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Somehow, it's the end of week three – and I'm still sort of standing!
I really thought I was doing well; I've been on top of my work, doing well on tests, even managing to get a decent amount of sleep. And then today, after my 6am wake up for my weekly four hour pharmacology lecture, I realized that I am actually feeling an overwhelming sense of exhaustion and the desire to sit in a cool, dark room for the entire weekend. (Not that that's an option, what with all the studying I need to do.)
Has it really only been three weeks of class? Hasn't it been more like three months?
I keep reminding myself that this summer is a sprint: intense and over before you know it. Truly, there are aspects of this program that I'm loving – why don't I go ahead and write them down to keep myself from turning this post into an unsavory whinge-fest:
- For the most part, the standard of the teaching is very high. I have enormous respect for my professors and instructors, and am constantly concocting little reasons to schedule an office hours meeting with them, despite the fact that I don't have any questions of an academic nature. Just so that I can hang out with them and ask them about their lives and careers.
- My classmates are excellent – sharp, engaged, compassionate, and with a dizzying variety of backgrounds and accomplishments. I'm glad to know them and proud to be counted among them.
- I'm loving learning how to conduct a full physical exam. During this summer we're each paired with a classmate on whom we practice inspecting, palpating, percussing, and auscultating from head to toe; I swear it's like being given the keys to a secret garden of weirdness. Did you know that your optic disc looks like the sun setting inside your eye? Or that your ear's tympanic membrane looks like mother of pearl? Or that there's actually a reason that they ask you to open your mouth and say "aaaah" at the doctor's office, apart from making you look like an idiot? (It's to visualize your pharynx and tonsils, as well as to ensure that your soft palate rises symmetrically while your uvula stays midline – indications that your cranial nerve X isn't damaged.)
Interestingly, I'm feeling a little more tepid about the thing that other members of my class seem most excited about: the one day each week that we spend in a hospital unit learning how to be actual nurses. There's nothing like suddenly being assigned to care for an ill stranger in a hospital to make you realize that you are ignorant in the most fundamental of ways: how should you speak to the patient? How should you touch them? How do you walk the fine line of providing care appropriate to the professional role of a nurse, without veering into non-professional areas like socializing with them or being their "fetcher?" (Hint: pouring water from a pitcher on the bedside for a shaky patient whose medications give them dry mouth is a-OK – fetching them (or their cousin) a Coke from the vending machine – NO A SPRITE! NO A GINGER ALE! – just because they want one, is not.)
This isn't my first time interacting with people and providing them with intimate care in a hospital setting – but the last time I did anything like this, it was as a doula in China. And those women weren't sick – they were just pregnant. True, they were sometimes in pain, but the pain of "back labor," and how to manage it, isn't the same as someone who has back pain following surgery for a herniated disc. Those women didn't have open sores as a result of being bedbound in their homes; they didn't have central lines that needed cleaning or tracheostomy tubes that needed suctioning. They were never so neurologically impaired that you couldn't tell if their sudden grimacing was because you were hurting them or because some mental demon was flashing before their eyes.
Or perhaps it was something about the hospitals I visited in China made that those experiences so different from this one. The hospital to which I am currently assigned is such a nice institution: it's recently built, it mostly serves the surrounding community (as opposed to being a magnet for transfers from other communities or hospitals), it isn't a level I trauma center. It is well staffed, and mostly calm. They even have "quiet hours" during the day on the unit where I work in which the lights are dimmed and people speak in hushed tones to allow the patients to get rest during the day.
As much as this is all to promote a healing environment for those being treated there, it also creates an otherworldly atmosphere that I find unsettling. When I enter the hospital I feel as if I'm leaving the world of the living and entering a place of sterility and suspension – a place somewhere between this world and the next. No matter how nice you try to make it, a hospital is a place that serves as a land of limbo for the sick and dying; it makes my heart hurt to be in one.
I didn't have this feeling in China, and perhaps, perversely, it has to do with the fact that the hospitals I was in were nowhere near as "nice" as the one I work in now – they were chaotic and dirty. Families wandered all over the place, carrying in food, clothes, and supplies for their loved ones (who are otherwise not provided with these things by the hospital itself). At the hospital that I visited in The Valley, a stray animal or two could often be seen roaming the halls.
While this made them much worse places from a clinical standpoint (my God, the rates of infection), they felt like places in which life was happening on a continuum with the outside world. I felt, oddly, more comfortable in them.
My role is different now, of course. The expectations that my wonderful preceptor has for me and my classmates are high, which puts me in a state of mild terror every time I have to do something new – although I am pleased to say that I was able to rally my Spanish skills somehow to interact with the first patient for whom I was responsible, who did not speak any English at all.
I'm uneasy just at the moment. I hear that it passes.


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Santa Clara Calif. (Saturday July 12 2008) – The Colorado Rapids earned a road point today against the San Jose Earthquakes in a 1-1 draw at Buck Shaw Stadium on the University of Santa Clara campus.
The game marked the first time the Rapids have earned a point when conceding the first goal of the game. Until today
Conor Casey equalized for the Rapids in the 70th minute when he headed a Terry Cooke cross into the bottom corner of Joe Cannon's net. Today's game was the third in a row for the
The Rapids had the first scoring opportunity of the match in the 12th minute when Facundo Erpen played a through ball to Casey. Casey outran Eric Denton to the ball but his shot went wide of the goal.
Bouna Coundoul made his first save of the game as he easily tipped a 20-yard shot from James Riley over the crossbar in the 26th minute.
Ryan Johnson took advantage of a Pablo Mastroeni slip in the 36th minute to get a shot off that just nicked the outside of the post.
Christian Gomez tested Cannon from outside the penalty area in the 40th minute but the former Rapids keeper was up to the challenge.
In first half added time Coundoul took a ball off the foot of Ivan Guerrero after Johnson found him alone toward the far post.
Johnson put
Coundoul made a diving save to deny Ronnie O'Brien on a free kick in the 67th minute.
Omar Cummings made a 40-yard run in the 80th minute as he beat two
Casey had an opportunity to put in the game winner in second half stoppage time when he redirected a
Scoring Summary:
SJ – Johnson (Corrales) 62
Colorado Rapids – Bouna Coundoul Ugo Ihemelu Pablo Mastroeni Facundo Erpen Christian Gomez (John DiRaimondo 69) Mehdi Ballouchy Terry Cooke Nick LaBrocca Colin Clark Conor Casey (Jose Burciaga Jr. 90+) Tom McManus (Omar Cummings 59)
Substitutes not used: Preston Burpo Kosuke Kimura Jacob Peterson Herculez Gomez
San Jose Earthquakes – Joe Cannon James Riley Nick Garcia Jason Hernandez Eric Denton Ronnie O'Brien Ramiro Corrales Kelly Gray (Ned Grabavoy 58) Ivan Guerrero (John Cunliffe 56) Ryan Johnson Kei Kamara (Shea Salinas 81)
Substitutes Not Used: Dan Benton Jay Ayres Ryan Cochrane Jovan Kirovski
Misconduct Summary:
SJ – O'Brien (Caution) 53
SJ – Garcia (Caution) 72
SJ – Kamara (Caution) 75
Referee: Hilario Grajeda
Referees Assts.: Frank Anderson; Jose Corro
Fourth Official: Baldomero Toledo
Attendance: 9107

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This is a bow I built for my brother in Oregon. I started by making some rough sketches of how I wanted it using some cut outs from previous builds.
I had a full panel of grey action wood, I made some cuts for my riser and wedge set, I then ground my wedges on my sled first into tapers and then made them into parallel wedges.


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• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Syria today to meet with President Bashar al-Assad, just days after Russia and China blocked a United Nations Security Council effort to take stronger actions against Syria.
Mr. Assad's supporters lined the streets of Damascus, waving flags – including a few Russian flags – to welcome Mr. Lavrov to the city, Reuters reports. Russia has been a staunch voice of opposition to international intervention in Syria. The Russian foreign ministry said Lavrov is there seeking "the swiftest stabilization of the situation in Syria on the basis of the swiftest implementation of democratic reforms whose time has come."
In the days since its veto of the Security Council resolution, Russia has been in "full damage-control mode" amid an onslaught of international criticism, The Christian Science Monitor reports. Russian analysts defend Moscow's opposition, by saying the Western-backed resolution lacked a strategy for the "state collapse and social catastrophe" that is likely to follow if Assad is overthrown.
"The USA and the West insisted that the resolution had to be passed, allowing outside interference, in order to stop the massacre," of Syrian civilians, says Pyotr Romanov, a political analyst with the official RIA-Novosti news agency in Moscow. "But has anyone given any thought to what happens next? Are you really trying to tell us that good moral forces will come to power? People with no blood on their hands, who will bring anything decent, much less democracy? Please."
"We were not against the resolution, but we wanted such a clause inserted to ensure that no military interference in Syria was intended, but our demand was not met," says [Andrei Klimov, deputy chair of the State Duma's international affairs committee]. "We considered this to be a matter of principle, and we still do. . . Russia feels a responsibility toward Syria, including military and technical cooperation, and our agreements stipulate mutual assistance in difficult situations. We don't have many such agreements with foreign states."
Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said that Russia and China have lost "diplomatic credit" in the Arab world in the wake of their veto and said their vote implied to Mr. Assad that he had free rein for his crackdown on government opposition, Reuters reports.
Arabs would continue working to end the crisis but had a limited scope to act without international support, he said.
"We have put all our cards ... on the table. It is up to the United Nations to decide. The Security Council has failed," he said. "We have nothing else to do. We have 10 floors here (in the Arab League headquarters). Go find our planes or our tanks. What else do you expect us to do?"
Harvard professor Stephen Walt, writing in Foreign Policy, argues that last year's "triumph" in Libya – the UN Security Council's authorization of international intervention in order to protect civilians, which quickly became a tool for regime change – is now a major obstacle to international actions against Syria.
There are a number of reasons why the U.N. effort has failed thus far, but part of the blame lies with the liberal interventionists who abused the Security Council's mandate during last year's intervention in Libya.
But what if the Libyan precedent is one of the reasons why Russia and China aren't playing ball today? They supported Resolution 1973 back in 2011, and then watched NATO and a few others make a mockery of multilateralism in the quest to topple Qaddafi. The Syrian tragedy is pay-back time, and neither Beijing nor Moscow want to be party to another effort at Western-sponsored "regime change." It is hardly surprising that Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin condemned the failed resolution on precisely these grounds. In short, our high-handed manipulation of the SC process in the case of Libya may have made it harder to gain a consensus on Syria, which is arguably a far more important and dangerous situation.
Moscow may have been motivated in part by a desire to shore up the Assad regime because of the billions of dollars of arms contracts between the two countries. But Reuters reports that many analysts say the veto was "driven less by love for Assad or hope of a return to Syria's pre-conflict status quo than by Prime Minister Putin's desire to show … that he will deft Western efforts to impose political change on sovereign states in regions of big power competition."
Russia may be merely seeking a "controlled demolition" of the Assad regime, without Western intervention, rather than a desire to prop up the current government, according to Reuters.
Meanwhile, the Syrian government's onslaught has barreled on, emboldened by Russia and China's defense. The BBC reports that the Syrian Army has been "pounding" Homs, one of a few rebel strongholds throughout the country. Residents worry that the artillery being fired on the city from its outskirts will soon turn into a ground assault, led by army tanks.
Activists told the BBC that at least 95 people were killed in Homs on Monday alone.
Turkey said it will launch an international effort of its own against Assad, BBC reports.
China, the other country that vetoed the UN resolution and thus also a target of international criticism, said it may send an envoy to Damascus.
"Today, China, because of its rapidly rising strength, sits at the main table on the global stage, and needs to get used to newly being in the limelight. The international community also needs to adjust to China's new role," said Ruan [Zongze, identified as a foreign affairs expert writing in The People's Daily]. "Although this means that China will face even more difficult choices when it comes to handling complex international affairs, China must dare to speak its mind, and proactively create a just, rational global political process."
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Complete Story
NCTA Urges Government to Concentrate On Serving the Unserved
By: John Eggerton, Multichannel News
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association says the federal government should put a priority on extending broadband service to areas that can't get it at all, and to helping underserved populations buy and use the service that already exists there.
Only after that, and if there is any money left over, should the government start putting money into essentially overbuilding underserved areas according to faster speeds or some other measure of "underserved."
In essence, that was the message the cable industry was trying to convey in a letter addressed to every member of Congress.
NCTA is weighing in before the National Telecommunications & Information Administration, the FCC and the Agricultural Department's Rural Utilities Service decide how to dole out the $7.2 billion in broadband deployment grants and loans provided for in the OBama administration's economic stimulus package.
In the letter from NCTA President Kyle McSlarrow to Congress, the cable association identified a number of the barriers to adoption in underserved areas that the government could address short of simply funding new competitors to cable operators already serving those areas. They included affordability -- adding the caveat that price concerns come despite declining prices per megabit and the increasing value of the service -- and the lack of a computer, or computer literacy.
NTIA, FCC and RUS will meet next week in a public forum to discuss the grant/loan program. Among the issues that needs to be resolved are defining an underserved area and how best to serve it. The FCC has the added charter of coming up with a plan, within a year, for getting broadband service to everyone in the nation.
Those unserved areas, McSlarrow wrote, exist despite the progress cable -- the largest broadband provide -- has made in wiring the nation. He said that included spending $146 billion since 1996 to upgrade and expand networks that now reach 92% of the country with broadband service, and the deployment of next-generation wideband service at much higher speeds.
McSlarrow also gave cable some of the credit for competition in the arena, saying that investment had spurred telcos and wireless providers to up their broadband deployment.
Source: http://www.multichannel.com/article/189517-NCTA_Urges_Government_to_Concentrate_On_Serving_the_Unserved.php?rssid=20059


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For seven days, Tom Sjolseth and I grunted, trekked, scrambled, and climbed over some of the most rugged and amazing terrain in the North Cascades. Only the last two hours were on trail. Without a doubt, this trip was the coolest enchainment of high alpine ridges, passes, and peaks I've done to date. Ridges traversed included Porkbelly, Mystery, Pioneer, and Easy. Named passes included Jasper, Wild, Pickell, Perfect, Chilliwack, and Hannegan. Peaks included Berdeen, Hagan, Mystery, N Despair, Pioneer, Crowder, Swiss, Middle Challenger, Whatcom, Easy, and Mineral Mountain. Credit goes fully to Tom for dreaming up this amazing route, which has probably never been done before in full sequence.
The trip was certainly a test of physical endurance, with a whopping full-pack-average-gain-loss-per-day of 5560 ft. Fortunately we not only had perfect weather, but we also had virtually no bugs. Conditions could hardly have been more ideal. In the days following our trip, Tom wrote: "I have no words to describe this once-in-a-lifetime journey into some of the most rugged, scenic, and remote territory in the lower 48 states....This will undoubtedly go down as my single proudest and most memorable mountaineering voyage to date." That is true for both of us. I'm so glad Tom chose me as his partner for this adventure.As Tom noted, words fail to describe our experiences, so I will let the photos that follow tell the tale. The following page gives maps, route overlays, over 100 photos, commentary, and the adventures of a particular tiny stuffed mountain goat. Enjoy!
- Day 1: Starting from the end (850') of Bacon Creek Road, we 'schwacked up Porkbelly Ridge, climbed over the east side of Berdeen Peak (6400'), and established a camp above Berdeen Lake. (+6550', -1820', 6.3 miles)
- Day 2: I began the day by running up the east side of Mt. Hagan North Peak (6960') from camp. Then we began our traverse of Mystery Ridge, crossing over Mystery Peak (6585') in the process. A route-finding kerfuffle ended in an unplanned camp on the north side of the ridge. (+6190', -6430', 9.2 miles)
- Day 3: We reversed our kerfuffle and completed the traverse of Mystery Ridge. I climbed up the north ridge of Mt. Despair North Peak (7240') while Tom relaxed at the beautiful Mystery Tarn. Then we descended to Jasper Pass and established a camp halfway up the ascent to Pioneer Ridge. (+5500', -5320', 8 miles)
- Day 4: We gained Pioneer Ridge and climbed the NW slope of Pioneer Peak (6980'). Then we descended to Wild Lake and ascended the SW Flank of Mt. Crowder (7082'). We made a sketchy descent of the NE Ridge to a camp at Pickell Pass. (+4480', -4050', 5.8 miles)
- Day 5: I woke up early and climbed the south side of Swiss Peak (7988') from camp. Then we traversed under the west side of the Northern Pickets and through the col between the Middle and West Peaks of Challenger, from where we climbed the west flank of Middle Challenger (7920') before descending to camp at Perfect Pass. We climbed up the south side of Whatcom Peak (7574') from camp. (+7880', -7540', 9.7 miles)
- Day 6: We descended from Perfect Pass, negotiated the Imperfect Impass, and gained Easy Ridge. We traversed over Easy Peak (6613') and then descended and ascended to a camp on the summit of Mineral Mountain (6781'). (+5450', -5020', 6.5 miles)
- Day 7: We 'shwacked and tree-rappelled our way down to Chilliwack Pass and traversed our way over to Hannegan Pass and hiked 5 miles of trail to Hannegan Pass Trailhead (3040'). (+2880', -6530', 9.7 miles)
DAY 1: Porkbelly Ridge, Berdeen Peak.
DAY 2: Mt. Hagan, Mystery Ridge/Peak.
DAY 3: Mystery Ridge, N Despair, Jasper Pass.
DAY 4: Pioneer Ridge/Peak, Mt. Crowder, Pickell Pass.
DAY 5: Swiss Peak, Middle Challenger, Whatcom Peak, Perfect Pass.
DAY 6: Easy Ridge/Peak, Mineral Mountain.
DAY 7: Chilliwack Pass, Hannegan Pass/Trail.
And the now-regular installment of the escapades of a tiny stuffed (becoming not so) white multi-nick-named mountain goat....


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(CNN) -- The first Le Festival de Cannes opened September 1, 1939, an attempt to extend the tourist season and bring a little film flash to the little French Riviera town.
Photographers await an announcement regarding the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in April.
It was not an auspicious beginning. On the same day, the Germans launched their invasion of Poland -- the opening shot of World War II.
The festival shut down on September 2.
