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As a Nat'l PK Volunteer I was handed two BK Radio DPHX5102X to resurrect and reprogram for Volunteer limited use. I have downloaded the programming/owners manuals but...someone long ago and long forgotten must have changed the defualt password from the 000000 to something else. I can't go further with my task and, as usual, the Park doe not have funding to replace/repair via an outside vendor. Is there anyway to 'ram clear' these radios and have the default password become useful again? thanks
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FORT MYERS - Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast-Lee County has announced that $60,000 was raised at its inaugural Chefs Cooking For Kids event benefiting the children of Lee County.
The "Top Chef" culinary extravaganza at The Club at Grandezza, enjoyed by more than 300 guests, featured 17 top local chefs who showcased their culinary specialties as well as cocktails, music, silent and live auctions and camaraderie, benefiting a great local cause impacting the lives of children and families.
"What an amazing evening this was, not only for the community, but for the children whose lives we change because of the generosity of so many," said Joy Mahler, CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast. "A special thank you to those who came out to enjoy the event and learn more about the organization. We appreciate your generosity and support."
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The starring chefs and assistants (left to right) Chef Greg Buell, Fat Katz Sports; Chef Todd Johnson, Rumrunners; Chef Billy Mak, Blu Sushi; Chef Craig Panneton, The Pink Shell Beach Resort and Marina; Chef Brian McNeff, Cristof's on McGregor; Chef Raena Hobson, The Club at Grandezza; Chef Brian McElhiney, Twisted Vine Bistro; Chef Ryan Kida, YABO; Ryan Love and Ellis Delahousay, Norman Love Confections; Chef Ed Padden and Chef Chris Clark, Vi at Bentley Village; Chef Jason Billington, Angelina's Ristorante; Chef Marbin Alvarez, The Firestone Grille; Angela Melvin, BBBS Lee County director; Norma Eveland, Chefs Cooking For Kids event chair; Gina Birch (center), master of ceremonies
Chef David Lenio, with Kensington Country Club was recognized with the "People's Choice" award for his Maine lobster with crab French toast.
Joining Lenio as participating chefs were Jason Billington, Angelina's Ristorante; Billy Mak, Blu Sushi; Raena Hobson, The Club at Grandezza; Brian McNeff, Christof's on McGregor; Harold Balink, Cru; Gregg Buell, Fat Katz Sports Bistro; Marbin Avilez, The Firestone Grille; Ryan Love and Ellis Delahousay, Norman Love Confections; Craig Panneton, The Pink Shell Beach Resort and Marina; Todd Johnson, Rumrunners; Brian McElhiney, Twisted Vine Bistro; Ed Padden and Chris Clark, Vi at Bentley Village; and Ryan Kida, YABO.
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by Kate Moss, TSBVI Deaf-Blind Outreach Family Training Specialist and Linda Hagood, TSBVI Deaf-Blind Outreach Education Specialist
Children with deaf-blindness have unique educational needs. Although they are deaf the adaptations needed for their learning style will differ from the child who only has deafness. Although they are blind the adaptations needed for their learning style will differ from the child who only has blindness.
In order to understand what this means we can examine a variety of issues that might be addressed for three different children with disabilities in a regular preschool class: one born with a severe hearing loss, one born with visual impairment resulting in acuities of 20/600, and one born with a combined severe hearing loss and visual impairment resulting in acuities of 20/600.
It is important to note these are not actual children and that instruction for any child with a disability must accommodate his/her individual needs. Our intent is to demonstrate some of the basic differences in educational approaches to address each of these disabilities. It is also important to note that the additional disabilities experienced by the majority of children with deaf-blindness further complicates program development.
Imagine each child is in a preschool classroom structured around play centers such as the House Center, Art Center, Block Center, Library Center, and Science Center. There is a morning welcome, a story time, and films which occur in a large group. Small group activities are conducted around a theme or unit such as Families, Animals, etc. The play centers have materials which require some explanation or direction from an adult. For example, the teacher must demonstrate or have examples to help the children make animal puppets from socks. Recess occurs in a large group and the child may choose an area of recreational activity, i.e., swings, slide, tricycles, wagons, or the sandbox. All the children eat together in the cafeteria. Using the example of a unit on farm animals, we can look at the difference in teaching strategies and content modifications that might be made for each of these three children.
Teaching Strategies and Content Modifications
The Child with Hearing Impairment
Most of the same teaching strategies used to instruct children who do not have a disability would be appropriate for the child with a hearing impairment. This child will learn from what he sees and what he does (action). He learns a great deal incidentally by watching others. Instruction in a large group can be very beneficial for this child because he can prepare for his response while waiting for his turn.
Adaptations for teaching communication and auditory training goals include small group or individual instruction. Real experiences should be the basis of units that are taught, however this child would probably be able to relate story books, role play, and discussion to the real experience. The teacher may also rely on print, pictures, gestures, and movements to support or give instruction.
Issues for the child with hearing impairment include difficulty with English language structure which can effect the development of reading and critical thinking skills. Special attention should be given to teaching such structures as "why", past tense verbs, complex sentences, etc. He may also need additional practice in using language to explain and make predictions such as, "Why didn't the brick house fall down?" or "What will happen if you don't take a nap?"
The child with hearing impairment would probably have an experiential base about animals before he began to study the unit on farm animals. He might have a pet at home, has probably seen birds and squirrels in his yard, or has watched animal stories on television. He will understand stories about farm animals if it is signed and he can see the pictures. He might play with plastic farm animals and farm figures in the sandbox. He might color pictures of farm animals in the Art Center and sort zoo and farm animal figures in the Science Center. At recess he could pretend to be a horse that pulls a wagon outside. During auditory training he might try to discriminate between the sound a pig and a cow makes or point to the appropriate picture of each animal in the Old MacDonald song. Speech or speechreading might focus around the names of farm animals. At the end of the week his class may visit a working farm which would build on his week-long study of farm animals.
The Child with Visual Impairment
Some of the same instruction strategies could be used with the child who has a visual impairment. However, his learning will take place primarily through his own actions/experiences and information he receives auditorily. He can learn many things through group instruction with minimal support. Unlike the child with hearing impairment, this child will need more instruction that occurs through real experience. Imaginary play may be difficult for him, reducing the effectiveness of role play as an instructional tool. Language instruction for this child should be paired with ongoing activities. The use of pictures and print would be of limited value.
Using the example of a unit on farm animals, the child with visual impairments would likely have less knowledge of animals to begin with than the child who is deaf. He would not have seen the television programs or watched animals playing in his yard. He might have a pet and perhaps has some knowledge about caring for an animal. This unit may be most meaningful for him if the visit to the farm was scheduled before beginning classroom instruction.
Although he might be able to sort the animals in the Science Center using visual cues of color and shape, he may or may not relate them to the real animals. A more appropriate activity might be telling a classmate or teacher whether the animal lives in the zoo or on the farm after they name the animal or make the animal sound. Then he could put the animal in the proper area. Instead of coloring animal pictures he might use modeling clay to make an animal figure or scraps of fur to make tactile pictures. He could interact with other children in the wagon while working on the concepts of "left", "right", "fast", "slow", "stop" and "go" pretending to drive the horse. These concepts might be taught and practiced individually within orientation and mobility training. New textures can be introduced at the sandtable. Working on listening skills during story time may also be somewhat effective, especially after the child visited the farm. He could be encouraged to explore his environment to search out the sound of a mooing cow.
