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around this time.
I thought I would share it again.****
I know you are going to think I am crazy...but with a little imagination and experimenting you can decorate with beans! I was looking for something to put into my apothecary jars for Halloween but I did not want to spend a fortune on candy that would sit in a jar and not get eaten. I decided to take a bag of White Navy Beans (sorry, I did not get a picture) and dye them with food coloring and here is what I got.
Supplies Needed
- 2 lb. bag of white navy beans - $1.50 at grocery store
- A tube each of red and yellow food coloring
- Large Ziploc bag
- Newspaper, wax paper or parchment paper for drying out
Start by pouring the beans in a Ziploc bag.
Drop in some red and yellow food coloring. It does not have to be exact, you can
add more later if your color isn't where it needs to be.
(See Below)
After massaging and working the beans around, this is what you will have...
After all the beans are coated, pour them onto your newspaper, wax paper or
parchment paper (whatever you have on hand).
I let mine dry over night. They might cluster together, but that is okay. I let my
son break them up and play with them before I decorated my jar.
Here you go. I altered the orange beans with a 2 lb. bag of black beans.
I experimented this summer with pinto beans. I love the color turquoise. If you take a bag of pinto
beans with red and blue food coloring, this is what you get.
These are great fillers for jars, trays or even a glass candle jar.

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It's stories like these that keep me loving what I do. This stalwart, relentless fight to get that dream is the reason my blog even exists. I LOVE this story of the "The Help" writer, Kathryn Stocketts and her fight to have her book published. A book that is now made into a movie, currently showing in theatres.
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Kathryn Stockett's 'The Help' Turned Down 60 Times Before Becoming a Best Seller
If you ask my husband my best trait, he'll smile and say, "She never gives up." But if you ask him my worst trait, he'll get a funny tic in his cheek, narrow his eyes and hiss, "She. Never. Gives. Up."
Photographed by Ben Hoffmann
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It took me a year and a half to write my earliest version of The Help. I'd told most of my friends and family what I was working on. Why not? We are compelled to talk about our passions. When I'd polished my story, I announced it was done and mailed it to a literary agent.
Six weeks later, I received a rejection letter from the agent, stating, "Story did not sustain my interest." I was thrilled! I called my friends and told them I'd gotten my first rejection! Right away, I went back to editing. I was sure I could make the story tenser, more riveting, better.
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A few months later, I sent it to a few more agents. And received a few more rejections. Well, more like 15. I was a little less giddy this time, but I kept my chin up. "Maybe the next book will be the one," a friend said. Next book? I wasn't about to move on to the next one just because of a few stupid letters. I wanted to write this book.
A year and a half later, I opened my 40th rejection: "There is no market for this kind of tiring writing." That one finally made me cry. "You have so much resolve, Kathryn," a friend said to me. "How do you keep yourself from feeling like this has been just a huge waste of your time?"
That was a hard weekend. I spent it in pajamas, slothing around that racetrack of self-pity—you know the one, from sofa to chair to bed to refrigerator, starting over again on the sofa. But I couldn't let go of The Help. Call it tenacity, call it resolve or call it what my husband calls it: stubbornness.
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After rejection number 40, I started lying to my friends about what I did on the weekends. They were amazed by how many times a person could repaint her apartment. The truth was, I was embarrassed for my friends and family to know I was still working on the same story, the one nobody apparently wanted to read.
Sometimes I'd go to literary conferences, just to be around other writers trying to get published. I'd inevitably meet some successful writer who'd tell me, "Just keep at it. I received 14 rejections before I finally got an agent. Fourteen. How many have you gotten?"
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By rejection number 45, I was truly neurotic. It was all I could think about—revising the book, making it better, getting an agent, getting it published. I insisted on rewriting the last chapter an hour before I was due at the hospital to give birth to my daughter. I would not go to the hospital until I'd typed The End. I was still poring over my research in my hospital room when the nurse looked at me like I wasn't human and said in a New Jersey accent, "Put the book down, you nut job—you're crowning."
It got worse. I started lying to my husband. It was as if I were having an affair—with 10 black maids and a skinny white girl. After my daughter was born, I began sneaking off to hotels on the weekends to get in a few hours of writing. I'm off to the Poconos! Off on a girls' weekend! I'd say. Meanwhile, I'd be at the Comfort Inn around the corner. It was an awful way to act, but—for God's sake—I could not make myself give up.
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In the end, I received 60 rejections forThe Help. But letter number 61 was the one that accepted me. After my five years of writing and three and a half years of rejection, an agent named Susan Ramer took pity on me. What if I had given up at 15? Or 40? Or even 60? Three weeks later, Susan sold The Help to Amy Einhorn Books.
The point is, I can't tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript—or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here]—in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won't take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead.
And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.
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Editor's Note: This essay appears in the anthology The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives, edited by Katie Couric and published by Random House in April. Stockett's novel went on to be a bestseller and the movie "The Help" premieres on August 10.


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Relaying the events of the day over supper, my husband, a teacher in a local Jewish school, told me how on this, the last day of school, he and his class of fifth-graders had an end-of-the-year party, celebrating everything they had learned this year. The event progressed nicely, with the principal offering a few words, followed by a fun, action-packed game, and then a short meal, accompanied by spirited singing.
As the kids were setting the tables for the meal, they set aside one table for the delectable goodies that some of the mothers had sent. One boy in the class, a shy, sensitive boy, had brought a particularly beautiful cake. His mother had apparently spent lots of time and dedication into preparing the cake, showing her pride of his accomplishments. The boy was visibly proud as he gingerly set the elaborate cake onto the table.
Still in its box, the cake flopped onto the floor, crushed and completely ruined.
