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I've just been busy. That sort of busy where you look back on other periods of your life when you thought you were busy and scoff. The stakes are so much higher now. Or at least they seem so.
I'm much more focused these days, despite the intricacies and complications that come with age and increased responsibility. But none of it terrible, nothing untenable.
There is a deep, resounding sense of joy and relief now that I am living in the open about my relationship with Michelle. Having spent a truly enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday with the family, I can only report that my respect and admiration for my grandparents increases annually. I am grateful to be a part of such a loving, supportive family.
Christmas is right around the corner, which I find exhilarating and exhausting all at once.
I have been embroiled in an attempt to buy a piece of land for the past month that has been absolutely frustrating to the extreme. Even my real estate agent said it was unreal. I'm shelving it until the new year, which has brought a great sense of relief.
All these dreams colliding with the hard wall of reality-- rather sobering. Rather typical, if I don't say so myself.
There is a steady stream of rain falling outside, and while I am relieved at this much-needed rain, we are hankering for a shard of sunshine here. Life with a 45 year old motorcycle leaves a bit to be desired in times of inclement weather.
Last night I completed a landscape design project that has taken roughly 5 months of frustration, annoyance, and poor communication to see through. Today, I am taking it easy, cleaning house and listening to cello songs. Contemplating how I cannot take on another project like that again. Not unless they pay me double. Everyone has their price, and I am no different.
Meanwhile, the battle drums are playing, and the season of buying is upon us. This is difficult, as I have been trying to get rid of things for some time. The only things I would like are appended to the fictional farm that I have not secured a purchase on yet. So there. I don't really care about the gifts, I just want to eat, drink, and be merry with people I love.
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Why the Abacus investors weren't speculators
Back in 2007, I embarked upon a doomed attempt to explain that asset bubbles were not necessarily speculative bubbles. There might be a bubble in the art world, I said, but it wasn't speculative. And neither were home-price increases speculative in 2000, before the tech bubble had even burst. (Now that was a speculative bubble.)
In my book, a speculator is someone who buys an asset with the express intention of selling it after it rises in price. (Or, conversely, someone who shorts an asset with the idea of profiting from a downward price move.) A buy-and-hold investor, pretty much by definition, can't be a speculator.
But Jim Surowiecki seems to have a different conception of what speculation comprises:
The economics of subprime lending, and of C.D.O.s, depended on the assumption that there wasn't a housing bubble, and that therefore housing prices would not fall sharply. That was a speculative assumption, given the massive runup in housing prices between 1998 and 2006, and if you acted on it you were speculating, even if you described it to yourself by another name.
I think this is a little unfair to the people who invested in CDOs. They didn't make an explicit assumption that there wasn't a housing bubble, or even that housing prices would not fall sharply. (These are not the same thing: you can have sharp falls in housing prices without a housing bubble, as anybody in Detroit will be able to tell you.)
Instead, the CDO investors relied on complicated models and Monte Carlo simulations, and the complicated models relied on the history of house prices in the US, and the history of house prices in the US was that although there had been localized drops in price, there had never been a national drop in house prices.
Smart people like John Paulson were clever enough to grok the weakness in the models, and to notice that they resulted in some massively mispriced securities. That insight was ultimately what drove The Greatest Trade Ever. But I think it's a bit much to say that everybody on the other side of that trade was making a speculative bet, when in fact they were buy-and-hold investors buying triple-A-rated securities paying 85bp or 110bp over Libor.
As far as the bond investors were concerned, the risk and speculation was carefully and deliberately consigned to the equity tranche of the Abacus deal. In fact, there was a line of thought at the time which said that these kind of instruments were actually better investments because the housing bubble was bursting. It seems crazy now, with hindsight, but it's worth remembering that at the time, everybody thought that the problem of default risk had been solved by overcollateralizing and tranching the CDO so that the default risk was borne by the equity investor. The big remaining risk in any mortgage pool was prepayment risk — the risk that homeowners would pay off their mortgages very quickly, sticking the investor with cash which then might not be able to be reinvested at such a high interest rate.
Since mortgage prepayments mainly came from refinancings, it was seen as good news to mortgage investors that various subprime mortgage originators in California and elsewhere were closing their doors. Fewer originators meant fewer prepayments, and fewer prepayments meant higher and more reliable total returns. The fact is that a housing bubble is bad news for mortgage investors, since if you flip your house, that's a prepayment, and if you refinance your house, that's a prepayment too, and prepayments are always the last thing a mortgage investor wants to see. So it's entirely reasonable to assume that IKB and ACA were happy to see the housing bubble coming to an end. So Jim's wrong here, I think:
If you were buying subprime C.D.O.s in early 2007, you were betting that the housing bubble wasn't going to burst, even though in much of the country it already had. That was a dubious bet at best.
My feeling is that if you were buying subprime CDOs in early 2007, you were obviously short-sighted and not very good at doing your due diligence. But I don't think you had any particular desire for the housing bubble to continue. It's clear with hindsight that a bursting housing bubble could wipe out the principal not only of the triple-A tranches of CDOs but even of the super-seniors. At the time, though, very few people saw that coming: remember Morgan Stanley's Howie Hubler, who saw the market collapsing, put on a big bit that the collapse would happen, but then tried to fund that bet by selling protection on the triple-A tranches of the same CDOs. "He was smart enough to be cynical about his market," writes Michael Lewis in The Big Short, "but not smart enough to realize how cynical he needed to be."
In other words, even ultrasophisticates like Hubler, who saw the collapse coming and bet on it happening, thought the triple-As were safe. So let's not say that investors like IKB were making a speculative bet that the housing bubble was not going to burst.
Update: Surowiecki responds. (Hey, if nothing else, I've got him blogging again!) He makes the entirely valid points that "this entire system was itself an artifact of the housing bubble", and that "the bubble mentality was very hard for even sophisticated investors to escape". Both true. But my point is that just because you're caught up in the bubble mentality, doesn't make you a speculator. To quote myself, from 2007:
Not all bubbles are speculative bubbles, and momentum can drive prices upwards even in the absence of speculation. Consider a housing market which has been rising at say 15% per year, or more. When a house comes on the market, a bidding war ensues. Each house that comes onto the market sells for more than previous comps. Sellers get greedy, ask for silly amounts of money, and, surprisingly often, get what they ask for. Buyers get scared about being priced out of the market, and desperately try to buy anything they can, just to get a foot on the property bubble. You know the story: we've all seen it happen. But the point is, there's no speculation: the buyers aren't buying to flip at a profit, and aren't motivated by the prospect of selling at a higher price in the future. In fact, their real motivation is fear (of never being able to afford a house), not greed.
Does it make sense to say of these people that they "were betting that the bubble would not burst"? Maybe on some theoretical level it does — but that's not what they thought they were doing. And if you start describing these people as "speculators", that weakens the term far too much for those who really deserve the label.


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In a little place called cyberspace, Writers of the Future winning author, Brad Beaulieu, posed some intriguing questions to Anton Strout, the author of Dead To Me.
Your first novel, DEAD TO ME, is due out in February 2008 from Ace Books. Give us the elevator pitch, if you would...
Excuse me. Sorry.. it's so crowded in here. Sorry! Wait, what button did I press? I meant to hit five. shit, is this four? So let me tell you about my book.
Guy meets girl. Guy loses girl due to inability to control his paranormal powers. Rinse and repeat. Guy joins supernatural agency, fights undead guys and evil guys, tries getting girls again. One is dead. The other? Evil-ish.
What was it about Simon Canderous that made you want to write about him? What was it about his character that changed the most from your initial conception? And most importantly, who would play him in the movie version?
I want to write about Simon because there's an image that's always stuck with me from The World According to Garp, actually. There's a short story from it that talks about a man with magic gloves who can't feel anything himself while wearing them but could change the world. I found that particularly haunting and sad. but it kept gnawing at me. And one day I wondered about a guy who wore gloves to fend off his own feelings and much of the world because he had a magic that he couldn't control. Then I watched a Buffy marathon and thought what if Simon found a group that would help him work on it while letting him use a retractable bat to beat the tar out of things that go bump in the night? The rest, as they say, is history.
