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I guess she's gotten over her trauma by doing the talk show circuit and now posing for Playboy.
I truly wonder if it was all a plan or just some really fortuitous circumstances for her.
...and it will no doubt help her career as she works at Hooters.
She claims to be heading for law school. The Hooter gig, as it is for many college students, was/is just a way to pay the bills while going to school. If she was working at Bennigan's, her employer wouldn't even be mentioned.
Well, "heading for law school" and "wants to become an attorney" are pretty different. I want to be a surgeon. Damn my distaste for open wounds!
I think it's amusing and sad that the obvious payoff is enough to have her swallow the "legs in the air" and "too sexy for Southwest but perfect for Playboy" taglines.
How many here predicted this the instant they heard this story? I don't know who would want to see her naked, look at her! ugh 20 something looks like 60 something
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How many here predicted this the instant they heard this story? I don't know who would want to see her naked, look at her! ugh 20 something looks like 60 something
No way she's 23.
"They're very tastefully done," Ebbert told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Aren't they always?
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"They're very tastefully done," Ebbert told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Aren't they always?
I'd like to hear them say "we made her look like a sl*t!"
"This was beautiful and classy. I don't see why it would affect a professional position," she said. "I'd do it again in a heartbeat."
She did not ask to be put in the situation. It was sort of handed to her.
So, can you blame her for wanting to cash in on the rest of her 15 minutes of fame?
Dammit, people...she's not a piece of meat! She's going to be a law talking person!
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Who wants the link to the playboy pics?
She's really hot in them, but in any other picture, she is flat chested and her nose is crooked.
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Putting pics of your nekkid self in a magazine used by millions of men to wank off is always beautiful and classy.
She got booted off Southwest because her landing strip was showing when she sat down and they thought the pilots might get confused or disoriented.
i saw her on Today. She had her attorney with her, but I'd bet money she also had an agent by that time...72 hours later.
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Ah, halushki (or haluski). This is a dish my grandma used to make, being of western Pennsylvania steel town stock. It is a cheap dish that is filling and delivers some great flavour. I added more ingredients than my grandma used to, but it still brought back all sorts of memories. I'll admit that I weenied out and made the noodles with my pasta maker. She used to roll them out by hand. Speaking of noodles, these are a great vegan version of egg noodles--tender, yet durable.
Fresh Flax Noodles
Makes 1 lb
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup warm soy creamer or soy milk
- 2 tbsp finely ground flax
- large pinch of tumeric (optional)
- 1 1/2 tsp salt (I used black salt for an eggy flavour)
- 2 tbsp water (more as needed)
1. Place flour in a bowl and make a well in the centre.
2. Whisk flax into the soy creamer in a separate bowl. Let sit a few mins, then whisk again until thick and goopy. Whisk in tumeric (for colour).
3. Put flax mixture into the well, and sprinkle salt over top. Begin to mix together, adding water as needed to make a stiff but pliable dough.
4. Cut into four equal pieces and pass through a pasta roller up to number 7. Cut into 1/4 inch (or a bit bigger strips) and let dry on a towel for at least 2 hours.
5. When pasta is dry, cut into 4-5 inch lengths.
6. To cook, drop into boiling water, stirring to keep it from sticking together. You only need to cook for about 30 seconds after the water comes back to boiling.
- 2 tbsp margarine
- 1 large sweet onion, halved and sliced
- 1 leek, white and light green part, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 large carrot, finely grated
- 1 small head of cabbage, cored and sliced
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 2 tsp parsley, plus more for garnish
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tbsp margarine
- cooked egg noodles
1. Melt 2 tbsp margarine in a large saucepan over medium to med-hi heat. Saute leeks and onions for 5-7 mins, until soft and translucent. Add garlic, carrot, cabbage, and a few pinches of salt and mix well. Once sizzling, reduce heat to med-lo, cover, and cook for 10-15 mins, stirring regularly. You want the cabbage to be nice and tender, but not soggy. Add paprika and parsley, then season to taste with salt and pepper. Remove from pan.
2. Add another 2 tbsp of margarine to the pan over medium to med-hi heat. Add egg noodles and gently stir to coat. Fry for a few mins, then add cabbage mixture. Stir to mix, adjust seasoning and serve.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Halushki with Fresh Flax Noodles
Ah, halushki (or haluski). This is a dish my grandma used to make, being of western Pennsylvania steel town stock. It is a cheap dish that is filling and delivers some great flavour. I added more ingredients than my grandma used to, but it still brought back all sorts of memories. I'll admit that I weenied out and made the noodles with my pasta maker. She used to roll them out by hand. Speaking of noodles, these are a great vegan version of egg noodles--tender, yet durable.
23 comments:
- Robin said...
I am a little confused- your recipe calls for margarine but in the method section you say melt "butter"? Are there egg noodles that are not actually "egg" noodles and therefore vegan that you would recommend?
- September 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM
- Gena said...
Genius pasta recipe!
- September 9, 2010 at 10:27 PM
- Patrick B. said...
My mom made a dish by the same name that included egg noodles, bacon, and cottage cheese. Not the healthiest thing around, but damn it was good. It's a dish I sometimes miss as a vegetarian.
- September 9, 2010 at 11:18 PM
- Wendy said...
Can't wait to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing!
- September 9, 2010 at 11:58 PM
- Gosia said...
Can't wait to try it. I'm always a sucker for vegan versions of my favorite Slavic staples!
- September 10, 2010 at 3:06 AM
- Shannon said...
This looks really nice and I think I'll make it for dinner tonight. As for the noodles, though, it seems my Slovak forbears made a potato dumpling halushky instead and they're (usually) vegan anyway. http://www.slovakcooking.com/2009/recipes/pasta/halusky/
- September 10, 2010 at 5:51 AM
- Helen said...
That looks so good. I have never made "successful" pasta. Something happens every time! But I'm going to keep trying until I figure it out because there is nothing better! Those noodles look super thin and tender. Will have to try them soon. (my lack of a proper pasta maker may be the problem)
- September 10, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Bianca said...
I've never heard of haluski! But I love the idea of regional foods carried over from generation to generation. And I love that you made egg noodles from scratch using flax. You're my super-hero Vegan Dad!
- September 10, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Elaine Shandra said...
This sounds really good. I may just have to cook this weekend!
- September 10, 2010 at 5:21 PM
- dreaminitvegan said...
Hmmmm it sounds like something my husbands grandmother would make.
- September 11, 2010 at 1:55 PM
- berrylies said...
Uh, is there a vegan version of egg noodles?
- September 11, 2010 at 2:09 PM
- Tender Branson said...
I love noodles made in this style. Funny, being from the central side part of PA, I had never heard of Halushki until this post.
- September 12, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- Dawne said...
Yum! This looks fantastic - can't wait to try it. Doubly excited to try the "egg" noodle.
- September 13, 2010 at 10:59 PM
- Biz said...
