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As part of a World Economic Forum blog series on Social Entrepreneurs, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship spoke to Kyle Zimmer, President and CEO of First Book, which provides millions of new books to children in low-income situations.
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Ensuring an equal education, and letting our children know they matter, regardless of their race or culture, is the most important step we can take. We are too great a country to fail to address something so fundamental to our fellow citizens and our future.
Today, 32.4 million American children go without books -- even as study after study has shown that literacy is crucial to success in school, future earning potential and the ability to contribute to the nation's economy.
So come on all you Bilbo Baggins, Captain Ahabs, Harry Potters, Anne of Green Gables and Katniss Everdeens. I know you are out there and we need you to win this one. Because how this story ends affects us all.
If we needed another call to action regarding the transformative power of education - on individual lives and the world we live in - here it is.
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I couldn't understand it. I was driving home after taking our first grader to school, and everyone seemed to be going about his day as if it was a normal one. It wasn't. My first book was on its way!
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Voodoo, faith, racism, integrity (or lack thereof) in the news business, language as virus, fluctuating female frien...
The lack of diversity in children's literature is a problem that requires a market-based solution. That starts with understanding the pressures facing the book industry.
They are part of First Book, a nonprofit network of teachers, librarians, community leaders and program administrators serving kids in need -- a network that stretches across the country and around the world.
We need to ramp up our investments in educational gender equity and opportunities for women and girls. By doing so, our families and communities will thrive.
What if, instead of using international rankings to bash our students, schools and teachers, we learned from top-performing countries and applied their lessons for the benefit of all children?
September is National Literacy Month and a reminder that as kids across the U.S. settle in for another school year, many are at a critical disadvantage due to low literacy skills or outright illiteracy.
All artists look at their creations -- be they manuscripts, canvases, film canisters, or musical scores -- as their babies, and society does not object. This metaphor is never insulting, nor is it entirely false or original, for that matter.
As a soon-to-be published author I've thought often about whom I'll thank in the acknowledgments pages of my book. And I do mean pages. None of that thanks-to-the-world-in-a-paragraph for me.
I ignored my mother's pleas and started a journey into the unknown. I hoped it would inspire people along the way: For each mile we drove in our Daihatsu Terios, we donated a book to an underprivileged child through First Book. 10,000 miles. 10,000 books. That was the goal.
For decades the field has focused on startup phase entrepreneurs. But our focus on startups eliminates two important categories that are critical to the evolution of the field -- and to reaching our broader goals.
My dog's name is Charlotte.
I often get asked why the tiny English Bulldog with the deep, dark eyes and a tendency to growl at passers-by has such a...
Goodreads has partnered with First Book, a charity group whose mission is to make sure children who reside in low-income communities are able to have ...
We have Uma Thurman narrating a story that is billed as literature whose primary purpose is to sell $39.50 Blake Pig Pony Oxfords or $395 cowboy boots.
What I didn't realize was that I'd have a reaction to being in the spotlight, which felt almost biological (or bio-illogial) in nature. I physically craved that attention when it ebbed.
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Redoing interior walls.
We recently bought an older home that has been handied-up in many ways over the years and I have been brainstorming different ways to make it look reasonable without resorting to complete demo/rebuild.
The interior walls are irregular in several places, multiple planes that meet (or kinda-sorta meet) leaving small steps that are quite obvious. A good bit of the interior was originally lath-n-plaster, then some were drywall that has sheets of masonite covering that (?), so I am going to have to tear a large portion of it out and redo, I accept that. I demo'd a closet for a doorway and the resulting time and effort trying to get the walls finished so they didn't look crappy ended up teaching my son a few more swear words.
Here's what I'm wondering, would there be any advantage in taking it to the studs, adding a layer of plywood to establish a continuous flat plane and then adding 1/4" drywall to finish? My thoughts were that I could do whatever "adjusting" I needed with the base plywood layer and still get a decent finish. Trying shim out drywall to get a flat plane seems like a dumb idea to even consider, so I was thinking that plywood would be easier to work/shim/adjust, and result in a wall more solid and easier to drywall.
(Here's the point where the real DIY mavens pop in and tell me the real way to do this :laughing:)
hey friend,
i hear you. i've dealt with this funkiness a lot and am in the middle of a job that will require lots of mudding and furring and shimming.
what i recommend for you is:
in small non-demo areas, you can mud a taper to help little bumps and edges plane in. you'll need at least three coats. i like to use hard-set durabond as my base coat, then two more with the regular compound.
when gutting a wall, easier than the plywood would be running 3/4" furring strips perpendicular to the studs on 16" centers, and shimming those as necessary. probably each stud varies in width a bit. don't worry about anything less than 1/8" as the sheetrock will forgive that.
you can also set up string lines top and bottom, or a laser level, to establish big proud/shy spots on studs. you may only need a little strip of 1/4" luan here and there and just re-sheetrock right over the existing studs.
and remember, part of the charm of these old houses is a bit of funkiness...
good luck.
I hear ya, I love the funkiness and no matter how much work I have to do (which I love, just don't tell the wife), the location and neighborhood make it all worthwhile.
I understand about just furring it out, but I was thinking doing a full-sheet job might be easier than tweaking and shimming every single strip to get a continuous plane so the drywall came out nice n flat. I only have one long wall, already done (which might get redone eventually just for appearances sake), the place is mostly a succession of small ones with weird issues. Apparently the original construction relied on the lath-n-plaster to even things out since I have already come across studs not entirely vertical and not lined up with their neighbors, so the walls just swoop every whichway. When I add in parts that have been added strangely or removed and "repaired" in less than stellar fashion, I was thinking that a consistent overall plan to just entomb the craziness and leave a flat wall would be nice. I shudder to think what else I will discover when I start stripping off the masonite.
yes, you could certainly try the plywood idea. the concern i had is that you'll have the same problem as trying to put on a sheet of drywall. if the stud edges aren't aligned in both planes, then it will be an issue. of course the plywood can span more than the sheetrock can, and if the studs work in your favor in this regard, then go for it. it's a pretty good idea, i've just never heard of anything doing that.
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Sonny Bill Williams' ripped All Blacks' jersey has raised $10,000 at auction.
Women's hearts raced when Williams' jersey burst during the World Cup victory over Tonga in September last year.
He gave it to Sky TV, and it was then handed it to Baseball New Zealand to auction.
The auction took place at the Sky City Grand Hotel in Auckland on Friday (Sept 14) night and helped raise $55,000 for baseball.
Ryan Flynn, chief executive officer for Baseball New Zealand, said 130 people attended the auction, including Prime Minister John Key and London 2012 Olympic gold medal winner Lisa Carrington.
Williams said he was keen for the ripped shirt to be auctioned for charity.
