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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Syracuse hoop fans have every reason to be crazed
And after the way the 'Cuse turned a 14-0 deficit into a 17-point blowout victory against 10th-ranked Georgetown last night, expect the citizens of Orange Nation to become even more crazed. Consider this: After spotting the Hoyas that two-touchdown lead in the first three minutes, SU outscored them 73-42 the rest of the way, fueled by 19 forced turnovers. That's the kind of ho-hum, yawn-yawn steam-rolling you might expect against Colgate or Marathon Oil, not against the 10th-ranked team in the nation.
I've been following Orange basketball since the mid-1960s – the days when the incomparable Dave Bing and a gangly, bespectacled guy by the name of Boeheim were manning the backcourt at the dark and dusty basketball pit known as the Manley Field House Zoo. I've witnessed a handful of SU teams more talented than this one, but I can't recall any who have played better defense or been more unselfish on offense. The word 'chemistry' is thrown around a lot, but this team truly has it. You can tell by their actions that they genuinely enjoy playing together.
The NCAA statistics bear out just how well-rounded this team's dominance is. SU is tops in the nation in field goal percentage, second in assists, third in scoring differential, seventh in scoring, ninth in blocked shots and 11th in field goal defense.
Five guys are averaging in double figures, led by Wes Johnson's 17 ppg, and Rick Jackson and Scoop Jardine are close to joining that quintet. Their backcourt of Andy Rautins, Brandon Triche and Jardine combine to average 13.3 assists per contest.
Yeah, I know, there's still that old bugaboo – free throw shooting – to be concerned with, but I don't believe it's enough of a problem to derail this team's march to Indianapolis.
The way I see it, injuries and complacency are the only things that will stop this march.
If the regular season were to end today, I could see SU receiving a No. 1 seed and being placed in Buffalo for the first two games. Playing in HSBC Arena would be like having two home games and propel them into the Sweet 16.
Johnson says the players aren't looking any farther ahead than Saturday's Big East Conference game at DePaul, and that's good. But he also says he's noticed how stoked the fans are talking about a trip to the Final Four, etc., and he says that's good. "Let 'em have their fun,'' he says. "That's what being a fan is all about.''
How could they not be?
4 comments:
- Country Mile said...
Consider me crazed! I agree with you completely although I only go back to the Louie and Bouie Show. They are the most unselfish bunch I have ever seen. They are a true team. That is why they're successful. Their star is obviously Wes Johnson and he is the most unselfish of them all. I've gotta go..l have to order my plane tickets. Want to go?!
- January 26, 2010 at 5:58 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'm with you. I'm Salt City born & raised. Saw Jim Brown play in MacArthur Stadium. And Ernie too. My blood is orange. And always followed basketball. These kids could be the best ever. So very solid in almost every part of the game. It'll be the last 5:00minutes of the game and the season that might bite them. Jim must keep them focused. One game at a time. That last game in DC vs. G'town could be epic. Go 'cuse!
- January 26, 2010 at 7:47 PM
- Dave said...
See you in Indianapolis. I'll buy you a slice (although I'm no promising Varsity good) and a beer after we win it all... Helmet Head.
- January 27, 2010 at 7:08 AM
- Frank Bilovsky said...
Great column. When I covered SU, I thought the best team I saw was 1988-89 with Billy Owens, Derrick Coleman, Matt Roe, Stevie Thompson and Sherman Douglas. This one is better because everyone is so much more multi-dimensioned than those players were. Wesley Johnson is unreal, both in talent and attitude, and his presence seems to have rubbed off on the rest of the team. And these Orange have proven depth and play much better defense than the '88-89 team.
That being said, Boeheim's words should be taken seriously. I thought the '88-89 squad was a lock for the Final Four until it lost to Illinois in the finals of what might have been the most talen-laden regonal ever (Missouri and Louisville were the other two teams). So don't book those Indy flghts yet!
- January 27, 2010 at 12:09 PM


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To our knowledge, this paper provides the most comprehensive analysis of firm-level corporate income taxes to date. We use publicly available financial statement information for 11,602 public corporations from 82 countries from 1988 to 2009 to estimate country-level effective tax rates (ETRs). We find that the location of a multinational and its subsidiaries substantially affects its worldwide ETR. Japanese firms always faced the highest ETRs. U.S. multinationals are among the highest taxed. Multinationals based in tax havens face the lowest taxes. We find that ETRs have been falling over the last two decades; however, the ordinal rank from high-tax countries to low-tax countries has changed little. We also find little difference between the ETRs of multinationals and domestic-only firms. Besides enhancing our knowledge about international taxes, these findings should provide some empirical underpinning for ongoing policy debates about the taxation of multinationals.
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I held off from listening to the new David Bowie single for as long as I could. I wanted the media noise to die down and to make up my own mind. But I was also worried about being disappointed. Like the retired boxer's ill-judged comeback, or the faded matinee idol who can't resist another movie, there was a distinct possibility that Bowie had lost it, or was finally a man out of time. The longer I kept away from 'Where Are We Now?', the longer Bowie's spell would remain intact.
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Playboy boss Hugh Hefner is "truly saddened" about allegations on actor Bill Cosby that states that he molested a young girl at the his party palace in the 1970s
Los Angeles: Playboy boss Hugh Hefner is "truly saddened" about allegations on actor Bill Cosby that states that he molested a young girl at the his party palace in the 1970s.
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Judy Huth is the latest in a long line of women to accuse "The Cosby Show" star of sexual abuse over recent weeks, claiming that Cosby had molested her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was aged 15, reports contactmusic.com.
Huth filed a civil suit against Cosby, and the funnyman's attorney filed a countersuit asking for the case to be dismissed.
Former Playboy bunny P.J. Masten has also come forward as an alleged victim of Cosby's, and her former boss Hefner admits he is upset with the episode.
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Friday, 7 August 2015
Sparkling Trees (posted by Claire)
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La carte blanche est toute simple mais tellement originale. J'aime beaucoup.ReplyDelete
Your white card is so simple but so original. I like it so much.
Love them both but especial the first card . Love that gorgeous blue and sparkles .ReplyDelete
These are both fab Claire love the colourful baubles on the second one and the shape of the first, very clever xx Zoe xxReplyDelete
Two more lovely Christmas ideas.....I must now go hunt for some jelly tots as you've planted the seed.... ;)ReplyDelete
Both nice, but love the second one - so simple and so effective.ReplyDelete
two beauties - wonderful makes - love the sparkles on the first xxReplyDelete
Two wonderful cards, love the frosty blue and the trees and the bright coloured tree is brilliant, Kate xReplyDelete
Beautiful both cards! I like blue and bright colours, so I couldnot pick a favo...ReplyDelete
Beautiful cards and great ideas for inspiration. These shapes are a delight, and I plan to make a few cards, using these shapes. Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
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Love the forest look of the first one, it's beautifully serene! It looks like a picture from a fairytale... Once, in a cold winter, the forest was covered in snow. But there, in the middle, stood one tree, mysteriously sparkling...ReplyDelete
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I adore these two cards Claire and I love the rocker with all those sparkly trees in that pretty blue and the gorgeous shape of that CAS card with the multi coloured baubles, easy to make but so effective. xReplyDelete
Lovely cards Claire. Nice wintery effect on the first and bright and cheerful on the second.ReplyDelete
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A six-month-old koala named Phantom was allowed to hold on to his mother while she was being operated on to treat a collapsed lung.
