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Creating a profile
The first step you need to make to become a member of Sport.Fund community is to create a profile.
This is important because funders will want to get to know you before they commit to helping you with your goal. So apart from the basic info you provide (e-mail, name, location) make sure you add personal facts about yourself, such as:
Why, when and how you started to do your sport? Why do you love it and what motivates you? Who is your role model?
What are your goals and dreams?
Also, a detailed bio that will showcase you and your sports achievements so far is very important, so add all the facts:
Competitions you participated;
Medals and awards won;
Education, seminars, camps and any other specializations you might have had that are relevant;
Trainers you worked with…
Profile picture is important, it helps people put the face on a story and motivates them to contribute, so make sure yours shows your face and that you are the only person on the photograph. It's great if you have one from a competition, with a medal or an award.
Social media is not just important in confirming your identity and getting to know you better, but it is the key to a successful funding. The first 30% of the funds you will get from your friends and family, so connecting your Sport.Fund account with your social media will help you spread the word of your project when you start it.
Setting up payment method
Adding payment method is simple on Sport.Fund. Just connect your PayPal account and your good to go! All you need to do is add the e-mail that is connected to your Pay Pal account and that's it.
If you don't have a Pay Pal account, you can create it in minutes, it's easy and free, just click HERE.
Account verification
Once you provided all the necessary info, you will receive a verification e-mail that will allow you to activate your account (if it doesn't show up in your Inbox, check Junk and Spam folders) . Just click the verification link you get in your e-mail and your Sport.Fund account is ready to use.
After you created your profile, you can proceed to setting up your campaign and getting your goal funded. Here are some important items you need to address to adequately prepare your campaign:
-Define your goal – You should have a clear perspective of what you want to raise money for. If you are making long term plans, consider making the campaign in stages and raise funds for one item at a time.
-Do the math – You need to calculate the amount of money you will require to achieve your goal. Be realistic and honest when calculating the amount of money you need because people will much rather support a sincere and realistic goal, than one that seems too ambitious or unreal. You want people to trust you so they can help you with your cause, and they will if you keep it real, so you get the funds you need and your funders become a part of a success story. Sport.Fund is operating on all-or-nothing bases, so you only get your funds if you raise 100% of your goal or more. So, if you want to successfully fund your entire campaign, here are a few tips to make that happen:
Make a list of all the possible expenses you will have in the campaign, apart from the equipment, training, coaches and other staff, travel expenses, food supplements and any other things you need, but the rewards you will give out and their shipping costs as well.
Make sure you are realistic in setting your goal. If you assess that the funding goal is too high, try breaking it up into stages and create several consequent campaigns. If you do that, don't forget to post regular updates so funders can be in the loop on how are you getting along.
Don't forget to include the fees. The payment processor we use charges ??? % of every transaction, and Sport.Fund administrative fees are 10%, so ad that up to your final number.
Contact us is you need help, have questions or need assistance with setting up your campaign funding goal.
-Campaign duration – The time your campaign lasts can be a deciding factor in its success. Too short and it will not reach all the people in time, too long and it can be forgotten.
We did the research for you and came up with these numbers that can be divided into three categories:
Small: 0 – 2000 Euro / 30 to 45 days
Medium: 2000 – 10.000 Euro / 45 to 75 days
Large: 10.000 – 50.000 Euro / 75 to 95 days
For amounts over 50.000 Euro, we suggest breaking up the campaign in stages.
Contact us is you need help, have questions or need assistance with setting up your campaign duration.
Creating your campaign video
You need to know that having a campaign video increases your funding chances by over 50%! Lack of visual elements is often to blame want crowdfunding campaigns fail, so don't make that mistake and make a video that will showcase your goal. If you have no way of making a video, use one or more videos from your competitions, practices or whatever you have, jest let people see you in action!
A video is the best way to introduce yourself to the community of potential funders, it helps you showcase your personality, your passion for sport, your skills and of course your goal, so the people have better idea of whom are they contributing to. People don't just donate money to get a reward in return; they want to invest in the people and their stories. That's why you need to tell your story and what you want to do in a clear, engaging manner that allows people to get to know you, feel the excitement and want to become part of it.
You don't have to be an expert to make a good video. If you can get help from someone that has experience in making videos, that's great, but if you don't, don't worry about it, you can do it yourself with a handy cam, your tablet or phone. It's not about the equipment you use; it's about how you use it. To edit the video, use one of the free apps or programs you can get online, they are very simple to use and will get the job done. Keep in mind, the production quality is not the key; the content is, so we will give you the key guidelines to help you make the best video you can:
Keep it short. Two minutes is all you need to get the message out in a way that will be clear, simple and keep the attention of the funders.
Make a script. Keep it simple, it doesn't have to be award winning, but you need to know what you will say, where and how will you say it. Get a friend to help and when it's done; give it to a couple of people to read so you can get the feedback. In one minute of video you can say approximately 150 words with pauses, so let that be you reference when writing the script.
What to say? A lot of crowdfunding videos lack clarity, so the most important thing is that you be very clear on explaining what you need and why, and do it in the first 30-60 seconds. Try to get people's attention in the first couple of seconds of the video. So instead of telling them your name and what sport you do, tell them your goal first (ex. Some people dream of going to the top, u dream of running there, and all I need to make that happen are 0, 7 seconds. That is how much I must improve my time to get to next year's running championship in…), afterwards you can continue and tell them who you are and the other things they need to know. No matter what order you decide on, here is a small list of all the info your video should contain:
Tell viewers who you are.
Tell viewers the story behind your project.
Come out and ask for people's support, explaining why you need it and what you'll do with their money.
Make an appeal with a clear Call to Action, invite people to your Social media accounts and tell them to comment or contact you if they have any questions.
Talk about how awesome your rewards are, using best images you can.
Explain what happens if you don't reach your goal, how that will affect your career, your future, people around you…
In the end, be sure to thank everyone and repeat once again what you need funds for
4. How to say it? Be yourself! That is the only way people will connect to you and to your goal, because they want to fund a person behind the campaign, see and feel you passion and get excited with and for you, so keep that in mind. Don't dress up for the occasion, wear what you would normally wear that day and choose filming Locations that you are comfortable at (your home, place you train, a park…).
5. Keep it professional. No matter how much personality you put into your video (and we encourage that) be careful not to make it to personal. Keep some level of professionalism, because sport is what you do, it's your career and you are presenting yourself primarily in that light.
6. You can make your video in English or in your language, it's completely up to you, but keep in mind that it needs to reach a lot of people out there, so English subtitles are a good idea if you want your video to be seen and understood by more people.
7. Be careful not to violate any copy write laws while making your video. That includes logos, images, videos and music. So if you want to use images or a part of a video you didn't make, ask for a written permission from the creator. For music, there are a lot of royalty free sites you can download from and as far as logos go, even a logo on your t-shirt can be subjected to copyright laws, so keep all that in mind when filming and editing your video.
8. Grand finale. The end of the video should be as impactful as the beginning. Tell the people about the rewards that you give out and show them or high quality images of them (if you have a lot of rewards, mention just a couple of the most interesting), make them as appealing as possible. And in the end, tell them about the goal of your campaign again and invite them to click the Fund button and donate. The whole point of your video is goes a long way, and even if they don't donate, hopefully they'll at least share your project or video with others!
9. Share your video! Don't think it all ends with making a video and posting it with your project. The work just starts there! If you really want to get funded, you need to share, share and share! Use the video to promote your campaign via all the social media channels you can. Upload it on You Tube, post it on Facebook, share a link on Twitter, post a teaser on Instagram, and send e-mails with the link to your friends and potential funders. Find an online community that will be interested in your campaign (forums and websites about the sports you do, organizations and government institutions…Do as much as you can to get as many people to see, share and support your video and you will have a successful Sport.Fund campaign!
10. So, to sum it up, these are all the ingredients you need to make a good video to tell your story. It also means that doing the opposite won't give you such great results. For example, don't try to act funny if you're not funny. Be yourself. Do your best. Have fun and be authentic. These are the best ways to find crowdfunding success!