The star centre left the All Blacks recently for a lucrative rugby contract with the Panasonic Wild Knights in Japan, and will make his return to league in the NRL next year, probably with the Sydney Roosters.


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As part of the EY Entrepreneur Of the Year 2011 program, Hamish Taylor, international expert on brand management, facilitated an Entrepreneurs' Workshop on Growing Beyond: Lessons on creating high performance by putting the customer at the core. The session was moderated by Shereen Bhan for a special telecast on CNBC-TV18.
— Steve Jobs
Today, the increasing variation in customer requirements and volatility in markets requires businesses to not just deliver, but also surpass customer expectations. The Entrepreneurs' Workshop reinforced the outcome of Growing Beyond: How high-performers are competing for growth in difficult times, EY's latest global survey. The study, based on a survey of over 900 respondents, identified "customer reach" as a key strategic driver for growth.
Analjit Singh, Founder & Chairman, Max India Group, said, "We grew up in a protected environment, but are now in a liberalized era. Competition has intensified and hence the focus on execution, numbers and soft insights." He cites the case of non-performing assets, which were rolled on earlier, but now act as a key differentiator between success and failure. "Strategy is not just about creating a theme once and then implementing it. Today, strategy has to be malleable and boundary-less," he said.
Hamish Taylor's emphasis on "soft insights" resonated with the audience. According to Deep Kalra, Founder & CEO, MakeMyTrip (India), "Soft insights are about being out there with the customer and not in closed cabins". He adds, "For the first five years, we focused on a niche market, but now after seven years of learning the insights of the consumer, we realize the myths about Indian online customers. One such myth was that Indians are wary of online transactions, this was proved wrong because we now have insightful research to prove that online is not the only medium but so is mobile and the tablet."
Dr. Mukesh Batra, Chairman and Managing Director, Dr. Batra Positive Health Care, noted "Taking 'closest to nature' as a proposition, we formulated a shampoo with a pH of 6.5. We communicated that it is not harsh on the hair, which clicked with our customers."
The key to winning the customers' trust is right communication. Said Dr. B S Ajai Kumar, Founder & Chairman, Healthcare Global Enterprises, "In the healthcare sector, our customers are often patients or their families, who are normally going through a traumatic experience. The organization seeks to comfort customers in different ways, including ensuring complete transparency in the billing structure."
Another aspect of the discussion was on brand extension. Does this dilute focus and the core offering? According to Hamish, one should keep the focus intact, such that the modifications do not distort the core offering. Taking the example of a leading low-cost airline having a club class with a flat bed, what differentiates it from others is that it provides the cheapest club class amongst all the others.
Businesses in India have recognized that it has to be more than just pricing or low cost arbitrage to get the edge in competitive landscape. Hamish wrapped up the proceedings by saying, "Softer insights come from really breathing the customer. These when implemented, harden business towards growth."
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Feb. 9, 2012 - History has always been of two minds about the Texas Rangers and their role on the frontier. The view most cherished and perpetuated comes from scores of dime novels, movies and television shows that portray the Rangers as rough-hewn white knights on horseback, making any number of law breakers, renegades and rustlers rue the day. There is plenty of that kind of action in the actual history of the Rangers to make it stick.
The historian Walter Prescott Webb reaffirmed that view in his pioneering history of the Texas Rangers, but subsequent histories have revealed a darker side to their activities. This can probably be best illustrated by the sound of a gunshot followed by the words, "Put your hands up." Mexicans and those of Mexican descent on both sides of the Texas border have told tales for years of Ranger ruthlessness and murder. When dealing with a frontier law enforcement group living in a time and place where danger lurked every which way, as it did when the Rangers were formed, stories can be told to reinforce either view. As usual, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
The man who most exemplified the dual nature of the Texas Rangers in the late 19th and early 20th Century was man named Bass Outlaw, not to be confused with Sam Bass, the outlaw. Bass Outlaw, the sometimes Texas Ranger, was from a well-respected family in Georgia, but he was by all accounts a bad sheep in a family of otherwise good Outlaws. Bass may have fled murder charges in Georgia and come to Texas with the express purpose of becoming a Texas Ranger. We can wonder why a man on the run from a murder charge would be so eager to become a lawman, but it's plausible and maybe even likely.
Outlaw did not become a Texas Ranger by being mean and drunk, but he was often both. Assigned initially to E Company, Outlaw advanced through the Ranger ranks on the basis of physical courage and outstanding marksmanship -- qualities held in high esteem by Ranger commanders. He appeared to be a man with a bright future, but it turned cloudy, as Outlaw tended toward tantrums and drunken indiscretions of the violent kind. Fed up with Outlaw, his bosses transferred him to D Company in the rugged Trans-Pecos region of the state.
At first, the change of scenery seemed to coincide with a change in Outlaw. He took a leave from Company D to accompany a load of silver from Mexico to Marathon. When the owner of the Fronteriza mine company asked Ranger captain John B. Jones for "three of the toughest men in Texas" to guard the silver, Bass Outlaw was one of the men he recommended. He behaved himself well on this mission, but that changed when the trio made it back to the mine. He had a few drinks and then lined some Mexicans up along the wall and shot one of them dead.
With considerable difficulty, John R. Hughes and Walter Durbin, the other two men who had guarded the silver with Bass, disarmed him and then hunkered down from what they expected to be a siege from outraged locals. Instead, the group that confronted the Rangers thanked them for killing a bad hombre. Outlaw said the man had pulled a knife and no one doubted it, but the incident was a foreshadowing of more trouble to come.
After another particularly unpleasant (but not fatal) confrontation in an Alpine saloon, Bass Outlaw was discharged from the Rangers and sent packing. He got his final pay from the Rangers and stayed in the area to hunt for some loot that bandits he had helped capture supposedly hid along the Rio Grande. He ran out of money without finding it, and soon departed the area.
Despite these many serious and frequent transgressions, former Ranger Dick Ware, now a U.S. Marshal, hired Outlaw as a deputy. Not in that capacity, but while still working for Ware, Bass Outlaw inexplicably started shooting outside an El Paso brothel one day. When Ranger Joe McKidrick show up to investigate the commotion, Outlaw shot him in the head and killed him.
Constable John Selman, best known to history as the man who shot and killed John Wesley Hardin, arrived on the scene only to be shot at by Outlaw. Selman fired back and hit Outlaw in the chest but he took two bullets to his right leg in the process.
Taken prisoner by another Ranger and transported to a nearby saloon to die, Outlaw asked that his friends be gathered beside him as he passed. His last words were, "Where are my friends?" There weren't any. The gravedigger and a minister were the only people to show up for his burial.


