text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - 2004 is coming! Whats your new year's Resolution: Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Random Musings View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "2004 is coming! Whats your new year's Resolution:" [Shizo]memberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 3938 Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 8:16 am You knew it. I posted it. Go crazy with your friggin' resolutions rite HEAR: PS: Mine is to go to China in 2004 for a period of 1 year to study the language and Shaolin Gong Fu. Maybe even go to Beijing to meet some famous actors or something Also i DEFINATELY have to bring up my homepage/company page and start MAKING MONEY! If i don't make money in 2004, i'll be a broke ass bum, just like i was throughout 2003 :0 PSS: I also want to buy a laptop. Back to top MaxmemberMember #Joined: 12 Aug 2002Posts: 3210Location: MIND Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 2:21 am Well,.... -Draw and paint much more! -Less entertaiment! -Try to make some music! -Watch all the great movies you guys listed in the "Obscure movies worth -seeing" - thread ( ups, that's entertaining again... ) -Learn english. -Learn abit 3d -Learn about film! -Read more. -Do stuff which makes my life more interesting, things I wouldn't do normally, for example to go alone deep into the forest at night. That would be a funny experience, for sure.... Back to top GortmemberMember #Joined: 09 Oct 2001Posts: 1545Location: Atlanta, GA Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:31 am really...seriously... draw and paint become a serious contender in the 2004 mountain biking season draw and paint spend more time with my daughter draw and paint. get my weight down to 168 spend more time with my daughter draw and paint._________________- Tom Carter "You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf" - Jack Kornfield Back to top MinefieldmemberMember #Joined: 02 Dec 2001Posts: 51 Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 1:21 pm -work harder -slack less Back to top A.ButtlememberMember #Joined: 20 Mar 2000Posts: 1724 Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:12 pm Stay off the internet more often._________________. Back to top [Shizo]memberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 3938 Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:26 pm LOL A.Buttle, you're not an asshole after all.. That's quote-worthy! Back to top LunatiquememberMember #Joined: 27 Jan 2001Posts: 3303Location: Lincoln, California Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:26 pm Make more music. Write more screenplays. Get my swimming sessions up to 10 laps. Save up for that upcoming Canon professional DSLR. Back to top balisticmemberMember #Joined: 01 Jun 2000Posts: 2599Location: Reno, NV, USA Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:05 pm - Get a job. Everything else pretty much hinges on that._________________brian.prince|light.comp.paint Back to top MarimemberMember #Joined: 19 Oct 2003Posts: 135Location: The Netherlands Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:54 am Learn realism. Improve my current style and coloring. Back to top CwStonememberMember #Joined: 27 Jan 2003Posts: 489Location: New York, USA Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 3:46 pm -draw more -get frikken halo 2 the minute it comes out_________________-Chase Back to top AlucardmemberMember #Joined: 20 Nov 2003Posts: 57Location: Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Chile Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:22 am Draw & study Back to top JimmyjimjimmemberMember #Joined: 12 Dec 2002Posts: 459 Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:08 pm -Start smoking -Gain weight -Exercise less -Eat more fastfood -Draw and paint less -Watch more TV -Start failing some classes -Buy more pornography Yuk yuk Back to top elammemberMember #Joined: 27 Sep 2000Posts: 456Location: Motown Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 9:13 pm * Save some money. * Draw at least a page a day. * Finish some projects. Quote: - Get a job. If you don't mind me askin', what happened to Eggington P.? Back to top balisticmemberMember #Joined: 01 Jun 2000Posts: 2599Location: Reno, NV, USA Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:31 pm elam wrote: If you don't mind me askin', what happened to Eggington P.? Finished our ten-episode animated series, only to have all of our follow-up projects disappear. EP may still revive itself, but I don't know how much longer I can last without working (been laid off almost half a year now) . . . if anybody knows anyone who's hiring artists blah blah blah . . ._________________brian.prince|light.comp.paint Back to top Al IanmemberMember #Joined: 27 May 2002Posts: 525Location: USA Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 11:45 pm -Get naked_________________ http://jmarkey77.home.bresnan.net/ Back to top lilqjunior memberMember #Joined: 21 Jul 2003Posts: 9 Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 2:15 am You know... stuff..Kill a couple people Back to top [666]FlatmemberMember #Joined: 18 Mar 2001Posts: 1545Location: FRANKFURT, Germany Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 2:52 am [ ] Impregnate Beyonce Knowles. [ ] Impregnate Halle Berry. [ ] Become a ghetto gangstah superst4r. [ ] Post every damn single scribble you do on Sijun. [ ] Get a grip on my fetish for big butts._________________ Back to top jrmemberMember #Joined: 17 Jun 2001Posts: 1046Location: nyc Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 7:47 pm stay awake at work. and find true love.... and fly like superman._________________ Back to top Drunken MonkeymemberMember #Joined: 08 Feb 2000Posts: 1016Location: mothership Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 10:46 pm Paint on the right side of my brain._________________"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity" - Sigmund Freud Back to top dfactomemberMember #Joined: 06 Sep 2003Posts: 130Location: Germany Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 4:15 am master my Chi. And use it to launch massive energy blasts at people!_________________It has been clinically proven that other people's pain IS funny. Back to top oDDmemberMember #Joined: 07 May 2002Posts: 1000Location: Wroclaw Poland Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 8:27 am i'm a nerd and i'm taking it seriously - pass the exams for the daily graphic studies (im studding on the evening courses now :/) - (try to) earn some money painting in photoshop (concept, ilustration, textures, anything :/) - learn more art theory ( like color theory, composition, anatomy stuff like that) + more practice, basically i don't want to feel like a lazy bastard ( i'm feeling like that all the time) - make driving license - learn some photography and sculpture - i should make concepts for various projects so i can put them into my portfolio - same with textures - stop whining and making excuses - No TV - learn more about proper/healthy eating, and start eating that way - less sleeping - more spotrs (become a better swimmer) - spent less time in home and in front of computer - practice more on the turntable, so i could compete whit this one guy sorry for the spelling_________________portfolio | art blog Back to top faustgfxmemberMember #Joined: 15 Mar 2000Posts: 4833Location: unfortunately, very near you. Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:06 am january 1st i made a resolution to not drink a drop of alcohol in the entire january. january 3rd i was sitting with friends at work with a vodka/russian in hand, completely oblivious to it. friend asked how i was doing with my resolution. i said fine, and only then noticed the drink in hand. this year i will brush my teeth twice a day, will spend time in the countryside in the summer, will buy new shoes, lose weight (beer belly, beer ass), do something worthwhile with photoshop, buy a badger teddytoythingy of some sort, cut smoking down to half, go to amsterdam or philippines, go to some remote uncivilized place in norway (again), start drinking milk and buy a suit._________________"hey, wanna dance?" "do i look like kevin costner to you? "..no you don't" "i don't dance with wolves either." Back to top Giant HamstermemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 1782 Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:47 am This year I'll sell a the first Hamster Alliance: Audio Production Software package. Recorded more percussion tonight. Better mic. Got a long day of chopping wav files ahead of me. Then a day of compiling them into an instrument format. Then making it into a VSTi using the test VSTi I've got for it. Back to top faustgfxmemberMember #Joined: 15 Mar 2000Posts: 4833Location: unfortunately, very near you. Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 5:45 am oh yeah, almost forgot. to make the entire world purchase Gridlock - Formless. fire up slsk or whatever your means of getting stuff immediatedly is and get Song23, Scratch, Re/Module. play the songs. notice your pleasure and satisfaction rise curiously at roughly the same rate you turn the volume knob up. then when it's high enough and you begin to suspect if so high volumes of crash, cut, click, boom and noise can be healthy for you.. ignore the thought and start dancing._________________"hey, wanna dance?" "do i look like kevin costner to you? "..no you don't" "i don't dance with wolves either." Back to top [Shizo]memberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 3938 Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:02 pm lol Bum, you'd better stop drinking dat sh*t. The "vodka/russian" is poisoning a whole bunch of people in a whole bunch of countries. I don't drink at all, and look at me - pure gangsta! Everyone is afraid of me, even the Pope! Back to top faustgfxmemberMember #Joined: 15 Mar 2000Posts: 4833Location: unfortunately, very near you. Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:08 pm silence, heathen. it's a fuckload a more healthy than the mixture of coke, fanta, coffee and sourcream/onion potato chips. as the primary source of nutrition and energy, even. and tastes good, too. hangover doesn't matter, just drink more before it happens. you'd be surprised how long you can stretch that on.. especially if you have no daily agenda to follow. if mankind still exists in a.d. 2010, i will make a new years resolution to grow up. it's still six years away so all is good._________________"hey, wanna dance?" "do i look like kevin costner to you? "..no you don't" "i don't dance with wolves either." 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Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Epidemiology, and Public Health Implications
Eric K. Noji, Anas A. Khan, and Zohair Al-Aseri
The fields of disaster medicine and public health preparedness have developed considerably with the natural hazards and humanitarian disasters over the past half-century. Developing countries, particularly Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries, are disproportionately affected. In April and May 2015, two massive earthquakes in Nepal killed more than 8,400 people, injured 20,000, and reduced 300,000 houses to rubble. In March 2016, Cyclone Pam destroyed homes, schools, infrastructure, and livelihoods on the Pacific island of Vanuatu, affecting half the population, including 82,000 children. Most recently, Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 tropical storm struck parts of Haiti violently on 4 October 2016 causing the largest humanitarian emergency since the 2010 earthquake. The Directorate of Civil Protection of Haiti has so far confirmed over 500 deaths, 339 injuries, and 75 people missing. The number of evacuees is 175,509 people scattered in 224 temporary shelters. Among the approximate 2.1 million people affected, UNICEF estimates that 894,057 are children. Nearly 1,410,774 people need humanitarian assistance, including 592,581 children. All three nations will take years to recover. However, the catastrophic Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and Hurricane Sandy, whose storm surge hit New York City on October 29, 2012, flooding streets, tunnels, and subway lines, and cutting power in every borough of the city sent clear messages that developed countries are also vulnerable to such severe disasters. To cite "Superstorm Sandy" again, the New York Stock Exchange was closed on October 29 and 30, 2012 as a result of power outages and flooding in the Wall Street area. Such a closure for weather-related reasons had not happened since 1888!
