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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium onion, diced (about 1 1/2 cups)
- 2 stalks celery, diced (about 1/2 cup)
- 3 medium poblano peppers (about 4 ounces each), seeded and white ribs removed, finely diced (about 1 1/2 cups)
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, more to taste
- 1 pound ground white meat turkey
- 2 (15.5-ounce) cans white beans such as cannelini, preferably low-sodium, drained and rinsed
- 4 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- 3/4 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 (15.5-ounce) can hominy, drained and rinsed
- Salt
- 1/4 cup nonfat plain Greek-style yogurt
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro leaves
- Lime wedges
Heat the oil in large pot or Dutch oven over moderate heat. Add the onion, celery, poblanos, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are soft, about 8 minutes. Add the garlic, cumin, coriander and cayenne and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
Add the ground turkey and cook, breaking up the meat with a spoon, until the meat is no longer pink about 2 minutes. Add the white beans, broth and oregano. Cook, partially covered, stirring occasionally, for 25 minutes.
Add the hominy and salt and more cayenne pepper, to taste, and continue cooking, partially covered, 10 minutes longer. Ladle into individual bowls and top each serving with 1 tablespoon of yogurt and 1 1/2 teaspoons of cilantro. Garnish with a lime wedge.
Calories 320; Total Fat 6 g; (Sat Fat 0.5 g, Mono Fat 2 g, Poly Fat 1 g) ; Protein 31 g; Carb 37 g; Fiber 9 g; Cholesterol 30 mg; Sodium 310 mg
Excellent source of: Protein, Fiber, Thiamin, Vitamin C, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus
Good source of: Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin K, Potassium, Zinc


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Radiation Treatment Schedule
For external radiation to the breast and lymph node areas, you will receive treatment once a day, 5 days a week, for 5 to 7 weeks. Internal, or partial-breast radiation, is usually given twice a day for 1 week. External partial-breast radiation, when used, is given twice a day for 1 week. For treatment to areas where the cancer has spread, daily treatments for 2 to 3 weeks are typical.
Scheduling can be one of the challenges of radiation treatment, but treatment centers try to help you keep to your normal day-to-day routine during radiation therapy. Appointments are generally short — although there are individual differences, the daily treatment process usually takes between 15 and 30 minutes.
The radiation staff will try to give you a daily appointment time that is as convenient as possible for you. Most treatment centers open by 7:30 or 8 a.m. and stay open until the end of the workday, Monday through Friday. Some centers provide earlier or later hours, but you may need to ask.
Since your doctor worked out most of the technical considerations of your therapy during the planning stage, your treatment sessions should run quite smoothly. Once a week you might have a longer appointment so your doctor and nurse can talk with you, examine you, and make various recommendations to ease your way through the process. Each week, X-rays of the treatment field are taken to verify that everything is going properly. Your blood counts might be checked in some situations.
To give you some time off during therapy and to allow your healthy tissue time to recover, treatment centers are not open on weekends. Most doctors try to start the first treatment by Wednesday to make sure you get at least 3 doses in the first week.
Why does a course of radiation take so long?
Radiation works best when cells are growing and making new cells. Giving the treatments over time maximizes the chances that the radiation will hit cancer cells when they're growing.
Additionally, getting radiation in small daily amounts (fractions of the total prescribed amount) helps protect your normal cells. Because you receive many small doses of radiation, rather than a few large ones, your healthy cells in the area being treated suffer less damage and have more time to repair themselves.
Radiation therapy is most effective when it is continuous and a full course is completed. To get the full benefit of radiation therapy, it's important for you to keep all of your scheduled appointments. If you have a significant skin reaction, your doctor might suggest a few days off from treatment. Also, if there is an emergency or you are unable to make a treatment, it's OK to miss a session. In these cases, missed sessions will be added to the end of treatment.
Special schedule requests
Keeping to a 5-day-a-week schedule of appointments for radiation can become a burden, especially during holidays and vacation time. One way to ease the demands of this routine is to ask your treatment center to schedule sessions early on Fridays and late on Mondays. These extra hours give you an extended weekend and might make the rigors of treatment more bearable. Many treatment centers are willing to be flexible, especially if it helps you keep each scheduled appointment.
You might have a vacation planned that seems to conflict with the start or completion of treatment. Work with your doctor to coordinate the treatment schedule with your vacation.
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"Normal might not feel so normal after the diagnosis of breast cancer turns your life upside down! But the members of your radiation team will work with you to try to minimize the disruption caused by this 5- to 7-week treatment process."
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We just got the official Audi press release for the Frankfurt Auto Show, which like all the automakers pre-show releases reads like they're teasing us with a tease of the press conference. Meaning that they're cryptic and although in this case we're told Audi's world premiering two new — somethings — they're not telling us what they are. Now, we know one of them's the new Audi A4, which we've already seen revealed on the interwebs. But what's the other one? We're hearing from a source who heard it from a source at Audi of America that it'll be the new Audi RS6 that's rumored to be running with 600 horses. We guess we'll find out in person on Tuesday, September 11th. You on the other hand, will be able to find out by keeping your peepers wide open here.
Audi press conference with two world premieres
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"See what's driving tomorrow": the 62nd International Motor Show in Frankfurt (IAA) gives an insight into the automotive world of the future. Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management at AUDI AG, will present two models making their world debut and many more innovations besides during the Audi press conference at the IAA: Audi Press Conference, Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 12.00 midday, Audi stand, Hall 3, Frankfurt exhibition grounds.
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Ellen DeGeneres' holiday cheer is going to the dogs.
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Looking for something celebratory?
This is our take on the iconic French dish, Boeuf Bourguignon, popularized in America by Julia Child. Less of a stew and more of an event, classic beef bourguignon is beef stewed with aromatic vegetables, herbs and spices which are then strained off, reduced and finished with a butter-flour mixture to create a densely flavored, dark and silky sauce.
Yes the sauce is a bit fussy, but truly it is worth it. We made this for the family the other day and not a drop was left.
(You can of course skip all the sauce straining fussiness and prepare this as a traditional stew, but then it would just be a lovely stew, not the dish everyone expects.)
We've included dried porcini mushrooms in this dish. They're called cepes in France, and are frequently used in French stews. Dried porcini are available in many supermarkets, but don't worry if you can't find them. For this they're optional and you'll still have a fabulous dish without them.
As for the wine, if you can find it, use a Pinot Noir. It is the dominant wine used in Burgundy, France, and it is what gives this dish its name. Obviously you can use a real French Burgundy wine, but they tend to be far more expensive than a California Pinot Noir. Look for a bottle you'd happily drink.
Finally, the thing that usually stops me from making beef bourguignon is the pearl onions. Yes, blanching and peeling them is simply a lot of work. However, salvation may be at hand. According to my sources you can get frozen pearl onions already blanched and peeled. Apparently Trader Joe's carries them. If you can't find them, the following instructions include steps for preparing the onions.
Beef Bourguignon Recipe
We are using shiitake mushrooms for the fresh mushrooms in this recipe, even though they are not traditionally used for this dish, because they are just so meaty and good. Feel free to use any fresh mushroom you'd like.
If you don't have access to salt pork, you can use bacon, but simmer it first for 8 minutes in water, then drain and rinse, to remove its smokiness. A word on salt. Salt pork is salty. Be sparing with salt as you make this dish until the end, when you can adjust. Commercial beef stock is also salty, so you very well may have enough salt for the dish just from these two sources.
- 6-8 ounces salt pork, cut into 1/2 inch chunks
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
- 4 pounds trimmed beef chuck, cut into 2-inch cubes, patted dry with paper towels
- Salt
- 10-12 shallots, chopped, about 2 cups
- 2 large, peeled carrots, 1 chopped, 1 cut into 2-inch chunks
- 4-5 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 ounce of dried porcini mushrooms (optional)
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1/2 cup brandy, plus 2 tablespoons
- 1 bottle Pinot Noir, or other red wine
- Beef Stock (low sodium), at least 1 cup, quite easily more
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme
- 4 whole cloves
- 24 pearl onions, fresh or frozen
- 1 pound fresh shiitake, cremini or button mushrooms
- Beurre manie: 3 tablespoons flour blended with 2 tablespoons butter
1 Rehydrate dried porcini mushrooms: If you are using the dried porcini mushrooms, pour 1 cup of boiling water over the them and allow them to rehydrate for 30 minutes. Remove the mushrooms and chop coarsely. Pour the soaking water through a paper towel (to remove any dirt or debris) into a bowl and set aside.
2 Cook the salt pork: In a large sauté pan, pour enough water to cover the bottom by about 1/8 inch. Over medium heat, cook the salt pork in the pan until the water evaporates, stirring occasionally.
Once the water is gone, reduce the heat to medium-low, and continue to cook the salt pork until much of the fat has rendered out of it. Add a tablespoon of butter and continue to cook the salt pork until the pieces are browned and crispy.
