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Here's a sneak peak of a recipe that will be featured in our upcoming Bob's Red Mill Cookbook. Our cookbook will feature over 350 recipes dedicated to cooking delicious whole grain foods and hit the publisher this fall. Look for it in major book retailers across the country and in our mail order catalog in October.
While flipping through the manuscript, I came across this recipe and could not ignore it. I decided that there was none more deserving of a sneak peak than you, our loyal customers.
What struck me about this recipe, and many of the recipes in the cookbook, was how gourmet the meal sounds compared to its relatively easy preparation. This dish contains only 6 ingredients and is ready-to-eat in only 35 minutes. Enjoy!
Polenta with Goat Cheese and Basil
1/2 tsp Salt
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8 ounces (1 cup) Chèvre or other soft creamy Goat Cheese
1/4 cup thinly sliced Basil Leaves
Freshly Ground Black Pepper
Lightly grease a 10-inch pie plate or wide, shallow bowl.
Bring 3 cups of water to a boil. Add the salt and then slowly add the polenta, whisking to prevent clumping. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring frequently, until very thick, about 30 minutes. Remove the cooked polenta from the heat. Stir in the butter (if using) and mix thoroughly. Fold in the goat cheese and then the basil. Season the polenta with salt and pepper to taste. Spoon the polenta into the prepared pie plate and set aside to cool for 5 to 10 minutes. Cut into wedges or squares to serve.


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Richard Sherman lobbed another shot into the ever-growing, increasingly-riveting 49ers-Seahawks feud—by seemingly backing away from the feud.
Sherman, the Seahawks' cornerback, went the passive-aggressive route in an interview with NFL Network on Monday from a youth football camp in Beaverton, Ore. He was asked about the war of words between his team and the one that beat them for the NFC West title and went on to the Super Bowl—and specifically about 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, his former Stanford coach and lead instigator in the feud.
"I don't have a relationship with him. I don't really try to go any route with him,'' Sherman said. "I don't deal with him. He's not my coach. So I deal with what's going on in Seattle, and I keep it there. His comments are what they are.''
IYER: On the Seahawks-49ers rivalry
"His comments" during minicamp season last month threw things into overdrive—he took direct aim at the Seahawks' tendency toward getting caught using performance-enhancing drugs. In his own way of attacking without naming the actual target, Harbaugh said, among other things, "You always want to be above reproach, especially when you're good, because you don't want people to come back and say, 'They're winning because they're cheating.'"
Brandon Browner, Sherman's teammate, took the bait, with his desire to "put my hands around his neck."
Sherman's response: "We're obviously gonna be the bigger team, the bigger players.''

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So I've been playing with Voice Band (iTunes link) for about 30 minutes and I can definitely say it's fun. Like many iPhone Apps I will surely use this from time to time for a weird intro or background part in a song. All it takes is a simple import of the audio into Ableton Live. This does a similar trick as the now unfortunately discontinued Antares Kantos plug-in. Anyone remember Kantos? Read the Sound on Sound review of Kantos: click here
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Few Greek restaurants seem to get everything right; you'd do best to pick your favorite by their specialty. At E Taverna in Astoria, it's molluscs.
The Htapodi Sharas ($14, charcoal-grilled octopus), may be the most tender, flavorful, and smoky I've had anywhere, Greek-style or otherwise. Thick slices of octopus tentacles are grilled until just soft, then washed in good olive oil and tossed with a fistful of capers along with some of their juice. It looks like too much brine, enough to sail right over the octopus's gentle sweetness, until you taste just how rich the meat is with all that olive oil. The tentacles are so tender you barely need to chew them, crisped just-so with some char that adds a smoky character to the dish. Consider placing a second order once the first hits the table.
E Taverna also nails Mydia Saganaki ($9), mussels steamed with tomato sauce, wine, and cheese. As with the octopus, the mussels are gorgeously tender, as plump and juicy as raw oysters, and they stand out against the bright, sweet, and salty flavors of the sauces and cheese they're served with.
There are salads, dips, and cooked vegetables to round out your meal, and from what I've tasted so far they range from just okay to homey-nice, but you wouldn't be wrong to make a meal of octopus, mussels, and the restaurant's great bread, ordering seconds and thirds as needed.
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If you have a half-million dollars or more, your outlook on retirement is likely sunnier than if you have less, according to a survey by Maritz Research, a marketing consulting firm. The company conducted an online survey of 500 recent retirees -- those who retired within the past three years, as well as 500 near-retirees -- those who plan to retire within five years.
Among those who have not yet retired, just 35 percent who expect to have assets of at least $500,000 worry about having enough money to last through retirement, compared to 54 percent of near-retirees who have less than that amount.
Those who already have retired within the past three years seem to feel more secure overall, with 20 percent of the more affluent concerned about having enough to last through their lifetime. Nearly twice as many retirees who have less than $500,000 (39 percent) expressed concern.
"Recent retirees are more optimistic regarding their financial security than near retirees, perhaps because they have made decisions and removed the uncertainty," according to the study.
Nearly two-thirds of retirees work with a financial adviser, and most of them hired one before they retired. More than half of the imminent retirees (57 percent) work with an adviser now.
Conquering retirement jitters
Even though I'm a generally positive and hopeful person, I sometimes get the retirement jitters -- that feeling of anxiety that accompanies the thought that no matter how much my husband and I save, it won't be enough. It's an occupational hazard. I read retirement news all the time, and am hyper-aware of all the warnings coming in about the need to have an extra quarter-million dollars for health care costs, in addition to a colossal nest egg that will last 30-odd years.
To calm my nerves, I meditate, take long walks at night and practice yoga. But probably the most worthwhile action my husband and I took recently was visiting a Certified Financial Planner professional to get a retirement-readiness assessment.
She ran our numbers through various scenarios and Monte Carlo simulations, which attempt to account for all the unpredictable stock market moves that can happen over the years. The upshot: The worst-case scenario is that we'll run out of money when we're in our 80s. The best case scenario has us leaving a significant legacy for heirs.
That's the problem with not knowing all the variables such as market returns, inflation rate, how long we'll live, how well our investments will do, how our health will hold up, etcetera. Uncertainty fuels retirement planning angst.
Even so, since that meeting, I feel pretty good about our prospects. But when I make the transition from near-retiree to already-retired, I suspect I'll feel even better.
Follow me on Twitter: BWhelehan.
Barbara Whelehan is a co-author of "Future Millionaires' Guidebook," an e-book for Gen Y written by Bankrate editors and reporters. It is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore and other e-book retailers.


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We are in the process of combining the SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Server 2016 content into a single content set. We appreciate your patience while we reorganize things. See the Applies To tag at the top of each article to find out which version of SharePoint an article applies to.
