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|Watermelon, when combined with dill, garlic, red chiles and green peppers, becomes a delightfully tangy pickle.
When it premiered in early 2000, Sam taped "Schmeckfest: Food Traditions of the Germans from Russia."
Then he insisted that I watch it. I would like it, he said. It was about food, he said. So I did. Watching doesnt have any calories.
Loosely translated, Schmeckfest means "festival of food." It is a celebration via the kitchen of the culture of the Germans from Russia, Germans who emigrated to Russia between 1763 to 1862. Many then came to America beginning in the 1870s when they lost special rights given to them by the Russian government.
Sam was right. I loved "Schmeckfest" with its footage of grandmas and moms in their kitchens teaching family and friends how to prepare foods of their heritage and, no doubt, a little history.
I watched, tears often streaming down my face, and thought of my own grandma and mom instructing me in the preparation of certain Norwegian dishes.
One of the foods featured was watermelon pickles. They were so beautiful. Their color was the dark rosy pink of the watermelon flesh, not the pale greenish white of the rind. The pickles looked drizzly and juicy and made me smile. I was enchanted.
Sam's boss, Gene Hoepfner, had grandparents who were Germans from Russia.
Sam mentioned the pickles. Gene said his mother made them and so did he. And soon Gene brought a jar to Sam, cautioning him to keep them in the refrigerator because of the way they were put up.
I was mad for them and wanted to learn to make them immediately, especially when I found out they were refrigerator pickles. I called to thank him and beg him to let me watch how they were made.
Every time Gene made the pickles, he sent a jar home with Sam. Just to tease me. Then Id call to say thanks and ask when he was going to teach me how.
Finally we set the date. Gene told me what to get and he brought along his wife Jolene and 12-year-old son Preston. And the watermelons, jars and lids.
We set up shop in our kitchen. Our assembly line started with Jolene and Preston cutting up the melons on a cart wheeled into the middle of the room. In his enthusiasm, some of the watermelon slipped from Preston's grasp and plopped on the floor with a splash, seeds sailing everywhere. We did not pickle that particular melon.
Gene and Sam sat at the kitchen table peeling garlic and cutting each clove in half. And once I saw that everyone else was gainfully employed, I sat at the table and tried to take notes amid the hilarity. We had a grand time.
Gene's recipe comes from his mother, Ella Hoepfner. She lives in North Dakota near Hazen and Beulah in Mercer County where my father grew up, although his mother never made pickles like that. Of course Grandma Hunter was Swiss.
Gene says his mother uses the recipe for cucumbers too. I hope she won't mind any liberties I've taken with her recipe. I know I will always be grateful for her willingness to share it.
Jacqueline Dohn Maas, Plymouth, MN, preparing
her watermelon pickles for canning.
Ethnic dishes vary from region to region in the homeland and evolve within families. Actually the recipe I saw on "Schmeckfest" was a sweetened pickle and came from Jamestown, N.D., native Jackie Dohn Mass who now lives in Plymouth, Minn. Her recipe, Grandma Lorraine's Watermelon Pickles, also appears on the next page.
Jackie is a member of the Verrückte Frauen (Crazy Women), a group who meets monthly to prepare traditional recipes of the Germans from Russia and speak of their heritage.
"Schmeckfest" and its companion video, "The Germans
from Russia: Children of the Steppe, Children of the Prairie,"
which examines the group's history, were produced by Prairie Public
Television and North Dakota State University Libraries and have
won many awards.
They are available from Prairie Public Television, (800) 359-6900 or on the Web (www.prairiepublic.org).
After making the pickles, I went out to see Michael M. Miller to brag about my pickles and get permission to use Mass' recipe. Miller is bibliographer of the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at NDSU Libraries, producer of television documentaries and much more. I bought "Sei Unser Gast" which means Be Our Guest.
It is a collection of recipes from the North Star Chapter of The American Historical Society of Germans From Russia. It has several watermelon pickle recipes and many other recipes I plan to try.
I'm only sorry for all of the dilled watermelon pickles I've missed eating. And the next thing I'm going to learn to make is the Pfeffernüsse Brot, which in English is Spiced Watermelon Syrup Bread.
Ella Hoepfner's Delicious Dilled Watermelon Pickles
For each 1-quart jar:
1 head of fresh dill in bottom of jar
2 pieces garlic
1 or 2 hot, small red chiles
½ teaspoon pickling spice
1 to 1½ teaspoons Kosher salt
Loosely stuff jar with watermelon cut in large cubes
Add another head of dill on top
Add 2 more pieces garlic
Add 1 or 2 more hot, small red chiles
And poke in half large green bell pepper, seeded and cut
in strips
Add water to cover ingredients
Boil lids and cover jars. Screw on ring and tighten. Gene uses a flat, circular piece of rubber to get them good and tight. Turn the jars upside-down once or twice to mix things up and let them sit at room temperature for 24 to 36 hours. Then put them in the refrigerator for one week. Refrigerate again after opening if there are any left.
Note: I've been saving the juice and adding more fresh dill, garlic, pickling spice and watermelon to the brine for another batch but they aren't quite as good as the first round.
Grandma Lorraine's Watermelon Pickles
8 cups water
3 cups sugar
2 cups white vinegar
½ cup salt
1¾ ounces pickling spice (use half and tie in cheese cloth)
Boil mixture.
