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It turns out that our friend Melissa Clark has just the recipe for such proper rum balls in her terrific new book In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite. I tasted them at a recent joint book signing I did with Renato Poliafito and Matt Lewis (Baked Explorations), Melissa Vaughan and Michael Harlan Turkell (The New Brooklyn Cookbook), and Melissa. Barely a soul showed up, so we sat at the long signing table as if we were on a banquette at Balthazar, and dug into samples of the rum balls (a successful signing in my view).
What makes Melissa's rum balls peerless is that she uses Nabisco chocolate wafers, and a little honey to sweeten the "dough." —Amanda Hesser
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- In the bowl of a food processor, pulse together the cookie crumbs and pecans until the nuts are finely ground.
- In a separate bowl, stir together the bourbon or rum, 1 cup confectioners' sugar, the cocoa powder, and honey. Add the mixture to the food processor and pulse until just combined. Let the dough rest, uncovered, at room temperature for 4 hours or, lightly covered, overnight. This will dry it out a little.
- Use your fingers to roll the dough into balls about 1 inch in diameter. Roll the balls in confectioners' sugar. Store the balls airtight if you like them moist, or uncovered if you like them to develop a crunchy sugar crust on the outside. Sprinkle with (or roll the balls in) additional confectioners' sugar just before serving.
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The hugely influential artist, architect, sculptor, painter and social engineer revolutionised the way we think about the built environment and then drowned in the Mediterranean
Translated by Danvers Couchmere from the original haughty French
March 14, 1954.
Mme L'Obscurier in peevish mood. The Cook has resigned.
There had been Bolshevik rumblings from the kitchen since I began sending down my sketches for Proposed Contemporary Suppers. The 'last straw' apparently was my Blue-Print for an International Pie.
I envisioned a simple pie raised on equidistant reinforced potato stilts, its open-plan filling enabled by structurally independent pastry. Large, horizontal 'windows' are amusingly incised with a pastry hawk. There is a roof garden of broccoli florets and miniature abstract carrot art.
Of course Mme L'Obscurier would have none of it. We were obliged to suffer instead irregular chops, themeless ratatouille and tantrums.
Today, however, a new Cook has been appointed, exactly 1.5m in height. Perfect. I hand her a sketched paradigm of my breakfast grapefruit, in plan. Already I sense some resistance. Mme L'Obscurier: 'Cannot you confine your silly ideas to the study and accept that people have their own opinions about what is right? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you pompous, clacking stick insect!'
This is demonstrably nonsensical. 'Beauty'? 'Beholder'? The common man gazes upon a row of onion seedlings at his allotment and imagines they are the Ladies of the Moulin Rouge - ridiculous. In a modern industrial world 'harmless reveries' such as this have no merit unless mass-produced. A reverie must be a machine for dreaming in.
- Beauty is a savage conundrum.
- Beauty is a fathomless construction of the intellect.
- Beauty is in the vision of the master architect-artist.
Spend the afternoon gazing at my navel. There is something odd, compelling, about it. Might it be a determining point of my occupation of space?
A convergence, a fulcrum. Perhaps it holds some geo‑plasmic significance in relation to the top of my head, to the soles of my feet. And to the tip of my upraised … wait a moment.
As I lie there on my modern bakelite and cowhide 'thinking couch' it occurs to me that an analysis of the human body as a series of Golden Sections may be more usefully considered in terms of height rather than length. I stand up: epiphany boogie-woogies through my veins like cabled electricity through service ducts. Of COURSE!
I spend the rest of the afternoon gazing at my navel while standing up.
In the evening, I execute some sketches (remembering to sign and date them) derived from my new spatial theory, which I shall call Standard Person Architectonicalism. Dimensions are generated by the average height of a man - 1.7526m, my own.
I am aware that certain of my rivals, the so-called Laconic Realists, are slightly taller than this but it will do them no harm to stoop a little.
Those shorter than 1.7526m will in time be able to achieve the correct relationship to their surroundings with the aid of my soon-to-be-patented magnetic-levitation brogues.
God, how my arm aches from being held aloft.
A midnight swim in the Mediterranean. The chill water is precisely what is needed to dispel this awful Architectonicalistical cramp.
Ian Martin is away
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Bill was born on Sept. 5, 1943 in Denver and later moved to Ridgecrest in 1967.
He served in the Air Force and in the Seabees before becoming a heavy equipment operator for the City of Ridgecrest and Caltrans. He retired in 2002.