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Before you install SharePoint 2013, you must make sure that you have installed all required hardware and software. To effectively plan your deployment, you must understand the level of support that is provided for the web browsers that you will be using in your environment and how support for IP versions 4 and 6 is implemented in SharePoint 2013. You must also understand the URL and path length restrictions in SharePoint 2013.
The following articles on TechNet help you prepare for the installation of SharePoint 2013 by providing information about the prerequisites that you must have in order to run SharePoint 2013.
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broadhead, a Minneapolis-based full-service marketing communications agency, has announced the promotion of Lana Olson to senior account executive.
Olson is currently assigned to the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. and Canola Council of Canada accounts.
In addition to her client work, Olson has aided in the growth of the agency. Since starting with broadhead, she has been a crucial player in bringing in new clients, particularly in the animal health and dairy industries.
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Have Qualifying matches to get here. Have Kane fight Daniel Bryan, and Sandow fight Cody Rhodes and Have Ziggler be the champion heading in. Have Sheamus and Show fight to a no contest and they both get thrown in. We have 2 great faces who didn't get enough wrestlemania time last year, You got Ziggler trying to prove himself as a champion, Sandow as the next big thing. Big Show being Big Show. It could work.
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'J.P. Dumont scored twice in the win over Carolina to bring his season total to 20. Dumont becomes the sixth Sabre this season to reach the 20-goal plateau joining Daniel Briere, Maxim Afinogenov, Thomas Vanek, Ales Kotalik, and Chris Drury.'
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Mooresville, N.C. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Lowe's Cos. the highest honors for industry leadership in its WaterSense and SmartWay programs.
Lowe's received the 2012 SmartWay Excellence Award for its environmental performance in the freight transportation industry. Last week, the EPA named Lowe's the 2012 WaterSense Retailer Partner of the Year for its efforts to educate consumers about water-efficient products and practices.
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BBQ, salmon and bears! Wildlife Safari hosts all 3
WINSTON, Ore. -- At the end of this month the bears at Wildlife Safari will go into hibernation until February.
For the very first time, the Safari invited guests to enjoy a big bear encounter, feed them and enjoy a sit down dinner with them.
Carnivore keeper Sierra Carey says that the bears' metabolisms are beginning to slow down to prepare for hibernation.
"Right now they're at the max amount of food calorie intake that they have, so they're chowing down on as much as possible," she said. "We're able to bring people into our normal drive-thru area, so where you'd normally bring in your cars and you get to have a dinner with the bears."
The encounter allows guests to get an up close and personal look at the bears before they go down for a while.
Surprisingly, they say bears do not instinctively know how to hibernate. Since Wildlife Safari rescues most of their bears before they can learn in the wild, they must learn this trait from the older bears.
"This behavior isn't something that they automatically know; it's not instinctual for them. They learn it from mom. So when bears are rescued from the wild and don't learn it in time from mom, they have to learn it from other bears, like our bears learned from Russell and Claire," Carey said.
Wildlife Safari does not encourage captive breeding because there is such a high demand for orphans in the wild.
Most facilities practice a no breeding policy unless it's an endangered species. The Safari would love to adopt more, but they are currently at maximum capacity.
Russell, Claire and the gang were fed apples, cookies, and cake by the guests Thursday night.
Thanks to a donation from the Rock Creek Hatchery, the keepers fed the bears fresh salmon, which is very unique for most facilities.
Needless to say, these bears will have plenty of winter weight to hold them through the next few months.
Wildlife Safari plans to do more of these events in the future, and all proceeds go back to benefit animal enclosures.
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YORK'S greens giant Simon Dyson was walking tall again as he smashed through the ten million barrier.
Dyson finished tied for fifth place in the BMW International Open in Germany just one shot adrift of making a play-off for a crack at his seventh European Tour crown.
But for a lone bogey on the 12th in yesterday's fin al round, the 36-year-old would have secured a place in the play-off.
That was finally won by Paraguay's Fabrizio Zanotti over Rafa Cabrera-Bello of Spain and Frenchman Gregory Havret.
However, the reward for Dyson's stunning 18-under-par tournament total at the Gut Larchenhof course in Cologne was a cheque for almost 72,000 euros.
That hurtled him through the ten million euros barrier in career earnings since he turned pro in the year 2000. He only needed a shade under 9,000 euros from the BMW International to take him past that cash milestone.
Even more significant for Dyson will be his likely move up several scores of places in the world rankings, which are announced later today. Before his Cologne drive he was place in 151st place.
Dyson posted rounds of 69, 66, 69 and a second 66 yesterday when he had three birdies in the outward nine and after dropping a shot on the 1th posted four birdies in the last six holes, including finishings with shots to the good at 17 and 18 as he pressed for a play-off place.


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After months of watching the WWE with hope that it would get better; after months of defending the WWE against an infinite number of haters; after months of picking and highlighting the good things the WWE has been doing, I may be coming to terms with the fact that the WWE really is quite bad.
8 days ago I witnessed live on my TV what I thought would be a huge turning point for the
Okay guys. Although it is not my opinion that CM Punk is getting buried, I have seen several comments recently from people with the opinion that WWE creative is burying Punk. So I'm putting my thoughts out to you.
I believe the last time we heard Punk speak on Raw was the night after NOC, when he stated that there was a conspiracy in the WWE, but not the conspiracy Miz & Truth were
Hi guys, this is my first blog on EWN and probably my last, as I struggle to come up with interesting topics and talk about them in-depth. However depending on the feedback I get, I might consider blogging again.
Let's first go back to a time in PG, before CM Punk was shooting the way only he can, and remember how dull the product was becoming. John Cena was in at least three quarters
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Neuropsychiatric Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation in Patients With Parkinson's Disease
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified March 2013 by Adam Aron, University of California, San Diego.
Recruitment status was: Enrolling by invitation
Recruitment status was: Enrolling by invitation
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Last updated: March 26, 2013
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Stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus will have effects on various aspects of neuropsychiatric function.
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
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|Neuropsychiatric Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation in Patients With Parkinson's Disease
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- behavioral task performance [ Time Frame: 1 to 2 hours ]Participants will complete behavioral tasks at each of three visits to assess the effects of stimulation settings on task performance. At each research visit, behavior will be assessed beginning at 1 hour after the stimulation is adjusted to the experimental settings. Stimulation settings will be returned to each patient's treatment levels at the culmination of each visit.
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|December 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Deep Brain Stimulation
Parkinson's patients with deep brain stimulation in the subthalamic nucleus.
Procedure: Stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus
Stimulation is delivered to the subthalamic nucleus at experimentally prescribed settings.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Participants diagnosed with idiopathic Parkinson's disease that meet criteria for treatment of their disease with STN-DBS. Participants will be selected for this study without regard for age (provided they are older than 18), gender or ethnic background.
- Participants must have undergone subthalamic nucleus DBS surgery and be receiving treatment at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, CA
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients under 18 years old.
- Patients with mini-mental status scores below 26/30.
- Patients with known psychiatric disease.
