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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — When Mike Farmer started a digital search company in 2004, he had a staff of 10.
Today, in his third start-up, he has one employee: himself, aided by seven contractors working more or less part time. His budget, like his head count, is smaller, and by his account the new model is much more sustainable.
"I think we're all headed toward an agent economy, where everyone becomes an agent or a service provider instead of an employee at some big corporation," said Mr. Farmer, whose mobile search app, Leap2, now has 10,000 users. "That's just how the world is evolving. It's like telecommuting, but it's taken to the level of telecompanies."
For more than a decade, start-ups have been getting leaner and meaner. In 1999, the typical new business had 7.7 employees; its counterpart in 2011 had 4.7, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by E. J. Reedy at the Kauffman Foundation, a research organization focused on entrepreneurship.
The lean model bodes well for companies like Leap2 that hope to become power players with much less manpower. With a work force of contractors, Mr. Farmer said Leap2 could "dial it up and dial it down" as business demanded without having to spend money unless it was necessary, improving the company's chances of survival.
But the implications for the American work force are worrisome, and may help explain why economic output is growing much faster than employers are adding jobs. On Friday, two days after the issue dominated the first presidential debate, the Labor Department will release the unemployment rate for September along with payroll gains, which economists predict will barely keep pace with new people joining the labor force.
For decades, new companies have produced most of the country's job growth. Without start-ups, the country would have had a net increase in jobs in only seven years since 1977. The number of people employed by new businesses peaked in 1999, the height of the tech bubble, and has fallen by 46 percent since then, to 2.5 million in 2011, creating a slow leak in job creation that has proved difficult to plug.
"There's this idea that we can somehow rely on entrepreneurship to get us out of the job crisis," said Scott Shane, an economics professor at Case Western Reserve University. "That's getting harder and harder, considering there are fewer and fewer of them, and they're each employing fewer people."
The decrease in start-up size is probably driven by some combination of technology, changes in management philosophy and tighter financing.
Mr. Farmer, an affable, bearded 43-year-old prone to long bouts of giddiness when talking about his company, co-founded Leap2 in 2010. He boldly declares that his app is revolutionizing search on mobile phones by integrating regular search engine results with local listings, feeds from Twitter and other social sites, and breaking news.
He manages this revolution from a tiny, shared office here in Kansas City with a few desks and a couple of white boards. There are no Foosball tables, pinball machines or other frivolities that are common in Silicon Valley start-ups. Rent is cheap. Perhaps more important, the rest of the overhead is, too.
Leap2 rents server space, which means Mr. Farmer did not need to hire people to build and maintain servers, as with his earlier start-ups. The company has access to programming language from Bing, Twitter and other established companies, so it does not have to build a new search engine to crawl the Web and index myriad Twitter posts.
Leap2 also does not have any back-office workers to handle things like travel arrangements, human resources or accounting. That is partly because there are now Web-based resources to help with these functions, and partly because Leap2's contracted developers pitch in on many of these tasks.
"We recruit athletes, not position players," Mr. Farmer said, meaning he believes his contractors can fill more than one role.
The desire to minimize back-office work is so common now that Leap2's co-founder, Dan Carroll, decided to invest in a company called Rocket Fuel that helps new firms handle administrative work and other tasks — "the kind of things once upon a time you maybe had an office manager figure out," said Mr. Carroll.
Mr. Carroll brags that Leap2 has been able to spend "almost 100 percent" of its budget on programming talent. That spending goes further because Leap2's developers, as independent contractors, do not get benefits.
Most of Leap2's developers have staff jobs at bigger, established companies that provide health insurance. Because most of them have children, they tend to do their work for Leap2 after about 9 p.m. Only one contractor, Travis Williams, does not have a day job anywhere. He is a graphic designer who juggles multiple projects by choice, and he has health insurance through his wife, who is a kindergarten teacher.
Though the company's developers are mostly local, they interact primarily by instant message or Skype. They meet in person once a week over dinner, and one, Michael Marley, who works on contract through the Allen Group in Norwalk, Conn., calls in via Skype. A monitor showing his face is propped up on a chair to suggest he is in the room.
"You used to hear about inventors tinkering in their garage," said Tyler VanWinkle, the company's product manager. "Skype is the new garage."
This focus on leanness and streamlining is not limited to high-tech start-ups, according to Eric Ries, the author of "The Lean Startup." He said the revolution began in Japan in the 1980s, when manufacturers learned the value of creating products in smaller batches and refining them more often, and has since spread.
"Now you can rent the means of production instead of owning them," he said.
All of these factors should make it easier to start a business, suggesting that the volume of new companies would help make up for the smaller head count at start-ups. That has not been the case in recent years, however.
Over the last five years, the number of new employer businesses, including new franchises for existing companies, fell by 20 percent, to 536,445 in 2011 from 667,341 in 2006.
But there was tremendous growth in businesses like Leap2 that are operated by one person, partly reflecting the fact that more Americans are going it alone as consultants and contractors. The number of nonemployer businesses grew by 33.8 percent from 2000 to 2010, according to the Census Bureau. Some economists refer to this phenomenon as jobless entrepreneurship.
Experts do not know whether or how quickly the number of start-ups will recover, particularly because such businesses have often been financed through home equity loans and so many homes remain underwater, according to Tim Kane, chief economist at the Hudson Institute, a conservative research organization.
While much attention has been devoted to stoking entrepreneurship and job creation through tax breaks, entrepreneurship may be more influenced by other factors, such as the risks that come with starting a company, Mr. Ries said, including the loss of health insurance.
A study last year found a spike in business ownership at age 65, and attributed it to access to Medicare. Some economists have said that the Affordable Care Act's expansion of health insurance options could help increase entrepreneurship. Having raised $470,000 in its first two years of existence, Leap2 is aiming for $1.5 million more. Mr. Farmer said he hoped to hire some of his developers eventually as full-time staff members, perhaps six by the end of the year.
But even then, Leap2 expects to keep plenty of developers on contract, on Skype and around the country, to stay lean, efficient and nimble.
Mr. Carroll gave as an example one talented programmer who might help Leap2 with smaller projects while working on his own start-up.
"In the past, you would have raised a big round of funding at the beginning, and you would have hired him," Mr. Carroll said. "And he's brilliant, and would be really helpful at some of the early stage stuff. But now you're stuck with him, and he's good at one particular thing, and your company has taken a turn. Either you have to fire him, or you end up building the wrong product."


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NEW YORK (WFAN/AP) — The three New York area Big East schools all had new coaches to start the season. Steve Lavin, Mike Rice and Kevin Willard have made it to the halfway point, each trying to turn around a program in what is without argument the best conference in the country.
