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In February 2016, Judy and her musician partner, Dan Bonow, travelled to The Tucson Gem & Mineral Show. This is the largest gem show in the world. Annually, rock hounds come from all over the world to display and purchase everything from diamonds to fossils.
Judy and Dan go on the last days and they always purchase huge bags of fossils and gems from the international vendors, for Surprise Balls and Treasure Candles. Surprises include fossils, shark teeth talismans, meteorites, crystal marbles, amethyst, crystal points, rose quartz, rubies & Judy's favorite: fluorite octahedrons.
This year the beauty of some geodes stopped her. These came cracked already with a black band holding them in place. They had beautiful white crystals lining the inside. The geode fit in her palm. What could she put inside that geode that would be an added surprise? A fortune! The natural Surprize Ball.
Crystal Geode Surprise are available on the website.
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Today is Winter Solstice or Dongzhi festival in US and A.This longest night marks a new beginning, so it is a time of optimism as the days after Dong Zhi gradually become longer.Since Dong Zhi marks an end and a new beginning, this was the day in traditional Chinese society when everyone becomes one year older.To celebrate Dong Zhi, families gather together to eat Tang Yuan - a sweet broth with glutinous rice balls. 'Tang Yuen similarly means "round dumplings in soup". This year I make some Tang Yuen in palm sweet broth instead of regular white sugar broth. I just make Tang Yuen for fun not for prayer because I don't have prayer's alter at home. It's also good to educate Mishu about Chinese culture and history so when she grow older she have fond memories or know what it's "Dongzhi" or Winter Solstice festival.
300 gm glutinous rice flour ,plus extra if necessary
200 ml cold water
60 ml warm water
various food color
Syrup Broth:
1 pack palm sugar,about 1 lb
1 cup sugar
2 liter water
2 leaves pandan leave, wash and cut small
1:Mix glutinous rice flour with warm water,use spatula to mix well,then add in cold water,mix until well combine.
2:Divided the dough into 4 portions.Each portion for each color.Add food color into the dough,mix well,then make small shape round ball.Just use your own ideal measurement for the size.Lay all small shape ball on a plate,set aside.
3:Meanwhile,prepare a small pot with water for boiling at high heat.Drop few drop of oil to prevent the balls from sticking together.Drop all the round shape balls in the rolling boil water.When the balls floated,removed and drop into a pot of cold water.(I used this method and realised glutinous rice flour ball is bouncy and soft instead of mushy) let the warm ball stay in cold water for 15-20 minutes,then remove ,set a side.
4:Use the same pot with 2 liter water at high heat.Add in palm sugar,pandan leave and sugar into the small pot.When the syrup is rolling boil,cook for another 10 minutes,then add on all the cooked glutinous rice flour ball into the syrup broth.
5:Dish out and serve warm or cold.

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WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Blackwater security guards argued Monday that the government has suppressed evidence favorable to defendants who are on trial in the killings of 14 Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisoor Square.
The attorneys say the suppressed evidence consists of photographs of eight spent shell casings that would fit an AK-47 — the weapon of choice used by insurgents as well as Iraqi authorities.
A court filing by the defense attorneys says the photographs were made by a U.S. Army captain and that they never saw the light of day until federal prosecutors turned them over last Wednesday.
The photos could become an important part of the case. They could bolster the accounts of the security guards, who say they were being fired upon by insurgents and that the guards were simply returning fire.
"The government has suppressed, for seven years, evidence in its possession that is plainly exculpatory on the central disputed issue" in the case, the defense lawyers said in a court filing. "Had they possessed these photos, defendants would have made them a central focus during opening statements as evidence of incoming fire. Defendants also would have used this evidence to cross-examine at least four witnesses who have already testified" and who are not subject to being recalled because they have returned to Iraq.
The defense attorneys are asking that they be allowed to explain to the jurors in the case why they are just hearing now about the new evidence. The defense lawyers also want the judge to tell the jurors that the government failed to disclose the evidence before the trial, which began over a month ago.
According to the court filing, Army Capt. Peter Decareau was one of the first Americans to arrive at the Nisoor Square crime scene, where he took photos, including two of a group of eight AK-47 shells on the ground behind a bus stop. On Oct. 12, 2007, Decareau turned over to the FBI a CD of the crime scene photos.
In their court papers, the defense lawyers for the Blackwater guards say a prior team of prosecutors in 2008 and 2009 "withheld Decareau's photographs of the AK-47 shells."
On Feb. 13, 2009, the government told the defense lawyers that it was providing over 3,700 photographs of the crime scene.
"Despite specifically identifying ... a series of 'U.S. Army photos of crime scene,' this production did not include Decareau's photographs of the AK-47 casings at the bus stop," the defense court filing states. "The original trial team produced additional photographs on July 27, 2009, but again did not produce the photos of the AK-47 casings."
It says that "it appears that the current trial team of prosecutors only recently learned of these photos, and that they turned them over promptly."
The eight AK-47 shells themselves have disappeared. Neither the State Department nor FBI agents recovered them.
"The physical evidence possessed by the FBI does not include the AK-47 shells photographed at the bus stop by Decareau," the court filing states. "Decareau's photographs are the only evidence of those AK-47 shells at the bus stop immediately after the incident."
The court filing raised the possibility that Iraqi authorities had taken the shell casings.
"Notably, photographs taken Sept. 16, 2007, show many Iraqi officials at the bus stop," said the court papers. "Decareau advised the FBI during his October 2007 interview that he observed" that Iraqi Army General Baja took several items from the scene."
The defense team said it would have used the photographs to rebut the government's claim that no evidence of incoming fire was found and to point out to the jury how easy it was for evidence of hostile fire to disappear.
The defense lawyers detailed instances in 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013 and earlier this year in which the photos of the spent shell casings could have come to light, but didn't.
For example, in a 2008 grand jury appearance, Decareau was questioned about a number of the photos he had taken, but the exhibits did not include the two photos of the AK-47 casings at the bus stop, according to the court filing.


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150 gm cooked purple sweet potato,peeled and mashed
375 gm glutinous rice flour(sifted)
220 ml water
50 gm sugar
3 tbsp oil
1 can red bean paste,400 ml (prefer an-pan made in Japan)
15 x banana leave (8x8 cm)
1:Steam sweet potato till cooked.Mash well while it's still hot,set aside in a large bowl.
2:Combine 40 gm of glutinous rice flour with 30 ml of water ,knead into dough.Add the dough into rolling boil water and cook until it's floats,dish out and set aside. (I skipped this step and mix all the dough and sweet potato together but now regrets so much!! )
3:Mix the remaining portion of flour with sugar and water,mashed sweet potato,oil and the cooked dough.Knead all ingredients well till all smooth and combine.Divided the dough into 15 equal portion into ball shape.
