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- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup cold butter, cubed
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 2 eggs, separated
- 2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
- In a large bowl, combine flour and sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly; set aside 3/4 cup for topping. Beat in the baking powder, milk and egg yolks to remaining mixture until well combined. Beat egg whites until soft peaks form; fold into batter.
- Pour into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Sprinkle with blueberries and reserved crumb mixture. Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Yield: 15-18 servings.
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Enjoy this recipe with a sweet white wine such as Moscato or a sweet Riesling.
Reviews for Blueberry Snack Cake
"I made this recipe 9/17/14 and I did make adjustments to this recipe by adding 1 tsp.of salt, 1-1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon and 1/2 tsp. nutmeg to the flour and baking powder.I sifted the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg together. I then added the sugar to sifted dry ingredients. I used a pastry blender to cut in the cubed butter. I did use 1 cup of crumbs for the topping and used a greased and floured 13x9x2" baking pan. I bakedthe cake at 40 minutes baking time to allow the cake to FULLY bake! It tested done with a cake tester after the 40 minutes baking time was up. I'd used whole milk this time and did not sour it! Using soured milk or buttermilk does work well for me, though! Thank you, JillEvely, for sharing this recipe with Taste of Home! This recipe was very simple to prepare and I have printed it out so that I have it accessible to make again! This cake IS a GREAT way to use blueberries and I had the blueberries available! I also added 1 tsp. of lemon extract to the batter! delowenstein"
"This is one of our favorites. It has a great flavor and is moist. We like to keep it in the fridge and eat it cold."
"I substituted buttermilk for the regular milk, and we all enjoyed it. Will be making this one again!"
"I have been making this recipe for years and everyone loves it. This year for an early 4th of July party I picked raspberries from my garden and put them in with the blueberries-it came out more pink & purple than red, white and blue-but it was still festive, delicious & gone in a flash. Can't go wrong with fresh or frozen berries and I always have the ingredients on hand which makes this a snap. I take about a cup of the cake mix out for the topping-it's a keeper."
"Used our freshly picked blueberries & this was perfect. As others have posted, warm & fresh from the oven is the best part! Although I am still liking it the next day. Very moist. Also agree that the topping is not streusel-crunchy, but still works."


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Three events surrounding Rio Nuevo downtown redevelopment have occurred in the last month: the Tucson City Council rightly ended plans to build a convention center hotel, the state Auditor General released an audit of Rio Nuevo's funds, and we did our first Rio Nuevo "Reality Tour." As each event unfolded, there was an outcry from a portion of the downtown community. The common line in each was: "Let's turn the page and concentrate on the future."
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Former City Manager Mike Hein is back at Pima County working at the pleasure of County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry. There was Hein's right-hand man and in charge
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Holly Bush
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:55 pm
Post subject: Dark Angel/Lord Carew's Bride by Mary Balogh
Two young women go to London for their first season. Jennifer Winwood, long engaged to a man she barely knows but trusts implicitly and her younger cousin, Samantha Newman, fresh-faced and naive.
In Dark Angel, Winwood is in love with her betrothed Lionel Kersey but has spent little time in his company, content to nurture her love with daydreams of married life. Arrive on the scene, the Earl of Thornhill, out to avenge a dastardly wrong that Kersey has committed against someone under the Earls protection. A glove to the face would be too simple and a duel too quick to satisfy Thornhills need for revenge. What better way to punish Kersey, than to seduce his innocent country bride? But Kersey does not stand by idly, Jennifer is threatened by the truth and Samantha, the caring and supportive cousin, is hurt in the process.
Lord Carews Bride flashes forward five years to Samantha , still feeling the effects of a betrayal at a young age and unable to shake the feeling that love is cruel and deep emotions treacherous. She meets a neighbor, a gardener with a crippled leg and hand, at a country home she is staying at, and feels happier and more comfortable with him than with anyone else of her acquaintance. The crippled gardener, Lord Carew, is mesmerized by Samanthas beauty and kindness and does nothing to hide the fact that he is infatuated with her. But Lionel Kersey returns after a lengthy stay on the continent to wreak havoc with his cousin, Lord Carew and with Samantha, who he claims a history.
The thing I like the most about Baloghs books is that her characters are real. They make real mistakes, feel real emotions and are hurt and love in tangible ways. These heroes and heroines have conflicts and inner turmoil and doubts. When they triumph, it is easy for the reader to feel their joy. Im not sure how she does it, but for Balogh readers, it is what brings us back to her stories again and again.
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Lord Carew's Bride is by far my favorite Mary Balogh novel. It is also the only book I own that makes me cry every time I read it.
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Lord Carew's Bride is one of my very favorite romances of all time. The feelings between Samantha and Hartley is so touching and real. I just felt overwhelmed by the happiness of their match. I have always considered this book a triple A plus.
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I liked
Dark Angel
a bit better than
Lord Carew's Bride
, but they are both good. The sequels
The Famous Heroine
The Plumed Bonnet
are good too. I have not read
A Christmas Bride
I think Balogh writes anxiety and embarrassment especially powerfully At least, those are the character emotions that stick with me when I think of her books.
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Holly Bush
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 11:52 am
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SPOILER!! (not a big one but just in case you haven't read the book, stop reading this post now)
I know what you mean LFL about how Balogh writes embarrassment. There is a scene in Dark Angel where Jennifer reveals that she was paddled by her father and that he intended to cut her hair. It was almost hard to read because I felt her humiliation so strongly.
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That was a great scene. I also loved the "Dangerous Liaisons" aspect of
Dark Angel
-- how the two men played this game regardless of who could get hurt in the process.
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janet w
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 2:15 pm
Post subject: Humiliation in Dark Angel: spoilers
There's something so visceral about the father in
Dark Angel
whipping Jennifer and threatening to shave her head. No wonder she decided what could be worse than that? Oh, and he said he'd send her into exile as well, never to marry or have children.