The Child with Deaf-Blindness
The child with deaf-blindness requires considerable modifications to teaching content and different teaching strategies. He cannot learn from what he sees like the deaf child does. He can not learn from listening like the blind child does. He learns only by what he does. This means that no learning is taking place for him while waiting for others to take their turn. For this reason small group or individual instruction becomes more critical. Large group instruction is only valuable if he can be consistently active (e.g. playground activities).
This child also may have problems experiencing new things. Encountering the world without benefit of vision and hearing requires a great deal of trust. Bonding with the child is critical for the instructor, therefore it is important to evaluate the child's response to an individual when determining who will be the primary provider of instruction. He may be withdrawn or passive, content to stay in one place and let the world come to him. Remember for him he will learn only through doing.
Things often magically appear and disappear before him. Cause and effect are elusive. People do things to him but not necessarily with him. There is little explanation of events before they occur. For this reason it is important to make interactions balanced (my turn, your turn) to encourage him to be responsive. Instruction that is always directive requires no response from him.
Safety is also of critical importance to this child. Not only must the environment be made safe for him, but he must feel safe in order to move around on his own. If he does not, he is likely to stay glued to one spot resisting interaction with his environment and the people in it. Instruction and support from an orientation and mobility specialist is very important. She may need to help staff evaluate the environment for hazards and develop travel routes for the child to use. She may work directly with him to orient him to that environment, and provide training on travel techniques and travel equipment.
The curriculum focus for the child with deaf-blindness will differ from that of the child with only a single sensory impairment. The deaf education focus may be primarily on using language to code existing concepts. The curriculum focus for a child with visual impairment may be more oriented toward building concepts and experiences which can provide a firm cognitive foundation for language. The curriculum focus for a child with deaf-blindness should be on bonding and developing interactions and routines for expanding the frequency and functions of communication. This child will not learn about objects or actions incidentally. He cannot tie together the fragmented input he receives without interpretation and instruction from others. He must be taught to use and accept this instruction.
Developing a communication foundation for learning is a priority. Typically communication is tactile in nature using signals, objects, gestures and later on sign language or tactile symbols or some combination of forms. Language is developed through the use of routines, calendar systems, discussion boxes, etc. Because of the degree of vision impairment and his inexperience with real events in the world, the use of print, pictures, and demonstration will be of little or no value to this child. He may not understand pretend or role-play as an event that relates to some real experience. The child with deaf-blindness may first need to be moved co-actively through an activity to know what is expected of him. After he understands what is expected, this support would be faded to avoid building prompt dependence.
Because concepts develop so slowly for this child, there should be a focus on making learning functional. Great care needs to be given to developing clear goals and objectives for this child. Typically these objectives need to be limited in number since this child will need many opportunities to practice skills before he is able to generalize the concept to other situations.
This child would have a very limited knowledge of animals because he can not observe them or hear them. He has not seen television shows about animals. He may have a pet at home, but might only encounter it if the pet is placed in his lap or brought to him. His experience with that animal would be primarily tactile. He may not be able to distinguish his long-hair cat from his long-hair dog if he only pets the animal. Or he may experience the animal as a thing that licks or smells a certain way.For this reason vocabulary (concepts) which are taught should be more broad in nature. Careful consideration should be given to concepts which can be applied to other units throughout the year and across a variety of settings.
For example, the farm animal unit might focus on action concepts such as feed, pat, rub, pull, walk, open, close, pour. These same concepts should be applied to other units or in different environments. For example, "pull the leaf", "pull the wagon", "pull the drawer", "pull off the lid" and so forth. This child may have a "pull" unit throughout the year that is embedded in the various units the other students will study. If this child has a pet at home, another approach to instruction could focus on things this child can learn to do with his pet. For example, he might learn to feed his pet, walk it, pet it, brush it, etc. Units could be developed around things that can be fed, walked, brushed, etc.
The child with deaf-blindness could meaningfully participate in the play centers but his goals would be different from the other children. For example, while the other children pretend to be animals, the child could "rub" or "pat" them as if he was the farmer they come to for attention. In the Art Center he could "pat" and "pull" modeling clay to help a classmate form an animal shape. At recess he could direct the other children to "pull" him in the wagon or practice pulling them with help from a classmate. The teacher for the hearing impaired or other staff could help him to learn to vocalize to get the other children's attention before he signs "stop" or "go". In the Science Center he could use his vision to find objects in the sandbox. Then he could "open" and "close" the door to the toy barn, "pour" sand on the toy animals, "pull" the shovel out of the sand, etc.
When he visits the farm with the other children he would experience the differing size, textures and smells of the animals, but his goal might be to use his cane or sighted-guide technique in unfamiliar environments. If field trips are regular events, he might also learn a field trip routine. Unless he actually lives on a farm, learning about the animals and what they do will be of little value to him even though it may be a very pleasurable event.
Obviously this child will require a great deal of individual support. Initially this may need to be provided by the teaching staff. However, if good interaction and communication skills are modeled for the other students and an effort is made to draw them into successful play situations together, they may be able to provide instructional support for some activities.
The educational needs of a child with deaf-blindness are unique. Teachers without specific training in the area of deaf-blindness may be unable to appropriately program to meet these needs without specialized training and support. Few school districts have even one teacher with this kind of specialized knowledge. In addressing the child's education from birth - 21 a large number of teachers and support staff as well as community members and human service staff must work with the child. However, if his unique learning style is not addressed, the child with deaf-blindness is at risk for being excluded from the classroom, the family and the community.
This article originally appeared in the January 1995 edition of P. S. NEWS!!! published by the Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired Deaf-Blind Project.


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The National Association of Black Journalists' Reinvention Committee and the Digital Journalism Task Force on Friday hosted the last of three BlogTalkRadio shows designed to help members in different phases in their career make the adjustment if the worst happens – losing your job.
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Look what Easter is bringing… fine food, stunning views, smooth live music; Jazzy Brunch is back at Londa's Caprice Restaurant on Catholic Easter Sunday, March 31, with jazz trio Leonid Nesterov on Piano, Andreas Stefanou on drums and Chris Pound on double bass
Making a long-awaited return to the Caprice Restaurant at the Londa Hotel, fine jazz music ensemble the Leonid Nesterov Trio, are back for another Jazz brunch on March 31, the Catholic Easter Sunday.
Popular and accomplished jazz trio, Leonid Nesterov on piano, Andreas Stefanou on drums and Chris Pound on double bass, will once again accompany diners enjoying a delicious Easter Sunday buffet in the Caprice Restaurant's cool Italian styled interior; set against stunning floor to ceiling picture windows offering views to the shimmering blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea; the setting is the perfect backdrop for a leisurely and indulgent Easter Sunday lunchtime treat.
The ensemble jazz musicians are well respected virtuoso instrumentalists in their own right. Nesterov began his music career at the tender age of 8 in his home town of Indra, Latvia and regularly performs on the European jazz circuit; Andreas Stefanou, graduate of Rotterdam Conservatory, is one of Cyprus' most renowned home grown musical talents; one of a new generation of jazz musicians who has travelled Europe extensively, performing with celebrated stars including Nelson Faria, Kiko Freitas and Anna Ellis de Jong. Whilst Chris Pound, who began learning the double bass at a very young age, is a native Australian; he has a great following as one of the finest young double bass players currently on the jazz festival circuit, collaborating with such luminaries as The Reuben Lewis Quintet, the Pollen Trio, and the Austin Benjamin Trio. All three performers will bring their unique talent to the Londa for a fine afternoon of classic and contemporary jazz sounds.
