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Traditional Viennese strudel made easy with frozen puff pastry! A crisp, golden crust filled with sweet cinnamon sugar and tart apples.
Welcome to October! This month's theme is… apples!
You see this apple strudel above? It was made possible by a very small dent in my very large basket of apples I picked this past weekend. And because it was a very small dent, I have enough apples left to make 683590135 more apple strudels. My German heritage is not upset by this in the least. Strudel for one, strudel for all! I should start making strudels and just passing them out to people on the T. Okay… maybe not. I'm going to slow my roll and back up for a minute.
I love apple picking. I look forward to the day apple orchards open for PYO like most kids impatiently anticipate Christmas Day. The problem is that my "Christmas Day" varies from year to year because it is based entirely on how naughty or nice Mother Nature was all year.
I usually go the weekend of my birthday, but since I was in Provincetown this year (post about that and the phenomenal B&B I stayed in coming soon!) I wasn't near any PYO orchards. Did you know there aren't any on the western side/tip of Cape Cod? I was a little disappointed about that, but I quickly recovered from my sorrow by inhaling a container of Nutella mixed with Cool Whip.
Kids… don't try that at home. I'm a professional.
I try to pick a new orchard for my first apple picking excursion each year, and since there is NO shortage of those in New England it's not a problem. Sometimes I only have enough time to bike down the street to Honey Pot Hill Orchards in Stow, in which case I load a backpack full of apples, cider, and cider donuts (and then I go home and make even more cider donuts). Other times I will build a whole weekend around a destination PYO experience in Northern Vermont or the top of Maine. It really just varies on my life situation at the time, but I always know it's going to be awesome. I always end up with an ungodly amount of apples and I always enjoy myself.
This year I chose Scott Farm in Dummerston, Vermont for my first PYOAE (Pick Your Own Apples Excursion – duh). It's only a little over an hour away from the boyfriend's place, so it was a nice little day trip with a quick stop in Brattleboro for breakfast. Just look at this view:
Totally worth the drive to the middle of nowhere, Vermont. Rolling hills chock full of apple trees and history.
Fun fact: Did you know they filmed part of Cider House Rules at this orchard? This is "Ocean View Orchard", which will never stop being funny to me since this is pretty freaking far away from ocean. One of his lines is that he's a lobsterman and and orchardman… good luck with that three hour commute to the orchard every day, Homer!
Oh, movies. You're so silly. Just for fun, here are some of my pictures of the property, side by side with shots from the movie:
I'm just gonna say it: I'm a much more dedicated orchardman than Homer. He uses ladders and I use my own brute strength to climb the trees to get what I need. In your face, Tobey Maguire.
Another fun fact: The orchard is found at 707 Kipling Road, named after Rudyard Kipling – the author of the children's classic story The Jungle Book!
Yet another fun fact: On that same road is the Naulakha house where Kipling wrote the book, which can be rented out as a vacation home. Awesome, right? There's also the Kipling Carriage House on the estate that looks equally as beautiful. I've never gotten the chance to stay at either because the price per night is a little too rich for my blood, but I'd love to hear from someone who has!
Anyway, enough of the history lesson. Here are a few more shots from our visit:
I might print and frame the last one. The only thing that would make it better is if the trees behind the property had already turned to their gorgeous fall colors.
We paid for our ginormous bushel of apples in the farm stand and were helped by the one and only Ezekiel! He's the orchard manager and easily recognized in the community as the epitome of everything Vermont stands for (even though he's originally from Massachusetts): friendly, helpful, and it's clear the takes pride in his work and loves what he does.
Now onto the real meat and potatoes of this post (neither of which you will find on this page, just to be clear): Apple Strudel.
It's one of my all-time favorite desserts. It makes me all warm and fuzzy, and pairs perfectly with an ice cold glass of cider or a cup of warm coffee. I eat it for breakfast. I eat it for dessert. It's magical and versatile and you can't convince me not to eat it whenever the heck I want.
Crisp, golden crust.
The cinnamon sugar filling that envelops the sliced apples is equal parts tart and sweet thanks to my secret ingredient – lemon juice. As you slice your apples, you coat them in freshly squeezed lemon juice and it prevents them from browning while you prepare everything else. It gives it the perfect little zing to complement the rest of the pastry.
I want to encourage you to make this repeatedly. Try something new every time – I do! The recipe I'm sharing with you today is my base, but I throw in different stuff to switch it up all the time. Sometimes I add raisins that I've soaked in brandy. Sometimes I add walnuts instead of almonds. Sometimes I don't even add nuts at all – but the day I made this strudel I was feeling a little nutty (GET IT?!).
Nuts give it a little extra crunch, and sometimes that's what I want. Other times I prefer to leave nuts out altogether, and really load up on the cinnamon sugar filling. Those are the days I've forgotten that I have any sort of health consciousness and accidentally eat the entire pastry myself. This is why you slice things, people. If you leave it whole and on your counter, you might just sit down on your couch with it and eat it like a sub.
…not that I've ever done that.
Apple Strudel
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 16 mins
- Total Time: 26 minutes
- Yield: 8 slices 1x
Traditional Viennese strudel made easy with frozen puff pastry! A crisp, golden crust filled with sweet cinnamon sugar and tart apples.
- 1 sheet puff pastry
- 2 cups apple, sliced thinly (3–5 apples, depending on size)
- Juice of one lemon
- ¼ cup slivered almonds
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- Pinch of nutmeg
- ½ tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 egg
- Raw sugar or sparking sugar, garnish
- Vanilla ice cream (optional, but highly recommended!)
- Set out puff pastry sheet to thaw – you want it to still be cold, but no longer frozen.
- Preheat oven to 400° F. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat and set aside.
- In a large bowl, squeeze the juice of one lemon (making sure to remove any seeds).
- Peel and thinly slice your apples, placing them in the bowl of lemon juice and coating thoroughly as you add them to the bowl.
- In a small bowl, combine almonds, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- Add dry mixture to bowl of apples and gently toss (and/or stir) to coat. Add flour and stir to coat.
- Roll out pastry onto a large sheet of parchment paper in a rectangle (around 11″x17″). Using a paring knife, lightly score the pastry into three columns (I usually eyeball it – as you can tell from my pictures it's not 100% even, but it doesn't affect the taste!). You want the middle to be wider than the outer thirds. Cut even slits on each outer column – as many as you want. The more you have, the longer it's going to take you to wrap.
- Pour your strudel filling down the center of the pastry and fold the center section of the pastry over at the top and bottom. Now start wrapping the center by pulling alternating slits of pastry from each side and pressing the ends into the pastry on the opposite side. Make sure you're not leaving big holds across the top!
- Brush the top of the folded pastry with an egg wash and then sprinkle raw sugar (or sparkling sugar) on top. You could also add some delicately placed almond slices, or a powdered sugar icing drizzle!
- Carefully transfer the pastry to your prepared baking sheet and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until top is golden brown.
- Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack (aff link) for at least 5 minutes before slicing into it. Enjoy with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
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She even says that all of the spit-swapping (yes, I still have cliche phrases for kissing in my word bank) was strictly for the cameras. "I knew I wanted to go out and have it be interesting because I love the show. I kind of wanted to see some shocked faces. It made for some good TV," she said.
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As a Tehilla volunteer I have been going to the airport for many years to assist new immigrants (olim) during their first hours facing real Israeli bureaucracy. I recently had the pleasure of joining hundreds of other Israelis in greeting another five hundred olim from the U.S.A. What an uplifting experience it was. The cheers, the music, the Israeli soldiers waving flags, the politicians; it was great! As usual, several of the families were coming to the settlement town of Hashmonaim where I live, and I greeted them as a representative of both Tehilla and Hashmonaim. Those who came to Hashmonaim with their families this year were David and Shifra Waxman, Yonatan and Debbie Yunger, Yona and Rhonda Lloyd, Chaim and Janet Grosbard, Mark and Huda Weichselbaum, Steve and Lisa Zeitcheik, and Yehudah and Tamara Laufer.
