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When Robert Frost, in his 1930 address "Education by Poetry," spoke about the importance of being "at home in the metaphor," he seemed to suggest how infrequently he had felt at home anywhere else. The New England landscape abounds with Frost sites: the Frost Farm, in Derry, New Hampshire, and the Frost Place, in Franconia, New Hampshire; the Robert Frost Stone House, in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, and the Homer Noble Farm, in Ripton, Vermont; a house on verdant Brewster Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and one on leafy Sunset Avenue in Amherst, Massachusetts. Add to these two houses in England, where Frost lived from 1912 to 1915 and first found acclaim, along with a cottage in Key West, where he often spent winters, and a white pillared house that once stood in Ann Arbor, Michigan (where Frost lived while he worked at the University of Michigan, in the twenties), but was moved by Henry Ford to Greenfield Village, a part of Ford's museum complex. It now sits on a cleansed American green, near Edison's laboratories, the Wright brothers' bicycle shop, and a courthouse where Lincoln practiced law.
Frost's stone walls, old barns, cellar holes, birches, and brooks—the sedimentary, second-growth New England that, before Frost, had awaited its bard—imply a writer who cared, like Thoreau, only to be "admitted to Nature's hearth." But, wherever he went, Frost schemed to buy land or a house or a farm. Frost is sometimes still associated with the old-fashioned comforts of home, but in reality he was frequently on the move, spending, and often squandering, whatever investments of the heart and the wallet he had lately made. Those cozy houses and picturesque farms that litter the countryside make a trail of places Frost fled. Emerson, whose work he always kept nearby, suggests the fitting motto: "Everything good is on the highway." And yet Frost never really lit out for the territories; instead, he moved among carbon-copy small farms with mountain views, and smart Victorians on the fringes of campuses, where, having escaped the "academic ways" he always said he loathed, he could return day after day.
Throughout his life, Frost moved into things so he could move out. He does this in language, too, veering toward certainties in order to evade them. He knew, like his "Oven Bird," how "in singing not to sing." Frost can be trying company, but he is company: no modern poet draws us so close, though what he does to us at close range is often impolite. If a reader knows only one poem by Frost, it is likely "The Road Not Taken," that cunning nugget of nihilism disguised as an anthem for nonconformity. A quick Google search turns up mugs, T-shirts, and posters, as well as customizable business cards, all quoting the poem. What tends to be forgotten is the barbed tangle of tenses at its close:
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The primary "I" in the poem isn't the one doing the "sighing"; that's a later version of the self that this current version, though moving steadily in its direction, finds pitiable. Look up the word "all" in the dictionary, and you will find that it means "the whole amount or quantity of." In Frost, the word is always sad. So often in his work, the whole of something adds up to much less than one had hoped.
Because Frost is so mercurial, many people feel they have a claim upon him. Heads of Frost, in bronze or stone, are standard clutter for town libraries and English-department common rooms (there's a wobbly-looking one down the hall from where I am writing this). A man named Mitchel Potter was arrested in 2012 for stealing a bust of Frost from Wichita State twenty-five years earlier, after, he said, he'd done "a lot of beer bongs." Some local teen-agers in Middlebury, Vermont, broke into the Ripton farm a few winters ago, and partied and urinated on the floors. Their sentence involved taking a mini-class in Frost's poetry. The aged Frost appears in Tobias Wolff's novel "Old School," jesting with the boys at a fictional boarding school and inspiring, in the students, "fits of dignity." There is the "dark Frost" recommended by Lionel Trilling in the late fifties, a "terrifying poet," and the shuffling, windswept sage of Kennedy's inaugural, reciting "The Gift Outright" from memory. Poets have come the closest to rendering the "offstage" Frost. Robert Lowell punned on Coleridge ("Robert Frost at midnight, the audience gone / to vapor") in his sonnet for Frost, and John Berryman, who remembered both Frost's "malice" and his "good / big face," put it succinctly: "For a while here we possessed / an unusual man."
It can sometimes seem, from the surfeit of images of Frost in his later years, that he was born old, incapable of youth in the same way John Keats is incapable of age. "The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume I: 1886-1920," edited by Donald Sheehy, Mark Richardson, and Robert Faggen, part of a heroic effort by Harvard University Press to collect all Frost's writings in a definitive edition, goes some way toward filling this imaginative deficit. "I have been pulled two ways and torn in two all my life," Frost wrote in a letter of 1915. He was born in 1874 in San Francisco, where his father, William Frost, a newspaperman from primeval New England stock, had taken a job. William Frost died of tuberculosis when Frost was eleven; the family—Frost, his sister Jeanie, and his mother, Isabelle—then made a new start in and around Lawrence, Massachusetts, where Frost's paternal grandfather oversaw a successful mill.
He tried college twice. First, he went to Dartmouth, where, he said, he lost interest in any task "not self-imposed," and left after several months. A few years later, having married and started a family, Frost was admitted to Harvard, where he intended to study classics and become a high-school Greek and Latin teacher. He quit after three semesters. He seems to have proposed many times, at least twice successfully, to his future wife, Elinor White. They had exchanged rings in secret before Elinor went off to St. Lawrence University; nearly every time she returned home, it seems, Frost tried to persuade her to drop out. When Frost visited her unannounced, holding a privately printed book of five poems that he had made as a gift for her, she took the book and booted him out. He then set off on a bizarre trip to the Dismal Swamp, in Virginia. He walked ten miles into the swamp and was discovered by some duck hunters. Back home, he visited Elinor, they quarrelled again, he again stormed out, and again suggested that he might do something nuts. In fact, he went to Cambridge to have a drink with friends. Elinor finally graduated, and the two were married.
There was an element of conscious metaphorical shaping to everything Frost did. He couldn't choose just any swamp as his slough of despond: "dismal," a word he might have encountered in "Paradise Lost," had the right to-hell-and-back feel about it. Frost would "always go to farming" knowing, he said, that he would "always make a failure of it." So he would have to teach; but teaching kept him from writing. Then it was back to farming, which pleased him, likely because he neglected so much of it. And the cycle was renewed: among writers, he seemed like a farmer, and among farmers he seemed like a writer. When his grandfather purchased the farm in Derry for him, in 1900, he rigged it so that Frost wouldn't own the property—and therefore couldn't sell it off—until ten years after the old man died. Still, the Frosts made it for just eight, leasing the farm out until the minute the deed matured, when it could be unloaded.
Frost was a little like the anonymous woodsman he describes in "The Wood Pile": always "turning to fresh tasks," forgetting "his handiwork on which / He spent himself, the labour of his axe." Only he didn't forget. His vagrancy was a quality that he prized and, in fact, adroitly captained. He found the title of his first volume, "A Boy's Will," in Longfellow: "A boy's will is the wind's will." But the wind-drivenness was always checked by what he called his "Scotch-Yankee calculation," a trait that prospered most when he called attention to it, sometimes by keen actions of self-mockery.
In 1916, for the amusement of his friend Louis Untermeyer, Frost drew up a phony circular titled "Anybody Want to Hear R. Frost on Anything?" One subject he advertised was the "True Story of My Life":
Stealing pigs from the stockyards in San Francisco. Learn to whistle at five. Abandon senatorial ambitions to come to New York but settle in New Hampshire by mistake on account of the high rents in both places. Invention of cotton gin. Supersedes potato whiskey on the market. A bobbin boy in the mills of Lawrence. Nailing shanks. Preadamite honors. Rose Marie. La Gioconda. Astrolabe. Novum Organum. David Harum. Cosmogony versus Cosmography. Visit General Electric Company, Synecdoche, N.Y. Advance theory of matter (whats the matter) that becomes obsession. Try to stop thinking by immersing myself in White Wyandottes. Monograph on the "Multiplication in Biela's Comet by Scission." "North of Boston." Address Great Poetry Meal. Decline. Later works. Don't seem to die. Attempt to write "Crossing the Bar." International copyright. Chief occupation (according to Who's Who) pursuit of glory; most noticeable trait, patience in the pursuit of glory. Time three hours. Very intimate and baffling.
This is autobiography passed through the sieve of self-contempt, an absurdist anti-Who's Who that elevates, by ostensibly denigrating, the real "true story" of a person's life. Frost did raise chickens, White Wyandottes, to "try to stop thinking"; he did feel that he was in decline already, at the age of forty-two; he did look with wonder on the fact that he didn't "seem to die," having assumed on many an occasion that he was gravely ill, and often contemplating suicide. The final item is agonizingly astute about how others viewed him, and how he viewed himself: "Very intimate and baffling."