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14 amazing plates of bacon in Boston
Food trends come and go, but fatty pork belly, meaty chops, and most especially, sizzling slices of bacon are riding an unheard of wave of popularity. What the culinary world has exposed, and why we probably won't see a wane in adoration any time soon, is bacon's versatility. Chowders are richer with lardon, vegetables sing with bacon fat, and meat retains moisture wrapped in a slice of sow. It's a veritable salt and pepper shaker that improves most any edible.
Recently, I went around Boston searching for the most mouth-watering bacon dishes. Here are 14 creative examples of chefs and restaurants who seamlessly incorporated the salt and fat of America's favorite breakfast meat into one outstanding dish.
B&G Oysters
B.L.T. with Lobster
"Make no mistake, we want the lobster to be the star on the BLT,'' says sous chef Josh Turka. At B&G Oysters, Barbara Lynch's outstanding seafood venture, nothing could distract from the ocean-sweet chunks of the Maine crustacean, mixed with celery and a lemon pepper aioli. But the makings of a great sandwich are often in the details. Topped with snappy romaine, house-made bread and butter pickles, Roma tomato confit, and Niman Ranch bacon, B&G's twist on the classic lobster roll is downright hedonistic.
The mingled juices from the garlicky tomatoes, tangy pickles, and citrusy lobster salad create a savory elixir you won't mind dribbling down your chin. Fortunately, the toasted Ciabatta, delivered daily by Hi Rise Bread Company in Cambridge, contains most of it. Balancing it all out is the Niman Ranch bacon, one of the more subtly smoky options from the artisanal market. The crispy bacon just adds that final touch of meatiness, spice, and texture that makes B&G's lobster BLT a damn near perfect sandwich.
Price: $29
550 Tremont St., Boston
Lord Hobo
The Ron Swanson
Sometimes fries just beg for good ole' Heinz ketchup. Hot dogs, more often than not, thirst for a helping of yellow mustard and relish. And every once in a while, bacon just wants to dance with it's yolky, umami partner: the egg.
Named after Nick Offerman's mustachioed, irritable sage on "Parks and Recreation,'' Lord Hobo answers Ron Swanson's surly appeal for "all the bacon and eggs you have.'' Served with five farm eggs and seven strips of bacon, The Ron Swanson might be a ticking cholesterol bomb, but it's a worthy extravagance with the dry cured applewood smoked bacon from Zoe's Meats. Chef Nicholas Gardner describes their choice of breakfast charcuterie as a "deliberate and conscious choice'' dictated by flavor as well as Zoe's "principle of making responsibly sourced products.''
As of now, Chef Gardner doesn't cure or smoke any of the bacon served at Lord Hobo, but he says it's "actually a large part of my plans for expansion in the next year. I hope to bring a stronger focus to house cured meats.'' With Gardner now at the helm, Lord Hobo might be more than the best craft beer bar in Boston, it could be your go-to weekend brunch spot.
Price: $17
92 Hampshire St., Cambridge
Alsatian pizza
Even in great pizza joints, "white'' pizzas are typically a losing proposition. What often emerges from the kitchen is a bland, cracker-crisp pie, something akin to a communion wafer topped with mozzarella. But Picco's Alsatian is a brash testament to the quality of their crust, which goes through a cold, slow fermentation, the same process used to make good sourdough bread.
On top is a base of crème fraiche that adds a layer of richness; an actual sauce that prevents it from becoming a glorified bread stick. Inspired by a French tarte flambé, it's then topped with sautéed onion and shallot, herbs, Gruyere, and two types of bacon. Manager Mark Tikonoff explains, "The first is from North Country Smoke House, which was chosen for its smokiness and the second, from Schaller and Weber, was chosen for its 'porky' flavor.''
Earlier this year, "Travel and Leisure'' called Boston one of the top five cities for pizza anywhere in the United States. Even against all that stiff competition dripping with red sauce and bubbly, Neapolitan crust, Picco's Alsatian just might be the best of the bunch.
Price: $23.50 for a large
513 Tremont St., Boston
Park Restaurant & Bar
Bacon 3-Way
Cambridge's Park Restaurant & Bar has the feel of an upscale hunting lodge and with Chef Mark Goldberg's meat-laden menu you can imagine Ernest Hemingway dining on game hens in the corner. Despite a profusion of meat pies, lamb, and brisket, Goldberg has a delicate touch that incorporates acid and balance. This holds especially true for the popular Bacon 3-way, a rotating cast of small bites made with thick cut bacon from Old Country Smokehouse and Goldberg's occasional house-made lamb variety. Currently on the bacon board are a pork belly with crispy brussels sprouts, sourdough flapjacks with bacon and housemade apple butter, and chocolate covered maple bacon.
Price: $12
59 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge
Spoke Wine Bar
Rabbit Porchetta
At Spoke, the best way to partake in Felisha Foster's carefully curated list of esoteric wines is to pair those euro-centric goodies with Chef John DaSilva's upscale bar bites and seasonal delicacies. The former sous chef at No. 9 Park has recently added his take on porchetta, the traditional Italian roast, typically made with pork loin wrapped in herbs and pork belly. Spoke's rabbit porchetta is a lean, deboned hare, stuffed with a rabbit sausage and wrapped in strips of bacon. Rabbit can often be tough and stringy, but Chef DaSilva's slow-roasted rabbit is succulent and sweet and accented beautifully by the saltiness of the bacon and the herbaceousness of the fennel-studded sausage. The porchetta is served with an airy puck of seared roman gnocchi, olives, mustard jus, and a delicious pecorino aioli that you'll want to bring home by the industrial-sized tub.
Price: $18
89 Holland St., Somerville
Roxy's Grilled Cheese
Green Muenster Melt
At this point, along with Clover Food Lab and Bon Me, Roxy's Grilled Cheese are Boston food truck veterans. After competing on the second season of the Food Network's "The Great Food Truck Race,'' James DiSabatino and his brother Mark came home to much fanfair and excitement. But the only menu item that still remains from those early days is the Green Muenster Melt. Made with a hefty dose of oozing muenster cheese, homemade guacamole, and crunchy applewood smoked bacon on top of Iggy's organic pan de mie bread, James DiSabatino isn't far off when his calls it "the perfect storm of deliciousness.''
Price: $6
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The Angel Gabriel
In this trend for all things pig-indulgent, smoke and pork fat have even crept into the laboratories of adventurous mixologists. But too often these misguided concoctions go down like a greasy oil slick or a saturation of liquid smoke in perfectly good bourbon. But Church's Angel Gabriel is a hearty libation built for battling Hollandaise sauce and the lingering miasma of Saturday night debauchery. The secret ingredient in this brunch-only bloody mary is the bacon-infused vodka, a house-made spirit macerated with bacon, rosemary, peppercorns and bay leaves. Instead of a gratuitous helping of smoke and pork, Church's infused vodka is a savory goulash that enhances their signature bloody mary mix, a balanced blend of fresh tomatoes and spices. In a playful final flourish, The Angel Gabriel is garnished with a celery stick and a "fried baby Jesus,'' a deep-fried cherry tomato wrapped in bacon. When you're at Church, put down those sugary flutes of mimosas and enjoy a truly great bloody mary.
Price: $8
69 Kilmarnock St., Boston
Union Square Donuts
Maple Bacon Donut
Union Square donuts co-owner Heather Schmidt is quick to remind you, "I've never worked in the back of a commercial donut shop, so I have no idea how they produce what they do. Here we're using whole milk and really good eggs and butter. I look at what we're doing as making pastry. That's my background.''
The Clear Flour alum's yeasted donuts certainly attest to that, with fluffy, croissant-like interiors and glazes like sea salt bourbon caramel and stuffed varieties like nectarine almond jam. What put Union Square donuts on the map, though, is their maple bacon donut, the perfect combination of salty and sweet that Schmidt calls "a pancake breakfast in one convenient location.''
