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A Taste Of Gullah
Southern-style Gullah food captures the African heritage of slaves brought to the shores of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. Garret Fleming, chef at the Eatonville Restaurant in Washington, D.C., recently opened his kitchen to Gullah chef Charlotte Jenkins, owner of the Washington restaurant Gullah Cuisine. The two chefs offer host Michel Martin a taste of their creations while discussing Gullah food.
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I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News.
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But first, good food at the holidays. Those who can't make it home may be preparing some of the meals or dishes that remind them of home. And if home is South Carolina's southernmost coastal area, the low country there, then that means the unique Gullah style.
Now, Gullah incorporates elements of the heritage brought by enslaved African slaves brought to the shores of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. And while remnants of the life remain in the craftsmanship of basket weaving, ironwork and Gullah language, the aspect of the culture that probably shines most brightly is its food.
Washington, D.C.'s Eatonville Restaurant wanted to let its customers in on the flavor and culture of Gullah style, so the executive chef of Eatonville decided to share his kitchen with one of the most celebrated Gullah chefs.
Here to tell us more are both chefs, Garrett Fleming of Eatonville Restaurant in Washington, D.C., he happens to be a native of Charleston, South Carolina. Also with us, Charlotte Jenkins, head chef and owner of the restaurant Gullah Cuisine in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She's the author of a book titled, Gullah Cuisine. I welcome you both. Thank you so much for joining us.
Mr. GARRETT FLEMING (Chef, Eatonville Restaurant): Thank you.
Ms. CHARLOTTE JENKINS (Head Chef/Owner, Gullah Cuisine): Thank you for having us.
MARTIN: Chef Jenkins, tell us a little bit more about Gullah cuisine. Just give us a little bit of a flavor of what kinds of foods would be typical of Gullah cuisine.
Ms. JENKINS: On our vegetable stuff, we do collards, and we do that in two different styles. We do that with ham hock, and also we do it like on a vegetarian. We have a signature rice called Gullah rice. It's a rice based on -my mom cooked - years ago we did a yard chicken and we stew it and we make rice, and it's called flavored rice. And this flavored rice has now turned into Gullah rice, which is shrimp, chicken and sausage, and vegetables. It has carrots and green pepper and that's our signature rice at the restaurant.
MARTIN: What do you think characterizes Gullah cooking per se? If you just landed on this planet and didn't know anything else, how would you know you were eating Gullah cuisine?
Ms. JENKINS: Because of the intercultural way - the seafood, definitely, and rice because of the rice plantation. Also, the flavor. It's more seasoning.
MARTIN: I know you don't want to tell us your secrets, but what seasonings?
Ms. JENKINS: Well, the basic seasoning, garlic, onions, pepper. Those three seasoning can make anything taste good if you apply it right, don't overdo it.
MARTIN: Now, Chef Fleming, as we mentioned, you grew up in South Carolina, so did you grow up eating Gullah cooking?
Mr. FLEMING: We always heard about Gullah cooking kind of as whispered. It meant a different way of eating than kind of what was referred to as low country cuisine.
MARTIN: What's the difference?
Mr. FLEMING: We've had actually several discussions. It's a complicated issue, but they both use the same kind of bounties of local fish, rice, corn, it's just the influence of which culture upon the same ingredients.
For instance, Ms. Jenkins, her restaurant is called Gullah Cuisine, and it kind of epitomizes what is Gullah cuisine, and that draws from a very serious African root. And I think low country draws from African influence, particularly what they brought to the region in terms of culinary techniques and seasonings, but it's still much more European-based.
But they have almost exactly the same dishes through and throughout. It's just - I don't the know, the differences are subtle and many.
MARTIN: Well, how about that, Mrs. Jenkins, does that ever bug you that you feel people are claiming to be Gullah-inspired or serving Gullah cuisine and they're not? Is there anybody you want to call out?
Ms. JENKINS: No, not at this point. Because, you know, I look at it like this, when we were brought back from Africa, and we were on the plantation, we prepared food for Europeans. And their diet and our diet come together. So we used some of their food, they used our type of food.
The only thing is that if you're going to do it, if you're going to cook in the Gullah style, just do it right. Make it taste right. That's my feelings of it. We can't take it back.
MARTIN: Chef Fleming, I was wondering, one of the interesting things about your sort of teaming up here, is that you're both used to eating tradition foods of the region, but you're both also classically trained. You've both been to culinary school, and that's - I think a lot of people are more familiar now with the whole concept of culinary school than they might have been, say, a decade ago, because there have been these reality shows that involve cooking, and...
Mr. FLEMING: Right. Right.
MARTIN: ...a lot of people kind of opened the door to the kitchen. But is there ever a conflict, or do you ever feel, like, a tension between the way you're taught to cook growing up and then what you're taught in school? Or have those rules relaxed? I don't know if - Chef Jenkins, why don't you - do you want to start?
Ms. JENKINS: Yes. The rules are totally different. In school, everything is done different. And I found while attending culinary school, the food as(ph) seasoning, that was hard for me to reckon with, because I was taught one way. And, for instance, like with gravy, I think gravy is a sauce, you know. But the way we do it, it's a gravy, you know, with a flour base and onions and everything, but the sauce, you know, you make a roux. And - but that's totally different. So that was hard...
MARTIN: Did you ever feel like you were made to be wrong?
Ms. JENKINS: No. It's...
MARTIN: I do hesitate, but I don't tell your age, you know, because ladies don't tell their age. But there were not a huge number of women at the time that you went to culinary school who were - had the kind of opportunity for the kind of classical training that you have had. And do you think that's fair to say? And also, you're a pioneer is I guess what I'm saying.
Ms. JENKINS: Yeah.
MARTIN: Women - and an African-American woman. And did you ever feel like you were made to be wrong, like you have to play by those rules in order to be accepted?
Ms. JENKINS: Definitely.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. JENKINS: Because first of all, it was a second career. I went - I decided to do it, most of the students in my class, they were much younger, and they didn't think the way I do and they didn't prepare their meal the way I do. And most of the time, the chef would say, well, you know, that's your way, but do it my way.
(Soundbite of laughter)
MARTIN: Well. And what about you, Chef Fleming? I guess - I don't know. You came along in a different era. You're on the younger end of the continuum. But do you ever feel like, in a way, you were being sort of taught to turn against your roots when you went to culinary school?
Mr. FLEMING: I don't think so. I see the reasons - I think first and foremost, I was classically trained. And so it's strange to go back to dishes that I ate growing up and then see - you know, there's no French way to do fried chicken. But I did see that, in culinary school, there were many kind of cultures that have different ways of cooking things.
For instance, I had a Ghanaian chef where - you usually take off the fat off sauces or soups anything like that. It's called depouillage. But in all his soups and sauce, he said, you know, in Africa, you would never do that. You just mix it back in, because that kind of carries the flavor. It's very French. So there are - since classical training is technically French-based, there are a lot of distinctions between doing things the right way, one way, and doing things that are culturally the right way.
MARTIN: If you're just joining us, this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin, and I'm speaking with Chefs Garret Fleming and Charlotte Jenkins, and we're talking about Gullah cuisine.
Eatonville, by the way, tell us a little about the history of Eatonville. It's named because it's what?
