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This is where I was pulling the tax revenue numbers from, but it also breaks down tax collections by type (income, corporate, etc.)
Interesting about shipping, since I read a number of articles recently that put it at 18% of Greek GDP. I wonder, could this be related to the spectacular deviations in shipping costs? During much of the decade until 2008, Greek shippers were charging upwards of $110,000 a day per ship. By 2009, the rates for shipping dropped to $5,000, so low in fact that companies saved money by refusing contracts, drydocking ships, laying off workers, etc. Many of these companies showed income only from scrapping older ships for metal. I wonder where one might find a year-over-year comparison of the shipping industry.
Some numbers on tourism and shipping (2003-2008) here. In Greek.
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And people wonder why Greeks are happy-go-lucky.
With a quick look at the official site of Hellenic Statistics I couldn't find data on Greek GDP composition braking down to shipping or tourism. That's why figures quoted by various sources differ significantly. For example, a recent paper by National Bank of Greece quotes shipping as 6.9% of GDP.
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I am quite skeptical on the numbers circulating on shipping and tourism contribution to Greek GDP. These number are numbers by their respective lobbies so they tend to be inflated (for example, by including a broad area of services to "tourism").
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I'd really like to know about the Greek banks and the fact they were started by shipping magnates. What's the relationship between these banks and the shippers who started them. What kind of impact does this have on Greece? It seems to me, should the world economy get going again, the shippers themselves can recapitalize banks in a similar fashion if the old ones collapse, as long as their wealth isn't too closely tied to the banks they created.
But see this (p.6) and you realize that as far as shipping is concerned Greece is an international tax haven...
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Dib found himself completely frozen again as the other approached him slowly. It was almost as if time had just stopped completely as each step created more and more anticipation and fear. He could hardly even bat an eye as his gaze was glued on to Zim with no intention of looking anywhere else.
Zim took agonizingly slow steps to him, the laughing dying down to weak 'e' sounds of an eerie laugh. He stopped when he had reached him, eyes turning wild almost instantly. He leaned forward and continued that grin of insanity, looking like he was a wrong breath away from a total meltdown. "I...want to....." The rest turned into garbled nonsense, but he paused, as if he were waiting for an answer now.
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It was dark by now, the stars just beginning to peep out in the sky while the sickle-moon shone faintly through the smog of the city. Zim walked down the sidewalk with his fists clenched angrily at his sides. Hours of walking looking for GIR and the little SIR Unit had been back at the base the entire time! That horrible robot! Next time Zim would make sure GIR would tell him when he was going out and exactly where he was going.
Suddenly Zim stopped mid-stride, looking back over his shoulder. For the past block and a half a suspicious looking bush had been shadowing him and sure enough it was still there, only five feet from him now. Zim narrowed his eyes. "Dib, this is your most pitiful spying attempt yet." He said. The bush rustled and the unmistakably big head of Dib popped out of the top. "Took you long enough to notice." Dib sneered. "Did you only just now realize I was here?"
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When Zim came to it was completely dark. He could vaguely remember waking up a few other times but had quickly been drugged again before he could get his bearings. Now he had absolutely no idea where he was.
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Newland, NC (red marker) is just north of Linville and about ten miles west of
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EDITOR'S NOTE: We received a phone call from Louise Shissler on February 13, 2015 about her recent UFO sighting in Newland, NC on February 11, 2015. There were two of us on the line and here is what she told us about her high mountain sighting. Please note there was another sighting report that same evening from the same general area. That testimony follows this one.
About an hour before sunset on February 11, 2015, Louise braved the cold for a quick walk. When she looked toward the south-southwestern sky, she saw a "huge oval-shaped UFO hovering in the saddle between two mountains."
At arm's length, she said the UFO "was as wide as three of my knuckles." This indicates the object was quite large because a thumb at arm's length easily covers a full moon.
She described the dark gray UFO as being "non-reflective and opaque" and encircled with white light. She said the object must have been mechanical because "it was sharp edged" as was the circle of light around it.
Louise said the UFO didn't move during the 15 minutes she watched it. When asked how it disappeared, she said she headed back home before it disappeared because it was so cold that evening.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We received this testimony via email on February 13, 2015 from Ariana who lives in the Asheville/Woodfin area of North Carolina.
We have been observing a light in the night sky from our front porch. It appears randomly above the tree line – different days and different times. It is a white-yellow light with a tint of red on the edges and is brighter than a star or satellite. It is not a tower, a streetlight or house because it appears in different parts of the sky when it appears.
