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The Kardashians & The #BrandofMe
If the "Brand of Me" has an origin story, part of it begins nearly a decade ago in, where else, California. Celebrity and the pursuit of fame has been a staple of Hollywood for almost a century, but the desperate hunger for bankable fame hit a turning point in 2007. A large, flamboyant, boisterous family with no apparent talent created a new type of dynasty: the Kardashians. Five daughters, two dads, a matriarch with a canny ability to exploit the intergenerational chaos – and of course the infamous "leaked" sex tape of the eldest daughter Kim, all combined to launch the ravenous narcissism of what we might call "America's First Family of Social Media." Indeed, the brood has permeated celebrity media in an unprecedented way. They were the first to truly capitalize on the power of social media, spreading from television to Facebook, Twitter to Instagram.
Their branding may have started as a hunger for celebrity, but it's evolved into a lucrative, strategic profession. A few years ago, when the "Keeping up with the Kardashian" flame seemed to dim, Kris Jenner adroitly began expanding and rejuvenating the dynastic brand. New faces and issues had to be found to keep the family relevant. With a new and growing crop of young social media audiences and fans, Kris launched a brand extension, namely "brand Jenner" (the family name of her former husband). Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner were younger, reached a different teenaged demographic, and re-established a hold over an age group that older siblings Kim and Khloe could no longer maintain.
The Kardashian tendrils continued to spread outwards, forming roots in social areas where the brand was traditionally dismissed. Kim and Kanye found love and the Kardashian brand forced its way into the hip-hop world and more recently, the fashion world. Through Khloe's relationship with a pro NBA player, the brand tried to sink its teeth into the basketball world.
Scroll through their Instagram feeds and you'll spot an array of "health and beauty" products endorsed by some of the daughters.
Cashing in on personal celebrity is nothing new. Exploiting social media through a heady combination of faux personal access and product endorsement has pushed the "Brand of Me" to a whole new level. In the process, they're leading generations of young women to believe that they too can be powerful, successful, wealthy and famous brands.
So, what are the messages they're sending to the teens and young women who hang on their every post? That's what this Kardashian primer is all about.
All Access All The Time! Up Close and Personal with the Kardashians
There's a famous exchange attributed to British playwright George Bernard Shaw. It goes like this:
Shaw: Madam, would you sleep with me for 5 Million pounds?
Woman: Well I suppose I would.
Shaw: Would you sleep with me for 5 pounds?
Woman: What kind of woman do you think I am?!
Shaw: Madam, we've already established that, now we're merely haggling about the price.
With apologies to Shaw, we have clearly established what the Kardashians are, and what we (and they) are haggling over is the price.
Make no mistake about it; these sisters are in the fame game for the money. In a strange way they know us (or at least some of us) as well as we know them.
We love train wrecks. The more twisted the wreckage, the higher the octane, the better it is. It`s exhilarating and enthralling, so long as you`re at a safe distance, that is. Most people do everything they can to avoid becoming a train wreck. The Kardashians, on the other hand, thrive on it. Kim "breaking the internet" with her nude pictures was a PR win beyond expectations. Bloggers droning on about how vapid they are keeps the family name consistently high in trending web searches. That all eyes are on them is simply proof their strategy is working.
The Kardashians have taken our love of gossip and infused it with 21st century pizazz by giving us something that no tabloids or paparazzi have been able to provide: the appearance of personal intimacy. They seem to have let us into their lives, warts and all. But why do this? Why let strangers in?
We can't ask $haw, but clearly the answer is the $ame. The more mud we fling their way, the more ecstatic they are, and the more they profit from 21st century metrics of followers and views, brand lift and brand sponsorships. They court controversy, exploit family tension, and promote themselves relentlessly. But this must come at a cost. Letting total strangers into your life and pretending that you are fast friends must carry an enormous emotional toll. Or so it would, if the intimacy they provide was real. But it is, at best, skillfully manufactured.
Looked at another way, the Kardashians are actors who fulfill our needs and desires. The intimacy they provide us is all an eloquently constructed charade. They know we all want to be rich, beautiful and do nothing but shop for Prada all day. They also know that since we can`t all have that, our lizard brains want to see our idols suffer the same struggles we do, because it makes them seem "just like us". In the past we might have snickered at the gaffs of the rich and famous if they slipped up in public. The Kardashian`s have instead chosen to let us in to play pretend with them. And like all the best fairy tales, this is all one sided. They give us the dirt on themselves, and never ask us to do the same, and thank goodness for that. They pretend to gives us a glimpse into their lives and we laugh and poke fun at how vain and silly they are. They get cold hard cash and we get to pretend that being rich and famous really does make you a fool.
But couldn't the Kardashian`s just get real jobs like the rest of us? You know, flip a burger or file some TPS reports? The answer to that is that they do have real jobs. They are actors. Like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie, they put on a mask and work hard to make you believe that what you`re seeing is the truth, even if deep down we all know that it`s not. The Kardashian`s trade intimacy for cash, because it is their job. The exchange is simple; they show us the stardust and suffering of the celebrity lifestyle and we fund the Kardashian cash machine by buying magic tea, or some organ-crushing corset. Intimacy and access in exchange for cash…as Shaw says, " …we are merely haggling about the price."


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A FORTNIGHT ago, I wrote about the Red Cross using its 9/11 Liberty Fund to give handouts to wealthy TriBeCa residents. Little did I know at the time that this episode would balloon into a morality tale about the corrupting effects of money.
Just as in a 19th-century novel, the windfall has proved to be a source of enormous contention in the little village of TriBeCa - pitting neighbour against neighbour, friend against friend and husband against wife. The much-vaunted and somewhat sentimental "community spirit" that is supposed to have kept us all going since September 11 has vanished overnight. Avarice has reared its fat little head and suddenly, everybody is angry with somebody.
A few days after I had written my column, I met one of my neighbours coming into the building. "Did you hear?" she said. "The Red Cross was here the other day. Yippee! We're going to get loads of money!" I shot her a rather cool look and said I had seen the Red Cross people and sent them away. "I rather thought people in this building would be giving to charity this year," I told her, "not taking." Her face fell. "Oh yeah, totally," she said. "I was only kidding." We rode the elevator in uneasy silence. "Well, see you then," she said cheerily when she got off at her floor.
Two days later, I discovered that she and her husband had accepted $30,000 from the Red Cross. Oh reason not the need. I was outraged - although not half as outraged as my other neighbours, who had also said yes to the Red Cross, but received much smaller sums. "As far as I can see, the richer you are, the more you get," said a friend of mine who had received only $1,000. "These Red Cross people - they're all from the suburbs. They're impressed by wealthy people. If I'd been in a doorman building, I know I would have got more."
In the queue at the local supermarket, the mother of one of the children at my daughter's pre-school sidled up to me and pointed at another woman's shopping cart. "See her? She got $20,000. I'd like to know how they worked out that she deserved 20 when we only got five. Look! She's buying Brie! Well, she can afford to now, can't she?"
One couple I know had been told they weren't eligible for anything and they were convinced that the Red Cross volunteer who had assessed them had taken agin them because they were Jewish. "He was a judge from the South. Hello?" the wife told me. "He took one look at the mezuzah hanging in our doorway and that was it. No money for us."
Then the papers caught on to what was going on and a series of pieces appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Newsday and the New Yorker, commenting sarcastically on the Red Cross's bizarre new role as subsidy provider to well-heeled downtown professionals.