Sounds like an absolutely divine Fall meal! Gonna have to make this on the weekend. :) Thank you for sharing.
- September 14, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- Vivacious Vegan said...
Hey Vegan Dad!
I absolutely love your blog! Since going vegan (and starting my own vegan blog) I have found VeganDad inspirational and DELISH! Check me out!
Keep up the AWESOMENESS!!
- September 14, 2010 at 6:32 PM
- Lady Noocherly said...
This is amazing! You always make remarkable stuff but this post totally surprised me! Go VD!
- September 15, 2010 at 12:51 AM
- Basil said...
This was amazing. Absolutely amazing. I am vegetarian, not vegan, so I used real egg noodles. I would make this recipe about a hundred times.... perfect for a really cold person with a cold! No pun intended... but really, this is the perfect, healthy comfort food. Delish!
- September 17, 2010 at 9:40 PM
- Katia said...
Yeah. A vegan pasta recipe. Thanks for sharing.
- September 20, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Jaimee said...
Yum! Made this last night, with store-bought vegan "egg" noodles, and no leek because someone forgot to buy one at the store. Fabulous comfort food. It's like the vegan answer to ramen noodles.
- September 23, 2010 at 1:56 PM
- keri said...
This is a must try! I love the recipe. Looks good!
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- November 10, 2010 at 8:25 PM
- hello said...
woot woot Pittsburgh!
- January 6, 2011 at 12:43 PM
- Vegan2Raw said...
This looks fantastic!!! Thanks. :)
- August 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM
- Ariel said...
I made this the other night but without the flax noodles, (they failed, I had no pasta roller)and leeks. It was still delicious! I used quinoa pasta and had to add some vegetable oil because it was going to stick but even my non-vegan grandma liked it. I will definitely make this again! Thanks Vegan Dad!
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At the Music Emporium, it has always been about the music, selling it, listening to it and talking about it.
"I have this whole soundtrack of my life that came from this store," said owner Aislinn Webb. "Whatever I was going through, it kind of seemed that whatever we were listening to, we can listen to it and it brings back those time of the life."
But along with music, family has also been the focus. Webb's father, Art Matthews, opened the store, and his first customer turned out to be wife, Debbie.
The two raised their children, Aislinn and Josh, around the store and now it's Aislinn who had to make the tough decision to shut the doors for good. She took over ownership eight years ago.
"We talked about it and we have been talking about it," said Matthews. "She finally saw the light. It is a financial strain. She is so smart, she will be fine."
Music is no longer a physical product technology. That has really killed the independent music store, just like a lot of other mom and pop stores in other industries.
And now word of Music Emporium's closing has spread like news of the hottest album once did. Old friends and customers are stopping by, many browsing through CDs, but mostly they are catching up with Art and Aislinn.
"That will be the saddest part, not being able to talk about what you like. What bands inspire you at this time, or mean something to you at your life," said Webb.
Any business that has been open for nearly four decades has done so with the support of the community. And while the family will miss its customers, the community has lost a treasure.
"Meridian has been so good to me and my family, so I really thank them," Matthews said.
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'Survivor: Caramoan' Season Finale: Who Won?
This season of Survivor was labeled Fans vs. Favorites, but the person who has dominated is both a fan and a favorite. When John Cochran first appeared on Survivor, 3 seasons ago in South Pacific, he claimed to be one of the biggest fans of the program. Cochran says he never misses an episode of Survivor on TV. He has studied the show for years and even wrote an academic paper on it while at Harvard Law School. Impressive!
But, Cochran struggled to find his way that first season. He never seemed to be the smart, strategic player who could outwit his opponents, and his physical condition made outplaying them pretty much impossible. But, it has all changed in Season 26, Survivor: Caramoan. Cochran has been the dominant player thus far, staying in the background for a while but still controlling what was going on. When he had to step up, when the crazy CIA analyst Phillip Sheppard was surprisingly eliminated, Cochran kept his alliance together and was able to sniff out any threats. He even managed to win a few challenges!
Want to know how strong Cochran has played the game so far? He is the only person left who has not had a single vote cast against him at Tribal Council. Not ONE! So, even when Cochran was a key figure in an alliance taking someone out, that person has not voted against him. It is clear that his biggest move in the game was his rock-solid early alliance with Dawn Meehan, a fellow competitor from South Pacific. Dawn told Cochran about any plots that did not work into his plans. But, Dawn has had Cochran's back by stabbing others in their backs. Last week, when she brutally ousted her close friend, Brenda, she probably sealed her fate. There are just too many members of the jury who resent Dawn at this point. If you ask me, she has no chance to win the game.
As I write this, prior to watching how this season's final episode will play out, the two things I feel confident about are that Cochran is the strong, strong favorite to win and Dawn seems extremely unlikely to get votes from the jury.
In addition to those two we have:
- Eddie, the physical threat who has coasted through the game for a few episodes now, just waiting to get voted out but somehow dodging it each time. Malcolm and Reynold like him, and Andrea lusts for him, but I am not sure many other folks would vote for Eddie.
- Erik, quiet and physical. He has been on the right side of every alliance, but never seemed to take control or make strategic decisions. I don't think he has enemies on the jury, but he doesn't exactly have allies either.
- And Sherri, who has also flown under-the-radar for much of the game. She too has refused to make any strategic moves since very early in the game, though that may be because she has sensed that by keeping quiet, she would be taken a long way.
So, with that set up, let's get to the episode!
The episode begins with a recap of the entire season. We quickly get reminded about the silliness of Philip's "Stealth-R-Us." We get to relive the anger and aggression of Shamar and the general insanity of Brandon. And then there was the ultimate immunity moment, when the "Three Amigos" managed to protect themselves and take out Philip.
The new stuff begins… with Erik in some real trouble. His head is spinning and he is not feeling well. It is just minutes after the tribal council and Erik cannot even walk back to camp. They call the doctors in. Erik needs intravenous fluids and his blood pressure is extremely low. The doctors pull him from the game. Erik seems to take it pretty well. I think he is so out of it he barely understands what is going on. Everyone says goodbye and now there are only 4 players left in the game. WOW, that was fast and stunning!
Eddie is thrilled. He is now the only physical threat left in the game. Win one more challenge and he makes it to the end. He has a real shot at winning if he can do that! Cochran realizes Eddie's new power in the game and begins cozying up to him. They seem to make a deal to get rid of Dawn. I don't think Cochran will go along with that if Eddie does not win immunity.
It is time for a reward challenge. It is a fairly tough combination of building a house of cards and balancing at the same time. Everyone gets close but sees their stacks fall. It is a pretty tense challenge. Eventually, Cochran wins and it is a very special reward. He will get an advantage in the final, all-important immunity challenge. HUGE!!