Mr. FLEMING: Zora Neale Hurston's hometown in Florida, which was historically the first black town in all of America, and in turn kind of is meant to celebrate the culture and the history, particularly the cuisine of that region, being the Southeast. So it's really meant to - if you ever get a chance to go to Eatonville, it's covered with beautiful murals - not quite as beautiful as the book that Ms. Jenkins has, if you page through. But they're very beautiful murals, and it kind of draws you back into this very Southern, strange atmosphere that's a great place to work and a great place to eat. Yeah.
MARTIN: Okay. Tell me about you, Chef Fleming, how - is it exciting for you now to - first of all, to be an executive chef at your age, it's - that's an achievement. So congratulations on that. But what do you think that people who are not exposed to this cuisine will learn to enjoy about it? What do you hope to bring them?
Mr. FLEMING: I think, particularly at Eatonville, I think that people have gotten - not in Eatonville, that people have gotten the concept that Southern food is generic. But I think people in general have that concept, that there are a couple of dishes and they love soul food, Gullah food, low country, New Orleans, all of those things are lumped together. And so if you see a shrimp and grits plate, you're going to see fried chicken. You're going to see gumbo. You're going to see - I mean they are all kind of mushed together, and it's this generic Southern food.
I believe that any restaurant that has kind of a genuine presence has focus and direction towards a specific region, or at least a specific type of cuisine from that region. And at Eatonville, I really want to focus our efforts in really exploring through the history and the culture a specific cuisine, and that is of the low country.
MARTIN: Chef Jenkins, did you ever fear that this heritage would disappear?
Ms. JENKINS: That's why I'm trying to keep the Gullah Cuisine open, because yeah, it's a possibility because people, eating style are changing. And not to say that the food that we prepare is not healthy for you, but it's the way it's prepared and we are working on changing some of those stuff - like with the collards, remove the ham hock, remove the pork on some of the dishes, and people will have choice. Now, you have people that if you don't have that in there, they don't want it. So, you know, we will have to do it, you know, you could have it for the people who are vegetarians and the people who eat meat. So I think that it should be that way.
MARTIN: Chef, final question - Chef Fleming, final question for you, too. Do you - on the one hand, there's been a revived interest in American cooking, locally produced foods, you know, artisanal foods. We've seen a lot of that in recent years. People are focusing on the food that's available in their own communities. You know, on the other hand, there are some of these sort of heritage foods where people are saying, you know, enough with that. It's too heavy. I don't have time for that, you know, that kind of thing. I'm wondering if you're concerned at all with this particular food heritage will at some time be - you know, pass away.
Mr. FLEMING: No. I think as long as there's cheese and pig, and, you know, corn, that people will necessarily come and eat shrimp and grits and bacon. And they'll cure their own pigs and they'll serve them because it's delicious. Of course, we try and get more people intrigued with the cuisine that we do by offering - you know, making dishes vegetarian, as Mrs. Jenkins was saying, because we can do that and make them flavorful, still. And I think as long as we do that without sacrificing the idea behind the dish, then we'll keep people entertained in what we do.
MARTIN: I'll be interested in how the collaboration is going, because just to let people in on it, I mean the fact is that you are a senior diva, Chef Jenkins, and Chef Fleming, you know, you're a young white guy. And here you are bringing your skills together in the kitchen. It's not want to be kind of like "Iron Chef." You're not, like, competing.
Ms. JENKINS: No.
MARTIN: But I am interested in how this collaboration will go. Like jazz? Do you think it'll like jazz? Do you think it'll be like - what do you think? How's it going to work out?
Mr. FLEMING: Well, I think, at least from my end, just like in jazz, people, if they play the same instrument, there's often a deference shown almost immediately towards the person with more experience and skill. So - and then one person plays the rhythm, and the other one takes the lead. And this is absolutely going to happen in our kitchen over the weekend.
I've always heard about Mrs. Jenkins throughout my time in Charleston cooking, and it was - her restaurant was known as, you know, it's - I think in New York when people are asked, like a lot of top chefs, like, where do you go out? What's your secret thing? What's your secret food, favorite food? Jean Georges and people are saying oh, it's hotdog - this hotdog stand here, everything there. And there are hotdog stand places, but they are secret places that chefs never really let other people know that they go. And Mrs. Jenkins, out of all the chefs that I knew in downtown Charleston, all of them go to Gullah. All of them.
MARTIN: Okay. Secret's out. Secret's out.
Ms. JENKINS: Yes. His boss was a regular.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. FLEMING: That's true. My old boss.
Ms. JENKINS: Ex-boss. I'm sorry. Yeah.
(Soundbite of laughter)
FLEMING: Yeah.
Ms. JENKINS: Yeah.
Charlotte Jenkins is owner and head chef at Gullah Cuisine. It's in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina - along with your husband, I think. You two...
Ms. JENKINS: Frank Jenkins.
MARTIN: Frank Jenkins. She's the author of the book "Gullah Cuisine: By Land and By Sea." And she's, this weekend, bringing her Gullah style cooking to Washington, D.C.'s Eatonville Restaurant. Garret Fleming is executive chef at the Eatonville. They were kind enough to stop by our Washington, D.C. studio.
Thank you so much, and Happy New Year to you both.
Mr. FLEMING: Happy New Year's to you.
Ms. JENKINS: Thank you.
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But before we dive into the video review, we have one important question: are you Team Kayako or Team Sadako?
A brief overview on the two franchises
The Ring and Ju On series both debuted in 1998. The two franchises would usher a new a new wave of Japanese horror. Here's a quick breakdown on the two series.
Quick facts
Number of movies in the series: 11
Name of long-haired woman: Kayako
Curse: Entering a cursed house will have two ghosts chase you unless…
Cure to the curse: …None, you're screwed once you enter the house
How they usually kill: Crawling down stairs and on the floor
The Ring
Quick facts
Number of movies in the series: 6 (with 2 shorts)
Name of long-haired woman: Sadako
Curse: Watching a cursed tape will give you a curse that will kill a victim in 7 days unless…
Cure to the curse: …The victim has someone else watch the cursed tape
How they usually kill: Coming out of the TV
If you're want to learn more about the Ju On and The Ring video reviews, check out our Ring vs. Ju On series comparison.
The plot in a nutshell
When university student Yuri sees a VCR tape in a thrift store, she decides to watch it with her friend Natsumi. However, as soon as they pop in the tape and watch it, they become cursed with the Sadako curse. They realize this when they get a follow up call.
Meanwhile, a high-school student, Suzuka, stumbles into the Saeki house to investigate an urban legend of a brutal murder inside. She is soon cursed with the Kayako curse.
Soon after, a young psyhic girl named Tamao, and Keizo, hear about Yuri and Suzuka's recent curses and want to lift them. Yet, they realize that the best way isn't necessarily to cure them of it, but to find a way to get Sadako and Kayako to fight and kill each other off.
Curses and the urban legends of Ju On and The Ring
The film's director Koji Shiraishi changed things up for this film. Rather than stick with the rules of the two series, he emphasized the story instead and how that would dictate the rules instead.
For instance, to speed up the movie, the Sadako curse was changed. Rather than having seven days to show the video to another in The Ring series, it was changed to a mere two days. This keeps the victims on edge and makes their dire situation more urgent.
The Ju On and The Ring curses are well-known. Rather that being a mystery or rumor in both series — and getting many people killed investigating or stumbling upon them, the curses are urban legends in the Sadako vs. Kayako film.