As the Courier Mail reports, the pair managed to survive after being hit by a car on a highway west of Brisbane. No bones were broken, but the mother, named Lizzy, suffered a collapsed lung. Medical veterinarians at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital let Phantom cling to his mother as the lung was being drained.
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Calvary's History
Serving the Winston-Salem community since 1876, when summer services were held outdoors on the church grounds, Calvary Moravian Church today continues her witness as the "downtown Moravian Church." The first sanctuary was completed in 1889.The Church in Salem, true to the traditional Moravian avoidance of "poaching" on the membership of other churches, declined to expand into the newer town of Winston with its established Methodist and Baptist Churches. But as more and more Moravians moved into Winston, Home Moravian Church was presented with the obvious problem of serving its own people, who by now were faced with fairly long journeys to get to church. Also there were other souls to be reached that, for whatever reason, were not being reached by Winston churches.
So in 1876, a tentative first step was taken: Outdoor benches were placed in a clearing on the "Reservation" and during the summer, theological students and recent graduates from Moravian Theological Seminary conducted evangelistic services. Thus the seed was planted for Calvary.
In the next years, the Salem Congregation decided to begin a Moravian work in Winston. By mid –August of 1888 the site was selected, land cleared and the foundations staked off. Fogle Brothers undertook the building. Its cost would be $10,000.00. The cornerstone was laid on September 23, 1888 and in the Salem Congregation Memorabilia on December 31, 1888, Bishop Rondthaler would report, "Our own handsome Moravian chapel In Winston is now under roof."
By 1914 the congregation had grown to the point that the interior of Old Calvary had to be rearranged to provide yet more seats. This was done and the seating capacity became 675.
Under his capable and dedicated pastoral leadership the congregation grew numerically and spiritually, leading to the building of yet another sanctuary in 1926. The old Calvary Church was razed and on April 4, 1926, Easter Sunday, the new structure was formally opened at a cost of $186,000.00.
As was standard Moravian practice, the new sanctuary was not dedicated until the mortgage was paid in full. Therefore Calvary's formal dedication was held on Sunday, January 25, 1931 with the Rt. Rev. Edward Rondthaler officiating at the service of dedication. Incidentally, this was the Bishop's last official act, since he died 6 days later at the age of 88.
The Seth Thomas Clock Company had built the clock itself as number 739 in a series. The same company was contacted to supervise the installation of the clock and happily they were able to fit it into the belfry where from a height of 74 1/2 feet it could be heard and seen a substantial distance. It was no small job: The clock face alone measures sixty three inches in diameter.
Having been served by faithful leaders including The Rev. Arthur D. Thaler, The Rt. Rev. Edward S. Crosland, The Rev. Kenneth G. Hamilton, The Rev. Edmund Schwarze, The Rev. John W. Fulton, The Rev. John S. Goserud, The Rev. C. Truett Chadwick, The Rev. Mervin C. Weidner, The Rev. J. Calvin Barnes, The Rev. David R. Burkette, The Rev. Henry E. May, Jr., The Rt. Rev. James C. Hughes, The Rev. Gary T. Marsh, and currently, The Rt. Rev. Lane A. Sapp, associate pastors and educators, Calvary continues to honor its tradition of excellence in ministry.
The Congregation has long been noted for inspirational and creative worship, an outstanding program of music, Sunday School for all ages, a caring fellowship and varied opportunities of service to the congregation and local community. In these ways, Calvary has responded to its call to faith in God through Jesus Christ.
Having now entered into its second century of ministry, Calvary and its membership look forward to continuing in service to the Lord in a way that celebrates the past and is open to the leading of God's Holy Spirit for the future. Our history reveals a deep desire to serve "the present age," an "age" that is always before us.
Hamilton C. Horton. Calvary Moravian Church Centennial History 1893-1993.
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The bank downgraded its rating on Primark's parent company AB Foods from "hold" to "sell". Traders took fright and AB Foods' shares fell by 17½, or 2pc, to 970p.
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Primark has for years been the jewel in AB Foods' crown – and the apple of analysts' eyes – but Deutsche Bank's 53-page note raised questions about the chain's as-yet-unproven overseas expansion.
The bank said that Primark, which has 197 stores mainly in the UK and Ireland, is the critical long-term driver of growth for AB Foods, which also owns Twinings Tea. However it said that the market values Primark on a forward price-earnings ratio of 18.5 times.
The bank said this means that Primark trades on less than a 10pc discount to high street rivals such as H&M and Zara-owner Inditex, which – unlike Primark – have "proven global success, much higher margins and superior cash generation".
Consequently, the bank said that Primark's valuation prices in both a rebound in margins and perfect execution of its European roll-out, "whereas question marks remain on both".
It said: "Primark is the critical driver of [AB Foods'] long-term share performance, yet [it is] largely misunderstood by investors. Over the years Primark has dealt with warehouse fires, ethical sourcing issues and recession and emerged completely unscathed. However with UK expansion nearing the end,
"Primark now has to demonstrate that it can effectively succeed in Europe where many UK retailers have tried and failed. Looking deeper into Primark's financials, despite impressive top-line growth, margins have fallen over 300 basis points from peak over the past four years and this lack of operational gearing has come on the back of rapid like-for-like cost inflation."


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Württemberg State Museum
The Württemberg State Museum offers its visitors a stimulating presentation of the history of our state from the Stone Age to the present time. The museum was established in 1862 by King William I as a "state collection of national antiquities". In the 1960s, the Museum of Decorative Arts was merged into the State Museum, which has been housed in Stuttgart's "Altes Schloss" (Old Castle) since 1969.
In addition to our main location in the Old Castle, the museum also includes the New Castle, which houses the Roman lapidarium, and the "Stiftsfruchtkasten", a former granary and wine depot, as a home for the musical instrument collection. The Museum of Popular Culture is housed in Waldenbuch Castle, a half-hour drive from Stuttgart; here, visitors can gain an insight into the lives of every-day people from pre-industrial times until today.
The Württemberg State Museum also has a number of branch museums at other locations across the state.
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It is November, a.k.a., Movember, a month rife with facial fur. Guys grow out mustaches this month to raise money and attention for male cancer causes. It's also No Shave November, when kids on college campuses forsake shaving all month and compete for hirsute honors.
Most folks dabbling in the art of the upper lip this month are newbies, curious types just dangling a razor near the trash can. To help them fully commit, we wanted advice from someone with true mustache expertise, someone who grew his caterpillar solely for the charity of our eyes.
Meet our staff writer Alex Orlando, 22, known as much for his journalistic prowess as his face handlebars. Here he sheds light on his journey from baby-faced boy to mustached brah.
Describe your journey from baby-faced boy to moustached gentleman.
It started in spring of 2010. I was 19 at the time. To be honest, I don't remember what my initial motivation was to start growing this thing. It looked like dirt on my upper lip at first. There were haters, but I kept stubbornly rearing the stubble. At some point, I hit that threshold where the compliments became more frequent than the laughs. Now, it's a permanent, luxurious facial feature. Friends of mine will actually send me photos of mustache-related things they see because it reminds them of me. Even my mother wouldn't recognize me without it.
