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Monday, November 07, 2011
Birthday Cake for Ed!
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I'm not a big chocolate cake fan but "hazelnut mousse" is a magical phrase that instantly fills my heart with desire. Nice cake! Happy birthday Ed!ReplyDelete
This looks amazing!! And I loooove your animals' names. :)ReplyDelete
You know that cat would pounce on the cake, LOL!!!ReplyDelete
Now that is a beautiful cake!ReplyDelete
The cake looks beautiful, but it is a good thing that Yummers is there to give it the final tick of approval!ReplyDelete
OHMYGOODNESS! Now you have me wanting to see what it looks like inside. And what it tastes like. I want a piece!!!ReplyDelete
your web blog is a perfect example why Americans are so unhealthy and fat.ReplyDelete
you enjoy making people and friends happy by serving unhealthy food catering to your addictions and theirs.
"and that he really loves chocolate (smart man!)"
he is not smart, he is stupid! and the tone of your writing says you are not to smart either.
you are addicted to junk food and always looking for an excuse to make more. Holidays and birthdays, actually your blog is your main excuse.
Your are a vegan, you want to save animals lives and don't give a poop about yourself and the people who you love. What kind of a sick philosophy is that.
you make not like my tone, or print this, but you will read it, and deep down in side you I know I am right.
That cake looks AMAZING!ReplyDelete
A English speaking friend, that speaks better English than I, pointed out to me that I made several English writing mistakes in my last post. Yes, I need to work on my English writing skills.ReplyDelete
I did find your post very offensive suggesting people who eat chocolate cake are smart. what are you saying to the people who want to be eat. healthy, that they are stupid.
Hi ALF,ReplyDelete
I think it's clear that I am not saying people who want to eat healthy food are stupid. But I did hear you saying that I was stupid for enjoying a chocolate cake, which is nasty and accusatory. This was obviously meant to be a joyful post about a very special occasion and a naughty treat that I make very rarely. Most days I (and my whole family in fact) am eating salads and kale and fruit and quinoa. Telling me I am stupid and mean-hearted and "probably overweight" hurts my feelings and my first reaction is to become defensive. But I've thought about what you've written.
If you don't like me, and you don't like my blog, and you don't like the food I cook, you could probably save yourself a lot of agitation by not bothering to come look at my blog. If you are passionate about encouraging people to give up sugar and eat more healthy foods, your methods of nastiness and attacks are not very persuasive. You're more like to make enemies that way.
Why not leave a comment like "I can see your family had a great gathering. How sweet. We used to eat cakes in our family until we became more concerned about health and reducing sugar. Now we celebrate together by eating XXXXX. Here's a link to one of my favorite recipes: XXXXX" That comment would indicate that your dietary choices have helped make you into a content and kind person who enjoys helping and encouraging others to make good choices.
In the future, I'll probably just delete your comments if you come with the same mean, nasty, and accusatory tone.
The chocolate cake was a fun special treat for a special occasion. For those of us who are trying to eat a healthy diet daily it is fun to have a naughty treat once in a while. Keeps us sane! Your well thought out response to Alf is a testament to what your blog is about. Keep up the good work, Amey. We have learned about different foods, spices, the experimenting with recipes from your blog.ReplyDelete
I'm absoultely shocked by ALF's comment. So much hatred and negatively in one little package is unbelievable.ReplyDelete
I think you handled it very well.
I also think your cake is beautiful. :)
ha amey you are so thoughtful and eloquent. my reaction would just be "stfu." but seriously, what a jerk. keep on being the rad, sweet, smart, lovable vegan you are :-) haters be damned.ReplyDelete
- Julie8:20 PM
Hi Amey,ReplyDelete
I love your website with all your wonderful, thoughtful recipes and beautiful drawings.
I loved your response to ALF, he was very mean, I completely agree with sophia response.
Sorry your feelings were hurt, to make you feel better, I have a confession. Today for
breakfast I had a vegan donut and chocolate soymilk!! I know, it is not good
for me. But at least it's better than cow milk and a "regular"
I love vegan donuts and would eat one every day if I had access to them.
I want to be honest. In general, I love all sweet baked good, As long as there are vegan. Vegetables are good and I try to eat a few everyday but the bake goods are much more fun and that's what I look forward too.
Tonight I am making a Vegan lemon meringue-style pie for a friend's gathering tomorrow,
and then on Tuesday (my own birthday) I will be chowing down on big slabs of vegan chocolate birthday cake. One of my best vegan friends is baking it for my birthday..
Don't let anyone take the joy out of your life.
This is absolutely my favorite, joyous time of year, with my Birthday, major holidays and specially parties. and events, It is a non-stop party, The party goes into the new year.
I hardly ever drink, but I can't say no to all the all the delicious bake goods, that I and my vegan friends make.
I am a vegan, my main concern is for the welfare of the animals, I love my dog, more than anyhting else, that's it! I don't waqt to live to be a hundred even if if someone promised me I would , if I ate better, I would be miserable the whole time.
I know my vegan diet is not healthy, I may gain some weight and drop dead. Some people like ALF will criticize the way I eat. It is none of their business...... "Hey we are all going to die". all I can say is, "what a way to go"!!
Keep those great recipes coming, Can you pleaseeeee post the full recipe for that Chocolate Cake!
- Anonymous8:40 AM
For personal reasons I will stay anonymous, I hope you understand.ReplyDelete
My daughter, who is a frequent reader of this Vegan blog and many other Vegan blogs, pointed out the exchange between ALF and the host blogger, Amey
Yes, ALF can easily be dismissed as an angry, negative person, but his message on health is correct and overlooked by present day vegans, who's only concern is for welfare of the animals. Their health is not important or not their main concern.
I would say Julie's post ( #17) is an excellent example of that. I would like to think she is in a small minority, but from what my daughter is telling me, she is not.
My position about eating unhealthy Vegan junk food is, we should not be eating these foods: ever!
Of course, you are not going to drop dead from eating a one piece of chocolate cake, but I believe it does wrap your sense of taste. Our taste buds have been so corrupted, since childhood, by the continual use of these unhealthy foods, like sugar. oil and salt, we can not eat foods with out them.
Whole food should taste good to us in their plain natural state. If you don't believe me try fasting for a short number of days on just water, The first piece of food you eat will taste absolutely delicious.
I recently heard T Colin Cambell at a lecture in Toronto. He was very hard on the attending, mostly Vegan audience. He stated being a Vegan was just the start. In order to be healthy we must eliminate sugar, oil and salt from our diets. A plant based diet consisting whole fresh fruits and vegetables, raw and simple recipes with out the use of sugar, oil and salt is what we should be eating.
He also pointed out the obesity problem in Canada and the in the US. In his talks in has seen lots of over weight vegetarians and vegan.
His talk was centered around cancer prevention, not heart disease. He stated eating a vegan diet does protects us from heart disease but not cancer. We have to eliminate most of the vegan processed foods, Fake meats, processed vegan package goods, and unhealthy bake goods. ( baking forms acrylamides that cause cancer) and all sugar,oil and salt.
Now overweight people are becoming the norm. I am very sad to say, I am seeing this in my daughter and some of her friends, it really hurts me a lot to see her struggling with her weight. Both myself and my wife are thin.
Although there is a attempt to cut down on the sugar, oil and salt in some of the Vegan blogs, that my daughter has pointed out. Most of the Vegan blogs still heavily rely on these ingredients, Bake goods are very common. Books like Vegan cupcakes Take over The World is a good example.
I get mad when I see titles like "Vegan Cupcakes take over the World" Especially when I see titles like that in my in my house!