The truest Frost was the most feigning, as these letters reveal time and again. Frost showed "patience in the pursuit of glory" only if his incessant nudging of editors, both here and in England, is compared with some imaginary alternatives: bribery, say, or hostage-taking. When Frost learned of his first paid acceptance, by The Independent, in 1894, he wrote a letter to its literary editor, Susan Hayes Ward, enclosing more poems for her to consider:
You must spare my feelings when you come to read these others, for I haven't the courage to be a disappointment to anyone. Do not think this artifice or excess of modesty though, for, to betray myself utterly, such an one am I that even in my failures I find all the promise I require to justify the astonishing magnitude of my ambition.
"Astonishing" is the key word here: astonishing, that is, even to himself, and even at this moment. Frost beheld his own actions with a kind of strategic impartiality, preëmpting the worst that others might say about him. "Bragging isn't really 'bragging' when it's so manifestly a performed thing," the editors write in their fine introduction. Or is it a deeper kind of brag, as though an exception to Frost's strict anti-bragging policy had to be made in just this one case? "You give me a new courage," Frost wrote to Ward, a year or so later. "At last I feel as if I could afford to be modest."
In young writers, ambition often sprints ahead of accomplishment, then stops and waits for the gap to close. If it didn't run ahead, there might be no race at all. Frost's ambition made its start around 1894, but his career didn't catch up until 1913, when he published his first book, "A Boy's Will," and, a year later, his second, "North of Boston." The intervening period was as hard as any writer has endured. In 1900, Frost's first child, Elliott, died, of cholera, at the age of three. The Frosts had consulted a homeopath referred by Frost's mother. His remedies failed; the boy's symptoms worsened, and by the time the family doctor was called it was too late. "I have seen right in my own family one person lost by not taking instant and out-and-out measures," Frost later wrote. He thought he had as much as murdered his child. (Four of the six Frost children died before he did; he found a way to blame himself each time.) Frost's mother, who had told him that Elliott's death was "God's judgment" upon the family, soon died of cancer, alone in a sanatorium. The Frosts then moved to the thirty-acre farm in Derry, under circumstances that Frost found aggravating. Elinor had appealed to his grandfather behind Frost's back. The farm would be purchased and Frost would have to welcome his high-school friend Carl Burrell to be a live-in farmhand. Burrell agreed only if he could bring along his eighty-four-year-old grandfather, Jonathan (Jont) Eastman. And so in October, 1900, only three months after Elliott's death, Frost, Elinor, their seventeen-month-old daughter, Lesley, and Carl Burrell and his grandfather moved into the small farmhouse, with the two hands living upstairs and sharing all meals with the family. It was Carl who woke early to milk the cow, who harvested the apples and packed the eggs for sale at the market. The whole situation made Frost feel that he was being told, by his grandfather, "Go out and die." But it must have occurred to him that all these arrangements had been made so that he could write his poems.
The few letters that survive from this period are nearly all to Susan Hayes Ward, Frost's single, fraying tie to the literary world, fussing about incidentals. Much of what we know of the Derry years comes from what we may surmise from the poems in Frost's first two books, which Frost wrote on the farm and in England, where, testing his moral luck, he impulsively took his family to live in the summer of 1912. In a letter to William Stanley Braithwaite, three years later, Frost wrote, of "North of Boston":
The book is an expression of my life for the ten years from eighteen on when I thought I greatly preferred stocks and stones to people. The poems were written as I lived the life quite at the mercy of myself and not always happy. The arrangement in a book came much later when I could look back on the past with something like understanding.
I kept farm, so to speak for nearly ten years, but less as a farmer than as a fugitive from the world that seemed to me to "disallow" me. It was all instinctive, but I can see now that I went away to save myself and fix myself before I measured my strength against all creation. I was never really out of the world for good and all. I liked people even when I believed I detested them.
Derry was a pliable symbol, reshaped to suit the occasion, for the rest of Frost's life. The "ten years" were really nine, and not from "eighteen on" but from twenty-six to around thirty-five, though he had farmed intermittently at other times. But to keep farm, "so to speak," is not to say he kept farm, exactly, nor is to "disallow"—in scare quotes—precisely to disallow. The word "keep" and its variants occur forty-seven times in "North of Boston"; some of Frost's greatest poems, from later in his career ("The Most of It" and "Directive" both come to mind), turn on that weirdly abundant little word. The letter insists on not meaning what it says, and it assumes a correspondent whose step will not be shaken by the small faults and tremors Frost liked to put into his sentences.
"Strongly spent is synonymous with kept," Frost writes in his essay "The Constant Symbol." His letters, no less than his poems, were for him a "symbol . . . of the way the will has to pitch into commitments" without knowing the outcome. This is a speculator's state of mind, or perhaps a day trader's, moving a finite sum in and out of investments until the closing bell. As he wrote to his publisher Alfred Harcourt, in 1917, "There are a lot of good things I believe in, but for the life of me I can't always enumerate them at a moment's notice." He prized "misunderstanding" and "understanding" equally, since they were, he said, the same: both clear your mind and leave "you with one less detail in life to be bothered with." Loss was gain: his aim in thinking was to take "away from the sum and burden of what you have to consider." One of his greatest statements about poetry applies to his letters also, which seem to subtract sentence after sentence from themselves until they close: "Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting." He played it straight, it seems, only when he was dickering about his pay.
"The sense of intimacy gives the thrill of sincerity," he wrote in another letter, reminding us that both "intimacy" and "sincerity" are, for him, ends in themselves, not means of comfort or connection. At Amherst College, where, beginning in 1917, he taught off and on for more than forty years, he surprised the students by gossiping mercilessly about his colleagues. He liked "the actuality of gossip, the intimacy of it," not necessarily the dirt. These statements are gently provocative, as Frost, who was always careful to come off as potentially malevolent, no doubt intended. His correspondents and, later, his biographers were in an uncomfortable bind: he spoke to them, as to everyone, in "parables and in hints and in indirections," as he put it, "whether from diffidence or some other instinct." Lawrance Thompson's three-volume official biography of Frost is thus one of the strangest books ever written. Thompson stayed by Frost's side for more than twenty years; he was like Boswell without an imagination or a memorable prose style. (He seems to have grown to detest Frost, and competed with him for the affections of Kay Morrison, Frost's secretary and lover.) And so this huge book, full of details that Frost spoon-fed to Thompson and that Thompson vomited up, will never be replaced: everyone writing about Frost, including me, consults it.
Most of the remarkable things in the new volume of letters have been in circulation for a long time, in stray collections, in the Thompson biography, and in William H. Pritchard's "Robert Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered," the best single volume on Frost. But it is wonderful to find premonitions of them and small aftershocks, and their contexts can now be imagined much more clearly. The most famous letters in the book—the most famous that Frost ever wrote—are two to his former student John Bartlett, introducing his theory of "the sound of sense." The first, written from England on July 4, 1913, is Frost's declaration of independence from what he calls "a worn out theory of versification," from Swinburne and Tennyson, his Victorian predecessors, and from what was left of his timidity:
To be perfectly frank with you I am one of the most notable craftsmen of my time. That will transpire presently. . . . I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. Now it is possible to have sense without the sound of sense (as in much prose that is supposed to pass muster but makes very dull reading) and the sound of sense without sense (as in Alice in Wonderland which makes anything but dull reading). The best place to get the abstract sound of sense is from voices behind a door that cuts off the words.
Frost was working out the intonations and rhythms of his Derry neighbors, whom he had first studied, he wrote, with an "almost technical interest in their speech." The theory is in some ways unsurprising: anyone who has ever had a dog knows what you can accomplish with the "abstract sound of sense." But Frost went on:
An ear and an appetite for these sounds of sense is the first qualification of a writer, be it of prose or verse. But if one is to be a poet he must learn to get the cadences by skillfully breaking the sounds of sense with all their irregularity of accent across the regular beat of the metre.
The brilliance of the theory was all in its application, and when it was applied, in poems like "Home Burial," Frost not only reclaimed English prosody for American speech; he found the distinct accent of his own grieving. In the poem—a kind of little play (it has been staged, with iffy results) for two voices—a husband and a wife argue over their responses to the death of their child. The man has just spied the family cemetery through a window:
"The wonder is I didn't see at once.
I never noticed it from here before.
