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I'm a huge window shopper. And the internet is the epicenter of window shopping for me. One of my favorite things to do is go to a few of my favorite stores (here and here) and put, like, thousands of dollars of clothes, bags, belts into a checkout cart. And then….I simply click out and move on with my day. It's almost as if I get the pleasure of shopping without any of the guilt. I truly recommend everyone give it a whirl–it'll make your mind clearer and your soul feel full.
I also do the same thing with food. A few hours before lunch when I'm a little hungry, I click over to Foodgawker and start clicking away, drooling and dreaming about my next meal, only to be disappointed with the lackluster options near my work. Ugh. But I think some of my most awesome food ideas come from straight starvation.
Like these cute little cookies…I wanted to make cookies for you guys; I started staring at Salted Caramel Ice Cream and Salted Caramel Doughnuts and I got the brainiac idea that Salted Caramel Cookies would also be amazing. I think I was right.
The base of these cookies are a basic, shortbread cookie. I was actually a little surprised by them because instead of being just flaky and easily breakable, they're in fact a little chewy and moist–totally fantastic. I whipped up some caramel, filled the little thumbprint with the stuff, topped it with some fancy schmancy sea salt, and voila! Salted Caramel Thumbprint Cookies.
Now, I do realize that caramel stresses people out. Actually, everytime I make it I stress out a little bit. But I have a few tips that have made my life easier.
#1- Get all your ingredients together before you start cooking your sugar. The process goes fast.
#2- Warm your heavy cream just a little, this will stop it from seizing once it hits the hot, cooked sugar.
#3 – Wear long sleeves. Hot sugar can burn the heck out of you so be careful.
If you keep those little tid-bits in mind, then you should be fan-freakintastic.
Salted Caramel Thumbprint Cookies
Makes 16 cookies
Shortbread Cookie recipe adapted from Barefoot Contessa
Caramel recipe taken from Salted Caramel Mousse by Trish Desseine
1 1/2 stick of unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup of granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract
1 3/4 cup of all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup of granulated sugar
2 ½ tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
In an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter and sugar until they are just combined and then add the vanilla. Separately, sift together the flour and salt. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture to the creamed butter and sugar. Mix until the dough starts to come together. Dump on a floured board and roll together into a flat square. Wrap in plastic and chill for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, take out the fridge and cut into 1 1/4-inch squares.
Roll the dough into 1 1/4-inch balls. (If you have a scale they should each weigh 1 ounce.) Place the balls on an ungreased cookie sheet. Hold the cookie steady with one hand and press a light indentation into the top of each with your finger. Note: I actually poked a hole using my knuckle (from my index finger) since I have nails. I also kind of molded them a little just to make sure they were purdy. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes, until they're just a little golden brown on the sides. Let them cool. While they're cooling, make the caramel.
Combine the sugar and 2 tablespoons water in a medium saucepan. Do not stir. Cook over medium-high heat to a dark caramel, swirling as it begins to brown to distribute the sugar. While the sugar and water are going at it, heat up the cream in a saucepan or microwave just until warm.
Take off the heat and add your room temperature butter. Whisk the butter in, being sure it's totally combined. Add your warmed cream and whisk vigorously.
By now your cookies should be cooled. Spoon a teaspoon of warm caramel into the indentations of your cookies and top with sea salt. You can eat right away (the caramel will be goopy and wonderful), or let sit for 2 hours so the caramel sets. Fancy and fantastic!
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I am on a salted caramel kick right now so these are looking mighty good to me. Glad you posted them! Great photo too!
Ooooh! I'm thinking, throw a couple of chocolate chips into the indentations while the cookies are cooling? The chocolate will melt while the caramel is cooking. Top with caramel + salt and you have something in the Twix bar family… but fancy and pretty-pretty. I'll let you know if I try it!
These are very special. Would love to bake some and bring to a friend to make them smile.
so deliciously looking, I would love a few with my hot tea now… so cold in SF.(brrrr)
i don't think you understand the strong urge i have, right now, to jump your bones. *awkward* i have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with caramel. Like seriously, last night i had a caramel filled cupcake with a glass of white wine, and could've died right there on my loveseat a happy woman, knowing full well that whoever found me would've found me wearing soffee shorts and a shower cap (deep conditioning my hair). so now that i've thoroughly shared too much information, i'll just say that i'm printing this recipe RIGHT NOW and the moment it get's cool enough to use my oven, i'm making these cookies. and will likely eat half the batch before it occurs to me to share them with others. thank you 🙂
Those look amazing!
Bethany–Oh my, I love chocolate and caramel. I think that's an amazing idea.
Nadette–I feel like we have the same exact fondness for caramel. For reals.
I can just imagine this- buttery, sweet, salty- yum!
I want to try these soon! Super yummy!
I love Free People too! I will load up my fictional basket soon and make these cookies even sooner.
I love shortbread cookies and I love caramel, so these are right up my alley. The suggestion by Bethany to add chocolate sounds good, too. Maybe dip the whole cookie in chocolate after the caramel has firmed up a bit? Then it would really be like a twix. Yum!
So I just tried to make these and it was a bit of a disaster. I followed directions, but my cookies lost their thumbrints when they came out of the oven and my caramel started forming correctly but ended up not hardening. I now have a caramel soup! I would love to try again, do you have any suggestions on what I might have done wrong?
- December 12, 2010 at 8:45 am
I tried to make these last night too with the same results as you describe. I had to make the thumbprints again with a spoon when the cookies were fresh out of the oven. Caramel didn't form right either. They tatse good but they don't look like the picture at all. I probably won't make these again.
Curls–Oh no! I molded them, making sure they had a deep pocket. When I put the indentation in, it almost touched the bottom of the baking sheet, without going all the way through the dough. My caramel was runny at first, too, though it actually made it easier to fill the indentations that way, and after I did so, the caramel firmed up a bit after a few hours. But if yours was too liquidy, I'd cut down the cream to 1/2 a cup. I hope those tips help!
These look amazing. And the Boyfriend is a huge caramel fan so they're definitely going on my virtual recipe "to-cook" list!
I'm dying to try this out but considering I can't even make toast without burning the kitchen down (don't ask), I think I'll pass. Instead, I think I might stay here and stare at these for a while.
