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Melissa McCarthy's 'Tammy' lands two Razzie nominations
Everyone's a critic and Melissa McCarthy can't seem to escape hers. The actress just received a Worst Actress nomination from the Razzie Awards for her performance in the locally filmed comedy, "Tammy." The Razzie Awards, as you might have guessed, honors (is that the right word?) the worst in the past year's films. Shot in 2013, "Tammy" follows an unfortunate woman who heads out on a debaucherous road trip to Niagara Falls after losing her job and husband. Joining Tammy is… Read More »

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Taylor Swift Covers Glamour, Calls John Mayer 'Presumptuous'
Taylor Swift and her signature curls, which have been hiding since she cut bangs for her Vogue cover and opted to go straight, cover the November 2012 issue of Glamour. In all of the inside shots, the model-tall singer is boasting a full head of her famous curls. Of course, she looks gorgeous as ever in her girly dresses.
The crimson-lipped singer was point blank asked about John Mayer calling her song 'Dear John' cheap songwriting, since he assumed the tune was penned about their short-lived dalliance.
"How presumptuous!," Swift said about Mayer's attack and going as far as to think the song was about him. "I never disclose who my songs are about."
The singer also dismissed the Glamour writer's attempt to tell her all about Mayer's comments in Rolling Stone, saying she did not want to know what Mayer said he felt in that famous interview.
Swift handled it with grace and class, saying, "I know it wasn't good, so I don't want to know. I put a high priority on staying happy, and I know what I can't handle."
Swift, while disinterested in Mayer's commentary on her and her song, was quick to point out that she just likes to keep negative things at bay. "It's not that I'm this egomaniac and I don't want to hear anything negative, because I do keep myself in check," she said. "But I've never developed that thick a skin. So I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are."
Gossip, be damned when it comes to T. Swift.
And at least now we know we'll never (ever) find out who Swift is never, ever getting back together with. So keep speculating about which ex that undeniably catchy song is about.
She refused to open up about her budding relationship with Conor Kennedy, as well. She simply stated, "I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through."
Lastly, Swift did address how she is perceived in public, since her persona is that of America's sweetheart.
"I think some people think it's just apple pie and sunshine and sprinkles and ponies," she said. "Which is just funny. But I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows."
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4.23.07: On second-child syndrome
It has occurred to me more than once or twice that, while this blog is called The Charlie Chronicles, it is rarely, if ever, just about Charlie. The blog was originally intended to be about a year in the life of a new baby, yet in reality, it's more often than not been about the antics of a 2 1/2 year old. Charlie's big sister plays prominently into the mix. And that actually has been an apt reflection of Charlie's life so far—it's pretty much never been just about him.
Poor, neglected Charlie
When Julia was born, our lives centered around her. But, poor Charlie—he's often off to the side somewhere, stuck in his noisy, flashing bouncy seat (which our friend Margaret calls the "Neglect-o-Tron") or his exersaucer (which our friend Candis dubbed the "Ignorasaucer") while I make Julia's breakfast, or help Julia get dressed, or play a round of Go Fish with Julia. For a while, I was wearing Charlie around the house in the sling or the Baby Bjorn so he could be a part of the action. It felt nice to have him close while I had my hands free to do the things that needed doing. But, wearing this bowling ball of a boy became a bit back-breaking somewhere around the 17-pound mark. I sometimes chide myself about the fact that women have been wearing their babies on their backs for centuries, and here I am plopping mine down in a plastic exersaucer for what feels like a good chunk of the day. Then, I remember an exhibit that Will and I once saw at a museum here in Boston that showed centuries-old proof of the need for a safe place to plunk a baby down: it was a photo of a Chinese baby with his lower torso stuck in a wooden barrel—the ancient Chinese version of the exersaucer—as his mother washed clothes nearby. So, Charlie goes in his seat, with a sheepish "Sorry, buddy," and a pat on the head.
Type-B baby
Our pediatrician assures us that he's plenty stimulated, and that he's just learning to be a more independent, more easy-going Type-B baby than a first baby (ahem) might (theoretically) be, and so far she's right. (What was that I said about not wanting to label these kids?) I know deep down that Charlie isn't the worse for wear (or lack of wearing), but I do still feel badly for him sometimes. Maybe it's the third-child in me empathizing with our second child. If you were to look around our house, you'd find no less than 20 framed photos of Julia displayed on the walls, the shelves, the mantelpiece, the fridge, the piano, and the dressers. And, err...not a single one of Charlie. It's not that we love him any less—it's just that we haven't had time to even think about framing a photo of him. It's like my family's home movies -- the reels and reels of my oldest brother toddling around...the single reel of my next brother (the second child)...the single shot of me (the third child)... and, well, we can only assume that the video camera broke by the time my younger sister came along.
Belly shots
When I was pregnant with Julia, we took regular belly photos to mark the progress of my pregnancy. With Charlie, it took a chance reading of an article on FitPregnancy.com to make me realize that we had maybe two photos of my pregnancy with him. Knowing that it could be my last time to experience, much less document, a pregnancy, I decided to hire a photographer to take some professional shots—in the nick of time. The photo you see here was taken just days before Charlie was born. It's the one that will end up framed in our house...someday...if we ever get around to it. This was my favorite picture of my pregnancy with Charlie—the one with Julia in it.
Julia is in it. She's been a part of Charlie's life from Day One. She was the one who helped me surprise Will with the news of this surprising pregnancy, with her "I'm a Big Sister" T-shirt. She talked to the baby growing in my belly the entire nine months. She helped welcome him into the world. And, ever since, she's been his constant companion. She's the one person in the world who never ceases to make his face light up in a smile, even as she's ripping a toy out of his hands. And I'm grateful for that—that they'll have each other, through thick and thin.
Breathing lessons
Sometimes I imagine what this blog would be like if I had written it during Julia's first year. No doubt, it would be focused on her every waking moment... her every milestone (umm—did I mention that Charlie got his first tooth? That he's rolling over? That he's starting to eat his first foods?)...focused on her every breath.
Don't get me wrong, we have had our special time with Charlie. I mean, there were those two days in the hospital, right? And, Charlie and I do have our late-night moments together, when the house is still, when the only sounds are the crickets outside our windows and the rising and falling of Will's and Julia's breath. That's when I get to focus on Charlie. And, during the day, when I have to put him down, or when I have to ignore his cries for a few minutes so I can help Julia with something, I remind myself that my life does hang on his every breath. And this is what has been the most surprising part of having a second baby for me: Somehow, I thought I would have gotten over this, since we have relaxed in so many other ways as no-longer-first-time parents, but every night...sometimes several times a night...I find myself creeping nervously into Charlie's room, with my very life hanging in the balance, to feel under his nose for his warm breath.