I must be wonted to it—that's the reason.
The little graveyard where my people are!
So small the window frames the whole of it.
Not so much larger than a bedroom, is it?
There are three stones of slate and one of marble,
Broad-shouldered little slabs there in the sunlight
On the sidehill. We haven't to mind those.
But I understand: it is not the stones,
But the child's mound—"
"Don't, don't, don't, don't," she cried.
Frost was especially proud of that last line. Obviously, you don't say, as the meter would suggest, "don't don't, don't don't." I hear four equal strong stresses, but you might hear it differently. At other times in the poem, the "sentence sounds" cling to the meter for dear life, as when the wife describes her husband's seemingly affectless action of digging the child's grave:
"God, what a woman! And it's come to this,
A man can't speak of his own child that's dead."
"You can't because you don't know how to speak.
If you had any feelings, you that dug
With your own hand—how could you?—his little grave;
I saw you from that very window there,
Making the gravel leap and leap in air,
Leap up, like that, like that, and land so lightly
And roll back down the mound beside the hole."
"Leap up, like that, like that, and land": it isn't a description of the action; it is the precise rhythmic signature of the action redone in language. Frost was a wizard at that kind of effect. Most of his lines fall somewhere between these two extremes of strict adherence to and open defiance of the meter. The lines are, he wrote "apprehended by the ear. . . . The most original writer catches them fresh from talk, where they grow spontaneously."
Around the time Frost wrote those words, his family was living what he termed their "mildly literary life" in a London suburb, calling occasionally on Pound ("six inches taller for his hair," with a coat of "heavy black velvet") and Yeats, both of whom had endorsed Frost in ways that Frost found inadequate. T. S. Eliot arrived in London a year later; his literary début was still several years off, and he never appears in these letters. Modernism was stirring, the war was coming. It had been more than two years since December, 1910, the moment, Virginia Woolf said, when "human character changed." The family's response to all this was to get out of London's orbit entirely, to Gloucestershire, where the landscape and the acoustics were more like Derry.
Soon, Frost was back home in New Hampshire, buying and selling property, taking and quitting jobs, making and losing friends, and, in the letters that close this volume, shaping his reputation with, one suspects, the sense that someone in the future would be there listening. He was becoming that Frost we all can picture, "the Only Genuine Robert Frost in Captivity," as Randall Jarrell put it. Perhaps two-thirds of his best poems had been written. Frost had once taught a friend's child, he wrote, "a way to make a big splash with a small object and a small splash with a large object." These letters, showing Frost at home in metaphor, if nowhere else, expand upon that lesson. He threw in his lot with small objects; poems, he wrote, provided nothing more than a "momentary stay against confusion." His own oppositional modernism was as revolutionary as Eliot's, though it arose not from divine afflatus but, as the title of one of his poems has it, from "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things." In a letter to a friend on May 18, 1914, Frost describes a visitor to his home in Gloucestershire, the poet W. H. Davies, and some of the hazards of ignorance:
He set about encouraging Lesley [Frost's daughter, then fifteen] to write about nature. It would be good practice for a child. He admitted that he had used it up as copy. Lesley is old enough to have to struggle to keep a straight face in such circumstances. There now, he said, see that little bird, that little green one, I wonder what kind he is. Says Lesley It's a sparrow and it isnt green, is it? And Davies stumped into the house. He doesn't really know nature at all. He has lately been telling the British public that the American robin isn't red breasted and it has no note that he has ever heard. ♦


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Special people deserve special treats. My son's godmother and my best friend in this whole wide world celebrated her birthday this week. Usually I'm never in town on her birthday, but this time around I got lucky. It's amazing how time flies when you are in the company of the people you simply adore … priceless moments. Since I've had very few chances to cook for my darling friend, I knew instantly I had to bake for her this birthday. She's intolerant to dairy and doesn't eat store bought stuff. All the more reason to make something special for her. I opted for my all time favourite financiers aka friands 'cuz they just always turn out so good. I've previously made them here and here . This time around I decided to do a non-dairy chocolate version topped with a non dairy ganache (taken from David Lebovitz) and sprinkled with a Roasted Almond brittle coated with chocolate. I think they all worked so magically together … The soft, moist, delicate and not so sweet cake with a rich chocolate ganache topped with a crackling and crunchy chocolate coated roasted almonds in caramel. It was a big winner .
100 gms margarine/butter
100 gms grated dark chocolate grated
140 gms icing sugar
25 gms plain flour
85 gms ground almonds
3 large egg whites
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10 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
½ cup water
¾ cup margarine/butter
Roasted Almond in Caramel coated with chocolate – Topping
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon margarine/butter
2 cups roasted almonds slivered
1 cup chopped dark chocolate
Start with making the chocolate coated almonds in caramel first . You could even start a day ahead. Melt the sugar in a pot . Stir continuously and when it all melts, with the colour starting to change and turns a rich amber colour, slip in the butter mixing it well. Add the roasted almonds. The almonds should be way more and the caramel just enough to coat it. Take off the heat and pour it out on a greased surface or marble slab. Quickly with a rolling pin, flatten it out and let it cool. Now melt the chocolate in another pot and coat the brittle in the chocolate, making a thick coating and place it on greaseproof paper and let it set. Then finely chop these up making thin chards and save them for later.
For the Financiers , preheat oven to 180C. Melt the margarine in a microwave and keep aside. Sift the icing sugar and flour in a bowl. Stir in the ground almonds and grated chocolate. Whisk the egg whites to soft peak stage and fold them into the dry mixture. Now pour in the butter and mix gently, incorporating everything together. Pour into greased financier tins or cupcake moulds until they are 3/4th full. Bake for 15 mins. Don't overbake them, they need to be moist within. Let them cool. To make the frosting melt the chopped chocolate with the water in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water, stirring occasionally until melted. Remove the bowl from the pan of water. Add the margarine and whisk them into the chocolate until completely melted and the ganache is smooth. Cool until spreadable, which may take about 1 hour at room temperature or just chuck it in the freezer till its set. Then scoop out and put it in a piping bag with a star nozzle. Pipe onto the cupcakes and generously sprinkle with the chocolate almond topping. Tastes best at room temperature.


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IG calls for pilot program to help uncover Social Security fraud.
For years, a rock musician collected federal benefits from Social Security Disability Insurance. But this January, the Social Security Administration cut him off, the agency's inspector general told a House panel on Wednesday.
The reason? His posts on social media revealed to agency claims reviewers and IG auditors that he was continuing to perform and raise funds for his organization.
"Social media is good tool, and we have to move to the 21st century," Patrick O'Carroll Jr., inspector general of SSA, told the claims and benefits subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Images from Facebook and Twitter "are part of the picture, though not the picture itself," when it comes to detecting undeserving recipients.
The issue arose at a hearing called by subcommittee Chairman James Lankford, R-Okla., on why SSA is behind schedule in assessing eligibility in both disability insurance and Supplemental Security income -- with the backlog of continuing reviews now at 1.3 million. The hearing also examined the rising costs of the program that some say is riddled with fraud.
"This program intended to fight poverty is perpetuating poverty," Lankford said, citing some administrative law judges who are approving as many as 80 percent of recipients' claims.
Ranking member Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., joined Lankford recently in sending a letter with 11 recommendations for guidance for improving the accuracy of claims reviews to improve overall "program integrity."
But she and other Democrats stressed that the program known as continuing disability reviews is a "good investment," bringing in $9 in recovered payments for every $1 allocated. The 1.3 million backlog and the recently reported $83.6 million in improper payments "are unacceptable," Speier said. "But part of what we're asking is going to require more resources to do it well."
When the program won a surge in funding in 1996, lawmakers and agency officials noted, the backlog that existed then was eliminated in six years.
Since the continuing reviews began in the 1980s, they have contributed to a savings of $2.7 billion. According to Daniel Bertoni, director of education, workforce and income security programs at the Government Accountability Office, the numbers of adult and child case reviews conducted fell by 70 percent from fiscal 2000 to fiscal 2011. "The SSA has taken some steps, but it continues to be problematic," he said. The system of workplace disability insurance, which has been on GAO's list of high-risk programs for a decade, "needs modernizing," he said. "We're no longer the manual-labor economy we were 20 years ago."
Marianna La Canfora, SSA's acting deputy commissioner for retirement and disability policy, argued for steadier long-term funding, saying, "You get what you pay for." She said she was pleased Congress came through with full funding this year that will allow 510,000 medical continuing disability reviews and 888,000 next year. The Obama administration, she noted, has proposed to guarantee funding for the future.