Unsustainable development practices, ecosystem degradation, and poverty, as well as climate variability and extremes have led to an increase in both natural and man-made disaster risk at a rate that poses a threat to lives and development efforts. Fortunately, over the past decade, the public health approach to disasters has changed significantly. Terms such as prevention, mitigation, preparedness, recovery, and resilience are now part of the vocabulary of public health officials in national and international organizations, and more importantly, they are used to advance the cause of reducing mortality and morbidity from disasters. We now know much about the cause and nature of disasters and about populations at risk, and that knowledge allows us to anticipate some of the effects a disaster may have on the health of an affected community. This expanding body of epidemiological research has provided a basis for increasingly effective prevention and intervention strategies.
Psychological Strategies and Challenges in Disaster Recovery
Priscilla Dass-Brailsford
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. Please check back later for the full article.
Natural disasters have increased dramatically in the twenty-first century. An estimated 217 million people are affected by natural disasters each year. Recent disasters, both nationally and globally, provide insight into how the degree of destruction and number of fatalities can negatively affect survivors. Cultural, political, and geographic factors may increase risk of trauma and negative mental health outcomes. Understanding these risks is critical to helping survivors recover in the aftermath of disasters. Different disasters pose different risks, and some communities are chronically affected. How to support these communities psychologically in the face of ongoing threats of destruction is an important question.
Recent years have also seen major advances in technology that provide new and innovative ways to manage disasters. Technological strategies can be harnessed to better serve the interests of disaster-affected communities. For example, warning times for disasters have increased because of better instrumentation and the ability to send messages sooner to communities that may be in the path of a disaster. These increased warning times may allow for psychological preparation before a disaster that can support positive mental health outcomes in recovery. Demands for evidence-based mental health interventions require an understanding of best practices in disaster response, challenges to past relief efforts, and the strategies and factors that can enhance effective future efforts.
The Impact of Moisture and Temperature on Human Health in Heat Waves
Michael Wehner, Federico Castillo, and Dáithí Stone
Extremely high air temperatures are uncomfortable for everyone. For some segments of the population, they can be deadly. Both the physical and societal aspects of intense heat waves in a changing climate warrant close study. The large-scale meteorological patterns leading to such events lay the framework for understanding their underlying causal mechanisms, while several methods of quantifying the combination of heat and humidity can be used to determine when these patterns result in stressful conditions. We examine four historic heat waves as case studies to illustrate differences in the structure of heat waves and the variety of effects of extreme heat on humans, which are characterized in terms of demographic, geographic, and socioeconomic impacts, including mortality and economic ramifications.
Weather station data and climate model projections for the future point to an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme heat waves as the overall climate gets warmer. Changes in the radiative energy balance of the planet are the principal culprit behind this increase. Quantifying changes in the statistics of extreme heat waves allows for examination of changes in their potential contribution to human health risk. Large-scale mortality during heat waves always occurs within a context of other factors, including public health policy, rural and urban management and planning, and cultural practices. Consequently, the impacts of heat waves can be reduced, and may in many places be manageable into the future, through implementation of such measures as public health warning systems, effective land management, penetration of air conditioning, and increased monitoring of vulnerable or exposed individuals. Given the potential for severe impacts of the more intense heat waves that are virtually certain to occur in the warmer future, it is critical that both the physical and social sciences be considered together to enable society to adapt to these conditions.

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VATICAN CITY — Thanks to a new addition to the Vatican City State Web site, the 7 million to 10 million visitors to Rome each year will now have an empirically based idea of what to pack when they visit.
A new window dedicated to the weather at the Vatican has been added to the Vatican City homepage (which you can find by scrolling down and looking for a sun-peeking-behind-a-cloud icon on the bottom right on the homepage.)
The new page offers live and recorded meteorological data from the Vatican's weather station. What's cool (or hot) about the new page is the data are all represented by colorful dials, bars, graphs and gauges.
One glance and you can see the current temperature, the day's maximum and minimum temperatures, wind direction, wind speeds, and how powerful those gusts are that turn your cheapo, bought-from-a-street-vendor umbrella inside out.
There are gauge arrows pointing to the level of humidity and barometric pressure and graphs plotting the rise and fall of temperatures and humidity over the last 24 hours. Three additional bar graphs indicate how much rainfall has dropped on Rome the past day, month and year.
Other features can be had by clicking on the small white oval buttons on the bottom left of the page. You can convert the readings from metric to Fahrenheit and inches by clicking on "Units."
Meteorological and statistics buffs will want to hit the "Graph" button so they can comb through numerous pop-up charts documenting live and recorded windchill temps, wind speeds, rainfall, humidity and other measurements spanning the last 24 hours to the past year.
The "Webcam" button offers three live bird's eye views of St. Peter's Basilica and Square so you can see just how beautifully sunny or partly cloudy it is today.
The "Records" button will tell you record highs and lows in a number of categories. But since the Web-stats only go back to April of this year, the records aren't that outstanding yet. For example, the hottest day in 2009 was recorded on May 26 at 3 p.m. when the mercury hit 91.8°F. That "all-time high" will definitely be beat once July and August come around.


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- Aug 27:
- 10 Daily Camera Pacesetter Award winners honored
- Aug 24:
- Logan Abbott: Youth Pacesetter
- Doris Candelarie: Education Pacesetter
- Stephen Christopher: Arts and Entertainment
- Win Franklin: Community Service
- Carlos Garcia: Business
- Constance Marie Holden: Medicine/Health Pacesetter
- David Nesbitt: Science
- Joan Raderman: Quality of Life
- Ed Self: Environment
- Meet the people who make a difference in Boulder County
You know you've left your mark on the community when you get two days named in your honor.
When Terry Benjamin retired in June, the Boulder City Council declared June 26 as "Terry Benjamin Day." If that weren't enough, the Boulder County commissioners designated June 28 as "Terry Benjamin Day" in the county.
Now Benjamin can add the Daily Camera's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Pacesetter Award to his accolades.
In 1981, Benjamin began his 33-year career as director of one of Boulder's best-known nonprofit organizations.
"I really enjoy the spirit of the nonprofit sector, and it's been a good place for me to be," said Benjamin about his career at the Emergency Family Assistance Association, which provides help to those in need.
"It's been a great fit for me," Benjamin said.
And Benjamin, who has a background in education and social work, has been a good fit for the community he serves. He and the nine other Pacesetters will be honored Tuesday at the Millennium Harvest House.
As the leader of EFAA, Benjamin spearheaded efforts to supply food and shelter to those in need, as he and his six-member staff worked to curb homelessness and poverty.
Under Benjamin, the organization, which had its beginnings in 1918, saw tremendous growth. EFAA now has more than 20 staff members and hundreds of volunteers. Throughout its history, EFAA has been community supported, not receiving federal or state funding. That community connection is something Benjamin is proud of.