Back at camp, Sherri and Eddie go off to talk. They think Dawn is the top choice to win the game and want to take her out. They point out she has played the sympathy card to perfection – Dawn has 6 kids and talks about needing to pay for their college – and they think she is unbeatable. Wow, I don't know what show they are watching, but the TV audience has seen Dawn as an emotional, backstabbing wreck. She's been a mess. She does not feel like a winner.
Next up is the famous "passing of the torches" where the final 4 march past the snuffed out torches of all their vanquished competitors. This moment in the finale is the reason I DVR this show and start watching ten minutes or so after the episode begins… so I can fast forward through this. What a waste of time! Argh!
Once that waste of TV time is done, we get to the final immunity challenge. It is a race up a three story tower to retrieve puzzle pieces. Cochran finds out his advantage – rather than having to untie knots to get his bags of puzzle pieces, his bags will just be waiting for him. It is a huge time advantage. He is still going to have to solve the puzzle, but this is a really big deal. Cochran gets his third bag before anyone else has even untied their second. He's a smart guys and pretty good at puzzles, I can't see him losing with this advantage.
I was wrong. Cochran is horrible putting the puzzle together. He can't figure out that colors matter as well as shapes. Dawn takes an early lead. But then Cochran starts to figure it out. He races ahead and wins! Dawn is the very first person to give him a congratulatory hug.
Cochran's case to the jury is just getting better. He is not only going to get credit for controlling the game and being a smart and social player, but he has even dominated the challenges. I never, ever, ever expected that out of him. If he can finish this off with a win, he is going to go down as one of the best players of all time.
Back at camp, Cochran is debating who to take with him to the finals. He is sure about Sherri, who he thinks will get no votes at all from the jury. So, it comes down to Eddie or Dawn. Dawn promptly goes emotional and starts crying. I want to gouge my eyes out at her! Eddie plays it smart and talks to Cochran about how sympathetic Dawn is.
The conversation with Eddie is memorable because Eddie talks about his dream of opening a bar where people can bring their dogs. Somewhere, a health inspector is drooling at the possibility of Eddie's dog bar being on his beat.
Enough of that – time for the final tribal challenge before we get to the jury vote. Dawn makes the case for Eddie being voted out (he's a great guy and has no enemies on the jury). Eddie does the same for Dawn (she has been the main strategist in the game and will get respect for controlling things). Sherri chimes in and seems to say she wants Dawn to go home, but when the vote happens, Sherri joins Cochran and Dawn in voting Eddie out.
So, the jury will pick from between Sherri, Dawn, and Cochran. I suppose there may be something the audience has not been shown in the game, but if we got a true picture of the game. Cochran is about to win this thing.
The next morning, they have a breakfast feast where everyone talks about how the game went. Cochran and Dawn reflect on how they controlled things from the beginning. We then get to see Cochran sitting and thinking about how to plead to the jury. He talks about the paper he wrote at Harvard about Survivor juries. If anyone can be really good in front of the jury it should be him, but Cochran is nervous and thinks he is going to mess it up.
Dawn speaks to the jury first. She tries to be charming and sweet. Several members of the jury don't seem to buy it. Malcolm, Andrea, and Brenda all glare at her. Still, it is a fairly decent speech.
Sherri is next. She talks about her success in business, which is probably a terrible idea. She is essentially telling everyone that she is fairly well off and does not need the money. She stumbles and stammers and seems lost in her thoughts. It is a terrible speech. We see several members of the jury almost embrassed for how poorly she is doing. Ugh. I don't think anyone will vote for her.
Cochran's turn. He talks about his love for the game. He talks about his success in challenges. He talks about how he played a good social game. It is a somewhat arrogant speech, but is not bad. He finishes by saying, "I want to prove why I played the best game."
Malcolm starts the jury questions. He has no question for Sherri, because she does not matter. He tells Dawn to make sure she owns her moves and is not afraid to admit she backstabbed people. He asks Cochran what got him here and Cochran gives a good answer. He talks about his insecurities and how they kept him sharp.
Eddie is next and tells Sherri she was carried to the finals. She says no and the jury actually laughs at her. The biggest moment in Eddie's questions come when Cochran talks about hanging out at a bar with manly men. It is funny and endearing. More points for Cochran.
Philip comes up and promptly kicks Sherri out of "Stealth-R-Us." Everyone laughs again. He then dissects Dawn for her fragile psyche. He concludes by complimenting Cochran for playing a great game. We know Philip's vote.
Erik does further damage to Dawn by talking about how she destroyed his trust when she voted out Brenda. It is emotional. Erik turns to Sherri and tells her she did nothing in the game. She fights back and tells him to just sit down. She comes off as bitter and angry. Not sure it matters as Sherri is a non-factor at this point.
Michael gives Dawn a chance to come back a bit, asking her how she helped Cochran to get to the end. Her answer is pretty good and she points out that she did the dirty work for Cochran. It is her best moment thus far in front of the jury.
Reynold begins his talk by calling Dawn fake and disingenuous. He asks her to dissect his personality. She struggles but manages to insult him a bit and it is another good moment for her as Reynold accepts it gladly. He almost seems like he might vote for her… maybe.
Andrea asks Cochran what animal he would be and he gives a great answer, "A chameleon." He explains it and it is really good. Andrea says some nice things about Dawn too.
Brenda asks Cochran about how he voted her out after she gave him so much at the family reward challenge. His answer is good as he talks about separating his emotional feelings from his strategic ones. She accepts it. Brenda then talks about how Dawn betrayed her. Brenda starts to cry during this part and it is powerful. Brenda then talks about the incident where Dawn lost her fake teeth and Brenda found them. She insists that Dawn take her teeth out to show how much she wants to stay in the game. Dawn gets upset and defiant for a bit but relents and takes the teeth out. I hope someone votes for Dawn for doing that as it took guts on her part.
Time for the jury to vote and I think it could be a 6-2 or 7-1 victory for Cochran. I think the teeth earned Dawn at least one vote.
We are transported to CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles for the reading of the votes. Jeff asks each of the three finalists about their odds of winning. Sherri admits she has no chance. Cochran says he feels good but is prepared to be disappointed because Survivor is nothing if not surprising. Dawn also says she does not think she is going to win, "but I'm going to be able to buy myself some new teeth."
The votes are read: Cochran, Cochran, Cochran, Cochran… and on and on. It is a unanimous vote! He joins Earl (from Fiji) and JT (from Tocantins) as the only unanimous winners in Survivor history. And he is a very deserving winner!
So, now it is your turn to chime in with comments. Were you rooting for Cochran to win? Do you think Eddie could have beaten him at the end? What did you think of toothless Dawn? Could you believe how many challenges Cochran won?!?! Post your comments and we can all chat about it. A great season, if you ask me!
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On "House"
Thoughts on the state of Hugh Laurie's TV show.
I do not like this show whatsoever. Seriously, does no one else see how lamely predictable it is? Am I the only sane one here!? What is happening?