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System 1
System 2
Unconscious reasoning
Conscious reasoning
Judgments based on intuition
Judgments based on critical examination
Processes information quickly
Processes information slowly
Hypothetical reasoning
Logical reasoning
Large capacity
Small capacity
Prominent in animals and humans
Prominent only in humans
Unrelated to working memory
Related to working memory
Operates effortlessly and automatically
Operates with effort and control
Unintentional thinking
Intentional thinking
Influenced by experiences, emotions, and memories
Influenced by facts, logic, and evidence
Can be overridden by System 2
Used when System 1 fails to form a logical/acceptable conclusion
Prominent since human origins
Developed over time
Includes recognition, perception, orientation, etc.
Includes rule following, comparisons, weighing of options, etc.
Friday, June 19, 2015
Why Would an AI System Need Phenomenal Consciousness?
Monday, June 8, 2015
Artificial Intelligence and Conscious Attention--Jesse Prinz's AIR theory of Consciousness
Friday, June 5, 2015
Evil Demonology and Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Turing and Machine Minds
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Building Self-Aware Machines
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
The Myth of the Afterlife
This just came out. I wrote the lead chapter in it. Buy it at Amazon:
The Myth of the Afterlife
Monday, March 30, 2015
The F Word Lecture
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The F Word
The F Word.
I'm speaking to a secular humanists group tonight in Manteca at the Manteca Public Library at 7:00. I'll be talking about the problems with believing by faith.
My presentation is here.
Friday, April 18, 2014
Three Lectures on Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Ad hominem: Your Sins Keep You from Seeing God
I'm recycling this post from 2007. This guy put his finger on something:
A group of philosophers sympathetic with the Christian take on things have constructed a complicated and technical account of God beliefs and their source in human cognition known as reformed epistemology. On the view, espoused by Plantinga and Wolterstorff and widely cited and supported in recent years, humans are endowed by God with an innate faculty for sensing God under the right circumstances. This sensus divinitatus is one aspect of a properly functioning cognitive and belief forming system in humans. When it is not corrupted by the invasive noetic effects of sin, this faculty produces a belief in God that is immediate, direct, and non-inferentially justified. That is, a belief in God is properly basic according to the reformed epistemologists. It is not supported by any other independent or more fundamental facts. It cannot be justified on the basis of other beliefs. Rather, it's axiomatic like the law of non-contradiction or the identity of indiscernibles. The sensus divinitatus will manifest itself in a variety of ways—when you see a sweeping vista of majestic mountaintops, or when your first child is born, or upon pondering the vastness and magnificence of the universe in the night sky.
Misinterpreting these feelings of the divine as indicators of a non-Christian God as a Hindu might, or suppressing them and denying that God is manifest in experience are all the by-products of a sinful nature. Doubters, skeptics, and deniers—anyone who doesn't buy into the Reformed Epistemology picture—have all had their God given God detectors corrupted, co-opted, and distorted by sin. What they need, of course, is the salvation of Jesus to cleanse them of their immorality and to restore the proper function of their belief faculties. Then they will see that they were not right with God before. And then they will have properly basis religious experience of God. So the view has a the tidy way to deal with criticisms and legitimate objections. No objection to the whole scheme can have any merit because it arises from doubt, which is really just wickedness. If you had some experiences that seemed to have profound religious significance, like any normal person you would wonder about alternative explanations. Could this just be a weird artifact of my neurology? I wonder what natural explanation there could be for this strange disassociation? Maybe I ate something bad? The full-blown theistic supernatural explanation is one possibility. But according to Reformed Epistemology any suspicion that you have that it might have been something natural is really the result of your innately evil nature and the taint that sin has placed on your ability to think straight. They position undercuts any objections with an ad hominem attack on the moral character of the questioner.
The whole scheme is also clever (and insidious) for inventing a notion of private evidence that shouldn't be held up for any public scrutiny by someone who has doubts. Once you're in the special club, you're provided with "self-authenticating witness of the holy spirit" that gives you perfect, unassailable assurance about your God doctrine no matter what empirical questions or doubts may arise. Ordinarily, evidence is something that is sharable and public. The prosecuting attorney displays the gun that was the murder weapon for everyone in the court, the dentist looks at X-rays, and your mechanic points to the leaking oil around a gasket as evidence that there is a problem. But this special God feeling isn't like that; it's just a feeling you have that something's got to be true, so it can't be shared with anyone else. Plantinga and some of the people in this camp suggest that the earnest Christian in this situation ought to consider alternative explanations for their experience. Many properly basic beliefs, including the God one presumably, are defeasible. If you have the experiences, and if your conviction that that's really God your feeling persists after you have scrutinized the belief and reflected on what might be causing it, then you will have a warranted, and true belief that there is a God.
Needless to say, the notion of private evidence here is deeply problematic. Imagine an IRS agent telling you that she's got self-authenticating, private evidence that you can't see that you owe the government an extra $20,000 tax dollars. Imagine a doctor telling you that she's got self-authenticating evidence that you've got cancer, but the evidence can't be grasped by anyone who doesn't already believe it. Or imagine your husband telling you that he's got special, private, self-authenticating evidence that you've been cheating on him. Then suppose furthermore that they assure you that their conclusion is right because they have thought long and hard about it and considered other possibilities. Evidence that's private isn't really evidence at all and a mere feeling that something just must be true, no matter how strong or persistent, is never enough to give it warrant.
Here's a model of human rationality and religious belief that is much more accurate. Humans are endowed by evolution with a remarkably effective set of problem solving skills that can be group loosely under the general heading "reason." In the right circumstances, our reason allows us to devise complicated and elegant solutions to challenges, make accurate inferences and predictions, and arrive at many well-justified and true beliefs. We manage to cure diseases like polio and land people on the moon. But our cognitive systems are kludgey and imperfect. They're strapped together with disparate functions and tools that were available at various stages in a long, convoluted evolutionary history. Sometimes they don't track the truth at all, like when you have an attack of claustrophobia, or you can't bear to even look at a dish that once made you sick when you were a child. Sometimes our cognitive faculties overreact, mislead, underestimate, or misjudge.
Our fancier faculties of reason are also often overwhelmed by a variety of emotional, psychological, and biological forces that erode our ability to reason well and see the truth. One legacy of our evolutionary history appears to be a powerful disposition towards religious belief, experiences, and feelings. Daniel Dennett and Stephen Pinker have recently argued that natural selection may have endowed us with a sort of mind-attribution module. Construing other organisms behavior as the product of the planning and goals within their minds, whether they really have them or not, would be an effective mechanism for anticipating and projecting the behaviors of potential predators and prey. But we're just built to take it too far and endow everything with a mind—the wind, the ocean, the starry sky, and the world itself.
