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Already known as " the world's most endangered feline species," the Iberian lynx is headed to extinction in the wild within the next five decades, an international team of researchers warn in the journal Nature Climate Change.
"Anticipated climate change will rapidly and severely decrease lynx abundance and probably lead to its extinction in the wild within 50 years, even with strong global efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions," they write.
The problem, they say, is that climate change has reduced the availability of the cats' "main prey, the European rabbit," CBS News reports.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, the Iberian lynx could become "the first cat species to become extinct for at least 2,000 years. ... In the early 19th century the Iberian lynx was found in Spain, Portugal and Southern France. It has steadily declined since then, falling to the dangerously low levels today."
The researchers estimate there are "only an estimated 250 individuals surviving in the wild." That's up slightly from a decade ago thanks to "habitat management, reduction of destructive human activity and, more recently, reintroducing the lynx into suitable areas where they have lived in recent history."
But, they warn, "ongoing conservation strategies could buy just a few decades before the species goes extinct."
"The species is extremely vulnerable to shifts in habitat quality or to changes in the abundance of their rabbit prey due to climate change," says Professor Barry Brook, Chair of Climate Science at the University of Adelaide, in a statement released by the researchers.
What do the researchers recommend? They say: "A carefully planned reintroduction program, accounting for the effects of climate change, prey abundance and habitat connectivity, could avert extinction of the lynx this century." They also suggest putting some of the cats in "higher latitude and higher altitude regions on the Iberian Peninsula" where the climate should be more hospitable.
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You all know I love brushes. I definitely do not discriminate among brands and I try out as many brands as possible to share with you all the good, the bad, and the ugly. Today I have a set of vegan approved brushes to share with you all and a lucky reader will also have the chance to win a set of your own!
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I received the Pirouette Master Collection 18 Piece Brush Set to try out. The founder Nika is actually a Vegetarian that created this line with a commitment to finding low-cost, yet high quality products that are cruelty free.
-big brush roll with extra mesh compartment
-brushes are eco-friendly
-$1 from each sale is donated to the World Society for the Protection of Animals
-nice look to handles and ferrules - matte black on black
-too many repeats of the same brush type
-outer edges bristles are on the rough side (tips that touch your face are soft though)
-missing blender brushes
Final Thoughts
Overall it's a decent brush set but for someone with me with lots of brushes to choose from, it didn't impress me that much. I expected the bristles to be softer I think. I did however, enjoy the two tapered blending brushes - one large one for the face and a tiny one for the eyes. In sum, the bristles could be improved and there could be a better variety of brush styles to choose from.
Interestingly enough, I have the smaller 10 Piece Glam Set (value of $89.95) to give away. This one makes more sense to me because you don't have repeat brushes and it makes a great essential set for travel.
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It's time to extinguish The Torch, and end NPR's three-week marathon of Olympic coverage. From the London Games' opening ceremony through 302 medal events, these Summer Olympics have fed fans a rich diet of history and spectacle. I only wish I'd been able to eat it all — but part of the Olympics' allure is that its smorgasbord is over-stuffed with intense competition.
But the buffet is now closed. If you need proof, just look at the articles coming out about how Rio de Janeiro is already feeling pressure as the next host city of the Summer Games, in 2016.
The next Olympics will be the Winter Games held at Sochi, Russia, in 2014. Preparations for the Winter Olympics don't get as much attention as the Summer Games, because most people think that all that really has to happen is for it to snow. (I kid, Sochi; I kid.)
As for London's Olympic Stadium, it will soon host the Paralympic Games, which run from Wednesday, Aug. 29, to Sunday, Sept. 9. A record 2.1 million tickets to the games have been sold. And in a move that many of our readers will appreciate, all Paralympic events will be streamed live online. It also has its own YouTube channel.
The Paralympics will feature South African runner Oscar Pistorius — and many other great athletes, like Spanish cyclist "Junajo" Mendez, who is a racer to be reckoned with, despite missing an arm and most of a leg. They're among the more than 4,000 athletes who'll be competing in London.
I wish we could keep the blog going all the way to the Paralympics, and to Sochi, and then beyond, to Rio. That's how much I've enjoyed this assignment, and the discussions that have come out of it. Thank you for your thoughtful comments and emails — and for your patience with the typos and slips that can come with covering live events.
We all have our favorite moments of these Olympics, whether it was record-setting performances by legends like Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings, or surprises like U.S. gymnast Danell Leyva's bronze win.
What I'll remember fondly is the athletes' attitude toward competing, and the excitement they felt just to be in London.
And that's something that doesn't seem to go away. Take Friday's interview from All Things Considered, when co-host Melissa Block spoke to former Olympians Kate MacKenzie (rowing, Athens 2004) and Derek Brown (handball, Atlanta 1996).
Neither MacKenzie nor Brown won a medal — which is too bad, because they say it's always the first thing people ask when they realize they're talking to a former Olympian. And Brown admits that he gets emotional when he sees an American athlete get to the podium's top step.
"But, even now, when I'm watching, I stand in my position. I tear," he said. "I tear every time the anthem's played, because I know what those athletes dedicated themselves to get to that point."
"And it's like, making the Olympics isn't a consolation prize," MacKenzie said a bit later. "It's actually a really big deal. And I want people to understand. You know, like, yeah — we all want the medal. Goodness, you know we do."
"But, sometimes, you just have to remind people that - hey, you know, it's not about the medal, like Derek said. It's about the experience, and wearing the colors, and representing the United States as best you can with your performance and just being proud to be an American."
"That's right," Brown said. "That's right."
We've enjoyed the Olympic experience here at NPR. It's been a fun trip — thank you for making it with us.
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The completed shawl measures approximately four feet across, including the points of the edging.
Design Sources and Inspiration
The design is my own adaptation of the "borders outwards" method of Shetland lace shawl construction, as described by Sharon Miller in her book, Heirloom Knitting. The same work, which has been my constant companion from the swatch stage to the final weaving, was the source of many of the stitch patterns in the finished piece.
In addtion, the following works were consulted and found to be most helpful:
- Creating Original Hand-Knitted Lace (Margaret Stove)
- A Treasury of Knitting Patterns (Barbara Walker)
- "A Lace Alphabet to Knit" from Piecework (May/June 1998)
Beyond that, Jean's good-humored descriptions of her own works-in-progress have also been an inspiration. An inspiration to not throw the knitting out the window or run it through the shredder on days when, for example, one of the sides somehow acquired three extra stitches...again.
Design Strategy and Themes
I knew I had to make this piece from start to finish on a tight schedule. It was, furthermore, to be my first large piece of lace knitting and my first piece of lace design.
I set myself a few limits. First, all motifs used had to have small repeats that I could memorize easily and work anywhere (including the subway) without a chart. Second, if at all possible all motifs had to alternate a row of patterned knitting with a row of plain knitting in order to save time and keep the level of difficulty moderate. Third, all motifs in the shawl center and borders had to read well on a stockinette ground, as I would be knitting in the round and wanted to be able to knit all the plain rows instead of purling them.
That said, I knew that shawl had to include motifs appropriate to Maine. I wanted it to have a certain robust beauty appropriate to the rugged terrain and the forthright people who live on it. Maine is breathtakingly beautiful, but the beauty is fierce. Odd as it may sound, I didn't want the shawl to appear too delicate.
And I knew I wanted the design to include words, a message of some kind to Abigail. The inspiration came for the final design came, oddly, from an afternoon spent flipping through photographs I took of inscriptions at Ostia Antica, the ruins of the ancient seaport of Rome.
I swatched everything, and there were still surprises both pleasant and unpleasant. However, swatching did minimize the unpleasant and definitely led to a better finished product. If you want to design your own lace, you'd better be prepared to swatch. If you just can't bear it, choose another project.
The Four Wishes
The edging comprises two design elements:
- Sharon Miller's double scallop shell edging, and
- four lozenges surrounded by faggot stitch, each containing a wish for the baby.
The wishes, written in Latin as befits a solemn occasion, are:
- SAPIENTA (wisdom)
- ROBUR (strength)
- MISERICORDIA (compassion)
- RISUS (laughter)
I confess that about halfway through MISERICORDIA I began to wish the Latin word for compassion were somewhat shorter.
Other Stitch Motifs
The center of the shawl consists of a square panel of the pattern variously called fern lace or leaf lace (Barbara Walker) or candlelight (Sharon Miller). It is closely related to the traditional Shetland "fir cone" pattern. Worked in stockinette, as here, the decreases create a diamond grid that surrounds the openwork. In Abigail's shawl, the motif is meant to represent the white pine cone - the state flower of Maine.