Building your project
There are just a few steps you need to complete to create your project and launch it for the world to see:
1. Upload a great photo, here are a few tips:
The photo needs to showcase you and the sport you do It should be interesting, attention-grabbing, so it can stand out
It should be hi-resolution and of good quality It should be in focus, clear and the elements on it should be visible (avoid blurry photos, or ones that are too dark on fuzzy)
You can upload several photos and create a gallery, but make sure you pick the best one for your project photo
2. Upload a video. It is not a must but by our research having a video increases tour chances to have a successful project by 50%! So make sure you add a video that helps you tell your story. If you need help, see or video making tips HERE. –
3. Project title – it should be very catchy, clear and to the point. It should explain your goal in couple off words, so imagine you have to tell someone about your project in one sentence, what would that be? Use words that are positive, that are a call to action and in sport spirit, like go, join, take part, follow, contribute, and avoid any word that is associated with charity, like help, donate or aid.
4. Project description – Tell your story to give the funders a complete image of yourself/your team and give them more details that will elaborate the video you created (or, if you don't have a video, to introduce your project in the proper way). Explain why you need the funds in detail and why should people help you achieve your goal. Here are few tips on how to write a solid project description:
– Tell the people who you are, introduce yourself and/or your team, and give details about your sports career.
– Write about what you accomplished so far, where you are now and where you want to be in the future.
– Focus on the goal you are raising funds for in a clear and honest way. Explain what you need (make a detailed list of all expenses), why you need it and how will you prosper in your sports career if your funding goal is met.
– Mention rewards. It's nice to let people know that you will appreciate their contribution and in what way. Write about what your rewards will be, so that apart from satisfaction of helping someone, funders know you care and want to give something back.
– In the end, be polite. Thank people for their time and contributions, no matter how big they are. And always add a call to action. Ask funders to share your story on their social media no matter if they contribute money or not and let them know that even that is helpful in achieving your goal.
5. Rewards
Ask yourself ''would I contribute to a goal of someone I don't know and why?'' Some people do it because they want to be a part of your success story, but it is always nice to give them more in return.
That is why rewards are here.
You can offer rewards to your funders for their support, this is not obligatory but it raises your chances of achieving your goal a lot, especially if the amount is high. If you offer rewards, more people will be interested in contributing; you create a bond with all those who helped you so they can come back and help you again because they felt appreciated the first time. Also, interesting rewards can help you create a buzz about your campaign and bring more funders in.
Here are some tips on setting up good reward system:
Offer rewards that have something to do with your sport and make sure you can deliver on everything you promised.
Don't forget to include all the reward costs in your goal calculation (awards production or acquiring costs, packaging and shipping). Check all the items and make sure your budget works.
Offer a range of rewards, depending on the amount contributed, because some funders can give a $100 and some $5. Every contribution counts and you need to let your funders know that. Make sure you cover several amounts so every funder can get a proper reward depending on how much they contributed, even if it is $1.
For higher amounts like $500, $1000 or more, offer something really special but make sure you can deliver.
By limiting the rewards, you make it clear how much of each reward you offer and you do so by filling out the 'Amount' field. If you have only 5 shirts to give out to those who contribute $10, for example, make it clear that just the first 5 funders get the reward. Limited "early bird" rewards, where a certain number of backers get something for a slightly lower pledge, can also help build momentum during the project's early days.
Pricing considerations – It's not the same if you get $5 or $100, so offer awards accordingly. Also, $25 is the most common contributing amount, so make sure you have enough nice rewards for that sum.
Set estimated delivery dates for the rewards. You don't have to be absolutely precise, just estimate when will you be able to send rewards and add some time to give yourself breathing room, it's better if the rewards are early than late, right? If you have a big campaign and a lot of rewards, you can give different delivery times to each item batch, so you don't get cluttered by all of them at once.
At every reward you can add shipping details, such as whether the reward includes shipping or not, which countries are you shipping to and all the other details, so you can be very specific with the information. Be careful with the calculations and do them right, because if you don't, you'll end up spending money you didn't plan.
You can add rewards through your campaign duration, but keep in mind that you can't alter the rewards that are already claimed by funders.
Add images for as much rewards as you can. Make sure the images are clear, in good quality and that they don't violate any copyright laws, so it is best you take the photos of the items.
The DO'S
Be creative and offer as many rewards as you can. Here are some examples of what you can offer:
A shout-out and a thank you message on your social media channels.
A personal 'Thank you' e-mail.
Write a rhymed 'Thank you' note that rhymes with funders name.
A postcard from your sports travel you needed funding for.
Your signed photo or a poster.
A memorabilia or a souvenir from your sports travel you needed funding for.
Handmade gifts you can make yourself, like a keychain made of rope or a jute or rubber bracelet…
Tickets to your competition
A chance to train with you or with your coach
Your team or organization's badges, stickers, water bottles… branded goods of any kind.
Sports clothes or equipment (t-shirts, hats, socks, scarfs…)
If you have a sponsor, you can offer you sponsors services or products as rewards.
Gym or other sports membership or discount
The DON'TS
Here is a list of what is forbidden to offer as a reward on Sport.Fund. If there are items that are not on this list but you are not sure if they are allowed, please CONTACT US for advice before you post it.
Any form of betting or gambling
Any kind of financial reward. You can't offer money in any way, so you can't promise funders a return of their investment or partial ownership in your contract, team or a sports object.
A share in future proceeds. You cannot offer a share in your present or future contracts, stakes in your career and your financial gains.
Any controlled substance like drugs, steroids, tobacco, vaporizers and all related
Any kind of alcohol – vine and beer included
Items claiming to cure treat or prevent injuries, illness or any other medical condition
Food and drinks of any kind
Weapons, weapons replicas or weapons accessories
Political material
Religious material
Offensive material that contains hate speech, bias, graphic or written violence
We reserve the right to review and remove all rewards that are not in accordance to our rules and policies.


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The Right Weigh: Six Steps to Permanent Weight Loss Used by More Than 100,000 People
Weight issues is a very complicated problem and often questioned by patients who are currently overweight. Being overweight is a nightmare for some people especially for those who really pay attention to appearances. Obesity also will drain a person's self confidence that will affect the careers of people concerned. Here are 15 steps that can be followed for weight control.
1. "I must be!" Embed this three-word in your self as a first step. Despite facing many temptations come, provided you always remember that you must be to lose weight then you have to be on the right track. Make people who have lost weight as a motivator you to bow temptations that come.
2. Breakfast is a must. Do not ever leave the house in the morning without touching anything to eat because food will give you enough energy to indulge all day. No need for breakfast foods that heavy weight, enough bananas, yogurt, cereal, bread and other snacks for containing plenty of fiber and protein will give you a sense of satiety until lunch time came.
3. Take a moment to read the nutritional content in food packaging. To note here is calories, because these substances which play a major role in increasing your weight when consumed excessively. Customize your energy needs / your calories in a day with a note that stated in such packaging.
4. Do not go on a diet. For short-term diet is you will lose weight, but if you stop the diet your weight will increase again. Eating foods that strange strange to diet or reduce some types of food will not make your weight down. The important thing is to choose a balanced nutritional value of food in accordance with the needs of your body so that calories eaten will be utilized optimally.
5. Always eat regularly. Unique body metabolism will decrease when it is hungry, this is certainly not good for weight-loss process. To avoid these conditions, make a daily diet and routine you can do every day. Make sure your eating schedule is at least three times a day.
6. Expand fiber consumption. Fiber is very important to keep the body healthy. Fiber that we eat everyday functions to help lower cholesterol and facilitate the emptying of the digestive tract. Fiber can also accelerate the sense of satiety, so naturally reduce food portions that are not useful. Most fibers have a high water content and low calorie foods that fit with what we need to lose weight.
7. Healthy food is always the top choice. Choose foods that contain less saturated fat. Expand the consumption of fruits and vegetables. Choose a vegetable oil as a source of fat because it contains unsaturated fat in the high portion. Eating foods that contain Omega 3 as many fish.
8. Sports. Adjust your chosen sport with your body condition. One sports a healthy, inexpensive and can be done by everyone is on foot. Walk at least five miles a day. Always try to increase your walking distance. Remember, exercise not only your weight but also makes your body more healthy.
9. Discard the habit of snacking at night. Snacking in the evening will destroy your attempts to lose weight because the calories you eat after dinner will be buried in the body. Brushing your teeth after dinner helped you to reduce the urge to snack.
10. Expand protein consumption. Eat foods containing protein in large amounts will make your belly full in a few hours you'll reduce the need for foods that contain high calories.
11. Discard bad habits that make your weight increase and replace them with healthier habits. For example replace the sugar you use to make coffee with sugar is low in calories, avoid eating fried foods, and others.
12. Make the people around you as a motivator. They will help you provide encouragement when times are you experiencing saturation with weight-loss program you're currently doing.