I think the thing that changed most when writing Simon is that he turned out not to be as squeaky clean as when I started. I think this was due more to my wanting readers to like him a lot so I made him uber likable. Problem is, people aren't like that. they're messed up, emotionally retarded, making bad choices all the time.. and why? Because they're human. So, I wrote in a lot of his issues just getting through his day or figuring out how to pay rent and he became much more likable simply because he suddenly seemed real.
Oh, and thanks to my cover artist, I can only imagine Jerry O'Connell playing him now.
Are you a plot-first guy or do you take more of an organic approach to your writing? Either way, what was the biggest surprise in the writing of DEAD TO ME?
I don't like to plan a book out too far ahead. I don't outline because once I outline a whole book, it actually kills the urge to actually write all the points from A to Z along the way. I rarely know the end when I start. For me, it's the journey, not the destination, that is the fun part, so I take writing a book chapter by chapter, not necessarily in order though. Once I'm done, I go back through the skeletal plot and fill in all the fleshy bits.
The biggest surprise in writing DEAD TO ME? Hmmm. *thinks* I think it was the overall world I created. It's much larger than I imagined. to the point where I have the next several books in the series planned out a bit this time around. I like the Department of Extraordinary Affairs. There's a lot of doors back in their shadowy office and I have an inkling of what's behind several of them already. The rest I can't wait to open!
You've said that if people like Joss Whedon, Douglas Adams, or Jim Butcher that they'll love you. What from each of those writers do you try to capture in your own writing?
Douglas Adams is really what got me hooked on reading as a kid. I came to it from the BBC series when it aired on PBS back in the early 80's and I was hooked. When I heard there was a book, I ran out and got it. The humor, the timing, the ripping the back out of a space epic. all of it came to reflect the style I like to work in. I still pick up the four books of the trilogy (yes, that's what I meant to type) every so often and recharge my writing batteries, if only to get my own sense of comedic timing back.
Joss is the brass ring of my whole process, really, but there are two things that stick out that probably influence my work the most. The first is his sense of humor. The man just knows how to push all the right buttons, but he does it with heart in a very honest way. The second has to be his sense of character and I try to come at mine with the same approach. For me, DEAD TO ME is about real people trying to live real lives in a world can get a bit unreal and nightmarish at times. These are people trying to make a paycheck, date, get some control over their lives. oh, and fight things of Lovecraftian proportions. Joss does it so well and it's what I strive for also.
Now Jim Butcher I intentionally went out of my way to avoid reading while I was working on DEAD TO ME. I work at his publisher and from what I was hearing in-house, I was apparently working in his milieu. Only after I had finished my book did I crack him open and I discovered a lot of similarities. he's noir-ish, funny, based in the real world with little twists here and there. oh, and there are lots of pamphlets in his work too!
Perhaps a more interesting question would be what you *didn't* take from them. That's not to say that they write poorly in any way. Far from it. I only wonder what it is that they do that you didn't feel meshed with your own writing style.
I think a lot of people come to writing because they have a deep love of things that they themselves have read and I am certainly one of those. Now some of these folks turn to fan-fic because they love that author's world so much that they wanna play in it. For me, I loved what those authors were doing, but they weren't exactly telling me the stories I wanted to hear, but they were inspirational nonetheless. The stories I wanted to hear became the stories I wanted to tell, but I didn't want to necessarily play in their sandbox. I wanted a sandbox all my own. I'm a selfish little child like that.
You've been known to bash on NaNoWriMo, with the belief (paraphrasing heavily here) that people shouldn't simply write for a month; they should write all the time. If you could start your own writing movement, what would it be and what would you call it?
I bash on NaNoWriMo so much because although I see a lot of people getting a lot of words down on paper, those words tend to suck . . . and suck hard. In a lot of ways, the process brings a lot of bad writing habits to the surface. Writing is a job, a fun and rewarding one, but there's a discipline to punching the clock every day for it. A lot of people do it for fun and whatever that's fine, but I see a lot of people online who really do wanna be writers and they crash and burn with this arbitrary deadline.
My motto, which I like scream at John Helfers a lot, is "Write, Monkey, write!" Cuz that's the trick to writing!
If I had an established program, I think I'd call it You Suck Because Your Writing Sucks. It would be a very blunt look at how to get your act together for the slackers, the wannabe, and of course, the NaNo'ers. It would be the tough love, scared straight approach to helping people finish what they started. and be proud of it.
You've worked in publishing for a while, and now you're seeing it from the author's perspective. Who do you think, in the long chain of people that get involved in a book's production, is the most unheralded?
I'm gonna go with editors on this one and that's coming from a long list of jobs that make a book happen. They're really the unsung heroes of the industry. Every part of a publishing company is a vital cog in the machine, but if you're going to be an editor, you have to really love it. The pay generally sucks, you're always carrying home two or three manuscripts when you leave work. if you leave, that is. The hours are lonnnnnnng. But they make us authors look good. I think I'm gonna owe mine a pony or something.
Who would you give gold stars to in the production of your own book?
Damn, there's so many people.but I do work for the sales department and I gotta go with them. They really went out of their way to make sure I'll be well represented across the country and I couldn't be more proud to be a part of them.
You formed a group with several other fellow writers called The League of Reluctant Adults. Why did you form this group?
Because shamelessness loves company? I was actually asked to join because we were a bunch of light hearted urban fantasists all looking for ways to promote ourselves. It just made sense to band together, and I have to say I'm in good company over there. We do interviews with authors or people in the industry and each of us has a separate day when we blog on whatever topic strikes our fancy. They crack me the hell up. Except that Mark Henry. He's a dirty bitch and should be treated as such.
Now that it's been up and running for a while, have you found that it's added anything unexpected to your writing life? Or even your personal life, for that matter.
Being part of the League gives me a little bit more mental stability. Writers are an insecure lot and justifiably so. We spend long stretches by ourselves creating something and all kinds of neurosis can develop in that process. It's nice to have a place where I can vent about stuff, encourage discussion or just have a good laugh. Plus I have a place to steal really good ideas from!
Before we close, can you give us a teaser for where the next Simon Canderous adventure is going to take us?
Without giving away too much of DEAD TO ME, the second book, tentatively titled BACK TO LIFE includes many of the following:
- an Oubliette
- Illinois gypsies
- more zombies than you can shake a retractable baseball bat at
- sweet, sweet lovin'
- magic bronze attack crabs
To learn more about the strange and macabre life of author Anton Strout visit him online at http://www.antonstrout.com/. Please email him and ask when he's going to upload audio files of himself reading DEAD TO ME in the voice of Christopher Walken.


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It has been an action-packed weekend with Wireless, The British Summer Festival and the 4th Of July kicking off summer festivities on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Onion Man Triathlon, Walla Walla, WA – 5/27/2012
I hadn't run an Olympic distance race in a year and a half, so I was particularly excited to see how much I'd improved. Quite a bit, it turns out. But first…
I used couchsurfing.org once again to find a place to stay, and I hit the jackpot: a very lovely musician couple that has spent the past several years restoring this 100 year old house:
… and I got to sleep in the basement, on an actual bed. Hurrah! I also got to play with their dog, Daisy:
All she wants in this world is someone to throw the frisbee for her, and so I did. A lot.
With the race on Sunday, I arrived Friday, went to the store for some dinner supplies, and grabbed an early bed time. The weekend before this, I had a 92 mile bike ride, 16 mile run and a very cold swim in Lake Washington, plus not enough sleep, which all combined to give me a cold. I'd stayed home from work Wednesday and Thursday and didn't train at all, sleeping and hydrating like crazy, trying to kill the bug before my race. It worked, but I still slept for 10 hours that night.
When I awoke Saturday, I ate breakfast, suited up and set out for what was supposed to be a 50 mile bike ride, including a tour of the race course. I flatted at the Lake (damn gravel, or damn poor tube/tire mounting skills), but it was a lovely morning and I didn't mind too much. A quick tube change and CO2 inflation later, and I was on my way. My planned route would have taken me into Oregon, making it my first bicycle ride across a state line. Alas, it was not to be, as the pavement came to an abrupt end:
So, 50 miles became 35. Combine that with all the bed rest from trying to get over the cold and my legs were SUPER ready to tear it up Sunday. But first, I had to make some lunch, which I did to the sounds of opera being practiced in the other room. No, really. It was awesome.