Promotion and marketing of the film
Like Kayako in Ju On, once you've seen one poster of the film, the movie's marketing will follow you everywhere like a bad curse. At least in Japan. No expense was spared when hyping up the film.
One of the more memorable marketing moments was seeing Sadako vs. Kayako going at it on the baseball field. Toshio came out to the field to watch the two as well.
The laughter and cheering from the crowd showed that not only thought the idea was funny, but most likely, will also bring that same crowd to the movie theaters at release.
Just one question: how did Sadako see through all her hair when throwing the pitch?
The Sadako vs. Kayako baseball showdown in Japan was so popular, they came over here in Korea. Here's their Korean showdown in a game between the SK Wyverns and Doosan Bears.
Another key marketing strategy is picking sides. Having a Team Kayako or Team Sadako tag trending — similar to Captain America: Civil War's two sides, Team Cap or Team Ironman — gives J-horror fans the difficult choice on which team to support.
Instagram also plays host to Kayako and her son Toshio, where you see them in various poses and funny pictures.
If Instagrams, hashtags, and baseball games are not enough, the movie even has an official music video. The theme song "The Cursed Shananana" shows Sadako, Kayako, and Toshio dancing away.
Here's also a live version in Shibuya of dancing Sadakos and Kayakos:
The strengths of the film
The decision to make this movie less of a horror movie and more of a campy tribute to the two queens of horror paid off very well.
There are many things this film gets right. The theme of long hair sprawling through the film; the beautiful environment; a relative simple and clean story; and of course, the fight between Sadako and Kayako. These things make the movie a surprising and entertaining watch.
While this film won't win any acting awards — as the acting at certain points are bad — the acting is passable for a movie.
One thing is for certain though. The movie really is a craft of love towards the J-horror fans.
What's your take?
We hope our movie review and breakdown of the film gets you hyped for the film.
If you haven't seen the movie just yet, what are you expecting from the film? If you've seen the film, what's your take?
We'd love to hear from you, so let us know in the comments below!


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Update February 7, 2017. We are grateful to God that He has now provided ALL of the funds needed for this first edition of the first book in the HEAVEN Series and some left over for outreach. Thank you, precious brothers and sisters. We are $500 above the goal of $6,000. Now we can get started with the all important editing to hopefully make this a literary classic. Praise the Good Lord for you, our partners, for being such a wonderful team of faithful co-workers for Christ. May God bless you with ONE-HUNDRED fold returns. DP
About The HEAVEN SERIES Book Project: "Sitting atop this large golden stand was a huge book, the likes of which I had never seen. It was astoundingly beautiful, bound in a cover made of solid pearl with gold lattice wrapped around the edges. This book was clearly special and the size seemed enormous. It was filled with light that shined from within its cover. For a brief moment I wondered what this great volume could be, and why the angel had directed me to it. But as before, as quickly as the question fully formed, I understood. This was the Book of Life."- Excerpt from the upcoming HEAVEN SERIES books by Capt. Dale Black
When Dale wrote Flight To Heaven, at that same time he also wrote down his entire Heaven experience. The complete experience was meant only for family after Dale departed this earth. He was not comfortable sharing more than he did in Flight to Heaven. Over the years he has been asked countless times to tell the entire story. After 40 years of waiting to tell the story, it all came to a head 7 years later. Here's what happened.
Night after night Dale was awakened with the dream of Jonah and the whale. Many nights Dale could not sleep because of a heavy heart of conviction. You see, it seemed that God wanted Dale to release the entire story but Dale disagreed. You know the story of Jonah, right? Jonah was sent to Nineveh but refused to go. Finally, Jonah surrendered to God's will just in time to save many lives, including his own. Likewise, after years of waiting, and what Dale calls the "Jonah call" the Lord has given confirmation that he must share his all of his remarkable story in book form which being called the HEAVEN SERIES.
HEAVEN: SECRETS OF LIFE AFTER DEATH will be the first volume in a multi-book series, in which Dale shares his in-depth account of dying and visiting Heaven, including shocking detail inside the Celestial City. He touched briefly on some of these events in the book Flight To Heaven, which reveals wonderful and nicely written aspects of heaven, but its primary purpose is to describe God's ways and how He works in our life on earth.
This new Series will take you beyond the details of his out-of-body experience and will share more about the angels who escorted him and the truths Dale learned that changed and deepened his understanding. It will change you too.
Throughout this HEAVEN SERIES, the glories of the City of God will be shared in magnificent detail, including the gardens and wonders surrounding the City Wall, the beautiful Gate of Pearl, the Book of Life, and his visit with his family and other loved ones deep inside the City. You will learn about the Centers of praise and worship that occur continually inside Heaven, where children go, what happens to babies, a glimpse into the physical laws that govern Heaven, and so much more.
You will learn many personal experiences and revelations about God and about His love for you and all of His creation, that your life will forever be strengthened. We believe this book will encourage and inspire all who read it.
If your heart is stirred, you can help. Each book in the HEAVEN SERIES needs to be edited professionally, published as an e-book and paperback. We are asking for financial help with a gift of any amount. We are also asking the Lord to lead 6 people to give $1,000 or more for the first book in the HEAVEN SERIES.
As one of the $1,000 or more donors to this project, your name will be included at the FRONT of the books FIRST edition with a grateful "Thank You" as a sponsor. Please pray about being used for this wonderful purpose. Thank you and God bless.
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So many of you have asked if I experienced more than I shared in my book Flight To Heaven. The quick answer is "oh yes!" After hearing from the Lord and much prayer, I believe it is time to share the entire story. I am still awed by the God and my experience in Heaven and, of course it has changed me… big time. I also believe, you will be strengthen in your spiritual walk with the Lord when you learn what I was taught.
I will share personal experiences and revelations of God and His love that changed me forever. I do not share these things to tickle ears or entertain, I don't write for profit or earthly gain, but only for glorifying God and sharing the truths of Heaven with His people to strengthen and encourage all who read with open hearts.
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Review for Best Friends Animal Society, Kanab, UT, USA
We just completed our second "tour of duty" as volunteers at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah. It is one of the most fulfilling, rewarding vacations we have had -- and we already have our reservations for next year.
It is impossible to put everything into one short review, but this is why we volunteer again and again for Best Friends:
1. They have their priorities right. Money and other resources go first and foremost to the animals in their care. Employees and other humans are accommodated comfortably, but very modestly.
2. They take their duty to the animals seriously. Any animal that comes within the care of BFAS is given the highest quality of life possible -- taking into account the animal's physical, mental and emotional needs. There is no pressure to get the animal adopted because it is "running out of time," so each animal gets the medical treatment, enrichment activities, training and behavior modification necessary to have a happy, healthy life and increase his/her chances for adoption.
3. Decisions are at appropriate organizational levels. The people that have the most knowledge, information and understanding of a particular animal and the greatest emotional investment in that animal (the Caregivers) are given a lot of authority for developing his/her life plan, approvals for outings and sleepovers, training plans, etc. At the same time, BFAS has appropriate procedures that ensure that everyone stays safe.
I have never seen an organization that has as much respect for individuals, while maintaining a sustainable business model, and such loyal, devoted employees. As volunteers, we are always made to feel valued, appreciated and respected. We end each of our Best Friends vacations wishing we had more time to walk dogs or clean kennels!