Made with maple syrup from Bobo's Mountain Sugar in Vermont and thick-cut Leidy's bacon — "none of that thin, wimpy bacon,'' says Schmidt — these addictive treats have inspired countless minions. Union Square makes up to 150 maple bacon donuts everyday and they sell out well before noon. To put that in perspective, that's over 700 donuts or enough for Union Square to go through 120 pounds of Leidy's bacon per week.
Price: $3.50
Union Square Donuts
16 Bow St., Somerville
Island Creek Oyster Bar
Colorado Angus Burger
It might seem blasphemous to recommend anything other than chowder, lobster rolls, or briny bivalves at Island Creek Oyster Bar, but owners Jeremy Sewall and Skip Bennett have secretly been harboring one of the best burgers in Boston. "The burger is amazing here,'' says chef Nikki Hobson. "It's honestly what I order when I'm not in the kitchen.''
Made with a flat top cooked Colorado Angus, sharp Grafton cheddar, a freshly baked brioche bun spangled with sesame seeds, and house-cured maple bacon, you'll be leaning more toward the landlocked side of surf and turf next time you visit ICOB. You can't go wrong adding the optional horseradish mayo and fried oysters, but what really pushes this into the pantheon of great burgers is the fresh, hammy flavor of the bacon, cured for 4 days in garlic, rosemary, thyme, and Vermont maple syrup and oven-smoked over applewood chips.
Price: $16
500 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
Pommes Frites with Bacon Parm dipping sauce
Inspired by the Belgian-style frites shops Saus owners Tanya Kropinicki, Renee Eliah, and Chin Kuo visited in Brussels and Amsterdam, the hand-cut fries at this Faneuil Hall hotspot — served alongside rotating selections from Ommegang, Allagash, and Night Shift — are some of Boston's best late-night fare. But with dipping sauces like sharp cheddar spiked with Duvel and Samurai Saus (chili paste and mayo), you'll want to sneak over to Faneuil Hall's cobblestoned streets whenever possible.
The most popular accompaniment out of a dozen options (and growing) is the Bacon Parm, a viscous gravy made with applewood smoked bacon and heaping amounts of parmesan. You'd swear this decadent concoction was thickened with flour or corn starch, but Kuo swears it's simply the massive amount of cheese blended with sweet, smoky bacon. One of these days, I'm going to indulge my southern roots and slather it all over Island Creek Oyster Bar's flaky, buttermilk biscuits, but its ideal mate lies in the salt and starch of Saus's perfectly cooked frites.
Price: $5.50
33 Union St., Boston
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Curley's Cracka Jack
Chef Sam Monsour has brought comfort food to the next level. Even the craft cocktails and beer backs take a backseat to snacks like pickled-deviled eggs with tasso ham, a fried chicken dinner served with Doritos Ranch "ranch,'' or late-night ice cream sundaes tossed in Fruity Pebbles, Goobers, and rainbow Nerds. But what really taps into our insatiable inner child is the Curly Cracka Jacks, a caramel candied popcorn with roasted peanuts and salty bacon bits. Each kernel is coated in a fine layer of brown sugar and bacon dust and holds up remarkably well to jm Curley's fantastic selection of hops, whiskey, and amaro. Oh, and to maintain authenticity, the Curley's version of the ballpark classic contains a prize in every pouch.
Price: $6
21 Temple Place, Boston
Union Bar & Grill
Brioche French Toast Stuffed with Fig & Bacon Jam
French toast is a stalwart of the brunch table, but it's also one of the most misunderstood. If prepared properly, it's essentially a fried bread pudding, crispy around the edges and creamy on the inside. But too often, what shows up on weekend breakfast menus are flaccid, feeble slices of white bread drowning in a pool of egg wash and corn syrup.
Not Union Bar & Grill. Their Brioche French Toast consists of thick slabs of buttery Levalee Brioche fried to a golden brown, slathered with real maple syrup, and stuffed with a filling of chunky fig and bacon jam. The results are decadent, but with the earthiness of the dried figs and the faint smokiness of the bacon balancing it all out, Union's French toast is a treat that could make a sweet tooth out of all of us.
Price: $9
1357 Washington St., Boston
The Salty Pig
Pate de Campagne
If anyone knows swine, it's The Salty Pig, who uses every cut to make all manner of salamis, chorizos, headcheeses, and rillettes. Of the many delectable options from their "salty pig parts,'' none is more impressive than their pate de Campagne, a country pate made from pork shoulder, garlic, fennel, and heavy cream. Wrapped in slow-roasted bacon and served chilled, the effect is like a mild Italian sausage draped in lardo. Dab a wafer-thin slice on top of a crostini with grainy Dijon and you have some of the most satisfying bar food in town.
Price: $5
130 Dartmouth St., Boston
The Bacon Truck
Turkey Club
Sam Williams and J.J. Frosk debuted their Bacon Truck at SOWA in September, and these food truck alums (Williams managed Lobsta Love and The Paris Creperie and Frosk managed Grilled Cheese Nation) certainly didn't skimp on any of the ingredients in their first original project: homemade habanero garlic pickles, whole brined turkeys, slow roasted and basted in bacon fat, and original condiments like their spicy Dijon.
The concept might seem gimmicky, but with a menu that includes something like The Bacon Truck's tater salad, a riff on a Williams family recipe with bacon drippings in place of butter, it seems that every detail has been well thought out. No doubt, The Bacon Truck's signature item will prove to be the turkey bacon brie sandwich or their candied bacon dipped in Nutella (the pair said these have been the two most popular items at catering events), but I anticipate hunting down their turkey club, served on Iggy's sourdough, during the weekday lunch rush.
In lieu of unnecessary sourdough (they consciously leave off the third slice of bread), Frosk and Williams pile on extra arugula, avocado, tomato, Blackstone bacon, a chimichurri aioli, and turkey. Follow these guys on Twitter (@BaconTruckBOS) — that way, you can try their wonderful, ever-expanding menu for yourself.
Price: $9
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YAKIMA, Wash. — More Pacific Northwest sweet cherry packers likely will use gusseted plastic bags next season because they display better, says B.J. Thurlby, president of Northwest Cherry Growers.
While supply was 37 percent short, a major U.S. retailer increased sales volume 20 percent in 2013 by using the new bags prominently displayed at the front of stores, Thurlby said at the trade association's annual Cherry Institute at the Yakima Convention Center, Jan. 10.
The transparent, 2-pound bags have flat bottoms so they stand upright and make cherries more visible to the consumer's eye, Thurlby said.
"Last year was the first big year of them for cherries and I think more will be used this year," he said.
With a smaller 14.2-million, 20-pound box crop last season, prices stayed high, averaging $3.99 to $4.99 per pound, Thurlby said.
"A fear is that retailers will see the success of that and want to keep prices high but they will need to go lower if we have more volume this year," he said.
Barring weather damage, the 2014 crop should be about 20 million boxes and prices need to be in the $2.79 to $2.99 range to keep that kind of volume moving, he said.
A 14-million-box crop was large prior to 2009 when 20 million was reached. The record is 22.9 million boxes in 2012.
The 2013 crop looked promising for good early maturity with the hottest weather during the first two weeks of May since 1992, Thurlby said. But it was slowed by the coldest last two weeks of May since 1991 and then 17 rains that cut 4 million to 5 million boxes worth of volume, he said. Still, grower returns were generally positive, he said.
Daily peak volume usually occurs in June but this past season it was July 24 at 429,000 boxes, he said.
