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Global cycle turning amber; pause for thought
We believe that, although the global recovery is set to continue in 2015, the headwinds are sizeable: slowdown in China, dollar squeeze and potential deflation in Europe.
The US economy is currently the main growth engine for the global economy (Fig:1). Therefore, the big question is whether the slowdown in other parts of the world will contaminate the recovery in the US. We believe the improvements in the US labour market will be maintained, and view the recent decline in oil prices as beneficial for the US consumer. However, our fear is that the risk emanating from the other economies, the severity of the oil decline and the strength of the dollar could all have a destabilising effect on financial markets.
Figure 1: Global and US manufacturing surveys
Source: Schroders, 31 December 2014
Over the past 12 months, earnings have made a meaningful contribution to overall equity returns. However, macroeconomic uncertainty has begun creeping into the outlook for corporate earnings. Unlike previous years, the outlook for earnings is no longer so clear-cut. This is particularly true in the US where the breadth of analysts' estimates has been increasing; an undesirable trend.
"Although the global recovery is set to continue in 2015, the headwinds are sizeable."
The drop in oil price and the stronger dollar threaten optimistic forecasts for US earnings. The last time oil dropped to $50 a barrel, in 2009, realised earnings on the S&P 500 energy sector subsequently fell by over 40% in the following weeks. Today, though there is considerable risk of further downgrades, the good news is that forecasts needed to, and have, come down to more sensible levels. The dollar impact is more difficult to quantify, but what is clear is that the uncertainty around the outlook for corporate earnings is likely to weigh negatively on the market in the coming months.
Finally, market volatility has crept higher recently, which is generally associated with weaker equity markets. All in all, the score from the cycle has been downgraded from positive to neutral.
Oil spills into high yield
The dramatic move in the oil price following OPEC's decision not to cut output has significantly impacted energy-related high yield credits and the broader asset class. Energy is the largest sector in high yield, constituting 13.4% of the BAML US HY Master II Index. Whilst we have seen the greatest spread moves in more cyclical sub-sectors (exploration & production and oilfield services), the more defensive sub-sectors (midstream and refiners) have also suffered, as investors sold indiscriminately to reduce their exposure to the sector and meet redemptions.
Fundamentals for high yield energy companies contrast favourably, with leverage and interest coverage ratios both comfortably better than the index. However, we should be cautious given the potential for a sharp decline in revenues and financial stress for smaller, cashflow negative companies going forward. A mitigating factor is that only 0.2% of the index comes due for maturity through 2016 from energy names. Therefore, there is little immediate rollover risk within the sector.
Figure 2: Maturity profile, % energy sector and BAML US High Yield Index
Source: Schroders, 31 December 2014
There has been a high level of high yield issuance by energy companies recently on the back of growth in shale oil producers in the US. Investor concentration in the sector has lead to poor liquidity and difficulty selling positions following the recent oil-related volatility. The prevalence of lower quality new issues over the past few years has been a particular source of concern for investors.
Figure 3: Developed market high yield issuance by sector
Source: Schroders, 31 December 2014
There are a number of consumer-related sectors which are set to benefit from a prolonged decrease in the oil price; however, the broader financial market stress we anticipate should the price fall further could outweigh this positive effect.
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Curry Powder Recipes - Indian Curries and Garam Masala - Steps to Making Different Types of Curries
Curry Powder
Generally utilized in Indian cooking, bona fide Indian curry powder is newly ground every day and can change significantly relying upon the district and the cook. Curry powder is really a pounded mix of up to 20 flavors, herbs and seeds. Among those most ordinarily utilized are cardamom, chiles, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, cumin, fennel seed, fenugreek, mace, nutmeg, red and dark pepper, poppy and sesame seeds, saffron, tamarind and turmeric (the last is the thing that gives curried dishes their trademark yellow shading). Business curry powder- - which looks somewhat like the crisply ground mixes of southern India- - comes in two fundamental styles: standard, and the more sultry of the two, "Madras" curry powder.
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"Curry powder" as we probably am aware it was a British innovation, not an Indian one, expected to catch the kind of Indian cooking without the meticulous exertion of custom-mixing, simmering and granulating flavors for each dish arranged. What's more, significantly more oddly, most curry powder doesn't contain curry leaves! Curry turned into an extraordinary most loved in Britain toward the finish of the nineteenth century, and its prevalence before long spread to Japan.
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Americans once basically delighted in curry in Indian and Thai eateries. Presently, curry mixes are being added to well-known nourishments, from a straightforward dish chicken bosom to sautéed shrimp and vegetables. Curry is a key component of South and Southeast Asian, Caribbean, Japanese, English and Australian cooking. At the core of most curry mixes is a flavor base of dark or red pepper, coriander and cumin. Various flavors can be added to this base to make distinctive flavor encounters. Garam masala, for instance, is a better curry, including cardamom, cinnamon and cloves. Hot Madras curry conveys the warmth and exceptional kind of the Madras locale of India and furthermore incorporates fenugreek, turmeric and garlic. Red curry mixes are a mind boggling blend of select flavors, chile peppers and cardamom. As Americans turn out to be increasingly acquainted with curry, they're finding a wide scope of flavor conceivable outcomes.
We like to join curry with organic products, for example, apples, bananas and enthusiasm natural product, and better flavors like vanilla," says Chef Shawn McClain, of Spring and Green Zebra in Chicago. "For instance, we serve a Maine lobster spring move with enthusiasm organic product curry sauce."
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Fiery Curry Powder Recipe
Fixings: * Coriander seeds-1/2 glass * Cumin seeds-1/4 container * Black mustard seeds-1 tablespoon * Black peppers-1 tsp * Red chilies-5 * Fenugreek seeds-3/4 tsp * Turmeric powder-2 tsps * Dried curry leaves-20
Technique: In an overwhelming bottomed sauté every one of the elements for 5 minutes over medium warmth. Expel from warmth. Pound all the broiled fixings together to a powder. Store in a water/air proof holder.
Fundamental Curry Powder (Indian Curry) Recipe
6 dried red chilies 1 ounce coriander seeds 2 teaspoons cumin seeds 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds 1 teaspoon dark peppercorns 1 teaspoon fenugreek seeds 10 crisp curry leaves 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1 tablespoon ground turmeric Turn this formula into a riddle!
This medium-hot curry mix can be utilized in any dish that calls for curry powder.
Expel the seeds from the chilies. Dry dish the entire flavors over a medium warmth until the point that they obscure, blending or shaking the container as often as possible to avoid consuming. Leave to cool, at that point pound to a powder. Dry meal the curry leaves in the prospect couple of minutes, at that point crush and add them to the blend with the ginger and turmeric, mixing admirably.