Thanks so much! I cut the cream down and everything came out perfect! Then I ate all of the cookies. Oops! Haha, thank you so much for your help!
- December 4, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Curls I wish I had read the comments first….SAME problem here!!! Working on my second round of caramel right now!
- December 8, 2010 at 9:44 am
Cooking the carmel longer also will thicken it up…drizzel some in a cup of ice water and you'll be able to see it's texture when it's cool.
- December 9, 2010 at 10:18 am
DEFINITELY CUT THE CREAM. I have caramel soup too. should have read the comments… may be worth revising the recipe? also, the note about making a deep imprint is a good tip too. it will disappear if it's not deep enough.
Oh my gosh! yum! these look fantastic!!!
Curls–Yay! So glad you love them!
Well cover me in caramel and call me Ms. Delicious. That's right, "Ms.". I might be a married woman but this treat is too tasty looking not to be had by all. Yeah, sue me! And screw window shopping…
These look AHHHHH-MAZING!
I should really check this blog at night rather than in the morning. I see this when I get to work and I'm craving it for the rest of the day…
Well done.
The salt on cookies is always underestimated. But not here. Can't wait to try these.
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Just made these and they were a huge hit. Thank you! I think I'll try the Salted Caramel Doughnuts next. Where can I find those?
You're so right, caramel can be wicked tricky. I think you saved a lot of people some heartache by giving them a heads up. I had to learn the hard way…
Really great blog. So glad that I stumbled upon you guys. xoxo
Genius. Pure and utter genius. Can't wait to try! Thanks for the inspiration (the thought of salted caramel in a thumbprint never, ever occurred to me).
Wow, these are like the Marilyn Monroe of cookies, sex bomb cookies!
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Does the caramel stay sticky? I'm always looking for good cookie recipes to ship to soldiers, but the heat there makes a lot of recipes not good. Plus, the cookies need to ship well. There is only so much careful packing you can do.
- December 5, 2010 at 7:35 pm
I don't know… I have a brother in Iraq and it takes two weeks to get his packages… 4 or 5 days wouldn't be enough. 🙁 maybe vacuum sealed they'd last longer?
- December 8, 2010 at 9:46 am
be careful, the any heat will reliquify the carmel and if they're not level the carmel will run out of the indentations…
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These look so good, but I just can't seem to make caramel. I have tried half a dozen times at least and all I end up with is a burnt crystallized hard-as-a-rock mess in the bottom of my pan! I've tried washing down the sides with water and that doesn't seem to help either. I guess I will have to live through all the others that have made and loved these!
- December 2, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Okay Adrianna I'll give it a try!
mmm caramel cookies…. hello lover! =)
I can't wait to bake some of these… will try tonight!
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oh my gosh!!! i am sooo making these tomorrow for my pig out friday day!!!!
finally, a recipe that doesn't have chocolate in it.
Oh sweet baby jeebus!!! These are *amazing*!!!! I made a double batch tonight, for my students tomorrow. Um, they aren't getting any. And holy hell, I have never made my own caramel before. I will never again buy it. I want to bathe in the stuff. Not a chocolate fan at all, you taught me the quick way to cure the need for a caramel fix lol Now, have a recipe for arable that will set up firmer but still aste te same?? lol
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I linked over to this from The Pioneer Woman and literally dreamed about these cookies last night. I am studying for finals but I had to take a study break today to make them! delicious! I used less cream (1/2 c) in the caramel and probably could have used even less but these suckers are fabulous. Thank you!
hmmm, I just tried these and the cookies completely flattened out in the oven! I followed the recipe to a T except the dough stayed in the fridge for about 90 min instead of 30…. any suggestions?
- December 5, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Sorry to butt in here, but I wondered, Natasha, if you might need to check the actual temp of your oven. You can buy a very cool hanging thermometer, for that purpose, that goes inside your oven to check that the temp on your dial is really the same on the inside of the oven. Greatest discovery I ever made ; ). Good luck!
- December 6, 2010 at 2:24 am
I checked mine a few times because I was worried about this and half way through and at the end of baking, took the end of a wooden spoon to reinforce the thumbprints. Not ideal but it worked!
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I made these last night, but the dough never came together. It was way too crumbly, so I added an egg and that fixed it. I skipped the chilling step and they still held their shape and tasted wonderful. I actually put chocolate chips on them as soon as they came out, then some homemade caramel sauce I already had and added a pecan on top. They looked and tasted yummy!
I've been seriously thinking about these for a week! Food obsessed. Unfortunately we can't easily get Kosher salt in the UK and wondered if I can just substitute for normal table salt or even sea salt? Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
I have about a pound of soft caramel left (Peters) that I used for some cookies a couple days ago. Do you think I could use that caramel? I am thinking that the caramel is soft enough I could probably just roll some little balls and put it right on the cookie after taking it out of the oven. Do you think this would work or should I try to melt the caramel in a bowl first?
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Love the look of this recipe- I think I'm going to make it for a cookie swap later this week! Wondered if you'd recommend doubling the recipe, or if you think its better to make two separate batches? Thanks!
- December 16, 2010 at 9:22 am
Made them last night- it worked great! OMG these are delish… will be posting about them later this week. You get full credit!
I made 2 batches of these. But the dough for the cookie itself turned out too crumbly to use each time – it wouldn't hold any shape at all, let alone let me make an indention for the carmel.
The first time I added an egg and about 1/8 c of shortening, which worked the best, but the thumbprint didn't stay through the baking process. However after baking I was able to put it back in. The second batch same thing, but I only added the shortening. This one I couldn't get the thumbprint at all, had to put the next one in mini-muffin tins to get them to hold any sort of cup shape. Both time they tasted delicious especially contrasted with the carmel.
Any thoughts as to what went wrong?
- December 18, 2010 at 9:40 am
Not sure what went wrong, but mine were soooo crubmly as well! I rolled them into balls and baked them that way and then about 3 minutes before they were done I imprinted them…it seemed to work and they were DELICIOUS!
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I made these but the dough wouldn't hold the thumbprint during the baking process. In fact they went completely flat. What did I do? Is there some sort of trick that I missed?
- December 19, 2010 at 12:05 pm
I think it has to do with how chilled the dough is. About half of mine held their imprints another 25% vaguely kept the imprint and 25% were totally flat. Since all of the dough was made at once, that's the only difference I could think of.
