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Boston Cream Pie
I feel like I owe you an apology, friends. I made this Boston Cream Pie weeks (months?) ago, with the intention of telling you all about it the very next day. It was an event, this Boston Cream Pie. A day of assembling the elements–baking cake layers, whisking pastry cream, melting chocolate. Doing my Food Blogger Due Diligence, taking photos of the creation of said elements, in between baby feedings and kid snack distribution and making shopping lists and errands and all those other crazy things you do on Sundays. When the resulting cake was served, we all marveled at its glory. And in fact, it was so good (and enormous) that I promptly lopped off hunks of the remainder and drove around the neighborhood after dark, delivering them to friends after a furiously sent text–HAVE BOSTON CREAM PIE. TOO GOOD. MUST GET IT OUT MY HOUSE. WILL DELIVER.
And then I totally forgot to tell you all about it.
So let's make up for lost time, yes?
Pure Vanilla's Creamy Vanilla Rice Pudding
Well, hello! You'll never guess what I've been up to over the past couple weeks. Okay, I'll just tell you. That baby boy? The Inside Baby that was making me huger and more miserable by the minute? He finally decided to make his entrance into this crazy world two weeks ago and it turns out he's been making up for giving me a massive ongoing case of heartburn for the past nine months and a myriad of other aches and pains by being an absolute Superstar Outside Baby. Nursing well, even sleeping well, he is the stuff of newborn dreams, I'm telling you. I will be sure to share more stories and photos as the weeks go on and we get into a groove around here.
But in the meantime, I wanted to take a quick minute to share some tips with you about a recipe from Pure Vanilla. Turns out, at the exact moment Sir Baby was making his entrance, the fabulous folks at USA Weekend published a lovely piece on the cookbook and the recipe for Creamy Vanilla Rice Pudding. And as a bit of press in a national publication is wont to do, it's garnered some attention and filled my inbox with e-mails from enthusiastic home cooks: some raves about the recipe (thank you, I love you, too!), some polite questions about substitutions and technique (many thanks to you, too, for wording your thoughts so nicely), and, of course, a couple standout notes from a few people for whom the world has seemingly ended due to their pudding not setting (oh, Internet, you vex me so).
At any rate, all the correspondence left me with me with a serious case of rice pudding on the brain (related: having a newborn also gives you a serious case of Rice Pudding Brain–coincidence?). So I gave into the craving and whipped up a batch the other day (you know, for quality control), and while working through the recipe, I realized that to the inexperienced, a traditional, eggless rice pudding recipe like the one in Pure Vanilla can be tricky to master, and we all know what I stickler I am for giving you clear, concise recipes that work. So in the interest of always being Your Kitchen Pal, I thought I'd lay out a few tips to lead you to rice pudding success, and point out a couple things that are listed in the recipe, but might benefit from further emphasis or clarification.
Homemade Vanilla Extract, Vanilla Sugar and More
How is it November already? HOW? This is all just bananas to me. Because in my feeble mind, it seems that just a couple months ago we were ringing in 2012, and then a few weeks after that my first cookbook was unleashed onto the world. Hours later, I discovered that we would be thrown into the newborn abyss once again. Somewhere in there my first baby turned four (four!!) and then a few blinks later I had a second cookbook come out. I'm sure it didn't go exactly that way, but it sure feels like it. Turns out that time moving at warp speed isn't exactly conducive to a massive case of pregnancy brain. Plus I'm, like, 23 weeks sober. Someone remind me what day it is. Eesh.
So! Here we are, inexplicably teetering on the edge of the holiday season. Do you know what you're doing for gifts this year? Clearly, given the above paragraph, I do not. But even though we're barreling towards a whole lotta fa-la-la-la-la!, now is the perfect time to crank out awesomely inexpensive, handmade holiday presents that seem all highfalutin, and are perfect for blowing minds and taking names. Seriously, you can crank out a dozen gifts or more in a matter of hours, suitable for giving to everyone from your mother to the mailman. And, like so many things in my life these days, it all starts with the genius of vanilla. Obvi.
To start, you'll need to get yourself a bunch of vanilla beans, which I know can be pricey. But! I am kind of an expert at sourcing the best beans at the best prices by now, so can I just recommend Vanilla Saffron Imports (don't let the sparse website and packaging dissuade you–this place is the real deal) and Beanilla? Some folks find good vanilla deals on Amazon as well. But the bottom line is that ordering online will save you tons of cash. No way around that. Buying vanilla beans at retail will make your wallet cry.
So now that you know how to get a bundle of well-priced, good-quality, fragrant vanilla beans in your hot little hands, let me pass on a few DIY gifty ideas from Pure Vanilla, as a little present from me to you:
Homemade Coffee Creamer
You know what drives the husband nuts? "Lady coffee"–that is to say, any coffee that has a creamy look and is flavored. He fears it, this lady coffee. It's like he thinks it will make him grow a uterus or something. Anyway, he can smell that such a coffee beverage has been created in our kitchen before he even enters the house and his disdain while walking in the door is loud and extremely negative, cursing and shouting, "Ack!! LADY COFFEE!!", as though he's discovered something unsavory on the sole of his shoe. It's all quite dramatic.
