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It's flattering - and clearly a bit nuts - to discover I'm now as much a part of "Twestival" story as the organisers. But when Sky News wanted to cover this week's halo-polishing, conscience-saving fundraisers, they twigged that there's another point of view other than "new media yuppies save the world". Would I like to take part? How could I refuse?
First, some context.
Twestival calls itself "a series of tweet-ups with a social conscience". Last February, it had been billed as the "Live Aid" of new media, even before a penny had been raised. LiveAid raised £150m. Unlike Live Aid, however, the Twestivals fell embarrassingly short of the organisers' estimates. Only about 25 per cent of the target was met. For example, in London, over 700 new media Twitterers met, and congratulated each other for being wonderful. And for being so jolly clever, because they're all on Twitter. All they had to do was get drunk (no marathon running involved) and throw some money into a bucket.
Now, bear in mind that these are some of the best-paid people in the UK. They're employed in marketing, advertising, public relations, web design and journalism - competitive jobs in an expensive capital city. But they were so busy air-kissing, they forgot to put their hands in their pockets. More money probably fell on the floor of Tube trains later that night, as these yuppies slumbered their way home, than they raised for charidee.
This time the organisers have learned something from the earlier experience. London Twestival asks for £15 up front for a ticket - guaranteeing they will extract at least some money from the tight-fisted expense account holders. The target is more modest, too. The recipient charity ChildLine hopes for £16,000 from ticket sales and sponsorships. It should sail past this target with ease.
To put this generosity in context, a technology company recently put £4,000 behind the bar for free drinks for journalists and public relations people to mingle at an event last Sunday. It attracted a couple of dozen people. Surely the combined worlds of technology, marketing, advertising and PR can do even better.
So what did I tell Sky? They were obviously up for a bit of yuppie-kicking.
The problem the Twitter crowd had forgotten is that giving to charity and boasting about it is considered poor form. It's worse when it fails to raise much money. Worse still, when the bragging donors are seriously wealthy. I pointed out that most charity is unpaid, or low-paid care work - and the people who do it aren't desperately keen to get on telly, or congratulate themselves on their moral superiority.
But there's something else at work. I also pointed out it's been a promotional bandwagon for the companies involved - and these companies have a whiff of desperation about them, now. A lot of them are new media marketing outfits who need to prove the power of new media marketing (or "social media" to use the current buzzword). They've lived high on the hog for the past few years, bilking companies that generate real wealth. Twestival helps promote the hype that keeps them in business.
But now the maths is being done, and the companies who retain their services are discovering that the benefits have been vastly overstated. Social media marketers are having to juke the stats to show they have any effect. PR and marketing are beginning to value the traditional dark arts again. With the bubble bursting, it leaves us with a nervous, parasitic class, and deep down, it's one which knows that "new media" has added very little to the nation's (or anyone else's) wealth. So Twestival helps assuage the guilt. It takes the pain away.
So lauding Twestival is like saying the Krays did a lot of good work around the community. It's true. But it's really missing the point.
You can see how insecure the new media marketing types are from the reaction to my last piece. Since then, they've become even more insecure. The bubble is bursting.
The cost of social media living
The Sky presenter had a nice put-down for me, though. Quoting my 'Jam Festival' piece, he asked: if Twittering was the journalistic equivalent of picking fluff from your navel, wasn't I just doing the same?
That's a fair cop.
But don't underestimate, I said, the contempt people have for we metropolitan media types when we fawn over each other. Or write endless stories about Twitter. Or write about how great and generous we are. I think the point was made. While putting the boot into new media yuppies hasn't quite attained the national sport status of banker-bashing, it's getting there.
The contempt would be even greater if people understood the true cost of the new media caper. Marketing and advertising (things we do well here in the UK) are an expense, one that's ultimately borne by us. It's one of the reasons things are so expensive in the UK. So when companies waste millions on "social media" shenanigans that have zero return, we foot the bill.
The good news is this is being realised across many industries now. The generation after this one will be thinking of technological innovation that creates wealth, rather than squanders it in an alcohol haze of self-congratulation. I've done my bit. ®
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For the first time since 1990, when the Congress approved the Chief Financial Officers Act, which among other things, required all federal agencies and departments to produce what would be regarded as a clean financial statement on their budgets, a branch of the U.S. military passed a financial audit.
As reported by Jamie Dupree:
"It was the first time any branch of the military service had been given an "unqualified favorable audit" for being able to show where billions in funding had gone.
Let me repeat that – it was the first time that any part of the service had been able to fully account for where all of its money was spent."
This begs the question: What are the consequences for committing fraud, failing audits, and abusing tax dollars? Apparently nothing. What is the point of an audit if there is no enforcement?


