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Career Notes
2008-09 (at Liberty)
High School
USA Basketball
- One of the top returning guards in the country with the ability to be an explosive scorer for the Blue Devils ... has scored 1,489 points in the first three seasons in college
- Has played 71 games for the Blue Devils with 51 starting assignments ... averaging 11.0 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game over the last two seasons
- Deadly outside shooter with 230 three-point field goals (128 at Duke) in three seasons of college basketball ... ranks fourth at Duke with a .408 (128-of-314) three-point field goal percentage
- Begins the year with 782 points at Duke, 228 points shy of joining the Blue Devils' 1,000-point club
- Showed his ability to play the point as a junior in 2011-12, adding even more versatility to his game
- Possesses solid ball handling, play-making and finishing skills ... a deceptive athlete with a quick first step
- An underrated defender with quick hands and solid lateral quickness ... has 95 steals in his two seasons in Durham
- The third player to transfer to Duke under Mike Krzyzewski ... joining Roshown McLeod (1995 - St. John's) and Dahntay Jones (2000 - Rutgers) ... was a potent scorer at the Division I level as a freshman at Liberty
- Named to the All-ACC third team and the USBWA All-District team
- Made 32 starts while playing in all 34 games ... averaged 13.2 points per game, the second highest average on the team (13th in the ACC)
- Led the ACC in free throw percentage, making 87.3 percent (103-of-118) of his shots from the charity stripe... ranked 22nd nationally in the category ... also ranked as the eighth highest single-season mark in Duke history
- Also led Duke in assists (83) and steals (43)
- Averaged 14.6 points per game in ACC play with 32 made three-pointers in 16 games
- Reached double figures in scoring 22 times, including four 20-point efforts
- Had multiple steals in 12 games and three or more steals six times
- Shot 38.3 percent (64-of-167) from the three-point line while ranking second on the team in made three-pointers
- Scored 13 points against Florida State in the ACC semifinals, hitting three three-pointers (3/10)
- Posted nine points, six rebounds and five assists against Virginia Tech in the ACC quarterfinals (3/9)
- Scored 19 points against Virginia Tech (2/25) with seven made field goals
- Hit three three-pointers and all seven free throws on the way to 18 points against Boston College (2/19)
- Scored a career-high 26 points, making a career-high nine field goals and shooting a perfect 5-of-5 at the free-throw line against N.C. State (2/16)
- Scored 19 points on 7-of-15 shooting to go along with three assists and two steals against Maryland (2/11)
- Hit four three-pointers and scored 15 points in the 85-84 win at North Carolina ... hit a three-pointer with 1:48 remaining to cut the deficit to four points as part of Duke's game-ending 13-2 run ... also converted his first four-point play of the season (2/8)
- Scored 22 points against Miami on 7-of-13 shooting ... hit 4-of-7 three-pointers against the Hurricanes and scored 17 points in the second half ... also registered four assists and three steals (2/5)
- Went 7-of-9 from the field against Wake Forest on the way to 14 points ... also carded three steals (1/19)
- Scored 15 points against Georgia Tech with three steals (1/7)
- Hit three three-pointers against Penn to finish with 15 points (1/1)
- Scored 22 points against Western Michigan on 8-of-12 shooting ... hit three three-pointers while also posting two steals, a block and four assists (12/30)
- Dished out a career-high eight assists in the win over Colorado State while turning the ball over just one time (12/7)
- Went 6-for-7 from the floor and hit all three three-pointers in the win over Michigan in the Maui Invitational (11/22)
- Scored 20 points and pulled in a career-high seven rebounds in the win over Michigan State ... also grabbed four steals, blocked a shot and added four assists (11/15)
- Made 19 starts, while playing in all 37 games ... averaged 9.0 points, 1.8 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.4 steals per game
- Reached double figures in scoring in 16 games with three 20-point contests
- Tied for the team lead with 64 three-point field goals ... .435 three-point field goal percentage ranked second on the team
- Recorded at least one three-point field goal in 28 of the 37 games with three or more in 12 contests
- Led the team with 52 steals and had 14 multi-steal games with five or more steals two times
- Averaged 10.9 points, 2.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.5 steals per game in ACC regular season play
- Named second team ACC All-Tournament after averaging 10.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game during Duke's title run
- Knocked down three three-pointers and finished with 11 points, four rebounds and two steals in the ACC title game win over North Carolina (3/12)
- Finished with 11 points, three rebounds, three assists and three steals against Maryland (3/11) in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals
- Made a career-high six three-point field goals and scored 20 points at No. 13 North Carolina (3/5)
- Scored 18 points on 6-of-13 shooting, 3-of-6 from beyond the three-point line and 3-of-3 from the free throw line against Clemson (3/2)
- Tallied 16 points, four rebounds, two assists and five steals at Miami (2/13)
- Scored a season-high 22 points on 8-of-12 shooting and 4-of-5 from the free throw line to go with six rebounds and five assists while coming off the bench against No. 20 North Carolina (2/9)
- Posted 20 points and made 5-of-7 from behind the three-point line to go with three assists and three steals against Boston College (1/27)
- Earned his first career start at Duke against Elon (12/20) and finished with 10 points, two rebounds and two steals
- Recorded five steals to go with six points and two assists in the championship game of the CBE Classic against No. 4 Kansas State (11/23)
- Made 8-of-9 free throws to finish with 11 points while also recording three rebounds, three assists, one blocked shot and one steal against Colgate (11/19)
- Scored a team-high 17 points in 22 minutes against Miami [Ohio] (11/16) in the CBE Classic
- Pulled down a season-best six rebounds and was 5-of-5 from the free throw line against Virginia (1/15)
- Scored 14 points in his Duke debut against Princeton (11/14)
- Sat out the 2009-10 season per NCAA transfer rules ... transferred to Duke from Liberty
- Used the season to develop physically and adjust to the speed of the game at the ACC level
2008-09 (at Liberty)
- Big South Freshman of the Year
- Named to the Big South all-conference second team and the NABC all-district second team
- Led all NCAA freshmen in scoring at 20.2 points per game
- Twice named Big South Conference Choice Hotels Player of the Week and Dick Vitale's "Diaper Dandy of the Week" (Dec. 1 and Jan. 19)
- Named New Balance Big South Freshman of the Week on Dec. 8
- Started 34 of 35 games ... averaged 20.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.4 steals per game
- Made three or more three-pointers in a game 23 times ... had four games with 5 or more three-pointers
- Scored 707 points, the sixth-most points in a season in Big South history ... also knocked down a school-record 102 three-point field goals
- Had 19 points in the opening round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament against Rider (3/17)
- Recorded team highs with 22 points and eight rebounds at Coastal Carolina (2/16)
- Scored a game-high 22 points, while pulling down five rebounds, dished out three assists and grabbed three thefts against Presbyterian (2/9)
- Pulled down a season-high 10 rebounds to go with 16 points, collecting his first career double-double against High Point (1/27)
- Netted 30 points on 11-of-25 shooting, while grabbing six rebounds and dishing out three assists against Radford (1/24)
- Poured in a season-best 35 points on 10-of-15 shooting, including going 11-of-11 from the line at VMI (1/17)
- Scored 28 points on 11-of-18 shooting against Charleston Southern (1/10)
- Tallied 30 points against Northern Colorado on 12-of-21 shooting (12/22)
- Had 22 points on 8-of-13 shooting against Anderson (12/15)
- Scored 24 points on 9-of-16 shooting, including 6-of-9 from three-point range at Clemson (12/7)
- Recorded a game-high 22 points in Liberty's 69-66 overtime win against George Mason (12/1) ... scored eight of Liberty's last 11 points, including a three-point basket with 17.7 seconds remaining to tie the contest and send it to overtime against the Patriots
- Scored 22 points against Coker (11/28) and 21 points against William & Mary (11/29), earning MVP honors in the Liberty Thanksgiving Classic ... scored 13 of his 21 points after regulation on 7-of-8 shooting in overtime win against William & Mary
- Tallied 26 points on 9-of-17 shooting in Liberty's victory at Virginia (11/25)
- Posted 23 points on 9-of-22 shooting in his collegiate debut against Montreat (11/14) ... also tied a Vines Center record with seven steals
High School
- 2008 graduate of and four-year letterwinner at Charlotte Christian
- Helped Charlotte Christian to a 105-24 record and a state finals appearance in 2006 during his four years
- 2008 McDonald's All-America nominee
- Averaged 22.3 points, 5.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game, while connecting on 52.0 percent of his field goal attempts and 49.0 percent of his three-point tries as a senior
- Earned all-state, all-conference and first team CSAA-All American accolades in 2008
- As a junior averaged 13.0 points, 3.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game for a team that had four starters who were double-figure scorers
- Named to the Charlotte Christian honor roll all four years
USA Basketball
- Helped lead the USA U19 team to the gold medal at the 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship in Germany
- Averaged 9.0 points and 2.2 rebounds per game while knocking down a team-high 19 three-point field goals as Team USA posted a 9-0 record
- Scored 12 points with four three-point field goals in a 71-55 win over France
- Went 4-of-5 from three-point range for 12 points in a 93-73 win over Canada
- Had 10 points with a pair of three-pointers in an 81-77 semifinal win over Croatia
- Born Seth Adham Curry on August 23, 1990 in Charlotte, N.C.
