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SNPwatch gives you the latest news about research linking various traits and conditions to individual genetic variations. These studies are exciting because they offer a glimpse into how genetics may affect our bodies and health; but in most cases, more work is needed before this research can provide information of value to individuals. For that reason it is important to remember that like all information we provide, the studies we describe in SNPwatch are for research and educational purposes only. SNPwatch is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice; you should always seek the advice of your physician or other appropriate healthcare professional with any questions you may have regarding diagnosis, cure, treatment or prevention of any disease or other medical condition.
In the movie Batman Begins, young Bruce Wayne attends the opera with his parents and becomes increasingly uncomfortable at the costumes that remind him of the bats he had encountered earlier that day.
German and American scientists have now found that the gene variant rs4680 is associated with regulating such anxious reactions to emotional images.
With more research, study co-author Christian Montag noted in a statement, "it might be possible to prescribe the right dose of the right drug, relative to genetic makeup, to treat anxiety disorders."
For the study, which appears online August 10 in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience, researchers measured the startle responses – blinking in reaction to unexpected loud noise – of 96 German women as they viewed various images. Each woman was shown happy images such as those of animals or family; threatening or fear-inducing images such as those of injured people or weapons; and emotionally neutral images like a hair dryer or power outlet. A few seconds after each image appeared, researchers randomly startled the women with short, loud blasts of white noise and recorded the their startle responses.
The researchers found when viewing unpleasant pictures, the startle response of women with an A at both copies of rs4680 was about six times stronger compared to those with only one A or none at all.
"This single gene variation is potentially only one of many factors influencing such a complex trait as anxiety," said Montag in a statement. "Still, to identify the first candidates for genes associated with an anxiety-prone personality is a step in the right direction."
The SNP is in the COMT gene, which is involved in regulating the "feel-good" hormone dopamine. It has also been linked with breast cancer risk – Asian-American women who have an A at one or both copies of rs4680 and also drink black or green tea appear to have a decreased chance of developing the disease. People with an A in both copies of rs4680 have been shown to break down dopamine less efficiently. Studies have also correlated the variant with behaviors such as obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The researchers think the stronger reaction to unpleasant images by people with two copies of the A version of rs4680 might be due to increased dopamine levels in some parts of the brain.
"Elevated dopamine in the prefrontal cortex could result in an inflexible attentional focus on aversive stimuli," Montag and his colleagues wrote.
That's a fancy way of saying that people with elevated dopamine in that part of the brain are more prone to respond like a deer in the headlights when faced with a potential threat. In their paper, the research suggest that evolution has created a trade-off. The A version of rs4680 appears to boost working memory and cognitive function compared to G – but it also hampers emotional control. Plus, being unable to take one's eyes away from something unpleasant could be dangerous, especially if people stop paying attention to their surroundings.
Maybe that's why Bruce Wayne chose to become a bat; having criminals momentarily distracted at the sight of something scary and terrifying might give him a valuable edge.
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Toddler Dies After Shooting Self at Corsicana Home
Corsicana police say a 2-year-old boy has died after accidentally shooting himself in the head at his home while his father was nearby.
The toddler is identified as Kinsler Davis.
Police Chief Randy Bratton says the father called 911 on Wednesday night to report the shooting. The wounded boy was transported to a Corsicana hospital and then on to a Dallas hospital where he died later Wednesday.
Bratton says the boy apparently found a handgun in a bedroom. The child's 35-year-old father was in the walk-in closet of the bedroom at the time of the shooting.
No charges were immediately filed. Child Protective Services and prosecutors have been informed of the death.
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Darrell Rasner made a difficult decision last week. The hardest part may be living with the fact that he'll never know if it was the right one.
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Rasner will enjoy his time in Japan. Japanese love baseball and play fundamental baseball.
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I agree, Jessica. I think Darrell will do very well.
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My M&C roots do not run deep. I can't remember my mom ever making it, though she says she did, and that she used to put green bell peppers in it—which might very well explain why I've blocked it out. My own efforts have all occurred in the last two or three years as I've tried to make it for my daughter, who had it somewhere outside the home and now asks for it every week (not that I make it for her that often).
I've never used a recipe, simply because I feel it should be such an easy dish to throw together, and as a result every pan of it I've made—I say "pan" because macaroni and cheese to my mind means baked—has suffered from (at least) two problems, both of which should have been a cinch to fix: not enough cheese, and not enough salt. Somehow I just never got it right. For this post I could, of course, have just gone with a classic no-white-sauce, extra-cheesy version similar to Julia Moskin's Creamy Macaroni and Cheese (1 pound cheese to 1/2 pound macaroni, plus pureed cottage cheese!), which actually looks similar to the surprisingly good stuff I very occasionally break down and get premade from the Ingles in Elberton (I know!). But that would satisfy only two of the people in my family.
You see, my husband despises macaroni and cheese (especially when it's referred to as "mac 'n [sic] cheese") Traditional macaroni and cheese is not comforting to him, it's bland. Its texture is not bouncy, it's soggy and unpleasant. So I set out to come up with a way to make a macaroni and cheese that would appeal to him as well as to my three-year-old and me. This is what I came up with. He loved it, and deemed it "award-winning." (No awards were involved; I did, however, receive a small "cheese stipend" for developing this recipe for the WMMB event—cheese stipend!) I hope you like it too.
Roasted Cauliflower Macaroni and Cheese with Caraway Havarti
Havarti with caraway seeds is one of my favorite basic snacking cheeses, but I'd never thought to actually cook with it before. Turns out it's a stellar melter, and its slight sharpness, along with the nutty caraway, are just wonderful in this context. The slabs of roasted cauliflower at the bottom of the casserole give the dish a welcome meaty texture: put this macaroni and cheese at the center of the plate, next to some sweet baby peas or a simple bitter greens and parsley salad, and pour plenty of red wine.
Serves 8
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 head cauliflower
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 pound elbow macaroni
6 tablespoons butter
1 small onion, finely diced
4 tablespoons flour
3 cups milk
Pinch of cayenne
1 pound Wisconsin Havarti Cheese with Caraway, or plain havarti plus 2 teaspoons caraway
1/2 cup bread crumbs
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Drizzle half of the oil all over the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch baking pan.
Trim the head of caulflower and use a big knife to slice it into 1/2-inch-thick slabs. Arrange the pieces in the baking pan to cover the bottom in a single layer. Drizzle with the remaining oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast for 25 to 30 minutes, until tender and lightly browned. Remove from the oven and reduce the oven temperature to 400 degrees F.
Meanwhile, cook the macaroni in a large pot of boiling salted water until just barely tender; drain and set aside in a large bowl.
In a large saucepan over medium heat, melt 4 tablespoons of the butter. Add the onion and sauté until translucent, about 5 minutes.
Sprinkle in the flour and cook, stirring constantly, until pale golden, about 3 minutes.
