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Times public editor smashes himself with boomerang
New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane made a huge mistake in his morning blog item titled "Should the Times Be a Truth Vigilante?" for which the Web has been punishing him all day. Brisbane's mistake wasn't to bring up the topic of how much time, space and effort reporters should commit to truth-squadding the iffy stuff that oozes out of the mouths of politicians, other notables and their spokesmen.
It's a worthy topic. Brisbane's mistake was to pose the topic as question — as if a journalist with his sort of experience didn't know what the correct answer is — and then to stupidly ask and re-ask the question in the final paragraphs of his item, as if he were Phil Donahue with microphone in hand, rushing up and down the carpeted stairway eager to collect comments from the studio audience.
The awesome stupidity of Brisbane's blog inspired prominent citizens of Twitterville, as well as Salon's Alex Pareene, HuffPo's Jason Linkins, Poynter's Craig Silverman, New York University's Jay Rosen, and Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza, to take up their keyboards. "Should the New York Times — America's 'newspaper of record' — print the truth?" is how Pareene restated Brisbane's question in his lede. "Brisbane's job is to embarrass the NY Times for its shortcomings, not to become one of them," tweeted Village Voice Editor Tony Ortega.
Brisbane sought to quell the fury sparked by his 500-word post in correspondence with Jim Romenesko, who asked Brisbane what the hell he was getting at. He responded:
What I was trying to ask was whether reporters should always rebut dubious facts in the body of the stories they are writing. I was hoping for diverse and even nuanced responses to what I think is a difficult question. …
I was also hoping to stimulate a discussion about the difficulty of selecting which "facts" to rebut, facts being troublesome things that seem to shift depending on the beholder's perspective.
Stimulate a discussion! Well, yes, Arthur, not even Phil Donahue could have stimulated a more intense discussion of how bulky and numerous the knots in your skull are today.
Brisbane deserved the abuse for writing without thinking, but those who think Brisbane prefers stenography to journalism should seek his back pages. I don't think I've ever met Brisbane, but I recall reading his work closely when he was a Metro reporter for the Washington Post in the mid-1980s and I was editor of Washington City Paper. Brisbane was a skeptical, thorough reporter, and his coverage of Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry often sharpened the knife that we at City Paper would use to slice Hizzoner up. Instead of climbing the Post ladder of success, he returned to Kansas City and climbed the ladder there, eventually becoming editor of the Kansas City Star. I'm not familiar with his work as editor, but it's safe to assume that he didn't publish press releases as news.
Part of the outrage against Brisbane is theatrical. It's fun to excoriate the Times. I've made a career out of it! But Brisbane has no power outside of the bully pulpit that the paper gives him. He speaks for himself, not the Times, as the paper endlessly reminds those who ask. But because editors and reporters generally don't have the guts to take abuse directly from readers, they employ ombudsmen and public editors like Brisbane as their shields: The ombudsman exists primarily to take in the face whatever rotten fruit, bean balls and shards of broken glass that angry readers want to heave at the editors and reporters who produce the newspaper. The ombudsman is a safety valve that prevents reader fury from exploding, a way for the newspaper to say "we listen." And today, as the gashes on his face prove, Brisbane is earning his pay.
At the risk of being the ombudsman's ombudsman, what he was trying to ask his readers was how much time and effort the Times should put into refuting or contesting every flawed expression of "fact" that they come across when writing about newsmakers. Of course, Brisbane did himself no favor by labeling the aggressive refutation of squirrelly facts as "truth vigilantism" in his headline.
But to be fair to Brisbane — and I promise not to make this a habit — I think he was asking how fully reporters must tweeze every utterance spoken by newsmakers. Politics teems with gray areas and half-truths. If a reporter were to investigate every assertion of fact — assuming that that's possible on deadline — the story he was supposed to be working on would dissolve into pixel dust. Infinite skepticism is swell, but it requires infinite fact-checking, and who has time for that? There's a longstanding joke among journalists about what an infinitely vetted wedding announcement would look like: "A couple representing itself as Mr. and Mrs. John Smith say they hosted a reception Saturday, to commemorate what they claimed was the marriage of their son, in an apartment on Park Avenue that they assert they own." As Edgar Allan Poe once put it, we crave "journalism in lieu of dissertation."
Then, late today, Brisbane dug himself in a little deeper with a new post, claiming that his stupid questions had been misunderstood. I've read this post a dozen times and can't figure out what he's trying to say other than that he's still looking for "reasoned discussion." I urge Brisbane to forget about the reasoned discussion and start over with a blank screen — and not to ask stupid questions he doesn't have the answers for.
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Following this line of argument, Judy Miller's reports on Iraq were fine because, gosh, how was she supposed to know "how fully to tweeze every utterance spoken by newsmakers"? One side tells you one thing, another tells you another, it's enough to make you just throw up your hands and take their word for it! As I've posted elsewhere, the parents and loved ones of 5,000 dead American servicemembers are probably most sympathetic to the Times' dilemma.
It's easy to pick on politicians, who never seem to find the line between truth and propaganda, but most reporters, in all major newspapers, contribute their bit to the "truth gap" when they write slanted and fact-thin pieces on certain issues, like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Middle East conflict, Israel's military occupation of Palestine, climate change, Iran, and a host of other "hot" topics. Reporters become nothing more than secretaries before these issues. In today's America, the press is just as untrustworthy as the Congress.
Leaders lying IS the news. The fact that this is a question shows how far away from actual reporting the media conglomerates have gone. When a leader bases his policies on lies then why even continue discussing the policy. WMDs and the invasion of Iraq. Extraordinary rendition. If the lies were known early these stories would have had a very short life so there is no reason for the media to seek the truth unless they want to bite the hand that feeds them. How long a paper can keep the story alive is what sells papers. The truth doesn't sell one square inch of advertising space nor does it add one more subscription.
Holy moly, we better re-think our whole premise. We thought we were the only serious news site to mock other news sites and big swinging you-know-what businessmen (business women rarely make fools of themselves), but now Mr Shafer here is giving us a run for our money.
Tell you what, we'll fold and go back to insider trading if Ol' Jack and Reuters make a full time go of NY Times mocking. If you get on those ultra lib guys at the Guardian, we'll forget insider trading and come sharpen pencils for you.