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The grain, the whole grain and nothing but the grain...
This article is the first of a two-part series about whole-grain breads. In this piece, we look into the nutritional benefits of grinding fresh, whole grains at home and review the different types of grain mills. In part two, we will discuss how to use a bread machine for quick and easy home baking, and report on how organic growers, millers and bakers are building networks in Maine. Plus, we'll share some favorite bread recipes. — Mother
This article is the first of a two-part series about whole-grain breads. In this piece, we look into the nutritional benefits of grinding fresh, whole grains at home and review the different types of grain mills. In part two, we will discuss how to use a bread machine for quick and easy home baking, and report on how organic growers, millers and bakers are building networks in Maine. Plus, we'll share some favorite bread recipes. — Mother
Before we get to the "grist" of this article, we need to debunk a myth about whole-grain foods. Many people think they don't like them. But that's old-think from the batik-skirted '60s when exuberant nutrient lovers overloaded naturally delicious breads, bars and cakes with blackstrap molasses, carob powder, soy this and soy that. Unfortunately, their nutritional intelligence exceeded their ability to persuade people that they could choke down anything, as long as it was densely packed with nutrition. It hasn't helped that cellophane-wrapped commercial whole-wheat breads are tainted with off-flavors from overprocessed versions of these same healthful additions.
Let's fast-forward to the 21st century. Today, home miller/bakers can make 100-percent whole-grain breads, pancakes, muffins, pasta, desserts and much more with infinitely better flavor than anything made from ordinary white flour. How?
First, by understanding that freshness is a major factor in optimum flavor. The quality and flavor of commercially produced flour varies from superb to horrid, depending on the source. If you have access to fresh whole meal milled at low temperatures on a solid stone gristmill, you are really in luck. If your natural food co-op or another local source mills its own fresh, cool whole meal, you are an equally lucky baker.
But if you are dipping out of infrequently used barrels, buying undated, unrefrigerated packages, or relying on a totally unknown mail-order source, you may be in trouble. If you are fond of oil-rich grains such as corn, rye or flaxseed, which become rancid with little provocation after they're ground, locate a source that dates, then refrigerates or freezes the ground product, or consider milling your own flour at home.
In addition to using fresh flour, you need to choose the right kinds of wheat. Each of the many wheats grown in the United States has its own identifiable flavor and baking personality. For best flavor and performance, an optimum wheat should be used for each type of baked goods. Fluffy, light-flavored, American-style breads produced in a quick four-hour process need hard red or hard white spring wheat. Heartier European-type artisan loaves that take much longer to develop benefit from a full-flavored hard red winter wheat and probably some rye. Delicious whole-wheat pasta requires the wheat preferred by the pasta-loving Italians, hard amber durum. Finally, desserts such as cookies, bars and cakes need the lower protein level of soft white or soft red winter wheats.
Also, some "secret" ingredients can coax spectacular flavor and performance from whole-wheat bread — without a lick of white flour. These delicious additions, which help harness the renegade qualities of germ and bran, are familiar and readily available: eggs, dairy products, potatoes, beans or bean flours, ascorbic acid or one of several "dough conditioners." As a side benefit, most added ingredients also boost the bread's protein quality to that of beefsteak by "complementing" the amino acid composition of the whole grain.
Sound complicated? It isn't. Most whole-grain outlets have or can order specific grains — as long as you know which ones to ask for, and you just learned it!
Quick and Easy
Nobody seems surprised to learn that white bread is so bereft of nutrients that laboratory rats died on a diet of white bread and water. (In 1970, Roger Williams, a biochemist at the University of Texas, fed "enriched" white bread to rats, and within 90 days two-thirds of them were dead, the others sick.)
Yet people are astonished to learn that the whole operation of grinding flour and baking nutrient-rich breads at home can be an easy daily task — about three minutes, on average, for milling and a few minutes more to dump ingredients in the bread machine, if you use one. And home-milled flour does far more than return mouth-watering flavor to everyday food. It also protects against heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer, eases constipation, and provides a secure (and nutritious) food source in case of natural or human-made disasters.
But isn't this extreme? Why can't you just buy whole wheat flour from the supermarket?
What's Wrong with Commercial Flour?
If you're relying on grocery store packaged flour and commercial products — whether white or "whole wheat" — you definitely should switch to milling your own, and here's why:
When compared to freshly ground whole-wheat flour, white flour is way less nutritious. Even white flour that has been "enriched" still shows significant losses in 15 of 22 nutrients. Under the U.S. government's mandatory "enrichment" program started in May 1941, certain vitamins and minerals that are deemed potentially deficient in the American diet are added to flour and related products. In fact, white flour contains more of these synthetic nutrients than were present in the original grain. No attempt, however, is made to replace the most important component lost in milling — insoluble fiber. Few people realize that the "whole wheat" used in many commercially packaged products (with the exception of such companies as Bob's Red Mill, King Arthur Flour and Arrowhead Mills) is processed exactly like white flour. The nutrient-rich, darker-colored bran, germ and endosperm are mechanically separated then recombined into "whole wheat" according to a formula that varies by brand but that rarely mimics Mother Nature's balance.
How nutritious is this reconstituted "whole-wheat" flour? As with white flour, any whole-wheat nutrients not purposely discarded with the germ and bran often succumb to the long, hot, repetitive milling process, or to chemicals used to artificially "improve" or bleach flour. Significant losses may occur in heat-sensitive B vitamins, vitamin E, enzymes and other healthful components. In fact, commercially produced whole-wheat flour frequently contains only enough bran for a healthful-looking brown tinge, and virtually no germ. That's why the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) 1999 labeling rules specify that claims about health benefits associated with whole grains can appear only on products that contain at least 51 percent whole grains by weight. These health benefits could be plastered all over home-milled flour because it contains the grain, the whole grain and nothing but the grain.
The Benefits of Fiber-rich Foods
A virtual river of scientific research shows that the more fiber-rich foods we eat, the healthier we get. Usually, though, scientists cannot pinpoint which grain components are doing the good work. Vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants and other phytochemicals play indisputably vital roles in promoting health and preventing disease. But in order to grasp the profound importance of grains in our diet — and why home milling is so vital nutritionally — we must learn more about fiber.
Fiber, which exists in soluble and insoluble forms, is the structural portion of plants that the human body can digest only partially or not at all. Only plant foods, such as cereal grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds, contain fiber.
Insoluble fiber passes through the digestive system basically unchanged (undigested). This type of fiber has long been considered particularly important because it helps eliminate constipation and the many disorders related to it. Examples of foods high in insoluble fiber are the bran of whole grains; vegetables such as broccoli, green beans, Brussels sprouts, turnips, cauliflower, beets and cabbage; seeds and nuts.
Soluble fibers can be partially digested by our systems. These viscous fibers, which are plentiful in foods such as oats, beans, peas, brown rice, barley, citrus fruits and strawberries, are particularly valuable in fighting heart disease by lowering cholesterol levels, moderating blood sugar in diabetics, protecting against certain cancers and a long list of other conditions.
How much fiber do we need? There's some quibbling among experts about that. The Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine recommends total daily intake in grams at 38 and 25, respectively, for men and women 50 years and younger. For the over-50 group, men need 30 grams and women need 21, due to decreased calorie consumption in this age group. Many fiber advocates recommend a minimum of 40 grams a day. Strict vegetarians typically get up to 60 grams per day. Yet most Americans consume only 14 to 15 grams of fiber a day, and low-carb dieters may get even less. But remember, these figures are for total fiber. So, unless you're eating truly whole-grain bread, pancakes, pasta and cookies, you are almost certainly eating too little of that vital insoluble fiber. Remember, too, that highly processed fragments of food — such as bran cereals or even fiber laxatives — are no substitute for the real thing. They lack the vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytochemicals, antioxidants and other components that play silent but inevitable roles in the health benefits associated with a diet rich in whole grains, and may even deplete the body's mineral stores.
Of course, if fiber were the only reason to eat whole grains, you might not need a home grain mill. You could simply buy ground-up trees, add flavoring and sprinkle the result on your sundaes and pizzas. So, let's look briefly at other health benefits available to home millers:
Minerals. Discarding wheat bran (the outer seed coat) results in significant losses of calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, zinc, copper, manganese, selenium and all of the trace minerals located only in the bran. The government's "enrichment" program adds back only one of these: iron.
Vitamins. Those supplied in significant quantities by cereal grains are thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), pyridoxine (B6), folate, pantothenic acid and vitamin E. These vitamins are concentrated in either the germ or bran of grain, so commercial milling routinely reduces their presence. The progressive decline in our consumption of leafy green vegetables and legumes has exacerbated B-vitamin losses caused by white flour refining.
Enzymes. A kernel of grain contains hundreds or thousands of enzymes, making it difficult to know what they all do, let alone how they interact with other enzymes or micronutrients in the complex chemical laboratory of the human body. If certain enzymes prove to be more heavily concentrated in the germ and bran of grain (as vitamins and minerals are), the discarding of these important grain parts by commercial millers must certainly result in similar losses of enzymes.
Phytochemicals. Scientists have recently focused their microscopes on several categories of compounds that occur naturally in plant foods, and evidence is accumulating that many of them have positive effects on human health. In addition to fiber, phytochemicals include, for example, allyl sulfides in onions, garlic, leeks and chives, isoflavones in soybeans and phenolic acids in tomatoes, citrus fruits, carrots, whole grains and nuts. Again, to get these compounds, you must eat foods whole.
Good Carbs, Bad Carbs
Unfortunately, the current low-carbohydrate diet rage has resulted in the mistaken idea that all carbohydrates are "bad." Let's clear up this mistaken-identity problem.
Metabolically, all carbohydrates are chains of sugar that are broken down at different rates during digestion and delivered to the blood as glucose (also called blood sugar). Glucose stimulates the pancreas to release enough insulin to transport the glucose throughout the body for use or storage. When its delivery job is done, insulin recedes and a hunger signal goes out for more food.
The key difference between what are called complex and simple carbohydrates is the rate at which they are digested. Unrefined complex carbohydrates such as whole grains, beans, peas and legumes are considered good carbs because their fiber slows down digestion, thus delivering a slow, steady supply of glucose to the blood. The glycemic index, a system developed to measure this rate, as well as a more complex measurement called glycemic load, can be found at www.glycemicindex.com.
Simple carbohydrates (such as honey, maple syrup, many vegetables, fruits and sugar cane) as well as refined complex carbohydrates (such as white flour, white rice, white pasta and white sugar) digest quickly. They are considered bad carbs because they cause blood sugar levels to surge, which eventually leads to a gnawing sense of hunger and a grab for more bad carbs.
Repeated spiking and plunging of blood glucose, also called reactive hypoglycemia and the sugar roller coaster, is a significant factor in our obesity epidemic because it leads to overeating, an impaired pancreas (called insulin resistance, where insulin production slows) or a debilitated pancreas (type-2 diabetes, where insulin production stops completely).
Low-carbohydrate diets have appealed to millions of people because they provide a simplistic solution to the sugar-roller-coaster problem: Consume no carbohydrates at all, and the sugar roller coaster is derailed. Unfortunately, this approach will also send the nutrient express off the track. Although there is some sense to short-term curtailment of all carbohydrates to purge the system of bad carbs, beyond a few weeks, whole fruits, whole vegetables and whole grains must be a part of any healthful diet or weight-loss plan. Even the Atkins' Diet Web site admits that now, and The South Beach Diet's Dr. Agatston emphasizes it.
Making Every Mouthful Count
In our struggle to balance calories and nutrients, we must consciously select foods that give us the best shot at long-term health. Grains are a beautiful creation, full of nourishing elements that are vital to health. They supply energy and satisfy appetite while providing none of the simple sugars, hydrogenated fats and salt that dominate processed foods. Fortunately, home-milled whole grains can restore a daily supply of insoluble fiber and nutrients in wonderfully delicious breads and other foods that can be prepared in advance and frozen for future use, with a very reasonable commitment of time. Good health ultimately depends on eating plenty of the high-nutrient foods that tend to be under-consumed in our modern, hectic world — whole fruits, whole vegetables and, especially, whole grains.
Marleeta F. Basey has been milling flour and making 100-percent whole-wheat bread for more than 25 years. This article is adapted from her book, Flour Power: A Guide to Modern Home Grain Milling (The new, revised edition was released earlier this year.)
- Sources for grains and mills along with grain mill reviews can be found at http://www.motherearthnews.com/article/2148/toparticles.
ENN would like to thank Mother Earth News for their permission to reprint this article.


