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Crossroads at House of Blues
Recently, I was invited by a House of Blues representative to try out the revamped menu offered at Crossroads, the restaurant located as part of the House of Blues. The new menu is designed by celebrity Chef Aaron Sanchez (often seen as a judge on Food Network's Chopped and is featured on several other tv shows). As an avid fan of Chopped, I was intrigued.
For those unfamiliar, House of Blues is a chain of night clubs and restaurants, offering both music concerts and dining. Once we arrived, we were seated at a cozy table close to the bar, where I admired the decor.
For my appetizer I chose the wild mushroom flatbread ($12.99). The new menu offers three flatbread toppings and they all looked delicious. I had a hard time choosing before settling on mushroom.
I loved this. The flatbread was thin and crispy. The toppings were flavorful. I would definitely order this again and would like to try the other topping options. It was quite large too. Easily enough for a meal.
Nutella stuffed Pancake French Toast
I've got a really yummy recipe to share with you today. A yummy, indulgent breakfast treat that I plan on making for many more future lazy weekend mornings. These were good enough that I braved the sweltering heat in my kitchen to make them. And they were worth all the sweat.
These are French toast slices covered in pancake batter and stuffed with nutella. Absolutely amazing.
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New application performance management tools eye SaaS, Cloud usage, other metrics
The cloud applications tide has been rising for some time and it's beginning to raise the boats in a spinoff IT sector – cloud application performance management.
A slew of vendors are popping up offering services to monitor EC2 spending, bandwidth, network performance, application performance and other advanced metrics. AppNeta, a Boston-based company located in the city's growing "Innovation District," is one of those vendors. Today, it released AppView Web, an addition to its PathView Cloud platform that will monitor app performance on the public cloud and offer insight into an apps performance over a network.
CEO Jim Melvin sees AppNeta as a way for users to increase the reliability of public cloud applications. He describes a common occurrence in IT departments – Salesforce.com is running slow in the office, IT calls Salesforce to ask why and they tell them that everything is running normally in the Salesforce data center. Melvin says this constitutes a typical call to AppNeta, which issues automated responses to IT through alerts, dashboards and reports that explain when the problem is on their side of the fence.
"If companies are looking to move towards public web applications, like Salesforce, like Google Docs, like a backup system like a mail system, they cannot take the plunge without some level of assurance, and that's what we offer," Melvin said.
Public clouds do have failures, as evidenced by recent outages in Amazon and Salesforce, but Melvin said that downtime in the office is often caused by network glitches or by inefficient use of resources. He describes two common examples – quality of service errors and BYOD.
Quality of service describes the way applications get prioritized on the network. Melvin says it is relatively common for a router to go down and be brought back up without anyone noticing, but that when new routers come online, they aren't wired to respect quality of service, which creates a logjam.
The BYOD era adds an extra layer of confusion to the process. Anyone firing up their iPad in the office may inadvertently begin synching all their applications, from work-related apps to iTunes, soaking up a huge amount of bandwidth that takes away from apps in the cloud.
When asked what percentage of problems AppNeta respond to are caused by human error, Melvin estimated close to 90%.
"IT infrastructures are just incredibly resilient, they almost never completely fail because they are so dynamic," Melvin said.
The market for performance management appears to be growing based on all the product news that has come out on an almost daily basis. Riverbed Technology announced a product upgrade that adds capabilities around quality of service today.
For more on application performance management (APM), check out contributor Crystal Bedell's story on SearchSoftwareQuality.com.
SOASTA's Lounibos talks iOS6, mobile predictions
Get ready, because it is coming. Developers are currently working through the kinks of its third beta, but iOS 6 will be here in the fall and enterprises are starting to take notice.
With roughly 200 new features in iOS6, including Apple's highly publicized move away from Google Maps, is creating problems for developers who are frantically trying to figure the new world out before iOS6 goes live.
"So many of the developers use some form of GPS and mapping in their system, getting familiar with the Apple way of doing things is kind of a big deal," Tom Lounibos said.
Lounibos is the CEO of SOASTA, a test automation company that is focused heavily in mobile app development. SOASTA's new TouchTest platform, which allows for test automation on a large number of devices and accounts for new user interfaces like Jester, is designed to increase the availability of mobile test. He cited an IDC report that stated 80% of testing is done manually in mobile, mainly because there are so many different devices.