Meanwhile, the agency in recent years has set "priorities of what returns the most to taxpayers," which means more focus on adult fraud and less on cases involving children, because children's benefits are lower. "As history has shown," she testified, "the provision (or availability) of timely, sustained, and adequate resources is the single most important way to ensure that backlogs do not develop in program integrity reviews."
Jennifer Nottingham, president of the National Association of Disability Examiners, noted that the SSA workforce, which has declined by 11,000 in recent years, struggled with the hiring freeze and the need for training.
Using social media to expose fraud "could be useful," Nottingham said.
But when Speier asked the SSA official whether the use of social media was allowed under agency policy, La Canfora said her policy is not to use such evidence "because it's only one piece."
O'Carroll said he would like a pilot program in using social media in fraud investigations. And though grateful for the 22,000 annual referrals his auditors receive from SSA staff, he thinks the agency needs to "better balance customer service with stewardship responsibilities."
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Cirie and Natalie may have been gloating last night about how stupid Erik was but they were just as stupid. They knew how close Parvati and Amanda were and should have known the only way to win against thim was to separate them. Face it Erik, Natalie and Cirie had no true alliance and were basically playing the game 1 week at a time. They had the perfect opportunity to band together and vote out Amanda or Parvati. I know they wanted an all girl F4 but I believe Natalie and Cirie would have had a better chance with Erik. Wouldn't it have been nice to see smug "I don't need the HII" Parvati blindsided!!!
WOW jeff makes a comment on who wins ~ UUMM hello he knows who wins!
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Audio conference on clinical management of haemolytic uremic syndrome and severe Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infections, ECDC, 9 June 2011Archived
In the context of the ongoing outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) that affects by now citizens from 13 EU member states, it is crucial not only to align the efforts regarding investigation and control of the outbreak but also to share knowledge among practitioners across Europe on the patho-physiological and clinical characteristics of infection caused by this unusual epidemic strain, and review patient management options.
German authorities issue a joint statement on the Shiga toxin-producing E.coli outbreakArchived
Today, the German authorities published a press release on the current Shiga toxin-producing E.coli outbreak. In their joint statement they recommended in particular to abstain from eating raw sprouts.
EFSA Task Force reports on Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) outbreakArchived
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a new report from its Task Force on the Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) outbreak in Germany and France. The Task Force has now concluded that one lot of fenugreek seeds imported from Egypt and used to produce sprouts is the most likely common link between the two outbreaks. EFSA continues to advise consumers not to grow sprouts for their own consumption and not to eat sprouts or sprouted seeds unless they have been cooked thoroughly.


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The catastrophic fire at Notre Dame in Paris has made headlines both at home and abroad after flames tore through the historic cathedral.
French president Emmanuel Macron said sadness would be felt across the nation and pledged the country would rebuild parts ravaged by the blaze.
La Croix, a daily Catholic paper in France, carries the headline "Heart in ashes".
An editorial piece on the front page by editor Guillaume Goubert reads: "A country such as ours, profoundly secular, de-Christianised and which suddenly felt its heart shake to see a church aflame.
"The cathedral in Paris clearly has a specific place in the collective consciousness, in France, in Europe and in the world.
"It has been the most visited monument in Europe for centuries, through wars and revolutions.
"Without anyone being aware of it, this vessel of stone and wood speaks to our rooting in a history where the Christian faith held a decisive place."
Le Figaro carries the headline "Disaster", writing that "Faced with this scene of loss, accounts of solidarity and sadness have flocked from across the world", while Liberation leads with a picture of the fire with "Our tragedy".
"Our history turned to ashes", says L'Est Republicain, as Le Telegramme runs with the headline "The unthinkable".
Nice-Matin concludes: "The fire quickly took hold and the spire, 96 metres high, collapsed into oblivion. The damage could prove catastrophic."
Elsewhere in continental Europe, Belgian paper De Standaard carries a picture of the spire on the verge of collapse with the headline "Notre-Dame de Paris (1260-2019), while Het Belang Van Limburg runs with "Paris is crying".
Spanish daily El Pais calls the cathedral a "symbol of European culture", and Le Soir carries the headline "Flames and tears", writing: "With the fire at Notre Dame, more than 800 years of history have gone up in smoke."


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Kohlrabi is a new ingredient for me, as it is for many people I have spoken to recently. It turns out, this vegetable has a crisp, crunchy texture which is perfect for salads. As a matter of fact, the salad that follows is a crunchy salad in general, with crisp apples, and candied pecans that requires a smooth, contrasting dressing.
Kohlrabi and Apple Salad with Creamy Mustard Dressing
2 green kohlrabi, peeled and sliced or diced
2 Fuji or SweeTango Apples, sliced or diced
1/4 cup candied pecans
Combine the kohlrabi, apples, and the dressing. Toss well to combine. Top with candied pecans to serve.


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Marzipan, apricot preserves, and a dark-chocolate glaze turn a pistachio butter cake into an irresistible dessert reminiscent of European petits fours glacés.–Alisa Huntsman
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Let's admit it. We've all had times when we wished those dainty petit fours were a little bigger. Or a lot bigger. With this recipe, your wish is granted.
Pistachio Petit-Four Cake
- Quick Glance
- Serves 12 to 16
Special Equipment: Three 8-inch round cake pans
IngredientsEmail Grocery List
- For the cake
- 3/4 cup skinned pistachio nuts
- 1 2/3 cups granulated sugar
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 5 large eggs, lightly beaten
- For the marzipan
- 8 ounces almond paste
- 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 cup light corn syrup
- For the dark ganache glaze
- 1 pound extra-bittersweet chocolate
- 1 1/4 cups heavy cream
- 3/4 cup apricot preserves
- Marzipan roses, for decoration (optional; see instructions below the recipe)
- Make the cake
- 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Butter three 8-inch round cake pans. Line the bottom of each pan with a round of parchment or waxed paper cut to to fit and butter the paper.
- 2. Spread the pistachios on a rimmed baking sheet and slide it in the oven for 7 to 10 minutes, or until lightly colored. Transfer the pistachios to a plate and let cool completely. Finely chop the pistachios. Set 1/4 cup aside for sprinkling.
- 3. Dump the remaining 1/2 cup pistachios in a food processor. Add the sugar and pulse just enough to grind them finely. Pour the nuts and sugar into the bowl of a stand mixer, add the flour, baking powder, and salt, and blend on low for 30 seconds. Add the butter, milk, and vanilla and, with the mixer still on low, beat until completely incorporated.
- 4. Increase the speed to medium and beat until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the beaten eggs in 2 or 3 additions, scraping down the sides of the bowl well and mixing only long enough to blend after each addition. Divide the batter evenly among the 3 prepared pans, smoothing the surface with a spatula.
- 5. Bake for about 25 minutes, or until a cake tester or wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let the cakes cool in the pans for 10 minutes. Turn the cakes out onto wire racks, carefully peel off the paper liners, and let them cool completely.
- Make the marzipan
- 6. Crumble the almond paste into the bowl of a stand mixer. Turn the mixer on low speed to soften the almond paste. Add the confectioners' sugar and corn syrup and beat until smooth. Wrap well in plastic so it doesn't dry out and let rest at room temperature for 1 to 2 hours before rolling out.
- Make the dark ganache glaze
- 7. Chop the chocolate coarsely and put it in a heatproof bowl. In a small saucepan, bring the cream to a bare simmer. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and let it stand for 5 minutes. Whisk until smooth and use the glaze soon after making so that it doesn't set.
- Assemble the cake
- 8. Roll out 1/3 of the marzipan on a work surface lightly dusted with confectioners' sugar to about 1/8 inch thickness.
- 9. Place an empty cake pan upside down on the marzipan and trim around it with a small knife to make an 8-inch round. Repeat 2 more times with the remaining marzipan. Save all your scraps to make marzipan roses for decoration, if you like. (See instructions below the recipe.)
- 10. Place a cake layer on a cake board or cake stand, flat side up. Spread 1/4 cup preserves evenly over the top, leaving a 1/4-inch plain border all around. Place 1 marzipan round on top of the preserves and spread 1/3 cup dark ganache glaze over the marzipan so that it completely covers the surface. Repeat with the second cake layer, adding more preserves, another round of marzipan, and more dark chocolate ganache glaze. Top with the third cake layer. Spread the last of the apricot preserves over the top of the cake and cover it with the last round of marzipan.