Use a slotted spoon to remove the salt pork pieces to a large Dutch oven or other large, thick-bottomed, lidded pot.
3 Brown the beef: Increase the heat to medium-high. Working in batches so that you do not crowd the pan, brown the beef.
Leaving space around each piece of sizzling meat ensures that it browns and does not steam. Don't move the pieces of beef in the pan until they get a good sear, then turn them so they can get browned on another side.
Take your time. This will take 15-25 minutes, depending on how large a sauté pan you have.
Once browned, remove the beef from the sauté pan and place in the Dutch oven with the salt pork.
4 Cook the shallots, carrot, chopped porcini, then add garlic and tomato paste: When all the beef has browned and removed from the pan, add the shallots, the one chopped carrot, and the chopped porcini mushrooms if using.
Stir in the pot to remove any browned, stuck-on bits in the pan. Cook for 2-3 minutes, then add the garlic and the tomato paste. Cook another 2-3 minutes, stirring frequently.
5 Add brandy, mushroom soaking water: Add the brandy and stir to combine. Boil down by half, then add the strained mushroom soaking water (if using).
Scrape any remaining browned bits off the bottom of the sauté pan and pour the contents of the pan into the Dutch oven.
6 Simmer beef with wine, stock, herbs: To the Dutch oven add the bottle of wine and enough beef stock to almost cover the beef; the beef pieces should be barely poking up out of the liquid. Add the parsley, bay leaves, thyme and cloves. Cover and bring to a bare simmer for 1 hour.
7 Add carrot: After 1 hour, add the second carrot, peeled and cut into chunks of 1-2 inches. Continue cooking for another hour, or until the beef is tender.
8 Prep the mushrooms and onions: While the stew is cooking, trim the tough stems off the shiitake, cremini, or button mushrooms and slice into 2-3 large pieces; small mushrooms leave whole.
Prepare the pearl onions. Boil them in their skins for 4-5 minutes. Drain and submerge in a bowl of ice water. Slice the tips and root ends off the onions and slip off the outer skins.
9 Start on the sauce: When the beef is tender, use tongs to remove all the beef and the chunks of carrots; set aside in a bowl. Strain the contents of the Dutch oven through a fine-meshed sieve set over a medium pot. This will be the sauce.
Boil the sauce down, tasting frequently. If it begins to taste too salty, turn off the heat. Otherwise, boil down until you have about 3 cups. Turn off the heat.
10 Cook mushrooms and onions: Heat a large sauté pan over high heat and add the mushrooms. Dry sauté the mushrooms over high heat, shaking the pan and stirring often, until they release their water, about 4-5 minutes.
Add the pearl onions and 3 tablespoons butter and toss to combine. Sprinkle salt over the onions and mushrooms. Sauté until the onions begin to brown. Remove from heat.
11 Finish the sauce: Returning to the sauce, reduce the heat to medium and whisk in the beurre manie. Whisk in a third of the paste, wait for it to incorporate into the sauce, then add another third of the beurre manie, and so on. Do not let this boil, but allow it to simmer very gently for 2-3 minutes.
Stir in the remaining 2 tablespoons of brandy. Taste for salt and add some if needed.
12 Serve: To serve, coat the beef, carrots, mushrooms and pearl onions with the sauce and serve with potatoes, egg noodles or lots of crusty bread.
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We're just around the corner from Chicago, so we're thrilled to hear that The Harold Washington Library Center is giving free access to its Innovation Lab. The lab has three Makerbot 3-D printers, laser CNCs and even a milling machine.
This is a great opportunity for makers, hackers, teachers, students and, well, everyone. We truly believe that open access to this kind of technology will enable and inspire makers to build more and more amazing things. The future is looking bright, better print up some sunglasses!


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Sunday Brunch: Bacon-Wrapped Toads in a Leek-Filled Hole Recipe
This traditional British dish is normally served with brown onion gravy, but a runny fried egg on top does far better at breakfast. Wrapping the case-less sausage in bacon and then browning the leeks provides a delicious fatty base for the batter to cook in, and helps to get the ideal puffiness that makes this dish great.
Although some may think the fried egg is optional, I recommend going the extra step. The runny yolk sinks into the nooks and crannies made by the batter puffing and add a very pleasant note to the dish as a whole. Serve this with bitter amber ale.
- Yield:4
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:60 minutes
- 1 leek, washed and finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 5 sausages
- 5 strips thick cut bacon
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cups milk
- 2/3 cups water
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- dash of Worcestershire
- 1 cup flour
- 4 eggs (optional)
Preheat oven to 425°. Rub oil into bottom and sides of baking dish, and scatter finely chopped leeks on top. Remove casing from sausage by slitting them lengthwise to maintain their shape and wrap each sausage in one slice of bacon. Arrange on top of leeks and bake until bacon and sausage begin to brown, about 20 minutes.
Meanwhile beat eggs then add milk, water, mustard and Worcestershire. Add flour beating until well combined and no lumps of flour remain.
When sausages are ready pour batter over sausage and place back in oven until well browned and puffy about 25-35 minutes, serve immediately topped with optional fried eggs.
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Childhood and adolescence are often marked by periods of emotion turmoil, including moodiness and irritability, so it's not always easy to tell when children are experiencing serious depression that requires professional help. But according to Dr. Aleta Angelosante, a child and adolescent therapist at the New York University Child Study Center, there are signs that parents should take seriously.
Dr. Angelosante specializes in the evaluation and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders and depression in children, adolescents and young adults. She is also an associate research scientist at the Center's Anita Saltz Institute for Anxiety and Mood Disorders in New York City. When kids are overwhelmingly sad or irritable, change their sleep or eating habits, or withdraw socially on an ongoing basis, she says, it's cause for concern.
How Does Depression Look in Children and Adolescents?
Dr. Angelosante:
Depression affects about 2 percent of kids prior to puberty and about 5 to 8 percent of adolescents. Prior to puberty, the rates are about equal. But after puberty, girls are two times more likely than boys to be diagnosed with depression.
Depression is a disorder marked by considerable sadness. You will often see kids complaining of being incredibly bored. They just don't have fun anymore. Nothing seems fun. The things that they used to find fun suddenly aren't fun for them. They just don't get enjoyment out of things the way they used to. You may also see changes in their sleep, either a significant increase or a decrease in sleep, where suddenly they are having trouble with insomnia; and changes in their appetite, where they are either eating excessively or perhaps very little, and associated with the changes in appetite are some changes in weight gain or loss as well. All kids have a bad day, a bad couple of days, but for it to really be a depression you see this going on chronically, for a good two weeks or so. And also there needs to be a change for a particular adolescent that's different from their typical mood.
A lot of people who are depressed in adulthood will link that back to being depressed sometime in adolescence. It's an onset period for a lot of people.
Is Depression Different in Children Than Adults?
Dr. Angelosante:
It certainly can look different. So when you think about an adult who is depressed, you think about this overwhelming sense of sadness. And while for many kids that is there, there can also be a real increase in irritability. They just seem irritable and moody and cranky, for lack of a better word. If parents are seeing that, and it's chronic and a change from the child's typical mood, then that can be a sign of depression, which is why it sometimes goes overlooked. Parents are looking for sadness. They are looking for their kid to be crying all day, and it might not be that. It might look more like irritability.
Anxiety is often linked to depression. However, usually anxiety happens first. If a child is going to have both, typically they will develop anxiety, perhaps some sort of fear, that's interfering in their life. Then the depression can often result once they recognize that their anxiety is different or makes them different from other people, or maybe their anxiety is keeping them from doing things they want to be doing like playing soccer with their friends or trying out for the school play. Then they may become depressed because of the ways that the anxiety is interfering in their life.
If you are seeing a kid who's complaining of a lot of physical ailments, that can also be a sign. It can also be a sign that they are not wanting to do things; they don't feel like they have the energy, let's say, to go to soccer or to go to their piano lessons or to go to school. Suddenly, you're hearing a lot about stomachaches and headaches because really what they want to do is lie in bed, and that's part of the tiredness or excessive sleeping that you might see with depression.
We all know that things that might seem minor on a day that we are feeling good will seem much more extreme to us on a day that we are not feeling so well. So they might be just a little bit more sensitive to those things. Or if it were a day that they weren't feeling quite so down, they might feel enough energy to power through and not give in to it.
Is It Typical Teenage Moodiness or Depression?
Dr. Angelosante:
If parents are seeing increased irritability, a lot of withdrawal, suddenly not joining things that they used to join or not going to practices for their games, or after school activities, not hanging out with friends as much, spending a lot of time alone or sleeping, and certainly if you are seeing increased sadness, those are things to watch for.
A lot of kids when they are feeling poorly don't know what to do, and some kids will turn to alcohol or drugs as a way of self medicating. So they found this way that makes them feel better even if it's just for the short term, or they may start experimenting or using substances in order to help feel better.