I filmed the light on February 11, 2015 around 7:30 p.m. It is about a 10 minute-video but it's too large to send via email. When I have shown it to a few people, they can't think of anything that could offer an explanation for this. I was wondering if anyone else in the Asheville/Woodfin area is seeing this light.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We received a phone call on February 5, 2015 from John Dyer who lives west of Bryson City, NC on lower Alarka Road. He wanted to report his unique UFO experience that happened about 10 hours earlier. There were two of us on the phone with John. Here is a summary of what he told us over the phone.
In the early morning hours of February 5, 2015, about 2 a.m., John stepped outside his home and looked up at the sky. He saw about 16-20 white-light UFOs in the sky arranged in a square. He estimated the square of lights was about 2,000 feet in the air and that there was equal spacing between each of the UFOs.
When we asked him how big the square was, he said if he extended his arm straight out in front of him that his open hand could not cover the entire square of lights.
Then his story became more unusual. He said a swirling vapor came down from one of the UFOs and encircled him for about 10 minutes.
He said he immediately yelled out for his friend, Tristan Ball, to come outside. He wanted a witness.
From inside the swirling vapor, John said the vapor was thick but translucent. From outside the swirling vapor, Tristan saw a black sheen that sometimes rippled through the vapor. When it did, it partially blocked John from his view. As he told us this, we thought of UFO cloaking technology.
When we asked John if he felt anything, he said "amazement" and that he felt like "spirit warriors" were encircling him to protect and help him.
View of the Pisgah Mountains near Clyde, North Carolina
EDITOR'S NOTE: This brief eyewitness testimony was sent to us at 3:45 a.m. on December 30, 2014 from a couple who observed strange lights in the sky while driving home to Tennessee after spending their Christmas holiday in North Carolina.
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I am having a sort of a Skippy filter (on the same order) made because I cannot get my pond cleared up. so, I have a wet/dry shop vac that will pump the water out of the shop vac onto the ground or wherever you want the water. Now, am I thinking right---I can pump the goop off of the bottom of the pond, into the Skippy and depending on what the water looks like, can maybe pump it right back into the pond? Wow, do I ever hope I'm on the right track. Please tell me I am gonna win this battle one way or another. Summer's gonna be gone soon and I'm still fighting it. Thanks so much for your help. BT
BT, Not sure what you are meaning here. Are you using a shop vac as a skippy or just to get the water out?? In any case if you are pumping out the gunk from the bottom of the pond I wouldn't put it back into the pond under any circumstances, unless you pump it through a good mechanical filter and a mature bio filter. As you probably know when you disturb that muck it gets stirred up into fine particles and that will contribute to a cloudy pond. Let us know exactly what you are doing, what you skippy is made from and how you will connect it to your pond, what other filtration do you have and what pump you are using. This will help.
Cherokee, no, the shop vac will not be the skippy, only hoping it would give the skippy a boost by getting some off of the floor of the pond so it doesn't have to all go through the skippy. We are making a skippy out of a real sturdy Rubbermaid trash can as I've seen it made on the Internet. The filter itself will operate just like the original skippy, water pumped through bottom, up through filter material and out I to the pond. The pond is about 900 gals. I am using a 1200 gps Sunterra to pump water into the skippy. I'm using plastic scrubbies and quilt batting for filter material. Hope you get the picture. I don't know how else to describe it.
OK. Better picture now. Where is your pump located, in a skimmer, in the pond, or external? I'm just going to assume that it is in the pond (and I hope not on the bottom). When you clean the bottom use that water to put on your garden or plants. It will be wonderful for them. As I said before try not to pump the bottom water back into the pond via the skippy. Are you putting a bottom drain in the skippy for clean outs?? I think it's important to do so.
The pump is in the pond I have no skimmer and I have the pump inside a Plastic container (inside another plastic container ) and I have a Lot of scrubbies and quilt batting around it. Now I will say this they catch a tremendous amount of dirt and I clean it very often. Guess that's why I'm hoping if I can get some off the bottom with the shop vacI wouldn't have to do cleaning so doggone often. I sure this makes sense. Thanks so much for your help. I do appreciate it more than you know.
I used an old kitchen broom, to get a lot of the leaves out of the bottom of my pond.
I was amazed how well it worked. I got a ton of leaves and other stuff out of the water.
Some people have recommended using a rake also, but I have frogs and didn't want to hurt them, so the broom worked well.
It took several tries to totally clear it up pretty good, and a lot of patience, but it worked.
For what it's worth.