Whisk in the milk and cayenne. Whisking and stirring frequently, bring to a simmer; simmer for 2 to 3 minutes, until the sauce has thickened slightly.
Remove from the heat and gently stir in the cheese, stirring until melted. Season generously with salt—you'll need at least 2 teaspoons. Pour the sauce over the macaroni and stir to coat well, then dump the whole mixture over the roasted cauliflower in the baking dish.
Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons butter and toss it with the bread crumbs. Sprinkle the crumbs over the macaroni and cheese, along with the Parmesan, if using.
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Christopher Ulrich - "The Wizard oil study" - oil on paper - 45.7 x 61.6cm (18"x24")
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Christopher began work on his major Demoneater series in 2006. It was the first of three major experiments. Illuminator: The Royal Wedding marked the second, then came The Christ Chronocrator Project: The Reckoning, which was exhibited at La Luz de Jesus Gallery on December 7, 2012. The Christ Chronocrator Project: The Reckoning marked the end of a six-year odyssey known as the Demoneater Saga. Christopher has also participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Christopher worked as the storyboard artist for Metallica's "Metallica: Through The Never" the first three-dimensional music video movie. He is currently a guest artist at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), in the Guillermo del Toro exhibition "At Home with Monsters."


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OMAHA, Neb. - The way Mississippi State fans showed up for the College World Series finals, it made one wonder whether anyone was left in the Magnolia State on Monday night.
Bulldogs fan Sherry Elmore was walking through the left-field concourse when she happened upon a neighbor who lives in the house behind her in Columbus, Miss.
Small world, huh?
Sherry and her husband, Steve, and Wendy Jolly drove the 870 miles to Omaha in 14 hours, arriving Sunday night. Steve didn't have enough vacation time to come for the start of the CWS, but he said there was nothing that would stop him from making the trip if the Bulldogs made it to the finals.
They did, and here he is.
"We follow the Dawgs wherever they go," Steve said.
Mississippi State spokesman Joe Dier estimated the maroon-and-white turnout at 8,000, roughly a third of the crowd at TD Ameritrade Park. Longtime CWS ticket chairman Herb Hames said he had never seen such a rush of fans pour into town for the finals.
About 1,000 people lined up Monday morning in a heavy thunderstorm for the sale of 1,000 reserved tickets for Game 1, Hames said, and all but a few wore Mississippi State colors. Tickets were sold through a lottery system. People shut out for reserved seats could buy general admission tickets, and they did en masse, Hames said.
A couple dozen Bulldogs fans were lined up outside the GA gate by noon, five hours before it opened.
"This is very unusual to have this many come up," Hames said. "I think it's more than coming to the College World Series. It's about seeing their team play for a national title. Their school has never won a national title in any sport. The fans really want to be a part of it."
Donna Sanders of Vicksburg, Miss., flew to Omaha on Sunday to join her husband, Steve, who had driven to Omaha with his brother on Thursday.
The Sanders are Mississippi State football and baseball season ticket holders, and Steve said Donna flew in spur-of-the-moment because she couldn't stand the thought of missing out on a possible national championship, even if it meant that they couldn't sit together.
"We've been scrambling for tickets," Steve Sanders said.
Donna said her son's baseball coach drove back to Vicksburg on Thursday, but turned around and drove back once the Bulldogs won Friday to reach the finals.
"We've got a great baseball team and people support it," Steve Sanders said. "Mississippi State owns a bunch of attendance records in college baseball, but we've never played for a national championship. It's our first in anything. I think we've just overwhelmed Omaha, which is great."
� Homage to Wooden
UCLA coach John Savage says the impact of John Wooden continues to be felt in his and every other program at UCLA.
The "Wizard of Westwood" built a basketball dynasty at UCLA and is one of the most revered coaches ever. He died in 2010.
"He's the coach of all coaches," Savage said. "He set the groundwork for so many staffs, so many programs outside of basketball that it's hard to put into words what he's meant to the UCLA family, the UCLA community.
"So we look up to coach Wooden. He's been our leader forever and ever, and that's where it starts."
� Renfroe rewarded
Hunter Renfroe struggled so much his first two seasons at Mississippi State that even the Bulldogs' bus driver was wondering what was wrong with him.
Everett Kennard and everyone else associated with the Bulldogs are happy with how things have turned out. Renfroe is batting .355 and shares the Southeastern Conference lead with 16 home runs. He was the No. 13 pick of the major league draft, by San Diego.
Coach John Cohen said he remembers Kennard coming up to him early in the season, after Renfroe got off to a strong start.
"He goes, 'It's about doggone time. You've been telling me about this boy for two years and he ain't done nothing,' " Cohen said.
Renfroe came into the season as a .242 career hitter with four home runs in 75 games.
"When you see a kid out of high school who throws the ball 98 mph, runs a 6.6 60 and hits balls over the lights and goes on and on and on, you kind of feel like a very bad coach if those things aren't happening on the field at the highest level," Cohen said.
Renfroe's turnaround started last year when he was playing summer ball for the Bethesda (Md.) Big Train. He set league records with 16 home runs, 52 RBIs and 48 runs, and he became the first player for the Big Train to have his number (11) retired.
"It helped my confidence a whole lot," Renfroe said. "Being part of a great organization like Bethesda ... it's very special to me and it helped with the confidence a lot and getting my timing down and rhythm at the plate."
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A 4-1 nonconference loss to a middling Loyola Marymount team in April served as the takeoff point for UCLA's season, pitcher Adam Plutko said.
The loss dropped the Bruins to 22-10 and came on the heels of Pac-12 series losses to Arizona State and Oregon State. They came into Monday 25-7 since the loss to Marymount.
"We beat LMU two out of three, but we lost on that Sunday," Plutko said. "So it was kind of like a wakeup call, I felt, for our team. We all came pretty close together after that and we said, 'You know, we've got to play better. We've got to finish weekends, and we've got to handle details better.' That is when I felt like we started playing a better style of baseball."


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Obese children, adolescent girls in particular, are more likely to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) than normal-weight youth - with extreme obesity tied to a three- to four-fold higher risk of MS.
The study didn't prove that carrying around some extra eight in childhood causes MS, a neurological disease in which the protective coating around nerve fibers breaks down, slowing signals traveling between the brain and the body, said researchers whose work appeared in the journal Neurology.
But it does suggest that rising levels of obesity in young people could mean more MS diagnoses than in the past, according to lead study author Annette Langer-Gould from Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and her colleagues.
For the study, Langer-Gould and her colleagues compared the heights and weights of 75 young people with pediatric MS and its possible precursor, a condition called clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), and more than 900,000 without the disease.
"Our findings suggest the childhood obesity epidemic is likely to lead to increased morbidity from MS/CIS, particularly in adolescent girls," Langer-Gould and her colleagues wrote.