Guess what was in Dear Abby on Wednesday June 13th? A concerned aunt wrote about her 13 year-old niece, who repeatedly sex-texted and so on and so forth. So her parents were worried but their solution: they shaved her head. I cannot get this out of my mind. How could they do that? The aunt asked Dear Abby if she agreed her niece would need counselling and Dear Abby said if ever a family needed counselling, they were it. My stomach roils to even think about it.
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Shaving their heads - and worse - was what the French resistance did to French women who slept with German soldiers during WWII. It's been a common practice to punish females in earlier times too.
That Dear Abby story should probably shock me more, unfortunately I already know what some families do to their own. I guess that girl is lucky she didn't get tarred and feathered too.
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The child that got her head shaved was humiliated not punished. There is a difference. The wacko parents missed the obvious. Take the phone away from the 13 year old.
This will be the kid that taunts and bullies because that was what she was taught by her parents.
Sorry. Didn't mean to go off on a rant!
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Oh, I loved Lord Carew's Bride. I read it right after Dark Angel and loved it much more and at that time thought DA was quite forgettable but later started thinking it was quite good and I'd like to reread it.
One of the reasons why I loved LCB is an untypical hero (a beta and with a disability). Although I prefer alpha heroes, I don't mind an occasional beta one especially when it's done right.
Also, I usually don't like love-at-first-sight trope but here it was written very believably by the author.
I had heard great things about this book long before I read it and it absolutely lived up to all the hype and my expectations.
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I know this was a reissue in 2010 but I have no idea when it was originally released. I have read tons of Balogh's works but not this one. She did not disappoint me.
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I loved both of these books. Sometimes I get bogged down in a Balogh book by her writing as her characters muse about their feelings, but with both of these I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next!
LCB was so touching and delved into an interesting subject: how a young person's understanding of what love is can get twisted around and manipulated. The heroine's fear at times was palpable. A wonderful book.
Dark Angel was so good as well. Intense.
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One of the plot lines of LCB was exactly as you describe it - how a young person's view or understanding of love can be twisted or manipulated. I enjoyed reading Samantha's view of love change and grow as she distinguished between real love and infatuation.
I rarely get bogged down in Balogh's writing even when she has a long interior interlude. But that's just me. Her opening paragraph of Slightly Married is long as opening paragraph's go and stranger yet it is only one or two sentences. (I should have checked before posting this but I'm heading to work!)
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The Delaware River and Bay Authority announced Jan. 15 that they would dedicated the main maintenance building at the bridge to James G. Wilson, who was killed in 1985 while performing maintenance duties in the Westbound Toll Plaza.
The building will be named "The James G. Wilson Maintenance Building."
The decision to rename the building was made unanimously in December by the River and Bay Authority Commission to recognize the service and contributions Wilson made during his tenure before his tragic death.
The ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 17 at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Maintenance Area at the junction of Interstate 295 and U.S. Route 9 in New Castle in the main maintenance building.
Wilson was hired March 2, 1981 as a maintenance employee, and transferred to be a toll collected three months later.
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ZF-7085: support for returning mysqli result
Resource Adapter in ZendAMF so that users can return mysqli result similar to the one written for mysql.
Any chance you can male an Adapter? I will add it into the next release
File with indicative code attached. Please verify mysqli code to mysql datatype and then mysql datatype to php datatype mappings.
Added into the next mini release
Noticed that this issue has been fixed in revision 16239. I tried placing this resource adapter under Zend/Amf/Parse/Resource but it doesn't seem to get picked up. Are there any more changes required for this adapter to get picked up?
Adapter not being picked up from the resource directory
The resources are encountered in Zend_Amf_Parse_TypeLoader::handleResource. Is the file name that you specified match the resource type? There are two mysqli resource types. mysqli and mysqliobject. Can you see which type you are getting?
mysql_query used to return a resource for which ZF supported the concept of resource adapters.
mysqli_query on the other hand returns a MySQLi_Result object. Hence, is_resource() on the result returns false so the resource adapter look up does not happen. We may need some other support for custom class serializers in ZF.
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Sorry, but that kick was every bit as obvious as the Suh kick. One game is getting off easy. IMO.Hide replies
First such suspension in -10- years.
I'd say it's appropriate?
Lost in this kerfuffle: A resurgent Charlie Villanueva! 14 plus points and 6 plus rebounds for three games. Better watch out for these guys if he keeps rollin............Hide replies
If history tells us anything Charlie V. won't. That is the best resigning that thankfully never happened for the Bucks. The Pistons do have some nice players though and shouldn't be taken lightly.
R u talkin bout that guy with extreme length, uzelatz , baldness, crablike backward motion and potensial, Krakkens? R u talkin', Charlie V, baby?
....."Nothing Worse then Wasted Talent"......
How in the world could anyone defend what he did. The Heat should be just as embarassed as Wade. They are so used to being the "poster children" for ESPN and the NBA that they can't see the forest through the trees.Hide replies
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Nice touch [Boots]. Might be the best 'turn of phase' dropped on this blog in many of posts.
Indeed {IAT}, and shortly after this entry I'll be perusing the -Dictionary- for the meaning of 'obfuscation'. Its not often that one needs a reference resource at hand. Lets us hope{'bootsagain} has thoughts on future
threads here at the forum.
I'll be right back....>
.........here ya go mates. My sense is I was not alone in its definition:
........"obscure or confuse" /// "stupefy; bewildered"
The forum just grew alittle....didn't it?
Hoopshype rumors has Detroit interested in Demarcus Cousins as well as the Celtics. With Monroe already a proven big man and Drummond on his way up are the Pistons trying a new approach in the east? Go big or go home? It would be an interesting approach.Hide replies
They're emulating the efforts of John Hammond ... only bigger, stronger and better.