The early vegans in this country came from a strong health movement and started the American Vegan Society to create more awareness for animals. Do no violence. This also meant, no violence to our self's by eating healthy food.
We have to find a way to keep joy in our life's without continually poisoning our self's with unhealthy foods. Sorry, As hard as this may seem, The Vegan Chocolate cake is not he answer.


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Aiken, S.C. – Georgia Southwestern women's basketball team continues play on the road against fellow Peach Belt opponent USC Aiken on Wednesday afternoon. Shaniece Sheffield finished the game with a team high of 15 points, in an attempt to secure the win. However, USC Aiken was able to pull out the 78-70 win.
The Lady 'Canes came out hot with an early 13-4 run on Aiken. Three-pointers were made by Tiara Thompson(2) and Sierra Barrino-Kennedy. By the 15:40 mark GSW was up nine points. Nevertheless, Aiken was able to come back and surpass the Lady 'Canes during the eight minute of play. The two teams were equal going back and forth during the final minutes of the half. USC Aiken led 40-33.
Shanedra Lockett led GSW during the first half with 10 points. USC Aiken's Porsha Martin and Mariah Durian led the Pacers with eight points apiece.
The game continued in an equal scoring fashion until the 14th minute. USC Aiken ran away with the score during a 13-2 run ending with a jump shot by Kiana Griffin at 8:02, Aiken 67-47. Shortly thereafter, Barrino-Kennedy, Jones, Sheffield contributed to a 11-2 run, Aiken 70-60. Sheffield attempted to narrow the difference with a three, jumper, and free throw; Aiken 73-66.
In the final minutes GSW started to foul in hopes to catch the lead. Sheffield achieved one point and Lockett secured four. This was not enough to catch Aiken. Aiken finished ahead by eight, 78-70.
Along with Sheffield's double digit scoring, she contributed two rebounds and assists, and three steals. Lockett joined with high digits, scoring 14 points, snatching eight rebounds, making two blocks, and one steal. Barrino-Kennedy added 13 points, grabbing five rebounds, one block and one assist. Tiara Thompson contributed with 10 points, three rounds, one assist and steal to GSW. Danyelle Jones also achieved a game high of seven assists during the game.
Aiken's Durian finished with 17 points and six rebounds. Martin was able to add nine rebounds. Mackenzie Reese had 13 points and four rebounds. Finally Courtney Mealing had 12 points and six rebounds.
USC Aiken's bench outscored GSW's by ten points. A highlight for GSW was finishing the game with four less turnovers.
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Amherst took the first three women's events before Christy Rogers was able to win the 100 yard backstroke in 59.16. Rogers was part of the 'A' squad in the opening 200 yard medley relay. She, along with Calley Murphy, Elina Hu and Katie Creasey finished in a time of 1:51.13, but were bested by the talented 'A' group from Amherst.
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Freshman Katelyn Rossick took the last event victory for MIT, winning the 200 yard IM in 2:13.28 before Amherst ran away with the 400 yard freestyle relay.
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Will Using a Pacifier Affect My Breastfed Baby?
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From NEW BEGINNINGS, Vol. 24 No. 6, November-December 2007, p. 279
Pacifiers, also known as "dummies," can seem like an essential tool in the parents' calming arsenal. Babies are soothed by sucking, so what could be more convenient than this small portable device that is easily slipped into a baby's mouth? And yet, isn't this what breasts are for? Will offering a pacifier/dummy cause problems with breastfeeding, or can the two coexist?
Why do babies like to suck?
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Why give a pacifier?
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You will be given the source designs in SKETCH format (no PSD's available!) Please let me know that you are comfortable slicing from Sketch. This is a responsive Magento website that will require customization. It is a product builder type site, where the preview of the products is based on the users input. So I will provide all images needed to
I have designs for a simple 3 screen app that I need developed for Android and iOS (I will provide design slicing). The app allows users to simply scan receipts and leave a comment. The app needs to be for android and ios. We are considering 2 approaches to this app. OPTION 1. App simply takes a picture and saves image for admin. OPTION 2. App uses
...freelancer, saya butuh secepatnya senior programmer microsot asp.net untuk pengembangan produk kami. saya butuh tiga orang senior programmer [se connecter pour voir l'URL] dengan requirement : 1. slicing html ke asp.net 2. setting server asp.net 3. desain databese 4. backend developer dari kami sudah mensiapkan : 1. business process 2. UI UX 3. Project Management yang nantinya
We have the psd files for noop commerce and we want someone to do slicing and then integrate it for the front end. Home page and few inner pages
We have the psd files for noop commerce and we want someone to do slicing and then integrate it for the front end. Home page and few inner pages
Slicing of 2 screens
Just need to cut a pictures like slicing it I'll show you, just that much so budget really low like 5-10$, [se connecter pour voir l'URL] I need it ASAP. Like within an hour.
Someone who can work through from graphic design/concept, slicing, and implementing into HTML/CSS/JS Experience with the following CMS also a massive plus: - Shopify - Wordpress You need to have strong skills in the following: - Graphic/UX Design/Photoshop Etc - Wireframing - Responsive Design - HTML/CSS - Some Javascript experience also handy.
Website slicing project, as discssed
...theres the chat box, player icon (ignore this one), settings button, and help button Quick summary for "Need Concepts For" -The template/assets given combined with 9-slicing should make it easy for me to apply to every window in this folder, and the ones that arent included -I need good concepts for what these windows will look like, since most
Im looking for a challenging designer for my mini product for household purpose with multifunctionality like vegetables slicing,shredding,spiral,sheets, juicer, mini instant wet grinder and dry flour miller. If is it possible to makeover then revert me back with that u can do it.
I need some graphic design. Im looking for a challenging designer for my mini product for household purpose with multifunctionality like vegetables slicing,shredding,spiral,sheets, juicer, mini instant wet grinder and dry flour miller. If is it possible to makeover then revert me back with that u can do it.
My budget for this project is no more than $50. I have a customer that needs a 3D printed Mudkip from Pokemon. The d...this is a project that is going to one of my customers, I am going to be very picky on the project so if there isn't something that looks right or doesn't translate into my slicing program correctly, I'm going to need it to be fixed.
Do not bid on this job. this is for our current resource. This is a WordPress & WooCommerce site. The following milestones will be used. 1) Intitial Milestone 2) Slicing into HTML5/CSS3 3) WordPress & WooCommerce Development 4) Beta Delivery 5) Testing 6) Deploy to Production This job may be complete between 1 - 4 months.
Hello, We have 2 email signatures designed in PSD that will require slicing and coding in PSD to HTML. Thanks!
...Trendencias ([se connecter pour voir l'URL]), a weekly fashion, beauty and entertainment talk show on YouTube. We are looking to outsource part of the video editing. We would do the slicing and sequencing of files. The freelancer would be responsible to add art (images/videos provided), transitions, intro/outro (provided) and soundtrack (sound files provided)
Greetings- I need to implement my email signature designed in PSD. It will require slicing and coding PSD to HTML and then implement code by embedding it into my gmail account. We have many more items that need to be PSD to HTML. Thanks!
Hello, I need a few images and information about font used and colour codes from a PSD immediately. Bid if you are available to work immediately. Thanks, Karthik
There are 3 SVGs provided for a website design. The project is to convert/slice these SVGs to boostraped based theme. Only bid if you have done slicing for bootstrap themes and can do this work in next 24 hours
Business man trying to climb a hill side, but 4 colored balls and chains are keeping him slow. As in Fruits ninja, some glowing move are slicing the balls in half Once this happen, the businessman starts moving faster and gets out of the picture The sliced half of each ball (that is not connected to the chain) disolves and some cilinders (2/3)
Need a MATLAB code on adaptive slicing, which is related to mechanical deparment. I am attaching a ppt of it, even i have code of normal slicing in matlab , this will be helpful for understanding. All that I need is Matlab code on adaptive slicing. Person should explian me clearly.
