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Fed up with seeing those blatant clickbait headlines in your Facebook news feed? You know, the "this cute kitten / starving puppy was attacked/ rescued / cuddled by a baby / chihuahua / alligator. You won't BELIEVE what happens next!!!" ones (if you're still not sure, spend a few happy minutes with this clickbait headline generator. If nothing looks familiar, you have super-intellectual friends – well done
Apparently, a few Smart Cookies are making megabucks from these sites; this is how it works. They dredge the internet, and other "viral" type sites like Reddit, for content which ticks the shareability buttons, come up with alluring headlines*, and republish that content onto their own websites with the clickbait titles added. Then, they feed those links into Facebook, often with an initial advertising budget to start pushing them into people's news feeds as Boosted Posts, and wait for the traffic to start flooding in.
Because of the way Facebook's News Feed Algorithm works (or has until this week), a clickbait rolling stone headline will gather a very large amount of moss indeed. Or to put it another way, every time one of your friends clicks on one of those articles, it becomes more likely to show up in your feed. If you click too, you're passing on the joy to your friends. So with that initial investment in a boosted post, the article gets traction throughout Facebook and starts sending lots of traffic back to the original Smart Cookie's website….which they can then monetise by selling ad space on the basis of all those zillions of page views.
So basically, the Smart Cookies have been exploiting Facebook to deliver traffic to their own sites, for their own reasons.
Strangely enough, Facebook aren't very keen on this, and have now announced that they intend to knock the whole thing on the head. For one thing, someone else is cashing in on their customer base; for another, all those lovely clicks are departing Facebook and landing on the Smart Cookies' websites; and for a third thing, some users possibly find those headlines annoying. We'll leave it to you guess which of those three things are the official reason for the algorithm change they've just announced which will reduce the visibility of these articles…
Here's the full official release if you'd like to read a slightly less snarky view of the whole story: News Feed FYI: click baiting
* alluring in the way that a carrier bag of cheap chocolate is alluring. It's hard to ignore but will leave you feeling kinda nauseous and grubby if you go there
There's been plenty of coverage over the last few months about the massive decline in Facebook Pages' organic reach. In case you missed it: If a page with 5,000 Likers was regularly getting 1,500 sets of eyeballs on their page posts last December, as of now they're probably getting more like six or seven hundred.
And yes, it's deliberate; Facebook have been very open about their change to the News Feed algorithm. They're a little less open about the reasons, pleading "improved user experience" (which doesn't really hold up, as if a user didn't want to see a Page's posts they'd not have Liked them in the first place; or could just go and Unlike them) rather than "need to make a return on investment for our shareholders".
It's a shame they don't feel they can be totally upfront about this: Facebook, and its shareholders, have invested millions of dollars in creating a concept which has changed the world and the way millions of people socialise. It's not, in our opinion, at all unreasonable that they should start to ask for a contribution at some point. Charging for user accounts would be suicide, (Friends Reunited, anyone?!) so making a levy on businesses using Facebook as a marketing platform is the obvious way to go. And make no mistake - each and every post a business makes on Facebook is, and always has been, an advert!
Anyway, in some quarters there has been a somewhat hissy overreaction to this, with a few brands swearing that they'll never talk to Facebook again. We think this is a mistake, and here's why.
The ability to ensure that your post or advert hits the exact people who are most likely to be interested in it, is still unequalled, certainly for anything with an audience the size of Facebook's. (We're not counting advertising your Pink Widget in the Pink Widget Monthly magazine, readership of 35!).
Compare the mainstream alternatives of billboards, magazines and papers, and even radio advertising: you are paying for access based on the size of their total audience, regardless of whether half of them are male and you're selling a new type of pregnancy test.
Facebook allows you to target by criteria (geography, gender, age and many more depending on the type of content), and to pay only for access to that exact audience. Or, you can use what should be the best targeted audience of all: friends of your existing Likers. Provided you've built your audience the right way, to attract people who're genuinely interested in your organisation, this will be great. If you've tried any of the shortcuts like buying followers….not so much. But you didn't, right?!
Again depending on which type of content you use (ads vs boosted posts etc), you will get feedback on who's seen your content and interacted with it, ranging from great to fantastic. Again, with traditional marketing you get almost none: yes you could use a tracking code in a print ad, but that will only capture those who take one particular action in response to it. You don't know who's read it and then had a bit more of a look around at your facebook page, or clicked through onto an article you included. Short of handing out the names and addresses of everyone who glanced your way, this is still as good as it gets.
Yes, you are now being asked to pay something. But do you know how the something in question compares to the alternatives? We were genuinely surprised, not having had a great deal of contact with other advertising mediums. So here it is, from a recent (very useful!) study by Moz.com :
Facebook is WAY out in front for that one thousand eyeball fee, and print advertising, in particular, looks like pretty poor value.
So yes, Facebook has been a free lunch for organisations for a long time, and now it isn't. But that lunch still isn't being charged for at market rates, so it's only likely to go up from here. Our advice is to appreciate the benefits, get smart about using Facebook's many paid for options, and go get them!
It's not entirely true that there's no such thing as a free lunch: sometimes there is, just usually not for very long. And so it's proven with Facebook.
In the early days, business marketers really did get a pretty delicious free lunch on Facebook. They did all the hard work of developing and managing an infrastructure that would attract pretty much the biggest single audience in human history; all you had to do as a business marketer was show up, and create content that consumers enjoyed.
And access to that massive audience was free; once you'd attracted some folk to Like your page, you could generally expect the Reach of an individual Post (ie, the number of people who saw it) to bear at least some resemblance to the number of Likers you had.
Towards the end of 2012, many Pages saw that reach decline. This was down to changes in the Facebook News Feed algorithm (then called Edgerank).
Once a user is connected to sufficient people and Pages that there's more content available when they log on than they'll realistically read through, Facebook filters that content to try and present the user with the stuff they'll find the most fascinating. The News Feed algorithm is the thing that does the filtering, and over the years has prioritised all kinds of different "signals" from the user as to what content they were going to enjoy the most.
The algorithm seems to get tweaked more or less constantly, although of course Facebook don't give away too many details. But there was another big change at the end of last year.