"Most of our customers have had to do manual testing, and they're getting to the point where there are too many points of failure to keep up with," he said.
From his perspective, the 6.3 beta of iOS is looking to be more stable than previous releases and the new features, especially the visualization and mapping ones, have developers in his circle excited.
"The user experience is changing. You used to have one-dimensional cool stuff like maps. Now instead of looking at a map while you're driving, you can talk to Siri about that map," he said, adding that he thinks this is just the beginning. He cited machine-to-machine interfaces as a rapidly changing segment that will forever alter the application world.
He also speculated that a world where applications are no longer tied to devices is soon at hand. He envisions things as futuristic as map applications popping up on car windows as being within reach.
"We're just at the beginning of some enormous changes in the way people will interact with applications," he said.
Lounibos had some other thoughts on the mobile app world and the issues facing it.
On Windows' entry into mobile
"The question mark has been out there and with RIM being in whatever limbo they have been in, it's caused a big opening for someone else to come in and be number three."
"I think Microsoft is making some good news. I think Windows has a big following and a big developer community already in place; I think the tablet announcement has been big."
APIs and the companies putting them out
"A lot of brand names where you would say 'Are they still in business?'–all of sudden you see their API strategy. You're going to see a lot of old-school brands jumping the shark."
On cloud computing
"I really believe cloud computing is a byproduct of mobile, and not the other way around."
Lounibos' predictions
- The mobile development market, meaning build/test/deploy/manage or mobile PaaS, is looking to be a $100 billion market.
- Believes that mobile apps will hit 2 million by the end of the year, up from an estimated 800,000 apps currently.
- Predicts that the most growth in mobile apps will be in enterprise mobile because "they jumped in late.
– Adam Riglian, @AdamRiglian
APIs not just for Facebook, Walgreens launches API for photo sharing apps
What do Walgreens and APIs have in common? Ubiquity.
The pharmacy giant partnered with Palo Alto, Calif.-based API management company Apigee to launch an open API around its QuickPrints service, allowing third-party developers to incorporate Walgreens photo printing service into their own photo-sharing applications. The new program launched with five partners – Pinwheel, GroupShot, Kicksend, Pic Stitch and StillShot.
"Really what it's showing is that businesses of all types need new ways to reach consumers and new ways to scale," said Marcia Kaufman, principal analyst with Needham, Mass.-based IT analyst group Hurwitz & Associates. "The API is really no longer just for an [online] company, it's not just for Google."
Walgreens initially launched QuickPrints as an app, but decided to also offer the QuickPrints SDK (software development kit) so any photo sharing service could include it. Third-party apps that use QuickPrints get a share of revenues after photos are purchased. For users of third-party apps supporting QuickPrints, they will now be able to select a photo for printing on their phone and pick it up an hour later at a Walgreens store, with no need to create a separate Walgreens account or login.
"We always had the vision of offering that functionality to third-party application developers," said Joe Rago, senior product manager at Walgreens.
Rago said that this is the first step into the API world for Walgreens, but that it wouldn't be the last. Taking advantage of the enormous digital photo market was his team's first goal, but that eventually they plan on finding other ways to use APIs to expand Walgreens business.
"A good way of putting it is putting an API around our stores, bringing our stores to the internet," he said. "Photo was a logical first entry point, just with the sheer popularity [of it]."
Kaufman compared Walgreens' open API to the pharmacy chains inclusion of on-premise photo processing. She said that it was innovative at the time for a pharmacy to become a one-stop shop for birthday cards, groceries and photos, and added that this is no different.
"It puts Walgreens in a very innovative position, as opposed to closing up shop and saying this business of producing photographs isn't so lucrative anymore," she said.
Cloud9 adds features, competes for developer attention
In "Vendors aim to get cloud app development off the ground," Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady said that cloud IDEs share advantages over desktop models, but that "the reverse is equally true."
Cloud9 took another step towards closing the gap between what's offered offline and online with a new release announced today. The latest upgrades focus on beefing up collaboration capabilities, adding autocomplete, additional language support (Ruby, PHP, Python) and the ability to work offline.
Autocompletion was the most requested addition from the user community according to Cloud9 CEO Reuben Daniels. The ability to autocomplete was added for Node.js, the language most used among Cloud9 developers.