By now, almost everyone has heard of the fantastic success of Nefesh B'Nefesh, the organization created by Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Mr. Tony Gelbart. Together, they have brought more than 1,500 new olim to Israel in the past thirteen months. These two men have put together a professional, well-run organization that has received nothing but praise from all of those I spoke to. Not every Nefesh B'Nefesh oleh took the financial aid offered, but everyone utilized and praised the support network that these men have built.
Among the families who arrived a year ago on the first Nefesh B'Nefesh flight were Mark and Yael Lieser from Dallas, Texas. Today, these "Nefeshers" can provide advice to those who came recently. Mark and Yael still use the Nefesh B'Nefesh hotline and receive regular calls from the organization to check how they are doing. When Mark was called into the U.S. army reserves during the Iraq crises, Yael received many calls from Nefesh B'Nefesh asking if she
needed any help. Fortunately, the support system in Hashmonaim run by Malkah Livne and her many women assistants provided the support Yael needed, but it was good to know that more help was always available.
Nefesh B'Nefesh arranges a welcoming committee in each area but in Hashmonaim, it depends upon the excellent welcoming committee run by Malkah. Malkah set up buddy families and the Hashmonaim support has been fantastic. As many of the olim pointed out, "In Hashmonaim, everyone is a buddy and everyone is eager to help."
Mark described how Nefesh B'Nefesh solved or facilitated so many "little" problems. "Nefesh B'Nefesh does not guess," he emphasized. "They will check and call you back if they do not know the answer to your question. When I first received a TV tax bill, I had no idea what to do with it, but a quick call to the hotline provided all of the information.
"When I needed to leave the country and the Interior Ministry was on strike, Nefesh B'Nefesh knew whom to call to get me an emergency passport in five hours. When I needed a certain document they told me to go to an office and ask for Tzippy. Instead of having to wait on a long line, I was out in 10 minutes." When during a regular phone checkup Nefesh B'Nefesh heard that the Liesers were unhappy with the Hebrew help their girls were receiving, Nefesh B'Nefesh found them a Jerusalem school that provided intensive Hebrew studies.
For Mark, it has been difficult to make ends meet as a doctor. He is a head surgeon in a Texas hospital and he commutes to work at his American hospital and hopes that the situation in Israel will improve.
Avi and Robin Schreiber also came to Hashmonaim via Nefesh B'Nefesh last year. The Schreibers have gone on outings with Nefesh B'Nefesh and are thrilled with the opportunity to "hang out with others who are going through the same experiences that we are". The Schreibers are the proud parents of their first "Sabra" – the 29th Sabra born to an Nefesh B'Nefesh family.
David and Shifra Waxman arrived a few short weeks ago from Riverdale. Before they arrived in Israel, and after applying for membership in Nefesh B'Nefesh, they received access to an Internet newsgroup, began receiving a newsletter, and attended orientation and social gatherings. The major advantage for them and for all of the other olim was the streamlining of the entire bureaucratic process.
Having the immigration staff on the Nefesh B'Nefesh plane made arrival so easy. Three days after arriving, a meeting was held in Jerusalem and identity cards were distributed. Normally, an Oleh would have to wait a week, go to an office, wait on lines, fill out forms and wait. Receiving the card so quickly enabled the Waxmans to free their furniture shipment from the port, get their drivers licenses, open a bank account and do all the other things that require an identity card, in just a few days.
When David needed to know the process for buying gas (a local or regional supplier?), the hotline advisor explained the process and gave him the phone numbers to call. Nefesh B'Nefesh also gave each oleh a cell phone with one month's free service. The organization provided their cell phone numbers weeks before they left for Israel so that all of their relatives would already know their number. This greatly helped to reduce parental anxiety.
The email list received special praise from everyone. Months before their Aliyah, many online discussions were held on what to buy, where to buy, and what they charge, which shipper was best, and who to watch out for. The information saved the olim many thousands of dollars. People shared information about the different communities and even allowed others to share
room in their shipping containers. The Nefesh B'Nefesh Aliyah poster contains a listing of the step-by-step sequence of actions that need to be followed by the new Oleh in his first days in Israel and was especially useful.
The emotional high generated by the send-off and reception also came in for special praise. It was especially helpful to the (grand)parents who were sending their children off to Israel, and it helped the olim who felt a part of this great movement. The balloons, the cake, the music and singers, the comedians, even the speakers gave them a feeling that Israel really wanted them to come.
Chaim and Janet Grosbard came from N. Miami Beach. Chaim practices Chinese and Homeopathic medicine. My wife, Barbara, and I had met with them and the Ostroff family when we visited Florida and were happy to see them on Aliyah. The Grosbards felt that, while the financial aid was very important, they were very thankful for the organization of the trip, the internet information, the hotline and the support infrastructure, which all served to reduce the anxiety of a scary experience. They also highly praised the Hashmonaim community for its warmth and support.
Shabbat meals were arranged for them with different families, local children welcomed their children, and their buddies are very helpful. Their Israeli Shaliach was so impressed with the Nefesh B'Nefesh preparation that not only was his work reduced to a minimum, but upon his return to Israel the Shaliach plans to suggest that the Absorption Ministry adopt the Nefesh
B'Nefesh practices.
Yonatan and Debby Yunger from West Orange, New Jersey got off the plane, attended the ceremony, and then received their papers and government stipend with no waiting. Yonatan, a technology manager for J.P. Morgan, hopes that the Nefesh B'Nefesh employment office will help him find work. Nefesh B'Nefesh has an employment center and a job bank and will help olim write their resumes in Hebrew. They also have a social worker and a psychologist working on crisis management
Yonatan was especially grateful that Nefesh B'Nefesh was able to help straighten out his status. His parents had lived in Israel in the 50's and therefore he was considered a returning citizen. Technically, the family was an Oleh family so they should have all been listed as immigrants. When he called Nefesh B'Nefesh to get help, they conferenced him into a call with the Absorption Ministry which called the Ministry of Interior and straightened out the mess.
There are many organizations helping new immigrants, but not one works as professionally and as efficiently as Nefesh B'Nefesh. This wonderful organization improves its services each year, and the Absorption Ministry could (and has already started to) use some of its methods. If every American Oleh would join Nefesh B'Nefesh, his experience with Israeli bureaucracy would be very pleasant, and I would be out of a volunteer job.
To contact Nefesh B'Nefesh, go to: www.nefeshbnefesh.org.
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As a Tehilla volunteer I have been going to the airport for many years to assist new immigrants (olim) during their first hours facing real Israeli bureaucracy. I recently had the pleasure of joining hundreds of other Israelis in greeting another five hundred olim from the U.S.A. What an uplifting experience it was. The cheers, the music, the Israeli soldiers waving flags, the politicians; it was great! As usual, several of the families were coming to the settlement town of Hashmonaim where I live, and I greeted them as a representative of both Tehilla and Hashmonaim. Those who came to Hashmonaim with their families this year were David and Shifra Waxman, Yonatan and Debbie Yunger, Yona and Rhonda Lloyd, Chaim and Janet Grosbard, Mark and Huda Weichselbaum, Steve and Lisa Zeitcheik, and Yehudah and Tamara Laufer.


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Cendrine Marrouat, Social Media Coach & Author
Cendrine Marrouat is a French-born social media journalist, blogger, coach, curator, and author living in Canada. She is also the founder of Social Media Slant, a blog focusing on social media tips, tools, stats, and news for small businesses and solo-entrepreneurs, and teaches social media 101 classes.
What inspired you to enter your profession?
A My desire to help others.
My first steps in the social media world were pretty much the same as many people even today. I had no idea who my audience was and how to reach them successfully. So instead of waiting for an answer to come to me, I decided to go after it. After weeks of research, reading, and webinars, I decided to experiment with ideas and share the lessons learnt on an old blog of mine.
