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This week's parsha speaks of Yaakov's meeting with Esav. Chazal teach us that we should learn from Yaakov how to relate to, and interact with, the nations of the world. This essay will build on this topic, specifically in reference to the Enlightenment, as well as that which we spoke about a little bit in my essay last week.
As the Enlightenment of the 18th century gained steam in Europe, there developed four Rabbinic responses to it. We shall classify said four responses as follows: the Litvish response, the Chassidic response, the German response, and the Hungarian response. The four pioneers and champions of these responses were R. Chaim of Volozhin, the Ba'al Shem tov, R. Shimshon Raphael Hirsch, and the Chasam Sofer, respectively.
R. Chaim & The Chasam Sofer
R. Chaim's approach in response to the Enlightenment was one of pure Torah learning. In what could be described as a "trickle down" approach, he believed that it was of utmost importance to establish yeshivas with intense Torah study in order to train and produce the top scholars of the next generation. These elite scholars would then positively influence the rest of the nation, protecting them from straying.
The Chasam Sofer advocated for a similar approach of intense Torah learning. His vision of the purpose of the yeshivas, however, was different than R. Chaim's. The Chasam Sofer believed that yeshivas should be established in order to educate the laymen — not just the elite. All should be learned, the Chasam Sofer felt, not just the best of the best. In producing such people, the yeshivas would automatically also produce the top-notch Torah scholars that R. Chaim sought for the protection and guidance of the nation. However, the main purpose of the yeshivas would be to produce as many men as possible who were Torah scholars of at least some stature.
In essence, both R. Chaim's and the Chasam Sofer's approaches were similar in that they both felt that the primary way to ensure the Jewish nation would remain faithful to the Torah was Torah study itself, and the nation's connection to it.
Chassidus & R. Hirsch
On the other hand, there is the Ba'al Shem tov and his creation of the Chassidus movement. While it is impossible to deny that certain great Torah scholars have indeed historically been drawn to Chassidus, it is equally impossible to deny that Chassidus was started as an essentially "populist" movement. It was felt that the ignorant laymen had no connection to the Torah, and subsequently no connection to Judaism itself. Due to the social or economic conditions of the time, the Ba'al Shem Tov felt it was impossible to assume that more than a handful would grow into great scholars. In light of this, the Ba'al Shem Tov felt that he needed to create a system of Judaism that gave the disconnected laymen a newfound connection to their religion. A major component of this plan was the Chassidic Rebbe and the layman's ability to connect to Judaism through him. Communities would thus be built that encouraged this association and in this way would keep the average Jew loyal to his faith.
Notably, not one of the aforementioned approaches felt that one should voluntarily embrace the outside secular world. It is here that R. Hirsch's approach comes starkly into focus. When it comes to a Jew's relationship with the outside world, R. Hirsch felt rather differently than did his colleagues. He believed that one could — and likely should — embrace the outside world and secular knowledge, so long as it was clear that such things were only secondary to (or in R. Hirsch's own words, "the handmaiden of") the Torah proper. R. Hirsch's approach also embraced Torah study, of course, though not as intensely as either R. Chaim's or the Chasam Sofer's. In this, R. Hirsch was seemingly more inclined towards the Chassidic approach of community identification in terms of ensuring the perpetuity of an observant Jewish nation. Indeed, R. Hirsch felt that this was the primary way to keep people faithful to Judaism. The uniqueness of R. Hirsch's approach lies in his embracing of secular knowledge, and the outside world in general.
It is not this author's intention to declare any one of the aforementioned approaches to be the "correct" one when it comes to the retention of an observant Jewish nation. However, it should at the very least be noted that R. Chaim's (and the Chasam Sofer's) approach was what was done pre-Enlightenment, and was the old, more traditional approach in Europe.