- Patients who are too infirm, demented or dysarthric to clearly understand the consenting process, task instructions, or to communicate verbally regarding participation or non-participation.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01306539
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University of California, San Diego
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Greenhouse I, Gould S, Houser M, Hicks G, Gross J, Aron AR. Stimulation at dorsal and ventral electrode contacts targeted at the subthalamic nucleus has different effects on motor and emotion functions in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia. 2011 Feb;49(3):528-34. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.030. Epub 2010 Dec 22.
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Keywords provided by Adam Aron, University of California, San Diego:
deep brain stimulation
subthalamic nucleus
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Parkinson Disease
Parkinsonian Disorders
Basal Ganglia Diseases
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Movement Disorders
Neurodegenerative Diseases
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Jeremy did his djembe re-skinning demonstration and also gave an intersting talk about the different types of wood that are traditionally used and their respective characteristics. He also talked about the importance of matchintg the skin to the type of wood. Intersting stuff...
For the reskinning, he used a stitching method to hold the skin tight over the flesh ring instead of the rope loop method I've been using. I can see how the stitching will achieve somewhat higher tension on the skin when it is wet, before doing the wet pull. But then, the method is more labor intensve, and I'm not sure it's worth the extra effort. I think I will stick with my tried and true method for the time being.
Another thing that came as a surprise to me was that he did not use any wrap at all on the flesh ring. In fact, Jeremy claimed that doing so makes it more likely rather than less likely for the skin to slip.
This doesn't match my own experience, but I can see that wrapping too thinly around the flesh ring can cause the worst of both worlds: the cloth wrap is thick enough to cover the corrugations in the rebar, but not thick enough for the skin to press into the wrap and form dimples, causing skin slip. So, it seems that you either don't use any wrap at all or, if you do, make sure that it thick enough for the knots to cause dimples in the skin so it is locked in place.
Looking at the skin over the rebar after Jeremy fitted it, the corrugations are clearly visible where the skin is stretched over the flesh ring. So, provided there is enough tension, the corrugations serve the same purpose as thick wrap: the skin deformes around the corrugations, which helps to lock it in and prevent slip.
Jeremy was adamant that a smooth polished type flesh ring is useless: "Throw it away and get one made out of proper rebar." I agree with him.
Following Jeremy's demo, we had a two-hour Q&A session with Mamady. Fun and intersting stuff. We got Mamady's bio (of course), which I've heard several times before. But, every time I listen, new details come out and I learn something new. We had an interesting discussion around Cola nuts. It turns out that these are very common and not a rare item, which is interesting in the context of using Cola nuts for all ceremonial occasions, such as when asking a blacksmith to make a djembe or asking a father for his daughters hand. The gift of Cola nuts is purely symbolic, to show respect and to underscore the seriousness of the occasion, not because Cola nuts are valuable. After all, if someone comes to me with ten Cola nuts and asks me to make him a djembe, the nuts themselves are not very interesting when there are 500 more growing on the tree in my backyard...
I asked why it is ten Cola nuts, rather than nine or eleven. Mamady didn't know, but said that, for truly important matters, such as a marriage proposal, it has to be ten. For less grave occasions, the number might be five or seven. I'd be interested in learning how the number ten came about. I'm sure there is good mythological reason for this. If anyone knows, please let me know!
I also asked whether Cola nuts are seasonal, and Mamady said "yes". I then asked "Well, so when Cola nuts are out of season, no-one can get married?" Mamady replied "Don't you worry about that--plenty Cola nuts when we need them."
The pyramid class was fun. The break and arrangement are coming together nicely, and things are starting to sound quite good. The fourth rhythm in the pyramid is Kedu, one of Mamady's compositions. It"s a ternary rhythm, with a nice conversation between the dundunba and the Sangban, and nice spectacular intro. I learned that rhythm previously, at the Mini-Guinea last year in October, but it was good to go back and play it again.
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The intermediate class reviewed Kono and then moved onto Yankadi/Macru. Mamady taught the parts for Yankadi (no solo original) and moved on to Macru, including the break.
The advanced class completed Soboninkun (the echauffement). Many people were struggling with the base/slap flam technique in that echauffement. Mamady then started to teach Djagbe, including his solo technique. I think the class got through the first four solo phrases before it finished, so I expect we'll complete that today. I learned that solo previously, so I ended up playing kenkeni instead of djembe. (Also did a fair bit of kenkeni and sangban for the intermediates the past few days, which is fun.) Mamady also said he'd show us the dundunba and sangban variations for djagba (as opposed to djagbe). I look forward to finally getting a clear distinction between the two today.
The pyramid class added the fifth rhythm: Soliwulen. Mamady made up an intro on the spot with a bunch of solo phrases. The first two are played by the entire class, and the remaining four or five are played by eight advanced people chosen by Mamady, while the rest of the class plays a holding pattern. I'm again impressed by Mamady's sklil at making up a spectacular performance that really gives a lot of fireworks to the audience, while at the same time avoiding to overtax his students. He always perfectly matches the techniques to the skill level of his students.
On a personal note, after I had just asked Mamady about the third slap, the day after, before Mamady's Q&A session, I sat down and tinkered a bit with my djembe. Within five minutes, I had found the third slap, after about a year of trying on and off. Now that I have figured out how to do it, I'd say that it really should be called the "second tone" rather than the "third slap". The technique is closer to a tone than a slap (at least for me). It will take me a few months to perfect this, so the sound comes out louder and purer, but the basic technique is finally there, so I just need to practice it a lot. For me, it was worth coming here just for having finally found the third slap alone


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I got the very last Meyer lemon at the grocery store last night. That was a close one! But when I left, clutching my precious lemon, that was the moment when all of the shopping was done and the holiday really commenced.
Soon the festive part of Christmas Eve will start—we'll dig deep into stockings full of candy, and tear paper off presents, and eat and drink and make merry in front of the roaring fire with loved ones.
But in the quiet of this afternoon, just past the dark of the solstice and just before the lights of Christmas Day, I put this cake in the oven to bake, and it filled the still peaceful house with the mingled scents of lemon, vanilla, and almonds. As the weak winter light faded outside the kitchen window I drizzled icing over it, then licked the spoon.
If I could I would offer each of you a piece of this cake, but will have to settle for offering you my best wishes for a wonderful holiday filled with loved ones, laughter, light, and good food.
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- 2 Meyer lemons
- ½ cup olive oil
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup almond flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- ½ cup plain yogurt
- 2 tsp Meyer lemon zest
- 1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ Meyer lemon, seeds removed, thinly sliced
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 tsp Meyer lemon juice
- 1 tsp bourbon
- 1 tbsp plain yogurt
- 1 tsp water
Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour an 8-inch Bundt pan. In a medium bowl, combine flours, baking powder, and salt. In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar and eggs. Add oil, yogurt, lemon zest, and vanilla seeds and whisk until combined. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix just until incorporated. Pour the batter into prepared pan. Bake about 45 minutes—until golden brown and tester comes out clean. Let cake cool completely before unmolding.