"Developers don't have to remember the API calls anymore," Daniels said. "They can just type dot and it will appear."
Autocomplete takes away some of the monotonous work of development and adds to the speed of the process. Daniels said getting that to work for Javascript in the cloud was the most difficult challenge of the new release.
If autocomplete was the biggest perk for the current crop of developers, the ability to work offline is the upgrade most likely to draw in desktop users. Daniels said the addition was aimed more at startup users than customers in traditional enterprise environments.
"The enterprises that use us don't have any problem with that, because the developers there just run inside their network and that's fine with them," he said. "We're catering to a lot of startups, people that are younger and still have the ability to work wherever and whenever they want to. For these people, that type of flexibility is very important."
Cloud9 is also attempting to recreate the desktop IDE experience by adding workspaces, secure environments separate from other development environments. In each environment, developers have their own container for files, the ability to run apps and process isolation. It's something that would be taken for granted on a desktop, but is an important step for the cloud, according to Daniels.
Offline support, collaboration and autocompletion are available to all users, while the workspace in the cloud additions are premium features.
There is no predicted time table on how cloud and desktop IDEs will compete with each other in the future, but with the latest Cloud9 release it appears cloud IDEs are trying to take away reasons why developers would choose desktop options.
– Adam Riglian
Storified look at the OpenStack keynotes
OpenStack: Catching up with Mirantis co-founder Boris Renski
Mirantis co-founder Boris Renski endured my clumsiness with the camera tripod and microphone setup to deliver a compelling conversation on his company's OpenStack evangelizing and partnership with Dell.
Mirantis is an OpenStack engineering service company, but what sets it apart from some other professional services organizations is that they don't believe in value added offerings.
Renski made it a point to note that Mirantis isn't interested in making a product out of its OpenStack expertise. He plans on sticking to the "vanilla" distribution of OpenStack and focusing instead on conquering the biggest barrier he sees to OpenStack adoption – it's moving too fast.
He says that some enterprises he works with are running in production on OpenStack Cactus, while OpenStack is now several releases ahead with Essex and another new release, Folsom, is not too far down the road.
To deal with the speed of this, Renski believes that Mirantis is best suited in guiding enterprises through the updating and upgrading process in a non-disruptive way by doing things incrementally. The approach is called infrastructure as code, which he likened to devops for infrastructure.
Mirantis partnered with Dell on developing Crowbar, a management tool that helps users deploy OpenStack.
"This is a vision we very much share with Dell," Renski said.
It would be remiss not to mention Renski's sense of humor. Moscow-born, Renski has been wearing a t-shirt that says "In Soviet Russia, cloud deploy you!" at the conference.
Stay tuned and follow me on Twitter @AdamRiglian.
OpenStack Conference: Keynotes
Day one of the OpenStack Conference got off to a flyer of a start with a pair of keynotes both provocative and enlightening.
First to the mic was Chris Kemp, OpenStack co-founder and co-founder and CEO of Nebula. His points were simple – OpenStack is a stack, not a product. He pounded on that theme throughout his keynote.
To that end, he explained that the idea of OpenStack is that of a cloud ecosystem designed to be an open space for partners to collaborate.
Kemp argued against a recent report from Gartner analyst Lydia Leong, stating that he did not think that OpenStack competed with VMware or Amazon Web Services. After his speech, he repeated the point in a tweet, saying "Today's #OpenStack, VMWare, & AWS ecosystems are (and should be) complimentary – each are optimized for different applications"
In his speech, he said that VMware was solving a very different problem than OpenStack. Kemp said that VMware has done a good job taking 25 years of legacy software and making it run in a static environment.
"Enterprise applications don't like agile and dynamic. They are designed to be static," Kemp said.
He added that while Amazon's implementation was innovative, that the steps it took into cloud computing were "evolutionary, not revolutionary."
Following Kemp was Zorawar "Biri" Singh, senior vice president and general manager of HP Cloud Services. Singh gave an overview of HP's cloud strategy, discussed its partners and announced that public beta would begin on May 10.
Singh said that HP was active in OpenStack's project policy board and that the company was open and ready to learn from its consumers.
He spoke on the "paramount" importance of APIs in a world where communicating between clouds will become critical and said that HP was coming from a point of view that, "standing up VMs" is a "2009 phenomenon."
I was able to sit down with Singh for a one-on-one after his keynote and will have more on HP later.