After a while, people started asking me to help them with their online presence. Now, five years later, I do it full-time.
It may sound cliché, but knowing that I can help somebody find their way and get the attention they deserve is something that gives me a lot of pride and joy.
What apps/software/tools can't you live without?
A I work from my Inbox, so emails are definitely a major part of my professional life. IFTTT and Feedly are also fantastic tools. I use the former to redirect content from the latter into my inbox.
For social media monitoring, I use TweetDeck and Mention. They both help me cover a lot of ground and know who is talking about me.
What's your best time-saving shortcut productivity tip?
A Do not try to do too much at once. Settle for small goals, but do an excellent job with each.
What everyday thing do you think are you better at than anybody else?
A English is not my mother tongue but I studied its intricacies for six years at university. Linguistics and phonetics were two of my favorite subjects. So, over the years, I have learnt to read between the lines. This has proven very helpful in my dealings with people and ideas. I have a very analytical mind and read others quite well.
What are you currently reading?
A I haven't opened a book in almost a year. With that said, as a curator, I read a lot of articles.
The post that has really impressed me lately is the one written by Ryan Hanley. "Are Brands Measuring the Wrong Type of Engagement? A Red Bull Case Study" sums up exactly what is missing in a lot of brands' social media strategies.
Actually, it is a topic I discuss at length in my new release – The Little Big eBook on Social Media Audiences: Build Yours, Keep It, and Win.
What's the best advice you've ever received?
A "Say less and show more." It was one of the first I received and it has worked with everything.
What's your greatest challenge?
A Getting lumped together with the self-proclaimed social media gurus / experts / ninjas of this world.
The professionals who have a deep knowledge of one or two platforms exist and deserve the recognition. However, when it comes to social media in general, no one has the ability to master everything. There are too many tools and services out there. And dozens of new ones pop up every month. I know because it is one of the topics I cover for my blog.
I feel that the problem of self-proclaimed "guruism" can only be solved if social media professionals continue speaking against it and brands choose to avoid shortcuts.
What's your greatest achievement?
A Having made it this far without the help of any renowned influencer in my field. I owe my success to two things: my hard work and a group of staunch supporters. It says a lot about the power of word of mouth, doesn't it?
Anything else you want to add?
A Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!
Who would you like to see answer these same questions?
A I'd love to see John Thomas answer these questions. He is a fantastic content curator and loves talking about technology. And he has built a very solid community on Facebook.
Cendrine has released two social media ebooks:
- The Little Big eBook on Blogging: 40 Traffic Generation Tips is a comprehensive resource that provides bloggers of all levels with essential information and precise guidance to attract quality traffic to their blogs.
- The Little Big eBook on Social Media Audiences: Build Yours, Keep It, and Win, a down-to-earth guide for entrepreneurs and small business owners who struggle or are just getting started with social media.


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A cast member of the MTV reality show "BUCKWILD" is facing a drug charge in West Virginia.
Twenty-four-year-old Salwa Amin is being held a jail in central West Virginia on a felony charge of possession with intent to deliver.
Records show Amin was booked into the jail early Monday. Details of her arrest weren't immediately available.
Sgt. Rick Drake with the jail says Amin doesn't want to talk to the media. He didn't know whether she had a lawyer.
MTV announced last week that the show will be picked up for a second season. A spokesman and a spokeswoman for MTV didn't immediately return telephone messages Monday.
"BUCKWILD" shows wild young West Virginians and has drawn criticism for what some see as a negative portrayal of the state's young people.


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THOMAS Sorensen saluted Gary Cahill and the rest of Villa's young guns after they produced a backs-to-the-wall effort and secured a badly needed point against Albion.
Cahill and Gabriel Agbonlahor took most of the plaudits but half of Villa's team came through the Academy, leaving the Danish keeper feeling positively ancient.
He said: "We did really well under difficult circumstances with a lot of players missing and the five or six young players did tremendously well.
"These are tough games and you need both experience and character. They definitely showed character.
"With experience of these kind of games, the young lads will only get better and they are definitely the future of the club.
"Cahill did tremendously well. In these kind of games, especially up against Kevin Campbell and Diomansy Kamara who are very strong in the air, he stood firm and had a few blocks at the end.
"He was in the right place at the right time whenever he was needed and all credit to him for that."
Villa had Steven Davis, Liam Ridgewell, Luke Moore and Craig Gardner also in their ranks while Lee Hendrie also came through the system and Peter Whittingham was an un-used substitute.
Sorensen continued: "It is great experience for the young lads. You need to learn quick in these games and I thought they did really well.
"They can only come out of this with a lot of confidence. We see them in training every week. When Cahill came on against Arsenal, he did really well and sometimes they raise their game. They might not have the experience but the adrenalin is pumping and they'll definitely get through these kind of games for sure.
"They have got the ability and the rest will follow if we help them along. These games are a big chance for any player to make a name for themselves and a few of them did today."
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Prevas and Kontigo Care have together won the Swedish Embedded Award 2014 in the Enterprise category with TripleA.
This is the seventh time that Prevas has been nominated for the Swedish Embedded Award and the third time Prevas has won the award.
Kontigo Care develops products for assisting chemical dependency care in improving and increasing the effectiveness of prevention methods, treatment methods and post treatment of alcoholism and related dependencies.
Together with Prevas, they have developed the TripleA product, which includes a wireless alcohol monitoring device and provides entirely new capabilities for helping alcoholics during critical periods after leaving rehab centers. Moreover, care providers and those that commission care gain an opportunity to follow up treatment quality with the product as well as conduct analyses and implement measures for improvements. The societal aspects related to economy are enormous.
"We're happy that we chose Prevas as our partner in developing TripleA," says Daniel Benitez, CEO for Kontigo Care. "We're certain that with time, TripleA will change how we provide chemical dependency care, reduce suffering and save considerable resources for society."
The illness alcoholism and its aftermath constitute a major financial burden for society and also produce enormous consequences in the form of human suffering for children, partners, parents and close friends caught up in the chaos that follows in the wake of alcoholism. TripleA is a product that through the combination of wireless communications, an embedded handheld system, a mobile application and a data collection system, can improve the prerequisites for alcoholics leading a sober life.
"It's exceedingly inspirational and satisfying to participate in developing an embedded system for a new innovative application that can really make a difference for individuals and our society," says Kristoffer Andersson at Prevas AB. "TripleA is a very good example of how the capabilities of the 'Internet of Things' can be used in mHealth to create benefits for society and help people to live a better life."
The winners of the Swedish Embedded Award are introduced at Embedded Conference Scandinavia on November 4, 2014. For more information about the Swedish Embedded Award, see www.embeddedpriset.nu.
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Mahashay Dharampal Gulati is an Indian Businessman. Spending his first 25 years of his life in Pakistan, he came to India during the partition and established his spice business. From a small shop in Delhi, his spice business spread throughout the World gradually.
Gulati was born in a Punjabi family on 27 March 1923 at Sialkot in Pakistan. He spent his childhood in Pakistan and attended a Primary School there. He was not interested in the study and dropped out of his school in 5th standards. His father ran a spice shop in Pakistan. After leaving school, he began to assist his father in his spice shop named "Mahashian Di Hatti (MDH)" and started to sell 'Mehandi' and used to make around ₹20/day.
During the partition of India in 1947, his family decided to migrate to India. He along with his family settled in Delhi. In Delhi, initially, he used to live at his niece's house in Karol Bagh, which had no electricity, no water supply, and no toilet facilities.
Dharampal Gulati was born to Mahashay Chunni Lal Gulati and Mata Chanan Devi in a Khatri family on 27 March 1923 in Sialkot, North-East Punjab, Pakistan.
He has two brothers and five sisters. His brothers: Mahashay Satpal Gulati and Dharamveer Gulati were also businessmen.