The big picture
Despite Charlie's #2 status in the birth order, he holds first place in my heart, along with his big sister. Perhaps she, in her infinite, innocent wisdom said it best when she told me: "Mama, I was your first baby, and Charlie is the twoest."
In the big picture of our family—the picture that began taking shape when Will and I first met...when we were married...when Julia was born—Charlie's photos may never be the most plentiful or the most prominent, but I know that if we ever do find the time to frame one, it will be the one that completes the picture.
In the meantime, I am thankful for the opportunity to write these Charlie Chronicles, because it gives me a little extra incentive to focus in on this time with Charlie. And Julia.
Join FitPregnancy.com's Managing Editor Dana Rousmaniere each week as she chronicles life with a new baby.
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PRRC Cuts Ribbon On New Kelly Building Addition
SOCORRO, N.M. October 16, 2009 – New Mexico Tech is hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, to officially open the new addition to the John M. and Esther L. Kelly Building on the campus of New Mexico Tech.
The Kelly Building is home to the Petroleum Recovery Research Center at New Mexico Tech. University President Dr. Daniel H. Lopez cordially invites the campus community and Socorro residents to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate the new extension.
|The new addition to the Petroleum Recovery Research Center at New Mexico Tech.
The Center's existing building was constructed in the late 1970s. The $4.2 million Kelly Building expansion project began in the fall of 2008 and was completed during the summer of 2009. The new 12,000-square foot building includes offices, laboratories and conference rooms. Immediately following the ribbon cutting, PRRC officials will host tours of the new building.
Dr. Lopez and university Regent Ann Murphy Daily will speak at the ribbon cutting, as well as city councilor Donald Monette and chamber of commerce director Terry Tadano.
The Center's building is named after John M. Kelly, a Tech graduate who was a leading petroleum geologist and a former university Regent. Kelly served as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Mineral Resources under President John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1965.
During his tenure on Tech's Board of Regents, Kelly successfully lobbied the state legislature to provide funding to the university for the creation of the Petroleum Recovery Research Center. He passed away in 1977. His son, J. Mike Kelly later served on the Tech Board of Regents in the 1990s.
The New Mexico State Legislature first provided funding to launch the Center in 1977 to conduct basic and applied research designed to improve recovery of petroleum and natural gas. The building was officially named the John M. Kelly Building upon its completion in 1978, then rededicated with new signage in November 2001, as the John M. and Esther L. Kelly Building.
The Center has more than $10 million in current research projects, plus the 10-year, $160 million carbon sequestration project. New Mexico Tech is the lead agency in the Southwest Consortium for Carbon Sequestration, which is in Phase III of an ambitious project to capture and store carbon dioxide in geologic formations.
The Center has 21 full-time employees and funds 20 graduate student researchers, 11 undergraduate student researchers and four visiting scholars.
The Center's mission is to serve as New Mexico's focal point for improved oil and gas recovery research, to assist others in their efforts to recover petroleum, and to transfer new and existing technology from our research labs to the oil and gas industry.
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OpenLDAP, LDAP & Directory services are an enormous topic. Configuration is therefore complex. This page is a starting point for a basic openldap install on Archlinux and a sanity check.
For the newbies
If you are totally new to those concepts, here is an good introduction that is easy to understand and that will get you started, even if you are new to everything LDAP.
Install OpenLDAP
This part is easy:
pacman -S openldap
The openldap package basically contains two things: The LDAP server (slapd) and the LDAP client. You will probably want to run the server on your computer. After you design the directory, the server will be able to provide authentication services for LDAP clients. It is quite likely that you will run services requiring the LDAP authentication on that very computer, in which case the LDAP client will query the LDAP server from the same package.
Configure OpenLDAP
The server (slapd)
First prepare the database directory. You will need to copy the default config file and set the proper ownership.
WARNING!!! - The following snippet wipes out any existing ldap database.
rm -rf /var/lib/openldap/openldap-data/* cp /etc/openldap/DB_CONFIG.example /var/lib/openldap/openldap-data/DB_CONFIG chown ldap:ldap /var/lib/openldap/openldap-data/DB_CONFIG
Next we prepare slapd.conf
Add some typically used schemas...
include /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schema include /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema
Edit the suffix. Typically this is your domain name but it does not have to be. It depends on how you use your directory. We will use 'example' for the domain name, and 'com' for the tld. Also set your ldap administrators name (we'll use 'root' here)
suffix "dc=example,dc=com" rootdn "cn=root,dc=example,dc=com"
Now we delete the default root password and create a strong one:
#find the line with rootpw and delete it sed -i "/rootpw/ d" slapd.conf #add a line which includes the hashed password output from slappasswd echo "rootpw $(slappasswd)" >> slapd.conf
ldap won't find things unless you index them. Read the ldap documentation for details, you can use the following to start with. (add them to your
index uid pres,eq index mail pres,sub,eq index cn pres,sub,eq index sn pres,sub,eq index dc eq
Don't forget to run
slapindex after you populate your directory. (slapd needs to be stopped to do this). Then change the ownership for all the generated files:
chown ldap.ldap /var/lib/openldap/openldap-data/*
If you want to use SSL, you have to specify a path to your certificates here. See OpenLDAP Authentication
Finally you can start the slapd daemon.
#systemctl start slapd
It might be possible that /run/openldap does not exist, starting the daemon won't work. Just create the directory:
- mkdir /run/openldap
Very important, you define here on which port the server should listen and if you want to use SSL, you will want to use the ldaps:// URI instead of the default ldap:// You can also specify additional slapd options here.
The client
The client is usually not such a big deal, just keep in mind that your apps that require LDAP auth use it, so if something goes wrong with LDAP, do not waste your time with the app, start debugging the client instead.
The client config file is located at /etc/openldap/ldap.conf It is actually very simple.
If you decide to use SSL:
- The protocol (ldap or ldaps) in the URI entry has to conform with the slapd configuration
- If you decide to use self-signed certificates, you have to add them to TLS_CACERT
Test your new OpenLDAP installation
This is easy, just run the command below:
ldapsearch -x -b -s base '(objectclass=*)' namingContexts
you should see some information on your database.
Next Steps
You now have a basic ldap installation. The step is to design your directory. The design is heavily dependent on what you are using it for. If you are new to ldap, consider starting with a directory design recommended by the specific client services that will use the directory (PAM, Postfix, etc).
A directory for system authentication is the LDAP Authentication article.
If you notice that slapd seems to start but then stops, you may have a permission issue with the ldap datadir. Try running:
# chown ldap:ldap /var/lib/openldap/openldap-data/*
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Danish seaside hotels ooze relaxed charm and cosy atmosphere. They are places to escape the bustle of everyday life to enjoy just being. You can spend hours out on deck chairs enjoying the view, chatting to other guests, swimming and walking in the local area or dining in style. They are the perfect place to be pampered and recharge your batteries.