Don't get me wrong, I am certainly a fan of Hugh Laurie. Hey, I would be down to watch movies he's in, but until then I am no longer subjecting myself to further the cause of some terrible TV show. Here are my reasons:
- These "doctors" always break into the patients' houses to find out what is causing their disease.... Are you insane? That never happens. My mother didn't come home to some creepy Doc snooper looking in my room for the cause of my distress when I had my tonsils taken out and do you want to know why? BECAUSE THAT NEVER HAPPENS WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN WHERE DOCTORS CAN BREAK INTO YOUR HOUSE WILLYNILLY AND STEAL YOUR PERSONABLES!?! It's like, why don't they just have the police do their job and request for something like that? I would believe that one of those "doctors" had a connect in the police department; even that I would believe, but to have these dudes commit felonies for the safety of their patient? Come on, guys, we hate each other. No one is that nice.
- It's the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again. See how boring that was to read? That is exactly what the show is like. This is the show right here: patient comes in with crazy insane disease that seems untreatable; House and his crack "team" get to work and try and try and try to figure out what is happening all the while the patient is getting worse; then, right around the 45 minute mark, the "team" figures out what was wrong, but only, THEY DIDN'T find out what was wrong and the patient worsens; then someone from this genius "team" says something off topic to House and suddenly! it clicks, and they save the patient in time. Whew!
- There's too much drama that amounts to nothing. House isn't happy when he's with Cuddy because he doesn't think he should be happy when Wilson isn't. What? What does that even mean? Is he a real person? I'm happy whenever I want to be happy; this guy can't even get over his boyfriend enough to enjoy what he has right in front of him? Good grief, Charlie Brown.
- And for the love of all that is logical, how can there be this many incredibly rare and puzzling diseases? And they all get dropped on House? Like there's not another, not mean and antisocial doctor out there who is willing and able to save lives? Oh well.
I'm usually not this mean. I try not to be anyway. But I'm just not happy when I know that my friend Blake isn't happy. His girlfriend just dumped him for another more "well-adjusted" suitor.
False. I'm happy right now. And Blake doesn't even exist.
I guess I'll just chalk it up to terrible TV writing. Which is something that happens far too much this day and age in the TV world. It saddens me.
False. I'm happy.
This article wasn't bad... but it gave me lupus.
It's never lupus.
You missed out two very important things; the rare sarcastic gem of a statement from hugh and well.. cuddys ass. (Kept my attention for seven seasons)
Number 2 it's what I keep telling everyone, nobody seems to notice that, every episode it't exactly the same structure, Im the only one of my friends that realizes that!! I FEEL LIKE IM TAKING CRAZY PILLS HERE!!!!! (yes, I quote Mugatu)
House gets this cases because he's an EXPERT in the field of rare diseases and weird symptoms
I totally agree.
But I have to say: it took you 7 seasons to figure this out?
No man. It took me 7 seasons to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, see the light, climb back down, find an internet connection, get in good with the guys here at PiC, get a blog, and then finally write about it. It's been a long six years...


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The Daily Startup: Digital Repository Evernote Raises Funding, in No Hurry to Go Public
Top stories in today's VentureWire:
Evernote has raised another $85 million in primary and secondary financing, taking its total funding to about $247.5 million, as it aims to become the leading online repository for the world's digital memories. Evernote, which is now valued at about $1.1 billion, allows people to use a multitude of devices to digitize and store their memories–notes, clippings, photos and so on. Lately, Evernote has been working to attract more corporate users.
Silver Lake Kraftwerk, a new growth-equity fund with a clean-tech angle that had received an anchor investment from George Soros, has now closed on a little over $400 million, according to a person familiar with the situation, even as it lowered its target to $750 million from $1.25 billion. The firm previously disclosed in an SEC filing that it had closed on just over $300 million.
Also in today's VentureWire, Plivo has raised $1.75 million in convertible debt from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and SV Angel, as it aims to do for telephony "what Amazon does for Web hosting"–integrate customers' fixed and mobile phone systems with the Web…Community-generated media site Wikia is wowing investors, securing a valuation around $100 million in its latest funding. Institutional Venture Partners led the $10.9 million Series C round with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Amazon.com...and Smartsheet.com has secured $26 million in Series D funding led by Insight Venture Partners, a round that dwarfs the size of any previous rounds the Bellevue, Wash.-based company had raised. Smartsheet.com sells online collaboration software that functions like a spreadsheet.
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What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?
By GARY TAUBES
Published: July 7, 2002
If the members of the American medical establishment were to have a collective find-yourself-standing-naked-in-Times-Square-type nightmare, this might be it. They spend 30 years ridiculing Robert Atkins, author of the phenomenally-best-selling ''Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution'' and ''Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution,'' accusing the Manhattan doctor of quackery and fraud, only to discover that the unrepentant Atkins was right all along. Or maybe it's this: they find that their very own dietary recommendations -- eat less fat and more carbohydrates -- are the cause of the rampaging epidemic of obesity in America. Or, just possibly this: they find out both of the above are true.
When Atkins first published his ''Diet Revolution'' in 1972, Americans were just coming to terms with the proposition that fat -- particularly the saturated fat of meat and dairy products -- was the primary nutritional evil in the American diet. Atkins managed to sell millions of copies of a book promising that we would lose weight eating steak, eggs and butter to our heart's desire, because it was the carbohydrates, the pasta, rice, bagels and sugar, that caused obesity and even heart disease. Fat, he said, was harmless.
Atkins allowed his readers to eat ''truly luxurious foods without limit,'' as he put it, ''lobster with butter sauce, steak with bearnaise sauce . . . bacon cheeseburgers,'' but allowed no starches or refined carbohydrates, which means no sugars or anything made from flour. Atkins banned even fruit juices, and permitted only a modicum of vegetables, although the latter were negotiable as the diet progressed.
Atkins was by no means the first to get rich pushing a high-fat diet that restricted carbohydrates, but he popularized it to an extent that the American Medical Association considered it a potential threat to our health. The A.M.A. attacked Atkins's diet as a ''bizarre regimen'' that advocated ''an unlimited intake of saturated fats and cholesterol-rich foods,'' and Atkins even had to defend his diet in Congressional hearings.
Thirty years later, America has become weirdly polarized on the subject of weight. On the one hand, we've been told with almost religious certainty by everyone from the surgeon general on down, and we have come to believe with almost religious certainty, that obesity is caused by the excessive consumption of fat, and that if we eat less fat we will lose weight and live longer. On the other, we have the ever-resilient message of Atkins and decades' worth of best-selling diet books, including ''The Zone,'' ''Sugar Busters'' and ''Protein Power'' to name a few. All push some variation of what scientists would call the alternative hypothesis: it's not the fat that makes us fat, but the carbohydrates, and if we eat less carbohydrates we will lose weight and live longer.