An approach that may come back to haunt them as it seems to me
this league is getting quicker, faster, and perhaps just abit smaller.
Taking over the 'large/tall' dynamic is the 'run / jump high' virtue.
The 'gazzel's', the 'long guys', the leapers are more in vogue.
Getting bigger oft-times means speed is compensated for.
(See Sammy D / See J. Przyb) Neither fit in the track meets
that has become Bucks Ball.
Detroit needs a plan? For their sake lets hope its the right one?
Coming off of what well maybe an 'embarressing loss" to the Pistons the
Heat will probably be in no mood for anything short of a beat down.
And, with D-Wade back in his second home environment one would think
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Postulating a. 'What if': Will we still be clamoring for change if the Skowling1 manages to find the soft underbelly of the Death Star tonight with one of his tight 9 man rotations. Do we still need to spend those 4 quarters for a dollar to git 'That Guy'?
I leave the trade talks to those amongst you who know of such things,
or at least think they do? While I won't name names I would
appreciate either an significant increase in post up hoops from someone,.and or one or both of the 'launch twins' to increase their efficiency.
If not, then, ...(wait for it hawthorne)...a wing man would be nice.
A guy who shoots 45% or better/takes about 12-15 shots a night, and
doesn't get in the way.
This is yet another in many topics one must be cautious with in dicing and slicing what is best now vs. not selling the farm for what is an unknown tomorrow. The 'homer' in me see's a pretty nice core of guys; thus, I'd be careful in manipulating..... less the air comes out of all tires rather then the weak one>
Yes they do, [Wingy].
Are you as surprised as I that Kstein has declined to "name names"? If Mr Ellis attacked the basket with the same lack of vigor displayed by our parochial potentate I can recall at least one game further, where we would have slid short of the mark. The future belongs to the bold Kstein; time to hitch up those Wranglers and chart a farsighted course.
Just so we are clear....when referring to not "naming names" it is in
reference to the laundry list of players many at the forum have coming
and going through their self appointed GM moments. Won't go
Conversly, I have no issue calling out certain players if indeed the
moment warrents such. There is a distinct diffference, and needed
to be clarified.
Love D-Wade. But the guy never thinks he never makes a foul. Might lead the league in percentage of fouls made protested(lol)!!
Of course then you have Lebron who seldom gets called for a foul.
Anybody ever get the feeling that Lebron could average 40 points per game if he wanted to? I mean if he wanted to shoot 30 times per game the coach couldn't stop him. Plus his percentage would still be good enough to warrant it. Probably driving less to the hoop this year. Free throws attempted are down.
How do you defend a guy that blatantly kicks a guy in the nads? Just call it what it was and move forward.
D-Wade is a "good" guard in the NBA.
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Princeton freshman Quinn Prchal shared the Century Intercollegiate medalist title, finishing at +3 alongside Dartmouth's Charlie Edler as the Tigers finished fifth in the eight-team field.
Prchal and Edler were four shots in front of a trio of players at +7, with two of those players, Sam Bernstein and Joe Willis, helping Yale to the team title. The Bulldogs, who won in front of Princeton last week at the Tigers' home invitational, were +32 as a team, three shots ahead of Rhode Island for the team title.
It's the second individual title a Princeton player has won this year, as Bernie D'Amato on the Yale Spring Opener on Yale's home course two weeks ago.
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ZF-1692: Allow extension of Zend_Db_Select join types
since I need to use the MySQL specific STRAIGHT_JOIN Syntax to optimize the run time for some queries, I had to extend Zend_Db_Select.
I created a Travello_Db_Select_Mysql class which extends the Zend_Db_Select class. Then I added a new constant STRAIGHT_JOIN and a new method {{joinStraight()}}. Until now everything is fine, but now I got two problems with the {{Zend_Db_Select::_join()}} method of Zend_Db_Select.
- The first row of the {{Zend_Db_Select::_join()}} method looks like this:
$joinTypes = array(self::INNER_JOIN, self::LEFT_JOIN,
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self::CROSS_JOIN, self::NATURAL_JOIN);
To add my {{self::STRAIGHT_JOIN}} constant I need to copy the whole {{Zend_Db_Select::_join()}} method and the only thing I need to change is this first row.
- Since the method {{Zend_Db_Select::_uniqueCorrelation()}} is defined as private I get a fatal error. So I had to change {{Zend_Db_Select::_uniqueCorrelation()}} from private to protected.
Is there a chance that Zend_Db_Select could be changed a little to avoid these problems when extending Zend_Db_Select, i.e.
Create an extensible method which creates the {{$joinTypes}} Array in the {{Zend_Db_Select::_join()}} method
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- 1 large potato, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
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The Lady Eagles defeated Weiner 6-2 in Saturday's semifinal round before falling to host South Side 9-1 in Monday's championship game, leaving West Side with a No. 2 seed going into Thursday night's state tournament game against Izard County Consolidated (3rd Region 2).
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In Friday's 11-0 victory over Ridgefield Christian, Haley Delk led the Lady Eagles offensively with three hits and two runs scored. Teraka Cowley was 2-for-3 with a home run and three runs scored, while Keeligh Davis went 2-for-2 with a single, double and two runs scored.
Amber England chipped in a hit and run scored, while Eden Bailey and Karissa Passmore both collected a hit and scored a run. Cowley picked up the win, holding Ridgefield to one hit while striking out nine and not giving up a walk.
In Saturday's 6-2 win over Weiner, Amber England finished 2-for-2 with a run scored, while Cowley and Davis each added a single and scored a run. Also, Passmore contributed a triple. Cowley picked up the win in the circle, scattering six hits and striking out seven without allowing a walk.