Nevertheless, in the decades since it reopened in 1946, the Cannes Film Festival has established itself as the pre-eminent film festival in the world. It's a place where Hollywood glamour meets international style, wheeler-dealers try to sell their wares, hopeful starlets poses in bikinis (or less) and movie fans spend more time sitting in the dark, looking at images on a screen, than enjoying the lush Mediterranean daylight.
It's the kind of place that can make or break a film.
"Every year they come here to the Riviera, the new class of young American filmmakers, hoping for lightning to strike," critic Roger Ebert once wrote.
Some filmmakers -- American and otherwise -- manage to capture that bolt of electricity. As Ebert notes, Quentin Tarantino launched "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" at Cannes. "Easy Rider" got its first buzz at Cannes; so did Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It." "Marty" won the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, in 1955; months later its producers were accepting the Oscar for best picture. (To this day, it's the only film to have won both honors.)
Cannes also gave valuable exposure to "The Third Man," Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," Ingmar Bergman's films, Japanese cinema and -- when he was a Hollywood pariah -- Orson Welles.
But the Cannes audience can be brutal with films they don't like. "The Da Vinci Code," which had its premiere at Cannes two years ago, was greeted with catcalls and hisses. An early version of 2003's "The Brown Bunny," an independent film by Vincent Gallo, sparked disagreement, with some French critics approving even as dozens of other audience members walked out. (Ebert called it, with deliberate hyperbole, "the worst film in the history of the festival"; he changed his mind when Gallo presented a re-edited version several months later.)
Cannes began as a reaction against German and Italian dominance at the Venice Film Festival, with the Riviera town selected because -- in addition to its sunny location -- the town fathers agreed to underwrite a dedicated venue, according to the Web site "Cannes: A Festival Virgin's Guide."
By the early '50s, after a rough start, the festival had become a key spot to introduce films, particularly works coming from growing film industries in Europe and Asia.
And it was also a place to see and be seen: In 1954 -- the same year the Palme d'Or was inaugurated -- a well-endowed actress named Simone Sylva, who was serving as Miss Festival, took off her bikini top while posing with Robert Mitchum. A new Cannes tradition -- paparazzi ferociously surrounding pretty, barely dressed women -- was born. Check out a brief history of Cannes »
Though Cannes is hailed as a cineaste's paradise, it's become as much a home for deal-makers and publicists as film aficionados.
This year, the festival's lineup includes new films by Steven Soderbergh, Wim Wenders, Atom Egoyan, Clint Eastwood and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ("Adaptation"), who's making his directing debut, as well as dozens of works by little-known filmmakers hoping to break into the big time. Expect to see as much talk about money and the overall scene as about the films themselves.
The attention is not always welcome.
"Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical," the actress Lili Taylor once said.
But like it or not, Cannes has become synonymous with movies. Indeed, some people don't even realize it was a town in France long before it became a celebration of cinema.
"So," singer Christina Aguilera once asked, "where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"


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Joined: 10 Mar 2005
Posts: 104
Location: Oakland, CA
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:14 pm
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From Gil Marks' website:
Middle Eastern Pistachio Paste
(About 1 pound/454 grams or 1¾ cups)
In the Middle East pistachios are used like almonds in pilafs, sauces, and desserts such as baklava, ma'amoul (filled cookies), and various puddings. Although Westerners are familiar with almond paste and marzipan, Middle Easterners also make a similar mixture using pistachios. Since this delicate mixture is more expensive than almond paste, however, it is usually reserved for special occasions. The recipe can be doubled, tripled, or quadrupled.
1¾ cups (8 ounces/227 grams) unsalted pistachios, finely ground
2 cups (8 ounces/227 grams) confectioner's sugar, or 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (8 ounces/227 grams) granulated sugar Pinch of salt
½ teaspoon rose water (optional)
About 1 large egg white
In a food processor, finely grind the pistachios, sugar, and salt. If desire, add the rose water. Add enough egg white to make a cohesive paste and knead until smooth. Wrap and refrigerate for at least 24 hours to mellow. (Pistachio paste can be stored in the refrigerator for at least 3 weeks and in a freezer for up to a year. If the paste hardens, microwave on HIGH for several seconds until pliable.) Substitute for almond paste in baking.
Toot (Persian Pistachio Confection): Shape the pistachio paste into 1-inch balls. Roll in granulated sugar, lengthening it slightly. Insert a slivered pistachio in an end to resemble a stem. Makes about 24 confections. (In Farsi, toot means mulberry, referring to the confection's shape.)
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:47 pm
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I found these notes online from someone's blog (sorry, I went through askjeeves so I'm not sure of the url, all I know is the person's last name is Hertzman. He/she encountered pistachio paste in a professional kitchen in France. I quote his/her site below:
"Although I did not believe I would recreate the process, I did take a few notes. In particular, the central ingredient, pâte à pistache, fascinated me. I had little hope of finding this pistachio paste in the United States. I noted that according to the ingredients listed on the label, this pâte consisted of half ground pistachios, half sugar, a small amount of oil, and green food coloring....Remembering that nut pastes are essentially just ground nuts, I bought a bag of roasted, shelled pistachios, set up a small food processor, and proceeded to create some pistachio paste. I ground 2 ounces of pistachios to a powder, added 2 ounces of sugar, and continued to grind the mixture until a dry paste formed. After transferring this mixture to a small bowl, I added a tablespoon of vegetable oil and continued to mix. Low and behold, I had a pretty close imitation of pistachio paste. Unfortunately, instead of the intense green color of the French original, mine was a brownish-ochre color. One more trip to the baking supply store yielded some commercial quality, mint green food coloring gel. After adding a very small knife-point of gel to the paste, mine was now intensely green like the original."
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Location: Canada
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 3:30 am
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Thank you so much for the recipes creampuff!!!
I think I'll try one of the recipes for pistachio paste, and use that for the filling next. I'm not sure whether I should add flour to the filling or not. I'm fairly certain the crust was a sweetened pastry crust, on both top and bottom. Not sure whether I should blind bake or not??
Here are some pics of my first yummy attempt:
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Location: Paris
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:31 am
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Good afternoon!
Well, have had no luck with the pistachio paste.... but it seems that there are a heap of recipes for it posted here now.
Air, can you remember anything about the bakery? Colour of outside, shops near it, anything? Had a walk and looked in windows, but couldn't see your tarte. Was it a pastisserie or a boulangerie? (ie lots of creamy cakes and pastries, or breads and a few cake/slice/tarts)
Let me know more info and I can narrow it down and if they are still not displaying the tarte I can at least go in and ask if they normally bake it and try (fingers crossed) for a recipe, or at least will know it is the right shop.
Will try again if you can send me more info.
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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Location: Canada
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:12 pm
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Sorry I haven't posted in a while I've been really busy with work.
Anyway, I have been doing some hunting, and I found a directory map that shows the boulangeries in the area (it was a boulangerie I believe- primarily bread) I'll get the link for the map after work today.
I'm kind of wondering if the "tarte" was a misnomer because the filling was very cake-like and looked fairly similar to this:
except a bit more dense, a crust, and no pistachios on top.
I know this is kind of vague and I'm sorry
I'm trying my best to find all the information I can...and thank-you so much Debbie for all your help it is really, really appreciated!
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Location: Paris
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:39 pm
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Goo afternoon!
No problem. I have actually been very ill for a few weeks, so have not been able to get out and about myself. Take your time with the map. It will be at least another week before I am able to run around town again. I was actually about to post my apologies to you for not having been back for another look....
Anyway, hopefully we can solve this riddle. The tarte/cake sounds delicious, and I am looking forward to trying it.
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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Location: Paris, France
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 5:48 pm
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HELLOOOOO! Clotilde has posted a few times about using the pistachio paste she purchased and another post about the place where she bought it!
Here is one of the recipe posts:
Gâteau Surprise Chocolat Pistache
Here is the post about the shop:
The Magic Baker's Store
And you call yourselves avid readers???!!!!!!
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:07 pm
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Hello eveyone
Debbie I found the link for the map, if you go to the right-hand side there is a drop down menu that will show boulangeries and patisseries in the area...I'm kinnnndd of thinking it might be the Robert Isabelle place, but again I'm not sure. Either that or perhaps Au Pierrot. I don't think it would be # 2 or 7 on the map. I do remember it being on a corner, and the inside was very small and sort of angular. The map can pan around to see more of the street, so that might help.
For now, I am trying to perfect my baguette (attempt number three seems to be going a
better than the last two *fingers crossed*), but I wil try another recipe soon.
Thank-you again for your help!
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Wow, I love that map site!!! Have bookmarked it for future use. Thank you.
Hopefully I will be out and about next week - just depends how I am feeling. I think I will need a cup of tea and pastry after weeks in bed, so will have to make this a priority.
Will let you know how it goes.
Have a nice weekend
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We are an independent record label based in Athens, GA, owned and run by yours truly, Joel Proper and Lindsay Palmer. With vital help from our teammates and the bands on the label, we've been able to dedicate ourselves to exposing as many people as possible to the artists that we share our admiration in and our respect for. The main goal is to do this without compromising any of ours, the bands, or your ethics and integrity.