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1. In a medium-sized skillet, broil the coconut over medium warmth, mixing constantly for around 8 minutes until the point that it is brilliant and fresh. Exchange to a bowl. 2. In a similar skillet, dry meal the garlic and green bean stew peppers over medium warmth, blending constantly for around 8 minutes until the point that it is dry and brilliant. 3. Place the rest of the flavors in the skillet and dry dish over medium warmth, blending and shaking the container until the point when they are brilliant and extremely fragrant. Expel and cool. 4. Combine all the cooked fixings, put in a flavor processor in clusters, and process at rapid until the point when flavors are finely ground like powder. 5. Fill a non responsive compartment, cover firmly, and stockpile to 3 months
Garam Masala
This simple to-make flavor mix is the core of most Indian dishes. A blend of various flavors, it presumably has the same number of recipes as there are families in India! Here is an essential one. When you figure out the taste it gives your cooking, explore and modify it to suit your requirements.
Garam masala is best made crisp just before you start cooking, yet in the event that you lack tolerance (like me!), make a clump ahead and store for a while in a hermetically sealed holder in a cool, dim place. Planning Time: 0 hours, 10 minutes Cook Time: 0 hours, 4 minutes
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* Heat a substantial skillet on a medium fire and delicately broil all fixings (leave cardamom in its units till later) aside from the dry ginger, till they turn a couple of shades darker. Mix once in a while. Try not to be enticed to accelerate the procedure by turning up the warmth as the flavors will consume outwardly and stay crude within.
* When the flavors are cooked turn of the fire and enable them to cool.
* Once cooled, expel the cardamom seeds from their skins and blend them back with the various broiled flavors.
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What You Have Been Missing on the NightHacking Tour…steveonjava | November 3, 2012
If you haven't been watching the live stream of the NightHacking Tour, you have been missing out on a lot of geeky fun.
I am only 1/3 through the tour route, but I have already had some pretty amazing sessions with Java Champions, Speakers, Authors, and Java User Groups. Here are some of the talks you might want to check out:
- Sven Reimers with a prototype JavaFX port of the NetBeans UI
- Angry nerds, JavaFX Pinball, and other geeky coolness with Toni Eppel
- Java Champion, Adam Bien, showing his JavaFX performance profiling app
- A reverse interview by Toni and Adam standing in front of my motorcycle in Munich
- Live JUG hacking sessions with the Munich JUG and London Java Community
- JFXtras and behind-the-scenes look at the JFall keynote with Tom Eugelink
- Build security exploits with Sander Mak
- Discussion of modular design with Chris and Paul at JFall
- Interview with Trisha Gee on women in computing and no-sql databases
- Chat and brainstorming with Stephen Colebourne on JSR 310 and JVM languages
- GroovyFX hacking with Russel Winder
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REIGNING national club champions Jonsson College Rovers of KZN will play GAP Despatch in the opening match of the inaugural SARU Community Cup on 16 February next year in Durban.
The fixtures for the pool stages of the World Cup-style tournament were announced on Tuesday, with Rovers earning the right to host the televised opener after beating Pretoria Police in the final of the last-ever National Club Championships, which were held in Rustenburg in September.
The Community Cup, which replaces the Club Champs, will see 20 of SA's top non-university clubs battle it out in 52 matches across the country over a six-week period, in a tournament that includes five rounds of pool matches at club venues and play-offs to be held in George over the Easter long weekend.
The inaugural Community Cup final will take place at Outeniqua Park on 1 April 2013, with the winners playing the FNB Varsity Cup champions for the overall national title, on a date to be confirmed.
The Rovers-Despatch Pool A opener is also a repeat of the match of the tournament in Rustenburg, which saw the KZN champions trail the resurgent Eastern Cape outfit 30-28 with five minutes remaining of their Cup quarter-final before running out 41-30 victors.
With the four Club Champs semi-finalists seeded first in their pools and the teams they beat in the Rustenburg quarters seeded second, there are another three enticing rematches in store for the opening weekend of the Community Cup.
WP's Durbanville-Bellville, who beat Maties home and away in the WP Super League in 2012, will get the chance to avenge their 36-25 defeat to Pretoria Police when they travel to the SAPS Training Academy for what promises to be a crunch Pool B encounter between two of the tournament favourites.
Roodepoort will have similar ideas in Pool C when they return to Rustenburg to face Impala, who beat them 31-19 back in September. And in the final seeded match-up of Round 1, Broubart Old Selbornians will want to show that their 28-26 win over Brakpan at the Club Champs was no fluke when they host the tough East Rand outfit in East London in a heavyweight Pool D encounter.
Elsewhere around the country on the opening weekend, Boland title holders Villagers Worcester are at home to Griquas champions Sishen, Griffons champs Welkom Rovers travel to Zwide Stadium outside Port Elizabeth to take on wild cards African Bombers, Limpopo's top-ranked club BB Truck Noordelikes kick off their campaign with a fixture in Polokwane against another wild card, Raiders, while Mpumalanga champions White River undertake a marathon journey from the Lowveld to the Boland to take on Roses United in Wellington.
The full schedule is as follows (all kick-off times to be confirmed):
Round 1 – Sat 16 February 2013:
Pool A – Jonsson College Rovers vs GAP Despatch (Durban); Villagers Worcester vs Sishen (Worcester)
Pool B – Pretoria Police vs Durbanville-Bellville (Pretoria); African Bombers vs Welkom Rovers (Port Elizabeth)
Pool C – Rustenburg Impala vs Roodepoort (Rustenburg); BB Truck Noordelikes vs Raiders (Polokwane)
Pool D – Broubart Old Selbornian vs Brakpan (East London); Roses United vs White River (Wellington)
Round 2 – Sat 23 February 2013:
Pool A – Sishen vs Jonsson College Rovers (Kathu); SK Walmers vs Villagers Worcester (Cape Town)
Pool B – Durbanville-Bellville vs African Bombers (Cape Town); Welkom Rovers vs Bloem Police (Welkom)
Pool C – Roodepoort vs BB Truck Noordelikes (Roodepoort); Raiders vs Bloem Crusaders (Johannesburg)
Pool D – Brakpan vs Roses United (Brakpan); White River vs Evergreens (White River)
Round 3 – Sat 2 March 2013
Pool A – GAP Despatch vs Villagers Worcester (Despatch); Sishen vs SK Walmers (Kathu)
Pool B – Bloem Police vs Durbanville-Bellville (Bloemfontein); African Bombers vs Pretoria Police (Zwide)
Pool C – Rustenburg Impala vs Bloem Crusaders (Rustenburg); Roodepoort vs Raiders (Roodepoort)
Pool D – Evergreens vs Brakpan (Pacaltsdorp); Roses United vs Broubart Old Selbornian (Wellington)
Round 4 – Sat 9 March 2013
Pool A – Jonsson College Rovers vs SK Walmers (Durban); GAP Despatch vs Sishen (Despatch)
Pool B – Welkom Rovers vs Pretoria Police (Welkom); Bloem Police vs African Bombers (Bloemfontein)
Pool C – Bloem Crusaders vs Roodepoort (Heidedal); BB Truck Noordelikes vs Rustenburg Impala (Polokwane)
Pool D – Broubart Old Selbornian vs Evergreens (East London); Brakpan vs White River (Brakpan)
Round 5 – Sat 16 March 2013
Pool A – SK Walmers vs GAP Despatch (Cape Town); Villagers Worcester vs Jonsson College Rovers (Worcester)
Pool B – Pretoria Police vs Bloem Police (Pretoria); Durbanville-Bellville vs Welkom Rovers (Cape Town)
Pool C – Raiders vs Rustenburg Impala (Johannesburg); Bloem Crusaders vs BB Truck Noordelikes (Heidedal)
Pool D – White River vs Broubart Old Selbornian (White River); Evergreens vs Roses United (Pacaltsdorp).