If anyone knows otherwise, I'd be interested to hear their thoughts!
- February 21, 2011 at 11:44 am
I had the same problem and actually put the thumb-prints into them after they came out of the oven, while they were still warm.
I made these for a cookie swap today and they taste delicious! When I baked the first batch, I followed the recipe directions-and my cookie did not keep it's shape at all through the baking process. So my next batches I just left them in balls, baked them for 10 minutes (until they were done) and then used a spoon to imprint them when I took them out of the oven. That worked perfectly, and left a perfect little cup for the caramel.
YUM!!! Had to redo the caramel, but it was worth it.
GREAT recipe! Thank you!
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I loved this idea, however my end result was unfortunate. The cookie dough itself tasted fine, but the finished cookie tasted flat, like it was missing something, and I'm not sure what. Maybe not enough salt? I don't know. Also didn't help that I burned the caramel too.
I was sad – these look so pretty and yummy. I might have to try again.
My roommate and I absolutely loved these cookies! The caramel had a slight burn taste the first time we made them but that almost made the flavor even better, by some standards. I've been making the caramel sauce alone and putting on on ice cream, etc., ever since (this recipe gave me the confidence!).
I do have one question: anyone know how long these cookies are good to eat once they are baked? I want to make some as a gift but I'll only be able to bake them a week in advance due to extenuating circumstances. Will they still be wonderfully delicious after that time?
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I made these for Christmas and they were a HUGE hit. People were fighting over them at my Christmas Eve party to the point I had to hide some so my boyfriend could have a few on Christmas morning! Totally delicious! I do not have a sweet tooth ever, but I have become obsessed with salted caramel anything! The salt cuts the sweet so well. These came out perfect for me, I made the whole recipe for the shortbread. Love these!!
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I made these today and many of my cookies had large cracks around the side so when I spooned the carmel into the cookie, it leaked out. The flavor of the cookies are spectacular and I'd definitely make again, but would be certain to check for the cracks. In addition, my carmel is a golden yellow, not a beautiful brown color. Not sure what I did wrong…I thought I had the sugar mixture on the stove long enough. Anyway, I had the ingredients and wanted to give them a try. They do taste really good.
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*From bus/train station.In Mostar, the bus and train station are next to each other.To reach us from there you need to go in the direction of Old Town, taking the street MarshalaTita.Go for 1800m straight south, when you reach Old Town, you are about 200m from the hostel,keep going south (on MarshalaTita)until you reach the building of Music Center Pavarotti on the left side, you just need to continue some 10m, after that you will see one small shop ( UNO) after the shoop there is on the left side street CELEBICA we are the PINK HOUSE!!!
TAXI service: Also you can take a taxi from the main bus/train station or call 1503 taxi service and the drive to the hostel will cost you 2-3€.
*From Airport: We're only 5 minutes driving from the airport. Airport is situated at the south side of Mostar and we're in the centre of Mostar city. We offer free pickup at the airport to our hostel.
*By Car: You can get to our hostel from the north entrance of Mostar city. simply drive on the main street called Ulica Marsala Tita.
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I miss my mom home cooking. She is a very good cook. I recalled when we're young she always serve us with this dish. When I was in my confinement ( child birth) she make this dish for my lunch and dinner. We Chinese believe consume ginger during confinement is good for our body during this critical moment. Here is my Chicken with Ginger and Mushroom.
1 pound boneless chicken (fats remove and sliced)
10 shitake mushroom (soaked and sliced)
2-3 inch old ginger ( peeled and sliced)
3 cloves garlic( peeled and chopped)
2 stalks scallion ( wash and cut 2 inch)
2 tbsp corn starch to coat chicken with 2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp chicken bouillon powder
100 ml water
2 tbsp cooking oil
1 tbsp sesame oil
1: Sliced boneless chicken ,marinate with corn starch and soy sauce,set aside.Soaked shitake mushroom with hot water for 30 minutes or longer or until softened,then cut .
2: Heat wok or skillet with oil at high heat ,add in chopped garlic and ginger until lightly brown ,then add in 100 ml water.When water is rolling boil ,add in marinated chicken,slowly stir the chicken apart from sticking together.Add in shitake mushroom,soy sauce and chicken bouillon powder,let it simmer for 3-5 minutes or until the gravy thicken.
3:Quickly add in cut scallion and sesame oil,make a quick stir before dish out.Check the seasoning before serve warm with rice.
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Server farms use a lot of energy. How much, exactly? According to CNN, more than the entire auto industry does in producing cars and trucks. If the Internet were a country, it would be in fifth place for using energy and producing greenhouse gas.
Now some big server users are trying to turn their amp-guzzling ships around. Study that energy flow at left, and we'll get to it in a minute. Google says it wants to be zero emission, which is quite a feat considering that the company emitted 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2010 (the most recent year available). According to Fortune, Google's 30,000 employees have a collective carbon footprint equal to that of the entire city of Fargo, N.D. (with more than 200,000 happy residents).
You may have seen that Google is going green with 395 electric car chargers in its corporate auto park. The company is working on autonomous driving (the motivation for that is a bit unclear, though it may be a whim of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin) and also getting commuters onto 73 custom-built buses (free Wi-Fi!) so they don't drive to work alone.
But it's the servers that are the big hurdle. Servers run hot, so the cooling bill is huge. Google invested in BrightSource Energy, which is building a big solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert, and AltaRock geothermal. I've long thought that the world's server farms should be collectively relocated to Iceland, where electricity is practically too cheap to meter because of a) The tiny population; and b) The mega resources of both geothermal and hydro power. One drawback: those volcanoes. When Eyjafjallajokull went off in 2010, it stopped air traffic across Europe. The less-dangerous Grimsvotn followed in 2011.
Google's energy investments aren't huge considering the size of the company, but it has committed to buying 12 percent of its energy from green sources (wind and solar farms). What it hasn't done is built its own eco-energy servers. And that's why Microsoft's latest move is intriguing. The company has a pilot program in Cheyenne, Wyo., that captures waste biogas from a wastewater treatment plant (the kind of stuff that's normally flared off) and extracts hydrogen from that to power an electricity-producing fuel cell connected to a data center.
