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Student loans play a key role in ensuring postsecondary access for millions of students each year. In fiscal year 2009, students and their families borrowed $90 billion in federal student loans to help pay the cost of postsecondary education. Traditionally, these loans have been available through two programs: the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (Direct Loan), in which the federal government provides loans directly to students through their schools, and the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFEL), in which private lenders provide loans guaranteed by the federal government. However, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 terminated the authority to make new FFEL loans after June 30, 2010, and all federally guaranteed loans are now originated under the Direct Loan Program. While private lenders no longer provide federally guaranteed student loans, they may continue to provide private loans--estimated at nearly $12 billion in 2008-2009--which are not federally subsidized. Although federal loans comprise the majority of loans used to defray educational expenses, private student loans serve as a source of supplemental or alternative funding. For example, in 2007-2008, an estimated 14 percent of undergraduates obtained private student loans. Unlike federal loans, which have statutorily fixed interest rates and flexible repayment terms, interest rates for private loans vary based upon factors such as a borrower's credit score. These loans typically offer borrowers fewer protections and benefits than federal loans. Given the variety of options available, some observers have questioned whether borrowers have sufficient information to help them make informed decisions about student loans. In this report, we respond to a mandate in the Higher Education Opportunity Act requiring GAO to study the feasibility of developing a national clearinghouse of federal and private student loans on the Department of Education's (Education) Web site. We addressed the following questions: (1) What are some options for establishing a tool on Education's Web site that provides real-time information on federal and private student loans, and what is the perceived need for such a tool? (2) What challenges would Education need to address in implementing such a tool?
Education has a range of options for providing prospective borrowers with a Web-based tool containing real-time information--such as interest rates and loan terms--on federal and private student loans, but such a tool may be unnecessary. Providing information on private student loans also may not align with Education's role in administering and promoting federal student aid. To implement such a tool, Education would have to address several challenges--including securing a high rate of lender participation and ensuring completeness, accuracy, and objectivity of information presented--to avoid the appearance of bias or endorsement. Furthermore, minimizing costs to the federal government would be challenging because developing a tool would require a considerable investment, and many stakeholders ruled out a system funded by lenders. While it would be feasible for Education to establish a student loan tool on its Web site, the need for such a new source of information is questionable. Since all federal student loans are now originated through the Direct Loan Program, students no longer have to choose a lender for federal loans. In addition, information on both federal and private loans is already available from resources such as financial aid offices and existing Web-based loan comparison tools. Furthermore, any perceived need for a federal tool must be weighed against the investment required of Education and the considerable challenges inherent in implementation.
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White River board OK's lean budget
District makes $3 million in
What started months ago came to a conclusion Thursday night as the White River School Board placed its stamp of approval on the district's $38.3 million 2009-10 budget.
The nod doesn't mean the district's work is complete. Officials will continue to examine cost-cutting methods, while trying to keep a strong educational system for students.
This year's budget process was agonizing for White River and districts across Washington as state officials trimmed millions from their budgets.
White River was forced to make nearly $3 million in reductions that included closing two campuses. The 2009-10 budget will include 29 fewer certificated staff members and 15 fewer classified employees. Even with the trimming, salaries, benefits and payroll taxes make up more than 77 percent of the district's budget.
About 63 percent of expenditures are linked directly to the classroom with another 8 percent to classroom support. Another 20 percent is in building support which includes transportation, utilities, maintenance, food services, data processing and the like. The final 8 percent covers the central administration.
The district also expects to start school in September with 109 fewer students, which also equates to a loss in state funding. Since the 2006-07 school year the district is down 228 students. The 2009-10 budget is based on 4,035 students, 100 of whom will participate in Running Start with another 556 special needs and 429 involved in vocational education.
Approximately 55 percent of the district's budget comes from the state with another 11 percent of state funding earmarked for transportation, special education, bilingual and learning assistance programs. Nearly 18 percent of its revenue comes from the local maintenance and operation levy, which will go before voters again in February. Federal funds make up roughly 11 percent. Approximately 5 percent comes from tuition and fees from other school districts or agencies.
When the state cut back, it hurt districts everywhere.
The budget does include approximately $2.1 million in federal stimulus funds, but those have strings and stipulations attached.
There was good news, as district Business Manager Mona Moan read a letter from Steve Nielsen of the Puget Sound Educational Service District, the organization that's been closely monitoring White River's budget since it ran into trouble a couple of years ago. White River is being asked to bring its reserves up to 5 percent of its total budget, a feat longtime board members like Susan McGuire can't remember ever being the case.
The letter from Nielsen commended the district for its progress thus far – it's positive fund balance and its work to build toward the 5 percent.
"The letter notes what we're doing right," Board President Denise Vogel said. "But we still have work to do."
Moan said it would likely be two more years before the district would see that goal.
"But we're on track with the state," noted Superintendent Tom Lockyer, who applauded everyone in the district for their budget work. "We've done a good job as a team."
The board's budget approval also includes the district's Associated Student Body fund, capital projects fund, transportation vehicle fund and debt services fund.
In other business, the board:
• announced mandatory certificated staff days will be Monday, Tuesday and Aug. 26.
• reminded parents and students school begins Sept. 1.
• noted there will be no school Sept. 7 in observance of Labor Day.
• announced its next regular meeting will be Sept. 9 and its next special meeting Sept. 23, both at 6 p.m. in the district conference room.
• approved an Internet-based world studies curriculum for the high school.
• accepted Glacier Middle School teacher Sue Root's resignation.
• hired instructional paraeducators Teresa LaPlant, Leslie Noborikawa, Julie Stroh and Patricia Thweatt; social worker Jennifer Cochrane-Nicholls; and White River High School teachers Nicholas Cochran and Kaycee Barber.
• was updated by Hugh Flint, director of student support services, on changes in the district's English Language Learners program. The district's current program includes 35 students, mostly Spanish speaking, which has steadily grown since 2002-03. Students who a language other than English at home qualify for the program, which is a basic education responsibility that does receive state funding.
Flint said the challenge for White River's program is the students are spread across various grade levels. With that in mind, he is working on a way to streamline the program to provide better services to all ELL students.
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First-Half FYC: Best Supporting Actor and Actress
It's an annual complaint among Oscar-watchers and industry folk alike that the awards season is overwhelmingly geared towards prestige releases that land in the second half (or even fourth quarter) of the year, aiming to capitalize both on autumn festival buzz and Oscar voters' short memories. For every early release that stays the course all the way to the Oscar podium -- most recently, "The Hurt Locker" -- there are any number of deserving January-to-June contenders that slip through the cracks as newer, shinier, not necessarily better fare takes precedence.
With that in mind, I began a new column series last year dedicated to writing that wrong: First-Half FYC, in which I spotlight the worthiest major-category Oscar possibilities (or impossibilities) from the first six months of the U.S. release calendar. I've started a little late this year, so I'm doubling up on the categories, beginning with the Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress races: what follows is an alternative ballot of five deserving names in each category, all of them in films released before July.
True to form, the majority of the 10 names I've picked below lie far outside the current Oscar conversation: only one of them looks likely to be nominated, though he might be the surest winner of the lot. Even if I've waded into some genre territory most Academy members would never consider, there was a pleasingly deep field to choose from, proof that voters would do well to cast their minds a little further back.
I did, however, restrict myself to contenders from Oscar-eligible films, which meant rejecting three of my first choices: Juno Temple in "Kaboom," Raul Castillo in "Cold Weather" and Sergei Puskepalis in "How I Ended This Summer." Why their films aren't on the official list of 265 titles in Oscar play is something I don't care to find out, but I salute them regardless.
With that, my five January-to-June picks for Best Supporting Actor:
Bruno Ganz, "Unknown"
Jaume Collet-Serra's deliciously dim-witted entry in the Neeson-scorned genre is packed with so-wrong-it's-right pleasures, but Ganz's performance as a wily Stasi agent turned P.I. is the smartest of them: he camps it up riotously, adding multiple Germanic syllables to words like "deeeetailz" and "Leeeeipzig," but brings of wounded sense of dignity to the character where you least expect it.