Unfortunately for him, I happen to looove lady coffee. For a while, the only thing that kept me from always making lady coffee (besides the Man Whining about it) was the high price and somewhat questionable ingredients in the flavored coffee creamers from the supermarket. It's almost kind of amusing to learn that most store-bought coffee creamers don't actually contain any milk or cream, plus there's lots of other stuff in there I can't quite pronounce. But recently I learned that I could make my own fabulous flavored coffee creamer for a fraction of the cost with a much simpler ingredients list, and it is awesome.
Classic Vanilla Marshmallows
So here we are, guys. Just days away from the most marshmallow-y holiday of all! Mallows seem to be everywhere these days, from sweet little packets of artisan treats to ahem, a certain book all about the subject, to those ubiquitous Peeps and bunnies in day-glo colors. Hooray! To me, marshmallows are the ultimate happy candy, and really, whether they're packaged or homemade, I love them. Of course, I've become quite partial to from-scratch mallows myself, as I can now make them practically in my sleep, but that is neither here nor there. I want to get you mallowing right along with me, to make me feel a little less crazy. 'Tis the season, after all! Come along, won't you?
Pear-Vanilla Brown Butter Bars
Welp, that's all the fun we're going to have for a while now, folks. The holidays have come and gone, we can't legitimately say "Happy New Year!" to strangers anymore, and Valentine's Day has fizzled out and left us all with killer chocolate hangovers. Now it's just…winter. Bah.
I can't be the only one who feels that the last two weeks of February are akin to watching a Top Chef marathon when you've already seen all the episodes, like, five times each. Pear-Vanilla Brown Butter bars, guys–consider them your ticket out of this crazy-making holding pattern.
Speaking of things that aren't dreary, several months back the husband and I got all 2003 with our ourselves (read: barely married, childless) and decided on an impromptu weekend trip down to Monterey. We were giddy about getting out of the city for a couple days, and thought that Little C would just love a visit to the insanely enormous aquarium down there. Our first little family getaway–how Griswold of us! So fun! So much bonding! So much gear required OH MY GOD DO WE REALLY NEED A CASE OF GRAHAM CRACKERS.
Four duffle bags, two sacks of snacky groceries and a loaded DVD player later, we were on our way to the Central Coast. Aside from Little C soaking her entire carseat with apple juice before we even reached the freeway, we had an awesome time together. The views were literally breathtaking, the heavenly sort that make you feel so tiny in comparison to their majesty. The aquarium was indeed Little C approved. And most importantly, I convinced the team to stop in Big Sur so I could cross something off my Baking Geek Bucket List: Lunch and dessert at Big Sur Bakery. Yesssss.
The savory items we tried at the bakery were terrifically satisfying, fresh and flavorful, but the desserts–oh the desserts!–that's what Mama really came for, people. And the Huckleberry Brown Butter Bar did not disappoint.
The recipe in the book is neither for a Pear-Vanilla bar nor the aforementioned Huckleberry Brown Butter Bar, it's actually made with rhubarb. But like I said earlier, we are in the slog of February here and rhubarb is in very short supply. In a couple months, we can make Rhubarb Brown Butter Bars happen, but for now, all things pear are the order of the day. And happily, the pairing positively sings.
Now I'm not going to lie, darling readers–for as unassuming as this bar looks, you do have to go through a few steps here to make it all happen. But if you're like me, you might be so intrigued by some of the elements that you won't really mind the extra time spent doing things like, say, browning two separate batches of butter, and then freezing some of it solid to make the crust. Genius!
After you've got your solid brown butter ready, the crust comes together in seconds in the food processor. Then while the crust is baking and cooling, you can start preparing a pear-vanilla jam of sorts and attempt to not pass out from how beautiful it smells while cooking.
In addition to the fabulously ambrosial jam, you're also going to whisk up a brown butter filling, which is a concoction so magical I might go into some very suggestive language to describe how delicious it is. I'll just say this: warm browned butter, sugar, eggs, hits of vanilla and orange? Huminuh, huminuh.
My only suggestion to you beyond being prepared to do a few extra dirty dishes with this recipe is to also have something heavy to chain yourself to while these bars are baking, because, good Lord, the smell is incredible. You'll suddenly care about those February doldrums not a bit.
Adapted from The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook
These bars are so sweet and rich, I halved the original recipe and cut them much smaller than the bars the bakery serves.To feed a bigger crowd, you can double this recipe and use a 9×13 pan. When doubling, use 3 whole eggs.
Makes 12
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Late Summer Plum Jam
Do you ever get all fired up about the idea of certain food projects? Like you see a thing about pickling or bread making with a carefully nutured starter or something and out of nowhere you're all, "Yes! Why don't I do that?! I should be doing exactly THAT!". And then you head directly to a kitchenware shop and drop ridiculous money on unitasking kitchen tools that you end up using exactly once?
Yeeeaaahhh. I've done that a time or two.
Like, say, jam making. I can count on one hand the number of times I've boiled down fruit with sugar and canned it. And it's sad, really. Because homemade jam is such a delightful thing to make and eat and give to other people. A true beacon of Americana, if you will.
Plus I own all the equipment I need to do some serious jam making without acquiring burns on 75 percent of my body (note: I say this because I bought said equipment after my own Macgyvered jam-making tools failed miserably and threatened to leave me with burns on 75 percent of my body). So the other day I told myself to get it together, brave the crazies at the mid-week Civic Center farmers' market, see what was good and fresh and fruity, and make jam out of it. Plums won, big time.
