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There is only big smiles on Josh Crickmay's face when we meet at Springside Nature Reserve in Hillcrest.
Dressed in his ranger uniform, a khaki pants and an olive green shirt, Crickmay's face lights up as he starts to talk about his new book, Josh's Big Year, where he spent a year in search of over 1000 bird species, from South Africa to Ecuador.
Behind his smile is a story of triumph. Josh quit school at the age of 15 after facing severe depression and Aspergers, a form of autism. Despite the painful journey, his parents, Andrew and Kathy, decided to plan a year long trip to fuel his love for birding and photography, and to give hope to their son.
"While spending 6 months at home after I quit school, I became depressed and had a nervous breakdown. During this time, I felt like I had no purpose and needed help to find my passion. My parents planned the trip in 2013," he said.
The Crickmay's started their camping journey in South Africa, through Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. They flew to Ecuador, where they spent two months with bird photographer, Murray Cooper.
While on the adventure, Crickmay started to hone his talents, from learning to appreciate nature, birds and photography. His coffee table book is proof that with hard work you can reach for your dreams.
Inside its glossy pages, readers will learn more about his adventures, from visiting the Erongo Mountains, just two hour north of Windhoek, capturing shots of the Crimson-breasted shrike, to spending hours in the Amazon to discover hidden birds.
"The big year helped me discover the real me, from my talent in writing, photography and my love for wildlife and nature. I believe this is the start of a great adventure. I am blessed to have travelled far and wide to discover some of the most stunning places and people," he says.
He is currently part of the Field Guide Association of South Africa and trains at Bhejane Nature Training programme in Zululand. In between his busy schedule, he shoots videos about his birding and nature activities for his website. Amid posing for photographs, Crickmay shifts his attention back to his book.
"There are many great travel stories in this book, but there is one that stands out for me. In Amazon, we went in search of an elusive bird known as the ochre breasted antpitta. After spending hours walking the jungle, the bird appeared after our guide called out 'Pedro, Pedro, Pedro". It was an incredible experience," says Crickmay.
The 20-year-old is hoping that the book will shed some light on Aspergers, fuel the love of nature and photography of readers and become a collectable for birders. Josh spots at least 20 birds during our forest walk, including a crested barbet, lazy cisticola and swallows.
As we walk back to the car from the lush green forest, Crickmay says that his 5 most important travel items are camping and camera equipment, padkos, medical kit and his Landrover. He is looking to visit Madagascar next year for its conservation efforts, coastlines, and birds. This time he will venture on his own to create more unbelievable images and videos.
"Perhaps there will be a sequel to Josh's Big Year..." he teases, as his mom starts the Fortuner, the same vehicle that took them across Africa.
For more information about Crickmay's book, visit www.joshcrickmay.com


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"Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has been good to you" (Psalm 116:7).
Sometimes, the simplest remedies to the heaviest of burdens are found by going home.
It was true for the young man in the parable of the Prodigal Son.
And it was true for Abraham whenever he mistakenly thought he'd be better off in Egypt.
I wish I could say that I've never wandered after plans or things that led me away from deep intimacy with the Lord.
But I can't.
Though I've never renounced faith, or even come close to doing so, I'm certain that I've encountered difficulties unnecessarily because of occasionally not staying as close to God as I possibly could.
Perhaps your track record of faith also has a few unwanted spots on it.
Listen, it's so much better and easier just to stay in close intimacy with the Father by reading His Word daily and spending a good chunk of time in prayer with Him.
We avoid SO many headaches and losses this way.
God has only done good for us despite our inability to say that we've only done good for Him.
Real peace is found only in His presence.
Seek His fellowship.
Savor His favor.
If you're enjoying soul rest now because of a growing intimacy with your Abba Father, I rejoice with you.
If you're struggling and stressing and losing position in the world, your place of rest awaits.
Return to your Father. His arms are wide open if you'll go to Him.
Just like the arms of His Son Jesus were wide open on the cross to build the eternal bridge between your sometimes-bad soul and the always-good God.
As always, I love you

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Comfort food is the food that makes us feel good – satisfied, calm, cared for and carefree. It's food that fills us up emotionally and physically. … Finding comfort in food is a basic human experience. – – Ellie Krieger
Each person had what they consider comfort food – good food that brings comfort when eaten; food which may remind of a good time in our life or a special person, such as a grandmother or mother, who cooked the food. For our family, the grandchildren remember breakfast comfort food at my grandmother's house – white toast with butter & her homemade strawberry jelly and bacon. It may not be the best food for you. 🙂
I'm starting this feature with a simple recipe that I turn to often – Meatloaf. It can be put together the night before a dinner party & cooked just before serving or it can be a great weeknight dinner for the family. Below is the base recipe I use & I follow-up with substitutions and some delicious additions. This is a great versatile recipe with unlimited options.
1 1/2 pounds ground meat (I use beef mostly, sometimes turkey)
2 eggs
1 onion, diced small
1 cup oatmeal
1/3 cup tomato sauce
salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Combine all ingredients in a bowl until well mixed. Using hands seems to mix the best – wear gloves – it is pretty messy.
Shape into a mound and place in your pan. I use a 9 inch x 13 inch Pyrex baking dish. You could also use a loaf pan.
Bake 30-45 minutes or until cooked through.
Substitutions for oatmeal:
- Crushed up Crackers (we've used saltines, but butter flavored crackers would also be great)
- Potato chips (note: Flavored or unflavored – I've not been able to tell the difference once cooked in)
- Bread Crumbs
- Instant Potato Flakes
Substitutions for tomato sauce:
- Ketchup
Additions – vegetables:
- Shredded carrots
- Shredded squash (zucchini, yellow crook neck)
- Finely diced sweet peppers
Other spice options to add:
- Thyme
- Poultry seasoning (if using turkey)
- Sage
- Chili powder (for a spicy twist)
- Smoked paprika
- Liquid Smoke
Meatloaf is great served with potatoes, salad, rolls and whatever other vegetable side dish you cook (green beans are delicious).
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Consenting Adults (1992)
When you sit down to watch an erotic thriller starring Kevin Fricking Kline and Kevin Fricking Spacey, you expect to see a four alarm, five panty dropping film. And you'd be about a third right. Alan J. Pakula (Sophie's Choice, All the President's Men, Presumed Innocent, Starting Over, Klute... fucking hell, why was this movie so bad?!) directed a film from Matthew Chapman's script (Color of Night, Heart of Midnight, What's the Worst that Could Happen?... oh. That's why) that started off with all of the intrigue and sexy promise you could want from an erotic thriller, that somehow managed to squander all of the good will it built up in the beginning to become Lifetime-movie lame in the second and third act.
So with a skilled director like Pakula, and a talented cast, where did everything go wrong? Sadly, Chapman isn't the only one to blame. This synaptic misfire is on everyone, and frankly, I haven't been this disappointed in Kevin Spacey since K-Pax.
|I wouldn't trust Spacey when he's smiling like that. Just, as a rule.
|Realistically, you raped a woman. So the handcuffs are valid.
|Please don't act. Ever. Again.
|He has a Miami Vice-like quality in this movie.
Throughout Erotic Thriller month, we are going to be working on a far more stringent rating scale than usual. That means that if I REALLY like a film, it will probably get a three star rating. If I love a film, four stars. If I want to take a movie behind the middle school and get it pregnant, that's a five star rating right there. So with that in mind, Consenting Adults gets:
Erotic Thriller Rating: 1 pair of dropped panties out of 5
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The idea is to create a repository of Open Educational content in the form of source code to complement text books. This is also and opportunity for the participants to apply the computational techniques they will learn during the tutorials.
We have put together a set of books with increasing complexity and level of prerequisites. Participants are expected to form groups and work on and finish off a textbook of interest during the sprints. These solutions, after a review, will be made available in a public repository.
For beginner of Python/Sage, we suggest the following books:
1. Getting started with MATLAB - Rudra Pratap
2. Calculus of One Variable - Keith E. Hirst
For participants who knew to work on Python/Sage and would like to work on slightly mathematical material, we suggest:
3. Advanced Engineering Mathematics - Erwin Kreyszig [split into three parts]
4. Linear Algebra - Gilbert Strang
5. An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations with Matlab - Matthew P. Coleman
For those who don't want to do anything but physics (!), we suggest:
6. Modern Physics - Kennith Krane
7. Introduction to Dynamics - Ian Percival, Derek Richards
If a group of people are interested in working on a particular book, please feel free to suggest books, before the conference begins.


