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Today is the latest installment of the newly launched MYTR Broadcast. It is, as I iterate every day, in the 60/40 category of ready for prime-time. After giving it the once over myself 60/40 might be a little kind. Nevertheless, I decided we launch, and we keep shipping. And we have – and continue. Warts and all.
In keeping with that nautical theme think of it this way when listening – what we're doing is knowingly put a vessel into the water where we are pretty sure the hull is intact, the engines are primed, but the rudder and a few other navigational necessities are not yet functioning up to par, or at all, and will need to be fixed on the fly rather, than sitting and waiting in dry dock. We're still in the "harbor" at the moment, but getting this thing into the water and see if she would float in the first place was far more important. So here we are.
What I'm releasing currently is the equivalent of what would be the first hour of a multi hour program. It will expand as we go further.
It is a little rough around the edges, drifts a bit in subject matter, but I decided getting the first one in the can was paramount. And after careful consideration, I thought it best not to have to talk the engineer down from the roof one more time, because last time, I wasn't quite sure if I had won him over to come back down, again. He just kept mumbling something like, "Not enough money in the world.." or something like that. But I digress.
With all that said here's a few items of importance…
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More than 160 STEM-related proposals -- adding up to $737 million in requested funding -- are in the running to claim a slice of the $150 million in federal aid available through second round of the Investing in Innovation ("I3") program. The first round of funding resulted in 49 I3 grants divvying up $650 million.
In the running for some round-two funds: Boston's Museum of Science, which has requested $2.9 million for its Expand the Gateway to Implementing Technology and Engineering Standards project. The project aims to increase the number of Massachusetts and Maine school districts providing high-quality STEM education and ultimately the number of students pursuing careers in the STEM fields
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By Paula Kelly Harline
Happy Pioneer Day! The morning of 24 July in downtown Salt Lake City, thousands of Westerners watch the "Days of '47" parade celebrating the 1847 arrival of Mormon pioneers; in the afternoon, they attend a rodeo or take picnics to the canyons; at night they launch as many fireworks as they did for Fourth of July.
What may be less known than the role of Brigham Young in all this is the contribution made by polygamous women. When Brigham Young parceled out Salt Lake City land plots, he allowed polygamous husbands to draw a lot for each of their wives, and this pattern continued exponentially as polygamous wives sometimes moved without their husbands to settlements in Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, supporting themselves as teachers, hat-makers, landlords, post mistresses, boarding house proprietors, laundresses, venders, and farmers.
For example, in 1850 not long after 39-year-old Martha Spence Heywood arrived in Salt Lake City, she became the third wife of the 35-year-old captain of her wagon train. After a few months of living in the family's Salt Lake house, Martha moved 90 miles south to the new settlement of Nephi where she had the first of two babies in a wagon with one Church sister attending. She tried to establish herself as a teacher but wrote in her diary that there were "considerably hard feelings" against her "as a school teacher," maybe because she was sometimes sick or maybe because townspeople resented her husband who did not live in Nephi but had a supervisory role in their struggling settlement. Along with teaching, Martha made hats that her husband advertised in the Salt Lake Deseret News. After a few years in Nephi, she moved to southern Utah and claimed a vacant "good adobe" house. Once again taking up school teaching, she even accepted produce as payment so that any child could attend school and, over the years, established herself as a legendary school teacher. The Heywood family owned homes in three towns.
Starting in 1890, Mormons no longer officially sanctioned new polygamous marriages, but those who were already married like second wife Mary Ann Hafen carried on until the polygamous generation died out. In 1891, she moved 50 miles away from her "general merchant" husband John (who lived in Santa Clara, Utah, with his first wife) to Bunkerville, Nevada, where they could get cheaper land. Mary Ann wrote in her autobiography that in the "first year" when she and her children were "just getting started" in Bunkerville, her husband came down from Santa Clara "frequently" and "helped [them] a good deal." But as time went on, "he had his hands full taking care of his other [three] families," so she cared "for her seven children mostly by [her]self" because, as she explained, "I did not want to be a burden on my husband, but tried with my family to be self-supporting." John had provided them with "a house, lot, and land and furnished some supplies." Mary Ann rented out her twenty-five-acre farm up the road—the 1900 census listed her as a "landlord." Sometimes she and her children used the farm to grow cotton and sorghum cane that she could exchange at mills for cloth and sorghum sweetener. She sewed the family's clothing on the White sewing machine she saved up for. They preserved peaches and green tomatoes and ate from their large garden, and they kept a couple of pigs, a cow, and some chickens.