The perversity of this alternative hypothesis is that it identifies the cause of obesity as precisely those refined carbohydrates at the base of the famous Food Guide Pyramid -- the pasta, rice and bread -- that we are told should be the staple of our healthy low-fat diet, and then on the sugar or corn syrup in the soft drinks, fruit juices and sports drinks that we have taken to consuming in quantity if for no other reason than that they are fat free and so appear intrinsically healthy. While the low-fat-is-good-health dogma represents reality as we have come to know it, and the government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in research trying to prove its worth, the low-carbohydrate message has been relegated to the realm of unscientific fantasy.
Over the past five years, however, there has been a subtle shift in the scientific consensus. It used to be that even considering the possibility of the alternative hypothesis, let alone researching it, was tantamount to quackery by association. Now a small but growing minority of establishment researchers have come to take seriously what the low-carb-diet doctors have been saying all along. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, may be the most visible proponent of testing this heretic hypothesis. Willett is the de facto spokesman of the longest-running, most comprehensive diet and health studies ever performed, which have already cost upward of $100 million and include data on nearly 300,000 individuals. Those data, says Willett, clearly contradict the low-fat-is-good-health message ''and the idea that all fat is bad for you; the exclusive focus on adverse effects of fat may have contributed to the obesity epidemic.''
These researchers point out that there are plenty of reasons to suggest that the low-fat-is-good-health hypothesis has now effectively failed the test of time. In particular, that we are in the midst of an obesity epidemic that started around the early 1980's, and that this was coincident with the rise of the low-fat dogma. (Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, also rose significantly through this period.) They say that low-fat weight-loss diets have proved in clinical trials and real life to be dismal failures, and that on top of it all, the percentage of fat in the American diet has been decreasing for two decades. Our cholesterol levels have been declining, and we have been smoking less, and yet the incidence of heart disease has not declined as would be expected. ''That is very disconcerting,'' Willett says. ''It suggests that something else bad is happening.''


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Citrus Executive Enjoying Fruits of Perseverance
Published: Monday, November 4, 2013 at 12:52 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 4, 2013 at 12:52 a.m.
LAKELAND | Shannon Shepp needs challenges.
Shannon Ross Shepp
Age: 44.
Birthdate: April 17, 1969.
Birthplace: San Diego, Calif. Raised in Clearwater.
Parents: William "Bill" and Doris Hankins Ross of Clearwater.
Job: Deputy Executive Director for Operations and Research, Florida Department of Citrus, Bartow.
Annual Salary: $130,000.
Education: 1991, associate's degree, St. Petersburg Junior College; 1994, bachelor's degree in mass communication, University of South Florida.
Family: Husband, David Shepp, 42, a principal at Florida Strategic Group LLC in Lakeland, which lobbies state government; son, William, 13, seventh-grader at Resurrection Catholic School in Lakeland.
Greatest accomplishment: Motherhood.
Car: 2007 Volkswagen EOS.
Hobbies/interests: Any sport William plays, reading and politics.
Favorite meal: Steak night Sunday (family dinners).
Favorite book: Malcom Gladwell, "Outliers: The Story of Success."
Favorite author: Patricia Cornwell.
Favorite movie: "Angels in the Outfield," 1994. ("It could happen.")
Favorite television show: "West Wing," "Mad Men" or anything thought-provoking.
Favorite song/musician: "Brown-Eyed Girl," Van Morrison
Most memorable moment: Standing outside the top of the U.S. Capitol dome with my family in July.
Bad habit: Messy desk.
Pet peeve: Hasty judgment.
Quote: "We ain't leaving without a victory. We ain't leaving without a victory! So, y'all; Hey, my brothers, put a smile on your face, OK? Because Florida (Citrus), if we going to do it, then we do it big. Let's go baby! Let's fight!" — slightly amended quote from Jameis Winston, quarterback of the Florida State University Seminoles, delivered to his team in the locker room before its 51-14 victory over the No. 3 Clemson University Tigers on Oct. 19. It hangs on Shepp's office wall.
When she finds herself adrift in her job, her career or her life, Shepp's response to challenges set her on the right path.
Perhaps the best example occurred in 1990, when Shepp, then 21, had dropped out of Troy University in Alabama and was working as a file clerk at an insurance company.
At the family's traditional Sunday night steak dinner, her mother, Doris Ross, related a recent conversation with Shannon's aunt, Donna Ross of Brandon, who wondered what her niece, who appeared to be "floundering," was going to do with her life.
"It crushed her," Doris Ross recalled. "It made her angry. She cried."
Shepp had the same recollection, adding that she stood up immediately and fled to her room.
"I couldn't speak I was so angry," Shepp said. "Within the next week, I signed up for classes (at St. Petersburg Junior College). My attitude was, 'I'll show her.'"
Now, Shepp, 44, realizes her Aunt Donna spoke out of genuine concern and that she needed the gentle kick in the hindquarters.
"To this day, Aunt Donna gets all the credit for getting my tush in gear," she said.
What followed were two college degrees and a career that ended in her current job as deputy executive director for operations and research, the second-highest executive position at the Florida Department of Citrus, a state agency that promotes Florida citrus products.
Previously, she served as deputy commissioner of agriculture, one of the top executive posts at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Her parents acknowledged they sometimes shared the concern about their only child's future, but they also believed she would succeed ultimately.
"She had the puzzle pieces if she could just put them together," Doris Ross said. "We were always confident Shannon would put them together."
Shannon Ross Shepp was born April 17, 1969, in San Diego to William "Bill" and Doris Hankins Ross. Her father was a lieutenant and supply officer in the U.S. Navy at the time.
Her parents, both originally from Lakeland, moved to Clearwater when she was an infant. Her father joined an accounting firm there.
Most longtime Lakelanders would recognize the paternal side of her family, which includes U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, and Larry Ross, a business professor at Florida Southern College. Both are her uncles.
Shepp and her childhood friend, Charlene Dowding, 43, now of Grand Island, Neb., described living a typical West Coast Florida lifestyle of hanging out at the beach, boating and going to Disney World.
"She's a great friend. We had lots and lots of laughs together," Dowding said. "We were destined to share each other's sarcasm, and we still do."
A formative experience growing up was watching her mother successfully juggle family, school and then career responsibilities, Shepp said.
After working as an office assistant for a local plastic surgeon, Doris Ross decided to return to school and get a nursing degree, said Shepp, who was a preteen at the time. She became a registered nurse at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, eventually rising to director of the operating room until she retired in 2004.
"She's a rock star," her daughter said. "She showed me you can do anything once you make up your mind to do it."
It was that second part that didn't come readily, Shepp acknowledged.
Another turning point came at age 16, when she attended a weekend retreat through the local Roman Catholic church. It was a weekend of "deep reflection on faith, good judgment and the people in my life," she said.
Shepp grew closer to her faith and her parents, who participated in the retreat by re-affirming their love and support "no matter what happens in my life," she said.
Shepp also decided to leave her public school and entered Clearwater Central Catholic High School in her junior year, graduating in 1987. The Catholic Church has played a central part in her life since then.
"The Church became a place of comfort for me," Shepp said.