Easter Play-offs (Outeniqua Park, George):
Thu 28 March 2013 – Cup quarter-finals:
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• QF2 – Winner B vs Runner-up A
• QF3 – Winner D vs Runner-up C
• QF4 – Winner A vs Runner-up B
Sat 30 March 2013 – Bowl & Cup semi-finals:
• Loser QF1 vs Loser QF2
• Loser QF3 vs Loser QF4
• Winner QF1 vs Winner QF2
• Winner QF3 vs Winner QF4
Mon 1 April 2013 – Finals:
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• Bowl – Winner Bowl SF1 vs Winner Bowl SF2
• Plate – Loser Cup SF1 vs Loser Cup SF2
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The last stops had brought some real ups (trekking in the Andes, sandboarding in Huacachina) and downs (the Islas Ballestas). Arriving in Nazca it seemed to me that the Nazca Lines could easily go either way, and I was in two minds as to whether to bother with flying over them or not.
Eventually, I realised that while Huacachina and the Ballestas are hardly world famous, whereas I've known about Nazca since I was a kid. So I decided to give the flight a go, hoping the reason for that fame lay in more than just their mysterious origins.
The flight itself cost $50, which I suppose is quite cheap for a flight, but still a little pricey for a forty minute experience. The plane itself was tiny, with seats for just five passengers, and I got to sit right in the front, next to the pilot, which was pretty exciting in itself.
We were soon airborne, and within minutes were over the giant rocky plain that is home to the lines. Despite a lifetime of work by the archaeologist Maria Reiche, no one is quite certain why the lines are there, with various theories being espoused including suggestions that they pointed to water sources or were fertility symbols, or even left by extra terrestrials. Whatever the truth, the fascinating thing is that they can only be seen from the air, so flying over at around 200m is the only way to see them.
Ultimately, they are just giant stick symbols. I wasn't expecting to see them all that clearly, but as soon as we were above them they stood out way better than I was expecting, especially the hummingbird.
My personal favourite was the monkey (probably because it reminded me straight away of someone I know), but they are all pretty cool.
Getting off the plane, I realised I was really impressed and I really couldn't work out why. It's not that they are ancient and mysterious – I just can't manage to get very excited about all that for some reason. I think it's partly because it was fun being up in such a tiny plane, partly because I was expecting so little, and partly just because it's cool seeing giant animals drawn on the ground in such a way you have to fly above them to see properly. Whatever the reason, it was bafflingly good fun.
It very nearly turned out to be a bargain, too. When I went to pay the night before, I only had two 100 sol notes on me, and it cost 150. As per usual for Peru, they had no change, so I just paid 100 with a promise that the person collecting me would ask for the other 50 in the morning. What with it being an early start, I forgot entirely and no-one asked me for it. I didn't realise until later when I was sitting in a restaurant and it suddenly hit me. At which point I was hit with a moral dilemma. Should I 'fess up and pay? Or should I hide out for the rest of the day and hope I'd get away with it?
One the one hand, immoral Geoff was thinking what the hell, I know for a fact I've been overcharged for things recently (after comparing prices with other travellers), in one case by a fair bit more than 50 soles, so I'm due a bit of payback, and anyway, they'd probably never find me.
On the other hand, moral Geoff was thinking, they have costs to pay, tourism is down this year because of the crisis, it would be wrong to try and defraud them when I can easily afford it. Plus I'd had a very lucky escape earlier (jumping out of the taxi back from the airport my wallet had fallen on the pavement without me noticing, and I was lucky enough for it still to be there when I realised quarter of an hour later when I went back – I was in a real panic for a moment, as it had my only card in it), and if the locals were honest enough to not to steal from me, who was I to steal from them?
Luckily, my moral dilemma solved itself pretty damn quickly without me having to make a decision. Nazca's a small town, and there are only so many cafes a tourist can hang out while they wile away the hours between the early morning flights and the late evening night buses. As I sat there pondering what to do, the travel agent turned up in the restaurant. Seeing her before she saw me, I realised the game was up and had the 50 soles in hand before she even got to the table.
What would you have done in my situation?
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Sand painting sacred to Tibetan monks
DANBURY -- The chants of the Buddhist monks -- with their eerie bass throat notes, the rhythmic patterns that evolve as the chant progresses, the interjected clash of cymbals -- echoed through the halls of the Westside Campus Center of Western Connecticut State University on Monday.
The chant faded and ended. The vase of peacock feathers, the candles, the bowl of rice was put away. The chanting had chased any anger and negativity out of the room.
"This space is in an excellent way," said Sue Simone, national coordinator of the Drepung Gomang Monastery Sacred Art Tour.
"Now the hard work starts."
That work will consist of creating an intricate mandala -- the Compassion Mandala. A sand mandala is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of circles made from colored sand.
The seven maroon-and-gold robed monks, who are Tibetan exiles living in the Drepung Gomang Monastery in India, will continue their work from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.
Their work is a tribute to the visit of the Dalai Lama, who will speak at WestConn on Thursday and Friday. The monks will take a leave from their work those days to chant for the Dalai Lama.
More InformationIf you go The Tibetan Buddhist monks working on the Compassion sand mandala will be at the Westside Student Center of Western Connecticut State University from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, with lunch breaks at midday. The public is invited to stop and watch their work. The monks will hold a dissolution ceremony to sweep away their completed work Friday at 12:45 p.m. Then there will be a procession to the pond at the Ives Concert Park, where the sand will be dissolved in the park's pond.
"It is such an honor for them," Simone said.