In a small saucepan, bring sugar and ½ cup water to a boil. Add lemon slices and gently simmer until rind is translucent, about 7-10 minutes. Remove from heat, drain, and let cool. Blot lemon slices gently to remove excess water.
For the icing: In a small bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, oil, yogurt, bourbon, and water until smooth. Spoon over cake.
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Dioramas – those landscaped displays with painted backdrops and posed, stuffed specimens – may have fallen out of fashion in museums, but in their day were strong ecological statements, writes archivist Vanessa Finney.
Imagine walking through a cramped display hall peering into dimly lit cabinets crowded with specimens, the whole room lit by skylights or flickering gaslights – that's how most museums displayed their treasures in the 19th century.
But by the early 20th century, natural history museums were changing. They realised that to inspire and educate the public they needed to bring nature inside and show specimens as they would have appeared in real life.
The first attempts at such displays were simple, four-sided glass cases with posed specimens in a landscaped setting. From these developed the diorama – fully realised, three-dimensional scenes using real animal and plant specimens, painted backdrops and detailed foregrounds.
Developed in England, Germany and America, most famously at the Natural History Museum in New York, natural history dioramas displayed the diversity of habitats and the complexity of natural systems to museum visitors for the first time.
At the Australian Museum, the new technology of the diorama was adopted with great enthusiasm. In one of the first expeditions of its kind anywhere in the world, the Trustees dispatched a team to Lord Howe Island (long-studied by Museum scientists) in 1921 to collect materials and information for three new dioramas.
The expedition, funded by a number of prominent Sydney philanthropists and led by curator Allan McCulloch, set off by boat for the island, which lies some 800 kilometres to the northeast of Sydney.
McCulloch believed that the modern museum should be '… a place of entertainment and education … [displaying] the vagaries of nature, the relationship of everything around us, changing momentarily and all the time'. The new exhibits would also have an implicit conservation theme, showing '… whether we know it or not, we are all deeply concerned with everything nature has to show us'.
Over the coming weeks, the team of five left no part of Lord Howe unexplored in their search for authenticity and accuracy. They filmed, photographed, sketched and collected, bringing back numerous samples of animals, plants and rocks, including more than 100 birds.
A seabird-nesting diorama
For the largest of the dioramas (and the only one remaining at the Museum), the team travelled to the isolated and rugged Admiralty Islets, a few miles north of the main island and a favoured nesting site for seabirds.
There they collected more specimens and painstakingly documented the rocky habitat to ensure the new diorama would be a true-to-life window on nature.
Following the safe return of the team and their cargo to the Museum, the exhibition preparators began their work. Using photographs taken on the islands as a guide, they first built a wooden framework over which they stretched fine-wire gauze, to become the rock platform.
They covered this with a mixture of papier-mâché, cinders and plaster to produce the texture of the rocks, which artist Phyllis Clarke then coloured using materials from the field trip as a guide.
The heavy, cumbersome framework then had to be moved from the workshop to the Long Gallery on the ground floor of the Lewis Wing where the whole display was assembled. Specimens of the Sooty Tern, Sterna fuscata, and Masked Booby, Sula dactylatra, were placed on the bare rock platform, with Common Noddy, Anous stolidus, and Grey Ternlet, Procelsterna cerulea, among the sparse vegetation. The latest in concealed electric lighting completed the display, which opened to the public in 1923.
The diorama today
The diorama's original dramatic backdrop showed the restless seas with the main island in the distance. Then in 1937, diorama guru Frank Tose visited Australia from the California Academy of Sciences and spent several months working with Museum staff to update the dioramas. A new, cement-rendered, domed background replaced the original flat backdrop and was painted by artist Ethel King with a sunnier, calmer view of the island's seas. The lighting was brightened, the diorama front extended and replaced, and some of the birds removed and rearranged.
Changes in exhibition style and new technologies mean traditional dioramas are now rarely used in museum exhibitions (though you can see some recent examples in the 'Our Backyard' section of the Museum's Surviving Australia exhibition).
The Long Gallery was remodelled as the Skeletons, Frameworks for Survival exhibition in 1989, with the Lord Howe Island diorama retained in situ for its heritage significance, screened from the surroundings but fitted with narrow viewing ports that offer a glimpse of its former glory.
In coming months the screen will be removed to reveal the entire diorama. Museum conservation staff will clean the display, check for pests and replace any affected specimens. Restricted access to the space and a fragile painted surface are just two of the challenges they will face.
Once their work is complete, visitors will again be able to imagine themselves standing on a rocky outcrop, nesting birds at their feet, with the distant peaks of Lord Howe Island silhouetted against the sky.
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Friday, June 6, marks the 25th anniversary of the FBI and EPA raid on Rocky Flats, the former U.S. nuclear weapons facility in Arvada. In an effort to recognize a significant part of Colorado's history, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, in partnership with CU-Boulder's Center of the American West, will host a weekend-long event, "Rocky Flats Then and Now: 25 Years After the Raid," June 6 - 8.
CU-Boulder Professor Emeritus Len Ackland will give the event's introduction talk, "Rocky Flats Then and Now" on Friday, June 6, at 7 p.m.
Author of the 1999 book, "Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West," Ackland describes Rocky Flats as "a great case study of modern times." In the book, he tracked the history of the plant's beginnings until it was shut down, as well as the rise of nuclear technology and stories about people who lived nearby.
"A story like Rocky Flats is an international story and it's a local story," said Ackland, who was co-director of CU-Boulder's Center for Environmental Journalism and spent 22 years teaching journalism at CU-Boulder before retiring in 2013. "So weaving those stories together in a coherent way was a really big challenge."
Nuclear weapons were declared by the Atomic Energy Commission and President Truman as essential for U.S. security, because they were considered deterrents. The policy followed the "risky idea that you had to build weapons of mass destruction so that no other country would use its weapons of mass destruction against you," according to Ackland. From a more local standpoint, the workers at Rocky Flats encountered all the high risks that accompany plutonium exposure, an element that is dangerous at any quantity.
"With six pounds, you can have an explosion on the order of 20,000 tons of TNT. At microscopic levels, if plutonium is inhaled or gets into the blood stream through cuts, that can cause cancer," noted Ackland.
After the 1989 raid, Rocky Flats was shut down, declared a Superfund site a few years later, and after 10 years and $7 billion, the site was cleaned by 2005. Most of the land was transferred to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is now a National Wildlife Refuge.
"The raid itself was in one way quite symbolic, because it said the federal government cares about environmental issues," said Ackland. After the raid, the plant's mission shifted from one of national security through producing weapons of mass destruction to one of environmental cleanup.