And then, in the cramped classroom full of exuberant kids, the inevitable happened. Someone must have pushed by without looking where he was going, and inadvertently shoved the cake off the table. Still in its box, the cake flopped onto the floor, crushed and completely ruined.
My husband watched as the boy struggled to maintain his composure. He put on a brave face, and with the large, forced grin of someone trying hard not to cry, went about his tasks without saying a word to the classmate who ruined his cake. But after 10 minutes of struggling with that smile, his façade crumbled as the boy suddenly lost his composure and began sobbing. My husband put his arm around his student's shoulder and led him out of the room.
"Here," he said, as he looked into the boy's eyes and handed him a $20 bill. "Take this money and go over to the nearby bakery, and get whatever cake you wish for the entire class.
"But," he added, as the boy reached for the bill, "I want one thing from you in return.
"I watched you as your classmate pushed your beautiful cake onto the floor, and what I saw amazed me. I saw how you held back and did not say a word to the offender. I watched as you bravely tried to smile and overcome your emotions. So in exchange for this $20, I would like the merit of the mitzvah of your not having embarrassed another person publicly."
The boy stared wide-eyed at his teacher as the words registered. Slowly, a small smile formed at his lips as he gently shook his head, as if to say, "No, if you feel so strongly about this merit, then I'm not giving it up so fast."
The boy handed back the money to my husband, and the two walked back together into the classroom, appeased.
But the story does not end here. My husband then turned to the class and asked, "What exactly are we celebrating here today? Why is it that some of your mothers spent precious time, preparing cakes for us to mark this occasion? Is it just so that we get to eat some good food? No, it is because these delicacies stand for something. They are a symbol of our joy at having completed another year of learning Torah. They are a symbol of your parents' pride in what you have accomplished. That's what these cakes are all about.
"This is a truly special cake."
"Here," he said, pointing at the messy, crushed cake ensconced forlornly in its box, "we have a cake that symbolizes all of that, and yet so much more. This is a cake that symbolizes both the love of learning, and the ability of one boy to win over his emotions. It is the symbol of a child who was able to struggle with, and then contain, his anger. This is a truly special cake."
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This recent thread has a couple from the latest version of the software http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=60567
Hi All,
Is anyone here able to send me a copy of tivoapp from a 7.x, 9.x or 11.x tivo's filesystem?
We are trying to locate where we need to patch an Australian tivo's tivoapp so we can renable the 30 second skip (note select-play-select-3-0-select has been disabled) and other hacks that tivo have not included in the Australian version of Tivo HD.
Hopefully if we can look at the areas that are patched for USA 7.x, 9.x and 11.x we might be able to track down where we need to patch the Australian version of tivoapp.
Any help would be appreciated.
Also while I have found the patches for 7.x software in these forums I cannot seem to find any patches for 9.x or 11.x software.
Do they even exist?
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This recent thread has a couple from the latest version of the software http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=60567
Thanks for the link ciper. I did spot this yesterday but it was not the patch I needed.
Only problem is that without a copy of the USA tivoapp that the patch is applied to I have no way of working out what the patch actually does behind the scenes.
Are the Aussie tivoapp and US tivoapps not the same?
What's the serverid for your 11.0 GZcore object under /SwModule and the md5sum of your 11.0 tivoapp?
I dont have direct access to the unit we are experimenting on so can't give you the serverid but I do have a copy of the tivoapp.
md5sum of tivoapp is
check your pm.
Looks like the tivoapps are slightly different.
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SwModule 18792/11 PRIMARY {
IndexPath[4]=/SwModule/18792 /Server/143450403
TiVo Series one, two, and TiVo HD
Yep we're right at the bleeding edge...but without MRV, TTG, Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, CinemaNow, Extenders, etc.
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Does the hacked unit have backdoors enabled? Or do you need that patch too?
If you have backdoors enabled, what does the spigot information UI report?
So are we running a newer version of the software in Aust?
If so then these patches might be useful to you guys when you get 11.1-01-2 if there are no changes between our tivoapps.
VMA/HEX orig value new value
0x005cf3fc/0x001cf3fc 104000AA 100000AA //NoCSO
0x0076e708/0x0036e708 00008021 24100001 //Backdoors
0x00651E1C/0x00251E1C 30B000FF 00008021 // CCI
0x00651E40/0x00251E40 00E08821 24110000
0x01177870/0x00d77870 30B000FF 00008021
These have not been tested yet but I checked the code fragments around these areas and they are identical.
Last edited by pdd; 02-22-2009 at 08:34 PM. Reason: Fix to typo in hex address.
Can someone with the tivoapp from australia please confirm these patches for buffhack. I know there are other issues to be sorted with regards to the bufferhack but this is a start.
set sys(11.1) [list 0x114efa 0x114bc6 0x6c 0x1bc6c6 ???? ????]
I am a bit unsure about the second address 0x114bc6 as the current value on the US 11.0 tivoapp I had didn't really match up with the expected value of 30mins which I would have thought should be here based on the bufferhack script calculation it wants to put in here.
I would have thought that location would contain buffern / 60 = 30 (as the default buffer is 30 minutes)
instead it contained
Should we start our own bufferhack script or tack onto yours? I am not that great at tcl yet.
Is there a download location for this script that has been updated recently?
I did see diff files here from lgkahn but was unsure which script to merge it with?
Now I just need to work out how to find the other ???? ???? values before we can try to get bufferhack working
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With her first residential building in the U.S., architect Zaha Hadid's proposed tower vies to reshape Miami's skyline
Downtown Miami isn't known for bold architecture, but a new condo tower proposed for Biscayne Boulevard could change that. Architect Zaha Hadid's 60-story luxury condo building makes a strong statement: The city's skyline is ready for daring design.
"I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city," Ms. Hadid said in an interview Wednesday. "It's a bit too commercial."