And unlike the last time we saw a major decline in post reach, when Facebook denied that this was a deliberate strategy, this time round they are very explicit that there's been a deliberate shift in the algorithm in a way which basically reduces Page owners' access to their Likers' newsfeeds.
Because the content in News Feed is always changing, and we're seeing more people sharing more content, Pages will likely see changes in distribution. For many Pages, this includes a decline in organic reach.
They go on to state pretty categorically that you need to prepare to spend money, recommending that Page owners use
a combination of engaging Page posts and advertising to promote your message more broadly. Advertising lets Pages reach the fans they already have and find new customers as well. The fans you have matter. In addition to being some of the most loyal customers, fans also make the advertising on Facebook even more effective.*
They're not kidding. Here's what the change, which looks to have taken effect pretty clearly at the start of the December, has done to one of our clients.
This business has a Liker base of over 10,000, and we've been managing their page for over two years. Levels of engagement have been consistently strong during that time, but look what happened to their reach when the new algorithm cut in:
A quick glance shows that there's been a reduction in peak reach from 5-6k per post, to around 3k. So yes, Facebook really mean business on this one.
There are big implications this time. Here are our top ones:
Coming up with a strategy to gain targeted, relevant Fans is more vital than ever. Facebook paid media is frequently based on promotion to either your Likers or your Likers' friends, so in either case having a solid Liker base to start with is crucial to getting value out of your paid media. If you've been running ill-advised contests which have attracted a huge Liker base of Indian ipad lovers when you're running a nightclub in the UK, you're now going to be paying for the privilege of showing your content to those people who will never buy from you.
It's more important than ever to think carefully about whether you have the time, content and budget to make Facebook work for you. (In actual fact this is a blessing for both users and businesses – the overall quality of business-generated content should go up, as those businesses who don't "get" the Facebook environment give up and leave, and businesses who were "dabbling" will refocus their efforts elsewhere and stop wasting time on Facebook.)
Relying on "viral" content shares just got even harder. If you don't pay for visibility, you're relying on even fewer initial views to generate shares and get your brand seen. Together with the difficulty of creating truly "catchy" content in the first place, your chances of making an impact are low.
But basically, this means that Facebook is now mature in terms of a clear business model: they provide the infrastructure and attract the users, you pay for access to those users – essentially the same as for any other web property. A business can still influence both the reach and impact of their Facebook presence (through a clever attraction strategy to draw in Likers, rigorous targeting for paid media, and ensuring that the content is up to scratch when it is seen); but without setting aside a regular budget, the majority of organisations are not going to see results.
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With the primaries going on it reminded me of a problem that can putthose of us who have registered to vote at an unnecessary risk ofidentify theft exposure. With everything we are doing to secure theworld electronically, it can still be the old analog means that doom us.
Last fall I received a piece of junk mail, I mean, "US postage paidpolitical glossy information to help inform voters" material. This isthe usual type of glossy, slick advertising mailer that most of us tossinto the garbage can. I decided to open it and inside I saw "Vote forMeasure 123456" and some political marketing info. OK, I still am goingto toss it. And then I noticed the little "Vote by Mail Application"attached. It was nicely pre-printed with name and address and my date of birth (DOB)!Yeesh, why didn't they just go ahead and post my social security numbertoo?! Some may argue that a DOB is already a matter of public recordand I agree it isn't as sensitive as your social security number, butDOB is enough to compromise portions of your identify and this could be why California Senate Bill 1614 was passed in 2002—to "protect the integrity of vital records by preventing unauthorized access to personal birth and death information."If I had followed the normal course of action, it would have been inthe trash for any dumpster/landfill diving fool to find.
Ok, big deal, one DOB record in the trash. Considering the number ofpeople who toss bank statements, I guess this may not be a big issue. Iassume that there were only about 100,000 of these created and theywould have been easy to find at the post office's front door or thetrash for apartment complexes.
This isn't the worst part. I called the Registrar of Voters and I learned a few things.
1) The political group that sent the mailer appears to have broken no laws (per the Registrar of Voters).
2) The reason why political mailers include DOB information is because it makes it easier for the registrar of voters to confirm and validate a vote (nothing like ease of use over security!)
3) There are no guidelines given to people who send mailers for protection of personal or confidential information.
Does this mean that anyone who has a "cause" and $100 can get anelectronic voter file filed with 100,000 names, addresses, and DOBsfrom everyone in an entire county?
In Symantec's Norton Internet Security™ 2008 and Norton 360 productswe have antiphishing and antifraud mechanisms built in. We also protectagainst drive-by downloads, which may install a keylogger to steal yourbanking transactions. With everything we are doing to secure youridentity and electronic transactions today, let's at least make it alittle harder to own 100,000 identities the old fashioned way.
So what can you do?
o Open and check all mail, including "junk mail" and check for any personal or confidential information. Shred the confidential portions.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ericsson (ERICb.ST) is taking a $1.2 billion charge in a bid to write off its exposure to ST-Ericsson, adding to doubts over the future of the loss-making joint venture after partner STMicroelectronics (STM.PA) said it was pulling out.
Ericsson, the world's biggest equipment maker for mobile telecom networks, said on Thursday it would take the 8 billion Swedish crown hit in its fiscal fourth quarter in a move set to plunge it into a net loss for the three month period.
The Swedish group said it would not buy STMicro's (STM.PA) 50-percent stake in the mobile chip making venture, confirming its previous indications and leaving the future of the venture's 5,000 employees staff looking uncertain.
Analysts think ST-Ericsson's wireless modem business could be attractive to a competitor like Samsung (005930.KS) and that Ericsson could retain its power management solutions business. But the rest of the venture's operations may just be shut down.
"Two thousand jobs are at risk whatever the scenario," said Jerome Ramel, analyst at Exane BNP Paribas. "If they just shut it down, it is even more."
Ericsson has been struggling recently with a slowdown in sales at its core network unit due to competition and a faltering global economy. In October it reported a 42 percent drop in third-quarter core earnings.
Profits have also been squeezed by its loss-making joint-ventures, mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson - which it has sold - and ST-Ericsson, which has not made a profit since it was formed in 2009 as key customer Nokia (NOK1V.HE) struggled to compete in smartphones with the likes of Apple APPL.O and Samsung.