Immediately surrounding the central panel is a stockinette band worked with roses, although we're going to call them hibiscus as a nod to Abigail's mother's adopted home state of Hawai'i.
The four trapezoidal borders are filled mostly with diamond trellis. Around the outermost edge of the borders, inside two eyelet rows, are pine trees: once again, an homage to the state of Maine.
The roses and trees come from Heirloom Knitting; Barbara Walker collected the diamond trellis.
The Yarn and Needles
The yarn is a natural white silk/cashmere laceweight procured from Sean at Wolcott and Company. I cannot, cannot, cannot scream and yell enough about how much I love this yarn. The color gives the finished piece a warm, antique look that I prefer to the chill of pure white. The silk lends a sheen so subtle it's barely a sheen; it's more of a glow. The drape and softness are luxury itself.
The entire piece was knit up on an Addi Turbo circular, size US zero.
The Gift and the Recipient
Abigail seemed to like it. Four wishes for her, one for me: I hope to live to see her happy children wrapped up in it.


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Here's the salad-of-the-day in my two-tier To-Go Ware tiffin. I'm so happy that To-Go Ware has added little Sidekick containers to their line. The lids are stainless steel (no more crying over cracked plastic!) and they fit snug; I haven't had any leak problems. I used three today to hold black beans, picante sauce, and half an avocado to top my salad with at lunchtime. I love the way they all fit in the tiffin.
Shmoo has now proclaimed that he "only eats pears" and has stopped eating all other fruit. ("Who are you and what have you done with my son?") I tried to tempt him with some of this fresh pineapple, but ended up eating it all myself. I packed it in the smaller top container from the three-tier tiffin -- it can be packed and used alone for small snacks. And look at the pretty food picks I found to eat it with!
I've been feeling so good lately! I've been improving my eating style and getting back on track with Eat To Live, with the help of my wellness coach, a personal trainer (basically I need people telling me what to do at all times or I wind up face first in a vat of pudding), the support of my friends, and a lot of hard work.
Right now my slightly-modified Eat To Live food plan goes as follows:
- A green smoothie for breakfast.
- A small snack if necessary (usually a piece of fruit).
- A big salad with different toppings, some steamed vegetables, and fresh fruit for lunch.
- A snack if necessary (usually fruit and an ounce of nuts, or a slice of sprouted wheat bread with almond butter).
- A big bowl of soup or stew, cooked vegetables, or a stir-fry for dinner.
- beans are in there at least once a day, at lunch, dinner, or both.
Apologies for all you non-ETLers out there who might find this post terribly boring. Hopefully I'll find someone else to pack a lunch for soon! Preferably someone who hasn't entered the terrible tweens....


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Translocation Down Syndrome
What is translocation Down syndrome?
Translocation Down syndrome refers to the type of Down syndrome that is caused by rearranged chromosome material. In this case, there are three # 21 chromosomes, just like there are in trisomy 21, but one of the 21 chromosomes is attached to another chromosome, instead of being separate. The extra copy of the # 21 chromosome is what causes the health problems that are associated with Down syndrome.
In translocation Down syndrome, the extra 21 chromosome may be attached to the #14 chromosome, or to other chromosome numbers like 13, 15, or 22. In some cases, two # 21 chromosomes can be attached to each other.
Three to 4 percent of babies born with Down syndrome have translocation Down syndrome. Whenever a translocation is found in a child, the parents' chromosomes are studied to determine whether the translocation was inherited or not. If one parent has the translocation chromosome, then the doctor knows the baby inherited the translocation from that parent. When a person has a rearrangement of chromosome material, with no extra or missing chromosome material, he or she is said to have a "balanced translocation" or be a "balanced translocation carrier."
Parents with balanced translocations may have fertility problems (trouble becoming pregnant), miscarriages, or have an increased chance of having a child with health problems. Although the parent can donate the proper amount of genetic material (23 chromosomes) to a pregnancy, he or she also has a risk of donating too much or too little genetic material to a pregnancy. This is not something the parent can control or predict. The chance depends on the type of chromosome rearrangement and which chromosomes are involved.
There is another important factor to remember when a parent is found to have a translocation. The parents' relatives (brothers, sisters) may also have inherited the translocation and, therefore, may have the same risks for problems with a pregnancy. For these reasons, it is recommended that people with chromosome rearrangements share this information with their relatives so that they can have the option of having their chromosomes studied.


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This blogger's mom was a knitter. She and a friend made hundreds of knit caps that went to children in Rochester, N.Y. Some made their way to a village in Afghanistan when her youngest son went there on assignment for USA Today in 2002 and 2003.
Watching her, it always seemed as if knitting was calming and challenging at the same time. It's repetitive, yet also has to be done precisely right if you want to succeed. And if you mess up, you may have to unravel and start over.
So these comments from an interview due to air on Monday's Tell Me More strike a chord:
"Knitting provides everything you need to do — everything you should have learned in kindergarten. It teaches you how to focus. It teaches you how to make a task and meet that goal. It teaches you now to ... control your anger. ... All of these are skills are life skills, are job skills. ... Skills that, quite possibly, many people in our society are lacking."
That's why, Lynn Zwerling told show host Michel Martin, she and a colleague started a program called Knitting Behind Bars at a prison in Howard County, Md.
And as the Baltimore Sun explained back in November:
"Defying every expectation, Zwerling's Thursday night program ... has become in two years the most exclusive club at Jessup's Pre-Release Unit, an all-male, minimum-security penitentiary in Howard County.
"Men literally beg to get in. There's a waiting list. And no one's more surprised about that than the assistant warden who couldn't help but harrumph when Zwerling told her she wanted to teach inmates how to make stuffed dolls and woolly hats. Every other prison in the area had already turned her down."
The men have made little dolls that first responders in Maryland now carry to give to children at scenes of accidents, fires and other tragedies. They've made caps for their own children. And they've learned something, Zwerling says, about the value of patience.
By the way, one of the best lines from Zwerling's conversation came after Michel asked about whether men are reluctant knitters. "They want to knit, they just don't know they want to knit," Zwerling replied.
You can follow the prison program's progress at its blog (Knitting Behind Bars) and on Facebook.
And you can hear much more from Zwerling's conversation with Michel on Monday's Tell Me More. Click here to find an NPR station that broadcasts or streams the show.
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In a year when Americans feel like they have had little to celebrate over the holiday season, at least we received one long-belated gift: a brightly wrapped health care bill.
Virginians in particular can celebrate having two senators who, despite a seemingly endless barrage of threats and intimidation from the extreme right, had the courage to make the right choice for their constituents.
It shouldn't have taken courage just common sense to support an end to rescission, to medical bankruptcies, to the national disgrace of poor Americans dying on the ER waiting room floor. But a small minority of well-heeled special interests have created the perverse illusion that giving Americans help they desperately need is somehow anti-American, and their misguided foot soldiers have been brandishing insults, cries of treason and even loaded guns at those who disagree.
I stand with my fellow Virginians in applauding Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner for standing firm against the town-hallers and tea-baggers and reminding them that the core of their support has always been real Virginians whose lives depend on health care policy, not opportunists who exploit it for political gain.
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Gluten-Free Anise Biscotti
Dunkable Biscotti.
Sugar is taking a beating these days. Have you noticed? Studies left and right are accusing this sweet-talking Romeo of seducing us to a life of ruin and heartache. They've applied the words toxic, and poison. Is it really as bad they say? I'm not certain (and I'm not convinced they are, either; my candy munching grandmother lived to the ripe old age of 93). But this I do know. Super refined corn sugar (aka HFCS) scares me. Not only because it cajoles our livers to convert the fructose to belly fat, but because it doesn't agree with me. Period.
I knew this the first time I drank a virgin margarita that made me balloon and bloat like a pregnant Demi Moore (and while I concur that Demi was superbly gorgeous in all her fecund glory, in all honesty, I do not desire to emulate such a look- or frankly, such a fertile state- at my tender age of post- let's say- fifty-something). So I took a gander at the label of margarita mix to be sure it was gluten-free. It was.
But the second ingredient?
High fructose corn syrup.
They had changed the sweetener. From cane sugar to HFCS.
A quick glance at most bottled beverages, juice blends and cocktail mixes these days reveals the same trend. It's tough to find one without HFCS. So I did what any sensible goddess would do. I gave up margaritas (unless fresh squeezed limes were involved), and I shunned anything sporting the evil HFCS on its label.
But sugar?