In an earlier post, I called it the Urge—a powerful and seductive need we have to be religious. Completely aside from the factual question of God, it is obvious to anyone who observes humans and their religious activities that we desperately want there to be a God and we will adopt the most contorted gymnastics of reasoning to rationalize the belief. Even if there are some theists with good reasons, there are far more with sloppy, fallacy ridden, biased grounds that they offer for their beliefs. And in lots of these cases, it's not really the poor reasoning that is offered in defense of someone's God belief that led them to believe at all. More often it is the case that people have the belief first as a result of the Urge's infiltration of their consciousness, and then they back fill that conclusion with some superficial reasons. So the Urge is really the dark side of your nature that threatens to corrupt your more noble aspects. It's the alluring, siren call of religion itself, not sin, that will co-opt reason's ability to see the world in an accurate light.
Staying on the straight and narrow will require resisting the temptation of religion's easy, emotionally satisfying answers to the biggest metaphysical questions. Living up to your potential to reason clearly and evaluate the evidence objectively demands that you be constantly vigilant against seduction of religion's false comforts.
Monday, March 17, 2014
Double Standards for Jesus
I got interviewed by Alan Litchfield recently for his podcast:
Take a listen to hear me get pretty heated up about the narcissism of many contemporary Christians' views about God, and for details about my recent Manteca lecture that was met with a crowd of angry, tongues-speaking evangelicals trying to exorcise me out of town.
Saturday, February 8, 2014
New Lecture on Motivated Reasoning
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Thinking Critically About God
Monday, January 27, 2014
Talking them out of God
(Inexplicably, YouTube won't let me embed this one.)


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Living Treasures: A Celebration of Vision Opens May 5 in Governors Gallery
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture's (MIAC) Living Treasures: A Celebration of Vision exhibition opens in the Governor's Gallery May 5 th . Each year since 2006, MIAC honors an innovative Native American artist for the annual Native Treasures Exhibition.
MIAC Lecture Explores Pictorial Traditions of the Kiowa During Period of Radical Change in Plains Indian Life and Culture
A selection of Silver Horn's original drawings will be on view during the March 11, 2017 lecture featuring perspectives from noted Kiowa tribal historian and storyteller, Dorothy White Horse Delaune, and Dr. Candace Greene, a specialist in plains pictorial traditions. The lecture will take place from 10:00am to 12:00pm at the Kathryn O'Keeffe Theater at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
I-Witness Culture: a Solo Exhibition of the Unique Brand of Work Of Frank Buffalo Hyde Opens at MIAC
Investigating the space between the ancient and the new, where Native Americans live today, I-Witness Culture , is an exhibition of fourteen paintings and three sculptures by Native American artist Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga/Nez Perce) opening at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
The Art of the "Do"
A Very Special Look at How Native Peoples Maintain Their Unique Hairstyle Traditions and the Different Cultural Meanings of Those Expressions
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture presents "Native Hairstyles," on Sunday, December 11, 2016, a day of demonstrations and a talk about the significance of Native American men's and women's hairstyles from multiple tribes and nations, including Tewa, Jemez, Santa Clara, San Felipe, Navajo, Hopi, Pawnee, and Laguna. The demonstrations begin at 10am and the presentation by all participants, including a Q & A with the audience, begins at 3pm. The event takes place in the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture classroom and the O'Keeffe Theater.
The Food Sovereignty Project: Reclaiming Native Health and Wellness Traditions
In partnership with the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) is presenting the two-day event, The Food Sovereignty Project , followed by a Community wide celebration on Museum Hill, focusing on how New Mexico tribes are reincorporating traditional foods into their diets to foster greater health and wellness in their communities. The Food Sovereignty symposium brings together a diverse range of indigenous farmers, herders, and hunters, who have been able to successfully sustain and revitalize food production practices that are vital to traditional life. Also included are tribal program directors and educators who have initiated successful community-based traditional food programs. Food sovereignty efforts are part of a larger national movement of indigenous peoples to create sustainable forms of food production that are Native American driven.
Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art
Sponge Bob Square Pants, Pac Man, and Curious George, all sporting a particularly Native American twist, are just a few images from popular mainstream culture seen in the exhibition, Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art. Featuring nearly 100 objects by more than fifty artists from the museum's collections as well as others borrowed from collectors and artists, the work on view in Into the Future will be in such various media as traditional clothing and jewelry, pottery and weaving, photography and video, through to comics, and on into cyberspace. The free to the public opening for Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is on July 17, 2016 from 1 to 4 pm and the show runs through October 22, 2017 .
Three Eminent Native Women Artists to be Honored at MIAC during Womens History Month
The lives and contributions of distinguished artists Margarete Bagshaw, Josephine Myers-Wapp, and Jeri Ah-be-hill will be celebrated at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture as part of Women's History Month. The free with museum admission program will be on Saturday, March 26 from 1 to 4 pm. The legacies of Santa Clara artist Margarete Bagshaw, Comanche educator and master craftsperson Josephine Myers-Wapp, and Kiowa/Comanche arts dealer and arts educator Jeri Ah-be-hill, all recently deceased, have had a profound impact in the areas of Native American painting, textile and clothing design, as well as Native arts marketing. Each contributed to ensuring a vibrant future for indigenous arts and their presence in the field will be greatly missed. Join us to celebrate their lives with a free program featuring stories and a selection of short films presented by family members and colleagues. A reception follows the presentations.
Family Archaeology Sundays at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Geared to families, this series allows visitors to learn about ancient technologies and traditional arts developed by Native peoples thousands of years ago using the natural resources around them. All four programs are on Sundays at 1pm and free with museum admission. New Mexico residents with ID free on Sundays. Youth 16 and under and MNMF members always free. 710 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill in Santa Fe. For more information the public may call 505-476-1269 or visit IndianArtsAndCulture.org
Multi-Venue Celebration of the Life and Art of Innovative Native American Artist and Designer Lloyd Kiva New
Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography, and Time
For the first time in Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography, and Time , large prints of Heisey's stunning images will be paired directly with the Lindberghs'. The exhibition opens October 25, 2015 and runs through May 2017 at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture . During 2007 and 2008, flying at alarmingly low altitudes and slow speeds, Adriel Heisey leaned out the door of his light plane, and holding his camera with both hands, re-photographed some of the Southwest's most significant archaeological sites that Charles Lindbergh and his new bride Anne photographed in 1929. The exhibition comprises seventeen pairings of photographs.
Internationally collected and admired worldwide as a sculptor, painter, and teacher, Allan Houser (1914-1994) is back in the Santa Fe spotlight in a major way this summer on the 100 th anniversary of his birth. Five monumental artworks by the famed Chiricahua Apache sculptor will be displayed in the exhibit Footprints: The Inspiration and Influence of Allan Houser at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), accompanied by an assortment of life-size and monumental sculptures by notable artists who either studied with Houser at IAIA, worked with him at his studio, and/or were influenced by him. For high resolution media images please contact Steve Cantrell.