Her grades at Central Catholic enabled her to get a journalism scholarship at Troy University, said Shepp, who acknowledged she didn't keep pace with the academic demands there. She left Troy after the first quarter of her sophomore year.
Her experience at Troy led to another challenge after graduating St. Petersburg Junior College with an associate's degree in December 1991. Shepp enrolled at the University of South Florida to pursue a degree in public relations, but the School of Mass Communications initially rejected her because it required at least a 3.0 grade point average for admission.
"I cried from USF to Clearwater," she said.
But she won an appeal, in which she took full responsibility for her academic record and committed to improve in her public relations studies if given the chance, Shepp said. True to her word, she got A's and B's at USF and graduated in May 1994 with a bachelor's degree in mass communications.
That landed Shepp in her family's hometown, Lakeland, where she got a job as public affairs manager at Florida Citrus Mutual, the state's largest growers' representative. There was no more backtracking from that point.
"I definitely felt she was more comfortable with her direction in life," said her aunt, Therese Arrington, 55, of Lakeland, who babysat Shepp when she was a child and gave her a room for those first weeks at Citrus Mutual until she found an apartment. "She was eager, ready to take this on."
Arrington recalled how excited and "dressed for success" Shepp was on the morning of her first day on the job.
"It was very evident she had the capability and the determination to succeed," said Bobby McKown, then Citrus Mutual's chief executive. "She lacked the experience, but I believed she would develop, and it worked out fine."
Although she had worked in various jobs since age 16, Shepp credited McKown with teaching her the professional skills that would serve her later.
"I honestly don't think I'd be here today if not for him," she said of McKown.
One big lesson concerned the importance of timeliness, Shepp and McKown agreed.
Both recalled one day in her first weeks when Shepp arrived in the office 15 minutes late from the 8:30 a.m. starting time. That never happened again after McKown called her promptly into his office and announced she should take the day off without pay if it happened again, they said.
McKown also helped Shepp overcome another bad habit, procrastination, they agreed. That was particularly important because Shepp wrote and edited "The Triangle," Citrus Mutual's weekly newsletter that went out to more than 10,000 members.
"She was an excellent writer," McKown said. "When you have a deadline, you know what that deadline is, and you have to amend your schedule to meet it. She learned to execute."
Uncle Dennis Ross ignited an interest in politics at age 13, when she became involved in a local campaign for the state House of Representatives, Shepp said. She also worked actively in Dennis Ross' first unsuccessful campaign in 1996 for the Florida Senate.
Shepp got her first full-time exposure to state politics in May 1997 when she became government affairs director for the Polk County Builders Association. That led a year later to work as a legislative assistant to then state Rep. J.D. Alexander of Lake Wales, who later moved to the Senate.
During that time, she met David Shepp, who worked as a state government lobbyist and shared her passions for politics and family. They met at Molly McHugh's Irish Pub in Lakeland, where they talked mostly politics until 2 a.m., she said.
"After that night, that was pretty much it," said Shepp, referring to her single life.
They married a year later on Nov. 27, 1999. Their only child, William, arrived on Oct. 12, 2000.
Being a mother is her most important job in life, Shepp said. A major reason she left her job as deputy commissioner of agriculture in July is that it required too many trips to Tallahassee, taking time away from William, from her main office in Winter Haven.
"Shannon Shepp was a great member of the team, and she left behind big shoes to fill," said Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam. "I have no doubt she'll be a great asset to the Department of Citrus."
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Where Are America's Working Mothers?
Ahead of Mother's Day, a new report offers a geographic and historical look at working motherhood in the U.S.
Among the findings: South Dakota is the state with the highest percentage of working mothers in the United States, according to a new analysis of 150 years of U.S. Census data compiled by the online history database Ancestry.com.
The Mount Rushmore state has topped the nation in working mothers per capita for the past three decades, according to Ancestry.com, which collaborated with a team of historians at the University of Minnesota to crunch the numbers going back to 1860.
Michelle Ercanbrack, a historian who works for Ancestry.com is careful to note that "any mother is a working mother," but the purposes of this survey, working mothers are defined as women who reported having an occupation to the Census bureau and who lived at the time with at least one child in their household.
The report highlights dramatic shifts in the landscape of the American workforce. In 1860, according to the data, just 7.5% of the nation's mothers worked outside of the house. By 2010, that figure stood at 67%.
The proportion of working mothers grew by double-digit percentages each decade from 1950 to 1990, a spike initially attributed to World War II, which pulled millions of women into the workforce for the first time, and sustained in part by the Civil Rights movement, overall economic prosperity and the rise of single mothers.
In 2013, there were some 10 million single mothers in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 1970, according to Census figures.
As of the latest Census, 79.9% of mothers in South Dakota worked, and the state is one of several Midwestern states in the top 10. That's a sharp reversal from 1930, when the state ranked at the very bottom of the list.
Ercanbrack speculates that because the region's economy was largely agricultural a century ago, Midwestern women were unlikely to report having jobs outside of helping to run the farm. Today, South Dakota has one of the nation's lowest unemployment rates, with large service and tourism industries, and its neighbor to the north is enjoying a booming oil industry.
Meanwhile, southern states such as South Carolina and Alabama, which reported some of the highest rates of working mothers in 1930, now populate the bottom of the list. Ercanbrack says the earlier rates of working mothers in the region were inflated by the lingering effects of Reconstruction; today's relatively low percentages may be a symptom of high unemployment generally.
Todd Goffrey, who acquires historical records for Ancestry.com, says he hopes the data will spur more researchers to look into the shifts in motherhood and employment, and working mothers' influence on the American labor market. But he also views the statistics as a window into the lives of individual ancestors, many of whom left behind few records aside from their answers to Census questions.
"Think about our typical member, who sees Grandma [in a Census report] and is trying to understand why she was the way she was," he says. "These trends are a piece of the puzzle."
Click the graphics tab above to explore the data.
Related: Ancestry.com's Michelle Ercanbrack discusses the finding on the News Hub.


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Member Mark Reid shared the following query he received and his response:
The query: I am trying to find the exact location of the grave of Matthew MCCREIGHT, listed with one other grave between Alba and Yantis, on Hwy. 154. I believe this to be the grave of my G-G-Grandfather, I don't know who the other grave could be. If any body has a picture of the head stone, I would certainly appreciate a copy. If all this other fails, possibly the e-mail address of someone who could help me.
This grave should date from the late 1840's to the 1850's. My Great Grandfather Thomas Newton McCright is listed on the Wood County Tax rolls during the 1850's paying taxes on 100 acres in Western Wood County. Matthew would be Thomas's father. I expect Matthew is buried on the land that Thomas was farming.
Thank you very much;
John McCright
Mark's Response: According to our cemetery book 4, pg 157, Matthew McCreight 10 August 1833 – 9 Feb 1902 and Winney Allen McCreight _____ – 2 August 1879 are buried in a family cemetery located as you describe. Apparently the researcher was unable to find the cemetery. Headstone information was obtained from a member of the family.