"I've been able to watch and be part of this huge transformation of community involvement in working on issues like hunger and homelessness and poverty," he said.
"The community really got behind the organization, and that is a great source of satisfaction for me."
EFAA's success also has led to the creation of other community organizations. Benjamin had a hand in the birth of Community Food Share, an organization that began in a tiny closet at the EFAA office and has since expanded to its current warehouse location in Louisville.. More than 50 local basic-needs agencies rely on CFS to help feed their clients. The OUR Center of Longmont can also trace its roots back to Benjamin.
It's clear that Benjamin relished the job.
"Part of the thrill and satisfaction of working in this job for so long is it provided the opportunity to engage the community in so many different ways and levels through the work of EFAA, he said.


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Here's a video of me at the NHS Hackday in London a couple of months ago. I was hanging with Rob Tweed, undoubtedly the most interesting and forward thinking man in Mumps. And the man behind EWD, which puts Mumps into the enterprise and behind an array of extremely trendy modern web-based front ends.
Our team's project, (entirely based on Rob's work, with data wrangling from Chris), was to pull NHS data into a Semantic Web format where it could be queried with SPARQL and shown in a variety of widgets from the MIT SMART platform for healthcare records.
Rob has big ambitions. In a world where healthcare IT and patient records are a scandalous litany of expensive, failed and cancelled projects wasting millions of dollars, Mumps based VistA is fast, solid (with 40 years of development behind it), and free (as in speech) software. Thanks to Rob and SMART it can start to present its data through standardized HTML5 apps that are as slick and up-to-date as anyone else's. And Rob has plans to make the whole thing available as single downloadable virtual machine. (I think, in VirtualBox format.)
To repeat, that's the equivalent of a £12 billion system (except ... er ... working) as a free download. That's the virtue of free software, folks.
(Of course, yes there is still a huge installation, training, integration cost involved in putting a system like this in place, but if you start with something that a) exists and is b) free then you might actually get some kind of result for your 12 billion.)
Update : Why is this surprising? Well, partly because I'm kind of out of the Mumps world at the moment, and went along to the NHS hackday without any thought Rob would be there or that I'd end up in the Mumps team. But I've been a fan of his work so it was great to meet him. Also, I'm a SemWeb sceptic, so I have no idea what I'm doing in a project which is about using RDF and SPARQL as its standard file-format, the way SMART does. :-)


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Is Piracy The Leading Indicator Of Innovation?
from the yes-and-no deptI am a big believer that removing artificial scarcity almost always leads to larger markets. The reasoning behind this is not all that hard to comprehend if you understand the economics of infinite goods. Traditional economics was always about efficient resource allocation in the presence of scarcity (i.e., how do we most fairly distribute the limited stuff we have). When there's a lack of scarcity, there isn't a question of how do you allocate things -- because anyone who wants it can take it. Now, if those infinite goods make scarce goods more valuable, by their very nature they're increasing the size of any market. It is those infinite goods that are the key to economic growth -- as many economists have been noting in research over the past two decades. Because they're limitless, and because they increase the value of other goods, they are the economic engine of growth. Limiting them with artificial scarcity then would hinder growth. Perhaps an easier way of thinking about it is to just shift your thinking about any infinite good. Stop thinking of it as a product to be sold, and start thinking of it as a resource or an input in any other market. If you had unlimited resources that could be used to grow any other market, of course those infinite goods are going to help grow markets. You just need to recognize it's a non-zero-sum game, thanks to infinite resources. One of my favorite quotes from economist Paul Romer sums this up nicely:
Economic growth occurs whenever people take resources and rearrange them in ways that are more valuable. A useful metaphor for production in an economy comes from the kitchen. To create valuable final products, we mix inexpensive ingredients together according to a recipe. The cooking one can do is limited by the supply of ingredients, and most cooking in the economy produces undesirable side effects. If economic growth could be achieved only by doing more and more of the same kind of cooking, we would eventually run out of raw materials and suffer from unacceptable levels of pollution and nuisance. Human history teaches us, however, that economic growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking. New recipes generally produce fewer unpleasant side effects and generate more economic value per unit of raw material.With that in mind, it's great to hear about a new book that has just come out, entitled The Pirate's Dilemma, by Matt Mason. Mason has written up a short article at Torrent Freak that eloquently lays out what he believes this dilemma is really about. It's a quick and interesting read and there's much to agree with in there. The points he makes are that "piracy" is often a harbinger of innovation. It happens when people are trying to make things more efficient (applying those infinite ideas to making scarce goods more valuable), building new markets and creating growth. Those who stand against it are often those who are actually fighting growth in an attempt to protect an existing business model.
"We live in a world where it is legal for a company to patent pigs, or any other living thing except for a full birth human being, but copying a CD you bought onto your hard drive is considered an infringement of someone else's rights. A place where an average law abiding citizen could owe more than $12 million dollars in fines if they were sued every time they accidentally violated copyright law in a single day. A society where it's ok for each of us to be hit with 5,000 advertising messages every 24 hours, usually without our permission, but creating a piece of art and placing it in public yourself without permission can land you in prison. This isn't just about the pros and cons of file sharing - this is about an entire species losing its sense of perspective, failing to understand the potential of one of its most precious (and yet most abundant) resources.The book then goes on to point out example after example where what some may consider "piracy" actually resulted in a much larger market where more money could be made. It looks to be a fantastic resource of evidence to support much of what we talk about here. I have two small quibbles with the setup of the book, however. The first is the idea that there's any "dilemma" at all between trying to build walls of artificial scarcity and embracing the infinite and abundant nature of certain goods. If you understand the economics and how you can benefit from them, there's no dilemma at all. I recognize that it may just be a device that Mason is using to set up the book, but it comes a little too close to the idea that there needs to be a balance and that there's a zero-sum game going on here. The second is that, at least in the way the book is pitched, it can be read as a defense of piracy, which is a line I'm careful to avoid. I still think the best thing is to focus on convincing people that it's in their own best interests to ignore the intellectual property rights they hold (for all the reasons listed above, such as the ability to create a much larger market) rather than to say it's okay to ignore the intellectual property rights of others. That may be an idealistic position, with this book presenting a more realistic view of what content creators are facing, however. Either way, the book sounds like it's well worth reading.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does Smoothie King franchise?
Yes, please vist our franchisee page for more information: http://www.smoothiekingfranchise.com/
What is Smoothie King?
Smoothie King Franchises, Inc. is a privately held, Dallas area-based franchise company and the premier Smoothie Bar and Nutritional Lifestyle Center in the industry. Smoothie King offers guests the original nutritional fresh-blended smoothie and healthy retail products, including sports beverages, energy bars, healthy snacks, vitamin supplements, herbs, minerals and other sports nutrition products. Smoothie King opened its first store in 1973 and started as the first franchised smoothie bar/health food store in the United States in 1989.
How do I contact Smoothie King?
We value all comments, suggestions and questions. You can submit a note by completing the guest feedback form at http://www.smoothieking.com/contact-us/contact-us or write to us at:
Smoothie King Franchises, Inc.
9797 Rombauer Road
Suite 150
Dallas, TX 75019
For guest comments, please call 888-472-1957. For franchise information, visit http://www.smoothiekingfranchise.com/. For general brand inquiries, please call us Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm Central at 1-214-935-8900. To contact a specific Smoothie King location, please see the "locations" section on the website for store contact information.
How do I purchase a Smoothie King gift card?
You may purchase King Cards at all Smoothie King locations as well as online on our website.
How do I find out the balance of my Smoothie King gift card?
For card balance inquiries, please call 1-888-529-6578.
How can I add value to an existing Smoothie King gift card?
To add value to an existing card, visit one of our stores or call the Smoothie King Corporate office at 1-214-935-8900.
Does Smoothie King offer catering and delivery?
Our cool, thick and creamy Smoothies are blended with real fruit and fruit juices and our revolutionary enhancers. Each selection serves a purpose from energizing your group to providing a healthy meal alternative. Smoothie King products are athlete-friendly complying with the NBA's strict ingredient guidelines. For information on Smoothie King Catering, please contact your local Smoothie. Use our store locator to find the Smoothie King nearest you.
Does Smoothie King have a customer loyalty program?
Smoothie King offers a FREE Loyalty Program called Healthy Rewards. As a member, you can earn a $2 healthy reward for every 2500 points earned at Smoothie King. All you have to do is scan your mobile app with every purchase. Members also receive special offers and a reward just for joining. Learn more about the program, download the app, and sign up here.