Indian Country, The Art of David Bradley
Indian Country: The Art of David Bradley opens at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture February 15, 2015 and runs through January 16 2016. On view will be 32 works of art spanning his career, including paintings, mixed media works, and bronze sculptures. In Bradley's narratives of Indian Country, Native people take center stage in world art and history. Through his artwork he challenges stereotypes about Native American people, places, and events we think we understand, revealing the indigenous experiences at the core of what it means to be American.


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A group called the Defense of Democracies has started running an ad in Minnesota's 1st Congressional District. The group is criticizing the House for failing to vote for an extension to a terrorist surveillance law. Here's the ad.
The Foundation of Defense of Democracies says they are "the only nonpartisan policy institute dedicated exclusively to promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that drive terrorism."
There's some other background on the group here and here.
DFL Rep. Tim Walz said the ad is reckless:
"Implying that America's surveillance against terrorists is crippled is a lie. What's worse, this group has encouraged terrorists to think our country's surveillance system is weak, when nothing could be further from the truth. Why on earth would any group go on television and claim that America's intelligence agencies can't do their job?"
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Please help! Dinky has an increased appetite, no weight gain and is vomiting once a day(whole biscuits and hairballs).
Dinky is a 2 yr old indoor cat. In this past couple of weeks he has gotten out but only twice and not for long periods of time.I have never seen him so ravenous for food that he would swallow his dry food whole..
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What do you mean by whole biscuits? He probably ate something outside that made him hurl. If he is acting different he could have been exposed to poison or eaten something bad. Keep an eye on him and do not let him outside in the future without supervision. Check for fleas and ticks and treat the whole pet and home immediately if you find any. If he keeps on vomiting, take him to the vet, because that shows there is a problem. ^_^
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Re: bibtex support in Mathematica 8
On Dec 21, 4:22 pm, John Fultz <jfu... at wolfram.com> wrote:
> Which platform are you on? Right now, BibTeX (and EndNote) support exi=
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> just didn't make it for v8.
And yet (to the frustration of this user) it is touted as a new
feature in the Mac version:
Insert > Citation -- integration with both EndNote and BibTeX citation
And it is fully documented in the Mac version:
tutorial/CitationManagement) (no mention made that it doesn't work on
There was a thread recently about the standard of documentation. We
appreciate the enormity of the task of documenting functions but in
this case Wolfram clearly dropped the ball by including documentation
of functionality that doesn't exist.
(and I note another post where someone wasted a lot of time because of
this inaccurate addition to the documentation)
Could you advise what other Mac documented new features are Windows
But you should register your interest with Wolfram
> Research Technical Support. A showing of interested people may influen=
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> quickly we can deliver something on non-Windows platforms.
> Sincerely,
> John Fultz
> jfu... at wolfram.com
> User Interface Group
> Wolfram Research, Inc.
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:41:12 -0500 (EST), Stephan wrote:
> > I did use a Text-Cell (Format -> Style -> Text). The Insert->Citation
> > menu does not have a field "Bibliographical Reference. I only see
> > "Bibliographical Note" (active), "Delete Bibliographical Note" (grayed)=
> > "Edit Bibliographical Note" (grayed) and "Rebuild Notes" (grayed).
> > Any help?
> > Am 19.12.2010 um 11:08 schrieb Michael Weyrauch:
> >> Make the Cell a text cell first,
> >> THEN the menu item >Insert >Citation > Bibliographical Reference
> >> can be selected and the dialog opens where you can select your
> >> BibTex data base.
> >> Michael
> >> Am 18.12.2010 05:50, schrieb Stephan:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> has anyone had success with the bibtex support in Mathematica 8? I
> >>> can't even type in a bibtex file. If I write some text in a text cell
> >>> and open Insert -> Citation in the menu. The submenu contains only
> >>> "Bibliographical Note..." but no dialog for a bibtex- or endnote-file
> >>> or so.
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Stephan


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In his oration, Dr. Gage aims to evaluate how the members of the Worcester District Medical Society have kept up with the rapid medical progress of the times. First he lists the medical advancements of recent years. He remarks that the 40-year span he refers to begins with Pasteur beginning his experiments on bacteriology and the defeat of the theory of spontaneous generation which has opened the doors for bacteriological theories and treatments. These 40 years have been the "beginning of scientific and preventive medicine." Gage emphasizes the impact of these advancements by describing the public and individual health benefits derived from them.
He introduces his topic of the Worcester medical community's adaptations over the revolutionary past 40 years with a short description of the city's first real hospital in conjunction with a Catholic church. Worcester's "insane hospital" was "one of the pleasantest and best equipped institutions in the State." Gage continues to offer brief descriptions of the founding and functioning of later hospitals such as Memorial and St. Vincent's Hospitals. In addition to the building and expansion of hospitals, the Worcester City government has instituted the Board of Health as a separate division. The Board of Health has enforced a good system of public health including especially a laboratory to diagnose certain major diseases.
Dr. Gage then takes an even more inward look at the Worcester District Medical Society itself. He illustrates the Society's growth with statistics and proposes a system of elections to allow doctors from outside the city itself to participate more in its government. He praises the members for their high meeting attendance and their well-prepared presentations and subsequent intelligent discussions. He also reminds the audience that they have access to one of the largest medical libraries in the country and to take advantage of it.
From these praises, Dr. Gage turns to gently pointing out improvements that might be made in the Society's proceedings. The first is that he wishes to see more case studies prior to treatment to foster a discussion of diagnoses. Second, he sees the need for a Society building to house its library and as a venue for its meetings. Third he notes that the library is not functional as it is in too small a building and its catalog is incomplete. He is also adamant that the Worcester-area doctors are obligated to aid the existing Boards of Health and fulfill the responsibilities of such if one does not exist in order to extend to all citizens "the full benefits of the progress of preventive medicine." A large part of this duty includes reviewing the Board's policies and reinforcing their instructions and actions with regards especially to the care and containment of contagious diseases.
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Publication Date: 6/15/2009
Citation: Schaap, M.G., Tuller, M., Guber, A.K., Pachepsky, Y.A. 2009. Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Macro-Porous Flow: Effects of Image Segmentation Algorithms and Comparisons with Observed Data. SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences (GS09), June 15-18, 2009, Leipzig, Germany. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA. P. 102. Avaiiable at http://www.siam.org/meetings/gs09abstracts.pdf, last accessed on 09/16/2009. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: In this presentation we simulate saturated flow through macroporous soil columns (7.62x18 cm) with a lattice Boltzmann model and compare results with measured saturated hydraulic conductivities. Porous geometry was obtained with an industrial CT scanner yielding a resolution of 119 microns (656x656x1482 voxels) and processed with several segmentation algorithms to generate pore solid classifications from gray-scale data. In this presentation we will define the optimal resolution and discuss the merits of selected segmentation algorithms.