Denmark has over 40 seaside hotels spread out around the whole country. The greatest concentration is in North Jutland and along the West Coast, where you will find legendary hotels such as Ruth's Hotel in Skagen and Svinkløv Badehotel (Closed temporarily because of the fire) at Slettestrand.
There are several seaside hotels located along the Little Belt and the northern coast of Sealand, for example the lovely old seaside resorts of Tisvildeleje, Gilleleje and Hornbæk. Bornholm boasts many seaside hotels with stunning views over the Baltic Sea.
Culinary delights
A stay in many of Denmark's seaside hotels will mean the chance for you to sample meals by some of the best chefs around. Seaside hotels are a place where you can really retreat, sleeping and eating well in one relaxed location.
Season and Prices
The season for seaside hotels is normally from mid-April to mid-October, but more and more hotels in Denmark are open year round. Prices vary from place to place and you'll find everything from super deluxe hotels with spa and wellness centres to the more humble, rustic hotels. Typical prices for a double room with breakfast are 850 to 1,500kr per night. Several seaside hotels offer promotional weekend and mid-week stays.
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DuckDuckGo, the privacy-conscious search engine, is testing out a major update as it continues to try to put a ding on Google and Bing's search market share.
DuckDuckGo has added an image search, auto-suggest, and places search feature. It's still in beta, but DuckDuckGo plans to officially relaunch next month, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg wrote on the company blog.
Following the PRISM revelations, DuckDuckGo saw a record number of searches in June. Its traffic has continued to increase ever since. This month, DuckDuckGo's traffic has averaged more than 5 million searches per day.
Unlike Google, DuckDuckGo doesn't track your clicks across the Web. So if the government were to come knocking on DuckDuckGo's doors, seeking information, they would have no way to tie that information to individual users.
That's actually one of the reasons why DuckDuckGo doesn't track you, Weinberg told Business Insider in a recent interview.
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DUMITRESCU, IANCU, ANA-MARIA AVRAM: Laboratory
Seven new pieces. The first for a long time for (almost) purely acoustic resources; no pre-recorded tape or computer material. This where this approach to organisation of sound really scores; when set in empty space. Two of Iancu's pieces are scored for The Hyperion Ensemble with soloists Tim Hodgkinson, Gustavo Aguilar, Vinny Golia, Robert Reigle, Victor Arsene and Denis Simandy, and two for The Hyperion and prepared piano (with soloists Ana Maria Avram & Iancu Dumitrescu respectively), including a rare outing for the Harryphone. Nucleons stands out; a great track. Ana Maria's pieces feature The Hyperion with Soloists Tim Hodgkinson (a great piece with Tim in fabulous form), Chris Cutler (with electrified kit) and Iancu Dumitrescu. For me one of the freshest and most different CDs from EDMN for a while.
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There are an estimated 25,000 different uses for hemp, including sports cars, clothes, and biofuels. Since the 1960s, it's been used in Europe and Australia as a building material, too. In 2010, the first hemp house was built in North America in Asheville, North Carolina using a product called Hemcrete from the UK. It is a breathable, natural and toxin-free system with an R-value of 2.4 per inch, and the material even helps filter the air for improved indoor air quality. One house built with hemp is estimated to be equivalent to ten acres of trees in terms of the carbon sequestered, therefore achieving better-than-zero carbon footprint. Hemcrete is a blend of a lime-based binder and the woody core of the hemp plant (known as shiv) that produces highly thermally efficient walls. The home is 3,000 square feet plus a garage, with 12-inch thick walls, Energy Star appliances, dual-flush toilets, high-performance windows and LED lights. (Scroll to bottom for additional resources)
Hemp Homes Are Cutting Edge of Green Building
By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
Hemp is turning a new leaf. The plant fiber, used to make the sails that took Christopher Columbus' ships to the New World, is now a building material.
In Asheville, N.C., a home built with thick hemp walls was completed this summer and two more are in the works.
Dozens of hemp homes have been built in Europe in the past two decades, but they're new to the United States, says David Madera, co-founder of Hemp Technologies, a company that supplied the mixture of ground-up hemp stalks, lime and water.
The industrial hemp is imported because it cannot be grown legally in this country — it comes from the same plant as marijuana.
Its new use reflects an increasing effort to make U.S. homes not only energy-efficient but also healthier. Madera and other proponents say hemp-filled walls are non-toxic, mildew-resistant, pest-free and flame-resistant.
"There is a growing interest in less toxic building materials, says Peter Ashley, director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control.
"The potential health benefits are significant," he says, citing a recent study of a Seattle public housing complex that saw residents' health improve after their homes got a green makeover.
The U.S. government has not taken a "systemic approach" to studying chemicals in homes and instead addresses problems such as asbestos, lead, arsenic and formaldehyde only after people get sick, says Rebecca Morley, executive director of the National Center for Healthy Housing, a private research group.
She says green building so far has focused mostly on the environment, not the health of the people inside.
Ashley agrees that federal attention has been "sporadic," but says an interagency group began meeting last year to tackle the issue more broadly. He says HUD is funding more research on the health and environmental benefits of eco-friendly homes.
Some green-rating programs, such as the one run by the private U.S. Green Building Council, give points for indoor air quality.
"We are taking the next step in green building," says Anthony Brenner, a home designer with Push Design who created Asheville's first hemp home. "We're trying to develop a system that's more health-based."
Brenner says he's been searching for non-toxic materials because he wants to build a home for his 9-year-old daughter, Bailey, who has a rare genetic disorder that makes her extremely sensitive to chemicals. "We have to keep her away from anything synthetic," he says, or she'll have seizures.
He says a hemp home can be affordable, even though importing hemp makes it more expensive than other building materials, because skilled labor is unnecessary and hemp is so strong that less lumber is needed.
The hemp mixture — typically four parts ground-up hemp to one part lime and one part water — is placed inside 2-foot-by-4-foot wall forms. Once it sets, the forms are removed. Although it hardens to a concrete-like form, wood framing is used for structural support.
"This is like a living, breathing wall," Madera says.
Hemp absorbs carbon dioxide and puts nitrogen into the soil, so it's good for the environment, he says.
Alex Wilson, executive editor of Environmental Building News, says hemp can be grown with minimal use of chemicals and water. He says it has a midlevel insulating value (R-2 per inch) but is usually installed in a thick enough wall system to make it appropriate for all but the most severe climates.
The mixture, "Tradical Hemcrete," has not previously been used in U.S. homes, but in 2008 it went into a community center on the Pine Ridge Reservation in Badlands, S.D., as well as a small chapel and pottery studio near Houston, says Mario Machnicki, managing director of American Lime Technology, a Chicago company that imports hemp from the United Kingdom.
Asheville's second hemp home will be finished in about six weeks, says builder Clarke Snell of the Nauhaus Institute, a non-profit group of designers, engineers, developers and others interested in sustainable urban living.