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The United Nations has released an annual development report, which features the best countries to live in on the basis of people's long and healthy lives. In its report, the UN said that the world is becoming a better place to live. Although 800 million people in the world still go to bed hungry every day, over 1 billion people have risen out of extreme poverty in the past 25 years, reports The Independent.
The organisation looked at nearly 200 countries across a number of categories, including life expectancy, education, gender equality, and financial wealth.
As per the report, here are the countries that scored the highest:
1. Hong Kong
Residents of this Chinese territory have a high average life expectancy at 84 years.
2. United States
The US ranks high in financial wealth. Americans earn an average of $53,245 per year.
3. Canada
Tying with the United States, Canada ranks high in educational achievement. More than half of its residents graduate from college.
4. Iceland
People in Iceland have a high life expectancy, living an average of 82.7 years.
5. Ireland
Crime is low in Ireland. The homicide rate stands at only 1.1 per 100,000 people, according to the most recent data available.
6. The Netherlands
This country has one of the lowest rates of income inequality in the world (12.4 percent), and it's been continuously decreasing since the mid-1990s.
7. Singapore
People in this nation can expect to live long lives, too. The average life expectancy is over 83 years in Singapore.
8. Denmark
Denmark tied with Singapore in the UN's ranking. When comparing median wages between men and women, the gender wage gap is now at 7.8 percent for full-time employees in Denmark. For comparison, the gap hovers at 17.9 percent in the US.
9. Germany
As of October 2014, all universities are free for residents and international students in Germany, where over 96 percent of the population has at least some secondary education.
10. Switzerland
This country ranks high in overall health. On average, people live to age 83 and have a relatively low risk for diseases like malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis.
The report noted there are several pitfalls that work against human progress: discrimination, intolerance, and social norms that target vulnerable groups like women and racial minorities, who face prejudice in a number of areas, including employment, education, and property rights.
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Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the Concerns of Women, Poor People, and Nature Into Development
University Press of America, 2011 - 529 páginas
Ecofeminism is for those who desire to improve their understanding of the current crises of poverty, environmental destruction, violence, and human rights abuses, and their causes. It is an ecofeminist analysis of modern society's dualized, patriarchal structure, showing that one-sided reductionist, masculine, and quantitative (yang) perceptions inform science, economics, and technology, resulting in subordination of holistic, feminine, and qualitative (yin) values. This yin-yang imbalance manifests as patriarchal domination of women, poor people, and nature, leading to the above crises. Since similar values inform Third World Development, its activities are also exploitative. Thus, rather than improving human well-being, development increases poverty and natural degradation in the South. Modern patriarchy manifests in neo-liberal policies that promote "free" global economic markets and trades, generating huge profits to the political and economic elites with devastating results for societies and nature worldwide. Unless we increase our awareness and demand changes that balance the yang and yin forces, patriarchal domination will eradicate life on planet Earth.
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The College encourages complainants from individuals who believe they are being or have been subjected to inappropriate conduct, and others with knowledge of such conduct, to report the conduct to the College through the procedures described below, and to seek the support of the College and/or external resources identified in the Policy.
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- The Women's Freedom Center is contracted by Marlboro College to provide resources via a 24 hour hotline (802-254-6954) to any victims of sexual or domestic crimes including rape, fondling, incest, statutory rape, domestic or dating violence, stalking. The Women's Freedom Center serves people who have been the victim of a crime, regardless of gender identity.
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A dramatic three-day rescue of a Thai youth soccer team from a flooded cave came to end on Tuesday when the last boy and coach were plucked from the underground cavern more than two weeks after they were trapped inside, Navy officials said.
Fox News reports,
The Thai Navy SEALS said on Facebook that all 12 boys from the team and the coach are out of the cave, while four rescuers, a doctor and three Navy SEALS, remain inside.
"All 12 Wild Boars and coach have been extracted from the cave. Hooyah!" the post said. The Navy SEALS later posted: "We are not sure if this is a miracle, a science, or what. All the thirteen Wild Boars are now out of the cave."
Earlier in the day, local Thai media reports stated the 11th person emerged from the cave after two other people were rescued earlier in the day. The conditions of all of those rescued on Tuesday are unclear.
Chiang Rai Gov. Narongsak Osatanakorn said Tuesday's intricate and high-risk operation began just after 10 a.m. and involved 19 divers. A medic and three Thai Navy SEALs who have stayed with the boys on a small, dry shelf deep in the flooded cave will also come out, he said.
"We expect that if there is no unusual condition, the four boys, one coach, the doctor, and three SEALs who have been with the boys since the first day will come out today," he told a news conference to loud cheering, according to the Associated Press.
Before the final rescue of the group, there was optimism that the dive team was getting more efficient in their attempts. They successfully extracted the second group of four a full two hours faster than the first, officials said.
Just returned from Cave 3. Mini-sub is ready if needed. It is made of rocket parts & named Wild Boar after kids' soccer team. Leaving here in case it may be useful in the future. Thailand is so beautiful. pic.twitter.com/EHNh8ydaTT
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"Relaxed" ICD-10 Rules End October 1
Physician practices have had nearly a year to acclimate to the ICD-10 coding that took effect in October 2015. Thanks to a grace period known as ICD-10 "relaxed rules," established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the use of ICD-10 codes that did not meet the highest level of specificity requirements were allowed to continue without the risk of penalty. CMS instructed Medicare contractors to not deny claims billed under the Part B physician fee schedule through either automated medical review or complex medical record review based solely on the specificity of the ICD-10 diagnosis code as long as the provider used a valid code from the correct family. This granted a reprieve for practices, allowing them more time to adapt to the vast new code set.
The one-year grace period ends on October 1, 2016. After this deadline, CMS requires a valid ICD-10 code for all claims. Providers continuing to use ICD-9 codes may face increased claims denials, as Medicare and private payers are expected to enforce more stringent diagnostic coding requirements. Specifically, Medicare review contractors will now be able to reject billed claims based solely on specific ICD-10 diagnostic codes, while CMS no longer will authorize advance payments to providers whose claims under ICD-10 were being delayed.
CPMA/APMA members can find ICD-10 resources at www.apma.org/ICD10. Members are also eligible for discounted access to the APMA Coding Resource Center. This freshly updated APMA resource has ICD-10 codes and crosswalks, and features a streamlined look as well as faster processing and search times at www.APMAcodingrc.org.