"It happens to be a year that might be the best year in the history of the conference," said Lavin, who returned to coaching at St. John's after seven years as a television analyst. "Some people thought the league might be on a down tick and the evidence, empirical evidence, no one's opinion — it's pretty overwhelming that the league is the strongest in the country and maybe in the history of the league.
"I knew it was going to be strong, but not to the level where they are talking about possibly 11 teams making the (NCAA) field and the overwhelming winning percentage against the rest of the power conferences."
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The Big East tied its own record this season with a week in which there were nine teams ranked in the Top 25, and it had half of the top 10 one week.
Lavin's Red Storm have been able to beat three ranked teams among their 12 wins, the latest a 93-78 dismantling of third-ranked Duke on Sunday. They are 4-5 in the Big East, one-half game in front of Willard's Seton Hall Pirates and a game ahead of Rice's Rutgers Scarlet Knights. They are 11th, 12th and 13th in the 16-team Big East.
"In this league you finish in the top eight, top nine, you're in the NCAA tournament," said Rice, whose team scared second-ranked Pittsburgh before falling 66-63 on Saturday night. "So I'm going to be fighting, scratching and clawing the next couple of years to get into that top eight, top nine."
Seton Hall's signature win so far this season was a 90-68 rout at No. 9 Syracuse last week.
"The strength of this league from top to bottom, there's not one time you look at the schedule and say 'Oh boy, a breather,'" Willard said. "It's a dogfight every night.
"You look at your next four games and you just got through a tough four games. The teams are so well-coached from top to bottom and there are great players from top to bottom. So you better be prepared or you'll have an 'L' pretty quick."
Of the three, Lavin was the only true newcomer to the Big East. He was an assistant at Purdue in the Big Ten and then an assistant and head coach at UCLA in the Pac-10.
"Even with that background of being in different conferences, until you actually coach in this league you don't get a sense of how physical the play is in the lane and at the rim," Lavin said. "It's officiated that way, and personally, I love it. It's officiated differently than it is in the West. This is a brass knuckles conference."
Rice was an assistant at Pittsburgh in 2006-07 and came to Rutgers after a three-year stint as head coach at Robert Morris, a run capped by an overtime loss to Villanova of the Big East in the first round of last year's NCAA tournament.
"When I was an assistant we were on top," Rice said. "Still, even then it's a struggle night in and night out to get a victory in this league, but when you're trying to go up the ladder, those guys just won't let you do it and whether it's (Pittsburgh's) Ashton Gibbs or (Georgetown's) Austin Freeman, they all have those type of players, those guys who get to the next level. There's an urgency for Rutgers to find one of those players."
Willard played for three seasons at Pittsburgh under his father, Ralph, and then was an assistant and associate head coach under Rick Pitino at Louisville before taking the head job at Iona for three seasons.
"Because I played in the league and I've been up in this area and played a lot of these teams I knew how physical it would be," Willard said. "I think the refereeing has been terrific and at a high level. The physicality is something college basketball has turned into."
Willard got the chance to coach against his former boss, Pitino, whose No. 1 assistant is Ralph Willard.
"It was a little weird looking over and seeing Coach Pitino and my father," he said. "It was one of those things where you smile thinking of all the time you spent with them. My brother and sister were rooting for me and my mother was rooting for Louisville, so it kind of split the family."
Jamie Dixon was Rice's boss at Pittsburgh and he was asked if he could remember how he felt halfway through his first season as a head coach in the Big East, if he was kept awake at night worrying about a daunting schedule?
"I still think that seven years later," Dixon said, smiling. "I think our league is getting better. When I first got here 12 years ago as an assistant the league wasn't close to being as tough as it is now and without question this is the best conference in the country. … It's different because this a far better league now than it was then and we know how good it was then."
Nine conference games down, nine to go and then there's the conference tournament. The new guys have a lot of tough games ahead of them and perhaps plenty of seasons ahead of them in a conference that doesn't show any signs of getting any easier.
"I've never been this tired at this point of the season," Willard said.
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Capture NX updates are usually a small blip on the radar, but in this case the launch provides a conversion utility for raw images from Nikon's new $8000 pro cam, the obscenely high-res D3X. Seems like a safe bet that sample raw images shot with final firmware versions of the D3X that seem to be floating around out there should start cropping up on the web soon.
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What influences the irish vote?June 1st, 2012
I'd been thinking along similar lines to this for a while but could never sum it up as well as Scofflaw did over two posts on this boards.ie thread about the household charge -
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A little while ago in the "left-wing, right-wing" discussion, I rather unkindly commented that the Irish voter doesn't make decisions on a left/right basis, but on a "costs me/costs someone else" basis. Elsewhere, and equally cynically, I've said that anyone who believes the Irish "don't do civil disobedience" is missing the fact that the characteristic of Irish civil disobedience is that it is not overt or loudly demonstrative but instead consists of passive resistance to unwelcome measures, and is normally found only when a government measure costs money.
I think this is another good example of that feature – there's a form of Irish "social solidarity" where nobody challenges anyone else's playing of the poor mouth card, and expects similar license themselves. Only about half the population appears to be willing to pay taxes on the basis of the sort of social solidarity found in, say, Nordic countries – the other half won't reach for their wallets unless they're obviously going to be forced to do so.
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I'm thinking of the Household Charge, the non-means-tested Medical Card, student fees, household rates (back in the day), septic tank charges, turf cutting, and so on – the examples are pretty numerous, and all share the same feature, which is that a hit to the pocket gets you a revolt. To some extent one can even attribute some of the Greens' electoral unpopularity to the 5c "carbon charge" on fuel. Even our attitude to Europe seems largely determined by whether it's perceived as giving us money or costing us money.
I'd consider passive resistance characteristic because the public demonstrations, in most cases, were quite small – and often consisted of the same people – while the effect on the government usually resulted from a far wider pattern of passive non-payment or non-compliance.
I've discussed "salience" elsewhere specifically in respect of the household charge, and agree it's important, but nothing I've said requires that it not be.
There's an easy upcoming test, of course, which is water charges. I'd expect to see there the exact same results as the household charge – there will be a number of "public meetings" with much the same faces at each one (SF/ULA making political capital and grabbing airtime, essentially), and a wider pattern of passive non-compliance which will be decisive.
As to the "most vulnerable in society" and the Nordic model – that's the point, really. We're not talking about the "most vulnerable in society", most of whom are exempt from the household charge in any case – we're talking about people's readiness to proclaim themselves as "most vulnerable" when by any objective measure they're not, and what is actually objected to is that they are losing some of their discretionary spending capacity.