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parent child relationship
Hi, I'm new here and not really sure how this works, but I'll try.
Does anybody know any anime or manga that is entirely focused on parent child relationship?
-It's best if it's a good relationship.
-Extra points for single parents.
- It's okay if the parent and child aren't connected by blood.
- Adopted child/parent relationship is very lovely too.
- Older brother/sister that takes the place of the parent is okay too.
I wanted something more like Usagi Drop (the anime not the manga, this manga ins't nice) the more it shows of the kid growing and the parent/child relationship the better.
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Location: 3rd Planet
The two that comes to my mind immediately which fits the criteria above are:
- Aishiteruze Baby
- Kure-nai
I enjoyed Kure-nai a whole lot. In fact, I hold it as one of my most favorite anime series in my long list of anime I've watched.
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: FL, USA
Age: 31
It's not quite as good as say Usagi Drops was, but Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! is this type of series and should fit what you want.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Age: 33
Seconding Aishiteruze Baby and Yotsubato...
My Girl
Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki (there's a film version as well)
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Location: Tending to baby ohju with Erin
Age: 69
How about instead of a child we have a pet?
Chi's Sweet Home and Chi's New Address concern a kitty who gets lost from its mother and ends up being adopted by a young Japanese family. The son is about three so the parents have to manage both him and the kitty.
Higepiyo has a more edgy script. It's about a bearded chick (the small yellow kind) that has samurai aspirations. He's purchased at a summer fair by another young family. Higepiyo can talk; Chi has no extraordinary powers except cuteness, smarts, and a friendly personality.
Another show that you might like is Tokyo Magnitude 8.0. A pre-teen brother and sister are stranded when an earthquake hits Tokyo harbor. (This was made before the Tōhoku quake.) They are befriended by a woman in her late twenties who takes on the task of seeing them home.
In Seirei no Moribito, a similar familial bond develops between 30-yo spear-wielding bodyguard Balsa and her charge, a young prince who has been targeted for assassination. There are some powerful scenes between them throughout, but especially around episodes 18-19 and beyond.
Like monir, I'm a fan of Kurenai. However the "parent" in this case is a 16-year-old boy who becomes responsible for a seven-year-old kidnapped heiress. Their relationship is wonderfully developed, but I'm not sure Shinkarou entirely qualifies as a parent. I still recommend the show regardless.
Finally I'll recommend the first installment of Otona Joshi no Anime Time, though the story is mostly about the mother and less about her relationship with her son.
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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The western release of Mamoru Hosuda's latest feature film Wolf Children arrived at my house in blu-ray format just the other day, and is just what you're describing.
I'll also "fourth" Yotsuba&
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Henman to speak on retirement plans
British tennis star Tim Henman is to hold a press conference amid speculations that he will announce his retirement.sports Updated: Aug 21, 2007 18:14 IST
British tennis star Tim Henman is to hold a press conference in New York on Thursday amid speculations that he will announce his retirement.
Press reports this week have said that the 32-year-old player former British number one will call it quits after Britain's Davis Cup clash with Croatia - a tie which starts on September 21.
There has been no official confirmation, but Henman has called Thursday's meeting with the press to clear up the matter.
He released a short statement this afternoon which read: "Because of the recent press speculation I will be holding a press conference in New York ahead of the US Open at 11 am (1500 GMT) on Thursday to discuss my plans for the remainder of 2007."
The four-times Wimbledon semifinalist denied that he had lost any hunger for the game.
Speaking on his official website, he discussed his recent poor performances which have seen him win just three tour matches this year amid fitness problems.
"I still really enjoy practising and training and also playing matches, it's just frustrating that my body has struggled to cope with what I've been asking it to do in the past couple of years," Henman said.
"Having a family has certainly changed the way I look at the world and also to a certain extent my priorities in life, but I would not go so far as to say that it has diminished my hunger for the game."
"I was also planning to play in New Haven this week but I had to pull out because I'm having a few problems with my back."
"I'm not fully fit, so my focus at the moment is to try to get my back sorted out and then to take it from there."
Henman, whose best season was in 2002 when he climbed to fourth in the world rankings, has slumped to 92nd this year and will likely drop out of the top 100.
He is due to play in the US Open in New York starting on Monday.
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Earth's Atmosphere: A Thin Blue Line, Not an Endless Dumping Ground for Carbon Pollution
As debate over regulations proposed by the Obama Administration today to reduce emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide inevitably becomes shrill, you might keep in mind the image above, and six others in the gallery below.
They dramatize an important fact: Our atmosphere is not an endless dumping ground. In fact, when seen from the vantage of space, it looks like not much more than a thin blue line.
By 2030, the proposed regulations would cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants by 30 percent below 2005 levels. That cut would result in 2 billion fewer metric tons of carbon dioxide being dumped into the atmosphere each year — an amount equal to the emissions from powering more than half the homes in the United States.
But the ambitiousness of the plan depends quite a lot on how you look at it. U.S. carbon emissions have actually been declining without the proposed rules, and we've made a quite a lot of progress. In fact, as of 2013, energy-related emissions were already nearly 10 percent below 2005 levels, thanks to a switch from coal to natural gas for producing electricity, as well as gains in energy efficiency, increased use of renewable energy, and the Great Recession of 2007-2008.
I'll have more to say about this in a post later in the week. But for now, I thought I'd take this visual approach (make sure to enlarge the images):
I think you'll agree that the images are stunning in their own right. But I think they also can help us wrap our minds and hearts around a salient point: In a relatively brief period of time, we humans have managed to fundamentally alter the chemistry of one of our planetary life support systems: the Earth's atmosphere. In so doing, we're running increasing risks from climate change.
So, just how big a step forward is the Obama Administration proposing to take? How much of a difference will it make to the atmosphere? More about that in a day or so.
But for a preview, click on the thumbnail at right from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It shows projections for world energy-related carbon dioxide emissions out to 2040, for the developed nations (OECD) and still developing nations (non-OECD).
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We planned so great this year and paid up front so we may have a chance at a vacation this year. It looks so inviting and welcoming! Until you remember that there is oil out there just waiting to dirty up those pretty beaches. We still have a few weeks before we head out of town but I am praying that the oil holds out!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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- Blessed Mommy of 2 said...
I hope you guys get to have a nice vacation! I hate this oil spill! Our beaches in the South are too pretty for this kind of crud!
- June 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM
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Talk about blowing your nose!!! ughh yackk!
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Ohhhh I saw this on YouTube last night! This is a good fungal one cuz it comes out in bigger pieces… I also love the great white slimey junk that comes out with it! I love these kinds! Thanks again tgb!
That was WONDERFUL
ooooh! those nose hairs! that huge chunk of delicious fung! fjalskdjflksadjflkasdjf
At 1:20 I'm wondering why he thought he could get that whole big glob out? Maybe he wasn't tryin' but it looked like it!
i am always intrigued by how some popologists consistently ask: "did it smell?" "what did it smell like?" and other variations on theme. cyst and zit odor has never much mattered to me.
now, *this* time… i found myself unable to think of anything else. imagine having an active, bubbly, ugly old fungus in the very organ of smell!
did it stink? what did it stink like? hmmm?
Dr. Janikaram for pope! And thank you, tgb!
Gross is sooo cool and that is GROSS
Hee hee Think that may satisfy the booger couple? What a feast
Dr. J. is the best! Anyone get the feeling that he enjoys doing this kind of thing, like the doctor in World's Best Back Zit?
this is dr hawke Btw dr j is indian not middle eastern
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Mossbank Camp Report
We took 18 grade 7 and 8 students to Echo Valley Provincial Park on June 4-5 and 6th. Arriving just before support on June 4th, we set up camp for two nights in a campsite with no power. In a beautifully treed site, we set up tents and organized for group camping. Students had planned ahead for
George Vanier School Report
The grades 4/5s would like to thank SaskOutdoors for their generous support. This fall we went to Wanuskewin and the Forestry Farm & Zoo. The students learned about First Nations heritage and Indigenous ways of knowing as well as the introduction of settlers to Saskatchewan. The students
10th Global RCE 2016 Conference Summary
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Martin Academy Trip
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Wilderness Adventure Club at Scott Collegiate
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By 2015, more than 50 percent of organizations that manage innovation processes will gamify those processes, according to Gartner, Inc. By 2014, a gamified service for consumer goods marketing and customer retention will become as important as Facebook, eBay or Amazon, and more than 70 percent of Global 2000 organizations will have at least one gamified application.
"Gamification describes the broad trend of employing game mechanics to non-game environments such as innovation, marketing, training, employee performance, health and social change," said Brian Burke, an analyst at Gartner. "Enterprise architects, CIOs and IT planners must be aware of, and lead, the business trend of gamification, educate their business counterparts and collaborate in the evaluation of opportunities within the organization."
For example, the U.K.'s Department for Work and Pensions created an innovation game called Idea Street to decentralize innovation and generate ideas from its 120,000 people across the organization. Idea Street is a social collaboration platform with the addition of game mechanics, including points, leader boards and a "buzz index." Within the first 18 months, Idea Street had approximately 4,500 users and had generated 1,400 ideas, 63 of which had gone forward to implementation. Further examples include the U.S. military's "America's Army" video-game recruiting tool, and the World Bank-sponsored Evoke game which crowdsources ideas from players globally to solve social challenges.
The goals of gamification are to achieve higher levels of engagement, change behaviors and stimulate innovation. The opportunities for businesses are great – from having more engaged customers, to crowdsourcing innovation or improving employee performance. Gartner identified four principal means of driving engagement using gamification:
1. Accelerated feedback cycles. In the real world, feedback loops are slow (e.g., annual performance appraisals) with long periods between milestones. Gamification increases the velocity of feedback loops to maintain engagement.
2. Clear goals and rules of play. In the real world, where goals are fuzzy and rules selectively applied, gamification provides clear goals and well-defined rules of play to ensure players feel empowered to achieve goals.
3. A compelling narrative. While real-world activities are rarely compelling, gamification builds a narrative that engages players to participate and achieve the goals of the activity.
4. Tasks that are challenging but achievable. While there is no shortage of challenges in the real world, they tend to be large and long-term. Gamification provides many short-term, achievable goals to maintain engagement.
"Where games traditionally model the real world, organizations must now take the opportunity for their real world to emulate games," said Mr. Burke. "Enterprise architects must be ready to contribute to gamification strategy formulation and should try at least one gaming exercise as part of their enterprise context planning efforts this year."


