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The Christian Theological Seminary, in Indiana, has announced a "sustainability plan" that involves buyouts to faculty members while looking for partnerships with other institutions and developing new financial strategies. While not detailed in the announcement, the buyouts could substantially change the nature of the institution. Some concerned students have heard rumors that essentially all faculty members are being asked to accept deals. But a spokeswoman for the seminary said that the buyout offers have been presented to 70 percent of tenured faculty members.
An investigation by ESPN has found that the University of Missouri at Columbia failed to investigate an alleged rape by one or more members of the football team. The article says that the university did nothing after learning of the allegations, and that the alleged victim -- a student who was a member of the women's swim team -- eventually committed suicide. University officials said that they didn't have enough information to act on the possible assault.
On Sunday, Timothy M. Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri System, announced that he is requesting an independent review of the case. "Such an independent review will be beneficial to all our campuses so that we can determine if there were any shortcomings with respect to MU's handling of this matter and, if so, ways in which to improve the handling of such matters in the future," he said.
About a year ago I was paging through a report prepared for our college by a group of leading risk-management consultants. Illustrated with brightly colored heat maps and tables, the report's conclusions looked fairly reasonable. But then I reached a chart titled "Reputation Risk." Tucked among the factors that contribute to reputation, listed only after "branding" and "community relations," was the phrase "academic excellence."
As a longtime faculty member and dean of the college, I reacted strongly. Academic excellence, I thought, deserved more than this supporting role. For your typical manufactured product, its quality may be adjusted to optimize reputation with customers (and thus profits). But academic excellence? That's the ultimate goal. It's what we should most fear putting at risk.
At the end of June, I would complete my term as dean. As my thoughts kept turning to risk and liberal education, I talked with the president. We agreed that as a transitional step before returning to teach, I could spend one year conducting a risk project. Some of its goals are specific to our campus, but more broadly it's a labor of translation. Why would that be needed?
The Language of Risk
Corporate jargon may help explain why campuswide awareness of risk has not fully taken hold at many academic institutions. Deans, presidents, and faculty leaders can find the framework of Enterprise Risk Management, commonly known as ERM, alienating. The talk of suppliers, products, deliverables, and profits is not our language.
Risk management was born to protect the bottom line of corporations. (Success has been mixed, but that's a different story.) For the past 10 years or so, financial consultants offering risk services have tried to expand into the higher education market. While it's hard to reject the pitch that "nonprofits face risks, too," one could also argue academe is sufficiently different from the corporate world that frameworks like ERM will require at least a translation — and perhaps deeper revision — before they can serve us well.
Taking Risk Campuswide
In many ways my transition feels natural. For five years I was second to the president, serving as vice president for academic affairs. I helped to confront the risks that typically face a college, from anticipating a flu pandemic to deciding whether to shut down during a blizzard; from the agonies of the recession to nervous reports of little brown bats winging through the chapel. I'm well-prepared to step back and evaluate how our college responds to risk. Yet to my knowledge, this particular administrative move is unprecedented.
At most places — as I know from recently attending the national meeting of URMIA, the University Risk Management and Insurance Association — risk management lives in the treasurer's office. Risk managers may have a background in environmental health and safety or human resources; often their primary training is in insurance. Regardless of specific professional field, college risk managers are likely to have broad responsibilities, from regulatory compliance to decisions about campus events, and from employee training to coverage for student travel abroad. Groups of universities have formed organizations like United Educators and EIIA (Educational & Institutional Insurance Administrators) to offer insurance and other risk services.
The risk managers at the conference were forthcoming and curious. My status as a faculty member was more interesting to them than my recent deanship. They told me that they wish professors understood more about how risk works. The risk managers want to be perceived less as naysayers and obstructionists, and more as a resource to keep activities safe and legal. They don't want to shut down study abroad, but they want to be sure the college has a plan for evacuation in the event of national crisis or natural disaster. From where they sit in the finance office, it's not easy to have this conversation with the faculty.
As we talk, it's clear the risk managers recognize that for colleges and universities the real bottom line is the institution's mission: to teach and conduct research. Threats to the mission are, for us all, the ultimate risk. And since no one knows more about teaching and scholarship than they do, the faculty is the proper guardian of college mission. I now start to understand that purposeful risk engagement could help colleges take a fresh look at shared governance.