...Testing Requirements: Fully responsive and pixel perfect. Website structure: Home page/ About/ Design page/ UX case study page. I provide: Site map Photoshop files ready for slicing UI guide Comps and specs I will upload content by myself More references and detailed comps will be provided Time: Needs to be done by June 10th....
My project needs modeling, slicing for 3d printing and preparing files for casting in metals
...must not change hardcode. • CSS selectors must be clear. All site elements can be change progressive times. We are not looking for someone who can simply convert it through slicing software and give us back. HTML/CSS must be written under best practices....
HI, I need someone to create one slicer/filter. I am working on a sheet, which needs slicing and be able to get the correct denominator. Need someone to help me and deliver in the next 4 hours. For someone who knows this, it should not take more than 15-30 minutes. In the attached sheet, I want to get the right vacancy%, occupancy% and total


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Color Spot Nurseries Inc. gives a green thumbs up to more than 2,000 retail & commercial customers throughout the United States. We specialize in the distribution of high quality bedding plants, vegetables, herbs, shrubs, premium blooming plants, ground cover, ornamentals & more.
The Color Spot family is committed to excellence. We pride ourselves on the success of our customers & the satisfaction of our ultimate consumers. Our commitment to quality runs deep throughout every thread of our root system.
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LONDON — What are the first sights you seek when you travel to a new city? The museums? The top restaurants? Or the cemeteries? I choose cemeteries. Although some people think that's weird, I find them a through-the-looking-glass way of understanding a place and how it grew. They are fascinating, beautiful, a bit mysterious but rarely ghoulish or spooky.
Because of its rich history, London is one of the best cities for touring cemeteries. I started at Bunhill Fields, close to the City, as London's financial center is called. The name probably comes from the Saxon meaning Bone Hill, although officially this cemetery dates from the 1660s, a time of plague in London.
John Bunyan of "The Pilgrim's Progress" lies here on top of his high sarcophagus staring up to heaven. Opposite stands an obelisk to Daniel Defoe, who wrote "A Journal of the Plague Year," one of the first nonfiction novels. The headstone for William Blake and his wife, Catherine Sophia, is nearby. When both were alive, Catherine was heard to complain, "I have very little of Mr. Blake's company. He is always in Paradise."
Under the towering plane trees (similar to L.A.'s sycamores), which were planted because they could withstand polluted air, are orderly lines of simple grave stones fenced off from the office workers eating their lunches.
Bunhill Fields looks fine now, but in the early 19th century it was squalid and overcrowded. Across the English Channel, the French had shown the way forward in 1804, when Napoleon ordered all burials in Paris moved outside the city. The result was the great Père Lachaise, the gold standard for modern cemeteries. Tardy London followed suit in 1832 by creating the so-called Magnificent Seven, seven spacious cemeteries ringing the city.
Kensal Green, in northwestern London, was the first to be built outside the new cordon sanitaire. I took the Tube out to the end of Harrow Road on London's ugly urban fringes, then walked around the cemetery's high perimeter wall to its grandiose neoclassical entrance.
My great-grandfather, a well-known architect, is buried here, and the first time I visited I was looking for his tomb. Given the Victorian taste for stone angels, sculptures of faithful animals and exotic Egyptian temples, I was expecting something spectacular for him.
Instead, I got a large slab of dark stone surrounded by blood-colored granite and topped with a skewed cross. Kensal Green's damp clay soil has caused many graves and mausoleums to tilt over the years.
Joe Hughes, a volunteer with Friends of Kensal Green, showed me around when I returned last summer. "Look and see how many different draped urns [Roman symbolism for death] you can see," he told me.
Seemingly everywhere I looked there were urns, some big, others small, decorated or plain — an endless profusion among the trees.
Kensal Green was an instant success in its day. The Duke of Sussex, the sixth son of George III, chose to be buried here. So did his poor sister Princess Sophia, who had fallen in love with an equerry (a horse officer) and had a son — news that was kept from George III. The Duke of Cambridge, George III's grandson, is buried in an Egyptian mausoleum with his actress mistress and several of their children.
No major English cemetery would be complete without its poets and littérateurs. William Makepeace Thackeray is buried here with his mother and with the wrong date for his death (Dec. 21, 1863 instead of Dec. 24, 1863). Iron bollards and chain surround his slab. Amazingly, they survived World War ll, when much of London's ornamental ironwork was melted down for armaments.
Oscar Wilde has the honor of lying in Père Lachaise, but Wilde's mother and sister are in Kensal Green. So are novelist Anthony Trollope; Wilkie Collins, buried alongside Caroline Graves, one of his mistresses and the model for "The Woman in White" and, most recently, playwright Harold Pinter.
I had never visited Brompton Cemetery, the most central of the Magnificent Seven. It turned out to be an acre of quiet in the middle of London that joggers and lovers, cyclists and dog walkers frequent.
Brompton, a flat rectangular site designed as a miniature of St. Peter's in Rome, has avenues of trees instead of pillars, both formal and enchanting. The day I went, the air was scented with lime blossoms, overwhelming, sweet and slightly repulsive, much like a Victorian cemetery. Stone doves competed with flapping pigeons for space on top of Woolley's Mausoleum. Crosses entwined with stone and real ivy looked very romantic.
It was easy to find the Celtic cross commemorating Emmeline Pankhurst, the suffragette. Then there were the lions. I'm a sucker for stone lions, and Brompton has a particularly mournful one atop the tomb of "Gentleman" John Jackson, the prizefighter.
The next day, I was on the Tube traveling to the pièce de résistance among the seven — Highgate, in the eponymous, leafy northern London suburb. Highgate Cemetery is in all the guidebooks, and even those who don't share my interest in cemeteries have heard of it.
It also happened to have been my playground as a child, when I lived nearby. In early summer, we children explored through clouds of white Queen Anne's lace; in the fall, we shared luscious blackberries with the squirrels and foxes; in the winter, we played in the snow. We weren't interested in the cemetery's most famous occupant, Karl Marx. I remember I didn't like his enormous black head sitting neckless on a pillar. Where was his body?
Highgate became overgrown and vandalized (not by us) and was finally abandoned in 1975. A few years later, Friends of Highgate Cemetery took it over. Enthusiasts weeded and cleared the ivy from the graves, cut down invasive trees and planted bulbs and wild flowers. For a while, I volunteered as a guide. I showed visitors the tomb of boxer Thomas Sayers with his mastiff, confusingly named Lion, while a sleeping stone lion called Nero guards the grave of George Wombwell, a menagerie owner.
A crude horse marks John Atcheler's grave, appropriate for Queen Victoria's horse slaughterer. Angels are everywhere, morphing with Victorian prettiness into something more like fairies: One has even fallen asleep on a grave.
Highgate architect Stephen Geary created an air of mystery with his curving paths reminiscent of those in Père Lachaise. Geary's Egyptian Avenue is a street where the dead live in little houses, each with an iron door stamped with an inverted torch (light extinguished).
Highgate's other great feature is the catacombs, an underground gallery with a terrace on top where Victorians paraded, admiring the view across London to the South Downs. Today, it is no longer safe to walk there, and the view has disappeared behind a screen of tall trees. Unplanned but allowed to take root, the trees have become the chief beauty of the place.