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seeing how dogs we've met have been adopted to new, loving homes.
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I am meant to feel macho. But, clad in my flowery Boden swimming trunks, and stepping gingerly over goose poo, I am doing a fairly good impression of pantomime dame Christopher Biggins on his summer holidays.
At a swimming pool, I could leap like a dolphin into the deep end. But I am at Redricks Lakes in the Essex countryside about to go on my first testosterone-fuelled "wild swim".
I have been inspired by David Cameron. In a classic bit of international one-upmanship at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, he let slip to reporters yesterday that he had started his day at 6am by going for a swim in Loch Erne. At home, he may be the master of chillaxing and working in his pyjamas, but, when in close proximity to Vladimir "pecs" Putin, Cameron's world-ruler gene kicks in. Off comes the tie and on come the trunks.
"It certainly wakes you up in the morning and gets you going for a hard day of chairing these meetings," said Dave, rubbing off the icy water like an otter on heat. The message was clear. Syria: if your terrible strife is ended, it will be because Mr Cameron went stroke to stroke with some swans on Loch Erne to clear his head.
Personally, I am not feeling in the mood to solve world peace or untangle the complexities of international tax avoidance, as I gently skim away mallard effluent before lowering myself into the cold water.
But the prime minister has, at least, got his finger on the pulse. Open-water swimming – or wild water swimming to give it its macho title – has taken off in recent years. Of course, a century or more ago, in the era of Wind in the Willows and Three Men in a Boat, it was the main form of waterborne exercise until it fell out of favour with the rise of lidos, indoor pools and eye-stinging chlorine.
However, inspired by growing interest in amateur triathlons – which require competitors to swim 1,500 metres in an open stretch of water – outdoor swimming is back with a bang. The key moment was the Sydney Olympics in 2000, which featured the modern triathlon for the first time. But it is not just fitness fanatics who have discovered the joy of swimming in lakes and rivers.
Kate Rew, author of Wild Swim, says: "All the myths of it being cold, dirty and dangerous have been dispelled over the last six to eight years and people are getting back into it as being something rather magical they can do on their own doorstep."
For Rew, despite the pictures of Putin wading into Siberian waters to crunch out some butterfly strokes, it is not a testosterone-fueled activity. "People do it for the pleasure rather than the pain. You need a bit of bravery, a bit of belief to take the plunge, but after that there's lots of rewards," she says.
She's right. After a camp squeal as my toes slide into the squelching mud, I start to see the attractions. The water is cold, but refreshingly so on a sticky humid day.
And then, as I push off from the slightly scummy shore, a sense of freedom hits me as I realise I can swim without the edge of a pool to impede me, and with no other swimmers to dodge. My only company is a flock of lapwings and some cobalt-blue dragonflies that dart in and out of my eyeline. It is totally invigorating.
Daniel Start, author of a guidebook Wild Swimming: 300 hidden dips in the rivers, lakes and waterfalls of Britain (published this month), explains why the pastime has become so popular. "Our waterways take us into parts of our landscape we might not otherwise have found, so there's a sense of exploration. People are looking for a bit of adventure they can do locally, without having to get on an aeroplane and go to Ecuador."
Indeed, the lakes where I am swimming are former gravel pits just a short drive off the M11. But surrounded by reeds, cow parsley, and with hidden carp beneath me, I feel a million miles from modern life.
The lakes are run by Mitchell Edwards, who leases them from a landlord. "I grew up around here and always loved jumping in. A few years ago, a dozen or so triathletes started to train here but since then it has really taken off. We had 150 swimmers here on Saturday morning," he says.
It is impossible to tell how many people regularly "wild swim" in Britain, but all experts agree the numbers are increasingly rapidly.
Rick Kiddle, a former Great British triathlete, is now head of the National Open Water Coaching Association, which accredits lakes across the country for open water swimming. He says this year alone five new lakes have opened up for swimming in Scotland, as well as others in England. "It's almost like the marathon boom of the Eighties."
At Redricks, like many of the open accredited sites in Britain, Mr Edwards has installed a café, and hires a lifeguard during supervised swimming sessions. He also insists that new swimmers take part in an induction programme. "It is easy to overestimate your ability once you are in the middle of the lake," he says.
Many swimmers enjoy the thrill of swimming in genuinely wild, public rivers and lakes without the assurance of a safety ring or lifeguard on shore.
Rew says: "You've got to be aware of your own limits, both the cold and distance," but points out that unlike swimming in the sea, where the current can be dangerous, most wild swimming is in relatively tame water.
There is a legitimate fear that in some rivers you can catch the potentially lethal Weil's disease (leptospirosis, caused by water contaminated by animal urine), which was responsible for the death of Olympic rower Andy Holmes in 2010. Swimmers should cover any cuts, or stick to sites where the water has been tested, if they are nervous.
Cameron may have presented his early-morning plunge as proof he can pump iron with Obama or wrestle a bear with Putin. But after a blissful swim through the silky waters of my Essex lake, I think it is just another example of Cameron chillaxing. It is one of the most intensely peaceful half hours I have enjoyed this year. And well worth trudging through a bit of bird poo to experience.
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Lake Ontario Fishing Report – TSI Charters
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It is making a loud squeaking sound periodically. Sounds like a squeaky belt on a car. It is not throughout the entire run time. Just seems to be on and off during 2 or 3 different cycles. No pattern to the duration of squeak or time in between squeaks. Which part do i most likely need? There is no leaking and it does drain fine.
Hi Kim,
Thank you for your inquiry. It sounds like there might be something stuck somewhere. Perhaps to a physical check of your spray are and see if that is causing the squeaking noise. You could also check your drain pump and see if there is anything lodged inside of it that is causing it to squeak periodically. I hope that helps!
I need to get the little hose that connects drain pump to dishwasher. When looking at the schematic drawing i see a discrepancy. The hose i need is item #54 but the picture shows it as a z shaped hose but my hose is just strait, but when looking at the pump picture, item #60, it shows straight hose attached to it. How can i make sure i'm getting the correct hose? Thanks.
Hi Andrey,
Thank you for your inquiry. Where the hose is coming up under the model number it should be the correct one for your appliance. I hope this helps. Thank you and have a great day!
My dishwasher is leaking on the very bottom of the pump assembly, just above the bottom metal plate that is riveted on to the whole bottom plastic drain assembly, there is rust on the metal plate possibly indicating previous leaking, the drain assembly seems to be working. This seems like a major repair, am i right and possibly need to look for replacement dishwasher? Thank you for response stu
Hello Stu, thank you for contacting us. Replacing the drain pump is a fairly easy job. We have a how to video here that walks you through it, approx. repair time 15-30 mins. Good luck with the repair!
Repair was easy I removed the old drain pump by removing 1 clips with pliar & 1 band with a screw driver and replace the drain pump with the new one, I replace clip and the band. replace drain hose tighten down the band. I had to adjust the drain pump because it seem to be a little loud then the one I had to replace , now it works !