Risk and Governance
Faculty leaders, whether as champions or critics of a proposed initiative, are all too familiar with hearing about risk from administrators, legal counsel, and even from board members. Fiduciary risk, compliance risk, liability: We've all seen the risk card shut a conversation down.
But once they are fluent in risk, academic leaders will contribute more effectively. They can evaluate and speak to risk in the special context of a college's mission. As any risk manager will tell you, risk can be positive or negative. The uncertainty at hand may represent an awesome academic opportunity, or may threaten what the institution stands for. Shared governance will work better when we succeed in having all the relevant dimensions of risk — including the ultimate risk, to institutional mission — fully voiced and appropriately weighed.
Paula Vene Smith was dean of the college and is a professor of English at Grinnell College. She directs the Purposeful Risk Engagement Project. Follow her on Twitter @EventualMishap.
The University of Michigan Board of Regents today named Mark S. Schlissel as the institution's next president. Schlissel is provost of Brown University. Before being named provost at Brown in 2011, he was dean of biological sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also held the C.H. Li Chair in Biochemistry.
He will succeed Mary Sue Coleman on July 1. Coleman is retiring after 12 years as president at Michigan.
John Lippincott announced Thursday that he will retire as president of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education a year from now. He has been president of the association since 2004, having previously served as vice president for communications and marketing at CASE and associate vice chancellor for advancement at the University System of Maryland.
Brandeis University announced Thursday that it paid Jehuda Reinharz, its former president, $4.9 million this month. The funds were due to Reinharz for deferred compensation and sabbaticals that he did not take during his presidency, a Brandeis statement said. The university has been under intense criticism from many students and faculty members over high payments to Reinharz. The university also announced new policies on executive compensation, including a faculty role on panels that review executive compensation and a commitment to release information on executive compensation before it is required. The university statement noted that in revealing the large payments made in January, before such information would be public on tax forms, Brandeis was moving toward the kind of transparency it has pledged to provide.
Facing enrollment declines, Iowa Wesleyan College plans to close about half of its academic programs and to shrink its faculty, The Gazette reported. The jobs of 22 of 52 professors and 23 of 78 staff members will be eliminated. The college will also eliminate 16 of 32 major programs, including studio art, sociology, history, philosophy of religion, communication and mass communication, and forensic science.
The parents of an Auburn University student who was kidnapped on campus in 2008 have filed a claim alleging that her murder could have been prevented if the institution had its own police force, which it eliminated in the 2000s to save money. Since then, Auburn has relied on city police to patrol campus, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported. Lauren Burk's parents also allege that the university failed to follow federal security recommendations. They are suing the Alabama Board of Adjustment for $1 million in damages; the state's constitution protects state entities (including Auburn) from lawsuits seeking monetary damages. An Auburn spokesman reached for comment said, "It is Auburn University's policy not to comment on pending investigative issues."
On December 27, William Kelly, the interim chancellor of the City University of New York, the vast university system in which I teach, published a statement condemning the resolution of American Studies Association to boycott Israeli universities. In his statement, Chancellor Kelly wrote, "The need for global cooperation has never been more urgent, and we repudiate any effort to foreclose productive dialogue." Who, one might wonder, is this we the chancellor is invoking, and who exactly is foreclosing dialogue?
Kelly's statement is part of a growing chorus of denunciations of the ASA resolution by university presidents and other academic leaders. In these public pronouncements, Kelly and his fellow executives almost always speak in the royal we, as if they talk for the entire university community. In many cases, such arrogation of the right to speak for the whole community is explicit. Amherst College President Biddy Martin, for example, writes in her rejection of the ASA resolution, "On behalf of the college, I express opposition to this academic boycott for several related reasons."
Yet when university leaders like Kelly and Martin speak not based on their own personal opinions but in the name of the institution, they abrogate the academic freedom of their faculty members. None of the statements issued thus far have benefited from consultation with faculty senates or other representative bodies of faculty opinion. Think of the chilling impact of such presidential declarations on nontenured faculty members who may have participated in the ASA vote, who may be considering attending meetings of the ASA, or who may even hold dissenting critical viewpoints about the Israeli occupation of Palestine. These presidential denunciations threaten to create a witch hunt-like atmosphere on campuses.