Butterfly, I'm so glad it worked for you but my problem is there are no leaves, or very, very few in the pond because I have emptied it twice, hosed it down GOOD, then vacuumed it thoroughly even brushed it down with a garage broom. Obviously I am getting a little tired of brownish water so I think this skippy will be the last thing I try. The next thing I hear will be a dump truck with a load of dirt to fill the hole. One thing---the fish seem extremely happy and healthy. Well good for them. Again So glad it worked for you, though.
Sucking up the muck from the bottom with the shop vac does a good job. You just have to keep moving the nozzle. Replace the water as you would with a water change. I had a shop vac like that and someone stole it.
If you are sure the muck is the problem and not stain from tannin(peat moss in potting soil?)the Skippy and quilt batting will work very well for you if it is big enough. If there is stain you need some Activated Carbon(AC or Activated charcoal).
I replace the quilt batting entirely in the spring and fall. Little or no extra cleaning needed. The scrubbies are for aerobic bacteria that helps control excess nutrients in the water. I use one complete queen size batting in a 100 gallon Skippy for 1000 gallons of water with a 2100 gallon per hour pump.We have far too many trees that litter the pond.
What you currently have just deposits most of the muck it collects right back in the pond. It is just barely a prefilter which is only good for larger debris. Way too much maintenance!!
Thanks Sleepless, we set up the skippy, seems to be working well but I think it will take a few days. One question---where do I find charcoal, how much and do you put it in the skippy with the quilt batting? Oops 3 question. Thanks so much for your input. BT
I look at hardware, plant and pet stores. It isn't too difficult to find. I use a half gallon container of AC in a perforated planting box with another box on top as a lid. I put it in the Skippy but anywhere there is a good water flow is fine. Some people use a cotton sock. There are many inventive options.
I went to my local fish store and they sell charcoal pads that last 30 days each, they are rectangle, you can cut the put to whatever shape you need.
They worked great! Easy too, I just threw it right in the skippy filter.
The one pack had 2 pads for around 3.00.
Add more plants cover 60% of the waters surface with water lilies and your problem will disappear. Add more oxygen producing plants as well. It keeps my 9 ponds crystal clear and I don't run pumps or filters. More plants is the key to a great healthy pond.
Here is a link that might be useful: makemoneygardening.org


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Frontier Contract Extended Again
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Jackson County Bomb Plot is Thwarted
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Tyler, Tx (KETK) — Hey, what a surprise.
The Chinese have been up to sabotage and trying to hack into our country's business computers and military's computers.
You know the Chinese. The folks who are carrying a great amount of our debt. The group conducting the hacking is in Shanghai.
A security company in the U.S. released a detailed 60-page report (PDF) Tuesday claiming its "research and observations indicate that the Communist Party of China is tasking the Chinese People's Liberation Army to commit systematic cyber espionage and data theft against organizations around the world."
The report says the U.S. security company tracked thousands of computer attacks on U.S. companies and organizations, starting in 2006 and rapidly increasing right into this year, from one specific neighborhood in Shanghai. Mandiant found that a vast majority of the attacks were coming from one group of hackers, dubbed by the company "Advanced Persistent Threat 1″, or APT1.
Of course the Chinese vehemently denied they did anything.
Now, the questions is what to do since our economy depends on them.
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I was wandering by the local Quality Food Store (QFC) recently and noticed that due to it being spring and everyone wanting to BBQ they had a nice display set up with a grill and many bags of charcoal brickets but something was off. Upon closer inspection the grill they decided to surround with brickets wouldn't even be able to use them... because it was gas. Maybe they have a package deal - if you buy the grill you get a free back of charcoal....
When the right hand doesn't know....
You just have to wonder sometimes what the left hand is doing. Especially if you're the right hand. I was browsing LivingSocial looking for great food deals and I noticed that there were 8 (count them) hits for Indian food so I clicked on it and I got this message. Last time I checked 8 was still a positive number.
Khoresht-e Fesenjan
I love rich food and I've come to love the mix of a rich sauce with meat over rice. You get this a lot with Thai curries, Indian Curries, Persian Korescht, and Afghan Quormas. This seems to be a very good format and economical too. Spices cost a lot but you don't need many and rice is cheap. Add meat of some sort and you have a great meal for a decent price. Living in the Pacific Northwest means that we have very limited selection of Persian restaurants and even when you do find one it's probably overpriced and low on quality. When I'm in Orange County I always eat at the Caspian Restaurant in Irvine not only for the environment but for the Fesanjoon.
Fesenjoon (slang for Khoresht-e Fesenjan) is a "stew" made up of a sauce from walnuts and pomegranate syrup/juice. It's wonderfully tart and deep. You add chicken and serve over Basmati rice. Not everyone likes it but it's one of my favorite things to eat.