There is room for a lot of shading on details, some of which you've picked up on, but I would say that my central point here is that Irish politics is primarily about the money in one's own pocket at all levels, from the voting public to the elected representatives (with the latter a reflection of the former), and that public debate revolves around money to the exclusion of principle. As an ancillary point, I would say the Irish public demonstrates certain forms of rather negative social solidarity about money, such as not contradicting someone else who is playing the "poor mouth" card in order not to be contradicted when playing it oneself. The "most vulnerable in society" thing I regard as merely another card in this kind of play – a form of hypocritical claim that frames one's argument for personal benefit as a moral argument, and one's opponent, therefore, as callous and vicious.
I don't like that kind of argument from either side – on another thread, we had a poster framing opposition to mortgage write-downs in an equally tendentious way, with non-payers characterised as well-off D4 types while those who wouldn't get a write-down characterised as quintessentially good Irish people. Either way round, it's grossly dishonest, and regrettably characteristic of public discourse in Ireland. One might say that the love of money is the root of all Irish politics, but that it's the love that dare not speak its name, and therefore hides behind a cloak of decency – which renders much Irish public discourse fabulously hypocritical.


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As for Flintoff at 6... even ignoring this series, his record doesn't aim up to it. When he is in top form, he is capable of being passable there. But really, averaging in the 30-33 range is not quite good enough for that position. You have to average mid 30s at worst IMO, and even that would only work if you had a very reliable top order at another batsman of similar quality at 7.
Also we only needed to draw the game, so bringing in a batter who'd been around the squad for ages made more sense than bringing in a bowler from nowhere, especially as Tremlett was injured too.
As for the myth about our fast bowling resources, I did read it occasionally on CW, but please don't ask me to find the thread. I think it was around May when people were saying that beyond the four who played in the ashes, we had Plunkett, Mahmood, Tremlett & Anderson coming through and we were seeing some sort of golden age. IIRC Richard was disagreeing with the idea, and he wasn't a bad judge. tbf I've also read elsewhere, although you probably don't frequent those particular groups.
My biggest gripe is that even the 2005 four weren't all they were being cracked up to be, in that there was too much reliance on Fred & Jones. What we've seen from Harmison this winter has been a continuation of the trend over the last 2 years, and really shouldn't shock anyone who's actually followed the side. Hoggard, with all due respect to a guy I admire enormously, is not the sort of world class opener that you'd want in a side that aspires to be number 1 or 2 in the world.
I do think what we're looking at is a better than average number 7 rather than a genuine number 6. If we had a keeper and another bowler who could be relied on to make runs at 7 & 8 it wouldn't be such a problem. But we haven't, and we won't win a lot with a tail starting at number 6.
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I think people are reading far too much into the 5-0 scoreline. The gap between Australian cricket and English cricket is certainly not that great. In professional sport, if your confidence is down (England's was shot after the result in Adelaide) then a good team will take advantage over the remainder of the Series (as Australia would have done if Edgbaston had have fallen their way in 2005). And, as your confidence continues to errode over a long five Test series, the bigger the gap will get (in that particular series).
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If you were inclined to believe the cranks on fan boards, the fearmongers hosting sports talk shows and certain newspaper columnists, the Angels season is over because Bill Stoneman failed to flush the farm system — along with young major league talent such as Casey Kotchman, Howie Kendrick and Joe Saunders — for the mythic "big bat".
Lost in all the hysteria has been one basic fact check — just how often has a team loaded with "big bats" actually won a World Series?
The stats show that it really doesn't seem to matter much.
In fact, you can find some World Champions who were amongst the worst offenses in their league.
The first example that comes to mind is the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1980s. The Redbirds went to the World Series in 1982, 1985 and 1987. They beat the Brewers in seven games in 1982, then lost to the Royals in seven games in 1985 and the Twins in seven games in 1987.
In 1982, the Brewers had the #1 slugging percentage of all 26 major league teams at .455. The Cardinals were #21 (#8 in the NL) at .364. The Brewers were #1 in homers with 216. The Cardinals were last among all 26 teams with only 67. Yet if you look at runs scored, the Brewers were #1 at 891 but the Cardinals were #14 (#5 in the NL) at 685. How did the Redbirds score runs? They were #2 among all teams in stolen bases with 200, and had the second fewest strikeouts in the NL with 805 (the Dodgers were #1 at 804).
In other words … the Cardinals played Contactball, the Angels' style of play.
In 1985, the Royals were the #8 SLG (.401) out of all 26 teams (#8 in the AL) and #8 in HR (154) out of 26 teams (#8 in the AL). The Cardinals had the #20 SLG (.379) in the majors (#6 in the NL) and were #25 in HR (87) in the majors (#11 in the NL).
In 1987, the Twins were #6 in SLG (.430) in the majors (#4 in the AL) and #7 in HR (196) in the majors (#5 in the AL). The Cardinals were #24 in SLG (.378) in the majors (#10 in the NL) and were last in the majors in HR (94).
So in a six-year span, the Cardinals went to three World Series, won one and took the other two to Game Seven. Not bad for a team lacking "big bats."
Let's take a look at the World Series participants in this decade and see how they ranked in their leagues each year. The world champion is in bold.
|SLG (Rank)
|HR (Rank)
|SLG (Rank)
|HR (Rank)
|.449 (#5)
|203 (#3)
|.431 (#8)
|184 (#5)
|White Sox
|.425 (#7)
|200 (#4)
|.408 (#11)
|161 (#9)
|Red Sox
|.472 (#1)
|222 (#4)
|.460 (#1)
|214 (#3)
|.453 (#4)
|230 (#3)
|.421 (#6)
|157 (#11)
|.433 (#6)
|152 (#10)
|.442 (#1)
|198 (#2)
|.435 (#7)
|203 (#4)
|.442 (#4)
|208 (#4)
|.450 (#6)
|205 (#6)
|.430 (#8)
|198 (#6)
As of this writing, the Angels are #8 in the AL in SLG (.414) and #13 in HR (72).
Would the Angels be better off if their offense generated more runs? Of course. But they're already #3 in the AL in runs scored (532), behind the Tigers (615) and the Yankees (612). The Angels just swept the Tigers by a large margin, and the Yankees are desperately trying to stay in the post-season race.
More importantly, they have the #3 ERA in the AL, behind the Red Sox (3.73) and the A's (3.82).
If the Angels have a healthy Garret Anderson and Casey Kotchman for the rest of the season, their offensive productivity should improve. Eventually Vlad Guerrero will come out of his home run slump. Hopefully Howie Kendrick will return soon, and Mike Napoli will add more power when he returns from the disabled list. And who knows, maybe Juan Rivera will return in September to contribute some more pop. Of course, a catastrophic injury to a key player will cripple the offense, but that's true of every team in the majors so that's not a real argument to flush the farm system.