Bill is survived by his wife Donna Cordle of Ridgecrest; his son Donnie Cordle of Ridgecrest; daughter and her husband Sandy and Doug Heil of Marion, Mont; granddaughters Amanda, Melody Rose, Jessica and Ashley; grandson Jordan Arthur; sisters Leanna and Jim Crawford and Reneé and Jack Baker; brothers Ben and Sandy Cordle, Greg Gregory and David Cordle; and many nieces and nephews.
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Normally, a shortage of player control is a debilitating flaw in an interactive medium, but when the experience is as drop-dead gorgeous and consistently exhilarating as Ubisoft's revamp of the 20-year-old "Prince of Persia" franchise, it's easy to overlook. One of the most visually stunning videogames ever made, it melds a hand-painted look with spare sound design and haunting music to create an aesthetically consistent work that's meditative but rarely boring and should enjoy solid sales, particularly as buzz starts to build for Disney's 2010 film.
The original "Prince of Persia" made its mark with devilishly difficult acrobatic leaps and swings of the sort players had never seen before. The industry's growth over the past two decades has made it difficult to impress with mere summersaults and ledge grabs, while fewer players now have the patience to die over and over in hopes of pulling off those moves perfectly. Ubisoft's Montreal studio has adapted by toning down the difficulty and focusing on the aesthetics, so that watching the titular prince and his new companion never fails to amaze.
"Prince of Persia" isn't the first game to use a technique known as "cel shading" to achieve visuals akin to a watercolor painting. But none before have married the look with realistic and detailed designs, as well as top notch hi-def renderings, to create characters and settings that stand out so dramatically from the typical attempts at CGI realism. Practically perfect camera work helps players to appreciate the view as the prince swings around corners, leaps over ledges and soars through the air to reveal stunning vistas. Particularly breathtaking are a battle against a flame-engulfed monster who provides the only light in the room, as well as a final boss fight shot with an ultra-wide lens in black-and-white.
Game's sound adds dramatically to the meditative feel, as virtual silence is punctuated only by the prince's footsteps, grunts and the scraping of his metal glove when he slides down steep ledges. A minimalist score, appropriately amped up at only the most dramatic moments, is perfectly matched as well.
Rather than forcing players to execute every jump and wall-run perfectly, "Prince of Persia" merely requires them to start the prince going and then push buttons at the right time to keep him going until he finds the next landing spot. It's not as immersive as it could be, but because the level design is rarely repetitive, players who aren't looking for the most intense experience will still find the game engaging. Combat, which also relies more on timed button presses, is somewhat less satisfying since it's more repetitive and disappointingly lacking in strategy.
"Prince of Persia" further shakes up the franchise's formula by giving the prince a partner, a princess named Elika with magic powers whose land he's trying to save from an evil god. Rather than letting the prince "die" in the traditional videogame sense, "Persia" uses Elika to save him, whether she's pushing away an emmy who's about to kill him or saving him from a tragic fall. It's an innovative way to avoid distrurbing the narrative with the typical unexplained restarts, but also introduces some bizarre inconsistencies: If Elika can fly, why does the prince need to bother running and jumping at all? And if she's so powerful, why does she even need him around in the first place?
Designers try to give the Prince and Elika something of a Hepburn and Tracy relationship, as romantic tension builds and the two trade quips. But their hacky, modern-sounding dialogue — particularly the prince's awful jokes like, "If I get out of this, I'm changing my career!" — makes them come off more like Heidi and Spencer on MTV's "The Hills."
Even though it's unearned by the generic storyline, the game ends on a surprisingly moving note, tying together the narrative, aesthetics and gameplay in an epilogue that gives the completed experience a new level of meaning.


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Pre-Show /CountdownThe fifth season kicked off with an intro by Coach Chris Harrison. He said that we have seen so many different things with the previous Bachelors and Bachelorettes from romance, to weddings, and to the break-ups (Say it isnt so Coach! We all thought Blob and Estella were such a great match, we cant believe theyre not together any more.) But this season will be different, things we have never seen before (Yeah, right!!! Believe it when we see it. Keep in mind this is the same man who promises several times every week that this will be The.Most.Dramatic.Rose.Ceremony.Ever.)
ABC decided to tease us with some early clips. Okay, maybe I was wrong, with the previews of the season, it does look quite interesting. Jesse making a mistake, and calling the wrong name at a rose ceremony, hunting with a guy who appears to be carrying an automatic weapon, and a spy in the midst. Oh my! (As for the spy, one of Jesses married female friends was acting on his behalf, and posed as a contestant to give him the inside scoop of all the other girls.)
During the countdown show, we learned a little more about Jesse James Palmer. (I know, what were they thinking, naming a child Jesse James? Hold on, I thought he was a football player, not a western outlaw!) His mother was a model and his father played in the Canadian Football League, so he is originally from Ontario, Canada. He obviously couldnt stand the cold, and decided the sunshine of the University of Florida was calling his name for college, and got a football scholarship. He got his degree in Political Science and Business. And is now a back-up quarterback for the New York Giants.