4:Flat each ball shape dough in round shape on your palm,scoop 1 tsp red bean paste on the center of the dough.Wrap the filling and roll into a ball.
5:Dust the mould with some glutinous rice flour(I used oil),press the filling ball of kueh into the mould,then knock it out.(Do not press too hard,if not the filling will burst out)
6:Place the ang ku kueh on a pieces of cut banana leaf and brushed with oil.(I omit this step since I brush mould with oil).Repeat all the same step till the dough finish.
7:Prepared water in steamer at high heat and bring it to boil.Placed ang ku kueh in the steamer rack about 2 inch each apart.(if not it will stick together when it bloom when steaming)Steam over medium heat for 10 minutes.
8:Remove and brush with some oil.(I didn't brush with oil again).Serve cold or warm as snack with tea.
I over steamed the ang ku by 5 minutes and the design of the mould on the kueh disappeared:(
don't you said the purple of this ang ku from sweet potato look awesome?
mix dough with mashed purple sweet potato
prepared ang ku kueh to steam


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Women's Reproductive Health Research
Career Development Program
Applications are currently being accepted. Please apply directly at APRecruit
The Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program (K12) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is sponsored by the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science. The WRHR program provides advanced basic and clinical research training and career development in women's reproductive health research for obstetrician-gynecologists. The program accommodates trainees with varying levels of research experience and derives from a broad-based initiative with research, mentoring, and trainee evaluation as cornerstones of the program. The goal of the WRHR Program is to train junior faculty to be successful, independent clinical, translational, and basic science investigators in women's reproductive health. The overall objective of the WRHR Program is to bridge clinical training with basic, translational and/or clinical research independence through a mentored research experience leading to an independent scientific career addressing women's reproductive health.
The WRHR program builds on the training and research successes of UCSF, the institution's commitment to women's health, and the availability of extensive supporting resources to develop a training environment for scholars who will have sustained contribution to the field of women's reproductive health. This partnership affords a unique opportunity to offer a training program that can meet the long-term goal of increasing both the amount and quality of multidisciplinary translational research conducted on women's health and the number of individuals with successful independent research careers in women's health.
UCSF has a rich research environment with an extensive array of ongoing research projects in women's reproductive health. Nationally and internationally renowned women's health scholars can be identified in almost every school, department, and research unit. Because of this broad-based campus agenda for women's health, UCSF was designated one of the original six National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health by the Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Office on Women's Health.
To meet the challenge of nurturing physician-scientists interested in pursuing careers in academic medicine, UCSF was chosen by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health to be a Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Center (see RFA)
Scholar positions are being offered by the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences for two to five years of intensive research training. The department offers a mentored, structured scholarship program of sufficient duration, adequate relevant course work, immersion into a vibrant, intellectually challenging, academic research community and "hands-on" research experience to give scholars the ability to be productive, independent and funded junior faculty members, and ultimately lead to rewarding, successful and productive academic careers.
Applicants must be planning an academic career and:
- be a physician holding the M.D. or D.O. degree
- have completed postgraduate residency training in obstetrics-gynecology
- have completed or be in the final year of postdoctoral fellowship training in obstetrics and gynecology, if the candidate has chosen to subspecialize, or advanced training in clinical research
- identify an approved mentor or mentors with extensive research experience
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Here's a challenge: See if you can find any thoughtful, successful, experienced and honest investors who think that bonds are an attractive place for money. Is there a doubt in anyone's mind that bonds are bad investments today? How many luminaries do I need to quote? Warren Buffett? "Now is a terrible time to buy bonds." Jeremy Grantham? "We are literally running out of superlatives to describe how much we hate bonds." Or perhaps Jim Grant? "The Fed has somehow managed to take the income out of fixed income and the yield out of high yield."
Over the last 30 years, interest rates on 10-year Treasury bonds declined from a high of nearly 16% to a low of 1.5%. Bond funds generated abnormally high returns—so high that they often competed with traditional growth investments. This was the golden age of fixed income: Bonds generated competitive returns as they hedged portfolios against stock market volatility. I think that we can all agree that those days are over—and bond investors are now scratching their heads while searching for an intelligent direction.
Bill Gross is a rarity in the investment world: a bond manager who ponders publicly whether he and his competitors just had an amazing run of good luck: "All of us…, yeah—me too, have cut our teeth during perhaps a most advantageous period of time, the most attractive epoch that an investor could experience." This kind of humility from someone who really does know what he's doing is why his observations have value.
His observation, moreover, is that the wind was at investors' backs for the last 50 years—a result of a steady expansion of credit. But he warns us that the return to GDP from each dollar of credit has been diminishing at an increasing rate so that we are quickly approaching the juncture where "investible assets pose too much risk for too little return." While Gross isn't suggesting that investors not own bonds, to his credit he is on the record that they diversify elsewhere.
Investors are listening. Since the end of May, according to the Investment Company Institute, they have liquidated over $100 billion of their bond fund holdings, $40 billion more than they sold at the height of the financial crisis in 2008—and the fourth largest drawdown of bond fund assets in history. The expectations of professional investors also are negative. According to a recent survey by Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, 57% of global fund managers are underweight bonds, and fully 97% expect long-term rates to be higher over the next 12 months. That is as close to unanimity as you will ever see in a legitimate survey, and reflective of the growing consensus that bonds are now hazardous to our financial health.
You don't have to be an expert to conclude there's a lot more upside than downside for interest rates, and for bondholders; that there's a lot more risk than yield. Even after one of the sharpest rises in interest rates in years, yields remain pitifully low. The boomers are starting to retire and they are desperate for income. If bonds can't generate what they need, they are willing to look elsewhere—and Wall Street is ready and able to provide solutions for disaffected investors.
Critical Thinking
I began "Investment Sense" as a quarterly newsletter 20 years ago to reframe investment issues where public perception was either overly simplistic, short-sighted or just incorrect. My goal was (and is) to help investors look more critically at their assumptions so that they can make healthier decisions and become better investors. To that end I offer two suggestions:
First, without disputing the conclusions of Messrs. Buffett, Graham and Grant, I believe it is a considerable mistake for investors to throw bonds under the bus simply because of interest rate risk. It is compellingly easy to envision a narrative where it is next to impossible to make decent returns from bonds in a rising interest rate environment. But as real as interest rate risk is, there may be even more risk in an investment strategy built on a single narrative, however plausible.