Chris O'Dowd, "Bridesmaids"
Casting the not-especially-famous, not-especially-handsome Irish comic O'Dowd as Kristen Wiig's romantic foil in the comedy hit of 2011 was a masterstroke: as a gangly, out-of-place state trooper, he gamely reflects the heroine's daffiness even as he represents the feet-planted stolidity the character and film both need; if only for two hours, we all fell for him.
Christopher Plummer, "Beginners"
The one name on this list likely to be nominated -- and increasingly, one suspects, a sure thing for the win. But Plummer hasn't reached the front of this race on seniority (and an Academy IOU) alone: it'd be easy to overplay both the twinkliness and the tragedy in the story of a long-closeted gay man blooming in his winter years, but it's the casual delicacy of the performance that sticks.
Jérémie Renier, "Potiche"
A second closet case of a character, though a far broader assignment than Plummer's: admittedly, the casting of stony Dardennes alumnus Renier as an unwittingly effete liberal student-turned-umbrella designer is half the joy of the performance, but under a lustrous bowl cut, the actor never overplays his hand, slotting into Francois Ozon's heightened camp universe with unpatronizing ease.
Corey Stoll, "Midnight in Paris"
The Screen Actors' Guild may not have deemed him an essential part of the ensemble, but for many others, Stoll's inspired, hilariously thick-spread impersonation of Ernest Hemingway, all quizzically steely stares and peppery vocal cadences, was the clear highlight of Woody Allen's novelty bauble, and (together with Adrien Brody's Dali) the strongest justification for its parlor-game premise.
And Best Supporting Actress:
Rose Byrne, "Bridesmaids"
Another bid for "Bridesmaids," and it's not the name the season thus far would have you expect: Melissa McCarthy may be scooping up citations for her louder schtick, but it's Byrne who is the film's secret comic weapon. It's always harder to wring laughs out of humorless characters, and Byrne plays this uptight party-planning princess to brittle, and surprisingly affecting, perfection.
Judi Dench, "Jane Eyre"
Dench's 2011 Oscar buzz evaporated with non-event turns in late-year prestige items "J. Edgar" and "My With With Marilyn." Would that the buzz had been on her warm, ever-so-slightly vinegary turn as the staunch housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax in this fine-cut Brontë adaptation: no wheels are being reinvented here, but it's the actress's most lived-in character work since her last Oscar nod.
Elle Fanning, "Super 8"
Those who didn't notice Fanning's gorgeous breakthrough in last year's "Somewhere" were surely taken a little more off-guard by the teenager's stunning centerpiece scene in J.J. Abrams' summer juggernaut: a tear-stained performance-within-a-performance that brought an out-of-the-blue emotional jolt to a proficient genre piece, but revealed a sly actorly self-awareness in an exciting new star.
Melanie Lynskey, "Win Win"
I have no issue with the wonderful Amy Ryan, who has a well-earned smattering of critics' citations for her work in Tom McCarthy's shaggily appealing actors' piece, but it's Lynskey's late arrival as an unmaliciously neglectful mother that sticks most in my mind: playing a scattered character the script doesn't much want us to like, Lynskey's hard-stare honesty gets us there anyway.
Lin Shaye, "Insidious"
Rivalling Bruno Ganz in the lively-performance-in-a-loopy-movie stakes is long-serving good sport Shaye, essentially the Zelda Rubinstein of James Wan's irresistibly silly "Poltergeist" knock-off, who pulls off the neat trick of conveying her medium character's po-faced seriousness about her role in proceedings, nudging the audience in the ribs all the way.
Agree? Disagree? Which early-bird standouts would you like to see in the awards discussion? Share your thoughts in the comments, and keep an eye out for next week's edition, when we'll be covering the screenplay categories.
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Brophey named to OSBA Board of Trustees
WELLSVILLE – Tom Brophey, who ran unopposed for re-election to the Wellsville Local Board of Education in November, knew that he would be on the board again following the outcome of last November's election. What he couldn't have known was that election results on the other side of the state would propel him into a higher position in Columbus.
Brophey will be sworn in as a member of the Ohio School Board Association's Board of Trustees at their first meeting of the year on Feb. 22 in Columbus. He says he was gratified to learn that OSBA President Susie Lawson had nominated him for the spot, which was approved by a committee of 26 peers in December "It made me feel good that she feels that I'm capable of fulfilling the requirements," he said.
However, Lawson's own recent ascension to the presidency is partly responsible for the vacancy that Brophey is filling in the first place.
Jo Ann W. Feltner, a Central Region OSBA member, was the sitting president-elect, slated to serve as president for 2014-15, when she lost a re-election bid for her local school board seat this past November, nullifying her participation as an OSBA trustee. The association's Delegate Assembly decided that Lawson, a Northeast Region member who had only recently been selected as the new president-elect for 2015-16, should move into the top spot a year early to fill the vacancy.
Lawson's move up left an open trustee's spot, which Brophey will now fill for the next two years. "It was a relatively quick thing," he said. "I had no idea that it was coming down."
Brophey presently also serves on the OSBA Northeast Region Executive Committee and is Wellsville Local's customary delegate to the annual Capital Conference each November, making him no stranger to the association's offices in Columbus.
Though he has yet to receive an agenda for the meeting next month but says he would advocate for better communication between state legislators and the OSBA – and, by extension, local school boards throughout the state. "Unfortunately, sometimes I think state legislators try to improve schools, but I don't think they think about the consequences or costs of what those improvements are going to be. I think they need to hear from us what our thoughts are before they actually consider making something into law."
As much of an honor as it is for Brophey personally, he says he's gratified that someone from this part of the state has been chosen for high office at the OSBA, which is an uncommon occurrence. "There aren't a whole lot of people from our area who get appointed to anything of this significance," he said. To his recollection, in fact, it has been nearly 40 years.


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On a serious note though, all the games above will fit just fine.
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The 12th annual Falconer Golden Falcon Track & Field Invitational will take place on Friday under the lights of Bill Race Field. The competition is scheduled to begin at 4:15 p.m..
Schools entered in the meet are Allegany-Limestone, Cattaraugus-Little Valley, Clymer-Sherman-Panama, East Aurora, Falconer, Fredonia, Frewsburg, Gowanda, Harborcreek, Holland, Jamestown, Maple Grove, Olean, Randolph, Silver Creek-Forestville, Southwestern, Westfield, and West Seneca West.
"The exciting atmosphere at the Falconer Invitational has been described by some as 'electric'. I send out information the first week of January and within hours the meet is booked to capacity," said meet director and head girls coach Mike LeBaron. "The races and field events are loaded with top talent this year - it will be exciting for athletes and spectators"
"Also, we are happy to again honor our friend, the late Joe Paterniti. Joe was the head official for our first invitational in 2002, and was key in helping us get the facility that we have today for the athletes. Although his title was "official", he was a friend who truly loved and respected the competition, and strived to pass that on to athletes and coaches. We will presenting a senior male and a senior female athlete from Friday's meet with the Joe Paterniti Memorial Sportsmanship Award."
Athletes placing in the top three will receive medals, 4th through 6th ribbons, with the event champions also receiving a T-shirt. The top two teams will be awarded team trophies. In addition, plaques will be given to the Most Outstanding Field Event Athlete, Track Athlete, and Overall Athlete.
A concession stand will be operating and admission to the meet is $1, which includes a program. All proceeds benefit the Falconer Track & Field Boosters.


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Bills CEO Russ Brandon said Wednesday that there's been no progress in talks for two months, forcing the team to readjust its plans on whether a long-term deal can be reached once the current lease expires July 31.
"They have stalled over the last few months, and hopefully, we'll restart the process and reset the calendar in the near future," Brandon told The Associated Press. "We've been ready to go and have been in discussions with the appropriate parties for many months now. Over the last few months, we've hit somewhat of a cone of silence in the discussions."
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz acknowledged a lag in negotiations and that the three parties still have differences to settle before reaching a deal.
"It's a complicated three-part agreement, and you've got to have everybody on the same page," Poloncarz said. "And I'll say this, we're not on the same page with everything with the Buffalo Bills at this moment, just like the state's not on the same page with the Buffalo Bills or Erie County. We're getting there."
The Buffalo News first reported talks had stalled in its editions Wednesday.
The lack of progress in negotiations has already led to one setback.