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PlaceInvaders TableTalk Newsletter // December 22, 2017
Ranking America's top 10 chain restaurants
The Washington Post's respected food critic turns his analytical gaze to the top ten fast casual chain restaurants by sales volume. Cracker Barrel and Denny's come out on top, but it's more fun to read his lower ranking reviews. A sangria at Applebee's is the size of a bird bath (this is a problem?), and a black bean burger at Buffalo Wild Wings--BDub's, to us--"bends" when bitten, prompting the reviewer to suggest steering clear of all but the beer.
Open-sourcing a design process: Floodlight, a sexual harassment report tool
A new challenge that has become recently top of mind is how to be sure we're directing the resources we spend (money, time, social capital) to businesses who are not accepting or led by perpetrators of sexual harassment or assault. We try our best to buy meat from farmers who don't abuse their chickens and cows, so shouldn't we buy movie tickets and dinners from production companies or restaurants who don't tolerate abuse in their workforces? This Medium post from a woman who is hoping to crowdsource some of her product design for a very tricky tool is fascinating, but we're more excited about the future possible application of this data. What about an API that apps like Netflix or OpenTable could overlay on their own products to "sort by" the companies least damaging to women?
Elon Musk is our time's DaVinci
People with big vision and chutzpah move the needle. Later today, we're going to see a Space-X rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB, and it's because of this guy, with a vision of going to Mars, getting there through funding by way of deploying commercial satellites. Just like he funded mass production of electric cars with a luxury sports car that had a better 0-60 time than any luxury sports car on the market. This page talks about his life and times with the Paypal mafia, and the steps he's taking to make the world a better place. We think we'll have a bigger community excited about the launch in our little town not too many years from now.
The Other Tech Bubble
It's hard out there for a tech bro. Smarty Erin Griffith makes solid points about the challenges the tech industry faces right now, and how gaining a dash of self-awareness might be the best new years resolution choice for tech workers, who she describes as the present day version of 2008's Wall Street villains. And, yes, we know this article is slightly at odds with the one above.
Local food is more of a burden on the planet (most of the time)
Idaho potatoes yield is 2x more than those planted in other states. Greenhouses are resource intensive. Land used for farms outside of major metropolitan areas cause commuters a longer commute. Is local the way to go as far as a net positive to global resource usage and carbon emissions? Economists don't think so. Depending on where you live, there are certain foods that have a greater impact of buying local than others.


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Peaceful periods, turbulent times
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, professor of history at University of California, Irvine, is a specialist in modern Chinese history, author and blogger, who gave a lecture at Santa Monica College on Thursday on the history of U.S. relations with China, as well as the future ahead.
A Santa Monica native, Wasserstrom first visited China in 1981, where he spent a full year and has continually visited the country ever since. He said there is an ever-present need to understand the global giant that China has become in the last century.
The country is always in the world's spotlight, but Wasserstrom said there are conflicting impressions about what the U.S. thinks of China, and vice versa.
Within a single generation, China has evolved into a state of large economic and political power.
"The ways in which Americans feel about China tend to be intense one way or another," Wasserstrom said. "China has rarely been a country that we've felt neutral to. We've spun wildly between admiring China and fearing China."
At the same time, America is not viewed by China in a neutral sense either, Wasserstrom said. For the longest time, the U.S. has waited and expected China to converge into an American-esque culture, something that he said are American "positive fantasies" about China.
In many ways China has converged, but it has also stayed the same. Rather than any one image of one social group, ethnicity or gender, Wasserstrom said it is impossible to generalize what China really is.
Wasserstrom showed a series of past images of magazine covers and propaganda, that illustrated how American views toward China have fluctuated the "positive and negative fantasies" over the years.
The photographs that Wasserstrom showed consisted of Chinese tanks from a 1989 Time magazine cover to another from a book titled "Death by China" with the image of a Samurai sword piercing the U.S. with the phrase, "One lost job at a time." This conveyed a sense of hostility and anxiety with the country.
Another image was of basketball player Yao Ming with Ronald McDonald, the face of McDonald's and a clear American symbol. Wasserstrom said it seems that in the American imagination, China is either seen in a positive or negative way.
"September 11 switched our attention of fearing China for some time, but it's slowly coming back," Wasserstrom said, who spoke of "dream periods" and "nightmare periods" characterizing the relationship between the U.S. and China.
Wasserstrom said that China is not alone in its involvement in the "seesaw" of emotions, like Japan, but that the U.S. has historically fluctuated with feelings toward them as well.
Taking globalization into consideration, and the flow of the American way of doing business, Wasserstrom pointed out that there is a concern that China may someday become too much like the U.S. and eventually surpass it.
"China is both an economic worry and a geopolitical partner," Wasserstrom said, after posing the question of how the cycle can be broken.
He stressed to keep in mind the multiplicity of China because the worst of the writings about China make it easy to forget its diversity.
Wasserstrom said that it is important to remember that America has more in common with China than is often thought, which may go unnoticed in these turbulent, political times.