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Education Director Ben Johns went to the Chorus America annual conference in Atlanta to receive the 2010 Chorus America Education Outreach Award from Mary Lyons. Thanks, Chorus America!
This video was shown to illustrate Chanticleer's commitment to education.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEILj9LtJ80
Since next year's annual conference will be in San Francisco, Ben was asked, along with Melanie Smith ( ED of the SF Girls' Chorus) and Vance George ( Music Director Emeritus of the San Francisco Symphony) to do a little patter encouraging people to come here next year. Ben displayed one of his extraordinary skills.


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Millie Wilton and Olivia de Lautour from Room 22, are organising this fundraiser as a homework task. Our class is helping out by cooking biscuits for them.
Room 22 are getting out their mixing bowls, popping on their aprons and whipping up some puppy-shaped biscuits for the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind (RNZFB) Red Puppy Bikkie Day.
Red Puppy Bikkie Day, now in its third year, is part of the RNZFB's annual Red Puppy Appeal to raise funds to support RNZFB guide dogs.
Millie and Olivia will be selling puppy-shaped biscuit during morning tea break, outside the Food Tech Room on Thursday the 4th, 11th and 18th of April. The cost of each cookie will be $2.00.
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Pizza Hut has launched a limited-edition pizza-scented perfume.
The Canadian arm of the pizza chain is giving away 110 bottles of the fragrance to winners of a Facebook competition.
The company asked its fans on the social networking site back in August: "Do you love the smell of a box of Pizza Hut pizza being opened? We thought so. If that smell was a perfume, what would it be called?"
After an overwhelmingly positive response from fans - many of whom claimed they would happily purchase a perfume if it existed - Pizza Hut Canada followed up later with a post confirming the scent.
The diner promised to give 100 bottles away as prizes to the first people to reply to the message.
The prize-winners will be receiving the fragrance, which reportedly smells like "freshly baked dough with a little bit of spice", later this week.
The marketing director of Pizza Hut Canada Beverley D'Cruz has hinted that the perfume may yet hit high street shelves, saying: "For now, we've only produced 110 bottles of Eau de Pizza Hut, but who knows what the future has in store?"
Food related toiletries appear to be in fashion, with last month seeing a sushi-scented perfume as well as a bacon-flavoured shaving cream go on sale.


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Mike Manos has a post on eliminating the cruft in data center.
Attacking the Cruft
March 28, 2012 by mmanos
What I like is the the Power Hog part.
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When two nineteenth-century Oxford studentsVictor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelleyform an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.
This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and life. Afterward, these concepts become an obsession for the young scientist. As Victor begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor's purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday menthe resurrectionistswhose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature that will bear his name for eternity.
Filled with literary lights of the day such as Bysshe Shelley, Godwin, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley herself, and penned in period-perfect prose, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein is sure to become a classic of the twenty-first century.
I was born in the alpine region of Switzerland, my father owning much territory between Geneva and the village of Chamonix where my family resided. My earliest memories are of those glistening peaks, and I believe that my spirit of daring and ambition was bred directly from the vision of altitudes. I felt the power and grandeur of nature there. The ravines and the precipices, the smoking waterfalls and the raging torrents, had always the effect of sanctifying my life until one white and shining morning I felt compelled to cry out to the Maker of the Universe, "God of the mountains and the glaciers, preserve me! I see, and feel, the solitude of your spirit among the ice and snow!" As if in response to my voice I heard the cracking of the ice and thunder of an avalanche, on a distant peak, louder than the bells of the cathedral St. Pierre in the narrow streets of old Geneva.
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Under Ackroyd's romantic, rapid pen, Frankenstein becomes accessible, easy to absorb, and light. He continues to prod the original tale's questions of creation and death, but does so at a modern pace. Needless to say, the tale has morphed considerably since its roots in Paradise Lost. Satisfied readers of Ackroyd's text will not find the truest, purest rendition of Frankenstein, but they will delight in a nineteenth-century tale of terror that still captures our attention in a twenty-first-century form.
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Role of SMS changing with mobile maturity and intersection of social
By Giselle Tsirulnik
October 24, 2011
Consumers can share Gilt products via SMS
As the mobile space evolves, due in part by the intersection of social, the role of SMS as a marketing vehicle is expanding.
Retailers and brands should be incorporating SMS into their mobile commerce sites to let consumers share and recommend a product they are viewing from their device via text message. Brands such as Gilt Groupe, Amazon, Best Buy and Target are encouraging their existing and potential customers to share via an SMS feature within their commerce-enabled mobile sites.
"When compared to a particular product message coming directly from a brand or retailer, as it usually does, the message is more powerful in two ways," said Doug Wick, director of product marketing at Digby, Austin.
"First, the product is coming from someone the recipient knows personally and trusts," he said. "Second, that person might know the recipient's tastes and be sharing the product because she thinks it will be something her friend will like.
"When compared to other sharing channels – email, social sites – it is both more immediate and more one-to-one. For those reasons, it is probably the most likely to get a recipient's attention."
SMS for sharing
Consumers shopping Gilt's mobile site, for example, can tap to recommend a product and then get an option to share via Facebook, Twitter, SMS or email.
SMS is an important option to include, since consumers are more likely to trust someone they know.
According to the Nielsen Co. 90 percent of consumers surveyed trust recommendations from people they know, while 70 percent trusted consumer opinions posted online.
"Shoppers are highly likely to check out something that has been recommended to them by a friend by clicking through, and even if they don't end up buying that product they will likely end up browsing and becoming familiar with a retailer's general product assortment," Mr. Wick said.
"This could mean a newly acquired customer and all of the value associated with that new relationship," he said.
Accustomed to SMS
According to a recent report by Pew Internet, 73 percent of adults with mobile devices use SMS on their phone at least occasionally.
Text message users send or receive an average of 41.5 messages per day, with the user sending or receiving 10 texts daily.
"SMS is a great medium for sharing because it is very low-barrier for the sender – unlike sharing to social sites where a login is necessary," Mr Wick said. "And it grabs the immediate attention of the recipient.
"Also, as a communication channel it is something mobile users are accustomed to using to communicate with their friends, and it can reach any friend regardless of device type or presence on a social site," he said.
Brands and retailers are already relying on SMS as a channel for service. For example, letting shoppers set reminders or notifying them of shipment and delivery.
Additionally, SMS can be used for marketing and loyalty through collecting opt-ins on a mobile site or by other means and building a database of interested consumers.
These types of campaigns must be as targeted as possible.
"Because the channel is so personal and immediate, a noisy or irrelevant marketing message over SMS will do a lot of harm to a retailer/shopper relationship," Mr Wick said.
"It is best to allow them a high degree of control over how they are contacted in SMS and use it as a vehicle for the relationship, not as a primary venue for pushing offers," he said.
Mobile Marketer Senior Editor Giselle Tsirulnik interviewed Wilson Kerr, director of business development and sales at Unbound Commerce, Boston, regarding the role of SMS as a sharing instrument.
Here is what he said:
What is the benefit (for a brand or retailer) of having a consumer SMS/MMS a product they are viewing via a mobile commerce site to a friend?
This sort of social sharing means the retailer or brand has a new touch point delivered instantly to a highly prequalified audience. Since the text arrives from a trusted friend, the person who receives it is very likely to open the text, read it, and click on the link.
How could this potentially drive sales for a retailer?
If the retailer has a mobile-optimized site, the SMS can serve as a deep link straight into the section of the mobile commerce site where that exact product (or product grouping) is queued up and ready to buy. This can impact mobile commerce sales and can be tracked.
Do you think more retailers will be incorporating SMS into their mobile sites in 2012?
Yes, smart retailers will utilize a variety of new ways to have hyperlinked touch points spread by consumers who then link these consumers into their mobile commerce sites, to the exact page where the applicable product is served up.
As SMS replaces email with the younger generation and more and more retailers build and launch m commerce sites, this method of "trigger point marketing" will only become more effective at driving tracked ROI.
Why is SMS a good medium to encourage sharing?
SMS is personal and it comes from a known, trusted person. It also opens up a new channel of communication between the retailer and the consumer, since the mobile commerce platform captures the numbers of the sender and the recipient.
What are some other ways SMS can be incorporated into a mobile commerce site?
SMS can be tapped to allow consumers to share the pre- and post-purchase links to a product in a mobile commerce site. SMS can also be used, via short codes, to drive traffic for a m commerce site, since the link can be texted back to the consumer, by the retailer.
Additionally, SMS can be used to sign up customers to loyalty programs or allow them to opt-in for announcements of new arrivals, etcetera. If a shopping cart is abandoned, SMS can be used to ping the customer who did not complete their transaction, to remind them that their cart is full and they forgot to check out.