Brandon said the team will miss a deadline this month to apply for an NFL loan assistance program to help offset the $200-$220 million in costs the Bills and taxpayers would share for proposed renovations and upgrades to the 39-year-old stadium.
Brandon said the Bills needed to present its proposal for loan assistance at a committee meeting in order to have it placed on the agenda for a league meeting next month. The next chance the Bills will have to do that won't be until March.
That could be too late for the Bills to receive loan assistance for next season, putting the team in a position to have to negotiate to extend its current lease by one year.
"It's certainly a possibility," Brandon said, referring to settling for a one-year deal. "We have a lot of work to get done in a short amount of time, and there are many levers to this process."
Poloncarz said the county and state are on board with a one-year extension, and he has no reason to believe NFL owners would object. Poloncarz added the framework of a one-year extension would be similar to the team's existing lease.
"Nobody wants to have a gun at their heads thinking if we don't get it done by the end of the season then what's going to happen," Poloncarz said. "By doing an extension, it guarantees the Bills are here for the full 2012 season, and it gives us ample time during the next 18 months or so to continue these negotiations."
Poloncarz and the state have a meeting set for Sept. 21, but noted the last time the three parties met was June 29.
Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy disputed claims that negotiations have stalled, saying state representatives have been in constant negotiations with the team and local government for the last several months.
"Let's set the record straight: the governor and this administration are actively negotiating in good faith with the Bills," Duffy said in a released statement.
"Keeping the Bills in Buffalo is critically important to the state and the region. And this administration is committed to doing everything we can to ensure that the Bills remain in western New York," Duffy said. "If taxpayers are going to be asked for substantial financial support for stadium improvements, they must be assured of a long term commitment by the Bills to stay in Buffalo regardless of future ownership."
Josh Vlasto, spokesman for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, noted that the state, last month, hired attorney Irwin Raij to assist in negotiations. Raij specializes in stadium development projects and lease agreements. He was most recently represented Guggenheim Baseball Management in buying the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Vlasto also noted that Cuomo included spending millions of dollar to retain the Bills among his list of "critical economic development projects."
The state has a large stake in keeping the Bills, because the team is estimated to generate between $15 million and $20 million in state taxes. Erie County also has a stake, because it controls the stadium lease.
The parties have already missed one artificial deadline set by Poloncarz, who wanted a tentative deal done by the end of July.
Brandon sidestepped a question of how confident he was that a deal would be completed.
"I'm very confident that we have our ducks in the proverbial row to sit down and have meaningful and thoughtful conversations with our stakeholders," he said. "It's our No. 1 initiative. So we're always ready and willing to talk at the drop of a hat. We're ready to go at any point, and have been over a year."
The Bills are also negotiating with Rogers Communications to renew a five-year series of home games Buffalo plays in Toronto. The current deal runs out this year after the Bills "host" the Seattle Seahawks in Canada's largest city and financial capital on Sept. 16.
Brandon said he expects to resume discussions with Rogers officials within the next three weeks. He said talks were delayed because the team was focused on training camp, the start of the season and lease negotiations.
Brandon said lease talks will have no effect on renewing the deal to play in Toronto.


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Typically found in pies, crumbles and other high glycemic dishes, Rhubarb is an overlooked spring delight. First cultivated in China and Tibet dating back to the Liang Dynasty, Rhubarb was highly valued for its medicinal benefits, as the root was a popular remedy for a wide range of illnesses.
Rhubarb is actually a relative of buckwheat (which Dr. Perricone recommends as part of the anti aging kitchen) and has an earthy, sour flavor. Botanically speaking, rhubarb is considered a vegetable, but it's widely regarded as a fruit. Some of Rhubarb's health benefits might surprise you:
- Rich in Vitamin K, which aids in blood clotting and supports bone health.
- Vitamin C & Vitamin A both excellent for immunity, vision function and overall health
- It's a non-dairy source of bone-building calcium
- Excellent source of potatssium, magnesium, iron, manganese, selenium, copper and phosphorus which support bone health, red blood cell function and nervous system health
- Rhubarb contains the antioxidant lycopene, which is released after cooking.
- Rich in phytonutrients such as ellagic acid, quercetin and hesperidin which may help reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer. In addition, they play a role in heart health by improving your blood cholesterol levels and contributing to healthy blood pressure
- Lycopene and quercetin are antioxidants that fight free radicals that can cause disease and accelerate the effects of aging
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Mary Delgado, the season 6 winner on ABC-TV's reality series "The Bachelor," appeared at the Syracuse Crunch hockey game Saturday, November 13. She also appeared in Season 4 of The Bachelor.
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Forward Taylar Cianfarano has returned to the head of the class for her age group in U.S. women's hockey.
The Oswego native was selected to the Under-18 National Team on Friday for the second year in a row. The 22-player squad will compete in the International Ice Hockey Federation Women's Under-18 World Championship, March 23-30, 2014, in Budapest, Hungary.
Last year, Cianfarano played on the U.S. team that won the silver medal at the Under-18 Worlds in Heinola, Finland. She tied for second on the team with four goals in five games
Cianfarano is currently a senior at the National Sports Academy in Lake Placid. Her repeat appearance on the U-18 team tags her as one of the best young players in the country and puts her in line to compete for a spot on the senior U.S. National Team. That group competes in the highest level of tournaments, such as the World Championships and Olympics.
The Women's Under-18 World Championship is being played for the seventh time and will include teams from Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Japan, Russia, Sweden, and the United States.
Team USA captured gold in each of the first two years of the tournament (2008, 2009) and again in 2011 and the silver medal in 2010, 2012 and 2013.


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Johnson, 41, is currently the city manager of Garden City, Ga. He is a married father of two.
The City Council approved Johnson's contract Tuesday, and he should be on the job by the end of September. His base salary will be $150,000, according to the terms of his contract.
Johnson replaces the retiring Don Hoyt.
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In the following exchange, which took place this past week at The Star- Ledger office in Newark, former Governors Brendan T. Byrne and Tom Kean discussed the perception and leadership of the New Jersey State Police in the way of racial profiling.
QUESTION: Why have the State Police been allowed to continue as an elite force?
BYRNE: Somehow the term "elite force" has a pejorative connotation now. The State Police is a professional organization and it should remain so. The organization itself is in the process of dealing with the profiling issue. But, by and large, a state trooper is a college graduate, a trained professional and an essential part of a law enforcement cadre that has a good reputation which has been undermined by the profiling issue - the profiling issue and the abuse of some people who have been stopped. If we can clean that up, we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water.
KEAN: Fundamentally, I agree with you. I think we have some of the best troopers in the entire country working for the New Jersey State Police. There are some problems in the organization, some bad apples, obviously. But we are well under way to weeding those out and cleaning up some of the problems.
When I was governor, other governors and other state police organizations around the country often told me they considered the New Jersey State Police among the very best as far as training and performance. As long as I can remember, they've had a reputation of being one of the finest units in the country. This is an organization that's been involved in antiterrorism efforts, and deeply involved in trying to stop drugs from getting into the schools. When I was governor, it was an organization we sent into the city of Camden to handle a very delicate situation, which they handled extremely well by all accounts. It's a lot more than people who simply patrol the roads.
Q: Why should the State Police be able to insist that all superintendents come from within its ranks?
BYRNE: They don't insist on it but they strongly feel that, for the morale of the State Police, the entire organization ought not be rejected because of some police officers who have abused the powers of their badge. If you accept that the State Police is a professional organization, to bring somebody from the outside who is not a professional or exposed to the training and traditions, I think you are losing something. I really do.
KEAN: I don't think it's necessarily the State Police who are saying the superintendent must come from within their ranks. I think it's common sense. It would take three years for an outsider to get up to speed. It would be a political statement to hire someone from the outside, and that would harm the State Police and the state in the long run.
BYRNE: I think (acting Superintendent) Mike Fedorko is already making positive changes. He has presented a program of changing the culture as far as the issue of what is broadly called profiling but really is abusing people who have been stopped. I think profiling is less the problem than what happens after you stop somebody, and that's what has the public upset and has us upset.
Q: Since profiling probably goes back 20 or 30 years, doesn't the fact that a succession of superintendents have been promoted from within the ranks speak to their inability to change the culture?