I've eaten Fesenjoon at many restaurants and tried making it on many occasions. I've been somewhat successful but my Fesenjoon doesn't taste like the Caspians which is wonderfully smooth without being too sweet. Last week I ran across kshar.net, a site run by man determined to bring Persian culture to the masses. What brought me to his site was a three part series on Fesenjoon. His cooking style is a bit loose so you have to pay close attention to what he's doing to get similar results. He also doesn't argue about what SHOULD be, it's your food make it how you like it. He seems to be intent on letting a few ingredients talk as apposed to having many ingredients fighting for attention - I agree with this philosophy.
With that in mind I made Fesenjoon the other day. Following is the pseudo recipe.
- 2.5 c of walnuts
- 1 c of water
- 2 c of pomegranate syrup or 1/4 c pomegranate molasses and 1/4 cup sugar*
- saffron
- turmeric
- one onion diced
- 2 lbs of chicken thighs
- 2 cups of basmati rice
- salt
- oil
- For the sauce place a portion of the walnuts in the blender with a little water and blend. If they're too dry to blend add more water. Keep adding water and nuts until they're coursely ground. You don't want a smooth paste here or you won't taste walnuts.
- Once their ground place them in a pot on the stove and cook them on medium-high while stirring to keep from burning
- Add pomegranate syrup and sugar - see my note below and turn to medium-low and simmer for 1.5 hours minimum. The sauce will get darker the longer you simmer it
- Heat oil in saute pan until hot, add onion and saute until browned. Dark sauces want browned onions, not just golden
- Add perhaps a teaspoon of turmeric, then add chicken thighs, brown on both sides and set aside
- When the sauce has been simmering for 1.5 - 2 hrs add it to the chicken and simmer again for another 30 minutes. Turn the chicken over on occasion to baste in the sauce
- The oils from the walnuts will rise to the top (and be green colored like olive oil) and the chicken will get a bit of a crust from the sauce on it
- Let cool and put in the refrigerator - this is a second day dish
- The next day put the saute pan back on the heat and warm gently on medium-low for about an hour
- Serve over basmati rice
* Note on syrup vs molasses. I bought a large jar of pomegranate syrup made in Slovenia. This looks like a jar of cranberry juice but you can tell the liquid is definitely thicker. It was already sweetened with sugar and two cups seemed about right. Adding sugar made the sauce overly sweet. If you have pomegranate molasses (common) you'll want to put in 1/4 cup and add 1/4 cup of granulated sugar as well. Adjust flavors accordingly.
A lot of times Fesenjan cooked at home and sometimes in restaurants is pasty and/or so tart you can't eat it. The pastiness seems to be from people undercooking it. Don't get impatient and eat it too soon, you'll be sorry. This dish can be eaten same day but it's much nicer the next day.
A couple of things that seem to make a difference
- Put the pomegranate syrup in with the walnuts from the beginning
- Don't grind the walnuts too fine so the sauce still has a walnut taste
- Cook the sauce for a long time. It will get darker and richer as time goes on
- Add Pomegranate syrup/sugar according to your taste
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Regular readers of the Man, the Myth, the Legend will know that I'm a big fan of pumpkins. See my previous pumpkin articles as proof. This year I did a Pumpkin Smackdown article on the best pumpkin varieties and tested based on flavor, texture, cookability, longevity and availability. As you may recall I rated the Rouge vif d'Etampes (Cinderella) pumpkin the winner. Most other pumpkins even if they have decent flavor fall down in one way or another. Since I refuse to use "pumpkin" from a can my pumpkin buying season is fairly limited to October and possibly some of November due to the popularity of pumpkins at Halloween for the humans and the somewhat related popularity of pumpkins as food for farm animals in November. I put quotes around the word pumpkin in the previous sentence because what's in the can is listed simply as pumpkin alone in the ingredients list and yet it's BROWN. Pumpkin is NOT brown as you'll see in the photo in this article and in fact it's very very orange. I'm not sure why a can of nothing but pumpkin ends up being brown but I'm skeptical that they found some unknown variety of pumpkin with brown flesh. Until that mystery is solved by Scooby and the gang I'll stick to fresh pumpkin that happens to be bright orange.