The idea that the next 30 years will be the inverted version of the last 30—while statistically possible—is highly improbable. So abandoning bonds altogether in favor of untested alternatives doesn't sound like a reasoned strategy. Alternatives are certainly worth considering, but so is finding those few managers who, even during the bull market, discovered pockets of unique opportunity they could exploit. They toiled outside the mainstream because when everything was working there wasn't a lot of interest in unique strategies. But now there is—and unconstrained go-anywhere strategies are popping up like mushrooms after a rain.
However, the universe of managers who are experienced enough to successfully identify and exploit unique opportunities in the bond market is far smaller than the demand. Patient investors, who understand this law of investment physics, will wait until they find the right combination of good people and good process—because they know that the penalty for making poor choices can be far more devastating than a disappointing period of low returns.
My second suggestion is much more radical, but I believe there is a lot of clarity to be gained by considering the following observation: Bonds are not investments. I'm not suggesting that investors shouldn't use them; I'm just stating a fact. Bonds are not investments. The purpose of an investment is to put aside some money today so that at some point in the future, what we put aside is worth more (in purchasing power) than when we started. That is what we mean by an investment and its internal engine: growth.
A bond is an agreement by which during its life the issuer will pay the holder a set amount each year, and then at maturity, the face value of the bond. Sometimes the annual payments are enough to cover inflation (before taxes), sometimes they aren't. But the point of the arrangement is that it's guaranteed—so our expectations are necessarily different than with an investment, which by its nature is not guaranteed.
The central attraction of bonds is that their annual income and value at maturity are reliable—and in a world where so little is reliable, that feature has considerable value, and not just in our financial lives. There are legitimate rational and emotional reasons for guaranteeing a portion of one's nest egg. Sometimes the income is attractive, sometimes it isn't. But there are few alternatives that so simply and effectively fill the need for having guarantees as bonds.
The easy returns bond holders enjoyed for so long are over, and at best the future looks challenging. Investors who oversimplify the risks of bonds while ignoring the benefits do so at the peril of building their investments on a foundation of sub-standard thinking. Whether you decide to own bonds or not, the why of your choice is what will make the difference when circumstances force you to question it. The best way we can honor the conclusions of Buffett, Graham and Grant is to think about them critically—because that is what they would do.


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Suborder: Haplorrhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Atelidae
Subfamily: Atelinae
Genus: Lagothrix
Species: L. cana, L. lagotricha, L. lugens, L. poeppigii
Subspecies: L. cana cana, L. c. tschudii
Other names: L. cana: L. lagotricha cana, Geoffroy's Peruvian woolly
monkey, Geoffroy's woolly monkey; L. c. cana: Geoffroy's woolly monkey;
mono barrigudo (Spanish); L. c. tschudii: Peruvian woolly monkey;
marimono del frio, mono barrigudo, mono rosillo (Spanish); L.
lagotricha: L. lagothricha, common woolly monkey, Humboldt's woolly
monkey, woolly monkey; Lagothriche de Humboldt, singe laineux (French);
macaco barrigudo, mono barrigudo, mono caparro, mono lanudo, mono lanudo
común (Spanish); grå ullapa, Humboldts ullapa (Swedish); L.
lugens: L. lagotricha lugens, Colombian woolly monkey; mono barrigudo
(Spanish); L. poeppigii; L. lagotricha poeppigii, Poeppig's woolly
monkey, red woolly monkey, silvery woolly monkey; macaco barrigudo, mono
barrigudo (Spanish).
The taxonomy of the genus Lagothrix is debated. Groves (2001; 2005)
recognizes two subspecies of L. cana: L. c. cana and L. c. tschudii. In
addition, Groves (2001; 2005) moved the Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly
monkey (Oreonax flavicauda) to its own genus Oreonax from Lagothrix, so
it is not included here as a member of the genus. Some authors disagree
with this taxonomic move (Rosenberger & Matthews 2008). Groves'
arrangement is followed here but due to presumable similarities in
ecology between the two genera, the reader is referred to the Oreonax
factsheet. Finally, there remains a persistent
disagreement about the proper spelling of the species L. lagotricha,
which is also spelled L. lagothricha (Fooden 1963; Defler 2003). Here
it will be spelled L. lagotricha, but this is not to imply that this
spelling is more correct.
Woolly monkeys are large muscular monkeys with prehensile tails and
arms about as long as their legs (Ankel-Simons 2007; Napier & Napier
1967). The tail has a pad near its end on the distal side for grip and
is as long as, or longer than, the head and body combined (Fooden 1963;
Ankel-Simons 2007). They possess a pseudo-opposable thumb (Ramirez
1988). In general, woolly monkey species are distinguished from one
another by coloration and appearance (Fooden 1963). As a genus,
Lagothrix males have a head and body length of 49.8 cm (19.6 in) while
females measure 49.2 cm (19.4 in) (Fooden 1963; Rosenberger & Strier
In terms of body mass, woolly monkeys are among the largest New
World monkeys, the Atelines. While muriquis (Brachyteles sp.) are often
considered to be the largest of the New World monkeys, some evidence
indicates that woolly monkeys can weigh just as much (Peres 1994b).
However, it is important to note that woolly monkeys undergo significant
changes in body mass with the seasons (Peres 1993; 1994b). L.
lagotricha males average 7.28 kg (16.0 lb) while females average
7.02 kg (15.5 lb) (Smith & Jungers 1997). L. cana males
weigh on average 9.49 kg (20.9 lb) and one female weighed 7.65 kg (16.9
lb) (Peres 1994a). Some recorded averages may be on the low end of true
weights however, and heavier (over 10 kg (22.0 lb)) individuals are
known (Peres 1994b). Woolly monkeys exhibit sexual dimorphism by body
mass and males are heavier than females (Ford & Davis 1992).
As their name implies, the fur is very thick and woolly. Males and
females have the same coloration (Napier & Napier 1967). Generally,
woolly monkeys are pale gray or brown overall to black (Fooden 1963).
L. lagotricha is predominantly pale brown with a lighter head
and darker grey extremities (Fooden 1963; Groves 2001). The belly has a
black area down the middle of the ventrum (Groves 2001). L.
cana have more gray in their coloration, with a dark gray head and
brownish extremities and with some olive green in the torso (Fooden
1963; Groves 2001). The ventrum is black-gray with some dark red
(Groves 2001). L. c. tschudii are darker than L.
c. cana, and have black head, extremities and tail (Groves 2001).