Some of his Giants teammates decided that he needed some help ahead of time, and looked through the pictures of the 25 girls ahead of time. The three guys certainly enjoyed drooling over the pictures, talk about living vicariously. (One girl was compared to a teammate of theirs. Ouch!!! That cant be good!) They also called the photo album the book of Jesses girls. (Must fight urge to find 80s music and listen to Rick Springfield, now.)
Pre-Game Warm-upOut in LA, the girls finally get to meet the competition. From the time they meet to the time of the party there was only a few hours, so the producers prepped them and told them that they needed to make appointments for hair and make-up. (One girl said she felt like she was at a pageant because the others were all so pretty and they were getting pampered. While getting her make-up done, another asks if Jesse has their names beside their pictures when he is deciding who to keep. The answer to that is no. (However, all things considered, it would not be a bad idea stay tuned for more info on that.) This was also time for the producers to start showing why some of the girls didnt like Trish. As she was putting on her shoes, she stated Im going to capitalize on my very long, very pretty legs which will be wrapped around Jesse sometime. (Havent even met the guy yet, and is talking about wrapping her legs around him??? No wonder the other contestants call her a gold-digging, money-grubbing whore, and a skank. And also Coach Chris referred to her as the most hated woman in Bachelor history. (Wow, now that takes a lot to say considering Kirsten and LeeAnger!)
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Five neighbors, who happened to also be very good friends, were chatting at the annual neighborhood barbecue on Saturday night and discovered some startling news. By some strange coincidence, all five of them were starting new jobs during the following week and each was starting on a different day, in a different position, and in a different company! Determine the full name of each friend, the company and position of each friend's new job, and the day of the week each was starting the new job.
1. Frank, whose last name wasn't Wild, started his new job the day before the sales manager.
2. The five friends, in no particular order, were the new purchaser, the person who started on Thursday, Mary Prime, the person who worked at Fashionique, and the new test engineer.
3. Silvia, who didn't start her new job on Monday, wasn't the design engineer. The person whose last name was North started on Wednesday.
4. The friend whose last name was West started the new job two days before Cynthia, but the day after the person who worked for Sierra Computing.
5. The person who worked for Force Networks had an engineering position. Elliot started his new job on Friday.
6. The traffic controller, who wasn't Mary, worked for Metropolis. Mr. South didn't start on Tuesday. Frank worked for Maximus but not as an engineer.
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It is a variation of speed dating, with consulting, issue identification, problem solving and sometimes just listening as the objectives.
It is consulting with leaders and members of chapters at a given campus for brief periods of time–usually thirty minutes, although I'll take 45 if I can get them. My rules are simple–honesty and candor trumpt diplomacy and euphemisms every time. I won't waste your time with "Kind of…sort of…kinda like…a tiny bit…a little bit" in recommending changes. You do the same with me.
If you want to debate hazing or tell me why risk management sucks, I'll listen. I will push back at some point, but I will listen.
If you want to talk about recruitment, or accountability, or why things aren't working for your chapter, I will listen but I will also call you out on excuses and rationalizations.
If you think everything is great and the chapter is as good as it can be, I will do my best to draw out other opinions, especially from younger members who are there with us. That is not a criticism–that is a challenge. And that is my job, as I see it.
During a recent visit to a campus on the West coast, I met with seven different groups from 8 a.m. to noon on a Saturday morning, with one break when a group was not able to participate. For me, those were enjoyable meetings, even when the topics were not positive. And, I was impressed with the fact that young men would show up on a weekend morning to talk about their chapters.
Two of the presidents who participated were new. As is often the case, they were uncertain of how to handle issues in the chapter…how aggressive they should be…how much control they should exert. I found an opportunity during each discussion to share this thought with them.
In my experience, every new president will be challenged within three weeks of his or her election.
The challenge may come in any number of forms or ways. It may be a rebellious member…an over-involved alumna or alumnus…a financial crisis…a poor choice by some chapter members. It may be a disgruntled executive council member who feels that she should have been elected president or a past president who can't let go. Regardless, it is a challenge and it usually surfaces within a few weeks of taking the gavel.
My advice? This is life. There is no "honeymoon" for a new president. You have stepped onto a moving sidewalk. You have strapped yourself into an F-22. You have taken the last step off the 10 meter diving board. You have that uncertain feeling in your stomach–the "Whoa! What have I done?"
It happens to every leader. Sometimes some of your sisters or brothers are intentionally testing you to see just how committed you are to the values of your organization. Sometimes the frustration with a previous leader is bubbling up. Sometimes members just want "Different".