Those who had declined the assistance felt relieved and smug at this point. Those who had snapped it up and used it to buy the Viking range they'd had their eye on naturally felt a little sheepish. One man I know was mortified to discover that his wife had accepted $10,000. He said they weren't deserving. She insisted they were as eligible as anyone else in the area. Terrible marital rows ensued.
The Red Cross delivered various contradictory statements. One spokesman said the charity was making payments regardless of the recipients' financial status. Another spokesman said the awards were entirely need-based.
Then, at the end of last week, they announced that they were tightening up the qualifying rules. This was a salutary development, but as far as tensions in the neighbourhood were concerned, it only made things worse. Now there is a new divide between people who managed to extract promises of cash before the rule change and those who didn't get in under the wire.
A friend of mine who is not remotely rich and who actually could do with some help, having incurred expensive medical bills treating an asthmatic condition caused by post-9/11 pollution, was told just this week that she isn't eligible for any compensation. "If you'd applied last week, we could have given you $4,000," the Red Cross said. After a lot of wrangling, she got them to commit $700 and a free vacuum cleaner.
Still somewhat peeved, she rang up to tell one of her neighhbours about the paltry sum she was getting. "Oh well," the friend chuckled, "I guess timing is everything." She had already been promised $35,000, so she was feeling chipper.
"I'm glad you think this is so amusing," my friend told her. "But it's not a joke to me. You know and I know that your need is not 40 times greater than mine." The neighbour became incensed. "How dare you tell me I'm not allowed to make jokes? Making jokes is the way I get through life! What do you want? Do you want me to give you half my money? Is that you want?"
"I wouldn't dream of taking your money," my friend replied, before slamming the phone down. The two of them are no longer talking.
Inevitably, given all this argy-bargy, it has begun to occur to people that this money might be something of a poisoned chalice. One woman I know, who was initially delighted to receive $3,000 from the Red Cross, has decided to send the money back. The mocking press coverage has unnerved her, she says. She does own a very large TriBeCa loft and a house in Sag Harbour, and now that she thinks about it, perhaps it is a little inappropriate for her to be receiving money donated by little old ladies in Duluth. "Besides," she says airily, "it's such a small amount, it really isn't worth the bother."
As for the warring husband and wife who were awarded 10 grand, they have agreed to compromise, it seems. He's taking five of it and donating it back to charity. She's keeping the other five and having the bathroom redone.

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FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Two years ago, Sonya Alexander was pre-diabetic, weighed "well over 300 pounds" and her doctor wanted to put her on high blood pressure medications.
She knew it was time for a serious lifestyle change.
So the area coordinator at Fairfield University decided to take a walk around the campus track.
"If I could just do a mile, then let me start with a mile," the 43-year-old Bridgeport native told herself.
Two years later, she's doing much more than walking a mile. In fact, Alexander is one of 10 members of the Aiello Inspiration Team taking part in the Eversource Hartford Marathon and Half Marathon next month, having been chosen for her determination and results.
Alexander's odyssey to good health has been a deliberate and steady effort, aided by her decision to have gastric sleeve surgery about 18 months ago.
In November 2016, she realized she could walk 3 miles and signed up for her first 5K. By January 2017, she headed to Florida to participate in her first runDisney 5K.
Along the way, she has lost a staggering 160 pounds and added running to her regime. Not long ago, she ran/walked her first 10K in Atlanta.
Her battle to get fit has come with some serious tests of her willpower. For instance, Alexander said she drank too much soda, adding many empty calories to her diet.
"I had to give that up cold turkey," said Alexander, who lives at the university. "It's hard, especially on a college campus. There's food everywhere!"
Running has helped her stay focused and beat stress.
"It's a time for me to reflect," she said. "I do a lot of thinking when I'm running."
Alexander has joined the 169 Society, pledging to run in all 169 Connecticut communities. Her goal is to move up to the half-marathon in Hartford next year.
And what does her doctor think about his 'new' patient?
Alexander said her blood sugar "is perfect" and she's managed to stay off those dreaded blood pressure meds. She's also no longer prone to frequent upper respiratory illnesses.
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Cleveland Institute of Art's newly redesigned Contemporary Artist Index attracts art researchers from around the globe
Online research tool indexes more than 31,000 artists worldwide
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – The world's art researchers are walking through the virtual door at the Cleveland Institute of Art Library. Experts at institutions ranging from the Library of Congress to international universities are discovering that CIA's freshly refurbished Contemporary Artist Index, re-launched in November, gives them access to information on more than 31,000 modern and contemporary artists.
Online researchers have long been able to find CIA Library books that have an artist's name or a particular style in the title. But this online index, which is linked to the library catalogue with new functionalities, lets them go deeper than that. They can also search for individual artists from among the many listed in group-exhibition catalogues, said CIA's Technical Services Librarian Dana Bjorklund. Plus, she added, "If you're interested in a particular artist, you can find other artists who have exhibited with that artist."
The redesign also makes this research easier, thanks to a help page with background information, instructions, and handy tips; and more pleasant than before, thanks to CIA graphic design student Nora Corcoran. She added clean, simple arrangements of white space and soft color. First conceived and constructed in 1991, the index had previously looked strictly utilitarian.
Since the November 2013 re-launch, significantly greater numbers of visitors are using this resource. Those users include the likes of the National Gallery of Art, Wellesley College, and Cyprus University. Word is also spreading throughout the art-research sector. The index was featured as an important research tool at a session of the Art Libraries Society North America's 41st annual conference in 2012, said CIA Library Director Cristine Rom."In addition, we have heard from colleagues around the country that many of them include this resource in their guides and use it in their instruction about doing art research," she said.
As the index's impact grows, so does its actual size, Bjorklund said. Staff members continually research the library collection and add new artist names to the 31,000 currently listed.
Although only those with physical access to the CIA Library can actually use the materials, the information in each listing allows users in other part of the world to identify works relevant to their research and then find them in nearby libraries, at a bookstore, or online, Bjorklund explained.
The database is free and open to all Internet users. To access CIA's Contemporary Artist Index, go to gate3.cia.edu/cia/index.php.
About CIA
Founded in 1882, the Cleveland Institute of Art is an accredited, independent college of art and design offering 15 majors in studio art, digital art, craft disciplines, and design. CIA extends its programming to the public through gallery exhibitions; lectures; a robust continuing education program; and the Cinematheque, a year-round art and independent film program. CIA's public programming is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. For more information visit cia.edu.
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Cost & Small-Business Technology Would Be Major Factors In Social Security Individual Accounts
September 26, 2001
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The EBRI report-which takes no position for or against individual accounts (IA) in Social Security-examines the key issues that will determine whether such accounts are logistically feasible, including two in particular:
- Administrative costs (which would inevitably reduce any investment earnings from IAs).
- Technological limitations of U.S. small businesses (which would make it virtually impossible for workers' contributions to be transferred to their Social Security IAs quickly and efficiently without significant increases in expenses to these businesses).
In order to keep administrative costs low and avoid saddling small-businesses with significant expenses, a feasible system of individual accounts would look nothing like a typical 401(k) plan, at least initially, the EBRI report finds. If a typical Internet-based 401(k) with easy access to account information and investment options can be described as the "Porsche" of retirement savings plans, said EBRI President Dallas Salisbury, then the public should realize that "a workable, cost-effective individual account within Social Security will most likely look like a 'Model T.'"