With that in mind you may recall from my Pumpkin Smackdown article that the Cinderella excelled on longevity. If left alone and their skin is not broken in any way they'll last up to 6 months. My daughter Natalya brought me several Cinderella pumpkins in late October. I cooked my last one tonight - 5 whole months later. A lot of people tell you that pumpkins need to be stored in dark cool places etc. but these pumpkins were stored in the front room under my Chippendale era Buffet at room temperature for 5 months. The trick is for the air to be dry (no garages) and to never break the skin. If you nick the pumpkin's skin you have to cook it within a day or two or it will rot. If the pumpkin is stored in a damp location it will rot. The longest I've ever kept pumpkins has been inside the house in a warm dry environment where they didn't get damaged.
This pumpkin was a very large one which is why I waited until the very last moment to cook it. Because of it's size it wouldn't fit on my half sheet pans thus I had to cut it across the poles (instead of around the equator) and cook one half at a time taking nearly 6 hours. The meat I was able to retrieve from it will probably get me another 6 loaves of pumpkin bread and maybe another pan of Pumpkin Lasagna.
Honey Barbecue Chicken Pasta
We have some meals around our house that we cook often but there's no recipes attached to them. This is in part because it's all by taste and also because I haven't gotten serious enough to focus on making them recipes. One of those meals is Barbecue Chicken Pasta. This might seem out of left field until you realize that most people have no problem eating Barbecue Chicken Pizza. For the pasta rendition we substitute noodles for the pizza dough and add in some nice caramelized veggies. We're not exactly forging new trails here with grilled chicken, boiled noodles and sauce. However, what makes this meal a bit more complex and the reason I don't have a proper recipe for it is the sauce. There's a million jarred BBQ sauces on the store shelves but the problem is that none of them fit this dish. Most are too smokey, too hot, have too much vinegar bite or are too sweet. Since I just knocked out the four dominant flavors of BBQ sauce you may wonder what my vision is. I want a sauce with no smokiness, no heat, a touch of sweetness to complement the caramelized onions and peppers, a touch of zippiness and a whole lot of tomato flavor. What I want is a BBQ flavored tomato based sauce that's bright and lively but not overpowering. You'd think that with 30 million jarred bbq sauces that someone would have that combination but so far I've not found it.
Following is the very rough recipe. I'm not happy enough with it to put it in the recipebook on this site. Later when I get the sauce dialed in I will but for now it's just a blog post. Forgive me for being just a bit vague on things.
Barbeque Chicken Pasta
Main Ingredients:
- 2 lbs chicken breasts sliced once horizontally (3/4" thick)
- 4 medium red bell peppers in 1/2" slices
- 3 medium sweet (Maya, Vidalia or Walla Walla) onions sliced 1/2" wide
- 1 lb penne pasta
- 3 tbs olive oil
- 3 tbs vegetable oil
- 1 tbs salt
For the sauce (in order of need):
- 3 tbs butter
- 1/4 cup minced onion
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 4 cups tomato ketchup
- 1/4 cup squeezed lemon juice
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 4 tbs Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 tsp fresh ground black pepper
- 3 tsp kosher salt or fresh ground sea salt (cut in half if you're using table salt)
- 2 tsp dry mustard
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce
Making it:
- Put olive oil in large straight sided saute pan over medium heat until hot
- Add sliced red bell peppers and saute for 10 minutes
- Add sliced onions, continue sauteing until both peppers and onions have carmalized (30 more minutes at least), stir occasionally
- In heavy bottomed frying pan place vegetable oil over medium heat until shimmering
- Place two chicken breasts in the pan and grill until brown, flip and repeat on opposite side. Remove to plate and add more. Grill until all chicken is done.
- Melt butter in medium sized sauce pan over medium heat and heat until foaming, add onions and garlic and saute for 2 minutes
- Add all other sauce ingredients and reduce heat to medium low and simmer
- While sauce is simmering cut the chicken breasts 1/2 wide and add to the onions and peppers and turn the heat to low
- Place large stock pot or sauce pan full of water on high heat. Add the salt and bring to a boil
- Add penne noodles and cook until al dente (10 minutes)
- Add pasta to onion, peppers and chicken.
- Fold bbq sauce into the other ingredients
- Serve in pasta bowls with fresh grated parmesen.
Just as a warning I use a 12 inch saute pan with 3 inch sides and these ingredients just barely fit.
Pumpkin and Mascarpone Lasagna
It's been a while since I put up any recipes but I recently hosted the end of the quarter potluck for my classes and so in doing that spent most of a day cooking. On occasion I have a vegetarian student and I pull out the old favorite - Pumpkin and Mascarpone Lasagna. It also just so happened that I had just enough pumpkin left from my second to last pumpkin of the season. The recipe calls for 2 lbs which is quite a lot and I had exactly that.