13. Note any developments that happen to you as long as you follow a weight-loss program. When you need to compare your performance with the achievement of your friends who do similar programs. This also becomes a motivator in achieving your goal to lose weight.
14. Drinking enough. Some nutritionists say that drinking enough then you will be protected from excessive eating. It is recommended to drink six to eight glasses of water a day.
15. Would you like to lose weight at the same time keeps the body healthy? For that, you should never turn away from your real goal is to lose weight. Remember always to motivate myself so that your desired destination is reached soon.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
15 Steps to Permanent Weight Loss
The Right Weigh: Six Steps to Permanent Weight Loss Used by More Than 100,000 People
The Betel leaf for medicine, and other benefits
Efficacy of betel leaf has many known and have been clinically tested. Until now, research on these crops are being developed.
Betel leaf has been known for centuries by our ancestors as a powerful medicinal plant. Not only known as medicinal plants, plants Latin name Piper betle Lynn also had a special place in the traditional festivities in several regions in Indonesia.
In Lampung, there is a dance named penggung cambai. Penggung means holding, while cambai betel. This dance describes the interaction of young people who uphold traditions. Betel leaf in this dance describes the symbol of respect.
In many other traditional events, betel leaves, often served to welcome guests. In Java, betel leaves are used in traditional wedding ceremonies.
High Antiseptic Substances
* Traditionally, a plant originating from India, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia are used to overcome the body and mouth odor, mouth ulcer, nosebleeds, rashes and ulceration, and treating the woman's whiteness.
This is because medicinal plants that had been known since 600 BC It contains an antiseptic substance that can kill germs. Phenol content in the nature antiseptiknya five times more effective than with ordinary phenol.
In Chinese pharmacology, known as the betel plant has a warm and spicy nature. Traditionally they use betel leaves to shed fart, stop coughing, reduce inflammation, and eliminate itching. In traditional Indian medicine, known as the betel leaf is warmed aromatic substances, are antiseptic, and even increase libido.
By nature antiseptiknya, betel nut is often used to heal foot wounds because it contains styptic for bleeding and vulnerary hold, that heals the wound in the skin. Can also be chewed to improve sound quality in a singer.
From the research, as quoted in a book published by a medicinal plant Medicinal Plant Garden Karyasari disclosed that betel nut contains are coline in all parts of the plant. This substance is beneficial to stimulate the central nervous and thinking power, increasing the peristaltic movements, relieve snoring. Eugenol contained in the leaves which can prevent premature ejaculation, eradicate the fungus Candida albicans, and the character of analgesics (relieve pain). There is also the content of tannin in the leaves is useful to reduce the secretion of fluid in the vagina, protecting liver function, and prevent diarrhea.
Drug Leucorrhea
* Usefulness of betel leaves in curing leucorrhoea been clinically tested. This was disclosed by Amir Sharif of Pharmacology Section, University of Indonesia.
He said that betel leaves have a more significant efficacy compared with placebo.
Testing involved 40 patients who are not pregnant whitish, having diabetes mellitus, and kidney or liver disease. Twenty of them get betel leaves, while the rest were given placebo. Both the betel leaf or a placebo was given to the patient's vagina before bed for seven days.
Of the 40 patients, 22 people get re-examination, each of which 11 received placebo and betel leaf. The test results proved about 90.9 percent of patients who have otherwise recovered betel leaf, while in the group given placebo only 54.5 percent.
Other studies about the benefits of betel conducted at IPB Bogor. Ir. Nuri Andarwulan, Msi and friends of the Faculty of Bogor Agricultural Technology doing research for utilizing waste betel leaf essential oil to produce antioxidants. Antioxidant extract is so far still be imported.
This research potentially reduce the import value of antioxidant ingredients. In addition, the resulting emulsion products in research that can also be utilized for the beauty industry.
Meanwhile, in India there is a research report that said the betel leaves affect male fertility, as reported by the Indian Journal of Pharmacology. Effect of betel leaf on male fertility was tested on rats.
Allegedly, the provision of betel leaf extract containing alcohol orally in mice have antikesuburan effects. According to the report that increased dosage extract resulted in decreased sperm counts in rats.
In India, research on betel leaves is not only for fertility of men alone. There, the leaves have been investigated to treat asthma, bronchitis, rheumatism, leprosy, and toothache, even for erectile dysfunction. Unfortunately, not many similar research in Indonesia. @ Diyah Triarsari
Betel leaf Recipes
Betel leaves useful for treating various diseases. Here is a recipe from the Medicinal Plant Garden Karyasari on how to use betel leaf for health.
1. Cough
* Prepare 15 pieces of betel leaf and three glasses of water. Rinse the leaves and simmer until remaining three quarters of parts. Drinks with honey.
2. Bronchitis
* Boil seven betel leaves that were washed with a piece of sugar cubes in two glasses of clean water. Wait until the left into one glass. Drink three times a day each third of the glass.
3. Eliminate body odor
* Take five pieces of betel leaves and boil with two glasses of water. Wait until the left into one glass. Drinking in the afternoon.
4. Burn
* Take a taste of betel leaves and wash. Squeeze the water and add a little honey. Put into place burns.
5. Nosebleed
* Prepare a betel leaves are rather young, and then crushed and roll. Use to plug a bloody nose.
6. Ulcer
* Take a sufficient amount of betel leaves and wash. After it was milled into powder and applied to the abscess and its surroundings. Balut and replace two meals a day.
7. Itchy and Red Eye
* Allow 5-6 young and fresh betel leaves boiled with a glass of water until boiling. Wait until cool and use to wash the eye with a glass eye wash three times a day until healed.
8. Ulceration and itching
Boil 20 * betel leaves to boiling. Use the cooking water is still warm to wash sore and itchy.
9. Stopping Gums Bleeding
* Boil four betel leaves in two glasses of water. Use it to gargle.
10. Sprue
* Take 1-2 pieces of betel leaves, then rinse clean. Chew until creamed and dispose of the waste after completion.
11. Eliminate Mouth Odor
* Have 2-4 pieces of betel leaves, wash and squeeze. Brewed with hot water and use to gargle.
12. Pimple
Take 7-10 * betel leaves, wash, and finely mashed. Brewed with two glasses of hot water. Use water to wash her face. Do it 2-3 times a day.
13. Whitish Boil 10 betel leaves that were washed in 2.5 liters of water. Use the still-warm boiled water to wash your vagina.
14. Reduce Excess Breast
Bread Recipes
Bread Recipes
posts: Ny. Saiful Rohma, Dumai's - the Riau
High-protein wheat flour 2kg.
Instant yeast / instant yeast 30 grams.
White butter / margarine 100 grams.
100 grams of sugar.
1200 ml of cold water.
30 grams of milk powder.
Bread improver 6 grams.
25 grams of fine salt.
How to make the recipe ingredients:
1. Mix these ingredients in a recipe: flour, yeast, sugar, milk powder, bread improver, salt, and stir well.
2. Enter recipe batter mixture into the bread mixer bowl. Pour water / cold water little by little and margarine. Start the mixer to speed 2 for 12 minutes or until the dough forms a smooth and elastic. Mixing process can be done manually by hand to form a smooth dough recipe.
3. Get hold of the dough recipe, fermentasikan batter / dough recipe let stand in a warm place and tertututp meeting for 30 minutes (10 minutes if it is fermented in the closet developer / proving cabinet).
4. Kempeskan dough recipe, weigh each weighing 425 grams to pan 22x10x7 cm in size or customized size dengna bread mold to be used. Get hold back the dough and fermentasikan recipe for another 15 minutes.
5. Miller recipe dough and roll it into elliptical shape. Put in the pan beroles margarine / butter.
6. Let stand for 60 hours or the dough until the dough expands. Brush the surface with fresh liquid milk.
7. Bake in oven temperature at 190 degrees for 30 minutes or until bread cooked and golden brown.
8. Remove the loaves from the oven, let cool. Boxed with plastic bag / plastic wrap / paper bread. Bread is ready for market.
This recipe is enough for 8 baking pan.
Prescription by hand stir the batter should be performed on a table or desk marble tiles. Stirring technique was done by a coolie (like washing clothes) and in the slam-slam. Stirred by wringing less advisable because gluten is formed will be broken and can not cause the dough elastic. ***
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Method of Making Bread Dough
Processing and Modifying Tips Bread Dough (part.2)
Method of Making Bread Dough
Many methods of making sweet breads, small bread, bread dough burger like a sponge method (indirect method). A method commonly used is the straight dough or direct method. This method is made by mixing all ingredients and stir recipe until formed a smooth dough and smooth. This method is most commonly used because the maximum dough, fermentation time of his recipe ingredients only complains 1.5 - 3 hours.