If built, the tower—called One Thousand Museum—would be Ms. Hadid's first residential building in the U.S. While developers Louis Birdman and Gregg Covin are confident about Miami's luxury market, they must still complete the financing of the $300 million project before work can begin.
Ms. Hadid's work is known for challenging, sculptural forms that are often sternly futuristic—and One Thousand Museum is no different. The Iraqi-born, London-based architect designed a 706-foot skyscraper with a concrete "exoskeleton" support structure that climbs from the podium to the top floor. Because it's Miami, the building has to have balconies, but Ms. Hadid has cleverly obscured these, for the most part, by setting them back behind the building's protruding bones.
"We wanted to avoid that generic, modernist typology," Ms. Hadid said. "We were interested in the idea of the tall building, and how it lands on the ground, how the structure is manifested."
Ms. Hadid has maintained a breakneck schedule over the past few years, teaching at Yale and tending to construction sites in cities as disparate as Glasgow, Scotland, and Baku, Azerbaijan.
Herself the owner of an apartment in Miami's W South Beach, Ms. Hadid has been coming to the city for about two weeks around Christmas for the past 10 years. "I go there and I just chill out," she said.
Foreign buyers have dominated the Miami condominium market since the housing bust took hold in 2008. Overseas buyers view Miami real estate as a smart investment and are willing to pay cash for the peace of mind of owning a hard asset in the U.S. They rarely stay for more than a few weeks a year, and many rent the units out when they are away. Getting a good deal on a unit with a water view, rather than fine architecture, has been the chief concern.
One Thousand Museum would be the strongest sign yet that this attitude is starting to change. A handful of big-ticket architects, including Sir Norman Foster, Herzog & de Meuron, Enrique Norten and Danish up-and-comer Bjarke Ingels have recently signed on to build high-end residential projects in the city.
Ms. Hadid, who won the Pritzker Prize in 2004, could contribute to Miami's credibility as an emerging cosmopolitan center.
Terence Riley, an architect and former curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art and former director of the Miami Art Museum, has been friends with Ms. Hadid for two decades. He said that the works of architects like Ms. Hadid "are really going to change the skyline," over the next few years.
"I think the Zaha building is part of a maturing process in how Miami sees itself," Mr. Riley said.
Still, some see One Thousand Museum as somewhat risky. It would sit on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami's downtown, which is largely untested in the ultraluxury market. Most of South Florida's big-ticket condo sales have taken place in Miami Beach, including the report last week of a new sales record—a $34 million penthouse in the Edition, a building being developed by hotelier Ian Schrager.
"Anyone who's coming from abroad, looking for that second home, is looking for sand, for a unit by the water," said Peter Zalewski, principal with Condo Vultures LLC, a Miami brokerage.
Pricing is also in the upper echelon of Miami's luxury market. A duplex penthouse unit could be priced between $30 million to $50 million, the developers say. Other units will range from half a floor (about 4,500 square feet) to a full floor (about 9,900) and be priced from $4 million to more than $15 million, or a range of about $900 to $1,400 per square foot. The average price per square foot for condos under construction is about $1,000 to $1,250 for oceanfront units in Miami Beach, according to Condo Vultures. Downtown, new construction is typically priced at between $450 to $500 per square foot.
Most new construction buildings in downtown Miami, however, aren't ultraluxury. "Zaha's building is an anomaly. No developer has tried to achieve this in downtown," Mr. Zalewski said.
Mr. Covin, who built Ten Museum Park, a 50-story condo building next door to the site of the proposed Hadid building, said that One Thousand Museum's $300 million price tag will be financed with a combination of developer equity, a loan from a nonbank investment fund and deposits of 60% from buyers. He said he and Mr. Birdman have a contract to purchase the land for the project and expect to close and start construction by spring of next year. He declined to say how much equity the pair had raised, or to name his lender.
The developers are touting the architect's name, as well as the view, which includes the span of Biscayne Bay and lights of Miami Beach.
"It's just going to be very dramatic," Mr. Covin said. "Zaha has created this new vocabulary where she's using this exoskeleton to convey this sensuousness…. You can't just get Zaha for any project. She jumped at the chance to make a real statement."
After years of condo projects going bust, Ms. Hadid's building has aroused some excitement in the city.
"The types of buyers coming to Miami nowadays have more refined tastes," said Vanessa Grout, chief executive of Douglas Elliman Florida, a Miami brokerage. "When you buy a commodity like a typical, new condo in Miami, your investment is at the mercy of supply-and-demand forces. But when you buy something rare, in a building designed by a significant architect, there is safety due to scarcity."
And an architectural rarity is what Ms. Hadid has in mind. "People's taste buds change," she said. "People demand better. They want to live in better houses. The idea of the new and different is not so foreign to people anymore," she said.
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Suicide claimed the lives of more American service members than the war in Afghanistan last year, according to the Pentagon.
The number of military men and women who took their own lives increased sharply from 2011 to 2012, prompting the military to launch a counteroffensive.
Some lawmakers are calling the uptick in military suicides an epidemic. Officials said 349 service members committed suicide in 2012, the highest number on record. That figure is projected to get worse.Fort
WBAL-TV spoke with military leaders at Fort Meade in Maryland to see how the base is combating the issue. The fort just opened a brand new USO facility where military members and their families can socialize and seek support.
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The problem came into grim focus as six soldiers linked to Fort Meade took their own lives in 2012.
"It is a community issue. These didn't all just happen on Fort Meade. They all worked on Fort Meade. Some happened on the installation, while others happened in the outside community," Rothstein said.
The colonel said two of the suicides involved combat veterans, but he was quick to point out that there is no standard "at risk" soldier, sailor or airman.
"To put them all in one bucket is difficult to do. The trends that we've seen have been mostly male. Out of the six, there were five male and one female. They were mostly young, 25 and younger," Rothstein said.
