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Cinnamon Rolls + A Little Baking Philosophy
I made cinnamon rolls today for breakfast tomorrow before we head to northern Wisconsin to celebrate Christmas with extended family. I've been making this cinnamon roll recipe since my first job at seventeen, when I was asked to develop a signature roll for the cafe where I worked. The cafe closed after three months in business, but I've continued baking these since then because they're so damn good.
They're a pretty irresponsible way to start the day (sugar/carb coma, anyone?) but their extravagance is part of their charm. There have been days where I've eaten only cinnamon rolls, grabbing an edge every time I walked by the pan in the kitchen. Bad life choice.
The best time to bake, in my opinion, is at night. It's okay to drink a little bit; since the events of the day have passed, it's easier to focus completely on the project at hand; and no one is coming into the kitchen to bother you since all the meals have been eaten. My family, who's dealt with clunking pans, whirring mixers, and beeping timers at 10:30 PM might disagree with me. Too bad.
The one "down side", as a blogger, is that the lighting is not ideal for photography at night. I use "" because I actually don't think it's a real down side. The whole home baking blog scene has become a little food porn-y for me these days. It seems like a big ridiculous competition to see who can make the most picture-perfect sweets. Who can capture the realest drip of melting chocolate, who can create the best bokeh, who can include the most salt, bacon, pretzels, sprinkles, and dulce de leche.
I don't mean to sound so disenchanted. Sometimes I love the aesthetics of it all. I'm as guilty of scrolling through pins and blogs and salivating as the next baking enthusiast. However, at a certain point it ceases to agree with my baking philosophy. Maybe a baking philosophy is a stupid thing to have, but I've been thinking about the subject long enough that I've inevitably come to some conclusions.
Food should be pretty. It's what makes us want to eat it. But I find myself drawn to vintage cookbooks, classic cooking shows (original Martha Stewart, Julia Child, etc.), and actual functioning home kitchens, where the food looks more real. I think the flawlessness of today's home baking blogs belies the humble beauty of home baking. The flour on the floor, the inconsistencies between cupcakes, the cookies frosted by enthusiastic kids, the piles of dishes in the sink – this is the appeal of home baking to me.
The internet can set me up to have very unrealistic expectations of real life. It should – everything there is staged and color-corrected and hand-picked to look perfect. The best comparison I can think of is women in movies. In movies made even 15-20years ago (some of Meg Ryan's and Andy McDowell's work comes to mind) I'm often struck at how much less perfect the women looked. Their hair was a little frizzy. They wore lighter makeup and less form-fitting clothes. Their bodies were a little softer. And they looked gorgeous. Now, most women in movies have perfectly muscular bodies and precisely shaded eyebrows.
The crispy, caramelized underside of the roll is my favorite part.
Baking has followed the same trajectory to me. While I'm all for creativity and beautiful photography, at a certain point I begin to crave the simplicity and messiness of the home kitchen atmosphere where I first learned to bake. Maybe that just means I need to get off the internet. Why not just not blog? I guess I want to inspire people to embrace the reality of their kitchens without feeling like they are failing if things are imperfect.
So here is my favorite cinnamon roll recipe, and the photos in this post were unapologetically shot under florescent lighting and in my messy kitchen without props or mini spoons or repurposed wood or napkins from Etsy. Also, unedited. I don't have any shots of frosted rolls because I'm going to wait to frost them until right before we eat them tomorrow.
Cinnamon Rolls
Makes 9
-2 cups whole milk
-1/2 cup vegetable oil
-1/2 cup granulated sugar
-2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
-5 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
-3/4 tsp. baking powder
-1/2 tsp. baking soda
-1 1/2 tsp. salt
-1/2 cup salted butter, softened
-1/2 cup brown sugar
-1/2 cup white sugar
-2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
-1 cup salted butter, softened
-2 cups confectioner's sugar
-Vanilla extract and salt, to taste
1. For the dough, heat oil, sugar, and milk in a medium saucepan until sugar dissolves (do not boil). Cool to 110 F, then stir in yeast. Measure 5 cups of flour into a large mixing bowl. Stir in milk mixture to create a loose dough. Spray surface of dough with cooking spray, cover bowl with plastic wrap, and leave dough in a warm place for an hour to rise.
2. In the meantime, combine the remaining 1/2 cup flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl. Measure the filling sugars and cinnamon into another small bowl and stir to combine. Grab your rolling pin and a little flour to keep the dough from sticking.
3. You can also make the buttercream while you're waiting. Beat the butter in a stand mixture for a couple minutes until it's very fluffy. Add the sugar a little at a time and continue beating until frosting is light and shiny. Add vanilla and salt to taste.
4. Once the dough is risen, punch it down and stir in the flour/leavener mixture. Dust your work surface with flour and then roll the dough out into a large rectangle. Don't make it too thin. Spread with softened butter (I like to use my hands) and then with sugar mixture. Carefully roll the dough up from the bottom of the long edge, keeping it as tight as possible. Pinch the roll to seal and then flip the roll so that the seam is on the bottom.
5. Cut 9 2″ wide rolls using a serrated bread knife. Butter two sheet pans and transfer rolls to pans, spacing them evenly. Preheat oven to 375 F and allow rolls to raise while oven preheats. Once hot, bake the rolls for about 12 minutes, or until set and lightly browned. Cool slightly and then spread with frosting. Eat warm!
I've also made these with glaze or cream cheese frosting. Equally delicious.
They freeze surprisingly well after baking. You can also freeze them raw prior to second rise.
This batch easily doubles if you need more. Just roll two logs instead of one.
Gluten-Free and Low(er) Carb Breakfast Ideas Part 3: Customizable Chocolate Protein Shakes
Parts 1 and 2 of this series:
Customizable Chocolate Protein Shakes
I'm pretty picky about protein shakes but my riff on this recipe is delicious and relatively cheap too. Listed below the recipe are all the different versions I've made.
Makes 2 shakes
- 1 cup fat-free cottage cheese
- 2 scoops chocolate Designer Whey (this is the cheapest decent-tasting whey I've found at Woodman's, where I buy most of my groceries)
- 4 teaspoons Pyure brand stevia (I buy this at Wal-Mart – it's 2X sweeter than sugar)
- 2 standard ice cube trays' worth of ice (or about 20 large ice cubes)
- 1 1/2 cups vanilla or chocolate unsweetened almond milk
Blend together all ingredients except ice. If you're not going to drink the smoothie right away, you can throw this mixture in the fridge. Sometimes I do this the night before a busy day if I'm not sure that I'll be able to find time for breakfast.
Just before drinking, add ice and blend on high until smooth.
- Add 2 tablespoons of nut butter (almond is my favorite)
- Top with sugar-free whipped cream
- Add a few drops of mint or vanilla extract
- Blend in two frozen bananas
- Add 2 tablespoons of MCT oil (basically liquid-state coconut oil) for healthy fats
- Use vanilla protein powder, chocolate almond milk, and a handful of fresh raspberries for a shake that tastes surprisingly like raspberry cake batter!
Gluten-Free + Low(er) Carb Breakfast Ideas Part 2: Mini Raspberry Cheesecakes
Check out the first post in this series here:
Gluten-Free + Low(er) Carb Breakfast Ideas Part 1: Protein Pancakes
My quest to eat a high-fat and/or high-protein, low-carb, gluten-free breakfast (whew, that's a lot of qualifiers) every day continues. These cheesecakes have been a favorite grab-and-go option. They're also great for people like me who prefer sweet over savory in the morning.
#2: Mini Raspberry Cheesecakes
Cheesecake for breakfast is weird – but you won't catch me arguing. These are easy to make, easy to grab out of the fridge, they're gluten- and sugar-free, and the ingredients list includes eggs, berries, and nuts. If fat is an issue for you, you can substitute reduced-fat cream cheese and sour cream. Adapted from this recipe.
Makes 24 mini cheesecakes
- 1 1/4 cups almond flour
- 1 1/4 cups finely chopped pecans
- 5 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons Pyure stevia (I buy this at Wal-Mart – it's 2X sweeter than sugar)
- Four 8 ounce blocks of cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup Pyure stevia
- 1 cup raspberries, frozen or fresh
- Sugar-free whipped cream (optional)
Preheat oven to 300 F and put cupcake liners in two cupcake pans. Combine all crust ingredients in a medium bowl (I like to use my hands). Measure 1 tablespoon of crust mixture into each cupcake well, pressing down with fingertips to form crusts.
In a stand mixer, beat together all filling ingredients except raspberries until smooth, scraping bowl with a spatula as necessary. Stir in raspberries. Divide filling among crusts, filling cheesecakes to the top of liners. If you have any extra filling left over, spray a couple ramekins with nonstick spray and bake the extra filling in those. They can be enjoyed as crustless cheesecakes.
Bake cheesecakes for 15 minutes, or until set in the center. Cool completely on cooling racks, then store in the fridge until enjoying. You can also freeze cheesecakes and simply thaw them overnight in the fridge when ready to eat. Top with sugar-free whipped cream for extra fun 🙂
Gluten-Free + Low(er) Carb Breakfast Ideas Part 1: Protein Pancakes
As my pregnancy winds down (my due date is November 6th already!), I am trying to curb my carb- and wheat-centric ways that I've given free reign for the past nine months. Bagels, cornbread, cereal, sandwiches, egregious amounts of fruit, pasta, and DESSERTS – all have figured prominently into my diet and I've been pretty much okay with that. But I know the party has to end eventually.
This means slowly reintroducing healthier habits, starting with making gluten-free and lower-carb breakfasts for Z and me every day. I find that if I eat lots of protein and/or fat in the morning I'm less likely to a) get super-hungry mid-morning, b) eat poorly the rest of the day, and c) feel tired and lethargic.
However, usually the only thing that sounds good to me is a big bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats or a cinnamon-raisin bagel soaked in butter. Through trial-and-error I've found some healthier options that I can stomach (and actually enjoy!). They're easy to make or prepare ahead of time and Z likes them too.
#1: Protein Pancakes
Recipe here. These are the best-tasting higher-protein pancakes I've found and they're not a pain to make either. It's nice to make a bunch ahead of time and eat leftovers for a few days in a row. I top them with plain Greek yogurt, raspberries, and a little sugar-free syrup. And you can't beat 200 calories and 22 grams of protein per 3 pancakes!
More ideas to come! I've been working on my food photography this week with the help of Helene Dujardin's fabulous book Plate to Pixel: Digital Food Photography & Styling and I need practice 🙂
Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Molten Cake
Zach and I were recently having lunch at a ubiquitous chain restaurant and we were extremely tempted by a new peanut butter version of their chocolate molten cake. Zach wanted to order it and endure the consequences of eating wheat, but I promised him I would develop a gluten-free version at home instead.
Despite my experience with gourmet and homemade desserts, I am unashamedly a huge fan of chain restaurant desserts. They're over-the-top, creatively indulgent, and unapologetic. I am often inspired by them in my own baking. Creating gluten-free versions is a challenge I love to attempt. This peanut butter chocolate molten cake was delicious. I haven't tasted the original, but I don't need to now!
This recipe is primarily assembled from other sources – an almond flour brownie recipe for the cake, a peanut butter pie filling recipe for the filling, and a few of my own pointers for pulling it all together. The number of cakes made will depend on the size of your pans/ramekins.
Cake: Prepare this recipe with peanut butter instead of almond butter. Fill well-greased miniature tart pans or ramekins 3/4 full of batter and bake for 20 minutes instead of 30. Cool completely before unmolding.
Peanut butter cream filling: Prepare a half batch of the filling from this recipe.
Assembly: Once the cake is cool, use a paring knife to remove a plug of cake from the top. Heat cake in oven or microwave briefly, fill the hole on top with peanut butter cream, top with a scoop of ice cream or frozen yogurt, a drizzle of the filling, and chopped peanut butter cups. Enjoy immediately!
Gluten-Free Cookies and Cream Tart
If you don't already know this, Trader Joe's is awesome. There wasn't one where I grew up but since I moved to Wisconsin I have access to a TJ's and I love it. When I was there the other day buying the cookies for this recipe, the employee offered me a list of all their gluten-free items. And he asked me about my day in the genuine sort of way that seems almost uncomfortably intimate until you realize how much you miss it in everyday interactions.
This tart is simple, pretty, and delicious. It's a sandwich cookie in tart form….because that needed to happen. I wanted to make a traditional cookie crumb crust, but opted to add cookie crumbs to an almond-flour crust because I didn't want the crust to crumble when I un-molded the tart. It worked perfectly! The tart is filled with sweet and creamy vanilla pudding, which then gets covered with more cookie crumbs.
Here's a tip for un-molding a tart from a pan with a removable bottom…..set the pan on a bowl or cake pan that is smaller than the base of the tart pan. The tart (with the removable bottom of the pan) can then sit suspended on the bowl/cake pan while you carefully remove the outside edge of the tart pan. This picture should help that make more sense…
Crust ingredients:
1 box Trader Joe's Gluten-Free Joe Joe Cookies
2 cups almond flour or almond meal
2 tablespoons coconut oil
1 egg
Pudding ingredients:
1 cup cold milk
½ cup cornstarch
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
3 egg yolks
3 cups milk
1 tablespoon butter
¾ cup sugar
Make the crust:
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Place all the cookies in a blender or food processor and blend until crushed into fine crumbs. Dump into a bowl and set aside.
In a large bowl, mix the almond flour, coconut oil, egg, and 1 cup of crushed cookies until mixture forms a ball (I like to use my hands, but a large spoon would work too).
Press this crust mixture evenly into a 10" tart pan, using a knife to level off the top edge. Place the tart pan on a cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes, until set. Let cool.
Make the pudding filling:
Whisk the 1 cup milk, cornstarch, salt, and vanilla together in a bowl. Set aside. Combine the egg yolks, 3 cups milk, butter, and sugar in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until the butter melts and the sugar dissolves.
Whisk in the cornstarch mixture and continue whisking as the mixture thickens to the consistency of pudding. Remove from heat, allow to cool briefly, and then pour into crust, spreading with a spatula if necessary.
Place the tart in the refrigerator until ready to serve (three hours is ideal).
Before serving, sprinkle remaining cookie crumbs over pudding filling and remove tart from pan. Slice and enjoy!