In 2004, in Orlando, FL, our paths crossed while in school for audio engineering. We ended up being assigned to work together on a few projects and the gatherings and record listening sessions that took place in between those projects brought to light the fact that we shared the same dedication to music, life, and unity. Through that common ground, the initial ideas for The Mylene Sheath transpired and it became obvious that we would forgo the rat race of a career in audio engineering and follow our hearts instead. We wanted to do more to give something positve back to bands, their music, and an 'industry' that gave so much to us throughout our own lives. With some continued education in Entertainment Business and the love and support of family, we began the long process of preparing and planning our own ideas of a record label.
In last few months of 2006, we relocated to Cincinnati, OH, unpacked, settled in, watched Beneath Oblivion play at Top Cats (who ended up being our best buds and a vital part of the roster) and got busy on making The Mylene Sheath happen. In August of 2007, we released our first 12", If These Trees Could Talk's eponymous debut EP. Shortly after, we heard Weak Wrists by Beware of Safety and released our second 12", It Is Curtains. From there, we began meeting all kinds of amazing people, mind blowing bands, and similarly driven partners that would become our friends and family and essentially build the entire foundation of the label. Through that grass roots process, the relationship's we've built are real and meaningful. And with everyone's hard work and dedication, we continue to move forward and build upon that foundation; organically creating something together we believe in, love, and can be proud of.
Lets fast forward three years and twenty releases to June of 2010. For various reasons, we relocated once again, this time to Athens, GA. Nate from Gifts From Enola drove their veggie fueled tour bus to Ohio and with over twenty releases, seven pets, and not much room for furniture, we loaded up and hauled FOUR TONS of vinyl five hundred miles to Athens, GA. So far, Athens has been a sweet ass place to live and run the label, and we've been welcomed with open arms from the door. There is so much killer music in the veins of this town and we're obviously pumped to have the chance to hang in the ranks.
The journey is long and no where near it's end, but we take our steps carefully and want to ensure that this is done right and always continues to be done right. From an ethical standpoint AND a business standpoint; these two worlds don't have to collide, you can find harmony between them. And we happen to believe that in finding this harmony, the music, ideas, and people we dedicate our lives to can then have a realistic chance of making their own dreams happen. Sometimes you only have one chance to make it work, so you better make it work.
So that's the overview, but the bottom line to it all is we are not only in this to release defining records by incredible bands and individuals, but even furthermore to hopefully create a sense of unity and family between us and the rest of the music lovers that join us along the way. Are we cheesy and over the top sometimes? Sure, but it's always 100% honest and from the heart. We take chances, some of them are good and some are mistakes, but we always try and we believe in what we're doing.
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It's very strange to start school in mid-July.
When I send my kids to school I always start to think of fall things. There are recipes for fall foods to dig up and fall clothes to organize. There are crafts to make, Christmas gifts to think about and fall time activities to do. Oh! I am just itching to bake. Wait. That one never goes away. I should say I am just itching to bake fall breads, and pies, and cookies.
But wait...it's still summer.
I was looking at the Pottery Barn catalog again (Rats! That catalog!) and there is this beautiful throw blanket. Mmm! How I love me a cozy blanket. It's made like a sweater...I like sweaters, but a blanket made like a sweater? Now that's just de-lish!
I shouldn't be thinking about sweaters anyway, because I now live in the desert. I still have 4 months of shorts and flip flops left. Maybe more. I am going to love being warm this winter, but boy! am I going to miss The Covers.
Actually, I have cozy blankets out on the couch right now. I like to turn the ceiling fan on high and sit under my blanket. Anytime of year.
Yes... it's a strange feeling to feel like fall on the 31st of July.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Thoughts of Fall
It's very strange to start school in mid-July.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
There are times in life that you know you are in the right place at the right time.
Today was one of them.
After church we stopped by my parents house to pick up the kids who had stayed the night. We visited for a bit and then we headed home.
There are two ways to get to our house. One very common way, through major roads, and another way that crosses a huge wash (that's desert speak for a river bed that is always dry, except when the monsoons come and they fill with swift water that "washes" away as soon as it comes.)
The Mister knew that the road would be closed but I was insistent that I wanted to see how badly it had flooded out. I also figured it wouldn't be all that flooded since it had been 12 hours or so since the last storm.
We arrived to the washed out and barricaded road and had to turn around. We turned down another side street that we thought might take us out to the bigger road when I realized that there was an elderly man lying in the desert on the side of the road. At closer glance, he was trying to use the cell phone and the dog he had been walking was looking a bit agitated and was pulling on the leash. I told the Mister that something wasn't right and that maybe we should stop.
It turned out that this elderly man had been walking the dog and his legs got weak. The dog was pulling hard on the leash and he lost balanced. He had been down for several minutes and couldn't get a hold of his wife who was in the house up the street about 200 yards away. The Mister was able to assess that he wasn't broken in any way and helped him get to his feet. We then carefully got him in our car and The Mister drove him home while I walked the dog on his leash up to the house.
When we arrived the wife had been watching out the window, fearing that the old man had been gone too long. She was so grateful that we had been there to help.
I love seeing the Providence of God. I love it even more when He allows me the privilege of being a part of it.
Job 10:12:
You gave me life and showed me kindness,
and in your providence watched over my spirit.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
The Leg Monster is Born
If y'all will allow me a bit of self promotion time. As if writing a personal blog isn't already a little self-promoting, but anyway...
Yesterday at the gym I was feeling self conscious because I woke up and realized that if I didn't get myself to the salon and have my eyebrows waxed I was going to have to go get some barrettes to hold them back. I have an appointment for the salon scheduled for next week but I am uncertain about whether or not I should wait...of course there was this fiasco a couple of years ago. Which always looms in my mind...but I may give it another try. It's at that serious level of growthage. (yes, I just made that word up). But anyway, I didn't have time to pluck before the gym. I could have made it better by using a bit of makeup but I never wear make-up to the gym. I am not there to impress anyone.
I get to the gym to attend this weight lifting class that is a serious workout. It's sweaty and ugly 'cause, you know, I'm wielding a 25 pound dumbbell over my head for fun. The Friday class is pretty tough. Taught by the tiniest women known to man. She's 5'2 if she's and inch, and she weighs all of 100 pounds of pure, unadulterated muscle. Oh! and she ALWAYS has her make-up and hair done. Always.
This tiny dynamo makes me feel like a giant, but the worst part is that she scares me to death. When I walked in and realized that she was teaching I considered walking out. She's a great instructor, but she's gonna make you hurt. Of course, when I walked into the full class, the only space left to set up was front and center. Oh no! I am going to be so close to her that she's gonna see the eyebrows.
I manage to get through class, and I am t-i-r-e-d, I start to put away my gear. I am hoping that nobody can see that I can barely move my arms. Perhaps if they are looking at my shaking tired muscles they won't be looking at my face. This is when a gal, a regular at the gym, approaches me and says, "I just have to tell you that you inspire me."
Of course, I look at her eyebrows. They are nicely trimmed and manicured and I am thinking, Yeah I am inspiring you to keep those tweezers busy. But she says, "you've got beautiful legs. I always contemplate leaving during the lunges, but then I look at your legs and I decide to stay."
And I got all sorts of flustered.
My thoughts facilitate between flattery and fear. At the exact same time I want to be delighted and I want to be afraid.
OK now. I have been told that I have nice legs in the past, (interestingly, always by women with the exception of The Mister, who has to think so) but I have to say, I don't really notice them very much. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like having legs. They are invaluable, but their just, well...legs. I obsess over other things, but never, ever, my legs.
BUT THEN! I found myself looking at my legs all. day. long. I even considered wearing shorts to my sister-in-laws house in the afternoon (you know, in case she wanted to look at them???)...but settled on capri's to tame the Leg Monster, who was growing exponentially as the day wore on...
A lot like my eyebrows.
I think I have gotten over myself now. I am truly thankful that I am healthy and active, and have a body (with legs and 20 pounds of eyebrow) that is strong and able.
I was also reminded that I am being watched. No matter where I am, I should be prepared "in season, and out" (2 Tim. 4:2) to defer to the Reason I am who I am.
Legs, brows and all.
La Vida Dulce!
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
Home Economics
One of the goals I have made for this year is to teach my children to cook. I am not talking five course dinners or anything, just some basic kitchen skills that will be useful to them.
I know you will be shocked and awed to know that I am not a patient person (ssh...don't tell anybody.) I like things done efficiently and neatly. Especially in my kitchen. Lately, however, I have been feeling that I need to be intentional in teaching them some of the basics of running a home. Even if it means a messier kitchen and longer preparation. I want them to know more than just keeping their room clean and picking up their toys (which they know how to do, but knowing and doing are very, very different, right?) I want them to have a knowledge of good homemaking skills: The proper place setting. The ability to serve good, tasty food. The charm of hospitality. Call me old fashioned, but these are skills that will serve them in the most basic ways and yet are often overlooked in the hustle-bustle, keep-them-busy-until-they-drop society of parenting my generation is living in.
I enjoy being a homemaker. And I have been thinking a lot lately about what my role is as a Mother. I am hoping that my legacy will be one that, many years from now, my sweet Kids will be cooking in their own kitchen with basic skills that they will have learned from me. Not from a cable cooking show or latest kitchen guru, but from the work we did standing side by side in my humble kitchen, when they had to stand on a step stool to turn the oven on.