"The issues and options in administering IAs raise concerns that cut across ideology," Salisbury added. "Can they be designed in a way that is not too complex for participants to understand, too burdensome for small employers to administratively support, too difficult for record keepers to administer, or too expensive for low- and moderate-income participants to afford?"
EBRI's September Issue Brief/Special Report provides an update of the November 1998 EBRI Issue Brief, which presented a detailed analysis of the most salient administrative issues facing the current Social Security reform debate-issues that challenge policymakers to think carefully about how their proposals could be implemented, in order to achieve their policy goals.
The new EBRI report points out that these issues require separate analysis that cannot be obtained simply by looking at the experiences of employment-based retirement plans, which cover a much smaller and less diverse population than would be eligible for individual accounts under Social Security. The design of an individual account system that could potentially be administered in a cost-efficient and timely way would most likely bear little or no resemblance to a modern 401 (k) retirement plan, the report concludes.
Salisbury noted that no Social Security reform proposal to date is specific enough in its details to permit an objective estimate of whether and how quickly individual accounts could function, what they would cost to operate, and how much work would be involved for small employers. He noted "The potential impact of any individual account system is massive, since Social Security directly affects 96 percent of the employed U.S. work force and their employers."
Among the major findings in this analysis include:
- Adding individual accounts to Social Security could be the largest undertaking in the history of the U.S. financial market, and no system currently exists that has the capacity to administer such a system. The number of workers currently covered by Social Security-the largest single entitlement program in the nation-is at least four times higher than the combined number of all tax-favored employment-based retirement accounts in the United States, which are administered by hundreds of entities.
- Direct comparison between employment-based retirement savings plans and Social Security IAs are difficult at best. Social Security covers workers and businesses that are disproportionately excluded from employment-based plans. Thus, under an individual account system, total administrative expenses could be higher relative to benefits because most employers do not use automatic payroll systems, many do not use direct deposit, and many millions of short-service and young workers are not included in either public or private savings plans.
- Social Security individual accounts cannot be administered like 401(k) plans without adding significant employer burdens-especially on small businesses. Under the current wage reporting and tax collection process, it would take at least seven to 19 months for every dollar contributed to an individual's account to be sorted out from aggregate payments and credited to his or her individual account. This "float period" could result in substantial benefit losses over time. Options for preventing such losses involve difficult trade-offs, such as increased government responsibility, increased complexity, greater employer burdens, and/or investment restrictions for beneficiaries. Elimination of these "float periods" by requiring faster action by small employers would lead to significant new administrative burdens and costs-an estimated $1 billion a year more just for small businesses, according to past estimates.
- If legally considered personal property, the individual accounts of married participants could post significant administrative challenges. Some proposals would require contributions to be split between spouses' individual accounts, requiring records on participants' marital status to be continuously updated to ensure that contributions are correctly directed. Also, dealing with claims on contributions in divorce cases could place record keepers in the middle of spousal property disputes.
- Individual account benefits would be highly sensitive to administrative costs, according to results using SSASIM. Workers born between 1976 and 2026 would receive between 14 percent and 23 percent lower total benefits under high administrative cost assumptions than under low-cost assumptions, indicating that additional research on administrative costs is essential to assessing how-or whether-individual accounts could achieve the lower-cost assumptions. Proposals to use a flat percentage administrative charge could approach the lower-cost assumptions if the system had a simple (and therefore "inexpensive") design.
EBRI Issue Briefs are monthly topical periodicals providing expert evaluations of employee benefit issues and trends, including critical analyses of employee benefit policies and proposals. Members of the press may request complimentary copies of EBRI Issue Brief no. 236/Special Report SR-40, "Individual Social Security Accounts: Administrative Issues," from Alicia Willis at (202) 775-9132. Reporters may also obtain an executive summary of the report at www.ebri.org/publications/ Full-text copies of the report are available online by contacting Danny Devine (202) 775-6308, e-mail: email@example.com for the "press only" password. Others may purchase copies for $25 prepaid or pdfs for $7.50 prepaid by calling (202) 775-9132.
EBRI is a private, nonprofit public policy research organization based in Washington, DC. Founded in 1978, its mission is to contribute to, to encourage, and to enhance the development of sound employee benefit programs and sound public policy through objective research and education. EBRI does not lobby and does not take positions on legislative proposals.
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Google has released the latest instalment of its massively popular Google Earth platform, version 6, bringing along 3D trees for the ride.
The 3D trees can be seen in the 3D buildings view, and there are "dozens" of species on show.
"While we've just gotten started planting trees in Google Earth, we already have more than 80 million trees in places such as Athens, Berlin, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Tokyo", said Peter Birch, product manager at Google Earth.
"Through our Google Earth Outreach program, we've also been working with organizations including the Green Belt Movement in Africa, the Amazon Conservation Team in Brazil and CONABIO in Mexico to model our planet's threatened forests".
Another major edition to Google Earth 6 is fully integrated Street View. Pegman sits right on the controls dock now and, just like in Google Maps, you can now drop the little fellow anywhere with Street View imagery and take a closer look around a destination.
Finally, Google has made it easier to find historical imagery, with the date of the oldest information for a selected place shown in the status bar at the bottom. Clicking the date takes you back in time, without the need for a nuclear reaction to generate 1.21-gigawatts of electricity.
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Eleven years ago, my boss told me to get my SPHR. I was twenty-six and had worked in HR for six years but I was having trouble being taken seriously as a HR leader.
Uhm, that's because I was twenty-six.
But it also didn't help that I was working with brilliant people who eventually orchestrated the insurance devices behind derivatives and credit default swaps. Those people were smart and knew how to make money. I knew a little something about PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PLANS.
Doesn't quite impress people the way you think it should.
So my boss said, "Go get your SPHR."
Right. Okay. I googled SPHR — yes, we had the Googles back then — and found a three-day course taught by Mike Losey. I took the class, took the scantron test at a local high school on a Saturday afternoon, and passed with flying colors.
The whole process took about nine weeks.
And nobody at work cared that I passed.
I'll tell you what — HRCI does God's work in trying to define and promote a standard for Human Resources professionals. And I'll tell you something else. I've had failing HR Generalists turn their performance around because I made them study for and take the certification exam. These men and women learned more about their profession through the process of studying for the exam. They became smarter people. I'm proud of that.
But do I really think that the HR certification means anything special? Do I really think it's required to do business in the field of Human Capital?
No way.
I know people who haven't done a lick of HR work in their lives — professors, consultants, accountants — who studied for and passed the SPHR exam with very little effort. If you can memorize a bunch of information, you can pass the test. I should know because instead of figuring out how to re-certify for my SPHR via a complex system of credits, I just took the test again in 2010.
And I passed again.
- It's not a murderboard.
- It's not defending your PhD thesis.
- It's not the bar exam.
It's a test that proves you know a little something about Human Resources.
Let's applaud people who pass the exam but let's not flaunt the certification in front of serious and talented people who are trying to do real work.


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Extracting energy from underground in the Midlands
I'm standing in for Patrick Burns this week on Sunday Politics in the West Midlands.
It's fracking that gets all the attention of course but there are in fact a whole new raft of technologies looking to extract energy from hard to reach places under the ground. This week on the Sunday Politics we'll be looking at some of these new ideas and what impact they might have for bad and good on the Midlands.