Cut up watermelon. In sterilized jars, put in dill, one hot dried red pepper, and one garlic clove. Then add watermelon chunks, a strip of green pepper and another layer of dill. (I like them hot so I add another pepper and garlic clove.) Pour the hot brine into the jars. Seal the jars and put them in a hot water bath, boiling them for 5 minutes. Remove the jars from the bath and let them cool undisturbed for several hours or until you hear the lids pop and seal.
Grandma notes that this recipe makes about 8 quarts and you can save the extra brine and use it in another batch. The green peppers will discolor when cooked. If the pickling spice is not tied up in cheese cloth when boiled, the brine should be strained before putting it into the jars. Grandma recommends Sweet Princess and Black Beauty watermelons; one of which will produce about 14 quarts.
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The right to receive and impart information is a fundamental human right enshrined in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but in Zimbabwe, watching news of North African and Middle East protests apparently amounts to treason.
That seems to be the message Robert Mugabe's government has sent with the February 19 arrests of 46 activists for attending a meeting organized by the International Socialist Organization at which footage of the protests were shown and discussed. "They were watching DVD news clips of the protests in Tunisia and Egypt," Roselyn Hanzi, Head of the Human Rights Defender Project for the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights told CPJ. "It was nothing different to what many other Zimbabweans watched also."
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Even coverage of the tense, high-profile trial has proven risky for Zimbabwean journalists. On February 25, the magistrate overseeing the trial had freelance reporter Lucy Yasini arrested in the courtroom after her cell phone went off during the proceedings, according to local journalists. She was cautioned and released after an hour of detention.
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WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) -- Democrats are sky high, celebrating the passage of healthcare reform against ferocious opposition from Republicans, tea partiers and the health insurance industry.
But looming challenges in a legal system dominated by a conservative U.S. Supreme Court threaten to bring them crashing back down to earth.
At least three state attorneys general, all Republicans, are vowing to challenge the new U.S. healthcare law in court, and there are indications as many as 12 state attorneys general may join the fight.
With the Supreme Court taking a harder line on the power of Congress under the commerce clause of the Constitution -- the main authority used by Congress to enact healthcare reform -- the challengers may meet with some success.
The attorneys general say they will file suit once U.S. President Barack Obama signs the bill into law, and are pledging to take their battle all the way to the Supreme Court, The Christian Science Monitor reported.
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has been one of the most vocal opponents of healthcare reform since last year.
In December, he said he was ready and willing to take any provision of a new healthcare law into court, particularly "the individual mandate that a person must pay a fine or tax if he or she does not obtain federally required healthcare insurance. I have grave concerns about the constitutionality of this mandate. Such a 'living tax' is worrisome because it would be levied on a person who does nothing, a person who simply wishes not to be forced to buy health insurance coverage."
On Feb. 25, after the White House health summit, McCollum said it looked like the individual requirement to carry insurance would be part of the federal package.
"After conducting a legal review of the individual mandate," McCollum said in a statement at the time, "it is very clear to me this mandate violates the U.S. Constitution because Congress cannot penalize people for doing nothing at all. This is a tax on living, and if the individual mandate is in the final bill signed by the president, I will file a lawsuit on behalf of the citizens of Florida to protect our constitutional rights."
On March 16, McCollum repeated his outrage at the individual requirement, and said he was forming a coalition of Florida agencies to determine the impact of reform on the state's citizens. He also sent a letter to all state attorneys general inviting them to join in a challenge.
Attorney General Henry McMaster of South Carolina announced during the weekend he was prepared to file suit against the landmark law.
"The healthcare legislation Congress passed (Sunday) is an assault against the Constitution. A legal challenge by the states appears to be the only hope of protecting the American people from this unprecedented attack on our system of government," he said in a statement.
McCollum and McMaster have been joined by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II. Cuccinelli said Monday he would file suit challenging the constitutionality of the law.
In American Spectator magazine, The Washington Post reports, Cuccinelli wrote the healthcare reforms "violate the plain text of both the Ninth and 10th Amendments."
The Ninth Amendment says, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The 10th says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
In addition to Cuccinelli, McCollum and McMaster, the attorneys general in Alabama, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Washington, Utah, North Dakota and South Dakota indicated they would join the fight.
In detailing Cuccinelli's opposition, the Post published an analysis by Randy E. Barnett, a respected author who teaches constitutional law at Georgetown University.
Barnett expressed his own doubts about the success of the individual mandate: "Can Congress really require that every person purchase health insurance from a private company or face a penalty? The answer lies in the commerce clause of the Constitution, which grants Congress the power 'to regulate commerce ... among the several states.'"
Barnett sees the U.S. Supreme Court giving the law some leeway in that healthcare affects interstate commerce. "But the individual mandate extends the commerce clause's power beyond economic activity, to economic inactivity," Barnett says. "That is unprecedented."
An analysis by United Press International in January said the success of any commerce clause challenge on healthcare would depend on whether the modern Supreme Court follows the lead of the Supreme Court under the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, which pinned back the commerce clause in the 1990s and 2000.
The Commerce Clause, in Article I of the Constitution, gives Congress the authority to "regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes."
A challenge to the new healthcare reform law is strengthened as well by the high court's jurisprudence, which for the most part recognizes the regulation of insurance, an intangible good, is the province of the states, not the federal government. The federal government has traditionally regulated the interstate commerce of tangible goods.
For much of its history, the commerce power of Congress was limited to the regulation of the movement of tangible goods across state boundaries through roads and rivers. That power was massively expanded in 1942's Wickard vs. Filburn.
In Wickard, the Supreme Court ruled the commerce clause, for the first time, allowed the regulation of goods produced and consumed solely within a state.