Important making dough stage
Results will be maximal if the following bread-making stage is good and right according to instructions. Here are the basic stages of manufacture of bread;
1. Weighing
After all the ingredients of good quality selected ingredients of bread and then weighed. Weighing and measuring should use a standard measuring tool. Solids were weighed with a digital or analog scales.
Search object using the measuring cup, while the giver of aroma materials are usually measured with measuring spoons. Hamper the accuracy of the scales is the result of the bread. Make sure the scales function well and weighing process is done properly so that the maximum of bread.
2. Stirring / Mixing / Mixing
Recipe ingredients mixing process is a very important step in making bread. The first process is mixing the dough recipe to one (pick up), so that the dough does not stick and then stirred again in the mixer and dough bowl, stirring continued until the surface smooth and elastic dough recipe, continue stirring for a while longer until all the dough recipe slippery surfaces look dull and dry.
After this stage, the stirring should be stopped, otherwise the dough will be wet, sticky and juicy. If this happens then the stage will be to overmix and cake batter will result in a sodden, flabby and pri-pore is not good.
Mixing function is to create a homogenous dough, shape and soften the gluten to allow the dough to hold the gas when the development process / fermentation.
3. Fermentation
After all smooth dough recipe, the dough is rounded and aged throw for fermentation and development. ideal temperature for fermentation of bread is the range of 34-35 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are too cold will cause fermenasi process is slow, while the temperature is too hot will cause the fermentation going too fast and the resulting texture of the bread becomes coarse.
The time required for fermentation is 30 minutes, but the fermentation will be longer if the temperature is cold. In these conditions, the fermentation can be reached within one hour. Benchmark is immediately terminated when the fermentation process has been expanded dough recipe doubled from the original dough recipe large or when the dough is pressed with a finger, the dough is permanent scars, did not return to original form.
Fermentation is too long will cause the dough over, sir, a condition in which the dough becomes soft and watery. Fermentation is too short will cause hard bread, coarse pores and the bread was not soft.
4. Pengempesan Dough
After the dough is fermented, then the dough recipe soft way to punch with your hands or milled with the mill until all the gas wasted. The purpose of this throwing gass pause go round the fermentation process because the dough will be cut and weighed. Do not knead dough already fermented because the pores are already formed would be damaged and fibers are formed to be missing. Dikempeskan enough alone.
5. Cut and Weigh
Dough that has been softed also cut to shape as needed prescriptions and weighed. The goal is that a uniform amount of bread produced with the same weight and volume.
6. Rounding Dough
The dough is already soft then rounded again by hand. The goal is to form a coating film to withstand the gas during the fermentation process in two. The benefit is more easily formed and the dough more elastic.
7. Formation
After the fermented-2, a recipe for the dough and then rolled out and shaped to meet the gas as neededrecipe. At this stage often done adding content in the dough recipe.
8. Fermentation
This stage is often referred to as placement in a mold dough or panning. after the dough is placed in the pan or mold beroles margarine. Fermentasikan batter or dough recipe let stand for 15 minutes or until the dough expands the maximum. Sometimes after being prescribed a maximum of dough expands, the surface smeared with egg yolk or fresh milk and sugar solution so that the skin color is more shiny and nice.
9. Bake or Combustion
Baking dough bread recipes require different temperatures to each type. bread for the small size required a temperature of about 180 degrees Celsius for 12-15 minutes. For larger sizes, such as white bread needed temperature 220 degrees Centigrade for 20-25 minutes.
Baking bread is cooked through and golden brown skin. Bread that uses sugar as a sweet bread baking takes shorter because of high sugar dough more quickly lead to brown. Always heat the oven for 50-10 minutes before the bread dough baked until the desired temperature is reached .***
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Article: Tips to Make Soft, and Delicious Doughnuts
Tips to Make Soft, and Delicious Doughnuts posts: Mrs Husna, Malang
You and your family like to enjoy donuts? Instead of always buying, it's worth it to try it for yourself. If you already like this certainly makes you want to get the tips of tender and delicious donuts, right?
Doughnuts or donuts in a discussion called in English, one cake whose name is quite popular and could be as a favorite the world community. Appearance since the first time, the donut has a very distinctive appearance shape with a hole in the middle like a like a ring. But there is also an occasional round if filled with recipes inside.
Doughnuts have a long history, American archaeologists found some relics that illustrate the types of food shaped like a donut in the prehistoric era. However alleged that the donut comes from the Dutch state, precisely from the Manhatten area, and there donut called "olykoeks" or fried cakes.
Until now, the emergence of the donut is still a favorite cake recipe servings practical to eat. Even in America itself, perhaps there are currently over 10 million donuts are produced each year. Not to be outdone, in Indonesia recipe cake donut recipe, adapted from the Western culinary This popularity can be equated with the recipe of Indonesian traditional cakes such as recipes snacks. The evidence for a donut is not difficult, both in traditional and modern in a variety of bakery shops.
In the midst of modern society, not always present the appearance of a round donut with a hole in the middle, even more unique and varied forms, so that more and more tempting to eat. You're curious to make the donuts themselves with flavors of delicious, fragrant and truly feels tender when bitten? Come see the following quick tips:
Discover the recipe Ingredients: 1. Flour The main recipe ingredients to make donuts recipe is wheat flour with protein content was. When pengulenan, will change majadi gluten proteins, which then gives a framework / fine texture. Sometimes, a recipe of flour used in making donuts recipe mixed with low protein flour to obtain a softer terkstur.
2. Sugar Pick the sugar dissolves easily in water. Refined sugar can be also used. Sugar not only as a recipe ingredient to sweeten, but also determines the storability of tenderness and maintain donuts. Even if you wish to make the donuts salty, do not leave sugar. Why? Sugar also serves to activate the yeast.
3. Egg There was no denying the use of egg recipes make recipe more delicious donuts. Many people prefer to use the egg yolks than whites. With the aim to soften and provide a more attractive yellow color.
4. Developers Yeast is a recipe developer of the most popular material. The most widely used today are instant yeast, because it is far easier to use it is simply mixed with the dough. Furthermore, the addition of baking powder recipes and recipe improver (bread improver) as the developer also influence tenderness and donuts.
5. Liquid Some like to use water. Some have also preferred to use a prescription liquid milk into the batter. Use milk to make a cake donut recipe softer than water, other than that it was much better.
6. Salt Although its use was just the tip of tea spoon, adding the salt in the dough large enough function is to control the development of the dough. To remember, salt inhibits the yeast so that the work should never be close. So the addition of salt, preferably after the dough evenly, would be much better.
7. Fat Margarine and butter is the fat used in making prescription seirng donuts. The presence of fat in a donut dough recipe will make a rich flavor in addition to also make the donuts so soft.
8. Cooking Oil Choose the cooking oil clear yellow color. Better use of solid cooking oil, because the result is more cryspy.
9. Topping If enough dtabur first donut with powdered sugar, donuts now began to beautify themselves. Recipe ingredients that could be used as a prescription misis sprinkles, almonds recipes, chocolate recipes, recipe chopped nuts, until a variety of recipes perment trimit shaped funny and interesting.
Identify Tools Used:
1. Measure Tool Maybe you can be amazed by the skills of old parents who are able to make donuts without sufficient dose to the science of predictions. Oops lho carefully, without taking the risk is very important measuring tool usage. To produce standard and delicious donuts, which must measure at least you have the scales and measuring spoons.
2. Dough mixer Creating donut dough recipes can be mixed directly with the hands and diuli condition must be consistent pengulenan strength. Along the development of times, now you can use a machine called a mixer. For the dough recipe that amount is too much, could use a mixer household scale by replacing the rotors with spiral shapes.
3. Kom Dough / Containers No special requirements are recommended and most importantly must be cleaned.
4. Rolling Pin Grinder is useful for thinning the batter to be formed and also menggeluarkan inflate the air as the dough recipe.
5. Matter Doughnuts If you usually only round donut shaped with a hole in the center, now a donut display quite varied. More and more culinary experts berivovasi by printing donut box shape, triangle, oval to wavy. Wow, donuts look now increasingly varied and tempting!