Besides making you feel like you're in a Norman Rockwell painting, jam making is one of those activities that sort of centers you. Chopping fresh fruit, measuring out sugar, dumping both in the biggest, oldest pot you've got, stirring, stirring, stirring with a big wooden spoon. It's glorious. this is the stage of jam-making when I always wonder why in the world I don't do this more often.
I get visions of making jam of every conceivable fruit combination and gifting my friends with carefully preserved jars that they can pop open months later for a taste of summer, when berries and stone fruits have long past their peak. It's so romantic. Until–fast forward 30 minutes later–I am cursing while running my hand under cold water because of a wayward molten jam splatter. But when the jars are filled, capped and lined up, cooling on the counter, I'm glowing with acheivement, again wondering why I don't do this more often, seared skin notwithstanding.
This batch of plum jam was nothing short of super late summer bliss. Bright, sweet-tart, hints of lemon, vanilla and a gossamer blanket of cinnamon to warm the whole thing up. And tasting exactly like a plum Jolly Rancher, if they ever made one. Can't explain it, but it's totally true. I'm just passing on my feelings to you here, like good friends do. Neosporin-ed hands and all.
Late Summer Plum Jam
Makes about 5 half-pint jars
Any variety of plums will work here. I found some lovely ones with a ruby-red interior that made for a stunning shade of jam, but those cute little Italian prune plums that are happening right now would be great too. Since plums are so thin-skinned, peeling isn't necessary, so buying organic ones is an especially great idea.
If you want to can your packed jam jars, check out this great resource–Canning 101.
3 pounds plums (any variety–see note), washed, pitted and cut into 1/2 inch chunks
2 1/4 cups granulated sugar
Zest and juice of 1/2 a lemon
1/2 of a vanilla bean, split lengthwise
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (Vietnamese or Saigon cinnamon, if you can find it)
In the biggest, heaviest pot you've got, stir together the plums and sugar. Let sit, stirring occasionally, until the fruit has given off some juice and the sugar has mostly dissolved, about 1 hour.
Set the pot over medium-high heat. Stir in the lemon zest and juice, vanilla bean and cinnamon. Bring to a hard boil, stirring often, until the jam is thickened and runs off the back of a spoon in big, heavy drops, about 25-30 minutes. While the jam is cooking, skim off any foam that comes to the surface. To test for doneness, spoon a dollop of jam onto a freezing cold plate and let it sit for a minute or two–of you can run your finger through the dollop and a track remains, the jam is done.
Ladle the hot jam into hot, sterilized jars, leaving about 1/4 inch of room at the top of each jar. Cap tightly and process the jars in boiling water for 10 minutes, or store in the refrigerator.
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Frustrated Metro riders challenge Metro's vision of rebuilding
- (Photo: John Hendel)
Tuesday, March 6 marked the fifth of out six hearings WMATA has been holding to hear from the public on its potential fare hikes to raise an additional $66 million from rail, bus, and MetroAccess riders to help balance the transit system's $1.6 billion operating budget. The hearings, which concluded last night, revealed the D.C. ridership's powerful resistance to paying more. One man, a Metro rider of two and a half years, conveyed impassioned displeasure with the service.
"There's so much wrong with Metro right now," Brian Morris said Tuesday evening, his voice smooth and his pace deliberate. "Almost every day, there's some kind of problem ... There's terrible management going on right now."
At this line, Metro's General Manager and CEO, Richard Sarles, blinked very visibly for a second. Perhaps a wince? The white-haired leader of WMATA for just over a year sat at the front of St. Columbia's Episcopal Church in Tenleytown along with Board Chair Catherine Hudgins, members Tom Downs and Marcel Acosta, and CFO Carol Kissal. Tuesday's was the second meeting this week that Sarles attended. He visited all three this week. In the Tenleytown church, he listened to one person after another point out their transit problems. He never spoke a word and never smiled but was simply present, there in his dark suit jacket and tie.
- Sarles. (Photo: John Hendel)
Sarles has presented a distinct, polished vision of Metro — we're rebuilding, he says. We're bringing new technology, SmarTrip innovation, social media ("a two-way conversation," the classic line has gone), and perhaps most importantly, a set of rail and safety improvements that the aging 36-year-old transit system sorely needs. Kissal touted the advances, from a 64% increase in safety staff to the improvement of 37 escalators and three elevators, that happened under Sarles' watch in her initial 7 p.m. presentation to the gathering of 30 or 40 people. Six years and $5 billion of Metro Forward, starting last year. Her positive assessment matched the one Sarles gave the D.C. Council last month. "From top down to bottom up, we are changing the safety culture," Sarles told the Council.
But the perception of the riders in Tenleytown couldn't have been more different, and virtually all present and testifying objected to the idea that Metro deserved any sort of fare increase.
Consider how riders talked about the fares — one painful theme suggested WMATA may end up balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and those with disabilities. WMATA explained the possible fare increases in a docket.
"It seems unfair," Shirley Adams testified. "I feel we're still in the Great Recession." What about those on a fixed income and what about students? Howard University professor David Schwartzman opposes the fare hikes as a "regressive tax" on low-income residents. Amanda Formica of the Coalition of Housing and Homeless Organizations echoed these points and observed that low-income riders may have trouble affording SmarTrip cards — the proposed hikes are particularly punishing for those without them. Pat Spray continued his marathon visits to WMATA hearings this week as he sought to better distinguish how a MetroAccess fare hike would play out for a paratransit service with dropping riders and with many who fought to make do with a $1,000 monthly Social Security check. One woman asked for a flat MetroAccess fee of $3 (it's $7 now and may rise to $7.40). Regina Lee presented a petition of 250 names representing disabled riders concerned about the MetroAccess fare hike.