- 11. Place the cake on a wire cooling rack nestled in a baking pan. Pour the remaining ganache glaze over the cake, in several additions, spreading to coat the top and sides. Allow the ganache to set. Garnish the cake with the reserved chopped toasted pistachio nuts and a single marzipan rose or several smaller roses.
- First, tint the marzipan, if desired, by kneading in a tiny amount paste food coloring, dabbing just a small bit of paste onto the marzipan with the tip of a toothpick. Flatten the tinted marzipan into a disk and roll out on a work surface dusted with confectioners' sugar or between 2 sheets waxed paper to a sheet 1/8 inch thick.
- With a 1 1/2-inch round cookie cutter, cut out 8 or 9 circles. Cover all the marzipan you are not using immediately with plastic wrap so it doesn't dry out.
- Roll a piece of marzipan into a ball the size of a marble and pinch with your fingers to shape into a cone about 1 to 1 1/4 inches high, tapering to a fine point at the top.
- Take another round of marzipan and wrap it like a petal around the cone, pinching it at the bottom to adhere and at the top to thin and ruffle slightly like a flower. Repeat with the remaining "petals," overlapping slightly as you work your way around. If necessary, use a little water to help glue the marzipan in place.
Pistachio Petit-Four Cake Recipe © 2007 Alisa Huntsman. Photo © 2007 Tina Rupp. All rights reserved. All materials used with permission.
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You Don't Have to Change Your Lifestyle to Save
I'll never forget my best money-saving moment. A few years ago, I went into an upscale boutique in New York City and tried on a gorgeous, floor-length, black-and-gold chiffon halter dress that was perfect for my friend's upcoming black-tie wedding. It was the last one on the rack, in just my size and was on sale for $300 … which, unfortunately, was still way out of my budget. I was about to slip it back on the hanger and walk away, but then I figured — hey, I have nothing to lose. I might as well see if that price tag's set in stone.
I'd been getting friendly with the salesperson, so I took him aside and discreetly asked whether he might be able to come down on the cost. To my surprise and delight, he slashed it by $100 on the spot and I stepped out of there with a head-turning gown. Lesson learned? Saving money doesn't have to mean sacrificing your style — or your lifestyle. With a little creativity, you can score amazing deals on everything from your groceries to your gym membership.
Don't toss out a container of yogurt that's past its sell-by date or eggs that have been sitting in your fridge for a month — chances are, they're still perfectly good. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, American families throw out 25 percent of the food and beverages they buy, which adds up to about $1,365 to $2,275 annually. Part of the problem is that people confuse "use by," "sell by" and "best by" dates. The "best by" date suggests when a product is at peak quality, and the "sell by" date is intended to let retailers know when to replenish stock — neither are an indication of safety. To figure out whether something's edible or not, check out StillTasty, which draws information from organizations like the FDA, USDA and CDC. (FYI: With adequate refrigeration, eggs can last three to five weeks after the sell-by date, and yogurt seven to 10 days.)
While we're at it, chopping your own fruit and vegetables, rather than buying them pre-cut, is not only fresher and more nutritious, but yields big savings. For example, on online grocer FreshDirect, an 8-ounce container of grapes that have been plucked off the stem costs $3.99, whereas you could buy a whole pound of grapes on the stem for $3.79 — 20 cents less for twice as much. Likewise, 10 ounces of diced carrots will run you $3.99, versus $1.89 for a pound of regular carrots. Same goes for snacks: A five-pack box of "100-Calorie" Goldfish that totals 3.6 ounces goes for $3.29, compared to $2.49 for a single 6.6-ounce box … you do the math.
Whether I'm buying a Banana Republic sweater or snowshoes from EMS, I always Google the merchandiser's name plus "promo code" before going through with the purchase online. It takes 10 seconds, and about half the time I come up with a deal. Cardpool, a service that lets people buy discounted gift cards for up to 35 percent off the face value, is another good option.
For ridiculous deals on designer goods, check out swap sites. SnobSwap lets you shop for items you can buy outright, swap for something of yours, or make an offer on with a combo of both. Items range from a vintage YSL jacket for $275 to a Kate Spade bag for $89.95. (They consult an independent expert authenticator so you can be confident those Chanel booties are the real deal.) On Bib + Tuck, users upload pictures of stuff in their closet and assign each item a virtual price in "bucks." Every time someone buys your clothes or accessories, you receive bucks that you can put toward purchasing something else on the site (as the site's tagline suggests, you're essentially shopping without spending). A recent search turned up a Lanvin dress for 150 BT bucks and an Opening Ceremony bag for 275 BT bucks.
If you haven't been to the library since you were wearing a mood ring and listening to the Spice Girls, it's time to take advantage of this overlooked, totally gratis resource. Many libraries now carry ebooks (you can usually download them for two-week stints, the same as paper books), so you don't even have to leave your house. And don't forget they also have a wide collection of movies.
Prefer to own a book outright? Try PaperBackSwap: List titles you'd like to trade in on the site, or select one you want to read from almost five million options. You rack up book credits every time someone picks one of your books, which you can then use to order a new read.
Gym Membership
Some health insurance providers will partly reimburse you for a gym membership, yoga classes, a personal trainer or exercise equipment. (After all, it makes sense: A fit member costs less in the long run.) I used to have Oxford Healthcare, and they sent me a $200 check every year. Additionally, your employer might pay for a portion of fitness-related activities; check with your HR department.
Also, don't hesitate to negotiate. "Sometimes, finding great deals is about simply being willing to put your pride aside and ask for a discount," says Anna Newall Jones who blogs at AndThenWeSaved. Just the other day, she called up her gym, spoke with a manager there and told him, "I won't be able to go to the gym in the upcoming months as often as I usually do. Would you be able to give me a discount?" He shaved $20 off her monthly fee. And once you join, don't forget to take advantage of "first class free" offers and free introductory training sessions.
Buying plane tickets is a crapshoot — the prices can change, sometimes drastically, in a matter of minutes. Here's how to protect yourself: After purchasing a flight, enter the details into Yapta. They'll alert you if the price of the ticket goes down, and depending on how much it falls, some airlines will refund your money. (JetBlue, for example, will give you money back on any price dip, whereas United and Delta will only refund drops of $200 or more.)
It's also smart to check out affinity group discounts — you can get decent deals on rental cars and hotel rooms (plus loads of non-travel related stuff) through groups like AAA and AARP. And you can find amazing discounts on flash vacation deal sites, like JetSetter, Groupon Getaways and Living Social Escapes. Just to give you a sense of the savings potential, Groupon Getaways recently featured an all-inclusive five-day vacation in the Dominican Republic for $849, including airfare — savings of 41 percent — and Gilt had rooms at the swanky hotel, The Standard, in New York City going for $195 a night (compared to $275 on the hotel's website).
And if you're going skiing this season, bookmark Liftopia: you can save up to 80 percent on lift tickets by booking through the site.
Household Items
If you want to get truly savvy about shopping, try stockpiling. "It's the single strategy that saves the most money," says Chrissy Pate, coauthor of "BeCentsable: How to Cut Your Household Budget in Half." "The idea is to buy items when they are at their lowest price and to purchase enough to last your family until the items are at their lowest price again (usually three to six months later). Recently I was able to get Kellogg's cereal for just $0.08 a box by combining a great sale with coupons. Cereal stays fresh for several months, so I took advantage of the stock-up principle and saved 98 percent on the cost of cereal for my family." And since you're scoring the stuff at rock-bottom prices, you only have to spend a few extra dollars a week to build up a good stash.
Not big on coupons? Consider buying in bulk from wholesale club like Costco, Sam's Club or BJ's. You can purchase a membership with a friend and then split the benefits so you won't have five bottles of laundry detergent lying around the house.
Slash your bills by stacking new member deals: For instance, after your Fios contract is up, switch to DirecTV in order to get their new member package. Then, when you've run through all your options, sweet-talk your way into extending a discount. I signed up for the Internet with TimeWarner under a $24.99 per month plan for the first year. When the contract expired and my rates doubled, I asked if they'd continue the deal for another year. Without much balking, the representative agreed.
Jones used a similar tactic with her cell phone company. "A month before my old plan expired, I called up and told the associate that I found a month-to-month plan online and would like to switch to that since it offers more than what I'm getting now and it's $30 less," she says. And as with gym reimbursements, if you work for a big company, it's worth checking in with HR to see what discounts they offer. My husband gets deals on everything from his mobile plan to electronics. (If you work for yourself, you can deduct some of your cell phone and Internet costs when you file your taxes, if you're using them for business.)