Of course this region is home to the headquarters of energy company Cuadrilla based in Lichfield. At the centre of much fracking controversy in Balcombe, Sussex, they're tight-lipped and despite several approaches have so far chosen not to talk fracking on TV screens in the Midlands.
Mind you, it might be a pretty short appearance if they did because the truth is the Midlands is geology ill-suited for the easy exploitation of shale gas through fracking. Given the scale of opposition in general, it makes much more sense to go for areas of the country where the returns could be much larger.
But there's plenty of coal here in the Midlands and there are all sorts of newish techniques on the horizon to exploit our reserves. It might be too difficult to mine directly but in Warwickshire there's talk of setting coal seams on fire and extracting the gas that's produced. In Staffordshire they want to pump water into the coal to push out the methane trapped inside.
Environmentalists tend to lump all these technologies together. That's useful because a problem with one can be used to raise doubts about all the others. But there are benefits to these new technologies too.
So on Sunday Politics we'll be looking at why we won't see fracking in the Midlands but what we might see instead.
And we'll be asking our political guests and experts in the studio about the problems governments face making long-term energy plans in the teeth of often fierce local resistance. Plus, just for fun, why the government's entire approach to fracking might be completely wrong and lay them open to legal challenge.
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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday will leap into the lion's den when he visits Lee's Summit to oppose that big tax cut bill that Republican Sen. Will Kraus passed this year.
Nixon will visit the Stansberry Leadership Center at 301 NE Tudor Road. That's part of Lee's Summit Public Schools, and it's in Kraus' legislative district.
Kraus, though, won't be there, an aide said. He's away on a long-planned trip.
An effort to override Nixon's veto of the Kraus tax bill has become the dramatic centerpiece of Missouri politics this fall. The Senate is expected to easily override the veto. The drama is in the House, where the vote is expected to hinge on perhaps as few as one or two lawmakers.
Nixon has traveled the state in recent weeks pounding on the tax cut as an unaffordable experiment that would force dramatic cuts to education and raise taxes on prescription drugs.
Kraus passed the bill to help Missouri better compete with Kansas where Gov. Sam Brownback is pushing sweeping reductions to income taxes as a way to lure more business to the state.
Nixon appears at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening.


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Five days of animation, wonder, excitement and weirdness from the Cinémathèque Québecoise
From Wednesday, Nov. 29, through Sunday Dec. 2, 2012, the 11th Sommets du cinema d'animation de Montreal takes over the Cinémathèque Québecoise. The event includes film, talks and master classes.
There are 125 films from around the world, with the shortest lasting a mere 30 seconds and the longest being 92 minutes. The short films have been put into packages that will be shown twice, with the exception of the 36-minute children's program on Sunday morning at 11. (A short program for short attention spans, I assume.)
Among the shorts are two works by Norman McLaren, Canada's most famous animator – the Cinémathèque has an exhibition space (and sometimes party room) named after him. In Begone Dull Care /Caprice en Couleurs, McLaren and Evelyn Lambart painted and scratched shapes and patterns directly on film to match a sound track by another famous Canadian artist, Oscar Peterson. Blinkity Blank, with its images scratched on the film, plays with the phenomenon of persistence of vision and after image on the retina. These are part of a program called De McLaren à Woloshen (Friday, Nov. 30 at 2 p.m., and Saturday Dec. 1 at 1 p.m.) though theoretically, they could have been included in another program, Panorama Québec + Canada.
There's an international competition, with films from Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, South Korea,, Switzerland, the U.K and U.S. There are also two programs devoted to Belgium.
Image from the Belgian film Le voyageur, by Johan Pollefoort.
There are three feature length films – Alice au pays des Merveilles (1949), from France, directed by Lou Bunin, Danger Pleine Lune (1991) a Quebec-Czechoslovakia co-production, by Brestislav Pojar, and Le Chat du Rabbin (2011), from France, co-directed by Joann Sfar and Antone Delesvaux. The film is based on a series of graphic novels that Sfar wrote about a rabbi's cat. Sfar also made a live-action film based on his graphic novel about singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. A film about Sfar, Joann Sfar (dessins), directed by Mathieu Amalric, was shown here in Montreal last year at FIFA, the festival of films on art. (A link to my blog post about that is here.)
And there are guests, too! French director Franck Dion will give a free master class Thursday, Nov. 29 at 2 p.m. Films by Irish director David OReilly will be shown Friday, Nov. 30 at 9 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 2 at 5 p.m. After Friday's presentation, he will (according to the schedule) talk all night! I'll have to verify that. This event, Late Night With David OReilly, is called Sur L'Oreiller (on the pillow) Avec David OReilly in French.Word play! I love it.
(Yes, it seems that he does spell his name without the conventional apostrophe between the O and the R. If I go to this event I might ask him why. Though, having looked at some of his unusual work, I could probably come up with much better questions. For example, has he watched a lot of the weirder shows on Japanese TV? I suspect that he has.)
The Cinémathèque's Facebook page suggests buying tickets in advance to avoid last minute- disappointment, because OReilly has many fans in Montreal.
On Saturday, Dec. 1 at 5 p.m. Montreal filmmaker Steven Woloshen will show how to make animation with film, but without a camera. The Cinémathèque describes the event this way: "Can you still surprise your audience by utilizing film? Here is a great opportunity to expand your own visual toolbox using old school analogue tools in a digital world. Veteran filmmaker and animator Steven Woloshen will discuss new and radical strategies from his recent book on handmade filmmaking titled, Recipes for Reconstruction and his forthcoming book, Scratch, Crackle and Pop: The Whole Grains Approach to Making Films Without a Camera. This master class will explore traditional techniques of camera-less filmmaking in the High Def world, including scratching, painting and collage directly on film stock, as well as unconventional uses of found footage, photograms and loops."
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A Series of Unfortunate Events Season 1 is an introduction to a very brave TV show that wants to explore a tragic and dramatic story about several kids. Taking a strange twist on a popular book that has been in the top-selling spot for a while, the show wants us to emerge ourselves in a mysterious and dangerous environment where children have to reveal the darkest secrets of their past. Some of the events they vaguely remember, but there are some that need investigation and a there is a true villain who wants to play a game of cat and mouse with these children.
Three kids are now orphans and their parents died in a series of mysterious events resulting in a violent fire that burnt down their household. However, there is a man that knows the mystery behind their death and wants to put the truth on a pedestal as a reward in a cruel game that three children must play in order to find out what happened to their parents. The mystery is more dark than many can imagine and this TV show is definitely not for those whose nerves are weak and cannot sustain dramatic moments and dark mystery.
Dive into the action of one of the most intriguing TV shows that the world of entertainment can offer. The journey of three kids who have to win in a game of wits against an inventive villain will make you sit on the edge of your chair.
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--Comic John Belushi
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--Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde
What do these people have in common with each other and with many people you know?
Based on my 20 years of psychological research, I`ll hazard a guess: They probably share a common cluster of characteristics that make up what I call the ``Type T personality.`` The ``T`` stands for thrill-seekers. These high- profile people are risk-takers and adventurers who seek excitement and stimulation wherever they can find or create it.