The facts show that the "big bat" by no means guarantees a World Series appearance, much less a championship. The post-season is a crapshoot, as evidenced by the mediocre (83-78) St. Louis Cardinals winning the 2006 World Series.
In my opinion, the real key is the back end of the Angels' rotation. They need a reliable #4 and #5 starter. Maybe it boils down to whether Bartolo Colon can come back and do a reasonable impersonation of his 2005 Cy Young Award performance.
But all this "big bat" nonsense is just spin to create controversy where there is none. Or at least there shouldn't be.
UPDATE August 2, 2007 6:30 AM PDT — Los Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke published a column today writing that the Dodgers were wise not to trade the future for the present. Plaschke wrote:
… Today's titles cannot be bought by tossing down a wad of sweaty bills at last call.
Today's titles are not won today, or last week, or this season.
Today's titles are not won by instant roster changes, they are won by slow organizational upheavals, restocking and reworking and resisting every impulse to scream.
Chances are, if you are desperate enough to trade top prospects for one big name, you are not good enough to win with him.
UPDATE August 2, 2007 8:45 PM PDT — An article on MLB.com offers one theory for the Angels' preference for Contactball over longball. Orlando Cabrera suggests the thick marine layer during night games contributes to cutting down long fly balls, thereby encouraging hitters to go for line drives.


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2013 began in honorable style for Lisa Ecker, who on Jan. 1 was voted Austria's female Gymnast of the Year for 2012. Ecker earned the Austrian national all-around title and her first FIG Challenger Cup medal last fall, and now looks ahead to the challenges she will face in the new year.
Born Sept. 19, 1992, in Linz, Ecker trains under coaches Johanna Gratt, Katharina Wieser and Julia Nica. Ecker, who competed at the past three world championships, placed second on floor exercise and eighth on uneven bars at last November's FIG Challenge Cup of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Ecker's recent achievements have compensated for inconsistency and injury that hampered her in 2010 and 2011, said Austrian Gymnastics Federation Secretary General Robert Labner.
"Lisa totally botched her performance at the 2010 Worlds in Rotterdam and also had some mistakes at the 2011 Worlds in Tokyo," Labner said. "Directly following Tokyo she suffered a torn ACL, and therefore she missed the Austrian run for the one available spot at the (2012) Olympics. Lisa started to rebuild her fitness very carefully."
Ecker proved herself anew in November 2012, when she captured two domestic all-around titles and her first FIG Challenger Cup medal.
"Many thought that Lisa would not come back," Labner said. "So the surprise was all the greater when she finished her comeback competition at Upper Austrian regional championships on November 4 with a seriously judged 54.995 all-around total, which was the highest ever by an Austrian gymnast. She won the Austrian championships two weeks later, although she had some mistakes there. The Austrian gymnastics community was very impressed with Lisa's comeback. She now seems much more mature and determined than before."
In this IG Online interview, the resolute Ecker reviews her past and assesses her future competitive prospects.
IG: What do you think helped you achieve so much success in 2012?
LE: Concerning my success, there are a couple of things which have to work together. You have to have a lot of discipline and keep your motivation high all the time, and you have to work really hard, giving everything you have! You must be willing to give up most of your spare time in order to achieve things like that. Making sacrifices is very important. But I think the most important thing is to have a real good supporting team - coach, doctor, physiotherapist and especially family.
IG: What are your thoughts on competing at the top level when you are no longer a teenager? What is the benefit to you of doing gymnastics in your 20s?
LE: My benefit of doing gymnastics in my 20s is that I've got a lot of experience. Knowing exactly what my body can do and how to deal with injuries give me a big advantage.
IG: How much time away from the gym have you had during the holiday season?
LE: I had one week off. So I had the chance to live a normal life for a couple of days, spending time with friends and going out, but also regenerating my body and mind. I'm looking forward to training again and preparing for the European championships (in Moscow in April).
IG: How, where and with whom did you celebrate Christmas and New Year's Eve?
LE: I celebrated in a very traditional way with my family and my boyfriend at home. We had a little Christmas tree and I got a lot of presents. I just love Christmas. On New Year's Eve I was with my best friend in Linz and some other very good friends. We watched the fireworks and had a lot of fun.
IG: What are your goals and resolutions for 2013 in the gym, and in your outside life?
LE: Well, I would say being good at school is one goal. But on the other hand I will do everything to be part of the European and World Championships. In the gym I will try to avoid any injuries by being very focused. I will try to work even harder, because otherwise my main goal, the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, will not be accessible.
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Selena Gomez got her first tattoo of a music note in February. Back then she was done and was thinking of getting more.
Fast forward just a couple of months and she now has another permanent marking. It's a Roman numeral spelling out "76".
In talking to the Daily Mail, who also have photos of her new ink, her tattoo artist Bang Bang said the tat is a tribute to a family member who means a lot to her. It is widely reported to be in honor of Gomez's mother, who was born in 1976.
And in other Selena Gomez news, Hotel Transylvania, the animated film in which she voices one of the lead characters, broke September box office records with a $43 million opening weekend.
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Providers say mental health services to suffer if state cuts enacted
Hartford - Mental health experts who spoke before the governor's Sandy Hook Advisory Commission on Friday said they oppose the governor's $63 million cut to mental health services in 2014 and 2015.
"I understand the pressures Gov. (Dannel P.) Malloy is under to establish a budget. At the same time, these kinds of cuts have already translated into the elimination of core grants that keep the mental health system going," said Harold Schwartz, a commission member and vice president of behavior health at The Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital.
Malloy's two-year budget calls for reducing state subsidies for underinsured and uninsured individuals by $63 million. The reasoning was that by Jan. 1, 2014, more people would be insured under the Affordable Care Act. Therefore, clinics providing mental health services would receive Medicaid or private insurance payments for their services instead of needing state subsidies.
But mental health providers say enrollment in Medicaid and insurance plans won't happen overnight, and the funding under Medicaid only covers 50 percent of their costs. Currently, the state subsidies cover nearly 100 percent of their costs, Schwartz said.
While the governor's administration hears the concerns, Malloy spokesman Andrew Doba said, they are unfounded.
"The governor's budget doesn't cut services, it just changes who pays for them," Doba said. "Whatever was reduced, they are getting back as we implement the Affordable Care Act."
But Schwartz said without the $63 million in grants, which support outpatient clinics at a variety of facilities, those parts of the care system for individuals with mental illness are not sustainable.