There is never a bad time to go to Highgate, but my favorite is the early spring, when the trees are bare and snowdrops are everywhere.
If you get bored, there are four additional cemeteries in the Magnificent Seven, as well as plenty of other graveyard mysteries in London that I've yet to explore. For instance, where can you find the remains of Sigmund Freud and his wife, Martha? Hint: They're not in a cemetery.


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Around the nation, some shops and restaurants closed in solidarity others braced for a possible shutdown for lack of enough employees Thursday as a "Day Without Immigrants" unfolded to underscore how much immigrants form the lifeblood of the country's economy and social structure.
Immigrants in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Austin, Texas, and other major U.S. cities planned to stay home from work and school as part of a strike. Demonstrators also planned a march to the White House at noon.
Coming on the heels of roundups of undocumented immigrants nationwide, organizers urge legal residents as well as undocumented ones to participate in the boycott in response to President Trump's crackdown on immigration, which includes plans to build a border wall and a temporary immigration ban on nationals from certain Muslim-majority nations.
Sign posted on door at Zavino at 13th and Sansom. Restaurant will be closed today for 'Day without Immigrants'. pic.twitter.com/VpuPQIXpRW— Katherine Scott (@KScott6abc) February 16, 2017
"From doctors to dishwashers, immigrants are integral to daily life in the U.S.," tweeted Janet Murguia, president and CEO of National Council of La Raza, as she praised Spanish-American Chef Jose Andrés' decision to close his Washington, D.C., restaurants Thursday. David Suro, owner of Tequilas Restaurant in Philadelphia and a Mexican immigrant, said he also planned to participate.
The celebrity chef said he decided to close after a few hundred of his employees told him they weren't coming to work Thursday. They asked for his support and got it.
"We are all one," he said. "We should not be fighting among each other, we should all be working together to keep moving the country forward."
Andrés faces a lawsuit against Trump after pulling out of a restaurant deal at Trump's new Washington, D.C., hotel over offensive comments Trump made about Mexican immigrants.
Busboys & Poets and more than a dozen other restaurants in the nation's capital announced closings.
From doctors to dishwashers, immigrants are integral to daily life in the U.S. We stand w/ @ChefJoseAndres #ADayWithoutImmigrants. https://t.co/A3gGkCYtLX— Janet Murguía (@JMurguia_NCLR) February 15, 2017
The Sweetgreen salad chain closed 18 stores in the Washington area in support of the demonstration. "Our team members are the face of the brand, from the front lines to our kitchen -- they're the backbone of this compnay and what makes Sweetgreen special," said co-founders Nicoilas and Nathaniel Jonathan. "And that's why we stand with them, today and every day."
Elsewhere in the country:
— The Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts said it would remove or shroud all artwork created or given by immigrants to the museum through Feb. 21.
— In New Mexico, the state with the largest percentage of Hispanic residents in the nation, school officials worried that hundreds of students may stay home on Thursday. "We respectfully ask all parents to acknowledge that students need to be in class every day to benefit from the education they are guaranteed and to avoid falling behind in school and life," principals with the Albuquerque Public Schools wrote in a letter to parents. Students who take part in the protest will receive an unexcused absence, Albuquerque school officials said.
— In Phoenix, acclaimed chef Silvana Salcido Esparza said she will close three of her Phoenix restaurants for the day: Barrio Cafe, Barrio Urbano and Barrio Cafe Gran Reserva.
"You know what, my restaurants don't function without immigrants. That starts in the field, people who pick our food, the processing plants, the slaughterhouse, I could go on," she said Wednesday, hours after she was named a James Beard Award semifinalist for Best Chef — Southwest for the fifth time.
The Trump administration, less than a month in, has implemented policies that advocates call anti-immigrant. The first series of changes included executive actions to build the U.S.-Mexico wall, boost patrol agents to curb illegal immigration and strip federal funding from sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with immigration agents.
Days later, Trump signed a sweeping order that temporarily banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, suspended all refugee admissions for 120 days and indefinitely barred Syrians from the country, though an appeals court order temporarily blocked the order. That order has been temporarily suspended while an appeals court weighs whether it will lift the ban.


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Zango Wins Lawsuit, Dismisses Users Who Can't Uninstall Its App As 'Background Noise'
from the such-concern-for-their-users dept
It's not clear from Zango's announcement (yes, they announced it) why this case was thrown out -- but it's pretty clear that there's something in their software that pisses off an awful lot of people who have it and have no idea how they got it. It's hard to see how that's something to cheer about. In the press release, the CEO of the company calls such complaints "occasional distractions" and "background noise of a small group of fixated critics" while another company exec claims that this dismissal confirms "that our innovative business model is entirely legitimate." Both claims seem to be stretching the truth. The dismissal of a single lawsuit (and the details are missing as to why it was dismissed) doesn't necessarily justify the business model -- and the fact that the company views some pretty serious, and very detailed, complaints from an awful lot of people as "background noise" should hopefully alert advertisers that this is not a company to work with.


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The Treasury Department said Thursday that a default by the U.S. on its debt caused by the ongoing budget standoff in Congress could have a "catastrophic" effect on the U.S. economy.
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Given the already fragile state of the economy, the Treasury Department said in a report that default by the U.S. and its ripple effect through the global economy could lead to frozen credit markets, a plunge in the value of the dollar, skyrocketing interest rates, all of which could instigate a financial crisis mirroring that of 2008 "or worse."
Congressional Republicans and Democrats are stuck in a stalemate over the 2014 budget, one that has helped lead to the first government shutdown in 17 years. That battle is widely expected to extend into the debate over a vote to raise the debt limit, which Treasury has said must be increased by mid-October or the U.S. will run out of money to pay its debts.
A similar standoff in the summer of 2011 prompted ratings firm Standard & Poor's to lower the U.S. credit rating, an unprecedented event that roiled securities markets for weeks.
The Treasury report referenced the fallout from that 2011 stalemate, which ended in a compromise that delayed actual spending cuts, suggesting that another impasse would negatively impact consumer and small business confidence, stock price volatility, credit risk spreads and mortgages.
Government Shutdown Could Exacerbate Situation
"As we saw two years ago, prolonged uncertainty over whether our nation will pay its bills in full and on time hurts our economy," Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said in a statement released with the report. "Postponing a debt ceiling increase to the very last minute is exactly what our economy does not need – a self-inflicted wound harming families and businesses. Our nation has worked hard to recover from the 2008 financial crisis, and Congress must act now to lift the debt ceiling before that recovery is put in jeopardy."
The report goes on to cite the various ways even the threat of a default could harm U.S. consumers and businesses: sharp declines in household wealth, an increase in the cost of borrowing for businesses and households, and a decline in private sector confidence, all of which would further hamper the sluggish economic recovery.
And the ongoing partial government shutdown, which has furloughed more than 800,000 federal employees since Tuesday, will only exacerbate the situation, the report says, as those employees scale back on spending, belt tightening that will have a domino effect in areas where large numbers of federal workers aren't getting paid.
Also Thursday, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said failure to raise the U.S. debt ceiling could damage not only the United States but the rest of the global economy.
"It is 'mission-critical' that this be resolved as soon as possible," she said in a speech in Washington, ahead of the IMF and World Bank annual meetings next week, according to Reuters.
Lagarde said growth in the U.S. has already been hurt by too much fiscal consolidation – the across-the-board federal cuts known as sequestration that took effect in March -- and will be below 2 percent this year before rising by about 1 percentage point in 2014.