My parents had driven out so I met up with them in the afternoon, and we took a driving tour of the course, then relaxed at a wine bar for a bit (I abstained, of course). Then it was back to the house for my usual epic pasta feast (assisted by the coolest pepper grinder ever):
I was in bed by 9, and up at 5am. For my race morning meal I had a couple english muffins with PB and J, plus a bowl of oatmeal. I prepped a couple bike bottles with Cytomax, plus a 3rd to sip on in the last hour before the race start. I'd also been hydrating for the previous 48 hours with lots of Nuun water (lots = somewhere over a gallon a day… I don't really keep track, I'm just always downing water, and in the day or so before a race I start dropping Nuun tablets in there to raise my electrolyte levels). I headed to the lake, arriving early enough to score a spot in the main lot (and not in the overflow lot a mile away), and got to work setting up my transition area:
The brightly colored towel helps me find my stuff when I come running in from the swim and bike legs.
I went through my usual land-based warm up routine, chatted with my folks and the other athletes, and soon enough it was time to head to the water. The race director messed up slightly in that he started his pre-race meeting too close to the start time of the race, which meant people didn't have a lot of time to get in the water and acclimate before the gun went off. This dramatically increases the odds of people freaking out as nerves + cold water + a couple hundred people thrashing all around you = panic attack. Indeed, my mom counted at least 5 people having to be escorted to the beach by the kayak-mounted volunteers. I was fine, though…
In fact, I was more than fine. I absolutely creamed my goal time. So much so that I am positive the swim course was too short. .93 miles in 22 minutes? Ummm, no. I swam damn fast, sure, but I know where the outer edge of my limits are, and that far exceeds them.
I ran up the boat launch (partly because it feels badass to be sprinting uphill out of the water when most are walking, but also because it floods the legs with blood to get them ready for the bike), starting to take off my wetsuit as I went.
I still don't have sockless bike shoes, so this time I experimented with a super-absorbent 'pocket towel' to prep my feet for my socks. It seemed to work pretty well, but it was still slow going. I finally got everything on me and set out:
As I'd learned the day before, the whole area is on this weird uphill grade heading east that looks like it's downhill the whole time. This meant I was struggling to maintain what seemed like a 16mph average for the whole first half. In fact, I checked my bike clock at the turn around, and at 47 minutes it's a 15.8mph average. I did the return trip in just 33 minutes, for a 22.4mph average. Woah!
I started using 'salt tabs' a few weeks ago, and this was my first chance to use them in a race (tab = tablet, though it's really a capsule, and has more than just salt). I now have two dispensers in the tubes of my aerobars, so I can hold a total of 12 tabs. This is all due to finally sitting down and doing the math and finding I was well below the recommended salt intake per hour. So now I take a salt tab at each :15 and :45 minute mark, plus a gel at :30 and :00, and drink a bottle of Cytomax per hour. In this race, though, I was going so fast in the second half that I took my second gel early at the :55 minute mark, had a little more Cytomax, but then stopped that altogether, to let my stomach settle before the run.
In the last couple miles I was really hammering it, which is a great way to clear the mind, and it's always interesting what scraps end up filling that void. This time it was "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" (sorry, Neil, but that's the first version of this song I heard as a youth and thus, the one that tends to float in, unbidden). But hey, who am I to question the void? I went with it, passed a couple cheaters who'd been drafting off each other the last 10 miles, and zoomed back down to the lake.
I've been paying a lot of attention in the past few months to my gut, trying to figure out just what was causing it to clench up in most of my races last year. At this point I'm convinced it was a combination of
- too many calories consumed on the bike, in forms that my gut couldn't quickly digest
- not enough salt/electrolytes, so my body couldn't absorb all the fluids
- starting the run WAY too fast
In addition to the above concerns, I've been plagued by knee issues all year, which seem to crop up whenever I let my stride go long in an effort to go fast. I've also discovered that what I think is a "slow" run pace when fresh off the bike is actually quite fast (for me), because my legs are used to the faster cadence on the bike. So! Armed with this knowledge, I'd adjusted my nutrition plan, and now I just had to hold myself back on the run. I forced myself to go at a pace that felt way too easy, giving my gut and knees time to adjust. In so doing, those cheating drafters passed me back. Blast!
I stuck to my plan. I kept it slow and easy. I made it to the first aid station, about a mile in, and my gut seemed to be OK, so I had a sip of Gatorade. Another bad habit I've tried to eliminate is that I tend to down the *entire* cup of whatever fluid I grab at any given aid station. Not so, this day! A small sip was all I needed, so that's all I took, and away I went.
I kept holding myself back until mile 2 or so, and then gradually let my legs do whatever they wanted, within the confines of my "short, fast, light, easy" mantra. My speed picked up, and I ended up passing the drafters. Huzzah!
I had planned on eating a gel at the turnaround, but my energy was fine and I was still worried about my gut freaking out, so I held off (also: I really had to pee!), but continued taking little sips of Gatorade at each aid station for the sugar boost.
I was finally into the last mile, and let my stride open up a bit, and my leg speed increase a touch more. A quarter mile to go, and some dude was headed in the opposite direction, just starting his run. I called out "high five", and bam!, it happened. Then it was time for my favorite part of each race, the sprint finish…
I had no idea at this point how fast I'd been running. I knew I'd had a fast swim, and creamed the bike leg, and thought I stood a good chance of beating my 3 hour goal, but HOLY CATS!! As I came tearing into the finish corral, I spotted the race clock: 2:43. I was stunned.
Part of that time is due to the shortened swim course, but even had it been the proper .93 miles, I think I still would have beaten 3 hours. And my run time adds up to an 8:45/mile average… what the what!?!? That's just bonkers. Even better, though I know I didn't have any more speed in me, I definitely felt I had more distance.
Departing from my traditional post race feast of Mexican food and a piña colada, I opted this time for some fine vegan fixings at The Garden Vegan Cafe. Delish!
swim: 22:22 / bike: 1:22:07 / run: 54:21
(distances: .93 (not!) / 24.85 / 6.2 miles)
total: 2:43:55
placed: 14/18 in my division, 132/223 overall.


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Gluten-Free Baking
That is the promise Lisa Stander-Horel made when her own family went gluten-free more than a decade ago. Now Nosh in this gives greater than 100 gluten-free recipes stimulated by using the classics Lisa grew up supporting her mom make―and the bakery and shop-bought favorites she and her own family ignored the maximum.
Right here are mother's Marble Chiffon Cake, Black & White Cookies, O'Figginz Bars, and classic excursion treats consisting of Macaroons, Hamantashen, and massive fat Baked Sufganiyah Jelly Donuts. carry the nosh back into your life with baked items that have all the textures and tastes you consider and crave!
Along with each dessert recipe you would possibly desire, Nosh on this also consists of:
• A Baked Savories chapter, with instant classics like Corn Bread Challah Stuffing
• An Out of a Box chapter that shows you how to get the most out of a cake mix
• A comprehensive introduction to gluten-free flour (including the Nosh all-purpose blend that can be used in each recipe) and other essential ingredients
• Color photographs and valuable tips throughout.
With Nosh on this you could keep to enjoy all your favored baked treats and take your gluten-free baking to the next stage. Even Bubbe could be impressed.
About the Author
Lisa Stander-Horel and Tim Horel are the writing and photography team behind the baking blog Gluten Free Canteen. The authors have been experimenting with gluten-free baking recipe development for over a decade. Their work has been published in Living Withoutmagazine and a variety of online publications including Salon, Huffington Post, Joy of Kosher, GourmetLive.com, BlogHer Food, and more.
Former restaurant critic and executive food editor of the New York Daily News, Arthur Schwartz is an award-winning cookbook author, including his last Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited, which was named best American-subject cookbook by the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) and was nominated for a James Beard book award. He is acknowledged as one of the country's foremost experts on food, cooking, and culinary history. He has a weekly show on WHDD, Robin Hood Radio, an NPR affliate in Sharon, CT.