"Clinics around the state are at risk for closing access to inpatient beds and other levels of care are at risk for going away," Schwartz said. "And all of these patients … would be accessing it through overcrowded emergency rooms that will back up in unsustainable ways, leading many to not seek care."
Kathleen Flaherty, attorney for Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut, agreed.
"For (Malloy) to be cutting the budget at a time where there is a need for mental health services doesn't make a lot of sense to me," she said.
A $63 million cut would prevent Waterbury-based Wellmore Behavioral Health from responding to clients as quickly as it does now, said Gary Steck, CEO of the private nonprofit, which typically responds to crises in 30 to 45 minutes.
Steck said it is important to address a problem immediately as someone who calls in to seek substance abuse support and has to go on a waitlist is less likely to show up for an appointment later.
Providers already are beginning to make plans to shut down or sharply reduce their services because of proposed cuts, said Sheila Amdur, interim president and CEO of the Rocky Hill-based trade association Community Providers Association in a written statement to the legislature's Human Services Committee on Tuesday.
"The governor is proposing cutting all of those grants without adjusting the underlying Medicaid rate," Amdur told the commission Friday. "They are saying now everybody is going to be covered by Medicaid. Well, sure, but it's not going to cover the costs that the grants covered, so let's look at payment reform."
She said under the Affordable Care Act, the Medicaid rate for primary care is being increased to match the rate for Medicare, which is higher. But the rate for Medicaid for behavioral health services will remain about 60 percent of the Medicare rate.
The federal government is paying the state to raise the rate for primary care because they recognize that there have to be rates that primary care physicians will accept, she said.
But "that doesn't apply to any of the behavioral health treatment," she said.
"That's why, if you go to a private psychiatrist or clinician in New London, almost no one is going to take Medicaid patients because it doesn't pay them enough," Amdur said, adding that the demand for services is so high that providers don't need to find ways to accept patients who can't pay.
Commission chairman and Hamden Mayor Scott Jackson said he agreed that demand for mental health providers was high, but said the Medicaid population isn't the only priority.
Many experts have told the commission that it is actually the Medicaid population and the wealthy who have the best access to mental health services.
"The vast middle (class) has almost no access so addressing that access is critical," Jackson said. Many people who are on commercial insurance can call around for a long time until they find someone who is taking patients, he said. There is also a high denial rate by insurance companies, he said.
He said he also wasn't sure what he thought of Malloy's proposal to cut $63 million from mental health services because he didn't have all of the information.
He said he did understand from speakers, that the current system is "limited to broken." So throwing money at it doesn't solve problems, he added.
He said he would rather help develop a better system and fund the better practices.
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It can be hard to appreciate the arc of investing history, until you take a sufficiently long view.
Once upon a time, stocks were considered exotic. Most institutional investors placed their trust entirely in bonds, and only then in sovereign bonds.
Backed by national treasuries and an endless supply of future taxpayers, bonds presented the potential for appreciation but, mostly, a reasonably safe income flow. Compounding created growth.
It wasn't until the turn of the past century that buying and owning shares was a "normal" investment practice, and only then in small doses.
The risks were still high, modern corporate reporting still a fantasy. Business owners had every competitive reason to keep their numbers hidden, their strategy opaque.
It was just this kind of opacity that created the dislocations in market prices that made stock investing so lucrative for some. Insider trading rules were vague, and it was easy for a small circle of experts to sell a story and get others to bite.
Fast forward a few decades, and all that has changed. Stock investing these days offers few advantages; the information flow is deep and far more reliable. Certainly, high speed trading has chased out of the market nearly every possible distortion, other than the ones created by traders themselves.
In some ways, we know too much. Stocks have turned, in the words of Vanguard Group Founder Jack Bogle, into "income generators" more than speculative vehicles. When all is said and done, these days stocks are as much about dividends as stock price gains, so-called "total return."
It's not surprising, then, that huge numbers of investors have begun to give up on the idea of figuring out which stock will prosper and which will not. As Morningstar reports, the flood into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has continued unabated.
International ETFs led the pack in the latest round of incoming cash, but that's in part portfolio allocations moving around. Holdings of U.S. stocks remain high, as do bond positions.
Meanwhile, brokerage Charles Schwab recently announced a platform, called OneSource, through which investors can trade from among 105 ETFs commission-free. In effect, Schwab is repeating a model it built for mutual funds years ago, hoping to attract the hordes of retirement investors who need access to the products at a low cost.
Schwab has a competitor, of course, in TD Ameritrade, which offers a similar number of commission-free funds. All of them are chasing Vanguard Group, which pioneered the cheap fund business and has 46 ETFs that trade without commissions for its investors.
Vanguard also has the advantage of long offering the very cheapest funds in terms of management fees, although Schwab is giving Vanguard a run for its money there, too.
Cost matters, a lot. Once you begin to understand how little difference can made in trying to trade on inefficiencies in an efficient market, the costs incurred in the attempt become clear. A small number of insiders could, potentially, still find a way to game a stock in their favor, for a little while.
Most investors, however, just don't find these kinds of opportunities around, unless they already are close to the stock (and thus legally restricted) or take a chance on little-known shares in far-flung or very small, illiquid markets. Neither strategy is advisable, least of all for retirement investors.
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After nearly nine hours of chanting and tears from seas of opponents and supporters in color-coded T-shirts, Houston City Council passed an ordinance on Wednesday extending equal rights protections to gay and transgender residents.
Despite weeks of discussion and dissent over the measure, the final vote was 11-6, a count that matched guesses made months ago, when Mayor Annise Parker — the first openly lesbian mayor of a major American city — said she planned to bring forward such a measure.
The approval was greeted with thunderous applause from the audience, largely full of supporters, and chants of "HERO," for the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance.
"While much of the debate has centered around the gay and transgender section of the ordinance, it is a comprehensive ordinance," Parker said after the vote. "It is a good step forward for the city of Houston."
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ALPHARETTA, GA--(Marketwired - December 07, 2015) - HouseMaster, the first and most experienced home inspection franchise company in the U.S. and Canada, recently honored Alpharetta, GA's Mark and Mary Helen Thompson at the company's annual conference held October 2-4 at the Wyndham San Antonio Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
The Thompsons received membership in the prestigious HouseMaster President's Club for 2015. The award recognizes franchisees who have achieved sales volume over $300,000 during the twelve-month period from July 2014 through June 2015.
"It was very gratifying to be recognized at our conference this year," said Mark. "In today's competitive real estate market, the services we offer as part of the HouseMaster family are more important than ever in helping both sellers and buyers make educated real estate decisions. I'm proud to be a source of quality home inspection services for our local community."