In 1941, when he was 18 years old, he got married to Lilawati, but in 1992, she died.
He had one son Sanjeev Gulati, who died just 2 months after his mother's death in 1992. Now he lives with his grandson and his family. Gulati has 6 daughters.
While in Pakistan, when he left his school, he learned many handicrafts such as Carpentry, Embroidery, Painting, etc, but not to avail, later, his father got him into his spices shop. When he migrated to India, he had ₹1500 in his pocket. Out of that money, he bought a Tanga (a horse-drawn carriage) worth ₹650 and used to take passengers from Connaught Place to Karol Bagh. Later, he sold his Tanga as it was not his cup of tea. He built a small shop in Karol Bagh in 1948, to restart his old family business of spices.
After initial success, he took another shop at Chandni Chowk in 1953.
In 1959, he set up his first spice factory at Kirti Nagar in Delhi. Gradually, MDH emerged as one of the biggest brands in the category of spices in India and Abroad. His spice market has been spread in more than 100 countries across the globe.
In 2016, he was named 'Indian of the Year' at the ABCI Annual Awards.
In 2017, Gulati received "Excellence Award" for Lifetime Achievement.
In 2019, he was honoured with Padma Shri- India's third highest civilian award by the President of India Ram Nath Kovind.
Salary/Assets/Net Worth
He has 80% stake in MDH, owns 1 hospital, 15 factories, 20 schools.
In 2017, he was the highest paid CEO in India with the salary of ₹21 crore/year. In 2017, his company's turnover was around ₹1000 crore. According to a report of 2014, his net worth is ₹500 crore.
Interesting Facts
- He founded 'Roopak Stores' in 1954 in Karol Bagh, Delhi. That was India's first modern spice store in Delhi during that era. However, later, he handed over 'Roopak Stores' to his younger brother, Satpal Gulati.
- Despite crossing the age of 95, Dharampal Gulati himself endorses MDH products.
- He gets up early in the morning, goes to morning walk daily. He practices Yoga and before leaving home, he takes part in "Havan" (a public fire ritual) in his home.
- He is highly spiritual and follows Arya Samaj.
- Gulati founded a trust called 'Mahashay Chuni Lal Charitable Trust' that runs a hospital with 250 beds and, another mobile hospital for slum dwellers.
- Apart from charitable trusts, MDH also runs a magazine called 'Sandesh,' which showcases the traditional family values of India.
- He published his autobiography in which he has revealed the details from his early childhood to his success.


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We demonstrate three-dimensional intravascular flow imaging compatible with routine clinical image acquisition workflow by means of megahertz (MHz) intravascular Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). The OCT system relies on a 1.1 mm diameter motorized imaging catheter and a 1.5 MHz Fourier Domain Mode Locked (FDML) laser. Using a post processing method to compensate the drift of the FDML laser output, we can resolve the Doppler phase shift between ...Read Full Article
Motorized capsule for shadow-free OCT imaging and synchronous beam controlWe demonstrate a tethered motorized capsule for unobstructed optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging of the esophagus. By using a distal reflector design, we avoided the common shadow artifact induced by the motor wires. A synchronous driving technique features three types of beam-scanning modes of the capsule, i.e., circumferential beam scanning, localized beam scanning, and accurate beam positioning. We characterized these three modes and carried out ex vivo imaging experiments ...Read Full Article
OptoRes presents world-record 3 MHz swept laser at SPIE BiOS / Photonics West in San Francisco...on. Optores GmbH is a privately held company based in Munich, Germany. It was founded in 2013 based on Prof. Robert Huber's groundbreaking work on Fourier-domain mode-locked lasers and ultrafast OCT, for which he was aw...Read Full Article
High-speed fiber scanning endoscope for volumetric multi-megahertz optical coherence tomographyWe present a forward-viewing fiber scanning endoscope (FSE) for high-speed volumetric optical coherence tomography (OCT). The reduction in size of the probe was achieved by substituting the focusing optics by an all-fiber-based imaging system which consists of a combination of scanning single-mode fibers, a glass spacer, made from a step-index multi-mode fiber, and a gradient-index fiber. A lateral resolution of 11 m was achieved at a working distance of 1 ...Read Full Article
Ultra low noise Fourier domain mode locked laser for high quality megahertz optical coherence tomographyWe investigate the origin of high frequency noise in Fourier domain mode locked (FDML) lasers and present an extremely well dispersion compensated setup which virtually eliminates intensity noise and dramatically improves coherence properties. We show optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging at 3.2 MHz A-scan rate and demonstrate the positive impact of the described improvements on the image quality. Especially in highly scattering samples, at specular reflections and for strong ...Read Full Article
High-resolution retinal swept source optical coherence tomography with an ultra-wideband Fourier-domain mode-locked laser at MHz A-scan ratesWe present a new 1060 nm Fourier domain mode locked laser (FDML laser) with a record 143 nm sweep bandwidth at 2∙ 417 kHz = 834 kHz and 120 nm at 1.67 MHz, respectively. We show that not only the bandwidth alone, but also the shape of the spectrum is critical for the resulting axial resolution, because of the specific wavelength-dependent absorption of the vitreous. The theoretical limit of our ...Read Full ArticleMentions: Robert A. Huber University of Lübeck Tom Pfeiffer
Swept source OCT system and method with phase-locked detectionA swept source OCT system and related method are disclosed. The system comprises a control device for operating a tunable light source in response to an electronic sweep control signal such that the tunable light source carries out wave length sweeps with a repetition rate f.sub.sweep, which depends on the frequency of the sweep control signal. The system further comprises a detection device for the time-resolved detection of ...Read Full ArticleMentions: Robert A. Huber Wolfgang Wieser Thomas Klein
Feature Of The Week 09/10/2017: Thermo-elastic Optical Coherence TomographyThe conventional OCT image contrast is derived from elastic scattering, and shows the internal structure of the sample. The determination of the tissue type in OCT images usually depends on the interpretation by the image reader. More accurate tissue type contrast may be achieved by new OCT-based imaging modalities, with sensitivity to other physical parameters than scattering alone. Phase-sensitive OCT can detect tissue motion on nanometer-to- micrometer length scales using ...Read Full Article
Thermo-elastic optical coherence tomographyThe absorption of nanosecond laser pulses induces rapid thermo-elastic deformation in tissue. A sub-micrometer scale displacement occurs within a few microseconds after the pulse arrival. In this Letter, we investigate the laser-induced thermo-elastic deformation using a 1.5 MHz phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. A displacement image can be reconstructed, which enables a new modality of phase-sensitive OCT, called thermo-elastic OCT. An analysis of the results shows that the ...Read Full Article
Method for reducing the dimensionality of a spatially registered signal derived from the optical properties of a sample, and device thereforAt least one embodiment of the method is designed to create a two-dimensional image of a three-dimensional sample. The method comprises the following steps: provision of a wave-length-tunable light source (1) that emits primary radiation (P) with wavelengths that vary over time; sampling of location points of the sample (2) with the primary radiation (P); collection of secondary radiation (S), wherein the secondary radiation (S) is a part of the ...Read Full ArticleMentions: Robert A. Huber Wolfgang Wieser Thomas Klein
U.S. Engineers James G. Fujimoto and Eric A. Swanson, and German Physicist Robert Huber Win European Inventor Award 2017...ard 2017 at ceremony in Venice ... U.S. Engineers James G. Fujimoto and Eric A. Swanson, and German Physicist Robert Huber Win in the "Non-EPO Countries" category. For more information see http://www.prweb.com/releases/2...Read Full Article
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Feature tracking for automated volume of interest stabilization on 4D-OCT imagesA common representation of volumetric medical image data is the triplanar view (TV), in which the surgeon manually selects slices showing the anatomical structure of interest. In addition to common medical imaging such as MRI or computed tomography, recent advances in the field of optical coherence tomography (OCT) have enabled live processing and volumetric rendering of four-dimensional images of the human body. Due to the region of interest undergoing motion ...Read Full Article
Analysis of FDML lasers with meter range coherenceFDML lasers provide sweep rates in the MHz range at wide optical bandwidths, making them ideal sources for high speed OCT. Recently, at lower speed, ultralong-range swept-source OCT has been demonstrated using a tunable vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) and also using a Vernier-tunable laser. These sources provide relatively high sweep rates and meter range coherence lengths. In order to achieve similar coherence, we developed an extremely well dispersion ...Read Full Article
High-speed OCT light sources and systems [Invited]Imaging speed is one of the most important parameters that define the performance of optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems. During the last two decades, OCT speed has increased by over three orders of magnitude. New developments in wavelength-swept lasers have repeatedly been crucial for this development. In this review, we discuss the historical evolution and current state of the art of high-speed OCT systems, with focus on wavelength swept light ...Read Full ArticleMentions: Robert A. Huber University of Lübeck Thomas Klein
Applications:Art, Cardiology, Dentistry, Dermatology, Developmental Biology, Gastroenterology, Gynecology, Microscopy, NDE/NDT, Neurology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Other Non-Medical, Otolaryngology, Pulmonology, Urology
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Robert Huber the studied general physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany, where he received his PhD for work on ultrafast electron transfer processes at dye-semiconductor surfaces in 2002. From 2002-2003 Robert Huber worked as Postdoc at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt. From 2003 to 2006 he joined the group of Prof. J. G. Fujimoto at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as postdoctoral associate. Since 2007 he leads an independent research group at the LMU Munich in the Emmy Noether program of the DFG and the ERC starting grant program of the European Union. His group was partner in the European consortium "FUN-OCT". Robert Huber coauthored more than 90 peer reviewed publications and holds more than 6 patents. In 2003 he received the Albert-Weller award from the German Chemical Society for an outstanding PhD thesis, in 2008 he received the Rudolf-Kaiser for his work on femtosecond spectroscopy and the development of Fourier domain mode locked lasers. In 2011 and 2012 he was ranked amongst the top 40 young talents in the field of science in Germany by the business magazine "Capital". Since September 2013 Robert Huber is a professor for biomedical imaging at the Institute of Biomedical Optics at the University zu Lübeck.