The art of sand painting goes back deep into past millennia. But the Tibetan Buddhist tradition took this decorative art and imbued it with sacred meaning.
"Each color, each grain of sand has meaning," Simone said.
The Compassion Mandala, with an ornate lotus flower in its center, is named Chenrezig, the Tibetan bodhisattva of compassion -- the paramount religious value of Tibetan Buddhism.
The Tibetan people claim ancestry from Chenrezig; his spirit has been reincarnated in each of the dalai lamas.
To make the mandala, the monks fill small, pointed cylinders with sand. Then, by rubbing that cylinder with another, the vibrations allow the sand to escape onto the mandala surface.
The soft scrape of metal on metal had its own hypnotic rhythm Monday, as if a swarm of cicadas were singing along to accompany the monks' work.
"The faster we vibrate the tubes, the faster the sand comes out," said Tenzin Dekyong, one of the monks. "The slower we vibrate it, the slower it comes out."
Dekyong said that while sand for sand painting can be purchased in the United States, much of the material the monks are using came from India, where it was washed, dried, sorted by the size of the grains, then hand dyed.
Their work will be done Friday. After the Dalai Lama leaves the campus, there will be a dissolution ceremony at 12:45 p.m. when the monks will sweep the sand off the table -- a symbol of the impermanence of the world.
Then the monks will have a procession to the Ives Concert Park on campus, where they will dissolve the sand in the lake.
Thus, the compassion of the mandala will be part of the university.
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With one in 50 Black Americans infected with HIV -- and experts estimating that one in 16 Black men and one in 30 Black women will become infected during their lifetimes -- you'd think that folks would use condoms all the time. Yet rising HIV and STD rates among Black Americans suggest that people are still not using condoms consistently.
We found three single women willing to divulge a recent situation in which they snubbed the rubbers. (Names have been changed to protect the identities of the not so innocent, and in a companion article we interviewed several condom-averse men.) Then we asked psychologist and sex therapist Gail Wyatt, Ph.D., associate director of the UCLA AIDS Institute, to comment on each situation, offering what we hope will be health- and lifesaving advice.
Christina, Age 28
My boyfriend cheated around the time I was pregnant. This other woman said she was pregnant by him too, but he claimed he used protection. We broke up for about a month, but when we got back together, we acted as if nothing happened. This included having unprotected sex. I never asked if he had condoms, and he never asked me. I didn't want to cause tension by making him think I didn't trust him -- very stupid, since he'd just cheated on me. Plus we always used the excuse "It just doesn't feel the same." We're not together now, and I've been tested and I'm fine. But I've realized that my life and self-respect are not worth losing to avoid the risk of pissing off a boyfriend.
Dr. Wyatt suggests: The fact that couples don't use condoms isn't always because of the man -- many women don't want to use them either. Some women like a more natural feel, some like the sensuousness, others enjoy taking a risk, and many want a serious relationship but confuse a man's willingness to have unprotected sex with his readiness to commit himself to her and her child. Setting aside the fact that both Christina and her boyfriend placed themselves in jeopardy of getting HIV -- getting pregnant, having a baby and then trying to make the relationship work is risky to both partners and very harmful to the child. It's time to redefine love and commitment: When you love someone, you don't want to give them a disease, and you will not take a chance that can create a consequence that either of you has to deal with forever, including pregnancy.
Starr, Age 49
I didn't use protection with a guy I just met, but he was only 23, it was new and exciting, I was turned on that he was younger and I was in the heat of the moment. My attitude was, "Who says I have to use a condom? I'm older and I'm having a good time." Of course, reality hit me afterward. I thought about HIV and other STDs. I was angry at myself. I'm a nurse; I should have known better. I didn't know this guy from a can of paint. I even started having nightmares. A long time ago, people didn't use protection; it's too dangerous to roll like that now. I really regret not using anything. It's been on my mind heavily. I'm too afraid to get tested.
Dr. Wyatt suggests: Women like Starr are often called cougars, suggesting that they're self-assured, but in reality Starr is very desperate.She may be premenopausal, seeing her body change and needing emotional support. Neediness or loneliness could have caused her to feel affirmed by the young man's advances. She knew better than to have unprotected sex, but desperate, she ignored what she knows.
Many middle-aged women reenter the dating world with sexual knowledge and attitudes that date back to the 1970s. A more current approach would have been for Starr to provide the condoms. Now she has exposed herself. Worse, she's afraid to get tested. Her nightmares demonstrate that remaining ignorant isn't comforting. You get comfort from protecting yourself beforehand -- or, if you make a mistake, from getting tested immediately and doing something about it. Don't let ignorance and denial make a bad situation worse. If you don't know your status, get tested. Chances are you'll get good news. But even if you test positive, an HIV/AIDS diagnosis is not a death sentence. People who get diagnosed early are more likely to experience good health.
Josephine, Age 21
Typically with a new sex partner, I'll have the guy wear a condom. But the first time I had unprotected sex with one of my friends, we had been drinking -- he had condoms, but we never discussed using them. It just happened. I wasn't nervous about getting pregnant because I was on birth control. And I wasn't worried about getting any STDs because he gets tested every three to six months. Afterward we both got tested. I have to admit that people these days, including me, are more relaxed about having sex without condoms. In the heat of the moment, you don't think about contracting an STD. But you and your partner should at least get tested every six months afterward to be sure neither of you passed anything on.
Dr. Wyatt suggests: Young people often know more about sex than people older than they are; however, they don't always use it consistently and responsibly. Under the influence of alcohol, Josephine left her life and sexual health in somebody else's hands. The outcome could have been disastrous. When women in their early 20s get HIV, they often don't have symptoms for 10 years. Then, in their mid-30s -- perhaps when they're married or pregnant -- they become ill and learn that they are infected. Remember, not all diseases appear immediately. Those that don't are often the most dangerous: HIV, human papillomavirus (HPV), herpes and chlamydia can all live in your body undetected. I'm happy for Josephine that she escaped unscathed.
Dr. Wyatt's Wrap-Up
People often think, "I don't know anyone with AIDS or HIV," when in reality they do but don't realize it. It's not safe to assume that your partners are disease-free, even if you know them. If I were in an uncommitted relationship -- even one that had lasted a while -- I would use condoms until that person made a formal commitment to be monogamous. Even then, I would keep my eyes peeled for signs that the person had gone back on that commitment -- because this is your life, and you only get one of them.
LaShieka Purvis Hunter is a freelance writer and editor based in Bay Shore, N.Y.


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Apple and Microsoft topped the list of InfoWorld's annual product award winners this year, nabbing three and four Technology of the Year Awards, respectively. Announced today, InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards recognize the best hardware and software products evaluated by InfoWorld reviewers during 2008.