Coloration in L. lugens is variable, but generally are gray or
silvery gray with a blackish ventrum and darker extremities (Fooden
1963; Groves 2001). Some specimens are more brownish-black and some are
a somewhat lighter gray (Groves 2001). L. poeppigii coloration
varies as well, but the species is typically reddish or reddish-brown,
with a gray tinge and with reddish or dark brown head and extremities
(Fooden 1963; Groves 2001).
Woolly monkeys use their prehensile tails extensively in locomotion.
In particular, the tail secures the animal while it is climbing
(Ankel-Simons 2007). At the Estación Biológica
Caparú in eastern Colombia, five types of locomotion are used by
L. lagotricha: quadrupedal walking and running, suspensory
movement, climbing, leaping and rarely, bipedalism (Defler 1999).
During travel, L. lagotricha use quadupedalism (41.8% of
bouts), suspensory movement (8.6%), climbing (38.8%) and leaping
(10.8%). During feeding, woolly monkeys use quadrupedalism (42.8% of
the time), suspensory movement (7.0%), climbing (44.2%), and leaping
(6.0%) (Defler 1999). Elsewhere, in northeastern Ecuador at the
Yasuní National Park, L. lagotricha move through
dropping and leaping (3.9%), bipedalism (0.2%), quadrupedalism (28.7%),
ascending or descending (14.4%), clambering (30.1%), bridging and
hoisting (10.2%), suspension (11.1%), and swaying (1.4%) (Cant et al.
2001). During suspensory movement, L. lagotricha use
brachiation (58.7%), forelimb swinging (11.7%), pronograde swinging
(20.2%), upside-down clambering (0.5%), upside-down quadrupedalism
(1.2%) and will swing from their tails (7.8%) (Cant et al. 2003). Wild
woolly monkeys are sometimes seen on the ground (Soini 1986).
In captivity, L. c. cana have lived over 29 years, L.
lagotricha have lived over 30 years, L. lugens have lived
30 years, and L. poeppigii have lived 24 years (Mooney &
Lee 1999; Weigl 2005). Individuals estimated at over 30 years old are
recorded in wild populations (L. lagotricha) (Nishimura 2003).
Woolly monkeys are found in Amazonian South America, inhabiting
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (Fooden 1963; Ramirez 1988;
Wallace & Painter 1999). According to Bodini &
Péres-Hernàndez (1987) it stands to reason that woolly
monkeys should be found in Venezuela, and Hernández-Camacho &
Cooper (1976) report L. lugens from Venezuela near the
Colombian border. The distribution of the genus extends from the Rio
Negro and the Rio Tapajós in Brazil west throughout the upper
Amazon basin (Defler 2004; Emmons 1997).
Among the individual species, distributions are generally not well
defined (Aquino & Encarnación 1994). L. lagotricha
are found in northwestern Brazil, southeastern Colombia, northeastern
Ecuador and northeastern Peru. They range north of the Amazon River
west of the Orinoco and Negro rivers, to the eastern slopes of the
Andes, and south as far as the Aguarico and Napo Rivers (Fooden 1963;
Aquino & Encarnación 1994). Within Colombia, they extend as
far north as the Guaviare River and meet the southern populations of
L. lugens roughly where piedmont forest meets lowland
rainforest in the region (Hernández-Camacho & Cooper 1976).
L. cana are the southeastern-most of the woolly monkey species.
They range from southwestern Brazil from their easternmost occurrence
at the Tapajós River, extending west to the Juruá River,
and into southeastern Peru (in the Ucayali, Pasco and Junín
Departments) from the Alto Purus River to Bolivia (Fooden 1963; Aquino
& Encarnación 1994; Iwanaga & Ferrari 2002). A
population of L. cana is recently reported from Bolivia, in the
Madidi National Park (Wallace & Painter 1999).
L. poeppigii is found in western Brazil, eastern Ecuador
and in northeastern Peru (http://www.redlist.org; Fooden 1963). Specifically, they are found
south and east of the Amazon and Napo Rivers, east of the Andes, north
of the Marañón River and south of the
Marañón River, west to the Huallaga River, continuing
south to the Aguaytia and Pachitea Rivers (http://www.redlist.org; Aquino &
Encarnación 1994). L. lugens are found in Colombia and
are reported from Venezuela, near the Colombian border (http://www.redlist.org; Fooden 1963;
Hernández-Camacho & Cooper 1976). Within Colombia, the
species extends as far north as the Guaviare River with isolated
populations in the Córdoba Department and in the southeastern
Bolívar Department in the northwest of the country
(Hernández-Camacho & Cooper 1976; Defler 2004). L.
lugens extend to near the Venezuelan border east of the Cordillera
Oriental (Defler 2004). In the east, L. lugens meets the
distribution of L. lagotricha along the lower Guayabero River
(Hernández-Camacho & Cooper 1976).
Woolly monkeys inhabit a number of habitat types, including tropical
lowland rainforest, terra firme rainforest, old-levee forest, cloud
forest, low-ground forest, seasonally flooded forest, hilly forest,
terrace forest, transition forest, igapó forest, creekside
lowland forest and palm swamps (Kavanagh & Dresdale 1975; Soini
1986; Peres 1994a; Defler 1996a; Peres 1996; Bennett et al. 2001; Cant
et al. 2001; Stevenson 2006). They prefer primary forest (Soini 1986;
Stevenson 2006).
L. lugens is found up to 3000 meters (9842.5 ft) above sea
level (Defler 1996b).
At a study site at Tinigua National Park, Colombia, woolly monkeys
(L. lagotricha) use tropical lowland forests, including mature
forest (79%), open-degraded forest (8%), flooded forest (10%), and
secondary forest (4%) (Stevenson 2006). At this study site, rainfall is
very seasonal, with a pronounced dry season between December and March
and an average rainfall of 278.2 cm (109.5 in) during the rainy
remainder of the year (Stevenson 1998; Stevenson et al. 2000; Stevenson
2006). Elsewhere, along the upper Urucu River, in Brazil at a study
site of L. cana, rainfall averaged 302.8 cm (119.2 in) with a
dry season between July and September (Peres 1994a; 1996).