Panelists for the weekend event were chosen as credible representatives for various communities, covering topics that include workers' health, the FBI raid, art and Rocky Flats, and the cleanup, according to Ackland, who along with CU-Boulder History Professor and Director of the Center of the American West Patty Limerick, helped plan the event. A full list of panelists can be found on the event's schedule.
"The idea is to promote respectful dialogue among people who may disagree with one another," said Ackland. "If that doesn't happen, if panels get disrupted, that will be a real disappointment to me."
The weekend event, including Ackland's talk, is free and open to the public, and includes a diverse lineup of panelists to accompany a special exhibit of Rocky Flats pictures and artifacts that reflect a time when the plant was in operation (1953-1989). The Rocky Flats Institute and Museum is also hosting the event. The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is located at 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. in Arvada.
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Caltrans gets underway today on a year-long effort to install ramp metering lights at 60 sites in Solano County.
Ramp metering involves traffic signals stationed on freeway on-ramps to control how many cars can enter a freeway and are a common method to try to ease freeway congestion.
In Vallejo, these lights will be on Interstate 80 at Redwood Parkway, Columbus Parkway and Red Top Road. Lights also will be installed throughout the I-80 Solano County corridor to the I-505 interchange in Vacaville.
This week's work involves preparing the onramps up and down the I-80 corridor for more intensive work down the line.
Caltrans will be installing safety barriers, called k-rails, and performing other work on numerous onramps.
One spot is the eastbound Highway 37 connector to westbound I-80 which will be closed with motorists detoured to American Canyon Road. Onramps and various connectors will also be closed in Vacaville.
The $12.8 million project stems from state and federal funds. Caltrans spokesman Vince Jacala said the state will start installing the lights later this month and will not turn them on until agreements are in place with local governmental agencies.
Metropolitan Transportation Commission spokesman John Goodwin said once the lights are active, motorists will have to wait an extra minute or so to get onto a freeway, but they will usually find less congestion.
Interstate 80 has been identified as a high priority because it is in the congested Bay Area and is a main artery.
"Interstate 80 is the main route between the heart of Bay Area and Sacramento and is a very heavily trafficked corridor," Goodwin said.
Ramp metering devices are part of the MTC's plans to use technology to help ease traffic over the long haul, as the Bay Area grows and develops more. They are installed whenever there are freeway improvements.
Vallejo has numerous I-80 onramps but ramp metering lights are not planned for all of them due to a lot of short onramps and close proximity of interchanges, Solano Transportation Authority Executive Director Daryl Halls said.
Ramp metering lights have been used for years in various parts of the Bay Area, including Dublin, Pleasanton and Livermore, Goodwin said.
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Given a choice, I would prefer a different job, but in this modern society one has to acquire bits of coloured paper to be able to get food and pay the bills. So I need to know in advance, in case such a job opportunity arose, whether it would be acceptable for me, as a Buddhist, to accept it, because when one has children one wants to give a better life to, one might have to accept whatever work one can, however unpalatable.


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Our home was built in 1905 (it's been in the family for over 100 years). It's a single story bungalow in north Denver. The house sits in a very affluent neighborhood - many houses are $400k to over $900k - mostly older homes with lots of renovation happening in the area. Our house is very small - one of the smallest houses in the area (750 sqf of living area), with a cellar, a carriage house and a shop (that I built). We (myself, wife and some help from my son) have done all the renovations to the inside of the house, front and back yards and the carriage house. This house was 'renovated' 15 years ago for my mom (I was living in Chicago at the time) by a GC who took many shortcuts and definitely advantage of my mom's lack of conceptual knowledge of how he should have done the work. My mom has passed since then and I have purchased the home and have been renovating (and fixing the GC's shortcuts) the last few years. I have attached pictures of what the living room looked like during our renovation and how it looks currently. Ceiling fan, wood floors, new windows (expanded), new front door (expanded), new walls and paint. All work was done using my Ryobi tools (with some help from my Rigid nail gun).
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If you don't want your beloved small pet to become the main course for a hungry wild creature, don't let them out of your sight outdoors for a second. That's how long it took for some nocturnal creature to spirit my little Yorkie, Noah, away, never to be seen again.
I let my two schnauzers, Queenie and Butch, and Noah outside about midnight recently for a what I thought would be an uneventful few minutes. Then tragedy struck.
I was near the kitchen back door when I heard a few barks and what I now realize to be a death scream from Noah. I ran outside to see what was happening, but only Queenie and Butch were still in the back yard.
Because coyotes live in the woods near my home and prowl the prairie at night, I blamed them for the mishap at first. I couldn't imagine how a coyote got into the back yard, but it seemed the most logical explanation at the time.
I went into the pasture with my big police-officer-style flashlight, but I couldn't find him. I stayed up all night and at dawn began to search for him in daylight. Despite my trek through the pasture and into the woods, I never found a trace of him for burial.
Since then, I've learned that a large owl has been observed carrying off at least three grown cats nearby. Obviously, a little Yorkie weighing less than 10 pounds wouldn't be a challenge for the owl at all.
I've never seen an owl here before, but I know there are many creatures roaming the country that I never see. From what I understand, we have everything roaming in the dark with the coyotes, including wild hogs, skunks, bobcats, possums and you name it.
No matter where you live — be it in the country or in the city, especially on the edge of wilderness — your small pets are at danger from wildlife. Owls and hawks exist just about everywhere. In most of the South, there are alligators and who knows what else that I haven't even considered.
It's not unusual to hear news stories about wild animals appearing on busy streets and even entering stores.
From what I understand, it's been extremely dry lately, and that always leads to a shortage of food for all wildlife. That hunger and an increasing comfortableness with humans, coupled with a realization that two-legged creatures can provide food in a variety of ways, will lead wildlife to attack domestic animals.
It's a lot like the cliché of "shutting the barn door after the cow got away," but I'm now taking steps to protect the two companions I have left. I turn on the floodlights at night, and I step outside with them.
Many people in the LGBT community never have children, so our pets are like our children. And for people who love animals, their pets are as much a part of the family as the humans in it.
Nothing will bring Noah back, and at this point only time can heal my heartbreak. Even Queenie and Butch seem to be depressed and perhaps a little scared.
And if the owl indeed was the culprit, I'm not mad at it. What happened is just a part of the cycle of nature, but I'd like to think I'm wiser and more prepared to protect my pets in the future.
David Webb is a veteran journalist who has covered LGBT issues for the mainstream and alternative press for more than two decades. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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For Spring '13, Rachel Comey captured the crowd's attention with a smart play on effortlessly ladylike looks delivered with her signature quirk — and a slight menswear tilt. When Comey went feminine, it was all about textural fringe-embellished sheaths, pink ruffled dresses, and midi skirts paired with crop tops. On the flip side, the designer's sportier side made an appearance via chic printed track shorts, utilitarian linen jackets, and camouflage-like slouched trousers. Swimwear also made a splash on the runway, highlighting retro-inspired printed swimsuits and high-waisted knickers. When it came to accessories, Comey knew how to please her die-hard fan following. Her assortment of bicolor leather satchels, laser-cut tote bags, cutout ankle boots, and our favorite, metallic colorblock sandals, are sure to create buyer frenzy come Spring. More details on the collection below, then click the slideshow to see the complete collection.