Microsoft's four prizes include two for development tools and two for small-business solutions. Best Integrated Development Environment went to the matchless Visual Studio 2008, while Best Rich Internet Application Platform went to Silverlight 2 -- which shares the award with Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR. We don't like ties, but we're so impressed with the Microsoft and Adobe offerings that we couldn't choose between them.
[ Take a slideshow tour of InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Award winners in Applications, Middleware, and Data Management | Application Development | Platforms and Virtualization | Systems and Storage | Networking and Security ]
Microsoft knows developers, and clearly Microsoft knows small businesses too. Combining enterprise-class functionality and supreme ease of use, Small Business Server 2008 -- our Best Small Business Server -- had the SMB formula down to an art form. Microsoft also won Best Small Office VoIP System for the brilliantly simple Response Point. It's short on sophistication but long on ease of administration and ease of use.
If it weren't for the supremacy of Oracle Database, the impressive SQL Server 2008 release would have landed Microsoft a fifth award. But our prize for Best Database went to the incomparable Oracle Database 11g, a titanic release with capabilities -- namely Real Application Testing and Active Data Guard -- that DBAs previously could only dream about.
Apple swept the awards for end-user hardware, taking Best Notebook Computer, Best Ultranotebook, and Best Smartphone. The MacBook Pro, still the best notebook you can buy, won for the second year in a row. The iPhone won for the first time, having added important business-oriented features in the 3G edition -- closing the gap with BlackBerry, Nokia, and Windows Mobile -- and leaping ahead of the pack with the amazing App Store.
Hardware heavyweights Dell and Sun took two prizes each. The virtualization host with the most, Dell's high-performance and excellently expandable PowerEdge R905, won Best Virtualization Server, while Dell's Precision M6400 took our prize for Best Mobile Workstation. Although the M6400 isn't as user-friendly as HP's entry in the class, we couldn't help but admire the effort Dell made to squeeze maximum horsepower into a luggable chassis.
HP was tops among desktop workhorses with the value-leading xw4600, our choice for Best Workstation. When eight cores is overkill -- and it usually is -- the xw4600 Workstation delivers terrific bang for the buck.
Sun's Sun Fire X4150 server won Best 1U Server for a similar engineering feat, stuffing 2U of capabilities into the thinner form factor. Sun also walked away with Best Fixed Content Archiving Solution, which went to the highly resilient, cell-based Sun StorageTek "Honeycomb," a storage solution that's harder to kill than Steven Seagal.
Virtualization juggernaut VMware also claimed two Technology of the Year Awards. No doubt surprising no one, VMware Infrastructure 3 repeats as winner for Best Server Virtualization Platform, as well as VMware Workstation for Best Desktop Virtualization. The chase is on, but competitors still have no match for these two trailblazers.
VMware would own the virtualization triple crown, but we called Parallels Desktop for Mac over VMware Fusion once again this year -- by a fraction of a nose. Fusion has closed the gap with astonishing speed and even did a few things better, but it hasn't surpassed Parallels quite yet. The reigning Windows-on-Mac champ keeps the belt.
Reflecting the fact that virtualization has taken server rooms and datacenters by storm, InfoWorld awarded two other prizes to virtualization solutions this year: Best HA Solution for SMBs, which went to Stratus Technologies' Avance product, and Best Datacenter Virtualization Magic, which went to the amazingly versatile Scalent V/OE. Other signs of the times: This year's awards also include prizes for Best Office Alternative, Best Community Server, Best Mashup Server, and Best Cloud Platform.
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This week, Vancouver Whitecaps FC agreed to have youngster Caleb Clarke go on a two-week trial with FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt in Germany's third-tier '3.Liga'.
If this trial is successful, Clarke - who turned 19 on Saturday - will likely be loaned to FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt for one year. This is a good move for Caleb and the 'Caps, and is one of the many pathways for young players to make the grade at the highest level.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency has grown from 20 to over 80 players in the past year. Even now our U-16 and U-18 Residency teams are playing in Texas in the United States Soccer Development Academy (USSDA) playoffs after both teams finished first in their respective age groups. On Thursday, the U-18 team won their group and advanced among the final eight teams in the entire USSDA, while the U-16 team went undefeated but fell just short of advancing on goal differential.
The Residency program has received a lot of praise throughout North America for the job we are doing in developing young players. With Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie wanting a winning mentality throughout the club, it bodes well that both teams have had winning USSDA seasons, as they try to develop their game to make the jump to the next level.
The challenge Whitecaps FC currently have is when these players get to Caleb Clarke's age. They are still young and in need of much playing time. So what are the options for the club and these players?
We have seen Russell Teibert sign an MLS contract last year and then start the memorable season-opener versus Toronto FC. Russell played a strong game and would probably have got a lot more minutes, if not for some niggling injuries. He has not hit the same heights so far this season, but he is knocking on the door and has to be ready to take his chance, when it comes.
Bryce Alderson is another Residency product that signed an MLS contract and is an exciting prospect. At 18 years of age, Bryce has huge potential.
Both Russell and Bryce are gaining valuable experience training with the first team and playing reserve team games, but like any young players in a club, Whitecaps FC would like to be in a position to offer them more games.
This is why we are seeing Caleb going on trial, in the hopes of securing a loan deal that will afford him valuable time on the pitch playing high-quality games. With this experience, he will come back to the 'Caps a more complete player.
Another option for Whitecaps FC is to look to the lower divisions in North America and loan out young players, so they can develop their game, plus try and help a second or third-tier club be successful. Below MLS, there is the second-tier North American Soccer League (NASL) and the third-tier United Soccer Leagues Professional Division (USL PRO).
A third development pathway is through the university or college route. We have seen first-hand what players out of college can do, having selected striker Darren Mattocks out of Akron University in this year's MLS SuperDraft.
If our Residency players are not ready to make the jump to MLS at 17 or 18 years of age, all is not lost. Young players can go to college to get an education and develop their game at a very competitive level.
If they develop their game enough, Whitecaps FC would have the option of bringing them back to the club, as they would be Homegrown players.
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Earlier this month, I started writing:
"As the thunder thunders and the lightening lightens the red sky, I'm sitting inside with a glass of red on my coffee table next to my propped-up feet, my keyboard perched on my lap."
And that's about as far as I got during the tornado that touched down about an hour outside of Boston earlier this month. I was glad to be inside and baking. It feels strange talking about cookies on a night that was so devastating to families nearby. But at the very least, I wanted to share this recipe.