My dad had a mustache in the '80s. Are you worried about looking like a dad from the '80s?
Mine too! It's kind of the look I'm going for. I mean, who wouldn't want to look like a dad? Dads are great guys.
Have you ever gone full-beard? Just quit shaving for a month?
I actually started the full beard a few weeks ago. It's still young and a little patchy, but I hope to foster it into something respectable by the end of the month.
What does facial hair do for a guy? Is it a confidence-booster? A face-framer? A conversation starter?
I think you are dead-on with all of those. I trimmed my mustache once and felt like a shameful naked mole rat for about a week. Beards do wonders for the jaw line, too. It's like a silent indicator to everyone that you probably know how to start a fire from scratch and maybe enjoy bare-fisted boxing, but that you also appreciate fine literature. And it will definitely get people talking. I once had a gas station clerk in Atlanta stop me at the counter so she could snap a picture with her phone. I like to think there's a bunch of girls walking down Peachtree Street in the ATL with a photo of me in their pockets.
Does it hurt your dating life? Or does it help you crash the front of the line at bars?
It definitely helps the dating life. That's the benefit of it being a conversation starter. To be frank, I think some women are curious as to what it feels like to kiss a guy with a mustache (awesome). And it takes a certain kind of gal to step to a mustached fella. Someone who's confident with a sense of humor. I can't say I'm offended when a girl starts the conversation with, "I like your mustache." The downside, though, is that those girls are upstaged by the sheer enthusiasm of frat bros. I have no idea why this is, but I haven't been in a bar in two years without a drunk guy in a sleeveless shirt yelling into my face, "Nice 'stache, brah!" I'm not a fan of it.
Any shaving tips? Product shout-outs? Help our male readers out.
My only shaving tip: Don't. Shape your facial hair (a.k.a., man badge) accordingly, but don't shave. I groom with a wax called Man's Face Stuff in a scent called "stiff breeze." It makes my mustache smell like cedar and wisdom. I'm not joking when I say people have asked to smell it.


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I'll get right to it! This is a list of Comedians I really want you to see; this is awkward because the people I'm talking about are peers and colleagues, and one of the weird things about being an "artist" {ugh} is that one does not know where the line between friendship and work meets; it's bloody blurry. I don't consider myself an authority on comedy, because taste is so bloody relative, but after all I've been organising shows for a while now, and this article is a representation of the views of the producer in me.
Raghav Mandava on His Most Recommended Comics in Delhi
Shaad Shafi
This guy is super new to the scene as far as stage time is concerned, and there are already a few comedians who do one line comedy, but there are very few out there who have something Mitch Hedbergesque about them. I know that is a very tall comparison, but go see for yourself. I don't feel that the nervousness Shaad shows on stage is an act, because the relief when he gets off is all too real for it to be a lie. Some of my favourite jokes in the world are the ones that don't make sense, and yet they make sense… does that make sense? The kind that make me put my hands up and say "what the f***" and then make me start laughing. Can this guy graduate soon so that we can see more of him please?
Vikramjit Singh
I feel very strongly about mentioning him in the line up here, because there are comics out there who are certainly funnier than him and they even have more rounded off material, but I don't think people realise the weight "Mr Singh" is lifting every time he takes the stage. The first year or two in his comedy, he has made an active effort to not be identified as a Sardar on stage, and believe you me, it must have been tough on him. He could have easily "paaji'd up" the gig, got his laughs, catered to a large and supportive all Punjabi market of comedy, got paid well and called himself a comedian. I always hope that comics who don't cash in at the start cash out well later.
Sumit Anand
I have no qualms in using the words "Entitled" or "Arrogant" when I describe Sumit Anand. I also don't have qualms using the words "Hilarious" or "Insightful". His relationship material is rather one of the fresher sets I have seen, considering it was one of his first bits as well; he would coax me for extra stage time at shows and I would say "that is not how it works". Little did I know he was going to do a solo show at the Stein Auditorium within the first 2 years of his career, which I've heard nice things about. #Respect #FuckHimALittleBitForBeingThisGoodSoEarlyOn
Nishant Suri
The thing I like most about Suri is that his material sounds like a professional comedian wrote it. I remember I was hosting an open mic and out of the 20 odd comedians who came and did their 2 minutes of stuff, Nishant's was the only time where I could sense the audience really wanted him to carry on. The difference in the quality of his writing and delivery compared to the people who have spent the same amount of time in the field is genuinely palpable. Also, he is weird with his hands on stage and it just makes it so much funnier
Abhishek Upmanyu
I don't throw the word around "genius" easily and I would be lying if I told you that I didn't think he was one. Where did this guy come from? What is his story? No one really knows, because his material has very little about it, and he still manages to spew all kinds of funny shit out of the front of his face. However, if you can't catch words of people who speak quickly, you might want to buy him a Valium before he starts the show. His manic energy makes him one of the most unique talents in the Indian comedy scene, and everyone is taking notice.
Zakir Khan
Zakir makes it to this list because his career is a story of revitalization. He was awarded "Indias best Stand Up comedian" early on in his career, which raised the bar way too high for him; after a bit of a lull Zakir has transformed. I look at comedy like a sport and I look at the comedian like a team. People who come to see you specifically are home games, corporate/private gigs are away games, and shows where you're part of a multi comic line up are neutral… His biggest challenge is one of linguistics, because when a guy who speaks only hindi and decides to use the word "laundi" instead of "chick" eyebrows are raised and people squirm. However, it was always going to be weird for this Muslim bloke from Indore making his way in this culturally confused society where some people find the word "nigger" more offensive than "chinky". Videos do ZERO justice to what I see live, and with that being said, if you see Zakir Khan perform to his home crowd, you will be genuinely hard pressed to find a comedian who can kill an audience as hard as him… For me, he is desi comedy done right…
You can catch them all at a Cheese Monkey Mafia show which happen irregularly at Pot Belly Cafe, but there might be one soon! Otherwise you guys can catch these guys anywhere there is a gig, just look them up, stuff is constantly happening in Delhi, there are at least 20 comedy shows a month here, and that is being conservative… remember Google? Yes use that!


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After meeting at the King's House, Andrew and Jim headed over to Lagangargh, and the easy 45min walk in under the gulleys and ridges of the Buachaille North face. So much to do, and only one day to play with! The weather was initially misty, but warmed up nicely when we had got higher up Curved ridge. The route is a grade 2/3 scramble, and we opted to move together with coils of rope tied off on ourselves, putting in slings and the odd walnut to protect ourselves. On a couple of the more awkward steps, Jim belayed Andrew up the difficulties.
Views from the ridge are spectacular, we could see right across Rannoch moor as far as Schiehallion, but on reaching the summit about 5 hours later (we did'nt rush it!), the mist had come back in, so we did not see the views from the top. Andrew and I had just sat down for a brew on the top, when Steven appeared out of the mist, and we all descended down the main gully back to the car.
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Kansas Governor: State Would Have to Raise Taxes if It Loses Supreme Court Case
Kansas Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, known for his famous 2012 experiment to slash away at taxes, said Friday the state would have to raise taxes if it loses a funding fight in the supreme court, according to the Wichita Eagle.