Just over half of the children and teens with MS were overweight or obese, compared to 37 percent of other youth.
Being overweight or moderately obese was tied to a slightly higher chance of MS in adolescent girls, but the results were based on a small number of cases and could have been due to chance. Extreme obesity, on the other hand, was linked more clearly with a three- to four-fold higher risk of MS.
A 12-year-old girl who stands 1.52 metres (5 feet) tall and weighs 51 kilograms (112 pounds) is considered overweight and extremely obese at over 70 kg (155 pounds).
There was no clear pattern between boys' weights and how likely they were to be diagnosed with MS, Langer-Gould's team found.
"Obesity is increasing the risk of so many different kinds of diseases," said Kassandra Munger, who studies MS at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston but was not involved in the new study.
"This current study now adds to the evidence that it's also dangerous and increases the risk of neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis."
Roughly 400,000 people in the United States have MS, usually diagnosed in adulthood. Just one or two out of every 100,000 children is diagnosed with pediatric MS, Langer-Gould said.
Based on limited evidence about any effects of weight, she said she was "actually surprised" her team found any link with MS risk.
"It's not something we think of as a risk factor for multiple sclerosis," she told Reuters Health.
According to Munger, there are a number of possible explanations for why heavy people could be at increased risk, including their vitamin levels and the greater amounts of chemicals - such as inflammation-inducing signaling molecules - secreted by their fat cells.
"It's not easy to tease those out," Munger told Reuters Health. "From a biological perspective, we don't know what the link is between obesity and MS."
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(Matt Sheret) – Jay-Z is likely to be one of the big winners at this year's Grammy Awards. Eminem is the only other performer in the field with the kind of reach that rap's premier businessman currently enjoys.
Last.fm Trends takes a look at how the odds are stacked in his favor for the Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group and the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration categories.
Jay-Z's album, The Blueprint 3, has had a huge impact, and its presence throughout the Grammy shortlists shows that its effect is being felt strongly even 16 months after its release.
While the record itself faces stiff competition from Eminem's Recovery, the singles chosen in these Grammy categories have a comfortable lead over the competition.
"On To The Next One," his collaboration with Swizz Beatz, is up on Big Boi's "Shutterbug" by about 100,000 plays. Even though the track's popularity has steadily declined throughout the year it still pulls more listeners per week than its competition and, as the graph shows, its listeners appear to be stabilizing.
Meanwhile, "Empire State Of Mind" absolutely storms the competition in the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category. Thousands of listeners return to it every week and it's been a fixture on playlists since release. Alicia Keys's recent marriage nudged its plays a little higher at the tail end of 2010, but it's now running steady around 4,500 listeners every week; very strong indeed.
But with "Love The Way You Lie" close on its heels for week-on-week plays it might cause a last minute upset for Jay-Z's New York opus.
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Durga C., long-time listener, first-time caller, sent me a few interesting questions that I thought I'd share with everyone. Here's his first question:
- What is the role of the hardware in an RDMA transaction? In other words, why does one need special hardware (e.g., InfiniBand, iWARP, RoCE, etc.) hardware to do RDMA as opposed to a "normal" Ethernet NIC?
This one question is surprisingly complex. Let's dive in…
1. What's the role of hardware in RDMA transactions?
There are two typical concepts involved: offloading the work from the main CPU and operating system bypass. Let's talk about offloading here, and defer discussion of operating system bypass to question 2.
There are many types of NICs available today — let's consider a spectrum of capabilities with "dumb" NICs on one end and "smart" NICs on the other end.
Dumb NICs are basically bridges between software and the network physical layer. These NICs support very few commands (e.g., send a frame, receive a frame), and rely on software (usually in the form of a low-level operating system driver) to do all the heavy lifting such as making protocol decisions, creating wire-format frames, interpreting the meaning of incoming frames, etc.
Smart NICs provide much more intelligence. They typically have microprocessors and can apply some amount of logic to traffic flowing through the NIC (both incoming and outgoing), such as VLAN processing or other network-related operations.
Smart NICs typically also offer some form of offloading work from the main CPU. This means that they offer high-level commands such as "send message X via TCP connection Y", and handle the entire transaction in hardware — the main CPU is not involved.
As another example, NICs that implement OpenFabrics-style RDMA typically do two offload-ish kinds of things (in addition to OS bypass, which I'll discuss later):
- Accept high-level commands, such as "put buffer X at address Y on remote node Z." The hardware takes buffer X, fragments it (if necessary), frames the fragments, and sends them to the peer. The peer NIC hardware takes the incoming frames, sees that they're part of an RDMA transaction, and puts the incoming data in buffer starting at address Y. Similarly, other high-level commands can effect protocol decisions and actions in peer NIC hardware.
- Provide asynchronous, "background" progress in ongoing network operations. In the above "put" example, if the message was 1MB in length, it may take some time to retrieve the entire message from main RAM, fragment it, frame it, and send it (and it's usually done in a pipelined fashion). The main CPU is not involved in this process — the processor(s) on the NIC itself handle all of this.
While each of InfiniBand, iWARP, and RoCE NICs have slightly different ways of effecting offloading, they all expose high-level commands in firmware that allow relatively thin software layers to perform complex message-passing tasks that are wholly enacted in the NIC hardware.
The main idea is that once a high-level command is issued, an offload-capable NIC's firmware takes over and the main CPU is no longer necessary for the rest of that transaction.
The whole point of offloading is basically to allow the NIC to handle network-ish stuff, thereby freeing up the CPU to do non-network-ish stuff (i.e., whatever your application needs).
This is frequently referred to as overlapping computation (on the main CPU) with communication (on the NIC). Since CPUs are tremendously faster than NICs / network speeds, you can do a lot of computation on the main CPU while waiting for a network action to complete.
Sidenote: communication / computation overlap is exactly why MPI supports non-blocking message passing. An MPI application can start a non-blocking send, for example, then go off and do non-network things (e.g., computing FFTs). Assumedly, the MPI implementation has offloaded the "send" command to a "smart" NIC, and the NIC is progressing the network operation while the application is doing other things.
The catch is that you need a "smart" enough NIC (such as an offload-capable NIC) to be able to do these kinds of things. Modern OpenFabrics-style NICs are in this category; they have enough hardware support to asynchronously progress high-level commands while freeing up the CPU for other tasks.
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An electronic smartcard supplied by WFP is changing the lives of women farmers in rural Nepal. As well as helping them put food on the table during lean periods, the cards are also enabling women like Deurupa to get to grips with basic banking and numeracy.
by Frances Kennedy in Namule, Dailekh
DAILEKH – Deurupa Ranamagar, a farmer from the Dailekh district, knows only too well the sacrifices that come with feeding her family. She has not seen her husband for six years, since he migrated to Malaysia in order to find work. He sends back what money he can, while Deurupa tends their tiny wheat plot, collects firewood and raises goats, an ox and a pig.