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Next Monday's Jeopardy! contestants will include a Canadian, but it might be the last one for a while, because Canadians can no longer legally apply to be contestants, according to producers of the CBS game show created by the late Merv Griffin. This unusual decision, which appears to have been prompted by recent changes to Canada's online privacy laws, has stumped privacy and academic experts alike. Even producers of Jeopardy! do not seem to know, or are at least reluctant to say in detail why they think it is illegal for Canadians to apply. The National Post's Joseph Brean investigates, in the inimitable Q&A — no, that's A&Q — style of Alex Trebek.
A: This Canadian legislation came into force in 2014, banning unsolicited commercial email, the installation of software without consent, deceptive online marketing, harvesting email addresses in bulk, and collecting personal details with spyware, although it does not obviously prevent people applying to game shows. It appears to be the law in question here.
Q: What is the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation, CASL?
A: This spokesperson for Jeopardy! producers said, "As international laws governing how information is shared over the internet are ever-changing and complex, we are currently investigating how we can accept registrations from potential Canadian contestants. The Jeopardy! Adult, Teen, and College tests have already taken place this year, and we are making every effort to find a solution before the next round of testing is available."
Q: Who is Alison Shapiro of CBS in Culver City, Calif.? A note to potential contestants on the Jeopardy! website also says: "At this time we are precluded from accepting registration information from Canadian residents. We are currently evaluating this matter."
A: This University of Ottawa expert in online and commercial privacy law said: "That's really strange. The only major law that has changed in recent years is the anti-spam legislation. However, there is nothing in the law that would preclude Canadians from taking an online test, wherever located."
Q: Who is Michael Geist? He also noted that the law is based on obtaining consent in advance for electronic transactions. "Assuming the contestant has given their consent to be contacted by taking the test, there is no legal impediment under the anti-spam law to contact them," he said.
A: Canada's Privacy Commissioner has fielded this many complaints about Jeopardy! violating their online privacy.
Q: What is zero? "I can tell you that our office has not been engaged in this matter," said spokeswoman Tobi Cohen.
A: This Jeopardy! host said in a note to Ottawa Citizen columnist Kelly Egan, who was tipped to this story by a reader, that Canadians make great Jeopardy! contestants and he hopes to have more try out "as soon as we are sure we can comply with all Canadian online privacy laws."
Q: Who is Alex Trebek? A proud Canadian, Trebek thanked Egan for drawing attention "to an issue affecting my native country and the show I love. It is true that for the most recent Jeopardy! contestant tryouts, Canadians were precluded from taking the online test, since the show must now comply with new rules set down by the Canadian government. However, people are in our contestant pool for 18 months, and we have featured several Canadians as contestants on Jeopardy! this season (at least seven at last count), including one who will appear this Monday, Feb. 22, and two more who have already taped for appearances in March."
A: In a notorious episode last summer, this category stumped all three Jeopardy! contestants, and cost a U.S. army public affairs chief US$8,000, despite questions that were pretty easy for anyone with even a passing acquaintance with Canada, such as "Residents of this Saskatchewan city are called Moose Javians."
Q: What is "Canadian Cities"? The correct answer, in the form of a question, was "What is Moose Jaw?" and not, as the public affairs chief said, "What is Winnipeg?"