The courageous response of a group of faculty members at Trinity College in Connecticut to President James F. Jones Jr.'s attack on the ASA resolution highlights the ways in which these denunciations infringe on academic freedom. The Trinity faculty members point out explicitly to Jones that, "you did not speak in our name – also members of the Trinity College community – when you wrote this ill-advised letter to the ASA president."
The Trinity faculty had good cause to complain. Without consulting them, President Jones stated in his letter that if Trinity were still an institutional member of the ASA, "it would not be any longer after the misguided and unprincipled announcement of the boycott of the only democracy in the Middle East." The Trinity faculty might also have objected to the fact that President Jones appears so concerned to protect the academic freedom of Israeli institutions while ignoring that of members of his own university community. What could explain this apparent contradiction between the presidential devotion to abstract notions of academic freedom and pronouncements that ride roughshod over academic freedom at the leaders' own institutions?
The answer perhaps lies in President Jones's characterization of Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East, a statement that the Trinity faculty remind him is not simply erroneous but also racially stereotyping. Following this gaffe, Jones goes on to ask rhetorically why the ASA is not boycotting "Syria, the Sudan, North Korea, China, Iran, Iraq, or Russia."
An identical assertion concerning the regional uniqueness of Israeli democracy and a nearly equivalent list of human rights-violating nations occurs in a recent statement on the website of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. In this statement, the conference calls on university presidents not simply to "publicly reject this academic boycott and the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) campaign against Israel" but to deny "any funds, direct or indirect, to the ASA or any other body that adopts similar measures." As part of their campaign against the ASA, the conference is deploying alumni and donors to put pressure on college presidents, distributing highly distorted talking points such as the ones that appeared in President Jones's and many other presidents' statements, and ignoring the discussions that circulated before the ASA resolution was put up for a vote, including the collection of essays that I curated at the AAUP's Journal for Academic Freedom. Also involved in this campaign are Zionist organizations like Stand With Us, whose website includes a "how to" list for campaigners against BDS.
The university presidents' denunciations are likely to have a chilling impact on fair and open discussion of the BDS campaign on American university campuses. If they follow through on the call to deny all funding to the ASA without adequate consultation with their faculty members, academic leaders will be infringing even more directly on academic freedom.
This building crisis underlines that there is no such thing as academic freedom shorn of the institutional and material conditions that enable such freedom. This point, which, as Judith Butler has explained in her endorsement of BDS, highlights the fundamental lack of freedoms of Palestinian scholars, was key to the ASA's endorsement of the boycott. It seems that scholars who have endorsed the ASA resolution, or who continue to participate in the ASA, may now be penalized with a withdrawal of institutional resources as well as subtle and not-so-subtle infringements of their academic freedom. It is worth remembering that the academic boycott endorsed by the ASA targets only institutions and not individuals, but the presidents in their defense of Israeli institutions are directly infringing on the rights of association and expression of individual faculty members.
Instead of attempting to silence debate in this manner, academic leaders who are truly interested in nurturing academic freedom at their institutions and elsewhere should establish forums in which the ASA resolution can be discussed and debated in a fair and evenhanded manner. After all, the ASA boycott controversy is not a flash in the pan. As David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi argue, "A rising level of concern about the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory (now in its fifth decade), as well as the precarious position of Israel's beleaguered Palestinian minority, have been countered by increasingly strident, even furious, attempts to silence or stifle criticism of Israeli policy on American college campuses." Goldberg and Makdisi's article details the campaigns of "insinuation, accusation, and defamation" through which organizations such as the Israel on Campus Coalition seek to silence debate about Israel's policies in the occupied territories. As part of this campaign, groups like Stand With Us distribute propaganda tools such as the Hasbara Handbook, which details strategies of "point scoring" while avoiding genuine debate. Against such attempts to silence discussion, Goldberg and Makdisi's article sets out some clear ground rules for forums designed to promote civil, respectful, but critical engagements across political divides.