Obviously not. I bake with organic cane sugar all the time. Why? Gluten-free baked goods benefit from sugar. It improves not only the taste of gluten-free flours, it improves texture. It adds structure to vegan g-free baked goods that cannot rely on eggs for volume and rise. It keeps gluten-free cakes from getting gummy and vegan cookies from getting cakey. And powdered sugar makes one killer of a frosting.
And here's one more gnarly aspect to chew on.
Alternative sweeteners like agave syrup are high in fructose. And you know what fructose does to many of us, right? Yup. It invites the dreaded Demi bloat to the party (it's a FODMAPs thing). Not to mention, the dreaded sugar-to-belly-fat conversion by our poor besieged liver. So while some tout agave and fructose as a way to slow down the postprandial blood sugar rush (fructose does not impact blood sugar levels because no insulin is required to metabolize it; it is transported directly to the liver, and converted to fat), I'm not a big fan. And my waist line is even less of a fan.
But here I am. Developing and blogging gluten-free recipes for the sweets you crave. So what do I do? Most of you have no problem with me using organic cane sugar (roughly half glucose, half fructose). But many of you ask me for sugar substitutes. Quite a few of you love agave nectar. Some of you are experimenting with coconut-palm sugar (higher in fructose than cane sugar).
In the end- cane sugar- fructose- palm sugar- agave- honey- it's all sugar. One way or another. Sugar that converts to fat and calories.
So here's what I think.
I'm less afraid of organic sugar cane than I am of high fructose (because of the way my body reacts). I will probably continue to bake with it. And eat a sweet treat now and then (I don't eat a lot of sugary treats, truth be told, but when I want a sweet, I'm not going to beat myself up about it). But I'm also willing to try some sugar-free baking. And low sugar baking.
These anise biscotti- this week's baking experiment- are a low sugar treat, a cookie for grown-ups sweetened only with a small amount of pure maple syrup (vegan and fructose-free). They're quite tasty. With a pleasing crunch that won't break a tooth.
And they don't crumble.
They're dunkable.
And they're not too sweet.
Karina's Gluten-Free Anise Biscotti Recipe
Recipe posted April 2011.These not-too-sweet biscotti are lovely and simple. They aren't rock hard. They don't crumble. And they stand up to dunking. Yay.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat liner.
1/2 cup sorghum flour
1/2 cup millet flour or brown rice flour
1/2 cup almond flour or hazelnut flour
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup tapioca starch
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
2 teaspoons xanthan gum
2 1/2 teaspoons anise seed
6 oz. plain or vanilla soy yogurt (or coconut yogurt)
4 tablespoons pure maple syrup
1 tablespoon coconut oil or grapeseed oil
2 teaspoons bourbon vanilla extract
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients.
Add in the soy yogurt, maple syrup, oil and vanilla extract. Beat until combined and the dough is moist and smooth. It should feel quite sturdy.
Scoop and dump the dough onto the lined baking sheet. Using your hands, shape and smooth the dough into a long narrow loaf. Using the curve of your hands, press it down to flatten it into a gently curved shape that tapers down on both sides of the loaf. The loaf should be no more than two inches high in the center. As you press and shape it, squeeze it a bit to keep the dough from cracking.
Using a large sharp knife, carefully but firmly slice across the dough horizontally to make 20 cookies.
Bake the sliced loaf in the center of a preheated oven for 15 minutes.
Remove the pan from the pan from the oven. Carefully separate the slices, and lay each slice on its side, leaving a bit of room between each one. Return the pan to the oven and bake the slices for 8 more minutes.
Remove the pan from the oven again and turn the slices over. They should appear slightly golden at this point. Bake for another 8 minutes until slightly golden.
Cool the biscotti on a wire rack. They will crisp as they cool.
After day one, I recommend storing the biscotti in the freezer. This preserves the texture and keeps them from getting stale. I wrapped the biscotti in pairs, bagged and froze them in a freezer bag.
Cook time: 31 min
Yield: 20 biscotti
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Recipe Notes:
This biscotti recipe is wheat-free gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free. To make it nut-free, replace the almond flour with certified gluten-free oat flour, or millet flour.
To replace any of the other flours, please see my post Baking Substitution Help.
These biscotti are not sweet. If you prefer a sweeter cookie, you can add 1/2 cup organic cane sugar to the recipe. You'll also have to add a tablespoon or two of liquid, most likely, to compensate for the added dry ingredient. I would use a non-dairy milk.
For those of you avoiding soy, there are other yogurt alternatives. Try coconut milk yogurt, rice milk yogurt, or Mimicreme, a cashew and almond based thick cream.
If you prefer to make these biscotti with moo-cow yogurt, feel free.
This recipe contains no eggs and no egg replacer. If you want to experiment with eggs, you'll need to adjust the liquids, I suspect. Cut back by half on the yogurt, add two beaten eggs, and see if you need additional liquid. Add only as much yogurt as you'll need to make a smooth sturdy cookie dough.
Make sure the anise seed you are using is fresh and aromatic. If the jar has been skulking in the back of your cupboard for a year, you may want to replace it with a fresh jar. The quality of your ingredients impacts taste.
If you don't care for the licorice-like taste of anise, substitute it with orange or lemon zest.


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A great man once said, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." We say, cheers Mr. Benjamin Franklin and the hundreds of others that have come up with some of the world's most drinkable quotes. You got us thinking, what would the world be like without alcohol? Well, the truth is, we'd all be sober. For the sake of humanity, let's lift our glasses and thank the heavens that we don't have to worry about this. There are bars everywhere for us to all get together and get "as loose as a goose and ready to roll in no time…it'll be our little secret."
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I made this Italian Cream Cake for a co-worker for her 9th anniversary last week. I haven't made an Italian Cream Cake in a long time and I forgot how good they are. The combination of moist cake and rich cream cheese icing is always delicious. I love buttermilk in cake recipes, I think it results in such a moist cake.
I based this cake off a recipe I found on Tasty Kitchen from Pioneer Woman. Well actually the recipe was given to PW from a woman named Billie; this is a classic old recipe. I made a couple slight changes, using pecans instead of walnuts and not adding the nuts to the frosting for the cake but only the filling. I then used chopped pecans to coat the sides of the cake instead. The resulting frosting still includes the nuts, but in my opinion, makes for a prettier presentation.
Billie's Italian Cream Cake
Adapted from Pioneer Woman
1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup + 3 T sugar
5 eggs, separated
3 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup sweetened, flaked coconut
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray three 9" round cake pans with baking spray or grease and flour.
Beat egg whites in a clean mixing bowl, increasing speed from low to medium high until you reach stiff peaks. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, oil, and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy, about two minutes. Mix in the egg yolks and vanilla and mix until well incorporated. Add in the coconut and mix to combine. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and whisk together.
Alternate adding flour mixture in three additions and buttermilk in two additions to the batter, beating until just incorporated after each addition. Once complete, fold in egg whites. Fold in 1/3 of the egg whites first to lighten the batter, then gently fold in the remaining egg whites.
Divide batter evenly among pans, sprinkle the tops with one tablespoon of sugar each. Bake approximately 20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center of each comes out clean. Tops should be golden brown. Cool in pans about 10 minutes, run a knife around the edge to loosen and invert onto a rack covered with wax or parchment paper. Flip right side up and let cool completely.
Frosting and Filling:
2 8 oz packages of cream cheese, at room temperature
1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 lbs powdered sugar
3/4 cup sweetened, flaked coconut
Approximately 2 cups chopped pecans
Combine cream cheese and butter in mixing bowl and beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add vanilla extract and beat until well incorporated. Gradually add in powdered sugar, mix on low speed until the frosting reaches the desired consistency. Remove approximately 1/3 of the frosting to a separate bowl to make filling. Add coconut and 3/4 cup chopped pecans to the filling and mix well. Set aside remaining frosting to ice the cake.
To assemble:
Level tiers as necessary. Add about a tablespoon of frosting to the center of the cake board or platter to prevent cake from sliding around. Place first tier on a cake board or cake platter, top with 1/2 of the filling mixture, leaving about a 1/4 to a 1/2 inch border around the outside of the cake. Smooth filling with an offset spatula. Top with next cake layer, pressing lightly to level, and add remaining filling. Smooth and top with final cake layer. Place in the freezer for about 15 minutes to firm up the filling. Crumb coat cake with frosting and return to freezer for about 15 minutes to set. Ice the cake with remaining icing, adding chopped pecans to the side while icing is still wet. Smooth the top and pipe on decorative borders as desired. Store cake, covered, in the refrigerator.