Wickard opened the floodgates, and for more than 50 years Congress used the commerce clause to enact a vast number of laws that had only a tangential connection to interstate commerce.
However, in 1995 the Rehnquist Supreme Court unexpectedly reined in the scope of the commerce clause. In a 5-4 vote, the justices struck down the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, which forbade anyone from knowingly carrying a firearm in a school zone.
In the majority opinion, Rehnquist said the law was "invalid as beyond Congress' power under the commerce clause."
The "possession of a gun in a local school zone is in no sense an economic activity that might, through repetition elsewhere, have ... a substantial effect on interstate commerce," the opinion said.
A second major blow to congressional commerce power came in 2000's U.S. vs. Morrison, when the same five-justice majority struck down provisions of the federal Violence Against Women Act.
A woman who said she had been raped by two other students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute filed suit for damages under the civil provisions of the federal act. But the narrow Rehnquist majority said the civil provisions of the act "cannot be sustained under the commerce clause or section 5 of the 14th Amendment," which allows Congress to use legislation to enforce "the constitutional guarantee that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process or deny any person equal protection of the laws."
The only hitch on the steady curtailment of commerce clause power came in 2005's Gonzalez vs. Raich when a couple of conservatives apologetically joined the four-member liberal bloc to rule 6-3 that Congress had the authority to regulate home-grown quantities of prescribed marijuana under its commerce power.
However, despite Raich, the weight of Supreme Court jurisprudence seems to favor a commerce clause challenge in a healthcare reform case brought by McCollum or anyone else with standing.
Three of the five-member majority justices in Lopez and Morrison -- conservatives Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, and especially moderate Anthony Kennedy -- are still serving on the high court.
The other two are gone, but their successors are equally conservative, if not more so.
One word of caution for those filing legal challenges to key healthcare law provisions: Under the law, individuals refusing to buy health insurance will face fines of at least $750 a year. But the penalty doesn't kick in until 2014.
The Supreme Court has been reluctant in the past to rule on laws when challengers cannot show an "injury" -- something that usually doesn't occur until a law goes into effect.


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I don't know if the buying public's love affair with late-eighties hair metal is being rekindled solely due the success of The Darkness, or whether it's just becoming the done thing to plunder the back catalogues of the likes of Motely Crüe and Poison. But hindsight is a wonderful thing, and really, once 'Permission To Land' went platinum, we should've seen The Glitterati coming.
For those who've never heard of them, The Glitterati are a five-piece glam metal band from Leeds, who've been billed as the UK's answer to Guns 'N Roses. This is a pretty bold statement to make, especially when you consider that three of the Gunner's alumni are still plying their sleaze-metal stock in trade with Velvet Revolver. It's also a comparison that doesn't stand up in the cold light of day, but we'll get to that in a minute.
If it's accepted that at this stage all guitar-driven rock music is to some degree derivative, then one of the ways in which the genuinely talented distance themselves from the hack filth is by the assimilation of their influences. For example, while it's possible to draw a line from Bloc Party to bands like XTC, The Police and even Joy Division, you could never claim that any of the tracks on 'Silent Alarm' sound like they've been filched from an early eighties release.
By contrast, the Glitterati's scuzzed up sleaze-rock debut sounds dated enough to warrant suspicion it may have been found in a time capsule that was buried in 1989. Helped in no small part by G'NR knob twiddler Mike Clink, John Emsley's and Nic Denson's guitars practically channel the spirit of the late-eighties Sunset Strip; I'm willing to bet money that these guys play their instruments slung somewhere around their knees, with legs akimbo.
This may be something of a backhanded compliment, I guess, even though next to the leading lights of cockrock, The Glitterati come up short. And while comparing today's young-an'-fast to the originators of this type of music might seem unfair; when a band purloins the sound of the past so completely, they lay themselves open for it. Suffice to say that on the evidence here, The Glitterati aren't a tenth of the band G'NR were in their prime, although if this album had been dropped twenty years ago, it might have given Skid Row a run for their money.
That having been said, The Glitterati's best songs are their flat-out rockers; when the band ratchets up the volume there's fun to be had, albeit in short bursts. Tracks like 'Betterman', 'Heartbreaker' and 'First Floor' snarl and burn their way out of the speakers with gleeful hedonism. They all go nowhere fast, but who cares when you've got power chords, drums and an overdrive pedal, right?
The band's main problem, is that more often than not, the music takes a back seat to the lyrics which are at best vague and at worst inane. When they aren't totally self-absorbed, songs revolve around requests for sex, drugs and all things rock & roll. There's nothing wrong with these sentiments - fuck it, AC/DC built a career out of shit like this - but vocalist Paul Gautrey expresses them in the most crushingly obvious way. Axl Rose's lyrics may have revealed him to be a misogynist, and a homophobe, and possibly even a racist, but next to Gautrey he comes across like William Wordsworth. And I haven't even mentioned the ballads yet.
The past is never off limits – indeed it's a massive source of inspiration. But a lesson The Glitterati would do well to learn is this; if you're going to a bank a future on dusting off an old idea, you better be able to bring something new to the table.
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Gregor Hildebrandt
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Gregor's art is music to our ears
"My fascinations are my occupations: art, music and a lot of random observations. The goal is to do something that is driven by longing."
Cassette tapes are a key motif in Gregor Hildebrandt's work. He records music on them, before glueing or using the tapes on canvas, photographic prints and room-sized installations. By using these storage devices, Hildebrandt creates a wonderful contrast: one where the end result is black, monochrome and minimal in sight, but filled with music and wondrous sounds that are invisible to the naked eye.