Snell says the home, which has 16-inch-thick walls, is airtight and energy-efficient. He expects it to meet rigorous Passive House Institute standards, which call for homes to use up to 90% less energy than regular ones.
"On the coldest day in winter, the body heat of 10 people should heat the home," he says. "We're basically building a European home."
Snell says his group will own the 1,750-square-foot house, and its engineer will live there for a couple of years to monitor energy use.
He doesn't know how much it will cost because, as a prototype, it was built with donations and volunteer labor.
The owners of the first hemp home say it cost $133 a square foot to build, not including land and excavation.
"That's pretty remarkable" for a custom home in Asheville, which is a pricey area, says Karon Korp, a writer who moved into the house in July.
Korp says she and her husband, Russ Martin wanted primarily an energy-efficient home.
They're not particularly sensitive to chemicals, but they were drawn to Brenner because of his modern aesthetic and green building enthusiasm. She says they're thrilled their house is made of a renewable, toxic-free material and hope it sets an example for the nation.
"Hemp could replace tobacco if it were legalized," says Martin, Asheville's GOP mayor from 1993 to 1997. He says some area tobacco farms have gone bust.
Martin says they have spent less than $100 a month so far to cool the home, which has 3,000 square feet plus a garage. It has 12" thick walls, Energy Star appliances, dual-flush toilets, high-performance windows and LED lights. Korp says they might add a windmill, because the house sits atop a mountain.
They say they have fantastic views. "We seen the sun rise," he says. She adds, "and the sun set."
The following article is from Building Green.com
Hemcrete – A Hemp-Lime Composite Insulation for Walls
September 2010, by Alex Wilson
Tradical® Hemcrete® is a non-structural, rigid, insulating, composite wall fill comprised (by weight) of about 38 percent hemp and 62 percent lime-based binder. The Tradical lime binder is manufactured in the U.K. by Lime Technology, Ltd., under license from multinational Lhoist Group, headquartered in Belgium with lime operations worldwide.
I first learned about Hemcrete at the Build Well Symposium in San Francisco January 2010. Mario Machnicki of American Lime Technology in Chicago, the U.S. distributor of the Tradical Hemcrete wall system. To date, four to five houses have been built in the U.S. using Hemcrete, including a just-completed house in Asheville, North Carolina, that has been widely publicized.
The industrial hemp used in Hemcrete (the same species as marijuana, but with far less of the narcotic THC) is currently sourced from England, where it can be grown legally, but Tom Glab of American Lime Technology told me that they are working to find a source in Canada, where industrial hemp is also legal.
Federal law in the U.S. currently prohibits the cultivation of industrial hemp--though in the past it was widely grown for many uses, including paper, rope, and textiles. In fact, hemp sails carried Columbus's ships to the New World, founding fathers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp, and until the late 1800s three-quarters of the world's paper was made from hemp, as were most fabrics until the 1820s with the invention of the cotton gin.
Hemp proponents point out that the plant can be grown with very low environmental impacts--little fertilizer or pesticides being needed--and that a building system based on hemp sequesters carbon very effectively. One acre of help produces 4.1 times as much fiber as the same acre of trees, according to Hemp Technologies, LLC, and the plant removes carbon from the atmosphere four times as efficiently as trees.
To make Hemcrete, the dried stems of hemp, referred to as "shiv," are mixed with the lime-based binder. Moistened, the mix is placed into wall forms--typically spaced to achieve a 12-inch-thick wall--which can be removed the next day. While the material hardens to a rigid, concrete-like form (I have a large sample from American Lime Technology sitting on my desk, and it seems very strong), it is considered non-structural. Wood or steel framing members are used in the wall system to provide structural support.
After removing the forms, two layers of lime stucco are applied on the exterior, a base coat and a finish coat. The interior side is finished with lime plaster. With the lime stucco and plaster, the entire wall system is breathable.
In the U.K., Hemcrete is also sprayed into an open cavity, using Gunite or shotcrete technology, against a single form that remains in place, but to-date, only poured applications have been done in North America.
As for thermal performance, Hemcrete insulates to about R-2.3 per inch, according to Tom Glab, so a typical 12-inch-thick wall provides about R-28. This is a reasonable R-value in moderate climates where use of the material is being most actively pursued. The monolithic wall system also provides effective thermal mass--like adobe or autoclaved aerated concrete--which can be beneficial in climates with a lot of sun and large diurnal temperature swings (such as the Mountain states and Southwest).
Cost depends on the purchase volume--due (today) to the costs of shipping from the U.K. When ordered by the 40-foot container load, a 22 kg (49 lb) bag of binder costs about $30 and a 20 kg (44 lb) bag (bale) of hemp shiv costs $28. Including the base and finish stuccos, Glab said the materials cost for a 12-inch wall are about $19/sq ft. American Lime Technology is hoping to source the materials closer to home: "The idea is to be green, so we want to avoid transportation from England," Glab told me.
One of the first completed houses in the U.S. using Hemcrete was designed and built by Anthony Brenner of Push Design, in Asheville, North Carolina. The 3,400 sq ft home is owned by a past mayor of Asheville, Russ Martin, and his wife. Completed this summer, the "Push House" features a wide range of green features besides the Hemcrete walls. Total construction cost of the house, according to a recent CNN news report was $133 per sq ft.
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Corel Painter 2016 review
Corel Painter 2016 is a great improvement over 2015 - and if if you have never tried Painter before, you should now give Painter a go.
Corel Painter 2016 is a great improvement over 2015 - and if if you have never tried Painter before, you should now give Painter a go.
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By providing the top 10 most-requested feature improvements, Quark has made this an upgrade every user will want.
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Adobe's renewed push into mobile has produced a veritable fleet of slick iOS apps aimed at creative artists, but has thus far neglected designers who rely upon traditional page layout software. Now that's changed.
The Nvidia Quadro M6000 is the most powerful graphics card so far - and it's got a price tag to match.
I had a £11,500 Apple Watch Edition strapped to my wrist today. But using it made me sure I'd be just as happy with the £299 cheapest version.
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According to the Atlantic Monthly and the receptive audience at MSNBC, the year's "brave" and "provocative" thinkers include Lena Dunham, who made an ad comparing voting to sex, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who tried to ban large sodas. [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
Jansing and Co. Guest anchor Richard Lui introduced Atlantic Monthly editor James Bennet by hyping, "The Atlantic Monthly has honored some of American's most provocative thinkers for more than 150 years." Highlighting a liberal actress in liberal Hollywood who bravely spoke out in favor of a liberal president, Lui insisted, "And another woman on your list who is being compared to Woody Allen and Nora Ephron, that is Lena Dunham."