How can I apply for a job at Smoothie King?
Visit your local Smoothie King to inquire about current in-store team member openings. If you are interested in working for the Smoothie King Home Office, open positions are posted as available on LinkedIn, Indeed and ZipRecruiter.
I'm interested in doing some fundraising for my organization. How can Smoothie King help?
Smoothie King is a franchise organization with more than 900 franchise locations nationwide. Each franchise location is independently owned and operated. Please contact the store location in your area to discuss potential sponsorship opportunity.
Where do I find nutritional information for smoothies?
You can find nutritional information for each smoothie by clicking on a smoothie of your choice in the smoothie section.
How can I download Smoothie King's Mobile App?
Learn more and download the app here.


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Former acting major and Pittsburgh-area native Gino Anthony Pesi is gearing up for the March 11 worldwide release of his latest and most notable feature film, Battle: Los Angeles. Pesi plays Corporal Nick Stavrou, one of the main marines in the film, co-starring alongside Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Cory Hardrict, and Ne-Yo among others.
Recently, Pesi secured a three-movie deal with Sony Pictures. In addition to Battle: Los Angeles, Pesi had a leading role in the feature film S.W.A.T.: Firefight (March 2011 video release) and a supporting role in the feature film Takers, which starred Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Matt Dillon, and was number one at the box office its opening weekend. Pesi talked about his experience filming Battle: Los Angeles in an interview with ShockTillYouDrop.com and live from the red carpet with buzzinefilm.com.
In addition, Pesi has had numerous appearances on some of TV's hottest shows including the recurring role of Maddox on The Vampire Diaries. He's also guest-starred on NCIS, CSI: NY (with Point Park alumna Melina Kanakaredes), Cold Case, Chuck and What I Like About You.
Pesi visited with senior Conservatory students last spring and took time to talk about his artistic journey, the film and getting his start at Point Park.
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2010 Processor of the Year: TreeHouse Foods
Otherwise known as 'the biggest company you never heard of,' four former Keebler executives build a $2 billion company on private label.
Imagine managing 9,000 SKUs. Developing products to meet the needs of 800 customers. Managing 19 manufacturing plants, not a single one of which you built yourself.
Such is the world of TreeHouse Foods Inc. and, to some extent, the lot of many private label manufacturers. But few food processors operate nothing but acquired plants, and none has gone from zero to nearly $2 billion in just five years and just as quickly become No. 1 or 2 in their product categories.
Nor has any other had First Lady Michelle Obama on its board of directors.
The past two years have seen unprecedented growth in store brands. Unprecedented, too, is the impact private label products have had on national brands, as well as on the overall food & beverage manufacturing industry, and, indeed, on the way Americans shop and eat.
"Branded products grow with population growth – maybe 1 to 1.5 percent a year," says Sam Reed, chairman and CEO. "But private label has been growing twice as fast for the past 20 years. And private label is not just growing because of the recession. Europe is still far ahead of the U.S. in store-branded products."
Sources: Private Label Manufacturers Assn. & ACNielsen
Although private label actually flattened a bit at the height of the recession (see table), its 18.8 percent overall market share remains below the 24.2 percent mark across 21 European and North American countries, and well below that of highly developed markets such as the U.K., Germany and Switzerland. That headspace can be interpreted as opportunity.
But this is not a story about private label. TreeHouse Foods, Oak Brook, Ill., has turned in some stellar years by any measure. Sales have grown by a compound annual rate of 21 percent since the company was created in 2005, and net income has risen by 26 percent a year, hitting its highest level last year. With two acquisitions this year, the company should hit $2 billion in sales in 2011.
TreeHouse has the leading private label share in powdered nondairy creamer, soups, dressings, pickles, powdered soft drink mixes and hot cereal; and the No. 2 position in jams & spreads, salsa and dry mix pasta dinners (but No. 1 in the high-volume macaroni & cheese category).
TreeHouse is as adept at producing 39 cents-a-box mac & cheese as it is making deluxe shells and cheese that commands $1.59, and is just as capable at supplying dollar stores with ranch dressing as it is at creating organic lemon ginger sesame dressing.
Private label manufacturing on TreeHouse's scale requires a unique balance of customized product formulations with manufacturing that is both flexible enough to produce all those recipes and efficient enough to undercut the leading brands. So in a stellar year for private label manufacturing, it's especially fitting for Food Processing to honor TreeHouse Foods as our sixth Processor of the Year.
A very brief history
TreeHouse Foods has a history that stretches all the way back to … 2005, or at most 2001. But its key components have longer and more colorful pasts.
At its origin, TreeHouse is Dean Foods Co.'s former Specialty Foods Group. Over the years, Dean had acquired a handful of nondairy businesses, many of them private label or foodservice products, including pickles, dips and dressings. Four years after Dean was acquired by Suiza Foods (although it kept the name Dean), those businesses were deemed non-core, and Dean recruited the TreeHouse executives to spin off the business as a separate public entity.
A few years earlier, Reed and David Vermylen, both with extensive food industry experience, arrived at Keebler Foods in 1996 to help engineer a turnaround and leveraged buyout of the cookie and cracker business from Britain's United Biscuits. Flowers Industries and Artal Luxembourg S.A. also were key investors.
Reed and Vermylen restored Keebler's vigor and also made a number of strategic acquisitions, including Sunshine Biscuit Co. After just two years in charge of newly independent and private Keebler, Reed and Vermylen took the company public again, although Flowers retained more than 50 percent of the stock.
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(Marvel Comics sequel)
This sequel has plenty of adventure, spectacular special effects, an appealing hero (Chris Hemsworth), plus some great tongue-in-cheek humor. If you are not a fan and if mythology is not your favorite subject, you may have trouble following the confusing plot and set of characters.
The Dark Elves have turned the cosmos into darkness, hence the sub-title, The Dark World. And is the movie ever dark, and made even darker with the 3D glasses.
The movie begins with a brief prologue, then switches to what seems like the present. The Nine Worlds, which look like colorful blobs in the sky, are converging.
Thor reunites with Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), and they try to save the universe from the Dark Elves. Anthony Hopkins plays Thor's father, Odin, while Tom Hiddleston plays his evil half-brother, Loki.
There are battles and more battles, as the action switches back and forth between modern day London and ancient, distant landscapes. Fans who are up on the series have a hands up over those of us who are completely lost.
Hemsworth makes an imposing Thor, complete with his magical hammer, Mjolnir. He has a likeable smile and displays a good sense of humor. And if you want to be completely confused, sit through the credits for a post-script, signaling more to come.
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Water Damage Restoration Companies in Brushy Creek – What Do You Need To Know about Water Damage Repair ?
Water damage
Water damage describes a large number of possible losses caused by water intruding where it will enable attack of a material or system by destructive processes such as rotting of wood, growth, rusting of steel, de-laminating of materials such as plywood, and many others.
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Most of the restoration companies you will find on the web are marketing companies that later sell your cleanup and rebuilding job to subcontractors they never met. When there is a big demand for restoration clean up services in Brushy Creek, such as frozen and burst pipes, burst water heaters or rain and flood damage, these marketing companies call everyone who says that they can do water removal, clean up and repair to get your job. However, if they cannot find any subcontractors, your job will be abandoned.
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There are hundreds of carpet cleaning companies in Brushy Creek that claim to be water damage restoration companies. These so called remediation experts have no water removal experience, flood damage clean up training or dehumidification equipment to complete water and flood damage repair projects. They also have no education or much experience in the science of water extraction, drying and clean up. There is very little chance that your property would be completely restored through their services.
In fact, since these companies do not have any water removal, fire restoration or mold remediation experience or content restoration facilities to handle personal belongings or furniture, their so called services only delay your home's restoration work. Meanwhile, there is further structural damage to your dry walls, ceilings, carpets, and floors, possibly resulting in mold damage.
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On the other hand there can be problems that are more than minor and will need to be addressed. And when you confront the problem you will be faced with a choice of whether to undertake the task yourself or to get some help. If you choose to get some help you will again be faced with a choice of whether you will opt for just an assistant or you will go in for professional help. Though the best decision will vary with the nature of the problem, for some problems the wisest thing to do is to opt for professional help.
Take for example water damage restoration. It is not easy for a lay person to do a thorough job of water damage restoration even if you have got someone to help you. Just estimating the extent of the damage will be a big task and thereafter there will be the huge task of getting the restoration work done.