In the past, Deurupa, 36, struggled to provide food all year round for her son, daughter, granddaughter and elderly grandmother. Food supplies usually ran out well ahead of the harvest that would replenish their stocks.
Improve harvesting
So three years ago, Deurupa joined the WFP 'Food-for-Assets' programme. The programme paid Deurupa with food, in exchange for her help in rebuilding local terraces and an irrigation canal – which in turn, will improve harvesting for the whole community. Later, WFP gave her cash instead of food, enabling her to choose what food she would buy. But getting money safely to remote regions such as Deurupa was a challenge.
So WFP teamed up with a local bank and, as a result, a few months ago started giving smartcards to women. The smartcard, which is a type of banking card, allows them to make choices about the food they buy and also makes the money instantly accessible. Deurupa explains:
"This card immediately saved me time and money," she says. "WFP put credit on the cards electronically. So we could get the money immediately by going to the banking agent (see photo below) in the village 15 minutes away. Before we had to take a six hour bus ride just to collect our earnings."
Despite this, Deurupa recalls how she was hesitant at first, not ever having seen a plastic card like that before. But looking back, she says it has changed her life, adding: "The money I save is used for my children's education and clothing."
As a result, she has been able to send her son to a good high school – a difficult decision since it is a nine-hour drive away.
"I miss him terribly but I wanted him to have a better chance in life," she says. With her smart card she can transfer money directly to the host family and that reassures her.
Control finances
Other women in the village receive funds from their relatives abroad directly onto the smart card. This means they avoid the often pricey transfer fees or the risks of sending money home with a courier.
And there are other advantages. Smart cards allow the women to better control their finances, as they can choose how much of their earnings to withdraw at a time, and safely store the rest — no small benefit in remote areas where banks simply do not have branches.
Through the three-year programme, the women have gained an understanding of basic banking and saving mechanisms, boosting numeracy skills "and our confidence!" says Deurupa.
The success of the smart card means that this programme is now being rolled out in other districts – including Ladagada and Pokhari –covering around 1,700 households.


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Here is another sweet potato bao bento. The cute piggy is to make up for the fact that A-chan isn't getting school pizza this Friday. My sacrificial offering (this one was supposed to be my bao) seemed to be accepted with much pleasure.
In the bento: Sweet potato bao, carrot flowers, blackberries, veggie hot dogs, apple chunks and steamed broccoli.
The piggy face was made with pink egg sheet, provolone cheese and nori. All the pieces were 'glued' on by a tiny bit of mayo. The tiny little cheeks were the cutouts from the nose - I didn't want to waste them! The flowers on the apple chunks are provolone cheese with more tiny egg sheet cutouts for the centers.
I'm not sure why but bentos that contain pink egg sheet never show the real color in the picture. One day I hope to get a perfect pink bento picture! If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.
The last time I posted a sweet potato bao bento I was asked for a picture of the package. I thought it might be a good idea to post it for everyone to see - it's much easier to identify in the store if you know what you're looking for! To cook this bao I put it into a microwaveable bowl from the freezer, covered it with plastic wrap and microwaved it for 50 seconds. Beware cooking it for too long because it will turn into a pink rock.


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Happy New Year! Bonne Année!
Happy new year, friends and comrades! Like so many others on this day, I am full of resolutions. Which ones will be kept remains to be seen, but in the spirt of sharing and accountability, I list them here.
1. Be nicer to people who don't understand how the internet works.
2. Learn how to make cinemagraphs.
3. Eat better. I eat so poorly, I'm in danger of getting rickets. I think my big stumbling block is actually having food in the house. I intend to remedy this in any way possible. If that means Fresh Direct, it means Fresh Direct.
4. Waste less time. Don't be intellectually lazy.
5. Implement all my schemes.
Obviously, this is a broad outline. But you get the picture.
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I love red, white and blue together and think it might actually be my favorite color combination of all time, which is saying a lot coming from a color junkie like me. Maybe it's because I look terrific in all those of those colors?
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I keep seeing questions and FB comments about the word "siphoning" and I'm not sure that is the word that I would use. They describe siphoning as; a jar that has a much larger headspace that originally canned or the liquid appears in the water of the canner with residue on the lid, ring, and/or jar.
To better explain this phenomenon you have to realize what is happening in the canner. The process inside the canner is heating the recipe to the internal temperature of the canner (waterbath 212 degrees; pressure canner 240-250 degrees) and as a result the food will boil and expand. Air will escape around the two piece lid. The process does two things; 1) kills any microorganism that are in the jars contents 2) remove oxygen and help form a high vacuum in the jars. Good vacuums form tight seals which keep liquid in and air and microorganisms out. 1
The video below is my recent batch of beans just taken out of the canner demonstrating the contents are still boiling when they are removed from the canner.
Troubleshooting the result of "loss of liquid" or "excessive headspace" can be done during the process of filling the jars. Here are a few things to be mindful of;
1) If you didn't measure the correct headspace the food will "boil over" in the canner. It will escape out the top of the jar and the end product will be short in the jar of either liquid or product. 2) If you did not remove the air bubbles before putting on the lid the results from the boiling canner will create action in the jar. The food will take up the air space not previously removed making your jars look like a boil over when in fact it didn't have enough liquid to start with.
There are many that fear that the "boil over" or the "excessive headspace" will be reason to put those jars in the refrigerator and that they are not shelf stable. The key is how the jars sealed.
From the picture to the right as the jars cool the change in temperature causes the lid to pull down sealing the jar.
If you have excessive headspace and the jar doesn't seal the processing time may not have been sufficient to drive out the air. This jar must also find a home in the frig. But if the jars seal in either of these conditions they are shelf stable.
Tomatoes I pressure canned
in November 2010
still shelf stable!
The last and most important procedure, to ensure that you will have an indication of a bad jar in the future, is to store all the jars without the rings on them. I know for many that is contradictory to what you know but there is a good reason to do so. I will use the examples from the jar to the left as my prime candidate.
Without a ring, the jar with excessive headspace, though it has properly sealed, may start to have growth of bacteria. The bacteria will cause; 1)pressure under the lid causing the lid to slide off or 2) the center of the lid will bulge or 3)when removing the lid to use the contents of the jar the lid will have no resistance to your fingers pulling it off. If you leave the ring on and if bacteria forms the ring will stop the lid from moving. Though the lid may not bulge, given time, it could reseal itself trapping the microorganism that may lead to e.coli and botulism.
Filling and doing the steps to process a perfect jar requires practice. You will continue to have some that don't come out quite right here and there, but don't give up. Some foods can be tricky because of their natural expansion such as dried beans and lentils.
Good canning recipes specify the headspace, but a general rule is use 1 inch for low acid foods (such as vegetables), 1/2 inch for fruits and pickling, and 1/4 inch for jams and jellies.