- Son of Dell and Sonya Curry
- Father, Dell, was one of the NBA's most prolific three-point shooters ... he spent 16 seasons in the NBA with the Utah Jazz, Cleveland Cavaliers, Charlotte Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks and Toronto Raptors after a stellar collegiate career at Virginia Tech
- Mother, Sonya, was a volleyball standout at Virginia Tech
- Career objective is to work in an NBA front office
- Brother, Stephen, was selected seventh overall in the 2009 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors ... he was a standout for three seasons at Davidson, earning All-America accolades in 2009
- Double major in sociology and African & African-American studies with a certificate in markets & management studies


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Cover for IKEA KARLSTAD Three-seat sofa Sahara Beige Royal. Neutrals (black, grey, white, and brown) are basic to the decorator's tool kit. All-neutral schemes fall in and out of fashion, but their virtue lies in their flexibility: add color to liven things up; subtract it to calm things down. Comfortable brown is the Feng Shui color of Earth. Brown shades are the Chinese symbol of reliability, usability and consistency. Dark brown is not good for wall painting, but it is perfect for furniture, curtains or carpets, especially to Feng Shui the bedroom or living room interiors, creating comfortable, warm and cozy decor.
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They join previously announced performers Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and Usher for the one-hour CBS special, which airs Nov. 16
Four-time Grammy Award winner Yolanda Adams and 10-time Grammy winner CeCe Winans are the latest performers announced for "We Will Always Love You: A Grammy Salute to Whitney Houston." They join previously announced five-time Grammy winner Celine Dion, Grammy and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson, and seven-time Grammy winner Usher for the one-hour special. The show will celebrate Houston's life and artistry through performances and interviews with various artists paying homage to the six-time Grammy winner, and will include Houston's own most memorable performances of her career. The special will be broadcast on Friday, Nov. 16 (10 p.m.) on the CBS Television Network and will tape on Thursday, Oct. 11 at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE.
"We Will Always Love You: A Grammy Salute to Whitney Houston" will include highlights of nearly all of Houston's Grammy broadcast performances, her classic performance of the national anthem at Super Bowl XXV in 1991 and her first-ever television appearance on "The Merv Griffin Show" in the early '80s, among other iconic performances and exclusive interviews. The special will also feature other artists sharing their memories of Houston, as well as additional highlights of her career.
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The first-ever definitive single disc collection of Houston's greatest hits, "I Will Always Love You - The Best Of Whitney Houston," will be released on Tuesday, Nov. 13, and feature 18 tracks, including two never-before-released songs. Additionally, an official Houston photo tribute book, "Whitney: Tribute To An Icon," will be available for sale on Tuesday, Nov. 27.
"Whitney! Celebrating the Musical Legacy of Whitney Houston" is a current Grammy Museum exhibit that explores the extraordinary life and career of the six-time Grammy winner, and provides an in-depth look at all aspects of Houston's creative life. Presented in conjunction with the Houston family, the collection features diverse artifacts as well as rare photographs and footage, and includes dozens of items from the private collection of the Houston family. "Whitney!" will be on display in The Grammy Museum's Special Exhibits Gallery through February 2013.
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The Red Storm were outrebounded 43 to 31, but shot 57 percent from the field and had four players score in double digits.
D'Angelo Harrison, who is playing with an intensity and leadership that is going to be crucial to the team's success this year, led the team with 26 points.
Over the last three games he has shot 17-of-35 from behind the three-point line.
Against the Gamecocks, Amir Garret added 15 points and brought down 11 rebounds, while Big East Rookie of the Week Jakarr Sampson was in double figures for his fifth straight game with 11 point.
Phil Greene IV was the fourth player scoring in double digits for St. John's, dropping 13 points.
After losing some key players from last year's squad, the Red Storm (5-2) are playing better than most people expected.
"We're never going to be a great rebounding team, but I think we can become a better rebounding team than we are," said Coach Steve Lavin. "And while we address the areas that we need to improve upon and shore those areas up, we also have to keep building on what our strengths are, which is our depth, speed, skill and quickness."
The Red Storm played solid on the other end of the court as well, holding South Carolina to just 36 percent shooting from the field.
"Our defense has gotten better because that's what we've been stressing in practice," said Garrett. "I think our man-to-man is pretty good but we're able to play our zone just as well."
A scary moment in the game occurred when South Carolina junior guard Brenton Williams injured his neck falling after being fouled. His neck was placed in a brace before being taken to a hospital for evaluation.
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Clemens identified the 19-year-old as Edgar Segura of Sioux Falls.
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Nothing has changed in the way a voter�s name is removed from Craven County�s voting rolls. An email greeting titled �Fellow Craven County Voters� that�s now circulating on the Craven County Republican Party�s mailing list could create confusion about the method for purging names from the county�s registered voter list.
Nothing has changed in the way a voter�s name is removed from Craven County�s voting rolls.
An email greeting titled �Fellow Craven County Voters� that�s now circulating on the Craven County Republican Party�s mailing list could create confusion about the method for purging names from the county�s registered voter list.
The email begins with fraud concerns of parents of adult children who are registered to vote from their own addresses, but who are still on the Craven County Board of Elections registered voter rolls.
It expresses the fear that someone could use the adult child�s name to cast a fraudulent vote: �Voter ID will not stop all the fraudulent votes, removal from the rolls is the only guaranteed way to stop fraudulent voting,� it states.
The email lists a website to speed the process of removing people who have moved from the election rolls, but Craven County Board of Elections staff and officials said Thursday that �nothing has changed� in state General Statutes regarding how voters� names are removed from the books.
�We cannot remove a voter from the register unless the voter has informed us in writing or we have been notified by another county elections board or the N.C. State Board of Elections,� said Meloni M. Wray, Craven�s elections director.
�It is the registered voter�s responsibility to notify Boards of Elections of address changes,� she said. �As far as list maintenance, we have to rely on the postal service for this.�
Wray and staff assistant Pete Azzole said that, every January and July, the elections office sends a National Change of Address Card to voters who has registered an address change with the postal service.
The voter sends the card back with the proper current address, they said. If it comes back undeliverable, a confirmation card is mailed to the voter, which is forwarded to the voter by the post office, if a forwarding address is on file.
When undeliverable mail is returned to the elections board twice, they said, the voter is placed on �inactive� status and remains there for eight years if there is no action on the voter�s record.
If the �inactive� voter tries to vote at any time, they have to update their record, Wray said. If a voter dies, a near relative can request in writing that the deceased voter be removed.
Wray said the effort on the part of GOP workers �to help us clean up our records is admirable, but we cannot do anything to a voter�s record by notification of an outside source� or in any way not included in the General Statutes.
Voters fraud appears to be an infrequent occurrence in North Carolina. Information from the State Board of Elections shows that documented cases of voter fraud are infrequent, and only two cases of voting impersonation were documented in the state in elections from 2000 to 2012.
The largest number of voter fraud cases in the state since 2000 came in the 2008 election as 229 votes were cast by felons who had not had their citizenship rights restored after leaving prison, the information shows. An attempt to vote twice was the next largest category of fraud, with 30 such attempts in 2012.
Residency irregularities accounted for a total of three over the 12 years.