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Conor Jackson signed a Minor League deal with the White Sox on Saturday and was assigned to Triple-A Charlotte. The right-handed-hitting outfielder was in camp with the Rangers during Spring Training before being released.
Jackson, 29, is a .271 career hitter with 52 home runs over stops with the D-backs, Red Sox and A's in seven seasons. But as general manager Ken Williams pointed out, Jackson never really fully recovered from Valley Fever that hit him in 2009.
"He was on a career trajectory where his ceiling was through the roof," said Williams of Jackson, who had three productive seasons in Arizona from 2006-08. "He got Valley Fever, which was a terrible thing to catch. He will be working his way back in Triple-A."
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BERLIN- Stephen Decatur's varsity indoor track and field teams made strong showings in the state championship meet this week including a state championship for Seahawk senior Tiara Stanley in the shot put.
After winning the state Class 3A-East Region championship last week, the Decatur girls' indoor track and field team was well represented at the state championship meet held in Prince George's County this week. The girls' team was well represented in all events across the board and turned in solid performances to finish 12th among the top 3A programs in the state with 13 total team points.
Leading the Seahawks on Tuesday was girls' shot-putter Tiara Stanley, whose first throw carried 37-feet, three-and-a-half inches, which is all she would need to secure the state championship in the event. Stanley was the top qualifier in the state championship meet after winning the Class 3A region title last week. She went unbeaten in five meets this season and also captured the Bayside Conference championship.
The Decatur girls' team was tough all year behind its distance runners and strong performances by its field events competitors and the formula held true during the state championship meet on Tuesday. The Seahawks' girls' team coasted to the Bayside Conference championship two weeks ago and followed that up with a sweep of the regional meet last week behind a strong corps of distance runners led by senior Lindsay Chetelat.
The Decatur girls came in a solid fifth in the 4×800 relay on Tuesday for the team's best track event finish in the state championship meet. The team, which included Chetelat, Bradley Janson, Lauren Cosgriff and Katherine Janson, finished in 10:02:82 to take fifth. The same team won the 4×800 event in the regional meet and the Bayside championships two weeks ago. Chetelat also finished eighth in the 3,200, while Seahawk Jessica Ames took 6th in the girls' pole vault on Tuesday.
On the boys' side in the state championship meet on Tuesday, the Seahawks finished in 16th place overall as a team and also put up some impressive individual performances. Leading the way was Matthew Allenbaugh, who came in third in the pole vault event after clearing the bar at 12 feet. Decatur's Bradley Hollowell finished in eighth place in the pole vault event at the state championship meet.
All in all, it was a great season for the Decatur indoor track teams who swept the Bayside Conference championships and scored well in the state regional and championship meets after moving up to Class 3A last year.


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(Pocket-lint) - House of Marley hasn't scrimped on its audio product output as this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Riddim headphones add to the mix of other on-ear options unveiled, and their patterned design looks like an eye-catcher to us.
The canvas-coated Riddim on-ears include a soft leather headband with padded earcup cushions that are "flat" all the way across. If you're more inclined to want deep cups that sit right over and surround the ears then these might not be the headphones for you. Still, it's good to have a variety of options and the Riddim cans felt comfy pressed up to our lobes.
As with the entirety of the Marley range, Riddim are built with the same earth-friendly ethos. That includes recyclable aluminium and recycled canvas. Yah mon.
The 40mm drivers in these on-ears appear to be the same as those found in the Buffalo Soldier on-ears, but with less of the padding for a more trim and subtle overall design.
The Riddim on-ear headphones are expected to be out at the end of January 2013, with a suggested price of $160. They will also make their way to the UK, with a price TBC, and we look forward to getting hold of a pair for review so we can have a good listen and bring you the nitty on sound quality too.


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THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- Whaddya do? Talk yourself into a new job
When someone asks me, "What does your husband do?" I say, "I don't know." This is not an answer society can deal with. It's not okay to offer no idea of what you want to do, let alone be married to someone with no idea.
We have two kids, and I've noticed that the more responsibilties you have, the more unacceptable it is to have no idea what you're doing. But the truth is that my husband is trying to figure out what to do. He's an artist, a former game producer– in fact, a former lot of things– but right now he's being a dad who wants to be a dad/something, but he can't figure out what.
There's a lot of good advice about how to craft an answer to The Question. For example, when you're starting a new business but still work for your old employer, some experts recommend that you talk about the new business as if thatís what you do, and donít bother talking about how youíre trying to get out of your current day job.
In general, if you talk about yourself how you want to be, then you'll probably become that person, according to research from Herminia Ibarraha, a professor at INSEAD. In this case, Ibarraha recommends that you learn to tell stories about yourself that affirm the new vision of yourself. Stories have the power to frame how we think about something.
In both cases, the advice is to answer The Question by focusing on where you're going instead of where you are, which is excellent advice– for everyone who knows where they're going. But how do you craft an answer if you have no idea where you're headed?
I know my husband is not alone in the world because I do a lot of career coaching for very smart, talented, ambitious people, and many have no idea what they want to do with themselves. Ten years ago, if you didn't know what you were doing, the typical response would be, "I'm consulting." Today, you don't need to do that. It's okay to be lost.
For people under 30, feeling lost is de rigueur. But if you're over 30, it's okay too– if you believe it's okay. The first step is to respect the fact that you're in transition and that transition is part of normal life. In fact, with the right attitude, coping with uncertainty can be a positive experience.
The important thing is to be honest about it. If you hedge and look embarrassed, ashamed or evasive, you'll look bad answering The Question. But if you look someone in the eye and say, "I don't know. I'm trying to figure it out," it's reasonable to trust that people will respect you. They'll ask you about your process for figuring things out. Maybe they'll say, "What have you done in the past?" or maybe, "What are you thinking about doing?"
These are not personal attacks. They're genuine curiousity because we're all fascinated by the process of self-discovery– it's the basis of our whole literary canon, after all.
And one more thing. When I was in graduate school in English, I learned that our interpretation of that literary canon has as much to do with who we are as what the book says. This is true of The Question, as well. After you answer The Question, the personís response has more to do with who they are than with who you are. If you believe in yourself and your choices, your answer to The Question will be great, no matter what you say.