Recession Worse than Any Since the Great Depression
Banking analyst Dick Bove is also predicting dire consequences if Congress fails to reach an agreement on the debt ceiling.
"It is my strong belief that a true default by the United States Treasury would wipe out bank equity. All bank lending to the private sector in the United States would stop, immediately. Existing loans would not be rolled over. Immediate repayment would be demanded," Bove said in a report issued Thursday.
Bove echoed the predictions of Lew and Lagarde that a default – even the real threat of default – could have an overwhelming global impact. In short, the analyst believes a default could lead to a global depression.
"The devastation to the United States would be so severe that it would take decades to recover from the Depression caused by a default and the attendant dumping of trillions of dollars of U.S. Treasury securities on the global financial markets," Bove said.
The Treasury report said the 2011 standoff left "long-lasting scars" on financial markets and caused stress that lasted for "many months."
The report concluded: "In the event of a default, the U.S. economy could be plunged into a recession worse than any seen since the Great Depression. The U.S. dollar and Treasury securities are at the center of the international finance system. In the catastrophic event that a debt limit impasse were to lead to a default on Treasury securities, financial markets could be shaken to their core as was seen in late 2008, which resulted in a recession worse than any seen since the Great Depression.


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Patching over software problems
The number of cyber attacks on industrial control systems has been increasing and the activity is visible on a global scale by site, manufacturer, and even by actual control system specific parameters. Many of those attacks are possible because of vulnerabilities in operating systems and applications, which need to be fixed using software patches. Having a sound patch management program in place will greatly reduce your risk and make you a hard target to a would-be attacker.
That sounds good, but what does it mean? What exactly is patching? According to dictionary.com, patch, in verb form means to mend, cover, or strengthen with or as if with a patch or patches. It's also a noun, meaning a piece of material used to cover or protect a wound, an injured part, etc.
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In control system terminology, patching indicates the process required to address a known weakness in a platform with the ability to have patches or software fixes applied. Platforms include operator interfaces, human machine interfaces (HMIs), computers, networking devices, and associated software loaded on these platforms.
Patches are typically electronic files with updated configuration information or executable processes that, when applied, correct a given weakness in the affected system. Patches are critical to the protection and security of a system and should be applied as soon as possible for many reasons. As stated above, patches address known weaknesses in a system. This should be disturbing to you as an industrial control system specialist as you do not want your weaknesses to be known. But the inherent nature of patching requires most software and hardware manufacturers to notify the public first, that there is a problem with their system or software and secondly, how to address or fix the weakness.
Since the public is informed through various means of publications including Microsoft operating system updates and antivirus definition updates that immunize systems from viruses, the bad guys have a freely available method to learn of your weaknesses. Without a proven manageable process to validate and apply patches to your systems in frequent intervals, you are exposed and at risk of having your weaknesses exploited by hackers, disgruntled employees, or worse – terrorists.
What is patch management?
Patch management is a methodical process that includes documentation, validation, backup and recovery, and a step-by-step tiered approach to the application of change on your critical systems. The core of effective patch management is the actual validation of the change to ensure the updated patches or security enhancements do not disrupt the functionality of your system. Validation should be performed in a lab or non-production environment on equipment and software that is representative of your production environment. Without this validation, you may apply patches that change security parameters of your system that could stop communication between your devices.
Upon effective validation, prior to application of patches to the actual production equipment, a sound backup and recovery or disaster recovery plan should be in place to backup your device information and configuration. As discussed, patches actually change your system or software from its original state. If the patch causes problems, you would want to restore to your previous state immediately to resume operation.
To apply patches to your production system, a strategy identifying the order that patches will be applied should be identified and documented to repeat as new patches are released. From your population, identify an early adopter or first unit that you can take off-line for the time it takes to apply the patch. Then monitor for a period of time before rolling patches out on the remainder of your devices. By taking this tiered approach – lab validation, early adopter, and remainder of devices – you are greatly reducing the risk of a change or patch causing disruption to your overall system. Any issues may be identified prior to the application of patches in a very controlled, documented, and repeatable manner.
Patching your critical industrial control systems involves the collection of known fixes or patches, validation of these changes prior to application to your system, and then methodical application of patches in a controlled manner. The more frequently you repeat this process, the more up-to-date and less vulnerable your system will be to attack. FoxGuard Solutions specializes in the process of validating changes to industrial control system devices that have patching capability. We can work with your team to identify a strategy that meets your needs while making your critical system less vulnerable to attack.
Mark Trump is the security program manager for FoxGuard Solutions.
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Heidi Klum: Holiday Shopping with the Family!
Heidi Klum and her family do some early holiday shopping together at The Grove on Wednesday (November 21) in Los Angeles.
The 39-year-old model brought along her kids Leni, Johan, and Henry, as well as beau Martin Kirsten.
"Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Cooking & celebrating Johan's b/day since 7AM this morning..so great! Question is..what is not in my stuffing?" Heidi tweeted the next day. "I'll send a picture of my turkey when its ready….please send me a photo of yours :-)" she added. Happy belated birthday, Johan!
15+ pictures inside of Heidi Klum and her family shopping at The Grove…


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This article was originally published by FrontPage Magazine, on October 19, 2007.
The Left is up in arms over the effort to hold an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on American college campuses. The goal of the Week is to alert Americans to the threat from Islamo-Fascism and to focus attention on the violent oppression of Muslim women under theocracies in Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan and other Islamic states. It has been attacked as "Islamophobic" and "racist" by the Muslim Students Association, the Revolutionary Communist Party, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and FoxNews Channel's Alan Colmes.
Is this not puzzling? Why would the left – which claims to be anti-fascist, anti-sexist and progressive — oppose Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week rather than support it? Why isn't the left outraged by the genital mutilation of women in countries such as Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, or the sanctioning of wife-beating under Islamic law in Pakistan and other Islamic states? Across America, Women's Studies programs will teach students about the oppression of women in Peoria and Ann Arbor but not in Teheran or Riyadh. Why not?
Why isn't the left appalled by the jihad – the holy war that has been declared against the West, and by the sanctifying of murderers as holy "martyrs" when Muslim terrorists kill innocent Americans, Christians and Jews? Perhaps it is because the left is engaged in its own jihad or holy war – and against the same targets: the Great Satan, America, and the little one in the Middle East.
As the left's response shows, it is not only indifferent to the issues of Islamic terror and oppression, which the campus protest hopes to discuss, it is ready to declare war on anyone who wants to raise them.
We are all familiar with the way the left wages its political wars. If someone happens to disagree with its position on racial issues –if one believes, for example, that government enforced racial preferences are misguided or immoral –the left will denounce that person as a "racist." In our culture, this is the moral equivalent of a bullet in the head. If the president of Harvard cites scientific data that women have different aptitudes for mathematics (lower) and verbal subjects (higher) than men, the left will denounce him as a "sexist," another cultural bullet in the head. If a person believes that children should not be instructed about sex in public schools at the kindergarten level, the left will denounce her as a "homophobe" – one more mortal blow.
And, so, if students attempt to discuss the holy war that Muslim fascists have declared against the West, the left can be expected to denounce them as Islamophobes, and bigots too. To make the point, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee will send threatening letters to 100 university presidents across the country urging them to deny a platform to students who are practicing "hate speech." And liberal TV anchors will defend the witch-hunt.
Here is an excerpt from an exchange that took place between FoxNews Channel anchor Alan Colmes and myself, over my efforts to organize Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week:
Alan Colmes: "The words, the phrase 'Islamo-fascism' is hate speech. It equates an entire religion with fascism. That's what people object to. It conflates the two, and it's wrong." In other words, students can't even hold a discussion about "Islamo-Fascism" because the idea itself is hateful, is forbidden.