You may be taking over for a very hands off president who went along to get along…or a dictatorial control freak who wouldn't allow anyone to do anything without approval…or a leader who hung her banner on the "That government that governs best governs least" flagpole, using that as a means of justifying no involvement in risk management, for example.
Aside from the metaphors:
First, evaluate the problem, challenge or issue. Is this really a big deal, or just a deal, or have you or someone else inflated it beyond its significance? That isn't difficult to do when you are new.
One of the best leadership manuals I have read…was not a manual. I found it while rummaging through the attic of our chapter house one December afternoon after final exams. It was a journal kept by our chapter president in the early 1960s. He wrote nearly every day. His writing was concise and candid and he allowed the reader to draw the conclusions. At the beginning of his term, his problems as he saw them were enormous. By the halfway point of his term, he was gently mocking those same concerns. With a few weeks to go, he was reviewing what he had learned as president, and the most important lesson he learned was, "Perspective". The mountains he saw in the distance as a new president were reduced to speed bumps by the time he handed over the gavel.
Don't allow the drama majors to make your decisions for you.
Secondly, define the issue. Look below the surface. Is this truly a financial crisis or is accountability the issue? Are we floundering in recruitment because members "don't care" or because they have chosen to take their talents and abilities elsewhere after being frustrated by the culture in the chapter?
Finally: let's work on an action plan. One of the groups that I met with on that campus (but the president was not new) was encountering consistent challenges with some people not involved with the fraternity/sorority community. An officer provided what one might call the TFM (Total Frat Move) response–a list of things that "We're working on". Every response–every single plan or action–was cast in the future tense. "We plan…We intend…We are expecting" Every response was also in general terms, as in, "Well, we'll sit down and talk" or "We'll get to that". In other words, nothing was specific, nothing was measurable, and nothing was expected. The result could be nothing, but it would be concealed behind all of those nicely stated future tense terms.
I told the group that I didn't want to hear any more plans. I wanted specific, measurable, steps that would be taken. When would the meeting be, and where? Who would attend? What were the anticipated outcomes? And rather than wring our hands about, "What if?", why don't we plan for "What is" as in, "This we know for certain".
Did the session help? If you're me, you are rarely certain about that. Some of the men nodded with me, while others were engaged in what I call the windshield wiper effect–looking back and forth at each other. But, you do your best.
For new presidents, the first few weeks of office may seem like a roller coaster in reverse–the scariest descents and G-force curves occur immediately. Hang in there. The ride will smooth out, and as with that young president at a Midwestern campus many years ago, the fun is discovering that you can do this job…and do it very well. Congratulations and enjoy the journey.


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i have decided to study up on Processing again in anticipation for the Fall semesters classes. i will be doing a study group on Thursday nights at the Emerald Coast Community of Makers. tonight, i was able to get an install on the machine at the Makerspace running Ubuntu 12. we will start this week with a screening of Hello World! Processing, a 41 minute documentary about the platform. and then i will demonstrate some simple hello world exercises.
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Tuesday, June 04, 2013
environmental hardening
i have been working on some design ideas to protect the sound element on the O.G. project from water intrusion. i have mostly been inspired by dome structures and nature(snail shells and the shapes of the human ear cochlea). i am thinking about clear spot to push sound pressure/waves and how to airlock the system if it starts to submerge.
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busy prototyping the SMT version of the solar singers
we are busily working out details on the Surface Mount Tech. versions of the Otto's Ghost components. Seen here are two students soldering up a a breakout board so we can prototype the audio we want to create before constructing a board.
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Shortly after the Vibrations sessions, the Three Sounds had their first major personnel shakeup when William Dowdy left the group. Donald Bailey replaced the drummer, and the group played a number of live dates over the course of 1967. During that summer, their concerts at the famed Los Angeles venue the Lighthouse were recorded and released as Live at the Lighthouse. The selection of nine Three Sounds staples gives the group a chance to stretch out and prove that they could survive without Dowdy. Not only do they prove that they can carry on without him, they flourish. The music on Live at the Lighthouse is hotter than some of their studio recordings, pulsating with energy and good feelings, demonstrating that they had worked out any of the problems that hampered Vibrations. It's their finest set since Black Orchid. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine


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A very bad blogger, indeed, I am.
I know. And I really wish I could say that what I've been doing since my last post (April, I think?) is spending all sorts of quality time with my two boys, and THAT'S why I haven't blogged. But I don't want to lie. Not today, anyway.