BYRNE: First of all, I think the superintendents of the State Police have enjoyed a good reputation nationally. Second, profiling started out as a legitimate tool. It's been abused. And I think Mike Fedorko is in the process of recognizing that and dealing with it. And I'm not sure anybody from the outside would do it any better.
KEAN: It's very important to the state to have a police organization that's operating efficiently, has pride in itself and does its job well. In any organization, morale is important. The state trooper on the road is having a rough time right now. We have got to correct the problems that we know exist - problems, by the way, which are national in scope. When I was on the President's Race Commission, profiling was one of the things we heard about - not in New Jersey, but in other states. No one mentioned New Jersey and no states were dealing with it at that point. Under the right leadership in the State Police, New Jersey can take the lead nationally in addressing a problem which is affecting all police organizations everywhere.
Q: Is there any sense in which profiling is justified?
KEAN: Not on racial grounds. Profiling is never justified on the basis of somebody's skin color or who somebody's parents were. Profiling on other grounds you can make a case for. For instance, if you have information that there is a certain profile of who is getting drugs into our schools - let's say they're coming up the Turnpike in vans of a certain make without windows - you can make up a profile which might have some justification. But as soon as you put in race or ethnic origin, then it's illegitimate.
BYRNE: I think the major problem is not profiling but what you do when you ask somebody to get out of a car. That's what upsets me most. I don't mind the cops stopping me. I just don't want them abusing me when they do. But, as I have said before, I think our whole drug enforcement attitude needs to be re-examined.
KEAN: We have determined that the Turnpike is a river of drugs, and we have asked the State Police to be responsible for cleaning that up so drugs don't get into the schools and into the hands of our kids. That's a heavy, heavy responsibility. My suspicion is that the profiling issue we are now dealing with really started to be a serious problem concurrent with the pressure we put on the State Police to do more and more to intercept drugs coming into New Jersey.
BYRNE: I talked to the man who used to run the Division of Criminal Justice, a civilian, who said the big mistake we are making is to go into this kind of enforcement at all. He said that, when (Justin) Dintino was State Police superintendent, the policy was to stay away from drug enforcement and do the traditional job of patrolling the highways, and that we got into a lot less trouble that way. Well, if drug enforcement is a problem you can't put a dent in, maybe that's what the State Police ought to do.
Q: Had either of you any intimations of racial profiling when you were in office?
BYRNE: When I was in office, profiling was basically confined to airports. The State Police were not that involved in drug arrests. This has been a fairly recent development. But what has bothered me is that, when I see a car stopped and people being handcuffed, it's black people. And certainly that must be visible to a lot of people.
KEAN: The crack cocaine epidemic struck the country toward the end of my administration, and I think that's when the real pressure was put on the State Police. But in my regular meetings with black ministers, we had an agenda for every meeting as to what problems I ought to be addressing as governor. To the best of my recollection, I don't remember profiling ever being on that agenda. We all missed it.
BYRNE: Why don't we re-examine our drug program, for God sakes, instead of dealing just with the profiling issue?
Q: Given the low yields and how much it's aggravated race relations, would it make sense to abandon using the State Police for drug intervention?
KEAN: I wouldn't want the word to get out that we are not looking to stop drug dealers who are trafficking, because drugs are still a terrible problem - especially in the schools. If you look at the problems that we are trying to address right now in our schools, many can be traced to the drug epidemic - children, for instance, who are born of crack-addicted parents and start way behind.
BYRNE: When I was prosecutor in Essex County, I had an organized crime unit but not a drug unit. Now everybody has a drug unit - the State Police, the county police, the sheriff, the local police. It's really a thriving industry in law enforcement. And I hate to scream, but if people would realize that we have got to re-examine the drug problem as well as the profiling problem, I think we would get a lot further as a society. You can go to a nice town like Princeton and find drug addicts all over. Nobody is bothering their sources. I never heard anybody say, "Gee, I had trouble getting drugs in Princeton." But our enforcement on the Turnpike involves people who use crack cocaine. Everybody knows that crack cocaine is, itself, profiling.


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Great weather and great fishing. That sums up the day as April comes to a close -- and the blackfish season along with it.
Capt. Sal Cursi joined Capt. Hans Kaspersetz and I aboard Sheri Berri from Baker's Marina on the Bay in Highlands as we chased birds and fish marks from Shrewsbury Rocks to the south early this morning to enjoy fine jigging for stripers and blues. We had to keep moving in order to stay with the fish, but limited quickly and released many bass from 30 to 34 inches with no shorts. Bluefish were a problem, especially since we we were using Tsunami Deep Shads. There seemed to be several areas of fish along the northern Shore. We came back early, and saw more birds off Sandy Hook, but the fish under them were blues in the 4-pound class.
The Jamaica from Brielle had a good striper catch after jigging mostly blues in the morning with some fares even limiting. There was an afternoon bite that took the boat almost back to Manasquan Inlet and provided most of the striper catch -- including a pool bass of 32 pounds.
Dave Lilly of Hazlet said there was only a pick of blues for trollers in the back of Raritan Bay early, but he then saw some birds working around Buoy 11A and watched an explorion of big blues such as he's never seen in all his years on the bay. It was all whitewater as far as the eye could see to the east, as blues attacked fish about the size of a pinky that he couldn't identify. Anything in the water was attacked by blues immediately, but he moved into Reach Channel and marked bunkers. Trolling Stretch plugs there produced three stripers. Most boaters stayed with the bluefish blitz, and Lilly said even the worst fishermen still had to have caught 50 or more.
Capt. Ryan Bogan of Jamaia II from Brielle said ling fishing was so good that the high hook had 111 while the "low hook" was a woman with a rental rod who still had almost 40.
Capt. John Kolias of Reel Fun from Twin Lights Marina in Highlands was under the weather Saturday, nut Capt.Greg Wlazcowski took the Thomas Drogoski party out as they tried both bait and trolling but only came up with bluefish.


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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Lawyers from the Birmingham area dominate the new slate of officers for the state plaintiff trial lawyers' association, the Alabama Association for Justice.
Clay Hornsby of the Birmingham firm Morris, Haynes, Hornsby, Wheeles & Knowles; was elected president for 2012-2013 at the association's annual convention last weekend. Jeff Rickard of the Birmingham firm Marsh Rickard & Bryan was selected as president-elect, according to a release from the ALAJ. Rebekah McKinney of the Hunstville firm Watson McKinney is the association's past president.
"The Alabama Association for Justice's mission is to protect access to the courtroom, which is the one room where individual and powerful interests are held accountable," Hornsby said in a statement. "As president, I am honored to continue pursuing this mission and ensuring our state's civil justice system is protected for those needing justice."
Mike Emert of the Birmingham firm Hare Wynn Newell & Newton, was elected first vice president, while Josh Wright of the Birmingham firm Hollis, Wright & Couch was elected second vice president. Ken Riley, of the Birmingham firm Farris, Riley & Pitt; was elected secretary of the association, while Frank Woodson of the Montgomery firm Beasley Allen is treasurer.
"Each year, it's an honor to work with a slate of talented, smart and dedicated attorneys as our officers," Ginger Avery, executive director of the association, said in a statement. "I know these folks will represent the Alabama Association for Justice well and continue the tradition of excellent service to the profession and those who need legal representation." The Alabama Association for Justice represents approximately 1,400 attorneys across Alabama.


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The Polio Network of New Jersey, an organization of polio survivors, their families and friends, will honor the New York Yankees Organization on July 24 during a presentation ceremony on the field at Yankee Stadium prior to the first pitch of the game.
The tribute will recognize the Yankees Organization for building one of the most accessible stadiums in the country, thus making Yankee baseball a reality for all who wish to enjoy the games in person.
A commemorative plaque will be presented to Carol Laurenzano, head of the NY Yankees Disabled Services Office, by two PNNJ Board members, John Nanni and Murray Schiffman, both veteran Yankee fans and polio survivors, who now find their access to all public areas and facilities at the stadium to be barrier-free.
The Polio Network of New Jersey was founded in 1990 by a group of polio survivors of the epidemics of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, who found they were experiencing post-polio syndrome, debilitating late effects of the disease they thought they had overcome decades ago. Since that time, the Network has reached out to thousands of fellow survivors in New Jersey and beyond, with information, medical referrals, financial aid, and support group establishment and assistance.