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on our Idaho trip last week, we spent a day in Montana to explore a big cedar grove (and maybe mostly to look for fairies). there was greenery and sparkly sunlight galore. and there was a hollowed out tree that we had quite a few giggles standing in. it was a gorgeous, gorgeous magical place.


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In this series for T, the writer and author of "Worn Stories," Emily Spivack, interviews creative types about their most prized possessions.
Zackary Drucker is a Los Angeles-based artist and co-producer for the Amazon original series "Transparent," nominated for three Golden Globe awards, including Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy. Here, she recounts the significance behind a ceramic cat from her childhood in Syracuse, N.Y., that temporarily takes the place of an actual, living pet.
My grandmother lived a mile away from me growing up in Syracuse. She would just drop by, pop in the back door, ask me what I had eaten for lunch, and if I had any friends. She was the archetypal overbearing Jewish grandmother. She grew up on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn — the daughter of immigrants, a child of the Great Depression. When I'm reading scripts for "Transparent," every time there's a line from Shelly, Judith Light's character, I always imagine my grandmother. They had the same style of peppering Yiddish into whatever they were saying.
Since my grandmother lived nearby, I spent a lot of time at her house. I have really early memories of this cat she had on the landing at the top of her stairs. It always sparked excitement for me, even as a toddler.
I was especially close to my grandmother. Perhaps it was because I was one of the youngest grandchildren or because I was a particularly sensitive child. Before I could drive, she would give me rides to places. This one time she came by to pick me up for a doctor's appointment. I was a young teenager who was beginning to experiment and I had this group of freewheeling friends. We had been running around in the rain in our underwear. I had totally forgotten about the doctor's appointment and she walked right into my house like she always did. She saw a handful of teenagers in their underwear and she was outraged. She couldn't stop talking about how lousy my friends were and that she had high blood pressure — What was I trying to do? Trying to kill her? — and then she relented and said, "I'm not going to tell your parents about this because it'll sound much worse than it was. I'm sure I'm just overreacting." And for years, we would joke about it privately. She never told anyone about it and neither did I.
When my grandmother got older, she encouraged all of her children and grandchildren to put our names on the bottom of whatever we wanted of hers. At the time I thought it was really morose and resisted putting my name on anything. Except for the ceramic cat. All I really wanted was that cat. So she got out the masking tape and Sharpie pen and put my name on it.
My grandmother died in 2011, and my grandfather died nine months later. My parents and aunts and uncles sorted through their house and allocated everything to different family members. They came across the cat with my name on it and my mother shipped it to me in California. It actually broke when it was shipped — the whole back half cracked off. I just glued it right back together.
Of all the objects in my home, it's one of the only things from my childhood. I think of it as a kind of anchor — a fractured anchor. And it's also a surrogate for the cat I'd like to have some day. I've had cats as pets all my life, but right now, because I travel so much, having a pet would be unfair to the animal. I'm not worried about becoming a cat lady but I'll definitely have cats in my house again. For now, my grandmother's ceramic cat sits next to the front door and it's like she greets me when I'm coming and going.
This interview has been edited and condensed.


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By day, I'm teaching 7th and 8th grade students the subject of Reading (my Education Blog). By night, I AM a Teaching Intern. I achieved a Master's degree in Business years ago, but needed this internship for teaching certification.
Somehow, this experience has helped me relate to my students even more. Although I AM mature enough to appreciate the learning process and the value it holds, it can still be boring and tedious. At night, I resemble my students as I fidget in my seat, look for ways to become distracted, and tell myself I NEED music in my ears.
I'm in my finals for two classes and it feels like I will never finish! My motivation is simply MY STUDENTS. It's worth the sacrifice. Besides we should all be lifelong learners in one way or another; right?


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Keep youself updated with latestGuwahati News
Assam: NIA arrests NDFB-S leader from Guwahati
New Delhi, Sep 30: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a top leader of the Songbijit faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-S) from Guwahati.
Amal Mushahary, a resident of Kokrajhar in Assam, was arrested on Monday.
Mushahary is the finance member of the NDFB-S and also the personal secretary of the outfit's commander-in-chief G Bidai, the mastermind of the December 2014 massacre in which 76 adivasis were gunned down at five places in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts.
"Mushahary's arrest was shown when he was brought before a Special NIA Court in Guwahati...," said a NIA official.
Mushahary has been taken into police custody for five days, the officer said.