Stay tuned and be sure to follow me on Twitter @AdamRiglian.
OpDemand integrates with GitHub, Puppet Labs
Private beta users gave cloud infrastructure management tool OpDemand plenty to do before its general availability launch on Monday. Integrate with social coding repository GitHub and give us more to look at on the user interface dashboard, they demanded.
OpDemand complied. Chief Technology officer Gabriel Monroy says that OpDemand's platform is now "tightly integrated" with GitHub, offering single-click signup for GitHub users and other improvements that make it "as easy as possible to go from GitHub into the cloud." He adds that the UI has been upgraded to a real-time interface that gives users a detailed look at what is going in in the guts of the system with little latency.
"We call OpDemand platforms platforms for a reason," Monroy said. "They are application-centric and offer users the benefits of a PaaS but with control of managing your own infrastructure. Really it's about masking complexity and making things simple for users without taking away control."
Last year, SearchSOA.com profiled an online art gallery that used OpDemand to reduce IT costs by 40%. The galleries vice president of engineering cited OpDemand's simple interface, easy configuration and infrastructure templates as the reason he picked the startup over more established competitors.
Monroy said that OpDemand, which currently supports Amazon but is planning on expanding to other clouds, has grown its template library to the point where it now incorporates things beyond just managing servers.
He cited elastic load balancing, virtual networking infrastructure, relational database as a service and autoscaling as Amazon offerings that don't fit into an often server-centric view of cloud computing.
"None of those things are servers but they are essential to working in the cloud," Monroy said.
He added that they have also beefed up configuration management, what Monroy calls the "future of system administration." Integrating with Puppet Labs, an IT service automation software designed for system administrators, users are now able to apply policies across all systems rather than logging into them individually to make changes.
"It's really a necessity when you're managing complex environments in the cloud," he said.
As far as the future, Monroy expects the next step for OpDemand will be expanding to other public clouds, citing OpenStack as a likely next step, as well as mentioning the emergence of HP into the market.
"We chose Amazon at this point because they offer the best technology, the most stable and mature IaaS offering, but that's beginning to change," he said.
HP repositions, upgrades cloud offerings
Hewlett-Packard is repositioning itself in the cloud market today with the announcement of a series of improvements, upgrades and new products under its Converged Cloud banner.
If the move is anything, it's comprehensive. HP makes it clear that it's trying to accommodate all comers into the cloud market and is willing to guide them through any cloud implementation — public, private or hybrid. Initial reactions from some analysts suggest HP is late to the party when it comes to cloud and that this move represents another attempt to close the gap with competitors.
"HP is playing catch-up regarding its overall cloud strategies and solutions, including its new Service Virtualization 2.0 and private cloud management capabilities, and how it is working with partners to build private clouds for its customers," said Jeff Kaplan, managing director of Wellesley, Mass., consultancy THINKstrategies.
Service Virtualization 2.0 is the most crucial component of the new package for developers. With it, HP has created a testing environment for developers that allows them to test from the get-go, a system upgrade that accounts for the real need for agility in most enterprises.
"It fundamentally provides the glue necessary for development teams to create their own clouds," said Matt Morgan, senior director of product marketing for applications at HP. "You can re-establish business as usual for a software development shop. They can build a plan that lets them test on day one."
Morgan touted 25 new features in Service Virtualization 2.0, with some of the highlights being a full RST stack, XML protocol capability, protocol stacks with multiple end points, Ajax, the ability to classify response times to change response rates, server management capability and a new user interface.
He also cited new application lifecycle intelligence technology as a key selling point for developers. Through one platform, developers can perform ALM tasks while engaging others using new social collaboration tools, which include new dashboards and mobile and tablet apps.
"At the end of the day, everything is about agility, and the social collaboration is just a facilitated agility," Morgan said.