Others questioned whether Metro spent its money properly.
"There hasn't been any rehabilitation at the White Flint Metro," said Paula Bienenfeld. She doesn't buy Metro's line that the system falters due to 30 years of deferred maintenance. A Metro escalator tech told her that once, but months later, another explained his presence to her because the others "did not what they were doing." She pointed to the ceilings at Farragut North. She pointed to trash in the transit. "Why don't the arrival times listed on the platform match when the trains arrive?" Bienenfeld asked. "That to me is much more important than social media."
Sharon Brown, a woman in charge of procurement for the federal government, lent compelling testimony to the idea WMATA is not contracting out its services wisely. "Our contracts are not like this," she said, and listed several of the wonders of the world that come to $50 million and compared them to one of Metro's contracts. A close examination of WMATA's records suggests "possibly poor spending" to her.
Throughout all the proceedings, Sarles continued to watch his customers testify as he sat back, silent and drinking from a bottle of water. More than 700,000 people ride his rails every weekday, more than 400,000 ride the buses. The general manager has four decades of transit experience, from Amtrak to NJ Transit, and has learned how emotional transportation can be. He makes $350,000 a year in his current role and recently turned down a bonus. Sarles, Metro board members, transit police, the CFO, and other WMATA employees like chief spokesperson Dan Stessel and social media manager Brian Anderson watched these arguments play out. What thoughts filled their heads? Perhaps, they reason, these complaints represent a vocal minority upset with the service? With so many riders, surely a Silent Majority quietly approves of the benefits their transit has brought to the region? No system is perfect. To their credit, they also freely acknowledge failings that need to be fixed.
But these hearings underscore the divide between the frustrated public and the strained, aging transit agency. These six meetings have brought out the public's anger over a myriad set of problems, some very deep-rooted. Rebuilding is easier said than done.
- Signs guided riders from the Tenleytown Metro. (Photo: John Hendel)
- WMATA presented pamphlets, videos, and a chance to chat. (Photo: John Hendel)
- The formal hearing lasted an hour and a half. (Photo: John Hendel)

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By tully | "Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michael Tully April 30, 2004 at 4:51AM
Film of the Day
"Come and See" (Elem Klimov, 1985, Russia)
Seriously, this is one of the most excruciating, grueling works of cinema that has ever been created. And I mean that in a good way. Apparently, they hypnotised the child actor (who looks eerily like a young David Lynch) to draw out such a strange and haunting performance. Spielberg jacked the verite-like slaughter scenes for "Schindler's List" and Malick swiped the low-to-the-ground camera sweeps for "Thin Red." This is filmmaking at its most vital and profound and exhilarating. Buy it or rent it RIGHT NOW.


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Organize collections of data with application-specific metadata
Stored data is never moved out of designated geographic regions
As soon as it's written, data is copied three times to separate systems
Easily encrypt your data using client-side encryption
Data is actively monitored for degradation
Control which groups have read and write access
Automatically expire data that is no longer needed


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3 Cool Tips for Plastic-Free Gardening
It's spring. Are you starting a garden? Right now, the plastic-free garden I planted last year with assistance from Organic Gardening's Eric Hurlock is totally overgrown. The chard has become a huge bush of pretty white flowers and stalks that are taller than I am. Most of the rest of the yard and garden are taken over by little yellow flowers (some would call them weeds) and some kind of lily that has spread from its spot by the wall, due to my having dug up the bulbs last year and haphazardly tossed them behind me. (I didn't realize they would still grow even on the top of the soil.)
I'll get to work on my garden again eventually. Just as I did last year, I'll be attempting to do it plastic-free. (See my "Gardening Without Plastic" series, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3). And this year, in addition to the tips and advice I gave last year for plastic-free gardening, I'll add a few more tricks, courtesy of Ro Kumar, a local blogger and urban farmer whose family converted their suburban house into a sustainable farm in 2010. I asked Ro to write about more ways we can avoid plastic in gardening. Here is his post.
3 Cool Tips for Plastic-Free Gardening
by Ro Kumar
Although gardeners are becoming increasingly obsessed with composting, you'd be surprised how much plastic is still involved in gardening these days. From the tools, to the containers, to the storage, pesky plastic tends to be involved along every step of the way.
I manage a blog about urban farming and sustainability called localblu. The inspiration for this blog started in 2010, when my family and I converted our suburban house into a sustainable farm. As part of the shift towards a more green lifestyle, we wanted to avoid the use of plastics. There are many reasons to avoid plastic while gardening. Most concerning, however, is the possibility of plastics leaching toxins into the soil, which can in turn enter our food.
Here are some simple and easy tips to avoid using plastics while gardening:
1. Use a seed blocker to start your seedlings
Seed blockers are an easy way to start your seedlings without using any container at all. Although they are available in many stores these days, you may have to go online to buy one. Simply pack your starter soil (example: a mix of compost, coco fiber, and vermicompost) into the seed blocker. Then, pull the handle of the seed blocker. A block of soil will be pushed out of the device. Just drop your seeds into the block and add some more soil on top. You're done! You can leave the block outside for sprouting, or plant it directly into the soil. For more information on this check out our website.