Dark chocolate chip and orange cookies
Makes 4+ dozen cookies
This recipe is a close cousin of these chocolate chip cookies, adapted from Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, but with a decidedly more adult palate. Dark chocolate (70%). Orange zest and orange blossom water. Almond flour (if you have it). As I mentioned the last time I made them, these cookies bake up soft and round, so if you like them flatter and crispier, add 1-2T water with the wet ingredients. The picture above is the almond flour variation with an extra 2T of water.
– 1/2 C softened butter or margarine
– 3/4 C white sugar
– 3/4 C brown sugar
– 2 eggs
– 2 t orange blossom water
– zest of 1 orange (~1T)
– 2C flour or 1 C flour + 1C almond flour
– 1/2 t baking soda
– 1/2 t salt
– 1.5C bittersweet (70%) chocolate chunks (Whole Food sells them, or you can chop up a block of bittersweet chocolate — my favorite is Callebaut)
– 1-2 T water (optional)
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Mix. Cream butter and sugars. Add eggs, orange blossom water, and orange zest, and beat until well blended. Add 1-2 T water if desired to make cookies crisper. Mix flour with baking soda and salt, then add it to the liquid ingredients and mix by hand. Fold in chocolate chunks.
Bake. Drop cookies by level tablespoonful onto a silpat- or parchment-lined baking sheet. I use a 1T cookie scoop. Bake 10 minutes until lightly browned. Cool for a few minutes before removing from silpat/parchment and transfer to a rack.
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Great post and great explanation of the real-life conditions of these shows. It seems to me that it's a bit like speed dating. You might make a connection right off the bat, but chances are, you won't really feel it because the conditions aren't ideal. However, you might spot somebody (or a manufacturer) that you could revisit and re-evaluate in the right circumstances -- say over drinks and dinner or back in their listening room. In other words, judging a speaker, amp, source, cable, etc. in this environment is a bit like picking a bride - or rejecting one - based on a brief encounter in a noisy bar. Still, it's fun to look (or listen) if only to get a feel for what's out there, right?
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It's one thing to know that you're attending what has quickly grown into the largest annual high-end show in the United States. It's something else entirely to try to take in even a third of the 180 exhibits that were spread over the width, breadth and height of the Denver Marriott Tech Center.
RMAF 2010 drew such a huge rush of attendees on the first day (October 15) as to cause at least one overly packed elevator to spend what seemed like a minute in limbo, considering whether it should dare try to ascend. When it finally determined to go up rather than crash down, it moved in fits and starts, and shuddered each time it reached a floor. I think more than one of its occupants took a vow then and there to finally lose some weight. Stereophile ran out of their new-at-the-Show November issue by the end of the second day, and when a member of the Colorado Audio Society donated his collection of back issues to us on Sunday (see the photo), they were all gone within minutes.
Show exhibits extended to eight packed floors, and down into the lobby level. Among the highlights were the return of Head-Fi's CanJam, devoted to headphone listening; two live concerts by pianist Robert Silverman in the lobby; 14 seminars in the Aspen Ampitheater delivered by the likes of Harry Pearson and John Atkinson; and other seminars in the Nordost and Magico/Marutani Consulting/Audio Salon room conducted by leading engineers and researchers.
The wonderful Marjorie Baumert, who continues the show she and her late husband, Al Stiefel, began in 2004 with the assistance of the devoted members of the Colorado Audio Society, had only begun to add up attendee numbers five days after the show ended on October 17. Even before she could get her hands on all of her data, she did her best to supply preliminary figures for this report.
Baumert's first totals indicate 125 press registrations; 1025 exhibitor badges printed, serving exhibitors from 41 states and 19 countries; 1475 actual unique pre-registered attendees from 48 states and 8 countries, most with 2- and 3- day passes; and 1385 actual walk-in attendees from 3 states and 8 countries, about half of whom had 2-day passes. Compared with last year's figure of 3700 attendee-days, Marjorie believes that attendance increased about 12%!
"I am really pleased, but haven't done a statistical analysis yet," she writes by email from Oregon, where she has retreated after the show. "No wonder we had to recycle the lanyards."
If I may indulge in some personal reflection, this was the show at which I tested my limits. Some months back, I contributed 44 blogs on the California Audio Show. This time around, I attempted to surpass that number. Dashing room-to-room in order to attempt to honor a third of the exhibitors pushed me beyond my limits. Too many invaluable exchanges of information, and far too many luscious LPs and discs were cut short. I'm afraid that the stress perhaps led me to be a bit too hard on some exhibitors.
In reader comments that have appeared so far, one of the most perceptive comes from Michael Trei. Writing in the Grant Fidelity blog on the second page of this report (starting with the last page), he begins by quoting one of the earlier "get those Stereophile bastards" commentators who posted under the name Frank:
"'What I would really like is for Mr. Serinus (or any writer), who has clearly expressed disappointment (maybe even disgust) at the number of awful demos, to actually name names.' [Frank]
"Frank," writes Trei, "if you were to take your system, pack it up and move it to another state, then be given less than 24 hours to install it in a hotel room you've never seen before, with lousy acoustics, several other systems playing loudly in adjoining rooms, and a questionable power feed, do you think you could make killer sound? 'Show conditions' can be used as an excuse, but [they are] a real problem for exhibitors. As someone who has set up rooms at many a show, I've been there. As an attendee, my goal is always to find those exhibitors who do manage to deliver killer sound despite the hurdles set before them, rather than bitching about those rooms that have poor sound for whatever reason. Saying 'product X sounded like crap' really isn't fair until you've had a chance to audition that product under more controlled circumstances."
This, then, is the conundrum for both attendees and the press. How literally do you take what you hear at a show as representative of the sound of the ultimate potential of the equipment chain, and how does the press communicate that to readers in a fair and balanced manner?
The potentially most problematic day of any show is the first, when already exhausted exhibitors arise to discover what they patched together in the hours allotted to them the day before actually sounds like. Unable to actually play music or break-in tones overnight, due to the hotel setting, they sometimes force smiles at attendees, all the while swearing to themselves to forego dinner and again work through the night to improve the sound.
A prime example of the "first day/subsequent days" phenomenon is the experience John, Stephen, and I had in the VTL/Wilson/dCS/Basis/Transparent room. Reading the entire blog, including the all-important postscripts, you discover that, without any further tweaking, the sound in the room improved dramatically after the first day. As a result, I have given that room my personal Second Best by Default Room at the Show, with Magico et. al. in first place, and Tidal in third. Only the good Lord or Goddess [insert your preferred deity, politician, life force, or whatever here] knows how that line-up might have read had I visited all three rooms on the final day, playing the same music in each.
How many of the rooms we visited and blogged on Day One also improved as much as VTL's is anyone's guess. Though I would never ascribe to the theory that life is a crapshoot, it begins to feel like that when you reflect on what exhibitors are up against in trying to get it right the first time around.