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May is a magical time of year for many of us, when our minds turn to the women who raised us. On Mother's Day, we honor the sacrifices of our mothers, as well as the nurturing and discipline they exercised to help us grow into decent people.
Not surprisingly, our mothers' sage advice can easily be applied to eLearning situations. Here's a sampling of motherly wisdom that you can use in your next eLearning project.
"Keep making that face and it'll stay that way."
Though making funny faces at your friends rarely results in you having permanently inside-out eyelids and a crooked grimace, it is true that what you repeatedly do becomes second-nature. Your brain and body remember those things that you practice so you can do them more easily and naturally in the future. Give your learners plenty of opportunities to apply each lesson and practice what they've learned.
"If everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?"
You can't be afraid to get creative and try something new. If a large group of eLearning experts are chasing a certain gimmick that the research just doesn't support, you don't have to follow the pack.
"No dessert 'til you finish your dinner."
This one is a little more flexible than your mother may have led you to believe, at least in the eLearning sense, but it's worth examining. Learners need to be engaged, and sometimes that means having something to look forward to. For children, that might mean incentivizing vegetables with the prospect of dessert. For learners, this can mean eLearning games, competition with their coworkers, redeemable points systems, or a myriad of other things.
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Virginia Women in Public Finance has a scholarship program that provides, annually, up to five recipients with a scholarship in the amount of $1,000 to $5,000. The scholarship is named in honor of Mary Blackwell Barnes, a dedicated servant of public finance. Mary passed away in 2009 at the age of 44, but her memory lives on through the contributions she made to public finance in Virginia. The purpose of The Mary Blackwell Barnes Memorial Scholarship program is to:
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Marxism–Leninism was practiced by the Soviet Union (USSR) after the Bolshevik Revolution. It was also practiced by the Stalinists in the USSR.[1]
The purpose of Marxism–Leninism is to turn a capitalist state into a socialist state. This is done by a revolution by the proletariat to overthrow the old government. The new government then creates a "dictatorship of the proletariat". This new government leads the country based on democratic centralism.[2][3]
The communist party is supposed to lead society from capitalism to socialism. According to ML, socialism was more "advanced" than capitalism, but communism was more "advanced" than socialism. Indeed, the ultimate goal is to achieve a communist society, one with no class or state. ML just provides a first step: from capitalism to socialism.
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- ↑ Dictionary of Historical Terms (1998) Second Edition, Chris Cook, Ed., pp. 221–222, p. 305.
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- ↑ Albert, Michael; Hahnel, Robin. Socialism Today and Tomorrow. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: South End Press, 1981. pp. 24–25.


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Thanksgiving travel: Nine things you need to know to avoid trouble
If you're traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday this week, here are nine things you need to know, whether you are driving or flying.
— If you're flying east, get ready for trouble. On Sunday, ice/snow/slush played havoc in the Southwest (especially Dallas, important to American Airlines), which caused five deaths in the Southwest and was marching toward the East Coast. Most domestic airlines will not cover hotel or expenses if your flight is delayed, so you'll be on your own to try to arrange food and shelter.
— If your flight is canceled for whatever reason, know that you probably will have a hard time getting another flight. Domestic flight loads have averaged 84% for the first eight months of this year, according to Bureau of Transportation statistics, about what that figure was for last November. This year, Airlines for America is expecting about 25-million travelers during its Thanksgiving counting period, which runs Nov. 22 to Dec. 3. That's about 33,000 more per day, the agency says. More travelers and fewer seats plus cancellations equal big trouble.
— You'll be way ahead of the pack if you call an airline and talk to an agent at the first sign of trouble instead of getting in the customer service line at the airport. Make sure you have input your airline's telephone number in your phone so you can get on the phone fast.
— For heaven's sake, don't leave home without cash and a credit card, no matter whether you are flying or driving. Money can't stop trouble but it can make it more bearable.
— You may be thinking of ignoring the "get to the airport two hours before a flight" mandate. Don't. You may be able to overcome the jam-ups at security, but oftentimes it's the traffic at the airports that's the issue. If you're leaving your car at the airport, parking can be tight and shuttles full or maddeningly slow.
— If you are going to miss your flight because of something you did, call the airline (and you'll have the number because you will have saved it after reading tip No. 3) and cancel or risk losing the value of your ticket. Yes, you'll have to pay a change fee on most airlines (not Southwest, but it does want to be told about cancellations) that can be up to $150, but you won't lose the full value of your ticket.
— If you do have to rebook your outbound flight, make the agent reconfirm your return flight. When one part of your ticket is canceled, often the other part is canceled as well. If the agent demurs, insist and take down all pertinent information — confirmation number, name of agent, time of discussion etc.
— Here's some good news (finally): You'll be paying less for your driving trip this year than last, but don't plan your next vacation based on the savings. Gasoline prices dropped last week to $3.585 in the L.A. area (although they inched up slightly by week's end); last year, you were paying about 40 cents more per gallon, all according to the Auto Club of Southern California. How much will you save? If your car gets 30 mpg and you're going to San Francisco for the holiday, you'll pay $45.65 one way. At last year's prices, your savings are a little more than $5 one way.
— If you want to go where the crowds aren't, the club says, skip San Diego, Las Vegas, San Francisco, the Central Coast and the Grand Canyon, the most popular destinations for SoCal travelers this holiday, according to the Auto Club.