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Getting America to Work (GATW), a nationwide coalition advocating for federal investment in the nation's bus and rail transit systems, is urging members of Congress to keep public transportation affordable for 2.7 million American families by stopping scheduled cuts to the tax-free benefit for commuters using public transportation to get to work.Current law allows workers and employers to pay up to $245 in monthly transit costs with tax-exempt dollars. This is the same maximum tax-free amount allowed for a similar benefit for those who drive to work and pay for parking. However, on Jan. 1, the transit benefit maximum is scheduled to be cut almost in half, to $125 per month, while the parking benefit will remain at a maximum of $245."Keeping parity between commuter benefits for transit and parking is nonpartisan, common sense policy," said Joe Costello, executive director of the Northeastern Illinois Regional Transportation Authority and Chairman of Getting America to Work. "Transit benefits encourage more workers to use public transportation, reducing traffic congestion, the demand for gasoline and air pollution. I urge Congress to preserve transit-parking benefit parity."Now that the government shutdown has ended, Congress is turning its attention to a long-term budget deal. Two bills, H.R. 2288 and S. 1116, have been introduced to preserve transit parity. If these bills are not passed or included as part of a budget deal, workers who rely on public transit will have their maximum pre-tax benefits for commuting cut in half on Jan., 1, 2014. "We must take positive action to preserve pre-tax benefits for those who rely on public transportation to get to work," said Stephen F. Lalli, executive director of the Oklahoma Transit Association in Oklahoma City. "The scheduled $120-per-month disparity between benefits for drivers and those who use public transit is unacceptable and unfair. Congress must stop the scheduled transit benefit cut."
The Titan800 Retractor System is designed to meet the latest WC18 industry regulations, which take effect December 2015.
The Final Rule applies to public entities providing fixed route, dial-a-ride and complementary paratransit services. It establishes that an individual's disability cannot preclude a public transportation entity from providing full access to its service except where doing so would fundamentally alter the service.
Following unanimous approval by the SFMTA board in January, the SFMTA has worked tirelessly to meet the city's demand for this program. In just over one month, the SFMTA has processed more than 38,000 applications for the Free Muni program expansion.
The accusations stem from a human rights complaint by a rider who said a bus driver refused to lower the wheelchair ramp for her because she was using a walker and not a wheelchair. STM holds monthly meetings where they open the floor to citizens to ask questions directly to board members.
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BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese Internet users rose up in anger Tuesday after the televised prostitution and gambling "confession" of a woman who embroiled the China Red Cross in scandal - but condemned the media, rather than her.
Guo Meimei, now 23, triggered a wave of public ire in 2011 when she flaunted her wealth online and claimed she was the general manager of a firm called "Red Cross Commerce", which web users took to mean she had received embezzled funds.
"Guo Meimei Baby", as she is known online, posted photos of her opulent lifestyle to nearly two million followers on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo, posing in front of a Maserati or sipping a drink in business class on a plane.
The China Red Cross denied any ties to Guo, and the actress and singer later insisted that she had made up her job title.
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Kabul, Afghanistan - Millions of Afghans have started voting to choose a new leader in an election that could lead to the first democratic transfer of power in the nation's 5,000 year history.
After months of manoeuvring, jockeying, tribal meetings and campaigning, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Abdullah Abdullah and Zalmai Rassoul have emerged as the frontrunners in Saturday's polls, coming from a field of eight candidates that includes everyone from former mujahedeen commanders to Western-educated technocrats.
All three men command a similar number of supporters and the race is seen as wide open with voters, analysts and longtime observers uncertain of the outcome – a rarity in a country where much in politics has traditionally been decided by backroom deals or through convoluted patronage networks.
Outgoing President Hamid Karzai has cast his vote early Saturday amid tight security across the country.
Afghanistan has never had an election so well prepared so well in advance.
Nicholas Haysom, deputy head of the UN mission in Afghanistan
Al Jazeera's D. Parvaz, reporting from Kabul, said two people including a police chief in Wardak province, were arrested for allegedly stuffing five ballot boxes in the district of Saeedabad.
Voting was also reportedly disrupted in three polling stations in Logar province, and seven polling stations in Khost province, where two people have been reportedly injured.
Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, however, reported that turnout in the polls is high despite the threats of violence and weather disturbance in some parts of the country.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, political analyst Haroun Mir said that Afghan citizens know that the 2014 national and local elections are critical to the country's future, which remains to be threatened by the Taliban.
The group has followed through on that threat, carrying out several attacks in the capital Kabul and across the country that have left many dead and created an atmosphere of insecurity - even with 352,000 troops on duty to provide security for about 12 million voters and 20,752 polling stations. Another 748 polling stations have been closed because Afghan security forces can not secure them, according to the IEC.
On the eve of the vote, two Associated Press news agency journalists were shot as they reported on the preparations. Anja Niedringhaus, a 48-year-old German photographer, was killed and journalist Kathy Gannon was injured.