Additional reasons during the Pressure Canning process:
Here are some of the troubleshooting tips that I can give you about the loss of liquid in your jars while pressure canning:
1. Make sure that if you are doing beans or other foods that will absorb liquid that you account for expansion. You will want to fill your jars 1/2 to 3/4 of the way full with your recipe and complete up to the headspace with your hot liquid. The recipe will tell you how to fill. If not ask me!
2. Make sure to be good about the headspace. 1" means the space between the top of the jar to the start of the level of the food! 3. When putting on the rings make sure they are only finger tight. Cranking the rings on may cause undue pressure on the lids making it harder to release the air from the jar.
4. Make sure to start simmering the water in the bottom of the canner before loading the jars. This will help once the lid is on bring up the temperature in the canner. 5. Once the lid is on the canner, make sure to vent the canner for the full 10 minutes. The canner internal temperature is important in creating enough steam and heat and will also help in the liquid not boiling over.
6. Be diligent during processing to keep a "fairly" steady temperature under the canner to not process for long periods of time at excessive amount of pressure. That will cause overboiling in the jars for the additional pressure over time.
7. When you are done with processing make sure that you do not move the canner because shifting the canner may cause the liquid which is now up to the lid to spill out. Let the canner cool naturally. Do not force the issue by knocking or pushing the weight off of the vent to release the steam faster.
8. Don't let the jars sit in the canner beyond the time it takes the canner to cook. The internal temperature will take a while to cool which will allow your recipe to continue to cook and possible boil over. Take your lid off once the pressure gauge returns to zero or your lid lock goes down. 9. Once you have removed the lid let the jars sit in the canner for 10 minutes. This will allow the jar additional time to depressurize. I have seen jars siphon after the lid is off when taking them out right away so wait the 10 minutes before taking them out. I know that it's a lot of things to remember but practice makes great jars and the loss of liquid can be avoided in most cases!


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Jameis Winston, the Florida State quarterback whose rape charges were dropped after a delayed investigation, has been named the Associated Press national athlete of the year. This newest honor joins a long litany of postseason accolades — including the Heisman, the Walter Camp national player of the year, the Davey O'Brien quarterback of the year and the Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year.
About two-thirds through the AP article announcing his win, there's a brief mention that Winston "continued to excel despite a sexual assault investigation that became public last month." It's also noted that "the State Attorney's Office announced that it would not press charges before the ACC championship game." From there, the topic rapidly shifts to baseball, another sport that Winston excels at. We learn that he has a fastball that reaches 93-95 miles per hour.


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According to Paul Henry, security and forensic analyst at Lumension, it's another heavy month of patches this month from Microsoft. There are nine bulletins, with two critical and seven important. While nine may seem like a lot, there are a few pieces of good news this month. First, there are only two critical bulletins and most of the patches are rated important. Second, most of the impact is on the legacy code base, rather than the current code that has been impacted more than usual over the last few months. If your system is running the latest and greatest versions of software – as you should always do, since newest is usually the most secure – then you should be minimally impacted this month. And finally, Microsoft is not your biggest issue this month, despite nine patches.
As we enter into our first patch of Q2, it's worthwhile to look at the numbers. This year, Microsoft has issued 35 bulletins so far, with an average of almost nine per month, of which about three are critical and six are important. Compare to 2012, where there were 28 bulletins by April, averaging seven per month. Though the overall number is up from 2012, the number of average critical vulnerabilities is holding steady at about three, while important vulnerabilities make up the difference, averaging four in 2012. With the number of important bulletins increasing, but critical holding steady, we can infer that Microsoft gets better every year at finding the low-risk, low-impact issues and getting them fixed in a timely manner. This is good news.
Before diving into the patches, there are a few other Microsoft issues to note, including an expected Flash update next week, which users should be prepared for. More importantly, this month marks the one year "death clock" for XP. In April 2014, Microsoft will end support for Windows XP. If you haven't already, it's time to start thinking about migrating to a new OS if you're still running XP.
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The fifth St. Petersburg Opera "Opera Idol" will be chosen November 30, 2012 at a competition beginning at 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 701 Beach Dr., St. Petersburg. The reigning Opera Idol, soprano Vanessa Rodriguez, a recent graduate of University of South Florida, will relinquish her title, but not before singing as part of a quartet (also including Melissa Misener, Chris Romeo, and Rimas Karnavicius, all previous contestants.)
Twelve singers who have completed a six week session of master classes entitled Music in Motion will participate. Each singer will sing one aria and five finalists will be selected by audience vote. The five finalists will then compete with a second aria. Following a second audience vote, one singer will become the Opera Idol.
In the Music in Motion workshops, singers are coached on musicality and interpretation by Maestro Mark Sforzini, artistic director of St. Petersburg Opera. The classes are funded by the Florida Suncoast Opera Guild as part of their season education sponsorship of the opera company.
Participating singers include USF students Robert Amer, Sarah Coit, Courtney Elvira, Gabriel Hernandez, Ricky Marenda, John Short, Dirck Van Clief, Jonathan Willis, and Mary Wyant. Also included are Beth Dalton, Jacqueline Graham, and Aleksandra Ritums, all experienced chorus members. Brent Douglas will provide piano accompaniment.
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Words That Inspire: Yes
Northern Sky. Photo by Gary Braasch
the morning is my lamp and I say yes
the rain that dances slowly is a sister of the sun
so I shall smile and eat bright candy
on the funny prismed bow of sister's streaming hair
I will paint the yellow leaves a different hue
and sing forever on the land that is my mother
and is yes
for I am young and I am yes
and I will yes and I shall yes and
let no thought repeal my laughter in the darkness
which is old so like a father who is dying
no gray
for I shall make my world of crystal
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and in the freely flowing waters
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and in the night I'll light a candle
in the promise of a morning and a day
it's as I say:
I'm yes
I'm yes
Note for Educators:
Do you ever walk into your classroom and sense this feeling of no from your students? Do I have to do this? Do I have to do that? Do you simply want to shout, "Let's be a classroom of YES!" Yes, I want to get along with others. Yes, I want to work hard. Yes, you are my favorite teacher!
Read this poem to your students today. Read it twice. Read it the entire week. Read it as a choral poem, as a choir. Read it to your students with them joining in as a chorus on the word yes. Read it daily for the rest of the year.
The author had every reason to say no. Maybe, by reading his poem, you will be energized and inspired to become a classroom of YES!
Charles John Pace died 12 years ago from AIDS.
This poem is a gift to us from his sister Stephanie Pace Marshall. It originally appeared in the Winter 2001 issue of YES! Magazine.


