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Atheist billboard attacks Romney's faith, but Mormons say it's misleading
By Dan Merica, CNN
Washington (CNN) – When he campaigns in southern Florida on Monday, Mitt Romney will have an unwelcome traveling partner: a mobile billboard attacking his religion.
The billboard on wheels, sponsored by American Atheists, attacks the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for its treatment of African-Americans and gays, though the church says the attacks are inaccurate.
The billboard, which American Atheists says will follow the Romney campaign for seven days, features two messages on Mormonism: "No Blacks Allowed (until 1978)" and "No Gays Allowed (Current)."
The first line is a reference to the church's practice of denying lay priesthood to black male members until 1978.
Though the church did not allow black male members to be ordained before that year - when the church head says he received a revelation to reverse the policy - it did allow blacks and members of all racial and ethnic groups to be church members. According to The Second Book of Nephi, a part of Mormon doctrine, "Black and white, bond and free, male and female; … all are alike unto God."
The billboard's second line refers to what American Atheists President David Silverman says is the religion's "intolerance" and "bigotry" when it comes to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
But the church denies such categorizations. It accepts gay members, though church doctrine condemning homosexuality has not changed and the church strongly opposes same-sex marriage. Some gay rights activists say the church is subtly growing friendlier toward the LGBT community, including voicing support for some gay rights.
"People are surely free to disagree with us on the facts," Dale Jones, a church spokesman, wrote in an e-mail to CNN. "This group seems not to know that there have been black members of the Church since our earliest history, and there are many faithful gay members of the Church today."
Jones continued: "We would be happy to introduce the (American Atheists president) to any of our millions of members of different ethnicity who would be happy to educate him on our racial diversity."
Silverman denies the billboard, which is costing the group $8,000, is an attack on Romney specifically. A spokeswoman for the Romney campaign said she would not comment on the sign.
"Nobody seems to be talking about the implications of having a very religious Mormon president," Silverman said. "There are a lot of things about Mormons that people don't know, including the fact that racism is an important part of their dogma."
The LDS Church has largely tried to stay out of the politics surrounding the presidential campaign, even though it has received increased attention due to Romney's candidacy. This billboard, writes Jones, is "obviously" about the "personal politics" of American Atheists.
"We have consistently kept out of the political campaign," Jones wrote. "People can see this (billboard) for what it is."
American Atheists has a long history in using billboards to call out religion and get its message out. During the political conventions in August and September, the group put up billboards attacking Mormonism and Christianity, taking aim at the faith of both presidential candidates.
This mobile billboard, however, is a departure from the standard American Atheist tactic of multiple billboards on multiple religions. According to Silverman, this is because Romney's faith hasn't been addressed enough in the 2012 election.
"We all understand the implications of having a Christian president. We do not understand the implications of having a Mormon president," Silverman said. "We are not taking a position on the election, we are taking a stance on ignorance."
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When blogging began, many of us started blogging for fun. Blogging is fun. It's a great way to express yourself, to meet and greet people, and spread your social self around.
It is also a way to make a little extra cash. However, once you start making money with your blog, your blog becomes a business. It's no longer just about the fun, it's about the business of blogging.
When your blog becomes your business, you need to treat it as a business. Whether it is a blog or podcast, the process of conversion begins with a mission statement and purpose – with knowing what you are going to do and how.
Blog Purpose
The purpose of your blog is called many things. It's your blog purpose, blog goals, mission statement, and blog focus. It's what you blog about and why.
In the business world, your blog purpose is described as an explicit description of your customer demographics and the niche market and industry the blog covers.
In other words, it's the end to the following statement:
"My blog is about ____________________."
Your blog purpose must:
- Be specific.
- Be easy to remember.
- Be recognizable.
- Make a promise.
- Endure.
A long drawn out blog purpose, with too many words, is not specific nor easy to remember. It's boring before you even get started. Your blog purpose is your focus, thus, it should be in focus. Clear. Think ten words or less to keep it short, sweet, and memorable. Something you can say quickly at parties and conferences when asked, "What do you do?"
It must have recognizable words within the statement. This is not the time to use creative language. It's time to use keywords and search terms that define your blog's purpose. Words anyone can read and instantly understand what you do and what your blog is about. Words people use to search for your content.
It must make a promise, a commitment, that you can follow through on. People trust people who speak clear and specifically, but also those who keep promises.
It must also endure. A blog is a commitment to time, not just a few weeks or even months. If you are turning your blog into a business, you are making an agreement for a year, two, maybe even five, to your blog. Make your blog purpose be a commitment you want to keep for the next five years.
Your blog purpose may shift and evolve over time. That's natural. Start with a strong, clear purpose, a statement describing your blog's content for the next year, and it's amazing how much better you will blog.
A clear blog purpose sends a message. It says "This is what I do" without any doubt. The words help keep your blogging on track, reminding you not to stray from the path. It also sets you up as an expert because the world knows the moment they arrive on your blog that this is what you do and know.
Define Your Customer
When your blog becomes a business, it also turns readers into customers. When they walk through the door of your blog, you want them to make you money, right?
It's no longer about watching your blog stats and increasing your blog traffic. It's now about keeping them and making they come back for more.
Defining a blog customer is much harder than traditional demographic estimates. With a brick store front, you knew your neighbors and community. You knew who would choose to shop in your store. You knew them, you knew what they wanted, and you did your best to meet their needs. These were your people.
On the web, anyone in the world can type in the search terms that bring them to your blog, if you write about what they are looking for. So how do you clarify your customer base if it could potentially be anyone?
In my research about blogging and building blog network relationships with Liz Strauss, we discovered that there are three core ways to identify your blog customers.
- The ideal customer for your blog is one who is a member of your group. They enjoy the same things as you do and visit the same types of sites. They are interested in what you are interested in.
- The ideal customer for your blog is someone who wants to communicate and share. They want to learn from you and ask questions. They want a relationship built upon your blog content.
- The ideal customer for your blog looks and thinks like YOU.
It's a new way of thinking. Blogging is changing the world of communication and interaction. Thus, the customer base is changing. Your blog customer is you.
They think much like you. They like how you think. You like what you write. They like what you write. You want to help them, they like being helped, and in turn, they will help you.
Blog for you, and you will attract customers like you.
How do you describe you?
According to Liz Strauss:
We learn as writers that individual readers share common interests. We learn as marketers to meet each individual where he or she stands. I learned as a publisher that a well-defined prototype is exact and as explicit as possible. A strong prototype is like a single stone in the water — we can extrapolate it in rings to larger and larger views.
Start with a description of you and your needs and how your blog would meet your needs as a customer. Then extrapolate that description to your ideal readers – your customers. Now you have a picture of who you serve and how to serve them even better on your blog.
Ask yourself, "How do I sell my products and services to me?"
What Are You Selling?
Before you can start your blog, you must be clear about what you are selling on your blog. Your traditional options are:
- A product or product line.
- Your services.
- You.
If you are selling a product or product line, your blog becomes about the item, its manufacturing, processing, distribution, quality, integrity, and reputation. It's about the industry your product is in and the latest news and activities.
If you are selling a service, such as a freelancer, public speaker, consultant, broker, or agent, you are selling two things: you and your expertise. Your blog's purpose emphasizes that you know what you are talking about, you've the history and expertise to back it up, and "you" as a person and expert are worth knowing and working with.
If you are selling you, your blog is your resume. Every word, every graphic, every comment – on your blog and off – and every microscopic detail of your blog is about who you are, what you know, your expertise, and your character.
Many employers are looking at blogs before hiring, or even to find potential employees. It's now part of the normal background check to search for the person's name and find their blogs, comments, and other mention of their potential or current employees. Let your blog speak well of you, as well as all your online activities.
Blog Content Sells
Knowing your blog purpose, customer and product line is critical, but when you arrive on a web page from a search engine or referring link, what's the first thing you start looking for?