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Putting the new pump in place to test it only took about five minutes. The lower, front, kick-plate panel was already off because I had removed it to figure out what was so loud. The steps after that were:- Unplugged it and the disposal under the sink (just in case)- Pulled the wires out of the bottom front of the drain pump- With a Philips screw driver I loosened the front hose clamp and pulled off the hose- With the pliers I pinched the back hose clamp and pulled off the hose- Twisted the pump off of its soft plastic bracketTo put the new one on I reversed the process.Once it was in place and before I put the panel back on, I plugged in the dishwasher and started a cycle. The pump was quiet but the person who installed the dishwasher in the first place had the drain hose resting on a spring. When the pump ran it resonated through the spring making a pretty loud noise. So I unplugged it again, disconnected the hose, fed it under the spring along the floor and then reconnected it. When I plugged it back in and tested it, things were much quieter.With everything in place I put the panel back on and was finished.Note: I have worked on dishwashers before and most of the time they have insulation behind the kick-plate panel to quiet them, but this one didn't. I will probably add that some time later.
the pump was making some loud noise so i removed the bottom cover and the drain pump is right in the front the motor was hot the washer had water on the bottom so i started the washer hit the pump with a screw driver handle to get it started drained the water and used pliers to in still. not bad at all.
First turn the power off! If you have water in the tub, use something like a wet/dry shop vac to drain as much water out as possible. Removing the strainers will help get more out. To remove the smaller horseshoe shaped strainer, pull up and towards the handle. The sprayer is then removed by rotating the base of it slightly. Then you can remove the large strainer. The more water you get out the better! Then remove the kick panel. You will see the drain pump right in front of you with a white and a purple wire. Disconnect the wires by pulling their tabs towards you, and move them out of the way. With a screwdriver, loosen the worm clamp on top of the pump that connects the drain line to the pump. Have a towel handy, even if you got all of the water out, there will still be some in the line. Then take a pair of pliars (long nose may work best, or small channel locks) and compress the clamp on the black hose behind the pump, moving the clamp towards the center of the hose. The pump should now move a little. Pulling the pump towards you, wiggle slightly to try to remove the pump from its support, preferably without breaking the tabs, but keeping them intact is not critical if you are replacing the pump. More water may come out at this point, so be prepaired. Put the new pump in by reversing the process, making sure you do not break the support tabs. Slide the compression clamp into place. Reconnect and tighten the drain line, reconnect the white and purple wires. Dry your work area carefully so you can spot any leaks. Apply power, and run a rinse cycle, watching for leaks. If everything looks ok, kill the power again and reattach the kick plate. Turn power back on one last time, and enjoy your dishwasher again!
The unit would not pump the gray water out so I immediately assumed it was a bad pump. Ordered the part and had it the next day. After taking things apart I realized it was a clogged discharge hose and the original pump was still good. Since I had the new pump and everything was already disassembled I decided it would be a good insurance policy to replace the pump anyways. Easy to install. I didn't even have to pull the unit out. Just did it from underneath.
I pulled the dishwasher from the cabinet and tilted the unit back so I would have better access to the drain pump. I then removed the hose clamp from the drain hose attached to the pump and removed the hose to let drain into a container. After disconnecting a white and purple wire from the pump and removing the rubber coupling I was able to remove the pump from the housing. Installed the new pump and started the wash cycle and the pump started it's drain cycle which was a relief. Easy fix and great parts!
Remove kick plate. Pump is right up front. Disconnect the two wire from the pump. MAKE sure u have removed all water from dishwasher! There will be a little left in the pump but nothing to worry about. Next on the top of the pump there is a hose clamp. Loosen it and remove the hose. Now use pliers to slide the hose clamp off the lower hose that hooks to the dishwaher. Use a flat head screw driver to push the tabs on the white clip over and pull off the pump. Now just do this in the reverse order. Approx time: 10 minutes
The drain pump was making a high pitched buzzing noise which told us that its days were numbered. When I ordered the pump I found out that the dishwasher was really made by Electrolux for Whirlpool. Taking the pump off was a simple matter of removing two hose clamps and prying the pump off the frame. The hard part was realizing that it just pulled off without damaging anything. The new pump easily slipped right in and the screw in hose clamp was easily installed. However, the hose clamp that required pinching with the pliers was not that easy. I had to use a screwdriver to push it all the way on while holding the clamp open with the pliers. All in all pretty easy.
Followed the instructions given on the video, for replacing the drain pump. I did not pull the unit all the way out of the counter space just pulled it out about a foot. I had to lie on the floor to change the pump. That cost me some time for removal and installation, but I did not have to disconnect any water or electrical lines. I did unplug the power. The exchange went smoothly accept for the one spring clamp. Hard to squeeze and slip on. Would have been better to use a different kind of clamp. I have arthritis so that was an issue. All in all a good experience. A Big Thank You !! to this site . There instructions were perfect, the site is very user friendly. They saved me the cost of hiring a repair person. I'm a 75 yr. old disabled female, if I can do it then you surely can.
remove cover in lower front, drain pump located in front, remove two wires from pump motor. it's a little tight but you just loosen the 3 clamps, remove drain hose and pull hose from bottom of dishwasher unit, unclip drain pump, snap new one in place while sliding small hose on to the dishwasher. reclamp and hook the drainhose back up and tighten clamp.
the remove was very easy just with pliers and a screw drive I was able to remove the pump. Make sure the electric is off!
Very successful.. all fixed. :-)
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Christine in online marketing is reading Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir.
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We're going deep inside the making of a book, with interviews from Penguin Random House employees in editorial, marketing, sales, and more. If you've ever wondered about all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into making your favorite books, this is the series for you.
Today we're featuring an interview with Art Director, Jason Booher.
What does an Art Director do? What would surprise a layman to know about your job?
An art director of any imprint does a number of things. But one of the most important is choosing what designer will work on each cover. In this case, Paul Sahre has always designed Chuck Klosterman's jackets. And so the question was really, do we hire Paul to design the jacket, or do we do something else since this is Chuck's first book with Blue Rider Press. It wasn't a difficult decision, since Paul is one of the best book cover designers and his covers for Chuck are consistently fantastic.
Getting good work out of someone like Paul Sahre consists of letting him do the good work. And, at some level, having him feel that if he works to make something interesting, we will go with it, even if it is a little risky. So fighting for something that is interesting or risky is part of what I do, and I knew Paul was definitely going to deliver something that is smart and bold and different. In this instance there was certainly a risk in an upside down cover, but everyone here loved and thought it was perfect.
Working with and trusting my publisher, editors, sales and marketing and gaining their trust is another huge part of my job. Like any team working towards an end, there are many pieces that are cumulative, and the jacket can be a focal point of a lot of things. So fostering an environment with my designers and pushing my design to bring things to the table that I believe in, and then working with my editorial team to massage those jackets into something even better. That's the goal.
As for a surprising thing someone outside of publishing might not know about my job; perhaps that I'm a reader and lover of books, and not just some art guy. Or that a graphic designer is more like an engineer or general problem solver—the end result just happens to be visual form. A design can be thought of as a set of constraints or parameters. In book design, these consist of things like the conceptual literary content of the book, what makes the book unique in the context of other similar books or all books, how the author is (or is not) known, the expectations of the book from the point of view of the author/editor/sales force/readers, the context of book jacket in the contemporary moment, the context of book jackets in the last 10 (or even 20) years, visual pop culture. Or something that is obvious and not obvious is working with type is very difficult. And it perhaps the most specialized thing that graphic designers bring to that general problem solving into form.
When you first start working on a book, what does that mean – what are your first steps?