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"Bird Dust" is actually a theological extrapolation based on the reply of an astute preschooler during devotions at Mustard Seed Preschool in Franklin, TN.
I was teaching, down on my knees, trying to make Genesis 2 as real as possible. We were actively imagining God creating the world. We looked keenly at the earth (synthetic patterned navy carpet) to watch the wild animals, cows and chickens and birds emerge from the ground. The following week I asked the kiddos where monkeys came from and an enthusiastic little 4 year-old theologian blurted out, "monkey dust!"
Hence my extrapolation – birds must therefore come from bird dust!
Here is one of my "birds" emerging from the "dust" of Westport Beach, MA, last summer... i just love this... if you get on all fours you'll see her wings in a minute...
Ha! Anyways... whether or not this original Edenic acreage was subdivided and titled by genome - cougar dust in the southlands, lizard dust in the desert... I'll never know but it sure is a fun idea.
What we DO know from the Word is that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in complete joyful communion with one another formed every creature from the dust of the ground! Every single creature.
When it was our turn to be created, the Father formed the first man from the dust of the ground and then blew into his nostrils the breath of life. One breath started people! ONE BREATH has sustained humankind. Woah.
Our bodies come from the dust, our souls, our spirits come from the very breath of God Himself. No other creature has this distinction.
Why did He make us?
One reason is "for His glory" or in other words, to display His greatness. Is. 43:6 -7 says, "Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth— everyone who is called by My name, whom I created for My glory, whom I formed and made."
You were made to show how great He is. Your dependence on His very breath, the fragility of your frame which is spectacular and yet made from dust. Your smile and your tears – the complexity of your emotions. Your ability to reason and to innovate. Your desire to be in community with others, to be loved, needed, and to love others. Your muscles, the impermeable nature of your skin, your throaty laughter, your humor… what a marvel is humankind. And if you question whether saying so detracts from the Creator, fear not. When we stand in awe of His handiwork standing on an ocean shore, the thought hardly enters in, "aren't I incredible?" We rather boast in the Artist-Mariner Creator.
We are absolutely magnificent creatures that certainly display His greatness. This shock of curls on my head was His idea (please somebody remind me that I just said that when I complain about the fuzz...) Your daughter's irrepressible smile. The "knowing" look a baby's focused gaze can sometimes communicate. A young person's ability to memorize song upon fact upon story. Unbridled laughter and joy, simple trust and belief. Amazing.
God made us as He did because He wanted to reveal what He is like. That is one of the purposes of creation. Read Romans 1:20. He reveals Himself through His Word, His creation, and through His Son. These are windows through which we can understand who God is.
He specifically said in Genesis that man is made in His image, male and female. It takes both to display His image. God has attributes or qualities that make Him – so – GOD! He can be everywhere at once, knows everything, sees everything, can do anything. We cannot. These are called "incommunicable" qualities. He wants us to glorify Him for these.
But the attributes we call "communicable" -- these are the ones He lets us share in. To love, to feel, to respond to human need, to desire relationship, to appreciate beauty, to want justice, and love mercy. Oh and so much more. He wants us to bear forth His image with these to a watching world.
Now. When your child does that annoying thing again that drives you to distraction or worse, consider… "what are the image-bearer qualities that I see in my child at this moment? Can I see past the negative behavior to the heart of what is driving him to be this way right now? Is this a cry for community? For justice? For love?" Appreciating this might alter your response, or shall I say, enlarge it. Your child who was made for complete wholeness and unbroken relationship with God lives in a post-Adamic world of grief and sin and selfishness and preoccupation. Sin short circuits much.
This subject deserves deeper treatment, and before you turn into bird dust reading my long post, I will close with an encouragement to look for the revelation of God's communicable qualities as well as marvel in His handiwork with those around you. I want to keep unpacking how to look at your world through the four-part paradigm of the Creation-Fall-Redemption-Consummation, spending some good time in this creation theology.
Stay tuned for more from the Bird House.
Love from one of His beloved,


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Caricature of my brother and his fiance for his engagement party invitation.
It is on May the Fourth so they wanted a Star Wars theme.
Lots of fun to this one.
Caricature by Josh Spencer
Saturday, April 20, 2013
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Many others have written about this, but I'll put my two cents in just in case my blog post reaches a new writer who hasn't heard about it yet. What's the scam? A few years ago, PENGUIN BOOKS, now RANDY PENGUIN or PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, paid $116 million to buy Author Solutions Inc, the worst vanity publisher in the country, which charges thousands of dollars for publishing services which ought to be free or very cheap.
The company, which includes iUniverse, Author House, Xlibris, Trafford and others, targets inexperienced writers who want to self-publish but need help. The fees ASI charges are bad enough, but these authors get no promotion for their work, and therefore sell few, if any books. WRITER BEWARE, and PREDITORS & EDITORS , have warned about using ASI, but many beginners are still unaware of the risks. Now, with the (former) prestige of the Penguin/Random House name, these neophytes think they're getting published by a large company, when in fact, they are not.
Why did PRH buy ASI when it could have used those millions to offer better royalties to their authors? Some think it was because ASI, which had been in business for years, had a mailing list of new writers that PRH wanted to use.
Others say that they saw the money ASI was making on the backs of the uninformed, and wanted to get a share of that. As Gail Ryan commented recently, "They're happy to be unethical as long as they make a buck." And another, "To hell with decency if there is money in dealing with the devil."
Besides using the PRH name, ASI has added more tricks to its arsenal, which are designed to further fool the unwary. 1. They use fake-informational websites to offer advice, which then only recommends Author Solutions companies. 2. They use social media to profile "publishing consultants," who are actually ASI employees. 3. They require authors to provide testimonials about how great ASI is before they will publish their books, even when said authors have already paid the fees.
There are hundreds of horror stories by authors complaining about ASI publishing without permission, incorrect royalty statements, failure to pay royalties, harassing phone calls, and books with errors made by ASI, which the authors had to pay to correct.
"How do they get away with that?" you ask? Let's hope they won't for much longer. There is a class-action lawsuit against them for deceptive business practices already. Yet, public outcries are still necessary to halt the seemingly never-ending flow of uninformed writers who fall into their trap. So it's up to us who are aware to spread the word. By the way, PRH isn't the only one of the Big-5 which has a self-publishing (read Vanity) press. Simon & Schuster has Archway, for example. Why would anyone want to deal with those when they so blatantly allow this scam? I won't. I don't work with unethical people. And, judging by the many authors using small presses or Amazon, I'm not alone.


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Business News 4/19/2018
Dick's Sporting Goods has announced that it plans to destroy the assault rifles and accessories it took off its shelves in February instead of returning them to gun manufacturers. Link
Walmart will eases its dress code in a select number of Walmart's stores, allowing employees to wear blue jeans. Link
Nike's VP of footwear, Greg Thompson, has left the company. Link