You tell 'em, Jack. The whole Public Editor thingie is well past its use-by date. There's nobody out there who remembers Jason Blair or will Google his name after reading it here. We think you should just fire this Aussie chap, Brisbane, and put Dowd, Krugman, and all the rest of your blathering columnists back behind the full-pay Orange Curtain. Then we'll think about coming back. Until then, it's Reuters and you-know-who's WSJ, not necessarily in that order.
Why do you need to be "fair" to Brisbane and try to interpret what he was asking? He asked a very specific question that he had time to think about. No where did he mention the difficulty of a reporter having to "tweeze every utterance" of a politician. In fact, Brisbane cited specific example of major political claims that were easily determined to be false.
The least the NYT should be expect its reporters to do is add the following statement at the end of every article. "Although Politician X's statements may or may not be true, we at the New York Times have decided not to bother making the determination of the facts of the matter. Please be advised that the reader is on his or her own when it comes to discovering the truth."
Somewhere along the line journalism conflated skepticism with fairness and went even further, by redefining fairness with the proposition that assertions should never be challenged.
Apologizing for this is ridiculous. When fact checking becomes too hard you have your sign it is time to go write novels for a living.
I don't know what he meant either, but …
might he be talking about whether a reporter should weigh in on the the truthfulness of whether the Ryan plan would "end' Medicare and whether Obama "apologizes" for America. It is silly to assess their truth or falsity depending on whether the Ryan Plan would eliminate the word Medicare or Obama has used the word "apologize," and the world is a stupider place when reporters and hacks frame the issue that way. I also don't think it is practical or helpful for a report about a Dem campaign commercial saying that Republicans want to destroy Medicare to insert the opposing arguments about whether the proposed changes would so fundamentally change the government's commitment to health care for the elderly as to "end" Medicare (or, more importantly, whether those changes are a good or a bad thing). There is a time and a place for framing and opining on the controversy, but not as part of daily reporting.
You would expect that as the "newspaper of record" the NY Times had actually *reported* on the facts of nearly every topic that politicians bloviate about. We're only asking for Times reporters to check with their colleagues who did the on-the-scene observing. Or is what we're seeing the final exposure that even the NYT is simply a rewriter of press releases, just like nearly every other "news outlet".
the truly corrupt know you don't have to censor or edit what a reporter says………
…….keep the pay low, keep out people with experience.
…….keep the workload high, they'll never have the time to get beyond superficial details on any single story.
I think a much more important point here is that statements by senior government statesmen, such as Vice President Joe Biden and secretary of State Hillary Clinton, previously could be taken pretty much as fact, which, when attribution was added, became unimpeachable reporting.
Now, they All lie, All The Time.
So how the hell is a poorly staffed newsroom suffering budget cuts and public abuse supposed to wade its way through the daily sludge of crap that consitutes public utterances, itself a basis for news these days?
THAT is the point. We are surrounded by lies, uttered by liars, and are simply out gunned by them.
And if, by remote and exceptional circumstance, the truth does actually manage to put in a respectable showing surrounded by all this dross, it gets hounded out by the liars. Who always seem to have lawyers on the payroll, and only a cellphone call away.
Proactive fact checking by journalists will no doubt ruffle the feathers of those on the wrong side of truth, and, yes, it might also bring charges of bias. What do newspapers really have to lose though? Most people already believe that newspapers are biased either to the left or the right (depending on who you ask) anyway. Moreover, most people already do not trust newspapers. Additionally, the increasing popularity of fact checkers like FactCheck.org and Politifact shows, if nothing else, that the public wants a clear answer when such an answer exists in the first place.
If journalists do choose to change their practices and routines, it will have to be a committed change. They must shed constraints of their traditional he said/she said approach that live within the walls of academia and newsrooms today, taking on a greater responsibility of actively searching for "the truth." At the same time, though, newsrooms must know that their vigilantism must be tempered by an understanding that truth is so very often elusive.
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Hi, I'm Keith Begley, the set builder (I do have help for which I am very grateful, because without it I would be very hard-pressed to complete the job in time for curtain-up).
We set-builders enjoy the work for a variety of reasons: we like building things, we like the challenge of meeting the specification and we like having something useful to do. Mainly we like being involved in the creative process and contributing to the 'magic of the theatre'.
Saddleworth Players do five plays per season and this one (Spring and Port Wine) is my twelfth. Obviously I'm still learning, but I've learned a lot already. The sheer variety of periods and settings plus the ambition of the playwright ensures that. This current production might seem fairly uncomplicated: the living room of a 1930s house in the 1960s home of a solid working family in Bolton. It doesn't sound too difficult; even the set designer's plan suggest it will be straightforward.
Of course nothing ever is and the first obstacle to overcome on this occasion was literally physical because the 'green room' (the backstage space for the actors) is being refurbished and the inevitable disruption resulted in most of the stage being taken up with displaced things, considerably restricting the working space. It also led to a delayed start, exacerbated by the absence of my assistant set-builders due to holidays etc. The upshot was instead of my usual six week allocation for the build I had only four, with the first two on my own.
Thereafter the challenge is simply to construct something that is in keeping with the basic design, but tempered by the nature and personality of the householder, who in this case appears to be a bit of a stick-in-the-mud, so no 'swinging sixties' then. Finally, we have to make sure there are no glaring anomalies like 21st century styles that would catch attention, break the spell and spoil the play.
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If you're an early riser like we are, then you've probably witnessed CNBC's "Squawk Box" host Joe Kernen in action from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Kernen, who joined CNBC in 1991 as part of the FNN merger following a Wall Street stint, has a reputation for being one of the more outspoken hosts on the show. He's definitely not afraid to get his point across.
What you might not know about him is prior to his Wall Street and financial media careers, Kernen studied molecular, cellular and developmental biology in college and he conducted cancer research in grad school.
Anyway, we wanted to learn more about Kernen so we passed along our Clusterstock questionnaire. Check out his responses below.
Name: Joe Kernen.
Hometown: Cincinnati.
Birthday: January 6, 1956.
Sign: Capricorn.
Personal Motto: Free markets forever.