There's a combination of reading the manuscript, and listening to the editor talk about the book. As an art director, I have to dip into almost all the of the books to see what they are like before deciding to whom to give each title. As a designer (if I'm working on that title's jacket) it's always different with every book. But as a general process I will read the book, and think and sketch, and sketch, and reread, work though a number of ideas, throw most of them out, stay with others, reread, take a walk (much harder when you are also the art director), try to come up with something new. Those are the first steps.
Please explain why you like the cover of But What if We're Wrong? What did you most want it to convey?
As soon as I saw this design, I knew it was the best solution for the jacket. Fantastic.
The cover is simple and direct, but at the same time so "wrong." It disrupts the expectation we have that things should be right-side up. And that's exactly what the book questions; what do we assume to be right or decided about the world (take gravity for instance) and asks the simple question, "But…" The package brings you immediately to that kind of query and lets you know that Chuck is going to have some serious fun with the idea. It's quirky but bold; not a gimmicky trick as much as a statement. Perfect for the book.
After everyone else saw it and also thought it was great, we talked about things like color and so on. But it would complicate the intent, bringing perhaps something else to muddy up the main thing. Keeping it black and white, keeping the type all the same typeface and size, moving the subtitle to the back, allows the one big move to be the clear and immediate thing that is experienced.
You read the manuscript to figure out your approach, and on this book you collaborated with a freelancer. What is that working relationship like? Do you brainstorm together? Do you suggest concepts?
When I work with a freelancer (as well as with my in-house designers), I like to see what they come up with without any input from me. Not only are you more likely to get something special and surprising, something you couldn't have thought of yourself (which is why art directors work with a variety of freelancers in addition to their in-house staff), but you are sending a signal of trust. If a designer knows what "kind" of design they are expected to deliver, they might not push very far or hard. But if they take ownership of being the first arbiters of what the package of the book might be, there is more of a chance for something brilliant. I'm just trying to maximize the talent I have working with me.
With my in house staff, it is similar but there might also be a concept that is floating that we will work with. Or occasionally I'll work with one designer or my whole team to come up with ideas together. That's an exception though, and cover design is generally a sole enterprise in the initial stages. Then it becomes a collaboration when I see comps, and goes from there.
Who approves the cover design? Who has a say in the final cover?
It always depends. What we are really trying to make is a unique and powerful package that connects to the soul of the book. By the time we work through that process in-house, it's hopefully the jacket that feels just right to the author and anyone else surrounding the book.
What makes certain piece of jacket art successful in your mind?
A jacket the feels unique, that stands alone and marks the book as an individual thing that is exciting and worth experiencing always wins the day. In the sea of book covers, a clever concept is not as strong as formal innovation. The great trick is to have something that is both visually stunning or startling that has a conceptual grounding or underlying connection to the book. Something that suggests something tangible but not literal about what's inside. The jacket But What if We're Wrong jacket is visually dynamic and unique because it's upside down, which is also the conceptual move that leads you right into the book.
Check back next time for an interview with Paul Saher, the designer behind Klosterman's cover art.
Read first post in this series here, and find out more about But What If We're Wrong here:
Lauren in Doubleday marketing is reading China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan.
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This Wednesday (4/20), Universal Pictures released the first official trailer for the highly anticipated movie adaptation of the #1 bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train . The trailer offers a glimpse of Emily Blunt in the role of Rachel Watson as we see the dark themes of Hawkins' psychological thriller come to life.
The haunting trailer has been shared by many media outlets and continues to spread quickly across social media platforms, furthering the book's widespread popularity.
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Jessica in Crown production is reading An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir.
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It is the centennial year of the Pulitzer Prize and the awards have just been announced. From Penguin Random House, we are proud to publish these Pulitzer Prize winners:
- General Non-Fiction: Joby Warrick for Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
- History: T.J. Stiles for Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
- Biography or Autobiography: William Finnegan for Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Congratulations also to Kelly Link, whose short story collection, Get in Trouble, was a finalist for Fiction.
Click through to learn about the books and find yourself an award-winning read!
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To celebrate the paperback publication of the international bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George, we want you to experience spring in Paris!
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We're going deep inside the making of a book, with interviews from Penguin Random House employees in editorial, marketing, sales, and more. If you've ever wondered about all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into making your favorite books, this is the series for you.
Today we're featuring our interview with Justin Goodfellow, who sells But What if We're Wrong? to bookstores, and is here to give us a sales perspective.
What does your job entail?
I have the great fortune of being a Sales Manager for Penguin Adult books! In this role, I present all of the upcoming titles from Penguin Books to independent bookstores in the New York metropolitan area. In other words, I'm a bookseller to booksellers! During the course of a year, I meet with various book buyers to discuss and select the titles that will eventually be on their shelves for readers to purchase. The part about these meetings that I love so much is that I get to be involved in curating the store along with the buyer. Every independent bookstore is unique, and it is my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the stores so that the books I sell them will reflect their personalities.
I also work extensively with the other departments in publishing like editorial and publicity. Editors will often let sales people read manuscripts so that we can offer feedback or let them know about a store that will be particularly excited about the book. And then there is publicity! Publicists are dear friends to Sales Managers because we work together to setup author readings and signings at different bookstores across the whole country. In my opinion, there is no better way to spend a weekday evening than to attend a reading at your local bookshop.
When you describe But What if We're Wrong? to bookbuyers, what is your hook? What is memorable or unique about the book? Why would they want it in their store?
You would probably laugh at how little of a hook I need for Chuck Klosterman a lot of the time! His reputation precedes him, and I often sell the book well by simply saying, "Look, it's the new Chuck Klosterman!" But there is so much more that I get to tell my booksellers about. When it comes to But What If We're Wrong?, I feel like Klosterman has explored a question that covers an impressive number of topics. From a conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson about the multiverse to reasons why the NFL could potentially fail, But What If We're Wrong? is genius in its breadth, and that is going to bring an entirely new audience to Klosterman.
There are so many different reasons for why independent bookstores love Chuck Klosterman! One thing I've heard that cracked me up is that many view Chuck Klosterman as a hipper Malcolm Gladwell. Now while I personally think that Gladwell is plenty hip, I also feel like I understand the deeper sentiment underneath that opinion. There is a level of access that every Klosterman book achieves, and it results in a sincere investigation about a topic. Reading Klosterman doesn't feel like reading an author who is analyzing something from the outside; it feels like reading the carefully considered meditations of someone who is intimately involved with what they write about. That sincerity can't be faked in a reading experience because it is simply the result of skillful writing.
What's your favorite thing about your job? What would surprise a layman to know?
What continues to strike me about my job is that I get to connect people who all love books. My publishing house considers me a specialist on the bookstores I work with, and in turn, my bookstores view me as a specialist about the publishers and all of the different titles we bring out. It is a singular role, and I love the opportunity to continue learning from the books and the people that participate in the world of literature.
You're a fan of Chuck Klosterman – what do you like about his writing? What do you like about this new book? Do you have a favorite moment or line?
I love that Klosterman always feels like he is writing directly to me. It creates an experience that not many authors can bring to the page. Sometimes this occurs through those passages that directly address the reader, but more often I feel addressed by a line of thought. It's as if a good friend of mine is laying out an issue before me with perfect pacing and allowing me to fully grasp his point of view.