For some, the thrills are mainly in the physical domain; for others, they`re mainly mental; and for still others they`re a mix of both. I believe that thrill-seeking can lead some Type T`s to outstanding creativity (I call this ``T plus``), but it can lead others to extremely destructive, even criminal, behavior (``T minus``).
The Type T Personality (or ``Big T``) is at one end of a continuum; at the opposite pole is the ``Type t personality`` (``Little t``): Someone who clings to certainty and predictability, avoiding risks and the unfamiliar. Such people are usually neither criminal nor creative -- they`re gray compared with the bold red of the Type T Personality.
Big T and Little t people are far from rare, but they are certainly in the minority in our population. Most of the world falls somewhere between these two extremes, neither as hungry for novelty and excitement as the Big T nor as protectively routinized as the Little t.
It has been proposed that we all seek unconsciously to maintain an optimal level of ``arousal`` or activity in the central nervous system, particularly in that part known as the reticular activating system. If arousal is too high or too low, we try to adjust it to some middle ground, often by choosing environments and experiences that are either soothing or stimulating.


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I really love to read. Along with art, is one of those things which I simply can't live without. I feel sick in case I can't read for a few days in a row. Can we call it a disease? 😀 A very good one, indeed.
I often make sketches based on the books I'm currently reading, on some situations, or about some characters that I prefer. I think that art and design are closely related, because they can evoke invisible images in someone else's mind, and allow unknown worlds to pop out from our imagination.
It seems a lot simple, but in fact it IS really simple. Is one of the simplest things, to open your mind and allow the words finding their place on the paper (thanks to your colors, your pencil and so on), leaving them to stimulate parts of you that are forgotten, hidden or simply unknown. The most difficult part is, actually and obviously, to become aware that you need this state of mind. It's like a…mindfulness state.
So the relevant question is: how to enter in this state of mind? If I knew the ultimate answer, I would be a less more stressed artist, I suppose. By now, meditation and yoga are helping me a lot. Even walking in nature helps. And I know that you probably have heard those thing one million times, but are pretty true. At least give them a try!


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Happy Valentine's Day and happy moving day!
We officially moved out of our house in Ohio today and our first stop it Texas…but the midwest isn't done with us yet. We planned on driving 374 miles in six hours (per map quest)….but add snow into it and we managed to drive 181 miles in six and a half hours.
On the up side, we haven't had a reason to stay at a horse motel this close to (our former) home. We had already arranged a horse motel, thanks to horsemotel.com, but when the travel slowed to a max of 40 mph we began a new search.
We try to schedule ahead but with weather issues that sometimes isn't a choice. We were happy to find Cuttin' Up Stables and Mike and Melinda Gerrish. They were very understanding about the weather…especially considering that we were calling on Valentine's Day!
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Firefighters work at the scene of an apartment fire at 630 Water St., in Eau Claire, Wis.
Steve Kinderman, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram via AP
On-scene investigation of fatal Eau Claire apartment fire complete
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Inspectors have completed their on-scene investigation into an off-campus apartment fire that killed two University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire students from Minnesota last month.
Fire Inspector Gary Puljas says in a news release Wednesday that physical evidence gathered at the scene will now be analyzed. He says it's not known how long that analysis will take.
Earlier, Puljas said the fire likely started in one of the apartment's bedrooms.
Jacob Clarkson and Ross Livermore, both 21, died as a result of the Oct. 8 fire. Two other roommates escaped the blaze. The four friends graduated from high school in Stillwater, Minn., in 2009.
The property is being returned to the owner Wednesday. The cause of the fire remains undetermined.
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something about aveeno's pure renewal shampoo and conditioner set makes me feel like i just walked out of the j crew catalog (which is a sort of how i'm hoping to always feel, so this is a good start).
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Adele - Grammys 2013 Red Carpet
Adele is fabulous in floral on the red carpet at the 2013 Grammy Awards on Sunday (February 10) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The 24-year-old singer is reportedly set to perform during the show tonight and she is also nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance for her live recording of "Set Fire to the Rain"!
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Adele
Last year, Adele made her big comeback at the Grammys, where she performed her song "Rolling in the Deep" following her surgery on her vocal cords.
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Swedish DJ and producer Avicii has announced he will take a break from the music business after he finishes touring this year (16).
Avicii, real name is Tim Bergling, 26, revealed the news in a long statement on his official website, following a series of cryptic tweets last week.
Posting on Saturday (26Mar16) he hinted that he was set to make a public statement, writing: "The music industry will never be the same again."
In the deeply personal message the artist confirmed that his 2016 live shows will be his last and he has no plans to make more music in the near future."I could be back... but I won't be right back," he admitted.
Thanking those who have helped him on the road to building his career the star acknowledged that his path to fame hasn't always been easy and he now yearned to explore "the life of a real person behind the artist."
The decision was made after Avicii took time to drive across the country with friends recently, giving him the time to reflect upon how far he has come.
In the statement he said he recognised that he had been "struggling" with the need to make a change for some time.
"My path has been filled with success but it hasn't come without its bumps," the star said. "I've become an adult while growing as an artist, I've come to know myself better and realize that there's so much I want to do with my life. I have strong interests in different areas but there's so little time to explore them."
This isn't the first time the Swede has taken a break from performing. In 2015 he rescheduled gigs in Las Vegas and Japan to new dates in 2016, as part of a larger tour initiative, citing the: "opportunity to focus on myself and spend time trying to grow up in a way I never got the chance to".
Best known for hits including Levels, Wake Me Up and Hey Brother, Avicii's forthcoming dates include summer appearances at English electronic music festival Creamfields (27Aug16), and a concert scheduled for Belfast's Boucher Playing Fields (26Aug16).


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Qorvis Participates in PR Week's Davos Roundtable
Feb 28, 2013, 04:51 EST
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Qorvis CEO Michael Petruzzello recently participated in PR Week's Davos Roundtable to discuss the World Economic Forum.
Petruzzello joined Bernadette Casey, senior editor of PR Week, Arianna Huffington, editor in chief of the Huffington Post, and several other public relations executives in New York City for the roundtable.
The aim of the roundtable was to discuss the key communications takeaways from this year's World Economic Forum and PR's role in defining many of the world's crucial issues.
The participants discussed issues from the global economy, to corporate social responsibility, women in leadership, and the emerging challenges of the communications industry.
Petruzzello said, "There was a heightened sense of optimism coming out of the conference. Everything needs to move forward to make that sense of optimism more pervasive. To turn that optimism into reality, business and government are going to have to do more through good policy and good financial decisions."
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Amazon could be about to enter the smartphone arena with a handset of its own - the Amazon phone - if reports are to be believed.
Amazon is to hold a press launch in Los Angeles on Thursday, with The Verge claiming that "multiple sources" have confirmed the existence of the handset.
It is said that the new Amazon phone is far from finished, but it could still be announced at the event, along with new Amazon Kindle devices, potentially including a new Kindle Fire tablet.
The phone is said to run a modified version of the Android operating system similar to that of the Amazon Kindle Fire. Other details remain sketchy, though it's a fair assumption that if the phone does indeed exist it will be fitted with Nokia Maps as its default navigation service.
There is already speculation that Amazon had agreed with Nokia to use its mapping services rather than Google's and at the Nokia World event in New York, the Finnish manufacturer confirmed it would be adding a "major" mapping partner in the near future.
We will be covering the news of the new Amazon launches, so stay tuned.


