-Cinnamon Cookies
Ginger-Cinnamon Cookies
Set the oven to 350F
1/2 c butter (softened)
1/2 c brown sugar (packed down, a generous half cup)
1/3 c white sugar
2 large tsp ground ginger
1.5 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking powder
1 "squirt" baking soda (probably about 1/4 to 1/2 tsp)
2 eggs
2 cups flour
In your mixing bowl, mix the butter and sugars together. Then add the ginger, cinnamon, baking powder and baking soda and mix again. Add the two eggs and mix. Lastly, add the 2 cups of flour and mix them in. (If it still seems too moist, add a little more flour--it would probably depend on the size of the eggs you use.) I found two cups to be just perfect.
Roll into small balls and put on a baking pan (I didn't bother to grease it and that worked just fine.) Then put them in the oven for 10-15 minutes--until they get just a little bit cracked on top. Or, you could test it with your finger, and if the cookie offers a little resistance, then you could probably take them out for a nice moist cookie. For something crunchy...look for a different recipe.
Oh! And don't forget your glass of milk. It's an absolute must with these--they're perfect for dunking.
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The USS Mount Whitney, considered one of the most advanced warships in the world, is expected to arrive in the Black Sea early in September.
The warship will become the US' third in the Black Sea as the guided missile destroyer USS McFaul and the USS Taylor frigate are already in the region.
Originally posted by MarkAkaSilent
Please tell me why one of the most advanced warships in the world is delivering humanitarian aid when there are countless Merchant Navy vessels that can do the job just as well. This just adds to the already heavy US and NATO presence in the Black Sea. Sure seems to me that their "humanitarian effort" has other agendas.
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They spoke about this ship several weeks agio as to why it would be sent for humanitarian aid:
There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying 'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?' A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'
The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits was a 1936 agreement that gives Turkey control over the Bosporus Straits and the Dardanelles and regulates military activity in the region. Signed on 20 July 1936, it permitted Turkey to remilitarise the Straits and imposed new restrictions on the passage of combatant vessels. It is still in force today, with some amendments.
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The Russia-Georgia conflict has put Turkey in a tight spot. Will Turkey side with the United States, its NATO ally, and let more U.S. military ships into the Black Sea to assist Georgia? Or will it choose Russia which also shares a Black Sea coast with Turkey? As Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul, ever since Turkey joined NATO in 1952, it has hoped to never have to make a choice between the alliance and its Russian neighbor to the north.
Will Turkey side with the United States, its NATO ally, and let more U.S. military ships into the Black Sea to assist Georgia? Or will it choose Russia?
A Turkish refusal would seriously impair American efforts to support the beleaguered Caucasus republic. Ever since Turkey joined NATO in 1952, it has hoped to never have to make a choice between the alliance and its Russian neighbor to the North. Yet that is precisely the decision before Ankara. If Turkey does not allow the ships through, it will essentially be taking Russia's side.


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Remove the liver from the packaging and soak in the milk for 10-15 minutes.
Coat the onions rings in flour, tap off any excess and carefully deep fry in 2-3 batches (the oil should be approx 170ºC) until golden and crisp. Use a slotted spoon to remove the onion rings from the hot oil and leave on kitchen paper to soak up any excess oil before setting aside.
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