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I've got something a bit different to offer for this Christmas comp. It's something I've been working on the last few weeks.
My friend Jon asked me to paint a hot rod mural on his 13 yr old son DJs bedroom wall.
To begin with, Jon couldn't decide what to have, so I showed him some of my artwork & Jon chose a '32 HiBoy Roadster with a traditional Hot Rod paint job of black with flames & an exposed, fully-chromed & supercharged engine, parked in front of another iconic symbol of the American car culture, a drive in diner, complete with neon signs incorporating the picture rail.
Reaching a decision wasn't easy, bearing in mind that whatever I put on that wall was there to stay & stand the test of human nature as far as personal taste was concerned. Jon then decided against the diner idea & opted for a workshop/garage setting.
Working on something this big is a totally different ball game to desktop stuff. I discussed adding detail to Jon & had to explain that being this big, it would be lost since in order to get the full effect, it had to be viewed from atleast 10 feet away.
Here is a pictorial history of the work from beginning to end. The car itself is about 8 feet across.
In order to give you some idea of size, I stood a bottle of poster paint on top of my 3-step aluminium ladder, which I'd leaned against the wall.
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Our View: Medical marijuana centers should be banned
hi yampavalleyboy, nope I'm not connected to the pharmaceutical business in any shape or form. Is there anything else in my post that needs clarification amigo? Those of us that want the dispensaries to go are not your enemy. We all live here and want what's best for our community. Don't blame me, blame the poor decisions made by the dispensary operators in this county.
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Howdy, I'm a resident of Routt County and I support the use of medical marijuana to treat patients with a valid medical issue. A few years back when Steamboat allowed the first dispensary to open I was kind of optimistic. It seemed to me that one dispensary might be ok. It was just one business, kind of a test run for this sort of thing. From my perspective all was well for a while, but somehow one business grew to 5 now I think with more and more people wanting to get "into it". Kind of the marijuana version of the gold rush or the wine country in California. The kicker for me was when we began to see aggressive full page ads in the pilot, radio spots complete with impersonations of some of our favorite stoners. What happened? I was a supporter until I felt it was out of control. You guys lost my trust and I don't see any turning back now. I'm now convinced that the dispensary model does not work here, not in Routt County. Too much of a good thing seems to have backfired in this case. I've followed the news and read the facts on both sides and it's been very interesting. I actually can't believe I live in a town that has been a part of this process. So now after watching, reading and listening for years I still support medical marijuana as a treatment, but I for one believe we need to shut down the dispensaries in Routt County as soon as legally possible. It's clear to me that in order for medical marijuana to be distributed to its intended recipients it should only be dispensed by a licensed pharmacy/licensed pharmacist. I wish the dispensary owners well, but we managed here just fine before you came and I'm sure well be just fine without you if the voters so choose in November.


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I know we're pretty hot for deck shoes at the moment but I didn't mean these monstrosities. Something about the overlong vamp and safe brown really creeps me out. It's like I've been flung into a fashion black hole and spat out somewhere in Clapham or Putney.
If you're going to give deck shoes a punt (LOL! …Sorry) make sure they are navy or an acid bright and check that the vamp is a bit shorter than Henry Conway's parliamentary expenses.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters - Dungeon Dice Monsters [Edited] + Limited Figure (Dub.VHS 16)
Title: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters - Dungeon Dice Monsters [Edited] + Limited Figure
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Running time: 60
Distributor: FUNimation Entertainment
Release date: 2003-11-11
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Dungeon Dice Monsters Part II
In exchange for Joey's freedom, Yugi agrees to give up Duel Monsters forever if he loses. Unfamiliar with the rules, Yugi gets off to a rough start. His chances do not improve as Duke reveals that he designed Dungeon Dice Monsters with Pegasus' aid! Can Yugi learn the new complex rules, much less form a strategy, before he is soundly defeated?
Dungeon Dice Monsters Part III
Yugi uses his innate gaming skills to turn the tables on Duke, but Duke has one more rule to mention: All creatures take up territory on the grid-like board. With no room to summon any new monsters, Yugi's position is helpless!
Dungeon Dice Monsters Part IV
After Duke's all-powerful Orgoth the Relentless dices Yugi's entire cadre of monsters into shreds, Yugi only has one turn left before he loses all his heart points! Yugi's last hope rests in one final dice roll in the thrilling conclusion to Dungeon Dice Monsters!
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Sounds good. I just ordered some 5x100 56mm CB 5mm ebay alum spacers and will mill them down to what I need. I went to mcmaster and a a 12"x24" sheet of 0.062 6061 was more than these spacers .
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from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,
• In the past, teams have added nice pieces like Butch Goring or Rob Blake and the additions have had immediate impact: Both those were complementary players. Goring remains everyone's trade deadline dream story: How his acquisition altered and deepened an already strong New York Islanders team.
It's hard enough to win a Stanley Cup without significant pressure: It gets that much harder, as Nashville will soon find out, when there are expectations of victory and nothing else.
• Let me see: Chris Chelios fired Don Meehan as his agent. Chelios is the leading the anti-Ted Saskin fight. Meehan is outspoken on the other side. Must be pure coincidence?
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I just bought a mygig rer version low speed for my 2007 cherokee that has low speed rec nav model with uconnect with backup camera should this be a plug and pay for me or am i missing anything else besides the trim piece that goes in my factory bezel does anyone have a part number for that ? thanks
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I am a little upset with coastal tech for some wrong information they gave me i have a rec nav model and did not want to put a aux dvd with the lock pick for that model they told me to get a rer model and use there lock pick for it and would be plug and play this is not the case these are the parts that you will need for the 2007 and earlier models and you will not be able to use your factory uconnect anymore. I hope this will help anyone else that was thinking of doing this with there eariler model
$269.99 MYGIG Adapter Kit - comes with am/fm antenna converter
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thanks! That mod got pricey huh?
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Scott i thought you allready had this mod yes it is pricey i got the unit for a good price I am undecided if i am going to do it or sell it to a friend
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When you think of fudge, do you think of the creamy, smooth, chewy type, or is your fantasy fudge crumbly and grainy? People are seriously divided over the type of fudge they prefer, which is often the type they grew up eating. Those on Team Chewy want smooth, rich, melt-in-your-mouth squashy goodness while Team Crumbly wants their fudge rough and dry. Of course, any treat that has chocolate and sugar as its main ingredients has to be delicious, right? Let's find out what the differences are between these two types of fudge and how to make both.
1. Chewy Fudge
Chocolate fudge dates back to the United States in the late 1800s. It is traditionally made by cooking sugar, butter, and milk and beating it while it cools until it is smooth and creamy. It can be plain chocolate, or have other goodies added to it, such as nuts, dried fruit, and marshmallows.