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In the city of Barbalha, on the brazilian northeast, there´s a tradition around Saint Anthony´s day that a great tree is put down, dried out for fifteen days and then, on a sunday, it is carried from its "craddle" to the city´s church. The "carregadores", carriers of the tree, are people form the local community that earned this status - the right to carry the log - from their parents or from close friends that are/were also "carregadores". The process of moving the tree begins early in the morning and goes on for the whole day; the distance from the craddle to the church is around seven kilometers.
Before the carriers begin to move the tree, they play around in fighting each other, putting each other down and throwing sand at whoever is brought down. They drink heavily and consume other kinds of intoxicating substances.
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The weekend (16th and 17th of May 2014) saw the third round of the IFSC Bouldering World Cup held in Innsbruck, Austria. Amazingly, Shauna did it again and took gold for her second time!
Top 6 Results:
- Shauna Coxsey
- Anna Stohr
- Akiyo Noguchi
- Melissa Le Neve
- Marine Thevenet
- Miho Nonaka
- Killian Fischhuber
- Adam Ondra
- Rustam Gelmanov
- Dmitrii Sharafutdinov
- GiGi Glarion-Mondet
- Michael Piccolruaz
You can watch the finals below:
Competing for Great Britain was Shauna Coxsey, myself (Mina Leslie-Wujastyk), Diane Merrick, Michaela Tracy, Dave Barrans, Orrin Coley and Jon Partridge.
Team GB Results:
1st: Shauna Coxsey
16th: Mina Leslie-Wujastyk
37th: Michaela Tracy
67th: Diane Merrick
41st: Dave Barrans
45th: Corrin Oley
65th: Jon Partridge
Shauna commented on competing at Innsbruck and how it felt to win her 2nd Gold Medal:
"The crowd in Innsbruck is immense, the wall is amazing and the setting is always really fun. The atmosphere really is incomparable to any of the other events. Standing on top of the podium was indescribable; I still can't believe that I won! Again! I'm pretty overwhelmed."
The GB Bouldering Team is supported by: BMC, Sherpa Adventure Gear and Crowd Funding


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Thursday, December 22, 2005
dreaming of snow
Got up early this morning , got the kids fed and was baking by 8:00. I've been baking cookies all day today. Chocolate chip, sugar, russian tea cookies, gingerbread & pizzelle's. We got all the pieces made for the gingerbread house so we can assemble it tomorrow. The kids have been begging me to help them make a big gingerbread house topped with lots of candy. So I couldn't pass up the opportunity to use my tremendous culinary skills. (don't laugh too loud at that one.)
It's really starting to feel alot like Christmas around here, except for the 70 degree weather and not much snow in the mountains. The kids have already started talking about going sledding like we did last year. Ryne told me that he has been dreaming of snow.
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Medibank Private's new headquarters
Senator the Hon. Nick Minchin, Minister for Finance and Administration, officially opened Medibank Private's new headquarters at 700 Collins Street Melbourne, on Wednesday October 27 2004.
Medibank Private's move to 700 Collins Street consolidated three offices in the Melbourne CBD into one without increasing the business' costs. The new building boasts some of the best energy saving technology and design using environmentally friendly materials.
The move to 700 Collins Street has provided staff with an improved working environment, and has allowed for greater communication and collaboration within the wider Medibank Private team.
We are confident our new environment will see us continue to build a performance organisation, and deliver consistent and excellent service.
Approximately half of Medibank's employees work from 700 Collins Street, with the balance spread across Australia in 100 retail centres, customer call centres and operations teams.
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Portland unemployment fell again in May, dropping once more to its lowest mark since the economic downturn: 7.3 percent.
The seven-county region gained an estimated 5,100 new jobs, outpacing statewide gains. Metro unemployment is now a half-point lower than the Oregon average, which in May was 7.8 percent.
The latest metro jobs report shows just how different that looks from county to county: from 5.8 percent in Benton to 12.9 percent in Harney.
unemployment rate
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estimated new jobs
-May 2013,
Oregon Employment Department
Still, there's no doubt that hiring has improved. Portland-area employers have added an estimated 26,100 jobs over the past year.
Unemployment, meanwhile, has edged down 1 point, from 8.3 percent in May 2012 to 7.3 percent today. That puts Portland's unemployment rate below the national average, which was 7.6 percent in May.
Area construction, leisure and hospitality and transportation and trade sectors made the largest non-adjusted job gains in May. Unemployment was 7.5 percent in April.
The rate counts Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas,
Yamhill and Columbia counties in Oregon; plus Skamania and Clark
in Washington. An estimated 81,700 remain out of work in and around Portland.
Among the the five other Oregon metro areas tracked by the Employment Department:
- Bend (Deschutes County): 10.0 percent, down from 10.1 percent in April.
- Corvallis (Benton County): 5.8 percent, unchanged in April.
- Eugene-Springfield (Lane County): 7.8 percent, down from a revised 8.0 percent in April.
- Medford (Jackson County): 9.5 percent, down from 9.6 percent in April.
- Salem (Marion and Polk counties): 8.4 percent, down from 8.5 percent in April.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
Recipe: Broccoli, Red Onion and Courgette Penne
I know when i've made something delicious, because I will have big second helpings at the table, and then two hours later, when i'm hungry again (such a greedy girl!) I will finish off the leftovers!! Might be a few less recipes over the next couple of weeks, i have SO MUCH work for for A2 levels it's insane. Also i'm out picking loads of things from my local country walks and marinating them/making them into jellies at the moment. At this rate i'm going to be giving "Hedgerow Hampers" to everyone for Christmas!
Broccoli, red onion and Courgette Penne (serves 2) £1.07 per portion
2 tbsp olive oil
1 red onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tsp dried oregano
300g courgettes, halved and sliced fairly thin
200g dried penne
100g broccoli, cut into small florets
100g crème fraiche
25g finely grated cheddar
Salt and pepper to taste
1. In a large saucepan, sauté the red onion, garlic and oregano covered for three minutes. Add the courgettes and cook covered for a further three minutes.
2. Meanwhile boil a large pan of salted water. Add the penne and cook according to pan instructions.
3. Remove the lid from the onion + courgette mixture, and keep frying on a medium heat, stirring occasionally until the pasta is ready.
4. 3 minutes before the pasta is ready, add the broccoli florets to the boiling water.
5. Drain the penne and broccoli well, and add to the pan with the courgette and onion mixture. Add the crème fraiche and cheddar and stir in, cooking the mixture for 1 minute or until everything is well combined and the cheese has melted. Season to taste and serve!
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Recipe:Creamy Spaghetti with lemon and proscuitto
This is a delicious carbonara-esque dish. But lower fat, and made in the traditional way Italians make creamy sauces. When you make spaghetti carbonara it should never be swimming in sauce, the sauce should only just "coat" the pasta. This is a very easy recipe as well- I even taught my teenage stove-scared brother how to make it. This is also a much lower fat alternative to Carbonara. The only problem is i have used up the last of my last purple spring onions now though! I'm going to have to grow double the amount next year!