In a move that underlined the complexities of the race, a last minute drama unfolded on Friday when a rumour swept Kabul that Karzai, the incumbent, had switched his support from Rassoul – who as former foreign minister is seen as Karzai's chosen successor – to Ghani.
"That is absolute nonsense. This is very dirty politics, and very false rumours," a top official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Al Jazeera.
"They are trying to capture power in this way, but it is absolutely unacceptable to the Afghan nation," he said, adding that he was certain of Rassoul's victory.
But he added: "I am not prophesising anything in advance. That is the decision of the Afghan nation."
Run-off likely
Though the rumour may have been a failed attempt to influence the poll, it was indicative of a fear expressed by some Western diplomats that eleventh hour power politics could influence the poll.
Massive fraud during the 2009 campaign undercut Karzai's legitimacy and allegations are already being made that deals have been cut to stuff ballot boxes. Some observers, though, expect this election to be fairer and better-run.
"Afghanistan has never had an election so well prepared so well in advance," Nicholas Haysom, deputy head of the UN mission in Afghanistan, told Al Jazeera.
"Really everything has been delivered according to timeline both in regard to broad legislative and other provisions but also the delivery of ballot papers, sensitive and non-sensitive materials to the seven thousand-odd voting centres."
With analysts predicting that a vote of over 50 percent, required for an outright win, is unlikely to be achieved by any of the leading candidates, a May 28th second round between the two who poll the highest is a real prospect.
The US and other nations are watching closely and hoping the $126 mln foreign-funded poll goes smoothly. A free and fair election would give them a small success to point to after 13 years of bloodshed since US-led forces toppled the Taliban, and make the scheduled pull-out of most foreign troops this year easier.
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Braised Pork Belly With Sweet Potato Puree Recipe
Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tenn., shares their recipe for braised pork belly with sweet potato puree, kimchi and candied pecans.
Photo and recipe courtesy of Blackberry Farm.
Braised Pork Belly
1-1/2 pork belly (skin removed)
1 Tbs. salt
1/4 tsp. crushed pepper flake
1/2 tsp. crushed fennel seed
1/2 tsp. crushed coriander seed
1 Tbs. grapeseed oil
1 small onion (diced)
1 carrot (diced)
1 rib of celery (diced)
4 cloves garlic
1qt. pork stock (can substitute chicken stock)
8 sprigs thyme
1 sprig rosemary
1 bay leaf
4 parsley stems
On a wire rack lined baking sheet, season pork belly on both sides with salt, pepper flake, fennel seed and coriander. Leave on rack in refrigerator overnight. The next day remove pork belly and allow to come to room temperature. Preheat oven to 275 degrees F. Heat an oven-proof pot, such as a Dutch oven, on the stove over medium high heat. Place grapeseed oil in pan until oil starts to shimmer. Place pork belly in pan and begin to brown on the fat side. Once browned turn pork belly to the other side and brown. Once brown add onions, carrots, celery, garlic, stock and herbs. Bring stock to a simmer, place a lid on Dutch oven and transfer to oven and cook until tender, but not falling apart (approximately two to three hours). Remove from oven and allow to cool in braising liquid. Remove belly from liquid and cut into six pieces and place back into liquid.
Sweet Potato Puree
1 lb. of sweet potatoes
1/2 cup vegetable broth
salt and pepper
sorghum (optional)
Roast sweet potatoes in 350 degrees F. oven for one hour, until soft and caramelized syrup starts to come out of potato. Cut potatoes in half and remove the flesh from the skin, placing into a blender (preferably a very powerful one, such as a Vita-Prep). Start off slowly and increase speed of blender; puree sweet potatoes until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. (The sweet potatoes we get are extremely sweet so we usually do not have to add any sweetener to this puree. If you like your sweet potatoes on the sweeter side, we suggest adding a little sorghum to your puree.) Remove from blender and reserve.
Candied pecans
1pt. pecans
1Tbs. butter
2 Tbs. honey
1cup powdered sugar
salt and pepper
In a 10-inch or 12-inch sauté pan, toast pecans in a 350 degrees F., oven (low fan) for 10 minutes. Coat pecans with honey. Once coated, place pan on medium heat and add butter. Lightly sauté pecans, season with salt and pepper, remove from heat. In a mixing bowl, place powdered sugar and hot pecans and stir until evenly coated. Place on a sheet pan and cool. With a knife, chop pecans into smaller pieces.