2. Use seed balls for planting your seeds
Seed balls were popularize by Masanobu Fukuoka – a gardening legend. They are an easy to start your plants without using a plastic container. Use 2 parts clay, 1 part compost, half-a-part ground mesquite charcoal, plus a small handful of seeds (all of these ingredients are available without having to use plastic). Mix by hand and add water until the mix is malleable. Shape the mix into small gumball sized balls. Let the balls dry. You can chuck them anywhere there's soil, and plants will start growing! Again, you can find out more about this and other techniques on our website!
3. Store your seeds in old glass jars
Glass jars are an extremely common form of food packaging – and they happen to be one the easiest and best way to store your seeds! Save your old jars and gather up jars from your friends. It's very easy to start your own seed bank with a few handfuls of seeds in jars. You can even label and grade your seeds (for example: Winter Squash, Grade A).
I hope this article was helpful for you! Stay in touch with the urban gardening scene at localblu.com! What are your favorite plastic-free gardening tips?
Ro Kumar is a writer at localblu.com, a blog about urban farming and sustainability. Based in the Bay Area at UC Berkeley and Stanford, he is a passionate advocate for a cleaner planet with healthier people.


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Nosferatu & Melbourne Town Hall Organ
Suburban festivals
Market Watch
Country Victoria
Free Lecture
Melbourne theatres
Grandparents weekend at the Melbourne Aquarium
Hidden Gems of Melbourne
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Nosferatu & Melbourne Town Hall
The Melbourne Film Festival continues and tonight (Friday 1st) there is a special screening of Nosferatu – possibly still the best of the Dracula movies – accompanied by the Town Hall organ. Although the organ doesn't have the gunshots, string choruses and special effects of a good theatre organ, it more than makes up for that in grandeur. The Town Hall organ is one of the Victorian glories of Melbourne, and this is an ideal way to experience it. Real Phantom of the Opera stuff.
Suburban festivals
The Stonington Youth Festival at the Prahran Town Hall is a good chance to see recognised and unsigned performers at cheap prices. There are also skateboard demos and a visual arts display in a carnival atmosphere. Also the Winter in Banyule Festival starts this weekend. Details of both at Art & Music Festivals in Melbourne.
Market watch
I just picked up a large smoked hock (well 5 to be precise) at $1 each from Salvatore's Deli at the Vic Market. I wouldn't rush over – they're down to their last few boxes. I can pick up a large tray of mixed vegetables near closing time for $1. It's amazing to think that it's still possible to feed 4 people in Melbourne for $2 if you keep your eyes open.
Country Victoria
If horses are your thing, it's time to head off to the Strathbogie Horse Festival where they celebrate all things horsey. Then there is the Sheepvention at Hamilton. – food, craft, clothing, machinery and tools. Of the two, some people prefer the Sheepvention because after you've finished admiring and patting the animals you can eat them. (However I've heard rumours about the burgers in the Strathbogies).
Daylesford has its Words in Winter Festival. Grab your poncho (they're making a comeback you know, although they never went out of fashion in Castlemaine & Daylesford) don your gloves, try to huddle closer to the giant log fire so that you can hear poetry about how we are suffering from global warming.
Details of these festivals at Events in Victoria.
Free lecture
On Sunday mornings, Melbourne's youth is divided in half.
There is the first half who goes off to the free maths lecture at the Museum. This week's lecture is the mathematics of how to thread you shoelaces.
Then there is the second half who is incapable of threading their shoelaces because of last night's rave party.
Then there is the third half who believes that maths is "dumb". Details at Forums in Melbourne.
Melbourne theatres
We receive many press releases about forthcoming events all written in a strange language with its own syntax and vocabulary called 'Marketing Hype'. As an anthropological exercise, we have learned to translate this into English. Later we then mangle this into another strange dialect called "twenty minutes to write this week's newsletter". Maybe we should take the lead from major newspapers and magazines and simply reprint the press release together with a photograph - shot on an angle, badly lit and out of focus to show that we are a professional, artistic publication.
This week, we received a breathless press release telling us about the exciting range of musicals in store for Melbourne. After translation it read "no new musicals – safer to recycle films, video clips or cartoons". The coming offerings are The Producers, The Full Monty", The Lion King and We Will Rock You. There was a time when the stage show was the original "must see" and the film was a pleasant reminder at a cheaper price. The opposite now seems to be the case.
This leaves Melbourne with a strange dilemma. We have some great theatres and are struggling to find new original shows to put in them. We have great hardware, but don't have the software.
Of course, there are always good new shows, but finding ones that will put bums on seats and pay the wages is a difficult task. In the meantime, I think I'll be off to the suburbs for a good musical. Maybe in a future next newsletter I can give you a summary of what's on offer
Details at Stage Shows in Melbourne.
Grandparents weekend at Melbourne Aquarium
Grandparents Day at the Melbourne Aquarium this weekend. As far as we can tell, normal admission charges apply but there will be special activities. Any lost grandchildren will be fed to the sharks at 4 o'clock. Details at Seniors' Events in Melbourne.
Hidden Gems of Melbourne
Melbourne Clubs.
Melbourne has varieties of clubs. There is the sort of club where a selection committee of ancient members considers your membership application based on a set of secret and inscrutable rules at length over a number of gin and tonics. Then there is the sort where a gentleman in a black suit (size 2AH – two axe handles) and a door bitch will evaluate your credentials immediately based on a set of secret and inscrutable rules. It is unwise to dispute the decision in either case.