A lot of it is looking for extremes, looking for it to be significantly different than what they are seeing in their child's friends or their nieces and nephews and friends of their kids, to look for something that's drastically different than what they are used to in their child, and again to look for that length of time.
So yeah, a bad day, a bad couple of days, that's pretty typical for teenagers. But if it's going on and on, and you are not seeing them able to lift themselves out of this down mood, then that's when you want to be concerned.
Is It Bipolar Disorder or Depression?
Dr. Angelosante:
Bipolar disorder is where you are seeing both extremes. So in a classic bipolar, you will have a child or an adolescent who will go through periods of feeling depressed, and then they might go through periods of being status quo, and then they will go through periods where they have what we call a manic episode.
A manic episode really looks very, very different. Suddenly they are very, very happy, like it's their birthday and Christmas and Fourth of July all wrapped into one. I mean, they are just excited and maybe much more active, much more productive. Suddenly they are starting all sorts of projects and doing all sorts of things, and they may not feel the need to sleep. Your teenager who's sleeping eight to nine hours a night suddenly is thriving on three and doesn't seem tired. They seem just really revved up. Their speech might speed up so that it seems like their thoughts are going so quickly that they have to talk really quickly in order to get all of the thoughts out. That's what a true manic episode looks like in adolescents.
The jury is still out on what that looks like in younger kids. There is some thought that problems with regulating emotion in terms of having severe temper tantrums or acting out in different ways may be linked to bipolar disorder, but we just don't know yet if we can really call it that at that age.
It's important to distinguish between the two because there are differences in terms of treatment, particularly with psychopharmacology. There are differences in the types of treatment that you might provide for a kid who is depressed and a kid who has a bipolar disorder, but that's something that a physician can work out.
Does Early Trauma or Stress Lead to Depression?
Dr. Angelosante:
In the right person, those things could certainly cause depression. We really think of depression and most psychological disorders as being linked to genetics as well as environmental factors. And so while one person may experience something awful and be able to get through it and not have a depressive reaction, a different person may experience the same event and develop depression. And some of that does seem to be linked to our hardwiring and our genetics as well as what other supports we have.
If there is the death of a parent, for example, but we have a lot of other supportive people in our life who are helping us, then that bodes certainly better than if there is the death of a parent who was the major source of support for this young person. So there are a variety of things that could trigger it. It's all about who the person is before that event happens as well.
Why Does Depression Affect More Girls Than Boys?
Dr. Angelosante:
We don't know if the difference is because of things going on in this society and life for teenage girls or if it has something more to do with genetics and biology. But there's certainly a lot going on with adolescent girls in terms of cliques forming, and girls can be very tough on one another. There is a term called relational aggression, where teenage girls aren't getting into fist fights the way teenage boys might be, but they are aggressive to one another in other ways, such as rumor spreading or isolating each other, or picking someone who, that week, is going to be the person that no one talks to. That's much more common in adolescent girls than it is in adolescent boys. And you can see how that could really take a toll on girls' emotional states, but again we don't know for sure what the link is between adolescent girls developing depression more than boys.
What Parents Can Do If They Suspect Depression in Their Child
Dr. Angelosante:
I think it's really important to try to talk to the teenager or the child. I think people always assume that teenagers are going to be prickly, and they are going to say, 'I don't want to talk to you, and there is nothing wrong with me, I'm fine.' In fact, a lot of these kids are hoping that someone will notice how awful they feel, that they really want somebody to notice and talk to them about it and hear their side of things. And so trying to talk to them and find out what's going on can really be a first step.
The next step then is to see if they can find somebody that they are willing to talk to. If they are not willing to talk to the parent or the teacher, they might be more willing to talk to a guidance counselor, they might be even more willing to talk to the school therapist, and they might be more willing to talk to a psychologist. So that's another step.
Depression tends to be something that's fairly chronic if untreated. Untreated depression will often go in waves. Even without treatment it might get better for a while and then come back again and then get better a while and then come back again. The idea of treatment is to help them have the skills so that if it does start to come back, they know what to do and they can keep it from coming back fully. But generally kids and adolescents don't tend to outgrow this without treatment.
I think parents place a lot of blame on themselves, and I think it's really important that parents know that it is really a mix of genetics and environment. And when parents hear genetics, they think, 'Well, it's my fault, it's my genes,' but it's definitely both.
Treating Depression in Children: Talk Therapy and Medication
Dr. Angelosante:
There are basically two main arms for treatment. One would be medication, and there are a variety of medications that psychiatrists will prescribe to help kids and adolescents with depression. And then the other is psychotherapy or talk therapy with a psychologist or a social worker. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a particular mode that has shown a lot of promise in treating depression in kids and adolescents.
I think there is a lot of evidence that together is optimal because the medication is taking care of the chemical side of things, and the therapy is teaching the kids and adolescents skills for how to deal with their depression and how to deal with feeling down.
Some parents are wary of medication and say, 'Can I try just the therapy first and if it's not working then start with medication?' Others might say,'I really want something that's going to work fast, and the medicine is going to work faster. Can I start the medicine, and then we will see if there are still some lingering symptoms and maybe start therapy?' That's another route.
Heather Stark, HealthTalk host:
Is there any special concern about giving anti-depressants to children or adolescents?
Dr. Angelosante:
There are. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has issued a black box warning which basically indicated that in some studies there was a slight increase in suicidal ideation, meaning thoughts of suicide, thoughts of, 'I wish I were dead, or I wish I weren't here.' But they are very safe medications as long as everybody is aware that there's a small possibility that a child might have some more of those types of thoughts. If everybody is open about that, then the child knows if they are having those thoughts that they need to tell their parents, and their psychiatrist. But those are the only known potential risk factors of having kids on these medications. In general, the medications are very safe and can be incredibly helpful. A lot of psychiatrists want to see the patient doing well, be symptom-free or fairly symptom-free for six months or more, and then start to wean them off the medication.
These kids are not feeling well, and they really want to feel better, they really want help, and they want to know what they can do. So a mode like cognitive behavior therapy, where you are teaching them skills and helping them learn how to manage their moods better, the kids really respond to. The skills that we are teaching them now are skills that they can use to help manage their moods for the rest of their lives, and kids can really grasp onto that.
Substance Abuse and Suicide Risk in Untreated Childhood Depression
Dr. Angelosante:
The risk for substance use and abuse - alcohol and illicit drugs - are really high in kids who are depressed. So you want to watch that because they may - if their depression is untreated - try to look for something else that's going to make them feel better, and they might turn to alcohol and drugs. Also, depression is a chronic disorder. And if you have an episode of depression, you are very likely to have another one and another one and another one unless you get some sort of help. So the ongoing nature of depression also is a risk factor.
There are risks for suicide. So, for example, girls are more likely to attempt [suicide]. Boys are more likely to actually have a completed suicide. And most people who commit suicide or attempt suicide are depressed. They just feel that life is not worth living, and they are never going to feel better and so what's the point of going on?
A lot of people who attempt suicide are usually under the influence of some sort of substance, whether it's alcohol or drugs. Basically what happens is you are on a substance, and you are feeling lousy, and now your impulse control is down because of the substances, and you are more likely to act on an impulse, such as a suicidal impulse, in those situations.
Teenagers might drop hints, or they may say things like, 'I just wish I were never born. I wish I could die. I wish I could go to sleep and never wake up. I just don't want to be here anymore.' And so you really want to take those things seriously when you hear them.
There are some more classic signs in terms of giving away prized possessions, settling affairs, maybe handing in that one last project early because they are planning on hurting themselves.
You want to make sure that your child knows that you are taking it seriously, that those aren't phrases to be used lightly or to be thrown around but those are important and meaningful things to say. You want to talk to them about it. You don't want to treat it like it's just nothing. You want to make sure that everybody who is working with that child knows that this is something to be looking out for.
Tips for Parents: How to Support Your Child During Treatment for Depression
Dr. Angelosante:
I think that parents want to really validate how their children are feeling but also push a little bit, not a lot. You want to validate that they are feeling lousy. You want to say that you understand or ask them questions about it. You want to ask them to give you more examples and to talk to them about it.
But you also want to try to keep them active. One of the things that can really help these kids is doing things. Parents can also help by compassionate pushing. Try to set small goals that can help the teenagers feel a sense of accomplishment, that can help them feel more connected to people during the day and increase social activities. Those are the things that are going to get you the most bang for your buck. Because if they can go out and have a good time, even if it's just for half an hour to go grab an ice cream cone with their friends, it's going to help.
I think that it's important to know your kids, to really listen to what they are saying, and listen to some of the things that they may not be saying but are saying with their actions. Parents are afraid that if they bring something up or they ask about it, they are going to make it happen. It's going to put that idea in their head. And that's not going to happen. It's really more important that you keep the lines of communication open than anything else.