The state's supreme court heard oral arguments last week in the Gannon v. Kansas case, in which four of the state's poorest districts argue that the state doesn't adequately support their school systems. Based on several studies, the districts argue that they need $800 million to $900 million more from the state in order to provide students with the services they need to meet the state's academic standards.
"You'd have to look at major tax increases to do that," Brownback told the Eagle.
After a series of income tax cuts in 2012 and 2013—cuts Brownback pushed for—the state has fallen far short of its revenue projections. It faces a $45 million budget shortfall this month alone, according to local reports.
The Sunflower State lost a separate part of the school funding case dealing with equity earlier this year, and was ordered to provide its poor districts with $400 million more dollars. The state answered that ruling by taking money from wealthier districts and handing it to poorer districts.
If Kansas loses the other part of the case, the adequacy ruling, it would require the state to provide all of its districts more money. The justices are expected to issue a ruling in late November, after election day. At least five of the justices are up for reelection.
Meanwhile, in Washington State, Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, who is running for another term in office, said last week that his office has tried its hardest to respond to a state supreme court ruling there that ordered the state to provide millions more in funding. The court last year imposed a $100,000-a-day fine until the state's funding formula is completely overhauled.
The Washington state legislature, during its last session, approved a "plan-for-a-plan" to have a new funding formula in place by next spring.
The state's educators have said that the governor and legislature have acted too slowly to respond to the ruling and last month asked the court to amp up its threats to get the state to more quickly respond.
"If we design our lives based on wishes, yeah, I wished that we'd solved everything an hour after I took, you know, my oath of office in 2013," Inslee said, according to the Seattle Times. "But these are challenging issues."
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I know that it is unfashionable to feel sorry for Liberal Democrat MPs. Nevertheless there are times when, contemplating their unhappy lot, it seems appropriate to feel the odd pang of pity.
The latest polling from Lord Ashcroft furnishes one of these rare moments. He asked punters who they would like to see form the next government. As you would expect 77 percent of Tory supporters want a Conservative government while 14 percent actually rather like being in coalition with the Lib Dems and would be quite happy to see that arrangement continue. The picture is much the same amongst Labour voters. 80 percent say they want Labour to govern alone and 12 percent think a Labour-Lib Dem alliance would be better for Britain.
But what of the remaining Lib Dem voters? Only 70 percent of them favour being in power after the next election. 28 percent thirst for a renewal of vows with the Tories and 42 percent want to ditch the Conservatives and hope into bed with Labour.
Which leaves 30 percent of Lib Dem voters hoping that the party does not return to government. Granted, seven percent of them have no idea what they think but 17 percent hope Labour form the next government and six percent want Mr Cameron to remain in Downing Street.
What is the point of a political party that's neither interested in winning power nor, I suspect, in winning arguments? A party that preens and congratulates itself for being 'above' mere grubby politics but that actually is really just about a polite form of copping-out and quitting the game.
What serious politician would want to lead such a self-indulgent rabble? So while it is all very well and good and all very good and entertaining and sometimes even necessary to pour scorn on Nick Clegg and his colleagues we might pause, just occasionally, to pity them and remember that, by gosh, they just might be better than the people and party they lead.
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3 million people pledged $480 million to Kickstarter campaigns in 2013
Kickstarter launched its year in review site for 2013 today, revealing some new figures that reaffirm its position as one of the largest and most successful crowdfunding platforms.
Campaign organizers raised $480 million from 3 million people on the site last year, which worked out at roughly $1.3 million each day, or $913 every 60 seconds. Over 800,000 backers pledged money for at least two projects, while roughly 81,000 supported more than 10. Only 19,911 projects reached their funding target, however.
Backers spanned 214 countries and territories across all seven continents, including Antarctica. For comparison, Kickstarter took just shy of $320 million in pledges from 2.4 million backers throughout 2012.
Many have asked whether the crowdfunding bubble will burst anytime soon, as backers begin to see how many of their supported projects make it to market as intended. If these figures are anything to go by, the level of support for Kickstarter campaigners won't be diminishing anytime soon.
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FMI Connect: The Latest Technologies and Food Trends To Stay Competitive
By Tom O'Reilly / June 2016Events, Insights
We're looking forward to FMI Connect in Chicago to catch up with wholesalers, merchandisers, operations team members, CIOs, CTOs and all who ensure food marketing stays at the forefront of innovation.
Featuring Steve Case as a keynote speaker, technology will certainly be emphasized at the event. But we'll also get a taste of the latest in food trends courtesy of celebrity chefs Mario Batali and Robert Irvine.
If you're going to FMI Connect next week, please plan to visit us at booth #1249. When you stop by, you'll notice we have back-to-back booths with our new partner, dunnhumby, located at booth #1349. As the world's leading customer science company, dunnhumby collaborates with Aptaris to support food marketers and retailers in boosting the relevance of the offers to their customers. Working together, we help grocers to improve sales and margins while enhancing the efficiency of their merchandising and marketing operations.
In an age when remaining relevant and responsive to customers must be the priorities for businesses, understanding and anticipating consumers' needs are imperatives to success.
We recently posted a blog article on our website, "Amazon vs. Kroger, Confrontation in Columbus," by guest blogger Ron Lunde. As a grocery retail leader and consultant, Ron has a unique perspective on Amazon's infiltration of the Columbus, Ohio market. Investing over $1 billion for infrastructure, Amazon Prime and Amazon Prime Now services went live in Columbus in May 2016. In addition to two major state-of-the-art robotic warehouses, Amazon is building three data centers in the Columbus area.
Ron goes on to describe the dominance of Kroger in Columbus and spotlights the click versus brick and click competition. With Amazon providing one-hour and two-hour delivery services, the e-tailer can now provide the near-instant gratification that consumers crave.
Kroger's advantage is its sophisticated frequent shopper loyalty program and data analytics that deliver billions of personalized offers and information to its customers each year.
Ron's article underscores the need for not only relevant offers, but also delivery of the promotional messages at the right time and in the communications vehicles preferred by your customers.
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Brooklyn, NY-headquartered Pomp&Clout has signed L.A.-based director Najeeb Tarazi for U.S. commercial representation. Tarazi's music video "Walk the Walk" for Gaz Coombes was an official selection for the 2019 SXSW Film Festival after being nominated for Best Alternative video at the UKMVA's...
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Anonymous Content has signed director Elena Petitti di Roreto for commercial and music video representation in the UK. This marks her first U.K. representation; she continues to be handled in the U.S. by Epoch Films. Known for building layered, imaginative narratives for commercials and fashion...
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Pulse Films has added directing duo SOB to its music video roster. Having met studying graphic design at Central Saint Martins, Sosa Ohen and Joe Shaw began collaborating. The focus of their personal projects went beyond graphic design as they began to experiment with art direction, branding and...
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Writer-director Magellan Rubin has joined the Seed Media Arts ' roster. He had previously been freelancing. Rubin began as a cinematographer but yearned to tell the stories himself. The 23-year-old Rubin has since successfully settled into the director's chair, having already helmed commercials for...