"Traditional Jewish food is undeniably delicious, but many of its classic dishes are not accessible to people who avoid gluten. Fortunately, [Nosh on This] bridges the gap, offering more than 100 gluten-free recipes that are inspired by traditional Jewish fare. Once off-limit treats like black & white cookies, rugelach, challah, and marble chiffon cake are no back on the menu. It is the perfect gift for any gluten-free friend."―TheKitchn
"In the ever-growing pile of gluten-free cookbooks, we found one recently that stands out. It's got good recipes, and it's a lot of fun.Nosh on This: Gluten-Free Baking From a Jewish-American Kitchen is one couple's take on getting all the treats without the wheat."―Los Angeles Times
"Expertise, enthusiasm, and stunning photographs distinguish this excellent gluten-free baking collection."―Library Journal
"The recipes [in Nosh on This] are innovative and unique, from apple upside-down cake with honey pomegranate syrup to sweet potato pumpkin butter pie . . . The color photos, many of them full page, are beautifully styled and photographed."―The Jerusalem Post
"[T]he book's greatest asset is that it makes the gluten-free baker feel like anything is possible."―Jewish Book Council
"[Nosh on This] has plenty of typically Jewish treats―honey cake, babka, hamantaschen, rugelach, challah, macaroons, mandelbrot―but also lots of familiar, everyday sweets and pastries that anyone can enjoy, from pies, fruit tarts, layer cakes, and cupcakes to brownies, lemon bars, eclairs, even lots of doughnuts. Those parents whose kids can't eat everyday packaged items should especially enjoy the recipes for homemade cookies inspired by Oreos, Mallomars, Stella D'oro Swiss Fudge Cookies, Fig Newtons, and more. And the tone is lively, fun, and just irreverent enough to make even infrequent bakers feel at home in the kitchen."―Bay Area Bites (KQED)
"Lisa and Tim's dream for Nosh on This is that a family that includes both gluten-free and gluten-eating members could eat the same desserts made with the recipes from their cookbook; there wouldn't be a need to make the traditional baked goods in addition to theirs, because the gluten-free versions taste just as good."―Tablet
"[An] informative manual for making scrumptious and gluten-free Jewish baked goods. With color pictures of every dish and well-defined instructions, this book is a welcome addition to the gluten free baking world."―Publishers Weekly
"Lisa Stander-Horel is a great baker and a mensch. With Nosh on This, she has created a bevy of recipes for gluten-intolerant folks who still want the foods they ate as part of their family's traditions. I want one of everything, please!"―Shauna James Ahern, author of Gluten-Free Girl Every Day
"What could be more comforting than a book of noshable treats the whole family―gluten-free or not!―can enjoy? Nosh on This provides delicious gluten-free recipes to tantalize everyone."―Kyra Bussanich, Cupcake Wars–winning founder of Kyra's Bake Shop and author ofSweet Cravings
"Nosh on This is a wonderful, carefully crafted, and must-have cookbook not only for gluten-free Jewish-American bakers, but for all gluten-free bakers. It is a unique resource that brings gluten-free Jewish baked specialties into the realm of deliciousness!"―Jeanne Sauvage, author of Gluten-Free Baking for the Holidays
"Had Lisa Stander-Horel simply taken traditional Jewish holiday recipes and made them gluten-free, it would have been enough. Instead, she added incredible flavor and flair to gluten-free baking, ensuring whatever you make will be devoured. The recipe photos will convince you gluten-free also means gorgeous presentation.Nosh on This is a total reinvention of bubbe-style goodies that everyone could enjoy. Maybe it should be subtitled: you don't have to be gluten intolerant to enjoy this book because the baking is simply uncompromised, irresistible goodness."―Marcy Goldman, bestselling author of A Passion for Baking, A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking, and The Best of BetterBaking.com
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Medical negligence cases are increasing in the number and in spite of the developments made in the field of medical treatment; numerous cases are filed every day. A clinical negligence can lead to immense trouble for a person, which might even lead to his death. The worst part of medical negligence appears when the medical professionals fail to diagnose a problem, a disease that has already attacked the person. Cancer misdiagnosis is an important medical negligence case where the already suffering victim is subjected to life- consuming problem. However, if faced with such a dire situation, the victim becomes entitled to claim compensation, which can relieve him from the financial pressure if not the physical pain. The assistance of the medical negligence solicitorshelps the victim in struggling with the circumstance and in most occasions, receive their compensation as well as the much- awaited justice.
Understanding Cancer Misdiagnosis
Cancer is disastrous, and it has the potential of wreaking havoc on the life of an individual in various ways. Since bad times never give a warning before they arrive and engulf your life in a vicious circle, it is necessary to be aware of the types of cancer misdiagnosis and know the little details about them. As such, the compensation claims for medical negligence can be filed for the following:
- Bladder Cancer Misdiagnosis
- Lung Cancer Misdiagnosis
- Testicular Cancer Misdiagnosis
- Prostrate Cancer Misdiagnosis
- Breast Cancer Misdiagnosis
- Cervical Cancer Misdiagnosis
The effect of a wrong surgery or the failure to identify and detect the disease in the very first place can be dangerous. A serious disease like that of cancer needs to be treated right from the initial stages. Misdiagnosis indicates to the fact that the disease is left to grow and spread its effects inside the body of the patient, becoming impending with every passing day.
Claim Compensation
Once you find out that you have been a victim to a misdiagnosis or perhaps a wrongly undertaken surgery, the first thing you should do is to consult a legal service-providing agency and the medical negligence solicitors working with the agencies. The solicitors will study the case thoroughly, and if it happens to be in your favour, they will agree on representing it until it reaches its desired destination. Working on a no win no fee basis, the solicitors ensure that you are not required to bear any expenses in the process of claiming compensation.
Be Confident and Fast in Action
Cancer misdiagnosis can be equated with a crime, as any delay in the treatment can lead to the death of a patient, who otherwise could have been cured with proper medical treatment. It is necessary to take fast action in order to prevent the situation from worsening further. People must get rid of their fear of going against established professionals like doctors or hospital authorities. It is the medical negligence solicitors who provide sufficient emotional support to the wronged victims. They are made to understand that compensation claims are instruments of justice that serve to reduce the intensity of their suffering to a large extent.


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Sums lengths/areas and copies them to the clipboard.
DimensionSet controls and modifies dimensions which create one continuous set of dimensions as one object. Insert or Delete point, Move dimension set and more.
Extra tools for Xref such as open Xref read-only, Match view and layer properties between the drawings or viewports, disable Xref to be snappable or selectable, reset Xref layer and more.
LevelSet measures the vertical distance from a defined origin point and draws level (elevation) marker with measured value.
App temporarily overrides objects display. App has three parts 1) Display object vertices and their z-coordinates 2) Hide objects 3) Override objects properties (color, linetype)
A seven-parameter similarity transformation calculator in 3D space.
Align text or other objects on lines, arcs, polylines, featuring many other "plus" commands.
JTB Spot Elevation is an app to insert surveying Spot Elevation blocks and manage them on an Edit Properties spreadsheet.
Manage drawings with many layouts more easily in a palette.
Manage drawings with many layouts more easily in a palette
An app to batch change or fix filepaths and names of external references in drawings. Supports Xrefs, Datalinks, Raster Images, PDFs, DWFs, and DGNs.
Convert all raster images in drawing(s) to OLE objects, it's like binding external image references.
App to simplify layer override settings within viewports.
App to quickly copy a rectangular window of selected objects out from your drawing, and trim everything outside the window's edges. The result can be copied to the current drawing or to the clipboard.
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Are you in or are you out?
That was George Clooney's line in Ocean's 11. Remember? "Tell me, right here … because if you're out you can go back to feeling up stockbrokers." Clooney's movie was a remake of the Rat Pack film made in 1960, back when Democrats were Democrats … and Republicans were pretty much Democrats too.