It's a hunt. You skim past the pretty, blog title and post title. Your eyes fly around the page, and it comes to rest on the content. The content holds the answers, not the pretty and fluff.
To build web traffic and readership, it's all about your content. Your content is true product you are selling. The rest is incidental. By-products, if you will. Content is your inventory. It's what keeps them coming back for more.
Your blog content must do 5 things:
- It must sell you and your services.
- It must establish you as an expert and convince the reader that you know what you are writing or talking about.
- It must make them want to participate in the process.
- It must make them want to tell others.
- It must make them want to come back for more.
In order to do this, you must first know how to write and convey your message. Blogging is about writing, even if you use multimedia. It's about the words. Search engines only read words, not pictures, so your skill with communication and language is critical.
A blog is not static like a website, a one-time, sometimes updated block of content about you and your business. A blog needs feeding, like a pet, with quality content published consistently over time.
When working with new blog clients or those changing from a personal blog to a professional blog, I recommend they email me three to five blog posts a week on their chosen speciality for one to two months, before the blog is ready for business. I review and critique it. It's a lesson in learning how to write a blog, but more importantly, it's a lesson in learning how to produce blog content. If you can keep up the content on a consistent and timely format for one to two months, without getting bored, running out of ideas, or procrastination, you're on the right track.
Once you start blogging, you have to keep producing content, so choose your blog business close to your heart, one you are passionate about. You may be writing on the subject for a very long time, so make sure you enjoy it and can keep talking about it for one to five years.
Defining the Blog Title, Description, and Structure
Once you have your blog purpose and a clear understanding your customer and what and how you are selling your product or service via your blog, it's now time to structure your blog, using these as our guidelines.
- Strong Blog Title: Your blog title, the name of your blog, must be immediately recognizable as serving your blog purpose and customer. This is the time to not create a disconnect. Make the blog title explain the blog's purpose.
- Strong and Clear Blog Purpose Statement: The description of your blog is your blog purpose. Put it near the top, in the header or top of a sidebar so it is among the first things people see upon arrival. This gives them a clear message as to what your blog is about and reminds you of why are you blogging.
- Let Nothing Interfere With the Content: Let nothing get in between your message and your reader. Don't put ads all over the page, or blinking graphics and pictures. Help them get right to the reason they are here: the content. The sooner they get your message, the faster they are hooked on the quality and intent of your message – and the sooner they will come back and bring their friends.
- Instantly Recognizable Look and Feel: The moment a visitor arrives on your blog, the blog must be instantly familiar and look like it has the answer to their question. It begins with the blog title, backed up by the rest of the content, supporting text, and design. Make every design element count.
Think of your blog as an office not a playground. It's a business, so treat the visitor like they are entering a professional office. Make the design appropriate to the type of business you are running. You wouldn't expect pink and purple walls and painted clowns in a funeral home office, but you might in a family dentist's office. Make the design reflect the content and be instantly recognizable as the place with the answers they need.
Turning Your Blog From Personal to Professional
When you turn your blog from a personal blog to a professional blog, the blog is now about the expert, not the person. You can no longer write about your sick parent, troubles at work, stupid people you meet, or other personal and "unprofessional" subjects. It's not longer about whatever you think of that day. It's now about your customers, your readers, and meeting their needs and expectations.
It's about turning your blog into your office. One that is open and friendly while still being the office of a personable expert in your field.
Originally published in Blogger and Podcaster Magazine
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Vail Daily column: Saving Land Where People Live
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Saving land for people… forever. This is one of the things we do at the Eagle Valley Land Trust. In addition to saving land for wildlife habitat, to preserve our Western ranching and mining heritage and to protect air, water and environmental quality, one of the Land Trust's primary goals is to ensure that the people of our community enjoy the benefits of land conservation. We believe land conservation should have a human face, especially in a community like ours that depends upon a robust outdoor recreation and tourism driven economy. We believe in providing front door access from local neighborhoods to conservation areas; saving lands that are within walking distance from where people live.
According to the 2010 United States Census, there are 52,197 full time residents in Eagle County. And we have all heard the statistics that over 80 percent of Eagle County is public land. But also consider this: 30,877 people in Eagle County live within 1 mile of the I-70 corridor, which is nearly 60 percent of the overall population.
The majority of the people in our community do not live close to our public lands; where they do live is along the valley floor near the interstate corridor, which is primarily all privately owned land. Thus, it just makes good sense to be looking at land opportunities and conservation projects near where people live, so the quality of life we all enjoy here in our valley may be maintained. To that end, your local Land Trust has focused significant energy and resources on publicly accessible conservation easements on the valley floor for the enjoyment and education of the people of Eagle County.
Here are a few examples:
In January 2012, over 32 acres of land and over a mile of Eagle River frontage between Miller Ranch and Arrowhead was permanently preserved. The land is known as the Miller Ranch Community Open Space. 5,204 people live within one mile of this publicly accessible conservation easement. This area is highly used on a daily basis by parents with strollers, dogs romping with kids, runners, hikers, cross country skiers, snow-shoers, fishermen and bird watchers.
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In June 2012, the Homestead Conservation and Public Recreation Project, a public-private partnership between the Land Trust, Eagle County and local landowners, created four new permanent conservation easements just south of the Homestead neighborhood – 4,637 people live within one mile of these four conservation easements, with 322 acres and over four miles of connected trail systems. We have conserved this land as open space for the perpetual enjoyment of the people of our community.
The Eagle River Preserve, a 72-acre park in the heart of Edwards which was saved in 2005, is one of the signature conservation easements in Eagle County. The Preserve is an outdoor recreational gem in the central valley with 7,497 people living within one mile of the easement. It boasts over one and a half miles of public access to the Eagle River, an extensive nature trail system with ponds and streams, an off-leash dog area and a historic log home built by the railroad in 1909.
An estimated 6,636 people live within one mile of the West Avon/Beaver Creek Point conservation easement being finalized between the Land Trust and the Town of Avon (as part of the larger Eagle Valley Land Exchange Project.) These 468 acres of land will serve as a buffer between Singletree and Wildridge, forever preventing suburban sprawl in this area. The Point has been a signature overlook and outdoor recreational spot as far back as any of us can remember. Hordes of locals watch Avon's annual fireworks show here; scores of mountain bikers ride the Avon to Singletree Trail and continue on to June Creek; hikers from Singletree to the west and Wildridge to the east use the loop trails here for their daily exercise. The West Avon/Beaver Creek Point conservation easement is just the most recent example in a very long line of land conservation efforts and open space projects to benefit the people of Eagle County.
Thirteen of the 25 conservation easements held by the Eagle Valley Land Trust allow for public access. We are proud to say that over 22,000 people live within one mile of these publicly accessible conservation easements. Saving land for people is one of the primary missions of your local Land Trust. We are committed to land conservation projects that positively impact the lives of our citizens, and we will continue to fight for land preservation on the valley floor, near where people live. At the Eagle Valley Land Trust we are preserving the character of our community one acre at a time, and saving land for people, forever.
Jason Denhart is the Director of Communications and Development for the Eagle Valley Land Trust. 2010 United States Census data and Eagle County land parcel data were used for the statistics quoted above. For more information regarding the efforts by your local Land Trust to save land for people, visit http://www.evlt.org, call 970-748-7654 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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During my first semester of school, and into my second semester I read children's books because I had been told it was an important part of being a children's librarian. Over the past year I have found that this is true—but it takes more than a belief in this theory to keep reading, to keep blogging and avoid burn out.
Semester One: The Rookie
A year ago I started library school. I began my coursework with a children's literature survey to balance out the rigor of my metadata class in my first semester. "Literature for Youth" covered historic and current trends in youth literature while also discussing evaluation models for children's books. Throughout the semester we read top picks across genres, eras and award winners. The class required me to keep an ongoing blog that discussed one or two books I had read each week. The class was great, blogging was even better, and I fell in love with children's literature. At the end of the semester I made the naive vow that I would keep reading and keep blogging because it would make me a great librarian someday—and it was fun.