Creamy spaghetti with lemon and prosciutto (serves 2)
200g spaghetti
100g crème fraiche
1 egg yolk
60g prosciutto, diced
Zest of 1 lemon, and wedges to serve
2 tbsp chopped fresh basil
2 spring onions (preferably red!) finely chopped
Salt and pepper to taste
Parmesan and freshly chopped parsley for garnish
1. Mix the crème fraiche, egg yolk, prosciutto, lemon, basil and spring onions together.
2. Cook the spaghetti until al dente. Drain, and return to the pan with 60ml of the pasta cooking liquid.
3. Stir in the creamy mixture into the pasta until the sauce has completely thickened and the pasta is fully cooked. This should only take 1 or 2 minutes. Season to taste (lots of black pepper especially) and serve with plenty of grated parmesan, parsley and a wedge of lemon.
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Labels: Italian, Pasta, Pork, Spring Onions
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Recipe: Butterbean and Tomato Salad
Fancied a nice simple but healthy saturday lunch for me and my parents. Had a load of homegrown tomatoes to use, so I decided to use some of them up with this. I Slow roasted the rest of them with fresh thyme, to be part of a lovely special cooked breakfast I made for my boyfriend's birthday this morning. I always think it's a nice touch to cook up breakfast for your partner on a special day. It's a lovely way to start the day. Anyway, used up some more of those purple spring onions, they are so scrumptious! I used some butterbeans that I had soaked and cooked from dry- which I think works better with this recipe because the canned ones tend to disentegrate easier. But if you want to use canned, i would say use about a tin and a half of butterbeans, drained and thoroughly washed.
Butterbean and Tomato Salad (serves 4 as a side dish) 72p per portion
350g drained cooked butterbeans (cold)
250g ripe tomatoes, chopped
Handful parsley, finely chopped
2 spring onions (preferably purple!)
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp lemon juice
Salt and pepper to taste
1. In a bowl, mix all the ingredients together, season to taste and serve!
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Labels: £1 per portion or less, £1.50 or less per portion, £2 or less per portion, Salad, Side Dish, Spring Onions, Tomatoes, Vegetarian
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Recipe: Summer Vegetable Medley
Decided to finally pick some of my leeks. I havent grown too many of them this year- I am harvesting them at a young stage as i'm not sure how to do the "collaring" thing that you are supposed to do when growing fully matured leeks (to make sure you get more white part than green on the plants). First time growing them, and although they are a little fussy- in terms of thinning them out and transplanting them into the border, they were worth it. First carrots pulled as well! My dad planted them and i'm surprised about how well they have grown. They are a small sweet chantenay ("Chantenay Red Cored" to be exact) variety. Something very satisfying about pulling your first carrot! This is a delicious vegetable side dish, displaying the best flavours that come from fresh homegrown produce. My parent's like their veg particularly "well done" but i dont mind that sometimes. Leeks and courgettes are nice stir fried as well as slow cooked.
Summer Vegetable Medley (serves 3 as a side dish) 70p per portion
60g butter
2 tbsp olive oil
2 cloves garlic
150g young leeks
100g young carrots
250g courgettes, sliced thickly
5 tbsp white wine
Handful parsley, finely chopped
½ tsp dried thyme
1 fresh or 2 dried bay leaves
80g frozen peas
Salt and pepper to taste
1. In a saucepan add the butter, olive oil, garlic, leeks, carrots and courgettes, and cook on a medium heat, covered, for 5 minutes.
2. Remove the lid and cook for a further five minutes.
3. Add the wine, parsley, thyme and bay leaves, and cook on a slightly higher temperature for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. Add the peas and cook for a further 5 minutes. Season to taste and serve.
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Labels: £1 per portion or less, £1.50 or less per portion, £2 or less per portion, Carrots, Courgettes, Leeks, Side Dish, Vegetarian
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Recipe: Creamy Chicken and Courgette Stew
My courgette plants are on the way out i think. I don't mind though really, they've served me very well this year. I cut off one of the plants as for some reason it started going a bit weird. Like the stems started going yellow and the plant started to go all mouldy and I dunno, all soft, for no reason i can figure out. I know courgettes are thirsty plants, but maybe we've actually had too much rain this year? Anyway, should get around 5 or so more until the frosts come I reckon. This recipe is sooo yum and it barely takes any time to make. If it doesn't thicken enough, add a little cornflour mixed in cold water to it at stage four. This is great served with rice or crusty buttered bread to mop up the delicious juices.
Creamy Chicken and Courgette stew (serves 2)
1 tbsp olive oil
1 knob of butter
1 red onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
400g diced chicken breast
100ml rose or white wine
1 rounded tbsp flour
500ml chicken stock
Large handful chopped parsley
½ tsp dried thyme
250g halved and sliced courgettes
Splash of single cream
Salt and pepper to taste
1. Sautee the red onion and garlic in butter and olive oil for 10 minutes, until soft. Add the chicken and cook for five minutes, or until beginning to brown.
2. Add the wine and cook on a high heat for 5 minutes, until most of the wine has evaporated.
3. Add the flour, stir to coat, and gradually add the chicken stock to the pan. Add the parsley and thyme and cook for 20 minutes on a medium to high heat, stirring occasionally.
4. Add the courgettes and cook for a further 10 minutes, stirring often. Add the cream, heat up for a couple more minutes, season to taste, and serve.
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Labels: Chicken, Courgettes, French
Recipe: Chicken Rogan Josh
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, these last couple of weeks have been such a palava. My college (Bath College) suddenly cancelled one of my A2 Level courses. I basically turned up on enrollment day (a few days before the start of college) and they just said "Oh we've stopped doing Film Studies here". Just like that. Gave me no suggestions on what to do, they just didn't care. I'd already applied for University saying that I would be completing 3 a levels this year (which is the neccessary qualifications needed for me to do my course). So i had to run around rather quickly and worringly, and find somewhere that I could do finish my a levels, or find an alternative way of doing them. Well, turns out that (very luckily!) I have managed to get into a local Sixth Form College. Of course everyone knows eachother from last year and i'm all my own and having to be "the new girl" which is a rather distressing situation. I am also allready fairly behind on this colleges work, as they began the year earlier. Anyway, can't rant anymore- I just think it's despicable what Bath College has got away with- and im glad i have washed my hands of them. If they mess up my University application I will TAKE THEM DOWN.
So this is a fairly healthy curry, and made with some of my own homegrown tomatoes as well. It is also really easy to convert this recipe into a vegetarian one- just use a 350g pack of quorn chicken style pieces instead of the chicken, and use 300ml vegetable stock instead of the chicken stock (the quorn tends to soak up more liquid than chicken). Oh and this is the last of my pepper recipes this season, I promise!I find it hard when autumn starts, to suddenly withdraw from the summer's wonderful produce.
Chicken Rogan Josh (serves 3) £1.77 per person, with 70g uncooked basics rice (then cooked).
3 tbsp oil
1 white onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic
2 rounded tbsp Rogan josh curry paste
2 chicken breasts, cut into fairly large chunks
1 tin chopped tomatoes
200ml chicken stock
½ red pepper, diced
½ green pepper, diced
2 large ripe tomatoes, sliced into wedges
salt, sugar and pepper to taste
1 tbsp natural yoghurt and a little smoked paprika for garnish
1. Cook onions and garlic for a few minutes until softened, add curry paste and cook for a further minute. Add diced chicken and cook for a couple of minutes.
2. Add tinned tomatoes, peppers and chicken stock, and cook for 15 minutes, with the lid on.
3. Remove lid, and cook for a further 10 minutes.
4. Add tomatoes, cook for the last 15 minutes, or until sauce is thick and the tomatoes are soft. season to taste and serve.