Touting Bloomberg, Bennet touted Bloomberg's inclusion in the magazine as a "lifetime achievement award." He gushed that the NYC mayor is pushing the soda ban in the face of being "widely mocked" and that Bloomberg is "obviously to try to do something about the obesity epidemic that he says is on the way to banking the health care system."
The the new issue of the Atlantic does include some genuinely brave individuals, such as women who defied intimidation and is running for president in Afghanistan.
However, it's mostly filled with liberals, including Bloomberg, Dunham, Corey Booker and Georgetown President John DeGioia for "running counter to the [Catholic] Church."
A partial transcript of the November 19 segment can be found below:
RICHARD LIU: The Atlantic Monthly has honored some of American's most provocative thinkers for more than 150 years. In their latest issue, this week's picks for brave thinkers. People who have risked their reputations and fortunes and lives in the pursuit of big ideas. And I'm joined now by the editor James Bennet. And James, we were just showing the cover there. The magazine has been honoring America's big thinkers since 1857. When you go through the list, what makes the people that you choose stand out?
JAMES BENNET: Well, as you say, Richard, we are looking for unconventional thinkers. People who are willing to take some sort of a big risk to the reputation, to their career and in some cases to their very lives in pursuit of a big idea– On the theory that this is what ultimately drives society and the culture forward. They may turn out to be wrong, but they are willing to stake their reputation on the notion that they are putting forward.
LUI: All right. So, to the cover now, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. You interviewed him. What did you select that made him stand out?
BENNET: Well, it is a kind of lifetime achievement award for Mayor Bloomberg, but the specific thing this year was his pursuit of the soda ban and the ban on sugary drinks served in containers more than 16 ounces in size. He has been widely mocked for this campaign. In fact, the New York times' polling showed that the idea has been rejected by every demographic group in the city and every political persuasion, but he is sticking to his guns and what is interesting is I think that he has already changed the national debate on this subject. The reason he is doing it is obviously to try to do something about the obesity epidemic that he says is on the way to banking the health care system.
LUI: And another woman on your list who is being compared to Woody Allen and Nora Ephron, that is Lena Dunham.
BENNET: Yeah. It's always tough to pick out American cultural figures, Richard, because, obviously, their risks are not the same risks that, say a young women in Saudi Arabia might be taking. But Lena Dunham is really accomplishing something fairly radical, I think. Our writer Hanna Rosin argues that, you know, with the new series Girls she is basically taking the traditional romantic comedy and turned it into something honest and even uncomfortable-making in pursuit of kind of a radical notion that women aren't just necessarily out to be liked.
LIU: And she also had a political ad out for President Obama, right?
BENNET: That is true. She did.


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Mandan Bride Corn Cornbread
Saturday was pickup day for Pioneer Valley's grain CSA. I am really impressed with the variety and quality of the grains and beans we got. I'll do a more extensive post on what we got later, but here's the first cooking effort. I used the same recipe from my blue corn cornbread entry, using Red Llamas Wheat and Mandan Bride Corn.
The Bride Corn kernels were so big that my mill had a hard time 'grabbing' them and pulling them into the stone. I ended up having to mill it twice -- the first time with the outer wheel very loose to get a coarse, rough grind, and then a second pass at a finer setting. It was a pain in the butt, but it worked.
The flavor of the final product was superb, I paired the bread with a berebere-rubbed pot roast with yams and carrots.


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Eric Westervelt
NPR foreign correspondent Eric Westervelt recently wrapped up a multi-year assignment in the Middle East covering Israel and the Palestinian Territories. He took up his new position as a Berlin-based European Correspondent for NPR in May 2009.
Westervelt has reported on conflicts and their repercussions across the Middle East region for NPR, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the second Lebanon war between Hezbollah and Israel, and the on going Palestinian-Israel conflict, including fighting in the Gaza Strip ranging from internal Palestinian violence to multiple Israeli offensives in the territory. He reported in-depth on issues across the occupied West Bank and Israel. He has also reported from the Horn of Africa, Yemen and the Persian Gulf region.
Westervelt reported on the war in Iraq from the initial US-led ground invasion in 2003, traveling with the lead unit of the Army's Third Infantry Division. He later helped cover the insurgency; sectarian violence; and the on-going struggle rebuild the country in the post Saddam Hussein-era.
Westervelt's coverage at home and abroad has helped NPR win broadcast journalism's highest honors, including contributions to a 2002 George Foster Peabody Award to NPR for coverage of the September 11th terrorist attacks in the US and its aftermath; a 2003 Alfred I. DuPont - Columbia University award for NPR's coverage of 9-11 and the war in Afghanistan; as well as duPont-Columbia University top honors again in 2004 and again in 2007 for NPR's coverage of the war in Iraq and affect on Iraqi society, among other awards.
Westervelt's reports are heard on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and NPR's hourly newscasts, and appear online at npr.org
Prior to his Middle East assignment, Westervelt covered military affairs for NPR News reporting on a wide range of defense, national security and foreign policy issues. Before that Westervelt reported for NPR's National Desk, covering some of the biggest stories in recently memory, including the shootings at Columbine High School, the explosion of TWA flight 800 and the Florida presidential recount. For the National Desk Westervelt also reported on national trends in law enforcement and crime fighting, including police tactics, use of force, the drug war, racial profiling and the legal and political battles over firearms in America. Westervelt's work on the National Desk also contributed to another Peabody Award for an NPR series on the most influential American musical works of the 20th Century.
Before joining NPR, Westervelt worked as a reporter in Oregon and a news director and reporter in New Hampshire and reported for Monitor Radio, the broadcast edition of the Christian Science Monitor.
Westervelt is a graduate of the Putney School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He and his wife Lisa currently live in Germany.


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29 Weeks Pregnant
I just had my glucose screening test, which was certainly nothing to write home about, especially the third time around. I went to the lab and was promptly handed a bottle of an orange sugary drink and was told that I had five minutes to down the sucker. As I sat in the waiting room taking tiny little sips, watching the minutes tick by on the clock, I kept having flashbacks to that Orange Crush commercial from the 80s where a woman asks some kid in knee-high tube socks to hold her bottle of Orange Crush for a minute, and when she comes back, the bottle is empty. She looks at the kid in disbelief, and he just shrugs his shoulders and says, "It evaporated!"
I kept waiting for mine to evaporate, but no such luck. I downed the last drop just as the clock hit the five-minute mark, then waited for an hour to have my blood drawn. I sat there the whole time thinking: "Is this really necessary?" Or, is it just another case of too much testing? I've never had a problem with gestational diabetes, so I wasn't expecting to have any issues this time around. And sure enough, when my lab results came back, everything was normal—except for a case of anemia, which is easily remedied with some iron supplements and some extra green leafies and red meat in my diet.