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Lenoir County Historical Association dinner meeting; AARP health specialist program; Miss K-LC and OT wardrobe showing
Historical group honors member
The May Lenoir County Historical Association dinner meeting was highlighted by several significant events. The National Sojourners, dressed in colonial period uniforms, presented a program about the early history of the United States.
Dr. June Rose was presented the 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award for his hard work and service to the Historical Association by Past President Adrian King. Rose has served as president of the Association and has been helpful in keeping historic Harmony Hall, owned by the Association, a vibrant part of local history.
President John Marston honored Ann Brinson for her performance as site manager at Harmony Hall. The site at 109 E. King St. was built in 1772 and was once the defacto Capital of North Carolina. The Association has maintained the house and kept it in its historic condition. The public is encouraged to be involved in keeping the house as a crown jewel in the community for generations to come.
For more information, call 252-522-0421.
AARP hears health specialist
Brittany Coley, exercise specialist with the Wellness Program at Lenoir Memorial Hospital, talked to the AARP local chapter recently about getting fit.
She informed the group that regular exercise and weight loss boost energy, improve mood and sleep, and help various health conditions.
For more information about the Wellness Program, call Coley at 252-522-7014. For AARP information, call Charles Davis, chapter coordinator, at 252-522-9625.
Off-to-state wardrobe showing
The community is cordially invited to the Miss Kinston-Lenoir County and Miss Kinston-Lenoir County�s Outstanding Teen wardrobe showing, which will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Community Council for the Arts, 400 N. Queen St.
Admission is free for the wardrobe showing. A dessert social will follow.
Miss Kinston-Lenoir County 2013 Maggie Nelms and Miss Kinston-Lenoir County Outstanding Teen 2013 Makenzie Sasnett will be preparing for the Miss North Carolina program state finals to be June 18-22 in Raleigh. Outstanding teen finals will be June 21, and Miss N.C. finals will be June 22.
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By JOHN FLOWERS
RIPTON — Folks who live near a river will tell you there's something comforting about listening to the gentle gurgle of water as it meanders down a country mountain.
But folks like Carol McKnight also know that a meandering river can suddenly hop its banks and turn into an angry, destructive freight train. After having seen the Middlebury River do just that on Aug. 6 and shear more than 10 feet from the backyard of her Ripton village property in the process, McKnight doesn't sleep as soundly during a rainstorm.
"I'm feeling extremely anxious," McKnight said on Tuesday, as she walked around the exterior of her beautiful home in the heart of the Ripton village. The home was surrounded by a gushing moat only three months ago during a devastating flood from which some areas of Addison County are still recovering.
"I'm very concerned," she said.
McKnight and her neighbors immediately downstream, Rick and Molly Hawley, are now seeking guidance and help in shoring up the river banks along their shrinking property to ensure their homes don't wind up cascading down to East Middlebury on some future rain-soaked day.
And McKnight and the Hawleys stressed that it is in the town of Ripton's best interest to see the banks reinforced and the Middlebury River redirected into the channels it has abandoned over time at the whim of Mother Nature. Town officials acknowledged mounting evidence that the next cataclysmic flooding event could result in the river not only taking out the McKnight and Hawley properties, but gushing over Route 125 and into the three municipal properties that define Ripton Village: the town office building, the community house and the 1864 Ripton United Methodist Church.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
SUDBURY AND WHITING — Plans for a tri-town school merger in Leicester, Whiting and Sudbury were derailed Monday, after voters in Sudbury defeated a measure 54-44 that would have allocated $7,000 to a planning fund for the potential community school.
Of the three towns, only Sudbury voted against the merger and planning funding — and in fact, Whiting and Leicester voted overwhelmingly in favor of moving forward with the community school.
"The message was quite clear that due to the economic conditions, this was not a time to even spend $7,000 to study the proposal of a joint school merger," said Cathy Smid, a Sudbury resident and volunteer on the committee investigating the merger.
Whiting voters approved $6,000 for the planning effort Monday night 41-8, and last week voters in Leicester unanimously approved a $12,000 contribution to the fund.
Monday's nearly two-hour meeting at the Sudbury Town Meeting House, on the other hand, was marked by heated debate.
"There were many people who came to the meeting who had already made up their minds," said Sudbury school board Chair Stephen Roberts.
Roberts said that he tried to make clear at Monday's meeting that this month's vote would not definitively determine whether or not the three towns would build the proposed community school. Monday's votes were the first in a potential three-vote process. Had all three towns agree to move forward with the merger, residents would have participated in a governance vote this winter to establish a joint school district.
Finally, all three towns would have been asked to approve large bond votes for the new school in a year's time.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury resident Robin Scheu has responded to many challenges in her career as a bank executive, school board director and leader of various nonprofits.
All of her experience will come in handy as she gets ready to tackle her latest challenge — jumpstarting the local industrial/manufacturing economy as the new executive director of the Addison County Economic Development Corp.
The ACEDC board recently picked Scheu to succeed the organization's most recent executive director, Jamie Stewart, who left earlier this fall to take a similar job in Rutland.
Scheu is the past manager of the Addison County Solid Waste Management District, former interim director of the Middlebury Area Land Trust and the former chairwoman of the Mary Hogan Elementary School board. Prior to those jobs, she spent 16 years as a banker, with Bank of Boston and then at Bank of Vermont (now Keybank), running a commercial lending division, and retail divisions. She most recently ran her own consulting business.
"I think I have a broad range of experience that I can bring to bear on the job," Scheu said.
She knows it won't be an easy job. Addison County's industrial/manufacturing economy has sustained some tough body blows during the past few years. Standard Register closed, and the up-and-coming business (Connor Homes) that has taken its place on Route 7 South has had to substantially trim its workforce in recent months in light of the sagging economy.
Specialty Filaments also closed, though it reopened under new ownership as Monahan Filaments. Ancient Graffiti and CPC of Vermont are other Middlebury enterprises that have closed their doors during the past year. And personal care products manufacturer Autumn Harp last week announced it was moving 160 jobs from Bristol to its plant in Essex.
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Over the last month, the National Development and Reform Commission has launched a slew of antitrust investigations into the pricing practices of foreign automakers.
One might logically conclude that China's central economic planning agency is doing all this to protect domestic automakers. But this notion is misleading even though the NDRC has used questionable tactics to conduct its investigation.
In fact, the agency's latest antitrust campaign is more likely to harm Chinese brands than to protect them.
Here's how.
Under investigation for overcharging customers for spare parts, a number of foreign automakers have scrambled to cut the price of spare parts. And now other foreign automakers are likely to follow suit to avoid an investigation.
That will reduce ownership costs, which is good news for Chinese car buyers. But for domestic Chinese automakers, it's bad news because it will erode their one key advantage -- lower prices.
At first, the NDRC targeted luxury brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover. Mercedes promptly cut spare part prices by 15 percent; BMW followed with a 20 percent cut, and Audi is reducing the cost of replacement parts as much as 38 percent.
While domestic Chinese automakers don't compete against these luxury brands they do try to challenge mass-market brands. Now regulators are targeting automakers like General Motors, Toyota, Honda and Chrysler, which have proved increasingly willing to compete against Chinese automakers -- even in low-priced entry-level markets with models priced under $10,000.
This is especially bad news for companies such as BYD, Great Wall, Chery and Geely. Burdened with poor brand images and old technology, Chinese carmakers have survived by offering low prices.
Over the years, some domestic brands - such as Geely and Great Wall -- moved upscale as foreign rivals introduced less expensive models to gain market share. Although the price gap has narrowed, it still exists.
Even today, domestic models typically sell for less than 80,000 yuan (about 9,700 euros) while most foreign cars are priced above 100,000 yuan.
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by Mark Garcia July 27, 2013
Teaching Babies to Swim at Home
If you have young children in your home under 3 years old - and, you have a pool in your backyard (or know other parents who do) - take advantage of the summer temps to teach your babies how to swim.
Swim lessons for children, can begin at 6 months of age. Early lessons are more for acclimation and comfort level building, of course - stroke development usually comes after 3 years of age.
Every summer, take advantage of your pool and the warm weather to host swim lessons for your baby and a few other local babies and at least one parent. It's a swim lesson, but it's also a social event for all participants.
I found a super easy program online, at uswim.com - that has videos, lesson plans and certificates (suitable for framing!). And, it's FREE, you don't even have to give up an email address!