Surely the quashing of dissenting viewpoints should be anathema to university presidents who are truly committed to academic freedom. Courageous and enlightened academic leaders should be fostering critical debate rather than contributing to an atmosphere of intimidation on campus while repeating abstract, and ultimately hollow, endorsements of academic freedom.
Ashley Dawson is professor of English at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, and editor of the American Association of University Professors' Journal of Academic Freedom.
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Kristen Stewart thinks that Robert Pattinson's new girlfriend FKA Twigs is using him for fame and whatever else she can get from him – according to reports.
Kristen and Rob dated for four years during the entire "Twilight" saga and they both rose to international status together, but FKA Twigs was basically unheard of before she was known as Rob's girlfriend. Now, it appears that Kristen was upset over Twigs' declaration of love for Rob during a recent interview.
A source said, "Kristen was already suspicious of her motives, but when she heard that FKA was straight up talking about Rob to the press, that confirmed it. She knows Rob wouldn't be okay with that. It's so obvious to Kristen that this girl is just taking advantage of Rob, and it really pisses her off. She's still very protective of Rob."
Is Kristen sounding jealous of FKA Twigs or what? It seems like she had her chance a while ago and blew it!
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Fish Panel inspired by Teresa
This was my first attempt at using a panel and also my first attempt at meandering. I did the meandering in the panel only. Maybe the more I do it, the better I will like it. It ended up being 52 X 72 before quilting, and, in hindsight, I should have put another row of squares on each side. Next time, there will be more things to take into consideration.
That looks great, Sharon! You took the idea and made it your own. Well done!
Your weather sign says 62F????? And I'm freezin' here hovering right at freezing. Brrrrrr...... Dust the spare room 'cause I'm headed your way.
Thank you, Doris. Until I hit upon that light green to go with the blue, I was wondering if I would find the right combination.
Thank you, Rosa.
Teresa, It was a challenge, that's for sure. I think once a panel is cut to the proper size, it goes more smoothly. I have a few more panels I'll be doing eventually.
Sorry about your weather......no spare rooms here.....in fact, my sewing area is the back part of the living room. We do have 2 sofas that open up into queen size beds and one of those blow-up mattresses, though. @:) I really hate having to go to MN at this time of year. Talk about brrrrrr!!!!
Sharon - it's soooo cute! You did a great job. I didn't like meandering at first, either, but I found if I slow down my machine and just relax and go with the flow, I like it a lot better. Plus it looks better, too!
In re. the weather ladies - I live near Sharon (central FL) and I was just outside. It's been gray and rainy for 3 days, the wind is blowing HARD and it's dang COLD - I'd guess in the 40s w/o windchill. So, it's not always great weather in FL!
Stephanie, This layout is something I look forward to doing with the other panels in my stash. The only thing is getting the squares to line up with the panel.
Scraphappy and Nancii, Thank you.....
Yes, Marcia, the meandering did just that! In fact, the girls even commented on it.
Donna, I have no problem slowing the machine down as I have a control for that.....it's the 'relaxing' part when doing something new..especially when it's for someone else. I'll get there.......eventually.
It has been cold, eh? Right now we're sitting at 50ú but at least the sun is shining today. I get so down when it's gloomy outside for more than a day. In fact, I've sewn the end strips of fleece that I've cut off projects (at least 60" wide) together and have been wrapped up for the last few days.
Sharon, and anyone else wanting to make this quilt -
The center panel should be 23" x 23" square to make life easier.
I'll add the link to the free pattern.
Here is a link that might be useful: Animal Crackers pattern at Quiltmaker magazine


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Hello everyone!
I'm not missing again, honest. I've been lurking a bit but just to frazzled to post.
DH & I set out on the marital testing task of giving our kitchen / dining room a face-lift so for the duration no tablescapes or fun stuff for me.
In fact, I don't even have a table anymore. It was carted off to storage with all the decorating dishes, my crystal collection and the tablecloths ect to. He didn't leave me much of anything. lol
Unfortunatly once we chose everything and cleared the room, as crappy fate would have it my beloved Mother is facing another potential battle with breast cancer.
She is a 10 year survivor having beat it once.
Right now we're at the "it could be [something/nothing]" phase but Monday is surgical biopsy day and by Tues we'll know what the immediate future holds.