In Monday's 9-1 loss to South Side in the regional finals, Cowley led West Side with two hits, a single and double, while Davis and Alexis Barnes also had base hits.
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March 22, 2013
TUCSON, Ariz. - University of Arizona women's soccer team will compete in four matches throughout the spring beginning in late March continuing through April.
"I am really looking forward to seeing our team compete in the four matches we have lined up in the next month," head coach Tony Amato said. "We have been imprinting an attacking and defending philosophy since we arrived in January and it is important to have it tested against players other than ourselves in training."
On Saturday, March 30 the Wildcats will host NAU at 2 p.m. The following Saturday, April 6 the Cats host NMSU at 1 p.m. Arizona closes spring home matches on Sunday, April 7 at 1 p.m. against UTEP. All home matches will be played at Murphey Field at Mulcahy Stadium.
To close the spring matches, Arizona travels to El Paso, Texas to compete against UNM on Sunday, April 21 at noon.
"These matches will be crucial for our team development," coach Amato said. "In order to be on the same page this fall, our current players will need to set the foundation now. I want our players to be consistent, disciplined, and put their talents to work for the team. I am excited to see these qualities displayed in competition."
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In 1960s Los Angeles, California, an elite group of studio session musicians came together and played on hits for the Beach Boys, the Byrds, Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley, Simon and Garfunkel, Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound," Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, Jan & Dean, the Monkees, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, 5th Dimension, Tijuana Brass and Johnny Rivers among others. From "Be My Baby" to "California Girls;" "Strangers in the Night" and "Mrs. Robinson;" "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'" and "Up, Up and Away;""Viva Las Vegas" to "Mr. Tambourine Man," the group dubbed "The Wrecking Crew" played on some of rock and roll's most-beloved songs. "The musicians really are the unsung heroes of all these hit records," noted Nancy Sinatra. And now the world will know their story – if all goes to plan.
Watch + Listen: American singer, songwriter and record producer Jerry Fuller tells the story of how he wrote "Travelin' Man" for Sam Cooke, recorded it with Glen Campbell, and how the demo went in the garbage before finding its way to Ricky Nelson. (From The Wrecking Crew: The Untold Story of Rock & Roll Heroes)
Among the musicians in the "Crew" was guitarist Tommy Tedesco. Decades later, in 1996, Tommy's son, Denny Tedesco, set about filming his father's story. Tommy had been diagnosed with terminal cancer that same year, and Denny knew he didn't have much time with him. Sadly, Tommy passed away in 1997 without ever seeing a frame of the film, but over the years, Denny has connected with many of his father's friends to tell the story, filming interviews with Brian Wilson, Leon Russell, Dick Clark, Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Herb Alpert, Glen Campbell, Roger McGuinn, Gary Lewis, Al Jardine, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz and others. By 2006, Denny had gathered a decade's worth of interviews and two years later his film, The Wrecking Crew: The Untold Story of Rock & Roll Heroes, was ready for the film festival circuit. Debuting at SXSW in 2008, the film went on to be screened at more than 50 festivals, winning a dozen awards.
However, with more than 120 music cues, the price tag for licensing to get the film distributed was significant. "In 2010, I realized the only way to get this film released was through donations," writes Denny on The Wrecking Crew's official Kickstarter fund-raising page. "Over the last few years, we've raised nearly $300K in donations to pay off labels, publishers and some of the stock footage, but we still need to pay a fee directly to the musicians through the AFM (American Federation of Musicians). This is called a re-use fee and is one bill I can't wait to pay. I'm happy to be able to pay the musicians for the memories they gave us. These musicians are the reason I have stayed with this project for over 17 years. I want to finally give credit where credit is due."
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The nonprofit art organization directed by Mark Maziarz, has set up refurbished pianos around Summit County and encourages anyone to play.
One sits at the Summit County Aquatic Center in Kamas. Another is at the Kimball Art Center. One, that has yet to be repainted, is at the Transit Center and now there is one at the Silver Star Plaza, Maziarz said.
"The one at Silver Star is called 'Jazz Birds' and was painted by artist Renee Mox Hall," he said. "Renee is a nicely established artist who has been here for awhile."
Hall painted the piano in early July at the Kimball Art Center patio, where it was set up with another piano called "Rocky Mountain Bliss" that was refinished by Salt Lake Artist Sally Neilson.
Incidentally, the piano at the Aquatic Center is called "Blue Note," and was finished by Utah artist Sonny Luca.
"I went to the Kimball when both pianos were there and it was just after it snowed," Maziarz said. "There was a well-worn path weaving its way to the pianos, and that made me really happy.
"If you look at the 'Jazz Birds' piano, it has more of a freeform style compared to the others. 'Blue Note' is so intricate and the 'Rocky Mountain Bliss' is simple, but nicely done, but 'Jazz Bird' is very cool with sunbursts," Maziarz said.
Maziarz was inspired to establish the interactive Art Pianos for All public art showcase after he and a group of the Leadership Park City program, which trains talented residents to assume leadership roles in the community, traveled to Fort Collins, Colo.
The program participants take tours to different cities to see what makes those communities unique.
Silver Star Cafe owner Lisa Cilva Ward is the co-director of Leadership Park City and was also among those who visited Fort Collins.
"Mark was in my class and Alison Butz went with us and they were fascinated by the idea of refinishing and installing pianos around the community," Ward said. "They put their heads together and brought the idea back."
Ward is excited to have a piano at the Silver Star Plaza.
"I'm excited because I got to see the evolution of the seed of the idea and how these two talented local leaders accomplished this project with a limited budget, but with a lot of passion about what the project could mean to Park City," she said. "Now we have a beautiful piece of art that is now sitting outside the cafe. Anyone, not just café patrons, can come play it. That means everyone from little kids to piano virtuosos."
That is a reflection of what Ward and her husband Jeff try to do with the Silver Star Cafe.