Most of these clubs have no name above the door – those who need to know where they are, already know. Even the National Trust plaque on the Melbourne Club was changed so that it did not mention the name of the club. Hence many Melbournians walk past these establishments every day without realising what they are.
Some of the more interesting include the Melbourne Club, the Victoria Club (scene of the Great Bookie Robbery but since moved to new premises), the Australia Club (with its wonderful dining room), the Italian Waiters' Club (with its Serbian chef and Chinese kitchen hands), the Savage Club (with its collection of 'savage' memorabilia). the Athenaeum Club, the Commercial Travellers' Club, the Kelvin Club, the Melbourne Cricket Club (enrol at birth), the Fabians, the Princess Mary Club, the Buffalo Club (just like Fred Flintstone belonged to), the Royal Society, and others all in the centre of the city. Some memberships are based on social standing, some on achievement or merit, but most on interest. Some are deeply conservative. Some are highly radical. Some are very expensive. Some are free. Numbers of these clubs have played (and continue to play) an important part in Melbourne's history.
Occasionally, I have sat inside one of these clubs, listening to the conversations and looking through the windows at those passing outside. It often reminds me of John Brack's painting of passing crowds in Collins Street. The interpretation of the same Melbourne scene can change depending on who is viewing it. The conservatives, the bolshies, the young, the old, the talented, the coodabeens, the achievers, the victims, the know-alls, the wise, the galahs, the cultured, the drunk old-timer, the self-absorbed teenager, the wowsers, the larrikins, the new-chum, the quietly learned, those who don't know what they don't know, and me (who is a combination of all the above).
I sometimes reflect that the passing crowds, if they never bother to see Melbourne life through such windows, experience only part of what there is to know about Melbourne. And similarly, those who choose to see Melbourne life only from behind such windows know only their side of the coin. I enjoy looking through the windows from both outside and inside. Meanwhile, many of those who apply to us for jobs as guides or writers claiming that they "know Melbourne well" do not know where these clubs are or what goes on there. (Some also often use a preposition to end a sentence with.)
We currently belong to a modest city club that provides a small classy meeting room during the day to read the papers or magazines provided, have a free tea or coffee as well as providing free or reduced entry to numbers of cultural events. This costs us about $90 a year for a couple. That's less than having coffee once a week at a café. If subscribers would like more information, email us and we will consult a set of secret and inscrutable rules then send you the information. We wouldn't want just anyone joining us in the clubrooms don't you know. Or maybe you are like Groucho Marks – you wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have you as a member.
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NEW YORK — Technology stocks roared back Wednesday, driving the Standard & Poor's 500 and Dow Jones industrial average to record highs.
The industry has lagged the broader market this year, but surged after network communication company Adtran reported earnings that were double what Wall Street analysts expected. That boosted optimism that businesses will increase spending on technology equipment.
Chipmakers Micron and Intel jumped, as did other network equipment makers like Cisco and JDS Uniphase. Stocks were also up on an optimistic reading of the Federal Reserve Bank's latest minutes.
The Dow and S&P 500 both closed at all-time highs. Technology stocks rose 1.8 percent, the most of the 10 industry groups in the S&P. That's a big change from tech's weak performance this year. The group is up just 4.7 percent, trailing the S&P's gain of 11.3 percent.
The stock market is reversing course from last week, when investors' confidence fell because of an unexpectedly poor report on the U.S. job market and other signs that the economy slowed in March.
The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 128.78 points, or 0.9 percent, to 14,802.24. It was the third straight gain for the blue-chip index and its biggest one-day rise in a month. The Dow surged in the first three months of the year and is still up 13 percent in 2013.
The Nasdaq composite, which is heavily weighted with technology stocks, had the biggest percentage gain of the three main indexes Wednesday, rising 59.39 points, or 1.8 percent, to 3,297.25 The S&P rose 19.12 points, or 1.2 percent, to 1,587.73.
Investors are seeing positive news in the minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest meeting, which were released Wednesday. The minutes revealed that policy makers are becoming more confident that the U.S. economy can grow without the help of the bank's stimulus program, said Brian Gendreau, a market strategist at Cetera Financial Group.
Many Fed members indicated they want to slow and eventually end the central bank's bond-buying program before the end of the year, as long as the job market and economy show sustained improvement. The $85 billion in monthly bond purchases has kept interest rates extremely low, with the goal of encouraging borrowing and spending.
"The idea that the Fed thinks that we are closer to the restoration of normality might be positive for the market," said Gendreau.
Among stocks making big moves, Facebook rose 98 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $27.57 after General Motors said it would start running ads on the social network site. Adtran rose $2.75, or 14 percent, to $22.46, and JDS Uniphase rose 64 cents, or 4.8 percent, to $13.98.
Hospital stocks fell heavily after Deutsche Bank lowered its recommendation on the companies because their prices have risen so much that they no longer offer good value. Private hospitals have surged over the past year in anticipation that health care spending will increase following the introduction of Obama's health care plan.
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Bond yields fell as investors moved money out of safe haven U.S. government debt and into riskier assets. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.81 percent from 1.75 percent late Tuesday.
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You've seen it on the news, you've heard about it before: a healthy student athlete suddenly collapses on the field or court and dies from sudden cardiac death. When heart function stops abruptly and without forewarning, you have to wonder if any preventive measures could have been taken. Many of the student athletes who experience sudden cardiac death have no previous symptoms.