The new bags are exciting but so are new high-tech cherry sorting lines being installed by many packers, Thurlby said. Better sorting should improve quality and help the industry "navigate" large crops while promoting the health and convenience of cherries, he said.
With the expansion to about 60,000 acres of Northwest cherries, 20-million-box crops are the new norm, but U.S. and world population is sufficient to absorb them, he said.
Canada represents 37.5 percent of Northwest cherry exports, China 24.6 percent, South Korea 11.7 and Taiwan 8.8, said Keith Hu, Northwest Cherry Growers' international program director. China, Korea and Australia are the biggest export growth markets, he said.
"The United Kingdom is most challenging for us. Success there depends on how European cherries are doing and our window is short," Hu said.
Stefano Musacchi, physiologist at the WSU Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee, indicated there's opportunity in Europe because that region's demand is so high that it imports cherries despite being the world's leading producer at 38 percent of the sweet cherries and 67 percent of tart cherries. World sweet cherry production is more than 2.2 million tons and increasing, he said.
Short videos touting the health benefits of cherries that consumers can pull up on their smart phones while shopping are just as important in domestic promotions as ad time on the electronic billboard in New York's Times Square, said James Michael, Northwest Cherry Growers' domestic promotions director.


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The recent news that Amazon is considering a move into the Australian grocery market was a bit of a surprise to the Edentify team. So what would Australians make of this, and will they give Amazon supermarkets a try? We decided to ask our Facebook followers to find out.
For many of you, the emergence of another rival to Coles and Woolworths in Australia is welcome. Amazon brings with it a trusted brand and expertise in home delivery that sets it apart from the competition. For shoppers, Amazon means lower prices and better choice.
"Amazon is such a big enterprise, I am sure it will be successful. I have purchased other things from Amazon and have had nothing but a good experience."
However, while there is definite support for Amazon, there are also a number of questions and concerns that you have raised. Firstly, although Amazon is seen as offering good quality packaged goods, it will need to convince you that it can also provide high quality fresh food.
"Amazon is not a name I equate with fresh food and it would have to be considerably cheaper and as good if not better quality as the online shopping I can do from both my local Woolies and Coles stores with some great incentives."
Secondly, having Australian made and grown products is very important to many of you. Currently this is not something that Amazon is known for, however a serious commitment to support Australian farmers and companies would go a long way.
"As long as they give Aussie suppliers a good deal then yeah sure I'd use them or at least give them a go."
Finally, while Australian products are essential, part of the appeal of Amazon groceries is that they could supply international products and brands that are difficult to buy in Australia. It will be interesting to see, when and if Amazon does launch, how it fares.
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Posted on: 21st Jan 2019
Olivia17 says: I already shop with Amazon I buy things that I can't find in other shops in Australia I've always had a good experience with them so yes for sure I would buy groceries from them


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Lionel Richie was the man of honor at the 2014 BET Awards, receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award for his iconic work in the industry. And some of the night's biggest stars paid tribute to the legend, with John Legend, Ledisi and Yolanda Williams performing some of the singer's biggest hits.
The tribute kicked off with John Legend's performance of Richie's classic ballads 'Hello' and 'Still,' and there was no doubt that the crooner and pianist was the perfect choice to begin the tribute to Richie's hits.
Next up was Ledisi, who got a little more funky with her rendition of the Commodores' 'Brick House,' complete with a line of backup dancers.
But perhaps the most riveting performance was Yolanda Williams', who damn near brought the house down with Richie's gospel hit, 'Jesus Is Love.' Adams performance was so passionate, so powerful that when Richie himself quipped that he was glad he sang the song first — otherwise he wouldn't be onstage, accepting the award.
And after he accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award, Richie launched a legendary performance himself, performing his hits 'Easy Like Sunday Morning' and 'All Night' with a giant smile on his face the entire time.


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This June's E3 won't bring any next-gen Xbox hardware, but The Verge has heard that Microsoft is going to debut a new cross-platform Xbox music service that'll replace the current Zune service.
Codenamed "Woodstock," Microsoft's new music service is said to be "Spotify-like" and will work in the browser without any special plugins. It'll reportedly be released for Xbox 360, Windows 8, iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8. (Note: Xbox 360 doesn't have a web browser.)
Woodstock's main features will be heavy integration with Facebook, collaborative playlist creation, "scan and match" iTunes Match clone, and easy song sharing.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Diet Challenge Check-In
On another note...I kept all of the metal buttons from the pile of denim jeans that I dissected over the weekend. I just couldn't resist.
They make very unique and interesting embellishments for denim fabric flowers. This makes the pack rat in me want to save everything in sight!
I snapped this photo outside of my home today. Very ominous and angry skies. It was very difficult to take indoor photographs and you can see why. Decent natural lighting was hard to come by and it felt cave-like all day. I anticipated a huge downpour but not a drop of rain fell from the sky. Very bizarre.
I would like to send a hug to all my readers and to all that have left me such sweet comments. Thank you so much. You really uplift me and make my day so much brighter.
11 comments:
- Unknown said...
Lettie, So glad to help in making your day brighter. I just love seeing what you are up to, and this post is no exception. I love this idea with the leftover buttons from the jeans. I hope today is a sunnier day!
- Tue Mar 17, 03:42:00 AM 2009
- Stellar Creations said...
Ugh.. you know I just gave about 30 pair of jeans to GW 2 weeks ago.. I feel sick now.. lol. I've been lugging them around for a few years and got tired of looking at them.. now I see all the possibilites :( Now I have to go find chocolate to make it all better...lol. Have a great day!
- Tue Mar 17, 03:44:00 AM 2009
- sweetiepie said...
Lettie, congrats on the weight loss. I knew you wouldn't stay on that plateau forever.
Great idea for the jeans buttons. Thanks for sharing.
- Tue Mar 17, 04:53:00 AM 2009
- Karen - Quilts...etc. said...
great idea on the buttons. Until looking at your blog I had not been interested in making flower pins or anything like that - but seeing yours has gotten me interested.
- Tue Mar 17, 05:28:00 AM 2009
- AverettLadyNana said...
Congrats on your weight loss. I had lost some then gained some back. Last night I got on scales and about had a spell!
You think of everything! Would never have thought of using the jean snaps and buttons for center of flowers! You win the creativity award for reusing no longer useful items for something useful and pretty to boot!
- Tue Mar 17, 06:12:00 AM 2009
- Thimbleanna said...
I am loving this jeans recycling thing you have going on (since I have a huge stack of untouched jeans of my own!) And I love the symbolism of having a pic of all those cast-aside jean buttons with loser Monday -- Great Job!!!
- Tue Mar 17, 07:01:00 AM 2009
- Colleen MacKinnon; Penny Rugs and More said...
Congrats on the weight loss progress! Very kewl denim button project! Wow! Now I have to get my purse done so I can blog it back!
- Tue Mar 17, 08:10:00 AM 2009
- deb said...
Big Kudos on the pound lost!!! LOVE your blog!
- Tue Mar 17, 09:31:00 AM 2009
- Lindah said...
What a sweet thing to say about your readers. Looking at your sky picture, I can see how you might need your day brightened a bit! :-)
We had a storm yesterday...3 or 4 blocks away from us they recorded 4inches with flooding while we got 1/2 an inch. Nature certainly is interesting!
Your denim flower is wonderful! I can see lots of ways to use that. Your "pack ratting" is a good influence on us!
- Tue Mar 17, 01:02:00 PM 2009
- Stephanie D said...
Who else would have thought of jeans buttons as artwork? But they're really pretty all together that way!
Congrats on the weight loss!
- Sat Mar 21, 07:58:00 AM 2009
- Lorraine said...