At this year's HouseMaster Conference franchisees attended sessions on best practices in hiring, reporting, and business management and were brought up to date on the latest developments in topics as diverse as local office marketing to drone technology.
"Each year, the award ceremony at our conference recognizes deserving individuals for their sales and business success, as well as their commitment to the principles of the HouseMaster brand," said Kathleen Kuhn, President of HouseMaster. "This year's conference theme -- We Are HouseMaster -- was chosen to celebrate the professionalism and commitment of our entire HouseMaster family and to highlight the driving force behind our award winners' success -- a passion for excellence. Mark and Mary Helen are remarkable Business Owners who are a great example of excellence."
As HouseMaster Owners, the Thompsons provide home buyers and sellers an independent, third-party, professional evaluation of the condition of the major elements of a home. The guaranteed inspections enable potential home buyers and sellers the opportunity to make educated real estate decisions. From interior systems such as plumbing and electrical to exterior components like the roof and siding, the HouseMaster Home Inspection includes the evaluation of all visible and accessible elements of the home.
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One other thing to consider is the difference between choosing a business based upon cost opposed to how much experience they actually have. You will find that many of the locksmiths will have years or decades of experience. Then you will look at the prices that they charge for not only emergency services, but the different things that they can do for you at your office or home. If you need to rekey all of your locks as a result of a tenant that you do not want to get back in to a rental that you have, or you simply want to be safe and replace the locks on your house, they can do this quickly. The prices that they charge for the services, however, can vary quite a bit and this is where you need to make a decision on whether to use someone with experience or the best prices. What most people do is they will simply choose the top company, even though they might be slightly higher in the prices that they charge per hour or per job. By doing this, you can feel confident that they will be able to not only get out your location quickly, but that the work that they do will be worth every dime that you pay.
How Many Should You List In Your Phone?
One final thing to consider is how many of these you will list on your phone. Some people only want to list two or three. Others will list five or six if there are that many just to make sure that if one of them is busy, they will still be able to get the emergency help that they need. It is recommended that you organise this list in regard to those that have the most feedback. You will then want to consider the prices that they charge. As you go down the list, you will simply keep calling until you find one that can dispatch a locksmith out to your location. This is the best way be fully prepared for these unwanted situations. Finally, make sure that this list is also available at your house. You can put this by your phone at home. This will allow people that are at home to quickly call one of these locksmiths to come out to your location, ensuring that you will always be able to get help.
Locksmiths our numerous, but you can organise all of them. These tips will help you find the best ones for the least amount of money. Even though your safety is always a priority, it's good to save a little bit of money on the total cost of the services they will provide. You will know that, even if they charge a little less, you will still have a reputable business coming out to your location. Also consider using them for installing security systems. Some people prefer purchasing these from stores but they never know exactly what to do. They will be able to help you install one at your office or home in no time at all, and can do so for a very reasonable price as well. After you have completed your research, you will no longer have to worry about either traveling in the area, or going a few miles out. You should also know how far they can travel to help people that live in this community. This will help you feel confident about going anywhere, regardless of the time of day or night.


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The show: "Abundance" by Beth Henley at Hartford Stage
First impressions: This sweeping frontier saga centers on two special-delivery brides in the American West in the 1860s, and follows their tumultuous lives over 25 years as they face near-starvation, fire, frostbite, droughts, deformity, foreclosure, and kidnapping by Indians. Think "Little Big Women," as a distaff nod to the Arthur Penn loopy revisionist Western film.
Intimacy is on Henley's mind as she explores the women's relationships. One is a free spirit leaning forward for adventure. The other is a house mouse, cowering in her helplessness. One misfit husband is abusive, cruel and a jerk. The other is passive, awkward and a dope.
It's tricky to present these personal, episodic stories writ large on a vast historic, iconic landscape (not to mention the stark expanse of Hartford Stage). Trickier still is the ever-shifting tone, humor and rhythms of this offbeat parable that flirts with epic themes about gender, commerce, celebrity, the myths of America — but opts instead for something less abundant.
So did you like it?: I have a decidedly mixed response. I appreciate many of the ideas — well, notions more than fully-formed ideas really — raised in the play. But there's little pulling these turn of events together into a satisfying whole in the production directed by Jenn Thompson.
While there are many individual scenes that amuse, shock and move, they are not artfully integrated but rather loosely stitched like a crazy quilt.
The story?: The untamed American West of the mid-to-late 19th century is the blank canvas awaiting those who want fresh starts, new adventures or a place to call home. Two women — subservient Bess (Monique Vukovic) and hyper-active Macon (Brenda Withers) — meet as they wait for their new mates at a train station and become friends, though they really have little in common other than their marital predicament and their hope for a brighter future in desperate times. "Honey, I'd rip the wings off an angel if I'd thought they'd help me fly,' says Macon.
Bess' intended has died but his brute of a brother Jack (James Knight, looking like smarmy Kardashian hanger-on Scott Disick) marries her instead, with all the disinterest of buying a heifer.
Macon's new mate, the recently widowed, one-eyed William (Kevin Kelly), is no prize either, but the resilient Macon makes the best of it. The couple prospers as homesteading neighbors Bess and Jack's fortunes quickly go bust thanks to ne'er-do-well Jack. William and Macon take the couple in and then relationships get complicated.
A sudden exit of one of the characters, a leap in time and a reversal of fortune changes things, as America and the West become transformed.
The melancholy increases as friendship dissolve, destinies are switched and the freedom that both woman sought at the play's beginning seem distant.
Production values?: Though I get the sense of awesome isolation in the Wyoming wilderness in Wilson Chin's big sky vista, the two couples on that huge, ever-rotating stage seem awfully lonely at times, in unintended ways. Philip S. Rosenberg's lighting paints with a beautiful Western hue. But Toby Jaguar Algya's sound design is jarring and too modern for the room.
And the actors?: Withers' Macon comes across at first as a Calamity Jane-like caricature but as the play progresses she finds the complexity of colors in her deferred dreams that make her final scene poignant. Vukovic has the task of making Bess more than a doormat, an almost unsurmountable challenge, redeemed by her second act make-over.
Kelly embraces the core of his gruff, frustrated character and works wonders with every comic pitch that Henley tosses his way. Knight looks too handsome and buff for the role but finds a dry arrogance that suits Henley's rhythms. John Leonard Thompson is fitting as the editor who knows a good story when he sees one.
Who will like it?: Henley fans for sure. Lovers of extravagant yarns told with a sharp stick. Those searching for a female-centric point of view in the making of the American West.