Where did you go to school? University of Colorado, MIT.
What was your first job? Delivering circulars.
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? Doctor.
What was your proudest day at work? Back in the mid 90's when Faber and I went off script during breaking AT&T news. The end of a scripted Squawk Box.
What was your biggest screw up at work? Assuming people would "get" a joke about Aquaman.
Favorite Book? Your Teacher Said What?!
What do you collect (by accident or design)? Cufflinks.
What can't you leave home without? Pants.
What's sitting on your nightstand right now? A universal remote a bottle of Poland Springs and an alarm clock set for 3:30AM.
What's your pet peeve? Slow drivers in the left lane.
Favorite place to be alone? In my car driving to work in the dark AM hours.
Favorite place/person to get advice? At home from my wife Penelope.
What do you eat for breakfast? One hard-boiled egg.
What's your favorite way to get some exercise? Running 3 miles outside.
Who's your best friend at work? Mark Hoffman.
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Last week, Google selected Dennis Woodside, president of Americas at Google, to become the CEO of Motorola Mobility, according to a report by Bloomberg.
That leaves Sanjay Jha, the current CEO, and his role up in the air. Google didn't comment on the news, saying the Motorola deal hasn't closed.
But, who is Woodside?
We spoke with a bunch of sources familiar with his role at Google, who have asked to remain anonymous. Here's what we've learned:
- He's a long-time Googler to start. He's been with the company since 2003.
- Woodside was picked to take over Tim Armstrong's position as head of U.S. sales (particularly AdWords and display ads) after Armstrong left to join AOL. Once source said he left that position "after a year or two." (He was employed in the role for two and a half years.)
- We've heard he's close to Nikesh Arora, a senior vice president and Google's chief business officer. One source said he was "well-liked" by Arora. He's worked with Arora for "about a decade" and shares ambition with him. That's good for your career prospects in Google these days, one source said. (Arora has been employed at Google for 7 years.)
- He's definitely an analytics guy — as most sales people are in Google — according to several sources familiar with Woodside. Sales leads like Woodside have to deliver presentations that are "mind-numbingly detailed," which makes them naturally analytical, another source said.
- Before Google, according to LinkedIn, Woodside worked at consulting firm McKinsey.
- Before that, he was an M&A lawyer for Munger, Tolles & Olson.
- One source said he's "not charismatic" and has "poor leadership skills."
- According to Inside Apple, Steve Jobs tried to hire Woodside in the fall of 2011 to be Apple head of sales. He said no, of course.
Woodside has a huge challenge ahead of him. In January, Motorola announced holiday sales were much lower than expected.
As Henry put it the other day:
Motorola is a huge, sick elephant. It is a huge, sick elephant in a completely different business than Google's.
Can he lead Motorola, a dead elephant that Google is about to strap onto its back, into something relevant for the search giant? We'll find out.
Are you a current or former Googler that is close to Woodside? Let us know what you think! Shoot us a message at firstname.lastname@example.com or leave a comment below.
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DOE set to back Ga. reactors with billions in loan guarantees
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz plans to announce the closing of $6.5 billion in loan guarantees for Southern Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear project at the National Press Club today, according to a source familiar with the details.
DOE will close on two of three of the $8.3 billion in loan guarantees for Vogtle. A third one is pending.
A separate event with DOE, company executives, Georgia utility regulators and other officials is planned at the construction site in southeast Georgia on Thursday, a Georgia Public Service Commissioner confirmed.
A Southern official said the company could not comment beyond this statement:
"As we stated on Southern Company's Jan. 29 earnings call, after extensive negotiations on loan guarantees, subsidiary Georgia Power has delivered its documents to DOE. Since that time, the company has been working through a series of steps that must be taken prior to closing. We're committed to enhancing the customer value of the project through various avenues including the pursuit of loan guarantees."
DOE awarded the conditional loan guarantees to expand Plant Vogtle in 2010 as a way to kick-start nuclear development in the United States after the industry lay dormant for new reactors for nearly three decades. Georgia Power is building the reactors with a group of municipal and cooperative utilities and owns 45.7 percent of the project, representing $6.1 billion.
"The terms and conditions are better than anything you can get in the marketplace," Georgia Public Service Commissioner Stan Wise said. "It's a better deal, and ultimately the beneficiaries are the ratepayers."
Negotiations on loan terms got bogged down after solar panel maker Solyndra -- another recipient of federal loan guarantees -- filed for bankruptcy. The protracted talks created an opening for consumer and environmental groups such as the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy to call for DOE to withdraw the offer.
SACE has filed several Freedom of Information Act requests with DOE to learn more about the terms of the loan guarantees and argues that taxpayers are taking on too much risk for the $14 billion project.
It is "unnecessary to commit the taxpayer to a project with a troubled past and continued inherent risks," SACE and eight other consumer and nuclear activist groups wrote in a letter sent to DOE last month.
SACE has called the loan guarantees a bad deal for taxpayers. The group declined to comment Tuesday.
Southern sees risk shifting
Southern CEO Tom Fanning told analysts in January that the loan guarantees represent about $200 million in value to Georgia Power customers, who have been paying for the project since 2011 with a fee in their monthly bills. Georgia lawmakers and utility regulators approved the controversial fee the year before.
The loan guarantees and the monthly fee in utility bills shift the project's risks away from the company and onto consumers. The Georgia Public Service Commission can re-examine previously approved spending if there is a budget increase, as part of a 2011 agreement struck with the utility and the PSC staff, but that hasn't happened at this point.
Financial analysts and utility regulators have acknowledged the substantial investment that the public is making through the loan guarantees and monthly fee but said it's a necessary way to get the reactors built.
Executives from Georgia Power and Southern first went public with plans to add reactors at Vogtle in 2005. Georgia Power's sister company, Southern Nuclear, which will operate the reactors, filed an application to expand Vogtle in March 2008.
Dozens of other utilities lined up with federal applications to build nuclear projects at the time, but nearly all have pulled them back or put them on hold. Cheap natural gas prices, slowing energy demand and the absence of a long-term storage plan for nuclear waste are some of the reasons.
Georgia Power President and CEO Paul Bowers has said the utility will have to consider building more nuclear in the future. The company has made no commitments but said it would have to keep nuclear as an option for baseload generation.