Semester Two: Payoff
My children's literature class was over—finding time to read got a bit harder. In my first semester reading was built into my coursework—it was for school—I had to do it. In my second semester, my courses required a different kind of reading. Keeping up with my blog took time and commitment, but I was still eager and up for the challenge. Eventually my work paid off. At the end of my second semester of school I started part-time work in a children's library. I owe a lot of the credit to my blog—it was a great source of conversation during my interview and my comfort level with children's books gave me a lot of confidence in the process.
Semester Three: The Summer of Burnout
This summer I took two classes, I worked a full-time job and I started my part-time library job. I began the summer semester with the expectation that I would read and blog as I had in the previous semesters. I loved reading, I loved blogging, I had a new library job—I would make time for reading. What was I thinking? I'm not sure how other people do with summer courses—the two classes I took were beyond difficult on a 10 week timeline—especially with my workload. Reading and blogging began to feel like a burden. Not living up to my expectations for myself felt worse.
Semester Four: The Rescue and Renewal
At the end of the summer work eased up and I had more time to read. However, I realized that reading children's literature with the idea of being a better librarian was not enough reason for me. The theory made sense but it didn't make sense when all I did was read in my "spare time" or chastise myself for not reading. One of the adult librarians at my job recognized my burn out and she rescued me. I was expressing my frustration with adolescent protagonists–she asked me what kind of grown up books I like to read. I responded with David Sedaris. She stepped away from the desk and returned with a copy of Carl Hiaasen's Skin Tight. I read like a grown up for a while, when I didn't want to read—I didn't read. I took a break.
In the past few weeks, I've been faced with some serious readers advisory work. My patrons never cease to challenge me. During these readers advisory sessions I have discovered and internalized why I need to read children's literature. There is a frustration on both sides of the desk when I can't help a patron find the right book. Yet nothing feels better than a genuine book talk that leads to a happy patron. In the practice of helping patrons, I have found the truth in the theory I learned in my first semester of library school. Being a great children's librarian takes a commitment to children's resources. Reading children's literature is part of the job. At the same time, a job is a job and a work/life balance must be struck. I'm learning to identify when I am bored or bogged down with kids' books or blogging about kids books. When that happens, I indulge myself with a mystery (written for adults)—or a break.
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A commenter on my previous post, "Why citation software should be avoided," noted,
Citations are easy, or should be. Simply provide a key at the beginning of how your citations are organized, then include who,what, when, where, and where found. That should be sufficient for anyone to find it and verify it, if possible. Why do we need an 800+ page book for that?
To a certain extent, I completely agree with this statement.
For me, probably based on my experience using and citing many different record groups for close to 40-60 hours a week for a few years now, citation is easy or "should be." When I look at Evidence Explained (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007), it makes sense to me. I look at specific examples only because I cannot remember a small detail concerning that particular record group. But about 97% of the source citations that I write are written without the use of a template.
Ultimately, source citations provide exactly the information my commenter noted: "who,what, when, where, and where found." And of course, the necessary key to the organization of the citation.
This is precisely the point that I wanted to make with my earlier posts, "Source Citations: Getting it 'Right,'" parts one, two, three, and four. In these posts, I explain the logic behind why several of the more common citations are organized the way they are.
Take a look at the accepted citation for a book, in reference note format:
Michael Hait, Online State Resources for Genealogy, Version 1.0, e-book (Harrington, Del.: Hait Family History Research Publications, 2011), page 37.
This citation provides all of the necessary details to locate this reference.
Now, look at an example from Evidence Explained selected at random:
Midmar Parish (Aberdeenshire, Scotland), Old Parish Registers, OPR 222/1, p. 65, James Edward baptism (1727); FHL microfilm 993,344, item 1. [Evidence Explained, 1st ed., p. 366]
This citation provides the creator (Midmar Parish), the record (Old Parish Registers), the specific volume and page, followed by "where found" (the FHL microfilm).
Here is another example for a completely different record group, again selected at random:
Passenger list, El Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, 1779; Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, edición 141, legajo 689, folio 414; Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain; consulted as microfilm PPC roll 68, Clayton Library, Houston. [Evidence Explained, 1st ed., p. 640]
This one is a little different, but ultimately the same. The first element cited is not the creator, but a specific record contained within a larger record set. Like an article in a journal or a chapter in a book. But otherwise the citation contains the same elements in the same order.
So do we really need an 800-page book of source citation templates?
Not if we "get it." At least, not on every single citation. You may need to use the templates from time to time to figure out some idiosyncracy of a specific record.
But … (please read on in the next post) … but we need Evidence Explained.
If you would like to cite this post:
Michael Hait, CG, "Why we don't always need source citation templates …," Planting the Seeds: Genealogy as a Profession blog, posted 23 Sep 2011 (https://michaelhait.wordpress.com : accessed [access date]). [Please also feel free to include a hyperlink to the specific article if you are citing this post in an online forum.]


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The book that put spring in the step of the phrase "Bolivian marching powder"
A lot of people have suggested that book publishers need to adopt the system used in the fact-checking department at The New Yorker, where Jay McInerney worked briefly. How does it work? McInerney sends up fact-checking — among many other things — with sardonic verve in Bright Lights, Big City (Vintage, 1984), his satirical tale of a young Manhattanite who by day works for an elite magazine and by night seeks relief from the pretension in drug-fueled revels. (This book put spring in the step of the phrase "Bolivian marching powder.") Along with Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, Bright Lights, Big City helped set the tone of fiction in the 1980s and may be McInerney's best book. Among its virtues: It shows the rare, successful use of second-person narration in a novel. That device works partly because it suggests its anti-hero's estrangement from himself: He's alienated enough from his life that he sees himself not as an "I" but as a "you."
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Instant Mashed Potato Pancakes – Made from the Other Kind of Leftovers
These were nothing more than cold mashed potatoes, shaped into patties, and browned in butter. I loved them, and use that same trick to this day. The potato pancakes you see here were born from another kind of leftover potatoes…the end of a box of instant potato buds.
I'd used them while testing the crispy onion rings recipe, but didn't want to keep such an unsightly container in my pantry (you never know when some other celebrity food blogger is going to drop in to borrow a cup of foie gras), I decided to see what would happen if I used it, uncooked, in a potato pancake mixture. What happened were four crispy, buttery, perfectly decent potato pancakes!
One advantage this version has over the freshly mashed one is those contain milk and butter, which makes it much harder to hold together when fried. I'm not saying you should just switch to instant, but I felt like I had to find some shred of a culinary advantage.
Logistically, this would be perfect for backcountry camping, or your friendly neighborhood college dormitory for obvious reasons, not the least of which is its cheapness and shelf stability (and by "shelf," I mean an old milk crate, turned on its side).
So, if you have some instant potatoes in the pantry, maybe consider giving this a try. Otherwise, remember this the next time you do find yourself in a similar situation. I mean, who would go out and buy a box just to specifically make a batch of these crispy, crusty, delicious patties? Enjoy!
1 cup cold water
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg, beaten
3/4 cup Betty Crocker Potato Buds (probably will work with any similar brand)
fresh chives
freshly ground black pepper
cayenne to taste
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon butter
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it's called a desi-potato-cutlet ... "desi" meaning "south asian" (india/pakistan). what we add more to it is finely chopped onions, chopped green chillies, cumin seeds, red chilli powder, fresh corriander, garam masala (dont know the english translation) ground black pepper AND (most important) boiled lentils .. "daal channa" ... and then fry this mash coated (first) with eggs and then bread crumbs ... yummy with ketchup :D
the potato can be replaced with minced chicken as well. so chicken and lentil cutlets ...
- January 18, 2011 at 6:44 PM
Dont forget to mix some Lee & Perrin's worcestershire sauce into that ketchup. :P
- January 18, 2011 at 8:55 PM
A gremlin stole the egg and chives from the written recipe on FoodWishes. Will you hunt it down, recover them and add them back...for posterity?