Another key theme in Hildebrandt's work is mirrors, for which the artist has created two photos for Absolut Art. The images capture an object or person that is reflected in the mirror, with the focus on the medium rather than the actual reflection.


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Using Tags
With Tags, you can organize files by project, without having to move them into a folder. Your tags automatically appear in the Finder sidebar, so it's easy to find tagged files no matter where they're located.
To learn how to tag files and folders, find tagged items, and configure tags, click a topic below.
Tagging a file
When you save a file
You can add tags to a file when you save it. This makes it easy to find the file later.
- In an app, choose File > Save, or File > Export.
- In the sheet that appears, click the text field next to "Tags:"
- To add a tag:
- Click on a recent tag that appears in the menu to link it your document. You can even add multiple tags.
- Click "Show All…" to see the all of the tags you have created. Then, click on a tag to add it.
- You can also add tag by typing. As you type in the Tags field, you'll see matching suggestions from your existing tags.
- To add a new tag, just type it in the field.
- New tags you create automatically appear in other locations where tags are visible, such as in the Finder sidebar.
- To remove a tag from your document, click the existing tag in the Tags field to highlight it, then press the Delete key.
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OS X Mavericks includes a document menu you can use to update your file's name and other properties – including Tags. Hover your cursor over a document window's name, and click the menu button to the right of the document name. You can add and edit your tags from the popover menu that appears.
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If you've already saved a file, you can tag it directly from the Finder.
- Select the files and folders you want to tag.
- Control-click, or right-click on one of the highlighted items.
- Select a favorite tag from the shortcut menu that appears. Select it again to remove a tag.
	Select "Tags…" to access the Tags popover menu.
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- Click on a favorite tag that appears in the menu to link it your document. Keep clicking your favorites to add more tags to this document.
- Click "Show All…" to see the all of the tags you have created. Then, click on each tag you want to attach.
- In the text field, begin typing the name of any tag you have created. Auto text completion offers each tag that matches what you type. Press return or click on the tag to attach it.
- Start typing a new word or phrase to create a new tag. Press the Return key to create the tag and attach it to your document.
		New tags you create automatically appear in other locations where tags are visible, such as in the Finder sidebar.
- To remove a tag from your document, click the existing tag in the Tags field to highlight it, then press the Delete key.
In iCloud
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Click on a tag in the sidebar of a Finder window, or in an open or save window, and all items with that tag appear.
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Finder Sidebar
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In the shortcut menu that appears:
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- Select a Color, or No Color, to associate a color with a particular tag. The color you select shows up next to an item's filename in the Finder when the tag is associated with that file.
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- From the Finder, select Finder > Preferences… to open the Finder Preferences window.
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- Tag dot
	Each dot corresponds to a tag. These are the same dots that appear next to an item name with that tag in the Finder.
- Click and drag a dot to arrange the order of tags.
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- Click the dot to assign it a color, or no color.
- Control-click or right-click a dot to rename or delete its tag.
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- A hyphen (-) denotes a new tag.
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- Favorite Tags
	Favorite Tags appear in the File menu and shortcut menus of the Finder
- Drag a tag from your tag list to the Favorite Tags pane in Tags preferences. You can replace favorites by dragging a new tag to an existing favorite's spot in the Favorites pane.
- Drag your favorite tags in the Favorites pane to rearrange them.
- Drag a favorite tag out of the Favorites pane in the preferences window to remove it from your favorites.
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A truly ayurvedic wellness therapy
Ayurvedic treatment has two major aims. One is to maintain normal health of healthy people. The second is to treat and restore normal health of those who fall ill. To achieve the first aim, Ayurvedic texts describe various rejuvenating medicinal plants. Their daily use improves the functions of vital body organs, strengthens body's self defense mechanism and maintains optimum energy level. Thereby they are effective in keeping individuals disease-free. These medicinal plants are…
Ashwagandha, Shatavari:
These are nutritive and revitalizing herbs which improve body's energy level; nourish the senses, tissues and muscles with vital supplements. Thereby they overcome physical weakness and debility.
Brahmi, Mandukparni:
These are brain tonic herbs which helps enhance mental functions like memory and intellect. They are also effective in reducing stress and anxiety.
Amalaki, Yashtimadhu:
These herbs are rejuvenating for the heart. They also enhance the vitality of all body tissues and organs and thereby maintain overall health.
Guduchi, Haridra:
These herbs provide essential protection against allergens and microbial infection by strengthening the body's own self-defence mechanism.
It has a good effect on kidney functions. It detoxifies blood by promoting removal of toxins through urine.
It is a combination of three spice herbs which possess strong digestive qualities. It effectively stimulates liver and other digestive organs and ensures optimum digestion and utilization of food elements. Thereby it helps provide essential nourishment to the body.
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Marmol expected to be in Cubs camp on time
MESA, Ariz. -- Carlos Marmol, charged with domestic abuse by a woman in the Dominican Republic, is expected in Arizona on time and to attend Tuesday's first workout for pitchers and catchers.
Theo Epstein, Cubs president of baseball operations, said Marmol was expected to arrive in Arizona late Sunday. Cubs pitchers and catchers will undergo physicals on Monday at Fitch Park.
"Our understanding is he'll be on schedule," Epstein said Sunday.