While it's true that I've been spending lots of QT with the boys, work permitting, what I've really been doing is finishing up my manuscript. NOT EASY. Writing was much easier than revising. Seriously. Anyway, I've started a new blog–firstname.lastname@example.com, that will follow my humorous attempts to get a literary agent to represent my masterpiece, a novel I'm calling THE ZERO LINE. But I digress…
So, Alex/Bao is doing great. No surprises there. Things we've learned about him:
-He loves roller coasters, but wishes they were faster. And bumpier.
-He loves pizza. And says so. Non-stop.
-He loves "girly" cartoons (Cinderella, etc.) and girly toys.
-He loves girls.
-He loves Spongebob.
-He is afraid of nothing.
-He loves being a big brother.
-He loves ice skating.
-I'm starting to think he loves everything (except anchovies and wasabi peas).
His favorite and most uttered comments:
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I love pizza!
Thank you, mom.
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Stop it, G!
Ow, G!
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Alex starts first grade in September. He and G will be going to a new school, and G will be in kindergarten. Kind of exciting for everyone involved, I think. I hope Alex does well, but we're kind of having concerns about his speech. And he can't, for the life of him, learn his colors. It's weird, like he just doesn't get the concept of colors. Yeah, I had him tested for colorblindness-came back negatory. Numbers arene't all that better for him. He has a really hard time memorizing them. Everything else is good though, like letters and shapes. He's a very quick learner–I taught him to tie his shoes in one lesson, for instance. But, I don't know. A teacher might know better. We'll see. Not too worried right now.
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"The Kings of Cool"
Don Winslow
Simon & Schuster; 320 pages; $25
Ray Bradbury, who died earlier this month, once offered this piece of advice to other writers: "You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
Don Winslow is some jumper.
His new crime novel, "The Kings of Cool," continues his genre-busting hot streak. It's a fast, fun, smart jazz-riff of a book, a prequel to "Savages" and every bit as good. The wings he's built on the way down shimmer.
"Savages" was the Julian author's breakthrough book, a New York Times best-seller. It caught the eye of filmmaker Oliver Stone, who turned it into a much-anticipated movie, due out early next month. Winslow worked on the screenplay.
"The Kings of Cool" takes the key players from "Savages" — friends Ben and Chon and the woman they both love, O — and moves them back in time. We meet their parents, and so do they, in an origin story full of surprises.
The book opens with a passage from Bruce Springsteen's "Adam Raised a Cain," which sets things up nicely: "You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past."
The Cain that's raised here centers on the marijuana trade, the field-grown weed moved up through Mexico and the trippier hybrid stuff grown indoors in suburban SoCal houses where the neighbors don't ask too many questions.
Ben and Chon are from the "I'll do my thing and you do yours" school of criminal enterprise, but the cartels they run into aren't much for open competition. Trouble ensues, and much blood is shed.
What sets Winslow apart in the crowded field of crime/mystery/thriller writers is the white-knuckled way he writes and thinks. The dialogue is sharp and funny, full of knowing nods to pop culture, history and geography. Come for the story, stay for the social commentary.
Here he is writing about San Clemente:
"There was Nixon in Exile, prowling around the Peaceful House chatting with paintings, while down on the actual Pacific, Secret Service agents chased surfers away from the nearby famous break at Upper Trestles lest they organize an assassination attempt, which is, it should be noted, probably the first time that the words 'surfers' and 'organize' have been used in the same paragraph."
And justice:
"What Ben can't seem to get through his head, Chon thinks, is that the justice system is set up for the system, not the justice. The drug laws make us outlaws. Outside the protection of the law. The only protection you have is self-protection, and you cannot go Gandhi on that, you just can't lie down in the street, because the other side will be happy to just run you over and then put it in reverse and do it again."
This is Winslow's 15th novel, and more than ever he's the literary equivalent of a jazz musician, riffing on his own prose. The chapters come quick: 303 of them in 320 pages. He plays with sentence structure, capitalization and punctuation, changing direction the way a mind does — abruptly. Sometimes it reads like poetry. Several of the chapters are written in the form of a screenplay.
Although some of this feels mannered, especially by the end, most of it works well in the service of the story, a frenzied ride into the heart of what family and love and loyalty mean. They're the kings of cool, all right. But at what price?
"The river of time is tough that way," Winslow writes. "Sometimes the current is so strong that you can never go back to who you used to be, even for a visit."


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"Where Have You Been" is the title of Rihanna's latest music video, and strangely enough, the "You" she's ostensibly warbling about is nowhere to be seen.
Finding romance must be challenging for an international pop star. Tougher still if your hobbies include belly-dancing (in scorched deserts) and swimming (in stagnant marshes) -- and if you live in, well, I think that's a pterodactyl nest.
RiRi, it's never too late to try online dating -- presuming there's an ISP that serves your sex swamp.