My favorite part of But What If We're Wrong? is this amazing section about television's ability to capture and portray a time period. The quick take away from the chapter is that while everyone might love Mad Men and think of it as crowning accomplishment that captured the 1960s, many historians of the future would probably disagree. The perceptions that created Mad Men came from people living in the early 2000s instead of the actual 1960s. Everything about Mad Men is too perfectly considered and too meticulously constructed with hindsight to be genuinely natural. Instead, a show like Roseanne offers a much more realistic portrayal of its time period. Like many families living in the 1990s, Roseanne showed a chubby American family trying to get by with okay jobs while living in a kind of messy house. For many, that is an accurate picture of life in the 1990s, and Roseanne was able to capture all of this unknowingly. The show was just created in the very same time period its characters lived in!
Read the first post in this series here, and part one and part two of the Q&A with Klosterman's editor.
Adult coloring books have taken the world by storm. Here, Andy Hughes, (Vice President and Director of Production and Interior Design, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) takes us behind the scenes of the new Vogue Colors A-Z.
The Vogue coloring book is my first foray into the making of what's become a publishing phenomenon. I've been producing books for Alfred A. Knopf publishing for nearly 40 years, during which time, I've handled every genre of book, including massive, sumptuous coffee table Vogue books (Vogue Living, World of Vogue, Vogue Weddings), so I welcomed the opportunity and challenge to figure out how to put together a typically lower-priced interactive consumer book coupled with the prestige of the Vogue brand.
When the idea was introduced to me in December 2015, it was soon apparent that reconstructing full-color vintage Vogue cover images into outline form would be a difficult challenge. Valerie Steiker, the Vogue Editor who conceived and assembled the project, sent Knopf's editor, Shelley Wanger, four sample images at my request for testing. The alphabetical architecture of the book meant 26 images; when I studied them all, some of the covers were rendered simply with large mono-colored elements, others with the shadowing of garments with folds or the translucency of a diaphanous silky material, and the rest elaborated with rich details of texture and pattern. The goal of retaining the readability of the images, without the assistance of color, shading, and texture, was my immediate concern and challenge to figure out.
The first task was to de-colorize the image and delete the tonal gradations of the art. I had a pre-press vendor handle this in Photoshop, instructing them to retain as much of the skeletal outlines of the images as possible. But, the resulting image file retained just a soft, fuzzy outline, and many of the details got diminished in this filtering process. It was apparent that the services of an artist-illustrator would be needed to re-draw the art to enhance the line and embellish the image to suggest volume and delineate areas of detail for the colorist to fill in. A young, fashionable colleague of mine suggested her aunt, Cecilia Lehar, who did just this sort of inking. So, I wrote Cecilia, who years ago had coincidentally worked on Vogue patterns for 11 years, and worked on an exhibition, 250 years of Fashion, for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I reviewed her portfolio, and asked her to prepare a line art version of the four pieces I had de-colorized. Her initial work was excellent: faithful to the original, yet now as a line rendering that could be successfully filled in with colors.
From that moment on, for the next month, it was meetings at Vogue and in my office to review the ensuing progress of Cecilia's re-work of all the illustrated covers and incidental art throughout. In the book, each cover appears on the right side page of a spread, faced on the left page with the letter of the alphabet that corresponds to some element or theme of the cover image. Initially, the Vogue Deputy Design Director, Alberto Orta, chose a period-appropriate "Deco" border motif surrounding the letter of the alphabet, dramatic with contrasting black and white panels. We realized quickly that any solid filled-in area needed to be "emptied" to only an outline so another element of the book could be filled in with color by the book's owner. And, each letter is further decorated by drawings evocative of the letter and cover image, which also needed to be re-drawn as line art. So, as the book took form, we added more and more colorable areas.
The book also includes a six-page barrel gatefold insert, perforated for removal from the book, comprised of 21 appareled models, consecutively arranged, representing the years 1912-1932. Again, each figure required re-drawing and refinements making them suitable for coloring. The cover of this paperback book features six-inch flaps (more figures to color!), and printed on the verso side of the cover, an array of the same decorative drawings that punctuate each letter within the book.
Manufacturing a book equal to the quality of Vogue's historical covers required extensive research to identify the ideal paper to print on. The paper's brightness, opacity and surface smoothness were all considered carefully, and finally, a 120-pound text (aka 65-pound cover) Accent Opaque paper was deemed perfect, but the next challenge was to make sure paper this thick could be folded well on the press equipment available for the large quantity of books being printed and the tight schedule we were dealing with. Press tests were conducted—luckily successful—though pushing at the limits of the equipment's capabilities. Another embellishment to the book was including thumbnail-sized reproductions of the original covers (color elements are very uncommon in coloring books). Their reproduction was critical, and including these references of the original art allowed Valerie the opportunity to identify the cover images' creators along with fascinating anecdotes, which further elevates Vogue Color A-Z above other coloring books by adding fashion history, wit, and a challenge to this book's colorist to match the original artwork.
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Ponemon: Healthcare Cyber Attack Averages One Per Month
Healthcare cybersecurity can improve as healthcare organizations are averaging about one cyber attack per month.
- LAS VEGAS - Healthcare cybersecurity must improve, as organizations average about one healthcare cyber attack per month, according to a recent Ponemon survey.
In The State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare Organizations in 2016, Ponemon also found that 48 percent of those surveyed said their organizations have experienced an incident involving the loss or exposure of patient information during the last year. However, only half of respondents also said that their organization currently has an incident response plan in place.
For the survey, 535 IT and IT security practitioners in small- to medium-sized healthcare organizations in the U.S. were interviewed. Furthermore, 64 percent are employed by HIPAA covered entities, while 36 percent work for business associates of covered entities.
"Based on our field research, healthcare organizations are struggling to deal with a variety of threats, but they are pessimistic about their ability to mitigate risks, vulnerabilities and attacks," Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of The Ponemon Institute, said in a statement. "As evidenced by the headline-grabbing data breaches over the past few years at large insurers and healthcare systems, hackers are finding the most lucrative information in patient medical records."
Ponemon added that healthcare organizations are therefore "under more pressure than ever" to ensure that their cybersecurity strategies have been perfected.
The survey also showed that 78 percent of respondents reported that the most common security incident is the exploitation of existing software vulnerabilities greater than three months old. Seventy-five percent of those surveyed said that Web-borne malware attacks were the most common.
The following were listed as top security threats for healthcare organizations, with respondents able to list more than one as their main concern:
- System failures (79 percent)
- Unsecure medical devices (77 percent)
- Cyber attackers (77 percent)
- BYOD (76 percent)
- Identity thieves (73 percent)
- Mobile device insecurity (72 percent)
Perhaps unsurprising, was that 81 percent of those surveyed said that patient medical records were the most attractive and lucrative target for unauthorized access.
However, employee negligence is also a factor when it comes to inappropriate PHI access. Specifically, 46 percent cited concern over employee negligence, while 45 percent were worried about "the ineffectiveness of HIPAA-mandated business associate agreements designed to ensure patient information security."
Respondents were also somewhat unsure when it comes to the effectiveness of their organization's ability to prevent attacks. For example, 49 percent said their organizations experienced situations where cyber attacks have evaded their intrusion prevention systems (IPS), while 27 percent said they are unsure.
"Respondents are pessimistic about their ability to mitigate risks, vulnerabilities and attacks across the enterprise" the report stated.