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Instagram has some useful features that make downloading your own images as well as bookmarking other users' pictures simple, however it stops you from being able to ultimately download simply any customer's images the way you may by saving a picture from a routine website. There are some workarounds, which we'll get to later, but let's begin with the most standard Instagram photo conserving technique for the images you publish by yourself account.
How to Save A Picture Off Of Instagram
Save Your Very Own Instagram Photos to Your Mobile Phone
If you submit an existing image to Instagram without making use of any of the in-app filter or editing and enhancing attributes to earn modifications, you certainly currently have a copy of it on your gadget. But for those that snap pictures directly via the application or upload existing ones with Instagram filters as well as editing results related to them, conserving a copy of the ended up item that gets uploaded can be conveniently and also instantly done by turning on one easy setup.
Below's exactly what to do:
-Navigate to your profile tab.
-Tap the gear icon in the top right corner to access your settings.
-Scroll down on the next tab until you see an option classified Save Original Photos (under Setups) with a button beside it.
-Tap Save Original Photos to transform it on to ensure that it appears blue.
As long as this setup is switched on, all your posts will be copied automatically as you publish them into a brand-new image album or folder classified "Instagram" in your mobile phone's photo cd application. This chooses all blog posts consisting of those that you break with the Instagram app, those that you submit from your device without any modifications made to them as well as those that you publish from your device with filter impacts as well as editing impacts put on them.
Save Various Other Users' Images (As Well As Videos) to Review Within the App
Instagram currently has a conserving function developed directly into the app. While it just permits you to bookmark the image or video message tab and not in fact download anything to your tool, it's still better than nothing. Until lately, the only method you could really bookmark a picture or video from one more user within the Instagram app was by liking it and afterwards accessing your formerly suched as articles from the settings tab.
The two big drawbacks to Instagram's save feature are:
-You need a web link to be able to revisit the conserved article within the application.
-The conserved picture might possibly vanish if the customer that published it determines to remove it. Keep in mind, using the book mark function is just a connect to the image-- absolutely nothing obtains conserved to your account or your device.
On the other hand, if you intend to comply with the comments on a preferred message, you can save the message and also go back to it later to check out brand-new remarks, which goes to least one extremely practical means to utilize it.
The Best Ways To Make use of Instagram's New Save Tab
The new Save tab appears as a little bookmark icon on every individual's profile straight above the image feed in the straight menu. You cannot see the save tab on other customers' accounts, but you can see it on your own profile while checked in. This is to make sure that only you can see just what you've saved.
To save any type of blog post you find on Instagram, try to find the bookmark icon in the bottom right corner and also touch it. It will be instantly contributed to your save tab and also no alert will be sent out to the customer who published it.
Save Various Other Users' Instagram Photos in a Couple Of Various other Ways
If you have actually every aimed to ideal click and also save As ... on an Instagram picture on your PC, or tried to do the equal on a smart phone by touching as well as holding down on a photo while viewing it in a mobile internet internet browser, you possibly questioned why nothing pops up.
Instagram might be great with you conserving copies of your own images to your tool or bookmarking them in the application since you own them, but it does not claim ownership of any type of content uploaded to the application, so it depends on you to get consent from various other users if you want to utilize their material. This describes why it's so impossible to quickly download just any kind of image.
As pointed out initially, however, there are some methods to obtain around it. Simply understand that even though users do it constantly, it protests Instagram's terms if the owner does not understand about it and also hasn't already allowed for it to be made use of by anyone else.
Take a Screenshot
Possibly the most convenient informal means to promptly save a a copy of someone's else's Instagram picture is to take a screenshot of it and after that utilize a photo modifying device to crop it. This post show you how to take a screenshot on your iOS device or on your Android gadget.
Sight the Page Resource to Situate the Photo File
If you have access to a computer system, you can save an Instagram photo by determining the photo file in the page resource.
-Tap the three dots on any kind of image blog post in the Instagram application to copy the LINK and paste it right into an e-mail to on your own.
-If you're already checking out Instagram from the desktop computer internet, you can tap the 3 dots below any kind of blog post and then tap Go to post to watch its post page.
-When you access the picture LINK on the desktop computer internet, just right click and also select View Page Source to open a new tab with all the code.
-The picture file ends in.jpg. You can make use of the keyword finder feature by typing Ctrl+ F or Cmd+ F as well as entering .jpg in the search field.
-The first.jpg you locate should be the image file. Using your cursor, emphasize whatever from https://instagram. to .jpg and duplicate it.
-Paste it into the URL field of your internet internet browser as well as you'll see the photo show up, which you'll have the ability to best click on as well as select Save As to save it to your computer.
Attempt Third-Party Application (If You're Hopeless)
If you do some searching around, you might have the ability to discover a third-party app that claims to allow you to save or download Instagram pictures. However, there's no guarantee that it will certainly work just how you might anticipate it to given that Instagram evaluates all ask for API access and also declines anything that allows individuals to communicate as well heavily with the application, or violates their terms.
To puts it simply, you may have a seriously irritating time trying to find any type of kind of third-party app that in fact enables you to flawlessly download messages, and anything you actually do determine to download could be sort of shady deal for your personal privacy and/or safety. You're likely better off by opting for any of the various other alternatives offered over.


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how to reach your donors
online for giving tuesday
Is your organization ready for Giving Tuesday? Do you realize how big of a deal Giving Tuesday really is?
Last year on Giving Tuesday:
- 2.5 million donations were made
- $300 million was raised online
- 35% of gifts were on mobile devices
- 150 different countries participated
- There were over 1 million social media mentions
So, yeah, it's a big deal.
4 Ways to Reach Your Donors Online
Your donors are online, so you should be too.
1) make donations forms easy to use
Does your organization have an online donation form? Is it easy to use? We came across an easy-to-use donation form called Donor Box. It's free and it has a modern look. You can hook up Donor Box to your PayPal account, or set up a Stripe account to accept credit card payments online.
Did you know donors are 6x more likely to give when a donation form is branded? Donor Box allows you to set your brand color and add your logo.
With Donor Box, you can set donation amounts, campaign goals, and minimum donation amounts. Donors also have the option to leave a comment with their donation.
They make it easy to collect information such as an address, phone, and employment info. Want your donors to have the option to donate weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually? You can do that too!
Want 100% of a gift to go directly to your mission? You can ask donors to cover the processing fee. Last year, 72% of processing fees were covered by donors.
^ you do not want this to happen.
2) attract donors on social media
You will be competing with organizations like crazy. So, you have to stand out. But how?
Keep it short & simple.
Your post should say what you need to say in the amount of time it takes for a donor to scroll past your post. Stick to 280 characters or less.
Don't forget photo & video.
Catch your donors' eyes with photo and video. Demonstrate how their donation will directly impact people.
Don't have time to post?
Use Hootsuite to schedule out your posts. Talk about a lifesaver!
3) donate on facebook
Any nonprofit can add a donate button to their page header and ads directing people to donate to their website.
Eligible nonprofits can also add a donate button to Page posts, Page header, and live video to allow people to donate directly on Facebook with a few taps. Learn more about eligibility.
Fundraisers enable people to raise money for your nonprofit on Facebook. Your supporters can set up a dedicated page to share their story, tell others about your mission, and rally around a fundraising goal. Learn more about eligibility.
Click here for steps on how to set up your donate button.
4) use a message bot
We know you have a busy job. Replying to messages can be difficult on a busy day like Giving Tuesday. MobileMonkey is a pretty neat message bot for Facebook. Set yours up (for free) to help keep donations moving on Giving Tuesday.
So there you have it – a few ways you can reach your donors online this Giving Tuesday.
Do you have other suggestions? Let us know!