Successive cost-cutting plans, including an April announcement of 1,700 job cuts and the transfer of some product development to STMicro, have failed to staunch its losses.
STMicro said earlier this month it would quit the venture in 2013, handing responsibility for its future to Ericsson, which also wants to wash its hands of the unit so it can focus on reviving sales at its key networks unit.
Ericsson warned in October it might have to take a write down on ST-Ericsson, which has lost more than $1.5 billion excluding restructuring charges over the last three years.
"A writedown wasn't entirely unexpected given STMicro's plans," said one analyst who declined to be named, though he added that Ericsson's charge was larger than he had expected.
At 1155 GMT, Ericsson shares were down 2.9 percent at 1100 GMT, underperforming the DJ Stoxx 600 European technology index which was down 0.8 percent.
"Ericsson will continue to explore various strategic options for the future of ST-Ericsson assets," the Stockholm-based company said, while declining the comment on the details.
"To acquire the full majority of ST-Ericsson is, however, not an option."
The charge was mainly related to writing off loans to the joint venture, as well as funding for the business while its future is determined, Ericsson said.
Bengt Nordstrom, CEO of telecoms consultancy Northstream, said ST-Ericsson's future had looked bleak since Nokia chose U.S. software giant Microsoft (MSFT.O) as a partner.
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The average estimate for Ericsson's fourth-quarter net profit is 3 billion crowns, according to Reuters Starmine. The firm last made a net loss in the third quarter of 2003.
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The Libertarian Case Against Public SchoolsPosted by: | Comments
Conservatives and libertarians have a precarious relationship. On the surface, they appear to agree on some issues, but once you dig a little deeper, vast philosophical differences quickly become evident.
To get votes and support, Conservatives sometimes spout libertarian rhetoric, claim they are "libertarian leaning," and—their favorite pastime—criticize liberals. The truth, however, is that conservatives are bitter opponents of libertarianism, lie incessantly, and are no better than liberals on most issues.
Yet, the case of public schooling is one where conservatives and libertarians appear to have some common concerns.
Liberals love public education. And especially when it promotes an agenda of diversity, environmentalism, political correctness, inclusivism, socialism, relativism, interventionism, statism, gun control, and LGBT causes. But like libertarians, most conservatives regularly criticize public education.
Conservatives cite the drop in SAT scores. They talk about the dumbing down of our kids. They vehemently express their opposition to Common Core. They talk about high schools graduating functional illiterates. They bewail the decline in discipline and standards. They bemoan the violence that occurs in schools. They are aghast at the increasing number of teachers caught having sexual relationships with students. They expose the anti-Christian bias that exists in many public schools. They express their opposition to the employment of gay teachers. They criticize the teaching of evolution as an established fact. They lament the elimination of prayer and Bible reading in schools. They denounce the power of the teachers' unions. They condemn school-based "health clinics" for being pro-abortion. They complain about the public schools pushing a liberal agenda. They denounce the bureaucracy in the federal Department of Education.
Although libertarians may point out some of these very things, they have nothing whatsoever to do with the libertarian case against public schools. The libertarian case is a simple one. Libertarians oppose public schools because they are government schools. It doesn't matter if none of the evils of public schools mentioned above even exist. It is simply not the proper role of government to educate children. Neither is it the proper role of government to force Americans to pay for the education of their children in a public school or to pay for the education of the children of other Americans. It is an illegitimate purpose of government to have anything to do with the education of anyone's children. It is the responsibility of parents to educate their children. How they choose to do that is entirely up to them, but public schooling shouldn't even be an option. Read More→
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The Christians for Liberty 2014 Conference has come and gone, but now we get to post the videos from the conference for everyone to see.
Talking to Christians about libertarianism can be challenging at times. Doug Stuart says we often feel "stuck in the middle" between liberal and conservative Christians. In this presentation, Doug discusses conversational strategies Christian libertarians can employ to reach out to Christian conservatives and liberals.
Have you had successful (or not successful!) experiences talking to Christians about liberty? Tell us about it in the comments, and let us know which of Doug's strategies you are going to use next.
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In a recent article of mine about Christians apologists for the state, its military, and its wars, I mentioned, for the first time I believe, the term "nuclear Christian." I would like to elaborate on the meaning of this neologism.
Another anniversary of the dropping by the United States of the atomic bombs "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)—and the incineration of 200,000 civilians—has come and gone.
Even as more information comes to light and, thanks to the Internet, becomes more readily available about how unnecessary and evil that action was, it seems as though conservative Christians are more resolute in their defense of it.
Not a one of them has probably ever read or even heard of the 1995 book by Gar Alperovitz, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth, the 2001 article by Ralph Raico, "Hiroshima and Nagasaki," or the just-published article by Barton J. Bernstein on American conservatives in history who criticized the atomic bombing of Japan.
But it is not just Christians defending the atomic bombs dropped on Japan that is the problem.
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This guest post is by C.Jay Engel of The Reformed Libertarian. For guest post opportunities, please see the Contact page.
I have read a good deal of all that Murray Rothbard has written. Not everything. He has thousands of articles and essays and commentaries that have been published, so few can claim that they have read every word. But I have read the books, including the Libertarian Forum. I constantly go back for a refresher to his economic material, to verify some obscure position on political theory, or to gain new insight from his historical perspectives, especially on the Fed. When I want to spur some writing creativity, I will pick up his collection of articles The Irrepressible Rothbard and enjoy myself immensely.
But there is one book out them all that I have read three times, simply because it is ever-impactful for me. Every conservative, though they may not like "Mr. Libertarian" very much, ought to read his Betrayal of the American Right. This book, along with Justin Raimondo's Reclaiming the American Right, speak of an American Right — the Old Right — that is distinct from the post World War II New Right. It is distinct, and it long ago died.
Today, the New Right, which might be called the Barry Goldwater right or perhaps National Review Conservatism, is juxtaposed to the actually leftist neo-conservatism of Irving Kristol and ole Norman Podhoretz. Thus we are told that to be a True Conservative is to reject the moderate-centrist (neocon) Republicans and hoist up the flag of Reagan, who, of course, was Goldwater reincarnate. False dichotomy: here we have the choice between the (50′s) New Right and the (70′s) neo-conservativism.