I've since learned that this test really is necessary, though. My poor sister is currently struggling with gestational diabetes, and her doctor now believes that it may be what caused her to lose her son halfway through her previous pregnancy. She was tested early this time, in her first trimester. (This required fasting, which just strikes me as an incredibly inhumane thing to ask a pregnant woman to do in her first trimester.) When that test came back positive for gestational diabetes, my sister then met with a nutritionist to try to control her blood sugar levels through diet modifications. That meant counting carbs and carefully planning and timing her meals and snacks throughout the day. Still, her blood sugar levels were dangerously high, so she's now pricking her finger four times a day and taking insulin. My sister is, understandably, worried about her baby's health, but is doing everything she can to bring a healthy baby into the world.
On a happier note, she just found out that this baby is a boy—a very-much wanted and waited-for boy who will join three big sisters in December. Until then, we are all watching and waiting and hoping that our family will have welcomed two new healthy baby boys come Christmas time. I couldn't think of a better Christmas gift.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The remaining names on the All-Star teams for the Eastern and Western conferences will be revealed in a matter of hours (Thursday night at 7 p.m. ET on TNT), a moment in time that is sure to give the basketball world a brief respite from the seemingly non-stop conversation about the Los Angeles Lakers.
We don't have that luxury here at headquarters, where somehow every conversation we have these days takes a finds a way to take some sort of U-turn to the Lakers.
How else to explain the connection between NBA TV's Steve Smith and his yoga classes, Grantland's brilliant Zach Lowe and his own All-Star team, our weekly game of "Where the heck is Rick Fox?" and the Lakers all being rolled into Episode 101 of the Hang Time Podcast?
Sure, it sounds crazy. But you have to listen to Episode 101 of the Hang Time Podcast to connect all the dots!
As always, we welcome your feedback. You can follow the entire crew, including the Hang Time Podcast, co-hosts Sekou Smith of NBA.com, Lang Whitaker of SLAM Magazine and Rick Fox of NBA TV, as well as our new super producer Gregg (just like Popovich) Waigand and the best engineer in the business, Jarell "I Heart Peyton Manning" Wall.
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NEWPORT COAST — Coach J.R. Tolver said he was very proud of his Sage Hill School football team following Friday night's nonleague opener against Calvary Chapel.
Tolver said the way it was going at first, the game could have gone to a running clock after halftime. The Lightning didn't allow that to happen.
But a three-touchdown deficit early still proved too difficult to overcome as Sage Hill lost, 42-20, at home in a game that was still closer than the final score might suggest.
"I'm proud of my guys today, I really am," Tolver said. "One of the things we talk about all the time is that it's really about the journey. I can be upset if we win 42-20, if we don't do the things we're supposed to do along the way. Today, I'm upset because we lost, but I'm not upset because of the way we played. I think we have a lot of things that we can build on, and I'm looking forward to getting back to work."
The Lightning lost a season opener for the first time in Tolver's four-year tenure. But they scrapped back after falling behind, 21-0, early in the second quarter when Calvary senior quarterback Colin Kearon hit tight end Nick Meldrum on a 19-yard touchdown pass over the middle.
By halftime the deficit was narrowed to 21-12. Sage senior running back Joe Melita (138 rushing yards) scored on a five-yard run. Then, one second before halftime, sophomore quarterback CJ McCord hit fellow sophomore Beau Roth on an eight-yard touchdown pass.
McCord, who also threw a touchdown pass to senior Harrison Ray in the fourth quarter, is just 5-foot-9 and 130 pounds. But the transfer from Edison took Sage's starting job after a strong summer.
Tolver said Ray, a captain who was originally slated to be quarterback and may be the team's best all-around athlete, will play a "slash" type of role for Sage Hill this season.
"CJ, the kid's been playing quarterback since he was in the fourth grade," Tolver said. "There's that experience factor. CJ McCord is a quarterback in every sense of the word. He understands defenses, he can make all the throws. We've got to make him more vocal as a leader, but as far as being a quarterback is concerned, he's [that in] every sense of the word. And we felt like we'd be pigeonholing Harrison a little bit by putting him in that position, when we can use him in so many different ways. One of the things you didn't see tonight was Harrison throw the ball, but you will see that.
"We basically had a sit-down with Harrison before camp started. We said, 'Hey, I don't know if you've ever heard of Kordell Stewart, but you're going to be the 2012 version of Slash.' When it's all said and done, he'll probably be a leader in a lot of statistical categories for us. We just felt as a football team, that was the best switch to make."
Sage Hill pulled within 28-20 on McCord's touchdown strike to Ray, which came on fourth-and-11 from the Calvary Chapel 20-yard line. But the Eagles got the ball back with just more than nine minutes left in the game and milked the clock.
Calvary Chapel went on a 14-play drive.
All but two of the plays on the drive were running plays, and it culminated in Kearon's six-yard touchdown scamper to the left with 3:07 remaining.
The Eagles' Billy Weaver returned an interception 57 yards for a touchdown on the next play from scrimmage to ice the game.
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Calvary Chapel 42, Sage Hill 20
Calvary 14 – 7 – 7 – 14 — 42
Sage Hill 0 – 12– 0 – 8— 20
CC – Mattero 16 pass from Kearon (Weaver kick), 7:33.
CC – Acosta-Marines 4 run (Weaver kick), 4:54.
CC – Meldrum 19 pass from Kearon (Weaver kick), 9:45.
SH – Melita 5 run (pass failed), 8:18.
SH – Roth 8 pass from McCord (kick blocked), 0:01.
CC – Turner 11 run (Weaver kick), 0:45.
SH – Ray 19 pass from McCord (Fenner pass from McCord), 9:29.
CC – Kearon 6 run (Weaver kick), 3:07.
CC – Weaver 57 INT return (Weaver kick), 2:42.
CC – Acosta-Marines, 23-115, 1 TD.
SH – Melita, 14-138, 1 TD.
CC – Kearon, 10-23-0, 205 , 2 TDs.
SH – McCord, 13-27-1, 154, 2 TDs.
CC – Mattero, 3-63, 1 TD.
SH – Masarik, 1-46.


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Sunday, January 21, 2007
Submission Guidelines
Shiny is looking for fresh, entertaining stories between 2000 and 8000 words long. The style and substance of Shiny stories should be up there with the best current YA fiction, and should (for the most part) feature teenage protagonists. We're mostly interested in stories with speculative elements - science fiction, fantasy and horror - but we're open to non-speculative stories that would appeal to genre readers [as with, for example, So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld, Boy Proof by Cecil Castelucci, or "Anda's Game" by Cory Doctorow]. We prefer a contemporary setting and/or feel to our stories, but will not let this restrict our choices. Shiny is aiming to appeal to teenagers, but also to the wide body of adults who read and enjoy Young Adult fiction. We look forward to reading your submissions!