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In "Passing Likeness: Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother' and the Paradox of Iconicity," Sally Stein sifts through the legacy of a familiar image with a history of misrecognition. Migrant Mother, which Stein asserts is the "most widely reproduced photograph in the entire history of photographic image-making" is a portrait of Florence Thompson that Lange took at a labor camp in Nipomo, California in 1936 [1]. Since its conception, the photograph has been criticized from various points of view, and Stein spends the beginning of her essay recording these reactions, from the outrage of Lange's boss at the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Roy Stryker, when he learned that Lange had retouched the "documentary" image, to cultural historian Wendy Kozol's critique of the image as "a quintessential example of the FSA traffic in conservative stereotypes" [2]. Stein's real interest lay in how Thompson gained iconic status as a white "New Deal Madonna" despite her Cherokee heritage and unmarried status, information that began to circulate as part of the photograph's history only half a century after it was taken. The paradox of iconicity thus seems to be that Thompson was not the iconic white matriarch that she was initially taken to be; she is instead an icon of the Euro-American tendency to misrecognize Native Americans as both heirs and foils to their own racial identity.
Early in her essay, Stein demonstrates how the image was misrecognized as a symbol of conservative family values. The photograph shows Thompson flanked by two young children as she cradles a sleeping infant. The older children turn away from the camera, using Thompson's body as a shield, while the baby dozes near her breast. Thompson's body is thus a source of protection and sustenance, even as her worried eyes betray concern. Stein paraphrases Kozol's argument that such images of mothers and children "chiefly served to reassure the public in the Great Depression that the most fundamental social unit—the nuclear family—was beleaguered but still strong" [3]. In reality, however, Thompson's social unit was fractured: Thompson's first husband died of tuberculosis in 1931, and the infant in the picture is the son of Jim Hill, from whom she would separate in the 1940s.
The perception that Lange's subject was married and that all of her children had the same father is an example of how photographs invite assumptions that may belie the actual circumstances of the people they depict—a disconnect that is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to photography's false transparency. For spectators bring a wealth of culturally embedded assumptions to bear on the photographs they view, imbuing them with meaning that is external to the image. For instance, in this photograph, there is no patriarch, so why would a spectator assume that Thompson is supported by a stable marriage? That assumption comes not only from what a spectator may want to believe—she might feel better looking at this worried woman and her soiled children if she believes there is a man off screen who is supporting them—it also comes from the context of the photograph, which was indeed a government-endorsed image. Migrant Mother is part of a body of images taken by photographers who were dispatched by the FSA to "make a dent in the world" [4]. Their portraits of struggling Americans elicited a wide range of emotions—empathy, admiration and pride among them. FSA photographs may have been relevatory of American poverty and struggle, but they were also a screen on which spectators could project their own desires, namely about the perseverance of fellow Americans in the wake of catastrophe.
FSA photographs like Migrant Mother invited spectators to see what they both wanted and expected to see. This is not only how a widow with children out of wedlock became a "New Deal Madonna," it is also how her Native American ancestry was mistaken for European ancestry. Stein shows how the FSA did not favor ethnic diversity by including a passage in which Roy Stryker, the aforementioned head of the FSA, explicitly discourages photographer Arthur Rothstein from photographing Native Americans: He writes,"You know I just don't get too excited about Indians. I know it is their country and we took it away from them—to hell with it!" [5]. For me, this is the most interesting part of the story, because it reveals how certain populations were denied visibility in the portrait of Americanness that was articulated through the visual culture of this period. Scholars like Erika Doss have pointed out how the Index of American Design, a visual encyclopedia of American folk and decorative arts that was another federally-funded Depression era initiative, largely depicted the work of Anglo Americans, including only token pieces done by Native Americans, African Americans, Southern European Americans and others who didn't pass a certain benchmark of whiteness [6].
In her recent book, The History of White People, Nell Painter demonstrates how the category of whiteness has been in flux throughout United States history, expanding and contracting at various historical moments to include peoples of different ethnic backgrounds [7]. The Depression era was a moment when the Anglo Saxon paradigm of whiteness was reasserted in a variety of ways, especially through the veneration of folk art in English (Shaker) and German (Pennsylvania Dutch) traditions. Stein uses the words of Edmund Wilson, a literary critic and social journalist, as a testament to the privileging of Anglo heritage, despite its dilution through racial mixing, in this period: "the pure type of that English race which, assimilated on the frontier to the Indians' hatchet profile and high cheekbones, inbred in Boston and Virginia, still haunts our American imagination as the norm from which our people have departed, the ideal towards which it ought to tend" [8].
Wilson's words, particularly his phrasing "haunts our American imagination" reveal how Anglo Americanness has always been more of a fantasy than a reality, and that is certainly the case with Migrant Mother. After the photojournalist Bill Ganzel tracked Thompson down in 1979, the truth about Thompson's Cherokee heritage was finally acknowledged. Whether Lange failed to be vigilant in recording the personal details of her subject or whether she willfully elided them due to her boss's open disdain for photographs of Native Americans, the end result is the same: For decades, Thompson has been misrecognized as an ideal Euro American woman, attaining an iconicity that cannot be undone easily. Stein points out, for instance, that a recent book on race in 20th-century America continued the misrecognition of Thompson, reprinting Migrant Mother with a caption that identifies her as a "Nordic" woman and claims, "Her suffering could be thought to represent the nation in ways the distress of a black, Hispanic, Italian, or Jewish woman never could" [9]. The enduring perception that Thompson was a white woman is an example of the persistence of myth. According to Roland Barthes, "It does not matter if one is later allowed to see through the myth, its action is assumed to be stronger than the rational explanations which may later belie it" [10].
Perhaps the widespread misrecognition of Thompson is too entrenched to be undone, but Stein's essay demonstrates how this image is wrapped up in another kind of iconicity—as a representation of how Euro-Americans have a history of appropriating Native Americans likenesses when imaging their own identities. Artists like Edward S. Curtis pictured Native Americans as a "vanishing race," an approach that was not only primitivizing but also added gravitas to the definition of Americanness, in the sense that it created an evolutionary depth to the American people, despite the coevalness of native and non-Native Americans. Migrant Mother was taken about a century after President Jackson used the rhetoric of the progression of civilization in a speech to Congress in which he justified the violent means of Indian Removal as "the extinction of one generation to make room for another" [11].
If the FSA photographs are read as a kind of yearbook of Depression-era Americans, then on the surface Native Americans appear to be as extinct as Jackson intended they would be. The irony is that Migrant Mother, the photograph which has earned the superlative of "Most American Woman" by virtue of its unrivaled circulation, actually pictures a Native American woman passing as a Euro-American woman. The inclusion of Migrant Mother in Only Skin Deep is crucial, because this image and its history of misrecognition demonstrate how racial categories are constructed through subjective perception and projection. Thompson's skin color was light enough and her motherly obligations were prevalent enough for generations of spectators to project a fantasy of white motherhood onto her, but in reality, her misrecognition and mythologization as a white Madonna reflects more truths about what those spectators wanted to see than truths about what was actually there.
1. pg. 345, Stein, Sally. "Passing Likeness: Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother' and the Paradox of Iconicity." In Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, edited by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis. New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
2. & 3. pg. 346, Stein.
4. See Mora, Gilles, and Beverly W. Brannan, eds. FSA: The American Vision. New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, 2006.