If you have a landline (no judgment!), consider switching to a VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol, which allows you to make calls via the Internet instead of a phone line), such as Vonage ($26.99 a month) or Ooma (you have to buy a box for around $150, but then all U.S. calls are free — aside from shelling out a few bucks in taxes).
Not only do online banks tend to offer higher-yielding savings accounts than their brick-and-mortar counterparts, but they also usually give you free checking and ATM transactions. I use Charles Schwab, and can take money out of any machine without being docked a fee — they even reimburse the $2 fee that the participating bank extracts on their end. And since you can now take pictures of checks and upload them using your phone for fast, wireless deposits, there's little benefit to sticking with an old-school bank.
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Which will you likely partake in this year? I'm leaning more toward Small Business Saturday which sounds really cool and Cyber Monday.
Which will you likely partake in this year? I'm leaning more toward Small Business Saturday which sounds really cool and Cyber Monday.
Holiday Single Girl - a blog for singles who love Christmas
Never heard of small business Saturday - but it sounds better than Black Friday!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
Small business Sat. is a new Amex thing- I heard there might be some great offers involved. My husband bought me a pair of diamond stud earrings on Cyber Monday from McQueenJewelry.com last year; I'm hoping they have the same great deals this year so I can buy a pair for my daughter (last year the coupon code was "CBM25").
None of the above. I'm done.
Wow MinnesotaMike! I'm impressed! Though I'm sure on this board, you're not the only one who's done.
Holiday Single Girl - a blog for singles who love Christmas
Finished the last of my wrapping this morning. I am officially in "sit back and enjoy" mode.
Black Friday
Well, I didn't participe in Black Friday sales. I did order a few DVD's on line. They weren't on sale anywhere and Walmart didn't have the two I wanted so went online for them!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
black friday!
I believe Small Business Saturday is something new that people have created this year begins small business are the ones hardest hit with this recession. I may look and see what kind of deals are abound for this Cyber Monday business. http://www.overstock.com/ generally has some really good deals that day.
I am basically done buying things for the family -- time to start buying for myself.
"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys." ~Charles Dickens


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Tyler Perry dominated the nominations for the NAACP's 42nd annual Image Awards.
Perry earned 19 nods Wednesday, including best director for "For Colored Girls" and best screenplay for "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?" The films will compete for movie honors alongside "Just Wright," ''The Book of Eli" and "The Kids Are All Right." His TBS television series, "Tyler Perry's House of Payne," was nominated for best comedy series.
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Janet Jackson ("Why Did I Get Married Too") is up for best actress with Halle Berry ("Frankie&Alice"), Kerry Washington ("Night Catches Us"), Queen Latifah ("Just Wright") and Zoe Saldana ("The Losers"), while her co-star Jill Scott will compete in the best supporting actress category with "For Colored Girls" actresses Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise, Phylicia Rashad and Whoopi Goldberg.
Denzel Washington ("The Book of Eli") is nominated for best actor with Anthony Mackie ("Night CatchesUs"), Common ("Just Wright"), Jaden Smith ("The Karate Kid") and Morgan Freeman ("Red"). Best supporting actor nominees are Don Cheadle ("Brooklyn's Finest"), Idris Elba ("Takers"), Justin Timberlake ("The Social Network"), Michael Ealy ("For Colored Girls"), and Samuel L. Jackson ("Mother and Child").
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"House of Payne" is nominated for best comedy series against NBC's "30 Rock," Fox's "Glee," ABC's "Modern Family" and TBS' "Are We There Yet?" The best drama series contenders are TNT's "HawthoRNe," NBC's "Law&Order: Special Victims Unit," HBO's "Treme" and ABC's "Detroit 1-8-7" and "Grey's Anatomy."
Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy," Smokey Robinson's "Now and Then," Usher's "Raymond vs. Raymond," Sade's "Soldier of Love" and "Wake Up!" by John Legend and the Roots are best album nominees.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Image Awards honor diversity in the arts and will be presented March 4.
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Welcome to the Skipping Stones Design Blog Hop to celebrate the release of two new sets, Heartsong and Purse Birthday! Today the Stamp Tramps and Guests of SSD will be featuring cards using Heartsong. If you've just happened upon my blog today, make sure to start from the beginning at Skipping Stones Design. If you have already begun hopping with us, you should have arrived here from Rae's blog.
Combined with the blog hop today, it's also Skipping Stones Sketch Tuesday which means we're showcasing another great creation from our Guest Sketch Artist this month, Amy Sheffer. We'd love for you to play along with the sketch and link your card at the Skipping Stones Blog. A lucky winner that joins our sketch challenge will win a fabulous prize!!!
Now...on to my card! I created the background using Sally the Cricut (Just Because Cards Cartridge). Ummm...WAY easier than trying to punch in a rectangle! Just say'n. HA!
The butterflies are stamped, of course, with the amazing new Heartsong set from Skipping Stones! I LOVE this stamp set! It is so pretty! I attached them in the center and then lifted the wings a bit to give them dimension. I love that they look like they will flutter right off the card!
I hope you will join us with the sketch this week for your chance to win! Your next stop on the blog hop is Becky's blog!
If you get lost along the way, I have included the entire blog hop list below! Have fun hopping!!!
Amy Sheffer
Wendy Jordan
Tammie Beaton
Tami Mayberry
Rae Barthel
Jennifer Ingle
Becky Olsen
Kandi Phillips
Jen del Muro
Gladys Chia
Brenda Weaver
Barb Turpin
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Ingredients and Preparation
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- In a small bowl, combine mayonnaise and mustard.
- Place chicken breasts in a baking dish coated with cooking spray. Spread mustard mixture over tops of chicken. Sprinkle with almonds and bake 20-25 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through.


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The near 19,000 in attendance have known exactly what they're going to get from these two over the past 7 years.
Over at Leafs Nation, Cam Charron, as he's one to do, rather eloquently dismantled the narrative that Phil Kessel is an inconsistent, streaky scorer. It got me thinking about the Sedins, who have been consistency personified since the (last) lockout. Even the biggest Sedin detractors – and there certainly have their fair share – can't help but marvel at how reliable they have been over the course of their peak seasons.
Since 2005-06, they have been a virtual lock for 75-85 points each (with both of them having 1 remarkable outlier of a season jumbled in there), while lacing the skates up and being out there every single night. While they haven't had the prolific 60-goal campaign of an Alex Ovechkin or Steven Stamkos, or even a miraculous run along the lines of Sidney Crosby in 2010, they have routinely found themselves atop the list of points leaders come the end of the season.
Consistency is a skill. It's a skill which separates the transcendent players from the ones that are just good. It's impressive seeing a player put together a memorable season which vaults him into the discussion for the best the game has to offer. What's even more impressive, though, is seeing a player prove that it wasn't an abberation by maintaining his place at the top.
What do the numbers, and trends, say about the Sedins' consistency over the years?
Read Past the Jump for More.
I took the time to peruse through their individual game logs since the '06-'07 season, compiling some of the more prevalent numbers. I looked at:
a) The number of times they were held pointless.
b) The number of times they were held off of the scoresheet in back to back games.
c) Their longest individual pointless streak.
d) The number of times they racked up a multi-point game.
You'll note that the '05-'06 season is nowhere to be found in the above charts, even though that was technically the first season following the lockout. I blame the software, which would only allow me to include 6 years worth of data. The numbers for that season for Henrik are (28, 8, 4, 15), while Daniel's are (31, 9, 3, 18).
For something to be considered a streak, it must occur consecutively. And what stood out to me from these numbers is just how few times we have been able to say that the Sedins have been on a pointless 'streak' over the last 7 years. If you've been working the prop bets that they'd register a point in games following ones where they were held off of the scoresheet, you're probably doing well for yourself financially these days.
It's no wonder that the Canucks as a team have been able to maintain regular season success over that time frame; their best players have managed to avoid any sort of prolonged slumps. I'm not sure if you were aware of this, but the best players playing their best hockey usually correlates positively with winning games. For those scoring at home, from '06-'07 to '11-'12, the longest pointless streaks for the Canucks have been 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, and 2. Avoiding extended dry spells is a good recipe for finishing in the 100's in points. The Sedins have set the standard, and the other complimentary pieces have fallen into line.