Highway 154 runs from Quitman to Yantis and the grave site is said to be close to the "Pleasant Divide" community.
If any family member can give a better description of the location, I will be glad to go there (assuming I can get permission to cross private property) and photograph whatever marker I can find.
If you have additional information share, you can contact John McCright at the email address above. Also, please post a copy of the response as a comment to this post.


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Sage Francis wrote: despite Carson Faily saying their name wrong and calling the album Angels instead of Angles, this is going really well.
damn good.
Troxell wrote: Also, I found it very funny at the end when you could just tell Carson Daly wasn't going to try to say "ANGELS" again. "here's their record... um.... it's fantastic... goodnight"


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Eagle Public Library will host a free, live performance with Colorado musician Jeff Van Devender at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28. He will perform his original music on digital piano as he shares stories about his various pieces.
JavaMusiK's Van Devender is a versatile pianist who plays a diverse range of tunes, including pop, classical and light jazz. He has been a piano composer and arranger for more than three decades.
Fans have referred to his music, with its unique blend of piano technique and flair, as "a coffeehouse for your spirit." His music also has been described as Jim Brickman introducing George Winston to Elton John. His piano melodies blend classical, jazz and subtle rock influences with a touch of soul. Listeners are transported to another time and place.
His wordless melodies project a mood or environment of a topical nature. He has said that while composing, a melody cannot be forced. "When it is ready, it will arrive. Sometimes I set a table for the melody's arrival, but I often have to make a choice to be patient. Other times, a melody will just materialize without warning and I must quickly work before it vanishes!"
Van Devender comes from a musical background. His father was a band director and his mother was church choir director. He received his master's degree in musical education from the VanderCook College of Music.
Van Devender taught at Gypsum Elementary School during the early 1990s. During his tenure as a music teacher there, he was asked to write the school song. A copy of that song was placed in the time capsule of the building's cornerstone.
Currently Van Devender is an elementary music teacher in New Castle, as well as the full-time organist/pianist at First United Methodist Church in Glenwood Springs and at St. John's Episcopal in New Castle. He has performed at many venues over the years - charity events, festivals, ceremonies, weddings, churches, concerts, art shows, restaurants and hotels.
Van Devender was certified "Top 100" by the International Association of Independent Recording Artists in 2010. He has composed and arranged more than 40 pieces for piano. He has released three CDs: "Ascend," "Bending Chords" and "Don't Ever Forget." The Eagle Library has these CDs in its audio collection for check-out. Van Devender will also have his CDs for sale at the library after his performance.
The Eagle Library has been open on Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. for more than 10 years, and I often talk with people who are not aware the library is available to them during this special time of the week. I have noticed several patrons who do know these hours making it part of their weekly routine. It provides a nice family outing as well.
So, please join us at 2 p.m. for a musical hour on Sunday, Oct. 28. Kick back and enjoy Jeff's relaxing music on a Sunday afternoon at the library.
For more information about this event, please call me at 328-8800. For more information about Van Devender's music, or to hear a sampling of his songs, you can visit www.JavaMusik.com.


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Tiny Animated Film 'Ernest & Celestine' Takes On Disney, DreamWorks at Oscars
By now, producer Didier Brunner is accustomed to being the underdog in the Oscar race for best animated feature. His "Triplets of Belleville" lost to Pixar's "Finding Nemo" in 2003, and "The Secret of Kells" lost to Disney/Pixar's "Up" in 2009. ("The Old Lady and the Pigeons" also lost to Pixar in the animated short category back in 1998.)
Brunner learned yesterday that "Ernest & Célestine" is the latest Oscar nod for his production company, Les Armateurs. "My assistant came into my office and said, 'We're nominated! We're nominated!'" he told Speakeasy in a phone call from Paris.
"Ernest & Célestine," directed by Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, is based on characters from books by Belgian writer-illustrator Gabrielle Vincent. "We asked a very famous French novelist, Daniel Pennac, to invent an original story with those two characters," said Brunner. The result is a film about two creatures who come from very different worlds—a mouse and a bear—and form an unlikely bond. Brunner confirmed it will open in U.S. theaters in March after the Oscars.
The French producer originally proposed the film to Renner, who was just beginning his film career out of school, after seeing the young director's first short film "La Queue de la Souris" ("A Mouse's Tale"). "He was very afraid to do, alone, the direction of a film, which is a long feature," said Brunner, who then proposed adding Aubier and Patar to the project on the recommendation of a Belgian producer. The directors were given one month to try and work together and develop a storyboard. "The result was so rich and constructive and creative between the three guys," said Brunner, "that we decided to make the film with three directors."
The filmmakers face formidable competition this year: Disney's "Frozen," DreamWorks Animation's "The Croods," Universal Pictures' "Despicable Me 2"—as well as "The Wind Rises," the final film from Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki. "I feel like little Tom Thumb," said Brunner. "I'm an outsider."
Even at the height of the film's production, Brunner said the team consisted of only 50 to 60 people, including 30 animators and 10 assistant animators. And though he credits the big animation studios as "being more efficient than us," he is happy to be in the race.
Brunner also credits GKIDS, their American distributor, with lobbying effectively for the film. GKIDS also proposed several American actors for dubbing the film in English, and came up with a roster that includes Forest Whitaker, Lauren Bacall and William H. Macy, among others. The process of casting, plus voice work, took three to four months, he said.
Still, Brunner is tempering expectations. "We have very, very little chance, but we believe in the film and the capacity of the film to seduce the academy," he said. "And of course, we will attend the Oscar ceremony with the heart beating very strongly."
As for what's next, Brunner has three projects in the works. The first is an animation for adults adapted from the French bestseller "The Swallows of Kabul," which tells the story of two wives in Afghanistan who are condemned to jail because they don't want to obey the rules under the Taliban. The second is called "French Riviera," which Brunner describes as a thriller and a comedy. And the third is called "Marzi," about a young girl in Poland during the fall of Communism.
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"Simply astounding. . . . The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer." — Time
A literary prize-winner that has been an explosive bestseller all over the world, Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones has been called "a brilliant Holocaust novel… a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and force," and "relentlessly fascinating, ambitious beyond scope," by Michael Korda (Ike, With Wings Like Eagles). Destined to join the pantheon of classic epics of war such as Tolstoy's War and Peace and Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, The Kindly Ones offers a profound and gripping experience of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust.
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A former Nazi officer, Dr. Maximilien Aue has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. An intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music, he is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Eichmann, Himmler, Göring, Speer, Heydrich, Höss—even Hitler himself—play a role in Max's story. An intense and hallucinatory historical epic, The Kindly Ones is also a morally challenging read. It holds a mirror up to humanity—and the reader cannot look away.