- January 18, 2011 at 9:04 PM
- shristy said...
awesome... this is y u got the award...coz u make dull interesting.
p.s. egg is missin on recipe
- January 18, 2011 at 9:31 PM
The egg is left out of the ingr. list
- January 18, 2011 at 10:18 PM
- Chef John said...
Thanks!! fixed
- January 18, 2011 at 11:47 PM
- Unknown said...
Ironically my mom just gave me a pack of instant mashed potatoes that was about to stay in my cabinet for a lifetime
- January 19, 2011 at 7:19 AM
- Unknown said...
Don't hate me but does anyone say you look like La Bamba?
- January 19, 2011 at 7:20 AM
I do indeed have some instant mashed potatoes in the camping box. I'm going to print your recipe and stick it in the box for the next outing.
Camping boxes are a great place to hide convenience foods !!
- January 19, 2011 at 9:59 AM
- Denise Drake said...
Fabulous! Instant potatoes are one of those rare processed foods that can (when embellished) closely resemble the original. Great tip about cooking them for a long time to develop the crust. Thanks!!!
- January 19, 2011 at 1:10 PM
I wish I had seen this before I came home so I could have bought a HUGE BOX of potato buds.
Now I have to wait until tomorrow to have these.
Many of my fellow scandahoovian-americans use potato buds in many applications (like making bread). T'ain't no shame in using them. Remember, it's not dinner without 3 kinds of potato!
- January 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM
Lovely recipe despite being sick I made them anyways! Ate them all too =) Thanks again Chef John!
- January 19, 2011 at 8:51 PM
By the way, this approach is _great_ with leftover risotto, too! (Egg, pepper - skip the salt - make crispy on the outside).
When I make risotto, I'm always secretly looking forward to the risotto pancakes the next day!
- January 19, 2011 at 9:33 PM
My roommate had one of those boxes of over flavored mashed potatoes.
Didn't have to add anything to them asides from the water and egg.
Turned out great.
- January 19, 2011 at 9:37 PM
Let's be honest, that was creme fraiche wasn't it?
- January 21, 2011 at 10:06 PM
Just to concur with the above comment regarding the use of pre-flavored mixes..... aside from egg and water, additional ingredients may not be necessary. I didn't notice that the mix I had in the pantry had about 22 times the sodium as Chef John's Betty Crocker product, and definitely should have skipped the additional salt.
- January 23, 2011 at 11:21 AM
We have 2 boxes of instant mashed potato and they always sit in the pantry for the longest time, now they will be put into good use :) I will try this tomorrow for breakfast! Yum!
- January 29, 2011 at 2:02 AM
- Anadrol said...
That looks delicious.
- January 29, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- Biologie. said...
I'm cooking these up as I type this - they already smell wonderful, can't wait to taste them. Thanks for the recipe!
- February 9, 2011 at 1:13 PM
what if i use the 'manual' mashed potato..not an instant one....does it work?
- March 4, 2011 at 4:38 AM
- Chef John said...
Sure, unless they are too "wet". If they have lots of water or milk, etc, thay may not stay together.
- March 4, 2011 at 11:02 AM
- Sharon said...
I definitely went out to buy instant mashed potatoes just to try this :) also, for anyone wondering, the cold water is a MUST. I accidentally used warm water and wasn't able to get the pancake from my hand into the pan, it became too sticky.
- March 8, 2011 at 4:41 PM
- Unknown said...
Hey Chef, Well, there is my breakfast for tomorrow: your recipes for minute steak, mushroom gravy and these super easy potato pancakes. BTW, my mom prepared leftover mashed potatoes the very same way your mom did. Thanks..... :):)
- April 24, 2011 at 8:09 PM
- Astrid said...
I made this, i loved to do it and everyone loved to eat it :D thank you and it's not expensive at all!
- May 3, 2011 at 7:13 PM
I was raised on potato cakes...had them for breakfast ( if mom had made mashed potatoes for supper the night before). If any were left from breakfast, we would have potato cake sandwiches for lunch (during the summer when we weren't in school). I have made this recipe a couple of times and the family loves it...and it's much easier than the old fashioned way.
- December 21, 2011 at 4:20 AM
Hey..... came looking for a quick recipe for tonights dinner party and these sound wonderful. Love the video!! Can't wait to make and eat! I have to make about 50 for tonight.
- December 22, 2011 at 2:44 PM
After watching this video on my Roku, I actually went out and bought a box of store brand instant mashed potatoes, just because, they looked fun to make.
- January 7, 2012 at 9:11 PM
I had a package of instant sweet potatoes. I did not use the chives but did use the egg and water. I fried them until they were nice and crispy and topped them with a little butter. Oh yummy!!
- January 8, 2012 at 11:06 PM
Hello Chef John.
Is it alright if I ask you guys where can I buy the Instant Mashed Potatoes? I mean I can't seem to find it here in the Philippines.
In what aisle does it belong? what are its aislemates(?).
Lastly what are some of the brands?
Thank you very much.
Continue cooking great chef John.
- January 29, 2012 at 1:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Thank you so much for this! At the food bank,(i am not ashamed, hard times befall many), they gave us 3 boxes of this product. Looking on the net i came across your receipe and tried it....glad i did! Oh, and my daughter says you sound like "wreck-it-Ralph", so that must be a compliment. Blessings!
- July 31, 2013 at 3:35 PM
- Unknown said...
Yea, I tried unsuccessfully to make potato pancakes this way. Now I know how!! Another thing I make with instant potatoes is potato salad. I take the instant potatoes and add just enough hot water to make a crumbly potato mound in the bowl (I never measure) Then I add all the ingredients to make potato salad. Sometimes we eat it warm or I will make it ahead of time. Of course it's so good the next day if I don't make too much. Thank
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… For Georgia, heat certainly plays a role, though the exact reason for the school's precipitous decline in student attendance still seems to be a mystery. This year, the University of Georgia cut its student section capacity from 18,026 to 16,200. Despite overselling on purpose (17,212), the school's scanners revealed this sad fact: An average of 28.8 percent of those who bought tickets didn't show up to home games.
Benjamin Wolk, a senior at the school who is a football beat writer for the student newspaper The Red & Black, says one of the reasons for the no-shows is because of a stale game atmosphere that caters to the old money that wants the traditions of decades ago.
"One thing Clemson, Vanderbilt and Auburn all had in common was a crazy stadium atmosphere," Wolk said. "At Georgia? Traditional music and a PA announcer barely yelling 'Let's make some noise 'on third down."
Vanderbilt? Dude, seriously?
This, mind you, after a year in which Georgia played two of the most thrilling games I've had the pleasure of watching between the hedges. But evidently it takes a shot or three of fake juice to get Wolk's generation motivated to put in an appearance.
Or, even sadder, outright bribery.
Since taking the job in 2010, Arizona's athletic director Greg Byrne says he actively has to push students to not only get to the game, but also stay there once they arrive. After he saw defections at halftime, the message on the back of shirts given to the students called the Zona Zoo this year was as blatant as he could make it: "Zona Zoo STAYS the entire game."
He moved the band closer to the student section, brought in a group of people called the Zona Zoo Crew to keep people at the game and then actually decided to give away cash prizes, which students could only claim their prize after the game ended.
For its first two home games, the school gave away a total of $5,000 that was to be equally split among 10 student fans.
The punchline? "Even that wasn't a complete success, as three of the $500 prizes went unclaimed."
Overall, attendance may be up, but students sound like they don't give a shit. And athletic department administrators sound like they don't have much of a clue about how to rectify the situation. I mean, how much can better seating and Wi-fi access help fix this?
"People would rather stay at fraternity houses with unlimited food, booze and a big-screen TV than make the trek to the stadium… Phone service is terrible during games and it's hard to stay in touch with the world for the three hours you're in the stadium."
Yes, because staying in touch with the world is what you worry about most when you spend your entertainment dollar. (No wonder I don't go to the movies anymore.)