Until then, my function is worthless - my heart broken with even remote thoughts of thinking about the possibility of losing the one rock that has always been in my life and never left me (I'm adopted) so work has screeched to a hault until I can rest more assured of what is to come.
I'm going on the fact that her check-ups saved her life once and it can do it again.
MM...good thoughts & prayers coming to you, your Mom & family & friends. Sounds like a good strong relationship & that will keep you both going! Sorry that this week will be a long one for all of you. Thanks for updating here so we can send good thoughts your way. Jeanne S.
MM, sending hugs and prayers your way for you and DM. Stay positive and up if you can. Please let us know how the surgical biopsy goes and know we are here for both of you.
Your face lift for the kitchen/dining room sounds like we will all have something to look forward to when it's complete. This is never a fun time but the end results are always rewarding.
Post when you have time and take care. I've been thinking about you lately. We miss you when your not here posting with us.
T & P's coming your way for you and your wonderful family.
Sure sorry you are all going through this, but keep those positive attitudes and stay strong. It sounds like your Mom is a fighter and your love will be a huge support.
We're all sending you positive energy and I will keep you and your Mom in my prayers.
You and mother will be added to my prayer list. My mother beat breast cancer and my best friend has beat it twice, so I know there are good results these days. As for your kitchen, bless your heart, after my small laundry room make-over I can sympathize with all the work ahead of you, but it'll get done sooner or later and you'll really enjoy it.
MM, good to hear from you. So sorry your Mom might have to go through another bout with cancer. Hopefully, this is just a scare and nothing more. Know the love the two of you share will help you both stay strong.
Wow! Can't imagine carting everything off to storage! You must be planning a really big makeover. We will look forward to seeing the outcome. Try to do some before and after pics okay?
Keep us posted on everything, we will keep you in our thoughts and prayers.
Sometimes life just really has a way of throwing us curve balls, doesn't it MM. I am sorry to hear that your mom is facing another battle, but know for certain that she is in all of our prayers and thoughts as well as you. Keep us posted on her progress please.
Sorry to hear your mom might have cancer again. A friend's mom had it twice & beat it & died of old age many years later. Hugs & prayers that all goes well & it is just a scare. Sounds like a good time to put a take- out number by the phone. I don't know if you are stripping your kitchen down but give yourselves a break now & then & eat out or bring something in. Jan
wow. I know from experience how difficult it is, but it's really better for you if you try not to worry. Starting some labor-intensive work on your "new" kitchen/dining room might help you keep the stress level lower. Sending my best wishes for your mom!!!
Thank you ((ALL)) , especially Karen. You're going through such a hard time and still make time to think positive for the rest of us.
We're slowly inching along toward getting this overwith. Mother is having a pretty bad week and not generally feeling well at all with being off her coumadin since Tues which causes problems by itself compunded by not being able to take the pain meds for her knee since they have blood thinning ingrediants as well. Ugh!
For today, she's going to rest, DH is off to work and I'm going to try and bring down my sky high anxiety & focus on getting some of the kitchen painted.
Have a great day everyone :).


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Fruita Farmers Market
Every Saturday, June 28 – September 20, 2014
Civic Center, 325 East Aspen Avenue, Fruita, CO
Fruita will be kicking off the 2014 Fruita Farmer's Market season on Saturday, June 28th with vendors and artisans selling fresh local produce, baked goods, honeys, soaps and more. This free event runs every Saturday this summer through September 20th from 8:30 am – 12:30 pm at Civic Center Park in Fruita.
June's Fruita Fall Festival Centennial event will be held during the first market day on June 28th and will be feature old-fashioned fair games for the entire family. There will also be a kiddie train in the Civic Center parking lot.
Each market will also provide live entertainment. Peggy Malone, "the Little Girl with the Big Voice" and western music artist, will provide some fun boot-stompin', toe-tappin' entertainment for our kick-off Market.
Vendor space is still available for vendors offering either regional produce or unique, handmade product lines.