What about the Old Right?
What about the pre-Buckley Right that stood up to the foreign interventionism of Roosevelt and Truman?
Rothbard wrote the following of the Old Right:
If we know what the Old Right was against [namely, foreign interventionism], what were they for? In general terms, they were for a restoration of the liberty of the Old Republic, of a government strictly limited to the defense of the rights of private property. In the concrete, as in the case of any broad coalition, there were differences of opinion within this overall framework. But we can boil down those differences to this question: how much of existing government would you repeal? How far would you roll government back?
The minimum demand which almost all Old Rightists agreed on, which virtually defined the Old Right, was total abolition of the New Deal, the whole kit and kaboodle of the welfare state, the Wagner Act, the Social Security Act, going off gold in 1933, and all the rest. Beyond that, there were charming disagreements. Some would stop at repealing the New Deal. Others would press on, to abolition of Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, including the Federal Reserve System and especially that mighty instrument of tyranny, the income tax and the Internal Revenue Service.
Compare this to Bill Buckley, initiator of the New Right, who, during the height of Cold War central planning propaganda, opined that "we have to accept Big Government for the duration—for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged . . . except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores." And, as Rothbard wrote, "Buckley concluded that we must all support 'the extensive and productive tax laws that are needed to support a vigorous anti-Communist foreign policy,' as well as 'large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards and the attendant centralization of power in Washington—even with Truman at the reins of it all.'" Buckley, who was far better before his National Review years, spawned a flavor of rightism that was of a different flavor than its individualistic, even radical, predecessor. The Old Right was anti-communism, but the New Right was only against communism in foreign countries. If the Old bravely opposed what Garet Garret termed "a revolution within the form," that is, a socialistic trend in the United States government, the New ignored it completely. (One thinks of Frank Chodorov, who, during the red-baiting years answered the question of how to get rid of communists who snuck into the American government. Contrary to the New Rightists who wanted to seek out and replace the communists, Chodorov replied: "Easy. Just abolish the jobs." No government positions, no communists will fill them.)
What was the background of the Old Right? Briefly, it must be noted that there are several meanings of the word conservative. For instance, there is cultural conservatism in which traditional values and ethics are praised while the presence of the State and political theory is simply absent from the conversation. Or, there is political conservatism which may teach that what presently stands in society should be protected, by the strong arm and will of the State. Further, one might point to a distinction between historically developed laws (such as English common law) and the Kingdom which, in order to protect its power and prestige, ignores these laws. Thus leading to a distinction between institutions and laws.
This latter distinction is vital, and rarely considered. For instance, in his Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, the outstanding Tom Woods points out that the American secessionists in 1776 were "conservative." But how could they be conservative if there existed Tories who were loyal to the throne in Britain? Were not the Tories conservative in wanting to maintain the political status quo? And Murray Rothbard, emphasizing their revolutionary political philosophy in his massive tome of early American history, calls them radicals. So what were they? Radicals or conservatives? The answer is both, and the solution is to employ the distinction between institution and common tradition. Whereas the British King sought to betray the property rights, via taxation and other means, of the colonists, the colonists objected that the King was breaching what had long been English law. The colonists, in this sense were conservative, especially when one considers the socialistic revolutionaries of France. But in another sense they were radicals, for they wanted complete and final separation from the throne. They did not seek to preserve the present arrangement. In short, the radical conservatives of the colonies thought that "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [securing rights], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government."
Now, to be clear, the context of the times in the United States during the 18th and 19th century caused the limited government folks, the radical decentralists, to refrain from referring to themselves as "conservatives." For to be a conservative in their mind was to support the imperialistic British King, that bastion of tyranny. In their minds they were liberals –classical liberals, who sought to be free from the chains of improper government. The reader is undoubtedly aware of the fact that liberal was not always a euphemism for a socialist. It once meant something similar to its etymological root: to be liberated. That is, to be liberated from the oppressive State, not Marx's exploitive capitalist.
But socialist theory is a historical reality and soon liberalism was taken over and abused, much like what happens to every word that is adopted by political movements. The Progressives during the early 20th century referred to themselves as liberals. All who opposed the Progressive revolution and sought to defend American individualism and capitalistic radicalism were smeared as "conservative." Rothbard informs:
Before that, knowledgeable libertarians had hated the word [conservative], and with good reason; for weren't the conservatives the ancient enemy, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Tory and reactionary suppressors of individual liberty, the ancient champions of the Old Order of Throne-and-Altar against which the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century liberals had fought so valiantly? And so the older classical-liberals and individualists resisted the term bitterly: Ludwig von Mises, a classical liberal, scorned the term; …and when Frank Chodorov was called a "conservative" in the pages of National Review, he wrote an outraged letter declaring, "As for me, I will punch anyone who calls me a conservative in the nose. I am a radical."
Before the Progressive revolution, before the word "liberal" was ruthlessly murdered, it was actually the liberal who
bitterly opposed the emergence of Big Government in twentieth-century America, a government allied with Big Business in a network of special privilege, a government dictating the personal drinking habits of the citizenry and repressing civil liberties, a government that had enlisted as a junior partner to British imperialism to push around nations across the globe. The individualists were opposed to this burgeoning of State monopoly, opposed to imperialism and militarism and foreign wars, opposed to the Western-imposed Versailles Treaty and League of Nations….
But as Franklin Roosevelt came to power, the Progressives and their supporters, applying "liberal" to themselves so as to attract the masses and posture themselves in an attractive light, dismissed the libertarians, the committed and dedicated capitalistic classical liberals, as conservatives and members of the right. The Progressive vision of a State-initiated New World became the "liberal" view and those who opposed it were smeared as reactionaries. Suddenly the radicals were placed in the odd category of conservative. Thus, it is important to know that this Old Right collection of anti-New Dealers and Non-interventionists were forced into the label as the conservative and liberal categories experienced a Grand Swap. Whereas in Europe conservative meant that one defended the Ancien Regime and liberal meant that he was a challenger to it, as were the American colonists, in 20th century America the labels were backwards.