Hey, it's Darren Rovell and a small sample size. I get that. But you can't brush aside the attendance data he cites. The reality is that there's a significant part of the student fan base at schools all over the country that's tuning out of attending games. And once lost, it's unlikely they'll return.
There's a limit on how convenient you can make the in-game experience. There are only so many entrances, bathrooms and concession stands you can cram into a 90,000-seat stadium. Immediate gratification is a losing proposition when you're selling football tickets. Just ask some kid named Aaron Stillman:
"The problem is in all the other areas. There's nothing to do while I'm waiting on line for an hour to get into the stadium, and there's little added value from being in the stands watching the game."
And he's one of the ones who showed up.
The long-term consequences of this are troubling. If the number of folks buying tickets declines over time, there are basically two ways to embrace the suck: accept the shrinking numbers and raise prices to make up the lost revenue (see, Atlanta Braves) and tie your fate even more strongly to television revenues. Neither really thrills me.
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SAN ANTONIO — From big threes to Big Three, the Spurs had it all in the NBA Finals' raucous return to San Antonio.
Danny Green made seven of the Spurs' finals-record 16 three-pointers, Tim Duncan had 12 points and 14 rebounds, and the Spurs clobbered the Miami Heat 113-77 on Tuesday night to take 2-1 lead in the series.
Green scored 27 points and Gary Neal made six three-pointers while scoring 24 as San Antonio went 16 of 32 from behind the arc, rolling to the third-biggest victory in Finals history.
Duncan bounced back from his worst game ever in the Finals, and the Spurs' combination of fresh faces and old reliables dominated the NBA's winningest team in front of an eager crowd that hadn't seen the Finals here since 2007.
"It shouldn't be a surprise," said Spurs coach Gregg Popvich. "These are the last two teams standing. I don't think either one of them is going to get down if they have a bad night."
The Spurs were as good as fans remembered in the old days, shutting down LeBron James until they had built a huge lead late in the third quarter.
James finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds but missed 11 of his first 13 shots against the excellent defense of Kawhi Leonard, who had 14 points and 12 rebounds.
Game 4 is Thursday in San Antonio, where the Heat are 3-22 in the regular season and so far zero wins and one really bad beating in the postseason.
"We got what we deserved," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "I didn't even recognize the team that was out there tonight."
Duncan shot 3 of 13 for nine points, his worst performance ever in his 25 NBA Finals games, in the Heat's 103-84 victory Sunday. Tony Parker wasn't much better, shooting 5 of 14 and committing five turnovers, and Manu Ginobili admitted afterward the veteran trio had to play well for the Spurs to win.
They were fine, but the lesser-knowns were better.
Parker and Ginobili combined for 14 assists, but the bigger story was the guys who had never played on this stage before.
Neal went undrafted after playing for LaSalle and Towson, then played overseas for three seasons in Italy, Spain and Turkey.
Green had been cut multiple times — including by James' Cavaliers — and now has the shot to stick.
Leonard, the draft-night trade acquisition from San Diego State, played the NBA's four-time MVP to a stalemate.
Mike Miller made all five of his three-point attempts and scored 15 points for the Heat, who broke open Sunday's game and seized momentum in the series with a 33-5 run in the second half.
The Spurs seized it right back, improving to 18-7 in the Finals, the best winning percentage of any team with 20 or more games.
A brief flurry by James had Miami within 15 after three quarters, but Neal, Green and Leonard combined on a 13-0 run to open the fourth, Green's three-pointer making it 91-63.
"All of my teammates and Pop. They do a great job of encouraging me. They continue to tell me to shoot the ball. They continue to tell me whenever I'm open, to let it fly," Green said.
The NBA hadn't made its way along San Antonio's River Walk this late in the season since 2007, and fans couldn't wait to have the Spurs back. They sang and danced and clapped around the concourse and in their seats, as if their favorite rock band had returned for a concert.
And they were thrilled to see the Duncan they recognized from his first 24 Finals appearances.
He got right on the board in this one, with a short jumper 20 seconds into the game. The Spurs, who had played from behind most of the series, had a 24-20 lead after making 11 of 18 shots in the first quarter.
Duncan hit a pair of three throws and another basket, and after a jumper by Neal, he threw a long outlet to Leonard for a dunk that made it 40-30.
Neal's three-pointer made it 43-32, but Miller hit a pair of three-pointers in a 12-1 run that tied it at 44 with 37 seconds in the half, the Heat appearing set to go into the half with momentum. But Parker drilled a three from the corner, and after Green blocked James' shot, the Spurs rushed it up for a three-pointer by Neal that fell at the buzzer, the reserve guard pointing back toward his defenders before the Spurs headed to the locker room with a 50-44 advantage.
The party played on all right, with a huge roar when Tracy McGrady, a former perennial all-star now in his first Finals appearance as a member of the Spurs' bench, checked in midway through the fourth quarter. He was scoreless with three assists.
James started 2 for 13, then made his final four shots of the third as the Heat got within 13 before Ginobili fired a nifty pass to Tiago Splitter under the basket for a score with 0.1 seconds remaining, making it 78-63 and setting the stage for the big fourth-quarter finish.
"We want to make them take tough shots. They missed a couple. Obviously it worked this game, but next game we know they'll come out differently," Green said. "We're not comfortable at any point defensively. We have to continue to be active, be aggressive get our hands on loose balls."
It was a potentially pivotal victory for the Spurs in their quest to go 5 for 5 in the Finals. Since the NBA Finals went to a 2-3-2 format in 1985, the Game 3 winner when the series was tied 1-1 has gone on to win 12 of the 13 titles — though the Heat were the lone one that didn't, in 2011.
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Imager Larry Russell of East Peoria, Illinois, obtained this image of Comet PANSTARRS on March 21 by attaching his Canon T3i DSLR to a 10-inch Meade Schmidt-Newtonian SN-10 at f/4 on an LXD75 mount. He set the ISO to 1600 and took eight 6-second exposures, then stacked them.
Amateur astronomer Paul Klauninger of Lanark, Ontario, Canada, captured Comet PANSTARRS on March 16 at 8:35 p.m. EDT. He used a Canon EOS 1000D with a Skylight 1A imaging filter attached to a 2.8-inch Stellarvue SV70 ED refractor at f/6. He set the camera to ISO 1600 and made a stack of four 30-second images.
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European imager Javier Falcón Quintana imaged Comet PANSTARRS on March 13 at an elevation of 6,234 feet (1900 meters) height from the mountains of Gran Canaria, Spain. He reported, "The comet is brighter each night and noticeably increasing the length of its visible tail. This is becoming an amazing spectacle for Northern Hemisphere stargazers like me, and I wanted to share these exciting and unforgettable nights with you." For this image, he used a 3.2-inch Equinox 80mm semi-apochromatic refractor at f/6.25 and a Canon 450D DSLR set to ISO 400. This was a 6-second exposure taken at 20h05m UT.
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Scott Kardel, managing director of the International Dark Sky Association, sent in this image of Comet PANSTARRS he took March 11 near Tucson, Arizona. He used a Canon 3Ti DSLR with a 200mm lens at f/5.6. He set the camera to ISO 1600 and took a 3.2-second exposure.
World-famous astroimager Adam Block captured Comet PANSTARRS from Tucson, Arizona, on March 10. He said, "Here is perhaps one of the first views of Comet PANSTARRS from Tucson. This might be a typical view from a city and this image is similar to what it looks like through binoculars. Look for the comet 30 minutes (exactly!) after sunset as it gets a little higher above the horizon each night this week. You will only have about 15 minutes to find and enjoy it before it sets. Needless to say, it is a challenge. The comet will be shown each night from the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter as part of our public shows. The SkyCenter will also publish images of it this week as it becomes more easily seen in the twilight (check our website for updates!)." To get this shot, Block took a 4-second exposure through a Canon EOS 40D DSLR with a Canon EF300mm f/4L IS USM lens set at f/13.