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Normandy travel guide
A complete travel guide to Normandy, including the best hotels, attractions, restaurants, beaches and scenic drives, from our expert Greg Ward.
Normandy is often described as the Devon of northern France, with Brittany as the corresponding Cornwall. It's easy to see why – Normandy is altogether a gentler place, dotted with lush meadows and bucolic farmland, and famed for its cheese and apples. Rather than locked in an endless tussle with a wild ocean, its coastline consists for the most part of long low dunes, lapped by the Channel.
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There is a grittier side to Normandy, however – the Normans were originally Viking warriors, who conquered England and terrorized much of Europe. Ever since Roman tin traders sailed down the Seine, the region has been in the historical mainstream, most recently as the scene of the 1944 Allied invasion that ended the Second World War.
For visitors, the chance to combine cultural heritage with gastronomic indulgence makes for a winning formula. The remarkable legacy of the Normans is everywhere apparent, with showpiece sights including the thousand-year-old embroidery of the Bayeux Tapestry, the cathedrals of Rouen and Coutances, and above all the magnificent abbey of Mont St-Michel, on the border with Brittany. Lovely old ports line the coast, ranging from medieval treasures like Honfleur and Barfleur to nineteenth-century resorts such as Etretat and Trouville, while the Seine too holds gems like the abbey of Jumièges and Richard the Lionheart's castle at Les Andelys, as well as Monet's waterlily-filled garden at Giverny.
While few beaches in Normandy can match those of Brittany for beauty, they're still hugely popular in summer, close enough for a short break from Paris but also busy with visitors from all over Europe. In the northeast stretch, between Dieppe and Le Havre, they tend to be expanses of shingle at the foot of dramatic chalk cliffs. West of the Seine they're flatter and sandier – that's why they were chosen for the D-Day landings. It might sound strange to mix reverential battlefield tours with bucket-and-spade holiday-making, but somehow it seems to work.
The true joy of exploring Normandy lies as much in meandering along the lanes of the region's dairy-farming heartland. The Pays d'Auge, for example, which starts barely 20 miles in from the sea, is scattered with time-forgotten villages where tumbledown half-timbered manor houses now hold superb hotels and restaurants. Every place name seems also to be a cheese, from Livarot and Pont l'Eveque to the famous of all, Camembert.
When to go
No more reliable than in southern England, the climate in Normandy is capable of throwing up gloriously sunny March days and dismally wet August weekends. Although the prime time for French visitors to come, as ever, is August – and that's the only time you're likely to have trouble finding accommodation – the tourist season lasts pretty much from May to mid-October.
Spring and autumn can be very pleasant times to visit. Only the smallest seaside towns shut up shop in winter, say between mid-November and mid-February; the cities, and the Channel ports, remain busy year-round. If your chief goal is to tour the D-Day beaches, you'll find them quieter and more evocative outside July and August; visitation reaches a peak, of course, during the June anniversary commemorations.
Where to go
The island monastery of Mont St-Michel, marking the frontier with Brittany, is Normandy's undisputed highlight. Further east, the low-slung D-Day Landing Beaches are dotted with fascinating museums, moving memorials, and sombre cemeteries, while just inland, the cathedral town of Bayeux displays its famous Tapestry. Follow the bucolic Seine Valley upstream from the exquisite little port of Honfleur to reach the abbey of Jumièges, the medieval city of Rouen, and Monet's home and gardens in Giverny.
Getting there and getting around
Brittany Ferries (0330 159 7000; brittany-ferries.co.uk) sail from Portsmouth to Ouistreham, just north of Caen (2-3 daily; 5hr 45min–7hr 45min), Le Havre (overnight sailings daily; 8hr–9hr 15min), and to Cherbourg (1-2 daily, late April to mid-Sept; 3hr), and from Poole to Cherbourg (1 daily, late March to early Nov; 4hr 15min). Short-break fares for a car with two passengers start at £138.
DFDS Seaways (0871 574 7235; dfdsseaways.co.uk) sail 2–3 times daily between Newhaven and Dieppe (4hr; from £39), and also operate up to 44 crossings a day between Dover and Calais (90 minutes) and Dover and Dunkirk (2 hours). Crossings cost from £32.50 each way for a car and up to nine passengers.
Eurotunnel (08443 353535, eurotunnel.com) send up to 4 trains per hour between Folkestone and Calais, with single fares from £69 and short breaks from £110. Driving to Dieppe or Rouen from the tunnel exit in France takes around two hours.
Eurotunnel (08448 797379, eurotunnel.com) send up to 4 trains per hour between Folkestone and Calais, with single fares from £67 and short breaks from £110. Driving to Dieppe or Rouen from the tunnel exit in France takes around two hours.
Ryanair (ryanair.com) fly twice weekly from London Stansted to Deauville, with one-way fares from £20.
Flybe (flybe.com) fly up to five times weekly in summer from London Southend to Caen Carpiquet, with one-way fares from £50.
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Much the easiest way to get around Normandy is by driving your own car. There's also a good regional rail network, which connects the major towns but at no stage runs along the coast. The line from Paris to Rouen passes close to Giverny (nearest stop Vernon), and trains continue to both Dieppe and Le Havre. Trains between Cherbourg and Paris call at Bayeux and Caen. Bus routes radiate from both Rouen and Caen; Bus Verts (busverts.fr) serve the lower Normandy coast, with special services to tour the D-Day beaches.
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It's all too easy for English drivers who take their own cars to France to be caught out by the French laws for motorists. All drivers are obliged to carry a red warning triangle, to adjust the dip of their headlights, and to have a fluorescent safety jacket in the car itself, not in the boot – if you're stopped by the police, you face an on-the-spot fine if you're not wearing it when you get out of the car.
You're also required to carry a breathalyzer; cheap single-use kits are available at the ferry ports.
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TULSA, Okla. - Retha June Little Jordan, 81, formerly of Pampa, Texas, died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, in Tulsa.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Carmichael-Whatley Colonial Chapel in Pampa with Glen Walton, minister of Bell Avenue Church of Christ in Amarillo, Texas; and Keith Feerer, minister of Mary Ellen and Harvester Church of Christ in Pampa, officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Pampa. Arrangements are by Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Pampa.
Retha was born July 5, 1931, in Lefors, Texas, to Herman and Rosella Phillips Little. She graduated from Lefors High School and married R.R. "Ray" Jordan on Aug. 25, 1949, in Lefors. Ray preceded her in death on Nov. 30, 2006. Retha had been a resident of Pampa since 1955 before moving to Tulsa in 2009. She was a member of Mary Ellen and Harvester Church of Christ and Beta Sigma Phi Sorority. Retha was an avid fan of the Dallas Cowboys.
Retha was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters and two brothers.
Survivors include two daughters, Karen Burnette and husband Bruce of Broken Arrow, Okla., and Teresa Erdman of Amarillo; four grandchildren, Jamie Harper and husband Joel of Tulsa, Katie Guy and husband Chris of Atlanta, Ga., Neal Burnette of Virginia Beach, Va., and Ashley Ortiz and husband Randy of Denver; and five great-grandchildren, Lauren and Jordan Harper, both of Tulsa, Jackson and Miller Guy, both of Atlanta, and Izzabell Elena Ortiz of Denver; and a host of nieces and nephews.
The family suggests memorials be to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Sign the online guest book at www.carmichael-whatley.com.
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something has always scared me about too much white in one place, be it a room, an outfit, or a flower arrangement. maybe it's the fear of ruining something so pristine and beautiful, knowing that I always manage to get a smidge of some substance on everything. white also acts as a blank canvas, and the absence of pattern means that I have to make up for it somehow and create a spectacle some other way. if you wear all black, it means you're a badass, or a gallerina, or a writer, but all white is ambiguous. it leaves more room for interpretation, and that freaks me out. is it rational to be afraid of a color, or rather, an absence of color? I think not, which is why I'm going to embrace it this spring. at least I know it will make me look tan.


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MATTHEW JUSTUS is an Emmy nominated documentary and commercial filmmaker based in San Francisco. Over the past decade he worked on productions for HBO, PBS, the BBC, ZDF, The History Channel, IFC and film festivals around the world. He had a producer role on two projects which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He is currently co-producing and writing THE SHARPS' WAR with Ken Burns, a feature length historical documentary for PBS. He produced the 2012 Emmy nominated feature documentary BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD (Sundance, HBO, BBC, 2011) which also won a UK Grierson Award (Best Cinema Documentary). Previously, he was an associate producer on Liz Garbus' film SHOUTING FIRE: STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF FREE SPEECH(Sundance, HBO, 2009). He was also an associate producer on COMA (HBO) and Rory Kennedy's THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT (HBO). He was also on the production team of Kennedy's GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB (Sundance, HBO, Emmy Award Winner). In addition to his documentary television work he produces and directs commercial content for non-profit and commercial clients including VERIZON, LEVI's and GOOGLE. He is a graduate of the University of Washington.
CAITLIN McNALLY is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. She was a 2016 Carey Institute for Global Good Non Fiction Resident, a 2013-14 Investigative Reporting Program Fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and a recipient of a 2014 Fund for Investigative Journalism Grant. She has numerous years' experience working with PBS's flagship current affairs series, FRONTLINE, as well as other major US and international documentary outlets. Currently, she is a senior producer with National Geographic Studios.
Caitlin acted as series producer on an upcoming Discovery Channel Documentary series embedded in the elite research hospital at the National Institutes of Health. For FRONTLINE, Caitlin wrote, directed and produced the documentary and digital presentation, Stickup Kid, about a young man who grew up in adult prison (2015 Online News Association Feature Award winner, 2015 Nevada International Film Festival Special Jury Prize). She also co-produced and reported League of Denial, the Peabody and Polk Award-winning 2013 series season premiere investigating the NFL and concussions.
Her other credits for FRONTLINE include Football High (2011), Digital Nation (2010), South Korea: The Most Wired Place On Earth (2009), Growing Up Online (2008), Congo: On the Trail of an AK-47 (2007) and A Hidden Life (2006).
Caitlin has directed an episode of a national PBS history series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., produced a season of features for NFL Network, acted as US producer on a BBC documentary about America during an election year, reported for GlobalPost from the Arctic and Antarctica, and worked as part of the team producing an Emmy-Award winning HBO documentary about Abu Ghraib prison that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
She has produced video and blogged about a North Dakota shale oil boom for the public radio program, The Takeaway, and has been interviewed about her work on HuffPostLive, RadioDispatch, WNYC, CBC and elsewhere. Caitlin is a member of the Director's Guild of America and Investigative Reporters and Editors, a graduate of Dartmouth College, and a native of Minnesota. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
SERIN MARSHALL is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer and researcher based in San Francisco. Most recently, she produced VEGAS BABY (PBS, Netflix) for Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amanda Micheli. Serin began her career at the award-winning Moxie Firecracker Films, where she worked on numerous HBO films including the Emmy-nominated BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD (Sundance 2012), SHOUTING FIRE: STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF FREE SPEECH (Sundance, 2009), THE FENCE (Sundance 2010), and THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH AUNT DIANE. She was an archival producer for WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES (PBS) and a field producer for THE PUSHOUTS (PBS) for the Center for Investigative Reporting. She has produced news stories for the GloablPost, true crime stories for the Discovery Network, and commercials for clients including Google, Verizon, and Sony. Further research experience includes work on the book From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives (HarperCollins, 2016), and as a Princeton-in-Asia Fellow in Thailand. She is a graduate of Brown University.