Planning to Host Baby Swim Lessons
There's not much equipment that you need to have for baby swim lessons. A large pool float, either dense foam or inflatable - is very helpful to sit the babies on. For toddler ages, small kickboards are useful to work on kicking strokes.
The real 'gear' used for teaching babies and toddlers to swim, is pretty basic.
- Swimsuit
- Swim Diaper
- Hat and Sunscreen
- Towel
- Your Pool!
Plan to host a complete session, of 6 lessons. Uswim has 6 skills within the Level 1 session for baby swim lessons. Each is a different lesson focusing on a specific set of skill building goals. Once per week, or twice per week - your choice, but plan for a Swim Session, of 6 consecutive lessons.
Invite your friends! It's more fun when there are other swimmers learning! Just make sure that each baby or toddler has their own dedicated swim teacher, who is in the pool - everybody swims! Let them know that it's a session or series of 6 lessons, with each lessons skills building on the previous, and attending all lessons is encouraged.
Hosting a Baby Swim Lesson Group
When your participants arrive, you can get started right away. 3 steps to hosting a baby swim group at your home.
Step 1: Play the Video. A tablet or a laptop is ideal for 1 or 2 people, with volume turned up higher. You could also watch the video lesson inside, gathered around a monitor. Each video is short, only 3 minutes or so, and can be played as many times as you need.
Step 2: Pass out the Lesson Plan. Each skill has its own lesson plan, have a black and white printout for each parent. If you have a color printer, print one copy of each Lesson Plan in color for each lesson, ahead of time and all at once. Place them in a spiral binder with plastic divider sleeves.
As you can see on the right, the Lesson Plan is very colorful and attractively designed. Each lesson starts with a song, and ends with a song, and there are 6 short and fun exercises in between. Stand your binder up poolside, so you can follow the Lesson Procedure.
Each lesson is planned to last around 20 minutes. As the coordinator, you'll move the class through the steps, with some flexibility to time limits, but try to keep things moving, so that the class can be limited to 20 mins, and no more than 30 minutes. Diaper check!
Step 3: Conclude the class by a slow and safe exit from the pool, to a drying off area where you can close the swim lesson with congratulations to all, and a summary of next week's lesson plan, open binder on the table for all to see.
Get each person's commitment to come for the following swim lesson, try to encourage each person to clear their calendar, so that everyone can attend, every session. If needed, remind them also, how important this is - teaching your babies how to swim.
You can pass out the certificates of achievement for each class if you want, or just do one at the end of the entire session. You may want to have a make-up lesson available near the end of class, for anyone who needs one.
Check out uswim.com, for their free online baby swimming lessons. It's a great resource, and I commend them for putting it together.
Thanks for reading!
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Institute for Professionals in Taxation Appoints Mark A. Loyd to 2013 Basic State Income Tax School Committee
Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP partner Mark A. Loyd was recently appointed to the 2013 Basic State Income Tax School Committee of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT). The Income Tax Education Committees ensure continuous improvements and consistency in the administration of the income tax education programs at IPT.
"We are very proud that Mark is continuing his service to the profession through this committee," said W. Tobin McClamroch, Co-Chairman of the firm. "To serve on the 2013 committee is a great opportunity for Mark to use his experience to aid in the development and education of others."
IPT is a non-profit educational association serving more than 4400 members representing approximately 1450 corporations, firms, or taxpayers throughout the United States and Canada. IPT is the only professional organization that educates, certifies and establishes strict codes of conduct for state and local income, property & sales and use tax professionals who represent taxpayers. The Basic State Income Tax School Committee works to develop and administer a curriculum, including identifying and coordinating instructors to teach basic income taxation.
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Hey Jack, Brian and even you, Fr. John:
It's not yours.
Notre Dame is not yours to do with what you please. Jack, it's not yours to remake into Stanford (although, sadly, I envy their football team). Brian, it's not yours to remake into Cincinnati or Assumption College or Oregon or Michigan. Fr. John, you actually seem to get this, although following in the footsteps of a feckless president who wanted to turn Notre Dame into a mid-level Ivy would make anybody look good in comparison. And if my supposition is correct, it's up to you to rid the place of people who fail to understand this.
And although you should meet the appropriate needs of your students and consider respectfully their wishes, it's not theirs, either.
I'll readily concede that current students, and in this particular context, current student-athletes, have a greater stake than us old farts. But it must be remembered that their greater stake is fleeting. Soon, too soon for most of them, that stake will be the same as those who came before them and those who will come after. By analogy, nobody would stand for George W. Bush putting longhorns on the front gate of the White House, or Obama putting a .... well, you get the point.
What many of the players fail to appreciate yet -- and many of the knuckleheads on NDNation fail to recognize -- is that one of the strongest threads in a legacy is common experiences shared over many years.
Please don't mistake this for a luddite mindset against all advances and improvements. Indeed, as the need for new facilities and other changes increases, all the more important to identify and preserve those things which can be preserved without harming the program or chances of success.
As Chuck has pointed out so well today (and previously) -- this is a unique place with a unique history. Nobody else can lay claim to it.
It's not yours to squander. It belongs to all of us.


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Founded in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton, the Paris Review is more than just a quarterly journal. It is a literary institution. As stated in the magazine's inaugural issue, the creators wanted a vehicle to showcase great new fiction and poetry without shifting into literary critique, which was the dominant style of the time. The Paris Review is not un-critical but its focus is a celebration of great writing.
And it's a celebration like no other, the list of contributing authors is jaw-dropping. It's a who's who of great writers in the modern era, people who are recognized by their last name alone - Hemingway, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Mailer, Nabokov, Pinter, Updike, Vonnegut, Waugh, Wodehouse and so it continues. In many instances, the Paris Review was actually the first to publish these authors' stories making the quarterly the premier place for both high profile and aspiring writers to be published in the 1950s and 60s.
The Paris Review was put together and staffed by a collective of literary aficionados but it was Plimpton, the editor from founding until his death in 2003, who was the driving force behind the magazine's success. Plimpton was a man with connections - including the Kennedys as well as Harvard and Cambridge alumni - that helped acquire key contributors and interviews in the early days. It also didn't hurt that Plimpton was a fascinating man. He wrote a number of books; including several where he attempted to compete in various professional sports and then write about his experiences. He did this with the NFL's Detroit Lions in Paper Lion, the NHL's Boston Bruins in Open Net, the PGA golf tour in The Bogey Man, and sparred for three rounds with Sugar Ray Robinson while on assignment for Sports Illustrated.
The most amazing legacy of the Paris Review is its legendary interview series. Famous for insights into the lives and minds of their subjects, each interview paints a perfect picture of the author, their surroundings, and mindset at the time. Each one is a little piece of literary history.
It is one of the most collectible literary magazines and is still going strong today.


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Okay, so... Matt Flynn! What a day! He had 480 yards passing! He had six freakin' touchdown passes! And someone once photoshopped him into a People magazine Sexiest Man Alive cover! Now you tell me that man doesn't deserve a hasty $50 million free agent contract!
Since quarterback is the single most important position in all of team sports, and since there are so few quarterbacks out there who can do the job well, you will always find a team out there willing to shell out big bucks to a prospective free agent like Flynn, whose career stats don't offer anything close to a large enough sample to accurately gauge his true ability. Teams do this even though the success rate for free agent QBs who surprised everyone by playing well in mop-up duty is pretty low. I personally remember the Scott Mitchell sweepstakes of 1994, when multiple teams tried to sign the Dolphins backup and were legitimately disappointed to miss out on him once he picked the Lions. And Mitchell is hardly the only example. From Matt Cassel to Elvis Grbac to Kevin Kolb, breakthrough quarterbacks always cash in and almost always end up disappointing.
I doubt Flynn will be an exception. Someone out there is going to make him an offer, and he'll probably fail once given control of his own team. And we can laugh at the Redskins in advance because they'll pay him too much money (seriously, they will), but you know what? I understand why teams keep doing it. It's so hard to find a quarterback now that I can hardly fault a team for doing ANYTHING - even investing heavily in a free agent with unknown upside - to see if they can nail one down.