The nice thing about this recipe is that it's nice, light and a bit exciting. The reaction you have after eating this is the same as the reaction from Butternut Squash Ravioli - you wonder why people limit themselves to boring meat/cheese and red sauce noodles. The flavors are bright and exciting, meat or cheese lasagna is boring and drab. Maybe it's not for everyone but so far every person I've fed it to really liked it and in addition it's good for most vegetarians (has dairy and eggs) and like many non-meat foods, it's cheap. In fact as I made it the cost is roughly $1 per slice of lasagna and half that cost comes from cheese. Shop around and you may be able to make it for less.
The Recipe: Pumpkin and Mascarpone Lasagna
Note for anyone not willing to eat eggs they can just leave them out of the Bechamel. It will be less fluffy but still very nice.
the Man, the Myth, the Legend asleep?
There's been a long drought of articles here at The Man, The Myth, The Legend and for that I apologize. The only thing I can say is life has gotten more complex and very busy. I started a new relationship and the school quarter is ending thus most of my time/energy/motivation has gone into those things. As I find balance I should be able to get back to posting more often.
A note to my readers though, looks like we'll push past 2 MILLION unique visitors this month. It took 4 years to get the first million and only since September to get the second. This is a huge milestone and I hope the increased traffic continues. I'd like to see more commenting of course though.
Another announcement is that I'll be pushing the Recession Chef articles out to a new website - recessionchef.com. Don't get too excited yet as I'm still working on it but you can wander over there and tell me what you think if you'd like. I'll still post general food blog posts here and I'll repost Recession Chef articles here (or at least promote them) but all articles having to do with "Eating well on a recession budget" will be posted there. That content will go toward the book. If you'd like to follow the Recession Chef on Google+ (where all the cool kids hang out - Oh my gosh, Facebook is sooo MySpace!) you can circle the Recession Chef Google+ page.
Confusing consumers doesn't lead to more sales
I was in a grocery store last week and I saw that they were carrying both El Monterey Chili and Picante burritos. I've never seen both in one store and have in fact bought Chili thinking I was getting Picante only to get home and spit them back out. I'm not a fan of my frozen burritos tasting like Chili powder. If I wanted chili powder in my mouth I'd combine it with tomatoes and make chili with it. The Picante burritos though I like and after that unfortunate incident I've had to be very careful to read the package to make sure I was in fact getting Picante and not Chili flavored burritos.
This display though accentuates the problem - El Monterey has two products that look nearly identical. Yes the shade of red is slightly different and there are a few words that are not identical but I feel these two products need to be more unique. So let's think about having two products nearly the same, most stores won't carry both because the number of people grabbing the wrong one and then returning them probably goes up. I don't know the protocol for returned goods but I bet it's a write off. So by only being able to sell one OR the other in each store you're cutting your market in half. It would seem that by making the packages drastically different they could put another product out there and increase sales. Just an observation.


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AK Steel insiders gain on stock's upturn
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AK Steel Holding Corp. director Richard Abdoo joined other insiders who've been buying shares of the steel company's beaten-down stock.
And so far they've been handsomely rewarded for their support. The stock was up 60 cents, or 15 percent, to $4.55 as of Tuesday morning from the $3.95 price per share Abdoo paid on Dec. 4 when he bought 12,500 shares.
As the Business Courier reported previously, Abdoo's buy follows other hefty purchases by CEO Jim Wainscott, General Counsel David Horn, CFO Roger Newport and two other directors in late November – all for less than $4 a share.
Abdoo has ridden this roller coaster before. The former chairman and CEO of Wisconsin Energy Crop., he's been on AK Steel's board since 2001. That includes a stretch in 2003 when talk of bankruptcy was in the air, and the stock dipped to $2 a share, and another stretch in 2008 when it soared to more than $70.
A financial adviser once told me that while there are many reasons insiders might sell a company's stock, many of which have little or nothing to do with its future prospects, there's only one reason they buy shares on the open market with their own hard cash: They must think it's a good value.
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Or the Minotaur, as fugitive U.S. hedge fund manager Angelo Haligiannis was captured Monday on the southern island of Crete. Angelo was the former president of Sterling Watters Capital and pled guilty to swindling investors out of $27 million in September 2005. His crime – lying about the performance of his fund… which didn't really […]
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New York magazine this week carries the story of Angelo Haligiannis, the college drop-out turned high-flying hedge fund manager turned fugitive. For a couple of years he brought in some wild returns by trading tech bonds and then, well, you know what happened. Only instead of letting investors know he had lost $17 million, he […]


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Which is dumber—buying "The Knot," a beautiful Bottega Veneta handbag made of woven satin and trimmed in python, or buying a tractor in the online game "FarmVille"? The first is real and costs $1,380. The second is virtual, priced under $20. I know which I'd choose. But then, I like python.