To complete, divide sweet potatoes onto six plates. Place pork bellies on sweet potatoes, then garnish with kimchi and candied pecans. Serves six.
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--Seattle was a hub of aviation long before it became "JetCity." On Dec. 26 at 2 p.m., Seattle authors Ed Davies and Steve Ellis present a program based upon their new book, "Seattle Commercial Aviation 1908 - 1941." The program draws from hundreds of photographs gathered for the book, which illustrates Seattle aviation from the earliest dirigible flights to the arrival of commercial airmail and the airlines. The authors show how a few Seattle aviation pioneers contributed to many spin-offs in the industry. A question and answer session and book signing follows the program. The presentation is in the William M. Allen Theater and free with admission to the Museum.
Ed Davies has written hundreds of magazine articles and several books about aviation. Since moving to Seattle in the late 1990s he has specialized in the history of Boeing and airmail service. Steve Ellis is a Seattle native and former journalist. He has served as a volunteer at The Museum of Flight Library and Archive for the past seven years. Ellis grew up hearing his father's stories about the early days of commercial aviation in the Northwest. His father, Robert Ellis, began his long career in aviation as a mechanic and copilot in the late 1929s with early air carriers West Coast Air Transport, Pacific Air Transport and United Air Lines. He retired from UAL in 1973. A display about Robert Ellis is on view in the Museum's Early Northwest Aviation exhibit.
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|Yikes! Sorry mrpon and monkman! Just looked at the last replies :/
Come and get it cumslingers!
CosmicFuzz wrote:You probably understand a little better what the film is trying to convey. It's not very good as a film on it's own and it kind of has odd changes from the book but generally it's faithful...which it probably shouldn't have been if it was going to be any good as a standalone film.
Come and get it cumslingers!
|David Attenborough's Africa is on UK Netflix. It's beautiful and a little bit heartbreaking at times.
|Cheers, good shout. Missed the last couple.
|I really enjoyed the cloud atlas. I haven't read the book. I can fully understand why somebody wouldn't like it.
mcmonkeyplc wrote:There is also an android app called Netflix global search! You can search across all regions. You can set alerts to let you know when there are new episodes of a TV show and what regions it's available in. You can also see new releases and search by genres. It's really good.
netflix global search
wobbly_Bob wrote:ooh, that sounds ace!
|Let me know how is fares....yes, I am a tight get!
Wait do you need to pay for the app? Might just keep using moreflicks if so!
|Yeah, all of �1.79!
|Fuck that!!
|Manhattan is on UK Netflix.
|@CosmicFuzz it's worth it I use it all the time. Go on, be a devil!
wobbly_Bob wrote:/reaches for phone...
|We need to talk about kevin is on Canadian netflix. Really good film
|Excellent, been waiting for that.
|If you've got something like Unblock US, how do you switch the region from US to others? Is it the location?
The Resident Evil films. I'm one of the reasons they keep making them.
|Enemy Mine is also on canada netflix.
beastmaster wrote:go to the unblock us main page and log in. There's a drop down menu to switch region.
CosmicFuzz wrote:The phone app is good to do it as well
|My main gripe with the ad is that it stays running in the background. Irritating.
|I could never get the phone app to work properly for some reason.
wobbly_Bob wrote:So I decided to buy this and I quite like it, seems better organised than Moreflicks
But what it lacks is the break down of seasons. Not all regions have the same seasons, so it's not obvious which region you need to switch too. Might email them and see if it's coming. Otherwise all good, especially the ability to add favourites. Dead handy when you can't remember films you've found.
|@Dougs It does have a breakdown by season. If you click the film strip looking icon next to the title it tells you what regions it's in and what season each region has.
Ah! Cheers, missed that.
So it does. Pretty damn handy now actually! Good recommendation my wobbly!
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:-D glad to help!
|I just bought the app to. The basic searching and browsing is better than using the site so that's a great start. However, when I tried searching by director and it didn't work as it wanted something in the title field,
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Well , Thanks and........? .........DEJA-VUE...? Eeeek..!