The science of making fudge involves crystallization of sugar, but in order to get smooth fudge, it can't crystallize too much, or too fast. Milk, butter, and corn syrup can inhibit rapid crystallization, so they are added to the sugar. Cooking the fudge at a lower temperature and letting it cool before beating it will also result in a smoother result.
2. Crumbly Fudge
Crumbly fudge has a much more interesting profile. While this dry, grainy, and brittle version is often referred to as "failed fudge," it is actually Scottish tablet. Tablet is a very rich, traditional Scottish sweet made from butter, condensed milk, and sugar. Its origins precede fudge, as it is found in 18th-century cookbooks. This type of treat is harder than fudge, but not as hard as hard candy. The sugar is allowed to crystallize quickly by cooking it longer and at higher temperatures and by not having corn syrup, which would prevent crystallization. Beating the mixture before it cools will also lead to a gritty result. Basically, everything you don't want to happen when making smooth fudge is what needs to happen to make this type of crumbly fudge.
3. Dairy-Free Fudge
Given that the main ingredients in fudge are sugar, butter, and milk, a few swap-outs will let us make yummy fudge that is dairy-free. Instead of dairy butter, you can use Homemade Vegan Butter. If you want even more chocolatey flavor, try using this Homemade Cocoa-Coconut Butter.
You have tons of choices when it comes to the milk. Full-fat coconut milk is a popular choice because it is rich and thick, like cream. It's best when you refrigerate the can of coconut milk for at least 4-6 hours or overnight, if possible. Then use the thick cream and reserve the thinner liquid for something else. This Healthy Chocolate Avocado Fudge uses full-fat coconut milk.
Other non-dairy milks can be used as well. To help decide about non-dairy milks, check out Which Milk for What Recipe: A Non-Dairy Milk Guide for All Your Cooking and Baking Needs. Almond milk is used to make The World's Healthiest Mounds Bar Fudge.
4. The Sweet Stuff
There are lots of choices when it comes to sweetening your fudge. Maple syrup is a healthier choice than refined sugar, and it is used to make this Raw Peanut Butter and Carob Fudge, Almond Butter Fudge, and 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge. Dates are another healthy alternative to refined sugar. Try them in this Espresso Chocolate Hazelnut Fudge. Brown sugar is used to make this Rum Raisin Fudge.
Of course, you want your fudge to be chocolatey, and you want to use the best chocolate. Choose dairy-free chocolate chips or baking chocolate. You can even learn how to make your own Homemade Dark Chocolate Chunks. If you want to make your decadent treat healthier, you can use cacao powder which is considered a superfood.
5. Add-Ins
When it comes to fudge, let your imagination run wild and get as creative as you want. Add in flavor and texture with all sorts of tasty ingredients. Nut butters add creaminess and natural fats; try this Peanut Butter Fudge, Almond Butter Fudge, Orange and Almond Tahini Fudge Cups, and Raw Vegan Chocolate and Peanut Butter Fudge. Pumpkin puree can also add that creaminess, as in this Clean-Eating Pumpkin and Pecan Fudge.
Nuts add a little crunch to the soft fudge while dried fruits add a chewy texture. Try this Pomegranate and Pistachio Chocolate Fudge and Almond Butter Cranberry Fudge Bites. Marshmallow adds a spongy, chewy texture – try this 4-Ingredient Chocolate Peanut Butter Marshmallow Fudge. Other flavor add-ins you might want to try include coffee, as in this Coffee Hazelnut Fudge and Espresso Chocolate Hazelnut Fudge. Try adding quinoa for a "crisped rice" effect, like this 5-Ingredient Vegan Quinoa Fudge. Chewy raisins, not to mention, a little booze add unique flavors in this Rum Raisin Fudge.
6. Making Vegan Fudge
We started this article with all the science involved in making fudge, and you can certainly make your vegan fudge that way, following the advice on how to make it smooth or grainy. You can caramelize the sugar, add non-dairy milk or cream, and stir until it comes to a boil.
For chewy, creamy fudge, allow the fudge batter to cool and use an electric mixer or wooden spoon to work it until it's smooth and shiny. Fold in your add-ins and pour it into a lined pan. Do not scrape any of the mixture that is stuck to the sides or bottom of the saucepan. That will make it gritty. Let the fudge set in the refrigerator and enjoy.
For grainy, crumbly fudge, start stirring with a wooden spoon or an electric mixer immediately after the fudge batter comes to a boil. Add in any flavorings and keep stirring, until the fudge loses its shininess and starts looking grainy and thick. Then, quickly pour the batter into the lined baking dish and let it set in the refrigerator to set.
Or, you can do it the easy way. Just line a baking pan with parchment paper. If you are using chocolate chips or chunks, melt the chocolate in a saucepan, or the microwave until it's smooth and glossy. See How to Temper Chocolate and Fix It When It Goes Wrong for tips.
Combine all your main ingredients – the chocolate, the nut butters, vegan butter, the sweeteners, liquid flavors such as vanilla or coffee, and salt in a blender or food processor and combine until everything is well-mixed. Fold in any nuts, marshmallows, or dried fruit. Pour the mixture into the baking pan and spread it evenly with a spatula. Place in the fridge for a few hours until it sets. Then, just cut into squares and dig in!
7. More Recipes
Now that you know all the science and how easy it actually is to make fudge, you're probably going to want to try your hand at making some. We have plenty of delicious recipes to help you along. Love raw desserts? Try this Raw Peanut Butter and Carob Fudge, Raw White Chocolate Coconut Fudge Bites, Rich Raw Chocolate Fudge, and Raw Maca Fudge.
Other recipes that your sweet tooth will thank you for include this Besan Barfi (Date and Chickpea Fudge), Peanut Butter Popcorn Fudge, Healthy Peanut Butter Maple Banana Fudge, Healthiest Vegan Fudge Ever, Vegan Mocha Fudge, and Doodh Pedha (Indian Milk Fudge), You Can Make in 10 Minutes.
Plus, you can add fudge to other desserts for double decadence. Try this Fudgy Beetroot chocolate Cake with Pink Frosting, Raw Chocolate Fudge Cake, and these No-Bake Fudge Brownies. For even more recipes, see Oh Fudge! 20 Vegan Recipes for National Fudge Day.
Whether you like your fudge smooth, creamy and chewy, or you prefer it grainy, crumbly, and brittle, we can all agree that fudge is one of the most delicious, decadent desserts ever. How do you like your fudge? Tell us in the comments.
