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The Best Salt for the Home Kitchen
When it comes to salt, there's no need to break the bank. For everyday cooking and baking, we would recommend Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt ($2.65 for 3 lbs.) for its purity, consistency, low cost, and overseasoning-proof crystal shape. For finishing dishes, we recommend Maldon Sea Salt Flakes ($5.69 for 8.5 oz.) because the unique flake shape provides a pleasant, clean pop of salinity when sprinkled over foods.
How Did We Choose?
These picks are the result of ten hours of research through articles from books, trusted publications, and blogs, enthusiast forums, as well as chats with chefs, bakers, and food writers from different parts of the culinary spectrum. And though it wasn't totally unanimous, these were the two picks that we tallied the most nods for, with consensus from the supporters on why they're great.
Salt is the easiest, cheapest way to improve nearly everything that comes out of the kitchen.
It's one of the tongue's five key tastes. Food scientist Harold McGee tells the New York Times that salt increases "the volatility of some aromatic substances in food, and it enhances our perception of some aromas, so it can make the overall flavor of a food seem more intense." In baking, salt can help with the volume and gluten structure of rising dough. When added to boiling water, it keeps green vegetables bright. We like salt so much that we also devote countless articles and bookshelf space to advising its reduction in our diet.
Most savory recipes call for adding salt and pepper to taste, because palates and salt types differ. This can be frustrating for new cooks—how do you know the right amount to use? Seasoning your food to your liking means establishing a long-term relationship with your salt of choice—knowing how much your fingers can grab, watching how evenly it distributes over your food, and learning, with practice, the right amount to use for your taste. Once you have that tactile memory for a particular type of salt, it can be hard to adjust to a different one.
Most people are already familiar with the tiny cubes of Morton's iodized salt, which is very cheap and widely available. Then there are a few brands of refined kosher salts, finely granulated sea salts, less refined, chunky sea salts from around the world, delicate, translucent flake salts, and expensive fleur de sel, which the New York Times calls "the crème de la crème of salt."
But salt is usually just a supporting player. We talked to Dan Barber, chef/owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan, NY and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, NY, who says, "I think with the best salts, you're not tasting the flavor of salt but bringing out the flavor of the thing you're seasoning." A multi-purpose salt should not mask the flavors of your dish. It should work equally well for seasoning meat or for dispersion in pastries.
Whether you're still a kitchen amateur or a seasoned pro (ahem), you'll likely need a lot of salt. If you've already gotten used to something different, adjusting to Diamond Crystal's volume and lighter salinity may take some time. But since it's so cheap, we recommend that you buy a box and try it out.
If you want to take your presentation to the next level, adding the Maldon Sea Salt to your arsenal will add a little zing to your finished dishes (and make you look like a connoisseur).
Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt for General Use
The pros may keep several types of salt in their pantries, but they're generally sticking to their one true salt for multi-purpose use. And for many of the chefs and food writers I spoke to, that is Diamond Crystal kosher salt, widely touted as "the industry standard."
As Serious Eats's J. Kenji López-Alt recently explained, "The biggest reason why chefs love to use kosher salt is that it is much easier to pick up between your fingers and thus gives you tighter control over your seasoning." The term "kosher salt" often refers not to a religious blessing, but to a coarse crystal shape meant to aid "kashering," the Jewish practice of drawing blood and other impurities from meat. (Think of savory cured pastrami, corned beef, and salty lox.) Kosher salt provides distinct advantages when it comes to manual dispensation. The qualities that make salt good for kashering–large crystals, textured enough to stick to food and cover it without dissolving completely into the meat–also make kosher salt easy to grip and spread on any food.
The two most widely available kosher salts are Diamond Crystal kosher salt and Morton's kosher salt. Between the two, Diamond Crystal is the clear favorite among the pros. This may be because, teaspoon for teaspoon, Morton's is actually much saltier than Diamond Crystal.
Both Edward Schneider of the New York Times' Diner's Journal and Jill Santopietro of Chow explored this phenomenon. Both writers were Diamond Crystal devotees and had dishes ruined by the heavier Morton's. Diamond Crystal kosher salt crystals, formed with the patented Alberger method, are lighter and flakier, "like several upside-down pyramids stacked one over the next to form a crystal," Santopietro explains; Morton's kosher salt is created when dense salt cubes are crushed into heavy flakes between rollers. (You can see the difference in crystal shape in these photos.) Schneider weighed a cup of Morton's kosher vs. a cup of Diamond Crystal and found that "a tablespoon of Morton's kosher salt is the equivalent of 1.85 tablespoons of Diamond Crystal." Just check out the nutrition labels: a ¼ teaspoon of Diamond Crystal kosher salt has 280mg of sodium, whereas the same amount of Morton's has 480mg of sodium.
That fluffy shape helps protect against overseasoning, which can't be corrected as easily as undersalting, making it a good choice for noobs as well as pros. Cookwise author Shirley O. Corriher tells Chow's Santopietro, "Major restaurants use Diamond Crystal because if they have some kid who throws too much salt into a dish, he's less likely to oversalt it."