More Information About Child and Adolescent Depression
If you'd like to hear Dr. Angelosante's entire interview with Heather Stark, or her answers to audience questions about depression in children, listen to the replay of Recognizing the Pain of Child and Adolescent Depression.
For more information about depression, check out these HealthTalk resources:


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1671 - 1713
Historical Period:
The 18th Century
Anthony Ashley Cooper, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713) was the grandson of a founder and leader of the English Whigs, and was tutored by John Locke. Shaftesbury rote one of the most intellectually influential works in English of the eighteenth century, the Characteristicks. Widely regarded as the first exponent of the view that ethics derives from reason and "sentiment," Shaftesbury criticizes not only Locke but, especially, Hobbes for the dim view that "the state of nature" is "a war of all against all." To the contrary, Shaftesbury argued that human nature responds most fully to representations of the good, the true, and the beautiful, and that human beings naturally desire society.
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- 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, cut into 1/2' cubes
- 1/4 cup vegetable shortening or lard
- 4 cups all-purpose flour plus more
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 3/4 cups buttermilk
Fried Chicken
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill
- 3 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt, divided
- 1 3/4 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper, divided
- Large pinch of cayenne pepper
- 10 small boneless, skin-on chicken thighs
- Vegetable oil (for frying)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons peanut oil
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 10 slices cheddar (optional)
- Sausage Gravy (optional, click for recipe)
Recipe Preparation
Preheat oven to 400°. Place butter and shortening in freezer for 10 minutes.
Blend 4 cups flour and next 5 ingredients in a food processor. Add butter and shortening. Pulse mixture until it resembles coarse meal, 20–25 pulses. Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Gradually add buttermilk while tossing mixture with a fork (mixture will not be completely incorporated). Knead in bowl with lightly floured hands just until dough forms, about 3 turns.
Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface. Pat out dough until 1" thick. Lift 1 side and fold it over. Gently repeat 5 more times. Roll dough to 3/4"-thick round. Using a 3" biscuit cutter, cut biscuits from dough. Gather scraps and repeat patting out and cutting biscuits for a total of 10 biscuits.
Place biscuits on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, spaced 1"–2" apart. Bake until golden brown and a tester inserted horizontally comes out clean, 12–15 minutes. Transfer biscuits to a wire rack; let cool slightly. Serve warm or at room temperature. DO AHEAD Can be made 8 hours ahead.
Let cool completely. Store airtight at room temperature. Rewarm before serving.
Fried Chicken
Whisk buttermilk, dill, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon pepper, and cayenne in a large bowl. Add chicken; turn to coat. Cover; chill at least 3 hours or overnight.
Pour vegetable oil in a large pot to a depth of 2". Attach a deep-fry thermometer to side of pot. Heat oil over medium heat to 350°.
Whisk 1 1/4 cups water with remaining 2 teaspoons salt, remaining 3/4 teaspoon pepper, flour, and next 6 ingredients in a large bowl. Drain chicken well; pat dry with paper towels. Working in batches, dip chicken into batter. Fry chicken, turning occasionally, until skin is crispy and golden brown and chicken is just cooked through, 9–12 minutes per batch. Drain chicken on paper towels.
Split biscuits in half; place 1 bottom half on each plate. Top each with a cheese slice, if desired, then a chicken thigh. Spoon Sausage Gravy over chicken, if desired. Place biscuit top over.


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We produce a lot of posts every month. Most of them disappear quickly. Some of them don't. Here are the 10 most popular posts from June, starting with No. 10.
Wayne Ellington was drafted late in the first round by the Timberwolves — along with every other player in the NBA Draft — but most will remember his historic night for the time they met his girlfriend. She goes to Drexel and wanted him to stay local, but he's blessed to be going to Minnesota. Tell that to Ricky Rubio.
Joe Morgan decides to tell a story on Sunday Night Baseball. (Stop me if you've heard this before. OK, I'll continue anyway.) It was an utterly harmless story, until it proved to be an "utter crock." (Stop me if you've heard this before. OK, I'll stop.)
Take it away, Dash: "Let's say you love the Chicago Bears. (Relax....it's just an example.) And let's say you don't mind having a few dozen tattoos on your body. That doesn't logically follow that you need 92 Bears autographs permanently inked in your skin."
Simona Halep decides to get a breast reduction — but that was before Alena Schurkova, a professional volleyball player with 32Es, weighed in. "If she does this it sends out the message that girls with big boobs can't play sports and that is just wrong," Schurkova said. Halep hasn't yet reconsidered.
Fact: Chris Forcier is leaving UCLA. Fact: He needs a better press team than his family. Fact: Writing "fact" lots of times in a press release does not strengthen your argument.
Tucker Max and an unnamed ESPN columnist walk into a bar... no, there's no punch line.
Artie Lange was who we thought he was! A much more thoughtful, rational expression of the same sentiment, at least.
"YouTube is filled with grainy cellphone videos of drunken bleacher brawls, but few capture the drama, action, suspense, and heartbreaking childhood trauma of this donnybrook from the Yankees-Marlins series. It's like the Citizen Kane of stadium fan fight clips." Getcher popcorn ready.
What do you do when you win the Stanley Cup and your team's owner is Mario Lemieux? You go to Sewickley and swim with the Cup, natch.
You already know what happened, but it's worth another watch, if only to make Lucky Pierre a permanent phrase in the cultural zeitgeist.


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Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, is highlighted in this image. The largest city in Denmark, Copenhagen is located on the eastern side of the island of Zealand (left) and on the island of Amager (right). The island visible east of Amager is Saltholm, translated as 'Salt Islet'. The white structure southwest of Saltholm is the artificial island of Peberholm, translated as 'Pepper Islet'. Peberholm was created as part of the Øresund Bridge, a combined two-track rail and four-lane road bridge-tunnel across the Øresund Strait that connects Copenhagen with the Swedish city of Malmö (not visible). Peberholm serves as a crossover point between the bridge, completed in 2000, and the 4050-m long Drogden Tunnel. Copenhagen Airport is visible as an L-shaped, white structure on the eastern side of Amager.
SPOT-4 acquired this image in 2004. SPOT-4 is supported by ESA as a 'Third Party Mission', which means ESA utilises its multi-mission European ground infrastructure and expertise to acquire, process and distribute data from the satellite to its wide user community.


text: Josh is a College Football enthusiast from sunny Southern California. He has written for several self-operated prep sports blogs, as well as multiple SB Nation sites. In High School, Josh played football for four years, and helped create and operate the team's no-huddle system. Most of Josh's football knowledge branches from watching College Football his entire life, and is backed up by his first hand experience in both option and spread offenses. Above all, though, he is a proud student at the University of Oregon.


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By Curtis Young, Ohio State University Extension
After the long, stinking hot, droughty summer, expectations for poor to seriously poor yields are running high. Thus, protecting every bushel that gets harvested should also be high on everyone's priority list. Protecting grain quality and ultimately the economic value of the grain begins long before the first acre is ever harvested. This pre-harvest activity is to prepare grain harvesting, handling and storage equipment and structures for the soon to be harvested corn and soybeans.
All pieces of equipment used in harvesting the grain should be cleaned, inspected, and repaired several weeks prior to the beginning of the harvest season. And the harvest season is rushing at us at an accelerated pace this year. Soybean fields are changing colors and corn kernels are dented and rapidly drying down even though in some fields the stalks and leaves are still fully green. Like in real estate where the mantra is Location! Location! Location!, the mantra in grain harvesting and handling should be Sanitation! Sanitation! Sanitation! Starting with thorough cleaning of every piece of equipment through which or in which grain will be passed or hauled. Remove all traces of old grain from combines, combine heads, truck beds, grain carts, augers, lift buckets, grain pits, grain driers, bins and any other equipment used for harvesting, transporting, and handling grain. Even small amounts of moldy and/or insect-infested grain left in equipment can contaminate a bin of new grain.
Since grain is usually in contact with grain bins for the greatest length of time, extra attention should be paid to the sanitation of these structures. Remove any grain or grain dust from inside the bins by sweeping or vacuuming empty bins and brushing down walls. Pay close attention to cracks and crevices, ledges over doors, and hollow tube ladder rungs on or in which grain could have been trapped from the previous storage seasons. Fans, aeration ducts, exhausts, and when possible, beneath slotted floors should be cleared of debris as well. Dispose of all debris in a lawful manner and away from the storage facility. Sanitation outside of bins is as important as inside of the bins. Ideally there should be no vegetation (weeds, shrubs, etc.) growing up against the outside of the bin. Grain pests (insects and rodents) can be harbored in the vegetation. Bare ground covered with gravel or cement is preferred, but short-mown grass is tolerable. Remove any spilled grain from around the outside of the bin and storage facility.