The Ocean's 11 question is worth asking your Representative today, as the House prepares to vote on the Congressional Progressive Caucus' "Back to Work" Budget - perhaps as early as Tuesday.
Despite the fact that it will never be enacted, right now the CPC proposal is the most important budget battle in the country. It's the only plan that makes economic sense, the only plan that fully reflects the best of our nation, the only plan that represents the public's will.
We won't have a functioning democracy until more of our representatives stand up for the principles in this document. That's why every Representative's vote for this budget matters. It's why each member of the House, and each of us, needs to stand up and be counted.
The CPC budget is smart, effective, and practical, creating up to seven million jobs while reducing the Federal deficit by $4.4 trillion. And yet it's being marginalized by the press and dismissed by leaders of the CPC's own Democratic Party. Its provisions are enormously popular with voters across the political spectrum. And yet in Washington's insular world of self-fulfilling prophecies we're told that this budget is unimportant because "it will never pass."
The only way to change that political equation is by changing the definition of 'mainstream.' That begins by holding each and every elected official in Washington accountable, putting this budget before them and asking that very simple question:
Are you in or are you out?
Waste or Investment?
The CPC budget begins by recognizing what most sensible economists understand: A lingering recessionary economy like ours needs an up-front jolt of public investment. (The first one wasn't big enough.) It invests $2.1 trillion in public investment and jobs growth, with $700 billion in its first twelve months.
That sounds like a lot until we compare it to the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which, as Bill Moyers notes, may be as much as $4.4 trillion (plus another trillion in interest). Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimates that it will take another $3 trillion just to cover the overall cost of medical care for wounded soldiers.
Next to that, $2.1 trillion to restore our damaged economy is a bargain. The budget would create an estimated 6.9 million jobs, cut wasteful Pentagon spending, reduce Medicare costs by ending corporate giveaways, modestly increase tax levels for high- and ultra-high-income Americans, and assess Wall Street for its excessive risk-tasking behavior.
It reduces the deficit in part because its up-front expenditures are an investment, not a military waste of money (or, far more tragically, of lives).
The Joblessness Crisis
We're in the midst of a lingering joblessness crisis,an emergency for million, and are barely making headway. In January there were 3.3 unemployed people for each job opening. "U6" – the best measure of real unemployment – now stands at 14.3 percent, six points or more above what it was before Wall Street crashed the economy in 2007-2008. The current "jobs gap" – the number of jobs needed to bring us to pre-recession employment levels - is 8.9 million.
Another critical measure of the jobs situation is the employment-to-population (EPOP) ratio. As Dean Baker writes, the EPOP is still 4.5 points below what it was before the recession and is only 0.4 percent above its lowest level. Worse, it hasn't changed for the past year.
Even our "best" job-creating months barely dent this lingering jobs crisis. Every month it goes on, people suffer: Millions of young people see their lifetime earnings fall. Minority communities fall further behind their white counterparts. Neighborhoods and cities fall into disrepair … and despair.
A Smarter Economy
The Republican budget is an exercise in economic flim-flammery, dosed with pseudo-technical gibberish so meaningless it makes alchemical incantations look like particle physics. Proposals from the White House and Senate Dems, are timid, water-downed, and lacking in clarity, offering little more than Band-Aids for our economic wounds.
Only the "Back to Work" budget moves aggressively to break the cycle of economic decline caused by excessive spending cuts, leading us out of that fiscal black hole the IMF calls "the austerity trap" (explained in plain English by Paul Krugman here).
The CPC's budget calls for increased education spending - which is only fair to the young people who have suffered disproportionately from the mistakes of their elders. Education's also an investment in future economic growth.
The "Back to Work" budget's infrastructure investments won't just create jobs. They'll also give us better and safer schools, bridges, highways, and power grids. Studies commissioned by the Society of Civil Engineers show that they'll also save trillions of dollars.
The budget invests in clean energy, does more to aid the poor, and advances other important social goals. It relies on tax measures economists describe as "Pigovian," which assess the societal impact of behavior like polluting the environment. Don't get put off by a word like "Pigovian." All that really means is that people should pay for cleaning up their own messes, especially when they're getting very, very rich doing it.
Energy magnates like the Koch brothers hate it when that happens. Everybody else should love it.
Closing the Fairness Gap
Corporatist politicians havehelped the wealthiest among us accumulate ever-greater amounts of our national income, at great cost to the middle class, the impoverished, and the overall economy. Meanwhile the wealthy are paying less and less in taxes, adding to an artificially-inflated "deficit panic" fueled by special-interest groups and cynical politicians unwilling to take the most obvious step to alleviate those deficits: tax increases for the wealthy.
Republicans' recent and much-vaunted tax "concessions" are another hidden assault on the middle class. When they say they'll consider closing "loopholes" and ending "tax expenditures," they're using euphemisms for hitting the wallets of non-wealthy Americans - by reducing or ending deductions like employer-based health insurance, home mortgage interest, and child tax credits – so the wealthiest can pay.
The "Back to Work" budget addresses the Great Wealth Grab by ending regressive tax measures which hurt the middle class. It also implements the Making Work Pay tax credit, which replaces the payroll tax 'holiday' for lower-income and middle-class working people without the 'holiday's' inbuilt regressivities (and without the threat it posed to Social Security's fiscal independence).
It (rather modestly) raises the marginal tax rate for the wealthiest Americans - to 45 percent for income above $1 million per year, rising incrementally to 49 percent for income above $1 billion. It would also end the home mortgage interest deduction … for yachts. (And for vacation homes.)
A Popular Plan
Politicians and pundits tell us these ideas are too "fringe" and unpopular to pass … or they would tell us that, if this budget weren't being subjected to a near-total news blackout. They're wrong. My colleague Dave Johnson pulled together survey data on individual elements of the "Back to Work" budget, and the figures are impressive:
- 95 percent said jobs should be the government's top priority;
- 90 percent supported greater energy investment;
- 66 percent said the wealthiest Americans should be taxed more;
- 52 percent agreed "we should invest more now in education, infrastructure and technology";
- the same percentage agreed that "spending money on projects like roads, bridges and technology development";
- 65 percent supported a carbon tax.
There's more, but you get the idea.
Middle of the Road
As we said, at most points during past century this would have been a mainstream, sensible, centrist plan. Dwight Eisenhower would have had no problem signing it. After all, he built the Federal highway system, funded the expansion of education, started the Sputnik space program, and governed when the top tax rate for millionaires was 91 percent.
Richard Nixon, who proposed a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, would have been comfortable with it too. Even George W. Bush had no problem signing a $286.4 billion infrastructure bill – and that was before the jobs crisis.
Personally, I'd have gone farther in some parts of the bill, putting the top tax rate at 70 percent or so and targeting an unemployment rate even lower than this bill's 5 to 5.6 percent. But as we were saying: this budget's mainstream.
That's why it's important that every single Democrat on the Hill vote for it. Popular, smart, fair proposals like this won't become "politically feasible" until more politicians vote for them – and fight for them. The majority will remain marginalized in Washington until more politicians stand up for it.
Go Time
Isaiah Poole has helpfully assembled contact information for 124 Democratic House members whose votes are needed to build momentum for a common-sense economic agenda in Washington. They need to hear from constituents who'll tell them it's "go time" for economic action. (If your Representative's a Republican, don't feel left out. You can go here and tell them to reject their party's extremist economic assault on government, otherwise known as the "Ryan budget.")
But if you're represented by one of the 124 Democrats listed above, let them know how you feel. Tell them they can't be all "Democrat-y" about this, waffling and shading and nuancing. Tell them they can't call that hedge fund executive who says he'll have a job for them someday. (Clooney: "If you're out, you can go back to feeling up stockbrokers.") They can't discuss it over drinks with their favorite ex-Clinton staffer, or wait for a white paper from Larry Summers, or see how their peers behave before making a commitment.
When the roll is called, they'll either do the right thing or they won't. Tell them: It's go time. Contact your Representative's office and ask that all-important question:
Are you in or are you out?


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PCLI panel offers practical and tech-savvy tips to stay organized
From a simple to-do list to more techno-savvy methods of organization via Google, two well-respected digital journalists spoke to a crowd of about 50 at a Press Club of Long Island lecture on time management Thursday on multiple facets of proper management skills to help journalists get by on a daily basis.