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It's Nurse's Week this week aka the one week out of the year when nurses can get free food from Cinnabon. Sweeeeeeeet.
It's also the week when hospitals, and just regular human beings, show their appreciation for nurses. And if you're like "ugh another appreciation week for a profession that isn't mine" then I say be a nurse for one day and let me know how that goes, buster. Every day should be nurses day considering they are the backbone of the health care system. But that's just my opinion.
There is a commercial that Johnson & Johnson airs during this week for their "Campaign for Nursing's Future." You've probably seen it on your Facebook newsfeed because it always resurfaces around this time of year and boy is it a real tear jerker. Get your tissues out because HERE IT IS.
Year after year I would watch this commercial and get the goosebumps. I couldn't wait until I was a real nurse. I admired the nurse's gentleness with the little girl, how much he cared for her, and the relationship the nurse shared with his patient. You guys are probably like OK Katie, great commercial, but these people are just actors, this guy is just acting like a good nurse. WRONG. This is a real nurse and a real patient. My heart, be still! In this 30 second commercial, you get a little glimpse into what it's like for a pediatric oncology nurse. A tough and, most likely, emotionally tolling field of nursing.
But this year I watched the commercial through a new set of eyes: as the patient.
Technically I am not a little girl. Do I sometimes act like one? Sure. And no, my nurses did not sing a song to me as they pushed my chemo through my port. But the thing is, I'm sure that if I asked them to sing a song with me, they would have.
The nurse says "I know it's not your favorite, but it's time for your medicine." Hell nah is chemo anyone's favorite. Although it kills cancer, it takes a lot away from you as a person. Your hair, for starters. But this nurse turned it into something that didn't have to be so bad for that little girl. And I can relate to that. I've already written about the nurses I've had throughout this whole process. From the nurse that called me every single day to tell me what hormone shots to give myself when I was having my eggs frozen, to the peri-operative nurses who gave me hugs the day I got my port placed, to my homegirl Judy, and every other nurse I met along the way. All of them made a really, really, shitty thing turn out to be kinda tolerable.
They got me through the really bad days and cheered me on through the really good days. They comforted me. They laughed with me. They put up with all of my ridiculousness. They cared for me. They healed me.
I feared that I would forget how to be a nurse. I once expressed that to Judy, and after she quizzed me on some drug names to tease me, she assured me that I would not forget how to be a nurse, and that in fact, I would only be a better one after all this was over. And even though I still fear that come September I'm going to either freeze or word-vomit the first time I have a patient, I know that she's right. I can Google drug names and medical facts, but I can't find the answer to how to be a compassionate and empathetic person on Wikipedia (can I Ask Jeeves, though?). I will never forget how my nurses made me feel throughout my treatment and I want to be able to make my patients feel that same way.
So this Nurse's week, I not only thank my professors and instructors who taught me how to be a nurse through the eyes of a student, but I also thank the nurses who showed me how to be a nurse through the eyes of a patient. It's something I wish I never had to see, but I'm going to use it to treat patients the way I wanted to be treated.
Wish all of the nurses you meet a happy Nurse's Week because they deserve every ounce of appreciation ever. Now, enjoy those Cinnabons ya'llllllllll.
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Violin students to perform free recital of Baroque sonatas
Violin Studio Recital: Solomia Soroka's students performing Biber's "Rosary" Sonatas
Date and time: Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College Music Center
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Goshen College violin students in the studio of Associate Professor of Music Solomia Soroka will perform a free recital of sonatas by Baroque composer Heinrich Iganz Franz Biber on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall. The recital is free and open to the public.
Soroka will perform along with Goshen College string students Katie Miller, Maggie Yoder, Brisa Peacock, Sam Smucker, Hillary Harder, Josh Yoder, Martina Pudelova and Garrett Ahlgrim. The students will be accompanied on harpsichord by Goshen College Music Department staff accompanist Christine Larson Seitz.
This unique recital will feature the Rosary Sonatas by renowned Baroque violinist Heinrich Franz Biber. Each sonata of this cycle corresponds with a bead on the rosary and depicts an event of the lives of Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary. The sonatas constitute one of the virtuosic high points of the Baroque violin repertoire. In addition to the daring technical and contrapuntal demands of Biber's writing, each sonata employs a different tuning of the violin's strings, known as scordatura. This collection of Rosary (or Mystery) Sonatas survives in a manuscript copy with engravings accompanying each piece portraying each depicted scene, and these engravings will be displayed at the recital.
Soroka, born in L'viv, Ukraine, is among the most accomplished Ukrainian musicians of her generation. She won top prizes in three prestigious international violin competitions held in the former Soviet Union: the Prokofiev, Lysenko and Zolota Osin' competitions. Soroka earned her master's degree and completed postgraduate studies at the Kyiv Conservatory, and later served on its faculty in the chamber music department. Her doctoral degree is from the Eastman School of Music. She has made four recordings for Naxos, for which she has received excellent reviews in major music magazines in the United States and Europe. For the past four years she has been under contract with Toccata Classics in London, to make world premier recordings. Soroka teaches violin, chamber music, music literature and advanced music theory at Goshen College. During the summer she conducts masterclasses in Italy and Ukraine. She studied with Hersh Heifetz, Bohodar Kotorovych, Liudmyla Zvirko and Charles Castleman.