5. pg. 352 Stein
6. See Doss, Erika. "American Folk Art's 'Distinctive Character:' The Index of American Design and New Deal Notions of Cultural Nationalism." In Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design, edited by Virginia Tuttle Clayton. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
7. See Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People. New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
8. & 9. pg. 354, Stein
10. pg. 130, Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.
11. pg. 79, Truettner, William H. The Natural Man Observed: A Study of Catlin's Indian Gallery. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979.
Quoted in William H. Truettner, The Natural Man Observed: A Study of Catlin's Indian Gallery (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979), p. 79.


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Russia Helps Venezuela Fight Opposition's 'Economic War'*
Any opposition that is dependent on foreign support for power is not in the interest of the citizens…
According to Faria, Russian wheat deliveries ensure that the Venezuelan people have access to basic food staples.
Venezuela's Minister for External Commerce and International Trade Jesus Faria thanked Russia Monday for helping the country fight against its food crisis, which he said is being exploited by the country's right-wing opposition.
Russia has been providing Venezuela with wheat deliveries as part of a development program signed in May. Under the agreement, Russia agreed to send Venezuela 60,000 tons of wheat per month.
According to Faria, these wheat deliveries have provided a crucial lifeline, ensuring that the Venezuelan people have access to basic food staples.
Much of the country's food problem has been blamed on contraband selling with over 750 opposition-controlled offshore companies accused of purposely redirecting Venezuelan imports of raw food materials from the government to the private sector.
In Venezuela, the food crisis is being exploited by the country's right-wing forces, which are attempting to destabilize the leftist government with the support of the U.S., Faria said, according to Sputnik.
However, the minister added that Russia is helping to fight the food blackmail of Venezuela, Sputnik reported.
"It is very important aid, and a very decent and constructive position of the Russian government to stimulate dialogue, peaceful coexistence and the respect of democracy in our country," Faria continued.
As part of the agreement, five new companies are set to be established in Venezuela for the manufacture of Russian industrial vehicles.
Carlos Rafael Faria Tortosam, the head of the Venezuelan diplomatic mission to Russia, also indicated that Venezuela is ready to expand food exports to Russia.
"We are able to deliver mangoes and citrus fruit like oranges and tangerines. Russia consumes a lot of tropical fruit juice, hence there are wide opportunities for cooperation," Tortosam told Sputnik.
The increased cooperation between Russia and Venezuela comes as the South American nation is combatting food shortages; U.S. military, financial and diplomatic aggression; and violent opposition protests which have left at least 70 people dead.
In an effort to tackle the crisis, Venezuela is looking to form new trade partnerships. As well as the deal with Russia, Venezuela has signed cooperative agreements with China, Trinidad and Tobago and Palestine.
Related Topics:
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Russia's GMO Import Ban Boosts Local Organic Farmers*
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Tensions on the Rise As U.S. Announces Military Drills Near Venezuela*
Maduro Condemns Opposition-Led Violence as Venezuela Death Toll Nears 40
Venezuela Maintains High Human Development Despite U.S. Engineered Economic Crisis*
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Continuum Principal Corey Lapworth is featured in a UWM news article focusing its graduates who are playing significant roles in the development of Milwaukee's recent construction boom. Corey graduated from UW-Milwaukee in 2003 with two master's degrees.
"The Welford Sanders Lofts project, just north of downtown, has a number of ties to UWM alum Corey Lapworth, a principal at Continuum Architects + Planners, is leading the project. The apartment and office complex, being developed in a 184,843-square-foot former Nunn Bush shoe factory, is named for a late faculty member of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning," state writers Kathy Quirk and Angela McManaman in the July 7, 2017 issue of UWM Report.
"Lapworth took courses from Welford Sanders, a pioneering urban planner who died in May 2015. A statue of Sanders, the former head of the Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation, will be erected in a courtyard at the building."
Check out the full article here.
Boasting the only accredited architecture degree in Wisconsin, over 94% of Continuum's staff have attended UWM. Continuum continues to maintain a strong, visionary relationship with UW-Milwaukee and the entire UW System through several innovative, ongoing projects such as the UW-Milwaukee Lubar Center for Entrepreneurship, Chazen Museum of Art at UW-Madison and the UW-Madison Police Station.


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The Naysayers Recording in Benalla Or How to Record Your Own Band in Seven Simple Steps
UPDATE: We have just released two of these songs: Hear them here
Step One: Pre-production - 8 March 2014
We recorded the guide tracks to a click at Harrie's place weekend. They had been played as a whole band with the structure all worked out.
Step Two: Set-up - 14 March 2014
We left Melbourne at 8:00pm. We arrived in Benalla at 11:30pm. Set the drums up in the lounge and clipped mics onto the snare, PG 57s, rack tom and floor tom, placed a mic into the bass drum and put two overheads above the kit; one directional (a Shure SM57), one condenser (a Rode MT1). Harrie set up his laptop with Logic and a Swamp Industries 12-channel mixer with six inputs.
Step Six: Mix
The first part of mixing is cleaning all the tracks up. You zoom in on all the tracks and look for all the quiet spaces, such as big section of no playing or singing. There may be some noise on these parts, such as breathing and background noise. You mute all these segments. Then you equalise each track, adjust volumes, amplify or even overdrive some tracks, add reverb, pretty much play around until it all sounds as good as you can get it prior to mastering. Harrie and Nathaniel spent long hours mixing the recordings. Almost daily they would email exported mixes to the rest of the band for a listen. They would in turn email back with feedback on the mix. Harrie spent the most time on this since the mixes were on his laptop. Nathaniel spent some time on weekends at Harrie's house helping. They've both got very good at this job. (We recorded the Dee Eye Why EP by ourselves and mixed it ourselves too. And you'll get to hear these recordings soon enough.)
Crystal Mastering be mastered. At this point we have got the single available for free download at Bandcamp, and are giving out 'bootleg' CDs at our launch. We would normally get the CDs printed at Implant Media in Melbourne; we did with our first two EPs, It Goes Like This and Dee Eye Why.


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Dear little boys and girls
It's been a long gap that i wrote a postcard to you. Sometimes i feel i have said it all and sometimes it occurs that i have said nothing. You will read these postcards even after i leave because words stay back.
So, in your life you will always find a person who would seem perfect in so many ways and you would put him/ her on a pedestal instead of looking for the cracks.Cracks, everyone of us is broken but do remember no one is there to fix you up.
You may have your bad past experiences but that's past, that's gone. Everyone is a completely different person. You can not compare one with another, you can not stop living for the fear of dying. No one can set conditions for you, they have to accept you for whatever you are…….Period.
If someone tells you that you should rather fix the broken parts or love you in the boundaries created, say a sorry and move on. I guess that's what love does to you, it makes you reckless and stupid. It makes you confirm to some bullshit preformed idea of attachment.
Every love story is different, treasure people not ideas: Detached, surrender, no strings attached, crazy, madly are just words. In the end it's all about how badly you want to be with someone.
If terms come up and not you, free yourself. Believe me, it may seem that it's you who is in pain but its you who is free, that's something the other one willl never be able to.
Love people not the idea of what kind of love someone wants.
Take efforts, Life is too short to loose someone who created a spark.