Chemically, there's not a huge difference between Diamond Crystal and the dozens of other salts you can find at high-end grocery shops. All salts, whether they are hand-collected from the surface of French salt marshes, boiled down from brine wells, or dug from rock salt mines, are mostly sodium chloride. Some of the less refined salts, like Himalayan pink salt or moist, French gray salt, get their colors and flavors from trace minerals such as iron oxide, calcium, magnesium, and sulfates. These notes are most prominent when large salt crystals are used to finish a dish, and less prominent when the salt is mixed in.
A lack of additives, such as iodide and anti-caking agents, also set Diamond Crystal apart from some other brands. In fact, in his essay, "Salt Chic," from It Must Have Been Something I Ate, a chemical analysis sent in by Jeffrey Steingarten found that, among the 13 salts he tested, Diamond Crystal "contains the least amount of nearly everything other than sodium chloride."
Morton's kosher salt contains the anti-caking agent yellow prussiate of soda (which also goes by the less friendly chemical name, sodium ferrocyanide.) Free flow is important to Morton's identity—their famous slogan, "When it rains, it pours," refers to their salt's ability to pour, even when it's humid. According to the Salt Institute, a trade association, yellow prussiate of soda is "the most frequently used additive" for this purpose.
Morton's iodized salt, the inexpensive table salt in the iconic blue cylinder, contains potassium iodide, a nutrient which was added in 1924 to help prevent goiter, a condition that was more prevalent when we got most of our food from the iodine-deficient middle U.S. (Goiter is no longer a big problem in the U.S. since we get our food from all over the world, including coastal regions where iodine is more prevalent in crops. Taste of Home explains that "we also get iodine from seafood, dairy products, and drinking water"; however, iodized salt remains a key way of introducing the nutrient to the diet in other parts of the world.) It also contains calcium silicate as an anti-caking agent.
But Harold McGee reported in the New York Times on two studies that show that people can taste the difference between salts; in the Journal of Sensory Studies, Stephenie L. Drake and MaryAnne Drake's panel tasted salts dissolved into distilled water and "noted a total of 10 different tastes and smells in the salts, many fewer than the wine-like profusion of qualities celebrated by salt specialists." And the Culinary Institute of America's Chef David Kamen and Dr. Christopher Loss tested the flavor of salts with foods (chicken stock, bratwurst, and mashed potatoes); McGee reports that the panel prefers the taste of the sea salt over the kosher salt. McGee also says, "Considered together, the two studies suggest that it would take an unusually sensitive palate to be offended by the taste of ordinary salt, or to notice a difference in foods prepared with different salts. So there's probably no need to rewrite all those cookbooks or throw out the kosher salt."
Three of the chefs I spoke to dismissed iodized salt for its chemically, unpleasant flavor. David Lebovitz calls it "bitter-salty". And there's no doubt that pure salt is better for pickling, since additives can affect the color of pickles and the clarity of pickling liquid. (But that's probably an edge case in most kitchens.)
Diamond Crystal kosher salt's fluffy crystal does not lend itself as well to dry ingredient distribution.Price matters with an ingredient as heavily used as salt, and the cheapest salt is less than 1/100 the price of the most expensive salt we considered. Diamond Crystal kosher salt is a bargain — a 3 lb. box should set you back about $2.65, or about 5.5 cents per ounce. Though Morton's Iodized Salt in the iconic navy cylinder is even cheaper, at about 3.8 cents per ounce, a fancy Fleur de Sel de Guèrande can go for $4 per ounce.
The reviewers point to one major drawback — Diamond Crystal kosher salt's fluffy crystal does not lend itself as well to dry ingredient distribution. Baking recipe gurus like Dorie Greenspan, Rose Levy Berenbaum, and Perelman say that they use a fine grained salt for recipes that include salt measurements. In Cook's Illustrated, table salt performed the best in the biscuit test because its smaller, denser crystals were more evenly distributed. Perelman used to test her recipes using Diamond Crystal kosher salt, but changed after hearing many complaints. "I can't tell you how often readers would tell me that something was too salty," she says. In order to save her readers from ruin, she started using table salt to test her recipes.
In many professional kitchens that bake in large volume, bakers weigh salt rather than measure by volume, which provides consistency and leeway on crystal density; in the case of Blue Hill, they're using a fine French sea salt in their breads and pastries. But Ben Mims, pastry chef at Bar Agricole in San Francisco and former Food Editor at Saveur, says that he uses Diamond Crystal kosher salt in cakes and pastries that he makes at home without issue because he understands the right amount to use. "If you use 1 teaspoon of kosher salt, you would need to use half the amount of fine salt," he says. He also offers a tip for dissolving the big crystals of kosher salt in baking. "Say I'm making a cake, I incorporate salt by putting it in the butter with the sugar and creaming it," he says. Another modification to try is to crush the crumbly Diamond Crystal kosher salt crystals with the back of a spoon before measuring so that the volume and granule size more closely matches that of fine salt.