The Old Right had a cause that has been long forgotten in this country: radical decentralization of politics and no foreign entanglements. The Old Right opposed a growing Washington in a consistent and philosophical way that is fundamentally unique compared to the nationalistic New Right. The Old Right was principled and dogmatic. The New Right was compromising and "pragmatic" (always a dangerous component of the power hungry politician). If the New Right emphasizes the importance of preserving the strength of the national government, especially against more local dissenters, it is the Old Right that praises dissension and nullification and constant challenges to the Central State. If the New Right desires nationalized power under the guise of unity and collective security, it is the Old Right that rejects nationalized power as a protection racket, a simple and deceitful excuse for political control.
As Tom Woods says in his introduction to Rothbard's Betrayal:
Old Right members of Congress like Howard Buffett argued, to the cheers of Rothbard, that the cause of freedom in the world was to be advanced by the force of American example rather than by the force of arms, and that American interventionism would play into the hands of Soviet propaganda that portrayed the U.S. as a self-interested imperialist rather than a disinterested advocate for mankind.
What we laughingly call the "conservative movement" today has little incentive to remind people of the skeptics of interven- tionism to be found among conservative Republicans in the Truman years. In these pages Rothbard makes a compelling case that the Right's embrace of global interventionism was not inevitable, but was instead the result of contingent factors: the deaths of key representatives of the Old Right at particularly inauspicious moments, the organizational skill of the opposition, and internal difficulties within Old Right institutions.
Under the beware-those-guys-over-there-ism philosophy of modern conservatism, we have forgotten that the most dangerous government is the one that presently sits over us. Despite the utopian claim that the government protects our freedom, the opposite is the case. Don't fear the Soviet Union as did Buckley. And don't fear Iran as do the mainstream conservatives.
If you are conservative, embrace the Old Right. Embrace the defenders of the Old Republic. Remember the Old Cause: fear domestic tyranny first and don't trade liberty for security.
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This review was written by Jessica Hooker, my colleague and fellow admin of the Christian Libertarian Facebook Group.
When I first heard of Matthew Mills's Where the Religious Right is Wrong, the title alone was enough to make me sympathetic to the author's case. Popularized in the 1970s, the Religious Right has become more or less synonymous with American evangelical Christianity, conservatism, and the Republican Party, with arguably disastrous results.
Matthew Mills states his purpose early in the first chapter: "I'm going to attempt to show what God, through His Word, specifically thinks about a lot of what's going on in modern American politics. If you disagree with my position on an issue from a Biblical standpoint, I challenge you to come up with firm, Scripture-based reasons for doing so."
I found this approach refreshing, as so many Christians today want to begin with what they think and then try to fit the Bible into their predetermined paradigm. Read More→


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Help with ID of this bird. Picture taken in Branch Co. Michigan.
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Recent lifers- Sandwich Tern, Black Skimmer, Whimbrel, Wilson's Plover!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yard List- 73
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New Birder January 1, 2013
Life list: 339
Most recent lifers: Ferruginous Hawk, Nelson's Sparrow, Mute Swan, Common Goldeneye, Black Scoter, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Prothonotary Warbler, Olive-backed Pipet, Northern Parula, Tennessee Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Vesper Sparrow, Craveri's Murrelet, Ashy Storm-Petral, Grasshopper Sparrow, Willow Flycatcher, Barn Owl, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Sabine's Gull, Scripp's Murrelet, Rhinoceros Auklet, Black Storm-Petral, MacGillivray's Warbler, Black-chinned Sparrow, Gull-billed Tern, Calliope Hummingbird, Red Knot, Violet-green Swallow, Short-billed Dowitcher, Mountain Quail, Summer Tanager, Dusky Flycatcher, Baltimore Oriole, Sage Thrasher, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Western Screech Owl, Cassin's Vireo, Northern Waterthrush, Rusty Blackbird, Tricolored Blackbird, Burrowing Owl, Prairie Falcon, White-winged Scoter, Herring Gull, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Hermit Warbler, Lewis's Woodpecker, Plumbeous Vireo
-- DONE! My first goal is met: get 100 birds in the first week of January (and I'm over count and still have two days to go). My approach was not to go after the easy birds, but the harder ones and pick up the easier ones along the way. So meeting this goal without really birding the easy spots is encouraging. I might feel different in August.
-- DONE! My goal for the next week (through the 15th) is to get my count up somewhere around 160. That shouldn't be too hard I don't think as I am missing a number of pretty easy species because I've been concentrating on local rarities. I am, however, taking a trip to the grasslands on Sunday hoping to get a new raptor or two and Mountain Bluebird.
-- DONE! With (yeah!) days to go! My goal for this week (through the 22nd of Jan) is to get my numbers up to around 170. I'd like to hit 175. We'll see. (I was 9 birds over... horray!)
-- 1/2 DONE This week's goal will be to get my life list to 300 and my seen list up to 195. Did not get my life list to 300. Didn't leave the county this week.
-- Finally completed last week's goal.
-- DONE! This weeks goal (to Feb 14) is to get to 206 seen birds, including at least one owl (heard or seen for owl), and add at least one life bird.
This year's goal: Get life list to 400, see 365 different birds this year, and travel to at least three other states. The last part is the hardest for me.
Seen/heard: 312 (one is under discussion)
To go: 53
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How can change the Android virtual device locate using Eclipse? when i create a new AVD that file store in default location(C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME.android\avd ) so now i want to change other place.
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The AVD manager doesn't provide an option for changing your AVD's location. I'm not sure if there's a way for changing the default path. However you can manually change your AVD's location via command line.
On the cmd line, navigate to your sdk directory's tools folder and then fire up the android tool. Should look something like..
And don't forget that you're new path should not contain spaces.
can you please specify more , if you want to change the target device for running your application then you can do by going in eclipse upper browser u will find "android like image with and down arrow " click that one and you will find of the device if you have created previous and there are options to edit , new etc


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Chisman Creek
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Last Update: March 2014
Other Names
Chisman Creek Disposal
Current Site Status
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is overseeing the long-term ground water cleanup of the Chisman Creek site. Construction was completed in December 1988, when EPA, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ), Virginia Power (the Potentially Responsible Party), and their contractors agreed that all activities were completed to EPA's specifications and met the full intention of the two Records of Decision. Two of the former sand and gravel pits have been in use since that time; one for baseball fields and the other for soccer fields. The fields were placed on top of caps that were constructed over the pits. Contaminated groundwater is currently pumped from the area beneath the baseball fields and treated off site at a local wastewater treatment plant.