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Fancified sammiches! They are one of my favourite things really... And when cheese is involved? No less than TWO types? I'm in.
I was scared of the jalapeño used in the original recipe, so I cut that out and used some less-scary hot sauce instead! Cause you just never can tell with some chillies, and I ddnæt want to burn my face off... If you prefer a more creamy combo I would suggest swapping the green pepper for sliced avocado, done and done!
Grilled Two Cheese Pepper or Avocado Sandwich
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2 slices of bread
1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp cream cheese
Few drops hot sauce
1/2 green pepper or 1/2 avocado, sliced
1-2 slices of cheddar
- Simply spread out the cream cheese on a piece of bread, followed by some hot sauce pepper/avocado and the cheddar. Place the second slice of toast on top.
- In a frying pan, heat the butter on medium-low heat as you want the cheese to get time to melt. Place the sandwich in the pan and fry for a few minutes until golden and cheese melted.
Whatcha waiting for? Tuck in!
This morning has started rather well! I went to a colleague's band's album launch last night and made it home a little late, and thus I slept in... Then, we headed over to Meadow Road
and had a veggie breakfast of epic proportions. Toast with sliced avocado, wilted spinach, poached eggs and hot sauce... Along with a sneaky cappuccino and some ginger beer, it really hit the spot on a Sunday morning....
Today, I am going to the first ever pantomime! In the UK, this is really popular, mainly amongst children, and it works like a theatre play where the audience interacts with the actors and actresses. After having lived in the country for seven and a half years, I reckon it is about time I go and see a play. Next up on the list will be to attend a proper ceilidh!
This evening I am also going to a pot luck dinner with friends, and I shall rattle up a loaf of banana bread. Knowing my friends, there will be a bunch of treats! What are your plans for the rest of the Sunday? Hopefully all leisure!
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"Release shortly after the band's appearance at Woodstock," Alec Kerr says of Sly in the Family Stone's 'Hot Fun in the Summertime' (1969), "this became a big hit that, thanks to powerhouse vocals and catchy horns, remains a classic of the era."
And then something a little quieter, 'One Summer Dream' by Electirc Light Orchestra (1975). Alec says, "A beautiful ballad that like many Electric Light Orchestra songs recalls John Lennon. Jeff Lynn has a tendency to over-produce, but when he lets the music breathe he can soar as high as Lennon."


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ST. GEORGE, Utah – Butler softball has advanced to the NJCAA Division I National Championship game for the second consecutive year after defeating No. 2 Salt Lake (UT) 9-3 in Friday's semifinals at Canyon Softball Complex.
The Grizzlies (57-1) scored six runs in the second inning to break a scoreless tie, then added three insurance runs in the fourth to secure a title berth. Kenzie Young went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run and four RBI, while Brynn Minor tossed a complete-game six-hitter.
Butler will have a chance to repeat as national champions when they play in Saturday's title game at 1:00 p.m. CST against the winner of Salt Lake and Florida Southwestern State.
Alexis Reed opened the scoring for Butler with a two-run single through the right side of the infield, which scored Minor and pinch runner Nykiah Hines. Later in the inning, Young doubled to left to drive in Reed and Paige Pacher.
With two runners on base, a Becca Schulte single to center skipped past Salt Lake centerfielder Dani Perkins. The error allowed Ki'Audra Hayter and Young to both score, giving Butler a 6-0 lead.
In the third, Salt Lake took advantage of a two-out error and put two runners on for Alex Valencia, who hit a three-run home run to left for the Bruins' only runs.
Butler grabbed three runs back in the fourth on a Hayter RBI single that scored Celina Sullivan. Young then blasted a two-run home run to left to cap the scoring.
Minor (13-0) picked up her second win of the tournament, giving up three unearned runs on six hits and striking out two.
Both Minor and Allison Jurgensen had two hits each for Butler, while Hayter scored two runs.
NOTES: Butler is now 15-12 all-time in NJCAA Tournament games and 2-0 in winner's bracket semifinal contests… Minor dropped her earned-run average to 1.10, which gives Butler three pitchers ranked in the top seven among NJCAA D-I teams. Regan Mergele ranks first with an 0.56 ERA, while Sullivan (0.95) and Minor rank fifth and seventh, respectively… Schulte has 107 runs batted in and is two away from tying Natalie David of Wabash Valley for the NJCAA RBI leader… Butler has scored at least nine runs in each of the four tournament victories and is averaging 10.5 runs per game.


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text: Season 2 begins with former Las Vegas CSI D.B. Russell joining the team as they investigate a burglary/homicide committed by someone who remotely hacked the victim's home security system. Meanwhile, Avery considers moving to a new position; Krumitz is a witness in his sister's trial; Elijah deals with a delicate family situation; and further information is revealed about Nelson's and Raven's backgrounds.


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Big Sam, little impact
From an interview, Sam Allardyce (continuing his war of words with Rafa), states the following gem whilst discussing Liverpool:
"The last time one of the big four didn't finish in the top four it was Liverpool - Everton got that spot - and I think this time it looks pretty difficult having lost against Wigan.
"They are having to rely on other teams slipping up now.
"They have a wealth of experience and that may be a telling factor when the nerve ends start jangling. We saw what happened to Tottenham a few years ago with the famous 'poisoned lasagne' scenario - which was obviously never the case - and they let it slip"
What was never the case? The fact that several of our players, ghost white in colour, left their vomit all over the pitch at Upton Park? Or was that just down to the occasion? The ear-bleeding inducing reaction from the locals singing that one same dreary song over and over and over again. Or perhaps the players having epiphanies that we had no right to gate-crash the CL and nerves got the better of them, with diarrhoea decimating our hopes and dreams, which had both left the ground before kick-off hand-in-hand to go fetch their shinebox.
Nice dig there Sam. Subtle, sort of blink and you'll miss it though. I read it on Team Talk. By accident. Not exactly back page banter. I guess too busy with your man-crush on Rafa to fully concentrate on ye old Tottenham and try and stir things up properly post-match.
Shame on me for getting all Bruce Banner there for a minute almost turning a shade of green (green because I'm citing the anger of Banner turning into the Hulk rather than going green from eating a dodgy lasagne or catching the Norovirus - just thought I'd clarify that to avoid any unnecessary confusion).
Whilst on the subject - It's far more media-friendly and joke-friendly to tag the whole incident as food poisoning even though the hotel in question was cleared - which I guess is what Sam is referencing there, bit like saying 'if its not food poisoning then its down to nothing more than bottling it on the day'. Miss Marplesque deduction.
Smash them to pieces I say.
Regardless of the dig, it's only going to rile up a couple of fans and will hardly do any psychological damage to Harry and the players, considering that game happened way way back in 2006. Big Sam, little impact.
Smash them to pieces anyway.
Hit them hard, like an Opus dropped on your head. Talking of books (I'm so smooth), something not so heavy but possibly as good a read (and far more affordable) - make sure you check out Spurs' Cult Heroes - the first published book from All Action No Plot blogger and writer Michael Lacquiere. I'll give it a proper review when I get my copy delivered. Be sure to check it out anyway, available from the Spurs official site, WHSmith, Amazon, Tesco, Waterstones and Play…to name a few. Shop around.
Blanchflower, Mackay, Jones, Chivers, Gilzean, Jennings, Hoddle, Perryman, Greaves, Mabbut, Ginola, Nicholson, Gazza…list is endless. Well, it's not exactly endless because he'd never have been able to get the book out, but its jam-packed with legends. We've had one or two special players in our history, not bad for a ickle club.
Time for a cuppa.