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Dance showcase Callback 2019 presents best HSC performances
The dance calendar will be abuzz with the latest batch of talent to hit the stage come early next year, when the state's best young dancers make the cut for a popular annual showcase.
Callback is a display of graceful physical movement – exemplary performances and compositions by 2018 HSC dance students.
It is also an opportunity for upcoming senior dance students who are considering studying dance in year 12, to see what the subject produces.
This production event is managed by the Arts Unit, and will be held at the Seymour Centre at Chippendale in February.
There is a matinee performance at 1pm on February 14 and 15, followed by a Q&A with selected performers and the supervisor of marking – designed especially for school groups.
Evening performances are from 7pm.
Tickets are now on sale.
Details: 9351 7940.
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Guarding Against Identity Theft: Can Your New Home Mortgage Put You in Jeopardy?Sheryl Landrum
LoanBiz Columnist
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When applying for a home mortgage loan, you expose your financial history to your loan officer. He knows your social security number, address and phone number, and your date of birth. All of your debtors are listed with your corresponding account numbers, your available balances, and your credit limits. Needless to say, you should be very careful in sharing this information. How disturbing, now, to find that the major credit reporting bureaus are taking your personal financial information and marketing it to mortgage loan lead generators.
Kenneth Harney in his Sunday Nation's Housing column in the San Diego Union Tribune on September 17, 2006 discusses the fact that "credit bureaus can sell loan applicants' info." Harney goes on to report that "Tim Summers, a Vice-President at Experian, one of the three dominant national credit bureaus (says)…that his company's Prospect Triggers program 'provides consumers with choice and potential significant cost savings by delivering relevant information at the decision-making point instead of weeks after a mortgage lending choice has been made.'"
How dare Experian presume that we cannot be trusted to make our own choices and put up for sale all of our relevant information to every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the mortgage loan business? I'm appalled, and you should be, too. Not only is this a horrid breach of confidentiality and a huge risk for identity theft, but do you really want to work with a stranger on your home mortgage? Say that you are purchasing a house and need a new home loan to close and make an earnest deposit. What if the lender you have worked with has lied to you or given you a loan that you did not agree to?
So what can you do to protect yourself? As a loan officer, I now provide the minimum amount of information to run a credit report, and I omit my borrower's phone number. One thing that you can do to prevent unwanted mortgage loan solicitations is to go online to www.optoutprescreen.com or call (888) 567-8688. Protect your identity and protect yourself. Shop for the best mortgage loan, but reveal your personal information to only those loan officers you trust.
About the Author
Sheryl Landrum is a Senior Loan Officer with First Capital Mortgage in San Diego and Prudential Realty in Bonsall, California.


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Late Pastor Bimbo Odukoya's son shares photo of daughter after being married for 3 years.
The late Pastor Bimbo odukoya's son shares a Lovely picture of himself and daughter
Pastor Jimmy recently welcomed a daughter after being married to his wife, Kemi for 3 years shared this priceless photo of himself having a father and daughter moment with his babygirl.
You can simply tell how priceless such moments can be.
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St Leonards Motors began life as the brainchild of father and son team Graham and Brian Wakeford. Following the completion of his engineering training in Bristol and Newbury, Berkshire, Brian joined retired banker Graham in the purchase of a small garage on The Green, St Leonards-on Sea in 1958. On 1st January 1959, St Leonards Motors opened for business for the very first time.
The fledgling enterprise expanded quickly, and in 1960 Brian and Graham were joined by John, Brian's brother, a retired pilot and aircraft engineer at Vickers Aviation. That same year the business became St Leonards Motors Ltd under the control of the Wakeford family, who still own the company today.
A reputation for excellent customer service led to more business than the modest garage on the Green could handle and in 1970 negotiations began with British Rail for the purchase of the land at West Marina. In 1972 Bo Peep Filling Station was opened and the main Fiat garage opened in 1973. At that time SLM, as they began to be known, also ran petrol stations at the original site on The Green along with others at Silverhill, Queens Road, Red Lake and Sidley in Bexhill.
In 1974 the West Marina site unveiled it's most unique and recognisable landmark, a Gloster Meteor, which was purchased from the Ministry of Defence, underlining John Wakeford's love for all things to do with aviation. He actually flew a Meteor whilst serving in the RAF.
In 1978, Ian Wakeford, son of John, joined the company straight from university.
Over the years SLM continued to expand and in 1979 the company bought Sidley Motors in London Road, Bexhill, which originally operated as a Fiat dealership until 1983 when it became a full Toyota operation. In 1986 the company, and the aircraft, relocated to it's current head office site at Churchwood Drive. At the same time it split off it's bodyshop which finally settled in Brunel Road in 1989. In 1994 the site opened a Nissan dealership alongside the Fiat site, and in 1995 opened a Vauxhall site on Sedlescombe Road North.
In 2005, having outgrown the site in Bexhill the company moved it's Toyota business into the same location as the Vauxhall site, and soon after acquired a second Toyota site in Uckfield. Recently, In 2011, we opened our first dealership in Tunbridge Wells with a full Vauxhall dealership. Over all this time the site in Bexhill remained within the family as a specialist used car site. Recognising the success of this site, the company decided to introduce a large dedicated used car site in Church Wood Drive, St Leonards, and Sussex Used Cars opened its doors for business in 2013.
In 2017, SLM Group expanded and purchased Dingles Motor Group based in East Anglia which added three Toyota dealerships, a Hyundai dealership, Attleborough Used Cars and Lexus servicing to the group. SLM Group now operates sites in East Sussex, Kent and East Anglia.