Dave Meyer (Katy Perry,"Firework") directed the latest video off Rihanna's Talk That Talk, and as the pop star explained in one of several behind-the-scenes promos released before "Where Have You Been's" Monday premiere, she wanted this clip to be all about the dancing.
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Servings: 7
Prep Time: 35 min.
Cook Time: 20 min.
Total: 55 min.
The flaxseeds in these wholesome and hearty scones provide essential fatty acids and a rich, buttery flavor. If you can't find milled flaxseeds, grind up whole flaxseeds in your blender or food processor.
- 1/3 cup unsweetened dried cherries
- 1/3 cup brandy
- 2 1/2 cups spelt or whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 4 oz soft tofu
- 1/4 cup safflower or canola oil
- 1 Tbs fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 Tbs maple syrup
- 1/4 cup milled flaxseeds
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). In a small bowl, soften cherries in brandy for 30 minutes.
- Sift flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder together in a medium bowl.
- Combine tofu, oil, lemon juice, vanilla and maple syrup in a blender until smooth. Add blended ingredients, flaxseeds, cherries and brandy to flour mixture; stir gently until just mixed.
- Using a floured rolling pin and cutting board, roll dough out into a circle 3/4-inch (2cm) thick. Slice dough into 8 wedges. Place on parchment paper on a cookie sheet and bake 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 317
Calories from Fat 95 (30%)
(17%)Total Fat 11g
(5%)Saturated Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 4g
Monounsaturated Fat 5g
(0%)Cholesterol 0mg
(14%)Sodium 341mg
(7%)Potassium 252mg
Total Carbohydrate 43g
(29%)Dietary Fiber 7g
Sugars 4g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(17%)Protein 8g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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What I have been doing of late is trying to work on a revision of a paper I wrote on the subterranean probe. One of the reviewers suggested I use a program called ANOSIM, which is an analysis of similarity which gives you a significance value. Money is always a problem in our lab and apparently the best place to get this program is through a very expensive software package called PRIMER, but we eventually found a free package called PAST that includes it. Great. The thing about ANOSIM is that you can choose which distance measure you want to use -- Bray-Curtis, Jaccard's, Raup-Crick, etc. etc. But we are having trouble finding any sort of discussion about how you choose the distance measure. The one thing we were able to find says that Bray-Curtis should be used for abundance data, not presence-absence data (which is what we have). Bray-Curtis seems to be the default, and most of the published papers we have been able to find use it (including some with presence-absence data), but none of them seem to include an explanation of why they chose it. And the distance measures which appear to be more appropriate for presence-absence data seem to give wildly different results. So we're kind of at a loss. Does anybody out there understand this stuff?


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BEIJING, June 13 (UPI) -- Chinese media outlets expressed outrage over revelations about the U.S. electronic surveillance program, accusing Washington of abusing its power.
The criticisms have emerged as the Chinese government remained silent on the controversy, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
In a cartoon, the English-language China Daily showed a tape recorder and microphone replacing the torch and tablet held by the Statue of Liberty.
Global Times, the Communist Party mouthpiece, charged in an editorial "Washington owes China an explanation of whether the U.S. as an Internet superpower abused its power over our vital interests."
The pro-Communist newspaper in Hong Kong, Takungpao, said "President Obama should sincerely apologize to the people from other countries whose privacy was violated."
The United States has been politically embarrassed since a former government contractor, Edward Snowden, leaked information about the secret National Security Agency program. Cybersecurity was the top agenda item last weekend in a meeting between Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Still, China has been repeatedly accused of invasion of privacy and human rights abuses.
Chen Ziming, who was active in the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China, charged, it is "unfair to compare what the U.S. does to China."
"The U.S. program is trying to prevent certain terrorist activities while China is listening in to monitor what dissidents are saying and writing. People get thrown into jail here just for an email," he said.


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MIAMI (Reuters) - A team of amateur explorers say they found the site of a lost U.S. Army fort buried deep in the Everglades that once served as a restocking post for troops during a series of guerilla-like battles with Seminole Indians.
Nestled into the dense, waterlogged swamps 60 miles (100 km)from the coast, Fort Harrell, built in 1837, was one of nearly a dozen forts across Florida used in the early and mid-19th century.
"It was a critical fort during that period of time, which was the costliest war that the U.S. had been involved in, Indian-wise," said Shawn Beightol, a Miami public school chemistry teacher who learned of it in a book more than a decade ago.
Beightol, a longtime Everglades explorer who has kayaked across the wetland, found a trio of maps from the 1850s and began talking to local park rangers and fisherman in hopes of finding the 170-year-old site.