Not everyone is a fan of kosher salt. Mark Bitterman, author of Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral and Salt Block Cooking, owner of specialty salt shop The Meadow, and self-professed salt freak, told us, "Our palate is super attuned to the artificiality of refined salt. We just don't recognize it because we've been raised on it our entire lives." He calls kosher salt cheap and industrial. "What I'm saying is anathema to what every chef will tell you. Every chef will tell you to use kosher salt, and every chef will give you a lot of reasons why, but the funny thing is they're all wrong," he says. Bitterman advocates instead for people to have three kinds of salt in the house — fleur de sel for finishing, sel gris for all-purpose use (including for pasta water), and flake salt for delicate dishes like salads. As for the expense, he argues, "it will still only cost you about a penny per serving. So it's still cheaper than the olive oil you use to fry your vegetables in. It's cheaper than a slice of cucumber."
Dan Barber of Blue Hill prefers to use French sea salt for its "less aggressive salinity", though he will fall back on kosher salt when his preferred salt is not available.
Who else likes it?
Cook's Illustrated recommends Diamond Crystal kosher salt for its "clean, sweet flavor" on tenderloin. Martha Stewart praises Diamond Crystal's "clean flavor great for both cooking and baking". Bon Appetit offers Diamond Crystal its Seal of Approval: "Its coarse flakes are just right for pinching (unlike fine table salt), it's easy to see where they land, and they dissolve quickly." It's also the salt of choice in the Serious Eats test kitchen and the Saveur test kitchen.
After much experimentation, Brandon Pettit of Delancey and Essex in Seattle settled on Diamond Crystal for his pizza and pretzel doughs. "If we could have only one salt, it would be this one," he explains. "I feel like it has a clean taste, dissolves easily, is uniform in size, and easy to feel in your fingers."
You might be surprised to learn (as I was) that though we associate Thai food with fish sauce, Northern Thai food has traditionally been salt-based, as the region is quite far from any source of fish. While Andy Ricker, chef/owner of Pok Pok in Portland and New York City, uses salt pumped and refined from ancient Thai brine wells when cooking in Thailand, he says readily available Diamond Crystal kosher salt is what his kitchens use for all-purpose needs Stateside because "it's consistent. If you weigh a cup of that, it's always going to weigh the same every time." After all, he says, "It's not wine, it's salt!"
And in discussions on the eGullet forum, Chowhound boards, and the Food52 Hotline, Diamond Crystal gets the most love.
*At the time of publishing, the price was $6.
Maldon Sea Salt for Finishing
We've established that, once dissolved, the difference in flavor between the $4 an ounce salt and the 3.8 cents an ounce salt is difficult to distinguish. But flavor and crystal shape make a big difference when salt sprinkled on top of a dish just before serving. Mark Bitterman told us that he advocates for people not to use more salt during the cooking process, but to use better salt as a sort of condiment for greater flavor impact. "At the end, fling a finishing salt on the top of your food, and now you have the salt playing off your mouth and your food, and they're going to dance together," he says.
Chefs use this technique, too. Andy Ricker might finish with regionally appropriate Vietnamese rock salt, which he pounds with rock sugar and chiles in order to create a specific moist texture that sticks to the green mango he serves in a Vietnamese dish.
There is one salt that wins consistently high marks for taste with nearly everyone when used at the end of cooking. "My favorite, favorite, favorite is Maldon Sea Salt," says Deb Perelman. "If I'm making myself an egg, I finish with it."
Maldon Sea Salt Flakes are harvested traditionally in the estuaries of Essex, England. The thin, translucent flakes look like thin shards of ice atop finished dishes. Because there's a lot of surface area to the crystal, it hits the tongue with a crisp pop of salt, which complements meats, crisp vegetables, or chocolate and caramel desserts well. Though the salt is considerably more expensive than Diamond Crystal kosher salt, it can be used sparingly.
Brandon Pettit finishes the pretzels at Essex with Maldon. He also sprinkles it on vegetables and salads at Delancey in Seattle, "when you don't want to mess up the texture with grey salt."
Chef Andrew Carmellini of Locanda Verde in New York tells Time Out, "I really like Maldon for finishing. It melts really well and isn't outrageously expensive."
Martha Stewart (video) praises its "very intense flavor…I love this on sliced tomatoes." Bon Appetit also gives Maldon its Seal of Approval. They rave, "When it comes to Sea Salt, Maldon is in a class of its own." Cook's Illustrated says, "This hand-harvested salt won the tenderloin test by a clear margin because tasters judged the delicately crunchy flakes to be a perfect match with meat." New York Magazine compares the pretty flakes to "sequins", and critic Adam Platt calls it "easily my favorite" in a taste test. Among Slate's panel of judges, "It won big in the finger taste test, where its 'extreme texture' had a 'gentle flavor.'"
It's not as cheap as Diamond Crystal. An 8.5-ounce box will set you back about $6. But a standard box can last a very long time if you're only using it to add a little sparkle before you bring something to the table.