The colonel said the fort offers mental health counseling, but the key is to actually get people to use it. To that end, he said the garrison holds workshops to instruct military and civilian leaders in how to identify someone in trouble and get them help.
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Washington (CNN) - Rand Paul's headed to Las Vegas Friday, but gambling is not on his agenda.
The Republican senator from Kentucky and possible 2016 GOP presidential contender has a full schedule for his weekend visit to the first western state to vote in the primary and caucus calendar.
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According to a top Paul political aide, the first term senator will headline a fundraiser for Nevada Republicans, address a meeting of grassroots activists, meet with donors at a reception and dinner, and speak at FreedomFest, an annual gathering of libertarians and conservatives that touts itself as "the world's largest gathering of free minds."
Nevada becomes the fourth of the early primary and caucus voting states that Paul has visited so far this year. He's mingled with donors and supporters, reached out to grassroots activists, and helped raise money for the state GOP in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. It appears to be part of his strategy to build stronger bonds with establishment Republicans in the crucial early voting states, while at the same time staying close with the grassroots, tea party, and libertarian crowds, which helped put ophthalmologist in the Senate in 2010.
"Senator Paul looks forward to his first trip this year to Nevada. He is thrilled to accept the invitation to help the Nevada GOP, as he has in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina also this year," Doug Stafford, a top Paul political adviser, tells CNN.
Starting late last year, soon after the 2012 presidential election, Paul has been very open about the possibility of running for the White House. He told CNN last November that "I won't deny I'm interested."
And in an interview with the Las Vegas Sun earlier this week, he added that "I am thinking about whether or not I will run for president at that time. I haven't made my mind up yet."
Paul has said in numerous interviews that he expects he'll decide next year.
Paul's father, former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, ran for president as a libertarian in 1988 and made bids in 2008 and 2012 for the GOP nomination. Last year, the elder Paul came in third in the Nevada caucuses, just behind Newt Gingrich. Eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney easily won the caucuses, carrying around half the vote.
FreedomFest , "the world's largest gathering of free minds."
Will they be selling Aqua Buddha yes shirts ?
Paul is a Jr Senator , and has done nothing but photo ops and grandstanding .
"Paul is a Jr Senator , and has done nothing but photo ops and grandstanding "
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Leadville Trail 100 MTB: It's not about the buckle, it's about the journey
Stamina, I got. Speed, not so much.
No buckle for me from my first Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race, but I'm not sad, because it's about the journey, and it was one heck of a ride. Not after it took me 10 years to get here. It was the most fun I've ever had on a mountain bike.
The good news is, Grace Ragland, who lives in Huntsville, Ala., did get a buckle. For those of you who don't know about Ragland, she was featured in both "Race Across the Sky" movies about the race (if you want to get pumped about mountain biking, they are must-sees). Ragland battles multiple sclerosis, but she has never let it run her life. She was diagnosed at the age of 18, and then proceeded to become a boss mountain biker. This year, at age 51, she was on her fourth attempt to get that silver rectangle.
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The tequila-loving champ turned art collector comes to town, leaves, and comes back, all to raise money to battle cancer, and all with the utmost efficiency.
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When Lance Armstrong chills out, he chills with determined focus. As he walks into a Soho gallery for the opening of "Stages,†a traveling benefit art exhibition for his cancer foundation LiveStrong, it's as if he's surrounded by layers of progressively weakening force fields: one for press, one for fans, one for cancer-fighters, one for artists he respects, and one for bros. And tonight, it quickly becomes clear, is all about the bros.
Big hugs and backslaps go to Nike president Mark Parker, who first turned Armstrong on to art, and to Armstrong's sometime workout buddy Jamie O'Shea, who curated the show. All of the pieces in it had to use the color yellow, just like his ubiquitous wristbands. Then Tom Sachs blazes into the room to start serving shots off his piece, Lance's Tequila Bike for Girls—a bike outfitted with limes, a battery-operated "tequila-delivery system,†and tea bags, in reference to Armstrong's single testicle. (His nickname is Juan Pelota, a Spanglish pun meaning "One Ball."
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SOUTHAMPTON - Hashim Amla inflicted another record-breaking hundred upon England as South Africa won the second one-day international (ODI) by 80 runs in Southampton on Tuesday.
Amla's 150 saw him become the fastest player to 3,000 ODI runs as he reached the landmark in just his 57th innings compared to the 69 it took West Indies great Vivian Richards. It was also the highest individual score in ODI matches between South Africa and England, and the cornerstone of the Proteas' 287 for five, made after captain AB de Villiers won the toss.
England, in reply, were dismissed for 207 with more than nine overs left. Amla's tenth hundred at this level surpassed team-mate Graeme Smith's 141 in Centurion three years ago as the largest solo effort in South Africa-England one-dayers and was also Amla's personal best, overtaking the 140 he made against Bangladesh in Benoni in 2008.
Victory saw South Africa take a 1-0 lead in this five-match series following Friday's washout in Cardiff and ended England's run of 10 straight wins in completed ODIs. It also meant South Africa, having already dethroned England at the top of the world Test rankings this tour, also replaced them at the head of the equivalent one-day standings and were now top in all three formats.
South Africa only need to draw this series to cement their new-found status, while England must win it to remain in pole position in the 50-over game. England's attack must be sick of the sight of Amla, who made a South Africa record 311 not out in the first Test at The Oval last month and another hundred as the Proteas sealed the three-match series 2-0 with victory at Lord's.
Opener Amla, a touch batsman rather than a power player, was in sight of the rare distinction of carrying his bat in a one-day match when, two balls before the end of the innings, he uppercut fast bowler Steven Finn to Tim Bresnan. The ball before the elegant Amla, who put on 89 for the first wicket with Test skipper Smith (52), gave himself room to work the ball down to third man for a four that took him to 150 in front of a near-capacity Ageas Bowl crowd in this day/night fixture.