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NEW YORK – Veteran ABC newswoman Barbara Walters has fallen at an inauguration party at an ambassador's home in Washington and has been hospitalized.
Walters, 83, fell Saturday night on a step at the residence of Britain's ambassador to the United States, Peter Westmacott, ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said. The fall left Walters with a cut on her forehead, he said.
Walters, out of an abundance of caution, went to a hospital for treatment of the cut and for a full examination, Schneider said on Sunday. She was alert and was "telling everyone what to do, which we all take as a very positive sign," he said.
It was unclear when Walters might be released from the hospital, which ABC didn't identify.
Walters was TV news' first female superstar, making headlines in 1976 as a network anchor with an unprecedented $1 million annual salary. During more than three decades at ABC, and before that at NBC, her exclusive interviews with rulers, royalty and entertainers have brought her celebrity status. In 1997, she created "The View," a live weekday talk show that became an unexpected hit.
Walters had heart surgery in May 2010 but returned to active duty on "The View" that September, declaring, "I'm fine!"
Even in her ninth decade, Walters continues to keep a busy schedule, including appearances on "The View," prime-time interviews and her annual special, "10 Most Fascinating People," on which, in December, she asked New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie if he considered himself fit enough to be president someday. (Christie, although acknowledging he is "more than a little" overweight, replied he would be up to the job.)
Last June, Walters apologized for trying to help a former aide to Syrian President Bashar Assad land a job or get into college in the United States. She acknowledged the conflict in trying to help Sheherazad Jaafari, daughter of the Syrian ambassador to the United States and a one-time press aide to Assad. Jaafari helped Walters land an interview with the Syrian president that aired in December 2011.
Walters said she realized the help she offered Jaafari was a conflict and said, "I regret that."


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Health & Wellness
TUESDAY Q & A: Foregoing Immunizations Puts Child and Others at Risk
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My sister-in-law has chosen not to vaccinate her children. She believes they don't need the vaccinations in the first place, and that vaccines actually do more harm than good. I know this can't be true. What are the facts behind the safety and effectiveness of vaccinations? Isn't it putting other kids at risk when some choose not to vaccinate?
ANSWER: Yes, you are exactly right. Not immunizing a child puts that child — as well as siblings, parents, friends and other people he or she may come in contact with — at risk. The childhood vaccines recommended in the United States have been proven safe and effective. They protect children from a variety of serious and sometimes fatal diseases, including diphtheria, measles, meningitis, polio, tetanus and whooping cough. Unless there is a valid medical contraindication, opting out of vaccines is a mistake.
The idea that vaccines are not needed because a child's natural immunity provides enough protection is common among people who choose not to vaccinate their children. Although a natural infection may provide more complete immunity than a series of vaccinations, there's a big price to pay. To become immune naturally, you have to get the infection first. With the infection comes the very real risk of severe and sometimes permanent complications, including hospitalization and death.
For example, a natural polio infection could cause permanent paralysis. A natural mumps infection could lead to deafness. A natural chickenpox infection could cause pneumonia or death. A natural Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) infection could result in permanent brain damage. Vaccinations help prevent these diseases and their complications. By relying on natural immunity alone, the risk of illness and death is far higher than with a vaccine.
The suggestion that vaccines do more harm than good is not based in fact. Vaccines are recommended in the U.S.only after they are closely evaluated by committees of vaccine experts. The data regarding vaccine effectiveness and safety are widely published for each vaccine. Anyone can review this information. It is available online from a variety of organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Network for Immunization Information and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Among other evidence of vaccine safety, a 2011 comprehensive review of vaccines by the Institute of Medicine failed to find any new or unsuspected autoimmune side effects from vaccines, and determined which side effects are likely caused by vaccines and which are not. In addition, despite much controversy on the topic, researchers have found no connection between childhood vaccines and autism. In fact, the original study that ignited that debate years ago has been retracted.
Lack of vaccinations has put many children at risk for diseases that are avoidable, including whooping cough and measles. If these diseases seem uncommon, it simply means that vaccines are doing their job. Evidence clearly shows that children have died because of under-vaccination, and that diseases have spread needlessly due to the trend of parents opting out of vaccines for their children.
As you point out, children who do not receive vaccines are not the only ones at risk. If a child contracts one of these serious diseases, it can spread to others. This is particularly dangerous for children who cannot get vaccinations because of medical problems or those whose bodies did not build up immunity after a vaccine. By choosing to not vaccinate her children, your sister-in-law puts the health and safety of other children in jeopardy, too.
Parents who are hesitant about vaccinating their children should seek information from reliable sources. Don't look to blogs or celebrity opinions for facts about vaccines. Have a conversation with your child's doctor. Ask questions. Review the CDC data. It is important that parents understand the value of vaccines. Vaccines protect children's health and the health of our communities overall. Childhood vaccinations save lives. — Gregory Poland, M.D., Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.


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Something sweet and sour for this session of Cooking School - a delicious creamy lemon curd. At this time of year when citrus fruits are plentiful I often cannot resist the plethora of flavors and recipes one can create with lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruits, tangerines, satsumas and co.
One absolute must is a lemon curd - a rich, tart spread made with lemons and although one can use other citrus fruits like limes or oranges to make curds, lemons are the all time favorite. Why is lemon curd a must for me? Because from this as a basis I can make literally dozens of exciting creations. Having said that, I am giving you a heads up - go get your lemons and make this lemon curd - as later this week I will be sharing a great recipe, which uses lemon curd in a exciting and refreshing way.
For those new to lemon curd let me tell you a bit about this sensational spread, which is particularly associated with Great Britain and the very British tea culture since the 18th century. Lemon curd is very versatile and while you can use it like a spread on scones, toast and sweet breads, it can also be used to fill tarts, pies and cookies.
The basic way to make lemon curd is by gently cooking lemon juice with eggs and sugar to create a very rich custard, which can be made even more tart and flavorful with the addition of lemon zest. Butter or whipped cream gives it a more soft and creamy texture. A good lemon curd tastes incredibly lemony - like lemon concentrate with an intense burst of citrus flavor which many absolutely love.
Making fresh lemon curd at home is very easy and well worth the effort, as only fresh lemon curd has a fresh, clear flavor which is quite distinctive. Those commercially bought lemon curds often have preservatives and stabilizers that will make the curd last longer but also have a slight metallic taste to it. Fresh lemon curd usually will keep only for a few days, but worth making larger batches if you would like to make other desserts and cakes.
The recipe below makes about 4 to 6 jars full and can be easily stored in the refrigerator. It makes a sweet, tart and very velvety spread so tempting that you will want to spoon it straight into your mouths! As the recipe requires grated zest of the lemon, please try to get your hands on organic, unwaxed and unhandled lemons. Only they promise not only to be free from pesticide but also offer a perfect puckery lemon flavor.
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Recipe: Fresh Lemon Curd
Printable version of recipe here.4 organic lemon, zest and juice
110g unsalted butter, cut into pieces
4 eggs, beaten
450g fine granulated sugarMethod
- Set a fine strainer over a medium bowl, then set aside.
- In a medium sized saucepan whisk together the grated lemon zest and juice, sugar and eggs until incorporated and the sugar has dissolved.
- Place the saucepan over medium heat and gently cook the mixture, stirring with a wooden spoon, until steaming. Make sure the curd does not boil. Stir frequently and continue to cook until the curd has thickened and the curd coats the back of the wooden spoon - approx 3-7 minutes.
- Take the curd off the heat and then add the butter, stirring to incorporate it to the curd. Pour the curd mixture through the prepared strainer to make sure there are no lumps in the lemon curd.
- Pour into warm sterile jars , cover and seal. Allow to come to room temperature, then refrigerate.
Food Guide Tip: Read all about lemons in my Food Guide.
The texture of this lemon curd is extremely velvety, making it a true pleasure on my morning wholegrain roll. Soeren enjoys it as a filling in his muffin with some cream cheese and Tom simply adds a dollop of the lemon curd in his natural yogurt. Just a few ways we enjoy our lemon curd. Of course it's not the only way! When I have made a fresh batch of lemon curd, I often bake or make desserts where this tart curd is beautifully highlighted to its finest aromas.
So, if you want to join me later this week for some baking with lemon curd, let's start by making a fresh batch of this easy lemon curd recipe.
See you later this week!
You might like these fruity spreads from WFLH:
Pear Cranberry Chutney with Star Anise | Spicy Mango Chutney | Fig Ginger Preserve |
Fruity Curd delights from around the blogs:
- Six-Layer Coconut Cake with Mango Curd - Kaitlyn in the Kitchen
- Cranberry Curd Pavlova - Super in Stereo
- Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Raspberry Curd Filling - Notes from my Food Diary
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Based on what we know now, President Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be a lottery pick in next year's NBA draft.