6. Pan In order for maximum results, select non-stick pans are coated so it does not easily burn.
Making Techniques
1. Mixing Start from the sifting flour with the aim that the results are not grainy, then mix all dry ingredients recipe and stir well. Add liquid gradually, stirring until blended. Once well blended recipe, the fat can be incorporated, stirring constantly until smooth and blended.
2. Pengulenan In this technique could use a hand or mixer. When using hand movements quite easily. Do it like washing clothes, pull the dough is pressed forward with a little and fold again in your direction. And so on and laukukan-lulang repeated until the dough smooth. Using the mixer, consider the batter should not be too hot due to friction propeller mixer. If this happens, you should stop and proceed with recipe dough by hand until completely smooth. To test the dough is smooth, take a little dough, then pull wide. If dough is torn, repeat the process until the dough no longer pengulenan easily torn.
3. Fermentation Once the batter is smooth then rested called fermented to develop the dough recipe. During the fermentation process approximately 15 to 30 minutes, adonana should be covered with plastic or wet towels. The aim is to prevent evaporation and the results are not dry.
4. The dough deflates Well, this ditahap use of pin rollling very useful tool. Adonaa removed from the container, then pipihkan until as thick as expected.
5. Print Once flattened, print donut dough according to taste. Yagn tool can be used to mnencetak stailess made from steel. Create a donut shape and pretty interesting. Remember, the form that will make the donuts look pretty tempting. Once printed, fermentasikan back for about 10 minutes to inflate.
6. Fry Donut should always be fried in oil and soaked with a lot of specific heat to keep the yellow color is evenly browned and cooked. In order for a donut is not too much to absorb oil, it is better to use solid gorang oil. This oil is rapidly frozen in room temperature.
7. Cake donuts are ready to be more beautiful decorated In this article presents a longer trend donut recipe plus step by step. Surely donut fragrant aroma, soft texture and appearance when digigigt an interesting shape, there would always be looking for donut fans, surely!. ***
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Various Kind of Nuts
Nuts That Are dried fruit kernels or seeds have encased in a hard woody shell or rind. There are many specific kinds of Fruits Included in the category of "nuts" and Also That many really are not true nuts. People eat many kinds of nuts and the coconut Poor 'Some have long been recognized as an Important food source. Many kinds of nuts contain valuable substances Poor 'oil and minerals. That there are nuts grow wild and are gathered from the plants, but the peanut Some Poor ', are very large cultivated in Quantities. Peanuts are nuts and are sold as Also processed into peanut butter.
Nuts as Food The peanut is by far the most popular nut Used for food. Other Popular nuts are cashews, walnuts, almonds, pecans, pistachio nuts and pinons. The breadnut Is Also popular and is often ground into flour to use in making bread. Most of These nuts contain Between 50 and 70% fat and oil and from 15 to 30% protein. They contain starch Also, Vitamin C and the B vitamins, including thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin. Also include walnuts and pecans Vitamin A. Nuts are a healthy part of the diet and acres Included under the Meat and Protein sections of the food pyramid.
Nuts as a Source of Oil Valuable There are oils in many kinds of nuts. Generally, oils These are divided into two groups - non-drying oils and drying oils. When drying oils are exposed to air they want form a thin elastic film. The nuts in this category are Home walnuts, candlenuts and oiticicas. They are Used in the manufacture of paint, printer's ink, linoleum, oilcloth and patent leather. Non-drying oils are always in a liquid state at room temperature. The nuts in this category include peanuts, coconuts, cashews, pecans, filberts and pili nuts. They are Used in the manufacture of lubricants and lighting as well as in making margarine, and soap.
Other Nuts There are Some nuts Used in the tanning process. These include bitternut nuts, acorns and pecans. Other nuts, and acorn beechnut Poor 'Are Used as livestock feed and the betel nut is often chewed as a stimulant. ***
----------------------------------------- by James Hunt About the author: James Hunt has spent 15 years as a professional writer and researcher covering stories That covers a whole spectrum of interest. Read more at www.nuts-central.info
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Oven Fried Chicken
Oven Fried Chicken
1 (2 to 3 pound) whole chicken, cut into pieces
1 cup dried bread crumbs
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1 cup mayonnaise
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl or gallon size resealable plastic bag, mix together the bread crumbs, garlic powder, salt, pepper, thyme and paprika.
3. Coat the chicken pieces with mayonnaise. Place chicken pieces in bowl/bag with bread crumb mixture and coat/shake until well coated. Place chicken pieces in a lightly greased 9x13 inch baking dish and bake for 45 minutes or until juices run clear.
Garlic Fried Chicken
Garlic Fried Chicken
2 teaspoons garlic powder, or to taste
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - pounded thin
1 cup oil for frying, or as needed
1. In a shallow dish, mix together the garlic powder, pepper, salt, paprika, bread crumbs and flour. In a separate dish, whisk together the milk and egg.
2. Heat the oil in an electric skillet set to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Dip the chicken into the egg and milk, then dredge in the dry ingredients until evenly coated.
3. Fry chicken in the hot oil for about 5 minutes per side, or until the chicken is cooked through and juices run clear. Remove from the oil with a slotted spatula, and serve.

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Instead of having lunch, a few of us elected to visit the Dohány Street Synagogue, which is the largest synagogue in Europe, and the second largest in the world.
I'm not included because I took the photo. You can imagine me standing next to Judy if you like.
The interior, like the exterior, is colorful and very beautiful, but it felt more like a cathedral than I expected it to. This is because, apparently, it was designed by a man who was not himself Jewish and had never been in a synagogue in his life. Mind you, neither am I nor had I before today, so I don't really have room to point fingers.
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Floyd Landis wants the French Anti-Doping Agency to hold off on its hearing into his testosterone poPIC BY LE TOUR DE LANGKAWI Landis wants AFLD delay Floyd Landis and his defence team have asked the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) to delay its hearing into his doping case. The request came shortly after the World Anti-Doping Agency's Dick Pound asked for exactly the same thing - a rare agreement between Landis and WADA. The AFLD is scheduled to open its inquiry into Landis' testosterone positive on February 8, approximately a month before the American Arbitration Association will commence its own hearing. Maurice Suh, a representative of Landis's lawyers, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, told the Los Angeles Times, "We believe it's strongly in Floyd's interest to not have to defend two actions simultaneously in two different countries." According to the LA Times, Landis's legal team believes that the AFLD will open proceedings against him on the scheduled date, but will "move to postpone further action." The double doping hearings mean that Landis faces the possibility of being cleared by the AAA and yet banned by the AFLD, or vice versa. In either case, he would lose his 2006 Tour title and be prevented from racing in the 2007 event. South Africa and Selle Italia for Langkawi Two more team lineups have been confirmed for the 12th Le Tour de Langkawi, which begins this Friday. The top performing South African national team returns to the race with an eye on both the overall individual and team titles. The squad boasts defending champion David George, but team captain Nic White could prove to be a valuable co-leader as the team goes for three LTdL wins in a row. "LTdL has always been a favourite for South African riders and we've had winners of the past two races," said White. "We've also been part of the race in each of the past eleven editions, so it is an important race for us. This year, the competition level is higher with the presence of five ProTour teams. "Our team has been assembled with the defending champion, and a range of good tour riders and climbers, combined with strongmen for the flat days, all with a wealth of international experience." The South African line up will be completed by Daryl Impey, Rupert Rheeder, Hanco Kachelhoffer and Tiaan Kannemeyer. Selle Italia-Seramenti Diquigiovanni should also be among the top teams in the race. It recently won three stages in the Vuelta a Tachira, and will bring a squad of experienced riders to Langkawi. Last year's third place getter Gabriele Missaglia will be missing, but is being replaced by another Italian climber, Wladimir Belli, who will be one of the team's GC leaders. But team manager Gianni Savio said that Selle Italia's main GC rider will be Jose Serpa, winner of the Genting Highlands stage last year. The Colombian will return with the aim of taking the overall win. "He won two stages in LTdL last year and he also won the Pan American Championships," said Savio. "He also won a stage and the overall classification in last year's Vuelta a Venezuela, so we have big hopes for him." Completing Selle Italia's roster are 2005 Colombian national champion Walter Pedraza, climber Fabio Duarte and sprinters Alberto Loddo and Anthony Brea. "But whether Brea makes the team for LTdL depends on whether he can get his passport in time. If he can't make it, we will replace him with Sergio Barbero," said Savio. Between them, Selle Italia and South Africa have cleaned up the last five editions of LTdL, and look set to challenge for another one. Ricc puts Saunier Duval on the map Saunier Duval-Prodir has notched up its first win of the season, courtesy of Riccardo Ricc, who won the fourth stage of the Tour de San Luis in Argentina. Ricc triumphed in a big bunch sprint, beating Mexican Juan P. Magallanes (Tecos Trek) and Argentinean Martin Garrido (Duja-Tavira), with the overall lead in the race staying with Jorge Giacinti (Lider). Ricc also won Saunier Duval's last race of 2006: the Japan Cup. US team for Manchester world cup The USA will send seven riders to the final round of the 2006-2007 track world cup, which takes place in Manchester, UK between February 23rd and 25th. The US team is coming off a good performance at the Los Angeles world cup earlier in January, where it won five medals. But the Manchester squad will consist of more inexperienced riders. First-time world cup entrants, Kele Murdin (Kenmore, Wash.) and Christen King (Huntington Beach, Calif./South Bay Wheelmen) have been named to the squad as have Liz Reap (Jim Thorpe, Pa./East Coast Velo) and Neva Day (Manhattan Beach, Calif./South Bay Wheelmen), who made their World Cup debuts in Los Angeles just a week ago. They will join two-time World Cup medalist this season, Jennie Reed (Kirkland, Wash.), on the women's team. The men's squad will consist only of a pair of young endurance riders, Bobby Lea (Mertztown, Pa./Toyota-United) and Brad Huff (Fair Grove, Mo./Slipstream-Chipotle). Got a comment? Discuss this in the Procycling forum. What else is new? Check out the Procycling blog.