Buttons, buttons, I love buttons too! Love what you do with them.
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An animal rights group has lost a fight to prevent officials from killing some deer in Washington's Rock Creek Park.
A judge on Thursday ruled against California-based In Defense of Animals and five District of Columbia residents who had filed a lawsuit to prevent the killings.
The National Park Service considered several options but ultimately decided the deer population needed to be reduced and that killing some was the best option. Animal rights advocates argued the deer could be managed with nonlethal methods. A judge hearing the case ruled for the park service.
Rock Creek Park deputy superintendent Cindy Cox says the park service is pleased with the ruling, and they're looking forward to implementing the deer-control plan. No dates for killing the deer have been established.


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Better hope the kids were put to bed ahead of last night's "Top Chef" episode, as dinner talk turned to pillow talk with Natalie Portman in the house.
The reality TV contestants were asked to prepare a vegetarian meal for the "Star Wars" starlet – and outspoken vegan – at judge Tom Colicchio's Las Vegas steakhouse. That's when things heated up, E! Online points out.
Host Padma Lakshmi said her dish felt like a "little prick on the tip of my tongue," a description that sent Portman into convulsions.
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"Don't say that," she choked.
But Lakshmi's inadvertent double entendres didn't end there.
She complained her shallot was "a little sharp" when paired with garlic blossoms that she described as "very tiny in size and yet…"
"Big in your mouth?" Portman volunteered.
"It went from a little prick to big in your mouth," Colicchio said.
"That's what usually happens," chimed in another dinner companion, prompting more fits of laughter.
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Nassau tax refund case heads to top appeals court
New York's highest court has agreed to hear Nassau County's appeal of a ruling that rejected the county's attempt to shift the cost of property tax refunds onto school districts and towns.
The state Court of Appeals this week set up a schedule for arguments over a February decision by the appellate division that found Nassau's repeal of the "county guaranty" violates the state constitution and municipal home rule law.
The guaranty -- adopted by the State Legislature in 1948 and subsequently by the county -- made Nassau responsible for paying all property tax refunds resulting from erroneous tax assessments. The county has paid an average $100 million a year in refunds even though school districts and towns collected more than 80 percent of the overpaid taxes.
Nassau is one of only two counties in the state in which the county, rather than the towns, sets property tax assessments.
Because of budget constraints, the county in 2010 repealed the guaranty, effective next year. More than 40 Nassau school districts and officials, the Town of North Hempstead, 19 special districts and some taxpayers challenged the repeal.
County Attorney John Ciampoli said, "We remain confident that we are right on the law and will prevail in the state's highest court."
Ronald J. Rosenberg, a Garden City attorney hired by Nassau to help with the appeal, said the appellate decision "erroneously determined that Nassau County didn't have the authority to repeal a state statute that applied only to Nassau County."
But attorney Steven Schlesinger, whose firm represents North Hempstead, said, "The county is desperate to have the school districts bear the burden of its errors. But they are wrong."
The appellate division decision, if it were to stand, could cost the county about $80 million a year.
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Théophraste Renaudot
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Born at Loudun, 1586; died at Paris, 25 October, 1653. Doctor of the medical faculty at Montpellier in 1606, he travelled in Italy in order to study the workings of the pawn-shop ( mons pietatis ) in that country. On his return to France, Leclerc du Tremblay, known as Pére Joseph, summoned him to court to explain his theories on the alleviation of poverty. He was named physician in ordinary to the king (1612) and in 1617 obtained the privilege of founding an intelligence office where poor people might make known their needs, free of charge, and inquire as to places where work could be had, and where charitable people could learn the names of the deserving poor. In 1618, he received the title of commissioner-general to the poor of the kingdom. In 1628, after the surrender of La Rochelle, he became a Catholic and from this time, thanks to the help of Richelieu, his charitable activity was most fruitful. Renaudot added to his intelligence office a pawn-shop and an auction-house. On 30 May, 1631, he established a weekly, the "Gazette de France", in which he defended the politics of Richelieu. About 1632, he created in his intelligence office weekly conferences which constituted a kind of free school of medical sciences. Finally, dating from 1640, he inaugurated free consultations for the sick, in which he was assisted by fifteen physicians, and free visiting physicians. He published "La présence des absents" (1642), the first treatise in France on diagnosis, and which aimed at permitting sick persons at a distance from all medical aid to describe their symptoms to the physician. In 1640, the medical faculty of Paris wished to forbid him to practise; it relied upon Parliament, which was hostile to Richelieu, and a pamphlet of Guy Patin violently attacked Renaudot. Louis XIII by a decree of 14 July, 1641, decided in favour of Renaudot, but after the deaths of Richelieu and Louis XIII, his enemies renewed their attacks, pretending that he had accused Louis XIII of favouring Lutheranism and that he had calumniated Anne of Austria. The provost of Paris at the end of 1643, and Parliament in 1644, prohibited him from the practice of medicine, and the medical faculty, 4 June, 1644, officially inaugurated another system of free consultations. Renaudot was, nevertheless, a pioneer in relief work for the poor, journalism, and medicine. The medical theories which he had held against the medical faculties of his times in favour of the use of antimony, laudanum, and quinine, have prevailed since his death. During the last years of his life he devoted his time wholly to the "Gazette".
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TYPE O NEGATIVE Frontman Peter Steele's Family Comment On His Passing
The family of late TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele has issued the following statement on the first anniversary of his death:
"It is with great emotion, continued heartache and collective sorrow that the family of Peter Ratajczyk (Steele) remembers that on this day, only a year ago, we lost our only brother. To the world he was an acclaimed songwriter, lyricist, musician, artist, and singer; to us he was the heart of the family and love of our life.
While battling many demons in his life, he poured out his emotions in lyrical creations that would make you cry, scream or laugh. Along with hallowed music, Peter had that ability to translate love, hate, fear and sorrow into music notes that could bring even the strongest man to his knees in acknowledgment of his feelings. From his musical legacy we learned to feel and express deep-pitted emotions with a driving beat and strong voice, crying the very words we wish we could utter.
But it was the fans that understood Peter the most. It was the fans who understood his self-depreciating humor, his love of a good joke (even when it was at his expense), his playful on-stage persona, and his sarcastic, analytical way of looking at the world that only Peter could put into words.
The family thanks the adoring fans, the long-time friends, the amazing musicians that have graced Peter's presence and the photographers and artists who have captured his likeness and beauty for every kind word, offered prayer, beautiful letter, gracious hug, and a bounty of support during this horrendous time. You know who you are and we will always embrace you for it.
In the past few months a couple of writers tried to dishonor Peter's legacy by concentrating on his failings and mistakes rather than honoring him for the weight he bore for us all. Please remember these wonderful things about Peter: his genius for writing music & lyrics, his gifted orchestration, his artistic design of album covers, performance backdrops, and inventive printing fonts and logos; his magnetic ways with the audience and fans; his talent for words and languages; his insatiable desire to study science, engineering and war strategy; his love of animals and children; his way of making everyone feel more important than himself; and his generosity and gentlemanly ways.
We encourage everyone who was ever touched by Peter Steele to tell the world about their feelings. We thank you for standing up and acknowledging our brother with the respectful and dignified tributes that a man of his talents, abilities and accomplishments deserves."
Peter Steele died of heart failure on April 14, 2010 at the age of 48. Prior to his death, Steele had been enjoying a long period of sobriety and improved health and was imminently due to begin writing and recording new music.
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Ron Paul Won the Debate
Ron Paul won the debate. Not necessarily the presidential debate that took place this week—but the most important debates now taking place in the Republican Party. Monday night's event was but the latest example.