Who: the editorial board consists of Alisa Krasnostein, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Ben Payne
How: send your submission in rtf attachment to email@example.com. Keep an eye on our blog at http://shinymag.blogspot.com for more about what we're looking for.
Payment: AUS$50 per story
Rights: First International e-rights, and exclusivity for three months after first publication. We are not looking to reprint stories that have been previously published in print or online.
12 comments:
- Mac said...
Good luck with this market! I've just announced you as a new market in our AbsoluteWrite.com Markets newsletter, as well--and said favorable things. You look pretty organized and professional, and I wish you well!
MacAllister Stone
- January 26, 2007 at 3:12 PM
- sergiogvh said...
Hello, I'm Sergio Gaut vel Hartman, sf writer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Can I sen one story in Spanish? I work translating my stories (I wrote around 200) to English. But that supposes a great effort for me and I don't know if I will be able to make it on time. Sorry for my poor and ugly English...
KIndest regards.
Sergio Gaut vel Hartman
- January 27, 2007 at 9:25 AM
- Shiny said...
Hi MacAllister!
Thanks so much for announcing Shiny on AbsoluteWrite.com Markets (and for saying favourable things).
We appreciate the publiity!
All the best
Shiny Editors
- January 30, 2007 at 6:19 PM
- Shiny said...
Hi Sergio
Unfortunately we don't have the ability to publish stories in any language other than English. And we wouldn't presume to undervalue the skill that is required to translate fiction from one language to another.
We hope that Shiny will be successful and will have another reading period for 2008.
All the best.
Shiny Editors
- January 30, 2007 at 6:22 PM
- WestVirginiaRebel said...
Hello! I'm in the US, if my submission were accepted would you send a postal check?
- February 2, 2007 at 3:30 AM
- Shiny said...
Hi Westvirginiarebel
We're going to be making all our payments via Paypal, as it's just impossible to exchange cheques between countries (for anything less than thousands of dollars) because of bank fees, exchange fees, etc.
Shiny Editors
- February 3, 2007 at 4:15 AM
- free ps3 said...
I'm from Egypt, will you accept any of my submissions??
- September 4, 2007 at 11:51 AM
- Shiny said...
As long as it's in English, absolutely!
- September 5, 2007 at 2:35 AM
- Barrie said...
In your submission guidelines you say -
Rights: First International e-rights, and exclusivity for three months after first publication.
Q. Are First International e-rights for a three month period also? Or is another period of time att. to these rights.
Like the sound of your project, will purchase coppies of the zines soon.
I am a YA writer, working on 4 vol YA sci fi project at the moment. I live in Katoomba, Australia.
- September 28, 2007 at 3:05 AM
Thanks for taking the initiative in publishing a YA SF/Fantasy/Horror magazine. Congratulations on your second issue, and all the best for 2008!
Edwina Harvey
- January 2, 2008 at 7:06 PM
I'm from Uraguay though I volunteer during the Antarctic summers at a weather station near the South Pole. I want to get my diary published. It's titled, "It's Colder than Mutherfucking Hell At the South Pole Even In the Summer."
Will you please look at it?
- April 4, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Sure, I'd love to read "It's As Cold As Hell in Antarctica, Even in the Mutherfucking Summertime."
Submit either by email or snail mail. I'll be hare.
- the ownership team of SHINY
- April 5, 2008 at 1:11 PM


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Apparently all I have to do is publicly complain about how awful the heat is, and Bam! No more heat. I just looked at the forecast for the next 10 days. Not one single day above 85 degrees. Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! But even with the lack of heat that inspired this whole project, Ice Cream Week rolls on with Day 3—Ice Cream on the go! Kind of. We're making popsicles!
Popsicles remind me of being a kid, sucking all the juice out of a FlavorIce, then just throwing the ice part away. Or getting one of those red, white, and blue Bomb Pops from the ice cream truck. And those Push-Up Pops. Oh! And Bill Cosby and his Pudding Pops!
Popsicles are perfect treats for a quick snack. Just grab and go! They also tend to be a lot easier to prepare, and a lot faster too. No churning in an ice cream maker. Just pour in the molds and freeze! I can't tell you the last time I made popsicles, but now that I remember how easy it is, and how much variety you can make, I'm definitely making popsicles all the time now!
First up, Peach Popsicles. These came from a book called Ice Pops by Shelly Kaldunski.
They're a delicious way to use up some of those peaches that are coming into season right now! Just cut them up, blend them with some sugar, water, and lemon juice, and you've got yourself a healthy, yummy, frozen treat! Peaches are one of my favorite fruits, so I definitely love these popsicles.
Next, we've got Blueberries and Cream Popsicles.
These came from the Summer Special Issue of Everyday Food Magazine. As soon as I saw the magazine, still wrapped in plastic in our backroom at work, waiting to be put out, with its close up of a delicious looking fruit popsicle on the cover, I ripped into the bundle, and immediately walked up front to buy it. And these? Delicious. Albeit, a bit messy, and I had a little bit of issue with it.. I'm not the biggest fan of regular blueberries. I'm much more partial to the teeny tiny, sweet little wild blueberries. So I used a bag of frozen wild blueberries I got at Trader Joe's. Which ended up tasting great. They were just harder to swirl around and instead sat in a big clump near the bottom of the popsicle. Which caused the popsicle to break when I took it out of the mold, because there wasn't anything solid down there to freeze together. Oh, and they tend to melt really quickly. Like really quickly.
Still delicious though. Just needs a bit of tweaking.
The Neapolitans though, now those are tasty!
Layers of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. Mmm.. Really good. The chocolate and vanilla parts are creamy, although the chocolate is a little too cocoa powdery for my taste. I was hoping for more of a fudgsicle flavor. The strawberry, with its high water content in the fruit, tends to be a little more icy than creamy, but still really good! There are a quite a few more recipes for popsicles in the EDF Summer issue, and you should still be able to find it on newsstands through the end of the month, so check it out!
Although I didn't get to make anything from it yet, there's another really good popsicle book out right now called Perfect Pops by Charity Ferreira. It's got some seriously tasty sounding flavors in it, like Key Lime Pops and Chai Latte Pops. So if you're into popsicles, be sure to check this one out too!
Adapted from Ice Pops by Shelly Kaldunski
Makes 6 to 8 pops
3 ripe peaches, about 1 pound, peeled
¼ cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Pinch of salt
1. Cut peaches into chunks and place in blender or food processor. Add the sugar, lemon juice, and ¼ cup of water to blended and puree until mixture is smooth.
2. Divide mixture evenly among ice pop molds. Place in freezer. When pops are partially frozen, about an hour, insert sticks, then continue to freeze until solid, about 3 more hours.