There is also the issue of the electrical supply. While Stereophile, when it mounted shows some years back, spent a fortune renting a huge generator to supplement a hotel's power, other shows do not. (For the record, Stereophile only ever made a small profit on its shows, and then not every time.) In the case of a recent show, where one exhibitor reported that the bias on the tubes dropped 50% over the course of three days, there is nothing that can be done other than closing the room every hour to readjust. Which, of course, is totally unacceptable.
For attendees, there is only one solution. If a room or piece of equipment even remotely sounds as though it might work for you, try it at home. That's the only way you can truly find out. Especially when it comes to loudspeakers, whose sound can fundamentally shift when moved even ½"I am not exaggeratingonly extended home audition will suffice.
For the press, there is no simple answer. How much of what you hear do you actually report, and to what extent do you portray it as representative of the ultimate potential of components? When you take into account all the blatantly less-than-synergistic equipment set-ups that arise out of economically motivated room partnerships or dealer mixes rather than purely sonic considerations, it's quite a conundrum.
In retrospect, prodded in part by "Frank", I fear that my frankness went a bit overboard. Shows are as much a learning process as life itself. Taking the vow that I'm sure many exhibitors have already taken, to do better next time around, I invite you to read what is undoubtedly the most comprehensive joint coverage of RMAF 2010 you are likely to encounter.
I really really enjoyed the coverage of this show, too far for me to attend and oh so many rooms that I haven't finished reading all of them. BTW, why are there so many different copies of Stereophile at this show and at the Montreal Hi-Fi show we only get one issue distributed?
If a rig sounds bad at a show it could be bad sounding equipment or good sounding equipment. You can't know for sure. But if it manages to sound good at a show, then that should be a valid indicator of something being right. Show conditions can't usually _improve_ flawed gear.
"why are there so many different copies of Stereophile at this show and at the Montreal Hi-Fi show we only get one issue distributed?"As Jason explained, after we ran out of the November 2010 issue, a Colorado reader donated his collection of back issues for Showgoers to take.
Suffice it to say I don't have the opportunity to get to many shows (given the traveling distance and what's in the piggy bank) but if, perchance, I do have an opportunity to attend I doubt very much it would be to listen to the gear on display. I don't think it would be any great stretch to realize (beforehand) that this is a hotel setting and what could you expect? I'd be there to gaze and scratch and sniff at all the neat stuff but mostly to meet some like-minded audiots (a little name my partner coined for the audio folks) and try to figure out what makes these people tick and enjoy the fact that the ticking exists. Somehow, from my POV, it's as much (maybe more) about the people as it is the gear!
Thanks for your good coverage of the show. I enjoyed the show immensely, my biggest regret is not spending more time in the "CanJam" headphone section of the show. Next year I really need to see if I can't attend every minute of the show. I was particularly impressed by the prototype Sony speakers featured in the IsoMike room, as well as the JBL Everest speakers in the Harman room. It was also nice to meet Roy Hall and see some of Music Hall's new offerings. This is a great show, worth traveling to!
Jason Serinus wrote "There is also the issue of the electrical supply. While Stereophile, when it mounted shows some years back, spent a fortune renting a huge generator to supplement a hotel's power, other shows do not."If I'm not mistaken this was done at a Los Angeles Stereophile Hi-Fi Show at the Marriot or Sheraton Hotel located on Century Blvd. I remember being shocked at seeing heavy gauge electrical wire & the large holes that were chiseled into the stairwell concrete walls to accommodate said wire for the upgraded electrical supply. I was shocked that the hotel allowed Stereophile contractors to make such modifications to their hotel. Please correct me if said wiring that I observed was not installed for the upgraded electrical supply. If I remember correctly, a Stereophile magazine show report showed pictures of the stairwell walls with the wiring modifications. Talk about an audiophile tweak for a consumer audio show!!! I doubt if any hotel would allow such modifications these days!


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I thought I'd do a 180 degree turn this week and change the topic from teenagers last week, to newborns this week. In many ways, this week's column is a celebration of life that's dedicated to a beautiful newborn baby by the name of Genevieve Scott born to my dear friend Rick and his husband Ky.
Born on January 9th at 4:00 pm via IVF and surrogacy, I asked Rick to share with me how the details of his journey to fatherhood:
Sam: I've said before that people say it takes a village to raise a child, but with gay people, it takes a village to create a child. You used an agency to pull your "village people" together (the IVF doctor, the lawyer, the egg donor, and the surrogate)? Do you think there's any difference in attitudes of the villagers of the surrogacy process for a gay couple vs. a straight couple?
Rick: We actually learned that it's common with straight couples that the woman often feels very threatened by the egg donor and surrogate. The woman may have jealousies or feelings of inadequacy that get triggered by the surrogate performing a role that she wishes she could have done. With a gay couple, however, men already know they cannot give birth, so there's an immediate feeling of gratitude towards both the surrogate and egg donor.
Sam: Any interesting stories about the process you'd like to share?
Rick: One story was how hard we fought to have our egg donor. Out of all of the profiles, hers was the only one that "felt" right. Once we got the agency to say she was available and reserve her for us, we ran into a series of difficulties. At first the IVF doctor recommended not going with her because she was only 18 and they have a policy of working with more emotionally mature donors. Their fear was that at that age, she could forget to take her intense regimen of drugs or get her priorities out of order. Though we appreciated his perspective, we still felt right about her, so asked for her to meet her. We flew her in for an interview and the doctor changed his mind. Since she was married and had a child, he felt that she had the emotional maturity that they wanted. We started to move ahead with the process and then found out that our egg donor, though listed as being from Texas, had been living in Austria for more than six months. By American law this gave cause to be concerned of her being exposed to mad-cow's disease, so they could not move forward with an anonymous egg donation. The agency tried to get us to go with another donor, but we really wanted to get over this hurdle and stick with her. The only legal way around this was for the surrogate and egg donor to meet so there was an established relationship between them. This changed completely the direction of our privacy. We decided we would rather stick with her and let everyone meet, so we flew in the surrogate and egg donor to meet each other and the surrogate agreed to take a chance with an egg from out of country. Once again, we moved forward in the testing process and then got a call that our egg donor tested positive for Tay-Sachs disease, which means that if either of us tested positive that our child would most likely die within a couple of years. Once again, the agency encouraged us to go with someone else, but we chose to go through more blood tests and found that we were both negative to Tay-Sachs, which means there would be no chance for this disease to come through to the child. Final hurdle completed and we had a successful egg retrieval. She produced 25 eggs, 17 of which were healthy. We were able to get 12 of those fertilized (we each fertilized half of the eggs) and asked the doctor to choose the two healthiest embryos to put into the surrogate without letting us know who the genetic father was. We could have chosen the sex at point too, but did not.