Father's Day
No offense and none taken (̿▀̿ ̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿)̄
My Father passed on Nov. 11, the day of a military holliday, we gave him a funeral fit for his duty in the war as a medic, He was my hero, a farmer, and a cattleman, and a horse lover. He loved to raise Beagles, and hunt rabbits. Till this day when I see the jets flying over head, with thier clouds following be hind them, that looks like a farmer making rows to plant his fields, I see my Father................`Happy fathers day, He got his wish to be burried with his Hero, his father, we placed grand paws bones in my fathers coffin........Lets remember all the fathers in the military..............
For ever Vigilant..... One Shot One Kill.........
Fathers make our country strong. Fathers make the Family strong.
God Bless our Fathers!
Pretty awesome day for me. My son Daniel works for me at the hotel. I gave him a part time job for the summer. He is only 14. But I have done this for all of my kids to teach them responsiblity and the value of a dollar. He has been helping maintenance...moving big chunks broken up concrete, dumping the trash, mowing the grass, real hard work. Well he went halves with my wife on a really nice NRA t-shirt. That is right...my 14 year old son spent his own hard earned money on my Father's Day gift! I am so proud.
Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
My daughter Kassandra brought over a big tupperwear container full of reclaimed lead. She knows that I am a reloader and caster. She went out to the range and dug in the ground to find a bunch of lead bullets in the hillside. She must have spent hours doing it. Awesome day.
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
Breastfeeding in Jordan
By Joan Carlton Griswold
Breastfeeding in Jordan-incultureparent via flickr
When my parents moved to Amman, Jordan to teach at the American School, my daughter was just over a year old and I was pregnant with our second child. Even though my parents encouraged us to visit them once the baby was born, traveling to the Middle East with two infants (one breastfeeding) was not high on my list of fun family vacations. Yet, as my parents' stories of warm, friendly people, beautiful country and layers of history trickled back to us via email, I began to imagine that we might be able to make the journey. It depended partly, of course, on this new baby.
Our son, Nolan, was born with an easygoing disposition and a healthy appetite. Eventually, we decided to make the trek. As we packed up most of the house and set off on a trip halfway around the world with a toddler whose favorite word was "no" and a 19-pound, four-month-old who wanted to nurse every two hours around the clock, I began to wonder if we had inched over the line from adventurous to insane.
I anticipated that breastfeeding in public would be a problem in a country where the Muslim women routinely covered their heads and exposed very little flesh. I knew that I could nurse discreetly, but feared that even the idea of a breastfeeding baby in public could cause problems. A Lebanese-born nurse in my pediatrician's office suggested that I use a breast pump and feed Nolan from a bottle when in public. Although I knew a breast pump could be my best shot at cultural sensitivity, I was not too excited about this option.
My first foray into the world of breastfeeding in public in Jordan was not exactly "public," as Nolan and I ended up in a toilet stall. I wasn't up to pushing the cultural envelope at a quaint little village restaurant, so I retreated to the toilet. I was amazed at the reception Nolan and I received. The universality of a breastfeeding mother far outweighed the difference in nationalities, and women came over to watch, converse and tickle the baby. It was a heartening ex,perience.
Emboldened, I began to nurse in more public places. I tried to take my cues from other breastfeeding mothers, but alas, I saw none. Apparently it is customary for children to be kept indoors for much of their first year, and though there were many older children, infants were not in evidence.
Without any role models, I continued to nurse discreetly. I turned my back when possible and I always wore suitable clothing. Not once was I made to feel out of place. What's more, I was always treated with respect and given privacy.
By our third and final week in Jordan, I behaved much like I do at home. I hadn't caused any international incidents and felt comfortable nursing Nolan discreetly in public. Curious about breastfeeding customs, I began asking around. One woman I met told me that breastfeeding is encouraged in the Arab world. Where she had lived in Dubai, it is an actual law, though difficult to enforce, that women breastfeed their infants during the first three months of life. I also read that Queen Rania of Jordan arranged her full schedule around the breastfeeding needs of her infant daughter.
It wasn't until we were boarding the plane to leave that my questions were more fully answered. There sat a veiled woman, dressed head to toe in black, with one breast fully exposed in order to nurse her baby. On the surface, this woman and I were separated by culture, language, customs and dress, yet we were connected by the same intimate bond that has joined women since the beginning. We were breastfeeding mothers.
© 2012 – 2014, Joan Carlton Griswold. All rights reserved.
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