So this is a fairly healthy curry, and made with some of my own homegrown tomatoes as well. It is also really easy to convert this recipe into a vegetarian one- just use a 350g pack of quorn chicken style pieces instead of the chicken, and use 300ml vegetable stock instead of the chicken stock (the quorn tends to soak up more liquid than chicken). Oh and this is the last of my pepper recipes this season, I promise!I find it hard when autumn starts, to suddenly withdraw from the summer's wonderful produce.
Chicken Rogan Josh (serves 3) £1.77 per person, with 70g uncooked basics rice (then cooked).
3 tbsp oil
1 white onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic
2 rounded tbsp Rogan josh curry paste
2 chicken breasts, cut into fairly large chunks
1 tin chopped tomatoes
200ml chicken stock
½ red pepper, diced
½ green pepper, diced
2 large ripe tomatoes, sliced into wedges
salt, sugar and pepper to taste
1 tbsp natural yoghurt and a little smoked paprika for garnish
1. Cook onions and garlic for a few minutes until softened, add curry paste and cook for a further minute. Add diced chicken and cook for a couple of minutes.
2. Add tinned tomatoes, peppers and chicken stock, and cook for 15 minutes, with the lid on.
3. Remove lid, and cook for a further 10 minutes.
4. Add tomatoes, cook for the last 15 minutes, or until sauce is thick and the tomatoes are soft. season to taste and serve.
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Labels: £2 or less per portion, Chicken, Indian, Tomatoes
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Recipe: Stuffed Roasted Butternut Squash
I feel that now it is officially Autumn, and with the season of Autumn arrives the wonderful array of squashes and pumpkins! I use butternut squashes mostly, as I find them easier to prepare than most pumpkin varieties. I got the squashes from Linda's farm again and they were really sweet and had a great texture. They are smaller than the ones you get in the shops though, but in my experience I find that the smaller butternut squashes tend to be sweeter, so In the supermarket I usually avoid the larger ones. This is a lovely recipe, I used my own homegrown courgettes and tomatoes, and the goats cheese I got at a fabulous french market (at which i also bought some stunning gourmet coffees!)
Stuffed Roasted Butternut Squash (serves 4) £1.59 per portion with side salad.
2 small butternut squash, peeled and halved vertically
Drizzle extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
300g (about 1 or 2) courgettes, diced
1 red onion, thickly sliced
2 ripe large tomatoes, quartered
Drizzle olive oil
Salt and pepper
100g goat's cheese, diced
35g wholemeal breadcrumbs
15g pine nuts
20g finely grated parmesan
1 tsp dried thyme
1. Heat the oven to 200C. Scoop out the seeds and some of the flesh, to make four "fill-able" halves. Put the butternut squash halves into a roasting tin, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, add some salt and pepper, and place in the oven for 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
2. Put the courgettes, red onion, tomato, olive oil, salt and pepper into a roasting dish, and roast in the oven for 30 minutes (stir up halfway through).
3. Mix all the dry ingredients (breadcrumbs, pine nuts, parmesan and thyme) together in a bowl.
4. Remove the roasted vegetable mixture from the oven. Put into a bowl and mix together with the goats cheese. Stuff the butternut squash halves with the roast vegetable and goats cheese mixture. Top with the breadcrumb mixture.
5. Place in the oven for 5-10 minutes, or until the topping is crispy and golden. Serve!
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Labels: £2 or less per portion, Courgettes, Tomatoes, Vegetarian
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Recipe: Tomato, Mozzarella and Chorizo Salad
What's so nice about this recipe is that apart from the mozzarella and chorizo, everything is from my garden. The tomatoes, the herbs and these lovely purple spring onions. The purple spring onions are really nice, they taste brilliant and rather spicy actually! I'm definitely growing them next year. Oh and that basil is "Greek basil"- it tastes the same but it's just got lots of little leaves instead of large ones. I am also very proud of my tomatoes as well, don't they look nice?? Super Proud. This is the first time I have grown a "full sized" variety of tomatoes (rather than cherry) and the two 'alicante' plants i have been growing have been producing some lovely tasty, ripe, red fruits. And they actually smell of proper tomatoes, not like those horrible anaemic looking spanish ones you get in the supermarkets. Growing my own has been totally worth it. This is a main course portion, lovely served with crusty buttered bread. It is also nice served in smaller bowls as part of a tapas menu.
Tomato, Mozzarella and Chorizo salad (serves 2 as a main dish)
4 large ripe tomatoes, chopped
2 spring onions (red if possible) finely sliced
4 cherry tomatoes, halved
Handful of fresh basil and parsley, chopped finely
1 tbsp red wine or cider vinegar
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Salt and black pepper to taste
150g good mozzarella, torn into chunks
150g chorizo, diced
Salt and pepper to taste
1. In a bowl combine well all the ingredients except the chorizo.
2. Put a frying pan onto a high heat. Fry the chorizo for 4-5 minutes, until crispy. (The chorizo doesn't need extra fat to cook it as it releases it's own oils).
3. Meanwhile portion out the tomato salad mixture evenly into two bowls.
4. When the chorizo is ready, evenly add the chorizo to each bowl, and pour the orange oil over both the salads (there is a lot of flavour in the oils).
5. Season the salad to taste and serve with crusty bread.
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Labels: Pork, Salad, Spring Onions, Tapas/Spanish, Tomatoes
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Recipe: Roast Celeriac,Chilli and Courgette Tart
I know, I know, celeriac is hardly very seasonal. I do try, especially since I started working at River Cottage, to keep my meals local and seasonal. Because to be honest i have learnt a lot about cooking seasonally from working there. Before i kind of knew the basics, like brussel sprouts in winter and strawberries in summer. But now i'm realising when individual vegetables come in and out of season, and which is the best time to be eating them. Celeriac become seasonal in October through to January. However, we had one in the fridge that needed using up and I hate wasting any food, so I combined the celeriac with some of my homegrown courgettes and one of the nice hot chillies I brought back from Edinburgh (bought them at a fantastic and very expensive deli called Valvona and Crolla).
Roast Celeriac and Courgette Tart (serves 4) £1.24 per portion, £1.37 with salad.
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 small celeriac, peeled and cubed
550g (about 2) courgettes, diced
½ tsp Schwartz Cajun Spice Blend (a mix consisting mainly of chilli powder + cumin)
Salt and black pepper
120g crème fraiche
1 large red chilli, finely diced
Handful fresh coriander (stems and leaves) chopped
1 circle ready made short crust pastry
50g Lancashire cheese, crumbled
1 egg, whisked (for brushing)
1. Heat the oven to 180C. Put the celeriac into a roasting dish. Drizzle over the olive oil, sprinkle over the Cajun spice blend, salt and pepper, and put in the oven for 15 minutes.
2. Add the courgettes and cook for another half an hour. Half way through cooking, stir the mixture up in the roasting tin (to assist even cookery). Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
3. Heat the oven up to 200C. In a bowl mix together the roasted celeriac, courgette, crème fraiche, chilli and coriander. Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper. Place the circle of pastry onto the tray, and fold/pinch the edges of the pastry so there are raised edges to the circle.
4. In the circle of pastry, evenly add the roasted vegetable mixture. Sprinkle over the Lancashire cheese and brush the egg on the edges of the pastry. Place in the oven for 25 minutes, and serve.
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