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Blue marlin!
May 16th: Club member David Rainford from England caught his (and the Club's) first ever blue marlin earlier today. Weighing in at around 130 pounds, the fish gave an acrobatic account of itself for some 20 minutes before succumbing and then being safely released after a brief photocall.
Fishing from Steve Lockard's large Boston Whaler out of nearby Little Harbour, David and his wife Marion, as well as Mark Shortt from Ireland, also got among the mahi-mahi (otherwise known as dolphin or dorado). To the delight of the Club's kitchen, the party boated four of these colourful and delicious fish weighing between 18 and 35 pounds.


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I am a big fan of Douglas Hofstadter, the author of the classic Godel, Escher, Bach and more recently, I Am A Strange Loop. Hofstadter is a master of metaphors and today I would like discuss one metaphor in particular, The Careenium.
Hofstadter asks you to imagine a frictionless billiards table with lots and lots of tiny, magnetic marbles, or "simms"(small interacting magnetic marble), bouncing around, careening endlessly. Because these simms are slightly magnetic, they are apt to stick together into clusters called "simmballs"(see where this is going yet?). These simmballs are more or less stable with simms transferring in and out endlessly. Furthermore, imagine that the walls of the billiard table are sensitive to the outside environment and for every force, the walls flex inwardly slightly. Naturally, this flexibility is reflected in the careening simms and ultimately in the large simmballs.
Thus the simmballs be be said to encode for the events in the environment and in principle, if someone was well-versed in Careenium mechanics, they could interpret the simmballs as being symbolic. In case you haven't figured out the mappings of the metaphor yet, let me lay it out explicitly. The simms map onto neurons(small events) and the simmballs map onto patterns of neurons(larger events) and by virtue of encoding for the environment, the simmballs(symbols) have representational qualities.
The point of Hofstadter's metaphor is relatively simple. He wants you to imagine a scenario where the brain(Careenium) could be seen in two different perspectives. One perspective, which comes naturally to scientists, is reductionist. That is, one could in principle view all the activities of the Careenium in terms of the tiny simms bouncing around, acting in accordance with well-known laws of physics. On the other hand, one could take could the high-road, and view the system in terms of the larger simmballs and their macroscopic, representational properties.
In order to help you visualize the implications of the metaphor, Hofstadter asks you to imagine two perceptual shifts of the Careenium. The first shift is to speed everything up, so that the fast-moving simms become too fast to be seen by the naked eye and the larger, slower moving simmball clusters become more active, bouncing around in a lively fashion, interacting with each other. The second perceptual shift involves zooming out so that the the simmballs become the only thing one can attend to. With these two perceptual shifts in mind, Hofstadter asks the following question: who shoves whom around inside the Careenium?
On one hand, there is the view that the tiny, meaningless simms are the primary "shovers" and the simmballs are merely along for the ride. On the other perspective, zoomed out and sped up, the simmballs are the only interesting feature of the system, with a rich symbolic "logic" that corresponds to the environment being represented. Which perspective is the "truth"? Well, as Hofstadter says, it "all seems topsy-turvy." I'll leave you with a quote from the book:
From our higher-level macroscopic vantage point as we hover above the table, we can see ideas giving rise to other ideas, we can see one symbolic event reminding the system of another symbolic event, we can see elaborate patterns of simmballs coming together and forming even larger patterns that constitute analogies-in short, we can visually eavesdrop on the logic of a thinking mind taking place in the patterned dance of the simmballs. And in this latter view, it is the simmballs that shove each other about, at their own isolated symbolic level.