Reporter Hannah Northey contributed.
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Grandma, the most important and the most loved person in my live. Everyone has a person in live who loves and admires so much. For me that person was my granny. She passed on last summer and for me everything has changed since she's not here. It is really hard to me writing about this because I was very close with her and I couldn't be with her in this the most difficult time for her. Sometimes I feel guilty that I didn't go to Poland to hold her hand and say the last goodbye…
I am very into music and every song I listen has a different meaning for me. When I'm putting my headphones on I feel like I'm in a different world, my world. Sometimes this world is beautiful and makes me happy but sometimes is just cruel and the only thing I want to do is cry. Between those two feelings some songs remind me about people that I have met in my life. Family, friends or random people I saw on the street. This song reminds me about my beloved granny. The lyrics are just incredible for me and I feel like I can find myself in it, they perfectly describe my situation and the way I feel.
The song is called 'Let's Play Birds'. It was written by Fismoll who sings it as well. He is Polish young artist and all of his songs are different, I mean if you are listening to the you feel like you are in a fairytale and you just don't want the song ends. I've known this song before my grandma died but I completely forgot about it. After her death I had those days when I wasn't feeling well so I was listening sad type of songs and 'Let's play birds' was one of them. It is not really about death or that feeling you missing someone but it reminds me about grandmother. I don't know why.
I alway cry when I am listening to this song. It makes me feel like this because I miss my granny so much. There are so many things I want to tell her, so many problem that I want her to help me with. Unfortunately, I won't have any chance to tell her this. All I have are good memories, photographs and the sound of her voice in my head. I hope, what is more I am sure that she is still with me and she is taking care of me and helping me…
"And I hope somewhere you hear me still
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Does Folic Acid Stimulate Hair Growth?
Folic acid is the synthetic version of folate, a B vitamin. Women need folic acid; it's important in the development of the fetus. Folic acid is beneficial for healthy hair growth, but it's best known for its ability to help prevent spinal and neurological birth defects. If you'd like your hair to grow longer or at a faster rate, talk with your physician about your current diet prior to taking any supplements.
Folic acid, or folate, helps all of your tissues grow and various cells work. These tissues include skin, hair, nails and organs. It also helps prevent birth defects such as anencephaly and spina bifida, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Folic acid helps prevent anemia and works with other vitamins, such as vitamins C and B-12, to help your body create, breakdown and use proteins. Additionally, folate helps form red blood cells and produce DNA. In certain cases, folic acid is used to treat menstrual problems, leg ulcers and folic acid deficiency.
Folic Acid and Hair
Since folic acid helps your cells work and tissues grow, it helps your hair growth if you're receiving an adequate amount of folic acid on a regular basis. A study performed by the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph in Canada, states that folic acid seems effective in treating alopecia, or hair loss — at least in a Charolais calf. A three-week old male calf was suffering from progressive hair loss, crusting and brown patches — similar to a folic acid deficiency in man. The college administered a folic acid supplement therapy to the calf daily in doses of 1 mg/kg/day. The results was gradual disappearance of crusting and patches within just two weeks and a steady recovery of natural hair growth within two months.
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If you are not getting enough folic acid in your diet or have a medical condition that prevents you from absorbing nutrients, such as chronic diarrhea or a malabsorption disorder, you could develop a folic acid deficiency. A folic acid deficiency can lead to gray hair, mouth ulcers, peptic ulcers, swollen tongue and poor growth — including poor hair growth. A folic acid deficiency can also lead to certain types of anemia, according to MedlinePlus.
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Sahel greening confirmed
Another paper has confirmed that the Sahel is greening. A team from South Dakota State University led by Armel Kaptué have looked again and confirmed earlier reports:
The predominance of increasing rain-use efficiency in our data supports earlier reports of a "greening" trend across the Sahel. However, there are strong regional differences in the extent and direction of change, and in the apparent role of changing woody and herbaceous components in driving those temporal trends.
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GILBERT K. BENNETT, retired farmer, Mosiertown, was born in 1801 in Stephentown, Rensselaer Co., N.Y. He married, October 21, 1830, Miss Mary E. King, born in 1807. They came to this county and settled in Cussewago Township in 1851. They lived on a farm on Cussewago Creek, and Mr. Bennett carried on extensive lumbering interests. Their children are George G., in Bradford, Penn.; John K., Superintendent of Pullman cars, Buffalo, N.Y.; Ann Mary; Lydia Gertrude and Clara Emma, besides four deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett owned and carried on the Cussewago House for several years, during which time he held the appointment of Postmaster of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett are consistent members of the Baptist Church, having been faithful in the cause for over fifty years. Their golden wedding was celebrated October 21, 1880, by many friends. He is a hearty, well-preserved old pioneer, a man of upright integrity, enjoying the highest respect of the entire community; in politics he is a Democrat.
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Saudi Arabian producer, Yanbu Cement posted a 23% rise in net profit for the fourth quarter compared to the same period last year and 7.4% up against the third quarter, though full-year results saw the company slide against 2009.
Yanbu saw after-tax gains rise to SAR 101 million compared to SAR 82 million last year and SAR 94 million in the previous quarter. Gross profit rose to SAR 111 million and operating profit hit SAR 104 million, up 32.1% and 35.1% respectively against 2009.
Yanbu Cement Company is one of nine listed cement companies in the Kingdom and one of the biggest distributors of the commodity by market capitalisation, though like many rivals has seen profits erode from an increasingly saturated market. Net profits fell 17% for the first nine months of 2010 against the same period last year, following a 22% fall in net gains for the first half.
Analysts say the criteria for exporting cement – which includes selling one bag domestically for SAR 10 for every bag sold abroad – has removed any incentive for companies to look beyond the country's borders. Nishit Lakhotia, senior analyst at Securities & Investment Company in Bahrain, has even highlighted the possibility of a consolidation in the Saudi cement industry if a domestic price war takes off in 2011.
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The grime MC and Tottenham native plays north London's Alexandra Palace on August 12
Skepta's huge London homecoming show has sold out in just two hours.