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List Rules Vote up the funniest, cutest, most fun shitty watercolor sloths below. All artwork by Hector Janse van Resburg
Sloths are the adorable, slow moving creatures that the internet just can't get enough of. A huge player in the internet sloth game is Hector Janse van Rensburg, a British painter and the mastermind behind Shitty Watercolour. His work has been featured on many different websites, as well as his Tumblr and Twitter. His sloth watercolors, including "The Mona Slotha" are hugely popular, hilarious, and tons of fun. This list includes the best of the best of Shitty Watercolour's watercolor paintings of sloths.
But van Rensburg doesn't just do paintings of sloths. His work also includes watercolors of famous paintings, other cute animals, pop culture, and even a portrait of President Barack Obama. But we all know sloths are the best animals, and, as it turns out, they make for some of the best watercolor paintings as well.
van Rensburg and his shitty watercolours gained popularity on Reddit. In 2012 he told Wired, "I started doing watercolors after I found an old painting set that I must have been given when I was younger... I already frequented reddit, and it was only a case of putting the two together that my account came around." His rise to fame followed not long after.Which shitty watercolor sloth do you think is the best? Vote up the watercolor sloths you love the most below and check out the rest of Shitty Watercolor's many great works here.


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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Excerpt From "Conversations Over Tea: The Psychology of Tea"
By Josh Chamberlain
We were sitting in my teashop, a small shop in which people had shared so many details of their lives. It is this shop that is ever evolving and that seems to have a soul that we chose to have that my mother and I sat down to have tea and talk about some of teas amazing characteristics. As we waited for the water to boil, I proposed this question to my mother: "Do you believe that tea has the power to positively influence family relationships?"
I've often wondered if drinking tea could influence behavior. A few years ago I was living overseas in Taiwan when I was introduced to the world of tea. It was my experience with the timeless tea tradition, the focal point for social interaction in many households in Taiwan , which inspired me to start my own tea importing business. Since my introduction, tea has become so many different things to me: It is a plant, a friend, a social lubricant, a commodity, a means from which I earn my living, a beverage, a tonic, an elixir of life, a pick-me-up, a digestive aid, a health enhancer and a conduit to meditation. But is it also a great cultivator of relationships?
In Taiwan, families are typically multi-generational, often with three generations living together in the same household. Yet in America, it is not uncommon for family members to reside hundreds of miles apart. Take my family, for example. I have grandparents in Chicago and grandparents in Florida while my mother and father live in Oregon, near my home.
America, in direct contrast to Taiwan, is characterized by migration. Rather than remain in one central location with our family members near by, we seem to prefer to be "free" and we emphasize this sense of freedom by traveling the country in search of a place where we feel most at home- a place where we fit.
I've often wondered what role tea played in the Taiwanese family dynamic and if the same benefits could be enjoyed by our own movement-obsessed culture, which is how I found myself sitting with my mother, discussing the psychology of tea.
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I very much agree that the benefits of tea are multiple and grand.ReplyDelete
To often I find myself feeling pushed through life. It seems to be the way of our society. As I look to my left and my right, the people near me are being pushed too. We laugh and smile and try to find ways to connect that fit into our rushed existence.
I very much agree that tea has the power to enhance and facilitate relationships. You have to slow down for tea. When You slow down, you see the tentativeness of a smile, you notice the additional grey hairs, You see a persons eyes. When you slow down, you can pay attention, connecting is easier when you're paying attention.
There is nothing more rewarding that finding something wonderful in life and sharing it with others. Sharing it with those you love, becomes a bonus.


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After a week off, we are back at it with the sports discussion! On today's show, we break down the epic Thunder-Warriors overtime thriller from the weekend, analyze some sleeper teams in college basketball as the NCAA Tournament looms, and talk about all of the big news from the NFL Scouting Combine!
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These last few weekends I've felt so satisfied. I've realized personal goals of mine, and after coming to the realization myself, I shared them with Billy as well. I realized in order to feel fulfilled in my personal life, I want to be able to paint as often as possible, as well as bake two or three times a month.
I had been denying myself these things, because I wanted to make sure my house was clean, and that dinners were perfectly planned. This took up so much of my time during my days off, that when evening came around, I would be too tired to paint or bake. With Billy's help and my determination, I've finally chiseled out some time for myself to do these things.
It had been bothering me for awhile. I was beginning to think I wouldn't ever find time to do them again on a regular basis. Probably due to inspiration from a class I'm taking, and getting older, realizing life is short (turning 30 next year is really making me think I guess), has really motivated me to make sure I'm expressing the gifts I have been given. The class I'm taking is called Finding Purpose (for designers and artists), just in case you were curious.
Yesterday I painted and baked! I hadn't even been thinking about baking, but after I was done painting, I thought a chewy cookie would be pretty rad. I looked at the clock, checked on my ingredients, and made it happen. These cookies are my go-to (for the past 6 years). They are hand-mixed, and very quick to make.
The process of making these cookies is kind of philosophical. It's a form of meditation in a way. I noticed myself getting tense a lot when doing something I love, because I almost feel guilty that I'm enjoying myself. So, I have been consciously slowing down, taking deep breaths, and enjoying the moments when I'm doing something like, for instance, baking. This life change, is really that, a huge life change. Besides my personal story with facing fast-paced culture, I also want to share with you the actual process of making these cookies too. I hope you enjoy. And even if you think I'm a wee bit crazy, at least it can hopefully be a bit entertaining.
So here goes.
I like to mix my cookie dough by hand, especially when it's for a quick batch that I'm making on a whim. I tried mixing by hand about six years ago, and ever since find it hard to go back to using a mixer. The ingredients are so vibrant, and as you add each item, you can be really in-tune with what each ingredient needs. You can tell if each granule of sugar has been incorporated. You can tell when the egg begins to make the dough shimmer. You can see the baking soda almost give lift to the batter. You can make sure that you're not over mixing the flour, keeping the tough gluten strands away.
The dough will be light in color as well as texture. When you portion out your dough, it will feel sticky. Don't compress it too hard into the scooper or spoon, but let it be true to its own form. Putting too much stress on the dough, whether by over mixing, or by compressing when forming the balls, will cause the cookies to be dried out and tough. Go easy on it, and on yourself. Cookie making should feel very natural each step of the way.
I have streamlined this recipe to be a one-bowl job. Also, if you haven't tried it yet, try out my sifting trick I mentioned in my last post. Reminder— put a little amount of the dry ingredients, at a time, into a small metal sieve over your mixing bowl. Tap the side. This method will make your dry ingredients like powder, and will help them to assimilate very smoothly into the wet ingredients.
Again, remember to not rush it. Just go with the flow, and your cookies will turn out like little clouds of succinct flavor (salty-sweet) with a slightly-resistant texture (chewy!).
Enjoy! Do you have any cookie tricks you'd like to share?