Marmol appeared at a hearing Friday in the Dominican Republic regarding the case. According to the Dominican newspaper, El Nacional, a judge sent it to a higher court. No police charges have been filed against Marmol.
"It's the organization's responsibility to take all accusations of that nature very seriously," Epstein said. "We don't have all the information -- obviously, we weren't there -- but every piece of information we were able to gather backs up Carlos' story that he's guilty of no wrongdoing whatsoever and may in fact be the victim here if this case continues to be pursued like this. All we can do is evaluate it on the merits. We do expect this matter will be behind him shortly based on the way it's proceeding in the Dominican courts."


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|Heat oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add vegetables, herbs, salt and pepper, and stir to coat with the oil. Cover the pan and steam the vegetables for about 20 minutes, stirring frequently to keep them from sticking too much. Add the tomatoes and sugar, and simmer partially covered over medim heat for about 30 minutes. Makes about 4 cups. Note: If you want a thicker sauce that will cling to your pasta more, add the tomato paste with the tomatoes and sugar. Nutrition analysis based on 1/2 cup servings.
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text: June 6, 2014 at 9:00 AM Guests: How gaps in teacher quality widen the gaps in student achievement Posted by Dan Goldhaber, Lesley Lavery and Roddy Theobald Dan Goldhaber Lesley Lavery Roddy Theobald In the summer of 2013, Seattle Public Schools adopted a five-year strategic plan that includes the laudable goal of ensuring educational excellence and equity for every student. The plan cites the "significant demographic achievement gap" in the district, and seeks to address this gap by calling for "an equitable distribution of resources that prioritizes the needs of students." Recognition of achievement gaps and calls to address them are not new. What is new is our capacity to identify the resources that contribute to or ameliorate these gaps. Compelling research over the last decade has shown that when it comes to in-school resources, teacher quality is what matters most. Unfortunately, Seattle has a long way to go toward ensuring that this crucial schooling resource is equitably distributed across students. Teacher quality is hard to define and may mean different things to different people, but we don't need to agree on a particular measure of quality to come to the conclusion that it is inequitably distributed across students. In fact, a variety of different measures show that disadvantaged students in Seattle Public Schools are less likely than their more advantaged peers to have access to a high-quality teacher. As one example, students receiving free or reduced price lunch in Seattle's seventh-grade math classrooms are more than twice as likely as their higher-income peers to be taught by a teacher with fewer than two years of experience (about 12 percent versus 5 percent of students). This teacher-quality gap is not unique to middle-school math, or to this particular measure of teacher quality or student disadvantage. It shows up at the elementary- and high-school levels, when teacher quality is based on a value-added measure of teacher performance or credential exam scores, and when the comparisons are made between white students and historically disadvantaged minority students. More Comments | More in Guest opinion, Opinion | Topics: Seattle Public Schools, teacher evaluations, teacher quality


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Coloma Frozen Foods
Your #1 Source for Fresh-From-The-Farm Tasting Frozen Foods and Juice Concentrates. Coloma Frozen Foods has proudly provided the food industry with the highest quality of frozen fruits, vegetables, juices, and juice concentrates for over 30 years. We provide flexible solutions for your frozen food and juice concentrate sourcing and can handle any of your 'private label' needs. We also market food products with our own label, Nature Blessed. Nature Blessed, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Coloma Frozen Foods, Inc. We are located in southwestern Michigan, the heart of America's "fruit-belt". Local growers are our source for premium crops to satisfy the needs of the baking industry, food service providers, retail grocery chains, and other facets of the food industry. Our close proximity to Chicago and major interstates (I-94, I-196, and I-80) allows us to distribute our products easily and cost effectively across the country. Coloma Frozen Foods, Inc. is committed to providing quality services and products that benefit the success of our customers.


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President Barack Obama's latest playful executive order is a tweeted effort to limit "House of Cards" plot spoilers.
The second season of the political thriller about a power-hungry Washington couple premiered in its entirety Friday on Netflix. Obama's official Twitter account notes the occasion along with the request: "No spoilers, please."
Cast members reveled in the real-life president's support at a premiere event Thursday night. Robin Wright plays Claire Underwood, wife of Kevin Spacey's vice president-to-be Frank Underwood. She says Obama "knows good stuff."
And Kate Mara, who plays reporter Zoe Barnes, double-checked the authenticity of the tweet before celebrating. She calls Obama's message "one of the coolest things that's happened to me."
Mara says the 13-episode season is "just as dark as the first."
Netflix announced earlier this month that the acclaimed drama will get a third season.
Tomorrow: @HouseOfCards. No spoilers, please.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 13, 2014


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What shall we say to the Government enquiry on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals?
Good news! Well maybe, let's wait and see what the actual outcome is. But we do welcome the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) putting out a general call for evidence about the FOBTS – the Fixed Odds Betting Terminals in betting shops which have attracted numerous critical comments on the Gambling Watch UK website and elsewhere – and about gambling advertising. Officially DCMS is reviewing the sizes of stakes and prizes for all gambling machines (or 'gaming machines' as they prefer to call them), the allocation of machines in all licensed premises, and harm minimisation social responsibility measures as a whole. But we all know the focus will be on the FOBTs and advertising, especially advertising on TV before the 9 pm 'watershed'.
We already have loads of your comments to draw on regarding both issues. But this is an important opportunity to make your views known and potentially to change policy. I shall be giving written evidence to DCMS myself. What would you like me to say? You can tell me simply by writing a comment in response to this posting. Or of course you can give evidence directly to DCMS, either by email to firstname.lastname@example.com or in writing to:
Call for Evidence on Gaming Machines, Gambling, Licensing and Lotteries Team, DCMS, 4th Floor, 100 Parliament Street, London SW1A 2BQ.