Over the course of an 82-game season, sustaining the types of bumps and bruises that may not necessarily be enough to take you out of the game, but do just enough harm to limit your effectiveness is inevitable. Yet the Sedins have somehow – I suspect it has to do with some sort of twin magic – managed to avoid a lull in play despite that fact, at least up until this point of their careers. There's immense value in this. The season is a marathon, not a sprint.
Consistency may not necessarily be sexy, but man, there's something comforting about knowing exactly what you're going to get on a nightly basis.


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The police in Mill Valley, Calif. have a bizarre new case on their hands: a case of a stolen fork.
It's not your everyday fork. This one weighs 50 pounds, with a length of nearly 5 feet. And it belongs to celebrity chef Tyler Florence.
For nearly a year, the enormous utensil resided on the front facade of The Tyler Florence Shop in Mill Valley, a normally quaint, sleepy town across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. The fork was stolen from the shop sometime around June 10, when employees reported it missing.
The shop, owned by celebrity chef Tyler Florence, features regular-sized culinary tools and cookware. Florence is a star of the cable channel Food Network, and has spent over 15 years traveling around the world for culinary purposes.
Florence and his wife find it amusing that vandals went to the effort to steal the fork, one of two which were hand-crafted by a San Francisco artist for the shop's front facade when it opened less than a year ago.
Users of Twitter also appear to find the story amusing, and are helping to spread the word. Twitter user indypupple jokingly tweeted: "Tyler Florence's giant decorative fork stolen? WTF? (where's the fork?)"
Mill Valley Police say they do not have any leads and that they are watching the Internet -- Craigslist in particular --for any possible leads.
As for replacing the fork Florence's wife says the utensil's artist is ready to make another one, but they are waiting to see if police can recover the stolen one first.


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by Rob Cox, June 1, 2011
Lifeguard! Put down the Phone and No One Gets Hurt!
We recently had to fire one of our pool lifeguards this year, only 2 days into the summer. She could not sit in the lifeguard stand without the comfort of her cell phone. She knew the rules, but could not resist the device connecting her to a world outside of the pool.
Lifeguards or any person supervising the swimming of others ~ texting, talking, loading apps or surfing sites while supervising is NOT proper swimmer supervision.
Just as these wonderful devices have created tragedy on the highways and parking lots of America, young swimmers have drowned beneath the diverted eyes of a lifeguard who could not disconnect from their device.
In a pool in Ireland last year, a Dublin boy drowned beneath a lifeguard who later admitted texting in a hearing. The family of the victim welcomed a suggestion banning life-guards from using mobile devices while on duty.
Also last year, Willie Batee, a swimmer at Holiday Shores Club House in Wisconsin drowned while lifeguards were distracted by their cell phones. Batee's body was not pulled out for over an hour. Large judgments were awarded for negligence in both cases.
Let's watch our lifeguards – any seen using a cell phone, for any purpose, other than dialing 911, should be immediately reprimanded – if not discharged and replaced. Texting lifeguards have caused only a small number of drowning thus far, but a preventable drowning is a preventable drowning.
Help spread the word to your congressman, city council member or pool board member to ban the use of cell phones while in the guard chair or while on duty. And remember this at your own backyard swimming pool -
- Texting, Talking or using a cell device
- Reading magazines
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Intel and AMD Faceoff at Hot Chips '12
This week is the annual Hot Chips symposium on high performance microprocessors and, as usual, it is dominated by news from AMD and Intel on both their existing chips and on future processors. AMD probably had the most to discuss, talking about its upcoming Jaguar and Steamroller core designs. Intel disclosed a bit more about its current Ivy Bridge chips and upcoming Xeon Phi (Knights Corner) many-integrated-core design.
Almost all of these talks divulged architectural details of the chips, but did not give details of the specific products. Here are some highlights from earlier in the week:
AMD Details Steamroller, Trinity, Jaguar
Perhaps the biggest news revolved around AMD's upcoming Steamroller architecture, expected to be the heart of the company's high-end and server products next year.
Mark Papermaster, the company's senior VP and CTO, spoke in his keynote about the "Surround Computing" era with ubiquitous computing supporting consistent computing experiences across a wide range of devices, all connected to the cloud. As the company has before, he stressed the benefits of heterogeneous system architecture and accelerated processing units (APUs), AMD's name for chips that combine CPUs and GPU capability.
The upcoming Steamroller design seems to fix some bottlenecks in the company's existing Bulldozer architecture, in which two integer cores share a single floating point unit and other components. The changes are meant to "feed the cores faster" to improve the single-core performance. Among other things, the cores will still share a single fetch unit, but each integer core will now get its own decode module and an increased instruction cache size. Overall, he said, this will result in a 30 percent improvement in operations per clock cycle. The floating point unit has also been "rebalanced" and streamlined and the level 2 cache now supports dynamic resizing.
Papermaster also discussed the company's Freedom Fabric technology, an off-chip interconnect fabric developed by SeaMicro, which AMD recently purchased. He said this will allow system makers to create systems with hundreds, and eventually thousands, of SoC modules. This can significantly improve the total cost of ownership in certain applications.
Overall, he concluded, "The pure speeds and feeds race is over. It's about the solution."
Sebastien Nussbaum, an AMD fellow and architect of the Trinity SoC, described the company's existing Trinity SoC used in the company's A-series processors as a "follow-on" to last year's Llano processor, using improved Piledriver cores instead of the older Stars core. It offers better performance and power efficiency, support for faster memory and low-power DDR, a second-generation Radeon GPU, media accelerators, and enhanced display support (up to three simultaneous displays).
Trinity is manufactured on a 32nm SOI process and has 1.3 billion transistors on a die that measures 246 square millimeters, with the GPU occupying roughly half of the real estate.
The basic design is very similar to the Bulldozer architecture with dual-core x86 modules with a shared Floating Point Unit and other components. But Piledriver has a number of enhancements, many aimed at better power management.
This results in 30 percent higher CPU frequency than the old Stars core in Llano, Nussbaum said, with 10 percent lower dynamic power than in the company's Bulldozer architecture used in its FX and Opteron server chips. Trinity also includes an improved hardware Unified Video Decoder (UVD) and a GPU with 384 Radeon cores (grouped in 96 stream processors). Nussbaum showed a bunch of performance graphs, generally revealing 20 to 40 percent performance gains compared with Llano in areas like digital media, productivity, file compression, and file encryption. He also discussed Turbo Core 3.0, which means the chip uses less power on typical workloads, but can use more for heavy workloads or 3D gaming.
The company's upcoming Jaguar core will replace the Bobcat core used on AMD's C- and E-series processors aimed at low-cost, low-power devices. The big change seems to be a move to a quad-core design.
Jeff Rupley, AMD fellow and chief architect of the Jaguar core, said that Jaguar uses four cores and a shared level 2 cache, with the core taking up only 3.1 square millimeters on a 28nm process. In contrast, the existing Bobcat design tops out at two cores and uses 4.9 square millimeters on a 40nm process.
In general, the small size comes from a process shrink; otherwise, the core would be slightly larger thanks to some changes for improved performance and better power management. It also supports some new instructions, including 40-bit physical addressing for adding more memory, some enhanced virtualization features, and support for SSE4.1 and 4.2 digital media streaming acceleration functions and AES cryptographic acceleration.
Rupley said the company's goals were to improve performance within a power envelope (including a 15 percent increase in instructions per clock cycle) and to improve process portability, meaning enabling AMD to choose among a variety of potential foundry partners.
Intel Talks Knights Corner, Ivy Bridge
Intel's biggest news perhaps deals with Xeon Phi (formerly known as Knights Corner), its co-processor aimed at the high performance computing market, where the company is trying to compete with GPGPU offerings such as Nivida's Tesla line with its CUDA programming.
George Chrysos, a senior principal engineer at Intel and chief architect of Knights Corner, did not give many of the product details on core counts, frequency or memory bandwidth of the first Xeon Phi processor. He did, however, provide many details of the architecture and how it works. I expect we'll see the actual announcement at the SC12 supercomputing show in November.
The Many Integrated Core (MIC) family is designed specifically for highly-parallel workloads in fields such as physics, chemistry, biology and finance. Chrysos said optimizing for those types of workloads led to specific microarchitectural decisions about how to build the cores and uncores.