The NFL, as it stands now, is dominated by three quarterbacks: Brady, Rodgers, and Brees. One of those quarterbacks is winning a Super Bowl this season. It's a lock. If you want to compete for a title, you need that kind of play at QB. That's why the Lions bet $41 million on Matt Stafford (paying off handsomely this season) and the Rams put $50 million into Sam Bradford (not so much this year). When you put that much on the line for one position and it goes wrong, you look stupid. But what other choice do you have? Without a QB, you're nothing. And that's why the likes of Cleveland, Washington, Miami, Seattle, and maybe even the Jets will sweep Flynn off his feet with a multimillion-dollar offer. That's why Arizona bet the farm on Kolb this past offseason. That's why the Raiders paid through the nose for Carson Palmer earlier this fall. Even when you know a QB is likely to fail, you have little choice but to pony up and hope you've hit the jackpot. It's a quarterback's league, and Matt Flynn is about to become a very rich young man because of it.


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INTERNATIONAL. Legendary global investor and chairman of Singapore-based Rogers Holdings, Jim Rogers expects a rough ride ahead for the economy and sees the US as a bigger problem than Europe right now. "You have to own real things if you're going to survive," he says.
Rogers has been doing his pre-Christmas rounds this week talking to various business media in the US about his investment strategy, commodities, precious metals, the state of the economy, Europe, QE and his distrust of the Fed among other topics.
Speaking to Maria Bartiromo on CNBC's Mapping the Market on Wednesday, Rogers reiterated his view on the state of the economy: In 2002 we had a problem, 2008 was worst - debt was higher - in 2013, or whenever the next one is, it will be worse because the debt is going through the roof, he said.
"It's going to get worse and worse...we're shooting our bullets, we're wasting money," Rogers added.
The legendary investor argued that while Europe was facing problems with individual countries, "they are solvent." The EU as a whole is not a big debtor nation unlike the US which is the largest debtor nation, he said.
In his usual 'straight to the point' style, Rogers told CNBC: "Eventually people will say, wait a minute, we're back where we were, things are worse than they were before.
"The problem of too much debt is not solved by more debt. This is ludicrous."
So what is his investment strategy in such an environment?
"I'm not doing anything at the moment, I'm sitting and watching," Rogers told Bartiromo. I'm short technology stocks in the US, emerging markets and European stocks and long commodities, Rogers said,
He also owns currencies including the Japanese Yen, the Swiss Franc, the Dollar and some Euros. Rogers, who often called the US dollar a "total disaster in the long term", explained that the US currency was now "beaten down a lot and, as turmoil occurs around the world, some people will flee to the dollar," before stressing that he doesn't really think the dollar is a safe haven.
As far as the euro is concerned, " They're [the Europeans] going to make us feel better for a while [reference to the December 9 EU summit], so the euro will rally, but be very careful," he warns.
"It's not solving the problem, no country has announced we're going to have less debt in a year or two or three." All are going to have higher debt, the problem is getting worse, he stressed.
"And when things don't get better, they're going to print a lot more money. When they print money, you have to own silver, you have to own rice, you have to own real things if you're going to survive," Rogers argued.
Gold consolidation
Asked if Gold would break US$2,000 in 2011, he said it might, but he doubted it. "Gold has been up 11 years in a row and that's very unusual for any asset class," he explained, before adding that it would not surprise him if gold didn't continue to consolidate for a while.
I hope it continues to consolidate and I hope it goes down so I can buy more, he said. "I want to buy more," Rogers noted.
Gold prices fell back today to this week's low of US$1,705 per ounce today lunchtime in London. US investors saw the gold price open New York trade 2.1% lower from last Friday's finish of US$1,745 per ounce.
"Gold prices are still holding fairly well supported," reckons VTB Capital's Andrey Kryuchenkov in a note, "and any negative reaction to the [European] summit today would only see limited losses in gold as opposed to other...more volatile precious metals, also suffering from growth concerns.
"On the downside [however] a break below US$1,700 would see losses to our key support at US$1,680 and the longer term January uptrend," according to Krychenkov.
QE3 in drag
In an interview with Yahoo Finance's "Breakout" Tuesday, Rogers argued that the Fed was not telling the truth about quantitative easing.
"The Fed is "lying to us," he stated, "One reason the markets are holding up so well is that they are printing money as fast as they can."
Although not officially recognized, "there is QE3, the Fed is pumping money into the system," says Rogers, disputing most Fed statements over the last six months.
He argued that the Fed's artificially low interest rates are really "something akin to QE3 in drag."
"What the Federal Reserve is doing now is ruining an entire class of investors," Rogers argued.
Prepare yourself for much higher inflation
In an interview with Newsmax.TV Tuesday, Rogers continued with the distrust theme, this time disputing the US government's unemployment and inflation rates.
"The government lies about the numbers that they put out. Don't take your advice from any government, or you are going to go bankrupt," Rogers told Newsmax.TV.
US unemployment sank to a 32-month low of 8.6% in November, it was announced last Friday. Official figures showed the jobless rate fell sharply from 9.0% in the previous month, as the economy created 120,000 new jobs.
But while the Labor Department's report was one of the strongest since the global economic crisis began in 2008, it was not uniformly positive.
Economists pointed to a worryingly sharp drop in the number of people looking for work -- which helped push down the unemployment rate. That could mean more jobseekers are being defeated by the relentless slog of finding a new position since the Great Recession and dropping out of the hunt all together. And the net creation of 120,000 jobs was not as strong as expected, as government job cuts continued to eat into private sector gains. The net gain was below the average 131,000 of the past 12 months.
Inflation rates are also misleading, Rogers said. "The government lies about that also," he added.
"Anybody who buys, who goes shopping knows that prices are going up. Buy food, education, insurance, just about everything that we buy, prices are going higher and the government tells us there's no inflation," Rogers says.
"Some independent measures say it's over 6% already ... it's going to go much higher because they keep printing money, and as long as they keep printing money, it's going to get worse. So prepare yourself for much higher inflation," Rogers said.
Can politicians save the day? Don't bet on it!
"As far as I am concerned, a pox on both of their houses. Mr. Bush did the same thing. The debt skyrocketed under Clinton. The debt skyrocketed even more under Bush. Debts under Mr. Obama, they've gotten worse and worse and worse. The Republicans talk a very good game right now and I hope that they are right when they say we are not going to let spending go higher. I hope that they are right about it," Rogers told newsMax.
Speaking in an interview with TheStreet Wednesday, Rogers reiterated his distrust of the Federal Reserve, saying that it is already printing more money. "They have already started printing money again. And they are printing a lot and they don't seem to understand economics or finance or currencies or much of anything else except printing money."
"I would say the single biggest risk to the US economy in 2012 is the US central bank," he told TheStreet.
Rogers, who predicted the start of the global commodities rally in 1999, said he was bullish on commodities and precious metals.
Innocent until proven guilty
Asked by CNBC to comment on the collapse of MF Global Holding, Rogers said: "The first thing you learn in commodities is segregated accounts are sacrosanct, no matter what. That's the last thing you're supposed to touch.
Jon Corzine told US lawmakers Tuesday he "never intended" to break rules and had no clue what happened to hundreds of millions of dollars in missing customer money.
"I don't see how [Corzine] can avoid jail, although you are innocent until proven guilty in America, but that's very bad for all of us," Rogers told Bartiromo.
About Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers has spent a career being one step ahead of mainstream investment thinking. Amongst his many accomplishments, Rogers was co-founder with George Soros of Quantum Fund. During his ten years with the fund, the portfolio gained more than 4,000%, while the S&P rose less than 50%.
Rogers retired from Quantum in 1980 and became a guest professor of finance at Columbia University Graduate School of Business and in 1989 and 1990, the moderator of The Dreyfus Roundtable, The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers, and a media commentator worldwide.
But ask Jim Rogers about his most important venture and he will answer without hesitation: fatherhood.
A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing (RandomHouse, 85 pages, US$16) is Jim Rogers' love letter to his daughters, Happy and Baby Bee. Reminiscent of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which was also written by a father to his child, Rogers' book is full of no-nonsense, unsentimental fatherly advice.
Among Jim Rogers' best advice:
-- Conduct your own research and trust your own judgment.
-- Focus on what you yourself love.
-- Be persistent.
-- Broaden your horizons and see as much of the world as you can.
-- The most important thing you can learn is how to think and question
everything you hear.
-- Study and learn from history.
-- Master more than one language - and make sure one of them is Mandarin.
-- Don't panic.
-- Take care of yourself and don't neglect the sunscreen.