The competition
Fleur de sel de Guérande ($10 for 4.4 oz), a moist, chunky salt rich in magnesium from the Brittany region in northwest France, is hand-raked from the top layer of the salt marsh. It scored high marks for its smooth, clean flavor with Slate and David Lebovitz. In "Salt Chic", Jeffrey Steingarten claims to carry a small walnut box filled with fleur de sel from nearby Île de Ré. It's a worthy addition to your cabinet if you can stomach the steep price, though Dorie Greenspan urges you not to use it "when you've got lots of bold spices in a dish — it'll get swamped."
Fleur de sel de Camargue ($11.50 for 4.4 oz) is harvested on the other side of France, off of the Mediterranean rather than the Atlantic. It performed well in the Cook's Illustrated test, but some found it to be "gritty".
La Baleine fine sea salt ($3.33 for 26.5 oz) was praised by Cook's Illustrated for its "clean, sweet, mild flavor", but those powdery granules can be difficult to sprinkle evenly with the fingers. It is a little less salty, by volume, than table salt, at 540 mg of sodium per ¼ teaspoon compared to Morton's iodized salt's 590 mg. While La Baleine doesn't have iodide, it does have an added anti-caking agent.
Morton's iodized salt ($1 for 26 oz.) is the cheapest and most widely available of the top brands. It won praise from Cook's Illustrated testers for its even distribution in a biscuit, but some chefs consider its taste bitter and chemically.
The Esprit du Sel Grey Sea Salt ($10 for 14.3 oz.), harvested near Île de Ré in France, is cheaper than fleur de sel de Guèrande but comes from nearby salt marshes. Its grey color comes from the clay in the ponds, adding a minerally flavor that Brandon Pettit says pairs well with the dark chocolate in the cookies he serves at Delancey. But its moist, dense texture and assertive mineral flavor can be too heavy for liberal finishing.
Wrapping it up
Diamond Crystal kosher salt and Maldon Sea Salt are pantry essentials for both serious and learning cooks. The $9 you'll spend on these two boxes of salt won't make you a better cook right away, but they will help you learn to season like a pro. If you've got the money, expand your salt selection by all means, especially for high-impact flourish when you serve.
Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt
Best Salt for the Home Kitchen
*At the time of publishing, the price was $3
Harold McGee on Salt, New York Times, August 9, 2008"I'm not sure that salt makes sugar taste sweeter, but it fills out the flavor of foods, sweets included. It's an important component of taste in our foods, so if it's missing in a given dish, the dish will taste less complete or balanced."
Baker's Reference, King Arthur Flour"Salt by its nature is hygroscopic, that is, it attracts moisture. In the presence of salt, the yeast releases some of its water to the salt by osmosis, and this in turn slows the yeast's fermentation or reproductive activities."
Ask the Food Lab: Do I Need to Use Kosher Salt?, Serious Eats, March 14, 2013"It means that if you are measuring by volume, different types of salt are not interchangeable. A cup of table salt will have twice the salting power of a cup of Diamond Crystal Kosher salt."
- Warning: Measure Your Salt, New York Times Diner's Journal, April 28, 2010 ,
- That's So Salty! It's Not Salty Enough., Chow, June 2, 2010 ,
Salt Chic, It Must Have Been Something I Ate, May 2001"Now we know that most of the chic salts could be distinguished just by their taste, but not always with a high level of statistical significance and not always to the detriment of Diamond Crystal."
Salt, On Food and Cooking"Iodine deficiency was once common in inland areas, and is still a significant problem in rural China. It causes both physical and mental impairment, especially in children."
Salt, Cook's Illustrated, September 1, 2002"But mineral content is so low in sea salt that any effect these minerals might have on flavor was lost when a teaspoon of salt was stirred into a big pot of chicken stock."
- Worth One's Salt, Slate, April 26, 2005 ,
- The Curious History of Kosher Salt, The Forward, March 16, 2013 ,
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LIBERTY - A Warren woman was one of two employees of an Internet cafe on Belmont Avenue arrested Friday morning during a raid at the establishment.
Police said as of Friday afternoon they were still trying to locate the business owner, who was not named. The business, Belmont Sweeps, 3103 Belmont Ave., was ordered closed.
Amber Almhaiat, 27, of Warren, and Patricia Micochero, 45, of Tallmadge in Summit County, each were charged with operating a gambling house, a misdemeanor. They each were released on their own recognizance and likely will be scheduled to appear in court next week.
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Liberty was raided by police Friday. Two employees were arrested on misdemeanor charges and released until they appear in court next week.
Liberty police Chief Richard Tisone said the raid came after a two-week investigation into illegal gambling activities at the establishment.
He said a warrant, secured from Girard Municipal Court, was served on the business about 10:20 a.m. He said officers removed 33 suspected gambling machines, an unspecified amount of cash, various documents and weapons.
Tisone said that during their investigation, undercover detectives gathered evidence that gambling was occurring at the business.
"A lot of it was based on their observations and information they collected," Tisone said, noting the Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office and Girard Municipal Court assisted with the investigation.
Belmont Sweepstakes is one of five Internet cafes in Liberty, and Tisone said he believes it has been operating at least a year.