For the kids?: Though there's an adulterous relationship, the language is 19th century appropriate. Smart teens will connect to the tall tale aspect of the play and what kid won't relate to the brawling and series of farming and mining disfigurements?
Twitter review in 140 characters or less: O Pioneer Women! You're in for one rough ride.
Thoughts on leaving the parking lot?: Can the physical space make a difference? I wonder. If this production were presented on a smaller TheaterWorks-like space, would it have made the experience different, more intimate, ironically claustrophobic? (Big skies, tiny cabins?) But sometimes big pictures are best seen close-up.
The basics: The show at 50 Church St., downtown Hartford plays through April 28. The running time is 2 hours and 10 minutes, including one intermission. Information at 860-527-5151 and www.hartfordstage.org.
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In search of something transformational in these troubled times, we're headed down to a food fight at Irvine Lake, something legitimate, fully sanctioned, with rows of port-o-potties lined up like sentries at a royal garden. Have you noticed that, of all the people at the Los Angeles Times, I get the most assignments involving port-o-potties?
The royal garden in this case features heaping mounds of tomatoes, ringed by chain-link fencing. The setting is Edenesque, though it stinks a little too, and we haven't even started stomping the stupid things or — on occasion — vomiting.
Let me set the scene: Here near Irvine (the Greek word for mini-malls), we have this harvest of squishy Roma tomatoes.
PHOTOS and VIDEO: Tomato Battle food fight
We also have almost 3,000 young people, if you include me. I've brought a couple of my interns, Bob and Craig. They're both older than I am but are interested in pursing serious journalism, and I've agreed to take them under my wing. One's an attorney. The other's a banker/rum-runner. Naturally, journalism seemed the next logical step.
"If I don't win a Pulitzer for this, they may as well just quit giving them," I tell some young participants from Texas, who actually giggle.
I'm not sure whether they know what a Pulitzer is, but for Texans they seem pleasant enough. And, frankly, I'll talk to anyone who laughs at my jokes — till the sparkle inevitably goes out of their eyes and they politely excuse themselves to go find a friend or a port-o-potty.
You may have seen a tomato fight before, but probably not. Most famously, a festival known as La Tomatina is held in Spain each summer, and the photos always seem to squeeze their way into the foreign section of the newspaper, black and white and red all over.
As with many things Spanish — galleons, moss, wild-eyed actresses — tomato battles have now found their way into America. There's one in the Bay Area later this month, and Seattle, San Diego and Portland, Ore., have already held them.
Here near Irvine, we have a splendid day for a tomato fight, mid-'80s, dry as a preacher's laugh. There's a lake nearby, but that doesn't seem to factor in to this event. We pre-party on the lawn, with rap music and a beer-fueled costume contest, dignity everywhere.
Emcee: "Next up, we have a ... guy ... in ... a ... weird ... vest?"
But mostly, people show up as themselves, a bunch of mutant blobs like me and the interns looking for a little lightheaded lawlessness on a Saturday afternoon. Really, this has all the makings of a minor bar brawl.
It's a friendly crowd, but of some concern are the intellectual elite with tattoos across their backs, in gangy, Old English fonts.
Then the gates open and the crowd pours in, scooping up the rancid, overripe tomatoes. (Organizers say they are so past prime that "it would be unethical to sell or give these tomatoes away as food.")
Zaaaap, splaaaaat. "Hey, where's my shoes?"
The juices run downhill till they pond up against some hay bales at the far end of the parking lot.
This creates what the Army Corps of Engineers would call a holding basin. Or the world's biggest Bloody Mary. Just to be safe, one young lady is carrying a squirt gun filled with vodka.
For more than an hour, the air fills with tomatoes and snorty laughter. Sarah Verga of Hawaii plants herself in this sluice of juice and starts wildly splashing those around her, who mob up to splash her back. Give it up for Sarah, a Navy SEAL of slime.
As is frequently the case at the junction of mayhem and confusion, there are also some beautiful moments — divine, spiritual, almost rabbinical in their clarity. "Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification," explained John Donne, and I'm pretty sure he was speaking about tomato fights.
Sarah's mermaid moment represents this, as do the actions of participants who have thrown themselves into puddles to make snow angels in the slush.
PHOTOS and VIDEO: Tomato Battle food fight
Fortunately, the battle is only occasionally brutal. A few of the intellectual elite are zinging line drives, but everyone else seems content with just tossing the tomatoes in big, punty arcs.
Still, I get pegged once in the eye and retreat, passing our photographer, Gary, who is chanting, "I'M GETTING HURT! I'M GETTING HURT!" as he wades further into the red zone. If he were bleeding, how would you even know?
As I told him, "without pain there are no Pulitzers."
And that was the last we ever saw of Gary.


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25-year-old Lana Del Rey certainly has a lot to be sad about: she's gorgeous, talented, and has excellent taste in old Hollywood indulgence. But as a bald traffic cop once wandered by my car and told me, everybody hurts sometimes. And there's something genuinely affecting in the picture she paints of a relationship that hits the skids, leaving Del Rey to moon against walls while her lover sits around playing video games—especially since in the first verse those same games are just one of the fun, charming things they did together.
Or maybe I'm reading too much into it!
It's worth noting—in both the lyrics and the montage footage that makes up the non-sexy part of the video—how seamlessly video games fit into the whole narrative. They're not bad; they're not good. They're just part of life.
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- Supplement This: New Studies Support Dietary Supplementation Among People Living With HIV/AIDS
- What Kind of Syringe Is Best?
- Nobody Puts Female Condom in the Corner
Here's a hodgepodge of underreported news coming out of IAC:
Supplement This: New Studies Support Dietary Supplementation Among People Living With HIV/AIDS
As we recently reported in our Introduction to Dietary Supplements for People Living With HIV/AIDS, supplements can be beneficial for the body and should be considered by HIV-positive individuals. New data coming out at the International AIDS Conference further supports this claim. Marianna K. Baum, PhD, professor of dietetics and nutrition at Florida International University in Miami, presented three studies on supplementation among individuals living with HIV.1,2,3 The studies, conducted in the United States and Botswana, found that vitamin and mineral supplementation -- specifically among the following: Zinc, multivitamins, B-complex vitamins, vitamins C and E, selenium, n-acetyle cysteine and alpha-lipoic acid -- was linked with longer survival, less immune failure and better mitochondrial function in CD4+ cells. As Medscape reports, Dr. Baum recommended that, "at least in Africa, people in the early stages of HIV infection have their nutritional status monitored and receive supplements when appropriate. This should probably occur in the United States too."