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Faces of the Recovery Act: National Weatherization Conference
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SAMMY CHU: My name is Sammy Chu. I'm the director of the Long Island Green Homes program in Babylon, New York.
LESLIE CAMPANELLA: My name is Leslie Campanella, and I work for the California Department of Community Services and Development.
TRAVIS SEWELL: Travis Sewell, weatherization director/coordinator.
DALE BARTH: Dale Barth, Dickinson, North Dakota.
TONY GILL: Tony Gill. I'm actually from the state of Maine. I've been involved in weatherization since 1981.
RICHARD FRANSEN: I'm Richard Fransen. I come from West Jordan, Utah.
STEVE LEUTY: My name is Steve Leuty. I work at Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
XAVIER QUALLS: Xavier Qualls, Tampa Hills Action Plan, Tampa, Florida.
T.J. BERGERON: I'm T.J. Bergeron. I'm actually from Moorhead, Minnesota.
ZACHARY STEWART: My name is Zachary Stewart, and I'm a energy engineering specialist as my job.
STAFF: Tell me how you got started in weatherization.
MR. STEWART: Well, I've been working in the residential construction industry in Phoenix for five years with a national home builder. So I've been doing weatherization, in a way, not knowing it, but –
STAFF: Right.
MR. STEWART: Anyways, so the housing market in Phoenix, it went – it went down. So I laid – was laid off in December 19th, 2008. So right – a couple days before Christmas. And so that was a real nice holiday.
MR. BERGERON: Ran a handyman business for the last two or three years. During the flood this spring in Fargo, we had about five weeks where basically everything in town shut down. No one spent any money or did anything.
MR. STEWART: I was applying for jobs after jobs. I must have applied for 200 jobs.
MR. BERGERON: It's tough to not have a paycheck for five weeks, so I decided I needed steady income.
MR. STEWART: So I cashed in my 401(k) and the little severance I had left, and I mean, I made a gamble. It was either, you know, make your mortgage payment or go down to try to take some classes, so –
MR. BERGERON: May 26th is when I was hired.
MR. STEWART: So that was the break that I needed. That was my networking opportunity to get some face time with somebody. And I mean, I think – I'm so thankful for it.
MR. BERGERON: I'm just happy to have the opportunity and appreciate it.
MR. STEWART: This is what I want to do. I'm fortunate that I found something also not only to support my family, but where I want to go for the rest of my life. Like, this is what interests me. I love doing the problem solving, and I found my career, you know.
MR. LEUTY: Our first day at work, we were informed that there were 500 people on the waiting list for our small county. And by the end of that week, there were over 600 households waiting on that list. So people know that we're trying to build it, but they're already coming.
MR. SEWELL: Every year prior to this that I was with the program, we'd always run out of funds and weren't able to get to everyone on our waiting list. But now with the recovery act, we're looking forward to being able to serve all of the clients on our waiting list and adding quite a few more.
MR. FRANSEN: They want to try and do a thousand homes this year.
STAFF: Wow.
MR. FRANSEN: Just in our Salt Lake area.
MR. CHU: I think we could reasonably expect to do between 800 and a thousand homes, which would be on the order of 1 ½ percent of our entire residential housing stock in one year, which we're quite proud of.
MS. CAMPANELLA: And I just love it. It's a wonderful program, and it's exciting. My days are never boring. No two days are the same.
MR. GILL: I mean, this sounds almost messianic, but you – when you walk into somebody's house, you can really change their life.
MR. BERGERON: What I really like about it – there's a couple of things. One is knowing that I'm actually making a difference out there and helping people.
MR. GILL: One old lady comes to mind – little Italian lady, bigger around than she was tall, great lady, cooking all the time, fed the crew, fed everybody. Had a four-room house, four-room, two-story house, probably a total of 600 square feet. Big boiler in the cellar, big wood stove in the cellar, which she couldn't use. Her husband had always handled the wood. She was scared to death of it – wouldn't burn the wood. I came through the back door, and she threw this bear hug on me. I thought I was dead. (Laughter.) And – what is it? And she said, oh – she said, for the first time since my husband died I can sleep in my bed in the wintertime. I said, what do you mean? This woman, because the house couldn't stay warm enough even with blankets on the bed for her to sleep upstairs, had been sleeping in a chair three months of the year, not even a recliner.
MR. FRANSEN: I've had people come up to me and actually cry on my shoulder and say – just to thank me.
MR. BERGERON: The little kids give you a hug when you're leaving, and you're like, OK, you know, because you replaced the window that's been broken for two years.
MR. BARTH: We've hired three new people on board. And things are just kind of rolling right along.
MR. QUALLS: The recovery act, you know, opened up more positions and stuff like that. Travis needed some more help, so he brought me on board.
MR. BERGERON: Myself and two other people were hired simply because of the recovery act.
MR. SEWELL: We've been able to hire already four people in the last two months.
MR. FRANSEN: We have been hiring people like crazy right now because we are expanding phenomenally.
MR. CHU: We're creating local jobs, hyperlocal jobs. These are jobs that can't be outsourced. They're smaller-scope jobs. They're not jobs that, you know, big construction companies are coming from out of state to do. It's people from the community. It's people from the area.
MR. GILL: The technology grew out of this program, and it's now – it's hitting real world.
MR. CHU: These are improvements that we can make in our homes – in every home in – you know, in the United States, that pays for themselves.
MR. GILL: In my opinion, the greatest benefit to the weatherization program eventually is going to be changing the way America builds.


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Apple has upgraded its gaming experience on the iPhone with the new release of the 4.0 firmware to include social networking.
The new Game Center will allow you to invite friends to games right from your phone, as well as 'match-make' you with others when you have nobody to play with.
The iPhone Game Center will use achievements, much like those on the Xbox and PlayStation platforms, as well as global leaderboards to help you track your high scores with other player by default.
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Apple couldn't resist the chance to dig at the competition in the mobile gaming space, pointing out that it has over 50,000 titles available for the platform, where the PSP has 2,477 and the Nintendo DS 4,321.
We're not sure that this will be debuting with the release of the new firmware, as Jobs promised this feature would be coming later this year.
Still, it shows Apple is still viewing the iPhone as a real competitor in the gaming space, and making it easier for others to play against one another could be a real boost for the platform.


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Jessica Simpson's father is maintaining his innocence.
Joe Simpson pleaded not guilty Thursday to two DUI charges--driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 or above--stemming from his Aug. 4 arrest.
Baby Drew Maxwell's grandpa was pulled over by police on Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, Calif., not too far from the Simpson family homestead.
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Should the case go the distance, a pretrial hearing has been set for Oct. 11 in Van Nuys Superior Court.
Simpson, 54, was not required to appear in person today as his is a misdemeanor case, so his lawyer entered the plea on his behalf.
If convicted on both counts, Simpson faces a maximum penalty of six months in jail, three years of probation and a $1,000 fine.
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A Japanese inspired pale pink fern pattern is inlaid into red oval resin discs to create this eye-catching bold contemporary necklace. One unit has a cream detail in the centre. The discs hang from a silver chain which has been oxidised to create a contrast next to the bright colours. As each necklace is unique the pattern varies from one to another. The necklace is plain on the reverse.
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Butler downs Northwestern 74-65
Wildcats shoot just 32.7 percent at home
EVANSTON, Ill. — Butler 74, Northwestern 65: Andrew Smith scored a game-high 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead the visiting Bulldogs past the Wildcats.
Smith was 8-of-11 from the field and 7-of-9 from the foul line to help Butler (7-2) extend its winning streak to four games.
Rotnei Clarke came off the bench and added 13 points, including four 3-pointers. Kellen Dunham chipped in 11 points and Roosevelt Jones had 10 for the Bulldogs, who led 34-31 at halftime.
Northwestern (7-3) was led by Dave Sobolewski, who scored 21 points. He was 6-of-11 from the field and 7-of-8 from the foul line. Tre Demps added 15 points and Reggie Hearn came off the bench and added 13 for the Wildcats.
Butler took a 26-24 lead on Jones' three-point play with 6:07 left in the first half and never trailed again.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Butler outrebounded Northwestern 37-30. … The Bulldogs had nine steals compared to the Wildcats' three. … Butler shot 48 percent (24-of-50) from the field compared to Northwestern's 32.7 percent (18-of-55).