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shannyover a year ago
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Not something I've told many people about, but I did use craigslist for a random hookup out of curiosity. I had always looked on the website and read other people's ads for men seeking women and vice versa.. and out of boredom and curiosity I responded to a guy's ad saying he was looking for someone in my age group and in my area of the city. We talked online first and agreed that we would meet at his apartment because I didn't feel comfortable with him knowing where I lived. I let one friend (who I knew wouldn't be judgmental!) know exactly where he lived and at what time I'd be going there. I promised that I would call her as soon as I left his place. I really feel like if you're going to do something like this, you need to have a safety plan so that someone knows where you are. You don't want to think something bad could come from this, but you just never know and it's better to be safe about it. We hooked up a little but didn't actually have sex - there just wasn't a connection and I couldn't go through with it. It felt awkward and forced. He was luckily understanding and I left after an about an hour, and we never spoke again!! I thought it could be exciting and somewhat rebellious but soon realized that even if I'm going to hook up with someone and not expect a relationship.. I still need to be attracted to the person and need some time to build a flirtatious relationship. I'm still all about NSA hookups, but would rather it come from meeting someone at a bar and going home with them rather than responding to someone's ad who I really don't have any information on.
sexpertover a year ago
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Okay, I will admit, I'm one of those girls who have used the internet to find online booty calls. I just used a regular dating site, okcupid.com (love it!) and posted that NSA sex was something that I was possibly interested in, with the right person.
Coming from a girl's perspective (although most guys will probably also agree with me), safety was of utmost importance. I made my demands clear at the beginning (things like condom only, not BDSM the first time out, etc). and found that it was much easier to negotiate these things online. When you are online, and can see someone's profile, you can figure out if you can stand to be around this person for more than five minutes. Just because you are not looking for a long term relationship doesn't mean that you want to sleep with a jerk.
I think there is a myth out there that says that if you are interested in NSA sex, that you are undiscerning in your choice of partners. I am very picky with my NSA sexual encounters. I need certain things from my sexual encounters, such as safety, respect, a certain degree of physical attraction, and to have a certain amount of respect for the person that I am sleeping with.
I find that it is easier for me to determine the compatibility between myself and a potential partner online vs at a party, or in a bar. It also allows me to make a more objective and rational decision as to whether it's a good idea to have sex with this person, vs when I am drunk/intoxicated, or caught up in the moment at a party.
So, what is my actual story? My first online NSA sexual experience was with someone who I met online and was considering dating, however, after the first hour or two of our first date, it was obvious that we had a physical connection (I have a SERIOUS thing for soliders), but not an emotional connection. We were not going to fall in love. So, we decided together that we were going to have a 'fling' and have safer sex together, but with no emotional commitments. It was a very positive sexual experience for me, because there was a high degree of honesty and communication. I was able to ask for exactly what I needed, and he was able to be honest with me about what his expectations and desires were. Overall, a very healthy, empowering, and reaffirming experience.


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Truly you have formed my inmost being;
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I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made;
wonderful are your works. Psalm 139:13-14
These words from Psalm 139 remind us that we are special. It is so easy to forget that fact in the busyness of daily life. God made each one of us. From the time that we existed only in the mind of God, to our conception and birth, and every day of our lives, God has created us to be special. We are walking miracles! Remember that the next time life is weighing you down.
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Remembering that we are special to God
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- Kim of "Kim & Jason" said...
I don't know if I've ever thought of myself as a "walking miracle." You are right- we get so busy with the details of life, it's hard to gain the perspective gained from this verse. Thanks for the reminder.
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Session 2: Social indicators of subjective well-being and happiness
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Research on subjective social indicators, subjective well-being and happiness has been booming in recent years and the results of this research have attracted a lot of interest in academic debates, but also among policy makers and the general public. Part of the success story are new data bases, as for example cross national surveys as well as long lasting household panel studies, new measurement approaches and not least also innovative methods of data analysis. This session invites papers discussing issues of measurement, such as indicators of subjective well-being, papers discussing the use of subjective indicators in policy making as well as papers presenting results of empirical studies on various issues of subjective well-being and happiness. Papers presenting results of comparative research are particularly welcomed.
Migration and immigrant integration have become major concerns in Europe. This has created a strong demand for knowledge and expertise on policy formulation as well as its implementation and evaluation. The policy approach to integration rested for many years on qualitative measures and most often formulated in terms of ethnic minority's participation in the host society and their sharing 'fundamental values'. With the increase of available quanti-tative data and indicators on more structural aspects of integration (labour, education, hou-sing), in many countries a shift towards more empirical support to migration and integration policies can be recognised. Parallel with this, the growing utilisation of integration criteria in the legal management of immigration, what one could call the "governance of integration," has reinforced calls to produce indicators, the latter no longer solely used to describe the situation of immigrants or ethnic minorities at a group level, but also at an individual level to decide who may be granted a resident permit or visa. Several European countries have conditioned the deliverance of resident visas on integration criteria such as proficiency in the host country language. Papers discussing the suitability and validity of migration and integration indicators, papers adressing the methodological pitfalls of developing such indicators, and papers presenting results of comparative research between different ethnic groups or countries) are particularly welcomed.