Sam: So as I write this, Genevieve is approaching 2 weeks old. Assuming you've gotten enough sleep to even know, how does it feel?
Rick: With the birth of our child there has been an overwhelming protective "Papa Bear" energy that has come forward. It has deepened our love for one another and feeling our rhythm as a couple to create a safe and loving family. The best part is watching her feed and the worst part is the 2-4am time when she is wide-awake. We are sleepless, but happy, zombies.
Sam: Genevieve is probably one of my favorite names for a girl. I had an "Aunt Neva" and always loved that name. What's the story in picking this name for your daughter?
Rick: We had a whole list of boy names that we agreed to, but could not come up with ONE girl name that we both felt was right. Then we decided to ask the egg donor what names she liked, since she is much younger than we are, we figured she would be more in touch with what our daughter's peers would be named. The egg donor said the other name she had loved, that she didn't name her daughter, was Genevieve. As soon as she said it, we both knew immediately that that was the right name for our girl, and we liked that she would know her genetic mother had loved that name. We wanted a name that was both feminine but also would allow her to move into the world as a powerful woman. This name feels perfect for us.
Sam: And a powerful name it is. Can you tell me how you prepared for being a parent? Is there any real way to prepare?
Rick: The best baby gift we received from a friend was a book called What to Expect the first year by Heidi Murkoff. It was invaluable in helping us feel prepared for every aspect of fatherhood. Once the baby arrived, it has continued to be helpful going month by month on what to expect from your baby and what their needs are. A second book that we read and enjoyed was The Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp. The Canadian medical practice provides home visits from midwifes that has given us great comfort, knowing we would have someone every week coming by to check on us and answer questions.
Sam: How is your life different now than it was two weeks ago?
Rick: Ky has put his career on an indefinite sabbatical, since we wanted to raise Genevieve the old-school way, with a stay-at-home parent sending her off to school and there when she got home. Once she's sleeping through the night, he'll start taking 1-2 clients a day while I watch her, but Ky's priority is her, while I take care of securing our family's financial needs. Even though I'm not up at night feeding her and changing her diapers, I'm still exhausted from not sleeping and worrying about Ky being a sleepless zombie. Sleepless but happy.


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Ok, I watched both movies and combed the credits, and there is no listing of the creature shop at all. Do we want to pull the information on the movie, and just leave the references, mentions, trivia and connections for now? Do we have anyone from the creature shop we can contact? Perhaps this is a case like Looney Tunes: Back in Action, where the work done never made it to the screen? -- Nate (talk) 16:07, June 25, 2010 (UTC)
- What's the source for the Creature Shop being involved in the first place? —Scott (talk) 00:03, July 12, 2010 (UTC)
- Quite a few things. We already had David Barrington-Holt's page listed as a as Creative Supervisor/Character Design. There was a whole conversation at Talk:Hanna-Barbera about it as well, including links to websites that seem credible and uncredible (such as IMDb). -- Nate (talk) 00:54, July 12, 2010 (UTC)
- Here's our source for the David Barrington-Holt page. Looks like it was pasted from a bio. So, perhaps Henson did some preliminary work that was handed over to another studio. For example, they might have created the sculpture seen on the Spanish blog and then another company used that as reference to build the digital model. Pure speculation on my part due to the lack of their presence in the credits. So we should really get a better source. Either DBH or someone else at Henson to clarify. —Scott (talk) 01:11, July 12, 2010 (UTC)
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Well, maybe I'm crazy but in "The Mystery Begins" there is a scene with a ghost coming out of a microwave and if I remember right this ghost looked a lot like the Swedish Chef. The problem is that it was a while ago since I watched it so I'm not sure. Perhaps you guys know something about it, otherwise I'll watch again to find out :) BlueFrackle 22:41, July 11, 2010 (UTC)
- A screenshot or online video would be helpful. Even then, it may just be a coincidence, and would more heavily rely on some circumstance in the scene to back it up as a reference. —Scott (talk) 00:02, July 12, 2010 (UTC)
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We should find out what Henson did for this specifically. I don't think they did the full character animation for Scooby. Also, the page for the movie should be separate from the page for the franchise with the references. For example, the way we've broken down Where the Wild Things Are, Harry Potter and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. —Scott (talk) 00:04, May 7, 2010 (UTC)


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1. Describe an early food experience that has influenced the way you think about food and/or cooking.I spent lots of my summers as a child with my paternal grandparents. My grandfather was an avid waterman - he taught me how to crab (hard shells and soft shells) and fish (including catching my own bait) in the Chesapeake Bay. My recipe here on Food52, Oysters Harry, is from him - I was always his side-kick. My grandmother is an amazing cook who, even at 90, can make any seemingly humble dish taste delicious. When I was around 8 or 10, she made me (despite my protestations) a poached egg on buttered wheat toast cut into pieces. It was a revelation and I am still a sucker for anything with a poached egg. From my grandparents I learned to appreciate our local seafood and game and that anything shared with friends and family tastes better.
2. What's your least favorite food?Anything over-condimented. My husband says I should form a group P.A.T.E.U.C. People Against the Excessive Use of Condiments.
3. What is the best thing you've made so far this year?These avocado crab rolls.
4. Describe your most spectacular kitchen disaster.My first homecooked date for my then-boyfriend, now husband - lamb chops with rosemary and garlic, twice baked potatoes with garlic, cesear salad with tons of garlic. Tons of garlic does not equal romantic date food. (or any time I have a skillet in the oven, its a 99% chance I'll grab the handle without an oven mit and burn myself).
5. What is your idea of comfort food?Anything that was introduced to me by my family - my mom's chicken soup, dad's cesear salad, aunt alice's stromboli, grandma's left over homemade pie crust rolled up and baked with butter, cinnamon and sugar.
6. Apron or no apron?Apron - whenever I can remember - otherwise, my clothes are stained constantly.
7. What's your favorite food-related scene in a movie?In the recent movie Bridesmaids, the main character is a baker who lost her bakery due to the economy. At home, alone and contemplative, she takes the time to cook and beautifully decorate one perfect cupcake. Then she eats it alone. That's dedication.
8. If you could make a show-stopping dinner for one person, living or dead, who would it be?Barack Obama. I think our food tastes are in line and I'd love any chance to meet him.
9. You prefer to cook: a) alone; b) with others; c) it depends on your mood.Always with others - I need almost no alone time. (good thing when you have a toddler).
10. When it comes to tidying up, you usually: a) clean as you cook; b) do all the dishes once you've finished cooking; c) leave the kitchen a shambles for your spouse/roommate/kids to clean.Clean as I cook - I like to relax after my meal and not worry about a mess.
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