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Susan Granger's review of 'The Hundred-Foot Journey'
Gastronomes will be salivating as Lasse Hallstrom revisits "Chocolat" (2000) territory. Impressively introduced by executive producers Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, the story revolves around a displaced family from India that opens Maison Mumbai, 100 feet directly across the road from Le Saule Pleureur, a Michelin-starred, classical French restaurant.
When the rickety car carrying the emigrant Kaddam family breaks down near the idyllic village of Saint-Anton-Noble-Val in France's rural Midi-Pyrenees region, Papa (Om Puri) decides that he's found the perfect place to open a boisterous, Bollywood-esque eatery -- much to the dismay of widowed Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), a stern, snobbish perfectionist whose celebrated country inn specializes in elegant haute cuisine, catering to the aristocracy, including the president of France. Tempers flare and knives are brandished in a territorial culture clash, as the rustic rivalry between the two establishments heats up.
More complications erupt when a competitive, love/hate relationship develops between earnest Hassan Kaddam (Manish Dayal), a self-taught, extraordinarily talented cook, and Mme. Mallory's slyly ambitious sous chef, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), who teaches Hassan how to find wild mushrooms on the riverbank. While tradition-bound Mme. Mallory covets another Michelin star, Hassan Kaddam, toting his family's exotic spice box, must grapple with the emotional price one pays for international success, including coping with Parisians' desire
for nouveau metro molecular fare.
Based on Richard C. Morais' 2010 best-seller, adapted for the screen by Steven Knight ("Locke"), it's directed by Hallstrom, who serves up so many mouth-watering scenes -- like a surprisingly seasoned omelet, steaming boeuf bourguignon and perfectly plated pigeon with truffles.
The lush photography of Linus Sandgren deserves special mention, along with A.R. Rahman's lively score.
Masters of their craft, Mirren ("The Queen") and Bollywood star Puri are irresistible as sparring partners, even though their emotional trajectory, admittedly, seems foreordained, as does the romance between Manish Dayal and Charlotte Le Bon.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "The Hundred-Foot Journey" is a deliciously poignant, highly improbable 7, a spicy fairy tale for foodies.


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A post by philosopher Michael Ruse called A Darwinian Approach to Moral Philosophy has been making the rounds in the philosoblogosphere. The thing is worth reading in its entirety, but here's an executive summary:
- Substantive ethics is the product of natural selection.
- Naturalism is correct.
- Moral realism is wrong.
- However, ethical claims have the phenomenological "meaning and character" of objective facts.
- Therefore, relativism is also wrong.
Or to put it as Ruse does, "although philosophy may lead to skepticism, psychology makes it impossible to live that way." The fact that ethical claims are "only" facts about our mental states doesn't diminish their importance, because our own mental states are all we really have direct access to.
Note that while this is a Darwinian/naturalist approach to ethics, it differs significantly from the sort of reductive, pseudo-empirical claptrap espoused by New Atheists such as Sam Harris. As I've written before, Harris' attempts to reconcile moral realism with reductio ad scientism is doomed to failure. However (if you'll forgive some self-citation):
I can speak of a world without morality or meaning, but I can't actually live in it. I'm trapped in the world created by language and conscious thought; there is no way for me to un-see the value I attach to things, or cause my mind to reject its own existence.
That's more or less in agreement with what Ruse argues above, though he does some extra work to connect this position to the Darwinian tradition. He also connects it to the Humean tradition, acknowledging the importance of the is/ought distinction that reductive materialists tend to reject out of hand.
So if you are, like myself, both a non-believer and a non-reductive materialist, Ruse's position seems pretty satisfying. Though I wonder what believers (particularly Christians) might make of his final claim:
I think the kind of position I have just sketched should be welcomed by a Christian influenced by naturalism, and I am thinking here of course of Thomas Aquinas and the influence of Aristotle. As a Darwinian, I think we should do what is natural. As an Aristotelian, the Thomist thinks we should do what is natural. I see a meeting point here. It doesn't incline me to be a Christian but I see how a Christian could start with my position and then put it in a theological context.
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Indirect effects of climate change could alter landscapes
Studies of a northern hardwood forest in New England point to unexpected ecological trends resulting from documented changes in the climate over 50 years. Some of the changes now taking place can be expected to alter the composition of the forest and the wildlife present. The observations may have implications for other northern forests and suggest directions for future research and monitoring.
Much biological research on climate change focuses on the impacts of warming and changes in precipitation over wide areas. Researchers are now increasingly recognizing that at the local scale they must understand the effects of climate change through the intertwined patterns of soils, vegetation, and water flowpaths—not forgetting the uses humans have made of the landscape.
In the December issue of BioScience researchers describe how aboveground and belowground responses to springtime warming are becoming separated in time in a forest in New England. This and other indirect effects of climate change could alter the dominant trees and other plants in the region as well as the wildlife present, with likely consequences for local industry and tourism.
The observations could be a bellwether for changes in forests elsewhere. The researchers, led by Peter M. Groffman, analyzed findings from the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire, which has been studied for 50 years. Warming means spring has advanced and fall has retreated over that time. Together with increasing snow and rain, this has led to an increase in streamflow in winter and summer—but to a decline in the winter snowpack. The declining snowpack should favor deer at the expense of moose—which seems to be happening. And the earlier thaw means soils have been warming earlier in the springtime. Significantly, the interval between snowmelt and full leaf growth has increased—by 8 days over 50 years.
Soil nutrients can be more easily washed out during this transition period, and soil freezing can also occur. This can in turn threaten some tree species, including yellow birch and sugar maple—the main source of maple syrup. Soil invertebrates are also killed by soil freezing, so the species of birds that feed on them will likely change. Groffman and his colleagues stress that research into the likely effects of climate change should examine a full range of landscapes, including those affected by biological invaders. Research should also take advantage of the range of temperatures at different elevations to explore the effects of expected warming.
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Gone, Baby, Gone
Your regularly scheduled Tuesday Tidbits are interrupted to bring you news of a big event: Rory lost her first tooth. As in, it was loose and then popped right out in less than 12 hours. I might have cried. She is growing up WAY too fast.
I am quite positive that there has never been a girl so excited to lose a tooth. She talked and talked and talked about it. And then talked some more. As soon as our company left last night, she rushed up to her room to change into p.j.'s, brushed her teeth and asked if she could go to bed. The tooth fairy made 4 attempts, but Rory kept waking up. Finally at 3:00 this morning (when I was still awake - ugh), the tooth fairy was successful. She must have been pretty sleep because she hasn't asked why I was in her room so often last night. ;)
We're headed out of town to spend Thanksgiving with my family in Illinois. Wish us luck. We haven't unearthed the portable DVD players yet so we're traveling old school - only books and art supplies to keep the kids busy. For 9 hours. One way.


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Authorities say a central Florida man is recovering after being attacked by a bear in his yard.
According to the Lake County Sheriff's Office, Josh Hennessey was treated at a hospital for minor injuries after the attack Thursday night outside his Sorrento mobile home.
Hennessey says he was sitting on his porch when he heard rustling in some nearby bushes. He says that when he went to investigate, the bear jumped out and attacked him. He says the bear bit him and tried to drag him into the street.
Hennessey was able to fend off the bear. He suffered cuts and scrapes to his elbow, knee and hand.
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State wildlife officials have set traps for the bear. Neighbors say they're aware of several bears in the area.
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In the last stop on his Chicago City Council farewell tour, recently retired 33rd Ward Ald. Dick Mell on Wednesday imparted the same advice a political veteran gave him after Mell took office in 1975.
As with many things at City Hall, it involved secrecy and the ever-watchful eye of the federal criminal justice system that sent dozens of politicians, including many aldermen and Mell's son-in-law, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, to prison during Mell's 38-year tenure.
The lesson was delivered by former state Rep. Joseph Fanta and, according to Mell, it went like this: "Remember, three people can keep a secret — as long as two are dead. ... Listen, when you're on the telephone, just remember the FBI is on the other line."
The "secret" portion of that line is a paraphrase of a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin, while the rest of it is vintage Chicago political wisdom. It also drew the biggest laugh during Mell's farewell speech.
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Mell is known for his sense of humor along with the Northwest Side political organization he commanded, as well as standing on his desk during the heated late-night debate over how to pick a new mayor after the unexpected death of Harold Washington.
It probably won't be the last word the public hears from the 75-year-old, old-school politician, however. He engineered the appointment of his daughter former state Rep. Deb Mell to his 33rd Ward council seat in July. Ex-Ald. Mell plans to become a lobbyist and maintain his position as Democratic ward committeeman.
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First of my seeds planted
I'm super-excited to say I planted my first few seeds to start my raised bed with. Hopefully my hubby will build my raised bed this weekend or before. I just can't wait to get started. I still need to buy quite a few supplies to help along the way.
My lovely Aunt gave me a head start by supplying me with seeds and pots, and even some books to read! Isn't she lovely?! I think I somehow agreed to crochet a scarf for her tho in return. lol. I don't mind tho =] She gave me Sweet peppers, chilli peppers, tomatoes in different varieties and runner beans to plant now. The romaine lettuce, iceberg lettuce and mixed salad leave will have to wait as they need to be planted where they are to be cropped. Thanks Aunty!
Anyways, back to planting. As you can tell by the picture, I have used recycled grape and tomato containers to create a makeshift propagator. I put several seeds in each pot. I shall pull out any that are really weedy looking. I just hope that it's right! I only placed one seed of the bigger runner beans. I used an egg box for these, as I want to try planting straight into the ground in the box. Anyone else tried this?
Now placed in a really sunny spot on my kitchen shelf. They should do really well before I re-home them in my garden. I shall be using mostly reclaimed building materials to make my raised bed. My only fear is that it's too shaded in my back garden and I'll get zip veggies! I get early morning and late evening sun. Any advice would be great!?