Coronary artery disease usually is the reason for sudden cardiac death in adults. But if a young person dies from cardiac arrest, it's more than likely he or she had an undetected abnormality in the heart. Having an echocardiogram is a reliable way to determine if a student athlete has certain conditions that could lead to problems during intense physical activity.
If your child has cardiac risk factors, his or her physician may order an echocardiogram to rule out certain cardiac conditions. The risk factors are:
• Family history of sudden cardiac death or unexplained early age death
• Repeated fainting during exercise
• Chest pain during exercise
"An echocardiogram is basically an ultrasound used to examine the heart, but with more extensive capabilities. For young people, it's an effective tool for detecting certain cardiac abnormalities associated with sudden cardiac death," says Palmetto Health Heart Hospital cardiologist C. Osborne Shuler. He is director of pediatric cardiology at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
"An echocardiogram can reliably detect two conditions that can lead to sudden death: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is an abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, and dilated cardiomyopathy, an extremely enlarged heart," Dr. Shuler explains.
An echocardiogram shows a cross-section of the beating heart, revealing the heart chambers, valves and major blood vessels. "Being able to determine the structure, thickness, movement, and pumping ability of the heart and major vessels is very helpful in identifying certain heart conditions," Dr. Shuler says.
'While an echocardiogram can help alleviate the anxiety athletes and their parents may have about possible risk factors, it is not a cure-all. There are limitations," Dr. Shuler says. "Over the years, the quality of echocardiogram images has become more refined, so it can detect most heart defects, but the older and bigger a person is, the quality of the images and the chance of detecting an abnormality decreases."
Palmetto Health is concerned about the startling number of sudden cardiac arrest deaths of student athletes. Therefore, an initiative was created to provide AEDs—lightweight, automated external defibrillators that can deliver the electrical current needed to restart a person's normal heart rhythm after sudden cardiac arrest—to all middle and high schools in Richland, Fairfield and Pickens counties.
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• Offering two types of required training at the schools, free of charge: four-hour CPR/AED training; and train-the-trainer sessions, which ensures someone at the schools can train others.
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Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley to Revise Language on Clawbacks
Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley will rewrite their so-called clawback policies to make it clear they will reclaim pay from supervisors as well as from employees who take excessive risk or engage in improper conduct.
Memos from both firms confirming the planned changes, responding to a December shareholder request from New York City pension funds, were posted to the Securities and Exchange Commission's website. The New York-based companies said regulators are drafting clawback rules, which may satisfy the city's request for disclosure of how much pay the banks take back. Dow Jones Newswires reported on the changes earlier today.
"These two firms have set the standard for clawback policies in the banking industry," New York City Comptroller John C. Liu, who oversaw $113 billion in pension funds as of Nov. 30, said in a statement today. "We appreciate the dialogue we've had on this issue and will continue to call for them to disclose the amount of clawbacks if forthcoming regulation does not require it."
Liu filed shareholder requests with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co. seeking tougher clawbacks after each paid more than $100 million over 18 months to settle charges of improper conduct tied to mortgage-backed securities. Spokesmen at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the fifth- and sixth-biggest U.S. banks by assets, declined to comment. JPMorgan's Joe Evangelisti didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The company is the biggest U.S. bank by assets.
Michael Garland, the New York City comptroller's executive director for corporate governance, withdrew the shareholder proposals made to Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley after they agreed to change the language in their policies, according to memos posted on the SEC's website.
Liu hired Garland to the new position in September 2010. Garland had served as director of value strategies for the CtW Investment Group, which he co-founded within Change to Win, a federation of unions that represented 5.5 million U.S. workers.
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Global Health Colloquium: "A World Cut in Two: Trafficking with the Organs Traffickers" - Nancy Scheper Hughes(More about event)
NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES is Chancellor's Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley where she directs doctoral training in critical studies of medicine, science, and the body. Well-known for her seminal writings on violence and poverty and for her leadership as a public intellectual and founder of the medical human rights project Organs Watch, Scheper-Hughes has conducted path breaking studies of infant mortality and mother love, death squads and democracy, and popular justice in poor communities in Brazil and South Africa. For the last 15 years Scheper-Hughes has focused on understanding the spread of illicit means of procuring fresh organs for transplantation. In the process, she has built collaborative, multi-sited and multidisciplinary research engagements that are truly global in scope.
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No. 3 Castle puts unbeaten streak on line at No. 6 Center Grove
Trojans won previous meeting in 2008
As a young head coach, Castle's Doug Hurt became acquainted with Center Grove's Eric Moore during four-day Indiana University summer camps.
"We formed a friendship," Hurt said. "He was kind of one of the old vets and I was a young coach and he really treated me well."
Castle, 12-0 and ranked No. 3 in the final Associated Press poll, will play at No. 6 Center Grove (11-1) at 7 p.m. Friday in a Class 5A regional. The teams last met in a 2008 regional in which the Trojans won, 49-7.
Center Grove has used a powerful and balanced running game to score 490 points. Connor Stapleton was averaging 11.3 per carry in gaining 788 yards, including 11 touchdowns, entering the Sectional 7 title game. He was one of four players with more than 500 yards rushing. Quarterback Luke Calvert was 60-for-97 passing for 945 yards and 11 touchdowns with four interceptions.
"They can move the ball on the ground, yet their quarterback can hurt you through the air if you're not playing sound football," Hurt said. "They can take advantage of you in the play-action game."
Hurt is impressed by Center Grove's overall athleticism.