Therefore if you live in Dallas Fort Worth area and you should check out the water damage restoration services in Dallas, Fort Worth area. If you choose the service wisely you will get a service that will make a proper inspection and offer you an estimate for the task. This you should be able to get for free. And if you choose to go ahead with the task a good service will not only take care of the major damage that has occurred, it will also do a detailed and complete job that addresses the relatively minor issues as well. For a great water damage restoration service which does a professional job the attention to detail will shine through and you will get great value for your money. You can learn more about water damage restoration at http://www.dalworthrestoration.com


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Feb. 19, 2008
Complete Release in PDF Format
The Schedule
Feb. 20
Big West Championships
Long Beach, Calif.
Belmonst Plaza Pool
Last Time
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UCSB at UC Davis
Feb. 2
UCSB at Pacific
Weekly Roundup
Fighting for their last dual meet season wins of the year, UC Santa Barbara came out the victor of both meets, careening UC Davis and Pacific off the path of victory. The men improved to an 8-1 record while them women are at a strong 8-3. The male Gauchos are still ranked 24th on the College Swim Coaches Association of America list of top 25 dual meet teams.
Junior Accolades
Junior Travis Jepson dug into his pocket of tricks over the weekend to help secure his Big West Athlete of the Week hone. Jepson recorded two season best marks against the Pacific Tigers in the 100 and 200 breast. First up was the 100, in which he helped go 1-2 with junior Jeff Sudbury. His season-best time was recorded at 58.31 wih Sudbury going 57.57. Jepson won the 200 breast in 2:03.98 to complete his impressive weekend which is over four seconds faster than his previous time of 2:08.09.
If You're Not First, You're Last
With two meets over the weekend, many athletes won multiple events helping their teammates pursue their dreams of gold. The relay teams are no stranger to victory and like to keep close friends with it. The women's 200 medley relay closed out their deal with a pair of wins during the weekend. Naomi Javanifard, Sara Nicpnski, Erin Yamamoto and alternating anchors Courtney Bauer and Anne Marie May swam the event posting a 1:44.10 against Davis and a 1:43.70 versus Pacific.
Matt Bartlett, Sudbury, Danny McClary, and anchors Mason Edwards and Bradley Matsumoto cashed in the same opportunity as the women, winning the gold in both meets' version of the 200 medley relay. With Matsumoto as the anchor against Davis, the Gauchos went 1:31.87 and with Edwards as the fourth leg versus the Tigers, UCSB went 1:32.57.
Sophomore Jessica Schwalb recorded the only 1000 free Gaucho victory over the weekend, beating out freshman Kelsey Lewis with a season-best time of 10:35.19. Yamamoto captured two wins against Davis and took one from Pacific. On Friday, she swam to first place in the 200 free (1:53.30) and in the 100 fly (56.44). Yamamoto chose the 100 fly as her victory stroke versus the Tigers (57.16). Sophomore Scott Vogelgesang swept the 200 free clocking in at 1:41.56 in Davis and 1:42.48 in Stockton.
In the 100 back, Naomi Javanifard took the cake in the Aggie meet (58.53) while Bartlett swam to success in both meets. He finished in 51.22 versus Davis to beat junior Chris Good while on Saturday he took down Pacific's Wojiech Betlej in 50.14. Freshman Brittany Borowitz placed first in the 200 fly and 200 IM during the Davis meet. In the 200 fly, Borowitz was timed at 2:06.36 while in the 200 IM, she claimed a time of 2:08.60.
Anne Marie May sprinted to success in the 50 and 100 free events. Versus Davis, May nabbed first in 23.71 and 23.57 on the respective days. She claimed the 100 free against the Tigers in 51.82 whilst only having the men's 50 to rest. The Bauer siblings enjoyed their own personal victories with Courtney winning the 100 free on Friday (52.69) and Curtis garnering the win in the 50 free on Saturday (21.29) with a season-best time. Joe Wood and Matsumoto helped the Gauchos with victories in the 100 free with Wood beating the Aggies in 46.23 and Matsumoto caging the tigers in 46.67.
Sophomore Katie Ure pulled away for a win in the 200 back versus Davis (2:06.94) and Good accomplished the same feat winning in 1:50.60. Junior Katy Freeman beat Pacific's Ziada Jardine to win the 200 breast (2:19.95). McClary wanted a win of his own, so he took the 200 IM in 1:51.92. The Gauchos swept the 500 free against Pacific with freshman Lindsay Gaudinier pulling a 5:03.46 and senior co-captain Brooks Felton stroked a 4:39.38. Sophomore Chris Wiggin beat out his Tiger competition to win the 100 fly in 51.00 beating out the second place swimmer by .77 of a second.
On Friday, the Gauchos finished the meet with a sweep of the the 400 free relays. The women went first and won with a 3:30.34 and the men closing off a narrow meet victory with the Aggies, took the race in 3:04.71. Against Pacific, UCSB swam the 200 free relay took the last gold medals of the dual meet season. Nadia Dwidar swam 23.46 split in the women's 1:35.22 win while the men went 1-2, with the "A" team clocking in at 1:24.82.
End of the Lane The Big West Swimming and Diving Championships is on deck for the Gauchos. Beginning Feb. 20 and spanning four days, the BWC will decide the league champions in each event. Last season, the women took first at the Championships garnering 844.5 points to Pacific's 678. The men took second to UC Irvine, a team the Gauchos have yet to compete with in the 2007-2008 season. The Gauchos 8-1 record in the best that the men's swim team has obtained in the tenure of head coach Gregg Wilson. Qualifying rounds will take place on the last three days and begin at 10:30 and each of the four days will consist of finals that begin at 6 PM. The final events are broken down into:
Wednesday: 200 Medley Relay, 1000 Freestyle, 800 Freestyle Relay
Thursday: 500 Freestyle, 200 Individual Medley, 50 Freestyle, Men's 1M Diving, 400 Medley Relay
Friday: 400 Individual Medley, 100 Butterfly, 200 Freestyle, 100 Breaststroke, 100 Backstroke, Women's 3M Diving, 200 Freestyle Relay
Saturday: 1650 Freestyle, 200 Backstroke, 100 Freestyle, 200 Breaststroke, 200 Butterfly, 400 Freestyle Relay


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Ballroom and Latin dresses for Professional and Amateur dancers
We at DSI London, formally known as Dancesport International, pride ourselves in featuring two unique selling propositions: What's in a name? For us, it's everything. DSI London is more than a trademark, it's our commitment that we produce every single garment from our stunning couture Ballroom and Latin dresses, to our collection practice dancewear, menswear and even the Michael & Joanna Champion wear range is brought to life in our London studio.
From the first sketch to the final rhinestone, each element is expertly crafted by our master craftsmen here at our South London studio. It's our promise and our guarantee, it's DSI London. We are also the only Ballroom dance focused company to provide branded products for every aspect of dance. Each of our products and service is carefully selected and crafted to cover every segment of dance, to care for whatever a dancer needs.
So we are a true one stop dance shop for any dance requirement. DSI London is renowned best for our manufacturing expertise in producing Ballroom and Latin costumes. We have crafted all competition wear for Professional and Amateur Ballroom and Latin dancers for years. This expertise in our core Dance market has led to commission work, resulting is us providing all costumes for "Strictly Come dancing" and their related "Dancing with the Stars" series worldwide, including Austria, France, Norway, Sweden, Lebanon and Poland. Our Strictly come dancing dresses have been exhibited in the impressive and grandeur Woburn Abbey and at P & O "Strictly" cruises. We also provide the dance costumes for the ever so successful "Strictly Tour", produced the iconic feather dress and tail suits for the award winning musical "Top Hat", support Anton and Erin for their acclaimed sell out tours, have crafted visually stunning display showpieces for the windows of most famous West London department stores and even crafted tail suits and luxury dance dresses for a famous dance sequence of a Hollywood blockbuster.
We provide an individual made to measure Couture service for any dance and performance requirement. We manufacture exquisite Ballroom dresses, stunning Latin costumes , any performance garment and style our men is superbly fitting tail and lounge suits.
We stock an extensive collection of Ballroom and Latin dresses featuring new, sponsored dresses from our DSI Elite performers and even dresses as seen on "Strictly Come dancing". All these are kept in immaculate condition and are available for purchase and rental. Every year we launch a new collection of practise dance wear, designed by dancers for dancers. In line with our company policy all our mens and ladies dance wear collection is exclusively produced in our studio in London.