970-858-3894 - Fruita Chamber of Commerce
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Powderhorn Mud Dash
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Stories From the Southwest
Colorado Mesa University, Moss Performing Arts Center, Mesa Expiramental Theatre
Stories From the Southwest
by Ruth Cantrell
For our young audiences, MRT presents an inventive and charming collection of tales written in 1997 about our beautiful region. Tales include:
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The Desert's Gift
Leena, the Javalina
How the Mesa Got its Name
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Saturday, June 14; 2:00 pm
Friday, June 20; 2:00 pm
Saturday, June 21; 2:00 pm
Friday, June 27; 2:00 pm
Saturday, June 28; 2:00 pm
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Ordinary Days
2:00 p.m. / 7:30 p.m.
Colorado Mesa University, Moss Performing Arts Center, Mesa Expiramental Theatre
Ordinary Days
by Adam Gwon
When Deb loses her most precious possession—the notes to her graduate thesis—she unwittingly starts a chain of events that turns the ordinary days of four New Yorkers into something extraordinary. Told through a series of intricately connected songs and vignettes, Ordinary Days is an original musical about growing up and enjoying the view. (from the composer's website)
Thursday, June 12; 7:30 pm
Saturday, June 14; 7:30 pm
Wednesday, June 18; 7:30 pm
Friday, June 20; 7:30 pm
Sunday, June 22; 2:00 pm
Thursday, June 26; 7:30 pm
Saturday, June 28; 7:30 pm
Laura Bradley
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Right now, 63 percent of new HIV infections occur among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men -- with particularly high infection rates among men of color and men 13- to 24-years-old. Transgender women face an even greater risk -- they're up to 49 times more likely to have HIV than the general population. And as the number of older Americans identifying as LGBT continues to grow, our health care system isn't consistently prepared to provide the comprehensive treatment they deserve.
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KAW - spaghetti sauce and meatballs!
Even with my counter next to the Advantium currently taken over by the stenciling project for the bathroom, I still have room to make homemade sauce and meatballs! So excited!
It's been several years since I made this myself, so I'm hoping for the best. I so wish grandma was still here to double check with, it's her recipe.
I will post after the meatballs are cooked, but in my experience a good deal of them go missing in between...
A bunch made it to the sauce to soften up and add flavor, and I only lost the quality control samples this time, lol! So strange not to have my Dad and sister eating them almost as fast as I can cook the first dozen or so! I'll have to put a bag full aside to drop off to him.
So far, yummy! The sauce tastes great, the meatballs are great, and I have a loaf of the best local Italian bread on standby. I hope DH gets home soon so we can dig in!
They sound great and look even better, on that gorgeous granite of yours! (Isn't it fun to take pictures with a bold backdrop?) If you feel up to posting the meatball recipe...
Where is your Dad BTW? I'm so used to you referencing him, I'd sort of assumed he lived with you :) Bon Appetit and keep the KAW pictures a-coming!
williamsem, that first picture is so glowy and inviting. Your counters really are awesome.
So, are you going to give us your recipe?!! :) Do you slow cook them in sauce after you brown the meatballs? I bought a new Crockpot (thanks Costco!) and would love to break it in with something like this.
For now Dad lives about 10-15 minutes from me depending on traffic. I'm very lucky that both my parents live pretty close, and both are handy enough to be tech support or supervise when I attempt projects. Dad is my partner in grime on the fireplace remodel. He was kind enough to drive to NJ with me on the spur of the moment to get the mantel from Green Demolitions, and he had so much fun teaching me how to build the hearth that I decided it would be "our" project. By this time next year he will be retired and living many states away near my stepsister and the only grandbabies in the family :-(
I don't really have a recipe, per se, just what I learned from my maternal grandmother by watching and cooking with her. The key is wetting the breadcrumbs and using more black pepper than you think is sane :-)
Today it was:
2 lbs 85/15 ground beef
About the same volume, or a little less, of moistened breadcrumbs, regular seasoned (or Italian seasoned)
2 eggs
Parsley flakes, probably a bit shy of 1/4 cup
Generous dusting of garlic salt
More black pepper than you think is needed (probably 3 tbsp?)
That made about 3o-36-ish balls today. Roll to shape, pan fry in olive oil browning on 3-4 sides as needed.