Quick Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies
Kitchen Tested
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) salted butter, softened
1/4 cup + 2 tbsp packed brown sugar
1/4 cup + 2 tbsp granulated sugar, I use organic pure cane
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract, I use organic
1/2 tsp Himalayan pink salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/8 cups all-purpose flour, I use non-GMO flour
1 cup chocolate chips, I use Ghirardelli 70% dark
How To:
Preheat oven to 375º F. Line a light-colored cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Cut butter into approximately even chunks or slices. Add it to a large, glass, mixing bowl.
Add in brown sugar. With a metal spoon (I use a soup spoon), mix together butter and sugar until no more butter streaks are visible. Add in granulated sugar, and mix until there are no visible granules. The mixture will seem like a paste.
Add the egg into the butter-sugar mixture. Stir the egg in, starting with smaller swirls, working up to larger swirls. Continue until incorporated. With a rubber spatula, scrape sides of bowl. Mix again until the batter has a slight shimmer to it (about another minute or so).
Add vanilla and salt. Mix, scrape sides of bowl, mix again.
Sift dry ingredients over the wet ingredients. Use a sifter, or place a small amount of dry ingredients into small metal sieve placed over the bowl. Tap the side of sieve. Repeat until all dry ingredients have been added to bowl. With the metal spoon, mix the batter in large strokes. Cut into the middle of the dry-wet mix, and incorporate slowly. It will seem really shaggy at first, but in time it will come together. Cut through the mix, do a circular stroke, and repeat. Do this until the mixture doesn't have dry ingredients left at the bottom of the bowl. Scrape the bowl.
Add chocolate chips. Cut through the dough with the spoon, and mix around. Repeat 3 or 4 times. Remember to be gentle with the dough.
The dough will be a light color, as well as very tacky/sticky.
With a baker's scoop (or small icecream scooper), portion out dough on to prepared tray. Don't pack in dough, but be gentle as you portion it out. Leave about 3-4 inches between each cookie. Bake for about 8-11 minutes. I like to keep my oven light on, so that nearing the end of baking, I can keep a close eye on the cookies to pull them when they're the right amount of golden-brown. Oven temps always vary, so be vigilant!
Place the remaining batter in fridge while the first batch bakes.
When you remove the tray from the oven, let the cookies sit for one minute, and then remove them to a cooling rack. Cool for 2 hours before placing in an air-tight container, lined with parchment paper. They will keep great at room temperature for two-three days. Enjoy!
I have also done an oatmeal, raisin, chocolate chip version of this cookie. Add 2/3 cup rolled oats, 2/3 cup raisins, and 2/3 chocolate chips. Follow the same directions as above, and add in these ingredients together where it states to add the chocolate chips. Everything else is the same as above.


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The Value of Signal (and the Cost of Noise)
The New Economics of Meaning-Making
This white paper describes the economic value companies can obtain by using "best in class" analytics to lower costs and improve revenues.
The 300 companies we surveyed told us they achieved a total economic benefit of roughly $766 billion over the past year based on their use of business analytics. They said that Big Data analytics investments yielded an average 8.4% increase in revenues and an average 8.1% improvement in cost reduction in the previous fiscal year.
The paper also includes a number of case studies, demonstrating how the wise use of analytics helps companies improve their services and boost their bottom lines.


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Xbox Live Arcade
I've just been given 4200 Microsoft points - any recommendations for games to get?
Was thinking of getting Psychonauts for starters. Maybe some old arcadey stuff?
Games I have (with scores)
Rez HD - 10/10
A Kingdom for Keflings - 6/10
Bomberman Live - 9/10
Trials HD - 8/10
Defense Grid: The Awakening - 9/10
Virtual On: 8/10
The answer to this
must be Braid.douchebag this'd this
Just read the Braid wikipedia page,
sounds very interesting.
Bomberman could also be a winner.
Rocket Riot (better if you've got two of you there to play it)
Trials HD
I just started playing Psychonauts. A belly laugh in the very first scene gets this s thumbs up from me.
Definitely Psychonauts
Easily the funniest game ever made for my money.
My picks:
Braid: beautiful and effortlessly inventive.
Trials HD: great but only if you hate yourself (so very difficult, yet so very compelling)
Bomberman: is bomberman. It has a pretty big user base too, particularly in the middle of the night: every time I've decided to play a drunken post night out game I've managed to set up a full 8 player game pretty quickly.
Battlefield 1943: a great knock around team based FPS that I've had more fun with than COD and Halo combined (I should note I'm very much in the minority here).
Galaxy Wars 1 or 2: both excellent painfully simple and ridiculously addictive shooters.
Ikaruga: the connoisseurs shmup of choice. Again, only really good if you hate yourself.
You can of course get demos for the vast majority of games on the arcade. If you've got the time and memory space you could just go demo crazy for a night and see which ones grab you.
I didn't know Ikaruga was on there. I used to enjoy playing that on Gamecube while on mushrooms, although that would ultimately make you rather queasy.
didn't know you could get Pyschonauts on xbl
how many points is that?
what is it in real money?
how many gamerscore points are there (yes, I am a whore)
Trials HD
You will never, ever finish this game. Excellent value for money..


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Hans Schoenhofer on the Barcelona Methodology for Elite Soccer Player Development
Highly experienced, coach of coaches Hans Schoenhofer is a leader in the Barcelona player development methodology and has scouted and trained players in Spain for years. Sharing his time between Spain and the USA, Schoenhofer is dedicated to helping this generation of youth soccer players receive the best training possible.
The Barcelona and Catalonia Federation Methodology of player development is globally respected because it has a highly successful proven track record. Hans Schoenhofer comes from a world where soccer is the most important sport and he has traveled the globe training those who train youth soccer players and as a professional scout.
A mentor to those who wish to learn the Barcelona style of soccer training, Schoenhofer recently visited California to oversee several player and coach training sessions.
Here is Diane Scavuzzo's exclusive interview with Schoenhofer on being a youth player himself, his lifelong passion for the beautiful game and his frustrations on players not thinking enough on the field.
"We don't educate players enough," says Schoenhofer.
Diane Scavuzzo: When did you first start playing soccer?
Hans Schoenhofer: I started as a player in Junior FC — a youth soccer club in Catalonia, Spain when I was 14 years old — in 1976. Junior FC is a high-level Academy just outside of Barcelona in Sant Cugat del Vallès.
I am now the Technical Director of Junior FC.
Diane Scavuzzo: What was that like? Did you also play for your school?
Hans Schoenhofer: I played in my high school, but the level was not good enough and Junior FC was a club where my father played, so we decided I would go there to play under Catalonia Federation flag.
Diane Scavuzzo: Did you play professionally?
Hans Schoenhofer: Yes. I played for Espanyol, Sabadell and a couple of local teams in Catalonia in the second division.
I started as a winger but I developed my best soccer as right offensive back.
Diane Scavuzzo: You also worked with Andres Iniesta and his camp programs – are you still doing this?
Hans Schoenhofer: I still am involved with Iniesta, but I am focused more on my job at Junior — and, also trying to develop our method here in the US with SDFC Academy – San Diego Football Center.
Diane Scavuzzo: You have been a coach in La Liga as well as a professional scout — with Villareal's pro and youth teams?
Hans Schoenhofer: Yes — with Villarreal for five years as a scout when Victor Muñoz and Pellegrino were on the first team. I also worked for Espanyol in the second Team as a Head coach when Pocchettino was the head coach.
Also, I worked for FC Barcelona in several seminars and I attended the 2015 NSCAA Convention in Philadelphia three years ago with Joan Vilà, Head of Barça Methodology when he presented on the club's style of play.
Diane Scavuzzo: What was it like to scout for players in Spain? What did you look for when scouting players?
Hans Schoenhofer: When you scout, you have to watch for several things and they are different if you scout a team or a player, of course.
To scout a player in a youth age, you have to be with the ability to see his potential in a two, three years.
To scout a professional player, the level of the player's attitude, the intelligence, the personality, and even his family — all are important. Sometimes you believe a player is good but the club thinks differently because there is another player in this position who they consider to be better.
I had a great experience with a great player — I scouted and identified Sergio Busquets when he was 15 years old when he played for a club close to Junior. I saw Busquets several times and I told Villarreal that he could be a player for the first team.
Busquets was playing in youth soccer tournament and they scouted him with me. Ultimately, Villarreal decided that they had another player at the same level or better. One year later FC Barcelona signed him and four years later Pep Guardiola gave him an opportunity in the first Team.