This spring Beightol and a group of explorers that included Tony Pernas of the National Park Service and Chris Harris, a computer engineer, began overlaying old maps with global positioning satellite coordinates.
Throughout the spring and summer they, along with others, launched five trips into the Everglades, spending more than 100 hours searching sites that seemed to match descriptions of the fort's location.
On July 26 the trio set out looking for one site on a 1940's aerial map and found post holes in the damp ground and limestone that may have supported a wall, Beightol said. About 100 yards (91 meters) away buried in the mud they found a weathered 20-foot (6-meter) Cypress log carved into a long beam.
"We couldn't prove what it is, but it's clearly something very old," he added.
They took the find to the National Park Service and Robert Carr, a south Florida archaeologist who has excavated and studied 2,000-year-old Tequesta Indian sites found in the heart of downtown Miami.
"We have to begin the scientific examination of the site to see whether the post holes were man-made, and whether there are any artifacts," Carr said.
If it is authentic, Beightol said he would like to see the site memorialized and linked to kayak and bike routes connected to the two-lane highway that runs out of Miami and across the wetland.
"I want the public to be aware of what they have. It's right within reach," he said.
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The Secretary of State does not interpret or enforce the Texas Administrative Code. If you need interpretation of a current rule, please contact the agency that promulgated the rule.
The Texas Administrative Code (TAC) is a compilation of all state agency rules in Texas. There are 17 titles in the TAC. Each title represents a subject category and related agencies are assigned to the appropriate title.
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* Share price indicated in $20-$25 range
* Would value MegaFon at $11.2-$14.0 billion
* Around 17 percent of company being sold
By Megan Davies and Maria Kiselyova
MOSCOW, Nov 15 (Reuters) - MegaFon, Russia's No.2 mobile phone operator, hopes to raise around $2 billion in an initial public offering, it said on Thursday, launching a marketing drive to investors with a pledge to pay an attractive dividend.
MegaFon, controlled since April by Russia's richest man Alisher Usmanov, is focused almost exclusively on Russia and is outpacing bigger rival MTS and smaller Vimpelcom in a maturing, though still lucrative, mobile market.
But some analysts said it was setting an ambitious valuation which could be a hard sell in a patchy IPO market, where the gap in price expectations between buyers and sellers is wide.
"MegaFon should come at a discount to (peers) because it is new," said Bruce Bower, a portfolio manager at Moscow-based fund manager Verno Capital, though he added it should benefit over time as the largest data operator among Russian mobile firms.
MegaFon said it aimed to sell global depositary receipts in London and Moscow at around $20-$25 apiece, raising around $1.7-$2.3 billion and valuing it at about $11.2-$14.0 billion.
At the bottom of the range, that would value the firm broadly in line with MTS and Vimpelcom based on a multiple of enterprise value to earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) forecasts for 2012, according to Sergei Libin, a Moscow-based analyst at Raiffesenbank.
"Investors want to make money," said Otkritie analyst Alexander Vengranovich. "Even if everyone understands that MegaFon is an interesting story - at least not worse than MTS - it does not make sense to buy it at fair value."
About 17 percent of MegaFon will be sold in the IPO if an over-allotment option is exercised, according to a source close to the matter. Nordic group TeliaSonera is cutting its 35.6 percent stake and MegaFon is selling treasury stock to cut debt. Usmanov will retain control and not sell shares.
After months of inactivity, Europe saw a pick up in share sales in October with companies including German insurer Talanx , Britain's Direct Line and Telefonica Deutschland successfully completing market debuts.
The market is still far from robust, however, with investors unsettled by a faltering global economy and governments' need to rein in deficits on both sides of the Atlantic.
MegaFon has also had some issues in the run-up to its launch. Underwriter Goldman Sachs dropped out of the IPO, which one source close to the matter said at the time was due to unspecified shareholder concerns.
Usmanov is setting up a holding company for his assets including MegaFon, which he will own with two partners, fellow Arsenal soccer club shareholder Farhad Moshiri and Vladimir Skoch, father of billionaire lawmaker Andrei Skoch.
A source said previously that if the ownership structure was a concern to UK regulator the UKLA, another solution could be sought. The UKLA gave MegaFon's IPO the green light last week.
A copy of the IPO prospectus, obtained by Reuters, showed Usmanov would own 100 percent of the voting rights of the holding company.
MegaFon said it would pay an annual dividend of 50 percent of net profit or 70 percent of free cash flow, whichever is higher, provided its ratio of net debt to core earnings remained in a range of 1.2-1.5. Analysts said that implied a dividend yield of 7-8 percent, competitive against MTS and Vimpelcom.