The MIC architecture is designed to run the same basic software and use the same tools as other Intel x86 processors, although with some optimizations. As such, it runs a full Linux open-source OS; runs applications written in familiar languages (Fortran, C and C++); supports the x86 memory model; and works with existing x86 libraries, compilers, and debuggers. While you could theoretically run workloads on a standalone Knights Corner chip, it is designed to be used as a co-processor connected to a Xeon server processor over a PCI Express bus.
He said the basic architecture includes more than 50 lightweight multi-threaded x86 cores, as well as a 512-bit wide Vector Processing Unit (VPU), which he described as the widest SIMD (single instruction multiple data) processing unit Intel has ever built. It also has a high-bandwidth interconnect and memory. The vector unit should provide high floating point operations and is clearly a major part of what makes the chip work. Interestingly, he said the 50 or more of the lightweight x86 integer cores account for less than two percent of the die area; the rest is used by the vector unit, massive caches, and interconnects.
Knights Corner runs a virtualized TCP/IP stack over the PCI Express bus so that you access it like a network node. You can have multiple Knights Corner co-processors attached to a Xeon processor and they can communicate directly with one another like a peer-to-peer network. Many HPC applications are already built to run on Linux clusters using MPI (Message Passing Interface), which runs across TCP/IP, so it should be easier to port them to the MIC architecture, he said.
All of these elements, including the cores and multiple GDDR memory controls, are connected over a ring bus, with one large ring for moving data, and multiple smaller rings for moving memory addresses and preserving coherence. Each x86 core is an in-order superscalar design capable of working on four threads simultaneously with a 64KB L1 (32KB instruction and 32KB data) and 512KB of L2 cache. The 512-bit wide SIMD VPU can simultaneously handle 16 single-precision floating point operations or eight double-precession floating point operations.
In addition, the design features 512 KB of level 2 cache and power gating for individual cores and the chip can support more than 8GB of GDDR5 memory.
Chrysos did not show any official performance numbers, but he did show some preliminary data from a test system that he said was good enough to place it at number 150 on The Green500 supercomputers list, edging out systems using GPUs. Of course, we won't really know until the system is final.
Intel also disclosed a few more details of its third-generation Core architecture, known as Ivy Bridge, focusing on power management.
Sanjeev Jahagirdar, principal engineer, explained that Ivy Bridge is a "tick" in Intel's "tick/tock" cadence, meaning it is mostly a process shrink with the same basic CPU design, albeit with some big changes to the graphics. However there are enhancements in a number of areas, ranging from support for a few new instructions and security features to better support for lower power memory and overclocking to some instructions per clock improvements.
He primarily focused on the power management, including embedded power gates (for reducing or turning off power to specific parts of the chips) and "configurable TDP," which allows a great range of power and performance so PC makers and end-users have more flexibility.


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August, 1916: South on the Border
In August, 1916 Sgt. Sam Avery and the rest of the Massachusetts Brigade continued to secure the Border from their base at Camp Cotton (the "City of Tents") outside of El Paso, Texas. The troops received word they would not be needed to invade Mexico after all, which resulted in a loss of morale made worse by a lack of promised financial aid from the State for troops with hardships.
Read the page South on the Border to learn more about the events of the Mexican Revolution that made American military action necessary. Read the page August, 1916 to learn more about the living conditions of the Massachusetts troops at Camp Cotton during the Texas rainy season. Read Sam's correspondence with Em for August as he relates his experiences of camp life and the dangers of patrolling along the border.
August, 1917: Watchful Waiting
Following the formal entry of the United States into the Great War, in August 1917 1st Sgt. Sam Avery and the rest of the 8th Mass. Infantry were mobilized for federal service. The encampments used by the men of the 8th Infantry for training and reorganization were at Lynnfield and Westfield. Read Sam's diary notes and letters about life in the encampments and being reorganized into the 103rd U.S. Infantry.
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In August, 1918 following the Aisne-Marne Offensive, Sam Avery was hospitalized due to the effects of severe gas poisoning. Read about recovery in the AEF base hospital system here. Also, read the August correspondence of Sam and his sister Em which reveals a rare and fascinating dialogue across the miles in wartime. Em's letters were "Returned to Sender" as Sam moved through a series of hospitals over two months, and thus are preserved for us to better understand life on the Home Front during the Great War.
The Soldier's Mail correspondence is published here according to the sequence in which it was written. Therefore, letters are organized in "reverse order" with the most recent at the top. To read them chronologically, readers should start at the bottom and work upwards.


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Commercial real estate investors have two goals: generate cash flow and produce higher returns. However, unlike other investment types, investing in commercial property is not simply a matter of buying at one price and selling for more. Commercial real estate must be considered in terms of the risks and rewards of the type of commercial property, income during the investment period, the investor's own situation, and how value and return are impacted by the economic, market, tax, and legal conditions (particularly zoning) for the market niche.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee for CIA director, John Brennan, said on Thursday he did not try to stop waterboarding, an interrogation technique that some consider torture, as he faced tough congressional questioning on that issue, security leaks and the use of drones to kill U.S. terrorism suspects.
Lawmakers grilled Brennan on controversial counterterrorism tactics used while he was a CIA official under former President George W. Bush and in his current role as counterterrorism adviser to Obama.
Brennan has previously said he objected to the harsh interrogation techniques while at CIA.
But appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee for his confirmation hearing, he acknowledged he did not attempt to stop the program, pointing out he was not in charge of it.
"I did not take steps to stop the CIA's use of those techniques. I was not in the chain of command of that program," Brennan told the hearing. "I had expressed my personal objections and views to some agency colleagues" about waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, nudity and other techniques, he said.
"But I did not try to stop it, because it was something that was being done in a different part of the agency under the authority of others, and it was something that was directed by the administration at the time," he said.
Democrats repeatedly questioned Brennan about the U.S. government's use of armed, unmanned aircraft known as drones. They pressed their demand that the White House provide them with more of the legal documents underpinning its position that Obama can order lethal strikes overseas on U.S. citizens suspected of terrorist activity.
On Wednesday Obama directed the Justice Department to give congressional intelligence committees access to a classified memo on the topic.
The administration has insisted that only lawmakers be allowed access to the classified papers, which means the committee's lawyers are unable to read them.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Intelligence Committee chairwoman, complained to Brennan that the committee's staff had been banned from seeing the administration's classified legal opinion.
Brennan, 57, said the limited access was necessary because of the "exceptional" nature of the issue. He has been central in overseeing drone policy in Obama's administration.
Obama had wanted to pick Brennan for CIA director shortly after his 2008 election. But his chances were derailed mainly by liberal critics over the interrogation techniques used on some terrorism suspects in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Thursday's hearing was recessed shortly after Brennan started speaking because of protesters, who began yelling "Torture is always wrong" and "Stop the drones."
Feinstein ordered the room cleared briefly.
Although there has been no groundswell of opposition to Brennan's confirmation, some of the most intense questioning came from liberal Democrats, not the conservative Republicans who have raised the strongest objections to one of Obama's other nominees - Chuck Hagel, his choice to lead the Pentagon.
Civil liberties groups have criticized the drone program as effectively a green light to assassinate Americans without due process in the courts under the U.S. Constitution.
Senator Ron Wyden, a member of the intelligence committee who has pledged to press Brennan on drones, said in television interviews on Thursday he was encouraged by Obama's decision to provide classified documents, but that more action is needed.
"To make very clear: I am going to push for more declassification of these key kinds of programs, and I think we can do that consistent with national security," he told MSNBC. Asked on NBC if he would still block Brennan's nomination, Wyden declined to give his position.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama supports public discussion of the drone program, and that he has spoken about it publicly and would again.
"The president believes these are weighty matters and questions about how we move forward in our counterterrorism efforts are so important and the need to build a legal structure that guides those efforts, that survives in place beyond this administration," he said.
The White House's reluctance to release the classified information had angered lawmakers, including Democrats like Feinstein of California.
Republicans have praised the drone program.
"The drone program to me is a logical use of how you deal with an enemy combatant," Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said on Wednesday.
Graham, one of the Republican senators most vocally opposed to Hagel's appointment, said he is "totally supportive" of the administration's rationale for using drones.
Brennan first surfaced as an Obama CIA nominee in 2008. He withdrew after human rights activists protested against his public statements about the agency's use of what it calls "enhanced interrogation" techniques, including waterboarding, which a wide range of authorities regard as torture.
Brennan was expected to win confirmation from the panel and later the full Senate.
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