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After years trying to fix its financial crisis, Spain's future is still uncertain. On June 9, the country's leaders agreed to accept from European finance ministers an emergency $125 billion bailout to shore up its banks and help stabilize its economy. Currently, the country has an unemployment rate of 24.3 percent, and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is aiming to cut the deficit to 5.3 percent of gross domestic product this year and 3 percent by the end of 2013. The European Commission estimates that the deficit will end the year with a deficit of 6.4 percent of GDP and 6.3 percent in 2013.
Uncertainty has pushed Spanish stocks down to unusually low prices. According to GuruFocus' All-in-One Screener , the three largest U.S.-traded Spanish stocks are: Banco Santander ( STD ), Banco Bilbao ( BBVA ) and Telefonica ( TEF ).
Banco Santander's stock price has declined 45.75 percent in the last year. It currently trades at about $6 per share, near its 52-week low of $5.19, and has a market cap of $54.6 billion and P/E ratio of 6.66. Fitch Ratings downgraded the bank's long-term issuer default ratings on Monday. It said that the bank owns a large portfolio of domestic sovereign debt and is highly exposed to domestic counterparties, making profitability and asset quality vulnerable to macroeconomic and market trends.
But Banco Santander has diversification across international markets that helps stabilize it, with 56 percent of profit derived from high-growth emerging countries. It also had some positive developments in the first quarter. It earned a profit of 1.6 billion euro, 23.9 percent less than the previous year, due primarily to still high provisions in some units, higher minority interests in Brazil and Chile, a reduced stake in Santander USA and more taxes. Its non-performing loan ratio rose slightly to 3.98 percent, but was lower than the NPL ratio in Spain, which was 5.75 percent.
Ken Fisher and David Dreman both added to their stakes in Banco Santander in the first quarter of 2012. Bruce Berkowitz sold out.
Dreman listed Banco Santander as one of his worst performers in 2011, but said in his Forbes column in March, "Overall I stand by my 2011 calls. I am a contrarian value investor and not a timer, and it's not unusual for my picks to be 'early.'"
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentina SA ( BBVA ) ADR declined 40 percent in the last year and 24 percent year to date. Fitch Ratings also cut its rating for Banco Bilbao for the same reason as Banco Santander. The two banks are the largest lenders in Spain. Banco Balboa and Santander are two of only three banks that are well capitalized enough to meet loan loss provisions in 2012 and 2013 if that were required, according to S&P.
Banco Bilbao is solvent after earnings over the first three months of 2012 enabled it to meet EBA capital recommendations prior to their June 30, 2012 deadline. In the first quarter it built a 9 percent core capital according to EBA criteria, 10.7 percent under Basel II. It did this without selling any strategic assets, resorting to public aid or modifying shareholder remuneration. The bank earned a profit of $1.3 billion in the first quarter, up from a net loss of $182 million in the previous quarter, and down from $1.6 billion in the year-ago quarter.
Banco Bilbao's non-performing asset ratio ended the first quarter at 4%, differing across its different geographic segments. Non-performing assets were 16.1 billion euros at the end of the first quarter, compared to 15.9 billion euros at year-end 2011. The number went up due to the higher NPA ratio in Spain, exchanged rates and stricter regulatory framework in Mexico.
David Dreman and Jim Simons are the only two gurus to hold Banco Bilbao stock, though Simons cut his stake by 93.5 percent in the first quarter.
Telefonica ( TEF ) is the third-largest U.S.-traded Spanish stock by market cap, with a market cap of $57.4 billion. It trades for $12.31, off of its 52-week high of $24.82. The telecommunications company also has a dividend yield of 9.1 percent and P/E of 3.1. Its stock dropped 47 percent over the last year and 28 percent year to date.
In order to reduce its debt, Telefonica agreed to sell a 4.56 percent stake in China Unicom ( CHU ) in June for $1.4 billion. It currently has $70 billion in debt and about $22.4 billion in cash on its balance sheet. After the sale, Telefonica will still have a 5.01 percent stake in China Unicom.
The company's European has suffered due to the financial crisis. Overall revenue in the first quarter 2012 increased 0.5 percent, largely due to mobile termination rate cuts. While revenue in its Latinoamerica segment increased 8.3 percent, revenue in Telefonica Europe declined 6.6 percent. Overall net income dropped 53.9 percent from the year-ago quarter.
Over the last decade, Telefonica has produced solid growth, raising revenue at a rate of 15.9 percent annually, EBITDA at 22.6 percent and book value at 9.6 percent. The company has also been generating cash flow over $10 billion for all but one year since 2004.
David Dreman and Charles Brandes bought more shares of Telefonica in the first quarter, and Bruce Berkowitz and Ken Fisher both sold out their positions. Other gurus that hold Telefonica are: Brian Rogers, Mario Gabelli and Jim Simons, who sold some of his shares in the fourth quarter (or his computers did).
To see more Spanish stocks, or other stocks by country, try GuruFocus' All-in-One Screener.About GuruFocus: GuruFocus.com tracks the stocks picks and portfolio holdings of the world's best investors. This value investing site offers stock screeners and valuation tools. And publishes daily articles tracking the latest moves of the world's best investors. GuruFocus also provides promising stock ideas in 3 monthly newsletters sent to Premium Members .
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All of us can relate to covering up something in our lives. For many of us, that can end up being a huge part of who we really are. We can find ourselves living as outsiders pretending to be something we're not whether that's at work, with our friends or in our relationships. These lies can literally destroy our life.
"Coming out" isn't something sequestered to the LGBT community. Coming out means bravely uncovering who you really are and it's a practice that we can all learn from. In this case, Morgana did it in front of millions of people. In front of co-workers. In front of absolutely everyone she knows. And she did it more than once. When you listen to her story you realize just how much keeping secrets can hurt and just how powerfully becoming outwardly authentic can be.
This week is SF Pride. Given the recent impossible-to-comprehend massacre within the Orlando Gay community, just days ago, it's never been more important to take the time to understand, listen to, and defend everyone— no matter who they decide to love.
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It was a super stressful week college wise, because I had a whooping 23 SUBMISSIONS to make yesterday (WHAT EVEN) and after finishing all of them, the professor changes the deadline to THE 16TH OF AUGUST. That's HALF A MONTH AWAY. SIGH.
So, I'm going to be sitting here, sipping my iced tea and enjoying my weekend after college today and FINALLY read The Mirror King!
But, more importantly, WHAT DID I SHELVE THIS WEEK?
From Netgalley:
1. Glitters by Aprilynne Pike (Thanks You Random House Childrens!)
CAN YOU LOOK AT THAT COVER? I am DYING inside at the sheer AWESOMENESS of the work of art. ALSO THIS IS A FANTASY NOVEL IN VERSAILLES WITH TECHNOLOGY AND DRUGS AND GOD HELP ME I'M FLAILING AND I CAN'T STOP.
From Edelweiss:
1. Fear The Drowning Deep by Sarah Glenn Marsh
From Serial Box:
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They are a publisher of high-quality, serialized fiction. It's like a TV show--episodes each week building to a season finale-- but written by some of the top authors in the biz.
I recently got contacted by a lovely intern and they offered me the first two episodes of ReMade:
Written By: Matthew Cody, Kiersten White, E.C. Myers, Andrea Phillips, Carrie Harris, and Gwenda Bond
Synopsis From Goodreads: You live. You love. You die. Now RUN. ReMade.
Every minute, 108 people die.
On October 14th, 2016, from 9:31-9:32 p.m. EDT, 23 of those deaths will be teenagers.
Now they are humanity's last hope for survival.
Awakened in a post-apocalyptic world and hunted by mechanical horrors, these teens search for answers amidst the ruins of civilization. Fate, love, and loyalty face off in this adrenaline -pumping YA adventure.
ReMade will unfold in 15 episodes.
1. Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon:
This cover is SO BLOODY gorgeous I could not stop staring at it for at least three hours after I got it. I've heard nothing but great things about this one, and I'm SO excited to finally own it!
2. Some Boys by Patty Blount:
(YES, This is the book I imported!)
I've been obsessed with finding new books about rape and abuse as good as Asking For It by Louise O'Neill, and I stumbled across this one that I read about a while ago and I just HAD to have it!
What books have you got this week? Any on here that you're dying to start or get your hands on too?
Link me up and I can't wait to visit your blogs!


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Studio Arrc
Sophie Carr had a dream. The young Australian who now lives in the south of France wanted to start a career as an interior designer. And she wanted to inspire the creative world, to become a part of it. And isn't it all about making dreams come true? The first step: Studio Arrc, a charmingly arranged design blog that reflects her personality and leaves enough space for new ideas.
Studio Arrc by Sophie Carr is one of the ongoing international branding projects by moodley brand identity – with great prospects.
Client: Sophie Carr, Interior Designer
Creative Direction: Mike Fuisz
Art Direction & Graphic Design: Sabine Kernbichler
Director Digital: Birgit Taucher
Programming: Mario Sommer
Account Management: Christina Schachner


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It's bout week! It's bout-eve! It's the day before your Atlanta Men's Roller Derby ResurGents take on the New Orleans Brass in Ft. Walton Beach, FL! In honor of the Purple Rain covering North Florida this weekend, one of our newest 'Gents, Mosh Bit, gives us some of his thoughts on jamming in his very first bout (August 20th vs. Brigade of Handsome Gentlemen):
It's simple right? You put a star on your helmet and go around the other team, no problem. OK, well, slight problem. Turns out the other team really, REALLY doesn't want you to get past them.
I'm standing at the jammer line, giving the other team a stare down that would shake the toughest of tough. The whistle blew and I bolted into the other team. Then, equally quick, I was tossed out of the ring. Got up, got in, got tossed back out. This happened for what felt like hours, though maybe only 30 seconds had passed by. My team saw my trouble and offered some offence. They'ed lead me through the enemy wall and get me through! Then, just as I thought I had made it, someone down the line was waiting for my inexperienced self and swiftly knocked me out. This time when I got back in, I could hear my couch yelling, "Go through the middle!"
I was intentionally going on the inside and outside to avoid conflict with the blockers, but figured I had nothing to lose. I ran into them full force and actually made some headway! I got knocked down, though it was much more effective. I lined back up and tried it again… and I was through! No idea how much time has passed or if I was the lead jammer, I sprinted around the track. I meet back up with the other team and got pass a few of them and pushed out of bounds. Seconds after I stood up the whistle blew. What a rush.
If you're in the Florida panhandle this weekend, come on by and see your ResurGents take on the New Orleans Brass in Ft. Walton. Details can be found here!


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I'm spending today, Christmas Eve, where the cattle are lowing as they gather around a manger. Makes sense. Except apparently the cattle are warming the earth too much.
As I'm reporting, in an effort to combat greenhouse gases, the USDA has suggested the EPA potentially tax cattle ranchers and hog farmers for the methane these animals put out. Your average dairy cow puts out enough methane to equal four tons of CO2 a year, beef cows only half that (I guess they emit less because they eat less?).
The EPA says it's not going to do this, but the ranching community fears that may be a bunch of bull...methane. So it's done a pre-emptive PR strike to get everyone all worked up about this and try to stop the idea in its tracks. The American Farm Bureau Federation has even calculated potential tax numbers, taking the amount of CO2 coming out of livestock and checking it against the per-ton fees the feds charge commercial operators. The Bureau claims the tax could be $175 per head of dairy cattle, $87.50 per head of beef cattle, and $21 per hog. Again, the EPA says this isn't going to happen. Ranchers fear, however, that with a new administration, anything is possible, and they claim such a tax would slaughter them.
The first video clip is Wyoming cattle rancher Brett Crosby, whom I've interviewed before.