-- Remember that boys need girls more than girls need boys.
Underscoring his convictions that future prosperity will come from China, Rogers' two young children speak Mandarin.
Marc Faber, Jim Rogers clash over China and commodities, agree on gold
Jim Rogers says US needs to face reality, not QE3
Marc Faber says Americans need to tighten their belts, save more and work more for lower salaries
'I can smell QE3, QE4 and many more,' says Marc Faber
Jim Rogers says the US will certainly lose its AAA credit rating
Jim Rogers says all parabolic moves end badly, gold & silver not yet in a bubble
Jim Rogers says leave the market alone, abolish the Fed and cut spending
Sell your house, buy a tractor and start farming, says Jim Rogers
Ultra bearish Marc Faber says current gold price 'low', investors must prepare for the worst as 'it will come to war'
Marc Faber sees substantially higher gold prices over the next 5-10 years, lower purchasing power of paper money
Gold is very cheap in comparison to the money and credit that has been created, says Marc Faber
"Fed will print and print and print until the final crisis," says Marc Faber


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A difficult memory game online for adults with many crosses cards: the cards represent different crosses blue or white... a free game, so come and play!
In this memory game for adults, the cards are arranged in 6 columns and 6 rows for a total of 36 cards or 18 pairs. It's a level 4 game. There are many more cards than in gram from level 1, 2 or 3. You have to Reconstruct the pairs of cards by turning them 2 by 2. If the cards turned face up are the same (a pair) you win and the pair disappears from the game otherwise the cards are automatically turned face down and you need to make a new try. Find all the pairs in the least moves and in a shortest time. You will find the full memory game rules here.
Every time you start a new game, a random selection of the cards ensures a different game, so you can replay endlessly.
If this game seems too difficult, try easy memory games with only 16 cards or Level 2 memory games with 20 cards.
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Earthbound Farm Introduces Lifestyle Salad Kits
On the heels of the USDA's recently released Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which advises Americans to eat more nutrient-dense foods and to increase whole grain intake daily, there is now a healthy, ultra-convenient and organic solution in the salad category.
San Juan Bautista, Calif.-based Earthbound Farm, an organic produce farm, introduces Earthbound Farm Lifestyle Salad Kit, a line of naturally nutrient-dense and all-organic salad kits chock-full of vegetables (one cup), whole grains, plant-based protein and flavor.
Varieties include Fresh Balance Lifestyle Salad Kit -- organic baby spinach and quinoa (a complete protein in the plant world), with sunflower kernels, dried blueberries, balsamic vinegar, olive oil and sea salt. It contains 9g protein, 6g fiber, 410 calories and is gluten-free. Whole Power Lifestyle Salad Kit has organic mixed baby greens, whole-grain bulgur wheat and wheat berries with garbanzo beans, dried cranberries and red wine vinaigrette. With 5g protein and 7g fiber, it contains 350 calories. Mighty Energy Lifestyle Salad Kit contains organic baby lettuces and black bean and corn salad with five-seed, stone-ground corn strips and green tomatillo vinaigrette. It contains 6g protein, 6g fiber and 290 calories and is gluten-free. All are between 6.5 and 7.25-oz.
Packaged in eco-friendly post-consumer recycled PET clamshells, the Lifestyle Salad Kits contain individually wrapped ingredients in easy-to-open pouches that minimize preparation time and maximize freshness while enabling consumers to add the amount of dressings and toppings they prefer.
"The salad kit category was ripe for innovation, and Earthbound Farm is excited to do that with these all-organic, on-trend, naturally nutrient-dense salads, just as American consumers are demonstrating greater interest in healthy eating," says Craig Hope, chief customer officer. "Earthbound Farm is working to build this category with innovative new products that offer attractive solutions for consumers."
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Author Notes: The last time I purchased rhubarb there was a fellow shopper eagerly inquiring as to how I prepared my rhubarb. She explained how the crimson stalks had always left her feeling baffled. During my prior purchase I was met by another shopper who explained how rhubarb had always intimidated her. She wanted to know what I did with mine.
I just assumed everyone knew what to do with rhubarb. I thought I was the last to embrace the crimson stalks. Not so. So this post is for all of you rhubarb virgins.
I am on a mission to spread the simplicity of fine (and simple) rhubarb preparation far and wide.
I've been especially inspired by Tara's tribute to rhubarb on Tea & Cookies, Molly's recent rhubarb post on Orangette, and by Ruth, my next door neighbor in Point Reyes Station, who spoke of her rhubarb plant so lovingly.
Sweet cool cream on warm chunks of rhubarb and apple infused with Earl Grey tea, cardamom, and orange...mmm. This recipe came after experimenting with several variations on this theme. I've decreased and increased the sweetness. Dark brown sugar was substituted for white and then white for dark. Vanilla was added and then subtracted. I tried a version with star anise and one with juniper berries before settling on Earl Grey tea, cardamom, and orange zest. This is, without a doubt, my favorite so far.
It is good cold too. I just checked. It thickens as it cools and I prefer the cooled texture (and color), but I would not give up that first warm taste with the cool melting ice cream. No no no. This is a big batch, eat it both ways.
Rhubarb atop pancakes with powdered sugar and a bit of lemon zest is another delicious serving suggestion. I'm sure this recipe would also be wonderful beside some fresh ricotta, served over oatmeal with a bit of cream, topping a bowl of Greek yogurt, or with shortcake and lightly sweetened whipped cream. So many possibilities. Let me know how you decide to serve yours.
I will continue to experiment. I hope you will be experimenting too. Don't be shy, rhubarb is very forgiving (and oh-so-tasty). - chez danisse —Denise
Food52 Review: Rhubarb and Earl Grey are a natural pairing, and one best left relatively unadorned. Chez danisse tosses tart chunks of rhubarb with pieces of apple, a little sugar, a pinch of cardamom, some Meyer lemon juice and some orange zest before adding the tea and gently softening everything in a 350 degree oven. The fruit mellows and grows tender without falling apart, and it emerges from the oven swimming in a subtle, tea-infused broth, which thickens into a light syrup as it cools. If you want this less juicy, cut back to 1/2 cup tea -- we liked the subtlety of these proportions, especially with the vanilla ice cream, which is a must. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 6 fairly indulgent servings
cups roughly chopped (1-inch pieces) rhubarb, from about 6 long thin ribs (just under 1 lb)
cups roughly chopped (1-inch pieces) Braeburn apple, from 2 peeled apples
Juice of 1 small Meyer lemon
cup plus 2 tablespoons pure cane sugar
Seeds of one green cardamom pod crushed well with mortar and pestle
2 bags of Earl Grey tea steeped in 3/4 cup just-boiled water for 3 minutes and then cooled
Zest of 2 Valencia oranges
Vanilla ice cream (!)
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place chopped rhubarb and apple in a medium casserole dish or oven-safe pot.
- Add remaining ingredients (retaining the zest of one orange and vanilla ice cream for later) and gently toss. I advise tasting one chunk of apple and one chunk of rhubarb at this stage. They will both be nicely sugar-coated and crisp.
- Bake uncovered for 15 minutes. Stir (it will smell so good). Bake an additional 15 minutes. Fruit should be tender and kitchen should smell even better than it did the first time you opened the oven door.
- And...that is it. You are done. Can you believe it's that easy?
- I let this batch cool slightly (5-10 minutes), spooned some into a bowl, and topped it with a small scoop of vanilla ice cream. I ate the rhubarb as the ice cream melted on top. Superb! My husband had fallen asleep at this point (my experimenting went a little late), but I woke him and gave him a bite. He liked it too. He even held his eyes open for a couple additional tastes. I went to sleep satisfied.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Stuffed potato floats
To say the least, this culinary experience of cooking and sharing recipes as made me more experimental and daring. Many times I fail to impress myself with an attempt and do not feel good about sharing, yet many other times, I feel it is all worth the experiment.
Isn't it true that if encouraged, one tries to do ordinary things extraordinarily? However limited my husband's choices were with vegetables, and I enjoyed most others too, he would add them to the shopping and will partake a miniscule spoonful of the end product. But I always combined such with his choicest potatoes and tomatoes that he was left with no option but to consume.
Then there was a phase that I cooked for friends who always had nice compliments that thrilled me and thus made me look for interesting things. Sharing recipes in my blog has taken it to newer dimensions. One such experiment is the recipe in this post.