Once storage structures have been thoroughly cleaned, carefully inspect them for signs of deterioration, especially for leaks and holes through which insects, birds or rodents can gain easy access to the stored grain or rain and snow can drip or blow in onto the grain to produce wet spots that can lead to mold growth. While inspecting for physical problems, one should also test aeration fans and driers for functionality. Check belts, bearings and gear boxes for wear and proper lubrication. Check electrical systems for corroded connections and frayed wiring before harvest. Mice like to nest inside electrical boxes where they are safe from predators. They will strip insulation from wires for nesting material and their urine causes corrosion. While inspecting control boxes, be sure to seal any openings through which mice could get in. Be sure that guards and safety shields are in place over belts, chains and intakes. Seal all leaks and make repairs to the equipment before you need them to manage the grain.
Once all cleaning and repairs have been completed, an empty-bin application of an appropriately labeled insecticide is advisable, especially in bins with difficult to clean areas and/or in bins with a history of insect problems. For empty-bin insecticide treatments that are applied as a liquid, allow a minimum of 24 hours for the sprays to dry before loading grain into the bin. It is preferable to have empty-bin treatments applied at least two weeks prior to harvest.
Registered empty-bin insecticides include: Tempo Ultra SC (cyfluthrin), Storcide II (chlorpyrifos methyl plus deltamethrin), Suspend SC (deltamethrin), Diacon-D and Diacon II (s-methoprene = an insect growth regulator), and several pyrethrin products can be used to apply a surface treatment to the inside of the bin and provide a residual protection. Other products that contain diatomaceous earth and/or silicon dioxide such as Insecto, Protect-It, Perma-Guard and others may be utilized. Refer to the individual product labels for lists of insects controlled and application directions. If a bin is known to be heavily infested with insects, an empty-bin fumigation may be required to knock down insect populations before applying one of the above insecticides. The most readily available product for this purpose is phosphine gas producing materials such as aluminum phosphide and magnesium phosphide sold under a wide variety of trade names. Phosphine is an extremely toxic material and fumigations should be conducted by trained, experienced, licensed applicators.
Another measure one might take to reduce the chance of insect infestation is to apply a perimeter spray around the base and up the outside walls of the bin about 15 feet. This may only be necessary in areas where grain infesting insect movement has been observed on the outsides of the storage bins. There are several synthetic pyrethroids (cyfluthrin, deltamethrin, permethrin, resmethrin, etc.) that can be used for this purpose as long as they do not come in contact with the grain.
Grain storage insecticide labels tend to change frequently. As always, check to make sure you are following the instructions on the product label and using the appropriate product for your situation. One also needs to be sure that the end-user of the stored grain does not have restrictions on insecticide uses on or around the grains that they are going to purchase. If growing specialty grains, check with your buyers before using insecticides.
A few more words of caution include, new grain should never be stored on top of grain from a previous season's harvest; remove old grain and clean bins before adding new grain. Grains broken in the harvesting and/or handling process become more susceptible to infestation by insects and mold. Thus, adjust combines according to the manufacturer's specifications to minimize grain damage and to maximize removal of fines and other foreign material, move grains as little as possible, and limit the number of times and heights from which grains are dropped to reduce breakage.


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It's official, on the 24th of May 2012, V's Book Life will have been up and running for a whole year *cheers and whoops*. Thank you to everyone who has made my year of blogging so exciting. I've especially loved these last few months when I've had more time to devote to my baby...and I wouldn't change blogging at V's Book Life for the world. So yeah, a big THANK YOU to all my lovely followers as well as the awesome authors and publishers who get involved too! It wouldn't be the same without you all :)
To celebrate this milestone, I am hosting a pretty awesome GIVEAWAY (if I do say so myself).
The prize: your choice of ONE of the lovely new releases of 2012 as seen below!
There will be one winner UNLESS I reach 200 followers. If that's the case I will add a second winner. Sound fair?
The contest closes at Midnight on the 31st May 2012 (EST)
One last thing, the giveaway is International! Well...so long as the Book Depositary ships to you (click here for a list of countries).
Please read my Giveaway Policy BEFORE entering!
So to recap that's a choice between:
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
Shadow Bound by Rachel Vincent
The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione
The Soul Seekers: Fated by Alyson Noël
Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane
Until I Die by Amy Plum
Black Dawn by Rachel Caine
Click on the links to read more from Goodreads. If the winner chooses a book from the list above that has not yet been released, I will pre-order it for you. Also I cannot guarantee the cover of your prize...it depends on where you live.
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Following the result of the UK referendum on 23 June 2016 to leave the EU, there is still a considerable amount of uncertainty about the impact of the decision on the financial services industry, including asset and fund managers.
As many commentators have pointed out, the Brexit vote was consultative and strictly has no legal effect, but provides an electoral mandate for the UK to leave the EU. However, the key step will be when the UK Government decides to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, and the timing of this is currently uncertain. There are also differing legal views over whether Article 50 can be triggered merely by exercising the royal prerogative power, or whether an Act of Parliament is required.
Business as usual?
UK based asset and fund managers are a significant part of the financial services industry with an estimated US$6.6 trillion of assets in the City of London invested by hundreds of fund groups. Given that there is a two-year period under Article 50 for the UK to negotiate its withdrawal from the EU, one view would be to take a "business as usual" approach. However, the impact of Brexit is already being felt on the fund management industry. Seven UK commercial property funds have announced that they are halting redemptions, and this has also impacted on the share prices of some leading fund management groups. The new FCA Chief Executive, Andrew Bailey, has indicated that the FCA will look at the structures of open-ended property funds, and whether these need to be changed. In the meantime, funds will be reviewing their redemption provisions, including rights to impose redemption suspensions or gates.
Despite these unsettling issues, routine compliance issues still need to be addressed. The AIFMD, MiFID and now the new Market Abuse Regulation (MAR, in force from 3 July 2016) must be complied with.
However, it is necessary also to consider the possible longer-term regulatory implications.
Impact on UCITS
The impact on UK-based UCITS funds could be significant. A UCITS fund can only be established in the EU, and will either be a 'self-managed' fund or will appoint a management company (ManCo). A UK-based fund with a UK manager would continue to be authorised in the UK, and its activities in the UK market would be unaffected. However, the fund would no longer qualify for the UCITS marketing passport. It would therefore (in the absence of a settlement with the EU which allows the UK to enjoy equivalent status) need to redomicile and obtain authorisation in another EU member state, so that it could continue to be recognised as a UCITS, and to benefit from the marketing passport. Similar considerations would apply to the ManCo needing to redomicile in another EU member state.
Where a UK UCITS fund did not redomicile and lost its UCITS status, it would be likely to be redesignated as an alternative investment fund.
Impact on Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) and Managers (AIFMs)
The AIFMD regime is broader than the UCITS regime, and there are a number of different options in terms of EU AIFs and non-EU AIFs, UK/EU AIFMs and non-EU AIFMs. In the absence of a settlement with the EU, UK AIFMs managing an EU AIF will lose their EU passporting rights. A UK AIFM that wanted to market its funds in the EU would need to rely on the local national private placement regime (NPPR), or reverse solicitation (which is interpreted more strictly in some EU member states than others). Alternatively, the UK AIFM could opt to delay its marketing until the UK is evaluated and approved by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) for purposes of marketing into the EU. Commercial and marketing considerations are likely to make the second option less attractive. A third option may involve using an AIFM within the EU with delegation of some aspects of the fund management activity to the UK AIFM but in that case it would be necessary to keep within the limits of what the AIFM permits by way of sub-delegation.
Where a UK AIFM manages a non-EU AIF, it must currently, under Article 36 of the AIFMD, comply with many of the AIFMD requirements, with the exception of the depositary requirement under Article 21. If the UK left the EU, it would be open to the FCA to introduce a lighter private placement regime.
The marketing of a non-EU AIF in the EU would continue to be subject to the various local NPPRs, but as a non-EU AIFM, UK AIFMs as "third country firms" would need to comply with Article 42 of the AIFMD, which is a reduced regime focused on transparency requirements such as annual reporting and disclosure to investors.
Non-EU AIFMs managing non-EU-AIFs will by definition not be directly affected by Brexit, and will continue to market on the basis of NPPRs.
Market abuse
The UK has already opted out of the Directive on Criminal Sanctions for Market Abuse (CSMAD), and has its own criminal regime for insider dealing and market manipulation, therefore little will change in this regard. The UK, like the other EU states, has recently implemented MAR, and firms have been updating their policies and procedures. Asset managers will be advised to have tightened up their procedures on suspicious transaction reporting, insider lists and market monitoring. Given the two year transitional period for leaving the EU, this work will not have been wasted. In addition the scope of MAR relates more to financial instruments rather than entities. The development of MAR was significantly influenced by the UK market abuse regime, and therefore any post-MAR UK regime is unlikely to be significantly different. Therefore, we expect little to change on complying with the market abuse regime.