Woolly monkeys are mostly frugivorous over the course of the year
(Defler & Defler 1996; Iwanaga & Ferrari 2001; Di Fiore 2004;
Stevenson 2006). Generally, western populations of woolly monkeys spend
more time foraging for live prey than other populations (Di Fiore &
Rodman 2001). In Tinigua National Park, Colombia, L. lugens
ate ripe fruits (53%), unripe fruit and seeds (6%), flowers (2%),
arthropods (25%) and other foods (1%) (Stevenson 2006). Insects,
spiders, termites, vertebrates, and beehives are also consumed at this
locality (Stevenson 1992). At the Yasuní National Park, Ecuador,
overall yearly diet of L. poeppigii included fruit (76.7%),
flowers (3.5%), leaves (7.4%), other plants (2.4%), fungi (0.2%) and
animal prey (9.3%) (Di Fiore 2004). At this study site, over 200
species of plant are consumed, but 46 species make up over half of the
diet (Di Fiore 2004). In southeastern Colombia, L. lagotricha
eat fleshy fruits (78.9%), seeds (4.3%), leaves (11.4%), invertebrates
(4.9%), flowers (0.1%), tendrils (0.1%) and bark (0.3%) (Defler &
Defler 1996). Frogs were also caught and consumed (Defler & Defler
Along the Urucu River, Brazil, L. cana ate nearly
exclusively plant material (99.9%) of over 200 species, with very small
numbers of arthropods, including katydids and spiders (Peres 1994a).
At this site, plant foods consumed included fruits (80.7%), flowers and
nectar (3.1%), and leaves (16.2%) (Peres 1994a). While fruit is
annually extremely important in the diet, during the dry season, such
foods may fall to very small percentages of what is eaten, replaced by
foliage, seeds, and exudates (Peres 1994a). Flowers are also consumed
as an alternative to fruit in the dry season (Peres 1994a). Elsewhere,
in the state of Rondônia, Brazil, 91.5% of the L. cana
diet was fruit (Iwanaga & Ferrari 2001).
In southeastern Colombia, over 90% of the fruits eaten by L.
lagotricha are evolutionarily adapted for dispersal by fruit-eating
species (Defler & Defler 1996). This means that the plants rely on
their seeds being carried in the digestive tracts of consumers and
evacuated elsewhere. In fact, woolly monkeys are important and
high-quality seed dispersers (Stevenson 2000).
Averaged annually, L. poeppigii spend their days eating
(19.0%), foraging (17.2%), moving (34.5%), resting (23.25%), in social
activity (4.7%), and in other activities (1.4%) (Di Fiore & Rodman
2001). In eastern Colombia, L. lagotricha spend their days
resting (29.9%), moving (38.8%), foraging (25.8%), and in other
activities (5.5%) (Defler 1995). In southeastern Colombia, L.
lagotricha spent their days moving (26%), resting (35%), feeding
(35%) and in social interactions (3%) (Stevenson 2006). Seasonally,
moving and social interactions decrease during fruit shortage (September
to December) while resting increases during that time (Stevenson et al.
1994; Stevenson 2006). With seasonal food availability, the time spend
feeding does not change, although the foods do, with the species eating
more unripe fruits, leaves, and flowers during times of fruit shortage
(Stevenson 2006).
Daily, resting peaks around the middle of the day (Defler 1995).
Recorded woolly monkey group home ranges include 1.08-over 4.0 km²
(0.42-over 1.42 mi²) (L. poeppigii), 1.69 km² (0.65 mi²)
(L. lugens), 2.0-11.0 km² (0.77-4.25 mi²) (L.
lagotricha), and over 10.21 km² (3.94 mi²) (L. cana)
(reviewed in Di Fiore 2003; Stevenson 2006). Home ranges can overlap
extensively, and exclusive areas are not defended from other groups
although specific resources can be on a temporary basis (Kavanagh &
Dresdale 1975; Stevenson et al. 1994; Di Fiore 2003). Average day
ranges are 540-1878 m (1771.7-6161.4 ft) (L. poeppigii), 1633 m
(5357.6 ft) (L. lugens) and 2280 (7480.3 ft) (L.
lagotricha) (review in Di Fiore 2003). In L. poeppigii,
during periods of fruit scarcity, day range does not increase (Di Fiore
Sleeping sites are found throughout the home range and many are used
(Stevenson 2006). These consist of several trees around 25-35 m (82.0
ft-114.8 ft) tall, near to one another (Defler 2004).
Woolly monkeys are large. Because of their size, they may only be
exposed to low levels of predation (Stevenson & Castellanos 2000).
Nevertheless, eagles are said to be possible predators of woolly monkeys
and smaller non-adult individuals do disappear from groups (Ramirez
1988; Defler 2004).
Due to their widespread occurrence, woolly monkeys can be found with
a number of other primate species. For example, at the Pacaya-Samiria
National Reserve in Peru, L. lagotricha is found along with
pygmy marmosets (Cebuella pygmaea),
saddle-back tamarins (Saguinus
fuscicollis), owl monkeys (Aotus nancymai),
squirrel monkeys (Saimiri
boliviensis), white-fronted capuchins (Cebus albifrons),
brown capuchins (Cebus apella),
saki monkeys (Pithecia hirsute), black spider monkeys
(Ateles paniscus),
and red howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus)
(Soini 1986). L. poeppigii are sometimes found feeding and travelling
with howler monkeys (Alouatta sp.) and travelling and foraging with
spider monkeys (Ateles sp.) and
squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sp.) (Marsh
Woolly monkeys (L. poeppigii) are also sometimes followed
by double-tooth kites (Harpagus bidentatus), a bird that feeds on
insects that are stirred up by the activities of woolly monkeys (Marsh
2004). Also, L. lagotricha feces are particularly important to
dung beetles of the family Scarabaeidae (Castellanos et al. 1999).
Content last modified: September 30, 2010
Written by Kurt Gron.
Cite this page as:Gron KJ. 2010 September 30. Primate Factsheets: Woolly monkey (Lagothrix) Taxonomy, Morphology, & Ecology . <http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/woolly_monkey>. Accessed 2020 April 4.
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This post is part of the Green Moms Carnival, which, this month, is focusing on greening up your back-to-school routine.
People often think "going green" means you have to spend a lot of money. However, it doesn't have to be that way. Making school (or even work) lunches green doesn't require a huge outlay of cash. In fact, by packing eco-friendly lunches, you are more likely to save money, your children are more likely to eat healthier foods, and you are taking care of the earth by producing less waste. It's a win-win-win!
Time is often an important factor when it comes to packing lunches (at least it is for me). And while some of the following suggestions take time to prepare, if you do your prep work on a weekend, you will have food conveniently ready to toss into lunch containers throughout the week(s) ahead.
When shopping for school lunch foods, be mindful of greenwashing – "a term used to describe the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly." Just because a product claims to be "natural," contain "whole grains" or even "organic" doesn't mean it's healthy or what it claims to be. Read labels carefully. The more processed food is and the more ingredients it has, the less likely it is to be healthy whether it's organic or not. I mean seriously, organic Oreos? Give me a break!