I had tried making koftas with mashed potatoes and filling the core with different stuff, baked them and then stuffed the centres and some such dishes. Recently, I had some handsome looking potatoes that I scooped the centres out and filled with other stuff and floated them in a gravy. It was one dish that my guests were going for more helpings.
Ingredients: (serves for four people)
For floats:
6 medium to large, firm potatoes cut in halves
For the filling:
2 tablespoons almond meal
2 tablespoons raisins
2 green chillis chopped
1 large tomato chopped
1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
2 teaspoons oil
Salt to taste
For the gravy:
1/3 cup moong dhal
2 teaspoons coriander seeds
2 teaspoons cumin seeds
2 teaspoons sambhar powder or rasam powder
2 medium tomatoes
1 large red onion
5 cloves garlic
3 dry red chillis
1 teaspoon garam masala powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 tablespoon oil
Salt to taste
Other ingredients:
cooking oil required to saute' the potatoes
Preparing the potato floats:
Wash the potatoes and scrub them very clean. You may peel the jackets prior to scooping or choose to steam them with the skin on and then peel.
Cut the potatoes in half in the middle.
Using a sharp knife, scoop out carefully a sizable chunk of potato from the centre of each half, leaving a slightly thick wall on the sides.
Slice a small portion of the bottom for stability.
Keep the scooped centres aside and steam the cup like potatoes until just about tender and the peel comes off. Steam separately the scoops and mash them well.
Keep these aside until required.
Preparing the filling:
Heat the oil in a pan, add all the ingredients for the filling and toss them for a while.
Add the mashed potato and blend the filling well.
Fill the dents in the potato floats with the prepared filling. Heat oil in the kuzhi paniyaaram pan/ Aebleskiver pan. Place gently the filled potatoes with the filling showing upwards and shallow fry them until they are roasted.
Since the filling has already been cooked well, there is no need to turn them over and roast.
Once the potatoes are roasted remove from the pan and place them on absorbent tissues.
For the gravy:
Roast the moong dhal a bit until aromatic. Pressure cook the moong dhal with turmeric powder until very soft and mash the same. I run it in the blender and made it to a soup-like consistency.
Chop the onion, tomatoes and the garlic.
Heat oil and add the dry red chillis, coriander seeds and cumin seeds. Add the chopped onions first and few minutes later the garlic. Cook them well.
Allow to cool and blend well in a mixer adding the sambhar powder, garam masala powder. Blend the chopped tomatoes separately.
Add this to the mashed dhal and salt and bring to a boil.
Reduce the heat and allow to simmer and thicken to desired consistency.
Few minutes before removing from the stove, place the potatoes gently. Allow them to simmer in the gravy and absorb the flavours.
Switch the heat off and transfer the gravy to the serving dish. Add fresh coriander leaves for garnish. I had some grated carrots and fresh red chillis that I used also.
Serve hot with chappathis, naan , phulkas or rotis.
This dhal based curry is being sent to Priya's Cooking with seeds event currently running in her own blog with Moong beans.
33 comments:
Potato floats looks delicious.
Floats look delicious. Well prepared. The bowl also looks cuteReplyDelete
Looks so cute and interesting idea tooReplyDelete
Potato Float looks superb. The presentation is very nice.ReplyDelete
Lovely post Lata...what is almond meal? someting like soya chunks? never heard of them?// I love the serving vessel in which the potatoes are floating!ReplyDelete
Sounds delicious,who will say no to double treat :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful clicks nd dish..ReplyDelete
Woow a sure treat for o lovers!!!! looks so unique and yummy :)ReplyDelete
Love the presentation! Seems delicious!ReplyDelete
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looks wonderful and ur clicks are too tempting :)
Sounds interesting and tempting.. thanks for the awesome recipe.. Yummy :)ReplyDelete
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Omg, wat a fabulous looking stuffed potato floats, seriously looks irresistible Akka,thanks for sending to CWS..ReplyDelete
Lovely treat to the eyes and very tempting, calling for me to try it soon, exactly your words my H's choicest potatoes with no option but to consume, if given chance every day.., and his beloved children too.., this recipe would be a winner definitely.., I make your sambhar again and again with my Idlis, I made it again last sunday when I had my sis and family for visiting me :).., Oops I would have clicked the post comment before writing to you that the clicks are absolutely gorgeous...ReplyDelete
yummy receipe, potatoes in a new idea, looks great.ReplyDelete
My turn to swoon, just stuff my 1/2 open jaws with the potatoes to revive me!!! ;-)ReplyDelete
Superb recipe Lataji..those potatoes look gorgeous and even the gravy with daal is great, I will make these soon.ReplyDelete
Wow, this recipe sounds gr8 . Very well explained mam.. Will surely try this sometime :)ReplyDelete
very innovative and creative idea....and very nice presentation....love it!ReplyDelete
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What a delicious experiment that is akka... even before you started blogging I think you cooked some pretty unique things (from the braided breads and tarts and other yummy things I've tasted). This mung dhal gravy is awesome and must be such a nice change from the usual onion-tomato gravies we use. very pretty looking.ReplyDelete
Awesome! I love the idea of using a paniyaram pan for roasting the potatoes :) Also since the gravy base is moong dal , it can serve as a protein source as well! Very creative as usual!!ReplyDelete
Looks superb Lataji..:)..ReplyDelete
Lovely recipe and very well presented....ReplyDelete
Looks so delicous lataji. Thanks for sharing, who could have thought of this kind of recipe- floating potatoes in gravy!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2011 at 7:00 PM
verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry very superb,lip smacking,droolworthy and awesome presentation and very innovative too and a truly feast for the eyes.ReplyDelete
indu srinivasan
Love it Lataji.. looks super delicious.ReplyDelete
This is a lovely recipe takes effort but I guess end result is worth it.ReplyDelete
These look delicious. Almost like dum aloo but only better :-) Love the serving dish as well.ReplyDelete
That's nifty ! Never thought of doing something like this :-) A perfect gravy too, with the moong dalReplyDelete
Wow really drooling recipe with beautiful clicks and crockery is so nice!!ReplyDelete
Lata Madam , did this for s.day night dinner ...came out so yummy ..My son loved it a lot ...thanks a lot for the recp..ReplyDelete
This looks amazing and sounds delicious! This could be an hearty appetizer by itself too.ReplyDelete
Absolutely yummy and you've beautifully explained every single step to reproduce this at home :) "Slice a small portion of the bottom for stability" I wouldnt have thought of that!ReplyDelete
Bowing down to you patience and your stuffed potatoes. Hallejulah..ReplyDelete
Welcome and thank you for taking time to drop by.
I appreciate your valuable comments and tips.
I sincerely hope to improve with them.
Hope we shall interact often.
Thanks once again,
Lata Raja.


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Sign the petition: The EPA must stop ignoring science and act to protect honey bees.
Honey bees are dying at an alarming rate, and this winter marked the worst losses by far. U.S. beekeepers reported that as man as 50% of their bees disappeared or died.1
Last week, the European Union took a major step to protect its bee population – placing a two-year ban on the neonicotinoid class of pesticides, including clothianidin and thiamethoxam, which many scientists think are behind the alarming rate of colony collapse.2
But the U.S. is still finding excuses for inaction. The USDA just published a study finding that neonicotinoids are in fact the least important in a long list of contributing factors to bee die-offs.
With the health of our bee populations – and the estimated $15 billion in agricultural benefits they provide – on the line, it's time for the EPA to stop ignoring the science, and follow the EU's lead.
Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the use of the pesticides that are killing bees.
What is still a mystery to U.S. regulators appears to be abundantly obvious to our bees: these pesticides are deadly for honey bee hives.
Incredibly, in many hives that have died off, the bees themselves appear to have identified the threat of pesticides and taken measures to protect their hives - physically sealing off hive cells full of pollen that contain dramatically higher levels of pesticides than neighboring cells.3
While the bees make emergency – and unfortunately, insufficient – efforts to save their hives, it's the same old story from U.S. regulators, who have been continually handing the reins to the industry since the EPA first approved the pesticide clothianidin against the warnings of its own scientists in 2003, just a few years before bees began dying off in large numbers.4
Now, the EPA says that it needs to keep studying neonicotinoid pesticides for two more years. We can't wait that long. Please sign the petition to put pressure on the EPA to take action and immediately suspend the use of neonicotinoid pesticides.