MiFID/MiFID II
The management of individual client portfolios is a MiFID investment service, which normally requires authorisation under MiFID when the service is provided in an EU member state. Many UK fund managers use a MiFID passport to undertake services in other EU member states, including portfolio management.
MiFID II will introduce a new EU-wide regime for third country MiFID services, including portfolio management. It will be important to see whether the UK will fall under this harmonised regime for third country access to enable passporting to professional clients in EU member states.
MiFID II is not due to come into force until January 2018, and again, given the transitional period, is expected to be implemented in the UK prior to UK exit. The UK would also be well placed to meet any equivalence test following exit assuming MIFID II implementation takes place in the meantime.
The future
Given current political uncertainties, it would be rash to make too many predictions for the future about what actions firms should be taking, other than at a high level. A number of possible post-Brexit models have been suggested, including following the Norwegian model based on becoming a non-EU member of the EEA and EFTA, the Swiss model based on bespoke sector-specific treaties and a Customs Union similar to the Turkish approach. However, it is probably fair to say that a solution which preserves passporting or something similar, based on an equivalence or recognition regime, would deliver a more favourable outcome than other options.
In the meantime, the prudent approach for asset and fund management firms will be to maintain a balance between "business as usual", combined with some strategic scenario and contingency planning, which may involve considering some re-location to other EU hubs.


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Moving Mall: Downtown set for mega-changes
Ten years ago, plans to put an amphitheater on the Downtown Mall were all the rage. Now, thanks to $6.5 million in federal funds for a transit center, the City is contemplating a total overhaul of its vaunted pedestrian paradise to include– what else– an improved amphitheater, as part of what's to be called "Presidents' Plaza."
On Tuesday, February 18, the City unveiled the transit center plans, and a day later, the City-authorized steering committee huddled to plot its next move.
Charlottesville has just spent $381,827 on a Philadelphia consulting firm that recommends a unified approach. With a federal grant of $764,155, the firm, Wallace Roberts Todd, will move the following concrete proposals into "phase two" of its transit center/amphitheater planning:
* new trees
* new vendor rules
* new trash cans
* eliminating Seventh Street as a Mall crossing
* adding up to 7,500 square feet of retail space
* new lighting
While that last item will certainly anger developer Lee Danielson– whom the City once ordered to install lights compatible with its own '70s-era light fixtures– it's the amphitheater that may hold headlines the longest.
Already the name of well-known band manager and concert promoter Coran Capshaw has been raised as a possible operator of an expanded amphitheater, but Capshaw was unavailable to the Hook for comment.
City planning director Jim Tolbert says Presidents' Plaza will serve as a "gateway" to downtown. Unveiled in 1976 and at least thrice lenghtened, the Mall stretches 10 blocks from the Charlottesville Ice Park to a legal publisher house now called Matthew Bender.
Tolbert says the recent switch from clay bricks to ersatz brick- asphalt at the Second Street automobile crossing is just a temporary fix. No City funds have yet been allocated for the planned Mall overhaul.Read more on: Downtown Mall


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Nick at Nite Teams Up With Michael Eisner's Tornante Animation for New TV Series
Greenlights Production for Stop-Motion Animated Comedy, Glenn Martin
20 Episodes of Tornante Animation's First TV Production to Premiere in
2009, Continuing Nick at Nite's Evolution to Serve Contemporary Families
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 29 -- As TV's home for the
modern-day family comedy, top-rated Nick at Nite has green-lit Glenn Martin
DDS., the first television series from Michael Eisner's Tornante Animation,
cuing production on 20 episodes of the original, stop-motion primetime
program. Giving the American family a whole new look, the 'trailblazing'
series buckles up with the Martins in their toothbrush-topped dental mobile
as they leave suburbia behind in the rear-view mirror and embark on a
cross-country adventure. Eisner and the newly formed division of The
Tornante Company -- Tornante Animation, have enlisted Eric Fogel -- the
creative force behind MTV's hit Celebrity Deathmatch -- to help design the
"Michael Eisner has been the creative architect of some of the most
successful sitcoms in television history and we're very excited that the
first new series from his new company will be on Nick at Nite," said Cyma
Zarghami, President of Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group. "Glenn
Martin, DDS is an innovative take on the modern American family and has the
potential to be a definitional program in Nick at Nite's lineup of family
comedies like George Lopez and Home Improvement."
For four decades, Michael Eisner has been a leader in the American
entertainment industry. While at ABC, he helped take the network to number
one with such iconic shows as Happy Days, Barney Miller and Roots. As
President of Paramount Pictures, he turned out hit films such as Raiders of
the Lost Ark and Saturday Night Fever. In 1984, he assumed the position of
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company and, in the
ensuing 21 years, transformed it from a film and theme park company with
$1.8 billion in enterprise value into a global media empire valued at $80
billion. In 2005, Eisner founded The Tornante Company; a privately held
company that makes investments in and incubates companies and opportunities
in the media and entertainment space.
"Nickelodeon is a global brand synonymous with innovative and creative
content for kids and families," said Eisner. "This network is a great fit
for Glenn Martin DDS and I look forward to helping Nick at Nite grow their
prime-time line up."
With its strongest showing in more than two years, Nick at Nite is
total day's number-one basic cable network with Adults 18-49 (tied with
TNT) and ranks second only to sister-channel Nickelodeon among total
viewers in second quarter 2008 (NMR: 3/31/08-6/29/08).
Nick At Nite is Nickelodeon's nighttime programming block that also
features popular hit family comedies including the Emmy Award-winning
series Home Improvement, George Lopez, and Family Matters, as well as The
Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Roseanne. Also coming in 2009 is the hit comedy
Everybody Hates Chris, from co-creator and narrator Chris Rock and inspired
by his real-life childhood experiences
Nickelodeon, now in its 29th year, is the number-one entertainment
brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids
first in everything it does. The company includes television programming
and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer
products, online, recreation, books, magazines and feature films.
Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in more than 96 million
households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 14
consecutive years. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos
are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B).
Founded in 2005 by Michael Eisner, The Tornante Company is a privately
held company that makes investments in and incubates companies and
opportunities in the media and entertainment space. The Tornante Company's
investments include Topps, Vuguru, Team Baby Entertainment, and Veoh
Networks. In the summer of 2008, the company launched Tornante Animation to
produce animation for television and multi media platforms.
All numbers above are based on Nielsen Media Research and Nick at
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While the world tends to idealize Ayrton Senna nearly 20 years after his death, we shouldn't forget that he was a big racing star with big sponsorship deals. Sometimes those sponsors would just straight up give him a new family. And sometimes those sponsors would saddle him with an old Honda Prelude.
Not to say that the Prelude was a particularly bad car, but it's no McLaren MP4/6, the car Senna drove for the 1991 Formula One season. Powered by a Honda V12, it propelled Senna to his third world championship.
The Prelude heralded an era of big front-wheel drive coupes that we haven't really seen from the Japanese manufacturers over the past few years. Save for the Nissan Altima coupe, they've been a bit rare these days, and you may see a base Prelude trolling the grungier parts of town. It's in that odd period of way-too-old-to-be-cool and way-too-young-to-be-a-classic. The top of the line VTEC model did sport 190 horsepower, though, so there's that.
I'm not really sure what Ayrton Senna is rambling on about in this commercial for the Japanese market, though it might not have mattered. When the fourth-generation Prelude debuted in 1992, Senna was at the top of his game, and he could prattle on about "seeing clearly" and "safety and excitement" while a wheezy four-cylinder barely revs in the background.
You don't really see commercials like this starring today's biggest F1 stars, though. Sure, you might see Kimi Raikkonen hawking a Breitling watch on a poster somewhere, but Sebastian Vettel extolling the driving dynamics of the fat little Infiniti QX60?
Now that I'd want to see.


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High Altitude Society: Fashion designer Greg Garman celebrates launch of Cartel Noir
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It reads as the classic, age-old story of the local boy who makes good as he heads from a small town to the big city, finds his passion and runs with it all the way back to home base. Such is the case with Greg Garman who, on Saturday, held a Vail launch party hosted by the Four Seasons. Garman's fashion line, Cartel Noir boasts, as the name implies, loads of black with a touch of cream. It was like old school week, and was almost as fun as one of Vail's 50th anniversary parties. There were mostly locals on board except for a couple of folks from (hush) Aspen.
Sarah Gercke and Cary Thompson journeyed over from the Roaring Fork Valley to mingle with Garman and some of the Eagle County fashionistas to hear the good word and see some of Garman's fall collection. Gercke owns Gallerie, a fashion forward haven for women and men in Aspen, across the street from the gondola. Gercke has her own label named Gray. She was quick to put in an order from Cartel Noir for her store, and, maybe even her own closet. Both designers have an elegant timelessness about their pieces.