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Don't these little treats look darling? They taste just as good, since they're made with the following: chocolate chip cookie dough, chocolate hazelnut spread, sweetened condensed milk, and hazelnuts. The cherry on top is what kills me, though! Recipe via Doris Rizza of Scottdale, Pennsylvania.
Chocolate Hazelnut Truffle Tarts
- Prep Time: 30 Min
- Total Time: 1 Hr 30 Min
- Makes: 24 tarts
- 1 roll Pillsbury™ refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
- 3/4 cup Jif® Chocolate Flavored Hazelnut Spread
- 1/2 cup Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk (from 14-oz can)
- 1/4 cup chopped hazelnuts (filberts)
- 12 maraschino cherries, halved, well drained
- Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 24 mini muffin cups with Crisco® Butter Flavor or Original No-Stick Cooking Spray.
- Shape dough into 24 (1 1/4-inch) balls. Place 1 ball in each muffin cup. Bake 8 to 16 minutes or until light golden brown. Do not over bake.
- Meanwhile, in medium bowl, mix hazelnut spread, condensed milk and hazelnuts until well blended. Shape into 24 (1-inch) balls.
- Remove cookie cups from oven; cool 1 minute. Place 1 hazelnut ball in each cookie cup; press lightly. Top each with 1 maraschino cherry half. Cool completely in pan 30 minutes. Loosen with tip of knife; gently remove from pan. Store covered.
Note: the Pillsbury Bake-Off is coming in November! Check out my coverage of the 45th and 46th Bake-Off, and follow the recipes posted so far by clicking the bakeoff tag below.


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Detainee lawyer wants court to prohibit Guantanamo force-feedings
[JURIST] A lawyer for a Yemeni prisoner held at the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detention camp has filed a motion in DC federal court asking that the use of a restraint chair and large nasal feeding tubes to force-feed his client be prohibited if he resumes his hunger strike. Muhammed Bawazir ended his protest hunger strike in January following some 12 days of force-feeding [CNN report] after refusing food for 140 days. The motion alleges that the force-feeding tactics now acknowledged by the Pentagon amount to a torture violating the recently-enacted McCain Amendment [JURIST news archive; amendment text] incorporated into the Detainee Treatment Act [JURIST document] prohibiting the cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of any person in the custody of the US government, either at home or abroad. The military says similar tactics are used to force-feed civilian prisoners on hunger strikes.
Reportedly only four detainees are still on hunger strike [JURIST report] after the military began using aggressive force-feeding tactics [JURIST report] to keep protesters alive. Lawyers had announced last month that several protesters were close to death [JURIST report] as a result of the hunger strikes. AP has more.


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Vtla Kaliseji - Native American Diabetes Resources
This information on Native Americans and Diabetes is taken from the American Diabetes Association. What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease that affects the body's ability to produce or respond to insulin, a hormone that allows
blood glucose (blood sugar) to enter the cells of the body and be used for energy. Diabetes falls into two main categories:
type 1, which usually occurs during childhood or adolescence, and type 2, the most common form of the disease, usually occurring
after age 45. Diabetes is a chronic disease that has no cure. How Does it Affect Native
Americans? Prevalence : Prevalence of type 2 diabetes among Native Americans in the
United States is 12.2% for those over 19 years of age. One tribe in Arizona has the highest rate of diabetes in the world.
About 50% of the tribe between the ages of 30 and 64 have diabetes. Today, diabetes has reached epidemic
proportions among Native Americans. Complications from diabetes are major causes of death and health problems in most Native
American populations. Of equal concern is the fact that type 2, or adult-onset diabetes, is increasingly
being discovered in Native American youth. Diabetes Rapidly Increasing Among Native Americans, Alaskans Reported
in the December, 2000 issue of Diabetes Care: Diabetes has been growing in prevalence among Native Americans and Alaskan Natives,according
to a recent study by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study found a nearly 30 percent increase
in diabetes diagnoses among these populations between 1990 and 1997. During this time period prevalence among women was higher
than among men, but the rate of increase was higher among men than women (37 percent v. 25 percent). The increase in prevalence
was highest in Alaska, where it rose 76 percent during the 1990s, and lowest in the Northern Plains region of the United States,
where it rose by 16 percent during this time period. Obesity and Native Americans: According to the National
Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the "thrifty gene" theory proposes that African-Americans,
Hispanic-Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans inherited a gene from their ancestors which enabled them to use food
more efficiently during "feast and famine" cycles. Today there are fewer such cycles; this causes certain populations
to be more susceptible to obesity and to developing type 2 diabetes. Native Americans and Diabetic Complications:
The serious complications of diabetes are increasing in frequency among Native Americans. Of major concern are
increasing rates of kidney failure, amputations and blindness. Ten to twenty-one percent of all people with
diabetes develop kidney disease. In 1995, 27,900 people initiated treatment for end stage renal disease (kidney failure) because
of diabetes. Among people with diabetes, the rate of diabetic end stage renal disease is six times higher among Native Americans.
Diabetes is the most frequent cause of non-traumatic lower limb amputations. The risk of a leg amputation is
15 to 40 times greater for a person with diabetes. Each year 54,000 people lose their foot or leg to diabetes. Amputation
rates among Native Americans are 3-4 times higher than the general population. Diabetic retinopathy is a
term used for all abnormalities of the small blood vessels of the retina caused by diabetes, such as weakening of blood vessel
walls or leakage from blood vessels. Diabetic retinopathy occurs in 18% of Pima Indians and 24.4% of Oklahoma Indians.
What is Needed? In ideal circumstances, Native Americans with diabetes will have their disease
under good control and be monitored frequently by a health care team knowledgeable in the care of diabetes. Patient
education is critical. People with diabetes can reduce their risk for complications if they are educated about their disease,
learn and practice the skills necessary to better control their blood glucose levels, and receive regular checkups from their
health care team. People with diabetes, with the help of their health care providers, should set goals for
better control of blood glucose levels, as close to the normal range as is possible for them. Health care team education is
vital. Because people with diabetes have a multi-system chronic disease, they are best monitored and managed by highly skilled
health care professionals trained with the latest information on diabetes to help ensure early detection and appropriate treatment
of the serious complications of the disease. A team approach to treating and monitoring this disease serves the best interests
of the patient. Knowledge is power. Learn what you can, talk to your health care provider and use what you
learn to help yourself beat this horrible disease.
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From Ruby To Erlang. Beginner's mistakes
I've been programming full-time using Erlang for a while already (about eight months or so). Before Erlang, I was doing some hardcore Ruby. Obviously, these are very different languages: OOP vs functional, mutable vs immutable and so on. Also, there are things you won't find in Ruby (the opposite is also true).
In this post I want to show you the mistakes that I've made and the lessons that I've learned during the transition.»