"We have a guitar inside the cafe that is available for anyone to play," she said. "Every day someone will take it over to their table to play. The piano is very much like that. The instrument is there for people to explore their love for music and we get to witness it."
So far, the project has struck a note with the public, Maziarz said.
"The thing that surprised me is that a lot of times the same people go to the same pianos every day or at least once a week," he said. "The Kimball wants to keep at least one piano there, because people play it all the time, and I got a call yesterday from a guy who is in town to work at the Sundance Film Festival and he told me he was excited to go play the grand piano at the Transit Center every day.
"I think it's great that people are getting proprietary about the pianos they play," Maziarz said. "It makes it all worth while to me to see people embrace this project."
Maziarz wants to continue installing more pianos around the county, but, like all nonprofit organizations, funding is the key.
"In the past we have asked for piano donations, and we still are looking for some upright pianos," he said. "But we're also seeking cash donations, so we can keep the project going."
Donations can be made through the Art Pianos for All Facebook page at www.facebook.com/artpianosforall.
"I'm so happy that we have been able to do what we've done so far," Maziarz said. "I remember when I first saw the reaction on the peoples' faces when people sat down to play a public piano at Ft. Collins. It really created an emotion and that's what I wanted to bring to Park City."
For more information about Art Pianos for All, visit www.facebook.com/artpianosforall.


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2013: Played in seven games games and made three starts ... finished her career with 29 goals and 13 assists ... scored two goals and added two assists in a Feb. 24 win over Cincinnati ... dished out one assist on March 22 against San Diego State.
2012: Appeared in 11 games … tallied two goals, both of which she scored in the win over Saint Mary's (April 15, 16-8) … had a season-high two shots against Saint Mary's, totaling four for the season … scooped up two groundballs and caused two turnovers...selected as a MPSF All-Academic honoree.
2011: Tallied a season best three assists in Oregon's 8-7 victory over Iona College (3/21) … scored two goals against Cincinnati (3/6) and three goals against California (4/8), her season best … netted two goals and one ground ball against UC Davis (4/17) … she recorded at least one point in six straight games covering almost a month of action (2/25 – 3/21) … played in 16 games, including two starts … recorded 24 shots (17 on goal) this season.
2010: Oregon top scorer among freshmen in 2010 as she tallied 17 goals and five assists for 22 points ... Started 13-of-18 games in her rookie season ... Scored her first MPSF goal against California (4/9) ... Made first collegiate start against No. 19 Louisville, scoring two goals on five shots ... Tallied a game-high six points on four goals (2-of-2 FPS) and two assists against Jacksonville (2/13) in her first collegiate game.
High School: Valedictorian of her graduating class ... Twice named an Academic All-American ... Graduated in 2009 from Langley HS of the Liberty District (Northern Division) after earning four letters in lacrosse for head coach Rich Desomma and two letters in field hockey for head coach Jenn Robb ... Led Langley to Liberty District championships in 2006 and 2007 ... Twice named honorable mention All-American in 2008 and 2009 ... Named first-team all-region in 2008 and 2009 ... 2008 Liberty District Player of the Year ... 2009 Attack Player of the Year in her district ...Named first-team all-district in 2008 and 2009 ... Honorable metion all-metro in 2009 ... Played club lacrosse for the Skywalkers.
Personal: Born Margaret Ellen Kovacs in Portland, Ore. ... Parents are William and Kathy Kovacs ... Has two brothers, Trey and Tyler, and one sister, Kathryn ... Major is human physiology.


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Luce woman
Life is Sweet
Luce woman
Maeve Davey
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Lucy Sweet, songstress, author, artiste and all round bint about town, tells all
"There are a lot of bitter, ultra-critical wankers on websites and messageboards these days, bitching about stuff but not having the courage to get off their arses and do anything themselves"
So you began life in Hull and ended up in Glasgow via Newcastle. What kind of journey has that been?
A long one! I only lived in Hull until I was seven but my parents still live there. Ive been ricocheting around the north of England for years doing various things. I went to Newcastle University and did a fine art course, which I dropped out of, moved back to Manchester (where I went to school), and came to Glasgow in 1995 when I met my husband. After I quit uni I was in a terrible band called the Choppers, went on the dole and drew comics. I got a bit of extra money freelancing for the
Melody Maker
, doing gig reviews, and eventually got a monthly cartoon in Manchester's
City Life
. There were also many dark days in retail! I suppose I spent a lot of time drifting around, but I was always doing something creative just not always getting paid for it.
You have been an art student, written an illustrated novel, two books, regular newspaper columns, ran your own webzine, hosted a stitch and bitch afternoon and are a singer/songwriter with a rather eclectic Scottish band, Lucky Luke. Do you feel more like an artist, writer or musician or all three and what are you most proud of?
I dont know what Im most proud of theyre all such different things. Writing a novel was a really big deal, and its something Ill always be able to say Ive done to people at bus stops when Im senile. My first book was a comic book called
, and I think thats probably one of the most successful things Ive done because it was completely sincere, without any end goal in mind it was just a self-published comic I did for my friends which grew into something bigger and was made into a book. My husband was also a fan of it and sent me letters, which is how I met him, so I did OK out of that! At the moment, though, Im really proud of Lucky Luke. But Ive no idea how to categorize what I do Ive always just had ideas and acted on them. Occasionally I feel a bit lost and have an identity crisis, and wonder whether I should go out and get a proper job, but that feeling never lasts long thank God.
What's the best thing that's ever been said about you in a review? And the worst?
Id like to pretend that Im above caring, but of course Im not.
The Guardian
once said I was mad, bad and dangerously funny. But there seem to be a lot of bitter, ultra-critical wankers on websites and messageboards these days, bitching about stuff but not having the courage to get off their arses and do anything themselves.