If you buy individually packaged foods, like organic fruit snacks, how green are you really being? Think about how much plastic and packaging is involved there. A great alternative is to make your own organic fruit snacks. If you can use locally-grown fruit from your own garden or farmer's market, all the better. Package them in a reusable container like these reusable sandwich bags found in the Cool Mom Picks Back to School Guide and you have a tasty "green" snack ready to go!
Far better than buying food that contains a label is to buy label-less food, like fresh produce! Chopped fruits and vegetables, paired with a dip or nut butter, bring color, taste and healthiness to every lunchbox. Try to choose fruits and vegetables that are in season and grown locally whenever possible. You can even buy large quantities of in-season fruits or veggies and then dehydrate them to throw into lunches year-round.
Granola bars are another great snack, but when you buy them from the store they are often full of unwanted ingredients, additives and preservatives and come with excessive packaging and waste. When you make them yourself, you control what goes into them and you significantly cut down on trash or eliminate it all-together. Check out these tasty do-it-yourself granola bar recipes below. You are sure to find at least one that your kiddos will eat. Some don't even require baking! Make a batch on the weekend and you are set for lunches for the week. Put them in a reusable container and they are good to go.
- Groovy granola bars
- Peanut butter granola squares
- Cinnamon cherry granola bars
- No bake chewy chocolate chip granola bars
- Raw granola bars
Nuts are a great protein-filled food that can easily be packed into lunches. I just read a post by a woman on Freecycle asking for used Altoids containers. She said she uses them to pack nuts in her kids' lunches. What a great idea! If your school has a no peanuts policy, ask if other nuts such as almonds, cashews, pecans or walnuts are acceptable.
Does your child like yogurt but you don't like all of the waste (recyclable or not) produced by individual cups? Here's another thing you can make at home (even in your crockpot), then scoop into your reusable container and you're set. If you run short on time and have to buy yogurt from the store, buy it in the larger containers, then scoop out the desired amount into your child's reusable container. Again, less waste.
If your child's school doesn't have the option for them to compost their leftover food (perhaps you can inquire about it and get a system started), ask them to bring home their leftovers rather than throw them into the trash so you can either save them if they are salvageable or compost them yourself. This will also allow you to gauge how much and which foods your child ate for lunch.
Along the same lines, check with your child's school to see if they have a recycling system in place. If not, find out how you can get one started.
Michelle at What's Cooking blog has an entire post chock full of ideas to help your child eat healthy school lunches. Some of her tips include:
- Keep in mind that your children don't have much time to eat…so pack foods in small portions that are easy to eat, so they have time left to play.
- Let your child help you select a cool lead-free and reusable lunch bag or lunch box. Pick up a few reusable containers that will fit inside – this will prevent food from leaking and getting smashed, and will help you avoid using disposable items like plastic bags and foil.
- Pack a reusable drink container instead of juice boxes, juice pouches, cans, and disposable plastic bottles.
- Buy in bulk instead of purchasing pre-packaged items.
- Whenever possible, pack lunches the night before.
Michelle also has some great tips for sandwich alternatives, thermos treasures, and container combinations that kids can assemble themselves.
Looking for more lunch container ideas? Check out:
- Lunch Bots Uno and Duo
- Kids Konserve which contains a page with a lot of information for schools, including a waste-free challenge to earn or save money for their schools. (Use code: crunchy for 15% off your Kids Konserve purchases through Sept. 30, 2009)
- Retro Housewife put a list of cute reusable containers, utensils and cloth napkins for back-to-school waste-free lunches
- Kellie at GreenHab has also put together a nice selection of lunch boxes
There ya have it. Turning your school lunches green is healthier, less costly and better for the earth, and probably even more fun. If you have money-saving green lunch tips or kid-friendly recipes, please post your links in the comments.
Related posts:
- Melissa at Nature Deva wrote about the The Child Nutrition Act and included a link to the informative site Healthy School Lunches
- Vegan Lunch Box has some amazing, beautiful ideas for school lunches
- Beth at Fake Plastic Fish wrote the New Guide to PVC-free School Supplies
- 2 Create Your Life Blog also wrote Back to School Supplies PVC-free Please
Cross-posted on BlogHer
Make sure you head over to Organic Mania on Monday, Aug. 10, to find out how other Green Moms are greening their back to school routine in this month's Green Moms Carnival.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 74 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
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Runes of Magic, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Need for Speed World, and other Free to Play Massive Multiplayer Online Games. Majority of demographic will be in the 17-29 range.
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Thank you very much for your interest in booking with the British Alpine Ski School network. We take great care to provide you with a quality of service that exceeds your expectations. We hope that you enjoy your time with us and choose to return soon.
Here is the inevitable small print. Please read carefully and print off a copy if you so require.
All bookings with "BASS Chamonix" or "BASS Megeve" are made with BASS Chamonix Limited, registered in Scotland, 267904, and are subject to these conditions.
1. BASS Chamonix Limited does not insure its clients (whether for medical or rescue costs, against cancellation losses, against the clients' own liability to third parties, or any other type of insurance) . Most sporting activities have an element of danger and skiing is no exception. Please ensure all members of your party (i.e. all those covered by the booking with BASS Chamonix Limited) have suitable insurance cover in respect of medical and rescue costs, cancellation, and liability to third parties. We recommend that you are adequately covered by a comprehensive winter sports insurance policy from a licensed agent. Some insurance may also cover lift closures due to adverse weather conditions. If booking an off piste course or private lesson please ensure you have a policy that covers skiing/snowboarding off piste. You may be asked to provide a copy of your insurance policy before the start of the course/lesson.
2. Clients attending our courses, Group and private lessons must pay the appropriate fee in full, before joining the lesson. In the case of advance bookings, we will reserve your place for a maximum of ten days from the date of issue of the booking proposal. Please return your remittance within this period. Your booking will be confirmed by the issue of a receipt from our office.
3. Prices may be subject to revision from time to time but are clearly stated on the BASS network website and the BASS Chamonix & BASS Megeve websites. The price for advance bookings will be kept at the amount stated in the booking proposal provided remittance is made within ten days of issue of the fee note.
4. We accept payment by credit card (visa or MasterCard), debit card, BACS (bank transfer) and PayPal.
5. Credit Card transactions processed through Sage Pay online via the network website (www.britishskischool.com) will show on your statement as transactions with Ski Pro Services, Vat Reg no: 720 0407 94, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. .Ski Pro Services acts as agent for BASS Chamonix Limited.
6. All Other transactions will be directly with BASS Chamonix Limited who use WorldPay, BACS and PayPal.
7. Cancellation: In the unfortunate event of you canceling your booking the following charges will apply: More than 6 weeks' notice – 10% of fee, 2-6 weeks' notice – 50% of fee, 0-2 weeks' notice – 100% of fee.