Long time local Annah Scully invited an entourage to the event.
"These are trendsetting ladies who were very impressed with the collection and are anxious to see more," Scully said.
Event organizer Jim Guttau did a wonderful job of hosting an off season soiree with some of our faithful fashion followers.
"I have known Greg from Denver, and, of course, the Four Seasons is very involved in the Vail community," Guttau said. "Greg is a Vail native, so it all made sense."
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Cassini's new view of land of lakes and seas
Newly assembled radar images from Cassini provide the best views of the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on Saturn's moon Titan. A new radar image reveals that Titan's south polar region also has lakes.
The southern region images were beamed back after a flyby on 2 October in which a prime goal was the hunt for lakes at the south pole.
A new mosaic image comprised from seven Titan fly-bys over the last year and a half shows a north pole pitted with giant lakes and seas, at least one of them larger than Lake Superior in the USA.
Approximately 60% of Titan's north polar region, above 60° north, has been mapped by Cassini's radar instrument. About 14% of the mapped region is covered by what scientists interpret as liquid hydrocarbon lakes.
"This is our version of mapping Alaska, the northern parts of Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia and Northern Russia," said Rosaly Lopes, Cassini radar scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA. "It is like mapping these regions of Earth for the first time."
Lakes and seas are very common at the high northern latitudes of Titan, which is in winter now. Scientists say it rains methane and ethane there, filling the lakes and seas. These liquids also carve meandering rivers and channels on the moon's surface. Now Cassini is moving into unknown territory, down to the south pole of Titan.
"We wanted to see if there are more lakes present there and, sure enough, there they are, three little lakes smiling back at us. Titan is indeed the land of lakes and seas," said Lopes. "It will be interesting to see the differences between the north and south polar regions."
It is summer at Titan's south pole. A season on Titan lasts nearly 7.5 years, one quarter of a Saturn year, which is 29.5 years long. Monitoring seasonal change helps scientists understand the processes at work there.
Scientists are making progress in understanding how the lakes may have formed. On Earth, lakes fill low spots or are created when the local topography intersects a groundwater table. Lopes and her colleagues think that the depressions containing the lakes on Titan may have been formed by volcanism or by a type of erosion (called karstic) of the surface, leaving a depression where liquids can accumulate. This type of lake is common on Earth.
"The lakes we are observing on Titan appear to be in varying states of fullness, suggesting their involvement in a complex hydrologic system akin to Earth's water cycle. This makes Titan unique among the extra-terrestrial bodies in our solar system," said Alex Hayes, a graduate student who studies Cassini radar data at the California Institute of Technology in the USA.
"The lakes we have seen so far vary in size from the smallest observable, approximately 1 square km, to greater than 100 000 square km, which is slightly larger than the great lakes in midwestern USA," Hayes said. "Of the roughly 400 observed lakes, 70% of their area is taken up by large 'seas' greater than 26 000 square km."
Future radar flybys will image closer to the southern pole and are expected to show more lakes.
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Loyal readers know that Elevator Pitch features a different venture capitalist every week. But our latest guest is an ex-VC — although he still invests in venture-backed companies.
Manuel Henriquez spent years doing corporate venture investing (as president of Comdisco Ventures) and traditional Sand Hill Road VC (at VantagePoint Capital Partners) before striking off to do a different kind of tech investing. "Venture debt" isn't a sexy term, but it's one that can give entrepreneurs an additional way to raise money without having to give up ownership in their companies.
We asked Henriquez, the CEO and co-founder of Palo Alto's Hercules Technology Growth Capital, why venture debt is an increasingly popular tool.
Q: How'd you get into this racket?
A: I've been involved with emerging companies since 1983, when I started my first company while still in college. Ten years ago, I started Hercules with two co-founders and a simple charter: To help entrepreneurs gain access to growth capital that is complementary to, but less expensive than, traditional venture equity.
This opens up possibilities for emerging companies that generally would not qualify for traditional loans because of a lack of revenues or cash on hand, and it helps founders avoid the dilution that would result from having to raise additional VC money before they are ready. This additional layer of capital essentially extends the "runway" of the VC dollars that have already been invested.
After 10 years, we've done almost $4 billion worth of transactions in more than 250 companies. Even though Hercules has become a billion-dollar, publicly traded company, I try to run it with the same entrepreneurial culture we had when we started.
Q: What kinds of deals are you looking for now?
A: At Hercules, we focus on four main areas: Technology, cleantech, life science and an emerging sector called special situations. Currently, we are heavily weighted to life science companies, although our portfolio continuously shifts between sectors and stages of development depending on market conditions.
At the end of the day, what we are looking for, regardless of sector, are companies that have great people, are well-backed and possess what we think is a sustainable business model and an innovative approach to the market they are serving.
Q: What's the biggest mistake entrepreneurs make?
A: Entrepreneurs by nature are strong-willed people and, to be fair, I put myself into this category. While having a vision is critical to success, there is a tendency for some entrepreneurs to believe that there is only one way to do things, and that's a big mistake.
Q: What's the next big thing going to be?
A: We think there are tremendous opportunities in the energy technology area, or what used to be called "cleantech." Many people only think of solar or wind when envisioning companies in this sector, but we take a much broader view. Attitudes about the environment, geopolitical energy dependency and changing demographics make this a very interesting place to be, and I think we are only in the second inning of a very long game.
For example, while fracking is viewed negatively by many, it is probably here to stay, and there are companies out there looking for ways to make it more environmentally friendly.
Q: Why'd you make the switch from venture capital to venture debt?
A: I spent almost two decades making equity investments into companies with firms such as BancBoston Ventures, CrossLink Capital (aka Omega Ventures) and VantagePoint. During this time, I saw a shift in the fundraising channels traditionally tapped by the venture capital community, and I thought that the public markets could be an interesting alternative.
I also wanted to create an entity that gave the average investor access to an asset class that very few people can enter. Remember, not everyone has the liquidity necessary to invest in a VC fund. By investing in Hercules, we give investors exposure to a portfolio of more than 110 companies to which we have warrants or equity investments for additional potential upside. It's a broadly diversified portfolio of pre-IPO companies at different stages of development that represent a range of industries and geographies and are backed by a wide variety of leading venture capital firms.
Q: What's your take on the bubble question: Are the valuations we're seeing for companies like Twitter and Snapchat sustainable?
A: I have seen a lot of cycles in my career — from the original banking bubble of the late 1980s, to the dot-com crash to the most recent credit crisis — and I do not believe that we are currently in that sort of bubble, at least not yet.
However, I do believe, and see evidence, that certain sectors are exhibiting "bubblelike" characteristics. That's OK if limited to a few companies within a sector. Just because there have been a few recent IPOs with high valuations does not in and of itself mean that we are seeing a repeat of 1998 and 1999. The volume of IPO companies realizing liquidity today pales in comparison with that period.
Having said that, there is always a tendency for valuations to become frothy as the IPO market opens and optimism takes hold. I cannot speak for other investors, but the key for us has always been to maintain our investment discipline and continue to perform the due diligence necessary on a company-by-company basis. If we continue to do this, we expect our portfolio to perform quite well, regardless of whether or not we enter a bubble.
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This is ideal hot-weather fare. For thinly slicing both the melon and the celery, we like the 10.5-inch mandoline by Kyocera ($23; cooking.com).
- Yield
- Makes 6 servings
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons chopped shallot (about 1 medium)
- 2 tablespoons Champagne vinegar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons finely grated lemon peel
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint leaves plus 10 mint leaves, thinly sliced
- 1 1/2 teaspoons tamari soy sauce*
- 1 ripe medium cantaloupe or honeydew melon or 2 small Charentais melons, halved, seeded, peeled, very thinly sliced
- 4 celery stalks, very thinly sliced on diagonal (about 1 2/3 cups)
- 2 green onions, thinly sliced (about 1/2 cup)
- 8 radishes, trimmed, thinly sliced (about 1/4 cup)
- Extra-virgin olive oil (for drizzling)
- Combine lemon juice, shallot, Champagne vinegar, and lemon peel in small bowl. Let stand 30 minutes. Add 1/4 cup olive oil, chopped fresh mint, and tamari soy sauce to vinaigrette. Whisk vinaigrette to blend flavors. Season to taste with freshly ground black pepper.
- Arrange melon slices on large platter. Top melon with sliced celery, sliced green onions, and sliced radishes. Drizzle vinaigrette over and sprinkle with sliced mint. Season with salt and pepper. Drizzle salad lightly with extra-virgin olive oil and serve.
- Available in the Asian foods section of some supermarkets and at specialty foods stores and natural foods stores.


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The Snow Leopard version of Mac OS X released in 2009 was widely hailed by Mac users. The version was leaner, much faster and more thoroughly integrated with applications than ever before. And then Apple unveiled its plans for the Lion version in late 2010.