Amla faced 124 balls with 16 boundaries but was missed on 92 when Johannesburg-born wicket-keeper Craig Kieswetter failed to hold a difficult but catchable legside chance off Finn. "Things are falling into place and an element of fortune has to go your way too," Amla told the BBC. "The one-day game has its own characteristics, up front it was difficult because the ball did (move) a bit." De Villiers added: "Amla is on fire at the moment and breaking lots of records. As a team we are very proud of him. "I hope he can continue like this for many years to come. We are proud to be number one in the world and we are working towards an ultimate goal of winning the World Cup."
England were reduced to nought for one when captain Alastair Cook was superbly yorked by Lonwabo Tsotsobe off just the second ball of their innings. "We just didn't play well in all three areas, but credit to Hashim Amla," said Cook. "His innings showed us how to play."
Ian Bell got England going again but a second-wicket partnership worth 64 ended when Jonathan Trott, a former South Africa youth international, was brilliantly caught over his shoulder by Dean Elgar at long leg off Morne Morkel. And 64 for two became 77 for three when Bell, whose 45 came at better than a run-a-ball, played down the wrong line to Robin Peterson.
Left-arm spinner Peterson then made it two wickets for three runs in eight balls when Ravi Bopara struck a long hop to short extra-cover. England, without the exiled Kevin Pietersen, were now 90 for four.
Any hopes of a late England rally disappeared when Eoin Morgan, Bresnan and Swann all exited on the same total to leave the hosts 159 for eight. Last man Finn and Patel entertained the crowd with some bold boundary hitting before Patel was caught behind for 45 off Morkel to end the match. The series continues at The Oval on Friday.
G Smith c Kieswetter b Bresnan 52
H Amla c Bresnan b Finn 150
JP Duminy run out 14
D Elgar b Swann 15
AB de Villiers b Swann 28
F du Plessis not out 22
W Parnell not out 0
EXTRAS: (b1, lb4, wl) 6
TOTAL: (5 wkts, 50 overs) 287
BOWLING: Anderson 9-0-53-0; Finn 10-0-59-1; Bresnan 8-0-61-1; Swann 10-0-50-2; Patel 10-0-47-0; Bopara 3-0-12-0
A Cook b Tsotsobe 0
I Bell b Peterson 45
J Trott c Elgar b Morkel 23
R Bopara c du Plessis b Peterson 16
E Morgan c Elgar b Duminy 27
C Kieswetter c Smith b Elgar 20
S Patel c de Villiers b Morkel 45
T Bresnan c de Villiers b Parnell 0
G Swann c de Villiers b Parnell 0
J Anderson run out 5
S Finn not out 15
EXTRAS: (b3, lb7, w1) 11
TOTAL: (all out, 40.4 overs) 207
BOWLING: Tsotsobe 6-0-29-1; McLaren 7-1-31-0; Morkel 5.4-0-29-2; Parnell 7-1-30-2; Peterson 9-0-51-2; Duminy 3-0-16-1; Elgar 3-1-11-1
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With 2,000 guests, the luncheon is thought to be the largest event of its type in Colorado. It's a "must" for politicians and power brokers, starting with Gov. John Hickenlooper, his wife, author Helen Thorpe; former Colorado first lady Dottie Lamm, the first president of the WFCO board; such founding members as Arlene Hirschfeld and Merle Chambers; and Mary Lou Makepeace, executive director of the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado. The Gay & Lesbian Fund offered to match, up to $30,000, all donations made to WFCO at the luncheon.
Hickenlooper praised the WFCO for taking on the seemingly insurmountable task of breaking the cycle of poverty for women and girls through education, public policy reform and the funding of some 80 nonprofit organizations that work directly with women and girls.
"Your voice needs to be heard and your influence needs to be felt," Hickenlooper said.
"We are the recognized voice for women and girls in Colorado," responded Louise Atkinson, WFCO's president and chief executive officer. "So much progress has been made; still, 300,000 women (in Colorado) are living in poverty and almost 6,000 girls do not complete high school. We want them to thrive."
Atkinson took particular pleasure in introducing the family of the late philanthropist Georgia Imhoff, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2009. In honor of the years she spent as a single mom, before marrying Walt Imhoff, they have established the Georgia R. Imhoff Legacy Fund to support Colorado's single working mothers.
Atkinson also announced that the Dallas-based Embrey Family Foundation has awarded WFCO a three-year grant to be used to help Colorado's at-risk girls graduate from high school by involving them in mentoring and sports programs while they are in middle school.
The Dottie Lamm Award was established in 1987 as a tribute to Lamm's service. Alicia Nikifarava, a junior at Grand View High School in Centennial, and Lizzie Pittman, a junior at Columbine High School in Littleton, are this year's recipients. Each receives a $1,500 grant to be put toward their continuing education; in addition, they will chair the WFCO's Girls' Grantmaking Council and help select and mentor the next Dottie Lamm Award recipients.
Aspen Bellefeuille from Arickaree High School and Anica Neumann of Columbine High School were introduced as recipients of the Lockheed Martin STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) Career Academic Award.
The luncheon was chaired by Barbara Bridges, founder of Women + Film; Comcast vice president Cindy Parsons and Natalie Rekstad-Lynn, founder of Salon du Musee. They, along with board president Paula Edwards, welcomed a crowd that included Ona Wigginton, CEO at Judi's House; Lisa Roy, executive director of the Tim and Bernadette Marquez Foundation; Lin Chang; Michelle Sie Whitten, executive director of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation; Yana Vishnitsky, president/ceo of Jewish Family Service; Elsa Holguin of Rose Community Foundation; Fox-31 anchor Libby Weaver; Dr. Dean Prina; Cindy Abramson, who leads the Denver Scholarship Foundation; Patricia Barela Rivera; Caz Matthews; Marti Awad; Angela Finan; Cecilia Broder; Lee Clayton Roper; Laura Barton; Nyeska Mut; Sueann Ambron; Letty Bass; Angela DellaSalle; Kasia Iwanizcko MacLeod; Veronica Figoli; Agnes Ryan and Kay Ferry.