Villarreal passed on Busquets and FC Barcelona picked him up — he is a great defensive midfielder for Barça and on the Spain national team.
Those kind of things really do happen.
Diane Scavuzzo: At what age does a youth soccer player need to be serious about training and focus only on one sport, if they have dreams of becoming a professional?
Hans Schoenhofer: In Spain, all Clubs in the Catalonia Federation train three days a week from the age of 8 years old.
When youth soccer players are 14 years of age, the training schedule increases to four days and the players also compete in a match, so they are training 5 days a week. At this
At this age, if a player is good, this is the best age to go and train at a professional Academy.
I don't recommend to go at a younger age — the top youth soccer clubs change a lot of players in those younger ages.
It is better to develop a player — as we do at Junior and, if we have a player with enough level to go to Barça or Espanyol, we talk to them — and then create real opportunities for these players to move on. there are real options to go. But there are a few with this options.
But there are a few youth soccer players good enough.
In the last five years, two players signed for Barça and two for Espanyol.
Without passion it is impossible.
Diane Scavuzzo: How would you describe the Spanish soccer methodology?
Hans Schoenhofer: Simply the best-developed methodology. We understand the game having the ball and our slogan is own the ball own the game.
Diane Scavuzzo: Why chose to help develop youth soccer players in the USA?
Hans Schoenhofer: This was a coincidence. My son was playing Division I soccer with CSUN and — at the same time — Shervin Erfani contacted me when I was the Director Of Iniesta Camps. Shervin's son, Massimo Erfani, was playing soccer in LA and my son was his coach, so it was easy to start a project together.
Diane Scavuzzo: What do you think of youth soccer in Southern California?
Hans Schoenhofer: I think you are in a privileged position.
The understanding of soccer is better here than the rest of the USA because of the Mexican influence.
In California, there are youth soccer players with more ability and a greater soccer IQ.
Southern California is in a good position to start introducing our methodology. The understanding of the game is a key factor to go to a professional level.
The weather also helps your boys and girls to have more months to play soccer.
In Spain, our kids play in the street, park or facilities since they are three, or four years old …every single day with our parents, friends and at school when it is break time — plus we play in Physical Education for 2 hours a week.
We spend most of the time in soccer — this adds up to a lot of hours developing our abilities.
You need to work under our methodology to develop the player and optimize the time.
Soccer is a collective game and all the relations between the players must be present in all the activities.
Diane Scavuzzo: When did you start working with Shervin?
Hans Schoenhofer: We decided to start with the SDFC Academy project in October 2015. I provide a Head Coach and Assistant Coach from Barcelona and also the Methodology for the player development.
Diane Scavuzzo: How often have you visited the USA in the past few years?
Hans Schoenhofer: I come two times a year to visit SDFC to make sure all works well — to organize the youth soccer and coach clinics and also to talk about new ideas and plans for the future.
Diane Scavuzzo: What about you surprises people the most?
Hans Schoenhofer: For me, the best surprise is how the families show their passion.
In Spain, the people watch soccer and only in special situations scream with emotion.
In the USA, the parents continuously are living the match with a high emotion.
This means that they are passionate about soccer, and this is needed to grow the game of soccer in this country.
Diane Scavuzzo: What is the accomplishment that you are most proud of?
Hans Schoenhofer: As a player, I overcame two important injuries and as a coach, I helped two different players to reach the professional level. I am especially proud of my efforts with Sergi Darder — he was a player at Español B who is actually in Olympique Lyonnaise.
Diane Scavuzzo: What do you think is the most important life lesson that you've learned so far?
Hans Schoenhofer: You need humility and want to continually improve.
In life, you need to have a clear goal, must be convinced and work hard every simple hour to get it.
Diane Scavuzzo: What kind of mentor are you?
Hans Schoenhofer: I am a mentor involved at 100% — I want all the players and all the coaches feeling my presence. They have to feel the confidence I feel for them every time they see me. They know that I am here every year — to help them, to guide them.
Diane Scavuzzo: If you could turn the clock back — what would you do?
Hans Schoenhofer: What would I change, if anything? I would only change my confidence in front of the opportunities.
It took time for me to have enough confidence and show my strengths.
One thing is humility, and the other is to be too polite and shy — that it can make you lose opportunities.
Diane Scavuzzo: Who is your favorite professional player playing today?
Hans Schoenhofer: Messi and Iniesta. One for his ability and the other for his intelligence.
I was lucky because I lived always in Barcelona and I could see every weekend Johan Cruyff, Maradona, Ronaldo, Romario, Ronaldinho, Iniesta, Messi, Neymar play … I don't like to decide for one, but I consider what Messi is doing is amazing — and, there is no other player who can do what he does.
Diane Scavuzzo: What is the biggest mistakes most youth soccer players make?
Hans Schoenhofer: They don't think in the field. We don't educate them enough.
Diane Scavuzzo: What needs to change in American youth soccer?
Hans Schoenhofer: I think that you need to improve player development. The key is deciding which style of play, creating your methodology and being loyal to this idea and be focused on learning and improving.
This is a process which is never finished.
Diane Scavuzzo: Do you believe the USA ever win a FIFA World Cup?
Hans Schoenhofer: To win a world Cup you need years of work in the youth academies.
You have everything it takes to be successful — the players, the facilities, the money.
The USA needs to improve and define their own method of player development and I think being open to learning from successful methods – like ours — is important.
Related Youth Soccer News: SDFC'S SHERVIN ERFANI ON YOUTH SOCCER TODAY
Editor's note: The LA Galaxy was incorrectly mentioned in the original publication of this article and has been corrected now. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.


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Hell we'll have the final day of the full moon, cold beer, pizza, and anything else we can come up with. Plus if my friend's little ones get too scared then Fire can take them over to the screen that's showing Shrek II.
The number of people in our group has grown to about 15 right now but it's not gonna be definate until we actually are there and everyone is inside.
Well it's late and I unfortunately have to get ready for work...I'm running abit late this morn.


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Seventeen years ago, I walked into a world I never knew existed. Television and movies could never adequately prepare me for the reality of becoming a 911 Operator. In my world, tragedy happens every day, every few minutes, and always leaves me asking why. Nothing is more raw and true than the emotions you hear within the first thirty seconds of a tragedy and I experience them right along with my callers and first responders.
My novel is inspired by people, in the wake of a tragedy, that turned grief into something that benefited the rest of society. A few examples of these incredible feats: the Amber Alert program created after the death of Amber Hagerman, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children formed after notable child abductions of Etan Patz and Adam Walsh, and Mother's Against Drunk Driving created after Candice Lightner's thirteen-year-old daughter was killed by a drunken, hit and run driver.
Sometimes, when everything goes exactly right, there is still nothing a first responder can do to change the outcome of horrific events. These organizations prove that people can give meaning to tragedy.
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Live-work Retreat 5 PHOTOS
Live-work Retreat is a collaboration with an artist to create a residence and studio in a remote area of the Methow Valley. The owner wanted an efficient, potentially "off-grid" building with tremendous day light and vertical space for creating his large installations. A sloping site was selected for its thermal benefits. The solution is a simple, tall structure stacking a "rolling loft" over the main level studio, with a basement sleeping area below.
Live-work RetreatRendering shows the southwest exterior. Main level "Rolling loft" space above in a double height flexible living-art studio. Bedroom is in the basement below.
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Live-work RetreatNorthwest elevation has a brise soleil frame at the window wall to shade in summer sun, while bringing in daylight all year. Deck is cantilevered from the floor structure.
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Live-work RetreatDetailed view of loft and studio area. Seating in studio shown as a rental option.
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There are tug of war clubs in many countries, and both men and women participate.
The sport was part of the Olympic Games from 1900 until 1920, but has not been included since. The sport is contested in the World Games. The Tug of War International Federation (TWIF), organises World Championships for nation teams biannually, for both indoor and outdoor contests, and a similar competition for club teams.
In England the sport is catered for by the Tug of War Association (formed in 1958), and the Tug of War Federation of Great Britain (formed in 1984). In Scotland, the Scottish Tug of War Association was formed in 1980. The sport also features in Highland Games there.


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...I was relentless, making everyone tell all and not sparing myself. This exercise created great tension, but also a lot of joking, enormous interest, and eventually a surprising relaxation.
I pointed out that they all were relieved, and ought to be, because, while their worst fears where true - they really were crazy - they were no crazier than anyone else.
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