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Desiree Bell is inspired by botanicals and natural materials. She is a vegetarian who has a certificate in herbal studies and a certificate from Australasian College of Health Sciences in Aromatherapy. Visit her blog Beyond A Garden.
Peppermint (Mentha ×pipertia) is one of the most widely known mint species in North America. Peppermint, which does not produce seed, is a sterile hybrid of spearmint (Mentha spicata) and water mint (Mentha aquatica). Commercial growers plant peppermint from certified rootstock, and once planted it regrows each year. Most growers rotate peppermint with other crops on a three- to four-year cycle.
Commercial growers in the northwest harvest and distill their peppermint crops in the months of July and August. After the plant is cut it cures in windows for several days, allowing moisture to evaporate from the leaves. Then the dry peppermint is chopped and blown directly into a distilling tub that is mounted on a truck or trailer.
The tub is then taken to a distillery where live steam under pressure is applied to the chopped peppermint in the sealed tub to extract the essential oil. The steam and vaporized oil then pass into a coil where the mixture is cooled and condensed. The water and oil then flow into a separator where the natural difference in density separates the oil from the heavier water.
The pure peppermint oil is tapped off the top into a 55-gallon storage drum. One drum can flavor 5 million sticks of gum or 400,000 tubes of toothpaste. It takes approximately 10,000 pounds of the dry peppermint plant to yield about 84 pounds of peppermint oil. The peppermint oil is sold to a "handler" who blends oils from different locations to the specification of the end user so the taste is consistent.
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Besides gum and toothpaste, peppermint oil is used for ice cream, candy, cookies and pharmaceutical flavorings. It is also used medicinally for indigestion, nausea, sore throat, diarrhea, headaches and toothaches.
The waste water from the distillation process can be recycled to feed the boiler to make steam for processing the next batch of peppermint oil or it can be bottled (preferably organic) and used as a hydrosol. Peppermint hydrosol can be spritzed on the face during hot weather to rehydrate the skin; and due to the chemical component menthol, peppermint can also be used as a compress for inflammation.
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My PS3 displays very poor quality video when reading from my Windows 7 Media Centre PC. The picture is pixellated and overlaid with a dithered speckly pattern which is most noticeable when there is movement in the picture. It is as if the video has been compressed much too far. There is also some stuttering and jerkiness on the video, as if the picture pauses briefly at regular intervals of about 1 second.
The PS3 has been set to search for Media Servers on the network and finds my Windows 7 PC which has Media Centre installed for recording TV. When I access that PC from the PS3, either from the Video | "All media" section or the Video | Folders section and then follow the shared folders, programmes play but are corrupted.
If I copy a recording to a pen drive (having overcome the hurdles of formatting the pen drive as FAT32 rather than NTFS and having created a root-level folder VIDEO) and play it from there, the recording plays perfectly. OK so it's not precisely the same file because Windows Media Centre will only see WTV and DRV-MS files (and not MPG, MP4 or WMV files) in its Recorded TV folder, whereas the PS3 cannot see WTV or DRV-MS and can only see MPG, MP4 or WMV on the pen drive.
These are SD (not HD) recordings at 704x576 ("PAL resolution" rather than "NTSC resolution") and they play faultlessly on the PC using various player software such as Windows Media Centre, Windows Media Player and VideoLAN VLC.
Evidently there is something about the act of playing the videos over the LAN from Windows Media Centre which is corrupting the display. The PS3 and WMC PC are connected by Ethernet (not wireless). The bandwidth is sufficient to play the videos perfectly over the LAN on a Windows 7 laptop (using Windows Media Centre, Windows Media Player or VideoLAN VLC) by directly accessing the shared folder that is on the WMC PC (ie not using the streaming capabilities of Windows Media Centre).
Here are photographs of the same screen, fed firstly from the PS3 and second from the Windows Media Centre PC, displaying similar frames from the same .WTV file, firstly using the PS3's video playing app and secondly using the Windows Media Centre app. I've left the photos very large so fine details such as the pixellation and compression artefacts on the PS3 version are visible.
Any suggestions? I'd hoped that the PS3 would be able to be used to watch recorded TV that is saved on my PC, but I may have to revert to the alternative plan of using a Win7 laptop for playing them - with it connected by HDMI (as the PS3 is) to the TV.
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The tremendous growth in the pipeline has been made possible by the steady flow of VC money into the biopharmaceutical sector. VC investment in bio/pharma grew rapidly in the second half of the 1990s, from $800 million in 1995 to $4 billion in 2000, a fivefold increase. That rapid growth was part of a VC explosion driven by the advent of the Internet, which created opportunities for new investment in software, telecommunications, and media and entertainment.
After the dotcom bubble burst in 2001, overall VC investment dropped like a stone, from $104 billion in 2000 to $40 billion in 2001 to $22 billion in 2002. However, venture financing going to bio/pharma remained remarkably robust through the decade and the number of deals per year actually grew from about 350 in 2000 to almost 500 in 2008. By 2005, bio/pharma had become 20% of all VC investment in the US, averaging over $4.1 billion annually.BOOM TO BUST
Venture capital's largess toward the bio/pharma industry came to a screeching halt in the last quarter of 2008 and first half of 2009. VC investment in bio/pharma dropped 18% in the fourth quarter of 2008 from the third quarter, and it tumbled a further 46% in the first quarter of 2009 to just $500 million.
The funding cutbacks have forced bio/pharma companies to either shut down altogether or cutback on the number of candidates they can work on simultaneously. PharmSource analyzed 27 publicly reported restructuring events at small bio/pharma companies (public and private) in the first half of 2009 and found that those companies stopped development work on 46% of the candidates in their pipelines. At least another 10 companies went out of business altogether.
In addition to reducing the overall funds available, the decline in financing has altered the pace of decision making at the early-stage companies. It appears that companies need approval from their board of directors on every major spending decision, including work being done by contract research, development, and manufacturing organizations (CROs and CDMOs). The spending process now appears to involve collecting request for proposals from vendors, selecting a vendor, negotiating final terms, and then seeking board approval for release of funds. This has lengthened the commitment process considerably from the days when companies received tranches of funds from investors and could proceed to spend it as necessary.


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The MLBPAs Players Choice group licensing program utilizes the collective marketing power of Major League Baseball players to assist licensees and sponsors who want to associate their brands and products with the excitement that Major Leaguers can provide. Through an individual agreement with each player, the MLBPA holds the exclusive, worldwide right to use, license and sublicense the names, numbers, nicknames, likenesses, signatures and other personal indicia (known as publicity rights) of active Major League Baseball players who are its members for use in connection with any product, brand, service or product line when more than two players are involved.
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Catherine "Kitty" Houghton, of Novato, had traveled to New Hampshire for board meetings at the White Mountain School in Bethlehem. She graduated from there in 1960.
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I found this great app to be an excellent way to play the Sierra classic "Quest For Glory". There is a Mac version but it involves mucking about with older system software, ROM images and Sheepshaver.
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