Monday evening at the dinner table I announced that, since we are finally settled in the new house and school has started, we would be re-implementing the Weekly Chore Chart and they would be enrolling in Mom's Home Economics 101: Cooking.
MHE 101: Cooking would be a class in which they would assist me in the cooking of supper.
The Girl will be assisting in the kitchen on Tuesday and Thursday. The Boy on Monday and Wednesday. Whomever is not cooking will be in charge of setting and clearing the table. Friday there will be no class, cause when I was in college I NEVER scheduled class on Friday's. Their final exam will be sometime next May when they will plan and make an entire meal (of their choice) unassisted. I am a glutton for punishment I'm sure.
The Girl (a.k.a- the Easy Bake Oven Queen) was very excited about this and was planning all sorts of things that she was going to make and announcing them out loud in a French accent. (I am not kidding, this girl has a knack for accents.)
The Boy was not nearly as excited. As a matter of fact he said, and I quote, "Isn't cooking is for women?" and "I don't think I need to know about cooking because in college I can eat at the cafeteria and then I'll just marry a girl who can cook... Like Dad." And then he shoveled in a bite of spaghetti, as if he had just said that he was going to go get a haircut.
Uh. Yeah. He may be only 9, but this boy is quick. A little big for his britches at times, but quick.
This is where the Mister looked at me with a look that was a cross between "Down Girl" and "He's got you there!"
But then he looked to The Boy and said that cooking wasn't only for girls, and that it would be good for him to learn, just in case things don't work out completely to plan. (As a side note, in defense of The Mister, he can cook a few things well. But his repertoire is a tad limited.)
On Tuesday The Girl made grilled chicken, rice and green beans. It was good. A little over-seasoned, but good. I am used to having her in the kitchen with me for baking but cooking, not-so-much. She did well.
Yesterday was a lesson for both The Boy and myself. He didn't want to come to class. As a matter of fact he begged me to let him skip the first class and do a make-up on Friday. But, as you know, I don't teach 101: Cooking on Fridays. In the end I wrangled him into the kitchen for a lesson in making Turkey Taco's. He did a great job. Although teaching him the proper hold of a pairing knife was a lesson in patience. Apparently everything sharp and dangerous must be wielded as if it were a sword or light saber. Teaching the proper slicing and dicing techniques of lettuce and tomato was definitely a bit tense. I should probably invest in a First Aide Kit for the kitchen. While he was grating the cheese he did make some comment about why I didn't buy the cheese that Grannie gets. You know, the already grated cheese. To which I replied that it is the right of every 4th grade boy to learn how people in the old days had to live. It wasn't easy back then, and I had to walk uphill in the 150 degree weather, both ways, without water or shoes, and your Grannie made me do it. And I liked it. But I digress.
The Boy was happy in the end. His meal turned out well and I think he was proud of how he did on his first try. I think he will enjoy cooking if I remain patient. As an incentive I went out to find kids cookbooks at the library to see if there were a few that they could look through and pick out recipes for themselves. Of course they were all checked out. If you have any good ones to recommend you can send the titles my way.
This latest adventure at the La Vida Casa is sure to bring some good blogging fodder. That is, if I still have a finger left to type.
La Vida Dulce
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
High School Spirit Meme
I have been reading a new blog this month, Musings of a House Wife.
One of the things that I have learned through her blog is that there is a whole vocabulary that comes from the blogging world. One of those words is Meme. As far as I can tell a Meme is a list of random facts about any topic that a blogger can fill out, post on their site and then others can use that same set of questions and post them too.
So here is my first go at a Meme!
High School Spirit Meme
1. Who was your best friend? Tracy V.
2. Did you play any sports? No. I was a dancer. I studied ballet and jazz outside of school.
3. What kind of car did you drive? A used Toyota Celica convertible, with a ripped and leaky canvas top.It was literally held together by duct tape, but it was mine.
4. It's Friday night. Where were you? Babysitting. From the time I got my drivers license, until the summer of '93 when I met The Mister (he was the only guy worth giving up my Friday night cash. I made good money!) I babysat every Friday night for Mrs. C. She had two girls, who are now in college (eek!) and we are still good friends
5. Were you a party animal? Not at all.
6. Were you considered a flirt? I don't think so.
7. Were you in the band, orchestra or choir? In High school I was in choir. (and Drama)
8. Were you a nerd? No. I was one of the artsy type (who dressed preppy).
9. Were you ever suspended or expelled? Are you kidding? My Dad would've killed me!
10. Can you sing the fight song? No.
11. Who was your favorite teacher? Hmmm....that is really hard. I loved several teachers. Mr Kramer actually made US History interesting. Ms. Bowland was the director of a theater group I was in and i adored her. Mr. Markle was a geometry teacher and if I hadn't had her for Math I probably wouldn't have graduated. And Dr. D. was the choir teacher and I was one of his favorites so that is always nice.
12. What was your school mascot? An Eagle.
13. Did you go to the Prom? Yes!
14. If you could go back, would you? No, I loved it but I wouldn't trade today for anything.
15. What do you remember most about graduation? Being thankful I graduated! LOL! I was crying because it was a great year and I knew it was the end of a season. I knew that we would all part ways. My Best friend Tracy was a junior so I knew she would finish out her last year with out me and that things would be different. So it was bittersweet.
16. Where were you on Senior Skip Day? I don't remember. Probably at the school. I was in theater activities and I believe that all us "performance" people had to stay at school or we wouldn't be able to perform.
17. Did you have a job your senior year? Nope....I pretty much babysat for four families on a regular basis.
18. Where did you go most often for lunch? This is all based on my senior year, which was the year i switched from a small parochial school to a large public high school. In my senior year my friends and I would either eat at the school snack bar (did anybody else eat those awful taco burritos?) or we would go to Sonic.
19. Have you gained weight since then? No. I kind of chunked out in high school so I weigh less now.
20. What did you do after graduation? I went to a local college and lived at home.
21. What year did you graduate?1990
22. Who was your Senior Prom Date? My friend Bill was my date but at the time (and the reason I went to this high school for senior year) I was in The Shakespeare Touring Company which traveled around the city and state doing Shakespeare. So the kids in the Co. and I all went to prom as a group. We had a blast!
23. Are you going/did you go to your 10 year reunion? Yes, I went to my 10 year and it was over rated and over priced. I saw the people I wanted to see but for the twentieth I am going to find those people and get them together.
Any one else who wishes to play consider yourself tagged!
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I have been wanting a bit of change around the old blog.
Actually, the truth is that this morning I was browsing through the new Pottery Barn catalog and was feeling like I would love to refurnish my house. Instead I thought I would take 30 minutes and see what I could do to spruce up the old blog. It's cheaper and almost as satisfying!
The five of you who have read from the "Berry" beginning, know that I have an issue with keeping the blog 'look' the same. You even hung in there during the time that Mrs. Ant Rancher refers to as the "Malibu Barbie" days (hot pink and ice blue Hawaiian theme...those were the wild days huh?)
I am loving this whole slate blue and brown stuff seen all over the universe. It's so last season, but that's so me. The Blog will follow suit.
I also changed the picture in the side bar because I needed one of me in The Desert, as opposed to in The House That Has Not Sold.
I wanted to be sure to mention that I did not take this picture. Lara did while she was here for a visit. It was actually a color photo with a large mountain range in the background that I played with and cropped. Thanks Lara!
Also the cherry blossoms on the header were from a free graphics website that I found almost two years ago. I tried to post them back then but Blogger wasn't as friendly as it has gotten in the last 6 months. Now that I can just cut and paste stuff things are so much easier. If only other things in life were as easy. Hmmm...don't know what to make for dinner? Let me just 'cut and paste' this five course meal. Need to change the linens on the beds? Just 'cut and paste' the ones from Pottery Barn. Whew! I could go on and on....but I won't.
Happy Tuesday!
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Monday, July 23, 2007
What I Did This Weekend
Yes. I will admit it. I have been reading this weekend.
I didn't stand in line at midnight. Nor did I pre-order a copy, because a couple years ago The Boy managed to make The Grannie a huge Harry Potter fan so we spent the afternoon waiting by the pool for not one, but two copies of The Deathly Hallows, to be delivered directly to the door.
I am not as fast a reader as some people. But I am in the middle of the 12th chapter, which is pretty good for me since I am now having to read two fiction books at the same time (actually I temporarily put down a murder mystery I started a couple of weeks ago).
I read a lot of different things and it's usually in the very early morning with my coffee, or fiction at night before bed. Reading during the middle of the day is a challenge because two things will inevitably happen if I sit for too long: I will either get antsy or I will fall asleep. There is no middle ground.
Every once in awhile there is a book that comes around that I hate to put down and I find myself reading when I should be doing other things, like laundry, or talking to my kids, or making dinner for my man. Those times don't come very often because I like to enjoy my fiction reading. Especially books where the characters are fun to be with. I always hate ending a book with characters in it that I like. But I digress...
I am trying to finish The Deathly Hallows in short order because I don't want to know what happens in some other way. I want to find out on my own. Plus, I have a certain friend who may not speak to me until I read it because of an unfortunate event that happened after the release of the 6th book, in which she accidentally revealed the death of Dumbledore. This was not her fault because it was weeks after the book was released and she thought I was finished. But now she is guarding her tongue for the preservation of all things fiction...so I must read the book quickly or she may never speak to me again.