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A Compendium of Comforting One Dish Meals
by Martha Rose Shulman
Rose Shulman is lighting up the world again. This time she
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case you don't know Shulman, she is the Los Angeles-based
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When You Are has nine chapters filled with soups and
stews, gratins and casseroles. Remember, these are one-dish
meals so, chances are, whatever it is will taste even better
on day two. There's less active time in the kitchen and
fewer dishes to wash. And we are talking about feasting
on the likes of Tuscan White Beans with Sage and Sausage,
Turkish Summer Vegetable Stew, Spinach and Fish Gratin and
a great Chocolate Pudding. The rest of the book is devoted
to good eating while reducing your time in the kitchen.
Shulman will also help you stock your kitchen with cookware
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will find butter, cheese, sugar and sour cream in this book-what
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after eating Shulman's Braised Pork with Red Cabbage, Apples,
and Chestnuts. Or, opt for Catalan Chicken with Eggplant,
Peppers and Tomatoes. Since this book is all about comfort
food, it wouldn't be fair to exclude Macaroni and Cheese
(don't skip this delicious, albeit lighter, version), but
don't expect tuna noodle casserole. It's more about Tuna
Daube and Chicken Pot Pie with porcini mushrooms.
are a lot of shortcut recipe books out there. This is not
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so is Ready When You Are. Follow her advice this
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A slice of drinking history could be found in New Zealand recently with a visit by Kentucky bourbon king Jim Beam's great-grandson, Fred Booker Noe III. His whistle-stop tour included Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, where he hosted exclusive tastings of Beam's premium bourbon whiskey range, including Maker's Mark, Baker's, Jim Beam Small Batch and, of course, Booker's, created by Fred's father, Fred Booker Noe II.
But Jim Beam Black also got a piece of the action.
To mark the visit, fledging bartenders from Auckland's Professional Restaurant & Bar School were invited to create a unique Kiwi spin on classic Kentucky cocktail, the mint julep, with the top three presented to Booker Noe for tasting.
Booker Noe and Jim Beam global ambassador, Ben Stuart, were looking for skilled mixology, outstanding creativity and a drink that truly represented the combined quality of Jim Beam bourbon with New Zealand flavours.
The winner was Patrick Prendergast, with Jimmy's Ice Tea, shaken on the rocks with manuka honey, lemon juice and L&P, while runners-up Aaron Chamberlain presented the Ruapehu, stirred on the rocks with Kerikeri manuka mint organic tea, honey and Kaitaia Fire pepper; and Donovan McMaster presented the Bourbon Bonanza, muddled with manuka honey, golden kiwifruit and Phoenix ginger beer.
Jimmy's Ice Tea
by Patrick Prendergast
Glass: Highball
Method: Shaken
Ingredients: 30ml Jim Beam Black, dash manuka honey, 15ml lemon juice, top up with L&P
Garnish: Lemon slice
Mixing: Combine the lemon juice and Jim Beam Black with the honey.
Shake well and pour into a rocks glass over ice. Top up with L&P, then garnish with a lemon slice and two straws.
by Aaron Chamberlain
Glass: Rocks
Method: Stirred
Ingredients: 30ml Jim Beam Black, 30ml Kerikeri manuka mint organic tea, 3 bar spoons of honey (or to taste), 3-4 drops Kaitaia Fire pepper sauce
Garnish: Mint and chilli peppers
Mixing: Make the manuka mint tea in advance and chill. Measure into a mixing glass the Jim Beam Black, tea and Kaitaia Fire. Stir and pour into a rocks glass. Garnish with chilli peppers, mint and two straws.
Bourbon Bonanza
by Donovan McMaster
Glass: Highball
Method: Muddled
Ingredients: 30ml Jim Beam Black, 1 bar spoon of manuka honey, 4 wedges golden kiwifruit, top up with Phoenix ginger beer
Garnish: Sliced kiwifruit
Mixing: Line glass with manuka honey and muddle kiwifruit wedges in the glass. Fill glass with ice, then pour Jim Beam Black. Top up with ginger beer, then stir. Garnish with two to three slices of kiwifruit and two straws.


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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - "When it rains in California, that's like having six inches of snow in New York," said Leonard Stowell, who visits Palm Springs several times a year.
For those used to our trademark sunny weather, the imminent storm is ruffling some plans.
"I'm going to avoid the weather. I'm going to stay put until it goes past us," Stowell said.
Janet Bean is visiting from Chicago and is used to her fair share of bad storms. Her ears are fine-tuned to weather alerts and our recent forecasts caught her attention.
"I heard them predicting one inch, which seems minute to me but I assume in this area that's a tremendous problem," Bean said.
And she's right, with potential for flooding and problems on roadways many prefer to air on the side of caution.
"I know enough to stay off the roads for a while," Stowell said.
Still, others say it's no big deal.
"Rain's just one of those things where we're just eh, so it'll be wet," said Sara Swick, resident of Yucca Valley.
The worst of the storm is expected to last just one day,and local business owners say they can handle that.
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For those visiting, they're just waiting to see how bad it gets. Whether to stay in their hotel room or not is something they'll play by ear.
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New York is heading into a second round of Polar Vortex, which means that salads and smoothies aren't quite cutting it. There's no better time to reach for core-warming treats—these are our picks to ward off the winter chill.
Cupcakes, who? Three Tarts founder Marla D'Urso thinks those treats have had their day and it's time for a new sweet obsession: marshmallows. We don't need a lot of convincing. We're suckers for the pillowy confections—even grocery store varieties will do in a pinch—and these small-batch puffs are no ordinary marshmallows. D'Urso and her co-bakers craft their haute squares to be perfectly squishy, with a smooth texture and sophisticated flavor.
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Nice, quiet park in Rio Rancho. We spent 7 days and have zero complaints. Our kids enjoyed the pool and riding their bikes. Had a great shady space next to a big tree with a picnic table. We were visiting family in NM and will plan to stay here every time we go to NM to visit!
Date of Stay: July, 2012
We've been on a 3 week road trip in our new RV. Of all of the parks between CA and TX we stayed at this was by far our favorite. We originally were only going to stay one night on our way home but liked it so much we stayed 2. This park felt like a resort. We have two boys 7 & 5 and this place was perfect for them. The pool made us feel like we were on an island instead of the desert (palm trees, lots of shade, misters, bbq grills pool side). We spent the hottest part of the day in the air conditioned game room playing pool, shuffle board, air hockey, foosball, and Ms. pacman (and laundry!). The kids favorite part was the inflatable tall waterslide: we couldn't get them off it! There were more families here than we've seen at other parks and the kids enjoyed making new friends. Ask for a space by the pool!! Only negative was the river beach area. We hoped to play in the river, but without water toys the pool was more appealing. (Great place to bring a boat: wish we had one!!) The beach was clean, just really small and right next to the boat launch. There was a cool deck area to hang out that's overlooking the river though. We'll definitely stay here again when we're traveling on I-40.