This is supported by the fact that just one-third of respondents called their organizations' cyber security posture very effective. The primary challenges in building effectiveness were the following:
- 76 percent said a lack of collaboration with other functions
- 73 percent said insufficient staffing
- Both 65 percent reported not enough money and not considered a priority.
"The healthcare sector needs to organize incident response processes at the same level as cyber criminals to properly protect health data relative to current and future threat levels," explained Stephen Cobb, senior security researcher at ESET, which sponsored the survey. "A good start would be for all organizations to put incident response processes in place, including comprehensive backup and disaster recovery mechanisms."
Specifically, Cobb cited effective DDoS and malware protection, strong authentication, encryption and patch management, as areas that organizations must improve for stronger healthcare cybersecurity.
In terms of investment, the survey showed that there is room for improvement when it comes to information security. Respondents average $23 million annually on IT, according to Ponemon, while 12 percent on average is dedicated to information security.
"Since an average of $1.3 million is spent annually for DDoS attacks alone, a business case can be made to increase technology investments to reduce the frequency of successful attacks," Ponemon explained in a statement.
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Christmas is for celebrating and to feel the festive spirit of this amazing occasion. You may want to have something new inside your bedroom or even your child room. How to integrate the festive spirit of the Christmas in a bedroom! It can be so easy and funny by some few and creative decoration elements. Let's begin the funny task …Read More »
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Congratulations, you made it to Friday! I don't know about you, but that feels like quite the accomplishment. If you've been reading since around Christmas, you might remember the Secret Santa Gift Exchange I participated in with a group of fun and talented bloggers. In addition to that gift exchange, we also swapped thrift store items for a Thrift Swap! I transformed two wooden style placemats that were sent by Kim from Knock it Off Crafts in to a Penny Tile inspired tray!
I'll be honest here, I still haven't decided if this is a DIY Fail or a DIY Nail – I love the way it turned out, but it's not quite what I had in mind. And for another confession (as if I needed to confess any more), I've had these placemats since the beginning of December, and I just decided what to do with them this week (talk about procrastination!). Every person that came to our house in the span of a month, I asked how they would upcycle them.
Every. single. person.
I even text multiple people pictures of them and said, "What would you do with me?!". So, Kim… you got me – almost.
I've been so inspired by floors lately. I know that may sound strange, but following the Instagram account @ihavethisthingwithfloors has really opened my eyes to some of the most beautiful floors! I noticed a trend of penny tile, and now I see it everywhere. Once I stepped back and decided that these placemats actually kind of looked like penny tile, I decided I could try it!
Here are the supplies I used:
Wooden Tray
Small Wooden Beads (Or use Penny Tile!)
Resin Kit
White Spray Paint
Black Spray Paint
First, because I was using these placemats and not Penny Tile, I spray painted all of my beads and the tray. I wanted a white-and-black tray, and decided to create a fun pattern that incorporated both colors. Once they were dry, I cut all of the beads apart, then began placing them in the tray.
I filled the entire tray, and then mixed my resin mix in order to cover all of the beads. In hindsight, I wish I had a little more resin. However, it was my first time working with it, so I wasn't sure what to expect. NOTE: If you work with resin, please make sure you're in a well-ventilated area.
I let my try dry for at least 24 hours, but it has actually taken about 48-72 for it to completely set up.
The resin did begin to rip off some of my paint. At first, I didn't like this look, but now I feel like it makes the penny tiles look marbled.
Be sure to check out what all of these lovely ladies made! I can't wait to see what Tee from A BeauTEEful Living made with what I sent her!
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Dear Creationist,
I along with many other lurkers and occasional contributors visit this Internet, its sciencey sites and its many comment threads to gain information and insight. However, since your ilk also frequently visits those same sites to start vacuous and embarrassing (well, they should be embarrassing) arguments based on ancient mythology and supported by gross and seemingly purposeful misunderstandings which (to you, at least) debunk every millimetre of scientific progress ever achieved, I now often visit this Internet to see your predictable idiocy exposed, your arrogance writ large and your appalling, willful ignorance of terms and concepts both simple and complex magnified by the contributions of educated and intelligent people; equally, those same contributions are often enlightening and educational in their own right (if not to you and your merry band of sectarian denialist cheerleaders). It's one thing to learn and gain knowledge in the traditional classroom or lecture hall method or by simply reading a book or article; it's quite another to learn at the expense of a seemingly willing patsy, perfectly happy to be beaten and humiliated time and again as service to interested onlookers. Certainly it could be said that I'm gaining enjoyment at your suffering, but you always attend the sites in question to parade your proud ignorance, repeat long-debunked creationist pseudo-science or lame apologetics and (usually, eventually) issue sneering condemnations to eternal hellfire to anyone who remains unconvinced by their used-god salesman schtick. You are always given correct information in response to your erroneous talking-points and you always have the opportunity to address your misunderstanding – but it is very clear that learning something new or something which challenges your dogma is not on the menu; you are there to preach, proselytise and provoke.
Mr/Ms Creationist, you provide a unique and invaluable service and I look forward to each and every pronouncement you make on the apparently imminent death (can something still be "imminent" if it's been predicted several times a year since 1859?) of evolutionary theory (and by necessary implication, every branch of science it underpins and every other field of inquiry whose own evidence confirms it). Every time you click Submit, I have but to be patient and hey presto – someone inevitably and convincingly demolishes your paranoid, uneducated, histrionic ravings and I learn something interesting.
Thank you, Creationist, for your selfless yet baffling masochism.


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BRADENTON, Fla. - The Orioles announced three more roster cuts today.
The club has optioned left-hander Tim Berry and catcher Michael Ohlman to Double-A Bowie and reassigned catcher Brian Ward to minor league camp.
With these assignments, the Orioles now have 53 players at major league spring training, including 15 non-roster invitees.
Berry and Ohlman are on the 40-man roster for the first time and couldn't be optioned before today.
Ward isn't on the 40-man, which is why he's reassigned instead of optioned.
Today's travel roster includes pitchers Jacob Pettit and Tyler Wilson, infielders Chad Tracy, Buck Britton and Garabez Rosa, and outfielder Chih-Hsien Chiang, who arrived from minor league camp.
Also, the Orioles continue to list Tuesday's starter as TBA, but Miguel Gonzalez will take the mound. Gonzalez is fine after being nailed on the left shin by a line drive during Friday's game against the Phillies.


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Timeline is Set for Greenbelt Repairs
Some of the repairs have already started on the Boise Greenbelt after this year's floods, and more fixes are in the works. It may be next spring though, before the trails are fully back to normal.
The trail under East Parkcenter bridge is still closed, and KTVB says the Greenbelt pathway is also still closed under Veterans Memorial Parkway. Those are two high priority areas for the city as it considers what to fix as part of a $1.4 million Greenbelt repair project.
Mid to late fall is the goal to have more of the flooded sections repaired and fully functioning. They've had to wait for the waters to continue to recede to assess the damage and make sure the landscape is ready for the next step, kinda like we need recovery time after the flu before we're able to get back to our normal routines.
KTVB also reports the goal is to have the whole Greenbelt area and the river banks in the city's pathway system restored by the middle of next spring.
This has been an odd year, right? With the heavy rains and floods, then the triple digits of summer, and now the air quality worries and more heat. The Treasure Valley is ready for "normal" again, whatever that is. When the Greenbelt truly looks like its old self again next spring, that will help.


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