For information, call 201-845-6860 and/or visit pnnj.org.


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The other day, my friend Jen — who is one of those people with good taste, a quick laugh, and the neat trick of making...Read More
Paleo Pumpkin Gingerbread Cake With Maple-Vanilla Frosting
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday!
We're keeping it low key this year: It's just Dave, Smudge, and I digging into a smallish feast of roast duck (with a stuffing made of pork and apples), my paleo cranberry waldorf salad, green beans with bacon, velvety butternut squash (a new Well Fed recipe!), and this pumpkin gingerbread cake.
I think this cake tastes best when it's chilled. It takes on the denser texture of a cake bar, and the frosting tastes and feels like bakery icing. However, you might like it at room temperature or even warmed a bit. Experiment! You can't really go wrong, it is cake, after all.
NOTE to Whole30ers: This is a treat and includes maple syrup, so it's not Whole30-compliant.
Pumpkin Gingerbread Cake With Maple-Vanilla Frosting
1 cup pumpkin purée (NOT pumpkin pie filling)
1 cup almond butter
1/4 cup maple syrup
2 large eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder (cornstarch free)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
1/3 cup coconut butter
1/2 cup coconut oil or ghee
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Pecan halves or whole almonds for garnish
Preheat oven to 350F.
Make the cake. In a medium sized bowl, combine all the cake ingredients and mix thoroughly to combine. Pour into an 8×8 oven-safe baking dish. Bake until completely cooked through, about 30 minutes.
Make the frosting. Place the coconut butter and coconut oil in a microwave-safe dish and heat until softened, but not melted. The length of time you need to nuke it will depend on the temperature in your house, so start with 30-second increments and repeat until you get the right consistency. Place the coconut butter and oil in a large mixing bowl, then add the maple syrup, and vanilla extract. Beat until fluffy with a standing or hand mixer. If you don't have a mixer, go at it with a whisk… and good luck to you!
NOTE: I almost always over-heat the coconut oil and coconut butter, and it gets liquidy. Here's what to do: mix it per the instructions above, then let it sit at room temperature. As it cools, it will thicken a bit. When it's the consistency of very thick honey, drizzle it on top of the cold cake. It will tighten up like a frosting glaze, then refrigerate.
Assemble! Allow the cake to cool completely. Completely. For real. When you're sure it's cooler than Mr. Mike Ness in Red Square in February, you may cut it into 9 or 16 squares. Dollop a spoonful of frosting onto each square and top with a nut. Do not snarf your cake yet – save it for Thanksgiving dinner!
Chill out. When all squares are frosted, cover lightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate. The frosting will firm up in the fridge and the texture transforms into a confection. Serve the cake squares chilled or at room temperature.
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Yes please!!! Any way to sub in reg almond butter for Justin$s? Adding some amount of maple to it? Anything else in justins?
This looks awesome! I may have to try this out for our first Thanksgiving here in Austin!
Quick question: Does it have to be Justin's Maple Almond Butter or can I use regular Almond Butter from my new favorite grocery store out here, HEB?
I think it's definitely time to get my new food processor so I can make coconut butter!
Would coconut mana work in place of coconut butter in frosting?
Ok, this is going on my list of recipe to try when I'm done with Whole 30. One question, I've never seen coconut butter…is that something you make or buy pre-made? Thanks!
We must have been cosmic twins today. I was telling my hubby today how much I love your blog…then I pop on and find out it will just be you, Dave and Smudge for T-day. It will just be me, M and the cats as well. And I told M earlier, "maybe I'll make a duck." And you're making duck! Also I experimented today making a dessert – paleo apple pumpkin tart. Turned out great but this recipe looks so delish and I love maple. Anyway thanks for sharing!
I just wanted to say that I made this recipe a couple weeks back (when I put out a call for a gingerbread recipe) and it was really good. Like, GOOD. Just sayin'. Thanks for the delicious treat.
Does this recipe really not have any sort of "flour" (coconut/almond meal or otherwise)? It looks like it will just be gooey! I certainly does not look gooey in the photo! It looks delish! I guess I can just try it myself and see! Thanks
Hi Mel
I read your blog a lot and am just dying to try some of your "sweets" recipes (especially the sweet and salty fudge bombs! and now this delicious looking reciipe)but I don't tolerate sugar very well.
Anyway, I have been on the paleo diet for about 8 months (accidentally – I was quite sick for a while – but now I know I just function better without grains and sugar etc.).
I have a question about your cookbook I want to buy it but one thing I notice about a lot of paleo style cookbooks is the inclusion of a lot of almond flour. I cannot eat nuts due to a nut allergy and was wondering if your recipes contain a lot of almond or other nut flours?
Thanks so much! I can't tell you how disappointing it is to invest in a cookbook that uses a lot of nuts or nut flour.
I will be buying your Well Fed cookbook – glad I found and bookmarked your site when I did. The fudge bombs are what caught my eye LOL.
I have been eating the same basic meals every day with lots of veggies and chicken and steak and eggs. I like that I eat the same healthy foods I don't get tired of it at all but it will be nice to add some variety and try something different once in a while.
I also have a nut allergy, peanuts and tree nuts. I plain, dry roast raw pumpkin seeds and find that they often make a great sub for nuts either whole or ground. I also use Sunbutter in place of peanut or almond butter. I buy the Organic, which has nothing but sunflower seeds listed in the ingredients. =)
Mel, what would you suggest substituting for almond butter? I don't care for the taste of it and am trying to find a way around using it in things. This recipe looks delicious but is there a way to use almond flour + a wet ingredient and have a similar result? Thanks!
I grind my own almond butter at local health store… it has more texture than jarred almond butter. Do you think this would work just as well? Or would smoother consistency be better? Thanks for the delicious sounding recipe. Can't wait to try it!
What size can of pumpkin puree?
Finished Whole 30 Tuesday. Made Paleo Pumpkin Gingerbread squares yesterday. Yum! It's hard to believe no flour no refined sugar. Thanks for the great addition to our expanding paleo-friendly recipes. Looking forward to the book!
I absolutely LOVED this cake for Thanksgiving. Sugar makes me sick so I never get to enjoy dessert at family get-togethers. This was perfect! I used the store-ground almond butter and yes, you get the bits of almond and it gives a lot of texture. I added about a teaspoon of freshly grated ginger in addition to the ground because I like the taste and smell of fresh. Other than that, followed the recipe and it was FAB!! I also made the cranberry-waldorf salad – another smash hit! Thanks for the recipes!!
This cake was so good…not too sweet. Next year I'm bringing this to Thanksgiving..way too many sweet treats this year. I couldn't find coconut butter and didn't want to take the time to make it. I have no problem with dairy so I whipped up some cream with a little honey,maple syrup and vanilla. Dolloped on the bars.sprinkled with cinnamon and chopped almonds. Wonderful!
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This looks amazing! Any idea of the carb breakdown?
I wanted it to be a bit fluffier so I substituted the 1 cup of almond butter with 2 cups of almond flour/meal and 1/4 cup coconut oil and added 1tbs of maple syrup. Also at the end folded in some walnuts. Came out delicious!
This looks great but my partner can't eat eggs and avoids flax. Will Ener-G egg replacement work?
Mel…this looks devine! I just happen to have pumpkin draining on the sink right now. I was going to make gluten free pumpkin bread, looks like I will be making your gingerbread cake as well… thanks.. 🙂
Hi Melissa,
Because of the nut allergies we can not use the almond butter. Could we sub with the sunbutter? Would you then use the same amount of maple syrup?
Love the blog, and the book is on it's way!!!! 🙂
Absolutely LOVE this recipe. It's so easy. I made some before the holidays and it did not last long. Everyone in my family loved it. I didn't even include the frosting.
I've just thawed more backyard pumpkin puree to make another batch, came back to your site to get the recipe, and noticed YOU'RE the author of Well Fed… which I just ordered after Diane at Balanced Bites posted your interview.
Now I'm even MORE excited to get your cookbook! 🙂
This recipe looks delicious. As I'm on a low FODMAP diet as well due to numerous GI issues I can't have any fructose. Will it work to sub maple syrup for the honey?