The Women's Foundation has a strong presence in the Vail Valley, and Pam Smith, a third-year WFCO trustee who lives in Cordillera, was catching up with Denver supporter Susan Kiely at the VIP reception that preceded lunch. Kiely is the founder of Women with a Cause, which sponsored the luncheon that Vail Valley residents host for the WFCO every summer.
Smith also was joined by her daughter, Brittany, who works at the Brown Palace Hotel, and enough Vail Valley residents to fill three tables.
Debra Duke, a past president of the Denver Ballet Guild, was there with her daughter-in-law, Kelley Duke, one of those instrumental in starting the Empowerment Council, a group focused on expanding the WFCO's young professionals base.
Others supporting the cause were FirstBank chief John Ikard; Sister Alicia Cuaron; Mary Gittings Cronin; Wendy Aiello; Essie Perlmutter; Marilyn Taylor; Polly Lestikow; Elaine Torres; MaryAnn Franklin; Sarah Miller; Jeanine Snyder; Janet Adams; Carol Burt; Gloria Neal; Kathy Hagan; and Kathy Hart.
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In 1809 Finland gained independence from Sweden but was under Russian protection and had a government chosen by the Russian emperor. This was the position when the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters was founded in 1838. At this time Swedish was the only language allowed within the Finnish administration. There was essentially no Finnish literature, and teaching in both schools and university was in Swedish. Working people spoke Finnish, but Swedish remained the official language of public bodies, and certainly the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters was a Swedish speaking society. However, after a bitter struggle of supporters of the Finnish language, both Finnish and Swedish were placed on an equal footing as official languages in 1902. However Russian had been made a third official language in 1900. It is against this background that there was a need for a Finnish speaking academy, and hence the foundation of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 1908. Its main objective was to unite and support Finnish-speaking scientists and scholars in Finland.
The main advocates for founding the Academy were Kaarle Krohn and Gustaf Komppa. After the Academy was founded Gustaf Komppa was elected secretary general and he served in this role until 1944. The first president of the Academy was Eliel Aspelin-Haapkylä. Given the reasons for the creation of the Academy it is not surprising that its main focus was on the humanities and all aspects of Finnish culture. It was only slowly that mathematics and the natural sciences began to increase in importance:-
The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters is a learned society covering the full range of academic disciplines which is devoted to the promotion of scientific and scholarly research and serves as a bond uniting researchers engaged in these activities at the highest level. It functions as a traditional learned society in the sense that its membership is limited and it selects its new members on their academic and scientific merits. Its pursues its declared aims by arranging lectures and discussion meetings, publishing scientific papers, awarding grants and making recommendations and statements of opinion to the authorities in matters concerned with scientific and academic research and those who practise it.The Academy has two Sections, one being science and the other humanities. Each Section is further divided into disciplines, seven in the science section and eight in the humanities. The science section contains the disciplines: Mathematics and Computer Science; Physics and Astronomy; Geosciences; Chemistry; Biology; Agriculture and Forestry; and Medicine. The Academy publishes the mathematics journal Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Mathematica and also the monograph series Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Mathematica Dissertationes which publishes doctoral theses.
Finally we note that the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters is divided into three sections: mathematics and physics, natural sciences, and humanities. The Society published the mathematics journal Societas Scientiarum Fennica. Commentationes Physico-Mathematicae.
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Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and tribes to receive funding to boost aging water and wastewater infrastructure
State and tribal governments in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 will receive more than $565 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for water projects that will create jobs in addition to protecting public health and the environment. EPA Region 6 is headquartered in Dallas and includes the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and 65 federally recognized tribes. This is the first installment of EPA funding available to support states and tribes in Region 6 under the ARRA.
"This new funding will provide a much-needed boost to state, tribal and EPA efforts to restore an aging water and wastewater infrastructure," said Lawrence E. Starfield, acting EPA regional administrator. "Not only will it help state and local governments to finance many overdue improvements, but it will also promote green projects that provide additional benefits to the environment."
The individual amounts directed to state and tribal governments will be delivered via existing programs: the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and the Tribal Clean Water and Drinking Water Set-Aside programs. Arkansas will receive $50.4 million, Louisiana will receive $71.1 million, New Mexico will receive $38.9 million, Oklahoma will receive $63.4 million and Texas will receive $341.6 million. In addition, EPA Region 6 will provide approximately $7 million for tribal water and wastewater infrastructure projects.
These funds will supplement existing annual EPA SRF grants to the states. The states use these funds to issue loans for enhancing, upgrading and rebuilding public drinking water systems and public wastewater systems, as well as funding nonpoint source projects. The new law provides states with additional flexibility in loan terms by requiring that at least fifty percent of the funding be provided in subsidies such as principal forgiveness or negative interest rates. States and watershed planning organizations will also benefit from the new law through the provision of small planning grants to address specific water quality problems. At least 20% of the ARRA water funds EPA grants to states should be used for green infrastructure, water or energy efficiency improvements or other environmentally innovative projects.
The states and federal agencies are working to identify the best projects for ARRA funding. Opportunities for public comments on each state's proposed list of projects will occur in the next several weeks. As soon as the process is complete and applications are received, EPA will provide the funding. EPA officials expect the funding to flow to the states beginning in April.