In yet another example, first wife Lydia Brinkerhoff settled in the town of Holbrook, Arizona, while the second wife Vina and their husband settled on farmland outside town—the two locations multiplied the family's financial prospects. In town, Lydia took in boarders, did laundry for hotels, sold vegetables from the farm, and managed the town's mail contract.
Settling new land was not easy, and, in general, frontier women worked hard sewing linens and clothing, churning butter, making cheese, raising chickens, planting vegetable gardens, preserving jams and jellies, curing meat, cooking, producing soap and candles, and washing clothes. Mormon polygamous wives also took seriously their responsibility to nurture their children into their faith.
During the historical reflection that accompanies Pioneer Day, we can see how polygamous wives also participated in the Western American dreams of independence and expanding land ownership.
Paula Kelly Harline has been teaching college writing for over 20 years for the University of Idaho, Brigham Young University, and Utah Valley University. She has also worked as a freelance writer and artist. She currently lives with her husband, Craig, in Provo, Utah. She is the author of The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women.
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Lengua de res en salsa de alcaparras (Beef Tongue in Caper Sauce)
January 19, 2008 in Colombian Food
If you have read some of my older posts, especially the ones relating to latino foods, you see that I occasionally write about recipes that might be a bit disturbing to the general American cook. This is not on purpose but because the experience of cooking food in the US can be fantastically different from that in other countries where the people are much closer to the food source.
In the past, I have featured photo-documentaries on how to prepare a pig for a lechona (pig roast) (Electronic Gluttony: A pig roast by any measure), have talked about making liver and onions (Liver and Onions: You might even like it!), and how to make delicious fried pork belly (chicharrones) (Chicharron – Deep fried pork belly – How To).
Today I am going to share a recipe that comes out of my childhood and likely that of many other Colombians (as well as other latinos) – Lengua de res en salsa de alcaparras (Beef Tongue in Caper Sauce). Yep, thats right, beef tongue. If you are a real foodie, this should not be that much of a stretch. If you are still learning about new foods and new cultures, do not be afraid, this is not as odd as it may seem.
As a kid, I did NOT like this dish. I can not say why but I have a memory of turning my nose up to it and I regret that. I think it had to do with the tomato being cooked and acidic and not about the flavor of the tongue.
I had never bought a tongue to make for my family but when I was on a pig belly shopping mission to make Colombian chicharrones recently, I came across a beef tongue and decided to make it myself and see how I did and how my family did.
One of my goals for this year is to go deeper with my photography and explore foods more intimately. This beef tongue was just such an opportunity. I hope to share other foods over time, its just a matter of creative space to get to it.
What follows is a little slideshow of photos that explore the shapes, textures, and colors of a raw cow's tongue.
If you think this will disturb you, skip it, my goal is not to gross you out. These things do not gross me out because I am curious about everything and I find great beauty in nature.
As you might be able to tell and simply know on an intuitive level, a tongue is mostly muscle. There is also some very delicious fat and connective tissue going on there that turns out resplendent when served.
If you decide to follow the recipe below (and I recommend it to intrepid cooks) do not hesitate to get your hands dirty. There will be peeling of this and that layer of the tongue to get it to the edible stage. No way around that!
The Results
Before I share the recipe, I would like to share my outcome. It came out in a way that did not invoke my previous experience. My problem with this recipe previously stemmed from the tomatoes, not the tongue. This recipe does not deliver an acidic tomato experience but, rather, a smooth delicious one.
The tongue slices are so tender you can cut them with a plastic spoon, I promise. The tomato caper sauce, studded with green olives, is an exact fit against the richness of the tongue.
My 11 year old said this when she tasted it, Oh mom, it tastes so savory! Like as if the savory was overwhelmingly good. There must be some massive umami going on here because it is like distilled beef essence, all in a good way.
My 4 year old said nothing because she was too busy eating. The 1 year old licked his lips and wanted more. The much older husband was also surprised by how delicious it was.
Mind you, the husband and the 11 and 4 year olds, they all watched as I did a whole photo shoot of the raw tongue then proceeded to boil and skin and boil and simmer the thing.
There was no chance that anyone could forget that this was a cow's tongue we were talking about.
They loved it anyways!
My problem?
I had to fight to save a couple of pieces to shoot the next day. Was not a pretty sight and the moment I was done shooting the beauty shots, the sharks moved in and the tongue disappeared!