The key technology here is the anaerobic digester, also used at dairies to produce electricity from the cows' methane. At wastewater plants, digesters accelerate the decomposing of organic material with specific microorganisms, producing methane biogas that is rich in hydrogen.
Connecticut's Fuel Cell Energy (FCE) makes gigantic molten carbonate fuel cells (like the one at right) that suck up that methane and produce utility-scale amounts of electricity, plus waste heat that can go back into the digesters (which work best when hot).
Wait, there's more. According to Microsoft, "At the end of the process, we are still left with some CO2 as a byproduct of the fuel cell's electrolysis. The quality of the CO2 is now high enough for reuse in industrial applications. In other words, the data plant will be turning a pollutant into a valuable commodity and transporting it for use by the marketplace."
Chip Bottone, FCE's CEO, tells me, "Data farms typically use enormous amounts of energy, so how do you power them responsibly? We're using biogas as the main source of power, with the grid as backup — reversing the usual pattern you see. The intent is for the plant to be up and running around the middle of next year. The fuel cell is right next to the data center and the wastewater plant."
Tony Leo, an FCE vice president, adds that data centers are usually run off the grid, with large generators as backup. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we can see how that sometimes doesn't work out — the generators get flooded out along with everything else.
Bottone told me that FCE's fuel cells produce electricity at around 15 cents per kilowatt-hour. "That's fairly expensive, especially in areas of low-cost power," he said. "But if we can avoid the need to buy big-ticket generators, the extra cost is offset. Plus, the power is very reliable — data centers lose a lot of money for every minute they're down. It is grid connected, but it can also operate without the grid." That's an artist's conception of the Microsoft installation at left.
The grid connection is important. Some solar panels, for instance, sat useless through Hurricane Sandy because their inverters need grid power to operate. A battery backup is the solution there.
How far is Microsoft willing to go with this? Sean James, a research program manager at Microsoft's Global Foundation Services at Microsoft, tells me the company is closely studying biogas. "Our Wyoming R&D Pilot project is designed to study methods for providing a stable, clean, scalable, and economically efficient power source for data centers," he said. "Our hope is that this could become a best practice for use by our own facilities and other industries in the future as well."
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Ten students from across the country, including two Penn Staters — Nate Michaluk, a dual-major in mechanical and nuclear engineering, and Michael Melnyk, a mechanical engineering major, — presented research reports earlier this month to executives at Westinghouse headquarters in Cranberry Township, Pa.
The presentations were based on summer research projects they conducted as part of the Penn State Toshiba-Westinghouse Undergraduate Fellows Program, a summer research experience for students with an interest in the field of nuclear engineering. Research was conducted under the guidance of a faculty adviser in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering.
Presenting the results of 10 weeks of research was memorable for the students. Brianna O'Neal, a University of Iowa student, said, "It was truly an honor that [Westinghouse executives] wanted to hear what we worked on in just three short months."
Research projects assigned to the fellows ranged from work on radiation sensors, to coolant flow research, to robotic systems. "The most valuable part of the research experience was being able to reach a conclusion and have the opportunity to tell [my faculty adviser] about what I had discovered," said Michael Saitta, a student at Carnegie Mellon University.
Westinghouse executives who sat in on the technical presentations included Rick Etling, vice president, strategy, and president of the Penn State Nuclear Engineering Society; Carlos Leipner, director of strategy, research and technology; John Goossen, director of nuclear energy innovation leadership; and Joe Zwetolitz, vice president, Americas, and 2011-12 chair of the Penn State Nuclear Power Advisory Board.
"Westinghouse will keep track of the fellowship students' careers and hopefully see a few of them end up as Westinghouse employees," said Etling. "Their work would stand up to any existing research done by established companies and agencies in the industry today."
The Toshiba-Westinghouse Undergraduate Fellows Program was conceived in 2009 to give exceptional students with an interest in nuclear engineering the opportunity to conduct research on Penn State's campus and connect with members of the nuclear industry at Westinghouse. This program and others were made possible through a $2 million gift from Toshiba-Westinghouse.


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Even if they feel that recent results have not reflected performances, the bottom line is that the Dynamo visit the Philadelphia Union on Saturday (3 p.m. CT, CSN Plus) feeling the frustration of a three-match losing streak.
The hat-trick of defeats is a surprise after the Dynamo began the season with a pair of victories and because this is a veteran team that expects consistency and rarely experiences sustained disappointment.
Among last Saturday's starting lineup, only Tally Hall and Corey Ashe were at the club the last time it lost three MLS fixtures in a row, back in August-September 2010. It's a strange sensation, as striker Will Bruin admitted this week. For Bruin the key is not to let the losses affect the team's faith in its talent and tactics.
"It's been a weird month so far. Obviously you never like when you lose but we're still a group that we know we're a really good team and we're not going to stray from how we play just based on the ball going in the wrong side for us a few times," he said.
Houston could point to refereeing decisions and defensive miscues as explanations for how games that might easily have ended in a draw instead produced defeats, and why solid displays suddenly deteriorated. No matter what possession, passing and territorial advantage statistics may say, good results are achieved through the mastery of split-second moments at either end of the field. That efficient execution was evident in the Dynamo's two wins and lacking in their three losses.
The team did not put itself in a position to earn a slice of luck against New England last weekend. It did not record an official shot on target, though an 82nd-minute Ricardo Clark effort from long range was deflected and forced goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth into action. Some contrast to the opening day 4-0 win against the same opponents, when Houston put nine attempts on target.
"We started out really good the first ten minutes of that second half so I was pretty happy, thinking we were going to be all right," said Bruin. "Then our line slowly dropped, we started going deeper and deeper and there was a bigger gap between the midfielders and defense and between the forwards. So it was hard to get the ball into our feet, to get it out wide and go."
The Dynamo's scouting for their next two opponents came in a handy two-for-one package on Wednesday night as the New York Red Bulls beat Philadelphia 2-1 at Red Bull Arena. After facing the Union, Houston will stay in the northeast ahead of their game in New Jersey on April 23.
The loss stretched Philadelphia's winless streak to five games, three of them draws. The Dynamo are always introspective, preferring to take care of their own business without paying too much heed to rivals, but a glance across MLS suggests that few teams will be feeling entirely delighted with their starts to the campaign. You could call it inconsistency—or parity.