The call for evidence was announced on 24th October and will run for six weeks only, closing on 4th December. After that the Government will consider proposals. This is likely to be the best opportunity in this parliament, and perhaps for much longer still, to get a change in policy.
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The access to gambling in the UK for people of 18 and over has never been so great and gambling is becoming a disease that is ruining young lives.
We need to stop
1. Online casinos on mobile phones
2. Advertising of any kind on TV and radio
3. Removal of these addictive fixed odds machines that are found in bookmakers
There has never been so many gambling companies because they are preying on the misery of people that can lose their life savings plus go into debt in a 1 hour session on a mobile app.
People making money from this are immoral and this has to be stopped.
Make the goverment understand betting is a business they dont see the harm they just make the harm prey on people by offering great prizes which are lies people who have very little and see that as a way of bettering them selves which we all know because we've gambled in the past is a lie but before you realise it your hooked and every penny then lines the pocket of the betting companies there like cigarettes once you've had one you can't stop a nasty habit that'll kill you it won't give you cancer but it'll still kill may be they need to be taken to court for all the hurt they have caused so many people


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Afternoon with Joe—Thoughts on Risk and Foreign Direct Investment
My thanks again go out to the World Bank InfoShop for the opportunity to hear and meet former World Bank Chief Economist—and, indeed, Nobel Laureate—Joseph Stiglitz, who came to speak yesterday about his new book, "Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy". His trademark frank analysis was both refreshing and enlightening; especially interesting, if troubling, was his view that central bankers' inflation-hawk instincts will increase the likelihood of a double-dip recession.
This was a very general presentation about some of the hubristic, anti-regulatory thinking that created the conditions for the recent crisis and the errors in countries' responses to it. Stiglitz also excoriated the failures of political will and the power of the strongly entrenched, well-represented interests currently standing in the way of true reform. These are his views, of course—I make no claims to know enough about what "really" happened to be authoritative on the subject, other than to say that his arguments were persuasive and his examples illuminating.
One subject I was surprised to hear him discuss, however, was the role of interconnected global capital markets in financial crises. This was a key issue raised after the Asian crisis in the late 1990s; less so for the current "great recession"—although Stiglitz's tag line that this was a crisis "made in America" and exported around the world reflects a common conclusion of much recent analysis.


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Yep, it's really happening: Illinois — Illinois! — is in the Rose Bowl. The game they play on New Year's Day. That one. Seriously. Zook in Pasadena. Zooooooooook.
We're fully aware that Illinois doesn't particularly deserve to play in the Grandaddy, and that they're probably gonna get killed. No matter! We like to pretend that the bowls still have any segment of legitimacy and tradition, so the Big Ten vs. the Pac-10, that's what we get. Which means in a season where a slot in the Motor City Bowl would have made us happy ends up in Pasadena. Ron Zook truly pisses intensity.
By the way, we're not making the trip to Pasadena, but for the first time in recent memory, we might actually be up on New Year's Day by 5 p.m.


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Dog stolen from owner at gunpoint found
A Tampa man is hoping someone can help him get his dog back.
Derek McComber was walking his dog Bueller on Pinehurst Avenue Saturday morning when a 1990s model gray Honda Civic drove up, according to a release.
Officials said a man got out of the car and asked McComber, "What kind of dog is that?"
McComber told the man that the dog was a French bulldog and that is when the man said, "Well, I'm taking it," the release said.
Authorities said McComber noticed that the man was pointing a gun at him and handed over the dog.
The man got back into the car and fled the area at a high rate of speed, investigators said.
Both men were white and wearing a black hoodie sweatshirt and dark pants.
A citizen found the dog in his front yard Saturday morning at about 9:30 a.m. and was in the process of making flyers about Bueller when he saw the media coverage.
Bueller has been reunited with McComber.


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A fierce debate over a National Trust and Cadbury Easter egg hunt has prompted ridicule from commentators.
Both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn were critical of a decision to drop the word "Easter" from the annual egg event - with the Prime Minister branding it "absolutely ridiculous".
But Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said the pair had "got egg on their faces" after criticising Cadbury and the National Trust "for something they haven't actually done".
The National Trust described claims it had downplayed the significance of the festival as "nonsense" while the chocolate giant said it was "simply not true" to claim Easter did not feature in its marketing.
Mr Farron said: "Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have got egg on their faces today.
"They both scrambled out eggs-traordinary statements criticising Cadbury's and the National Trust for something they haven't actually done.
"This is a eggs-tremely big distraction. I think we all feel poached by this whole sorry saga, but none of us more so than Cadbury's and the National Trust, who have done nothing wrong and are right to feel egg-rieved by the criticism they have received."
The row unfolded after the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu spoke out about the decision to name the event "Cadbury's Great British Egg Hunt".
Speaking from Jordan on her Middle Eastern tour, Mrs May, whose father was the Rev Hubert Brasier, vicar of Enstone in Oxfordshire, told ITV News: "I'm not just a vicar's daughter - I'm a member of the National Trust as well.
"I think the stance they have taken is absolutely ridiculous. I don't know what they are thinking about, frankly.
"Easter's very important. It's important to me. It's a very important festival for the Christian faith for millions across the world.
"So I think what the National Trust is doing is frankly just ridiculous."