In December 2011, EPA completed the fourth five-year review of the site. As a result of the review, EPA determined that the remedy for the site is protective in the short term. The remedial action at Operable Unit 2 is protective. However, because the remedial action at Operable Unit 1 is protective in the short term, the remedy is considered protective in the short term. The remedial action at Operable Unit 1 is protective in the short term because the extent of the vanadium contamination in the shallow groundwater aquifer is not presently known. However, Virginia Power has shown that none of the few homes in the area of the site that still use wells get their water from the contaminated zone. In addition, the existing institutional control to prevent using the groundwater presently protects human health and the environment but does not provide the assurance that they will remain protective over time because the restriction could be terminated in the future. A more permanent restriction must be put into place by Virginia Power to ensure long-term protectiveness. EPA is presently working with Virginia Power to determine the extent of the vanadium contamination. A new institutional control to restrict ground water use so that it provides the necessary assurance that it will be protective over time cannot be put into place until the full extent of the vanadium contamination is known.
After three rounds of sampling the ground water in the vicinity of Area C, EPA believes only one more round of sampling will be necessary to completely define the extent of the vanadium contamination. That last round of sampling has taken place. EPA is presently waiting for an analysis of alternatives from Virginia Power which will assist EPA to select a remedy for the vanadium-contaminated ground water west of Area C.
Site DescriptionThe Chisman Creek site, located in York County, Virginia is a 27-acre site consisting of four former sand and gravel pits in which fly ash (estimated to be more than 500,000 tons) from the Yorktown Power Generating Station was disposed from 1957 to 1974. The fly ash was removed from one of the pits and placed in another pit in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, the Virginia State Board of Health, the Virginia State Water Control Board, and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science sampled residential wells and the surface water in the area of the pits in response to a homeowner reporting discolored well water. These investigations found heavy metal contamination in Chisman Creek and in the groundwater in and near the fly ash disposal areas. The Remedial Investigation performed by EPA determined that the groundwater contamination was localized in the area of the pits. Nickel and vanadium were the most ubiquitous contaminants. Arsenic, beryllium, chromium, copper, molybdenum, and selenium were also detected at elevated concentrations. Approximately 500 to 1,000 people lived within a 1-mile radius of the site in 1986.
Site ResponsibilityThis site was addressed through federal and state governments and potentially responsible parties' actions.
NPL Listing HistoryThis site was proposed to the National Priorities List of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites requiring long-term remedial action on December 30, 1982. This site was formally added to the list on September 8, 1983, making it eligible for federal cleanup funds.
Threats and ContaminantsArsenic, vanadium, nickel, selenium, and sulfate have been found in groundwater near the four fly ash pits. Surface water in Chisman Creek was shown to be contaminated with vanadium, nickel, and sulfate. Drinking contaminated groundwater posed a risk to the public. However, long-term groundwater treatment measures are in place to reduce potential risks, and residences with contaminated wells have been connected to the public water supply to ensure them a safe source of drinking water. The subsurface fly ash and pond sediment materials do not pose a public health threat in their present, covered location. Nearby estuaries which were potentially threatened by site contamination are now at significantly reduced risk.
Contaminant descriptions and risk factors are available from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, an arm of the CDC.
Cleanup Progress
In response to the initial investigations, Virginia Power, the potentially responsible party, extended public water lines to those homes in the immediate area of the site with contaminated well water. EPA organized the cleanup into two parts. Part 1 (Operable Unit 1) consisted of the four pits filled with fly ash. Part 2 (Operable Unit 2) consisted of three ponds, a freshwater tributary stream, and the Chisman Creek estuary. A final cleanup decision for Operable Unit 1 was reached between EPA and Virginia in September 1986. In a Consent Decree negotiated between EPA and Virginia Power in 1987, Virginia Power agreed to conduct the design and construction of the remedy. Construction of a low-permeability soil cap, a soil cover, a collection system and treatment plant for the groundwater, an alternate water supply for those homes still on residential wells, relocating a portion of the tributary, as well as deed restrictions, and the initiation of post-closure monitoring of groundwater and surface water were completed in December 1988. At the request of Virginia Power, EPA issued an Explanation of Significant Differences in March 1994 to replace on-site treatment of the groundwater with direct discharge to the publicly owned treatment works (POTW) for treatment and disposal. Over 23 million gallons of contaminated groundwater were treated at the on-site treatment plant. An additional 64 million gallons have been discharged to the POTW. Because of the local community's preference to allow recreational use of the property after completion of the remedial action, EPA approved the construction of softball fields and soccer fields. The award-winning fields are maintained by York County under an agreement with Virginia Power.
The final cleanup decision for Operable Unit 2, reached in March 1988, included surface drainage modifications near one pond and a water quality monitoring program for each of the ponds, the tributary, and the estuary. Construction of the modifications was completed in December 1990.
Because hazardous substances and materials are left in place at the site, EPA will conduct a review at least every five years to make sure the site remains protective of human health and the environment. The next five-year review is scheduled to occur by December 2016.


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The End of the World? Who Cares? We are at the House of Mouse!
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Chapter One: On the Road Again!
It's finally here! It's time to hit the road! Of course, if you know me even a little, you know how excited I am at this point. I have been counting the days since the day we got back from our last trip.
I am up even before my alarm went off. Throwing last minute stuff in the overnight bag. Tossing it in the car. And I'm off!
Wait! I knew I would forget something. The passenger seat is empty. So I slow down and roll the window down so the hubby can catch up and dive through the window … and now WE are on the road. One quick stop off at the gas station to top off and get ice for the cooler and look out WDW, we are on our way!
I take the first leg this year. If you read last year's TR, you will know what happened when Leo took the first leg and went into full blown PPM (peepee panic mode) in the DC traffic. It wasn't pretty. This year, he just about immediately fell asleep so I had a pretty quiet run of it for the first 210 miles.