Yet it's equally unlikely that calls for his impeachment will end anytime soon. Adding fuel to the fire recently was Obama's old friend from his Senate days, Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who suggested Obama had come "perilously close" to meeting the impeachment threshold.
Freshman Rep. Kent Bentivolio, R-Mich., fanned the flames by saying an Obama impeachment would be a "dream come true," though the lawyers he consulted on the matter told him to keep dreaming.
The congressional summer recess also found Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, telling his constituents that Republicans "could probably get the votes" in the House to impeach Obama.
Of course, as Garrett Epps, a University of Baltimore Law School professor, points out in "American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution," nothing can stop a House bent on impeachment from seizing on any reason to do so "whether for illicit sex, jaywalking, or drinking Pinot Noir with fish."
It's kind of like the old saw about the ease with which a prosecutor can persuade a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. But getting the House to vote for impeachment, however, is a far simpler task than getting a conviction in the Senate.
Still, so long as the U.S. has political parties, there will be people calling for the impeachment of the president of an opposing party. Or even threatening impeachment against presidents of their own party.
Only three of 44 presidents have had to endure actual impeachment proceedings. House charges against John Tyler were dropped; Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were acquitted.
But name a modern non-impeached president and someone probably imagined him being impeached. A Republican congressman from Michigan wanted Franklin Roosevelt impeached, and he wasn't alone.
Perhaps more fancifully, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote a poem titled "Tentative Description of a Dinner Given To Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower." Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, especially, all inspired more or less serious calls for their impeachment.
Many of those calls came from one lawmaker, the late Democratic Rep. Henry Gonzalez. The Texas congressman went after so many Republican presidents that journalist John Nichols, in his book The Genius of Impeachment, says he was jokingly referred to by his House colleagues as "Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Impeachment)."
None of Gonzalez's targets, of course, were impeached. And, again, Obama isn't likely to be either.
No less a Republican leader than Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, no friend to Obama, is trying to stamp out the impeachment sparks.
On NBC's Meet the Press recently, he said:
"Look, I reject that kind of talk. The reality is I didn't like it when the left spent eight years trying to delegitimize President Bush, calling to question his election.
"I don't think we should be doing that to President Obama. The reality is, one of the great things about this country is we do have a peaceful transfer of power. I disagree with this president's policy. And stop talking about impeachment."
Obama White House aides couldn't agree more. Responding to an online petition with more than 49,000 signers calling for the president's impeachment, someone in the White House operation wrote a response headlined: "The Short Answer Is No, But Keep Reading."
After refuting several of the charges made by the president's opponents, the post said:
"So the short answer is that we won't be calling for the President's impeachment — and given the fact that you made your appeal to the White House itself, we doubt you were holding your breath waiting for our support.
"Here's the important thing, though. Even though this request isn't going to happen, we want you to walk away from this process with knowledge that we're doing our best to listen — even to our harshest critics."
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Published On: Fri, May 10th, 2013
Andrew Baker ( FFN),- Freedom of Information Act in the UK filed by a doctor there has revealed 30 years of secret official documents showing that government experts have
1. Known the vaccines don't work
2. Known they cause the diseases they are supposed to prevent
3. Known they are a hazard to children
4. Colluded to lie to the public
5. Worked to prevent safety studies
Those are the same vaccines that are mandated to children in the US.
Educated parents can either get their children out of harm's way or continue living inside one of the largest most evil lies in history, that vaccines – full of heavy metals, viral diseases, mycoplasma, fecal material, DNA fragments from other species, formaldehyde, polysorbate 80 (a sterilizing agent) – are a miracle of modern medicine.
Freedom of Information Act filed in the US with the CDC by a doctor with an autistic son, seeking information on what the CDC knows about the dangers of vaccines, had by law to be responded to in 20 days. Nearly 7 years later, the doctor went to court and the CDC argued it does not have to turn over documents. A judge ordered the CDC to turn over the documents on September 30th, 2011.
On October 26, 2011, a Denver Post editorial expressed shock that the Obama administration, after promising to be especially transparent, was proposing changes to the Freedom of Information Act that would allow it to go beyond declaring some documents secret and to actually allow government agencies (such as the CDC) to declare some document "non-existent."
Simultaneous to this on-going massive CDC cover up involving its primary "health" not recommendation but MANDATE for American children, the CDC is in deep trouble over its decades of covering up the damaging effects of fluoride and affecting the lives of all Americans, especially children and the immune compromised. Lawsuits are being prepared. Children are ingesting 3-4 times more fluoride by body weight as adults and "[t]he sheer number of potentially harmed citizens — persons with dental fluorosis, kidney patients tipped into needing dialysis, diabetics, thyroid patients, etc — numbers in the millions."
The CDC is obviously acting against the health of the American people. But the threat to the lives of the American people posed by the CDC's behavior does not stop there. It participated in designed pandemic laws that are on the books in every state in the US, which arrange for the government to use military to force unknown, untested vaccines, drugs, chemicals, and "medical" treatments on the entire country if it declares a pandemic emergency.
The CDC's credibility in declaring such a pandemic emergency is non-existent, again based on Freedom of Information Act. For in 2009, after the CDC had declared the H1N1 "pandemic," the CDC refused to respond to Freedom of Information Act filed by CBS News and the CDC also attempted to block their investigation. What the CDC was hiding was its part in one of the largest medical scandals in history, putting out wildly exaggerated data on what it claimed were H1N1 cases, and by doing so, created the false impression of a "pandemic" in the US.
The CDC was also covering up e financial scandal to rival the bailout since the vaccines for the false pandemic cost the US billions. And worse, the CDC put pregnant women first in line for an untested vaccine with a sterilizing agent, polysorbate 80, in it. Thanks to the CDC, "the number of vaccine-related "fetal demise" r... in 2009 compared to previous years, which is even more shocking than the miscarriage statistic [700% increase].
The exposure of the vaccine hoax is running neck and neck with the much older hoax of a deadly 1918-19 flu. It was aspirin that killed people in 1918-19, not a pandemic flu. It was the greatest industrial catastrophe in human history with 20-50 million people dying but it was blamed on a flu. The beginning of the drug industry began with that success (and Monsanto was part of it). The flu myth was used by George Bush to threaten the world with "another pandemic flu that could kill millions" – a terror tactic to get pandemic laws on the books in every state and worldwide. Then the CDC used hoax of the pandemic hoax to create terror over H1N1 and to push deadly vaccines on the public, killing thousands of unborn children and others. (CDC will not release the data and continues to push the same vaccine.)
The hoax of the vaccine schedule is over, exposed by FOIAs in the UK.
The hoax of the CDC's interest in children's lives has been exposed by its refusal to respond to a doctor's FOIAs around its knowledge of vaccine dangers.
The 1918-19 pandemic hoax has been exposed by Dr. Karen Starko's work on aspirin's role in killing people.
And despite refusing to respond to FOIAS, the CDC's scandalous hoax of a 2009 flu pandemic and its part in creating it, was exposed by CBS NEWS.
And the Obama administration, in attempting to salvage the last vestige of secrecy around what is really happening with vaccines, by declaring agency documents non-existent, has made its claim of transparency, non-existent.
But pandemic laws arranging for unknown vaccines to be forced on the entire country are still in place with HHS creating a vaccine mixture that should never be used on anyone and all liability for vaccines having been removed. Meanwhile, a Canadian study has just proven that the flu vaccine containing the H1N1 vaccine which kills babies in utero, actually increases the risk of serious pandemic flu.
Americans who have been duped into submitting their children to the CDC's deadly vaccines, have a means to respond now. People from every walk of life and every organization, must
1. take the information from the UK FOIAs exposing 30 years of vaccine lies, the refusal of the CDC to provide any information on what it knows about those lies, and the Obama Administration's efforts to hide the CDC's awareness of those lies, and go to their state legislatures, demand the immediate nullification of the CDC vaccine schedule and the pandemic laws.
2. inform every vet. active duty military person, law enforcement people, DHS agents and medical personnel they know, of the vaccine hoax, for their families are deeply threatened, too, but they may not be aware of it or that they have been folded into agency structures by the pharmaceutical industry (indistinguishable from the bankers and oil companies) that would make them agents of death for their country with the declaration of a "pandemic" emergency or "bio-terrorist" attack. It is completely clear now that the terrorism/bioterrorism structures are scams so that any actions taken to "protect" this country using those laws would in fact be what threatens the existence of Americans.