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Earlier this week we called out some of Hyundai's Super Bowl ads as being more of a miss than a hit. Maybe they were listening to us, because they have now put out an ad for the Hyundai Santa Fe that's actually pretty good.
We see a young boy who gets his football taken away by a group of bigger boys. Their leader taunts him and tells him to come back when he has a team. Perhaps previewing the boy's future career as a special forces operative or as MacGruber, he recruits a gang of the hardest kids in town, helped by his mother's seven-passenger Hyundai Santa Fe, for a game of tackle football.
Touch football is for the weak. Just like mercy.
This, Hyundai, is how you do a Super Bowl car ad — or any car ad, really — the right way. It tells a funny or compelling story while showing off the car's exterior and some of its features. It's all pretty spot on.


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Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
Calder Publications, 2003 - 118 pagina's
Tristan Tzara—poet, literary iconoclast, and catalyst—was the founder of the Dada movement that began in Zürich during World War I. His ideas were inspired by his contempt for the bourgeois values and traditional attitudes towards art that existed at the time. This volume contains the famous manifestos that first appeared between 1916 and 1921 that would become the basic texts upon which Dada was based. For Tzara, art was both deadly serious and a game. The playfulness of Dada is evident in the manifestos, both in Tzara's polemic—which often uses dadaist typography—as well as in the delightful doodles and drawings contributed by Francis Picabia. Also included are Tzara's Lampisteries, a series of articles that throw light on the various art forms contemporary to his own work. Post-war art had grown weary of the old certainties and the carnage they caused. Tzara was on the cutting edge at a time when art was becoming more subjective and abstract, and beginning to reject the reality of the mind for that of the senses.
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Sometimes reading food labels can seem a little mysterious. Ingredients like milk, eggs, and whole wheat pastry flour are all pretty self-explanatory, but what about the other things that are sometimes found listed as ingredients? You know, the ones that aren't readily recognizable as food or even that easy to pronounce. Today we'll look at three such items: Maltodextrin, Dextrin and Dextrose.
Maltodextrin is a food additive that is created by taking corn or potato starch, boiling it down and then using acids or enzymes to break the starch down even further, leaving only a white powder. This powder is then used in many packaged foods like granolas, chips, and cereals, often times as filler, but also to create texture. In the US and Canada, Maltodextrin is always made from corn or potatoes, but in other parts of the world, it is sometimes made from wheat or barley. That is something to definitely keep in mind if you eat a gluten free diet.
Like Maltodextrin, Dextrin is also a starch, but with a slightly different function. In the US, it's usually made from corn, potato, arrowroot, rice or tapioca but, also like maltodextrin, wheat is sometimes used elsewhere (so again, celiacs and those who don't eat gluten, beware)!
"White dextrin" is the additive that is used as a binder to hold ingredients together or as a thickening agent (think cornstarch to thicken sauces). It can also be found in batters, coatings, and glazes. "Yellow dextrin" is not used for food at all, but is a water-soluble glue, which is not appetizing at all (thank you, Wikipedia).
Finally, we have Dextrose. Dextrose is a simple sugar. It can occur naturally in some fruit and honey, but industrial-produced dextrose is usually made from cornstarch and…wait for it…is the main ingredient in corn syrup. Because dextrose browns when heated, it's added to a lot of mass-produced baked goods as well.
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What do you do when you are aching to hike in snow because there has been a lack of it all season, and there is snow falling but access to most trailheads is sketchy in a 2 wheel drive car and the weather man says the Peaks are going to be -10 degrees with the wind chill factor? You gather every piece of your cold weather apparel and take the Tram up, of course.
Ellen and I did just that. Our mission was to have a good time, whether it was attempting a summit, taking a stroll about Long Valley, or hanging out at the bar. Much to my surprise there were many other like-minded hikers in the boarding area.
Upon stepping outside the tram station we noted that it was a balmy 25 degrees and snowing lightly. We obtained our permit and set out for the Sid Davis route to approach San Jacinto Peak. We noodled around a bit with both our clothing and getting the route down. Once on track, we plodded up the mountain in nearly 10" of dry powder on a consolidated base. No snowshoes necessary.
Eventually we intersected the trail, which had been broken in by a good sized group of women. We hopped on it until we got to the Miller Saddle switchback. Here we diverted and took the saddle to the ridge to the Peak. Mind you, although the weather man said "snow showers until 10:00 and then mostly sunny with gusts up to 50 mph," it was cloudy and snowing much of the day. At the Peak it was breezy (but not 50 mph) and quite cold, so our visit was brief.
We descended to the hut where a gentleman, George, was either enjoying the solitude or was hoping for some company. Well, Ellen and I entered and we shared food, spirits, and stories. As we were about to leave and head back down a group of "younger" hikers entered. One girl was in tennis shoes and couldn't feel her feet. I was speaking to a girl in summer hiking boots and learned that they hadn't stopped at the Peak yet. Anyhow, we left them, a bit concerned about their footwear and the time of day.
We hiked down to the ranger station with George and turned in our permit. Upon reaching the tram station we had celebratory beverages and killed time by having a great meal while we waited for the crowd to subside in the boarding area. (The crowd just got bigger!)
All in all, it was one of the most beautiful days I have spent up there. Rime ice covered trees and brush, hiking in and out of the fog, and the beautiful silence of being in softly falling snow, and great company.
Thank you, Ellen, for a great day and could you please post my pictures? Still trying to figure that out.


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Yup that is a bit of a mouthful of a name. I had some over-ripe bananas and some extra zucchini that I hadn't got around to using. A little searching on pinterest (are we ready to start use "pinteresting"?) and I came across The First Mess, which is another brilliant food blog full of yummy veggie and vegan food. These brownies have me thinking of doing a vegan June…
I didn't have all the ingredients for the original so made a few changes. They are really moist and I am looking forward to my mid-morning snack every day this week.
Zucchini Banana Chocolate Muffin
Adapted from The First Mess
- 2 ripe bananas
- 1 cup oat milk
- 1/3 cup coconut oil (melted)
- 2 cup spelt flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 grated zucchini
- 1/2 cup chopped pistachio nuts
- Blend bananas, milk and coconut oil
- Combine dry ingredients
- Add wet to dry and stir in zucchini
- Put into greased muffin tin and cook on 180°C for about 20 minutes
Makes 12
p.s. I really need to start baking things aside from muffins so I can take prettier food pictures. It is the only reason for baking right?