Labour leader Mr Corbyn said the issue reflected "commercialisation gone a bit too far".
He added: "It upsets me because I don't think Cadbury's should take over the name."
The intervention of senior politicians in the row prompted ridicule on social media.
Comedian David Baddiel tweeted: "Good, tho', that PM said removal of Easter from egg hunt was "frankly ridiculous" whilst in a country where women aren't allowed to drive."
Former footballer Gary Lineker wrote: "So disgusted, I may never eat a chocolate egg again. #eggxit."
Television presenter Richard Osman added: "Cadbury's can call Easter eggs whatever they want just so long as they keep putting Chocolate Buttons in them."
A spokeswoman for Cadbury said: "It is clear to see that within our communications we visibly state the word Easter.
"It is included a number of times across promotional materials, including our website and even embossed on many of the eggs themselves.
"Our Easter Egg packaging also carries the word Easter and these products are only available at this special time of the year.
"Our Easter partnership with the National Trust is also synonymous with Easter and we make it clear throughout materials that it is an egg hunt, for families, at Easter."
The National Trust, which has been running the annual egg hunt with Cadbury for 10 years, declined to address the Prime Minister's claims directly.
But a spokesman said of the claims: "Nothing could be further from the truth.
"We host a huge programme of events, activities and walks to bring families together to celebrate this very special time of year.
"A casual glance at our website will see dozens of references to Easter throughout."
A Church of England spokesman accused the National Trust of "updating" the page overnight and "seemingly adding" a few references to Easter.


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Source: Are the Asia and Pacific Small States Different from Other Small States?
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by Deborah Randall
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 5"h x 5"w x 2"d
This is one of a series of small landscapes by Deborah Randall that can sit on a shelf or desk with no trouble or hang in a grouping to give a splash of color to your wall. At 5 inches by 5 inches, they fit most anywhere. And they ship easily.


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Former Owners of Medical Billing Practice, Pathology Groups Agree to Pay $140,000 to Settle Claims that Patients' Health Information was Disposed of at Georgetown Dump
Defendants Agree to Take Additional Steps to Prevent Future Data Security Violations
BOSTON – Former owners of a Marblehead-based medical billing practice and four pathology groups have agreed to collectively pay $140,000, settling allegations that sensitive medical records and confidential billing information for tens of thousands of Massachusetts patients were improperly disposed of at a public dump, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today.
The complaint, filed in Suffolk Superior Court along with consent judgments that were approved today, alleges that Joseph and Louise Gagnon, d/b/a Goldthwait Associates, violated state data security laws when they mishandled and improperly disposed of medical records containing personal information and protected health information from four Massachusetts pathology groups at the Georgetown Transfer Station. The medical records contained information for more than 67,000 residents including names, Social Security numbers, and medical diagnoses that were not redacted or destroyed when they were dumped.
"Personal health information must be safeguarded as it passes from patients to doctors to medical billers and other third-party contractors," AG Coakley said. "We believe this data breach put thousands of patients at risk, and it is the obligation of all parties involved to ensure that sensitive information is disposed of properly to prevent this from happening again."
This matter came to the public's attention in July 2010 when a Boston Globe photographer was disposing of his own trash at the Georgetown Transfer Station and observed a large mound of paper which, upon closer inspection, he determined were medical records. His discovery was first reported in the Globe shortly thereafter.
The other defendants involved in this settlement are Dr. Kevin Dole, former President of Chestnut Pathology Services, P.C.; Milford Pathology Associates, P.C.; Milton Pathology Associates, P.C.; and Pioneer Valley Pathology Associates, P.C.
The AG's Office alleges that these pathology groups violated HIPAA regulations by failing to have appropriate safeguards in place to protect the personal information they provided to Goldthwait Associates, and violated state data security regulations by not taking reasonable steps to select and retain a service provider that would maintain appropriate security measures to protect such confidential information.
According to the complaint, the Gagnons ran Goldthwait Associates – which primarily provided medical billing services for pathology groups – and received sensitive medical records and billing information of clients in order to send medical bills on behalf of the groups. The Gagnons retired from Goldthwait Associates and the medical billing business in 2010.
Each of the four pathology groups and the Gagnons agreed to entry of consent judgments to resolve the AG's allegations. Under the settlements, the defendants have agreed to pay a total of $140,000 for civil penalties, attorney fees, and a data protection fund to support efforts to improve the security and privacy of sensitive health and financial information in Massachusetts.
The AG's Office is focused on ensuring that health care practices and their business associates abide by the state and federal data privacy requirements. Recent efforts include the $750,000 settlement with South Shore Hospital in May 2012, resolving allegations that it failed to protect the personal and confidential health information of more than 800,000 patients.
AG Coakley is also leading an educational effort in the area of data privacy. A first-of-its-kind data privacy training – sponsored jointly by the AG's Office and the Massachusetts Medical Society – was held in October 2012 and focused on health care entities, including speakers from state and federal government and the private sector. A second training is being held this Thursday in cooperation with the Massachusetts Hospital Association.
This matter is being handled by Assistant Attorneys General Wendoly Ortiz Langlois of the Health Care Division and Shannon Choy-Seymour of the Consumer Protection Division.


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The third Rainbow Warrior is the first ship in our fleet designed and built specifically for Greenpeace. That means the Rainbow Warrior is not just one of the most environmentally-friendly ships ever made; she's also a campaigner's dream. We are thrilled she's now fighting with us for a green and peaceful future. Find out more.
Since 1996 the ship with no keel has taken on icy poles and shallow rivers around the world. Find out more.