Btw – I'm ordering your cookbook today. Downloaded the sampler yesterday. Looks divine!
I had been craving some sort of gingerbread spice cake for weeks since my Whole30 challenge. Made this last night, and my oh my, is it delicious!
No frosting, and I made them little extra gingery… Was in the mood for gingerbread bars. For PWO, I'm about to try CFit for the first time ever!
This sounds beyond amazingly delicious. I am just starting out on a paleo diet and one of my favorite things on the planet is sugary delicious anything. If I COULD eat dessert 24 hours a day, I absolutely WOULD.
I'm loving your blog so far, and I feel absolutely the same way about cooking vs. making dinner. I have no doubt I will be back! 🙂
It's not Thanksgiving, but I don't care! This is so yummy! A great treat after my whole30!
Dumb question: why is there no flour in the cake (gluten-free or otherwise)? Is the almond butter and egg holding it all together?
Do you think these will freeze well? I wouldn't want to eat them all up so fast and would definitely want to be greedy and hoard them in my freezer…
I would love to somehow make this into a bundt cake.
Can you also store this cake for two or three weeks? Like gingerbread? Would be great for christmas
I am having the toughest time with the frosting! It's not pretty and white like yours and it is super runny. I used Artisana Coconut Butter? I don't use a microwave so I heated it slowly on the stove. I wonder if it got too hot? Also my coconut oil is basically liquid due to the temp in my house. Any ideas, I would love a good frosting?!? Thanks!
When I made the frosting today I over-softened the coconut oil and coconut butter, and it wouldn't "fluff." I set the bowl in the fridge for 5 minutes, then tried beating it again. It was a bit thicker, but still wouldn't quite get fluffy. I chilled it for 3 more minutes, and then it did thicken up and attain a frosting-y consistency. It sat out on the counter in my 70-72F kitchen for at least an hour while I waited for the cake to be ready to cut, and it stayed perfect.
It is a fabulous frosting! I want to make ten different variations and eat it on all kinds of things. Also, it is quite true that it is like a confection when it is chilled, and that has set my imagination running toward making little bon bons…
But I need to only do this when there is a crowd around to enjoy them 🙂
Hey Mel
Do you think these could be made in mini loaf pans? I have a tray that has mini loaf sized openings. My ice cream scoop fills each about half way. Thoughts?
Thanks, as always!
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Thanks for all your great recipes! I am looking for a good gingerbread recipe that can replicate the original, with all its gingery spiciness. Does this recipe come out like that, or is it more pumpkin with spice? Any thoughts on how to adapt this recipe if the latter is the case? Thanks in advance!
Great looking recipe.
I'm out of liquid sweetener, but I have a butt-load of coconut sugar–how would I balance out the wet/dry ratio? Add some water? How much?
I just made this!! I didn't have lemon zest or cardamom and it was still fantastic. I am eating small amounts of dairy so I just made cream cheese glaze with 4oz cream cheese and a tsp of maple, honey, and vanilla. This really is a great recipe. Surprised how moist and cakey it is. Great job!
Just read this recipe-love pumpkin! I also followed your link and bought Well Fed. I noticed in the book you say "No" to honey has a sweetener, yet I see it above? I use it for hot tea and coffee sweetener-is that a problem? Also, do I have to make the pumpkin puree or can I buy it?
I just made this last night and it is DELICIOUS! I've tried baking gluten free recipes and they can be very tricky, but this one is super easy and so tasty. I didn't quite get the frosting right – I put it in the microwave for 30 seconds and it completely melted, then I put it in the freezer and I think it got almost too cold. Oh well I will try again tomorrow – I made it as a test for Thanksgiving so I'll be making it again tomorrow – super delicious (my husband even loved it and he's not on paleo). I'm going to buy your book – thanks for this recipe and I look forward to cooking more!!
This was really great. I made the cake without the icing for a paleo potluck at my box and everyone gobbled it up! I may end up making this for my whole family on Thanksgiving (paleo and non-paleo eaters). Thanks for the yummy recipe. 🙂
Hi Mel
I'm making this cake for a paleo friend this thanksgiving; it sounds amazing. I followed ur instructions and let it bake for 30 min then did the toothpick test and all seemed well. As it cooled it started to sink in the center. Any suggestions? I didn't want to over cook it.
I am so making this once I finish eating the other half of the carrot-gingerbread muffins I made yesterday, which shouldnt take too long. 🙂
I made this today and holy cow! it is good. My whole family loves it. I substituted molasses for the honey so it has a bit more gingerbread-y taste to it and it is so delish! I can't believe how soft and moist and . . . CAKE-like it is, and without any flour, too! You're a genius!
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Just wondering if I could make this recipe with other squashes, like butternut squash instead of pumpkin. I've made it once with pumpkin, and it was so amazing! I want to make it again for Christmas, but I only have butternut and acorn squashes. Do you think one of those would work? Thanks!
I know I am late to this, but I just made this today and Holy Cow! I love it! I roasted some almonds in butter, maple syrup, and cinnamon to top them with. Delicious!
BEST PALEO CAKE EVER!!! my Family loved it!!
I *love* this recipe (and others of yours I've tried). new to paleo; your food is reliably great. thanks you so much!!!
After reading the reviews, I was happy to see someone else had tried the recipe with almond flour. We don't have any almond butter and I didn't feel like buying any. I too used 2 cups of almond flour plus 1/4 cup coconut oil to replace the nut butter. I used 6 tablespoons of molasses to replace the honey and maple syrup and baked it 35 minutes. It was a full on gingerbread experience and just delicious. For those who can/will use molasses, it's a wonderful grain-free dairy free ginger bread. Won't be making it again until the holidays. Too easy to make and too hard to eat just one piece. Thanks for the recipe and the inspiration.
These are fantastic! Even my non-paleo family members and friends loved them 🙂
Sounds delicious. Really caught my eye with the reference to Smudge. We have a female tortoise named Smudge, so I had to investigate. Your Smudge is cute too–looks like our daughter's cat.
If I were to make cupcakes how many would it make?
You should really add a note that if you're using a glass baking dish, to bake it longer, mine wasn't done either, very wet in the middle and I think that's why.
The only substitution I did was to use maple syrup instead of honey because I had plain almond butter, it's pretty tasty but kind of plain, next time I may double the spices and add some salt.
Hi Mel, I'm a newbie, just tried the fudge bombs. OMG thank-you,thank-you,thank-you !! I ran a couple over to my neighbor so I could claim that I didn't eat the whole batch.
Question: is there a paleo turkey stuffing recipe that you use for thanksgiving? (my in-laws are coming ! yikes !!)
kinda desperate,
Mary Jane
Hi! I'm a huge fan of thus time of year because of pumpkin. Not to say you can't use it any other time throughout he year,but during this season it evokes so much! Ok enough of that. So can I use honey instead of the syrup and pumpkin pie spice because I don't have the other spices at my disposable. I should because I use so much of the darn stuff??
Happy eats!!
I just made these to "test" them out before Thanksgiving…I will be sharing this with a non-paleo group…They are amazingly delicious, and I have no worries that my family will love them too!! I have made many of your recipes, and have loved every one…Well Fed is my favorite cookbook!! Thank you for your contributions to a healthy life!
Mel, do you remember Mrs. Schlorer's Turkey Syrup, made in Lancaster County area? People often use it for their shoofly pies. Well, pre-paleo, and pre-awareness of corn syrup, I used to make a spice cake recipe on their jars that I loved. I am baking this Pumpkin Gingerbread cake and I can't wait to try it. Smells divine. It will definitely beat out that other cake. And "you know how you could do that?" I'm going to make a crumb topping for the next time. mmmmm!!!!
Thank you soooo much for this fantastic recipe. I made these for Thanksgiving and was a bit nervous because my family is not paleo and love their desserts. I was the first to try the pumpkin squares and loved them but to my surprise, my family LOVED them too. My parents enjoyed the pumpkin squares along with their coffee the next day. This recipe will become a regular this winter. Thanks again!!
Loved this recipe and have been obsessed with this MaraNatha Dark Chocolate Almond spread so swapped that for the maple almond butter and took the maple out of the frosting just using 1.5 tbl of honey instead and YUMMMY!!! That's for this gem of a recipe!