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New Jersey Man Sentenced to More Than 13 Years for Foreclosure Rescue Scam
PHILADELPHIA, PA – June 21, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Gennaro Rauso, 47, of Trenton, NJ, was sentenced today to 160 months in prison for several mortgage fraud related charges, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Rauso owned and operated a real estate management company—D&B Property Investors—that purported to help financially distressed homeowners with their foreclosure problems. He pleaded guilty in July 2010 to the mortgage fraud scheme, willfully failing to file tax returns on behalf of D&B Property Investors, defrauding the government of taxes owed on more than $1.6 million in income, and other fraud schemes involving credit cards and cashiers checks.
Between January 2005 and December 2008, while operating D&B Property Investors, Rauso sought out homeowners who were facing immediate foreclosure on their homes and offered to help them avoid foreclosure. In a flyer mailed to these homeowners, Rauso claimed that he could help homeowners fight the mortgage companies on their behalf, while at the same time helping them to rebuild their credit so they could keep their home. Once a homeowner agreed to participate, Rauso had the homeowner transfer the title of the home over to him for a nominal sum. Rauso then had the homeowner sign a lease, making the homeowner a tenant who paid rent to Rauso. He then delayed and obstructed the foreclosure process by, among other things, filing federal bankruptcy petitions. During this time when foreclosure was delayed, Rauso collected monthly rent payments from the homeowners, but made no payments to the mortgage companies. Ultimately, Rauso used more than 200 homeowners and their properties in his scheme to defraud mortgage companies, resulting in Rauso pocketing at least $400,000 in diverted or lost mortgage payments. With respect to at least four of the homes involved, the mortgages were federally insured by the Federal Housing Administration ("FHA"), resulting in substantial claims paid by the FHA once the mortgages defaulted.
In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Michael M. Baylson ordered Rauso to pay a special assessment of $1,400 and five years of supervised release.
The case was investigated by the FBI, IRS Criminal Investigation Division, Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Leo R. Tsao.
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It is interesting for me to write about Arriving and Diving right now, as I sit at a "local" (I have yet to find permanent housing so "local" is a relative term) bakery/cafe on Division in Portland, OR. Here, I am landing, not diving quite yet. I have yet to take public transportation and am being really gentle with myself concerning the fact that I have only been to areas within walking distance of where I am staying. After this training and after San Francisco, that seems like the gentle path to take. And the West Coast is progressively along this journey more and more about taking the gentle path.
But on my first day of training, I did what we called in Yoga School "Arriving and Diving." Last Wednesday, upon circulating our introductions to one another, Keith mentioned that he has been "arriving and diving" a lot lately. The nods around the room were almost unanimous with identification. Mine certainly so. I arrived off a flight from JFK to SFO (a trip I hadn't made in just over two years). L picked me up at the airport (thank Goddess), drove us to the beach. From the beach, we went to the orientation for the training at the Shambhala Center and from Shambhala we went to Yoga Garden SF for L's amazing vinyasa class. Oh, and I'm not done…from there, we went to Marin where we stayed (slept only) for the next week with L's amazing, caring, pampering family. Arriving and diving? That's an understatement!
It is so important to land gracefully in our yoga practice and outside of it. The ability to simply arrive, to enter a room, a space, step on a mat, step into life, requires deep courage. Even if diving feels inevitable (and I seem to always be busy so it usually is), it is still important to take the time to simply be. During our first master class in this training, Keith took us through a sequence that I lost myself in…in the best way. Later, when we broke it down, I confessed that I would not know how to describe the sequence to him if I tried. It is that full being into the present mOMent that the asana practice teaches us to practice that takes my breath away and returns it every time I take the time to simply arrive.


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The The BBC's share of the national television audience slipped last year with teenagers switching off in "disproportionately large numbers".
The results were revealed by the corporation on Friday in its annual report for 2005/2006 .
The percentage of people watching at least 15 minutes of BBC television programming, the BBC's measure of audience "reach", fell last year to 85.3 per cent, down from 86.6 per cent.
Radio audiences remained stable, with weekly reach down just 0.1 per cent at 66.5 per cent.
Website grows
But Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, said he was sure that the corporation's overall audience would prove to have grown if the numbers logging on to the corporation's website were included in its official reach data.
The number of users accessing bbc.co.uk surged to a weekly average reach of 12.3 million compared to 8.7 million the previous year.
The BBC received 3.1 billion pounds of income from 25 million licence payers last year and, as a consequence, audience share is a key measure for measuring its success.
Last month, Thompson appointed Andy Parfitt, Radio One Controller, to look at ways of boosting the BBC's offering for teenagers.
The decline in television audience coincided with above inflation rises for many of the corporation's senior executives as part of a two-year programme to bring their salaries up to market levels.
Thompson's salary jumped by more than 10 per cent to 619,000 pounds, angering staff unions who saw 1,100 jobs go last year in an efficiency drive with a further 2,000 due to be lost over the next 12 months.
Unions said they would be meeting on Monday to consider industrial action over proposed changes to the BBC pension scheme and a sub-inflation pay offer of 2.6 per cent.
Staff face further changes under a major revamp of the corporation under its "Creative Future" plan which Thompson said he hoped to unveil on July 19.
The reorganisation is designed to make it easier for the BBC to provide its programming and content on demand across television, radio, internet and other digital platforms.


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INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, TOKYO, JAPAN, APRIL 7, 2005 MellanoxTM Technologies Ltd, the leader in performance business computing interconnects, today launched the world s first dual-port 10Gb/s Server I/O Module (SIOM) Adapter. Based on high performance PCI Express* interconnect technology, Mellanox s SIOM supports closed-chassis, hot-plug, I/O-adapter removal and insertion. This capability expands the flexibility and serviceability of InfiniBand server clusters.
In addition, SIOM provides dedicated cooling, single-bulk power supply, and a robust form factor all contributing to highly reliable InfiniBand fabrics for server-to-server and server-to-storage applications.
Today s mission-critical data center and compute intensive applications demand InfiniBand s 10Gb/s world-class interconnect performance, said Yuval Leader, Vice President of System Solutions for Mellanox Technologies. Add to this SIOM s versatility and reliability, and IT Managers now have a complete, worry-free, interconnect solution for performance server and storage clustering over InfiniBand.
SIOM Technology Demonstration
The InfiniBand SIOM adapter will be demonstrated together with a SIOM-based server platform from IWILL, a leader in the design, manufacturing and deployment of workstation and server motherboard platforms. This demonstration will take place in IWILL s exhibition booth at three international Intel Developer Forums taking place in Tokyo, Taiwan and Beijing, from April 7 through 15. In addition, the InfiniBand SIOM module can be seen at Mellanox s exhibition booth (H06) at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing starting on April 14.
About Mellanox
Mellanox field-proven offering of interconnect solutions for communications, storage and compute clustering are changing the shape of both business and technical computing. As the leader of industry-standard, InfiniBand-based silicon and system solutions, Mellanox is the driving force behind the most cost-effective, highest performance interconnect solutions available.
For more information on Mellanox, visit www.mellanox.com.
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This week Joel, Leo and special guest host from the AT Banter podcast Ryan Fleury get together to discuss the latest happenings in the world of accessible tech. Make sure to check out their site and download this week's VIP for all the fun CBT Banter.
Articles This week Include the Following:
Artificial Intelligence And Text Recognition Unite In Microsoft's Latest IPhone App, For Free
Everyone is talking about the new app from Microsoft called Seeing AI. Is it a revolutionary game changer for the blind or is it just a toy app? Find out what the guys have to say about the latest accessible app from Microsoft.
Hands Free Typing: Dictate Speech Recognition For Microsoft Office
Virtual assistants have come a long way in helping both the blind and sighted community with being able to do many tasks without the use of their hands. It seems that Microsoft may be starting a new trend on the PC with their latest Dictation add-on. Listen in to see if Leo, Ryan or Joel are going to start dictating all their emails and documents from now on.
U.S. To Fund Advanced Brain-Computer Interfaces
This week may seem like we're talking about a new plot for the latest spy-fiction best seller. However, there's no fiction in what a branch of the department of defense is looking to do with your brain. Tune in to see who's first on the show to get wired up with a neural-interface.