The Recipe
Lengua de res en salsa de alcaparras (Beef Tongue in Caper Sauce)
- 2 or 3 lb beef tongue
- 1 lemon
- 5 cups water
- 1 green onion cut lengthwise
- 2 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup of oil
- 2 medium onions, coarsely chopped and peeled
- 2 small peeled and de-seeded tomatoes
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled and flattened
- 2 cups of broth from the tongue
- 3 tblsp tomato paste
- 1 16 ounce can stewed tomatoes
- 1/2 cup of white wine
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp fresh ground black pepper
- 20 small capers
- 10 finely chopped green olives
1. Rub the tongue with the cut lemon halves. Rinse thoroughly under running water.
2. Place the tongue in enough water to cover and simmer for about an hour.(10 minutes in a pressure cooker). Remove from heat and let it stand in the water to let it cool off a little in order to handle it. Remove it from the water and throw the water away.
3. Scrape the skin from the tongue with a knife.
4. Put the tongue with the 5 cups of water back into the empty pot. Add the green onion, garlic, salt and the peppercorns. Bring to boil, then lower temperature to simmer and cook for about 2-3 hours or until tender. (40 to 50 minutes in the pressure cooker). Let it cool off a little. Remove the tongue from the broth and set aside. Bring broth to a boil for about 10 to 20 minutes to reduce. Strain the broth in a colander lined with dampened cheesecloth to remove the solids. Set aside.
5. Add the oil in a large, heavy skillet over high heat. When hot, brown the (un-cut) tongue all over, for about 6 to 8 minutes. Remove and set aside.
6. In a food processor, add the 2 coarsely chopped onions, the tomatoes, and the flattened garlic cloves. Finely process. Add this mixture to the skillet. Also add the reduced broth, tomato paste, wine, salt, and ground pepper.
7. Bring to a simmer for 5-7 minutes. Add the tongue, capers and the chopped olives. Cover, over medium heat, and cook for about 30 minutes, or until the sauce is thickened. Place the tongue on a cutting board and thinly slice. Place the slices back into the sauce, or place the slices on a serving plate and pour sauce over it.
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My friend Benj Edwards knows more about odd little bits and pieces of computing history than just about anybody. Over at the Atlantic, he's come up with a doozy: The story of a 1950s drawing rendered on the Air Force's super-ambitious air-defense computer system. It may have been the first art ever created with a computer.
The drawing in question was based on a 1956 calendar painting by Esquire's George Petty, America's favorite pin-up artist. Among the remarkable things about Benj's piece is that he not only identified that the Air Force's art was based on a Petty Girl, but figured out which Petty Girl it was.
The Air Force's computer was known as SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Equipment). It was amazing for its time, and Benj provides a thorough look at it, too.
Bonus attraction for tech-history nerds: The vintage photo of the digital Petty Girl which Benj uncovered (and let me borrow for this post), taken by a 21-year-old Airman First Class in 1959, is…a Polaroid.
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Do they taste like chicken?
They look like chicken.
lol. I'm not sure what they taste like, but the aros really like them.
they taste pretty much like chicken eggs. The old timers around here used to saute them in butter and have a feast.
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they taste pretty much like chicken eggs. The old timers around here used to saute them in butter and have a feast.
I have also heard of oldtimers feasting on the eggsacks. not as popular as the perch fillets though nowadays for most. I'm sure they are incredibly nutritious though.
Very greasy on the discharge end of things when fed to your fish, keep an eye on your water quality when feeding them, a lot of fat content.
The cholesterol is like 9 times higher than chicken eggs of the same quantity, a grabber just waiting for you there.
I'm sure with the amout of filtration crispy has he could serve up a few rashers of bacon with those eggs and his water params wouldn't change in the slightest
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Iraq is in political crisis, less than a week after the formal end of direct US involvement in the war there. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has brought terrorism charges against Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, is moving to oust Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq from his position, and has threatened to take away the nine cabinet seats held by the largely Sunni Iraqiyya bloc and replace them with members of his own Shiite governing coalition.
Mr. Hashemi, a Sunni Islamist who heads the Iraqi Islamic Party, is a member of the Iraqiyya bloc, and had a number of close family members murdered during Iraq's civil war. Hashemi had some ties to Iraq's insurgency during the worst of the fighting (when former Monitor reporter Jill Carroll was released by her Sunni kidnappers in 2006, she was dropped off in front of his office) but has worked as much as any on his side of the fence to forge sectarian reconciliation in the years since.