Underlining the league's unpredictability, Wednesday was the first victory of the season at the seventh attempt for New York, last year's Supporters Shield winners. "It was an interesting game, I thought both teams had swings of momentum and New York took advantage of theirs," said head coach Dominic Kinnear.
Every Eastern Conference club has lost at least once. Last year's MLS Cup runners-up, Real Salt Lake, are the only unbeaten team in MLS. Each side in the East has played between five and seven fixtures, but outcomes have been so variable that it is all but impossible to discern a pattern or trend. Among the league's 19 clubs, only the Dynamo and Toronto FC are yet to tie a match.
"I don't think anybody's out of the playoff chase just yet and no one's really streaking ahead. It's kind of funny but that's the way it goes. You maybe forget about last year but there were swings of momentum from teams last year too," said Kinnear.
"It raises an eyebrow that it was New York's first win of the year. It's always tough, there's not much between teams, it's just a little bit of luck here or a bounce there, or good play there, so when teams are down they can swing back up just from a little bit of something good happening."
Houston and Philadelphia met twice last year with the Dynamo coming out on top 1-0 each time thanks to a goal early in the second half from Clark. The 31-year-old has scored twice already this season but the Dynamo may be without his fellow midfielder, Brad Davis, who is listed as doubtful because of an ankle sprain on the official injury report.
Bruin hopes that Philadelphia's winless run will play on the minds of the home crowd. "Hopefully their fans put some pressure on them to perform and get a win and hopefully we can make it frustrating for them, that their fans might start to turn a little bit. But it's more [focusing on] us," he said. "We need a win now, that's the way we approach the game, every game is for three points, it doesn't matter who's on the other side of the field."
Tom Dart is a contributing writer to HoustonDynamo.com and HoustonDashSoccer.com. Former editor and reporter for The Times of London and reporter for SI.com, Dart currently freelances for The Guardian.


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oo yes I remember this too, so tasty!
Oh wow this looks delicious. Specially like the sound of sambal in it. Have to try it !
I usually like to grill/roast my chicken with my own marinade which has turmeric! :)
loved your Malay-style fried chicken. the marinade sounds good!
wah, i love ANYTHING with kunyit. chicken, potatoes etc. yum yum! i can't wait to cook this!
I love using tumeric for my dishes and your fried chicken really got me drooling !
Lesley, this is my favorite too...you know when I pulled your blog up, saw the chicken, I was swallowing saliva already!!! Have to make an effort to make this chicken this weekend.
I guess we Asian love spicy sambal ,right?
hmmmm...now you remind me to make some in oven since it's frezzing cold now.Use oven to heat up my kitchen too.Kill 2 birds wt 1 stone!!
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potato?hmmm,maybe I should cook some wt potato too!! thanks!
Thank you:)
hahaha!! hope you make this dish this weekend .enjoy!!
Thanks for sharing this recipe. However will omit sugar and the chillies....it's for my tiny tots. :)
Thanks for the recipe. Mine turned out really salty so I will probably omit the salt next time round. Smells absolutely wonderful though.
Very salty! Must reduce to 2 teaspoon instead!


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"People in the Bay Area, no matter how long they have been here, whether they are a newcomer or a native, understand how precious the bay is to those of use who live here," said former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos, who helped lead opposition to the Warriors' plan to build a new arena at Piers 30 32.
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Major developments have been blocked at Cullinan Ranch near Vallejo, Arrowhead Marsh in Oakland, the Palo Alto baylands and dozens of other places.
to ban all bay filling over 100 acres without a vote of the people, effectively killing the project.
Failure of Warriors' waterfront arena the latest in a long line of bay development defeats
Mountain along Highway 101 and use the dirt to build an island the size of Manhattan along 27 miles of San Mateo County shoreline.
plans to build a new arena on piers along the San Francisco waterfront is not just a local development issue, but rather the latest example of a 40 year trend around San Francisco Bay.
Gone are the days, like those in 1962, when developer Jack Foster poured 1.5 million dump trucks full of dirt and gravel into the bay along San Mateo County's shoreline to create Foster City without much public outcry or opposition.
Since the Gold Rush of 1849, San Francisco Bay shrank by a third, as people diked, dredged and filled its waters to create airport runways, housing subdivisions and other development. But that largely stopped by the 1970s and now federal and state agencies have been steadily restoring wetlands and shoreline, turning thousands of acres from San Jose to Napa back to natural conditions and expanding the bay's footprint.
That has made it much easier for environmental groups to rally opposition. In fact, not a single major development has been approved anywhere along the San Francisco Bay waterfront over the objections of major environmental groups since the 1970s.
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The Warriors will move the location of their arena to the Mission Bay area of San Francisco, on a lot near Third and 16th streets near the water, but not over the bay itself.
"There are still people proposing projects, but most of the big ones have come to a screaming stop," said Marc Holmes, a program officer with the Bay Institute, an environmental group.
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"There are some things that are pretty close to sacrosanct, and the bay, especially for Northern Californians, is one of those things," said Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State.
Opponents of the Warriors' plan, including the Sierra Club, were concerned about traffic, the arena's height and project plans to fill part of the bay. They gathered 21,000 signatures in a month to place a measure on the June ballot in San Francisco that would ban construction of new buildings along the city's waterfront in excess of existing height limits without voter approval.
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The change in public attitudes has been dramatic.
Similarly, in 1982, when Mobil Oil proposed building 20,000 homes at Bair Island, near Redwood City, environmentalists put the measure on the ballot and killed the plan by a margin of 42 votes. A Japanese developer tried again, finally giving up in 1997 and selling the land for $15 million to the Peninsula Open Space Trust. Today, Bair Island is part of a national wildlife refuge, its wetlands thick with harbor seals, fish, herons, egrets, joggers and walkers.
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Write a program that generates a random number between 1 and 10, then asks a player to guess your number. The player should be given three tries to guess your number.
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When the player guess correctly the game is over, don't keep asking them to guess. And remember,after three wrong guesses, the computer wins!
I have this so far which I just started. I need everything input/output in pop boxes(JOptionPane)
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Never on the market, it appears that the Woodside estate of financier Tully Friedman very quietly exchanged hands last November for a record setting $117.5 million, according to SF Luxe.