The grime MC and Tottenham native will play his biggest headline solo gig to date at north London's Alexandra Palace on December 2. Tickets for the 10,500 capacity gig went on sale today (August 12) and have now all been snapped up.
The gig was confirmed earlier this week with a spray-painted poster in London, which Skepta shared in a video on Instagram (watch below).
Last week saw Skepta nominated for the Mercury Prize alongside the likes of David Bowie and Radiohead.
Speaking to NME about the honour, Skepta said: "Awards like this are sick because you now get to see that your work has been recognised."
While stating that he made his latest album 'Konnichiwa' because of his dislike for "the industry", Skepta also admitted that award ceremonies like the Mercury Prize offer a chance for his collaborators and creative team to celebrate their success.
"It's important for [the] people who aren't on the stage to have some sort of celebration. I'm always on the stage and people are always telling me I'm the genius or the creative but there's so many people with me that [helped with the album]."
"'Konnichiwa' was made because I don't like the industry. I really had to remove myself from it to understand myself. I was chasing it for a long time and travelling around the world and realised that wasn't who I was and it's brought me to a point where I was like 'I don't care about TV or radio. This is not about awards' but saying that to my team, it's like 'What are we working for then? What do we get to do?"
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If you've been on the Internet this year, you've probably read several 2014 preview stories that highlight the same blockbuster movies that you won't be able to avoid in the coming months, such as "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," "Interstellar," "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
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For once I was in the elite squad. On the plane, just behind the bandana boys. Slightly fortuitous it has to be said. I booked the flights to Ireland a couple of months back, little knowing an Eastern Kingbird would appear the day before the flight. Anyway I was there. A quick hop over the water, off the plane, pick up the hire car and away in a screech of wheels. And still just behind the bandana.
But they must have caught an earlier ferry as they were nowhere to be seen as we boarded the Happy Hooker, complete with Bottle-nosed Dolphin riding the bow. After an hour we were on Inishmore. "Arrh, birders" said the bike man, adding "It was me that hired the bike to the guy that found the Kingbird". Perfect. A sign. A quick check on Birdguides before we peddled off (other equally expensive info services are available); no sign of the Eastern Kingbird on Inishbofin. Inish-where?
Birding on Inishmore is easy. There are basically 3 types of birds there; those with red breasts, those that are black/grey and go "Karrr", and rares. Anything that doesn't have a red breast or go "Karrr" is worth a look. But they are hard to find. My first day's tally was encouraging: red breasts 2017, Karrrs 234, rares 0. By the end of the trip the results were only a little better: a couple of Chiffchaffs, a few Wheatears, two Lapland Bunts, a Yellow-browed Warbler, a Buff-breasted Sandpiper, a Little Stint, a Med Gull and two Ring-billed Gulls. One evening, after a few pints of Guinness, I had a thought; if you want to find yanks in a foreign country then the best bet is probably America.


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There are many kinds of organelles in plant cells each of which has its specific organelleーcycle. The organelles may change their structure and function in the cycles. It is the purpose of this work to investigate the structural and functional changes during the cycles of six kinds of organelles and to discuss the diversity and universality of the organelle-cycles.1. Chloroplast. Chloroplastーthylakoids in Porphyra exhibited the positive reaction for activities both phtosystem I and II throughout the cell cycle, while pyrenoids did not show any activity for photosynthesis. RubisCo was detected both at stroma and pyrenoids in the cell cycle of Euglena. The evidence was obtained which shows the contribution of actin filaments to the chloroplast division in Closterium. 2. Nucleus. A strain of candida was isolated which produces polyploidies by the temperature shift. 3. Mitochondria. Electron dense granules were detected at the narrow regions of dividing mitochondria in Scenedesmus. They are interpreted as the dividing apparatus of the mitochondria. 4. Organelleーnucleoids. A methed was developed to observe mitochondrial nucleoids, by which their behavior in various tissueーcells was clarified. A plasmid was specified which controls the fusion of mitochondria and of mitochondrial nucleoids. The distribution pattern of the chloroplastーnucleoids was independent upon the activity of photosynthesis. 5. Flagella. Changes in the arrangement of flagellar rootlets were elucidated in young zygotes of Monostroma. 6. Filasome. The behavior of filasomes in the cell cycle of yeast cells, especially during the cell wall formation was observed and the role of filasomes on the morphogenesis was discussed.
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9 Interesting IoT Finds at ISC: Blingy Smart Lock, Awesome Fire Alarm
ISC West 2018: SnapAV pitches OvrC to alarm dealers, a smart lock for newlyweds, neat fire-protection system that could spawn a category ... and more security and home automation from Vegas.
This week, the place to be for security and home automation is Las Vegas at ISC West 2018, the big trade show for the alarm industry. Even before the show opened this week, we discovered several interesting exhibitors, products and trends that we highlighted in our Ultimate Guide to ISC - both the pre-show Webinar and the extended 50-page Slideshare presentation (embedded below).
Some of the finds are "interesting" in quotes, as in, "Uh, yeah, that's um interesting," while others are seriously, "Well THAT's super-interesting!"
We don't go into too much detail below, for a couple of reasons: 1) We don't yet have much detail, and 2) We hope to entice you to crack open the ISC Slideshare. You can do a quick click-through in less than 21 seconds, or you can stay a while, and linger on a few interesting pages.
You'll definitely want a good long look at page 34. This company is setting up a national network of eye witnesses to share their accounts with other concerned citizens. As if you wouldn't do that already for free, soon you'll be able to "Make money with your SURVEILLANCE DATA!"
Stay tuned for more CE Pro coverage from ISC. If you have interesting finds to share, please send them my way via Twitter, email or smoke signal. (Speaking of smoke, there's a great new innovation in fire-protection at ISC ...)
'Interesting' Finds at ISC West
1. SnapAV makes its first appearance at ISC ... not to push its Visualint and Luma surveillance systems but to spread the word about OvrC, the company's managed-services platform. Can security dealers milk this remote-managed system for recurring revenue? If anyone can, they can. We'll see.
2. There's a new smart lock in town and its, um, interesting, especially if you're looking for his-and-her smart rings to unlock this bejeweled hunk of hardware. Yes, the jewels are optional, but the company does offer the aforementioned wedding package. By the way, the products completely reimagine traditional smart locks, and I mean that in a good way. Definitely worth a look, even for highly practical people.