Funding for tribal drinking water and wastewater infrastructure occurs in a partnership between EPA, tribes and the Indian Health Service (IHS). EPA's funding will transfer to IHS, who manages the water-related infrastructure construction for tribes. IHS expects to be able to begin using the funding in April.


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In the beginning, Jason Methner was the impatient one.
After meeting Molly Lipsitz at a mutual friend's birthday party in Wicker Park, Methner, 27 at the time and in a master's program at Northwestern University, was eager to accelerate the relationship, while Lipsitz, then 22 and a recent Northwestern graduate, resisted. It took "a wearing down," Methner said, just to get her to agree to a first date. He took her to a Ghanaian restaurant in Uptown.
But over the years, as a mutual love of books and food and unusual adventures drew Methner and Lipsitz closer, the roles reversed. Lipsitz pushed for greater commitment. Methner, who had acclimated to the slower pace, figured there was no reason to mess with a good thing.
And it was good: When Methner wanted to tour the cranberry bogs of Pittsville, Wis., his friends scoffed, except for Lipsitz, who thought it a spectacular idea, and they spent the day with a busload of seniors observing the harvest.
Their differences were as unifying as their quirky shared interests.
"We're the couple that will argue with each other in front of you," Methner said, at which point Lipsitz disputed the term "argue," so Methner revised: "We have passionate conversations." Point being, they don't shy away from calling each other out.
"I challenge Molly to take more responsibility of financial literacy, and she challenges me on organization and to eat more vegetables," Methner said.
As their respective pacing came into line, the couple moved in together, adopted a brown mutt they named Hammer, and, after four years of dating, knew they would marry. Lipsitz had no idea when Methner would propose, but she was sure of one thing: "I knew that it wasn't going to be something cliche," she said.
One Saturday in March, Methner, now 31 and a marketing executive, and Lipsitz, now 27 and working at a public relations agency, headed downtown to meet a friend for lunch. Lipsitz was growing increasingly annoyed. She had gotten a manicure that morning that she didn't need because a girlfriend begged her for company. When she returned home, surprised to find her normally casual boyfriend wearing nice khakis and a button-down shirt, she had just five minutes to change, and no time to fix her hair, before they had to leave.
As the "L" rumbled away from the Lakeview neighborhood where they lived, Methner explained that they would be swinging by the Harold Washington Library Center before lunch because the friend had written a children's book that she wanted to show them.
"I was like, 'Why are we doing this? Can't we just meet her afterward?' " Lipsitz recalled saying. "Why did she even write this children's book? She works in HR."
Meantime, staff members at the Harold Washington Library were preparing for the couple's arrival.
Stuart Griner, a children's librarian, had arrived at work that morning to find a box on his desk and an email from Ruth Lednicer, director of marketing and communications for the Chicago Public Libraries, with instructions on what to do with it. Inside lay a picture book featuring a floppy-eared rabbit.
Griner placed the book in the display rack for middle school chapter books and put other books around it so that it wouldn't look out of place. He eyed the door, wondering if each couple that walked in was the one. At one point he walked away from the rack, and when he returned the book was missing.
"I was freaking out," said Griner, who found the book soon enough — a customer had picked it up and put it on a different shelf — and returned it to its proper place. A photographer friend of Lipsitz's, Aparna Paul Jain, stationed herself behind a bookcase, training her lens between the shelves for a view of the rack.
Methner and Lipsitz eventually entered. Griner pretended to clean. Methner led Lipsitz to the rack where he and Lednicer had agreed that the book would sit, and placed it in her hands.
Lipsitz was confused, at first, that the book, titled "A Hare-y Tale," had no author on the cover. Inside, it said it was written by Jason Methner and illustrated by his friend, Yoni Limor. When she got to the first illustrated page, things started to become more clear: "Once upon a time there was a Bunny who loved to hop through Sandy Springs," it read.
Lipsitz grew up in Sandy Springs, a suburb of Atlanta, and since she was 5 had slept with a stuffed bunny named Bunny. Ensuing pages described Bunny meeting a Tortoise who grew up in Houston (that would be Methner), their cranberry bogs trip and their pooch Hammer.
"I can barely read it because I just want to get to the end," Lipsitz recalled. "I think what is happening is happening, but I'm not sure."
The second-to-last page read: "One day, Tortoise realized he enjoyed spending time with Bunny so much, he wanted to be with Bunny forever. 'Bunny,' he said. 'Sometimes we move at different paces, but I always love where we go together. Would you like to stay by my side always?' " When Lipsitz turned the last page she found a blank space for Bunny's answer. Methner dropped to one knee and popped open a ring box.
"I wanted to scream, and I couldn't," Lipsitz said, laughing. "We had to be quiet because we were in a library."
Lipsitz said she was shocked at the intricacy of the proposal.
After Methner hatched the idea of writing a book using the tortoise/hare metaphor for the fast and slow progress of their relationship, he reached out to Limor, an animator, and had him draw corresponding illustrations. He had the book bound at Lulu.com.
Methner asked one of Lipsitz's friends to take her for a manicure so her hands would be picture-ready. He asked Jain to photograph the proposal. He concocted the story about lunch with the friend. He emailed the library's general mailbox with his request for help, and when it got to Lednicer, she was thrilled at the idea.
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"We all really took it to heart," Lednicer said. The only condition was that the library be able to post the photos to its Facebook page, hoping to get a few "likes." It went viral, with more than 100,000 views and almost 2,000 likes.
Presenting the proposal as a book, Methner said, gave the couple a keepsake that they could share with family.
"Our parents aren't here — we don't have a direct family tie to Chicago — so I knew that they would really want to be involved in the marriage process and proposal," Methner said. "The book was a nice way to have something tangible that we could show them. And it will be a neat keepsake for our kids, eventually, when we have them."