Tami Luhby, a senior writer covering the economy at CNNMoney.com and a former reporter on Newsday's business desk, uses the to-do list as her go-to method.
A triathlon and marathon runner, she equated management to efficiency.
That's what it's all about, she said.
Among her many points of interest:
- Creating a central list with the day's pertinent information available in one spot
- Utilizing your time by preparing the night before
- Focusing and finishing individual tasks, instead of overloading on a bunch
- Taking a break, rebooting and get reenergizing when possible
Jeremy Caplan, the director of education for the new Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, and contributor for Time Magazine, took a more digital approach with his sound advice.
With handouts dispelling various useful websites to better utilize the cavalcade of digital media tidbits available these days, Caplan focused on Google as a strength in management.
Efficiency is about a vision and understanding where you're heading, he said.
He offered 27 tips for organizing your digital life, many of which involve managing email, digital information and content.
With a mock call via Google Voice, Caplan captivated the audience as he spoke of Google's recording capability and many hidden values.
Some of Caplan's helpful websites include:
- Rescuetime.com to gain insight into how you're utilizing your time
- Evernote.com exactly what it sounds life, a everlasting notepad
- Knowapp.com break projects into pieces
- Journotech.com interesting devices to help digital journalists
The event, moderated by Newsday business columnist Patricia Kitchen, was hosted at Newsday.


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Philips Clock Radio AJ3650 Projection anywhere, anytime with outdoor temperature sensor The Philips AJ3650 features an ultra bright projection by day and gentle dim light by night, displaying time, date and animations clearly - anywhere. Its smart temperature sensors also display indoor and outdoor temperatures - anytime. Perfect viewing anywhere • Full 360-degree viewing angle • Projects time, date, temperature and animations • Selectable ultra bright or dim light projection Start the day your way • Wake up to sounds of nature or radio • Gentle wake with increasing alarm volume • Dual alarm time • Repeat alarm Easy to use • FM digital tuning with presets • Display indoor-outdoor temperature • Preloaded relaxation music lets you fall asleep peacefully • Sleep timer for easy fall asleep to your favorite music AJ3650/12 Clock Radio Specifications Product highlights Indoor Thermometer • Temperature range: -20°C to 70 °C • Temperature resolution: 0.1 °C Outdoor Thermometer • • • • RF transmission frequency: 433 MHz Temperature range: -20°C to 70 °C Temperature resolution: 0.1 °C Wireless transmission: 50 meter (Open area) Sound • Output power (RMS): 200mW • Sound System: Mono • Volume Control: rotary Tuner/Reception/Transmission • • • • Auto digital tuning Station presets: 15 Tuner Bands: FM Antenna: FM Antenna Convenience • Alarms: Gentle Wake, Radio Alarm, Repeat alarm (snooze), Dual alarm time, Wake to nature sound • Backlight • Backlight color: Blue • Clock Enhancements: Time projection, Backup Clock • Clock/Version: Digital • Display Enhancements: Brightness Control • Display Type: LCD • Sleep Timer: Nature sound, Relaxation music Accessories • Included Accessories: User Manual, Warranty certificate, AC-DC Adapter Dimensions • Packaging dimensions (W x H x D): 184 x 80 x 180 mm • Product dimensions (W x H x D): 95 x 105 x 110 mm • Weight: 0.56 kg • Weight incl. Packaging: 0.833 kg Power • Adaptor type: 100-240V 50/60Hz • Mains power • Issue date 2008-03-07 © 2008 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. All Rights reserved. Version: 1.0.4 Specifications are subject to change without notice. Trademarks are the property of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. or their respective owners. 12 NC: 8670 000 36985 EAN: 87 12581 39503 2 www.philips.com Wake up to sounds of nature Gentle Wake Start your day right by waking up gently to a gradually escalating alarm volume. Normal alarm sounds with a preset volume are either too low to wake you up or are so uncomfortably loud that you are rudely jolted awake. Choose to wake up to your favorite music, radio station or buzzer alarm. Gentle wake's alarm volume gradually increases from subtly low to reasonably high in order to gently rouse you. Repeat alarm FM digital tuning with presets Sleep Timer Sleep timer lets you decide how long you want to listen to music or a radio station of your choice before falling asleep. Simply set a time limit (up to 1 hour) and choose a CD or radio station to listen to while you drift off to sleep. The set will continue to play for the selected duration and then automatically switch off to a powerefficient, silent stand-by mode. Sleep Timer lets you fall asleep to your favorite CD or radio DJ without counting sheep or worrying about wasting power.
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Prior to competing in any Shorter University Intramural Sport, every current Shorter University varsity or junior varsity athlete will be required to complete the Student-Athlete Permission Form, which must be signed by the head coach of their respective sport. This is a requirement.
The purpose of this permission form is to prevent a student-athlete from losing their athletic scholarship as the result of an injury resulting from competition in an Intramural Sports. The Shorter University Intramural Sports staff recognizes the commitment student-athletes have to their team and the Shorter University Athletic Program, and is dedicated to keeping student-athletes healthy to compete in their respective sport.
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Dear friends, since the last post on benefits of coconut oil, we have had request to post on the health benefits of olive oil (me and my big mouth – I said i use olive oil and not coconut oil, even though both are healthy!) So, here goes dear friends. YOUR BODIES WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN IN YOUR JOURNEY TO SUCCESS AND EXCELLENCE IJMN.
1 Make your arteries more elastic – Two tablespoons daily makes you more resistant to strokes and heart attack.
2 Reduce bad cholesterol levels. – Olive oil contains polyphenols, which help to keep your levels of LDL cholesterol within healthy ranges.
3 Make you less hungry – Olive oil makes you feel sated and tends to make you eat less and have fewer sugar cravings.
4 Reduce the risk of stroke in the elderly through yet another mechanism – Older people who ate diets rich in olive oil
consumption, which contains plasma oleic acid, had fewer strokes in a 2011 study.
5 Lower the risk of coronary heart disease in women – Mediterranean cultures have long revered the olive and its oil, with good reason. An Italian study found that a diet that included olive oil along with plenty of leafy vegetables and fruit resulted in reduced rates of coronary heart disease in women enrolled in the study.
6 Cure or reduce acne – Although it sounds counterintuitive to use oil to fight pimples and blackheads, using an olive oil and salt scrub help some types of acne.
7 Protect your red blood cells and therefore your heart – Over time, cells oxidize, leading to the common effects of aging. A specific polyphenol in olive oil is especially effective at protecting your red blood cells from oxidation. A 2009 study identified this component as DHPEA-EDA.
8 Treat sunburn – Olive oil soothes the pain of mild sunburn by helping skin retain its moisture. Use equal parts olive oil and water in a tight-lidded container. Shake well, then apply to mild sunburn. Shake the mixture often during application to keep it from separating.
9 Help fight breast cancer – Olive oil contains phytochemicals, and a 2008 study found that they are effecting at killing cancer cells and suppressing cancer genes.
10 Improve your memory – Some research has shown that olive oil can prevent and possibly even reverse the memory loss that accompanies Alzheimer's disease.
11 Prevent heart attacks in men – A 2008 study showed that men who ate at least two ounces of olive oil reduced their chances of having a heart attack by 82 percent as compared to men who ate no olive oil.
12 Keep your lips soft and supple – Make your own lip balm by combining olive oil with equal parts beeswax. Put it into a small glass jar and apply it with your fingertip.
13 Condition your hair – Ancient beauties and warriors alike used olive oil to tame and beautify their locks. Olive oil strengthens hair and makes it more flexible.
14 Help you to stay healthier into old age – The Mediterranean Diet has been proven to be one of the healthiest in the world. Some consider it the healthiest. Olive oil has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean Diet. Although red wine and lots of fish, whole grains, fruits and vegetables also play a huge part in the diet's success, scientists agree that it wouldn't be nearly as beneficial without olive oil.