3. We've seen a few nice developments in fire protection over the past couple of years, especially as insurance companies get more involved with the smart-home industry. There are several solutions that have yet to make it to the mass market, but the innovations are there: an AI-driven multisensor that warns if conditions are conducive to a fire; a clever device (Life Door) that closes the door when the fire alarm sounds, and several products that can turn off a stove when it shouldn't be on (Nortek's 2Gig is showing such a product, Grill Guard, at ISC).
At this particular show, however, I'm most interested in this feature-packed device that looks something like a bloated Amazon Echo. When smoke, fire, or related hazard is detected or predicted, this thing from OnTech sounds an alarm, shines a laser toward the exit, and captures thermal images to detect people and pets even through a haze.
4. Over the past decade or so, we've seen self-contained security systems that come out of the closet and into the living area, with every alarm and home-automation feature packed behind a giant touchscreen. These days, we're seeing a move back to the closet, or to a bookshelf at least. Manufacturers are decoupling their bulky all-in-ones, producing headless hubs that sit in a closet, along with UIs and peripherals that grace windows, doors and walls. Like the olden days.
5. There's lots of big stuff happening in the industry around neighborhoods and communities these days. Both Ring and Vivint provide crowd-sourcing platforms for sharing images and information about area shenanigans. In the category of "interesting with quotes" is a newcomer at ISC promising to present the "only, fully anonymous, network of concerned citizens in the nation. We all benefit from having access to the maximum amount of footage and eyewitnesses possible."
As the owner of the start-up says, "Freedom is not free, our soldiers pay for our Freedom abroad ...."
6. The security industry already has a good handle on the DIY-assist market, melding self-installed products with recurring revenue. Here's one opportunity I didn't know much about until the ISC research: I-View Now provides camera and NVR manufacturers with a video verification platform so their customers can have cameras monitored by a central station.
Most established suppliers in the security channel already have their go-to video-verification providers. On the other hand, manufacturers of consumer cameras don't have the same resources to patch into central monitoring stations. I-View Now provides that service for products such as Nest cameras and Honeywell's new crowd-funded security system.
7. The implications for radar and laser sensors in the home are ... interesting. Really, genuinely interesting. Users can map out protection zones down to the centimeter to create a "curtain" around a work of art or other protected object. Plenty of options this year at ISC, many looking pretty attractive for the residential market.
8. Sometimes it's what you don't see that can surprise you at ISC. This year, I was hoping to find a bunch of compelling solutions for the convergence of physical and digital security -- protecting things and data all at once. In our CE Pro Top 5 Home Tech Trends for 2018, we said this would be the year for the chief security officer (CSO) to emerge in the home market as it has already taken hold in commercial. You wouldn't think so, judging by a paucity of activity in Vegas.
9. There must be something in the water at all those video doorbell factories. Several of the start-ups are feeling pretty confident about their product launches. One newbie, that isn't Nest or any of the other established providers, claims to have the "World's first AI doorbell." Another start-up believes the "world's most advanced video doorbell is also the world's simplest."
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At my son's recent birthday party, one of his friends reminded me of a party we threw for our son 2 years ago. Back then he was into Lego Mixels and there were themed games at the party and a 'quest' to obtain a 'cubit.' This is one of the cubits that I made from clean upcycled fabrics.
"I still have the cubit!" he told me. Little does he know that it that fun and memorable party was actually really low budget and the little cubit pillow that he keeps on his bed was made from a cast off denim shower curtain {back} as well as old polo shirts {front.}
Don't be afraid to experiment and use what you have to come up with creative solutions! The pattern for this was super easy to come up with- I am confident that you can come up with even better and even more memorable stuff while upcycling.
Upcycling is just one way that I fight autism.
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Mint Solutions raises EUR 4.4 mln in a Series A
Amsterdam , the Netherlands, July 8 2014 – Mint Solutions Holding BV (Mint Solutions) has raised EUR 4.425 million in Series A funding led by Life Sciences Partners (LSP) and co-led by Seventure Partners with participation from existing investors. As part of this investment the company will relocate headquarters to the Netherlands to further grow sales of their flagship MedEye product.
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Yes, finally my book 'Take a Chance on Me' (TACOM) is in the famous high street bookseller, WHSmith – in their travel outlets at stations and airports and it's gone in the top 100 this week! Since I started writing, it's been the dream, of course – to take a 'shelfie' in a bookshop selling my writing – how proud am I! Supplied by a proper publisher, it means someone else takes care of the small stuff. Currently it's best value if you 'buy one get one half price.' If you get the chance to go to a local bookshop and ask for it, or find it or order it, do send me a pic, if you get one? Am happy to email you a personalised handwritten signed message you can print out to put inside it, if it's a gift. Otherwise watch out for signing dates – it may be in a big bookshop near me or in London, in the New Year. (Sign up to my email newsletter or alternatively 'like' my Facebook page for updates. I hope you get to find it before it gets replaced – they have a high turnaround in the lower numbers so fingers crossed you get it before it goes! But at least it was there – and to me that's what counts. A true TiFFT!
Thanks to my pal Litty for reporting this sighting in Euston station. Do pop along if you're near!
By the way, the sequel is out in the summer. I had a meeting this week at lovely Foxhills Club in Ottershaw to discuss it with my publisher, Choc Lit. My heroine Sadie from TACOM has a sister Helen and the next book will be about her – and her fight to win an online column called *'Try it for the First Time' club. (Sound familiar?! Lol) so get a TACOM now and be ready to read book two in June. (Originally all from the Hawaiian Trilogy). Find out where to get them on eBook or paperback here on this week's Read it Write it Sell it blog on my website.
Competition! Or take part in this month's comp to win not only a signed paperback copy of TACOM but also the prequel and the sequel called Hawaiian Escape and Hawaiian Retreat. These two books will be amalgamated to create the new one. Just leave a comment below to stand a chance to win. Also included will be one of my favourite products, Gatineau's neck and throat gel, which is still available in a trio for now with 19p P&P. Buy yours whilst the offer is on and leave me a comment below to say 'enter me' and maybe if you like, tell me what is the best book you've ever read. Read the T&Cs.