Located on Mountain Home Road, the nine acre estate was built in 2005 and designed by East Coast based architect Allan Greenberg, who has been named to Architectural Digest's Top AD 100 list. The stunning 8,930 square foot Neoclassical home has 4 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms with panoramic views of the Woodside mountains.
This would make this property the most expensive California residence ever sold, just surpassing the $100 million Yuri Milner paid for his Woodside estate, which happens to be just 10 miles away.
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POUGHKEEPSEE, N.Y.- The Brandeis men's tennis team continued its strong start to the season yesterday, picking up a 7-2 win at Vassar College. The Judges are now 3-1 on the season, and are ranked No. 15 in the Northeast. The Brewers, ranked No. 11 in the region, fall to 5-3.
Brandeis came out of the gates strong, sweeping the doubles matches. The closest match was at No. 1, where rookie Michael Arguello (Brentwood, Tenn./Brentwood) and sophomore Danny Lubarsky (Cleveland, Ohio/Hawken School) won a tiebreaker against Vassar sophomores Daniel Cooper and Christian Phelps, 9-8(5). Arguello and Lubarsky fought off four match points at 7-8.
Junior Alec Siegel (Deerfield, Ill./Deerfield) and rookie Jeff Cherkin (Melville, N.Y./Half Hollow Hills east) won, 8-3, at No. 2 doubles. Rookie Brian Granoff (Miami, Fla./Gulliver Prep) and junior Michael Secular (Bronx, N.Y./Plant, Fla.) comfortably claimed No. 3 doubles, 8-1.
The singles matches were all tight, but the Judges claimed four of the six for the 7-2 win.
Granoff overcame a first-set loss to win, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 at No. 2 singles. Secular had an equally close win at No. 5. The junior won a first-set tiebreaker, 7-6(7) before dropping the second set, 2-6. Secular rallied for a 6-4 win in the third set for the clinching point.
Siegel and Cherkin won in straight sets at No. 4 and 6, respectively. Siegel defeated Christian Lyon, 7-5, 6-3. Cherkin bested Juan Laso, 6-2, 7-5.
Cooper and Phelps got their revenge against Arguello and Lubarsky in singles. Cooper defeated Arguello at No. 1, 6-4, 6-2. Phelps bested Lubarsky at No. 3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.
The Judges are back in action next weekend, when they will compete in the Middlebury Invitational in Vermont.


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NHL season will be worth the wait
Hockey starved Flyers fans get to open the season by welcoming the hated Penguins. (Len Redkoles/Getty Images)
Yeah, I heard you last September. "Wake me up when the lockout's over," you said.
No one's blaming you for nodding off while the finger-pointing, name calling, line-in-the-sand-drawing lawyers cost us nearly four months of NHL hockey. In fact, I got a little blurry myself listening to all that talk about cap escalators and salary variance and rose ceremonies, but here I am with that call you've been waiting for. Time to rub the sleep out of your eyes, pull the team sweater out of mothballs, settle into that lucky couch groove and pop the top on your favorite frosty beverage. (And while you're waiting for the first puck ro drop, some suggested reading..)
The abbreviated 2013 NHL season finally begins Saturday afternoon. And it's gonna be a good one. (Kings raise banner in style.)
Make that really good. The 48-games-in-99-days, intra-conference schedule isn't just "better than nothing." This impossibly compressed timeline actually magnifies the importance of every moment, every slump, every streak, every injury. With so much on the line and no margin for error, it even makes an Islanders game worth watching. On a Tuesday. In February.
Well ... maybe.
We can make that call another day. In the meantime, the short-track race to the playoffs begins now. Here's what to look for when the puck drops this weekend. (SI.com's NHL crystal ball)
• Intensity: Forget the apparent foot-dragging during the labor negotiations. If anyone was itching to see the end of the lockout more than the fans, it was the players. For most of them, the last few months meant extra chores around the house, spirit-crushing hours in the gym and avoiding contact in half-speed pickup games with their buddies. To a man, they're ready to get their noses dirty and take out their frustrations on anyone wearing a different color sweater. It won't be playoff level nastiness, but it'll be close.
• The return of Sidney Crosby: Concussions limited him to just 22 games over the past 24 months, but Sid was special in nearly every one of them, scoring 37 points and adding clips to his personal highlight reel. Symptom-free and motivated to reassert both the Penguins and himself as the best in the world, look for him to be quick out of the gate in a couple of tough divisional matchups. Speaking of which ...
• The best rivalry in hockey: Nothing like pure, unbridled Chevy Chase/Dan Harmon-style animosity to spice up a game and right now there are no two teams in hockey -- maybe in all of sport -- that despise each other quite like the Pens and Flyers. Philly humiliated Pittsburgh in their first-round battle last spring and the lockout forced the Pens to nurse their tanned hides a little longer than they would have liked. Saturday's tilt at Philadelphia's rowdy Wells Fargo Center (3 p.m. EST, NBC) should be a bloody, high-scoring beauty.
• The Kings get their rings: Did the champs use those extra four months to extend, or recover from, their Stanley Cup hangover? L.A.'s lineup is virtually identical to the one that skated the mug last spring, so there's a familiarity that should compensate for the short camp, as should the presence of Jonathan Quick, the Conn Smythe-winner and a player many thought deserved the Vezina as well. Still, a long pre-game ceremony (3 p.m. EST on NBC) featuring the banner raising and ring presentation means a lot of standing around and heavy legs early. Will the adrenalin kick in or will they struggle as the Bruins and Blackhawks did in the openers of their recent title defenses?
• The future is now: Some people thought that the abbreviated camps would limit opportunities for young players to make an impression and earn a roster spot. There were some surprising cuts -- Ryan Strome on Long Island, Morgan Rielly in Toronto -- but several made the grade, including Rickard Rakell (Anaheim), Dougie Hamilton (Boston), Mikhail Grigorenko (Buffalo), Nail Yakupov and Justin Schultz (Edmonton), Mathew Dumba and Mikael Granlund (Minnesota), Alexander Galchenyuk (Montreal) and Scott Laughton (Philadelphia). All are worth watching, but catch 'em quick. Junior-eligible players will be allowed to play just five games (as opposed to the normal nine) before burning a year of their contracts, so the stay for some of these kids is likely to be short.