Colorado astroimager Richard McCoy captured Comet PANSTARRS on Sunday, March 10, at 7:47 p.m. MDT. And that despite bright twilight and threatening clouds below. He mounted his Nikon D7000 DSLR with a Nikon 300mm lens set to f/4 on a tripod, set his camera to ISO 800, and took a 1.5-second exposure.
David Psaila from Sydney, Australia, took this image of Comet PANSTARRS on March 5, 2013, at 8:30 p.m. local time. He used a Canon 6D DSLR with a Canon 70-300mm lens set at 300mm and f/11. This was a 15-second exposure at ISO 800. The comet was quite apparent in the fading twilight, which ended at 8:53 p.m. local time.
This image shows Comet PANSTARRS above the city of Bariloche and Mt. Catedral, in Argentina. Guillermo Abramson used a Canon EOS Rebel T1i DSLR with a Canon EF100mm f/2 USM lens. He set the focal ratio at f/2 and selected an ISO of 800. Then he captured this 2.5-second exposure March 3, 2013, at 9:41 p.m. local time.
Astroimager Yuri Beletsky from Vitacura, Chile, used a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR equipped with a Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens to shoot a 30-second exposure that shows both Comet PANSTARRS (C/2011 L4) and Comet Lemmon (C/2012 F6) in the same sky. He took the photograph just after sunset February 28 from the Atacama Desert. He noted that Comet PANSTARRS (lower right) was clearly visible to the unaided eye.
Astroimager Ignacio Diaz Bobillo captured Comet PANSTARRS through a 5.2-inch refractor by using a DSLR set at ISO 1000. He took a total of eight 2-minute exposures. To show the background stars, he used three of the exposures. For the comet, however, he stacked all eight images and used software to remove the stars, which changed their positions because of Earth's rotation. He took the photos at daybreak February 16, 2013, from Observatorio Las Lechuzas, Mercedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Luis Argerich from Buenos Aires, Argentina, captured Comet PANSTARRS in
the sky above Mercedes, Argentina, on February 11, 2013. The comet shone
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Comet PANSTARRS on September 10, 2012
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Boingo Wireless, the leading provider of airport Wi-Fi and Distributed Antenna System services in the U.S., has been selected to design, build and manage the first DAS at the Airport.
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Southwest's results provide further evidence that the airline industry continues to rebound from the 2008 recession. Mergers have reduced the number of competitors, and the remaining airlines are boosting fares by controlling growth and limiting seats.
Southwest said Thursday that third-quarter net income jumped to $259 million, or 37 cents per share, from $16 million, or 2 cents per share, a year earlier.
Excluding special items such as fuel-hedging, the company said it would have earned 34 cents per share. That matched analysts' forecast of adjusted profit.
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The Northwest Tennessee Entrepreneur Center and Memphis Bioworks Foundation have released the names of the nine companies chosen for the NextFarm Agriculture Innovation Accelerator.
The companies are AgSmarts, Beyond Right Now Technologies, Hickory Hydroponics, Stony Creek Colors, Secure Food Solutions, Butler Fishery, GrowAgra, Tennessee Bioproducts and Zero Friction.
The accelerator was created in response to the challenge issued by Gov. Bill Haslam to make Tennessee the top state in the Southeast for the growth of the agricultural and forestry industries, and it's led by a partnership between the Northwest Tennessee Entrepreneur Center and Memphis Bioworks Foundation.
The participating companies are in the midst of a development period in preparation for investment pitches in the first quarter of 2014.
The board of governors of the Tennessee Bar Association has decided to stick with its support of a November 2014 ballot question that would allow the Tennessee governor to appoint appellate judges and have those appointments confirmed by both houses of the Tennessee legislature.
The leaders of the state bar association reaffirmed their support of the proposal this month after Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced his intent to keep in place a Judicial Nominating Commission to recommend finalists for such appointments. The commission went out of existence June 30, at the end of the last fiscal year, because the Tennessee legislature did not renew it.
Haslam revived it by an executive order issued this month after a Tennessee attorney general's legal opinion held the governor can continue to fill vacancies in appellate judicial positions even without such a commission.
Tennessee Bar Association leaders say they back the amendment to the Tennessee Constitution on the November 2014 ballot statewide because it would also keep in place judicial retention elections in which voters choose yes or no on keeping an appointee to a judicial position.
The Children's Museum of Memphis is calling on all superheroes and non-scary Halloween characters to help vanquish the city's bad guys during this weekend's Superheroes Monster Bash.
The event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 26, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at CMOM. The museum wants visitors to come dressed as their favorite superhero or non-threatening Halloween character.
Kids can make their own superhero badge and compete for prizes in the "Mr. Bones Relay Race." Superheroes can test their strength when they try to wipe out the bad guys in the big beanbag attack or show their super speed by being the first to complete the mummy wrapping contest. Bubbles the Clown will judge the costume contest and other mystery superhero guests are expected to be on hand.
Tickets can be purchased at the door and admission is $15 for CMOM non-members and free for members.
When it comes to science, eighth-graders in Tennessee are doing better than their peers around the globe.
A study released Thursday compared every state, the District of Columbia and Defense Department schools against 38 countries and nine additional subnational education systems.
Researchers took eighth-grade test results in math and science from the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress to predict performance on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study.
Tennessee scored 524 in science, but got a 490 in math, one of three states that scored below the international average of 500 in that category.
Data earlier showed Tennessee's high school graduates fell short of national results for ACT college readiness benchmarks this year.
The biggest gap was in math, with 29 percent deemed college ready, compared with 44 percent nationwide.
Trustmark Corp. earned a profit of $33 million in the third quarter.
The bank reported this week its earnings per share were up 6.5 percent from the prior quarter, and that total revenue increased to $145.6 million.
Trustmark president and CEO Gerard Host said the company is continuing to benefit from improvements in credit quality, has solid profitability and a strong capital base.
The permanent stage being built at the Memphis Botanic Garden will be named in honor of executive director Jim Duncan.
The board of directors announced the honor for Duncan Wednesday, Oct. 23. Duncan has been executive director of the garden since 2004.
The permanent stage is part of a $5.8 million capital campaign for "The Live Garden," an outdoor concert venue designed by archimania architects to host events year round.
This weekend people will get a chance to enjoy a fall festival while helping a good cause.
The 5th Annual Fall Farm Festival at Maple Grove Farm in Collierville will take place Saturday, Oct. 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Maple Grove Farm is donating all of the proceeds to the Paul A. McDaniel Foundation for organ donation and stroke awareness.
The goals of the Foundation are to raise public awareness about managing stroke risk factors, better understanding stroke symptoms and response, improving the quality of life during stroke recovery, and organ and tissue donation education.
McDaniel passed away in 2008 following several massive strokes in both hemispheres of his brain. His brothers, Tim and Ben McDaniel, started the foundation to honor Paul, who graduated from Christian Brothers High School in 2004 and attended Christian Brothers University.
Paul McDaniel donated his organs and Stephen Eddings, who received his heart, will be a special guest speaker at the festival.
Festival activities will include a petting farm, hayride, moon bounce, zip-line, playground, face painting, pumpkin patch/decorating, rock wall and games and prizes. Admission is $10 per person and includes a T-shirt and pumpkins for children.
Maple Grove Farm is at 4961 Windsong Park in Collierville. For more information visit Maple Grove Farm at www.maplegrovefarm.net and for the Paul McDaniel Foundation visit www.paulmcdanielfoundation.org.
The Tennessee Department of Children's Services is getting more flexibility in how it uses federal funding.
The Tennessean reports the state agency will be able to spend $40 million that is currently earmarked for foster children on efforts to keep children with their own families.
The agency will be able to help families that need food, help housing or counseling services.
The initiative begins next October. Tennessee is one of seven states that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services selected to take part in a federal pilot project that changes how child welfare systems are funded.