Adapted from Everyday Food Magazine's Special Summer Issue
Makes 8 to 10 pops
6 ounces blueberries (1 cup)
¾ cup sugar, divided
1 cup low-fat plain Greek yogurt, or plain regular yogurt
1 cup heavy cream
1. In a small saucepan, bring blueberries and ¼ cup sugar to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat and simmer, crushing berries with a wooden spoon, until mixture is syrupy, 3 minutes. Transfer to a small bowl and refrigerate until cool, about 30 minutes.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together ½ cup sugar, yogurt, and cream until sugar dissolves, about 2 minutes. Pour yogurt and blueberry mixtures, alternating them, into ice-pop molds, making 5 to 6 layers in each. With a wooden skewer, swirl mixtures together. Insert ice-pop sticks and freeze until solid, about 6 hours.
Adapted from Everyday Food Magazine's Special Summer Issue
Makes 8 to 10 pops
1 cup low-fat plain Greek yogurt, or plain regular yogurt
1 cup heavy cream
¾ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
6 ounces strawberries, hulled and sliced (about 1 cup)
1. In a large bowl, whisk together yogurt, cream, sugar, and vanilla until sugar dissolves, about 2 minutes. Measure out 1 cup of mixture into a small bowl, and whisk with cocoa powder until smooth. Transfer to a quart-sized zip-top bag.
2. Measure out another ½ cup of vanilla mixture and add to food processor or blender with strawberries, pureeing until smooth, about 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer to a liquid measuring cup with a spout. Transfer remaining vanilla mixture to another quart-sized zip-top bag.
3. With scissors, snip a ½-inch hole in one corner of the bag with the cocoa mixture and pipe evenly into the bottom third of each ice-pop mold. Gently tap molds on the work surface to smooth. (Wipe away any smudges on the sides of the mold to ensure a crisp, clean division between the colors.) Snip a hole in the corner of the bag of vanilla mixture and pipe an even layer over chocolate mixture, filling 2/3 of the way full. Tap the molds on the counter to smooth. Top with strawberry mixture. Insert sticks into molds and freeze until solid, about 6 hours.
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- Rachel @ Baked by Rachel said...
Oh yum - would love the neapolitan :)
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William Hadden Cotter and Elizabeth Ann Faress Cotter (a.k.a. Queen Ann Elizabeth Fariss or Farris) are my great-great-grandparents. William was from Louisville, Jefferson County, Georgia, and "Lizzie" was from Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. They both died near Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana. You can see their portraits here or read more about my Cotter line here.
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Charles Marsee, on retiring as Head of the Princeton Charter School
Charles Marsee was remembering the early meetings with parents, over eleven years ago, that led to him being hired as Head of the Princeton Charter School (PCS). The school, it should be pointed out, did not exist at the time. They had no money, he recalled. They had no building. They had no faculty. There was only an outline of a curriculum. It was March, and they wanted school to start in September. He took the job.
I was impressed with the people that I met, said Mr. Marsee and they, apparently, felt the same way about him. Although he interviewed with thoughts of teaching chemistry at the new school, they wanted him to be Head of School.
The rest, as they say, is history. PCS, which started out in the fall of 1997 with 72 students in grades 4 through 6, now serves 298 children in grades K through 8. The accolades keep coming. In 2002, PCS became the first charter school in the nation to receive accreditation from the American Academy for Liberal Education (AALE). In awarding PCS accreditation, Jeffery Wallin, the President of the American Academy for Liberal Education congratulated PCS on its manifest commitment to an academically demanding program and stated that the school has achieved the highest standards we are aware of in the whole realm of K-12 education. In 2004, United States Secretary of Education Rod Paige named PCS a No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School, recognizing it as a national model of excellence. That same year it was named Charter School of Distinction by the New Jersey Department of Education for its outstanding record of performance as measured by high student achievement and school accomplishments, exemplary teaching practices, effective and efficient administrative leadership, and solid governance. In 2007 PCS was named a National Charter School of the Year by the Center for Education Reform.
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Thinking back on the highlights of his years at PCS, Mr. Marsee cites the moment in the schools second year when we received the results of the writing sample from ERB [Educational Records Bureau], and saw the progress that students had made from the year before. Student performance on the GEPA (Grade Eight Proficiency Test) has also been particularly noteworthy, with PCS students obtaining the highest scores across the state in advanced science and math proficiency for five years in a row. PCS has been recognized numerous times as a Benchmark School for attaining high rates of student achievement on New Jerseys state assessment tests. If youre not getting better, youre getting worse, Mr. Marsee said of the schools continued successes.
Sitting in his office surrounded by plaques attesting to the schools top-notch performance (not to mention an urn labeled Ashes of Problem Students strategically placed on a nearby shelf), Mr. Marsee candidly admits that I didnt know anything about charter schools when he first came to Princeton. Previously, he had headed a day school and a girls boarding school, and had never lived on the East coast. There are not many times when you get to work with a school from scratch, though he observed. I have always been an optimist. From the get-go I assumed it would work. He was not surprised by the schools proficiency in teaching science and math, but he had not anticipated that it would turn out to have a first-class world language program as well.
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Sir Clive Woodward has claimed the Rugby Football Union has reduced England to a "laughing stock" and is doomed to make the same mistakes again as they seek to replace Martin Johnson.
Woodward, the coach of England's World Cup-winning team in 2003, has launched a withering attack on the game's administrators and the process used to appoint Johnson, something he now expects to be repeated.
Writing in the Sunday Times, Woodward said: "Martin Johnson has gone but has anything else changed?
"I have a serious fear that all the mistakes made at Twickenham, which have reduced England to something of a laughing stock around the world, are about to be made again and four more years will then be wasted.
"All the people who appointed Johnson - a man who had never coached anyone at any level - are still in place. There is nobody who understands elite performance and rugby at the very top. Equally disturbing, the same people are going to appoint the next coach." Woodward singled out the under-fire elite rugby director Rob Andrew and his role in the process.
"He refused last week at a press conference to take any responsibility for the past shambles," Woodward said. "Then he told the media that he took no responsibility for anything that happened at the World Cup.
"So why does he have responsibility for choosing the new coach. The absolute key question for me is whether he has the skill set to appoint the new coach. Experience says he does not."
Woodward says Johnson should not have been handed the job in 2008 due to his lack of experience, claiming that while the former England captain still has the potential to be a top coach, he was handed this chance too early.
"He has the qualities to be an outstanding coach, just as good as he was a player and captain, but even he cannot learn this job at the very top level on the hoof," he said.
He states a preference for an English coach to get the job, naming Jim Mallinder, Richard Cockerill, Toby Booth and Neil Back as contenders, while also suggesting that Alex King and Mike Catt should come into consideration. And Woodward believes Conor O'Shea and Mark McCall could also be interviewed if the RFU look beyond English coaches.
"An English coach would know the country and the culture," he said. "England have so many coaches, so many resources - if so enormous a rugby country cannot produce a contender, what does that say about rugby here and our coaching development programmes?"
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