• The new-look Wild: Other teams swapped more nameplates in the dressing room, but no team made more significant changes in the off-season than the Wild. Granlund and Zach Parise are significant upgrades to an an offense that mustered a league-low 2.02 goals-per-game last season, while Ryan Suter gives them a true No. 1 presence to stabilize the back end. Chemistry and adjusting to a new system could be an issue -- Suter in particular struggled in camp, especially in transition -- but the Wild finally have a roster that can create a buzz outside of Minnesota. They play back-t0-back this weekend, hosting the Avs and the Stars.
• Panic in Detroit?: The retirement of Nick Lidstrom has made it fashionable to pick the Red Wings as the team least likely to succeed in the West. Not so fast. They're no longer a serious Cup threat, but the addition of Damien Brunner (with Gustav Nyquist waiting in the wings if he stumbles) gives Detroit fresh legs up front, and Jonas Gustafsson could be the comeback player of the year. Ultimately though, this team will live or die on a no-star blueline led by Niklas Kronwall, with growing room for promising rookie Brendan Smith. The group will face a serious test in Saturday's opener against a fast, aggressive St. Louis team that many pick to win the West. (HACKEL: Key questions for Western teams | Eastern)
If all that doesn't get you ready for some hockey, this should do the trick.


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- Todos > Health Technology Assessment > Assessment Results
- Todos > Medical Devices > Equipment
- Todos > Medical Devices > Assistive Devices
- Todos > Emergency and Essential Surgical Care > Equipment
(2014; 124 pages)
One of the cornerstones of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) initiative is access to essential medicines and health technologies. Medical devices, assistive devices and eHealth solutions are important components of health technology, which have the potential to save lives and improve quality of life and well-being. However, too many people worldwide suffer because they don't have access to high quality, affordable health technology with the problem being more acute in low- and middle-income countries.
The objective of the compendium series of innovative medical devices, assistive devices and eHealth solutions is to provide a neutral platform for technologies which are likely to be suitable for use in less resourced settings. It presents a snapshot of several health technologies which might have the potential to improve health outcomes and the quality of life, or to offer a solution to an unmet medical/health technology need. It is released to acknowledge some success stories and at the same time, to raise awareness of the pressing need for appropriate and affordable design solutions and to encourage more innovative efforts in the field.
This effort also aims to encourage greater interaction among ministries of health, procurement officers, donors, technology developers, manufacturers, clinicians, academics and the general public to ensure greater investment in health technology and to move towards universal access to essential health technologies.
All submissions to the 'Call for innovative health technologies for low-resource settings' underwent an evaluation process; technologies were assessed by an expert panel based on the material and evidence provided by the applicant as well as publicly available information. In 2013, unlike previous years, inclusion in the Compendium for medical devices was restricted to commercialized products with regulatory approval. Note that for a selected technology, the inclusion in the compendium does not constitute a warranty for fitness of the technology for a particular purpose.
All innovative solutions in the compendium are presented in one page summarizing the health problem addressed, the proposed solution and product specifications, based on data, information, and images provided by the developers of the technologies concerned.


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Verne Troyer Gossip
Verne Troyer gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
So I log on to the photo database to pull down some arfAR pics and one of the first ones I see is one of some dude down on his knees shooting Verne Troyer (aka Mini Me). I think to myself, ok, that's a bit unnecessary, but it must be a one-off. Next photo: dude STILL down on one knee with another guy staring down at Verne like he's a f-cking circus side show! A third with him being dwarfed by the photo wall at a strange angle, and a fourth with a reporter squatting down to interview him. Full Story
Is it ok to laugh…
At something really horrible if the person you're laughing at put themselves in the situation to begin with? I have been laughing at this for 10 minutes straight. It's a terrible thing and I'm surprised a lightning bolt hasn't hit our house yet but there's still time. Thing is though, he's on reality tv. Full Story


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J/125..."A Spectacular Sailing Machine"
The 41 foot J/125 is as close to high performance big-boat sailing one can find in a boat that's manageable (yes, even with spinnaker) by two or three people. J/125 is like a street-legal Indy 500 car that's easier to drive than the family sedan. Joy in ownership (and investment) is a function of time spent sailing. Time sailing depends on how easy it is to be off "on the spur of the moment" inspired by a beautiful day without having to organize 8-10 crew.Easy to Go Sailing -How easy? Throw off the cover and hoist the mainsail on slides from the cockpit using a 2:1 halyard purchase. Cast off and sail faster under mainsail alone than most boats under full canvas. Unroll the jib and fly upwind. Ready to really take off? Pull out the retractable carbon bowsprit. Hoist the spinnaker in its sock. Then from the cockpit, slide the sock up the sail to deploy the spinnaker. Trim the sheet. Hold on to your hats!
To jibe, cast off one sheet and pull in the other. No need for anyone on the foredeck. To douse the spinnaker, cast off the sheet and pull the sock down over the sail from the cockpit. Stow when ready. Can you imagine the surprise of other sailors as you fly by them in 15 knots of breeze doing 10-12 knots?
Getting the Gun - One of the thrills J/125 owners experience frequently is being first-to-finish and getting the gun. The local crowd ashore assumes, as in other types of races, being first across the line determines the winner. J/125 upwind target speed is 7.8 - 8.0 knots. 10+ knots downwind is a daily occurrence. In fact we know of no other boat of its type and length that's faster. Finding crew for weeknight and Saturday races is hardly a problem when you're first to the party.
Stability & Seaworthiness- The sense of solidity and power when sailing the J/125 is explained by J/125's extraordinary stability index of 143 degrees with a stability curve ratio of positive to negative areas of 12.5:1. This greater stability is combined with a balanced hull-form with proper amounts of reserve buoyancy forward, capable of safer & controllable higher-speed planing offshore in large waves and providing a wider steering groove upwind for sustained peak performance by average helmspersons. No IMS rule-inspired hull form can match the high 4.72 length to beam ratio of this sea-kindly yacht nor the reserve buoyancy designed into her bow sections. High length to beam ratio insures straight tracking in rough seas and light steering loads. Sailboats with fine bows and full midship sections are more difficult to balance and more likely to spin out of control in big waves.