Officials say the goal is to keep children out of foster care. Tennessee has about 7,300 children in foster care.
DCS spokesman Rob Johnson said the grant will keep funding levels at DCS about the same. He said funding for foster children won't be cut.
Memphis-based Mueller Industries Inc. posted net income for the third quarter of 2013 of $19.5 million, up from $15.5 million in net income from the third quarter of 2012.
An increase in net sales was offset by lower copper costs.
The quarter for the company that makes copper tube and fittings as well as brass and copper alloy rod as well as plastic fittings and valves also included an after-tax gain of $22.9 million from the sale of its plastic fittings business and related manufacturing assets.
During the same quarter, Mueller closed on its acquisition of Howell Metal Co., which makes copper tube and linesets sold and distributed in the U.S. The company is awaiting regulatory approval in the United Kingdom on its agreement to buy KME's Yorkshire Copper Tube business, which makes copper distribution tubes to European standards.
The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is letting church bulletins serve as a free pass for visitors and their families during the entire run of the exhibit "Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Imagery."
Dixon director Kevin Sharp said the Dixon wants as many congregations in Memphis as possible to visit the show, which is on view through Jan. 5 and showcases the wealth and breadth of black artists' interpretations of biblical stories and traditions.
The exhibit is organized by the Museum of Biblical Art in New York and investigates the shifting intersections of aesthetics and belief. It includes 59 works of art and design that date from the late 19th century to 2012 by nearly 50 artists, 24 of whom are still active.
Regions Financial Corp. said Tuesday its net income fell 5 percent in the third quarter as revenue from mortgage loans declined.
Quarterly non-interest revenue, or earnings from fees and other charges, fell 7 percent from a year earlier, as mortgage loan production slowed during the quarter amid rising mortgage interest rates. Net interest income, or money earned from loans after factoring in interest expense, rose 2 percent, aided by higher loan balances. Loans written off as uncollectible dropped 56 percent to the lowest level in five years.
Net income for the Birmingham, Ala.-based bank fell to $285 million, or 20 cents per share, for the three months ended on Sept. 30. That's down from $301 million, or 21 cents per share, last year. Revenue dipped to $1.32 billion from $1.35 billion.
Analysts polled by FactSet, on average, expected earnings of 21 cents per share on revenue of $1.32 billion for the quarter.
A dim view of the U.S. job market emerged Tuesday with a report that employers cut back on hiring in September just before a partial government shutdown began.
Just 148,000 jobs were added last month, a steep drop from August's gain, though they were enough to lower unemployment to 7.2 percent from 7.3 percent in August. The report bolsters expectations that the Federal Reserve will maintain its pace of bond purchases for the rest of 2013 to try to keep long-term loan rates low.
The government's release of the September jobs report had been delayed 2 1/2 weeks by the shutdown. Temporary layoffs during the 16-day shutdown will probably depress October's job gain. That means a clear picture of the job market won't emerge before November jobs figures are issued in December.
Average U.S. job growth has fallen sharply in the past three months after a promising start this year. The economy added an average of 143,000 jobs a month from July through September. That was down from the 182,000 average gain during from April through June and well below the 207,000-a-month pace from January through March.
The report "reinforces the impression that the labor market was losing a little momentum heading in to the shutdown," said Josh Feinman, global chief economist at Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management. "The labor market is continuing to create jobs. ...It's just frustratingly slow."
FedEx Corp. announced a flat-rate shipping option on Monday aimed at individuals and small businesses that don't ship very often, including mom-and-pop sellers on eBay.
The new "One Rate" option from the company's FedEx Express air-shipping unit competes with the U.S. Postal Service's Priority Mail Flat Rate.
Normally, FedEx charges based on a combination of weight and distance traveled. Surcharges for fuel and other items also complicate pricing, and weighing packages can complicate the shipping process for users who don't do it very often.
FedEx said it will offer free boxes and envelopes in 12 different sizes. Customers will pay a flat rate for each package based on where it's going among three zones. The One Rate option is available for U.S. domestic shipments for overnight, 2-day and 3-day shipping.
FedEx has been piloting the program in several cities, rolled it out nationally last week, and announced it on Monday.
Johnny Pitts, chief manager of Memphis-based Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance LLC, has been elected the 2014 chairman of The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers.
That group is an association of top regional, national and international commercial insurance and employee benefits intermediaries worldwide. Pitts was elected during the organization's 100th annual Insurance Leadership Forum this month in Colorado.
Council members are market leaders who each year place 85 percent of U.S. commercial property and casualty insurance premiums and administer billions of dollars in employee benefits accounts.
Pitts also is the founder of the Lipscomb Pitts Breakfast Club organization.
Mississippi casinos won less money from gamblers in September for the 13th month out of 15, as casinos along the Mississippi River continued to lag badly.
Mississippi Department of Revenue figures show statewide casino revenue fell 4.4 percent from September 2012 to $170.2 million.
The 12 coastal casinos won $88 million from gamblers, up 1.7 percent from September 2012. The 18 river casinos from Tunica to Natchez won $82 million, down 10 percent from a year earlier.
Revenue statewide is down about 4.5 percent over the last 12 months. Over the last 12 months, Mississippi casinos have collected only about 75 percent of what they collected in the peak revenue year of 2007.
The numbers exclude Choctaw Indian casinos, which aren't required to report winnings to the state.
Despite uncertainty in Washington and rising oil prices and interest rates, companies are upbeat on the prospects for economic growth in the next year, according to a quarterly survey of business economists.
But economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics weren't as optimistic about hiring, according to the survey released Monday. Only 27 percent reported rising employment at their firms from July through September, down from 29 percent in the second quarter. And 37 percent expected their companies to expand payrolls in the next six months, down from 39 percent in the second quarter.
The slower hiring occurred even as sales and profit margins grew during the third quarter, according to the survey.
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Today in History for Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013
¦ On Jan. 5, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Elizabeth Dole to succeed Drew Lewis as secretary of transportation; Dole became the first woman to head a Cabinet department in Reagan's administration, and the first to head the DOT.
¦ In 1589, Catherine de Medici of France died at age 69.
¦ In 1781, a British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Va.
¦ In 1895, French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, was publicly stripped of his rank. (He was ultimately vindicated.)
¦ In 1896, an Austrian newspaper, Wiener Presse, reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that came to be known as X-rays.
¦ In 1925, Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming became America's first female governor.
¦ In 1933, the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, died in Northampton, Mass., at age 60. Construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge. (Work was completed four years later.)
¦ In 1943, educator and scientist George Washington Carver died in Tuskegee, Ala., at age 81.
¦ In 1949, in his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman labeled his administration the Fair Deal.
¦ In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine.
¦ In 1970, Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, was found murdered with his wife and daughter at their Clarksville, Pa., home. (UMWA President Tony Boyle and seven others were convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, the killings.) "All My Children" premiered on ABC-TV.
¦ In 1972, President Richard Nixon announced he had ordered development of the space shuttle.
¦ In 1993, the state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd, an admitted child sex killer, in America's first legal hanging since 1965.
¦ Ten years ago: Two Palestinian suicide bombers set off back-to-back blasts in central Tel Aviv, killing 15 Israelis and eight foreign nationals in the bloodiest attack in six months. Chinese state media reported that an unmanned Shenzhou IV space capsule had returned safely to Earth.
¦ Five years ago: Republican Mitt Romney won the Wyoming caucuses, picking up eight delegates; in a debate three days before the New Hampshire primary, Romney clashed with Mike Huckabee on foreign policy and John McCain on immigration. In a Democratic faceoff, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused campaign rival Barack Obama of changing his positions on health care and "a number of issues." A Piper Navajo Chieftain crashed off Kodiak Island in southern Alaska, killing six of 10 people aboard. A canal breach in Fernley, Nev., flooded about 600 homes. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady won The Associated Press 2007 NFL MVP award.