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We invite all members of the community to join us for a class on Financial Health led by Lisa Hart of Arundel Federal Savings Bank. There will be door prize drawing and all community members who attend will receive a ticket for 5 items from our Hope Chest (clothing closet).
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Earlier Event: November 14Celebrate Recovery
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Meet the Madman Who's Starting a New Department-Store Chain
Declaring that the problem with Gottschalks was simply too much overhead, Levy plans to keep administrative costs lean at his new Gottschalk by Joe Levy chain, which begins in November with the reopening of a former Gottschalks store site in Clovis, Calif. Other still-empty Gottschalks in Fresno, Oakhurst and other California towns are also under consideration as possible sites for the budding chain.
But the problem with regional department-store chains is so much more than overhead. Most importantly, it's economies of scale -- it's brutally hard to compete against the buying power of a Macy's (M), which absorbed and rebranded many regional chains on its way to dominating the sector.
The days when shoppers reveled in the luxurious department-store experience and were willing to pay more to shop there is fast vanishing, unless you're a customer-service powerhouse like Nordstrom (JWN). Most department-store shopping these days is all about price -- and massive sector leaders such as Target (TGT) and Walmart (WMT) will eat the lunch of any small fry who venture into this turf. Levy has said little yet about how he will make Gottschalk different enough to survive, aside from the usual platitudes about providing better customer service. The unanswered question is whether the chain can find unique merchandise to offer that will make it a destination, a critical factor for big stores today.
It's been many decades since anybody tried launching a new department store, and for good reason. Even fast-growing Kohl's (KSS), which has succeeded by aiming at younger shoppers with disposable, cheap-and-trendy fashions, started its big expansion in the mid-1980s but really dates back to 1962.
The rise of online shopping has savaged many department-store chains. The convenience they used to offer of everything-in-one-place has been outstripped by the convenience of sitting home at a computer and getting anything you can imagine delivered. It's hard to compete with e-tailers' low-overhead model.
Levy has at least got the smarts not to get back into selling mattresses and furniture, two notoriously tough and costly categories in terms of both inventory and space needs. Gottschalk will focus on apparel, accessories, shoes, gifts and housewares.
Gottschalk by Joe Levy may be an overgrown hobby business for a dyed-in-the-wool retailer who's finding retirement boring. But Levy could surprise us. With old Gottschalks stores standing empty, landlords are probably falling over themselves to make him a deal, so that'll help keep costs down for now. The odds are against him, but you've got to admire his moxie in trying to resuscitate one of the oldest names in department stores. If he succeeds in spawning a successful new department-store chain, it'll be a crowning achievement to his long career -- a possibility that's apparently proven irresistible.
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To say things at uni are busy, is a understatement. EVERYTHING is happening right now. Assignment-mania has well and truly set in.
Strangely, I am feeling somewhat calm in the middle of this madness…which in turn is causing me some anxiety because I'm never this 'together' during mid semester. It's a really weird feeling.
So, here we are in Week 8. Blah.
I think writing these (almost) weekly reflection posts is a good reminder to myself about how fast the semester is going, and that I should make the most of my time here. Time is running out for me at Melbourne, and it's terrifying to think of the road ahead.
The highlight of last week (Week 7) was Arts Ball. It's nice to have a break from the books, and have some fun! More of Arts Ball in a later blog post. One thing I'll say is that the lack of dessert at Arts Ball was rather devastating. #bringbackdessert
The week ahead will be a rather interesting one. I've got 2 assignments due friday (which I'm still frantically working on), and I've got science ball and my 21st birthday (and my beloved kitty's 1st birthday) on wednesday!
I'm not throwing a party or anything for my birthday (although now I wished I had organise something). It's really difficult trying to organise something at such late notice, and especially during this time of semester where everyone is super busy. So really, Science Ball will kinda be my 21st.
Prosh prosh prosh
Brace yourselves, Prosh Week is coming. Prosh is on next week (Week 9) and it's going to be a rather entertaining week on campus. If you're looking for a team to join, why not Destination Prosh? ;)
Post grad thoughts
There seems to be lots of postgrad info sessions running at the moment, which of course, triggers alarm bells for a lot of us. I'm really glad I'm not graduating this semester, I can't imagine applying for postgrad course right now. I wouldn't have a clue what to do!
And speaking for my other 3rd year friends, these info sessions should have been done earlier in the semester! I mean, there's already courses that have closed applications!
I feel like every time someone asks me about my postgrad plans, I change my mind. There are just so many options, and I just don't know what to do.
The Masters of Science Communications at ANU has always caught my eye, but moving to Canberra turned me off. However, lately I've started to seriously consider applying for ANU. Yes, Canberra = snooze-ville. But I know I will regret it if I don't apply for it. The course is everything I want to do!
Melbourne Uni is home to me and I've got something good happening here for me. I could do a Master of Media and Comms or the Global Media Comms course.
At the same time, I'm starting to get a bit bored here. I feel like I need a change of scenery, something new.
Ugh, future Daphane will figure it out.
Look after yourselves this week
Don't let the stress of assignments, study and life get you down! It'll be over before you know it.
Have a great week!