In short, I read a bit more than I normally would on a weekend.
On Friday I rented the old Annie DVD . You know, like the original. The one I saw in the theaters when I was a mere ten years old. The Girl and I watched it and did pedicures together on Friday night. Having a 7 year old girl is the greatest.
Early Saturday morning, I went running in the most amazing weather. It was overcast and 70 degrees and just B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. The kind of weather that makes you feel like you could run forever! Of course I didn't, but it felt like I could, which is always what you are hoping for at the end of your run. After my run I ran (not really)in the house and asked The Boy if he would like to ride his bike while I cooled down. We walked, and peddled, and had good conversation about the book-that-was-to-arrive and various important childhood things. Having a 9 year old boy is the greatest.
Later we went to my parents house. The postman's delivery of goods was followed by hoops and hollers and The Grannie and The Boy sneaked (snuck, snook?) off to read the first chapter together.
Sunday started with an apology.
Actually it started with an alarm at 5:30 am. Every morning my alarm wakes me up at 5:00 am and tells me to go quickly to the coffee. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. On Sunday there are two things I do not do: I don't set the alarm and I don't fully make the bed. Why? Because Sunday's are for rest, so I sleep in, and I always hope for a short nap on Sunday afternoons. If the bed isn't completely made I am more likely to take it up on it's offer for an S.S.S. (or Sweet Sunday Siesta.) Anyway, somebody, who will remain nameless, but who shares my room, forgot to turn off his alarm. I was less than sweet about this oversight. Hence the apology.
We went to church, and the afternoon was delightful as we all hung out in our New Home in the Desert and read, and even dozed for a minute or two. Although not in the unmade bed.
My Dad's sister was in town for a visit from the east coast. In the late afternoon we met up at my parents house for some poolside pizza and homemade peach pie, and my brother was there with his family, and my grandmother (who was as cranky as ever). It was enjoyable.
When we drove home, the sun setting against a beautiful desert monsoon sky, and I realized that this was the first time in 12 years that I had been a part of a family gathering that I hadn't hung up the phone and felt a twinge of sadness that I wasn't with them. This was the first time that I was going home. To my house. Having been a part of the big picture instead of hearing the festivities through a phone that could not satisfy the want of sitting face to face.
So the weekend was busy and yet I feel satisfied and content.
Ah! Weekends! How lovely they are!
But now it's time to crack the whip...I've got 529 pages left!
La Vida Dulce!
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Lovin' Friday
I enjoy Friday's.
It's the day I clean everything. The day I work the hardest. The day I anticipate the weekend, when I can relax in my clean house.
I also enjoy Friday's because it means I don't have to pack a school lunch for two whole days! Yay!
Have I mentioned I like Fridays?
This week I have learned that I would fail miserably at that game show: Are You Smarter Than a Fourth Grader?
Because the answer is: No. I am not. At this point I am not sure why I was promoted to 5th grade.
The Boy, a fourth grader, came home yesterday with an assignment. The homework this week has been pleasantly light. I know that next week will be a different ball game so I am enjoying the easy start. But anyway, the assignment... He was to write down five or more examples of expository books. Five or more? Scrolling through my mind I tried to remember.
Expository, I think the dictionary is expository.......Hmmm, and maybe the Thesaurus. Wait, what is expository again? Yes. Yes! Expository! Yes, definitely the dictionary and the thesaurus.
Silence...get a snack...thinking is really a lot of work, I feel hungry. OK think some more.
There are more expository books than the dictionary and the thesaurus?
Hmmm...I say out loud, feeling very grateful that the internet is always just a click away.
Meanwhile, The Boy knew exactly what different types of written word would be considered expository, and he has his list completely written down and in his homework folder before I can load up the links.
His list?
The phone book
A newspaper.
The Dictionary.
The Thesaurus.
An encyclopedia.
And one other thing, that for the life of me I cannot remember while sitting right here in front of this computer...
So you see, I would not win the 4th Grader game. Because I am not as smart as a 4th grader.
But I love Friday's and I am learning!
Have a terrific weekend!
La Vida Dulce!
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Junk Food
The first week of school has gone seamlessly which is really awesome! The kids are enjoying their new school and all seems to be going well.
I am still trying to figure out the New Schedule and haven't come up with a consistent blogging time yet! But, I was surfing some sites on fitness and stumbled upon this fun questionnaire. For those who love personality profiles, this one's for you: What kind of junk food are you?
I will reveal my profile in the comments section. I would love to know what junk food you are, so reveal your junk-food self!
La Vida Dulce!
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Random Poll- July
There are two songs that ALWAYS make me weepy.
I haven't been to a ball game or a birthday party without having to control my emotions.
Yup. The Star Spangled Banner and Happy Birthday will get me every time.
Tonight is the Championship Finals for the kids swim team. They always play the National Anthem before the start. I have been glad for my shades all season.
So what about you? What songs make you cry?
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Monday, July 16, 2007
First Day
Today, for the first time in five years we had a First Day of School event without tears. That includes me.
The house is a bit quiet today. The first day in The New House without them. I look forward to going to get them soon.
The Boy and The Girl wanted to dress exactly alike today. This (obviously) means that The Girl has to wear jeans or shorts and a big ole' t-shirt. Not what I want to send her in on the first day of school. I convinced them that dressing in the same color scheme was kind of like dressing alike. So they ran into their rooms and looked at what they had in the same color scheme. They settled on brown.
I have had a good day. I worked out, read, did some laundry, ate some lunch and now will go clip some coupons. I am hoping couponing in the desert is easier...I'm not counting on it.
I have also been meditating on this scripture since the wee hours of the morning:
Deuteronomy 33:!2, (Paraphrased)
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Friday, July 13, 2007
Dreaded Annual Visit
Well, I have completed my least favorite annual visit for the year, and I am not talking about the doctor.
I am talking Wal-mart. Every year at this time I post about this visit. The Dreaded School Supply visit.
Y'all, I broke a record yesterday. I was prepared. I had a game plan. I spent $25 and did it in 25 minutes! Yes! 25 minutes, from parking the car to pulling out of the lot. I even scored a parking spot up close (which isn't high on the priority list, but is nice when the store is packed and it is 101 degrees outside).
All in all, a painless trip.
I think that the Wal-Mart people must put the isles in real close, make the carts extra wide and then get a good laugh watching how people viciously push around each other to get those 10 cent spiral notebooks.
If it wasn't so cut-throat it'd almost be funny. You can see the intensity as you enter the School Supply isle. You can tell by just "looks" those Mom's who are experienced. There is determination in their eyes, you know they mean business. They have The List. Their kids know they aren't to ask for anything not on The List.
Then there is the kindergarten mom. The sweet mom who is excited and yet apprehensive. She's been given a list of supplies. She needs to get everything, exactly how it is written on The List. It says: Crayola Washable Crayons, Box of 10. But Crayola Washable Crayons only come in boxes of 8 or 12? She's been all over town. What should she do?
This was me several years ago as the "old-timers" rolled their eyes and whispered "kinder mom" under their breath.
But now I'm a pro.
Well, maybe not. Each year I tell myself to wait to meet the teacher before I go with the "general" supply list, because the teacher always gives a more specific list. My compulsion to get things checked off my To Do list always gets the best of me.
We got the more detailed list last night at Meet the Teacher night.
Rats. I may have to go back.
Oh how I miss my Wal-mart trips in the middle of the night with K1 and K2! It no fun without you!
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
Two years ago, in an attempt to ward off homesickness from Texas I started this little old blog. Who knew it would last this long?
By Bloggy standards I am not the most read, the most interesting, or even the most beautiful, but the blog has been a connecting point for those who I cannot see or spend time with over the years. It's been a place that I can connect, in some small way with those who are far away.
Recently I have been searching the blogs of other women. I wanted to know why others blog. Some are mothers, some are not. Some are Christian, some are not. Some work outside of the home. Some do not. There are women trying to start families. Newlyweds learning to care for the home. Amazing women dealing with major issues: brain cancer, infertility, addictions. Dealing with the loss of children.
Some bloggers are actual writers. Some should be. There are bloggers who are very serious and take their topics seriously. Some are seriously funny. Most of them make me feel like I should go take an English course somewhere, because I seriously need one.
Women from all over the country, and some from around the world, love their children, their husbands and chocolate. Not necessarily in that order. Some feel strongly about what their blog should say. There are debates going on right now about prayer, how much personal info should be allowed, and goodness! there lot of laundry woes! (I finally feel like I am not alone!)
Women bloggers like crafts, coffee and great hair cuts. They share "tips" of all kinds, from cooking to hair coloring. They also are the most caring of people, sending encouraging comments, setting up prayer links, and loving on each other lavishly. There are some amazingly talented women out there! From scrap booking to jewelry making, homeschooling to organization, you name it they are using their talents in awesome ways.
I have found that the blogs can also become all consuming. Some have decided to stop because it was taking over their lives.
As I have looked through these blogs in the last couple of weeks I have learned that the majority of the blogs I have read are all women who are about my age, and no matter what we do or where we do it we are all hoping for community. To make a difference in a world. We want to be heard. We want to know that we are doing things right. We want to be connected to something.