Russia's mobile phone market is close to saturation, with 1.6 SIM card per person and growth has slowed to a single digit percentage. But that compares favourably with many western European markets and analysts see rich rewards from winning the race to develop next-generation mobile services.
MegaFon beat its two New York-listed competitors in terms of revenue growth and was on a par with MTS in terms of core profitability in third-quarter results.
Following the IPO, Usmanov will continue to hold more than 50 percent of the company. TeliaSonera plans to keep a long term stake of at least 25 percent plus one share. It expects proceeds of 9-11 billion Swedish crowns ($1.3-$1.6 billion) from the IPO.
MegaFon has also reserved 5 percent of its shares for a long-term incentive plan for its CEO Ivan Tavrin.
The investor roadshow is expected to end on Nov. 27 with pricing, allocations and dealing in the shares starting the next day. The IPO could be the biggest by a Russian company since internet search group Yandex raised $1.4 billion in New York in May 2011.


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Meet the first therapy dog for the National Parks Service
"Happy" is certainly an appropriate name for Tom and Marsha Dulz's golden retriever, who is friendly, easygoing and loves life. Happy also brings joy and comfort to the people he meets – thousands of them – through his work as a therapy dog at the Flight 93 Memorial National Park. Marsha says none of this would have ever happened without the care Happy received at The Ohio State University Veterinary Medical Center VMC).
Happy had hip problems. He essentially walked on three legs, earning the nickname "Tripod" from the Dulz grandchildren. When the Dulz's veterinarian, Dr. Fox, took x-rays, he saw exactly how serious the hip problem was. By favoring his "bad" hip, Happy would soon destroy the other.
The diagnosis was a dislocation of the right hip and severe osteoarthritis as a result of hip dysplasia (HD), a developmental disorder that is very common in the retriever breeds. Dr. Fox recommended that they see Dr. Jonathan Dyce, a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon who has performed more than 1,000 total hip replacements at Ohio State's Veterinary Medical Center. The Dulzes needed no convincing; they had taken other animals to Ohio State and believed there was no hospital better. grandchildren. When the Dulz's veterinarian,Dr. Fox, took x-rays, he saw exactly how serious the hip problem was. By favoring his "bad" hip, Happy would soon destroy the other.
Happy was discharged on the day after total hip replacement (THR) surgery, "He went in for surgery on Friday and walked out on Saturday," said Marsha. In addition to Dr. Dyce's surgical expertise, the Dulzes also appreciated the way they were treated at the Veterinary Medical Center. "They understand your anxiety and are so considerate of your feelings as a pet owner," said Marsha. Tom and Marsha especially valued the personal phone call they received immediately after surgery to tell them how Happy was doing.
The staff at the Veterinary Medical Center shared warm feelings, Dr. Dyce says, "[Happy] is the rock star variety golden retriever who lights up the room, generates smiles by the boatload, and is remembered vividly and affectionately by all those who were fortunate enough to care for him."
Happy's winning personality made him a great candidate to become a therapy dog. The training to become a certified International Therapy Dog is very rigorous. The dogs are put into a number of stressful situations and meet people with different health or behavioral traits than they are accustomed to. Happy was unflappable: he adapted to every person and every situation. "He especially loves the children," said Marsha.
Therapy dogs provide comfort and happiness in a variety of situations, including nursing homes, disaster sites, hospitals, schools, and shelters. Happy is a regular at the local nursing home and the patients love him. He knows to walk through the automatic doors to enter, and he looks in the door of each room – if the patient greets him, he'll go in to visit. He brings joy to the elderly, the disabled, and patients with dementia, who may remember having a dog earlier in their lives. One particular Alzheimers patient will "walk" Happy in his wheelchair along with Marsha.
The Dulzes and Happy visited the Flight 93 National Memorial, and they were struck by how strongly the memorial touched the other visitors. Many were in tears. As Marsha and Happy rested on a bench, visitors were drawn to Happy, petting him and talking to the two of them. Marsha had taught Happy to "stand up for a veteran" whenever they saw someone in uniform.
Marsha suddenly saw what Happy could do to help. She called the National Parks Service, told them about their experience at the memorial and that Happy was a certified therapy dog, and asked if they would be interested in the two of them being greeters. Happy could provide his own form of comfort for the visitors who were troubled, or as a distraction for the children who come with their parents.
The rangers said they would be willing to try it, and Happy became the only therapy dog in the National Parks Service - although the Parks Service is now considering expanding the program based on their experiences with Happy. He has greeted and comforted thousands of people, says Marsha.
"If it weren't for Ohio State, Happy wouldn't do all this good work."
Happy's story was featured in "Making a Difference," a publication distributed to donors and clients of the Ohio State VMC. Click here to read their story.