It was aspirin that killed millions in 1918-19. Now it is mandated and unknown, untested vaccines with banned adjuvants in them that threaten the country with millions of deaths. At the same time, the CDC is holding 500,000 mega-coffins, built to be incinerated, on its property outside Atlanta. Not to put to fine a point on this, but it's clear now that the CDC should not be involved in any way with public health.
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), we know that vaccines are not a miracle of modern medicine. Any medical or government authority which insists vaccines prevent diseases is either ignorant of government documents (and endless studies) revealing the exact opposite or of the CDC's attempts to hide the truth about vaccines from the public, or means harm to the public.
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), we know the vaccine schedule is a hoax.
The health danger to American children and adults are vaccines.
Andrew Baker, Food Freedom News
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EDIT (30 Nov 2012): MoMath is opening in a couple of weeks, so this seems like it might be a good time for any last-minute additions to this question before I vote to close my own question as "no longer relevant".
As some of you may already know, there are plans in the making for a Museum of Mathematics in New York City. Some of you may have already seen the Math Midway, a preview of the coming attractions at MoMath.
I've been involved in a small way, having an account at the Math Factory where I have made some suggestions for exhibits. It occurred to me that it would be a good idea to solicit exhibit ideas from a wider community of mathematicians.
What would you like to see at MoMath?
There are already a lot of suggestions at the above Math Factory site; however, you need an account to view the details. But never mind that; you should not hesitate to suggest something here even if you suspect that it has already been suggested by someone at the Math Factory, because part of the value of MO is that the voting system allows us to estimate the level of enthusiasm for various ideas.
Let me also mention that exhibit ideas showing the connections between mathematics and other fields are particularly welcome, particularly if the connection is not well-known or obvious.
A couple of the answers are announcements which may be better seen if they are included in the question.
Maria Droujkova: We are going to host an open online event with Cindy Lawrence, one of the organizers of MoMath, in the Math Future series. On January 12th 2011, at 9:30pm ET, follow this link to join the live session using Elluminate.
George Hart: ...we at MoMath are looking for all kinds of input. If you're at the Joint Math Meetings this week, come to our booth in the exhibit hall to meet us, learn more, and give us your ideas.


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Well, Anything would be better than all this war drivel so I'm going to talk about my uncle who lost his nose. One day he woke up and it was gone. We looked under the bed and under the sheets. We couldn't find it anywhere.
Of course you probably ask "didn't have a nose? How did he smell?"
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Dec 30, 2014 | Carpet One Floor & Home
2015 is here. If you're planning for some new flooring this year, you'll love these 2015 flooring trends.
Trends on the soft side of flooring – carpet and area rugs – are providing a relaxed outlook for 2015. Distressed and striated patterns are popping up in almost every collection. The great thing about these patterns is that they are very forgiving in your home.
Area rug from Kaleen Rugs
Striated looks help hide little messes until you have time to clean them up. And distressed looks, well, they're already distressed so you don't have to worry about the added wear from your family.
Tigressa SoftStyle carpet from Carpet One Floor & Home
Along with these forgiving patterns, you'll also see a heavy influence from nature. From actual natural materials like wool and sisal to nature inspired patterns like animal prints, insect wings and natural textures, if you're a nature-lover, you'll also love 2015's floors.
Hardwood and laminate (which often looks like hardwood) have similar trends. The reclaimed trend that we've seen throughout other aspects of home décor, has also emerged in flooring styles. You'll find significant variation between planks as well as distress marks in these trendy floors. Just like the more relaxed trends in carpet, this is great news for busy, active households.
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How often one should thank others is something that differs from culture to culture, and something that people tend to notice as over- or under-present in cultures that are not their own. British expats in America are often heard to say that they miss people saying please and thank you. For what it's worth, as an American in Britain, I miss people saying (AmE) Excuse me or sorry when they knock into me in shops or on the street. (Whenever my mother comes to England, she has cause to exclaim But I thought the English were supposed to be polite!) The worst case of this involved a 9-year-old American guest who was shoved to the floor when she was unfortunate enough to get between a Londoner and an open Tube train door. There's no explaining away that kind of behavio(u)r, that was just rude. Otherwise, my theory is that the reason that British people apologi{s/z}e less often than Americans when they knock against you in a public place is that they're in denial about having made physical contact with a stranger. (See the discussion of notions of privacy in the comments back here.)
One hears a lot more thank yous in Britain during a typical exchange at a (AmE) store check-out counter/(BrE) shop till. Somehow, I've caught on to this, and when I'm working at the charity shop/thrift store, I say thank you when the customer gives me an item to ring up, when they give me their money, and at least once at the end of the transaction. The customer says thank you at least when I give them their change and when I give them their purchase. So, that's a minimum of five thank yous per transaction, but in real interactions, I've counted up to eight. An American encounter would typically have two or three, mostly toward(s) the end of the interaction, and would not include the initial thanks for putting the item-to-be-purchased on the counter. Perhaps because they say thank you more, the British have more ways to give their thanks. One informal means of giving thanks is to say ta, which the OED says is "An infantile form of 'thank-you', now also commonly in colloq. adult use." Another is cheers (which is the word I started out intending to write about, since I had a request months ago from Ben Zimmer).
Cheers is interesting because it is so flexible. In AmE, it is simply used as a salutation in drinking (or sometimes with a mimed glass in hand, as a means of congratulations). In BrE it has this use, but is also used to mean 'thank you', 'goodbye' or 'thanks and goodbye'. I first learned these uses of cheers in South Africa, where my American colleague and I learned to pronounce it as chizz, following the example of our South African colleague Chaz (Charles). Using cheers to simply mean 'goodbye' is probably more South African than British (the OED doesn't note this sense, and notes that the 'thank you' meaning is as recent as the mid-1970s), but I find it very useful for those situations in which one wants to close an e-mail with thank you for something that hasn't been done yet. A British colleague noted recently noted with incredulity that Swedes often close e-mails with thanks in advance, wondering whether that was a direct translation from Swedish. It is (tack i förskott), but I had to point out that Americans write this too (whether or not we have knowledge of Swedish!), as we (or at least some of us) have been taught that it is presumptuous to thank someone for something they've been asked to do but haven't done yet. Since cheers is ambiguous between Hail, good person! and Thank you!, I use it to express gratitude while avoiding the feeling that I'm breaking that letter-writing rule that I learned from Miss Pitrella back in whatever grade/year that was. (If anyone is watching me from the Beyond, it's Miss Pitrella.) However, it was Ben Zimmer's impression that cheers "always struck me as UK-derived, yet my sense is that in email context it's used more in the US than the UK." This is not my experience at all, but you can side with Ben in the comments if you like.
So, cheers from Sweden! Or as I tend to think of it, Heaven on Earth (at least when the weather is as gorgeous as it has been this week). Heading back to the UK tomorrow (which, according to the Swedish newspaper I was reading today, is smutsig).
Postscript (the next morning): Woke up this morning reali{s/z}ing some the things I hadn't said in this post. One is that the reason why please and thank you are a little more important in Britain is that Britain is more on the 'deference' side and the US more on the 'solidarity' side on the scale of politeness systems. I discussed this a little back here. This means that Americans start out assuming that everyone's equal/friendly, whereas the British start out assuming some status distinctions between people, and therefore treat strangers (and expect to be treated by strangers) with a bit less familiarity and a bit more polite caution. (Note that this doesn't mean that there aren't big social differentiations in America--just that in many situations we feel it's more polite not to make a big deal of them.) This doesn't directly explain the lesser amount of excuse me behavio(u)r when bumping into people, which is why I had to come up with my little theory above.
Another place where the English say thank you more often is when travel(l)ing by bus or coach (in AmE, they're both bus--we don't differentiate lexically between the cross-town and more comfy long-distance types). If the exit of the bus is by the driver's seat, then one says thanks or thank you to the driver. In Watching the English (if I'm remembering correctly), Kate Fox describes this as insincere English behavio(u)r. Personally, having heard American friendliness described as 'insincere' by many non-Americans, I have a real problem with outsiders describing others' behavio(u)r as 'insincere'. (Kate Fox is an insider, but as an anthropologist, she was taking the outsider's role.) Non-Americans often say to me that they can't abide the insincere way in which Americans are so friendly and complimentary with people they don't even know. I don't think this is insincerity, but optimism and enthusiasm--which can seem unseemly in cultures in which earnestness is unseemly (see Kate Fox again).
I'll stop there before I write another post's worth!