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Fall's bounty meets at the market with summer's hangers-on
We tend to talk about seasons as if the year were a house with four separate rooms. You walk through a connecting door and slam it shut behind you.
The reality is subtler, closer to a meandering hallway with no distinct stopping points.
The spot we're in right now is one of the sweetest. Just take a walk through any produce section or farmers market. The pale, watercolor shades of fall are packed tightly against the lingering bravura of summer. Pears, apples, hard-shelled squash, pomegranates and walnuts intermingle with the last tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. They keep saying that you can't have it all, but at this time of year I have a hard time believing it.
The only logical reaction to this bounty is to share it with friends. If there is a problem with planning a dinner party at this time of year, it certainly is not the lack of something to cook. If anything, there's too much there. How do you focus when you can serve anything from melons and tomatoes to shell beans and winter squash?
Maybe the best solution is not to choose a season. Instead, pick the best of what you find in the market and then comb ine it more with an eye to complementing flavors and textures than adhering to any strict seasonal code.
Tomatoes might be the last thing you associate with this time of year. Granted, the fall tomato is a different thing from its hot-weather counterpart. Coming after the quieter pleasures of spring, the intensity of flavor of the first summer tomato comes almost as a shock.
But after a couple of months of them, we become a bit jaded. If tomatoes no longer thrill the way they once did, it's not because they're not as good. In fact, after all that extra time hanging on the vine and soaking up sunshine, they might even be better.
To give them an extra bit of oomph, roast them in olive oil. Like making confit from a duck leg, this concentrates the tomato's flavor and gives it an unctuous texture. The effect is something similar to a good sun-dried tomato, one that isn't tough and leathery or tasting of rancid oil.
Simply cut the tomatoes in half lengthwise and jam them into a baking dish. Scatter peeled cloves of garlic over the top, season generously with salt and pepper and then pour in what might seem like far too much olive oil. Then you just let them bake … and bake … and bake.
I love these served as "crostini," smeared on a crust of crisp bread for texture and topped with a balancing dab of creamy, fresh goat cheese. Don't worry if you can't use them all. They'll keep in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks more.
Mince some of the leftovers — garlic and all — and add them to a pan of braised bitter greens.
Pair these crostini with roasted whole almonds (toss them with a little premium olive oil and a sprinkle of "fleur de sel" — the salt of choice among gourmets — just before serving). Green olives are a good bet, too. I'm crazy about garlicky French picholines.
What to drink⢠This is a great combination to serve with the last of your summer rose. A light, uncomplicated red will work well, too, something like Rosenblum Cellar's sweet, juicy Vintners Cuvee Zinfandel.
Having kissed the last bit of summer goodbye, move into autumn for the main course. I've been playing around with applesauce lately, after years spent recovering from too many jars of baby food. Normally, it is served only with pork or sausage, but there's no reason why applesauce can't be matched with other meats.
I was thinking about how wonderful pomegranate molasses works as a marinade for lamb when I came up with glazed lamb chops. Pomegranate molasses has a deep, cooked flavor, tart and sweet at the same time. But it can be hard to find if you don't live near a Middle Eastern market. I find that spiking commercial pomegranate juice with a bit of balsamic vinegar makes a nice alternative. It's a little lighter and less sticky than the molasses, but in some ways that makes it even better.
Save a little of the marinade to flavor the applesauce. Mix in some minced fresh rosemary — just a bit, it quickly overpowers — and then garnish it with pomegranate seeds.
You'll be surprised at how well this applesauce goes with lamb. Keep in mind, however, that the balance of flavors is much more tenuous than you might think. All it takes is a little bit of something to throw the dish out of whack.
Don't be afraid to add a little sugar (maybe a half teaspoon or so) if the flavors are out of focus. Although it's not enough to make the dish taste perceptibly sweeter, this usually is all it takes to bring everything together. If the applesauce seems a little bland, season it with a sprinkle of salt. Again, don't use so much that you taste it, just enough to give the dish a lift.
A nice thing about homemade applesauce is that you can vary the texture. Commercial products tend to be pretty close to strained — it's that baby food thing. I like sauce with some chunks left in. A heavy wire whisk is a good tool for breaking up the apples.
Because of the slight sweetness of the apples, this is a fairly difficult dish to match with wine. I'd go with a zinfandel that is a little heavier than the Rosenblum Vintners, a Chianti Classico (nothing as serious as a "riserva," though) or maybe a Barbera.
If the night is cool enough, you have to have a cheese course. After a summer of skimping (who can eat Roquefort when it's 95 degrees?), we're back in the fat part of the year.
Serve a mix of milks and textures. Maybe a mature goat, such as Humboldt Fog, with its curd almost like cake; a ripe, runny cow's milk, such as Cowgirl Creamery's Red Hawk; a hard cow's milk, such as Vella's Sonoma Jack; or a good Parmigiano Reggiano.
Something bleu⢠Go ahead.
After years of trying to match cheese courses with the perfect wines, I've just about given up. There simply isn't one single bottle that will complement the entire range of flavors. Narrow your "fromage" focus, or do what I do — just finish whatever wine is left from the main course.
Maybe the best accompaniment is a nice tart salad. Use a good portion of peppery cresses and dress the salad simply — a vinaigrette made with olive oil and either good red wine vinegar or lemon juice. Whichever acid you choose, stir some minced shallots into it before dinner and let it steep for an hour or so. Then use just enough dressing to lightly season the greens.
A meal like this deserves a grand finish: Try a rich hazelnut torte, available at upscale bakeries. Top it with billows of bourbon-scented whipped cream.
Or, if you're a chocolate freak, make a glaze by heating a quarter-pound of bittersweet chocolate and about one-third cup whipping cream. Beat in some Cognac. While the mixture still is warm, pour it over the top of the torte and spread it with a spatula. It will set in a dark, dense wrapping that is perfectly smooth.
But if you're doing a big dinner, who says you have to choose⢠Why not make both⢠Remember, at this time of year, you can have it all.
Crostini with Roasted
Tomatoes and Goat Cheese
- 4 pounds plum tomatoes, preferably both gold and red
- 1 head garlic
- Salt and black pepper, freshly ground, to taste
- 2 cups olive oil
- 1 fresh baguette
- 1/2 pound fresh goat cheese
Heat the oven to 300 degrees.
Slice the tomatoes in half lengthwise and arrange them, cut-side up, in a 14- by 111/2-inch baking pan, preferably earthenware. They should fit tightly.
Separate the garlic into cloves and peel the cloves. Scatter them among the tomatoes. Season the tomatoes liberally with salt and pepper and pour on enough olive oil to come at least halfway up the sides of the pan.
Bake, uncovered, until the tomatoes turn golden brown on top, for at least 2 hours. Cool for at least 10 minutes.
Cut the baguette on a bias into 1/2-inch slices. Toast the bread until lightly browned on both sides.
To serve, use a fork to remove each tomato slice from the pan (allowing excess oil to drip back into pan) and place it on a slice of toasted bread. Top each with a dab of fresh goat cheese, about 2 teaspoons.
Makes 10 servings.
Nutrition information per serving: 373 calories, 28 grams fat (7 grams saturated), 10 milligrams cholesterol, 8 grams protein, 25 grams carbohydrates, 3 grams dietary fiber, 273 milligrams sodium.
Pomegranate-Glazed Lamb Chops
with Rosemary Applesauce
This dish will look nicer if you "french" the lamb chops first. Simply remove the meat and gristle attached to the rib bone, and scrape away any cartilage. (You also can ask the butcher to do this.) If you cannot find pomegranate juice at your supermarket, check for it at health foods, natural foods or ethnic markets.
- Salt, to taste
- 24 lamb rib chops, gently pounded to an equal thickness, if necessary
- 2 cups pomegranate juice
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 2 pounds apples, peeled, cored and diced (about 4 medium)
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 6 tablespoons pomegranate seeds
- 1 1/2 teaspoons minced fresh rosemary
Lightly salt the lamb chops and arrange them in a deep baking dish. Mix the pomegranate juice and the vinegar. Reserve 1/4 cup. Pour the remaining 2 cups over the chops. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Turn once to make sure the chops are evenly marinated.
In a covered medium-size saucepan, cook the apples, water, sugar, the reserved pomegranate-vinegar mixture and 1/2 teaspoon salt over medium-low heat until the apples are soft, for 20 to 25 minutes. (Remove the lid during the last 5 minutes to let the liquid evaporate if the apples are very juicy). Roughly mash the apples, using a wooden spoon or a potato masher, to make a thick, chunky sauce. Stir in the pomegranate seeds and rosemary and keep warm.
Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat. Pat the chops dry with a paper towel and cook them to medium doneness, for about 7 minutes per side.
Mound the applesauce in the center of a serving platter. When the chops are done, arrange them, bone-side up, leaning against the applesauce. Serve immediately.
Makes 10 servings.
Nutrition information per serving: 308 calories, 11 grams fat (4 grams saturated), 105 milligrams cholesterol, 33 grams protein, 18 grams carbohydrates, 2 grams dietary fiber, 210 milligrams sodium.


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Buckeye Police Officers Involved in Deadly Shooting
On December 25, 2018 shortly after 5:30 p.m. Buckeye police received a 911 call about fight between a woman and her boyfriend at a home near in the 24200 block of West Desert Bloom Street.
While officers were on their way to the home, they received information that a shot had possibly been fired inside the home. Officers arrived and were able to get the woman out of the home. Another adult woman and two kids remained inside with the boyfriend.
Officers were able to get the boyfriend on the phone and evacuate the other adult woman and two kids inside.
The man was threatening suicide while on the phone with officers. Contact with the suspect was lost and shortly after one shot was heard. A very short time later the suspect came out of the house and opened fire on officers. Several officers fired back.
The SWAT team was called out and safely moved in on the scene. The suspect was found lying in the driveway of the home. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Several weapons were also found on the scene.
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.
The three Buckeye police officers who returned fire have been put on administrative leave, which is standard procedure for officer involved shootings.
The name of the suspect has not been released pending notification of family.
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