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The National Museum of the Marine Corps is a lasting tribute to the U.S. Marine Corps. Located adjacent to Quantico Marine Corps Base, the museum's 210-foot tilted steel mast and glass atrium with suspended aircraft features is impressive for every age. Visitors learn about the history of the Marines by starting in the Leatherneck Gallery with hanging aircraft from the ceiling and tanks in the lobby. Journey into the first interactive exhibit that simulates the intensity of boot camp. Test your rifle skills with a laser-designated target acquisition M-16 at the rifle range. Feel the ground shake as you land on Iwo-Jima on D-Day in 1945 or brave the cold elements in the winter battlefield room depicting the Korean War.
Construction has begun on the Final Phase of the National Museum of the Marine Corps. This final phase will open in phases over a 5-year period with the first part opening in 2017. In the much closer future the Museum will be closed January - March 2016 to hang an SBD Dauntless airplane in Leatherneck Gallery and replace the gallery's Korean War Sikorsky HRS-2 helicopter exhibit with a Vietnam helicopter exhibit. To learn more about the Final Phase please visit http://www.usmcmuseum.com/Museum_Expansion.asp
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Discover! Simulations
The Solid Earth
1. Get Set to Explore
- cave: A hollow underground space, made of rock.
- limestone: A kind of sedimentary rock made up of calcium and carbon.
- stalactite: Rock formation found hanging from the ceiling of a cave.
- stalagmite: Cone-shaped rock formation found on the floor of a cave; stalagmites are usually formed from water dripping off stalactites.
Building Background
- Show students a picture of the inside of a famous cave, and ask students to identify what kind of place the picture shows. Ask the class if anyone has ever been inside a cave. If so, let volunteers describe their experiences and any rock formations they saw.
- Review the vocabulary words and their definitions with the class. Make sure students know how to pronounce stalactite and stalagmite. You may wish to introduce the following mnemonic device to help students remember which rock formation is which: stalactites grow from the ceiling of the cave; stalagmites grow from the ground (or floor) of the cave.
- Introduce the Discover! question: How fast does a stalactite grow? Let students make guesses and write their guesses on the board. If necessary, give students plausible units to use, such as inches/year, centimeters/year, inches/century, centimeters/century, inches/millennium, or centimeters/millennium. If necessary, go over the units of time with the class. Let students vote on the rate they think is most likely, and keep this up on the board for students to refer to later.
2. Guide the Exploration
- Let students launch the Discover! Simulation. They should listen closely to the introductory information and to the question. You may wish to distribute blank charts students can use to record their predictions of how fast each type of rock formation grows and key information about the formations.
- Students should spend time examining the different formations and features of the cave. They can learn about the formations by moving the cursor over each one. In addition, clicking the stalactite will start a narrated animation that shows how a stalactite grows and forms a column with a stalagmite.
- When most students have watched the animation, briefly go over how a cave forms. Ask volunteers to describe the process, and record the steps in the correct order, as described in the animation. Make sure that students realize that caves form because dripping water dissolves rock that is under the ground. This will allow them to better understand how the different rock formations in the cave form.
3. Review/Assess
- Go over Step 3's Wrap-Up text, discussing each step the text presents.
- Ask the Discover! question again and have students refer to the Wrap-Up text to find one answer. Have them compare this answer to their previous predictions.
- Pose the Extension questions. Have students refer to the charts they made while doing the simulation. After students have formulated their answers, share these ideas:
- All the cave structures are formed by limestone from the roof or walls of the cave dissolving in rainwater and being redeposited through dripping or flowing.
- The structures differ in shape, size, age, and the amount of water or the flow of water involved in their formation.
If time permits, present students with the following questions and activities:
- Critical Thinking: Classify What common Earth-changing process is cave formation an example of? What common Earth-changing process is stalactite formation an example of? Answer: Cave formation is an example of weathering; stalactite formation is an example of deposition.
- Inquiry Skill: Use Numbers Compare the rate you predicted stalactites would grow with the rate that the simulation gives for stalactite growth. Make sure that you use the same units to make your comparison. Answer: The simulation gives a rate of 2 meters/4000 years. This reduces to a rate of 1 meter/2000 years or .5 meters/millennium. Help students change the units of their predictions to make an accurate comparison.
4. Reaching All Learners
English Language Learners
Print a copy of the picture of the cave from the simulation. The copy should include all of the cave features. Distribute copies to English Language Learners. Work with students to label the different features of the cave. Make sure that students can pronounce all the words and that they know what each refers to. Pair students with native English speakers to review and describe how the different features form.


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Talking Shop With Ryan Kalish
Ryan Kalish admits to being an "impulse shopper." He's Ron Popeil's dream customer because he'll see something advertised on TV or displayed in a store window and desperately have to have it.
(photos courtesy of Kelly O'Connor)
But even though the 22-year-old outfielder spent roughly two months in the big leagues this summer, earning approximately one-third of the $400,000 minimum MLB salary, he didn't go crazy with his credit card.
"I got an iPad – which is more like a necessity nowadays – and I got some really good headphones," Kalish told me. "They're awesome, but they were a little bit ridiculous to buy. That's really about it. I was pretty good about just hanging out and playing baseball."
Kalish ranks as one of Boston's biggest success stories in 2010. He spent two months at Double-A Portland and two months at Triple-A Pawtucket before making his major league debut on July 31st. After batting .294 (.382 OBP/.502 SLG) with 13 HR and 25 stolen bases at his two minor league stops, Ryan batted .252 (.305 OBP/.405 SLG) with 4 HR and 10 SB in 53 games with Boston.
"The atmosphere of playing at Fenway and playing with the guys who play here every day was an incredible experience," Kalish said. "I hope it never ends."
With Jacoby Ellsbury and Mike Cameron due back from injuries, there's no guarantee that Kalish will even begin 2011 in Boston. But he's likely to go to spring training in the mix for a major league roster spot, and possibly a starting position in the outfield.
"I don't like to look ahead and put too many expectations on myself," Kalish said. "Obviously, I got a pretty good taste of what it's like to be here and that's always a plus. I don't really know what I expect for next year. I'm just going to go into the off-season, work hard, and get better – and get ready to help this team if they call on me to help them win. That's what I plan on doing.
"I'm going to spend two months at home and around December I'm going to head to Arizona to workout at API (Athletes' Performance, Inc). Then I'll come home for the holidays and go back out there after the New Year. I had a really good experience out there last year, so I'm definitely going to go back."
Since Ryan mentioned that he would be spending time at home in New Jersey, I wondered about the status of one of his early-season impulse buys. As I described in a previous blog entry (read it here), Kalish purchased a violin at a music store in Portland with the intention of learning how to play this off-season.
Now that he's a big leaguer, does Ryan still plan to take up the violin?
"I think so," Kalish said. "I'm going to have a good 2 � months at home and I know that I'm going to get really bored, so yea, I do think so. It's sitting there in my room, so if I feel like it I'll go for it. It was probably a worthless buy, but who knows?"