It's a trick question of course. They're equally dumb. Neither the bag nor the tractor costs anything near its purchase price to make and distribute. The value of most things—perfume, cars, houses, handbags—is, in fact, largely virtual. Always has been. And don't you, in the $260 jeans, try to argue.
So today, why do we continue to label things "virtual" and "real"? It is pointlessly pompous. We're drawing a vanishing line. Researchers are now showing there's no division. Spillover between virtual and actual experience is happening all the time. So we should stop turning up our noses and start learning from it.
At the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford, they study how physical behaviors in virtual reality flow into the actual world. The lab is kitted out with surround sound, eight cameras for optical tracking down to the quarter-inch and, under the carpet, a haptic floor (producing vibrations) loaded with 16 subwoofers. When you put on the head-mounted display and chop down a virtual redwood, you feel the forest shudder under foot.
What's interesting is what happens just after you've exorcised your inner lumberjack and taken off the head gear. Experiments show that, thanks to your "virtual" tree-chopping, you actually use fewer paper towels to pick up a water spill. And 24 hours later, you show greater intent to recycle.
Vanity, as well as conscience, carries over. In another Stanford study, participants were given a digital avatar more attractive than themselves. Afterward they were directed to a "real world" study, ostensibly about online dating. Asked to choose photos of the people they'd like to meet, participants picked more attractive potential partners: men and women who were, let's be honest, out of their actual league.
I asked Philip Rosedale about this. He's the founder of Second Life, the online virtual world launched in 2003 that now logs $660 million in transactions and more than $75 million in revenue a year. He wasn't surprised. Perceptions online and off are porous: Users who find someone's avatar physically attractive, he told me, tend to hew to that view when they meet the real person. "You just can't shake the fact that they're so darn hot," he says.
In Second Life, almost everyone is hot. "They're all impossibly beautiful. And still, somewhat less homogenous," says Mr. Rosedale. "We struggle to make ourselves quirkier in the real world." Virtual experience helps to free us, the way any new sexual, social or artistic experience might, and not just from conventionality. It's increasingly used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism and phobias. It has also been shown to help autistic people socialize.
The number of users registered on virtual world websites passed one billion last year, about half of them under 15. The possibilities seem limitless. They're not, of course. Vitriol and violence can't be quelled online just as they can't be offline. "Trying to calm the reptilian brain—I don't think you can virtually do that," says Mr. Rosedale.
Alex Shakar, in his new novel "Luminarium," coins the word "holomelancholia" for "the inevitable disappointment of virtual worlds." The thing is, virtual worlds are disappointing for precisely the same reason that the real world is: People can be awful there.
Just as often, though, they can be ingenious. "Augmented reality" is the latest twist on this theme. You're about to hear a lot about applications that "augment" the world, mixing the physical and digital: mobile devices, for example, that use cameras and GPS to capture your surroundings and then instantly overlay useful nuggets of information on screen.
Download the new app "110 Stories" and you'll see. From anywhere in New York City, point your smartphone in the direction of downtown and the app will make the missing silhouettes of the Twin Towers reappear in a picture. Call it virtual. Call it augmented. Call it whatever you want. But, somehow, it feels more real than the buildings not being there.


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SO beautiful, Mark!!!!!! Love the light on the trunks of the trees … great capture!!!!! Perfect timing!!!!!
thanks so much Lois!! And to think I spent 7 days viewing scenery like this!! I didn't want to leave! Would love to do it again.
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James Harden, Nene and Serge Ibaka have all been metrics surprises
Things can change in a hurry in the squashed schedule of this post-lockout NBA season. Just three weeks ago, the Denver Nuggets were riding a six-game winning streak and had moved into second place in the Western Conference, just two games back of the front-running Oklahoma City Thunder. Now, as the Nuggets limp into Oklahoma City for Sunday night's showdown with the Thunder, Denver is fighting just to stay in the playoff picture.
It's been a rough month for the battered Nuggets, who have lost seven of nine. Denver has been playing without its top two centers the past three games and its best overall player, Danilo Gallinari, has been out since Feb. 6 with a badly sprained left ankle. The Thunder have problems of their own, with star point guard Russell Westbrook also nursing a sore ankle and the red-hot San Antonio Spurs closing in on the conference lead.
There are a lot of reasons why these teams reside where they do in the standings, but let's focus in on a trio of possible performers for tonight's game and judge how they've done against our preseason projections.