But now he has fled to Kurdistan, where he's being shielded from his arrest warrant. In a televised news conference today, Mr. Maliki threatened the Kurdish north with "problems" if they don't hand over Hashemi.
Iraqiyya's legislators have walked out of parliament while the group attempts to hang on to its cabinet seats, which are the valves of political patronage in the new Iraq. While Maliki's threat to simply appoint his own ministers is unconstitutional, the Constitution has been increasingly ignored when inconvenient.
With Iraqiyya being politically hounded, a return to open civil war in Iraq is a real possibility. The group effectively represents Sunni interests in the country. Sunni voters turned out enthusiastically in 2010 after past electoral boycotts, and the group was in effect an experiment in whether they could gain a real political voice in the country through the ballot box. The failure of that experiment will send a worrying message.
How did we get here? Last year, Maliki and fellow Shiite politicians deftly outmaneuvered Iraqiyya to hold on to power after elections. The new prime minister assured his erstwhile American benefactors and Iraq's Sunni Arabs that power sharing arrangements would be found to mollify fears that a new tyranny of the majority was emerging in Iraq. That's one reason three "vice president" posts were created, including the one Hashemi now holds.
Sure, Iraqiyya had won a plurality of seats in the new parliament and so by rights should have been allowed to form Iraq's government. But Maliki had simply cobbled together a stronger coalition, all part of the democratic game. Fears that Shiite Islamists will lord it over Iraq's Sunni Arab minority (about 40 percent of the population)? Don't worry, Maliki said. I'm creating a super-committee to share power to give Iyad Allawi (the former Baathist who leads Iraqiyya) a meaningful seat at the table.
The powerful defense and interior ministries? Maliki said: Don't worry, we'll set those aside for now but I'm sure a reasonable compromise will be worked out to place respected figures in those posts who will quell concerns they're being transformed into tools of political oppression.
But almost exactly a year after Maliki's government was formed, defense and interior are directly controlled by the prime minister, something that is probably illegal under the new Iraqi Constitution that the US helped to write. The power sharing committee? It still doesn't exist. Sectarian tensions and fears? They have been heightened in the interim with the latest moves against Hashemi and the rest of Iraqiyaa the cherry on top.
Many in the United States continue to misunderstand what's been happening in the US-Iraq relationship for the past five years. The US desire to restore sovereignty to Iraq culminated in the 2008 Status of Forces Agreement signed by President George W. Bush that called for complete withdrawal by the end of this year. Many in the US establishment hoped that an extended stay would be worked out in the interim.
But in Iraq, the US occupation (widely described by that term there long after the US had given up governing powers) was deeply unpopular. Maliki and the Shiite Islamist politicians around him, who plotted the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and his Baathist regime from Tehran, Amman, and Beirut for decades, were eager to see the back of America's army.
After the US troop surge in 2007 helped tamp down Iraq's tragic sectarian bloodletting, and with a reconstituted Iraqi Army and police force packed with Shiites and built on the US dime, they had little use for extended US influence in the country. So Maliki refused to give President Barack Obama extended permission for a large troop presence in the country.
This was not only predictable from an analysis of Iraqi politics and the preferences of men like Maliki, it was largely unavoidable. While those involved in the partisan punditry game, like The Washington Post editorial board – which argues today that the current crisis is Obama's fault (his administration "risked just such a breakdown when it disregarded the recommendation of its military commanders that some US forces remain in Iraq to help guarantee against a return to sectarian conflict") – suggest that US troops could have remained, they don't seem aware of the difficulties involved.
To stay without explicit Iraqi permission would be in effect another reoccupation, with an Iraqi prime minister transformed from ambivalence to the US to open hostility. Without the immunity protections of the old SOFA, US troops could be seized and tried under Iraqi law, the same law being wielded against Hashemi now. What then? Another war for regime change?


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Enabling Businesses to Spur Growth25 June, 2014 | (01 hr)
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Start-ups and other small innovative companies, including those developed by digital entrepreneurs, play an important role in energizing the business environment, but they often face many institutional barriers. This is especially true in Europe, where policies and attitudes seem frozen in time. Hurdles include limited access to finance, regulatory complexity, the availability of important skills, and a policy-making process that seems biased toward established and large firms. Companies must overcome these challenges to build the sustainable competitive advantage that is crucial for success in the fast-moving digital world.
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