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We love it here at Cool Blind Tech when our listeners send us email. This week, CBT responds to questions about the accessible virtual DJ software. The company is called Algoriddim and the software is called DJay Pro for the Mac. Although the software works with several DJ consoles, the one that we recommend is the Pioneer DDJ SB2 which can be bought on Amazon or various musical instrument retail stores. Check out the podcast for more details on this incredible software.
During the show we mention that the Windows 10 version of DJay was in beta. It is no longer in beta and can be purchased through the Windows app store or downloaded from algoriddim as a demo. Stay tune to hear about first impressions for the windows version of this app.
Cool Picks this Week Include:
Old Time Radio Player
Ryan tells us about an app he uses on his Android device to listen to some great radio dramas from the golden years of radio.
Seeing AI for iOS
This app is definitely going to be a Cool Pick for many over the next few weeks. However, Leo chose it first and so he gets to talk about it as his pick of the week.
M-Audio Keystation 49 II
Joel continues to try out all the cool things he can do with Reaper. The next step is working with midi and so he gets to show off this great midi keyboard that works quite well with Reaper.


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Dallas, TX – As a part of the Transform Campaign, DBU is pleased to announce the naming of the East Campus Development in honor of John and Nita Ford.
The Ford Village will encompass 20 acres of land and provide housing space for some 500 future DBU students. These students will be involved in DBU's first Residential College, an intentionally focused program for developing Christian servant leaders from a variety of vocations.
Thanks to the generosity of John and Nita Ford, construction on the new development is set to take place this fall, as Phase 1 of the project will begin and include clearing the land, building a two-lane car bridge to go over O'Guinn Creek to access the land, and the initial buildings of the Residential College.
The Fords have been long-time friends and generous supporters of the University. John Ford has been a leader in the North Dallas and Collin County business community for years and has helped to establish DBU's annual Tom Landry Leadership Award, which honors community leaders in Collin County and Arlington. Nita Ford has served for 16 years on the DBU Board of Trustees and has remained an active member of the DBU Women's Auxiliary Board as well.
"We could not be more thrilled that Mr. and Mrs. Ford have responded to our desire to increase student housing which is in high demand through a generous gift that will serve as a catalyst to bring about the ability to accommodate nearly 500 new DBU students," explained Dr. Adam C. Wright, DBU President.
Construction on Phase 1 of the Transform Campaign will begin this fall, and the Residential College is set to open Fall 2019, and students will be able to apply to the Residential College in Spring 2019.
For more information about the Transform Campaign, please visit www.dbu.edu/transform, or contact Jeffrey Johnson, DBU Vice President for Advancement, at 214-333-5759 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Why the 'stuff' won't bring you inner peace
Over the past few years, spirituality has become incredibly trendy. It's cool to meditate and act out of intention. Waking up to watch the sunrise and swimming in the ocean is a must do, and yoga has been embraced by so many people, from the corporate world to our kids. I'm all for it – the more people who are living from love, the better this world will be.
As part of this shift, there has been a rise in intentional products. Clothing, food, jewellery, candles, furniture, crystals, angel cards, oracle cards; the list is endless. And of course, this is absolutely amazing. It means that when I want to purchase something, I can choose ethically sourced, handmade or local made with a whole lot more ease.
It also means that the things I wear can be infused with high vibrations, love and true connection. What a blessing!
But the issue comes when the 'stuff', which may be intentional or not, becomes something we believe we need to have in order to be spiritual.
Here's what I mean. Our minds are clever little cookies and when it comes to growth and expansion, we usually come up against some type of resistance. I see this all the time with my clients, particularly around meditation.
They set the intention to meditate, but they haven't had the chance to buy the new yoga mat, the guided meditation or the essential oil, so they don't do it.
This is fear disguised as spirituality.
Having that particular essential oil won't automatically make you spiritual, or buying that kimono doesn't mean that your chakras are aligned. It's just a form of external validation that we use to disguise what's going on inside.
'If I have all of the stuff, and look like I'm zen, then maybe I will be zen.'
Big. Huge. No.
That's just not how it works.
The key to embracing spirituality and truly reaping the benefits comes from taking action. It starts with sitting your butt down on the floor and breathing. It comes from committing to journaling daily, from setting intentions, from calling yourself out when you are acting out of alignment with your highest self and from honouring the inner you, every single day.
There's no magic pill, easy path or yoga mat that will do the work for you.
A note on love and fear …
In each moment we have a choice to act from love or fear. Love leads us closer to our divine purpose and true self, and fear holds us back, and stops us from moving forward.
Choosing to wait to commit to your spiritual practice based on external items is fear speaking loud and clear. That's fear telling you that without those things in your life you can't actually be spiritual.
So how do you move through it?
Ask yourself these three questions before purchasing something intentional …
Why am I purchasing this?
What has led you to purchase this item? Is this a diversion from the actual task? Do you think that this will bring you 'something' that in fact, you know deep down you can do for yourself?
And for bonus points, journal about this. You might be surprised at what clarity you bring yourself!
What would love do?
Would love tell you to buy it anyway? Probably not. Love would tell you that you've got this, and that you are perfect without all of the stuff. Hell yes it would!
How can I take positive action?
What can you do next in response to this process? Maybe you learnt that your obsession with a particular online store was a way of avoiding that thing at work that has been really boiling you up inside. Maybe you've been seeking out in order to avoid what will come up in meditation. Give yourself one action step that you can do right away, that will move you closer to love.
I want to finish by saying that there is absolutely nothing wrong with purchasing intentional products and making them a part of your life. They can deepen your practice, strengthen your connection, amplify your intentions and help you express yourself to the outside world. Just make sure that they're coming into your life from a place of love.
I'd love you to share with me in the comments section below how you may have avoided real spiritual growth in the past by diverting your attention to material things. Has this highlighted something for you that you want to work on? Be brave, declare it below, and hold yourself accountable! (It's the first step!)
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Kate is a love fuelled coach, speaker, writer and yogi. Her purpose is to help vibrant women like you, reignite their spark and start living on purpose. She's an advocate for self care, living gently and getting super comfortable in your own skin. She's passionate about passion, and loves nothing more than seeing women live a life they love.


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Also available in 35g share size and 70g full sized bar.
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Christmas RecapMonday, December 30, 2013
How is it already January 8th?? Christmas was, like, yesterday-- I still have presents sitting in opened boxes, yet to be put away. I finally went back to work this week, so I feel like I'm just getting my brain on straight.
{In case you're confused, I'm pulling a fast one on the ol' Blogger and back dating this. So one day, when I finally print all these off in a pretty little bound book, they will be in chronological order. My grandkids will think I'm SO organized. HA.}
All that to say, I've just gotten around to scrolling through our Christmas pictures, so here they are! Charlotte's first Christmas with us...
Before we hit the road, we wanted to open the gifts Grandma and Grandpa Grassmeyer mailed from Nebraska {i.e. we didn't want to pack presents...}. So we Skyped them on the laptop and they were able to participate almost as if they were here— it worked so well! We're a 21st century family.
They were able to see her face when she opened her very first baby doll! It is a Cabbage Patch doll that is coincidently named "Charlie." Charlotte was starting to get "baby" down, but this sent her over the edge. EVERYTHING is "baby" now. And the child who has never played with a single toy for more than ten minutes dutifully carries this doll around everywhere. No prompting. Just carrying it around in a headlock. I die.
Sunday was a mostly uneventful drive to Savannah. We were SO eager to meet our newest niece, Foster, but she needed a few extra days in the hospital to get better adjusted to this great big world. So we waited until Monday to meet her-- her exhausted parents {my brother and sister in law}, were rockstars to let us invade their house to meet her.
I can't even believe Charlotte used to be so small. And it was so cool watching my brother be a daddy… They are great parents already—she is one lucky Foster.