15 Prevent dry scalps – Using olive oil as a scalp conditioner moisturizes your dry scalp.
16 Prevent middle-age spread – Because olive oil is a calorie-dense food, it is often avoided out of fear that it will cause weight gain. However, a 2008 study showed that olive oil, along with nut oils, did not cause weight gain the way less healthy fats do.
17 Provide an easy way to add minimally processed food to your diet – Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is unrefined. It is obtained by pressing cold olives. All other oils that are readily available to consumers must be refined using heat and other harsh processes.
18 Clean sensitive skin – The Ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans had no soap and didn't miss it thanks to olive oil. They massaged olive oil into their skin, then scraped it back off, along with dirt and dead skin. Today, a wide variety of soaps, including some made from olive oil, are available. Yet many people still prefer to clean their skin with pure olive oil.
19 Remove paint from your skin – Olive oil gently loosens paint on your skin. When you wipe away the oil, the paint goes with it. Your skin will be left soft, firm and smooth.
20 Make an inexpensive exfoliant that works like the most expensive spa products available – Exfoliating removes dead skin and prevents your skin from becoming dull. Mix a palmful of olive oil with a teaspoon of sugar or salt. Apply the mixture to your skin, then massage gently.
21 Moisturize your skin –
Olive oil is closer in chemical structure to your skin's natural oil than any other naturally occurring oil. Use it as you would a body, face and hand lotion.
22 Prevent your skin from aging prematurely – The same antioxidant properties that keep your red blood cells from oxidizing when you eat olive oil keep your skin cells from oxidizing when you apply it topically. The antioxidant hydroxytyrosol and vitamin E help to prevent cell degeneration in your skin.
23 Never clog your pores or cause pimples – Olive oil penetrates the skin, leaving your skin silky smooth with no greasy feeling. Cleopatra undoubtedly had many costly beauty secrets up her sleeve, but the most important of them can be yours for the price of a small bottle of EVOO.
24 Prevent sagging skin – The squalene in olive oil increases your skin's elasticity, leaving it firmly toned with a bright, youthful glow.
25 Smooth and moisturize rough, dry feet – Make a foot scrub of equal parts olive oil and honey, a third part sugar and a dash of lemon juice. Soak your feet in warm water, then massage the moisture into them. Follow up by moisturizing your feet and hands with a well-shaken water and olive oil emulsion.
26 Give you a safe sunless tan – Use olive oil as a medium to make self-tanners go on more smoothly and evenly. Mix equal parts of a commercial self-tanning product and olive oil. Apply the mixture to your skin and enjoy your streak-free sunless tan.
27 Act as a perfect medium for cosmetics – Combined with natural pigments and beeswax, olive oil makes inexpensive, natural lip-gloss, blush and even eye shadow.
28 Make a perfect addition to homemade skin-care products – Nearly all your skin-care recipes, from masks to exfoliants, can be improved by substituting olive oil for the oil called for in the original recipe. You can also often improve and extend expensive commercial skin care products by mixing a small amount with a palmful of olive oil just before you use them
29 Act as a perfect carrier for oil-based medicines – Essential oils usually cannot be used full-strength on the skin. They typically require the use of a carrier oil. Olive oil is excellent carrier oil for most essential oils.
30 Team up with mashed avocado for a homemade facial mask – Mix olive oil with a mashed ripe avocado into a paste. Smooth onto your face or another area that needs moisturizing and rejuvenating. Allow to sit for 15 minutes, then rinse.
31 Combine with honey and egg for a beauty mask right from the pages of Venus' beauty guide – An ancient beauty mask recipe is made from an egg yolk, a spoonful of honey and a spoonful of olive oil. Rub it on and wait for 15 minutes, then rinse it all off with warm water.
32 Make a natural vitamin supplement – Two tablespoons can replace your daily vitamin E supplement while providing all the other benefits of olive oil.
33 Possibly protect and lubricate your voice – There is no scientific evidence yet to back them up, but singers have been using olive oil as a gargle before performing for centuries.
34 Make a natural massage oil – Olive oil may very well be the world's oldest massage oil. It can be used alone or as a carrier oil for essential oils.
35 Enhance spirituality – Homer makes reference to the use of olive oil as an anointing oil. In ancient times, anointing was very important. Olive oil was often combined with myrrh or cinnamon oil before it was used for this sacred purpose.
36 Improve your skin's appearance from the inside out – Including olive oil in your daily diet helps your skin stay healthy and beautiful.
37 Act as an all-natural personal lubricant – Olive oil is almost certainly the world's oldest personal lubricant. It should not be used in combination with latex condoms or diaphragms, however.
38 Help fight off degenerative diseases – The antioxidants in olive oil give it the power to help lessen the impact of degenerative diseases on your body.
39 Improve the health of the entire population of the world – The World Health Organization officially recommends that people across the world adopt the Mediterranean diet for better health and specifically suggests olive oil as the healthiest source of fat on the planet.
40 Hold its own next to fruits and vegetables as a source of antioxidants and vitamins – EVOO is a natural, minimally processed food that contains as many antioxidants and nutrients as many foods that are touted as health foods.
41 Lower your blood pressure – Although researchers have some theories as to why it works, no one is sure why olive oil helps to lower blood pressure. They just know that it does.
42 Reduce nitric acid to normal levels – Nitric acid has been proven to increase blood pressure. Olive oil reduces nitric acid levels. This may be one of the ways it lowers your blood pressure.
43 Take the credit for making women beautiful – The Bible mentions that the Persian king Xerxes' wives used olive oil to make themselves beautiful. More recently, Sophia Loren, who is still being named to "most beautiful" lists in her 70s, credits her beauty to olive oil baths. She also claims to consume olive oil daily.
44 Make fine soap – The very first soap in the world was made of olive oil. Today, olive oil soap is still one of the smoothest, best-smelling soaps on the market.
45 Combine with butter for a healthier bread spread – In a mixing bowl, combine one part softened butter and one part olive oil. Mix on low until the oil is whipped into the butter. Refrigerate and use it as you would butter.
46 Make you live longer – There is no doubt that eating a healthy diet can make you live longer. Olive oil is part of the healthiest diet on earth, the Mediterranean Diet. Jeanne Calment, who currently has the distinction of being the longest-living person whose age could be confirmed in the world, needed no convincing. She lived to be a very youthful 122 and gave the credit to her daily consumption of olive oil. She also used it topically.
47 Minimize cellulite – Mix used coffee grounds with olive oil for a topical cellulite treatment. Apply it directly to the skin.
48 Help you get a sunless tan without using commercial products – If you don't like the thought of mixing olive oil with a commercial self-tanning lotion, mix it with used coffee grounds instead. Apply it liberally but evenly in the tub before your shower and allow it to work its magic.
49 Condition your hair – Used coffee grounds and olive oil make a good hair conditioner, as well. Rub it in well before you shampoo your hair.
50 Deep condition damaged hair – Warm a quarter cup of olive oil to a comfortable temperature, then work it through your hair to the roots. Wrap your hair in plastic wrap or a shower cap, then heat your hair with a hair dryer. Allow the oil to sit on your hair for up to a half hour, then shampoo as usual. If you do this in the shower, your whole body will emerge soft and silky.
51 Remove makeup – Apply olive oil to a cotton ball and gently wipe your makeup off your face. You can safely use olive oil near your eyes.
52 Firm and tone skin – Combine equal parts water and olive oil in a jar or other container with a tight-fitting lid. Shake well. Apply to your skin.
53 Add a new dimension to ordinary wrestling matches – In Turkey, a 600-year-old tradition involves grown men wrestling while covered in olive oil.
54 Act as a sensual massage oil – Olive oil has been used as a sensual massage oil since ancient times.
55 Help you create delicious, healthy baked goods – Olive oil is commonly used in baking in the Mediterranean. Use a lighter-colored, lighter tasting end-of-season version for desserts.
56 Ensure your baked goods come out of the pan in one piece – Olive oil can be rubbed or misted on baking pans instead of baking sprays or shortening.
57 Turn fast food into health food – Use olive oil to transform unhealthy American pizza into healthy Mediterranean pizza by substituting it for other oils and using it to oil the pan and shine up the finished crust.