There were concerns that the planned changes would slow down the Mac OS. But most of all there was skepticism about Apple's intent to make the Mac OS X look and behave more like iOS, the touch firmware for its iPhones and iPads.
Lion, or formally Mac OS X 10.7, was finally released July 20, 2011, with over 250 new features. Those included multi-touch gestures, system-wide support for full screen apps, revamped Mail application, a new way to see easily all running applications and active windows (called Mission Control), the now-built-in Mac App Store (analogous to the iOS App Store for finding and downloading programs), and Launchpad, a full-screen, grid-like display of available applications, which can be re-arranged and grouped into folders.
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The next day, Apple announced a million downloads had already taken place, making Lion the fastest-selling Mac OS release in the company's history. Two months later, by the end of Apple's fourth quarter, another 5 million had downloaded it, perhaps in part enticed by a dramatic price cut, to $30 from $129. Apple also announced a new record for Mac sales: 4.89 million, or 760,000 more than in any previous quarters. For the fiscal year, Mac sales totaled 16.8 million, bringing the total number of Mac users worldwide to about 60 million.
A speed test comparison by CNET found almost no meaningful difference between Snow Leopard and Lion. "At least on our benchmark tests, it appears that Lion will provide the same speedy performance as its predecessor," wrote CNET's Rich Brown.
Lifehacker concurred. "Overall, with the exception of the application launching test it seems like there are few differences in speed between the two operating systems," wrote Adam Dachis. Lion took a bit longer to launch applications, but loaded Websites faster, and was considerably faster in file compression.
But the "iOSification" of the Mac continues to divide users. Infoworld's Galen Gruman detailed six "Lion Letdowns," most of them related to this trend.
And Erica Saudan, at TheUnofficialAppleWeblog, posted on "Lion: Ten things that bug me."
"Taking aspects of the iPad and iPhone into Mac OS X makes a lot of sense, just as iOS took so much from Mac OS X -- they both share the core code, after all," Gruman writes. A successful example: the new user interface for the Mac's Mail application, which is a "nice adaptation from the iPad's Mail app." And adding gestures for Macs, via touch-aware input devices such as the newer Mac's touchpad or Apple's Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad is another plus.
But there are misses, he says, such as Mac OS X Launchpad, modeled after the grid-like home screen on the iPhone or iPad. "It may sound great to have all your apps in a grid on your screen, but it's not," Gruman says. "On a computer screen, the grid is overwhelmingly large, and the order in which apps appears is essentially random. Sure, you can create folders and rearrange them, but it's a lot of work to do something that the [previous version's] Dock and the Finder windows for your Applications folder and Utilities folder handle much better."
Another "letdown" is eliminating the traditional scroll bars in the application window. Using an Apple touch input device, Mac OS X makes the scroll bar disappear but it brings it back when it detects you're trying to scroll to see more of the contents. "Dropping the visual clue that there is more to scroll to is a clear mistake for Lion -- and a surprising one for a UI-savvy company like Apple," Gruman writes. (In Mac OS's General System Preferences, you can turn this feature off and restore conventional scrolling.)
Not everyone agrees. Mac users in online forums say they think the "natural" scrolling matches the natural movement of a finger: when you touch something and move it downward, you expect the content to move downward, not in the opposite direction. "Strangely enough, after using Android phones and now a tablet for years, the new scrolling felt perfect for me," said one forum poster, RevengeOfTheNerd, wrote. He had upgraded to Lion from the much older Tiger release. Still others said the changes, while initially jarring, quickly became habitual.
The Snow Leopard release was praised for adding a raft of business friendly features, especially for the first time native support of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, enabling a closer integration with corporate email, calendars, and contacts, including links to LDAP and other enterprise directories.
Tech argument: Apple's Steve Jobs vs. Tim Cook
Lion now includes the ability to download Lion Server, and the enterprise praise this time around is less enthusiastic, despite a price cut to $50 from $500. "[C]uts in services and the elimination of advanced GUI administration tools may force some enterprise departments to think twice about the role of Mac servers on their networks," writes Infoworld's John Rizzo.
Rizzo concludes it's a big application that is cumbersome to install via the App Store. Numerous services have been inexplicably dropped or downgraded, such as support for Windows clients. "For years, Mac OS X Server's LDAP-based Open Directory had the ability to function as a primary domain controller (PDC) to support Windows clients," Rizzo explains. That provided single sign-on authentication, and let users access the same accounts and server-based home folders from both their Windows PCs and their Macs. By contrast, in Lion Server, "Windows clients still have access to file sharing, but are now second-class clients."
The one IT bright spot: Profile Manager, a new Web-based tool for automatic push configuration and group policy management for all Mac Lion and iOS clients. The program is "miles ahead of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server's old Managed Preferences features," Rizzo says. And there's "built-in support for Microsoft's distributed file system (DFS) and Apple's Xsan file system, the latter for accessing storage-area networks (SAN) over Fibre Channel."
Lion may not have arrived with quite the roar of acclaim of Snow Leopard, but the numbers indicate there's no going back. And in the "post PC" era, Apple clearly continues to refine the Mac OS user experience based on the lessons it learns from the iOS mobile experience.
John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for Network World.
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A recent study has found that females who stop having their periods before age 46 had a higher incidence of heart disease and stroke.
Doctors have long suspected that women who undergo early menopause might be at an increased risk for those medical problems because of their loss of the hormone estrogen.
The study, published in the October issue of Menopause: The Journal of the North American Menopause Society, found that women who underwent early menopause were about twice as likely to eventually have coronary artery disease and stroke.
Because heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, the authors of the study said they wanted to uncover the effects of menopause on cardiovascular health.
"When people think of the two (heart disease and menopause), they think of it as women don't need to worry about heart disease until after the age of menopause," said Dhananjay Vaidya, an author of the study who oversaw the research. "We're coming to the conclusion that that's not the case, that heart disease in women needs to be considered and prevented much earlier in life."
Researchers used women from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, which included 2,509 women age 45 to 84 enrolled in 2000 to 2002 and followed until 2008. The study looked at the association between a personal history of menopause (either natural or surgical before age 46) and future coronary heart disease and stroke.
The study authors noted that removal of ovaries during hysterectomy could increase risk. More research was needed to help women "weigh" the benefits and risks of hysterectomy and removal of the ovaries, they said. Vaidya said some studies had linked better nutrition with decreased risk of the diseases.
Vaidya, assistant professor in the division of general internal medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said the recent study found that women who smoke undergo menopause two years before those who don't.
Dr. Michelle Wellons, lead study author, noted that a number of other studies linked early menopause with heart disease, but that research focused on European women, who were usually white.
"This was different because it looked at women from multiethnic populations" said Wellons, assistant professor of medicine in the division of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. "It's a more ethnically diverse population that better represents the United States now."
Wellons said researchers still didn't fully understand the link between menopause and heart disease, though they speculated loss of estrogen contributed.
The article was submitted while Wellons was at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dr. Michael Chen of Rush University Medical Center said he was impressed by the study findings, including the large number of patients followed. Chen noted the study found that even after adjusting for other vascular risk factors, the researchers found a correlation between early menopause and heart disease.
"I think it really does sort of revise the (estrogen) hypothesis again," said Chen, assistant professor of neurology, neurosurgery and radiology.
Chen also is studying the connections between menopause and cerebral aneurysms. About 70 percent of all aneurysms occur in women, with the peak age being 52, he noted. If a lack of hormones were contributing, hormonal therapy might even be beneficial for younger women who have had an aneurysm and are at risk for another, he noted.
"It would be nice to offer a therapy that could potentially be related to hormones that would not entail surgery," Chen said.


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Stuffed Peppers and Tomatoes
(Domates, Biber Dolmasi)
Main ingredients:
6 small cubanelle peppers
(or 4 small Hungarian peppers)
2 large tomatoes
1 tbsp crushed tomato, canned
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 cups water
225 gr medium ground beef
1/4 cup rice, washed
4 fresh onions, chopped
1/4 cup parsley, chopped
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
3 tbsp water
Cut off the tops of the peppers and tomatoes using a small knife, but don't throw them away as you will put them back on after you put in the filling (see picture). Clean out the seeds inside the peppers. Then spoon out the inside of the tomatoes, this will be added to the filling.
Mix all the filling ingredients (including the inside of the tomatoes) with a tablespoon. Stuff the peppers and the tomatoes with a teaspoon, but don't overdo it. Leave some room at the top. While filling the peppers, don't push the filling in, instead tap the peppers vertically on the counter. Then cover the peppers and tomatoes with the tops you cut off earlier.
Place the peppers sideways at the bottom of a large pot. Then put the tomatoes on top. This is because the tomatoes cook faster and thus will fall apart if not placed this way. Now, pour the rest of the main ingredients over (water, crushed tomato and olive oil). Cook on medium-high for about 30 minutes with the lid half covered.
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