You frequently claim to love boys - how does that fit into your life now you're married?
Ah, boys well, my husband knows I wouldnt run off with them its more of a visual pleasure, like looking at a painting! I think its better to be open about who youre attracted to. But Im a very faithful wife, and my love of boys isnt an icky sex thing. Its all celebrity crushes and swooning and stupid crap like that. Ive been doing it since I first saw John Taylor in 1983, and Ill be damned if Im stopping now!
Chick lit and 'women's interest' sections in newspapers are often treated scathingly by both men and women - why do you think that is?
As far as chick lit goes, there are a lot of authors who are really witty and sharp and get dismissed because of the way the books are packaged. Theres this pastel coloured gloop that engulfs the genre and in my opinion it doesnt help female authors to distinguish themselves. And then theres the phrase chick lit, which I hate. Its a sexist concept. But Im a writer, and chick lit and womens interest is where funny, female-orientated comment naturally ends up fitting into the world at the moment, and in the end, Id rather have people read my stuff than not at all, even if it has a pink cover. As for womens interest, I dont think theres anything wrong with it at all. Is a column about shoes any more inane than a column about cars? No. But theres still a disturbing amount of people who take great delight in labeling women as stupid, because they want to read about love, or they like shopping or whatever. Its a deeply ingrained fear of femininity, I think. And more and more women are joining in that prejudice and sexism, which goes to show that were still slaves to societys expectations and were very insecure about how were perceived.
Who reads Lucy Sweet novels? Who would you like to read your novels?
God knows! Its too early to tell. I think the nature of chick lit is to get as many books on the shelves to be snapped up as quickly as possible, and then they circulate among readers. If youre lucky, people will warm to you, and youll get a following. Hopefully Ill get a chance to build up a readership. I would like my readers to pick up my books and sense theres something a bit edgier about them than the usual stuff. Theyre aimed, I suppose, at students, teenagers and twentysomething girls, but I would really like men to read them too, which is probably a bit much to ask really. I like to take the formulaic chick lit/ romance stuff and do something a bit different with it. Theyre funny, too!
Tell us a bit about your band
Well, the band was started by Simon, who plays guitar, and Morag, who plays the harmonium, [a wooden squeezy box on the floor] in the late nineties, and they recruited me in 2003. Since then weve toured with Teenage Fanclub, supported Belle and Sebastian, and played at SXSW and in New York. Were recording another album in May, which as far as songwriting duties go, has about five of Simons songs on it, three of mine and two beautiful ones from Morag. Im really excited about it.
Where would your fantasy gig be and who would be supporting you?
Weve already played quite a lot of venues which we once thought would be in the realm of fantasy when we went on tour last year. But my favourites, sad though it may seem, have always been Sleazys or Stereo [beloved Glasgow dives]!! Still, Id be very happy to play All Tomorrows Parties, or Glastonbury, or Bencassim in Spain they have a pool backstage, apparently. Who would support us? The White Stripes. Then Id drag Jack onstage to do a duet and er, examine his technique.
And finally, how do you feel about the word bint?
I love it. Its very Monty Python. There must have been a sketch where they used the word because whenever I hear it, I think of Terry Jones in a dress. Actually, I got into trouble for saying it when I was little my mum bollocked me.


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It is a cruel joke that just when everything else thickens, your lips thin. (When was the last time someone tried to sell you a hip plumper?) "Skin loses collagen, which causes fine lines. Years of kissing, pouting and talking also contribute to wrinkling," says Deborah Sarnoff , MD, associate professor at New York University Medical Center. Here's what you can do.
The Solutions
- First do no harm. Smoking and too much sun speed up the aging process of the skin around your mouth. Quit smoking, and use a sunblock with a high SPF.
- Slough it off. "Exfoliation can help minimize dryness and the appearance of fine lines," Christine Rodgers, MD, a Denver-based plastic surgeon, says. For the skin around your mouth, she recommends a product with fine granules or AHAs. Look for a gentle grainy scrub like ROC Multi-Correxion Exfoliating Cleanser ($10). Follow with a rich lip balm. (Vaseline works too.)
- Rebuild collagen. To plump the skin around lips, Rodgers recommends prescription Renova or a nonprescription serum with retinoids or peptides. Try Caudalie's Anti-Aging Serum for Eyes and Lips ($70).
- Fill 'er up. "One of my patients calls the lines above her mouth her bar codes," Sarnoff says about those crevices where lipstick can form track marks. A line filler used before moisturizer will create a smoother surface. Try celebrity derm Pat Wexler's No Injection Instant Line Filler for Lips and Eyes ($18).
- Plump is good. The first wave of plumpers could burn, but the latest are gentler and come with built-in color.
- Don't draw outside the line. Makeup maven Trish McEvoy says she uses primer not only on lips but also on the skin above the mouth, to keep color from bleeding. "When using a lip liner," McEvoy adds, "don't try to draw bigger lips for yourself — it always looks fake."
- Shine on. "Avoid matte or dark lip color; it just draws attention where you don't want it," McEvoy says. "Instead, apply a touch of gloss. For a fuller look, concentrate the shine on the center of your mouth. Peach tones flatter all skin tones."
- Talk, smile, kiss. Lines be damned, you've come too far not to mouth off a little!
Originally published in MORE magazine, October 2008.


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Magazine of the painting blogosphere.
Altoon Sultan blogs about bark paintings on view in the exhibition Crossing Cultures: the Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art at the Hood Museum of Art, on view through March 10, 2013.
Sultan writes: "The bark paintings are made by the indigenous peoples of Northern Australia, using natural pigments for their paints. The patterns and images are all deeply symbolic of land and history and culture; a wall label describes them as 'metaphysical landscapes.' The iconography of Manirrkki's painting is described as invoking 'sequences of songs, dances, colors, and body designs used in closed ceremonies that are anchored to specifics of place.' ...The combination of brilliant painting with a depth of meaning tied to ancient traditions makes these works remarkably compelling."