Observers who now give former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann high marks for their debate performances are not wrong. Both candidates exhibited well that presidential "style" of so much worth to pundits and voters.
But what about substance? Who best represents the GOP's current philosophy?
At the second debate of the 2008 Republican presidential primaries, FOX News' Carl Cameron posed the following question to candidate Paul: "Congressman Paul, yet another question about electability: Do you have any?" The audience laughed as did the other candidates. But Cameron's condescending question did contain a valid point: What place was there in the 2008 GOP for a limited government, antiwar Republican?
Fast forward: How much room is there in today's GOP for the Republican model circa 2008? Early 2008 presumed frontrunner Rudy Giuliani garnered much popularity due almost entirely to his aggressive foreign policy. This was true even amongst religious conservatives despite his socially liberal views. Rudy might not have been a constitutionalist, pro-life or pro-gun; but he was pro-war. That was good enough for many conservatives in 2008.
Eventual nominee John McCain had many problems with the conservative base in the last election—not the least of which was his big government record. In McCain's defense, the Senator's routine statism wasn't that much different or offensive than that of President Bush. Luckily for McCain the party agreed and rallied around his "Country First" platform of "100 years" in Iraq and certain war with Iran. Of course, the economic downturn would interrupt McCain's preferred foreign policy election narrative and America chose a Democrat who promised more jobs and less war.
Try to imagine McCain—whose current passion seems to be cheerleading for Obama's war in Libya—on this year's debate stage. It's now become a conservative consensus that the US intervention in Libya is a bad idea. Candidate Newt Gingrich—a Bush Republican at heart yet deft enough to adapt—was for the Libyan war before he was against it. Populist candidate Herman Cain gave a list of reasons Libya was wrongheaded. Bachmann proudly proclaimed her opposition to the Libyan intervention. Perhaps most amusing was Romney, who said that the US military should not be used to fight for the independence of other nations. This was a complete reversal of his 2008 position when Romney thought that the primary purpose of the US military was to fight for the independence of other nations via his "No Apology" support for the Iraq War.
If the 2008 Republican primaries were based heavily on foreign policy, Monday night's event did not even broach the subject until 90 minutes into the two hour debate—and there were only two questions from the audience about it. The first was from a Navy veteran with three sons currently serving overseas. The concerned father wanted to know, with Osama Bin Laden now dead, when we would be leaving Afghanistan. The other audience question came from a man who wanted to know how America could afford to have hundreds of bases all over the world considering our debt crisis.
How many 2008 GOP voters were asking when we might be bringing the troops home? How many would have even thought to question America's global military footprint and tie it to spending? If Bush had intervened in Libya, would these Republican candidates have supported it? In the last election, would Romney have felt compelled to say that our military should be used more cautiously?
The reason foreign policy wasn't discussed for most of the debate is because the 2012 GOP's first concern—like much of the country—is the economy. But in 2008, Paul was already warning of the current economic crisis. In fact, Paul's argument has always been that America is going bankrupt due in large part to an expensive and detrimental foreign policy. The questions related to foreign policy asked Monday were far more sympathetic to Paul's long held views than that of any other Republican candidate in 2008. The fiscal concerns discussed were a lot closer to what Paul has been talking about for three decades as his fellow and supposedly more "electable" Republicans laughed at such warnings.
Like Bob Dole in 1996, Al Gore in 2000, John Kerry in 2004 and McCain in 2008, most candidates are quickly forgotten not simply because they lost—but because they weren't philosophers. Their opinions change with the political wind, as evidenced by many of the candidates Monday night.
But who influences which way those winds might blow? The last real philosopher candidates to get the Republicans' nod—Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan—had to change their party's philosophy before winning any nominations or presidencies. This is instructive because it reminds us that changing hearts and minds is just as important—if not more important—than merely winning the next election.
Whether Ron Paul gets the nomination or wins any future debates remains to be seen. Whether he is winning the debate does not.


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This week in new hires, Natalie Maniaci and Lés Carrington joined Altegris and the Guth-Fordyce team joined Snowden Capital Advisors.
Also, the Private Client Reserve Bank welcomed Carlo Gozzi to its Chicago office and Frank DeBlasi to its Phoenix office.
Altegris Adds Natalie Maniaci, Lés Carrington
Altegris recently announced a number of strategic additions to its sales and legal teams. Natalie Maniaci has joined as the firm's senior counsel and advisory chief compliance officer, and Lés Carrington has joined as the new internal sales desk manager.
Maniaci was previously senior vice president and associate general counsel with Trust Company of the West, where she was responsible for advising business units on legal and regulatory matters affecting mutual funds, hedge funds, offshore funds and separate account. Carrington's prior position was as internal sales desk manager at LPL, where she held that position for the last five of her 13 years there. Earlier responsibilities were to partner with sales leaders to develop sales strategy, provide training and guidance to LPL's internal consultants and oversee sales campaigns.
Advisor Team Joins Snowden Capital Advisors
Snowden Capital Advisors, headquartered in New York City, announced that the Guth-Fordyce team has joined the firm. The team includes managing directors and private wealth advisors Kevin Guth and Stephen Fordyce, who have become Snowden partners, and Jeremy Soboleski, private wealth advisor.
The team joins from Merrill Lynch, manages approximately $500 million in client assets, and is opening a new Snowden office in New Haven, Conn.
The Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank Welcomes Gozzi, DeBlasi
U.S. Bank Wealth Management announced that Carlo Gozzi has been appointed a wealth management consultant in Chicago and Frank DeBlasi has been named a wealth management advisor in Phoenix for the Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank.
Gozzi brings more than nine years of financial service experience to his new role. Prior to joining, he was a vice president and branch manager for U.S. Bank's consumer bank in the Chicago area, where he worked with commercial and individual clients. He has previously held various positions with Park National Bank and Pullman Bank, both U.S. Bank predecessor organizations.
DeBlasi has more than 13 years of experience in the financial services industry. Before joining, he worked for J.P. Morgan Private Bank as a senior vice president and private banker in the Scottsdale area. Prior to that, he served as a regional vice president with Morgan Stanley in New York City from 1999 to 2009.
Read the Sept. 11 New Hire Roundup at ThinkAdvisor.


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5 steps to reduce the chemical footprint of plastic products
By switching the type of plastic used in its IV bags, Dignity Health care system kept 700,000 pounds of high-concern chemicals — the equivalent in weight of a Boeing 747 airplane — out of the environment, according to BizNGO's new analysis of plastics, The Plastics Scorecard v.1.0.
Starting from fossil fuels, the steps in plastics manufacturing are littered with chemicals of high concern to human health and the environment. For companies looking to reduce their use of high-concern chemicals, plastics are a huge challenge — and a significant opportunity to reduce their chemical footprint.
In The Plastics Scorecard, we identified over 244 million metric tons of high-concern chemicals used in the manufacture of plastics. For example, plastics consume 96 percent of all Bisphenol A or 3.9 million metrics tons annually. BPA and other high-concern chemicals such as benzene, styrene and phthalates can pose significant risks to the health of workers, communities and the global environment across the life cycle of plastics.
Shifting to safer plastics will improve the health and safety of workers and communities, spur the development of green chemistry and create new markets for companies, workers and communities alike. So how do we get there? The Plastics Scorecard is the first comprehensive method for evaluating the chemical footprint of plastics and a guide for selecting safer alternatives.
How does your plastic rate?
The Plastics Scorecard evaluates plastics based on two criteria, Manufacturing Score and Product Footprint.