"They don't have a lot of big heavy guys," he said. "They are tall and long and lean and so athletic on both sides of the ball. On top of that, they are very well-coached."
Center Grove's AP ranking is puzzling, considering it owns a victory over No. 2 Ben Davis. However, the Trojans soar in the Sagarin computer rank
ings, so much so that they are considered a 17-point favorite over Castle.
They have one common opponent. Center Grove defeated Terre Haute North 17-15 on Sept. 8 while the Knights beat Terre Haute North 35-24 on Aug. 17.
"It's just hard to gauge," Hurt said. "They do play in a league (the Metropolitan Interscholastic) that is so different from what we see. Our league (the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference) is outstanding, but the MIC is almost a different world. Not having the same schedule, it's hard to compare."
Even though Center Grove (enrollment 2,400) has played a murderous schedule, it's doubtful it has seen anything like Castle's aerial circus. Mitch Gilles has thrown for a school-record 41 touchdowns and 2,581 yards. Top target Jon-Marc Anderson has caught 66 passes for 1,176 yards and 19 scores.
Before the season started, the IHSAA announced that it will expand to six classes in 2013. The gargantuan Indianapolis-area schools will have their own class, but that doesn't help this year's Knights.
"I think that's a tough situation to kind of sit around and predict what's going to happen," Hurt said. "My main goal is to win state this year. It's the last go-round for our seniors. You can always make excuses about why you're not going to do it this year."
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Women in War, Women against WarWomen March 8th. 2011, 3:01am
India's Northeast is under a near-constant state of political upheaval, with tensions frequently erupting between locals and the Indian security forces. Manipur has been especially disturbed and has been the face and voice of the turbulence in the region.
What is common across conflict situations is the vulnerability of women to various forms of gender based exploitations- as easy targets of settling scores between warring groups. Whether it is the security forces or the insurgents- humiliation of and violence on women is seen as a potent weapon of war. What is however significant in case of Manipur is the resilience that women have demonstrated, despite their unenviable position.
From Sharmila, the lady who has been fasting for close to a decade now and surviving on forcible nasal administration of fluids, Manorama who was killed in an 'encounter', the poignant picture of naked women -these are the most persistent pictures of protest with the women at the forefront. In addition to such stark examples there are numerous instances of women engaged in rallies, demonstrations and other forms of popular protest.
There are also important women's organizations in the area founded and led by common women. Meira Paibi, for example, is a women's association and one of the largest grassroots human rights movements in the region. The organization started as 'Nisha Bandi , 'an uprising that began around the mid 70's against the sale and consumption of liquor and intoxicants, leading to successful implementing of prohibition order on sale and consumption of liquor in Manipur. Over time, with the rise of insurgency and counter - insurgency policy in the state, the women started spending nights outside their homes, patrolling the streets and guarding their locality against any surprise attack They took up the "Mira" an improvised bamboo torch and it became the symbol of their movement, and thus lead to what is known as "Meira Paibi Uprising". (http://e- pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=leisure.Essays.Tigress_dont_chicken_out). Organizations like Manipuri Women Gun Survivor's Network help the survivors of gun violence, to control the use and spread of small arms and to find ways to the community as a means to arrest violent conflict.
The road has not been smooth for these women who have joined these movements- besides the ire of the family there are allegations of alleged links with the insurgent groups. However, the women have been carrying out their activities with a focus on bringing in peace and ensuring protection of rights. They are now, at the same time, symbols of resilience and symbols of a promise of change. Can 'mainland' India please stand up to their cause?
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AN historic church became Cheltenham Minster at a special service yesterday.
St Mary's Church, believed to be the oldest building in the town, officially became a minster during a 3pm service.
The Bishop of Gloucester Michael Perham led the service and officially declared the new status of the town centre church, which dates back to the 13th century.
St Mary's was filled to the rafters as people from across the borough, including MP Martin Horwood, attended the service.
Church rector Dr Tudor Griffiths said: "One of the focuses of the church becoming a minster is on raising the profile of the heritage of the church.
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Group leads: Professor David Adams, Prof Jane Mckeating, Prof Phil Newsome, Dr Patricia Lalor, Dr Simon Afford, Prof David Mutimer
The 7 PIs based in the Centre for Liver Research are closely integrated with the internationally renowned Liver Transplant Unit at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. The close integration with the Hepatitis C virology group brings together expertise in the molecular biology of HCV infection and liver immunology to address the immunopathogenesis of HCV infection. The award of an NIHR Biomedical Research Unit for Cell and Immunotherapy of liver disease is allowing the Centre to translate its basic research programmes in immune mechanisms in liver disease and the molecular pathogenesis of hepatitis C infection into novel therapies.
Current translational programmes include:
Professor David Adams (group lead)
Dean, Professor of Hepatology and Director NIHR BRU Centre for Liver Research
Prof Jane Mckeating (group lead)
Professor of Molecular Virology
Dr Phil Newsome (group lead)Professor of Experimental Hepatology and Clinical Director of the Birmingham University Stem Cell Centre
Dr Patricia Lalor (group lead)
Non-Clinical senior lecturer
Dr Simon Afford (group lead)
Reader in Liver Immunobiology
Prof David Mutimer (group lead)
Professor of Clinical Hepatology and Honorary Consultant Hepatologist
Stuart Curbishley
Ye Htun Oo
Ricky Bhogal
Mirka Blahova
Lia Liaskou
Chris Weston
Bridget Gunson
Gary Reynolds
Janine Fear
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