Edited by artist Brett Baker, Painters' Table highlights writing from the painting blogosphere as it is published and serves as a platform for exploring blogs that focus primarily on the subject of painting.
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Israel is today an industrialized country with most of its manufacturing, including many traditional fields, based on intensive and sophisticated research & development and hi-tech processes, tools, and machinery. This is the outcome of very rapid and intensive development.
Today's dynamic, widely diversified industrial sector was developed from small workshops, originally established since the end of the 19th century to manufacture farm implements and process agricultural products. Two incentives brought about the initial transformation of these workshops into more modern factories - the immigration of entrepreneurs and experienced engineers from Germany in the 1930s and the increasing demand for industrial products during World War II (1939-45) as the Allied forces in the region required various commodities, especially clothing and canned foods, and the region needed products that could not be imported from Europe because of the war.
Until the 1970s, traditional industries - such as food processing, textiles and fashion, furniture, fertilizers, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, rubber, plastic, and metal products - provided most of the country's industrial output. In that period most resources were directed toward developing agriculture, food production and processing, laying infrastructure, and providing quick employment of many unskilled immigrants.
The next phase of industrialization concentrated on developing and manufacturing arms needed for the defense of the country. It was accelerated because of arms embargoes that endangered the nascent state. The vast investment in aviation and armament industries created new technologies that became the base for Israel's unique hi-tech industries, such as medical devices, electronics, computer software and hardware, telecommunications, etc. In the 1980s, Israelis who worked in the Silicon Valley returned to Israel, opening development centers of multinational companies such as Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and others. In the 1990s a highly skilled immigration of scientists, engineers, technicians, and medical workers from the former Soviet Union enabled the upgrading of Israel's industry to its current level of sophistication, with its array of export products.
Due to its lack of natural resources and raw materials, Israel's one advantage is its highly qualified labor force, scientific institutes, and R&D centers. Today Israeli industry concentrates mostly on manufacturing products with high added value, by developing products based on Israel's own scientific creativity and technological innovation.
Unlike most developed economies, in which the number of persons employed in industry remained stable or diminished during the early 1990s, their number in Israel continues to grow, with more than 25 percent of the industrial workforce employed in hi-tech manufacturing.
In the past two decades, industrial output has made international-level strides in the fields of medical electronics, agro-technology, telecommunications, fine chemicals, computer hardware and software, as well as diamond cutting and polishing. In 2008, the manufacturing industry employed 384,000 persons (among them, the rate of those with higher education was second only to that of the work forces of the US and Holland). There were 11,000 industrial plants that produced an output of over $58 billion - more than half of which was exported.
The fastest growth rates (averaging 8 percent annually in recent years) are to be found in the hi-tech sectors. These sectors are skill and capital intensive and require sophisticated production techniques, as well as considerable investment in research and development, on which 4.9 percent of Israel's GDP is spent - the highest among OECD countries. The quality of this R&D in Israel is ranked, according to U.N. experts, among the first 10 in the world. A successful contribution to all these is due to academic research institutes, which provide much of the basic R&D, and venture capital.
The significance of hi-tech industries' growth may be illustrated by their having accounted for only 37 percent of the industrial product in 1965, a rate that grew to 58 percent in 1985 and around 70 percent in 2006.
Almost 80% of hi-tech products are exported, while the more traditional, low-tech firms export only close to 40 percent of their product. Hi-tech exports quadrupled from $3 billion in 1991 to $12.3 billion in 2000 and to $29 billion in 2006 (plus another $5.9 billion of hi-tech services exported). In 2009, the product of ICT (information and communications technology, a major part of hi-tech industry) amounted to $19 billion. Contributing 17.3 percent of the business sector GDP, it employed 204,000 persons, and its exports were close to $16 billion. Over 90 percent of the public budgets for R&D ($7 billion in 2006) are allocated to hi-tech industries, much of which is channeled via joint venture capital funds.
In recent years, the government has been collecting fair dividends on its shares in these funds, over and above repayment of loans granted to successful start-up companies. In addition to the six binational foundations mentioned earlier, Israel has agreements for joint funding of R&D projects with the US, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Austria, France, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Hong Kong, India, Turkey and China.
The age of information technology (the Internet, electronic commerce, etc.) placed Israel's economy, and particularly its hi-tech industries, in the forefront of world development in these fields. A number of internationally recognized Israeli companies have been bought by top business conglomerates in multi-billion dollar transactions. The number of new start-ups is very high due to the extraordinary innovative talent in Israel, coupled with the availability of highly skilled manpower. The growing presence of Israeli firms on Wall Street and the European stock exchanges is yet another manifestation of the respect with which Israel's hi-tech industry is regarded.
Israel is a leading world diamond manufacturing and trading center. The main reason is that the Israeli diamond industry is as multi-faceted as its diamonds. The Israeli diamond is synonymous with trust and reliability, and it is guaranteed to be conflict-free and genuine.
In addition, the Israeli diamond industry is a world leader in both cutting-edge technologies and craftsmanship, thus ensuring the best yield of polished diamonds from the rough. The large inventory of local production as well as tax-free rough and polished imports ensure competitive prices. The Israel Diamond Exchange is the largest diamond trading floor in the world, housing all of the operational functions and needs of every diamond buyer under one roof.
In 2008 diamond exports amounted to $9.4 billion. Although the industry was badly hurt by the recession during the course of 2009, preliminary data shows that global demand picked up during 2010 and that export levels resumed their previous levels.
During 2009 Israel exported most of its diamonds to the US, with a similar number being sent to Hong Kong. Other important customers are Belgium and Switzerland.