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I tend to end a letter with "Thanks for your time", and it's understood, but I don't know how common it is.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous01 April, 2007 06:36
I say "thanks for your time" at the end of emails/letters too. Oddly, "thanks in advance" always struck me as being more presumptuous unless the individual has guaranteed they will do something for me, yet hasn't actually done the deed yet.
ReplyDelete I agree that thanks in advance seems more presumptuous--that's probably why I prefer cheers. The problem with cheers, though, is that it's really only suitable in rather informal interactions. So I can't, for instance, use it when asking the Dean for something...
ReplyDelete- Anonymous01 April, 2007 09:39
As an American in the UK, I *cringe* when I overhear another American saying "Cheers"! I don't know why.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous01 April, 2007 13:09
I was once extremely annoyed when I was standing in a crush of people waiting to get off a cross-Channel ferry, and a young American pushed his way through from one side to the other, climbing over bags but knocking into me, and then saying, 'Excuse me'. Fortunately I didn't react, but it was only afterwards that I realized what he meant. He meant he was sorry, not 'Please get out of my way'!
ReplyDelete - Anonymous01 April, 2007 13:16
Perhaps I should add that in British English, 'Excuse me' is a polite way of asking someone to let you go past, but if it's used in conjunction with going past, it has the implication of 'You were in my way and shouldn't have been', expressed in the form of sarcastic politeness.
ReplyDelete "the OED .. notes that the 'thank you' meaning is as recent as the mid-1970s": and not all of us have ever warmed to it.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous01 April, 2007 13:24
As an American moving to Australia, I vowed I would only ever say Cheers when making a toast. I actually made it about a year.
Regarding 'thanks', one difference I've noticed between Aus and US is that 'please' seems to be rarely used. 'Thanks' is typically used instead. For example, when buying a coffee, you might get told, 'That will be 3 dollars, thanks' before you've actually given the person any money. It never seemed presumptuous to me so much as illogical.
One theory I've had is that 'please' would be used if the speaker is making a genuine request, rather than just going through the standard retail protocol, but I haven't been able to check that one. - Anonymous01 April, 2007 13:45
I would say 'cheers' for 'thanks in advance' in an email, definitely. I do say 'cheers' for thankyou to friends and family but not to strangers. I say 'ta' a lot, too, but I think that's a Northern thing. I say 'fanks' on IM, no idea why.
ReplyDelete Apologies if this is off-topic, but did you mean that 'Sunday' is 'smutsig,' or that {April 1/1 April} is? The linked site seems to depict 'smutsig' as meaning 'dirty' or maybe 'stained/spotted.' Or was this all April fool's day, in advance?
ReplyDeleteThe first time I bought grog in an Australian bottle-shop I thought the salesman rather rude. "See you later" he said. Bloody hell, I thought, I don't drink all that much.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous01 April, 2007 17:55
I sympathize very much with the commenter who cringes when other Americans say or write "cheers", though of course I've also learned to expect it and take it as intended from Brits. "Cheers" from an American always sounds ironic or flippant, halfway to "toodeloo". Usually I close emails with "thanks", and I realize that this has problems too, since often there's nothing anyone needs to be thankful for, or it is the receiver that ought to be thanking me, but it is understood simply as the valediction meant to cause the least possible amount of irritation.
I do say (and hear others say) "thank you" when exiting a bus, and I try to be and sound sincere, so I don't know this as a UK/US difference. - Anonymous01 April, 2007 19:20
To join two lines of thought: I adopted "cheers" for getting of the bus after hearing it repeatedly in Bath ("thank you" is equally common), and my use of it has spread.
I've heard "ta" in the South, too, but much as I'd like to adopt it, I just can't seem to get the proper intonation.
I'm sure I've used "thank you in advance" before (or "thanking you in advance", less likely "thanks in advance"). It's certainly adopting the Danish expression ("på forhånd tak") -- I feel it's rude to ask a favour or make a request and *not* say "thank you". Essentially it's a means to skip the reply once the request is met. - Anonymous02 April, 2007 03:20
Re: cringing upon hearing Americans say cheers.
It's the /r/ I tell you! I agree with Margaret that in BrE "Excuse me" can't (any longer) be used as any kind of apology after the fact. It is used, though, to introduce a question put to a stranger, as in "Excuse me, can you tell me where room B347 is?". If you bump into someone, all you can say is "Sorry".
ReplyDelete- Anonymous02 April, 2007 14:23
Oh - on the bumbing into people issue:
I have somewhere along the way picked up the habit of saying "pardon" so reflecsively that I'm likely to do it still here in Denmark.
Is that as rude as "excuse me"? I (an American) have certainly begun to see 'cheers' used more and more as a closing salutation in e-mail. As described above, it serves a useful purpose when 'thank you' doesn't make any sense – as in when the e-mail author is the one providing the answer. 'Sincerely' is far to formal to use in most banter e-mail, so 'cheers' fills a useful role. I see 'cheers' used in e-mail exchanged among just Americans, so there is no pretense of sounding foreign in these cases.
ReplyDeleteI should say, my point about bumping into people shouldn't be read as me missing people only saying excuse me when they bump into me. I miss them apologi{s/z}ing (BrE)full stop/(AmE) period. I'll go back and clarify that in the entry, though I take the point that saying excuse me in this context is AmE. The British would usually say sorry in that context--but my point was that they do so far less than I would expect them to.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous02 April, 2007 15:08
I always say thank you when I exit a bus from the front. (Actually I say "merci" where I presently live.) It seems rude to walk right past the driver without acknowledging him/her.
ReplyDelete Data point: Here in New York City lots of people thank the bus driver when disembarking. I do, too.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous02 April, 2007 20:51
I put myself through college by working as a bus driver. Any and all thanks were *greatly* appreciated - you can't go wrong by being nice!
ReplyDelete I'm glad to hear that many Americans say 'thanks' to bus drivers, but I stand by my claim that it's done more in the UK. Every single person did it on the bus I was on yesterday.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous02 April, 2007 22:33
I have travelled around London by bus almost every day for the last fifteen years or more - and can count the times I have heard a driver thanked on the fingers of one hand. Several of those were in the form "Thank you, Drivah" from elderly ladies with cut glass accents in a tone which they might have heard their mothers using on the under footman.
That's if the driver has just driven. Where he or she has done something particularly helpful - most often waiting at a bus stop while I run breathlessly towards it, thanks are definitely in order and almost invariably given.
That's London - my experience of buses in the rest of the UK is twenty years out of date, so I have no knowledge of how much more prevalent thanks may be. But in London, Marek, one has to exit the bus by the back door, so interaction with the bus driver is limited. I think that's a different kind of situation...
ReplyDeleteJan Freeman has blogged about this conversation with an interesting corpus analysis of her own email inbox. See it here.
ReplyDeleteSili: I've also gotten in the habit of saying "pardon me" to apologize to strangers. "Excuse me" always sounds so sarcastic as an apology and a plain "sorry" never sounds sincere.
On departing the bus: I live in Seattle and hear most people thank the driver upon leaving the bus, which we usually must do at the front.
Re: bus/coach. I'm originally from Central Pennsylvania, and i've always heard a distinction between "bus" (to mean local transit or a school bus) and "charter" (to mean a comfy, long distance, usually rented bus).One of my house guests was a bus driver in the US (in a university town in the northeast, and some cross-country work as well) in an earlier incarnation. Before telling him about this conversation, I asked how many passengers said 'thank you' to him in the course of a day, and he replied: 4%.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous03 April, 2007 23:46
I'm in the south of the UK and I do tend to use 'Ta' a lot. Though I may have picked that up from my sister who went to university up north.
Many passengers do thank the bus driver I notice, though the (mostly) senior citizens sometimes say "Thank you, driver" which I'd never be comfortable with saying as it seems too informal and seems to infer they're on a better social level to the bus driver. Or that's the way it seems to me, it probably doesn't to them.
I can understand how other cultures customs can seem insincere to others. An American saying "Have a Nice Day" after I've bought something does sound very insincere to me, even though I know it (probably) isn't. - Anonymous04 April, 2007 09:04
I was guided here by a an English friend now in the USA and thought it was a coincidence that "Cheers" came up as one of the American servicemen here asked me about it just this week! I am a lone British Civil Servant working with American servicemen. I am trying to help them master English!!!!
ReplyDelete I have a few friends/co-workers who use "cheers" to close every e-mail. I use "thanks" every time. I suppose I think of it as thanking them for reading the whole thing, more than for anything else.