And I guess in some way I have felt that way as well. I started this blog in a time when I felt isolated in a new town. The blog helped me to connect with my out-of-state friends and family. But it has also been a place that i could write. Something I have enjoyed doing my entire life. I am not a "writer", but writing has always been a way I have dealt with life. Obviously, I save a lot of my writing for my private journal, but sharing some of my thoughts has been fun. Staying connected with my girlfriends all over the country has been awesome and meeting new "blogger-gals" is encouraging and fun too.
Blog's are interesting to me because I have always loved an autobiography. I have always enjoyed learning about what other people do. I love reading old journals: The Dairy of Anne Frank, and even that old junior high read, Go Ask Alice. I love them because peoples lives are interesting and educational. I just love a good personal story.
So it is on the two year anniversary that I am going to do a few things. I don't aspire to be as bustling as some of the amazing blogs on the net, mine is a simple blog. But I am going to make a few personal goals, if you will.
One of the things that I have missed about living in NC is the time in Bible study I had to do to be prepared as the facilitator of the Women's Ministry in our church. I was always doing the best I could to be intentional in keeping sharp in the Word, so that if I ever needed to speak at a luncheon or meeting that I would always be prepared. I haven't done much of that in the last 5 months because of the move and changes that come with relocating. And I can tell I am out of habit, because I am as dull as a spoon right now. But soon things will be a bit more routine and I have been slowly working and studying and I hope to do a weekly devotional-type post about life in the desert. Be looking for those by the first of August or so.
I also hope to change the face of the blog just a bit and to make it more personal. This will take a couple of months but I look forward to seeing how that will take shape.
I am also going to update the side bars and keep the blogs I read down to ten. Because I am learning from others on the net that, like many good things in life, the bloggers world can take over...and I so don't want that.
So in celebrations of the La Vida Dulce Blogiversary, let the laundry go for the day, find some more chocolate, have a good cup of coffee.
Thanks to my friends who read!
La Vida Dulce!
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Last Week
I have packed this week with fun things to do with the kiddos. But it started with a little happy gift for myself: Dinner with Jen With One N and her family. It meant a lot to me that they stopped by to see me and the kids and the new house on route to their vacation destination. It was so fun to have her in my new home.
By the end of the week we will have finished swim team practices for the season. We will have played with cousins, gone to a water park, met the teachers, bought new school supplies, and seen a movie. We have 5 days left and i am trying to cram it all in.
We have also been taking the kids to the park nearly every evening because the rainy season has officially been declared, which means that it is humid by desert standards, but much, much cooler. For instance, today it only reached 99 degrees. Which may sound like a lot to some but it is almost frigid after two weeks of 112+ degrees. I know I am known for my powers of exaggeration...but trust me, there's a huge difference. One is tolerable. In the shade, almost pleasant. The other you can try at home by setting your oven to warm and then sitting in it. (OK, that was a joke, please don't sit in your oven.)
We have been walking to the park at night because it is so pleasant out side when the sunsets, and the added bonus is getting to watch the storms roll in with the fantastic lightening bouncing within the clouds.
Until tomorrow...La Vida Dulce!
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Oh! To Be a Simpson
I found that you could go to the website of the new Simpsons Movie and make yourself into a cartoon character.
I just couldn't resist.
Tonight after dinner The Mister and The Kids and I made our whole Simpson-esque family.
I haven't watched the Simpsons since high school but I used to be a huge fan back in the day.
So what do you think?
Does it look like us?
La Vida Dulce!
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Monday, July 09, 2007
I do love visitors, and the La Vida Dulce home has had a plethora in the last 10 days.
As you know, last week we had Lara and Co., then on Saturday we had a surprise visit from our brother-in-law from PA. Tonight I have another sweet freind, Jen With One N, and her family coming over for dinner as they travel across the desert. I love getting to see the Gals. One by one my Texas Gals swinging by...ah summer! (all you other Texas gal's...that was a paid political announcement!).
So I was taking a break from dinner preparations to log in and tell you that we had an adventure last night that was a especially exciting for The Girl. Actually, it was terrifying, but not quite as bad as the Yellow Jacket adventures in the Smokies that happened this time last year.
We had heard from a few of the nieghbors that during the rainy season the male tarantula's love to come out and look for mates. And last night after the sun went down we went for a nice walk to the neighborhood park. On our way home we inerrupted one large spiders' plans for a big evening out in the desert. The Girl almost stepped on it and in the process freaked out...just a bit. The Mister was forced to carry her all the way home. Secretly, I kind of wished someone could carry me too!
In all honestly, it freaked me out a bit and made me realize that we live in an area that is still fairly wild. We have seen coyotes, owls, bats (they were flying all around us last night), and prairie dogs (that are pretty cute). I am just hoping that I never run into a snake while we are here. I have been a bit scared about snakes since we got here. Especially since my parents' neighbor found one IN THE HOUSE.
So these are the latest adventures of the La Vida Dulce household.
Company can come and stay...Critters cannot.
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Saturday, July 07, 2007
Who Knew?
I had planned a post on something else today, but I got distracted by something amazing...
Not only is today a "lucky" day of 7/7/07, where everybody is getting married and buying lottery tickets in order to partake of this day in history, but more importantly it's Chocolate Day!!!
How lucky is that!!!!
I cannot pass up the opportunity to celebrate (y'all know I love a reason to celebrate!), nor would I pass up any reason to eat chocolate, so, quick, go find some chocolate (eat some chocolate chips if that's all you have!) and eat a bite with me!
Happy Chocolate Day!
La Vida Dulce!
!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!
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Friday, July 06, 2007
I am not complaining. Really.
While my friend was here we found that there is a new breakfast cafe that has opened a couple miles from my house. This morning while out for my morning run I was minding my own business, listening to my MP3 and happily running out the sleepiness and enjoying the cool desert air (the temperature was a chilly 82).
I am used to different smells while running. There is the smell of burning car oil from an old blue truck that passes me every morning. There is the lady I always see walking, she is always completely done up, hair, makeup, and very strong perfume. There is the smell of the desert mesquite and the palo verde trees, and the recycled water the city uses to water the lawn at the park.
But today, there was a new smell.
As I rounded the corner at the 2.5 mile mark I suddenly smelled the sweet, rich aroma of pancakes.
For the record, it's hard to run when you smell pancakes.
This reminded me of when I was a kid. My Dad had taken up bike riding, or it might have been running, I am not sure. Anyway, he would get up early and go out to exercise. One early morning the phone rang and my mom came out of her room fully dressed and said, "Let's go."
It seemed that my Dad had run past the Bagel Bakery and decided that the aroma of fresh bagels was too much to ignore. He called my mom to bring his wallet and to come have some breakfast. We all laugh about this story and there has always been a part of me that thought that this wasn't an accident. Perhaps my Dad had always intended to stop by for a bagel.
But now I am not so sure, because it was almost as if those pancakes were calling to me. Luring me away from routine and inviting me in for coffee...
I may have to change my route.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Happy 4th of July!
We are having a great time here in the desert! Having Lara and her family over has been fun. Last night the guys gave us a hall pass, so I went to see some cactus. We drove to a favorite local "loop" at sunset and got some amazing pictures. We had Fernando Ortega on the stereo and the air conditioner pumping STRONG (it was only 107 outside). I, being a sunset nut was so happy to be in the desert at sundown. I wish that the photo could more clearly give you the colors that played across the sky. The sun looked gigantic!
Afterward, we went for sushi and were able to relax a bit after two full days of playing with the kids.
It's great to hang out with my dear friend. We've got one more day of sun and fun so I am going to sign off to make the most of it.
Have a great holiday!
La Vida Dulce
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Sunday, July 01, 2007
If I Wrote the 11th Commandment
*Thou shall not go to the Costco on a Saturday.*
(Especially on the Saturday before a holiday.)
Seriously, I think I lost my mind. I asked (begged) my sister-in-law to go to Costco with me because I had company coming and only four rolls of toilet paper left in the house. Not a good thing when you are looking at 5 days with 9 people in one house!
I think my temporary lack in shopping judgment was because The Mister had been on a business trip to Denver all week. I hate it when he is out of town. It just isn't right. It's no fun when The Mister is gone. I miss him because there is no one for me to pick on and tease. Plus, he is so dang-nab cute.
Costco is a zoo here because we have a million people and only two Costco stores. When we lived in Texas there was practically a Costco on every corner. When I lived in NC the Costco was never crowded. But the Costco here is ALWAYS jam-packed. And these little old ladies run you down and act like there isn't a zillion package of jumbo size toilet paper. Seriously, I am in pretty good shape, but I don't doubt that some of these old ladies would take me out over a 12 pound bag of frozen chicken.
But I got my TP, and the paper towels, and the most beautiful fruit for a fruit salad made for my friends.
It's gonna be a great week!
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|Malabrigo Scarf for Mom
The colors reminded me of my mom, but the yarn store didn't have three hanks in all the same color -- I bought three different colors and worked out a way to use them all in the scarf.
Yarn: Malabrigo Twist yarn, one hank each in Cookie, Velvet Grape and Liquid Amber. I used all of the Cookie, and almost all of the other two.
Needles: Knitpicks Options (metal) in US size 9 with a 60 inch cable.