- Trends: Crop tops, cutouts, digital prints.
- Colors: White, citron, salmon pink, blue, orange.
- Key Piece: We adored Comey's structured crop top and midi skirt pairings.
- Accessories: Metallic colorblock sandals, oxfords, structured leather satchels, laser-cute tote bags, cutout ankle boots, cool shades.
- Who Should Wear It: Girls who favor an effortless whimsical twist like Alexa Chung, Kate Bosworth, and Rachel Bilson.


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The stakes are raised even higher by hackers and others who expose confidential data and emails. A group calling itself LulzSec Reborn recently hacked a military dating website releasing the usernames and passwords of more than 170,000 of the site's subscribers.
Then there are the for-profit attacks by nation states and companies seeking intellectual property, and fraud by organized crime outfits. Consider the blatant industrial espionage conducted against Nortel and more recently, AMSC, or the recent fraud attack against Global Payments.
[ Help your employees take part of your company's security practices. Read more at How To Make Information Security Everyone's Problem. ]
One of a CIO's most critical responsibilities is to protect his or her company's information assets. Such protection often focuses on preventing others from entering company systems and networks, but it must also identify and prevent data from leaving. The following recommendations can help you do this. They are listed in two sections: conventional measures that focus on system access, and best practices given the profiles of today's attacks.
Conventional Measures
Establish a thoughtful password policy. Sure, this is pretty basic, but it's worth revisiting. Definitely require that users change their passwords regularly, but set a reasonable frequency--any less than three months and users will write their passwords down, compromising security. As for password complexity, require at least six or seven characters, with one capital letter and one number or other special character.
Publicize best security and confidentiality practices. Do a bit of marketing to raise user awareness and improve security and confidentiality practices. No security tool can be everywhere. Remind your employees that security threats can follow them home from work or to work from home.
Install and update robust antivirus software on your network and client devices. Enough said.
Review access regularly. Also, ensure that all access is provided on a "need-to-know" or "need-to- do" basis. This is an integral part of any Sarbanes-Oxley review, and it's a good security practice as well. Educate your users at the same time you ask them to do the review. This will reduce the possibility of a single employee being able to commit fraud resulting from retained access from a previous position.
Put in place laptop bootup hard drive encryption. This encryption will make it very difficult to expose confidential company information via lost or stolen laptops, which is still a big problem. Meanwhile, educate employees to avoid leaving laptops in their vehicles or other insecure places.
Require secure access for "superuser" administrators. Given their system privileges, any compromise to their access can open up your systems completely. Ensure that they don't use generic user IDs, that their generic passwords are changed to a robust strength, and that all their commands are logged (and subsequently reviewed by another engineering team and management). Implement two-factor authentication for any remote superuser ID access.
Maintain up-to-date patching. Enough said.
Encrypt critical data only. Any customer or other confidential information transmitted from your organization should be encrypted. The same precautions apply to any login transactions that transmit credentials across public networks.
Perform regular penetration testing. Have a reputable firm test your perimeter defenses regularly.
Additional Best Practices
Provide two-factor authentication for customers. Some of your customers' personal devices are likely to be compromised, so requiring two-factor authentication for access to accounts prevents easy exploitation. Also, notify customers when certain transactions have occurred on their accounts (for example, changes in payment destination, email address, physical address, etc.).
Secure all mobile devices. Equip all mobile devices with passcodes, encryption, and wipe clean. Encrypt your USD flash memory devices. On secured internal networks, minimize encryption to enable detection of unauthorized activity as well as diagnosis and resolution of production and performance problems.
Further strengthen access controls. Permit certain commands or functions (e.g., superuser) to be executed only from specific network segments (not remotely). Permit contractor network access via a partitioned secure network or secured client device.
Secure your sites from inadvertent outside channels. Implement your own secured wireless network, one that can detect unauthorized access, at all corporate sites. Regularly scan for rogue network devices, such as DSL modems set up by employees, that let outgoing traffic bypass your controls.
Prevent data from leaving. Continuously monitor for transmission of customer and confidential corporate data, with the automated ability to shut down illicit flows using tools such as NetWitness. Establish permissions whereby sensitive data can be accessed only from certain IP ranges and sent only to another limited set. Continuously monitor traffic destinations in conjunction with a top-tier carrier in order to identify traffic going to fraudulent sites or unfriendly nations.
Keep your eyes and ears open. Continually monitor underground forums ("Dark Web") for mentions of your company's name and/or your customers' data for sale. Help your marketing and PR teams by monitoring social networks and other media for corporate mentions, providing a twice-daily report to summarize activity.
Raise the bar on suppliers. Audit and assess how your company's suppliers handle critical corporate data. Don't hesitate to prune suppliers with inadequate security practices. Be careful about having a fully open door between their networks and yours.
Put in place critical transaction process checks. Ensure that crucial transactions (i.e., large transfers) require two personnel to execute, and that regular reporting and management review of such transactions occurs.
Jim Ditmore is senior VP of technology infrastructure and innovation at Allstate.
It's no longer a matter of if you get hacked, but when. In this special retrospective of news coverage, Monitoring Tools And Logs Make All The Difference, Dark Reading takes a look at ways to measure your security posture and the challenges that lie ahead with the emerging threat landscape. (Free registration required.)
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Tue, 04/03/2012 - 17:54
Since super users got mentioned, it is important to keep track of super user accounts and monitor them. The Independent Oracle Users Group security survey from last year found that just 24 percent of those surveyed were sure they were able to prevent privileged users from reading or tampering with sensitive data.
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Brian - auditing list of users with superuser access is a requirement for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and should be tested quarterly, if not more often.
Few other things to mention here:
1. Baseline your systems and network to know what it's traffic patterns look like on a daily basis - makes it easier to spot things that are out of the ordinary, which would warrant further investigation.
2. Use properly implemented, strong encryption when encrypting anything - AES 128-bit would be a good starting place.
3. Encrypt all backups, especially all that are leaving the premises. All of the security measures in the world are useless if your data walks out the door and into an adversary's hands.
and finally
4. Investigate and document all incidents - lessons learned and remediation implemented from one incident can help prevent/minimize the next incident.
Andrew Hornback
InformationWeek Contributor
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Mon, 04/09/2012 - 13:28
I am constantly traveling and have to email my colleagues whenever I get the chance. I telesign in to all of my email accounts to make sure that even when I am using public wi-fi or when I'm at an unfamiliar location I know my email is still secure. This implementation of two-factor authentication has really helped keep my sensitive information protected.