By this time, Leo had woken up and it was time for lunch. We made a quick stop at a Hardee's where we shared lunch with Santa. I guess he is on his way to the World too. Except, when he left, he climbed into a big rig. Maybe his sleigh and reign deer are inside.
After lunch I popped back into the driver's seat. I figured I could get another hour under my belt while Leo gets some more rest. (He works nights, so is used to sleeping during the early hours of the day.) Well, after about an hour I started looking for a rest area. It was another hour later (and about 100 miles) that I was getting rather tired and still found no rest area. Nearing a PPM myself, I left the highway and stopped at a gas station. Jeez, I hate gas station bathrooms.
Anyway, all better now and Leo all rested up, he took the next leg. And, guess what? Literally two miles down the road was a rest area! Sheesh!
While driving through North Carolina, the longest stretch of the trip, I noticed the air was kind of hazy and getting hazier. Evidently there was grass or brush fires in the area. We never did see them, but we sure could smell them.
Anyway, at about 2 p.m. we saw our first sign of the trip south … the first South of the Border billboard. For those of you who drive I-95, you know what these are. If not, they are billboards that are posted for miles and miles advertising this kind of truck stop/touristy area called South of the Border. The signs are fun. The place itself … not so much.
It was about this time we hit that awful washboard section of the highway. I think it's made of cement and the breaks between the sections are big enough to feel and it feels like you are driving across a washboard. I am glad it doesn't last too long. It would loosen the fillings in my teeth if it went too much longer.
Along the drive, I have noticed a few vehicles that have been with us most of the trip. One was a beige/yellow VW bug with an older couple with the license plate Granny T. Cute. Another was big pickup truck with a dresser in the back and a blue tarp flapping in the wind. Yah, I was bored.
But at 6:30 I get all excited because we see our first palm trees! Woo-hoo!!
Since it was still kind of early when we hit Savannah where we usually stop for the night, we decided to keep going. After about another hour or so, we decided to start looking for a Comfort Inn. We found one just into Florida and stopped for the night. Yes, we probably could have pushed on for the next four hours and made it all the way to the world, but we would rather get some rest. You know us old farts … we need our rest.
Anyway, we checked in about 9-10 p.m. and called it a day. The room was very nice and I really LOVE the beds in the Comfort Inns. But this was the first of many of my bathroom incidents. I guess they installed some sort of economic low flow toilets or something, but the darned thing was so loud and fast that I thought it was going to suck me in! Pardon the pun, but it scared the crap out of me. OK, so that was a disgusting comment. Sorry.
Good night! Tomorrow we will be at the World! Will I be able to sleep? Yep! The minute my head hit the pillow, I was out.
Here are some "odds and ends" photos from our first day on the road.
Pretty wild flowers.
Remnants of previous wild fires.
Pretty sunset.
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Oh my, can you imagine a "weekend getaway" at South of the Border"?!
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You KNOW I'm joining in on the fun, Jane! Only trip report I'm looking forward to more than YOURS is MINE! And it IS coming, slowly, but surely. Pictures re-sized? Not so much. That's what happens when you take so many. But I love them all!
So, I'll be waiting breathlessly for the next installment, wishing we could all be back at our favorite place in the whole world!
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Thanks for the invite!
I can't wait to read all about the details of your trip!
Your off to a great start!
I love the welcome to Florida sign....makes it feel like you are so close!
I'm debating flying on the next trip.
I do enjoy the drive and all the familiar sites along I95 but a few hours and we are there is so apealing.
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For better stuffing and pie, get cracking
A Good Appetite: Recipes for holiday side dishes featuring nuts. Recipes: Lemony Couscous and Pecan Dressing with Parsley and Garlic, Pomegranate-Orange Relish with Walnuts, and Chocolate Chestnut Tart With Rum Whipped Cream
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After my Uncle Sheldon moved to Dallas, he returned to Brooklyn for a visit flaunting a bolo tie, a splashy pair of cowboy boots and a nascent drawl.
But even more exotic was his suitcase filled with pecans harvested from the tree in his yard. He cracked a handful and passed them around. The kernels were buttery and sweet with a crisp bite, far better than the usual supermarket specimens.
"Now, these are what Texans call puh-cahns," Uncle Shel said, "not pee-cans."
In that moment, as I mentally adjusted my pronunciation, I became aware that freshly picked nuts — pecans, walnuts, almonds and others — are a wonderful delicacy. With their availability all year-round, it's easy to forget that nuts technically have a season. They are harvested in the fall and are traditionally eaten throughout the holiday season, stuffed into Thanksgiving turkeys, baked into pies or just cracked and snacked on while you sit around a blazing fire.
These days, however, most of the nuts we crunch in autumn were actually harvested the autumn before, said Bentzy Klein, a nut broker in New York. That's because it can take three weeks or longer for them to get to market, according to Klein. Which means nuts harvested in mid-November (particularly pecans) often won't hit the stores until just before (or after) Christmas, possibly in time for yuletide nut balls but too late for Thanksgivings pies.
Yet every nut-industry expert I interviewed maintained that, as long as nuts are stored in the shell in a cool, dark place, and then cracked and used as needed, they can last for a year. In fact, nut freshness, Klein said, has less to do with when they're picked than with when they're shelled. Which means that buying in-shell nuts and cracking them yourself is the simplest road to nut nirvana. Of course, fewer and fewer people are willing to hammer through a mountain of nuts to make enough for a couple of pies. According to the California Walnut Board, only 4 percent of the walnuts sold in the United States are in the shell. Klein said that this percentage has been shrinking over the years, for all varieties of nuts.
In the interest of both science and nostalgia, I bought a bag of in-shell pecans and spent a messy 20 minutes cracking and eating about half of them, just to see if I still thought they were better than preshelled nuts. They were better, a lot better — sweeter, richer and mellower, although maybe a tad less transcendent than my memory of Uncle Shel's haul.
But would I crack enough to whip up a dressing of couscous with pecans, parsley and loads of scallions? Or would I buy in-shell walnuts to make an orange-walnut-pomegranate relish? Alas, probably not.
As Polly Owen, the manager of the Oregon Hazelnut Marketing Board, said, "People just don't like to sit around and crack nuts anymore, it's no longer a popular pastime, and it's not very practical."