Happy Loving, Happy Living


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Bazaars, crafts and cuisine of old Jaipur walking tour
From its creation in 1727 the royal families and nobles of Jaipur patronised the craftsmen and artisans of the city. These traditions continue to this day and as a result modern day Jaipur is considered by many as the craft capital of India. Using skills passed down through generations the jewellers, silversmiths, gold painters, meenakari and kundan artists in the areas of Ghat Darwaza and Vishveshwar ji can be seen producing many valuable and highly prized items. This fascinating two hour evening walk through the bazaars allows clients to meet these artists in their workshops whilst discovering the region's culinary delights.
Significant highlights include:
- Hanuman Ka Rasta is a bustling alley and craft lover's delight. From silversmiths to book binders this lane is a hive of activity.
- Visit a fifth generation meenakari craftsman.
- Observe the animated gemstone traders on Gopalji ka Rasta.
- Ghee Walon ka Rasta is an entire street dedicated to eating which is a foodie heaven for the locals! See the
- theatre of Indian street food preparation.
- Visit Nayala Haveli, a beautiful frescoed building hidden behind large gates which is now owned and managed bythe local Jain community.
- See the perfume and flower sellers in front of Laksmi Narayan Baiji.
- Tea & Snacks with a local family at their residence
Meeting point
Badi Chaupar – In front of HAWA MAHAL ( Palace Of Winds )
Walks Departs Daily 5:00 PM (4:30 PM in Dec/Jan/Feb) except SUNDAYS


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EstiNet OpenFlow simulator paper will be presented at IARIA SOFTNETWORKING 2015,
發布於 2015-02-05
Apaper entitled " Comparisons of SDN OpenFlow Controllers over EstiNet: Ryu vs. NOX" has just been accepted and will be published in the proceedings of IARIA SOFTNETWORKING 2015 (The International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networks)
April 19-24, 2015, Barcelona, Spain. In this paper, the authors used EstiNet OpenFlow network simulator to compare the functions and protocol behavior of the Ryu and NOX SDN controllers and found their implementation bugs. To know more about the results published in this paper, one may press this link(http://www.estinet.com/fckimages/1423026016445720673.pdf) to get a copy of this paper.
EstiNet Participates DAF 2014 Automation and Smart Factory Conference
At 3rd SDN & OpenFlow Asia-Pacific Congress EstiNet bring a complete solution for Enterprise-Dr.SDN


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|No-Longer-Frozen Dessert: Embrace frozen fruits' soft texture
by preparing in a compote, says Floyd Cardoz,
executive chef at New York's North End Grill.
Photo by F. Martin Ramin, WSJ.
In winter's depths, family cooks often finds themselves facing a produce dilemma: Buy "fresh" produce out of season, which may have spent days or weeks getting to the local supermarket, or begrudgingly turn to the freezer aisle to find a bag of frosty peas, broccoli or blueberries.
Frozen produce is convenient, and often it is nutritionally comparable to fresh produce. But it has an image problem. Often, "there is a perception that if you are using a frozen vegetable you have taken a shortcut and you are not trying to help your family," says Kate Gallager, research and development manager for Green Giant, a big producer of frozen produce and a unit of General Mills Inc.
Hoping for a crisper outcome, Green Giant is considering products that advise consumers to ditch the microwave in favor of a skillet, Ms. Gallager says. Earlier this year, Birds Eye introduced Recipe Ready frozen vegetables, pre-cut mixes for specific dishes like sliced peppers and onions for fajitas and chopped carrots, onions and celery for chili, soup or stew. The company hopes focusing on timesaving products will win over busy parents, says Mark Schiller, president at Birds Eye Frozen Division, owned by Pinnacle Foods Group. PF in Your Value Your Change Short position But rather than focus on the frozen-versus-fresh question, he says, "we have much more upside as a company and as an industry just getting people to eat more vegetables."
Texture is a hurdle for some would-be consumers of frozen produce. The water in fruits and vegetables expands during freezing and breaks plant cells, which can create a mushy texture in some varieties, Green Giant's Ms. Gallager says.
|The A-List: Fat-soluble nutrients like vitamin A
may increase in carrots that are cooked or processed.
Photo by F. Martin Ramin, WSJ.
Frozen vegetables offer many practical virtues: There is year-round variety, and they are easy to cook with and usually inexpensive. Floyd Cardoz, executive chef and partner at North End Grill in New York, owned by Union Square Hospitality Group, says when cooking at home in winter he often turns to frozen peas, spinach and berries. "There are only so many onions and pumpkins and potatoes that you can feed your kids," he says. The restaurant, with a seasonal menu, doesn't serve frozen vegetables, he says.
Corn is especially good frozen and perfect with cheese for a kid-friendly dish, he says. For cooking frozen peas, beans and other vegetables, he recommends adding them to a skillet on medium-high heat with olive oil or another fat, perhaps garlic and about 2 tablespoons of water, then covering until heated through and the moisture has evaporated. The veggies stay firm without overcooking, he says. Embrace frozen fruit's soft texture to make a compote or pie filling, he says.
Boosted partly by the rise of home juicing and smoothies, frozen fruit sales are growing even as sales of frozen vegetables and frozen meals are flat. Some 90% of people say they bought frozen vegetables at least once in the past year, according to a Nielsen Homescan survey in June.
Soon after they are picked, vegetables destined for freezing get a quick blast of hot water or steam—known as blanching, which zaps some nutrients but also stops browning and loss of nutrients after freezing. The biggest losses during this step are of water-soluble vitamins like C and B. Then the vegetables are quickly frozen, locking in most nutrients for long-term storage.
"Yes, fresh can be best but there are other factors involved," such as storage temperature and how produce is eventually cooked, says Joy Rickman Pieper, a nutritional biologist and author of a 2007 literature review comparing the nutritional content of fresh, frozen and canned fruits and vegetables.
The review, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture and funded by the Canned Food Alliance, found that fresh and frozen—and in fewer cases canned—can be nutritionally equal, depending on how crops were stored and processed.
The FDA has long maintained that frozen vegetables and fruit are nutritionally similar to raw. The USDA dietary guidelines don't draw nutritional distinctions between fresh, frozen and canned produce except to advise consumers to avoid foods with added salt or sugar. Canned food is generally cooked before canning, resulting in a loss of some nutrients.
The Frozen Food Foundation has over the past four years funded three studies comparing the nutritional content of fresh and frozen produce. In one study, at the University of Georgia, researchers measured nutrients in fresh produce on the day it was purchased from a supermarket and after it had spent five days in a refrigerator; they also measured nutrients in a frozen version. The study, led by associate professor Ronald Pegg, found frozen produce was as nutritious overall as fresh produce and, in some cases, more nutritious than produce that had been refrigerated at home for five days.
|True Color: Blanching spinach before freezing preserves
the appealing green color but may remove some nutrients.
Photo by F. Martin Ramin/WSJ.
Some studies have found some fat-soluble nutrients actually seem to increase in fruits and vegetables when cooked, frozen and canned. Vitamins A and E, and carotenoids like lycopene are thought to be released from their cell structure when cooked, making it possible for researchers to detect more of them during tests, says Diane Barrett, a food biochemist at the University of California, Davis, who is currently working on a second study funded by the Frozen Food Foundation.