This argument clearly doesn't make sense. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is explicitly designed to raise public awareness about the oppression of Muslim women by Islamic radicals who abuse them. How can that be equating all Muslims with oppressors? The term "Islamo-Fascism" was itself coined by moderate Muslims in Algeria who were being slaughtered in the tens of thousands by Islamic radicals bent on jihad. How does using a term invented by Muslims to describe their oppressors equate all Muslims with the fascists?
Does the term "Italian Fascism" equate all Italians with fascism? Or does it just identify those Italians who were followers of Mussolini? Is the term "Italian Fascism" hate speech? What about the term "white racism?" By Colmes' logic, such a term equates an entire race– including Alan Colmes – with racism, and is therefore hate speech.
Obviously, the attacks on Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week by liberals such as Colmes and radicals such as the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Muslim Students Association are based on reasoning that is absurd. Their only logic is emotional, and the character of that emotion is hatred — hatred for those who want to raise awareness of the threats we face from radical Islam. This hatred has only one purpose, which is to put a metaphorical bullet in the head of those who oppose the jihad. The purpose is to silence them.


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Rolling Plains Adventures is home to the "Black Leg Ranch." Black Leg Ranch was established in 1882 and is older then North Dakota!
Our Fully Loaded Package is voted as "Hunters Top Choice Package" and includes: 3 days hunting for pheasants, waterfowl, or coyotes, 4 nights lodging in one of our private lodges, bird cleaning, professional guide, hunting dogs, transportation, and more! Make sure to check out all of our packages we offer!
Rolling Plains Adventures offers 3 fully furnished lodges; Deer Dwelling, Pheasant Haven, and the Grand Lodge. All lodges are located on the ranch and are within walking distance of each other. A few options the lodges have are: full kitchen, washer/dryer, hot tub, sauna, bar, exercise room, poker table, HD tv's, and so much more!
Retrace the route Lewis and Clark traveled through North Dakota while fishing the historic Missouri River. Rolling Plains Adventures fishing professionals will guide you catching massive Walleye found on the Missouri River. This 300-mile long river system takes travelers into the past. The river follows Lewis and Clark's journey west through North Dakota in 1804-1805, and on their return trip in 1806.
Come experience the Wild West! Step back in time to a land where Cowboys still roam the open range. A land where Native American's hunted buffalo by the herds of 10,000 and more! Ride horseback down the wagon trails from the 1800's while driving cattle. See a land that hasn't't changed much since the early settlers or Lewis and Clark's Expedition in 1804.
This is not a "Dude Ranch" nor is it a "Guest Ranch"; we are a "Working Cattle Ranch". As a welcomed guest you will get the true Cowboy experience. You will learn from the BEST, Cowboys who have bloodlines dating back to the early 1600s who were pioneers of this country.
The Doan family first came to this country back in 1629. Since that day, the Doans were considered Outlaws by most. To read more of the Doan Legends click on the History tab.
George Doan, the 9th Generation, homesteaded the Black Leg Ranch in 1882 becoming the 1st Generation on the ranch. 5 Generations later, the Black Leg Ranch is home to over 10,000 acres of buffalo wallows, the ghost town of Brittin, three abandoned farmsteads, quicksand, 1800 wagon trails, the old railroad built in the 1800s, Native American artifacts and much more!
Original Homestead and sod houses of the Black Leg Ranch - About 1889
Pictured on back left is George Doan
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On 20 July 2017 the Secretary of State for International Trade, Rt Hon Liam Fox MP, reaffirmed the UK's commitment to free and open trade in a speech to the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Whilst his speech highlighted the importance of free trade to the global economy, Dr Fox provided no further clarity with respect to advancing the UK's future trading relationship with the EU.
If a deal cannot be reached in time, trade between the UK and EU will revert to the baseline rules and commitments of their respective WTO memberships. There are a number of simple steps that businesses can take now to understand what this scenario might mean, put plans in place to mitigate the risks and ensure they can seize any opportunities.
In his speech and in parallel talks with the Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Fox made the "moral case" for trade as a way to deliver jobs, technology and prosperity, as well as the transfer of cultures, ideas and scientific advances.
He also set out the clearest indication yet of the UK's priorities for its membership of the WTO post Brexit:
- The digital economy: the UK will focus on securing modern and ambitious digital provisions in trade, covering e-commerce, data and telecommunications.
- The promotion of trade as the main tool of development: the UK has already announced that post Brexit it will secure existing duty-free access to UK markets for the world's poorest countries and aim to maintain current access for other developing countries which benefit from reduced or zero tariffs. The UK Government will also drive forward implementation of the WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement, which entered into force on 22 February 2017, and has the potential to reduce trade costs by expediting the movement, release and clearance of goods, including goods in transit.
- Unlocking the vast potential of the trade in services: the UK will push for the resumption of plurilateral negotiations on the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which could strengthen rules and open up markets in key areas such as financial services, telecoms, e-commerce and maritime transport.
This strategy is a welcome and timely elaboration of how the UK will take forward its Brexit objective of increasing trade with the rest of the world. But what it does not do is advance the UK's discussions with its European partners on their future trading relationship once the UK has left the EU. These negotiations have not yet started, and, in the likely event that a trade deal cannot be reached in time and transitional provisions are not put in place, trade between the UK and EU will revert to the baseline rules and commitments of their respective WTO memberships.
This is the worst-case scenario, but it is not impossible. In a media interview before his Geneva speech Dr Fox said: "We don't want to have no deal. It is much better that we have a deal than no deal. We can of course survive with no deal. And we have to go into a negotiation with those on the other side knowing that's what we think."
However, there are some simple steps that businesses can take now to understand what this scenario might mean for them and to put contingency plans in place.
DLA Piper has a dedicated team of trade specialists embracing domestic and international lawyers, former diplomats, politicians and senior Government trade negotiators. We can draw on these unique skills to demystify the WTO and explain to you in clear commercial terms:
- What is the WTO and the international trade framework
- What are the 'bound' scheduled commitments relevant to your business
- What are the tariffs and market access arrangements that will be 'applied' to your business
- What other non-tariff barriers such as customs formalities, technical standards and conformity assessments might affect your operations
- How do these arrangements compare to other alternative jurisdictions where you might wish to establish or operate
We advise clients on contingency planning and how they can prepare themselves for different scenarios by reviewing and future-proofing contracts, reviewing supply chains and export markets, ensuring their organisational configuration and jurisdictional locations are resilient, and that their employment, tax, property and other workstreams are structured appropriately.


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Located on the banks of the River Nile, the Ramses Hilton hotel is a stunning destination in the heart of Cairo. The Ramses Hilton hotel boasts a British-style pub, an Indian restaurant, a shopping Galleria, 8 meeting rooms, an executive lounge, and a ballroom for up to 600 persons.
Only 45 minutes from Cairo International Airport, the Ramses Hilton hotel is 5 minutes from the Egyptian Museum and within easy reach of famous Cairo attractions.Less...
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Madonna and Bon Jovi are no match for Hawaiian flies when it comes to karaoke hits at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln. In a popular exhibit activity, visitors attempt to mimic the unique courtship calls of different species of Hawaiian Drosophila, a group of 800 different flies that may have evolved from a single species.