58 Keep baked goods fresh longer – The vitamin E in olive oil helps to keep baked goods moist and fresh longer than solid shortenings or even other oils.
59 Replace butter in recipes – Olive oil is a good substitute for butter in recipes. It even works in baked goods. Use slightly less than the amount of butter called for in the recipe.
60 Return Italian dishes to their healthy roots – Use olive oil in sauces, to prevent pasta from sticking and to sauté ingredients. A little of the right oil can make the difference between a health dish and an unhealthy one.
61 Make heaven on a plate – Make heart-healthy pesto by grinding basil, walnuts or pine nuts, parmesan and garlic together, then incorporating EVOO until the texture is right. Serve over pasta or as a dipping sauce for bread.
62 Protect food from freezer burn – Use as a protective seal for homemade sauces or other Mediterranean dishes before you freeze them.
63 Prevent mosquitoes from breeding – Prevent mosquito larvae from contaminating rainwater by pouring a layer of olive oil on top of the water in your rain barrel.
64 Make a heart-healthy condiment – EVOO is delicious drizzled over bread and many other dishes.
65 Make a heart-healthy salad dressing – Combine equal parts EVOO and balsamic vinegar, raspberry vinegar or red wine vinegar and drizzle over your salad.
66 Make ordinary bread something special – Bread dipping oils can be flavored with a variety of herbs and spices. Start with EVOO and use your imagination.
67 Combine with herbs, spices, garlic or citrus juices to make your taste buds pop – Infuse EVOO with herbs for dipping sauces. Experiment with adding garlic alone or in combination with herbs, spices, vinegars or lemon or other citrus juices.
68 Compliment or contrast with your food – Different EVOOs pair beautifully with foods. Choose flavors of EVOO that either compliment or contrast with the food you are serving it with, then drizzle the cold oil over the food.
69 Reduce the appearance of stretch marks – Combine equal parts cocoa butter and olive oil for a stretch-mark minimizer.
70 Enhance the beauty of black hair – Combine olive oil with hair care products to make the product spread more evenly through your hair.
71 Detangle your hair – Work olive oil into your hair, then comb the tangles right out of it.
72 Shine and seal your hair – After moisturizing, apply olive oil to prevent the moisture from evaporating.
73 Boost a commercial conditioner – Add olive oil to conditioner to enhance and improve it.
74 Prevent hair loss and damage – By using olive oil to manage your hair instead of using harsh chemicals, you can minimize damage to your hair.
75 Kill lice – To kill lice, follow the directions for using olive oil as a deep conditioning treatment. Make sure to leave the oil on your child's hair for at least 30 minutes and repeat the treatment every ten days for at least a month.
76 Prevent prematurely gray hair – EVOO contains pigments. Using it in your hair will gradually darken it.
77 Aid digestion – People have taken olive oil as a digestive aid for generations.
78 Make a sweet-smelling, clean-burning lamp oil – Olive oil lamps have been prized for thousands of years for their good light and lack of sputter.
79 Act as a household lubricant – Use olive oil anywhere you would use a lubricant spray or 3in1 oil.
80 Shine household surfaces – Appliances, faucets, stainless steel and laminate surfaces all benefit from a light coating of olive oil and a gentle buffing.
81 Condition cutting boards – Rub olive oil lightly on cutting boards, wooden salad bowls and wooden utensils.
82 Sauté food – You can sauté most foods in olive oil. Avoid high heat and don't try to use it for deep-frying.
83 Darken and highlight eyelashes – Use olive oil instead of mascara to darken and shine your eyelashes and eyebrows.
84 Turn or bath into a spa – Add olive oil to your bath the way you would use any bath oil. Experiment with using different essential oils to scent it.
85 Soothe a baby's delicate skin – Use olive oil instead of baby oil for baby care, especially to treat and prevent diaper rash.
86 Waterproof your work boots – It also works on tool belts, baseball gloves and other utilitarian leather items.
87 Smooth out that rough shave – Use olive oil instead of soap or shaving cream for a close, comfortable shave.
88 Polish wood furniture – Apply olive oil to a soft cloth, then wipe it onto your furniture.
89 Condition cuticles – Apply olive oil on a cotton swab to moisturize your cuticles.
90 Keep measuring cups clean – Wipe measuring containers with olive oil to allow sticky ingredients to slide right out of the pan.
91 Tame frizzy hair – Lightly spray olive oil on frizzy hair before combing.
92 Unstick a zipper – Allow oil to penetrate the zipper, then unzip as usual.
93 Improve a cat's coat – Add a small amount of olive oil to cat food for a shinier coat and healthy skin.
94 Lend a shine to brass – Apply olive oil to a soft cloth, then rub it onto brass hardware.
95 Ease earache pain – A popular over-the-counter earache remedy has only one ingredient: olive oil.
96 Ease a scratchy throat tickle – A sip of EVOO may quiet that annoying tickle.
97 Make shoes shine – Lightly dampen a soft cloth with olive oil, then buff your shoes with it.
98 Protect hands from yard work – Put olive oil on your hands before gardening or other dirty work to prevent dirt buildup and make cleanup easier.
99 Remove sap or tar from your skin – Apply olive oil to the sticky spot, then rub gently until the residue is removed. Wipe the oil off your hands.
100 Remove stickers – Saturate the sticker with olive oil, then gently peel it off the surface.
101 Remove chewing gum from skin or non-porous surfaces – Rub the gum gently with olive oil. It might also help you pass chewing gum you have swallowed, but consult a doctor if you have swallowed more than a piece or two.
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"You might as well call in to work today and sit in the barn. Today will be the day."
I rolled my eyes at Mike. "It's been "the day" for the last how many days."
We were in the barn doing morning chores and checking on Caroline. She was huge, obviously uncomfortable and showing every sign that she was ready to go any time now.
"I will check on her before I leave for work." I have been for the last couple weeks and there has been nothing to report.
We kept on with our chores and that was that.
I had everyone loaded in the van and ready to go, pulled up to the barn and you guessed it! There she was standing over a very fresh calf. I let my boss and daycare know that I was going to be late and started checking everyone out.
Caroline was still huge and very unsettled. The calf got up after a short while and started trying to nurse but mama wasn't having any part of it. She kept shying away from him (I found out the "him" a little later) and stomping her hind foot when he'd get too close. I s'pose, it's her first calf, she's still quite uncomfortable and this little slimy creature keeps coming after her. I gave her a flake of hay and some oats to distract her enough so the little guy could sneak in and eat. I think once some of the pressure on her swollen bag was relieved she got the hint that he was a good thing.
Once the kids were at daycare I headed back to the barn and let work know I was going to be later than the few minutes I thought. Something just didn't seem right and I wasn't about to spend the day at work and come home to a dead cow and a bottle calf.
I checked the calf over better when I got back. He was doing well, obviously getting fed and had some energy. Cutest little curly haired dun colored bull. Looked just like his dad. There wasn't much I could do for Caroline but watch and wait for what seemed like a second calf that might arrive. We had breakfast together and then some coffee. Then a lot of watching and waiting while she was straining and pushing.
It was about dinner time that she pushed out the afterbirth. Mike had been asking for updates all morning so I had been sending pictures. He got one of that too before I realized he was probably eating. Oops. Lucky for him he was almost done by the time he saw it. Actually he was just walking into the barn to check on Caroline and I and had brought me lunch.
I like to eat and I probably don't want to split dessert if asked. Until now I did not have an answer readily available if asked "what would make you lose your appetite?'. Really there isn't much. I most certainly have an answer now! The sight and sound of a cow scarfing down afterbirth like her very life depended on it. That made me lose my appetite. I ate half a taco and set the rest aside for later… much later. I understand this is an inborn defense mechanism. Animals will eat the afterbirth and get the area as clean as possible to keep predators at bay. That doesn't mean it's not disgusting.
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After thinking about it, I decided that I would have to wait until Mike was home for that. I'm 35 weeks pregnant myself and as easy as Caroline is to work with, if I had to start pulling a calf we could end up with third baby in the barn and that's an adventure I'd rather not go on. We all know that if there was a calf to pull I would just start. We waited.
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