Stop press! If you're a Friday early bird, do join me for my weekly Friday 6pm chat on QVC UK Facebook page – this week it's all about our Festive Food finale that's going on till 8pm that night. I'll chat till I go on air at 7. And a survey about your Christmas meal in your house!
Doggy Update – Lesley Nicol, Downton's Cook, with another fab prize!
How amazing is this Mega Draw raffle prize? Lovely Lesley is a fellow ambassador for my charity Medical Detection Dogs for whom we are fundraising to try to buy industrial freezers to store samples in for the vital three year study about to begin. She's got the cast of Downton to sign a Downton Abbey book! It'll be joined by a silk scarf and become a hoped-for prize I'm sure! All this is to help provide funds for the next round of studies – the research is one part of what MDD do, and the Medical Alert Dogs are the other side, providing fully trained clever canines to help poorly people cope.
Here's a selection of the latest prizes to be announced – spot your favourite? Enter soon – it's being drawn on 14th December, the same night we have another super 'just for fun' online |Christmas quiz with Patrick Hoy Go here to find out more bout how to buy a ticket for just £5..
Meet Derek the Medical Alert Pup I Named! And from the Summer fundraiser when I raised enough to name a puppy, lo and behold here comes Derek the little Labrador who will be training to help become an alert dog, helping take care of one lucky owner who will be given him to aid their battle with diabetes, for instance. Soooo sweeeeeet! Hoping to meet him next Friday 11th! More about him on my newsletter from last Friday here – do go read! And sign up for the newsletters if you want to, to be the first to see the exclusive updates I post regularly including big news about my fundraising. Last minute xmas cards on MDD website here btw. I love being part of this and at time of writing nearly £2450 has been raised. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
Back to You Update So in the week my first steamy romance went into WHSmiths travel outlets, I am very excited about my non-fiction book too. This week we had a chat about the next Till the Fat Lady Slims 3.0 book online – watch out just before Christmas for a snippet of the new cover! Taken in this lovely Yong Kim dress.
And the wellbeing show itself returns aptly on New Years' Day at 3pm – do join me – Back to You will be mid-afternoon, I'm told – and I'll be on the Qpage afterwards for a webchat about your new year's resolutions etc! Plus join me this Friday on the QPage for foodie chat during our four hour Festive Food finale! Tons of goodies all delivered in time for Christmas. Our final date for Chrsitmas delivery is 21st December.
Beauty Bash Tickets on Sale Now! I promised I'd announce it – I did this week as soon as they went on sale. Still available, if you've always wondered what it's like to go to one of our huge beauty exhibitions in London (19/20/21 Jan). Buy yours now!
Charlie Bears' Catch Up Of course lovely Will and Charlie from Charlie Bears were in this week – telling me about their own fundraising for MDD, via little mini-mohair Bones dog which is nearly up to £2000!
I got this little sweetie – the 2016 Mohair Bear of the Year – watch this clip – this is my 'look who I've found' for this week:
Get the 2016 Mohair Bear of the Year and also Just Because bear.
Westfield Evening Out with Brad it was time for our annual 'mum and Bradley' night when my son and I 'do Westfield Mall' too this week – always have such a lovely time with my boy and am very proud of him as ever. After supper we went to see 'Bridge of Spies' (which I've just realised is a play on the Venetian 'Bridge of sighs'… doh!) starring Tom Hanks – see below, it was fab. Had a nice lunch with Lauren same day – lovely to see my girl too for lunch same day and have a pogger with the dogs!
Red Carpet Fan Spotted on Instagram! Well done Adele – great choice! Mine are lasting me ages atm as my sis does a super manicure – I often visit her at Westcroft Leisure Centre – Surrey Health Spa, for some fab treatment called IBX ( I think!) Red Carpet Ready is still available on QVC.
Facebook Funny – Three Wise Women – only joking – I know some very capable men too…! Lol. AND how bout this – snowman kit! Lol
BLOOPER – well it's a highlight this week – watch this
WATCH – double whammy this week – Lady in the Van with Maggie Smith
I've signed up for 'Limitless' which is the Odeon's free pass system for one monthly fee I can see any film any time for free – whoo hoooo! So this week and last, I saw three! Lol. One was Lady in the Van with the inimitable Maggie Smith who plays an incorrigible real life hobo character living outside Alan Bennet's house in London – she came for three months and stayed for fifteen years. It's all character driven as you'd expect with a Bennet production and well worth a watch – if you love Dame Maggie it's a given. Her performance makes it a nine out of ten. Loved it.
And Bridge of Spies with Tom Hanks Well actually I saw it with my son Brad, Tom was unavailable! Hehe! Another superb film – kept my attention from the word go, and all the better for being based on a true story of espionage in the Cold War and one ordinary insurance attorney's (Hanks') fight for fairness in a hostage exchange. He's brilliant in it, he's definitely grown into these roles with more gravitas, even if his current 'look' makes me think of the basketball head character in Castaway…! A Good 8.75 out of ten = high!
This week on QVC –
- Saturday 5th – L'Occitane – the bumper Christmas Today's Special Value bundle!
- Sunday 6th – as teased last week the lovely Links of London bracelet is bargain of the day
- Monday 7th – great innovative pics if their phones are always running down – set of 2 HALO chargers with RFID!
- Tuesday Yankee Candle sampler deal!
- Sneaky peek – Friday midnight – my telly hubby Lee and I will be bringing you an Acer Iconia 10" android tablet.
Next week – our big family get together happening on Sunday … meeting telly hubby and others in London … our presenter Christmas lunch! … and the final countdown for the Mega Draw and more amazing prizes are posted … Don't miss it! And follow me on twitter if you like – @debbieflint
Best wishes for a great week!
Ps *'Try it for the First Time'
Pps keep in touch with me via Twitter, @debbieflint and via my Facebook page – search DebbieFlintQVC (page) or go here.
Go to my own website for full info about my novel writing, my Read it Write it Sell it blog and my Back to You show blog and well-being info, plus 'Till the Fat Lady Slims' weight loss book and also my charity for which I'm delighted to be an ambassador, Medical Detection Dogs, just go via my website, www.debbieflint.com
OR do leave me a comment below – just state your email address (not shown), a name, and comment!