Fly karaoke is part of "Explore Evolution," a permanent exhibit currently at Nebraska and five other museums in the Midwest and Southwest (the Science Museum of Minnesota, the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, the Exhibit Museum of Natural History at the University of Michigan and the University of Kansas Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center, plus an October opening at the Texas Memorial Museum) that explores evolutionary concepts in new ways. Such an activity is a far cry from the traditional way science museums have presented evolution, which usually included charts called phylogenies depicting ancestral relationships or a static set of fossils arranged chronologically. "Explore Evolution'' has those, too—and then some, because museum curators came to realize that they needed better ways to counter growing attacks on their integrity.
The theory of evolution has always been denounced by creationists, who contend that the biblical story of "Genesis" is an accurate account of Earth's geologic and paleontological history and that The Origin of Species is blasphemous. The intelligent design (ID) movement that sprang from creationism in the 1990s gives an even more vague but equally unscientific explanation for natural history, claiming that nature is so complex that only an intelligent being or force could have been responsible for creating it. They, like creationists, argue that humans were never apelike and that children should learn about alternatives to evolution like ID in public school science classes. (No matter that their claims have no scientific basis or that the U.S. Constitution mandates a separation of church and state.)
Under pressure from these kinds of groups, the Kansas State Board of Education in 2005 approved a curriculum that allowed the public schools to include completely unfounded challenges to the theory of evolution.
In an effort to make their case to the public, creationists raised $26 million in private donations to build the 50,000-square-foot Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., which opened in late May. The institution presents the biblical history of the universe. Visitors learn that biblically, dinosaurs are best explained as creatures that roamed Earth with humans. In its first month of existence, the museum drew over 49,000 visitors, according to its Web site.
"Explore Evolution," funded by a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation, is one of many recent efforts by science museums to counter such resistance to evolution. Curators like Judy Diamond, a professor and curator at the University of Nebraska State Museum, decided the traditional methods of presenting scientific evidence were not working to convince the public of evolution¿s validity, and came up with a new plan to lure visitors: interactive activities about evolution and lessons on how scientists ply their trade.
"The idea was to teach evolution by meeting real scientists, getting to understand what they do in their work, and then being introduced to evolution through the process of understanding their research," says Diamond, who designed the "Explore Evolution'' exhibit.
Each of the exhibit's seven displays focuses on a specific organism, relates it to evolution, and introduces the scientists who researched them. A giant wall of nucleotides compares the DNA of humans with that of their closer relatives, chimpanzees. And, in a Where's Waldo–type game, visitors are challenged to find small figures representing famous evolutionary scientist Svante Pääbo, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, to illustrate the 1 percent difference between human and chimp genomes.
Diamond and E. Margaret Evans, assistant research scientist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, surveyed visitors on their views of evolution and found that they seemed to think through problems in more evolutionary terms after viewing the exhibit—even if they were self-identified Creationists. "Whenever someone starts, they move a little bit along the continuum. That's the best anyone can hope for in an exhibit," Diamond says.
Evans is also collaborating with other scientists on a new project called "Life Changes." Funded by a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the exhibit is set to open as a traveling exhibition some time in 2009, with stops at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, the Miami Science Museum, the North Museum of Natural History & Science in Lancaster, Pa., and the Exhibit Museum of Natural History at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Life Changes" is mainly directed at children and will feature actors, who will tell stories about different birds to convey evolutionary principles. For example, an actor will describe the evolution of the kiwi, which burrows underground like a badger rather than flying, yet still belongs to the bird family. There will also be other interactive activities about bird evolution and perhaps even live birds, says cellular biochemist Martin Weiss, vice president, science at the Hall of Science. Weiss also envisions Internet discussion groups and online courses on evolution.
Although this project did not start out as a counterpoint to the Creation Museum, Weiss has come to view it that way. "In the sense that if it bolsters our understanding of the natural world, and how to look at the natural world and how to understand it," he says, "then yes, that's its purpose."
Scientists say that, among other things, an understanding of evolution is crucial when it comes to medicine and health—and an upcoming exhibit called "Surviving: The Body of Evidence" will explain why. The exhibit, set to open in April at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, will teach visitors how certain contemporary problems such as obesity may have evolved by comparing the eating habits of modern humans with their ancestors. It will point out, for example, that milk was not part of the human diet until animals were domesticated several thousand years ago, which may explain the prevalence of lactose intolerance today. The exhibit will wrap up with a film that juxtaposes scientists and children speculating on the future of human evolution.
Unlike some human evolution displays, "Surviving" will classify our ancestors according to "early," "middle" and "latest" forms, rather than by drawing treelike relationships between specific skeletons. This is meant to prevent confusion when new fossils are found and added to the display, says Janet Monge, exhibit designer and a professor of anthropology at Penn and Princeton University. "In evolution you can't necessarily draw these ancestor-descendent relationship lines, because people are always in the process of discovering new things."
Another new approach for teaching evolution is to focus on the man who made the idea famous: Charles Darwin. An exhibit dubbed "Darwin," currently showing at The Field Museum in Chicago, explores evolution through Darwin's eyes, taking viewers through his research and reasoning. It discusses some of the challenges he encountered when he first proposed his theory of evolution and displays personal artifacts such as his walking stick, geologic hammers and his Bible—the latter in an attempt to quietly bring home the fact that religion and science can coexist.
There is also a video of scientists discussing why creationism is not a viable alternative to the theory of evolution.
The exhibit originated at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in 2005, just weeks after 11 parents in Dover, Pa., successfully sued to bar biology teachers in public schools there from reading a four-paragraph statement about ID in class.
"Darwin" curator Niles Eldredge views the exhibit and verdict to be a "one-two punch" against creationism. "We just happened to be there as one of the first things you could point to and say, 'hey people, we're not going to take this lying down and we're going to fight back,'" he says.
In February the Natural History museum reopened its 13-year-old Hall of Human Origins, which had been updated to include interactive displays and other new information such as DNA samples to help tell the story of human evolution, curator Ian Tattersall says.
Through DNA evidence, for example, scientists now know that Neandertals are a distinct kind of hominid with their own identity. Visitors can view a vial of actual 40,000-year-old Neandertal DNA alongside vials of human and chimp DNA and learn about how, say, Homo sapiens migrated out of eastern Africa 70,000 years ago. Fossils alone have not been able to tell this story, because of gaps in the fossil record, Tattersall says.
He denounced the Creation Museum as "a waste of human talent" and energy to promote a bogus idea. "I do not see that anybody's religious beliefs are threatened by evolution, which is simply the only plausible thesis we have for explaining what we see in nature today," he says.
Colin Purrington, a biology professor at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, says that institutions like science museums must not shy away from evolutionary topics, and should make the most of their exhibit spaces to educate the public. On his Web site (http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/exhibits/intro.htm) he displays photos of various exhibit labels that misrepresent biological concepts and urged institutions displaying them to remove them. For instance, he implored the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., to take down a "stop" sign that warns visitors that its exhibit on chimpanzee-human relationships "contains some things you may agree with, some you may disagree with, and others that may even trouble you."
"You don't get any of that foolishness in Europe," he says.


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Get Ready For "The Real Husbands Of Hollywood" [VIDEO]
Reality TV just went to another level. Coming soon is "The Real Husbands Of Hollywood" staring Kevin Hart, Boris Kodjoe, JB Smoove, Robin Thicke, Duane Martin and Faizon Love. Tune in to see them and other celebrity guest husbands in March 2013.


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The Central Connecticut men's track & field team claimed 11 spots on the 2012 Outdoor Track & Field All-Northeast Conference roster on Wednesday. The Blue Devils sealed four spots on the first team, five on the second team, and two on the All-Rookie Team.