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NEWMARKET -- Want to expand your horizons, make some new friends, and have a chance to enjoy new literature? The newly formed Books and Coffee book club at Newmarket Public Library could be just what you're looking for.
The first books being discussed are "The Glass House" or "Half Broke Horses" by Jeanette Walls (copies available at the library). The first club meeting, where we'll discuss future selections, will be Friday, Jan. 18 at 10:30 a.m.
Looking to expand your collections? Check out the next book sale, to be held Jan. 14 from 6 to 8 p.m. We've received many new good donations; and there will be a sale on paperback books. Parking is available behind the library and in the Elm Street section of the Mills parking lot.
The free movies continue, both family friendly and adult features. Check out the new website to confirm showings - http://newmarketlibrary.org/. Movies will be family friendly or for adults. Upcoming showings include: Jeff Bridges as a faded country musician who's forced to reassess his life while in the midst of a doomed romance (rated R, 112 minutes, Jan. 11 at 6:30 p.m.); a college freshman is persuaded to join her school's all girl singing group, she brings energy to the group and they take on the school's male singers in a competition (rated PG 13, 112 minutes, Jan. 18 at 6:30 p.m.); based on the book by Roald Dahl, George Clooney voices an animated fox who continuously raids the local farms, then helps his animal community survive the farmers' retaliation (rated PG, 87 minutes, Jan. 19 at 1 p.m.); a well known superhero, Peter Parker, finds a clue to help him understand his parents' disappearance, while putting him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner (rated PG 13, 136 minutes s, Jan. 25 at 6:30 p.m.); while settling his recently deceased father's estate, a man discovers he has a sister he never knew about (PG 13, 114 minutes, Feb. 1 at 6:30 p.m.); Hugh Grant stars as the animated Captain Pirate in a battle for the coveted Pirate of the Year award (rated PG, 88 minutes, Feb. 2, 1 p.m.).
Would you like to give back to the library you love? If you have some spare time, think about joining the Friends of the Newmarket Public Library. The next meeting will be February 7 at 7 p.m.
Or if the great outdoors is more your thing, check out the Newmarket Gardeners Club, meeting Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. Newcomers are welcome to both groups.
For the preschool set, story hour resumes on Tuesdays at 10:30, starting on Jan. 8.
Don't forget, the library also has passes to the Children's Museum of New Hampshire in Dover (http://www.childrens-museum.org/cmnh2010/).


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DURHAM — Coach Dick Umile's decision to juggle the lines for last Sunday's game at Maine served several purposes.
It jump-started an offense that had scored only one goal in the previous two games combined, it gave some of the younger forwards a chance to show what they can do, and it sent a message that no one's spot in the lineup is carved in stone.
Those factors added up to a 4-0 win over the Black Bears that salvaged two Hockey East points from a weekend that began with a 2-1, overtime loss at UMass last Friday.
"It was definitely a wake-up call for everybody," said captain Connor Hardowa. "We all noticed it. Nobody's guaranteed a spot in the lineup. You've got to work for it all week in practice."
With regulars Nick Sorkin and Jeff Silengo healthy scratches, the Wildcats dressed three freshman forwards against Maine.
"We're trying to play everybody," Umile said, "so we made a couple changes to keep everybody on their toes. ... If you don't have a good game somebody else might be in the lineup for the next game."
The next game is Saturday night (7) against Vermont at the Whittemore Center, and is one of only two home games the Wildcats have in November.
They'll try to build on their performance against Maine in which they scored twice in the first period to silence the Alfond Arena crowd.
"That's one of the things we wanted to do, jump on them early to take the crowd out of it," said junior defenseman Eric Knodel. "That's such a big influence for them. They get a lot of energy out of it."
UNH came out fast after being dominated in the second half of the third period against UMass, which scored a power-play goal in overtime to win it.
"They were hungrier than we were the last 10 minutes," Umile said. "We didn't deserve to win it. They were a desperate team."
After a slow start, Vermont fell into the same category. The Catamounts (1-2-2, 1-2-2 HE) were still looking for their first win last Saturday when they blanked Providence, 2-0.
By defeating Maine, the No. 9 Wildcats (5-1-1, 3-1-1 HE) responded well to their first and only loss of the season which wasn't always the case last year.
"That's one of the things we wanted to do this year a lot better than last year," Knodel said. "We don't want to have any of those long stretches where we lose a couple in a row. That would just kill a whole month of games. We want to make sure after a loss that we get right back on a winning streak."
Knodel did his part against Maine. His breakaway goal near the end of the first period against Maine gave the Wildcats a 2-0 lead after one.
Senior forward Austin Block scored twice for his team-leading fourth and fifth goals of the season and Greg Burke scored his second goal in three games.
"We amped up our game a bit and won battles we lost (last) Friday," Hardowa said.
Casey DeSmith made 42 saves, including 33 over the final two periods, for his second shutout in three games.
The Wildcats struggled on the road last season. They didn't win their first game away from the Whitt until after the first of the year.
They're 1-1-1 on the road so far this season.
"We've been looking for that road win since the season started," Hardowa said. "The big thing about the team's character this year is the one loss didn't hurt us like it might have last year."
Umile said the top two lines from the Maine game are likely to remain the same. Grayson Downing centered for Kevin Goumas and Block, and Burke was flanked by wings Dalton Speelman and John Henrion.
Those two units combined for three goals and two assists. Hardowa and defense partner Trevor van Riemsdyk each had two assists. Hardowa leads the team in assists and points with eight.
Although the Wildcats are used to playing two games in a weekend, there is an upside to having only one.
"You can put all of your focus into that one opponent," Hardowa said. "Hopefully it will be worth it with the one shot you get."
Wildcats focused on Vermont
DURHAM — Coach Dick Umile's decision to juggle the lines for last Sunday's game at Maine served several purposes.


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LANDOVER, Md. – Defending World Cup champions Spain took on El Salvador on Saturday, a matchup of opponents headed in distinctly different directions.
Spain took the pitch at Fedex Field just days away from departing for Brazil, where La Furia Roja will attempt to win an unprecedented fourth consecutive major tournament. They'd use the match to evaluate the fitness of several key pieces – including Atletico Madrid forward Diego Costa – ahead of their departure.
El Salvador failed to qualify for the World Cup and stepped onto the field less than a year after emerging from a match-fixing scandal that decimated their player pool; La Selecta would hope mainly for a respectable showing.
The result was predictable, yet entertaining – a 2-0 victory for Spain, who rode a David Villa brace to victory in front of a largely pro-Salvadoran crowd which provided warm support for the underdogs.
Spain wasted no time getting to work and could've taken the lead just three minutes in. Xabi Alonso played a long, looping ball to Costa, who was fouled at the edge of the area by El Salvador goalkeeper Henry Hernandez. But FC Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas skied the ensuing penalty kick over the crossbar, handing the Salvadorans an early reprieve.
El Salvador fell back for much of the half and did well enough to defend, rarely venturing into the attacking third or even beyond the center stripe. The Spaniards moved the ball with relative ease - cobbling together 400 passes in the opening 45 minutes and possessing the ball at will - but also struggled to find the opening goal.
Fifteen minutes into the second stanza, La Roja would pull ahead. Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos nodded a ball across the area to Costa; newly acquired NYCFC forward Villa, however, headed the ball off of Costa's foot and into the goal, giving the Spaniards a 1-0 lead, enough to secure the victory. Worn down by the Spanish attack, El Salvador never looked capable of equalizing.
The Spaniards put the game further out of reach in the 87th minute when Villa added his second tally, collecting a cross ten yards from goal, turning and stroking the ball past Hernandez with an impressive, instinctive finish.


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By Kathleen Finck
Many professionals, such as attorneys, CPAs and financial advisors, have a hard time bringing up the topic of charitable planning with their clients.
In order to provide some tools to help them offer a broader range of service to their clients, the San Antonio Area Foundation has developed a seminar on this topic.
"Charitable Conversations with your Clients: How, When and Why to have 'the Talk'" will be offered Feb. 20, 8:30-11 a.m. at the San Antonio Area Foundation, 303 Pearl Parkway, Suite 114, San Antonio, Texas 78215.
A panel of experts, including Peggy Walker, Laura McNutt, William M. Fisher and Frank Mullins, will lead a series of discussions that will include strategies on how to talk with clients about charitable giving and its benefits.
A sampling of some of the topics to be covered:
- "How charitable giving fits into tax/estate/business succession planning"
- "Challenges with certain types of charitable gifts"
- "Bringing other professional advisors to the table, including what type of advisors to include and when"
- "Helping clients understand their capacity to give, based on lifestyle, wealth transfer plans and economic consideration"
- "Learning questions that broaden and deepen the discussion"
The seminar offers two potential hours of CLE or CPE credits. Cost to participate is $50. Breakfast is included; participants also are invited to the Area Foundation's Annual Meeting luncheon on the same day.
For additional information and to register, please contact Kathleen Finck at 210-242-4744 or email@example.com
Kathleen Finck is Director of Gift Planning at the San Antonio Area Foundation.