I'm finding that everything is better on the granite, lol! It's not a snobby granite thing, more like a working on something that I love thing (I'm sure it would be just as fun working on laminate or even painted plywood that I picked out myself). Between the granite and the Orca, I don't even mind cleanup as much. And the best part of all is my 27x24 prep space, it really does feel like a football field compared to the effectively 18x12 space we had there. Still shy of the recommended space, but it's downright luxurious to us!
Thanks, linelle, I really love how the kitchen, and especially the lighting, came out. That nice look is due in part to the magic of dimmers. Plus the wisdom of the lighting forum, most notably David, who patiently answered the questions I had and gave me confidence that the plan I had created was fine. Recipe above :-)
I deviate from grandma in the sauce, she always simmered it all day on the stove. Sometimes from tomato sauce make with tomatoes grown in the garden then cooked and processed with the hand crank strainer, then frozen.
I use a mix of canned tomato products. I couldn't remember which three products she used when I was in the store, so I used 28 oz each of crushed tomatoes, tomato purée, tomato sauce, and petite diced tomatoes. I'm pretty sure just the first three are the original recipe.
Then add:
3 large cloves pressed garlic
Generous palmful of parsley flakes
Maybe a tbsp each Italian seasoning, oregano, basil (not entirely sure how much to start, it's all by feel when I do it)
Generous sprinkling of each black pepper, garlic salt, and garlic powder
1 small can tomato paste
Put on medium for 6 hours or so. Stir and taste every 2 hours and adjust seasoning if needed. Add meatballs and sausage 1-2 hours before serving if desired, the meatballs will make a good amount of sauce disappear if they are in there too long, though they will taste good!
Thanks, KimSig! I definitely can relate! We had a toaster oven that we used a lot, and a rice cooker, but I was so sick of grilled everything by the time we could use the range again I declared no grilled items for a month.
While I love the whole kitchen, and I -swear- there is a reveal coming eventually, I think the granite is my absolute favorite thing among the tangible items. I could stare at it for hours. It's called Rocky Mountain, and the backsplash is MOP.
Your dinner looks great, but your granite looks like dessert -- really, it looks like an Oreo cheesecake! I love your backsplash, too. I would never get tired of that one because of all the different shapes and patterns the eye can pick out. And of course the MOP is quietly, yet brilliantly, beautiful.
what is the shape and pattern of your tiles, please?
Oooo, Oreo cheesecake! Now I will crave that until I can snag a piece :-)
The only place I could find the diamond shape MOP was online at builderelements.com. The price is actually pretty good, though higher than I wanted to spend (but honestly, as soon as I realized MOP would be my best match I knew my budget was going to take a beating). I just LOVE the pattern. Sadly the install got messed up, the sheets were not lined up right and it all has to come out to be redone. I'm hoping for a black Friday deal to reorder. The website was great to work with, they follow up by email, and answered my questions. Make sure you order an extra sheet and inspect the sheets carefully, it's a natural product so there may be pieces you don't like. I had on average 1-2 per sheet I pulled off, but for the price I'll take it!
Okay, the meatballs look mouth-wateringly great and I want some, but WHAT? That back splash has to come off and be replaced? Did I read that right? Yup, I did. What the heck happened? Did you post something and I missed it? It's so pretty, what a bummer.
williamsem - have I mentioned how much I love your kitchen? Ah, yes, I think that I have...but really, just so lovely.
Your meatballs & sauce recipe sounds much like mine (down to moistening the breadcrumbs), only I use some Turkish pepper that I bought when we were in Istanbul and toss my meatballs in the oven to brown them rather than on the cooktop.
Looks delicious...I think that we're all heading over to your house for dinner! ;-)
Oh, Deedles, yes, it needs to come out. I think that was all happening during one of your big decision times so it could have slipped by you, and understandably so! Instead of locking the sheets together to make the continuous pattern, they were installed in straight lines and the gaps were filled in with loose tiles. See below. But I have been lucky, and if my biggest kitchen remodel problem is an extra $600 or so in tile (he is ripping out and fixing the wall) and paying a new installer then I really can't be that upset. My GC is nice and does good work, but some of the finishing pretty stuff is not his strong point. If I had picked plain subways like I had initially thought, probably no problems at all.
Thanks, andreak1000! When I scroll past the before pics I almost can't believe it's the same kitchen, even though the layout changes were limited to mostly a few inches here and there, and moving the fridge.