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purefusionmedia needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 138 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
Knowledge Elements
Knowledge Elements (KE) provides software, technical and human resource support to colleges and universities that offer online or distant learning programs. We are both technological leaders and leaders in experience with over 15 years of working in this arena. Many of the academic institutions that we work with have been around for 100 years or more, and so these institutions are very traditional in their look and demeanor. The current logo (provided) for knowledge elements worked well to define us as the technological leader in our field, but we have found that most institutions want KE to look a little more like them. They want to see KE as peers, not as a hip technology company. So the look needs to reflect more of an academic feel, while still having a slight technological edge.
Our target marketing Academic Institutions that have been around for centuries. Educators, Faculty, Administrative staff of well established colleges and universities. Think Harvard business School as the client. We have to maintain that kind of presence. Anything that looks desktop published, or uses funky fonts will not work on this project.
There are three directions to move in on this project:
1. Puzzle Piece design: Because of the word "elements" we really like the puzzle piece idea and would love to see it incorporated into the design. You can attempt to do something creative with puzzle pieces, or make the KE out of puzzle pieces, or have the KE somehow incorporated into the puzzle pieces.'
2. KE as the logo. You can also try to do something creative just with the letters KE and then the words "Knowledge Elements" underneath it.
3. Simple Logo Mark like the BIOLA attachment: We also really like the simplicity of the Biola logo, so if you can come up with something simple but unique as a logo mark that would be phenomenal. You can incorporate the KE or just put knowledge elements below it. A common image in colleges and universities is the shield, so if you can come up with a really clever shield design that would work as well.
COLORS: The colors of choice are blue and green, but try and use some creative hues (not just reflex blue and stark green).
FONTS: Most institutions use Serif fonts, but if it works better use san serif. Looking for really clean and dynamic.
ALSO, we promise that EVERY DESIGN WILL GET A STAR RATING and/or FEEDBACK! And it will happen quickly, so you're not left in the dark!
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Staff Sgt. Bales Pleads Guilty
SEATTLE (AP) — The Army staff sergeant charged with murdering 16 Afghan villagers during pre-dawn raids last year has agreed to plead guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty.
John Henry Browne, an attorney for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, tells The Associated Press that the Ohio native will enter the plea June 5 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle. The judge and commanding general must approve a plea deal.
A sentencing-phase trial will determine whether he is sentenced to life with or life without the possibility of parole. Browne says Bales will give his account of what happened the night of the rampage. The 39-year-old father of two from Lake Tapps, Wash., left his remote southern Afghanistan outpost early on March 11, 2012, and attacked two nearby villages.


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Episode #0139! VegettoEX, Meri, and Julian discuss some "DragonBall DS" and live-action movie news. Herms from Kanzentai joins us for a discussion about the three DBZ "Side Stories", with an in-depth analysis of the Trunks story in particular, which is now available as a result of a joint project for a translated release! Referenced sites:
- "DragonBall DS" Trailers @ Official Japanese Website
- "Lonely Future Warrior!! Trunks" @ Daizenshuu EX
- DBZ Side Stories @ desirecampbell.com
- Kanzentai
- CD Singles Contest @ Daizenshuu EX
- DBZ Movie 1 R2 DVD @ CDJapan
- DBZ Movie 2 R2 DVD @ CDJapan
All you forum junkies have probably already seen this, but at least now you can scroll through it as one page . And hey... you get to listen to us talk about it for a while. That's kinda neat.


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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Confections of a Closet Master Baker: A Biblio-Culinary Review and a GF Cheescake
This is an engaging and lively account of the author's transformation from unhappy Hollywood film producer to happy, flour-dusted baker in America's smallest and funkiest state Capitol, Montpelier, Vermont. I was delighted to receive an advance copy of this book through the good folks at A Blithe Palate and Dispensing Happiness, who are cohosting The Edible Word event, wherein participants read a book, cook up some inspirational edibles and then blog about it.
Gesine (rhymes with subpoena) had an interesting upbringing as the daughter of an Alabama dad and German opera-singer mom. During her preschool years, she and big sister Sandy were reared in Germany, looked after by a collection of maternal relatives and nannies while mom was onstage. When Gesine was five years old, they moved to the U.S. and Mom (Mutti) seems to have retired from singing to rule the family with a strict regimen of health-conscious foods. No more Continental sweets unless it was a holiday or birthday. Instead, it was "a dietary lock-down of whole-grain, tofu-laced, sucrose-free hell".
Gesine grew up and moved in with Sandy, a struggling actress, to share an apartment while she went to law school. Sandy, whom the rest of the world knows as Sandra Bullock, achieved star status during this time and after passing the bar and going to a few dispiriting legal job interviews, Gesine signed up to work in her sister's new production company.
While working with the ebullient Sandy and meeting her future artist husband, Ray, helped "dull the pervasive ick of work", Gesine was still unfulfilled by her work, filling her free time with a frenzy of recreational baking. She bakes and bakes and bakes her way through various pastry arts until finally, while helping nurse Mutti through a terminal illness, she realizes that she is happiest in the kitchen. She and Ray chuck the Southern California lifestyle, pack up their fuzzy dogs and relocate to Vermont, where Gesine plans to attend culinary school.
A huge mail order for her specialty French almond-based macaroons that she had continued to pack off to Sandy and friends puts school on hold while she finds a commercial-scale kitchen in which to crank these out. Soon after, she and Ray buy a little building in the outer orbit of Montpelier and a bakery is born. The rest of the book details her daily adventures in catering to various customers, developing new recipes, and enjoying her new lifestyle. As a small business owner myself, I especially enjoyed the war stories about the mix of cranks and angels one gets in the shop each day. Gesine is a very descriptive and witty writer and can quickly place the reader right into each of the scenes she describes, whether it is sharing a cup of coffee and a pastry at tea-time with her Oma in Germany or performing the balletic pre-dawn bakery routines in a dark, chilly winter kitchen. Husband Ray Prado's delightful illustrations further season the book and they are humorous and affectionate portraits of scenes in Gesine's world.
Gesine offers a generous serving of recipes throughout the pages, and one can also find some recipes, further writing and even a video about how to make Golden Eggs on her blog, where you can absorb even more of her sparkling and sarcastic wit while she whisks and pours. Alas, it is at her blog, that I found out that Gesine's bakery is now shuttered while she is on hiatus working on other projects, so one cannot make a pilgrimage to Montpelier to sample some of her wonderful creations. (Montpelier is a fun town to visit, nonetheless, and I offer a little tour of bookshops and restaurants here).
Though I am more partial to the savory end of cooking, I really enjoyed this trawl through a baker's life. My only negative comment is that I found the many descriptions of Gesine's late mother disturbing. She strides about the book, clad in leather pants, stilettos and a Foxy Lady belt buckle at school functions (okay that's embarrassing but forgivable), seems to always have a critical comment for Gesine on her tongue, noting things down in her "endless ledger of unforgivable venialities" (that seems pretty harsh), and then humiliates her daughter in a school cafeteria scene that made my stomach clench (Mutti Dearest crossed the line there). I realize everyone's parenting styles are different, but reading these scenes made me uncomfortable. Gesine would always counter these maternal descriptions with a sentence about how much she missed her mom, but they added jarring notes to an otherwise interesting foodie memoir.
It was easy enough to select a recipe that I wanted to make from the book. I ran down the list to my dear husband, and without hesitation he chose the Espresso Cheesecake. Of course, Gesine's recipe would require some fiddling to make this gluten-free for our household. Thankfully, cheesecakes don't require much flour and the architectonics of gluten molecules to make them stand up. Mercifully too, my local supermarket stocks the gluten-free chocolate sandwich cookies needed for the crust so I didn't have to spend three days on this dessert project.
I got 2 cups of cookie crumbs ground up finely in my food processor and then added the 2 sticks of butter called for in Gesine's recipe. Maybe 2 cups of non-GF Oreo-style cookies absorb much more oil than my cookies did, or perhaps there is a typo in the cookie crust recipe for the Espresso Cheesecake. I think 1/2 stick of butter might have sufficed. I had an oily, liquidy bunch of chocolate crumbs that would just slither through the springform pan, so I ground up the second 8 oz. package of GF chocolate cookies to make another 2 cups of crumbs which I mixed in for the crust. Then I spooned up as much butter as I could off the top of the mixture, spooned it into the bottom of my pan and blotted up as much excess butter as I could with paper towels. In it went to bake (I put a foil lining on my cookie sheet underneath to absorb more oily excess) and then I blotted again as it cooled.