What are your thoughts on using ghee instead of coconut oil in the frosting?
Made this today as a secretly healthy treat for my husband, and he liked it, especially the frosting! He made a great suggestion about adding some finely-ground coffee beans to the frosting next time. 🙂
Hey Melissa,
Can this batter be put in muffin tins? Would I just reduce the baking time by a bit? Thanks!
I see honey mentioned in the notes / comments and instructions for the frosting, but I don't see it in the ingredients. What am I missing? I also see someone subbed molasses for the honey? What honey? Molasses in the frosting or cake? EXCELLENT recipe! I just remembered it from last year and came to get a refresher, but I'm confused about the honey 🙂
I couldn't find coconut butter at Whole Foods, only coconut oil, but it is solid at room temp. Is this the same thing as coconut butter, only without the salt and vanilla extract in your recipe?


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Museum of the Grand Prairie
Categories:ARTS & CULTUREHISTORY
The Museum of the Grand Prairie has an extensive collection interpreting 19th and early 20th century life in east-central Illinois. Two floors of exhibits present architecture, trades and occupations, decorative arts, and childhood and domestic life of the time. The Discovery Room offers hands-on opportunities for children to interact and learn about the residents of the Grand Prairie. Educational programs are offered for all ages throughout the year.
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We are sorry to have to start this post with some very sad news. Risa, the reason behind tomorrow's Running for Risa marathon, half marathon, 5k and kid's run, passed away at the end of March; making the event a memorial and a fund raiser to help her family pay for her medical bills. Fortunately, according to event co-organizer Scott Taylor, they think that tomorrow's event may be able to do just that; and any additional participants would surely help!
So if you aren't busy tomorrow, load up the family and come on out to Hagg Lake to run in memory of Risa. Here is what you need to know for race day:
The marathon has changed its course; it is no longer a point to point and is now two loops of the lake with the rest of the route matching the half marathon course. You can take a look at the courses in our course preview here.
Also, the race start/finish area is now at Boat Ramp C (not Boat Ramp A as previously planned).
Here are the race vitals:
When: Saturday, April 23, 2011
What time: The full marathon starts at 7a, the half marathon starts at 8a, the 5k starts at 9a, and the fun run is at 10a
Where: All events start and end Henry Hagg Park. Previously, the event was to start/finish at Boat Ramp A; now the race will start at Boat Ramp C which is over the dam on the west side of the lake (just past the Sain Creek). Participants have been notified by the race and will get a reminder today, but in case you saw previous information be sure to turn left and drive over the dam!
Register: The full marathon is $75, the half marathon is $50, and the 5k is $20; you can register DOR up until about 10 minutes before each race start. The fun run (0.7 miles) is only $5 and is open to all age groups.
There will be more than 200 runners across the three events (so far), with 16 full marathon runners, 112 half marathon runners and 164 5K runners.
When you get to Hagg Lake, go to Boat Ramp C, which is past the turnoff over the dam and on your left. There is plenty of parking, but be mindful of other participants warming up.
Look for the shelter, where you will see tables staffed with volunteers doing DOR registration and handing out packets for pre-registered runners. The timing company is also planning to bring a finish arch; however it may not be set up when they start the full marathon or even the half marathon.
The full marathon starts at 7a, the half at 8a, and the 5k at 9a. There is also a kid's run at 10a of 0.7 miles; and I got an email from the Easter Bunny himself to tell me that he's hidden Easter Eggs along the kid's run course!
Bon Appetit Catering is providing a lunch of hamburgers for all the runners after the race.


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Brancott Estate Classic Sauvignon Blanc 75cl
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Product Description
Chief Winemaker
Brancott Estate wines are considered the benchmark of New Zealand varietal winemaking and have an international reputation for quality and consistency. The wines are crafted in a style that epitomises the unique character and flavour of the growing region. As the original pioneers of this region, Brancott Estate's understanding of Marlborough and the variety is unparalleled. They have unrivalled experience in harnessing the potential of its three main subregions. Most of the grapes were crushed and left in contact with the skins for a few hours to provide strength and fullness of flavour. The juice was then fermented at cool temperatures to retain the very distinctive regional and varietal characters.
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Beer, Wine & Spirits/
White Wine/
New Zealand
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White Wine/
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Sauvignon Blanc
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- Brands: Brancott Estate
- Grape Varieties: Sauvignon Blanc
- Countries: Marlborough
- Price Ranges: £8 to £12
- Wine Cellar: White
Brancott Estate
Best served lightly chilled.
Discover Brancott Estate Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc with BBQ prawns, poached white fish with fresh green salads.
Preparation and Usage
Brancott Estate Sauvignon Blanc is the perfect match with barbecued prawns or salmon as well as poached white fish. It also works well with Mediterranean and Turkish dishes with hummus, olives and feta.
Best served lightly chilled.
Grape Variety
Sauvignon Blanc
Tasting Notes
Exhilarating blend of stonefruit with subtle herbal notes, while tropical fruit and grapefruit notes complement its fresh acidity.
Serving Suggestions
Brancott Estate Sauvignon Blanc is the perfect match with barbecued prawns or salmon as well as fresh white fish
Brancott Estate
Pernod Ricard UK Ltd
Patrick Materman
Brancott Vineyard is our original Marlborough Vineyard and inspiration behind our name. With its special combination of soil, sun and climate, this is where we first pioneered our country's most internationally-acclaimed varietal - Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.
Regional Information
Marlborough has had another excellent growing season with dry conditions for most of the harvest. A warm November and December set up good flowering and fruit set, and until mid-February the season was tracking much earlier than the long term average. Although rain was experienced in late April, this had little effect on the vintage as most of the fruit had already been harvested.
Current Vintage
Vinification Details
Most of the grapes harvested for this wine were gently bag pressed off to achieve fresh, clear and elegant juice. Some were crushed and left in contact with the skins for a few hours to increase the extraction process and to provide strength and fullness of flavour. The juice was then fermented slowly at cool temperatures to retain the very distinctive regional and varietal characters.
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Questions, Comments or Suggestions
Contact us at: www.pernod-ricard-uk.com
Pernod Ricard Winemakers PTY Ltd,
Chiswick Park,
Country of Origin
New Zealand
Country of Packing
New Zealand
Brancott Estate Ltd,
38 Liverpool Street,
Blenheim 7274,
New Zealand.
Package Type
Recycling Information
Glass bottle recyclable
Other Information
Full Product Name:
Sauvignon Blanc - White New Zealand Wine
Wine of New Zealand
Pernod Ricard Winemakers PTY Ltd,
Chiswick Park,
Dietary Information
Contains Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites.
Customer Reviews
15 October 2016
1 of 1 found this review helpful.
not drinkable
this wine tasted terrible. It was fizzy and very unpleasant. unfortunately we bought a few bottles which will have to be poured away.. most annoying!
14 October 2016
Chemical taste
I have bought this a while ago and it was ok - but this time it's extremely chemical tasting and 13.5% too. I won't be buying again.
24 April 2016
Best value NZSB
Consistently good Sauvignon Blanc and compares well with pricier wines from the Marlborough region.
08 February 2016
2 of 3 found this review helpful.
I've tasted many a Sauvignon Blanc and this is nasty acidic with a tangy sour after taste. I bought 2 bottles and they were both the same. Undrinkable and both poured away.
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1 - Always like a colt who gets passed and comes on again to win like LULU ROCKS (BEST BET), who will stalk pacesetter EXECUTIVE OFFICE right into the winner's circle. MAYBRYS CHALLENGE also will force quick fractions.
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3 - START JUMPING exploded by 5 1/2 when stretched out and likes inner track. Runs down pacesetter NORTH OCEAN. HACKLETON has won 5 of 8 on inner loop and lone try going around two turns. All five victories came on winter track. Box them.
4 - FOREVER UTOPIA adds blinkers and holds off WOKE UP TIRED again. COFFEE AND DONUTS may like stretching out after fanning six wide in debut and still closing ground.
5 - MARGARET OWNZIT scratched Thursday for this spot; plunges in price to beat ZIMBABWE LADY. who was claimed by Nevin (26% winners) FOXBEAU beat top pick two starts back, but drifted out and that leaves some questions.