Session 4: Reciprocity, social ties and wellbeing: indicators and comparative studies
Organizer: Ming-Chang Tsai, National Taipei University, Taiwan, email@example.com
Exchanges powerfully enhance quality of life by way of giving and taking within family or in communities. Societies differ in formulating specific social network relations and facilitating reciprocal behaviors. This session is devoted to understanding exchange-related phenomena and its outcomes on wellbeing across countries. Papers discussing measurement issues as well as comparative studies are particularly welcomed.
Session 5: Inequality, insecurity and well-being: indicators and analyses
Organizer: Christian Suter, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, firstname.lastname@example.com
In the last decades a variety of new concepts – like social exclusion, risk, flexibility, pre-cariousness, vulnerability – have been introduced into the analysis of social structures and inequality in order to grasp the effect of social and economic change. Thus, recent debates claim that life in modern societies has become more insecure, risky, vulnerable and pre-carious and that inequality structures and social cleavages have become more fluid and dynamic. This session aims at discussing the contribution of these conceptual tools for the empirical analysis of social structures and their implications for the relationship between structural positions and subjective wellbeing. The session invites papers discussing the measurement of these concepts, such as indicators of vulnerability, precariousness, insecurity etc., and applying them in empirical analyses. Papers providing comparative analysis are particularly welcomed.
Session 6: Social indicators and policy making
Organizer: Ming-Chang Tsai, National Taipei University, Taiwan, firstname.lastname@example.com
Policy making, which increasingly tends to be evidence based, needs appropriate empirical information in order to be able to identify needs for action, but also yardsticks and bench-marks allowing to evaluate the outcomes and success of specific policy measures. The dynamic interplay between social indicators, government, and policy making explains to a considerable extent why things are getting better in certain countries or regions and not in others. This session aims to reflect the role of social indicators to inform and to guide public policies and invites different kinds of papers addressing related issues. Particularly welcome are papers on indicator-based monitoring of quality of life and trends of social change, pa-pers on the underlying political settings of social indicator construction and application, reflections on methodological characteristics of policy relevant indicators, and examples of 'good practice' in the use of social indicators for policy making.
Session 7: Social indicators 'on the move'
Additional session on the Congress theme
Organizer: Heinz-Herbert Noll, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, email@example.com
Picking up the general theme of the congress, this session does not have a specific thematic focus, but rather invites papers on new developments and innovations in social indicators and quality of life research more generally. The session addresses conceptual as well as methodological issues, and welcomes also papers on innovative applications of social indicators research in different settings.
Session 8: Business Meeting
Organizer: Heinz-Herbert Noll, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, firstname.lastname@example.com
Session 9: Worlds of difference in qualities of life for older people living in developing and developed countries
Joint session of RC11 Sociology of Aging [host committee] and RC55 Social Indicators
Session 10: Older people's contributions to societal well-being
Joint session of RC11 Sociology of Aging and RC55 Social Indicators [host committee]
Session 11: Sustainability and quality of life: concordant or conflicting goals of societal development?
Joint Session of RC24 Environment and Society and RC55 Social Indicators [host committee]
Session 12: Assessing children's quality of life
Joint Session of RC53 Sociology of Childhood and RC55 Social Indicators [host committee]


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Heaven Sent Golden Retrievers
Additional Information: Exceptional European Imported Lines with champion pedigrees, OFA for hip, elbow, heart and eyes. Puppies socialized in nursing home setting and raised with specialized care and imprinting.
GoldSmith Retrievers
Additional Information: Specializing in English type Golden Retrievers, we are nestled in Southern Manitoba, Canada. Our goldens have championship bloodlines w/clearances. Aug 2016 Male puppies available! Juno & Bingley
Juno & Bingley had pups August 23. Sleepysong Memory for Golden Romance & Golden Romance D Connection 9 males and 2 females.... ...
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Vorderosa Retrievers
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Windhill Goldens
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At Windhill Goldens we believe that Golden Retrievers are one of the best family dogs available. We keep only two dogs at a time ~ our own... ...
Hunters Goldens
Additional Information: we strive to produce only the healthiest most loving dogs possible. Parents have health certifications and we provide a 1 yr health guarantee. Puppies will become whatever you choose them to be.
Our puppies will be light to medium blonde in color and have a superior health history. they are bred to be good hunters, therapy or service dogs,... ...
Prairie Fire Goldens
Additional Information: Prairie Fire Goldens has been raising top quality Golden Retrievers for over 18 years. All Prairie Fire Goldens come from a proven line of Field Champions, Master Hunters, and Great Family Companions
JP's Country Goldens
Additional Information: We are a family who has been breeding goldens for 17 years. Both male/female are dark in color. Bennelli is 60 lbs & Kenzo is 80 lbs. Both love to hunt and give/get attention. Perfect companions.
We dont have any pups available at this time. Our next litter will be in the spring of 2017. ...
Golden Eagle Kennels
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Knapper Kennel
Additional Information: Thank you for all the inquiries on our puppies. At this time, there are no puppies available. Possibility of another litter in a year or so. Keep checking the site as I will post additional info.