The rest of the recipe went smoothly and my family enjoyed this not-too-sweet, pleasantly caffeinated cheesecake just fine (I also subbed in white rice flour for the wheat flour called for in the filling). It is particularly nice with a cup of coffee on the side and garnished with some chocolate-covered coffee beans for extra Javanation.
I am looking forward to the roundup of book reviews and blog posts about this book on the Edible Word, which will be posted later this week. Thank you to the sweet hosts for the book and thank you to Gesine for a great read. I hope the author will continue to explore baking and will write some other books for us to enjoy about her creative adventures.
7 comments:
- CinnamonQuill said...
I've never tried an espresso flavored cheesecake...with a chocolate crust it sounds perfect. I enjoyed your review!
- Thursday, 03 September, 2009
- Debinhawaii said...
Great and very thorough review and your cheesecake looks delicious--perfect with that cup of coffee!
- Thursday, 03 September, 2009
- ARLENE said...
I have a recipe from the South Beach Diet for cheesecake that uses Neufchatel cheese. I may try to make it espresso flavored, if the SO is willing. He's not adventurous about his sweets. Great review. I know what you mean about that cafeteria scene. Of course, I was asking myself, "How did she get in the building? Wasn't there any security?" Once a principal, always a principal.
- Thursday, 03 September, 2009
- Lauren said...
Yum! This cheesecake looks delicious =D. Lovely review!
- Thursday, 03 September, 2009
- Amy Green (Simply Sugar and Gluten-Free) said...
I was so hoping that you made the crust...it's on my to-do list to make but I, like you, don't want to commit the 3 days. :) If I ever get around to it I"ll let you know.
- Thursday, 03 September, 2009
- Rachel said...
Thanks everyone for your kind comments about this book review.
Amy: Regarding a homemade GF cookie crumb crust from scratch, I usually refer to Karina's Kitchen for cheesecake and pie crust recipes. She has many great nut-based and other types of crust recipes if you search her excellent, entertaining blog.
- Friday, 04 September, 2009
- Foodycat said...
I love coffee cheesecake! This looks amazing. But 2 sticks of butter for 2 cups of crumbs does sound like an awful lot!
- Saturday, 05 September, 2009


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That's My Boy
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About That's My Boy
While still in his teens, Donny (Adam Sandler) fathered a son, Todd (Andy Samberg), and raised him as a single parent until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down on the eve of his wedding when an uninvited Donny suddenly shows up. Trying desperately to reconnect with his son, Donny is now forced to deal with the repercussions of his bad parenting skills. Co-starring Leighton Meester and featuring incredible cameos from a cavalcade of stars including Susan Sarandon, Vanilla Ice and James Caan.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Bill Haas wanted to atone for the way he finished his opening round. He did that and more Friday and was tied for the lead in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
That sure wasn't the case for Tiger Woods.
One shot out of the lead with three holes to play, Woods closed with three sloppy bogeys to fall four shots behind going into the weekend. That makes the chore a little more difficult in his bid to defend his title at Bay Hill and return to No. 1 in the world.
Haas not only kept bogeys off his card, his longest putt for par was no more than 4 feet in a clean round of 6-under 66. He was tied with Justin Rose, who was poised to take the outright lead until he was fooled by the speed of the greens after late afternoon showers and finished with a three-putt bogey for a 70.
They were at 9-under 135, one shot ahead of John Huh, who had a 69.
The finishing holes have proved pivotal in the opening two rounds. Haas was challenging for the lead on Thursday when he flew his tee shot into the back bunker on the par-3 17th and had to two-putt from 40 feet for bogey. Then, he three-putted from 8 feet on the 18th hole for bogey to ruin his day.
Woods hit the ball better in the second round and had to settle for a higher score, all because of his finish. He had about 210 yards from a fairway bunker on the par-5 16th and caught it heavy, slamming the sand with the back of his club even before the ball took one hop and tumbled into the creek short of the green. He pitched up to 25 feet and took bogey. Then, he turned over his tee shot on the 17th and wound up in the rough well behind the green, and his chip went all the way through the green.
Woods followed that with a tee shot into the right rough that forced him to play short of the water, and he hit a poor chip to about 30 feet. He missed that for a 70.
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) - Beatriz Recari shot a bogey-free 5-under 67 to take a one-stroke lead over Paula Creamer and Karrie Webb after the second round of the Kia Classic.
Recari, from Spain, had an 8-under 136 total on the hilly Aviara course designed by Arnold Palmer.
Creamer shot a 68, and Webb had a 70. First-round leader Jane Park shot a 69 and was tied at 6 under with Cristie Kerr, I.K. Kim, Inbee Park and Haeji Kang.
Stacy Lewis, playing her first tournament as the world's top-ranked player, was four strokes back after her second straight 70. Michelle Wie missed the cut by a stroke, shooting 74-74.
SAUCIER, Miss. (AP) - Hal Sutton, Steve Elkington, Corey Pavin and Roger Chapman shot 3-under 69 in light rain to share the first-round lead in the Champions Tour's Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic.
The 54-year-old Sutton was the most surprising player among the leaders at Fallen Oak. Winless since the PGA Tour's 2001 Houston Open, he had his left hip replaced in October.
Sutton made five birdies and salvaged bogey on the par-4 18th with a 15-foot putt. Pavin made three straight birdies on Nos. 6-8 to vault into a tie for the lead.
Defending champion Fred Couples opened with a 72.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Thailand's Kiradech Aphibarnrat topped the Malaysian Open leaderboard at 10 under with nine holes to play when the second round was suspended because of darkness.
South Africa's Charl Schwartzel and China's Wu Ashun shot 4-under 68 to share the clubhouse lead at 9 under in the event sanctioned by the European and Asian tours.
Third-ranked Luke Donald was even par overall with 11 holes to play.


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Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Check out a little video clip promo here.
It was great fun, but lots of work, too. My friend Holly did all the long-distance driving-- thank you, Holly! Julie kept us fed SO WELL, and Jay was very professional with the lighting and filming and everything! (And patient with my nerves!) They were excellent hosts, and we fell in love with their dog, Bruno!
Julie and Bruno
It was fun to be with another food fanatic, and we talked food, food, food! Julie took me to her favorite food stores (I loved Trader joe's and New Seasons!). I looked for products that I can't get where I live. I bought smoked salt, smoked pimenton,
(which are delicious in chowders, stews, soups, etc!)
and vegan soy parmesan,
(Boy, I've missed this one! I used to get it in bulk and went through lots for my Italian cookbook, but we can't get it in Canada anymore!) UPDATE Nov. 1 2011: It IS available in Canada now, but only in these little containers. As far as I know, it is not available in bulk anymore, anywhere (except perhaps for restaurants.
and, for treats, Gardenburger BBQ Riblets, organic Newman-O's, and Soyatoo whipped soy cream (which now I'm told I can get in our town, as of very recently!).
Also, Smoked Apple Sage Fieldroast "sausages"-- delicious! We had them the day after I got home with my gravy, carmelized apples, and frozen potato and onion pyrogies:
We did have greens on the side!
We had homemade delicious Indonesian tempeh dishes and yellow rice with mutual friends Yongkie and Pokie Hurd, who make it themselves.
Yongkie and Pokie with Jay and Julie before dinner
Julie and me in Julie's kitchen preparing a few quick additions to the dinner.
Tucking in!
We went to the farmers market on Saturday and had the most delicious vegan tamales! Now I am getting ready for a tamale binge! We went to a Lebanese restaurant and saw a great bellydancer. The food wasn't the best I've had, but she was great. (Have to get her name from Julie.)
I'm still catching up with work and family and have hardly had time to breathe since getting back!
We had a little congratulatory party just before I left for our friend Mike, who got his landed immigrant status, finally! Along with his spouse Fireweed, my mother, and our friend Suzanne, we enjoyed a butternut squash and walnut lasagna, salad and, a coffee-flavored cake with coffee icing, chocolate ganache and hazelnuts.
UPDATE: This recipe is in my book World Vegan Feast
Last night I made vegan beignets rolled in cinnamon sugar, something I've done for many years at Halloween:
PS: Portland photos by Holly Walker.
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I can't wait for that DVD... I was also wondering what special cooking event was happening in Portland, thanks for the info. I really look forward to watching real vegan food on tv, not having to mentally veganize everything.
- Wed Nov 01, 06:33:00 PM PST
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Bryanna, this is a terrific post !
I will own that DVD, that's for sure :)
Your grandchildren are adorable :) I think that Zoë, Faith and myself share exactly the same hair colour.