As an American, I would be caught off-gaurd hearing "Ta" in any situation. I would probably assume that it was meant as "good-bye", as a shortend form of "Ta-Ta". Are the single and double Ta thought to be the same in BrE?Oxford has ta as originally a children's word, and ta-ta as 'origin unknown'. Their uses are definitely separate--i.e. ta doesn't mean 'goodbye' and ta-ta doesn't mean 'thank you'.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous04 April, 2007 18:30
david p wrote:
"I can understand how other cultures customs can seem insincere to others. An American saying "Have a Nice Day" after I've bought something does sound very insincere to me, even though I know it (probably) isn't."
I think it depends. I work as a grocery store cashier and was only told to be nice to and greet the customers, and "Have a nice day" worked well for me. I generally did mean it because, after all, angry customers complain and get me written up. However, for a while the management decided it would be very controlling of what employees said, and we were given a script-like set of things we had to say that went:
"Hi, How are you today? I'm Jack. Did you find everything you were looking for?"
and after the order:
"Have a nice day"
The managers were very anal about it for a while, watching you to make sure you said everything above, but eventually they relaxed and the atmosphere is once again more informal and people say whatever friendly greeting they are most comfortable with. Perhaps they decided that having a script results in the greeting coming off as insensere. I remember customers getting angry when I asked them if they found everything, telling me it wasn't any of my business. - Anonymous10 April, 2007 03:13
So in Swendish "dictionary" is "ordbok". That looks like "Wordbook", gee, I might even remeber that! I've not ever had a thing for languages. Maybe sendish is for me!
ReplyDelete I note non-E (as L1) speakers using sorry for excuse me when, in BrE at least, sorry is only for after you've barged past someone. My kids say I embarrass them when I thank cash-machines, though I can't think why. Non-E speakers have complained to me (as if I could do anything about it) about the lack of a standard word to utter when you give someone something. In German you say bitte as you hand over the sauerkraut-sandwich and I believe alstublieft serves a similar function in Dutch when serving stroopwafel. Italian has a word for it which isn't the same as the please word but at least they've got one. Here in London, we use there you are, moosh. If the item is food, one may add get your laughing-gear around that.
ReplyDeleteBTW, it is inadvisable to try to thank the driver on the Docklands Light Railway.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous17 April, 2007 22:01
I say thanks or thankyou, I think cheers is a bit colloquial for a letter it's used alot in spoken language in England i think
ReplyDelete - Anonymous05 March, 2008 20:57
I also cringe when I hear other Americans use "Cheers," especially in email. In my experience, they are definitely not using it the way others do to mean "Thanks" or "Thanks and goodbye." They are using it in a very American way, as an informal "Best Wishes," or something like "Good times to you," closer in meaning to what Americans say when toasting drinks. What's more, it seems to be used when an American thinks of themselves as hip and cultured, hence my cringe. To me, it comes off as pretentious.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous19 June, 2008 20:07
The practice of thanking bus drivers varies regionally within Britain, and I don't think it is merely a matter of the layout of the vehicles. I remember being surprised when I encountered it on coming to the south of England, and it seems I am not alone. In the novel A Bowl of Cherries by Shena Mackay (Harvester Press, 1984), a character is approaching the end of a bus journey near Dorking, in Surrey:
"Mercifully her bus stop hove in sight. She pressed the bell with relief and then stepped down, thanking the driver, as she had observed was the custom in these parts, onto the verge, ..." (p. 174)
I am not sure if it is made clear where the character comes from, but since she calls people "duck", the Potteries (well north of Surrey) is a good bet. The author was born in Edinburgh but lived in various parts of England before writing the book. (I have come very late to this discussion by virtue of the fact that I searched the blog for excuse me/sorry!)
I distinctly remember feeling affronted the first time someone who bumped into me in the supermarket in New Jersey said "Excuse me!" As an Australia, saying "Excuse me!" after the bumping-into had occurred would be more of a sarcastic thing said by the person NOT responsible for the bumping, implying that the bumpER had no manners because they didn't say sorry! Hence my angst in NJ supermarkets...- Anonymous12 October, 2008 11:40
I'm from the UK. I spent five weeks in Washington DC a few years ago. I came back remarking on how polite everyone was in the street. I wondered if this might be because people in the US typically spend less time as pedestrians, and so are less "hardened" to casual pavement encounters. This might explain why New Yorkers have a brusquer reputation as pedestrians.
On the other hand, where food was being served, I was quite surprised to hear conversations such as:
- How would you like your coffee?
- Black.
Even the most unregenerate British chav would find it almost impossible to say anything but "Black, please" there. Well, that explains why my boss in the UK (we're a very international company. I'm in New Jersey) ends our conference calls with "Cheers. Bye."
I knew only the "goodbye" meaning of "Cheers", not the "thank you" one.
Regarding bus/coach in the US, I know multiple bus companies/services with "coach" in their name, though I don't think it has to do with distance. The most prominent where I live is "Coach USA" (though it's a subsidiary of the Stagecoach Group, a UK company), which provides medium-distance services (commuter services between New York and points in New Jersey and Pennsylvania). They also run the more long distance Megabus service, which, curiously, doesn't have "coach" in its name (even in the UK). On the other hand, the "colonial coach" is a very short distance bus service which never leaves the towns of Morris and Morristown.- Becky09 April, 2011 00:57
In South Africa, minibus taxis have become more common than buses, and don't have pre-set stops the way buses do.
Passengers typically say, "Thank you driver," to indicate that they're ready to get out. Some also say it when they're literally getting out, but usually it's one or the other (or neither). I think it's strange that some Americans cringe when they hear other Americans say "cheers." I'm an American and I think it's a perfectly good word for us to use. Why should it be considered pretentious? I think a lot of Americans who are very aware of, and/or have an appreciation for other countries have an "excuse me for being American" complex. The British and the Americans adopt slang and colloquialisms from each other regularly. That's one of the nice/fun things about sharing a language with each other. So, I'll keep using "cheers," even if it makes some of my compatriots cringe. I think they'll eventually get over it.
ReplyDelete- Anonymous10 July, 2023 02:33
I'm noticing that no one seems to have mentioned the term "Cash register" for the check-out counter/till. I've mostly heard "(cash) register" for that, myself.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Baltimore Orioles all-star Doug DeCinces and three others were indicted Wednesday on insider trading charges involving the use of information prior to the takeover of a medical device company in California, authorities said.
In 2008, DeCinces was told by a close friend and official at Advanced Medical Optics Inc. that Abbott Laboratories planned to pay $21 to $23 a share for the company's stock, prosecutors said. At the time, Advanced Medical Optics was trading for about $8 a share.
DeCinces began buying Advance Medical stock based on that information and passed along the takeover details to three friends because he wanted to make up for previous investment recommendations that had gone bad, prosecutors said.
When Abbott's offer was made public, DeCinces sold his newly purchased shares and profited about $1.3 million, court documents show. Abbott acquired Advanced Medical Optics in January 2009.
DeCinces' three friends each bought and sold Advanced Medical stock and made anywhere from $140,000 to nearly $350,000, authorities said.
Also indicted on insider trading charges were David Parker, 60, of Provo, Utah; Fred Scott Jackson, 65, of Newport Beach, and Roger Wittenbach, 69, of Lutherville-Timonium in Maryland.
DeCinces, 62, was charged with 42 counts of securities fraud and one count of money laundering. Each of the fraud counts carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. DeCinces is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 17.
"To put it mildly, we do not agree with the decision to bring a criminal case against Doug DeCinces," said Gordon Greenberg, DeCinces' attorney. "But the proper place to have this resolved is in the courtroom and not on the courthouse steps."
Messages left for the other defendants' lawyers were not immediately returned.
The Securities and Exchange Commission previously filed a civil lawsuit against DeCinces that was settled last year when the former major leaguer agreed to pay $2.5 million. In the lawsuit, federal authorities named James Mazzo, Advanced Medical's former CEO, as the person who told DeCinces about the pending deal.
Mazzo is a senior vice president at Abbott and is not facing criminal charges. In August, in response to the SEC lawsuit, Mazzo's attorney said his client would be fully exonerated after a review of the evidence.
Also caught up in the insider trading case was Hall of Famer and DeCinces' former teammate Eddie Murray, who agreed in August to pay nearly $360,000 to settle federal civil charges. Federal investigators said DeCinces told Murray about the impending takeover. Murray neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing.
DeCinces was a third baseman during 15 seasons with the Orioles, California Angels and St. Louis Cardinals. He currently is president and CEO of a real estate development firm in Orange County.


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