Senior distance runner Sam Alexander received two All-Conference First Team honors. He earned gold in both the 5,000m and 10,000m events at the 2012 NEC Outdoor Championships. Alexander won the 10,000m on the first day of competition running the race in a time of 31:36.04. He came back on day two of the conference meet to win the 5,000m event in a time of 14:36.45. Alexander was the only individual track athlete to earn multiple All-NEC First Team honors.
Junior sprinter Aaron Radden won the 200m crossing the line in a time of 21.18. Radden earned First Team All-NEC honors for his performance in the event. He finished .51 seconds ahead of the 200m runner-up. Radden also earned Second Team All-NEC honors for his performance in the 100m taking home the silver medal with a 10.58 time.
Senior Matt Berube excelled in the field for Central earning All-NEC First Team and Second Team honors. The senior jumper's height of 2.04m (6'8.25") in the high jump placed him first at the NEC Outdoor Championship meet which earned him All-NEC First Team honors. Berube earned Second Team All-NEC honors in the long jump with his 7.24m (2'39") distance.
Junior Colby Delbene grabbed a pair of Second Team All-NEC accolades for his performances at the NEC Outdoor Championship meet. Delbene placed second in the 1,500m and 5,000m events crossing the line at 3:50.71 in the 1,500m and 14:39.38 in the 5,000m. Delbene finished right behind fellow Blue Devil Alexander in the 5,000m.
Also named to the All-NEC Second Team was freshman Patrick Hubbell for his 9:22.88 time in the 3,000m Steeplechase.
Freshmen Brian Biekert and Jamal Fruster both represented Central Connecticut on the NEC All-Rookie Team. Fruster was the top freshman performer in the 400m event at the NEC Outdoor Championship meet with a time of 48.01. Biekert ran the 1,500m in a time of 3:58.32.


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I soon realized I was so mentally prepared to run a 5k that could not physically take sitting around and doing nothing. Especially after having tapered yesterday.
Then SR had an idea: "I'll pace you to a 5k PR on the track". At first I was hesitant because I didn't know if I had it in me to run a PR without competition. Then again, my PR was so weak (19:46) compared to my recent interval times, that I almost felt I could run a PR in my sleep. Natti was willing to babysit for the hour or so that it might take with the warmup and everything, so we set out: 1 mile through the woods to the track.
At the track, SR had me doing all sorts of weird stuff: strides, run fast, run slow, shuffle, jump up and down and squat, hand springs, etc.. I honestly have no idea what these moves are called nor what their purpose is ... and trust me I was questioning why he was making me look like an idiot with all of this. Even he couldn't help laughing at my clumsiness. But I do agree with him that a long warm up for an old woman like me is essential! I knew I needed to do at least two miles at close to race pace just to get up to my potential fast speed. The plan was for him to run the 12 ½ laps at exactly 19.30 speed and then I would attempt to pull out ahead of him at the end for a PR.
After the first two laps, we could both tell the pace was too slow, so he very gradually just kept speeding up in front of me and I simply followed him. He would shout out the splits after every lap. My mile splits ended up being 6:03, 5:55 and 5:47. Plus the 0.1 miles of course adds up to 18:28!
I fell over apparently very dramatically at the finish - so happy I had done it. I had no idea I had it in me. I figured maybe a sub 19 - but a sub 18:30??? SR had shouted to me with two laps to go: "this is the fastest you will ever run a 5k in your life - so GO FOR IT!!!" I had asked him for no positive or negative feedback the whole run - just "empirical evidence" as I had said. But a little encouragement did help.
-the track is very shielded from wind
-the temperature was just around 50 F
- I "drafted" off of SR almost the whole way
- We didn't start out too fast
- I have been religiously doing interval training
- SR knows how to pace; he would speed up and slow down based simply on subtleties in my breathing pattern.
Thank you to my husband. I love you!
Ok. I'm glad I got that 5k out of my system. But does this explain why when I am lying in bed at night I feel like my heart stops - and I awake from a half sleep? Is it just a sign of being in good cardiovascular shape? Does this ever happen to you guys? My favorite chapter in "Once a Runner" is a sort of inner monologue with Quentin Cassidy where he is laying in bed and afraid of the way he heart is beating. "This is what it feels like to be in 4 minute mile shape" he thinks. Of course I'm far from that, but is this what is going on?
After an effort like that cleaning and playing soccer with the kids sure feels great! I love it that both Natti and Christian are so into soccer and both have teams the enjoy practicing with.
---- 2 marathons in 3 days----
Earlier this week, on Sunday and Tuesday, I ran a marathon with my friend Anette Fredskov Jensen and others. Anette lives right here in Næstved and has MS. She realized that running long distances seemed to make her symptoms disappear. She eventually decided to go for the world record in number of marathons run in a year: 366. She has now run 41 marathons in the last 41 days.
|Fredskov Marathon - Sunday Aug 19th. This one I ran in 3:44 with the company of Nicolas (light blue, upper left)
|Fredskov Marathon - Tuesday Aug 21st. My time was 3:55. Annette is of course the one in red.
The Fredskov Marathon is a nice route with a mixture of trails, roads, flats and hills. Here is Annette's website. What she is doing is incredible - and she says she has never felt better. Her times are getting faster, too. Yesterday she ran in 4:32. Thanks to her parents for opening up their house for these races! What a luxury to have a real toilet at the aid station!
---- "Clif" Bars ---
In other news, I getting closer to perfecting my imitation of the Clif Builder's Bar - chocolate flavor. We calculated that if I ordered them from Amazon.uk, they would cost over $5 a bar. Wuhoow. (okay, I just like the thought of you all trying to pronounce that). The only hard part was drying out tofu since they don't sell soy powder here. Any thoughts?


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have your bread buttered on both sides
have your bread buttered on both sides
be in a state of easy prosperity.
Related Idioms and Phrases :
step into the breach
take the place of someone who is suddenly unable to do a job or task.
IN military terms a breach is a gap in fortifications made by enemy guns or explosives. In this context, to stand in the breach is to bear the brunt of an attack when other defences or expedients have failed.
the best thing since sliced bread = the greatest thing since sliced bread
a notable new idea, person or thing (used to express real or ironic appreciation) – informal
This phrase alludes to the mid 20th-century advertising promotions for packed, pre-sliced loaves.
bread and circuses
material benefits and entertainment employed by rulers or political parties to keep the masses happy and docile
Bread and circuses is a translation of the Latin phrase partem et circenses which appeared in Juvenal's Satires, and which alludes to the Roman emperors' organization of grain handouts and gladiatorial games for the populace.
break bread with
share a meal with someone - dated
cast your bread upon the waters
do good without expecting gratitude or immediate reward.
This expression comes from Ecclesiastes 11 : 1 - Cast thy bread upon the waters : for thou shalt find it after many days.
eat the bread of idleness
eat food that you have not worked for
This phrase appears in the description of the virtuous woman in Proverbs 31 : 27 - She... eateth not the bread of idleness.
know on which side your bread is buttered
know where your advantage lies.
man cannot live by bread alone
people have spiritual as well as physical needs.
This phrase comes from Matthew 4 : 4 (quoting Deuteronomy 8 : 3) where the passage continues but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
someone's bread and butter
someone's livelihood
routine work to provide an income
1998 - Times - It is not that the smaller deal has disappeared - they remain the bread and butter of this industry.
take the bread out of people's mouths
deprive people of their livings, especially by competition or unfair working practices.
want your bread buttered on both sides
want more than is practicable or than is reasonable to expect - informal
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