1. "Honey Bee Die-Off Caused By Multiple Factors Including Pesticides," Bill Moyers, 5/1/13
2. "US rejects EU claim of insecticide as prime reason for bee colony collapse," The Guardian, 5/2/13
3. "Honeybees 'entomb' hives to protect against pesticides, say scientists," The Guardian, 4/4/13
4. "Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own scientists' red flags," Grist, 12/11/10


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Public Programs in Depth Psychology 2011
John Beebe, M.D. The Self in Film
|Saturday March 26, 2011, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Stevenson 1002, Sonoma State University
($20 fee for 3 hours CE for therapists (BBSE); registration at the door the morning of the event)
Doors open at 9:30 a.m.
Free parking in Lots A, D, E, F, J (download campus map)
The restorative power of "going to a movie" is an indication that a film can have the power to put the viewer's ego in touch with the Self, in the sense this term has been used by C. G. Jung. Jung's Self refers to a center in the psyche that represents the interests of wholeness and objectivity, with overarching spiritual concern for the integrity of the psyche in its dealings with the world.
The Jungian viewer of movies today needs to develop criteria for recognizing how some films manage to make this level of psyche evident, when most films fail to get beyond dramatizing persona, ego, shadow, or anima/animus dynamics. A film that includes the presence of the Self includes more than just the sum of these other iconographic elements. It has the uncanny effect of taking the viewer beyond them to a broader perspective than mere identification with problems the viewer can already recognize. To find the Self, attention to Jungian symbolism can be helpful but is rarely sufficient: the style of a film as a whole must be studied alongside its story, stars, and particular images. It is not enough that the scenario refers to religious themes, or to the possibility of a greater personality impersonated by a movie star skilled at attracting the audience's projection of the Self. The essence of the Self is more subtle and elusive, and requires a different level of imaginative participation in what a great film can offer.
This presentation will use clips from classic movies to develop some of the ways the Self has been effectively evoked cinematically by the greatest film masters, both male and female. The questions Dr. Beebe will seek to answer are (1) how can the Self emerge in a film, and (2) how may we, watching the film, recognize that it has done so?
John Beebe, M.D., a Jungian analyst and psychiatrist in practice in San Francisco, is a past President of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. An internationally recognized clinical teacher of Jungian psychology, he has lectured on topics related to analytical psychology throughout the United States and in Europe, and his writings have appeared in the Chiron Clinical Series, The Journal of Analytical Psychology, Psychological Perspectives, Quadrant, Spring Journal, and many books. Dr. Beebe is the author of the book Integrity in Depth, a study of the archetype of moral wholeness. One of the very first Jungian film critics, John Beebe's movie reviews have appeared in Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche. His more extended writings of this medium appear in Jung and Film, and the upcoming Jung and Film II, as well as his own The Presence of the Feminine in Film, written with Virginia Apperso.
Barry Spector, Madness at the gates of the city: The myth of American innocence
|Saturday Sept 17, 2011, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Stevenson 1002, Sonoma State University
Donations accepted
Doors open at 9:30 a.m.
$20 fee for 3 hours CE for therapists (BBSE); CE registration at the door the morning of the event
Free parking in Lots A, D, E, F, J (download campus map)
This presentation offers a view of American history and culture through the lenses of Greek myth, archetypal psychology and indigenous wisdom. Dionysus was the Greek god of ecstasy, tragedy and madness. But that was long ago. Or was it? After two millennia of Christianity and five centuries of science, Dionysus – or his modern substitutes – persists in our imagination as "the Other." He is everything that America has cast into the shadows: woman, nature, the body and especially race. As such, he provides a unique window into American history and culture, and especially the current political madness.
Early white Americans developed literature, theology and political rhetoric that over time gradually coalesced into narratives of new beginnings, heroic destiny and good intentions. However, these stories veiled deep strains of Puritanism, racism and imperialism, and they utilized the threat of dark strangers – first Indians, witches and slaves, then communists – to provoke our anxieties. After four centuries, fear of the Other, now as terrorists and immigrants, still defines us as "not them."
Mythological thinking provides a broader perspective to understand our political, economic and religious concerns. This presentation includes storytelling and poetry as well as time for conversation.
Barry Spector is a mythologist, author and oral poem teller in the old traditions. He is the author of Madness At The Gates Of The City: The Myth Of American Innocence, and has published articles in Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche. He and his wife Maya perform in The Great Night of Rumi, Rumi's Caravan and The Great Night of Soul Poetry, regular celebrations of recited poetry and music. Although not a poet himself, Barry feels that the revival of spoken poetry and storytelling is a key to cultural renewal. He and Maya also present Oral Traditions Poetry Salons at their home and conduct an annual Day of the Dead grief ritual in early November.
Maria Chiaia, Ph.D. Dark Radiance: Landscapes of the Soul
|Saturday Oct 8, 2011, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Art 108, Sonoma State University
Donations accepted
Doors open at 9:30 a.m.
$20 fee for 3 hours CE for therapists (BBSE); CE registration at the door the morning of the event
Free parking in Lot A next to the Art Building (download campus map)
Man's inner life is the "secret place"…the spark of the light in nature. Those labouring in the darkness must try to accomplish an opus that will cause the "fishes eyes" to shine in the depths of the sea, or to catch the "refracted rays of the divine majesty"…
Chaos and darkness have a light and a meaning, and a dark radiance will shine if held in a deep analytic relationship. In sandplay, the elements of earth, our body; air, our breath; fire, our spirit; and water, our lifeblood give an experience and expression of the landscape of the soul. At first, the earth and wetlands of the soul may be all cemented over, filled in with roads that run helter-skelter. From engagement with tormenting problems, experiences of grief and joy, anger and calm, longing and equanimity, anxiety and stillness unfold in the analytic relationship. By listening together to what lays beneath the words, in the silence, shifting natural forms emerge and find expression in sandplays which tell a non-verbal story of a soul. 'White sparks' shining in the 'terra foetida (the fetid earth), also called 'fishes eyes' emerge. In the darkness of the forms made of the earth and on the earth, there is light or illumination; a language of landscape tells a story like the stars in the night sky, constellations of meaning.
An Illumination that may be equal to the darkness springs from suffering, pain or an insoluble dilemma or conflict. As powerful affective states found in images from dreams and in the sand stories are contained, held, and related to, inner landscapes change. New landscapes are discovered: landscapes of loss and devastation; landscapes of sadness, rage or joy; or natural landscapes of mystery and numinosity. In this presentation a few clinical stories and sandplays created by adults and children will illustrate the dark radiance that emerges, and the transformation of images and psyche in landscapes of the soul.
Maria Chiaia, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Berkeley and Marin and works with adults, children and adolescents. She is a teaching member of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy and has lectured and taught internationally and at many universities and institutes. She is co-author of Sandplay in Three Voices: Images, Relationship, the Numinous and has authored many articles and book chapters.
Maureen Murdock, Ph.D. The Evolution of the Image of the Sacred Feminine
|Saturday November 5, 2011, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Art Building 108, Sonoma State University
Donations accepted
Doors open at 9:30 a.m.
$20 fee for 3 hours CE for therapists (BBSE); CE registration at the door the morning of the event
Free parking in Lot A next to the Art Building (download campus map)
If we believe, as Jung did, that the whole history of the human race is in some ways always alive in the psyche, we can reclaim images of the Sacred Feminine, which is an eternal archetype. She has shown herself to us from the earliest times of our civilization in cave paintings and primitive sculptures, in the great mythologies, and she appears in many guises in our present cultures. She is part of the fabric of our very being. In this slide lecture we will look at images of the Sacred Feminine throughout recorded history from Paleolithic times to the present, with special emphasis on the findings of Marija Gimbutas from the Neolithic period, to remind us of how she is alive within each of us today.
Maureen Murdock, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a depth psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Barbara, former Chair and Core Faculty of the MA Counseling Psychology Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and adjunct faculty in the Sonoma State Depth Psychology Program. She is the author of The Heroine's Journey, as well as the newly revised Fathers' Daughters: Breaking the Ties that Bind; Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory; Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children; and The Heroine's Journey Workbook; and editor of Monday Morning Memoirs: Women in the Second Half of Life. She gives lectures and workshops internationally.
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