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Sonoma Area Camp
Camp Cazadero is located northwest of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County's rolling hills just north of the Russian River, in Cazadero, CA. This rustic site sits on 1,000 acres of open meadow, groves of redwoods, madrones, firs, and oak trees, and stunning waterfalls. This beautiful and serene setting features long distance trails, an abundance of wildlife, and seclusion from the busy world, making it ideal for exploration and outdoor education.
Camp Details
Driving Directions Address: 22175 King Ridge Road, Cazadero, CA 95421
Mailing Address: 23500 King Ridge Road, Cazadero, CA 95421
Environment: Redwoods, oak woodland, meadows, riparian and aquatic communities.
Contact: To reach a teacher, student, or staff member during their program at Camp Cazadero, call (831) 338-8018. In case of an emergency after regular office hours, call the site director at (707) 632-5276.
Printable Driving Directions: Click here.
camp cazadero Facilities
12 rustic cabins, winterized for year-round use, with accommodations for 12-14 people each, plus a teacher's cabin and nurse's cabin for up to 190. Clean bathrooms with showers are located inside each cabin.
Homemade meals served buffet style by WOLF School's friendly staff in a spacious dining hall or on the outside patio.
program space
Gill Lodge, Campfire Bowl, Vesper Point Outdoor Amphitheater, The Mesa Outdoor Gathering Area
Large Meadow, Ping-Pong Tables, Basketball Courts, Miles of Hiking Trails
Camp Cazadero is managed by United Camps, Conferences and Retreats (UCCR), a private 501(c)(3) non-profit camp and conference management organization with the mission of "creating partnerships to provide positive life-changing experiences." As the educational component of UCCR, WOLF School is provided use of UCCR properties and facilities, allowing us the ability to offer our programs at professionally-managed campuses throughout California and maintain our focus where it matters most: on our students and their outdoor learning adventure.
To learn more about Camp Cazadero and uses for these facilities other than WOLF School programs, please visit UCCR.org.


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Alright, moving right along.
I've finished the water with the moon reflection. I studied a lot of images of moon reflecting on water, but admit that I did not study the mathematics of how the moon reflects upon water based upon where it is in the sky.
Since I am not going for realism and perspective in this old piece, I chose the type of reflection that I thought I would have chosen back in 1999, if I'd had the wherewithal to imagine such a thing.
It's been enjoyable to work on this old mosaic and I may know why that is. I'm not terribly attached to an outcome and I feel free to experiment. I can't know how much this new mindset is related to the fact that I am finishing upsomething that I started back in 1999 and, in attempting to harmonize the new work with the old work, I am allowing myself to work in a more relaxed manner and with a sense of adventure. I am hoping that my interior work over the last couple of years has also been productive, but will not know the extent of progress on that front until I move on to new work.
Soon, I'll start the several square feet of sky. First, however, I will take a few days away from this mosaic to work on a small commission I've got going. I'll post about that when I make a little more progress.


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- 2 cups whole milk
- 2 cups low-salt chicken broth
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 cup polenta (coarse cornmeal)*
- 1/2 cup (packed) coarsely grated Comté cheese
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
Mushroom Ragout
- 3 tablespoons butter, divided
- 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 1 1/2 pounds assorted wild mushrooms (such as oyster, crimini, and stemmed shiitake), thickly sliced
- 1/4 cup finely chopped shallots
- 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 cup low-salt chicken broth
- 1/3 cup crème fraîche or whipping cream
- 1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley, divided
- 1/3 cup (packed) coarsely grated Comté cheese
Recipe Preparation
Generously butter 13x9x1- inch baking sheet. Bring milk, broth, and bay leaf to simmer in heavy medium saucepan. Remove saucepan from heat; cover and let steep 20 minutes to allow flavors to develop. Discard bay leaf. Bring liquid to boil. Gradually add polenta, whisking constantly until smooth. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook until polenta is very thick, stirring frequently, about 10 minutes. Stir in Comté cheese and butter. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer polenta to prepared 13x9x1-inch baking sheet. Using wet hands, press polenta evenly over sheet to edges. Chill until firm, at least 3 hours. Cut polenta into 20 squares. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.
mushroom ragout
Melt 2 tablespoons butter with 2 tablespoons oil in large deep skillet over medium-high heat. Add all mushrooms and sauté until tender and browned, stirring often, about 10 minutes. Add shallots and balsamic vinegar; sauté until tender, about 2 minutes. Season lightly to taste with salt and pepper. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.
Rewarm mushrooms in large skillet over medium-high heat until heated through. Add broth and simmer 1 minute. Stir in crème fraîche and half of parsley. Season mushroom ragout to taste with salt and pepper. Remove from heat; cover to keep warm.
Meanwhile, preheat oven to 300°F. Melt remaining 1 tablespoon butter with remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Working in batches, add polenta squares to skillet and cook until browned, about 2 1/2 minutes per side. Transfer to rimmed baking sheet and keep warm in oven while cooking remaining polenta squares.
Arrange 2 polenta squares on each plate. Top each with warm mushroom ragout; sprinkle with grated Comté cheese and remaining parsley and serve.