8. BASS Chamonix Limited reserves the right to cancel its lessons for a variety of reasons. Full refunds of unused lessons will be made in this instance if an alternative cannot be provided.
a) In the case of bookings with "BASS Chamonix" for instruction to take place in the Chamonix Valley, BASS Chamonix Limited reserves the right to alter the venue of any Group lesson or private lesson between the different ski areas of the Chamonix Valley in which BASS Chamonix operates (Le Tour, La Vormaine, Les Grands Montets, Les Chosalets, Flegere, Brevent, Savoy and Les Houches) at no less than 1 hours' notice where this is deemed necessary in the opinion of BASS Chamonix Limited or the instructor due to adverse weather conditions, poor snow conditions, lift closure, or the skiing ability of the client or others undertaking instruction with the client.
b) In the case of bookings with "BASS Megeve" for instruction to take place in the Evasion Mt Blanc ski area, BASS Chamonix Limited reserves the right to alter the venue of any Group lesson or private lesson between the different ski areas of the Evasion Mt Blanc ski area in which BASS Megeve operates (Megeve, Jaillet, Combloux, St Gervais, Les Contamines, Giettaz, Praz sur Arly.) at no less than 1 hours' notice where this is deemed necessary in the opinion of BASS Chamonix Limited or the instructor due to adverse weather conditions, poor snow conditions, lift closure, or the skiing ability of the client or others undertaking instruction with the client.
9. Should clients not show for the lessons booked and paid for, through ill health, injury or any other valid reason, no refund will be given. Nor will any refund be given in the event of lift closures due to adverse weather, change of venue as set out in clause 8 above, or other circumstances outside the control of BASS Chamonix Limited. However, we will, if requested, provide a letter for submission to the client's insurers setting out the fact of cancellation and the reason given by the client or confirming the fact of lift closures.
10. Where a booking is made for a Group lesson, rather than a Private lesson, BASS Chamonix Limited has a minimum required number of participants for each type of Group lesson, as stated on the BASS Chamonix & BASS Megeve websites. Please refer to the website for the minimum Group lesson size for your booked lessons. If we cannot fulfill the specified number for your Group lesson we will offer you a choice of either converting to private lessons or a full refund.
11. Children's Group lessons are ordinarily not available outside school holiday periods. Exceptionally, at our discretion, we may accept a booking for a Group lesson if at least 4 children of the same level are booked to attend the same lesson at the same time.
12. We will not teach children in Group lessons who are under the age of 6 but can provide private lessons.
13. Group lessons can vary in ability due to people's understanding of their level and our description, we reserve the right to re-arrange participants and instructors undertaking Group lessons, as we see fit, for the benefit of the group and individuals. But this is at our discretion and availability. Changes can not be demanded by the clients.
14. To ensure that we can provide the best, most enjoyable and safest lessons for you and your family or party please provide us with any relevant health & injury information which can enable the Instructor to look after you and all within the group. This information should ideally be provided by email before you arrive in resort, but if you have not done so please provide it directly to the instructor on the day (please help us to help you).
15. Booking with us is purely for the participation of the lesson and and does not include the hire of any equipment, uplift ticket or personal insurance (as stated in item 1 above).
16. Booking contracts are subject to Scottish law and any dispute arising under or relating to a client's booking with BASS Chamonix Limited is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Scottish courts
17. If our service does not meet your expectations please speak with your instructor and contact the office when you are in resort to see if we can resolve the situation for you.


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Neil Young plans to release his $400 PonoPlayer portable audio player and the proprietary music download store that goes with it at SXSW, via a Kickstarter campaign set to begin on March 15, according to a press release making the rounds. The device will play PonoMusic files, with audio elements designed by Ayre Acoustics, after a deal to do the same with Meridian apparently fell through.
In some cases, these PonoMusic files have reportedly been remastered for this new format. It's not clear how much each song download will cost, but it could be more than Amazon and iTunes charge, due to the extra work involved with creating these new downloadable audio files. The player will not support streaming music.
"The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums," reads the press release, which appeared on Friday, three days before its March 10 date (updated). "Memory cards can be used to store and play different playlists and additional collections of music."
Based on its capacity and the number of albums that apparently fit onto the PonoPlayer, these files should have a bit rate of around 360 Kbps, which is also the maximum bit rate allowed by MP3. As some have noted, Pono will have to have its own, new compression scheme to fit these apparently higher resolution music files into that amount of space.
According to details first published on Computer Audiophile (which broke the news) and apparently since deleted, the PonoPlayer will feature the ESS ES9018 chip (.pdf) for turning the ones and zeros into sound, as well as a custom-designed filter from Ayre Acoustics with minimal phase, and without the "pre-ringing" Pono claims is present in other audio file types. It will also have a small LCD touchscreen, and will come in three colors.
"Our goal was to offer the highest quality digital music available from all the major labels with the world's greatest sounding, user-friendly portable music player," stated PonoMusic CEO John Hamm. "We've achieved our goal and we are excited to launch our Kickstarter campaign next week to invite music lovers everywhere to join the PonoMusic community and reserve a PonoPlayer for their own enjoyment."
Will music fans be willing to pay $400 for a music player that is not also a smartphone that handles so many other tasks, and to buy their music in download form from a single store? Audiophiles are notoriously spendy, and for them, $400 isn't much for a piece of audio equipment, but it's unclear how mainstream music fans will react. We should have a better idea about that soon, once the Kickstarter campaign launches.
Neil Young is scheduled to speak at SXSW at 5pm on March 11.


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Gov. Brown's budget plan was built around the idea that it would be a mix of cuts and temporary tax extensions, with the taxes subject to voter approval in a late spring special election. But now the cuts have been made, and the tax extensions have been stalled, so there's no election. What comes next?
The answer is: no one knows. And everyone in Sacramento has a different take on when and whether the people might weigh in on the question of extending the taxes on income, sales and vehicles. For those who wish to know more, the Sacramento Bee has a very useful synopsis of where all the major politicians and interests groups are on this question.
My own take: an election is useful primarily as a way of ending the small and mostly pointless debate about the budget. Republicans, Democrats and the governor should put their best budget offer on the ballot -- and let voters decide which one they want to support. In the meantime, folks in Sacramento can focus on constitutional reform.


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Rama Screen has a look at a poster for The Bounty Hunter taken at Rama's local movie theater. Click here to view larger version… @SPE_LatinAM on Twitter has posted that the trailer for the film will make it's debut on MSN on Friday, December 18. Stay tuned for more!!!