- Baum M, Campa A, Lai S, et al, and the Dikotlana study team. Micronutrient supplementation to prevent disease progression in HIV-infected adults in Botswana. In Programs and abstracts of the 18th International AIDS Conference; July 18-23, 2010; Vienna, Austria. Abstract MOPE0100.
- Campa A, Jayaweera D, Lai S, et al. The effect of zinc supplementation on immune failure in HIV infected adults on stable antiretroviral therapy (ART). In Programs and abstracts of the 18th International AIDS Conference; July 18-23, 2010; Vienna, Austria. Abstract MOPE0101.
- Baum M. Marlink R, Jayaweera D, et al. Effect of antioxidant supplementation on immune reconstitution and mitochondrial damage. In Programs and abstracts of the 18th International AIDS Conference; July 18-23, 2010; Vienna, Austria. Abstract MOPE0102.
What Kind of Syringe Is Best?
New research at the International AIDS Conference highlights the strong relationship between syringe type and HIV transmission risk. Jamie Bridge of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS explains that "every needle-syringe, when the plunger is fully depressed, retains some fluid or blood in what is termed 'dead-space.' Some syringe designs have more of this 'dead space' than others." Therefore, the thinking is, when needle sharing takes place, the more blood trapped in the dead space, the higher the chances of transmission, and vice versa. Dr. William Zule of RTI International and his colleagues gathered HIV prevalence data from 35 cities in 20 countries, and also reached out to needle exchange workers to see what types of syringes were being used. Cities that primarily used syringes with high "dead space" had an average HIV prevalence of 32.6% compared to an average of 1.4% in cities that primarily used low "dead space" syringes. While these findings may spark new strategies in harm reduction, it should be noted that all needle-syringe sharing is still a risk.
Nobody Puts Female Condom in the Corner
The male condom has been the poster boy for safer sex and HIV prevention for too long now, says advocates of the female condom. Many supporters are coming out to highlight the female condom's many benefits, or even advantages over its male counterpart. Serra Sippel of the Center for Health and Gender Equity writes, "It can protect against HIV and STIs and prevent pregnancy," but perhaps more importantly, "it is in the control of women to use." However, that's not to say that the male condom is any less practical. As Sippel further states, "The combined availability of male and female condoms has proven to [be] more effective at preventing HIV and other STIs than the sole availability of the male condom."


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We're sitting down with our favorite writers and cooks to talk about their upcoming cookbooks, their best food memories, and just about anything else.
Today: We talk to everyone's favorite food blogger, Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, about the brand-new The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook -- plus, a giveaway!
It's finally arrived, the day we've all been waiting for: The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook has hit the shelves. You'd be hard-pressed to find a home cook who doesn't revere Deb Perelman -- and/or wish to chat on the phone about recipes with her. With the 100-plus recipes in her new cookbook (mostly new, with a few old favorites from her blog), Deb's signature chatty style and simple, home-run (and Genius!) recipes comes in print form for the first time.
We talked to Deb about her tripartite cooking influences, her famously tiny kitchen, and more:
1. Describe your all-time favorite meal.This is where I'm probably supposed to bring up that one time at Per Se or something equally luxurious, but I tend to obsess more over smaller things that I miss, like this casual place we used to go to in Chelsea back when we lived there. Anyway, we'd always drink Sancerre and someone would order escargot and I'd always order this incredible crisp artichoke salad with pistachios and manchego. And we'd always split the roast chicken and the jus, the sauce, was the kind of thing you'd drink with a straw, if everyone at the restaurant promised they would look away at the same time. They had the most perfect bread, the most perfect butter, and the fries, I swear, they were fried in horse fat or something equally un-P.C. and I don't care because they were my platonic ideal of pommes frites and we've missed them terribly since the place got new owners/menus/is no longer worth mentioning. Sigh.
2. How was the book publishing process different from blogging? (Would you do it again?)I wanted so much for it to be the same because I've been food blogging for six years and I can do this! I've got this! But it wasn't. I think there's a certain amount of panic that sets in for first-time cookbook authors, this idea that the stakes are raised which leads to forgetting everything they know well. Or maybe that was just my experience. I think overtested some recipes; it's a guarantee that on the sixth round, you'll do something that makes the recipe fall apart and you'll pull your hair out and wonder why you were crazy enough to think you should write a book. Again, probably just me! And it took forever -- almost three years beginning to end, at least double the time it would have taken me to put the same amount of original recipes on the site. Finally, it's difficult to put the amount of things you can squeeze into a blog post (8 large photos, 4-paragraph stories, recipes with three headnotes and two footnotes) onto a bookpage. Impossible, actually.
3. What (or who!) are some of your cooking influences?I'd say they're equally divided into thirds: seasonal/Americana, French with a little Italian, and Jewish/Eastern European. Whenever I try to stay in one area, it doesn't work and I make hamantaschen that are closer to little free-form pastry tartlets, and beef bourguignon turns into a mushroom stew with a Strogonoff-like dollop of sour cream at the end.
4. Your kitchen is tiny. Like, teeny tiny. Do you think having an enormous space would change your cooking style? If you had a magic wand, what's one change you'd make to your current setup?It's weird because the longer I work in a small kitchen, the less it bothers me. I am not sure at this point that it would change my cooking style, or at least my approach to cooking. I think in the back of my mind I'll always have that alarm that goes off when a dish requires more than two pots or bowls or expects that your oven has room for three trays because even if your kitchen were big enough to accommodate all of that, who'd want to make a big fuss over a recipe? And although I'd like a fridge that doesn't freeze things in the back and a big open kitchen that wasn't adjacent to my son's room (he will wake up if we so much as reheat spaghetti after he goes to bed), I still think my kitchen could be a lot worse. There's a dishwasher. There are bright white cabinets (which make the place feel brighter and bigger than it is) and a cute checkerboard floor. The counter is hideous in person but looks kind of cool in photos. And there's a window, my room has a view! I can pretty much handle all of the negatives because of that.
5. What is one dish in the book that you're really proud of, and why?Oh man, you're going to make me pick a favorite child, aren't you? Just because it's fall, I'm obsessed again (re-obsessed?) with the apple cider caramels. I made them on such a whim and I knew the process (boiling four whole cups of fresh apple cider down to 1/2 cup of syrup, before adding the butter/brown sugar/cinnamon/sea salt/cream) was crazy but even now when I try them, I still can't believe I pulled it off. They look just like any other caramel, but they taste intensely like my idea of fall bliss.
The Giveaway!
Want to win a copy of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook? (That is, if you didn't pre-order a copy already...) Answer the question below in the comments section of this post by Tuesday, November 13th at 2pm EST:
What's your favorite SK recipe of all time?
We'll pick 5 random winners and contact you by email -- best of luck!
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