- In love with books? The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Lit Fest will be June 8-9 on Dearborn Street, between Congress and Polk streets. Visit printersrowlitfest.org for details.


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Today I am sharing with you one of the first things I ever made in my journey to a healthier lifestyle–Homemade Almond Milk.
Making processed food substitutes can help you save a ton of money on your whole foods budget. I make my own Easiest Coconut Milk, Powdered Egg Replacer, Nut and Seed Butters, Coconut Butter, and Vegetable Broth Mix.
In that same vein, today I'm sharing How to Make Homemade Almond Milk.
It really is the Easiest Almond Milk Recipe Ever. Seriously.
My "cooking philosophy" has evolved over the years. Health-wise, but also "simplicity-wise."
Maybe you can relate.
I used to, but not to excess, mind you :-), pour over cookbooks (especially the dessert section – cough-cough), dreaming about everything I could make. Then I'd try a fancy recipe like Stuffed Chicken Breasts or Candy Cane Shaped Cookies Dipped in Chocolate.
Well, it's not that this busy momma doesn't still like to play in the kitchen (I think I told you all about my 2 days of attempting to make a dairy-free, sugar-free caramel so I could make mock Samoa Girl Scout Cookies), but times have changed.
These days I am forever looking for recipes and tips that will get good yummy food on my table with as little effort and time as possible. (Cause I already am
stressed out to the max way too busy :-).)
So….today's recipe is an example of one way I've managed to save a ton of time in the kitchen, while still making something good.
First of all, why is almond milk popular?
- Dairy allergies are on the increase.
- Lactose intolerance is on the increase.
- People living a vegan lifestyle want alternatives to dairy for cooking, baking and drinking.
Why make your own homemade almond milk?
- The obvious – save money.
- Save time and money by not running out the store because you've run out of milk (or a dairy-free alternative). (See the price of gas going up – oh, my heart be still. Every trip you can save is money in the bank!)
- Life a more sustainable lifestyle – less packaging and less waste. Even if they ever figure out a way to recycle those aseptic cartons, you can bet that it will be a super labor intensive.
We love almond milk – and ever since my oldest was diagnosed with a life threatening allergy to dairy (at 3 months of age), I've had to find ways to make allergy-free substitutes for drinking and for baking. But this method makes it super easy.
Now, to be fair, this method won't match the super-creamy store-bought, aseptic packed almond milk you are used to. But it gets the job done lickety split. And it's pretty good.
Just yesterday both of my sons asked for some. They said it's not quite as good as my Easiest Coconut Milk, but good nonetheless. And in the future, I'll try my hand at making smoother "more perfect" almond milk and I'll share that with you as well.
How Much Can You Save by Making Homemade Almond Milk?
And just so you can feel super good about yourself and your new frugal tip to help with your budget, here are the real numbers: Of course, this all depends upon where you buy it and your cost for almonds.
Almond Milk bought in bulk, buying 4 32 oz containers at Amazon, costs $2.43 for 4 cups.
Homemade Almond Milk (using a price of $4 per pound for almonds) costs $1.27 for 4 cups (plus your water cost, of course.) Savings: 48% That's not as amazing of a savings amount compared to my Homemade Coconut Milk, or Homemade Rice Milk, but saving almost 50% is nothing to sneeze at.
So there you have it – motivated to save time and money (and be environmentally conscious at the same time)? I hope so!
And just so you know, all this doesn't mean that I've given up on that caramel recipe yet either :-).
Recipe Notes
1. If you want your Homemade Almond Milk to look creamier, you can use blanched almonds. Otherwise you will have specks of the almond skins in the resulting milk.
2. If you don't strain the milk, you can either stir the solids into the mix as you wish, or use the solids for another purpose.
3. I know…it sounds counter-intuitive to dry the almonds before making the milk. But I soak and dry about 38 cups of almonds whenever I soak and dry them. Then I store them and keep them on hand for snacking, making almond butter, or making almond milk, or almond meal…you get the picture. This way I don't have to time my almond milk making around soaking. The nuts are always ready.to.go :)!
4. If you are doing a food plan like Trim Healthy Mama, a more acceptable proportion is 1/2 cup almonds per 4 cups of water. You can thicken the resultant milk with glucomannan if desired. This recipe is an "S" for THM.
5. These tiny stainless measuring spoons make measuring stevia super easy. The second smallest spoon is 1/32 of a tsp which is "one scoop"'s worth.
6. Notes on Stevia / other sweeteners. Stevia is very very sweet. You can read here for more information on how to use it. You can omit the sweetener or use another one as desired.
You can use this method for making other nut-based milks as well – I personally haven't made these (mainly since my son is allergic to all nuts except almond and macadamia – and those macadamias are super pricey!) but why not try your hand at:
- walnut milk
- pecan milk
- hazelnut milk
- cashew milk
6. This isn't super creamy and smooth like store-bought almond milk, but it really serves it's purpose and is SUPER easy and that's what's important to me!
7. Have the almonds be soaked and dehydrated, if possible. Please also read Is There Engine Fuel On Your Almonds?
8. You can substitute any other healthy sweetener for the stevia. If using stevia, see How to Use Stevia.
9. For flavorings, chocolate or carob, as well as cinnamon, are great options, but the sky's the limit!
Easiest Homemade Almond Milk Recipe
- Place all ingredients in a blender.
- Blend 'til smooth. In my Vitamix, I blend for approximately 2-3 minutes. This machine it totally worth it!
- Strain milk through a nut milk bag or cheesecloth, if desired. I don't bother - I'm just too busy :-)!
- Pour and enjoy.
More "Quick and Easy" Pantry Staples
– Easiest Coconut Milk
– Powdered Sugar Substitute
– Powdered Egg Replacer
– Homemade Vegetable Broth
– Homemade Coconut Butter
What's your favorite way to use almond milk?