I was very surprised at something you said... You don't have Soyatoo in BC ? We have had it for a few months now. Can't believe that we have something like that and that it's not elsewhere in Canada... we even have it in a little town like St-Raymond. Kind of unbelievable. We have so much trouble finding stuff like that. Most places won't even order the Vegan Gourmet Cheeze.
But I wanted to ask, did they tell you how to "operate" the can ? A lot of people have had problems with it, myself included. The can would stop functionning when it got half empty.
So they told us that you have to keep it on the fridge door. Then you have to keep it at room temperature for 15 minutes before using it and when you are ready to use it, always keep it upside-down, in a completely vertical position, not on an angle.
Hope that will work for everybody. Losing half the can is frustrating, to say the least.
Glad you're back :)
- Thu Nov 02, 04:36:00 PM PST
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Thanks, Gaia! Faith and Zoe are actually my son's step-daughters and the only redheads in the family, but my maternal grandmaother was auburn-haired!
A friend just told me that she saw Soyatoo at our local health food store! I'm behind the times! On the website they said "available in Canada next summer", but that must have meant THIS summer.
I haven't really used it yet, except to taste, and it came out alright upside down.
- Thu Nov 02, 05:11:00 PM PST
- Spice Island Vegan said...
Wow, Bryanna! What a great party that night! I talked to Bryanna (when she was at Julie'house) on the phone that night. Yay! Nice talking to you and can't wait for the DVD.
Have to try those salts!
You are busy, busy, busy! Your grandkids look cute. Bruno is cute too.
Regarding Soyatoo, Gaia, I didn't have a problem (I left a note in my blog for ye). I used it all up until it was empty. I like it too much I guess. My husband told me to always spray it out completely vertical and upside down. It squirt beautiful rosettes that way too, better than from a 45 degree angle.
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When: Wednesday, October 23
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Who: Zoe Kazan, Gary Shteyngart, Anthony Mackie, Jay McInerny, and Jonathan Ames read the winning stories to a much-bespectacled crowd, which included Mamie Gummer, Giovanna Battaglia, and Paul Dano. Oliver Platt enthusiastically emceed.
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Boy is this going to ruin Tom Friedman's day: news out of China is that they have an even bigger Solyndra problem than Obama. From the New York Times news pages:
China's strategy is in disarray. Though worldwide demand for solar panels and wind turbines has grown rapidly over the last five years, China's manufacturing capacity has soared even faster, creating enormous oversupply and a ferocious price war.
The result is a looming financial disaster, not only for manufacturers but for state-owned banks that financed factories with approximately $18 billion in low-rate loans and for municipal and provincial governments that provided loan guarantees and sold manufacturers valuable land at deeply discounted prices.
China's biggest solar panel makers are suffering losses of up to $1 for every $3 of sales this year, as panel prices have fallen by three-fourths since 2008. Even though the cost of solar power has fallen, it still remains triple the price of coal-generated power in China, requiring substantial subsidies through a tax imposed on industrial users of electricity to cover the higher cost of renewable energy.
Friedman complains that the U.S. is "losing the clean energy race," but as my pal Ken Green says, if the race is to see who can drive off a cliff first and fastest, that's the kind of race you want to lose.
Just wondering: if Friedman had been around in 1970, I'm sure he would have said the U.S. was in danger of "losing the race" to build passenger supersonic jets. Look how much we suffered by letting the Europeans corner the market on the Concorde!!
Meanwhile, almost as if Friedman wants to provide Power Line with comedy material, his latest China-is-awesome column out this week has this gem:
"Success in the 'American Dream,' " notes Peggy Liu, the founder of the Joint U.S.-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, or Juccce, "used to just mean a house, a family of four, and two cars, but now it's escalated to conspicuous consumption as epitomized by Kim Kardashian. China simply cannot follow that path — or the planet will be stripped bare of natural resources to make all that the Chinese consumers want to consume."
This passage about the egregiousness of the American lifestyle goes very nicely alongside Tom Friedman's house, which could comfortably house all of the Kardashians with room to spare:
Turns out we've noted Friedman's carbon footprint hypocrisy before.


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- MEDN-PBL 620 Step 2 Human Structure (12 cr.) Human Structure is an intensive, integrated step combining cell biology, histology, embryology, gross anatomy, and radiology, which is designed to acquaint the medical student with the structures of the human body from gross to subcellular. A combination of small-group, case-based sessions and supervised laboratory periods are used to teach the step. The clinical cases are designed to stimulate student-directed learning and problem-solving with materials gathered from pathology, surgery, and radiology. The laboratories will offer experience in viewing normal structures from gross dissections to electron micrographs. The emphasis of the step is on gathering a general understanding of the correlation of structure with function and on views of the body possible with various macroscopic and microscopic imaging techniques. Offered only at the School of Medicine— Northwest Campus. (First-Year Curriculum)
- MEDN-PBL 631 Step 3 Systemic Function (6 cr.) This academic unit, nine weeks in length, builds on the molecular and structural knowledge and problem- solving skills the medical students acquire in Steps 1 and 2. Step 3 is a comprehensive analysis of human physiology, organized around the main organ systems of the body. The themes developed over the nine-week period cover physiologic and pharmacologic aspects of cellular phenomena, drug-organ system interactions in the autonomic nervous system, the heart as a pump, the circulatory system, the renal system, the endocrine system, the gastrointestinal system, and integrative regulation of the organ systems. Central to the step is a weekly analysis of medical problems that serves to integrate physiologic and pharmacologic aspects of the organ systems. Scheduled key lectures and laboratories are also used to provide a conceptual physiologic and pharmacologic background to complement the problem-based learning. Offered only at the School of Medicine—Northwest Campus. (First-Year Curriculum)
- MEDN-PBL 641 Step 4 Neural Control and Disease (6 cr.) This step studies the central nervous systems through an integrated, multidisciplinary assimilation of anatomical, physiological, and chemical principles. Emphasis will be on directing students in the acquisition of information that can be successfully applied to the neurological examination and that provides an understanding of the basic mechanisms of neurological disorders. Offered only at the School of Medicine—Northwest Campus. (First-Year Curriculum)
- MEDN-PBL 645 Step 5 Medications and Disease (6 cr.) An intensive and systematic study of the drugs used in diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of human disease in a Problem-based Learning (PBL) format. The core contents are given as comprehensive lectures that include classification of drugs, effects and mechanism of action, disposition, fate, toxicity, uses, drug interactions and contraindications. Through the PBL tutorial sessions, the students engage in cases that involve a multidisciplinary approach and integration of pharmacological principles in treating disease. Offered only at the School of Medicine—Northwest Campus. (First-Year Curriculum)
- MEDN-PBL 650 Step 6 Invasion and Defense (11 cr.) This interdisciplinary course deals with the nature of infectious agents and tumors and the host responses to invasion and injury. Students learn the concepts of general pathology, immunology, microbiology, infectious diseases, and elements of pharmacology through discussion and problem-solving of clinical cases and independent study. Offered only at the School of Medicine—Northwest Campus. (Second- Year Curriculum)
- MEDN-PBL 661 Doctor/Patient Relationship (4 cr.) A multidisciplinary course incorporating behavioral sciences, medical ethics, emergency medicine, history- taking, and physical diagnosis for first-year medical students. This course is designed to foster desired primary care physicians' characteristics and emphasizes active learning by utilizing simulated and standardized patients. Offered only at the School of Medicine—Northwest Campus. (First-Year Curriculum)
- MEDN-PBL 662 Step 7 Pathophysiology and Advanced Problem-Based Learning (28 cr.) A multidisciplinary course emphasizing etiology, pathophysiology, morphological changes, and evolution of lesions in an open-system approach. Through clinical cases, sophomore medical students identify learning issues in PBL sessions, and in a few lectures key concepts are introduced. Offered only at the School of Medicine—Northwest Campus. (Second-Year Curriculum)
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We just came back from one of our local AT&T store, actually two of 'em, looking for the new Lumia 920. Our first store only had the Nokia hero phone in black (we were going for glossy white) so we had to drive a few miles in the other direction to grab one. Lesson? Call your store first to make sure you have availability. We ended up paying $350 for it as the rep extended our contract from 17 months back to 24, saving us a few hundred bucks.
No stores had charging pads either but if you press the store manager on it, they should be able to order you one for free. The HTC 8X was also in short supply, with a lot of stores reporting no-stock. And although we didn't see any lines, we did see a few folks purchasing the 920, so word is out.
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