What's Unique About J/125's Construction? The J/125 is built to ABS offshore specifications by TPI Composites using the SCRIMP resin-infusion process. Tests conducted by the US Naval Surface Warfare Center at Carderock, MD established that the properties of laminates produced by TPI's patented SCRIMP resin-infusion process are superior to low-energy pre-pregs used by many custom boat shops and twice the strength of hand lay-up.
J Boats was hesitant to enter the lightweight race boat market until something like SCRIMP/Carbon technology became available. In our judgment, SCRIMP construction greatly reduces the chances of warranty claims due to laminate failures resulting over time from pounding into waves and/or rig tension or ballast loads.
pre-pregs. There is no entrained air in a SCRIMP laminate. 1% void content reduces flexural strength by 10%. Note that 50% fiber content in a carbon laminate equates to 67% carbon/33% resin by weight. See the comparison of composite properties of low cost fabrication methods in the chart above.
Weight of Construction- after subtracting weight of keel plus 1000 pounds of rig, engine and hardware, J/125 at 2700 pounds is as much as 1500-2500 pounds lighter than competitive designs. Not all of this has to do with the J/125's narrower beam.
Hull & Deck Laminate Design- of the J/125 is stronger for its weight than E-Glass/epoxy laminates using slit CoreCell foam. J/125 uses epoxy with a combination Kevlar & E-Glass for the outer skin with two layers of carbon fiber (bi-axial & unidirectional) for the inner skin. The higher strength of these exotic materials allows a thinner, lighter skin than the equivalent E-Glass structure.
The CoreCell A500 and A600 foam cores of the J/125 laminate is further processed for strength and to save weight by:
(a) thermoforming to the shape of the boat in a second set of tooling to avoid having to slit the foam to bend it to the shape of the boat, and
(b) perforating on 2" centers to form epoxy rivets between hull skins. If the core is slit to bend to the boat, then either resin fills the slits and adds weight, or there are air pockets in the laminate which reduce strength.
Keel- The keel design of the J/125 is unique to this size boat in three ways important to the owner:
(1) The strut is cast of an NAB (nickel/aluminum/bronze) alloy rather than from steel/iron which can rust causing maintenance headaches,
(2) The integral flange of the strut has a six square foot interface with the hull in two parallel rows of ten 7/8" stainless bolts. And,
(3) Built into the leading edge of the keel as an option is a San Diego style kelp cutter.Introduced: 1997 Built to: Hull #16 Last Model Year: 2003


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054) Aikido as a Tool for Positive Personal Transformation: Week of September 20, 2009
I am back home from celebrating my teacher's (Imaizumi Shizuo Shihan) 50th year in Aikido. A number of years ago, Imaizumi Sensei and I were walking back to my house from a hike and in our discussion, he told me that his "shrine" to Aikido were his students. That statement stayed with me and led me to come up with a gift from all of Shin-Budo Kai to present to Sensei at his celebration banquet. I solicited from former and current students stories, vignettes, etc. as to what impact Imaizumi Sensei had on their lives. Steve Self, from Durango Shin-budo Kai took those submissions, along with photos of Sensei and turned them into a beautiful book that we presented to Sensei at the celebration banquet (9/19/09). Those reflections re-affirmed my belief that Aikido can be a powerful tool for positive, personal transformation.
Any martial art "asks of" the practitioner to learn how be successful in a violent encounter. A violent encounter is a form of interpersonal contact that places the highest demands and challenges upon our interpersonal skills. This interpersonal crucible has forged some of our greatest seekers of a moral society, has forged some memorable sadists and has forged some psychologically tortured souls. Aikido addresses this interpersonal arena in a very interesting manner.
I have spoken of Aikido waza as a form of kata. As I have written about previously, this form of kata is remarkably unrealistic in terms of direct applicability to real-life violent encounters. I genuinely believe that this nature of practice has the potential to allow us to engage in a level of personal transformation that can lead to us becoming both more caring and connected people, while becoming effective martial artists. Nobody is comfortable with violence. Within each of us, lies a history that leads us to struggle with how we confront violence. Aikido practice asks us to remain interpersonally open, thereby leaving us to experience a sense of personal vulnerability. Asking a person to remain interpersonally connected to a person who is trying to hurt you is asking a lot from someone. In doing so, we become aware of how not to allow ourselves to get hurt while acting in a manner that can effectively stop an attack.
A violent encounter is a form of interpersonal communication. It seems to me that effectively communicating during this form of interpersonal contact is critical to a successful outcome for me to survive/succeed the encounter. A typical fight involves people acting and reacting to the actions of the other person. There is no real attempt made at trying to understand what the other person is doing, rather it is the acting and reacting to our immediate perceptions of what the other person is doing. This is akin to an argument where two people are talking AT each other, each trying to get one's point across without really listening to what the other person is saying.
Aikido waza done properly is a condition where the nage is truly listening to the other person. This form of listening, that we call a connection, allows us to move in harmony with the acts of the uke while shaping and changing the nature of the connection so that we do not become injured in an attack. This sense of openness and connectedness is not easy in the best of circumstances. Allowing our practice to "ramp itself up" to powerful committed attacks and successful execution of techniques takes time, patience, good students and better teachers.
The interesting "side product" of this type of training is the ability to truly listen to other people in all kinds of circumstances. This skill leads people to relate better with those around them. This should help us to gain a greater sense of appreciation for the beauty and vulnerability of the world that we share with those around us. This is truly a transformational process that should help us become better citizens of our world.
I have been truly blessed (along with many others) to have Imaizumi Shizuo as my teacher. I looked around the room at the celebration banquet and saw many faces, new and old whom I truly enjoyed spending time with. I was struck by how they were a group of men and women who used our teacher's teachings to transform their lives for the better. Even people who no longer trained, wrote touching vignettes about how their lives changed for the better because of their training with Sensei Imaizumi.
I have used Aikido as a powerful tool for positive personal transformation. I hope that I can be as successful as my teacher in helping my students to use Aikido in this manner. In many respects, I believe that this is one of the greatest gifts that Aikido can offer us. Not everybody looks to their Aikido training as a means of becoming effective martial artists. People come to Aikido, stay in Aikido and leave Aikido for all kinds of reasons. If they can take this one gift with them, then I think that this can help to make our world a more sane and peaceful place to live in.
Marc Abrams Sensei


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