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December 4, 2015 at 2:50 pm -
December 4, 2015 at 4:06 pm -
Enter me – Debbie, my favourite book of all time is 'Everything to gain' by Barbara Taylor Bradford.
December 4, 2015 at 4:48 pm -
Enter me please. Would love to win
Best book which I read as a child is Jennie by Paul Gallico. Beautiful & touching.
Have a great day.
Love reading your blog & books.
December 4, 2015 at 5:30 pm -
So pleased to see your book is doing well going to order 2 tomorrow one for a friend as she loves a book at christmas as part of her gift and the other for me to read boxing day when I'm all cozy in my own home. Like you Debbie I love going out with my son some of my friends think its weird and the same when I take my grandaughter but I love the times we have together. Look forward to reading your blogs etc and the previews of things to come so thank you, also could you please enter me into thecompetion.
December 4, 2015 at 6:07 pm -
Enter Me xx
Best book ever read Rebecca xx
December 4, 2015 at 6:36 pm -
Enter me. Pleasse enter me for the book comp. Would love to read Debbie's novels!
December 5, 2015 at 1:24 am -
Please enter me in your comp.
December 5, 2015 at 11:05 am -
Please enter me. Looking forward to reading the books over the holiday period. Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year to all.
December 5, 2015 at 11:34 pm -
Just read "take a chance on me". I needed a cold shower! Seriously though, Debbie, what a brilliant read, enjoyed it all. Well done
December 6, 2015 at 1:13 am -
Enter me to win the trilogy,please.x
December 6, 2015 at 1:33 pm -
Derek is so cute, how adorable. And what an amazing job he will be trained to do.
Please enter me onto the draw to win your books. Number 72 is an amazing feat. xx
December 6, 2015 at 5:19 pm -
I would love to read your books for free especially with my favorite Gatineau product
December 7, 2015 at 9:40 am -
Well done you x. Wow, so much info in all your blogs Debbie, I really don't know where you find the time, but I'm glad you do. So many snippets of info, upcoming TSVs and so on. Hope you have a lovely week with telly hubby etc. Saw Lee's 'pad' on Twitter (nice one Lee).
Anyway Debs, wishing you and your family a lovely healthy, happy Christmas and, like I've said on here before, CANT BELIEVE YOU HAVENT BEEN SNAPPED UP YET xxx
December 7, 2015 at 4:46 pm -
Please Enter Me.
Hi Deb's,
Congratulations on your success, you deserve it.
Also good luck for your upcoming event for the charity Medical Detection Dogs,
Derek is adorable.
Hope you raise loads of money for a wonderful charity.
Have a Great Christmas and may the New Year be as successful for you as 2015 has been.
Hopefully see you at the Beauty Bash on Tues 19th Jan.
Love Jacqui XXXXX
December 7, 2015 at 4:50 pm -
Please Enter Me.
Hi Deb's,
Congratulations on your success, you deserve it.
Also good luck for your upcoming event for the charity Medical Detection Dogs,
Derek is adorable.
Hope you raise loads of money for a wonderful charity.
Have a Great Christmas and may the New Year be as successful for you, as 2015 has been.
Hopefully see you at the Beauty Bash on Tues 19th Jan.
Love Jacqui XXXXXX
December 7, 2015 at 9:59 pm -
Enter me (please) best book I've read (about 20 times) Riders by Jilly Cooper x
December 8, 2015 at 6:12 pm -
Congratulations. Please enter me
December 8, 2015 at 6:23 pm -
Enter me in the competition please.
December 8, 2015 at 6:57 pm -
Enter me! Well done Debbie,must be something in the air ,presenters now novelists. So many favourite books,thought I'd mention on by a relatively new author 'Feels like the first time' by Shawn Inmon…..took me back to my youth. Wishing you and the family a wonderful Christmas x
December 8, 2015 at 7:06 pm -
Hi Debbie saw a picture of you on twitter wearing glasses they really suited you where did you get them from and will you be wearing them live on qvc? Love jane x x
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Homemade English Muffins
For Christmas this year Eric got me some amazing bread baking supplies and cookbooks. I now have the start of a great bread baking library and since one of my new years resolutions was to continue my bread baking journey it has been the perfect thing to get me going.
The fact that it has been such a cold and sometimes snowy winter has also encouraged me in my baking and I have really been enjoying trying new recipes and learning more about the art of baking. One of the fabulous books Eric got me is called "Baking Bread, Old and New Traditions" And it is in this book that you can find the recipe I used for my home made English Muffins. Baking Bread is a good basic bread cookbook with a decent variety of recipes as well as some baking technique that is nice to know. It's a really nice addition to my cookbook collection.
I have been scarfing these things down for breakfast and they are so much better than store bought muffins! They really came together pretty quickly and easily too. Check out the recipe:
1 Tablespoon dry yeast
Pinch sugar
1/4 cup warm water
4 to 41/2 cup all purpose flour
2 teaspoons salt
1 egg
1/14 cup warm milk
2 Tablespoons butter, melted
1/4 cup cornmeal for sprinkling
In a small bowl combine yeast, sugar and warm water, stir to combine and let stand until foamy. Place 2 cups flour and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer with dough hook and make a well in the middle. Add egg, milk, butter and yeast mixture and blend until smooth. Gradually add remaining flour 1 cup at a time until a soft dough that just clears the side of the bowl forms. Turn dough on to a lightly floured surface and knead for about 3 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to coat and cover with a dishtowel. Let stand until doubled in size, about and hour and a half. Lightly sprinkle work surface with cornmeal and roll dough to 1/2 inch thickness. Sprinkle top with cornmeal and use a upturned drinking glass to cut out biscuit shapes. You can re-roll and cut out extra dough until it is all used up. Heat a cast iron skillet over medium heat and lightly grease. Cook muffins for about 6 to 7 minutes on each side until well browned.
This recipe makes about 12 3 inch muffins. They taste great with melted butter or homemade strawberry jam :-)
I hope to share some of the other baking we've been doing with you soon. We have been cooking up some truly delicious breads but I just have't been good about documenting it. Hopefully I can get my act together this month and post more recipes!
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