Christmas Eve was great. We let Charlotte sit with us in church for the first time since she was teeny tiny. It was so precious to have her with us while we were singing Christmas carols-- it was one of those moments I'd always looked forward to in having babies and now it was happening. I was careful to take it in and breathe in prayers of gratitude. We really are so blessed.
{And then the sermon started and Tyler bolted with her to the lobby.}
The rest of the night we ate good food and soup in our Christmas jammies and wrapped presents and watched movies. I couldn't even handle this kid's cuteness in her reindeer jams.
My brother David, the Arizona dweller, asked for a "western" shirt for Christmas. So we trolled all of Savannah, Georgia looking for a "western shirt" and found this ridiculous piece of fabric at Macy's. It was $100. A HUNDRED dollars. Clearly, it was joke and we kept the receipt. But his face was worth it. {I think, right Mom? I didn't put up any money toward that...}
Foster slept through the whole thing. If I'd had a kid that small at Christmas, I would have curled up with her under a lit Christmas tree and stayed there until Valentine's Day.
We switched up the family game this year—our usual White Elephant was becoming…less funny and more predictable in years past. So we played something called The Name Game this year. I think everyone had more fun than it looks like…
The rest of the weekend involved me getting Tuberculosis, a double date with Becky & Randy {three dollar margaritas + Saving Mr. Banks}, a visit with my friend Christie {we've seen each other twice in three months—we're on a roll!}, an aggressive game of Clue, and salt dough ornament making with Halley Jane, my surrogate first born.
Of course, I dropped Charlotte's and it smashed into a million pieces...and the rest looked like burnt pretzels. But I got a precious memory.
It was such a fun first Christmas… Having kids just changes everything! I didn't need a single thing this year. I was so thankful to just be together as a family and revel in Charlotte's joy. We have so much to look forward to in the years to come—it truly keeps getting better.
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 15:13


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Straight Outta Luck formed in 2009 when Missouri transplant Ryan Jacobs met up with Natalie McFall, a veteran of the punk scenes in Fort Collins and Denver. Although he was initially reluctant to sing, Jacobs became the perfect vocalist for the band's raw, dynamic and urgent songs. McFall and Jacobs teamed up with former Mitya drummer Dan Datema, whom Jacobs had known from the punk scene back in Missouri.
A year and a half ago, Erik Landgren joined the outfit, stabilizing the lineup. Landgren and McFall had traveled in the same punk circles for years, and both had been members of Social Trend Killers at different times in that band's history. We recently spoke with the bandmembers about their first tour, which was nearly aborted last summer.
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Erik Landgren: It was the first tour, and when we were about an hour outside Topeka, Dan was driving, and we blew a tire going seventy miles per hour. It took a fire truck to come spray the car down because the fuel line had gotten cut, and the AC and coolant lines. The tow truck dropped the van and the busted wheel off in the parking lot of the show.
Natalie McFall: Afterward, it was like a Jerry Springer episode. Some girl was trying to go home with some other dude. Her boyfriend was there. The boyfriend is trying to fight the other dude, and she was in the car, pounding on the window trying to get out.
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Dan Datema: After the show, nobody left. They just moved into the parking lot and stayed there for two more hours drinking and fighting. The next morning, we got towed to a Walmart and got the tire fixed, but they didn't tell us what they didn't fix, like the AC line and the coolant line. We drove toward Lawrence, and the van overheated and shut down right at the turnpike. We MacGyvered the line and limped it to Lawrence, ten miles at a time.
Ryan Jacobs: One of my best friends from high school owns KC Autoworks. He sent the tow driver out to us in Lawrence for gas money and took us to the shop, and my friend fixed the van for free and sent us on our way — and saved the tour.
DD: When the tire first blew out, we realized the gas was pouring out of the van onto the hot pavement, and it was one of those moments of "Everybody out!" We walked down the road and stood there silently, pretty much waiting for our van to explode at any minute.
RJ: After we got the van fixed, it was the best tour you could have asked for. It's not a tour if your van doesn't break down.


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This kefir fermented honey thyme sourdough cornbread is more nutritious than your typical cornbread, easy on digestion and naturally sweetened! Using milk kefir to ferment the batter adds extra yumminess to the bread, without the maintenance of the sourdough starter. The tanginess of the kefir resembles the flavour of lemon, which pairs really well with honey and thyme to make this cornbread extra special.
Do you make new year goals? I do. I try to keep them small and achievable. This year, I want to give it a try at making traditional sourdough bread. It's a goal of mine, because I have been intimidated by the maintenance of the sourdough starter, considering I already have my kombucha, milk kefir, water kefir, fermented vegetables and kids to take care of.
Therefore, I have been taking shortcuts to sour my breads with kefir and all sorts of other live culture liquids. Note that I used my home-made organic whole milk kefir to ferment this sourdough cornbread. I have not tested with any store-bought kefir, so I don't know if store-bought will work the same. If you tried, let me know in the comment below.
Now, you will probably ask, "doesn't home-made kefir require meaintanance?" Yes, but nobody makes milk kefir at home solely to use as a sourdough starter. It's no extra work, and the older batches of kefir that started going yeasty are great to be used up as an extra potent souring agent in baking.
I love eating cornbreads, but I could hardly find any being sold in grocery stores, let alone fermented ones. I had to make my own, then this kefir fermented sourdough cornbread was born. The fact that the batter was fermented with whole milk kefir, added the extra layer of tanginess and complexity. My kids kept asking to bring them to school in their lunch boxes.
Now let's look at the positives of a fermented sourdough cornbread, or any sourdough breads. The grains are fermented to negate the effects of phytates, making the bread more digestible and nutritious. Even many gluten-intolerant people reported that they can eat fermented sourdough bread containing wheat, as a result of the gluten being pre-digested during fermentation. I don't have gluten sensitivity, so I can't tell the difference of eating fermented vs. non-fermented wheat products. If you have tested out for yourself, I would love to hear your experience.
More milk kefir recipes you will love:
- Superfoods Kefir Maca Smoothie
- Mango Kefir Ice Cream w/o Ice Cream Maker {Video}
- Raspberry Kefir Cream Cheese Spread
- Kefir Cheese Smoked Salmon Wrap (Probiotic Sushi + Brain Food)
This kefir fermented honey thyme sourdough cornbread is more nutritious than your typical cornbread and easy on digestion! Using milk kefir to ferment the batter adds extra yumminess to the bread, without the maintenance of the sourdough starter. The tanginess of the kefir resembles the flavour of lemon, which pairs really well with honey and thyme to make this cornbread extra special.
- 1/4 cup grass-fed unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 cup organic whole milk kefir (See notes below)
- 2 large organic eggs
- 1/4 cup raw honey
- 1 1/4 cup non-GMO fine ground cornmeal
- 1 cup unbleached all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp fine sea salt or Himalayan salt
- 3 tbsp thyme
Melt the butter, take care to make sure it's not hot, then combine with eggs, honey, and milk kefir. Mix all wet ingredients in a bowl.
Combine cornmeal, flour, salt and thyme. Mix all dry ingredients, then gently fold in the wet ingredients, until evenly combined. Do not over mix.
Leave the batter covered in room temperature to ferment for 12 hours, or overnight.
Very gently transfer the batter into a regular loaf pan (5x9 inches). You should see air holes in the batter and the batter is light and fluffy. Do not stir the batter to make it sink back down. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 400ºF for 40 minutes or until the inside is no longer wet.
- I used home-made kefir from real kefir grains. Older kefir too yeasty to drink are great to use as starter in baking. Older kefir are usually stronger and faster at fermenting the batter as well.
- The prep and cook time do not include fermentation time.
- This kefir fermented sourdough cornbread tastes best when it's hot out of the oven.
Have you checked out my probiotic mango kefir icecream on YouTube? I also started shooting new videos for older recipes, like this one for the ginger-mustard-miso Brussels sprouts. Follow me on YouTube to never miss a video.