Pattern: No pattern, I just made something up. I cast on 300 stitches with color A (Liquid Amber). I knit the scarf in moss stitch (knit purl knit purl, etc, and then on the next row, I knit the purls and purled the knits). At the end of each row, I broke the yarn, leaving enough of a tail for fringe. The patten of colors I used was 2 of color A (Cookie), 1 row of color B (Velvet Grape), 2 rows of color C (Liquid Amber), 1 row of B, 2 rows of A, 1 row of B, 2 rows of C, etc. I hope that makes sense.
Size: I cast on 300 stitches, thinking that would give me a 5 foot long scarf, knit lengthwise. I ended up with a giant 7 foot, six inch scarf (not counting the fringe). Giant, I tell you! I should have cast on fewer stitches. It is six inches wide.


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SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake and the Colorado Rapids will play the second leg of the 2013 Rocky Mountain Cup Presented by Mark Miller Subaru on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. MT at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
Saturday's match will be broadcast nationally on NBC Sports Network and locally on the radio on ESPN700 AM and 102.3 La Gran D/1600 AM. ESPN700 will begin its pregame coverage at 4:30 p.m. MT and will air an hour-long postgame show immediately following the match.
The Real Salt Lake Reserves will take on the Colorado Reserves in MLS Reserve League action at Dick's Sporting Goods Park immediately following the first-team match.
Real Salt Lake and the Rapids have already met once this year, playing to a 1-1 draw in the 2013 Rio Tinto Stadium home opener on March 16. RSL has won six straight Rocky Mountain Cups and would put itself in control for the 2013 crown with a win on Saturday.
The Claret-and-Cobalt won its last match, getting goals from FW Robbie Findley and MF Luis Gil to beat Seattle Sounders FC 2-1 at Rio Tinto Stadium on March 30.
Unfortunately, Findley strained his left adductor while scoring against Seattle and will miss Saturday's match at Colorado due to the injury. MF Cole Grossman is also out for Saturday's match due to a concussion. RSL FW Alvaro Saborio (R knee swelling), FW Joao Plata (R hamstring strain), MF Javier Morales (R knee menisectomy), DF Carlos Salcedo (concussion), MF Khari Stephenson (L knee sprain), MF David Viana (R quad strain) and DF Chris Wingert (R metatarsal fracture) are all questionable for the match.
The Rapids are 0-3-2 on the season, putting them in eighth place in the Western Conference. Colorado tied its last match, giving up two second-half goals to lose a 2-0 lead and tie Portland 2-2 at home last weekend.
The Claret-and-Cobalt will hit the road again next week, taking on Vancouver Whitecaps FC at BC Place on April 13.
Stay tuned to www.RealSaltLake.com and follow the club on Twitter @RealSaltLake for all the latest news and information on the team ahead of Saturday's MLS matchup against the Colorado Rapids.
How to Follow Real Salt Lake v. Colorado Rapids
- Kickoff: 5:30 p.m. MT at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colo.
- TV: NBC Sports Network
- English Radio: ESPN700 AM (Pregame begins at 4:30 p.m. MT)
- Spanish Radio: La Gran D 102.3 FM & Juan 1600 AM
- Online: The @RealSaltLake Twitter Feed will provide live match updates
Click here to download the PDF version of the MLS Game Guide for Saturday's RSL-COL matchup
RSL History v. COL
Real Salt Lake is tied 9-9-8 in its all-time series with Colorado. The Claret-and-Cobalt has done decently at Colorado, posting a 2-6-4 record in league games in The Centennial State.
RSL tied its last match against Colorado, giving up a first-half goal to FW Deshorn Brown before finding an 80th minute equalizer through FW Alvaro Saborio to tie the Rapids 1-1 at Rio Tinto Stadium on March 16 of this year.


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This week, Adobe released the next generation of Adobe Reader XI and Acrobat XI with improved security features, among many other enhancements.
Adobe Reader X represented a milestone release in terms of security with the introduction of Adobe Reader Protected Mode (aka "sandboxing"), which created a more secure environment for our customers. We followed the Adobe Reader X release with the introduction of Adobe Acrobat X (10.1) Protected View. Since we added sandbox protection to Adobe Reader and Acrobat, we have not seen any exploits in the wild that break out of the Adobe Reader and Acrobat X sandbox.
Over the last year, we have continued to work on adding security capabilities to Adobe Reader and Acrobat, and today, we are very excited to present Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI with a number of new or enhanced security features.
Adobe Reader XI Protected Mode (Enhanced)
In our Adobe Reader X sandbox implementation, the sandboxing architecture's primary focus was on "write protection" to prevent the attacker from installing malware on the user's machine and from monitoring the user's keystrokes when the user interacts with another program.
In Adobe Reader XI, we have added data theft prevention capabilities by extending the sandbox to restrict read-only activities to help protect against attackers seeking to read sensitive information on the user's computer.
Adobe Reader Protected View (New) and Adobe Acrobat Protected View (Enhanced)
To provide an additional layer of defense and strengthen the sandbox protection in Adobe Reader and Acrobat even further, we have implemented a separate desktop and WinStation in Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI, which will block, for instance, screen scraping attacks. For additional insights into implementing a separate desktop to provide an additional layer of defense, see David LeBlanc's Web log entry Practical Windows Sandboxing – Part 3. For details on WinStations and desktops in general, click here.
This mode effectively introduces a new Protected View in Adobe Reader and enhances the Protected View implementation in Adobe Acrobat even further. Protected View behaves identically for Adobe Reader and Acrobat, whether viewing PDF files in the standalone product or in the browser. For more information, administrators can refer to the Enterprise Toolkit for Acrobat Users.
Force ASLR Support in Adobe Reader/Acrobat XI
Adobe Reader and Acrobat leverage platform mitigations such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP), Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), etc. In Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI, we have enabled support for Force ASLR on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Force ASLR improves the effectiveness of existing ASLR implementations by ensuring that all DLLs loaded by Adobe Reader or Acrobat XI, including legacy DLLs without ASLR enabled, are randomized. By enabling Force ASLR in Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI, we are making it even more difficult for an attacker to exploit vulnerabilities. For more information on ASLR and Force ASLR, please refer to Microsoft's Knowledge Base article on the topic.
PDF Whitelisting Framework
Support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography
And last but not least, we have added support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) for digital signatures in the area of content security. Users can now embed long-term validation information automatically when using certificate signatures and use certificate signatures that support elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)-based credentials.
We're excited about these additional security capabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI, which mark the latest in our continued endeavor to help protect our customers by providing a safer working environment.
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Security Researcher, Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET)


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The Financial Stability Oversight Council, a group of 10 regulators that includes SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro, voted unanimously on Tuesday to advance proposed changes to money market funds and was seeking public comment.
Using its authority under Section 120 of the Dodd-Frank Act, FSOC said it was proposing several alternatives for structural reforms to address the risks posed by money market funds.
After three commissioners at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would not go along with her plan to reform money market funds, Schapiro said the issue of money market fund reform "is too important to investors, to our economy and to taxpayers to put our head in the sand and wish it away." Money market funds' "susceptibility to runs needs to be addressed. Other policymakers now have clarity that the SEC will not act to issue a money market fund reform proposal and can take this into account in deciding what steps should be taken to address this issue."
The FSOC proposed three alternatives for consideration:
– Alternative One: Floating Net Asset Value.
Require MMFs to have a floating net asset value ("NAV") per share by removing the special exemption that currently allows MMFs to utilize amortized cost accounting and/or penny rounding to maintain a stable NAV. The value of MMFs' shares would not be fixed at $1 and would reflect the actual market value of the underlying portfolio holdings, consistent with the requirements that apply to all other mutual funds.
– Alternative Two: Stable NAV with NAV Buffer and "Minimum Balance at Risk."
Require MMFs to have an NAV buffer with a tailored amount of assets of up to 1 percent to absorb day-to-day fluctuations in the value of the funds' portfolio securities and allow the funds to maintain a stable NAV. The NAV buffer would have an appropriate transition period and could be raised through various methods. The NAV buffer would be paired with a requirement that 3 percent of a shareholder's highest account value in excess of $100,000 during the previous 30 days–a minimum balance at risk (MBR)–be made available for redemption on a delayed basis. Most redemptions would be unaffected by this requirement, but redemptions of an investor's MBR itself would be delayed for 30 days. In the event that an MMF suffers losses that exceed its NAV buffer, the losses would be borne first by the MBRs of shareholders who have recently redeemed, creating a disincentive to redeem and providing protection for shareholders who remain in the fund. These requirements would not apply to Treasury MMFs, and the MBR requirement would not apply to investors with account balances below $100,000.
– Alternative Three: Stable NAV with NAV Buffer and Other Measures.
Require MMFs to have a risk-based NAV buffer of 3% to provide explicit loss-absorption capacity that could be combined with other measures to enhance the effectiveness of the buffer and potentially increase the resiliency of MMFs. Other measures could include more stringent investment diversification requirements, increased minimum liquidity levels, and more robust disclosure requirements. The NAV buffer would have an appropriate transition period and could be raised through various methods. To the extent that it can be adequately demonstrated that more stringent investment diversification requirements, alone or in combination with other measures, complement the NAV buffer and further reduce the vulnerabilities of MMFs, the Council could include these measures in its final recommendation and would reduce the size of the NAV buffer required under this alternative accordingly.
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