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Friday, October 5, 2007
Character Building
Now here comes the character building part...with all this craziness going on:
While I was at work yesterday I got a call from Ashley around 1pm...it went something like this: "mom, you are not going to be happy!" What? All the shelves in your craft room completely separated from the wall. WHAT?!!! OK, she was right, mom was not happy. Everything was piled on the floor of my craft room. I ran home to check out the damage (Ashley had already started picking up stuff), I was so relieved that my laptop and camera (that were on my craft table under the shelving) was unharmed. One of the shelves made a tent over it and protected it. Thank you Lord!
So, I guess I am in the process of learning patience (not an easy lesson!). I have a bathroom and craft room in disarray, as well as other rooms of the house holding the overflow of the disarray. I hope I learn the lesson the first time...as Patience is never an easy one *wink*
As most of you know I am a little OCD, so the unorganization around me is somewhat of a challenge! It will all work out...sometime!
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The Coolest Ice Skating Rinks in NYC
Nicole Rubin
Is there any more quintessential winter activity than ice skating with the kiddos? So lace up those skates, but consider skipping the crowds at Rockefeller Center. We've rounded up four alternative places to hit the ice in NYC.
Winter Village at Bryant Park
Head to Midtown's Bryant Park for some admission-free time on the ice. Centrally located but not as mobbed as Rock Center, there's plenty of space to show off that cool spin you've been working on.
The Standard Ice Rink
The Standard Hotel in the Meatpacking District has an adorable ice rink in the plaza throughout the chilly months. Bonus: grab a hot chocolate at their cafe, or better yet a mug at their biergarten.
The Rink at Brookfield Place
Mix high-end shopping with your skating at Brookfield Place, overlooking the Hudson River. Located right outside the shiny new mall, this rink has killer views and a gourmet food court after you've worked up an appetite.
Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers
When the weather outside if frightful (and when isn't it?), scurry to the indoor Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers, which offers lessons as well as hosts birthday parties. Afterwards, score some strikes at the bowling alley or shoot 'em up in laser tag.


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I just love this collection, its very me with the pink and red tones. Plus they're by OPI ;-)
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As you can see the Vintage Minnie Mini box only comes with 3 of the 4 colours. The set includes The Colour of Minnie (Shimmery red-pink), If You Moust You Moust (Bubble-gum 'Disney' pink), I'm All Ears (A bright gel-style shimmer pink) and RapidDry Top Coat.
Oh my gosh, the confetti top coat is amazing! I would love this set! :) I found you on the BBU blog hop!
Wow, this collection looks AMAZING! Love the confetti one!! Found you on the BBU blog hop! :) x
AMAZING it is :) Have you checked out the other OPI collections I have featured on here? Thanks for coming over from BBU xDelete
I have been meaning to get my hands on this for a while!!
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Haha love it :) Cheers for coming over from Twitter to follow (now following you too). This collection is limited edition so if you like it best go out asap to buy them xDelete


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Position: Design Intern
Location: Oklahoma City
Facet 14 Studio is growing! We're looking for a bright, enthusiastic, designer-in-training to join us as an intern to assist the design team with project execution.
The role of design intern would entail: order management; obtaining samples; running errands; and drafting in Photoshop, Illustrator and AutoCAD / Revit (AutoCAD skills a plus, but not required). We've got so much going on – believe us when we say, you'll be busy!
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• Killer work ethic (lots to do here, no slackers allowed!)
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We're looking for 10-15 hours per week. The role is unpaid during the duration of the internship, but if you excel at your position a paid opportunity will be available upon completion.
Please email your resume and portfolio to firstname.lastname@example.com after you fill out the following form.


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Myke and I talked about his travels to WWDC last week and my upcoming travels to the DC pen show. I also talk about the first Blackwing Volumes release, Moleskine's marketing, Sailor limited editions, and a ton of awesome #asktpa questions.
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text: Alexi Kukuljevic received his PhD in Philosophy from Villanova University and is currently a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie. His publications address the work of such figures as Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière. He is the co-founder of Machete, a collective experiment attempting engender critical points of antagonism within the contemporary artistic conjuncture. He is currently working on a book on the subject of critique that focuses on a form of subjectivity produced through the immanent activity of critical thought that is strictly speaking unlivable. Other current research interests concern the theoretical import of suicide, pessimism and dandyism. In addition to his philosophical practice, he is also the artist Ludwig Fischer.


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Washington, Sept. 9 - As Americans commemorate the 9/11 attacks on our country 10 years ago, Israel will share in the remembrance of the day's horrors and heroism.
From the designer of the new memorial at Ground Zero to the ceremonies expected at Israel's own 9/11 memorial in Jerusalem, the Israeli participation in a weekend of commemoration adds a poignant dimension to the close U.S.-Israel bilateral relationship.
"America's agony was intensely felt by Israelis," Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren wrote in an op-ed Sept. 9. "Though we had long known the trauma wrought by terror and had grappled with its grief, the 9/11 attacks were unique in their scope and devastation."
Oren, an Israeli-American raised in a suburb outside of New York City, said both nations share their continuing defiance of terrorism and hope for a better future.
"Today, 10 years after 9/11, Americans and Israelis refuse to allow terror to diminish their determination to defend themselves or extinguish their desire for peace," he wrote.
The architect who designed the memorial that will stand in the footprint of the World Trade Center in New York is Israeli-American Michael Arad, whose father Moshe once served as Israel's top diplomat to the United States and Mexico. The project, with a forest of trees and two square fountains where the Twin Towers stood, will be inaugurated at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan on Sunday.
Arad told the New York Jewish Week that he approached the project with a New York mindset.
"One of the things that was most important to me was to make this for everyone," he said. "I think that what happened that day happened to all New Yorkers, and I responded to it foremost as a New Yorker."
Israel's own 9/11 memorial in Jerusalem is recognizes each victim's name as well as their countries of origin. The monument, located in the Ramot neighborhood, is a 30-foot high bronze sculpture depicting a waving American flag transforming into a flame and was dedicated in November 2009. It was sponsored by the Jewish National Fund.


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Eater - Ruth Reichl on Why Gourmet's Website Was Doomed From the Start
Fine Cooking - Make Homemade Tortillas & Tacos
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Martha Stewart - Best Cookbooks of 2017
NY Times - Ruth Reichl on the Last Days of Gourmet Magazine
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Huff Post Cookbook Review 11/21/17
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Secretary Clinton Welcomes Burmese Civil Society Delegation to United States
At the State Department today, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted Burmese comedian and recently-released former political prisoner Zaganar, National League for Democracy women's empowerment activist Khin Than Myint, and National Democratic Front Kachin ethnic minority rights activist Daw Bauk Gyar. The visitors discussed political prisoners, women's rights, and the situation of ethnic minorities in Burma with senior officials. Secretary Clinton previously met Zaganar in Rangoon where he participated in a civil society roundtable in December 2011. This is the delegation's first visit to the United States.
A photo of Secretary Clinton greeting Zaganar is available here.


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The last week and a half has been rough for investors. Everywhere you look there is dire market news. Like Chicken Little, it's easy to feel like the sky is falling. Here are my five tips on what to do when the market is taking a downturn:
Turn off the news
I have stopped watching market news, I read it instead. Reading the news takes out the emotion and drama that fills newscasts and sells programming. I've found I am better able to assess what is actually happening in the market and give better advice to my clients when I'm not channeling the fears of talking heads.
Several years ago I happened to be working from home and had the news on in the background throughout the day. Later that evening the idea occurred to me to consider gold as an investment. As the thought passed, I was shocked. That kind of thinking went against all of my education and background. I then realized that every commercial break throughout the day had ran an ad for a company urgently advising investors to buy gold (specifically from their company). It was at that moment that I really started to understand the power that media, even in the form of commercials, has on people.
Work on something you can control
There is absolutely nothing you and I can do to change China's economy or the interest rates or what the market is going to do today.
I get it; when there's so much bad news, you have to do something. So try working on other areas of your financials, things that are not investment related. Finish your estate plan that you've been meaning to do for years. Revisit your budget and look at how you've been spending money. Are your finances lining up with what's important in your life? Spend your energy being productive by working on what you can control, instead of fretting about things that are out of your hands.
Identify what's important to you
Another popular way of saying this is "know your why". Why are you invested in the stock market? What are your goals for that money? Many common objectives include ensuring you and your spouse are taken care of in retirement or helping children or grandchildren get through college. Know why you are investing and then focus on that.
Financial contentions are one of the leading causes of divorce in the United States. When the market goes south, it increases the stress in our lives, and many times this stress spills over into marriage and family relationships. Focus on these relationships during market downturns. Don't become a statistic.
Keep a cool head
Don't panic. A market downturn may be more serious than an acorn hitting you on the head, but it doesn't help anything to get your feathers ruffled like a certain frantic fowl. Of course, it's easier said than done. If you've had a plan in place, your plan should be working even in a downturn. This is the time to assess if your plan is doing what it should when the market takes a dip.
Remember, there are seasons to everything and the season of this market downturn will pass like all the others. One of my favorite analogies of the stock market is pruning a fruit tree. In order for a fruit tree to grow and produce healthy fruit, it has to be cut back every year. It cannot grown untended and expect to be a healthy, mature tree for years to come. The same is true with Wall Street. Corrections and downturns are healthy for the stock market. They cause investors to reassess companies and filter out bad investments. Pruning is a painful process, but it is necessary.
Buy, buy, buy
Market downturns are the perfect opportunity to invest. The stock market is essentially on sale at times like these. Of course we don't know where the market will go tomorrow, but when the markets return, whether that be in one day, one month or five years, you will have benefitted from taking advantage of the reduced prices.
Wealth is made by decisions made when the market is down. The investors who stay in the stock market and continue to invest, even when the news is bad, are the ones that will find the most success and end up wealthy.
If you haven't followed these guidelines in the past, or even during the current market correction, I have specific advice for you. Think about what you would want to do differently next time. What will you wish you had known? Why was pulling out of the market a bad idea? What would have happened if you would have stuck it out?
Write a letter or note to yourself about what you wish you would have done in the past. Date it and keep it. Read it again when the market goes down to remind yourself of what you wish you had done differently. Even better, share this information with your financial advisor, your spouse or a close friend. Let them help keep you accountable.
One of the most important elements of investing is what you do or don't do when the market falls. Making wise decisions now allows you to enjoy success in the future.