Our projection system SCHOENE forecasts a full suite of our favorite metrics, but the bottom-line number to watch for is WARP, which measures how many more wins a player adds to his team's total than a freely available guy plucked off the scrap heap. While no single number can capture everything that happens in an interdynamic team sport like hoops, WARP points you in the right direction. When you see a WARP number that surprises you -- and remember, we know when to be surprised because we've predicted all these WARP scores -- the next step is to ask why.
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This is an art game - not an action game. 'Fun' isn't really the point, it's usually meaning.
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Seagull trip: Drop both onto the seagull.
Tragedy: Drop anyone into the water.
Lost Love: Put the boy onto the boat. Wait until the moon disappears.
^ Follow-up: Take the small moon afterwards and give it to the boy.
I am your moon: Switch the girl and boy around, with the girl on the moon and boy on the boat. This is also the 'Music Ending'.
Enjoy the game, guys.
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Cool! All the endings were fine especially the ''I am your moon'' Ending.
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i got all the endings and afterwards felt like doing something dramatic all gave her the moon put her on the seagull and threw the boy in the ocean-this deserves a 5 star rating for allowing me to do that
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INGREDIENTSWater, Myristic Acid, Stearic Acid, Niacinamide, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, Glycerin, Tapioca Starch, Triethanolamine, Cyclopentasiloxane, PEG/PPG 18/18 Dimethicone, Cetearyl Alcohol, Butyl Methoxy-Dibenzoylmethane, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance (Parfum), Carbomer, Acrylates Copolymer, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Disodium EDTA, Sodium Ascorbyl Phosphate
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This is a great product for evening up skin tone, it has worked wonders for me, I usually apply under my moisturizer at night(itself alone doesn't moisture my skin as I would like to), it helps to even up skin tone all over your body, I have been using this for years, it never disappoints.
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average lightweight cheap. it doesn't do anything outstanding but it doesn't break me out.
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I have been using this for a while now and I love how it leaves my skin. I originally bought it for my dark spots because a friend told me it worked for her. Well for me it has done nothing for my dark spots but I love how it leaves my face matte when I apply it. So I am using it as a moisturizer and it does not break me out or make me shinny after a while. I will repurchase because when I want to leave the house without make-up, my face looks good with just this on.
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I use this product twice a day (morning and night) right after I got out of the shower. What I like about this product it does set a matte look on my face. I have very oily skin and pink undertone, so the product help canceling it. I also have acne marks in variety of area on my face which is why I use the product in the first place.
I did notice right away that I was getting red bumps. I thought due to using a new product, my skin was just reaction toward the new product and will clear up. After using it for about two weeks, I was still getting red bumps, so I use the product only at night but that did not help the red bumps go away :( When I wear my foundation, it looks like I have acne but I don't.
I realize that this product was not for me and stopped using it. I went back to my old moisturizer and my skin went back to normal right away (red bumps went away).
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This is an HG moisturizer for me. I use this in conjunction with 2 other moisturizers, but this one is definitely my favorite.
The Clarant B3 was my introduction to the Ponds line. As someone with combination + acne prone + lazy + sensitive + hyperpigmentation-prone skin, I was looking for something simple and gentle that could tick off a lot of my skincare-need boxes. I was particularly attracted to this moisturizer's claims of diminishing dark spots.
This moisturizer is my number one stop for all my needs. The lightening abilities of this are nice and natural, and it has been particularly good at making my initial scars lighter when I first get them as well as treating old scars. The moisturizer itself is an excellent texture for people with combination or oily skin- it is not overly hydrating and is almost a drier formula, but its ability to retain moisture/plump the skin is still present. Lastly, the feeling of this is very comfortable, so during the day I don't feel drowned in it.
My routine: 1 part this, 1 part Ponds Rejuveness Anti-Wrinkle Cream, 1 part Clean&Clear Morning Burst Moisturizer. This beats my hyperpigmentation and has a lovely texture, the Rejuveness provides a ton of moisture and anti-aging benefits, and the Clean&Clear one sheers out the heavier textures of the Ponds creams and melds the products into my skin. I highly recommend this for anyone who wants a very gentle, effective, multipurpose, and comfortable moisturizing routine to get healthier skin.
Overall, this is my HG moisturizer. I love the Ponds line and recommend it to anyone.
on 6/27/2014 10:02:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
It didn't do anything for my skin but make me breakout and irritate my skin by turning red. Hasn't even "corrected" my dark spots. I also noticed everytime I applied this cream, that I would get pimples.
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