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Bauer Study Abroad Programs
The Bauer College study abroad programs are designed to give students an opportunity to learn about local business practices "on the ground" by immersing students in local culture, learning from on-site visits with local businesses, and meeting with government officials. Each of these study abroad programs follows a similar model - the week "on the ground" is a component of traditional courses, offered in spring semester (Chile), spring break in China (Shenzhen/Hong Kong) or summer sessions (Berlin, Prague). The non-traditional contact hours spent in-country provide a unique external classroom that complements the traditional classroom or online component of courses upon return to Houston. Each program is unique.
Undergraduate Programs
This trip is designed to allow students to learn about Global Expansion of business especially in Asia: the opportunities, the challenges, the problems, the solutions and experiencing the Indian culture.
This trip is designed to allow students to experience the culture of the Czech Republic as well as learn about doing business in Eastern Europe. Students may take both courses for up to 6 credit hours. Both courses are on-line courses registered with distance education. The study abroad trip and an orientation session are mandatory course requirements. Students are not allowed to participate in both the Prague and other study abroad trips in the same summer.
Graduate Programs
This trip is designed to allow students to experience the German culture as well as learn about doing business in Europe. Students may take two courses for up to 6 credit hours.
The Chile program provides students an opportunity to learn "on the ground" from senior management in Chilean companies who work in a global context. Students will learn about the Chilean economic model, why their economy is so dynamic and competitive, and have an opportunity to learn about operations through briefings and site visits.
China: Shenzhen and Hong Kong
At one time it was a sleepy fishing village but no longer. When Shenzhen was designated a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in 1979 it began the transformation into the vibrant, exciting city that it is today. Shenzhen's proximity to Hong Kong's rich capital base and extensive management expertise was the catalyst that led it to be designated as the first SEZ in China. Together, these cities provide a window into China's past, present and future and provide a roadmap for attaining global success in the future.
This trip is designed to allow students to learn about Global Expansion of business especially in Asia: the opportunities, the challenges, the problems, the solutions and experiencing the Indian culture.
Paris or La Ville-Lumière" ("The City of Light") is one of the world's leading tourist destinations. It has a fairytale reputation and is considered to be the luxury capital of the world. It is this reputation that prompted us to partner with ESSEC the leading business school for a Luxury MBA to provide the Bauer Study Abroad to Paris.


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Kelly proving to be capable fill-in for injured Jackson
DETROIT -- Give Tigers manager Jim Leyland credit: Even he knows mentioning Don Kelly is going to get a reaction.
"People get on me when I talk about Don Kelly," Leyland said Monday morning.
That said, he was talking about Don Kelly when he talked about their ability to keep winning without Austin Jackson. Moreover, they've gotten a decent amount of production out of their center fielders since Jackson went on the DL a couple weeks ago.
Kelly entered Monday batting 6-for-30 (.200) as a center fielder, but with two homers and five RBIs. Avisail Garcia is 3-for-12 with a homer and three RBIs in center field. Defensively, they've held their own, though their range doesn't come close to the territory Jackson covers.
"We've lucked out so far with our center-field situation," Leyland said. "I know fans get tired of me talking about it, but Kelly's done a good job in center field. Don't get me wrong, he's not a great center fielder, but he's done a very credible job filling in, very credible. And Garcia. I've been able to slide Dirks over there. We've been lucky."
For Kelly, whose utility has been at the top of his Major League resume, his transition to a position he has barely played over the years has been decent.
"Kelly's a perfect 25th player. That's what he is," Leyland said. "Now, if you can find one better, you can take him. But what do you want? He plays first, he plays third, he plays center. He eats right. He sleeps right. He's here to play every day. He does everything that you want out of that guy. He is what he is. I'm willing to accept that."
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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So it is once again obvious that not only should members of Congress actually read and understand legislation before voting on it, but they should also give extra scrutiny to bills whose merits cannot earn passage without a side helping of pork.
And that, U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman insists, is why he and other House conservatives just helped defeat what even in our bitterly partisan times had been a perennial sacred cow: the farm bill.
"It's not a farm bill anymore," the Third District Republican told me, noting that as recently as the 1970s, farm programs accounted for 80 percent of the legislation's cost and food stamps just 20 percent. But by the time the House rejected its $940 billion five-year bill by a 234-195 vote last month, those ratios had been reversed, Stutzman said.
A good argument can perhaps be made for some degree of both farm supports and food stamps. But the linkage between the two only marginally related programs was always more about politics than agriculture. Urban politicians supported programs for rural America, because otherwise conservative farm-belt politicians returned the favor by supporting an ever-larger welfare state. The result was predictable, if not inevitable.
"Food stamps were $260 billion in 2002, $480 billion in 2008 and $780 billion now. Some would say that's because of the recession, but in the past year unemployment has gone down. Food stamps have just grown so large (because) there's been little reform. We're advertising for people (to go on food stamps)," Stutzman said.
Without legislation, the agriculture industry would operate under a 1949 law that could lead to steep increases in the cost of milk and other commodities. But Stutzman said the only way a farm bill will pass in the GOP-controlled House is by separating subsidies from food stamps.
The numbers indicate the complexity of the challenge. Republicans accounted for 62 of the 234 votes against the bill, most believing the $20 billion in food-stamp cuts (matched by a similar cut in farm spending) was not large enough. That means most of the "no" votes came from Democrats, many of whom found the food-stamp cuts excessive. Just 24 Democrats supported the bill, along with 171 Republicans.
The Senate, meanwhile, passed its version of the farm bill by a bipartisan vote of 66-27, cutting farm spending by $24 billion but food stamps by just $4 billion, Stutzman said.
Politically, some will interpret the vote as just the latest example of the alleged civil war raging within the GOP between moderates and the conservative/tea-party wing. And if no bill passes and food prices increase, Republicans will inevitably get most of the blame, even though Democrats accounted for most of the "no" votes.
As a matter of personal integrity and public policy, however, it's hard to argue with the principle that bills should become laws because they represent good ideas – not because politicians were bribed into supporting them.
Few politicians ever won a colleague's support by offering to spend less, but with the national debt at nearly $17 trillion – that's about $53,000 per American and increasing by $2.45 billion per day – winning votes by encouraging dependency is neither acceptable nor sustainable.
In fact, from a conservative standpoint, even higher – that is, market-based – food prices might be profitable. "The goal is to get there," Stutzman said. "But we can't pull the rug out."
Perhaps not, but passage of "clean" farm and food stamp bills – neither protected by the city-country alliance that shielded previous farm bills from scrutiny – would be a step in the right direction.
Some have suggested the conservatives' refusal to play ball does not bode well for the passage of "comprehensive" immigration reform. That would be the Senate bill that includes $1.5 billion for youth jobs programs and perks for everything from resorts to the seafood industry to au pair agencies. "We're trying to get away from such 'Christmas trees,' " Stutzman said.