To highlight "minimal processing" of its new Lean Cuisine Honestly Good frozen meals, Nestle SA combined vegetables in bright colors that people "can actually see," says Catherine Maas, consumer insights director for prepared foods at Nestlé USA, mixing, say, yellow summer squash with snap peas.
Since 2012, Nestlé, whose frozen brands also include Stouffer's and Hot Pockets, has been taking bloggers, dietitians and lobbyists on tours of its frozen-meal production plants, hoping to show them that its frozen foods aren't really any different "than what you do when you make a lot of lasagna and freeze some and reheat it later," Ms. Maas says.
CAG in Your Value Your Change Short position Con Agra Foods Inc. uses only florets of broccoli that are about 1¾-inch long in its P.F. Chang's frozen beef with broccoli dish. They are big enough to feel as if you chopped them yourself, says Christine Hall, vice president of research, quality and innovation for frozen and grocery. The broccoli must be bright green and can't have "any visible ice," she says.
Yet after a review of its Healthy Choice recipes earlier in 2013, ConAgra made sure most vegetables are served with sauce, not au naturel, Ms. Hall says.
"People say they want vegetables, but what they really want is vegetables covered in sauce," she says.


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:: Top Five Tunes of January 2017 ::
Posted on January 28 2017
With the start of a new year, comes new music, yay! Tune in below to see our five favs that are topping the charts this year so far!
The Chainsmokers &Selena Gomez - Hold Tight
The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk- I Feel It Coming
Ed Sheeran - Shape of You - remember that snapchat filter?! ;)
Taylor Swift ft. Zayn - I Don't wanna live forever
Missy Elliot ft. Lamb - I'm Better
13 comments
caroline: February 11, 2017
such great songs! love shape of you
chloe: February 08, 2017
Obsessed with Don't wanna live forever and shape of you!
Brianna: February 06, 2017
Can't even pick such good choices!!
Carina: February 03, 2017
Love every song on here
kathy: February 01, 2017
great song picks!
Michaela: January 30, 2017
Love all of these songs, definitely adding them to my 2017 playlist!
Michaela : January 30, 2017
Absolutely love all of the songs, especially the Chainsmokers and Selena! Definitely adding them to my 2017 playlist!
Michaela: January 30, 2017
Ansolutely love all of the songs, especially the Chainsmokers and Selena! Definitely adding them to my 2017 playlist!
Megan: January 29, 2017
Great song picks! Thanks for sharing them! I Don't Wanna Live Forever is my new favorite!
gina: January 29, 2017
All such awesome songs!
Nicole M: January 28, 2017
Yay love them all!
Tory: January 28, 2017
Love all of these songs!! The Chainsmokers are my favorite.
Bri: January 28, 2017
Obsessed with Ed Sheeran's shape of you :)


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Ever notice even when an organization project is done, there's more to do or there's a better way to use that space? I constantly do this. Not everyone does this? Maybe you don't think of organization as being fun or a rewarding time saver like Alejandra Costello. I don't quite go that overboard with organization. I want classy and streamlined, not kindergarten colored organization. She does present some affordable ideas though. Like the shower curtain liner with pockets or putting this mesh pocket organizer on my shower curtain rod or a small version. I often pondered on using an Over the Door shoe rack as a pant and towel hanger for the bathroom or even this variation as a coat hanger/rack for a living room with no coat closet.
You might be one of those people where junk goes in the drawer and every drawer is a junk drawer, Or your junk drawer is your car, or your desk, or your entire house and you spend too much time looking through it or maybe never look through it until you stop being able to put stuff in it; then decide to dump its contents in the trash. That's not me, well unless it's my purse that I resent. It takes time to set up an organization system, so why do it? I do it because I want to be lazy later. Personal example is: I'm not a morning person, preferring sleep over the amount of time spent to get ready and out the door. I don't like thinking about what I am going to wear, you might think I am a clothes person judging by the way I organize my closet. You'd be wrong, I don't like folding or putting away clothes, or changing more than twice a day. I color code my closet, each type gets its own color or type of hanger: white hangers for versatile tops which can be dressed up or dressed down, thick hangers for jackets and coats, the swivel hook hangers for tank tops, purple hangers for t-shirts and casual lounging. I am faster to get dressed, and laundry time is quick because I know right where everything is to go.
It's interesting trying to maximize small spaces when renting property. Sometimes if the domicile is owned by an individual rather than a Real Estate or Property Management company, there can be flexibility.
By no means am I made of money. I tend to make do or make the best with what's available. Until I accumulate the money to invest in organization projects. Not everyone is tall, and step stools to reach high shelves constantly an annoyance and somewhat unsafe. Especially as someone having balance problems. Those reach-and grab poles aren't the best for me either, since I have coordination problems that fluctuate. Having towering shelving or storage isn't always the best. The last thing I need is to be trying to get a can of soup off the shelf with a reach-and-grab, have a spasm, and knock down everything else on the shelf, not get the soup. Try again, to find out I didn't have a good grip, then the soup falls mid-air, giving me a concussion. And I still have to put all the other stuff that got knocked off the first time I tried. When all I'd want to do in the first place is get the cream of celery soup to make green bean casserole.
My dad worked in construction for a decent number of years, and he is great at his projects when his back and knees let him. I've never asked my dad to build anything, what I do remember is I would watch This Old House with Bob Villa. I'm a big proponent of *DIY. Until I began *DIY attempts proved I should not *DIY when it comes to home improvement projects or furniture assembly. I had a $60 DIY Closet project (install strips of wood to the back to mount metal brackets for a wooden closet rod in a 9 ft. reach-in closet. Seemed simple enough. Take measurements, find and mark the studs to screw in the wood strips into studs, mount metal brackets.
This DIY closet project I thought was a success because I could get my entire wardrobe in there and there was no signs of weakness. Its failure was not immediate. It worked for 3 months and then the wood backer splintered. The odd thing was I hadn't done anything with the hanging clothes. All I had done was put something on the shelf above it which was not connected to the wood backer, the metal brackets, or the closet rod. Needless to say this DIY closet project was a bigger failure than the smaller one had been. The smaller closet project a year ago was salvaged by a friend's dad who taught Shop to high school students since my own dad lives 1300 miles away and can't exactly drop by.
I got a price quote from a professional company who installs and remodels closets. It'll be a few hundred dollars, but at least it'll be a better arrangement, since it will be custom, and then it will be more structurally sound. The condo owner has agreed to allow me to reduce the amount of rent payments over an agreed amount of time, since I am essentially improving his property for him and not asking him to do the labor.
Still addicted to seeing what's out there, though I'm more of an connoisseur or fan (not sure either of those are the precise word I want, but the exact term escapes my intellect for the moment) and so I spotted this showcase for Hidden Door Storage Ideas. Not really sure what and ideabook is, it looks like a better spinoff of Pinterest, which I don't use, because I have conflicts about the ethics of Pinterest. It's just people going around stealing other peoples stuff. There's not even much interaction. You just get alerts on who likes your posted projects enough to steal it for something they want to use. It's like plagiarism as a faux social media site. On the other hand it's like a bulletin board too. I neglect Pinterest. I poked around a bit more on Houzz.com to see someone found a Superman comic in the wall of their house.
* Not all the same link. Each link for DIY is a separate one for a different site to find DIY projects.