¦ One year ago: Speaking at the Pentagon, President Barack Obama launched a reshaping and shrinking of the military, vowing to preserve U.S. pre-eminence even as the Army and Marine Corps shedded troops and the administration considered reducing its arsenal of nuclear weapons. A U.S. Navy destroyer rescued an Iranian fishing boat that had been commandeered by suspected pirates. Jessica Joy Rees, a Southern California girl who had become a nationally recognized face of child cancer with a blog that chronicled her fight against brain tumors, died at age 12.
¦ Today's Birthdays: Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale is 85. Actor Robert Duvall is 82. Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Chuck Noll is 81. King Juan Carlos of Spain is 75. Talk show host Charlie Rose is 71. Actress-director Diane Keaton is 67. Actor Ted Lange is 65. Rhythm-and-blues musician George "Funky" Brown (Kool and the Gang) is 64. Rock musician Chris Stein (Blondie) is 63. Former CIA Director George Tenet is 60. Actress Pamela Sue Martin is 60. Actor Clancy Brown is 54. Singer Iris Dement is 52. Actor Ricky Paull Goldin is 48. Actor Vinnie Jones is 48. Rock musician Kate Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson) is 47. Dancer-choreographer Carrie Ann Inaba is 45. Actress Heather Paige Kent is 44. Rock singer Marilyn Manson is 44. Actor Bradley Cooper is 38. Actress January Jones is 35. Actress Brooklyn Sudano is 32.


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Need motivation? There's an app for that
WASHINGTON - Ever suspect you do more housework than your spouse? Or that certain tasks at work raise your blood pressure? Maybe you wonder why you're sneezing more lately, or if carbs are really what is making you tired after lunch?
Turns out, there's an app or gadget to test all of that. Advancements in wearable body sensors, mobile applications and other gadgets mean that nearly everything we do can be captured, logged and analyzed. And everyday consumers are jumping at the chance to conduct their own experiments - tracking sleep, caffeine intake, kids' studying habits, household chores, even whether a baby is nursing more frequently on Mom's left breast versus her right.
"I don't know if I'd use the word 'obsessed,'" said Ernesto Ramirez, a self-tracking devotee who helped to organize a two-day conference on the subject last week in San Francisco. Speakers at past "Quantified Self" conferences have included a man who developed his own app to see if he could walk every street in Manhattan and a dad who used trackers on his kids to monitor chores.
"I think there's an overall trend toward curiosity and proving knowledge of one's self in the world," Ramirez said.
When Tim Davis of Beaver, Pa., tipped the scales at 318 pounds two years ago, he bought a Fitbit gadget to track his physical activity and the Lose It! app on his phone to track calories. He bought a Wi-Fi-enabled scale that published his daily weight on his Twitter feed and turned to other apps to track his pulse, blood pressure, daily moods and medications. At one point, Davis said he was using 15 different apps and gadgets, which he said helped him drop 64 pounds by that following year.
"It's the second-by-second, minute-by-minute changes that really did it," said Davis, 39. "If you're the type of person who likes gadgets and devices and to collect metrics, you're also the kind of person who does not like gaps in data."
A pediatrician in Kansas City, Mo., Natasha Burgert, said apps that track newborn feedings and sleep patterns have become wildly popular among her patients and she now encourages parents to send her the data before their appointments.
"In the first few weeks, parents are so tired. It's really hard for them to give you objective data," Burgert said.
Public health advocates and researchers say tracking technology could be used to encourage people to use less gasoline, conserve water or drive slower by giving them real-time feedback on their daily habits. It also could expose causes of medical conditions that baffle doctors.
HopeLab, based in Redwood, Calif., is one nonprofit looking to harness technology to improve health. It has developed a $30 movement-tracking device for kids called a "Zamzee," and a website that rewards activity with online points and badges.
HopeLab has developed video games for young cancer patients that lets them pretend to blast cancer cells. Researchers there say their studies have shown that the game improved patients' moods and encouraged them to stick with treatment.
"When you give people a sense of autonomy, a sense of agency, that can actually be very transformative to their health," said HopeLab spokesman Richard Tate.
Ramirez said he thinks the next step will be embedding sensors in nearly everything a person encounters throughout the day and linking that information together. Think of a car that won't start if you've consumed too much alcohol or a light bulb that changes colors when it's time to go to bed.
Industry watchers say these kinds of data-driven apps are finding their place in a market that has struggled to profit from advertising.
Raj Aggarwal, CEO of Localytics, a Boston-based analytics firm, says mobile games are still by far the most popular among consumers, but their fan base can be fickle. If a data-logging app is useful enough, it can convince consumers that they should pay for upgraded subscriptions or premium services that earn the developers money.
One mobile app called "GymPact" has found a novel way of making money off its consumers' data. The app lets people bet against one another as to whether they will go to the gym. The non-exercisers have to pay the exercisers, with GymPact taking a cut.
But what becomes of all this data?
In theory, most apps let you delete your information. But programs such as the FitBit reserve the right to keep and analyze your information, and possibly pass along the data to third parties to make sure the program works as promised. What would happen if these tech companies decide to package and sell all that data? Could a person ever be denied a job or life insurance, for example, if their mobile app showed they tried but never quit smoking?
Poorly encrypted data or lax privacy controls could become a problem, too.
In 2011, some FitBit users were surprised to see their sexual activity logs pop up in Google searches; that's something FitBit's privacy settings allowed at the time unless a person knew to opt out. FitBit has since modified its policy to keep hidden more sensitive data unless someone configures his or her account specifically to share it.
As for Davis and his fight to lose weight, he said his biggest mistake was letting his FitBit gadget lose its charge last year. Without the continual feedback, and perhaps a mobile app to remind him, Davis' motivation waned and his weight climbed to 292 pounds.
But Davis insists he won't stay that way for long. He has persuaded his family members and coworkers to wear self-measuring devices, sparking a friendly rivalry.
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Even two-thirds of Republicans oppose hike in Medicare age
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Any increase in the eligibility age for either Social Security or Medicare won't affect me. I've been a happy beneficiary of both programs for years now, and they're never going to retroactively make me ineligible because I'm too young.
But I still think the idea of any increase stinks, as do most Americans (see chart above).
Kevin Drum has more on this matter HERE:
One of the favorite entitlement-reforming proposals among both Republicans and Beltway centrists is raising the Social Security retirement age. It's a bad idea. Another favorite proposal is raising the Medicare eligibility age. This ...


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This morning I left my house at about 9am for an hour's drive to speak at the Sussex County Genealogical Society in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. As I pulled up in front of the Rehoboth Beach Public Library, where the meetings are held, I reached down to grab my laptop.
Except it wasn't there. I had somehow, in the course of packing my projector and a box of books for sale into the car, left my laptop sitting in the living room by the front door.
I walked toward the Library, thinking about how I could present a lecture about conducting a "reasonably exhaustive search" without my presentation (and the document images involved with my case study).
Luckily for me, the Library had wifi Internet access, and a member of the Society had a laptop that I could use.
And even more importantly, I regularly save all of my presentations to my DropBox account. I was able to pull up DropBox and download my presentation onto the laptop.
The experience taught me two important lessons that all genealogists, both amateur and professional, can learn from.
1. Always back up everything. This is a lesson I really learned a few years ago when my external hard drive failed, taking several years of client reports and all of my personal research (including hundreds of scanned family photos). I also lost three years of photos of my daughter, who turns six next week. They will be the most sorely missed.
Drives fail. Files get corrupted. Papers are lost, torn, burnt, or soiled. Unless you want to completely redo your work every few years, when it is ultimately all lost to some disaster–physical or digital–back it up. Preferably in multiple formats in multiple locations.
2. Success comes as a result of good preparation. I have often mentioned the importance of focused research. Create a research plan to address your specific problem. Identify records of interest before you go to a repository. The most successful research is conducted when you know what you want to find and where you are going to look for it. Stumbling around aimlessly will never result in successful research.
And if you aren't prepared, you will never be able to deliver a successful presentation an hour from home…