The "Progress to Safer Chemicals in Manufacturing Score" evaluates plastic polymers on a scale from 0 (most hazardous) to 100 (most benign). In evaluating 10 polymers, the findings were mixed.
Five commonly used polymers score 0 due to the intensive use of high-concern chemicals at every step of manufacturing: polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polycarbonate, polystyrene, styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS).
Three polymers — polylactic acid (PLA), polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) — are much further along the path to safer chemicals in manufacturing because their core chemicals inputs are not chemicals of high concern.
Two polymers — polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) — are in the mid-range.
The Product Footprint measures the number and percent weight of chemicals of high concern in plastic products. It enables purchasers to evaluate products based on their content of highly hazardous chemicals. The report found that by switching to safer plastics or additives, manufacturers of IV bags and electronics can sell products with a significantly lower chemical footprint. For example, by switching from PVC to non-PVC IV bags, health organizations are significantly reducing their use of reproductive/developmental toxicants and endocrine disruptors such as DEHP and BPA.
5 steps to safer plastics
The Plastics Scorecard lays out a five-step program for companies seeking to reduce the chemical footprint of their plastics:
1. Is it necessary? A critical approach to chemicals in general and plastics in particular, especially plastic additives, is to first ask: Is it necessary? For many plastic additives, evaluate if it's necessary for the performance of the product. For example, Kaiser Permanente recently announced it is eliminating unnecessary flame retardants in upholstered furnishings.
2. Find safer additives. In cases where plastic additives are necessary, there are many routes for reducing a product's chemical footprint. First, and often the easiest route, is to substitute high-concern additives with safer alternatives. For example, in the electronics sector, companies are replacing brominated flame retardants with safer alternatives. Figure 2 [ES-3] illustrates how electronic companies dramatically can reduce the chemical footprint of chemicals in products by selecting safer alternatives.
3. Use safer polymers. The most important thing companies can do to reduce their chemical footprint is to shift to safer polymers with better manufacturing scores and fewer additives — thereby reducing both the additives of high concern and the manufacturing footprint. For example, when Dignity Health switched to non-PVC IV bags, it eliminated roughly 1,543,467 pounds of PVC as well as 673,023 pounds of the reproductive toxicant DEHP and 33,651 pounds of the endocrine disruptor BPA over a six-year period.
4. Close the loop and use post-consumer recycled content. PCR content holds the potential of significantly reducing the chemical footprint of a plastic product by bypassing the impacts of polymer manufacturing. In general, using PCR content is a preferred route for reducing the chemical footprint of a polymer and a plastic product. A challenge with PCR content can be the legacy of the past use of chemicals of high concern in plastics manufacturing. For example, the recycling and reuse of polyurethane foam means that companies continue to keep the persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) flame retardant pentabromodiphenyl ether (pentaBDE) in the economy. Concerns with legacy toxic chemicals in PCR plastics should be a driver to reduce the chemical footprint of plastics.
Redesign the product. Product redesign holds the potential of both enhancing the value of the product while reducing its chemical footprint. For example, companies can redesign electronic products such that plastic parts do not come into contact or into proximity with parts that heat up, thereby obviating the need for flame retardants. The redesign of chairs to use wire mesh instead of foam reduces the weight and avoids foam that requires flame retardant chemicals.
Ultimately the success of reducing the chemical footprint of plastics will require greater transparency on the chemicals in products. Chemical footprinting holds the potential to create a metric for measuring progress away from chemicals of high concern and toward safer alternatives. A challenge to managing chemicals in products and supply chains always has been, as the business adage goes, "You can't manage what you can't measure." To date companies have lacked clear metrics for measuring progress to safer chemicals. The Plastics Scorecard, by creating a framework for chemical footprinting, creates a metric by which companies can manage chemicals and measure progress.
If successful, the Plastics Scorecard will advance the development and use of plastics that use inherently safer chemicals in all steps of polymer production as well as in the selection of additives — thereby greatly reducing the costs of hazardous chemicals all along the lifecycle of plastics, from manufacturing to use to disposal.
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You know what? Never tell me the odds.
It was only yesterday I took a look at Sideshow's new Boba Fett figure, and today, they're wheeling out two more. Well, one? Two figures, but they come in the one box.
The pairing is an obvious one: C-3PO and R2-D2. Unlike the company's Sixth Scale pieces, though, these are from the more elaborate (and expensive) Premium Format line, which means I'm about to look you in the eye and tell you straight up that the pair will cost you USD$750 (that gets you both) when they're available in Janury 2013.
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About the Book:
Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes is an anthology of forty-three interviews with minds of all kinds. Disinformation named it "among the most important books published in 2007," and Erik Davis called it "a crisp and substantial remix of the major memes of the last decade or so."
Spanning over seven years, Follow for Now includes interviews with such luminaries as Bruce Sterling, Douglas Rushkoff, Philip K. Dick, Aesop Rock, Howard Bloom, David X. Cohen, Richard Saul Wurman, N. Katherine Hayles, Manuel De Landa, Shepard Fairey, Steven Johnson, Geert Lovink, Brenda Laurel, and many, many more — and interviews by John Brockman, Erik Davis, DJ Spooky, and Mark Dery, among others (click here for the full Table of Contents)… Read more
Roy Christopher at SXSW:
This is a short clip of Follow for Now editor Roy Christopher yammering on about his recent projects (Follow for Now, Disconnect the Dots, and The Medium Picture) at SXSW 2011. Follow for Now friends Shahriar Shadab filmed and edited this [runtime: 3:07], and Jeff Newelt did the interview. Many thanks to them for indulging our editor's goofy ass, and thank to you all for indulging him further.
Thanks to everyone for your continued interest.
Select Reviews:
Brain Pickings (May 26, 2011)
The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (September 2, 2008)
Erik Davis's Techgnosis site (February 22, 2007)
About the Editor:
I marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan.
Roy Christopher's main interests are figurative language use and the social impacts of technology. "My main goal as a writer is to entertain and as a scientist is to find novelty," he says, "I'm more of the former than the latter and more of a fan than a critic." He's an aging BMX/skateboard 'zine kid. That's where he learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. The pages and staples have long since given way to links and scrollbars, but the rest is basically the same: He still ride bikes and skateboards and still commits quite a bit to actual pages, too.
Christopher is currently corrupting the youth in the Department of Communication at The University of Illinois at Chicago and working on a book about how technological mediation has changed and continues to change our relationships with each other, our information, time, space, and ourselves. It's called The Medium Picture: Seeing Through Technology, is under contract with Zero Books, and will be out in the near future. …more.


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|Photograph Sharn White ©Copyright
Often, I find that it is advisable to leave a Brick Wall alone for a period of time, and when I return to my research, I hope that new records might have been released or that I might find a clue that I missed when searching previously. For my Collingwood ancestors, I had a marriage record for Alice Collingwood to Richard Hardy on March 6, 1743 in Long Bennington, Lincolnshire, located in the Lincolnshire, England Extracted Parish Records on Ancestry.com as well as in the England Marriages 1538-1973 on the FamilySearch website. A family member had confirmed this record as well, whilst in England.
|Marriage record for Gulielmi Collingwood and Maria Richardson
|Lincolnshire register of Marriages, 1538-1837.
So as it turns out my Collingwood family from Lincolnshire, England were English. There was not one exotic Italian or Spanish ancestor lurking in the Wolds of Lincolnshire. On the bright side I have added a 7 times great grandfather to my tree and learned something about English Church records. Of course, the puzzle of my olive skin still remains to be solved. Perhaps in my ancient Scottish ancestry there is a Roman somewhere. And I still haven't ruled out a Norman connection. I will keep searching.......