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Red Rock Goldens
Additional Information: We are expecting a litter of puppies from Bella and Diesel around June 10, 2016! They will be ready to go to their new homes the end of July. Please contact us by email or phone for information
Rolling Oaks Goldens
Additional Information: We have been breeding golden retrievers for 35 years. We are expecting puppies in the fall of 2016. We offer training & boarding in the Minneapolis & Litchfield area. Visit our website for more info.
We have been breeding golden retievers since 1981. Rolling Oaks Goldens is a family business. Socializing the puppies is very important to... ...
Traditional Goldens
Additional Information: Stud service from Pius. Pius has OFA Good hips, strong golden retriever traits for hunting and loving anybody that will pet him. Pius has a solid-thick bone structure and will produce dark pups.
The traditional gold to dark red coloring and sturdy bone structure make him powerful and beefy but never fat. Pius has produced sturdy strong... ...
Mapleleaf Goldens
Additional Information: English/British Golden Retriever puppies. I'm dedicated to the breed and will only have puppies to enhance the breed. Parents come from some of the finest Kennels in Europe with champion pedigrees.
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Lola's Little Golden's
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Josie's Golden Retrievers
Additional Information: We are a small breeder, we only have litters once every 2 years. We require a deposit of 50% of the price of the pups. AKC certified also first round of shots.www.josiesgoldenretrievers.com
We are a small breeder in Minnesota, Puppies will be due between May 26-31, 2016 Rates 1000 female 1000 male we are now taking deposits of... ...
Goldfeather Run
Additional Information: Breeding top quality Golden Retrievers for over 30 years!Eliminating cancer/improving longevity. Pups raised with an emphasis on socialization using biosensor program.Summer 2015 cream pups expected.
Breeding top quality Golden Retrievers for over 30 years! 612-961-7899 e-mail email@example.com Summer pups planned of a cream... ...
Additional Information: If you visit my Litters page, you will find information on current and future breeding plans. We are not a commercial breeder and all of our dogs are raised in our home. I breed a few litters a year as it is a huge commitment and one that I take very seriously. As a member of the Golden Retriever Club of America, I follow a strict Breeders Code of Ethics. My goal is to produce dogs that are of sound mind and body, of excellent temperament, intelligence, beauty, and that are true to type as described in the breed standard. All my dogs in my breeding program are screened for hip and elbow dysplasia and are certified normal by the Orthopedic Foundation of Animals. We screen for Subvalvular Aortic Stenosis and other heart abnormalities...
Thank you for your interest in Wyoming Goldens!! We are current members of the AKC Award of Merit Breeders program. My puppies are raised in my... ...
Ciadar Golden Retrievers
Additional Information: Well bred Golden Retriever puppies in Minnesota since 1966. Moderate size and coat. Conventional fenced yard required. Pick up in person only. New pups due to be born October 2016.
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Ponderay Goldens
Additional Information: NEW LITTERS NOW!Breeding Golden Retrievers for over 19 years now. We specialize in top hunting dogs, agility, and the best family friends ever.We have planned litters! Call or email for information.
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Annastashia's Little Golden's
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Rosewood Goldens
Additional Information: Our beautiful goldens are perfectly suited for families and or hunting. We breed for temperament, health, and closely adhere to AKC breed standards.
Here at Rosewood Goldens we believe that happy dogs equal happy clients.� All of our dogs are part of our family and have a healthy and... ...
Waters Edge Kennel
Watersedge Golden Retriever breeding program is dedicated to promoting Goldens that meet the breed standard with regard to temperment and looks... ...
Earth Angel Goldens
Additional Information: Home of naturally reared Golden Retrievers of European lines. English cream type. Imported champion lines. All health clearances (CHIC certified). Family raised in home. Bred for health and temperamen
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Loess Hills Sawmill
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Loess Hills Sawmill Golden Retrievers We are a small hobby breeder in Southwest Iowa, located about 20 minutes from Omaha, NE.� Current litter... ...
Shorewood Retrievers
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Brannen's (golden) Breeding
Additional Information: Our puppies sell for $500. $100 deposit must be given to secure that you have a pup, & $400 given the day you take your pup home. Pups available to take home 8wks after birth. Stud Service is $500.
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Terry Owens
Additional Information: We are the proud breeders of Golden Retrievers. George Washington (dad) is a deep red color, Abigail Adams is also a dark red and Dolly Madison is a slightly less red in color
Abigail Adams had her pups , She had 4 puppies and they are all sold now. ...
Additional Information: Puppies born April 1, 2016. Ready May 31. Two males available. My goldens are AKC registered with OFA hips, elbows, heart and eye clearances producing sound, loving puppies. Please call 970-381-0757.
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There was a huge uproar in the search marketing and website design industry last year when Google came out and recommended responsive web design. While Google has been known to make recommendations in the past, they've never tackled this particular issue definitively until June, 2012. Since then, many companies have been scrambling to convert to a responsive design.