Israel's agricultural sector is characterized by an intensive system of production stemming from the need to overcome the scarcity in natural resources, particularly water and arable land. The constant growth in agricultural production is due to the close cooperation between researchers, farmers, and agriculture-related industries. Together they develop and apply new methods in all agricultural branches. The result is modern agriculture in a country more than half of whose area is desert.
As Israeli farmers and scientists have had to contend with a difficult environment and limited water resources, their experience is especially relevant to the developing world. Its success lies in the determination and ingenuity of farmers and scientists who have dedicated themselves to developing a flourishing agriculture, demonstrating to the world that the real value of land is a function of how it is utilized. The close cooperation between R&D and industry led to the development of a market-oriented agri-business that exports agro-technology solutions - particularly water solutions - world wide.
Agriculture in Israel is the success story of a long, hard struggle against adverse conditions and of making maximum use of arable land and scarce water (including from modern desalinization plants, the know-how of which is a winning export story). When Jews began resettling their historic homeland in the late 19th century, their first efforts were directed - mostly for ideological reasons - to turning barren land into fertile fields. The secret of Israel's present agricultural success lies in the close interaction between farmers and government-sponsored researchers, who cooperate in developing and applying sophisticated methods in all agricultural branches, as well as technological advancement, new irrigation techniques, and innovative agro-mechanical equipment.
Since Israel attained independence in 1948, the total area under cultivation has increased by a factor of 2.6, to approximately 1.1 million acres. The irrigated land area increased by a factor of 8, to about 0.6 million acres until the mid 1980s; however, owing to the growing shortage of water, coupled with intensive urbanization, this is now less than half a million acres. During the past half century the number of agricultural settlements grew from 400 to 750, but the share of the population living in them has fallen from 12 percent to less than 5 percent.
Today, most of Israel's food is domestically produced and supplemented by imports, mainly of grain, oilseeds, meat, coffee, cocoa, and sugar, all of which are more than covered by agricultural exports. Farm production consists largely of dairy and poultry products. Additionally, a large variety of flowers, fruit, and vegetables is locally grown, especially in warm areas that give farmers an early advantage in European markets. During the winter months, Israel is Europe's greenhouse, exporting melons, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, strawberries, kiwis, mangoes, avocados, a wide variety of citrus fruits, longstemmed roses and spray carnations.
The share of agricultural product of the GNP declined from 11 percent to 2.6 percent between 1950 and 2008, and the proportion of agricultural exports decreased from 60 percent to less than 2 percent of total exports. This, despite an absolute increase of annual exports from $20 million in 1950 to $1.2 billion in 2009 due, inter alia, to the widespread introduction of innovative farming methods, modern irrigation and water treatment technologies, and export-oriented farming.
In the early years of statehood, residential building accounted for 84 percent of total construction output. Subsequently, allowing for more infrastructure construction, it fluctuated between 70-75 percent until 1991, when it leaped back to 86 percent in order to meet the demands of renewed immigration. As a result, the construction sector output also rose sharply in 1991, a year when the number of apartment-unit-starts reached an all time peak of 83,500. Since then that annual figure has dropped steadily to 29,000 in 2004. The record number of new apartments completed was 70,100 in 1992, shrinking to 31,700 in 2005. Once considered a leading branch of the economy and a barometer of the economic activity, the construction sector contributed only 5 percent to the GDP in 2006, down from 30 percent in 1950.
While at first almost all construction was the result of government initiative and investment, between 1958 and 1989 its share fell gradually, from 67 to 16 percent. At the beginning of the 1990s it rose temporarily, when the private sector could not meet the fast-rising demand created by the sudden influx of hundreds of thousands of immigrants. In the last few years the general rise in the standard of living (together with foreign demand for property in Israel) seems to be indicated by a rapid increase in the most expensive class of apartments, especially in highly sought-after neighborhoods in cities such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Israeli companies are among the world leaders in the design and manufacture of building metal structures, prefabricated parts and components - such as doors, windows, sanitary equipment, plumbing components, fixtures and accessories, and more. These goods are successfully marketed worldwide and may be found at major construction sites on all continents.
Transport and communications contributed 7 percent to the GDP in 2006, constituted some 8 percent of exports of goods and services, and employed 5 percent of the country's labor force. Thirty-six percent of its product originates from land transportation, 20 percent from shipping and aviation, 39 percent from communications, and the rest from various services.
Since the early 1950s, the total gross tonnage of the merchant fleet has grown more than tenfold, while air carriers now fly more than 100 times as many passengers. During the same period, the road length was doubled, the number of buses more than tripled, and the number of trucks increased tenfold.
Tourists are attracted by Israel's geographical diversity, its archeological and religious sites, the almost unlimited sunshine and modern resort facilities on the Mediterranean, Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), the Red Sea, and the Dead Sea.
In the year 2000, the largest number of tourists ever - 2.41 million - visited the country (compared to 33,000 in 1950, 118,000 in 1960, 441,000 in 1970, 1.18 million in 1980, and 1.34 million in 1990). This figure was topped in 2008 as Israel opened its doors to more than 3 million tourists.
Visitor figures continue to rise. In the first half of 2010, 1.6 million tourists visited Israel, 39 percent more than in the same period last year, and 10 percent more than in 2008. Americans make up 21 percent of the tourists in Israel, with Russians making up 15 percent and other European countries making up much of the rest.
Tourism provided foreign currency earnings of $2.8 billion in 2006, i.e. 5 percent of the income from all exports and 16.8 percent of the export of services. In the first half of 2010, incoming tourism brought in about $1.55 billion.
Although this industry contributes less than 3% to the GNP, it has a foreign currency added value of 85 percent (making it the added-value leader among the country's export industries) and employs some 80,000 persons. This industry's large potential is yet to be exploited, as it is a major factor in Israel's economic growth plan.