I guess we'll find out in Ft. Myers.
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NEW YORK — When three half brothers' decades-old murder convictions were thrown out last month, they became a dramatic example of an idea spreading among prosecutors nationwide: "integrity units" dedicated to double-checking convictions.
Over the last seven years, more than a dozen prosecutors' offices have created such staff teams or expert panels to review wrongful-conviction claims. The groups have agreed to take second looks at more than 4,900 cases, resulting in at least 61 convictions tossed so far.
That's according to a tally compiled from interviews, prosecutors' reports and news accounts.
The initiatives are underway from New York City to Santa Clara County, California, and from Chicago to Dallas.
Advocates see the reviews as open-minded efforts to address possible injustice. But some defense attorneys are cautious about embracing them.


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MOVE: An Oral History
IT WAS A standoff years in the making at 6221 Osage Avenue — the headquarters of a group called MOVE. The neighbors were fed up. The cops had warrants. And the members of the extremist back-to-nature organization had barricaded themselves inside. Their demand? Justice for nine MOVE members incarcerated — wrongly, some say — for the 1978 murder of Officer James Ramp. On May 13, 1985, shots rang out. Bystanders — including a young Michael Nutter — took cover.
And then, as the sun began to set, a police helicopter flew in and released a bag filled with explosives onto the headquarters, making ours the only American city ever to drop a bomb on its own citizens. At the end of the day, 61 houses blazed, and 11 people — five of them children — died, the nightmarish images forever burned into Philadelphia's consciousness. Here, the people who lived through it tell the extraordinary story of the MOVE bombing.
Ramona Africa, MOVE spokesperson and the sole adult survivor of the 1985 fire: MOVE was formed in 1972 by John Africa. He gave us one common belief, in the all-importance of life. We had peaceful demonstrations: the Zoo, the circus, furriers, Dow, du Pont, and unsafe boarding homes for the elderly.
Andino R. Ward, father of Birdie Africa (aka Michael Moses Ward, who died in 2013), the sole child survivor of the 1985 fire: One day in the early '70s, my wife Rhonda had a friend who was telling her about this group, MOVE. At this point, Rhonda and I were separated. Not long thereafter, I went to her mom's house to pick up Mike. Her mom said they no longer lived there, she's with MOVE. I went to the Powelton MOVE house, almost went to blows with John Africa. Then a guy came with a hatchet, so I got out of there. Later, Rhonda told me that her new family was MOVE, that John Africa was Mike's father, that I could forget any involvement.
Michael Nutter, current mayor: In the late '70s, there were various public activities involving MOVE. I was studying at Penn, and really only generally aware of them.
James Berghaier, retired Philly police officer: I'd see them acting up in the courtroom, but I didn't give them any credibility.
Ramona Africa: The cops would come out and tell us we had to break down and go away. MOVE would not accept that.
Tigre Hill, director of The Barrel of a Gun, a film about Mumia Abu-Jamal: John Africa came to be at a time of all the cults. Tim Leary. Jim Jones. John Africa wanted to blow up capitals. They were anti-cop, anti-government, anti-technology.
Sam Katz, three-time mayoral candidate: These folks made life in the neighborhood intolerable — they were disruptive of civil life to the extreme.


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If you want to get sucked into a vortex of cuteness, you've GOT to check out this adorbs snap of Sebastian, the son of Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose, in his lion Halloween costume. Rawr!
That face! That cute costume! We can't even with him! So freakin' cute.
Sebastian, sometimes called "Bash," was born back in February and he is quite a looker. Rose has posted pics in the pool with her son, but this is our first really good look at his presh face.


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We made it through the holidays! High fives all around.
Granted, my house is in shambles and my pants feel like they are two sizes too small. But that's what the holidays are all about, right? In all seriousness, I had a wonderful Christmas. I spent a lot of quality time with my family (and adorable nieces), I ate a lot good food, and played a lot of Just Dance 3. (In case you were wondering, I'm absolutely horrible at Just Dance 3.)
However, the holidays aren't technically over yet. We still have to ring in the new year! I'm not one for New Year's resolutions – namely, I don't like making promises I can't keep – but I do plan on making a few dietary changes on January 1st. No, I am not going on a diet. I'm just going back to the way I normally eat. I like eating fruits, veggies, and whole grains. I feel better when I eat healthy and exercise (call me crazy, but I actually like feeling good). So, I'm going to listen to my body and I'm going to cut back on sugar, carbs, alcohol, etc.
But, that starts on January 1st. Meaning: I've got a few more days to eat cookies. And so do you!
So make these cookies now and gobble them up before your New Year's resolutions begin. ;)
P.S. I'm aware that these cookies may appear to be sprinkled with black pepper, but I can assure you that they are sprinkled with Chai tea leaves (and cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, etc). And I can assure you that they are really, really delicious.
Adapted from The Novice Chef
2 1/3 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons cream of tartar**
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks), room temperature
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
**If you do not have cream of tartar, you can substitute a 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice.
For the Chai sugar:
5 tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons Masala chai tea leaves (Use loose leaf, or empty the contents of a couple of tea bags)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cardamom
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
Using a food processor or mortar & pestle, grind the Chai tea until it is fine. Combine chai with the sugar and other spices in a small bowl. Set aside.
In another (medium) bowl, combine dry ingredients.
Using a stand mixer (or hand mixer), cream together butter until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time. Add in vanilla (and lemon juice, if substituting for cream of tartar).
Slowly add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, and mix until combined. Place dough in refrigerator to chill for a half hour.
Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper (or a Silpat).
Once the dough has chilled, remove from fridge. Using your hands, form dough into large balls (about 1″). Roll each ball in the chai sugar mix, and place on a baking sheet (leave space, as the cookies will expand during baking). Bake for 12-14 minutes, until edges are just barely beginning to turn golden brown. Allow cookies to rest for 5 minutes on cookie sheet before transferring to a cooling rack.


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December 6, 2007
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Aldi will not proceed with a plan to locate a 17,000-square-foot discount food store in the Middlebury South Village (MSV) housing and retail development off Court Street.
Jeffry Glassberg, one of the developers of MSV, confirmed the news on Tuesday — two weeks after the Middlebury Development Review Board convened its first formal review of the Aldi store plan. Some board members at that meeting voiced concerns about the scale and design of the proposed store, as did several community members.
Glassberg stressed, however, Aldi's decision to reconsider a Middlebury store was not based on negative feedback at the November hearing. Rather, it relates to a shift in the company's business plan for Vermont.
"Our understanding from a broker involved is that Aldi is retrenching from Vermont and has terminated its pursuit of four or five other sites in the state as well," Glassberg said. "This is primarily a staffing decision for Aldi."
Founded in Germany during the 1940s, Aldi in an international retailer offering a "no-frills" shopping experience at 3,500 stores worldwide, including one location in Bennington.