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No More Sad Desk Lunch: Meet Lunch Jars
I'm guilty of one too many sad desk lunches. Lacklustre salads, leftovers that can only be salvaged with mounds of cheese, toastie after toastie after toastie. So what do you do when you can't handle one more can of tuna?
Enter Lunch Jars, an Adelaide-based service ensuring you never have a sad desk lunch again. Helping you avoid the lunchtime rush with fuss-free delivery (just order before 11AM the previous day), there's also huge variety of options for all dietary requirements AND each packs a healthy serving size for the same price you'd spend on food court noodles. Win win win.
And lucky us - co-founder Alicia Rafiei let us choose a bunch of jars (and delivered them personally) so we could sample the product. Office reaction? Straight up yum.
We chat to Alicia about the success of Lunch Jars, and how the kitchen became an officce.
BNKR: Why Lunch Jars over a regular salad?
Alicia: When we envisaged Lunch Jars we had three important issues we wanted to address.
1. How can we get delicious, fresh lunch out to the people of Adelaide?
2. How can we package our product without adding unnecessary waste to landfill, and
3. How can we make our customers enjoy they're workday?
We brainstormed ideas to create what is now Lunch Jars, delivering delicious, wholesome food in recyclable jars, saving our wonderful customers the time in preparation involved in creating lunch for their working week.
Our Lunch Jar recipes are the result of many years in the kitchen cooking for family and friends, and now we can share our food with our customers.
Tell us about how you got started.
My family have always cooked. Having owned cafes previous to having a corporate job, we felt the most comfortable in kitchens - that was our office! With my mother wanting to return to cooking in restaurants, and me realising there was a gap in the market for fresh deliverable lunches, we decided to collaborate.
What's the response been like since you began the business?
We've had such a wonderful response since we launched our products online. A combination of great food, sensible packaging, and a friendly delivery service has resulted in return customers and the majority of our new customers are from word of mouth and recommendation - and for us that's the best compliment. The only criticism - if you can call it one - is that there is too much food!
Most popular Jars on your menu?
Without a doubt our most popular Jar we deliver is the American Club Salad followed closely by our Chicken Lunch Jar with Chipotle sauce. Our regular customers are always raving about how tasty the Ranch Dressing and Chipotle sauces are. Healthy carbs, fibrous vegetables, protein and delicious homemade sauce makes for the perfect combination.
Your go-to healthy snack?
For a healthy snack, we can't go past the yogurt and granola jar. The contrast of the yogurt, granola and tart berries make it super tasty and a great snack for a guilt free natural energy hit in the afternoon.
Tell us about your delivery service.
Once your order is placed, we buy all the ingredients, prep, and then cook up your fresh lunch. Based on your preferred delivery date, we head out from Lunch Jars HQ, delivering your lunch anytime before 12.00 ready for you to enjoy.
Do you have a recycling or jar pick-up option?
To contribute in the reduction of waste in landfill, we encourage all our customers to recycle their jars where possible. But the best contribution is that we pick up the jars with your next delivery. Once the empties are collected we take them back to HQ, wash and sanitise the jars and then store them ready for re-use with the next order.
What challenges have you run into as a small business, and what have you done to overcome them?
We were lucky enough to start our small business without many overhead expenses that most people starting up would run into. This gave us the opportunity to start Lunch Jars small, gradually building customer relationships and regulars. It wasn't until the business had gained enough momentum that we decided that we could pursue it as a full time job. Another challenge has been gaining initial trust within the food community, so that they were confident enough to purchase our Jars online. Our concept is quite new and it can sometime be difficult for customers to try something they haven't had before. We have overcome this by offering samples to new customers, kind of like a try before you buy. We are happy to say that every sample we have sent out, we receive such wonderful feedback and in most cases they result in being a new customer with return orders.
All images courtesy of Lunch Jars/Alicia Rafiei.
Order your own Lunch Jars here, plus give them a follow on Instagram or Snapchat @ 'lunchjars'.
Words: Lucy Ahern


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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), the world's top contract chipmaker, yesterday posted another record-breaking monthly revenue for last month, benefiting from growing demand for mobile devices, primarily smartphones.
TSMC's revenue grew 5.7 percent to NT$55.09 billion (US$1.86 billion) last month, from July's NT$52.1 billion, the company said in a statement.
On annual basis, the figure represented an 11.2 percent increase from NT$49.54 billion.
Credit Suisse analyst Randy Abrams said he expected TSMC's revenue to grow 4.7 percent this quarter, in line with the chipmaker's forecast of between NT$161 billion and NT$164 billion, from NT$155.89 billion last quarter.
TSMC said growth in its communications segment would outstrip the computer and consumer segments this quarter.
However, Abrams expected TSMC's wafer shipments to decline by between 10 and 15 percent quarter-on-quarter in the October-to-December period on customers' inventory correction and orders of 28-nanometer chips shifting to rival GlobalFoundries.
Abrams said in a report that "28nm [technology] is growing more mature and finally [customers will seek] more second sourcing."
TSMC chairman Morris Chang (張忠謀) told investors in July that a rise in stockpiles was an early indicator of a down period next quarter.
Local rival United Microelectronics Corp (UMC, 聯電) yesterday said its revenue slid 4.84 percent to NT$11 billion last month, compared with NT$11.56 billion in July, but rose 6.22 percent last month compared with NT$10.35 billion in August last year.
Separately, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (鴻海精密), a major assembler of Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads, yesterday posted weak revenue for last month.
Revenue dropped 6.6 percent to NT$280.43 billion last month from July's NT$300.25 billion. The figure was a year-on-year increase of 2.55 percent from NT$273.45 billion.
Fubon Securities (富邦證券) expected Hon Hai's revenue to drop 2.14 percent this quarter to NT$876.75 billion from last quarter's NT$895.62 billion, before staging a recovery next quarter.
It said revenue would grow 6.78 percent next quarter to NT$936.15 billion after Apple starts shipping new products from this month.
Shares of TSMC and UMC rallied 1.46 percent and 2.88 percent to NT$104.5 and NT$12.5 respectively yesterday, while the TAIEX increased 0.2 percent.
Hon Hai shares were unchanged at NT$77.


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BOSTON — The inability to reach a "consensus" among House and Senate budget negotiators over immigration enforcement doomed a controversial budget measure that would have restricted local police from acting as immigration agents, the House's lead negotiator and supporter of immigration reform Jeffrey Sanchez said.
The exclusion of the Senate-backed immigration proposal from the budget deal struck Wednesday in the Legislature drew swift and harsh criticism from supporters, including immigrant rights advocates, the sponsor of the amendment and the Democrats running for governor.
Sen. Jamie Eldridge, a sponsor of the Safe Communities Act and the author of the budget language, called it "inexcusable and shameful" that the policy was dropped from the budget, while the ACLU of Massachusetts accused the House of caving to pressure from Republican Gov. Charlie Baker.
"We just did not find consensus on those provisions," Sanchez told reporters, calling the budget accord "a balance" that required trade-offs. Sanchez was a co-sponsor of the Safe Communities Act in the House, and a supporter of the Senate budget language together with his vice-chairman and fellow budget conferee Rep. Stephen Kulik. House Speaker Robert DeLeo, however, had repeatedly raised doubts about the level of interest in taking on immigration among the full House members.
Sanchez is facing a primary challenge from another Jamaica Plain Democrat – Nika Elugardo – who has gone so far as to stage a rally outside his office pressuring the incumbent to deliver on immigration reform, but the chairman said his campaign did not factor into his thinking of budget negotiations and he trusts that his constituents know where he stands personally on the issues.
"Nobody said this was going to be easy, but who the hell cares about a politician complaining," Sanchez said.
For more on this story read Thursday's Sun or click on http://www.lowellsun.com