6 - GABRIEL'S FLAME nips PRINCE RAJA again after SECRET OPS sets the pace.
7 - WILD FINISH runs well fresh. Trainer Ward excels off layoffs. COBALTO outduels BRASS PEAR for lead and holds on longer.
8 - MAMDOOHA will win fourth in a row snapping RED MINX's unbeaten streak at two. MISS BEHAVIOUR has more than enough back class to shock top pair.
9 - AGATE has been prepping steadily for debut. MARKETABLE MISS has the experience edge most of field lacks. PENELLA ships up from Gulfstream to meet NY breds. Class drop.


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Super snail mail
Complaints of late mail delivery and sometimes no mail at all some days in Lycoming County, parts of Clinton County and beyond can be traced back to a specific action: the final closure of a mail-sorting facility in Williamsport on June 1.
A United States Postal Service spokesman and several postal employees who talked to the Sun-Gazette agree that the closure of the city's mail processing facility at 2901 Reach Road is causing problems with delivery.
Because of that however, businesses are missing out on payments being sent to them while area letter carriers have been out on routes past 9 p.m. Some letter carriers have been waiting hours each morning for mail to arrive, all while being on the clock.
"We are standing around for hours at a time, doing nothing. We're getting paid for doing nothing," said Jared Bowes, local president of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 50, which covers multiple counties in central and northcentral Pennsylvania.
An independent contract carrier in Clinton County, who doesn't get paid overtime, said his mail has been routinely delayed for months and that no first-class mail was delivered on at least one occasion recently.
One employee, who asked not to be identified and works at the city facility, said an entire shipment of 5,000 pieces of mail destined for Cogan Station was "misplaced" this week.
That employee also said that 1,400 hours of overtime and 400 hours of double-time were issued by the Postal Service last week because letter carriers had to wait for mail to arrive from Harrisburg.
The city postal facility ceased all sorting operations at the beginning of June. Mail now is being transported to and sorted at a Harrisburg facility.
"The issues you cited appear to have been related to an adjustment to that activity," said Ray V. Daiutolo Sr., a Postal Service spokesman, when asked about recent delays. "I understand that the district has identified the cause and has begun to make the appropriate adjustments to address the opportunities. We are committed to ensuring a smooth transition for our customers. We expect that our customers will begin to experience the regular levels of service they are accustomed to from the USPS. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers."
But local Postal Service employees warned more than a year ago that such delays would happen when the Reach Road facility was slated to be closed.
"In my honest opinion, what it is, is the Harrisburg plant has not been able to do what it said it was going to do," Bowes said.
When the Postal Service announced in late 2011 that processing could move from the city to Harrisburg, local employees said service here would suffer because efficiency rates are much lower at the Harrisburg plant.
"Harrisburg was consistently at the bottom," Bowes said. "I don't know what the answer is down there. They should have never taken processing out of Williamsport, because it's not working."
Bowes said he and other Postal Service employees are frustrated with what's happening and are not getting answers from management.
"It's destroying the service from within," he said. "They haven't said anything. That's the problem. They're seeing the tremendous amount of waiting time. They see the problem.
"We're day 18 into this and it's not getting any better. It's hurting our customers. The customers are getting fed up and what are they going to do? They're going to use another service."
Even to mail a letter now from the city to South Williamsport takes five days, Bowes confirmed. Before the change, 95 percent of local mail was delivered the next day, he said.
Daiutolo, however, said that shouldn't happen.
"That should not be the case. If a customer had that issue, it was most likely an isolated incident," he said.
The employee who wished to remain unnamed said some mail isn't being postmarked the day it's dropped off to make it appear as if it reaches its destination more quickly.
"They knew about this a year ago," the employee said. "Why weren't they prepared by June 1?"


text: Regarding cooking for others. On my down days (I am going with lower case dd for down day and upper case DD for my darling daughter) i make a couple of veggies and for the boys I do Pasta and for myself I use konjac noodles. Stuff like that. Make some thing we can all eat and then add to it for them. Then on my ud's I do a seriously nice meal we can all eat and maybe add bread to theirs. Neither of them are primal and both are carboholics and whine if i dont ocassionly add some to dinner.


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NBA teams face 2 battles: their opponents and their injuries. It takes Iron Men and depth to survive the grind of 82 games. This week's Fanalyst Rankings analyzes the games missed by the starters for the best teams in the Eastern Conference.
There are two sides to every NBA Power Ranking: the Fanalytical and the Fanatical. As a Miami HEAT blogger living on the east coast, MHI plays the fanalyst for the Eastern Conference. As a Denver Nuggets fan living west of the Mississippi River, Mrs. NBA plays the fan and provides the slander. The roles are reversed for the Western Conference.
1. Miami HEAT (55-14, prev. rank: 1)
MHI: HEAT starters have only missed 11 games this season but Dwyane Wade is currently out with a sore right knee. The HEAT will need Chris Bosh and Ray Allen to step up to keep their winning streak alive if Wade's out this week @Magic, @Bulls, @Hornets and @Spurs. Expect the HEAT to win their 30th game in a row.
Mrs. NBA: Yada Yada Yada "Miami Heat wins 27th straight game" Yada Yada Yada
2. Indiana Pacers (43-27, prev. rank: 2)
MHI: Pacers starters have missed 75 games this season as Danny Granger struggled with knee problems and David West is bothered by a lower back sprain. Lance Stephenson's replaced Granger's production and Tyler Hansbrough's racked up double-doubles replacing West, but the Pacers will struggle for a 2-2 split this week against the Hawks, @Rockets, @Mavs (back-to-back) and @Suns.
Mrs. NBA: Pacers still blow and will never prosper as long as LeBron is a member of the Miami Heat.
3. New York Knicks (42-26, prev. rank: 7)
MHI: Knicks starters have missed 73 games this season as Iman Shumpert recovered from a torn ACL, Carmelo Anthony dealt with knee problems, Raymond Felton broke a finger, the list is endless. If Tyson Chandler doesn't come back from his back injury, the Knicks will go 1-3 this week with @Celtics, Grizzlies (back-to-back), Bobcats and Celtics on the schedule. They can split those games if Chandler plays.
Mrs. NBA: AARP Knicks, FTW!
4. Brooklyn Nets (41-29, prev. rank: 3)
MHI: Nets starters have missed 26 games this season, which is low considering the physical problems that Deron Williams and Joe Johnson have struggled with this season. The Nets starting backcourt will struggle for a 1-2 week on the road against the Blazers, Nuggets and Jazz (back-to-back).
Mrs. NBA: Holla at me when the Nets win a playoff series this postseason.
5. Atlanta Hawks (39-31, prev. rank: 4)
MHI: Hawks starters have missed 31 games this season and Devin Harris left Sunday's game with a foot injury. With Lou Williams already out for the season with a torn ACL, the Hawks may need Deshawn Stevenson to fill-in to go 2-2 this week @Pacers, @Raptors, @Celtics and vs. Magic (back-to-back).
Mrs. NBA: Are there any Hawks fans that even read this ranking? More importantly, do they even care?
6. Chicago Bulls (38-31, prev. rank: 5)
MHI: Bulls starters have missed 107 games with Derrick Rose missing the entire season recovering from a torn ACL and Richard Hamilton missing a third of it with a bad back. No Rose means a 1-2 week for the Bulls with HEAT, @Mavs and Pistons (back-to-back) on the schedule.
Mrs. NBA: Chicago just doesn't matter this season *thug shrug*
7. Boston Celtics (36-33, prev. rank: 5)
MHI: Celtics starters have missed 67 games with Avery Bradley missing the beginning of the season recovering from shoulder surgery and Rajon Rondo tearing his ACL shortly after Bradley returned. UPDATED: Celtics
Mrs. NBA: Jason Terry slays me...they can't beat Memphis, but Terry believes they can beat the Heat in a 7-game series? #BitchassnessNeverProspers
8. Milwaukee Bucks (34-35, prev. rank: 8)
MHI: Bucks starters have missed 37 games but their backcourt has made every start - that's a gift and a curse. If Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis can make their shots this week, then the Bucks should go 2-1 with @Sixers, Lakers (back-to-back) and Thunder on the schedule.
Mrs. NBA: It's gonna be great when the Bucks are swept in round one.