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We've all been there. Whether you're down the K-Pop rabbit hole on YouTube or playing games at work, someone walks in and sees your screen, sees you doing something you shouldn't be doing, and the party's over. Or...is it?
Instructables have come up with this incredible mod that skins a LCD monitor and, with the help of some 3D glasses, lets only the wearer of those glasses see what's on the monitor.
There's instructions below. There will be fumes. But if you succeed, you will feel like a secret agent.
Privacy monitor hacked from an old LCD Monitor [Instructables, via PC Gamer]


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"Epic networking fail": Book salesman mistaken for child predator
The alert from Albemarle County Schools on Thursday, May 23, struck fear into the hearts of area parents: a man driving a white Chevy wagon had reportedly approached a child who'd just gotten off the school bus and was walking up the driveway towards his Keswick area home. If the reported incident had all the hallmarks of every parent's worst nightmare, it soon became apparent that things weren't quite as they first seemed.
According to the school system's "urgent safety message," blast emailed just after 1:30pm, less than an hour before many county students would be riding the buses home, the man "told the student he wanted to get to know the families in the area and asked what other houses on the street had children." News traveled fast among parents, who shared the information on their Facebook pages, and expressed concern that a predator could be targeting county kids.
Fortunately, the fear didn't last long as the man— now identified as a college student from Texas— stopped by the police station to explain the misunderstanding.
According to a police press release sent two hours after the school's alert, the man is a student representative for Southwestern Advantage, a 150-year-old Nashville, Tennessee-based company that hires college students and sends them to cities around the country where they sell the company's educational books and software. The man and three other Southwestern Advantage representatives have proper licensing to sell their products in Albemarle County, according to the police release.
The company website reveals its reps receive one week of formal training before being sent to their sales locations, and company spokesperson Trey Campbell says that training includes a course on ethics called "operating with integrity," which includes instruction on approaching families in a "delicate" way, but nothing that explicitly addresses how to avoid being perceived as a child predator.
According to Campbell, the employee learned he'd become the subject of suspicion when "he had someone follow him and take a photo of him in his car."
The employee "asked the gentleman [who'd taken the photo] if he wanted to see the products he was selling," says Campbell. "The gentleman declined and told him to go turn himself in."
Campbell says the Albemarle County incident is not the first time a Southwestern Advantage employee has been mistaken for a child predator.
"It's happened once or twice before in South Carolina," says Campbell.
One county parent sees a bright side to the episode.
"The kid did the right thing and told his parents, and the community did the right thing and got the information out," says Hodges Myers, father of four children in the County school system.
He also sees a learning experience for a young businessman who's marketing a product aimed at children.
"You gotta tell people what you're there for, and you have to speak to the adults in the house," says Myers. "Hopefully, in this young man's career, this will be his only epic networking fail."
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Nonetheless, any stranger who parks in my driveway and approaches my kids as they get off the bus might well suffer the consequences of my temporary insanity and/or reasonable action and/or castle doctrine. I'll let my lawyer figure it out and put the best argument before a jury of my peers.
To the traveling salesmen approaching unaccompanied kids: find a more dignified and less hazardous job.
Finally, let me wonder aloud and not particularly about these incidents: what does the public licensing procedure (mentioned in the article) involve? Do the licensing authorities do personal background checks? Does the license allow talking to unaccompanied minors? Does the license permit the solicitors to park in taxpayers' private driveways? What are the repercussions for bad actions?
Public license means they have a business license. You don't get a background check for most business licenses.
Granted there are some bad people in this world, but we are becoming a society that is afraid of everything.
Seems like this job would be good cover for potential child predators. I would not one a door-to-door salesman approaching my child in that manner. Completely inappropriate.
This company sells here every year. Each time they have come to my house they have been pushy and rude. They have asked that very question: where do other kids live?
Someone should look into this company.
If he shows up at my place then the last words he'll hear will be "release the hounds!"
Duck & cover !!!
Pretty sure this was an episode of 'The Andy Griffith Show'.
LocalView9, I completely agree with the second part of your post.
Everyone should practice this approach for dealing with door-to-door salespeople: "I'm not interested. Leave my property." And then close the door in their faces. People are too afraid of being "rude" and these salespeople prey on that. They'll try to give you a sob story but that's firstname.lastname@example.com. Don't let them turn their problems (i.e., desire to make a profit) into your problem (i.e., wasting time on your front porch listening to their spiel, spending your hard-earned $$ on something you don't really need, etc.). If you're friendly and polite, they'll take advantage of that.
How many of you folks hyperventilating about this even realize or care that Dyncorp, after having been caught running child kidnapping rings, is currently licensed by the governor to do business in the state of Virginia? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px1t1-a9uxk
Our apologies to the Albemarle County schools and community for the misunderstanding. We were sorry to read of the concerns. We appreciate the Albermarle Police Dept for issuing a statement clarifying the situation https://www.facebook.com/AlbemarleCountyPoliceDepartment/posts/267522766...
We are happy to help resolve any remaining concerns and answer questions that any members of the community may have by reaching out to us directly at 888-602-7867 or firstname.lastname@example.com. We have had students serving families in Albermarle County for generations, and we thank those involved for looking out for the well-being of your neighbors.
"Public license means they have a business license. You don't get a background check for most business licenses."
I'd like to know more.
From nothing more than the news report and the Albemarle County Police release linked above (i.e., I haven't scoured the County code), it would appear that our local government issues licenses to solicit.
So I ask:
1. Is a permit legally required for soliciting business door-to-door (or driveway-to-busstop, as in this case)?
2. What does the permit specifically allow? How does this compare to un-permitted soliciting salesmen (e.g., Girl Scouts cookies, lawn-mowing services, random guys in vans, and "gypsy"/Romani-pavers)?
3. What are the repercussions for getting caught acting outside of the permit?
4. Was this company found to be in violation of the permit?
5. For the company itself: what actions have you taken independent of government action to hold your offending contractors/employees accountable?
The name of our county is "Albemarle". Learn how to spell before you get into the educational book market. Just a piece of advice.
Somebody,.. Bazinga! Nice one sir or madam!
Southwestern: Thanks for posting to the news item forum and offering to listen. I had a very similar experience with one of your salesmen a year or so ago: Asking about me as a "single mom" and were there other families in the neighborhood, etc. I'm not nervous about this sort of stuff generally but it made me so uneasy that I, too, reported him to the Albemarle police.
This sort of thing couldn't repeat itself by accident. Your company must be telling these guys to ask that question. Since you didn't learn the first time, I hope you will train them differently in the future.
Whether or not they are child predators, it sounds like people should avoid them for other reasons. Look at this:
"How do you feel about a company that relies on prying information about your children from your neighbors without your consent?"
A rep came to my home in my Albemarle subdivision this morning and was really hard to get rid of despite me being completely clear that I was not interested. He certainly was mining me for every bit of info he could. I was disturbed and googled the company and that's where I found that info linked above.
Maybe Paul Tudor Jones has some words of wisdom on this subject...just as his masogynistic view of women on WallStreet.
@ Read the Hook: Where is the story regarding Paul Tudor Jones comments:
"May 10, 2013
Times Dispatch"
"University of Virginia benefactor's (PAUL TUDOR JONES II) comments on women spark controversy..."
Epic fail on the Hook's part. Where is your coverage of the UVA?
Symposium comments seen to denigrate women
Paul Tudor Jones's statement on controversial comments at U.-Va.
By Jenna Johnson,May 23, 2013
Paul Tudor Jones sent a statement to The Washington Post in reference to comments that he made at a U-Va. McIntire School of Commerce investment symposium April 26. When asked at the event why there are not more women high up in the trading world, Jones said that most women lose focus when they have children. This is the full statement he released to The Post on Thursday:
"As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.
Washington Post
May 23, 2013
"My off the cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.
Seems like the next generation will be even more spoiled, paranoid, and sheltered than their obnoxious yuppies parents were. This is what a nation in decline looks like folks. Thank god for immigration, it's the only thing that might save us.


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