In most cases, it's not possible to find out when nuts were shelled. Small artisanal nut purveyors might tout that they are selling new-crop nuts very recently shelled. If you see them, grab them. I know I will.
And those plastic bags of nuts stacked on the shelves of the local supermarket? They are pushing their luck, in terms of freshness. Experts say shelled whole nuts can last for a few weeks to a month or so if stored at room temperature, although less if they have been chopped (which exposes more of the nuts to air, encouraging rancidity). Toasted nuts are even more perishable than raw nuts, Klein said.
Vacuum-sealed cans are a more reliable option. And looking for a store with a high turnover helps. If you can taste before you buy, do so. What you want is sweet and mellow, with a clean flavor and no off or bitter flavors (bitterness is often a sign of a mild rancidity).
Ever since learning all of this, I've been buying small quantities of nuts and using them immediately instead of stockpiling them in the pantry for last-minute brownie emergencies. If you've got the fridge or freezer space, they'll last for months in the refrigerator and up to a year in the freezer.
Then toast them just before using.
There is one nut that you can more easily find in the shell than out of it, although I wish it were the other way around: chestnuts. The traditional method is to score them with an X and then to toast them (in an oven or over an open fire) until the skin curls back around the X, and then to peel them while they're still warm.
Our Clark family method, pioneered by my father, uses a microwave oven. Working with about five chestnuts at a time, my dad slits each one almost all the way around its circumference, leaving the shell connected in one spot. Then he lays the nuts on a plate and microwaves them on high power for 40 seconds. The shells pop open like steamed clams. He wets his fingers in cold water and pulls off the shells, and the skins inside, before the chestnuts have a chance to cool.
Of course, roasted, peeled chestnuts are also available in jars and cans, especially around the holiday season, when they're pulled out of supermarket obscurity and placed front and center next to the cans of cranberry sauce and bags of stuffing mix.
I love to use those to make a creamy, rum-infused, chocolate-crusted chestnut tart, and they aren't at all bad in stuffing.
As for the rest of that bag of in-shell pecans? Perhaps, if we ever get around to lighting a fire, I'll break out the cracker. And then go nuts.
Time: 1 hour
Yield: 8 to 10 servings
1 ¼ cups pecan halves
2 ½ cups couscous, preferably whole wheat
1 ¼ teaspoons fine sea salt, plus more to taste
½ cup plus 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
¼ cup finely chopped scallions, white and green parts
1 fat garlic clove, minced
1 teaspoon Turkish red pepper or Aleppo pepper
1 ¼ cups chopped parsley
4 large eggs
1. Heat the oven to 325 degrees. Spread pecans on a baking pan in one layer and toast until fragrant, about 10 minutes. Let cool and chop coarsely. Turn the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, mix the couscous with 2 ½ cups boiling water and ¼ teaspoon sea salt. Cover and let stand 5 minutes. Stir in 3 tablespoons olive oil and fluff with a fork.
3. Stir the lemon zest, lemon juice, scallions, garlic, red pepper and remaining teaspoon salt together in a bowl and let stand for 2 minutes. Add the remaining ½ cup olive oil.
4. Stir the parsley, the nuts and the lemon-and-oil mixture into the couscous until combined.
5. Lightly beat the eggs and mix well with the couscous mixture. Spoon into a 2-quart gratin dish and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until golden brown.
Time: 15 minutes
Yield: 10 to 12 servings
2 cups walnuts
2 seedless unpeeled oranges, preferably organic, cut into 1-inch chunks
1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
¼ teaspoon pepper
Sea salt
2 cups pomegranate seeds
¼ cup chopped mint leaves
1. Heat oven to 325 degrees. Spread walnuts on a baking pan in one layer and toast until fragrant, about 10 minutes.
2. In a food processor, pulse together the oranges, sugar and pepper and a generous pinch of salt until chunky. Add the walnuts and pulse a few times until the relish comes together. Transfer to a large bowl and stir in the pomegranate seeds and mint.
Time: 1 ½ hours, plus 3 hours 20 minutes' refrigeration, and additional cooling
Yield: 8 servings
For the dough:
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling dough
½ cup confectioners' sugar
¼ cup unsweetened Dutch processed cocoa powder
Fine sea salt
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 large egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the filling:
1 pound or a 14.8-ounce jar roasted, peeled chestnuts
1 ½ cups whole milk
½ cup heavy cream
1/3 cup granulated sugar
Fine sea salt
1 vanilla bean, split
For the whipped cream:
¾ cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
1 to 2 tablespoons rum, to taste
1 ounce bittersweet chocolate, for shaving
1. Prepare the dough: in the bowl of a food processor, pulse together the flour, confectioners' sugar, cocoa powder and a pinch of salt. Pulse in the butter, egg yolk and vanilla until dough just comes together. Form into a disk. Wrap with plastic wrap and chill at least 1 hour or overnight.
2. When you are ready to bake the crust, heat the oven to 325 degrees. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into an 11-inch circle. Press into a 9-inch tart pan and trim the edges. Prick the bottom of the dough all over with a fork; chill for 20 minutes or until firm. Cover the dough with a sheet of aluminum foil and fill with dried beans or pie weights. Bake 15 minutes. Remove the foil and continue baking until pastry is dry and firm, about 15 minutes longer. Cool completely.
3. Make the filling: in a saucepan over medium heat, combine the chestnuts, milk, cream, sugar and a pinch of salt. Use the tip of a knife to scrape the vanilla seeds into the pot and then drop in the pod. Simmer until chestnuts are very soft, 20 to 30 minutes. Let cool. Discard vanilla pod.
4. Purée the filling in a food processor until very smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. Scrape into the tart shell and smooth the top.
5. Make the whipped cream: whip the cream and confectioners' sugar until thickened. Whip in the rum. Spread the whipped cream over the chestnut filling. Using a vegetable peeler, shave chocolate curls over the top. Refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving.
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Sloth has put pen to paper on a three-year deal after Leeds had agreed a fee, believed to be around £600,000, with Danish club Aarhus last Thursday. The 22-year-old is the Yorkshire club's 12th summer signing.
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