Gerard is currently in Dubai for a whirlwind 36 hours to accept Variety's International Star of the Year award. He has concluded a "Conversation with Gerard Butler" and photocall at the fest. View more pictures…
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An interesting role rumor has popped up on the Google Alerts about a minister in Pennsylvania. Samuel Childers is a minister, a soldier and loves to ride his Harley-Davidson — an unusual combination to say the least. Now a movie is being made about his life. Gerard recently visited Childers at his church in Central City. He may play the "Machine Gun Preacher" in the movie. Screenwriter Jason Keller wrote the screenplay about Childers, who got his unique moniker from his aggressive style of saving African children from warlords. Read more…
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The Georgia Department of Archives and History maintains a web site of information on its organization, collections, and services. The mission of the Georgia Department of Archives and History is to identify, select, preserve, and ensure the accessibility of government and other information constituting Georgia's recorded history, including the official records of Georgia from 1732 to the present. In addition, it collects private manuscripts and photographs which complement existing archival holdings. Links to online publications, finding aids, and other web sites related to Georgia history and genealogy are provided.
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It's Time to Make Cold-Brewed Coffee!
You can predict it each year: as the mercury climbs, legions abandon their thermally insulated mugs and scramble for cold coffee. Whether you're an old hand at cold brew, or new to the slow, all-night magic of preparing cool coffee for hot days, it's time to get out the strainer and get your chill on.
Cold brew methods are exalted for the low-acid coffee produced, and as such are ideal for brewing not only a refreshing cup but one that's mellow on your stomach. The overnight process of steeping coffee in water at room temperature yields a gentle-on-the-digestion concentrate, that you can use again and again—the only time you're allowed to make coffee just once, but keep drinking the rewards over and over. The process is simple and delicious—the hardest ingredient to come by is time.
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You can make cold brew coffee in any number of simple devices, from a jar to a pitcher to a French press. Companies like Toddy, Filtron and others make contraptions specifically designed for cold brewing, but assuming you have anything in your house that can hold liquid and coffee at the same time, you can basically use that.
Because cold-brew doesn't take electricity to make the coffee (other than grinding it—which of course you can do by hand, you carbon-neutral angel you!), you don't need anything else besides coffee, water, and a fine-mesh sieve and another filter-y cloth (cheesecloth, a brewer's hop bag, or a cloth coffee "sock" filter all work nicely) to get all those nasty, silty coffee particles out.
How To Do It Slow
The idea behind cold brew is that you not only serve it cold, you brew it cold—or rather, at room temperature. So instead of using heat to extract the coffee into drinkable goodness, we rely on time. Set aside a good chunk of time—most people just leave their cold-brew to extract overnight—and be ready for the goods about 12 hours after you deploy the water into the coffee.
Cold brew coffee is also easily adaptable to whatever sized vessel you're using, though if you're only relying on a standard Mason jar or French press carafe, you won't end up with a whole lot of concentrate. Find yourself a pitcher you like (and a comparable sized vessel to help you filter the brew twice with.)
Measure out a ratio of roughly 1 part coffee to 4.5 parts water to make your concentrate. E.g., if you're using a 64 ounce, or 8 cup, container, you'll want to measure out about 1.5 cups of medium-coarsely ground coffee. (Grind it fairly coarsely to help make it easier to filter out the particles in your final brew—your overnight steep should give it plenty of time to extract all the flavor. Gently mix the coffee into the water, making sure all the grounds get saturated, and leave the mixture to steep for the next 12 hours.
Once your coffee has steeped, you can first filter your coffee through your kitchen sieve (or French press screen if you're using a press) and into another vessel. Dump any grounds that remain in the original brewer and filter the coffee back into the first vessel, this time through a more fine-screened cloth such as cheesecloth. Dump those grounds, too.
Now you've got a concentrate upon which to base glass after glass of delicious cold coffee, whether you drink it at fridge-temp or over ice. It wants to be diluted before you drink it—try a ratio of 1 part concentrate to 3 parts water and attenuate to taste. You can keep this bad boy in the fridge for up to about two weeks, adjusting it to your preferences with water, milk, ice, cream, or whatever's your warm-weather pleasure. Sit back and relax and congratulate yourself on the off-the-grid deliciousness you've concocted.
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More Cool Coffee
- How to Make Japanese-Style Iced Coffee
- Taste Test: Canned and Bottled Ready-To-Drink Coffee
- 5 Cool Coffee Methods in NYC
- Mr. Brown and Me: How I Came to Love Taiwanese Canned Coffee
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Much-Cited Analytics Tool App Annie Raises $6M
Whenever I ask venture capitalists how they find interesting new apps and start-ups, they mention App Annie, so it makes total sense that a few of them would get together to put money into their favorite tool.
The company, which is aiming to be a sort of Nielsen for app stores, has raised $6 million in Series B funding led by Greycroft Partners and others including e.ventures, Infinity Venture Partners, Kii Capital and previous investor IDG Capital Partners.
Beijing-based App Annie gives away substantial analytics for free on iOS, Android and Mac, both free and paid apps. The company says more than 100,000 apps use these tools, including 80 percent of the Top 100 iOS apps.
It also publishes free store stats, which can be used to track any one app's popularity across the world. (So it's very useful for reporters, too!)
While keeping its free users' data private and anonymized, App Annie plots a curve to make market estimates for app sales, revenue and downloads on each platform and in each country. These approximations aren't exact, but they tend to be reasonably close, the company says.
This is App Annie's paid product, bought as a subscription service by publishers such as Gree and Storm8 and platforms like Microsoft and Nokia.
The market estimates help answer questions like how many downloads it takes to get into the Top 10 in a certain country, or whether a certain category of app has become popular in various regions.
I asked lead investor Dana Settle, a partner at Greycroft, about her experience using App Annie, and she said its stats had been endlessly cited by one of her associate partners, which got her attention. "We were a free customer. Now we've overpaid," she joked.
Settle said she's not worried that native app stores will go out of vogue as mobile Web apps improve.
"For now, the app-store world has taken strong hold," she said. "App Annie will evolve as the world evolves. They're so well-positioned with publishers, and that's key."
App Annie's competitors include Distimo and appFigures. The company spun out of Beijing-based software consultancy Exoweb, which had developed its own popular iOS game, High Noon. With poor existing app-analytics tools — for instance, the Apple App Store clears app data every two weeks — Exoweb built its own.
After releasing the paid intelligence product, App Annie has been cash-flow positive since last year, according to CEO Bertrand Schmitt.


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