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When you publish a form template that you have changed, InfoPath can update both the form template (.xsn file) and any existing forms (.xml files) that are based on that form template. By default, InfoPath automatically replaces the older version of the form template with the latest version. You can choose the update method that you prefer for existing user forms.
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Help prevent data loss in existing user forms
If you need to update an existing form template, you can change it, republish it, and redistribute it to users. However, certain types of changes may prevent you from accessing the data in the completed forms that were based on the original form template.
If you make a change to a form template that may result in data loss or errors in forms that have been filled out already, a message will appear. You will often see the message when you add new, required fields to a form template, or when you rename or remove fields or groups from the form template.
When you receive this message, if you click Yes and continue with your changes, it may not be possible to access the data in existing forms after you publish the updated form template. In some scenarios, this may be acceptable. You will have to decide what works for your situation.
To help ensure that you can access the data that you already collected from users, follow these guidelines when you make changes to your original form template:
Don't rename the existing fields and groups in the data source.
Don't move the existing fields and groups around in the data source.
Don't delete the existing fields and groups from the data source. You can delete controls from the form template without causing any problems, as long as you leave the control's corresponding field or group in the data source.
Publish an updated form template
Suppose that you plan to make changes to a form template that is already in use throughout your company. If those changes include changing the form template's underlying data source, you need a way to efficiently update the previously published version of the form template, to help ensure that all users are using the updated version. You can also specify what you want to happen to existing forms that are based on the original form template.
Open the form template that you want to update.
Make any necessary changes to the form template.
On the Tools menu, click Form Options.
In the Category list, click Versioning.
At this point, you must specify what you want to happen to existing forms (.xml files) that were filled out by using the original form template.
In the On version upgrade list, under Form template version, do one of the following:
To automatically convert outdated versions of the form to the updated version, click Automatically upgrade existing forms. When this option is selected, InfoPath won't prompt users to update existing forms. Rather, the update occurs automatically the next time they open an existing or new form.
To write custom code that handles the update process for users, click Use custom event, and then click the Edit button. You can then use the OnVersionUpgrade event, which occurs when the version number of an InfoPath form being opened is older than the version number of the form template on which it is based. For more information about the OnVersionUpgrade event, refer to the InfoPath developer documentation.
To prevent the forms from being updated, click Do nothing (existing forms might not work properly). When this option is selected, users are able to fill out forms based on the updated form template, but they may not be able to open existing forms. If they are able to open existing forms, they won't be able to edit any newly added fields.
On the File menu, click Publish, and then follow the steps in the Publishing Wizard.
When users open a form that is based on your form template, they automatically receive the new version of the form template. If they attempt to open forms that were created by using the earlier version of the form template, the changes that you specified in step 5 take effect.
Let users choose whether to update their form templates
When you publish an updated version of a form template, InfoPath replaces the copy of the form template that is stored on users' computers with the latest version. This happens automatically when users open a form that is based on the updated form template. In most circumstances, this is what you want to happen. However, it is also possible to display a dialog box that prompts users to update the form template when a new version becomes available.
On the Tools menu, click Form Options.
In the Category list, click Versioning.
Under Form template version, select the Allow form users to choose whether to upgrade to a new version of the form template check box, and then click OK.
Note: By default, the data for the registry value EnableAutoUpdatePrompt is 0 (off). Users are prompted to upgrade their form only if a system administrator has changed the data for the EnableAutoUpdatePrompt value from 0 (off) to 1 (on).
On the File menu, click Publish, and then follow the steps in the Publishing Wizard.
The next time a user opens a form that is based on your form template, InfoPath displays a dialog box that prompts the user to replace his or her copy of the existing form template with the new version. The user can then decide whether to do so. If the dialog box does not appear, then the data for the value EnableAutoUpdatePrompt is probably 0 (off) instead of 1 (on).
Note: Before they actually open a form, users can proactively get the latest version of a particular form template (.xsn file) by clicking the Get update of this form or Get Updates of Forms in this Category link in the Fill Out a Form dialog box. Even if users already have the most recent version of the form template on their computers, the links remain active. In this scenario, when a user clicks one of the update links, InfoPath simply stores the latest form template on the user's computer again.


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In the previous Post, we saw how Gospel For Asia Inc (GFAI) has started remitting funds to new FCRA-NGOs in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
In this Post, we shall examine the remittances to the four FCRA-NGOs originally associated with GFAI, all located in Tiruvalla, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala. To remind our readers, these are: Gospel For Asia, Believers Church India, Last Hour Ministry and Love India Ministries. Further details of remittances to them in the past years can be found here and are summarized in the Table below:
The FC4 return for the financial year 2014-15 for these four entities are now available online at fcraonline.nic.in
Total Amount received in 2014-15 (Rs. Crore) [including amount brought forward]
Amount brought forward from past (Rs. Crore)
Gospel For Asia
Believers Church India
Last Hour Ministry
Love India Ministries
Thus, these four FCRA-NGOs together received a whopping sum of Rs. 1191 Crore in 2014-15, including a humongous amount of Rs. 893 Crore from the past years' which was unspent. Note that the amounts mentioned in Table 1 above for the years until 2013-14, include interest (typically ~10% in Bank long term deposits) amounts on unspent cash. With changes having come in the way the FCRA returns need to be filed since 2014-15, the total amounts reflect not only the interest, but also the Principal.
In summary: These four entities had around Rs. 893 Crore cash lying unspent from the past and received around Rs. 298 Crore in financial year 2014-15.
As Hindus living under the onslaught of International Evangelistic forces, we are glad that the money was unspent.
There is more detail that one can dig from these FC4 returns, but we shall carry out that exercise at some future point in time.
It is also pertinent to note that FCRA-NGOs in Kerala together received around Rs. 2463 Crore (including cash lying unspent, i.e., principal and interest) in 2014-15 as opposed to Rs. 965 Crore (includes only interest amount) in 2013-14.
The enormous amounts of money flowing into India via FCRA for such activities which seriously impinges on our Nation's religious demography bothers us.
Update on March 19, 2016:
The Third Quarter FCRA returns in 2015-16 for these four entities are available on the FCRA website now. While Gospel For Asia and Last Hour Ministry reported Nil inflow in this quarter, Love India Ministries reported receipt of Rs. 2.68 Crore from GFAI-Texas towards "Social Purposes".
Believers Church India reported the receipt of Rs. 47.9 Crore from various global entities in this Quarter. These entities include Teaching Skills LLC-Texas and GFAI-Texas, and curiously a "Little Hills", Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada. Whether this last entity is related to GFA-Canada is unknown. It is interesting to note that GFA-Canada too appears to be located in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada as per Google search for "Gospel for Asia Ontario".