They reiterated the need for a mobile solution earlier this year when they said that they would soon stop showing web pages that improperly redirected to a different page when called up on mobile devices. The two pieces of news were combined because of a logical series of assumptions:
Everything is fine until you come to the conclusion. From a search perspective, properly coded adaptive websites with identical intents on all devices combined with proper transfer of HTML content are just as easy to rank well on Google as responsive website design.
As I researched this, I found one things that was disturbing and that needs to be addressed. The opinions most commonly expressed by companies weighing in on the debate between between responsive website design versus adaptive website design always ran parallel with the offerings of the company posting the opinion. If they offered responsive design, they said that responsive design was the only way to go. If they offered adaptive websites, they said that adaptive was the best way to go.
The unbiased publications that I read almost all came to the same conclusion – functionality of the site was much more important than the type of design used. In other words, if responsive design made it challenging for a website to function properly on mobile devices, then adaptive websites were recommended. If the flow was fine between devices and the path to turning to responsive design was an easy one, then that was the way to go.
I'm going to start with the "bias" on my end and finish this paragraph with the punchline. The bias is this: my company is developing responsive website design for our clients. The punchline is this: even with this knowledge, I still recommend adaptive for any website (including my clients' websites) that are picture- and call-to-action-heavy on important pages such as inventory.
I have yet to see a responsive car dealer website that did not sacrifice functionality and speed for the sake of responsive design. I've seen both sides of the spectrum – websites that looked great and worked fine on mobile devices but that were bare-bones in their PC functionality and I've seen websites that looked great on a PC but that were too slow and rendered improperly on many mobile devices. I haven't seen any that have done it "right" yet because of the nature of car dealer websites.
Most importantly, I've seen dealer websites that switched from adaptive to responsive that watched their website leads drop as a result. I have yet to see a single one that saw leads increase. This will change as responsive technology, internet speeds, third party plugins, and image crunching (especially for dealers that load up 30+ images on their vehicle detail pages) improves, but as of now responsive has been a huge flop.
I should also note that I jumped on the responsive bandwagon back in 2011 and strongly pushed for my company to adopt it way back then. Thankfully, we didn't.
I should also note that for the majority of websites, responsive is likely the best solution. Car dealers have unique website formats. On any given page, especially the all-important vehicle details pages, there may be three or four plugins, a dozen calls-to-action, and dozens of photos that have to be brought in through 3G or 4G connections. The biggest difference between adaptive website design and responsive website design is when the changes are made to adjust for the device. On adaptive websites, the changes are server side, meaning that the data being sent is determined from the server before being sent to the device. With responsive design, the changes are client side, meaning that the whole web page is sent through and then the device is told how to piece it all together.
Here's a very slanted infographic, one that actually does have some valid points (thankfully). Whoever built it likes adaptive and while they are being too harsh in my opinion about responsive, they still bring up some real challenges.
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And this bad boy: http://kellynissanofroute33.com, you're welcome Chris Saraceno! ;-)
We're launching quite a few new Responsive sites each month, and have been since August 2012, here are a few recents we've built that I like:
Our CMS is also Responsive, dealers appreciate being device independent when working in the backend.
Keep the thoughts coming, thanks JD.
Responsive Automotive Websites and done by my group: http://courtesyimports.com, http://kellycar.com, http://stuckeyforyou.com, etc. and growing. I wouldn't call these bland at all. As well as http://www.faulknerhyundai.com, done by Dirigo Design (David Addison) member. Just because ADP / Cobalt, Dealer.com, etc. has failed to jump on it (probably too much work, considering their size), DOES NOT mean smaller groups like us and Dirigo fail to understand it's important. That's not adaptive, that's responsive. Beautiful Twitter Bootstrap at the helm.
Chris Cachor Thanks!
So, to sum it up, responsive down to 768px, then mobile version using separate template(s). Templates render all the same data (inventory, pages, news, etc.) but optimized for mobile viewports. All handled server side of course. Everything down to the analytics should be handled in the same manner.
I've done a few responsive sites and they work well for content rich sites with blogs, news feeds, etc. However, I've downloaded a few iOS apps to get an idea of how they tackle search and VDP pages (Cars.com, AT, and Carmax) and I'm finding that adaptive is the better approach for the user in this case.
Most of the responsive sites I've seen so far, even the ones dealer website vendors use in screenshots, have been pretty bland. They optimized the same experience for all devices. So, from doing that I feel they've watered down the desktop sites for the sake of other devices.
It should be a different experience optimized for different devices. Specifically mobile. I feel its a special use site. If your CMS is any good tackling this is a no-brainer. But getting the experience right on mobile for dealer websites I feel hasn't been done yet. Everything I've seen so far has been ok, like I said, they sacrificed the desktop experience which I think is a win/lose, not a win/win.
Do we have a winner yet?
We are actively converting all of our sites into responsive applications using Bootstrap. This isn't an easy process.
George, I'm with you 100%. I know with a near certainty that responsive will be the way to go. Thankfully, he barrier to entry isn't huge for website companies. Those who get it right by 2014 will be well-positioned to do what's best for the dealers. I'm rooting for responsive. I'm just worried about it in the short term, as you mentioned.
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