Haven't tried the oven method yet, though I understand it's great. We so rarely eat red meat, let alone fried or comfort food, that I can't justify loosing that great crusty sear and grease to be healthier or easier.
They are definitely grandmas meatballs, but I'm glad I was a little off on the sauce with the diced tomatoes. I probably would have been sobbing into my pasta if it tasted like hers, it's only been a little over a year and we were pretty close for most of my life. Less so the last number of years while she lived in FL, but being the oldest grandchild I had many expiriences and memories that the younger ones just didnt have, especially with my grandfather who passed away when I was 12.
It's going to be a while before I make this again, I haven't cried so much in many months. Wasn't expecting that, though I knew I'd think of grandma.


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I have a garden/flower bed in my backyard. This year I did not get time to plant anything and it became overgrown with weeds. In addition, I added more dirt to the bed from where I had dug for a shed in my yard, and that dirt had grass in it. My question is, is there an easy way for me to kill all of the weeds/grass or whatever is growing in there right now to prepare for next year to be able to use my garden with a clean slate, so to speak? I thought I could use weed killer but how long does that stay in the soil? Basically I want to be able to use the soil about 8 months from now so I would be happy to hear any suggestions. Thanks!
There are many ways to accomplish your goal, but if you do choose to use herbicides, choose carefully as some will persist and affect future use of the area. For example, glyphosate based herbicides will not act herbicidally in the soil after application, but soil sterilants such as Triox will.
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A very simple and really inexpensive way to kill off growing "weeds" in that bed is to cover it with newspaper or cardboard and cover that with compost or a mulch material to hold it in place, no expensive "weed" or plant killers needed and certainly no chance then of contaminating the soil with unwanted substances. Cut off any plants access to light and it will die, as will any plants, including the grasses, growing in that area.


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Aucoin is a pretty soild 2-way dman, but he sometimes gets overrated on this board. Despite the minutes he puts up on the Island (or used to put up before we got Janne N.) he is really a #3/#4 dman. He is also expensive, 30-YO, and will be a RFA this coming summer.
Then, you've got Parrish. Gritty as hell and easily capable of another 30 goal season. But, also streaky and has a limited top end.
Weinhandl is a nice young prospect, but hardly a sure thing.
Perhaps the Flyers would need to add a pick to even this out, but I don't think it favors the Flyers by that much.
I think Aucoin is at least a #2 defender on some teams, #3 on most and #4 on few(Detroit, Colorado, Dallas), who can log a tonne of minutes, play a solid two-way game and play the point on the PP which makes him a pretty valuable asset. But like you said, he's nearing UFA status and making over $3 mil per season. Still, there aren't many d-men out there who can log up to 30 min/game in ice-time, in all situations, and not be a liability.
Parrish is another pretty good assest. Mid 20's, 25-30 goal scorer, gritty, decent salary, but like you said he is streaky. Still, Parrish is a forward that most teams in the league could use.
Finally there's Weinhandl. He's very much unproven, but has a lot of offensive talent. Pretty decent prospect.
Although this isn't a deal that the Flyers would likely make, I believe that the Isles may be giving up a bit too much for a forward who has had some injury problems throughout his career. I like Gagne, he has a nice speed, hands, and defensive awareness, but I'm not sure that his potential(being a star player) is worth trading up 2 key players as well as a decent prospect.
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Our 1947 cape cod has a side porch off the kitchen that was enclosed and converted to a pantry. We added a small electric baseboard but want to insulate under the floor, which is currently accessible.
We are in zone 5 with frigid upstate NY winters.
If we put fiberglass batting between the floor joists, should we staple plastic sheeting over it? We plan on caulking where the floor meets the house for drafts and critter blocking.
When all this gets done we're installing small-square vinyl lattice dug into the ground to prevent the previous tenant (a mangy coyote) from moving back in. This why I want to do this once and do it correctly.
Thanks for your reply.
The plastic is a vapor barrier. Vapor barriers should face towards the warm side. In your climate, that is the house. If you are using fiberglass, you will be better off just getting the faced kind and putting the face up against the bottom the floor. The sell little hangers that will keep the batting in place.