Aldi officials last year expressed interest in establishing a store at MSV, a planned unit development that has already received approval for 56 single-family homes, 30 townhouse apartments, a new Chittenden Bank, and a total of 34,000 square feet of office and retail space, including a bank and sit-down restaurant.
MSV developers had hoped to recruit several small retailers and firms to occupy the commercial/office space, but that strategy did not yield the results they were hoping for. They shifted gears, hoping to make Aldi MSV's anchor retailer.
MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Transportation Secretary Neale Lunderville on Monday credited the town of Middlebury and Middlebury College for joining forces in trying to finance a new in-town bridge, adding that such collaborations will be key if the state is to whittle away at the many construction projects that are languishing on the drawing board due to a lack of funds.
"I commend both the town and the college for their willingness to look at creative and innovative ways to finance transportation projects," Lunderville said during a telephone interview.
"The college and town were able to combine their resources to solve a mobility and safety issue that is important to them both," he added. "I applaud their collaboration."
The collaboration to which Lunderville is referring involves a pledge by the college to give $9 million toward a new in-town bridge that would link Main Street with Court Street via Cross Street, across the Otter Creek. The college's commitment to back a $9 million bond the town would float, actually would add up to total payments from the college of $18 million ($600,000 annually over 30 years) to cover the interest and principal on the bonds. The college's payments would kick in when and if the bridge is completed, perhaps as soon as 2011.
Officials are estimating a total project cost of $16 million, when one includes related road and intersection work, as well as the expense of acquiring four properties within the proposed bridge right-of-way. Middlebury officials will seek federal funds, donations, property tax dollars and "creative financing" to gather the remaining $7 million for the project.
By MEGAN JAMES and CYRUS LEVESQUE
ADDISON COUNTY — The Christmas season is a time of buying and giving gifts to friends and family, but there are a large number of people who have difficulty finding the money for even the meanest gifts for family members, not to mention bare necessities.
There are many local efforts that go beyond just helping provide bare necessities to offer a little something extra during the holidays to people who are struggling financially.
"There are people that find themselves all of a sudden in a difficult financial situation, and we try to be there (for them)," said Helen Haerle, who coordinates a Christmas shop at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Middlebury, which will welcome those in need from around the county this Saturday and on Dec. 15.
Children are often the focus of the holiday season, especially when it comes to giving gifts. But in addition this year, a group of area agencies are collaborating with corporate sponsors to make sure isolated seniors also have something special to unwrap.
"I'm often struck by the number of seniors in our community who don't have family," said Deborah Foster, development coordinator for Addison County Home Health and Hospice, one of the partner agencies. "They often have no one to provide them with a little happiness."
Foster's agency has teamed up with Home Instead Senior Care in South Burlington and the Rite Aid store in Middlebury for the "Be a Santa to a Senior" program, which coordinates the collecting, wrapping and delivering of holiday gifts to "elder orphans," seniors without family nearby, or at all.
A MONUMENT WATCHES over Larry Gile and Donald Lathrop as they work to create an accurate record of those buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Bristol. Gile and Lathrop are working together to catalogue everybody buried in Bristol cemeteries.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
December 3, 2007
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
BRISTOL — Taking a census of the dead may seem pretty straightforward, but two Bristol residents tallying up everyone buried in Bristol's five cemeteries say the task involves quite a bit of detective work.
Larry Gile and Donald Lathrop know a certain person was buried in Varney Cemetery in the 1970s but they can't find the headstone, so what's the next step?
"Connecting all the dots there is pushing it a little bit," Gile said.
Although Gile worked as a funeral home director all his adult life until he retired this year, he himself didn't handle the Varney Cemetery burial in question. So, as in many situations, he and Lathrop have to rely on records.
In some cases the two Bristol men can find those records at the town offices, but they also work from half a dozen record books. Many of the records from Bristol's history they use come from a yellowed, handwritten volume from 1895, held together mostly with Scotch tape.
Lathrop is president of the Bristol Cemetery Association, which manages Greenwood Cemetery, and Gile is the treasurer. But this census is a private project not for the cemetery association but for personal reasons.
"It's interesting to me just because I'm running into my own ancestors down there and finding out where they were buried," Lathrop said.
By MEGAN JAMES
WHITING/SUDBURY — Since voters in Whiting rejected the proposal to create a joint school district with Sudbury last month, the two school boards, still keen on the idea, have been wrestling with what to do next.
One thing they know for sure, they will take a break from each other and meet separately this month.
"We agreed to get together in January, to reassess where we want to go from here," said Sudbury school board Chair Steve Roberts. "We didn't want to have any kind of knee jerk reaction to the vote, so we decided to cool it for a bit."
The merger proposal was defeated on Nov. 6 in a split decision, with Sudbury approving the plan, 53-39, and Whiting rejecting it, 47-26. Both towns had to approve the merger for it to pass.
The two boards, which have held their meetings together for more than a year, will spend this month's meetings working on their individual spending plans for the coming academic year. They will convene again in January.
Whether or not they decide to resurrect the merger proposal is unclear, though Sudbury's board has already begun to explore other options.
"There are very few alternatives," Roberts said. Sudbury could close its school and tuition children either to Neshobe Elementary School in Brandon or to Whiting. The board has considered the possibility of creating a cross-tuitioning plan, in which an equal number of Whiting and Sudbury students would be tuitioned out to the other school.
"But that would be a political nightmare," Roberts said.
Earlier in the planning process, Leicester Central School officials had voiced an interest in joining in a three-way merger with Whiting and Sudbury, but Roberts said the driving distance between Leicester and Sudbury was a real concern.
December 3, 2007
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center plans to sell its for-profit pharmaceutical division, Porter Health Systems, to Cobble Hill Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Burlington Drug Company and Dowling Grocery, both of which are pharmaceutical wholesalers.
Porter president James Daily said the agreement ensures that few changes are in store for customers and employees of the pharmacies, which include the Marble Works pharmacies in Middlebury and Vergennes, and the Vermont Mail Order Pharmacy and the New England Mail Order Pharmacy, which sell pharmaceuticals on a retail business by mail order around the region out of the Middlebury office. Porter Health Systems also includes the Medicine Chest medical equipment company next to the Marble Works Pharmacy.
"We are confident that the customers and employees will benefit from this transaction, and that these pharmacies will have access to significant new operational and financial resources," Daily said.
According to Porter Medical Center spokesman Ron Hallman, day-to-day business of the stores will stay the same for the near future. "The entities will continue to operate as they are," Hallman said.
The boards of directors of both Porter Medical Center and Cobble Hill Holdings, Inc. have voted to approve the deal, but according to Hallman an appraisal of the value of the businesses is not finished. Mike Mitiguy, president of Cobble Hill Holdings, said they hope to have the deal finalized by the end of the year.
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