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I'll be honest, I watched this thinking it would be stupid and boring and not worth watching. But you know what? It's kind of fun. And let's be honest, these guys are the red-headed stepchildren of Carolina, they deserve a little moment in the sun. So here's a little Braveheart-themed pep rally before yesterday's 84-76 upset over top-ranked Duke.
The video itself has a few standout moments: the poor guy playing the role of William Wallace's Horse, neighing like a horse (his dedication to prancing around like a horse the entire time is to be commended, too), random thick dude coming on "stage" to shotgun a light beer and the Shyamalanian bit at the end when a would-be Dookie reveals his true colors. Great stuff all around.
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Dow Continues Its Record Climb
Optimism on economic growth sparked a third-straight advance to record highs for the blue chips, as financial stocks helped push indexes higher. Matt Jarzemsky reports.
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10 tips on how to beat the high cost of gas without sacrificing that leisurely Sunday drive
The news on gas prices today is enough to make anyone ill, even those who don't remember a time when a gallon of gas cost less than 50 cents. But it's a commodity that we all need, so we do what we can without letting it hit our wallets, our bank accounts, or our stress levels with too great an impact. If you want to cut corners and save money on gas but aren't yet willing to give up that leisurely Sunday drive, we've got 10 tips to help you achieve a balance that won't leave you dreaming of bygone eras.
- Before you fill up, find the cheapest prices in town. You could take the old fashioned approach of driving past all of the gas stations in your city to find the lowest costing gas, but that activity costs gas! There are several online resources that will allow you to get gas prices without so much as pulling out of your driveway. GasBuddy.com is a great resource for this.
- Don't use the A/C. This is easier said than done, especially if you live in states that see far higher summer temperatures than others, but doing what you can to limit the use of your car's air conditioner can prevent from turning your car into a gas guzzler.
- Limit your use of the heater in winter. Nobody wants to freeze behind the wheel on a particularly cold day, but just as air conditioning guzzles gas, so do other functions like operating your heater on full blast. Bundle up on particularly cold days so you don't have to tax your tank to keep the chill of winter at bay.
- Check the air pressure on your tires. Tires that are underinflated can create drag on your vehicle, causing it to expend more energy -- and hence, to burn more gas -- to get from Point A to Point B. Don't overinflate your tires; this can be dangerous. Check your car's user manual and the air capacity of the tire on your car to find the most gas-friendly pressure.
- Slow down! If you were born with a lead foot, do what you can to tame that wild beast. Driving too fast can burn way too much gas and cause you to have to refill the tank more frequently.
- Keep your car in good shape. Your tires aren't the only thing that can cause your vehicle to burn an excessive amount of gas to get you around. Paying attention to your car by taking it in for routine tune-ups and oil changes will keep its fuel efficiency high.
- Don't let your car idle for too long. This doesn't mean you should turn the car off when you're stopped at a red light. Just don't let your car idle for too long or spend too much gas "warming up" before taking it out on the road.
- Map a smart route. If you've got errands to run, it's easy to run back and forth across town all day, burning gas as you retrace your steps. But if you're smart, you'll plan out everything you need to do ahead of time so you can move from one destination to another without having to cover too much ground.
- Opt for regular unleaded instead of super. If the choice is between giving your car a taste of "the good stuff" and not being able to use it at all because you can't afford another filler-up, put the smart money on the lowest grade fuel you can find.
- Lighten the load. Take a peek into your trunk or back seat. If what you find is enough dead weight to sink a small ocean liner, removing that weight will significantly boost your gas mileage.
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Within these sculpted seats, we have taken great effort to position our jetting packages to provide the best massage possible. We have launched our Dedicated Zone Therapy jetting profile. Within this system, select seats have a dedicated therapy function – you will see neck and upper back stations, designed to provide stress relief for these common tension trigger points, whereas lower back and lumbar specific stations target the muscles and soft tissues that support the lower back region.
The jetting flow in these stations is tuned to match the size of the muscle groups within that area – large muscle groups have more pressure at their disposal, other seats which target more superficial muscles spread out the jet pressure for a gentler, more general massage. And, you will also see seats with no jets at all – because at times, a relaxing soak without jets is just what's needed.
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It looks like the president has done for books what he did for Portuguese water dogs -- started a popular revolution among know-nothing consumers who are happily duped into making regrettable purchases because they want to be just like Barack Obama.
Stop that, consumers. You are not the president.
It's hard to raise any objection to, oh, 80 percent of President Obama's summer reading list, which he announced earlier this week to much fanfare. He's allegedly trying to get through one of the original Million-Page Monographs for Founding Fathers Fetishists, as well as some very good crime and literary fiction. But his stated intent to get through another several hundred pages of wankery by the New York Times' mustachioed master of the obvious, Thomas Friedman, leaves a person wondering.
Nearly a year ago, he said that Hot, Flat, and Crowded was "on his nightstand." And now, according to his vacation reading list, the book is still there! So either the president's on the page-a-day reading plan, or he cannot bring himself to finish what may possibly be a singularly awful book.
Not that this speculation has hurt the book's Amazon ranking, of course. It was up at No. 41 on Wednesday, after Obama announced his intention to maybe get through this clunker on vacation.
So, in essence, Hot, Flat, and Crowded is the Portuguese water dog of the literary world: an overblown trend that's a status symbol among Obama worshippers, and one that non-presidential consumers would do well to ignore.
Sara K. Smith writes for NBC and Wonkette.