But to do that, he and other conservatives will have to convince Washington and the rest of the country that every day is not Dec. 25 – and that successful politicians needn't masquerade as Santa Claus.
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Can laughter really help us heal? Anecdotal evidence and some studies seem to point in that direction. Scientists are still investigating, but why wait for them to figure it out? Just yuck it up. It certainly cannot hurt.
Laughter is a powerful coping mechanism that you rely on when you need to lighten your mood. The health benefits associated with laughter are also convincing enough to give this free treatment a try.
Researchers have found that laughter may:
If you're looking for ways to start laughing it up, consider these methods:
So, the next time you feel ill, add a little laughter to your treatment plan. It may help ease your pain.
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Mental Health America
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Create joy and satisfaction. Mental Health America website. Available at: http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/create-joy-and-satisfaction. Accessed October 23, 2014.
Laughter is the best medicine. HelpGuide.org website. Available at: http://www.helpguide.org/life/humor_laughter_health.htm. Accessed October 23, 2014.
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Recently I was given the chance to look at two recent issues of Casefile Clues which is a genealogy newsletter produced by Michael John Neill. When first contacted, I thought to myself, "Just what I need, another genealogy-related newsletter." But was I wrong – Casefile Clues is no ordinary newsletter. After one issue I was intrigued and could see the value of the case study to my own research efforts. After the second issue I was hooked.
So what did I like about Michael's well-written and well-researched efforts apparent in each issue?
A First Rate Research Guide
First, as someone who is working to gain their certification as a professional genealogist, I like learning about different research techniques and areas of research. A reader of Casefile Clues is given a wide variety of cases covering different time periods and different geographical areas.
For example, the issues I recently read covered a case involving a homestead application in Nebraska. Now in my own personal research I have never had a need for a "how to" on researching homestead applications. But who knows when I may need it for clients in the future? If I do need such a resource, I can turn to the Casefile Clues case to get a better understanding of the records involved and the research process.
I know that if I were a subscriber to Casefile Clues, I could have access to different research topics and easily consult back-issues when faced with many different research situations.
The Value of the Research Process
Second, I love the "CSI" aspect of genealogy. This was apparent with my recent research project where I helped locate the family of Marjorie Pauline Frost in order to return a 1926 baby book her family once owned. Many said that while reading the series of posts, they felt they were right inside my head watching the thought process as it happened.
I get that same feeling when reading a case study in Casefile Clues. Another recent issue dealt with what was assumed to be a wrong name in a 1910 U.S. Census for a Chicago, Illinois family. As Michael picked apart all the data and organized it in a way which made it easy to do further research, you could just watch the thought process unfold.
The Devil? In the Details, Of Course!
Third, when you work with a case study in Casefile Clues you get not only a well-written narrative but one that is filled with source citations, images of original records and even visual aids such as Google Maps. Michael's research expertise is obvious in each issue and he goes the extra mile by sharing every bit of information with you.
I was impressed with Casefile Clues. So much so, I felt that a $15 annual subscription rate was well worth the information provided in each issue. I've become fairly selective lately in terms of publications that I purchase, organizations that I join and newsletters/magazines to which I subscribe. I didn't have to think twice about my subscription to Casefile Clues.
[Disclosure: I was contacted by Michael John Neill in October 2009 and received two recent issues of Case File Clues (at no charge to me) with no obligation to publish a review. I have not been compensated monetarily in any way for this review or any work with Case File Clues. My intention is to give a good review, which does not necessarily mean a favorable review. In my mind a good review is one in which the subject of the review is fully researched and tested and my opinions are given while at the same time remaining fully transparent as to my involvement with the vendor of the product.]
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The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has released guidelines designed to help wind energy project developers avoid and minimize the impacts of land-based wind projects on wildlife and their habitats.
According to the DOI, the voluntary guidelines will help shape the siting, design and operation of the nation's growing wind energy economy. The voluntary guidelines are designed to be used for all utility-scale, community-scale and distributed land-based wind energy projects on both private and public lands.
According to the DOI, the most important thing a developer can do is to consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) early in the development of a wind energy project. Early consultation offers the greatest opportunity for avoiding areas where development is precluded or where wildlife impacts are likely to be high and difficult or costly to remedy or mitigate at a later stage.
By consulting early, the DOI adds, project developers can also incorporate appropriate wildlife conservation measures and monitoring into their decisions about project siting, design and operation.
The DOI says the guidelines assist developers in identifying species of concern that may potentially be affected by their proposed project, including migratory birds; bats; bald and golden eagles and other birds of prey; prairie and sage grouse; and listed, proposed or candidate endangered and threatened species.
These impacts may include the following:
- Collisions with wind turbines and associated infrastructure, and loss and degradation of habitat from turbines and infrastructure;
- Fragmentation of large habitat blocks into smaller segments that may not support sensitive species;
- Displacement and behavioral changes; and
- Indirect effects, such as increased predator populations or introduction of invasive plants.
A tiered approach
Using a tiered approach, the guidelines provide a structured, scientific process for developers, federal and state agencies, and tribes to identify sites with low risk to wildlife, and to help them assess, mitigate and monitor any adverse effects of wind energy projects on wildlife and their habitats.
During the pre-construction tiers (Tiers 1, 2 and 3), developers will work with the
FWS to identify and avoid/minimize risks to species of concern. During the post-construction tiers (Tiers 4 and 5), developers will assess whether actions taken in earlier tiers to avoid and minimize impacts are successfully achieving the goals and, when necessary, take additional steps to reduce impacts.
Subsequent tiers refine and build upon issues raised and efforts undertaken in previous tiers. Each tier offers a set of questions to help the developer evaluate the potential risk associated with developing a project at the given location.
"The guidelines outline a consistent and predictable approach to wind energy development while also providing flexibility to developers in recognition of the unique circumstances of each project," says FWS Director Dan Ashe. "These guidelines reflect an enormous amount of work and care by the Fish and Wildlife Service and dozens of experts from all sides of the wind energy issue."
These guidelines replace voluntary interim guidelines issued by the FWS in 2003. They are the result of a five-year process that included multiple opportunities for public review and comment.
The DOI's new guidelines were welcomed by the wind energy industry.
"These guidelines set the highest standard – either voluntary or mandatory – of wildlife protection for any industry," says Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association. "It is our hope that, in conjunction with rapid training and sensible implementation, the guidelines will promote improved siting practices and increased wildlife protection that, in turn, will foster the continued rapid growth of wind energy across the nation."
'Facilitating the timely and responsible development of wind energy while protecting wildlife and wildlife habitat is the shared goal of the conservation organizations and wind energy companies that founded the [American Wind Wildlife Institute (AWWI)]," adds Abby Arnold, executive director of the AWWI. "AWWI is prepared to work with all key stakeholders to implement the guidelines to maximize development of wind power and minimize impacts to wildlife.'


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